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A Face-lift for Niedermayer & Hart

25/10/2018

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​Our first edition of Niedermayer & Hart (published in April 2012, copies still available) was airport-exclusive size and priced at £12.99. We'd always wanted to offer our readers print books produced to a high spec, but at a more affordable price, and we are therefore pleased to announce that the new edition, physically a bit smaller at 8.5 x 5.5 inches, retails at just £8.99 ($12.95).

As promised in my last blog, I’m taking this opportunity to unveil the new cover for Niedermayer & Hart. I'd always had plots in mind for three stories, however, I wanted to be certain that the first book was received well before committing myself to writing the other parts of the trilogy. Wilhelm & Laszlo is the resulting sequel.

I am fortunate to have a son, Tom Johnson, who is an accomplished artist, and has generously donated many hours of his valuable time to the task of creating two fantastic new covers. They are essentially portraits in oils, and I am assured by a graphic designer I know, that such cover designs would be considered too costly to produce these days by any mainstream publishing house. I'll be releasing the first pictures of the Wilhelm & Laszlo cover in a few days’ time, once it's actively published.

The covers for both new editions are unmistakably creepy, at least we hope so! The Kindle versions naturally share the same front covers with their printed brethren. Although I’m a fan of Kindle, it still lends an added thrill (I'm sure many book lovers will agree) to hold a new paperback, and turn it over to scan the blurb. So there you have it: re-branded, with two eye-catching covers! Believe me, it took some gnashing of teeth, a lot of head-scratching, patience and a fair amount of going back to the drawing-board before we achieved the look and feel we were after.  I look forward to receiving your feedback in the weeks and months to come, but personally speaking, as far as the covers are concerned, we've ticked everything on our list.

Honestly, just take a look at the book cover above, and tell me you don't want to know what's lurking behind that door at number sixty-seven? Be warned though, whilst reading this book some readers have admitted they needed to put the light on when making trips to the loo at night, others have opted to only read during daylight hours. Fortunately, all survived and more importantly (from a partisan viewpoint) lived long enough to leave a favourable review!

I mentioned in my previous post that I would be doing promos leading up to the publication of Wilhelm & Laszlo. For the past week, my psychological thriller Roadrage has been available at a vastly reduced price on Kindle - if you're partial to nice people being plunged into disturbingly credible, deeply unsettling predicaments, then hurry, because the offer ends at midnight on Friday 27th! See links below.
 
From today, Niedermayer & Hart will also be available on Kindle at 99p in the UK, or $0.99 for US readers, and this offer will run until just before midnight on 31 October (Halloween, yay!). The book has achieved a lot of excellent reviews on the Amazon sites and continues to maintain a high rating on Goodreads etc.
 
Here are the links for a Kindle copy of Roadrage (available until midnight Friday 27 October):
Amazon.co.uk
Amazon.com
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And here are the links for a Kindle copy of Niedermayer & Hart (available for the next six days):
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Amazon.co.uk
 
And here’s the new print version (which may not be fully linked yet to other versions):
Amazon.co.uk
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Announcing a New Title

21/10/2018

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​I'm doing some promos leading up to the publication of my new title.


First off, for the next few days, anyone with a taste for psychological thrillers can download a Kindle copy of Roadrage at a significantly reduced price (link at the bottom of this blog). It’s managed to retain 4.04 on Goodreads after sixty-eight reviews/ratings, and there are more reviews available on the Amazon sites. You have until Saturday 27th October to purchase a Kindle copy for 99p in the UK, or $0.99 if you’re in the United States. The book is normally priced at £3.99 and $4.95 on Kindle, so it’s a genuinely good offer.
 
This promo will overlap with the arrival of a new print edition of Niedermayer & Hart (a new Kindle version will be available simultaneously, and for a short time, this too will be at a reduced price), which I’m bringing out to precede the publication of its follow-on title. I’m really pleased that we’ve also been able to achieve a better price for readers at £8.99 and $12.95.
 
We’ve been working really hard at Odd Dog Press, and the covers for both books beautifully complement each other. The aim has been to create an instantly identifiable ‘brand’  for these two books, which are the first and second parts of a trilogy. The art-work is exquisite. I’m looking at the proof copy of Niedermayer & Hart as I write this blog, which only arrived in the post yesterday, and I am over the moon with the results. I’ll be posting the first pictures of the covers shortly. Don’t get me wrong, there was nothing wrong with the original cover of Niedermayer & Hart (which also remains available while stocks last), in fact, numerous people have written to me expressing their appreciation for its artwork. However, we felt it didn’t really give potential readers quite enough information, and may even have misled some people into thinking it was historical romance of some kind, Gott in Himmel! These exciting covers were created for me by my talented son, Tom Johnson. The new ebook and paperback of Niedermayer & Hart will also include a sneak preview of the prologue to its sequel.
Finally, in just under two weeks’ time, hopefully coinciding with Halloween, my new title Wilhelm & Laszlo will be published. If you read Niedermayer & Hart recently, or have an astounding memory, then you'll have an inkling of the direction things are going in the sequel. If it’s a while since you read it and can’t remember, then there’s still time to brush up!  And any newcomers to this unsettling little world, can soon download a Kindle copy at the offer price for little more than the price of a postage stamp.
Here are the links for Roadrage:
 
Amazon.co.uk
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