Showing posts with label Murder Mystery. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Murder Mystery. Show all posts

Saturday, October 5, 2013

Ten Reviews



I am not new to writing, but I am new to marketing and promoting. Like many of us writers, I love the former and despise the latter. My palms are sweaty even as I write this. It makes me unduly nervous. Still, it must be done, and for me I need a simple goal to shoot for: 10 reviews. 

More experience authors might read this and smile bemused. Of course, I doff my proverbial chapeaux to your successes, and I remind you we all have to start somewhere. 

I have reviews, on GoodReads among other places, and scattered elsewhere across the web; I am meaning something more specific: 10 reviews on Amazon.

This seems to be an almost magical number. A point where the casual browser might stumble across your book to sit up and take notice— bloggers and reviewers as well. Ten reviews is a nice round number. I might be deluding myself, or at least bitten off more than I can chew. It’s not just the one book I have, there are nine published now… and, if I were good at math, I’d say I am really looking for 90 reviews at least. Hopes and dreams... and a long way to go.

Thursday, September 26, 2013

Free Sand City

Just so you know, my loyal twitter followers can a get free ebub of this, no strings attached.

Just head on over to
https://twitter.com/TractusFynn and leave me a DM.

Tuesday, September 17, 2013

My first amazon review for Sand City


Yay... a rave review from amazon KDP!
5 STARS for SAND CITY

Thank you, who ever you are!

Sand City Murders by M.K. Alexander brilliantly combines Mystery and Science Fiction. In the off-season seaside town of Sand City, Patrick Jardel, a local journalist becomes embroiled in a string of murders. The plot takes a fascinating twist from the usual murder mystery with the arrival of Tractus Flynn, a time-traveling detective.

Alexander has invented a unique and plausible form of time-travel which adds a powerful complexity to the story. Sand City Murders does equal justice to both the mystery and SF components of the story. The writing is both taut and humorous; while the setting is so real you can smell the fish-stick factory! Alexander does justice to the myriad of residents of Sand City providing a rich background and texture to the story.

Highly recommend this story to fans of both genres. This book deserves a wide audience and there is the hint of more to come. I can't wait to see where this goes in the future (or is it the past? Time-travel can be a bit confusing...)

Thursday, August 29, 2013

Sand City Homages


Inside this novel are many, many homages to the great detectives of all time, and to some of the wonderful time travelers of popular culture... Some references are extremely subtle, some rather blatant... They are identified by name, place or creator. See if you can find them all!


kindle edition