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Saturday, April 13, 2013

UK Kindle Daily Deal 4/13

Spartacus: The Gladiator (£1.19 UK), by Ben Kane, is the Kindle Deal of the day for those in the UK (the US edition is $8.89).
Book Description
Historically very little is known about Spartacus. We know that he came from Thrace, a land north of Greece, that he once fought in the Roman legions and that, during two fateful years, he led a slave army which nearly brought Rome to its knees.

In Ben Kane's brilliant novel, we meet Spartacus as he returns to Thrace, ready to settle down after a decade away. But a new king has usurped the throne. Treacherous and violent, he immediately seizes Spartacus and sells him to a Roman slave trader looking for new gladiators.

The odyssey has begun which will see Spartacus become one of the greatest legends of history, the hero of revolutionaries from Karl Marx to Che Guevara, immortalised on screen, and now brought to life in Ben Kane's great bestseller - a novel which takes the story to its halfway point and is continued in Spartacus: Rebellion.

Friday, April 12, 2013

Author Spotlight - Jocelynn Drake

In addition to Angel's Ink, currently free from B&N and Amazon, the rest of Jocelynn Drake's current catalog, both novels and novellas, are on sale for $0.99 today. This includes two prequel novellas for the Asylum Tales series (listed first) and the entire Dark Days series (six novels and a novella prequel). All of it is in preparation for the release of Dead Man's Deal, the second novel in the Asylum Tales series, which is currently available for pre-order, with a May 7th delivery date. For audiobook lovers, be sure to check out the companion audiobooks, which are a great deal on most of the titles.

Dead Man's Deal ($9.78 Kindle, $10.99 B&N) pre-order
Book Description
Dead Man's Deal by Jocelynn Drake continues the dark and dangerous adventures of a magical tattoo artist begun in Angel's Ink.

In a gritty urban fantasy world where elves, faeries, trolls, werewolves, and vampires swim free in a sea of humanity, sometimes you need an edge. Looking for a little love? Need some luck? Desperate for revenge? Gage can give you what you need. The most talented tattoo artist in town, he knows the right symbol and the right mix of ingredients and ink to achieve your heart's desire. One tattoo is all it takes. But remember, everything has its price.

The wizards know Gage is using forbidden magic, and they intend to punish him for his transgressions. Too bad if innocent humans and monsters—entire cities—get in the way. They will quell a nascent magical uprising and Gage will be the sacrifice they need. First, though, they have to find him.

The Asylum Interviews: Bronx ($0.99 Kindle, B&N, Kobo)
Book Description
The first of two prequel stories to Jocelynn Drake's Angel's Ink. It's not easy being a tattoo artist and a wizard, especially when you're in hiding. Or when a botched ink job has amplified an incubus's existing sex appeal into one that could wreck the whole town. And your only help is a troll.

The Asylum Interviews: Trixie ($0.99 Kindle, B&N, Kobo)
Book Description
The second of two prequel stories to Jocelynn Drake's Angel's Ink—the first novel in her new Asylum Tales series about a magical tattoo artist, Gage, and his friends: Trixie, a gorgeous elf who hides her true identity, and a hulking troll named Bronx.

Previously published in the print anthology Unbound, The Dead, the Damned, and the Forgotten ($0.99 Kindle, B&N, Kobo), is a novella outside of both series.
Book Description
A nightwalker is slain, and suspicion falls on Mira—Fire Starter—the last hope of her immortal race, in Jocelynn Drake's The Dead, the Damned, and the Forgotten.

Bound to Me ($0.99 Kindle, B&N, Kobo), is the novella prequel for the Dark Days series
Book Description
Mira, the heroine of Jocelynn Drake's New York Times bestselling Dark Days series, has been a nightwalker for centuries, traveling the globe as an enforcer for a secretive, powerful organization. In Bound to Me, for the first time, we travel back into Mira's distant past to see the great love affair that shaped her.

Nightwalker: Dark Days #1 ($0.99 Kindle, B&N, Kobo; $3.49 companion audiobook)
Book Description
For centuries Mira has been a nightwalker—an unstoppable enforcer for a mysterious organization that manipulates earth-shaking events from the darkest shadows. But elemental mastery over fire sets her apart from others of her night-prowling breed . . . and may be all that prevents her doom.

The foe she now faces is human: the vampire hunter called Danaus, who has already destroyed so many undead. For Mira, the time has come to hunt . . . or be hunted.

Dayhunter: Dark Days #2 ($0.99 Kindle, B&N, Kobo; $2.99 companion audiobook)
Book Description
A new day dawns blood red

A master of fire, Mira is the last hope for the world. For centuries she has secretly enforced the history-altering edicts of the Triad. Now she and her unlikely ally—the human vampire hunter, Danaus—have come to Venice, home of the nightwalker rulers. But there is no safety in the ancient city, for the threat of conflict is in the wind . . . with unholy alliances and earth-shattering betrayals taking hideous form in the shadows.

Banished for eons beyond the world's boundaries, the malevolent naturi prepare to feed once again upon a vulnerable earth—and treachery is opening wide the portal that will enable their dread re-emergence. The great battle that has always been Mira's destiny is looming, and she must remain powerful in the face of a shocking revelation: that Danaus, the only creature she dares to trust, is something more than the man he claims to be . . .

Dawnbreaker: Dark Days #3 ($0.99 Kindle, B&N, Kobo; $3.49 companion audiobook)
Book Description
The dawn brings new terror for the creatures of the night . . .

Those of her race fear Mira for the lethal fire she bends to her will—a power unique among nightwalkers, both a gift . . . and a curse.

The naturi despise Mira for what she is—as they prepare the final sacrifice that will destroy the barriers between the worlds. And once the naturi are unchained, blood, chaos, and horror will reign supreme on Earth.

Mira can trust only Danaus, the more-than-mortal vampire slayer, though he is sworn to destroy her kind. And now, as the day approaches when titanic forces will duel under cover of darkness, destiny draws them toward an apocalyptic confrontation at Machu Picchu. But all is not lost, for a wild card has been dealt to them: a rogue enemy princess who can change the balance of power and turn the dread tide.

Pray for Dawn: Dark Days #4 ($0.99 Kindle, B&N, Kobo; $3.49 companion audiobook)
Book Description
Vampire enforcer Mira must stop an ancient coven in Pray for Dawn, bestselling author Jocelynn Drake’s fourth action-packed Dark Days novel. A treat for fans of Laurell K. Hamilton, Charlaine Harris, and Kim Harrison—who has praised Drake’s Dark Days series as, “a must-read addition to the urban fantasy genre, filled both with action and satisfying characters”—Prey for Dawn will keep you reading well into the darkest part of the night.

Wait for Dusk: Dark Days #5 ($0.99 Kindle, B&N, Kobo)
Book Description
Vampire enforcer Mira must thwart the malevolent schemes of an ancient coven in the fifth action-packed Dark Days novel from New York Times bestselling author Jocelynn Drake. Wait for Dusk is gripping, stellar urban fantasy in the vein of Kim Harrison and Vicki Pettersson, with enough sensual heat to enthrall readers of Christine Feehan, J. R. Ward, and Jeaniene Frost.

Burn the Night: Dark Days #6 ($0.99 Kindle, B&N, Kobo)
Book Description
New York Times bestselling author Jocelynn Drake brings her remarkable Dark Days series to a stunning and dramatic conclusion with Burn the Night—a thrilling, page-turning masterwork of urban fantasy that brings the powerful Nightwalker Mira and her cohort, the conflicted vampire slayer Danaus, face to face with their most feared demons as the dreaded Great Awakening approaches. Burn the Night offers superior supernatural thrills and adventure in the bestselling tradition of Patricia Briggs, Carrie Vaughn, and Kelley Armstrong.

Blood by Moonlight ($0.99 Kindle, B&N, Kobo) is a short story anthology by Jocelynn Drake, Terri Garey and Caris Roane.
Book Description
Just in time for the scariest season of all, three popular paranormal authors come together to tell original tales of romance where Anything can happen under a Halloween moon . . .

Tempers flare and passions rise in Jocelynn Drake's Of Monsters and Men as the local werewolf pack clashes with the Winter Court's Wild Hunt . . .

In Terri Garey's The Ghoul Next Door, a witch and a warlock battle it out for possession of a haunted house, but the ghost may have her own agenda . . .

And, in Trick or Treathen by Caris Roane, a master vampire struggles to stay away from the mortal woman who enflames his very soul.

Audible Semi-Annual $9.95 Sale

It's time once again for Audible's Semi-Annual $9.95 or Less Sale. There are thousands of audiobooks included in the sale, with categories to browse thru including Editors' Picks, Mysteries & Thrillers, Romance, Fantasy, Science Fiction, History, Bios & Memoirs and Business & Self-Dev. If you have a wishlist set up, that's another good way to check for included titles, as the $6.95 sale price will be shown for any titles you've saved there to look at later.

Prices appear to be for those with a subscription membership only (monthly or Annual). You can always join Audible with a free Trial membership, get the sale prices and at the end of your trial, cancel and get the $10/year membership (offered during cancellation only) to continue getting sale prices in the future.

Sale ends April 26 @ 11:59 PM ET (US).

Free Nook App - Where Fairies Dwell

Hidden Object - Where Fairies Dwell ($1.99 Amazon), by DifferenceGames, is this week's Free Friday App from Barnes & Noble.
App Description
Where Fairies Dwell is a beautiful photo based hidden object game.
  • Find items by their pictures. This is the easiest mode and great for kids.
  • Find by items by the word. This is great if your child is just learning how to read and a slight step up in difficulty for everyone.
  • Find items by silhouette. This is a tricky way to play that will often surprise you once you finally find the correct object.
Hints are available if you get stuck and every play through the game will use a different set of items
Get the free App from Barnes & Noble.

Kindle Daily Deals 4/12

Today's Gold Box at Amazon is an extra $300 off a ProForm Pro 2000 Treadmill (total discount 60%).

This week's Deal of the Week in Software Downloads is 63% off Family Tree Heritage Platinum 8, 50% off Total 3D Home, Landscape & Deck V11, and 50% off TurboCAD Designer v19.

Amazon's Android Free App of the Day is Stocktile.

Sony has a 30% off coupon this weekend: 30FORYOU413. Be sure to apply the coupon to your account first, then use the "have coupon" checkbox on searches to find books that are eligible.

Today's Kindle Daily Deal is The Crown ($1.99), by Nancy Bilyeau [Simon and Schuster] and the companion audiobook is $3.99.
Book Description
The year is 1537…Joanna Stafford, a Dominican nun, learns that her favorite cousin has been condemned by Henry VIII to be burned at the stake. Defying the sacred rule of enclosure, Joanna leaves the priory to stand at her cousin’s side. Arrested for interfering with the king's justice, Joanna, along with her father, is sent to the Tower of London.

The ruthless Stephen Gardiner, Bishop of Winchester, takes terrifying steps to force Joanna to agree to spy for him: To save her father's life she must find an ancient relic—a crown so powerful, it may hold the ability to end the Reformation. Accompanied by two monks, Joanna searches in secret for this long-lost piece of history worn by the Saxon King Athelstan in A.D. 937 during the historic battle that first united Britain.

With Cromwell’s troops threatening to shutter her priory, bright and bold Joanna must now decide who she can trust with the secret of the crown so that she may save herself, her family, and her sacred way of life.

This provocative story melds heart-stopping suspense with historical detail and brings to life the poignant dramas of women and men at a fascinating and critical moment in England’s past.

Today's Kindle Romance Daily Deal is Carried Away ($1.99), by Jill Barnett [Bell Bridge Books].
Book Description
MacLachlan brothers Calum and Eachann need brides, but there are no women on their secluded island home. As the descendants of a displaced Highland clan, their lives are complicated, and their goals and methods for dealing with problems far from the same. Calum is the logical brother, solid and steady, while Eachann lives by his impulses. When widower Eachann’s two rebellious children are thrown out of their mainland boarding school, he decides it’s time for a wife. Fate all but hands him two women on a silver platter. So he kidnaps two brides, one to help him with his uncontrollable children, and one for his all-too-serious brother.

Debutantes Georgina Bayard and Amy Emerson are socially opposite, old money versus new, and both are the talk of the gossipy Four Hundred. While attending the same ball, they are swept away by a mad Scotsman. As captives on an isolated island, these two social enemies find themselves with only each other for support. Then, before the women can successfully escape, winter sets in and there is no way back to the mainland. They are stuck with the MacLachlans--two brothers and two completely unruly children. There, on that misty island, during a cold and blustery winter, Amy and Georgina must choose: to find some way to go back to their old lives, or take a chance and let their hearts get carried away….

Today's Kindle SciFi/Fantasy Daily Deal is Leviathan Wakes ($1.99), by James S.A. Corey [Orbit], and the companion audiobook is $4.99. Check your libraries, Daniel Abraham's The Dragon's Path includes an advanced reader copy of this title; otherwise, this is high quality military SciFi at a bargain price.
Book Description
Humanity has colonized the solar system - Mars, the Moon, the Asteroid Belt and beyond - but the stars are still out of our reach.

Jim Holden is XO of an ice miner making runs from the rings of Saturn to the mining stations of the Belt. When he and his crew stumble upon a derelict ship, The Scopuli, they find themselves in possession of a secret they never wanted. A secret that someone is willing to kill for - and kill on a scale unfathomable to Jim and his crew. War is brewing in the system unless he can find out who left the ship and why.

Detective Miller is looking for a girl. One girl in a system of billions, but her parents have money and money talks. When the trail leads him to The Scopuli and rebel sympathizer Holden, he realizes that this girl may be the key to everything.

Holden and Miller must thread the needle between the Earth government, the Outer Planet revolutionaries, and secretive corporations - and the odds are against them. But out in the Belt, the rules are different, and one small ship can change the fate of the universe.

Today's Kindle Kids Daily Deal is It's a Tiger! ($1.99), by David LaRochelle and Jeremy Tankard (Illustrator).
Book Description
Kids and parents alike will rejoice in this lively read-aloud picture book, as the main character runs into (and away from) a tiger over and over again as the plot gets sillier and sillier. Perfect for acting out while reading, It's a Tiger! offers just the right amount of excitement without being too scary, and a sweet ending with a bit of a twist.

Age Range: 2 - 5 years
This book requires Kindle Fire/HD or select Kindle Reading Apps (Kindle Cloud Reader, Kindle for iPad or Kindle for Android).