What Smiled at Him

Thanks to everyone who picked up a copy of What Smiled at Him and to everyone who spread the word. With your support, several hundred new readers from nearly a dozen countries grabbed copies of What Smiled at Him in the last five days. I hope that the giveaway helped to break up the February doldrums.

What Smiled at Him is available as an ebook for about the price of a cup of coffee, and as a paperback for around the price of a movie ticket. I think  that it will matter to you more in the long term than either. And maybe you’ll enjoy it.

So check out an excerpt here: http://www.amazon.com/What-Smiled-at-Him-ebook/dp/B00805NERS/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1361422870&sr=8-2&keywords=what+smiled+at+him

What Smiled at Him is a contemporary mystery in which two childhood friends find every clue they need to solve a grisly double murder, but choose not to.

Lynn and Marv, are in their late twenties, one a struggling musician, the other a salesman and both have begun to question the choices they’ve made. One night, far from home, alcohol, irresponsibility and coincidence reunite them with Caroline, the longtime object of their desires. Married into a wealthy Chicago family and unhappy, she begins an affair with Marv. A few weeks later, she’s arrested and charged with murdering her husband and infant son. As her trial nears, the unwelcome mystery pursues the friends through their searches for love, stabs at success, self-destructive lapses and leads one of them to his death.

“The novel has an angry edge to it, recalling the spirit of the Beats. Many of the peripheral characters speak like prophets… Marv and Lynn are just as self-aware as their supporting cast, and their abundance of wisdom sometimes stretches believability; it’s tempered, however, by the flaw of their continually self-destructive behavior. Watching them ignore their better instincts… makes the characters more endearing.”

-Kirkus Reviews

To break up the February doldrums, What Smiled at Him will be available for free as an e-book on Amazon for the next few days.  The giveaway will run from Thursday, February 21 until Tuesday, February 25.

What Smiled at Him won’t be free for very long. And it won’t likely be free ever again. So pick up your free copy today.

And if you enjoy What Smiled at Him, be sure to check out Another Broken Wizard and The Last Bad Job.

 

What Smiled at Him is now available on the Nook, as well as on iBooks. And it’s only 99 cents on both of them, because I promised. But only for the next two weeks. So pick it up on your Nook, iPad or iPhone while it’s still a steal.

http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/what-smiled-at-him-colin-dodds/1110619029?ean=9781477403310

For the hot summer months, What Smiled at Him and Another Broken Wizard will only be 99¢

In thanks for all your support in launching What Smiled at Him, and also to reach out to new readers who may be unfamiliar with my work, I will sell the e-book editions of What Smiled at Him and Another Broken Wizard for just 99¢ apiece over the entire summer.Kirkus Reviews, who bill themselves as The World’s Toughest Book Critics say this about What Smiled at Him:“The novel has an angry edge to it, recalling the spirit of the Beats. Many of the peripheral characters speak like prophets… Marv and Lynn are just as self-aware as their supporting cast, and their abundance of wisdom sometimes stretches believability; it’s tempered, however, by the flaw of their continually self-destructive behavior. Watching them ignore their better instincts… makes the characters more endearing.”

For 99¢, you’re not going to do much better. So fire up your e-reader and enjoy this instant classic.

What Smiled at Him has been out for a week now.

Thanks to all of you who came out for the launch party or to the reading.

And thanks to all of you who bought a copy of What Smiled at Him and who told your friends about it.

You helped make the opening week a fantastic success.

If you haven’t given it a look yet, you can check out What Smiled at Him here:

And again, thank you.

Come and get a signed copy.

Colin Dodds will be doing a reading and signing of What Smiled at Him, along with Patrick Kosiewicz, who’ll be reading from his new novel How Many Suns Burn Over Babel Where Poets Die, and Jonathan Reeve at St. Mark’s Bookshop (31 3rd Ave, NY, NY) on Tuesday, May 22 at 7pm. So come on out, say hello and buy some books.But if you can’t make it to New York, or if you’re otherwise engaged…

Not a bad review from The World’s Toughest Book Critcs

The first review of What Smiled at Him is in from Kirkus:“The novel has an angry edge to it, recalling the spirit of the Beats. Many of the peripheral characters speak like prophets… Marv and Lynn are just as self-aware as their supporting cast, and their abundance of wisdom sometimes stretches believability; it’s tempered, however, by the flaw of their continually self-destructive behavior. Watching them ignore their better instincts… makes the characters more endearing.”

Sound like something you might want to check out?

This is it, the day that What Smiled at Him goes on sale. So go pick up a copy. A paperback is $12 and an e-book is $5.