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There’s blood on the streets, and the suffering has only just begun in THE SUFFERER’S SONG by Steven Savile … just $2.99 in the Kindle Store!

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 The Sufferer’s Song
by Steven Savile
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Another day, another terrific page-turner!

A missing persons report changes journalist Kristy French’s life. Ben Shelton’s career as a novelist is over before it’s begun. The pair have never met, but they’re about to become the most important people in each other’s lives. It isn’t love. It’s survival.

Here’s the set-up:

 As a journalist, Kristy French is never going to win a Pulitzer while she’s at The Newcastle Gazette covering bake sales and town fêtes. A missing persons report could be about to change all that. As a novelist, Ben Shelton’s career’s over before it’s begun, he’s the proverbial one hit wonder. The two of them have never met, but they’re about to become the most important people in each other’s lives. It isn’t love. It’s survival.

Johnny Lisker and has friend Alex Slater are having a beer in the local a pub after Alex’s longtime girlfriend Beth broke his heart. It should be a quiet night. It isn’t. Johnny stabs a man. Suddenly he and Alex are on the run from the law and there’s no going back.

Just outside of the village of Westbrooke, disgraced American doctor, Brent Richards, is obsessed with playing the Devil. He has manufactured a strain of virus he calls N.E.S.T., one that effects the bodies’ pain threshold as well as its need for nourishment. The side effects include blisters along the mouth, rapid weight loss — and the insatiable need to feed.

Three people are missing. Murdered.

And the death toll is not about to stop rising.

Small towns are meant to be sleepy. Safe. They are not meant to be meat. Within a single week, Kristy, Ben and Westbrooke’s residents have the comfortable safety of their world torn out from under them. People they have known all their lives turn on them and no-one knows what is happening, why, or how to stop it.

There’s blood on the streets, and the suffering has only just begun.

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Okay. Let’s Make This INTERESTING…. Let’s Make Mercury Falls Author Rob Kroese Pay!

By Steve Windwalker – 11.9.2010
If you’ve already seen last night’s Free Kindle Nation Short featuring Robert Kroese’s Mercury Falls, you may have noticed that I resorted to sophomoric name calling of the worst kind.
I said Rob is a madman. I believe I said something like “the best kind of madman,” but still. I had a couple of beers with dinner, and that’s the way I am.
Should I apologize? No. I mean, Hell no. I’m not Lebron James here.
Besides, things are going awfully well for Rob just now. He self-published Mercury Falls, and along came one of the coolest publishing companies in the Western world, AmazonEncore, to track him down and offer him a contract. He’s at a point in his life where he’ll probably take being called a madman as a compliment. I hope so.  He looks tougher than most authors, possibly even tougher than me.


But maybe he’s not a madman after all.

Turns out he’s a pretty good guy. I mean, as far as I know. And things are going his way. And he wants to give a little something back.

So it’s our job to make him pay up.

Rob is going to make a donation to the Gwendolyn Strong Foundation based on the highest sales rank Mercury Falls  hits in the Kindle Store during the 24 hours after this Free Kindle Nation Shorts email goes out. Here’s what he wrote to me:

  • If Mercury Falls hits the top 300, I will donate $100.
  • If it hits the top 200, I will donate $250.
  • If it hits the top 100, I will donate $500.

When the Free Kindle Nation Short went out a little before 11 pm Monday, Mercury Falls was at #485. Earlier this afternoon it jumped up to #236 and as I type these words at 4 pm Eastern time on Tuesday it’s at 186.





So we’re in the money already, but it’s up to you. 

Want to go easy on him? Buy the book tomorrow. 

Want to really make him pay? Click here to buy it now.

We can do this, people. We can make him pay. $500 for a bestselling author like Rob? He might not be able to take the limo to get his latte in the morning.


Sure, it’s true that there is a really great charity involved. Children, too. Whatever.


But what we’ve got here, people, is a chance to make the madman pay.

Then we’ll see whether he wants to go around making people laugh out loud in the future.

The Gwendolyn Strong Foundation (GSF) seeks to raise awareness about and fund research for Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA), the leading genetic killer of young children, and support those impacted by SMA and other life-altering diseases.

Kindle Nation Daily Free Book Alert, Tuesday, November 9: 15 brand new additions to our Free Book Alert listings, plus … a fast paced-thriller from Down Under in Vicki Tyley’s SLEIGHT MALICE (Today’s Sponsor)

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(Ed. Note: I know I am preaching to the choir here, since the fact that we are meeting like this suggests that we are among the world’s greatest readers, but one of the things I love about Vicki Tyley’s SLEIGHT MALICE is that … okay, maybe I’m not going to get to Australia in the next five minutes, but it almost doesn’t matter, because once I get into her story — which took me less than five minutes, mind you … I’m there already! Reading. You can’t beat it, can you? S.W.)
Here’s the set-up:
 
One cold Melbourne winter’s night a suburban bungalow goes up in flames. Despite their best efforts, firefighters are unable to save the home. When a badly charred body is discovered in the remains, web designer Desley James is devastated. Her best friend, Laura Noble, had been the only one in the house that night – her partner, Ryan Moore, is away in Sydney on business. Then Desley learns the unidentified body is male. But it’s not Ryan. He and Laura have disappeared…  
 
Not realising until it’s almost too late what some people will do to cover their tracks, Desley teams up with private investigator Fergus Coleman to search for the missing couple.
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Born in New Zealand, Vicki Tyley emigrated with her husband to Australia in 1982.
Vicki has travelled extensively, spending a year touring the world before terrorism was an influencing factor. She has lived in the central business districts of large cities, suburbia, idyllic seaside locations, rural areas, bushland, and remote desert mining camps.
In the lead up to her writing career, she worked in a multitude of different industries including banking, stockbroking, importing and wholesaling, human resources, mining, hospitality, civil engineering, and toys, in predominantly accounting, IT and management roles.

All these life experiences are brought to bear in her writing.
Based in rural Victoria, Australia, Vicki Tyley writes fast-paced mystery and suspense novels in contemporary Australian settings.



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are pretty damn funny. Check out his video for King of Kindle, which features cameos by a whole slew of famous mystery authors. (You might also check out the King of Kindle Bouchercon Edition, which features a fat, bearded blogger you might recognize.) His books are even better than his videos. Try Suspense, which is only $2.99 on Kindle. Hmm, I wonder why he chose that price…

Next week I’m doing a blog interview with the multi-talented James Swain, who is burning up the Kindle charts with his thrillers. Until then, check out Jackpot, the cover art done by my guy Carl Graves, and priced on Kindle at $2.99.

Marie Simas is a friend of this blog, and her ebook Do Tampons Take Your Virginity is a memoir about what happens when you grow up in an insane Catholic family. My wife just finished reading it, and loved it. It’s a bargain at $2.99. I’ll be interviewing the author sometime this month.

Dating My Vibrator by Suzanne Tyrpak was terrific, and even though it isn’t the type of thing I normally read (online dating disasters?) I really enjoyed it. And for 99 cents, so will you.

Blake Crouch and I go way back. We’re currently working together on two projects. One is the eighth and final Jack Daniels thriller, Stirred (the sequel to Shaken.) We’re also working on a follow up to Serial Uncut called Killers Uncut, which ties up loose ends while showcasing a few bad guys from Jack Daniels’s past. Both Stirred and Killers Uncut (along with Shaken and Serial Uncut) feature Blake’s serial killer Luther Kite, who appeared in his terrific thrillers Desert Places and Locked Doors–both now $2.99 on Kindle.

When Draculas was released two weeks ago, Blake and I went on Kindle Boards and offered to buy people’s ebooks if they bought ours, as a quid pro quo gesture. Quite a few authors took us up on this. Here’s a list of them all. If you’re looking for new writers, these folks are the future. And they’re all $3.99 or less.

Stars Rain Down by Chris J. Randolph – $2.99 – After a devastating alien invasion, the last scattered survivors are forced to employ savage and unthinkable tactics in the battle for their future. Even if they win, can humanity ever be the same?

Down the Drain by Daniel Pyle – 99 cents – Bruce has lost everyone he ever cared about—even his cat. Now, when he thinks he’s finally alone in the house, something will come clawing its way out of the plumbing to prove him wrong.

Take the Monkeys and Run by Karen Cantwell – 99 cents – When film loving suburban housewife Barbara Marr talks her two friends into some seemingly innocent Charlie’s Angels-like sleuthing, they stumble upon way more than they bargained for and uncover a piece of neighborhood history that certain people would kill to keep on the cutting room floor.

No Good Deed by Mary McDonald – 99 cents – Mark Taylor, a photographer in Chicago, discovers first hand that no good deed goes unpunished when the old camera he found during a freelance job in an Afghanistan bazaar gives him more than great photos. It triggers dreams of disasters. Tragedies that happen exactly as he envisions them.

Wishful Thinking by K. Crumley – $1.59 – One stormy night Maevis Etherwood came home and found her husband in bed with another woman… What exactly transpired afterward remained a mystery, even to Maevis herself.

Gone by Karen Fenech – 99 cents – FBI Special Agent Clare Marshall was separated from her sister Beth in childhood when their mother tried to kill them. Now Clare learns that Beth lives in the small town of Farley, South Carolina, but when she goes there to reunite with Beth, Clare discovers her sister is missing and that someone in the town is responsible for her disappearance.

Camille by Tess Oliver – 99 cents – At a time when society conforms to the strictest rules and most proper etiquette, sixteen-year-old Camille Kennecott and her guardian, Dr. Bennett, live a most unconventional life. They hunt werewolves.

Love Lust and Petty Crime by Harclubs Bartag- $2.84 – Emmet Storch was an unemployed sponger who thought he had no calling in life. All that changed when he landed a job in the call centre at the monolithic Star Insurance where, from the very first day, he was magnificent.

Empath by Frank Zubex – 99 cents – After being shot in the cemetery, Detective Nick Crowell encounters ghosts and people with paranormal problems. In this collection of nine stories, five of which were originally published in DemonMinds from 2007 to 2008, you’ll read about people who’s lives have changed so drastically that they seek out Detective Crowell for help.

Blood Spring by Erik Williams – 89 cents – A husband and wife lost in the woods… A feral family that worships an ancient god… Who will make it out alive?
Failing Test by J.M. Pierce – 99 cents – You know him, but you can’t remember his name. He is the one that is always there, in the background, all but invisible to those roaming the hallways. What if he had a secret? What if it was a secret that even he didn’t know?

Pain by Harry Shannon – $2.99 – A Top Secret virus infects the water supply of a mountain town. Two mercenary soldiers, a retiring doctor and a handful of terrified patients struggle to defend a remote ER against a mob of the living dead. Through one long, harrowing night the living will learn there are many different kinds of… PAIN.

The Usurper by Cliff Ball – $2.39 – Ever wonder what would happen if our worst fears were realized and we elected someone who was willing to destroy the USA, even if he was destroyed himself? The Usurper is that novel. It is a fictional account of what would happen if the Soviet Union and KGB were given the chance to take down the United States from within.

Reining In by Dawn Judd – 99 cents – Khalida is a five thousand year old vampire. As technology and national security become more prominent, it becomes harder and harder for her to hide her secret from the world. In order to remain undetected by humans, she creates a network of people whose only job is to hide her identity.

Gnelfs by Sidney Williams – $2.99 – Cries in the night from her daughter, Heaven, are just the beginning for Gabrielle Harris. What seem to be nightmares about Heaven’s favorite cartoon characters soon lead Gab to a stranger paranormal conspiracy focused on revenge.

Space Junque by L.K. Rigel – 99 cents – Char Meadowlark accepts an invitation to visit the Imperial Space Station from Mike Augustine, her dead sister’s fiancé. While she’s in orbit eco-terrorists start a planet-wide war.

Top Ten by Ryne Douglas Pearson – 99 cents – A killer who believes himself an artist of unmatched talent is incensed when he is placed last on the FBI’s most wanted list, and begins killing off those fugitives above him, each in a twisted manner that serves his creative vision.

The Knight of Death by Brendan Carroll – $2.99 – An apparent kidnapping and rape become the first steps in a mystical journey for the Chevalier du Morte when a routine mission precipitates a spiritual fall from grace. As the tables turn on the abductors, the immortal Knight sinks in a corrupt quagmire of sin while fighting to recover his lost purpose and identity.

Fruitbasket From Hell by Jason Krumbine – $2.39 – My name’s Alex Cheradon. I’m a private investigator. I do NOT slay vampires, battle demons, fight zombies or vanquish evil spirits. In fact, you know what? Let’s just strike a line through the whole supernatural genre and call it a big no-no for me, okay?

Daughters by Consuelo Saah Baehr – $2.99 – In this sweeping, uncommonly stirring narrative spanning 1883 to 1957, Baehr chronicles the lives of three Palestinian Christian women: Miriam Mishwe, her daughter Nadia and Nadia’s adopted child, Nijmeheach fated to struggle with the competing claims of loyalty to family and love for a man.

The Fall: An Undead Apocalypse by Robert J. Duperre – $2.99 – An ancient evil, trapped in the ruins of a lost Mayan temple for centuries, has been unleashed. It takes the form of a deadly virus, one that causes violent insanity in the living and the recently departed to rise and walk.

Swallow by Tonya Plank – 89 cents – Sophie Hegel is a shy New York lawyer from small-town Florence Arizona, known not for the Renaissance but for housing a large prison. She’s just graduated from Yale Law School and landed her first job when, one evening she feels a fist-like ball form at the base of her throat.

A Dance of Cloaks by David Dalglish – $2.99 – Thren Felhorn is the greatest assassin of his time. Marshalling the thieves’ guilds under his control, he declares war against the Trifect, an allegiance of wealthy and powerful nobles. Aaron Felhorn has been groomed since birth to be Thren’s heir. Sent to kill the daughter of a priest, Aaron instead risks his own life to protect her from the wrath of his guild. In doing so, he glimpses a world beyond poison, daggers, and the iron control of his father.

Not What She Seems by Victorine E. Lieske – 99 cents – Steven Ashton, a billionaire from New York, and Emily Grant, on the run from the law… and when they meet he can’t help falling for her. What he doesn’t know is that interfering in her life will put his own life in danger.

Need to Know by Christine Merrill – $2.39 – The new man in Liz Monahan’s life is a rogue secret agent who’s trying to kill her. But at least he’s single.

The Heretic by Joseph Nassise – $2.99 – In this internationally bestselling series from Bram Stoker and International Horror Guild Award nominee Joseph Nassise, the ancient Templar Order has been resurrected as a secret combat arm of the Vatican, charged with defending mankind from the supernatural enemies that threaten them at every turn.

The Ways of Khrem by D. Nathan Hilliard – $3.99 – Cargill the Bookseller lives a quiet life, in a modest house, overlooking the vast city of Khrem…a magical metropolis of cavernous streets, lofty spires, and dark secrets. His life is turned upside down when Captain Wilhelm Drayton of the City Watch arrives at Cargill’s doorstep and confronts him with his criminal past.

Courtesan by D.A. Boulter – $2.99 – She needed a ship to escape pursuers; he a companion on a trip to the stars. The deal seemed straight-forward, but neither told the other everything.

eBully by Dave Conifer – 99 cents – Vice Principal Steve Lukather is desperate. Just like last year, an internet bully is terrorizing one of his students at Lakeland Middle School.
Powerless by Jason Letts – 99 cents – Mira Ipswich couldn’t have ever known the startling difference that separates her from the rest of humanity. But when she discovers a strange anomaly in the midst of her seclusion, her parents are forced to reveal she exists in a world where everyone is imbued with a wondrous natural gift. Everyone except herself that is.

Asylum by Erik Lynd – $2.99 – Forced into a psychiatric hospital by uncaring parents, a teenage boy must master the strange power within himself to overcome the horror gathering in the shadows.

Broken Wings by Sandra Edwards – 99 cents – Rio Laraquette thought the legend was nothing more than an enchanted tale about star-crossed lovers who left behind a fortune. That is, until she figures out that she—in a past life—was the culprit who stole a shipment of gold and silver and buried it somewhere in the hills of northern Nevada.

Cameo the Assassin by Dawn McCullough-White- 99 cents – Cameo, an alias for Gwen, “the thrall of a vampire,” has two masters to serve. One is Wick, the aging, spell-casting head of the Association of Assassins, who assigns missions to the battle-scarred Cameo. The other is Haffef, Cameo’s vampire “Master,” who years ago rescued her from certain death after her vicious rape and beating and a deadly attack upon her younger sister.

One Insular Tahiti by Thea Atkinson – $2.99 – Luke MacIsaac is dead, but not restfully so. In his watery afterlife he takes notice of an infant girl struggling to survive her birth. He feels a peculiar attachment to this girl and revisits her birth over and over again knowing she can survive if she is given a purpose. He wills her to be his mother in his next incarnation.

The Summoning Fire by David Michael – $3.99 – All Reese Howard has left is pain. Pain and a pump-action shotgun.

White Seed by Paul Clayton – $2.39 – White Seed hews closely to the record of Sir Walter Raleigh’s second doomed attempt to plant the British flag in Virginia. The depiction of the colony’s physical and moral disintegration between 1587 and 159o evokes a harrowing sense of human fallibility. Readers will find this saga, which soon achieves page-turner velocity, to be both a dandy diversion and an entertaining education.

Bound by Blood by Kimberly Hoyt & Danielle Bourdon – $2.99 – He was willing to give up eternity to have her, but would he die to keep her?

October Breezes by Martia Rachel Hooley – $2.99 – Skye Williams knows everything there is to know about mistrust: Dad skipped out when she was five, leaving Mom with an angry daughter and an upside-down mortgage.

The Kinshield Legacy by K.C. May – $2.99 – A mysterious stone tablet with five magical gems has sat abandoned in a cave for two hundred years. The kingdom is in ruins, with only warrant knights to keep the peace. But then, the gems in the tablet, one by one, disappear.

Cries in the Dark by P.A. Woodburn – $2.99 – Two prostitutes vanish. Chimps are mysteriously missing from a primate sign lab. Is there a possible link to a biomedical research facility? While premed student Alex Buchanan confronts her new-found ability to communicate telepathically with animals, the body toll mounts.
We Interrupt This Date by L.C. Evans – $2.39 – Since her divorce a year ago, Susan Caraway has gone through the motions of life, feeling at best mildly depressed. Now she is finally coming out of her shell. Just when she decides on a makeover and a new career, her family members call on her for crisis assistance.

Forbidden The Stars by Valmore Daniels – $2.99 – At the end of the 21st century, a catastrophic accident in the asteroid belt has left two surveyors dead. There is no trace of their young son, Alex Manez, or of the asteroid itself.

Monster Mashup by M.J.A. Ware – $2.99 – Monsters, magic, goblins, zombies, and more. Be prepared to sleep with the lights on. This collection of nine short stories will have you looking over your shoulder, avoiding mirrors. and jumping at the slightest sound.

The White Hairs by Noah K. Mullette-Gillman – $2.99 -The White Hairs is a work of spiritual mythology. Somewhere on a white and snowy mountain, is a young creature learning how to leave his body and travel the world inside of the wind.

Jenny Pox by J.L. Bryan – $2.39 – Jenny Morton is a quiet small-town girl from South Carolina whose touch spreads a deadly supernatural plague–she can’t touch anyone for long without killing them.

Lonely is the Soldier by Jeffry S. Hepple – $2.84 – Follow the career of 1st Special Forces Operational Detachment-Delta officer R.A. Lincoln from Delta selection through the start of the War on Terror.

Night Touch by John C. Hamilton – $2.99 – Christopher Price roams the dark streets of Manhattan, terrified of his past, searching for a future. Dr. Willard Pull: dentist and concerned citizen. Blood lust sends them on a collision course. One of them is a serial killer. The other is a vampire.
Out of Time by Monique Martin – $2.99 – When a mysterious accident sends Professor Simon Cross and his assistant, Elizabeth West, back in time to 1920s New York, they find it’s more than a the world of Prohibition and speakeasies. It’s a world where the underground is run by the underworld, and where vampires and mobsters vie for power in the seedy underbelly of Jazz Age Manhattan.

A Little Girl In My Room by Claire Farrell – 99 cents – A Little Girl in my Room & Other Stories is a collection of dark flash fiction by upcoming author, Claire Farrell. This book is Rated R: Adults Only. Some may find the themes addressed disturbing.

The Book of Biff by Chris Hallbeck – 99 cents – The Book of Biff is a single panel comic about spaghetti, time travel and toast. The strip centers around a child-like mad scientist named Biff who may be part cockroach or possibly an alien.

Northwoods Deep by Joel Arnold – $2.99 – Deep in the north woods, two sisters become lost; one stalked by a murderous ex-husband, the other unable to rid herself of the leeches that appear mysteriously on her skin. All are drawn to an old, dilapidated cabin. Inside lives an old man with awful urges, accompanied by a Rottweiler possessed by something…unnatural. But it’s what resides beneath the cabin that they should really be worried about.

The Adventures of Whatley Tupper: A Choose Your Own Adventure by Rudolf Kerkhoven & Daniel Pitts – $2.99 – Whatley Tupper is an A-grade janitor at a B-grade university about to become entwined in C-grade fiction! Yes, there is something in the air tonight… Adventure! Romance! Carbon Monoxide!

In the Mood by Ellen Fisher – 99 cents – Jude Patterson is a sexy but shy romance novelist who discovers the flowery language he’s always used in historical love scenes doesn’t translate well to contemporary romances. Alyssa Stone is a beautiful fan who offers to help him learn to write better love scenes. Jude is fascinated by Alyssa, whose confident and sensual demeanor conceals a very vulnerable interior. Before long, he’s the one showing her how to write love scenes… and maybe even how to write happy endings.

So there you are. Quid pro quo in action.

And to the authors I’ve listed here, I encourage you to link to this blog on your blogs (or on Twitter, Facebook, or wherever.) We’re all in the same boat, so we all should be rowing.