Archives for March 2012

Only 8 Hours Left for the Kindle Fire Giveaway!

March 31, 2012 by Michael Gallagher

Just 8 hours to go…

The Kindle Fire giveaway ends tonight at midnight EST. If you haven’t entered the contest, you can click here or type in http://bit.ly/HEGsFt into your computer’s web browser and enter the contest.

Once you get to this page, you will need to scroll down just below the “Brand New Kindle Fire” box (the font is large and dark) and click the button to log in with your Facebook account. Once you log in, you will need to click one more time to give the blog’s Facebook page a “like” in order to enter the contest.

Here are a few clarifying comments based upon your blog and email responses and questions:

Yes, you need to be a member of Facebook to enter. Membership on Facebook is free. Some of you have said you “don’t do” Facebook and that’s okay: I may come back with another giveaway, or you could sign up for Facebook just for this giveaway and forget about it after the giveaway has concluded.
Technically, you must enter by 12:01 a.m. Sunday morning – midnight tonight is a lot easier to say and remember.
I will draw the winner’s name after lunch tomorrow – I will be at church tomorrow morning and won’t have time to post the free book offers and doing everything I need to do to notify the winner before I leave.
After I contact the winner and receive the appropriate shipping instructions, I will have a new Kindle Fire sent out to the winner – that Kindle Fire could ship out as early as Monday morning. Yes, I will send a tracking number to the winner.
Your odds of winning the Kindle Fire are a heck of a lot better than winning last night’s Mega Millions jackpot (obviously, I didn’t win) – as I type this post, there are only 1,810 entries into the contest. (about 300 more than this morning).

This giveaway has generated a lot of fun and excitement not only for a lot of you, but for me, also – many of you have written me or posted to the blog about how you are using your Kindles, etc. Don’t just wait for a giveaway / contest, you can contact me at anytime via the blog’s web interface at www.fkbooksandtips.com or send an email to michael at fkbooksandtips.com

Good luck, and don’t forget to enter!

Michael

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Last Day to Enter for the Free Kindle Fire!

March 31, 2012 by Michael Gallagher

Time is almost running out…

Here are a few clarifying comments based upon your blog and email responses and questions:

Yes, you need to be a member of Facebook to enter. Membership on Facebook is free. Some of you have said you “don’t do” Facebook and that’s okay: I may come back with another giveaway, or you could sign up for Facebook just for this giveaway and forget about it after the giveaway has concluded.
Technically, you must enter by 12:01 a.m. Sunday morning – midnight tonight is a lot easier to say and remember.
I will draw the winner’s name after lunch tomorrow – I will be at church tomorrow morning and won’t have time to post the free book offers and doing everything I need to do to notify the winner before I leave.
After I contact the winner and receive the appropriate shipping instructions, I will have a new Kindle Fire sent out to the winner – that Kindle Fire could ship out as early as Monday morning. Yes, I will send a tracking number to the winner.
Your odds of winning the Kindle Fire are a heck of a lot better than winning last night’s Mega Millions jackpot (obviously, I didn’t win) – as I type this post, there are only 1,523 entries into the contest.

Good luck, and don’t forget to enter!

Michael

New Tequila Cocktails Handbook – Free from Amazon Kindle Store

March 31, 2012 by Michael Gallagher

Well, spring is here and summer is approaching, so I felt even more compelled to post about this book…

New Tequila Cocktails Handbook 2012 is free today from the Amazon Kindle store, and has received an average user rating of 4.5 out of 5 stars based on just two customer reviews (why not write a review of your own?). You can pick up your free copy by clicking here or typing in http://amzn.to/H55cJe into your computer’s web browser.

Category: Cooking

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

This book is a fun guide to tequila cocktails and designed for ebooks that can be loaded & read instantly from your mobile device, excellent for parties. Our company host parties and events, big and small, around the world and we have picked up a nice list of cocktails along the way. These tequila cocktails start out simple and get more challenging towards the end. When you have mastered all of the tequila cocktails, you will earn the title “Elite Tequila Mixologist”! Even better, you will make the best tequila drinks available from your mobile device to achieve major bragging rights among friends.

Life After War – Free from Amazon Kindle Store

March 31, 2012 by Michael Gallagher

Life After War: Books 1-3 by Angela White is free today from the Amazon Kindle store, and has received an average user rating of 4.5 out of 5 stars based on 15 customer reviews. You can pick up your free copy by clicking here or typing in http://amzn.to/HEAfJw into your computer’s web browser.

Category: Science Fiction / Fantasy

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

“The End of the world has given us a harsh, merciless existence, where nature tries hard to push mankind to the very brink of extinction. Everything is against us, between us…

Untold miles of lawless, apocalyptic roads wait for our feet, and the Future, cold and dark, offers little comfort. Without CHANGE, there will be no peace. Only Survivors.”

“Set along the lines of The Stand and The Postman, this is a chilling vision of the collapse of all society in the year 2012 and the rebirth of a nation by those who survived. It’s so much more than just another fantasy series.” -The Review Shop

Fated to lead New America, seven special people survive a nuclear apocalypse, only to find themselves on a cross country quest that will shake the very core of who they thought they were. From dangerous trips into dark, apocalyptic cities, to patriotic rescues and furious revelations, Life After War is an action packed fantasy series where those left alive must come to terms with their mistakes in the old world, while fighting for a place in the new one. It’s the Apocalyptic Fantasy Series that Stephen King fans have been searching for.

Summary in 20 words or less
An action adventure quest, with a supernatural romance, and many other subplots, set during the aftermath of the apocalypse.

So what’s really in this story? Here’s a short list:

The End of the World, right up close and full of Apocalyptic Horror.
A Conspiracy that caused the Apocalypse.
A Science Fiction Adventure into the wastelands to find family, supplies, and safety.
A Supernatural Romance with a dangerous secret about a child’s parentage and a love strong enough to survive the end of the world.
An Invasion, Ambushes, Attacks from Nature and Man. Guns and magic.
A Camp with Very different laws, picking up those who’ve survived.
A Hero you’ll love, even as you ponder the secrets that could loose him leadership.
A Witch, A Doctor, A Government Storm-Tracker, A TV Star, and three Marines struggling to keep their people alive and together as they prepare to defend themselves against Cesar’s Slavers.
A Constant battle for survival that includes deadly trips into decaying American cities, insanity, relics of the past, and demons that stalk their every move.

Life After War. Magic and Reality blended into a Post Apocalyptic Fantasy Series that you won’t ever forget.

May 1812 – Free from Amazon Kindle Store

March 31, 2012 by Michael Gallagher

May 1812 by M.M. Bennetts is free today from the Amazon Kindle store, and has received an average user rating of 4.5 out of 5 stars based on 9 customer reviews. You can pick up your free copy by clicking here or typing in http://amzn.to/H54tHK into your computer’s web browser.

Category: Historical Fiction / Suspense

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

In the war against Napoleon, there are no easy victories.

1812. Europe has been at war for twenty years. Britain stands alone against the greatest threat to peace the world has ever known, at daily risk of a French invasion and revolution. In London, a handful of men struggle to protect their country and maintain the war effort. Among them, the Earl of Myddelton, code-breaker to the Foreign Office, strives to crack the most difficult French code yet—the Grand Chiffre—before still more men die on the battlefields of Europe.

Then, on 11 May 1812, the unthinkable happens—the Prime Minister is assassinated. Amid widespread panic and fear of a French conspiracy, the government falls.

From the ballrooms of London, to the backstreets of power, to the death-in-waiting coast of enemy France, Myddelton is drawn inexorably into the deepening crisis—his private life unravelling all the while, as misunderstandings, gossip and spite mar his marriage and threaten to destroy his career.

The Companion of Lady Holmeshire – Free from Amazon Kindle Store

March 31, 2012 by Michael Gallagher

The Companion of Lady Holmeshire by D.J. Chung is free today from the Amazon Kindle store, and has received an average user rating of 4 out of 5 stars based on 27 customer reviews. You can pick up your free copy by clicking here or typing in http://amzn.to/HDxedL into your computer’s web browser.

Category: Historical Fiction / Romance

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

A baby girl was found in a basket on Squire Carrington’s doorstep. She was raised and sent to work as a servant girl for The Countess of Holmeshire. The widowed and unconventional Countess chose Miss Emma Carrington as a companion and sent her off for finishing with the goal of dragging her along into genteel Victorian society. What sort of reception would she have at tea and dinners? The young Earl of Holmeshire was engaged by arrangement to a lovely London lady, but their relationship was difficult. Could they work it out? Even the tribulations and banned romances of the servants downstairs play into the story as we follow Emma from a stone fortress to a Victorian village and then into fabulous London mansions. Great surprises unfold at a Midsummer Night’s Dream Ball which help to solve mysteries that have gradually developed. You are invited to predict the great revelation of the last few pages!

Build Like an Ant – Free from Amazon Kindle Store

March 31, 2012 by Michael Gallagher

Build Like an Ant: How My Mom Helped Me Become Valedictorian by D.J. Chung is free today from the Amazon Kindle store, and has received a perfect 5 out of 5 stars based on 11 customer reviews. You can pick up your free copy by clicking here or typing in http://amzn.to/H53RCb into your computer’s web browser.

Category: Advice & How-To / Reference

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

In Build Like an Ant: How My Mom Helped Me Become Valedictorian, DJ Chung gives you his mother’s stories and lessons that helped him become valedictorian of a large, competitive public high school and gain entry into Duke University. These lessons will provide you with a roadmap on how to gain the essential skills necessary to realize the ultimate goal of becoming valedictorian. Build Like an Ant will show you how a devoted mother’s wisdom can help you reach high goals during the ever increasingly competitive, stressful and pressure-filled time called, high school.

To Anyone With A Dream,

Becoming valedictorian was about more than just being the head of my class. It was about setting a huge goal for myself and committing to achieving it. Without my mother, I don’t know that I would have had the ambition to dream so big or the confidence to go for it. Thanks to Mama Chung, I have learned that any goal is achievable as long as you know how to approach it and have the right attitude.

I’ve realized how lucky I am to have a mother who supports and encourages me. I’ve realized too that her stories are relevant to many people and the lessons can be applied to any goal. That’s why I wrote this book.

Mama Chung’s sayings are just too good to go unrecorded! From “build like an ant” to “keep adding tools to your toolbox” to “don’t just stand in the kitchen,” my mother always knows the right thing to say to get me thinking and to get me moving.

I hope that reading my book inspires you to achieve your goals and gives you the tools you need to succeed.

Best of luck to you … and don’t forget to tell your mom “thanks!”

-DJ Chung

Soul of the Sea – Free from Amazon Kindle Store

March 31, 2012 by Michael Gallagher

Soul of the Sea by Jasmine Denton is free today from the Amazon Kindle store, and has received an average user rating of 4.5 out of 5 stars based on three customer reviews. You can pick up your free copy by clicking here or typing in http://amzn.to/HxZEJC into your computer’s web browser.

Category: Young Adult / Fantasy / Romance

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

Off the coast of Harmony Harbor, beneath the ocean’s waves, a dark secret is about to unfold. Few know of its existence.
Mykaela Whindom is rescued from the treacherous seas only to find her best friend didn’t survive the tragic accident. Later, she finds the boy who rescued her wounded on the beach. Her family takes him in and offers him work at their bed and breakfast, unaware that he’s cursed, doomed to spend eternity at sea among soul-thirsty warriors, and his presence threatens the entire town.
But the danger isn’t just in the ocean—a group of Hunters, determined to kill every sea creature including Dylan, roam the town searching for justice. When the two worlds collide, Mykaela’s growing relationship with Dylan is jeopardized by more than just his secret. Before she can open her heart to him, she must face the truth about her friend’s death, her family heritage, and her destiny.

Links to 22,000+ Free Kindle Books from Amazon Listed by Genre / Category

March 30, 2012 by Michael Gallagher

Today is just another one of those days….each day, there are a few hundred new books in the Kindle format offered for free on the Amazon website, primarily from independent authors. Today, there were a little over 650 – and with a new month rolling around, the total is pretty impressive with just over 22,000 free Kindle books in the Amazon Kindle store this morning!

You may also want something to do this weekend, say along the lines of checking out the various books that are being offered for free at any point in time in the Amazon Kindle store. I’ll show you some links on how to do that in a minute (many of you already know of these links).

For the past few weeks, there have been about 400 – 500 or so different free book offerings each day in the Amazon Kindle store as the many independent authors have been making their material free to you or Amazon is matching a free book promotion on a competing website. Sometimes these free book offers last for a couple of hours (or less) to weeks at a time. Please make sure you verify a book is free before you hit the “buy” button or your account will be charged!

Due to the number of free book offerings out there each day, I am unable to list out each and every one for you – I do try, however, to show you a selection of highly rated (at least 4 stars on the Amazon rating system) books in a couple of different genres for you to take a look at – but I do realize there are many times what I think might be interesting to you is not your cup of tea, or there may be times I miss telling you about a book that you absolutely have to have and read!

Here are some of the stats in the Amazon Kindle store; and the data was fresh this morning before I head off to work:

As I type this post this morning, there are exactly 6,254 free books that are “new” books and not considered classics or in the public domain.
Of those 8,061 books 3,948 are fiction and 2,415 are non-fiction.
There are 15,824 classic books available for free – the most popular title is The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, followed closely by Pride and Prejudice.
There are 104 books in the cooking, 536 in the fantasy, and 620 in the romance categories (just to rattle off a few) free books.

If my math is correct, that’s (only) 22,078 free Kindle books for you to peruse and potentially read on your Kindle just from the Amazon website: that might take you a while.

Here are the links again, and you may consider bookmarking some of these (I have) as the titles available change each hour. Please make sure you verify the price is still free before you click the “buy” button!

All Non-Public Domain Free books: http://amzn.to/bookload

Fiction: http://amzn.to/kindlefiction

Non-fiction: http://amzn.to/kindlenonfiction

Advice & How-To: http://amzn.to/kindleadvice or http://amzn.to/kindlehowto

Arts & Entertainment: http://amzn.to/kindlearts or http://amzn.to/kindleentertainment

Biographies & Memoirs: http://amzn.to/kindlebios or http://amzn.to/kindlememoirs

Business & Investing: http://amzn.to/kindlebusiness or http://amzn.to/kindleinvest

Children: http://amzn.to/kindlekids or http://amzn.to/kindlechildren

Classic / Public Domain Books: http://amzn.to/kindleclassic or http://amzn.to/kindleclassicbooks

Comics & Graphic Novels: http://amzn.to/kindlecomics or http://amzn.to/kindlegraphic

Computers & Internet: http://amzn.to/kindlecpu or http://amzn.to/kindlecomputer or http://amzn.to/kindleinternet

Cooking, Food, & Wine: http://amzn.to/kindlecooking or http://amzn.to/kindlecook or http://amzn.to/kindlefood or http://amzn.to/kindlewine or http://amzn.to/kindlevino

Fantasy: http://amzn.to/kindlefantasy

History: http://amzn.to/kindlehistory

Humor: http://amzn.to/kindlehumor or http://amzn.to/kindlejokes

Lifestyle & Home: http://amzn.to/kindlelifestyle or http://amzn.to/kindlehome

Literary Fiction: http://amzn.to/kinleliteraryfiction or http://amzn.to/kindlelitfiction

Mystery & Thrillers: http://amzn.to/kindlemystery or http://amzn.to/kindlethriller

Parenting & Families: http://amzn.to/kindleparenting or http://amzn.to/kindleparents or http://amzn.to/kindlefamilies

Politics & Current Events: http://amzn.to/kindlepolitics or http://amzn.to/kindlecurrentevents

Reference: http://amzn.to/kindlereference or http://amzn.to/kindleref

Religion & Spirituality: http://amzn.to/kindlereligion or http://amzn.to/kindespirituality

Romance: http://amzn.to/kindleromance

Science: http://amzn.to/kindlescience

Science Fiction: http://amzn.to/kindlescifi or http://amzn.to/kindlesciencefiction

Sports: http://amzn.to/kindlesports

Travel: http://amzn.to/kindletravel

Clicking through all of these should keep you busy for a while. I’d recommend you go to a computer to check all of these out, and save the links as bookmarks (that’s what I do).

Hope this helps!

Michael

Sacrifice – Free from Amazon Kindle Store

March 30, 2012 by Michael Gallagher

Sacrifice by Alexandra Weis is free today from the Amazon Kindle store, and has received a perfect 5 out of 5 stars based on 18 customer reviews. You can pick up your free copy by clicking here or typing in http://amzn.to/Hw6369 into your computer’s web browser.

Category: Romance / Suspense

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

Nicci Beauvoir fell in love with the artist, David Alexander, in To My Senses, and then uncovered his killer in Recovery. Nicci is back to finally confront David’s dark past in Sacrifice.
Stunned after seeing a man she believes to be her beloved David Alexander in a crowd outside of the St. Louis Cathedral, Nicci goes on a desperate hunt for the truth about David’s demise. But to get the information she desires, Nicci must team up with David’s former boss, the ruthless Simon La Roy. Nicci decides not to tell her fiancé, Dallas August, about her involvement with Simon. As Nicci becomes hopelessly entangled in Simon’s sinister plans, Dallas discovers her secret, and tries to protect her. But one night on a deserted French Quarter street, Nicci unexpectedly learns what really happened to David Alexander. Now she must engage in a deadly game of intrigue to keep what she has unearthed from Simon La Roy. In a final confrontation, a revengeful Simon forces Nicci to choose between her life and revealing all that she has discovered. But what mystery is Nicci protecting and is it worth her future happiness? For Nicci there can be no happy ending unless she keeps what she knows about David Alexander hidden from the world. It’s a decision that will cost her everything. Is Nicci willing to pay the price? In the end, there can never be a happily ever after without a little…sacrifice.

Only 8 Hours Left for the Kindle Fire Giveaway!

Last Day to Enter for the Free Kindle Fire!

New Tequila Cocktails Handbook – Free from Amazon Kindle Store

Life After War – Free from Amazon Kindle Store

May 1812 – Free from Amazon Kindle Store

The Companion of Lady Holmeshire – Free from Amazon Kindle Store

Build Like an Ant – Free from Amazon Kindle Store

Soul of the Sea – Free from Amazon Kindle Store

Links to 22,000+ Free Kindle Books from Amazon Listed by Genre / Category

Sacrifice – Free from Amazon Kindle Store

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