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Happy Valentine's Day

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Here's a little tidbit you may not know about the holiday of love: Valentine's Day began as a celebration of a Christian saint named Valentinus. He was imprisoned for performing weddings for soldiers who were forbidden to marry.  During his imprisonment, he healed the daughter of his jailer. Before his execution he wrote a farewell letter to her that was signed, "from your Valentine". Today, as with every day, I hope you're surrounded by those that you love and who love you. As my Valentine's Day gift for you: Don't forget to pick up your FREE eBook of The Secret of Spruce Knoll on Amazon ! Don't have a Kindle? You can download a FREE Kindle app for your computer at this link . 

Why Author's Make eBooks Free

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You've probably noticed independent authors setting the price on at least one of their books as free from time to time. And if you're traditionally published, or not yet published, you may wonder why in the world they would do such a thing. An indie author friend of mine recently discussed using Kindle Select with me and she couldn't understand why someone would set their book to free. It's contradictory, she said. And she's right, in a way. However, there is a method to this madness.   When you download a book from Amazon, B&N or any other online retailer~regardless of whether or not it's free or costs money~that novel goes  up in the sales ranks. With each download, it goes farther up the ranks with the optimum rise occurring when there are many sales in one day (the entire system starts over day by day so if a book sells one a day for a month it won't rise in the ranks nearly as high as it would if it sold thirty in one day of that month. VERY impo...

Valentine's Day Celebration

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Happy Valentine's day everyone! As you know, today is the release of the  In His Eyes , the anthology in which you can find a story from Fane's point of view. If you're in search of the perfect Valentine's Day gift , look no further, because the Indelibles are about to point you in the direction of some dreamy books.  Whether you gift a collection of e-books or wrap one special paperback up in pretty paper with a single red rose on top, you're bound to score BIG POINTS on Valentine's Day with these novels. BOUND by C. K. Bryant CLOCKWISE by Elle Strauss CROSS MY HEART by Katie Klein DESTINED by Jessie Harrell EXILED by RaShelle Workman GLIMPSE by Stacey Wallace Benefiel HOW TO DATE AN ALIEN by Magan Vernon THE SECRET OF SPRUCE KNOLL by Heather McCorkle TANGLED TIDES by Karen Amanda Hooper THE VEIL by Cory Putnam Oakes WATCHED by Cindy Hogan and... IN HIS EYE S, an ...