Review by: Andreas Friedle on May. 11, 2011 :
I really enjoyed this book (But I think “My Robot Girlfriend” was a little bit better). It was short, but a very good read. For 1 dollar… excellent!
When there’s part 3 or something similar coming: I’ll read it.
Review by: Saurabh Patil on May. 08, 2011 :
Excellent sequel to His Robot Girlfriend. The flow was very harmonious and I was lost in futuristic life of Mike Smith as if I was part of the family. The book is short but sweet.
I am looking forward for an another sequel to it. (Maybe Her Robot grandma?)
Review by: Andreas Friedle on May. 11, 2011 :
I really enjoyed this book (But I think “My Robot Girlfriend” was a little bit better). It was short, but a very good read. For 1 dollar… excellent!
When there’s part 3 or something similar coming: I’ll read it.
5.0 out of 5 stars thoroughly enjoyable, 18 Mar 2011
By Ms. S. J. Pearce “sallyjanepearce” – See all my reviews
(REAL NAME)
This review is from: His Robot Wife (Kindle Edition)
I thoroughly enjoyed this book. This is something I never would have read had it not been for purchasing the Kindle & I enjoyed it so much I went looking for other books by the same author. A good read which is well worth taking a chance on.
Thanks, Ms. Pearce!
I’m pretty excited. My books are selling well. Prior to 2011, the most books that I had sold in a month was 65. Since most Indy authors sell fewer than 100 books, I wasn’t too discouraged. I write what I would want to read, and I think that most of my books don’t have much of a “hook.” When people start reading them though, I seem to get pretty good feedback. So I knew that at some point I would hook a few readers. I also suspected that His Robot Wife would be the book to hook a few.
His Robot Wife came out in February, and I sold over 100 books that month. Then in March, I sold almost 500! Here (as I write this), April has just started and I’ve already sold over 500 this month! As I mentioned before, most of them are in the UK, but also quite a few in Australia and Canada. Thanks to all my readers out there. I appreciate you.
I’m here in Springdale California today, staying at the home of Mike Smith and his robot wife Patience. Their house at 11 North Willow, is lovely and futuristic… I guess duh, since it is in the year 2037. The first adventure of Mike and Patience is detailed in His Robot Girlfriend and is available at any fine ebook store absolutely free. The new adventure His Robot Wife is just 99 cents, again, where fine ebooks are sold.
As I mentioned in an earlier comment, His Robot Wife is selling about three times as well in the UK than it is in the US Kindle store. I’m sure this is in large part to the very nice review (previously mentioned also) by Mr. Horrigan. Thanks to all of you in the UK. I appreciate your support.
Amanda Hocking is big in the news this week. Clever readers have noticed that she is one of two authors mentioned in His Robot Wife. It may be the first book to mention her by name. The other author? Sci-fi great James White.
The following review is from Amazon UK.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars A really great little book!, 11 Mar 2011
By S. Horrigan (London) – See all my reviews
(VINE VOICE) (REAL NAME)
This review is from: His Robot Wife (Kindle Edition)
Mike Smith is a happily married, early retired, middle class ex-school teacher. The only unusual thing about him is that his wife Patience is a robot.
Told in a deceptively simple style this is a classic Asimov style robot story. It is not particularly long (it took me about two hours to read) but it does cover some very emotive issues about the rights of an artificial intelligence.
The character development of Patience is the key to this story. Starting as a very robotic robot, her discovery of her real self and her development as an individual rather than just being “His Robot Wife” are beautifully handled by the author. The story actually had me questioning my own opinions.
The Kindle presentation is perfect with no formatting or presentational errors that I could see. The cover picture is also included. The cover picture deserves a quick mention too – it is absolutely perfect for the book and is what first attracted my attention when browsing the Kindle science fiction section.
Overall 5 stars! The biggest compliment I can pay the author is that after finishing this book I immediately searched to see if he had written anything else. I found several other Kindle books by him and will definitely be reading some more of his work.
I am not an obsessive person by any stretch of the imagination, but if there is anything I obsess over, it is whether my books are selling. I check my sales daily. It’s not about money. I guess you could call it pride. Writing is still a hobby for me, but someday in the distant future, I’d like it to at least supplement my retirement.
I have been selling more than a book a day on average for a while now. I also knew that His Robot Wife would be guaranteed to sell. After all, His Robot Girlfriend has been downloaded over 100,000 times. Of course, it’s free. In the first two weeks His Robot Wife has sold 46 books, and its not even in iBooks or Barnes and Noble or Kobo yet (HOPEFULLY SOON).
I have to say that it’s a really good feeling to get up in the morning and know that I will sell some books that day. My personal goal is to sell 8,000 copies of His Robot Wife in the first year. I’ll let you know how that goes.
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