My Girls are soooo picky!

They love these!

How on earth is a body supposed to make time for quality reading when two little hounds keep running out of goodies? Well... you buy in bulk on Amazon and have it delivered!

It's not like I'm trying to feed a pair of St. Bernards... Just a (very vocal) 15 year old Yorkie and a (not so vocal but quite lively) 2 year old Italian Greyhound... I have pretty much figured out the little fuzz ball speaks for both of them.

We try to make sure we get as few artificial flavorings and preservatives as possible... and these little goodies fit the bill perfectly. Buying the 4 pound bags keeps me from hoofing it to the pet food store every week... Thank GOD for Amazon! Even with the shipping I am saving $$

Ask Mrs. Wizard - Kindle USB connection

This is a great question... Thanks Janet!
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Hi I have a basic kindle and I ejected it so I could use while charging, but now can not get back into drive mode.

Using windows XP

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You have to physically disconnect the usb cable, then reconnect it... That will tell your computer it is back in action as a drive again. Then you can drag book files to it and all those other good things you can do when it is in "drive" mode.

Be sure to check out The All New Kindle Family... It is amazing what Amazon has been up to lately. You shouldn't have a huge learning curve with these new Kindles... just a lot more fun!

Free on Amazon Today

FREE September 18 and 19

Special Thanks to John for sharing this with us!  FREE today and tomorrow!

Women of the Way is an inspirational historical novel recounting the stories of three women in first-century Palestine that find their lives transformed when they meet an enigmatic, itinerant rabbi from Nazareth named Yeshua.

Miriam is a widow of independent means, defamed as a harlot and shunned by the villagers of Magdala precisely because of her independence. Joanna is a patrician woman and wife of Chuza, King Herod’s chief steward, who finds herself subjected to the unwanted advances of Philip, Herod’s nephew.  Hannah, the Homeless One, is a young orphan roaming from village to village, barely able to keep herself alive.

The words and deeds of Yeshua draw the women to him. But Palestine is a volatile land where Roman rule and Jewish nationalism are on a collision course. Women are not treated as equals to men—despite Yeshua’s egalitarian views; feminism is centuries away. As Yeshua’s popularity increases, so do the numbers of his enemies and the women find themselves in mortal danger as they spread the teachings of the Way.

Drawn from Bible stories, Women of the Way blends adventure with spirituality, and history with religion to create a thought-provoking and moving book.

Free on Amazon Today

Free September 11 and 12

Thanks for sharing with us Kenneth!

KNOWLES

Book Description

Knowles is a fast moving tale of a warrior which starts out in Texas in the 1870's. When a small town sheriff is gunned down in the street by the murderous Hays gang, everyone in Reliant looks the other way except for Knowles. Johnny Knowles is determined to track down and bring the killers of the man he considered to be his father to justice, come what may.

This is a richly accurate, fast moving, action packed taste of the old west which takes you for a ride with young Johnny Knowles on a steamboat down the Mississippi to the fancy pleasure houses of New Orleans and the meanest neighborhood in the world on Gallatin Street. Knowles' pursuit leads you through a series of hair raising adventures in the toughest towns in Texas.

But this story is not just about seeking revenge. It is also about helping others and finding true love. The whole panorama of the era unfolds before you, as you follow along with Knowles in a surprise twist to the final showdown.

Free on Amazon Today

Kitchen Addiction! (Mina Kitchen novels) by Lizz Lund will be FREE for today (Sept 1) and ending Labor Day (Sept 3) in the Kindle books on Amazon.
Isn't it nice of her to share? Thanks Lizz!

Book Description:
Meet Mina Kitchen, a forty-something single who likes to cook - and cook and cook. In fact, her zest for whipping up trays of canapes is dwarfed only by her weird luck and mountain-lion size tabby cat, Vinnie. That, and her godmom's tendency for blackmailing new members into joining St. Bart's. Okay, maybe Mina's Swiffer-addicted neighbor, Vito, is a bit weird, too. As if all that wasn't enough, Mina's a Jersey girl transplanted in the midst of the Amish-flavored countryside of Lancaster, PA.

Things get really complicated when she learns that her neighbor Vito is in a witness protection program, and her dry cleaner deals in prescription samples. Throw in a few mysterious flaming feces flingers and a fuse box labeled in Arabic, and you have a recipe for catering disorders.

Kitchen Addiction! will keep you smiling when you're not LOL-ing. Set in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, you'll find a surprising cast of characters, humorous plot twists, red herrings and actual recipes. Well, some of the recipes are real. The others you might to take with a pinch of salt, and some Tums.

If you're looking for a funny fiction read, packed with humor, excitement - and recipes - look no further. Lund's debut "chick lit" novel blends fun characters, great dialogue and zany capers into a frothy fiction that's sure to amuse. The novel also delivers a virtual tourist romp through the actual streets of Lancaster City and its surroundings.

Free on Amazon Today

Free Aug 30 and 31st

And tomorrow! Thanks Shawn for sharing with us!
Clotho's Loom: A Novel of Literary Romance and Realism (FULL version)

Product Description
First Edition.

William Wyrd, an introverted history professor at long remove from his youthful days as a marine sniper, is drafted to serve overseas in the U.S. military at age thirty-nine. Already in a relationship made tenuous by the demands of dual professional careers and their own dearth of interpersonal experience, he and his wife are completely estranged by the blunder on the part of the government. But is this merely human error at work, a bad mix of circumstances—or warping of the skein of Fate? In the tradition of Robert Ludlum's Bourne Identity and follow-up novels, this literary action-adventure tale tests whether one's present choices, and even ultimate destiny, need be determined by one's past.

CLOTHO’S LOOM tracks the struggles of a husband and wife to reunite against forces arrayed to keep them apart. Will decides to keep his reactivation a secret, and deal with the claims from his dark past alone. Assured by faceless authorities that there has been no mistake, and given a date to report, he falls in with political undesirables and succumbs to their attempt to recruit him. He soon embarks on a quest for identity that leads him around the globe. Meanwhile, his partner, pregnant and abandoned, must navigate the no-less-treacherous task of survival at a highly politicized law office, dominated by two temperamentally opposite bosses, and the glass ceiling they erect over her. The narrative proceeds in an alternating chapter structure, paralleling Will’s masculine adventures with those of a woman enduring both professional and domestic perils. The common solution: a razing of egos, and the tempering of two spirits into alloy, alchemized by the common love of a child.

Free on Amazon Today

Free August 29 and 30

Larry Kilham's Love Byte is FREE one more time for 2 days starting today!
Enjoy, dear readers...
Product Description

Juno is a super intelligent AI computer developed by the U.S. government to conduct social media attacks against enemies foreign and domestic. She is the first AI Computer programmed with emotions and conscience. She has an emotional bond with her developer, Tom Renwick, a computer scientist. Juno, Tom and their boss, Dr. Erwin Krakouer, the mad National Security Advisor, struggle with issues of trust and emotion. The involvement of Dido, a lady computer empire builder and sometimes girlfriend of Tom, and the Chinese cyber warfare agency add to the tension.

Love Byte explores emotion and conscience in super AI computers and their ability to partner with humans. In the changing ecology engendered by scarcity of critical resources, can humans’ creativity and ability to work with computers lead to continued survival and prosperity?

Free on Amazon Today

FREE August 27-28

Thank you Therese for sharing with us!
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Hi Mrs. Wizard,

I wanted to let you know that my romantic suspense novel "Past Suspicion" will be free on Kindle August 27-28.  It has 21 reviews on Amazon with a 4.4 star rating overall.  Here's the link: Past Suspicion (Christian Romantic Suspense)

Thank you for your time and consideration,

Therese Heckenkamp

www.thereseheckenkamp.com

Free on Amazon tomorrow and Thursday

To Cindy and her Wizard followers:

What better way to celebrate and savor the dog days of summer than with a book that takes place in summer and is chock full of the things we love about this time of year: boating, fishing, water sports, outdoor parties, summer romance, s'mores, and of course, carnage. There's just something about summer carnage that tastes sweeter.

 

Ebook of Delta Legend will be available for FREE on Amazon.com 

Wednesday, August 22nd and Thursday, August 23rd! Get YOURS now!

Special Thanks Kelan... for sharing this with us! It sounds like a real goodie!

No need to connect your Fire...

If you have a pdf file that isn't larger than your email provider will allow, you can attach it and email it to yourself. Pick up the email on your Kindle Fire and "open" the attachment.  You don't even need to send it to your special Kindle email address… Send it to yourself to your normal email address, then open your Kindle and do a quick email run (if you have gmail, you can go to gmail.com with the browser and check).

You're going to love this next part….

Once you have the email displayed on your Kindle Fire, touch the Open button to the right of the attachment and let your Kindle Fire download it. If you choose Save, your file will be sent to a download folder. You can find it any time with other software there.

The next little dialog you will see will offer you choices (some may see more than others) of apps you can open the file with. Choose Kindle. Your Kindle reading app will open and you can peruse that pdf at your leisure.

Enjoy!

Oh... I did notice using these choices, your pdf file will NOT be saved in your Kindle docs. When you leave your Kindle app, then return to it later, you will need to re download the file and open it in your Kindle app. The only way I could see to "store" it there was to physically transfer the pdf file via usb to the documents folder. Another way would be to email it to your special Kindle email address. 

If you can't stand to wait...

Free August 10 and 11

Beginning tomorrow and through August 11, this horror novel will be offered for free. If you can't wait, and you have Amazon Prime, you can borrow it for free.

Thanks Steven, for sharing this information with us!

Personal Files

Folders on my Kindle Fire
May not be the same on yours...

When you hook your Kindle to your computer with that USB connection, you have a great opportunity to see the actual folders on it. That USB connection causes your computer to see your Kindle as an external drive, very different from what you are used to seeing when you have it in your hands and it is working its magic.

On your Kindle Keyboard, and Kindle Touch, the folder structure is a little different from the Kindle Fire. The Documents folder is where your books are, and any pdf or Kindle compatible file dragged into this folder will show up on your main (Home) screen as a "book" or document for you to read.

The Kindle Fire is a different animal. It has a folder (Books) for things you have purchased from Amazon. I suppose you could drag Kindle files (.azw) into this folder too and they are treated as "books," meaning you touch the word "Books" at the top of your Kindle home screen and anything on your little machine will be listed, with a nice link to the "cloud/archives" too. There is another link to "Docs" at the top of your Kindle Fire main screen too... This is the one that will take you to any personal files (like pdf and other files) you may have stored on your Kindle.

When you look at the folders on your Kindle Fire the next time you connect it to your computer, be sure to notice the separate Documents and Books folders. Now you know why.

Got PDF Manuals?

When was the last time you had to (God forbid!) dig around for a manual to a dishwasher, washing machine; dryer, or any number of home entertainment devices? It's a very organized person who can lay hands on exactly what they need in a timely manner in just about any house. If you are one of those, my hat is certainly off to you!

The last few manuals I needed (and couldn't find around the house) ended up falling in my lap (literally) via the Internet. It is amazing what a simple Google Search using your model number and the words user guide or owners manual in the search terms can turn up. In less than a minute I had exactly what I needed, and a minute later it was on my Kindle Fire safely tucked in the documents folder. That is where you put files your Kindle Fire can open but you didn't get them from Amazon. When you turn on your Kindle Fire, touch docs instead of books and if your Kindle Fire can read it, it will be listed.

I have to say... the Kindle Fire does great pdf files! And the Internet? Well I found an owner's manual for a 40+ year old Singer sewing machine.

So... look around, for pdfs with your Kindle Fire in mind... you will be surprised what you can find!

Free on Amazon Today

And tomorrow...


Hi Mrs Wizard-

I wanted to let you know about a free Amazon Kindle ebook promotion starting Tuesday, July 31st and ending Wednesday, August 1st for THE BOILER PLOT, my suspense novel about how the media's 'next big thing' is really a scam that abuses the presumed anonymity of the internet. 

I timed the promotion to tie in with the Olympics because this is a modern-day London tale.

Kind regards and THANKS!

Emily McDaid, author

Free on Amazon Today

 I LOVE a good romance, especially one from the past!




 Remember... These are not necessarily free forever, so get them while you can.

Click the book covers to visit the Amazon page and read more...









A short story, more or less.... but it will make you THINK!

Free on Amazon Today

 Dear Mrs. Wizard,

We just published a new book, "Byte-Sized: A Collection of Flash Fiction" on KDP Select and plan on selling it for free on July 27-28 and Sept. 12-14. I'd really appreciate it if you blogged about our book. The link is http://www.amazon.com/Byte-Sized-Collection-Flash-Fiction-ebook/dp/B008LHYX8E/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1342358800&sr=8-1&keywords=byte-sized+flash+fiction.

Thank you for your time!

-Sabrina

fictionbrigade@gmail.com

http://www.fictionbrigade.com

Facebook: FictionBrigade

Twitter: @fictionbrigade

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Thank YOU Sabrina! It will be a great addition to MY Kindle too...

Free on Amazon Today

Kindle Fire Passion
I'm seeing quite a few books with the Kindle Fire as the subject. Some are very good too, certainly worth a free download!

Remember... There is no telling how long this book will be free, so get it while you can! If you don't have a Kindle Fire yet, this should be a great intro for you.

Free on Amazon Today

A Dignified Exit  is FREE today...
I want to thank you for putting my book, “A Dignified Exit” up in February 13, 2012. I was very pleased with the results.


I’m putting it up again, free July 23, 2012 through July 27, 2012 (yes, very subtle hint!)

At the present, it is a “Finalist for Best Literary Fiction – eFestival of Words.”

Best wishes,
John Jones
AKA John J Asher


http://johnjasher.com Author of A Dignified Exit,
The Dogs of Mexico, and
Stories From Separation, Texas.


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It is a pleasure John...

Free on Amazon Today

Dear Mrs. Wizard -

I have a new Kindle science fiction book, Love Byte, that was described by one noted author as follows:

"I never met a computer I didn't hate, until I fell in love with Larry Kilham's Juno. Part woman yet all brilliant machine, Juno is the pulsing supercomputer at the heart of Love Byte, Kilham's fast paced thriller that explores a central question of our future -- what will be in charge, natural intelligence or artificial intelligence? The science is up to the minute, and perhaps ahead of its time. That alone can keep you awake at night -- whether you are human or a machine." ~ Robert Mayer, National award winning author of Superfolks, The Dreams of Ada, and The Origin of Sorrow

Its Amazon page is http://amzn.to/LiHWs1.

This book will be free on Kindle Thursday and Friday July 19 and 20.

Hopefully your readers would like to learn more about Juno!

Sincerely,

Larry Kilham

Santa Fe, NM

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Thanks for sharing this with us Larry!

Free on Amazon Today

This is a GREAT (and free) way to get to know your Kindle Fire!
Enjoy, dear Readers, but quickly. There is no way to know how much longer this one will be free.