Paperbacks!!!

Amazon offered me the ability to turn my two self-published novellas into paperbacks and make them available on a print to order basis.  I'm not sure if this is something they intend to offer to all self-published authors or whether it's just something they offer to those who are selling a few books, but regardless, Proctor:  The Art of Living and Proctor:  The Art of Killing are now available in paperback.

Proctor:  The Art of Living (Paperback £6.49 - click the pic)

Proctor:  The Art of Killing (Paperback £6.99 - click the pic)

Having said that, I have two copies of each coming to me later this week/ early next week and haven't had the chance to look them over, so unless you want a copy that may well turn out to be very rare and flawed (and I can understand how this might be a good thing!) it might be a good idea to wait until I've had a chance to check them out.

OK, well, not a huge load more to say for now - I've been at my dad's house in Mansfield for the last few days for the Christmas period, and not a lot of writing has happened, though I did spend the last 48 hours formatting the manuscripts for the two paperbacks and selecting/ agreeing and editing the above cover designs.  Other than that, I spent some time with my daughter Natasha and the rest of my family, a large percentage of which placed either a glass or a fork (or both) in my hands.

I'm half tempted to take a break from writing 'The Product of My Dreams' (which is going slowly and is quite challenging) and perhaps write another Proctor Novella - I have half a dozen ideas for these and they are as much fun to write as people tell me they are to read.

Night Time in Shanghai

Early sales of Night Time in Shanghai have been very encouraging, with it currently unavailable in a few bookstores - I guess they will be re-ordering and that my publisher will have to do another print-run in the new year.  This was relatively unexpected - I'm a new author and the book's only been out a month so there has not yet been the opportunity for sci-fi bloggers and reviewers to comment on my book and it's usually a positive review or two from bloggers that gets sales moving.  The book is currently out to a few reviewers, so we can perhaps expect some news from this direction over the next few months, though these things happen quite slowly as reviewers get sent a lot of books to review and I imagine a large percentage of these don't actually appeal to the reviewer and remain in an 'unread' pile.  Generally it's all very positive though.

I still have a few copies of the Hardback left, so if you'd like your own signed copy of the first batch, first print, first edition hardback, then get in touch either through the comments below or my Facebook author page - http://www.facebook.com/AndyEllisWriter/ - £18.59 includes P&P

Talking of reviews - if you have read any of my books, please leave me a review, primarily on Amamzon.co.uk, but please copy that review to Amazon.com and my publisher's website, http://www.austinmacauley.com/book/night-time-shanghai.  Reviews help boost me up the search rankings for Amazon, and really to break into the market in any significant way, the book needs to get a high ranking in speculative search results, so the more reviews the better.

I see that Amazon.com now hold a few copies of the UK print of NTiS which is handy if you wish to order the book in the states.  A few other bookstores now list it as a stock item as well.

OK - well apart from wishing you all a very merry Christmas and a happy and prosperous New Year, I think that's me done for 2016!  Keep following me in 2017 for more exciting news about my progress as an author (and along the UK's canal network) and thank you for your support in 2016.

Andy Ellis Dec. '16.
RIP Carrie Fisher (my first crush) - 2016 has taken too many.