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Five Free Kindle Titles! Download These Freebies Now While Still Free: Robert Gregory Browne’s Down Among the Dead Men, Andy Holloman’s Shades of Gray, Ray N. Kuili’s Awakening, Susan Wingate’s Spider Brains and Colleen Collins’ The Zen Man

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Here are a few books that have just gone free by authors who have already proven to be  favorites with Kindle Nation readers. Please grab them now if they looks interesting to you, because they probably won’t stay free for long!

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Down Among the Dead Men (A Thriller)

by Robert Gregory Browne

4.5 stars – 8 Reviews
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From the bestselling author of TRIAL JUNKIES comes the ITW Thriller Award Nominee for Best Novel

When assistant district attorney Beth Crawford’s sister Jen invites her on a weekend cruise to Baja California, Beth is looking forward to a few days of much needed down time.  But the fun in the sun doesn’t last long when Beth meets a mysterious couple on board and Jen disappears without a trace on the streets of Playa del Sol.

Now Beth must travel through Mexico’s violent underbelly–a stranger in a strange land–while searching desperately for her missing sister. And the only one who can help her is Nick Vargas, a disgraced newspaper reporter on the trail of a dangerous and deadly cult that has big plans for the upcoming celebration of El Dia de los Muertos … The Day of the Dead.

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Shades of Gray

by Andy Holloman

4.1 stars – 103 Reviews
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How far would you go to save your child’s life?    Could you break the law?       
                          
What if your  business was suddenly in danger of going under because of 9/11 ?        
   
 A single father decides to partner up with woman from the opposite side of the tracks.

Can their partnership deliver the cash they BOTH desperately need?                                                                                                                                                                                             

Could they fall in love?                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              
 And will they survive to see the Summer of 2002?
                                                                                        
 (Combine “Breaking Bad” and “Cops” with a disturbing, dark remake of “The Love
Boat” and you have all the flavors of  SHADES OF GRAY)

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Awakening

by Ray N. Kuili

4.3 stars – 3 Reviews
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Ray N. Kuili’s AWAKENING, called by some reviewers “The Hunger Games of management” is a story of eleven rising-star managers who gather together in a secluded luxury lodge for a mysterious five-day leadership training. Asked to pick a leader among themselves, they soon realize that nothing is what it seems at this place, where managers are compared to ancient conquerors and one corporate taboo gets broken after another.

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4.7 stars – 7 Reviews
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After her father’s death last year and, now, in the throes of a gnarly teacher’s whim as she thinks ahead to college, a small black arachnid bites fifteen-year-old Susie Speider on the finger and sends her nights into fantastical dreams about taking revenge on a teacher–a one Ms. Morlson–who, ultimately, holds Susie’s college aspirations in the sweaty palm of her cold calloused hand. But, after Susie figures out the dreams are real, she ups the ante and visits the teacher regularly but… as the spider. And, oh, by the way! Who is that boy spider munching on flies, hiding over there in the corner?

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The Zen Man

by Colleen Collins

4.2 stars – 15 Reviews
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Just as washed-up criminal defense attorney, life-long Deadhead (nickname “The Zen Man”), and current PI Rick Levine decides to get relicensed as a lawyer, he’s charged with killing one and ends up in the slammer with a half-mil bail.

Released on bond, Rick and his girlfriend Laura have 30 days to find the real killer. In the course of their investigations, they dig for dirt among Denver’s shady legal backrooms to its tony corporate centers. Dodging bullets, a kidnapping, trumped-up charges and the FBI’s unwanted intervention, Rick and Laura continue tracking key suspects who have motive…eventually learning that true redemption begins at home.

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Just as washed-up criminal defense attorney, life-long Deadhead (nickname “The Zen Man”), and current PI Rick Levine decides to get relicensed as a lawyer, he’s charged with killing one and ends up in the slammer with a half-mil bail.

Released on bond, Rick and his girlfriend Laura have 30 days to find the real killer. In the course of their investigations, they dig for dirt among Denver’s shady legal backrooms to its tony corporate centers. Dodging bullets, a kidnapping, trumped-up charges and the FBI's unwanted intervention, Rick and Laura continue tracking key suspects who have motive...eventually learning that true redemption begins at home.
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A Mix of Suspense, Paranormal & Character, Melissa Foster’s Chasing Amanda is Our eBook of the Day at just $2.99, with Over 140 Rave Reviews and Here’s a Free Sample

 Here’s the set-up for Melissa Foster’s Chasing Amanda, just $2.99 on Kindle:

Nine years ago, Molly Tanner witnessed a young girl’s abduction in the busy city of Philadelphia, shifting her occasional clairvoyance into overdrive. Two days later, the girl’s body was found, and Molly’s life fell apart. Consumed by guilt for not acting upon her visions, and on the brink of losing her family, Molly escaped the torturous reminders in the city, fleeing to the safety of the close-knit rural community of Boyds, Maryland.

Molly’s life is back on track, her son has begun college, and she and her husband have finally rekindled their relationship. Their fresh start is shattered when a seven-year-old girl disappears from a local park near Molly’s home. Unable to turn her back on another child and troubled by memories of the past, Molly sets out to find her, jeopardizing the marriage she’d fought so hard to hold together. While unearthing clues and struggling to decipher her visions, Molly discovers another side of Boyds, where the residents–and the land itself–hold potentially lethal secrets, and exposes another side of her husband, one that threatens to tear them apart.

From the author:
I began writing Chasing Amanda in 2006, set it down to write Megan’s Wayin 2008, and revisited it in 2009 with even more subplots in mind. The idea came to me while running solo down White Ground Road, a road which is mentioned in the novel. Much of the landscape and architecture mentioned in the book is true to Boyds, and is just as foreboding in the dark of night as it is portrayed in Chasing Amanda.  Boyds, however, is not a town where any of these events have taken place, nor are the people likened to residents of the small town. I tend to write about my worst fears, and, as you will read, this touched on the one that scares me the most. I hope you enjoy the story.

From the reviewers:

I could not put this book down and the end…well……you will just have to read it to find out. – DCya | 60 reviewers made a similar statement

This book is one of the best written books I have read in a long time. – Fran Touchette | 30 reviewers made a similar statement

“…a story of madness and mystery that drew me in from the first paragraph…a tale of love, retribution, hope and betrayal…a page turner that will leave you breathless…” –Readers Round Table

“…the MUST READ THRILLER of 2011. Intelligent, entrancing, luminious.” –Author Dean Mayes

“CHASING AMANDA is a fine psychic thriller, highly recommended.” –Midwest Book Review

“[Foster’s] newest release captivated me. [It] covers a subject that is every parent’s nightmare. The story had me hooked and shocked. The characters are well written.” –Jeanette Stingley, Women’s Literary Editor, Bella Online

“…Foster’s writing reminds me of Ted Dekker. The suspense is so strong I’m waiting for the theme music to jump out and scare me as I turn the pages.” –The Surrendered Scribe

“Foster captures the terror and fear of an abducted child as well as the passion and resolve of the woman who is driven to rescue her before it’s too late in this riveting, polished page-turner.” –IndieReader.com

“A gripping story of deceit, secrecy, horror, and finally triumph. I will definitely search out more of this author’s work.” –Author Patricia Paris

“Chasing Amanda is a story about trust and betrayal, hope and healing, perseverance and justice.” –Bestselling Author Geraldine Solon

“Watch out Nicholas Sparks, here comes Melissa Foster.” –P. Martin
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“…compelling, character-driven mystery with a paranormal edge.” –Honest Indie Book Reviews
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“To say that this novel is sheer, literary brilliance is an understatement. This book will not let you down, nor will you be able to put it down.” -eNovel Reviews
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An emotional read that tests the strength of one’s own ability to deal with a parent’s worst nightmare.

“Melissa Foster is a wonderful connector of readers and books, a friend of authors, and a tireless advocate for women. She is the real deal”–Author Jennie Shortridge

Melissa Foster is the bestselling, award-winning author of three novels, Megan’s WayChasing Amanda, and Come Back to Me.

She is the founder of the Women’s Nest, a social and support community for women, and WoMen’s Literary Café, a literary community. Melissa is currently collaborating in the film production of Megan’s Way. Melissa has written for Calgary’s Child Magazine, and Women Business Owners Magazine. She hosts an annual Aspiring Authors contest for children, and has painted and donated several murals to The Hospital for Sick Children in Washington, DC. Melissa is currently working on her next novel, and lives in Maryland with her family.

Melissa Foster’s Literary Awards

Megan’s Way
2011 Beach Book Award Winner (Spirituality)
2011 Readers Favorite Awards, Winner (Fiction/Drama), Finalist (Women’s Fiction)
2011 New England Book Festival, Honorable Mention (Spirituality) 
2010 Next Generation Indie Book Award Finalist (Spirituality)

And here, in the comfort of your own browser, is your free sample of Chasing Amanda by Melissa Foster:

 

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Publetariat Dispatch: What Makes a Critic Tick? Connected Authors and the Determinants of Book Reviews

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In today’s Publetariat Dispatch, we share findings from a Harvard Business School study about book reviews.

A study of literary critics was recently conducted and the results have been posted at Harvard Business School’s The Working Knowledge journal.

Executive Summary:

The professional critic has long been  heralded as the gold standard for evaluating products and services such  as books, movies, and restaurants. Analyzing hundreds of book reviews  from 40 different newspapers and magazines, Professor Michael Luca and  coauthors Loretti Dobrescu and Alberto Motta investigate the  determinants of professional reviews and then compare these to consumer  reviews from Amazon.com.

Key concepts include:

  • The data suggest that  media outlets do not simply seek to isolate high-quality books, but also  to find books that are a good fit for their readers. This is a  potential advantage for professional critics, one that cannot be easily  replicated by consumer reviews.
  • Expert ratings are correlated with Amazon ratings, suggesting that  experts and consumers tend to agree in aggregate about the quality of a  book. However, there are systematic differences between these sets of  reviews.
  • Relative to consumer reviews, professional critics are less  favorable to first-time authors. This suggests that one potential  advantage of consumer reviews is that they are quicker to identify new  and unknown books.
  • Relative to consumer reviews, professional critics are more  favorable to authors who have garnered other attention in the press (as  measured by number of media mentions outside of the review) and who have  won book prizes.

Author Abstract

This paper investigates the determinants of expert reviews in the  book industry. Reviews are determined not only by the quality of the  product, but also by the incentives of the media outlet providing the  review. For example, a media outlet may have the incentive to provide  favorable coverage to certain authors or to slant reviews toward the  horizontal preferences of certain readers.

Empirically, we find that an  author’s connection to the media outlet is related to the outcome of the  review decision. When a book’s author also writes for a media outlet,  that outlet is 25% more likely to review the book relative to other  media outlets, and the resulting ratings are roughly 5% higher. Prima  facie, it is unclear whether media outlets are favoring their own  authors because these are the authors that their readers prefer or  simply because they are trying to collude.

We provide a test to  distinguish between these two potential mechanisms, and present evidence  that this is because of tastes rather than collusion — the effect of  connections is present both for authors who began writing for a media  outlet before and after the book release. We then investigate other  determinants of expert reviews. Relative to consumer reviews, we find  that professional critics are less favorable to first time authors and  more favorable to authors who have garnered other attention in the press  (as measured by number of media mentions outside of the review) and who  have won book prizes.

 

Read the full text of the paper (in pdf format) here.

 

Irina Shapiro’s Precious Bones is a historical romance/mystery set in the present as well as Elizabethan England, illuminating the relationship between the modern day and the Tudor characters – Now $2.99 on Kindle

Precious Bones

by Irina Shapiro

Over 12 Rave Reviews
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When the skeletal remains of a young woman and her baby are found entombed behind the kitchen wall of a historic Tudor house, Cassandra is overcome with grief. She seems to know who the young woman was, but not how she knows or how she came to be there. Cassandra becomes inexplicably drawn to the house and the mystery of the “Bones of Blackfriars.” As she begins to learn the truth about the Thorne siblings who occupied the house during the reign of Elizabeth I, her own life takes an unexpected turn and she finds that her fate is linked to the Thornes in ways she never imagined.

One Reviewer Notes

“A captivating read that kept me in suspense from beginning to end. I particularly enjoyed the parts of the book taking place during the Tudor times. They were atmospheric and historically accurate. The modern parts were cleverly used to tie the story together. I found the characters to be likeable and real and hoped for a happy ending for them. Looking foward to reading lots more works by this author.” – Amazon Reviewer, 5 Stars

About The Author

There is nothing I enjoy more than a good book that takes me away from my everyday stresses and problems. I particularly like books that are set in the past, where the characters must navigate the volatile political climates of their time, while still managing to live, love, and cause mischief.

I’ve always had a particular fascination with the paranormal, and I explore some of these themes in my books. I believe that nothing is truly impossible. A true love can transcend space and time, and live on forever.

Please visit me at www.irinashapiro.com

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4.9 stars – 7 Reviews
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What girl wouldn’t want to be surrounded by the sexy guys from the hottest teen rock sensation in the country? 18-year-old Never “Neve” Knight, not only is surrounded by the hottest boys to hit the music charts, but she is the band’s lead singer. As the band’s lead singer and manager, Never formed and shaped the band to where it is today, a band on the rise and on the brink of being signed by a label. As one of the guys, she knew each of the band members since they were all snot-nose ten-year-olds. While her boys were the cutest guys and they would protect her like knights, she couldn’t date any one of them and ruin the chance at being signed with the record label of her dreams. That changes when one of the band members suddenly drops out of the band, and in walks Danny Blue, with his dreamy blue eyes, hot body, and British accent. Suddenly, Never’s solid world has turned to mush, and her rule for not dating one of her band members is seriously challenged. Can she keep her head straight and get her band signed with a label without losing her heart? Can Never change her tune of saying “never to dating a band member” to “never say never”?

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Reviews

“Music, suspense, and some steam up the windows scenes make this a wonderful book for lovers of Mature YA/New Adult books” – Book Loving Mom

“If you want to change up what you usually read or you like contemporary romance with a kick I dare you to read this book. I promise you won’t regret it.” – The Haunted Rose

“I read Kailin Gow’s Saving You Saving Me and was blown away with the intense feelings I felt for the book. She’s able to evoke them so easily. I find myself becoming emotionally invested into Never Say Never. It’s a delightfully entertaining novel about rock, friendship, and falling hard in love for the very first time. Never evoked the feeling of falling in love and being consumed by it so well, I fell hard along with her.” – Amazon Reviewer, 5 Stars

About The Author

Kailin Gow is the bestselling author of many books. She has traveled all over the world, conducting research, and collecting stories. Some of the more interesting places she s been to are: Dracula s Castle in Transylvania where she was presented with a sketch of Dracula, The Stanley Hotel in Colorado where she saw something quite odd, the lost city of Pompeii where both her cameras were drained of battery, St. Petersburg where she held an hour-long conversation with a Russian soldier who didn t speak English and she didn t speak Russian, and the orphanages of Thailand where she distributed toys, books, and hugs to hundreds of disabled orphans.
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