Cato's Book Now On Kindle/Apple iBooks

[Cato]

A few years ago a small publisher accepted the first book of a trilogy which I wrote for younger readers (7th Grade and up), but the few adults who have bought it say that they have enjoyed it.



So far, it has not sold enough copies to provide a penny in royalties.  The small publisher has done no advertising anywhere.  So my agent (aka my little brother) has gone to Amazon and Apple to promote e-book versions.

Amazon has accepted Why Begins With W for its Kindle and Apple for its iBook.

http://www.amazon.com/Why-Begins-Lesson-Capsule-Murders/dp/1595943587/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1360289423&sr=1-1&keywords=why+begins+with+w

The second book, Dial Emma For Murder, should come out in a few months.

[Karl Henning]

Great news, Cato! I've read Why Begins With W twice now, very engaging and enjoyable!

[Brian]

I have just now saved it on my Kindle List of books to purchase and read soon! Some of your companions on the list are George Saunders, Christopher Hitchens, Nikolai Gogol, and Fyodor Dostoevsky... but don't let that get to your head! 

[Gurn Blanston]

Congratulations! It is gratifying to be hobnobbing with the literary set here.

[Cato]

I have just now saved it on my Kindle List of books to purchase and read soon! Some of your companions on the list are George Saunders, Christopher Hitchens, Nikolai Gogol, and Fyodor Dostoevsky... but don't let that get to your head! 

Many thanks for the good wishes!

The book is not designed to compete with Gogol or Dostoyevsky, but I think against Hitchens it would maybe get at least a TKO.   0:)

[Cato]

Greetings Literary Lions!

A librarian/teacher website called The Next Big Thing is running a promotion for my murder-mystery trilogy called The Time Capsule Murders.

Book I Why Begins With W has been out for a while, and within a week or so Book II Dial Emma for Murder should be available at least on Kindle/iPad next week.  A paperback edition will be available later in May.

The Next Big Thing wants authors to answer a series of questions, so...

http://timecapsulemurders.squarespace.com/hamishs-blog/2013/4/24/its-here-the-next-big-thing.html

[Karl Henning]

Good fun!

[TheGSMoeller]

Way To Go, Cato! (that sounded awesome)

Very cool, I wish you success with this book(s). I will have to snatch up the Kindle edition and check it out.


BTW, I love this Amazon reviewer's comment...

"Imagine Humphrey Bogart as a sarcastic detective, but he's only 14 years old. Or maybe not! Maybe you should imagine Gina Carrano as a smart aleck 14 year old who won't put up with morons."

[Brian]

Way To Go, Cato! (that sounded awesome)

Very cool, I wish you success with this book(s). I will have to snatch up the Kindle edition and check it out.

BTW, I love this Amazon reviewer's comment...

"Imagine Humphrey Bogart as a sarcastic detective, but he's only 14 years old. Or maybe not! Maybe you should imagine Gina Carrano as a smart aleck 14 year old who won't put up with morons."

That Amazon comment is spot-on. It's a marvelously entertaining read, and the ending left me frustrated waiting for a sequel to arrive. Glad I don't have to wait long!

But yes, the book is compulsive fun, both for the narrator's highly original (but perhaps not highly trustworthy) voice and for the infectious enthusiasm with which Cato has populated his setting with characters both shady and otherwise (but usually shady), scenes and settings which ring true to the school experience, and a plot that's not quite as simple as I want it to be. And if you're fond of the way Cato peppers his posts here with exclamation marks and witticisms, you'll be overjoyed to learn that the snarky, gender-ambiguous protagonist of his novel(s), for all his/her slightly too ambitious sniping at classmates and their foibles, shares the same endearing weakness!

[Karl Henning]

I've read both Why Begins With W and Dial Emma for Murder via Kindle, and I am a confirmed fan.

I even shamed a friend in Alexandria, who was speculating aloud about whether to give Dan Brown her brain-space rent-free, into fetching the en-Kindled Cato!

We want Hex High School on Kindle! Bring it!

[Cato]

That Amazon comment is spot-on. It's a marvelously entertaining read, and the ending left me frustrated waiting for a sequel to arrive. Glad I don't have to wait long!

But yes, the book is compulsive fun, both for the narrator's highly original (but perhaps not highly trustworthy) voice and for the infectious enthusiasm with which Cato has populated his setting with characters both shady and otherwise (but usually shady), scenes and settings which ring true to the school experience, and a plot that's not quite as simple as I want it to be. And if you're fond of the way Cato peppers his posts here with exclamation marks and witticisms, you'll be overjoyed to learn that the snarky, gender-ambiguous protagonist of his novel(s), for all his/her slightly too ambitious sniping at classmates and their foibles, shares the same endearing weakness!

Many thanks to Brian for the above review of Why Begins With W.

I've read both Why Begins With W and Dial Emma for Murder via Kindle, and I am a confirmed fan.

I even shamed a friend in Alexandria, who was speculating aloud about whether to give Dan Brown her brain-space rent-free, into fetching the en-Kindled Cato!

We want Hex High School on Kindle! Bring it!

Yes, I would like it too!  My brother/literary agent has promised Hex High School (the conclusion) will appear before the end of the year.

Right now: we need to push the first two books more!  A paperback version of Dial Emma for Murder is due in a few weeks.

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(Any opinion on the cover?  My brother was in charge of that: I in fact liked the cover designed by a 7th Grader, which showed a stuffed animal about to be dissected by a scalpel held by a mysterious hand!)

[oyasumi]

Being a grammar grumbler, I would have written the title like this: "Why" Begins with W.

[Sergeant Rock]

A few years ago a small publisher accepted the first book of a trilogy which I wrote for younger readers (7th Grade and up)

I bought the paperbook shortly after you announced its publication but it's been sitting on the shelf unread all these years. I'm glad I waited until now to read it (finished it a half hour ago) because the ending is so frustrating! You're a real bastard, Cato   It would have been hard to wait three years for the next installment! At least now I can jump right into the Kindle-edition of Emma.

What happens in the August 20 chapter clearly indicates the narrator is a boy. (Or not  )

Sarge

[Cato]

I bought the paperbook shortly after you announced its publication but it's been sitting on the shelf unread all these years. I'm glad I waited until now to read it (finished it a half hour ago) because the ending is so frustrating! You're a real bastard, Cato   It would have been hard to wait three years for the next installment! At least now I can jump right into the Kindle-edition of Emma.

What happens in the August 20 chapter clearly indicates the narrator is a boy. (Or not  )


Sarge

Another satisfied reader!   0:)   

Many thanks for your support, Sarge!   

The Unknown Narrator is hard to pin down when it comes to gender!

[Karl Henning]

Party!

[Cato]

The paperback version is now available, and is under $10.00!


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A bargain at that price!      

[Karl Henning]

Woo-hoo!

BTW I lent one of my had copies of Why Begins With W to my sister for her train ride back home : )

[Cato]

Woo-hoo!

BTW I lent one of my had copies of Why Begins With W to my sister for her train ride back home : )

Spreading The Good News of Salvation from Nora Roberts books!   0:)

Many thanks for your efforts!

[Cato]

A message from my puckish, wise-guy agents about the final book in the series Hex High School, which (they claim) will be available "soon" (a very relative term in their hands):

From Literary Agent #1:

This book is sick, an abomination! The gory images associated with life in a high school are disturbing. That you are a teacher makes this whole trilogy all the more unsettling.

It is time to call David Lynch

And from L.A. #2:

I like to think if it as Harry Potter for the intellectually disenfranchised.   

They have chosen the cover, and are apparently cranking the handles of progress!

[Karl Henning]

Huzzah! I just bought the Kindle edition, and here it is on my Droid!

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