Prolific author Elaine White's first Thunderclap.

Sacrifice for sale! Just 99c!

What's for sale?

by Elaine White

What's it about?

A missing vampire princess. A soul fractured among five young human girls. One loyal vampire with a grudge. Can vampire soldier Damian set aside his personal feelings to follow orders? Can princess Amelia's soul be reunited in time for the meeting of the three clans? Will her brother, Matthew, fight for the right to rule? Who will prevail?

“One sacrifice too many, will change his fate forever. How much can one vampire give? On sale for 77p or 99c! http://thndr.it/1AS5tbH”

 

Lily: The cute, little dog with a new book series!

Lily is a busy, little dog! 

Lily is an adorable white cocker spaniel who accidentally wanders from her home. On her journey to find her way back she meets an old dog name Sam. Sam asks Lily what her name is, but she doesn't know because her family calls her by many different names. Sam tells her that her family calls her by silly pet names because they love her. Sam introduces Lily to a cocker spaniel and a chihuahua who also have silly pet names. Will Lily's new friends help her find her way back home? Do you have a silly pet name?

The Amazon link: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00NFPDVWG/ref=cm_sw_r_tw_ask_Odl1I.0BCVX1T

Coming soon - Lily Meets a Bully.
Check out the Facebook for more from Lily's creator: https://www.facebook.com/thelilyseries

My blogs are back. Malware problems are over. Back online next week.

I'm sorry, but my browser was infected last week when I went on Amazon to check out a new release. First I had a dialog box telling me that I needed to run one of their security scans right away. I know from experience that this is a red flag for malware. I closed out my browser and went to uninstall the software that loaded. Whatever program it was disappeared without the uninstall engine running, very hinky.

Then, two days later, my husband told me that the computer was taking a really long time to come on. We tried watching some streaming TV and got a spamm ad featuring online gambling and a video of some girl trying to sell me something. I looked up the malware and it's called Great Deals specializing in hijack ware.

Although Microsoft Security Essentials are supposed to protect my computer, it let a Trojan Horse get in. I installed Norton Antivirus Software via Comcast and now my computer is safe again.

All the best - Liz

New from Melissa Bell: Felan: Fascination or obsession?

Elizabeth Crane would give anything to avoid going out to celebrate a friends birthday. She's not into the clubbing scene, but no-one would have foretold how one night out with the girls would change her life.....forever.

Felan is a shy, but handsome computer geek. What he can't do with a computer, simply cant be done. When his brothers relocate to Queensland Australia from the USA to make a fresh start, he decides to go with them. Give him computer forensics, program design, research (hacking), and he's got it covered. But when he sees Elizabeth Crane celebrating with a group of friends, she ignites an uncontrollable fire in his blood and he is left to figure out how he can use his skills to track her down and make her his own.

 

Want to know more? Click here: http://www.amazon.com/FELAN-Five-Brothers-Book-2-ebook/dp/B00NCWLMKK/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1410074524&sr=1-1

Are you a Crime Fiction Lover? Me, too.

If you're like me, you get hooked on a good mystery series, then you eventually run out of books. You never run out with Crime Fiction Lover, http://www.crimefictionlover.com/
What's new in Crime Fiction? Click here: http://www.crimefictionlover.com/category/news/
Originally started by two journalists, the CF Team now includes many experts in the field. Some of them have books out, some are bloggers, some are reporters, some are reviewers: http://www.crimefictionlover.com/about/
So, mystery and thriller lovers, you know which website to visit when you want a book you can't put down.

A new release from Kimber Leigh Wheaton: Stolen Moon.

The next installment in The Light Chronicles, this gripping YA Fantasy Romance is the sequel to Shadow Fire http://www.kimberleighwheaton.com/p/shadow-fire.html
What is Shadow Fire about?

As Ashlyn and Zane race to stay one step ahead of the evil lurking in the shadows, their passions are ignited and their bond strengthens. But will they find the relic before Delistaire? Or has their entire quest been orchestrated from the very beginning by a madman in pursuit of ultimate power?

 

Although Stolen Moon is a sequel, it is a standalone story.
Stolen Moon was released August 19th. What is it about?

Katarina steals the medallion from Zebulon and flees in the dead of night. Together with Ethan and his mercenaries, she struggles to stay one step ahead of the sorcerer and his minions in a race against time to save her homeland. Fierce battles, ravenous monsters, and bloodthirsty brigands—those are no surprise. But Katarina never dreamed her greatest obstacle could be falling in love.

Want to check it out? Click here: http://www.amazon.com/Stolen-Moon-Light-Chronicles-Book-ebook/dp/B00MTW6GGE/

The Indie-Review Network: A GOOD review site. And the indie writers cheer!

As an indie writer myself, I love the 'About Us' part of The Indie-Review Network website:
http://www.indie-review.net/why-are-we-here/
Here are my favorite parts of this section:

Amazon and Goodreads have reviews, why do we need more?

Amazon and Goodreads reviews are better than nothing (because, well, without them we have nothing), but they are flat and one-dimensional.  How can you rate something as complex as a novel is simply good or bad?

Sure, Jane Q. Reviewer may have enjoyed the book, but how do we know that Jane cares about the same things that we do? Maybe Jane dropped out of high school so that she could roadtrip to Colorado for a little legal puff-puff and only enjoys Kerouacian hippie-beat crap... or maybe Jane has a Master's Degree in Romantic Literature, and we roadtripped to Colorado for some fine hippie "crap"... either way, we're all looking for different things, man.

Okay, I get it. What does Indie-Review do to help solve this problem?

After we realized all this, we aired out the room and asked ourselves a question: If we were going to rate a book by a few different criteria, what would they be?

This is what we came up with:

Originality: Is the book some cutting edge crazy stuff? Like steampunk mermaids finding a wormhole to a world where Marijuana plants are sentient? Or is it something more classical, a modern retelling of Romeo and Juliet, or is the hero an incarnation of some tried and true classic archetype (James Bond, Han Solo,  or Buffy the Vampire Slayer?) We can't say one is necessarily better than the other, sometimes we want to eat Italian-Asian Fusion dinner, other times we want Mac'n'Cheese.

Thrills: How exciting is it? Does the book get us on the edge of our seat, flipping pages to see what comes next? Or is it more thoughtful with less action? It's the difference between an Wes Anderson-flick and a blockbuster. Both are excellent in the right place and time.

Readability: Hemingway was famous for his aversion to complex sentences. James Joyce was famous for his aversion to simple sentences. If you want to debate which is better, take it to the comments/forums... The fact is, some books are more easily readable, and more cleanly edited than others. Some of us prefer different styles. This is about that.

Immersion: Do you know how to speak Klingon? No? Well some people do. Seriously. There's an entire opera  written in Klingon. Why? Because Star Trek is an immerse world. Sometimes we want a book to take us into a different universe and make us forget the smelly, sweaty reality of our daily lives. Other times, we don't want that level of emotional investment. We want to sit and watch a tale unfold from a distance.

Why should I bother reading self published and independently published stuff?

Firstly, because a lot of it is good. Some of it is very good. We won't lie, some is bad. Some is awful. But almost all of it will really make you think (even if it's not-so-good).

Secondly, because conventional publishing-house publishing is a fading industry. There are numerous writers (including several of us here at the Review) that believe in the idea of independent publishing, locally sourced, food, and stuff like that that both hippies and libertarians can agree on.

Here at the Indie-Review, our goal is to provide a means to review, and promote self, independently, and small-house published works of fiction to help you, the reader, find new authors you will love, and to help authors find audiences for their masterworks.

How do I submit a review?

Once you are registered on the site, the "Submit Review" option will appear on the top menu bar. Click that, and away you go. Pro-tip: If you don't see it, register!

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