To celebrate my birthday, I am making all eight of my ebooks free to download for the Kindle app!
Please read and enjoy some comic memoirs, science fiction short stories, novels and travelogues on living in China and Taiwan:
Free eBooks!
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Always Goodbye: the graphic novel
https://www.amazon.com/Always-Goodbye-Ray-Hecht-ebook/dp/B07ZYFRYJK
I am proud to announce that my graphic novel Always Goodbye has now been published by TWG Press, and for a special promotion this week it is free to download for the Kindle app!
Please enjoy, and of course if you like you can share and review and just plain tell me what you think ~
Synopsis:
Life can take a man many places.
Born in disputed Israel, fostered in Middle America, and then finally driven into Rising China—Ray Hecht takes journey after journey as he tries to figure it all out. He goes down many paths from the years 1982 to 2019, attempting and failing at new identities with each passing decade: artist, filmmaker, journalist, and author.
Told in simple lines and crude forms, Ray’s graphic memoir Always Goodbye rushes through the milestones of a person’s life with harsh sincerity. Follow along these memories of a man’s travels across the globe as he tries to find himself, always saying goodbye but then reconnecting all over again, as many times as it takes…
Taiwan Tales 2 free promotion!
Taiwan Tales Volume Two is free to download for the Kindle app on Amazon, for this week only! Get yours today to read my short story “The Taipei Underground” – a tale of two souls trying to figure out love beneath the shady caverns of the city – as well as many other excellent works by talented Taipei-based authors.
The stories include a mix of genres, from high fantasy with mythical beasts to ghost stories, and even one from the point of view of a small dog!
From TWG Press:
https://www.amazon.com/Taiwan-Tales-Anthology-Connor-Bixby-ebook/dp/B078XPDQDM
“Room 602” by Pat Woods, a Taiwanese ghost story inspired by an unusual local superstition about knocking on hotel doors.
“Notes from Underfoot” by Mark Will, a humorous and erudite story that gives a dog’s-eye-view of life in Taipei.
“The Taipei Underground” by Ray Hecht, a glimpse of the lives of two young people in Taipei Main Station’s cavernous underground.
“Bob the Unfriendly Ghost vs. The Mother Planet” by Laurel Bucholz, dealing a sometimes funny, sometimes terrifying experience of local spirits and Ayahuasca.
“Underworld” by J.J Goodwin, an epic odyssey through a strange world beneath Taipei where local and foreign mythology is alive and kicking.
“A Completely Normal Male Expat” by Connor Bixby, which, in the author’s own brand of neurotic fiction, checks out communication and the dating game in Taipei.
“Onus” by Ellyna Ford Phelps, a story of friendship, dark pasts, and goodbyes as two expats share an all-too-brief connection.
Free eBook short story: Saturnine, In Her Head, Out of Time
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B071P94QQ5
For this week only, my short story Saturnine, In Her Head, Out of Time is free for the your Kindle or smartphone Kindle app!
A tragic love story about time travel and how weird we feel when relationships end, the story is sure to fascinate the brain and ache the heart…
At 7,000 words, what do you have to lose for a quick read?
Synopsis:
Saturnine has regrets.
Sometimes, she wishes she could go back and do things differently. Don’t we all?
She just found out that she can.
Thanks to the good people at Kronostastic Inner Journeys, Saturnine is about to “rexperience” the unresolved circumstances of her last relationship. Hopefully, as she regresses into the past within her own chronological perception, she’ll be able to figure out what went wrong and finally get over it.
However, time paradoxes and probability theory can really get in the way of closure.
Whether in the past, present, or future, life never does turn out as planned…
THIS MODERN LOVE: free promotion
https://www.amazon.com/THIS-MODERN-LOVE-Ray-Hecht-ebook/dp/B01MA54L4I
For this week, my new novel THIS MODERN LOVE is free for downloading. As part of a Kindle Direct Press promotion, you can receive the novel for your Kindle device, or Kindle app/program on your smartphone or PC (the Kindle app is free by the way, no excuses!)
I hope you will enjoy the read. I am also still happy to directly share for reviewers via email if PDF is your medium of choice. In any case, I am slightly proud of this work and would like to know what readers think.
Tales of American love and sex, or lack thereof, in the 21st century…
Due warning: some graphic content
Goodreads Giveaway
Dear Readers,
Hope you are on Goodreads.com. If you aren’t you’ve been missing out. I’ve enjoyed starring my graphic novels and organizing bookshelves for years now, even before I became an official “Goodreads Author.”
My novel South China Morning Blues is currently up as a giveaway. Please sign up for your chance to be one of ten winners to receive a free hard copy of the book!
Less than two weeks left…
https://www.goodreads.com/giveaway/show/156199-south-china-morning-blues
Goodreads Book Giveaway
South China Morning Blues
by Ray Hecht
Giveaway ends October 14, 2015.
See the giveaway details
at Goodreads.
#Free #eBooks by Ray Hecht
With my new novel South China Morning Blues coming out thanks to the good people at Blacksmith Books, I’d like to celebrate by freely sharing all my previous eBooks for this week only!
Remember, the Amazon Kindle app is free as well. Please don’t forget to write a review.
Go to http://amazon.com/author/rayhecht and check out the following:
http://www.amazon.com/411-Ray-Hecht-ebook/dp/B00EUBZRL2
411 is a horrifying short story loosely based on my time as an operator in the early 2000s. Intended to disturb, the tale concerns a deranged disgruntled employee utilizing technology to enact revenge upon the world. Read if you dare.
http://www.amazon.com/Loser-Parade-Ray-Hecht-ebook/dp/B00ETYSS5W
Loser Parade is my first novel, written in my mid-20s, which juxtaposes Los Angeles culture against my hometown of Cincinnati, Ohio. Although dated, I hope that the story does well express the themes of lost love. Loser Fenton Ota comes home a failure, and decides to write and produce a play in order to impress a girl. Inevitably, a romance ensues and the relationship is entirely based on lies. Things take a turn for the strange when his play-within-a-play starts to get to his head…
http://www.amazon.com/Ghost-Lotus-Mountain-Brothel-ebook/dp/B00JJUXZFE
The Ghost of Lotus Mountain Brothel serves as sort of a prelude to the contemporary China novel. Set in Canton in the year 1911, the setting oddly reflects the present era of foreigner exploitation and political uncertainty. This historical novella presents the story of a lowly girl in times of great change. Revolution may be just around the corner, but she’s only trying to survive.
http://www.amazon.com/Pearl-River-Drama-Dating-Memoir-ebook/dp/B00RQQIA26
Pearl River Drama is by far my most popular eBook, and perhaps with good reason. My expat memoir is, of course, focuses on dating. Through it all, I hope my heart made it through these experiences intact. “Sex, drugs, and Mandarin lessons” indeed.
The latest on eBooking
The latest news on my eMemoir: “Pearl River Delta” available on Amazon’s KDP:
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