New Releases from Mardibooks

An Exciting Day for mardibooks as we release new titles onto Kindle Amazon...

The Loners - Nigel P

The Loners is the story of a band. 

Set in the Medway Towns in Kent during 1978 and 1979, The Loners filters a comic and foul mouthed tale of growing up, friendship, love, school, music and hubris through the eyes of an unnamed fifteen year old narrator, who may or may not be the loner of the title.

The Loners is the name of the band he forms, alongside:

Alastair H Bass – bass (of course, and unwarranted misogyny)

Sebastian Browne – keyboards (and cannabis)

Len White – drums (and horrible curly hair)

Ron Tuck – publicity (and bereavement

The Tank Room - Martin Craig-Downer

Set in Liverpool at the beginning of the nineteen fifties, Matt Dixon is immersed in the world of jazz  moonlighting in bands for beer money and to meet girls. He becomes intimately involved with two women from very different backgrounds. One a fragrant teenage beauty, Yvette, a city girl, promiscuous and precocious with it; the other, Harry, boasting various lovers, the wayward daughter of landed gentry. Matt’s obsession with Yvette is strongly physical, his attraction to Harry more cerebral. Tangled relationships develop against a background of shabby ale houses, jazz clubs, shebeens, orgiastic all-night parties and recreational drug abuse. As the world - still refreshingly free from political correctness moves on, Matt has to decide whether to pursue the structure of a promising career or the nihilistic downward slide towards more sex and an increasingly appealing world of self-destruction.

Reaching Out to Writers....Getting your book aired???

One of our stated aims as mardibooks is to democratise publishing using the power of the web.  We are foremost writers, good writers, with interesting stories to tell.  ...and we join a remarkable and huge talent pool of already established and struggling to establish itself creators, manipulators, artists...

The economy has impacted enormously on publishing and the cost of e-books is time, or opportunity cost, not hard cash.  Already the major publishing houses are diverting and re-directng their efforts to harness a low cost solution.  For every 100 actual hard copy books sold, Amazon sells 180 e-books. So how do we promote ours in the face of such fierce competition and marketing costs?


...And where does this leave the niche independents, the self-publishers and the writers' groups?
Since our launch in December we have been pleased with our successes on Amazon, reaching the top 8,000 rankings in some weeks with our books - not bad considering Amazon sells over 4,000,000 books...
We regularly blog and tweet and utilise media groups and support each other's, so that our reach grows exponentially by the number of writers we have as well as by the number of followers...

So how does this help YOU?
The web is a big space and harnessing the social networking media available is time-consuming and difficult on a budget.  Time zones, language barriers, search protocols are both an issue and a non-issue as web traffic is fickle and tends to fall into daily routine patterns.  Setting up scheduled messages for different markets and time-zones can over-come this to some extent, but the weight of traffic still means your message still reaches mostly arbitrary audiences.  Social media sites are continually updating their user tools to enable refined messaging to specific demographics, but ultimately what makes them successful is not just the desire to message, but the desire to join in.  The human need to participate and not be left out.  Interestingly it is that same human need which attracts readers to our books - to know we belong we are, oxymoronically, unique but ultimately not different!


So here it is...how we can help you...
Each month we would like to review your books, give you air space.  This coming month is home to Valentine's Day, so we would like to hear from any writers of fiction, non-fiction, romance.  Promote your books on our site.  By linking together your networks through the conduit of mardibooks, who knows what reach we can cover?

Happy New Year - 2012 is the year of the e-book

Things to watch out for this year from mardibooks...

• competiitions to engage new writers - are your creative juices flowing?
• articles on writing, e-books, reviews and more
• your comments and feedback...
• more mardiwriters and mardibooks
• poll your view on e-books are the future

Get those resolutions penned...a poem a day keeps the blues at bay...

INSIGHT ARRIVES IN TIME FOR CHRISTMAS

The latest mardibook - Christa Pearce's Insight Out is now available for download on kindle.


Just click on the column on the right to purchase your copy of apocryphal learnings, wise saws and general anecdotes from Christa's pen, detailing the histories and cures of many physiologically based psychological problems.


Your first New Year's resolution for tidying your mind and body is one click away.




eSeason's Greetings and a Peaceful New year from mardibooks and our mardiwriters.

Fantastic Launch Week...

Well an overwhelmingly supportive first few days and sales coming in for mardibooks and mardiwriters.

Thank you to everyone who has joined us, followed us, contacted us...please continue to do so.

Have a fab week-end and happy reading! 

Hope those ideas are gestating ready for our forthcoming competitions...

mardibooks - where budding ideas are nurtured and flourish

We have lift off!!!

Welcome to mardibooks...

We are now live and kicking and you can now purchase our ebooks from Amazon.com...links to follow...


For the next 90 days we are part of the Kindle Owners Lending Library which means that we are part of a sharing experience.


We hope you will enjoy our books, our blogs and join us as readers and writers.