Wednesday, January 8, 2014

Indie Author Celebration January 2014!

It's time to celebrate the release of The Golden Symbol, Kilenya Series Book Six, the last in my series!

As part of the celebration, we're giving away a Kindle Fire. Enter at the bottom of this post, after you check out the fantastic eBooks I've chosen to showcase here. All of them were hand-selected based on the fact that they're well-edited and really good. I loved them!

Please note that on January 18, 2014, my first book, The Key of Kilenya, will no longer be available for free. Pick up your copy while you can!

Have fun browsing. I know you'll love these books. :-)


The Key of Kilenya

Author: Andrea Pearson
Original and discounted price: $3.99 to Free
Discounted until January 18
Genre and target audience: Fantasy for readers 10 and older
If this book were a movie, what would it be rated? PG
Download it from: Kindle, Nook, Smashwords

Book Description:

We all have a choice—but we can’t choose the consequences.

Jacob Clark is chased down a path that takes him to another world—a world where he is a wanted young man. The Lorkon want to control him and the special powers he possesses. The people of the new world want him to save them from the destruction of the Lorkon. All Jacob wants is to go home, but even that choice has consequences. He doesn’t know what to do and if he waits too long the new world and the one he came from will be destroyed. As Jacob looks for people he can trust, he finds himself in the center of the fight for freedom—both for himself and the people he’s come to know.

Jacob has no idea where the path he chooses will take him, but once the choice has been made—bring on the consequences.


The Ember Gods, Kilenya Series Book Two

Author: Andrea Pearson
Original and discounted price: $3.99 to $0.99
Discounted until January 18
Genre and target audience: Fantasy for readers 10 and older
If this book were a movie, what would it be rated? PG
Download it from: Kindle, Nook

Book description:

Jacob Clark’s new abilities are a blessing and a curse. He’s a hero for returning the magical Key of Kilenya to its rightful owners, but at school he's starting to get noticed for something other than his basketball skills. And the attention is freaking him out.

Balancing both worlds is tricky enough, but Jacob has tasked himself with saving Aloren who’s trapped in Maivoryl City by the Ember Gods. He doesn't want to wait for the potion that will protect his team from the corrosive influence of the Lorkon, but the desire to prove himself to the high school basketball coach conflicts with his plans to rescue her.

Feeling pulled by both sides, Jacob must walk a tightrope of warring worlds with lives on the line. Lives that will be lost if he doesn’t figure out how to complete his quest and balance his abilities. Fast.


The Golden Symbol, Kilenya Series Book Six

Author: Andrea Pearson
Original and discounted price: $4.99 to $2.99
Discounted until January 18
Genre and target audience: Fantasy for readers 10 and older
If this book were a movie, what would it be rated? PG
Download it from: Kindle, Nook, Smashwords

Book description:

In the final installment of the Kilenya Series, Jacob Clark and his friends only have two months to prepare for their enemy’s return—an event which is sure to bring war—and to discover the recipe for the special antidote that will cure the Lorkon. As things become more and more dangerous, Jacob is surprised to find help in the most unlikely people and places. Things look up briefly when Azuriah agrees to share the well-guarded secret of the Golden Symbol. With its help, Jacob may have a chance against the Lorkon, but even so, he and his friends are greatly outnumbered.

Will they be able to find the recipe and create the antidote before the Lorkon arrive, or will Eklaron—and Earth—fall into the hands of the evil empire for good?


A Different Blue

Author: Amy Harmon
Original and discounted price: $3.99 to $0.99
Discounted January 9 through 13
Target audience: Readers 16 and older
If this book were a movie, what would it be rated? PG13
Download it from: Kindle, Nook

Book description:

Blue Echohawk doesn't know who she is. She doesn't know her real name or when she was born. Abandoned at two and raised by a drifter, she didn't attend school until she was ten years old. At nineteen, when most kids her age are attending college or moving on with life, she is just a senior in high school. With no mother, no father, no faith, and no future, Blue Echohawk is a difficult student, to say the least. Tough, hard and overtly sexy, she is the complete opposite of the young British teacher who decides he is up for the challenge, and takes the troublemaker under his wing.

This is the story of a nobody who becomes somebody. It is the story of an unlikely friendship, where hope fosters healing and redemption becomes love. But falling in love can be hard when you don't know who you are. Falling in love with someone who knows exactly who they are and exactly why they can't love you back might be impossible.


Aos Si

Author: Rebecca Shelley
Original and discounted price: $6.99 to $0.99
Discounted until the end of January
Genre and target audience: YA Paranormal Romance (teenage girls 13 to 18)
If this book were a movie, what would it be rated? PG
Download it from: Kindle, Nook, Smashwords, Kobo, iTunes

Book description:

Legends say the magical Aos Si, the Fair Folk of Irish and Scottish folklore that once plagued humanity, have retreated Under the Hill, never to be seen again. The legends are wrong. Aos Si are still abroad in the world, powerful, dangerous, and living among us.

When Carla's mother drags her from their home in Denver to the-middle-of-nowhere Colorado, a mysterious neighbor embroils her in a battle between warring Aos Si factions. Then she meets Shade, a slave of a cruel and power-hungry Aos Si. Her attraction to Shade is as deep as the magical powers that surround him, but her attempt to free him from his evil master sinks them both deeper into the war, endangering her life and those of the people she cares about most.

Grab your flashlight and dive under the covers, because Aos Si will keep you turning pages well past your bedtime.
(Christina F York author of Girls Gone Magic)


Be Mine

Author: Tristi Pinkston writing as Sandra Norton Flynn
Original and discounted price: $2.99 to $0.99
Discounted from January 9 through 13
Genre and target audience: Suspense for adults
If this book were a movie, what would it be rated? PG
Download it from: Kindle

Book description:

If you like Mary Higgins Clark, you'll love Be Mine by Sandra Norton Flynn.

He knows where she works.

He knows where she lives.

And soon, they’ll come face-to-face.

Erin Lewis is an up-and-coming fashion designer building up her career in New York City. With a loving husband, a great assistant, and working in the field of her dreams, she couldn’t be happier.

But perfection can’t last forever.

When a long string of tragedies shakes Erin to her core, she doesn’t know how to keep moving forward day by day. And when she is targeted by a brutal serial killer, she must find the inner strength she never knew she had just to survive.


Blood Relations

Author: Michaelbrent Collings
Original and discounted price: $3.99 to $0.99
Discounted from January 9 through 13
Genre: Mystery
If this book were a movie, what would it be rated? PG13
Download it from: Kindle

Book description:

Lane Cooley is the best Homicide Detective on the LAPD. But she isn't anything like you'd imagine. She's no fast-talking femme fatale... no, she's a Good Mormon Girl who doesn't smoke, drink, cuss, or even watch R-rated movies.

But that doesn't mean Lane misses out on all the blood and guts. Especially now. A new serial killer is in town, one who knows all the cops' tricks, all their secrets. One who is targeting young girls, killing them, and cutting them to pieces.

Now, Lane has to race against the clock to find the killer. Because the murderer has chosen his next victim. And it's Lane's little sister.


My Body Fell Off

Author: BJ Rowley
Original and discounted price: $3.99 to FREE
Discounted from January 9 through 13
Genre and target audience: Youth / YA
If this book were a movie, what would it be rated? PG
Download it from: Kindle

Book description:

Bart Elderberry is a normal sixteen-year-old, just starting tenth grade and looking forward to driving, dating, and everything “high school.” However, just weeks into the first semester, Bart and several friends suffer a traumatic car accident, which results in Bart having a Near Death Experience—spending several minutes hovering out of his body before being rescued.

In the weeks that follow, Bart finds that his body and spirit aren’t as firmly attached as they once were. After a few interesting (and sometimes embarrassing) Out of Body Experiences, Bart learns that he can actually control and repeat the experience at will, and soon becomes fairly adept at the art of Astral Projecting.

Then, on the way to a school dance, Bart and friends inadvertently witness a beating, which results in a schoolmate’s death. Bart pledges to use his newfound abilities to track the killers and bring them to justice.


The Reluctant Bachelorette

Author: Rachael Anderson
Original and discounted price: $4.99 to $0.99
Discounted from January 9 through 13
Genre and target audience: Contemporary Romantic Comedy for teens and adults
If this book were a movie, what would it be rated? PG
Download it from: Kindle

Book description:

Luke Carney has no idea what possessed him to move back to Shelter Springs, Colorado, to set up his veterinarian practice. His parents had long since left, the small farming community is on the brink of extinction, and only one close friend from his childhood remains--Taycee Emerson, his best friend's little sister, who isn't so little anymore. Then there's the matter of Shelter's Bachelorette, an online reality dating show created to raise some much needed funds for the town.

Unknowingly cast as the bachelorette for her town's charity event, Taycee Emerson wants out. Especially when she discovers her old teenage crush, Luke Carney, is one of the bachelors and it's up to the viewers--not her--to decide which bachelors stay or go. Coerced into participating, Taycee does what any self-preserving girl would do. She launches a subtle attack on Luke's good name with the hope of getting him voted off the show. Unfortunately, Luke's an eye-for-an-eye kind of guy, and when he discovers what she's up to, it means revenge.


The Sapphire Flute

Author: Karen E. Hoover
Original and discounted price: $3.99 to $0.99
Discounted until January 18 
Genre and target audience: Fantasy, YA
If this book were a movie, what would it be rated? PG
Download it from: Kindle, Nook, Smashwords, iTunes

Book description:

Rasann is a world in dire need. The net of magic that has held her together for eons is eroding and the magi can’t patch it fast enough to prevent disaster. Volcanoes spew, waters rise, famine and flood and desolation threaten the world as they desperately await the coming of the Wolfchild to heal their home.

Three women begin quests for identity and freedom from the ties that have held them: Ember, from her overbearing and prejudice mother; Kayla, from the rigidity of the caste that has oppressed her family; C’Tan, from her dark and evil master, the Guardian S’Kotos. One will discover she is the first white mage born in three millennia, another will become guardian to the a keystone, the sapphire flute, and throughout it all the third will try to destroy them both.


Tell Me No Lies

Author: Rachel Branton
Original and discounted price: $3.99 to $0.99
Discounted from January 9 through 13
Genre and target audience: Contemporary Romantic Suspense for ages 13 and older.
If this book were a movie, what would it be rated? PG
Download it from: Kindle

Book description:

When Romance Takes a Deadly Turn

With her trust fund in jeopardy, Tessa Crawford enters into a relationship with a mysterious neighbor that soon turns into something more dangerous than either of them could have imagined.

Two days before her wedding, Tessa Crawford's world crumbles, leaving her hurt and betrayed. Worse, if Tessa doesn't marry and receive her trust fund, her younger sister will lose her house and the homeless girls she helps will have nowhere to go.

But Tessa can't marry just anyone, can she?

Gage Braxton, the guy from next door, is willing to help her out, but rumors hint that he's an ex-con. Tessa quickly finds herself attracted to a man who has no intention of ever falling in love or of passing on his terrible
legacy.

When Tessa stumbles across evidence that may be proof of Gage's innocence, suspects begin to line up. Someone is willing to kill again to see that the truth remains buried, and if Tessa doesn't hurry and solve the old murder, she will lose not only her chance at love but may become the murderer's next victim.

Rachel Branton has created an exciting, romantic story with a new take on a theme that never gets old.


TO ENTER TO WIN THE KINDLE FIRE, CLICK HERE.

And for more fantastic eBooks on sale, check out Rachel Ann Nunes's blog post here

25 comments:

  1. I would love to win the Kindle Fire so I can read some of my favorite author's books. I have a Nook but cannot read some of the books from my favorite authors. So please help me make this dreamcome true. Thanks Rachel and Anita for all the years of pleasure you have given me with your books. Now I would love to have the Kindle Fire so I can read my favorites again.

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  2. I would love to win the Kindle Fire as I do not own one. I am going to be traveling from Bountiful to Sandy several times a week to take care of my mom who broke her hip and reading books electronically (or listening to them!) sounds like an easier route than carrying a hard copy around with me. Thanks for the opportunity!!

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  3. I would love to win a kindle and share it with my kids so they can use it to read ebooks. I'm kind of new at the ebook thing, but think it has a lot of potential.

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  4. I would love the kindle fire my phone is small making books hard to read..... I need it so . Can read read and read these awesome books by these awesome authors.....

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  5. The Kindle Fire sounds amazing! I would just love to be the winner. I probably won't...I don't ever win anything, but I'll enter anyway. Hey, there's a chance, right?? Haha :)

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  6. I loved reading through your list of books and realized I have read 3 of them! I look forward to reading your books! Our Kindle keeps dying! It would be great for a new one.

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  7. Fun stuff - I already own some of these. I was trying to work my way through how to get other points but I had to keep logging back in after each try. So, guess I only get 3 chances - a little too time consuming. No idea how you would rectify it though, although I've seen others when it just keeps moving down to the next task or comment without taking you out of the system with each try. At any rate, CONGRATULATIONS!! And thanks!

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  8. I am just getting acquainted with your books. We love to read and we'd love a kindle fire!

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  9. Would love the chance to own a Kindle Fire. Thanks for all the great deals on the e-books.

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  10. I would love to own a Kindle Fire and copies of the series of your books.

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  11. Would love the kindle! Thanks for sharing your talent!

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  12. I'm hoping to win your prize
    Have the books and the Fire in my eyes
    If you pick me I'll cheer
    And I'll bend your fair ear
    With new book reviews and replies...:o)

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  13. Thanks for this opportunity to try and win a kindle fire. I know my daughter in law sure loves hers. Thanks also for the hook ups on the books!

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  14. I love reading ebooks! Its nice to have a library at your fingertips without the clutter of books

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  15. Excited to read your books and would love a kindle

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  16. I would love to win this to give to my mother who can't carry heavy books anymore and cant see small writing anymore either. thanks

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  17. Thanks! I am always looking for a good read!

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  18. Than you so much for all your books!! I love reading and am excited about the chance to win the Kindle Fire. I use the kindle app on my phone so that I can read anywhere and it is nice!! This is perfect because you can take it everywhere and have so many books right on hand in your purse :-)

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  19. Thank you for sharing your talents, Good luck with everything in the future!

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  20. This is very nice of you. Thanks.

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  21. I tried to buy Blood Relations and The Reluctant Bachelorette late at night on Jan. 13th and it was already back to the original price. Any way you can get me the sale price for those two?
    Thanks

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    1. I don't have a way to offer the eBooks at the sale price, but I've contacted the authors, and they've requested that you email them and they'll see what they can do.
      The Reluctant Bachelorette: chaych@gmail.com
      Blood Relations: michaelbrent@michaelbrentcollings.com

      I hope this gets resolved for you!

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  22. Thanks for the list of new books to check out along with yours! Always love recommendations for a new book.

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