Author Anniversary/Black History Month/Akoma Day 2024

 Iiiiiiiiiiit's February!!!  You know what that means!!  😁😁😁😁😁😁

 

Black History Mooonth!!!  (This is protected by the red...the black...and the GREEN!  With the key...)

Akoma Daaaaaay!!!  (Celebrating & promoting Black love, and the art & science of soulmating)

It's my AUTHOR ANNIVERSARY MONTH!!!  Yaaaay!!! 😊😊😊😊

14 years ago, I started this journey.  My first book was published February 16, 2010, and released to the public that following March.  I was very happy about that, and felt very proud of myself for what I'd accomplished.  After so many years of struggling to get my voice heard in the cinematic realm, I was able to have my voice heard in the literary world.  I have no regrets...

To start off...celebrating my fourteen-year publishing anniversary of my 1st book "Raise Your Brown Black Fist: The Political Shouts of an Angry Afro Latino" (Authorhouse, 2010).  It's a collection of political essays that I'd previously written individually on the internet, and gathered them together, consisting of two different essay series that I wrote...plus, three additional entries  (two blog posts, and a stand-alone essay).

Also celebrating the nine-year publishing anniversary of my 4th book (and 1st novel) "The Chronicles of The Black Fist" (CreateSpace, 2015).  It was my first foray into fiction, and I'm very proud of this character, and the book itself.  I'm hoping to finish writing Books III & IV in the series, and have them published in the very near future....

You also have the six-year publishing anniversary of my Afro Latino Romance novel "Fiesta Girl" (Kindle Direct Publishing, 2018).  Based off of the original screenplay of the same name, I decided to put this into book format, turning my collection of songs that I'd written for my former music group into book form.  For the lovers of Latin Freestyle music, and Hip Hop culture.

In honor of Black History Month, Akoma Day, and my Author Anniversary...I've decided to create a sale of my eBooks that are on the Smashwords platform.  For the entire month of February, I'll be having several of my titles available for sale on their platform for 50% off, selling for $0.99  (that's 99 cents).  The titles to be sold are:

 

Raise Your Brown Black Fist: The Political Shouts of an Angry Afro Latino

Raise Your Brown Black Fist 2: MORE Political Shouts of an Angry Afro Latino

The Chronicles of The Black Fist

The Chronicles of The Black Fist: F.U.R.I. of the People

Fiesta Girl

Drum Speaking: Tales From An Inner City Griot

 

Those six titles will be made available for sale at $0.99 for the entire month of February for Black History Month.  To help to celebrate the holiday of Akoma Day, I will be adding additional books to the sale: 

Demure Nights

Seductra, Web of Desire

Fiesta Girl* ( * = already on sale)

You can purchase these titles for 99 cents on the Smashwords platform here:

https://www.smashwords.com/profile/view/Kevin_AlbertoSabio

The Akoma Day Sale runs from February 14th until February 20th.  The Black History Month/Author Anniversary sale ends on February 29th.  I also talk about the sale on the latest episode of my web series The Rough Draft; Episode #68, to be exact.  Hope that you'll head over to YouTube, and watch it.  

That's all for now.  Hope that you guys will come out, and support me during my sale(s).  It's been a wonderful journey, and I hope that it gets better, from here on out.  Celebrate our history!!  Celebrate our culture!!  Celebrate Black love!!  Support our indie Black authors!!  Nya Akoma!

Keep the fist raised!!!!

#AlwaysOnMyLiteraryGrind

July's Rising Heat

 We have now entered into the month of JULY!!!  We are now past the halfway point of the year, and are smack in the middle of the summer season.  The temperature is rising, and so are the opportunities to make an impact.

 

First off...I gotta promote the latest sale that I have going on...

 

Smashwords is having this annual 'Summer/Winter Sale' on their store site.  My books are listed on Smashwords, and I've made them all available for the sale.  My titles are discounted at 75% off the regular eBook price.  Quite honestly...they're actually FREE for the entire month of July.  Feel free to cop a few, if not all, of my book titles!  Support a brother!!! 😁😁😁😁

 

I will be adding my 1st book "Raise Your Brown Black Fist: The Political Shouts of an Angry Afro Latino" to Draft2Digital as an eBook.  I want this book to be made available to libraries, and other outlets.  It's already listed on the major eBook distro channels of Kindle, Nook, and Apple Books; but I want to be able to reach a wider audience.  My publisher for it (Authorhouse) only distributes the eBook to the main eBook carriers, so I gotta do the additional legwork to get it out to other audiences.

 

Speaking of Draft2Digital...I'll be releasing the paperback version of "Spittin' Lyrics N Waxin' Poetic" this month through their P.O.D. arm, D2D Print.  I might as well bite the bullet, and see what happens.  I don't really have anything to lose by doing that, since I haven't been having any success with it solely as an eBook.  At least now, all 14 of my books will available in physical paperback format.  I'm still debating about printing "Fiesta Girl" through them, and delisting it from KDP.  Let's just see how this one goes, and then I'll decide if I want to use them to print some of my other books...

 

I'm planning on discontinuing the plan to do the Black/Brown Bookstore Book Tour.  I don't have the mobility to get around to some of these bookstores that I want to promote & do the signings at.  I'm trying to be as economical as possible, and lugging all those books through Greyhoud or AmTrak just doesn't sound feasible. I might just try to concentrate on doing some of the local festivals to vend at, which would be much easier.  Maybe if I knew some fellow local authors out here who would be interested in doing the tour as a joint venture, I'd commit to it.  I don't want to say that it's hard for me to make any friends out here, but it's not very easy to find any like-minded people that think the way that I do.

 

That's all for now.  Looking forward to keeping you guys updated on my other upcoming plans.  Stay tuned!!! 😊😊😊

 

Uhuru sasa, y paz!!!  Keep the fist raised!!!

#AlwaysOnMyLiteraryGrind

 

Upcoming Sales & Updates!!!

 Got some new info for ya!!!  Hope that it makes your mouth water, and excited with anticipation!!!

First order of business....my latest novel "Second Chance Points" (Kindle Direct Publishing, 2022).  

 

 

It is currently available at 65% off in paperback format on Amazon.com!!!  In other words...the normal price is $9.95, and you can now purchase it at Amazon for $3.47!!!!  That's an absolute steeeeeeeaaaaal!!!!  If that price doesn't motivate you to run out, and purchase a copy...I don't know what will!!!

 

ALSO.....

 

In July, Smashwords will be having their annual "Summer/Winter Sale" on their store.  All eBook titles listed in their store will be available at discounted prices. Since Smashwords merged with Draft2Digital, I am now able to participate in this annual sale. All of my titles listed on Smashwords will be available at 75% off !!!!!  The sale runs throughout the entire month of July, from July 1st to July 31st.  If you have an account with Smashwords, show ya boy some love!!!  Cop the titles that you haven't copped yet!!!

Finally....

Draft2Digital has a new distribution channel available for libraries (which I believe was originally a Smashwords outlet).  My eBooks are now available to libraries through the distribution channel of ODilo.  My eBook titles are available to libraries now through SIX different national distributors, and one international channel (BorrowBox).

 

That's all for now!!  Hope that you go out and support ya boy!!!  Cop your copy of "Second Chance Points", and support the sale on Smashwords next month!!!  Always staying on my literary griiiiiiind!!!

Uhuru sasa, y paz!!!  Keep the fist raised!!!

#AlwaysOnMyLiteraryGrind