Candied Crime - distribution

Thank you to all the generous friends who have bought and reviewed "Candied Crime".

Now and then I come across people who don´t think they can read it because it is an e-book, or they are not certain how to buy via Smashwords. I don´t want to push anyone into buying (or selling) my stories, but I´d like to clear up a misunderstanding.

Anyone who has a computer can read Smashwords books - because Smashwords offers ten different formats, including PDF and rtf.

Besides, Smashwords distributes books to several other retailers - if the writer wants them to. So now, five weeks after my book launch, you can buy "Candied Crime" via Barnes & Noble (Nook), Sony, and diesel ebook store.

And soon you should also be able to buy it via Amazon.com (Kindle) and Kobo. Until then, Kindle readers must choose Smashwords´ Kindle mobi version.


New German-based distributor (pdf version): XinXii.

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NB: I have just seen my first five-star review on Smashwords! Do you think I´ll be able to teach today?

"Candied Crime" & TV MidtVest

[Our regional TV brought a short story about my new e-book. I talk about "Candied Crime", flash fiction and e-books - but in Danish, of course. If you take a peep anyway, you´ll have to wait for the second news story] 

Lige et kort reklameindslag til danske læsere.

Klik på linket her for at se et kort glimt af mig i TV MidtVest (fra aftennyhederne mandag kl 19.30). Efter indslaget fra Ringkøbing bibliotek er i velkomne i rød stue i Thy.

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Sunday Sweets

Three days after my e-book launch of "Candied Crime" I am very satisfied, perhaps even a bit overwhelmed. Not that this will be a get-rich-quick scheme, but I have sold some copies, and people have downloaded almost twice as many free samples.

And then there are all my generous blog friends. Friends who have encouraged me to write, commented on my stories for two years, bought my collection and wished me luck here, there and everywhere.

Thank you to each and every one of you for your support, no matter in which form- without you I´d never have tried this!

And with friends like these, you won´t even need an advertising budget: 

Bernadette added "Candied Crime" to GoodReads for me and reminded me I´d have to create an author page.

Margot, José, Cathryn and Martin mentioned my launch in their blog posts.

Sunday additions: Mason Canyon &  Scandinavian Crime (Barbara).


A Big Fish in a Small Bowl

And then there are the Danish media. I wasn´t too surprised that the local paper found "Candied Crime" worthy of mention, but I hadn´t bargained for a whole page (four columns plus a Danish flash story for the last two columns). A link to the abridged internet version - yours truly sitting comfortably in the journalist´s chair, looking at my own blog. 

I was taken aback a few hours later when the regional radio station called me to get an interview which was brought Friday morning. (I just got an e-mail from a friend who actually heard me - I was sound asleep until it was all over).

But the wonders were not even over; in the afternoon the regional TV station was on the phone: would I like to participate in a weekly program about what had happened in the region? If all goes according to plan, I should be on the screen some time Wednesday. Amazing, isn´t it? (I have dusted my living-room).
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DJs mini-krimier i morgenradio (Radio MidtVest)

I morgen tidlig (kl 6-10) bringer P4 Midt & vest et interview med mig i anledning af udgivelsen af "Candied Crime".


Just announcing a local Danish radio interview with me tomorrow morning.

Book Launch: Candied Crime

[Til mine danske læsere: denne mini-antologi er på engelsk, og den kan kun fås som e-bog. Men skulle nogen være interesseret, er der RTF-versionen, som kan læses på skærmen, PDF-versionen, som er god til udprintning, og jeg tror også, én af versionerne kan læses på ipad]

Saturday I had an idea, Sunday I blogged about it - and Monday I went ahead. I know; I am a bit spontaneous, but you did encourage me.

So now I have an e-book out there, published by Smashwords:

Candied Crime, DJ´s Daim Stories, vol I.

(Daim/Dajm is a Scandinavian candy bar - also called a Dime Bar)

Those of you who have followed my blog for two years will have read most of the stories already. There are five Knavesborough stories, five other humorous stories from the blog, plus three new ones. Most of them are very short - from 150 to 2500 words.

Some of you may wonder what the picture has to do with my stories. Nothing whatsoever - but it has everything to do with Thy - and for this writer this is indeed a Thy´s Day!

If you are curious, you can download a free sample - or you can buy the whole thing for 99 cents - less than ten dimes.

A link to a Danish newspaper article about my launch: Dorte skriver mini-krimier på engelsk.

NB: I know that I have several generous, thoughtful friends and if you blog about this, it will probably be a good idea to make it clear that this is a cosy or humorous crime collection. But if this venture is a success, I may publish (read: I am planning) volume II with some of my more serious flash fiction.

Daim Stories

If you wonder where I am... Oh, you don´t? (Don´t think you can shut me up so easily).

I should be adding page after page to my novel, and I have made some progress, but I can´t help my imagination coming up with new ideas, can I?

One or two of you have suggested that I made a collection of Knavesborough stories, and my rambling imagination has come up with the idea of DJ´s Daim Stories - half Knavesborough stories, half other cosy stories, including a few that haven´t been published on my blog. It seems as if it won´t be too complicated to publish an e-book via Smashwords.

Do you think there are people out there who are crazy enough to pay one dime pr story - 99 cent - plus three free stories?

(If I can sell more than fifteen, it will be one of my best business ventures so far)

And if this is a huge, commercial success (i.e. more than fifty sold), I may collect some of my stronger stuff later.