Hi all! I've got a new short story up on Amazon and Barnes & Noble that's video game related, and I wanted to offer some CAGs the opportunity to read it for free. "Postmortem" is a story I wrote several years ago as my way of putting to bed some ill feelings left over from my days working at a video game studio in Austin. One day we showed up for work, and found that we were locked out of the building. Before we knew it, the whole company was being liquidated.
A lot of the stuff in the story is true, but I won't get into specifics. Suffice it to say that the experience was kind of soul-crushing, and although I've worked in the industry since (as a freelancer), the whole nightmare made me drastically reevaluate my goals.
The story is quite brief (2200 words), and hopefully humorous in a Vonnegut sort of way. My plan is to eventually make it free. Amazon and Barnes & Noble don't allow that, exactly, so there's a workaround I have to set up first. In the meantime, I'm happy to provide some gift codes (let's say ten) to anyone interested in reading it now on Kindle (or with the Kindle for PC app). Here are my only requests:
1. At least for now, I'd like to give them to folks who've been a member here for at least a year. If there's not much interest from veterans, I'll open it up to everyone.
2. If you get a code, all I ask is that you redeem it today and post a short review of the story on Amazon after you've read it. Doesn't have to be a dissertation or anything... it's a short story, so a couple sentences would be fine.
So if you're interested, just post here and I'll start sending out codes via PM. Thanks for reading!
Links:
Postmortem on Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Postmortem-ebook/dp/B00A1LRV1Y/
Postmortem on Barnes & Noble: (coming soon)
Kindle for PC app: http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html/ref=kcp_pc_mkt_lnd?tag=cheapassgam08-20&docId=1000426311
Author website: http://www.allanairish.com
A lot of the stuff in the story is true, but I won't get into specifics. Suffice it to say that the experience was kind of soul-crushing, and although I've worked in the industry since (as a freelancer), the whole nightmare made me drastically reevaluate my goals.
The story is quite brief (2200 words), and hopefully humorous in a Vonnegut sort of way. My plan is to eventually make it free. Amazon and Barnes & Noble don't allow that, exactly, so there's a workaround I have to set up first. In the meantime, I'm happy to provide some gift codes (let's say ten) to anyone interested in reading it now on Kindle (or with the Kindle for PC app). Here are my only requests:
1. At least for now, I'd like to give them to folks who've been a member here for at least a year. If there's not much interest from veterans, I'll open it up to everyone.
2. If you get a code, all I ask is that you redeem it today and post a short review of the story on Amazon after you've read it. Doesn't have to be a dissertation or anything... it's a short story, so a couple sentences would be fine.
So if you're interested, just post here and I'll start sending out codes via PM. Thanks for reading!
Links:
Postmortem on Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Postmortem-ebook/dp/B00A1LRV1Y/
Postmortem on Barnes & Noble: (coming soon)
Kindle for PC app: http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html/ref=kcp_pc_mkt_lnd?tag=cheapassgam08-20&docId=1000426311
Author website: http://www.allanairish.com