Full disclosure – I don’t really know what I’m doing. I imagine this will not come as a surprise to anyone who knows me. Rock Zombie is a new venture. I have self-published books using Amazon, and I have been lucky enough to be traditionally published (by the wonderful folks at Parliament House Press), but this is the first time I’ve tried to self-publish with expanded distribution… which these days just means ‘places other than Amazon’.
I used the platform Draft2Digital for this book and thanks to their internet jiggery-pokery-magic-trickery, Rock Zombie is available in a number of different bookshops and online retailers (well, it will be on Halloween).
One of those online spaces is Smashwords.
Smashwords, as you can see in the pic above, does ‘pre-sales’. This is not the same as a pre-order. From what I can gather, if you’re a member of Smashwords, you can buy Rock Zombie now… and read it now.
That’s a whole two weeks before Halloween you lucky ducks!
I don’t know why. I think the idea is to generate some buzz for the book before it comes out on general release… and I imagine it only really work for author’s with large and established fan-bases, but it’s there, and I have access to it, so I figure… what the hell?
So, if you’re a member of Smashwords and want early access, or you’re just dead keen to sink your teeth into a gory zombie/ghost horror, he’s the link…
https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/1608312
Cheers!