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Thursday, December 30, 2010

Free and Bargain Roundup, Part II

A continuation of the earlier post...

eHarlequin's Deal of the Day is a free copy of Everything Changes, by Megan Hart, using coupon code CHANGESFREE during checkout.

Book Description
In Tempted, Anne gave in to her passion for both her husband, James, and his friend, Alex. Now it's time for Alex's side of the story...

When Jamie tells Alex he wants him to sleep with his wife, Alex thinks it will only lead to trouble. Sure, Alex thinks Anne is hot and they've talked about sharing a woman before, but that was a long time ago. Before Jamie knew what Alex really wanted.

Still, Alex can't resist the pleasure of being with Anne— and with Jamie...


Vonda N. McIntyre and BookView Cafe are giving away free downloads of Starfarers (out of print), the first title in her The Starfarers Quartet. On the product page, just click on the link for the format of your choice (note that if you want the entire quartet, it's cheaper to buy the combined edition that the remaining three volumes individually).

Book Description
The starship Starfarer is poised for our first voyage to another star system. The Alien Contact Team — physicist Victoria Fraser MacKenzie, geneticist Stephen Thomas Gregory, geographer Satoshi Lono, and alien contact specialist J.D. Sauvage — and the rest of the faculty and staff prepare for humanity’s most ambitious exploratory expedition.

But the world has changed. A new regime orders the vessel to be abandoned. It will be turned into an instrument of war.

What do the Starfarers do?

They do what any red-blooded Alien Contact Team would do.

They steal the starship.


A year ago, Simon & Schuster gave away copies of Wake ($7.99), by Lisa McMann (only in EPUB format, though). Today, you can get a free short story, Cabel, when signing up for their newsletter.

Book Description
If you loved Wake from Janie's perspective, wait till you hear Cabel's POV in a FREE online story!

Wake
For seventeen-year-old Janie, getting sucked into other people's dreams is getting old. Especially the falling dreams, the naked-but-nobody- notices dreams, and the sex-crazed dreams. Janie's seen enough fantasy booty to last her a lifetime.

She can't tell anybody about what she does -- they'd never believe her, or worse, they'd think she's a freak. So Janie lives on the fringe, cursed with an ability she doesn't want and can't control.

Then she falls into a gruesome nightmare, one that chills her to the bone. For the first time, Janie is more than a witness to someone else's twisted psyche. She is a participant....


Smallworld ($0.99), by Dominic Green, is free at B&N and on Smashwords. He's self-published this novel, but has other titles out under Simon & Schuster's label, such as Three Empires on the Nile: The Victorian Jihad, 1869-1899 ($17.99).

Book Description
Smallworld is like nothing you've ever read before... truly innovative speculative fiction from Hugo-nominated Brit SF writer Dominic Green.

Mount Ararat isn't your average extrasolar arable farming colony. A world the size of an asteroid yet having Earth-standard gravity, Mount Ararat plays host to a strangely confident family whose children are protected by the Devil, a mechanical killing machine, from such passers-by as Mr von Trapp (an escapee from a penal colony), the Made (manufactured humans being hunted by the State), and the super-rich clients of a gravitational health spa established at Mount Ararat's South Pole.


The Battle for Terra Two (out of print), by Stephen Ames Berry, is free on Smashwords.

Book Description
Earth is saved, the insectoid biofabs defeated by the arrival of the Kronarin fleet. But renegade biofabs have fled to an alternate Earth, where they’re breeding back to strength, readying a counterstrike. Biofab War hero John Harrison is sent to destroy their nest before a new generation hatches. It won’t be easy—on this twisted Earth he’s a rebel, on the run from the Fourth Reich.

The Six O'clock Rule, by AUTHOR, is 99 cents on Kindle and on Smashwords (but only in LRF format, so you'll need to convert it using Calibre).

Book Description
A midnight shootout on the beach gets the action going with a bang in this explosive story of illicit drugs and bizarre murders. As Detective Clay Randall and his team start to unravel clues, two names keep popping up: rogue ex-cop Roy Connor, and his high profile boss, defense attorney Tony Savoy.

Filled with plot twists and double-dealings, the investigation takes an unexpected turn when the trail leads inside police headquarters. The Six O’clock Rule puts friendship to the test as the lines between right and wrong become blurred.


Turing Evolved, by David Kitson, is a Smashwords freebie that I thought might be interesting.

Book Description
When Ex-DEMON pilot Jon Carlson meets beautiful humanitarian Rachel, it's a match made in HEAVEN. Literally, because Rachel's an ANGEL. She's also an AI controlled android of immense power and capability. As Jon finds himself drawn into the world of these enigmatic creations of mankind, he unknowingly becomes involved in a program to create autonomous superweapons intended to fight the next war.

Last, but not least, the authors who are on Backlist eBooks are having a sale - all Smashwords titles are 25% off, with the coupon codes listed.

About Backlist eBooks
Backlist Ebooks is comprised of print-published authors who have re-released our out-of-print backlist titles as reasonably priced ebooks.

Our authors include NYT and USA Today bestsellers, as well as those who have won major literary awards--including the Hugo, Nebula, RITA, Romantic Times and more.


JUDITH ARNOLD
Barefoot In the Grass: FU67F
Safe Harbor: KZ63U
Cry Uncle: NW96U
DEB BAKER
Murder Passes the Buck: BE32L
Cooking Can Be Murder: YT29R
Goodbye Dolly: LU87N
Dolly Departed: DS32V
Guise and Doll: YS48W
L.L. BARTLETT
Murder On The Mind:  HQ64W
Cheated By Death:  MU27U
PAMELA BURFORD
Snowed: SQ92G
Too Darn Hot: XA27A
MARSHA CANHAM
Bound by the Heart: QX32X
China Rose:  JY89V
Swept Away:  LT75U
The Wind and the Sea: DG47H
LILLIAN STEWART CARL
Shadows in Scarlet: RC63V
Ashes to Ashes: SK45M
The Secret Portrait: KT88R
JEFFREY A. CARVER
Eternity's End: ZN74L
The Chaos Chronicles (Books 1-3): YQ23G
Neptune Crossing: UV57T
Strange Attractors: DQ92A
The Infinite Sea: QT59N
CHRISTINA CROOKS
Thrill of the Chase: SS33U
L.A. Caveman: EF44W
LORI DEVOTI
Love is All Around: PC53C
DORANNA DURGIN
A Feral Darkness: RP73Q
Making the Rules: KC82M
Hidden Steel: DT24N
Deep River Reckoning: RR38S
LIBBY HELLMAN
Doubleback: ZD67N
Easy Innocence: YD45N
Nice Girl Does Noir, Vol. 1: XY48G
Nice Girl Does Noir, Vol. 2: MZ63X
MARY ELLEN HUGHES
Resort to Murder: RM35E
MELANIE JACKSON
Moving Violation: ZY27R
Devil of Bodmin Moor: PC54B
First Book of Dreams: Metropolis: DT55S
PATRICIA MCLINN
Widow Woman: WK82Y
Principal of Love: JA86V
A Stranger in the Family: GC93J
A Stranger to Love: UH88D
The Rancher Meets His Match: VC64Z
Hoops: QR37T
A New World: PE76E
Prelude to a Wedding: HW59F
Match Made in Wyoming: HQ42L
My Heart Remembers: DP33M
Rodeo Nights: HA65F
Lost and Found Groom: QA45G
The Games: BY64V
MARYANN MILLER
One Small Victory: HN66J
TERRY ODELL
When Danger Calls: QM38C
JULIE ORTOLON
Falling for You: EM35U
Lead Me On: GM55B
PATRICIA ROSEMOOR
The McKenna Legacy Trilogy: YW56S
See Me in Your Dreams: LV47J
Tell Me No Lies: JY28M
Touch Me in the Dark: LU49J
P.B. RYAN
Still Life With Murder: RR26A
Murder in a Mill Town: XQ88W
Death on Beacon Hill: TY27Q
Murder on Black Friday: JY34U
Murder in the North End: JW76P
A Bucket of Ashes: NK44D
PATRICIA RYAN
Falcon's Fire: GB82V
Heaven's Fire: BE22Y
Secret Thunder: MV43C
Wild Wind: CZ65G
Silken Threads: NJ38K
The Sun and the Moon: LQ35G
KATHRYN SHAY
After the Fire: LJ37C
On the Line: NM72R
Nothing More to Lose: ML42P
Someone to Believe In: AH23R
Close to You: HB72X
Taking the Heat: AZ69Y
Promises to Keep: CZ43M
Trust in Me: SW35W
Ties That Bind: UN96L
LAURIN WITTIG
Charming the Shrew (The MacLeods Book I): JT25E
Daring the Highlander (The MacLeods Book II): ZW37U
The Devil of Kilmartin: BV24U