DB Books and Reviews

Looking for something to read over the Thanksgiving Holiday? From November 21-25 (2022) THE VOIDWALKER COLLECTION will be free on Amazon Kindle. Please consider grabbing a copy while it is free and perhaps checking it out once you have consumed all the Thanksgiving Dinner your body can handle. Get it here

DIGITARUM  is my debut science fiction and fantasy novel about a world filled with immortal deities who create and live in it among the common people that they make in their image. The story is written in the style of old myths and legends and takes inspiration from mythologies across multiple cultures. If that sounds like your kind of thing, you can potentially win a free Kindle copy of the book by entering in a Goodreads Giveaway below from now until August 20th, 2022. 100 copies of this Kindle edition will be given out once the Giveaway closes. Good luck to anyone who enters! Enter the Giveaway Here! Goodreads Book Giveaway Digitarum by Derek Bailey Giveaway ends August 20, 2022. See the giveaway details at Goodreads. Enter Giveaway or Check it out on  Amazo...

THE VOIDWALKER NOVELLAS  is a series of eight episodic novellas that I recently finished up releasing on Kindle. Now that all eight books are available, I am releasing a special collected edition that is available in Paperback, Hardcover, and Kindle formats. With the release of this collection, I am also initiating a Goodreads giveaway for 100 Kindle copies of THE VOIDWALKER COLLECTION. Enter the Giveaway Here! Goodreads Book Giveaway The Voidwalker Collection by Derek Bailey Giveaway ends July 01, 2022. See the giveaway details at Goodreads. Enter Giveaway or Check it out on Amazon . You can also check out the full series here

THE VOIDWALKER NOVELLAS  is a series of eight episodic novellas that follow a character named Bryan through a dark fantasy thriller. The first two entries into the series were released back in 2016, but I didn't market them at all or even seek out any reviews since I had to step away from the project almost immediately after those titles launched. Years later, the rest of the books have been launching every Wednesday. On June 1, 2022, the eight and final novella releases on Kindle. To celebrate the launch date for this final entry I am making the first three books in the series available for free!  Dark Horizon :  on sale now In celebration of this launch, the first two novellas free all day on 2/27/22. Definitely check those out and maybe give them a download while they are up for grabs.  The Manor of My Dreams:   free 6/1 Paradise's Vexation:   free  6/1 Dark Horizon :  free 6/1

After a long time away from both this blog and writing in general, I am finally trying to get back in touch with my creative and bookish side. As a part of that, I have been hard at work wrapping up a project I started back in 2015 known as THE VOIDWALKER NOVELLAS which is a series of eight episodic novellas that follow a character named Bryan through a dark fantasy thriller.  The first two entries into the series were released back in 2016, but I didn't market them at all or even seek out any reviews since I had to step away from the project almost immediately after those titles launched. Now, years later the rest of the books will be launching every Wednesday until June 1, when the eight and final novella releases on Kindle.  Dark Horizon : on sale now In celebration of this launch, the first two novellas free all day on 2/27/22. Definitely check those out and maybe give them a download while they are up for grabs.  The Manor of My Dreams: free for today only   (...

November 20th is here which means the first entry into The Voidwalker Novellas is finally out. It's been no small effort to plan out and begin to write this series of episodic novellas so it's with great relief that I have finally put the first entry out to market. That said there's still a lot of work to do since this is an eight-part series so expect more updates to come on future installments. Additionally, as a way to celebrate, Digitarum , the novel I released in 2015, will be free for the next three days (from November 20th through November 22nd)!

In honor of Free Comic Book Day, I've got the eBook edition of Digitarum up for free on Amazon . No, Digitarum isn't a comic, but hey, in the spirit of giving out free stuff, I figured I'd run a free promotion day all the same. You can pick it up at https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00VDHMDY0 if you'd like and I hope you have a happy FCBD!

Bloggers don't really do book hauls or anything like that, but recently I picked up two new short stories from author Cy Wyss and received the paperback copy of WHISPERS OF THE WORLD THAT WAS, which is the book I won in a Goodreads Giveaway. Since I am just about halfway through THE HUNGER GAMES and UNSTABLE PROTOTYPES, it will probably be a while before those two reviews are posted so these three titles will help keep the reviews flowing while I continue to indulge in my main reads. The best part is that two out of the three were free since a giveaway is obviously free and Cy Wyss informed me that the first two Inspector Richter stories are alternately free on Fridays when I reached out about my having read and reviewed "Sinking" which came free with signing up for the monthly newsletter.    This weeks freebie was "Polygraph", which is the first Inspector Richter Mystery Short. I could have waited a week to get "The Bloodless Mask" (Inspector Ri...

INTRODUCTION: Giveaways are a bit of a double edged sword in several ways. They are essential for authors, especially new ones, who want to get their name out on the market and generate buzz for new, upcoming, or existing publications. As readers, they're very fun to enter for and even more fun to win. They offer a chance to discover a new author and potentially sample their work, FO FREE! Word of mouth is a powerful thing and if the free book happens to be the first in a series, then that's one way to make sure that the future installments have an audience. Since I am both an avid writer AND reader I have a little experience with both so I figured I would share my most recent experiences with two different ways I made DIGITARUM available for free. NOTE: While this post isn't  directly  tied into my WRITING INSIGHTS series of posts, there are certainly some thoughts on marketing from different perspectives to be found here.  DIGITARUM: Free Promotional Days ...

From now until July 6, 2015 one of three paperback copies of DIGITARUM can be won by entering the Goodreads giveaway at https://www.goodreads.com/giveaway/show/142749-digitarum There are three chances to win and a lot of folks have already entered for it which is kind of blowing me away. NOTE: Goodreads selects the winners, I only supply the contest and provide the rewards.