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Book Buzz: Sexy in Stilettos by Nana Malone: Chick Lit with a Dash of 50 Shades of Grey

August 20, 2012
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Sexy in Stilettos“Sexy in Stilettos has enough drama, mystery, and romance to leave you fully satisfied with your purchase!” ~ Crystal Burns, Amazon Review

Hello Digital Book Today readers. The Book Buzz segment today features Sexy in Stilettos by Nana Malone. This is a contemporary romance novel that is without a doubt on the spicier side of this genre. Sexy in Stilettos has been rated 4.2 stars on 27 reviews which indicates to us that readers of this genre have enjoyed this book. If you like Romance or Chick Lit with a dash of 50 Shades of Grey mixed in you’ll love Sexy in Stilettos and don’t forget the cold drink beside you to cool yourself down after you are done reading. Enjoy.

“This story was a sexy pleasant surprise. This is the first book I’ve read by this author but it won’t be my last.” ~ K.D.Y Romance Reader, Amazon Review

“Rather hot, this romance is remarkably well written.” ~ LucieFuentes, Amazon Review

Book Description: What’s worse than having to watch your sister marry your ex fiancé? How about when that fiancé fires you from the family business?

Hyper-organized, event planner, Jaya Trudeaux is used to doing things by the book and never making waves. It’s a strategy that’s served her well until she finds herself in failure alley with no fiancé, no job and her thirtieth birthday looming. Maybe it’s time to change her methods. Starting with an unlikely date to the wedding from hell. The only thing that can tie carefree, playboy, Alec Danthers down is his formidable step mother. When she calls him home to help find his wayward brother, he never imagines an uptight, list making, sass-talking woman would make him think about putting down roots.

Can Jaya put the lists down long enough to enjoy the ride that is Alec? Will Alec stop running long enough to recognize true love? Warning: Sexy, sass talking women will make you laugh, cry and want a pair of killer footwear..… Read more on Amazon. Read more »

High School Student Seeking Book Summary on Yahoo! Answers Gets Response From Author

August 20, 2012
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The Boy Who Couldn't Sleep and Never Had ToAn entertaining article as our students try to finish up their summer reading requirements.

By  (@alyssanewcomb) – ABC News.

High School Student Seeking Book Summary on Yahoo! Answers Gets Response From Author

A high school student posted online asking for a “complete review”  — “including everything important” — of an assigned book she said she wouldn’t have time to read before school started in 11 days.

She posted a list of excuses as to why the 240-page novel was just too much for her to finish: She didn’t get her school’s book list until a month ago. She was busy. Her library was being remodeled. The book was on hold already. She was a slow reader.

The excuses didn’t cut it for D.C. Pierson, who wrote the assigned novel “The Boy Who Couldn’t Sleep and Never Had To.” He replied to the student’s post on Yahoo! Answers on Sunday but didn’t let her off.

“First off, I’m really excited that my book is being suggested for summer reading. On the other hand, I’m bummed out that you don’t want to try and finish it, and not even because you think it’s bad, but just because it seems like work instead of like fun,” Pierson wrote.

The young adult novel is about a high school outcast who befriends a teenager with a secret — he never sleeps. Word of the friend’s unusual condition spreads, and the two  are forced to go on the run. Read more »

Monday Morning: The Best Kindle Books Priced at $0.00

August 20, 2012
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Other Daughter, TheGood Monday morning. As usually happens on Monday, we get a nice fresh list of free titles. We have lost 20+ books from our free list but have added 25+ new free titles!  Stock up for your summer reading needs as we have a great selection of the best free books for the Kindle, iPad, and Kindle Fire on our The Top 100 Best Free Kindle Books.  As a service to our authors, if you read a free book please give the author a review on Amazon.Thanks. Remember that many of the free kindle books are priced at $0.00 for a very limited time (24-48 hours).

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See the Top 80 – 100 free, handpicked titles that is updated daily on The Top 100 Best Free Kindle Books on Amazon. This list is not available on Amazon. See our great list of titles that you missed and are not longer free. Read more »

Truth is Stranger Than Fiction: Stories About Real Heroes

August 19, 2012
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Accidental SEAL (SEAL Brotherhood #1)Our guest post comes from Terry Odell’s blog (visit her blog). Author Sharon Hamilton wrote this post for Terry’s site. We hope you enjoy.

Truth is Stranger Than Fiction: Stories About Real Heroes

Today I’m pleased to host author Sharon Hamil­ton, who is going to give us some insight into writ­ing mil­i­tary hero sto­ries, Navy SEALs, in par­tic­u­lar. What makes these men so com­pelling to read about, to write about?

Hav­ing rel­a­tives in the U.S. Navy SEAL com­mu­nity gives me an advan­tage when it comes to writ­ing romance using those char­ac­ters. But I have to chuckle a bit after mak­ing this point. I’ve actu­ally had to alter the sto­ries I’ve been told to make my fic­tional char­ac­ters seem LESS fan­tas­tic, over the top, unbelievable.

I’m prob­a­bly not the only writer who has had her work cri­tiqued by some­one who makes the com­ment, “that would never hap­pen,” when we’ve had first-hand expe­ri­ences iden­ti­cal to what we’ve writ­ten. In doing research for my Navy SEAL series, I had to change some of the accounts, or no one would believe them.

But along­side the fan­tas­tic comes the silly or com­mon. Beside every war­rior are those fam­ily mem­bers who love them, or try to love them. They go to bal­let classes with their daugh­ters, Read more »

The Best of the Sunday Free Kindle Digital Books

August 19, 2012
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This Time You LoseWe have 20+ new free Kindle books for Sunday. We only add books with a minimum of 10+ stars and 4.0+ reviews. A great chance to grab a book or two for last day of the weekend. All of our books listed today are free ($0.00) on The Top 100 Best Free Kindle Books.  As a service to our authors, if you read a free book please give the author a review on Amazon.Thanks. Remember that many of the free kindle books are priced at $0.00 for a very limited time (24-48 hours).

Always remember to check the price before downloading to make the price is $0.00. Some authors will change the pricing on their books during the middle of the day.

Never miss a great free book again. Join our Reader Mailing List and be notified daily of The Best Free Kindle Books.

See the Top 80 – 100 free, handpicked titles that is updated daily on The Top 100 Best Free Kindle Books on Amazon. This list is not available on Amazon. See our great list of titles that you missed and are not longer free. Read more »

Saturday Morning Freebies – A Great Day For Kindle Digital Books

August 18, 2012
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Circle of Bones: a Caribbean ThrillerWe have 25+ new titles and many that are new to our The Top 100 Best Free Kindle Books. Do you need a great weekend Free Kindle Digital eBook to read that won’t break the bank for the weekend? All of our books listed today are free ($0.00)!   As a service to our authors, if you read a free book please give the author a review on Amazon.Thanks. Remember that many of the free kindle books are priced at $0.00 for a very limited time (24-48 hours).

Never miss a great free book again. Join our Reader Mailing List and be notified daily of The Best Free Kindle Books.

See the Top 80 – 100 free, handpicked titles that is updated daily on The Top 100 Best Free Kindle Books on Amazon. This list is not available on Amazon.

Can You Trust Online Reviews?

August 18, 2012
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A blog article from the online magazine Slate by Ray Fisman covering online reviews. We hope you find it interesting.

Can You Trust Online Reviews?

The Internet has fundamentally changed the way that buyers and sellers meet and interact in the marketplace. Online retailers make it cheap and easy to browse, comparison shop, and make purchases with the click of a mouse. The Web can also, in theory, make for better-informed purchases—both online and off—thanks to sites that offer crowdsourced reviews of everything from dog walkers to dentists.

In a Web-enabled world, it should be harder for careless or unscrupulous businesses to exploit consumers. Yet recent studies suggest that online reviewing is hardly a perfect consumer defense system. Researchers at Yale, Dartmouth, and USC have found evidence that hotel owners post fake reviews to boost their ratings on the site—and might even be posting negative reviews of nearby competitors.

The preponderance of online reviews speaks to their basic weakness: Because it’s essentially free to post a review, it’s all too easy to dash off thoughtless praise or criticism, or, worse, to construct deliberately misleading reviews without facing any consequences. It’s what economists (and others) refer to as the cheap-talk problem. The obvious solution is to make it more costly to post a review, but that eliminates one of the main virtues of crowdsourcing: There is much more wisdom in a crowd of millions than in select opinions of a few dozen.

Of course, that wisdom depends on reviewers giving honest feedback. A few well-publicized incidents suggest that’s not always the case. For example, when Amazon’s Canadian site accidentally revealed the identities of anonymous book reviewers in 2004, it became apparent that many reviews came from publishers and from the authors themselves. Read more »

A Great Day For Zero Cost Kindle Digital Books: 35+ Free Books: All 4.0+ Stars

August 17, 2012
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A DANGEROUS HARBOR (Pilgrim's Progress)We have 35+ new titles with many greatly exceeding our minimum of 4.0+ stars and 10+ reviews that are new to our The Top 100 Best Free Kindle Books. Grab a book or two for the weekendl. All of our books listed today are free ($0.00)!   As a service to our authors, if you read a free book please give the author a review on Amazon.Thanks. Remember that many of the free kindle books are priced at $0.00 for a very limited time (24-48 hours).

Never miss a great free book again. Join our Reader Mailing List and be notified daily of The Best Free Kindle Books.

See the Top 80 – 100 free, handpicked titles that is updated daily on The Top 100 Best Free Kindle Books on Amazon. This list is not available on Amazon. See our great list of titles that you missed and are not longer free. Read more »

Vampires Unite to Fight Negative Campaigning

August 17, 2012
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THE REVELATION EFFECT (The Revelation Trilogy)Our guest blog post today comes from Stephen Woodfin (visit his blog) author of several books including his latest The Revelation Effect.

Vampires Unite to Fight Negative Campaigning

I just thought it was a good blog title.

Ever since I wrote GOD’S LOVE SUCKS: A Brief Memoir of a Born-Again Vampire, I have given a lot of thought to the massive amount of negative campaigning directed at vampires.

I don’t know why I used a picture of Karl Rove.  So far as I know, he is not a vampire. (see a picture of Karl at the end of the article and judge for yourself).

It is a real travesty that I believe we as writers need to address.

My vast research into vampirism (okay, so I didn’t do ANY research) has convinced me that it is time to set the record straight.  If we all join hands and make a concerted effort to debunk vampire myths that form an iron collar around the neck of American society, an Albatross of misinformation and negativism, perhaps we can rid the literary world of this terrible scourge and in so doing set mankind on a new path of freedom.

Here are few vampire facts I discovered (okay, I didn’t “discover” them, I made them up, but what the heck?):

1.  Garlic doesn’t bother vampires, but peanut butter is a vampire killer. (Just think how terrible it would be to have to give up peanut butter.) Read more »

Are We Leaving 10 Million Customers Behind?

August 16, 2012
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Red is an Attitude (Red Mojo Mama)A blog post from In The Writing Grove by Kathy Lynn Hall author of Red is an Attitude.

Are We Leaving 10 Million Customers Behind?

So, today I read in the AARP magazine (yes, I’m old enough to get it) that 28% of those 67 and older use e-readers. I immediately headed for the 2010 census and guess what? There are 40.4 million people in the US over the age of 65. That means we Indie authors who publish digital copies of our books have a built-in audience of somewhere in the neighborhood of 10 million readers.
Wow! That’s a great audience to market to and yet, I can’t remember seeing any books advertised lately specifically for the older crowd. Can you? I have a work in progress right now that is a love story/mystery with two seniors as the main characters. Maybe I’m on to something! Besides, the fact that I love this story, that is.
So, this isn’t a big long post, but just a short and simple question: Are we missing an opportunity here?

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