Month: May 2013

Sneak Peek: Dangerous Ally

Today we have a sneak peek from the romantic suspense novel by author Michelle Grey: Dangerous Ally.

Lacey Jordan is in a life or death race to save her kidnapped father, but she’s on the outside looking in on an industry where everyone knows everyone and someone’s discovered her father’s secret. To have a shot at getting her father back she needs an ally, and her best option is the one person she’d hoped to never see again. Caleb Mansfield, her father’s former protégé and her former lover, broke her trust and her heart years before. Can she trust him now? And with Caleb back in her life, can she trust herself?

This book is available from Amazon, Amazon UK, Barnes & Noble, Smashwords, and other online retailers.

Here is an excerpt from Dangerous Ally…

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Featured Book: The Tesla Secret

The Tesla Secret
by Alex Lukeman

Winner of the Best Indie Book Award 2013
Action/Adventure.

Book Five in the PROJECT Series

Plans for a devastating weapon invented by Nikola Tesla fall into the hands of a centuries-old conspiracy bent on world domination. Powerful men will stop at nothing to use the weapon to achieve their goal, even at the risk of nuclear war.

Nick Carter works for the Project, the shadow hand of the US President. Selena Connor is his teammate and lover. Their relationship will be tested to the breaking point as they are forced to question their commitment to the other and to the violent life they have chosen.

From the streets of Prague to the jungles of Mexico, from the hills of Tuscany to the plains of Eastern Russia, the story moves with relentless pace toward a final, explosive confrontation.

This book is available from Amazon.For more, visit the author’s website.

Top Ten: The Most Viewed Articles on Indies Unlimited

I’d been wanting to do a top ten list of the most viewed articles on Indies Unlimited for a while now, but I hesitated because, as modesty is perhaps the finest of my many fine qualities, I thought it might be a little embarrassing to see a list of ten articles by me (ahem).

However, through some flaw in the statistics, it appears some other folks actually wrote some articles that people read.

So without further ado, here is a list of Indies Unlimited’s greatest hits: Continue reading “Top Ten: The Most Viewed Articles on Indies Unlimited”

Deadlines

“I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.” — Douglas Adams

Douglas Adams’ quote regarding deadlines is one of my favorites—not because I love deadlines—oh, no certainly not—but because he was making fun of the idea that a writer is actually expected to adhere to one.

Now yeah, I’m an indie writer, so technically my deadlines for getting a book up are self-imposed and artificial. Yet, I still make them, still push myself to finish the book, the blurb, the cover, what have you. Deadlines can be both carrot and stick. Carrot, because once I’ve finished the book and cobbled together all the necessary components (book cover, editing, marketing, etc.)Yay! I’ll have another book out there for folks to read! Stick because if a book takes longer than I anticipated and I know I’m going to miss a deadline, my stress level rises and I tend to beat myself up. Continue reading “Deadlines”