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My new thriller Kill Someone is out NOW in all formats. Could you kill 1 innocent to save 5? http://rxe.me/25Z8YO 




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Hello everyone,

Here’s something you may or may not be able to help me with.
Below is a link to the media kit that I had prepared for the launch of Kill Someone. It includes my bio, book covers, (and the first few pages of the novel if you care to take a gander.) You may be wondering why the heck I’m sending it out to you? And what the point of a media kit is?

Well, a media kit is - as the name suggests - a bundle of info and content that publishers and marketers send out so that anyone who runs book or audiobook content website or podcast or magazine or freakin’ anything can talk about the book.

Audible are obviously doing some marketing for it but seeing as this is going to be the biggest book launch of my career I want to maximise that as much as possible.

So… if you know someone who is a blogger, podcaster, website writer, newspaper person, or hell even a magazine, radio or TV dude or dudette, please either pass on the link with a friendly nudge/threat or send their info to [email protected].

And please remember: there really are no bad suggestions with this, so don’t think “Oh, my buddy x might be interested, but they’re too small time,” because truly, they are not. Unless they work for some kind of white supremacist media organisation, in which case, perhaps give them a miss but I still appreciate the thought.

Here’s the link for the Media Kit folks. Thanks in advance.

http://bit.ly/2f8V4GM

Hello folks. My new full-length novel, Kill Someone, comes out on December 6th in all formats, and is available for pre-order now. Here’s the blurb:

“From the author of the international best-seller The Stone Man, shortlisted for Audible UK’s Book of the Year Award 2015

Here are the rules.

Method: you can’t use a gun. You can’t use explosives. You can’t use poison. It has to be up close and personal. You don’t have to worry about leaving evidence; that will be taken care of.

Victim: no one suicidal. No one over the age of 65. No one with a terminal illness.

Choose your method. Choose your victim.

Chris Summer was a 21 year old call centre worker and a drop out. A nobody, still living at home with his parents. Then one day the Man in White came to his family’s house, offering a seemingly impossible choice: kill a random stranger – one of Chris’ choosing – within twelve days in order to save the lives of five kidnapped siblings. Refuse, and they die slowly and painfully. The clock is ticking, the Man in White is watching, and Chris has some very important choices to make.

This is a tale of fear, indecision, confused masculinity and brutal violence; a story of a coddled young man thrust into a world of sharp metal and bone.

Ask yourself if you could do it. Then ask yourself who you would choose.”



Sound interesting? No? Oh. Well… uh, goodbye then. Sorry. But for those of you who are still here, here is the pre-order link so you can go and buy your copy now, and the book will automatically appear on launch day on your device! I love the future!

Click here to go to the Amazon pre-order page for Kill Someone!

But… how would you like to get the book not only three weeks before the release date, but for free? (If you’re a long-time Smithereen, you’ll know what’s coming next, but… if you were in the last Premature Release group, you need to sign up again. I’ll explain that in a second, but first:)

If you sign up to Luke Smitherd’s Even More All-New Premature Release Review Group at the link below, you will get a copy of Kill Someone three weeks before it officially comes out. All I ask in return is that you promise to leave me a review on launch day, and send me a screen grab or a photo of your review (and yes, you get a reminder email on the day so that you don’t forget ;-)) There’s a better explanation of the rules on the sign up link below, but that’s pretty much it. Either way, you can have a read before you decide to sign up. Were you already on the last list? That’s great, but, um… I managed to delete everybody’s Amazon Reviewer names from my files, which were vital. So I’ve had to start a new group. Current reviewer group members will be getting an email explaining that they need to sign up again too, so watch out for that (sorrysorrysorrysorry).

Important point: I’ve been asked this a few times by review group members in the past, so I’ll say it here: a lot of you want to ‘support the cause’ so to speak. Thank you. Some people say they want to pay (thank you) and so don’t join the early review group. Guys! You can do both! Even if you pre-order you can still sign up for the Premature Release group, and you’ll still get the book early in return for a launch day review. This is, obviously, the ideal situation for me, but don’t feel in any way guilty if you just wanna get it free. The launch day review system worked really well last time and I’m very grateful to all the people that kept up their end of the bargain.

So here are your links. Take whatever action you deem appropriate, and thank you for being a part of my team! Probably not a good idea to mention any association with me when in a job interview, or under ‘interests’ on a CV/resume. They haul you away for that sh*t.

Click here to sign up for Luke Smitherd’s Even More All-New Premature Release Newsletter!

Click here to go to the Amazon pre-order page for Kill Someone!

PS the podcast it still going by the way. Are You Sure? with Smitherd and Shaw. Check us out on whatever podcast platform you use. We’re funny.

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FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER ‘THE STONE MAN’, SHORTLISTED FOR AUDIBLE UK’S BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD 2015

In the late 1990s, a laptop was found in a service station just outside of Manchester. It contained a digital journal entitled ‘TO THE FINDER: OPEN NOW TO CHANGE YOUR LIFE!’ Now, for the first time, that infamous diary is being published in its entirety.

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It’s 1998. The internet age is still in its infancy. Google has just been founded. Eighteen year old supermarket shelf-stacker Nigel Carmelite has decided that he’s going to become a vigilante.

There are a few problems: how is he going to even find crime to fight on the streets of Derbyshire? How will he create a superhero costume – and an arsenal of crime-fighting weaponry – on a shoestring budget? And will his history of blackouts and crippling social inadequacy affect his chances?

This is Nigel’s account of his journey; part diary, part deluded self-help manual, tragically comic and slowly descending into what is arguably Luke Smitherd’s darkest and most violent novel.

What do you believe in? And more importantly …should you?
Praise for Luke Smitherd’s writing:

“For me there is no greater joy than seeing an artist excel at his craft … you’ll be blown away by the abundance of ideas.” – Ain’t It Cool News.com


Available in all formats, get your copy using the links below!

Any of the Premature Release revjew group got their spoiler-free reviews ready? Send them to me and I'll start posting them on FB anonymously.

[email protected]

Thanks.

Episode 11:

Bottled Water and Intellectual Safe Spaces. It's D-Day for Are You Sure? with Smitherd and Shaw as the listener rating line in the sand is reached. Did we make it? Listen to find out! Also, there's a BIG surprise change to this week's show ...and not just in the topics we're discussing (we announced last week that it would Bottled Water and Tattoos, but a piece of listener mail changed all that ...)

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The audiobook version of "How to be a Vigilante - A Diary" is now available for pre-order. Here are the links:

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You can now pre-order, "How to be a Vigilante - A Diary". If you do, it will magically appear in your Kindle device of choice on September 14, 2016.

Here are the links:

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In the late 1990s, a laptop was found in a service station just outside of Manchester. It contained a digital journal entitled 'TO THE FINDER: OPEN NOW TO CHANGE YOUR LIFE!' Now, for the first time, that infamous diary is being published in its entirety.

It's 1998. The internet age is still in its infancy. Google has just been founded. Eighteen year old supermarket shelf-stacker Nigel Carmelite has decided that he's going to become a vigilante.

There are a few problems: how is he going to even find crime to fight on the streets of Derbyshire? How will he create a superhero costume - and an arsenal of crime-fighting weaponry - on a shoestring budget? And will his history of blackouts and crippling social inadequacy affect his chances? This is Nigel's account of his journey; part diary, part deluded self-help manual, tragically comic and slowly descending into what is arguably Luke Smitherd's darkest and most violent novel. 


What do you believe in? And more importantly ...should you? 

It might say Episode 10, but, you know...

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There are hangovers, there are bad hangovers, and then there's waking up inside someone else's head.

The morning after a boozy night before comes with the rudest of awakenings for young bartender Charlie Wilkes. Instead of finding himself in his bedroom, he awakes in a prison consisting of moving, undulating black walls and a huge glowing screen that seems to float in thin air. But the prison isn't a prison, and the screen isn't a screen; incredibly, he is somehow inside the mind of a young woman - Minnie - and the screen is actually a projection of what she sees.

How did he end up in the Black Room? What has happened to his life? How is it that he recognises Minnie, feels a bond of some sort with her ...even though they've never met? Can he exist inside the mind of a troubled, terrified, but beautiful woman with secrets of her own? Most important of all, can he ever get out?

Uncertain whether he's even real or if he is just a figment of his host's imagination, Charlie and Minnie must work together - and learn the secret of their strange connection - if he is to find a way out of The Black Room, a place where even the light of the screen goes out every time Minnie closes her eyes...