elcome to the website of Shawn C. Speakman — webmaster and writer. Shawn has developed websites for New York Times bestselling authors Terry Brooks and Greg Keyes, among others.

Shawn also writes full time. The Dark Thorn, Book One of The Dark Thorn cycle, begins an urban fantasy in the tradition of Terry Brooks's Word/Void trilogy, Jim Butcher's The Dresden Files and Dan Brown's The Da Vinci Code. The first novel is currently being written.

To gain a glimpse of The Dark Thorn, read the Prologue (HTML | PDF)! Feel free to post your comments about Shawn's progress or any questions in his blog below.

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Monday, October 05, 2009

Fell Hammer on Kindle

I have given in.

Finally.

Today the Amazon Kindle version of Song of the Fell Hammer went live. It is $2.99.

Song of the Fell Hammer was my first attempt at a novel and like many debut books it is wordy. The book is near 200,000 words. As a reference, the average novel length today is 90,000 words with fantasy novels usually being closer to 105,000 words. In other words, you'll be getting a lot of words for the price!

That might not be a good thing. Ha!

I will make 35% on each download. That's $1.05 for 10 months of work a few years ago.

If you have Adobe Reader with the capacity to view .PDFs, you can read for free the Prologue, Chapter One, Chapter Two and Chapter Three of Song of the Fell Hammer by clicking the links.

If you have a Kindle, click Song of the Fell Hammer to download it!

And yes, I am thinking about offering this as a .PDF download. Just have to figure out how to make that a possibility where no or limited theft will take place.

Have questions? Just ask. I am always around.

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6 Comments:

Blogger Stephen said...

I don't have a kindle, but I would definitely by the PDF.

7:53 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

If you have an iPhone there is a free Amazon kindle App. I just bought the book, 11,000+ pages on the iPhone.

10:50 AM  
Blogger Shawn C. Speakman said...

Very true, Anonymous. Very true. :)

11:12 AM  
Blogger setchmo said...

Hey Shawn,

Just picked of Fell Hammer on "kindle for PC". Thanks for making it available.

6:14 PM  
Blogger Cara said...

When it's available on pdf I'll want one XD

4:52 AM  
Anonymous Francine said...

Just an idea. But I saw in Writer's Digest's Feb 2010 edition the announcement for the 18th Annual Writer's Digest International Self-Published Book Awards with a deadline of 5/3/2010.

Since you published on Kindle your book is eligible as an e-book entry in the competition. It might be worth your while to get an issue and enter Song of the Fell Hammer in the competition. You might win.

Here's the link in case you're curious.

http://www.writersdigest.com/competitions/

Scroll down it's right under the
79th annual writing competition.

Take it easy,
Fran.

12:16 PM  

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