I’ve been closely following the events surrounding the creation of Amazon’s KDP Select program. Because of my intense curiosity and my desire to embrace new tools and technologies to get my work noticed, I’ve decided to register my first novel, Akhet, for the program. 

What does this mean for you, the reader? Well, it means that in accordance with Amazon’s terms for the program, I’m pulling Akhet down from BN.com and Smashwords, at least until April 10, 2012 (the end of the three month period that Amazon wants).

Peret and Shomu (when it’s published in the next couple months) will still be available through these distributors. 

The hope of this experiment is, of course, that the ability to borrow the book for a month and read it will cause a nice spike in my sales and lead to more success. We shall see.

In the meantime, I appreciate your understanding and hope that you don’t hate me too much! :)

I figured it was probably time for another update of what I’ve been up to lately.

I briefly posted earlier that I’d gotten word that ‘Akhet’ is now available to the UK library system thanks to the efforts of the wonderful Michael Margerison, but I should probably expand upon that. I’m very pleased that Holt Jackson Book Company has added my book to their system, needless to say. It opens up doors to not only school and public libraries in the UK, but also venues that might be a bit less obvious like government institutions and even (eep) prisons. Cool (and mildly scary)!

I’d ask that anyone in the UK who’s interested in reading Akhet, please request it for your local library. It’d be hugely appreciated…. And, hey! If you come across a copy on the shelf at the library, why not snap a pic and post it here? That’d be very cool!

Now I just need to find a way to afford a trip to London (probably not gonna be any time real soon, unfortunately), so I can take Michael out to dinner and take him up on his comment that if I were in the UK, he could get me some appearances scheduled!

I hope that things are good in your neck of the woods!

CHEERS!

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