Zachary Paul Chopchinski's Blog

I am so happy to announce that the second book in the Gabrielle Series, Curiosity and The Hounds of Arawn, will be hitting the shelves on August 26, 2016. Add it to your TBR list today and keep your eyes open for a few giveaways! Curiosity and The Hounds of Arawn

I wanted to give a shout out to the Winner of the giveaway for the signed copy of The Curious Tale of Gabrielle, Michelle Delgado. Thank you to all of you who entered the giveaway! Im sure I will have more in the future!

As some of you may know, my family is from Belfast and Galway.

So, in honor of my heritage, I would like to pass along a free ebook of The Curious Tale of Gabrielle!
Just go to my page on smash words: https://www.smashwords.com/books/view...

and put in this code FP49H.

All I ask is for an honest review in return! If you liked the book and would like a signed paperback copy, check out my home page and enter to win one! Giveaway ends at the end of the month so DONT MISS OUT!

The Curious Tale of Gabrielle

You can now download The Curious Tale of Gabrielle for $0.99 at:

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

Coming soon to:

Google Play Store and Paperback

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Yesterday was my wife’s 25th birthday, and unfortunately I had to work in the morning. I promised her that when I got out of work we would go to lunch and a movie, but to kill time she decided to walk around Portland. During her ventures through the city, she stumbled upon our dream bookstore.

The Bookstore:

Upon entering the hidden shop, you are instantly hit with the musty smell of old books and leather, and you see nothing but small paths and rows of books. The bookshelves stretch literally from floor to ceiling and there are small ladders in the corners so that the patrons may reach the books at the top. The shop specializes in used and antique books and many of the books I found were from the 17th and 18th century.


Finding My Wife and Finding History:

Once I got out of work, I ventured through the winding path in the bookstore looking for my wife. When I finally found her, she was standing on the top row of a latter with at least ten books piled up on the steps and her nose deep in a book written during world war two. We left with a book on clock collecting written in 1917 and a journal full of newspaper and magazine clippings from world war two.

If you find yourself asking “why did Zach buy a book on clock collecting?”, the simple answer is I am a horologist for my day job and have a great love of collecting watches and clocks. As we were leaving the bookstore of my dreams, I found myself thinking that this is what I wanted the shop in ‘The Curious Tale of Gabrielle’ to look like and I vowed that I would come back and spend more time looking through all of the old books that reside there.

I am extremely excited to announce the release of the cover for my new book The Curious Tale of Gabrielle. The book is currently in editing and I hope to have it come out some time in February. I want to thank all of you who have been supportive of my writing. I wanted to especially thank my editor and friend Mickey and her husband Josh for putting together this beautiful cover and the edited blurb on the back.

As my editing is progressing and I find myself struggling with choosing a release date for my new book, I am finding that I am nervous about what others will think of my work and if anyone will want to read it. I find myself reading more and more posts on this topic in order to prepare myself for what is to come. Recently, many of the authors I follow have posted really interesting discussions about book promotion. Reading these posts, caused me to beg the question…how do I promote my book once its out?

My Dilemma

Several authors I know have offered their books for free on sites such as Kindle, Wattpad, Amazon, etc. and others have put their work for sale at prices as low as a few cents. As an author, I have many issues that are crossed throughout the entire process of thought, creation, editing, and publishing a piece of work. One of these issues being that I want others to read my work so that I can get feedback and form a following, but on the other hand, I want my work to sell (seeing as I want this to be my job and all).

So, I come to you, bloggers who are much wiser than I, help me with this dilemma. What is the best way to promote your work so that others will read it, and is it impossible to do this while also making a profit?