I’m excited! The FATAL SUNSET audiobook is finally, finally available at Audible, Amazon and iTunes!

GET YOUR COPY TODAY (Audible / iTunes / Amazon)

I know a lot of you like audiobooks as a compliment, or instead of your ebooks and print books. I’ve been on a push to get more and more of my content out in audiobook form and I’m proud to see FATAL SUNSET now available in so many formats around the world!

I also understand there’s a 30 Day Free Trial for Audible that let’s you get 2 FREE audiobooks just for checking out Audible. That means you can pick up FATAL SUNSET and INFINITY or another one of my books without spending a dime!

I know a lot of you out there love hard copies and I’ve gotten more than a few requests to release paperback versions of both these books… and yes, more MYN paperbacks are on the way soon…

“The Killing of Osama Bin Laden: How the Mission to Hunt Down a Terrorist Mastermind was Accomplished” is a concise and detail rich telling of the historic manhunt for the world’s number one most-wanted terrorist.

“Go Forth and Kick Some Ass: Be the Hero of Your Own Life Story” is for anyone who has ever suffered from the crippling self doubt that comes from feeling like your life is stuck in a rut. Ordained minister, Mark Yoshimoto Nemcoff, a.k.a. “The Rev. MYN” will take you though some simple steps how to power yourself out of that rut and get back on track.

Click below to get the paperbacks!

THE KILLING OF OSAMA BIN LADEN (paperback)

GO FORTH AND KICK SOME ASS (paperback)

FATAL SUNSET

Simply put, FATAL SUNSET is filled with cautionary tales of vacations gone tragically wrong. There are considerations here that honestly could save your life or the life of someone you love.

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Never assume you have the same rights, protections and access to emergency services in other countries as you do in your own.

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No one ever believes their dream vacation can instantly turn into a tragic nightmare…until it’s too late. 

Some tourists vanish without a trace. Over 170 people have disappeared from cruise ships around the world since 1995, several under very suspicious circumstances. Others have their lives senselessly stolen, like the 8-year old boy sucked into an unprotected pool drain at a major resort, leaving his mother crying out his name as security staff held her at gunpoint. Or 22-year old Nolan Webster, denied proper medical care after being pulled unconscious from a Cancun resort pool, only to have his dead body left in plain view for hours and his parents billed for his room.

FIND OUT MORE ABOUT FATAL SUNSET – click here!

FATAL SUNSET in Paperback popped up a couple of days early on Amazon and immediately jumped up onto a couple of Travel category bestseller lists! It’s currently #2 on “4 for 3 Travelogues and Essays” and #50 in just “Travelogues and Essays” as well as being #5 in “Hot New Releases/Travelogues and Essays”… and the book hasn’t even been officially launched yet!

Ebook editions for Kindle, Nook and iBooks drop early next week, but if you like paperback, grab your copy today. (http://amzn.to/HL05ew)

For me, publishing is a long tail business and Where’s My F*cking Latte taught me that firsthand. This is a book that first came out in paperback in 2007, then for the Kindle in 2008 and then by 2009, started inching up the Kindle bestseller list for TELEVISION. For the most part it has sat at #1 on that list for the last 3 months. Just lately, it’s crawled up to the top of the MOVIES bestseller list as well. I’m happy to say that, at least for the moment, it’s #1 on both lists. I’m even outselling Roger Ebert’s book!  Not bad for an indie.

In actuality, Where’s My F*cking Latte is on 3 different Amazon bestseller lists: Kindle bestsellers for Movies and Television and Amazon’s overall bestseller list for all books (ebooks and print) for Television (currently #6)

The Killing of Osama Bin Laden is also on 3 different Amazon bestseller lists: Kindle books for Terrorism, Middle East and also for all books on Afghanistan (Yes, there’s a list for that! LOL)

So that’s SEVEN, count ‘em 7, bestseller lists that these three books currently sit on. Books that I don’t really actively promote much, if at all. Am I stoked? Hell yes!

Bottom line. eBooks are seeds that, once planted, can grow into mighty oaks. It may take weeks, months or even years… but once that book is out there, it can continue to pick up an audience for a very long time.

A screenshot from Amazon’s bestseller list for Kindle books in the category of Entertainment/Movies.  As you can see, Where’s My F*cking Latte is currently outselling “Roger Ebert’s Movie Yearbook 2011″. Ebert’s hugely famous. I’m nobody. Both of our books are the same price. As a huge, lifelong Ebert fan, I’m a bit floored and humbled… Tomorrow, maybe he’ll outsell me… maybe. All I gotta say is that “It’s on, Ebert!”

Actually, there’s some more “bestseller” news I want to share, but it’ll have to wait until tomorrow.

…to get onto your eBook reader!

KILLING MY BOSS, the anthology of twisted tales I co-wrote with the fiercely-talented Colin F. Barnes is now only 99 CENTS for a limited time over at Amazon and Barnes and Noble.

If you’ve ever had a boss you’ve really hated, you’ll love KILLING MY BOSS–highly entertaining stories of revenge on the worst bosses you can imagine.

Pick up your copy of KILLING MY BOSS for your Kindle or Nook today.

‎4 years after it was first self-published, WHERE’S MY F*CKING LATTE continues to be a success as it hits Amazon’s top 100 overall bestseller list again in the category of Entertainment–for this brief moment outselling George Orwell, David Sedaris and that Sex and the City woman. LOL! It’s also #1 in the Kindle-only subcategory of Movies and Video! Woo-hoo!

Shane Lees is a super-talented artist and really cool guy I’ve known for a while. When he’s not off scaring small children, he’s at work with a pencil, creating some really haunting artwork. You may have seen his drawing of Galen Altos right here on this site. I love the composition on this one, how the somewhat innocuous diagonal lines on the tie (the universal uniform accessory  of downtrodden cogs in the machine everywhere) just lead you back to the violence. Superb work, Shane! I think this so cool.

I’m very proud to announce the release of KILLING MY BOSS, a collection of really wicked stories about well… trout fishing… no, about, uh… sending one’s horrible bosses to their early and much-deserved demise. I wrote KILLING  MY BOSS with Colin F. Barnes, a very talented writer from the U.K. A country that seems to have possibly invented the horrible boss, whereas I’d like to think that here in America, we perfected it.

But that’s neither here, nor there. Geographic boundaries aside, we want you to read these Hitchcock-esque tales of murder and revenge. And, you can even imagine that one of the asshole bosses is your boss, and… well, let your imagination do the rest. That’s why we call it a real “Youdunit” book… get it, “Youdunnit”… okay, whatever… just buy the book and enjoy the hell out of these extremely entertaining, and quite twisted stories.

C’mon, the book’s worth it just for Guy Burdick’s inspired cover art alone….

AVAILABLE now from AMAZON (for the Kindle), BARNES AND NOBLE (for the Nook) and coming soon to the iBOOKS BOOKSTORE.

This is pretty cool. The Killing of Osama Bin Laden is back as the #1 bestseller in the category of Middle East History at the same exact time that Where’s My F*cking Latte? (and Other Stories About Being an Assistant in Hollywood) is the #1 bestseller in books about Moves.

It’s been really, really busy lately and I thought I lost this screenshot I took a couple of weekends ago when The Killing of Osama Bin Laden hit #51 on the Amazon non-fiction bestseller list, but I came across it today and thought I’d post it here for documentation. I have some other cool screenshots I’ll get up here on Wordsushi soon!

Can an artist go too far? I saw a random discussion on Facebook where one talented writer was wondering if he was going too far with his work in terms of the “grit.” It made me realize there’s a real importance to the self-realization of whether or not you are going too far because it signals an awareness that you are now venturing into uncharted territory as an artist… and I discuss what I think are the important aspects about approaching that fear.

LISTEN TO “GOING TOO FAR” – CLICK HERE

Lots more info as to what’s going on, stuff about the upcoming comic book series, updates on how high The Killing of Osama Bin Laden hit on the Amazon top 100 non-fiction bestsellers list, what’s going on with my TV projects, etc…

Also, there’s an UPDATED version of Where’s My F*cking Latte that includes 3 new stories!

WHERE’S MY F*CKING LATTE? (And other stories about being an assistant in Hollywood) - Amazon link: http://amzn.to/i81NfQ

THE KILLING OF OSAMA BIN LADEN (How the Mission to Hunt Down a Terrorist Mastermind was Accomplished) – Amazon link: http://amzn.to/jzGxmr

GO FORTH AND KICK SOME ASS (Be the hero of your own life story) - Amazon link: http://amzn.to/dQpdF4

GO FORTH AND KICK SOME ASS (be the hero of your own life story) - AUDIOBOOK: http://bit.ly/frdCkP

DIARY OF A MADMAN – Amazon link: http://amzn.to/fiFHtl

NUMBER ONE WITH A BULLET – Amazon link: http://amzn.to/eX1OGD

THE DOOMSDAY CLUB – Amazon link: http://amzn.to/fDJvbM

BADLANDS – Amazon link: http://amzn.to/eZMInR

WOW… The Killing of Osama Bin Laden is currently #78 on all of Amazon in the non-fiction category.

Again, all without a mainstream publisher or even an agent.

The Killing of Osama Bin Laden is a #1 Kindle bestseller in the category of Middle East History! And, even cooler, the #2 bestselling book on ALL of Amazon (Kindle and dead tree books) in the category of Middle East History!

It’s also #55 in the overall “History” category for all books and #19 for just Kindle books.

Also #5 in the Kindle’s “Military History” category.

This I love, I’m outselling Donald Rumsfeld’s book in the category of Middle East History. Hah!

Plus, writing the Bin Laden book just got me a book deal… more details on that soon, I promise.

And if that isn’t cool enough…

WHERE’S MY F*CKING LATTE? after a couple of years is still rocking the charts in it’s categories. #4 Kindle book in Television and #19 in all books about Television.

And GO FORTH AND KICK SOME ASS is rocking the category of books on Creativity

That’s right 3 Bestsellers on the charts… and all without an agent or mainstream publisher. It can be done!

It’s only been about a day but so far, a couple of nice media mentions for THE KILLING OF OSAMA BIN LADEN (How the Mission to Hunt Down a Terrorist Mastermind was Accomplished) that I wanted to point out and give some link love to:

First up: A glowing book review of “The Killing of Osama Bin Laden” from ICPlaces.com. Here’s an excerpt:

…because THE KILLING OF OSAMA BIN LADEN contains certain details about the courier, the way SEAL Team Six trained for their black bag mission, along with what seems to me like “classified” intel on what modifications were made to the Black Hawk helicopters to make them “stealth”, this book reads like it was written by someone with a fairly high security clearance. I am no expert of CIA intelligence operations but I have to believe that either Mark Yoshimoto Nemcoff is one heck of a researcher or he is getting his information from sources inside the government or the U.S. Military. I would bet there will be phones ringing at the Pentagon or inside the Beltway once word of this book gets out.

C’mon… how awesome is that?

Second: a nice quick little (and I do mean quick and little) mention of my new book from the folks at ebooknewser.

Nice to see that this book is hitting the radar a tiny bit. Yesterday, in it’s first 24 hours it hit 3 different Kindle subcategory bestseller lists. Including #5 overall on Amazon about books on History of Pakistan (which may be a topic that doesn’t have too many books) but even cooler, #54 overall on the history of the Middle East, which I have to believe is a pretty hot topic right now…. W00t!

Hey, not bad, right? I especially like that it hit #50 for all Amazon books, not just ebooks, in the category of “Creativity”. This morning it was #32. I’m stoked, and top 10 on any bestseller list on Amazon is pretty cool so thank you all who bought the book. I hope you’re digging it.

And for the rest of you… what are you waiting for?

However, fret no more! Rich Dubya sent me this video for CALIBRE, a free eBook format converter for Mac, PC and Linux that will convert Amazon AZW files to epub files that you can read on your Kobo, Sony, etc. Or you can read them in iBooks on your iPhone, iPad or Touch.

No longer must you suffer the tyranny of not being able to read my eBooks on your beloved eBook reader! Download a copy of Calibre and check it out. Calibre also offers you a way to manage your eBook library and a built-in reader to read your ebooks from your computer screen.

Wow. I love the Kindle. It’s really hard to understand how thin and lightweight it is until you hold it but its easy to read screen, built in 3G wireless access to the Amazon Kindle book store are the really cool things. You probably know I’ve been a huge proponent of the ebook revolution and though I see all these companies come out with competing products, it’s the Kindle that I think has the best chance to be an important and long-lasting digital publishing platform because, as we all know, it’s all about the software–in this case the software being BOOKS! Plus, what I love the best is that you can get FREE samples from every book in the Kindle first so you can take a book for a test drive first before plunking down your hard-earned cash. You can read the Kindle outside in the sun and at this price (with a good case) I’d even take the Kindle to the beach. And now on the same day that Barnes and Noble dropped the price of their underperforming Nook e-book reader, Amazon comes back with a whopper of a price cut.

BUY THE Amazon Kindle, now just $189

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