Category: Death of Secrets

Here’s the Kindle Paperwhite I ordered for the mailing list raffle. Not long from now, I’ll be mailing this to the lucky winner. There’s still time to enter!

To get ready for the launch of The Prophet Conspiracy, I’m offering everyone who signs up for the Books by Bowen Greenwood e-mail list between now and November 4 a chance to win a free Kindle Paperwhite. It’s been called Amazon’s best e-reader yet.

If you might like a free Kindle, here’s all you have to do. Use the box below to sign up for the Books by Bowen Greenwood e-mail list. I won’t spam you. Here’s my privacy policy.

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To get ready for the launch of my new novel, I’m holding a raffle for a free Kindle Paperwhite from Amazon.

The Kindle Paperwhite has been called Amazon’s best Kindle ever, and it’s easy to see why:

• Store thousands of books
• Go weeks between charges
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Between now and October 23, everyone who signs up for the books by Bowen Greenwood e-mail list gets entered in a drawing for a free Kindle. So hurry up and sign up!

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Oh, and if you’re already a subscriber, just click the entry button. You’re just as eligible as everyone else!

And remember, all this is about the upcoming launch of The Prophet Conspiracy. If you’re interested, I would be honored if you’d nominate me on Amazon’s Kindle Scout program. Click this link, then click the blue “nominate me” button.

The Prophet Conspiracy has done great in the Kindle Scout voting so far. That’s entirely due to you readers and friends — thank you!

I woke up this morning to find that it had slipped out of the “hot and trending” list — the only real metric Amazon gives you by which you can measure how well you’re doing.

If you haven’t voted yet, vote!

Kindle Scout is Amazon’s “reader powered publishing” program that lets you vote on which books deserve a publishing contract with them. My other books have all done great on their own, but winning this could be a giant leap forward for my writing.

If you click this link, then click the blue “nominate me” button, you’ll be supporting The Prophet Conspiracy for a publishing contract with Amazon. At the link, you can read a sample chapter or three and decide for yourself whether the book is worthy of your vote.

Your support would honor me. I’m grateful for everyone who’s helped out so far, and for all of you who read my books and blog. Thank you!

I’m asking for your vote for my upcoming novel The Prophet Conspiracy. You can vote at this link.

The Prophet Conspiracy is entered in the Kindle Scout Program. Kindle Scout is reader-powered publishing. It’s a program where readers vote on which books should receive a publishing contract.

Check out The Prophet Conspiracy on Kindle Scout. You can read a couple sample chapters and some Q&A with me about the book. If you like what you see, please vote for it.

The Prophet Conspiracy is a terrorism thriller set in the Middle East.

Buried beneath the streets in the holy city of Jerusalem, American tourist Siobhan McLane discovers an ancient inscription hidden for a thousand years. But the past will not give up its secrets easily. Before translation can even begin, terrorists want her dead and she finds herself framed for murder. With a disgraced former government agent as her only ally, Siobhan will have to confront her own past and discover the truth about the history of the Middle East. Peace in the most volatile region on earth hinges on a thousand-year-old lie, but she’ll need all her knowledge and all her courage to survive and warn the world.

I’m asking for your vote. Thanks for your consideration!

By now, most of my friends and readers know that my forthcoming novel is called The Prophet Conspiracy.  It’s a terrorism thriller set in Israel.

What you don’t know is, I’ve entered this book into the Kindle Scout Program. What’s Kindle Scout, you ask? I’m glad you did. This is the short version:

Kindle Scout lets readers vote on which books should get published.

Authors submit their manuscripts. The audience votes. Amazon picks a few from among the top books to publish.

But Bowen, you ask, aren’t your books already published by Amazon?

Yes, in a way. My books are published through Amazon’s Kindle Direct Publishing Program. They make the book available on Kindle, I’m responsible for everything else. I do all my own marketing and publicizing.

The Kindle Scout program, on the other hand, is like advancing to the next level. If I win, Amazon will pay for all the marketing and publicizing.

And that makes a world of difference. If you’ve followed my writing, you know that my books have done well so far. A couple have made it all the way to the top of Amazon’s bestseller lists. If they can do that well with just me doing the marketing on my own, imagine  what they can do with a larger budget behind them!

Beginning on September 23, I will be asking you to vote for The Prophet Conspiracy in the Kindle Scout program. To be honest, I’m going to ask over and over. Writing has been an amazing experience for me so far. This is my chance to take one more step up the ladder. I’ll be asking for your help.

It’s only because of you all that my books have had the success they’ve had so far. I can’t wait to see how much further things go when we work together on this next step!

I’m in the middle of editing The Prophet Conspiracy right now. My editor (Sherrie Dolby-Arnoldy, by the way. If you write, hire her. She’s amazing, and works at an embarassingly-low price for how good she is.) sent the manuscript back with 5000 words worth of editors notes, so you know I had a lot of work to do.

When I do work for hire, or writing for my day job, it’s so easy to accept correction. But with my own work — especially with a novel like The Prophet Conspiracy, which is important to me and I love — it’s really hard to have every little detail nitpicked.

And yet, as a person whose job it is to communicate, I am absolutely bound by this simple fact: if someone didn’t receive the message I wanted to send, the fault is with me, not with them. If I want a message to get across, it’s MY job to make sure it’s expressed in a way that others can understand. If others don’t understand, I have not done my job.

If you’ve already signed up to be a beta reader, and you’re wondering where your free copy of The Prophet Conspiracy is, it’s coming. I just have a lot of changes to make. If you haven’t already signed up to be a beta reader, hurry up and do so! I need your help.

The Jackalope Saves the World by Sean O’Brien is a lighthearted superhero story with a heart. It makes you smile at the misadventures of a small town “nobody” and his sidekick as they adapt to the experience of sudden superpowers. I didn’t expect to have as much fun as I did.

I usually review “family friendly” fiction, so to speak. It was a bit of a surprise to be caught by a crack about joining the mile high club on the first line of the book, but then, it was a scene about newlyweds on their way to their honeymoon, so it fits. Otherwise you may occasionally find young single men talking like young single men do when there are no women around, but this is basically a pretty clean book.

The story’s progression was a little non-typical in terms of the classic three-act dramatic arc, but I’m not sure anyone but writers notices things like that. It was a fun story with characters I cared about, and that’s what mattered. I felt angry when our hero was unfairly accused or backstabbed, disappointed with him when his antics earn him trouble instead of praise, and more. In general, it’s a story that pulled me in, made me care, and entertained me.

Any time I can find suspense and action without gratuitous profanity and sex, I snap that right up. I recommend you do the same with The Jackalope Saves The World. It’s a lot of fun.

I received an electronic copy of this work for review purposes. I don’t believe that influenced y opinion of the work at all.

Wow, what a pleasant surprise!

I received an electronic copy of Dangerous Allies by Rickie Blair as part of a request for a review, and was delighted to discover that it was really enjoyable to read. Very suspenseful, very well-written, and kept me hurrying through pages.

Dangerous Allies is called a financial thriller. I was a little worried when I began that I might need a better understanding of how finance works in order to enjoy it. Readers, if you have such concerns, set them down! It was easily accessible to anyone who understands this much about high finance: People move money around on Wall Street.

It’s part of a series featuring our heroine, Ruby Delaney, AKA Ruby Danger, a fallen actor married to a financier. Like most of my own books, it can readily be described as “plot driven,” but I don’t believe most readers consider that a criticism. I think they like it — at least, this reader does.

There were a few tiny items that might pose obstacles for people who seek out books they can share with their parents without shame. But honestly they were quite small and done in a way that made it easy to accept them as part of the book. Overall, this did not rise to the level of being an issue.

I cared about the protagonist, I wanted her to succeed. I felt good about her successes. When she encountered failures, I hurried through pages to see whether and how she turned it around.

Overall, a really fun book. I recommend it without any reservations. If you like suspense, check out Dangerous Allies by Rickie Blair.

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Driven by my heightened interest in Israel since my trip there last May, I decided to check out Diamonds are for Eden by Felicia Mires. It’s the story of Natasha Kelly, a secure courier who becomes an agent for Israel’s famed foreign intelligence service, the Mossad.

The action in this novel makes me glad I read on Kindle — otherwise I’d have gotten paper cuts from turning pages so fast. The action and suspense kept me eager to see what was coming next.

No profanity, no sex, and although like most thrillers this requires a certain amount of violence, it was never handled in a way that was explicit or exploitative.

The novel is also rich with authentic details about Israel that reminded me of things I loved about the country.

If you like spies, like action, like suspense, or like Israel, definitely don’t miss Diamonds are for Eden.

My first novel, Death of Secrets, is free on Kindle today only. If you haven’t read it yet, this is your chance! Check out the technothriller that became an Amazon bestseller and earned rave reviews from government officials and privacy advocates for its warning about the surveillance state.

Kathy Kelver nearly trips over a murder victim on her way back to her dorm room late one night. In his last words, the dying man gives her stolen data about a secret project that could blow the lid off a shocking conspiracy. From the halls of Congress to the National Security Agency and beyond, Kathy must run for her life from shadowy forces who want her dead, while trying to build a relationship and hang on to her faith. The secret she’s carrying could end the right to privacy forever, if she doesn’t survive to warn the world.

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