Whoa, it must be Valentine's Day

Follower Love Blog Hop last just a few more days. The link is at the bottom of the post.

I popped on to see what kind of free e-books were available today from my crack dealer free e-book email list, and whooo, was I blown away. There are twenty-seven Romances that look pretty darn good, and that's not included all the ones labeled under erotic. Usually there aren't more than about ten.  Must be the celebratory love day coming up inspiring Romance authors to put up lots of free ebooks. That's a perfectly fine Valentine's present for me. I'll take a free e-book and some chocolates any day. Besides the books will last longer than the flowers.

Click on the pictures to go straight to Amazon to download these books. Remember, if you're not clicking the day of the original post make sure to check the prices before you one-click. Then read them to your lover to spice up your V-day fun. Jump straight to the sex scenes. You'll have him eating out of your hand (or other fun places) in no time. 

I bet he's never read a trashy romance novel before. You might just get him hooked. And if he doesn't rush right out to sign up for the Harlequin-send-me-five-books-every-month club I bet he won't mind so much about your monthly book bill and that huge stack of to be read Romance novels sitting on your bedside table.  He may even buy you a few.

Here's your V-day present to yourself (or that lucky lover)

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I'm gonna start with The Clinch Cover, looks cute and perfect for Romance readers and writers everywhere.

I'll let you know if it's any good.

Would you like to win a Romance novel? Click on the Follower Love pic below to go to my contest. 

If you win you'll have your pick from ten fabulous Romance authors.

My ole friend BoB

The link for Follower Love Bloghop is down at the bottom of the page.

I've downloaded books from lots of different websites.  Long ago, in a galaxy far far away (read: when I moved to Vietnam four years ago) my family bought gift certificates for e-book stores for my birthday and holiday presents. Books on Board, ah my old friend BoB, has been through it's ups and downs. But overall they have quite a few good quality books. But, they weren't big on freebies. Until recently.
Much to my surprise, flashing at the top of the monthly newsletter I get from them was a huge FREE E-BOOKS banner. YeeHaw.
I clicked it.
I got some new books, for FREE. Yay.
Click this insane banner here and it'll take you to the same newsletter I get with a list of their freebies (and links for some cheap reads too.

Here are the books I chose from the freebie list. As always click on the book cover to go directly to the BoB sight. If you're not clicking the day of the original post check the price.
  
  



I did have a problem downloading a couple of the books. Also, if you click on the link to get the Kindle book it takes you straight to Amazon. LOL.
The files are Adobe Epub, so you'll have to download Adobe Editions to read them if you don't have an e-book reader that reads that kind of file. (My Sony PRS-505 reads epubs). Here's the link if you want to download the Adobe reader. http://www.adobe.com/products/digitaleditions/

The one thing I most excited about on this new resource is that the books are not self pubbed.  Now you know I'm a self pub fan, but sometimes I want something that I know has been professionally edited and had a book cover done for it. Of course you still have to weed through the to find the gems and get rid of the stinkers, but there's a comfort zone there.
So have fun with this new resource, you know I will.

If you haven't started following my blog yet, I've got a giveaway going on. Click on the pretty Follower Love Blog Hop button and check out the chances to win a free Kindle book from one of ten Romance authors.

Zombie Love is the new Black

My Follower Love Blog Hop is still going on this week until V-day. Link is at the bottom of this post.

Everyone will tell you - don't write to trends. (Well, except maybe Vampires) But please, I beg of you all out there writing Romance, please, write to this one.
Zombies are totally the new black, or the new vampires. (Oh, god, just don't make your zombies sparkle) Most of the books and stories out there are more like the old Romero zombie movies.

You know, zombie apocalypse, run from zombies, get down and dirty with hero or heroine who hasn't been bitten yet (but we all know he will), get cornered by 'em, hero makes a last stand, everyone else escapes, pine for the love you missed out on because now he's a zombie and you have to shoot him in the head.

What we've really been missing is the whole zombies who are in love stories. Yeah, you heard me, one-eyed, missing an arm, dangly man bits, zombie love.
God it could be so much fun.
Don't believe me?  Get a load of this killer song and video from Stephanie Mabey.

I've totally been looking for an excuse to blog that video for ever.
I just want your heart, I want your heart, I want ya.
Today, in free books I found the perfect excuse to share it. Yay! Now it can be stuck in your head for the next millenium too.

Title: Loved you for your Brain (short story)
Author: Damien Foyle
Genre: Zombies!
Length - shorty short
Publisher: Self Pubbed

Review:
Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha.
I heart Damien's zombies. Apparently they can still think, love and write. The narrator of this little ditty may be slow moving, looking for flesh to prey upon. But he's looking for more than just dinner, he's looking for a girl with brains.
A love letter from a zombie to the girl he's stalking. Brilliant, bloody brilliant.
I loved this story. I mean, come on. The first line is "You were on the run when I saw you for the first time." and it just gets better from there.
He even calls her babe.
Awesome.

My recommendations:
One click this one, read it, then go watch some old style Romero zombie flicks with a whole new perspective. Maybe those slow walking zombies just wanted those girls for their hearts...
I give it four stars.

Hop on over to my Follower Love Blog Hop post for the chance to win your choice of book (or two pack) from one of ten Romance authors. (Unfortunately not a one of 'em writes Zombie Romance.)

 Click on the pic to go straight to the post.

Laughs at the Speed of Twitter

The Follower Love link is at the bottom of all of this week's posts.

I love twitter for a variety of reasons. It gives me a way to build my author platform, I get tons of publishing industry news, there are contests galore to win free books, and it gives me the greatest writing procrastination outlet ever. But most of all I like twitter because in 140 characters I can be ROFLing, LMAOing and LOLing. (especially on #mancandymondays)

I strive everyday to write funny. I don't have any formulas, I've never taken any classes, for me, right now, it's all very organic. I love to read funny, so I try to write funny. I'm sure someday when my big not so scary publisher tells me to I'll have to figure out the science of humor, but for now, my only studies are RomComs, Humor books, Laugh out Loud Romance novels (my favorite), and of course twitter.

My chosen professor and textbook in the study of funny for today is a free e book for my Kindle.

Title: Two-Fisted Tweets

Author: James Hutchings

Genre: Humor 

Publisher: Self Pubbed

Review:

I'm not sure if 30 sentences counts as a book, but they definitely count as a laugh. I found James Hutchings one line stories funny enough, I tweeted a bunch of them as fast as my two fists could type. These aren't crass one line jokes, they are witty and clever and had me literally LOLing. Plus I like the genre-mashing retro cover.

I'll share my favorite line here, then you can download the book for the rest of them.

"Rotting hands reached from the darkness. At last, someone was attracted to her for her brains."

Ah, I told you Zombies are the new black.

Actually it was a three way tie between this snort inducer, the one about chocolate cake, and the one about the Sasquatch. 

Enticed? You should be. 

Recommendations: 

One-click this one right now. Then email the author and ask him to release the next in the series I've titled "Three-fisted Tweets". Which will be three times as long and triple the laughs.

I give this book four stars. It's only missing that fifth because its too dang short.

 

Follower Love is still going on until Valentine's Day. 

Click on the pic to jump to my post for this ginormous blog hop and check out the books 

you've got a shot at winning.

Follower Lurrrrvvvvvv

I love my followers almost as much as I love free e-books. 

You know what else I love. NEW followers.

I'm very excited to do my very first blog hop. Thanks to I'm a Reader, Not a Writer and Rachael Renee Anderson for hosting the blog hop. This one is HUGE and I'm so glad you made it all the way down to little number 196 (or where ever my blog is listed now - pretty far down the list. Phew!)

Click here for the linky to all the other hippity hoppity blogs. 

--> Hop Hop Hop to another blog

For most of you this is your first visit to Amy Denim's 365 days, 365 Free E-books. So here's the gist.

I'm poor. 

I'm a reading addict. 

I got a Kindle for Christmas. 

I download free e-books for it.

But there are A LOT of free ebooks available, not only from Amazon, but other places too.How is one to choose which books to get and which to skip?

That's where I come in.

Almost everyday, I download around ten-ish e-books from various sources. I read one and put up a review letting you know whether to One-Click it (which is the fast and easy way to download from Amazon) or to skip it. 

I pepper these posts with advice for authors, recommendation on whether to check out other books, and my own personal rants.

The days I don't review a free book I post resources to find free e-book (Did you know you can get them from your local neighborhood library too) or my own downloads of the day. 

I'm a Romance writer (proud member of RWA, my local Colorado chapter and Rainbow Romance Writers), so most of the books featured are my favorite genre. I like to throw in some YA, general fiction and even a couple of non-fiction books just for fun every once in a while.

I also try to do at least one giveaway a month.

The nature of free ebooks is here today gone tomorrow, so a majority of my giveaways are spur of the moment. Best way to find out about them...subscribe. (surprised aren't you?)

The giveaways so far were:

A paperback copy of Jean M. Auel's Clan of the Cave Bear 

(I'm and Earth's Children Ambassador)

5 Kindle copy of SEAL of my Dreams by a truckload of Romance Authors 

(proceeds benefit Veterans Research Corporation, a non-profit fundraiser for veterans' medical research)

A Kindle Copy of Marie Sexton's Cinder -  

A CinderFella story--it's all fun and games until somebody loses a shoe...  

For the Follower Love Blog hop giveaway I'm offering you, my lovely new readers, a choice of one of the newest releases from some of my favorite Romance authors (who all happen to be chapter mates of mine)

PRIZE: Your choice of one of the following Kindle books/two pack:

Click on the book covers to go straight to Amazon for description (or if you can't wait and wanna buy it right now!) 

An Illustrated Time Travel Regency Historical

The Rake and the Recluse two pack from Jenn LeBlanc

Contemporary Paranormal

Finding Ms Wright, an anthology by ML Guida, Hillary Seidl and Lori Corsentino

Futuristic Fantasy

Centauri Midnight by Cynthia Woolf

A Contemporary Cowboy

Rodeo Queen by Helen Hardt

A Secret Baby Contemporary (I love me a secret baby...)

Cart Before the Horse by Bernadette Marie

A Friends of Animals Contemporary

Starlight Rescue by Leslee Breene

A Contemporary Cowboy

A Sexy Cowboy Two pack from Joanne Kennedy

Romantic Suspense

Breaking Point (I-Team) by Pamela Clare
**Update** Breaking Point has just been awarded AAR's Reader Poll for Best Romantic Suspense. Congrats Pam!

A Scottish Historical Time Travel (Whew, that's a mouthful)

Warrior's Redemption by Melissa Mayhue

And just because I loved it, I'm offering this one again.

A Fairytale Retelling

Cinder by Marie Sexton

Oh my! You say. What do I have to do to win one of these books?  Tick the boxes on the Rafflecopter below and do what it tells you to, silly.