The Kindle ebook list price for Nobility Among Us has been reduced from $6.49 to $3.99 (£2.45, €2.90, depending on your location). Take a look, if you like it, there’s even more reason to get yourself a copy. If you have a copy, read and liked it, recommend it to your friends.
My wife is in the last month of her fifth pregnancy, so this one is for her:
My Wife, the Hero
Each day you do so much for us:
Driving our own family bus,
Cooking for our countless horde
Of boys who like to claim they’re bored.
Cleaning, sprucing, beautifying
Our home in all its calm-defying
Noise and bustle, schedules packed
Are somehow managed, well, in fact. Continue reading
When for our land we sing a dirge
When threats appear and clouds converge;
When news of foul deeds meets our ears
And cowards try to grow our fears,
Our leader’s eyes will fill with fire,
He calls us to direct our ire
With wisdom, honour, valor, might;
Defend our last faint glimpse of light.
I just received this notice from the publisher:
Please find below the final Christmas order dates for direct site order through FeedARead. To assure delivery of your books before Christmas, please place orders no later than:
Paperback Books – Direct Site OrderIn the US – December 10th
In the UK – December 10th
In Australia – December 10th
In Europe – December 7th• Please note that books are processed for print on the print line first, and any orders placed after the noted cut-off dates above cannot be guaranteed for Christmas delivery.
• Please order early! Countries internal postage systems will have the largest workload on their infrastructures in the holiday season so please order early to avoid unexpected delaysWe will be working up to Christmas, and all orders past the above dates will be processed as soon as possible by the printers.
Ordering books at booksellers
Final Christmas order dates for books at booksellers such as Amazon will be as listed on the various booksellers websites.
So if you are wanting to order a paperback copy for someone for Christmas, please do so by the above dates. Of course this doesn’t apply to buying the Kindle ebook version, or to customers in the Czech Republic ordering copies direct from the author.
What captivates a young man’s heart,
Grows his stature, inspires art;
Awakens and matures his soul,
Breaks his heart and makes it whole?
What drives him to complete despair
Or hope of castles in the air?
What turns a youth into a man
Forms and overturns his plans? Continue reading
Small rushing clumsy fluffy feet
Tails sweep and bounce as they both greet.
Eyes that fill with simple joy
At papers, strings and chewed-up toys
“Leaves twitch outside, the world’s alive!
Catch them all, or they’ll connive
To flood our lawn and spoil our fun
There’s games to play, and tracks to run.” Continue reading
Amazon.com has a feature known as matchbook, where the Kindle ebook version of a book can be set to a reduced price or free for customers who have bought a physical version. This is now activated for Nobility Among Us so that anyone who bought the paperback version from Amazon.com can now ‘buy’ the Kindle ebook version for free.
For those of you who have bought (or in the future buy) from another shop, I can manually send you a copy of the Kindle ebook version for free. Please use the contact form below to request your free copy. Once you do, a message will be sent to the email address you give according to the shop you bought from, telling you what sort of proof of purchase to send. Once that is received from you, a free copy of the Kindle ebook version (approx. 5.6 MB) will be sent to you, either as an email attachment or in the form of a temporary private link to where you can download it. If you are unsure as to whether your email account accepts an attachment this large, assume it does not and don’t check the box.
Thank you for buying the book, and I hope you enjoy it fully in whatever format. If you don’t yet have a copy, go here and choose the shopping channel that gives you the best deal.
Could chance alone have led me here to witness this magnificence
Or else the instigation of some great eternal plan?
I’ll respond with all the fullness of my youth’s profound exuberance
To answer nature’s call and thus attempt to be a man!
What fortitude arises when your path is strewn with obstacles,
As if they were all placed there by a teacher from on high;
It will not do to merely gaze at them with tinted spectacles,
For duty bids us not just rise but reach up to the sky! Continue reading
This is an unfinished poem I wrote for a Dungeons and dragons campaign that I partially planned but was never played (the campaign was planned to fit the poem, and then they both fed off each other) There are other parts to it, but they aren’t complete and spoil some of the twists. This summarises the first phase of the campaign.
Shimmering Shadows
The regal dawn, the pauper’s crown,
The sun-drenched trumpeter of great renown,
Rouses the land with a soundless roar,
“The darkness is over now, awake once more!” Continue reading
A decorative pitch for Nobility Among Us in verse:
The Zwyckyverse 