75% Phillip Carter Christmas eBook sale.
Valid for a limited time only.
Hello, Phillip here.
A few posts back I asked everyone what they wanted for Christmas.
You asked for:
Stand-up comedy clips
Photographic evidence that I look like The Ghost Of Christmas Present, from Muppet’s Christmas Carol
I am working on both of these things for you right now. I’ve just been to a friend’s new gig and got some stuff recorded for you, and I’ve been invited back to a comedy show I did last month, called THE BIG FAT SHAME SHOW, where you tell horrendous, shameful stories to a live audience. The show will be on TV eventually, but for now I’ve got ten minutes of my best crowd work to polish into something for you here.
But before then, I am having a 75% Christmas sale.
It is not a ‘Winter sale’ by the way. It is a Christmas sale.
The stuff I write
As you probably know by now, I write Science Fiction that is both mind-bending and funny. I like to balance out the heavy cosmic stuff by having actual believable human characters in my stories, such as Janet in Full Spectrum, my Twilight Zone inspired story about hidden dimensions which I think is probably the only story with neurodiversity representation that doesn’t annoy me.
You see, I started writing as a small and beardless child because I read some old Sci-Fi and loved it, but wanted to try other endings. One time I had an idea that the characters from each endings might meet each other in some sort of higher temporal reality, which sounds clever, but was really just a poetic device to have them argue with themselves in a sort of Socratic dialogue which would be both introspective and cosmic in scale.
Cool, right? Perhaps the first embers of WHO BUILT THE HUMANS? were planted there, in my younger brain.
I am also a poet. I plan to release a book next year but I’m in no rush. It is finished, but I want to build up an audience for it first so it doesn’t die in obscurity. I also don’t know how to market poetry yet.
There will also be a discount on Lego stuff, coming soon.
Because I also design robots and spaceships out of Lego.
The discounts
I am telling the truth when I say the books are at least 75% off. But unfortunately WBTH is not in fact 75% off, it is 80% off, because I thought that was easier to calculate. I hope you can all forgive me. But it gets worse. 52WOH is just over 80% off, because I can’t be bothered counting. I think it’s 81%? I am not sure. This mathematical conundrum would be confusing, but I have a solution, just pretend the discount is lower, say, 75%.
Note: At the time this email goes out the 75% or more discounts are live on MOST platforms. Amazon is sluggish to catch up, so you’ll get another email once they go down to a dollar too (I have to email them each time to ask them to price match, per book).
(prices are in USD)
Who Built The Humans?
Regular eBook price 4.99, Christmas price 1.
11 Sci-Fi Comedy universes broken into 47 independent parts, explored by time-travelling crabs, evil crystals, and professors alike. Reminiscent of Douglas Adams and a perfect gift for your weird dad. Seriously, these beasties almost sell out at every convention I go to, mostly to dads.
Paperbacks available literally everywhere.
52 weeks of horror
Regular eBook price 5.20, Christmas price 1.
52 human-written writing prompts compiled alongside monthly activities designed to recreate the atmosphere of my writing workshops in a portable or at-home way. This thing will help you write better fiction, trust me, I use the prompts for some of my own stories.
Paperback currently available on Amazon only (a new edition is coming in 2026 to wider retailers.
The Cosmonaut Who Died Twice
Regular eBook price 3.99, Christmas price 1.
Galina Agafonov leaves her beloved son Viktor down on earth as she is sent to explore the outer atmosphere of Jupiter, to encounter an ancient alien spaceship, and bring samples back home. But the ship is alive, and in the panic after this revelation, Galina crashes her ship and dies. Five million years later, an alien frog finds himself bartering her corpse to some eldritch beings at the edge of the galaxy. This is my most emotional story, and talks about loss and duty in a weird way you probably should expect from me by now.
I definitely have a brand.
Paperbacks available at most retailers.
My Christmas present, from you.
Lately I have been a sickly little man. I’ve had that chest infection, a few four-day migraines, and whilst it was horrid at the time, in retrospect they’ve been oddly useful.
The downtime meant I had to sit and tackle things in my head. And I realised something. My books need more reviews, and I am pretty crap at asking for them.
So if you do get these books, please do review them.
https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/20819285.Phillip_Carter
It helps a lot. I notice sales spikes after EVERY new review, which means people are loitering on my book pages, and wondering if I might just be a madman with a printer. But then they see a review and think “he must be okay” and then they buy the book.
I know people like my books because they tell me. I just need them to tell the world as well, because that’s where my audience lives.
Additionally, some promotional types don’t even look at you unless you’ve 50 reviews or more online. Some podcasts and radio shows and newspapers are even pickier. So please do post a review somewhere if you enjoyed a book! Goodreads is good, Amazon is annoyingly better, but anywhere is great.
I've just updated the prices manually on Amazon for the three books here, so they should be live within 48hrs of this post going out.