Free is a good thing! Thanks, Amazon!

 

 

www.amazon.com/author/janellehooper

 

 

Hello!

 

Every once in a while, I like to remind my readers that, if they are an Amazon Prime member, they can borrow some of my Kindle books and my Kindle article for free! Here's the list of items available for a free loan:

 

A Three-Turtle Summer (novel, #1 in my Turtle Trilogy)

Free Pecan Pie and Other Chick Stories (mixed genre)

As Brown As I Want: The Indianhead Diaries (novel, #2 in my Turtle Trilogy)

Surviving Arthritis, How to live on a Rocky Beach (article)

If you're not familiar with Amazon Prime, it's a feature that allows you to pay a yearly fee and get free shipping on your books and music. They lose money on me. Amazon Prime members can also stream a lot of TV shows for free. But wait! There's more! I just don't know for sure what it is...I am not really a technical person. I'm still looking for the coffee button on my keyboard.

 

I hope you're having a wonderful summer. Happy reading!

Janelle

 

 

 

 



As Brown As I Want: The Indianhead Diaries

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Back cover...

The summer of 1952, Lawton, Oklahoma… Eight-year-old Glory has a father who’s taken out a $50,000 accidental death insurance policy on her—now he’s spending the summer trying to collect.

In his first attempt, he throws Glory to the snakes, but a giant alligator snapping turtle scares the snakes away.

Glory writes in her diary: Well, Powwow Pete drove us home to talk to Mom, but we didn’t get very far. Mom thinks I just have a wild imagination. At least Powwow Pete believes me. I think it was the turtle that killed it for Mom

“How could there be a turtle that big?” she scoffed. They talked some more and Powwow Pete got kind of mad and got up to leave.

This was one of those times when a kid thinks they’re talking about a turtle, but the grown-ups are really talking about something else entirely. In this case, I think Powwow Pete was accusing Mom of still loving my dad, but he never said that, he just kept talking about the turtle. Mom was doing the same thing: talking about the turtle but meaning that she didn’t want to get messed up with some guy who was a pathologgy liar (Glory can’t spell).

1999 1st place fiction, Surrey (Canada)

2004 Oklahoma Book Award finalist

www.JanelleMerazHooper.com