Random Musings

It’s Read an E-Book Week (March 7 – 13).

You can read more over at the official web site if you’d like to learn more. There will be all kinds of discounted and free e-books, mine included. So go get yourself an e-book.

You can download mine for free at Smashwords in the following formats: .mobi (Kindle), ePub, PDF, LRF (Sony), and PDB (Palm).

I was led to these by the fine folks over at Castle Age. Enjoy.

see more Epic Fails

see more Epic Fails

see more Epic Fails

see more Epic Fails

see more Epic Fails

see more Epic Fails

see more Epic Fails

see more Epic Fails

see more Epic Fails

see more Epic Fails

see more Epic Fails

Following in the footsteps of Joe Konrath (go buy his book!) I’ve been giving my ebook away for free. Joe is an e-book god and he’s been revealing his own stats on ebook sales at his blog, A Newbie’s Guide to Publishing. He subscribes to the philosophy that ebooks should be inexpensive and I completely agree (hence the price of my ebook).

Joe has given brilliant advice on covers, pricing, blog tours, etc and I took it all to heart.

Over the course of the last week when I released the ebook, I gave away over 1000 copies of the book in PDF format and had almost 1000 views on YouTube for my book trailer. This is in only 6 days. I have found sites around the web where people are already reading/commenting on the book. I’ve gotten my name out there in a very short period of time. And I’m only one person doing this.

So what’s next?

I’m going to try a few things in regards to generating interest (blog tours, reviews, etc) and I’m curious as to how this is going to translate into sales. So I’m going to try to track that and relate that information here. Let’s see what works and what doesn’t because I’m sure others can benefit from this.

Now, I don’t have Joe’s name recognition yet, but I certainly hope it will be almost as successful.

Watch for future posts on The Experiment.

It’s Release Day today for my new book, The Second Coming. Below is the book trailer, share at will.

Travel to a future of blood sacrifice, demons, witchcraft, and an immoral God that has returned to reclaim his former dominion.

“Beautifully written, dark and eerie vision of an apocalyptic future.”
- New York Times Bestselling Author, Margaret Weis.

“David H. Burton is a dark new talent in the genre.
This one will make you leave the lights on for a week!”
- USA Today Bestseller, Cathy Clamp.

To purchase for the Kindle

To purchase on iTunes for iPad/iPhone/iPod Touch

To purchase for the Nook/Sony Reader/Adobe Digital Editions (ePub)
Link will be emailed when payment confirmed.

To purchase PDF
Link will be emailed when payment confirmed.

Two more days left until my new novel will be released.

A book trailer will follow on YouTube at 1:00pm eastern. I’m doing a giveaway as well – a free ebook for a limited time, so stay tuned for what’s coming!!

Here’s a quick synopsis: Travel to a future of blood sacrifice, demons, witchcraft, and an immoral God that has returned to reclaim his former dominion.

And I have some amazing quotes from a couple of very talented authors:

“Beautifully written, dark and eerie vision of an apocalyptic future.”
- Margaret Weis, New York Times Bestselling Author

“David H. Burton is a dark new talent in the genre. This one will make you leave the lights on for a week!”
- USA Today Bestseller, Cathy Clamp

So here’s the cover of my new novel which will be released on February 24th. A book trailer will follow on YouTube at 1:00pm eastern. I’m doing a giveaway as well – a free ebook for a limited time, so stay tuned for what’s coming!!

Here’s a quick synopsis: Travel to a future of blood sacrifice, demons, witchcraft, and an immoral God that has returned to reclaim his former dominion.

And I have some amazing quotes from a couple of very talented authors:

“Beautifully written, dark and eerie vision of an apocalyptic future.”
- Margaret Weis, New York Times Bestselling Author

“David H. Burton is a dark new talent in the genre. This one will make you leave the lights on for a week!”
- USA Today Bestseller, Cathy Clamp

This is one of mine.

I shouldn’t have to explain why the below ad is shameful. I appreciate the nostalgia, but when you equate the lack of manliness/masculinity with a decline in society, there’s a big problem with how you see the world. The worth of a man is not measured by how/where he dances, the type of coffee he drinks, the food he eats, the clothes he wears, his looks, his assertiveness, the cleanliness of his hands, and certainly not by the pants he wears. The worth of a man is measured the same as that of a woman: by how they act as a human being, by inner strength and courage in the face of adversity, and by how they treat others.

Shame on Dockers for this.

The TEDIndia video below is in two parts. It’s brilliant and so is the inventor of SixthSense, Pranav Mistry. I hope to see this in the future.