My friend Joe Konrath put up an excellent post here that talked about his success with offering editions of his book on the Amazon Kindle. I was tempted to do the same, particularly with electronic editions of all three books in the Templar Chronicles trilogy. After all, I reasoned, none of my fans in the US and Canada have had a chance to read the final two books as they have only been available in foreign language editions up until this point.
However, a quick chat with my new agent (yes, I said new agent and I’m very excited to be working with him) convinced me that the opportunity to sell the entire series to a mass market publisher still exists and that offering up the electronic rights might skew that possibility sideways. Not something I want to do, obviously.
So instead I decided to go all the way back to the beginning and make my debut novel RIVERWATCH available instead. Despite being my first book, it was nominated for both the International Horror Guild Award and the Bram Stoker Award (which I’m always happy to brag about) and was even optioned for a few years to a Hollywood production company. All of which is a long way of saying its a pretty entertaining book.
Right now, RIVERWATCH is selling for $1.59 for the Kindle edition. If you haven’t read it yet, do yourself a favor and take advantage of this terrific price. If you have read it, buy it for someone else and make all three of us happy.
Since I’m on the topic of Kindle books, I should probably mention that my friend and fellow writer Jon F. Merz also has a terrific deal going on right now for one of his works in a Kindle edition. HIs novel PARALLAX, a first rate action thriller, is available for $1.59, too. Which means for less than the price of a vente coffee at Starbucks you can get nearly 700 pages of reading entertainment from two great authors. 
What are you waiting for?
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I’m glad to see that you are embracing the eBook market, but am sorry to see that your choice is Kindle. There are many of us who will never buy on a Kindle, having chosen multi-purpose platforms and the reader that spans them all: Windows Mobile, Palm, Symbian, PC and iPhone. That platform is eReader (now owned by Barnes & Noble). I bought Heretic on eReader back when it was offered on their site and have been waiting anxiously for the rest of the trilogy. Sounds like I’m not going to get to read them. 8-(
Regards,
Sig Runge
Kapolei, HI