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The Heart and the Harsh, a military-theme anthology by Silver Boomer Books is a F*R*E*E download on amazon – but only from midnight tonight 1/2/12 Pacific Time until midnight Tuesday. Two of my stories, Cheekers and One Life, appeared in this book. It’s all great reading.

http://tinyurl.com/7yvkgve

Write it Right - Tips for Authors is on Amazon's Top 100 in Reference Boooks.
Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #94,093 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)
#80 in Kindle Store > Kindle eBooks > Nonfiction > Education > Reference

http://tinyurl.com/44c457y

This is the complete list of stories and flashes included in the book, along with Loglines. The eBook will be released mid-September.

Acting in a Coffin - A director plays a prank that backfires on a movie set.

The Wallflower - A woman compares herself to one who is the life of the party.

Pupule - A neighborhood gets a lesson in humility from a crazy old Hawaiian man.

To Soar - What a bird drops.

Out of Body - A man is shot and his brain goes…

Now you can see how many of your (paper) books have sold without waiting for the royalty check.

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/jacketcopy/2010/12/amazon-gives-nielsen-bookscan-to-authors.html

My paranormal Egyptian suspense, is on amazon's Top 100 again

• Average Customer Review:…

From an article I read this morning:

Thousands of digital books, called ebooks, are being published through Amazon's self-publishing system each month. Many are not written in the traditional sense.

Instead, they are built using something known as Private Label Rights, or PLR content, which is information that can be bought very cheaply online then reformatted into a digital book.

These ebooks are listed for sale -- often at 99 cents -- alongside more…

"The Ka" eBook made Amazon's Top 100 books for Egypt yesterday, and it's still hanging in there today. http://tinyurl.com/3s8ntqy

RIVER BONES was a FINALIST in the 2011 National Indie Excellence Book Awards.

However, it didn't win, but this is the 2nd award for this book. On the winners's page, scroll down to the Thriller section:

http://www.indieexcellence.com/indie-results-2011.htm

Here are the full details:

• • #45 Top Rated in Kindle Store > Kindle eBooks >…

At nearly 95,000 lean words, Legacy of the Tropics is a bargain eBook. Get it on amazon for 99 cents.

http://tinyurl.com/4fwhlpa

My book, Write it Right - Tips for Authors, Volume I, is presently the top rated reference book on smashwords:

http://tinyurl.com/4qotgru