Cheap Deals | Partials, Enclave, Masque of the Red Death

I got an email yesterday from ereaderiq letting me know Dan Wells's Partials was down to $2.99. That's a great deal.



Between the Pages has some additional great ebook deals you might want to check out such as:



You can check those deals out here.

Let me know if you snag any of these deals!

Currently Reading | Rise of Nine, Gaiman, Clegg, King

What I am reading this week:

I can't believe it took me 10 days to realize The Rise of Nine had been released! While perusing blogs last Friday I came across a giveaway over at The Reader Bee for the Lorien Legacies series. I thought to myself "The Rise of Nine will be out soon at the end of... August! TODAY IS AUGUST 31!" It had been out for over a week already. I love this series hard core so I made appropriate weekend plans for myself. If you haven't read this series yet, go over to The Reader Bee and enter her giveaway for the first three books.

I'm also reading a couple of books I pulled off the shelf in August to cure a major case of book plague*. The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman and Neverland by Douglas Clegg. Both are most excellent and deserve more devotion now that summer is coming to an end.

*Book plague is when you read a book that puts you in such a huge funk you can't read anything at all.

I'll start re-reading Carrie by Stephen King in the next week for the awesome September readalong.

What are you reading this week? Do you ever get book plague? What do you do about it?

September Readalong | Carrie by Stephen King

Fun news! Midnight Book Girl and Midnyte Reader are hosting Stephen King readalongs through Fall. I can't resist a King readalong and these girls are awesome so I'm excited to join in.

The readalong choice for September is Carrie. I think Carrie might be the last King book I re-read, but I'm in for reading it again. Want to join me?

The book discussion schedule will happen as follows:

Part One: Blood Sports- Discussion post on 9.12.12, Twitter chat from 9pm EST- 11pm EST #CarrieBS

Part Two: Prom Night- Discussion post on 9.23.12, Twitter chat from 7pm EST- 9pm EST #CarrieProm

Part Three: Wreckage- Discussion post on 9.30.12, Twitter chat from 8pm EST- 10pm EST #CarrieEnd

(Twitter chats!)

We will also be reading Salem's Lot in October and Misery and/or Cycle of the Werewolf in November.

There is a sign up linky on Midnight Book Girl and Midnyte Reader's blogs or you can jump in with comments during the discussion posts.

Free Read | Collected Songs of Sonnelion by Lee Thompson

The last chapter of Lee Thompson's serial novel Collected Songs of Sonnelion was posted to the Darkfuse website today. This means for the next few weeks the entire novel will be available to read for free!

Collected Songs of Sonnelion is part of Thompson's Division Mythos. Don't fret if you haven't read any stories from his mythos yet. They have all pretty much been written and published out of chronological order. Just jump in!

In this Division Mythos novel, which is being serialized on Darkfuse's website, Red Piccirilli has known madness and magic. They’re in his blood and bound to his soul as much as love and loss are. But when his family moves to the town of Division, Pennsylvania, his father grows distant, his mother troubled, and a murderer roams the countryside.

He searches for meaning and truth while battling his own darkness and rage and despair, but corpses whisper answers the dead only share with one another.

If you have trouble viewing Collected Songs of Sonnelion on the Darkfuse site, you can also access it on Issuu.

While I'm on the subject of Lee Thompson and his Division Mythos, Beneath the Weeping Willow has been published as a stand alone short story. (It originally appeared in Shock Totem 4.) It is an awesome glimpse into the Division Mythos and Thompson's uniquely dark and imaginative writing style. It is written in second person and well worth the read.

Lots of good stuff to check out folks.

Guest Post & Giveaway | THE CALYPSO DIRECTIVE by Brian Andrews

I'm happy to welcome Brian Andrews to Book Den today! Be sure to check out the great giveaway, too!

WHO OWNS YOUR GENES?

If you answered this question "I DO" then you'd be wrong. According to US Federal Circuit Court of Appeals, your genes are owned by whichever corporation or research entity is the first to patent them. For example, a company called Myriad Genetics presently owns patents on the BRCA1 and BRCA2 breast cancer marker genes? This means if a woman wants to test if she carries the BRCA1/2 genes, she must pay whatever price Myriad Genetics demands for the gene verification test because Myriad has a monopoly on these genes.

Presently, about 25% of your person is patented. Does this bother you? It bothers me, so I wrote a novel about it.

The topic of my debut thriller, THE CALYPSO DIRECTIVE, is genetic piracy. Genetic piracy is a new phenomenon—a byproduct of our rapid technological advancement over the past two decades in both bioscience and computers. In a nutshell, genetic piracy is obtaining information encoded in another person’s DNA and profiting from this information without that person’s consent. When I first started writing the story in 2003, it required a supercomputer and millions of dollars to sequence a person’s genome. Now, it can be done for thousands of dollars and the price is falling every month. When it costs $50 to sequence a human genome and $5 to upload and store the information in “the cloud” don’t be surprised if your genome is sequenced without your permission. Now, add into the mix that unmodified genes can be patented, and the financial incentive for genetic piracy is born.

THE CALYPSO DIRECTIVE is a thriller about identity loss—except we’re not talking about a stolen credit card or a lost driver’s license. The hero of the novel, Will Foster, has had his genome hijacked and embarks on an adventure to find out why. As he struggles to recover from the ultimate form of human exploitation, he reconnects with the woman he loves, and must find the courage to defend that which he holds most dear.

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