Hurray! lots of FREE ebooks in my JULY newsletter.

 JULY NEWSLETTER

July, and the weather is crazy. In a sheltered pool in the Botanical gardens ( the municipal garden or Park) I found a water lily flowering! We've had the warmest winter for over one hundred years. My spring bulbs are flowering now. As the state of the world has hardly improved I hope you'll find some escapist reads to entertain and strengthen your reserve to keep hoping and smiling to cheer up your friends, family and co-workers.

Writing going well, thank you! I've just turned into ebooks ten of my older short stories which have been previously published in journals and magazines. There should be some of them in the Smashwords sale. The novel is stalled, the novellas are roughly first drafted. I want everything finished in time for my 80th birthday next year so I can have a grand birthday party and book launch and relaunch of all my books in new covers and fancy printing. Oh, for more time!!!

 More historical books this month and I did hardened my heart against their pleadings and refused most of my fellow authors' mystery/thriller, SF and Fantasy promotions or we'd have been inundated again, but it is hard to say No. 

 

URGENT DEADLINES again this month

 

URGENT DEADLINES  WATCH FOR numbers 12, 18, 19, 20 and 26 

 

dates, 10^th, 12^th, 15^th, 16^th, 20^th 

 

JULY BOOKS

Three cheers for Smashwords and their summer sale of fiction and non-fiction ebooks

SMASHWORDS JULY BOOK SALE

 

100s of books on sale or free throughout JULY

LOOK HERE

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HISTORICAL FICTION 

2

Historical Fiction Summer Giveaway

 

14 FREE books

 

3 

Historical Action and Adventure

 

19 BARGAINS books  

SINGLE TITLES 

4

The Viking Ventures Trilogy

 

by Åsli & Bakkejord

 

more Viking adventures from the Vikings themselves

 

SPECIAL OFFER

 

 5     

The Emigrant

   

After so much death, this young immigrant will do anything to start her new life, even flee to America from her Irish home.  

   

By Richard Alan Schwartz  

   

SPECIAL OFFER

6   

Conversations with Scotland's First Scottish Queens

 

by Kristi Ross

 

The lives of Scotland’s first Stewart Queens. Joan Beaufort, Euphemia Ross, and Annabella Drummond, women who shaped a kingdom.  FREE

            

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Fading Light

 

by Amy C Crooks

 

It begins with a choice that wasn't theirs to make.  

 

SPECIAL OFFER

 

8

The Lozano Boys: All Those Masks

 

by S.R. Mallory  

 

In 1927, Private Eye Frank Lozano is on a mission. After he left the corrupt Los Angeles police department, he had formed his own detective agency,  he looks forward to handling cases the way he thinks is best.  FREE

 

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SF and FANTASY

and 

MYTHS and Fairy TALES

10

Not all stories end in happily ever after

 

74 FREE  BOOKS

 

11

  

Magic and Mayhem

 

96 books MOSTLY FREE

 

12

 

Monthly Fantasy Giveaway    URGENT DEADLINES

   

Get these books fast! This promotion ends Jul 16

 

29 FREEBIES

 

URGENT DEADLINES

  
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SINGLE TITLES

 

What the Tide Brings

 

In most tales of selkies it is a woman whose magical skin is stolen, who is forced to marry the lucky thief and live a life of misery, pining away for her home in the sea. But what if the stolen skin belongs to an infant, taken before they have memory of life under the waves?  

BARGAIN

14 

 

Falcon's Call

 

by Mike Waller

 

Who, exactly, is the right person to greet humanity's first visitor from the stars?  

 

FREE for JULY

 

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GENERAL MIX OF GENRES  

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Buy From the Authors  

 

18 Books  DIRECT SALES  

  

17

Summer time easy reads

 

36 BARGAINS

 

18  

Summertime Multi-Genre Mayhem    URGENT DEADLINES

   

Get these books fast! This promotion ends July 15th

 

51  FREE

 

URGENT DEADLINES

   

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URGENT DEADLINES

   

Role Models, Please!: An All-Genre Giveaway for Strong, Noble Heroines

 

Get these books fast! This promotion ends Jul 20

 

36 FREE 

 

URGENT DEADLINES

  

20 

 

URGENT DEADLINES

  

Strong Women

 

Get these books fast! This promotion ends Jul 10

 

57  BARGAINS

 

URGENT DEADLINES

  

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Find a Favourite Story

 

149 mix of FREE, Bargain and KU library books

BOOKS

 

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A Mix of Tales

 

120 FREE  BOOKS

 

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Short Stories Galore

 

82 FREEBIES 

 

24
  

MYSTERIES AND THRILLERS

 

25

Whispers and Whiskers

 

48 FREE  COSY MYSTERIES

  

26

YA MG and CHILDREN'S BOOKS

 

URGENT DEADLINES

   

Summer Mysteries & Adventures: MG & YA Giveaway

 

Get these books fast! This promotion ends Jul 12    URGENT DEADLINES

   

18  FREE books

 

URGENT DEADLINES

  

 

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Summer Children's Giveaway

 

42 Mixed age range   FREE

 

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REVIEWS

 

Authors NEEDING a kind word about their novels.

 

It's a free read so a review please if you would be so kind:

 

NONE!

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WEBSITE   

 

YA  Historical novels and audio

 

Kyrie's YA historicals are now audio format and she has a special offer.

 

SPECIAL OFFER

   

 As ever happy reading

 

 p.d.r. lindsay

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JUNE BOOKS IN MY NEWSLETTER lots of free and bargain eboks for June

 JUNE BOOKS

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JUNE NEWSLETTER Your Monthly E-Book Treasure Hunt for a Good Read.  Now that is some road! It's Arthur’s Pass through the Southern Alps, in South Island, New Zealand. My home. I hadn't seen this stretch before and boggled at the engineering skills involved. No wonder it took so long to build. It's a fantastic road trip and the rail trip is as scenic too, but I look down that gorge and wonder how those first peoples ever managed to find their way through. It's exciting tramping but dangerous as it looks so easy to access on tracks now. It's mountain country and the weather changes swiftly and drops from sunny day to icy winter in minutes. How did those surveyors find the way? It's questions like that which make me write historical fiction. An interesting selection of historical fiction available for you this month as well as the usual jumble of novels which tumble out of writers' heads. I do sometimes wonder about the Fantasy novels though, being a fan of Tolkien and Patricia McKillip, who were scholars of Old English and that core of work which is the base of our myths and legends. Watch the deadlines and don't miss out. URGENT DEADLINES again this month. WATCH FOR numbers 3 and 16 and 21, dates, 28th, 14thand 15th JUNE BOOKS Free Reads and Bargain Buys in Your Inbox 1 HISTORICAL FICTION 2 Historical Fiction Giveaway 6 FREE 3 Historical Adventure Giveaway  URGENT URGENT Deadline is June 28th 24 FREE  4 Four SINGLE Historical novels Lady of Lincoln by Rachel Elwiss Joyce might be free otherwise if past the deadline it's 99cents and The King's Spy (The Rebellion Series Book 1) Kindle Edition Mark Turnbull (Author) FREE in KU Don't miss that free Viking novel from Åsli & Bakkejord The Shieldmaiden's Daughter by Åsli & Bakkejord Daughter of a king, raised by a shieldmaiden. Life should be easy, right? An immersive Viking historical fiction. and Borrowed Light by Amy C Crooks    5 GENERAL MIX OF FICTION 6 Spinning Colourful Tales 19 BARGAINS 7 Stock Your bookshelf 14 BARGAINS 8 Summer Reads 11 BARGAINS 9 You'll have to go through me first 53 FREEBIES 10 Choose A Book Giveaway 38 FREEBIES 11 Books to Talk About 57 BARGAINS Free or KU read 12 Women's Witty Fiction About Starting Over 21 BARGAINS 13 Woman's Spring Fiction Giveaway 17 FREE 14 YA SF and FANTASY 15 YA Fantasy and SF 45 FREEBIES .16 Paranormal Sale June15th URGENT 65 BARGAINS URGENT Single SF Fantasy YA novel lizzy's Dilema FREE 18 SF and FANTASY and Fairy tales 19 A single novel and witchy mystery The Last Wish of Ivy Ashwood 20 Magic and Mayhem 97 books FREE 21 Fantasy Giveaway June14th URGENT 28 FREE KU READS U is for Unicorn 22  BARGAINS 23 MYSTERY AND THRILLERS 24 CODE GAIA:EMERGENCE by Deni ArDente Series: Code Gaia, Book One SF mystery Review please. 25 Cosy Mysteries 106  FREE 26 REVIEWS Authors NEEDING a kind word about their novels. It's a free read so a review please if you would be so kind: 27   Reviews for a mix of genres 12 novels 28 Read and Review 45 FREE if you write a review Dive Into A New World 55 books 31 Michael Young This is a new site to me and therefore I don't think we've seen many of these books before The C.L. CANNON Book Fair mainly SF and fantasy with spec fiction in all its other forms. Over 100 Sale and Bargain books. As ever stay safe and happy reading p.d.r. lindsay EMAIL ME TO CHAT AT PDRLINDSAY at SLINGSHOT.CO.NZ Website:www.pdrlindsay.co.nz This email was sent to | Unsubscribe| Forward  this email to a friend

 

MAY newsletter: Free Reads and Bargain Buys in Your Inbox Right Now Just For You

 Free Reads and Bargain Buys in Your Inbox

The end of April, the 25th to be precise, is ANZAC Day. That's like your November 11th Memorial Day, you northern hemisphere folk. We remember the deaths of all Australian and New Zealand service people and especially the Army Corps (the ANZACs) troops' April 25th landing in 1915 (WWI) at the wrong beach and under gunfire at Gallipoli. The aim was to land on the Gallipoli Peninsula and capture the Dardanelles, the gateway to the Bosphorus and the Black Sea. Details here ANZAC https://www.rsa.org.nz/about/anzac-day-resources

I mention it be because it always brings up the problem of explaining to children and the international tourists what the word lest means as we repeat it several times during the services as we promise and say 'Lest we forget.' Consulting my complete Oxford Dictionary leaves me full of old English explanations and how, when used in front of a verb, it is supposed to remind us by making us remember what we want to forget. Try explaining all that! I simply say it's an old word meaning we must not forget! If any of you have a better translation I'd love to hear it.

Lots of historical books this month and I hardened my heart to their pleadings and refused most of my fellow authors SF and Fantasy promotions or we'd have been swamped again like last month. Might have to do the same next month with the general genre and crime promos. It is difficult to say no when I personally know how hard it is to get readers to see your books.

URGENT DEADLINES again this month  URGENT DEADLINES

URGENT DEADLINES WATCH FOR numbers 12, 15, 17 and 20, 22, 24 and 34

dates, 10th 11th, 12th 15th, 16th, 20th, 25th and 26th

MAY BOOKS

1
HISTORICAL FICTION 

2

An interesting collection of serious historicals

37 BARGAINS

3

Some pleasant historical romance

29 FREE books

4

Four Colleagues;' single historical fiction novels

"The Bargeman's Silence"

by Jordan Peace

5

Still Alive (Kidnapped From Ukraine #3

modern history

6

Watermark: A Powerful Historical Novel of Medieval France, the Inquisition, and One Woman's Defiant Search for Identity

Vanitha Sankaran

7

Echoes of Small Things

historical short stories

Paper lantern Writers

8

Hurray! Another excellent freebie Viking novel from Åsli & Bakkejord

The Shieldmaiden's Daughter

by Åsli & Bakkejord

Daughter of a king, raised by a shieldmaiden. Life should be easy, right?

An immersive Viking historical fiction.

 

GENERAL MIX OF FICTION

9

A varied collection of

53 FREE novels

10

An amazing selection of

82 FREE novels

11

A different selection of novels

129 BARGAINS

12

URGENT

Spring Forward With An Addictive New Story!

Get these books fast! This promotion ends May 11, 2026!

37 BARGAINS

URGENT

13

With a twist to its tale

64 FREE novels with unexpected happenings

14

A really mixed bag of novels

58 BARGAINS

15

Stock Your Bookshelf   URGENT

42 BARGAINS

Get these books fast! This promotion ends May 26, 2026!

URGENT

16

2026 Book Release

19 BARGAINS

17

Witty Women's Fiction of Fresh Starts  URGENT

Get these books fast! This promotion ends May 10, 2026!

34 FREE novels

 URGENT

18

Happy to Be Odd:  URGENT

An All-Genre Giveaway for Stories with Characters Who Accept Their Inner Weirdness

Get these books fast! This promotion ends May 20, 2026!

43 FREEBIES

 URGENT

19

YA and CHILDREN

20

Children's Month Of Activities URGENT

Be quick for if you miss the days you miss the freebies

you need to click on each day on the correct date.

FREE

URGENT

21

Middle Grade Junior Fiction

16 FREE books

22

Spring Children's Book Giveaway URGENT

Get these books fast! This promotion ends May 16, 2026!

24 FREEBIES

URGENT

23

SF and FANTASY

24

FANTASY

Monthly Fantasy Giveaway Email URGENT

Get these books fast! This promotion ends May 15, 2026!

40 BOOKS all free

URGENT

25

MYSTERY AND THRILLERS

26

26 books in an interesting mix

FREE

27

Thrilling Adventures

22 SALE

28

NONFICTION

a special guidebook to Skye

SALE price

29

Interesting mix of mysteries and thrillers

26 FREE

30

Action Now And In The Past Or The Fantasy Future

22 SALE

31

Mainly Mystery

16 BARGAINS

32

Mystery with a Romance

39 FREEBIES

33

A generous collection of COSY mysteries

108 free COSY

34

AUDIO BOOKS URGENT

Spring Into Multi-genre Audiobooks!

Get these books fast! This promotion ends May 25, 2026!

16 SALE PRICE

URGENT

35

REVIEWS

NOVELS NEEDING a kind word.

Reviews Please if you would be so kind:

36

Reviews for Fantasy Writers

8 books

37

Read & Review a mix of genres

69 books

38

historical reviews please

12 books

39

22 mix bag

40

NEWSLETTERS

41

Vicki Adin's newsletter she writes 19thC New Zealand historical novels

Her books are on sale.

NEWSLETTER

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We are the Paper Lantern Writers, an author collective focused on historical fiction of all eras. From the medieval world to WWII (and beyond), in locales around the world, from romantic to tragic, and back again, our books will take you on the journeys of a lifetime.

NEWSLETTER with free books at their website.

 

As ever happy reading

p.d.r. lindsay

 

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APRIL NEWSLETTER lots of free and baragain ebooks

 

APRIL NEWSLETTER

Monthly E-Book Treasures: Great Deals Await!

 

April brings the cherry blossom. It's such a joyous time in Japan, a spiritual renewal in their religious calendar, and means the end of those fiercely cold and difficult winters. Spring is here and life continues, and they enjoy the cherry blossom viewing parties and write brief poems to the fleeting beauty of the blossom, their lives and their world.

In our upside down world I'm launched into autumn and crunching all those beautiful coloured leaves underfoot. You northern hemisphere folk are looking forward to the summer sun and we, down south, are anticipating a winter with more of these destructive rain storms. In a world which seems to be going crazily off kilter I hope you find a book in this list to escape into and give you some relief. Reading is such a sanity saver. Stay safe everyone.

URGENT DEADLINES again this month

Number 17 I am dubious about. If anyone else prefers not to see that type of cover and isn't interested in this type of fantasy please let me know. I do know a couple of you like it which is why it's included today but not if others object..

URGENT DEADLINES BEWARE

URGENT DEADLINES again this month. WATCH FOR numbers 18, 19 and 22, dates, 8^thand 11th

APRIL BOOKS

HISTORICAL FICTION

1

Action and Adventure KU

17 BOOKS

2

This is an Author colleague's Amazon book page.

Annie Douglass Lima's stories are mainly historical or historical fantasy.3

3

A Booksweeps giveaway

Be quick as it is finishing soon .

GIVEAWAY

4

Irina And The Sweatshop

solo free

5

A real mix of genres of historical fiction

19 books

FREE

6

Another mix of historical genres

10 books FREE

7

Travel Back in Time

12 books on SALE

8

12 Historical novels mainly Viking era

3.99 or less

9

Interesting span of historical times here

9 FREE novels

10

All genres, all short stories, all quick reads.

117stories FREE

11

If you like short stories this author writes them and puts them out on her website for free.

Stella Perrott's pleasant reads.

12

Many genres of books about Characters with Secrets

46 books FREE

13

Start a New Series for Under $5

A collection of first in a series books

12 Special Offer books UNDER $5

14

Here are 2 heartfelt books which look at the damage organised religions can do

Written to disturb, provoke, and stay with you, these two authors invite you to look behind the curtain of belief and dive into the dark world of The Deus Deceptor.

2 books FREE

15

LAST MINUTE ADDITIONS

16

Some colleagues have just asked me to add these bookfunel all genre promotions

They are a mix of Free, and Bargain and Sale books. Click to find out.

Entera Reader Wonderland

125 books

AND

15 Audio books

ROMANCE AND ROMANTASY

17

Paranormal and urban fantasy

Yes well! The covers seem a bit weird to me but I don't read this genre.

100 BOOKS are FREE

18

S.F. and FAIRY TALES and FANTASY

19

The Eighth Dwarf

This one amused me. What if there were 8 dwarves not seven? And number 8 was feeling tetchy?

SOLO COPY

New Beginnings &Bright New Woo-niverse Giveaways: Supernatural, Paranormal, Fantasy,S-F, Magical Realism

April 11 79 for FREE

URGENT

21

Get these books fast! This promotion ends April 11th, 2026!

URGENT

Born of Smoke with Dragons

April11th 17 BARGAIN books

URGENT

22

HORROR CRIME MYSTERY GHOST/SPOOKY STUFF

23

Magic in this witch’s family has a name: Trouble

A paranormal cosy mystery!

I promised the author I'd pop this book in my newsletter.

FREE

24

URGENT April 8th

The Fiction Giveaway Extravaganza!

44 creepy books for FREE

25

Sleepless Nights, Dark Secrets Unforgettable Twists

56 spooky and creepy books FREE

26

Gods. Monsters.Magic.

Book 1 in a completed series perfect for fans of Greek mythology and dark YA fantasy.

FREE

27

21 books for FREE

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REVIEWS

NOVELS NEEDING a kind word.

Reviews Please if you would be so kind:

29

Arc Readers Wanted

an interesting mix of genres

39 books desperate for reviews.

30

A collection of 16 books mainly historical,

Begging for reviews please

31

Books That Are Experimental

not the usual novels here.

FREE for a review

Whoever asked for limfic publisher again. Here is their website.

Plenty of free books in many genres if you spend time searching them out

As ever happy reading and do enjoy your Easter break with a good book.

 p.d.r. lindsay



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