Free Download: The Day Detroit Went Dark

To celebrate and help promote The Day Detroit Went Dark audiobook, the Kindle version of The Day Detroit Went Dark will be a free download on Amazon.com starting December 24th through December 28th.

Get it here: http://www.amazon.com/The-Detroit-Went-Dark-ebook/dp/B00BIOR5K0/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1361485307&sr=8-1&keywords=the+day+detroit+went+dark

Here’s a few reviews:

5.0 out of 5 stars Terrifying and excellent, June 19, 2013

This review is from: The Day Detroit Went Dark (Kindle Edition)

As an ex-Detroiter I can assure you that if what happened in the book really did happen, this is about as close to what would happen without use of a crystal ball. Sadly the city of Detroit has been little more than a war zone for the last fifty years and it only gets worse with each passing decade. Mr.Silver has crafted a great and terrifying read. At once gut-wrenching and in some very small ways hopeful. I finished this in less than twenty four hours. Haven’t done that in a long time. Great book.

4.0 out of 5 stars good story!, March 30, 2013

This review is from: The Day Detroit Went Dark (Kindle Edition)

This is one of those books you just can’t put down, plenty of action and you “just have to know what’s going to happen next.

5.0 out of 5 stars PHENOMENAL BOOK!!! February 22, 2013

This review is from: The Day Detroit Went Dark (Kindle Edition)

This book is incredible. The author pulls me in and keeps my attention throughout. I love the characters. It’s like I’m literally watching a movie and it’s an easy read. Great Job!*****

4.0 out of 5 stars Much better than I had anticipated!, September 23, 2013

This review is from: The Day Detroit Went Dark (Kindle Edition)

So nice to be pleasantly surprised when giving a book a chance! Not to say that this was a pleasant book! No. In fact, both the implications AND feasibility of the story is frightening to say the least! The storyline was smooth and non stop. Not lots of flowery filler. Every word necessary to moving the story along. The short length of the story was enough time to get to know and care about thanks to the author’s style.

The audiobook is here: http://www.amazon.com/The-Day-Detroit-Went-Dark/dp/B00HEFDJCK/ref=tmm_aud_title_0?ie=UTF8&qid=1361485307&sr=8-1

And here: http://www.audible.com/pd/Sci-Fi-Fantasy/The-Day-Detroit-Went-Dark-Audiobook/B00HCP9C64/ref=a_search_c4_1_1_srTtl?qid=1387841012&sr=1-1

The Day Detroit Went Dark is also available on iTunes.

Thanks, everyone for making this book a success and Happy Holidays!

The Day Detroit Went Dark Audiobook

The audiobook production for The Day Detroit Went Dark is complete and approved. We’re very happy the way The Day Detroit Went Dark turned out and it should be available on Audible.com soon.

The System – A Detroit Story – starts production tomorrow.

Covers for Audiobooks

Here’s something I didn’t expect at the onset of producing an audio book with audible dot com. The book covers need to be reformatted or recreated. You might think this is no big deal, but to complicate things, the cover must be square like a CD cover and not rectangular. No big deal? That’s what I thought before I dove into the details. The cover specifications are simple and must be adhered to, otherwise the cover will be rejected.

You can’t just scale your current book cover from a rectangle to a square. The aspect ratio will be askew and will be rejected. Besides, it will look squashed and amateurish. You cannot add white space by adding a border to the sides of your cover image. This will be rejected also. If you scale up or zoom your image to fit the square format chances are it will be rejected since there will be too much noise and pixelation.

Here are the format specifications that audible dot com requires: the native or default size is 2400 x 2400 pixels with a resolution of 72dpi. Squashing down your existing cover may be difficult or downright impossible. So what to do? Create a new one.

What about brand continuity? I look at this a little differently. Audio books are unlike print or eBooks, so why not give them their own identity? Check out some of the covers on audible dot com. The ones that catch my eye are the ones with the big print with simple covers, and not the ones that take a portion of an existing cover and trim it or expand it.

I decided to redo my covers from scratch. I also decided to keep them relatively the same for at least the first two books. Why? Brand identity, specifically tailored for the audiobooks. If this works I’ll do it for all the books that appear on audible dot com.

Here’s the original cover for The Day Detroit Went Dark

Here’s the audiobook cover.

Here’s the cover for The System – A Detroit Story –

Here’s the audiobook cover. Pretty much the same thing.