Read an EBOOK Week

On the final day of Celebrating Read an Ebook week, I feature the final two books of the Buried Treasure Mystery series available through Smashwords and other retailers.

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My fellow Chicago Writers Association author poet Renee J Nowlin has written a lovely debut book of poetry inspired by her world travels, Oh, The Places I Have Traveled.

Renee J. Nowlin has had adventures all over the world, but for this poet, the most exciting and inspiring places are within her own heart. Her debut poetry collection isn’t merely about the physical locations she has visited—it’s about the crossroads in her life that have taught her something new and meaningful.

One such moment was in December 2015. Nowlin traveled to Barbados and returned from the idyllic island feeling newly inspired to pursue her writing. It wasn’t the picturesque vistas or exotic locale that led to this creative rejuvenation—instead, it was how people opened their hearts and homes to her that fueled her muse.

Nowlin’s poetry reflects the mood of the island and the optimism she brought back with her. Her poems cover a wide variety of experiences and encapsulate important truths about romance, heartbreak, community, and family. Others draw upon Nowlin’s experiences as an African American woman to speak about identity and heritage. Each work shows another facet of a strong new voice in American poetry.

Nowlin stresses that this journey through her life is still unfolding and developing. While she relishes the inspiration she’s already gained, she’s also planning all the places she’ll go next!

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As a gift to my readers, the seven books available at Smashwords remain on half-price sale through March 31.

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Death in rural Wisconsin is only the beginning to new chaos in Robertsville.

What do a stolen piece of revolutionary agricultural equipment, a long-buried skeleton in the yard, and an old quilt with secrets have in common? Hart and Judy Wingate, who met in The Last Bequest are back to solve the mystery of The Map Quilt. Hart’s new battery design could forever change the farm implement industry. But after the death of Hart’s most confrontational colleague in a fire that destroys Hart’s workshop, the battery is missing. And Hart is the last one to see him alive.

Deadheading the Petunias is not just a gardening expression in Robertsville.

Judy Wingate, a new mom, and her NOT-BFF, nosy reporter Olivia Hargrove, team up in a testy relationship to solve the murder of elderly civil servant Esme Espe who may have uncovered millions of dollars of missing city treasury money. Old friends and new ones join the race to find the money before the murderer.

Read an EBOOK Week

In Celebrating Read an Ebook week, seven of my books are half price at Smashwords.

My fellow Chicago author Anita Solick Oswald gets a shoutout! for her special story, West Side Girl, which I reviewed here.

Anita grew up in the 3rd story apartment above her family’s Bohemian restaurant on Madison Street in Chicago's west side in the 50's and 60's. The daughter of a fireman and a housewife/frustrated writer, she befriended a ragtag brigade of migrant children. Together, they found both themselves and the world-at-large on their neighborhood’s streets.

West Side Girl chronicles the colorful and oftentimes unpredictably eccentric characters and events of the area and time. Themes include social change, girls empowerment and the benefits of growing up in a diverse neighborhood. Seen through of the eyes of a child coming of age in the 1950's and 1960's, the stories of equality and social justice can be outrageous, insightful, funny, touching, inspiring and reflective.

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Today's Featured Book is The Last Bequest.

Judy Winters is pretty sure her environmentally-conscious great-aunt didn't die of natural causes, no matter what the tox screens say. When she discovers she can inherent the family farm if she'll live there for a year, can she give up her teaching job and move to the country? Next door to the obnoxious young, unfortunately handsome, farmer with ties to her aunt? And what about a possible killer on the loose. Join Judy, Hart, Ardyth and know-it-all cat Carranza, for an all-Wisconsin adventure.

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Today's featured book is Centrifugal Force.

In the turmoil of 2011, an American college administrator and a German socio-economics expert attempt to rectify the past to save their children and preserve the fragile world in crisis.

Rachel Michels made a poor choice which resulted in her biggest blessing, her daughter, Maeve. When the father of that blessing returns decades later, she knows he wants something she’d taken from him. Rachel has lived in near seclusion and mistrust, fearful of losing the one person who’s kept her life from coming unglued.
Professor Gervas Friedemann returns to Wisconsin, seeking a missing ancient artifact, along with help for his oldest daughter who is suffering from a rare genetic blood disorder. With the European Union at stake, blackmail could negatively impact a crucial vote in the German Parliament unless Gervas recovers an irreplaceable relic he left in the United States on a lecture tour a lifetime ago. He knows who took the piece of history he once flaunted—the woman who had stolen his soul. He only hopes she still has the ring.

Read an EBOOK Week

In Celebrating Read an Ebook week, seven of my books are half price at Smashwords.

My fellow author at Chicago Writers Association has a special children's story to share:

$2.99 at Amazon

I think I'll pick up a copy for my grandkids.

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Today's Featured Book is Parhelion.

Parhelion—prisms dogging the sun. it’s a rainbow hope of reaching the stars for a small group of colonists preparing to preserve life.

Maeve Michels hit earth hard, falling in love with a former Air Force test pilot. No longer in the military, Harry Kane’s mysterious work as a consultant for a space engineering company piques Maeve’s interest. Maeve’s sixth sense says there’s more to Harry than he’s telling her, but with the world about to fall apart, she must decide to trust him with her future. Harry is keeping a secret from Maeve—he has to, or his one chance at being a real hero goes up in flames with the rest of the planet. His assignment: get her to join the program, and him. Hopefully willingly.

With war no longer empty threats and posturing, Maeve and Harry are about to take part in the most important experiment in human history. Bigger secrets threaten not only their survival but their fragile co-existence with the cosmos.

If you could choose, what kind of a world do you want to live in?

Read an EBOOK Week

In Celebrating Read an Ebook week, seven of my books are half price at Smashwords.

My fellow Chicago author Steve Bellinger has written The Chronocar

Simmie Johnson was born the son of a slave. He was also a genius. After earning a PhD in physics from Tuskeee Institute, he wrote a paper outlining a theory for time travel, including plans for a time machine—called a chronocar—which was published in a scientific journal in the early 1900s . Since the technology required to build the chronocar did not yet exist, the paper and its brilliant writer faded into obscurity.

A century later, a young Illinois Tech student, Tony Carpenter, discovers the journal article and decides to build a chronocar so he can travel back to 1919 to meet the black scientist he hopes to emulate.

Unfortunately, time is not on his side.

Dr. Johnson is living in Chicago’s Black Belt with his beautiful daughter—and Tony arrives just in time for the bloodiest race riot in the city’s history. Can Tony use the chronocar to save his new friends, or will his attempt forever alter the future he hopes to return to?

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Today's feature book is Healing Grace: a novel

Grace has a secret. Just like her aunt, and her grandmother before her, she could fix anyone with a touch, at a cost she never questioned—until her husband developed cancer and died. Believing no one would forgive her for not being able to save him, Grace runs from the life she knew, hoping even God wouldn’t find her in a little out-of-the-way town in Michigan. It takes a very sick man and his little boy to help her face her past, accept who she is and battle her way back to redemption. Just when she and Ted begin to hope for the future, he relapses. Grace faces the ultimate choice once again: Trust God to work through her precious gift, or let a terminally ill man die. What if the price is more than she can pay?

Read an EBOOK Week

In Celebrating Read an Ebook week, seven of my books are half price at Smashwords

and please enjoy books from my friends

Rita Dragonette's The Fourteenth of September is a poignant, must read! Buy on Amazon

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Today's feature book is Requiem for the Innocents

Justice, mercy, and humbleness collide when four people pray for different answers to the same situation. How will God answer all of them?

What is wrong with trying to cure cancer? Brother Able, hospice chaplain, asks himself that question every day. His boss, Dr. Rich Bernard, performs closet genetic experiments at Paradise House. He blackmails Able into keeping his secret. When a grieving husband asks Able to pray for his dying wife, Able finally breaks his silence.

Libby Davis might be prepared to accept death, to sacrifice herself for Rich’s greater cause but fails to comprehend the love of a husband who cannot let her go and the son who’s a whisper from the edge of reason. Brother Able wades into battle for those innocents in her life. If he wins, it won’t be only Libby’s family he saves.

READ AN EBOOK WEEK IS COMING!!

Join the growing number of readers who love the convenience of those nifty little e-readers!!

March 4-10, 2012 is Read an E-Book Week.

Sponsored in part by: http://www.epicorg.com/index.php

History

Read an E-Book Week was first registered with Chase's Calendar of Events in 2004. Chase's is a day by day directory of special days, weeks and months used by event planners or anyone looking for a reason to celebrate. By having the week officially recognized, e-book authors and publishers acquired a certain extra "legitimacy" during that week to promote the new technology of e-books. The public and media were initially wary of e-books and many doors were closed to promotion. With the week officially recognized by Chase's, authors reported they now had access to television morning chat shows and were allowed to set up library displays during the week-long event.

Purpose

Read an E-Book Week educates and informs the public about the pleasures and advantages of reading electronically. Authors, publishers, vendors, the media and readers world-wide are welcome to join in the effort. We encourage you to promote electronic reading with any event. These could include: public readings, library displays, reading challenges, school visits, newspaper and blog articles, chat show appearances, internet radio interviews, e-book give-ways, and banners on your website.

The Read an E-Book Website is here to provide the latest information on e-books and to act as a collection point where you can list your event or give-away.