Daniel D. Ferry's Blog

Life as a NASA programmer is dangerous for a former police detective.

FREE Kindle book Monday January 14 through Friday, January 18

I thought it would be nice to give away four books for Labor Day week 2017

Life as a programmer is dangerous for a former police detective

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An American spy + Iran = love and danger

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If you love horses, you’ll like this book

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Enjoy!

Dan

I thought it would be nice to give away four books forBlack Friday and Saturday and Sunday

Life as a programmer is dangerous for a formerpolice detective

Awoman finally leaves her abusive husband

An American spy in Iran finds danger and love

Three short stories, two with horses

Enjoy!

Dan

Hi,

My novel “Field Piece, Book I: Tehran” will be FREEon Amazon Kindle from Friday, September 18throughTuesday, September 22. Take advantage of this special pricing if you haven’t read this novel.

Field Piece, Book I: Tehran — When a CIA agent is murdered in Tehran, the White House wants someone on the scene to determine what the agent discovered that led to his death, and who is responsible. The operative is supposed to remain low-profile — just get in, find out what the hell is going on, a...

I’m giving away two signed copies of this paperback book:A Scamp, A Scalawag, and A Patsy: Daniel Buys a Horse and Other Stories

Giveaway ends August 16, 2015.

See the giveaway details
at Goodreads.

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My short story book, A Scamp, A Scalawag, And A Patsy: Daniel Buys A Horse And Other Stories is FREE in the Kindle Store from July 2 – July 5.

Just three stories:

If you like horses, you’ll probably like this book.

Thanks!

Dan

Just for grins today I googled “.author” and “.writer” domains. I was surprised to see that they were available. Well, they really aren’t available yet, but several companies are happy to preregisteryour domain name, say “dan.author” or “dan.writer” in case those domain extensions ever became available. Same for “.book” and “.novel”.

These companies won’t guarantee that you’ll actually get that domain name, but they’ll take your money (admittedly, not much, typically $0.99/year).

Not all comp...

Working through the CreateSpace publishing process using an ebook with fewer pages – a lot fewer pages than my last abortive attempt.

This time I chose my short story book, A Scamp, A Scalawag, And A Patsy: Daniel Buys A Horse And Other Stories, which only had 54 pages after I set it up for CreateSpace. Based on the number of pages, the paper color (cream), and the trim size (5.25″ x 8″), the CreateSpace cover tool created the template you see in the graphic for this post.

Since I didn’t have...

After buying Paperback Profit Formula from Wesley Atkins, I’ve been transforming some of my books to CreateSpace format for physical publishing. This is the first of the posts about my experiences doing that.

The first book I chose to transform to CreateSpace is my espionage/military thriller Field Piece, The Complete Series. This book is actually two related novels with the same protagonist and antagonist and sundry other characters: Field Piece, Book I: Tehran and Field Piece, Book II: Azer...