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Bargain Book Alert! MY DEAR FRANK: The Letters That Inspired the Kindle Bestseller THE LAST LETTER — Novelist Kathie Shoop shares how she came to write the novel for every daughter who thinks she knows her mother’s story…. (Both Books Available Now for Just 99 Cents Each!)

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By Kathleen Shoop

 

What’s in a letter? Sometimes a letter answers a lingering question, a query that picks its way through your memory, haunting, hurting, never letting up.

 

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by Kathleen Shoop
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For Katherine Arthur, the last letter she discovers is the one that finally reveals the truth.

Precious Letters

Imagine a set of love letters:  Hopeful, loving, sweet, intelligent, full of dreamy illusions of marriage and raising a family on the prairie…

Imagine a set of family letters: Dreary, practical, informative, full of disappointment and failure.

The Last Letter was born…

It was from reading two such sets of love and family letters that the novel, The Last Letter, grew. How was it possible that the enthusiastic people who wrote the love letters could have been reduced to penning joyless correspondence in just a few decades? How was it that their children could have misunderstood their mother’s actions for so many years, only realizing her sacrifices when she was dying?

The plot takes shape…

Planning the plot involved thinking about how families function—how parents mold family “truths” in ways they think will do the least harm. Yet, many times such actions inflict great turmoil that takes years to resolve.

Next, I attempted to bring the treacherous world of 19th century homesteading (including events like the 1888 Children’s Blizzard) to bear on the already struggling characters. Suddenly I had a book that was not a true story at all, but was inspired by what we all know to be true: the environment can be completely uncontrollable and mothers want the best for their children. They’ll do nearly anything for them, even if their choices seem wrong to others.

In order to crack open the inner workings of the misinformation that kicks off the novel, the story is told with two plotlines—one in 1905 and the other in 1887—one driving the other. The bulk of the book takes place in 1887/88 showing how the family fell apart while the 1905 plotline shows the rebirth of the mother/daughter relationship.

The Last Letter…the novel for readers who love historical fiction or a good mother/daughter tale of redemption and love. 

by Jeanie Arthur
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Detour to Murder (A Film Noir Mystery) (Jimmy O’Brien Mystery Novels)

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In 1945, the semi-nude body of a woman is found in a two-bit Hollywood motel, a telephone cord wrapped around her throat; face frozen in a grimace of horror. The stolen car of a murdered motorist is parked in the motel parking lot, the owner lying broken and dead on the side of an Arizona highway. Al Roberts confesses and has spent the last 29 years in prison.  

Now, nearly three decades after meekly confessing, the aged Roberts swears his innocence. Jimmy O’Brien, defense attorney to the dregs of the criminal world, must find out why. Why did Roberts give a false confession? And why has he waited 29 years to tell the truth? O’Brien digs into the past, igniting a powder-keg that threatens to expose the long-held secrets behind Detour, the iconic Hollywood film documenting Roberts’ story. Secrets that could destroy the underground aristocracy that has held power in Los Angeles, city of broken dreams, for years. Jimmy’s ordeal takes him from the bleakness of Roberts’ prison cell to the seedy streets of Hollywood, frantically searching to find out who took this DETOUR TO MURDER.

 

One Reviewer Notes:

DETOUR TO MURDER is smoothly written and incredibly intriguing. I’m hooked on the Jimmy O’Brien series, and fell deeper in love with his cast of characters, particularly Rita and Sol. The feel of the time period is authentic, beautifully rooted in time and place. The story has enough twists and turns to keep you up at night, and Sherratt’s talent weaving the tangled web is superb. I especially liked the empathy he evoked for the misunderstood accused prisoner, Al. Kudos, Mr. Sherratt! Now, on to the next book in the series!  

–Aaron Paul Lazar, Author of LeGarde Mysteries

About the Author 

Jeff Sherratt is the author of the acclaimed Jimmy O’Brien mystery series. His newest book, DETOUR TO MURDER (2010), is published by ZOVA Books and is the first in the Jimmy O’Brien film noir mystery series. Jimmy O’Brien’s latest exploits are chronicled in EXPECTATION TO MURDER (2010), an exclusive e-book released on July 5, 2010.

Soon after its release, his first novel, THE BRIMSTONE MURDERSGUILTY OR ELSE (2009) was nominated for the Left Coast Crime Panik Award. Jeff has written nonfiction articles for corporate newsletters and his short stores have been published in H2O Magazine and the anthology, THE HEAT OF THE MOMENT. He is a past board member of Sisters in Crime/LA, and currently a member of Mystery Writers of America. (2008) became the bestselling book of all time For Echelon Press. The second,

Jeff has been a speaker at many book events including libraries, various California prisons, and he was the guest speaker at the prestigious Southern California Writers Conference. He is currently working on his fourth Jimmy O’Brien novel, CYANIDE PERFUME. Jeff lives in Newport Beach, California with his wife, Judy.

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Bargain Book Alert! 4.6 Stars on 45 Out of 48 Rave Reviews for our Kindle eBook of the Day, CRESTMONT by Holly Weiss, just $2.99 on Kindle!

Let the Roaring Twenties spark your interest with its unique social mores, fashion, jazz, and yes, a little bootlegging thrown in for pizzazz.

 
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“A dream, after all, needn’t be fueled by particulars, only by desire.”

So notes main character, Gracie Antes, in CRESTMONT, a historical fiction gem set in the 1920s.

Determined to take control of her life, sheltered Gracie Antes leaves her unhappy home in 1925 to pursue her dream of a singing career. On her way to the big city, she accepts a job as a housemaid at the bustling Crestmont Inn.

Once there, Gracie finds a life-changing encounter with opera singer Rosa Ponselle, family she never imagined could be hers, and a man with a mysterious past.

Relive the 1920s with a colorful cast of characters. Discover with Gracie that sometimes we must trade loss for happiness.

Set in Eagles Mere, Pennsylvania, the story is interwoven with details about the town, the rich history of The Crestmont Inn, and the family who passed ownership from one generation to the next. Many attempts have been made to explain how the mountaintop lake nestled in this tiny town came to be.

Crestmont gives a new twist to an old Native American legend, setting the tone of grace around which the story is built.

Let the period of the Roaring Twenties spark your interest with its unique social mores, fashion, jazz, and yes, a little bootlegging thrown in for pizzazz.

 
From the reviewers:

A fine and riveting read for historical fiction fans, highly recommended. – Midwest Book Review

Holly Weiss’ Crestmont is a book that was meant to be read aloud – the depictions are incredibly detailed and the tone of the story is both peaceful and engaging. For the hours I spent reading this book, I was there. And just like the characters, I could sense the healing and tranquility of that place. – Rita

I could not put this book down. There is a little of everything in this book, history, mystery and even romance. I love historical novels and this book transported me back to the 1920’s. – Jennifer S. Brandes

Holly Weiss was born in New Jersey in 1950. She is a private vocal instructor, retired professional singer and a member of the National Association of Teachers of Singing. A polio survivor, she resides with her husband, Ernie, in upstate New York. She holds a B.S. in Music Education and Master of Music from Northwestern University. Crestmont is her first novel.

Visit her at http://www.hollyweiss.com for a video by the author and a readers’ guide for book groups on the “About the Book” tab.

Her singer’s voice led to the author’s voice in 2006. Weiss’s Crestmont journey began when she stayed overnight at The Crestmont Inn in Eagles Mere, Pennsylvania. A spark was lit to explore the lives of people working on staff at a busy summer inn. The 1920s, replete with jazz, prohibition, fashion trends and interesting social mores captured her interest. After extensive research, writing retreats, guidance from God and encouragement from her husband, her debut novel, Crestmont, became a reality three and one-half years later. The novel is dedicated to her parents.

 

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“The story starts as it means to go, an adrenaline rush with some quiet moments. LW kept me on my toes throughout the book. I was never sure what would happen next.

–Ima Kindler



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Human sorcerers bent on power are disrupting the underworld with demonic possessions and L.A. with murders. Half-demon half-human, Thaddeus Kane is the bloodhound for his clan, charged with finding the sorcerers and destroying them. His personal rules have always been clear—save his clan, protect innocents, and survive. Solicited for help by a demon from another clan, Kane’s first instinct is to blow her off. Until she dangles his one weakness beneath his nose—a mortal threat to prophetic children. Loyalties stretched in his race to find pre-emerging Irins and wizards, Kane struggles to ward off the danger to his clan. His previously harried, but manageable, life now swirls with secrets, until one fatal shot changes everything he believed about his past, turning the table on enemies and allies alike.


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“Kane is a half-breed, human/demon, or is he? He’s on the hunt for human sorcerers bent on power. They are killing (draining their victims of their power and life force) demons and young humans or worse. To say more will be a spoiler. However, I will say the demons are multi-layered and as with Kane, not what they seem.

“But these sorcerers didn’t count on Kane, the bloodhound for his demon clan. He is charged with finding and destroying the sorcerers. He lives by his own rules: save his clan, protect innocents, and survive. All that is put at risk when he’s solicited by a demon from another clan to save humans who are prophetic children, the Irins and then shock, wizards. In this world, wizards have always become sorcerers. Not if Kane can prevent it. He’s out to save the children and train the budding wizards thus protecting them from sorcerers.

“This is a wonderfully told story of how appearances are deceptive and sometimes your life is a lie. This book isn’t a romance. It’s a true urban fantasy–one that sucks you in and holds you tight until the last word. The ending left me with my mouth open and wanting more.

–Ima Kindler


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LW Herndon writes urban fantasy and lives in Maryland without the aid of magic, mages, or demons. The Mark of Kane is the first in the Thaddeus Kane series. More information on LW and future books can be found at the http://lwherndon.com/ and blog at http://demonssorcerersandmore.com/lwherndonblog/

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It’s our Kindle eBook of the Day at just $2.99 with a 5-star review: Bert Carson’s ANOTHER PLACE ANOTHER TIME is about men, women, dogs, love, war, and oh yes, time travel!

Here’s the set-up for Bert Carson’s Another Time Another Place, just $2.99 on Kindle:

Leonard Jacobson’s life changed the day he met Whispers. Thirty years later he wrote the story. It began this way:

“The day I met Whispers, I was nineteen and he was one. From the day we met, we were not apart for a single day for almost fifteen years. I cannot imagine what my life would have been without Whispers, and frankly, I don’t even want to think about it. This is our story, my dog, Whispers’ and mine.”

 

Half way through the book you’ll meet Luke Jenson, a professional truck driver. Luke’s life changes when he meets Traveler. He described it this way:

 

“Daddy always said that I was a ‘riding fool,’ usually adding, Luke, you’d rather ride than eat. He should have met the dog. I have never known a man, woman, child or animal who liked to ride any more than Traveler.

 
“I guess I knew when I walked into Frank’s office, the dog was going to be my new partner; it just took a while for me to admit it. First, I had to put myself through all the arguments against having a big dog in a truck twenty-four hours a day.”

 

Another Place Another Time is about men, women, dogs, love, war, and oh yes, time travel.

 

From a reviewer:

Not only a warm and unusual story about a couple of dogs and their best friends, but with adventures that will make you forget dinner just to read more pages. An excellent story told by an excellent story teller, Bert Carson introduces surprises that make you want more. Just like in his book “Fourth and Forever” there’re messages about truth and staying in the moment that you’ll take with you and use for the rest of your life. A great read! — Stan
 



I was born in Birmingham, Alabama, 68 years ago. Currently I live in Huntsville, Alabama, which is a little over 100 miles north of Birmingham. I didn’t get to Huntsville via Interstate 65. Rather, I arrived here after living in Trussville and Childersburg, Alabama; Palatka and Jacksonville, Florida; Georgia, South Carolina, Indiana, Texas, Vietnam, Mobile (Alabama), Laurel (Mississippi), Memphis, and Mentone, Alabama.

I’ve been a construction worker, soldier, corporate manager, car dealer, minister, professional speaker, small business owner, and writer. I’ve been married four times, bankrupt twice, homeless once, and a millionaire once.

I live, very happily, with my wife, Christina, whose CV is as long (or longer) than mine. With our partner, Adrienne Wall, we operate a small photography business, specializing in Day Care portraits http://www.united-portrait-studios.com.

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See You in Court? The Kindle Class Action Lawsuit Against Apple and the Big Publishers Over Agency-Model Price-Fixing: What It’s All About, How You Could Benefit, and How You Can Join the Affected Plaintiff Class

By Steve Windwalker

At long last, citizens of Kindle Nation, justice may be at hand!

Attorneys filed a nationwide class-action lawsuit this week that could bring an end to the onerous, collusive, anti-competitive, anti-consumer and illegal  “agency model” price-fixing scheme concocted by Apple and five of the Big Six publishers early in 2010.

The agency model scheme raised retail ebook prices for new releases and bestsellers from the $9.99 standard that Amazon had established in November 2007 with the launch of the Kindle and set new mandatory retail prices between $11.99 and $14.99.

The opening salvo in the lawsuit is a 42-page complaint filed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California by Jeff Friedman, Shana Scarlett, and Steve Berman of the firm Hagens Berman Sobol Shapiro LLP. The initial named plaintiffs in the lawsuit are two customers named Anthony Petru and Marcus Mathis, “individually and on behalf of all others similarly situated” … but they could be joined, very soon, by you and me.

The defendants, of course, are the original perpetrators of price-fixing scheme: APPLE INC.; HACHETTE BOOK GROUP, INC.; HARPERCOLLINS PUBLISHERS, INC.; MACMILLAN PUBLISHERS, INC; PENGUIN GROUP (USA) INC.; and SIMON & SCHUSTER, INC.

If the case is successful, Kindle Nation citizens and others could be eligible to receive partial refunds for ebooks that they have bought at prices higher than the original $9.99 Kindle Store standard for bestsellers and new releases. Such restitution payments — and possible additional amounts in damage — would of course come out of the pockets or corporate coffers of Apple and the aforementioned publishers.

The court filing seeks important substantial remedies on behalf of all members of the class:

  • A declaration that Defendants’ conduct constituted a conspiracy and that Defendants are liable for the conduct or damage inflicted by any other co-conspirator;
  • A declaration that the pricing formula contained in the agency agreements described above is unlawful; and
  • Restitution and/or damages to Class members for the purchase of eBooks.

Individuals who believe they have been affected by the price-fixing scheme can apply to become plaintiffs and to join the class action on the Hagens Berman website at http://bit.ly/FIGHT-EBOOK-PRICE-FIXING.

The filing describes a chain of events that is well known to many Kindle Nation readers. After the launch and initial success of the Kindle, “faced with disruptive eBook technology that threatened their inefficient and antiquated business model, several major book publishers, working with Apple Inc. (“Apple”), decided free market competition should not be allowed to work – together they coordinated their activities to fight back in an effort to restrain trade and retard innovation.  The largest book publishers and Apple were successful.”

The big publishers had wanted to slow down the growth of the Kindle and Kindle book sales and raise ebook prices, but feared the loss of sales that would ensue if they insisted individually that prices be raised. They “solved this problem through coordinating between themselves (and Apple) to force Amazon to abandon its pro-consumer pricing.  The Publisher Defendants worked together to force the eBook sales model to be entirely restructured.  The purpose and effect of this restructuring was to halt the discounting of eBook prices and uniformly raise prices on all first release fiction and nonfiction published by these Publisher Defendants. Under the Publisher Defendants’ new pricing model, known as the “Agency model”, the Publisher Defendants have restrained trade by coordinating their pricing to directly set retail prices higher than had existed in the previously competitive market,” the complaint alleges.

Why did Apple participate in the alleged conspiracy? The complaint alleges that Apple believed that it needed to neutralize the Kindle when it entered the e-book market with its own e-reader, the iPad, and feared that one day the Kindle might challenge the iPad by digitally distributing other media like music and movies. That day is coming very soon, of course, with the anticipated launch of the Kindle Tablet.

The complaint notes that Apple CEO Steve Jobs foreshadowed the simultaneous switch to agency pricing and the demise of discount pricing in an interview with The Wall Street Journal’s Walt Mossberg in early 2010. In the interview, he was asked why consumers would buy books through Apple at $14.99 while Amazon was selling the same book for $9.99. “The prices will be the same,” he stated.

When I spoke earlier this week with attorney Friedman, he agreed with Kindle Nation’s assessment that Jobs’ comment amounts to, at least, a circumstantial “smoking gun” with respect to the collusive behavior by the defendant companies.

The lawsuit claims Apple and the publishers are in violation of a variety of federal and state antitrust laws, the Sherman Act, the Cartwright Act and the Unfair Competition Act.

The named plaintiffs, Anthony Petru, a resident of Oakland, California, and Marcus Mathis, a resident of Natchez, Mississippi, each purchased a least one e-book at a price above $9.99 after the adoption of the agency pricing model.

Once approved, the lawsuit would represent any purchaser of an e-book published by a major publisher after the adoption of the agency model by that publisher. Friedman told Kindle Nation this week that the usual timetable for such cases can run from two to four years.

Friedman and the other attorneys who filed the suit are especially interested in securing plaintiffs from the following jurisdictions, which have particularly applicable consumer-protection law: Arizona, California, District of Columbia, Florida, Hawaii, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, North Dakota, Oregon, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Utah, Wisconsin, West Virginia, and Vermont.

 

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Newly-minted Santa Fe police detective Justine "Jace" Carroll finds herself enmeshed in what began as a simple death of a drifter that takes labyrinthine twists, drawing her deeper into a world of shifting realities. At the center of the tangled knot is the mesmerizing and mysterious Dante Sabanne, a sexy, powerful, wealthy recluse whose involvement with ancient poisons, mystical lore, exotic sexual practices and unusual weaponry makes him by turns a crucial expert witness, a devastating lover...and possibly the man behind a cult whose profane rituals have turned from depraved to deadly. The Jace who thought she knew exactly who she was and what she wanted becomes both pawn and queen in a battle between the dark and the light. As she seeks to fulfill her duty to protect the innocent, an ancient amulet with healing powers is the battleground on which she and others may die if she makes the wrong choice between the evidence before her eyes and the yearnings of a heart she is no longer sure she can trust.A scorching tale of suspense, passion and magic—never before published—from USAToday bestselling author Jean Brashear
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