Today's Deals

Play the Puzzle contest at Kobo, daily thru Christmas!

For those that shop at Fictionwise, there is a 55% off coupon this weekend, 122311.

Amazon has priced 10 of their bestselling MP3 albums at $3.99, today only.

Additional formats on free books:

• Blood Rock (Kindle US)
• Twice Dead (Kindle US/EPUB)
• To Love Anew (Kindle US/nook)
• Mossy Creek (Kindle US/EPUB)
• The Goddess Of Fried Okra (Kindle US/EPUB)
• Imagine (Kindle/EPUB)
• Beyond The Misty Shore (Kindle/EPUB)
• The Wedding Gift (Kindle/EPUB)
• The Year She Fell (Kindle/EPUB)

Today is the last day to take advantage of these KSO deals:

• Buy one of 100 Humor titles for $1

The Immortalists ($0.99), by Kyle Mills, is today's Kindle Deal of the Day.

Book Description
Dr. Richard Draman is trying desperately to discover a cure for a disease that causes children to age at a wildly accelerated rate—a rare genetic condition that is killing his own daughter. When the husband of a colleague quietly gives him a copy of the classified work she was doing before her mysterious suicide, Draman finally sees a glimmer of hope. The conclusions are stunning, with the potential to not only turn the field of biology on its head, but reshape the world. Soon, though, he finds himself on the run, relentlessly pursued by a seemingly omnipotent group of men who will do whatever it takes to silence him.

The AmazonEncore edition of Grub ($1.54 / £0.99 UK), by Elise Blackwell, is the Kindle Deal of the day for those in the UK (the US edition is $7.99).

Book Description
This is a long overdue retelling of "New Grub Street" - George Gissing's classic satire of the Victorian literary marketplace. "Grub" chronicles the triumphs and humiliations of a group of young novelists living in and around New York City.

Eddie Renfros, on the brink of failure after his critically acclaimed first book, wants only to publish another novel and hang on to his beautiful wife, Amanda, who has her own literary ambitions and a bit of a roving eye. Among their circle are writers of every stripe-from the Machiavellian Jackson Miller to the 'experimental writer' Henry who lives in squalor while seeking the perfect sentence. Amid an assortment of scheming agents, editors, and hangers-on, each writer must negotiate the often competing demands of success and integrity, all while grappling with inner demons and the stabs of professional and personal jealousy. The question that nags at them is this: What is it to write a novel in the twenty-first century?

Pointedly funny and compassionate, "Grub" reveals what the publishing industry does to writers - and what writers do to themselves for the sake of art and to each other in the pursuit of celebrity.

Christmas Stories ($8.99 Kindle, $3.59 B&N), by Max Lucado, is the Nook Daily Find, price matched on Kindle.

Book Description
Celebrate Christmas with heartwarming tales and reflections by one of today's greatest storytellers.

Be inspired by the true meaning of the season with this spectacular collection of Max Lucado's favorite Christmas stories and reflections.

You'll be whisked away to the heavenly battle between angels and demons preceding Christ's birth. Then walk in the shoes of Joseph as he ponders the miracle before him. Travel to a small Texas town where a missing baby Jesus from a manger scene sets a modern day miracle in motion. And witness the story of Madeline, a prodigal girl who thinks she's lost everything until her dad gives everything to win her back one Christmas.

These and many more stories will lead you back to the manger-to be awed anew at the gift of Christ's birth.

Free Book (noDRM) - Of Noble Birth

Of Noble Birth ($2.99 Kindle), a historical romance by Brenda Novak, is today's free holiday gift at AllRomance. This full length novel is a three on the heat level at ARe.

Book Description
HE WAS A MAN WHO TOOK WHAT HE WANTED. AND HE WANTED HER.

To escape her cruel stepfather, seamstress Alexandra Cogsworth envisioned sailing far from England...though not as a captive aboard a pirate's ship.

Pirate captain Nathaniel Kent's strategy for exacting revenge on his coldhearted father involved taking a valuable hostage...not a seamstress he mistakenly thinks is his half sister.

Yet fate has designs of its own, landing them both on board the ROYAL VENGEANCE. At sea, Nathaniel intercepts and plunders his father's ships, all the while tormented by his illicit hunger for the tempting prisoner he thinks is his blood relation. And although Alexandra wants no part in this terrifying voyage, to reveal her true identity to the handsome, blue-eyed Nathaniel would invite danger. Not only would she become worthless cargo, but the revelation would surely unleash what she and Nathaniel have been fiercely battling--a rising undercurrent of impossible desire that could sweep them away for good.

Get the free ebook from from AllRomance. It's DRM-free, so you can download the Mobi edition for your Kindle. If you want more than one format, just repurchase, as downloading locks in a format.

Free Book (Kindle) - Blood Rock

Update: 12/24/11 Now free in the US Kindle store.

Blood Rock (US/UK), the second title in the Skindancer series by Anthony Francis, is free for UK customers in the Kindle store and from Kobo, courtesy of Bell Bridge Books. I expect it to be free for US Kindle customers by morning. I've read a review copy of this one and definitely recommend the series, which starts with Frost Moon (and which was free last August).

Book Description
Dakota Frost is back, and the ink is about to hit the fan-again.

Graffiti comes to life in the dark heart of Atlanta's oldest cemetery, slaying one of the city's best loved vampires before the eyes of his friend Dakota Frost. Deadly magick is at work on the city's walls, challenging even the amazing power of Dakota's tattoos to contain it. The hungry, graffiti magick loves to kill, and the Edgeworld is no longer safe from its own kind.

Dakota begins a harrowing journey to save those she loves and to discover the truth behind the spreading graffiti-even if that truth offends the vampires, alienates the werekin and creates police suspicion of her every action.

Saving Atlanta may cost her everything, including custody of her "adopted" weretiger daughter, Cinnamon. But failure is not an option. If the graffiti isn't stopped, Cinnamon could be the next victim.

Epic Award winner Anthony Francis writes the Skindancer series while working fulltime for "that famous search engine whose name begins with a 'G'."

Free Book (Kindle/EPUB) - Desperate Housedogs

Update: 12/24/11 Now free in the UK Kindle store.

Desperate Housedogs ($8.99 Kindle US/UK), by Sparkle Abbey, is free from Kobo, courtesy of Bell Bridge Books.

Book Description
When Caro Lamont, former psychologist turned pet therapist makes a house call to help Kevin Blackstone with his two misbehaving German Shepherd dogs, she expects frantic dogs, she expects a frantic dog owner, she even expects frantic neighbors. What she doesn’t expect is that two hours later the police will find Kevin dead, his dogs impounded; and that as the last person to see Kevin alive (well, except for the killer) she is suddenly a person of interest, at least according to Homicide Detective Judd Malone. Sparkle Abbey is the pseudonym of two mystery authors (Mary Lee Woods and Anita Carter). They are friends and neighbors as well as co-writers of the Pampered Pets Mystery Series. The pen name was created by combining the names of their rescue pets - Sparkle (Mary Lee’s cat) and Abbey (Anita’s dog). They reside in central Iowa, but if they could write anywhere, you would find them on the beach with their laptops and depending on the time of day either an iced tea or a margarita.

Get the free ebook from Kobo.

Free Book (Kindle/EPUB) - The Past Came Hunting

Update: 12/24/11 Now free in the UK Kindle store.

The Past Came Hunting ($8.99 Kindle US/UK), by Donell Bell, is free from Kobo, courtesy of Bell Bridge Books.

Book Description
Fifteen years ago a young Colorado Springs police officer arrested a teen runaway accused of aiding a convenience store robbery and attempted murder. She was innocent, but still served prison time briefly. Her testimony sent the real thief to jail for much longer. Now she’s a young widow raising a son, and the man she put in prison is free and seeking revenge. She moves to a home in a new neighborhood—then learns that her next-door neighbor is the by-the-book officer who arrested her. Now he’s a Colorado Springs P.D. Lieutenant. Like it or not, he may be the only one who can protect her and her son from the past he helped create.

Get the free ebook from Kobo.