Free books, mine and other people's!

It's that time again - Lauren Esker has a book out on Sept. 10, which means you get it for free (if you want it).



Download Not Half Badger on Bookfunnel
(It will be available until Sept. 9th.)

( Blurb under the cut )

Also, today's the several-times-a-year "Zoebub" (unrelated to Zoe Chant; it's run by Zoe York) aka Stuff Your Kindle/Ereader Day, so if you're interested in perusing their free romance book offerings, www.romancebookworms.com is the place to go. The books are only guaranteed to be free on Sept. 5, but most of them are probably free for several days around it. (I have Shadow Dragon set free on Amazon through the end of the day on Friday; there's also a not-by-me free Zoe Chant book in there.)

Spooky things

In other news, spook_me is back for another year!

I'm so glad they're still running it; this is one of my favorite seasonal events and I'll be truly sad if/when it ever stops running. (In spite of my perennial lack of ability to finish fic for it. But I have high hopes!)

Now I just need to pick my monster(s). HELP ME, FLIST HIVE MIND. I am SO TEMPTED by this year's special creatures (evil book/grimoire and pumpkinhead) but also not really convinced that they'd work all that well for Biggles. What should I inflict on them? I keep wanting to do "ghost" and then absolutely failing to manage to write it. Maybe I should request dinosaurs this year?

Signup post and list of creatures here.

An unexpected score

On my way through Anchorage enroute to Girdwood, I stopped at Title Wave, Alaska's biggest used bookstore, because how could I not (perennial check for Biggles books came up blank as usual), and picked up a few cheap books for reading material on the trip, including an old Dick Francis hardcover with a ratty dust jacket.

It wasn't until I'd read half the book and was taking off the dust jacket so the book would fit in my purse that I noticed there was something written on the flyleaf. I figured it was the usual "To Jimmy for Christmas, Aunt Maude" or whatever, until I read it and realized ...



... it's signed by the author! How cool is that?