JULY's READERS' NEWSLETTER - lots of FREE books.

 

 My apologies for missing JUNE. here's the excuse and then JULY's newsletter and FREE ebooks.

https://preview.mailerlite.com/y2j0w6t0e9 

The JUNE apology 

Those of you who have ever been involved working with or for a large organisation will know that if the top people are a bit iffy then there will be problems. When your organisation has been working well with good leaders then the new leader had better be, at the least, okay. Alas, back in 2018, in our Anglican (Episcopalian) church we'd just lost our excellent vicar. Adjusting to the new vicar our bishop had recommended proved impossible. She was meant to be a trained vicar but couldn't find her way round our prayer book to give a proper service, was dirty, rude, unkind and a real demon from hell! Known as the Bag Lady in the town, her bullying, cruelty and abuse of parishioners was horrendous. The archbishop, Philip, and our bishop, Stephen, refused to hear genuine complaints led by the Lay Ministers, and followed up by both written and verbal detailed complaints from many parishioners. Our full church became a rapidly emptying one as our Christian outreach collapsed under her barrage of abuse. Along with a core of parishioners I stuck my neck out to try to get Andrea McDougall to work with us and save St Luke's instead of screaming that St Luke’s was hers - 'My church. My way'. Most people gave up and left, I stayed to protect our heritage church building from Andrea's attempts to remove 150 year old pews, the pulpit, and do structural damage. My charming vicar didn’t like that and on February 23rd. 2019, during the exchange of peace in our 10.30 a.m. service, she sent her favourite bully boy, David Sutton, dashing down the central aisle to grab me and bash me up whilst she hurried down the side aisle to open the big porch door, then hustle me out of the church. I was then banned from my church because, according to the vicar and her wardens (Who weren't even church on the day I was attacked.) I had attacked Sutton!!! Despite angry and furious parishioners who saw the attack and said so Bishop Steven allowed Andrea to ban me. In hospital that night the doctor and nurses registered a heart misbeat, a fibrillation, which has now grown into a malfunctioning misbeating heart. The top chambers can't pump blood properly so I am flat on my back trying to adjust to blood thinners and antibiotics in the hope that we can keep things going. My medical records pre the attack show no heart problems at all. I sent a letter to our new bishop, Anne, telling her I blamed her vicar Andrea McDougall for my damaged heart and would like an apology. Nearly two weeks later and still no response. I am not the only Anglican to be so disheartened by the thoroughly unchristian behaviour of our clergy.

JULY NEWS LETTER 

HEAPS OF FREE EBOOKS    WATCH THE EARLY JULY DEADLINES!!!!

Amazing number of book sales this month. Smashwords have their annual July sale of thousands of every sort of book - fiction and non-fiction - and Storyorigin - that large co-operative collection of authors - also have a large group sale of fiction.   

BEWARE DEADLINES and make time to go through all the offers. I will give you a reminder in the last week as I know how busy most of you are.

Do BEWARE DEADLINES! Lots of early July ones.

 

1 Smashwords Annual July Summer/Winter Sale

Now is your best chance to find my free short stories or novels, available for a promotional price at @Smashwords as part of their Annual Summer/Winter Sale! Find them and many more at https://www.smashwords.com/shelves/promos/ all month! #SWSale2025 #Smashwords

A dearth of Historical Fiction this month.

2

ROMANCE AND FANTASY

Oh, Happy Day: An All-Genre Giveaway of Stories with Weddings, Wedding Planning, or Engagements

9 FREE

3

COSY MYSTERIES

A missing wand could spell doom for all of Hidden Wood.

The Midnight Embezzlement

Amusing and suitable for YA

Deadline not specified, possibly July 12th?

FREE

BEWARE DEADLINE!

4

GENERAL FICTION

BEWARE DEADLINES

Tales About Other Lands

URGENT 

Get these books fast! This promotion ends July 14th!

19 interesting mix

FREE

5

BEWARE DEADLINE

Clean Beach Reads

Get these books fast! This promotion ends July 16th!

53 books

BARGAINS

6

URGENT DEADLINES!

I’m From Where?: An All-Genre Giveaway for Characters Who Don't Know Their Pasts or Heritage

Get these books fast! This promotion ends July 16th!

25 FREE

7

MORE DEADLINES!

Take Your pick

Get these books fast! This promotion ends July 14th!

58 FREE BOOKS

8

StoryOrigin's NEXT biggest All-Genre CLEAN giveaway ever.

Hurray, 

This promotion ends August 5th!

90 books

ALL FREE

9

Quirky and Loving It: An All-Genre Giveaway for Fun, Quirky, and Unusual Characters

Get these books fast! This promotion ends July 20th!

48 FREEBIES

10

Whispers Beneath the Peaks

An oddment of two.

Get these books fast! This promotion ends July 10th!

2 FREE

11

COLLEAGUES' BOOKS

Bridesmaid by Chance

Sweet Romance

and

Apocalypse Hero: a dark comedy

One man, one bat, one adventure.
A suburb full of the undead.
A city full of monsters.
And Dan.

FREE

and

Flygirl

The Flygirl Trilogy

by R. D. Kardon

$3.99

NEWSLETTERS

This month's Paper Lantern Historical writers newsletter with several free or bargain offers. Find it at the website.

newsletters

 and

Last Chance for that HUGE list of free books again.

 

Happy Reading

p.d.r.

 

 

 

May's millions of free ebooks for you - enjoy!

 

MAY NEWSLETTER

AGAIN!!!

My apologies for cluttering up your inbox again, but the first link didn't work for some keen readers. Thank you for letting me know. This time it should work.

 

Autumn is well on its journey to winter. Most of you will be sliding from spring into summer. I can see the first snow on the hills, you will be dreaming of the lake or sea shore. It's an upside down world.

Amazon have finally accepted that the new illustrations in Salt Run: the Heir's Last Hope are now made by a real human and not AI. Jamie Whyte has an illustrious reputation and his work shows why. I'm so pleased with the book. Mastering QR codes comes next. I think ebooks should be multimedia.

Now I am able to give the book its proper launch, and as a thank you gift, I would like to offer you all the new version at 99 cents. (usually $4.99) You all gave me your email addresses and an author without an email list of keen readers is unable to join the many book promotions which garner us all so many entertaining and free ebooks. Click on the Smashwords link Smashwords.com and use this code:T8EMW when you order the book.  

BEWARE DEADLINES

Lots of free books this month and many deadlines. Be quick. As there are so many books on offer I suggest you find a comfy spot and take a break with your favourite drink and browse the lists. Do BEWARE DEADLINES!

 

HISTORICAL FICTION

1

A Mix with Historical Fiction

Warriors for Good: An All-Genre Giveaway for Characters Who Fight for Justice or Fairness

38 free books.

DEADLINE TRY AGAIN

2

At the Tip of Your Sword

Mainly historical novels

Bargains and special offers

29 books

3

ROMANCE AND FANTASY

Romance far from home

A taste of travel

22 books

4

Escape the Urban Rat Race:

A Giveaway the Transport Readers to Another Realm

11 books  FREE

5

Quest Accepted

17 books

FREE

6

Romantic suspense

6 books

Free and BARGAIN

7

BEWARE DEADLINES!

Fantasy Series Sale

111 books  on sale

Get these books fast!

This promotion ends May 18th

BEWARE DEADLINES!

8

Fantasy & Paranormal

BEWARE DEADLINES!

April & May 2025

41 free books

Get these books fast!  May 18th

BEWARE DEADLINES!

9

YA AND CHILDREN'S BOOKS

Mid-Grade and Young Readers

Book Bonanza

13 free books

10

MG & YA fantasy

free short reads

3 books

11

CRIME AND MYSTERY

great crime reads

43 book bargains

12

BEWARE DEADLINES!

COSY MYSTERIES

75 books

May 28 

BEWARE DEADLINES!

13

BEWARE DEADLINES!

Cosy Mysteries, with or without Magic,

Giveaway of 16 books URGENT 

May 11th

BEWARE DEADLINES!  URGENT 

14

Thrilling Crime Stories

34 books

FREE

15

Follow the path to Mystery and Adventure

18 books

FREE

16

GENERAL FICTION

Good Stories

50 books

BARGAINS

17

Stories That Live Within Us

23 books

Some historicals HERE

18

BEWARE DEADLINES!

E Pluribus Unum 

A real mix of Anthologies, Box Sets, Omnibus Volumes and Collections

18 books

This promotion ends May 25th!

BEWARE DEADLINES!
19

Hurry! These Great Books are Waiting for You!

90 books

BARGAINS

20

Haunted Happenings

21 books

BARGAINS

21

Small Town Stories

24 books

BARGAINS

22

SINGLE TITLES from author colleagues

Renegade (Tin Star K9 Series Book 1

FREE

23

The Winterstone Murder

by Paul Austin Ardoin

FREE

24

Bacon, Bodyguards, and Ballistics: A Piper Sandstone Culinary Cozy Murder Mystery (Book 1) (Deep Fried Revenge)

Quite Mad!!!

REVIEWS

25

Indie authors love reviews

10 books

PLEASE

26

Let's Review & Recommend

Children's and YA books

URGENT

17 books

Go On WRITE a review

This promotion ends May 28th!

27

NEWSLETTERS

This month's Paper Lantern Historical writers newsletter with several free or bargain offers. Find it at the website.

newsletters

 and

For whoever asked for that HUGE list of free books again.

 

Happy Reading

p.d.r.

 if the links aren't working go here: 

https://preview.mailerlite.com/w1w6r0l6s6

p.d.r. lindsay's monthly newsletter with lots of FREE e-books to choose from.

APRIL NEWSLETTER Hanami. A time to enjoy the fleeting beauty of spring, especially those fragile cherry and fruit tree blossoms which open, blaze like stars, and drift apart, petal by petal, floating away. In Japan we each took our lunch time bento box of delicacies to the shiro (castle) and in the castle gardens we'd sit under the many cherry trees and my Japanese colleagues would try to compose poems about how the falling petals should remind us of the ephemeral nature of life.  BEWARE DEADLINES Lots of free books this month and many deadlines. For some reason many of the promotions end before April 30th. Be quick.   HISTORICAL FICTION 1 Historical-Fiction-for-Readers 30 books on sale BARGAINS 2 Historical Fiction a mix 51 FREE 3 Historical Fiction spring reads 33 FREE and BARGAIN 4 Historical mysteries Deadline May 1 18 FREE SINGLE HISTORICAL FICTION 5 Saving Vincent For historical fiction fans of women’s untold true stories, an early twentieth century novel about Jo van Gogh who battled the male-dominated art elite in her fifteen-year crusade to save her genius brother-in-law Vincent from obscurity. SALE 6 Dearest Gunter Gunter Schrader was left behind when his brothers went to war in 1914. Two and a half years later, he makes his way to the front, though it means leaving the young woman he loves and lying to his widowed mother. SALE 7 GENERAL FICTION In support of  my writer colleague who is promoting my book. The Forgotten Melody tells the story of a renowned musician Liam who, blinded by pride, abandoned his wife, Anna, and daughter, Claire, after achieving fame. Years later, they are unexpectedly reunited through a song he had composed long ago but never shared with the world. This heartfelt reunion allows Liam and his daughter to reclaim lost time, and together, they begin performing as a duet, captivating audiences with their music. SALE 8 Military espionage and crime 22 books FREE and BARGAIN 9 Historical Romance just for Chloe First in a series 102 BARGAINS 10 URGENT!  URGENT!  URGENT! DEADLINE  April 7th YA plus general selection 32 FREEBIES 11 URGENT!  URGENT!  URGENT! DEADLINE APRIL 12TH 32 Compelling stories SALE URGENT!  URGENT!  URGENT! 12 URGENT!  URGENT!  URGENT! DEADLINE APRIL 14TH April Reads 32 FREE  a nice mix 13 URGENT!  URGENT!  URGENT! DEADLINE APRIL 20TH  Tragedy to Triumph: FREE URGENT! 14 URGENT!  URGENT!  URGENT!  DEADLINE APRIL 27TH  April Showers 40 April reads FREE URGENT!  URGENT!  URGENT!  URGENT!  URGENT! 15 Can't Scare me tough people with tough decisions 52 freebies 16 Crime novel INN KEEPING WITH MURDER: (1st book in the Old Maids of Mercer Island mysteries. SALE 17 REVIEWS Please help us. You need reviews as much as we do. it only needs  a rating and a sentence. 18 New days new books 11 different books. FREE 19 3 quirky books. FREE 20 12 mix of novels FREE NEWSLETTERS This month's Paper Lantern Historical writers newsletter with several free or bargain offers. Find it at the website. newsletters   Happy Reading p.d.r. Writer's Choice for p.d.r. lindsay-salmon author p.d.r. lindsay | 39, Lune street. South Hill, Oamaru EMAIL ME TO CHAT AT PDRLINDSAY at SLINGSHOT.CO.NZ Website: www.pdrlindsay.co.nz and books.pdrlindsay.co.nz This email was sent to | Unsubscribe | Forward this email to a friend

MARCH NEWSLETTER - 100s of FREE Books

 

 

MARCH NEWSLETTER 

World book Day( March 6th)

International Read To Me Day (March 19)

Lots of good books to read here for these special days.

SMASHWORDS SALE ENDS MARCH 8TH

For those of you not familiar with using Smashwords (or D2D and Kobo) to buy and download your ebooks may I reassure you. They are well established and reputable. For Indie writers they are as necessary as Amazon. Amazon only sells its books via Amazon. Smashwords, D2D and Kobo not only sell our books they are distributors of our books. This means they distribute our books world wide. They place our books on Amazon if we haven't done that. They sell our books to libraries and schools around the world. They use the major online sales sites in China and India, Japan and Europe and sell our books there. For those of us writers who do not write the Amazon big three sellers of Romance, Crime and SF/Fantasy, we need all those other markets and Smashwords, D2D and Kobo put us there.

So quick! Make a visit to Smashwords and choose from the thousand of books on sale or Free.

URGENT!  URGENT!  URGENT!

SMASHWORDS SALE ENDS MARCH 8TH

Read an Ebook Week

Sale Dates: March 2 - March 8, 2025

MY BOOKS

ALL BOOKS

 

HISTORICAL FICTION

1

Wonder Lit

34 books on sale

fantasy and historical

2

The ultimate Historical Fiction giveaway.

10 FREE books

3

SINGLE HISTORICAL FICTION

4

'The Forgotten Italian Restaurant'

Italy, 1943. The girl rushes down the winding streets, tucking the handwritten menu into the wicker basket and thinking only of the code hidden on the delicate paper. Will anyone forgive her for what she’s about to do to save the man she loves?
$4.48

5

Eadgar and Coulwulf: The Pagan Revival'

In 8th-century Britain, the Anglo-Saxon Christians are expanding their influence at the expense of the retreating Pagans. King Brom of Cumbria is outraged by this destruction of his nation’s traditional culture. He gathers an army to fight back against the Christian stronghold of Northumbria. His first assault will be to pillage the monastery at Lindisfarne.

$3.62

6

Into the Breach With You: A Victorian Historical Romance (The Ladies Alpine Society Book 3)

Justine Brewer has been underestimated her entire life. Now, in Switzerland, at the foot of the Matterhorn, she has to prove that her pretty face and short stature have nothing to do with her strength and capabilities. The Ladies’ Alpine Society must acclimate to the elevation and rough conditions of the Alpine environment

$3.43

7

HISTORICAL

FREE short story

"Ulv's Jól"

by Åsli & Bakkejord

FREE

8

AUDIO

'Off-Limits-Detective'

This is meant to be a good story, the audio quality needs editing.

FREE

9

'The Train That Took You Away'

Berlin, 1938. I wipe the tears streaming down my darling son’s face, my heart shattering into a million pieces. “I promise I will find you, my love. No matter what…”
FREE AUDIO

10

ROMANTASY GIVEAWAY

For those of you asking for this new genre, especially Jennie and BB, here you are.

FREE

11

GENERAL FICTION

In support of  my writer colleagues I offer these of their books.

12 

Dana Sharp

'Sugar, Spice And Criminal Mice'

great fun especially if you like clever cats

$1.99 bargain.

13

Michael D. Young

'A Wonderful Day for a Quest',

The wizard Jackdaw has deciphered the Uppercase Prophecy, a mysterious riddle that foretells the fate of the kingdom. After reading it, he finds out that the kingdom's only hope lies in…someone. With part of the prophecy missing, it's not clear whether the kingdom’s only hope lies in a gallant knight or in a sub-assistant goatherd with a similar name.

Michael has a whacky sense of humour and it shows. Made me laugh.

FREE

14

Jane M. Bell

'Yesteryear's Ruin: A Time-Bending Historical Psychological Thriller'

Warning! Don't mess with time. A spooky thriller.

FREE

15 

URGENT!  URGENT!  URGENT!  URGENT!

International crime thrillers and the aftermath of World War II.

 This promotion ends March 9th!

7 FREE

URGENT!  URGENT!  URGENT!  URGENT!

16

Women's Fiction

5 FREEBIES

17

A Moral Hero

A choice of 50 moral stories!

BARGAIN BOOKS

18

March big Exclusive Giveaway

13 FREE

19

Classic Westerns with Grit

5 FREEBIES

20

'Under Attack (Kidnapped From Ukraine #1)'

This gripping, accessible novel by celebrated Ukrainian Canadian author Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch follows two sisters as they struggle to survive the Russian invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.

$7.99

21

REVIEWS

I know, I know, you hate writing them but - be fair - you choose books by the reviews so you need them as much as we writers do!

22

New Day New Book

12 books BEGGING for reviews

23

Indie Authors Love Reviews

13 REVIEWS PLEASE

24

"The Spinsters Resolve"

2 historical fiction novels

EASY READS

25

NEWSLETTERS

This month's Paper Lantern Historical writers newsletter with several free or bargain offers. Find it at the website.

newsletters

 

Happy Reading

p.d.r.

https://preview.mailerlite.com/h3i4k0a9e0

 

FEBRUARY NEWSLETTER free and bargain e-books

 

FEBRUARY NEWSLETTER 

Japanese Blessing Ceremony

(chasing away the demons)

Memories, such memories, surface when looking through my Japanese photographs and postcards. The sounds and scenes, the smells and scents, the tastes, all little details I need to help me write my new set of Japanese stories. So many vivid pictures from such a fascinating culture and always with the sound of the Taiko (drums.) I'll share some more of the fantastical ones.

A good collection of books for you this month. As always many are free. Keep safe in the snow and rain all you northern hemisphere folk, whilst we in the southern hemisphere have to dodge dangerous winds. Take time out with one of these books.

 

FEBRUARY'S BOOKS

Authors need to help and support each other. This month I have promised to support four colleagues and offer their books to you.

'Out of Time'

Book 1 of the Maddie and Nate Series

Life has a time limit. Love doesn’t.

M.Jacqueline Murray

and

'Mystery at Sea Edge'

a rollicking children's adventure

Jane M Bell

and

'A Fire in New Orleans'

Book 4 of the Chisholm Family Saga, an historical fiction series. If you like stories packed with real-life heroes and villains set against vibrant history, then you will love Linda Chism's sweeping tale.

and

Anyone into Pickleball?

'The Complete Guide to Pickleball for Beginners'

Here is Hilda Klein's freebie for you.

 

HISTORICAL FICTION

1

Historical Fiction

22 books

BARGAIN BOOKS

2

Pleasant Historical Mix

45 novels

BARGAIN BOOKS

3

Historical Giveaways

10 BOOKS

4

Historical War

15 BARGAINS

5

Adventures Out of Time

KU books

15 KU

6

Historical Travellers

17 varied novels

BARGAINS

SINGLE HISTORICAL FICTION

7

'Lord's Legacy' series

Six  BOOKS

8

'Uprising'

Mediaeval mayhem

BARGAIN

9

'The Shieldmaiden's Daughter'

Viking story written by a pair of Vikings!

VIKING

10

Red Horse:1642 (An Uncivil War)

BARGAIN

11

Historical Humour

FREE

12

CRIME AND ADVENTURE FICTION

13 FREE BOOKS

ACTION

SINGLE CRIME FICTION

13

'Killing Me Softly'

Meet CDI Greg Allison

SALE

14

'Sleep with One Eye Open'

boarding school mayhem!

SALE

15

'The Dragon Gate'

A fantasy thriller

FREE

GENERAL FICTION

16  DEADLINE  DEADLINE  DEADLINE

25 Days left for the offer

Travel the World

45 books

NICE MIX

17

Going on a Journey

51 books

ALL FREE

18

It's Never Too Late

10 books

BARGAIN

19

 Bookworm Bargains

62 varied genres

BARGAINS

REVIEWS

Please help!

20

'Indie Authors Love Reviews'

12 hopeful authors!

REVIEWS

21

Fiction Reviews

13 NOVELS

22

36 new collection of fantasy and cross genre plus historicals

needing reviews

TAKE A LOOK

NEWSLETTERS

23

This month's Paper Lantern Historical writers newsletter with several free or bargain offers. Find it at the website.

WEBSITE

24

REPEAT AGAIN for those of you who asked for it!

'After Dinner Conversation'

is a fascinating magazine and provider of after dinner conversations. The team also provide access via bookfunnel to a huge range of free books. FREE books.

Take a look.

25

Hello Books newsletter

NEWSLETTER

 

Happy Reading

p.d.r.

I do miss all those Taiko Japanese celebrations.