I bring you news of another indie author book giveaway, this one offering more than 70 books to download across a variety of genres.

All of them are available for no cost when you go to the Indie Author Multi-Genre Giveaway. This all happens via the InstaFreebie portal when you click on the book cover or covers of your choice. The relevant author is offering you a book in return for you joining his or her mailing list.

As is always the case, you can unsubscribe from mailing lists any time you want. The books are still free and yours to keep.

It’s pretty easy — when you click on the link to go to the portal, you’ll find books listed under genre, including science fiction, fantasy, paranormal romance, suspense/thriller, contemporary romance, young adult (YA) and urban fiction.

I have to admit, I’ve never heard of that last genre (perhaps someone can enlighten me).

There is no hidden catch with these giveaways – this is us indie authors trying to find new readers. Feel free to mention the giveaway to anyone you think will be interested. It’s up and running until November 16.

 

 

Fancy a bunch of great science fiction books for free? This week I’m partnering with a group of fellow sci-fi authors and we’re all giving books away. If you’re reading this, you probably already have Sleeping Gods, but do yourself a favour and check out what else is on offer here. Click on the FREE BOOKS graphic (above) to visit our joint promotional site (hosted by author Dean Wilson).

Once you’re there, you just click on the book or books you want (there are no limits). Join the relevant author’s Reader List and you get to download their book for free. As always, you’re free to unsubscribe at any time.

The promotion period officially begins on October 12, but the site went live early, so go for it.

Reading and writing is a symbiotic relationship — we need each other. This is all about us writers finding new readers. It’s a great deal, I’ve already spotted a few books I’ll be nabbing for myself.

In the process of getting my free novella Yes Houston out to people via Facebook ads, some rather interesting comments have bubbled to the surface from people who’ve seen fit to offer their own “expert” commentary.

Without doubt, my favourite was the guy who told me: “The Moon landings never happened — do your research.”

I was dumbstruck by the audacious idiocy embedded in that accusation and chose not to buy into a debate. If I had, it would have gone like this: Can you please cite what you see as credible research for this assertion? Because while I’d never go so far as to throw all conspiracy theories out with the bathwater, MY research shows the Moon landings definitely did occur.

There is simply no way on God’s blue-green Earth the Apollo missions were faked. The photographic evidence alone is overwhelming – where are those images supposed to have come from? Did NASA have some special effects lab mocking up thousands of images, many over and underexposed, breathtaking in their revelatory detail of the lunar surface? If so, someone had an incredible imagination. You simply couldn’t have made that stuff up convincingly, certainly not with 1960s technology.

Thousands of people saw the rockets take off into space. Hundreds of reporters and US Navy men saw the capsules parachuting back into the Pacific days later. Thousands of people built the rockets and the lunar landers. Loads of astronauts died, including three inside the capsule of Apollo 1.

Were those deaths also faked? Or worse, were they carried out deliberately? If so, why? The Apollo 1 disaster almost finished off the entire space program. Wouldn’t that have been the perfect time to can the whole operation if they couldn’t pull it off?

The truth, of course, is that this theory is a total crock. All involved in the space race — on both sides of the Iron Curtain — are nothing but proud of their links to one of humanity’s greatest-ever accomplishments. Which is what makes me sad about the whole suggestion. Why would anyone want to undermine that?

The plaque Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong left in the Sea of Tranquillity say it all: “We came in peace for all mankind.” Take that away, and all of us will be forced to die a little.

But here’s the kicker… the reason we never have to worry: we now have telescopes powerful enough to reveal the detail on the lunar surface at all of the Apollo landing sites. We can SEE that they’re real.

Unless the Moon itself is a fake.

I’m very happy to reveal that my novella Yes Houston There Is A Santa Claus is now on offer for free.

It’s a simple matter of clicking on a link that takes you to a handy service called BookFunnel, from where you can download the file of your choice to suit whatever e-reader device you’re using.

Yes Houston takes you to the Moon and back on a journey that reveals something remarkable on the far side as Apollo 8 astronauts Frank Borman, Jim Lovell and Bill Anders become the first humans to lay eyes on the lunar face forever turned away from Earth. The perfect place to hide?

When you click to download the book, you’ll be added to my mailing list, which will offer some further freebies down the track and help me in putting together a team of readers to help with launching future books. Click on the button below and all will be revealed.

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