Sunday, 30 June 2013

The Moon Dwellers 1st Book Birthday!! Get Your Free The Moon Dwellers Ebook and other Prizes!!

Today my book, The Moon Dwellers, turns 1 year old! It was 1 year ago today (June 30th) that I published the first book in my first ever YA dystopian series, The Dwellers Saga, and changed my life forever. Since then, The Moon Dwellers has outsold and drawn more hype than any of my other 13 published books, and has risen to the top 10 of many YA dystopian lists on Listopia, finding a place amongst bestselling books such as The Hunger Games, Delirium and Divergent. The birth of The Moon Dwellers also changed my life forever. As I've gone from struggling Indie author to fulltime writer, I've watched in amazement as my  Goodreads fan group has swelled from 300 members to over 1,400. Since writing The Moon Dwellers, I've has gone on to write and publish two sequels, The Star Dwellers and The Sun Dwellers, as well as three books in a sister series, The Country Saga (Fire Country, Ice Country, and Water & Storm Country). I plan to release the 7th and final book, The Earth Dwellers, in the combined series on September 5th later this year.
 
So what do I want to do to celebrate The Moon Dwellers book birthday? Give away as many free ebooks of The Moon Dwellers as possible! So if you’re like so many others who are obsessed with YA dystopian novels like The Hunger Games, Delirium, and Divergent, and haven’t yet read The Moon Dwellers, now’s your chance to do so FOR FREE.
 
You can grab your free ebook of The Moon Dwellers from Smashwords.com using the coupon code below. And please feel free to share with your family and friends and pets, the more ebooks that are given away the happier I'll be. The only thing I ask for in return is that if you enjoy the read and continue on with the series, to please leave a positive review on Amazon.com for each of my books that you read.
Where you can find The Moon Dwellers: SMASHWORDS

Coupon Code: AQ92E

Please note, this code expires on July 31, 2013

a Rafflecopter giveaway

 And for those of you planning on reading The Dwellers and/or The Country Saga, here’s a special note about the series:
The Earth Dwellers will cap off an eighteen month journey that has taken me from unknown Indie author to still-mostly-unknown fulltime Indie author. The change is a subtle one for most people, but for me it’s a dream come true. To the hundreds (and now maybe even thousands!) of readers who have come along for the ride with me, either by reading the Dwellers Saga, the Country Saga, or both, I thank you from the bottom of my heart.
Now down to business. There may be some of you who have only read the three books in the Country Saga or only the three books in the Dwellers Saga, and are now thinking you’ll read The Earth Dwellers, which is supposedly the 4th book in BOTH the Country Saga and the Dwellers Saga. Well, that’s awesome! However, I must highly recommend that before reading The Earth Dwellers that you read the three books in BOTH series. Trust me, doing so will greatly enhance your experience, as The Earth Dwellers will be taking significant characters from both series and crashing them together (yes, like a water country wave) into an action-packed tale of struggle and loss and hope and friendship…and maybe a little love, too.
Anyway, that’s my advice, it’s up to you what to do with it. In any case, thanks for being a part of my own adventure, I’m a better person for having written stories for you!
Recommended Reading prior to The Earth Dwellers


Other YA Books by David Estes!
The Evolution Trilogy:

Children’s Books by David Estes
The Nikki Powergloves Adventures:
Nikki Powergloves vs. the Power Outlaws (Coming soon!)
I was born in El Paso, Texas but moved to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania when I was very young. I grew up in Pittsburgh and then went to Penn State for college. Eventually I moved to Sydney, Australia where I met  my wife and soul mate, Adele, who I've now been happily married to for more than two years.
 
A reader all my life, I began writing novels for the children's and YA markets in 2010, and have completed 15 novels, 13 of which have been published.  In June of 2012, I became a fulltime writer and am now travelling the world with my wife while I write books, and she writes and takes photographs.

I  gleans inspiration from all sorts of crazy places, like watching random people do entertaining things, dreams (which I jot copious notes about immediately after waking up), and even from thin air sometimes! Recently I've been inspired by some of my favorite authors, like Suzanne Collins, Veronica Roth, and Maggie Stiefvater.
 
I'm  a writer with OCD, a love of dancing and singing (but only when no one is looking or listening), a mad-skilled ping-pong player, an obsessive Goodreads group member, and prefer writing at the swimming pool to writing at a table.  I love responding to e-mails, Facebook messages, Tweets, blog comments, and Goodreads comments from my readers, all of whom I consider to be my friends.
 
Where you can find me hanging out:  David Estes Fans and YA Book Lovers Unite
Posted by at 17 comments

Wednesday, 5 June 2013

Water & Storm Country Release!


Hola! Water & Storm Country, the third book in The Country Saga is OUT on Kindle, Nook, and Smashwords in ebook, and in print on Amazon! If you've been waiting for the third book to come out, now's your chance to get the whole series. See below for links to get your copy of each book in the series now!!

WATER & STORM COUNTRY
Links to Buy Water & Storm Country
Kindle, Nook, Smashwords, Amazon Print

Click here to add Water & Storm Country to your Goodreads "To Read" List

ICE COUNTRY
Links to Buy Ice Country
Kindle, Nook, Smashwords, Amazon Print

Click here to add Ice Country to your Goodreads "To Read" List

FIRE COUNTRY
Links to Buy Fire Country
Kindle, Nook, Smashwords, Amazon Print

Click here to add Fire Country to your Goodreads "To Read" List

Praise for Water & Storm Country
"Estes delivers action, adventure, heartbreak and love all rolled into one"- The Cover Contessa
 
"Estes delivers and tells his tale like no one else can."- Karen Benson- Goodreads

"A FABULOUS END TO A FANTASTIC SERIES!"- Kerri Hughes- Kerri For Life

Praise for Ice Country
"5 stars! David Estes creates captivating and original worlds that you love to get lost in!"- Alexandria Theodosopoulos- Goodreads
 
"Richly filled with new characters and story without leaving the old behind...a seamless transition into another side of a fantastic world."- Kerri Hughes- Goodreads

Praise for Fire Country
"Fire Country is an epic start to the Country Saga and left me with my heart pounding and totally breathless. Phenomenal!" -K-Booksxo.blogspot.com

"Fire Country has so many twists and turns that by the end you have no idea what to expect." -LolaBookReviews.blogspot.com
"There's a spark in Fire Country that tingles your fingers and toes until a flame is kindled and there's no way to stop reading, hoping, praying about how it will all end."- MyBookBoyfriend.blogspot.com
"You have done it again, David Estes! Fire Country was amazing....the best of your books yet!" -Karen, Goodreads

Praise for the Dwellers Saga
"A fabulous work of art for all ages...a fantastical world from the amazingly creative David Estes."- Nicole Passante- Founder of ShareARead
"Overall, the best dystopian I've read this year."- Zuleeza- Goodreads

Water & Storm Country Synopsis

Huck Jones, the son of the admiral of the Soaker fleet, has a legacy to live up to. Haunted by the distorted memories of his mother's untimely death, he must face his demons and the man who raised him as he strives to take the courageous step forward into manhood. When he's transferred to the worst-performing ship in the fleet, everything he believes is called into question when he meets a lowly brown-skinned bilge rat girl. Huck walks a deadly rope...

Meanwhile, Sadie, destined to be a Rider in the Stormer army, seeks to avenge her brother's death at the hands of the Soakers. Trained hard by her mother, an experienced Rider, Sadie knows strength and determination more than most. Her father, a Man of Wisdom, has shown his cowardice more times than she can count. As her world and family fall apart, she must cast aside her anger and focus on the wisdom she's always brushed off as foolishness.

Amidst everything, a Plague ravages all, discriminating against no one.

When four worlds collide, lines will be drawn, sides will be chosen, victory will be sought. Death will be wrought. The mysteries of the Cure for the deadly Plague will be uncovered. Who will survive? And what will those who do learn about themselves and the ones they love?

Ice Country Synopsis
Dazz, a hard-edged, fun-loving Icer, likes fighting, particularly while at his favorite watering hole. However, while recovering from a particularly bad break up, his decision to engage in a brutal pubroom brawl leads to a series of events that thrust him into a dark and mysterious scandal involving King Goff, the ice country ruler.

When his sister is abducted in the dark of night, Dazz pledges to do whatever it takes to get her back, embarking on a quest that threatens to rip apart the very fabric that's barely holding his shattered family together.

Along the way he meets a group of unlikely allies in the form of a travelling group of fire country natives. Can Dazz, when joined with his best friend, Buff, and new tan-skinned friends, defeat the King and his guards before it's too late for his sister?

Fire Country Synopsis
In a changed world where the sky bleeds red, winter is hotter than hell and full of sandstorms, and summer's even hotter with raging fires that roam the desert-like country, the Heaters manage to survive, barely.

Due to toxic air, life expectancies are so low the only way the tribe can survive is by forcing women to procreate when they turn sixteen and every three years thereafter. It is their duty as Bearers.

Fifteen-year-old Siena is a Youngling, soon to be a Bearer, when she starts hearing rumors of another tribe of all women, called the Wild Ones. They are known to kidnap Youngling girls before the Call, the ceremony in which Bearers are given a husband with whom to bear children with.

As the desert sands run out on her life's hourglass, Siena must uncover the truth about the Wild Ones while untangling the web of lies and deceit her father has masterfully spun.

THANK YOU!!!
I want to thank my friends and readers who have made the last few months the BEST YET. My dreams are truly coming true and it's all thanks to the kindness and support of all of you, particularly the 1,300+ members of my Goodreads Fan Group , you all are the definition of AWESOMESAUCE.

A massive thanks to my wife, Adele, who's been my rock for the last 6 months as I've written this series, I couldn't have done it without you!

To my beta reading team, umm, you are ridiculously awesome and make my books a million zillion times better. And to my Street Team, you rock! Finally, a big thank you to Regina Wamba at MaeIDesign for a final cover that suits the series so well! The three covers together are BEAUTIFUL!

And a huge rapid fire thankyouthankyouthankyou to the amazing bloggers who are a part of the Water & Storm Country Release Blog Blast! You people just make me smile.

That's it, I hope you all enjoy Water & Storm Country. And don't forget, the 7th and FINAL FINAL FINAL book in the combined Dwellers and Country Saga, The Earth Dwellers, is set to release on September 5th, so be sure to read all six books across the two series by then :)

HAPPY READING!!

David Estes
Posted by at 6 comments
Subscribe to: Posts (Atom)