Where to Buy… LUCKY PENNY

Lucky Penny

Gill Lutz is a Las Vegas runner — a man employed by a casino to make sure that everything runs smoothly with no interference by people with “special” talents, which in a world full of metahumans is no small task. When the Vegas-based superhero called Lucky Penny uses her powers make Gill’s casino pay out jackpot after jackpot, he’s got to stop her before the casino goes bankrupt or, even worse, he’s out of a job.

This new story is set in the world of the novel Other People’s Heroes and the short story “The Restless Dead of Siegel City,” but can be read independently of those works. This eBook edition also contains a bonus short story, “Stowaway.” It’s Christmas Eve, 1827, and Louis Baudreau is determined to find something in the skies over the Gulf of Mexico he never thought he would see again. Instead, he finds a visitor on his boat that may take him places he never imagined.

• Amazon.com Kindle Store (99 cents)
• Barnes & Noble Nook Store (99 cents)
• Smashwords.com for every eBook format (99 cents)
• Available in your iPad/iPhone/iPod bookstore (99 cents)

A quick burst of Christmas self-promotion…

I promise I won’t pummel you with this throughout the month of December, but as it’s December first, I’ve gotta get at least one plug in for my Christmas short story collection, A Long November.

Since 2000, I’ve written a new Christmas story every year. This eBook collects the first nine short stories in a handy collection for a mere $2.99! Included in this book are the following stories…

• Lonely Miracle (2000): In this tale of Siegel City we meet Lightning, the woman who loved Lionheart and who has, since then, had to exist year after year without him. This year, however, there may be hope for a miracle…
• Clarence Missed (2001): A night in a small-town drunk tank shows a man a glimpse at a world that should have been.
• Pencil Sketches (2002): Two college buddies who shouldn’t even be friends realize that the strongest family may be the one you choose for yourself.
• JLZX622 (2003): Reg Bennet is ready for another Christmas alone. When a woman he’s admired from afar disappears, he finds himself caught up in a search for her, and a chance to change his entire life.
• Promise (2004): In the world of The Beginner, a retired nurse is given a chance to help a long-ago patient fulfill a Christmas promise he was never able to keep.
• A Long November (2005): Duncan Marks is just like you — he’s sick of Christmas getting earlier and earlier each year. When an obnoxious holiday elf appears to him on the day after Halloween, Duncan finds himself in a bizarre quest to find what the season truly means to him, and why that may be more important than he ever imagined. This short novel was my first attempt at National Novel Writing Month, and is (appropriately) the longest story in the collection.
• The Helper (2006): Nicholas Carson is watching his wife fade away. Would it be worth leaving her at the end, even for his heart’s desire?
• Circle (2007): It’s said that a simple act of kindness can send out ripples, circles the person who made the first wave may never know. In this story, we follow a circle throughout the holiday season.
• Return to Sender (2008): Every year thousands of Santa Claus letters wind up in the dead letter office. This year, a mystery from one of them sends a postman on a quest to find someone with a different kind of need.

I’ve enjoyed writing every one of these stories, as well as the ones in the years since then (and this year’s story is in the works right now). Although it’s been available on Smashwords.com for a few years now, this marks the first year you can get it on your Amazon Kindle, Barnes & Noble Nook, or in the iPad bookstore. Give it a try, write a review, spread the word. Merry Christmas!

Where to Buy: The Restless Dead of Siegel City

It’s time for a special Halloween treat for fans of my debut novel, Other People’s Heroes. While the sequel, 14 Days of Asphalt, isn’t going to be released until some time in 2012, that doesn’t mean you’ll have to wait until next year to meet up with Josh Corwood and the heroes of Siegel again.

In this new 99-cent short story, it’s Halloween night and the city of faux superheroes finds itself overrun with the REAL undead — mummies, zombies, vampires, and all manner of creatures of the night have come to wreak havoc. Copycat, Animan, and their crew have to dig out the root of the infestation, and Josh has to confront the ghost of his greatest failure.

• Amazon Kindle store (99 cents)
• Barnes and Noble Nook store (99 cents)
• Smashwords.com in all other eBook formats (99 cents)
• And in your iPad bookstore (99 cents)

Where to Buy: The Beginner

The Beginner

My second novel, The Beginner, is once again available in multiple formats, both print and electronic!

Filmmaker Curtis Dupré seems to have everything he could want on the set of his second film: studio backing, a professional crew, and an actress he’s admired for years in the starring role. But people begin to vanish from the set, and from the memories of everybody except Curtis. A strange visitor is eliminating those close to the young director, and there’s no telling who is next. To save his friends, to save himself, Curtis Dupré will have to look into himself and discover what it truly means to be The Beginner.

• Amazon Kindle Store ($2.99)
• Smashwords.com, for every eBook format! ($2.99)
• Available in print from CreateSpace ($13.99)
• Available in print from Amazon.com ($13.99)
• The Barnes & Noble Nook store ($2.99)
• And in the iPad bookstore! ($2.99)

And don’t forget, my other two books are available in multiple formats as well:

• Other People’s Heroes
• A Long November

The Beginner: Now (mostly) available!

You can’t get it everywhere and in every format yet, friends, but for you early adopters my novel The Beginner is now available!

After spending many (many, many) hours this weekend tweaking and playing with formats and uploading and retweaking and reuploading and re-retweaking and re-reuploading, you can now purchase The Beginner in the Amazon.com Kindle Store for a mere $2.99!

“But Blake,” you say, “I don’t have a Kindle! I have an utterly different eReader of a different sort! The sort that reads books in EPUB, PDF, or other assorted formats? Is there anything for me?” Oh, indeed there is, my friend. You folks can cruise on over to Smashwords.com right now and get the book for the same $2.99 as those Kindle readers!

Now there are a few more formats in which the book is not yet available. I’m waiting for the book to go through the “Meat Grinder” process which will make it available in the Barnes & Noble Nook store and the iPad bookstore, but in both cases, I anticipate the book will be ready in a couple of weeks. And if you’re holding out for the print edition, that’s coming soon too! As soon as the proof gets to me and I give it the thumbs-up, it’ll be available for $13.99.

So it’s all coming, folks.

Don’t forget, in the meantime, I’ve still got two other books available!

Other People’s Heroes  is available for Kindle, Nook, iPad, as an audiobook or in print!

A Long November is available for Kindle, Nook, iPad, and as an audiobook!

Make sure you get the entire Blake M. Petit library!

Where to Buy… OTHER PEOPLE’S HEROES

Other People’s Heroes

My first novel, Other People’s Heroes, is superhero adventure. Josh Corwood is a reporter for Powerlines, the premiere newsmagazine covering the heroes of Siegel City. Josh has always dreamed of joining the heroes, but his world is thrown into upheaval by a pair of discoveries. First: he has a power of his own. And second: the heroes of Siegel City are all fakes. The villains are actors, the fights are choreographed — it’s like professional wrestling on a much bigger scale. In this comedy/adventure, Josh attempts to blow the lid on the cover-up, only to find himself embroiled in a mystery about what happened to the real heroes of Siegel City, and about the nature of heroism itself. You can listen to the whole thing in the Evercast, or buy it as an ebook!

• Amazon.com Kindle Store ($2.99)
• Barnes & Noble Nook Store ($.299)
• Smashwords.com for every eBook format ($2.99)
• Available in your iPad/iPhone/iPod bookstore ($2.99)
• Available in print from CreateSpace ($15.99)
• Available as a free audiobook download at Podiobooks.com ($0.00!)

A while back, just for funsies, I whipped up some images of the heroes of Siegel City. I’m no artist, mind you, so I used the Hero Machine template. Here’s what I came up with:

• Aquila
• Condor
• The Conductor
• Copycat
• Deep Six
• The Defender
• Doc Noble
• Doublegum Man
• First Light
• Five Share
• Fourtifier
• Goop
• Hotshot
• Lightning
• Lionheart
• Mental Maid
• Miss Sinistah
• Oriole
• Particle
• Spectrum
• Tin Man
• V3OL

Where to Buy… A LONG NOVEMBER

A Long November and Other Tales of Christmas

A Long November was written as my National Novel Writing Month experiment for 2005 and became my first Podcast Novel. Duncan Marks is just like you — sick and tired of Christmas coming before the Thanksgiving turkey even comes out of the oven. But this year, a Spirit of the Season takes him on a journey that tests his resolve… and upon which Christmas itself may rise or fall. This short story, along with eight other Christmas themed stories of mine, has been collected into an eBook, including a new introduction and notes on each story.

• Amazon.com Kindle Store ($2.99)
• Barnes & Noble Nook Store ($2.99)
• Smashwords.com For every eBook format ($2.99)
• Subscribe for free at Podiobooks.com. ($0.00!)  Please note, the Podiobooks.com version only includes A Long November – Audiobook does not include the other eight short stories.
• Also available in your iPad/iPhone/iPod bookstore! ($2.99)