The Ultimate Dreamer (Heartlander publishes novel)
Posted: 31 Mar 2013, 19:46
The Ultimate Dreamer is my first novel and is available now from Amazon. See the attached flyer for the cover and the blurb (publisher-speak for "the bit that tells you what it's about").
The book is available now to download for Kindle for only £1.02 (in the UK. It's also available worldwide. The price varies in other territories but is the equivalent of US$1.55.) UK readers,can get it from here: http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Ultimate-Dr ... 426&sr=8-3
I don't have all the international links but overseas readers can find it by searching for the title on their local Amazon site.
For the moment, the novel is only available as an ebook for Kindle but if you have a different ereader such as Nook or Kobo then you can download the Kindle app for free. Even if you don't have an ereader you can download the app to your PC, Mac, laptop, tablet or smartphone - so you should be able to read it on just about anything. Print copies will probably be available some time in the future and maybe even an audiobook but for now it's just the ebook and, for the time being at least, it's only available from Amazon.
I hope you'll all read it. And then I hope you'll all tell everyone about it. I want as many people as possible to read it and that means getting them to hear about it in the first place. There are some ways you can help me to achieve that, if it's not too much to ask:
•Buy it. It only costs a pound. The more people who buy it, the higher up the Amazon sales chart it will climb. People buy books that are popular so getting on that chart is important.
•When you buy it, if possible buy something else at the same time. Preferably something popular - that new CD you were going to get anyway or someone's birthday present. When you view an item on Amazon there's usually a section on the listing page that says "people who bought this item also bought..." or "frequently bought together". So if you buy The Ultimate Dreamer and, say, the new James Bond DVD, other people buying the Bond film will also see an advert for my book.
•Once you've read it, write a review. Amazon customers can review products that they buy and other customers are influenced by those reviews. So someone viewing the listing page and seeing lots of positive reviews are more likely to buy.
•Borrow it. The Ultimate Dreamer is also available to be borrowed for free from Amazon's Kindle lending library. The library has its own chart and, again, the higher a book appears on that chart then the more visible it becomes and the more likely other people are to read it. Even if you've bought the book, borrowing it once will help. (But for anyone thinking of borrowing it lots of times to boost its chart position, that won't work as Amazon only counts the first time an individual borrows a particular book.)
•Copy this post and email it to everyone you know. And ask them to do the same. That way it'll very quickly reach thousands of people who don't know me. Mention that you know the author if you think it'll help. In fact say anything if you think it'll make them more likely to consider the book.
•If you use Twitter then tweet about the book. If you use other social media like Facebook etc then tell people about it there or even post the flyer and the Amazon link. If you frequent any online forums, start a thread about The Ultimate Dreamer and post the flyer and the link.
•Print off the flyer and ask if local shops, libraries, businesses etc will put copies on their counters or in windows or on notice boards.
•Tell people about it. You'll know lots of people who you don't contact by email so tell them that someone you know has a book on Amazon. Tell them they have to read it. Word of mouth counts for a lot.
•I'll be letting you know about various promotions in due course but in the meantime, anything else you can think of that will get the book seen by other people will be helpful.
•Most of all, read the book yourselves and enjoy it. If you like it, tell me and tell the world. If you don't like it then we'll just talk about something else and pretend this never happened.
Thanks. Now why are you still here? Go buy the book!
The Ultimate Dreamer
by Stuart Farquhar
Out now on Amazon
