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The wife is sick and under orders not to leave the house, and I think she'll go insane without some new reading material. I know a few other authors in the genre, but at the pace she reads, she'll be through them by this afternoon, and she'll probably be stuck in bed for at least a week.

She's pretty bound and determined to support indie authors as a moral obligation, though she's the most quality-finicky reader I know.

Anyone got any ideas on what I can grab for her? I'd like to fill the kindle tonight when I get home from work, because I'm pretty sure she'll have made it through everything on it by then. She likes speculative fiction and science fiction a lot, but is also a huge fantasy and horror nerd. Really, she'll read anything so long as she likes the characters.

Nicolas wrote: "The wife is sick and under orders not to leave the house, and I think she'll go insane without some new reading material. I know a few other authors in the genre, but at the pace she reads, she'll ..."

If it's okay, I'd like to offer free copies (no strings attached!) of my books if she's interested. Two of them are dystopia/adventure.

If not just say and I'll delete my post and sorry for bothering you. :-D

D.D., that would be great. I'm not quite sure what she'll enjoy the most, so I'd love to provide her as much variety as possible. She needs to stop @(#*%& overdoing it the way she has been the past several months of her illness! She's a handful anyways, but especially when she's stir-crazy...

Nicolas, here is a list of indie books she might like:
Angels & Warriors: The Awakening
REd Gold by Ian Miller (Was suprised not to find it here! This is the link to amazon http://www.amazon.com/Red-Gold-ebook/...)

The Hunters

Shadow Dance, by John Harrison (Amazon link) http://www.amazon.com/dp/1480138762/r...

Those are just a couple that came to mind. Good luck!!

Nicolas wrote: "D.D., that would be great. I'm not quite sure what she'll enjoy the most, so I'd love to provide her as much variety as possible. She needs to stop @(#*%& overdoing it the way she has been the pas..."

I've just sent you a PM, Nicolas. :-D

My mum is the same when she's not very well, worst patient EVER!!!

Thanks, Heidi, I'll check those out.

D.D., I got your PM, am off to download those for her. Thanks, so much.

http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17...

Hi! Hope she's feeling better soon!
Just a suggestion - she may like 'The Artemis Effect'. It's light sci-fi, very much character based.
The link to it is: http://www.amazon.com/The-Artemis-Eff...
Hope she enjoys it!

i got some great author is she in bed for week you got paper bask for her or kindle ilove all book look for the free one and down lowd them

Nicolas wrote: "The wife is sick and under orders not to leave the house, and I think she'll go insane without some new reading material...She likes speculative fiction and science fiction a lot, but is also a huge fantasy and horror nerd. Really, she'll read anything so long as she likes the characters."

Nicolas, I have a couple of character-driven stories in the Classic-style SciFi technothrillers in The Phoenician Series.



Both are available at the Kindle Store or in all other popular formats at my Smashwords profile. The first is a novella and the second is a LONG novel but it reads quickly (so I'm told). The characters will hold her attention anyway.

WHEN MINDS COLLIDE: http://bit.ly/WMC-Smash
Can two men co-exist inside one mind? Andrew Caine and Joshua Scherrer can barely co-exist outside, on the same planet. After they're involved in a fatal car accident, the enigmatic native Phoenicians have sent someone to "help" them blend together, into a new man. Can they accept the new existence together, or will their minds collide as fatally as the car crash that killed them?

CONDITIONED RESPONSE: http://bit.ly/SW-CondResp
Over 400 years after landing on the Phoenician world, humans use artificial breeding and an oligarchical caste system of control to survive. Raif, a member of the military caste enslaved to the ruling class, was never designed to be a Proctor. His quest to find his true purpose in life intersects the secret agenda of his Councillor, Shayla, the first and only Phoenician to live among the humans.

I'm currently running a Kickstarter for Man Made Man, the new novel in the series that'll fall in between When Minds Collide and Conditioned Response.



MAN MADE MAN:
Raif's a Proctor and the first rule a Proctor learns is that Proctors don't think; they follow orders. But Raif can't stop thinking. He's different and he knows it. He was made differently. He's an aberration--or a mutation, no telling which--but he's not a mistake. His design was crafted with care. This kind of work took a lot of money. And time. And other resources. Who on the planet would have that kind of access and why would they have used it to make him like this? What's he supposed to be if not a Proctor?



Without advance orders (pledges to back the Kickstarter), I won't be able to pay the release costs for the new novel this year but hopefully I can get the project funded in the next 3 weeks. I just started it this past weekend and have been writing like crazy. That's all the easy part. The time-consuming, expensive part is getting the book as polished and well-edited as the first two!

Hope your wife feels better, Nicolas. Thanks for soliciting SciFi books :) The traditional publishers claim no one wants to read them anymore but I knew that wasn't true!

-Friday
@phoenicianbooks

How is your wife feeling now?

Thanks for checking in, Heidi. She's the same,and will be taking it easy a bit longer, until she can see a specialist. They don't want to risk any damage. She's a spitfire right now, doesn't like being trapped at home.

I grabbed 10-20 different things from peoples recommendations, and she's really enjoying them, so far. It's certainly helped calm her down a bit. We're waiting for things to go back to normal, though. I'm trying to keep an eye out for new recommendations for when she runs through these, and have been noting down all the new ones, since the first batch I downloaded.

Thanks, guys!

I can sympathize with her, I hate being trapped in bed. It has happened a couple of times over the years due to sciatica, and books were the only thing that appeased me as well... oh, and good pain meds, of course!

I hope everything gets better and the doctors can figure out what is going on. Take care!!

Nicolas wrote: "The wife is sick and under orders not to leave the house, and I think she'll go insane without some new reading material. I know a few other authors in the genre, but at the pace she reads, she'll ..."

Hi Nicholas,

I had an operation a few months ago and was restricted to my bed so I completely understand how your wife feels but I hope it's nothing too painful and hope she recovers quickly.

If it's OK, do you mind if I recommend one of my own Fantasy novella's?

It's called, The Orcus Games: Blood Moon and it's a prequel novella to the first full YA novel I published at Christmas called, Split Blood: The Ancient Codex - Part One.

The Orcus Games: Blood Moon is a fantasy novella about a witch and wizard couple, rogue werewolf and tortured new vampire, who get thrown into, The Orcus Games due to crimes they are supposed to have committed.

Each character has an individual magical story and we get to know there background before finding out how they all get thrown together in the end.

The 2nd novella in this trilogy is currently in the 2nd day of it's 3 FREE day promotion on Kindle, so if she enjoys the 1st book, she can currently get the 2nd for FREE!

So I hope she takes a look at them and I hope they cure a bit of her boredom and hopes she gets better soon :)

Just finished reading by Julia Crane and I totally recommend it. It was a fantastic read!

Lost Things Both of these authors are commercially published, but this is their break-out indie novel / series that traditional publishers did not want. I love it.