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Kindle Nation Bargain Book Alert! Think “Minority Report and Equilibrium meet 1984” in Newcity, where everyone is “content” … or else. Terry Persun’s CATHEDRAL OF DREAMS is a compelling tale of a dystopian future and personal heroism – 5 stars and just $2.99 on Kindle!

August 23, 2011 by KND

Here’s the set-up for Terry Persun’s The Cathedral of Dreams, just $2.99 on Kindle:

In Newcity, everyone is content. Bad feelings are not allowed, because your monitoring chip will alert the police to bring you in for treatment. Getting better is mandatory. Unchecked emotions made the world outside Newcity dangerous, unruly, and violent. At least that’s the official story in Newcity.

Keith knows something is wrong. Strange visions lead him to become one of the few who escapes Newcity. He fi nds freedom and companionship outside, but pressure building to revolt against the city’s insidious regime of social control. Leadership is thrust upon him, with only his visions for guidance, only a small band of friends for support—and the fates of both Newcity and the outside world at stake.

Cathedral of Dreams is a compelling tale of a dystopian future and personal heroism.

From the reviewers:

If you have ever seen the movie Equilibrium, you will understand the type of society vividly depicted by Persun. It is one where emotions are seen as dangerous and harmful, and where people are trying to figure out a way to remove emotions from humanity. – Miss Allegre

I loved this book. It’s exciting from the first page and it keeps you guessing the entire time. Navigating his life in Newcity as well as outside, Keith is led by two strange visions that help him on his quest. With just a twinge of 1984 mixed with lots of action, I thought this book was great! – Phil’s List

In the tradition of other utopian/dystopian novels, Persun takes the reader on a wild ride from the limited but adequate existence inside Newcity to the outside world, and then back to Newcity. – Kim Wiebusch

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“Happiness comes with doing what you love.”

I live on a small farm with horses, chickens, and cats. My family and I enjoy the outdoors and spend time exploring nature and its creatures. Fresh air and exercise helps to keep us on track with our lives.

I’m a firm believer that you have to do things you enjoy as often as possible. That’s why I spend my first few hours of each day working on novels or poems. The rest of the day, I work my day job of helping companies with their marketing strategies. I am also the co-founder of www.EntertainmentEngineering.com, an online magazine written for design engineers.

Learning new things is an important part of my life, as well. At the moment, I’m exploring Conscious Dreaming. I’m also a certified Epona Apprentice and occasionally put on corporate team building seminars using the horses here at the farm.

I’m glad you stopped by my site, and hope that you’ll take a few minutes to poke around. Give me a call if you have any questions.

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Dick Francis lives again in our Kindle eBook of the Day: Sasscer Hill’s FULL MORTALITY – 4.8 Stars on 5 Straight Rave Reviews!

July 7, 2019August 22, 2011 by KND

It has only been a few months since Dick Francis left our midst, but perhaps it’s not too early to suggest a worthy successor….

Here’s the set-up for Sasscer Hill’s Full Mortality, 5 Straight Rave Reviews and just $5.38 on Kindle:

Jockey Nikki Latrelle gets the chance of a lifetime — to ride the favorite in a stakes race — only to have her dream destroyed when a mysterious intruder kills her mount the night before the race. Evil people are working at Maryland’s Laurel Park race track, and when Nikki stumbles over the body of a gunshot victim, she quickly becomes the prime suspect in a murder case. Framed and facing a possible murder rap, Nikki is ruled-off the track.

Even deprived of job and income, she cannot abandon a mistreated, ill-tempered racehorse doomed to the slaughter house. Nikki and the filly wind up at a seedy stable with a motley group of felons, drunks, and drug-addicts. With unexpected help from a fashion-conscious wholesale meat-seller, a recovering addict, and an ancient groom, Nicky follows a crooked trail of insurance scam and betting fraud. But with the odds against her, can she clear her name — and put the real criminals behind bars?

Visit Amazon’s Sasscer Hill Page

Hill lives on a Maryland farm and has bred racehorses for many years. A winner of amateur steeplechase events, she has galloped her horses on the farm and trained them into the winner’s circle. Author of several mysteries appearing in the “Chesapeake Crimes” Anthology, her articles have appeared in numerous magazines.

“Full Mortality,” her first novel, has been nominated for both Macavity and Agatha Best First Mystery Awards.

BUT WHO IS SHE REALLY, THIS SASSCER HILL?

I was born with horses in my veins and started galloping about the family farm on a stick horse when I was four years old. By the time I was seven or eight, I was sneaking rides on the Belgian plow horses. I did this because my father didn’t like horses and considered ponies dangerous. So instead, I drummed my heels on the sides of a 2,000 pound draft mare, while grasping whatever string or rope I managed to tie to her halter.

This year, with my first book being published, I’ve looked to that past and dedicated my horse racing mystery to the two people who recognized and nurtured the horses that raced in my veins – Rhoda Christmas Bowling and Alfred H. Smith, Sr.

Rhoda is probably America’s first female sports writer. She wrote a racing column for the Washington Times Herald in the nineteen forties. She bred Maryland racehorses, and held a trainer’s license, too. She had a fiery temper, often cursed like a sailor, and threw society parties that could turn Mary Lou Whitney green with envy. — Sasscer Hill

Editor’s note: For more details on Bowling, Smith and Hill’s successful quest to get her first pony, despite her father’s objections, visit the author’s Amazon page for the details, beautifully told.

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Kindle Nation Bargain Book Alert! Romi Moondi’s THE BOOK OF AWFUL is our eBook of the Day – 4 stars on 20 reviews and just 99 cents on Kindle for the key to happiness?

August 21, 2011 by KND

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Here’s the set-up for Romi Mooni’s The Book of Awful, just 99 Cents on Amazon:

Wouldn’t it be nice if we all held hands and pooped rainbows?

Sure, but until our world becomes a technicolor paradise, what’s the REAL way for people to get happy?

Avoiding catastrophe.

This parody of “The Book of Awesome” outlines one awful(ly
ridiculous) scenario after the next, to demonstrate how much worse life
could really be. Whether it’s a world where you finally meet your evil
twin, the cancellation of Facebook, or the discovery of unicorns that
forever alters society, you’ll feel relieved you’re only READING about
it.

For ease of comprehension, the author lends her humble experiences to
several topics, and leaves no stone of embarrassment unturned (not even
the one where she had head lice as a grown adult).

To cover off a vast array of concerns, the book is sectioned off into highly relevant topics for mankind:

1. Self-Image
2. World Issues
3. Life Skills
4. Food and Drink
5. Society and You
6. Alternative Lifestyles
7. Stalking, Dating and Romance

You can read it all at once or jump in when you’re feeling blue. Not
that you’ll feel “awesome” by the time you’re finished…but
overwhelming relief?

Highly probable.

And relief isn’t far from happiness, is it? (Let’s not split hairs)

From the reviewers:

Great new voice. I’ve never seen a better combination of racy wit,
sarcasm, pop culture awareness and (yet) humility. More importantly, I
laughed my you-know-what off too many times to count. Moondi has a
spectacular voice that’s on display on every page. Hopefully she can put
a few more books out before big media snatches her up and takes her
away. — Dave Conifer

I love cupcakes, the smell of bread baking, birds chirping and all
that malarky; but there’s nothing quite like the feeling of having
dodged a bullet. This book is a dense volume of bullet-dodging scenarios
that will not only leave you with that satisfying feeling of “glad I’m
that not that guy”, but also a thoroughly busted gut! – Danielle L.

Sarcastic, Cynical, Hilarious. The minute I read the book blurb I
knew I needed this book. It was worth every penny. It’s so stinkin’
funny! Basically, if you want a fun read with cynical humor that will
make you laugh and feel just a little more grateful for what you have,
well this book’s for you. – Pamela

Romi Moondi writes a humor blog. In it she talks about her body, her
desire for sex/a mate/a boyfriend, her urban life, and pretty much
anything else she finds funny/ironic/sad. There are a handful of laugh
out loud moments (maybe more if you are a single, urban, Indian-American
woman); certainly enough to justify the cost. Buy this e-book and read
it. – G. Jones

Visit Amazon’s Romi Moondi Page

Do you really care what university I went to, whether or not I have
a fuzzy cat named Snowball (his name is actually Sammy), and how many
years I’ve been writing for?

I will assume you’re cooler than that, so the answer of course is no. What’s left then?

Okay I got it:

-I did not shy away from wearing denim-top-to-bottom in high school
(there is a direct inverse relationship between how much denim I wore
and how few tongues were launched down my throat at school dances…or
anywhere in high school at all).
-I’m continually baffled by that Malaysian baby whose father let him
smoke two packs of cigarettes a day. That baby had so many fat rolls,
and I thought cigarettes were supposed to be slimming.
-I always hated those insufferable couples who would cuddle and make
out on the subway…until I became half of one. But now I’m back to
being none of one so I hate them again.
I hope that will suffice for now, dear stranger. If not, feel free to follow my “over-share” account on twitter :-).

Regards, Romi

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KND Bargain Book Alert! Our eBook of the Day is not Charlie Chan’s Chinatown. Ty Hutchinson’s CHOP SUEY (A Darby Stansfield Thriller) is “intrinsically funny and inherently evil, a strangely intoxicating blend, one that keeps the action rolling” — 4.3 Stars on 39 Reviews and Just $2.99 on Kindle!

August 20, 2011 by KND

Here’s the set-up for Ty Hutchinson’s Chop Suey, just $2.99 on Kindle:

Start with one lovable dope.
Add a cook with a secret past.
Throw in a couple of gang members.
Mix in a pair of Chinatown detectives.
Combine it all with Ling Chi, death by 1,000 cuts.

And you have the perfect recipe for
Chop Suey.

When disgraced sales associate Darby Stansfield discovers he has six months to save his job, he does what any normal person would do. He freaks.

Desperate to resurrect his career at Teleco Wireless, he conjures up an international scheme filled with the promise of endless high-spending clients. It’s brilliant, it’s successful, and it involves doing business with organized crime.

But soon those closest to him find themselves caught up in his dangerous plan, and one of these unknowingly has the power to destroy him. Darby must now make a tough decision––give up on the one good idea he ever had or risk it all.

Chop Suey is a 90,000 word action thriller. That’s 381 pages of holy moly.

From the reviewers:

“Chop Suey is a fast, funny and well-plotted thriller––It’s not easy to write comedy, introduce a vicious serial killer, and navigate between the two.”––Reading Review

“It is both intrinsically funny and inherently evil, a strangely intoxicating blend, one that keeps the action rolling.”— SeattlePI

“Hutchinson did an excellent job of bringing his characters to life, weaving several stories together and bringing them to an exciting conclusion.”— The Book Review

Visit Amazon’s Ty Hutchinson Page

My name is Ty Hutchinson and I’m from Hawaii. What does that mean? I don’t need to tan. Most days I’m a writer in the ad business. My work has appeared in all the major advertising award shows and reported on in publications like Advertising Age, Creativity, Communication Arts and Archive.

When I’m not building brands, you’ll find me traveling the world, playing video games, eating, reading, exploring SF’s Chinatown (to date I have six Shrimp Boy sightings) or hard at work writing thriller novels.

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“Once again, Kathryn Shay blends realism and romance to flawless perfection.” Be the first in your reading community to discover our Kindle eBook of the Day: MICHAEL’S FAMILY, the latest from Kathryn Shay, author of the bestseller AFTER THE FIRE!

August 19, 2011 by KND

Here’s the set-up for Kathryn Shay’s Michael’s Family, jut $3.99 on Kindle:

When his sixteen year old son Michael asks to meet his biological mother, Lucas Rayburn reluctantly agrees. Since his wife Sara’s death three years ago, Lucas has developed a closer bond with his son–a bond he’s terrified
will be destroyed when Meredith Hunter enters their lives.

Meredith is an assistant District Attorney with a bias against public defenders, something Lucas just happens to be. Despite their personal and professional clashes, Lucas is determined to make his son happy.

Meredith gave up her son but she never forgot him. The circumstances of his birth are a horrible memory for her, but getting to know Michael brings more joy than Meredith ever hoped. True, the growing attraction to Lucas could become a problem–but she lost her son once and nothing, not even a handsome public defender, is going to tear her away from Michael again.

From the review:

Once again, Kathryn Shay blends realism and romance to flawless perfection. Her strength lies in her ability to capture the voice of children with thoughtful insight into how they think and what they feel. In this case, Michael Rayburn is the catalyst that brings Lucas and Meredith together. The love story is passionate and bittersweet. Lucas is torn between his feelings for Meredith, his duty to his son and the guilt of betraying his dead wife’s memory. Meredith has to reconcile her personal grudge against public defenders with the pull she feels toward Lucas while finding her place in her son’s life. Michael’s Family is a special story about love and what it means to be a family. Kathryn Shay’s characters are memorable and special! She has a unique talent for crafting stories that are down-to-earth and still hopelessly romantic! Michael’s Family is well written and delightfully realistic! There’s no stopping this gifted author! — The Literary Times, Inc.

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Children’s legal advocate Sabre Brown has handled nearly every case imaginable as a children’s legal advocate, but she finds there’s more amiss than meets the eye when two children taken from their parents lead her into a web of deceit, corruption, and murder that spans the continent. Teresa Burrell’s 5-star legal thriller THE ADVOCATE is our eBook of the Day – Just $3.99 on Kindle.

August 18, 2011 by KND

Here’s the Set-Up for Teresa Burrell’s The Advocate, just $3.99 on Kindle:

Suffering from the mysterious disappearance of her brother five years before, Sabre Brown has handled nearly every case imaginable as a children’s legal advocate. That is, until her partner gives her the easiest case on the roster—advocating for two children taken from their parents after a potentially abusive argument.

Sabre’s gut tells her there’s more amiss than meets the eye, and her gut is rarely wrong. As she digs into the history of this broken family, Sabre discovers a web of deceit, corruption, and murder that spans the continent.

From the reviewers:

The author’s experience as a juvenile attorney is evident in the gritty realism of this mystery/legal thriller. This is the first book in the Advocate series and has been re-released by her new publisher. The protagonist, Sabre Orin Brown, is a juvenile defense attorney working hard for her clients welfare, while trying to solve a grizzly crime. If you want a book written by an attorney with real first hand knowledge of the judicial system, then pick up this book. – Hamlet

This is an excellent story line with plenty of suspense and takes you deep inside the inner workings of the juvenile system. Teresa Burrell writes an excellent, authentic thriller. – Jenny Hilborne

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Teresa Burrell has dedicated her life to helping children and their families in both the courtroom and the classroom.

As an attorney in San Diego, Burrell maintained a private law practice for twelve years, which specialized in domestic, criminal, and civil cases. Her work in juvenile court focused on representing abused minors and juvenile delinquents. Burrell has received several awards and special recognition from the San Diego Bar Association for her countless hours of pro bono work with children and their families.

Burrell has also enjoyed a satisfying career as a teacher. She has taught children of all ages with diverse backgrounds and special needs. After creating an after-school program that kept kids off the street, she received a community service award.

Now in semi-retirement in California, Burrell continues to educate groups about social issues impacting children and write novels, many of which are inspired by actual legal cases.

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Bargain Book Alert: Mike Dennis’ 5-Star Noir Novel SETUP ON FRONT STREET is our Kindle eBook of the Day at Just $2.99 – Think “Elmore Leonard meets Carl Hiaasen in the real Key West” – Here’s a Free Sample!

August 17, 2011August 17, 2011 by KND

Here’s the setup for our eBook of the
Day, Mike Dennis’ SETUP ON FRONT STREET – 4.6 stars on 11 Straight Rave Reviews and just $2.99 on Kindle!

Key West, 1991.

Don Roy Doyle is back in town. Tough and
quick-witted, he’s fresh out of prison, where he served three years for a
diamond swindle. Now he’s back to collect his share of the proceeds,
about $200,000, but the money has vanished.

A local family dynasty which has controlled the island’s politics for
generations, a cop with a grudge, the FBI, and the Russian mob all have
a stake in the action. They’re convinced Cuba is on the verge of
“opening up,” and they all want Doyle gone.

In this tightly-knit town, who can be trusted? And how long can Doyle stay alive?

Setup on Front Street takes you inside the world of Key West noir, a world tucked way back in the shadows, where the tourists never go.

From the reviewers:

“Dennis writes true noir.” — Vicki Hendricks, author of CRUEL POETRY
“Mike Dennis has a sure knowledge of his setting and characters and a
prepossessing writing style.” — George Fontana, Key West
Citizen/Solares Hill

“Fans of Elmore Leonard should find Mike Dennis an author worth watching – and worth reading.” — BooksAndPals.com

“Snappy prose and engaging story-telling.” — LoveThyAuthor.com

Stylish and Dark – Great Noir. Setup On Front Street is my
favorite Mike Dennis offering so far. Dennis has a gift for drawing
psychologically true characters and opening up a world that is only
glossy on the surface. I found myself rooting for a truly flawed hero.
– Jessica

5.0 Stars. I’d heard about this novel and about how it portrayed Key
West in a very different light. I guess like most people, I was used to
the Jimmy Buffett version of Key West, where everybody sits around all
day being mellow and getting loaded. – Alan

Visit Amazon’s Mike Dennis Page

After thirty years as a professional musician (piano), Mike Dennis
left Key West and moved to Las Vegas in 2006 to become a professional
poker player, but turned to writing when his first novel was published.

SETUP ON FRONT STREET is his second published novel. It’s the first
in a series of three noir novels which lift the veil on Key West,
revealing it as a true noir city, on a par with Los Angeles, New
Orleans, or Miami. The next book, THE GHOSTS OF HAVANA, is coming soon.

In addition, Mike has had short stories published in Powder Burn
Flash, A Twist Of Noir, Mysterical e, Slow Trains, and the 2009 Wizards
Of Words Anthology.

In December 2010, Mike moved back to Key West.

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