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When Eagles Burn by Jack Hayes is now out and FREE through Amazon.co.uk, Smashwords and iBooks.


About When Eagles Burn

When Eagles is a prequel to the "Maddox series" of James Bond styled World War 2 action & espionage thrillers. It forms a new first book and easy introduction into the world of behind enemy lines operations, set in the dying few years of the conflict. It is a fast-paced Boy's Own adventure in the cinematic style of Alistair MacLean, Jack Higgins and Clive Cussler.

When Eagles Burn is available FREE in the UK through Amazon.co.uk and Worldwide through Smashwords


Plot

September 1944.
Germany is being pushed back across Europe but the war is not yet won. A fanatical group within the Nazi hierarchy is determined to do whatever is necessary to tip the balance in the Fatherland's favour.
Their plan? Pinpoint guided V2 rockets.
From across the seas, the Nazis will be able to hit a specific location with a large enough warhead to guarantee precision assassinations.
Their first target: Winston Churchill.
Captain Maddox is a veteran of Britain's Special Operations Executive.
He is sent behind enemy lines to Finland thwart this new menace.
But finding and stopping the Germans is just the first problem among many. Will the local Finns, battling Soviet Russia, greet him as friend or foe?
And what of the Red Army, who want the technology for themselves?
Worse still, Maddox quickly realises not everyone on his team wants him to make it through the war alive.


Praise for Jack Hayes' Maddox Series

"Another masterful thriller from Jack Hayes. A gripping tale of heroism and treachery." -- James Becker, author of "The Lost Testament"

"A cracking read!" -- Roger Hurn, author of "Business is Murder"

"A thriller in a class of its own!" -- Matt Lynn, author of the "Black Ops" series.


About the Maddox series

The other novels in the series are Blood Red Sea, Saving Hitler and No Easy Mission.
They have become firm favourites among thriller readers - each of them hitting No.1 on their respective charts on Amazon's Web site.
Blood Red Sea has been downloaded more than 10,000 times since it was first released.

My fourth book Candleburn is on Amazon for FREE! You can download it here.

Now that I've got past that shameless self promotion, here's the bit on Writer's Block.

I know plenty of authors who suffer from it.

When I ask them why they're stuck, they often give me a variety of replies ranging from "I'm out of ideas" to "I can't think what comes next" to "I'm just not sure any of this is making any sense".

A conversation usually flows about the advice from famous authors - much of which seems to involve the abuse of substances of various legalities. Except for Raymond Chandler - who simply said: "When I get stuck, I have two guys burst through the door, guns blazing."

They then usually ask me how I overcome the problem and are surprised (presumably also slightly irritated) that I don't suffer from it.

The reason is: I don't write linearly.

If you're shocked by this (some people are) remember - it's your book. No-one else will read it until you're finished. They won't care that you wrote page 150 before you did page 10.

How does it work?

That's simple: write the bits you know.

SO... I've written seven novels now and I've pretty much got my routine down pat.

1. I write the opening 500 to 1500 words.

This sets the tone for the book. It gives me my voice. I'll know if I'm writing in first person singular or third person omni or second or whatever. I'll have my style - and I'll have the key opening theme.

2. If I'm writing a book I'll know either (or both) the key main climax and/ or ending.

I write these next. Sometimes the ending and sometimes the main climax.

3. The novel is beginning to take shape now. If it's going to be 30ish chapters long (I write thrillers with chapters typically 5-15 pages in length) then I probably now have something that theoretically would look like:

OPEN----------------MAIN CLIMAX-------END

4. While writing these, other ideas will be percolating ("bear attacks... I haven't had enough bear attacks..." and "The hero is going to fall in love but she'll be sassy and reject him"). Because these peaks in the story are ideas are in my head, I type them out. I'll have rough but not perfect idea where they fit. If they're in the wrong spot later, I can cut and paste them to a new location - or delete if they slow things down.

OPEN----PEAK1---PEAK2----MAIN CLIMAX----END

5. These ideas will form other ideas - how did I get from my opening to Peak 1? How does Peak 1 lead to Peak 2? Do I need Peak 3 or 4 in there as well?

OPEN-P3-P1---P2----MAIN CLIMAX--P5--END

P4... deleted...

6. Finally, it's just a matter of sewing these scenes together.

In that way, I don't get writer's block. I stick to one simple rule: I write the bits I know. And then I sew them together.

As soon as you've published your first book, you begin the breathless wait for your first review.

With Amazon's algorithm - and even that crucial spark that causes word-of-mouth - relying on them, reviews will always have a place of importance.

The trouble for most authors is separating out the genuine criticism from the nasty, backbiting of other embittered writers!

For instance, if you got a one-star review like this:
"more baffling than thd film.a nothing of read.if i hadnt seen the film i wouldnt have had a clue. avoid as it is a classic, classic nonsense" it might be hard to discern if you should pay attention to a reviewer who makes multiple typos in 29 words...

Of course, in this case you shouldn't. Quite aside from the fact that it reads like it was written by an epileptic monkey, this one-star review was for Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness.

So here are some more one-star reviews for classics. Enjoy – and let it help the next time your novel is on the receiving end of something similar!*

Treasure Island

- "DO NOT BUY THIS BOOK YOU WILL DIE FROM BOREDOM!!! THIS HAS TO BE THE MOST CRAPIST BOOK EVER! DO NOT BUY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

- "Bad book
Do not read
Do not make a second one
But good luck next time
I will not read again"

Robinson Crusoe

- "Not my favourite book. Even in a world of two people Robby finds a way of enslaving the primitive one and teaching him about Christ. Zzzz"

- "What is that even about and why do they talk so weird????????? I think that this book should have more information about this guy!!!!!!!!!I mean is he a famous person or something?????????"

39 Steps

- “An utterly boring and unbelievable story which I read to the end hoping for something better to turn up. It didn't”

- “very slow ..was like pulling teeth not very action pact ,have seen several films and thought bet this is good .. its not even for free i want my money back ..”

- “Seen all the film's but never read the book till now. Great read thoroughly enjoyed it. History and adventure together.”
[Yet still rated it one star]


Wizard of Oz

- “Well I like.this book because it has good word's and it is just fascinating to read I liked the part were Dorothy defeats then”

- “This book is good but it`s not the same as the movie so i did`nt like it so much as the movie.”

- “Teeth bbc fhbg the snowman and I'm homeless people who are not good at screens and I'm not sure if I can see the world and I'm not good at it was a busy week in could have been in could have to be in Brighton next week in the Victorian and I'm not sure if this rate of you have to the Victorian and I still”


Tale of Two Cities

- “a very disappointing book - only the opening and closing quotations of note. Heavy handed prose, characters have no depth and the central theme of Carton's love just doesn't work and fails to convince regarding his ultimate sacrifice”

- “I often try to read The Classics to improve my mind but always find them so boring, give me a modern author any day though I found the original Dracula to be good, mind you it was Bram Stoker's one and only.”

- “Look, these novels are first class but this transcript is so full of errors. Miss Havisham is refered to as Miss Hawisham in G.E! Very poor indeed. I got a refund.”
[The book is free]


Les Miserables:

- “I am afraid this is the only book that i have ever given up on in at least 20 years. Too slow, didn't make it past 5% despite my best efforts. I have deleted this book com my e-library so its icon doesn't continue to mock me.”

- “I couldn't even finish this book because it was so boring & it seemed to go on & on without anything particularly interesting happening.”

- “I'm sorry, I can't get into this book at all. I've bought the dvd and I watched it but absolutely hated it.”

- “Sorry, I gave up after a few pages.Akin to watching paint dry, I couldn't manage any more. It wasn't like that in the West End.”


Moby Dick

- "Be sure to avoid the audio version read by Burt Reynolds. His pseudo dialect is almost beleivable, however he is way over the top emoting and blustering through the dialogue. Then he continues on in the same monotonous bombast to read the prose sections as if they were also dialogue. The problem with this is an extremely irritating sing-song pattern, combined with his squeeking, yelling, and mumbling. It lacks all respect for the dignity of Melville's prose. Buy the unabridged version read by Bill Bailey. It is not exciting, but it is not irritating and does not get in the way of Melville's prose."

- "Have heard for years that MOBY DICK is a great American Classic. Decided to try to read it. Very disappointed. If you want to read lots of meaningless whale trivia read the book. "

- “Moby Ick's more like it. A PIECE-O-TRASH! SENSELESS!”
[Short and pithy…]

[…versus one that complains about the book being over written and is… ironically rather long]
- “Anything that is white, that the author doesn't 'like' are disgusting too. (This is along the lines that the author gives that 'white' is pure' and anything that is 'white' that (he himself) deems impure is disgusting, because white should always be 'good' as such, Moby Dick terrified the author because he was 'white' and yet was not 'pure'. This is the whole silly argument of the book, and it is laughable. Don't believe me? read it for yourself, the author genuinely thinks the colour white is reserved in whole for something holy, and that if a whale happens to be white (and happens to defend itself from whale hunters, it is disgusting, and deserves to be killed.)

I forced myself to read every single page of this 'classic' and came to the conclusion that is its completely overrated tripe. Along with listing every single minute detail of what goes on in whaling ship, the author thinks that we we all be interested to know what he thinks about the mind of the 'malicious' white whale (Moby Dick) as if we are going to sympathize with him for hunting a creature that is doing nothing but defending itself.

Why on Earth this is seen as a 'classic' is beyond me, try and get it published today and it would be called the idiotic ramblings of a madman or a schoolboy who didn't know how to write, just because its old doesn't mean its good.

Not only can the author not string a sentence together, he often goes of on a tangent totally unrelated to what is being discussed and expects the reader to tag along, this might be OK if the book was documentary or almanac or a book about the behavior of whales and the hunting of them, but it is not, it is meant to be a novel and as such it is the job of the author to keep the narrative flowing, the is no flow in this book, it stops and starts jarringly and is in sore need of much editing (HUNDREDS of pages could have been removed with absolutely no effect on the story)

In places it is good (VERY GOOD) but this is overwhelmed by the ridiculous need for the author to describe things that we simple do not need to know, research is very important when writing a book, (see 'Unbroken, or 'Sea Biscuit', the amount of research in these books are phenomenal)but the author needs to draw the line of where to put things in appendices (Tolkien was very good at this) so not to draw the reader out of the story. The author feels the needs to reveal ALL his research without editing, and as such the book reads as something of a rambling notebook of opinions without a basis of fact.

Sadly I cannot say this book is worth recommending. It certainly is not a classic and it is not a joy to read. I say this without bias and I will no doubt be blasted for such opinions, but I can only be honest. I have read many 'difficult' books but none that has bored me as much as Moby Dick, heavily eddied, it could probably pass as something in readers digest (of old) but (for me) it will never be anything more than a pile of self indulgent tripe.”


*Reviews taken from Amazon.com & Amazon.co.uk. All were one-star (even the seemingly positive ones) and generally for the most popular version of the book in the charts (generally the free one). They’re also “cut and pastes” – all typos and CAPS use is how they were written.

My fourth book, Candleburn, is FREE on Amazon for a couple of days and to celebrate, I thought I'd post a portion of a recent interview with Simon Duringer, author of Stray Bullet. It deals with the fine line authors tread between marketing & writing "their vision".

The full interview can be found here .

Candleburn can be got here . Remember - it's FREE for a couple of days!

Q: Your writing methodology, explained in a previous interview, appears to be very clinical and more akin to a marketer’s approach than that of an author. From the way you have chosen your subject matter through to how you construct your characters and how much you write in any given time frame. It seems though everything is mapped out before you even put pen to paper. Is that a fair assessment of how you write and have you ever just thought of a subject and hit the qwerty hard allowing the characters to lead the way?

A: Short answer no, long answer maybe.

Here’s reality. I’ve met many, many authors. I’ve yet to find two who write using the same method. Some plot everything first. Others go for characters. Some are anarchistic. Others produce notepads full of detailed backgrounds for every event and full family histories, only a fraction of which makes it into the book. One writes the entire book as a 30,000 word short story containing everything. When he finishes that, he shows it to his agent who says yes or no and then he fleshes it out. It’s a brilliant system. Not sure it would work for me.

My key point is: do what works for you and do it well.

At the end of the day, if you hit writer’s block and going for a swim helps you clear it, do that. If it’s free form writing that gets your juices flowing then go for it. If it’s writing the novel in 30,000 words then fleshing it out – super! Dan Brown likes to hang upside down from the ceiling like Batman so blood flows to his head. Yeah, it’s weird. I bet he’s crying all the way to the bank that you think so.

Okay – so that’s how to write. But your question is also in part about what to write:

If you want to write about a new type of hybrid pony-unicorn, don’t expect your ponycorn adventures to be mega hits (you may get lucky – the five-year-old girl called Cassy who did this did indeed achieve success: http://ponycorns.com/) but don’t expect it to happen.

If writing is what you want to do and you want to write what you want to write, then my point remains: do what works for you and do it well.

Back in reality, there’s a balance.

Yes, we’d all love to do art for art’s sake. We also all like to pay the mortgage and eat. If you want to be a professional writer – or even just a widely read author who gives their work away for free (or nearly free) – you’ve got to write for some kind of audience. Personally, I like crime, conspiracy thrillers, men’s adventure and espionage. I’m lucky, there’s a good market out there for that stuff and I’m not having to slog away to convince people that the genre is worth a punt (doesn’t mean you can’t do that – Jasper Fforde has done terribly well, for instance).
However, it’s a crowded space. I need to stand out. I know what I want to write. I know my novel’s world (I call it “Ritter World” after one of the characters… but so far, he’s only appeared in one of the four books. His second appearance may not be until book seven or eight). So before I start I do think about how I’m going to pitch my tent.

When you say I’m a marketer rather than a writer, you’re probably referring to an interview I gave where I said authors should think about a single sentence selling point for their books. I try to and I find it helps. I don’t always do that, though.

The first book containing Ritter (published as Overtime) didn’t start out as a single sentence pitch. I decided on a rough topic I wanted to play with, came up with some plot ideas, wrote the start, developed the character and then was off to the races. The book wasn’t really fully formed in my mind until I was a third of the way through.

All of my novels tend to work like that to a degree. I think that’s kind of anarchistic – here’s an idea, here’s a character… Where does it go? I also write non-linearly. I write the opening 5,000 words. Often I then write the end (or at least, an end… It may change). Then I go through and write the significant scenes I really want in. That perhaps fuels another idea. I put those scenes in too. I link some of them. I go back to the start. I begin to sew everything together.

While this is what’s going on on paper, in my head, I do have certain ideas (whether it’s character arcs or plot or subtext) that I want to work with. I can’t say whether it’s marketing driven or any other style. It’s not really relevant: it’s just what works for me.

Do what works for you and do it well.

The full interview can be found here .

Candleburn can be got here .

David JB Smith very kindly interviewed me for his blog.

The full interview can be read here but below is an excerpt. I'd been intending for sometime to post a blog entry on how to market using social media. This extract saves me having to type out the same ideas twice!

Has social media been a benefit to you as an author and do you have any tips for budding authors on the use of social media to self promote?

Lower barriers to entry for publishing a book and marketing it through social media are both a blessing and a curse.

Blessings first: my books may not have made it into the public sphere without these revolutions (mine are released by an ebook-only publisher called Endeavour Press).

Endeavour can thrive because of the lower costs social media and ebooks allow, along with other factors like first mover advantage and traditional larger publishers being slow to move into the arena. That’s the blessings.

The curse is obvious: lower barriers to entry means increased competition. Twitter can often seem like 20,000 people all stuck in a room shouting through megaphones at the same time. Lots of noise and no-one is listening.

So, how do you get noticed? On to the tips.

These are hard to give. It’s not that I’m reluctant to divulge state secrets; it’s just that I genuinely believe giving tips on this is misleading and perhaps even counter-productive. The market is so fast moving that what “works” changes – quite literally – on a monthly basis.

What made a successful author stand out in March of this year is totally different to now. It’ll change again before the year is up (probably several times).

You read a lot of rubbish out there about how to do it.

One successful author, for instance, says it’s all down to writing review submissions to Websites that are clearly set out. It’s great that that has worked for them… but if they really think they were the first person to have the idea that clearly written review submissions is the answer then they are deluded.

There are so many people and so many books out (and it’s always increasing) that you won’t come up with a new way to market.

If what you do works for you, well done! You had the right combination of timing, skill, hopefully a good book and the key ingredient: luck. Don’t let anyone tell you that luck isn’t a huge component.

Having a good book isn’t enough. And plenty of terrible books go on to be successes.

For those who say “you make your own luck”, well… yes, there’s an element of that. But everyone thinks they can make it if they work hard enough. I honestly believe hard work (or even smart work) isn’t enough. How many creative types died impoverished and alone, only to be “discovered” after they were gone? We’ll never know how many weren’t discovered at all.

“You make your own luck” is a particularly pernicious form of “Survivor’s Bias” and not really helpful.

So…what is helpful?

1. Write a good book (it definitely increases your odds over a bad one)

2. Pick a brand name for yourself you think stands out. Jack Hayes works for me. JF Penn is a great one and works for her. Lee Child (short, snappy, sounds like no-one else and stands out). Ngaio Marsh… terrible name… excellent brand. Will you ever confuse her for anyone else?

3. Try to get published the traditional route first. If you can make it that way life is much easier.

4. Don’t underestimate the advantage being published by someone else gives you. Sure, your margin self-publishing an ebook is higher but two heads are better than one… and even a small ebook publisher has many more than two heads there.

5. If you absolutely have to self-publish you need the oxygen of publicity and a business model. Would you start a restaurant without knowing the industry? Read, read, read. Pick a model that you think will work for you. Copy another author’s plan. If that doesn’t work, tweak it or change to what someone else is doing. Like I said, the industry moves fast – so stay on top of it. Better, learn to predict it

6. Actually, this goes right back to the beginning and should be what you think before you write your book: come up with an idea that can be sold in a single sentence.

Point 6 needs a little elaboration. Blood Red Sea sells because in a single sentence the plot is: “What if the Nazis got the atomic bomb first?” That’s the hook. That’ll get you reading it (I hope).

My third book to be published, Overtime, doesn’t have a biting, single sentence hook. It’s a great novel (my mum told me so) but I can’t grab you in with a single sentence because it’s a complicated story about a Russian Billionaire buying an American Football Club to escape being thrown in jail by the Russian President.

The issue is that the club is going to go bust because America’s taken a swing to the evangelical right and the club’s constantly having its twenty-something players caught doing drugs or sleeping with hookers. The sponsors threaten to pull out if another story hits the papers. So the billionaire hires a guy called Ritter to keep stories out of the press and if Ritter is unsuccessful, he’ll end up in the Florida Keys as an alligator’s dinner.

Now, I’m not saying you wouldn’t read that, I’m just saying it’s a bugger to condense into 140 characters, including spaces, with a link to Amazon and hashtags.

How does this fair: “PR is Easy: Keep News Out of the Press or Die.” Sure, the hook’s not as good as the one for Blood Red Sea… and that’s why you should think about these things before you start writing.

For more from the interview, please visit David's excellent site by clicking here

If you haven't experienced the joy that is a Jack Hayes novel, your life is incomplete.

But have no fear!

For the next few days my third thriller Overtime is on free release!

Not convinced?

Well, Ian Dickerson - Chairman of the Saint Club - says this:
"Overtime is an addictive read which had me hooked from the very first chapter."

Meanwhile, Roger Hurn - author of No.1 best sellers "Business is Murder" & "Hand of Darkness" - says:
"Jack Hayes has crafted a high octane thriller that is perfectly executed, full of plot twists and has a tough guy hero who is sharp as a switch blade but who is also infused with an innate sense of decency. This is a cracking read!"

If that's still not enough for you... how about Robert Foster:
"Overtime brilliantly mixes big-time sport and big-time money to create a roller-coaster read."

Or even Tom Kasey:
"Explosive action!"

Plus, did I mention it's FREE? Check it out: Jack Hayes' Overtime

*Please be aware today's blog post contains some swear words. Apologies in advance - Jack Hayes*

A few days earlier than I expected, my third book Overtime has hit the digital shelves.

The book was actually the first one I finished writing and I feel an enormous sense of both relief and excitement to finally see it published by Endeavour Press.

The journey for this novel, originally titled Ritter's Line, was a long and hard one.

It was picked up by an agent after a recommendation to them from two different authors. They demanded a host of changes. After a year of batting back and forth I said enough was enough - it was time for it to be shopped around.

The agent disagreed but eventually accepted my view and sent it to 14 different publishing houses.

I am ashamed to say: he was right, I was wrong.

Seven publishers rejected it straight away.

It wasn't their thing.

That was understandable: I am British, so was my agent and so were the publishers. To appeal to a US market I had purposefully written about an English "fixer" working for a Russian mobster who had bought an American Football club.

Four more said they would accept the book, if I changed the lead character to an ex-SAS man.

This caused a fundamental problem for the plot. Not only would it make the book an obvious ersatz Lee Child knock-off, it also insulted the intelligence of readers.

The lead character, Simon Ritter, was a lone wolf - a melding of Dirty Harry and Simon Templar. Such a person would never fit into an elite Special Forces regiment; they simply wouldn't make it through the selection process.

One more rejected the book with a simple, single line email: "I did not understand this book."

In my heart he got bonus points for ruthless honesty. In my head, I thought he was a moron.

Overtime is, in many ways, a modern rewrite of Dirty Harry. You could call it many things ("too violent" or "too American" or perhaps "not American enough") but to say you didn't understand it was as though you'd gone in to the cinema, watched the film "Die Hard", and come out complaining you didn't understand the underlying metaphysical construct.

"Man with big gun shoots bad guys" didn't strike me as a complex plot.

You live and learn.

Down to the last two publishers.

One sent me a long email explaining that the editing department at his publishing house had loved the book. They'd taken it to the sales department and it had been rejected on the grounds that the book was "unsellable."

He thanked me profusely for sending in the novel and asked me to submit any future books directly to him.

I shan't mention his name here - however, after all the previous rejections, I shall be eternally thankful to him.

But the last rejection... oh, the last rejection...

It was an email that was very blunt and on occasions scatological. I no longer have the original so offer here my memory of it:


Thank you very much for sending in your ms Ritter's Line (now called Overtime). I loved this book. I passed it around my colleagues here in the Editing Department.

We thought it was brilliant.

I took it straight down to the Sales Department, marched into the Head of Sales' office and slapped it onto his desk.

"We have to have this book," I said. "This is where it is at. It is the new-new thing."

The Head of Sales asked me about the plot, so I explained it to him. He waited very patiently until I'd finished speaking, thought briefly and said:
"No fucking way."

Our conversation rapidly descended into a "who's got the biggest dick" contest.
I just want you to know right now... I lost.


This was, head & shoulders, the greatest rejection I have ever received.

Unfortunately, in this race, a loss was a loss. The are no prizes for getting a rejection, no matter how well worded.

Damn.

The agent refused to send the book out to any other publishers. I would have to write a second book if I wanted to get published (that novel was titled Rook and eventually published by Endeavour Press as Dead Man Rising).

The story of Dead Man Rising is one for another blog post... but the story of Overtime doesn't end there.

Two weeks later, quite out of the blue, I received a second email from the publisher. It was in the same scatological vein and, working from memory, went approximately:


Dear Mr Hayes,

A few days ago, I was clearing old manuscripts out of my office and came across Ritter's Line.

"It couldn't possibly be as good as I remembered," I thought, and so I sat down to read it again.

Knowing the plot twists and turns, I enjoyed it even more the second time!

I immediately marched back down to the Head of Sales' office and stormed up to his desk.

I called him an idiot.

I told him this book was brilliant and exactly what we needed. We needed to sign it up straight away.

After a loud argument we agreed to convene a six-person meeting. Everyone in the room had read your manuscript and we debated back and forth the pros and cons of it.

The conversation rapidly descended once again into a "who's got the biggest dick" contest.

I just want you to know, right now, I'm very sorry.

I lost again.


And there it was.

It has taken FIVE YEARS to get Overtime out to the market. It has been longer still since I first put my fingers on a keyboard and began to type that fateful opening sentence: "The first time I met Josh Wheeler, he was already dead."

I am enormously grateful to everyone at Endeavour Press for their hard work in getting my books out and believing in them.

I hope you enjoy reading Overtime as much as I did writing it.

Jack Hayes

Dead Man Rising has been reviewed by Adelaide-based author Dean Mayes on his Web site: http://bit.ly/18Enr4V

Dean's work includes the excellent Hambledown Dream and Gifts Of The Peramangk.

His beginnings as an author should be an inspiration for all of us benefiting from the Internet revolution: the genesis of what has become his first published novel came in 2008 when he started an internet blog and decided to craft a story 'on the fly.'

It was crafted in installments, published on the blog each week. He now has an agent and several published novels!

My second book, Dead Man Rising, is free to download from Amazon for the next couple of days.

Please give it a try and let me know so I can return the favour when your book is next on free download!

Click below for FREE copy of Dead Man Rising:
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