I don’t have a lot of new pictures of fun adventures to
share this week, so I’ll use book covers. We had a big ‘yard’ sale in the RV
park Saturday and I sold a book! What a treat, however, to find that two other
people came by to tell me they had already read or were reading City Limits and enjoying it.
Those are kind people who buy books. I’ve seen precious few
of those around in the past year. On the other hand, I’ve started giving them
away. It’s what I can do.
Back in April, before I officially released City Limits, I
serialized it online. For free! If you like or tolerate reading books online
instead of having a physical or electronic copy downloaded to your fingertips,
check this out. I worked hard to make a good reading experience for you at http://www.nathaneverett.com/releases/citylimits/.
Releasing it for free before it released commercially helped
sales as I had people buying the book who had already read it or part of it. I’ll
do the same with Wild Woods when it
releases this spring.
But I discovered over the years there are many readers who
can’t or don’t afford books, yet love to read. I understand that. The price of
a $15 paperback is the same as a steak dinner at our local restaurant here in
Quartzsite—including tip. A $5 eBook is the same price as a meal at home. I’m
very careful about what I buy. My income isn’t getting any bigger!
So I followed up the release of City Limits with For Money or
Mayhem, a Dag Hamar mystery. Once again, chapters were read online 75,000
times! For free! Sales of For Money or
Mayhem on Amazon were the highest since its release with phenomenal new
reviews. Now you can read the book online for free at http://www.nathaneverett.com/releases/money/.
It was with a little worry that I decided to release my most
popular novel, The Gutenberg Rubric
online. But the people who were writing to me and commenting often mentioned
that they would never have been able to buy one of my books and were grateful
that I was publishing them where they could access them for free. I began
posting The Gutenberg Rubric online for free in October and it became my
highest rated of the three books, scoring 8.6 out of 10 in reader votes. And
there were matching sales online from those who could purchase the book and
wanted to support the author. Now you can read The Gutenberg Rubric on my site
for free at http://www.nathaneverett.com/releases/gutenberg/.
The latest entry into the field started free posting this
week: For Blood or Money. My first
published novel, For Blood or Money
has been a staple of my backlist, seemingly rediscovered repeatedly. Now I’m
offering it at no charge to readers who can’t afford it.
“Nathan, why was there no free reader link?”
The answer is simple. On my website, I release the book
first to my sponsors so they get the first glimpse. They pay for making it
available to other readers for free. As a result, they get to read it first. These
are the people I’m pleased to call my Fellow Traveler Patrons. https://www.patreon.com/join/NathanEverett
I have two Patreon accounts and both provide income that I
use for site maintenance, software, conversion of files, and cover art. The other
site is for those interested in adult romance and adventure, often with a
sexual theme. I protect the Nathan Everett patrons from that but if you are
interested in the works of Devon Layne, you might try https://www.patreon.com/join/aroslav.
Just this year, Devon has released three lengthy novels for his Advance Release
Community before they were available for free to the public.
His newest work, Double
Take, is currently being made available. Devon’s site, featuring all
twenty-eight of his released books is http://www.devonlayne.com/.
It seems the one thing I have an abundance of is words. They
might not be great words, but for many people they provide entertainment,
inspiration, and even comfort. I’m making those words available to people who
cannot or will not afford them as my little gift to the world and with the
grateful support of my Patrons.
