You definitely can't buy the ebook soon, WINK WINK

 

So after a LOT of faffing about, the ebook is being rolled out. It turns out that no matter how well you format for print, an epub file can randomly decide to ignore some of it once it's converted. Wonderful. 

I'm soft-launching it with literally just this blog post and the current Goodreads reviews to market it, just to see if I make any sales, and if so how many. Because apparently there's something wrong with me and I'm allergic to marketing properly ah hahaha. 

8 Goodreads reviews so far, though, and most are four stars! The latest has this to say:

This is a truly visceral piece of art that explores several themes, including grief, religious/spiritual beliefs, afterlife, etc. Goodchild's prose easily transports you to a dystopian hellscape where you face an almost normalized evil. I did find the story challenging to follow in the beginning, but I think that's all part of world building.

I enjoyed this read, and would recommend to fans of existential thought process, monsters, and visceral horror.

The print version will be released close to October, and I'll finally be able to send some physical ARC copies out next week! I also plan to leave some free copies in random bookshops around Ljubljana, because why not.

I'm also planning on doing an 'A Wretched Place' score, with five tracks named after the sections in the novel (Induction, Recursion, Delineation, Incrementation and Accession), so then Bandcamp can be another way of promoting the book (the album will come with a pdf of the novel). 

Hang on a minute, it sounds like I *have* thought about marketing, just in less obvious ways! Well I never.