Free Ebook of the New Book One

Greetings readers, and right to the point: I am having a Goodreads Giveaway of 100 copies of the newly-rewritten Book One of the series, A Man of Our Kind. If you’ve been curious about the rewrite, now you can try one for free!

This is the story of Merlin’s birth… his mother impregnated by the devil and finding a way to turn him to good, but now also includes Vortigern’s story, his rise to power through treachery, his inviting the Saxons into the country, his marriage to Rowena, the Saxon leader’s daughter, and his relationship to his son, Vortimer, who eventually leads the war on his own father. 

Here is a link to the giveaway, which will start on Saturday, September 9th and run through the 21st.

Enter the Goodreads Giveaway for a free ebook of A Man of Our Kind

I have been very happy to see that the rewrite has been well-received and that readers are taking it the way it was intended. Here’s a sample of some of the reviews:

“An excellent beginning to the Arthurian story with a sense of maintaining the original story but humanizing the characters rather than making them historical bores. Seems that they are just pretty much normal, emotional humans wherein greatness may have come accidentally. I’ve read everything Arthurian that I can lay my hands on and this is certainly the best in years.”

—Scott T., Amazon review

“I really liked what he had done with Vortigern in Book Two and the first book had for me been a stand-alone triumph. I was afraid the rewrite might ruin things or over-egg an already tasty pudding. On the contrary, what he has done is used his considerable writing skills as a film blogger combined with his nous about screenplay structure to create, (or recreate) what I can only call a page-turner.”

—Steve Gladwin, Author of The Seven

“While I cannot wait to start reading the future books in this series, I’m really happy that the author decided to rewrite this first book. It’s better, the characters and the writing are more development and the reader can have an amazing time while reading it.”

—Mariana, Amazon review

The rest of the series relaunch is complete

In other news, Covid finally caught up to me. I had avoided it until now, and am very thankful to have had a mild case, but it sure has lingered in annoying little ongoing symptoms. And it caused me to cancel an international vacation. But the good news is… 

I was able to use that time to do the myriad little tasks required to complete the relaunch of the newly-rewritten/revised versions of the series. I was able to add them to Smashwords, which distributes ebooks to Barnes & Noble, Apple books, Kobo, libraries, etc. Basically everywhere that is not Amazon. And on Amazon, I was able to take the time to format the books for paperback and design the covers. I was looking forward to my vacation, but also thinking “WHEN am I going to get to all these tasks done?” So in a way I’m happy to have been able to hunker down and get all that work done.

That means that the ebooks are all updates and available at all online retailers, and the paperbacks are available from Amazon. Which means I can move fully onto writing Book 6 and promoting the series, which had been on pause while I was rewriting. And I’m mostly feeling better with a little lingering congestion. Happy day!