You all know our friend Kirk Tuck, of Austin, Texas, who runs the Visual Science Lab blog and has written several posts for TOP. He'd like you to know that the Kindle version of his thriller novel The Lisbon Portfolio
Note that you can get the Kindle app for reading on other devices, such as tablets, notebooks and phones.
Kirk is also the author of Minimalist Lighting: Professional Techniques for Studio Photography.
Mike
(Thanks to Kirk)
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Posted by: Bill Mitchell | Thursday, 22 January 2015 at 03:29 PM
Wow. Thanks, Kirk!
Posted by: Art in LA | Thursday, 22 January 2015 at 04:33 PM
Out of curiosity, how does this work for the author? Is Amazon just eating the sale?
Posted by: Tim | Thursday, 22 January 2015 at 06:07 PM
thanks, got it.
Posted by: Steven Ralser | Thursday, 22 January 2015 at 09:02 PM
And Mike gets the Amazon commission, right? ;-)
Posted by: Dan | Friday, 23 January 2015 at 12:09 AM
This is a good read!
Thanks Mike.
Posted by: Jack | Friday, 23 January 2015 at 01:02 AM
Sandbags in a server room?
Posted by: FK | Friday, 23 January 2015 at 11:12 AM
Really good read. Paid for it a couple of months back, and worth every penny.
Posted by: Gareth | Friday, 23 January 2015 at 12:17 PM
Thank you!
Posted by: Pat Trent | Friday, 23 January 2015 at 12:49 PM
+1 on the thanks Kirk! look forward to reading it.
Posted by: John Nollendorfs | Friday, 23 January 2015 at 01:45 PM
Tim, The Author and Amazon eat it. No money changes hands in any direction. But if you go from Mike's link, download the book and then go on to do a little necessary Amazon shopping Mike will get credit for any real purchases but it won't cost you any bit more. Fun for all.
Posted by: kirk tuck | Friday, 23 January 2015 at 03:31 PM
I've read Kirk's book, and it's a good read with some interesting uses for an old Leica camera. If you like thrillers, you'll definitely enjoy this book.
Posted by: Duncan | Friday, 23 January 2015 at 08:32 PM
Gee,I sure would have loved that kind of free publicity when I self-published my novel! And to quote Mike, just saying...
Posted by: John Brewton | Friday, 23 January 2015 at 09:15 PM
I'm about 30% through and enjoying it.
I was impressed to read Henry could knock out a bad guy with a Nikon/Kodak digital camera of 1999 and the camera could still take pictures and not have a damaged screen. What a handy tool.
Posted by: Jack | Saturday, 24 January 2015 at 04:45 PM
Thanks for the link. I'm 10% of the way through. I'm afraid it's in need of some serious editing, with respect to punctuation, grammar and (IMO, of course) style. I've seen some of the punctuation butchery in other Kindle books, so it may be a result of whatever conversion process they use to convert from source material, but even if that's true, it ought to be cleaned up
Posted by: matt h | Sunday, 25 January 2015 at 12:09 AM
Thanks mike. I'm reading it, but I have the sense that there are some anachronisms around the technology etc?
Posted by: Ger Lawlor | Sunday, 25 January 2015 at 09:49 AM
Kirk,
Fire the copy editor. Too many 'loose' for lose (I counted three). :-)
Otherwise, I did enjoy the read. Nice job with your first book.
Jim
Posted by: Jim Kofron | Monday, 26 January 2015 at 09:41 AM
Have to agree with Matt, Ger and Jim, sadly in need of a good editor but a cute story no less.
Posted by: Lyle | Monday, 26 January 2015 at 03:57 PM
I just finished the free book.
I liked it a lot.
I hope there is a sequel which I will be happy to pay for.
Posted by: Jack | Monday, 26 January 2015 at 08:58 PM