Two new Kindle Magazines

There are two new weekly magazines out for the Kindle - one to teach you how to manage your money, while the other seems to concentrate on ways to spend it!

Cash: Personal Finance for Real People has as it's goal to help American consumers evaluate their options for spending, saving and investing across the broad range of decisions they confront every day. More than ever in this country’s history, people are looking for tested, authoritative and practical help managing their money. To meet this need, CASH pulls the best advice and information from the dozens of different sources available to Tribune Media Services to tailor a continually-updated handbook to being a smart consumer. In addition to traditional investing and saving advice by experts like Andrew Leckey, Humberto Cruz and Kiplinger’s, CASH helps readers with questions like: Should you pay your kids to bring home good grades? Is it still a good idea to lease rather than purchase a car? Can you really save money by flying to India, staying in a luxury hotel and having local surgeons perform your coronary bypass?” CASH draws its material from experts and publications syndicated by TMS, providing a depth and breadth of resources unparalleled in a consumer publication. Among its many contributors are U.S. News and World Report, Kiplinger’s Money Power and Consumer News Service, Andrew Leckey’s Successful Investing, the Los Angeles’ Times’ premier financial columnist Kathy Kristof, health advice from the Mayo Clinic, Retire Smart by Mark Miller, Kids and Money by Steve Rosen, Ask the Builder by home repair guru TIM Carter, automotive advice and reviews from Jim Mateja, Travel advice from Rick Steves and Christopher Elliott, and many more. CASH features the following sections: Savvy Investing; Managing Your Money; Managing Your Career; Kids and Money; Retire Smart; Home, Family and Health; and Travel Smart .

The Escapist covers digital entertainment culture with a progressive editorial style for a mature audience of entertainment enthusiasts, industry insiders and other readers. Weekly magazine-style updates offer several perspectives on a single editorial focus, while daily features and staff editorials provide a look at a broader variety of topics.

You can get a two week trial for either or both magazines or buy a single issue at a time. With Cash, the current single issue price is actually less than the subscription (49 cents vs 2.99 2.49 now 1.49), while you save with the subscription on The Escapist (99 cents vs the same 2.99). The best deal, of course, is that first two weeks - you should get at least two and perhaps three issues at no charge whatsoever, which should be enough to decide if you really like them well enough to keep paying and whether you find the time to read them regularly.

(Formerly) Free Ebook on Kindle: Flood

In anticipation of the release of Andrew Vachss' 18th and final Burke thriller, Another Life, you can download the first book in the series, Flood, for FREE until January 3rd, 2009. you can can get Flood for $2.95. Although previously announced as a free download until January 3rd, over on the Kindle blog (and despite my snagging it for free when it was listed earlier today), the price has inexplicably been raised to $2.95 and the earlier interview and details have disappeared from the Kindle blog completely. Perhaps they were just loaded up early, but whatever the problem was, this book is still a bargain. Note that all of Vachss' books contain scenes of explicit violence, sex and child abuse (he is a child abuse advocate).

Amazon.com: There has been some discussion that Another Life might be the last novel in the Burke series. Do you see it that way? And if so, why?

Andrew Vachss: I don't just "see" it that way, I *wrote* it that way. Another Life is the coda to the Burke novels, the final chapter in a series that has been running since 1985.

Read the rest of the interview here. This is now missing from the Kindle blog, along with details on the free download.

Others in the Series at bargain prices:

Blue Belle $0.99
Strega $3.99
Safe House $3.99
Footsteps of the Hawk $3.99
Everybody Pays $4.05
Dead and Gone $4.16
Hard Candy $4.95
Sacrifice $4.99
False Allegations $4.99

And one other freebie, this one actually predates Flood: A Bomb Built in Hell. PDF format only, it and a few other downloads are available on the author's web site.

Finding Fantasy and Science Fiction Reviews

Over on Grasping the Wind, John Ottinger is putting out a roll call for all sites Fantasy and Science Fiction. Visit this post for a more up to date list, but here are the ones he has linked in so far:

The Accidental Bard
A Dribble Of Ink
Adventures in Reading
The Agony Column
The Antick Musings of G.B.H. Hornswoggler, Gent.
Barbara Martin
Bees (and Books) on The Knob
Bibliophile Stalker
Bibliosnark
BillWardWriter.com
Blog, Jvstin Style
Blood of the Muse
Bookgeeks
Bookslut
The Book Smugglers
Bookspotcentral
The Book Swede
Bookrastination
Breeni Books
Cheaper Ironies [pro columnist]
Cheryl's Musings
Critical Mass
Dark Wolf Fantasy Reviews
Darque Reviews
Dave Brendon's Fantasy and Sci-Fi Weblog
The Deckled Edge
Dragons, Heroes and Wizards
Dusk Before the Dawn
Enter the Octopus
Eve's Alexandria
Fantasy Book Critic
Fantasy Cafe
Fantasy Debut
Fantasy Book Reviews and News
Fantasy and Sci-fi Lovin' Blog
The Fix
The Foghorn Review
From a Sci-Fi Standpoint
The Galaxy Express
Galleycat
Genre Reviews
Graeme's Fantasy Book Review
Grasping for the Wind
The Green Man Review
Hasenpfeffer
Highlander's Book Reviews
io9
Jumpdrives and Cantrips
Literary Escapism
Michele Lee's Book Love
Monster Librarian
Mostly Harmless Books
My Favourite Books
Neth Space
NextRead
OF Blog of the Fallen
The Old Bat's Belfry
Outside of a Dog
Pat's Fantasy Hotlist
Piaw's Blog
Post-Weird Thoughts
Publisher's Weekly
Reading the Leaves
Realms of Speculative Fiction
Rob's Blog o' Stuff
Robots and Vamps
ScifiChick
SF Diplomat
SciFiGuy
Sci-Fi Songs [Musical Reviews]
Severian's Fantastic Worlds
SF Gospel
SF Reviews.net
SF Revu
SF Signal
SF Site
SFF World's Book Reviews
Silver Reviews
Speculative Fiction
Speculative Fiction Junkie
Speculative Horizons
Spontaneous Derivation
Sporadic Book Reviews
Stella Matutina
The Sword Review
Tangent Online
Temple Library Reviews
Tor.com [also a publisher]
The Road Not Taken
Un:Bound
Urban Fantasy Land
Vast and Cool and Unsympathetic
Variety SF
Walker of Worlds
Wands and Worlds
The Wertzone
WJ Fantasy Reviews
The World in a Satin Bag
WriteBlack

Foreign Language (other than English)

Cititor SF [Romanian, but with English Translation]

Elbakin.net [French]

Refurbished Kindles surface again

For those who are still searching for an Amazon Kindle (and who were not lucky enough to be at today's taping of Ellen, where the entire audience received a free Kindle and basket of other goodies from Amazon), the refurbished Kindles keep coming back in stock at Amazon. There were several up this morning at 11 am EST (this isn't the first time this was a good time to check - remember that 11 am EST is 8 am PST) and didn't sell out until after 11:30. From the comments on who grabbed one, there must have been at least dozen in stock today.

Be sure to read my earlier post about playing Kindle Lotto, or just remember to check www.tinyurl.com/RefurbKindle on a regular basis throughout the day.

Update, 5:35PM EST - They are back in stock again today. I've checked for the last 10 minutes and there has been at least one available.

New free ebook for Kindle: Secret Vampire

Secret Vampire by L. J. Smith

This is book 1 of the Night World No. 1 trilogy (Secret Vampire; Daughters of Darkness; Spellbinder) (which sells for $7.19). Rather than just a small sample, you can (for a limited time) get the entire first book for free!

So far, the second two trilogies are only available in paperback:
Night World No. 2: Dark Angel; The Chosen; Soulmate
Night World No. 3: Huntress, Black Dawn, Witchlight