Monthly Archives: February 2014
$0.99 BIRTHDAY SALE & GIVEAWAY!
These amazing books are on sale for only $0.99! Don’t miss out on your chance to get them while they are cheap!
Stalkers: A Collection of Thriller Stories ONLY $0.99
Stalkers: A Collection of Thriller Stories: UK
(REGULAR PRICE $3.99)
On Sale until 2-28
4.7 out of 5 stars on Amazon – 15 reviews
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APOCALYPSE: An Anthology by Authors and Readers ONLY $0.99
(Regular Price $2.99)
On Sale until 2-27
4.3 out of 5 stars – 28 reviews on Amazon
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Paranormal Anthology with a TWIST ONLY $0.99
(Regular Price $2.99)
On Sale until 2-27
4.2 out of 5 stars – 27 reviews on Amazon
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Roommate Romance Boxed Set ONLY $0.99
(Regular price $3.99)
(Sale could change at any moment!)
5 out of 5 stars on Amazon
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Flash Giveaways daily at Cynthia Shepp Book Reviews & Editing and Rene Folsom, Author on Facebook.
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DIRTY THIRTY BIRTHDAY GIVEAWAYS, SALES, & RAFFLECOPTER!
Yep, it is that time. I am turning the big 3-0 on February 26th. My cyber twin has a birthday on February 27th! To celebrate, we are having flash giveaways, sales, and a rafflecopter all week long! There are way over 50 amazing prizes! The flash giveaways will be on each of our Facebook pages daily.
Cynthia Shepp Book Reviews & Editing & Rene Folsom, Author.
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SALES: USA
Stalkers: A Collection of Thriller Stories
APOCALYPSE: An Anthology by Authors and Readers
Paranormal Anthology with a TWIST $0.99 until 2-27(reg. $2.99)
Roommate Romance Boxed Set
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SALES: UK
Stalkers: A Collection of Thriller Stories 0.77
APOCALYPSE: An Anthology by Authors and Readers 0.99
STALKERS IS ON SALE FOR $0.99 (Regular price $3.99) US & UK
Seventeen authors. Seventeen tales of terror. Infinite nightmares.
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Shadows follow you in the darkness of the night and the eerie sensation of being watched crawls up your spine. Your sanity pulls apart at the seams as the terrors stalk their victims, leaving you too frightened to turn off the light.
These twisted stories will leave you breathless, dreading the horrors lurking around the corner.
Seventeen authors. Seventeen tales of terror. Infinite nightmares.
STALKERS.
Watch your back.
Stories featured in this anthology:
– Every Thorn by Rene Folsom
– Dead Ringer by Jason Brant
– Autumn by Elizabeth Collins
– Don’t Kiss the Dead Fred by A.E. Killingsworth
– Affliction by S.L. Dearing
– Lucid by Andrea Stanet
– Donations by Bart Hopkins
– Bernice by Chad Foutz
– Destination: Death by Eaton Thomas Palmer
– Powerless by Laurie Treacy
– Freezer Burn by Jon Messenger
– The Watcher by Lindy Spencer
– Immortal Luck by Magen McMinimy
– Izzy’s Assassin by Nicole Clark
– Say My Name by Michael Loring
– Damaged People by Nicki Scalise
– Blog Stalker by Phil Taylor
** Edited and Compiled by Cynthia Shepp and Rene Folsom **
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VALENTINE’S DAY SALES AND FREEBIES
MAKE SURE THAT THEY ARE STILL ON SALE OR FREE BEFORE YOU ONE CLICK!
SOME OF THESE ARE ONLY ONE-DAY SALES! GRAB THEM WHILE THEY ARE HOT!
HAPPY VALENTINE’S DAY!
ON SALE FOR 0.99:
Stalkers: A Collection of Thriller Stories
Nice Girl to Love: The Complete Three-Book Collection (#1 Resisting, #2 Falling, #3 Choosing)
Love Me, Cowboy: A Copper Mountain Rodeo Anthology
Warrior Unleashed (Mythrian Realm Series)
Breaking the Nexus (The Mythrian Realm)
Broken and Screwed (The BS Series)
Love Me, Cowboy: A Copper Mountain Rodeo Anthology
Holding Onto You (Never Letting Go)
Love’s First Bite Boxed Set (6 vampire romances)
Very Bad Things (Briarcrest Academy)
ON SALE FOR $1.50-$1.99
Cupid: A Tale of Love and Desire
Reaching Out For You (Never Letting Go)
FREEBIES
Never Close Enough (The Never Series)
Cowboy Heat – Sweeter Version (Hell Yeah! Sweeter Version)
That’s a Promise (Promises, Promises)
DAILY DEAL: $2.19 SUSAN MALLERY
Ethics of the Undead Promo & Giveaway
Lured with scholarships to a charter school in Idaho’s Sawtooth Wilderness, four normal teens find themselves trapped in a school for vampires. Drawn from different racial and ethnic backgrounds, the scholarship kids’ faith, friendship, and love are tested in this fast-paced, witty adventure.
Sixteen-year-old Kathy finds herself on the kill list of a Shoshone vampire who teaches Ethics for Bloodsuckers. Her pal Lionel is terrorized by his music teacher, an 18th century violinist who worked as a Mafia hit man so he could play at his victims’ funerals. With the entire student body thirsting for snacks, keeping the warmbloods alive presents a challenge for several quirky but ethical vampires. And when Kathy and Lionel are put on trial for murder in a vampire court, there are only three options: escape, die
trying, or join the undead.
This novel will delight all readers of fantasy adventure who thirst for humor in the vein of Joss Whedon’s Buffy the Vampire Slayer or Charlaine Harris’ Sookie Stackhouse novels. Indeed, Clarion review says, “Urban fantasy meets eccentric comedy in this unique and caustically witty conflict between vampire and human ethics.”
Loren Schechter is a retired psychiatrist who loves to write humorous fiction. He was very lucky in that he spent much of his career treating adolescents. His first novel was Murder in Millbrook, a cozy mystery. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts with his wife Susan and dog, Amigo. Noanimals, senior citizens or vampires were injured in the writing of his novels.
A bald, barrel-chested man in a plaid shirt and jeans came onto the porch, shut the door firmly behind him and shook his head. Edna crouched behind the low railing, waiting to see if the woman would come out with his coat.
Stay inside and live, she thought, willing her message through the cabin wall. The white man is my prey, as I once was his. Stay inside and live.
She heard the man click a cigarette lighter into flame. She waited for his first satisfied exhalation, then vaulted over the rail.
His eyes went wide. “What the-”
Edna whipped the hard edge of her hand into his throat. His head jerked back. He gurgled like a man drowning. She punched his temple and caught him as he fell. Stifling her own grunt, she heaved him over her shoulder, then stepped off the porch into the
rain. She made her way downhill toward the river, avoiding the road. The man’s weight felt less burdensome than her urge to feed on him immediately.
Still, she walked until she felt him move. Then she laid him down carefully behind a clump of trees, straddled him and peeled back his collar. Resting one hand on his throat, she sang a song of gratitude until his eyes opened. She saw him trying to remember, to make sense of lying in wet underbrush, rain pelting his face, the dark woman sitting on him singing in a foreign language, her hand
caressing his aching throat.
“I apologize, cousin,” said Edna. “I do this only so that I may exist as long as the Creator God wills it. I have-”
The man tried to speak. She squeezed his throat until he gasped for air.
“Please don’t interrupt. White people do that all the time, but not tonight. I apologize that I have not yet purged all revenge from my heart. I do try, but I once was a warm-blooded human and was badly treated. You may be innocent of the crimes of your brothers, but we are all connected – and I need your blood to survive.”
The man struggled to push her off. She rode him as if he were a frightened horse, with her knees and the grip on his throat tightening. She bent over toward his ear and grimaced at the odors of smoke and alcohol that filled her nostrils, that she would taste in his blood.
“Do not struggle,” she whispered. “I will spare you the pain of waking up a vampire. I apologize for taking your blood, and your life.”
He bucked wildly as her teeth ripped into his neck, down to his carotid artery and vein. Too hungry to suck, she punctured the artery and opened her mouth wide to the stream of blood that shot forth. She rode him with her mouth at his neck, gulping down each pulse of salty, warm ambrosia as if the next swallow might deliver both a release from damnation and a heavenly life.
He gave out too soon. Never enough, she thought. She licked up the splatter, picked the corpse up and walked toward the river.
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Book Info
Every High School has their social outcasts. The band nerds, the math geeks, the chess club, the girl that chews her hair, but at Butler High, even the creepy nose picker in the chess club is more popular than Caleo Anima. No matter what he did, his pale skin, snow white hair, and piercing blue eyes always made him an easy target. He used to think that the only way things could get worse would be if someone found out that he was gay, but that isn’t even the tip of the iceberg of problems after a mysterious stranger shows up and changes Caleo’s life forever.
Hidden amongst our society, a secret and magical race of people known as ‘Leeches’, have been engaging in civil war for decades. Both sides are desperately searching for a weapon with unlimited power that will give them the advantage they need to rule their world. This wouldn’t mean anything to Caleo, except for one problem…He is that weapon!
Forget making it through High School. Caleo has bigger problems! As the search for him goes on, the world is quickly crumbling around him. He’s now fighting for his life and the life of what little family he has left. With the help of new friends, he has little time to try and master his newly found powers as he tries to figure out who he can trust, who is trying to use him, and who just wants him dead. One wrong step and being the awkward pale outcast will be the least of his worries.
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What if you knew the exact date and time the world will end, what would you do?
Sam Tucker was faced with that dilemma when he began getting visions of the Earth’s demise. Luckily for him, he was able to save his family and as many people as he could before the tragic event occurred, and he did so with the help of unknown visitors. With Earth now destroyed, Sam, his family, and thousands of other lucky survivors must live the rest of their lives on a faraway planet in a Dome that simulates life on Earth. But Sam’s mind can’t seem to rest as a few questions arise. Why did the aliens save them? How did they know about Earth’s sure fate? And exactly what are they hiding?
Emma Tucker begged for an escape from her boring life but never in a million years did she think it would come at the destruction of Earth. Living on a new planet and finding it difficult to get rid of her rebellious habits, Emma finds herself making friends with a member of the alien race and it soon develops into an unexplainable love; a love that is more dangerous than she could ever imagine. While her father is searching for his own truths, she has no idea that she is stumbling on a truth of her own.
Told from the point of view of both Sam and Emma, author Nova Sparks takes readers on a journey to discover love, fate, faith, truth, and the mystery of the DOME!
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Random Editing Fact #2
Today we are going to talk about… 
Well, at least one pet peeve. It is mine, and to me, it is a big one.
It is only two little words, but it drives me… 
You ready for those words yet? I can hear you saying, “Just get on with it!”
There they are. They seem so innocent.
Everyone says it. “Get your shoes off of my bed!” and “I can’t get you off of my mind!”
*Shudders*
Today, I am here to tell you that the OF is unnecessary. You don’t need it, I don’t like it, so let’s all just get along. You can still even enjoy The Rolling Stones “Get Off Of My Cloud” and Lauryn Hill’s “Can’t Take My Eyes Off Of You”. You will just know that the OF does not need to be there, and that somewhere, I am shuddering over the lyrics.
Let’s just give a few examples:
Can you see how much smoother it is without the unnecessary OF?
There really isn’t anything to be said about the OF rule.
Just that it is overused in grammar, and that off of makes this editor cringe.
TO OFF OF!
Tell me… these make you shudder just a little bit now, don’t they?
You’re welcome. 
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