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So, I have a request for all of you out there. Well, those of you who read. Well, those of you who read my stuff. Well, those of you who like reading my stuff.

Or even if you don't, what the heck.

As all of you know--well, some of you--we just re-released my first published novel, Storm Chaser. Thanks to Emily for doing ...

Everything. My wife did everything. Every now and then she'd toss me a proof copy, I'd leaf through it, and she'd go back to doing all that stuff she did. I did nothing, I admit it. Happy now?

Anyway, there's what it looks like. Yes, Emily put the cover together, based on the old one. But there's one thing she couldn't do: transfer all the reviews of the original edition onto this new one. Which is here:

https://www.amazon.com/Storm-Chaser-Mark-Hunter-ebook/dp/B0C7MB95NH

According to Goodreads, Storm Chaser collected 15 reviews and 27 ratings, which isn't great but beats the heck out of how many reviews I've gotten for Summer Jobs Are Murder (which hasn't been published yet). The problem is, according to Amazon I now have exactly three reviews. Which, at least, is easy to count. (Why those three stayed, I have no idea.)

So I'm asking everyone who has or does purchase the book, on Kindle or in print, to leave me a review. I don't know if Amazon will allow reviewers to post on the new book if they bought the old book, but if it doesn't you could at least leave yours on Goodreads, or the review place of your choice, up to and including bathroom stalls.

Just don't put my phone number there.

In return for your help I will ... hm ... dance.

No. No, that's a terrible idea. It's asking for another month of ice and ibuprofen. But I will be very grateful, because online reviews really do matter, especially on Amazon. No one really knows how Amazon's algorithms work, and I don't really know what an algorithm is, but I'm told the more reviews you have, the more likely you are to be seen.

People who see, buy. If enough people buy, I can write more. It's the circle of write.

This is the old version. You'll probably still see it here and there, so I should warn you it's probably more expensive.

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Remember, every time you don't leave a review, an angel loses his hair. You don't want bald angels.

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A few years ago we got the publishing rights back to our Storm Chaser series of books: Storm Chaser, Storm Chaser Shorts, and The Notorious Ian Grant. Our plan was to independently publish all three.

Sales had been flat, and the publisher that bought the publisher that bought the books (!) left their pricing (in my opinion) too high for a little known author. $3.99 is a great Kindle buy for a Steven King novel, but few people had heard of Mark R. Hunter.

(Many of those who did thought I was the CEO of Molson Coors Brewing Company. I once got a nasty e-mail from someone who didn't like how I was running my baseball team.)

Well, COVID happened, along with a bunch of other unforeseen problems of various kinds, but here it is!

We made a few edits, but basically it's the same story (a little R-rated in a couple of places) at a much lower price: The e-book version is $1.50 instead of $3.99, and the print version $14 instead of $16.99. (Printing costs are killing everyone.) Check it out here:

https://www.amazon.com/Storm-Chaser-Mark-Hunter-ebook/dp/B0C7MB95NH

Storm Chaser is a romantic comedy pairing a Californian disaster photographer with an Indiana State Trooper who hates photographers—and Californians. I have a feeling he’ll come around … but meanwhile, who’s causing emergencies in his home area, just in time for her to photograph them?

There are still original editions of the book wandering around out there, with the same character on the cover. It seemed best to make the new cover different, but not too different.

We did get Storm Chaser Shorts, now titled Storm Squalls, out last year.

It can be found here, https://www.amazon.com/Storm-Squalls-Mark-R-Hunter-ebook/dp/B09YGJ1XR6, also at a lower cost.

I haven't been advertising Storm Squalls because most of the stories take place after the events of Storm Chaser--but now Storm Chaser is officially on the virtual bookshelves, so I can promote the heck out of both in between working on new projects. We're going to get The Notorious Ian Grant back up too, but it might have to wait until autumn.

But wait ... there's more!

Coming Attractions will be FREE on ebook in July, part of the Smashwords July summer/winter sale.

Participating authors can be found here: https://www.smashwords.com/shelves/promos, starting July 1st, and my account is at https://www.smashwords.com/profile/view/ozma914. There you'll also find the two fiction anthologies I have stories in, also at the attractive cost of zero.

More about that later, but I wanted to give everyone a heads up. Now even the dog knows.

He's a little upset I didn't ask his help in editing, though. Don't tell him, but Emily's much better at it.

By the way, my YA novel The No-Campfire Girls is also in the Storm Chaser universe, as it shares some of the same characters.

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If we sell a hundred books by the end of summer, I'll recite one of my humor poems online. If we sell a thousand by the end of summer, I promise I WON'T recite poetry online.

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Yeah, I'm into cheap Christmas jokes to sell books. Santa's a big reader. Well, he's a big everything.

But seriously, we really have dropped the price of both the e-book and print versions of Coming Attractions. In print it's down a dollar, to $6.99--any lower than that, and we'd have to pay you to take it. Not that I haven't considered that in past down times ...

For Kindle, Coming Attractions has been slashed in half! Not literally: It's a romantic comedy, not a horror novel. That makes it just 99 cents, a drop of more than half of what it was before. Or .... less than half? By one cent, anyway. Check it out:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07KM6JWQC

Ahem. The photo and fun filled Hoosier Hysterical remains at its already low $2.99/$10.00. It's just that this is the only graphic I have with "sale" on it.

Due to various ailments, injuries and a gosh darn pandemic, this is the first year we haven't put a book out since 2011. (There will be a short story in the next newsletter.) I just felt this was the next best thing--and there will be a release or two in 2022.

I still maintain reading is the most fun thing you can do by yourself with your clothes on, unless you're Batman. Check out all our books:

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Dog tested--dog approved, doggone it.

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In honor of Valentine's Day, the e-book edition of our anthology humor book My Funny Valentine will be free from today, February 10, through February 14, which one of the humorists in the book calls "Sex for chocolate day".

That phrase isn't in my piece in the anthology, mind you. I've spent enough nights sleeping in the car.

You can find it here:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B006JROL8K

I mean, you might as well laugh, right? If you cry, it will just cause people to edge slowly away from you, which come to think of it might not be so bad. Depending on the people.

I know what you're thinking: "But Mark, you won't get any money for that!" True, but we did it for love. It's in the subtitle. Besides, if you like my piece in there, maybe you'll come over and check out our other books, and that could be a real love match.

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As you know, one of the weirdest things about being a writer is seeing your book up for sale.

Or maybe you didn't know that. I didn't know that.

Coming Attractions is my tenth published book, so you'd think I'd get used to it, but it's always ... weird. Promotion is even weirder: As I've said before, my parents taught me better than to run around shouting "look at me, look at me!" So instead I'll say ... hm ...

Look at this, look at this! There, redirection.

Here are the places Coming Attractions is up for sale as of now, that we know of. All e-book, so far; it is up in print on Amazon, but we made a few tweaks and haven't gotten our proof copy back, so we're not publicizing that yet. Still, I did make that offer to show something incredibly embarrassing if we sell our first hundred copies by January 1st, so the least I can do is give you all a chance to embarrass me.

Of course, it's up along with fourteen other entries on our Amazon author page:
https://www.amazon.com/-/e/B0058CL6OO

It's available almost everywhere in the world on Amazon except, oddly enough, most of the Middle East. (Those fifteen entries include the three anthologies I have stories in, plus separate print and e-book entries for Radio Red and Coming Attractions. No, I don't know why.)

Then there's Barnes and Noble, which specializes in books. And coffee, and toys, and games, and novelties, and such. Come to think of it, I bought the Doctor Who soundtrack there.
https://www.barnesandnoble.com/s/%22Mark%20R%20Hunter%22?Ntk=P_key_Contributor_List&Ns=P_Sales_Rank&Ntx=mode+matchall

That's the link to all our books on B&N, and isn't Christmas shopping season reaching right for us like a pocket picking politician? If you can't click on that link, just type it all in from memory.

Also, here's a Smashwords link to Coming Attractions:
https://www.smashwords.com/profile/view/ozma914

Smashing. By which you can get it on epub and mobi and pdf, and stuff.

And you can get it on iTunes!
https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/coming-attractions/id1444993130

Even though it's not a tune. In fact, if you click on my name you can see a bunch of other stuff, also not tunes.

We also have Kobo:
https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/coming-attractions-11

Which I used to think was the name of that ape who knew sign language.

Some of our books are all over the place, including places I hadn't heard of because I was busy watching cute puppy videos. Although Coming Attractions isn't quite there yet, many of our other books are on Blio:
https://www.blio.com/web1/actions/searchHandler.do?nextPage=page&parentNum=12848&pageNum=1&pageAction=&selectSort=

The new book should be there any moment. It's already on Scribd:
https://www.scribd.com/book/394467385/Coming-Attractions

Which seems like it's missing a letter, but who am I to sy?

So there you go: your Christmas shopping list. I'm sure Coming Attractions is or will be on other sites, so if you happen to see it there, let us know. And congrats to Emily for all her setup and distribution work!

You can get a sample of the book on many of those sites.

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If you haven't already heard, the Kindle version of Coming Attractions is available for pre-order! You can get all the details here:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07KM6JWQC?ref_=pe_3052080_276849420

Or you could just wait a few days, because it should be live on Black Friday--and available to order without fighting a crowd. Or you could wait a little while longer, when we'll have the print version up and hopefully other e-book versions, too.

If I get, oh, a hundred sales across all platforms by the end of the month, I'll ... I dunno, something. I'm making this up as I go along. Maybe read one of my poems live? Or post my high school graduation photo?

Or would those be less of a reward, and more of a punishment?

Oh, and here's an idea: If I make a thousand total sales of all our books between now and January 1st, I'll do that ice bucket challenge thing everyone used to talk about. Why? Well, because I've never made a thousand sales in a month, and it would be neat.

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Slightly Off the Mark

Writers Live On Reviews and Caffeine, and Sometimes Sales

My next book is my last book: Storm Chaser is back!

Coming Attractions price drop for Christmas: low, low, low

My Funny Valentine free until the Big Day

Coming Attractions is e-booking all over the place

Coming Attractions on Kindle, and ice on me ... maybe

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