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December 12, 2012

3 Lucky #Readers Will Win #free CONDITIONED RESPONSE + WHEN MINDS COLLIDE in @Webbiegrrl's 30,000 Hit #Giveaway http://webbiegrrl.blogspot.com/p/give...


Today's the last day to win a free copy of When Minds Collide and/or Conditioned Response

There are 3 copies of each up for grabs in Webbiegrrl Writer's Ginormous 30,000 Hit Giveaway:


http://webbiegrrl.blogspot.com/p/giveaways.html


Enter often and get a free set of both books! You can enter often, right up until the evening of Thursday, Dec. 13th. Winners will be drawn Friday, Dec 14th.

Good luck!

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Published on December 12, 2012 05:21

September 5, 2012

Get a FREE eBook, Donate to a Good Cause #SOT #SOV #WoundedWarriors @Team_X_Treme

I'm a member of RABMAD (Read a Book, Make a Difference, see my page here - http://bit.ly/fridayRABMAD) so 10% of all my sales go to Team X-TREME, a group of warriors who go to the extreme (get it?) to train, rebhabilitate, empower, motivate and endure for the sake of our wounded warriors.

If you've ever seen these guys even once, you'll know it. They run races and obstacle courses wearing a gas mask to purposely reduce their oxygen intake--like breathing at high altitude, through a straw. Check out Team X-TREME's Facebook Page for some amazing photos of their recent run of the Spartan Race in Virginia - wow! The 300 had nothing on these guys!

I've committed to donate 10% of all sales of my debut novel, Conditioned Response, to Team X-TREME (See book links after the blurbages).

I just released a long short story/novella, When Minds Collide, which you can read FREE (see book links below) OR if you like it and want to support Team X-TREME a little more, you can pay 99c at Amazon http://bit.ly/WMC-KindleUS and I'll donate 10% of my 35c whenever Amazon gets around to paying it. I make donations quarterly and just made my first one for the 2Q12 royalties that just got paid in August! So exciting to be able to support Team X-TREME's great cause!

Both stories are in the same far-future Dystopian SciFi universe, with When Minds Collide taking place about 400 years before Conditioned Response, so you might like to try WMC first for free before donating to the cause. That was my cunning plan anyway ^)^

Blurbage for When Minds Collide
In a future where humans can clone a new body part at will and essentially triple the average lifespan, a fatal car accident on an alien world leaves a fledgling human colony without two of their greatest minds. In desperation, the administrative head of the colony carries out a dangerous experiment which could either save both men or destroy them completely. When one of the indigenous people of the Phoenician world helps save the experiment gone awry, it will change the course of human history forever.

Blurbage for Conditioned Response
Over 400 years after landing on the Phoenician world, humans have re-established the species through artificial breeding and an oligarchical caste system of control. Raif is a member of the military caste, the Proctors, enslaved to the ruling class, but it's obvious he was never designed to be a Proctor. His quest to find his true purpose in life intersect the secret agenda of his Councillor, a Phoenician named Shayla, the first and only Phoenician to actually live among the humans since their arrival. What these two independent thinkers do will shatter the structure of humanity's last hope.

Book Links
Conditioned Response
Kindle US - http://amzn.to/US-CondResp
Kindle UK - http://amzn.to/UK-CondResp
Apple Stores - http://bit.ly/iTunes-CondResp
All Other Formats (Smashwords) - http://bit.ly/SW-CondResp

When Minds Collide (free)
http://bit.ly/WMC-Goodreads (read in your browser, PDF or ePub only)
http://bit.ly/WMC-Smash (all formats)
http://bit.ly/WMC-iTunes
http://bit.ly/WMC-Biblio (London-based, requires registration)
http://bit.ly/WMC-obooko (London-based, requires registration)

DONATE BY PURCHASING When Minds Collide AT AMAZON:
http://bit.ly/WMC-KindleUS
http://bit.ly/WMC-KindleUK

-Friday
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Published on September 05, 2012 04:29

Get a FREE book, Donate to a Good Cause

I'm a member of RABMAD (Read a Book, Make a Difference, see my page here - http://bit.ly/fridayRABMAD) so 10% of all my sales go to Team X-TREME, a group of warriors who go to the extreme (get it?) to train, rebhabilitate, empower, motivate and endure for the sake of our wounded warriors. If you've ever seen these guys even once, you'll know it. They run races and obstacle courses wearing a gas mask to purposely reduce their oxygen intake--like breathing at high altitude, through a straw. Check out Team X-TREME's Facebook Page for some amazing photos of their recent run of the Spartan Race in Virginia - wow! The 300 had nothing on these guys!

I've committed to donate 10% of all sales of my debut novel, Conditioned Response, to Team X-TREME (See book links after the blurbages).

I also just released a long short story/novella, When Minds Collide, which you can read FREE (see book links below) OR if you like it and want to support Team X-TREME a little more, you can pay 99c at Amazon http://bit.ly/WMC-KindleUS and I'll donate 10% of my 35c whenever Amazon gets around to paying it. I make donations quarterly and just made my first one for the 2Q12 royalties that just got paid in August! So exciting to be able to support Team X-TREME's great cause!

Both stories are in the same far-future Dystopian SciFi universe, with When Minds Collide taking place about 400 years before Conditioned Response, so you might like to try WMC first for free before donating to the cause. That was my cunning plan anyway ^)^

Blurbage for When Minds Collide
In a future where humans can clone a new body part at will and essentially triple the average lifespan, a fatal car accident on an alien world leaves a fledgling human colony without two of their greatest minds. In desperation, the administrative head of the colony carries out a dangerous experiment which could either save both men or destroy them completely. When one of the indigenous people of the Phoenician world helps save the experiment gone awry, it will change the course of human history forever.

Blurbage for Conditioned Response
Over 400 years after landing on the Phoenician world, humans have re-established the species through artificial breeding and an oligarchical caste system of control. Raif is a member of the military caste, the Proctors, enslaved to the ruling class, but it's obvious he was never designed to be a Proctor. His quest to find his true purpose in life intersect the secret agenda of his Councillor, a Phoenician named Shayla, the first and only Phoenician to actually live among the humans since their arrival. What these two independent thinkers do will shatter the structure of humanity's last hope.

Book Links
Conditioned Response
Kindle US - http://amzn.to/US-CondResp
Kindle UK - http://amzn.to/UK-CondResp
Apple Stores - http://bit.ly/iTunes-CondResp
All Other Formats (Smashwords) - http://bit.ly/SW-CondResp

When Minds Collide (free)
http://bit.ly/WMC-Goodreads (read in your browser, PDF or ePub only)
http://bit.ly/WMC-Smash (all formats)
http://bit.ly/WMC-iTunes
http://bit.ly/WMC-Biblio (London-based, requires registration)
http://bit.ly/WMC-obooko (London-based, requires registration)

DONATE BY PURCHASING When Minds Collide AT AMAZON:
http://bit.ly/WMC-KindleUS
http://bit.ly/WMC-KindleUK

-Friday
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Published on September 05, 2012 03:19 Tags: dystopian, ebook, free, rabmad, scifi, sot, sov, team-x-treme, wounded-warriors

August 16, 2012

Need help choosing where to donate for my #RABMAD (Read a Book, Make a Difference)

I'm going to join Rob S. Guthrie's RABMAD Project. It's an informal group Rob founded a while ago for himself and other Authors who want to (informally) state their intention to donate a portion of their proceeds from book sales to various charities. My plan is to donate a portion of the profits from the sales of Conditioned Response (and other books in the Phoenician Series) to military-related charity.

Problem is, there are so many charities of which I am a fan that I cannot pick just one. So I setup a poll on Facebook (LOL what else?)

Would you please vote to help me decide? Click here to vote (you must be logged into Facebook to vote). There are 7 charities: 6 that I picked and one a person wrote in (so I know nothing about it). They are as follows in what I think is my current order of preference. Click on each name to learn more about them.

1) Team X-T.R.E.M.E
2) Dog Bless You
3) Wounded Warrior Project
4) Freedom Is Not Free
5) Dogs on Deployment
6) Soldiers' Angels (Official
7) Fans of Cooking with the Troops (write-in)
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Published on August 16, 2012 04:19

August 14, 2012

When Minds Collide Finally Arrived at iTunes - and it's FREE!!

After a long 2 weeks of waiting, finally, When Minds Collide has arrived in iTunes. Now you can get it FREE on your iPad or iPhone here: http://bit.ly/WMC-iTunes

While you've been waiting for its arrival at iTunes, WMC has been saved to 35 Smashwords libraries and moved almost 300 copies at Smashwords -- that's in addition to over 500 other copies at free sites in the UK (http://bit.ly/WMC-Biblio and http://bit.ly/WMC-obooko). Yes, almost 800 people have read this long short story (or short novella). Have you? Please leave me a review and let me know what you think :) And thank you to everyone who downloaded and enjoyed the book. It's so exciting to get these stories out there at last!

-Friday

When Minds Collide (A Phoenician Series Short Story) by Marjorie F. Baldwin
Can two men co-exist inside one mind? Andrew Caine and Joshua Scherrer can barely co-exist outside, on the same planet. After they're involved in a fatal car accident, the enigmatic native Phoenicians have sent someone to "help" them blend together, into a new man. Can they accept the new existence together, or will their minds collide as fatally as the car crash that killed them?

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When two brilliant scientists die together in a careless traffic accident, the Community, a fledgling human colony on an alien world, suffers a devastating blow. Joshua Scherrer and Andrew Caine might have loathed each other personally, but their collective knowledge was vital to humanity’s survival on this Phoenician world. Without them and their contributions, Administrator Stafar Baghendi fears for the very survival of humanity’s last stand.

In a desperate attempt to salvage both men, Stafar Baghendi uses an untried, theoretical gene therapy process, infusing the genetically-encoded memory of Andrew Caine into the DNA of Joshua Scherrer. The two men awaken to find themselves living together inside one mind, but their clashing personalities might prove a more fatal collision than the one that killed them the first time.

What none of the humans realize is that here on the Phoenician home world, the Seven Chiefs have a Plan for everything—and this time, the Plan will change the course of human history forever.

(The end of this short eBook contains an 8000-word excerpt of a Phoenician Series novel; actual length of this story is 29,000 words)
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July 30, 2012

When Minds Collide Releasing--Conditioned Response 50% to Celebrate!

Last night I created a book page here and uploaded the source file for When Minds Collide to Smashwords and will be setting up the book here on Goodreads today - all in anticipation of an August 1 release date.

Overnight 29 people downloaded it and 8 added it to their Smashwords Library (yay!) so I guess even before I start pushing its promotion, it's gonna do well. Psyched. I really like the way When Minds Collide turned out. From cover art to the plot unfolding, this story just worked. It's "William's Story" which kind of surprised me. I'd thought it was the story of how Joshua Scherrer and Andrew Caine became the man named Joshua Andrew Caine we meet in Conditioned Response. I guess Will just had other ideas ^_^

When Minds Collide (A Phoenician Series Short Story) by Marjorie F. Baldwin Get When Minds Collide FREE here: http://bit.ly/WMC-Smash





Keep reading The Phoenician Series by getting Conditioned Response (A Phoenician Series Novel) by Marjorie F. Baldwin at 50% off the regular retail price of $7.99 for a low $4.00 (offer good until July 31) using coupon code SSW50 at checkout.

Get them both now, exclusively at Smashwords :) and don't forget to add them to your "to-read" shelf here on Goodreads! Thank you to everyone for all of the pre-release support. What a great 12 hours it's been. The next 3 days are gonna be busy!

BLURBAGE:

Can two men co-exist inside one mind? Andrew Caine and Joshua Scherrer can barely co-exist outside, on the same planet. After they're involved in a fatal car accident, the enigmatic native Phoenicians have sent someone to "help" them blend together, into a new man. Can they accept the new existence together, or will their minds collide as fatally as the car crash that killed them?

#

When two brilliant scientists die together in a careless traffic accident, the Community, a fledgling human colony on an alien world, suffers a devastating blow. Joshua Scherrer and Andrew Caine might have loathed each other personally, but their collective knowledge was vital to humanity’s survival on this Phoenician world. Without them and their contributions, Administrator Stafar Baghendi fears for the very survival of humanity’s last stand.

In a desperate attempt to salvage both men, Stafar Baghendi uses an untried, theoretical gene therapy process, infusing the genetically-encoded memory of Andrew Caine into the DNA of Joshua Scherrer. The two men awaken to find themselves living together inside one mind, but their clashing personalities might prove a more fatal collision than the one that killed them the first time.

What none of the humans realize is that here on the Phoenician home world, the Seven Chiefs have a Plan for everything—and this time, the Plan will change the course of human history forever.

(The end of this short eBook contains an 8000-word excerpt of a Phoenician Series novel; actual length of this story is 29,000 words)
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July 24, 2012

Happy Holidays!!

<3 HAPPY HOLIDAYS! <3 (click to play music)

It's Christmas Eve in July
and all through my house,
Conditioned Response's FREE,
just click your mouse!

http://bit.ly/SW-CondResp (use SSWIN at checkout)
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Published on July 24, 2012 15:30

Goodreads Bullies - Gang wars?

This is NOT what happened to me, but thanks to a friend for cluing me onto this article. Just to be clear I have NOT been targetted (as far as I know! I dunno, maybe I'm so clueless that I believe readers are entitled to give a 2-star review). I've definitely had some BOGUS reviews posted. That is, reviews that are semantically devoid of any useful content, once you remove the book's blurbage/plot summary.

Still, this is a VERY interesting OpEd at the HuffPo on Goodreads bullies - and we've all seen/read/encountered them by now, haven't we? Sad but true. Makes the truly CREATIVE (but harsh) reviewers have to worry for their safety now, too. Why do people bully so freely online anyway. So not right (sigh)

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/stop-the-gr-bullies/stop-goodreads-bullies_b_1689661.html

"In other words, if they are given any reason to target an author, they will attempt to destroy that author's reputation and career for either their own personal amusement or for vengeance. We are not talking about honest book reviews giving their opinion on a book. What we're talking about is them trying to create negative hype around an author regarding the author's sanity, or posting malicious reviews that have nothing to do with the novel or were only posted to join the latest petition against an author. "
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Published on July 24, 2012 10:04

July 19, 2012

#ConditionedResponse #ThrillerThursday #SciFi #sniper #snippet #smashwords http://bit.ly/SW-CondResp

The following is excerpted from Chapter 26 (yes, near the end!) of Conditioned Response, a Classic SciFi Dystopian Thriller for sale at Smashwords. I'm snippeting this scene because I just love Julia Travis (Senior Councillor and Head of the Department of Transportation for the World Council). She is one kickass redhead and not a bad sniper to boot ^)^ It's also a good taste of the world in the book so whether you buy the book or just enjoy the free read beyond the jump-break, thanks for stopping by! Say hi to me on Twitter @phoenicianbooks and let me know what you think of this.
SPOILER ALERT *** SPOILER ALERT *** SPOILER ALERT

Yes, there are major spoilers in this excerpt, especially as pertains to one of the two major Villians in the story. If you are sensitive to knowing how things turn out, you probably do not want to read this snippet. If, however, you don’t mind a look ahead or enjoy opening a book to a random “late” chapter to sample it, this is the  #ThrillerThursday sample for you!
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Published on July 19, 2012 10:28

July 18, 2012

July 22: #SampleSunday + an Interview w/Barb's Creative Wire

This weekend I'll have two nice tidbits of reading for you on Sunday, July 22, 2012.

1) Creative Barb's Wire will be running a comprehensive interview with mois. I really can't believe how generous Barb was with her screen real estate. Thanks in advance Barb! I hope you get lots and lots of new follows from my readers :)

Check Creative Barb's Wire blog here.

2) On Twitter, @phoenicianbooks will be tweeting an entire scene from Chapter 3 of Conditioned Response. You can download Conditioned Response (sample up to 30% free) from Smashwords and read along with the tweets. A new line every hour, on the top of the hour (:00) Please be sure to add Conditioned Response to your "to read" shelf here on Goodreads.

See you this #SampleSunday!

-Friday
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Published on July 18, 2012 05:55 Tags: conditioned-response, ebook, free-samples, samplesunday