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6 Days of Christmas Left! Get Your Gift Now!

6 Days of Christmas Left – What do I mean? I mean I’ll give away six more ebooks. Join now to get yours! I have a drawing daily for new subscribers!

Just click on the next image:

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The three ebooks I’m giving away. Which will you win?

6 Days of Christmas Left – How does this work?

Simple: One: Click and subscribe to my news letter and you’ll be entered into my drawing with all the new subscribers.

Two: If you want a free book for sure, then write a review of one of my books on Amazon or Goodreads. Then send me the review, and I’ll send you the ebook of your choice!

A third way of getting free books is to remain on my newsletter list. I have two drawings for free books every month. But first make sure you’ve subscribed.

6 Days of Christmas Left – 6 Fun Links

My first fun link, an interview of me by author JC Steel. I love this next interview! Let me know what you think in the comments below or send me an email.

Second Fun Link

Here you go! How would you even categorize this one? Let me know in your comments. As always, the best comment gets a free ebook! So start writing now.

Link 3 is . . .

Next we have story fuel for you writers out there! Write a story of any length on this image and get an ebook from me!

Behind Door Number 4

Then there are a lot of space-related links! Here’s one of them. What would you write on the back of this postcard from Mars, the next time you are there?

On the Fifth Day of Christmas, Andy Zach Linked to me,

A zombie virus cure! What’ll they think of next?

Don’t believe me? Then check out this preview of My Undead Mother-in-law.

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On the Sixth Day of Christmas, Andy Zach gave to me . . .

A previously unseen picture of Andy Zach!

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Developing Your Plot – from Author Andy Zach

Free Plotting Lessons Second

‘Developing Your Plot’ is a class I wrote and taught eight years ago. Now you get to learn it all for free, with the new things I’ve learned in the past eight years and through ten self-published books. I’ll give YOU Free Plotting Lessons right now in this blog post, right from the class.

Developing Your Plot – Cast of Characters

First, there’s me, the teacher character,  Andy Zach. If you’re not familiar with my biography on this site, you can go to Amazon, Square, or to Goodreads and find out about me and my books.

Then there’s you, one of many student characters. What have you written? Are you writing? What will you write? Please share your plot/novel/work ideas with me and the class by commenting below.

You MUST comment to participate in this class–or I’ll send the zombie turkeys after you!

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Developing Your Plot
A crowd of zombie turkeys, on Thanksgiving. Click to read more!

That’s my big turkey stick. The carrot is, I will give a free ebook of Zombie Turkeys to one of the commenters!

Start commenting – NOW!

Developing Your Plot – Where Will You Go with Your Idea?

You’ve got your great idea for your novel. What’s next? Authors fall into a spectrum of two approaches. First, there are plotters, who plan out the plot of their book and then write to that plan. Then there are ‘pantsers’, those who sit on their pants and type away until a book emerges–or not. Then there are endless variations between the two. I’m firmly in the first group. If you want to learn the pantser approach, find another author! I can’t even imagine how I’d write that way, and I’ve got a good imagination.

Let’s take my first novel, Zombie Turkeys. I created a chapter outline of the book on my first day of writing it during NaNoMo.

Free Plotting Lessons
Developing Your Plot
Click on the Zombie Turkeys book cover to hear Andy read a free excerpt.

Read my Zombie Turkeys chapter outline:

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Get Free Books Galore! 5 ways to get free books

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Get Free Books Galore! 5 ways to get free books

How do you Get Free Books Galore? I’m going to tell you all the ways I know. Let’s start with BookSweeps:

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This wonderful promotion just gives you books from urban fantasy authors in exchange for subscribing to newsletters. This is the first way to get free books

Free Books Galore – From Kindle

Did you know Kindle lets you read books for free? That’s Kindle Unlimited. You can read up to ten books at a time, such as Zombie Turkeys.

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Click to get a free sample of Zombie Turkeys

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This is the second way to get free books. But that’s not the only way to get books for free!

Free Books Galore: Free Samples Everywhere!

Did you know every Amazon book lets you read for free?

Try it! Click on the book cover or caption below and then on the Amazon page, click on ‘Look inside’.

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By clicking on the book cover, you get a nice chapter and a half of my book.

Or you can listen to it!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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The book link takes you to the audiobook version of the My Undead Mother-in-law. Then just click the triangle by ‘Play Sample’. These free samples are the third way to get free books.

Free Books Galore: Audiobook lovers take heed!

If you love audiobooks play close attention: Amazon provides unlimited audiobooks to its Audible subscribers.

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Here’s where it gets good: if you’re cheap like I am, you can get a 30-day free trial and read all the books you want! That’s the fourth way.

The Final Solution for Free Books

Amazon has a related website called Createspace. Millions of books are available there, complete with free samples. Check this out:

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So there you have it, thrifty reader: five surefire ways to satisfy your reading urge for free!

Of course, you can also subscribe to my newsletter (Click here). Besides giving away free books every month I also give away free samples of my next book and a short story.