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Thursday’s Featured Kindle Book

May 31, 2018 by Michael Gallagher Leave a Comment

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Amazing Detective

Author: Walter Marks

Genre: Mystery

Rating: 4.1 out of 5 stars
Free via Kindle Unlimited: Yes

Regular Price: ~~$2.99~~
Today’s Price: $0.99

Book Description:

Praised by the East Hampton Star as an “amazing detective” for his expertise in crime-solving, Jericho is hard-pressed to live up to his reputation, by two separate cases. One is a homicide, involving a corpse found buried near a hiking trail in Montauk. The other deals with the complex interactions of competing sinister and violent drug cartels. Jericho comes face to face with homicide, gang wars, human trafficking, immigration issues, and racial tensions. Things come to a boiling point in this twisty story, until the life of the amazing detective himself is in serious jeopardy. As in all Jericho novels, the ending is shocking and unexpected.

Click here or type in http://geni.us/53118 into your web browser to pick up your copy of Amazing Detective in the Amazon Kindle store.

About the Author:

Walter Marks is a novelist, playwright, and songwriter. He lives and works in both Manhattan and East Hampton.

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Free & Discounted Kindle Books for Thursday

May 31, 2018 by Michael Gallagher Leave a Comment

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Here’s your first group of free and discounted Kindle book offers in a variety of genres for Thursday: for those books listed as being free in this post – while the pricing of the free status is valid at the time of this posting, please make sure you check the pricing carefully before you press the “buy” button as it could revert back to paid status at any time!

Crossing in Time

Author: D.L. Orton

Genre: Women’s Fiction

Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
Free via Kindle Unlimited: No

Regular Price: $6.99
Today’s Price: FREE!

Click Here for Your Free Copy!

Book Description:

If someone took everything you live for, how far would you go to get it back?

When offered a one-way trip to the past, Iz sacrifices everything for a chance to change her dystopian future—and see her murdered lover one last time.

After a perilous journey through a black hole, she wakes up on a tropical beach, buck naked and mortally wounded—but twenty years younger! With only hours to live, she must convince an enraptured but skeptical twenty-something guy to fix their future relationship and thereby save the planet (no one is quite sure why.)

But it’s easier said than done, as success means losing him to a brainy, smart-mouthed bombshell (her younger self), and that’s a heartbreaker, save the world or not.

Across the infinite expanse of space and time, love endures…

(Unfortunately, it’s not going to be enough.)

Click here to pick up your free copy of Crossing in Time in the Amazon Kindle store.

The Borderlands: Journey

Author: Aderyn Wood

Genre: Fantasy

Rating: 4.4 out of 5 stars
Free via Kindle Unlimited: Yes

Regular Price: $2.99
Today’s Price: FREE!

Click Here for Your Free Copy!

Book Description:

The Borderlands: Journey is the first book in ‘The Borderlands’ trilogy.

‘It is urgent for you to reach the Borderlands. There, you will learn everything you need to know.’

Dale has never felt a sense of belonging. She despises the bullies and snobs at school, and her family are difficult to like, let alone love. Rhys, a new boy at school seems to take an interest in her. But can she trust him? When the only friend she has ever had, Old Man Gareth, is murdered before her eyes, she is set on a frantic journey and a lonely adventure; the Borderlands beckon. But what are the Borderlands? Will she make it to them? And if she gets there, will she belong?

Click here to pick up your free copy of The Borderlands: Journey in the Amazon Kindle store.

Emilie

Author: Cherie Claire

Genre: Historical Romance

Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
Free via Kindle Unlimited: No

Regular Price: $0.99
Today’s Price: FREE!

Click Here for Your Free Copy!

Book Description:

Emilie Gallant and her Cajun family have traveled to Louisiana in search of their father, separated thirteen years ago during le grand dérangement, the brutal exile by the British from their Nova Scotia homeland. The last thing Emilie has on her mind as she enters the rugged bayou country is marriage to her longtime companion, Lorenz Dugas. Beautiful but stubbornly defiant, Emilie worshipped Lorenz as a child but having to fight to preserve her family has built a wall around her heart. But Lorenz is equally determined and his passion will prove that their love cannot be denied. As they make their way across the untamed Louisiana wilderness, hoping to reunite the Gallant family, Emilie learns that love has a way of healing all wounds — even in the most unusual places.

Click here to pick up your free copy of Emelie in the Amazon Kindle store.

Far Away Home

Author: Susan Denning

Genre: Historical Romance

Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
Free via Kindle Unlimited: Yes

Regular Price: $0.99
Today’s Price: $0.99

Click Here to Buy!

Book Description:

In post-Civil War New York City, sixteen-year-old Aislynn Denehy cannot find a job, she has no place to live and no family to help her. Some might think this is a problem; Aislynn believes it is an opportunity, but she has a lot to learn. No formulaic romance, this well-researched love story depicts life as it truly was for the thousands of women who went west reaching for a new life. Aislynn’s journey begins in a New York City tenement and leads her across the frontier to a Utah mining camp where she must cope with the three very different men in her life: smart, solicitous Tim, good-natured, good-guy Johnny and the intense but intriguing Liam Moran. Life in the roughshod camp brings small joys and devastating losses. The novel races through authentic experiences involving historical events until it erupts in an unexpected ending. In today’s troubled world, Far Away Home will make you believe no matter how many challenges fate sends your way, the human spirit can triumph.

Click here or type in http://geni.us/faraway into your web browser to pick up your copy of Far Away Home in the Amazon Kindle store.

Serial Termination

Author: Arnon Edelstein

Genre: Thriller

Rating: 4.7 out of 5 stars
Free via Kindle Unlimited: Yes

Regular Price: $3.99
Today’s Price: $0.99

Click Here to Buy!

Book Description:

Two investigators fall in love as they search for a horrendous serial killer

Women who have had abortions suddenly go missing; their bodies are found at busy intersections. A female criminologist and a retired military detective go to work solving the case. As the investigation progresses a fragile romance takes hold between the two, though their pasts render them distrustful of one another. Good friends help them overcome their emotional obstacles to their newfound love. As the investigation intensifies the criminologist enters the lion’s den to crack the mystery.

What drives someone to take the lives of women who have had abortions? Religious faith, some distorted moral concept, or perhaps personal reasons rooted in their private life? To catch the killer, the investigation team must get inside his mind and figure out his motives. The book shows how a man turns himself into God, deciding who should live and who should die, until he must face his own death. Clear your calendar, because once you begin this riveting thriller you won’t be able to put it down.

Click here or type in http://geni.us/serialtermination into your web browser to pick up your copy of Serial Termination in the Amazon Kindle store.

Demon King

Author: Erik Henry Vick

Genre: Horror

Rating: 4.8 out of 5 stars
Free via Kindle Unlimited: No

Regular Price: $3.99
Today’s Price: $0.99

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Book Description:

Ancient evils lurk in the Western New York town of Oneka Falls, and they are hungry.

Only three children have encountered them and lived. Psyches fractured, each child has survived as best they could—wrapped in fantasy, the comfort of amnesia, or the silence of isolation When those evils intrude on their lives a second time, it sets a chain of events in action that can only end in destruction. But who will be destroyed, the children or the ancient evils that plague the town?

Click here or type in http://geni.us/demonking into your web browser to pick up your copy of Demon King in the Amazon Kindle store.

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Wednesday’s Featured Kindle Book

May 30, 2018 by Michael Gallagher Leave a Comment

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Natalia’s Secret Spinster’s Society

Author: Charlotte Stone

Genre: Historical Romance

Rating: 4.8 out of 5 stars
Free via Kindle Unlimited: Yes

Regular Price: ~~$3.99~~
Today’s Price: $0.99

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Book Description:

Natalia Hext– or rather Leah Wells– has a secret that the Men of Nashwood would kill for.

Circumstances have forced her to keep her true identity hidden.

It is unfortunate that the boy she once knew, now a very handsome man, is eager to expose her secrets in the most cruel and sensual of ways.

William Tift knows there’s more to the eye than what the cryptic Mrs. Wells presents to the world.
Something about Leah is not quite right.

He’ll find out what it is, never mind that he feels a familiarity with her.
The point is, she knows too much and William will do what he must to keep her quiet.

But Leah won’t go down easily.

When with each encounter, the sexual tension becomes harder to ignore.

… as do their hidden feelings.

What will happen when Leah’s true identity is revealed?
And when secrets come to light, will love stand strong or fall under its weight?

Click here or type in http://geni.us/natalia into your web browser to pick up your copy of Natalia’s Secret Spinster’s Society in the Amazon Kindle store.

About the Author:

n a near cynical world which we are currently living in, Charlotte finds comfort in the readings of Regency Romance writings, one of her favourite would be Laura Kinsale’s Flowers from the storm where the female character loves and saves the male lead character who is a stroke victim. It was such writings which inspired her to be an author herself.

In Charlotte’s writings, the characters are able to see beyond the imperfections of each other and to accept and love one another, just the way one is.

Isn’t this true of our inner self?

To be able to find someone who is able to see the beauty in us, in spite of all imperfections we might have. Isn’t this true of what love really should be? Ever accepting, ever loving, ever seeking.

May you find love and acceptance in Charlotte’s writings.

You can visit Charlotte’s Amazon author page if you click here or type in http://geni.us/charlottestone into your web browser.

11 Free Kindle Books for Wednesday

May 30, 2018 by Michael Gallagher Leave a Comment

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Here’s are three free and discounted Kindle book offers (actually, it’s 11 if you count them all) in a variety of genres for Wednesday: for those books listed as being free in this post – while the pricing of the free status is valid at the time of this posting, please make sure you check the pricing carefully before you press the “buy” button as it could revert back to paid status at any time!

Jeri Howard Anthology: Books 1-9

Author: Janet Dawson

Genre: Mystery

Free via Kindle Unlimited: Yes

Regular Price: $9.99
Today’s Price: FREE!

Click Here for Your Free Copy!

Book Description:

Jeri’s as savvy as Sam Spade, with something of Spade’s seen-it-all outlook. She handles the daily bread and butter without breaking a sweat, and she’s got the street smarts to handle the bad guys, always managing somehow to land a well-deserved punch. What she doesn’t know, her chic lawyer pal, Cassie, can supply; and her cop ex-husband’s on hand to make trouble.

KINDRED CRIMES
A puzzling missing persons case–a wife who disappears with the grocery money–keeps winding backward, revealing brand new secrets as fast as ancient skeletons can fall out of closets.

TILL THE OLD MEN DIE
The grisly murder of a sedate, widowed history professor, is written off as a random street crime until a woman turns up at his university, claiming to be his widow and demanding access to his “papers.”

TAKE A NUMBER
Out of loyalty to a former client, Jeri takes on a nasty divorce case. The soon-to-be ex-husband winds up with a bullet in his back, and the prime suspect is Jeri’s client.

DON’T TURN YOUR BACK ON THE OCEAN
Jeri is looking to catch a respite from the PI life to relax and visit family in lovely Monterey on the California coast. Now, what’s the worst thing that could happen on a PI’s vacation? A dead body on the beach, most likely.

NOBODY’S CHILD
Is a Jane Doe uncovered at a construction site the body of her client’s long-lost daughter Maureen? If so, what’s become of Maureen’s two-year-old daughter?

A CREDIBLE THREAT
A UC Berkeley undergrad fears the worst when her shared house receives multiple threats from an unknown antagonizer.

WITNESS TO EVIL
A seventeen-year-old Jeri tracked down when she swiped her mother’s credit card and took off for Paris is now a “person of interest” in a murder case–and, once again, in the wind.

WHERE THE BODIES ARE BURIED
Jeri’s newest client was about to blow the whistle on a large food manufacturer just before he took a header out his fifth-floor apartment window–but he hadn’t yet told her what it was about. Next step: Undercover in the corporate office.

A KILLING AT THE TRACK
Set in the fascinating and forbidden racetrack backside. Dawson’s complex plot is a pleasure–one dead jockey, then two dead jockeys, three exotic poisons, and several possible payoffs.

Click here to pick up your free copy of Jeri Howard Anthology: Books 1-9 in the Amazon Kindle store.

The Back Door Man

Author: Dave Buschi

Genre: Thriller

Rating: 4.2 out of 5 stars
Free via Kindle Unlimited: No

Regular Price: $2.99
Today’s Price: FREE!

Click Here for Your Free Copy!

Book Description:

All credit cards have stopped working. Today. This morning.

What cash you have in your wallet is it. ATMs and bank systems are down. You can’t get gas, groceries… Commerce has essentially come to a halt. Such is the backdrop of THE BACK DOOR MAN.

Our society is computercentric. Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn. We’re plugged in. Managing our finances online. Downloading apps for our iPhone. Reading the WSJ on our Kindle.

There are things out there on the cutting edge we don’t even know we need to fear. THE BACK DOOR MAN takes us there.

We see it through the eyes of James Kolinsky, a simple family man who works in information security. His day goes from bad to worse when he discovers that his greatest fear is his fault and what’s happened to him has happened to millions of others.

He’s been set up. His family—make that the world—has been taken hostage. The next twenty-four hours we find out what James Kolinsky is really made of.

Click here to pick up your free copy of The Back Door Man in the Amazon Kindle store.

Spellsmith & Carver: Magicians’ Rivalry

Author: H.L. Burke

Genre: Fantasy

Rating: 4.6 out of 5 stars
Free via Kindle Unlimited: Yes

Regular Price: $3.99
Today’s Price: FREE!

Click Here for Your Free Copy!

Book Description:

An estranged son. An adopted heir. A magical attack that forces them to work together.

The disappearance of Auric Spellsmith’s mother has strained his relationship with his father to the breaking point. Now, after five years away at the Magicians’ Academy, Auric returns home, determined to prove himself to his father and claim his birthright.

Apprentice Jericho Carver has held Spellsmith Manor together in Auric’s absence. Now his master’s son is back, and if he can’t get rid of Auric, Jericho will forfeit his career and lose all hope of wooing the master’s enchanting daughter.

Neither man intends to back down.

But then Master Spellsmith vanishes into the mysterious Fey Lands. With Fey magic threatening the mortal realm, Auric and Jericho must work together to save the man they both see as father.

Click here to pick up your free copy of Spellsmith & Carver: Magicians’ Rivalry in the Amazon Kindle store.

Book Reviews and Why I Write Them

May 30, 2018 by Michael Gallagher Leave a Comment

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As A Blog Publisher, Why Do You Write Book Reviews?

That’s actually a nicer way of summarizing some of the emails I’ve received over the last few years!

Yes, I do write reviews for the books I read, and starting in 2011 I started to make a point to write a review for most things I read.

Why do I write reviews? Well, I do read what others write for reviews, and those reviews do influence my decision to (a) first try out the free Kindle sample, which a lot of the time leads me to (b) purchasing a book. I appreciate the time and effort complete strangers took to write a review to tell me the good and the bad, and common courtesy tells me I should do the same. If I like a book I’ll tell you – if I didn’t like it, well, let’s just say I’ve been told my professional career has been limited a time or two for being too honest (i.e., blunt).

If you’re like me, you look at the customer reviews in order to see if you want to investigate a book further – while my general cutoff is a book needs to be at least a 4 out of 5 stars, I also read the text of the review: things that may make a reviewer dislike a book might be favorable to me and, things a reviewer absolutely loved (and mentioned in the review) could be a complete turnoff to this grey-haired guy.

I also look to see if a review on the Amazon website is from an “Amazon Verified Purchase,” which tells me the person writing the review actually purchased the item from Amazon; I don’t think people should be able to review books on Amazon unless they purchased it.

Why do I look for an Amazon Verified Purchase? I’ve been burned too many times by friends and family of the author or shill reviews – reviewers that immediately rate everything a five star, they leave about one sentence of commentary (the minimum for an Amazon review is something like 20 characters of text), and they are generally marked by it being the one and only review a person has ever written on the Amazon website; these are typically reviews done in order to inflate a book’s overall rating. Another good indicator is a book will have a flurry of reviews around the same day, are short and all five stars, etc.

With the thousands of books I have previewed prior to telling you about on www.fkbt.com over the years, I’ve learned to spot the friends and family reviews pretty quick.

The “star” rating on Amazon can be broken down like this:

5 stars – I love it
4 stars – I like it
3 stars – It’s ok
2 stars – I don’t like it
1 star – I hate it

As far as the reviews I write, I try to write an honest assessment if I liked something or not without providing a spoiler: why write a spoiler and ruin it for everyone? I also think your and my taste regarding the likes and dislikes of a particular book are more honest than a paid book reviewer a major publishing house contracts with to have in a book’s advertising materials. My motto is to keep it short and sweet on your likes and dislikes without providing a Cliff’s Notes version of the book.

There are also very few things I “love” in terms of reading as well as very few things I “hate” as both, to me, are very extreme ends of the spectrum. Not to sound too hokey, but love and hate are permanent things and very few things qualify for either emotion.

Some people think I shouldn’t be writing reviews because I have this blog, and due to the blog’s popularity it could influence people’s behavior, especially if I “give” it a bad rating – every once in a while I will have a rather interesting dialogue with a few folks regarding the same. My response to those type of comments is my – and anyone else’s – review of a book reflects my opinion only and I don’t “give” out anything: your opinion on a book or item may vary, and we probably won’t agree on everything. For example, something I really liked you may absolutely detest and puke all over it.

The same could be true for something you thought was outstanding and I may question why it was published in the first place. When I read reviews sure, the star rating is important (see above), but I don’t put that much weight into the “star” rating as I look at the comments – mainly to see if they are substantive to back up the rating as well as to see what the reviewer’s pluses and minuses are with the book. If you look at those written comments, sometimes they match up to the “star” rating and sometime they do not.

I also discount reviewers who rate everything a 5 star and I imagine most others do, too.

If you would like to read the reviews I have written, you can click here or type in http://smarturl.it/mgreviews into your web browser. As I type this post, I have quite a few books I need to review but you will see just about everything I’ve read over the last ten years – you’ll see I do read a lot of the free book offers, and long time readers of the blog will also see I have continued my science fiction kick.

You can vote on the individual reviews on the Amazon website if you think they were helpful or not with a simple “Yes” or “No” vote – you can click on those voting options immediately below the text of each review. The more “Yes” votes you get in proportion to the overall votes – as well as some super-secret factors Amazon won’t divulge – you will move up in the review ranking scale (yes, Amazon ranks the reviewers). Compared to prior years, I’ve dropped down in the rankings: I’ve kept pretty steady with the numer of reviews I’ve written but clearly more people have more time on their hands than I do!

So, yes, I will continue writing reviews and I hope you will do the same!

Anyway, that’s all I can type about for now. Have a great rest of your week!

Michael

Free & Discounted Kindle Books for Tuesday

May 29, 2018 by Michael Gallagher Leave a Comment

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Here’s your listing of free and discounted Kindle book offers in a variety of genres for Tuesday: for those books listed as being free in this post – while the pricing of the free status is valid at the time of this posting, please make sure you check the pricing carefully before you press the “buy” button as it could revert back to paid status at any time!

Brainrush

Author: Richard Bard

Genre: Thriller

Rating: 4.4 out of 5 stars
Free via Kindle Unlimited: No

Regular Price: $3.99
Today’s Price: FREE!

Click Here for Your Free Copy!

Book Description:

A sudden-savant, his days numbered, tries to rescue a woman and autistic child, unwittingly becoming the only hope against a global terrorist—or the fanatic’s ultimate weapon.

Before he slid into the MRI machine, Jake Bronson was just an ordinary guy with terminal cancer. But when an earthquake hits during the procedure, Jake staggers from the wreckage a profoundly changed man, now endowed with uncanny mental abilities.

An ocean away, Luciano Battista wants a piece of Jake’s talent. Posing as a pioneering scientist, the terrorist leader has been conducting cerebral-implant experiments in a sinister quest to create a breed of super jihadist agents…and Jake’s altered brain may be the key to his success. But Jake refuses to play the pawn in an unholy war–and when an innocent woman and autistic child are taken hostage to force his cooperation, he embarks on a jihad of his own. Jake and his band of loyal friends are thrust into a deadly chase that leads from the canals of Venice through Monte Carlo and finally to an ancient cavern in the Hindu Kush mountains of Afghanistan–where Jake discovers that his newfound talents carry a hidden price that threatens the entire human race.

Click here to pick up your free copy of Brainrush in the Amazon Kindle store.

The Apples of Idunn

Author: Matt Larkin

Genre: Fantasy

Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
Free via Kindle Unlimited: Yes

Regular Price: $4.99
Today’s Price: FREE!

Click Here for Your Free Copy!

Book Description:

Only a fool would venture into the freezing mists that steal the souls of men.

And that’s exactly where Odin is going. When a frost giant murders his father, Odin swears blood vengeance.

Guided by his blood-brother Loki, Odin will stop at nothing to avenge his father’s murder.

His quest leads him to a chance at immortality. But the price may be more than he can imagine.

Click here to pick up your free copy of The Apples of Idunn in the Amazon Kindle store.

The Hack

Author: Will Patching

Genre: Thriller

Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
Free via Kindle Unlimited: No

Regular Price: $3.99
Today’s Price: FREE!

Click Here for Your Free Copy!

Book Description:

Who is more evil..? The killer or his victims..?
A vengeful ex-CIA operative turned serial killer…
A ruthless international ring of VIP child molesters determined to keep their criminal activities secret…
A British investigative journalist and her genius hacker brother…
A brilliant, incorruptible Thai Police Chief…
All are thrown together in this explosive first volume of the Hunter/O’Sullivan Adventure series of action-packed international crime thriller novels.

In brief:

Journalist Kate O’Sullivan puts her life at risk when she exposes a millionaire businessman as a child molester using information her teenage brother hacked from the CIA database.
With the US government on the hunt for her source and other ruthless, perverted VIPs closing in on them both, a renegade agent turned serial killer leaves a bloody trail in his wake.

As the body count rises, can Kate and her brother survive…?

Trigger warning: Frankly, if you need a trigger warning then it’s probably best to look for a different novel…

Click here to pick up your free copy of The Hack in the Amazon Kindle store.

A Wave From Mama

Author: A. Robert Allen

Genre: Historical Fiction

Rating: 4.6 out of 5 stars
Free via Kindle Unlimited: Yes

Regular Price: $2.99
Today’s Price: $0.99

Click Here to Buy!

Book Description:

High-flying drama in Post-Slavery New York during the Building of the Brooklyn Bridge

A former slave gets his dream job working on the bridge project, but finds himself at war with the gangs of Irishtown. Will the corrupt Metropolitan Police save or sacrifice him?

1863 Weeksville, Brooklyn:
The free Black community of Weeksville becomes home to an unusually small boy and his mother who fled Manhattan during New York’s Draft Riots. When his mother succumbs to her injuries, the boy swears revenge against everyone and everything that contributed to her death. His diminutive size and acrobatic climbing abilities make him a spectacle to behold, while his awkward social habits make him an outcast to everyone in Weeksville, except the adopted family he swears to protect.

When his stepbrother is attacked, the boy becomes embroiled in a battle between the Irish Gangs and Whiskey Kings of Irishtown while the corrupt Metropolitan Police sit on the sidelines. The backdrop of the action is the building of the Brooklyn Bridge and the racial tensions of the period.

Will the boy survive the ordeals of the day and achieve his dream of being a high-flying tower man on the bridge project? Or, will he become another victim of the Irish gangs and never know the joy of standing atop the tallest structure in North America?

Click here or type in http://geni.us/wavefrommama into your web browser to pick up your copy of A Wave From Mama in the Amazon Kindle store.

Haunted by the Devil

Author: Bill Hiatt

Genre: Fantasy

Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
Free via Kindle Unlimited: No

Regular Price: $3.99
Today’s Price: $0.99

Click Here to Buy!

Book Description:

Chris is nothing if not stubborn. The woman he loves is trapped in Hell, and he’s determined to free her even though everyone who finds out about his quest thinks he has no hope of success. They could be right. He doesn’t have any idea how to rescue someone from Hell. Even worse, his lack of faith robs him of the best methods to combat demons. Can love really conquer all? To find out, Chris will have to risk his life–and maybe his own soul.

Click here or type in http://geni.us/hauntedbydevil into your web browser to pick up your copy of Haunted by the Devil in the Amazon Kindle store.

Battery Life for Fire Tablets

May 29, 2018 by Michael Gallagher Leave a Comment

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I’ve received a few questions regarding the battery life on a Fire tablet; here’s an abridged version of one I periodically receive:

I’m wondering if you are having a problem with the Fire battery life, or if you’ve heard of it being a problem? The other night I was reading on a fully charged Fire. Wifi was off. I read for about 30 minutes and it went from 100% to 93%. That seems like a big drop considering I could go weeks on my Kindle without recharging. This was simple book reading, no games or other activity. I definitely find I have to charge my Fire far more often than my Kindle.

I haven’t noticed any battery issues with my Fires, nor have I seen any issues with my kids’ Fires. I have read a few things on various discussion boards about increased battery consumption, and after contacting Amazon’s Customer Service it was resolved with either a few keystrokes or Amazon replaced the Fire with a new one.

You can always contact Amazon’s Kindle Customer Service: they are quite good. To see a previous post on how to contact them, click here.

Because of the color screen, you will have the battery run down a lot faster than on an e-Ink Kindle.

One thing you might look at is the number of applications (apps) that are running before you contact the customer service department: for each app that is running, in addition to decreasing your Fire’s memory and dragging down the speed, if you have numerous apps running the battery will really start to drain (that’s true for a laptop computer running on the battery, smartphone, etc.). To turn off apps that are running you are not using, while there are 101 ways to do it here is how I do it on my Fire HD10:

Open the menu bar by tapping the square icon from the home screen, which is located on the bottom center of your screen; it will be the third one on that bottom list of icons.
You will then see a list of apps that are currently running or “on” right now: they will pop up within their own mini window. You may (or may not) be surprised at what is running.
To turn a particular app off, I tap the “X” of each of these mini windows.

I just did that for mine, and I was very surprised to see I had 23 open apps – search screens, email, games, weather, you name it! I turned each of them off.

One other thing you may want to try is turn off your Wi-Fi: having the Wi-Fi on continuously drains the battery, especially if you lose your connection and the Fire is constantly searching for a new network to join.

Hope that helps!

Michael

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Monday’s Featured Kindle Book

May 28, 2018 by Michael Gallagher Leave a Comment

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A Prescription for Possession

Author: Noree Cosper

Genre: Paranormal

Rating: 4.4 out of 5 stars
Free via Kindle Unlimited: Yes

Regular Price: ~~$4.99~~
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Book Description:

Madness is spreading like a virus.

Ninety years ago, Gabriella di Luca failed to protect the family of her dead lover.

Now the devil that murdered the eldest Van Helsing son has resurfaced, and she’s determined to stop him before he can lay a bloody hand on the remaining three brothers.

However, Gabby suspects the devil is testing a drug that induces demonic possession, and the only way to stop the devil’s plot is to fall victim to the madness herself.

If she wants to save the brothers and their city, she’ll have to risk most precious possession: her mind.

Click here or type in http://geni.us/apfp into your web browser to pick up your copy of A Prescription for Possession in the Amazon Kindle store.

About the Author:

USA Today bestselling author, Noree Cosper loves writing about magic in the modern world. While growing up in Texas she constantly searched for mystical elements in the mundane. She buried her nose in both fiction and books about Wicca, Religion, and Mythology. Everyday became an adventure as she joined a group of role-players, acting out her fantasies of vampires, demons, and monsters living in the world.

She embraced her nerdom wholeheartedly.

Noree grew, but never left her love for fantasy and horror. Her dreams pushed her and her hand itched to write the visions she saw. So, with her fingers on the keys, she did what her heart had been telling her to do since childhood. She wrote.

You can visit Noree’s Amazon author page if you click here or type in http://geni.us/noree into your web browser.

Free & Discounted Kindle Books for Monday

May 28, 2018 by Michael Gallagher Leave a Comment

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Here’s your listing of free and discounted Kindle book offers in a variety of genres for Monday: for those books listed as being free in this post – while the pricing of the free status is valid at the time of this posting, please make sure you check the pricing carefully before you press the “buy” button as it could revert back to paid status at any time!

The Liberty Box

Author: C.A. Gray

Genre: Young Adult

Rating: 4.4 out of 5 stars
Free via Kindle Unlimited: No

Regular Price: $12.99
Today’s Price: FREE!

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Book Description:

Kate Brandeis has it all: a famous reporter at the age of twenty-four, she’s the face of the Republic of the Americas. She has a loving fiancé and all the success she could wish for. But when she learns of the death of a long-forgotten friend, her investigations unravel her perfect memories, forcing her to face the fact that she’s been living a lie.

Jackson MacNamera, trained from a young age in the art of mind control, returns to the Republic for his mother’s funeral. Within a few hours of his arrival, authorities collect Jackson and take him by force to a room ironically called The Liberty Box, where he must choose between surrendering his thoughts to the new Republic, or fleeing for his freedom.

Kate, bereaved and confused, finds her way to a cave community of refugees, where Jackson seems to offer her an escape from her grief. The two forge an uneasy bond, and in the process Jackson learns that Kate has some insight which may help the hunters in their attempt to free other citizens from the tyranny of the Potentate. Against the expressed wishes of the Council, the hunters plot a series of daring raids, attempting to prove that not only is freedom possible, but that the citizens are not too far gone to desire it. But with the odds so stacked against them, can the refugees succeed in their rescue missions right under the Potentate’s nose?

Click here to pick up your free copy of The Liberty Box in the Amazon Kindle store.

Home Grown

Author: Ninie Hammon

Genre: Thriller / Suspense

Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
Free via Kindle Unlimited: Yes

Regular Price: $3.99
Today’s Price: FREE!

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Book Description:

Kidnapping. Murder. Grass-roots justice.

When her father is shot down on the street in front of his office, college journalism professor Sarabeth Bingham abandons the world of academia to take over the weekly newspaper he left behind, and she soon discovers that marijuana-growing has corrupted the idyllic little Kentucky town where she grew up.

In the same way selling booze during Prohibition built organized crime empires, the easy riches of dope-growing has bred evil and greed like a fly breeds maggots. Sarabeth’s own cousin grows weed. She even finds herself falling for a handsome bourbon distillery owner she’s convinced is financing his business with an illegal fortune.

But after a kidnapping and brutal murder rock the community, Sarabeth heeds the words on the plaque that has hung above her father’s desk for as long as she can remember: “Don’t mess with a man who buys ink by the barrel!” In a blazing front page editorial, Sarabeth declares war on the marijuana-growing industry. Now, the growers have to shut her up—fast, before she brings the feds down on them. And the meanest dog in the dope-growing junkyard knows just how to do it.

The fictional Home Grown is based on the real Cornbread Mafia, a criminal empire that sprung up in picturesque Marion County, Kentucky and grew into the largest illegal marijuana-growing operation in U.S. history. The novel is as tough, gritty and real as what actually happened to that little community because Ninie Hammon was the editor of the newspaper there, and was the target of intimidation, harassment and death threats when she broke the Cornbread Mafia story that made headlines all across America. Now, she’s turned that true story into a run-away-train fictional tale with neck-snapping twists and turns, ever-tightening suspense and an unforgettable ending that will have you flipping pages long into the night.

Click here to pick up your free copy of Home Grown in the Amazon Kindle store.

Chasing Amanda

Author: Robin Patchen

Genre: Mystery & Suspense

Rating: 4.2 out of 5 stars
Free via Kindle Unlimited: Yes

Regular Price: $0.99
Today’s Price: FREE!

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Book Description:

After an unsettling run-in with two strangers, college student Amanda Prince struggles to know who to trust.

Mark Johnson is a marine about to ship out to Afghanistan. He’s not interested in romance and certainly doesn’t want a girlfriend at home waiting for him. But his military training has taught him to listen to his gut. And all his instincts scream that Amanda is in danger.

Can Amanda trust the enigmatic soldier? Can Mark protect the vulnerable young woman without engaging his heart?

Click here to pick up your free copy of Chasing Amanda in the Amazon Kindle store.

Love Muffin and Chai Latte

Author: Anya Wylde

Genre: Romance

Rating: 4.1 out of 5 stars
Free via Kindle Unlimited: Yes

Regular Price: $0.99
Today’s Price: FREE!

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Book Description:

Clear your calendar, turn on your voicemail and get cozy on the sofa as Anya Wylde has decided to dip her toes into the world of contemporary romance …

Love Muffin and Chai Latte follows the journey of Tabitha Lee Timmons as she deals with financial stress, loony relatives, some crooks, an unhappy bride to be, a grumpy old man and two heartbreakingly handsome men.

Click here to pick up your free copy of Love Muffin and Chai Latte in the Amazon Kindle store.

Craven Manor

Author: Darcy Coates

Genre: Suspense

Rating: 4.7 out of 5 stars
Free via Kindle Unlimited: Yes

Regular Price: $4.99
Today’s Price: $0.99

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Book Description:

Daniel is desperate for a job. When someone slides a note under his door offering him the groundskeeper’s position at an old estate, it seems too good to be true.

Alarm bells start ringing when he arrives at Craven Manor. The mansion’s front door hangs open, and leaves and cobwebs coat the marble foyer. It’s clear no one has lived there in a long time.

But an envelope waits for him inside the doorway. It contains money, and promises more.

Daniel is desperate. Against his better judgement, he moves into the groundskeeper’s cottage behind the crypt. He’s determined to ignore the strange occurrences that plague the estate.

But when a candle flickers to life in the abandoned tower window, Daniel realises Craven Manor is hiding a terrible secret… one that threatens to bury him with it.

Click here or type in http://geni.us/cravenmanor into your web browser to pick up your copy of Craven Manor in the Amazon Kindle store.

New Releases on Kindle

May 27, 2018 by Michael Gallagher Leave a Comment

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Included in this post are relatively new Kindle book releases by independent authors in a variety of genres: I’m certain you will find something to enjoy in the offerings below. Also, similar to what I tell you in the daily posts, while the pricing is valid at the time of this posting, please make sure you check the pricing carefully before you press the “buy” button as it could change at any time!

Here The Truth Lies

Author: Seb Kirby

Genre: Thriller

Free via Kindle Unlimited: Yes

Regular Price: $2.99
Today’s Price: $0.99

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Book Description:

Sometimes your past is stranger than you ever imagined

Emma Chamberlain has a consuming ambition – to prove the innocence of a convicted murderer sentenced to life. But the more she digs into the evidence, the more she is forced to confront threatening secrets about her own past that lead her to the ultimate question – who is Emma Chamberlain?

To discover the truth, Emma must expose those responsible for a dark conspiracy that has ruined the lives of many and now threatens her own.

Click here or type in http://geni.us/truthlies into your web browser to pick up your copy of Here The Truth Lies in the Amazon Kindle store.

A Motive For Murder

Author: Gallagher Gray

Genre: Mystery

Free via Kindle Unlimited: Yes

Regular Price: $3.99
Today’s Price: $0.99

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Book Description:

MURDER AT THE BALLET: DANCE OF THE DANGLING CORPSE

They all seem murderous, but maybe they’re just hungry. Half the company chain-smokes to keep their weight down, and as tempers flare, you’d better watch who you say, “Break a leg!” to.

Recently retired Wall Street exec T.S. Hubbert and the flamboyant fashionista amateur sleuth who’s his Auntie Lil have solved three murders when Auntie Lil becomes the newest member of the Metropolitan Ballet’s board of directors. For weeks Auntie Lil has dragged T.S. to every dance performance in the city, and the season is about to peak with The Nutcracker when the promising ballerina whose scholarship Lil’s been sponsoring has her plum role snatched away.

The board is swayed by the box office appeal of a sixteen-year-old Hollywood heart-throb who wants to dance the role of the Nutcracker, and the boy’s manager father demands Lil’s protégé be replaced lest all the publicity go to her instead of his son. Although Auntie Lil’s is the only dissenting vote, apparently, she’s not the only one displeased with the board’s decision – the father’s body is discovered swinging from the rope of the First Act curtain at The Nutcracker’s Gala Opening.

Auntie Lil’s recent detective successes make her a natural to run damage control for the board by investigating the murder. In order to check out a couple of suspects, Lil takes her first ballet class in all her sprightly eighty-four years, along with her gentleman friend, Herbert Wong. Less suited to flying leaps than to flying leaps of imagination, it’s unlikely she’ll keep up the lessons, but Herbert is totally hooked.

Meanwhile, T.S. is making good use of his retirement by studying ballroom dancing to impress his lovely lady friend Lilah Cheswick, leaving Auntie Lil to do the heavy lifting on this one, while Theodore and Herbert keep sneaking off for dance lessons…and martinis. The entire crew of geriatric super sleuths has dance fever!

This witty and urbane amateur detective team recalls the cozy charm of Golden Age mysteries like those showcasing Miss Marple and her distinguished silver-haired colleague–Miss Silver, Miss Seeton, Mrs. Pollifax, and Jessica Fletcher.

Click here or type in http://geni.us/motivemurder into your web browser to pick up your copy of A Motive For Murder in the Amazon Kindle store.

The Amish Neighbor

Author: Katie Fisher

Genre: Religious Fiction

Free via Kindle Unlimited: Yes

Regular Price: $2.99
Today’s Price: $0.99

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Book Description:

A little girl who sees a murder. A single dad who wants to help her. A psychologist who feels lost. Can they help each other and find love?

Single dad Sol Walker never thought that his daughter would ever be traumatized. But when his neighbor is murdered in front of Abigail, he’s thrown into a police investigation and Abigail has become withdrawn and silent. Out of options, he reaches out to psychologist Maddie Sinclair to help her.

Maddie feels utterly lost in life. Having grown up not knowing if love is real or just something people talk about, she certainly can’t understand why people would say that there is a God who loves them.

There is something about Sol, though, that starts to knock down the walls she has built around herself. He’s so quietly confident, so full of faith. Maddie knows that it’s unprofessional for her to develop feelings for him, but she soon finds herself imagining what a life with him would be like.

Sol, too, finds himself drawn to Maddie. He knows nothing can happen, though. She’s Englisch, and he would have to leave his faith for her. That is something he cannot do.

But when the case takes a turn and they have to go on the run together, feelings become undeniable.

Can Maddie help Abigail when her own life is put in danger?

Will Sol’s faith be strong enough to protect them all?

Click here or type in http://geni.us/amishneighbor into your web browser to pick up your copy of The Amish Neighbor in the Amazon Kindle store.

All Business

Author: Julia Bright

Genre: Romance

Free via Kindle Unlimited: No

Regular Price: $2.99
Today’s Price: $0.99

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Book Description:

Kim Harrington is desperate for money. Desperate enough to work parties where drunk men misbehave. When a dashing stranger saves her from some guy’s groping hands, she wants to thank him, but he’s nowhere to be found.

Work hard, play hard Michael Daulton has no time for relationships. Time is money, and spending hours with Kim gains him nothing. But Michael can’t stay away from the intriguing woman.

The last thing Kim needs is to get involved again. Michael is sexy but demanding. She can’t give what he wants, but he’s too appealing to ignore.

Kim has to put an end to their relationship or risk losing everything. Michael makes her an offer she can’t refuse, but she has to.

Click here or type in http://geni.us/allbusiness into your web browser to pick up your copy of All Business in the Amazon Kindle store.

Screams of Steel

Author: Mike Stagg

Genre: Fantasy

Free via Kindle Unlimited: Yes

Regular Price: $0.99
Today’s Price: $0.99

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Book Description:

A magic sword with a terrible price unleashes chaos in an honorable man’s life.

Torant has spent his life as a Stone Warden upholding the law. After being warned by a legendary sorceress, Torant must take down a mad bandit lord who wields a fearsome greatsword. When the sword falls into Torant’s hands, he learns it’s secret – the sword gives him the strength of the last person it killed at the cost of hearing that person’s soul. Now magically bound to the sword, Torant finds himself trying to thwart a plot against him while an angry soul whispers and screams in a voice that only he can hear. As his honorable life unravels, Torant fights to keep his oath, his sanity, and his life.

Click here or type in http://geni.us/screamsofsteel into your web browser to pick up your copy of Screams of Steel in the Amazon Kindle store.

Random Revenge

Author: William Michaels

Genre: Thriller

Free via Kindle Unlimited: Yes

Regular Price: $4.99
Today’s Price: $0.99

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Book Description:

One ambitious actress.
One desperate photographer.
One old school cop.
One seemingly random murder.

Melanie Upton is an ambitious actress stuck searching for her big break. She’s got the talent, but so do thousands of other actresses. She needs an edge, and she’ll do anything to get it.

Lenny Gruse is struggling to make it as a celebrity photographer. All he needs is one great photo to catapult himself into the big time. Melanie, with her sultry good looks, is just who he needs, his ticket to fame.

Detective Robert Winter, a veteran cop from the old school of street policing, is challenged by the technology-based crime solving approaches he is pressured to use. Winter has a knack for solving seemingly random crimes by connecting dots no one else can see, yet even he is tested in a world where the players will stop at nothing to succeed and have the ability to con even the most seasoned cop.

Click here or type in http://geni.us/randomrevenge into your web browser to pick up your copy of Random Revenge in the Amazon Kindle store.

Archives for May 2018

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