Empower: Fight Like A Girl - A Short Story Anthology to benefit the Lupus Foundation of America

Women of TV have united against lupus! Presenting Empower: Fight Like A Girl, a special collection of short stories by top women writers from some of your favorite shows, including: Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., Family Guy, Person of Interest, Grimm, Battlestar Galactica, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Law & Order: SVU, Star Trek: Voyager, Eureka, Twisted, The 100, Malcolm in the Middle, Millennium, Being Human, The Shield, Castle, Chuck, Gilmore Girls, and Game of Thrones. In this anthology, you'll discover supernatural thrillers, crime mysteries, horror, comedies, and more.

Praise for Empower: Fight Like A Girl

"Even non-girls will feel empowered by these stories about ordinary, flawed characters finding their own strengths. Highly entertaining and original."
- Lee Goldberg, New York Times bestselling author of The Chase and King City, whose mother lost her hearing to lupus.


Authors contributing stories to this volume include:

Amy Berg

Cherry Chevapravatdumrong

Akela Cooper

Liz Edwards

Jane Espenson

Shalisha Francis & Nadine Knight

Lisa Klink

Pang-Ni Landrum

Lauren LeFranc

Kam Miller

Jess Pineda

Jennifer Quintenz

Lisa Randolph

Kay Reindl

Kira Snyder

Jeane Wong

All proceeds will be donated to the non-profit Lupus Foundation of America to help solve the cruel mystery of lupus.

Get your copy of Empower: Fight Like A Girl from Amazon US or Amazon UK.

Happy Birthday, Red Adept Publishing

To Celebrate their first anniversary  and the publication of their first 8 books

Red Adept Publishing

Is having a giveaway.

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#Free today for your #Kindle

The author of each of these books has indicated their intent to schedule these books for a free day for the Kindle versions today on Amazon. Sometimes plans change or mistakes happen, so be sure to verify the price before hitting that "buy me" button. 

Season of Lies by Monica Shaughnessy

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Dead(ish) by Naomi Kramer

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A Chance for Charity by S.L. Baum

Amazon US

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Author's interested in having their free book featured either here on a Thursday or a sister site on a Monday, visit this page for details.

BigAl Exposed

See the interview BigAl did with Carol Wyer at her blog, Facing 50 with humour.

Tutorials and Tools for the Digital World

It isn't often you'll see a book featured here other than in a review. In fact, I think this is the first time it has happened. The reason it won't be reviewed is that I (as in BigAl) contributed one small portion. (If I were to review it, I'd be forced to say my contribution is the weakest.) First, here's the blurb:

Whether you are an author wanting to expand your book’s market or an entrepreneur selling candy-coated knitting baskets, you will benefit from an enhanced social media presence.

In Tutorials and Tools for Prospering in a Digital World Volume I you’ll find 62 step-by-step tutorials and tips/tools for everything from establishing a presence on multiple social media platforms to tools for optimizing your web presence to bonus tips tailored specifically for authors.

The award-winning and best-selling multi-national staff of Indies Unlimited brings you the ultimate guide for slapping social media into submission.

Knowledge is power. Fish is brain food. If you don’t have fish, you should at least have the Indies Unlimited Tutorials and Tools for Prospering in a Digital World Volume I. It smells way better than fish, and doesn’t require refrigeration. How can you go wrong?

While a small number of the sixty plus tips and tutorials are aimed specifically at authors, most are applicable to anyone with a web presence, whether business owner or book blogger. I read through this from cover to cover when it was released this past weekend and found several items I've put to immediate use.

Grab your copy now from either Amazon.com or Amazon UK.

BOOKS-a-FIRE Giveaway

This fall get ready to load your Kindle with great books by 13 awesome authors in the Books-a-Fire Giveaway! During the entire month of September, you’ll have the opportunity to win a New Kindle Fire and weekly prizes of Amazon Gift Cards.

Here are the details:

• There is NO PURCHASE NECESSARY to enter the contest to win a New Kindle Fire and Amazon Gift Cards. You may enter once at the Books-a-Fire website and enter again at the websites of each of the authors listed. That gives everyone additional free chances to win! Winning a gift card does not affect your chances of winning a Kindle Fire.
• The contest starts Sept 1, 2012 and ends at midnight Pacific Time Zone on Sept 30, 2012.
• The winner will be notified by e-mail and we will post the results on the Books-a-Fire website.
• Although buying a book does not increase your chances of winning, we encourage you to browse the books of the authors who are sponsoring this contest and buy the ones you like. Choose from a variety of genres, sure to please everyone on your list. Head on over and kindle your reading fires! Links to purchase the books are included with each book on the list.

There are plenty of ways to enter the contest and lots of good books by talented authors for you to buy. So head on over to the Books-a-Fire contest today!

Sale, sell, or sail (I can never get it right)

Seventeen books on sale (I think that's right) over the long holiday weekend in the US. Several I've read and, if you check the reviews, you'll know I'd recommend them.

More Free

More freebies today and and tomorrow from Free Partay.

Free is good.

Lots of free books today and tomorrow (8/2 and 8/3). For details visit Free Partay.

Were You Too Slow?

If you missed out on all the free books on Wednesday, many of those are now only 99 cents. Grab them before they raise the price again.


Visit IndieBookBlowout for details.

Hot Reads for a Cool Summer

Hot off the press!

WHAT:  This is your invitation to another block-buster Free ParTay, where the happy hour never ends—at least not until the midnight bells toll on the closing date.  Until then, this good time is guaranteed to be all about FREE!  Free ebooks for every appetite from award-winning and best-selling authors.

WHERE:  Just around the block!  Head on over to www.freepartay.com.  Weave in and out of all the category pages to find titles to tempt in every nook and cranny!

WHEN:  Wednesday and Thursday, July 11 – 12 only!  So load up, spread the word, and settle down to enjoy the goodies—wherever you may be.

DOOR PRIZES:  Of course! Don’t forget to sign up for chances to win Amazon gift cards and a new Kindle!

A Romantic Buffet?

That's right. A romantic buffet. And it's all you can eat read for ... not many dollars. A large group of romance authors have teamed up to offer a buffet of romance books of every flavor, from inspirational to romantic suspense and even erotica, for only $0.99 each, for a limited time (6/8/2012-6/22/2012). 


This is a great chance for romance readers to fill up your Kindle, Nook, or other eReader.


In addition, they're having a giveaway with lots of prizes. Those of you who love giveaways (Linda, I'm talking to you), should run over there now and see what the prizes are.


Visit The Book Lovers Buffet for details.