Welcome to my blog

Hello visitors. On my blog I'm talking about my books, but also about what I'm currently working on and, maybe, some other stuff. Browse through my posts and don't forget to check out my older posts in the archives. If you are interested in my books, please, visit my website Fictitious Tales for more information and a few excerpts. Also, take a look at my second blog Herbert Grosshans, where I talk about fun-stuff and things that concern me.

Sunday, March 31, 2013

Amazon is cheating us authors

Amazon has a policy where a buyer can return an ebook up to seven days after they purchased it. That is long enough to read the book. Many people return their book after reading it because they can. That is not fair to us authors who spend hours upon hours writing a good book, editing it and trying to publish it. We should be the only ones to decide if we want to give our books away for free.


I just signed the petition "Amazon Kindle e-Book Return Policy: Stop allowing refunds on e-Books after e-Books have been read." on Change.org.

It's important. Will you sign it too? Here's the link:

http://www.change.org/petitions/amazon-kindle-e-book-return-policy-stop-allowing-refunds-on-e-books-after-e-books-have-been-read

Thanks!

Herbert

Easter

Happy Easter to everyone. Hope everyone gets a bunch of Easter eggs filled with dreams that came true.

I had a little bit of good news. My publisher Melange Books put up my first book in the Xandra series 'Daughter of the Dark' for a free download with Amazon. 581 people downloaded the book for free and it generated quite a few sales already. I know, somebody will say, "What? You gave away 581 copies? That is insane." Actually, it isn't, because it is a form of advertising and it cost me nothing. Out of those 581 some will buy the other five books in the series and possibly some of my other books. Sales I would not have otherwise.

In fact, I'm already thinking of putting up another one of my books for free. The more people get to know my name and my writing the more fans I will attract. Simple arithmetic.

Tuesday, March 26, 2013

Free book offer

If you are a visitor from Riley Banks' website and would like to know how you can get a free pdf copy of any of my books, send me an email hegro@shaw.ca and tell me the name of my favorite character in the novel 'Iceworld'. It says so in the interview. Then let me know which one of my books you would like.

Monday, March 25, 2013

I was interviewed

I've been interviewed by Riley Banks. If you're interested in reading my
interview please go to
http://www.rileybanks.net/2/post/2013/03/herberts-erotic-stories-are-out-of-this\
-world.html