Odds and Ends

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  • Last month, I wrote about the difficulty I encountered with publishing The Horror Book Review Digest Volume III on Amazon. Fast forward to February, and hey, guess what? The Horror Book Review Digest Volume III is now available on Amazon. Wonders never cease. Anyway, you can buy a copy of that over there now, or you can continue to buy direct from me right here on this website. Bonus! If you buy direct from me, more of that money comes to me instead of lining the pockets of a billionaire who clearly does not have the best interests of American democracy at heart.

  • Speaking of buying direct from me… All of my books will be exiting Kindle Unlimited effective April 16. All of my books will be available for direct purchase through this website by Friday, April 18. I’ll also be working on going wide and expanding distribution of my ebooks to include a wider net of platforms, including Apple, Nook, Kobo, Hoopla, Overdrive, and everywhere else I can. Hopefully these ebooks will also make their way onto Bookshop.org via Draft2Digital, since they’ve recently expanded their platform to include the sale of ebooks.

  • In case you weren’t aware, print editions of my books are already available on Bookshop.org, along with Barnes & Noble, and can most likely even be special ordered by your local bookstore if you ask them nicely. I’ve also set up an affiliate account with Bookshop.org, and will be including a link to purchase books through them in my reviews whenever possible. Purchases made through the Bookshop.org links included on my site will earn me a minor commission that will help support this site and my future publishing endeavors.

  • I’ve added a Cool Links page to the site, which you can find up at the top menu. Right now, there’s just a handful of sites listed, places I visit regularly and/or authors or podcasts I want to show some support for, or just think are cool and would like to help spread the word.

  • On the review front, my first guest review for FanFiAddict went live today for Chuck Wendig’s The Staircase in the Woods. If you like the sounds of this one, you can preorder a copy right now. (Remember what I said about that Bookshop.org affiliate link?) I’ll share the review here in a week or two, most likely, but for now go give FanFiAddict all the clicks and check out the other great reviews and reviewers over there. My TBR has grown tremendously over the years thanks to these guys and gals, and they’ve become my go-to hub for scifi, fantasy, and horror recs, which is why they’re included in that Cool Links page up above.

That’s it for now!

Michael Patrick Hicks

Michael Patrick Hicks is the author of several horror books, including the Salem Hawley series and Friday Night Massacre. His stories have appeared in more than a dozen publications from Crystal Lake Publishing, Death’s Head Press, Off Limits Press, and Silver Shamrock Publishing, among others. His debut novel, Convergence, was an Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award Finalist in science fiction.

In addition to writing his own works of original fiction, Michael is also a prolific book reviewer with a focus on horror, crime, science fiction, and thriller genres. His reviews have been published by Graphic Novel Reporter and Audio Book Reviewer, and a number of his horror-centric book reviews have been collected in The Horror Book Review Digest Volumes I and II. A third volume is in the works and is expected to release in 2025.

Michael lives in Michigan with his wife and two children. In between compulsively buying books and adding titles that he does not have time for to his Netflix queue, he is hard at work on his next story.

http://www.michaelpatrickhicks.com/
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