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Propensity Kindle Promotion – Limited-Time Offer

December 11, 2025Posted in Audiobook, Book, Propensity, review, Ridley Park, Status Update, Video, Writing, YouTubeTagged Amazon, Barnes and Noble, book review, books, dystopian fiction, fiction, free ebook, goodreads, hardcover, Kindle, KindleUnlimited, limited time offer, novel, paperback, podcasts, promotion, Propensity, reviews wanted, samples, Speculative Fiction, trailer, Writing1 Comment

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12–16 December 2025

Propensity has always been available for free with KindleUnlimited. For the first time ever, Propensity will be free for all available markets between 12 and 16 December 2025. Limited-time offer. Not sure how this operates across time zones. Download it sooner than later so you don’t miss the opportunity.

Propensity is also available in hardcover and paperback, as well as an audiobook. Scroll down to listen to chapter 1.

Also available at Barnes & Noble, if that’s your preference – hardcover and paperback.

Summaries and a trailer are available below.

I’m offering Propensity in the hope of getting some reviews and comments, whether here or on the site of purchase. Goodreads reviews are nice, too. You can be the first.

**Image**: *Mockup of Propensity in a Kindle reader frame*

Propensity is a story in three sections: Implementation, Drift, and Entropic. Google Gemini summarised each section; NotebookLM summarised those. Listen below.

Audio: NotebookLM podcast summary of Section I: Implementation

Audio: NotebookLM podcast summary of Section II: Drift

Audio: NotebookLM podcast summary of Section III: Entropic

A thematic trailer for Section I is also available. I hope to make more.

Video: 37-second Propensity Trailer – Act I

Audiobook: Propensity Excerpt: Section I – Implementation, Chapter 1: Calibration

Have any more questions? Visit the dedicated product page.

I feel I’ve stuffed this page, so it’s time to go.

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Ridley Park

Free for Two Days Only: Sustenance (Kindle Edition)

September 6, 2025Posted in Book, Ridley Park, SustenanceTagged alien encounter, Amazon ebook, book announcement, book launch, book promotion, book review, books, experimental fiction, fiction, free ebook, free Kindle book, free literary fiction, free on Kindle, free sci fi book, indie author, Iowa setting, Kindle, Kindle promo, KindleUnlimited, literary fiction, novel, novella, philosophical fiction, reading, Ridley Park, September 2025, small town America, Speculative Fiction, Sustenance, weird fiction, WritingLeave a comment

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On 7–8 September 2025, the Kindle version of my novella Sustenance will be available free to everyone on Amazon. (It’s always free if you’re a KindleUnlimited member, but these two days open it up to all readers.)

So what is Sustenance?

It’s a novella that begins with the dust and grit of rural Iowa – soybean fields, rusted trucks, a small town where everyone knows your name (and your secrets). At first glance, it reads like plainspoken realism, narrated by a local mechanic who insists he’s just a “regular guy.” But then the ground literally shifts. A crash. Figures glimpsed by firelight in the woods. Naked, violet-skinned beings who don’t laugh, don’t sleep, don’t even breathe.

What follows is not your usual alien-invasion story. It’s quieter, stranger, and more unsettling. The encounters with the visitors aren’t about lasers or spaceships – they’re about language, culture, and the limits of human understanding. What happens when concepts like property, law, or even woman and man don’t translate? What does it mean when intimacy itself becomes a site of misunderstanding?

Sustenance is for readers who:

Gravitate toward literary fiction with a speculative edge rather than straight genre beats.
Appreciate the mix of the banal and the uncanny – the smell of corn dust giving way to the shock of alien otherness.
Are interested in themes of language, power, misunderstanding, and human self-deception.
Enjoy writers like Jeff VanderMeer, Margaret Atwood, Octavia Butler, or Denis Johnson – voices that blur realism, philosophy, and estrangement.

This isn’t a story that offers tidy answers. It lingers, provokes, and resists easy moral closure. Think of it less as a sci-fi romp and more as a philosophical fable wrapped in small-town dust and cicada-song.

This version of the book is available in these Kindle storefronts:
United States, United Kingdom, Germany, France, Spain, Italy, Netherlands, Japan, Brazil, Canada, Mexico, Australia, and India

For more details, visit the Sustenance page.

📚 Grab your free Kindle copy on 7–8 September 2025.

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First Chapters Free on Kindle

January 14, 2024January 13, 2024Posted in Awakening, Book, Hemo Sapiens, Hemo Sapiens: Awakening, WritingTagged Book, buy, chapters, excerpt, free, hemo sapiens, Kindle, kindle unlimited, novel, purchase, WritingLeave a comment

If you are interested in Hemo Sapiens: Awakening, but you don’t want to commit your hard-earned shekels, the first four and a half chapters are available for FREE (woohoo). I mean, you’ll miss the best chapters, but what can I say. Dip your toe in the water.

If you have Kindle Unlimited, you can read the entire book for free. Sounds like a win-win to me. You are a winner, right?

Thanks to India

January 12, 2024January 11, 2024Posted in Art, Awakening, Book, Cover Art, Hemo Sapiens, Hemo Sapiens: Awakening, Ridley Park, Status Update, WritingTagged Amazon, hemo sapiens, India, Kindle, sales, Thanks, WritingLeave a comment

I’d like to thank the person in India who earned me $0.02 by reading 17 Kindle pages of Hemo Sapiens: Awakening. Reading on Kindle Unlimited is free—time aside. Read the whole book, and I’ve earned $0.50. In time, we’ll be as rich as astronauts.