Monday, 31 December 2012

Happy New Year!

The Super Spuds would like to wish you all a Happy New Year and all the best for 2013.  Thanks to all who have bought the book, reviewed it and helped support the story. 

The Super Spud Trilogy is free on New Year's Day! Just click on the link to the right or left :)

Looking to the future, I'm starting work on another novel, not Super Spud related this time, so will have to see how it turns out!  Might just keep on writing Super Spud stories for the rest of my life...

Hope you all had a cracking New Year's Eve and no major hangovers!

Thanks,
Michael

Thursday, 27 December 2012

Love lost - writing competition winner

There was a writing competition on Goodreads a few weeks ago which I entered and, to my shock, actually won.  The rules were: 150 words, and it had to contain the words frequent, fragile, furtive and a number from fifty to fifty-nine!

My entry was Love Lost:

Jack held his wife’s hand as she slept; her body was now in a state of total fragility and it was only a matter of hours before she slipped away. Fifty five was no age to be losing the woman he loved. The last few weeks had been especially hard - her frequent violent outbursts and her unbearable suffering were one thing, but to be viewed as a stranger in her eyes was what hurt Jack the most. He loved her, and he had always loved her but now he was nothing but a ghost.

Her eyes opened and Jack, not wanting to scare her, let go of her hand but he was unable to resist those eyes which had captured him since day one and he stole a furtive glance at her. To his joy, here at the end, she recognized the man she loved and she smiled at him once more before closing her eyes, at peace, finally.


I'm happy I won and claimed the prize of re-tweets on Twitter (every little bit of promotion helps).  Now I got to think of the rules, along the same format, for the next competition, so if anyone has ideas leave me a comment as I'm a bit stuck.



The Super Spud Trilogy will be free again on the 1st and 5th January! Thanks to all who helped promote it so far with your re-tweets and downloads.  Hopefully gained some new readers who will be interested in Book 4 too!

The Super Spud Trilogy is FREE!

FREE today, all three books in one! 



Reviews: 

“I'm in absolute awe at the distance to which a person's imagination can travel! This book is so incredibly original”

“It's a fun and unpredictable world with everything inside that you could possible wish for. Every human activity, myth and past-time, seems to have its own Super Spud variant.”

“Michael Diack has the sort of warped perception of reality I enjoy and his writing puts me in mind of a slightly blacker Terry Pratchett. This is nicely original writing divided into three stories with different heroes and I found many laugh out loud passages I will remember forever.”

“5 STARS!!...... for creativity, originality, laugh-out-loud funniness, and pure, raw, awesome-ness!”



Happy New Year!  If you enjoy the Super Spuds, be sure to check out Super Spuds 4 – out now!

The Super Spud Trilogy will also be free oon the 1st and 5th January!

Saturday, 22 December 2012

Free e-book: The Super Spuds 4

In the spirit of Christmas, the brand new Super Spud adventure is free to download 22nd, 24th and the 29th December!  

http://www.amazon.com/The-Super-Spuds-Book-ebook/dp/B00AR2V99C/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1356198467&sr=1-1&keywords=michael+diack

Merry Christmas everyone!

Friday, 21 December 2012

The Super Spuds 4 - Out now to download!

I'm very happy to announce that The Super Spuds 4 is now available to download to Kindle. 

UK: http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Super-Spuds-Book-ebook/dp/B00AR2V99C/ref=sr_1_1?_encoding=UTF8&al_rs=&qid=1356075626&sr=8-1#al_rp

USA: http://www.amazon.com/The-Super-Spuds-Book-ebook/dp/B00AR2V99C/ref=sr_1_6?ie=UTF8&qid=1356075906&sr=8-6&keywords=the+super+spuds+4

I wish everyone a Happy Christmas and all the best for the new year.

Thanks.

Thursday, 13 December 2012

A Twisted Fairy Tale - Part 3

As Melanie was at heart a good fairy, she knew that their plan would hurt the woman.  But Melanie would die without the tooth, and as long as the only damage to the woman was a lost tooth or two, she suppressed any guilt she was feeling for the greater good of her health.  Besides, Melanie was getting tired of hearing her stomach rumbling from hunger.  Jack didn’t care about the woman: the more pain that he caused her, the healthier he would be.  All Tangle Wire Fairies were inherently evil, so Jack didn’t have any emotions – apart from feeling sad and depressed at not causing people PAM! 

The plan was set and Jack was eagerly waiting in position by the oven door.  Melanie was hovering behind the bin ready to fly out and make her escape through a gap behind the kitchen sink.  The woman stood by the oven stirring the potatoes in their pan on the hob.  She was completely oblivious to Jack, who had already begun knotting the two sets of laces together in all kinds of intertwined hell.  Jack finished making the tangle lace mess and retreated to the side of the oven, almost unable to contain his joy at the inevitable PAM that was due any moment.  The woman, satisfied the potatoes were cooked, grabbed the pan and began turning towards the kitchen sink to drain the water.  Before even realizing, she was falling down.  The woman cracked her face against the side of the kitchen sink, and her teeth flew out all over the room.  With a thud she slammed down hard on the cold, tiled floor and the pan she was carrying emptied its boiling hot contents all over her body, scolding her face, hands and chest.  Melanie was shocked at the pain the woman was in, but quickly flew out and grabbed a tooth from the floor.  The husband then came running in concerned from the noise and upon seeing his wife on the floor, ran over to her, but in doing so, ignored the water around him.  The man slipped on the puddles of greasy, starch-laden water and went feet first into the air, cracking his skull open on the tiles – he died instantly.  Melanie wasn’t aware that the man had died, for she was already up in the loft with her prize and greedily eating away at the calcium.  Jack, on the other hand, had watched the carnage from the top of the fridge and his excitement levels were high enough to last him for another 75 years, let alone six months.  With no-one else in the house and no ambulance on the way, the woman died a few hours later still lying on the floor with her husband beside her.  In a final despicable act, a laughing Jack flew down and undid his masterful shoelace tangle, to avoid any suspicion of why the woman had fallen.

The bodies were discovered the next day by one of their children, and the coroner concluded that their deaths were accidental.  Six months later, the house had new owners: a young couple with no children, yet.  Jack didn’t care anymore, for he was still laughing blissfully at the PAM he had created and Melanie had finished the last of the woman’s tooth.  But it didn’t matter anymore that she had run out of calcium, for the 75 years were finally up and Jack and Melanie were instantly teleported to Fairyland.  Instantly, Rose the Tooth Fairy and Jim the Tangle Wire Fairy took over for Melanie and Jack in the house to begin their 75 year reign. 

Unfortunately for Melanie and Jack, their stairway to heaven was not certified yet for they had to be judged by the Fairy Godfather.  Melanie, unaware that the woman and man had both died, was sat in the judgement room eagerly waiting to being transported to the dentists.  Jack was also confident he had been evil enough to secure an eternal life of creating PAM in the hospital.
          “Melanie, please step forward to be judged,” said the Fairy Godfather in his deep and commanding voice. “Melanie, you are charged with helping to cause the deaths of two innocent humans.  For this deplorable and vile act, I sentence you to your fairy Hell.”
Melanie broke down into tears, she didn’t know she helped to commit murder and she was teleported straight away to Osteoporosis Island – the most calcium-deficient place in the universe.
          “Jack, please step forward to be judged.”
Jack walked forward expressing a cocky smile and swagger, already plotting what he was going to do with all the intensive care wires and IV bags. 
          “For helping a Tooth Fairy avoid starving to death, you have done a good deed and for this, I must sentence you to your fairy Hell,” said the Fairy Godfather.
Jack stood in shock and utter disbelief, and was then teleported to his fairy Hell – a futuristic Earth with wireless technology for everything.