Showing posts with label free kindle books. Show all posts
Showing posts with label free kindle books. Show all posts

Thursday, January 17, 2013

Blizzard of Savings huge kindle sale

I'm part of a big book sales event, the Blizzard of Savings-- 64 Kindle books in various genres, 99 cents or free!



My 99 cent titles are The Harvest, The Dead Love Longer, Flowers, and Kiss Me or Die. You can get an Amazon Listmania list of participating titles in your favorite genres by following the links below! Sale is for a limited time (into early next week) so stock up now!


Crime, Mysteries and Thrillers: smarturl.it/BlizzThrills
Science Fiction and Fantasy: smarturl.it/BlizzSFF
Women's Fiction and Romance: smarturl.it/BlizzRomance
General Fiction and Non-Fiction: smarturl.it/BlizzGeneral

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Monday, December 17, 2012

After, post-apocalyptic thriller for Kindle, plus free Kindle books

After: The Shock is now out in most ebook markets--look for it on sale for 99 cents from Dec. 19 to Dec. 21 (more or less.) Otherwise, it will be $3.99. (This post-apocalyptic thriller won't be free through any of the outlets, although I may make it eligible for the Prime loans on Amazon--and remove it from the other markets--depending on how holiday sales go. So grab it fast!)









If you want to see some of my research links, visit the book's page on my website

I also have a number of holiday specials rolling through, including some free Kindle books, with more to be announced. I will also be giving away three $25 Amazon gift cards to my newsletter subscribers, so if you haven't signed up, send an email to the Yahoogroup. Your address will never be sold, shared, or abused, and you will be the first to get big news, free books, and opportunities to win Kindle Fires and other prizes. Thanks for your support!
HOLIDAY SALES!
99-CENT SPECIALS

Dec. 17-20
The Skull Ring

Dec. 19-21
Crime Beat
http://www.amazon.com/Crime-Beat-ebook/dp/B004IK8FRI



Dec. 18-21
Too Many Witches (children’s book)
 


BIG BOX SET BLOWOUT! DEC. 22 through Dec. 26
Sixteen box sets from bestselling authors!
http://smarturl.it/boxsets


FREE BOOKS
Dec. 18-20
Fangs In Vain

Dec. 21-22
Duncan the Punkin (children’s book)

Dec. 24-25
Drummer Boy

Dec. 26-27
Kiss Me or Die

Dec. 28-29
October Girls
  

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Monday, August 27, 2012

Help me pick the AFTER cover!

Right now I am hitting the stretch run on AFTER, my post-apocalyptic thriller. It's the point in the marathon where you have a stitch in the side, dehydration, and blurred hallucinations of giant bunnies hover in the periphery of your vision. But it's one aching foot after another..."after," after all.

But I need a cover. Stephanie of Mooney Designs has offered these two very cool images to choose from, so please chime in with your thoughts! Thanks!



Also still running some freebies:

Bad Blood (with H.T. Night)- Aug. 25-27

Ghost Files Set- Aug. 28-30

Dark Spells- Aug. 31- Sept. 2

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Friday, August 10, 2012

A month of Nicholson Rain

It's raining men, halleleauh, it's raining...

Er. Check that. It's raining free books! A month of free Nicholson and Rain Kindle books coming your way. Please grab, like, and share because it's been a long, dry summer!

Cracked the 50,000 word count on AFTER and now entering the stretch run, with Mooney Design working on a cover. Also publishing Presenze in Italian. If you want an advance reader copy of Troubled (formerly The Home), let me know! Current plans are to release in late September.


Bad Blood (with H.T. Night)- Aug. 25-27

Ghost Files Set- Aug. 28-30

Dark Spells- Aug. 31- Sept. 2

 

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Sunday, June 10, 2012

Free Kindle Books& Free Kindle UK books by Scott Nicholson

Here's my next round of free Kindle books and free Kindle UK books. Some of this will be free for the last time, so please tell a friend! (Kindle UK readers, just put "co.uk" in place of "com" to get the Amazon UK link).


June 11-12
Cursed (Scott Nicholson, J.R. Rain)

Kiss Me or Die (formerly called As I Die Lying)

June 13-15
Ghost Fire (Eve Paludan, Scott Nicholson, J.R. Rain)

The Skull Ring

June 16-17
The Harvest

June 18-20
Ghost College (Scott Nicholson, J.R. Rain)

Disintegration
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Tuesday, May 29, 2012

Where are my Kindle millions?

Well, my goal to give away a million Kindle books may be running on fumes, as two not-unexpected developments have me bogged down past the three-quarters-million mark. (There was an old running joke spawned by Lee Goldberg riffing J.A. Konrath about "Kindle millions" until people actually started becoming Kindle millionaires...)

First, the KDP Select program of Amazon has gone through its natural cycle--early pioneers get great results, word gets back to the others, the Gold Rush turns into a stampede, and the hills are prospected into tiny mounds of pebbles Part of it is Amazon's ever-changing algorithms that no longer give a huge rankings bounce to indies, and part is the sheer glut of free books that results when authors are repeatedly making 130,000 books free. This has all been written about far more ably and in depth by others (Kindleboards is a great resource if you're interested), but I figured the jig would be up by summer one way or another.

The second challenge is also fairly obvious: most of the people interested in my free books got them the first second, and sometimes third times I made them temporarily free for Kindle. So I will be leaving a lot of free days unused , and some books will no longer be free even if they still have some promo days left. I already have all my short story collections and some other properties out of Select and back in Nook, iTunes, Kobo, etc.

BUT....

I still want to reach the million-copy goal, so feel free to share my current roster of upcoming freebies! And if you read any of my free books and liked them, please leave a review to help both me and future readers. And if you hated them, why are you reading my blog? Heh.


Scott Nicholson free books

May 29-May 30
The Dead Love Longer
Paranormal mystery

May 30-June 1
October Girls
(YA paranormal)

May 31-June 2:
Speed Dating with the Dead

June 2-June 4
Burial to Follow
(supernatural horror)

June 2-June 4
Creative Spirit
(supernatural thriller)

June 8-10
Scott Nicholson Library, Vol. 4
Thriller/horror box set

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Saturday, March 10, 2012

Free books, interview links, and a hint

A couple of crazy things cooking up, as usual. (Hint: follow @eBookSwag on Twitter!)

And I am bored with talking about myself. If you want that, here's an interview Meaghan Gray did with me at the awesome ereader/ebook site Ireader Review, which is one of my favorite sites for great analysis of the digital reading era: http://ireaderreview.com/2012/03/10/interview-with-author-scott-nicholson/

My final post for the Writers Guide to Epublishing went up Wednesday. So many others talk about writing and indie books better than I do, so I will be doing much less writer babble in the future. I think I've said more than I know already, and it's time to move on to other things.

Free book schedule for Kindle:
March 9-11: Free #Kindle Box Set: ETHEREAL MESSENGER by @eScottNicholson http://amzn.to/eE42Xw (UK: http://amzn.to/AcxZgJ) #horror

March 12-14: "Your shrink will disapprove": Kindle collection Head Cases by @eScottNicholson http://amzn.to/dWntcC (UK: http://amzn.to/xGwu4i)

March 12-13: YA paranormal fantasy October Girls
http://www.amazon.com/October-fantasy-paranormal-romance-ebook/dp/B00433TD0I
UK: http://www.amazon.co.uk/October-fantasy-paranormal-romance-ebook/dp/B00433TD0I

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Monday, March 5, 2012

The Digital Day Trader: three free Kindle books

I joke with my writer friends that we are no longer writers, we are digital day traders.

In some ways, it is no joke. Not with 100,000 books vying for the few slots on the Kindle Select roulette wheel, and not with thousands of dollars, and even tens of thousands of dollars, riding on the outcome of each spin. Almost without exception, the Kindle lottery winners of 2012 have been those who were the best--or the luckiest--at giving away books.

Some get picked up by the big freebie sites like Pixel of Ink and Ereader News Today and never even know they got lucky. They just roll out on the other side thinking they must be awesome writers because they ended up getting dumped into the Top 100. But it is hardly something to brag about, and hardly a literary accomplishment. It's a different form of luck, the same different luck that made Harry Potter and The Hunger Games and Twilight wildly successful.


(And if you don't think those books were just a different kind of luck, you don't know much about the publishing business. Because there are plenty of books of equal or even greater quality languishing in bottom drawers around the world.) But I don't want to turn my blog into a "writer blog." This is more about the philosophy of ego, and pushing your luck.

I've been pretty lucky with making books free, and I push my luck. I announce the free books (like I do below, with links) and create digital vehicles like Epic Kindle Giveaway to promote them. I am working on some other projects along those lines, blurring into creative entrepreneurship, but all built around my own creative works. Because that is my interest, not money. I recognize the ego attachment to my own work (after all, my NAME is BIG on the covers!!!) But they are just ideas, not me. I happen to be a writer, but that is not all I am. I am also a gardener, father, husband, and digital day trader.

I see time as my most valuable resource, not money. Time allows me to write. But if I don't make smart bets in my digital day trading, my time goes back to the local newspaper or carpentry or house painting, noble professions all, but not the ones that serve my highest purpose. Those are not the things God created me to do. This is what I do, and what fits, and what I was born and shaped to become. I had plenty of books, books some even consider "good," but it was meaningless until the wheel rolled into the picture. Luck. But without the books, the best timing in the world is worthless. If I were starting now, I would never even make it to the wheel to give it a spin.

Luckily, it is cheap or free to play digital day trader. And it pays better than writing, so we can afford to philosophize. Sure, some losers will have to go back to service jobs at temp wages, but lottery losers are no better or worse than lottery winners. They just had a different kind of luck.

Me, I am pushing my luck. But it's still luck.

FREE MARCH 5 & 6

Suspense/mystery:
The Skull Ring (Bonus Edition with Screenplay)

Supernatural horror:
Burial to Follow

Children’s picture book:
Duncan the Punkin
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Sunday, January 29, 2012

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

These Things Happened: Stories and Essays

Too Many Witches (children’s picture book)

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!
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Friday, January 20, 2012

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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Wednesday, January 11, 2012

13 free Kindle books today! Oh, and free Kindle Fires!

Okay, I have cracked like Jerry Lewis during a telethon over this Epic Kindle Giveaway and added even more of my books for free. Just click my 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 and beyond when I have to go back to the boring hard work of actually selling books!

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!

Monday, January 9, 2012

Epic Kindle Giveaway starts today! Share the news for gift cards!

The Epic Kindle Giveaway kicks off with two sharing contests! We are giving away two $25 Amazon gift cards, winners chosen via random.org based on total number of entries. Share as much as you like but don't annoy your friends.



To enter:
Facebook. Look for our Epic Kindle Giveaway posts and share them, or do your own post with this blog address (http://epickindlegiveaway.blogspot.com)

Twitter: Copy and paste this into your Twitter stream and you're entered for another $25 gift card today:


Four Kindle Fires, $200 gift cards, 45 free #kindle books http://bit.ly/yc92KC #epickindlegiveaway RT to enter

That is all you have to do today besides dream about how many books, movies, and songs you are going to put on your FREE KINDLE FIRE! Don't be shy, because the more we give away, the more we give away. Seriously. That is how we roll. Epic.


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Friday, January 6, 2012

Free for Kindle today: Littlefield: Two Novels

Complete text of the novels The Red Church and Drummer Boy are available in one boxed set, free for Kindle users today and Saturday! http://www.amazon.com/Littlefield-Two-Supernatural-Thrillers-ebook/dp/B004T3G12K


Also available for Kindle UK

Also last day free for the UK Kindle books Scott Nicholson Library, Vol. 5, containing the complete text of Troubled, Solom, and The Gorge. (These books were published in paperback in the United States as The Home, The Farm, and They Hunger--I don't have U.S. rights at this time). Also, the new release of the former paperback known as The Manor,  Creative Spirit: UK Edition
 
Stay tuned for the Epic Kindle Giveaway. 
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Tuesday, January 3, 2012

Scott Nicholson free Kindle books for Amazon UK

After last week's fun and successful Kindle freebie binge, I am trying a box set free in the United Kingdom. Scott Nicholson Library, Vol. 5, containing the complete text of Troubled, Solom, and The Gorge, will be free Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday! (These books were published in paperback in the United States as The Home, The Farm, and They Hunger--I don't have U.S. rights at this time). Also, the new release Creative Spirit: UK Edition will be free Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday. Thanks for sharing with your friends!

 

And you may just want to follow my author page on Facebook if you happen to like free Kindles and Amazon gift cards! Yes, that's a hint...

Monday, December 26, 2011

Scott Nicholson free kindle books

If you like to share with your friends, feel free to copy and paste in Twitter, facebook, and your favorite book forum: Scott Nicholson is giving away free Kindle books this week! http://hauntedcomputer.blogspot.com


(UK Kindle owners, just replace "com" with "co.uk" and you go right to the correct page for Amazon UK)


Sunday:
Mystery Dance: three books-The Skull Ring, Disintegration, Crime Beat
http://www.amazon.com/Mystery-Dance-Three-Novels-ebook/dp/B004I8WNEQ

Amazon UK: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Mystery-Dance-Three-Novels-ebook/dp/B004I8WNEQ

Share today from my Facebook wall to be entered for signed copy of "Disintegration"



(UK only) horror thriller The Gorge by Scott Nicholson









story collection Head Cases by Scott Nicholson, bonus tales by Willie Meikle and John Everson




That should keep you reading a while! Please tell your Kindle friends and look for an EPIC kindle giveaway coming soon!
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Saturday, December 24, 2011

Santa Scott free Kindle book giveaways

I'm shuffling down the chimney and handing out goodies for all the good little girls and boys who awake to find Kindles and Kindle Fires in their stockings (but you don't have to own a Kindle to read free Kindle books -- you can read them on your phone, iPad, computer, etc. What a truly marvelous age we live in!)

Free today, Dec. 24, is the paranormal mystery Transparent Lovers by Scott Nicholson
http://www.amazon.com/Transparent-Lovers-ebook/dp/B004LROVS0

and the mystery thriller Disintegration
http://www.amazon.com/Disintegration-A-Mystery-Thriller-ebook/dp/B0048EL5M6

Coming soon: Duncan the Punkin, The Skull Ring, and As I Die Lying. Please tell all your friends and pass the freebies along. Amazon Kindle books have been very good to me and my family and I am happy to share. Check this post daily for the next week for updated giveaways. Now I need to shake off this chimney soot. Ho ho ho!

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