Hi, I'm Mike
Scantlebury – author of Scanti-Noir.
If you know me, you'll
know I write stories about Amelia Hartliss, Secret Agent, and Mickey
from Manchester.
Correction, I write
LONG stories.
Novels, mostly. No
short stories, or small pieces of fiction. Yet.
For there to be a
Mickey or Melia short story would be ground-breaking.
Unusual.
Well, it's happened.
I've written one.
And I'm going to give a
few lucky people the chance to own this unique extract from the saga
that is 'Books about Manchester and Salford'.
A tiny number of
people. A select few.
Want to join that club?
Here's the deal.
I'm not selling this
unprecedented story.
I'm not giving it away,
either.
No, I'm offering it as
a prize in a very special competition.
The good news is that
everyone who enters for this award will get the prize.
The bad news is that
you have to do something for it.
(You can't just buy a
ticket!)
I want you to write me
a Review.
Now, the good news is
that a 'Review' doesn't have to be clever.
It could be short. One
word., like 'Interesting'.
It could be a sentence,
like 'I enjoyed it'.
It could be a
paragraph.
It could be a treatise,
a tome, or a volume in itself.
I don't mind.
All I ask is that you
got to any of the online bookstores – one or the other -
and add a short review
to one of my books.
Any book.
Then, follow one of the
links below to either my Twitter or Facebook accounts,
and send me a direct
message about what you've done.
Include a link to your
Review.
I'll follow the link.
If there's 'a Review'
there when I arrive, then you get to read the story.
That's it. That's all.
Not much to it, is there?
But hey, I'm not
apologising for asking.
I'm an independent
writer and publisher. Reviews are my life blood. Because of the
arcane rules that an online bookstore like Amazon impose on a free
spirit like me, if my books don't get Reviews, they never get
promoted. Amazon? Puh. They're crazy.
So, think about it.
If you feel confident
about using the international interweb,
and can get yourself
out to an online book-store - without getting lost -
then leave a note, and
return – safely -
then you get to show
off to your friends that you are the proud owner
of a Mike Scantlebury
Short Story.
“A what?”
A Mike Scantlebury
Short Story.
“But Mike Scantlebury
doesn't write short stories!”
Well, you'll know
better, won't you?
Okay, sure, this is an
experiment.
If it doesn't work,
I'll go back to my day job, and write a few more Mickey and Melia
novels. (Expect a new one in October, and another before Christmas.)
If it does work, well,
I might try it again, some time.
Ouch! I'll have to
amend that 'unique' tag then, won't I?
Still, that's well into
the future.
For now, there's only
this offer.
I'm offering a short
story.
I'm asking for a
Review.
Let's see how many of
you can win that coveted prize.
Mike
Mike Scantlebury on
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Twitter - @MikeScantlebury
