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Magenta Shaman - now on Kindle!
The first episode in my short story series, Magenta Shaman is now available to download to Kindle.
http://amzn.to/jcMd0L
It's an urban fantasy of just 7,000 words, and is the first of many, yet is complete in itself.
Please enjoy it, review it and let me know how you feel about Magenta herself.
The original cover artwork is by my husband Laurence Ranger, and has been adapted by me. We both hope you like it.
I must give my thanks to various members of Talkback for providing their research and voicing their experience in publishing to Kindle, particularly Midia, Sofyia, Carol, Jay, kateyanne and Mutley. Additionally I'm extremely grateful to Tony Cowin and Lee Hughes for such valuable and honest critiques, even though this is Urban Fantasy - outside of each of our usual horror genres.
My special thanks go to my husband Laurence for believing in Magenta and offering his own extensive esoteric knowledge and sublime artwork - Magenta is a part of both of us.
The following is the Amazon Product Description for Magenta Shaman:
A natural shaman by birth, Magenta Sweeney travels through trance-induced realms to deliver souls from demonic threat.
But Magenta also has an earthly life in modern-day Brighton, a strange and cosmopolitan city caught between the rolling hills of England and the Sussex coast where she lives with husband Tom.
Every journey Magenta takes is unique. Her intricate knowledge of herbs and poisons guides her when to heal - and when to kill. Yet before she faces each challenge she must meet with ancient and terrifying entities that will unlock her passage into other dimensions, but not without question - or sacrifice.
This first episode in the Magenta Shaman short story series finds Magentas relationship with Tom at breaking point as she takes greater risks to help those waiting for her. Under pressure from The Protegians, a mysterious group of earth-bound guardians, the shaman is sent on increasingly dangerous missions by their intermediary - a suave, arrogant man known only as The Judge.
Will Magenta survive the fight to expel a deadly demon from a foetid, volcanic pit? And will Tom stand idly by when he finds his wife's body, broken and lifeless on their bed?
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Download Magenta Shaman [Contains some swearing] on Kindle from Amazon.co.uk at http://amzn.to/jcMd0L
If you don't have a Kindle you can download Kindle for PC, iPhone, iPad and Android for free from Amazon.
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No - it didn't - but if you follow the link...
Great story and so well written. I'll post a review up on Amazon either tonight or tomorrow. Good luck with the book and the rest of the series Lily.
5 sold already, and some fun rankings including 44 in the top 100 Books > Fantasy > Horror category in between Stephen King's The Dark Tower VII and China Mi
Another two sales today. At this rate I'll be able to afford an extra large mochahottychochychino from Costa! (Am holding out for a bun to go with it.)
I appreciate it SO much.
Anybody else want to review Magenta Shaman? Nervously bites fingernails...
That's eight now. When I hit double figures, I get that bun!
Looking forward to it, Lily!
http://i634.photobucket.com/albums/uu66/Lily-C/Covers/Magenta-Shaman-cover-final.jpg
Seriously - cheers. I hope you like it, even without the horror. (It is a bit nasty :) )
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My friend in Australia bought one. She said they have to use Amazon.com as .co.uk won't give the price.
HA! That's what comes of catching up with a million posts all about the same thing.
Apologies, Lily my brain is a little frazzled today. I've got deadlines coming out of my ears and I'm getting caught up with TB too much!!
Go - you have deadlines!!!
I assume it wasn't what they hoped for - or maybe they just thought it was rubbish. But for £2.08? I don't think I'd bother with the hassle.
I'm wondering whether I should say in my description that it contains swearing. It's not YA, after all and is tagged as dark urban fantasy so... nah.
Anyway where did you see all that info?
When you log into your bookshelf at https://kdp.amazon.com/self-publishing there's a Report tab. Under that you get Months to Date Unit Sales, you then get three options Kindle Sales US, Kindle Sales UK and Kindle Sales DE. Click on any of those to see you Sales figures. It gives you the Title, ASIN, Units Sold, Units Refunded and Net Units Sold. It seems to be updated every half-hour or so.
If you published via Smashwords I'm not sure how this would work.
Smashwords is better in a way as they send an email when you have sold a copy. They also have an accounts page.
(And not the ones about Viagra.)
http://www.darkissreads.com/2011/05/magenta-shaman-by-lily-childs.html
And I've sold another one! It's slow but sure.