Grea Alexander's Blog - Posts Tagged "drama"

We’re going to try something a little different for January & February 2018. We’re going to use the “Reader Sets The Price” function on Smashwords for all of my Book Ones:

Amarna I: Ida

https://www.smashwords.com/books/view...




Cabello I

https://www.smashwords.com/books/view...




Miael I: Family

https://www.smashwords.com/books/view...




The Pack I: Addison

https://www.smashwords.com/books/view...




Rebellion I: Quay

https://www.smashwords.com/books/view...




Now just what is reader sets price?

It’s exactly what it sounds like. The reader pays what they can/what they feel the book is worth.

If you choose to pay a low price, we do hope that if you enjoy the book, you will purchase a 2nd copy at what you feel is a fairer price...or decide to spoil me rotten and pay an exorbitant price instead!

This feature is only available on Smashwords.

Get 'em while the gettin's good!

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Why Smashwords?

1. You can choose from multiple formats including: epub, mobi, pdf, lrf, pdb, html or read online
2. You can purchase from more countries than any other ebook retailer (from more than 200 countries to be more specific). To see if yours is one of them, click here: https://www.paypal.com/webapps/mpp/co...
3. More of your purchase price actually goes to the author than anywhere else.
4. Smashwords gives authors complete control over their pricing including the ability to instantly change the price, to price without pricing minimums or offer coupons without forced exclusivity or forced participation in library programs.

Now be generous or you will be smote.

Enjoy!

Grea.
Smashwords Page: https://www.smashwords.com/profile/vi...

Aside from actually trying to promote my books (laugh) I've been busy with actual writing.

Right now I'm about 65% through writing Cabello 3, Acadea.






I've also put up the new covers for the Sedition series and mini-synopsis..sisis. Sedition is a spin-off trilogy that will follow the Choi children from the Rebellion series (mostly Xian).






Aside from storming libraries nationwide, the free previews offered via free ebook giveaway group (September's listing will be up on the 17th) and a newsletter.... of sorts, I'd like to share with all of my GoodReads blog visitors the top reasons (scientifically identified by yours truly) people should buy my books.

Ready?

- Buy my books because you still need one more item to qualify for free shipping.

- Buy my books to sing like Prince or Whitney Houston...with laryngitis & their vocal cords partially removed.

- Buy my books because nothing that truly tastes great is really less filling.

- Buy my books to support a local author. (I'm more local to some than others.)

- Buy my books to see me do a little happy dance….with your eyes closed in your imagination.

- Buy my books and two black spots will disappear from your soul…only to be replaced by five new ones.

- Buy my books to spit in the eye of everyone who said Trix are just for kids.

- Buy my books because one size fits all is total bull...shirt.

- Buy your books so that nasty looking rash will go away!

- Buy my books to see the future…by skipping to the last page.

- Buy my books because side effects should never apply to you!

- Buy my books because the only demons in your head should be mine.

- Buy my books to support a great cause.: me!

- Buy my books because being 1st is always better than being last! Ok, not always but mostly.

- Buy my books because they all come with a prize inside: words.

- Buy my books because they taste like chicken (& they’re cheep).

- Buy my books because books make you look smart. (Notice I said LOOK.)

- Buy my books because it keeps me from hiding in your bushes with binoculars.

- Buy my books so all your current legal troubles will end... only to be replaced by new ones!

- Buy my books so the demons in your house will disappear...inside of you.

- Buy my books because even *I* don’t look good in a cardboard box.

- Buy my books to save money on car insurance…by not paying for it in the 1st place.

- Buy my books to prove you've amounted to something….about $3-$5.

- Buy my books to attract the love you’ve been missing into your life (from me & my accountant).

- Buy my books online because having your card declined in public is just plain embarrassing.

- Buy my books because hoarding is underrated.

- Buy my books to become immortal. (What you do on the internet NEVER goes away.)

- Buy my books to win a trip to anywhere in the world...eventually… from somewhere else… maybe.

- Buy my books because when I’m out on the streets bad things happen.

- Buy my books so you too will be able to call in the Hydra!

- Buy my books because you don’t have to add milk you don't have.

- Buy my books so your wife/girlfriend/boyfriend/husband never has to know.

- Buy my books because they make the voices go away.

- Buy my books to appear on TV...in the reflection when it’s off.

- Buy my books to prove Mensa doesn’t have ALL the smart people.

- Buy my books so I won’t testify against you in court.

- Buy my books to lose weight! (Full brain cells are smaller & weigh less than empty ones).

- Buy my books to give your lactose intolerance the finger...then promptly hurl.

- Buy my books, make 10 more people buy them….and absolutely nothing will happen!

- Buy my books to prove you have taste (questionable taste, but taste).

- Buy my books to look great naked…because you’ll be reading instead of looking in a mirror.

- Buy my books to make your ereader/computer grow 3 inches in just 2 weeks.

- Buy my books because I'm one of you... only better.

- Buy my books to make los cucarachas salir!

- Buy my books to increase your brain size….or cause an aneurysm. (I always mix up the 2).

- Buy my books because joy is a gift. Surely, I deserve something in return.

- Buy my books because laughter is not priceless. I think I’ve at least earned $2.99 here.

Cheers!

Grea.

As usual, unless otherwise specified, these are free ebook giveaways.

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Cheers!

Grea.

UPDATED 3/31/20

So today this doctor just tweeted this image of a coronavirus test via nose swab (which is what I had).

Enjoy: https://twitter.com/DrPeckPNP/status/...

Was it the best time ever?

No.

However, some of the commenters are being SO MELODRAMATIC.

Folks, it was nowhere near the most painful medical thing out there.

Try being urethra catheterized, the nurse being incompetent and having to pull it all the way out and try again... back to back. (Yes, that happened to me during one of my pre-term labor episodes.) Now THAT was pretty damned painful.

What is a urinary catherization exactly?

Well, it involves having a tube about the girth of a pencil slowly shoved up your tiny pee hole and all the way into your bladder - sans any kind of sedation or anesthesia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urinary...

Or perhaps try a nervous system stimulation test where they stick a needle into various points of your body, one by one, right into the nerve and then proceed to administer electroshock to said nerve - 1 to 5 times per nerve point with each time getting more intense.

(Yes, I've had that one as well. I was stuck and shocked more than 200 times total.

And guess what? They couldn't find the damned problem.

Know who figured it out?

ME!

And it was something simple and easily fixed in my environment.)

Oh and did I happen to mention that I'm a needle phobe at that?

I dare say others have had even more painful experiences like say, I don't know, pushing a watermelon sized being out of a non-watermelon sized hole?

#GoodTimes

UPDATE 3/30/20

So I got my coronavirus test back even FASTER than 48 hours and it was negative.

Yay me!

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PREVIOUS POST: 3/29

'Allo my fellow detainees!

Like many of you, I live in a city on lockdown. However, unlike others, I am in double super max lock down as I await the results of my coronavirus test.

Now let me preface this by saying that I'm feeling much better at this point. I'm not having nor have I had any major respiratory distress symptoms such as shortness of breath or anything. I also haven't had to be hospitalized or anything of that nature.

In fact, except for a few days that I was super tired and my symptoms were at their most irritating, my symptoms have been very mild (though I am told that that could turn on a dime and to continue rest, etc).

Though I was fine with just staying home in self quarantine, out of an abundance of caution and concern for anyone who might have been near me the last 14 days, I decided to get tested.

So, how did I get the test?

Well, in Houston, you are required to have certain symptoms via a pre-screening before you are administered the test. Unfortunately, I checked too many symptom boxes during the screening and have been determined as possibly infected.

While there are a number of different tests, mine consisted of a thin swab being stuck up my nose all the way into regions that nothing has ever been stuck before. Yes, all the way up into your sinuses.

While not painful, needless to say it is not the most comfortable and made me start coughing. Of course, this does not seem to be ideal for anyone (though my nurse basically had on a hazmat mask, gloves and a disposable gown over her clothing).

The rooms are also thoroughly disinfected between each test. I can attest to this fact as the smell in the room was disgusting and overwhelming as the fragrances of the various cleaning and disinfecting products came together in a horrible cacophony of loud stench. Still, I'd rather smell the chemical cleaning funk than not.

Post swab I was face masked and instructed not to take it off until I'm home, to continue self-isolation (going absolutely no where) and to record my temperature each day.

While my discharge papers say I'll have the results in 48 hours, in the room I was told 3-5 business days (so who knows when I'll actually get the results).

Either way, the worst of the infection seems to be over for me. Hopefully, if whatever this is is indeed coronavirus, I haven't infected anyone else. I've been super careful (even before symptoms started) with social distancing, etc. However, other people around me have not been or have encroached on my 6-foot bubble.

Even in situations where everyone is social distanced (such as at the grocery store), as soon as the door opens, they all crowd together at the entry/basket corral.

I've been taking walks at sunrise when most people are still asleep and diverting my path like Pacman being chased by ghosts if I see anyone even within 10 feet of me. Even then, I see people just randomly walking up to neighbors or the maintenance man or mail person, stand right next to them and having conversations like nothing is going on.

Considering that an estimated 17% to as high as 50 something percent of infected show no symptoms (at least at the time they are spreading infection), I've been treating everyone like they're zombies for weeks and have been staying as far away as possible.

That being said, one can only Netflix and Chill for so long. During my downtime, I've put together this interesting multi-genre group of ebooks that are priced at $5 or less with some titles as low as 99 cents.

More details can be found here: https://www.goodreads.com/author_blog...

Cheers!

Grea.

'Allo my fellow detainees!

Like many of you, I live in a city on lockdown.

That being said, one can only Netflix and Chill for so long. During my downtime, I've put together this interesting multi-genre group of ebooks that are priced at $4.99 or less (with some titles as low as 99 cents).

Genres include: Action & Adventure, Children's, Contemporary Fiction, Drama, Fantasy, Historical Fiction, Horror, Nonfiction, Romance, Sci-Fi, etc..

Please note: Myself as well as some of the participating authors are/may be Amazon affiliates though other retailers are included besides Amazon (depending upon author).

Retailer options vary by author but include Amazon, Apple, Barnes & Noble, Kobo & Google Play.



April-Shower Proof: https://storyoriginapp.com/to/GmQY5BK

Please Note: Although the official start date of the April group is April 1, you can pop on over and get these deals at any time (at least through the promotion end dates).

At anytime, you can go here to see what is coming up next: http://seamonkeyink.com/seamonkey_ink...

Enjoy!

Grea.

Yes, we’ve finally gone and done it. For your twisted, campy, creepy reading pleasure, Cabello: The Complete Series has finally been unleashed upon the world!






This title is currently available at all of the usual suspects and in all countries without the good, old-fashioned censorship know-how to make sure my books never see the light of day.

Simply type in the product code in the search bar for your country’s store and it should pop right up…or the name and author…or whatever.

Amazon: B09H551W6R
Apple: 1587511540
Barnes & Noble: 2940162585596
Kobo: 1230005179398

Other retailers: https://greaalexander.seamonkeyink.co...

As with all of my previous compilation box sets (except for Rebellion which is like at a 17% discount), you save 25% over buying all 3 ebooks separately. (Though they are available in paperback as well, I don’t feel like doing the math on that.)






However, if you simply WANT to give me extra money by buying each book separately, I will gladly take it. Hell, buy several copies of each ebook while you’re at it – loading, reading and deleting each one in turn. I also hear that the paperbacks make excellent skeet shooting targets as well. Whatever floats your proverbial boat.

When am I going to get around to completing The Pack trilogy?






Next year I plan to pop Books 2 & 3 out back to back…. much in the same way Gizmo popped out his evil little bubbly, boily, fur babies.

Currently, I’m working on Sedition: Xian (which is a new trilogy following the events in Rebellion and Choi Xian instead of her parents, Quay and Soung) and working up the emotional resolve to do what must be done to my poor star-crossed Xian and Kenji – both so determined NOT to make their parents’ mistakes as to cause themselves much more heartache than necessary.






If you don’t pull your hair out and/or swear at one or both of them at least a few times during the course of this story, I simply haven’t done my job very well.

Look forward to it & enjoy!

And yes, for those of you who are wondering, my free samples are still doing famously on Amazons in several countries – remaining in the Top 100 in a number of categories.

Miael: The Couturier remains the number 1 and ONLY TITLE in the Top 100 Free in English Dark Fantasy in France !







Yes, really! It’s been that way for something like a year now.

Viva la France! https://www.amazon.fr/gp/bestsellers/...

Want some free sample chapters?






Go to your country’s AmaKoBarPple or other retailer’s product search page, search for “Grea Alexander” and sort my titles by cheapest, uh “lowest price” to highest and they should all pop up. This link will take you directly to Grea Alexander results/pages for most of my retailers…in theory: https://greaalexander.seamonkeyink.co...

Thank you to all of my fans and the lookie-loos for the continued domination of my sample chapters on the Amazon free charts.

Oh and I also have a Book Bub page if you want to follow that as well: https://www.bookbub.com/profile/grea-...

However, let’s not kid ourselves. I’m over there even less often than I pop in over here or on Library Thing. (laugh)

Enjoy!

Grea.