So, I spent a month of no sales at all of the book since Aug 1. And I decided to shake things up a bit.
I am offerring the book for free at smashwords until 10/28/10 with coupon code ya89z!
I sent emails out to everyone and every site I could think of, and Leenks.com posted a link to it! Now, almost 48 hours later I have received 3000 hits to the book's page and 61 "sales" of the book!
For exposure, this is pretty cool and dwarfs the efforts of many promo ideas I have tried before!
I am pretty psyched about that as I write the follow up books in the series.
Also, got two reviews on Distant Star episodes I posted on-line. So far i got 5 stars for #1 and 4 stars for #2! Pretty good news!
Well, back to the grind stone....
Wednesday, September 29, 2010
Tuesday, September 28, 2010
Future Useless Free Until October 28, 2010!!!!!
I want to spread the word around!
Future Useless is free at Smashwords.com for one month- Until October 28, 2010!
Just go to: https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/10488
and use Coupon code: YA89Z!
Have a fun time and remember a review would be nice but not needed!
If you want to post it here, feel free!
Thanks for all the support!
W. A. Patterson!
Future Useless is free at Smashwords.com for one month- Until October 28, 2010!
Just go to: https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/10488
and use Coupon code: YA89Z!
Have a fun time and remember a review would be nice but not needed!
If you want to post it here, feel free!
Thanks for all the support!
W. A. Patterson!
Monday, September 27, 2010
Future useless themes in the next two books.
Notes to self:
Future useless addressed the themes of willpower and over-specialization as well as homogenization.
Future Sentience /Useless Sentience (working titles) will cover the themes of free will, parenthood, family and sentience itself. What qualifies each of these items as real? Can a being with no free will be truly sentient? Does free will give a being sentinence? Can sentience be simple self-awareness or have diffent levels of sentience like Manny and Moe? Is a dog more sentient than a pocket nano due to free will? Where does creativity fall in these guidelines?
Also, family and parentage are subjects to be examined. What qualifies one as a parent, sibling or child to another? Is it defined in the genisis of the being or in their definition of the terms and their meaning? Do clones have parents? What are their roles to their offspring and responsabilities?
Useless Lineage/ Future Xenogenesis (working title)
The themes in this book carry on from the first but then push at the boundry of what constitutes a separate species and a new race among galactic civilizations? When do dirivitives of one race stop being dirivitives and become their own form of life?
Will check back on this later, but wanted to put these down before I forgot.
W. A.
Future useless addressed the themes of willpower and over-specialization as well as homogenization.
Future Sentience /Useless Sentience (working titles) will cover the themes of free will, parenthood, family and sentience itself. What qualifies each of these items as real? Can a being with no free will be truly sentient? Does free will give a being sentinence? Can sentience be simple self-awareness or have diffent levels of sentience like Manny and Moe? Is a dog more sentient than a pocket nano due to free will? Where does creativity fall in these guidelines?
Also, family and parentage are subjects to be examined. What qualifies one as a parent, sibling or child to another? Is it defined in the genisis of the being or in their definition of the terms and their meaning? Do clones have parents? What are their roles to their offspring and responsabilities?
Useless Lineage/ Future Xenogenesis (working title)
The themes in this book carry on from the first but then push at the boundry of what constitutes a separate species and a new race among galactic civilizations? When do dirivitives of one race stop being dirivitives and become their own form of life?
Will check back on this later, but wanted to put these down before I forgot.
W. A.
Tuesday, September 14, 2010
Interrupted: by not-life!
Life interrupts constantly - that is a hard and fast rule to live by.
When things not-life interrupt, it's terribly irritating.
No- I am not talking about death, or some surreal limbo of something zombie-like in between.
I am talking about those things in life that are not normal, that blind-side you from the back-seat and send your car into a curb-check right in front of a cop on a monday morning on your way to work.
The wife has health issues. that's been taking time and effort away. I choose to take off from work to take care of her and rest and heal. Makes money scarce and hard to make ends meet.
With the health problems it makes finding time for over-time (or make up time in my case) harder to find.
All in that I'm supposed to be one here promoting my book. I got a new cover to make my cover more conventional. i got a better description on the book.
Guess what! Everyone loves the new cover and I haven't sold a copy of it yet!
F*ck!ng mass majority doesn't know sh!t on marketing! My last Cover stood-out! yes it was an eyesore but people stopped and looked! people bought the fu*king book! Now it just sits there with all the other covers looking like the same sh!t as before!
I am glad I was right- but I'm even more sore I caved into the pressure and change dhte cover because too many P*ssies cried about it being immature and making their eyes bleed. WAH! My pussy hurts! go fuck yourselves. if you JUDGE a book by it's COVER than you are a F*CKING MORON!
Anyway, just venting!
The old cover will be restored soon enough to all available avenues.
have a good one and enjoy the life things that interrupt you. not-life things have the suck factor of a large black-hole and really f*ck up your writing.
And yes, I know no one reads this fucking blog, so have fun if you stumble upon it.
W. A.
When things not-life interrupt, it's terribly irritating.
No- I am not talking about death, or some surreal limbo of something zombie-like in between.
I am talking about those things in life that are not normal, that blind-side you from the back-seat and send your car into a curb-check right in front of a cop on a monday morning on your way to work.
The wife has health issues. that's been taking time and effort away. I choose to take off from work to take care of her and rest and heal. Makes money scarce and hard to make ends meet.
With the health problems it makes finding time for over-time (or make up time in my case) harder to find.
All in that I'm supposed to be one here promoting my book. I got a new cover to make my cover more conventional. i got a better description on the book.
Guess what! Everyone loves the new cover and I haven't sold a copy of it yet!
F*ck!ng mass majority doesn't know sh!t on marketing! My last Cover stood-out! yes it was an eyesore but people stopped and looked! people bought the fu*king book! Now it just sits there with all the other covers looking like the same sh!t as before!
I am glad I was right- but I'm even more sore I caved into the pressure and change dhte cover because too many P*ssies cried about it being immature and making their eyes bleed. WAH! My pussy hurts! go fuck yourselves. if you JUDGE a book by it's COVER than you are a F*CKING MORON!
Anyway, just venting!
The old cover will be restored soon enough to all available avenues.
have a good one and enjoy the life things that interrupt you. not-life things have the suck factor of a large black-hole and really f*ck up your writing.
And yes, I know no one reads this fucking blog, so have fun if you stumble upon it.
W. A.
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