Action Heroine Fans discussion

In this folder please tell us about books you find that appear to contain an Action Heroine and which are free or free on Kindle Unlimited, or very, very low price. (I'm thinking 99 cents.) Perhaps if it is a book that is normally about $10 for the kindle edition, a price of $2.99 could qualify. We'll let experience be our guide.

A friend ((not connect to the author or publisher) brought to my attention: A Demon Bound, which is currently free on Amazon:
http://www.amazon.com/Demon-Bound-Imp...

The Blurb:
Samantha Martin is an imp, enjoying an extended vacation from Hel. All she wants to do is drink beer by the pool, play mischievous pranks on the humans, and get her hot neighbor in the sack. It’s a relaxing break from her infernal home, as long as she manages to avoid the angels, who won’t hesitate to execute her on sight.

But when her naughty hellhound lands her in trouble with the local werewolf pack, Sam is blackmailed into helping track and catch a killer. The steps she must take to appease the werewolves will put her right in the crosshairs of the angels. And with angels, there is no second chance.

Another recommendation from a friend, current free on KU:

The Bionics by Alicia Michaels.

Here is the GR blurb:
All I ever wanted was to be a normal girl. I had dreams of joining the ranks of the Military Police and making my family proud. But the nuclear war that laid waste to our country destroyed any hope I had of being normal ever again. They took everything away from me, including my humanity. I am now half-human, half-machine, part of the never-ending freak show that is the Restoration Project.

They hate what they created and they fear us for being powerful.

And so they hunt us, destroying our lives so that they can bury what they built. What they don’t know is this: there is a Resistance out there and The Bionics aren’t going down without a fight.

Can an author mention her book here if it's free?

Zee, we're just starting this thread. For now, I don't see a problem with an author mentioning her book(s) when free.

The general idea is that we don't want authors to pop up in every thread promoting their books. However, a mention when it is on sale seems appropriate. If the book truly does have an action heroine, and not simple a female MC.

Some authors of series permanently offer the first novel as a free e-book, hoping that readers will like it enough to purchase the later books. Two who do this, unless they've recently changed their policy, are K..W. Jeter and Percival Constantine. Jeter's , the opener for his Kim Oh series, and Constantine's and , the first novels of his Myth Hunter and Infernum series, are all freebies for Kindle, and presumably other e-book venues.

I've tried all of these for free myself, and I gave Jeter's book five stars. The Lost Continent got three from me, and I didn't finish Love and Bullets. But some other readers might like the latter better than I did! (And it doesn't cost anything to find out.)

Jon wrote: "Zee, we're just starting this thread. For now, I don't see a problem with an author mentioning her book(s) when free.

The general idea is that we don't want authors to pop up in every thread prom..."

Thanks, Jon. I don't want to step on any toes as I respect readers too much for that :)

Book 1 of my Corpus Brides espionage series is permafree on Amazon and all other retailers. Here's the cover and blurb (all the links available from the GR book page - just click the cover here)



Blurb:

Walking The Edge
The next step might be the last...

A woman without a past
Left amnesiac after an accident, Amelia Jamison’s instincts slowly rise from the depths of oblivion to question her life as the wife of a cold, manipulating and distant man. Wisps of a dream show her another man she may have known intimately, but is he a memory, or a figment of her imagination?

A man with too much information
After many aliases, today Gerard Besson is simply a police commissaire in Marseille. When a mysterious woman starts to follow him, he is suspicious. But things aren’t what they seem, and as he reluctantly gets closer to her, dredges of his painful, buried past spring to light and make him question her identity.

Each seems to have led two different lives
But neither is prepared for what awaits them when they cross the fine line between knowing your true self and that of your alter ego.

Danger is the name of the game, and as it catches up with them in the French Provence, both know they better be ready for the inevitable fall.

Another possible action heroine read, probably in the mildly erotic romance category, currently free on Amazon:
Her Secret Agent (X-Ops #1) Her Secret Agent by Paige Taylor. An into to a several book series; it appears each book has a distinct heroine, but I could be wrong about that.

http://www.amazon.com/Her-Secret-Agen...

Thanks Zee for bringing your book to our attention. As your muse permits you time, I hope you will stop back with comments and recommendations.

Jon wrote: "Thanks Zee for bringing your book to our attention. As your muse permits you time, I hope you will stop back with comments and recommendations."

Will do, Jon!

Thanks, M.H. for bringing The Girl with Ghost Eyes to our attention. I'm going to take a look.

Although not in the action heroine category, I recently read (actually, mostly listened to) and enjoyed Kay Bratt's The Scavenger's Daughters, about a very poor scavenger - cultural revolution survivor - and his wife, who adopt more that 20 homeless/abandoned young girls over the years who become their "daughters."

My sci fi novel Dakiti (I think a couple of people here in the group have read it) is currently on sale for Kindle for $0.99, and it'll be that way until February 7!

The main character, Ziva Payvan, is an assassin who ends up having to work with the brother of someone she killed. Needless to say, he's not too happy about that, but there's more to the situation than meets the eye. The two of them end up having to team up to stop a threat that could escalate to a full-scale war. It's the first book in the Ziva Payvan series.

Find it on Amazon HERE

E.J. wrote: "My sci fi novel Dakiti (I think a couple of people here in the group have read it) is currently on sale for Kindle for $0.99, and it'll be that way until February 7!

The main char..."

I'm one of the group members who've read it, and I gave it five stars! So it's no surprise that I definitely recommend it to fans of action-oriented science fiction.

At least the first two of K.F. Breene's Warrior's Chronicles books are free on KU: Chosen and Hunted :

http://www.amazon.com/Chosen-Warrior-...

http://www.amazon.com/Hunted-Warrior-...

The first book in J.A. Sutherland coming of age in the space navy story of Alexis Carew,
Into the Dark , is currently on KU. I enjoyed it.

http://www.amazon.com/Into-Dark-Alexi...

Jon, am I guessing correctly that "KU" means something like "Kindle Unlimited?" (I have a Kindle app on my PC, but I'm not very familiar with its other permutations.)

Kindle Unlimited is the service where you pay monthly and then get to read ebooks for free. I quibble that that means they're not really free since you've paid, but authors still keep posting books as 'free on KU.' Regardless Into the Dark actually is free to download at the moment, KU or not. I grabbed it.

The other thing about KU (and yes there is a fee - by memory around $10 a month) is that one can download an unlimited number of KU books a month, so long as you have no more than 10 at any one time. I take a chance on a lot more than 10 books a month, but feel free to return them quickly. If you already have 10, it asks you to return a book each time you add a KU book.

Unfortunately for authors, Amazon may have some payment arrangement with authors that a reader has to keep a book for a certain length of time to qualify of the royalty payment, which I believe is/was 29 cents. Yup, 29 cents. I could be wrong.

Zarah and Jon, thanks for that information! I remember seeing the advertising for this on Amazon's site (I just didn't remember for sure what it was called). I've never bitten on the bait. :-)

Alexis Carew sounds like an appealing heroine, and I'd be tempted to download the book myself! But I'm currently reading two long or open-ended SF action-heroine series, Ziva Payvan and Honor Harrington (the latter is a pretty close parallel to Sutherland's series), so I don't want to commit to a third one right now. I've got to start exercising some discipline where series are concerned. (Sigh!) :-(

Jon wrote: "The other thing about KU (and yes there is a fee - by memory around $10 a month) is that one can download an unlimited number of KU books a month, so long as you have no more than 10 at any one tim..."

OTOH I get a steady, if small, stream of royalties from KU lending.

I'm not quite sure where - perhaps in a non-GR group for Sci-Fi romances - and in a GR group, I saw some good mentions for this new to me author, E.G. Manetti One of her books, The Cartel: The Apprentice Volume 1, , is on sale for 99 cents (and perhaps similarly low prices in other countries. The heroine appears to be the type of woman readers in our group enjoy.
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00AGNFHJA

A bit from the blurb:
Lilian is twenty-four, well-educated, disgraced, destitute and desperate. Raised to wealth and power, her expectations of a bright future were destroyed when her father was executed for foul crimes. Her family name is erased, their cartouche melted, their property forfeit. Determined to survive and protect what remains of her family, Lilian becomes the apprentice of a powerful warrior. For three years, he will train her for a position in the Cartels. In return, Lilian will yield him absolute control of her mind and body.

Lucius Mercio is the preeminent warrior of his Cartouche, and the Cartel it dominates; the Serengeti Group. Ruthless, clever and ambitious, Lucius' wealth, influence, and power are exceeded by few within the Twelve Systems. It is not sufficient. Lucius intends to take his Cartel to unimaginable heights with the aid of Lilian's brilliance. He faces only one obstacle. Lucius must keep Lilian alive.

Publishers Note: This book contains explicit sexual content and is intended for adult audiences. A stand alone novel in series, it does not contain cliffhangers.