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900+ Free Kindle Mystery & Thriller Books

June 30, 2012 by Michael Gallagher

The post I had earlier this week spotlighting various free children & young adult genre books was so popular (you can see that post again if you click here or type http://bit.ly/LAPll5 in into your web browser), I decided to do it today with the mystery & thriller genre.

In addition to the four mystery & thriller novels listed below, you can always check out the shortcut links to the Amazon website I saved to see what free offers are listed on any day at any time vs. waiting on me to tell you about them: http://amzn.to/kindlemystery or http://amzn.to/kindlethriller – when I checked the link this morning, there were 866 free books in the mystery & thriller category

You may want to bookmark those links in your web browser (I have), but please make sure you check the pricing before you hit the buy button on the Amazon website as the pricing changes every hour – when you click the shortcut links above, the filter may not have had time to cull out the now “not free” books so be careful!

Here are the five free mystery & thriller Kindle books in no particular order:

Turing Evolved by David Kitson has received an average user rating of 4.5 out of 5 stars based on 106 customer reviews. On a side note, I have read this one and I thought it was very good and I sure hope there is a sequel – if you would like to read the review I wrote for the book on the Amazon website, you can click here or type in http://amzn.to/KAMsU4 into your computer’s web browser – if you think it was helpful, I would appreciate a “Yes” vote on the Amazon web page!

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

When Ex-DEMON pilot Jon Carlson meets beautiful humanitarian Rachel, it’s a match made in HEAVEN. Literally, because Rachel’s an ANGEL. She’s also an AI controlled android of immense power and capability. As Jon finds himself drawn into the world of these enigmatic creations of mankind, he unknowingly becomes involved in a program to create autonomous superweapons intended to fight the next war.

USA subscribers: pick up your free copy by clicking here or typing in http://amzn.to/JQp18J into your computer’s web browser.

This book is not free in the UK

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The Ghosts of Varner Creek by Michael Weems has received an average user rating of 4.5 out of 5 stars based on 216 customer reviews.

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

Caution: Book contains adult content and themes. Reader discretion advised.

In the summer of 1909, in the small town of Varner Creek, Texas, twelve year old Solomon Mayfield awoke one morning to find his mother and sister had disappeared. Through a series of cover-ups and denials, some aimed at protecting Sol, others at hiding the worst of secrets, Sol lived the rest of his life in a fog of half-truths and shadowed lies, haunted by ghosts of the dead with whom he suddenly found himself sharing an inexplicable bond with that he could never fully understand. But when Sol passes away as an old man so many years later, the truth is waiting for him, as are the ghosts of his past. Sol finally discovers what really happened that summer and it is a truth that will change everything he thought he knew about the life he lived and the people he thought he knew. For as Sol is about to find out, even the dead have secrets.
USA subscribers: click here or type in http://amzn.to/xPZvuq into your web browser to receive your free copy.

UK subscribers: click here or type in http://amzn.to/N0Jo19 into your web browser to receive your free copy.
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Twenty-Eight and a Half Wishes by Denise Grover Swank has received an average user rating of 4.5 out of 5 stars based on 85 customer reviews.

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

For Rose Gardner, working at the DMV on a Friday afternoon is bad even before she sees a vision of herself dead. She’s had plenty of visions, usually boring ones like someone’s toilet’s overflowed, but she’s never seen one of herself before. When her overbearing momma winds up murdered on her sofa instead, two things are certain: There isn’t enough hydrogen peroxide in the state of Arkansas to get that stain out, and Rose is the prime suspect.

Rose realizes she’s wasted twenty-four years of living and makes a list on the back of a Wal-Mart receipt: twenty-eight things she wants to accomplish before her vision comes true. She’s well on her way with the help of her next door neighbor Joe, who has no trouble teaching Rose the rules of drinking, but won’t help with number fifteen– do more with a man. Joe’s new to town, but it doesn’t take a vision for Rose to realize he’s got plenty secrets of his own.

Somebody thinks Rose has something they want and they’ll do anything to get it. Her house is broken into, someone else she knows is murdered, and suddenly, dying a virgin in the Fenton County jail isn’t her biggest worry after all.
USA subscribers: click here or type in http://amzn.to/qP8ZN1 into your web browser to receive your free copy.

UK subscribers: click here or type in http://amzn.to/LHxSff into your web browser to receive your free copy.

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Still Life With Murder by P.B. Ryan has received an average user rating of 4.5 out of 5 stars based on 103 customer reviews.

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

Book #1 of P.B. Ryan’s bestselling historical mystery series featuring Boston governess Nell Sweeney and opium-smoking former battle surgeon Will Hewitt. Long thought to have died during the Civil War, Will is arrested for murder, and it’s up to Nell to prove his innocence. Originally published by Berkley Prime Crime.
USA subscribers: click here or type in http://amzn.to/m489FQ into your web browser to receive your free copy.

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Six Free Books from the Amazon Kindle Store

June 30, 2012 by Michael Gallagher

Here are six more free Kindle books for you from the Amazon Kindle store: as of this posting, each of the books was free on the Amazon website but please make sure you check the pricing before you smack the “buy” button as the pricing can (and does) change at any time!

Taming Clay by Raeann Blake has received an average user rating of 4 out of 5 stars based on 33 customer reviews.

Category: Romance

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

Surly didn’t begin to describe Clay Cardell. A lifetime of experience taught him not to love and never to trust, but he desperately needed a business manager. What he got was a spunky, high-tempered woman who tilted his world more than a little off-center. But if he had learned anything in his life, it was to not expect her to stick around. You don’t trust a woman, any woman, to not just disappear.

Hailey Lambert just needed a shot. Montana was a long way from New Mexico and she just needed one chance to prove she could do the job. She was warned that Clay Cardell would not be the easiest man to work for. After their initial meeting she thought they might have understated that just a tad. The fact that her heart did some kind of somersault when she first saw him didn’t really concern her. If she could deal with the man’s attitude, she could certainly deal with some little physical reaction. Right? Well… maybe not.

USA subscribers: click here or type in http://amzn.to/OLYrBz into your web browser to receive your free copy.

UK subscribers: click here or type in http://amzn.to/N3Zn2l into your web browser to receive your free copy.

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Chihuahua Karma by Debby Rice has received a perfect 5 out of 5 stars based on 22 customer reviews.

Category: Contemporary Fiction

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

Gregor’s nightmare was a cockroach. Cherry Paget’s is a Chihuahua.

Cherry was young, beautiful and rich—just golden enough to imagine that she had the world by the balls. Death was the furthest thing from her mind. But even a morbid obsession with the afterlife could not have prepared her for what happened.

Chihuahua Karma chronicles the horrendous consequences of Cherry’s bad choices. She trades love for a Black American Express card. She dumps veterinarian, Richard Preston, to marry gangster, Larry Finkelstein. And, when a smudge of magenta lipstick confirms that Larry is cheating she washes down a fist-full of Vicoden with a bottle of wine for breakfast. That mistake is the beginning of her problems.

In an inebriated attempt at tanning, Cherry plunges from the terrace of her penthouse to the street below. She escapes extinction only to encounter a more complicated fate. Cherry regains consciousness trapped inside the body of a very tiny dog.

Cherry’s diminutive prison is a mini Chi named Sugar. The Lucky Dream Dry Cleaners is her dismal new home. With the unwitting assistance of her former housekeeper, Cherry escapes the dirty clothes and cotton dust. Once again ensconced in Larry’s luxurious penthouse, she becomes his girlfriend’s prized purse-buddy.

In her diminished state, Cherry finds new perspective. She yearns for Richard. And she forms an unlikely alliance with Don Paco Fernandez, a temperamental ghost with a taste for tequila and pretty ladies. Through Don Paco, Cherry discovers that only she can save an orphaned child from her impending adoption by a sinister couple. The cast of off-beat characters collides, and Cherry meets her destiny at a casino night Christmas party.

Chihuahua Karma could easily share a shelf with humorous fiction like the Devil Wears Prada and the Nanny Diaries. Sugars fans include women who love fashion, passion and small dogs and any reader who enjoys unraveling a quirky plot to its surprising conclusion.

Debby Rice is a writer from Chicago. She has spent time in Mexico City, San Miguel Allende, New Orleans and San Francisco, and her experiences in those cities color her work. Rice blurs the distinctions between fantasy and reality and immerses her readers in a vividly imagined new world.

USA subscribers: click here or type in http://amzn.to/JHCC5t into your web browser to receive your free copy.

UK subscribers: click here or type in http://amzn.to/Kpyd0p into your web browser to receive your free copy.

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Generation by William Knoght has received an average user rating of 4.5 out of 5 stars based on 28 customer reviews.

Category: Horror

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

The facts behind the fiction
In 2001 scientists isolated the gene for regenerating damaged organs from the DNA of a

South American flatworm. Within five years it had been spliced into the chromosomes

of a rhesus monkey, transported through the cell walls by a retro-virus denuded of its own genetic material.

Attempting to regrow impaired or elderly tissues, a scientist will one day modify the DNA

of human beings by injecting the gene-carrying virus. It is just a matter of time.

Before consenting to treatment, you may want to ask a simple question: could there be

a situation in which you would want to die but were unable to do so?

A crime-thriller with an injection of horror
Journalist Hendrix ‘Aitch’ Harrison links bodies stolen from a renowned forensic-research

lab to an influential drug company.

Aided by Sarah Wallace, a determined and beguiling entomologist, he delves into a

grisly world of clinical trials and a viral treatment beyond imagining.

But Aitch must battle more than his fear of technology to expose the macabre

fate of the drugged victims donated to scientific research.
USA subscribers: click here or type in http://amzn.to/O2bn53 into your web browser to receive your free copy.

UK subscribers: click here or type in http://amzn.to/LaiR7q into your web browser to receive your free copy.

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Remembering August by Rodney V. Earle has received an average user rating of 4.5 out of 5 stars based on 27 customer reviews.

Category: Contemporary Fiction

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

Colleen Caldwell is the owner of Triple C Ranch, a boarding and teaching facility located in the hills and valleys of beautiful Simi Valley, California. Colleen, a gorgeous young widow at thirty-two, has a passion for horses and soft spot for the underdog. Joan Caldwell, the mother of Colleen’s dead husband, lives with her and works the accounting end of the business. Our story begins on a hot, hung over, August Sunday morning. Colleen is training a young filly, when the horse suddenly goes crazy and nearly tramples her to death. From nowhere, a mysterious cowboy appears in the dust and saves the day, and then disappears before Colleen gets the chance to thank him. Colleen is rushed to the hospital where she meets August Riley, a woman with a troubled past, and Leah, a nurse with a heart and the knowledge of how to use it. The first installment of the Triple C Ranch Saga follows Colleen’s journey through recovery, where she learns more than she ever bargained for.

USA subscribers: click here or type in http://amzn.to/N689uT into your web browser to receive your free copy.

UK subscribers: click here or type in http://amzn.to/KJZ5to into your web browser to receive your free copy.

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The Grand Mirage by Darrell Delamaide has received an average user rating of 4.5 out of 5 stars based on 22 customer reviews.

Category: Historical Fiction

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

A combination of Indiana Jones and James Bond, British agent Lord Richard Leighton must thwart the Kaiser’s plan to build the Baghdad Railway that would threaten Britain’s rule in India. He travels by caravan across the desert from Constantinople to accomplish his mission, defying the Young Turk regime, eluding a Prussian assassin, and forging an alliance with restive Bedouin tribes.

The year is 1910 and Europe’s imperial powers are on the threshold of war. New oil discoveries in the Middle East make this strategic region a bigger prize than ever. Leighton, a scholar in Arabic studies and a commissioned army officer, is torn between his devotion to a culture he has grown to love and his duty as an emissary of His Majesty’s government. He must also wrestle with his feelings for his former Armenian mistress when their paths cross again, rekindling the embers of their passion.

The Grand Mirage is a historical thriller that blends Wilbur Smith’s sense of rugged adventure, Eric Ambler’s taste for intrigue and Alan Furst’s period atmosphere to transport the reader back to an exotic Orient now lost to history.

USA subscribers: click here or type in http://amzn.to/vFCyHO into your web browser to receive your free copy.

UK subscribers: click here or type in http://amzn.to/OM2ygY into your web browser to receive your free copy.

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Obsessed by Edward Lorn has received a perfect 5 out of 5 stars based on 20 customer reviews.

Category: Mystery & Thrillers

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

She can see things…
Nevaeh Moore was born with a gift; a psychic ability to see things that the average person can’t. But after witnessing the traumatic death of her parents a few years ago, she is unable to distinguish faces in her visions.
Things are complicated enough between raising her teenage nephew Caleb on her own and fighting off the unwanted advances of her lecherous boss, Dempsey Donovan, when her best friend Sarah Cannon disappears under suspicious and clearly bloody circumstances. Even with her gift of “sight,” Nevaeh has no idea of the terror that lies ahead…
Obsessed
Aiden Lodge is the new custodian at the high school where Nevaeh teaches and he has an agenda of his own. Nevaeh gets the feeling that there is more too him than meets the eye. She doesn’t trust Aiden, or whoever he really is, one bit. Is he friend or foe? When the body count starts rising, Nevaeh realizes that she has nowhere else to turn.
Can she really trust him? Can she overcome her fear of discerning faces in her visions in time to catch the infamous serial killer, dubbed as “The Nipper” before he claims his ultimate prize, her?

USA subscribers: click here or type in http://amzn.to/KJZSKK into your web browser to receive your free copy.

UK subscribers: click here or type in http://amzn.to/NgfTYZ into your web browser to receive your free copy.

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Seven Free Books from the Amazon Kindle Store

June 30, 2012 by Michael Gallagher

Here are seven free Kindle books for you from the Amazon Kindle store to start off your Saturday: as of this posting, each of the books was free on the Amazon website but please make sure you check the pricing before you smack the “buy” button as the pricing can (and does) change at any time!

Fate: Timeless Trilogy, Book One by Tallulah Grace has received an average user rating of 4 out of 5 stars based on 25 customer reviews. I received a note from the author saying this book would be free indefinitely.

Category: Romance / Suspense

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

Is precognition a prescription for happiness or disaster?

The good things in life are coming together for Kristina Collins. She’s found her ideal home, her career is on track for mega success and the man of her dreams has finally come back into her life.

In Fate, the first installment of the Timeless Trilogy, Kris Collins discovers the benefits and risks of having precognitive visions while being stalked by a serial killer. Her friends can’t help her, the FBI can’t save her; she must save herself.

The Timeless Trilogy heroines, Kristina, Veronica and Cassandra, each deal with paranormal abilities as they discover and rediscover eternal love.

USA subscribers: click here or type in http://amzn.to/xdLerI into your web browser to receive your free copy.

UK subscribers: click here or type in http://amzn.to/OLPSYW into your web browser to receive your free copy.

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Overflow, a Paranormal Romance by Jason Letts has received an average user rating of 4 out of 5 stars based on 6 customer reviews. I received a note from the author saying this is the last day for this book to be free.

Category: Paranormal / Young Adult

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

Getting married at 19 years old would be enough to make anyone nervous, but Beck Eisley isn’t the kind of guy who backs down from a challenge. His bride Sydney is beautiful, adventurous, and comes from a powerful family that paid to have the ceremony on a luxurious cruise ship. So what could possibly go wrong?

While Beck executes his plans to make it a wedding no one will ever forget, he finds out Sydney’s family may have some skeletons in their closet that will make his wedding day more of a challenge than even he thought he could handle. If their history wasn’t enough to disturb Beck, some scheming from the father of the bride certainly would be, and before long his ship is headed straight for stormy seas. When he finds out he may not make it to land alive, it gives an entirely different meaning to the term “cold feet.”

USA subscribers: click here or type in http://amzn.to/LhcrxM into your web browser to receive your free copy.

UK subscribers: click here or type in http://amzn.to/LVxAhk into your web browser to receive your free copy.

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Running Wide Open (Full Throttle) by Lisa Nowak has received an average user rating of 4.5 out of 5 stars based on 25 customer reviews. I received a note from the author saying this book would be free indefinitely.

Category: Young Adult

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

Cody Everett has a temper as hot as the flashpoint of racing fuel, and it’s landed him at his uncle’s trailer, a last-chance home before military school. But how can he take the guy seriously when he calls himself Race, eats Twinkies for breakfast, and pals around with rednecks who drive in circles every Saturday night?

What Cody doesn’t expect is for the arrangement to work. Or for Race to become the friend and mentor he’s been looking for all his life. But just as Cody begins to settle in and get a handle on his supercharged temper, a crisis sends his life spinning out of control. Everything he’s come to care about is threatened, and he has to choose between falling back on his old, familiar anger or stepping up to prove his loyalty to the only person he’s ever dared to trust.

USA subscribers: click here or type in http://amzn.to/MI3xfu into your web browser to receive your free copy.

UK subscribers: click here or type in http://amzn.to/LM0K7X into your web browser to receive your free copy.

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Creating the Perfect Lifestyle – Success, Achievement, Motivation, Self Help & Personal Development by Oli Hille has received a perfect 5 out of 5 stars based on 86 customer reviews.

Category: Advice & How-To / Self-Improvement

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

Welcome to a Step by Step Guide to Creating the life of your dreams.

How YOU can enjoy success and achievement in:

– Relationships;
– Money;
– Health and Energy;
– Joy;
– Fulfillment; and
– Having more time.

The purpose of this book is to help you decide on and then achieve your Perfect Lifestyle.

USA subscribers: click here or type in http://amzn.to/K654ex into your web browser to receive your free copy.

UK subscribers: click here or type in http://amzn.to/Knv3fM into your web browser to receive your free copy.

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The Santa Shop by Tim Greaton has received an average user rating of 4.5 out of 5 stars based on 79 customer reviews.

Category: Contemporary Fiction

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

Skip Ralstat is a man so steeped in grief and despair that life seems no longer possible. After the death of his wife and child, Skip blames himself. He has given up his friends, his job and now, devoid of all hope, he survives on the mean streets of Albany. He knows it can’t go on, that life must end…but will it?

In “The Santa Shop” we get our first glimpse at the Samaritans Conspiracy, a secretive group of individuals who are seldom seen and never recognized.

Also, don’t miss “Red Gloves” the second novel in this emotional, life-affirming series. With Maine teenage corpses stacking up and her life crumbling around her, Lead Detective Priscilla Harris seeks out a red-gloved stalker who is either a murderer or a saint.

USA subscribers: click here or type in http://amzn.to/LXjEVA into your web browser to receive your free copy.

UK subscribers: click here or type in http://amzn.to/N3Yzu8 into your web browser to receive your free copy.

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Bay’s End by Edward Lorn has received a perfect 5 out of 5 stars based on 20 customer reviews.

Category: Horror

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

Red Adept Select

What does it take to ruin a perfectly good summer? Four cherry bombs.

When twelve-year-old Trey and his best friend Eddy play a prank on Officer Mack, the resulting chain of events rocks the small town of Bay’s End.

Today, Trey Franklin is a man haunted by his past. Tormented by that one tragic, fateful summer, Trey searches for catharsis the only way he knows how – by writing.

A tale of love and loss, bittersweet memories, and the depths of human evil.

Welcome to Bay’s End.

*Warning: Contains graphic language and adult situations.

USA subscribers: click here or type in http://amzn.to/Ng9KvW into your web browser to receive your free copy.

UK subscribers: click here or type in http://amzn.to/MZUFlG into your web browser to receive your free copy.

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The Law of Attraction Made Simple – Magnetize Your Heartfelt Desires by Jonathan Manske has received a perfect 5 out of 5 stars based on 60 customer reviews.

Category: Advice & How-To

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

Do you want to attract greater happiness, success and fulfillment?

Finally, an eye-opening book packed with powerful and easy to use tips, tools and techniques to activate the Law of Attraction in your life. Become a magnet for more of what you want in your personal and professional life. Get the results you deserve. You will be amazed at how simple it is.

This book puts Jonathan’s magical methods in your hands for immediate use.

Today’s thoughts, attitudes and non-conscious programming create tomorrow’s results. ~Jonathan Manske

Read and discover:
How to powerfully attract more of what you want

The proven five-step formula to create “luck”

How to work with your non-conscious mind to get measurable results

Simple solutions to finally get out of your own way

How to maximize your happiness and success with little known attraction secrets

The surefire method to de-hypnotize yourself from limiting beliefs and agreements

How you prosper when you know the deeper purpose of the Law of Attraction

Jonathan Manske is an expert in the field of human energy. He has personally assisted thousands of people to attract greater profit, fulfillment, health, happiness and success.

USA subscribers: click here or type in http://amzn.to/MI6iND into your web browser to receive your free copy.

UK subscribers: click here or type in http://amzn.to/Mg5Qci into your web browser to receive your free copy.

Looking for more or a reliable source of free books for your Kindle? Click here for my “Free Kindle Books and How to Find Them” book (updated January 2012!).

Five Mystery & Suspense Novels – Today’s Kindle Daily Deal

June 30, 2012 by Michael Gallagher

The Kindle Daily Deal is a one-day only offer where a specific Kindle book has been hand-selected by the editors at Amazon and significantly discounted for today only.

Today’s Kindle Daily Deal is five novels by best-selling author C.J. Lyons discounted to 99 cents for today only – most of these are normally priced at $4.99 each and each of them is highly-rated in the Amazon store; Lyones writes mysteries and suspense novels that also throw in a little romance. You can check out these deals by clicking here or typing in http://amzn.to/kddeal into your computer’s web browser.

Remember, these books are discounted for today only!

Check Out My Other Blog, “Kindle Books for a Buck (or Less),” with a primary focus on the independent author as there are jewels beyond the “name brand” authors. You can check it out by clicking here or typing in http://amzn.to/kb4abuck into your computer’s web browser. Who knows, you might find a new favorite author!

ColorUp Pro – Today’s Free App of the Day

June 30, 2012 by Michael Gallagher

Each day, Amazon offers a free Android App of the Day that could be a game, utility, or who knows? Each deal lasts for just 24 hours and, after that period is over it goes back to paid status and a new app is the App of the Day.

In addition to your Kindle Fire, these apps will also work with your Android-based smartphones and tablet computers.

Today’s free App of the Day is ColorUp Pro and this utility is normally $0.99 in the Amazon App Store.

Here is the app’s description from the Amazon App Store website:

Turn Up the Color!

Bring your photos to life with ColorUp, an image-editing app for your Android device. Add a splash of color or a touch of life, and let your inner artist shine!

Import your image and watch it fade to black-and-white. Then use your finger to reveal the color of the original image. With this technique, you can create stunning images that people will rave over.

ColorUp Pro brings you an advanced feature set–more powerful than other apps out there–but it’s designed to be simple and quick to use.

Features

12 image filters (Sepia, Vintage, Low Saturation, and more)
5 different types of brush types
Color enrichment
Color shifting
Edge softening to hide mistakes
Background blur (depth of field)
Background contrast
“Spy Mode” to reveal painted areas
Double-tap to pop in and out of full screen
Orientation lock when in full-screen mode, so you can easily flip and turn the image as you paint
Pinch to zoom for pixel-level accuracy
Import directly from camera
Import from image library (Pro version only)
Export HD quality images
Unlimited undo and redo

You can pick up your free copy of ColorUp Pro by clicking here or typing in http://tinyurl.com/appdeal into your computer’s web browser.

Download the Free Kindle Books and Tips blog app for your Kindle Fire or Android-based smartphone or tablet – for free, of course – by clicking here or type in http://amzn.to/freefireapp into your computer’s web browser from the Amazon App Store or click here or type in http://bit.ly/fkbtgoogle into your computer’s web browser for the Google App Store.

Random Kindle Thoughts and Answers to Your Email Questions

June 29, 2012 by Michael Gallagher

I thought it time to answer a few questions I have received, ramble on while I’m typing for a while, and try not to stir up too much controversy today seeing as how we are baking here in Texas as I am sure many of you are across the globe. If you would like to write to me, my email address is Michael at fkbooksandtips dot com (I type it out that way in a small effort to frustrate spammers).

Get a Free App, Amazon Gives You a $1 MP3 Certificate

Amazon has been running a promotion for most of this month, where they will give you a $1.00 MP3 credit just for downloading a free app from their app store.

That wasn’t a typo on my part: yes, if you download something for free, Amazon will give you a buck to be used for a purchase in their MP3 music store. In other words, you can (a) get an app, and (b) get a new mp3 song – all for free.

If you’re going to choose a free app, you can always get this blog’s free app if you click here or type in http://amzn.to/freefireapp into your browser: you can use it on your Kindle Fire or any Android-enables smartphone or tablet computer. Get it between now and the end of the day Saturday, and you will get the free mp3 credit in addition to a single place to go to be notified of the various free book offers (feeling like PT Barnum for a moment – it’s one heck of a deal!).

To visit the Amazon app store, you can click here or type in http://tinyurl.com/appdeal into your web browser.

Amazon also has free mp3 songs – you can click here or type in http://amzn.to/mp3tunes into your web browser to check them out (save this link as the songs change daily). Clicking on that link right now, there are a couple of songs that are not free that have snuck into the list, so you can either re-sort it once you are on the page by “Price: Low to High” or just be careful of the pricing while you are browsing.

Kindle in a Bathtub Follow-Up

Last week, I had a post about using your Kindle while in the bathtub – you can click here or type in http://bit.ly/KRpKt2 into your web browser to read it again or in case you missed it – that generated a lot of responses: I left a lot of those comments at the bottom of that post, so click those links above to read what your fellow blog community had to say.

Most of the comments seemed to question my judgment / sanity, as they believe there is not enough electricity / juice in the Kindle to electrocute you in the event the Kindle does fall into the tub while you are in it; some people even said you were safe to lick the power terminals of the Kindle with your tongue and you would be ok (side note – I actually had that specific type of reply. Nothing has ever made me want to stop what I was doing in my day to say “this seems like a great afternoon to go lick the electrical points on my Kindle. Anyone want to come over and join me?”)

I will preface my next comment with the disclaimer I am not an electrician. For all of you who said and emailed me it was perfectly ok to be in the tub while a powered-on Kindle was submerged with you, to each their own – but do you really want to test that theory with your life?

On another note, does anyone have any experience with the waterproof cover on the Amazon website? Click here or type in http://amzn.to/kindlewater to see it, and shoot me a note or use the blog messaging interface to tell me the pros and cons – I could see a use for something like this around a swimming pool or a visit to the beach.

Big List of Free Book Links

On Monday, I had a post about all of the free children / young adult books available in the Amazon Kindle store, and highlighted several titles that were free for that day. I had several people who had heard about it from their friends asking me where the post was – you can see it if you click here or type http://bit.ly/LAPll5 in into your web browser. As I type up this post, there are a little over 800 free books in the children young adult category.

You’ll notice in that post I made an easy to remember shortcut link for you to go check it out at your leisure (well, it was easy for me to remember and hopefully you think the same). The list of my larger list of free book shortcuts is one of the most popular pages of all-time on the blog – yes, I think they are easy to remember, also, but I recommend people bookmark them just in case – and I am frequently asked where that post is. You can check out the complete list of shortcuts if you click here or type in http://bit.ly/MdgRVm into your web browser.

Giveaways

I’m frequently asked when the next giveaway of a Kindle Fire, etc. will be. The short answer is “soon.” In response to your answers to the survey I had a few weeks ago, I will be soliciting an independent author to sponsor the giveaway (i.e., buy the Fire) in return for promotion of their books to the blog members. If and or when that sponsorship occurs, please take a moment to check out his or her works and maybe buy a book or two – if it works out for the sponsor by reaching new paying customers, I am hoping word of mouth will trickle down to the author community and we’ll have a line of folks wanting to giveaway all sorts of neat things to the readers of this blog.

I don’t know about you, but I do like free and I like the thought of being able to give away lots of Kindle Fires and other things!
Weather

This has nothing to do with your Kindle specifically, but it seems this summer here in the USA is going to be one we’ll remember for a while: fires in Colorado, flooding in Florida, record heat across the summer, and I still don’t believe the drought is officially over in most of Texas. Wherever you are, I hope you are safe from these Acts of God and stay well-hydrated this summer!

Have a great weekend-

Michael Gallagher

Seven Free Books from Amazon Kindle Store

June 29, 2012 by Michael Gallagher

Here are seven more free Kindle books for you from the Amazon Kindle: as of this posting, each of the books was free on the Amazon website but please make sure you check the pricing before you smack the “buy” button as the pricing can (and does) change at any time!

Farsighted by Emlyn Chand has received an average user rating of 4 out of 5 stars based on 169 customer reviews.

Category: Horror

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

Alex Kosmitoras’s life has never been easy. The only other student who will talk to him is the school bully, his parents are dead broke and insanely overprotective, and to complicate matters even more, he’s blind. Just when he thinks he’ll never have a shot at a normal life, an enticing new girl comes to their small Midwest town all the way from India. Simmi is smart, nice, and actually wants to be friends with Alex. Plus she smells like an Almond Joy bar. Sophomore year might not be so bad after all.

Unfortunately, Alex is in store for another new arrival–an unexpected and often embarrassing ability to “see” the future. Try as he may, Alex is unable to ignore his visions, especially when they suggest Simmi is in mortal danger. With the help of the mysterious psychic next door and friends who come bearing gifts of their own, Alex embarks on his journey to change the future.

USA subscribers: click here or type in http://amzn.to/wJUbGy into your web browser to receive your free copy.

UK subscribers: click here or type in http://amzn.to/LUp8Pv into your web browser to receive your free copy.

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Sable City by M. Edward McNally has received an average user rating of 4.5 out of 5 stars based on 31 customer reviews.

Category: Action & Adventure

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

Tiny dynamo Sasha McCandless returns in Inadvertent Disclosure, the acclaimed follow-up to Irreparable Harm.
It’s been six months since an airplane crash altered the course of attorney Sasha McCandless’s professional and personal life. She’s now focused on building her solo law practice and tending her budding relationship with federal air marshal Leo Connelly, who helped her stop a madman.

When Sasha drives from Pittsburgh to rural Clear Brook County to argue a discovery motion, she finds a town bitterly divided over the issue of hydrofracking the Marcellus Shale. Outsiders from the oil and gas industry and environmental activists threaten to rip apart the fabric of the small town.

Then the town’s only judge is murdered, and Sasha can’t just walk away. As she works to find the killer, she must race to save the town before it fractures beyond repair.

This is the second book in the Sasha McCandless legal thriller series, which begins with Irreparable Harm. This series can be read in any order.

USA subscribers: click here or type in http://amzn.to/yPOuwS into your web browser to receive your free copy.

UK subscribers: click here or type in http://amzn.to/KQHOmY into your web browser to receive your free copy.

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The Day No One Played Together by Donalisa Helsley and Sarah Harkey has received a perfect 5 stars based on 40 customer reviews.

Category: Children

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

Jadyn and Genesis want to play together but neither one wants to play what the other wants to. What will they do? Will they be able to brainstorm and find a way to play together? Will they play alone? “The Day No One Played Together” teaches an important lesson in a fun way. Join these sisters in the first of their series.
USA subscribers: click here or type in http://amzn.to/Jlp3oc into your web browser to receive your free copy.

UK subscribers: click here or type in http://amzn.to/Jiyrde into your web browser to receive your free copy.

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I’m Listening With a Broken Ear by Vicky Kaseorg has received a perfect 5 out of 5 stars based on 57 customer reviews.

Category: Lifestyle & Home

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

I’m Listening With a Broken Ear is a true story about a dying dog, Honeybun, the author found on a roadside and grudgingly rescued. A concomitant story of faith, persistence, and love unfolds as both she and her young daughter struggled to help Honeybun overcome severe issues of compromised health, aggression and fear. Untrained to deal with the overwhelming behavior, Vicky then tried to give her up…. unsuccessfully.
Refusing to relinquish her to Animal Control who would undoubtedly euthanize Honeybun,Vicky tripped upon a small rescue organization who offered to help rehabilitate Honeybun for free. During the many months of heartache and struggle, and multiple near deadly attacks on Vicky’s other dog, she discovered a modern day parable of the truth that nothing is truly irredeemable. Each victory with the little rescue dog taught personal lessons in redemption and grace, patience and perseverance, and the power of transforming love to spread through a community in most unexpected and unlikely ways.
There were multiple failures, and repeated surrenders to hopelessness.Each time, her weakness was thwarted and overcome by unexpected help and miracles. In the process, Vicky came face to snout with the harsh reality that real compassion involved action and responsibility. If she wanted to save the dog, ultimately it was up to her.
It is a story of redemption, physically and spiritually in a very small corner of the world, told through the story of a discarded dog that no one wanted and no one thought could be saved.
Donations to the animal rescue that helped save this dog can be made at hollowcreekfarm.org
USA subscribers: click here or type in http://amzn.to/H7zFKb into your web browser to receive your free copy.

UK subscribers: click here or type in http://amzn.to/MX2hph into your web browser to receive your free copy.

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Subculture by Charles Anthony Vilina has received an average user rating of 4.5 out of 5 stars based on 34 customer reviews.

Category: Mystery & Thrillers

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

One boy is dead. Another is missing. And a Kentucky town lives in fear.

Enter the world of Subculture, a new thriller that blurs the lines between literary fiction and pure genre fiction entertainment. Novelist Charles Anthony Vilina has woven a character-driven tale of murder and suspicion that has readers talking both nationally and abroad.

A Kentucky community finds itself in shock and disbelief over the disappearance of two high school boys on a dark December night. Two months later, one boy’s body is unearthed on the farm of a reclusive and enigmatic girl, a foreigner of Asian descent. Her arrest and subsequent trial for murder forces this community, and the reader, to appraise their personal beliefs in the face of their deepest fears.

For readers looking for a riveting murder mystery, Subculture won’t disappoint. For those willing to read between the lines, this new novel dares to examine society’s best and worst attributes in the face of fear.

USA subscribers: click here or type in http://amzn.to/L7xBUw into your web browser to receive your free copy.

UK subscribers: click here or type in http://amzn.to/LUq9XQ into your web browser to receive your free copy.

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The Gaia Wars by Kenneth G. Bennett has received an average user rating of 4.5 out of 5 stars based on 50 customer reviews.

Category: Children / Young Adult

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

Deadly secrets have been buried in the Cascade mountain wilderness for centuries. Hidden. Out of sight and out of mind.

Until today…

Warren Wilkes, age 13, doesn’t like what a greedy housing developer has done to his peaceful mountain community, so he vandalizes the developer’s property, flees into the wild, and stumbles upon an ancient human skeleton revealed by torrential rain. More than old bones have been exposed, however, and the curious artifact Warren finds makes him question his own identity, and his connection to an ancient terror. A terror destined to rise again and annihilate all that Warren loves. He must fight or see his whole world destroyed.

USA subscribers: click here or type in http://amzn.to/HtZT4k into your web browser to receive your free copy.

UK subscribers: click here or type in http://amzn.to/N1H3Vs into your web browser to receive your free copy.

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Blinke it Away: Lies, Revenge, and Murder on Oahu by Victoria Landis has received an average user rating of 4.5 out of 5 stars based on 43 customer reviews.

Category: Mystery & Thrillers

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

It’s an idyllic day on Oahu until Bess Blinke interrupts a bizarre robbery that ends in homicide. In the following days, she discovers terrible secrets tied to the crime, and her world unravels. When the killer realizes the depth of what she knows and comes after her, she runs, hides, and plots to reveal the truth and expose the brutal force behind several murders.

Lauded for its authentic grasp of the ‘local’ Hawaiian culture, Blinke It Away takes the reader into the everyday bustle of ordinary life in Hawaii and shows the reality far from the staging presented to tourists.

USA subscribers: click here or type in http://amzn.to/OEUcId into your web browser to receive your free copy.

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Tintagel – Free Science Fiction Book

June 29, 2012 by Michael Gallagher

Phoenix Publishing offers one free eBook each month in a variety of eBook formats, including the Kindle; I’ve picked up a couple of really good science fiction novels from them for free that they simultaneously have for sale in the Amazon Kindle store for prices up to $9.99. This month’s free pick is called Tintagel by Paul Cook, which you should be pleased to note while this book costs $4.61 in the Amazon Kindle website, you can get it for free if you follow these instructions:

Point your web browser to www.ppickings.com
Scroll down about one-third of the way on the right-hand side of the web page until you see Tintagel – this page is a little “busy” with lots of text and images.
Click on the “FREE EBOOK of the Month” text immediately under the book’s cover.
Your computer will next open up a new web browser, which asks you for a coupon code. The code for May is: 9991527
Once you type in the coupon code, click the “submit” button.
You have the option of signing up for their free eBook newsletter. That’s your choice (I obviously signed up), and you do not have to sign up in order to receive the free eBook.
Make your choice and click the appropriate button.
At the next screen, scroll all the way down where you have a choice in what eBook format you would like to receive the eBook; you want to choose the “Mobi” version as that is the one most compatible with your Kindle.
You will next have the option of opening or saving the file. Let’s choose “save” and make sure you save it to a location on your computer you will remember.
As a final step, you will need to transfer the eBook from your computer to your Kindle: that’s a fairly easy process. If you don’t know how to do that, you can click here or type in http://bit.ly/roKqao into your computer’s web browser to read my free guide on how to transfer content to your computer. This is the same guide I charge 99 cents for in the Amazon Kindle store, but you get it for free.

Here is the book’s description:

Music can be many things, but when it is used as a medium to spread a deadly virus that transports listeners to a deadly world of dreams, it threatens the future of humanity itself.

But not everyone is susceptible to the deadly virus and there is a group of ‘stalkers’ who are immune to its effects.

Francis Lanier is a stalker who can walk through the deadly dream worlds of others. He spends his time rescuing others from their dreams and races to find a final cure for this deadly infection.

Enjoy!

Michael

LadyBug POP Puzzle Game – Today’s Free App of the Day

June 29, 2012 by Michael Gallagher

In addition to your Kindle Fire, these apps will also work with your Android-based smartphones and tablet computers.

Today’s free App of the Day is LadyBug POP Puzzle Game and this game is normally $0.99 in the Amazon App Store.

Here is the app’s description from the Amazon App Store website:

It’s not that we have anything against ladybugs, but they’re just so fun to pop in the LadyBug Pop Puzzle Game. Jump ladybugs in this beautiful puzzler for your Android device or Kindle Fire.

Happy Popping

The objective is simple: jump ladybugs until you have no more ladybugs to jump. Once a ladybug is jumped, it pops and disappears. The objective is to have only one ladybug left at the end of the game, but that’s not easily done. Plan your jumps and see how few you can leave on the board.

Challenge your friends and family with LadyBug Pop, and see who leaves fewer bugs on the board. It’s a fun challenge for all ages. LadyBug POP offers 15 unique puzzles, and simply mastering one is hard enough. In addition to cheerful graphics, view the ratio of jumped to un-jumped ladybugs to the left of the game board. And rest well, no ladybugs are harmed during gameplay.

You can pick up your free copy of LadyBug POP Puzzle Game by clicking here or typing in http://tinyurl.com/appdeal into your computer’s web browser.

Where Are They Buried – Today’s Kindle Daily Deal

June 29, 2012 by Michael Gallagher

The Kindle Daily Deal is a one-day only offer where a specific Kindle book has been hand-selected by the editors at Amazon and significantly discounted for today only.

Today’s Kindle Daily Deal is Where Are They Buried: How Did They Die? Fitting Ends and Final Resting Places of the Famous, Infamous, and Noteworthy, a documentary by Tod Benoit and Linda Reid, and is normally $9.99 in the Amazon Kindle Store but has been discounted to just $1.99 for today only. This book has received an average user rating of 4.5 out of 5 stars based on 37 customer reviews.

You can pick up your copy by clicking here or typing in http://amzn.to/kddeal into your computer’s web browser.

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

Updated with dozens of entries of the newly dead and now in paperback, an irresistible and browsable guide to the lives, deaths, and final resting places of the world’s most influential figures.

This unparalleled compilation of profiles of the deceased—from Abbott and Costello to Ethel and Julius Rosenberg, from Arthur Ashe to Paul Newman, offers all the pertinent details on how they lived and died. It is also a detailed atlas of where they are buried.

Each entry in this fascinating book includes an entertaining capsule biography full of little-known facts, a detailed description of each subject’s death, and very specific directions to the location and site of the grave. Fifty photos and informative sidebars (on such topics as how to find anyone’s grave) round out this indispensable field guide to the “permanent addresses” of the world’s most significant late citizens.

New additions to the roster of final resting places include: • Tim Russert • Heath Ledger • Norman Mailer • Anna Nicole Smith • George Carlin • Rosa Parks • Hunter S. Thompson • Paul Newman • Katharine Hepburn … and many more

You can pick up your copy by clicking here or typing in http://amzn.to/kddeal into your computer’s web browser.

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