3-27-12 21:44pm Update: During my 72 hour giveaway, 578 people downloaded this book. Reaction also his #8 in the Amazon Sci-Fi>Adventure bestseller list. Early reviews have been great, though my copy editor and I allowed a couple silly typos to slip through. (“Meat me at the river” makes me giggle like a teenager). I expect to pull the book early next week to correct these.
Original post: You may have wondered why I haven’t posted here since the first of the year. Now, my friends, you have the answer: I was simultaneously learning to be a parent and finishing Reaction, the first book in my sci-fi adventure series The End of the Iron Age. You can download the book for free here until late Sunday night. You can purchase this little yarn an Amazon for only $4.99.
And, if you enjoy this work, I would appreciate it if you could either take a couple minutes and leave a brief review or share this work with your friends. I’m just getting started, and I need all the help I can get.
Now that this book is out, I will resume posting here at Happenchance, assuming the little fellow lets me get some rest:
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Hey, congrats on your child! And regarding your activities during last year – does that mean we’ll have some sort of parenting marks on the pages of your book? .)
Congrats on your child. They’re a handful, exhausting, frustrating and rewarding all at once.
Thank you. A newborn is definitely a handful, but Tiffany (my wife) and I are fortunate that we have several family members who can help us with him.
Thanks. Right now, most of the marks are on my shirt, my furniture, my car seats, even my piano. The book remains baby-mark free 😉
Downloaded the book, Seth. I’m a few chapters in so far but I’m swamped with other stuff at the moment. I do intend to read it from digital cover to digital cover. Hope you sell a few million!
Downloaded, almost done. Great story! It doesn’t take itself too seriously and doesn’t bog the reader down in technical details. I love how it is paced, not slowing down the action to tell us lengthy back stories for ‘character development’. Seth M Baker does it right, develop the character and story at the same time.
Well done, Mr. Baker!
Thanks JA, hope you enjoy it.
I appreciate the wonderful feedback. Thank you very much!
Family members that help make those first weeks and months amazing.
I downloaded and read the book. It was a good read, fun, serious, but not too serious. Only thing I can say is that it might have benefited from another proofread as there were several places where a typo made me re-read parts multiple times to make sure I was actually reading it correctly. Bow != bowl. Meat != meet. Also, there was one section where it looked like the paragraph just got cut off. But overall it was fun and easy to read. I hope my first book is as accessible.
I appreciate your kind words. Even with several beta readers and a hired copy editor, I’m embarrassed that these typos showed up. However, I’m grateful that people have pointed these goofs out to me; the beauty of Amazon/Kindle editions is that I can pull the book, fix them, and have the book back online within 24 hours.
Good luck with your own work, and if there are any questions I can help you with, just let me know.
I found a few inconsequential words missing from sentences, not worth the hassle to go looking right now. Inconsequential because I was hooked on the story.
Best of luck with your novel Seth. Looking forward to more posts coming out.
Very very cool Seth! I’ve always wanted to write a book, but I haven’t had the discipline to actually get it done yet. I think this is awesome.