Inside the world of Rob Mclean, Author

Hey Folks. So, paradigm shift for me starting today. My novels moving forward will be wide across a variety of vendors: Amazon, Kobo, Barnes & Noble, and iTunes.  The Fall of Man trilogy is already wide, Obey will be wide late January, and my next novel will launch wide. Links to my books on various marketplaces can be found here. In addition, the first book in my The Fall of Man trilogy, Days of Judgment, will be permanently free. It's currently free on Kobo, B&N and iTunes and will be soon on Amazon (next few days I'm hoping). So what do these changes mean for me and my current and future readers? What's Lost Kindle Unlimited (KU) Unfortunately, none of my novels will be in the Kindle Unlimited store (although Obey is there until late January, so grab it while you can if you are in KU). To be listed in KU you have to be exclusive to Amazon. As discussed in other posts, that just isn't a comfortable choice for me anymore. Promotions / Sales I'...

Hi there valued reader! I just wanted to take a moment to provide a warning with regards to my books. Not to worry, there's nothing sinister or dangerous afoot. I've noticed from various feedback readers have given me that everyone reacts differently to my work. One person will love one thing, while another dislikes it, and then the reverse will be true about some other aspect of any given book. I've really noticed a big difference between how men and women react to my work, often attaching themselves to different aspects of the story entirely (that's not a commentary on gender or applicable across all readers, purely a general observation - it's salient enough that it's left me mildly befuddled over why it is). So I thought it best to give people a warning in terms of what you get when you read one of my books: I don't write generic tropes (I don't use generic formulas to build or resolve plots. This means, sometimes things will happen that...

So I pulled the plug on Kindle Unlimited (Kindle Select) today and unenrolled all my books. It will take three months for them all to officially come out. * System Crash and A Fool's Requiem will be out end of December. * Obey will be out end of January * Days of Judgment will be out the beginning of March. To my readers who follow me through KU, my apologies for this shift. It had to be done though. The KU system is not reporting reads properly (in my opinion - per my other post , I can't prove it definitively)  and there is no admission by Amazon of this malfunctioning (much less any direction in terms of fixing the issue). For those readers who pick up Days of Judgment in the coming months only to find that book two and three are not in the KU system (meaning they can only be purchased directly), I am very sorry about that. Unfortunately, with KU, authors don't get to pick when a book comes out of the system (it's based on three-month enrollment terms... ...

For those who don't know, Kindle Unlimited is an "all you can eat" subscription program Amazon has for book lovers. It costs $9.99 and you can read as many books as you like. Not every book you can think of is in Kindle Unlimited, obviously, but a lot of self-published ones are. So what's the problem you might ask?  The problem is that KU is broken. Not for readers mind you, but for the authors. Not the "business model" but rather the computer system itself. The way the system works is that when someone borrows your book from KU, the author gets paid per page that is read. A full-length novel has around 350-450 KU pages by my estimates. When an author enrolls their book in KU it must remain there for 90 days, at which point they can unenroll it. The best way to think of KU is as a secondary (subscription based) marketplace to the regular Amazon store. [for accuracy, authors enroll in KDP Select, which puts their books on the KU marketplace, but for sim...