- Welcome to the January edition of the BooksForABuck.com newsletter. It's a new year. Each year, many of us promise to treat ourselfs better, to exercise more, to pay more attention to health, and to take better care of our minds. I hope that you'll all join me in considering reading as an essential part of our life--and something that can give us joy even in tough economic times.
- You can buy BooksForABuck.com stuff from our Cafe Press Store (no markup). (Authors, please let me know if you're interested in your own Cafe Press Store. It's free and I'll be happy to help with artwork and to link to it.)
- If you haven't already done so, check out our videos page. Trailers, video versions, author rants, and just-for-fun entertainment.
- Longstanding eBook maven Jay Hartman has left KnowBetter where he managed content to start his own website--www.ereadindeed.com. Jay picked Amy Eastlake's PRIVATE LIES as one of his year of free eBooks. Check out PRIVATE LIES (free) here.. Thanks for the mention, Jay, and good luck on your new venture.
- A MAN LIKE NO OTHER by Joshua Calkins-Treworgy. Fantasy from Calkins-Treworgy's Tamalarian world.
- Amy Eastlake's PRIVATE LIES was featured on eReadIndeed. Congratulations, Amy.
- Karen Leabo is doing a month-long on-line class on 'Extremely Productive Writer' for the Yosemite Romance Writers, February 2-27 (sign-up deadline, Feb. 1)
- Authors--keep me posted on your activities so I can include them in the newsletter.
- Romance/Women's Fiction
- THE PREGNANCY SURPRISE by Kara Lennox Harlequin American Romance #1240, December 2008 **** Reviewed 12/07/08
- INTO THE FIRE by Suzanne Brockmann Ballantine Books, July 2008 ** Reviewed 12/01/08
- Science Fiction/Fantasy
- PRINCEP'S FURY by Jim Butcher Ace, November 2008 *** Reviewed 12/23/08
- THE WYRMLING HORDE by David Farland Tor, September 2008 *** Reviewed 12/01/08
- Mystery/Thriller
- SCONE COLD DEAD by Kaitlyn Dunnett Kensington, August 2008 ** Reviewed 12/23/08
- GOING POSTAL by Amy Eastlake BooksForABuck.com, December 2008 **** Reviewed 12/23/08
- HARDLY KNEW HER by Laura Lippman William Morrow, October 2008 **** Reviewed 12/15/08
BooksForABuck.com Newsletter--December, 2008
News and Events
New Books
During December, we pubished GOING POSTAL by Amy Eastlake. This is the latest in Eastlake's Texas Trailer Park Mystery series--a charming set of stories featuring spunky female sleuths. You can buy this book for only $1.00 (regular price is $3.99) but only until January 23. It's available in HTML, Adobe Acrobat PDF, eReader (formerly Palm Reader), Mobipocket, Microsoft Reader, Sony Reader and ePub formats.
Contest.
The winner of our special Holiday contest was Amy T. Congratulations Amy. Amy won a copy of her choice of our books--and another copy to send to her friend. Stay tuned for more contests and other opportunities.
Elsewhere in the ePublishing world:
Coming in January
What our authors are up to
New Reviews We added reviews of the following books during December:
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