All, I finally finished my review, editing, re-review, cover art creation etc. etc. of the follow up to The Spartan's Last March, The Spartan's Ashes. This one got published out here and a few other places as a serial years ago. To help jog memories, this story takes place after The Spartan's Last March where The Colonel made his last march into San Francisco. Now the son and his companions are fleeing across Post-Apocalyptic California, getting into adventures and generally smoking bad-guys. I always felt bad that it was never really got the re-reads and editing that it and the readers deserved. Anyway, I cleaned it up, formatted it, and submitted it to Kindle for publishing. E-Book, Kindle Select, and Paperback should all be options. Audiobook will likely be an option as well. Just waiting on review. The novel should be available for order at one minute past midnight 26 May. I'll get started on Book III immediately. Cover Image below:
Cool! However, for what it's worth, I got to tell you, I have no interest in purchasing your second book given its pricing of $9 for an eBook. Yes, I might give the first one a try as it's price comparably ($6) to others in the 'post apocalypse' genre and let's be truthful, it is a BIG genre with thousands of moderate to very good authors, even some great ones. I just do not understand why new authors consistently price themselves out of the market. I don't get it... I think it's what my old platoon sergeant called the 'quarter effect.' The quarter represents the issue or problem and the closer you are to the issue/problem, holding the quarter closer to your eye, the less you can see. Plus, it's a series, so the intent is not to sell one book but the entire series and readers, real readers, love series. Hell, I seldom buy stand-alone, single novels anymore. Anyway, I'm an addicted reader, can't even get to sleep at night unless I can read some pages to turn off my mind. Depending on the season, I normally go through about 4 books a week and more during the winter. Depends of course on my workload and other things... Anyway, there it is, an honest opinion from a reader of the genre. One of the thousands you are trying to sell your words to... Please, I do not mean offense, in no way at all. And, to those that say it is but $2-$3 more, all I can say is but why would I pay that given the thousands of good independent authors now available since the downfall of the Publishing Houses monopoly.
