It creeps, it seeps
Yes, the Blob creeps and seeps, but so does "Quest for the Simurgh."
It's now live on Barnes & Noble along with Amazon in Print and Amazon in Kindle.
Of course, I've already mentioned that you can get a free download at Smashwords. Use coupon code LE99P until 9/9/09.
The ones I don't get are some third part sellers trying to hawk this book for $30 or more. What are they thinking? Surely, if anybody had the slightest interest in buying the book, they'd just do a search and find out the cheapest place to buy.
Speaking of prices, I've set the retail price at $7.95. Amazon sells for that amount, but I've undercut them with a $6.50 price tag. Of course, that isn't as much a bargain when you count in the $3.99 shipping you'd have to pay to buy through Amazon Marketplace.
Let's see, the Kindle edition is $1.99. A pretty good deal for Kindle ebooks. I'll point you to Smashwords as long as the free download coupon is good. Smashwords is in the process of putting its clients' books into a Premium Catalog. There are some rules the files have to follow to be included in the catalog. That will be cool, since B&N ebooks and Fictionwise will use the catalog for listing some or all of the books. Not sure how that will work. When the ebooks are up for sale, they'll be priced at $4.95 so everybody gets a piece of the profits. Hopefully, that will include a pittance for me, too.
Here's the backcover text, if you haven't seen it before and the cover is my current avatar.
The village magician, Wafa, has gone missing. His star pupil Faiza thinks he has left a clue for her on a page of the Magicalis Bestialis. With the page open and marked with an X, she believes Wafa is telling them to seek out the Simurgh, the mythical birds who possess all the knowledge of the universe. She convinces her three classmates that they must seek the help of the Simurgh to find their teacher.
She leads the boys on a difficult journey into the mountains in search of the elusive birds. A strange little man becomes their guide. However, they do not know he is a spirit leading them toward a battle between good and evil. Spirits, gods, and demons confront the four friends, who are being set up by the otherworldly forces for a much larger task than finding their teacher. The students were chosen to take sides in the battle which might spell the end of the world: a battle between the demons and the spirits.