Connie Hillman must come to grips with what happened in the remote Huron Mountains, where she survived an encounter with ghosts, giants and cannibalistic Weendigo.
Connie reflects on horrific events in the ancient Huron Mountains, located in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. Her former lover (and PhD advisor) Phil Waverly stumbles upon an ancient ceremonial site, which he believes will prove his theory of a Pre-Columbian Bronze Age civilization in the Great Lakes region. Can Connie stop Phil from opening a portal between worlds?
This volume also includes The Buck of Mulligan Plains. Henry Kincaid is hunting the biggest buck he has ever seen. A renowned outdoorsman, Henry always sought to be at one with the northern wilderness. Yet he never dreamed of attaining his goal in quite this manner. Meanwhile his lover, Lilith Gordon, fears she will lose him forever.
Future volumes in this series will involve ghosts, ghost ships, succubi, enchanted fish, sea monsters, pirates, mermaids, haunted forests and haunted mines, Manitou, fairies, daemons, the Eater of Souls, and much more.
This book captures your interest in the beginning with Connie Hillman’s grandfather telling about an unusual character appearing to help him.
It builds from that to the strange happenings in the mountains.
Very entertaining.
– Betty L. Pfeiffer, Amazon.com
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Charlotte Rowe has been cast in the role of medium from childhood, and studied under a clever fraud. But does she have a real vision?
Divination from the spirit world. Con artistry. Cats and mirrors. The implications of Freudian psychology. Death. Life. Birth. Murder.
And ice cream.
“If you like intelligent, complex stories of paranormal horror and disturbed psyches, you might want to take on Ice Cream Memories. But don’t say I didn’t warn you.” Web Fiction Guide
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Successful authors connect with their readers through a blog, website, myspace or facebook page, twitter, etc, etc. Over time they will have built up a loyal following of fans.
When you release a new ebook, it’s very easy to contact this existing fan base. However you will also want to reach new readers and hopefully convert them into loyal fans. One of the best ways of doing this is to announce your ebook on sites like this and publish your ebook on sites like Smashwords.com. This will put your ebook in front of new readers.
The problem is, how do you grab their attention? What makes your ebook stand out from the crowd?
The answer is genuine reviews from loyal readers. As soon as you launch your ebook on a new site, you need to mobilize your fans and let them know your ebook has appeared on the new site. Readers love to share a good book with others and introduce them to their favourite authors. You won’t need to explicitly ask your fans to leave a review on the new site. They will do it spontaneously.
Therefore whenever you launch your ebook on a new site, make sure you blog and tweet about it.
Like everything, this needs to be done in moderation. If you announce your ebook on hundreds of sites all over the internet and then expect your fans to leave a review on every one, they’ll very quickly get tired of it. Therefore choose a few, reputable sites that are likely to connect you with the most readers.
This tip is very similar to the practice of coordinating a large number of readers to purchase your book from Amazon on a specific day in order to promote your book up the Amazon sales charts.
Good luck!
(1 votes, average: 10.00 out of 10)
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Maria is occupied with trying to earn her doctorate, and she’s far too busy for adventures. But when the library books she needs are unexpectedly borrowed (by a dragon) she finds herself on a quest to find the books, the dragon, a sword, courage, and the greatest cake recipe in the world… not to mention the last chapter of her thesis
“a lovely, delightful little romp for anyone who loves books and fantasy and dragons and higher education and plucky heroines.”
— Carmen Machado
Author website
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Victoria Hudson is 29 and lives in the kind of small town where everyone knows everyone else. She has two great loves in her life — her cat, Mister, and reading books from her used bookstore.
She doesn’t see her life changing much in the future. She’s stuck. Until one night when she’s saved from probable danger by a mysterious stranger.
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Steven Colburn has moved around quite a bit during his lifetime, never really finding a place where he felt he could be comfortable. Until he buys an old homestead, and fate steps in to forever change his life and that of one of the town’s quiet entrepreneurs.
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A light romance with a paranormal twist.
I loved this. Perfect for women who like cats and want some spicy romance with a touch of the supernatural. It’s so good, I can’t believe it’s free!
– Catherine Thomas, Smashwords.com
Also available on feedbooks
(26 votes, average: 8.85 out of 10)
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Here are 10 of the best ebooks announced this year on eBooks Just Published. They have been chosen based on user reviews, star ratings, and uniqueness. Price was not considered compiling this list – it just so happens that 8 out 10 are free. Use this list to find some interesting reads for the holiday season.
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Allow me to introduce myself. I am Eaglethorpe Buxton, famed world traveler and story-teller. Of course you have heard of me, for my tales of the great heroes and their adventures have been repeated far and wide across the land.
Eaglethorpe Buxton, famed adventurer and story-teller is back, this time to put on a play about a sorceress. When the sorceress, subject of his play arrives with fire in her eyes, Eaglethorpe must pretend to be his good friend Ellwood. Will he pull off this charade and survive? And what happens when the real Ellwood shows up? One can never tell, especially when Eaglethorpe tells the story.
Praise for Eaglethorpe Buxton and the Elven Princess:
Haven’t read it. Won’t read it. End of Story. And I don’t think anyone else should read it.
- Dextius Winterborn, Story-teller’s Guild.
People aren’t really reading that? Are they?.
- Sir Roderick Bairn, Adventurer
You can’t believe a damn word that boy says. He was born to hang, I tell ya.
- Margram Buxton, Father
What is it exactly? Is it some kind of story book? No. No, I don’t want any.
-Queen Elleena I of Aerithraine
Join Eaglethorpe Buxton as he adventures across a magical world to in his quest for self-aggrandizement.
Eaglethorpe Buxton and the Sorceress is a short book by Wesley Allison, author of His Robot Girlfriend, and Princess of Amathar. Available now as a free ebook.
(1 votes, average: 10.00 out of 10)
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A follow-up to 2006′s Single, Cassingle is a new collection of stories by Jim Hanas that originally appeared, individually, in Fence, McSweeney’s, Bridge: Stories & Ideas, and Twelve Stories.
Toronto’s Eye Weekly recently wrote of Cassingle, “No matter the cut, this is writing that speaks American, in all its complexity.”
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We’ll probably look back on 2009 as the tipping point for ebooks. eBook sales have experienced phenomenal growth this year, a swag of new ebook readers have been released, including the Kindle 2 and the recently released Nook from B&N. In addition to the dedicated ebook readers, netbooks and the iPod touch and iPhone have become very capable and popular e-reading devices. There’s also been an explosion in the number of ebook sources, ranging from offerings by independent authors and publishers to those from major, traditional publishers who are finally making their bestsellers available in ebook format.
Despite this rapid progress things still have a long way to go before ebooks replace print to the same extent that digital music players have replaced CD players.
So is it a good time to purchase an e-reader? Yes, but only if you’re prepared to upgrade in 18 months or be stuck with a seriously outdated device. The competition in e-reading devices is hot and all manner of new devices are appearing on the market. Consumers have more choice and the strong competition is driving innovation.
Unfortunately, offsetting this positive innovation is the sad fact ebooks are still be sold wrapped in proprietary DRM. This means there is no guarantee the ebooks you buy today for your state of the art Kindle 2 will be able to be read on the next whizz-band e-reader from Sony or company XYZ.
Not only will you be stuck with an inferior e-reader, you won’t be able to move your library to a new device.
Thankfully not all ebooks are encumbered with DRM, thanks to publishing platforms such as Smashwords.com and other independent DRM-free publishers, so wherever possible you should buy DRM-free ebooks. DRM-free ebooks (especially those ebooks in the open ePub format) have the huge advantage of being able to be read on any e-reader, not just those available today but those to come in the future. It’s a bit like buying chicken at the supermarket – you should always try to buy free-range as it’s more ethical and better for you long term. However if you’re starving and there’s nothing else on offer, that battery farmed chicken sure looks tempting.
At some point I hope there will come a time when you’ll be able to guarantee that the ebook you buy today will be able to be read on all e-reading devices and the e-reader itself will have evolved to a point of refinement where they have become the norm for reading rather than the exception.
Until that time comes, you have a number of options. If you don’t mind reading from an LCD screen, then using an existing general purpose device such as a netbook or an iPhone/iPod makes good sense. Many actually prefer this reading experience to that provided by the e-ink displays of dedicated e-readers.
Another option is to convert your ebooks to audiobooks and listen to them on your iPod or MP3 player. This option has the advantage that you can listen to audiobooks at times when it’s impractical to read, like when you’re driving meaning you can pack a bit more reading time (or a lot if you have a long commute) into your day.
Finally, print is still a good option, unless you need to move house like we did last month. Then you’ll be amazed at how few books you can pack into a box before it becomes too heavy to lift and realize that advances in ebook technology cannot come quick enough!
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Free anthology of quality sci-fi & fantasy
Detective thrillers, political satire, family drama, fables, fable deconstructions, the mysteries of debugging: there’s something in this anthology for every fan. Contains nine original stories and five original artworks.
We found awesome fiction, bought it, and released it online under a Creative Commons license. We learned a lot, so the appendix, “How To Do This And Why,” has submission/rejection statistics, our budget, and some behind-the-scenes musings on process, supply and demand.
Some excerpts from the stories that got us over four stars on GoodReads:
Day-to-day life with a sponge golem was pleasant.
-“Daisy” by Andrew Willett (audio version)
Anyone who’d ever seen the Martian Ambassador would recognize it, the way he wielded it like his staff of office.
I frowned at Seeth. “So how does the Ambassador’s staff wind up broken on a street in the Crops, when the Ambassador is dying peacefully in his hotel room?”
“I guess that’s what I need you to find out.”
-“The Ambassador’s Staff” by Sherry D. Ramsey
Sarita kept feeding her, one bite after another. “You were the one who insisted on breast-feeding. Joshua and I would have been fine using formula. They’ve duplicated the ingredients found in breast milk, you know. Perfected it two decades ago.”
“It’s not the same,” Kate insisted. “I can’t prove it, but I’m sure it isn’t.”
-“Jump Space” by Mary Anne Mohanraj
Xanathan Kurtler didn’t die because of greed. Not his own, anyway. It wasn’t greed that made him plant those trees.
-“Goldenseed” by Therese Arkenberg
The technically proficient could breach the best software security systems by deliberately inducing errors in the hardware. Couldn’t the rational induce faith in themselves the same way?
-“Single-Bit Error” by Ken Liu
The crack of leather that followed hurt more than my own whipping.
You might think we’d never be dumb enough to eat Jilly Jallys again.
-“Friar Garden, Mister Samuel, and the Jilly Jally Butter Mints” by Carole Lanham
Those and more, available as HTML, PDF or print-on-demand physical book. Plus mobile editions:
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One of the most haunting mysteries in American history — The Lost Colony of Roanoke — comes roaring back to life in White Seed.
From Publishers Weekly: White Seed…hews closely to the record of Sir Walter Raleigh’s second doomed attempt to plant the British flag in Virginia… The depiction of the colony’s physical and moral disintegration between 1587 and 1590 — as drunken, cannibalistic soldiers mutiny and brutalize the settlers they were meant to protect, and as colonists confront disease, starvation and madness — evokes a harrowing sense of human fallibility. Readers…will find this saga, which…soon achieves page-turner velocity, to be both a dandy diversion and an entertaining education.
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Always discerning, often humorous, as often ‘deep’, Kapuscinski offers us his reflections on the Nature of Being. To explain his Perception of Reality, the author delves into ancient scriptures, as well as into the latest scientific discoveries.
INHOUSEPRESS presents the first of three volumes of Essays. Each volume includes 52 essays by Stanislaw Kapuscinski, architect, sculptor and prolific writer, who demonstrates his unique perspective on subjects as diverse as The Last Things, Phenomenology, Life, Power, Body and Soul, Freedom, Duality, Pleasure, Prayers, Traditions, Myth and Reality, Sex, Salvation, and many others. This collection helped the author to develop his philosophy, which hence manifests itself in his many novels. Seven of his novels written under the pen-name Stan I.S. Law, are available on Amazon.com and most major online distributors.
Complete list of essays can be viewed at http://stanlaw.ca/br1.html
(2 votes, average: 9.50 out of 10)
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