Discounted Book Sites

Both readers and writers are always on the lookout for sites advertising discounted books. Readers, because everyone likes to buy cheap books and what better way to discover a new author. And writers, because they are always looking for sites to advertise their book sales.

Here are some sites to check out.

E-reader News Today (ENT)

The Midlist

Pixels of Ink

Indie Author Land

Kindle Books And Tips

Most of these sites have Facebook pages you can "like" to get updates or signup pages that will email you the latest deals. Enjoy!

FREE BOOK

Today and tomorrow, Screwing Up Babylon is free at Amazon! Click here to get the free e-book.

  

Also today, Screwing Up Babylon is being featured at Kindle Books and Tips. If you haven’t heard of KBT, check out their website for great free and inexpensive e-books. Click here.

Meetings With My Muse

Today, I'm a featured author at Kimberly Afe's "Meetings With My Muse" blog. 

Come and visit. There are free books, an Amazon gift card, and the first chapter of book three, Screwing Up Alexandria. Click Here!

Not Your Sister's Unicorn

When I first started writing Screwing Up Time, I spend a lot of time planning and thinking about the time travel elixir. I wanted it to be a very natural, plausible, even scientific recipe. But, it needed a special ingredient. Something rare, something that bordered on fantastic, but not quite impossible.

Unicorn horn seemed like the perfect ingredient. Except, at the back of my mind, I saw all the silly unicorns—the stuffed animals with rainbow hued spirals, a kind of My Little Pony of the mythic world. And that gave me pause.

Historically, unicorns were powerful wild animals. Everyone from the ancients Greeks to Marco Polo spoke about them with respect. And ancient alchemists believed their horns (made up of alicorn) could be used to cure poisoned water and heal the sick.

Since Screwing Up Time was set in the Middle Ages, it only made sense that alchemists (and other ancient peoples) would use unicorn horn as an ingredient in a time travel elixir. And so, I decided to ignore the rainbow stuffed animals, trusting that my readers knew that unicorns were dangerous, unpredictable animals. Just check out the image below—it’s picture of a tapestry from the Cloisters museum in NYC. (I actually got to see the unicorn tapestries up close during a visit to the museum.) This ferocious beast is not your sister’s unicorn.



When I visit Paris later this spring, I plan to visit the Musee de Cluny where they have more unicorn tapestries. If they let me take photos, I'll be sure to post them here.

One more bit of excitement. This week, Smashwords is celebrating "Read An E-book Week," and Screwing Up Time is FREE when you use the coupon code, RW100, at the checkout. Enjoy!

Holiday Blog Hop

This week I'm participating in the 2012 Holiday Blog Hop sponsored by Indie Writers Unite. There are lots of great prizes! Just below, you can use the Rafflecopter widget for a chance to win an e-copy of Screwing Up Babylon. But there are scads more prizes, including two Kindle Fires!! So after signing up to win a copy of Screwing Up Babylon, visit the main Holiday Blog Hop site. Click HERE.

One more bit of excitement. If you're an early bird and you're hopping on Monday, you can get a
FREE copy of my young adult time travel, Screwing Up Time. Click HERE.


a Rafflecopter giveaway

Here's more information about the Grand Prizes.

Welcome to the 2012 Holiday Blog Hop, brought to you by the writers of Indie Writers Unite. There's all kinds of swag to be won as well as some amazing grand prizes!

Each writer will be hosting their own giveaway on their blogs and offering their own prizes in addition to the grand prizes. Click HERE to start hopping the author pages.

As the for the grand prizes, there are five. What are they?

PRIZES ONE AND TWO

NOT ONE BUT TWO 7" KINDLE FIRES
WITH HD, 16 GB, WI-FI, AND DOLBY AUDIO.
$199 VALUE

PRIZE 3

$25 AMAZON GIFT CARD

PRIZE 4

18 SIGNED BOOKS THAT WILL BE MAILED RIGHT TO YOUR DOORSTEP.

PRIZE 5

36 DIGITAL BOOKS THAT WILL BE DELIVERED TO YOUR KINDLE

GOOD LUCK AND START HOPPING!!

Screwing Up Time for FREE!

Thursday is not a normal posting day for me, but I have some exciting news. In celebration of the release of Screwing Up Babylon and the release of "Screwing Up Mongolia" in the anthology Winter Wonders, I decided to give away Screwing Up Time for free from Dec. 6 through Dec. 10. Click here. Enjoy!!



Screwing Up Time is a 2012 Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award Quarterfinalist.