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Here is my favorite Thomas Black. Number 9 in the series, it’s the book wherein Snake is really introduced, though he shows up in at least one earlier work. He is the client; Thomas is the investigator. Kathy is the defense attorney.

You can find it for only $4.99 at Amazon for Kindle here.

It is also available on Nook here. It is best right now to link my titles for Nook here, as the Barnes and Noble site is hopelessly muddled, at least as far as my series goes. I wish I knew how to get into their electronic shelves and straighten things out. But that’s . . . just another project.

From the Los Angeles Times: “The early scene where the corpse is discovered, which includes witty and brittle banter between Black and his new wife, Kathy, and, eventually, the snide comments of the world’s most annoying homicide detective, is so perfectly woozy it produces a nearly euphoric effect.”

Kirkus said: “hands down the wildest Thomas Black novel of them all.”

The Vanishing Smile is now on sale for only $.99 till the end of May. Now you can get all three of the books in the Birchfield trilogy for just $.99 each, but only for another week.

The Vanishing Smile for Kindle at Amazon can be purchased here.

On Nook at Barnes and Noble here.

These three books should be read in order, the only Thomas Blacks I feel should be read in order. If you read them and like them, please post a review. Thank you.

Currently Yellow Dog Party and The Portland Laugher, the first two books in the Birchfield trilogy, are for sale on Kindle and Nook for $.99. You may have to wait a few hours for the new Nook pricing.

Yellow Dog Party: buy here on Kindle, or here on Nook.

The Portland Laugher: buy here on Kindle, or here on Nook.

We’re working on the third in the trilogy, The Vanishing Smile, and should have it up in a week.

Sunday’s Seattle Times ran an article about showrooming, a practice wherein the shopper goes to a local bookstore, browses the merchandise, makes a selection and then walks out of the store and purchases it online, thereby both using and abusing the bookstore. This practice is hurting bookstores and is going to help in the demise of many of them. You can view the Times article here.  It’s worth reading and, if you’re guilty of showrooming, perhaps this will change your mind. I’m not. I’m more of the go-straight-to-the-online retailer kind of guy —just because it’s easier and less time-consuming and I live in a small town far from any large bookstore — which is also bad for bookstores, both the national chains and our friendly independents.

There were some interesting facts in the article which I’ve verified —- online. Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power is selling in bookstores for $35.00. The Kindle version is $17.99. Amazon sells the hardcover for $20.71. I’m not sure how much of a hit Random House is taking by allowing Amazon to sell the hardcover for $20.71, when they’re asking $35.00 for it at independent brick-and-mortar bookstores but big publishers have been discounting bestsellers forever. Let’s look at how much of a hit they’re taking on the Kindle version.

Amazon has two different royalty rates for their Kindle books and unless my information is incorrect, they’re ruthlessly strict about it, even with New York publishers. Here’s how it works. Read the rest of this entry »