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Beta Website – favoriteauthornotification.com

AngieZ — Tue, 16 Nov 2010 18:39:13 +0000

As part of a class project, I created a new website where users can subscribe to an author and receive emails when new books are added to Amazon.com. I found the site useful in keeping up my wish lists and based on some feedback I may decide to develop the site further (and use it for future advanced class projects).

If you are interested in beta testing the site you can go to www.favoriteauthornotification.com and signup.

Feel free to drop me a line at letstrade at romancebooktrader.com with any feedback, bugs or enhancements you would like to see.

Time to blog again

AngieZ — Wed, 29 Sep 2010 19:47:11 +0000

I have been so busy that I have totally neglected my blog with work, my business and college. I am going to make an effort to start back to logging my books read and upcoming book notifications. Related posts:Should Authors post their political views to the public Updated Future Releases Pages Related posts:

Free Cooking ebook from Amazon

AngieZ — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 01:48:24 +0000

The kindle store is currently offering Not Your Mother’s Slow Cooker Recipes for Entertaining by Beth Hensperger for free. Regularly it listed at $19.99.

You can enjoy this book without owning a Kindle. When you order the above book you can select to download Kindle for PC or you can preload it here.

Kindle for PC Details:

* Get the best reading experience available on your PC. No Kindle required
* Access your Kindle books even if you don’t have your Kindle with you
* Automatically synchronizes your last page read and annotations between devices with Whispersync
* Create bookmarks and view the annotations you created on your Kindle

The Copper Bracelet: Download the First Chapter Free

AngieZ — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 22:37:36 +0000

Audible Exclusive: Download the first chapter of The Copper Bracelet Free. Expires October 29, 2009

One Day Harlequin Sale – BOGO with Coupon

AngieZ — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 22:26:42 +0000

1-Day eHarlequin BOGO Sale Oct 27! For every featured book you buy, get a 2nd title free with coupon code TWOSALEONE. Excludes eBooks

Updated Future Releases Pages

AngieZ — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 15:07:19 +0000

Last month I had to upgrade my blog due to a hacker. Once I upgraded it I lost some of my future releases pages. I have just updated and reposted some of them. I hope they help you keep updated on future releases for your favorite authors:

New – General. This is a listing of upcoming releases for the General Release Category. It is sorted by release date. It is daunting to see releases due out a year for now.

New – Paranormal. This is a listing of upcoming releases for the Paranormal Genre. It is sorted by release date.

New – Suspense. This is a listing of upcoming releases for the Romantic Suspense Genre. It is sorted by release date.

New – Black Lace Books. This is a listing of the latest/upcoming releases for the publisher Black Lace.

New – Ellora’s Cave. This is a listing of the latest/upcoming releases of printed books for the Ellora’s Cave publisher.

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Should Authors post their political views to the public

AngieZ — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 16:41:28 +0000

OK, I feel a rant coming on…

[rant]Recently I had found a new author that had great potential to pull me into her paranormal series. I had enjoyed two of the series and have a few more on my huge to be read pile. I have been following authors on twitter, facebook, blogs and websites lately so that I can get updated information on their books and interests. I enjoy reading posts by other fans and authors. This is good because I feel more connected, but bad because somethings I find out things that I don’t like about them.

The new author I recently discovered had a few tweets that were political in nature. While I am involved in politics and have strong views, I am very open to new ideas and find that peoples views are varied. I enjoy the whole debate process. What I don’t enjoy is when some one is cuts down another’s view/opinion with nasty tasteless remarks. That fact is that there are a wide range of views and very often people on the other side of you. To call them stupid or make fun of another view in my opinion can be in bad form as a business person. I own a small business and I can guarantee that I would not touch a political conversation with a client with a ten foot pole. It is really a bad idea because it is often easy to insult a person and possibly lose their business.

So the moral of the story is that I read tweets from two different authors that were mocking views that were important to me – They were not debating they were flat out being condescending. I have stopped following those two authors and will not make an effort to pick up their books in the future. I know it is petty, but frankly I have a huge to be read pile that I have to work through and I do not need to bother with authors whom have been openly dismissive of something that is important to me.

My advice for you authors out there is to not piss off half of your readers who may not have the same views as yours — unless you are a partisan political writer.

If you want me buying your books you don’t have to have the same views as me, but you sure shouldn’t openly make fun of my views either…..

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the private undoing of a public servant-Leonie Martel

Borders: Free shipping

AngieZ — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 16:32:37 +0000

I get a lot of books from Borders. You can get free shipping for orders over $25.00. You can also select shipment to a store if your order is under $25.00.

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Free Taste of Home Magazine Downloads.

AngieZ — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 14:24:59 +0000

Visit Taste of Home Magazine Here and you will be able to download full copies of various issues.

There are some really great recipes..

The Healthy Lunch Box ideas looks like fun. Too bad my kids are too old for some of these great ideas. Maybe I will do some anyway for my 17 year old.

Enjoy.

Free Barnes and Noble eReader and 6 free Books.

AngieZ — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 12:49:19 +0000

You can go to Barnes & Noble website and download a free copy of their eReader along with 6 free books.

You get the following 2 classics:

The Last of the Mohicans
Sense and Sensibility

If you have or create a Barnes & Nobles account you also get the following 4 additional classic titles:

Dracula
Pride and Prejudice
Little Women
Merriam-Webster’s Pocket Dictionary