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Upcoming BOTM Reads and Offers
June:
Book and Author: Christopher Bentley with Q&A: Concern: A black-ops investigator uncovers an espionage conspiracy rooted in quantum code - Free kindle edition is being offered through the end of March.
Book and Author: Joseph Finder's Vanished. Q&A with Joesph on June 30th - Discounted paperback pricing has been arranged. See Message 2 here for details.
July:
Book and Author L. A. Starks with Q&A: Winner's Curse - Free with Kindle unlimited - Signed copies of Winner's Curse are available from Brace Books. https://bracebooks.indielite.org/sear...
Book and Author Derek Robinson with Q&A: Forever After - Kindle Pricing is $3.99 on Amazon.
Book and Author: Carter Wilson's Tell Me What You Did. Q&A is with Carter on July 30th. Please your pre-questions Here.
Discussions on the book and other books by the author can be placed Here.
There will be 3 signed books for the best 3 questions (selected by Carter) (USA addresses only).
August:
Book and Author: T.A. Shelano with Q&A: ESCAPE FROM BATECHU ISLAND - Free on Amazon on Saturday 21 Feb. It's also on Kindle Unlimited.
Book and Author: Robin Burcell's book The Last Good Place with Q&A with Robin on August 31st.
Please your pre-questions here.
Discussions on the book and other books by the author can be placed here.
September: C.J. Hellman with Q&A: Fallen Blossom - Free prequel novella offered. See msg 1 in the author's Spotlight thread Here
October:
Book and AuthorArmando Rodera with Q&A: The Color of Evil: - Special Pricing ($/£/€ 0.99) for a limited time. It's also included in Kindle Unlimited
Book and AuthorSean Foy with Q&A: The Grotesque: A Haunting Psychological Thriller - Any promotions are to be determined.
Book and Author Steve Goldsmith with Q&A: The Last Heretic: The True Meaning Behind the Creed. For the month of April, the novel is available on Amazon, Apple, Google, B&N, and other platforms for $1.99. It is also enrolled in Kobo Plus. Stay tuned for possible pricing discounts in October.
Book and Author Adam Kervale with Q&A: Outside Eden's Gate: A Shadow Falls The book is currently on Kindle Unlimited. May 20-26, there will be a 99 cent ebook promo. If there's enough interest in purchasing the paperback for a discount, then Adam would be willing to set that up. Let him know in his Author's Spotlight thread.
November:
Book and AuthorArnar Vik with Q&A: Ospreys - Free with Kindle Unlimited - Goodreads Giveaway of 50 ebooks underway now (Feb 23) for US readers
Book and Author Lee D. Blumenthal with Q&A: The Deep Surge - Free with Kindle Unlimited
December: Deryck Jason with Q&A: Inanimate
Authors: Authors normally get to choose the month that is workable for them and available in our schedule.
Completed Months:
January: None offered.
February: Tim Rees with Q&A: Delphian: A British Intelligence Top Secret
March:
Tim Rees with Q&A: Delphian: A British Intelligence Top Secret
Mark Edwards: The Magpies - Q&A will be on April 30th.
April
Hunter White with Q&A: Treasures of the Lochs
Mark Edwards The Wasp Trap by Mark Edwards - with Q&A on 30 April
Q&A with Mark Edwards Q&A on April 30th / May 1st- See Discussion thread Here
May:
Book and Author: Richard T. Ryan with Q&A: The Other Woman
Book and Author: Mehmet Demirci with Q&A: The Cryo Code. Free with Kindle Unlimited.
Mehmet has scheduled a $0.99 Kindle Countdown Deal from May 4th to May 11th.
Hey everyone! Have you checked out some of the deals the Authors are sharing with us! (Btw: Authors, Thank you for sharing these with us!)Free Kindle Unlimited
Free Prequel
Free one day offering on Amazon
Huge discount too!
Please check them out and share with us which one you might be interested in!
Hi guys. Firstly, I want to thank everyone for the fantastic response BOTM Delphian has received. It's been a wonderful experience, so I thought I should propose my other thriller novels.Raw Nerve: Tearing the dark veil from the face of white supremacy. is the first novel I wrote. It is the only novel I have written set in the USA. I wrote it in 1997 and setting out to write a novel was terrifying - could I do it? For me, it was like looking at the tallest mountain and deciding to climb it, but I felt this all-consuming need, a need that grew from watching Mississippi Burning. So, I suppose I was angry and determined. My favourite film at the time was Rambo: First Blood and the basic idea was to send Rambo into the Ku Klux Klan and tear its heart out.
After finishing Raw Nerve I felt this massive sense of achievement, but was it any good? I had written a few quirky short stories and one has been produced as a drama and broadcast by the BBC, but I lacked a lot of self-belief. Anyway, my father asked to read it. He was a huge fan of the classic thriller writers such as Forsyth and Le Carre - so I placed the whole ream of paper, that was the manuscript, in front of him and stayed at his home for a week whilst he read it. He wouldn't talk about the book until he'd finished reading and when he did finally finish, he simply said: "I think you'd better get an agent." I was walking on air. That was huge praise and a stamp of approval. I bought an Artists & Writers Handbook and sent a proposal letter to an agent in New York and very soon I received a call from that agent requesting the whole manuscript. In those days, agents didn't accept electronic copies, so I had to send the whole ream of paper. After that I found myself on the phone for an hour every night with the agent. Funny story: we'd got to know each other very well during those calls and soon she had a meeting set-up with HarperCollins, so I flew to New York (my first visit to the USA). She met me at the airport and was surprised I was white, because, she told me, she'd seen Raw Nerve as the next big black novel. To cut a long story short, HarperCollins didn't publish because they saw it as too controversial. The junior editors loved it, but the president and vice-president didn't. Whilst in New York, I met with a film producer who walked away struggling to carry the complete MS. In the end she turned the project down because, in her words: "I can't be responsible for riots in the streets, Tim." A bit confused, the agent had other publishers interested, but with the same outcome. But I did find myself invited to cheese and wine parties and at one such event, the vice-president of Simon & Schuster told me: "You're stretching credulity to breaking point and beyond!" I think he was referring to the fact the story features a black woman who's about to become president - I'd never heard of Obama at this time.
Anyway, I won't go on. it is enough to say, it was an eventful time. Have a look at Raw Nerve and see if you fancy reading it...
The Need To Know Principle: British intelligence cover-up murder Also, I'd like to propose the latest thriller I've written. The Need to Know Principle is born from my hatred for hunting - hunting of any kind - but in this novel I've mainly focused on the disgusting business that is trophy hunting.Apart from Raw Nerve and The Drama Merchant, all my novels have an animal rights theme. In A Seed Once Sown I take animal rights to the extreme. A Seed Once sown also focuses on trophy hunting sometimes referred to as canned hunting.
But, back to The Need To Know Principle. The story is set in South Africa and focuses on a Charity run Wildlife Reserve where the patron is HRH (for Americans, that means His Royal Highness) and the story begins with a man being hunted. The man turns out to be an American and British intelligence try to cover-up the murder due to the charities patron. However, the CIA discover what has gone on... British intelligence verses the CIA...?
Again, you can see I'm being a little controversial, but give it a try...
Thank you.
Just to add, I'm happy to organise a free give-away day on Amazon where you can download the novels and the books are available KU all the time.
Just mention here.I am in contact, and working on bringing to our group some great additions to our BOTM and Authors Q's and A's.
We have had many top authors already, which you can look at the Authors Q and A section.
With their schedules normally we can get an author for one day, but working with 3/4 authors at this present time.
Normally working with publishers, agents, managers and authors.
So here if you would like to add any names, please do.
Tim wrote: "Just to add, I'm happy to organise a free give-away day on Amazon where you can download the novels and the books are available KU all the time."Tim this is a great offer!
Raw Nerve: Tearing the dark veil from the face of white supremacy. and
The Need To Know Principle: British intelligence cover-up murder
Both seem intriguing to me.
Wonder what other Members think?
Lesle wrote: "Hey everyone! Have you checked out some of the deals the Authors are sharing with us! (Btw: Authors, Thank you for sharing these with us!)"For anyone interested in participating in the June BOTM (Concern, by Christopher Bentley), our free ebook campaign only runs to the end of March, so I'd recommend downloading a copy before then, rather than waiting until nearer June.
Christopher wrote: "our free ebook campaign only runs to the end of March,..."Thank you Christopher for the reminder to get our free e-book.
Is it the free Kindle on Amazon?
Link:
https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Concern+by...
Have you checked out the Authors that are signing up for BOTM?Tim Rees's book Delphian runs through the rest of this month and next!!
Mark has sent us exiting news about his April BOTM, Book: The Wasp Trap (with Q&A on 30 April) Besides being Free with Kindle Unlimited, Mark is offering this book for just 99p for a limited time in the UK Kindle site and the UK Apple Books site.
For ease of use, Message 1 now contains the current month's BOTM and Message 2 contains the rest of the 2026 BOTMs that have been scheduled or completed.Don't forget to look at message 2 because there are some great limited time offers included.
Treasures of the LochsThis is the April BOTM. This Friday (March 6), there will be a discount on the Kindle/e-book version on Amazon (it will be available for $2.99).
Thank you, Hunter for this generous offer.
PamG wrote: "Thank you, Hunter for this generous offer."I had to ping Amazon again this morning; but the Kindle price is now reduced for today.
Hunter wrote: "PamG wrote: "Thank you, Hunter for this generous offer."I had to ping Amazon again this morning; but the Kindle price is now reduced for today."
Thanks, Hunter! We appreciate it.
Hi fellow readers: Yes, Winner's Curse (and all four Lynn Dayton thrillers) are free on Kindle Unlimited. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B075TYB5B7? Also, please take a look at my Spring 2026 newsletter on recommended reading, the energy situation (a specialty of the Lynn Dayton thrillers), and next projects. https://lastarksbooks.com/2026/03/05/...
All authors we hope you will also help us !It's great to have you join us on a BOTM and also Q's and A's.
It promotes your work, and it works for all of us.
So please help us by promoting our group, let your reader know about us, join the group. It helps us all.
Thank you
Hunter wrote: "PamG wrote: "Thank you, Hunter for this generous offer."I had to ping Amazon again this morning; but the Kindle price is now reduced for today."
Thank you Hunter, have picked up my copy :)
It looks like the sale has continued through the weekend. For those who purchased it, thank you and I hope you enjoy it. I look forward to responding to any of your questions in our April discussions. Take care.
Thank you Hunter. I have my copy and I'm looking forward to reading it.
Today on Book BubThe Wasp Trap in 99p.
Sadly I bought earlier !
Winner's Curse: A Lynn Dayton ThrillerNew offer: Between April 2 and April 6, my four Kindle stand-alone short stories will be free, marked down from $0.99 each. These are: a) Robert & Therese Guillard: Choices, b) A Time for Eating Wild Onions, c) Josh Rosen and Bubbe (I am especially fond of the ending of this one), and d) Incurable. Each ties into characters in the Lynn Dayton thriller series. You can find these at my Amazon author page. https://www.amazon.com/stores/L.%20A....
L.A. wrote: "...New offer: Between April 2 and April 6, my four Kindle stand-alone short stories will be free, marked down from $0.99 each. These are: a) Ro..."That's fantastic! Thank you.
Special offer for early readers of Winner's Curse, A Good Thriller Book of the Month pick for July 2026. You can buy your limited-edition signed copy now from Starks' favorite independent bookstore: Brace Books and More of Ponca City, Oklahoma. Brace's will ship to you! Celebrate Independent Bookstore Day (April 25) in style. Here is the link: https://bracebooks.indielite.org/sear...
L.A. wrote: "...Special offer for early readers of Winner's Curse, A Good Thriller Book of the Month pick for July 2026. You can buy your limited-edition signed copy now from S..."That's fantastic. Is there anything that has to be done to ensure everyone gets the signed copy? I don't see where the linked page shows that it's a signed edition.
Hi PamG,Thank you for verifying this. Those interested in buying a signed copy of Winner's Curse from Brace Books can, if needed, reference Ms. Tara Anson, the owner and manager of the bookstore. Because I have other business in northern Oklahoma in my hometown of Ponca City, I am currently going by Brace's Books & More about once a month. I first ordered and supplied 50 books on consignment there, sent directly from Ingram/Lightning Source. About two weeks ago, on my most recent trip to northern Oklahoma, I went by Brace's and, with Tara's encouragement, signed all 50. The signed copies are the ONLY copies of Winner's Curse Brace's has--they don't have unsigned copies. I really liked Joe Finder's idea of offering something special to the A Good Reader group readers for BOTM (his very cool tie-in with A Mysterious Bookshop in NYC. My tie-in is with a similarly independent bookstore, albeit in Oklahoma, not NYC) Please let me know if I may answer any further questions! Warmly, LAStarks
Hi PamG,And in answer to your question, Brace's has the national page from Bookshop.org for Winner's Curse on its website. All of the booksellers at Brace Books & More are tremendous. A Good Thriller readers who order the book and have questions should certainly feel free to call (or email) the store. As noted, I just signed all 50 copies of this store's copies of Winner's Curse. Warmly, LAStarks
L.A. wrote: "Hi PamG,And in answer to your question, Brace's has the national page from Bookshop.org for Winner's Curse on its website. All of the booksellers at Brace Books & More are tremendous. A Good Thril..."
Thanks so much for the clarifications.
I'm pleased to announce that Winner's Curse: A Lynn Dayton Thriller was a Finalist in the Action/Adventure category for the 2025 Independent Author Network (IAN) Book of the Year Awards as well as a Finalist in the 2026 Indies Today Book Award Contest.
L.A. wrote: "I'm pleased to announce that Winner's Curse: A Lynn Dayton Thriller was a Finalist in the Action/Adventure category for the 2025 Independent Author Network (IAN)..."Congratulations!
PamG wrote: "L.A. wrote: "I'm pleased to announce that Winner's Curse: A Lynn Dayton Thriller was a Finalist in the Action/Adventure category for the 2025 Independent Author ..."Thanks, Pam!
PamG wrote: "L.A. wrote: "Hi PamG,And in answer to your question, Brace's has the national page from Bookshop.org for Winner's Curse on its website. All of the booksellers at Brace Books & More are tremendous...."
Hi PamG, Can you add the message about the signed copies of Winner's Curse available from Brace Books in Message 2, Special Offers? Do I need to rewrite a new short message to this effect with a link? (Independent Bookstore Day is coming up soon!) Warm regards, L. A. Starks
Hi. I added this to message 2. It's also here: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/... (in message 4).
Looking forward to July and to discussing Winner's Curse with readers! To add to the excitement, the Kindle edition of award-winning The Second Law: Lynn Dayton Thriller #3 is discounted from nearly $10 to only $0.99 on Amazon between now and through May 23rd. Get your on-sale copy. Tell your friends.https://www.amazon.com/Second-Law-Lyn...
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