A micro-incentive.
May. 16th, 2011 08:47 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alexandraerinFor every 10 sales of The Gift of the Bad Guy Kindle edition... up to the first 70... I will expand the map(ish) that I drew showing Pelorus and the Mother Isles. So the "finished" expanded map will cover eight times the area, extending north to show Tylea, south to show the Argentus, more of the Ardan, and the location of Malbus and some other assorted places, and east to show the western part of Khazarus and the edge of the Shift proper, plus some other stuff to the west.
Note: It's not going to be any higher quality or more detailed... I'm working with physical limitations here. But it'll give the relative locations and approximate shapes of things, which more graphically capable people could use as a starting point and readers who have a difficulty reading about distant lands without a visual aid showing where they are in relation to each other can have that aid.
American Kindle Store.
UK Kindle Store.
German Kindle Store. (Note: Book is in English.)
Note: Kindle format e-books do not require a $100+ piece of specialty hardware to run. You can read them on your desktop or on many major smartphones using free software. While I get the same money even if people buy it just to see more of my map scrawlings, my actual goal here is to get more copies of the book into the e-hands of more people who want to read it, faster.
This offer expires in a week. When I wake up on Tuesday I'll check the sales and then start drawing the appropriate number of map segments. After that I won't have time to draw the map before WisCon, and after WisCon I won't be at my desktop computer for a while.
Edit: To sweeten the pot a little... my housemate has some actual "skills of an artist", as they say dans la belle internet... so when my scribblings are finished, and after I've shared them with you, I'll be turning them over to her to produce a higher-quality version. What do you say, internets?
Note: It's not going to be any higher quality or more detailed... I'm working with physical limitations here. But it'll give the relative locations and approximate shapes of things, which more graphically capable people could use as a starting point and readers who have a difficulty reading about distant lands without a visual aid showing where they are in relation to each other can have that aid.
American Kindle Store.
UK Kindle Store.
German Kindle Store. (Note: Book is in English.)
Note: Kindle format e-books do not require a $100+ piece of specialty hardware to run. You can read them on your desktop or on many major smartphones using free software. While I get the same money even if people buy it just to see more of my map scrawlings, my actual goal here is to get more copies of the book into the e-hands of more people who want to read it, faster.
This offer expires in a week. When I wake up on Tuesday I'll check the sales and then start drawing the appropriate number of map segments. After that I won't have time to draw the map before WisCon, and after WisCon I won't be at my desktop computer for a while.
Edit: To sweeten the pot a little... my housemate has some actual "skills of an artist", as they say dans la belle internet... so when my scribblings are finished, and after I've shared them with you, I'll be turning them over to her to produce a higher-quality version. What do you say, internets?