I never thought the day would come when I’d be excited about giving away a book that I worked on six days a week for two years, but I am, indeed, excited. That’s because PRIMITIVE is a novel that I care about deeply. Though I’ve been published by major publishing houses — St. Martin’s and Hyperion — and will have another book published by Eos Books, the HarperCollins imprint, in June, 2011, PRIMITIVE was bought by Bell Bridge Books, a smaller house. Smaller, but in my estimation utterly wonderful in its support and strategies. What Bell Bridge and I are doing, in offering PRIMITIVE for free as an ebook for two weeks, is trying to spread the word. We don’t have a massive advertising budget, but the word is starting to get out.
John Atcheson, writing for the blog Climate Progress, which Time called the Web’s most influential blog on climate change, last week called PRIMITIVE “a thriller pure and simple – the reader hops into a rocket sled and holds on for dear life, in a nail chewing ride full of action, gut wrenching fear and genuine terror. There’s no getting off once you’ve boarded. So leave yourself some time.”
Atcheson has posted his highly favorable review on Grist and other “green” sites.
As you might gather, I feel passionate about PRIMITIVE; judging by reader reviews on amazon, so do a lot of other readers. I trust you’ll take the opportunity to snatch up a free ebook of PRIMITIVE.
Best wishes to all of you.
March 10, 2010 at 12:23 am |
Your book “primitive” was worth the price, free, and the ‘paper it was written on’. Now that I’ve seen your photo and read your bio, I grok it.
You are a liberal idiot.
Sure am glad I didn’t pay for that piece of cr*p writing, but it was certainly a waste of my time. I only finished it because I had to be sure it was as stupidly gore-ish as I thought. It was.