Free Book (Kindle/nook) - How to Be a Writer

How to Be a Writer: Building Your Creative Skills Through Practice and Play, by Barbara Baig, is free in the Kindle store and from Barnes & Noble.

Book Description
Athletes practice. Musicians practice. As a writer you need to do the same. Whether you have dreams of writing a novel or a memoir or a collection of poems, or you simply want to improve your everyday writing, this innovative book will show you how to build your skills by way of practice.

Through playful and purposeful exercises, you'll develop your natural aptitude for communication, strengthening your ability to come up with things to say, and your ability to get those things into the minds (and the hearts) of readers. You'll learn to:

• Train and develop your writer's powers?creativity, memory, observation, imagination, curiosity, and the subconscious
• Understand the true nature of the relationship between you and your readers
• Find your writer's voice
• Get required writing projects done so you have more time for the writing you want to do
• And much more

Empowering and down-to-earth, How to Be a Writer gives you the tools you need, and tells you what (and how) to practice so that you can become the writer you want to be.

Get the free ebook from Barnes & Noble.

Free Audiobook - The Heavenly Man

Christianaudio's free audiobook this month is The Heavenly Man ($9.99 Kindle), by Brother Yun, narrated by Christopher Jean.

Book Description
You've seen the headlines - government crackdowns on Chinese house churches; mass arrests and human rights violations...But this intensely dramatic autobiography makes it real! Learn how God took a young half-starved boy from Henan Province and enabled him to stand strong on the front lines for Jesus, braving horrific opposition and impossible odds.

The dramatic autobiography of one of China's dedicated, courageous, and intensely persecuted house church leaders. This is the gripping story of how God took a young, half-starved boy from a poor village in Henan province and placed him on the front line for Jesus, in the face of impossible odds. Instead of focusing on the many miracles or experiences of suffering, however, Yun prefers to focus on the character and beauty of Jesus.

Interspersed with his personal account are contributions from his wife, Deling, made mostly during her husband's frequent periods of imprisonment. You will remember where you were the first time you read this life story. It's a watershed book that will turn the reader to prayer and praise. It deserves comparison with past classics such as Tortured for Christ by Richard Wurmbrand, or the Life of Watchman Nee.

Get the free audio download HERE and scroll down the page for the $4.98 discounted titles for this month. The checkout process is very streamlined (a coupon code is no longer required), as is the download process (no longer do you have to download each part of the book separately). You can also send a gift download of the free audiobook to someone else!

After finishing your order, download a zip file with the entire audiobook: select MP3 if you want to be able to play the book on your Kindle (M4B for the iOS, iTunes or QuickTime). Unzip the contents to the \audiobooks directory on your Kindle (not \music) in order to have audiobook controls and see it on your Kindle home page.

Free Kindle Game - Pixel Perfect Holiday Puzzles

Pixel Perfect Holiday Puzzles is a new, free game for Kindle.

Game Description
Pixel Perfect Holiday Puzzles is a logic puzzle game that challenges you to make a picture from numerical clues.

This sequel to the popular Pixel Perfect Puzzles gives you 50 new holiday and winter themed pictures to reveal. Each clue tells you where to draw a run of consecutive black squares. The clues in a row or column appear in the same order as the runs in the puzzle grid, with at least one empty square between each run. Start with the largest clues first, and then cross out squares that you know should be empty. This will allow you to narrow down the possibilities and logically determine the remaining squares.

The challenges can be tough, but there are 3 hints available on each puzzle to help you out if you get stuck. The game can even find and erase errors at any time. Time, hints used, and errors are tracked for each puzzle. Can you discover every picture?

If you like using logic to solve puzzles, you will love Pixel Perfect Holiday Puzzles!

Save 50% on select Kindle covers (KSO)

This offer is only for those with the brand new $79 Kindle.

Save 50% on select Kindle covers at Amazon.com

Click on offer, then click on the link on the offer page to receive an email with the promotion code. Sign-up for this offer expires on November 8.

You'll get an email (right away), a link to the Kindle Special Offer page and a promotion code to enter at checkout. Once you have the promotional code, you have until November 30 to complete your purchase. Like previous offers, this one requires you to use the full checkout process in order to enter your promotional code. Also, like all Amazon sales that use promotional codes, if you have a gift card balance, you must use it for the payment (if there is not a sufficient balance, then you can pick which credit card or other payment to use).

Limit one offer per customer and per device.

If you have a Kindle and were frustrated by receiving the last cover offer for the Kindle Keyboard instead, then you'll be very happy to find that only you have this offer on your Kindle this morning. It's the one that should have been sent out to you in the first place, with covers that fit your device. Be sure to not the expiration date, as it is the same November 30 as the other offer. If you are a two-device family, that means you actually now have a code for both an Amazon cover for the KK and a third-party case for the K4 (most also fit the upcoming Touch) and, for a few of you, an additional credit from Amazon when you protested that the cover offer you received wasn't one you could use.

If you've been thinking about getting one of the new Kindles, you can probably get this delivered (with overnight or 2nd day delivery by the 8th) and sign up for the offer before it is over, letting you grab the cover at half price to go with it. Even the most expensive covers would then yield a total cost of under $100 for a back-up reader (with access to Special Offers) or as a gift. For those with Prime, you'd also be able to use it to access the new Kindle Lending Library (which requires a physical Kindle device, not an app).

Get $15 off Disney toys (KSO)

This offer is only for those with a Kindle with Special Offers:

Get $15 off a $30 purchase of select Disney toys

Click on the offer, then click on the link on the offer page to receive an email with the offer details. Sign-up for this offer expires on November 8.

You'll get an email (right away), a link to the Special Offer details page and a promotion code to enter at checkout. Once you have the promotional code, you have until December 8 to complete your purchase (less than the usual one month for KSO offers). Like previous offers, this one requires you to use the full checkout process in order to enter your promotional code.

Limit one offer per customer and per device.

It must be nearly Christmas! If you have small children to buy for this year, you'll no doubt find at least one toy on the pages that they don't already have. For older kids, the selection is a bit slimmer (and they'll all want whatever is the hot "in" toy or a new computer/video game this year, anyway).