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EleMental – Today's Featured Kindle Book

August 12, 2013 by Michael Gallagher Leave a Comment

Today’s Featured Kindle Book of the Day is EleMental: A First-Person Shooter, by Steven O’Connor, and this book is regularly $3.99 but has been discounted 75% to just $0.99 in connection with this promotion. This book has received an average user rating of 4.5 out of 5 stars based on 187 customer reviews.

Category: Young Adult Science Fiction / Fantasy

Here is the book’s description from the Amazon website:

The future. It’s all about friendship, love … and dangerous video games.
Launched at the Melbourne Writers’ Festival by the Australian of the Year, 2010. This is the kindle ebook edition of the previously trade-published paperback EleMental.

Winner of the Young Adult Fiction for manuscript development at Varuna Writers’ House (Australia’s only national writers’ center).

The story:
Willis, a loner not by choice, is gradually drawn into friendship with Zeb – cool and reckless – and into love with Arizona – bold and untouchable.

Set in 2050, the three teenagers encounter a deadly new virtual reality game called EleMental. Deliberately designed to be highly addictive, to control rebellious asteroid miners, EleMental has a byproduct no one was ready for: gameblur. One moment, you’re at your desk, the next, you’re battling something half-dinosaur, half-tank.

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/elemental into your web browser to pick up your copy of EleMental: A First-Person Shooter .

About the Author:

Steven O’Connor writes young adult fiction with a futuristic bent. His writing is influenced by Douglas Adams (Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy), Blade Runner, Dr Who, and just about every sci-fi film and TV show you could possibly think of.

His initial manuscript for EleMental: A First-person Shooter won him a coveted Young Adult Fiction Writers’ Mentorship at the national Varuna Writers’ Center in the Blue Mountains of New South Wales, Australia.

The EleMental and MonuMental ebooks are being offered exclusively through Amazon.

When Steven O’Connor is not writing, he’s a professional social worker and he’s passionate about his work with young people.

Originally from Luton, England, Steven O’Connor now lives in Melbourne, Australia with his wife, two teenage children and Sparks, his ever-attentive, ever-hungry Cavalier King Charles spaniel (AKA a toy dog, AKA canny writing assistant).

You can find out more about Steven O’Connor from his website stevenoconnorwriting.com. If you would like to be kept up to date with Steven O’Connor’s activities and free promotions, you should subscribe to the ElaMentaList through his website.

Website: www.stevenoconnorwriting.com

You can visit Steven’s Amazon author page if you click here or type in http://smarturl.it/steveno into your web browser.

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The Advocate – Today's Featured Kindle Book

August 11, 2013 by Michael Gallagher Leave a Comment

Today’s Featured Kindle Book of the Day is The Advocate, by Teresa Burrell, and this book is just $0.99 in connection with this promotion. This book has received an average user rating of 4.4 out of 5 stars based on 187 customer reviews.

Category: Mystery / Legal Suspense

Here is the book’s description from the Amazon website:

For Sabre Orin Brown, life is good; she has it all…or would have, if only she could solve the mysterious disappearance of her brother. The search for her brother and her career as a Juvenile Court Attorney collide when she defends a nine-year-old whose father will go to any length to obtain custody.

Sabre finds herself immersed in a case with too many unanswered questions. Her quest for the truth takes her coast to coast and five years into the past. Confronted with mysterious clues and strange occurrences, Sabre is threatened by someone wanting to make her suffer the unbearable anguish of losing everything–including her life.

As Sabre’s passion to find the answers intensifies, she discovers a twisted history of desperation, deceit, and revenge. And she discovers how obscure and treacherous the truth can be.

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/6l146x into your web browser to pick up your copy of The Advocate .

About the Author:

Teresa Burrell has dedicated her life to helping children and their families in both the courtroom and the classroom. As an attorney in San Diego, Burrell maintained a private law practice for twelve years, which specialized in domestic, criminal, and civil cases. Her work in juvenile court focused on representing abused minors and juvenile delinquents. Burrell has received several awards and special recognition from the San Diego Bar Association for her countless hours of pro bono work with children and their families. Burrell has also enjoyed a satisfying career as a teacher. She has taught children of all ages with diverse backgrounds and special needs. After creating an after-school program that kept kids off the street, she received a community service award. Now in semi-retirement in California, Burrell continues to educate groups about social issues impacting children and write novels, many of which are inspired by actual legal cases.

You can visit Teresa’s Amazon author page if you click here or type in http://smarturl.it/u7qt6u into your web browser.

The Warrior with Alzheimer's – Today's Featured Kindle Book

August 10, 2013 by Michael Gallagher Leave a Comment

Today’s Featured Kindle Book of the Day is The Warrior With Alzheimer’s: The Battle for Justice, by Stephen Woodfin, and this book is regularly priced at $3.99 but has been discounted 25% to just $2.99 in connection with this promotion. This book has received an average user rating of 4.4 out of 5 stars based on 17 customer reviews.

Category: Thriller

Here is the book’s description from the Amazon website:

“A fine thriller, with a bittersweet love story that lingers long after the last page.” — Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

First released as The Sickle’s Compass, The Warrior With Alzheimer’s is the story of a WWII veteran who realizes that Alzheimer’s is about to ground him forever, so he goes on the run. Soon he finds himself in a criminal justice system gone haywire. Thrown into events he neither controls nor understands, he demonstrates in his last heroic battle the depth of his inner resolve never to fail those he loves.

Stephen Woodfin’s fourth novel, is a fast-paced legal thriller, a poignant story of threadbare yet resilient love, and a scathing indictment of America’s refusal to come to grips with the reality of Alzheimer’s Disease and related forms of dementia.

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/2ypi21 into your web browser to pick up your copy of The Warrior With Alzheimer’s: The Battle for Justice.

About the Author:

Stephen Woodfin, a ***2012 Kindle Book Review Best Indie Book Award FINALIST – THRILLER***, is an attorney and the author of seven fast-paced thrillers. Together with Caleb Pirtle, he is a proprietor of the popular Internet site for readers and authors, Venture Galleries.

His novel, The Warrior with Alzheimer’s: The Battle for Justice in March 2013 received a starred review from Kirkus Reviews.

You can follow Stephen on Twitter @stephenwoodfin and at venturegalleries.com
You can visit Stephen’s Amazon author page if you click here or type in http://smarturl.it/woodfin into your web browser.

Betty's Child – Today's Featured Kindle Book

August 9, 2013 by Michael Gallagher 2 Comments

Today’s Featured Kindle Book of the Day is Betty’s Child, by Donald Dempsey, and this book is regularly priced at $2.99 but has been discounted 67% to just $0.99 in connection with this promotion. This book has received an average user rating of 4.7 out of 5 stars based on 119 customer reviews.

Category: Memoir

Here is the book’s description from the Amazon website:

In the tradition of Frank McCourt and Angela’s Ashes, Don Dempsey uses Betty’s Child to tell the story of life with his cruel and neglectful mother, his mother’s abusive boyfriends, and hypocritical church leaders who want to save twelve-year-old Donny’s soul but ignore threats to his physical well-being. Meanwhile, Donny’s best friend is trying to recruit Donny to do petty theft and deal drugs for a dangerous local thug.

Young Donny is a real-life cross between Huckleberry Finn and Holden Caulfield as he tells his story, with only his street smarts and sense of humor to guide him. Donny does everything he can to take care of himself and his younger brothers, but with each new development, the present becomes more fraught with peril–and the future more uncertain.

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/2ajznh into your web browser to pick up your copy of Betty’s Child .

Cracks in the Sidewalk – Today's Featured Kindle Book

August 8, 2013 by Michael Gallagher 5 Comments

Today’s Featured Kindle Book of the Day is Cracks in the Sidewalk, by Bette Lee Crosby, and this book is regularly priced at $5.99 but has been discounted 50% to just $2.99 in connection with this promotion. This book has received an average user rating of 4.3 out of 5 stars based on 109 customer reviews.

Category: Women’s Fiction

Here is the book’s description from the Amazon website:

FPA President’s Book Award Gold Medal and Winner of the Royal Palm Literary Award

From the Bestselling Author of Spare Change, comes a powerful story that is a heart-wrenching reminder of how fragile relationships can be. Cracks in the Sidewalk is based on a true story.

Claire McDermott is a wife, a mother, a grandmother… Her only daughter is gravely ill… Her son-in-law is resentful and angry… Her grandchildren are missing…

After years of writing letters, hoping to find the children, hoping to bring them back, Claire receives a reply…a dog-eared gray envelope is stuffed into her mailbox, but will it bring hope or simply put an end to the waiting?

A moving, emotional story…when I read this book I felt so moved, I was crying at the end…writing flowed beautifully…depth of characters and insight kept me turning pages. 5 Stars Bria Burton

Can a single letter change the lives of four people? Claire McDermott and her grandchildren are about to discover letters are a journey of the heart which can ultimately deliver people to their destination.

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/cracks into your web browser to pick up your copy of Cracks in the Sidewalk.

About the Author:

Award-winning novelist Bette Lee Crosby brings the wit and wisdom of her Southern Mama to works of fiction–the result is a delightful blend of humor, mystery and romance along with a cast of quirky charters who will steal your heart away.

Crosby’s work was first recognized in 2006 when she received The National League of American Pen Women Award for a then unpublished manuscript. Since then, she has gone on to win several more awards, including another NLAPW award, three Royal Palm Literary Awards, and the FPA President’s Book Award Gold Medal.

Her published novels to date are: Cracks in the Sidewalk (2009), Spare Change (2011), The Twelfth Child (2012), Cupid’s Christmas (2012) and What Matters Most (2013). She has also authored ” Life in the Land of ISS” a memoir of Lani Deauville, a woman the Guinness Book of Records lists as the world’s longest living quadriplegic.

Crosby originally studied art and began her career as a packaging designer. When asked to write a few lines of copy for the back of a pantyhose package, she discovered a love for words that was irrepressible. After years of writing for business, she turned to works of fiction and never looked back. “Storytelling is in my blood,” Crosby laughingly admits, “My mom was not a writer, but she was a captivating storyteller, so I find myself using bits and pieces of her voice in most everything I write.”

You can visit Bette Lee’s Amazon author page if you click here or type in http://smarturl.it/blcrosby into your web browser.

Mars Burning – Today's Featured Kindle Book

August 7, 2013 by Michael Gallagher Leave a Comment

Today’s Featured Kindle Book of the Day is Mars Burning, a new release (in honor of the one-year anniversary of the landing of the Mars rover Curiosity) by bestselling author Cidney Swanson, and this book is regularly priced at $4.99 but has been discounted 80% to just $0.99 in connection with this promotion. This book has received an average user rating of 4.4 out of 5 stars based on 8 customer reviews.

Long-time readers of the blog are familiar with this series and should appreciate this story: my 14 year old and her friends have read the first three books in the series – when I told her yesterday afternoon this was a new release and was going to be featured on the blog today, she started jumping up and down with excitement and immediately started texting her friends (whatever happened to using the phone to talk?). You can read more about the other books in the series below the book description…

Category: Science Fiction / Fantasy / Young Adult

Here is the book’s description from the Amazon website:

Chancellor Lucca believes Jess and Pavel are dead, and now she’s deadly determined to make certain Mars never interferes with her or her world again. Meanwhile on Mars, Mei Lo pleads with the Raiders to finish their second mission: disabling the Terran satellites. But the satellites aren’t all that threaten the red planet. Cavanaugh Kipling makes plans to contact Lucca’s government–without permission. Now Jessamyn must thwart villains on two worlds before it’s too late to prevent the destruction of Mars.

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/marsburning into your web browser to pick up your copy of Mars Burning.

Book 1 in the Series, Saving Mars, is a Kirkus starred review and won a “Best of 2012” Kirkus book award, and is sometimes free in the Amazon Kindle store yet sometimes it’s 99 cents. You can check it out if you Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/savingmars into your web browser.

Book 2 in the Series, Defying Mars, is normally $4.99 but has been discounted 80% to just 99 cents. You can check it out if you Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/defyingmars into your web browser.

Book 3 in the Series, Losing Mars, is normally $4.99 but has also been discounted 80% to just 99 cents. You can check it out if you Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/losingmars into your web browser.

About the Author:

Hi there! My name is Cidney and I’m a full time writer of young adult science fiction and fantasy novels. I’m easily distracted by shiny things such as new book covers, macarons in glass jars, and Mars set against an inky night sky. My year so far has included learning to milk goats, baking thirteen pies for friends who wanted Wedding Pie instead of Cake, and finding myself speaking before a large group while wearing navy tights with a black dress. (My dress wasn’t navy???) If you’d like to visit, I hang out at cidneyswanson.com where I natter on about this and that, assuming I haven’t been distracted by something shiny. I live in Oregon’s Willamette Valley with my husband, three kids, a dog, and two cats and entirely too much rain.

You can visit Cidney’s Amazon author page if you click here or type in http://smarturl.it/cidneyswanson into your web browser.

Today's Featured Kindle Book

August 6, 2013 by Michael Gallagher Leave a Comment

Today’s Featured Kindle Book of the Day is Superior Justice, by Tom Hilpert, and this book is regularly $3.99 but has been discounted 75% to just $0.99 in the Amazon Kindle store. This book has received an average user rating of 4.6 out of 5 stars based on 69 customer reviews

Category: Mystery

Here is the book’s description from the Amazon website:

THE CONFESSION THAT COULD KILL HIM…

Jonah Borden is not your typical Lutheran pastor, and he takes pains to make sure everyone knows it. He’s a tough-guy, thinks-he’s-funny, rock-music-playing, gourmet-cooking, painfully-moderate-drinking, hard-boiled man of the cloth. He is even available for a bit of romance, under the right circumstances.

Doug Norstad, a member of Jonah Borden’s church, is arrested for a vigilante killing. Norstad shares his true alibi with Borden, under the privileged status of religious confession. Knowing now that the man is innocent, Borden must prove it somehow, without divulging his secret. Along the way he uncovers a twisted series of murders and cover ups. Before it is all over, Borden himself has been bribed, beaten, shot, and arrested for murder. Even worse, he may be falling in love.

Set in the midst of the striking beauty of Minnesota’s Lake Superior Coastline, Superior Justice will draw you in with its unique and quirky characters, and keep you guessing until the end.

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/n499zo into your web browser to pick up your copy of Superior Justice.

About the Author:

Tom Hilpert grew up in the tropical paradise of Papua New Guinea. When he was ten years old, he knew he wanted to write books. In fact, he began writing several books at that age. Thankfully, they are lost forever.
However, his more recent works are available in print and ebook formats. His fiction features strong, memorable, quirky characters who face mysteries and adventures with humor and persistence.

Although Hilpert finds great fulfillment in preaching as a pastor, he detests novels that are used as a thin cover to preach. He writes in order to tell a story that is fun to read, not to preach at readers. Rest assured: though his protagonist is also a preacher, you won’t find sermons in Hilpert’s novels.

Tom is contemplating the next Superior Mystery. Also in the works is a creative memoir of his youth overseas.

Learn more at http://www.tomhilpert.com
You can visit Tom’s Amazon author page if you click here or type in http://smarturl.it/tomhilpert into your web browser.

Today's Featured Kindle Book(s)

August 5, 2013 by Michael Gallagher 2 Comments

Today’s Featured Kindle Book of the Day is Boreal and John Grey Season 1, a five-book box set by Chrystalla Thoma, and this book is regularly $4.99 but has been discounted 80% to just $0.99 in the Amazon Kindle store. This book has received an average user rating of 4.8 out of 5 stars based on 13 customer reviews

Category: Urban Fantasy

Here is the book’s description from the Amazon website:

Read the complete First Season of the series Boreal and John Grey, books 1-5 (The Encounter, The Gate, The Dragon, The Dream and The Truth) at a special price with an Author’s Note at the end.

Centuries ago, they nearly conquered humankind. But their Gate to our world closed, leaving them out. Now the elves have found a way back.

Ella Benson, agent of the Paranormal Bureau, fights the Shades when they cross into our world, keeping everyone safe. But increasingly dangerous creatures are slipping into her city, her work partner has just gone missing, and a mysterious – and, quite frankly, hot — guy saves her life. His name is Finn and, as it turns out, he’s a natural when it comes to fighting the Shades.

When the Gates between the worlds start opening and the elves make a comeback, Ella needs a new, temporary partner. Enlisting the mysterious Finn is a no-brainer, until she realizes he is guarding dangerous secrets of his own.

Together with Finn, and the fate of the world on her shoulders, what’s Ella to do but grab her weapons and figure it all out, one way or another.

Warning for profanity and adult sexual situations.

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/laqj3t into your web browser to pick up your copy of Boreal and John Grey Season 1.

About the Author:

Chrystalla is Greek Cypriot (hence the strange name) and likes writing about bratty, angsty boys and spunky girls in fantasy and science-fiction worlds. She writes mainly for a young adult public but not only (heed the warnings!)

She’s currently preparing a non-fiction book about dragons, because the truth must out, and is juggling two series (“Elei’s Chronicles” and “Boreal and John Grey”).

Follow Chrystalla on her Fan page on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Author-Chrystalla-Thoma/117863861560579

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You can visit Chrystalla’s Amazon author page if you click here or type in http://smarturl.it/chrystalla into your web browser.

Today's Featured Kindle Book

August 4, 2013 by Michael Gallagher 5 Comments

Today’s Featured Kindle Book of the Day is The Marriage Caper, by Sandra Edwards, and this book is just $2.99 in the Amazon Kindle store. This book has received an average user rating of 4.6 out of 5 stars based on 29 customer reviews

Category: Contemporary Romance

Here is the book’s description from the Amazon website:

Andre de Laurent is the second son of an extremely wealthy family, which basically means he’ll always be number two. That is, until his mother’s uncle dies and leaves him a multi-billion-dollar fortune. So what’s the trouble? Andre has sixty days to take a wife, and he’ll have to remain married for one year or forfeit the inheritance to distant relatives–who are hell-bent on claiming the inheritance as their own.

Aspiring actress Tasha Gordon has never wanted anything quite so much as that big break–until she met Andre de Laurent. Could his offer turn out to be the role of lifetime?

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/7qln6n into your web browser to pick up your copy of The Marriage Caper.

About the Author:

Sandra is an award-winning author of romance. She has eclectic tastes, penning tales in a variety of genres such as paranormal (mostly time travel and reincarnation), contemporary and suspense. She lives in the U.S. (west coast) with her husband, two kids, four dogs and one very temperamental feline. Sandra’s books often push the envelope and step outside the boundaries of conventional romance. For more info on Sandra’s books, visit her website at www.sandrawrites.com.

You can visit Sandra’s Amazon author page if you click here or type in http://smarturl.it/sandraedwards into your web browser.

Today's Featured Kindle Book

August 3, 2013 by Michael Gallagher 2 Comments

Today’s Featured Kindle Book of the Day is Somebody Tell Aunt Tillie She’s Dead, by Christiana Miller, and this book is regularly $3.99 but has been discounted 50% to just $1.99 in the Amazon Kindle store. This book has received an average user rating of 4.3 out of 5 stars based on 283 customer reviews

Category: Paranormal Mystery

Here is the book’s description from the Amazon website:

A little magic can go a long way — to really screwing up a girl’s life!

Mara is having the worst month of her life. At least, that’s what her tarot cards tell her and they’ve never been wrong. She’s evicted from her apartment, loses her job and is banned from Beverly Hills. When the cards predict her imminent demise, she uses a little magic to make her world right.

Suddenly, an aunt she’s never met dies, leaving Mara as her sole heir. But when Mara moves into her inherited home, she discovers Aunt Tillie never moved out. She’s still one pissed-off old lady, even post-mortem, and she blames Mara’s magical meddling for her death.

When Mara accidentally releases a demon and awakens the spirit of the most powerful witch in history, Tillie’s ready to kill her. Literally. It’s the only way she can think of to save the girl from herself. The witch and the demon, however, have other plans for Mara.

Somebody Tell Aunt Tillie She’s Dead is a quirky urban fantasy that mixes humor, suspense and witchcraft. Whether you’re looking for a fun read to pass the time, a spell to bring your true love to you, or a manual on witchcraft, you’ll find it in Somebody Tell Aunt Tillie She’s Dead!

Caution: This story is not suitable for children, teenagers or for readers who are easily offended.

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/tillie into your web browser to pick up your copy of Somebody Tell Aunt Tillie She’s Dead.

About the Author:

Christiana Miller is a novelist, screenwriter and mom who’s led an unusual life. In addition to writing for General Hospital: Night Shift and General Hospital, she’s had her DNA shot into space (where she’s currently cohabiting in a drawer with Stephen Colbert and Stephen Hawking), she’s been serenaded by Klingons, and she’s been the voices of all the female warriors in Mortal Kombat II and III. If her life was a TV show, it would be a wacky dramedy filled with eccentric characters who get themselves into bizarre situations.

If you want to know more about Christiana, you can visit her website at www.christianamiller.com or like her Facebook page and keep up to date on her latest releases at https://www.facebook.com/ChristianaMiller.author

To be added to the mailing list for upcoming releases, send an email with your name and email address to: christiana_miller (at) aol (dot) com — or go to www.christianamiller.com and click “email me.”

You can visit Christiana’s Amazon author page if you click here or type in http://smarturl.it/christiana into your web browser.

EleMental – Today's Featured Kindle Book

The Advocate – Today's Featured Kindle Book

The Warrior with Alzheimer's – Today's Featured Kindle Book

Betty's Child – Today's Featured Kindle Book

Cracks in the Sidewalk – Today's Featured Kindle Book

Mars Burning – Today's Featured Kindle Book

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