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"Savage Love"Until December 30th-.99 Kindle
Christian Romance
Daffyd thought that he had it all, fame and fortune, good looks, and the life he had always dreamed of. Now, at thirty the only thing remaining is the money. He has lost his family, his health, his good looks and his faith in God. Living as a recluse in the Mountains of Montana he has given up on life.
Samantha is thirty-five and recently widowed. Spending the last fifteen years in a marriage of convenience, to a man almost twenty years her senior, she now doesn’t even know who she is. It seems that her life had been on auto pilot, and though she dreams of another life, she can’t seem to find the way. Samantha has two things that keep her going, her daughter and her faith.
Savage Love is a story of love, hope and new beginnings. When two lives come together, seemingly by chance, both are transformed.
http://www.amazon.com/Savage-Love-Jod...
Savage Love
Also "Beauty's Curse"
Same deal
Romance/fantasy
Beauty’s Curse is an adult fantasy/fairytale that spans centuries of bondage, shown through the intertwined lives of four people. Esmeralda, Victor, Nicholas and Adelaide are living under a curse, some of their own making, some by the cruelty of others, and a curse once cast cannot be broken. For years they have toiled under their prospective curses, each in their own way, trying to live with the burdens and troubles. Then along comes Hope, who proves that beauty is in the eye of the beholder and is better judged by what in the heart of a person. True love can break the chains that bind.
http://www.amazon.com/Beautys-Curse-J...
Beauty's Curse
Book title: A Vision of MurderAvailable for .99 from December 21-27.
Mystery/suspense
In this chilling mystery, murder is haunting a small southern town. Emily Walker is a psychic determined to solve the crimes. Her visions are exactly what the police need. But will the ghosts that haunt Emily be too much for her to take?
Mrs. Dodd is the epitome of an older southern lady. She knows all the timeworn gossip and stories of her hometown. With her quick eye and love of mysteries, she is sure she can catch the murderer.
The dark woods and old homes of Temple hold many secrets. In a place where the past and present interweave, will the killer be caught in time?
http://www.amazon.com/Vision-Murder-P...
A Vision of Murder
THIN RICH BITCHESCountdown Deal from 01/15/2014 through 01/16/2014
romantic comedy/chicklit/humor
An uproarious romp through the minefield of female one-upmanship!
Leaving her cheating husband in Boston with the paralegal he impregnated, Pippin Snowe and her son move to a ramshackle farmhouse in the exclusive community of Dover, Massachusetts. Pippin finds employment with a local architect, designing kitchen renovations for wealthy Dover women who treat her as they treat the rest of the hired help. Concluding that social climbing is just another sport that she is no good at, Pippin opens a country club for dogs that offers services that the Dover women didn't know they wanted until they found out that admission was required and spaces were limited.
With irreverent wit, Thin Rich Bitches is a humorous chronicle of one woman's quest to find her place within a community of people who are more blessed physically and financially, while learning valuable lessons about life, love, competition, and canine couture.
http://www.amazon.com/Thin-Rich-Bitch...
SALE of Ship of Haunts, starting at 99p/99c from Friday 7th FebruarySale of Ship of Haunts! Ebook reduced for a week, starting at 99p/99c from Friday 7th February.
A time-crossing story about Titanic & child migration that takes the reader through poverty and wealth and spans 3 centuries. What is it like to live as a ghost beside Titanic?
(Literary historical fiction with some fantasy)
Learn more about the book at: http://gb.pinterest.com/stevensonauth...
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Ship-Haunts-o... (UK)
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Gable Fitzgerald is not someone you want hunting you. Former SEAL Team Six member Gable Fitzgerald suspects the accidental death of his mother was actually an execution. Gable looks for the murderer of his mother with all the skills he had used to take down enemy governments to find out who would kill a seventy-seven year-old woman and why? And God help anyone who gets in his way. County Ops: The Vengeance of Gable Fitzgerald on sale from February 13-19.http://amzn.com/B00GM4NCDU
The Vanished LadyMystery/Romance
2/16-2/23
Only 99c
Dana Lawrence doesn’t imagine when she buys the quaint Victorian house in the remote mountains of Colorado that her life will soon be in danger. She has heard the legend of Lelia Glenn and how she vanished in the 1800’s, but no one told her about the more recent disappearance of Amy Walden two years ago. Dana must solve the mystery before she becomes the next vanished lady. http://www.amazon.com/The-Vanished-La...
Cherry StemPre-order it for $2.99 until it launches on March 15 (price will be $4.99 after that)
Paranormal Romance/Urban Fantasy
Blurb
Turned at the cusp of a promising career in the adult movie industry, Cherry Stem has to rely on her mesmerizing vampire gaze for her meals and money. With the rent deadline approaching, settling for pocket change isn’t an option, so she reluctantly decides to let tall, dark, and handsome Detective Alex Marsden take her home for the night and fulfill her needs.
Only she gets more than she bargained for.
When Cherry meets Alex, she expects him to be nothing more than another “girl meets boy, girl feeds from boy, girl erases boy’s memories” hook-up. Once missing young women, the vampire council, and her irresistible ex are thrown into the mix though, she realizes nothing is as simple or random as she thought it was.
And Alex is either the biggest gift or the biggest mistake of her un-life.
Pre-order links: B&N | Apple
The Broken Parts of Us, #2 in The Broken Series by Author Ker Dukey is on sale -- just .99 c -- for a limited time only
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The Broken Parts of Us
Sex In The Title by Zack Love
Only 99 cents US/ 99 pence UK
March 10 - March 17
Romantic Comedy
New York City, May 2000. The Internet bubble has burst and Evan, a computer programmer, is fired with an email from his boss. The next day, his girlfriend dumps him, also via email. Afraid to check any more emails, Evan desperately seeks a rebound romance but the catastrophes that ensue go from bad to hilariously worse.
Amazon US
http://tinyurl.com/AmazonSITT
Amazon UK
http://tinyurl.com/AmazonSITTUK
Sex in the Title: A Comedy about Dating, Sex, and Romance in NYC
Book Title: Instant Author Formula: 6 Simple Recipes for How to Write a Book FAST!
Dates of Deal -
March 15-21
Full price is $4.99
Kindle Countdown Deal starts at 99c March15 and rises incrementally during the next week through March 22, 2013
Genre Classification
This is a "how to" nonfiction book teaching you how to write a book. It is ideally suited for business owners, experts and entrepreneurs who want to turn y our knowledge into a book without suffering or taking forever.
Short Blurb
If you have expertise that you want to turn into a book, either for your business or simply to be a published book author, this book is for you. It shows you 6 possible step by step "recipes" for how to write a book with ease.
"Buy" Link
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Book Title:The Kept Girl
Dates of Deal/Details:
March 12-17/ Kindle Countdown starting at 99¢ and increasing to full price of $7.99
Genre Classification:
Mystery
Short Blurb:
"Commendable." – Kirkus Reviews. The acclaimed debut from crime historian Kim Cooper features the young Raymond Chandler, his devoted secretary and the real cop who is a likely model for Philip Marlowe, on the trail of a cult of murderous angel worshippers in 1929 L.A.. From taxi dance halls to sinister sanitariums, the novel evokes a glittering metropolis on the crest of an epic crash, and exposes a mystery so horrifying, it could only be true.
Buy Link: http://amzn.com/dp/B00I20X0IE/?tag=bu...
The Kept Girl
1. Book Title: A World Named Utopia2. Dates of Deal/ Countdown detail: Read 'A World Named Utopia' for $0.99/£0.99 just for a few days, starting 21st March, 2014.
3. Genre Classification: General Fiction/Romance/ACtion Adventure.
4. Short Blurb: 'Utopia is all about Romancing life...'
Hubi Asad lives in Utopia, the land of dreams. Leaving the comforts of his home, he sets out one day to explore Utopia and himself. He has the most incredible journey among the people of his land.
But all is not well in Utopia. To his astonishment, Hubi finds out slowly that Utopia is not yet ready to be called the land of his dreams. Evil is eating through the fabric of the society. He has to find the source of that evil. Will he be able to eradicate the evil and save his land? Will he be able to finally discover himself in the process? Will he be saved?
Some part of us all is an inhabitant of the earthen yet magical world that Hubi’s land of dreams is. A world named Utopia lives on deep inside all of us… Will we be able to find the answers to our own problems in Utopia?
5. "Buy" Links:
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A World Named Utopia: Will He Be Able to Save Himself and His Utopia?
Do not miss out...Reviews will be appreciated!
KINDLE COUNTDOWN DEAL
The Ultimate Guide To Kindle Publishing Using Microsoft WordMarch 27, 2014 – March 29, 2014
March 27 – 8 A.M. -$0.99
March 28 – 5 A.M. - $1.99
March 29 – 2 A.M. - $2.99
March 29 – 11 P.M. - $3.99
Non-Fiction
This book contains all the information you need to format, publish and to start marketing your own Kindle book in one easy to use guide.
There are over 130 detailed tutorial images in this easy-to-use guide. It tells you everything you need to know to get your own book formatted, published and selling as a Kindle eBook on Amazon.
No-Technical Knowledge Required
A complete strategy for formatting, publishing and promoting your books on Kindle is documented in this book. It is what I do with every new book I release. You do not need to be a technical wizard, as each step is described in great detail with plenty of screenshots. If you can use Microsoft Word, you can publish your work on Amazon!
You Will Learn How To…
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High quality screenshots are used to illustrate every facet of the formatting, publishing and marketing process.
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Hello everyone! I'm excited to be holding my first Kindle Countdown Deal this week. Here are the details:
1. Book Title: The Walgreens Drugstore Game: Strategies to Turn Pocket Change into Thousands of Dollars' Worth of Free Products
2. Dates of Deal/ Countdown detail: March 26th-March 31st, 2014; Starting at $0.99 and ending at the original price of $4.99
3. Genre Classification: Non-fiction (Personal Finance)
4. Short Blurb: This is the book Walgreens prefers you wouldn’t read. For less than the cost of one razor (which you will score for free over and over again using the tactics in this book), learn how to legally walk out of Walgreens with lots of free products using their own currency: Register Rewards® and Balance® Rewards Points. I would know, as my family of two has scored $2,500+ in free products over the last several years.
5. "Buy" Link (Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/The-Walgreens-D...
Hi Everyone - here's another one!1. Book Title: Two Moons of Sera by Pavarti K Tyler
2. Dates of Deal/Countown detail: April 3rd - April 5th on KDP (Kindle Direct)
3. Genre Classification: described as 'All the fun of YA written for Adults'
4.Short Blurb: In a world where water and earth teem with life, Serafay is an anomaly. The result of genetic experiments on her mother’s water-borne line Serafay will have to face the very people responsible to discover who she really is. But is she the only one?
5.Buy Link: Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Two-Moons-Sera-...
Fanny Bower Puts Herself Out ThereKindle Countdown Deal: March 28, 29 $1.99 (Save 61%)increases in increments until April 3
Light Women's Fiction
"If you like Jane Austen you'll love Fanny Bower... a literate romance with a sprinkling of Bridget Jones-like mayhem"
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00GW4BX72
Fanny Bower Puts Herself Out There
Hi
My second novel, Not the End by Kate Vane, is on Kindle Countdown promotion from 3rd to 9th April at 99p/99c.
It's a story of sea, sun and cemetery management set on the Devon coast.
Amazon UK: http://amzn.to/1cgnyEj
Amazon US: http://amzn.to/1eIllWA
Hi Everyone!
I'm excited about my first Kindle Countdown going on right now for in Polyester Pajamas. Download it for only 99 cents (Amazon US) until 4 pm EST tomorrow (Thurs. 4/3) when the price goes up slowly to $1.99, then $2.99 on Sunday (still great deals!). The promo runs through Monday 4/7/14. Women's fiction. Easy and entertaining read.
Tick Tock - Tick Tock - Beat the Clock!
Here's the link: http://goo.gl/kE8x8P
THANK YOU!
LOVE IS THE BRIDGE is offered via a Kindle Countdown Deal!From Friday, April 04 to Thursday, April 10, it goes for $0.99 (a 67% discount!) The trade paperback version will also be on SALE for $8.00. Such a deal! (I do love it when people buy the paper book, but some people prefer the Kindle versions. So long as you tell me how you liked it!) You can click on "LOOK INSIDE" or get a free sample if you want to preview the book.
This is a techie romantic suspense ghost story--cross-genre, I suppose. I am eager for people to read it, because it went to committee at more than one New York house but was said to be "too techie for romance readers," or "too much romance for techies," and I do NOT believe that. Everyone is on the computer, social media, cell phone, texting device, or other gadgets. Romantic suspense lovers are NOT DUMB and WILL LOVE the techie twists, I firmly believe. You WILL "Get It!" I am sure of that!
"There is a land of the living and a land of the dead, and the bridge is love."--Thornton Wilder
Anyone who uses a computer is vulnerable to cyber-attack through a cell phone, Facebook page, e-mail account, or even files that might be accessed by a remote system while connected to the Internet. But who thinks it will happen to them? Paige Campbell had never considered that she had anything to worry about until she got the first crank call. By the time her Facebook page is hacked and one of her files changed so that she is suspended from college and accused of plagiarism, she's beginning to believe that someone--or something--is out to get her. The stalker seems able to do things that are possible only for a magician . . . or a ghost. Can there actually be a "ghost in the machine"? Alan McConnell doesn't believe in ghosts and thinks it's outlandish to claim that his prototypical AI test system (for writing advertising jingles) has become the portal by which a ghost (or at least a paranormal entity, perhaps a demon, which he also doesn't believe in) has entered our material plane. However, he decides he will help his new client Paige Campbell in any way he can . . . whereupon they are both challenged to believe in ghosts--or in a conniving stalker hacker--or both.
THANK YOU for giving the book a chance. I believe it will be big . . . if only it can be small first!
LINK: http://www.amazon.com/Love-Bridge-Den...
Love Is the Bridge
How to Study with Mind Maps
Kindle Countdown Deal: April 6-13; ($1.99 on April 6-7)
Category: Study Skills; Professional Development
HTSWMM is a book for students, teachers, and professionals on how to mind map and how to use mind maps to improve thinking and learning in school, work, and life.
Amazon: http://amzn.com/B004PVSNWC
Send me an email to get a free 1-year license of MindMeister mind mapping program (http://www.mindmeister.com) with purchase of HTSWMM on Amazon.
Thanks,
Toni
Thru The Eyes And Mind Of A Poethttps://d202m5krfqbpi5.cloudfront.net...
Kindle Countdown Deal: April 12-18;($.99 on April 12-18)
Category: Poetry: General Poetry
Poetry that takes you on an endless journey where one's feelings and imaginations can bring a sense of realism as to what it's like to be able to imagine the thoughts, sites, and feelings of what it's like to live the life of a poet.
Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00IW7FE0O
The Knowledge: How the Art of Seduction Saved Mehttp://www.amazon.com/dp/B00FFGD2NQ
Kindle Countdown Deal: 99c
Category: Adult/Psychological/Humour
Following his divorce, Dennis Avery suffers a breakdown and finds himself on a downward spiral of despair. He is targeted by two strangers he meets in a bar, and his life takes a dramatic turn. Recruited, he finds himself plunged into an exotic world of pick-up artists, internet dating, seduction, short-term relationships and casual sex.
Using controversial techniques, Dennis sets out to regain his confidence and to improve his skills with women, but at what cost? Can his life really be changed so easily? Who are his new mentors? What are they really after?
Frequently outrageous, sometimes funny and often naughty - loosely based on a true story - The Knowledge will take you on an incredible and unexpected journey.
This book is intended for readers aged 18+ please.
Amazon reviews welcome and appreciated!
Hello all Stephen Schochet here. I am having a Kindle Countdown on my book Hollywood Stories: Short, Entertaining Anecdotes About the Stars and Legends of the Movies! I am a tour guide in Hollywood who years ago started collecting vignettes about celebrities to tell on the tours; I had the idea the tales could be told anywhere and that's what lead to me to write the book. The genres is Arts and Entertainment. Hollywood Stories features over a thousand anecdotes about an all-star cast of characters including John Wayne, Marilyn Monroe, Jack Nicholson, Walt Disney, Errol Flynn, Peter O'Toole, Judy Garland, Lana Turner, George Burns, Lucille Ball, Clint Eastwood, just to name a few The price during the countdown will be reduced from $4.99 to 99 cents. The deal will last between 4/26 ending on 5/3. Here is a sample story: Walt Disney’s Daughters Walt Disney’s two daughters, Sharon and Diane, grew up sheltered from the limelight. The children had no images of Mickey Mouse around their home.
Their father didn’t go to many parties, preferring to stay in after a long day of work. Sometimes he would playfully chase the youngsters upstairs, cackling like the evil peddler woman in Snow White. When they behaved badly, Walt would admonish them with a raised eyebrow; his stern demeanor inspired the character of the wise old owl, in the 1942 animated feature Bambi. As toddlers, the brainy Diane and beautiful Sharon stayed blissfully unaware that their parents worried about them being kidnapped and allowed no pictures of the sisters to be publicly circulated. Once in 1939, a curious classmate questioned six-year-old Diane about her family. She went home and said, “Daddy, you never told me you were that Walt Disney,” and asked him for an autograph.
The link is http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004...
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*Kindle Countdown Deals*
The Assassin's Wife
"If you like thrillers, espionage, and mystery along with a healthy dose of wild country, grab this book and be prepared to be unable to put it down."
Pursuit: A Thriller
"Great story, lots of action. Story held you interest so you couldn't wait to see what was going to happen next."
Only 99 cents each through 4/24
Always Free with Prime
Kindle copy normally $2.99 on sale for 99 cents--April 29-May 6, 2014
A Fast-Paced Adventure Full of Mischief, Magic, and Mayhem--The Kindle Book Review.
Funny Fantasy. Young Adult with a good dash of romance of romance.
Accompanied by his mischievous stablelad, riding his randy dragonhorse and carrying a disenchanted sword-- lovestruck weasel-phobic Jarby goes on a zany quest to find a lost treasure for his beloved barmaid's dowry into the unknown Wild Lands. Following a tattered map they cross The Shaggy Goat Mountains to search for the source of Chocolate and the lost city of Jolanest. They are joined by 2 tail kicking barbarian maidens in a land filled with surprises- –including the high price on Jarby's own head.
http://www.amazon.com/Star-Jolanest-T...
April 19 - 2499 cents through April 22, then counting up to 3.99
http://www.amazon.com/Miss-Hyde-sweet...
MISS HYDE - sweet historical romance / fantasy
All she wants is a holiday. Instead she gets a new life.
On a spring day in 1873 Marion Jekyll arrives by train in Vienna for her holiday, escaping a life in London that oppressed her and painful memories she buried as a child. She is nineteen and under the charge of her officious legal guardian, who is in Vienna on mysterious business, with Marion in tow. She has been but few things in her short life—an orphan, a bastard, an epileptic—but in Vienna she is an exciting stranger whose horizons are about to expand.
It is here, under the glittering lights of old Vienna, in a time when political unrest rules the day and cafés teem with secret meetings at night, that Marion encounters a young man she never dreamed to find. It is only here, where mesmerists plumb their patients’ psyches, digging for for hidden truths, that Marion unleashes a powerful side of herself in a fight for her very life.
From the winner of the James D. Phelan Literary Award, MISS HYDE is the sequel to Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, set in a Vienna like no other, where fantastical inventions grace the halls of the World’s Fair and anything is possible—even complete physical transformation.
Hi Everyone,My offer is for Amazon UK readers!
1. The Tribe of Ishmael
2. April 21-27/66 - 33% off
3. Dark/Epic Fantasy
4. A young man accidentally boards a train bound for Hell. He teams up with a mysterious girl to recover their lost memories of their deaths and escape. However, Hell has other plans for them...
5. http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Tribe-Ish...
Spitting Image by M. K. Mattias for $0.99
April 24 to May 1.
Mystery / Cozy mystery
When Australian art restorer Simone Darling, her boyfriend Kevin in tow, travels to Florida for a family reunion she doesn’t expect to find a man in her mother’s fridge. A man who is not only dead, but a dead ringer for Kevin. Too late she realizes they have walked into a trap—and Kevin is both the bait and the target. But who is out to get him? Cuban drug smugglers? The FBI? Her own mother?
All of the above?
Desperate to evade their pursuers, Simone and Kevin embark on a hilarious adventure to Key West, where they finally find refuge at her mother’s idyllic weekend retreat. But peace does not last long . . .
A fun, breezy read for fans of comic misadventure.
Link:
http://www.amazon.com/Spitting-Image-...
April 24 to May 1.
Mystery / Cozy mystery
When Australian art restorer Simone Darling, her boyfriend Kevin in tow, travels to Florida for a family reunion she doesn’t expect to find a man in her mother’s fridge. A man who is not only dead, but a dead ringer for Kevin. Too late she realizes they have walked into a trap—and Kevin is both the bait and the target. But who is out to get him? Cuban drug smugglers? The FBI? Her own mother?
All of the above?
Desperate to evade their pursuers, Simone and Kevin embark on a hilarious adventure to Key West, where they finally find refuge at her mother’s idyllic weekend retreat. But peace does not last long . . .
A fun, breezy read for fans of comic misadventure.
Link:
http://www.amazon.com/Spitting-Image-...
Amazon Countdown Deal1) Lose the Gluten, Lose your Gut. Ditch the Grain, Save your Brain.
2) Starts Sunday May 27th 8 AM PST at .99c.
The price will increase $1.00 for five consecutive days
3) Non-fiction - Health and Medical - Diets - Weight loss
4)Do any of these sound familiar? You re sick and tired of feeling sick and tired. You still have a gut despite eating right and exercising regularly. You live in a constant state of brain fog and have trouble focusing on the task in front of you. Your joints ache and you re moody for no good reason. You have shared your symptoms with your doctor, only to be told that nothing is wrong. You may be gluten-reactive. The solution is simple: A gluten free diet. Lose the Gluten, Lose Your Gut. Ditch the Grain, Save Your Brain explains: Why you need to understand gluten s impact on your body even if you don t have celiac disease. Why so many celebrities and athletes are going gluten-free. How anyone can lose weight and reverse disease with a gluten-free diet. The step-by-step process you need to follow to become healthier and happier. Written by two doctors who specialize in a holistic approach to health care, this essential guide to gluten-free living explains how gluten reactivity leads to obesity, type 2 diabetes, brain degeneration and other deadly diseases. Discover the hidden ingredients in grocery products that could be causing you to attack your body, learn how to dine out safely, and prepare the delicious gluten-free recipes. It s not too late to turn your health around!
5)
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The Star Of Jolanest
Kindle countdown deal April 29-May 6th 99 cents. Paperback $8.41 Fun Read. Family Friendly. New review--5.0 out of 5 stars A very fun, colorful and refreshing read! April 30, 2014By Dave
Format:Kindle Edition
Immediately brings back the sensation of being a kid and watching a live action adventure on a Saturday afternoon. The humor was well placed and develops within the reader an affection for the characters. Lighthearted, imaginative and action packed. I'm sincerely looking forward to sending my daughter off to sleep with snippets of this fun tale whirring in her head. My one criticism..... this book will leave you aching for a sequel!
Book Title:Bird Dog
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20872469-bird-dog
Dates of Deal/Details:
April 30 - May 6 / Kindle Countdown starting at 0.99 and increasing to full price of $7.99 (US) / £4.87 (UK)
Genre Classification:
Car Noir Thriller
Blurb:
Philip Reed's Edgar-nominated debut novel.
Meet Harold Dodge, pushing fifty and carrying some extra pounds. He is a good man, but in a less-than-perfect world - that is, L.A. - good men sometimes have to do bad things. As an ex-used car salesman, Harold knows all the tricks of car dealers and he has always had a weakness for beautiful women. So when his colleague Marianna Perado, a black-haired beauty with killer legs, asks him to help her get her trade-in back from a low-life car dealer, Harold just can't say no.
But when Marianna decides to unwind the deal herself, without telling Harold, things get complicated, and he is all of a sudden up to his ears in dangerous deals and scams, involving ruthless repo men, fast-talking car salesmen, the FBI and a body in the trunk...
Bird Dog is a wild ride through the dark alleys of L.A. in the vein of Charles Willeford and Elmore Leonard.
Buy Links:
http://www.amazon.com/Bird-Dog-Philip-Reed-ebook/dp/B00IE2U2VS/
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Bird-Dog-Philip-Reed-ebook/dp/B00IE2U2VS/
Kindle Countdown Deal Details:Book: The War on Millennials
Date: April 28-29 (starting at $2.99 going to full list of $4.99)
Genre: Nonfiction/Political
Blurb:
We’ve been subjected to plenty of manufactured “wars” over the years. But never has the real political war taking place right under our noses received its due network nightly news attention.
In THE WAR ON MILLENNIALS, Pete Seat, a former White House spokesman, political analyst and Millennial himself, gives voice to an all-too-quiet generation of young people. From massive national debt to unsustainable entitlement programs and souring international relations, Millennials are set to inherit an increasingly raw deal.
By airing grievances and offering solutions, this book educates, softens the partisan edge of contemporary political debate and encourages all generations to act today in order to build a better tomorrow.
http://www.amazon.com/War-Millennials...
Like a Shag on a Rock by Vaughan HumphriesIs available on Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uk on May 10 - May 16 Kindle Countdown $0.99
Romance
Following the break up of Tom’s relationship with Janice, he hastily answers a room advertisement for what appears to be the perfect, Oxford city centre escape…
When the door is opened by his mysterious acquaintance, John, it seems as though fate has stepped in, and Tom quickly settles back into a life of blissful carnivorous freedom.
But although Tom is no longer under Janice’s control, he unwittingly remains the victim of manipulation – this time from John – who wields far more influence over Tom’s personal life than he is aware of…
http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00A0P6WL6
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00A0P6WL6
Thank you, and much success
The Flight of the Griffin by C.M.Gray
Kindle Countdown deal - 9th May 2014 - 12th May 2014
Just 99 cents!
US - http://amzn.to/HWuZVA
UK - http://amzn.to/19RclxI
54 reviews on Amazon US with average of 4.3 stars
The Kingdom is dying…
The Darkness is coming… the balance between Order and Chaos is rapidly shifting and the world is falling towards evil and horror, and all the misery that Chaos will bring.
But there is hope…
Pardigan’s had enough, he’s only 12, but he’s breaking into the home of one of Freya's richest merchants... and he’s doing it tonight…
A burglary that will change their lives forever sets four friends upon a quest, a race against time, to locate three magical objects and complete an ancient and desperate spell.
Sailing their boat The Griffin, the crew are quickly pursued by The Hawk, an evil bounty hunter and master of dark sorcery, and Belial, King of Demons and champion of Chaos who seeks to rule the world of man… yet first he must capture the crew of The Griffin and end their quest…
Longlist Finalist in the 2013 Times/ChickenHouse Literary contest.
A Writer on Writing - Advice to Make You a Success by Sally JenkinsKindle Countdown Deal - 12th to 18th May 2014.
Reduced to 99p/99c.
This is a collection of feature articles containing lots of advice and inspiration on Creative Writing.
It's just right for dipping in and out of when there's a few minutes to spare.
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Beautiful to BeholdKindle Countdown deal: May 14-18 Starting at $0.99 to $4.99
.99 on May 14!
Genre:
Historical Fiction, Paranormal, Gay Romance
Twenty-two-year-old Polish partisan, Jacek Tarasek, is ordered to follow a suspicious foreigner, a British artist named Owen Linet, who closely resembles a man from Jacek’s past—someone Jacek would just as soon forget. Jacek’s worst fears are soon realized when he learns that Owen is not only his avowed enemy, but something infinitely worse—a devil in human form, with the power to take life with a mere word. When Jacek can’t bring himself to destroy the man with whom he is falling deeply in love, he is forced to confront his flawed understanding of good and evil.
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M.D. Wiselka
In the Country of the BlindDeal Starts Thursday, May 15th, Ends May 21st.
Suspense Mystery: “A dead body is a lousy way to end a first date.”
So begins In the Country of the Blind, a modern noir tale that takes readers into the world of former attorney-turned building superintendent Zach Brandis. When Zach abandoned his promising legal career, it confused everyone, including himself. Now, with no apparent purpose in life, he has time enough on his hands to get into some very hot water.
When Zach takes Cynthia Hull to dinner, murder and a confrontation with the cops are the last things on his mind. But when he walks her home, he finds himself face to face with New York’s finest, who are investigating the suspicious death of the actress’s roommate and friend, Alex Penworth. Maybe it’s because Cynthia is beautiful and vulnerable, or maybe it’s just because the cops rub him the wrong way, but Zach steps in to shield her from their persistent questions. In the days following, Zach finds himself increasingly tied up in knots over the case, and what starts as simple curiosity may end up putting the former attorney in grave danger.
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- The Stock Market Outsider: Becoming a Billionaire- 99 cents 5/15/14 thru 5/21/14
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- Valuable, practical insight to becoming successful in the market by learning to identify undervalued stocks and understanding market psychology.
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Kindle Countdown Deal: Five Quickies for Roger and Suzanne deal starts today, May 16, 2014. Today and tomorrow (Saturday) the book will be $0.99, 68% off the usual price. Sunday and Monday it will be $1.99; Tuesday it will return to its normal price. Currently at 4 stars (5 reviews). Additional reviews would be appreciated. Enjoy this anthology of five short mystery and suspense stories.
Hi
My psychological crime novel, Recognition will be 99p/99c on Kindle for one week from 22 May.
Synopsis:
Nat Keane never forgot her first murder. Sandie Thurston was killed and mutilated in her own bed. Five-year-old Amy lay beside her, soaked in her mother’s blood.
Nat was the first police officer on the scene. She was the family liaison officer who got close to the family. Too close. When a man was convicted, she walked away, lonely and broken.
Ten years on she has another life. She has a job she loves counselling trauma victims and a home with her partner, Dylan, a criminal lawyer. So when Martin, husband of the murdered Sandie, asks her to work with him and Amy, why does she agree to go back?
Amy's evidence was key to getting a conviction. Now the media are hinting that she got it wrong. Martin is tortured by a guilt he won’t explain. At fifteen, Amy is alternately needy and hostile – a devoted daughter who deceives her father, a sheltered child who can’t stop taking risks.
As Nat is drawn into the family's secrets, is she helping them find the truth or complicit in their lies? Who did kill Sandie? And why, just when Nat needs Dylan's support, is he distracted by a controversial case of his own?
Recognition is a compelling novel of psychological suspense, set in and around Leeds.
Amazon link: http://bookshow.me/B00BA2DR5M
Thanks
Kate
Kindle Countdown Deal: Epic fantasy series
Dark Moon Rising The Prophecies of Zanufey Book One by A. Evermore
begins today May 22nd starting at $0.99c / £0.99p – 81% discount
The future is dark; no Seer or Wizard can see into it, no prophecy speaks of a time past it. The fate of the world hangs between the darkness and the light…
Out of the Dark Rift Baelthrom came to take all of Maioria into Oblivion. His ruthless armies of immortal Maphraxies scourge the land and one by one entire kingdoms fall. But the Dark Moon of Zanufey is rising and hope sparks in the hearts of the people.
When the raven messenger of Zanufey bursts into Issa’s life the tides of prophecy are set in motion and she is violently dragged into the battle for the fate of the world. Only Asaph, last of the mighty Dragon Lords, can hope to reach her in the deathly Shadowlands before the White Beast does. All Maioria is lost unless Issa survives to become the greatest warrior the world has ever known; she must become the Raven Queen of prophecy.
Here is a tale of benevolent Goddesses and fallen Dark Lords, Dragons and Dragon Lords, Witches and Wizards, forgotten Kings and Raven Queen’s.
Dark Moon Rising is the first volume in a stunning new fantasy epic brimming with magic, adventure and the strength of the human spirit to face impossible odds.
Amazon link: Dark Moon Rising
www.aevermore.com
Blessings
A. Evermore
The Box31st May $0.99 (-81%) and 1st June $2.99 (-41%)
Children's Book
"Because a box is just a box, except when it's not."
Join in the creative fun as a little boy explains why his box is his favourite toy. http://www.amazon.com/Box-Jo-Linsdell...
Virtual Book Tours: Effective Online Book Promotion From the Comfort of Your Own Home.
31st May $0.99 (-81%) 1st June $2.99 (-41%)
Virtual Book Tours are a great way to create a buzz for a new release or to put life back into an older publication. In this book I'll take you through everything you need to know to be able to set up and carry out a successful virtual book tour.
The book is divided into 4 main sections for easy navigation:
1) What is a Virtual Book Tour?
2) How to organise your own tour
3) Promoting a tour
4) Useful resources
You'll find it packed with links, tips, and advice to help make your tour a hit.
http://www.amazon.com/Virtual-Book-To...
Title: The Officially Unofficial Files of Dr. Gordon B. GrayDates/Deal: May 23-26 - 0.99¢
Genre: Mystery, Thriller, Action Adventure
Description:
Twenty-three year old wunderkind professor, Dr. Gordon B. Gray has it all, a Nobel Prize, tenure at Caltech University and looks that make women swoon. Last night he was tossing frozen pumpkins off the library roof and today -- well -- he’s saving the world.
When twenty-two of Dust, West Virginia’s twenty-three inhabitants disappear into thin air, U.S. Army Lieutenant General John Wilkinson resorts to enlisting the brilliant young professor, who quickly finds himself caught in an international tangle of assassins, truth movements, mad physicists and wild conspiracies. With no clear endgame in sight and the world at stake, Gordon embarks on a perilous journey that takes him from the backwoods trailers of Appalachia, to the desolate wilderness of Siberia's enigmatic Tunguska region, where one man’s decisions can impact the course of human history.
The Officially Unofficial Files of Dr. Gordon B. Gray is a smart adventure thriller brimming with suspense, international intrigue and mind-bending science that will resonate with readers long after they’ve turned the last page.
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I have a Countdown Deal that's on for two more days, wish I'd found this sooner! But at $1.99, its still a discount price. The book is entitled Whiskey Delta, and is the first in a series of zombie apocalypse/military adventure stories. Check it out here:http://www.amazon.com/Whiskey-Delta-M...
C.J. Heck
Kindle Countdown: LAST DAY for 3 books:
.99 on May 19-20
1.99 on May 21-22
2.99 on May 23-24
Anatomy of a Poet
Read a Preview:
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Amazon:
http://www.amazon.com/Anatomy-Poet-CJ...
Bits and Pieces: Short Stories from a Writer's Soul
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Amazon:
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Barking Spiders 2
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Memorial Day Kindle Countdown: Beyond Demons and Protectors is on sale for $0.99! That's 80% off!
Description:
Is this where we will make our final stand then? At least we will go together, though the thought is hardly any consolation. I grab a hold of Ash’s hand and pull her up off the cold, hard ground. She is barely able to stand on her own at this point, but I know she is never going to give up. I grab a tight hold of her from behind to keep her upright. I glance over her shoulder in time to see the unstoppable mass of the Darkness growing larger and larger, slowly devouring everything in his destructive path.
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The amazing story of soul mates, Ash and Emmett, continues in book two of the exciting Beyond Heights and Depths trilogy.
Life should be wonderful for Emmett and Ash. They have done the impossible. Against all odds, they have traveled to the depths and back, faced the Master, and even cheated death to remain together. But their relationship is becoming increasingly more difficult every day. To make matters worse, a new foe is making his presence known, a foe so powerful he fears no one in this world or any beyond it. The soul mates are quickly learning that the challenges are only just beginning.
4.5★ One reviewer wrote: "I finished this book in one sitting. I couldn't put it down! I haven't read a book that good in years."
Amazon: http://amzn.com/B00G9N9QG6
Beau Garnie & The Invismin MineMagic, adventure, talking hares & a man-eating Ray. It's all there in Beau Garnie & The Invismin Mine, now on Kindle Countdown at $0.99 until 30th May.
Fun for all the family, BG&TIM is a fast paced story set in the magical world of Calorean. Just don't underestimate the rats!!
" A fantasy story set in a fascinating world that draws you in - I finished the book in one day! Can't wait for the next one." 5 star Amazon Review
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Be quick - Kindle countdown ends in 4 days....
"BLUE FLOWER".99 Until June 1, 2014
SCIFI FANTASY
The events of book take place on the planet Tria, twenty years after its conquest by General Zeno. Three generals sit at the top of the Primo Occupation Forces. Vigo, the king. Pipo, the ruthless chief of the Inquisition and Zeno, the conqueror.
Under their oppressive dictatorship the population of Tria is slowly losing hope. Gone are the days when Tria's proud inhabitants had become famous across the BLUE GALAXY for their freedoms, their easy riches and their uppity ways. The battle of the Rock changed General Zeno; sickened by the terrible slaying in the ranks of his enemies, he made a vow to never kill again. Nowadays he spends his days in the Military Barracks, commiserating with his dead cat Mintzy, and whiles away the nights quaffing huge quantities of amber rackee at the Espresso Bar.
After having lived most of her life in College Town, on Primo, Fanny, the goddaughter of General Zeno, decides to return to her native lands. Her unexpected arrival coincides with a change in this placid state of affairs. The searing hatred shared by the three men at the top of the Primo Regime raises to the surface. Men start fighting in the street; Goddess Estrella makes a grand appearance and a strange BLUE FLOWER blossoms on Tria’s verdant fields.
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/19...
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