Filmography, in case you missed it, is back to zero dollars and zero cents on Amazon, from now until October 2nd.

Now’s the time to grab a copy for free while you can. I’ve blown through my five promotional days, and won’t be able to have a sale or a giveaway again for quite some time — assuming I ever do. While Filmography has offered me another valuable learning experience, it’s on to the next book, which is currently in eBook draft mode, waiting for me to hit the “publish” button just as soon as I’m satisfied with it.

Incidentally, I’m already looking for readers who will want a free advanced copy of that novel — Sex Tape — in exchange for an early honest review on Amazon. Contact me if you’re interested. More information about the sordid history of this next tawdry tale I’m publishing will be forthcoming shortly.

As I work on publishing three novels and (hint hint) a few graphic novels, I haven’t been producing and submitting nearly as many short stories lately. But that hasn’t stemmed the tide of how many new anthologies I have coming out.

In a volume that tries to break the record of how many times you can put the name “Sherlock Holmes” on a cover, we have The Haunting of Sherlock Holmes and Other Stories. One of those “other stories” is “The Song of the Mudlark,” reprinted from The MX Book of New Sherlock Holmes Stories Part I: 1881-1889. It took me a long time to confirm which one of these books from Jaico I was in. They’re an English-language publishing house from India that’s been around since 1946, and these volumes are only available in the sub-continent. As a result, I can’t even order a copy. So if you’re somewhere in the world that’s in the right distribution territory and can help me score one, drop me a line.

Sherlock Holmes, Sherlock Holmes, Sherlock Holmes. Did we mention Sherlock Holmes?

Next up we have Silent Screams: An Anthology of Socially Conscious Dark Fiction. This was delayed from last year because the editor spent much of 2016 doing irresponsible things like falling in love and getting married, the sap! Now it’s back on schedule with my story “Raw” leading the pack as the first one accepted soon after the book was originally announced. Because when you think of me, “socially conscious” leaps to mind. Oh, and “dark.” Stupendously fucking pitch-black dark. “Raw” is among the darkest things I’ve ever written.

Not the final cover, but close.

Most recently, we have a book with an odd, but cool concept, The Binge-Watching Cure: Fabulous Stories that Start Small and Grow Longer. The idea is to start with tiny little short stories to get readers going and increase the word count until, before they know it, they’re reading some hefty fiction. “Ashes to Ashes” will be featured at the 10,000-world level, which puts it towards the end of the collection that climaxes with a 25,000-word novella.

If you can binge the latest Netflix fart, you can binge this too.

As usual, there’s more I’m not supposed to announce, so I won’t. I’ll just hint at more dark fiction, more funny stuff, and more Sherlock. Hit the “follow” button on the right to keep up-to-date.

It’s time to stop being coy about the launch of Filmography.

Yes, it’s out, and has been for over a week now. The important news is that it’s now available as both an eBook for Kindle AND a paperback.

This has been my first venture into book design (not counting all those comic books I’ve published since the early ‘90s) so it was a trial-and-error journey to get things just so. Three proof copies later, the novella is now greenlit for distribution, and can be ordered right alongside the eBook for those who still demand a physical experience with their books.

From a design point of view, there’s way more you can accomplish on paper, flexible as eBooks can be. With an eBook, at least half of the aesthetics are decided by the reader. They choose the font and the size, and can make a number of other fiddly choices that can greatly affect how the book presents itself. With a paperback, all those choices are made for them, and it can have a profound impact on the mood of the piece.

Experience Filmography however you wish, but it’s nice to be able to curl up with a bit of fiction on a hot September day, turn some pages, and snort the new-book smell until you get that pulp-mill high bibliophiles have been tripping to since the advent of moveable type.

The eBook of Filmography is now up on Amazon in what has, thus far, been a stealthy soft launch. Before going wide, shilling its release across more platforms, I’m giving people who follow me on Facebook and Twitter, and those who read the blog, a chance to get their hands on it first.

For free.

Today only, you can grab yourself a copy for your Kindle (or Kindle software) for nothing at all. After that, it goes right back to its exorbitant price of three bucks. So act fast and save yourself as much as twelves quarters (fifteen in Canada).

Any reviews you’d care to leave on Amazon and/or Goodreads will help tremendously in the algorithm battle for the attention of potential readers, so please take a moment to click a star rating and type a couple of words once you’ve had a look at my latest opus. Literally two words can count as a full review. Just ask the insightful reader who deemed my collection of Red Baron articles, frequently reprinted and referenced over the past twenty years, “poorly written” and gave it one star. A special shout-out to him, in particular. Thank you!

No, I’m quite serious. Thank you.

A few bad reviews from the transparently inarticulate actually adds balance to a rating of any book. If there’s nothing but praise and five-star reviews, readers will correctly detect something fishy—as in the case of some novels that brag “Over 800 five-star reviews!” Right. All of them honestly earned as per Amazon’s terms of use, no doubt.

So keep your opinions honest, well reasoned and, hopefully, out of the troll mosh pit. Those people may add balance, but I don’t want to see them tip the boat either.

Filmography now sits atop my author page as it (hopefully not too briefly) outsells the rest of my credits.