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It’s Always Good to Have A Reference Book Handy – And That’s Why we Have Hundreds of Free & Bargain Reference Titles For All Subjects … Plus Don’t Miss Jessica Bell’s Show & Tell in a Nutshell: Demonstrated Transitions from Telling to Showing

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4.6 stars – 8 Reviews
Text-to-Speech: Enabled
Here’s the set-up:

Have you been told there’s a little too much telling in your novel? Want to remedy it? Then this is the book for you!In Show & Tell in a Nutshell: Demonstrated Transitions from Telling to Showing you will find sixteen real scenes depicting a variety of situations, emotions, and characteristics which clearly demonstrate how to turn telling into showing. A few short writing prompts are also provided.

Not only is this pocket guide an excellent learning tool for aspiring writers, but it is a user-friendly and simple solution to honing your craft no matter how broad your writing experience. With the convenient hyper-linked Contents Page, you can toggle backward and forward from different scenes with ease. Use your e-reader’s highlighting and note-taking tools to keep notes as you read, and/or record your story ideas, anywhere, anytime.

The author, Jessica Bell, also welcomes questions via email, concerning the content of this book, or about showing vs. telling in general, at showandtellinanutshell@gmail.com

Reviews

“Jessica Bell addresses one of the most common yet elusive pieces of writing advice–show, don’t tell–in a uniquely user-friendly and effective way: by example. By studying the sixteen scenes she converts from “telling” into “showing,” not only will you clearly understand the difference; you will be inspired by her vivid imagery and dialogue to pour through your drafts and do the same.” ~Jenny Baranick, College English Teacher, Author of Missed Periods and Other Grammar Scares

“A practical, no-nonsense resource that will help new and experienced writers alike deal with that dreaded piece of advice: show, don’t tell. I wish Bell’s book had been around when I started writing!” ~Talli Roland, bestselling author

About The Author

If Jessica Bell could choose only one creative mentor, she’d give the role to Euterpe, the Greek muse of music and lyrics. This is not only because she currently resides in Athens, Greece, but because of her life as a thirty-something Australian-native contemporary fiction author, poet and singer/songwriter/guitarist, whose literary inspiration often stems from songs she’s written.

Being the daughter of a semi-famous rock ‘n’ roll duo from Melbourne, she grew up surrounded by song. For a while it seemed logical to travel the musician’s path, especially when her first band, spAnk, hit it off in the Melbourne indie music scene back in the late 90s. Although she spent her years writing and recording dozens of songs she decided she also had a love for the written word, and began to pursue a career as a writer.

She started as a poet, drawing from her musical background and etching her thoughts and feelings into verse. Those stanzas soon turned into sentences and paragraphs, and eventually into published books.

The preface to her novel String Bridge describes in detail how music has influenced her writing. Her literary voice is said to overflow with “lyrical descriptions, unique metaphors, tight dialogue, and an abundance of sensory detail.” She has also been told she has the ability to take a seemingly ordinary three-chord type story and turn it into a main stage event.

From September 2012, Jessica will be hosting the Homeric Writers’ Retreat & Workshop on the Greek island of Ithaca, home of Odysseus, with Chuck Sambuchino of Writer’s Digest.

Read more at www.jessicabellauthor.com.

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Announcing a new Kindle eBook of the Month – Suzanna E. Nelson’s Nightmare Along the River Nile – to sponsor hundreds of FREE and bargain selections on our History Search Pages!

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WINNER of Editor’s Choice Award

4.6 stars – 28 Reviews
Text-to-Speech and Lending: Enabled
Here’s the set-up:

Elated after finishing high school exams, Edgar and his longtime friends are excited about their future and looking forward to their long vacation. Unbeknownst to them fate has other plans. Edgar’s life turns into a living nightmare when, on his way home, his bus is stopped by the LRA rebels in northern Uganda. Along with other passengers, most of whom are students, Edgar is abducted and taken to the rebel headquarters deep in the mountains of southern Sudan. Things turn even worse when, instead of being forced to become a soldier, he is sold into slavery. His life is changed forever.

Edgar’s friends learn of his fate and embark on a very difficult and unpredictable rescue mission. With the help of a fellow captive, Edgar attempts a daring and dangerous escape, knowing that his re-capture would end in a fate worse than death. But will he succeed? The dramatic finale awaits you as you follow Edgar while he is being chased down by warlords whose mission is to return him to the slave owners and collect a large reward.

The story gives readers an insight into the pain and suffering that Edgar endures at the hands of his captors; and his unshakable faith and hope of eventually being free. Through Edgar’s story, the reader will come to understand the resilience that human beings can exhibit under extreme circumstances, the power of faith and the meaning of true friendship. Looking collectively at the people who are involved in Edgar’s captivity and the ones who assist him, we are reminded that people are capable of good or evil, regardless of color or creed.

Reviews

“This book does the outstanding job of creating awareness and teaching us about a horrific and ongoing human-rights abuse situation by way of a compelling action-filled story. It will be difficult for you to put this book down before you find out what happens to Eddie” – Allbooks Reviews International

“The book is a good read, with important lessons about decency and true friendship and human cruelty” – Africa Book Club

“Publicizing the alarming truth behind modern slavery stands as the novel’s primary achievement” – Kirkus Discoveries

“…I was moved by the ingenuity, courage and devotion of Edgar’s friends. That raised the story above the thriller category…” – Richard Sheeler

From The Author
This story was inspired by actual events that happened to many young boys and girls in northern Uganda in the 1990s. The story was conceived from many interviews that were conducted with survivors and former child soldiers who managed to escape the LRA.
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4.8 stars on Kindle for our brand new Biography and Memoir Book of the Month, sponsoring hundreds of free and bargain selections on our Biography and Memoir Search Pages!

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CONTACT

by AFN CLARKE

4.8 stars – 4 Reviews
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Here’s the set-up:

This new edition of AFN Clarke’s best selling and controversial book CONTACT is a raw, visceral, “no-holds-barred” account of what it’s like to be in combat. When it was first published it caused a furor for its devastating honesty and chilling revelations of one of the men we pay to kill. Clarke vividly recounts his experiences of two tours in Northern Ireland (in Belfast and Crossmaglen) as a Platoon Commander with Britain’s elite Parachute Regiment during the blood soaked 1970’s.  The dangers, political agendas and religious roots underlying the conflict are eerily and heartbreakingly similar to Iraq, and Afghanistan today.

The enemy wears no uniform and shoots from the shadows and the bomber’s trip-wire is an ever-present nightmare.  This is the worst kind of war, the kind of war that is virtually unwinnable. A war that nobody admits is a war at all.
CONTACT makes disconcerting reading.  The Truth of war is like that.  We want to look but we don’t want to see.  Clarke makes us see: we feel what it’s like to live each day with our senses on high alert knowing that at any moment we can be ripped apart by the accuracy of a sniper or a well-hidden bomb; we learn the private thoughts and attitudes of trained soldiers operating in conditions of extreme stress, fatigue and squalor, ordered to hold the lines in an ancient quarrel they have little affinity for, but whose consequences are deadly.

We learn what it’s like to be in your twenties, go to hell and come back having nearly died with half your insides missing, suffering from PTSD and being expected to return to “normal life”.

CONTACT was first published in the UK in 1983 by Martin Secker & Warburg, was serialized for 5 days in The Mirror, a national newspaper, and became an instant best seller. In 1984 it was published in paperback by PAN Books, by Schocken Books New York and made into a BBC TV film that won the Locarno Film Festival top award for best TV film.

The print edition ends when Clarke was taken to hospital from Crossmaglen. This new eBook version reveals the untold story of the nightmare he lived through, up to his medical discharge a year later.

Book length 69,237 words.

Contemporary fiction books by AFN Clarke include AN UNQUIET AMERICAN, COLLISIONS, THE BOOK OF BAKER Trilogy (DREAMS FROM THE DEATH AGE, ARMAGEDDON, GENESIS REVISITED), and THE THOMAS GUNN suspense

Reviews

” … a major contribution to our understanding of war and how people act … Contact is the work of a brave writer.”  Kevin Toolis, Irish News.

“…the best account we have had of what it is like to serve in Northern Ireland…” Richard West, The Times Literary Supplement. 

” … it is impossible to turn its pages without a profound sense of shock”. David Hewson, The Times.

” …. an unashamedly personal account … a fascinating view of fighting a war from a perspective which we may very rarely experience or hear about.” Michael Keene, Irish Evening Press.

“Captain Clarke is more than a serving solder, he is a writer of distinction.”  Jack Gerson, Glasgow Sunday Standard.

“… its honesty and passion cannot be denied ….. Mr. Clarke has sent out a powerful and disturbing early warning signal.”  Maurice Leitch, Daily Telegraph.

“The most telling and realistic soldier’s account to come out of the whole sorry mess.  The emotions are as vivid as the events.  Anger and frustration tinge every page.”  Daily Mirror.

From The Author

CONTACT was the first book I ever wrote and had published. After 8 years of active service I left the army as a young man having nearly died, with half my guts missing and endless surgeries to look forward to, trying to rebuild a life with my wife and children.  PTSD was not something talked about then, but looking back it’s clear that in some small way, Contact was my “therapy”, my way of releasing and communicating those raw experiences and emotions. I wrote it for myself, something I was driven to do. I had no idea that my mother would find the manuscript in the bedside drawer when she came to visit and stay up all night reading it.  I thought it would embarrass and shock her. Instead, she became my greatest fan and supporter, urging me to get it published at any cost.

I am so grateful to her.  Though it caused a lot of controversy and throughout my life has kept drawing me back into the issues of war and conflict that I would rather forget, the most humbling and satisfying experiences were when mothers and fathers of young soldiers wrote to tell me how grateful they were for the book. For giving them an understanding of what it must have been like for their sons who came home changed by the experience.  And for providing some hope that through this understanding they might be better equipped to help their sons rebuild their lives and bridge the gap that had suddenly appeared as a result of their changed realities. They just wanted their boys back. What is most distressing is that the experience of the parents back then, is still much the same today.

What happens in war and as a result of war has far reaching consequences, both for the soldiers that fight it, their families, and the country that sends them to war in the first place. And I think what pains me the most is that we don’t seem to learn from the past.  We continue to get embroiled in ancient quarrels, in religious based conflict, in power struggles for resources and we continue to repeat the same mistakes leaving broken bodies, broken lives, and broken hearts.

I just hope that one day we can see life through different eyes, value it for the precious gift that it is, and enjoy and share the beauty and abundance of our great planet rather than engage in petty squabbles about ownership of it.

I think that’s why I never stopped writing after CONTACT – to keep challenging old thinking, make people think, make people laugh, and keep creating a different way of seeing and understanding the world.

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Award Winning Someone Else’s Fairytale by E.M. Tippetts is Our Arts & Entertainment Book of the Month & Don’t Miss All The Freebies Available Now on Our Arts & Entertainment Search Pages

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Someone Else’s Fairytale

by E.M. Tippetts

4.4 stars – 117 Reviews
Text-to-Speech and Lending: Enabled

Here’s the set-up:

Best of the Independent Book Awards Runner-Up in Romance, eFestival of Words

Best Indie Books of 2012 Semifinalist, Kindle Book Review

Jason Vanderholt, Hollywood’s hottest actor, falls head over heels for everygirl, Chloe Winters, who hasn’t gotten around to watching most of his movies. She becomes the woman every other woman in America is dying to be, but it just isn’t her fairytale.

Reviews

“I’m going to be honest – I didn’t expect to like this at all… But for some completely inexplicable reason I found myself at the end of the book with a giant smile on my face saying aloud (to myself since I’m cool like that) ‘wow, I REALLY liked that.'” 9/10 rating by I Love YA Fiction

“I have found another Indie author to love! Tippetts wrote a book that was well layered as a romance with life lessons throughout.” 5/5 rating by Lisa’s Book Review

“An engaging story exploring true love, fairytales and the essence of being yourself.” Paranormal Fantasy Addict

Someone Else’s Fairytale was simply amazing, well written, charming, funny, sad, intense, painful, heartfelt, beautiful, and great. Ms. Tippetts obviously knows what she’s doing and has no problem… making the characters feel real[;] she can twist plots and leave you wanting more. Don’t take my word for it. I dare you to read this book and not love it.” 5/5 rating by The Bo0kJunki3

“Imaginative and well crafted, Someone Else’s Fairytale is one of the best stories I’ve read. You’ll fall in love with the characters and have your own delightful ‘fairytale good feeling’ when you finish it. Novel Rocket and I give it a high recommendation.” Ane Mulligan, Senior Editor, Novel Rocket

“The characters were great, the storyline was perfect, I really loved the entire thing …Someone Else’s Fairytale totally made it into my Top 5 Books read in 2011.” Reviewing What I’m Reading

And watch out for the sequel to Someone Else’s Fairytale -Nobody’s Damsel (Available January 5, 2013)

About The Author

Emily Mah Tippetts writes romance as E.M. Tippetts and science fiction and fantasy as Emily Mah. Originally from New Mexico, she now lives in London with her family. She also designs jewelry for her label, Emily Mah Jewelry Designs. To learn more about her, please visit her website: emtippetts.com.
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Looking For Some Advice? – Aren’t We All? – We Have Hundreds of FREE & Bargain Titles on Our Advice & How-To Search Pages, All Sponsored by Charles Collins 5-Star Making a Masterpiece of Your Life

We’re excited to share our Advice & How-To Book of the Month for the very first time here at Kindle Nation, to sponsor all the great bargains on our Advice & How-To search pages.

 

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4.9 stars – 7 Reviews
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Your Life is a Masterpiece for the Making

No mission is more important. No adventure, more rewarding.

Anyone can make a ‘masterpiece’ of their lives and skillfully practice ‘life’ as a balanced, integrated ‘craft’ – rather than the all too common experience of muddling through life as a random collection of unrelated experiences. And, know ahead of time exactly what the curriculum is for your entire life (and for teaching your children), vs. passing through life by ‘intuition’ (i.e.) “flying by the seat of your pants”.

Your life is unique, and in the primary care of a single craftsperson. You are that craftsperson. To shape your life into a ‘masterpiece’ – a ‘work of art’ – requires training, practice and the skillful application of the tools of the craft to make a masterpiece of your life.

To practice the whole of ‘life-as-a-craft’, the way a craftsperson mindfully practices the trade of textile weaving, medicine, or carpentry, requires that the myriad activities of the ‘craft of life’ be systematically organized, managed, taught and learned similar to the ways in which we organize, manage, teach and practice our trades, occupations and professions.

Drawing upon centuries of knowledge and practical experience by master craftsmen and craftswomen, Charles Collins has skillfully organized a complete body of life knowledge into Five Elements, providing you with the guidance and motivation to practice ‘life-as-a-craft’.

The Five Elements:
Masterpiece Element 1: Family Heritage
Masterpiece Element 2: Family Management
Masterpiece Element 3: Family and Personal Finance
Masterpiece Element 4: The Human Being
Masterpiece Element 5: Tools for Living

Each Element contains a collection of short ‘briefs’ on subjects ranging from family history (genealogy) and home management, to personal appearance, money management, setting goals for your life and using the right tools for the job.

What – ‘Making a Masterpiece of Your Life’ – Delivers:

1. A System: As a system Making a Masterpiece of Your Life is designed to organize – in one convenient place – all the bits and pieces of “wisdom” about life that you find scattered about in books, on tapes, at seminars, and “advice” from parents, relatives, and friends. It is a flexible and practical tool to meet the needs of the task at hand.

2. A Practice: As a practice Making a Masterpiece of Your Life is designed to help you practice balance among the distinct but interconnected “Five Elements” of life as an individual, and as a member of the families we all belong to.

Reviews

“Every once in awhile a book is destined to become a classic. This is one of those books.” —Dick Hoffman, Author, “INTIMACY: 45 Minutes to an Intimate Life”

“Thank you very much for providing me with the info I wanted. It is a beautiful story.” —Deborah Critzer, Positive Parenting

“The Canadian Crime Prevention Centre strongly encourages people to take responsibility for their own lives and to stop being victims. Your material gives people a hands-on approach for taking control of their lives and the lives of their children.” —Diana Stinn, Program Director

“I am much impressed . . . It is full of most wonderful advice – and is so neutral in bias, too. I feel your resources have much to offer in a wholesome way. —Elizabeth for Motherheart

About The Author

Charles P. Collins is the author of Making a Masterpiece of Your Life: The Craftsman’s Way of the Art & Science of Skillful Living.

Collins received his degree in business and political communication from Emerson College, Boston in 1976, and continued his education in intercultural communication at Georgetown University, Washington D.C. in 1980. He has spent the balance of his career living and working primarily outside the USA, as an international business executive where he has made major contributions in the fields of international commerce and business performance management.

He writes; “One day in the early 1990’s, when my daughter was about 8 years old, I realized the questions she was asking about “where do we come from?” and “why is this the way it is?” were requiring real answers. Answers that made sense. Not the simple ‘fairy tale’ answers I could get away with just a few years earlier. And, at that moment I came face to face with the fact that I didn’t have the kind of quality answers I really wanted to give her. After all, she is my daughter and I wanted to fill her head with the best possible content I could find. And so it began. The result several years later is ‘Making a Masterpiece of Your Life’.”

Five other books currently in development will complement ‘Making a Masterpiece of Your Life’; Book 6 in the LIFECRAFT Collection.

To learn more visit: www.facebook.com/MyLifeMasterpiece

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A new Kindle eBook of the Month – Chris Reher’s Only Human – to sponsor hundreds of free and bargain selections on our Science Fiction Search Pages!

We’re excited to share our brand new Science Fiction Book of the Month here at Kindle Nation, to sponsor all the great bargains on our Science Fiction search pages.

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Only Human

by Chris Reher

4.6 stars – 14 Reviews
Or currently FREE for Amazon Prime Members Via the Kindle Lending Library
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Here’s the set-up:

Captain Nova Whiteside, on a brand new assignment to help rid the Commonwealth Union of Planets from a growing rebel force, is teamed up with Tychon, a strait-laced Vanguard officer whose opinion of Humans, in general, is less than stellar.
When their pursuit of the ruthless rebel leader and a living weapon in his control blurs the line between their personal lives and their mission, Nova must choose between duty and loyalty.

One Reviewer Notes

“I could not put this book down and greatly enjoyed every page. Its full of great science-fiction goodness, space travel, new worlds, great characters, romance, comedy and really well written fight scenes…” – Amazon Reviewer, 5 Stars

About The Author

Living in Canada, it is inevitable that those who lack enthusiasm for snow-related activities tend to stay indoors for a good portion of the year.

Thank goodness for computers. I became a web developer and eventually authored some text books about HTML and CSS, pleasantly surprised when they were picked up at the college level.

But I’ve always loved fantasy worlds and writing about what might be possible, given a certain suspension of disbelief and a rude assault upon the laws of physics.
Since I’ve always suspected that there is far too much gravity on this planet, I tend to take my people to other worlds.

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Announcing a new Kindle eBook of the Month – Wilhelmina Cain’s Once Upon A Time (#1: Battle Creek Series) – to sponsor hundreds of free and bargain selections on our Religious Fiction Search Pages!

We’re excited to share our Religious Fiction Book of the Month for the very first time here at Kindle Nation, to sponsor all the great bargains on our Religious Fiction search pages.

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4.3 stars – 3 Reviews
Or currently FREE for Amazon Prime Members Via the Kindle Lending Library
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When Travis Davis asks for a little help with getting a prom date, he gets a whole lot more than he bargained for.  He sets in motion a series of events which will turn his world upside down, yet leave him glad that it did.

In her debut contemporary fiction series, Wilhelmina Cain introduces a cast of unforgettable characters. Through their triumphs and trials she explores what happens when everyday challenges intersect with a magical little thing called faith.

Once Upon A Time (Book #1 Battle Creek Series) is the heartwarming and hilarious beginning of the Battle Creek series.

One Reviewer Notes
“Simple and entertaining this book is great for a light afternoon read. Enjoyed this story very much. Looking forward to reading the next one!” – Amazon Reviewer, 5 Stars
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