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Saturday, April 10, 2010

20th Century Ghosts for under a Buck!

You can buy the individual stories in 20th Century Ghosts, by Joe Hill (son of Stephen King), for 99 cents each or (for now) buy the entire collection for that same price. Get it while it lasts!

Book Description
Imogene is young and beautiful. She kisses like a movie star and knows everything about every film ever made. She's also dead and waiting in the Rosebud Theater for Alec Sheldon one afternoon in 1945...

Arthur Roth is a lonely kid with big ideas and a gift for attracting abuse. It isn't easy to make friends when you're the only inflatable boy in town....

Francis is unhappy. Francis was human once, but that was then. Now he's an eight-foot-tall locust and everyone in Calliphora will tremble when they hear him sing....

John Finney is locked in a basement that's stained with the blood of half a dozen other murdered children. In the cellar with him is an antique telephone, long since disconnected, but which rings at night with calls from the dead....

Celebrate the Masters with a Free Book and a Free Audiobook

Golf is Not a Game of Perfect ($15.99 Kindle), by Dr. Bob Rotella, is free to download at Audible this weekend.

Book Description
Dr. Bob Rotella is one of the hottest performance consultants in America today. Among his many professional clients are Nick Price (last year's Player of the Year), Tom Kite, Davis Love III, Pat Bradley, Brad Faxon, John Daly, and many others. Rotella, or "Doc," as most players refer to him, goes beyond just the usual mental aspects of the game and the reliance on specific techniques. What Rotella does here in this extraordinary book, and with his clients, is to create an attitude and a mindset about all aspects of a golfer's game, from mental preparation to competition. The most wonderful aspect of it all is that it is done in a conversational fashion, in a dynamic blend of anecdote and lesson. And, as some of the world's greatest golfers will attest, the results are spectacular. Golfers will improve their golf game and have more fun playing. Some of Rotella's maxims include:
  • On the first tee, a golfer must expect only two things of himself: to have fun, and to focus his mind properly on every shot.
  • Golfers must learn to love 'the challenge when they hit a ball into the rough, trees, or sand. The alternatives -- anger, fear, whining, and cheating -- do no good.
  • Confidence is crucial to good golf. Confidence is simply the aggregate of the thoughts you have about yourself.
  • It is more important to be decisive than to be correct when preparing to play any golf shot or putt.
Filled with delightful and insightful stories about golf and the golfers Rotella works with, Golf Is Not a Game of Perfect will improve the game of even the most casual weekend player.

Click HERE for the free audiobook.

The Road Hole Bunker Mystery ($2.99 Kindle), by William Meikle, is free at Smashwords this weekend.

Book Description
It is a routine case for Scottish private investigator John Royle-until a body turns up in the Road Hole Bunker at the 17th on the Old Course at St Andrews. Soon he's up to his ears in bodies and red herrings as the trail takes him through the social strata of town and gown, and the case grows to encompass the history, and the very future, of the old course itself.

Scottish writer William Meikle is author of more than 200 works of mystery, horror, and fantasy. Look for more Meikle books from Ghostwriter Publications.


Click HERE for the free download (keep a backup copy, as you can't save this one in your Smashwords library).

Game of the Day - Star Defender 4

Amazon's Game Download of the Day is a $2.99 download of Star Defender 4.

Book Description
  • Tons Of Cruel Enemies And Spacecraft.
  • 8 Gigantic Missions, Each With A Boss.
  • More Than 100 Breathtaking Levels.
  • Fantastic Bonus System.
Love Star Defender 3? Want more missions with crueler enemies? Then here you go! It's Star Defender 4, with 8 gigantic new missions, better weapons, uglier aliens and more! Jump right in as the battle heats up with a new war raging in the Galaxy! Pilot your way through more than 100 breathtaking levels filled with black holes to explore, strange spacecraft to attack and annoying insects to destroy! If you're longing for real war, then Star Defender 4 is for you!

All Romance Earth Day Free Book - The Bonding

The Bonding ($6.99 list), by Eliza Gayle, is the first in her Pentacles of Magick series and is free today at All Romance Ebooks as part of their Earth Day celebration this month.

Book Description
Four male witches. Two Sets of twins. Born with a dark curse. Unlimited power bequeathed to the four when used together. A seductive power that over time will destroy their souls. To fight the prophecy they are forced to live separately to save themselves.

When a Tarot Historian shows up with stolen family cards and a theory of balance, all hell breaks loose as Graelen and Rena race to uncover the clues that will break the curse.


To purchase: Click Add to Cart or Buy Now and you'll see an automatic discount for the full price of the book. Be sure to complete the entire check out process (which takes about three pages of clicking), all the way until you see a link for the download (I've missed a book or two in previous promotions at this site, as I thought I was done, but didn't get all they way thru to the end). Available in the following (usually drm-free) formats: HTML, Microsoft Reader, Mobipocket, Adobe Acrobat, Epub. If you want more than one format, you'll need to purchase the book more than once, but you get the discount each time.

There will be one of these a day, until April 21. I'll try to post the link each day, as I find out which one it is. If you find it first, feel free to leave note here in comments and I'll get a post up for everyone else.

Friday, April 9, 2010

All Romance Earth Day Free Book - Love Means No Shame

Love Means No Shame ($6.99 list), by Andrew Grey, is free today at All Romance Ebooks as part of their Earth Day celebration this month.

Book Description
Geoff is in the city, living the gay life to the hilt, when his father's death convinces him to return to the family farm. Discovering a young Amish man asleep in his barn, Geoff learns that Eli is spending a year away from the community before accepting baptism into the church. Despite their mutual attraction, Geoff is determined not to become involved with him, but Eli has discovered that Geoff shares his feelings and begins to court him, neatly capturing first Geoff's attention and then his heart.

Their budding relationship is threatened by closed-minded, gossipy relatives and the society at large, a whole new world to Eli, and he must decide whether to return to the community, his family, and the world and future he knows or to stay with Geoff and have faith in the power of love.


To purchase: Click Add to Cart or Buy Now and you'll see an automatic discount for the full price of the book. Be sure to complete the entire check out process (which takes about three pages of clicking), all the way until you see a link for the download (I've missed a book or two in previous promotions at this site, as I thought I was done, but didn't get all they way thru to the end). Available in the following (usually drm-free) formats: Adobe Acrobat, Epub, Microsoft Reader, Mobipocket. If you want more than one format, you'll need to purchase the book more than once, but you get the discount each time.

There will be one of these a day, until April 21. I'll try to post the link each day, as I find out which one it is. If you find it first, feel free to leave note here in comments and I'll get a post up for everyone else.