And following straight on from my last post, I’m pleased to announce that my other two novels, Taromancer and A Fairy Story By Any Other Name, are now on Google Play as well.
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You now have the opportunity to buy my new novel, Eternal Witch, which is a Visionary Fiction thriller set in contemporary Britain.
Published: 23rd May 2018
Artwork © 2018, Alex Sumner
ZARIA ROSE has it all: a successful career as a pop star, fame, fortune, adulation – and a Magickal way of getting absolutely anything she wants.
However, when one day she tries to discover her past-life memories, her seemingly perfect life begins to fall apart – with nightmarish and violent consequences…
Eternal Witch is currently available as both a Paperback and Kindle Ebook from Amazon worldwide. Please click on the links below to purchase them, or see my About page to find the link to my book on your own country’s Amazon site.
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Shall We Kill The President? © Alex Sumner 2012
Shall We Kill The President? by Alex Sumner
It’s at this time of year that our thoughts turn to festive things like Peace on Earth, Goodwill to all men*, and assassinating the Commander-In-Chief of the United States of America. So to keep in with the spirit of the season, my novella Shall We Kill The President ? is on sale at 50% off at Smashwords.
Simply follow the link and use the promotional code SEY50 at the checkout. Offer lasts until January 1st 2018
Merry Christmas!
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¡Viva Mexico!
Mexico has given the world so many valuable things, such as Tequila, Chili Con Carne, Mescaline, Carlos Castaneda, the Aztecs and Chocolate. Now, by way of saying thank you, my books are on sale there!
Yes! You now have the opportunity to buy my books in Kindle format from Amazon’s new Mexican site. See here for more details.
Namaste 🙂
People of India, rejoice! Whereas before you had to buy your Amazon Kindle books from the US Version of the site, you now have the opportunity to do so from your own version, www.amazon.in
My books can be found by clicking this link.
Om Tat Sat
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Front cover artwork © 2009 by the author.
You now have the opportunity to download copies of my first novel, “The Magus” at a special rate this Christmas season! This is a story of murder and black magick and the occult set in contemporary London, and contains authentic descriptions of gruesome occult practices. It is the first book in my “Magus Trilogy.
For the whole of the Christmas Holiday Period – i.e. from now until January 6th 2013 – you can download it from SmashWords, in whichever ebook format you prefer, for just $1 – i.e. 50% off the usual price.
To take advantage off this offer,
And use coupon PS33N at the check-out.
Thanks! 🙂
Brasil
Ah Brazil! You have given the world so many things! Like Pele, Capoeira, Bossa Nova, Samba, thong bikinis, Cachaça, the Rio De Janeiro Carnival, etc etc. So, to say Obregado on behalf of the rest of the world, I, Alex Sumner, am now making my Ebooks available in your fair country!
Please note that they are only in English – I have not yet translated them into Portugese. Head on over to my Brazilian page for more details!
Instead of a post about occultism, for a change I will deal today with “Voodoo Statistics” (i.e. please don’t shout at me too much in regard to my methodology) – in order to answer the question, what are the Top 10 Countries in which market an ebook in the English language?
By my calculations they are (biggest potential market first):
| Rank | Country | % of potential world market for English language ebooks |
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| 1. | United States | 42% |
| 2. | United Kingdom | 10% |
| 3. | Germany | 8% |
| 4. | Canada | 4% |
| 5. | France | 4% |
| 6. | Australia | 3% |
| 7. | Philippines | 3% |
| 8. | The Netherlands | 3% |
| 9. | Italy | 2% |
| 10. | Spain | 2% |
“Wait!” I hallucinate that I hear you ask. “Germany above Canada? How can that be so?” Quite simple: there are more people in Germany who speak English as a second language than there are in Canada who speak it as either a first or second language. This indeed is the reason why non-anglophone countries make it onto the list at all.
Other factors used to determine ranking include % of people with Internet access and relative poverty / richness. India for example has 125,000,000 English speakers, but because over half the population live below the Poverty line (defined by the UN as earning less than $2 / day) and only 7.5% have access to the internet, the potential market for ebooks must logically be a mere fraction of this number.
Of the countries of the rest of the world, most of the member states of the European Union ranked highly. The highest ranked country in Asia was Turkey at number 14. The highest ranked country in Africa was Nigeria at number 22, whilst Brazil was the highest ranked country in South America at number 23.
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Holiday Reading & Ebook Marketing
Happy equinox! Today I am going to take a break from strictly paranormal or occultish type ruminations and concentrate more on a topic relevant to authors.
According to a new study, thousands of people – in Britain at any rate – only ever read a novel when they are going on holiday! For those of a statistical bent, the total sample was 8600, drawn from visitors to the website TripAdvisor (i.e. who may therefore be expected to be travellers and holiday-makers), whilst the percentage of people admitting to being holiday-only readers was 23% (or approximately just under 2000).
Although this survey has not, to my knowledge, been peer-reviewed, and the fact the methodology may be open to question, I beg leave to report that from my own personal experience I do find that my own sales do go up slightly in August each year: I have noticed this both this year and in 2011.
So, if you will indulge me for a moment: let us postulate that the conclusion drawn by the survey is true. This suggests an excellent method for authors to make use of this information, to wit, specifically time your promotional campaigns to coincide with the school holidays. Typically the most obvious would be the long summer break, but in fact, all of the holidays have potential in this regard, given that a number of people will want to jet-off on each occasion, e.g. people who depart around Christmas either to go skiing or for winter sun.
Hence, to afford other authors the opportunity of testing this theory out, here are the school vacation dates for 2012 until summer 2014.
Source: Southend Borough Council. Dates arranged by other local authorities may vary. Authors wanting to promote their books outside the UK should check local vacation dates themselves.
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