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Old 12-27-2011, 04:55 AM   #1
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Free (Kindle DRM-free) JA Konrath/Jack Kilborn, Blake Crouch [Mystery/Horror] + more

Well, no backlist freebie sf/fantasy yet as far as I can tell in the daily KDP select slushpile, but there's a bonanza of mystery/horror thriller novels and short stories from much-discussed pro-to-self-pub author J.A. Konrath/Jack Kilborn and frequent co-writer Blake Crouch.

At least 30 of their singly and jointly-written self-pub titles have shown up as free on Amazon as part of the exclusive-or-else program, and many of them seem to be DRM-free, for those with other readers who want to give their writing a try.

I have no idea whether this is a planned promotional stunt for the holidays or just a massive glitch when setting the exclusivity settings, but if you want these, pick them up post-haste before they go and change things for whatever reason.

There's no way I'm typing out and linking this many titles, so I will simply provide you with Amazon's "works by this author" links, pre-sorted low to high. Be sure to trawl through all three names, as while there's a good deal of overlap, a couple of the books seem only to be listed "solo".

There's even a freebied translation of one of the freebied thrillers into German, if you want to try out your language learning skills.

Writing as J.A. Konrath: in Amazon main, UK, DE, ES, FR, IT.

Writing as Jack Kilborn: in Amazon main, UK, DE, ES, FR, IT.

Written by Blake Crouch: in Amazon main, UK, DE, ES, FR, IT.

Happy reading, if you happen to like mystery/horror thrillers.
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Old 12-27-2011, 05:38 AM   #2
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Got all the free ones - everything - but accidentally bought one.

This is a lot of work downloading all this, and authors should not make their readers work this hard to get free stuff (Translation: That's a joke.)

Seriously, the man's catalogue is a mess - worse than Ellison's.

The man probably has a computer in every room of the house - including the bathroom. (Translation: He writes a lot.)

These look to be quick reads.

Thanks for the torso up. (Translation: Something dead is hanging upside down.)



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This is a lot of work downloading all this, and authors should not make their readers work this hard to get free stuff
Yeah, my clicking hand is kind of sore* right now.

* This is an observation, not a complaint.
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Very cool, thanks. Had some already, but having them in the Amazon archive too, why not? Especially the massive short story collection.
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Old 12-27-2011, 07:46 AM   #5
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Very cool, thanks. Had some already, but having them in the Amazon archive too, why not? Especially the massive short story collection.

Which one is the massive one?

I think probably some of the free short stories may be in some of the collections....possibly?



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Thank you for these links.

Yes it was a lot of clicking, but I'm not complaining either.

I managed to accidentally buy one too. Oh well, only $.99.

I think the short story collection is "Fully Loaded" perhaps? Will be interesting to see what overlap there might be between collected and individual stories.
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If you want to get a refund, you can now do that from the Manage My Kindle page -- it's all automated, no need to speak to anyone.
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Thanks! I feel like I'm truly well-stocked in thrillers, now.
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If you want to get a refund, you can now do that from the Manage My Kindle page -- it's all automated, no need to speak to anyone.

Thanks, Karen.

Seriously, I don't mind having paid for one by accident. I've enjoyed his/their work before.

This is really a bonanza of reading material.




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Thanks, Karen.

Seriously, I don't mind having paid for one by accident. I've enjoyed his/their work before.

This is really a bonanza of reading material.

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JA Konrath says on his blog they will be free for 3 days.

He also says he's made $14,000 in the last 2 days.
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He also says he's made $14,000 in the last 2 days.
I kind of hope he reports back in 4 more days and we can find out how much extra those accidental 99 cent purchases from people mass-grabbing all the freebies at once and going too far up the > $0.00 portion of the listings might add up to, over the previous sales boost when he was just freebieing his titles one at a time.

So far we've got an admitted 2 from out of 8 people who've posted to this thread and that's a pretty good 25% "oops-I-1-clicked-eh-I'll-just-leave-it" return on promotional investment.

And it'll probably be amusing to look at the Kindle Bestseller lists for the next few days. Although I doubt anything will ever knock The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes out of the top 30 there.
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I kind of hope he reports back in 4 more days and we can find out how much extra those accidental 99 cent purchases from people mass-grabbing all the freebies at once and going too far up the > $0.00 portion of the listings might add up to, over the previous sales boost when he was just freebieing his titles one at a time.

So far we've got an admitted 2 from out of 8 people who've posted to this thread and that's a pretty good 25% "oops-I-1-clicked-eh-I'll-just-leave-it" return on promotional investment.

And it'll probably be amusing to look at the Kindle Bestseller lists for the next few days. Although I doubt anything will ever knock The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes out of the top 30 there.
Yes, it would be interesting to know how much he ends up making.

I didn't know I could request a refund, but you are right; I figured eh, I got all these freebies, I can hardly begrudge the whopping 99 cents I inadvertently spent.
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JA Konrath says on his blog they will be free for 3 days.

He also says he's made $14,000 in the last 2 days.

Does he sell vacuum cleaners on the side?






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I don't read a lot of thrillers, so this is a huge pile of books that I'll likely never get through. A few of them perked my interest though, and I'm sure I'll find some gems amongst all the freebies.

Thanks for posting the links.

Edit: I meant to mention, while I'm not a huge thriller fan, I find Kornath's go-it-alone success story in indie publishing fascinating stuff. I bought the two freebie books on writing and publishing some time ago.

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