Hayden Pearton’s Virtual Library Has Been Published!

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After months of painstaking hard work, blood, sweat and Dr Pepper, my Virtual Library is finally complete!

I know that many of you are scratching your heads and asking, “Hayden, what the heck is a Virtual Library?” Well, the answer is quite simple. A Virtual Library is a computer program that allows you to read all of my free books in a virtual space. Each book series, from The Chronicles of New Eden to The Metrophobia Collection have their own virtual scene which takes inspiration from important locations from the books. You can listen to the ocean while you stand on the shores of North Sentinel Island from For The Meek or slink in the sewers of Garn from The Beggar Knight! Each scene has its own music which can be disabled at the touch of a button if you’d prefer to read in silence or listen to your own tracks.

Additionally, the hub area allows you to physically walk to each scene as the sky above changes in real-time and the weather constantly surprises you.

Finally, I have recorded exclusive author introductions for each book which contain behind-the-scenes secrets, thoughts about specific books and just random bits of info!

And, of course, this program is 100% free, now and forever!

So what do you have to lose?

The program is available on my website, www.haydenpearton.com and is approximately 4.7GB (Windows Only I’m afraid). It will be updated whenever I publish another free book and will be supported with bug fixes and changes going forward.

Welcome, to a new way of reading books… Welcome, to my Virtual Library!

The Mephobia Audiobook is Coming Soon!

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What could be more self-aggrandizing than an autobiography told through poetry?

How about an autobiography told through poetry and narrated by the author?

That’s right, yours truly has finally dipped his toes into the voice acting world and narrated my first audiobook! The audiobook will be available on 24/11/23 and will cost $3.99

Reminder, I’ve made the difficult decision to start charging money for my audiobooks (read more here) due to the costs/time involved. Please rest assured that any money I receive will be spent on improving my creations (and maybe the occasional filet 😉 ).

The audiobook will be available at the usual places (Spotify, Audible, Apple etc) and features 30 autobiographical poems read by your favourite author (me, I hope…). I’ve also included the audio introduction from my upcoming Virtual Library so that’s something new I guess 🙂

So, if you want to support an independent author and learn more about my journey, check out the Mephobia Audiobook on Friday the 24th of November!

A New Version of My First Book is Coming Soon!

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After seven years, I have finally found the time to create a second edition of Awakening!

This new version will be live from 24/11/23 and contains the following changes:

1. Re-divided the story into 58 chapters (Awakening previously had only 19 chapters) in order to improve readability and flow (no more spending weeks reading a single chapter!)
2. Re-divided the story from 3 parts into 6 parts (for the same reasons as the above change)
3. Added an introduction from yours truly titled “A Few Words” where I discuss a few behind the scene’s tidbits, ruminate on my journey thus far and give out some well deserved thank yous!
4. Improved the table of contents and device accessibility
5. Updated the “About the Author” section and added “Other titles by this Author”

The story itself is unchanged, but if you’ve never had the pleasure of reading the book then this version is definitely for you! Witness an epic tale set on a devastated world, where two teenagers, a hermit and a broken machine must travel across varied landscapes in order to stop a madman’s genocidal plot!

The book will still be 100% FREE on smashwords.com and its distributaries (Apple, Barnes & Noble, Kobo etc) and will cost $0.99 on Amazon (the minimum amount).

Hayden Pearton’s Virtual Library is Coming Soon!

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Hey peeps and peepettes, I have an exciting announcement!

My Virtual Library will be live on the 24th of November!

I know that many of you are scratching your heads and asking, “Hayden, what the heck is a Virtual Library?” Well, the answer is quite simple. A Virtual Library is a computer program that allows you to read all of my free books in a virtual space. Each book series, from The Chronicles of New Eden to The Metrophobia Collection have their own virtual scene which takes inspiration from important locations from the books. You can listen to the ocean while you stand on the shores of North Sentinel Island from For The Meek or slink in the sewers of Garn from The Beggar Knight! Each scene has its own music which can be disabled at the touch of a button if you’d prefer to read in silence or listen to your own tracks.

Additionally, the hub area allows you to physically walk to each scene as the sky above changes in real-time and the weather constantly surprises you.

Finally, I have recorded exclusive author introductions for each book which contain behind-the-scenes secrets, thoughts about specific books and just random bits of info!

And, of course, this program is 100% free, now and forever!

So what do you have to lose?

The program will be available on my website, www.haydenpearton.com on the 24th of November and is approximately 4.7GB (Windows Only I’m afraid). It will be updated whenever I publish another free book and will be supported with bug fixes and changes going forward.

Welcome, to a new way of reading books… Welcome, to my Virtual Library!

The Beggar God Has Been Published!

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You Bugger the beggar’s story finally draws to a close in an epic story filled with Gods, Gold and, well… Guess you’ll just have to get it and find out?

Divinity, death and dreams surround You Bugger the beggar, as his story comes to a cataclysmic close. After suffering an unimaginable fate, the unlucky beggar turned knight turned king has been given just twelve days to change his destiny.
He will need to travel to lands both divine and dangerous, conjure miracles and defeat a God if he ever wants to return to his life of carefree begging.

But if he fails, he will face a fate worse than death…

The book is available now via Smashwords and will be available soon on Apple Books, Kobo, Barnes & Noble and more! The book is also be available on Amazon, however, due to their requirements it costs $0.99 USD on their site.

So, sixteen books down and believe me, I am only just getting started 🙂 Don’t forget to check out the first two books in the trilogy, The Beggar Knight (or its audiobook) and The Beggar King (or its audiobook)

P.S. A reminder that all sixteen books, from The Chronicles of New Eden to The Divine Duology, are all 100% FREE for all readers!

What Comes Next

So, going forward, what’s next? Well, I am pleased to announce that I am currently working on my very own virtual library where you will be able to read all of my books in a virtual space on your PC, complete with brand new book intros narrated by yours truly. More details will be coming soon and it will hopefully be available sometime in the next 8 weeks 🙂

After that, my plan is to put 100% of my effort into creating and publishing my first video game. I will share more details about it closer to the time but it has been a blast to develop something solo and from scratch (I don’t have any past experience with coding, art or anything game-related).

Once my game has been released I intend to go full-steam into finishing The Chronicles of New Eden. The series has seven books in total and I hope to get through the remaining four books in the next 2-3 years.

Beyond that, I really would like to grow my platform and start charging money for my next projects (not that I don’t love being poor, of course) in order to reduce my day job (physiotherapist) hours and put more time and effort into writing and game development.

So, in summation, go and read The Beggar God and be on the look out for new and exciting things coming soon!

Reminder: My Books are Free!

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For those of you who don’t know this, I just wanted to explain the price model for my published books:

Short Version: They’re Free!

Long Version: They’re Freeeeeee!

But Hayden, I hear you ask, how can you just give away your books for free, despite all of the time and effort it took to make them?

Well, the answer is simple: I know how much of a gamble it is to spend your hard-earned money on an unknown and untested author, so I removed the risk. Now, you don’t have to choose between the latest Brandon Sanderson epic and Be Good, you can have both!

If you like what I’ve written, great!

And if you unfortunately don’t, then at least it didn’t cost you anything.

Of course, I am only able to give away my books because they are not my primary income stream. I am currently working as a Physiotherapist in a private hospital, which earns me enough to pay my bills and keep food on the table.

But who knows what the future holds? If possible, I would like to write full-time, enabling me to bring out better books more often, but in that case, I will most likely have to start charging for my works.

Until then, my books will remain free.

Also, please don’t worry about getting half-way through The Chronicles of New Eden and suddenly hitting a paywall. All of my current series will be free, from start to finish, for the foreseeable future.

With that said, why don’t you give my books a chance, you might just be glad you did!

The Second Edition of Awakening Has Been Published!

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Where has the time gone? I can’t believe that it has been over seven years since I released Awakening (my first book)! In celebration of this, I decided to get the old girl a bit of a spit-n-shine and voila, a spiffy new edition was born!

So what is different, I hear you ask?

Well, check the list below and try not to faint from awe:

1. Re-divided the story into 58 chapters (Awakening previously had only 19 chapters) in order to improve readability and flow (no more spending weeks reading a single chapter!)
2. Re-divided the story from 3 parts into 6 parts (for the same reasons as the above change)
3. Added an introduction from yours truly titled “A Few Words” where I discuss a few behind the scene’s tidbits, ruminate on my journey thus far and give out some well deserved thank yous!
4. Improved the table of contents and device accessibility
5. Updated the “About the Author” section and added “Other titles by this Author”

The story itself is unchanged, but if you’ve never had the pleasure of reading the book then this version is definitely for you! Witness an epic tale set on a devastated world, where two teenagers, a hermit and a broken machine must travel across varied landscapes in order to stop a madman’s genocidal plot!

The book will still be 100% FREE on smashwords.com and its distributaries (Apple, Barnes & Noble, Kobo etc) and will cost $0.99 on Amazon (the minimum amount).

Now, more than ever, the oath holds true:

Through Fire

Through Ice

Through Deepest Despair

I Will Never Lose My Stride!

The Mephobia Audiobook Has Been Published!

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That’s right, yours truly has narrated his own autobiography! (is that meta? I can’t tell anymore…)

As with my other audiobooks (The Godhand, The Beggar Knight, The Beggar King) Mephobia is available pretty much everywhere (Apple, Audible, Spotify etc) for the low low cost of $3.99!

The audiobook features 30 autobiographical poems read by your favourite author (me, I hope…). Wanna know how I came up with the idea for Awakening? Or perhaps you’re interested in which sense I’ve lost (hint, it’s not sight)? Or are you curious about my black belt in… whoops, almost caught me there… As an added bonus I’ve also included the audio introduction from my upcoming Virtual Library so that’s something new I guess 🙂

So what are you waiting for? If you have poor taste and disposable income, check out the Mephobia Audiobook!

The Beggar God is Coming Soon!

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That’s right, all you weird and wonderful folks, the culmination of You Bugger the beggar’s story is almost here!

The Beggar God, the third installment of the Beggar Chronicles, will be available on September 24th, 2023!

The book picks up immediately after the shocking ending of The Beggar King and explores its gruesome outcome. You Bugger, faced with an impossible task, will need to travel to lands both divine and dangerous in order to gain what he needs to win. He has been a beggar, a knight and even a king, but now he must become something greater still…

A God.

As with my other books The Beggar God will be 100% free via Smashwords.com and its distributaries (Apple Books, Barnes & Noble, Kobo etc) and will cost $0.99 on Amazon (due to their rules).

I hope that all of you are looking forward to the final part of You Bugger’s story! Its a doozy!

The Beggar King Audiobook has been published!

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They say third time’s the charm, so let’s go! The Beggar King Audiobook is now available on a variety of platforms! The audiobook is available on Audible, Apple and pretty much all audiobook providers! As mentioned in my announcement post, I unfortunately had to raise the price of all of my audiobooks in order to ensure that I could pay my narrator (Chris Morse) a proper amount for all of his amazing work.

If you want to check out his other work or work with him, please check out his Fiverr profile here!

The Beggar God, the explosive third and final installment is coming out next month, so you still have time to catch up on You Bugger the beggar’s adventures before it drops!

So what are you waiting for? The world of beggars, kings and gods awaits!

The Beggar King Audiobook is coming next week!

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That’s right, my next audiobook will be released on the 24th of August!

Once again narrated by the insanely talented Chris Morse, the audiobook tells the tale of You Bugger the beggar, now crowned king of the kingdom of Brent! The titular Beggar King will face treacherous assassins, spiteful knights and warmongering kings in his quest to somehow return to a simple life of begging in his favourite spot.

Due to a desire to put more money towards my narrator as well as fund future projects I have made the difficult decision to start charging for all of my audiobooks. The new prices are as follows:

The Godhand: $4.99

The Beggar Knight: $5.99

The Beggar King: $5.99

The eBook versions of these titles will remain free, however, so please consider purchasing the audiobooks if you want to support me as an author and enable my narrator to receive an amount that properly reflects all of his hard work and incredible talent.

So mark down the date and I’ll see you all next week!