I kill people for fun. In books.
Mystery author Meredith Potts is giving away nine cozy mysteries to kick off the new year. They’re free for a limited time, so head over to Amazon to get them today! Click on the book below to go to the order page.
Kent Lovely was well into middle age, and dressed in defiance of the plain fact. His midnight-black hair was gelled to a crisp. His aloha shirt was unbuttoned low enough to show off his wiry physique and his cinnabar tan. A tiny zircon stud sparkled in one leathery earlobe.
“Ciao, Molly.” Kent caught Emma and me in a hug, one in each arm. “Emma, Ai watashi kon’nichiwa.”
His culturally-sensitive salutations out of the way, Kent released us from his cologne-drenched embrace and pushed ahead of us. He pulled two plates off the stack, and started loading them up. Emma and I took one plate apiece, and followed Kent as he mowed his way through the salads, to the hot dishes, and finally over to the dessert table. He was William Tecumseh Sherman, and the buffet table was Atlanta.
Kent paused his historical re-enactment to turn back and address us. “So, ladies.” (Here he paused to lick his fingers.) “Who do you think is gonna get the teaching award today?”
“Who else was nominated?” I asked. “Besides you?”
Kent helped himself to the last two slices of haupia cheesecake, balancing them atop the mounds of pastry, roast pork, rice, waffles, and fruit piled on his plates.
“Let’s see.” One of the slices of haupia cake started to slide off its summit. Kent pushed it back up into place and licked his finger again. “It was me, Bob Wilson from history, and that minority chick from the psychology department.”
Emma stared at him in disbelief.
“Sorry Emma-chan, minority lady. Wish me luck, girls. Oh look, brownies.”
Professor Molly feels more relief than grief when Mahina State’s one-man hostile work environment keels over at a faculty retreat. She has no desire to get involved with the case, so it's an unpleasant surprise to find she already is involved. Now Professor Molly has to fight to keep the wrong person out of prison—and herself off the unemployment line.
If you like Dorothy Parker, Sarah Caudwell, P.G. Wodehouse, or E.F. Benson’s Mapp and Lucia stories, you’ll enjoy this tale of passion, pilferage, and petty politics in the middle of the Pacific.
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“Follow your dreams, and you’ll never work a day in your life. Because that field’s not hiring.”
Molly Barda earned her Ph.D. in literature and creative writing from a top-ten doctoral program. After a year of fruitless job-hunting, she finally landed a job at chronically underfunded Mahina State University (“Where Your Future Begins Tomorrow!”), in rural Hawaii. Teaching resume-writing. In the Business School.
Molly longs for working air conditioning. She sits on a yoga ball because there is no budget for office furniture. Her dean, unwilling to lose paying customers, won’t let her report cheating students.
Molly’s determined to bloom where she’s planted, enjoy the tropical beauty of her new home, and stay out of trouble until she gets tenure.
But when a serial harasser collapses face-first into his haupia cheesecake at a Student Retention Office retreat, Molly’s summer goes from dull to disastrous. Now Molly has to fight to keep her best friend out of the worst kind of trouble — and herself off the unemployment line.
If you like Dorothy Parker, P.G. Wodehouse, or E.F. Benson’s Mapp and Lucia stories, you’ll enjoy The Case of the Defunct Adjunct, a tale of passion, pilferage, and petty politics in the middle of the Pacific.
It has three million subscribers and growing. @JimKukral and Bryan Cohen (@bryancohenbooks) of the Sell More Books Podcast have a running joke about all of the free advertising they do for BookBub on their show.
What is it? Basically, it’s an author’s dream mailing list. BookBub sends notice of free or discounted ebooks to its database of eager readers. The catch for authors, and the reason readers love it? They’re very selective about which books they’ll promote. You can’t just go in waving your money at them and expect that they’ll promote your ebook.
At this time, I don’t have the option of participating as an author. I won’t have an ebook out for a while, and when I do, any price promotions will be at the discretion of my publisher. So I’ve been watching BookBub’s increasing popularity with sort of a distant interest, admiring their focus and discipline (how tempting it must be to increase income in the short term by accepting more books!)
Well, today I thought I’d see what it was like to be on the other side, and signed up to be on BookBub’s mailing list. It took about ten seconds. And then I had a look at all of the ebooks on offer.
Holy kazoo.
There are so many books. Books with hundreds of five-star reviews. Books with awards.
Many of them are free. And I can download them RIGHT NOW.
So yes, I should be writing, or, um, doing my day job. Instead of downloading books like this and this and this and this and this. And more, much more. Hours and hours of free reading pleasure.
For the record, I’m not goofing off. I am researching promotional strategies in the publishing industry.
Giveaway ends February 23, 2015.
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