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Man From the Moon by Richard F. West Man From the Moon by Richard F. West June 26, 2008 $3.00 63630 words Sample 50%
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RICHARD F. WEST was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York. He majored in aeronautical engineering at The Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn. However, when English Literature was offered for the first time at the technical college, he switched majors. He and his wife, Jeanette, raised four children in Plainfield, New Jersey, where they lived for 16 years. Mr. West began writing while commuting to Manhattan, where he worked as a computer programmer and later a systems analyst. His first contemporary spy novel, Crystal Clear, was published in 1981 by Popular Library. A trio of light, easy-reading mysteries (Old Gang Of Mine (1997), As Crime Goes By (1998), Ghoul Of My Dreams (1999)) was published by The Berkley Publishing Group. These novels are centered on the unexpected adventures of people living in a Florida retirement facility. Mr. West and his wife currently reside in southwest Florida.
Of the People by Richard F. West Of the People by Richard F. West July 05, 2008 $3.00 106976 words Sample 50%
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RICHARD F. WEST was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York. He majored in aeronautical engineering at The Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn. However, when English Literature was offered for the first time at the technical college, he switched majors. He and his wife, Jeanette, raised four children in Plainfield, New Jersey, where they lived for 16 years. Mr. West began writing while commuting to Manhattan, where he worked as a computer programmer and later a systems analyst. His first contemporary spy novel, Crystal Clear, was published in 1981 by Popular Library. A trio of light, easy-reading mysteries (Old Gang Of Mine (1997), As Crime Goes By (1998), Ghoul Of My Dreams (1999)) was published by The Berkley Publishing Group. These novels are centered on the unexpected adventures of people living in a Florida retirement facility. Mr. West and his wife currently reside in southwest Florida.
Warrior by Richard F. West Warrior by Richard F. West Aug. 16, 2008 $3.00 82591 words Sample 50%
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RICHARD F. WEST was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York. He majored in aeronautical engineering at The Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn. However, when English Literature was offered for the first time at the technical college, he switched majors. He and his wife, Jeanette, raised four children in Plainfield, New Jersey, where they lived for 16 years. Mr. West began writing while commuting to Manhattan, where he worked as a computer programmer and later a systems analyst. His first contemporary spy novel, Crystal Clear, was published in 1981 by Popular Library. A trio of light, easy-reading mysteries (Old Gang Of Mine (1997), As Crime Goes By (1998), Ghoul Of My Dreams (1999)) was published by The Berkley Publishing Group. These novels are centered on the unexpected adventures of people living in a Florida retirement facility. Mr. West and his wife currently reside in southwest Florida.
Knight Gambit by Richard F. West Knight Gambit by Richard F. West Aug. 23, 2008 $3.00 100860 words Sample 50%
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RICHARD F. WEST was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York. He majored in aeronautical engineering at The Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn. However, when English Literature was offered for the first time at the technical college, he switched majors. He and his wife, Jeanette, raised four children in Plainfield, New Jersey, where they lived for 16 years. Mr. West began writing while commuting to Manhattan, where he worked as a computer programmer and later a systems analyst. His first contemporary spy novel, Crystal Clear, was published in 1981 by Popular Library. A trio of light, easy-reading mysteries (Old Gang Of Mine (1997), As Crime Goes By (1998), Ghoul Of My Dreams (1999)) was published by The Berkley Publishing Group. These novels are centered on the unexpected adventures of people living in a Florida retirement facility. Mr. West and his wife currently reside in southwest Florida.
College for Spies by zanybooks College for Spies by zanybooks Dec. 23, 2008 $3.19 51845 words Sample 20%
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Conspiracy by zanybooks Conspiracy by zanybooks Dec. 24, 2008 $3.99 59564 words Sample 20%
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San Onofre by zanybooks San Onofre by zanybooks Dec. 25, 2008 $3.49 69180 words Sample 20%
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Slaughterhouse by Michael Hertz Slaughterhouse by Michael Hertz Jan. 04, 2009 $3.95 98200 words Sample 25%
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Michael T. Hertz was born in New York City and has lived and worked in Halifax, Nova Scotia, California, Paris, Portland, Maine, and Eugene, Oregon. He worked for three years in the Paris law office of Coudert Frères, taught law at Dalhousie University Faculty of Law and at the law schools of Maine and Oregon. He practiced bankruptcy law for 27 years in California, published a law book, and wrote and published 17 lengthy articles on a variety of legal subjects. He was a foreign exchange student in Marseille at the height of the OAS reign of terror (1961-62). He resides permanently in Sechelt, British Columbia where he writes, plays jazz piano, bakes bread and makes beer and wine.
The Acid Diary by Dan Spencer The Acid Diary by Dan Spencer Jan. 14, 2009 $2.99 81229 words Sample 30%
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Dan Spencer writes novels.
The Terminal List by Curtis Jackson The Terminal List by Curtis Jackson Jan. 17, 2009 $5.95 136081 words Sample 25%
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By way of personal background, I am an accomplished Silicon Valley Technology Executive with 20 years experience, the last 15 in a senior executive capacity. I have an MBA from a top tier university and am an honors grad from the Cal State System. I have been on the senior executive staff of both public and private companies, taken companies public, sold a couple and buried one - typical technology professional background. I have often been shocked, amazed and amused with how people mistreat people, how society is not really civilized and the most effective form of personal advancement is often targeted at the expense of those closest to you. Each reader will certainly know the people terminated in The Terminal List - although their names may be unique and personal to your experiences - but they have all the same sickness. In their own selfish minds, their personal insecurities justify the destruction of others quality of life. An alter ego, Cliff Roberts found the courage in his own terminal death march, that most of us lack in life. The courage to strike back, cleverly and lethally and make the word a better place
Regent by Amanda Shepherd Regent by Amanda Shepherd Jan. 21, 2009 Free! 15582 words Read a sample
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I am a Dubbo artist and writer. I am currently studying for my Bachelor of fine arts and I love to write when I have the time. My main catergories of literature are thrillers and horror.
Resonance by AJ Scudiere Resonance by AJ Scudiere Jan. 21, 2009 $5.99 159462 words Sample 50%
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Suspense/Thriller author AJ Scudiere: I don’t think I’ve ever looked at the world in quite the same way as everyone else does. As I child, I just went with the flow, never realizing that I was looking at the world in an entirely different way. My parents knew early on that I wasn’t like the other kids, but they didn’t explain anything to me. After all, they were oddballs themselves. My Dad works in a think-tank for the government. Even I don’t really know what he does. My mother is a Lawyer. Why? Who knows? She wanted to be a housewife. My sister joined Mensa on a whim one day - there was absolutely no doubt that she would score high enough to get in. It goes all the way back to my grandparents . . . And I am considered “the weird one”. The world is a different place for me than for everyone else. Patterns pop out at me. I can tell you when the carpet in the hotel was designed specifically for their hallways. Listening to music in the car, I’ll come to the conclusion that the singer was an alcoholic, I can tell you what he drank and when he kicked the habit. Later I come to find out I’m right. My fingertips run along anything with texture. My keyboard was chosen specifically because the keys have the greatest curvature and hug your fingers. None of this is because I will it. I wasn’t concerned about the singer or the carpet. The keyboard gets rubbed like a worry-stone when I’m not writing, so it made sense to get the curviest keys. My brain is like the National Debt: you can just keep feeding it and it never gets fully satisfied. I keep hold of trivia like a steel trap. Information comes in chunks, workable 3D puzzle pieces, and stays with me, until it meets a partner somewhere in the back there. They gather buddies, and form clubs. Then they come out as a story. My brain is overly fond of creating: I particularly like to cook, dance, and paint. But I love to write. I wrote my first novel at the age of eight. (Notice that I didn’t say it was a good one.) And I have been spending evenings with my computer screen and an open Word document ever since. I went through other phases, particularly in college. But writing always found me. Again, there I was seeing the world another way, when a class was handed a writing assignment: 15 minutes, write about a bladeless knife without a handle. Others in the honors lit class described it, analyzed it, or tried to figure out just what it was. I produced a short story about a dying woman with papers to implicate the mafia hit men who had put her in the hospital. My professor refused to sign my enrollment for the next term if it didn’t include his prose poetry class. I was going to be his latest star, but I didn’t want to write poetry, I wanted to produce novels. So after several semesters of poetry courses, I pursued my own writing. While I did this I also created, edited, and published an undergraduate psychology journal. I: earned my master’s degree in bioscience, spoke in front of the American Psychology Association, apprenticed as a pastry chef, got a patent, and started a dance company. By winning awards and accomplishing things, people seem to think I am “eccentric’, ‘unique’, or ‘maverick’ rather than crazy. Those closest to me know ‘crazy’ to be a fact. But it’s a good crazy. It shows in my writing style, in the way that I view a story and can fit the whole thing together. I can link tales out of all the things I do, and the things I’ve done feed reality into the characters. Even while I write this, pieces of information are congealing in the back of my head and sewing together new plots. There’s a twenty-year-old assassin hell bent on finding the man who keeps killing her victims, a young woman whose story is told simultaneously through three different timelines in her life, and a town populated by Mensa IQ inhabitants who can’t get their own heads out of their butts. Then there’s The Bobble, a bible for those aren’t sure if they want to believe or not. The experiences have given me many threads to follow. The poetry classes shaped me, and fed me with the ability to share the odd and happy angles of my life. They have allowed me to put textures on smooth papers, so that it isn’t just the relay of the plot, but the true telling of the characters. It’s getting crowded in my brain, and the characters are fighting their way out. Lord help them, they all want homes of creamy paper and thick covers under the protection of dust jackets. They should develop a little patience. As I align the proper points of view, one by one, they’ll all be set free.
Vengeance by AJ Scudiere Vengeance by AJ Scudiere Jan. 21, 2009 $5.99 153559 words Sample 50%
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Suspense/Thriller author AJ Scudiere: I don’t think I’ve ever looked at the world in quite the same way as everyone else does. As I child, I just went with the flow, never realizing that I was looking at the world in an entirely different way. My parents knew early on that I wasn’t like the other kids, but they didn’t explain anything to me. After all, they were oddballs themselves. My Dad works in a think-tank for the government. Even I don’t really know what he does. My mother is a Lawyer. Why? Who knows? She wanted to be a housewife. My sister joined Mensa on a whim one day - there was absolutely no doubt that she would score high enough to get in. It goes all the way back to my grandparents . . . And I am considered “the weird one”. The world is a different place for me than for everyone else. Patterns pop out at me. I can tell you when the carpet in the hotel was designed specifically for their hallways. Listening to music in the car, I’ll come to the conclusion that the singer was an alcoholic, I can tell you what he drank and when he kicked the habit. Later I come to find out I’m right. My fingertips run along anything with texture. My keyboard was chosen specifically because the keys have the greatest curvature and hug your fingers. None of this is because I will it. I wasn’t concerned about the singer or the carpet. The keyboard gets rubbed like a worry-stone when I’m not writing, so it made sense to get the curviest keys. My brain is like the National Debt: you can just keep feeding it and it never gets fully satisfied. I keep hold of trivia like a steel trap. Information comes in chunks, workable 3D puzzle pieces, and stays with me, until it meets a partner somewhere in the back there. They gather buddies, and form clubs. Then they come out as a story. My brain is overly fond of creating: I particularly like to cook, dance, and paint. But I love to write. I wrote my first novel at the age of eight. (Notice that I didn’t say it was a good one.) And I have been spending evenings with my computer screen and an open Word document ever since. I went through other phases, particularly in college. But writing always found me. Again, there I was seeing the world another way, when a class was handed a writing assignment: 15 minutes, write about a bladeless knife without a handle. Others in the honors lit class described it, analyzed it, or tried to figure out just what it was. I produced a short story about a dying woman with papers to implicate the mafia hit men who had put her in the hospital. My professor refused to sign my enrollment for the next term if it didn’t include his prose poetry class. I was going to be his latest star, but I didn’t want to write poetry, I wanted to produce novels. So after several semesters of poetry courses, I pursued my own writing. While I did this I also created, edited, and published an undergraduate psychology journal. I: earned my master’s degree in bioscience, spoke in front of the American Psychology Association, apprenticed as a pastry chef, got a patent, and started a dance company. By winning awards and accomplishing things, people seem to think I am “eccentric’, ‘unique’, or ‘maverick’ rather than crazy. Those closest to me know ‘crazy’ to be a fact. But it’s a good crazy. It shows in my writing style, in the way that I view a story and can fit the whole thing together. I can link tales out of all the things I do, and the things I’ve done feed reality into the characters. Even while I write this, pieces of information are congealing in the back of my head and sewing together new plots. There’s a twenty-year-old assassin hell bent on finding the man who keeps killing her victims, a young woman whose story is told simultaneously through three different timelines in her life, and a town populated by Mensa IQ inhabitants who can’t get their own heads out of their butts. Then there’s The Bobble, a bible for those aren’t sure if they want to believe or not. The experiences have given me many threads to follow. The poetry classes shaped me, and fed me with the ability to share the odd and happy angles of my life. They have allowed me to put textures on smooth papers, so that it isn’t just the relay of the plot, but the true telling of the characters. It’s getting crowded in my brain, and the characters are fighting their way out. Lord help them, they all want homes of creamy paper and thick covers under the protection of dust jackets. They should develop a little patience. As I align the proper points of view, one by one, they’ll all be set free.
Ohiowa by T. Alex Miller Ohiowa by T. Alex Miller Jan. 21, 2009 $0.99 79756 words Sample 25%
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About the author T. Alex Miller is a graduate of the University of Colorado-Boulder creative writing program. His writing career has been spent mostly in community newspapers, although he also worked for a year in Hollywood (in development at the Sci-Fi Channel) and edited a magazine in Los Angeles (LA Family). He is currently the editor of the Summit Daily News, a newspaper in Frisco, CO. In addition to his career in journalism, Miller has been active in theatre as an actor, director and playwrights. His plays have been produced locally as well as in conjunction with the state theatre festival. They include 5 Gears in Reverse, The Adjudicators, Velociraptors and Outrageous Claims. His new novel, Ohiowa, is the culmination of a three-year project to create a larger story about the emotional state of the U.S. Believing that most of the fiction being created today with terrorism as a theme has more to do with the act itself, Miller wanted to explore what happens to ordinary people when terror enters their lives. In so doing, he chose a fictional location with which he is highly familiar – a Colorado mountain town – and situations, characters and settings with which he has firm knowledge. Miller lives in Frisco, Colorado with his wife, Jen, and their many children.
The Beneficiary by Marshall Thornton The Beneficiary by Marshall Thornton Jan. 30, 2009 $0.99 18560 words Sample 5%
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An award-winning screenwriter, playwright and author, Marshall lives in Long Beach, California. He has an MFA in screenwriting from UCLA where he won the Carl David Memorial Fellowship for his romantic-comedy, Husband Material, as well as a BA in Creative Writing from California State University at Long Beach. Marshall is the author of the gay mystery series Boystown published by Torquere Press. As of June 2011, there are three books in the series with a fourth on the way. His other books include Full Release, Desert Run and the erotic comedy, The Perils of Praline, or the Amorous Adventures of a Southern Gentleman in Hollywood.
Ten Hours to Life by Dwayne Phillips Ten Hours to Life by Dwayne Phillips Feb. 02, 2009 $0.99 1171 words Sample 33%
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A systems and computer engineer since 1980. A short story fiction writer.
Dark End of the Spectrum by Anthony S. Policastro Dark End of the Spectrum by Anthony S. Policastro Feb. 03, 2009 $2.99 116092 words Sample 50%
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Writing has been something I always did no matter where the winds of life took me. I always wrote. It could be a paragraph here or there, an idea for a new piece of technology or how I felt about a particular political situation or news event. I feel I have this voice inside that is always trying to say something, get its message out, make a difference, enlighten, entertain or just make people see things a little differently. I think everyone has a unique voice, but some choose to express theirs more than others. Mine seems to be shouting all the time. Words are powerful things – they change people for better or worse, move mountains, and cause monumental changes. Look what words did to Romeo and Juliet. Shakespeare’s words are just as powerful today as they were when he wrote them over 500 years ago. Imagine, writing something today that is so universal, so truthful, so inspiring that people still read it 500 years from now. Words have that powerful effect on us no matter where we find them, in a book, in a magazine, on a computer screen. Words are food for the mind. They make us think, imagine, dream, dance in the joy of the things we love. When I write a scene I know that each one of us who reads it will see different images, experience a different experience and have a unique feeling. This is the power of storytelling. TV or video games can never awaken our imaginations like words do when you read a story. If you choose to express your inner voice through words like I do, then all you can do is write. ________________________________________ Anthony S. Policastro has been writing all his life. The publication of his first novel is the pinnacle of his work having previously published articles in The New York Times, American Photographer and other national, regional, and local publications. Policastro was the former editor-in-chief of Carolina Style magazine, a regional lifestyle publication similar to Southern Living magazine. He was a former journalist, photographer, and webmaster. The author’s background is in technology, business intelligence, and communications. He is the former senior business analyst for Lulu.com, the largest do-it-yourself publisher in the world headquartered in Raleigh, NC. A member of the Backspace writers group, he has a Bachelor of Arts degree in Creative Writing and a BA in American Studies both from Penn State University. His short essay on “What does it mean to be an American family” won in the Borders books Gather.com contest to promote the movie and book, Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri. He currently writes a blog with Michael Neff, creator and editor of the Webdelsol and Algonkian websites, about writers’ issues called The Writer’s Edge. Policastro and Neff have been referred to as the Ebert and Roeper of the literary scene with their point/counterpoint posts. Born in New Jersey, he now lives in Raleigh, North Carolina with his wife. He has two sons and a daughter.
Awake by C.S. Vance Awake by C.S. Vance Feb. 06, 2009 Free! 2444 words Read a sample
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After the Rain by C.S. Vance After the Rain by C.S. Vance Feb. 06, 2009 Free! 2432 words Read a sample
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His Burdened Chest by Frank F. Atanacio His Burdened Chest by Frank F. Atanacio March 16, 2009 $0.99 1048 words Sample 50%
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Frank F. Atanacio was born in Hartford, Connecticut. He enjoys writing and collecting baseball cards. His passion is Mystery novels, and he does have a series of thrillers featuring Nick PT Barnum. His latest effort is Dark Clouds featuring Nick Barnum. He has two daughters, Ronnie and Laura, and a son, Frank Jr. He now resides in the Huntington section of Shelton, Connecticut
The Bones of the Forest by Rachelle Reese The Bones of the Forest by Rachelle Reese March 19, 2009 $0.99 11306 words Sample 50%
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I write technical training for programmers and network professionals. I am also a fiction writer. My husband and I have published two collections of short stories: Mind of a Mad Man (www.mindofamadman.me) and Bones of the Woods (www.bonesofthewoods.com). We also have a podcast called Shadow Realms at http://www.cyberears.com/index.php/Show/audio/5500
Threads, a Blaine Horney Mystery by Kris Karrel Threads, a Blaine Horney Mystery by Kris Karrel April 04, 2009 $0.99 97784 words Sample 20%
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Grew up in Seattle with the rest of my multiple personalities. All of us left the rain for the sunny beaches of California long before Bill Gates founded Microsoft, only to discover to our disappointment that most Californians might be even more schizo than we are. After all that rain in Seattle, and California being a wash, we naturally migrated to southern Florida, which to our way of thinking, might be the East Coast retirement version of California, just a little less schizo. Maybe. Twelve years in Florida was enough for us. After a long stint in the Texas Panhandle taught us the true meaning of wind, we high-tailed it north and west, glad to be back where mountains are typically more than six hundred feet above sea level. We hate to inform our Florida and Texas panhandle brethren of this but a highway overpass is not technically a hill. No, really. Do some research. You're the only people in the world who think so. Even Californians know better, having the Sierras in their backyard. I came to writing early on, sidetracked when the world beckoned. I dropped out of high school in my junior year, but like a friend of mine insists (or could be another personality, I'm not sure at this point), I earned a BS Degree from the School of Hard Knocks. Montana is the perfect hide out, if you like the seasons and the wildlife, the solitude. What more could a writer ask for? Just don't tell anyone. We like being the only state in the Union to have more cows than people. That's a fact, according to the Farm Bureau at any rate. You can't make this stuff up. Moo.
Soul Identity by dennis batchelder Soul Identity by dennis batchelder April 11, 2009 Free! 112200 words Read a sample
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I have been writing for ten years, and I've spent over twenty years in the computer security industry. I grew up in New England, and then lived twenty-five years in Maryland, except for a nineteen month stay in Hyderabad, India. Now I live with my wife, our three youngest sons, and my mother-in-law in Bellevue, Washington. My novel Soul Identity is half techno-thriller, half existential journey. It depicts an organization that helps you leave your money and memories to your own future life. Think about a God-less, business-based take on reincarnation--and the consequences this could cause. Soul Intent is the sequel, and it explores why people do bad things for good reasons. It's set both in Germany during the Nuremberg trials and the present day. This is an adventure tale of stealing, hiding, and recovering Nazi Gold. I also write online travel tales, which i post at www.taleblazing.com. Check them out!
Bartlett's Rule by Chelle Cordero Bartlett's Rule by Chelle Cordero April 12, 2009 $4.99 55812 words Sample 35%
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Chelle Cordero, author of eight novels,including the fabulous re-release of her debut novel, Courage of the Heart (VHP February, 2009), Final Sin (VHP May, 2009), Hostage Heart (VHP, August 2009) and A Chaunce of Riches (November 2009)and with pieces in five anthologies, regularly published by Gannett Newspapers, SPOTLIGHT Magazine, Hudson Valley Magazine, and other national magazines and regional publications. Ms. Cordero is also a partner in By-Lines, an editorial and photography company catering to the business community. She lives in the New York suburb of Stony Point with her husband of thirty-six years, and her son; her daughter and son-in-law live nearby. In her spare time, and sometimes when she has none to spare, Chelle is an avid reader and fan of Danielle Steel, Faye Kellerman, Dean Koontz, Patricia Cornwell and other popular novelists.
Lucifer's Calling by Jeffrey Martin Lucifer's Calling by Jeffrey Martin April 14, 2009 $4.99 84085 words Sample 35%
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Jeffrey Martin is currently a Federal Law Enforcement Officer in Des Moines, Iowa. Jeff’s main reason for creating this work was to entertain the readers, and have them remember this novel long after the last page is turned. He started writing at the early age of thirteen, mostly song lyrics and short stories. He stopped writing when his wife and he decided they wanted to start a full time family and Jeff could also concentrate on his Law Enforcement career. He never lost the hunger to create, but also never made a concentrated effort to work on his craft until now… Lucifer's Calling was written last year, after Jeff was injured in the line of duty. The work was completed within thirty days, and he spent about three months editing and polishing it. Jeff uses a strong Law Enforcement platform, which provides a well researched format on the story line. Jeff lives in Central Iowa with his wife and three daughters. Lucifer’s Calling is his debut novel, and Deadly Demented his second, with more to come from this author!
Barracuda by Mike Monahan Barracuda by Mike Monahan April 14, 2009 $0.99 77359 words Sample 50%
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After retiring from the NYPD, Mike Monahan worked as a Private Investigator for several years. Then he was offered a chance to work in Bosnia as part of an International Police Task Force (IPTF). As a Captain in the IPTF, Mike worked as a liaison officer with the United Nations and the various army units assigned as part of a Multi-National Peace keeping force. After a year of seeing man’s inhumanity, and the mass graves from ethnic cleansing, he returned home to PI work. Several work-related injuries finally took their toll. So, Mike turned another page in his life and became an author. Barracuda is the first of, we hope, many exciting novels.
Scarecrow by Darren G. Burton Scarecrow by Darren G. Burton April 25, 2009 $2.99 69357 words Sample 35%
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Darren G. Burton has been a writer and photographer for more than 25 years. He has written numerous full length works of fiction and non-fiction. In addition to his books, he has had many articles and short stories published in major publications.
Warm Reception by William von Reese Warm Reception by William von Reese April 25, 2009 $4.99 82847 words Sample 10%
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Advantage Disadvantage by Yale Jaffe Advantage Disadvantage by Yale Jaffe April 29, 2009 $0.99 59780 words Sample 10%
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I grew up loving the rythym, grace and beauty of well played basketball. In order to stay connected to the game long after my playing days were over, I began to referee games. I have continued to officiate high school games for over 16 years. I love the positive aspects of amatuer athletics, but despise the dark side. Many of the stories told in the book are based on actual events that I have observed. Advantage Disadvantage examines the greed, corruption and betrayal of the adults who are associated with a high school basketball prodigy. I'd like to think that the book is about the strengths, weaknesses, triumphs and failures of the characters. Secondarily, it is an expose of high school sports.
More Deaths Than One by Pat Bertram More Deaths Than One by Pat Bertram May 03, 2009 $6.99 77452 words Sample 30%
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Pat Bertram is a native of Colorado. When the traditional publishers stopped publishing her favorite type of book — character and story driven novels that can’t easily be slotted into a genre — she decided to write her own. Second Wind Publishing liked her style and published four of Bertram’s books: Light Bringer, Daughter Am I, More Deaths Than One, and A Spark of Heavenly Fire. Bertram blogs about writing and the writing life at http://ptbertram.wordpress.com.
A Spark of Heavenly Fire by Pat Bertram A Spark of Heavenly Fire by Pat Bertram May 08, 2009 $6.99 94691 words Sample 30%
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Pat Bertram is a native of Colorado. When the traditional publishers stopped publishing her favorite type of book — character and story driven novels that can’t easily be slotted into a genre — she decided to write her own. Second Wind Publishing liked her style and published four of Bertram’s books: Light Bringer, Daughter Am I, More Deaths Than One, and A Spark of Heavenly Fire. Bertram blogs about writing and the writing life at http://ptbertram.wordpress.com.
Into the Spell, A Paranormal Thriller by Norm Applegate Into the Spell, A Paranormal Thriller by Norm Applegate May 10, 2009 $0.99 53376 words Sample 10%
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Norman Applegate is an author and consultant, with a growing body of work to his credit. Born in Glasgow Scotland, growing up in Toronto Canada and now residing in Sarasota Florida with his wife Cheryl, Norm Applegate works and travels for an international consulting company, then occasionally scares the “heck” out of his family with his thoughts and writings. Bibliography: Novels * (2011) Shockwave • (2011) First to Die • (2009) Blood Bar, a vampire tale • (2007) Into the Spell • (2006) Into the Basement Short Story • (2011) Jumpers Anthologies: • (2008) From the Shadows Screenplays: • (20010) Grotto • (2009) Into the Basement (co-writer Nicholas Grabowsky) Norm’s writing began while travelling through New Zealand and Australia as a Hypno-therapist with colorful letters to his family of his tales as a hypnotist and the weirdness it attracts. His early years in Toronto were filled with aspirations of the 60’s Yorkville music scene, and as a drummer in numerous bands led to a short lived career playing the bars and clubs in the Toronto area. The band Photograph, signed to a recording studio, made some noise on the coast to coast CBC radio show, the Entertainers. In 1973 the band worked with Canadian artist & producer Tony Kosinec, (All Things Come From God), and after legal issues strangled them into submission, they went their separate ways. The band members were George Szabo and Stan Meissner, (Stan later wrote for Céline Dion, LeeAnn Womack, Eddie Money, Rita Coolidge, BJ Thomas, Ben Orr (The Cars), Triumph and Toronto). The life of drugs, sex and rock and roll were over, sad but true. After a few years of travel, he had the bug, and entered the world of management consulting to become a road warrior, and is now a 2 million miler with Delta. Away from home and with the desire to write a novel it began. His first book, “Into the Basement,” is a raw, dark thriller, described as "juicy." His second novel of the Kim Bennett series, “Into the Spell,” explores the horror of a copy-cat Son of Sam killer and hypnosis. Early 2008, Norm contributed with a short story called “Jumpers,” into the horror anthology “From the Shadows.” In 2009, Norm developed the screenplay for his novel “Into the Basement,” with Nicholas Grabowsky and director J. L. Botelho of Triad Pictures. In 2010 he released, Blood Bar, a vampire tale and wrote the screenplay for a short horror film, Grotto.
Brown Girls by John Wesley Ireland Brown Girls by John Wesley Ireland May 17, 2009 $1.99 109371 words Sample 20%
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Born in British Columbia, Canada, John Wesley Ireland is a photojournalist who has lived in several countries, including the Cook Islands. He is currently working for a newspaper in Napier, New Zealand, and writing his next novel. For more of his musings, see his blog: www.bitemymoko.wordpress.com For samples of his photos: bitemymoko.carbonmade.com Review of Brown Girls: "I highly recommend this book to anyone who likes the genres of suspense, crime drama, mystery, or just a darn amazing read by an extraordinarily gifted writer. Don’t miss this one." --Working Girl Reviews (workinggirlreviews.wordpress.com)
Into the Basement by Norm Applegate Into the Basement by Norm Applegate May 24, 2009 $1.99 70777 words Sample 10%
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Norman Applegate is an author and consultant, with a growing body of work to his credit. Born in Glasgow Scotland, growing up in Toronto Canada and now residing in Sarasota Florida with his wife Cheryl, Norm Applegate works and travels for an international consulting company, then occasionally scares the “heck” out of his family with his thoughts and writings. Bibliography: Novels * (2011) Shockwave • (2011) First to Die • (2009) Blood Bar, a vampire tale • (2007) Into the Spell • (2006) Into the Basement Short Story • (2011) Jumpers Anthologies: • (2008) From the Shadows Screenplays: • (20010) Grotto • (2009) Into the Basement (co-writer Nicholas Grabowsky) Norm’s writing began while travelling through New Zealand and Australia as a Hypno-therapist with colorful letters to his family of his tales as a hypnotist and the weirdness it attracts. His early years in Toronto were filled with aspirations of the 60’s Yorkville music scene, and as a drummer in numerous bands led to a short lived career playing the bars and clubs in the Toronto area. The band Photograph, signed to a recording studio, made some noise on the coast to coast CBC radio show, the Entertainers. In 1973 the band worked with Canadian artist & producer Tony Kosinec, (All Things Come From God), and after legal issues strangled them into submission, they went their separate ways. The band members were George Szabo and Stan Meissner, (Stan later wrote for Céline Dion, LeeAnn Womack, Eddie Money, Rita Coolidge, BJ Thomas, Ben Orr (The Cars), Triumph and Toronto). The life of drugs, sex and rock and roll were over, sad but true. After a few years of travel, he had the bug, and entered the world of management consulting to become a road warrior, and is now a 2 million miler with Delta. Away from home and with the desire to write a novel it began. His first book, “Into the Basement,” is a raw, dark thriller, described as "juicy." His second novel of the Kim Bennett series, “Into the Spell,” explores the horror of a copy-cat Son of Sam killer and hypnosis. Early 2008, Norm contributed with a short story called “Jumpers,” into the horror anthology “From the Shadows.” In 2009, Norm developed the screenplay for his novel “Into the Basement,” with Nicholas Grabowsky and director J. L. Botelho of Triad Pictures. In 2010 he released, Blood Bar, a vampire tale and wrote the screenplay for a short horror film, Grotto.
Rules of Command by Cyn Mobley Rules of Command by Cyn Mobley May 25, 2009 $0.99 100531 words Sample 50%
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USA Today bestselling author, former naval officer and lawyer. Eight Greyhounds, three Airedales, and a coupla mutts.
Rites of War by Cyn Mobley Rites of War by Cyn Mobley May 25, 2009 $0.99 104713 words Sample 50%
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USA Today bestselling author, former naval officer and lawyer. Eight Greyhounds, three Airedales, and a coupla mutts.
The Right Man by Mark Watson The Right Man by Mark Watson May 26, 2009 Free! 35147 words Read a sample
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Baxter Bog Interlude by Arne Bue Baxter Bog Interlude by Arne Bue June 01, 2009 $4.95 78245 words Sample 8%
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Arne Bue is a lifelong Alaskan, living in Anchorage, Alaska, with his wife, Shirley Bue, the author of Humble Snyder. Arne Bue is the author of The Lid, Baxter Bog Interlude, Night of the Tustumena and Banto Carbon and the Prehistoric Proboscis. http://home.gci.net/~bue/index.html
PPM - Our Worst Nightmare by Gary Naiman PPM - Our Worst Nightmare by Gary Naiman June 04, 2009 $6.99 77448 words Sample 20%
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Since retiring from senior positions in the pharmaceutical, chemical, and entertainment industries, Gary Naiman has focused on stories that carry a harsh warning. “We’re approaching an ecological disaster. While world governments look the other way, we continue to poison our air and water, and time is running out.”
Omega by Gary Naiman Omega by Gary Naiman June 04, 2009 $6.99 42362 words Sample 25%
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Since retiring from senior positions in the pharmaceutical, chemical, and entertainment industries, Gary Naiman has focused on stories that carry a harsh warning. “We’re approaching an ecological disaster. While world governments look the other way, we continue to poison our air and water, and time is running out.”
Motif by Teisha Bourne Motif by Teisha Bourne June 07, 2009 $8.99 80599 words Sample 50%
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Teisha Bourne, is a twenty-eight-year veteran obstetric nurse, and currently holds the position of Obstetric Patient Care Coordinator for the postpartum, well-baby nursery, and high-risk antepartum units at the Regional Medical Center of Memphis. The Zeta Phi Beta soror strives to overcome a vocal condition called spasmotic dysponia, and hopes to raise awareness of this condition by making writing her ultimate voice. Bourne is married with a son. When not writing, she enjoys spending time with her family. Motif is Bourne’s debut novel.
Vital Signs by Herman L. Toliver, Jr. MD Vital Signs by Herman L. Toliver, Jr. MD June 07, 2009 $9.99 102571 words Sample 50%
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Originally from Macon, GA, Herman Toliver has been writing short stories about his hometown and surrounding areas since age ten. He earned a B.S. in Biology from Fort Valley State University in Fort Valley, GA, and later earned his M.D. degree from the Medical College of Georgia. He’s currently completing his residency in Internal Medicine at Tulane University in New Orleans, LA. Toliver enjoys working with his patients, writing, and studying ancient Incan and Mayan history. He recently began learning to translate Egyptian hieroglyphs.
Templar Curse by Thomas Ronan Templar Curse by Thomas Ronan June 08, 2009 $9.99 52206 words Sample 10%
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The Mystery of Cranewood Manor by Theresa M. Moore The Mystery of Cranewood Manor by Theresa M. Moore June 08, 2009 $2.99 37118 words Sample 20%
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Theresa M. Moore is a writer, illustrator and publisher with an avid interest in science fantasy adventure, history, mythology, and science; and a skeptical interest in pseudoscience and paranormal research. She writes in a strong cinematic style with the mission to intellectually stimulate as well as entertain and publishes under the imprint Antellus. Her current projects include the Children of The Dragon vampire series,a chronicle of the Xosan, vampires from the planet Antellus who were once human but were transformed by a dragon's blood. They are stories of science fiction, fact and fantasy, myth and history, romance, tragedy and triumph; linked together by the theme of the vampire as hero. 8 books have been published. The 9th, titled "Swords of The Dragon's Blood", is currently in pre-publication. Another project is the Saxon & Hampstead Investigations, Ltd. mystery/paranormal detective series, inspired in part by several television shows of the same genre. Her book, "The Mystery of Cranewood Manor", is the first book. Moore also writes nonfiction on genre related subjects like history, mythology and science, and has published 5 nonfiction books, including 3 editions on self-publishing. Most notable of these is her book "A BOOK OF FIVE RINGS: A Practical Guide to Strategy by Miyamoto Musashi"; which is a modern retranslation of his work along with a series of essays on the history and traditional background of the sword master's life and time. Other works currently in production are "The Most important Science Fiction Films of the 20th Century" and "Principles of Independent Publishing". Moore is a member of the Greater Los Angeles Writers Society, the Association of Independent Authors and the Los Angeles Science Fantasy Society; as well as other professional groups.
The Five by Thomas Roberts The Five by Thomas Roberts June 09, 2009 $5.99 99293 words Sample 50%
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My background is vast and various. I'm a sixty year old white male. I am a Vietnam veteran who entered the field of Law Enforcement after the Army. After an injury, I left Law Enforcement and went into business. I have been involved in the chemical and manufacturing industry for most of my adult life. My educational background, like my career, is also vast and varied. Law Enforcement(The Administration of Justice), Computer Science and Electronics. If they offered a degree based strictly on credit hours, I would have had a degree years ago; but that is not why I attended college. I attended to get an academic education, not a degree. I enjoy writing and because of my background, I hope I can provide fiction that will relate to a large number of readers and present stories that are exciting and thought provoking.
To Inherit a Murderer by E. J. Ruek To Inherit a Murderer by E. J. Ruek June 09, 2009 $4.99 94247 words Sample 52%
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E. J. Ruek, author / novelist "Writing is about translating life into words without sacrificing the grimace and the giggle." --E. J. Ruek E. J. Ruek, pronounced "rook", writes contemporary mainstream novels with just a nod of nerve-tingling what-if possibility. "In life, things are not always as they seem -- not on the surface and not underneath. I like that. I like to write about that. Your auntie might not be that nice lady you always thought she was. In fact, she might be nicer. If fact, she might have hidden knowledge that you never dreamed someone like her could harbor, much less use. She has secrets, and those secrets drive the neighbors crazy, because they just "know" that something isn't quite as "normal" as it should be. ...And it isn't. "You just never know. You can never assume. Because, when you do, things happen."
The Devil's Pawn by M.J. Macie The Devil's Pawn by M.J. Macie June 09, 2009 $3.50 113445 words Sample 20%
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M.J. Macie gained her experience as an editorial services assistant at a small publishing company. She then moved on to work as a reporter for a local news publication where she covered the crime, public safety and education beat. She also wrote news articles, feature stories and personal profile segments. M.J. is currently working on her next novel while writing freelance articles. She is a graduate of Charleston Southern University where she earned a bachelor’s degree in English Literature. Also visit Mary at: www.mj-macie-mysterybooks.com http://m.j.macie.googlepages.com
Beautiful Red by M. Darusha Wehm Beautiful Red by M. Darusha Wehm June 09, 2009 $0.99 59346 words Sample 50%
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M. Darusha Wehm is a two-time Parsec Award finalist and author of the SF novels Beautiful Red, Self Made, Act of Will and The Beauty of Our Weapons. Her short fiction has appeared in Thaumatrope Magazine, Podioracket’s Glimpses anthology and Luna Station Quarterly. In the physical world, she was a civil servant with the Government of Canada and is now engaged more or less full-time in writing. She is based in Victoria, BC, Canada and is currently living in New Zealand after sailing down the west coast of the Americas and across the Pacific Ocean with her partner, Steven, on their sailboat, Scream.
Storm Rising by Gary Naiman Storm Rising by Gary Naiman June 10, 2009 $6.99 75519 words Sample 50%
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Since retiring from senior positions in the pharmaceutical, chemical, and entertainment industries, Gary Naiman has focused on stories that carry a harsh warning. “We’re approaching an ecological disaster. While world governments look the other way, we continue to poison our air and water, and time is running out.”
The Palmetto Connection by M.J. Macie The Palmetto Connection by M.J. Macie June 10, 2009 $4.99 100399 words Sample 20%
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M.J. Macie gained her experience as an editorial services assistant at a small publishing company. She then moved on to work as a reporter for a local news publication where she covered the crime, public safety and education beat. She also wrote news articles, feature stories and personal profile segments. M.J. is currently working on her next novel while writing freelance articles. She is a graduate of Charleston Southern University where she earned a bachelor’s degree in English Literature. Also visit Mary at: www.mj-macie-mysterybooks.com http://m.j.macie.googlepages.com