Discuss @Coiler 's latest review here
Also Germany East is blatantly a stop on the Underground in a world where the British Empire controls the entire globe
Another great review @Coiler and about what I expected from Nuttall given the, er, sensationalist cover and back-cover blurb
Chris Nuttall is a prolific writer
[looks at Amazon]
Bloody hell you're not wrong. Does he sleep? Has he been possessed by John Creasey?
I believe back in the day on AH.com he was nicknamed "the lean mean Scottish writing machine".[looks at Amazon]
Bloody hell you're not wrong. Does he sleep? Has he been possessed by John Creasey?
It helps that he's always essentially writing the same story.I believe back in the day on AH.com he was nicknamed "the lean mean Scottish writing machine".
It helps that he's always essentially writing the same story.
The key is to write formulaic titles across those genres, almost always in a long set of interlinked titles in a series (i.e. the scifi Ark Royal series) that cost £2-4 to buy, but are also on Kindle Unlimited and often either free at the start of the series, or permanently reduced to 99p or £1.49.
brb, off to pitch [checks Amazon top sellers list] Sexy Steampunk Girls Fight Magic Nazis, A Fifteen-Book Series
I mean you jest but A) I can name half a dozen series that are literally that and B) You'd make a lot of money in a few years
Yeah, I'm not entirely sure I'm jesting either and neither's my bank manager
make sure the cover art has the main character showing off a bit of cleavage
There's a fascinating long-form discussion to be had here, as Nuttall is a handful of authors I've seen across the genres that has managed to achieve true success. The key is to write formulaic titles across those genres, almost always in a long set of interlinked titles in a series (i.e. the scifi Ark Royal series) that cost £2-4 to buy, but are also on Kindle Unlimited and often either free at the start of the series, or permanently reduced to 99p or £1.49.
That gets readers hooked in, and then the price is gradually increased until book 7 is like £3.99. Add to that rampant self-promotion via newsletters, email blasts, those bundles of authors first books, and 'sign up to my newsletter to get the first two books free' and by now I reckon he's got a quietly profitable machine ticking over. Then start again in a new genre.
99% of it was repetitive dreck, and even good writers wrote some pretty bad stuff in sci-fi magazines.