New Amazon ebook for Sale- What Goes Around

Synopsis- Some magic computer software that can turn males into females gives Jimmy Wood a way to help out his best friend

What Goes Around is for sale at the price of $2.99 at Amazon.

New Amazon ebook for Sale- Since I Found You

Synopsis- Chad Ellis bought some magic to become a better Ice hockey player but instead is turned into a female figure skater training for the Olympics.

Since I Found You is for sale at $3.99 at Amazon's USA website.

New ebook for sale

It's titled Oh Shit.

Synopsis- A hurricane is headed towards where Crystal Waters and her boyfriend Miles O'Connor live. They need to get out of town in a hurry but first Crystal goes to the mall.

Its transgender fiction of course.

Oh Shit is for sale at 99 cents at Amazon's United States website or for £0.77at Amazon's UK website.

Kindle Countdown Deal and more

My ebook Always Born a Girl is currently on sale for £0.99 at Amazon.co.uk. Quality wise, it is the best of the five ebooks I currently have for sale.

Always Born a Girl is dedicated to my sister Patty who has battled leukemia for the last 8 years. I received distressing news over the last two days. Patty's leukemia has come back again, she has no real treatment options, and is currently in  a Brooklyn New York hospice. I spoke to my brother-in-law Marty last night. Marty said she is slipping fast. I'm currently planning to fly up to New York tomorrow.

Advertisements in books

At a message board I frequent, someone made mention of this topic. Other than a author listing previous works of theirs, I haven't seen an advertisement in a book, electronic or print.

If someone wanted to be clever, mentions of a certain product could be placed in a work of fiction.

John when he rose from bed, turned on the coffee so he could have several cups of Brand X coffee. When he was through eating breaking, John took his cup of Brand X coffee with him to his home office. As he sorted mail from the day before, John remembered he was almost out of Brand X coffee and would have to get more of it from the grocery store later in the day.

To me that would be pretty obvious. Just as obvious as the times I watch the television news and see a segment about a area attraction or business that isn't in any way newsworthy. Some years ago I remember Channel 12 having a segment in a news broadcast about some theme park in the area. It was obvious to me it was a commercial.

Works of fiction can contain mentions of real life businesses and products without it being an advertisement all the time. That's fine in my opinion. Character X had lunch with his girlfriend at Burger King. An author doesn't need to make up names of businesses, he should just be careful not to make the mentions of real life businesses so many that it sounds like he is promoting a product with his writing.

If a business or product is a prominent feature of a story, it should probably have a fictional name. Though there would be exceptions. If your story is Murder at the Alfredville Best Western, then I guess mentioning Best Western throughout the story is all right in light of the fact that Alfredville is a real life small town and its only hotel is a Best Western.

Tip to author's- If you're writing about a locale you've never been to yourself, use Google to search for real businesses. I do it all the time. It does make your story seem more authentic.

New ebook for sale

It is called Perpetual Pixies.

Synopsis- Tim and Chris are a couple of sci-fi and anime fans who live along with their families in Las Vegas Nevada. Their wives magically change their husbands into female science fiction characters in hope this will cause them to give up their hobby.

It is priced $2.99. Here is a link to its Amazon.com page.

Where does an author come up with a name for a character from?

I once named a minor character Cherrypie. Take the word of this author I know somebody by that name. She's a nurse.

In a incomplete story of mine, I have a very minor character named Rikki Nine. Remember the song  'Rikki don't lose that number'? A little over twenty years ago I had a co-worker named Rikki Nine.

My twisted muse is mostly for coming up with plots. As for naming characters I have several methods.

1 I use names of past acquaintances, classmates, co-workers.

2 We still have a old white pages at my house and I pull names from there.

3 Wikipedia. Categories People from Where ever. This is a strategy I use a great deal for characters who are from Asia (where many of my stories have been set) or avoiding a tendency to give my characters Anglo Saxon names.

Another thing I do sometimes is to cross apply the names I come up with. Take the names Laura Hunt and Terry Owens and make my characters Terry Hunt and Laura Owens.

I don't name characters after famous people. There have been real people in a few of my stories. Including someone who went by his nickname- Tree.

Update- I will have two new ebooks for sale at Amazon before the month ends.