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Guest Blog Post: Meet Author Sophie Nicholls

December 31, 2012 by Michael Gallagher 1 Comment

Sophie Nicholls is an international best-selling author based in the UK: her contemporary fiction book, The Dress, is available for free today and you can pick it up if you click here or type in http://smarturl.it/c5bpfz into your web browser. Sophie was kind enough to write a very interesting guest blog post giving us a little background on her as well as influences in her life and her writing. Scroll down to read more!

 

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Everyday Magic

Back in February 2011, my dad was lying in the cardiac ward of York District Hospital, waiting for quadruple heart bypass surgery. In the many long hours that we spent talking – about everything and nothing – there was a sense of our own mortality (both his and mine) hovering at the end of his bed. In those weeks, every emotion was heightened.

I’d look through the ward window at a chunk of blue sky and it would seem so much more blue, so much clearer and crisper than it ever had before. There was a renewed sense for both of us that life is precious and there really isn’t any time to waste.

And at some point my dad, a keen long-distance runner, issued me with a challenge. ‘When I get out of here,’ he said, ‘I’m going to run a 10k. I’ll give myself a few months to recover but I’ll run that 10k by the end of the summer.’

And then he looked at me and said, ‘When are you going to write that book you were always going to write?’

He showed me an article in that day’s newspaper about the amazing success story of the author, Amanda Hocking, on Amazon Kindle. And he raised an eyebrow in that way he has.

Well, in fact, I was in the middle of writing a book – but it had stalled slightly as I tried to fit my writing around my busy practice as a therapist and the e-courses and writing workshops that I run. But that night, I came home from visiting at the hospital with renewed determination. I would finish that book – and I would make my dad proud of me.

I was there at the finish line when my dad ran his 10k in September 2011, just five months after his surgery. And at the end of that same month, I released my novel, The Dress. My short collection of poems, Refugee, was published by Salt Publishing a month later.

Would I have screwed up my courage and taken the plunge without that conversation with my dad? I think so, but perhaps not with the same sense of urgency and the feeling of ‘I’ve got nothing to lose.’ I’d spent years teaching creative writing at various universities, researching a model for the use of writing in health care and using writing with my therapy clients. I had written a PhD in Creative Writing and published poems in various magazines and journals, even winning some awards, but I never quite seemed to find the time to put my first book out there until that crisis in my family’s life put things in stark perspective.

Suddenly, time was no longer an infinite thread, stretching to some vague point in the distance, but a treasured commodity to be carefully weighed and savoured. What really mattered to me? What would I regret never doing?

And the particularly magical ending to that first chapter of my story as a writer was that, thanks to a sprinkling of Amazon fairy dust, The Dress – a simple tale set in a vintage dress shop in my hometown of York, about the relationship between mother and daughter, Ella and Fabbia Moreno – rocketed to Number 4 in the Amazon UK Kindle charts. I began to receive wonderful emails from readers asking for more of Ella and Fabbia and the seeds for a trilogy were sown.

In the year since The Dress was published, I’ve given birth to my own beautiful daughter and somehow, in a blur of sleepless nights and nappy changes, I’ve finished work on The Dream, the second book in my Everyday Magic trilogy

For a writer, surely the greatest possible pleasure is to know that people are reading your book and that your words have spoken to them in some way. This was what helped me to keep writing, through the sleep deprivation and all the highs and lows of new motherhood.

Perhaps inevitably, some of my experiences found their way into my writing. The Dream follows Ella’s journey into motherhood and writing her story was a hugely helpful process for me. I loved escaping into the world of my book whenever I could snatch a moment and this New Year, I’ll begin work on my third book, The Glass, which will complete my Everyday Magic trilogy.

I write about what I love – 1930s tea dresses, silk scarves and leopard print shoes, the power of stories, my fascination with the way people’s minds work, the natural world that is all around me here in Yorkshire and ‘everyday magic,’ those moments that shine out from the background noise of our routine lives when we slow down and take a moment to really notice.

My daughter is now ten months old and one of her favourite things is when we sit on the sofa together and I tell her some of the stories from my own childhood, complete with silly voices.

I’m immensely grateful that I’m able to make a living through writing books and working with people who share my love of words and the healing power of stories.

 

A little about Sophie:

Sophie Nicholls lives with her partner and baby daughter in beautiful North Yorkshire, not far from the medieval city of York in the north of England. She likes swimming outdoors (when the Yorkshire climate allows) and long walks in the local countryside (when it’s not raining).

She has a PhD in Creative Writing from the University of Sussex and teaches popular online courses in writing and mindfulness. You can find out more at her web site: www.sophienicholls.com

 

Thank you, Sophie!! Be sure to pick up your free copy of The Dress today by clicking here or typing in http://smarturl.it/c5bpfz into your web browser. You can also check out her author page on Amazon if you click here or type in http://smarturl.it/sophie into your web browser.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Seven FREE Kindle Books

December 31, 2012 by Michael Gallagher 2 Comments

Here are seven FREE Kindle books for your Thursday afternoon: 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!

Night Marchers by Rebecca Gober and Courtney Nuckels has received an average user rating of 4 out of 5 stars based on 60 customer reviews. I received a note from the author saying this book would be free through January 31st.

Category: Young Adult / Paranormal

 

 

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

NEVER, EVER lock eyes with a Night Marcher! Everyone in Hawaii has heard this warning, except for seventeen-year-old Emma Townsend that is. For most Hawaiians know that looking into the eyes of Night Marcher can strike a curse that will end in death or eternal servitude.

Even though her father, who is a paranormal investigator, solely raised Emma, she has little experience in the realm of the supernatural. When she is forced to move with her father to Hawaii, only months before her graduation, Emma finds that her world as she knows it, is shaken when she starts seeing the unexplainable: fire balls in the distance, beating drums in the middle of nowhere and strangers who vanish into thin air. Then one day when she has a run in with a procession of Night Marchers, ancient Hawaiian spirits wandering from their burial grounds to their locations of battles past, Emma has no choice but to believe that the unbelievable does exist.

Now Emma must go on the run with the help of a mysterious stranger, as they seek out how to free Emma from the curse of a Night Marcher, who will stop at nothing to get her soul.

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/u67oq4 into your web browser to receive your free copy.

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Planet Explorers Walt Disney World 2013: A Travel Guide for Kids by Laura Schaefer has received an average user rating of 4.5 out of 5 stars based on 48 customer reviews. I received a note from the author saying this book would be free through January 2nd.

Category: Travel

 

 

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

COMPLETELY UPDATED FOR 2013 WITH PHOTOS OF THE NEW FANTASYLAND AND ART OF ANIMATION RESORT!

Explore the planet with this Walt Disney World guidebook written just for kids. This fun and informative ebook includes everything an 8-12 year-old needs to know about Walt Disney World, including information about attractions in all four of the parks, food options near favorite rides, shows and Disney resorts.

Children are what Walt Disney World is all about. Why not buy an affordable guidebook written just for them? Let older children plan out your days in the park and give them a useful tool to do it. They’ll love the interactive hyperlinks and interesting trivia about Walt Disney throughout. These links fire up learning and make a Walt Disney World vacation even richer for the whole family.

Every area and attraction of Walt Disney World is covered and given a notation of S (Scary), A (Awesome), T (Thrilling), D (Dark), or W (Wet) when necessary. Fastpass attractions are marked as well. There is a section devoted to each of the theme parks: Magic Kingdom, Epcot, Disney’s Hollywood Studios and Disney’s Animal Kingdom. Another large section describes the rest of Walt Disney World, including Blizzard Beach, Typhoon Lagoon, Downtown Disney, each Walt Disney Resort and several food spots. Finally, the book wraps up with a short quiz, “Disneyisms,” and interactive links about several Disney Imagineers.

The book contains tween-friendly descriptions of what’s what at Walt Disney World for 2013 and includes useful tips at the end of each park section to help time-crunched families get more excitement out of each day. Now kids can help plan the family vacation.

From fun facts to history, attraction highlights to quizzes, Planet Explorers guidebooks have it all.

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/buyjk0 into your web browser to receive your free copy.

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The Fifth Avenue Series Boxed Set by Christopher Smith is actually three books in one volume, and this compilation has received an average user rating of 4.5 out of 5 stars based on 73 customer reviews.

Category: Mystery / Thriller

 

 

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

FIFTH AVENUE:

Look beneath all the power and all the wealth that represents New York City’s Fifth Avenue, and you’ll find greed, blood, revenge. In the international best-selling thriller “Fifth Avenue,” each intermingles within a revered society that is unprepared for what’s in store for it when one man finally strikes in an effort to destroy another man for murdering his wife thirty-one years ago.

Louis Ryan is that man. George Redman, his wife, two daughters and their close friends are his targets. Both men are self-made billionaires who came from nothing to stake their claim to Fifth Avenue. But when Louis Ryan hires an international assassin to literally rip the Redman family apart, a series of events that can’t be stopped catapults them all through a fast-paced, hard-edged thriller in which nobody is safe.

Secrets are revealed. Sex lives are exposed. The Mafia get involved. And George’s two daughters, Celina and Leana Redman, come to the forefront. More than anyone, it’s they who are caught in the throes of their father’s past as Louis Ryan’s blind desire to kill them all takes surprising turns in his all-out effort to see them dead.

RUNNING OF THE BULLS:

In the second book in the international best-selling “Fifth Avenue Series,” a former Wall Street titan who robbed the world of billions is now out of prison. Good for him, but not for those who put him there. Now, they are dying grisly deaths by the hands of two hired assassins.

Investigating is private investigator Marty Spellman, who soon learns that all isn’t what it seems as the twists pile up along with sheer number of the dead.

Spellman’s life is put on the line. His family is threatened. No one is who they appear to be. Who can he trust as the bulls of Wall Street start to run as the two assassins–Vincent Spocatti and Carmen Gragera–fully ignite their killing spree?

FROM MANHATTAN WITH LOVE:

An outcast billionaire’s daughter is caught at the wrong place at the wrong time.

An international assassin questions her sanity when she falls in love with the very assassin she’s charged to assassinate.

What happens when each collide? Chaos. Murder. Love. Revenge.

And redemption.

In this taut, 35,000-word novella, which is a prequel to the upcoming third novel in the Fifth Avenue series, “Park Avenue,” both women come together for the first time in an explosive story that threatens each of their lives, particularly when one woman breaks her own rules and dares to fall in love.

In “From Manhattan with Love,” she soon learns what she always feared. When it comes to real danger, there’s nothing more dangerous than love itself.

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/3lq016 into your web browser to receive your free copy.

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The Prophet Motive by Eric Christopherson has received an average user rating of 4 out of 5 stars based on 45 customer reviews.

Category: Action & Adventure / Thriller

 

 

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

San Francisco Homicide detective John Richetti spent part of his childhood living inside an infamous cult known as the People’s Temple. As a boy he’d lost his parents to cult-instigated mass suicide. The memories come flooding back when he investigates the bizarre suicide of a former member of Earthbound, a New Age cult–and suspects murder instead. To uncover the truth he infiltrates the group, along with police psychologist Marilyn Michaelsen.

The new recruits find themselves pushed to their physical and mental limits by a series of sophisticated brainwashing techniques as well as by a cult leader, known only as The Wizard, who appears to possess psychic and paranormal powers. Even the psychologist’s expert knowledge of cults can’t explain The Wizard’s feats, and it isn’t long before John, like his parents before him, surrenders his independence to another . . .

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/aahxbf into your web browser to receive your free copy.

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The Battered Heiress Blues by Laurie Van Dermark has received an average user rating of 4.5 out of 5 stars based on 19 customer reviews.

Category: Contemporary Fiction

 

 

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

When the life of her child is threatened, philanthropist Julia Spencer is faced with a most difficult decision- do nothing, thereby saving herself or forge ahead and lose everything she holds dear. While one child is spared, another is lost forever.

Surviving a brutal assault in a small and desolate Peruvian town, Julia wakes to find that her unborn child has perished in a desperate, violent attack. Returning to the safety of her family’s Savannah estate, she prepares to bury her tragically murdered son. Forced to confront the choices that led to her son’s death, she is bombarded with resolving the details of her poorly conceived marriage, estrangement from a powerful and disapproving patriarch, and navigating the sudden renewal of a long forgotten flame- Henry Walker. Unable to find her way out of the grief and sorrow, those who profess love eventually leave one by one, but not before a precious gift is left behind that will change everything.

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/nfmgpr into your web browser to receive your free copy.

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Filed Under: Free Book Links, Free From Amazon Store Tagged With: action and adventure, contemporary fiction, free from amazon, free kindle books, mystery, paranormal, thriller, travel, young adult

7,000+ FREE Kindle Books

December 31, 2012 by Michael Gallagher 6 Comments

At any point in time, Amazon has between 5,000 – 25,000 books for free in the Kindle store, with free meaning not only do they not cost you anything, but Amazon will also deliver them to your Kindle for free.  As I type up this post, there are a little over 7,000 free non-public domain books available for free.

If you click the links below, you will be directed to the appropriate category of free books. For example, if you click http://smarturl.it/kindlemystery your browser will open to the free Kindle book offers in the “Mystery” category. You may want to bookmark this page or the links below as the free book offers are updated several times each day.

The number of books free in this (and any other) category change each hour and, just because you may click the link(s) above doesn’t mean each and every book listed will be free: if a price is showing, it may mean the price is (a) about to change to free and the Amazon server hasn’t caught up yet, (b) was free but is now back to “paid” status, or (c) any of 1,001 different reasons. The key thing to do is to carefully look at the price before you click the “buy” button on the Amazon website. Because of the price changes, you may want to click the “Sort by” option in the top right-hand corner and change that to “Price: Low to High”

Just click any (or all) of the links below and start downloading your free Kindle books!

All Free Kindle Books: http://smarturl.it/ebooks or http://smarturl.it/fkbt

All Non-Public Domain: http://smarturl.it/freebooks

Action: http://smarturl.it/kindleaction

Adventure: http://smarturl.it/kindleadventure

Advice: http://smarturl.it/kindleadvice

Arts: http://smarturl.it/kindlearts

Biographies: http://smarturl.it/kindlebios

Business: http://smarturl.it/kindlebiz

Children: http://smarturl.it/kindlekids

Classic: http://smarturl.it/kindleclassic

Comics: http://smarturl.it/kindlecomics

Computers: http://smarturl.it/kindlecpu

Contemporary Fiction: http://smarturl.it/kindlecontfiction

Cooking: http://smarturl.it/kindlecooking

Drama: http://smarturl.it/kindledrama

Entertainment: http://smarturl.it/kindleentertainment

Family: http://smarturl.it/kindlefamily

Fantasy: http://smarturl.it/kindlefantasy

Fiction: http://smarturl.it/kindlefiction

Food: http://smarturl.it/kindlefood

Gay: http://smarturl.it/kindlegay

Graphic Novels: http://smarturl.it/kindlegraphic

Historical Fiction: http://smarturl.it/kindlehf

History: http://smarturl.it/kindlehistory

Home: http://smarturl.it/kindlehome

Horror: http://smarturl.it/kindlehorror

How-To: http://smarturl.it/kindlehowto

Humor: http://smarturl.it/kindlehumor

Internet: http://smarturl.it/kindleinternet

Investing: http://smarturl.it/kindleinvesting

Jokes: http://smarturl.it/kindlejokes

Lesbian: http://smarturl.it/kindlelesbian

Literary Fiction: http://smarturl.it/kindlelitfiction

Lifestyle: http://smarturl.it/kindlelifestyle

Memoirs: http://smarturl.it/kindlememoirs

Military: http://smarturl.it/kindlemilitary

Mystery: http://smarturl.it/kindlemystery

Non-Fiction: http://smarturl.it/kindlenonfiction

Parenting: http://smarturl.it/kindleparenting

Poetry: http://smarturl.it/kindlepoetry

Politics: http://smarturl.it/kindlepolitics

Public Domain: http://smarturl.it/kindlepd

Reference: http://smarturl.it/kindlereference

Religion: http://smarturl.it/kindlereligion

Romance: http://smarturl.it/kindleromance

Science: http://smarturl.it/kindlescience

Science Fiction: http://smarturl.it/kindlesciencefiction

Short Stories: http://smarturl.it/kindleshortstory

Spirituality: http://smarturl.it/kindlespiritual

Sports: http://smarturl.it/kindlesports

Teens: http://smarturl.it/kindleteens

Thriller: http://smarturl.it/kindlethriller

Travel: http://smarturl.it/kindletravel

War: http://smarturl.it/kindlewar

Young Adult: http://smarturl.it/kindleya

Western: http://smarturl.it/kindlewestern

Wine: http://smarturl.it/kindlewine

World Literature: http://smarturl.it/kindleworldlit

 

 
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Today’s Free App of the Day: Draw a Stickman

December 31, 2012 by Michael Gallagher 4 Comments

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 Draw a Stickman: EPIC and this game is normally $1.99 in the Amazon App Store but is free for today only.
 
 

 


 
 

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

** Celebrate the holidays with the new Winter Level featuring the Snow Storm Pencil! **

Draw a stickman, then guide him through a fantastic world of adventure! Using an assortment of pencils, draw elements, tools, and weapons to solve puzzles and overcome obstacles.

Draw a Stickman Epic could be compared to an adventure game, RPG, or puzzle game, but the unique drawing mechanic is unlike any game you’ve ever played before! From drawing a rain cloud for growing plants to drawing an axe for chopping down a gate, you control all aspects of your environment.

Explore diverse environments and encounter unusual creatures as you draw your way through 13 levels (plus a hidden bonus level)! With the non-linear gameplay, how you overcome one environment will determine which level you unlock next. Each level is filled with hidden secrets and achievements, offering hours and hours of replay value.

Grab a pencil and dive into the world of Epic!

You can pick up your free copy of Draw a Stickman: EPIC by clicking here or typing in http://smarturl.it/appdeal into your computer’s web browser.

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Filed Under: Free App of the Day, Free Kindle Games / Apps, Kindle Fire Tagged With: app of the day, free from amazon, kindle game

How Are You Protecting Your Kindle?

December 31, 2012 by Michael Gallagher 10 Comments

How are you protecting your Kindle?

I’m not talking about what I call the obvious – for example, not leaving it out on a table unattended or on your car seat where a person with sticky fingers can grab it and all of a sudden you have a Kindle that has legs. I am assuming you would guard it like you do your purse or wallet, a laptop or camera, or anything else you have several hundred dollars invested in.

What if you left your Kindle in a cab, plane, or just plain can’t remember where you left it? I like to assume there are more good people than bad in the world out there and someone would attempt to return it to you – would that someone know how to return it to you? I read an article about a year or so ago posted online about how a reporter from CNET found a Kindle in a cab, and was only able to determine the owner’s name was John – that’s all.

You would hope someone would know how to check the settings and get your personal information, or maybe you have done something like put a label on the back with the way(s) to contact you. However, if a non-Kindle owner were to find it, they may not know how to check the settings, etc.

There have been many discussions about why not calling Amazon, and let them help you since it’s an electronic device, the next time it is turned on or synched with the server they can do something like either (a) send a message to whoever is holding the Kindle, or (b) use the cell tower’s GPS to give an idea where it is. Unfortunately, Amazon will not do any of that for you – in fact, if it is stolen, deregistered by the thief and then re-registered by the thief, there have been cases where Amazon has not done anything to stop that behavior unless you call it in to Amazon’s Customer Service department: at that time, they can “brick” it, which will essentially lock it out forever, making your Kindle a glorified door stop for someone.

To me, that seems really wrong, but it is another topic for another day.

Is your contact information in the Kindle?

For example, you can put your name, number, and other information in your Kindle. Here is how you put that information in your e-Ink Kindle (note this is not an option for the Kindle Fire at this time):

  • From the menu item, click on “Settings.”
  • If you look three items down (technically four, but one of those you can’t click to change) you should see a section called “Personal Info.” Click on the option to “edit personal info.”
  • This is the section where you should utilize the keyboard and type in your name and contact information. For me, I put my name, address, home number, and cell number.

The above assumes the person finding your Kindle will know where to navigate to find this information or, alternatively, is proficient enough to figure out the menu options to find out this information.

Here’s a way to identify your Kindle to make it easier to be returned to you – for all Kindles including the Kindle Fire – change the name of your Kindle. For example, if I named mine “Michael’s Kindle” that will show up in the top left-hand corner of my Kindle and Kindle Fire when I turn it on and am at the Home screen. However, I’ve changed that to “Michael xxx-xxx-xxxx” where the X’s are my telephone number; if you do change it and have a cell phone and are worried about personal security, you may want to change it to your cell vs. your home telephone number. Seems like a simple solution to return what is yours!

Here is how you do it with every version of Kindle except the Kindle Fire (Kindle Fire instructions follow immediately below this):

  1. Push the “Menu” button.
  2. Select “Settings.”
  3. Under the “Device Name” option select “edit name.”
  4. At the bottom of the screen, you will see what your Kindle is named (for example, Michael’s Kindle). Just use the keyboard to type in whatever you want, and click submit.

Here is how you do it for a Kindle Fire (you can also do this for any other version of Kindle):

  1. Using your web browser, go to the “Manage Your Kindle” page of the Amazon website at http://amazon.com/myk – you may need to log in with your Amazon email address and password to proceed past this screen.
  2. On the left-hand side of the screen under the “Your Kindle Account” menu item, select the “Manage Your Devices” option.
  3. A new screen will appear, listing all of the registered Kindles on your account.  Right above the graphic image of each Kindle is the current name of each Kindle.  Select the “Edit” link next to the Kindle name.
  4. Type in whatever name you want for your Kindle, then click the “Update” icon.

You’re done! If, for example, you changed your Kindle’s name to “Michael 123-555-1212” that will now show up in the top left-hand corner of your Kindle on the next time it synchronizes with the Amazon server.

You could also put a label with the same information on the back of your Kindle (I did for each one), as well as on the inside flap of the Kindle cover (if you have a cover) and a person could theoretically figure out who the owner was without knowing how to turn the thing on. I guess you could also get one of those engravers and engrave your information on the Kindle – but I wouldn’t recommend that as who knows what all of the vibration, etc., that occurs while etching the information onto the Kindle will do to the Kindle’s computer insides: the last thing you want to do is “kill” your Kindle while trying to protect it!

Hope that helps!

Michael

 

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Free Game for Your Kindle

December 30, 2012 by Michael Gallagher 1 Comment

And here’s a continuation to show you that not all games I talk about on the blog are for your Kindle Fire, I’ve been told by Peter Grabarchuk his family’s 101 Puzzle Quizzes is free through January 2nd – this game is normally $2.99 – and you can play this on both an e-Ink Kindle as well as a Kindle Fire.

 


 

 

For the Kindle e-Ink version and for the “regular” Fire, you can click here

For the Kindle Fire HD version, you can click here

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

Discover the 2nd volume of the Top Rated Puzzlebook: Puzzle Quizzes series, HD version for tablets. In this brand-new puzzle collection you will find 101 pictorial, hand-crafted puzzle quizzes in different themes: logic, visual, spatial, counting, geometry, matchstick, coins, searching, and much more.

Hot News
Over 700 000 downloads for the Puzzlebook series! Discover why thousands of Kindle users are addicted to Puzzlebooks.

Novelty
All puzzle quizzes are original creations by the Grabarchuk Family and delivered exclusively for Kindle.

Interactivity
You can interactively answer and check a puzzle quiz by clicking the respective answer. Only the correct answer leads to the solution page. Learn more how to play Puzzlebook on different devices.

HD Quality
For the first time Kindle Puzzlebook contains color high-definition images – four times bigger images compared to the previous version. Now each puzzle looks perfectly sharp and detailed with richer colors. Enjoy entire new colorful experience playing Puzzlebook on Kindle Fire, Kindle Fire HD, iPad, iPhone, Android, PC, Mac, or other devices using a free Kindle app.

Discover Version for E-readers
Do you have e-reader? Get 101 Puzzle Quizzes made specially for e-ink devices. Images are black-and-white and thus Puzzlebook works fast on e-readers, graphic is sharp and simple.

Play Anywhere!
Puzzlebook is specially designed for playing on any Kindle e-reader or tablet, as well on any other devices using a free Kindle app. Be sure to play it on different devices for more fun and comfort.

Ranking
The collection is specially created for all kinds of solvers – beginners, skillful, and experts alike. The puzzles are arranged so that you start with the easiest (*) puzzles and progress to the hardest (*****) puzzles.

Happy Puzzling!

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Filed Under: Free Kindle Games / Apps Tagged With: free from amazon, kindle game

5 FREE Kindle Books

December 30, 2012 by Michael Gallagher 4 Comments

Here are five FREE Kindle books for you in 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!

Texas Roads by Cathy Bryant has received an average user rating of 4.5 out of 5 stars based on 64 customer reviews. I received a note from the author saying this book would be free through December 31st.

Category: Romance / Religious Fiction

 

 

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

City gal Dani Davis just wants a place to call home. With quirky residents, quaint country charm, and loads of business potential, Miller’s Creek Texas seems like the perfect place to start over . . . except for the cowboy who gives her a ride into town. Dani secretly finances renovations to downtown Miller’s Creek, but malicious rumors force her to choose between keeping her involvement a secret and the home for which she’s always longed. Then a devastating discovery propels her down a road she never expected to travel.

Steve Miller is determined to rescue his dying hometown. When vandals jeopardize the renovation, he can’t help but suspect Dani, whose strange behavior has become fodder for local gossips. Can Steve and Dani call a truce for a higher cause, and in the process help Dani recognize the true meaning of home?

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/arq2nk into your web browser to receive your free copy.

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Wrecked by Elle Casey has received an average user rating of 4.5 out of 5 stars based on 141 customer reviews. I received a note from the author saying this book would be free through January 1st.

Category: Action & Adventure / Older Teens

 

 

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

High Seas and High Adventure from the author of The Changlings, War of the Fae.
If you liked The Breakfast Club and The Swiss Family Robinson, you’ll love WRECKED!

An ill-fated Caribbean cruise and four teenagers: a nerd, a jock, a mouse, and a beauty queen…an island, a treehouse, some nefarious interlopers…life and death…fear and loathing…love and laughter.

Follow Jonathan, Kevin, Candi and Sarah as they find their typical high school lives and their worlds totally WRECKED. **Contains some foul language and non-explicit sex scenes between older teens. May not be appropriate for younger, middle-grade teens**

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/oc9byk into your web browser to receive your free copy.

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Stained by Ella James has received an average user rating of 4.5 out of 5 stars based on 213 customer reviews. I received a note from the author saying this book would be free through January 31st.

Category: Paranormal Romance

 

 

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

Seventeen-year-old Julia is finally living the good life. She’s traded a hard cot in a Memphis orphanage for her very own room in a perfect little house, on a perfect little street, with a perfect set of parents who picked her to be their daughter.

But Julia is hiding a secret – and one fall night, she returns home from a friend’s house to find that her secret has found her. Her ‘forever home’ is ashes. Her parents are dead. And, in the sky above the flames, a winged creature hunts her.

The Nephilim King, Samyaza, has taken everything from Cayne. After struggling in the darkness for years to piece together his shattered life, Cayne is finally ready to confront his past and avenge the loss of everything he loved. He tracks Samyaza to a Memphis warehouse, where he winds up flat on his back, in the healing hands of a beautiful, dark-haired girl he doesn’t need to know.

Unbeknownst to either of them, they are already bound. Cayne’s past holds the answers to Julia’s future. But what will pose the greatest threat to her? The bounty placed on her head by the leaders of two Celestial realms, or giving her heart to a man who is bound, by birth, to break it?

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/jhy5fy into your web browser to receive your free copy.

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Godspeed Inc: A Naomi Kinder Adventure by Vincent Miskell has received an average user rating of 4 out of 5 stars based on 16 customer reviews. I received a note from the author saying this book would be free through April 1st. I read this about a year ago and rated it a 4 out of 5 stars; to see the review I wrote, you can click here or type in http://smarturl.it/k0slv5 into your web browser. If you think the review was helpful, I would appreciate a “Yes” vote just underneath the review on the Amazon website.

Category: Science Fiction

 

 

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

Godspeed Inc. owns the sweeper ship Naomi uses to mend the spacetime rifts that Godspeed’s faster-than-light Q-drive ships rip open as they smash out of the solar system. Now Naomi wakes with something really big bearing down on her—something that’s come through a rift, threatening Earth. Time is running short as she races to Umbriel, a moon of Uranus, to salvage and reactivate an old sweeper ship with a Q-drive hidden there. But then she gets company.

This first Naomi Kinder science fiction adventure spans the wide orbits of Pluto and Uranus and takes Naomi to the airless, icy moon of Umbriel. Fans of widescreen space operas, the Golden Age of science fiction, and SF romance will identify with Naomi’s challenges, both small-scale and astronomical. Naomi’s got some special abilities, but she’s no hero. Now the fate of the civilized solar system depends on her.

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/e7nv0n into your web browser to receive your free copy.

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The Last American Martyr by Tom Winton has received an average user rating of 4 out of 5 stars based on 36 customer reviews. I received a note from the author saying this book would be free for today only.

Category: Suspense

 

 

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

Every now and then one small soul rises from the crowded depths of obscurity and causes the earth to wobble on its axis. This last happened in 2008 when an unemployed doorman stepped onto the worldwide stage in Stockholm and accepted The Nobel Prize for Literature.

In this me-me twenty-first century, Thomas Soles may very well be the last American martyr. This self-described “simple man” writes a book that is so powerful it brings back to life the all-but-dead international labor movement. The response to his thoughts and perceptions are astounding. Around the globe, from pole to pole, America to Zimbabwe, the footsteps of marching workers begin to tremor the earth. But not everyone is pleased.

There’s a tight-knit, elitist clique that is absolutely livid over the thoughts and ideals that fill the pages of Tom’s book. And when he and his wife, Elaina, return home from Sweden, they realize just how dangerous this profit-hungry mob can be.

Mortified by the horrible scene that awaits them inside their apartment, the Soles have no choice but to flee their longtime home. Hoping to find peace and anonymity, they bounce all over America in an RV. But they don’t find what they’re looking for. Instead they become moving targets. And everywhere they go they’re followed by a succession of life-threatening events.

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/b44fnt into your web browser to receive your free copy.

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Guest Blog Post: Meet Author SM Reine

December 29, 2012 by Michael Gallagher 3 Comments

Yesterday, I told you about S.M. Reine’s three-book fantasy compilation of The Descent Series being free through December 31st – it’s still free, and you can grab it now if you missed it yesterday by clicking here or typing in http://smarturl.it/qqzdhf into your web browser. Continuing the independent author guest blog post, sit back to learn a little more about Sara…

 

 

 

I’m a huge movie nut. More specifically, I love action movies in all of their incarnations: thrillers, science fiction adventure, superheroes, epic fantasy, spy movies, whatever. If it’s going to get my heart pumping, I am there.

As a kid, I wanted to grow up to be James Bond. (I still want to be James Bond, but I’m a grown up now, and no dice. Tragic.) The idea that there was this suave, skilled, confident human being that could fight with his brain as skillfully as his fists appealed to me deeply. That was who I wanted to be. The fact that I was a nerdy, dumpy preteenage girl who spent more time on her IBM Compatible than actually going outside to run around and learn to kick butt…? Yeah, not relevant, I was going to be Bond.

I utterly gobbled up heroes like 007: Batman, Indiana Jones, Han Solo, John McClane. All those guys. But there was one problem–a certain problem of two x chromosomes. I may be a nerdy lady, but I’m a lady, goshdarnit, and I want to be Lady James Bond. NOT a Bond girl. Not Moneypenny, not Poison Ivy in a teeny swimsuit and body paint, not Princess Leia in her metal bikini (sorry, Leia, you’re still awesome).

Even when there are strong female characters in action movies, they tend to take on supporting roles, or are framed as love interests; Princess Leia shoots crap, but she’s still the princess that Han and Luke need to rescue.

Where’s my balls-to-the-wall action heroine? Where’s the woman that would walk over glass to shoot terrorists, WITHOUT strategic cleavage-flashing tears?

I was reminded of this little childhood conundrum a couple months back when I saw John Carter (very underrated space opera, you should go rent it). The title character is awesome. He will do anything to escape a bad situation–dive out of windows when held at gunpoint by Union soldiers and face down an entire tribe of aliens, just for starters.

And I wondered again: where’s my female main character that does this kind of crazy action stuff?

I’ll tell you where they are. They’re all lurking in urban fantasy novels. (Bear with me here.)

“Urban fantasy” probably brings to mind sexy vampire romances, but don’t let that you turn you off. Laurell K Hamilton pioneered the crossover between detective noir and horror, which did involve a vampire romance or six, but it’s since grown into a total beast of booty-kicking female protagonists. These are stories about female experiences told through the tropes of paranormal fiction, and it usually involves the aforementioned female character also shooting the crap out of everything.

Discovering that I could get my butt-kickery through books was a revelation. It’s shaped my life as a reader, and my entire career as an author, since I now spend my days writing my own lady action hero. (The IBM Compatible is long since dust, I’m afraid.)

I’m still waiting for the perfect lady Bond heroine in the movies, but in the meantime, these books have tided me over since high school.

 

  • The aforementioned Anita Blake series, up to and including Obsidian Butterfly. In fact, feel free to just read that one and ignore the rest.
  • The original six Last Vampire books by Christopher Pike.
  • The October Daye books by Seanan McGuire.
  • The Jane Yellowrock books by Faith Hunter.
  • I’ll also, somewhat hesitantly, include the Mercy Thompson books by Patricia Briggs. They’re almost more paranormal romance, though.

 

For those of you who might fancy yourself a lady James Bond of your own that have already gotten through the series above, I also have a little “required media consumption” list, which includes movies, TV shows, comic books, and video games. I’ve only included female protagonists who are genuinely the main character and not solely eye candy.

 

  • Alien. Ripley is epic.
  • Haywire, which stars a real-life female MMA fighter who’s a mercenary, and the closest thing to a lady Bond I’ve seen so far.
  • Tomb Raider. Lara Croft was designed to be T&A, yet in the process, the developers accidentally managed to create a clever, independent female protagonist who actually is seldom sexualized. She’s basically Indiana Jones in shorts and hiking boots.
  • Wonder Woman from the George Perez run in the 80s.
  • It almost seems unnecessary to throw Buffy the Vampire Slayer in here, but I’ll do it for kicks anyway.
  • The Mass Effect trilogy, playing as Femshep. No, really.
  • Anything with Mila Jovovich. I won’t speak to the quality of her movies, but she’s one of the few actresses who gets typecast as an action star.

 

It would be a little presumptuous to add my books to either list above, but I do write about the heroine I’ve always dreamed of in The Descent Series, urban fantasy for those who love their ladies with a side of grit. There are five books in the series released so far. Books 1-3, in a collected box set, are free through Monday. The newest volume, Dire Blood, was released Christmas Day.

That said, I’m always up for more lady action stars, so give me your recommendations! Who are YOUR favorite kick-butt heroines?

 

Thank you, Sara!

You can check out Sara’s Amazon author page if you click here, or visit her website at www.smreine.com or Facebook page at http://facebook.com/authorsmreine – don’t forget, her trilogy of the first three books of The Descent Series is free though Monday: click here or type in http://smarturl.it/qqzdhf into your web browser to grab it now!

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19 FREE Kindle Books

December 29, 2012 by Michael Gallagher 12 Comments

Well, this one is going to be short and sweet…

Several authors I have communicated with over the past couple of years (I need to meet them face-to-face one day over several adult beverages) have banded together to offer their books for free today, and gave me the heads-up about it so you could be one of the first to know before other blogs and outlets tell their readers about it. For a good mixture of mystery / thriller, fantasy, romance, and more you can click here or type in http://tinyurl.com/12292012 into your web browser.  Take a look, check them out, and grab as many as you want!

If you did click the link, you will see 16 free books pop up: the reality is, with the boxed sets being offered it’s actually 19 books…not too bad of a start for a Saturday morning!

Have a great weekend-

Michael

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Five Free Kindle Books

December 28, 2012 by Michael Gallagher 2 Comments

Looking for something to do / read on a Friday night?

Here are five FREE Kindle books for you in 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!

Autism – A Practical Guide for Parents by Alan Yau has received an average user rating of 5 out of 5 stars based on 8 customer reviews. I received a note from the author saying this book would be free through December 29th.

Category: Advice & How-To

 

 

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

Autism – A Practical Guide for Parents.

Theory is great, but as a busy parent of a young child with autism, what you would really like is a practical guide: with ideas, tips and strategies that you can use right away.

Oh, and you want a book that is concise and easy to understand, right?

This book is what you’re looking for.

Think of this book as a collection of sparks. Real sparks ignite fires. The sparks in this book will ignite ideas in your head about how to teach your child with autism.

Here’s an overview of what you will learn in this book:
• How children with autism are wired differently, and how that affects the way they learn.
• Why Intensive Play is so important to everything else.
• Why it’s so hard to get your child’s attention, and what you can do about it.
• How visual tools can help your child, and how you can use them easily.
• Why focusing on well-being is so important, and some simple steps you can take to ensure you do.
• What general strategies will help you teach your child.
• Why behavior difficulties happen, and some ways you can help.
• Why today’s technology is making it easier for children with autism to communicate, learn and much more besides.
This book will give you ideas and strategies that you can use immediately with your child. Many of the strategies are made clearer by the inclusion of examples from the author’s own experience. You will see echoes of your own child in some of the examples, and they are sure to provide lots of light bulb moments for you.

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/3r3sqq into your web browser to receive your free copy.

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The Guestbook by Andrea Hurst has received an average user rating of 4.5 out of 5 stars based on 117 customer reviews. I received a note from the author saying this book would be free through December 29th.

Category: Contemporary Fiction / Romance

 

 

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

Everyone remembers their first love…
but sometimes it’s the second love that lasts…

Fleeing her picture-perfect marriage among the privileged set of Brentwood and the wreckage of a failed marriage, Lily Parkins decides to move to the only place that still holds happy memories, her grandmother’s old farmhouse. The lush and majestic setting of the Pacific Northwest calls to her and offers a place of refuge and perhaps renewal. Her grandmother has passed away, leaving the Madrona Island Bed & Breakfast Inn to Lily.

Left with only an old guestbook as her guide–a curious book full of letters, recipes, and glimpses into her family history–Lily is determined to embrace her newfound independence and recreate herself, one page at a time. With the help of the quirky island residents she has befriended, she slowly finds the strength to seek out happiness on her own terms. But as soon as she has sworn off men and is standing on her own two feet, Lily meets Ian, the alluring artist who lives next door, and her new life is suddenly thrown off course. The last thing she wants to do right now is to open her heart to another man.

Ultimately, Lily must decide if it’s worth giving up her soul for security or risking everything to follow her heart.

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/dpjq6h into your web browser to receive your free copy.

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Wielder’s Awakening by T.B. Christensen has received an average user rating of 4 out of 5 stars based on 81 customer reviews. I received a note from the author saying this book would be free through December 30th.

Category: Fantasy

 

 

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

A powerful wielder of magic is preparing to conquer a world whose people only remember magic in legends of the past. A king grappling with personal tragedy prepares his army to save his kingdom. A restless princess seeks love and adventure. In the middle of it all is Traven, a poor, ambitious peasant who dreams of being more than a simple woodcutter and unknowingly holds the key to saving the world.

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/qo4cys into your web browser to receive your free copy.

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Short-Straw Bride by Karen Witemeyer has received an average user rating of 4.5 out of 5 stars based on 243 customer reviews

Category: Historical Romance / Religious Fiction

 

 

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

No one steps on Archer land. Not if they value their life. But when Meredith Hayes overhears a lethal plot to burn the Archer brothers off their ranch, a twelve-year-old debt compels her to take the risk.Fourteen years of constant vigilance hardens a man. Yet when Travis Archer confronts a female trespasser with the same vivid blue eyes as the courageous young girl he once aided, he can’t bring himself to send her away. And when an act of sacrifice leaves her injured and her reputation in shreds, gratitude and guilt send him riding to her rescue once again.Four brothers. Four straws. One bride. Despite the fact that Travis is no longer the gallant youth Meredith once dreamed about, she determines to stand by his side against the enemy that threatens them both. But will love ever be hers? Or will Travis always see her merely as a short-straw bride?

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/xnm9qf into your web browser to receive your free copy.

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Bone Blind by Abigail Padgett has received an average user rating of 4.5 out of 5 stars based on 31 customer reviews.

Category: Mystery / Thriller

 

 

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

Only the flame from a curious candleholder illuminated the murdered corpse of Karl Knock on a bitterly cold Massachusetts night twenty years in the past. When the efforts of local, state and federal investigators failed to cast more light on the crime than the little candle did, the case gathered dust, unsolved and forgotten.

But when horror novelist Finn Ryan gets an invitation to dinner from a beautiful but eccentric and reclusive colleague, Tally Serzak, a web of danger sends its first, tentative filaments from that candlelit room. And nothing will ever be the same.

Because Finn has secrets. So does Tally. And so does Newton, MA, Police Detective Warren Yost, who found Knock’s body on that cold morning so long ago. Now, on the eve of retirement, Yost decides to solve the old murder and go out with a last hurrah.

As Finn’s involvement with the strange Tally reaches an intensity that has him running into walls, he begins to see similarities between himself and his own characters. He’s in a horror novel, except this one is real. There are no ghosts, no zombies or vampires. There is only Tally and an unfolding story Finn doesn’t want to see, but can’t ignore. As she knew he wouldn’t.

Warren Yost sees the story as well, but can’t assemble its puzzle until Finn provides a last piece that will lead to a final, and deadly, resolution.

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/kdctyr into your web browser to receive your free copy.

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