Free short story from a romance author

Romance writer Kimolisa Mings spent April 14 promoting a free ebook, *Martine*, across Amazon, Nook, and Apple Books. (x.com) The book is listed as free on Barnes and Noble’s Nook store, where the product page says it is sold by Draft2Digital and carries a September 2, 2019 publication date. (barnesandnoble.com) Amazon’s Kindle page describes *Martine: Short Family Drama* as a 43-page English-language ebook first published on June 12, 2014. Amazon also showed it at No. 15,902 in the free Kindle store when the page was crawled yesterday. (amazon.com) Apple Books also carries *Martine*, with a separate listing under Kimolisa Mings’ catalog on Apple’s bookstore. Search results show the title available there alongside other Mings releases. (books.apple.com) The cross-store push fits a familiar independent publishing tactic: give readers a short work at no cost, then make it available on every major ebook platform instead of limiting it to one retailer. Barnes and Noble’s listing and Apple Books search results both show the book distributed beyond Amazon. (barnesandnoble.com) (books.apple.com) That matters in romance, where short reads and series sampling often serve as discovery tools. BookBub, a major ebook deals site, says free contemporary titles are added daily across major ereader platforms and sent directly to readers’ preferred stores. (bookbub.com) Mings already has a backlist spread across those storefronts. Amazon’s author page lists her catalog there, and Apple Books search results show titles including *At Last*, *More Than Friends*, and *Lovers + Friends*. (amazon.com) (books.apple.com 1) (books.apple.com 2) The book being promoted is not a new release. What changed on April 14 was the visibility push: one older short work, priced at free, pointed at readers who already trade recommendations and deals in online book communities. (x.com) (amazon.com)