Good news!

I'm going to have a free read available for you all very soon! It will be part of the free reads Samhain is doing for Valentine's Day. It features the same characters as my Samhain paranormal romance, All Fired Up, so if you've read that book, you'll get a fun peek at Alrik and Calleigh again. If you haven't read All Fired Up, this will give you a glimpse of what you've missed!

I'll keep you posted when it's live. In the mean time, you can check out some other free reads from Samhain here.

My gift to you

This free ebook was sent to me by my good friend Eva Gale and I enjoyed it so much, I wanted to share it with all of you. Take a moment and skim through it.

What Matters Now - free ebook

And now, for another ebook released by my partner in crime at Romance Divas, Jax Cassidy. Check out Brush Strokes here.

Lastly, I hope to have a free read of my own available for all of you shortly!

Free read!

My friend and fellow Fictionista is giving away a free read. Check out the first chapter here!

I'm thinking about doing a free read as part of the incentive to sign up for my newsletter. What do you think? Do you like free reads? Do you read them?

Friday Freebie

A friend of Ilona Andrew's, C.C. Finley, is giving away a free download of his book. Check it out here.

You're welcome. Let it never be said that Kristen Painter doesn't hook her friends up. Happy Friday!

Free Reads

Dear Author recently talked about the various publishers who are giving away free ebooks and wondered if the romance genre shouldn't jump on that wagon too.

The idea of free books as promotion interests me greatly. It's something I've thought about doing - although not for promotion so much as for giving my seemingly unpublishable books a new life. While I wouldn't giveaway something I thought was absolulte dreck, I might give away a book that I love but is in a sub-genre I'm probably not going to write anymore. I'd also give it away with the disclaimer that it hadn't been through professional edits.

At Romance Divas, we've been doing an annual free ereads program for two years. We usually do it around Valentine's Day. The stories offer are the author's choice. Anything goes, any heat level, any genre, any idea. They're free and with that comes a sort of freeness in the writing. More than once those free reads have resulted in a publishing contract as a result of an editor reading the story and wanting to put out an expanded version. It's an interesting event.

Anyway, what do you think about free reads as promotion? Would it interest you to read an old story of mine? (I'd like to add, it was a GH finalist.) Would you ever consider offering a free book of your own?

Bonus: Noah Lukeman (author of The First Five Pages, The Plot Thickens and A Dash of Style) has decided to make his e-book HOW TO WRITE A GREAT QUERY LETTER free, as a way to give back to the writing community. Get it here: http://www.lukeman. com/greatquery/download.htm