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Michael Cargill
Regular updates of sarcastic and irreverent nonsense.
My books
So far, I have written and self-published five books. They are available from Amazon UK, Amazon US, Barnes and Noble, and Smashwords. My first three are free on Smashwords, and can be downloaded in Kindle, Nook, Sony, and PDF formats. Torrents of all of them are available on Fenopy, H33t, Extratorrent, and ISOHunt
There are reviews of these books on Goodreads, and the above Amazon links.
Anyone unsure which book to start with, I would recommend Shelter from Thunder. It is short, and one of my favourites.
Jake
Jealousy, lust, and teenage insecurities are the lifeblood of any large school. Loneliness can strike without warning, spreading through the cramped corridors like an epidemic.
Some people look at Jake in awe, others look at him with hatred. Jake is just an ordinary boy who wants to be liked.
Jake wants to know why the girls never seem to notice him. Jake is… well, he’s Jake.
Underneath
Now look at their face. Are they happy? Are they sad? Or are they angry? Can you even tell?
How well do you actually know the people closest to you? Have you ever seen the real person that lies just underneath what you see…?
Shades of Grey
John is not a very nice man. He works for the government. So who has tied him to a chair and what do they want?
James is a British soldier during WWII. Tom is a young boy with a terrible secret.
Three stories. Three very different people. All of them battling to survive.
Bits of Cargill
Justin Bieber’s diary. Vladimir Putin reviews a glass of Coke. Steve Jobs speaks from heaven. Vegetarians are the real hunters.
Satirical news items, opinion pieces, and other nonsense.
Shelter from Thunder
Finding shelter from German bomber planes is almost a daily part of his life now, but he wonders when his luck will run out…
Slaughter in Barnaby Close
None of the residents of Barnaby Close are particularly unhappy. It’s in a nice area, and the families are well off and caring.
So why have they started killing each other?
shelter from thunder sounds my kind of book xxjen
Well, feel free to download it and have a look. Hope you like it!
Great! Will add them over to my Kindle.
Please do! Hope you like them.
“Diary of a dork”…I can’t even imagine a better name for a book. Brilliant!
Thanks! I thought long and hard about that one.
I’ve only started to read your last book, but I really like it. Don’t you consider to go to a publisher? Don’t want to force you- it’s just that I think you might have success.
If I could, I would! Thing is I have pretty much only just started writing so I haven’t got anything that would really attract a publisher yet. Self-publishing is pretty easy but promotion is the hard part.
Glad you are enjoying the new one so far!
Send copies off to publishers all over the fucking place. It’s not too, too tricky to find out where to send them or addresses of people who’d review them.
True enough but I have only just started it really. Going with proper publishers means you tend to lose some control and I have read a fair few horror stories from people doing just that.
Time will tell of course.
I finally had the time to read the entire story, and it was unexpected and very well written! In the beginning, I couldn’t have guessed it would turn out that way. Not too difficult, good change between the normal and italic text, and so on. Very recognizable writing style
. It would be a part of a series of stories, you said?
This is the one I emailed you called Shades of Grey, right? (it’s midnight and I have been drinking).
Glad you liked it! Yes, it is the first story of a set of three short stories I will be releasing. They won’t be related to each other in any way, just separate beasts entirely. Currently on the cusp of finishing the second one and then I have to crack on with the dreaded proof-reading.
I quite enjoyed writing parts of it actually but others were a bit of a slog. It’s funny how writing can sometimes seem temperamental, you get stuck on some sections whereas others just write themselves.
It was Shades of Grey, yes, it’s a great title too, in my humble opinion.
Yes, writing isn’t always as fun as it may seem. I’ve been trying to write books, but I end up not finishing them. After a while the subject isn’t interesting anymore for me. End of story.
I think there were still some small mistakes (like two verbs where there shouldn’t be two) in your story, just so you know it before you spread them on the Internet…
A couple of people have liked the title of the story actually and I might use it as the main name of the book when I finally finish them all.
There are probably several mistakes still in it, I only proof-read it once so that it was at a point where I could ask people to read it and there wasn’t anything extra to add to it.
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Has anyone purchased Shades of Grey this thinking it was 50 Shades of Grey? I really hope so. I kind of hope you masterminded the title that way.
I may have a few questions to ask you about this book stuff. I’m re-editing my stuff and want to get it over and done with.
If the amount of refunds are anything to go by, then yes people are buying it thinking it is the dirty one!
Feel free to ask me any questions about self-publishing.
Not sure how good this is but it might be something to help get some exposure.
http://storybundle.com/faq