Ah Smashwords. They are so kind to authors. We revealed in our last installment of Author Tips and Tricks that readers don’t even need an account there to download free books. How cool is that? Not sure how they can or will compete with Amazon’s Kindle Unlimited. So how about we show Smashwords some love with a Smashwords Book Page Like-fest!
This is how it works: If you are an author with a book listed on Smashwords.com, in the comments below, write a SHORT one sentence blurb about ONE of your books, then paste in the link to that book below it. (If you post more than one book, to be fair to everyone else, we will delete all except for the top link, so please behave and post only ONE book – NOT your author page – there is no way to like those!) Make sure you show some love to the links in the comments above yours, and check back throughout the day to catch up. If you’re a publisher, editor, or reader, please check out these book pages – you may see something you like! (BTW, liking a book on Smashwords WILL show up in your FB feed. If you don’t want it there, you’ll need to go into Facebook and manually remove it from your wall.)
[Don’t forget, if you right-click the links, you can choose to have them open in a separate tab so you don’t have to worry about navigating back and forth to pages.]
This should be fun and should generate a lot of likes for everyone’s books. Let’s get things moving – and here’s a book to get you started: http://www.smashwords.com/books/view/23869
PLEASE do not post erotica titles. IU is a safe-for-work site.
To those with concerns about the ethical implications of “liking” a book you have not read, we regard likes as more analogous to a “high five” than a rating or review. We do not support the idea of rating or reviewing a book you have never read. If you’re concerned that people will think you are endorsing someone else’s book, you can always just write something like “hey, my friend’s book is on Smashwords.”
Life First
Strong-willed Kelsey Reed must escape tonight or tomorrow her government will take her kidney and give it to a stranger.
https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/327024
Sliding Past Vertical
How long can a man hold a torch for a woman without getting burned?
https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/422144
Novel Ideas
When the sun sets on a young girl’s life, she takes fate into her own hands.
https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/161406
Seasons of Darkness
A lonely young man tries to cope with his mother’s suicide in this coming of age novel.
https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/347482
The Impaler Legacy Omnibus
The complete The Impaler Legacy series, a vampire saga like no other.
https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/419016
Self-publishing Made Simple: A How-to Guide for the Non-tech-savvy Among Us
Simple, down-to-earth instructions on everything from avoiding publishing scams to formatting manuscripts.
https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/411579
The Dreamt Child: Book Three of Earth’s Pendulum
Liannis, Merrist are called to accept sweeping changes destined by the goddess. They face treachery, resistance before their child is born.
https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/371549
Let’s Play Math: How Homeschooling Families Can Learn Math Together, and Enjoy It!
For homeschooling parents who hope to replace their math program or just to supplement it, this book shows how to turn math into a learning adventure for the whole family.
http://www.smashwords.com/books/view/291737
Writer’s Block
When an award-winning writer hits the wall with her current project, she heads to the beach to concentrate on her work, but instead finds a charming distraction.
https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/358324
Tour Into Danger
When 9-year-old Rob sees his stepfather commit murder, he begs his Aunt Penny for asylum and she takes him to Honolulu, where they are followed by two hit men and a mysterious tourist who turns up wherever they go.
http://www.smashwords.com/books/view/4475
Lea–somehow the “s” was left off of the “http” of your link.
https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/4475
Be Not Afraid
Lydia finds her faith tested in ways she never knew existed.
https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/440066
The Blue Crystal
by Melissa Bowersock
A young farmer finds himself in the middle of the classic magical battle between good and evil.
https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/127940
Lies That Bind: Emma’s Story
by Leigh Michaels
Emma and Kendall have been friends almost as long as either of them can remember, and there’s nothing that can come between them. Or is there?
https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/474654
Wardens of Light and Shadow
J.M. Williamson
As the Wardens are drawn from the shadows, the fates of many will be reshaped in ways they never could have imagined.
https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/302964
The Awful Mess: A Love Story
Sandra Hutchison
Can a newcomer overcome the scandalous secret that threatens to ruin her life in a small New Hampshire town?
I literally just put this on Smashwords yesterday!
https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/474800
Got all above (some I had gotten in an earlier fest).
“Hym and Hur” is a fantasy-comedy in which a supernatural young couple play pranks on humankind, now finding themselves in deep trouble with the unruly character of Death.
http://www.smashwords.com/books/view/122852
Born in Sarajevo
This is a story of Yugoslavia, a fairy tale without a happy ending, and Yugoslavians, simple people who lived in a difficult time of upheaval and war.
https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/326953
The Summer of Our Discontent
Four kids suffer when their friend and ringleader disappears one summer
https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/305558
It’s a geyser, not a time travel device.
Repeating History: The first Time in Yellowstone novel
https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/76672
“Insights for Singles: Steps to Find Everlasting Love”
https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/349964
Came back and got more of the above.