Planet iPad Daily Free Book Alert, Monday, February 28: 7 Brand New Additions to Our 200+ Free Contemporary Titles in the Kindle Store! plus ... A collection of Tara Maya's intriguing speculative fiction and other short stories and novellas, complete with bonus author commentaries, in Conmergence (Today's Sponsor)

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Conmergence

By Tara Maya

5.0 Stars  -  3 Reviews

Kindle Price:  $2.99

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Tara Maya’s previously published short stories, most of them no longer available in print, are gathered together here for the first time. A number of the tales are short shorts or flash fiction, including the poignant, "Ghosts on Red Strings " and the biting alternate history, "Best of All Possible Worlds." 


Longer stories and two novelettes round out the collection. The emotional timbre ranges across a wide gamut. "Tomorrow We Dance" is a bleak retelling of the fairy-tales Pied Piper and the Emperor's New Clothes. In the more heroic and romantic Painted World stories (two are here), artists are able to bring their paintings to life. 


For fans of hard Sci Fi, there is "A Thousand Blossoms With The Day," which starts from the premise there might have been life in the first fractions of a second after the Big Bang. An Author's Note, and author Comments on the story behind each story, enliven the volume with the author’s own strange journey from homeless street person to published author.


The stories awaiting readers:


"Ghosts on Red Strings" - Only through forgiveness can she free her ghosts.... But some crimes cannot be forgiven.


"Conmergence" - In a non-Euclidean multiverse, parallel universes can meet.


"Portrait of a Pretender" - A murdered king, an heir in danger and a usurper... but is he as black as they paint? (a Painted World story)


"Refractions from the Neglected Side" - A brain damaged woman suffers from hemi-neglect, the inability to see anything on the left. The cure may be even more bizarre.


"Burn" - In that kingdom, witches burned. (8 of Swords of Tarot Tales) 


"The Best of All Possible Worlds" - Money can buy anything, even a universe where you can be happy. Right?


"Public Eye" - To hide from the grid, you have to give up everything. Especially friends.


"Walker" - And yet there are those the grid refuses to see.


"A Thousand Blossoms With The Day" - The universe is less than a second old, and already life struggles to survive.


"You Have Not Forgotten How To Fly" - A faery once defeated an evil war lord, but can she handle a toddler?


"Delivery Status, Failure" - Note to self: don't try to call mom and work on the computer at the same time.


"Grace" - God promised her a great destiny. God lied.


"Tomorrow We Dance" - When the Bone Whistler plays his flute, the whole tribe dances and a new day is just over the horizon...


"The Virgin's Choice" - A princess tests her three suitors and discovers something surprising. (4 of Cups in Tarot Tales)


"Drawn to the Brink" - Her job is to hunt a monster escaped from a painting. She didn't expect him to be so handsome... or to need his help.


(Total word count: 47,000 words)


About the Author:

Tara Maya has lived in a village in Africa, meditated in a nunnery in Nepal, volunteered at an Gandhian ashram in India, toured dungeons in Transylvania, explored the rooftops of stone cities in Yemen and worked with human rights groups in Indonesia. 


She holds a degree in History, because a degree in Time Travel was not available.


Read an interview with the author, published on the Kindle Author blog, here.

Read her blog here.

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Since her divorce a year ago, Susan Caraway has gone through the motions of life. Now she is finally coming out of her shell. Just when she decides on a makeover and a new career, her family members decide she's crisis central. 

First there’s her sister DeLorean, who has come back from California with a baby, a designer dog, and no prospects for child support or a job. As soon as DeLorean settles in at Susan’s home, Susan’s son Christian returns from college trailing what Susan’s mama refers to as “an androgynous little tart.” 

Then there’s Mama herself, a Southern lady who wrote the book on bossy. A secret from Mama’s past threatens to unravel her own peace. But not before Mama hurts her ankle and has to move into Susan’s home with her babies—two Chihuahuas with attitude. 

Susan would like to start her new job as a ghost tour operator. She would like to renew her relationship with Jack Maxwell, a man from her past. But Jack isn’t going to stand in line behind her needy family.

About the Author: 

L.C. Evans currently lives in North Carolina with her husband Bob, their three or four Chihuahuas, and grandson, the Boy. Taking on the care and feeding of the Boy has made her a born again soccer mom, who suffers from occasional bewilderment over what kids like these days. When not wrangling the Chihuahuas and the Boy, she writes novels.  The author invites readers to visit her web site:  here.

From the Reviews:

I think anybody who is from the South, or knows an old fashioned southern family, will especially love this book. That being said if you're not from the south you still need to read this book as a wonderful opportunity to learn, laugh, and cry. 

LC Evans' writing style is hilarious and I found myself laughing out loud at least once in every chapter.

We Interrupt This Date is a tale of love, family, and one woman's redemption as she tries to take back control over her own life - by taking a "Time out" from her free-loading family

This book was a perfect balance of humor, friendship, family, love and southern sweetness! Even the characters you want to choke you end up loving in the end.

I loved the Charleston location and humorous depiction of Southern family life, complete with Mama.

Sweetly written with heart. 

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A World War I romance, an interesting case of "Medical meets Inspirational," and something rather different from the creator of the "Left Behind" series, and Amazon's updated guide to publishing to the Kindle store top today's latest additions to our 200+ Free Book Alert listings.  For authors and would-be author's: see editor's note on Amazon's guide just atop the free listings.  

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Here's a Chick Lit treat with without the tragedy of the Steel Magnolias movie but retaining the strength, profound graciousness and love of family, and infuriating individuality of the Southern woman in full bloom.

We Interrupt This Date

By L.C. Evans

4.5 Stars - 28 Reviews

Kindle Price:  $$0.99

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Here's the set-up:


Since her divorce a year ago, Susan Caraway has gone through the motions of life. Now she is finally coming out of her shell. Just when she decides on a makeover and a new career, her family members decide she's crisis central. 


First there’s her sister DeLorean, who has come back from California with a baby, a designer dog, and no prospects for child support or a job. As soon as DeLorean settles in at Susan’s home, Susan’s son Christian returns from college trailing what Susan’s mama refers to as “an androgynous little tart.” 


Then there’s Mama herself, a Southern lady who wrote the book on bossy. A secret from Mama’s past threatens to unravel her own peace. But not before Mama hurts her ankle and has to move into Susan’s home with her babies—two Chihuahuas with attitude. 


Susan would like to start her new job as a ghost tour operator. She would like to renew her relationship with Jack Maxwell, a man from her past. But Jack isn’t going to stand in line behind her needy family.


About the Author: 

L.C. Evans currently lives in North Carolina with her husband Bob, their three or four Chihuahuas, and grandson, the Boy. Taking on the care and feeding of the Boy has made her a born again soccer mom, who suffers from occasional bewilderment over what kids like these days. When not wrangling the Chihuahuas and the Boy, she writes novels.  The author invites readers to visit her web site:  here.


From the Reviews:


I think anybody who is from the South, or knows an old fashioned southern family, will especially love this book. That being said if you're not from the south you still need to read this book as a wonderful opportunity to learn, laugh, and cry. 


LC Evans' writing style is hilarious and I found myself laughing out loud at least once in every chapter.


We Interrupt This Date is a tale of love, family, and one woman's redemption as she tries to take back control over her own life - by taking a "Time out" from her free-loading family


This book was a perfect balance of humor, friendship, family, love and southern sweetness! Even the characters you want to choke you end up loving in the end.


I loved the Charleston location and humorous depiction of Southern family life, complete with Mama.


Sweetly written with heart. 


Recommended for those looking for a light read or those like Southern fiction.

Click here to download We Interrupt This Date (or a free sample) to your Kindle, iPad, iPhone, iPod Touch, BlackBerry, Android-compatible, PC or Mac and start reading within 60 seconds!

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Editor's note about Publish on Amazon Kindle With Kindle Direct Publishing:  I had downloaded Amazon's original of this bare-bones guide, released in 2008, and ran into plenty of glitches--even with the helpful aid of Amazon staffers on the phone--in getting this revised edition.  Without belaboring that process, the revised edition downloaded for me yesterday.  You may need to delete the old edition via your "Manage Your Kindle" page.  I did that, re-downloaded the old edition a frustrating few times, and gave up.  If you gave up too, it's time to try again.  Now it works.--Tom Dulaney

Free Contemporary Titles in the Kindle Store 

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