#OBRT - Orangeberry #Book Tours - #Free Me (592 - 28 February 2014)

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Knights: The Eye of Divinity by Robert E. Keller

Amazon Kindle US | Smashwords

Rating – PG

Genre – Fantasy

3.9 (112 reviews)

Free until 1 April 2014

Drowning Mermaids by Nadia Scrieva

Amazon Kindle US

Rating – PG-13

Genre – Epic Fantasy/Paranormal Romance

4.0 (162 reviews)

Free until 28 February 2014

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A Chance at Love by Karolyn James

Amazon Kindle US

Rating – PG-13

Genre – Contemporary Romance

4.8 (4 reviews)

Free until 28 February 2014

The Joshua James Project by Joshua James

Amazon Kindle US

Rating – R

Genre – Theatre, Playwrighting

5.0 (3 reviews)

Free until 28 February 2014

Reader (Daughter of Time, Book 1) by Erec Stebbins

Amazon Kindle US

Rating – PG

Genre – Science fiction

4.5 (19 reviews)

Free until 28 February 2014

The How-Not-To Guide To Parenting and Marriage by Jon Ziegler

Amazon Kindle US

Rating – PG

Genre – Humor, Family

4.7 (22 reviews)

Free until 28 February 2014

Tampa Star by T.S. O’Neil

Amazon Kindle US

Rating – PG

Genre – Action & Adventure

4.7 (24 reviews)

Free until 28 February 2014

Escaping Fate by DelSheree Gladden

Amazon Kindle US

Rating – PG-13

Genre – Young Adult Urban Fantasy

5.0 (5 reviews)

Free until 28 February 2014

The Sword of Sighs by Greg James

Amazon Kindle US

Rating – PG

Genre – Dark Fantasy

3.9 (67 reviews)

Free until 28 February 2014

Second Hand Stops by Katie St. Claire

Amazon Kindle US

Rating – PG

Genre – Paranormal

4.8 (13 reviews)

Free until 28 February 2014

The Ugly Daughter by Julia Legian and Dawn Burke

Amazon Kindle US

Rating – PG

Genre – Non fiction, Memoir

4.4 (8 reviews)

Free until 28 February 2014

Too Much Information by David Haskell

Amazon Kindle US

Rating – PG-13

Genre – Thriller

4.1 (36 reviews)

Free until 28 February 2014

Good Vibration by S M Mala

Amazon Kindle US

Rating – R

Genre – Romantic, Contemporary, Adult, Humorous, Fiction

3.8 (5 reviews)

Free until 28 February 2014

A Forgotten Man by J. Pepper Bryars

Amazon Kindle US

Rating – PG

Genre – Political Fiction

4.7 (10 reviews)

Free until 28 February 2014

Stupid Alabama by Michael P. Wines

Amazon Kindle US

Rating – PG

Genre – Humor

5.0 (12 reviews)

Free until 28 February 2014

Beasthood by A.Z.Green

Amazon Kindle US

Rating – PG-13

Genre – Paranormal Romance/ Dark Fantasy

3.9 (14 reviews)

Free until 28 February 2014

DEATH NEVER SLEEPS by E.J. Simon

Amazon Kindle US

Rating – R

Genre – Thriller

4.7 (55 reviews)

Free until 28 February 2014

Point Apocalypse by Alex Bobl

Amazon Kindle US

Rating – PG-13

Genre – Action thriller

3.9 (40 reviews)

Free until 28 February 2014

Valens Remembered, The Story Begins by Sherrel Lee

Amazon Kindle US

Rating – PG-13

Genre – Paranormal, Werewolves, Shapeshifters and Psychics

4.0 (24 reviews)

Free until 17 March 2014

JUST IN TIME by Kathryn Shay

Amazon Kindle US

Rating – PG-13

Genre – Contemporary Romance, Time Travel Romance

4.3 (6 reviews)

Free until 10 March 2014

New York: Allie's War, Early Years by JC Andrijeski

Amazon Kindle US | Smashwords

Rating – PG-13

Genre – New Adult Urban Fantasy

4.5 (2 reviews)

Free until 1 May 2014

Bad Spirits by DV Berkom

Amazon Kindle US | Smashwords

Rating – PG-13

Genre – Action/advneture

4.3 (43 reviews)

Free until 10 March 2014

Finding Pride by Jill Sanders

Amazon Kindle US | Smashwords

Rating – PG-13

Genre – Contemporary Romance

4.0 (489 reviews)

Free until 28 February 2014

The First Book of Colors and Vegetables by Liora Houbara

Amazon Kindle US

Rating – G

Genre – Baby Book

5.0 (12 reviews)

Free until 2 May 2014

Nothing But Trouble by Lisa Mondello

Amazon Kindle US

Rating – R

Genre – Contemporary Romance

3.8 (74 reviews)

Free until 28 February 2014

Bloom by A.P. Kensey

Amazon Kindle US | Smashwords

Rating – PG

Genre – Young Adult

3.8 (16 reviews)

Free until 28 February 2014

Head Over High Heels by Marley Gibson

Amazon Kindle US

Rating – R

Genre – Romance

4.8 (10 reviews)

Free until 1 April 2014

Adrift (Callisto Series - Book 1) by Erica Conroy

Amazon Kindle US | Smashwords

Rating – PG

Genre – Science Fiction Romance

4.2 (24 reviews)

Free until 31 December 2014

THE MALIVIZIATI by Johnny Ray

Amazon Kindle US

Rating – PG-13

Genre – ROMANTIC THRILLER

4.5 (4 reviews)

Free until 31 December 2014

Kellie's Diary #1 by Thomas Jenner & Angela Perkins

Amazon Kindle US | Smashwords

Rating – PG

Genre – Horror

4.2 (127 reviews)

Free until 31 December 2014

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#OBRT - Wilde Riders (Old Town Country #Romance) by Savannah Young @ShortOnTimeBook

ONLY .99 CENTS FOR A LIMITED TIME. REGULAR PRICE $3.33.

FOUR WILDE BROTHERS…ONE WILDE COUNTRY BAND

WILDE RIDERS is the first novel in a spicy new contemporary romance series about four sexy brothers, their small-town bar and their local country band. WILDE RIDERS can be read as a STAND ALONE NOVEL or as part of the SERIES.

Cooper Wilde spent his entire adolescence counting the days until he could escape rural northwest New Jersey. Now at 26, he can’t believe he’s coming back. But his late father’s bar, Haymakers, is in financial trouble and his older brother, Jake, has asked for Cooper’s help.

Riley Smith, 25, is fresh out of her Ivy League MBA program and wants to make an impression on her employer, H & C Bank. Her first solo assignment is a fraud investigation on a business loan they made to Haymakers.

Even though Old Town is less than 90 minutes from New York City, Riley feels like she’s stepped into another world in this remote, one-bar town. Riley can’t wait to do her business and get back to the city as quickly as her sports car will take her…until she meets Cooper Wilde. He’s not like the other guys in this rural town and Riley feels inexplicably attracted to him.

If you like your trucks loud, your beer cold and your men hot…you’ll love WILDE RIDERS.

UPCOMING BOOKS in the OLD TOWN COUNTRY ROMANCE series:

The Wilde One (Tucker’s Story)

A Wilde Night (Hunter’s Story)

Wilde Times (Jake’s Story)

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Genre - Contemporary Romance

Rating – R

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#OBRT #Audible #Historical - Return of the Bones by Belinda Vasquez Garcia @MagicProse

RETURN OF THE BONES has won BEST HISTORICAL FICTION for the 2013 NEW MEXICO / ARIZONA BOOK AWARDS!

A dazzling, family epic of love and forgiveness. Return of the Bones is a very special book inspired by a true story -- In 1915, 2,067 skeletons were stolen from the ghost pueblo of Pecos and transported to Harvard University for medical research...In present day and across the miles, the wind carries their cries to Grandfather who hears the bones longing for home.

Hollow-Woman and Grandfather are the last of the Pecos people, but Hollow-Woman is not interested in ancient skeletons. She works at an Indian casino and is of the modern ways, while Grandfather is a shaman and values tradition. She hopes the road trip will heal their broken hearts.

Grandfather fashions a magical dream catcher to help her "see" her ancestors' lives, and come to love the missing bones, as he does. While driving a ratty old pickup-camper, the cantankerous Grandfather and stubborn Hollow-Woman bicker from New Mexico to the Peabody Museum.

A glowing literary work, with religious undertones of the persecution of Native Americans by the Catholic Church's Spanish Inquisition. Return of the Bones pulses with emotion. The pages are filled with the comical way Grandfather looks at the world while embracing the heartbreak and spirituality of the Native American peoples.

You may know these famous bones on which landmark studies proved that exercise prevents osteoporosis! 

Did you know that President George W. Bush's grandfather, Prescott Bush, dug up Geronimo's grave and stole his skull to be used as initiation into the Skull and Bones Society at Yale?

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Genre - Historical fiction

Rating – PG

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Website http://magicprose.com/

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#OBRT #Adventure #Literary - Man from the Sky by Danny Wynn

How far would you go to add excitement to a life you felt was boring and meaningless?

For seventy-three-year-old Jaime, the answer takes him by surprise. Accustomed to a lonely life high up in the mountains on the western coast of Mallorca, his dull routine is suddenly shattered when a man parachutes from a plane and lands nearby. The plane crashes; the man lives.

It’s a drug smuggling operation gone bad. But Stefan, the man from the sky, has escaped with eight kilos of cocaine in a gym bag. Jaime brings Stefan home and is soon entangled in Stefan’s attempts to sell the cocaine and start a new life.

As they dodge Parisian drug dealers and corrupt Mallorcan police, Jaime’s search for excitement and Stefan’s resolve to find stability lead them both down dangerous paths.

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Genre - Literary Fiction, Adventure

Rating – PG-13

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Website http://www.dannywynn.net/

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#OBRT #Historical #Mystery - Guest Post - Killing Your Darlings by Yves Fey @YvesFey

Killing your darlings is a phrase you see used to recommend you kill off your favorite bits of prose.  The idea is that if they are too precious, too treasured, it will show and distract from your story rather than adding to it, or that they may be doted on by you for good reason, but add nothing.  For darlings of this nature, I can only hope you don’t have to slay them, because they are perfectly attuned both to their place in your story and to your style.  One would not want Raymond Chandler to remove the tarantula from the piece of angel food cake.

I’m talking about killing even more precious darlings, your favorite characters.  I’m talking about it for a couple of reasons.  First because I’ll be killing off a character I like quite a bit in my next book, and because it’s rather painful, I’m looking at the map of the moment for my series, and wondering if I need do it again.  Need in my case because my series is quite dark, and if I guard my loved ones too closely, it is likely to lose reality for the reader.  I have about five books planned in all, with possibilities to branch out beyond that.  The number is small enough that I may only have to sacrifice the one darling.  But if I were writing a longer series, I believe something dire would have to happen to someone of import.

The second reason plays into and off of the first, as I’m about two thirds of the way through Elizabeth George’s latest mystery, Just One Evil Act, and things are looking very dire indeed for a couple of favorites, and if she carries through with the darkest possibilities, the repercussions will ripple outward to yet more beloved characters.  And, because she has been ruthless in the past, I know these darlings are not safe.  Perhaps they will not die.  Perhaps they will not be ruined.  Perhaps they will, and I’m filled with dread and fascination about where she will take the story.  The emotional risk is far more riveting than any car chase or barroom brawl could be.

In one of my all-time favorite historical series, The Lymond Chronicles, Dorothy Dunnett was also absolute ruthless in killing off favorite characters.  I was often devastated at the loss, but I admired and respected her as a writer for doing it, because it gave the books more emotional power.  Blake’s 7, a very dark British Sci Fi TV series leaps from superb dramatic space opera to stunning tragedy in its last episode as the darlings fall dead.  I think about amazing show too, though I know I don’t want a tragic outcome for my series.

If you are writing genre romance, or writing a cozy, you won’t want a tragic or unhappy outcome.  You probably won’t want to kill off a sympathetic character.  Your reader wants to remain safe from emotional bruising.  But even a small step into the darker realms of those or related genres, romantic suspense, say, or any mystery series beyond the light classic, should lead the writer to question if killing off a darling might give greater power and reality to their book.

Young American painter Theodora Faraday struggles to become an artist in Belle Époque Paris. She’s tasted the champagne of success, illustrating poems for the Revenants, a group of poets led by her adored cousin, Averill. When children she knows vanish mysteriously, Theo confronts Inspecteur Michel Devaux who suspects the Revenants are involved. Theo refuses to believe the killer could be a friend—could be the man she loves. 

Classic detection and occult revelation lead Michel and Theo through the dark underbelly of Paris, from catacombs to asylums, to the obscene ritual of a Black Mass. Following the maze of clues they discover the murderer believes he is the reincarnation of the most evil serial killer in the history of France—Gilles de Rais. Once Joan of Arc’s lieutenant, after her death he plunged into an orgy of evil. The Church burned him at the stake for heresy, sorcery, and the depraved murder of hundreds of peasant children. Whether deranged mind or demonic passion incite him, the killer must be found before he strikes again.

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Genre – Historical Mystery

Rating – R

More details about the author

Connect with Yves Fey on Facebook & Twitter

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#OBRT - Orangeberry #Book Tours - #Free Me (591 - 27 February 2014)

Readers - Please note that listed prices are accurate at the time of posting and are subject to change. Availability and prices may differ from country to country.


Please note that "Today's Sponsor" may not always be free.

Authors - If you would like your book(s) to be included in this daily listing, please click HERE

***Today’s Sponsors***

Knights: The Eye of Divinity by Robert E. Keller

Amazon Kindle US | Smashwords

Rating – PG

Genre – Fantasy

3.9 (112 reviews)

Free until 1 April 2014

Drowning Mermaids by Nadia Scrieva

Amazon Kindle US

Rating – PG-13

Genre – Epic Fantasy/Paranormal Romance

4.0 (162 reviews)

Free until 28 February 2014

******  

A Chance at Love by Karolyn James

Amazon Kindle US

Rating – PG-13

Genre – Contemporary Romance

4.8 (4 reviews)

Free until 28 February 2014

The Joshua James Project by Joshua James

Amazon Kindle US

Rating – R

Genre – Theatre, Playwrighting

5.0 (3 reviews)

Free until 28 February 2014

Reader (Daughter of Time, Book 1) by Erec Stebbins

Amazon Kindle US

Rating – PG

Genre – Science fiction

4.5 (19 reviews)

Free until 28 February 2014

The How-Not-To Guide To Parenting and Marriage by Jon Ziegler

Amazon Kindle US

Rating – PG

Genre – Humor, Family

4.7 (22 reviews)

Free until 28 February 2014

Tampa Star by T.S. O’Neil

Amazon Kindle US

Rating – PG

Genre – Action & Adventure

4.7 (24 reviews)

Free until 28 February 2014

Escaping Fate by DelSheree Gladden

Amazon Kindle US

Rating – PG-13

Genre – Young Adult Urban Fantasy

5.0 (5 reviews)

Free until 28 February 2014

The Sword of Sighs by Greg James

Amazon Kindle US

Rating – PG

Genre – Dark Fantasy

3.9 (67 reviews)

Free until 28 February 2014

Second Hand Stops by Katie St. Claire

Amazon Kindle US

Rating – PG

Genre – Paranormal

4.8 (13 reviews)

Free until 28 February 2014

The Ugly Daughter by Julia Legian and Dawn Burke

Amazon Kindle US

Rating – PG

Genre – Non fiction, Memoir

4.4 (8 reviews)

Free until 28 February 2014

Too Much Information by David Haskell

Amazon Kindle US

Rating – PG-13

Genre – Thriller

4.1 (36 reviews)

Free until 28 February 2014

Good Vibration by S M Mala

Amazon Kindle US

Rating – R

Genre – Romantic, Contemporary, Adult, Humorous, Fiction

3.8 (5 reviews)

Free until 28 February 2014

A Forgotten Man by J. Pepper Bryars

Amazon Kindle US

Rating – PG

Genre – Political Fiction

4.7 (10 reviews)

Free until 28 February 2014

Stupid Alabama by Michael P. Wines

Amazon Kindle US

Rating – PG

Genre – Humor

5.0 (12 reviews)

Free until 28 February 2014

Beasthood by A.Z.Green

Amazon Kindle US

Rating – PG-13

Genre – Paranormal Romance/ Dark Fantasy

3.9 (14 reviews)

Free until 28 February 2014

DEATH NEVER SLEEPS by E.J. Simon

Amazon Kindle US

Rating – R

Genre – Thriller

4.7 (55 reviews)

Free until 28 February 2014

Point Apocalypse by Alex Bobl

Amazon Kindle US

Rating – PG-13

Genre – Action thriller

3.9 (40 reviews)

Free until 28 February 2014

Valens Remembered, The Story Begins by Sherrel Lee

Amazon Kindle US

Rating – PG-13

Genre – Paranormal, Werewolves, Shapeshifters and Psychics

4.0 (24 reviews)

Free until 17 March 2014

JUST IN TIME by Kathryn Shay

Amazon Kindle US

Rating – PG-13

Genre – Contemporary Romance, Time Travel Romance

4.3 (6 reviews)

Free until 10 March 2014

New York: Allie's War, Early Years by JC Andrijeski

Amazon Kindle US | Smashwords

Rating – PG-13

Genre – New Adult Urban Fantasy

4.5 (2 reviews)

Free until 1 May 2014

Bad Spirits by DV Berkom

Amazon Kindle US | Smashwords

Rating – PG-13

Genre – Action/advneture

4.3 (43 reviews)

Free until 10 March 2014

Finding Pride by Jill Sanders

Amazon Kindle US | Smashwords

Rating – PG-13

Genre – Contemporary Romance

4.0 (489 reviews)

Free until 28 February 2014

The First Book of Colors and Vegetables by Liora Houbara

Amazon Kindle US

Rating – G

Genre – Baby Book

5.0 (12 reviews)

Free until 2 May 2014

Nothing But Trouble by Lisa Mondello

Amazon Kindle US

Rating – R

Genre – Contemporary Romance

3.8 (74 reviews)

Free until 28 February 2014

Bloom by A.P. Kensey

Amazon Kindle US | Smashwords

Rating – PG

Genre – Young Adult

3.8 (16 reviews)

Free until 28 February 2014

Head Over High Heels by Marley Gibson

Amazon Kindle US

Rating – R

Genre – Romance

4.8 (10 reviews)

Free until 1 April 2014

Adrift (Callisto Series - Book 1) by Erica Conroy

Amazon Kindle US | Smashwords

Rating – PG

Genre – Science Fiction Romance

4.2 (24 reviews)

Free until 31 December 2014

THE MALIVIZIATI by Johnny Ray

Amazon Kindle US

Rating – PG-13

Genre – ROMANTIC THRILLER

4.5 (4 reviews)

Free until 31 December 2014

Kellie's Diary #1 by Thomas Jenner & Angela Perkins

Amazon Kindle US | Smashwords

Rating – PG

Genre – Horror

4.2 (127 reviews)

Free until 31 December 2014

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