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Day one – TFK FREE ebook!

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Hello and good morning! Today is a very special day, because today is the first day that The Future King: Logres is available free, to everyone. That’s right! Are you looking for a new read to start the new year? Then look no further! Just click here to get your free ebook. This deal is available through Amazon until the 6th of January, so share share share and get everyone you know to take advantage of this giveaway. Reviews and ratings through Amazon or Goodreads would of course be most welcome, but most of all just enjoy the book, happy holidays, and have a very happy new year!

Britain, 2052. In a world of war, disease and hunger the UK stands alone as a beacon of prosperity under an all-powerful ruling party. Life at new school Logres seems promising for fifteen-year-old Gwenhwyfar, and quickly she falls for the school’s handsome catch, Arthur. When Arthur’s rival, Lancelot, returns after a suspension, her heart is soon divided. Realising that behind the UK’s prosperity lies unspeakable cruelty, Gwenhwyfar sets off on a path to dismantle everything the government stands for. Suspenseful, raw and awash in a dystopian setting, The Future King: Logres is a story of identity and discovery against this backdrop, the second coming of the Arthurian legends.

FREE ebook giveaway!

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To mark the release of The Future King: Logres on Kindle, I am running a promotion for a FREE ebook giveaway.

This promotion is available to everyone and is live for 5 days, running from Saturday the 2nd of January 2016 (Midnight Pacific Time) to Wednesday the 6th of January 2016 (Midnight Pacific Time).

To find the promotion click here during the times and dates specified. If you’re a Kindle Unlimited subscriber then you can pick up your copy already!

Do share this giveaway with everyone and anyone you think might be interested, and please leave a review for The Future King: Logres on Amazon or Goodreads once you’ve read your free copy!

I hope you enjoy The Future King: Logres, the first book in the Future King series. The page for the promotion can be found on Goodreads, so RSPV if you’re a Goodreads member!

Thank you for your support and have a Happy New Year!

10 things I have learned whilst exporting to Kindle

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  1. There are many more file types than I thought. .rtf, .htm, .epub… but it’s .mobi that you want. According to Amazon, .mobi is the one.
  2. Making your book available on Kindle isn’t as straightforward as it seems. A quick conversion of your .pdf, and then you’re done? So. I. thought.
  3. Actually, the above requires a) removing all formatting from your original Word document that you exported for print, b) keeping any formatting as simple as possible, c) exporting your Word document as a .htm/.html file, d) running said .htm file through a converter, e) downloading Amazon’s Kindle previewer, f) downloading Amazon’s Kindle reader because the previwer doesn’t preview well, g) realising that your document hasn’t exported quite as you would like and, h) running through all the former to try and suss out where you went wrong.
  4. Oh, and on top of that you’ll read all sorts of blogs and tips about what you shouldn’t do (i.e., forcing a certain font type on your text), but do them anyway, because firstly you don’t know how not to do it, and secondly ‘Normal style’ completely undermines any alternative fonts you have made use of in your book (who doesn’t like Garamond, anyway?).
  5. At several moments, in desperation, you will break from your formatting to look into companies and services which promise to do all the hard work for you.
  6. You will bemoan, ‘but I just want it to look like a book!’. Specifically your book, which you just spent months perfecting in print.
  7. It comes to your attention at some point that perhaps you should have sorted out your Kindle file first, before your book launch, but then you remember that Createspace and Amazon told you that it would be easy.
  8. Perhaps this is easy, you then think, as you export your book for the third time wondering why your TOC (that you made in Word, as you were told), still isn’t working. Why? Why?
  9. After downloading independent software to export your book to .mobi for you, you realise that it is the conversion itself that has broken your TOC, and that you could have just edited your .htm document in Dreamweaver in the first place to fix all the links and the formatting issues instead.
  10. You find random things in the block of your book text (like a hyphen between two paragraphs) and then think, God, has that always been there…? then don’t want to look to double check just in case it is (you’ll do it later, or forget, or a reader will find it for you).