In a post about how e-books are changing the publishing industry, Timothy Hallinan, author of the highly acclaimed Poke Rafferty series, said: “I’m writing two books I don’t even plan to try to sell through the usual channels; they’ll go direct to readers. I have a list of a dozen more I want to write. It feels as though I’ve been cooped up in a small room for years and the walls suddenly fell down. There’s space to swing my arms. I don’t have to reject exciting ideas because they’re not ideas I can sell.” Read more →
Every week I give away a free copy of The Sex Club on my website. I gave away 75 copies of The Sex Club at Bouchercon, and I’ve sent hundreds of copies to bookstores, book clubs, and readers who asked for it.
Meanwhile, I have a collection of new/nearly new paperbacks that have nowhere to go. Our local Book Exchange went out of business, so I’ve decided to give them away. To win one of these titles, simply e-mail me and ask for it. (Click the contact link on the right of this page.) I’ll randomly pick winners at the end of the week. Don’t forget to enter The Sex Club giveaway. (And you might consider ordering a few copies as the perfect stocking stuffer for your siblings and co-workers.)
- Fault Line (by Barry Eisler)
- The Guards (by Ken Bruen)
- A Nail Through the Heart (by Timothy Hallinan)
- What the Dead Know (by Laura Lippman)
- The Woods (by Harlan Coben)
- The Innocent Man (by John Grisham)
- The Blade Itself (by Marcus Sakey)
- Bad Luck and Trouble (by Lee Child)
- Deadly Errors (by Allen Wyler)
- Kidnapped (by Jan Burke)
- Safe & Sound (by J.D. Rhoades)
- Money Shot (by Christa Faust)
- Go Go Girls of the Apocalypse (by Victor Gischler)
- The Black Path (by Asa Larsson)
- The Secret History (by Donna Tartt)
My next step is to podcast The Sex Club and give it away in audio form. If I only had the time! I’m also thinking of offering a free download of one of my unpublished stories. My only hesitation is that I’m a better writer now than I was then. So does it make sense to offer an earlier story as a first exposure to my writing? Has anyone tried this strategy? I want to know what you think.
