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Warning: If You’re Obsessed With Facebook or Meg Cabot, This Book May Make Your Obsession Worse… Emily Craven’s The Grand Adventures of Madeline Cain: Photographer Extraordinaire – Now $2.99 on Kindle

4.2 stars – 4 Reviews
Text-to-Speech and Lending: Enabled
Here’s the set-up:

Warning: If you’re obsessed with Facebook or Meg Cabot, this book may make your obsession worse…

Newsfeed [Share your thoughts]

Madeline Cain Photographer Extraordinaire: Put this on your status if you know someone (or are related to someone) who has been eaten by dragons. Dragons are nearly unstoppable and in case you didn’t know, they can breathe fire. 93% of people won’t copy and paste this, because they have already been eaten by dragons. The other 7% are sitting in the shower armed with fire extinguishers. Posted 15 hours ago [Comment . Like]

Madeline has achieved her dream, acceptance into world famous photographer, Jason I’Anson’s, exclusive college in New York. Like many people of her generation who travel overseas, she turns to Facebook as a medium to pass on news and keep in touch with her family and friends. But her move from the sleepy Australian town of Adelaide to New York City doesn’t exactly turn out as she expected. From her first meeting with her chain smoking, club crazy house mate and his superhero Mexican Chameleon, Duncan (who can move from one side of the room to the other in a blink of eye), she knew she was in for an interesting time. Add an umbrella rigged by her brother to yell abuse at surrounding pedestrians when it rains, pizza deliveries to porn sets and being pulled in by the FBI for questioning after an explorative stint into spy photography, and things move from the interesting to the ridiculous.

Egged on by her Australian Facebook friends, Kathy the hypochondriac and Tim, who has a strange sexual affinity for electrical appliances, Madeline tries to find her feet in the big city. But this may be harder for her to achieve than first thought, after she accidentally blackmails a famous model cheating on her boyfriend.

In a world of status updates, blogs and photographic file sharing, where everyone who adds you can follow your every move, how the hell is Madeline supposed to get out of the hole she found herself in?

Now With Bonus Interactive Facebook Experience!

With this e-book, the story doesn’t stay on the page. Taking advantage of the age of social media, readers can now interact with the main characters from Madeline Cain on Facebook. Each character has their own page where readers will find the characters interacting and posting additional pictures, videos and more.

Want To Interact With The Madeline Cain Characters? Like These Pages and Go For It!

Madeline Cain: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Madeline-Cain-Photographer-Extraordinaire/356028377811581

Kathy Bloomingdale: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Kathy-Bloomingdale/151872998286810

Tim Gleeve: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Tim-Gleeve/388278984571159

Cliff Wheeland: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Cliff-Wheeland/342013429222254

Kevin Doherty: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Kevin-Doherty/114717295344806

Nadine Cain: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Nadine-Cain/279557205477617

Mike Cain: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Mike-Cain/272973269473387

Kim Enuik: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Kim-Enuik/464043710284210

Can’t wait to read another Facebook novel? Why not check out Jake’s Page?
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Jakes-Page-A-Short-Story-and-Play/409510559113326

One Reviewer Notes

“The Grand Adventures of Madeline Cain: Photographer Extraordinaire is an engrossing work of young adult fiction that promises to reach beyond young adult audiences into the worlds of twenty-somethings, and provides a story narrated in modern snippets of detail from announcements and texts to Facebook posts. Add romances, betrayals, and blackmail to the mix and you have a rollicking set of encounters at home and abroad, all fueled by the spunky persona of a girl determined to live life to its fullest – and share her experiences with friends and loved ones.” ~ Diane Donovan, e-book reviewer, Midwest Book Review 

About The Author
Emily Craven was first inspired to placed pen to paper when she was 12, after she learnt her favourite author, Isobelle Carmody, began her first novel at 14. Emily finished the first draft of her fantasy and travel novel manuscripts while completing a Bachelor of Science (Space Science and Astrophysics and Geophysics) at the University of Adelaide. So technically, she can claim to be an astrophysicist (stars), geophysicist (rocks) and writer (crazy). She writes YA fiction, Fantasy and non-fiction

Emily lives in Australia and yes, back when she was a teenager her high school had its own herd of Kangaroos. She’s been to almost every continent (Africa being her weakness in continent-domination) and has the pretty photographs to prove it (though probably less professional then Madeline Cain…).

In 2010 Emily decided life wasn’t interesting enough and decided trying to write a novel in a month. Definitely not insane enough to try writing a fantasy novel, she chose to do a comedy based in Facebook. She created a Facebook event and threw her plot line to the winds, asking her assortment of friends to give her their best ideas, which included chameleons, umbrella’s called Laani, triplets, a transvestite dwarf book club and a group of disturbed university students. Emily sites November 2010 as the only month she could legitimately claim her hours on Facebook as “research”. She then went one step further with her creation and gave her characters their own Facebook pages, where they run amok and poke fun at their creator.

UNUSUAL TALENTS OR HOBBIES:

She’s one of those insane people who gets excited at the thought of sky diving (though if you try to attach her to the end of a bungee cord she will take you down with her for your cruelty). She loves doing tribal belly dance, singing, is a self confessed Trekkie, and will never pass up a good bar of chocolate. If you put her anywhere in the vicinity of snow, please be aware of avalanches, we hear her squeals of excitement are at just the right pitch to trigger them.

THE SERIOUS STUFF:

Emily’s non-fiction piece entitled “Insert Hope Here”, a reflective piece on the digitisation of books, was published in the Australian literary magazine Voiceworks #84, ‘Pulp’. In the 2012 Aurealis Awards she was awarded the Kris Hemsbury Award for an emerging speculative fiction writer. For the last twelve months she has been mentored by world renowned fantasy author Isobelle Carmody, and is blogging about the lessons she learn at http://theoriginalfantasy.blogspot.com

For three years Emily has talked to experts from around the globe, including successful indie authors, publishers and the heads of online e-publishing giants. Concurrently she sought out expert mentors in the fields of internet marketing, social media and webinars, gathering all their combined knowledge and applying it to e-books, writing and publishing industry. This research resulted in the E-Book Revolution Blog (http://ebookrevolution.blogspot.com) where she talks about e-books and author marketing.

She has spoken on marketing and e-books for the Australian Society of Authors, If:Book Australia, the World Fantasy and the National Young Writers’ Festival in Newcastle. At this year’s Adelaide Writers’ Festival she created and facilitated Adelaide: Choose Your Own Adventure, a project run with If:Book Australia. This involved forming a team of writers to pen fictional choose-your-own-adventure-stories based in the Adelaide streets. These stories were accessed by scanning a QR code on posters located around the CBD with a smart phone to reveal the story. Currently she is blogging for If:Book Australia and Meanland and was invited as a guest blogger on Isobelle Carmody’s month long launch site for her e-book, Greylands. She offers authors and publishers consulting on author platforms and the e-book revolution.

Always striving to challenge herself, Emily wrote her first play (Jake’s Page) which was accepted into Urban Myth’s Out of the Boot program (SA). The play was dramaturged by Caroline Reid, and produced in June 2012.

Feel Free To Contact Emily Online!

Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/ebookrevolution

Twitter: @itsemcraven

Madeline Cain FB Page: http://www.facebook.com/GrandAdventuresOfMadelineCain

Blog: http://ebookrevolution.blogspot.com, http://theoriginalfantasy.blogspot.com

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All The Right Ingredients For a Gritty Historical Novel – Zemsta By Victoria Brown – 4.4 Stars & Bargain Priced at $2.99

Zemsta

by Victoria Brown

4.4 stars – 41 Reviews
Text-to-Speech and Lending: Enabled
Here’s the set-up:

What Drives Good People to Do Something Bad? As terrible revelations come to light, four people join together to commit an unspeakable act…

When a member of the privileged upper class frames a Polish immigrant for a socialite’s murder in 1920s Akron, the heart-pounding events that follow lead to a stunning and unexpected conclusion. This gripping tale of bigotry and class distinctions includes political corruption, greed, injustice, murder, and betrayal. While Albo Jablonski endures the atrocious conditions of the state penitentiary, his son Nickels, daughter Antonia, and their friends Kurt and Charlie are tormented by the knowledge that he is innocent. Zemsta is a powerful, character-driven story of three boyhood friends during the tumultuous days of Prohibition that explores the meaning of friendship, family, love, and loyalty.

Reviews

“Brown’s debut novel recounts how a young woman’s murder affects the lives of childhood friends. But it is the portrayal of real-world history–the height of Prohibition, the early days of cinema–that makes the book such a gem. A nostalgic, authentic novel that charms with its vintage hue.” –Kirkus Reviews

“Zemsta touches on social issues of the ’20s, when Akron was a stronghold of groups like the Ku Klux Klan that targeted not only African-Americans, but also Jewish, Catholic and immigrant workers who had been attracted by the labor boom of the rubber industry. There are many good historical details.” –Akron Beacon Journal

“Brown has layered Zemsta with multiple characters giving the story extensive width. I am more critical of writers who attempt to put their spin on history. Brown does not disappoint. Taking us into the early 1900s when America was first undertaking its grand social experiment known as Prohibition: Brown successfully navigates us through a history lesson of human corruption, while illuminating readers to a difficult and troublesome period in American history. I can easily see this book on a recommended reading list for high school or college students.” —Eric Wynn, Yahoo! Voices

“Brown has assembled all the right ingredients for a gritty historical novel. Prohibition-era Akron, Ohio, with its brutal factory conditions, corrupt wealth, and harsh class relations offers the backdrop for this novel about immigrants attempting to maintain the bonds of childhood friendship as life pulls them apart.”  –Publisher’s Weekly

From The Author
Zemsta makes an excellent choice for book clubs. If you are interested in having the author join your book club discussion by Skype, just send a note by e-mail (located in the back of the book) to set it up.
About The Author

Victoria Brown worked in the communications industry for over thirty years as President of her own firm, Victoria Brown Marketing Communications. Brown grew up in northwestern Pennsylvania and lived in Scituate on Boston’s south shore for many years. She has a degree from the Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University. She has two grown daughters and is currently basking in the sun in Boca Raton, Florida where she lives with her two miniature dachshunds Tallulah and Harriet and a cat named Puppy. Zemsta is her first novel.

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International Thriller Tsunami Connection by Michael James Gallagher – All Rave Reviews & A Steal at Just 99 Cents – Watch Book Trailer Here!

Tsunami Connection

by Michael James Gallagher

4.9 stars – 12 Reviews
Or currently FREE for Amazon Prime Members Via the Kindle Lending Library
Text-to-Speech and Lending: Enabled
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A Mossad sleeper, the clever and striking protagonist, Kefira, stumbles into a deadly world domination plot. A diabolical Russian Oligarch devises a frighteningly effective weapon of mass destruction, while the CIA knowingly lingers and procrastinates to see if the weapon’s target succumbs. An evil Fenian terrorist goes rogue during the ‘Arab Spring’ in a destabilized Middle-East. All the while, a despotic Russian President plots in an effort to influence prices in crude oil markets. To top it off, a sinister, though little known, powerful, yet clandestine, Chinese General watches events, waiting to pounce, using a new, highly secret weapon of mind control developed and tested on unwitting prisoners in the North Korean ‘Gulag’.
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About The Author
Michael James Gallagher is the debut author of an international thriller, Tsunami Connection, part one of The New World Order Trilogy, soon including The Hordes and The Returning Legions. His main characters, Kefira and Zak people original plots, participate in political and military intrigues and share believable passions. From page one the action, both emotional and real, turns the pages of the books. Kefira, the sensuous, intelligent and dedicated woman protagonist provides a new perspective on the world’s most thought provoking dilemmas. Michael James Gallagher loves to share life with family and friends, thrills to the flow of tango, and builds tall tales with his unique sense of humour and eclectic view of reality. His books will make you laugh, cry and yearn for his characters.

Michael James Gallagher also builds Internet-ready, language learning modules and participates in the development of second-language textbooks. He is currently working on the second book of the New World Order Trilogy: The Hordes.

Check out Michael’s blog at http://tsunamiconnectionmjg.blogspot.com/.

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Fantasy/Dystopian Hybrid The Exemeus by Folami and Abeni Morris – 4.3 Stars & $2.99 on Kindle

The Exemeus

by Folami Morris, Abeni Morris

4.3 stars – 26 Reviews
Text-to-Speech and Lending: Enabled
Here’s the set-up:

Hyalee Smith is dead, she just doesn’t know it yet.

Her short life was devoted to love and to hate. Love of the man who stole her heart, hate for the man who stole the world. Murdered by the government she swore to destroy, fate has given her another chance to make it right. But to save the planet, she needs the help of the most powerful mystic the world has ever seen—unfortunately he hasn’t been born yet.

In a world where fear is the only currency, Dephon has committed the ultimate crime: inspiring hope.

His only goal is to make it safely through ninth grade, but on a post-apocalyptic Earth run by the Treptonian government, it isn’t that simple. Heir to a legendary power, Dephon Johnson is the only threat to the government’s rule. And on Trepton, all threats must be eliminated. When hundreds of assassins are dispatched to neutralize him, Dephon is forced to fight back. His only chance of survival is to enlist the aid of the greatest warrior the world has ever known. The only problem is, she’s been dead for 13 years.

5-Star Amazon Reviews

“This book had it all, magic, romance, and adventure. I loved this book and can’t wait for the next one!!”

“I found this book to be incredibly engaging and an easy read. I could not put it down. From the opening you want to know what happens next. As far as stories go, this is some of the best character development I have seen. I can’t wait to read part 2. I recommend this to anyone with a vivid imagination or who wants to develop one.”

“Wrapped in the supernatural and a page turner for sure. I love this book, – the story flows in such a way it’s impossible to put down. Definitely a great ending. I’m addicted! Ready for the next one!!”

About The Authors

Folami and Abeni Morris are a sister-sister writing team. Together they wrote (and rewrote) The Exemeus, somehow managing to accomplish it without murdering one another. Despite their facial similarities, tendency to finish each other’s thoughts and stick up for each other constantly, no, they’re not twins and thus deserve their own individual bio. Folami Morris Folami grew up in the tiny city of San Mateo Ca, where nothing ever happens and no one ever leaves. She went to Xavier University for undergraduate, getting her B.A in physics and her B.S in Biology. After graduation she returned to California, to live in an even smaller city, where even less happens, Antioch Ca. During this time she escaped the monotony by hanging out with her imaginary friends Hyalee and Dephon, and by writing the Exemeus. She finally escaped to Queens NY and now realizes that quiet and tiny aren’t so bad. Abeni Morris As luck (and logic) would have it, Abeni grew up in the same tiny little town as her sister, then she too escaped to the tinier town of Antioch. She has yet to leave. She received her bachelor’s degree in early childhood development from Cal State East Bay. She is the mom of two amazing kids, who swear that they deserve a percentage of the book proceeds and a ton of the credit. At least she raised dreamers.
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Price Reduction! Just 99 Cents For Robert Steven Williams’ Smartly Comic And Darkly Entertaining My Year As A Clown – But Hurry! This Sale is Only For a Limited Time (Regularly $7.99)

My Year as a Clown

by Robert Steven Williams

4.6 stars – 22 Reviews
(On Sale! Regularly $7.99)
Text-to-Speech: Enabled

 

Here’s the set-up:

 

With My Year as a Clown, Williams introduces us to Chuck Morgan, a new kind of male hero–imperfect and uncertain–fumbling his way forward in the aftermath of the abrupt collapse of his 20-year marriage.

 

Initially, Chuck worries he’ll never have a relationship again, that he could stand in the lobby of a brothel with a hundred dollar bill plastered to his forehead and still not get lucky. But as his emotionally raw, 365-day odyssey unfolds, Chuck gradually relearns to live on his own, navigating the minefield of issues faced by the suddenly single–new routines, awkward dates, and even more awkward sex.

 

Edited by Joy Johannessen (Alice Sebold, Michael Cunningham, Amy Bloom), My Year As a Clown will attract fans of the new breed of novelists that includes Nick Hornby, Jonathan Tropper and Tom Perrotta. Like others in that distinguished group, Robert Steven Williams delivers a painfully honest glimpse into the modern male psyche while writing about both sexes with equal ease and grace in a way that’s both hilarious and heartbreaking at the same time.

 

Reviews

 

“With MY YEAR AS A CLOWN, Robert Steven Williams has written a terrific novel. He pulls back the curtain on male masculinity — showing us what a guy really goes through when dealing with the difficult mess of his beloved spouse’s infidelity and the ensuing divorce. Williams’ characters give us the real-deal:  a gut wrenching and often humourous look, showing us the everyday horrors of what it’s like to start all over again as one approaches middle age.” –Suzan-Lori Parks,  Pulitzer Prize winning playwright for Topdog/Underdog

 

“When we first meet Chuck Morgan, the main character in Robert Steven Williams’ new novel, My Year as a Clown, he’s broken, twisted and confused. And that’s what makes him so interesting. Like other intriguing literary heroes, Chuck is at his best after life has knocked him to the ground, forcing him to find a new way to be strong again; damaged maybe, but more confident this time, with a kinder, more open heart.” –Jimmie Dale Gilmore, singer, songwriter, guitarist, member of the Flatlanders

 

“Robert Steven Williams has written a novel of tremendous honesty, humor, and insight. His story of Philadelphia Eagles-loving Chuck Morgan, cast adrift on the rocky shoals of dating when his wife of twenty years suddenly leaves him, does for men what Bridget Jones’s Diary did for women.” –Joy Johannessen, editor (Alice Sebold, Amy Bloom, Michael Cunningham)

 

About The Author

 

Robert Steven Williams is an author, singer-songwriter, and musician. His debut novel, My Year as a Clown was published in December 2012 by Against the Grain Press.
As a writer, Williams was a finalist in the Raymond Carver Short Story Contest and was awarded a Squaw Valley Writers Community Thayer Scholarship. He attended Bread Loaf, Sewanee and the Squaw Valley Writers’ Conferences, and worked closely with the esteemed fiction writer, Barry Hannah. His short fiction has appeared in Carve Magazine, The Orange Coast Review, and the anthology Tall Tales and Short Stories Volume II. Additionally, he was the executive producer of the critically acclaimed BOOM! Studios CBGB Comic series and nominated for a 2011 Harvey Award for Best Anthology. Robert’s work has also appeared in Poets & Writers Magazine, Billboard, USA Today and LetterPress, a newsletter for writers. He is also co-author of the best-selling business book, The World’s Largest Market.

 

As a musician, Williams studied songwriting with Rosanne Cash, Jimmie Dale Gilmore, and several other top country writers. In 2005 he released the critically acclaimed CD “I Am Not My Job,” featuring Rachel Z (Peter Gabriel, Wayne Shorter) and Sloan Wainwright.
Check out Robert’s website at: http://www.robertstevenwilliams.com/
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Kindle Nation Daily Thriller Readers Alert! Taona Dumisani Chiveneko’s The Hangman’s Replacement: Sprout of Disruption (BOOK 1: CONSOLIDATED VERSION) **PLUS A Link to Enter This Week’s Kindle Fire HD Giveaway Sweepstakes

4.1 stars – 8 Reviews

Text-to-Speech and Lending: Enabled
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Here’s the set-up:

 

See why Kirkus Reviews calls this book “a thought-provoking, singularly strange and absorbing novel.”

  • “A desperate villager’s quest to become Zimbabwe’s newest executioner kicks off this intriguing debuthorror novel involving man-eating plants, organ harvesting and other uncanny oddities.
  • “A disconcerting parable exploded to epic proportions. The author renders its many characters, from the mad genius responsible for the impending botanic apocalypse, to the prostitute/undercover operative who falls in love with Abel, to the seemingly simple Abel himself, with frightening subtlety and detail. One member of the elite, called Doll Eyes, is described as follows: ‘Planted into the lower part of his skull was a jaw of menacing proportions. If someone ever tied to mug him at gunpoint, all he had to do was clench it. This alone would demoralize the robber.’ The boughs of this arboreal shocker threaten to creak under the weight of its ever-mounting plot, but they never quite crack. Instead, readers are left wondering just how deep the roots go.”

5-Star Reviews From Amazon

“The Hangman’s Replacement captured me from the first page and has engaged me ever since, keeping me awake and reading until the wee hours on several occasions! Its vivid characters, witty dialogue, intriguing plot, and sly, unexpected humor make it a great read. I highly recommend it.”

“Beautifully articulated, vividly described and outstandingly crafted. A unique novel with many twists and turns. Fantastical realism at its best! I would highly recommend this novel to anyone looking for a breath of fresh air and a compelling new voice. I am looking forward to the next installment!”

“This is a fascinating thriller, almost psychological thriller that has so many turns and curve balls, readers will never get bored. Great, Great Read!!”

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Over 125 Rave Reviews & FREE! S.J. Wright’s The Vampire’s Warden, a Paranormal Romance (Undead in Brown County #1)

126 Rave Reviews
Text-to-Speech and Lending: Enabled

Here’s the set-up:

It was a flash in the moonlight, a blur of motion like I’d never witnessed before. No human had the capacity to move like that. When I found myself face-to-face with him there in the meadow, I knew without a doubt that the journal was authentic. I knew that my grandfather hadn’t been crazy at all. Because a foot away from me stood a vampire. Sarah reads her grandfather’s journal in stunned disbelief. What was once her grandfather’s responsibility has passed to her father and now to her. She has become the Warden. Her life will never be the same.

Reviews

“I found this book to be unique in its approach to the typical vampire story. It’s far from typical it’s very different. I’m not going to give a spoiler here other than its storyline of the sentinel concept is awesome and very different. I can’t wait to read the next book in the series. Very Well Done. Buy it and read it now if you haven’t yet.” – KhloeZoe via B&N Review
“S.J. Wright is an author to be on the lookout for! Her writing style is fantastic, The world she created in The Vampire’s Warden was so real to me! I cannot wait for this series to continue!This is the best Vampire book I have read… and that is saying A LOT!” – MD_Christie via B&N Review
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