Title: Making Do
Author: Sonny Gray
Genre: Erotica
Length: 1,700 words
Completion Time: ~7 hours
Description
While on a road trip for Spring Break, Sam and his friends have to hole up in a hotel while their car gets repaired. It's hot, it's humid, he hasn't had sex in a while, and Sam's patience is on a short fuse.
With a shortage of options, Sam does the only thing he knows to do, kick his friends out for a little 'private time'.
About The Author
Sonny writes erotica. No, let's face it, Sonny writes porn. Sonny loves to write porn. It's all about porn.
Date(s) Free: This title can be read for free with Kindle Unlimited. It is also available for free download 8/3/14 - 8/4/14.
Where to Find It
Amazon:
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00MBURN8O
Additional Comments
This challenge did what it was supposed to do. It got my butt in the chair and my fingers on the keyboard. I endeavored to stay within the 8 hours from nuts to bolts (I'm an erotica writer, sue me) and I skated in with a handful (HA, I kill me) of minutes to spare.
Title: Seeing Red
Author: Cora Buhlert
Genre: Crime
Length: 4,600 words (3,600 words + 1,000-word bonus story)
Completion Time: ~10 hours
Description
Two tales of bad relationships, angry women and murder...
SEEING RED
It was supposed to be just sex. But then Dan gradually wormed his way into Maggie’s life and into her apartment. And though Dan insists that he loves her, Maggie suspects he is far more interested in her sixty inch plasma screen.
Living together brings out the vast differences between Maggie and Dan. And so Maggie’s patience is stretched to a breaking point to a breaking point, until an argument about pasta sauce and Dan’s addiction to ketchup lead to murder...
THIRD TIME LUCKY
Hilda’s abusive husband Walter has already survived two massive heart attacks. But the third time’s a charm… or is it?
About The Author
Cora Buhlert was born and bred in North Germany, where she still lives today – after time spent in London, Singapore, Rotterdam and Mississippi. Cora holds an MA degree in English from the University of Bremen and is currently working towards her PhD. Cora has been writing, since she was a teenager, and has published stories, articles and poetry in various international magazines. When she is not writing, she works as a translator and teacher. Visit her on the web at www.corabuhlert.com or follow her on Twitter under @CoraBuhlert.
Date(s) Free: Free at XinXii from July 31 till August 9 with coupon code 8HOUR3 Also free to borrow at Scribd.
Where to Find It
Amazon:
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00LUABUWQ
B&N:
http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/seeing-red-cora-buhlert/1119960439?ean=2940149824953
Kobo:
http://store.kobobooks.com/de-DE/ebook/seeing-red-27
Apple:
https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/id899327853
XinXii:
http://www.xinxii.com/en/seeing-red-p-353975.html
Scribd:
http://de.scribd.com/book/234037800/Seeing-Red
Additional Comments
I wrote a blogpost about taking the challenge and writing the story here:
http://pegasus-pulp.com/2014/07/30/the-eight-hour-e-book-challenge-no-3-and-seeing-red/
Title: Return of the Wanderers: A Terminal Reset Random Access Memory (Terminal Reset Random Access Memories Book 1)
Author: A.E. Williams
Genre: Hard Science Fiction
Length: TBD
Completion Time: 8-10 hours
Description
An ancient alien spacecraft returns from an ages long deep-space mission to its home planet - Mars. As they traverse the Sol system, the crew discovers the devastating effects left behind from The Wave on the outer planets. They stop at Mars, and then detect that there is an interplanetary war occurring between Earth and something located on its Moon. They decide to investigate...
About The Author
A.E. Williams has a unique background of military experience, aerospace engineering and intelligence analysis.
Born near Pittsburgh, A.E. Williams is man of a mystery. As a young man, Williams served the United States government in various capacities, which he then followed with ten years as an outfitter. Williams finally retired and moved down to rural central Florida, where he ran a medium - sized tilapia farm. He did his writing at night, usually accompanied by a bottle of Maker's Mark bourbon and a large supply of Classic Dr. Pepper and ice.
Williams and his wife had one child, a boy. The mother died during childbirth from complications arising from delivery. In a tragic unfortunate turn of events, the son died in a freak accident at the age of two. He apparently had fallen into one of the fish tanks on the farm, since his body was never recovered. Williams never has remarried.
Date(s) Free: Other titles in this series can be read for free with Kindle Unlimited.
Where to Find It
Amazon:
http://www.amazon.com/Return-Wanderers-Terminal-Random-Memories-ebook/dp/B00MBSH2K0/ref=sr_1_3?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1407000120&sr=1-3&keywords=return+of+the+wanderers
Title: All An Author Needs
Author: WTF Man
Genre: Humor
Length: 3,600 words
Completion Time: ~10 hours
Description
Clyde Perkins has an idea in his mind and a gun to his head. If only he could convince the hitman that has been sent to kill him to spare a few more minutes so that he can finish off his latest masterpiece. When all attempts fail, perhaps humor in the one thing that can win over the cold-blooded assassin.
About The Author
WTF does WTF Man write? No one knows for sure.
Date(s) Free: This title can be read for free with Kindle Unlimited. It is also available for free download 8/2/14 - 8/4/14.
Where to Find It
Amazon:
http://www.amazon.com/All-Author-Needs-WTF-Man-ebook/dp/B00M9AG9EA
Additional Comments
WTF did I just write?!
Title: The Froggy-balled Prince
Author: Baron Bunghole
Genre: Erotic Humor
Length: 5,300 words
Completion Time: ~12 hours
Description
One fine evening you sit down in your favorite, cozy chair and realize that the classics got it all wrong. There's another version of The Frog-Prince--your favorite fairy tale of all time--and it's far too graphic for tender eyes or the faint of heart. And breaking the spell is far more difficult this time. Can an enchanted prince convince a princess to have raucous sex with him or will he remain a three-testicle frog forever? Well, it just so happens that one such slut is up to the task! If only the prince weren't such a schmuck...
About The Author
Baron Bunghole is a bunghole.
Is there anything more to know?
Date(s) Free: This title is available for free 8/1/14 - 8/31/14 at Smashwords. Coupon Code: EA27Y
Where to Find It
Apple:
https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/froggy-balled-prince-fairy/id898096465?mt=11
Barnes & Noble:
http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-froggy-balled-prince-baron-bunghole/1119916340
Kobo:
http://store.kobobooks.com/en-US/ebook/the-froggy-balled-prince
Smashwords:
https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/455408
Additional Comments
Apparently licking a pair of enchanted, froggy balls is forbidden on Amazon!
*Honorable Mentions*
These two works by Angry Games weren't finished in time for the July challenge and may very well be abandoned. That's a shame since one of them is a 30,000-word epic written in under eight hours. (I'd kill to have typing speed like that!) They are available for free download in case you'd like to see what he cooked up.
HENCHMAN
http://www.angrygames.com/angry/files/writing/Henchman-rough-01.mobi
THE SELF-PUBLISHING BIBLE (30,000+ words!)
http://www.angrygames.com/angry/files/writing/Self-Pub_bible-01.mobi