THE JAMES MASON COMMUNITY BOOK CLUB discussion

Hi all! I'm running a spring sale on the Kindle edition only of my novel, The Secrets They Kept. Just $.99!

If you like a good family drama that will sweep you into the world of Greek-American culture, this is your story! Strong women take center stage.
http://www.amazon.com/The-Secrets-The...

My Thriller Call down the Hawk is on Free Promotion all day today from Amazon for all you Goodreads Kindle owners. Get it free while you can!
http://www.amazon.com/Call-down-the-H...

Hi Maurice, Your book looks good, I downloaded it. You might like The Seventh Pillar, my third book in a thriller series, free today (Saturday) and extended through tomorrow on Kindle. Take a look. Good luck with your book.
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B007EFBI9G

This is a triptych composed of 3 oil paintings. The one on the right provided the inspiration for the cover of my book, Apart From Love, which is now available on...
To read more, click the link:
http://uviart.blogspot.com/2012/01/wh...

I've just completely updated/revised my book ComPETability: Solving Behavior Problems in Your Cat-Dog Household with a SQUEEE! cute new kitten/puppy cover. The sample hasn't updated yet, though :(

Hi everyone,
I want to let you know about my new release coming at the beginning of May, Wicked Eddies, the second book in my RM Outdoor Adventures mystery series.

Here's the blurb:
Fly fishing is dangerous? River ranger Mandy Tanner had no idea until days before a huge tournament in Salida, Colorado. True, the Arkansas River can be a man-eater, but the rapids weren’t responsible for driving a hatchet into the neck of would-be competitor Howie Abbott―a secretive man who may have been cheating. While casting about for suspects, Mandy seeks clues from Abbott’s family members, including her best friend, bartender Cynthia Abbott. But when Cynthia becomes the prime suspect, Mandy realizes she’s wading into deeper, more hazardous waters than ever.

I hope you'll add it to your to-read lists! Also, my Goodreads Giveaway for a copy of Wicked Eddies started today! Enter here:
http://www.goodreads.com/giveaway/sho...

And, I've opened up my Q&A group to discussion about the release. Please join the group and post your question at:
http://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1...

Congratulations Beth! May you sell a million copies, Mary

Steve, just now, when I clicked on the link in your post above (message 1565), I got a notice that said the URL contained "a malformed video ID." I'm guessing it just has a typo.

Thanks Werner , doh!
It was a typo. I've fixed it now
Here is the link
http://youtu.be/5bc05hJRTvA

Thanks, Steve. That's a really cool trailer; good job!

Last call for a free copy of The Seventh Pillar.The Seventh Pillar Take a shot if you haven't already, there's nothing to lose and a good story to gain.
Thanks!

Werner wrote: "Thanks, Steve. That's a really cool trailer; good job!"

Thanks, it's nice to get your feedback. Cheers.

My book is called The Dark Lake, and it is the story of a woman who can't let go of the past. It is sort of a ghost story, a story of addiction and madness.

Fiddling around, thinking of another book, started writing and realized it would be the perfect end for book three. What are your thoughts on that? In general. Make a sequel?

Dead celebrities, dead friends...death seems to be catching in this world of glamor and divorce. HOLLYWOOD FOREVER is now out as an ebook, available worldwide courtesy of Untreed Reads.

Hollywood Forever by Susan Goldstein

Things are not going well for wealthy, spoiled Samantha Crowley who thought her world would never collapse until her superstar novelist husband filed for divorce. Samantha’s pursuit of “divorce justice” in tinsel town lands her in an even more perilous situation. Within twenty-four hours of meeting with her, the people from whom she seeks help turn up dead in dramatic fashion. Samantha, the unwanted wife, is now a wanted woman.

Her trusted confidantes, Bugsy Siegel and William Desmond Taylor, both dead and buried at Hollywood Forever Cemetery where Samantha takes her daily walks, were ideally situated to listen to her problems but now her life has become a 1940′s film noir and she needs a hero to act and save the leading lady. Unable to access her funds and distrustful of her closest friends, Samantha is forced to turn to a stranger for help. But that stranger comes with his own dark past and secrets. Can she ultimately trust him? How far can Samantha stray from the person she once was in order to save her life? Will her Hollywood story have a happy ending?

How to Purchase Hollywood Forever:

Hollywood Forever is $4.99 from The Untreed Reads Store in a variety of formats,including PDF, EPUB and Kindle formats. You’ll also find the titles at virtually every ebook retailer around the world including Amazon, B&N, Kobo, WHSmith and Waterstone’s.

Virginia wrote: "Fiddling around, thinking of another book, started writing and realized it would be the perfect end for book three. What are your thoughts on that? In general. Make a sequel?"

Speaking in general, I love a good series, or at least a mini series. I hope it goes well.

AGAIN- MUST SAY- AMAZED AT THE QUALITY OF BOOKS AND WRITNG BY JAMES MASON MEMBERS!!

Jane Austen meets Sherlock Holmes: Miss Charlotte House will not admit impediments to marriage, not even when those impediments include scandal, blackmail and even a duel to the death. With the help of her particular friend Miss Jane Woodsen, she deduces all that happens in Bath—both good and ill—and together they ensure that true love’s course runs smooth, even though both friends have suffered tragedies that prevent their own happiness. These six affairs, set in Bath, England, during the Napoleonic War, are inspired by the creations of both Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Jane Austen.

Available at Amazon as a paperback and for the Kindle: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B005UF4Z6U

Thanks,

Jennifer Petkus

Rick wrote: "AGAIN- MUST SAY- AMAZED AT THE QUALITY OF BOOKS AND WRITNG BY JAMES MASON MEMBERS!!"

There really is a variety of tastes represented here, isn't there?

@Jennifer: Put it in my to-read list!
@Cheryl: There really are! I love it!

Hi, everyone. Just wanted to let you know that my fantasy novel Wind and Fire is discounted at Smashwords by 33% for the next five days. Get this great bargain for only $1.99!

Enter coupon number XY42X when you go to purchase the book. The coupon expires on April 14, 2012.

Thanks very much.

http://www.smashwords.com/books/view/133776

I've completely updated (with SQUEE! new cover) my book. The title has slightly changed, too--so not sure how to get it to link the new version here in GoodReads (yes, I'm a clueless newbie).

I've greatly updated this book, changed the book cover and title to better reflect the content--ComPETability: Solving Behavior Problems In Your Cat-Dog Household. Currently it's only available on Kindle.

How-to prescriptive advice has been added with step by step info on dealing with aggression, potty concerns (dogs eating from litter box Ew!), mealtime, emotional health and introductions.

I know most folks prefer dog-only or cat-only books so I've split the topics into different books. Two more in the series will address cat-to-cat and dog-to-dog behavior problems. Here's wishing you a truly peace-able pet kingdom!

Being new to the printing process of book covers, I've now learned that it can be a challenge to get graphics with the contrast and vibrancy you would expect. Here is an excellent article about it...
To read more, click the link:
http://uviart.blogspot.com/2012/01/ne...

Thanks very much @Uvi for your link. I confess my technique is to go through several proofs until I think I've got it right.

Jennifer wrote: "Thanks very much @Uvi for your link. I confess my technique is to go through several proofs until I think I've got it right."

You are welcome. The problem of going through several proofs is that it can become costly...

What Women Think About


This is one of the most important questions in the world. The answer to it is unknown not only to men but also to women themselves. What do women think about? What does a woman want to get from the world and from men? What does she strive for? This is a question the answer to which man has tried to get for centuries, as women themselves don’t know it. Try to ask them: “What do you think about, what do you want?” First a woman will think a bit as she doesn’t know the answer either. Then she will pile you with her desires, which we have always known, simply haven’t ever concentrated on.
Yes, the answer is quite simple. Men know it but they have never tried to think it over. It’s very easy to hear it but it’s hard to carry out. Their thoughts are accessible to us, men, we always hear them but try to ignore.
Now let’s speak about what women think about. First, I would like to mention that they think about what they want. Yes, this is what a woman thinks about most of the day, how to get the desired things. There are a lot of means to obtain them, but the main thing is to obtain them with the help of men. This book gives examples and situations of women’s mentality and desires. Most of the readers might have come across such situations; lots of women will recognize themselves while reading the book.
By means of quite simple situations you will get the idea of what women usually think about and if men are able to make their women happy knowing their thoughts; because on the whole men are eager to clarify this question, as they do want to make their women happier.

http://www.wattpad.com/story/1197102-...

Women in the USA will be very unhappy with this premise.

Heck, I don't even know what I think about!

Free Kindle eBook April 12-14 through KDP Select-RHYMES AND RAMBLINGS OF CANTANKEROUS CREATURES. This book is geared towards middle school children but can be enjoyed by all ages.
http://www.amazon.com/Rhymes-Rambling...

Hi Rick What is the difference between an e-book and Kindle or Nook? Are all e-books free? And who decides what the price is? I am confused about this. I am trying to get iUniverse to reduce my kindle price to .99 and sell more but they are now talking about putting an e-book for free. Mary Firmin

Who are these people? They are steering you wrong. Go to kdp.com or Amazon.com and explore everything about Kindle and epub. Also google epub, Nook, Kindle, etc.

SO MANY GREAT PLOTS!!!!!!

Mary wrote: "Hi Rick What is the difference between an e-book and Kindle or Nook? Are all e-books free? And who decides what the price is? I am confused about this. I am trying to get iUniverse to reduce my ..."

Mary
my knowledge is very limited on pricing- an e-book is the product- the Kindle and Nook are devices that one can utilize to make use (read-download) the product-
There are many member-writers who I am sure can answer your questions-

so I call on all our wonderful Member Writers to lend your knowledge on the subject to Mary!!!!

Mary wrote: "Hi Rick What is the difference between an e-book and Kindle or Nook? Are all e-books free? And who decides what the price is? I am confused about this. I am trying to get iUniverse to reduce my ..."

eBooks are electronic editions of books. They are files designed to be read on either a Kindle, a Nook, or an iPad. the file extension is .mobi (for a Kindle) or .epub (for a Nook or iPad). The nice thing of reading on a tablet is that you can jump easily through the chapters, you can click any chapter name in the table of content to go directly to the beginning of that chapter, and you can search for an expression with the click of a button. The iPad has some additional sleek features, for example when you 'turn a page', there is an animation of the page rolling over to the other side, so the feel is amazingly real!

In my case, I have no publisher to deal with, so I am entirely free to set the price of my ebook Apart From Love on all three devices. I set it to $2.99 across the board, and now also here on Goodreads.

I think that in your case, the publisher may be interested to have your book participate in the Kindle Select program?

Indian wrote: "Is it up your alley? Read the reviews and decide:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1450...

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I really find your book and content quite facinating!!!

Mary wrote: "Hi Rick What is the difference between an e-book and Kindle or Nook? Are all e-books free? And who decides what the price is? I am confused about this. I am trying to get iUniverse to reduce my ..."

Hi Mary, as Rick said an Ebook is an electronic book. Kindle (from amazon) and Nook (from barnes and noble) are to examples of "readers."

Not all Ebooks are free. The publishers typically decide on the price and may offer "free" as a promotion. Some distributors (as with Kindle) allow you to change the price within certain ranges--and if the author is also the publisher, you can experiment to find what price best suits (and sells) your book. Amazon-Kindle has a program that the publisher (you as self-published author or your publisher...iUniverse?) can sign up for a Ebook lending program, too. There are many ways to go depending on the publishing platform, publisher, author, and book. Hope something here helps. *s*

New Historical Romance Train Station Bride


1887 Debutante, Julia Crawford endures a lifetime of subtle ridicule as the plump, silly daughter of a premiere Boston family. Julia strikes out on her own to gain independence, traveling to the Midwest to marry an aging shopkeeper and care for his mother. Julia finds her new home rough and uncivilized after the sophistication of a big city, while closely held secrets threaten to ruin Julia’s one chance at love.

Jake Shelling was sixteen and grew up quick when his parents died from influenza on the North Dakota prairie. Left with a half-cleared farm and two young sisters, he spent little time on his own needs . . till now. At thirty-five, he figured it was high time to have some sons and a mail order bride would suit him just fine. No expectations of love, just a helpmate from sturdy stock, ready for farm life.

Wll fate and chance play a trick on Julia and Jake?


Read an excerpt at http://www.hollybushbooks.com/train_s...

Thank you for your answer Rick. I will speak to Stormi about it she should know. I just got confused when I heard someone talking about their free e-books. Mary Firmin

Care to race around Washington D.C. hunting for a crazed killer? Join Untreed Reads and BV Lawson in Ill-Gotten Games, out now as an ebook worldwide.

Ill-Gotten Games by B.V. Lawson

The clock is ticking as crime consultant Scott Drayco and “the world’s most diminutive defense attorney” Benny Baskin play games with a dangerous killer in order to save an innocent man from going to jail.

Why is the killer texting cryptic poems to Drayco on his cellphone about stolen Egyptian figurines, and what do the messages mean? Was the murder a crime of opportunity or was it planned all along for more sinister reasons?

Drayco races around Washington, D.C,. trying to find the answers and avoid becoming a puppet, as the killer pulls the strings.

BV has penned public radio and television feature scripts and is working on a mystery novel series featuring Scott Drayco. Her award-winning stories, poems and articles have appeared in dozens of publications, including a story in the Untreed Reads anthology Grimm Tales, edited by John Kenyon and introduced by Ken Bruen. BV’s crime fiction blog “In Reference to Murder” has the latest news, features, interviews and thousands of links for writers and readers. When time permits, BV and her husband enjoy flying over Northern Virginia and the Chesapeake in a little putt-putt plane.

How to Purchase Ill-Gotten Games:

Ill-Gotten Games is $1.50 from The Untreed Reads Store in a variety of formats,including PDF, EPUB and Kindle formats. You’ll also find the titles at virtually every ebook retailer around the world including Amazon, B&N, Kobo, WHSmith and Waterstone’s.

G'day all my James Mason mates, my book "Out of Australia" has been released as an ebook.

Hope you all enjoy.


http://www.amazon.com/Out-of-Australi...

The intro segment of my book 'The Platte River Waltz' is getting the KDP Select promo today. If you like historical fiction, you might give it a shot.
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0055WXMEO

One of my buds said it has just enough story to stick the sex and violence together. I hope he was kidding.

My book, The Meaning Of Children, is currently on sale for 99 cents on Kindle! You are all cordially invited to enjoy it (I'm on the lookout for intelligent reviews and "thumbs ups," so please take this as a personal invitation to follow up...)

Here's the promo:

The Meaning Of Children now 99 cents on Kindle!

Munro savvy, Picoult heart. Award winning prose for anyone who's ever been a child, wanted a child, had a child. "The Meaning Of Children," my debut story collection, now 90 % OFF at Amazon.com. First class literary fiction with a beating heart. Fourteen stories, 99 cents. Contains several award winners, including fan favourite "Pie."

The Meaning Of Children is here: http://amzn.to/AiGGsm

Readers say: “Captivating,” “Pitch-perfect prose,” “A life-altering read,” “Resonates with the sad truth of being a grownup,” “Touching without being maudlin, a true literary feat," and much MUCH more here: http://beverlyakerman.blogspot.ca/p/r...

Facebook Event: http://www.facebook.com/events/269964...

"A collection of 14 short stories which covers the range of experience from the point of view of children, mums, and also aging parents as well. It’s all there in this lovely little book, short stories about life in a family that might just resemble yours. I wanted to congratulate you on the publication of this book and I hope it goes far far afield for you. A wonderful gift for mother’s day, perhaps more long lived than the usual cut flowers."
~Anne Lagacé Dowson, CJAD Radio journalist

Tom Fleck

Next year will be the 500th since Flodden Field. Tom Fleck sees that international drama as a common soldier:

‘Sharp as quivering hares are the Flecks. We've eyes and ears for things other folk miss.'
Much later, in the aftermath of Flodden, a young man finally understands his father’s words.
The year: 1513. The place: North-East England.
Tom Fleck, a downtrodden farm worker but gifted archer, yearns to escape his masters. He unearths two objects that could be keys to freedom: a torque of ancient gold and a Tudor seal ring. He cannot know how these finds will determine his future.
Rachel Coronel is a refugee. When the torque comes to rest around the neck of this mysterious woman, an odyssey begins which draws Tom Fleck into borderlands of belief and race.

Follow a love affair through 60 segments of meeting, adapting, fighting and realizations. Quicksilver in the Hand is now available as an ebook worldwide, courtesy of Untreed Reads.

Quicksilver In The Hand by Jamie Freeman

Julian and Tony meet in line at a David Sedaris book signing. “Promise me sixty blissful moments and I’ll pass my whole life with you,” Tony tells Julian. And, although the line is really little more than a charming pick-up line, a relationship does develop, told moment by moment from beginning to end in the 60 segments of this story. Love blooms in moments of passion, but as the clock ticks on, the cracks begin to show and Julian must choose between himself and the relationship he thinks he wants.

Jamie Freeman is a north Florida native who works a day job to finance his nighttime passions for writing, reading, and watching old movies. He has collected a personal library that already threatens the structural integrity of his spare bedroom but continues to grow unfettered. He has published a children’s book and a string of short stories and is always working on several new projects. An anthology that included one of his short stories won a 2009 Lambda Literary Award.

How to Purchase Quicksilver in the Hand:

Quicksilver in the Hand is $1.50 from The Untreed Reads Store in a variety of formats,including PDF, EPUB and Kindle formats. You’ll also find the titles at virtually every ebook retailer around the world including Amazon, B&N, Kobo, Apple, WHSmith and Waterstone’s.

I have self published my debut Book, Lilith, which is the first book in a series called the Twin Soul Novels about a girl with a human soul and a demon soul, who is forced to survive both worlds while protecting them. The book had recieved its first 5 star review on Goodreads and a 4 and 5 star review on Amazon.com and .UK

So far so good as I have only had my book up for a few weeks.

http://www.amazon.com/Lilith-Twin-Sou...

Hi Rick and Mason members. My April Edition of the humorous series, My Husband's On Facebook! will be free today through Sunday. Grab a copy and relieve some of the daily stress that surrounds us all. It's a quick read that I'm sure all Facebook followers will enjoy. My March Edition received some nice reviews from our Goodreads members. Thank you for your support.
http://www.amazon.com/My-Husbands-On-...

My new book was just published on Kindle--second in a series of pet behavior books. Offers how-to advice for cat aggression, litter box woes, fearful cats and more, including answers to weird cat questions like "why do cats follow me to the toilet?" and "why cats pester when you're on the phone."

ComPETability: Solving Behavior Problems in Your Multicat Household

http://www.amazon.com/ComPETability-B...

Hi. My new book "What Women Think About" will be published in May. You can know more about the book here http://surenfant.blogspot.com/

I hope you'll like it.

I have a novel out called Tollesbury Time Forever. It's been available on Kindle since 3rd January and so far has 51 five star reviews and is currently in both the Literary Fiction and Psychological Fiction Top 100 charts on Amazon UK. All good fun!

Nominated for the PEN/Hemingway award, Water Dancer is now available for the first time in ebook format. Out now through Untreed Reads.

Water Dancer by Jenifer Levin

Water Dancer tells the story of Dorey Thomas, a marathon swimmer training to cross the cold, brutal waters of the San Antonio Strait. It is a feat no other athlete has ever achieved. This swim will be her return to life after suffering a nervous breakdown. Her trainer, Sarge Olssen, faces an old enemy; for the San Antonio Strait took the life of his only son. Since then he and his wife, Ilana, have lived in isolation, torn from the world and from each other. Dorey’s year of training brings the passions of these three to the surface, becoming not only a test of physical endurance for Dorey but a test of the spirit for them all: a road to healing and redemption, and a rebirth of the ability to love. Swirling at the core of this mythical journey is water itself, the mysterious element of sustenance, destruction, transformation.

“Water Dancer is a hard, rewarding book; about much more than swimming. This is a book I want my sons and daughters to read. The love felt and described is inspiring. It transcends the physical, sensual, sexual to the spiritual, the psychic. It touches on the essential quality of love, and takes us into depths and through currents almost unendurable, to new insights, new beaches.” – William Wharton, author of Birdy

“A Sargasso Sea of brilliant and startling images…Levin’s prose dazzles.” – Los Angeles Herald Examiner

“An extraordinary first novel.” – The Village Voice

Jenifer Levin is known for her novels Water Dancer (nominated for the PEN/Hemingway Award), Snow, Shimoni’s Lover, The Sea of Light (nominated for the Lambda Literary Award in Fiction), and her short story collection Love and Death, & Other Disasters. Her essays and short fiction are widely anthologized. She has also contributed feature articles to the New York Times, the Washington Post, and Rolling Stone, among others. One of the first openly gay authors to be published in the mainstream press, the Washington Post named her part of the “lesbian literati”.

Levin graduated from the University of Michigan with a BA in Comparative Literature, subsequently studying Medical Anthropology and South Asian history. She traveled widely in Europe and Southeast Asia, lived and worked in Israel, and studied Tibetan Buddhism for 10 years. A former competitive swimmer, she has coached women’s running and weight-training and completed several marathons.

Levin has two sons whom she adopted as toddlers from Cambodia. Her essays about Cambodia—a country devastated by war, poverty, and genocide—before and after the intervention of the United Nations, and her experiences adopting and raising special needs children, have appeared in several anthologies.

She and her family live in New York City.

How to Purchase Water Dancer:

Water Dancer is $4.99 from The Untreed Reads Store in a variety of formats, including PDF, EPUB and Kindle formats. You’ll also find the titles at virtually every ebook retailer around the world including Amazon, B&N, Kobo, WHSmith and Waterstone’s.