On this broadcast of Kindle Books Money, instead of covering a load of books, I focused on just three super interesting Kindle Fiction books in great detail. WOOL OMNIBUS (Wool 1-5)
Hugh Howey
$5.99
5 Stars (995 reviews!)
550 Pages
This Omnibus Edition collects the five Wool books into a single volume. It is for those who arrived late to the party and who wish to save a dollar or two while picking up the same stories in a single package.
The first Wool story was released as a standalone short in July of 2011. Due to reviewer demand, the rest of the story was released over the next six months. My thanks go out to those reviewers who clamored for more. Without you, none of this would exist. Your demand created this as much as I did.
This is the story of mankind clawing for survival, of mankind on the edge. The world outside has grown unkind, the view of it limited, talk of it forbidden. But there are always those who hope, who dream. These are the dangerous people, the residents who infect others with their optimism. Their punishment is simple. They are given the very thing they profess to want: They are allowed outside.
With rich, unique characters, 1929 is the first in an epic trilogy centered in the Great Depression. 1929 follows three couples through the economic collapse of 1929 and their struggles to adjust to a sudden and violent shift in lifestyle.
This mammoth novel will take readers to a dark time in American history. A time when so many lost so much and the bonds of love and friendship were the only things that held the fabric of life together. While some say history is now repeating itself with our current economic downturn, 1929 provides hours of entertainment and escape while giving readers a chance to connect and relate to the characters struggles of love, loss and finding hope.
Praise for 1929
*1929, Jonathan's Cross by M.L. Gardner is a one of a kind historical fiction that one doesn't see every day. --Mind Fog Reviews
*De Ja Vu! Stock market meltdown, fortunes evaporating, jobs lost, hope vanishing... - Kindle Reader
*Tastefully Romantic and Heartwarming! - Kindle Reader
*A Rare Treasure of Personal Triumph! - Kindle Reader
*Bring the whole box of tissues! - Kindle Reader
*A wonderful testimony of the human spirit with colorful and real-life characters, including an Irish heroine; all of whom will touch your heart in their own unique way and stay with you long after the last page. - Kindle Reader
The book is pretty much the full text of the Nationally accredited Aromatherapy Diploma Course, from the Lifestyle Training Centre in Glasgow Scotland, for many years. It was previous converted to PDF eBook
format and sold via their Websites at $67. Reduced the price to just $0.99 cents for a short time. Additional books by this author also reduced to $0.99 include an Aromatherapy recipes and blending book as well as a book on Baby Massage techniques. Here's a link to Helen Williamson's author page.
Everyone gets depressed sometimes, and some of us have it worse than others. Have this book handy on your Kindle for the next time it hits you or someone you love.
It's Bob Harper, the man who made losing weight - lots of weight - through the power of lifestyle changes a national sport (at least watching other people do it on tv that is...) but, if anyone knows the formula and in this case the nonnegotiable rules and principles for getting thin, it's Bob. Find out why this is a top seller.
Kids can be cruel and sometimes that cruelty can be deadly. Learn how you can protect your child - or your charges (if you're a teacher) by breaking the cycle of bullying.
(I just wanted to add an aside. While I was still publishing this post, my teenage son just came home from High School and announced that a friend of his that graduated last year killed himself last night. I don't know why - but it's a sobering reminder that it's not easy growing up as a boy today. Anything we can learn to help our sons.....)
I picked up this product today on the Warrior Forum. Teaches you how to create profitable 'list' books of 20-40 pages and publish them in a weekend. Kindle Weekend - by Lina T and Sam England, includes a pdf and 4 videos.
Finally, I covered the top 5-6 bestsellers on Kindle in non-fiction, including but not limited to a clearly biased 'expose' on Obama called, The Amateur and the story of Steve Jobs in paid, and a book on Brownies and Bars plus a Composting book in the 'free' Kindle section.
We've had a huge influx of listeners to the Kindle Books Money show, since we started it last month.
Here's an infographic detailing the exponential rise in listener popularity.
On the May 22, 2012 episode of Kindle Books Money - Tuesday Book Talk - I covered Kindle books from a whole slew of topics. I also gave my opinion on how great it was to actually have access to all these great electronic books.
Be sure to listen to the broadcast if you missed it (or just wanna hear it again...wink) and if you haven't already started following the Kindle Book Money Radio Show - what are you waiting for?
The following is a list of all the books discussed on the show, click on the images or the links to get more info on any book or to download the free sample.
We began the Tuesday Book Talk with, of all things, cook books. And why not?
It's awesome to be able to go get a cookbook on something you're trying to make write now and instead of subjecting your clunky laptop to the rigors of a sticky or damp kitchen, or using up more toner and paper from your printer and then having pieces of paper to deal with when you're done with your cooking exercise, with a Kindle ebook you can simply download the recipe book, find the recipe in question and carry your Kindle around the kitchen as you put your culinary delight together.
You don't even need your reading glasses, because you can always expand the size of the text if you find yourself - sans glasses - at any point in the process. And that same procedure goes for anything - from making a cheesecake, (as our first book in the list will teach you,) - to fixing the brakes on your car.
I talked a bit about how it's becoming OK to pull out your Kindle and start reading it, as people find its like you've picked up a magazine. Unlike your cell phone, which if you take it out in front of relatives and spouses and start tapping away - the Kindle is far less obtrusive - once they get used to seeing it around.
But I digress... and I'm even covering some things that weren't on the show - so, enough of that - lets get rolling on the books.
Our special guest for the May 9, 2012 show was author J. Naomi Y who's book series Two Moons of Rehnor has garnered a huge following of dedicated fans.
J Naomi Y talks about the series which is a modern light sci-fi fantasy with paranormal, political and spiritual elements.
The author struggled with my request (Can you read of a sample) because,
"All 1500 plus pages are told by so many different voices, I can read you a voice of one, but the voice in the next section will be an entirely person/voice character speaking with an entirely different history."
The main characters stories are told mostly through one of the many other characters. Katie from Seattle tells the story in her own voice, but the main male character - the young man with the paranormal abilities - never has his story told from his perspective.
She did read us sections from a few of these voices, and it became clear immediately that J Naomi Y is a gifted writer.
She even had numerous fans who called in to tell her how much they loved her work, and one guy even said... well tune in and listen if you haven't heard it yet.
Here's my attempt at trascribing a tiny piece of what she read on the air.
Moira: When I was a girl, I wanted to be a dancer. My parents indulged me because I was their youngest and most precious daughter. And so they arranged for a dance tutor to come to the great hall where we live and teach me to dance. I loved to dance. I was graceful as a swan, my father the Duke of Dekor said. I was lithe as a feather, my mother the Duchess said. I danced every moment that I could, gliding across the floor, leaping into the arms of my tutor, soaring into the heavens, until the day I broke my foot. After that my toe shoes were useless and my dancing ended. I was fifteen.
I transcribed that section of the broadcast just to give you a tiny idea of her voice. Let me tell you, the story gets better. The young becomes married to an older prince - who bypassed her older jealous sisters - her sisters are forced to move in with the younger sister as they prep for the wedding of become her 'ladies in waiting' but they also become lovers to her husband who's no longer interested in the young princess or their child....
When you listen in to the broadcast - which you absolutely have to do - I mean it - you'll hear the pacing and growth and style of J Naomi Y which is so unique and enjoyable. You'll understand why she's got such dedicated fans and you'll become one as well.
I enjoyed the first voice so much, I was pleased when J Naomi Y consented to read another voice, a Palace Guard, and that section shed new light on the main character, Senya.
Fascinataing Modern Sci-Fi Light Fantasy Paranormal Opera... with Spiritual and Political elements.
This is a summary of the books discussed on the Kindle Books Money show entitled "It's About the Books" broadcast on May 8th, 2012.
May 8 - It's About the Books
I'm a big advocate of self-publishing. Why wait 20 years - facing rejection from traditional publishers - when you can
your book out there and start developing a following?
Kindle is the perfect place to begin your self-publishing. - Heidi White
Kindle Bestsellers: Fifty Shades & The Hunger Games remain at the top of the Kindle Bestsellers list. This is nothing new, and if you haven't read either of these trilogies - what are you waiting for? I also want to go over some of the other top selling books on Kindle, so here's a sampling - just to wet your literary taste buds.
Grim detailed true crime story about a wicked evil real-life Hannibal Lecter man named H. H. Holmes, a devious and cunning serial killer - you know - the worst kind - that likes to watch their victims die... It's a short book 'with pictures' - (yuck!) and if you like this sort of delving into the mind of total and complete psychopaths, the Psychopath is for you. As for me . . . I had enough with Button Boy - I guess, I'm too gentle for most horror. On the other hand - evil horrible people are part of life... so, learning about how they tick isn't a waste of time - even if you have to vomit once or twice while reading this. This was also featured as an advert one day on the Kindle screen saver - which could explain how it was in the Top 10 Kindle paid Bestsellers on May 8th and no where to be seen within the Top 100 ten days later.
The Long Way Home
Karen McQuestion
$4.99
337 Pages
Four women bound by chance take the trip of a lifetime in Karen McQuestion's fifth novel The Long Way Home. I love a good road trip story, and this one has something for everyone. Four women from Wisconsin, Marnie, Laverne, Rita and Jazzy end up on the road together, headed to Las Vegas to reunite Marnie with Troy, Troy,
the boy she raised as her own—and who she's been separated from since her boyfriend's death. Jazzy is bubblly and quirky and hears voices of the dead and the other women, all thrown together on this road trip by a chance meeting travel together in the humorous and heartwarming and sometimes bitersweet journey in an effort to change their lives with something
special in store for each woman.
Great authors don't always get good reviews...396 Customer reviews and average review is 2.5 stars - not good, not good at all.Review that sums it up? "meh!" Twenty years on the same character and plot? I guess I'd run out of creative juice too.
The Marriage Bargain (Marriage to a Billionaire) Jennifer Probst
$2.99
212 Pages
While I do belly-ache on the broadcast about how 'sick' I am of the constant parade of fricken 'billionaire' male heros in so many romances, this story still has some elements to recommend it.
For one, the heroine, Alexa Maria McKenzie, is a bookstore owner - so, she can't be half bad... and she casts a love spell - so, that's kind of cool. So, the fact that she conjures up a man who is now all powerful... but had once before shattered her heart - well - that's just how these kinda romances roll. A classic tale of man who has to marry to keep his fortune and woman who agrees to save her ass and the - oh, don't tell me your shocked by this - and the inevitable falling in love - despite best-laid plans not to let that happen. (I hope the sex is good...probably is, considering how well this book is selling.)
The Felig Chronicles
Interracial romance involving the battle against human destroying invisible aliens
$4.99
122 Pages
On Air Guest....Miss P. J. Dean called into our show and shared about her quest to get published.
"I write romances, but when I took my story to regular publishers they said my story was 'too out there.' Combining aliens and interracial romance didn't fit into their narrow romance formulas. However, I went to Canada and found a publisher that was willing to look at and eventually publish my Felig Chronicle books, so my advice to other writers is Don't Give Up."
A new novel of a shared past, a fresh start, and a lifetime of love. Nora Roberts can spin a story and always leaves her reader satisfied. This story about brothers hoping to get a Bed and Breakfast up and running has everything you need for a pleasurable relaxing fun read.
The Innocent
David Baldacci
$12.99
433 Pages
Classic tale of a hitman who suddenly can't pull the trigger... when facing his most innocent target, a wayward teenage gir. It's really a testiment to a good writer's story telling skills to have us rooting for a man who was once a stone-cold assassin, when we witness the growth of a heart. Of course, one doesn't just decide not to finish a job without facing consequences, and this book is a thrill ride as the former hitman struggles to keep the girl and himself alive.
Today's show is going to be a quick one and I'm even putting in the content matter ahead of time.
There are plenty of expensive and not so expensive courses available out there- but before we start exploring those, never forget that there is a wealth of information for as little as .99 cents sometimes right here on your Kindle.
On our first Kindle Books Money "Anything Goes" Thursday show, we were able to feature three indie authors.
Our first guest was Anthea Carson, author of The Dark Lake. Anthea brought me up to speed with some tutoring on the basics of existensialism, and read a paragraph or two from her fascinating novella about a woman who finds herself forced to keep coming back to the dark lake while she tries to uncover the secret of her past.
Next, we spoke with "Jeffrey," author of Marching Backwards to March; The Tale of Love, which chronicles love and the building of a relationship in reverse order. It's a dreamy backwards glance into the reality of relationships, proving everything's possible for dreamers.
Finally, we spoke to one of the co-authors of the Poetry anthology, Soul Journey: The Road Less Travelled, Paul Day. He read some of the works from that book, including one from his co-author Magella Callaghan.
To download this show on iTunes, or listen to an archived version using your computer, click the show link below.
Today we had a fabulous show with featured author Randy Attwood.
We discussed his latest book for the Amazon Kindle,Crazy About You.
Randy talks about this book, where he draws on his own experience as an Asylum brat growing up on the grounds of mental institutions and hospitals. Brad, a high school student, and son of the Larned State Hospital dentist, get's involved in the life of a disturbed schizophrenic teen named Suzanne. One of the inmates, who committed a horrible crime as a minor, has been living out his life in institutions - in the separate wings just for the criminally insane. But, Brad's father has done the man's dental work - and as far as he can tell, the guy is completely normal.
But, when a brutal murder takes place in the town, everyone assumes it was someone at the institution.
So, the story covers the events of that week - which include Brad's prom, more interaction with Suzanne the schizo and the group of employees who run a theft ring and threaten to lock Brad up with the dangerous wacko who killed his own family. Don't miss it!
Randy Attwood, also shared his writing career stories, and talked about some of his other books, available on Amazon Kindle, including a distopia novel called Rabbletown: Life in These United Christian States of Holy America about life in 2084 when the Religious Right run the world, and 41st Sermon, the story of an Episcopalian priest who, while alone on a one week fishing retreat, succumbs to sin after drinking and visiting the local strip club. Soon he's having sex with a thrill-seeking parishioner, who's real identity turns out to be .... well, I don't want to spoil it.
All of Randy's current titles on Amazon can be found at his author's page here: Randy Attwood Author Page
Let's recap the shows so far this week. Money Monday's and Tuesday's Open show both suffered from technical issues, but at the end of the day - each show finally had a good result - once the live callers got access.
Monday Dave Lynch couldn't make it, due to technical issues on his end, so David Vallieras stepped in and did a fantastic job helping me talk about the business & money making side of digital publishing. David was a fount of information, and I look forward to having him on the show again.
You can listen to the archive links here: http://amzn.to/K4QvKR
Today's Tuesday show had the worst of the technical glitches so far. I lost all the chat callers after 20 minutes, and than it took another 25 to get the show back on the air - with yours truly making desparate please to Blog Talk Radio Chat Support... Finally we got a new version of the show scheduled and fortunately the authors of The God Hater were able to step in for a full on writer's interview.
The God Hater: Discovering Life after Death 5 Star Highly Rated 24 Reviews
This post is going to be updated later when I have more time.
Let's start with the easiest method, where you can find the Top 100 Free Kindle Books in any category.
Step One - open your AMAZON.COM account and login.
If it doesn't say AMAZON PRIME, than you won't get access to all the free books.
[It's only $70 per year (or something like that) - I'll correct later] - so, it's worth it!
Step Two - go to the Kindle >>> Kindle Books
Step Three - under Browse, and under Popular Features select Bestsellers.
Your Top 100 Free Bestsellers are on the right hand side. Wanna drill down into a specific category - choose from the genres on the left, find Bestsellers again and you'll have your list again.
Just download at will - remember, you're storage on the Kindle is never a problem since it's all stored IN THE CLOUD!
Well, I just couldn't wait until Monday to do another episode of Kindle Books Money. So I just wrapped one up a few minutes ago.
This episode was called: "How to Find Free Kindle Books" and if you check below you'll find the link to hear that show. It's a short one, and in it I promised to provide links to lists of free Kindle books - which change daily - so, you'll have no excuse not to buy a Kindle if you don't already have one.
But before I list the second episode, I wanted to provide a link to the first episode as well.
I'm working hard to get co-creator Barb Ling on the Kindle Books Money show - maybe even before next Monday.
I'm very excited about recommending her Pinning Kindle Profits product, co-created with Sam England and packed with a slew of bonuses from other marketing experts working on Kindle projects.
Here's the link for now, if you want to get in on the lower price. It's a dimesale, so price goes up and up a little each 2 or 3 sales until it reaches a cap.
Pinning Kindle Profits: Pinning Kindle Profits
For those of you writers unfamiliar with Warrior Forum... warning - don't let yourself get lost in there.
Hello Welcome & Greetings!
Just a few short hours ago, I had the first inaugural show of Kindle Books Money, on my Radio Talk Show platform Blog Talk Radio.
And just a few hours before that - I dreamt of the idea - and thus true to my training - which is Ready, Fire, Aim - I went ahead with the show, despite failing to get a single Guest or Call-In person.
Ofcourse, what do i expect, considering I only got the word out to a meager few and than with only minutes to spare before the broadcast was to begin.
On top of everything else - wouldn't you know - my laptop of choice - has a problem with all the USB connections, so the laptop fan device doesn't cool my system, and 30 minutes before show-time...yes, you guessed it.
HEAT FAILURE SHUT DOWN.
But that didn't stop me. Oh no. Armed with my back up laptop, I soldiered on. And at ~10:05 called in with a cell phone attached to a short cord and too far away to put up against my ear and gamely started the first show ever of Kindle Books Money.
It went pretty good. I mean, yeah - the intro music took FOREVER, and my cousin's Youtube video audio was HORRIBLE Whitney Nichole - Love Again (to hear it properly - sheesh - sorry Whitney, Cus!) - but that's obviously what I get when I put a speaker cell phone on top of a laptop speaker... and I really had no idea what I was going to talk about (thanks to all the techy issues) until seconds before the show started...so, overall - I give myself a C grade on the first show, maybe even a C+ which is passing grade and at the end of the day - I did something, and hopefully those of you who tune into this show got something out of it as well.
Here are the books discussed in the show - all available on Kindle:
Tune into tomorrow for the next installment, and be sure and sign up for our RSS Feed in case you miss an episode.
