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Jane is a long time romance reader whose passion is, you guessed it, reading. Jane also does not like to talk about herself in the third person, but apparently this is the way that this biography thing works (although in a true biography, someone else would be writing this blurb). Anyway, currently Jane loves urban fantasy authors Patricia Briggs and Ilona Andrews. She's really excited about this year's crop of historicals including Joanna Bourne's The Spymaster's Lady and Sherry Thomas' Private Arrangements and the upcoming Loretta Chase Her Scandalous Ways. She's looking for a good contemporary author. Email her with a recommendation! Email this author | All posts by Jane

17 comments to “Tor to Give Away Free eBooks”

1. 1	by R. February 18th, 2008 at 2:03 pm Thanks for the heads-up!

2. 2	by Ciar Cullen February 18th, 2008 at 2:19 pm I’ll bite. Thanks for the link!

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   by ジェーン(Jān) February 18th, 2008 at 2:28 pm I liked the Lindskold, though the series got weaker with each book. As for the creation museum, we north of the river just try to pretend that it doesn’t exist. Hey, if they can ignore billions of years of evolution, I can ignore a small spot in Kentucky. Thanks for the link.

4. 4	by AGJ February 18th, 2008 at 5:15 pm What format do the books come in?

5. 5	by Teddypig February 18th, 2008 at 5:43 pm Yep, I got Brandon Sanderson - Mistborn the other day. Oh and it is a non-DRM PDF format.

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   by Robin February 18th, 2008 at 7:28 pm That Creation Museum post was one of the funniest things I’ve ever read. I almost cried laughing when I read this: Let me say this much: I have to admit admiration for the pure balls-out, high-octane creationism that’s on offer here. Not for the Creation Museum that mamby-pamby weak sauce known as “Intelligent Design,” which tries to slip God by as some random designer, who just sort of got the ball rolling by accident. Screw that, pal: The Creation Museum’s God is hands on! He made every one of those animals from the damn mud and he did it no earlier than 4004 BC, or thereabouts. It’s all there in the book, son, all you have to do is look. Indeed, every single thing on display in the Creation Museum is either caused by or a consequence of exactly three things: 1. The six-day creation; 2. Adam eating from the tree of life; 3. Noah’s flood. Really, that’s it. That’s the Holy Trinity of explanations and rationalizations. And thus we learn fascinating things. Did you know, for example, that Adam is responsible not only for the fall of man, but also for the creation of venom? It didn’t exist in the Garden of Eden, because, well. Why would it? Weeds? Adam’s fault. Carnivorous animals (and, one assumes, the occasional carnivorous plant)? Adam again. Entropy? You guessed it: Adam. Think about that, won’t you; eat one piece of fruit and suddenly you’re responsible for the inevitable heat death of the universe. God’s kind of mean. OMG this totally made me want to read his book!

7. 7	by ジェーン(Jān) February 18th, 2008 at 8:17 pm Hey Robin, at least they got one thing right: It’s always the mans fault. ;D

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   by Robin February 18th, 2008 at 9:12 pm Hey Robin, at least they got one thing right: It’s always the mans fault. ;D LOL! I guess I should be grateful they didn’t blame it all on Eve — like everyone else does. Although I know there’s an insult to Eve built in there, too (i.e. she was Adam’s little head), so . . .

9. 9	by Jane February 18th, 2008 at 10:39 pm I wrote an email and asked but haven’t yet received a response.

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    by Jennie February 19th, 2008 at 12:02 am The first free book is Brandon Sanderson’s Mistborn, a fantasy with romantic elements. It was quite good. I think the next free book is Scalzi’s Old Man’s War, which is a fun, fast-paced space opera. IIRC it’s written in first person, a quite unreliable POV (i.e. don’t think Scalzi’s politics are represented in this book). He’s a reliably entertaining author. I also read Scalzi’s blog every day. Today’s rant on Andrew Burt, who wants to be SFWA’s next president, is priceless. And yeah, his writeup of his visit to the Creation Museum and the contest for funniest captions for his pics was loads of fun.

11. 11	by R. February 19th, 2008 at 4:29 pm Jane, I’ve also yet to receive a response,… Was it my breath??

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    by Jules Jones February 20th, 2008 at 8:04 am The sign-up has been a bit erratic. It’s been overloaded on occasion to the point where it wasn’t working at all; and when I signed up last week, I think it took three days before I got the email acknowledgement. But I did get my link to a DRM-free pdf of Mistborn shortly after that. I’ve spent too much time staring at my monitor for other purposes this week to try reading it, though.

13. 13	by Jia February 22nd, 2008 at 5:31 am I just got the link to John Scalzi’s book. Three formats this time: PDF, HTML & Mobi.

14. 14	by Radish February 22nd, 2008 at 12:21 pm Yay!! Got mine, too — :)

15. 15	by Jules Jones February 22nd, 2008 at 4:43 pm Got mine, and read it this afternoon. All of it. I wasn’t planning to even start it today, but I saw one page while I was checking that it had downloaded properly, and it hooked me..

16. 16	by bw April 21st, 2008 at 9:56 am Thanks for the info, I especially found it interesting, keep the good job you are doing!

17. 17	by Free Ebooks May 1st, 2008 at 3:58 am This is a good move from Tor. Highly appreciated.