For a limited time Ridan is offering electronic versions of
Avempartha, the second of my book series, for free. You can get it where ever electronic books are sold—including Amazon kindles. I think it is the only free fantasy novel presently available.
Why is
Avempartha free? It is a marketing promotion obviously, but why
Avempartha and not the first book in the series?
Two reasons:
One,
Avempartha starts better. The first chapter of
Crown can be misleading given that it is more like a prologue than the first chapter in that it doesn't even deal with the main characters, but rather the somewhat unpleasant personage of Archibald Ballentyne. And as people who pick this up for free aren't likely to put much effort into reading a book that cost them nothing, I'd better grab them right away.
Second, while
Crown is a pleasant introduction to the series,
Avempartha is where the greater story begins to unfold. The
"Fellowship of the Ring" to
Crown's "The Hobbit" if you will. And if you are looking to hook first time readers into buying the other books in the series—which they are—this is probably the best book to do that.
For those of you reading this blog, the news isn't likely useful as I imagine you've already read
Avempartha, but if you know someone who reads electronic books, here is a chance to get them hooked into the series for free. Also if you've secretly bought someone a Kindle, SonyReader, or iPad for Christmas, you can preload it with
Avempartha as an added surprise. Better yet, I suppose you could consider it a "buy
Crown and get
Avempartha free," promo too. Of course, if you read the hard copy, and now find yourself fortunate enough to own a reader of some sort, and you couldn't bring yourself to repurchase a book you've already read, now you can just download it. This way when you finish
Percepliquis and find that you just have to re-read the series, you'll at least have one on your new device.
The offer should run until sometime around the end of this month (November.) So tell your friends and tell your neighbors that they really have to meet two great friends of yours that you just know they're gonna love...Royce and Hadrian, who for at this a month, can be hired for free.
