R. Scott Mackey's Blog

I'm starting an 11-week blog tour starting today to promote Courage Resurrected. I'll be doing interviews and many of the bloggers will be reviewing the book as well.

If you want to visit any of the blog stops you can choose to sign up for a chance to win a $50 Gift Card. Below are the blogs where I will be appearing. I hope to see you at one or more of these stops:

June 8: The Reading Addict
June 15: Read Your Writes Book Reviews - review
June 22: Rogues Angels
June 22: Welcome to My World of Dreams
July 6: Unabridged Andra's
July 13: BooksChatter - review
July 20: Lisa Haselton's Reviews and Interviews
July 20: Undercover Book Reviews - review only
July 27: Lilac Reviews
August 3: Booklover Sue
August 10: FictionZeal - review only
August 17: The Blog of C.R. Moss
August 17: Long and Short Reviews
August 24: A Novel Kind of Bliss - review only
August 31: Danita Minnis

Courage Matters: A Ray Courage Mystery is free on Amazon until midnight, Sunday May 17.

Download a free copy at http://amzn.to/1cTnWAk

Download your free copy of the mystery novella Courage Begins here: RScottMackey.com.

This is the prequel to the hugely popular and highly praised debut novel in the series, Courage Matters.

The second and third installments of the Ray Courage Mystery Series are now available on Amazon and other online retailers.

The novella, Courage Begins, is a prequel to Courage Matters.

Courage Resurrected is a full-length novel that picks up a few months after the events in Courage Matters.

Here's a link to one of the first editorial reviews of Courage Resurrected.,

Congratulations to the six winners in the Goodreads Giveaway contest for my book Barbary Baseball. The books will be in the mail tomorrow.

Also, I want to remind the Goodreads community that you can sign up to win one of five copies of Courage Matters: A Ray Courage Mystery that I'm giving away on my website: http://www.rscottmackey.com.

For those of you have won previous copies of the book, have bought it, or downloaded on my Kindle Giveaway days, PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE take a few second to write a review (even a one sentence review is appreciated) and leave a rating.

Thank you all so much.
Scott

This month I'm offering a number of promotions to give you a free chance win one or more of my books.

1. Go to my web site rscottmackey.com and enter to win one of five free copies of Courage Matters.

2. I'm currently running a Giveaway on Goodreads for Barbary Baseball

3. My next Kindle free days on Amazon.com for Courage Matters is November 11 and 12, giving you plenty of time to download the book at no cost so you can enjoy it before or during Thanksgiving.

4. Look for an upcoming contest on this website for my YA novel Blood Runs Deep.

I’ve been asked this question a lot lately so I thought I would write about it here.

I have been writing professionally since my twenties, when I began producing freelance articles for community newspapers. I started writing fiction about this time as well. While my writing gained the attention of three different agents as far back as the 80s, they were never able to sell my work to a major publisher. The query-wait-reject, query-wait-reject business model of publishing eventually grew tiresome so I walked away from submitting anything for many years. Eventually, I went directly to smaller presses for Barbary Baseball, Blood Runs Deep, and The Bugfish Experiment. I decided to self-publish Courage Matters even though it had some interest from agents because I wanted to get it out there for readers and to have more control over its release and promotion. As for as my purpose for writing: I write to tell stories, to gain insight and share my thoughts on the human condition.

The Kindle book giveaway for Courage Matters: A Ray Courage Mystery starts this Friday, October 31 and runs through Sunday, November 2.

If you'd like to download a PDF preview of the book, read a description or watch the 60-second book trailer please click the image below.

Congratulations to the 12 Goodreads readers who won a copy of my mystery novel Courage Matters: A Ray Courage Mystery. Winners came from the United States, Canada and the UK.

I also wanted to thank the 1069 readers who entered my Giveaway offering. I am overwhelmed by the response. While the vast majority of you did not win a free copy of my book, it is available on Amazon and most other online sources ($8.99 paperback and $4.99 Kindle).

I do plan a Kindle free book day on Amazon pretty soon. If you are interested in that, please e-mail me at smackey17@yahoo.com or via Goodreads and I'd be glad to let you know when the free copy is available for downloading.

I very much appreciate all of you who entered the Giveaway and especially those of you who added it to your shelf. Thank you!
Scott

Thank you so much to everyone who has signed up for the giveaway of my novel Courage Matters. The response has been gratifying and I'm especially thankful to those of you who have added it to your "To Read" list.

The giveaway will end at midnight on Oct. 22 so if you haven't signed up yet and are interested, please do so before it ends.