Grea Alexander's Blog - Posts Tagged "halloween"
Fan Asphyxiation ...Ur, Appreciation!
Hurray for Halloween!
Halloween is absolutely, positively my favorite holiday – so much creepy, crawly, costumey fun for all. In celebration, I have decided to offer some treats of my own from October 31, 2014 - November 1, 2014.
REBELLION BOOK I: BOOK OF QUAY
Free Book Promotion – Amazon.com
http://www.amazon.com/Rebellion-Book-...
AMARNA BOOK I: BOOK OF IDA
Free Book Promotion – Smashwords.com
https://www.smashwords.com/books/view...
Coupon Code: QC69S
CABELLO
Free Book Promotion – Amazon.com
http://www.amazon.com/Cabello-1-Grea-...
And Remember: Not only are reviews better than candy but good things happen to Grea Alexander reviewers that don’t involve orthodontic surgery.
Enjoy!
Grea Alexander
SeaMonkeyInk.com
Halloween is absolutely, positively my favorite holiday – so much creepy, crawly, costumey fun for all. In celebration, I have decided to offer some treats of my own from October 31, 2014 - November 1, 2014.
REBELLION BOOK I: BOOK OF QUAY
Free Book Promotion – Amazon.com
http://www.amazon.com/Rebellion-Book-...
AMARNA BOOK I: BOOK OF IDA
Free Book Promotion – Smashwords.com
https://www.smashwords.com/books/view...
Coupon Code: QC69S
CABELLO
Free Book Promotion – Amazon.com
http://www.amazon.com/Cabello-1-Grea-...
And Remember: Not only are reviews better than candy but good things happen to Grea Alexander reviewers that don’t involve orthodontic surgery.
Enjoy!
Grea Alexander
SeaMonkeyInk.com
Open Seasons
I find myself vaguely disturbed by what I have noticed to be a new trend these last few years – open seasons (AKA retailers moving holidays further and further up the retail calendar and mushing them all together).
For example, in September of last year, I walked into several retailers only to be bombarded with Halloween, Thanksgiving and Christmas all at the same time. Instead of “Aw cool! Now I can find the perfect HallowThanksMas costume/centerpiece/gift item.” I was left thinking “What the f*ck?!” It used to be a treat to wait until the month of the holiday, walk into the store and enjoy each holiday's individual kitsch. Now, it's like walking through a hoarder's garage - creepy, off putting and probably slightly hazardous to one's health.
And it's not just the October/November/December holidays falling victim to this most accursed of fates. In January of this year, I was seeing Valentine’s Day products (which is perfectly reasonable) flocked on the next isle by *Easter* products. Easter? Easter was what in April of this year? Whose dim-witted arse idea was that anyway?
Mid-July, we ended up stopping into a Party City for some reason or other – birthday cards maybe. As I meandered around the store, what should I spy? HALLOWEEN PRODUCTS?! They were hung up on shelves and stacked in boxes being cataloged and unpacked by the eager little high school dropouts that work in the stock department.
Now, don’t get me wrong. Everyone who knows me, knows that I am a Halloween fanatic. Halloween and Christmas - scary and shiny...kind of like me. That being said, yes, I actually *do* start *planning* my costume in advance – sometimes I even start kicking around ideas as early as right after Halloween the year before as I tend to do custom, real fabric costumes as opposed to cheapie looking store bought poly ones.
Still, I don’t want stores trying to force feed me a holiday *months* before it is reasonable to do so. At least let some of the heat of summer fade a bit before you try to sell me on late fall. I mean I had not even finished properly digesting my Fourth of July barbecue yet and here already, Halloween was being shoved down my throat.
What happened to put out the Halloween stuff until Halloween passes, shift Halloween stuff into Clearance/storage and then put out the Thanksgiving stuff and so on and so forth? I *miss* the days when I didn’t feel bombarded every time I walk into a local mega grocery/tire/lobotomy store with the ghosts of holidays yet to come to pass.
It seems in this society everything is moving faster and faster and faster for no apparent, good reason and this cultural speed fix has bled over into retail sales. Talk about screwing with my internal seasonal clock.
On top of it all, kids often get confused and ask when exactly this holiday or that one is again because their young minds dare to assume that they wouldn’t be putting out stuff 3 months too early.
Is it too much to ask to focus and enjoy one thing at a time before moving onto another? Can I at least *enjoy* one holiday before you start trying to bilk me out of cash for the next one?
For example, in September of last year, I walked into several retailers only to be bombarded with Halloween, Thanksgiving and Christmas all at the same time. Instead of “Aw cool! Now I can find the perfect HallowThanksMas costume/centerpiece/gift item.” I was left thinking “What the f*ck?!” It used to be a treat to wait until the month of the holiday, walk into the store and enjoy each holiday's individual kitsch. Now, it's like walking through a hoarder's garage - creepy, off putting and probably slightly hazardous to one's health.
And it's not just the October/November/December holidays falling victim to this most accursed of fates. In January of this year, I was seeing Valentine’s Day products (which is perfectly reasonable) flocked on the next isle by *Easter* products. Easter? Easter was what in April of this year? Whose dim-witted arse idea was that anyway?
Mid-July, we ended up stopping into a Party City for some reason or other – birthday cards maybe. As I meandered around the store, what should I spy? HALLOWEEN PRODUCTS?! They were hung up on shelves and stacked in boxes being cataloged and unpacked by the eager little high school dropouts that work in the stock department.
Now, don’t get me wrong. Everyone who knows me, knows that I am a Halloween fanatic. Halloween and Christmas - scary and shiny...kind of like me. That being said, yes, I actually *do* start *planning* my costume in advance – sometimes I even start kicking around ideas as early as right after Halloween the year before as I tend to do custom, real fabric costumes as opposed to cheapie looking store bought poly ones.
Still, I don’t want stores trying to force feed me a holiday *months* before it is reasonable to do so. At least let some of the heat of summer fade a bit before you try to sell me on late fall. I mean I had not even finished properly digesting my Fourth of July barbecue yet and here already, Halloween was being shoved down my throat.
What happened to put out the Halloween stuff until Halloween passes, shift Halloween stuff into Clearance/storage and then put out the Thanksgiving stuff and so on and so forth? I *miss* the days when I didn’t feel bombarded every time I walk into a local mega grocery/tire/lobotomy store with the ghosts of holidays yet to come to pass.
It seems in this society everything is moving faster and faster and faster for no apparent, good reason and this cultural speed fix has bled over into retail sales. Talk about screwing with my internal seasonal clock.
On top of it all, kids often get confused and ask when exactly this holiday or that one is again because their young minds dare to assume that they wouldn’t be putting out stuff 3 months too early.
Is it too much to ask to focus and enjoy one thing at a time before moving onto another? Can I at least *enjoy* one holiday before you start trying to bilk me out of cash for the next one?
Just in Time for Halloblathamas!
Yes, we’ve finally gone and done it. For your twisted, campy, creepy reading pleasure, Cabello: The Complete Series has finally been unleashed upon the world!
This title is currently available at all of the usual suspects and in all countries without the good, old-fashioned censorship know-how to make sure my books never see the light of day.
Simply type in the product code in the search bar for your country’s store and it should pop right up…or the name and author…or whatever.
Amazon: B09H551W6R
Apple: 1587511540
Barnes & Noble: 2940162585596
Kobo: 1230005179398
Other retailers: https://greaalexander.seamonkeyink.co...
As with all of my previous compilation box sets (except for Rebellion which is like at a 17% discount), you save 25% over buying all 3 ebooks separately. (Though they are available in paperback as well, I don’t feel like doing the math on that.)
However, if you simply WANT to give me extra money by buying each book separately, I will gladly take it. Hell, buy several copies of each ebook while you’re at it – loading, reading and deleting each one in turn. I also hear that the paperbacks make excellent skeet shooting targets as well. Whatever floats your proverbial boat.
When am I going to get around to completing The Pack trilogy?
Next year I plan to pop Books 2 & 3 out back to back…. much in the same way Gizmo popped out his evil little bubbly, boily, fur babies.
Currently, I’m working on Sedition: Xian (which is a new trilogy following the events in Rebellion and Choi Xian instead of her parents, Quay and Soung) and working up the emotional resolve to do what must be done to my poor star-crossed Xian and Kenji – both so determined NOT to make their parents’ mistakes as to cause themselves much more heartache than necessary.
If you don’t pull your hair out and/or swear at one or both of them at least a few times during the course of this story, I simply haven’t done my job very well.
Look forward to it & enjoy!
And yes, for those of you who are wondering, my free samples are still doing famously on Amazons in several countries – remaining in the Top 100 in a number of categories.
Miael: The Couturier remains the number 1 and ONLY TITLE in the Top 100 Free in English Dark Fantasy in France !
Yes, really! It’s been that way for something like a year now.
Viva la France! https://www.amazon.fr/gp/bestsellers/...
Want some free sample chapters?
Go to your country’s AmaKoBarPple or other retailer’s product search page, search for “Grea Alexander” and sort my titles by cheapest, uh “lowest price” to highest and they should all pop up. This link will take you directly to Grea Alexander results/pages for most of my retailers…in theory: https://greaalexander.seamonkeyink.co...
Thank you to all of my fans and the lookie-loos for the continued domination of my sample chapters on the Amazon free charts.
Oh and I also have a Book Bub page if you want to follow that as well: https://www.bookbub.com/profile/grea-...
However, let’s not kid ourselves. I’m over there even less often than I pop in over here or on Library Thing. (laugh)
Enjoy!
Grea.
This title is currently available at all of the usual suspects and in all countries without the good, old-fashioned censorship know-how to make sure my books never see the light of day.
Simply type in the product code in the search bar for your country’s store and it should pop right up…or the name and author…or whatever.
Amazon: B09H551W6R
Apple: 1587511540
Barnes & Noble: 2940162585596
Kobo: 1230005179398
Other retailers: https://greaalexander.seamonkeyink.co...
As with all of my previous compilation box sets (except for Rebellion which is like at a 17% discount), you save 25% over buying all 3 ebooks separately. (Though they are available in paperback as well, I don’t feel like doing the math on that.)
However, if you simply WANT to give me extra money by buying each book separately, I will gladly take it. Hell, buy several copies of each ebook while you’re at it – loading, reading and deleting each one in turn. I also hear that the paperbacks make excellent skeet shooting targets as well. Whatever floats your proverbial boat.
When am I going to get around to completing The Pack trilogy?
Next year I plan to pop Books 2 & 3 out back to back…. much in the same way Gizmo popped out his evil little bubbly, boily, fur babies.
Currently, I’m working on Sedition: Xian (which is a new trilogy following the events in Rebellion and Choi Xian instead of her parents, Quay and Soung) and working up the emotional resolve to do what must be done to my poor star-crossed Xian and Kenji – both so determined NOT to make their parents’ mistakes as to cause themselves much more heartache than necessary.
If you don’t pull your hair out and/or swear at one or both of them at least a few times during the course of this story, I simply haven’t done my job very well.
Look forward to it & enjoy!
And yes, for those of you who are wondering, my free samples are still doing famously on Amazons in several countries – remaining in the Top 100 in a number of categories.
Miael: The Couturier remains the number 1 and ONLY TITLE in the Top 100 Free in English Dark Fantasy in France !
Yes, really! It’s been that way for something like a year now.
Viva la France! https://www.amazon.fr/gp/bestsellers/...
Want some free sample chapters?
Go to your country’s AmaKoBarPple or other retailer’s product search page, search for “Grea Alexander” and sort my titles by cheapest, uh “lowest price” to highest and they should all pop up. This link will take you directly to Grea Alexander results/pages for most of my retailers…in theory: https://greaalexander.seamonkeyink.co...
Thank you to all of my fans and the lookie-loos for the continued domination of my sample chapters on the Amazon free charts.
Oh and I also have a Book Bub page if you want to follow that as well: https://www.bookbub.com/profile/grea-...
However, let’s not kid ourselves. I’m over there even less often than I pop in over here or on Library Thing. (laugh)
Enjoy!
Grea.
