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Live on the Web: Kindle Nation Weekly Digest with Free Books, News, & Tips – March 18-19, 2011

Greetings from Kindle Nation!

If you’ve been a reader of our weekly Kindle Nation email digest for a while, there’s a good chance that you have also read — at least from time to time — our Kindle Nation Daily blog. And it wouldn’t shock me if you said to yourself once or twice, even if you were too kind to say it to me, “Well, it’s a pretty good blog, but he really ought to bring someone in to spruce it up.”

The good news is that, in addition to hearing that from others, I also said it to myself more than once, and this week the process has culminated in our launch of a brand new, totallApril Hamiltony spiffed up Kindle Nation Daily website at http://kindlenationdaily.com. Please feel free to bookmark it and pay us a regular visit each day.

 
 

And just in case you are wondering, yes, I did bring someone special to spruce it up: novelist, nonfiction author, blogger, and all-around web whiz April Hamilton, (photo at right). In addition to her very well-received novels Snow Ball and Adelaide Einstein, she is the author of The Indie Author’s Guide, founder and editor-in-chief of Publetariat, and a member of the Board of Directors of the Association of Independent Authors. And, since I am a great believer in the importance of hiring people smarter than oneself, I’m happy to report  that beginning April 2 she will also be the general manager for Kindle Nation and Windwalker Media.

Welcome to our world, April!

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In This Issue
This Week’s Sponsor: “FAUSTINE,” by Imogen Rose
It’s Here At Last! NOTEPAD: The Full-Featured, User-Friendly, Time-Saving Kindle App That We Have Been Waiting For
Kindle’s Real Page Numbers
A Few Tidbits from the Kindle Store
Around the Kindlesphere – March 18: Kindle Tablet Rumors Redux, More Revolution
From Kindle Kids’ Corner: 6th Grader Elizabeth G. Reviews Palace of Mirrors By Margaret Peterson Haddix: “All girls should read this book”
From Kindle Kids’ Corner: 6th Grader Margaret Ruth O. Reviews Calling by K. R. Schulteis: “Once the story plot started rolling, I was personally enthralled and refused to put it down until I was finished.”
Kindle Nation Free Book Alert: Over 200 Free Contemporary Titles on Kindle!

Kindle Nation’s Free Weekly Digest, January 27, 2011: Kindle Tips, Kindle Lending, Kindle Freebies, and the Kindle Revolution

IN THIS ISSUE – CLICK ON THE TITLES TO READ:
The Kindle Revolution and the Bottom Line: Amazon to Announce 2010 Corporate Earnings After Stock Market Close Today, January 27, 2011
Kindle’s New Lending Program May Not Be for Everyone, But It’s Definitely for Some: Lending & Borrowing Grow By Leaps and Bounds Through New “Kindle Lending Club”
From the Kindle Nation Mail Bag: Kindle User Tip – The Kindle Clock: Setting and Finding The Time on Your Kindle
INCOMING! IDENTIFY! IDENTIFY! Yes, It’s the Kindle Revolution
Kindle Nation Free Book Alert: Over 200 Free Contemporary Books!
Kindle Nation Weekly Sponsor:
A Novel by Deborah Wallis
another 5-star read @ just $2.99!

Deborah, I just finished listening to the excerpt on my Kindle and I’ve gotta say you’ve hit the sweet spot. Even though the genre is not usually my cup of tea I could tell right away that you’ve got terrific command of the tools of your trade as a novelist. I’m setting it up … as a Free Kindle Nation Short, and I will be in touch. Cheers, Steve
That’s the email message I sent immediately after I first read the work of this week’s sponsor, debut thriller novelist Deborah Wallis, and I meant every word. We’ve had three previous Free Kindle Nation Shorts authors who have turned up later signing AmazonEncore contracts, and after reading Sweet Dreams and Flying Machines: Murder at Cherry Point it would not surprise me a bit if Deborah Wallis turns out to be the third.
Here’s the set-up:
For the first time in more than a year, Abby Weaver’s family is together when her husband, Major Danny Weaver, returns home safely from Iraq. But only a few months later, a twist of fate puts him in the cockpit of a Harrier spinning out of control during the Cherry Point Air Show. Abby and her six-year-old son, Chris, watch in horror as their lives explode in a fiery crash on the tarmac in front of them.
Was it an accident or murder? Determined to find out what happened, Abby is drawn into the same sordid squadron secrets that Danny had stumbled onto before his death, secrets someone may have wanted concealed badly enough to kill for. As she hunts the person she believes murdered her husband, Abby becomes the hunted in this heart-pounding page-turner.

And here’s another author’s take:
It has become a cliche to say that you couldn t put a book down, but I literally stayed up all night turning the pages of Deborah Wallis’s new thriller. Sweet Dreams and Flying Machines: Murder at Cherry Point gives the reader a rare glimpse behind the Marine Corps chain link fences. This rip-snorting read offers real insights into the day-to-day events, the politics, the competition, and, yes, the intrigues of the military life. And it will keep you biting your nails the whole time.
–Edward Barnes Ellis, author of In This Small Place

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