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‘Soft From All The Blood’ Free Promotion Wrap-up & Other News…
014 years ago
We ran our two-day free promotion on Amazon for Soft From All The Blood by S R Jones at the beginning of the month. Less than 4 weeks later, we can say with some confidence that they’ve got something there: Soft From All The Blood was downloaded just under 2500 times between May 3 and 4, and the book has seen increased sales in the weeks since. At least 1 sale per day, often more. Our other two current titles, the first book in Justine G‘s BLACKSTONE Erotic series RED MONOLITH FRENZY, and Jones’ tidy flash-fiction collection The Ecdysiasts, have also seen a bit of an up-tick. Most importantly, Soft From All The Blood now features in the ‘Customers Also Bought’ and ‘Also Viewed’ categories, which definitely helps things along!
And here we thought that 100 free downloads would be decent. Yes, we’re embarrassed by our naïveté as well.
We are always pleased with honest reviews, so, if you’re among those 2500 who found a space for Jones’ book on their e-reader, won’t you please pop on by its Amazon page and let us know what you thought?
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In other news, we’ve had to move the release dates up a bit for the next MMP books. It’s a good thing we don’t choose actual, single dates for these things! June is now the month to watch for the second book in the BLACKSTONE Erotica series by Justine G. We’re told it’s just about ready but “added bookings in my lecture series tend to play hell with my free writing time”, says Justine. We’re happy to wait for quality product, of course, and can’t wait to see what she has planned for GREEN FEVER DREAM, especially considering those final scenes in Book One!
The e-chapbook R’LYEH SUTRA will also be slightly delayed. skawt chonzz‘s bizarre poetics and altered-state prose awaits the resolution of some technical glitches vis a vis a proposed insertion of a randomly sampled and hyperlinked occult document. Folks, this was much easier when MMP put out the actual, physical version of this chapbook last year, but we are working hard to make the weird thrill at the core of the digital R’LYEH SUTRA as mind-bending and unsettling as its paper ancestor!
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We haven’t said much here regarding Haley Warren‘s THRESHOLD616 YA series, as when it finally sees release (Halloween 2012) we want to blow the roof off this thing. And by this thing, we (probably) mean “the Internet”. Alright, kidding. Very slightly kidding. But we would like to announce that we’re speaking with some very talented artists about the cover to the first book, Children of Hazard, and we’re getting pretty excited about that! More details as they come in…
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Finally, some news about submissions…
Martian Migraine Press is now open to submissions for our new journal, ONEIROS. This journal, which will be available in multiple e-formats (and possibly a limited press run), is focused on mapping the territory of human dreams! We’ll be placing ONEIROS in our non-fiction category, naturally. For more details on what we are looking for from contributors, please visit our Submissions page.
Martian Migraine Press: the Best Kind of Headache
‘Soft From All The Blood’ FREE PROMO MAY 3 – 4
014 years ago
Well, S R Jones’ collection of spook stories was enrolled with KDPSelect when we initially published it back in mid-March, and we’ve yet to utilize the ‘5 Free Days’ promotional feature of that program, so (despite some misgivings on our and others part regarding the relative value of a free product ie. “you get what you pay for”), here goes…
SOFT FROM ALL THE BLOOD will be FREE TO DOWNLOAD HERE starting 12:01am on MAY 3 through to 11:59pm MAY 4! And yes, we know about the fuzzy temporal edges on the part of Amazon’s schedule-making robots. There will likely be some wiggle-room on either end. FYI: May 3 is Jones’ birthday, and folks, it’s a big one, with a zero in it… we thought some free promo boost-age for his book would be a nice present, and we’re hoping you can help us out with that.
We’ve let the concerned parties of social media and various news-y websites know. We have engaged in spammy behaviours recently on the twitter, and will likely continue along that path for the next week or so. We want you to know we feel bad about that, and hope you are alright with it; it can be tough starting out and the Martian Migraine Press audience is not yet huge. Your understanding is appreciated.
We have no particular goal for downloads in mind: “100 would be swell!” we think in our naiveté, and then we hear things along the lines of “10,000 is not an unreasonable amount for free download promos!” and our minds boggle. This is so unlike print, which is what we’re used to. Bogglin’ over here.
It’s the future. Best get used to it.
Again.
Martian Migraine Press: the Best Kind of Headache
“Origami Insect” Horror Fiction — Another 5 Star Review!
014 years ago
Jordan Stratford (of recent Wollstonecraft/Kickstarter fame and the Archduke of Canadian Steampunk, no less!) had the following to say about SOFT FROM ALL THE BLOOD by MMP author S R Jones…
If you’ve ever found an origami insect on the sidewalk, you’ll understand this collection right away. Because you’ll already have thought to yourself “That’s odd. What an unusual thing to come across. This is an intricate bit of craftsmanship here, and yet, why an insect? Not a swan or a box or a kite or a paper plane, but something vaguely menacing, expressed in paper, placed oddly, encountered at random. I shall leave this brief encounter more than slightly unsettled.”
I mention this because Jones has given us an origami insect in these amusing/disturbing little encounters with his short fiction, which will leave you slightly unsettled. He skillfully places you inside the brains of those who are likely more unsettled than yourself, and possibly (hopefully) even more disturbed than the author.
Some horror is meant to scare you, some to gross you out, yet Jones’ horror is meant to engage you, upset you, unsettle you. Cage-rattling horror fiction. His origami insect crawls under your skin, and lays eggs.
Read this collection at your peril.
And then he goes and gives SOFT FROM ALL THE BLOOD a 5 star review! Our experience of Dukes (arch or otherwise) is minimal, but, if they’re all this gracious and complimentary, well, we could get used to having more of them around. We also hear the Duchess is pretty amazing.
If you haven’t yet heard about the staggering crowd-sourcing success of the Wollstonecraft Project, go check it out at the link above! It’s also been featured on io9, Boing Boing, and most recently WIRED. That’s some kinda geek-trifecta right there. Stratford is one to watch!
And to get Jones’ origami eggs under your skin (a pleasurable sensation!) purchase SOFT FROM ALL THE BLOOD for your Kindle here! AmazonPrime members can download it for free!
