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For five days only, May 20-24, my alternate historical fantasy novel, Goblins at the Gates, will be on sale at Amazon. As in free! If you have not already got your copy of this story of how magic came to Altearth, now is your chance.

A quarter million goblins invade the Roman Empire. Civilization's best hope lies with a barbarian princess exiled as a magician, and a spoiled Roman aristocrat who hates the army but finds himself in command of a lone frontier legion. Also, there is a girl and her war dog.
 
Well, naturally, Anthoney. The tracking number is 462546. Have you checked your front porch? Or, by now, under the porch?
 
Brian G Turner said:
And here's the link for Amazon UK and Amazon.com. :)

Please do bump this thread when your promo runs - I really did like the fun voice of voice in Mad House, which I reviewed here: Review: Mad House by Ellis Knox
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And thank you so much for that! FYI and FWIW, my next novel, Into the Second World, is actually somewhat connected to Mad House. Tangentially, but anyone who reads both will see it. I'm aiming for December for Second World.
 
I followed the link and clicked on the book at Amazon, I was promptly charged £2.79 on my Amazon account.
Not very 'free' I would say :(
 
Danny, you forgot about the international dateline. In the states the 20th rolls around tomorrow, our time. .
 
There's no international date line between Cumbria and the US. But maybe the offer is on US timing. Depends when Danny clicked it. It definitely says £0 in the UK now.
 
dannymcg said:
I followed the link and clicked on the book at Amazon, I was promptly charged £2.79 on my Amazon account.
Not very 'free' I would say :(
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Amazon runs on US Pacific Standard Time - which means the promotion begins at 00:00 PST, which is 08:00 GMT.

I'd simply email Amazon to tell them a friend advised his book would be free today, but when you bought it this morning you were charged instead of getting the free offer that began at 8am UK time.
 
All I can do is apologize to dannymcg. This is my first free promo and I was over-eager and stupid. I'm the one who should have been aware of the time zone thing, not the reader. I hate that this must look like bait-and-switch, but I assure you it wasn't. It was stupid-and-post.

@dannymcg, if you read Goblins anyway, and find you like it, I can send you a novelette for free. It's what I give to my mailing list subscribers, but I'll send it to you without you having to sign up.
 
Ok
Thanks, it was a timey wimey thing with international datelines.
No big deal, less than the price of a pint :)
 
dannymcg said:
Ok
Thanks, it was a timey wimey thing with international datelines.
No big deal, less than the price of a pint :)
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It's actually probably worth contacting Amazon. They sent me an email one time saying all the books in a Bernard Cornwell series were on super cheap offer (below £1, as promo to a new release coming along) and when I checked a couple weren't on any offer. They immediately gave me those ones at the offer price, much to my surprise...
 
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