Big Kindle Boogie begins. 10 free Kindle Fires, 75 ebooks.

This blog is partnering with bestselling thriller writers J.A. Konrath, Blake Crouch, J. Carson Black, Lee Goldberg, and Scott Nicholson for the Big Kindle Boogie on Feb. 1-2 to give away 10 Kindle Fires, 75 different Kindle books, and a $500 library donation. Easy entries and contest rules are at http://bigkindleboogie.blogspot.com, but you can enter here by Tweeting and Facebook “liking” the contest. You can also enter ONCE PER DAY by emailing bigkindleboogie@yahoo.com with “Boogie entry” as the subject line.

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Free Kindle Books, Big Kindle Boogie, Chinese edition, and your 1 percent

Sorry for the woeful neglect here at the blog. I have been thinking about "the 1 percent." Not just the Rich 1 Percent that almost everyone hates. Why does everyone hate them? Because they waste their 1 percent on themselves and spend their 1 percent ensuring they remain the 1 percent and nobody else moves into the neighborhood.

But I'll bet you are in the 1 percent of something. It may be a specific field, hobby, community, or even your family. How do you handle your 1 percent? How much do you share? How much of your 1 percent is given even at the risk that you drop to the 2 percent, or the 10 percent, or all the way down to zero?

Before I protest or judge a different 1 percent, I am going to look at the areas where I am in the 1 percent. Or anything above 50 percent. It does not "knock me down" to help others up. I don't mind joining the 1 percent of those who are helpful, useful, grateful, and dead broke. I want value in my life, value spread out to others, and seeds for all our gardens. I believe we grow together. Maybe we can all be 1 percent together.

Current free Kindle books:

(Jan. 28-30)

Odd Stacks: Story Collection Box Set

http://www.amazon.com/ODD-STACKS-Collection-Stacks-ebook/dp/B0070NJ72M

These Things Happened: Stories and Essays

http://www.amazon.com/These-Things-Happened-ebook/dp/B004SQQWIQ

Too Many Witches (children’s picture book)

http://www.amazon.com/Too-Many-Witches-ebook/dp/B004WOXROG

And look for the Big Kindle Boogie on Blogspot and Facebook if you like more free Kindle stuff! 

And my first Chinese edition out if you read Simplified Chinese!

http://www.amazon.com/Red-Church-Simplified-Chinese-ebook/dp/B0070OK8H4

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Busting out some Kindle box sets: The Stacks Series

I have compiled my Kindle story collections into three easy-to-grab digital boxes in the Stacks Series:

ODD STACKS is science fiction, fantasy, and zombie tales, three collections for the special introductory price of 99 cents for Kindle!












BAD STACKS is mystery, horror, and ghost stories, three Kindle collections for $3.99.

MAD STACKS, tales of psychological horror, mystery, and dark fantasy,  is currently undergoing final edits for  release this week! I hope you give them a try.
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Free Scott Nicholson Kindle books for two days!

My latest round of free Kindle books rolls out today and Saturday (Jan. 20-12)

For writers, philosophers, and lunatics, treat yourself to the strange bit of non-advice known as The Indie Journey: Secrets to Writing Success!

American Horror, a multi-author extravanganza of vampires, monsters, and zombies, oh my!

Creative Spirit: A Supernatural Screenplay is my adaptation of my paperback The Manor! Spielberg, I'm here when you want me...

The Vampire Shortstop is a standalone short story that won the international Writers of the Future contest in 1999. Now I am just a Geezer of the Future, but hey, it's free!








I hope you enjoy the books, and thanks for telling your friends!
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So, 360,000 ebooks downloaded in three days?

The Epic Kindle Giveaway really blistered the Internet wires as you and my other friends heated it up last week! We could not believe our eyes when the smoke cleared and we counted up our free downloads around the world in three days--360,000 free ebooks!

We don't have exact figures yet because we were so busy we didn't all keep a minute-by-minute tally, but we estimated based on average sales before the event and then rounded down a little just so it didn't seem like were bragging. We actually think it is a bit higher than this, maybe even 10,000 more, but we won't know for a couple of months. We are not saying all this to brag. We are as staggered by it as anyone, and it proves the power of people and what we can do when we are set free to create, dream, and have fun together.

Thanks for your support in this wild, crazy time! You are welcome to grab this T-shirt, share it on your wall, Facebook page, Facebook group, blog, Website, or other virtual real estate, and then email epickindlegiveaway at yahoo.com with the link.

Winner will be selected during the Kindle Fire drawings by the Watauga County (NC) Public Library staff on Tuesday, Jan. 13, and announced on the event blog and Facebook page after it is verified. Thank you. Thank you.

Epic Kindle Giveaway rocked my world!

I didn't have much of a chance to tie my personal blog into the mad machine that became the Epic Kindle Giveaway last week, but thanks to all of you who joined in and made it really cool! It was good to see some of my personal principles (friendship, fun, community-building, and people energy) put into action to make something bigger than the pieces of its parts.

You're also invited to join the Facebook page for the event because, who knows, something crazy may happen there again someday! People asked me how my numbers were and I never even looked at the download numbers--I glanced at the Top 100 freebie charts once just to make sure all four of us were on it somewhere and moving up, just to validate evidence of the power of people behind you and what they can do with their awesomeness. I will probably go back and try to figure out what happened, but mostly I am stunned by all the warmth and getting to meet the weird, cool people who actually aren't freaked out by the things I put in books. So I appreciate every one of you and made some great new friends while we did something that had never been done before!

This event also inspired me to look at more ways to connect big ideas in different places. Those who follow me know I don't believe this e-book thing is going to last in its current state. It has already gone through tremendous revolutions in just two years, and I believe ebooks are going to become more interactive and places where ideas are shared in an organic way.

Sure, we will always want stories (I will break your fingers if you try to steal my ratty paperback of Huckleberry Finn) but I think we want experience even more than we crave stories.

Maybe we will meet together in a story somewhere soon!

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Free Kindle Fires and 13 more free books today!

Thirteen free books again today, and some of them are different! Includes a four-book boxed set!
Amazon Author Central link in the US or in the UK to get them all. Just make sure they say "Kindle price $0.00."

I would also appreciate it if you go click "like" and "share" on my free books today so more people can grab them, and if you have time to share a few words of review on a few of them, that will help next week when I try to sort out the Epic Kindle Giveaway madness!

Free books vary by day so be sure to grab them while they are hot! And why not join Epic Kindle Giveaway on Facebook to learn about more ways to win a Kindle Fire, or enter today from the EKG blog and visit our bookblogger friends for more ways to win a kindle? Thanks so much for your support and good luck!