WOOT! Here’s the second part of our Fall in Love with New Books event. Six fabulous books for you to download, plus a Giveaway that includes a Kindle Fire and $$$. Bonus! Free gift codes for an Audible book. Sponsored by eBook Betty.
I’m just wondering this: Do you know that you can click all of the live links in a blog or newsletter, download the books and then click on the back arrow on the Left top bar and get right back to where you started? Not being a techie, it took me forever to figure that out. Now about the Giveaway. On offer a Kindle Fire and Gift Cards. Next, look at all of these wonderful books. Each is discounted or FREE for this super-sized event.
No, I wasn’t born under a rock, but I was born during the Depression which means I am not a Millennial. My kids aren’t even Millennials. What I am is O.L.D. and I’m trying to grasp artificial intelligence. An online dictionary says AI is a noun: the theory and development of computer systems able to perform tasks that normally require human intelligence, such as visual perception, speech recognition, decision-making, and translation between languages. Also, AI can drive cars–which I’m not
allowed to do, so that piqued my interest. 
Worldwide and USA events are taking up space in my heart and mind. Hurricanes Harvey and Irma have touched me, my family, good friends and many of my writer colleagues. The 8.1 earthquake in Juchitan, Mexico, an area rich in history, did not get a huge amount of coverage, And even if it did, few of us had television, radio, cell phones or Internet services to learn of it. I know of the area only through 
Well, most of us do. We indie authors are up against it. One lament I hear every single time I visit a forum or a Facebook group is: “I can’t afford _______.” Just fill in the blank. Some of us lie to ourselves because we don’t want to afford those services. And gosh, it sounds just fine to plead poverty. Gives the image of the struggling author living in a cold-water garret suffering for his craft. Some consider publishing a book an adventure. “Hey, if I make a little money on the side, great. If not, I’m in the groove. I’m a published author.” Chatting that up on a first date, or with the carpool mommies, or at cocktail parties has more cachet than saying, “I work at Walmart.” 
