Attention: Barnes and Noble NOOK readers

As of January 1st, 2012, Never Saw It Coming will no longer be available from Barnes and Noble.

Several factors have brought me to this decision. First, for some reason, the B&N site will not allow me to upload the new cover or set the price to match the price of the book on amazon. Second, Amazon recently announced it's Kindle Select program for Amazon Prime members, meaning Amazon Prime members will be able to read Kindle Select titles for free, while still paying the authors at the normal rate. The Kindle Select Program, however demands exclusivity  Third, sales via B&N have been less than spectacular and the PubIt! format they use just doesn't seem to have the writer support tools that Amazon's Kindle Direct offers.

I did not come to this decision lightly, and hate that I'll have to make my writing unavailable to NOOK readers, but the Kindle app is still available free of charge for most smartphones, tablet pcs, desktop and laptop systems.

In short, if you're a NOOK reader, and haven't picked up Never Saw It Coming yet, you may want to before the end of the year, because I'll be pulling the title on New Year's Day.

Thanks for reading,
---Mike

Author Interview and Price drop!

Well, talk about a heluva busy day, okay not really, I didn't have to do much. But I've got two announcements for the public at large.

First, a while back I did an interview with Action Adventure, Inc. It's live as of today, check it out!

Second, For the month of November I've dropped the price on Never Saw It Coming (The book now includes a teaser passage from the sequel, Undeserving) to $0.99 from $2.99.
That's right, one penny less than a dollar. In addition to that, for those of you that pick up the book today, October 31st, 2011. Shoot me an email with a friend's email address and I'll send them a copy, as well.

Thanks for reading guys, and Happy Halloween!

Back in February, I Jumped the Gun

Back in February, I jumped the gun. I released my first novel, Never Saw It Coming without a proper editorial pass. It contained numerous typos and, to be quite honest, boneheaded mistakes.

Once I realized this, I was A: extremely embarassed, B: consumed with guilt for not selling my readers the best possible work.

Despite those mistakes, the book holds a solid 4.1 star rating here on Amazon (16 Reviews). Actually, the most common complaint in those reviews were, in fact, the rather glaring errors within the book. So I held off on marketing, while I corrected those mistakes and errors. Four editorial passes (Thanks to Diane, Matt and Charlie) and a new cover later (Courtesy of Andrew Ballard), the Second Edition of Never Saw It Coming went live.

To celebrate this personal milestone, I will be giving away 10 copies of the book. The 2nd edition also contains excerpts from the sequel, Undeserving, which *should* be ready for release by Christmas of this year.

If you want one just shoot me an email at jordan.nonotthatone.mike@gmail.com or visit my blog at http://moderatelyprofane.blogspot.com/ and let me know where to send it.

Unfortunately, I will only be able to provide a gift copy to the first 10 interested parties, if you miss out, please, download the sample and see if it is to your liking.

Thank you for your time,
Mike Jordan

Author's Note: This book, were it a movie, would be rated "R" it contains strong language, graphic violence, sexual situations, and the senseless murder of a bucket of chicken.

Credit where it is Due: Part Two

*situation has been resolved, Thanks Phil---Mike

A couple of years back I worked freelance for a site called gunaxin.com. The arrangment lasted a couple of months, tops. In that time they published 5 articles I put together. Today, I was working up a resume with my writing experience and publishing history. So I went back to gunaxin.com to link those articles for said resume. They are all credited to some guy named Eugene Ritterspaugh. This is the second time since the end of the freelance arrangment that my work has been misattributed by gunaxin.com. The first time they had my articles listed as by admin@gunaxin.com. I sent an email to Phil and he assured me it would be corrected, and invited me to come back freelance again.

I was working on Never Saw It Coming at the time and honestly did not have the time to devote to writing for gunaxin.com.

Don't get me wrong, Phil was a great editor, a vitural anti-F-Bomb missile defense system and taught me alot about setting up a blog and formating posts for the right impact. He is an all around a great guy and gunaxin.com is a great place to go for a laugh.

But as a writer seeking to get my foot in the door, I need my previous work to be properly credited. So this week I will be reposting the articles I did for Gunaxin, here, so I can be assured that my work is credited to me. Check back this week, I'll have one up a day. Also, I jumped feet first into 2008 and finally set up a twitter account, feel free to look me up here.