Category Archives: Books

The Nord Stream blowout

Nordstream:

As was reported yesterday on international news, and perhaps even more in detail out here in Scandinavia, there seems to be some serious trouble with both Nord Stream pipelines since yesterday. Both seem to be showing all the signs of massive leaking. While Nord Stream 2 was not yet deployed, even that has been blowing bubbles since yesterday. Continue reading →

Pricing issues

As much as I like helping others, giving away my books for free makes no sense to me. As it turned out, at bol.com I virtually did just that.

Due to the excessive amount that bol.com takes off my profit, I was giving away each book at €0.60 per copy, which is a steal on their behalf as I see it. As a result of this, I decided to no longer sell my paperbacks via bol.com but only at bravenewbooks.nl. Obviously, sales of ebooks and pocketbooks continue via amazon.com and bravenewbooks.nl (Nuremberg, The Big Day, The Deep, and De Grote Dag).

That said, I am reconsidering the pricing for my ebooks. I’ll keep y’all posted.

Paul
2022-09

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Paperback time! (…the sequel)

The great Amazon has since a few years problems delivering print-on-demand paperback books within Europe. Sure I can order a paperback to my summerplace in Spain with no problems and delivered within days. But getting one out to Sweden, where I live, is not possible for the great Amazon. Mid 2022, they still blame it on Covid…

So I struck deals with two publishers, Amazon.com for the North American market and BreaveNewBooks.nl for the European markets. The content of BraveNewBooks is forwarded to other large bookshops such as bol.com. Continue reading →

Nu bij bravenewbooks.nl!

Inderdaad, nu is mijn eerst boek ‘Nuremberg’ als eboek te koop op bravenewbooks.nl. Voor wie dat (nog) niet wist, dat is de self-publishing site voor onder andere bol.com, bruna boeken, en een hele verzameling van andere boeken (en e-boeken) sites.

Wellicht interessant voor de papieren lezers: ook de paperback versie van mijn boek komt daar binnenkort uit! Continue reading →

Preliminary reading news!

Yup, indeed, another new book is on its way!
Once again, it is by me!

Update, 2022-06-28:

The writing of the new book is done! Now there’re only a review and layout issues to address before publication. The title, you may ask, here you go:

The Deep

It will first come out as Paperback, followed by Ebook a little later.


You may want to find out more about it, or even be interested in reading it! But you’ll have to hold your horses for it to be written and published first. Even though I’m on it, it still is a work in progress and far from done. I’ll keep you posted! Continue reading →

Reading news!

Yup, indeed, a new book has come out!
As they do all the time…
But this time it is by me!

You may want to find out more about it, or even be interested in reading it!

What is it about you may wonder? Well, here’s a short impression:

In the final months of the Second World War, a high officer in the German army is assassinated by the German resistance in an attempt to speed up the outcome of the war. When the war is finally over, German resistance groups lay down their arms and return to regular life. With that, assassinations cease – or do they? Continue reading →