johnxgrey
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Post by johnxgrey on May 3, 2013 6:10:53 GMT -5
Greetings everyone. After a fallow winter season, I have returned with a new publication available at CreateSpace and Amazon.com - my first short story collection entitled The Orphaned Stories of John X. Grey (172 pages $11.50). Containing a baker's dozen of short fiction tales written sometime between 2003 and 2013 originally, plus two poems of more recent vintage, these stories were each rejected by three or more publishers of anthologies and magazines paying professional or lower rates for stories. Considering these stories my orphaned children seeking a home in print somewhere (even though three of them were briefly published digitally online at my website in 2012 until removed), I put them together for sale in recent months and hope these fictional offspring find homes on the bookshelves of fantasy, horror and science-fiction story fans out there in this crowded publishing market. The book is not yet available as a Kindle or on other formats, but perhaps that may change in the future. Here are the links to the CreateSpace and Amazon.com pages. I hope my new creation is shown some love by finding homes for its stories this year. www.amazon.com/Orphaned-Stories-John-X-Grey/dp/1484835417/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1367577979&sr=1-1&keywords=The+Orphaned+Stories+of+John+X.+Greywww.createspace.com/4263063 |
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Post by Christie Bremmer on May 3, 2013 17:24:57 GMT -5
I've bought a copy and will write a review. I like what I've read so far.
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johnxgrey
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Post by johnxgrey on May 8, 2013 7:20:38 GMT -5
Thanks, Christie. I appreciate the feedback. And thanks to any other readers who purchased a copy since the collection's May 2 release date. Today the book was ranked 304,419 at Amazon.com.
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johnxgrey
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Post by johnxgrey on May 8, 2013 21:57:15 GMT -5
By this evening another copy sold and the ranking went up to 150,588. This evening it's at 189,741 but that's the best sales ranking at Amazon attached to any of my books there. It is certainly a bright spot to an otherwise mediocre week (in terms of life's other aspects). Oh well, back to work at the computer rewriting something else.
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marcel
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Post by marcel on May 13, 2013 14:26:34 GMT -5
Congrats John, I'm a compulsive rankings checker too.  |
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johnxgrey
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Post by johnxgrey on May 22, 2013 12:53:10 GMT -5
Sadly after only three copies sold, the rankings are in the 1,400,000 territory. I hope the readers enjoy my stories unwanted by major markets over the years. I also hope there'll be a few reviews posted at its Amazon.com page. I don't get a lot of feedback about my work, just the occasional comment. But if the review is negative, I can take it.
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skyelar
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Post by skyelar on May 22, 2013 13:25:20 GMT -5
Have you offered it for free yet? If not, it might boost sales afterwards.
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johnxgrey
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Post by johnxgrey on May 28, 2013 10:52:41 GMT -5
The price is now marked down (temporarily I guess by Amazon) to $10.35 but it's not on Kindle yet (cannot afford the $69 needed to convert it by CreateSpace) and I cannot afford to give away free copies as I did with two other books last year (plus one of the books wasn't really ready and was embarrassing as my introduction to a wider audience as one result, and the other did not move as well even with free copies offered). So, unfortunately that avenue is not a practical approach this year - unless my financial situation improves.
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johnxgrey
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Post by johnxgrey on May 29, 2013 21:16:10 GMT -5
Anyone out there finished it? At 172 pages it should be a somewhat brisk read. My own reading speed has varied. I've read some engrossing genre novels (a few in the Star Trek or Star Wars original novels comes to mind) and other times gotten stuck on a page for days in what took months to finish (that happened memorably with this one awful Star Trek novelization called Triangle when I was still in high school and later when reading Dune Messiah - which I never finished after the first 80 pages when the first book was so good).
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Post by jacklawson on May 30, 2013 0:34:19 GMT -5
I have it bookmarked to read this weekend.
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dervish
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Post by dervish on Jun 1, 2013 14:51:33 GMT -5
I have a stack of reading to do, but this book is top of the list. Get back to you on it John.
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Post by johnxgrey on Jun 7, 2013 8:15:21 GMT -5
Enjoy. I've just started reading Orwell's Animal Farm several years after having read his 1984
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Post by johnxgrey on Jun 22, 2013 22:46:02 GMT -5
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