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Badlands' Rescue - free JUNE 2nd

Already hit #76 in Free short fiction.

Ellen O'Grady is on a mission. Unfortunately she needs her ex-husband, Green Beret Daniel O'Grady to get her to the remote Badlands' mesa where her son's plane has crashed. Air Force Captain Evan Smith is with her, but can she keep Smith and Grady from killing each other long enough to get the survivors out?

Tweets are Sweet!

http://www.amazon.com/Badlands-Rescue...

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Badlands-Resc...

Facebooked.

Thank you!

"Badlands' Rescue' is #45 on the Best Selling Short Story list.

Yea!

The give away is going well.

US = 91, and UK = 17.

I tweeted this yesterday and just now tweeted my download with one of these Amazon "I bought" auto-things, which considerately leaves you about 55 characters for your own message. I think these "I bought" messages are extremely powerful, coming with a level of pre-acceptance that's hard to match unless the writer's name is Stephen King.

You're a darling! (hugs!)

K. A. wrote: "US = 91, and UK = 17."

Presuming that this is the natural level of this story, in other words that the giveaway is going as well as can be expected, I find it interesting that you're getting downloads in the UK relative to the proportion of population between the US and UK of somewhere near 5:1.

That is interesting.

I show, for Mom's short storys that 120 to 150 was average for the US. Her UK numbers were about 1/10th the US numbers.

It appears that Badlands is doing much better.

Kat, FWIW, I just tweeted Badlands. Sorry been MIA for a few days, missed all the fun.

Thank you!

The story was at 150 this am, EDT.

Yeah! Keep us posted

UK = 20

Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #1,399 Free in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Free in Kindle Store)
#30 in Kindle Store > Books > Fiction > Short Stories
#65 in Kindle Store > Books > Fiction > Action & Adventure

Oh good, now I don't feel so bad about not having time yet for a review. Soon, though.

Pick it up Robusters, Kat is very skilled at telling a story in a few short pages...

She said I'm 'skilled' - thud!

She's right! No passing out now!

(Sigh) I really need to hear that - I'm struggling with Book #3 - it's kicking my butt.

Have a little faith. Your writing's better than Andre's. :). Well maybe as good!

(Ducking and waiting the bomb to burst.)

Oranges to apples anyway...

LOL - As I'm a genre writer, instead of a literary author it IS a different story all together.

(peeks over the laptop)

Is it safe to come out?

As a teacher of writing with a book to sell (as soon as I get around to writing the fourth edition), of course I always say that anyone can write as well as I do. What I normally don't add is, "if they practice for twenty years..."

Kat's a great writer with fewer than 20 years of practice (I believe), imagine how good she will be with 20 years' practice...

Hmm - practiced since 1976 when I wrote my first novel - in study hall.

With purple ink, or green?

Blue ink - on lined paper. I hadn't learned to type yet. LOL

The purple and green ink are things I indulge in now, in my second childhood. Kench

I used to write on graph paper. HAD to be graph paper or I froze. Now I can barely operate a pen. Sometimes even I can't read my writing. It strikes me as odd because, in my mind, I'm seeing beautiful script and I feel confident I can produce it. I can't.

For me beautiful script is a font in Word.

Kench

Got another free day coming up - April 12 - still looking for the 'big catch' for this e-book short story.

The numbers to beat: US = 166, UK = 25.

The short story goes free tomorrow. Unfortunately, Real Life has interfered with my plans to plug the story.

Next time...

I'll tweet and FB it for you. Hope it helps. (Now I have to work out when April 12th starts over there!)

Thanks! It's Pacific standard Time - which is closer to your time than it is to mine.

Done! Hope you give away lots!

US = 28, UK =2

Tweeted and shared on Facebook.

Me too. Good luck, Kat.

Thanks.

I've been busy with my new toy today. Hubby bought me a motorcycle. Got it street legal, got me street legal and took a short ride today.

Boy, am I tired.

A motorbike! Post a photo so we can drool over your good luck.

Tee hee, you have your priorities straight, Kat! Have fun!

Yeah, after playing nurse for 3 sick people, then losing Mom - I deserve to play hooky a bit.

Need some UK tweets for Badlands Rescue!

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Badlands-Resc...

Heres a sample tweet

#FREE short fiction - Throwing her ex in the horse trough is just the beggining. Badlands Rescue http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B007IK710C/ Plz RT #AIs1

Somehow I totally missed this story the first time around. Got it today. Tweeted twice -- UK and US.

Thank you!

It's a fun story. I like the part about the ferrets.

Tweeted and FB'd.

Yep, ferrets were good. Ending was great!