Smashwords annual Read an eBook – Get your read on!

March 3, 2014 by Matthew Iden

Need a good read?

Smashwords’s annual Read an Ebook Week is now, March 2 – 8, which means thousands of free or cheap of ebooks for you, including A Reason to Live (currently free)!

Check out the event homepage at https://www.smashwords.com/ebookweek.

Grab A Reason to Live in any digital format at https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/212625.

Read well!

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A REASON TO LIVE nominated for Big Al’s 2014 Reader’s Choice Awards!

March 2, 2014 by Matthew Iden

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Friends – Big Al’s voting page is now live! 

I am thrilled to announce that A Reason to Live has been nominated by Big Al’s Books and Pals for their 2014 Readers’ Choice Awards! I made it past the 1,400 books submitted and the 368 actually reviewed to make it into Big Al’s top echelon.

But I need your help! Winners are selected by votes, so please cast yours for A Reason to Live  over at Big Al’s place, http://booksandpals.blogspot.com/. While you’re there, check out the nominees in the other genres…there are some wonderful books there.

If you want to get a look inside the book before voting, I recently made A Reason to Live free on Kobo and Smashwords, so grab your copy now (free on Amazon, iTunes, and B&N soon!) and take a gander before casting your vote.

Thanks!

p.s. Voting goes until midnight (EST) March 12th, so tell your friends!

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ACX drops royalty rate

February 27, 2014 by Matthew Iden

acxFor those of you who have created audio books with Amazon’s audio division ACX (or are thinking of doing so), you may have heard that ACX made a rather unwelcome announcement today: royalty rates–which had been a generous 50% of sales with a potential to escalate up to 90% based on unit sales–will be reduced to a flat, non-escalating, 40% as of March 12, 2014.  Continue Reading »

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Slightly new covers for the Marty Singer series

February 26, 2014 by Matthew Iden

Singer_books_newI was told recently by several people that they couldn’t tell from my covers which books were Marty Singer books (hint: they all are). Although I like my covers, I had to admit that there was no single unifying feature to them that identified them as belonging to the same series. Continue Reading »

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24, .99, 1!

November 27, 2013 by Matthew Iden

24 books – $.99 each – 1 week only!

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Deals, News, & More Deals

November 23, 2013 by Matthew Iden

Hi Everyone -

Just a few quick notes. After the holidays, I hope to turn my attention to writing more on the blog as well as a site redesign, but life has been hectic around here.

Finding Emma $.99

To test out Amazon’s new Kindle Countdown functionality, I’ve lowered Finding Emma, a novel of psychological suspense, from $2.99 to $.99 from Nov 22 – Nov 25. Grab it while you can! Here’s the description:

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New Reader Orientation (Fall 2013)

October 1, 2013 by Matthew Iden

(The following is an unabashed and outright idea theft from horror writer Brian Keene’s blog, which you should read and subscribe to.)

My name is Matthew Iden. I am a self-published, independent writer of crime fiction, fantasy, psychological suspense, and literary fiction with a twist.

I’m best known for my Marty Singer detective series about a retired Washington DC Homicide cop who rights wrongs and tries to keep his life in order while battling cancer (they’re more upbeat than they sound).

The series begins with A Reason to Live (paperback | Kindle | audio), moves on to Blueblood (paperback | Kindle) and One Right Thing (paperback | Kindle), and will continue with The Spike, due out later this month. I also plan to release a digital boxed set of the first three novels before the holidays which will include previously published essays about the books and Marty as a character, as well as the first Marty Singer short story (available nowhere else!). I enjoy writing about Marty and plan to keep the series going for the foreseeable future.

Many of my short stories in the crime fiction vein are collected in the anthology one bad twelve (paperback | Kindle). Finding Emma, my “disturbing novella” of psychological suspense, may keep you awake at night, wondering about your neighbors. And my fantasy short stories, Assassin, Sword of Kings, and Seven Into the Bleak will have you thinking for some time to come.

My novels have not been traditionally published, but I studied the industry for about five years in my attempts to become so published and have a passing understanding of how the (old) system works. Or, at least, how to succeed at rejection. I’ve been self-publishing since the Fall of 2011 and I’ve devoted a great deal of time and effort understanding and constructing a career in this new field. I’ve spoken at several conferences and symposia on the subject.

Future plans include a story in the shared-world SF anthology Walk the Fire (Dec 2013), Marty Singer #5, The Wicked Flee (Winter-Spring 2014) and #6 (TBA), my debut Western The Orphans, a collaboration with another writer TBA, and hopefully the drafting of one of the stand-alone novels knocking around in my head, The Max. With luck, there may be some more short stories thrown in there, as well.

You can contact me at matt.iden AT matthew-iden.com, on my Facebook page, or via Twitter @CrimeRighter. My Contact page on this blog also has links to my various Author pages. To hear about new releases, you can sign up for my newsletter at http://eepurl.com/rQTE1. It’s just a few emails a year, I’ll never abuse or sell your address, and you can unsubscribe at any time.

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