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Shopping for Free eBooks
No cart, no driving, no crowds! Just great eBook deals!

Here you go – a bunch of hot new free and bargain eBooks to read, just for you! You’re going to need these if you’re in the southern USA – like Phoenix – where the temperature is like a billion degrees right now. You can fill up that Kindle now with the free and 99 cent eBook deals right here on Thrifty Thursday, and sit inside in the air conditioning and catch up on your reading!

Readers: look in the comment section below. If you see one you like, click over and buy it. How easy is that? (If you don’t see the book covers, adjust your browser’s adblock settings.) Continue reading “Really Hot eBook Deals!”

Which “Aurora” Flash Fiction Story Gets Your Vote?

Vote5It’s that time again…time to choose your favorite flash fiction story of the week! It’s all up to you now – only one can win Flash Fiction Readers’ Choice Champion honors. It’s super easy – choose your favorite and cast your vote below.

Check out this week’s entries here. Make your decision, then use those share buttons at the bottom of the post to spread the word. Attention Authors: It is okay if you ask people to vote for you!

Voting polls close Thursday at 5 PM Pacific time. If the poll doesn’t close on time, any votes received after 5 pm will be removed.

REMINDER – entries over the 250 limit are disqualified.

Which "Aurora" flash fiction story deserves your vote this week?

  • Sorabh Saxena (60%, 97 Votes)
  • Theodore Jerome Cohen (33%, 53 Votes)
  • JB Wocoski (2%, 4 Votes)
  • Judith Garcia (2%, 3 Votes)
  • Ann Zimmerman (1%, 2 Votes)
  • Joshua Taylor (1%, 2 Votes)
  • Luigi Silvestri (0%, 0 Votes)
  • Geoffrey Young (0%, 0 Votes)
  • Paula Evans (0%, 0 Votes)

Total Voters: 161

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NOTE: Entrants whose submissions exceed the 250 word limit will be disqualified even if they win. ONE VOTE PER PERSON, please. Duplicate votes will be deleted. The results displayed above are unofficial until verified by administration.

Help! Someone else is selling my book!

Dont-Panic1While taking a short break from obsessively Googling your name and checking your KDP dashboard, you wander over to search for your book on Amazon. Imagine your surprise when – gasp – you see two listings. Or three listings. Or even more! Someone named IHeartBooks is selling your paperback on Amazon! Not only that, but – horror of horrors – they’re charging more than you are. Or maybe less than you are. Or maybe you’re one of those authors who’s stumbled across a copy of your paperback selling on Amazon for $6,789 or some such outrageous price.

The stinkin’ pirates! You should immediately fire off a DMCA takedown notice to have your book removed. Shouldn’t you? Continue reading “Help! Someone else is selling my book!”

Is It Creation or Appropriation?

connect with Indies Unlimited on Facebook hands-543593_960_720Recently Hal Niedzviecji, chief editor of Write Magazine, the quarterly published by the Writers Union of Canada, was pressured to resign as a result of his editorial, “Win Appropriation Prize”. His take was that there ought to be no barriers to writing about those we do not “know” and that readers would be the ones to take us to task if we cross the line.

The furor that resulted prompted me to explore the topic of cultural appropriation in writing. It’s a tricky one and the opinions run the gamut from “never” to “anything goes”. Continue reading “Is It Creation or Appropriation?”