"The Shameless Promotion and Endless Plug-Your-Novel Thread"

[HarrietSchultz]

My 10-page short story, a prologue to the romantic suspense novel, Legacy of the Highlands, is free on Amazon and from most other e-booksellers. It's been Amazon's #1 best selling free short fiction for about a week , although it's slipped to #3 today.

"The best man is handsome, charming and wealthy and is in love -- or is it lust -- with the woman his best friend is about to marry."

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0087WZAIU

Unfortunately, amazon U.K. doesn't list it as free, so it would be great if U.K readers could report the lower price to them! No one should have to pay for a 10-page story! Thanks.

[C.M. Skiera]

Hello!

Crimson & Cream (The Oxbow Kingdom Trilogy) - $2.99 debut epic fantasy novel is available on Amazon & iTunes. Or get it for FREE at Smashwords with this coupon code JH88U (good through 8/26/12).

I started writing this coming-of-age novel in 1999, and after lots of twists and turns, 13 drafts, and the advent of online self-publishing, it's now here. Please take a peek, if you'd be so kind. Here's a little teaser:

Crimson & Cream recounts an unlucky orphan boy's adventurous tale of flight and discovery as he unravels his tortured past while securing his tenuous future. Hounded by watchmen, trolls, goblins, and a relentless bounty hunter, Jetsam begins running for his life, and dreams of a day when the deadly race will end.

In the magnificent mountain city of Dwim-Halloe, Eadriel and Elvar were born identical twin brothers to teachers at the city's revered School of Magic. In Dwim-Halloe, a new king declared magic evil, and outlawed its practice. This decree spawned a revolt by the resident spellcasters, which led to a bloody rebellion. With brutal force, the new ruler crushed the uprising. The twins parents' murder forfeited the boys' birthright to learn the art of magic, and sent them fleeing for their lives.

Rescued by an orphan gang, the twins were nicknamed Flotsam and Jetsam. The clan introduced them to their underbelly lair, where they live in hiding. To survive, the fugitive urchins sneak up to town nightly to scavenge and pilfer.

During their last risky foray, a castle sentry spotted the youthful intruders and the brothers fled into an unfamiliar cavern. Lost deep underground, they encountered a strange beast that changed their lives forever and started a harrowing journey for survival.

Thank you!

-C.M. Skiera

[HarrietSchultz]

Lust and Honor, the 10-page short story prologue to my novel, Legacy of the Highlands, is finally priced at 0.00 on Amazon U.K.

It's been at or near the top of Amazon's short fiction bestseller list in the U.S. and I'm happy that readers in the U.K. can now read it for free.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0087WZAIU

[Fidney]

If science fiction, vampires, and (mild) erotica are your thing, then you might like to check out "Burn In Starlight" written under my pen-name James Lauren, which is currently FREE at Smashwords (see below).

BLURB:
Kitiara Oshida is on her way to a new start on a newly discovered frontier world when she is awakened from cryosleep to save the colony vessel from a fiery encounter.

That would be bad enough on it's own, but all is not entirely as it seems.

Kit falls in love with Astrid before she's even laid eyes on her, and her feelings do seem to be reciprocated so it's almost inevitable that they end up in bed together.

But every silver lining has it's cloud, and this cloud is darker that Kit could ever have imagined.

This story has it all - spaceships, sex, vampires!

*CARE* This story contains adult themes and language.

This can be had for FREE until August 31st with coupon code ZP78Z (redeem at checkout) at Smashwords where it can be downloaded in all popular formats.

If you'd prefer to pay for it , you can get it for $1.99 at Amazon.com or £1.25 at Amazon.co.uk

Give it a try, you've nowt to lose!

[Stoneforger]

On the riverside of promise - A historical action/adventure/espionage for $2.99

On the riverside of promise is an action adventure with plot twists, involving intelligence agencies in the Biafran war, the civil war in Nigeria back in the '60s, as a backdrop.



Lagos, Nigeria. Summer of 1968. The war in Biafra is in full swing. Ethan Whittmore is a Captain of the Royal Marines, training government troops in support of the Nigerians.

When he learns of his brother's disappearance, a doctor with the Red Cross, he takes it upon himself to find his brother, dead or alive.

His efforts will lead him through the Nigerian jungles and rainforests amidst a bloody civil war. What lays at the end of the road though will be more than just an unexpected surprise and lots of broken promises..

Available for the Kindle on the Amazon store and in many other ebook formats from Smashwords.com
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FREE Coupon code for Smashwords.com : SY53G

[DaronFraley]

Thirty-Six, the first book in a multi-author series is free on Kindle Friday and Saturday, August 24-25, 2012. Genre: Christian Suspense with a little bit of romance...

Synopsis:

Three things Aaron Cohen never intended:
To purchase an ancient, holy relic.
To encourage the mysterious stalker.
To fall for Mandie.
But he did. And if he doesn't get to her
in time, she will die.



http://www.amazon.com/Thirty-Six-ebook/dp/B008PSGIJ6

For more information about the series, please visit http://www.lamed-vav.com

If you are interested in winning a free signed copy of the trade paperback, visit the Goodreads giveaway: http://www.goodreads.com/giveaway/sh...rty-six?page=1

[HarrietSchultz]

FREE THIS WEEKEND 8/24-26
New thriller: "Saving Jay" by Tom Barry
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B007X84DRS

Everyone wants a piece of hot-shot Jay Brooke. That's how you know you've made it in the shark eat shark world of the City. And today is the day Jay will enter the hallowed hall of Partnership in a top management consultancy. The outsider will finally be on the inside. The only complication is his new boss, American ball-breaker Sara Golding, who is looking for a trophy for her cabinet.
"Saving Jay -Prequel " is the second book in the Siren Series trilogy; a business thriller and emotional drama set in London, where we meet the young Jay, the lean and hungry go-getter who seems to have the world at his feet.

[Leelandes]

For you and your 9-12 year olds. Brenna and the Horses of Lusayana is a fantasy adventure by Lee Landes.

Brenna MacLean (12) has no home, no friends and no father. It's always been like that and her Mum isn't telling her why? Summer: and a stranger called Cosmo lures them to a cottage suspended above a wild and threatening sea. Immediately, Brenna's beautiful Mum begins to fade away. Following the clues Cosmo has left her, Brenna meets the White Horses of Lusayana who give her their protection and the chance to break the curse on her family. Accompanied by her new friend Louis, a boy born to fight evil, Brenna tries to uncover the secret history of the curse but evil acts linger in the World and soon Brenna and Louis are fleeing for their lives, battling the Black Horses from the deep, and endangering the White Pony, Neima, who has been sent to help them.

And seeing as the thread has gone to the dogs - you might as well know that Orion the pathfinding spaniel is in it too.

[James Wood]

The Kickstarter to fund the music composition that will accompany my next novel is at 57% with 4 days to go!

A Celtic fantasy novel where magic is music and music is faith. The first novel in history to include originally composed music.

Check it out here.

Plus I'll be re-investing 5% of my profits into future Kickstarters (maybe yours, if I know who you are).

[Scott Nicholson]

Three freebies today:
Aug. 25:
Scott Nicholson Library, Vol. 3
http://www.amazon.com/Scott-Nicholso.../dp/B0069BFPL8
UK: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Scott-Nichol.../dp/B0069BFPL8

Aug. 25-26 The Dead Love Longer
http://www.amazon.com/The-Dead-Love-.../dp/B004LROVS0

UK: http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Dead-Lov.../dp/B004LROVS0

Bad Blood- Aug. 25-27
http://www.amazon.com/Bad-Blood-Vamp.../dp/B005Q1NBCW

UK: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Bad-Blood-Va.../dp/B005Q1NBCW

[Erica Manfred]

Interview with a Jewish Vampire is free on Kindle August 25-28,

http://www.amazon.com/Interview-Jewi...3033906&sr=8-2

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18 4.5 star reviews plus rave editorial reviews:

“With wild irreverent humor, Erica Manfred's Interview With a Jewish Vampire turns upside down and sideways all the vampire cliches and stock images. Jewish vampires keeping kosher, old lady vampires on the prowl--this book is above all fun!”
--Rachel Pollack, author of Arthur C. Clarke Science Fiction Award winner Unquenchable Fire, and World Fantasy Award winner Godmother Night

“Filled with knowing winks to readers of vampire fiction, from Dracula to Lestat, Interview with a Jewish Vampire is unexpectedly credible, even while pumping Catskill-flavored jokes through its basically silly premise. Interview is told in a fast, punchy style: “I was a Jewish divorcee of 41 who claimed to be 35. He had been dead for a long time, but I didn't know that right away." You know exactly where it's going, but the road there is a lot of fun.
--Jewniverse; MyJewishLearning.com


HYSTERICAL!!! Smoothly written, stereotypes jab you right and left, cliches abound with luxurious abundance, the setting is authentic (in New York and Florida, two places I can drive around in without a GPS), and the CHARACTERS POP OFF THE PAGES!!! I'm planning to gift a Kindle copy to a friend who could use a great laugh.
--Jacqueline Lichtenberg, winner of the Galaxy Award for Spirituality in Science Fiction with her second novel, Unto Zeor, Forever from the Sim-Gen series.


Rhoda barely blinks at learning her hottie date is undead—a zaftig divorcee could do worse on JDate. Undercover as Hasidic (pale, covers mirrors, shuns others’ food? No problem!), Sheldon loves late-night shopping and tantric sex. When Rhoda persuades him to turn her ailing mother and her retiree pals into vampires, the “goils” go wild. A snortingly funny page-turner.
--Chronogram Magazine

“One of the more hilarious books we’ve encountered lately…focuses on a “zaftig middle-aged journalist” (our favorite kind) named Rhoda Ginsburg, and follows her JDate-arranged love affair with the first “drop-dead gorgeous” person in history named Sheldon…an explanation for those nasty old lies now known as a blood libel. ”
--Times of Jerusalem

[DreamWriter]

Dust Bowl Justice
by Ric K. Hill

JUST PUBLISHED!

Jim Palmer is a good man
...his brother, Willie, is not.

Texas, 1934. Willie Palmer is unpredictable and dangerous. Wherever he goes, trouble is never far behind.

On the run after committing a felony, Willie evades the Texas Rangers, leaving his innocent brother, Jim, to endure the consequences left in his wake.

While serving hard time for a crime he didn't commit, Jim kills a man in self-defense. He flees, igniting a relentless manhunt spearheaded by Roger Buckskin, the best tracker in the region.

Jim's resolve is challenged by miles of desolate desert terrain as he is entangled in a desperate struggle for survival. Driven to find his renegade brother, now living the high life in Mexico, Jim is forced to rely on a woman he just met and trust in the system that has failed him at every turn. He is determined to restore his good name...but time is running out.

Amazon Kindle:
US • UK • Germany • Italy • France • Spain • India
(This e-book is properly formatted to take advantage of Kindle's special features, including easy navigation between chapters, table of content links, and font resizing. Text-to-speech is enabled on supported devices.)

ePub:
Barnes & Noble
(DRM-free, so it can be read on a variety of e-reading devices, apps, and software that support the ePub format)

Paperback available soon!
(273 pages)

[writergirl101]

DEAD MEN ARE EASY TO LOVE :
HISTORICAL, HYSTERICAL, ROMANCE/CHICK LIT
4 and 5 Star reviews!
FREE DOWNLOAD ON THURSDAY, AUG. 30, 2012

For Ariel Richards, is there any future in the past?
One thing is for certain: She thinks dead men are much easier to love than living ones!
Ariel has bad luck with love. But her present dating woes are only the beginning. Soon she finds herself making mysterious visits to the past, brushing shoulders--and much more--with some of the most famous men, and bad boys, from history . . . Ernest Hemingway, Clark Gable, Ludwig Van Beethoven, Dracula, Vincent Van Gogh, Butch Cassidy, and others. Will she find lasting romance with any one of them, or will it die before she can find hope for her future?

http://www.amazon.com/Dead-Men-Easy-Love-ebook/dp/B008AK7J60/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1340391067&sr=1-1&keywords=dead+men+are+easy+[/url]

WHAT AN IDEA!!! sexy, funny and provocative, July 23, 2012
By
Jeanne Wolf (Hollywood) - See all my reviews
5.0 out of 5 stars
(REAL NAME)

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This review is from: Dead Men Are Easy To Love (Kindle Edition)
Hillary Kanter has proved that if a girl can't find Mr Right she can dream him up. The encounters with long gone A-listers are fabulous fantasies. If you already know these talented hotties you'll get a big kick out of these scenes inDead Men Are Easy To Love. Tell your single friends to stop bitching and moaning and start reading. Then tell us if you think DEAD MEN ARE EASY TO LOVE or if some of your recent loves were so deadly that you'd rather stay home with your Kindle than date.

[plumboz]

Today and tomorrow, August 30, 31, Boomerang is on sale for $0.99 (77p in the UK).

Forty-five reviews on Amazon and Amazon UK, with a 4 star+ rating.

5.0 out of 5 stars Boomerang flies, 2 April 2011
By
MoonMan (London, UK) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Boomerang (Kindle Edition)
Boomerang is a comedy thriller, with a nice balance between the elements: the thrills are in the action, the comedy in the telling. The premise is simple. There exists somewhere in the world a hollow boomerang which contains some super-sensitive information dating back to the time of J. Edgar Hoover. A lot of people are very anxious to get hold of it.

The story is told in the third person - many third persons - the action shifting frequently between protagonists. There are, for example, the two odd couples: Australian sisters Doreen and Amelia, and offbeat US security operatives Ted and Jerry. There's even a dog, Oz, whose point of view is given the attention it surely deserves.

There are strong echoes of Douglas Adams, perhaps even of Evelyn Waugh. And Boomerang has a cinematic feel - or, to be more precise, a Quentin Tarantino feel. Tarantino would love it.

Sale price in place at Amazon, coupon for Smashwords for all other formats is JF43P

[Mel Comley]

I'm part of the Labor Day sale. Pick up a bargain $0.99 best selling novel this weekend.

http://www.amazon.com/lm/R3J2KLKW5V5...?ie=UTF8&lm_bb