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Posted on November 18, 2023November 18, 2023 by admin

My 7 Year Journey as a Self-Published Author

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Sixth-Year Anniversary
My Seventh-Year Anniversary
My 7 Year Journey — Zombie Turkeys front cover. Click to get a copy! Sam Melvin, an underachieving e-reporter from a small town, changes forever when he meets turkeys that won’t stay dead. You can shoot ’em, chop ’em, burn ’em—they come back stronger. The undead plague of poultry spreads uncontrollably, rocking the whole country. . .

My 7 Year Journey as a Self-Published Author–What did I learn? What were my mistakes? What worked for me? I’ll tell you all about my last seven years and how I sold 3,500+ books.

If you missed the first blog post in this anniversary series, here it is: My Seventh-Year Anniversary as a Self-Published Author

First, grab a copy of my book for .99. In 2018 I put Zombie Turkeys at permanently .99. free. Click here now!

I published My Undead Mother-in-law in August 2017 and Paranormal Privateers in May 2018,

My hopes and dreams were that everyone who bought Zombie Turkeys would buy my other books.

How’d that work out? About 43% of those who bought Zombie Turkeys bought the other books. Not bad, but not great.

But later on, the .99 lead in helped me. I’ll tell you how below.

I was pumping them using Amazon ads and in person sales and my newsletter. But I wasn’t getting rich. Nor was I breaking even. But I was having loads of fun.

My Undead Mother-in-law

Blurb:

My mother-in-law’s a zombie. And she has anger-management issues. What ticks her off is when people don’t treat her like a normal human being—with glowing red eyes and super strength and speed.

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Paranormal Privateers

Zombies charge first, ask questions later. Middle-aged, overweight, and undead, Diane Newby leads the paranormal privateers against criminals and corruption. Sailing to trouble spots too sensitive for the US government, with zombie strength and regeneration they beat bullies into submission. Aided by zombie turkeys, corgis, and bulls, vicious criminal geniuses fall before them

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My 7 Year Journey – My Second Series Secret Supers

Not everyone like zombies, not even funny ones. But everyone likes superheroes. One of my author friends specializes in middle-grade books, Paul Maitland. He said there was a dearth of books for that age group. So I made my four main characters are in 7th grade.

My daughter is disabled and drives an electric wheelchair. She asked me to write a book with a flying wheelchair. So I did, Secret Supers.

My main character is Jeremy Gentle, in an electric wheelchair with cerebral palsy, just like my daughter. But he gets telekinesis and can make his wheelchair fly. And his super-powered friends.

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Villain's Vacation cover What is it like? — Villain’s Vacation cover

After completing 7th grade and cleaning up crime in their town, the four friends go to a coaster park for summer vacation. Too bad their worst enemy is also there and out for revenge. Find out more in Villain’s Vacation.

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Produce Your Audiobook Secret Supers in Space — Secret Supers in Space audiobook cover. Click to listen.

But that’s not the end of their summer vacation. They become bored and their parents send them to Space Camp. They get more adventure than they expect.

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My 7 Year Journey – What Happened Next?

So I have two series. Both start with .99 books. Why?

During the COVID-19 pandemic, I had my best year for sales. I couldn’t sell as much in person, but there were tremendous sales online. I think the .99 price invited a lot of people to try my books.

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My 7 Year Journey — Zombie Detective cover

But these six books aren’t all I’ve done. I inserted Zombie Detective in between Zombie Turkeys and My Undead Mother-in-law. Then I wrote Oops! Tales of the Zombie Turkey Apocalypse, my short story collection. I put all the wacky ideas in it I couldn’t use in my other books.

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My 7 Year Journey – My Non-Fiction Book

Finally, I wrote a book in another genre which I’d never done before: Bible helps. The Gospel Medley. Here’s what the book is about:

Gospel Medley Writer's Block: My Experience — The Gospel Medley cover. Click to get

Are you curious about Jesus Christ? Do you struggle to understand the Bible? The Gospel Medley includes the four Gospels in a single narrative, faithfully pulling the text from the World English Bible. You are now able to read all the gospel as a single, easy-to-read story.

Each Gospel describes Jesus’s life from a different point of view with different details and insights. The Gospel Medley combines every word into a single perspective with all details and events arranged chronologically.

Unlike other harmonies, The Gospel Medley doesn’t put the four gospels in columns or rows. Instead, the text is integrated word by word into a smoothly flowing narrative. Further, each paragraph references the four gospels so you can read the original citations. You also get footnotes of all the quotes from the Old Testament, giving you the context of Jesus’s words.

For a unique perspective of the four gospels, read ‘The Gospel Medley’ today.

Posted on November 5, 2023November 5, 2023 by admin

Your Second Series Surprise by Andy Zach

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Second Series Surpris — Secret Supers audiobook

Your Second Series Surprise –Most of you know I have a second SciFi series. Now it comes to you with a surprise.

I’ve got good news–and more good news for you. Let’s start with the good news. The first book in the series is free today, November 5th. Grab it here: CLICKITY CLICK!

You can get an autographed book directly from me. Click here now! I give you FREE SHIPPING!

But that’s not all.

Your Second Series Surprise – A New Excerpt

Enjoy this excerpt where Jeremy first learns of his new superpower:

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The next morning I felt great. I wriggled out of bed and dressed, as usual, crawling around my carpeted floor. My legs were hopelessly spastic, but my upper body was strong enough to drag me around my room.

After packing my wheelchair’s pannier with my school supplies, I pulled myself into my chair. Getting in and out was a long, painful process. I picked up my phone, preparing to leave my room, but it slipped from my hand to the floor.

Crap. Now I have to climb down again. Desperately, I bent over and tried to reach the phone where it lay, tilted against my bed. Not quite.

With a burst of frustrated anger, I said, “Come here!” And the phone zipped into my hand.

Wow. That never happened before. There was a pencil on my desk, across the room. “Come here,” I said.

Zip! It smacked into my palm.

I experimented. Using my new power, I could make my bed far more efficiently than from my knees. I even tidied my desk.

“The bus is here,” called Mom from the kitchen.

I went down to the bus more excited about school than I ever had been before.

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Your Second Series Surprise – More good news!

Villain’s Vacation on sale for .99!

You read that right–two of the three books in my second series are on sale! Grab your copy now!

Are you unsure? Listen to the latest review:

October 8, 2023

What a fresh take on the superhero genre. Teenage kids with profound disabilities and super powers. And, don’t forget the super hamster. I love the blending of storytelling the author displays that throws him into the characters as the one documenting these super kid’s lives and the defeat of their villains. I gotta read more from this author!
Brad Secrest

Your Final Surprise

First, you can get free audiobooks by clicking here. CLICK HERE.

Next, you can subscribe to my Youtube channel here:

Finally, the third book in my series may go on sale this month. Subscribe to my newsletter to find out!

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Posted on October 31, 2023October 31, 2023 by admin

Get Your October SciFi and Fantasy Books and Reviews

Get Your October SciFi and Fantasy Books and Reviews. These are best books I’ve read and reviewed this month, or someone else’s opinion.

Here’s a review you’ll only find here, since the book is only on RoyalRoad.com, not Amazon or Goodreads.com. The good news is that the book is free!

Your August SciFi > In Enemy Hands

Get Your October SciFi and Fantasy Books – My Review #1

This is a mamoth series, of over 350 chapters released over the last two years. It’ll be published soon as multiple books.

The book blurb: The Butcher of Gadobhra

Life is rough. Jobs are non-existent. And far too many people live in poverty in the real world and can only find work online in VR worlds. And it’s getting worse. The old internet is unusable and hacked to pieces. The new system needs AI to run things, but most of them are destroyed. Now everyone is scrambling to get into the GENESIS ENGINE, as it becomes the new global market place

Everyone wants a piece of the new game. The guilds are competing to be the first to find the dungeons and kill the biggest monster. The corporations are claiming land and putting in their online market places. Ozzy and his friends just want a paycheck.

Four friends find they are locked into five year contracts as virtual serfs in a small village, and can’t go adventuring at all to gain money and buy their way to freedom. They don’t have many choices. They can work as a blacksmith, barmaid and shepherd for all those years….or they can cheat and find ways they can take advantage of the system.

When they give you a mop and not a sword, you have to find the loopholes and change the rules.

Get Your October SciFi – The Butcher of Gadobhra

My Review

This is the first book I’ve read by the Walrus King. It’s a classic RPG (Role Playing Game) set up: a dystopian world where the poor a placated by putting the in pods where they can spend all their time in a virtual game world.

A group of friends has played previous gaes and eavesdrops on a virtual conference about a new game from ‘The Genesis Engine. It’s more realistic than ever before, inseparable from reality. So the gamers all join together as some of the first players.

The company, Acme, rooks them by making it impossible to free lance and gain points. They have to work. The company has given the crazy strength and endurance and immunity to boredom and depression so they can work sixteen hours, sleep four, and be happy.

Most weapons are not allowed. Everything is stacked against them. But our intrepid band of gamers outschemes the schemers through sheer hard work.

You get the general idea of the characters and their approach in the first few chapters. They make steady progress, but hide it from the company.

Complexities ensue, as they get better and better at dungeon diving.

Highly recommended! Click here to start reading for free online.

Don’t miss this book or the series. 355 chapters, and he’s still writing.
Andy Zach
Author 10 books, 87 followers, October 31, 2023

Get Your October Scifi and Fantasy Another Reviewer’s Review

October 17, 2023

Fun Read. Andy’s take on Zombies is fresh, unique, and above all… entertaining. A group of zombies working for the US Government but not employed by the government get up to a lot of mischief taking out Crime Lords, more Crime Lords, and aliens. Who know that Zombies had hobbies like knitting and scrapbooking? The Korean adventure is a highlight of the story.

Brad Secrest

52 reviews

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Bodacious Creed: a Steampunk Zombie Western

The blurb:

U.S. Marshal James Creed has known loss, starting from the untimely death of his wife and daughter in a sudden fire. His work, chasing down and arresting outlaws across the Wild West, is all he has left to live for. Then one day, in 1876, the infamous killer Corwin Blake catches Creed by surprise and guns him down.

Creed awakes after a mysterious young woman resurrects him in a basement laboratory beneath a brothel. Half alive, Creed feels torn between his need for justice and his desire to fall back into the peace of death. Creed’s instincts drive him to protect the city of Santa Cruz, California, from the outlaws it harbors while searching for Blake.

He uncovers a secret criminal organization, likely protecting Blake, determined to use resurrection technology for its own ends. The former marshal, now faster, stronger, and a more deadly shot than ever before, must work with a brothel madam, a bounty hunter, and the remaining marshals to uncover the criminal syndicate before they can misuse the machines of rebirth and create more mindless zombies. Meanwhile, he must also stop Blake, before the outlaw kills the only people he cares about.

His own death can wait.

Your October SciFi Fantasy Review

After a slow start, this novel took off and I finished well-satisfied with it.

I didn’t care much for the characters at first, they seemed somewhat underdeveloped. Perhaps more backstory or flashbacks would have helped. But as they went through adventures together, you cared more and more about each.

I especially liked the last half of the book when author Jonathan Fesmire gave the villain’s point of view. This humanized them and made them seem more realistic.

I recommend this book for lovers of historical fiction and steampunk, mixed with magic and zombies.

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