25/08/2018
My novel, Bloody Kids, is currently free to download on Kindle across Amazon. It’s a gory and at times decidedly unpleasant horror-thriller about a guy who comes a cropper at the hands of feral children. It isn’t for everybody, obviously, but there have been some pretty decent reviews of it on Goodreads, here. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36639487-bloody-kids#other_reviews
If you do download it, thanks! And if you download it and actually read it, then I’m buying you a pint.
Oops, might be an idea to provide an Amazon link:
And here’s the Goodreads one, hopefully in clickable format:
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36639487-bloody-kids#other_reviews
I’ll give it a whirl. I do like a good horror novel.
(although I should warn you my TBR pile is approximately the size of Monaco, so please don’t expect any feedback any time soon)
Thanks. I like a bit of a gory read, sometimes.
I don’t normally bother to review anything I get from Amazon, but I’ll make sure to give it a positive review if I like this.
An unusual and very interesting premise to this story, making for a good, pretty gruesome in places, read.
I had to put it down and occupy my mind with more pleasant things a few times when things got particularly grim, but I was always drawn back to find out how it all resolved.
Thanks, both!
Downloading
A free book and the promise of a free pint š
I’ve got a free one, too. But the Amazon link doesn’t seem to show. Search Spoils Of War, by (me and) Michael Lockwood.
Here y’go, HP.
Meanwhile, thanks to my tireless self-promotion here and on Twitter, mine is currently at number two in the ‘Horror Top 100 Free’ chart. Number two I tells ye. W00t!
I think you should remove the tag-line “Everything has a price”
That was the idiot publisher, who also told us the title was going to be “Spoils Of War” – a title only used by about 4,873 other authors. My original title was “The Sixty” which referred to the sixty seconds Michael – and other PMC operatives – had to endure waterboarding as part of their training. Michael “did the sixty” three times. Incidentally, neither if us saw a cent from the sales of this book, which on release did pretty well. That’s e-publishing for you.
PS Thanks for the link, Mr Bangs!
Are you sure your preferred title – for this and all books – wasn’t just “The Sixties”?
Did I tell you about the time I fought in the Acid Wars?
As my Dad always says… “We fought the cops in two Vietnam demos for the likes of you!”
Bloody Nora, LB, you’ve written loads of books! I don’t think I’ve even written one, as far as I can remember.
I keep doing it in the hope that one day I’ll work out how it’s done.
Sold! You know you’re onto a winner when the actual author of a book describes it as “decidedly unpleasant”.
PS paying people with beer to read your novels? That’s straight outta the Jane Austen playbook!
Not only that, but I shall also be giving away signed copies of my eBook.
I’m not remotely into horror so I’ll pass, but massive kuds for getting it out there LB.
Thanks for this @Leicester Bangs.
Downloaded and I promise I’ll read it – (un)fortunately like @Kid Dynamite my stack of books on the Kindle is the size of a small kingdom !
Ta, Twang and thanks very much Johnny99.
anyone who pays attention to horror fiction will probably get a few giggles out of this twitter thread