Safari Chronicles Vol 1 Released on Amazon Kindle!

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Here's the new cover I designed for Amazon. Hope they update and start showing it soon!

I am so excited I can’t stand it! The Safari Chronicles Volume 1: The Safari Adventure Company is finally available again. After a 5 year “out of print” exile you can now get it on Amazon.com – and for the totally insane price of just 99 cents! (The hardcover was priced at $24.95.)

This is the first book I wrote. More than 20,000 copies of the book were sold until 2005 when I quit traveling and speaking.

What a Dumbass!

I actually hauled the last 300 copies of the hardcover book, as well as 650 copies of the paperback Big Butts of Life to Goodwill and donated them to charity – because at the time I just thought I was all done with that part of my life.

After c0-creating the Speaker Machine with Felicia Slattery last summer, I found out that people in the course went to Amazon and found it was out of print, and ended up buying used copies of the book. When Felicia and others read the pdf of the book she scolded me for not putting it back out.

While editing the book to put it back up on Amazon I fell in love with the story, and was actually inspired by the way the main character dealt with the obstacles life threw at him. After the cancer surgery scared the pants off me, I have to admit, I was pretty overwhelmed, and feeling sorry for myself.

What Do You Do When You Don’t Know What To Do?

Just like Jim, the main character in the book, until he meets a man named Benjamin in an odd little shop called The Safari Adventure Company. He gives him a little book written in 1895 called The Three Treasures and invites him to join them on an adventure in Malawi Africa.

This book is filled with wild characters, adventure, and humor I just couldn’t help inserting. But, the Safari Chronicles is more than fun and games, before you know it you realize you’ve been pulled into solving some problems for Jim – and getting answers to your own challenges.

Safari Chronicles original cover

People who bought my book at a conference emailed me and cussed me out for keeping them up all night after they’d started The Safari Chronicles on the plane on the way home. I’ll admit I wrote it as a page turner, cliff hanger, and it seems it worked.

Why So Cheap On Amazon?

I recently discovered that fiction books are selling like hotcakes on Amazon for Kindle, and unknown authors are popping some impressive numbers at .099 – $2.99. Because the price point is so low readers may think, “well at 99 cents it probably sucks, but what the heck, I like this kind of book.” So they buy it and get started.

The Safari Chronicles fits this market very well, and it way doesn’t suck!

I’ve got lots more to share with you about writing, self-publishing, and making a full time serious income from doing what you love. (Did you notice the new header graphic on my site?)

But, for now I want to ask you to buy The Safari Chronicles Vol 1; The Safari Adventure Company for just 99 cents – and please please please leave your testimonial on the site and rate my little adventure 5 stars?

Got a question or comment for me? Leave it in the comments section below and I promise to answer you pdq!


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  • Anonymous

    Hey Rick,

    So it’s come to this!  And I guess those are your sweat-stained safari suits up on eBay this week.

  • http://www.facebook.com/rickbutts Rick Butts

    Come to this? LOL! This is a long overdue acknowledgement that I’ve ignored the largest book store in the world. DUH!

    I’m so amped. I just uploaded the new cover I’ve been designing.

  • Gary Gray

    Hey Rick,  k I bought your book and it’s now on my Kindle PC. Thanks for sharing and adding me to your circle or circling me or whatever the correct term is on Google +. Man it seems lonely in here. Am I the only faithful reader of your stuff. Sorry, I guess I missed the cancer thingy and how you come to almost die. My turn to almost die was almost nine years ago when a blood vessel in the middle of my brain broke and allowed a flood of blood to kill off some of my brain cells. Kinda put me into a coma for three weeks and a continued state of rehabilitation ever since. Was I scared? Heck no! I didn’t even know where I was or what day it was. Couldn’t eat, walk, write or even use the bathroom or my dominant  Left hand and arm. I was pretty much a basket case for the first month or two. Then came the challenge to rebuild a life as I had to pretty much relearn almost everything. So, if you ever need to talk, you really need to find somebody that can relate. Not someone like me who started at square one and just put one  foot in front of the other and started moving forward and upward relearning as I went. Wishing you the best with your treatments and your recovery.Ask around, you may find lots of people manning an oar in your boat.

    That said, remember, sometimes we just have to row our own boat. The converse of that of course is finding ones self up the creek without a paddle.

    Row hard my friend. It keeps the mind occupied and has also been proven to be great exercise. Smiles :) Gary

    • http://rickbutts.com Rick Butts

      Hey Gary – thanks for sharing your big crazy experience. I think we all go through life like it’s a very vivid video game until we hit something hard and crash – then you find out how fragile your life is – and what truly matters most – cash.

      LOL – just kidding on the cash part – if the economy goes it’s going to be canned goods and potable water.

      • Gary Gray

        Hey Rick, thanks for your reply. Crazy experience is right,. Interestingly enough though recovery can happen. The major challenge it turns out is acceptance. In order to begin recovery one has to accept what has happened. Not everyone can. If one lives in denial then you can’t see clearly where you stand/sit. How then could you EVER focus on where you want to go. It’s kinda like what I learned as an air traffic controller.An important principal in flight planning is If you know where you are and you know where you want to go then you can usually plot a course to get there.  There may be obstacles that you have to skirt around but you make your course adjustments and continue working toward your planned destination. Part of a good flight plan of course is a planned alternate destination (plan B) Along with your flight plan you will need a map to plot your current position. (the continued need to know where you are) and a compass (to keep you moving in the right direction) With these three basic tools, a plan with a destination in mind, a regular reporting system (to tell you where you are) as well as sound policies and procedures (to keep you moving in the right direction) you can get to most any destination that you desire. As president J.F. Kennedy once said “we will go to the moon and do the other thing”. Anything a person can envision then becomes achievable. Knowing where you are and knowing where you want to go are the key factors. The plan to get there is simply the third element of success.

        Funny thing is that the same principals apply if the “you” is an individual, a family, a non profit group, a small business, a corporation, a community, a state, a country or even the UN. Go figure. Just like a budget (cash) it’s scaleable

        Oh dear I did go on didn’t I…… he he.

        Smiles :) – Gary

  • http://www.facebook.com/brennan.kingsland Brennan Kingsland

    Wow, Rick! I just got the Safari Chronicles downloaded to my Kindle and I’m hooked! You just have too many talents! I have to be gone all afternoon, but this book will be waiting for me when I get back (I’m only 15% through it).
    Rick, I’m just starting the book but I have to tell you how much Jim’s midlife crisis resonates with the “old” me. Can’t wait to see what is coming!
    Glad you put it up for sale!

  • Anonymous

    Wow, Rick, after listening to you at dinner some time ago, I Knew you could Tell a Story, Butts, THIS ! I Rarely write reviews and yet I was Compelled to Tell You that I Thoroughly enjoyed reading this story. I was surprisingly on the edge of my seat and experienced a Wide Range of emotions while Fully Absorbed in this Adventure. I simply Could Not Stop Reading; Everything Else was put on Hold until I completed it. I can Hardly Wait to learn what happens next as I eagerly await the release of Safari Chronicles Vol 2 – The Ancient Library. C’mon Rick – Git-’er-Done! We’ve GOT to know –
    – WHAT Happened to Weinberg?? ;o)