Books By Alan

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RealmShift

"an inventive and action-packed story"

"a gripping, thought-provoking tale"

"a novel I am loath to put down. A most surprising read. Quite a ride"

"fast-paced and engrossing"

"RealmShift is phenomenal. If it’s not already on your bookshelf it should be."

MageSign

"a fast-paced ride through a visceral reality"

"a fast paced supernatural adventure that will leave readers rethinking how they view the Cosmos"

"a gritty tale of blood rituals, mystery, and mysticism… grabs hold of the reader and doesn’t let go"

"fantastic qualities … horrific at times... I highly recommend it"

"Alan Baxter takes the reader right to the edge and then pushes us over. And I thank him for it."

Ghost Of The Black

"Excellent pacing"

"I’ve found myself not wanting to stop reading"

"Everything about it is bang on"

"very, very readable."

Wise Words

"Things need not have happened to be true. Tales and dreams are the shadow-truths that will endure when mere facts are dust and ashes, and forgot." - Morpheus, The Sandman - Dream Country (Neil Gaiman)

"A powerful agent is the right word. Whenever we come upon one of those intensly right words in a book or a newspaper the resulting effect is physical as well as spiritual, and electrically prompt." - Mark Twain

"At the beginning there was the Word - at the end just the Cliche." - Stanislaw J Lec

RealmShift ebook now available from smashwords

January 11, 2009

By alan

The ongoing process of getting my books out to readers continues. There is now an ebook version of RealmShift available from smashwords.com.

The ebook is for sale at US$3.50, which is about AU$5.00, quarter the price of the paperback and there’s no shipping fee. Of course, the trade paperback version at US$15.95 from Amazon is still available for those people that prefer a real book. Trade paperbacks of both RealmShift and MageSign will be available in Australia very soon.

smashwords.com is an online ebook retailer that offers titles in a variety of formats, including Epub, PDF, RTF, LRF (for Sony Reader), Palm Doc, Plain Text, HTML, JavaScript and Kindle (.mobi).

As an Australian I can’t set up a Kindle account directly with Amazon and produce Kindle editions of my books with them, but there is a Kindle version available from smashwords, which is the main reason that I decided to go with them in the end. The other reason is that it’s a quality website, easy to use and they’ve been nice enough to deal directly with me and provide very helpful advice. The one problem may be that the formatting in some versions might be little bit corrupted as the site converts one file into all the various formats. I hope there’s not too much corruption, but even if some of the file is corrupted the main body of text (the novel itself) will be fine.

So if you haven’t read RealmShift yet and you’re either dubious about buying a hard copy or you simply prefer to read ebooks, the opportunity is now here. Get over to smashwords.com and get a copy of the RealmShift ebook. Be sure to come back here and let me know what you think, or send me an email. I’m always happy to hear from readers.

(NB: If you don’t have an ebook reader and plan to download the book for your desktop or laptop computer, then go for the PDF version.)