Guest Kindle Nation Post: Experience Overwhelming Relief with THE BOOK OF AWFUL, by Romi Moondi

July 19, 2011 by KND

Guest Post by Romi Moondi

Once upon a time I was sad.
Then came “The Book of Awesome” by Neil Pasricha , which tries to make people feel glad.
This manufactured “happy” made me mad.
So I rebelled.
And that’s why The Book of Awful is available on Amazon.
This parody goes through one dreadful (and ridiculous) scenario after the next, to remind you how much worse life could really be.
Head lice is mentioned.
And deceitful online dating.
As well as nose hair if it grew to unlimited lengths.
Truly terrible things.

To cover off a vast array of concerns, the book is sectioned off into highly relevant topics for mankind (world issues, stalking, dating and romance, etc.). Sprinkled throughout are celebrity and pop culture references you may find relatable.
Most of all, I want to open your eyes to awful things you were completely unaware of, like… what we’d do if legal tender was switched to shrunken monkey heads, rendering all attempts at making counterfeit money unsuccessful. Or…what a challenge it would be to self-cuddle, if body pillows never existed.

By the end you won’t feel “awesome”…but overwhelming relief?

Highly probable.

The Book of Awful is available on Kindle Amazon US/UK/DE, at the low price of 99 CENTS for the summer.
To find out more about me you can visit my author page on Amazon and follow me on Twitter. Tweet-wise, I live by the following philosophy:

I DON’T tweet about my book, unless I’m re-tweeting someone else’s mention (which is a few times a week, max).
I DO have awkward run-ins in society that I tweet about…as well as my generally weird internal monologue. It’s a fun time.

Romi Moondi

(This is a sponsored post.)

Win Free Kindle eBooks in Author Melodie Campbell’s “WHAT’S BEHIND YOUR WALL?” CONTEST!

July 13, 2011 by KND

It may not surprise Kindle Nation readers that here at Kindle Nation we’re suckers for a contest, a sweepstakes, and we’re especially interested when there’s some originality involved! So it is in that spirit that we present this post from Melodie Campbell, author of Rowena Through the Wall:

“WHAT’S BEHIND YOUR WALL?” CONTEST!

Win Two Free Kindle eBooks! Details below.

Celebrate your summer escape with the perfect Beach Book,

Rowena Through the Wall

by Melodie Campbell

(Imajin Books)

On sale for $2.99! Limited time offer.

“Hot and hilarious!” Midwest Book Review

“Jack Sparrow meets Stephanie Plum” Former editor, Distant Suns

“I couldn’t put this one down!” Allbooks Review

When Rowena falls through her classroom wall into a medieval world, she doesn’t count on being kidnapped – not once but twice, dammit – and the stakes get higher as the men get hotter. Unwanted husbands keep piling up; not only that, she has eighteen-year-old Kendra to look out for and a war to prevent. Good thing she can go back through the wall…or can she?

“Thus begins one of the most fabulous fantasy adventures I’ve ever read.” Midwest Book Review.

An excerpt from the novel:

I jabbed a finger into Thane’s chest. ‘I’ve read more battle strategy than the whole freaking lot of you. I can shoot a gun as well as any man. And I can do it from horseback. So don’t give me any chauvinist crap about being a woman.”

More mumbling again.

Maybe it was the word’ gun,’ or maybe I lost them all at ‘chauvinist,’ I don’t know. Get a dictionary, people.

“Perhaps these times haven’t happened yet in our world,” Thane said gently.

He reached out but I backed away.

“No!” I said, furious. “This is too much. Where is the rule book here? I need to see a job description. What is the point of being queen in this piss-poor world, if it doesn’t come with any power?”

“Filled with brutal, sword-swinging danger, yet sexy and funny, you’ll be rooting for Row as she uses her head to stay alive, and her heart to find love.” Kelsey Lewis, author of Hot and Bothered

What’s Behind YOUR Wall Contest!

Everyone needs a little escape.

Tell us what is behind YOUR wall, for a chance to win two ebooks from Imajin books!

Deadline, July 31.

Details on Melodie’s comic blog, http://funnygirlmelodie.blogspot.com/2011/07/whats-behind-your-wall.html

About the author…
Melodie Campbell got her start writing comedy, so it’s no surprise that editors have called her fiction ‘wacky’ and ‘laugh-out-loud funny’. She has over 200 publications and has won 5 awards for fiction.

Website: www.melodiecampbell.com
Follow Melodie on Twitter: http://twitter.com/MelodieCampbell
Imajin Books: http://www.imajinbooks.blogspot.com/
We are grateful to Melodie Campbell for sponsoring this post on Kindle Nation.

Libby Fischer Hellmann’s ELLIE FOREMAN Mystery Series on Kindle: Think “Desperate Housewives meets 24”

July 12, 2011July 11, 2011 by KND

What do you get when you cross “Desperate Housewives” and “24?”

You get the Ellie Foreman mystery series, written by Libby Fischer Hellmann, an author with seven novels and over 18 short stories to her name.

Ellie Foreman, a single mother and video producer lives in the Chicago suburbs. She has a teenage daughter, a senior citizen father, and an ex-husband who shows up at the most inconvenient times. Fortunately, her dry sense of humor, her best friend Susan, and an occasional bottle of wine help get her through life’s bumps.

But Ellie also has a sharply-honed sense of fair play and justice, and those traits usually get her into trouble, especially when she runs afoul of neo-Nazis, the Russian mob, or scions of rich Chicago robber-barons. Make no mistake: the Ellie Foreman books are novels of suspense. In fact, most reviewers call them mystery-thrillers.

The four-book series has won multiple awards:

AN EYE FOR MURDER was nominated for an Anthony Award in 2003;
A PICTURE OF GUILT (2003) was nominated for a Ben Franklin award;
AN IMAGE OF DEATH (2004) and A SHOT TO DIE FOR (2005), both won Best Traditional Mystery at the Love is Murder conference.

What reviewers say about the series

“A masterful blend of politics, history, and suspense “—Publishers Weekly
“Hellmann knows what people are willing to die for and that knowledge makes her work shine.”—Chicago Tribune
“Highly recommended, even if you don’t live in Illinois…”—Chicago Sun-Times
“Ellie’s completely believable, because Hellmann writes believable. Her dialogue works… her characters, and her plot, even when unfamiliar or a little out-of-the-ordinary, are plausible.”— I Love A Mystery
“Excellent dialogue, intriguing relationships, and good descriptions… I love Ellie’s down-to-earth attitude… a credit to the series.”—Mystery News

Libby Fischer Hellmann is the author of SET THE NIGHT ON FIRE, a stand alone thriller which has been very popular with the citizens of Kindle Nation. She also writes the Ellie Foreman and Georgia Davis mystery series, and the two-volume short story collection, Nice Girl Does Noir. She also edited the highly praised crime fiction anthology, Chicago Blues. She has lived in the Chicago area over thirty years.

So if you’re in the mood for an established author who delivers a great mystery, the Ellie Foreman books are for you. Best of all, prices on all four Ellie books have just come down to $2.99 each.

Click here for more information about the books and the author

This is a sponsored post.

With Kailin Gow’s BITTER FROST on Kindle, Our Motto is “Be Prepared” … for a Great Character, a Great Read, and a Cliffhanger Ending That May Drive You to Keep Right on Reading!

July 8, 2011 by KND

Are you ready* for Bitter Frost, the first book in the popular, award-winning Frost Series by Kailin Gow?

Be prepared to meet a young woman you won’t be able to turn your back on in the form of half-fairy, half-human Breena Malloy, a 16-year-old girl who discovers she is the heir to the Summer Kingdom.

And be prepared for a cliffhanger ending. But the good news is that there’s plenty more to come in Kailin Gow’s Frost Series, and we suggest you may always want to keep the next book handy as you finish the one you are reading. But then, that’s one of the great things about the Kindle! You can stock up on entire series without adding an ounce of weight to your burden or your backpack!

Bitter Frost

by Kailin Gow

$4.99 on Kindle

Text to Speech and Lending: Enabled

Read Bitter Frost, the first book in the highly-popular award-wining Frost Series by Kailin Gow. Award-winning finalist of the 2011 International Book Awards in 2 categories: Multi-genres Fiction and in Women’s Literature. The Frost Series has topped the bestselling lists on Amazon when Bitter Frost was first introduced. This epic series about the magical world of Feyland where strong and noble fairies live, tells a tale of the rise of half-fairy, half-human Breena Malloy, a 16 year-old girl who discovers she is the heir to the Summer Kingdom. In her journey, she grows up fast, as Feyland is beautiful, but dangerous, and the two fey kingdoms Summer and Winter are at war. To complicate everything, Breena had always dreamed about a handsome young man, whom she learns was once her betrothed, the icy and cold Prince Kian, the Winter Prince and son to the Snow Queen, Queen of the Winter Kingdom. They were once betrothed, but now they’re mortal enemies. In a land of magic and war, can love, the most powerful of all magic, be stronger than fey laws and duty?

Read an excerpt here:

“The dream had come again, like the sun after a storm. It was the same dream that had come many times before, battering down the doors of my mind night after night since I was a child. It was the sort of dreams all girls dream, I suppose – a dream of mysterious worlds and hidden doorways, of leaves that breathe and make music when they are rustled in the wind, and rivers that bubble and froth with secrets. Dreams, my mother always told me, represent part of our unconsciousness – the place where we store the true parts of our soul, away from the rest of the world. My mother was an artist; she always thought this way. If it was true, then my true soul was a denizen of this strange and fantastical world. I often felt, in waking hours, that I was in exile, somehow – somehow less myself, less true, than I had been in my enchanted slumber. The real world was only a dream, only an echo, and in silent moments throughout the day it would hit me: I am not at home here.”

Learn more about the book and series. Watch the trailers here: http://kailingow.wordpress.com/the-frost-series/

Buy the Book on Kindle here:

Bitter Frost

by Kailin Gow

$4.99 on Kindle

Text to Speech and Lending: Enabled

*Suitable for age 13 and up. Contains mild language and kissing.

This Bitter Frost Kindle version includes a sneak peek at Kailin Gow’s newest book series Beautiful Beings. Also, found within the book itself is a way to enter to win a SIGNED Kindle from the author.

Kailin Gow in the News/Press

Author and Filmmaker Kailin Gow Featured on NBC as Guest on The Michael E. Gerber Show (June 17, 2011)

TheEDGEbooks.com’s Inaugural Author Kailin Gow Wins 7 Global Book Awards in the 2nd Annual International Book Awards, Winning the Most Awards in Fiction – CBS News (May 16, 2011)

Novelist Kailin Gow’s Young Adult Fairy Romance – Frost Kisses (Bitter Frost 4: Frost Series) and YA Vampire Action Romance – Blue Blood (PULSE Book 4) Hits Amazon’s Top 100 Bestselling Teen List – USA Today (April 14, 2011)

This post is sponsored by an author, publisher, or reader.

SUMMER SIZZLES WITH IMAJIN BOOKS’ MONTH-LONG KINDLE BOOK SALE – AND A FREE KINDLE GIVEAWAY COMING SOON!

July 5, 2011 by KND

This summer, “great things come in threes” at Imajin Books, and it’s all about readers and reviewers for our friends over there, because they love both! You can start out the summer with a big sale on their Kindle books and finish it up with a chance to win a free Kindle!

1. Celebrate first with a month long Summer eBook Sale: All of Imajin’s Kindle books will be on sale and priced from FREE to $2.99 all month during July 2011. See the complete list below for for quick links to their award-winning or bestselling fiction titles.

If you order Kindle ebooks via Amazon, you can visit any of our books’ Amazon pages (links in Books section) and you’ll see the new price listed. These prices will be in effect until August 1st, 2011.

WHALE SONG
UNDER A TEXAS STAR
THE RIVER
SKELETONS IN THE CLOSET & OTHER CREEPY STORIES
ROWENA THROUGH THE WALL
REMOTE CONTROL (This novelette is FREE via Smashwords and $0.99 on Amazon; feel free to get the mobi file FREE from Smashwords)
LANCELOT’S LADY
DIVINE JUSTICE (BOOK 2)
DIVINE INTERVENTION (BOOK 1)
CHILDREN OF THE FOG

2. This July and August during the Summer Reviewer Giveaway, Imajin Books is rewarding book reviewers and giving away FREE ebooks, plus the chance to win a Mystery Prize valued at least at $120.

Rules:

Borrow an Imajin Books title (ebook or paperback) from a friend or a lending site such as BookLending.com, or buy from your favourite retailer. Then post a review on Amazon, B&N or Goodreads. Only reviews posted between July 1, 2011 and August 31, 2011 qualify.
Email imajinbooks@shaw.ca with the links to your reviews.
You’ll receive 1 free ebook of your choice (from our titles). No obligation to review your ebook prize.
1 Mystery Prize valued at $120 (minimum) will be given away to one lucky winner.
Anyone, anywhere, 18+, can enter this giveaway. Void where prohibited. No purchase necessary. No cash value.
Imajin Books authors, their families and any subcontracted associates of Imajin Books are excluded from this contest.

3. During August 2011, check out the Summer Sizzler Scavenger Hunt and enter to win critically acclaimed ebooks, autographed paperbacks, and the chance to win a Kindle with wi-fi! On August 1st, be sure to visit http://www.imajinbooks.com to view the rules.

This post is sponsored by Imajin Books, which publishes “quality fiction beyond your wildest dreams”. Some of their novels include: Rowena Through the Wall by Melodie Campbell, Lancelot’s Lady by Cherish D’Angelo, Under a Texas Star by Alison Bruce, and Children of the Fog by Cheryl Kaye Tardif.

Happy reading!

"Gone with the Wind Meets Brokeback Mountain?" This terrific, life-affirming Civil War novel is much more than that: David Greene’s Unmentionables – Here’s a Free Sample

August 17, 2011February 24, 2011 by Steve Windwalker

I don’t go out on a limb like this for one of our sponsors more than two or three times a year, but I hope you will read David Greene’s novel Unmentionables, because it is a terrific, life-affirming read, unpretentiously priced at just $2.99.

I could care less about the little controversies that some will associate with it, because this book is so much better than you might expect if you focus on them. It should have a place in every reader’s library, and the sooner you make time to read it the sooner you will share the great experience I’ve had the past few days.

I’m not going to pigeon-hole Unmentionables by saying “think Gone with the Wind meets Brokeback Mountain,” because that wouldn’t do justice to the novelist’s achievement in recreating a historical world that seems to suggest the impossibilty that he might actually have been present for everything that happened just outside Margaret Mitchell’s earshot.

One reviewer wrote about recognizing, in David Greene’s prose, a style similar to that of Anthony Trollope or other 19th century novelists. Although that frankly did not strike me, I will say that one important element of Greene’s triumph here is strikingly reminiscent of the great tradition of English novelists from Eliot and Hardy to D.H. Lawrence. Part of what made the English novel of the 19th and early 20th century so compelling was the existence of class and social barriers that locked characters out from opportunities to live their dreams.

American culture has often tended to homogenize our experience and deny the existence of such barriers to focus on less compelling personal idiosyncracies, but the barriers are there, they have always been there, and in Unmentionables Greene gives resonance to those barriers, to their human cost, and to the passion and nobility that such barriers can inspire in “ordinary people.”

-Steve Windwalker

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