Call for Book Reviews on Treating Murder

Please check out Treating Murder: Book One of the Veronica Lane, M.D. series (medical thriller) , and give me a positive review online. Reviews are very important for a debut novelist like myself to let others know about the book. Did I mention FREE? It's free today, so you get to read a good book, and I get to receive a good review!

Instructions for posting reviews on amazon.
To review (after reading) Make sure that you are signed in. Then on the right next to the search bar it will say Hello (your name) and give you a menu. Click on the first one. Surprisingly named YOUR ACCOUNT again. Then, you have to go to the last topic on YOUR ACCOUNT page-- PERSONALIZATION, and click REVIEW YOUR PURCHASES under the COMMUNITY heading. 

 Thanks in advance. \

 Gab

Optimism and free books

I am an eternal optimist. I expect people and events to work out well, regardless of my past experiences. Therefore, in the sincere hope that amazon has gotten everything sorted, I am advertising Treating Murder: Book One of the Veronica Lane, M.D. series (medical thriller) for free for 1 day. October 16.Check it out, and let me know how it goes.
Gab

Boo Amazon!

I apologize to all of my supporters, and to all of the wonderful websites who work so hard to promote indie authors. The three advertised and scheduled free days for Treating Murder were interrupted not once but twice.

The short version of events is this:
(Keep in mind that the independent publishing branch of amazon does not accept phone calls, so all communications with them is via email, with a different representative each time, and approximately 24 hours between replies. This obviously leads to confusion and delay.)
October 2 was missed because of miscellaneous other corporate snafus that are not entirely on amazon. We'll give them a pass on that.
October 3 we were up and running, only one day late! Hooray!
Then, due to the above email situation, I awoke October 4, the last scheduled promotional day, to find that Treating Murder was again off promotion. I urgently emailed, and called the regular amazon customer service line to fix this while people were expecting to find it available for free. No go.

So again, I apologize that I was unable to have Treating Murder available free as scheduled. I will set up another promotion soon.

Free kindle ebook today and tomorrow

Treating Murder is available here Treating Murder: Book One of the Veronica Lane, M.D. series (medical thriller) for free October 3 and 4.

Amazon Kindle select promotion FREE days

Treating Murder, kindle version, is available October 3 and 4 for FREE. For those of you who were expecting it to also be free today, I apologize. Due to circumstances in the control of various mega-corporations, that was cancelled. But 24 hours of additional anticipation is always to the good, right? Remember the old ketchup commercials? Anticipation is making you wait... No? You're too young to remember ketchup in glass bottles? Oh, yeah, so am I. Um, I forgot. LOL. Just a little humor for the day. Like the bumper sticker says. If life sends you one step backward every time you move one step forward, just do the cha-cha. Go. Read. Enjoy! Gab

Update

 I hope that you all remembered your Women in Business yesterday. If not, go say something nice today.

The Veronica Lane website has been updated. Check it out. http://www.veronicalanemd.com/

Duck Dynasty

I am bound to write something about getting back to the land, especially farming, one of these days. It's something I love. I believe in backyard chickens for fresh eggs, and home gardening, even if it is just a few vegetables in your flowerbed. Do what you can.
But Duck Dynasty? What is that about? I'm not knocking it, it's one of my favorite shows. But I'm not known for going with the popular vote, and it is popular. Wildly popular. You can't drive down the road anymore without seeing signs outside of stores advertising their Duck Dynasty merchandise within.  For that matter, I don't know that I saw nearly so many Twilight/Team Edward merchandisers. Someone asked me the other day to just imagine how many Willie Robertsons there will be for Halloween this year. Wow.
So what is it about them? Where is the appeal? Why is my son running around with a 4 inch wide bandana on his head?
It's a reality show, but there are plenty of others. It's humorous, ditto. So what, then? Why are people watching a show that makes fun of smart phones and the internet age that we rely so heavily upon? It surely isn't so that we can watch whatever gross creature they've just found. 
I think it's about an extended family that sits down together around a home-cooked meal every night and prays over their food. For many of us that era is in the past, and in some ways we miss it.
With the Robertsons, everyone works hard and plays hard, but they are there for each other, and at the end of the day they find time to sit down together and chill (without their smartphones).
Happy, happy, happy!