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Wednesday, June 22, 2011

Free Book (noDRM) - The Twisted Tale of Stormy Gale

The Twisted Tale of Stormy Gale ($2.39 Kindle), by Christine Bell, is free as a DRM-free EPUB from Carina Press, today only.

Book Description
I'm a time pirate—born in 1810, now a 21st-century woman. I travel through time trying to right wrongs without disrupting the fragile balance between what is and what can never be.

That's why it's vital that I go to 1836 and find the man who conned my brother out of his Time Travel Mechanism as quickly as possible. If the technology falls into the wrong hands, it could change the world as we know it. The notorious Duke of Leister definitely qualifies as the wrong hands. An amateur scientist of the slightly mad variety, he's bound to figure out how to use the TTM sooner rather than later.

I knew this wouldn't be easy. But I wasn't counting on him being as sexy as hell. Or winding up chained to his bed...


Click HERE to get the free book from Carina Press. Use coupon code TWISTEDFREE during checkout to drop the price to $0.00 before completing checkout (you should not have to enter any payment info). If you are having problems with the coupon code, try cutting and pasting the code, rather than typing it in, making sure you don't have a space at either end of the code. Also, check the time - these coupons are ONE DAY ONLY and the company cuts them off at midnight where they are (eastern time, US).

Tuesday, June 21, 2011

Free Book (EPUB) - How to Be a Gentleman

How to Be a Gentleman: A Timely Guide to Timeless Manners ($8.54 Kindle), by John Bridges, is free from Kobo as part of a Father's Day promotion (expires June 28), courtesy of Christian publisher Zondervan.

Book Description
How to Be a Gentleman: A Timely Guide to Timeless Manners is the revised and updated edition of the smash-hit How to Be a Gentleman and offers practical advice on being a gentleman in the twenty-first century.

Should you take your BlackBerry on vacation? What is the best way to accept a compliment? Is an e-mail an acceptable means of writing a Thank-You note? While the tenets of gracious behavior never change, the situations a gentleman faces do and have changed significantly in the last ten years. In this revised, updated, and expanded version of the bestselling How to Be a Gentleman, Bridges addresses new issues such as airport security, Bluetooth and BlackBerry usage, and appropriate internet and instant message communication. Still featured are topics ranging from how to receive a compliment to how to act at funerals. Certain to be the must-have guide for the modern gentleman, this revised edition will echo the success of its predecessor.


Click HERE to get the free book from Kobo. Be sure to use coupon code GENTLEMAN and double check the total after clicking Apply; if it's anything other than $0.00 when you click Buy, that's what you'll pay (and it can be difficult to get a refund from Kobo, just like most non-Amazon ebookstores).

Free Book (noDRM) - Demon's Fall

Demon's Fall ($2.39 Kindle), by Karalynn Lee, is free as a DRM-free EPUB from Carina Press, today only.

Book Description
She was an angel at the gates of Hell.

When Kenan, an incubus, finds a caged angel for sale in the Hellsgate marketplace, he sees her as a challenge. Certain that his skills in seduction will work as well on a heavenly creature as they do on mortal women, he buys Jahel, intent on having her soul as a novelty in his collection.

Knowing he must gain Jahel's trust if she is to come to his bed willingly, Kenan treats her more as his guest than as his slave. When she reveals what brought her to the mouth of Hell in the first place—retrieving the soul of a young girl she was guarding—he even offers to help her complete her mission.

Though he has promised Jahel freedom, Kenan soon realizes she has captured his heart instead. And as their passion for one another grows, they find themselves caught in a struggle between Heaven and Hell, one that will lead them to the very edge of the apocalypse...


Click HERE to get the free book from Carina Press. Use coupon code DEMONFREE during checkout to drop the price to $0.00 before completing checkout (you should not have to enter any payment info).

KSO Offers Update and Video Game Day at Amazon

First, for all of those that didn't get the $20 off $30 Tools offer (and a few that didn't get the $20 gift card offer that I heard from), go check your offers again this morning. It took a few days to get a reply from Amazon, but here is what they said when I complained about being skipped on an offer:
... In general, the special offers are updated regularly when your Kindle is connected wirelessly and sent to all our customers with no individual restrictions....
So, the offers should go to everyone, not to selected owners (as happened with this offer). Frankly, I think they may have done this on purpose, to see if anyone noticed, but it could have been a glitch at their end that "forgot" to send this offer to anyone who had had their KSO for more than a couple of weeks. In any case, this morning my KSO finally downloaded the Tools offer (it has WiFi on all the time and I checked it late last night before turning in). Today is the last day to sign up for that offer, so be sure to check your KSO if you want to get in on it (we have a month to use the credit, but only today to sign up).

The other big news this morning is that it appears to be Video Game Day for Amazon's Gold Box and Lightning Deals today. They have a great deal on the Xbox 360 Console with Kinect ($299.99), which comes with a $100 credit today (only). I like several of the exercise and other games on Kinect (hey, I can beat the pro bowler in the house using the bowling game!). The first game up in the Lightning Deals is for the Wii, but I see both XBox and PS3 represented in the upcoming selections.
Get a $100 Credit
Order the Xbox 360 4GB Console with Kinect and receive a $100 promotional credit toward the purchase of items shipped and sold by Amazon.com (certain exclusions apply, including Kindle books, MP3s, and video rentals and downloads). The promotional credit will be added directly to your Amazon.com account within two days after your order ships. Limit one per household. Offer valid when shipped and sold by Amazon.com. Amazon reserves the right to change or terminate this promotion at any time.

Monday, June 20, 2011

Free Book (noDRM) - The Debutante's Dilemma

The Debutante's Dilemma ($2.39 Kindle), by Elyse Mady, is free as a DRM-free EPUB from Carina Press, today only.

Book Description
One woman in search of passion

Miss Cecilia Hastings has achieved what every young lady hopes for during her first London season...in duplicate! She’s caught the eye of not one but two of England’s most eligible bachelors. Both Jeremy Battersley, Earl of Henley, and Richard Huxley, Duke of Wexford, are handsome, wealthy and kind, the epitome of proper gentlemen. But Cecilia doesn’t want proper, she wants passion. So she issues a challenge to her suitors: a kiss, so that she may choose between them.

Two men in love with the same woman

Friends since childhood, and compatriots on the battlefields of Spain, Jeremy and Richard have found that falling for the same woman has set them at odds and risks destroying their friendship forever. But a surprising invitation to a late-night garden tryst soon sets them on a course that neither of them could have anticipated. And these gentlemen quickly discover that love can take many forms...


Click HERE to get the free book from Carina Press. Use coupon code DEBUTANTEFREE during checkout to drop the price to $0.00 before completing checkout (you should not have to enter any payment info).