The Dread Hammer by Trey Shiels
April 28th, 2011
Oh. Hey. I published a new book this week. Or to be more accurate, Trey Shiels did–and that’s my first-time-ever pen name.
Meet The Dread Hammer, an enthralling, darkly comic fairytale of love, war, murder, marriage, and fate.
Really.
Not your usual Linda-Nagata fare, I know, and that’s why I thought I’d give the book a break and let Trey Shiels cover for me.
Here’s the back cover copy:
Ketty is a pretty shepherdess with a contrary nature, who runs away from home to escape an unwanted marriage. As she flees along the forest road, she prays to the Dread Hammer for help—and to her astonishment help comes in the form of a charming and well-armed young murderer named Smoke. As Ketty soon discovers, Smoke is not entirely human.
Smoke, too, is taken by surprise at their encounter. He had lurked beside the forest road intending to pierce hearts and slit throats, not to fall in love. But love it is—or it would be—if only he can convince Ketty that marriage is better than death.
But just when happily-ever-after seems within reach, Smoke’s past returns to claim him. A deserter from the Koráyos army, his supernatural skill at killing is still very much in demand. Now the army wants him back.
The Dread Hammer is currently available for Kindle and Nook, with a *special introductory price* of only $2.99, good through May. Look for the print version to be available in a month or so.
Buy it at your favorite store:
Amazon USA
Amazon UK
Barnes & Noble
And if you’re at Amazon, please click that facebook “like” button if you should feel so inclined. Thanks!
Posted on: Thursday, April 28th, 2011 at 5:43 pm
Categories: My E-books.
April 28th, 2011 at 7:54 pm
Sounds fun! Whatever happened to THE WILD? Or is this it with a different name?
April 28th, 2011 at 8:00 pm
This one is all new. The Wild didn’t get the feedback I was looking for from test readers, so I’m still experimenting with it.
April 30th, 2011 at 10:04 am
No ePUB version anywhere?
April 30th, 2011 at 11:07 am
Hi Mary. I guess I was assuming the Nook version was epub, but maybe not. Where do you usually get your epub versions? I can look into it. I know Smashwords offers epub, but the way they process files strips away a lot of the formatting so I haven’t gone that route yet for this book.
April 30th, 2011 at 11:30 am
Thanks, Linda.
Border sells ePUB files, my library lets me download them, and I go to sites with free books like http://www.epubbooks.com/. I just download them to my computer and transfer them over to my eReader. (And Barbara Hambly is selling ePUB files from her website but I don’t know how she makes them.)
Since I don’t have a Nook, I’m guessing that buying the Nook version probably would be difficult and might not give me a readable file but I could look into it. I’m really feeling like I’m missing out on all your recent stuff! 🙂
May 1st, 2011 at 3:10 am
Mary, it just occurred to me, both Nook and Kindle have free software aps that allow you to read their books on your computer. I’m not sure it works for Mac, but I’ve got the Kindle ap on my laptop and it works great. That’s what I used before I had a Kindle. 🙂