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Kei's Gift (Darshian Tales #1)	by Ann Somerville Feb. 05, 2010	$4.99	305966 words	Sample 30%
Author bio: Ann Somerville grew up in one of Australiaâ€™s prettiest small cities. In 1989, she left Australia with a BA and a burning ambition to see more of the world and its people, and to discover this â€˜cultureâ€™ thing people kept telling her about. In 2006, she returned home to Southeast Queensland with two more degrees, an English husband, and a staggering case of homesickness, vowing never to leave Australia again. Her long, plot-driven fiction featuring gay and bisexual characters has been professionally published, although copious free full length stories and novels are also available on her website. She blogs about writing, publishing, her life and many shiny distracting things.
The Nexus Odyssey	by Hylton Smith Aug. 06, 2011	$3.75	305728 words	Sample 15%
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Worlds of the Timestream Book 6: The Builder	by Richard Sutcliffe March 12, 2012	$2.99	305485 words	Sample 20%
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Collection: AuthorÂ´s Favorites	by CD Moulton Feb. 21, 2012	$4.99	305427 words	Sample 20%
Author bio: Born in Florida, travelled the world as a rock guitarist with some big names in the late sixties, early seventies. Been everything from a high steel worker to longshoreman, from musician to bar owner, and much more. Educated in botany and genetics. Now living in paradise (PanamÃ¡!)
The Ultimate Collection of Short Erotic Tales 1 & 2	by Carl East Feb. 11, 2011	$4.99	305245 words	Sample 20%
Author bio: I was born In Hull, Yorkshire, England in 1956. I started to write at the age of 44 in the year 2000 and I wasn't very good. I slowly learned over the years that followed, mainly from people online who gave up their time to help me. I chose to write imaginative things and sometimes allowed my own imagination to get away from me. I started with erotic tales before going onto more serious stuff, although having said that my erotic stories have been popular. The first book I published was "The Second Apprentice" followed closely by "The Talking Sword" both of which are sword and sorcerer type tales. My favorite release though was "Hell's Gate" and that one's doing very well now. Because my erotic stories are so popular, I will keep writing them. I'm well known for setting fair prices for my stories. One of them for instance is called "The Ultimate Collection of short erotic tales 1 & 2" and is priced at $4.99. If you were to buy each story separately, that book would cost you over $30. I now live in America and have done for the past 6 years. I'm very happily married and intend to stay that way. Carl
L'Gem	by Sharon L Reddy May 03, 2012	$4.99	304934 words	Sample 20%
Author bio: No biography. I'll write memoirs when I'm 103 and anyone I mention will be so happy to be alive to read them they won't sue. I write science fiction female fantasies for fast-reading smart women. What they wish fan fiction could be and know it can't. It's what I was asked to write at Mediawest in '92, when I won two Fan-Q's for my first two stories. Why me? They said "You can do it." What's that mean? It's not just storytelling talent. That's rather common. It was a real survival trait. Every good storyteller taught about the world and passed knowledge. That's what I do and like the talespinners of old, I do it in a fun way. Still not enough? My university transcript looks like I began with a map of the campus and checked off buildings I'd explored well. I admit I didn't spend a lot of time in biology and horticulture, but I did a thorough exploration of the other 'ologies, economics, engineering, philosophy, music, theater, computer science, communications and, of course, language and literature. It does show. The cultures I build and the relationships of the characters don't have any missing pieces. Some are very sexy. Some aren't. I write for an under-served market. Will others like my work? Yes, but they aren't really wishing for something that's not available. Or not this something. There really isn't anything else like my work out there. If there had been, I'd have found it. I want action-adventure that never slows down and engages me intellectually too. I want superheroes who are eloquent and brilliant. I want characters who sound like they've got an education and wisdom from 'immortals,' who aren't cases of arrested development that haven't learned anything since they were 20. I want books I have to read more than once to get everything in them out of them. I want societies that don't have any missing pieces. Traders who think about profit margin, and guard captains who think about needing to use the toilet and wish the dignitaries would, please, go into the meeting room. To get it, I had to write it. The style is for my target market too. It takes a couple chapters to get used to it, but once the women I write for do, they will read it faster. I'm a torchbearer, a member of the avant-garde, as we escape the economic confinement of physical mass distribution. You still hear people say, "If it was any good, it would be REALLY published." No, only books which the corporation decides will appeal to a vast audience get published and the people who make that decision haven't read them. A decision of that financial magnitude requires spreadsheets. They can't invest stockholder money in anything that isn't blockbuster-connected and probable sell-through, nothing truly new or different. It's our decision to create that which is the guide to all who follow. Ready for some real brain candy? Download a sample and see if it satisfies that wish for something you just couldn't define. I am a Talespinner. I shall you a tale of heroes, of the wide velvet night! A Talespinner's Web, an historical site: http://www.targetyonder.com Spinner, 6/2011
Superdaddyman and More from the Mind of Jeremy Crow	by Jeremy Fink July 22, 2011	$3.99	303563 words	Sample 20%
Author bio: Jeremy Fink, or as he is more affectionately known as â€œJeremy Crowâ€ or if you have been around a heck of a long time â€œThe Slackâ€ has been doing things to get the attention of others for a very long time now. Sometimes he has succeeded and a lot of the time he has failed. He is barely educated, and he likes it that way. His politics are complicated and he likes that too. He has used the internet all throughout his life to escape and be child-like for the most part but every once in a while something comes along that makes him stand out. One of the things that stood out was his writing, as he went from popular to unpopular to popular again to Lord knows what you would call him now. Jeremy has three beautiful children, that he raised for the most part on his own and he takes no responsibility for the things they do unless it gives him an opportunity to brag. He lives in the Northeastern region of the United States and will continue to do so until he figures out a way to make money with his writing at which time, Caymen Islands here he comes! If you would like to know more about Jeremy Fink, Jeremy Crow, or whatever name he comes up with next you can always follow him, stalk him, or avoid him on one of the online services that he still uses, { Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/jeremycrow4life or Twitter http://twitter.com/jeremycrow4life } or his own page that he updates every few years, { http://jeremycrow4life.com } .. Thank you for being you, and thank God for today because it is all that you or I or anyone else actually has.
Stitching Time	by Mark Hummerstone Aug. 03, 2010	$2.99	303174 words	Sample 50%
Author bio: Mark Hummerstone was born in East London, England in August 1958. He was raised in Essex until his parents decided to emigrate to Australia when he was aged 14. Whilst a child in England he developed a love if poetry thanks to a fabulous English teacher, indulged in his love of aircraft by joining the Air Training Corps and evolved his sense of humour from early Monty Python shows. In Australia in his late teens he finally fulfilled his desire to fly by gaining a private pilotâ€™s license and learning to skydive. After leaving school Mark moved from Brisbane to Mt Isa to work in the mines before changing careers to become a firefighter. He also went on to become a skydiving instructor and after returning to Brisbane in the early 1990s eventually went on to gain a chief instructor rating in that sport. Since his teens heâ€™s been an avid reader of all things â€˜World War 1â€™ and could be considered an amateur historian on the subject. He has also maintained a keen interest in and knowledge of trains, planes, ships, firearms and computer technology. Historic references are as correct as possible within the context of telling a fictional story, there is great detail providing thorough explanation and clearly expressed time travel â€˜rulesâ€™. Mark has a tremendous imagination and diligently set about learning the writing skills necessary to put the story to paper with the kind of result youâ€™d expect from a natural talent, as stated by Manuscripts Online appraiser, â€œThis author can write, of that there is no doubt.â€ Mark has had various articles published in independent news-sheets and his entertaining thesis on the â€˜History of Parachutingâ€™ was accepted unanimously by the Australian Parachute Federation.
Gabe's Place	by Misty Reigenborn March 13, 2012	$3.00	302125 words	Sample 20%
Author bio: Misty Reigenborn has been writing poetry, short stories and novel length work since she was nine years old. She is the author of thirteen titles: romance novels A Twist of Fate, Crestview Academy: Tory, Crestview Academy: Molli, Crestview Academy: Mellenda, Girls of Gabe's Place 1: Brandy, Girls of Gabe's Place 2: Jessica,Girls of Gabe's Place 3: Robyn,and Girls of Gabe's Place 4: Ami, fantasy novel Mind over Matter, short story collections Second Chance, and This Song Reminds Me of You, poetry collection From the Heart, and non fiction title A Broken System: Examining the Clark County Department of Family Services. She loves to connect with her readers and appreciates an honest review. Find out more at her website! All other e-book titles will be available exclusively on Amazon for the next 90 days but will be back on Smashwords before you know it! Check out the many ways to get free e-books at the author's website!
The Half-Orcs (Omnibus, Volume One)	by David Dalglish July 21, 2010	$4.99	301720 words	Sample 50%
Author bio: David Dalglish currently lives in rural Missouri with his wife Samantha, daughter Morgan, and dog Asimov. He graduated from Missouri Southern State University in 2006 and currently devotes himself to perfecting his craft. He spends his free time playing racquetball and watching PBS with his daughter.
Unity Complete	by D. Julius Garcia Oct. 16, 2011	$1.99	301289 words	Sample 20%
Author bio: Mr. Garcia has been writing for over 20 years. He has two completed trilogies, and has begun a new one. The first trilogy is about Top Secret underground bases and genetic engineering programs taking place in the United States. The second, is about Black Projects and the UFO phenomenon. The third trilogy is about ghosts and extraterrestrials and how their presence on Earth affects those of us alive in the physicality paradigm. Mr. Garcia has researched into these things carefully and put much more reality in his fiction than would be advisable to someone who does not wish to get a visit from men in black suits. However, the books are written and copyrights have been awarded. Let them comeâ€¦
Bootscootin' and Cozy Cash Mysteries Boxed Set (Books 1-6)	by D. D. Scott Dec. 08, 2011	$2.99	300191 words	Sample 5%
Author bio: D. D. Scott's romantic comedies are all about sexy, sassy, smart, career-driven women and the men who complete them. They're a bit chick lit with a gone-country twist. She's agented, and her series The Bootscootin' Books - think Sex and The City meets Urban Cowboy - debuts with book one BOOTSCOOTIN' BLAHNIKS in August 2010 on both Amazon's Kindle and at Smashwords. She's a member of RWA as well as RWA's Chick Lit Writers of the World, Kiss of Death, ScriptScene, ESPAN, and IRWA Chapters plus serves on RWA's History Committee for the National RWA Board. She's been a guest blogger on Romance Writers on the Journey, Inside the Writer's Mind, Daily Dose Fantasy Romance, Romance University, and Romance Lives Forever. She blogs with group blog Savvy Authors the second Friday of every month, is linked to on Romancing the Blog and also has an active blog of her own on her website at www.DDScott.com. In addition, her first RWR article was published by RWA in the July 2010 issue. Also a Writer's Go-to-Gal for Muse Therapy, D. D. debuted her Muse Therapy Live Workshops this past March and April for GCCRWA's Silken Sands Conference in Florida and RT BookLovers' Convention in Ohio. She's busy now preparing for (1) the launch of MUSE THERAPY: UNLEASHING YOUR INNER SYBIL (the book version of her Muse Therapy Online Classes & Live Workshops) on Kindle and Smashwords this Fall, and (2) the Kindle and Smashwords release of book two in The Bootscootin' Books STOMPIN' ON STETSONS which will hit E-shelves in time for the 2010 Holiday Season. For updates on her books, her sexy, sassy, smart neurotic writer's life blog, and for a schedule of appearances and Muse Therapy Sessions, visit her website www.DDScott.com. While there, sign-up for her mailing list for chances to win fabulous tchotchkes.
Sen'giza	by JD Cole Aug. 01, 2010	$2.99	299347 words	Sample 50%
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Finding Charlie	by Lon Lovett Aug. 24, 2011	$0.99	298761 words	Sample 20%
Author bio: I live in Arizona where it's all I can do to do keep from going crazy while I write.
The Prize	by Irving Wallace April 16, 2011	$4.99	298518 words	Sample 20%
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A Ring Realms Novel: Savant's Blood Series Book 2: Hecate's Bounty	by Will Greenway June 14, 2011	$2.99	298111 words	Sample 20%
Author bio: First published in 1983, Will Greenway started his creative career wanting to draw and script comics. After a number of years, he found writing better suited to his skills. Aside from writing and art, Will is a self-taught programmer, PC technician, and network troubleshooter. He enjoys skiing, racquetball, Frisbee golf, and is steadfast supporter of role-playing games. To date he has completed eighteen novels more than twenty short stories, and numerous articles on writing. He resides in the Spring Valley suburb of south San Diego.
Marching With Caesar-Conquest of Gaul	by R.W. Peake March 28, 2012	$3.99	297802 words	Sample 20%
Author bio: I am a 52 year old retired Infantry Marine, born and raised in Texas and currently living on the Olympic Peninsula in Washington state. I have been writing since my first novel, written at the age of 10, when my friends and yours truly fought off the Soviet hordes, who just happened to pick my block to launch their invasion. That was their big mistake. But like a lot of dreams, it got sidetracked until recently, when I decided to focus my passion on an era and subject that interested me a great deal. Like my characters in Ancient Rome, I have served as the pointy tip of the spear of our nation's policy, and it is with this perspective that I tell the story of Titus Pullus and his friends. This is my first published novel, and is the first in a completed trilogy that covers the career of Titus Pullus.
Avenging Angel	by Esther Carney Aug. 20, 2010	$0.99	293354 words	Sample 2%
Author bio: The Avenging Angel novel has had full professional editing. Esther Carney is a doctor who has spent more than ten years working in Australian Hospital Emergency Departments where anybody and everybody, from all walks of life, can come through her doors. Her work has included roadside and medivac helicopter retrievals. She lives on a farm and has studied martial arts. Disappointed by the lack of tough female leads in contemporary action/adventure fiction, Esther decided to write her own.
Minos	by Daniel Blair Dundee May 03, 2010	$0.99	290627 words	Sample 20%
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Fields of Battle	by Marcus Pailing Oct. 30, 2011	$1.79	290420 words	Sample 15%
Author bio: Marcus Pailing took a degree in Ancient History and Archaeology where he specialised in the history of Alexander the Great and the Successor kingdoms. Later he took a Masters degree in Medieval History, specialising this time in 12th century historical writing and the Icelandic Sagas. He worked for a number of years in the business training industry, including a stint as a writer of e-learning courses, before training to be a teacher. He now teaches History in Leicestershire, England. He is a keen traveller, especially in the Middle East and Central Asia, where he busies himself visiting as many ancient and medieval sites as he can. In England, he thrives on visiting medieval castles and cathedrals!
The Mysteries of Udolpho (Illustrated)	by Catherine LaPointe Dec. 19, 2011	$2.99	289643 words	Sample 20%
Author bio: I am a New York-based freelance illustrator and graphic designer, specializing in book and editorial illustration. I have interned with Illustration House in New York and the Florence International Theatre Company in Florence, Italy. I have a BFA in Illustration from Syracuse University.
Zuma - eine Kriegerin geht ihren Weg	by Stefan Schrock Nov. 05, 2011	$2.99	288865 words	Sample 10%
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Upon a River's Crescent	by R.M. Plaiscia March 13, 2012	$0.99	288582 words	Sample 11%
Author bio: The far fetched dreams of becoming an Author have consumed me. But it wasn't always like that. Sure, I used to draw out little mash-up stories that combined the universes of Star Wars and Star Trek when I was a kid, and I even kept a 'Notebook Wrestling Alliance' together well into my teenage years. But then life kicked in. I strayed from my writing, even straying into the world of Backyard Wrestling for a minute, and it wasn't until a hurricane took everything away that I found myself falling back to the almighty pen for support. The only things I took with me when evacuating for Hurricane Katrina were, besides about three days worth of clothes, all of my journals and my 'Notebook Wrestling Alliance'. Now, to be honest I never expected the water to reach my second floor, but it did. After that all I had left was a pile notebooks. And ever since then I've hardly ever put down my pen. I became enthralled with the storm that took it all, which eventually led me to learn about other hurricanes to ravage southeast Louisiana, and that ultimately brought me to write about them. I began small, throwing out a few names and writing out a few scenes, strictly for my own entertainment. At that time the world I lived in was littered with acrobatic cars, positioned in ways that I never believed possible, and houses in the street, literally, one street had like fifteen or so houses in the middle of the street, and another dozen or so had floated across a canal to collide with a pack of apartment complexes. It was crazy, seriously. The house I, sorry, WE just rebuilt, my childhood home, had a house with the concrete slab attached from six blocks away sitting in front of it. But I digress. You get the point. Inspired by disaster, The Hurricane Journals were born. I never expected to take it this far. But, hey, look at that, I did. So I'll go ahead and see where they take me. And maybe, only if I am deserving, of course, you could come along for the ride as well?
Yohaana's Song	by St. Wishnevsky April 03, 2011	$4.99	287518 words	Sample 20%
Author bio: Artistic Resume: Steve Wishnevsky 612 McCreary St. Winston-Salem, NC 27105, 336-661-9060 wishnevs@bellsouth.net Steve Wishnevsky was born in 1945 to a military family and has lived in Alabama, Connecticut, Northern California, Vermont, Tennessee, and North Carolina. He has been settled in Winston-Salem since 1984, and is well known as part of the literary and musical circles. He started in his chosen art form of Lutherie with informal studies under James A. Rickard, Chief Engineer, Ovation Guitars in Connecticut, in the late 1960â€™s and was creating informal and assembled instruments as long ago as 1960. He concurrently began to earn a living as a woodworker, making wooden toys and smoking accessories, under the name JWH Woodworks in Hartford, Connecticut, and Newark, Vermont. A fortuitous employment assisting the cabinetmaker at the Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Connecticut exposed him to original masterworks of art and sculpture, and to the rudiments of conservation and display. An interest in American Appalachian Musics led to an invitation from David A. Sturgill, a North Carolina Folk Heritage Laureate, to study musical instrument making in Piney Creek, North Carolina in 1973. There he studied with such luthiers as banjo maker Kyle Creed, fiddle maker Albert Hash, and guitar maker and National Folk Heritage Award winner Wayne C. Henderson. A few years later, the Sturgill family bought and moved two established guitar manufactories, Harptone, of Newark, New Jersey, and Microfrets of Maryland, to Independence, Virginia, under the name of The New River Music Company. Mr. Wishnevsky was foreman and production manager for this facility. In 1978, Mr. Wishnevsky accepted a position with Ovation Instruments in New Hartford, Connecticut, where he was able to study under James Rickard again and to exchange ideas with other master luthiers such as Seth Hedu, of Watertown, Connecticut, and Richard Starky, now of Martin guitars. Two years later, Mr. Wishnevsky moved to Middle Tennessee, where he was able to open his own studio devoted to the design and construction of mandolins and to also further his interest in sculpture. He was able to win some awards in local art festivals and to study under local sculptors such as Tom Jackson, and to study the Gallagher Guitar factory, in Wartrace, Tennessee. After further studies and touring the Gurian Guitar shop in New Hampshire and the Taylor factory in El Cahon, California, Mr. Wishnevsky has established a studio in Winston-Salem, where he makes guitars and basses, while also employed as a Master Cabinetmaker. He is one of the very few craftsmen in America to ever complete a full sized Double Bass Viol. He is now working on his tenth instrument of this class, and is also in serial production of the epitome of guitars, the Archtop, or Cello, Jazz Acoustic Guitar. He is also continues to experiment with Unique, Folk, and Art instruments, and has formed alliances with local visual Artists Jon Blackburn, Laurie Russell, and Ted Lyons, among others, to create decorated instruments of a new category and style. He has works in the permanent collection of some local establishments and has had a few gallery sales, notably at Morning Dew Coffeehouse and at Urban Art Ware. He is a fixture at the Summer on Trade Series for the last several years and usually vends at nearby Festivals and Shows such as The Enofest, Merlefest, Apple Chill, LEAF, The Mount Airy Fiddle Festival, Many Hands, and others. He believes that Lutherie is the pinnacle of woodworking, invoking as it does of all the senses except taste, and having a cross-disciplinary impact on the arts of music, sculpture, and ergonomics. A musical instrument must have visual appeal, produce pleasing sounds, be comfortable to the hands and body, and most importantly, serve as an interface with the nervous system of the performer in such an instinctive, supportive way as to facilitate that performerâ€™s creation of his own art, and communion with his audience. The challenge is to induce mute wood and metals to give voice, and he feels he is becoming at least facile at this task.
In A Time Of Darkness	by Gregory James Knoll Nov. 23, 2011	Free!	287245 words	Read a sample
Author bio: I prefer a certain level of anonymity so if you came here hoping to discover who I am, what I do in my free time or where I'm from I am sorry to disappoint. I simply allow my work to speak for itself. All other matters are trivial.
Dragonfate: Dragon's Flight	by Alexis Steinhauer July 07, 2011	$1.99	286033 words	Sample 20%
Author bio: Alexis Steinhauer is an avid reader and has been writing short stories since first grade. Her Dragonfate series began with Dragon's Gold, written in 2009 at the age of sixteen. Her favorite authors are J.R.R. Tolkien and Christopher Paolini. She is probably a little too familiar with super heroes and dragon fantasy for her own good, and she hates math. She was homeschooled, and can often be found with a cat and a book on her lap, listening to heavy metal music. Alexis also enjoys drawing and painting dragons and other mythical creatures, including the cover art for Dragon's Flight. She conceptualized the art for Dragon's Gold. Alexis is the author of Dragonfate: Dragon's Gold, Dragonfate: Dragon's Flight and Dragonfate: Dragon's Oath. She is currently working on the fourth book of the Dragonfate Series.
Destiny's Warriors Pure Evil (Volume 3)	by R.M. Putnam Sep. 27, 2011	$2.99	284992 words	Sample 30%
Author bio: I took great pleasure in writing Destiny's Warriors. Celt myth and the wonderment of Pagan gods sent me on a journey that took 17 years to write all ten novels in the series. The brutality of human sacrifice to appease the gods is a part of history that is horrific. And, the idea of Gods having to deal with the same emotional issues as mortal man was fascinating for me to create. This wonderful journey into mystical realms guided me to continue and finish the saga. I tell of enchanted warriors, mystical creatures and monsters such as Crimson Death and Banshees. The struggle to survive, heartache, betrayal and rivalry are what my characters have to face in this fantasy. You'll cry, cringe in fear and feel in awe at the romance as you read my tale. I hope you enjoy reading Destiny's Warriors. May a Rainbow be your guide down destiny's path. R. M. Putnam
Rohan Nation: Reinventing America after the 2020 Collapse	by Drew Miller Nov. 10, 2011	$2.99	284888 words	Sample 10%
Author bio: Dr. Drew Miller researches and writes professionally for a Department of Defense think tank and serves as a Colonel in the U.S. Air Force Reserve. A USAF Academy and Harvard University graduate, Dr. Miller served as an intelligence officer in the Air Force, a business and Pentagon program manager, and an elected official.
Dragonfate: Dragon's Oath	by Alexis Steinhauer Feb. 28, 2012	$1.99	282127 words	Sample 20%
Author bio: Alexis Steinhauer is an avid reader and has been writing short stories since first grade. Her Dragonfate series began with Dragon's Gold, written in 2009 at the age of sixteen. Her favorite authors are J.R.R. Tolkien and Christopher Paolini. She is probably a little too familiar with super heroes and dragon fantasy for her own good, and she hates math. She was homeschooled, and can often be found with a cat and a book on her lap, listening to heavy metal music. Alexis also enjoys drawing and painting dragons and other mythical creatures, including the cover art for Dragon's Flight. She conceptualized the art for Dragon's Gold. Alexis is the author of Dragonfate: Dragon's Gold, Dragonfate: Dragon's Flight and Dragonfate: Dragon's Oath. She is currently working on the fourth book of the Dragonfate Series.
The Spy and His Lovers - The Gdynia Incident	by Tony Mattey April 18, 2011	$2.99	282085 words	Sample 15%
Author bio: Tony Mattey was born near Portsmouth, England, in February 1946, just nine months after VE (Victory in Europe) day to obviously passionate parents. In 1961, he joined the Royal Air Force. In 1970, he left to work in the computer industry, first with the Americans, and later with the British. In 1973, during the height of the Cold War, he accepted an assignment to travel to Poland behind the Iron Curtain. His activities took him into shipyards, manufacturing operations, banks and other Polish government establishments. He departed there in December 1977, and in 1978, he travelled to the Far East, and was based in Indonesia and later Singapore. Returning to the UK in 1984, he continued his relationship with the Americans, before moving into consulting in 1995, and eventually retiring in 2009. Tony commenced writing this first novel, and found a new Passion to prevent boredom and going doolally. This has resulted in this first episode in the life of Harry Mellors. With his continuing passion, Tony already has a draft of the second episode.
Sorcerer: Interesting Times	by Bruce H Johnson Feb. 19, 2010	$3.99	281957 words	Sample 30%
Author bio: Bruce H. Johnson, writing as BJohn, is 63 years old and was born in Arizona. He went to school in Akron, Ohio and has a BBA from Kent State University (yes, of the National Guard â€œfame.â€). He missed the entire thing by about ten minutes). He spent eight years in the U.S. Navy as a Nuclear Power Engineering Laboratory Technician both on a ship and as an instructor in Idaho. Once leaving the Navy in 1978, he moved to Los Angeles and spent the next ten years as a computer programmer. Much of his duty involved documenting the various programs, languages and systems he worked on. In 1988, he joined a consulting group specializing in large computer system documentation where he has been ever since. The group has evolved from straight â€œtechnical documentationâ€ to business process analysis and providing solutions to problems. All his writing is in his spare time. â€œSorcerer: The Inner Circleâ€ is his first fiction work except for a very short story in the fifth grade.
The Hustler and the Angel One Woman's Journey	by Michele Zerone Sep. 22, 2010	$0.99	281661 words	Sample 30%
Author bio: My Book The Hustler and The Angel Hello this is exciting to publish this book that I hope many will enjoy. This book as much fun as it was hard for it deals with many things I still have no grasp of. I do know from experience of having family members who have dealt with cancer and not one of them won their battle. As painful as it is to lose a loved one it made me question is there something more to life than this? In the beginning of writing this book felt in ways of being poked in the back by God. Now that time has gone by not sure. Many say that this kind of book would not warrant Gods hand in it because of the language, pot smoking and much more. It still has the same arguments by me and many of people who I have spoken with in how we question religion and how God works in ones life. So you can see that this book has no way the answers to it just questions while at the same time it has a great romance and how we need to cherish our friends for they are what gets us through this hectic life that at times can really drag you down, cancer or no cancer. Some of the crazy conversations that took places between the girls are very close to the ones I heard all around me. When one finds the close knit bond of friendship in life it can make oneâ€™s live bearable as these women provided for each other. Theyâ€™re style make not be gentle or even socially acceptable but they allowed each one to let their hair down as they held each other with warm arms of comfort. I learned this lesson when my sister who was only twenty seven when she passed away from cancer leaving a three years old little girl behind. My mother thought her friends were the type that she should not hang out with. Then she learned these people who did not deserve to be in my sister life were the ones right there at her side everyday giving more of themselves than anyone would expect and better than the people who my mother held more respect before. Like the expression canâ€™t judge a book by its cover. Whether this is helped by God or not it was written from the heart.
Dragon's Fury - World War against America and the West - Volume II	by Jeff Head Jan. 19, 2011	$3.99	280894 words	Sample 10%
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Black Earth Double Pack	by David N. Alderman Feb. 28, 2011	$4.99	280730 words	Sample 20%
Author bio: Iâ€™ve always hated the act of sitting down to write out an author bio. I can never figure out what to say that will sound somewhat interesting. I read other bios by authors that detail their entire living history across the eastern half of the United States, all of the different schools they attended and degrees they accumulated, and the names and habits of every crazy pet they own. What does that leave me to work with? Well, Iâ€™ll start by stating the fact that Iâ€™m a writer. Self-published author, more like it. I donâ€™t have any fancy degrees in regards to my writing craft, but Iâ€™ve been writing since I was eleven years old. In the last handful of years, Iâ€™ve written and self-published four novels, some short stories, and a novella. The majority of what I write falls into a strange gray area between science fiction/fantasy and Christian fiction. Itâ€™s a gray area because my stories contain violence, sexual themes and other â€˜edgyâ€™ content but themes of redemption and faith run throughout. I also love to read. I remember reading Mark Twainâ€™s work when I was younger and fell in love with Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn. I remember reading terrific and sometimes horrifying short stories in school like Edgar Allen Poe's, The Cask of Amontillado and The Pit and the Pendulum, along with James Thurberâ€™s, The Secret Life of Walter Mitty. My senior year of high school I read through the Han Solo trilogy and fell in love with science fiction/fantasy and the Star Wars universe in its entirety. Between then and now I havenâ€™t really read much, but Iâ€™m getting back into it. Currently Iâ€™m reading the Night Angel trilogy by Brent Weeks. Beyond reading, I am also an avid video gamer - have been since I was old enough to hold a game controller. Iâ€™m a huge fan of FPS (First Person Shooters) and RPG (Role Playing Games). On a daily basis you can find me online playing a game of Half Life 2: Deathmatch with my clan, {(.:A.o.S:.)}. Anything else you want to know? Drop me a line. dna@davidnalderman.com. And if you have a moment, please check out my website - www.davidnalderman.com - where you can read more about my edgy Christian speculative fiction. Or, if youâ€™re a fellow writer/Christian and would like to follow my journey as a self-published author, check out my blog - www.davidnalderman.blogspot.com.
Death & The City: Heavy Duty Edition	by Lisa Scullard April 25, 2011	$3.99	280661 words	Sample 4%
Author bio: Writer, and stuff :) Likes Iron Fist shoes/clothing and Hell Bunny, Depeche Mode covers and remixes, Chinese food, Barbie (not so much in her puppy parlour phase), Holst's Planets Suite, graphic novels, ginger nut biscuits and Prince Harry - in any given order or combination. Influenced by the word magic of: Tom Sharpe, Spike Milligan, Candace Bushnell, Monty Python, Terry Pratchett, Tracy Quan.
Life equal to death - Poems on life , death	by Nikhil Parekh Sep. 05, 2010	Free!	278580 words	Read a sample
Author bio: Nikhil Parekh, 33 years of age, from Ahmedabad, India- is a Love Poet and Eight-time World Record holder with the Limca Book of Records India (Only 2nd in Official World Rankings to Guinness Book of World Records) for his poetry. These Eight World Records held by Parekh with the Limca Book of Records are for - (1) "Being the First Indian Poet to be published/featured in McGill English Dictionary of Rhyme which is the World's Number 1 English Rhyming Dictionary-for his poem: Come Lets Embrace our New Religion" (2) "Being the First Indian Poet to have won Poet of the Year Award at the Canadian Federation of Poets which is Canada's National Poetry Body endorsed by Governor General of Canada" (3) "Being the First Indian Poet to be published in a Commonwealth Newsletter for his poem on AIDS which is 'Aids doesn't kill. Your Attitude kills." (4) "Being the First Indian Poet to win an EPPIE award for best poetry e-book" (5) "Writing the most number of letters to and receiving the most number of replies from World Leaders and World Organizations". (6) "Being the First Indian Poet to be Goodwill Ambassador to the International Goodwill Treaty for World Peace - GoodwillTreaty.org". (7) "Being the First Indian Poet whose Poems have been made into Films at Youtube.com - The World's largest video sharing website". (8) " Being the 1st Indian Poet to be featured for his Poetry Book - 'Love versus Terrorism- Poems on Anti Terror, Peace' , at Wattpad.com - The World's most popular ebook community and largest website for reading books on mobile phones". * Images and Details of Parekh's complete World Records in Poetry and Awards can be visited at - www.worldrecordsandawards.blogspot.com . Parekh has composed thousands of poems on - God, Peace, Love, Friendship, Life, Anti Terror, Death, Mother, Father, Environment, Lovers, Humanity, Brotherhood, Philanthropy . He is also an author of several Poetry Books which include : "1 God" , "Love Versus Terrorism", "You die; I die", "Life = Death", "The Womb", "The Power of Black", "Hide and Seek", "If you cut a tree; you cut your own mother", "Longest Poem by Parekh-Only as Life"- These comprise of over 7000 pages of his Poetry in totality . His Poems and Poetry Books have had millions of viewers and downloads on the Internet and his collected Poems have been Awarded "FEATURED" at Scribd.com (The World's Largest Document website) . Parekh's Poetry has had the patronization and support of several World Leaders including U.S. President and Nobel Peace Prize Winner Barack Obama & the Queen of England . A complete compilation of the Poet's poems, poetry books, awards and works can be visited on the Internet at - nikhilparekh.org or nikhilparekh.com .
The Dragon's Pool	by Edward C. Patterson May 11, 2009	$2.99	276792 words	Sample 20%
Author bio: Edward C. Patterson has been writing novels, short fiction, poetry and drama his entire life, always seeking the emotional core of any story he tells. With his eighth novel, The Jade Owl, he combines an imaginative touch with his life long devotion to China and its history. He has earned an MA in Chinese History from Brooklyn College with further post graduate work at Columbia University. A native of Brooklyn, NY, he has spent four decades as a soldier in the corporate world gaining insight into the human condition. He won the 1999 New Jersey Minority Achievement Award for his work in corporate diversity. Blending world travel experiences with a passion for story telling, his adventures continue as he works to permeate his reader's souls from an indelible wellspring. Works: Bobby's Trace No Irish Need Apply Cutting the Cheese Surviving an American Gulag The Road to GrafenwÃ¶hr The Closet Clandestine The Academician - Southern Swallow - Book I The Nan Tu - Southern Swallow - Book II Look Away, Silence Turning Idolater Come, Wewoka The Jade Owl The Third Peregrination - The Jade Owl - Book II The Dragon's Pool - The Jade Owl Book III The People's Treasure - The Jade Owl Book IV Are You Still Sumitting Your Work to a Traditional Publisher? Oh, Dainty Triolet
An el Maien Marriage	by Naoko Smith May 04, 2012	$2.99	276179 words	Sample 20%
Author bio: I am a social anthropologist: part time academic, part time housewife, full time Mum. I like knitting, single malt whisky, humanist philosophy and the Scotland rugby team. My favourite books are The Seven Pillars of Wisdom, Pride and Prejudice, Millenium and Charisma Among Swat Pathans, Elizabeth David cookery books and the Finn Family Moomintroll series.
Tempo Rubato	by Brendan Carroll Sep. 12, 2009	$3.99	276121 words	Sample 10%
Author bio: Brendan Carroll was born and raised in Southeast Texas and now lives in the East Texas Lake Country. Throughout his scholastic career, he wanted nothing more than to tell a good story, get a few laughs or give a few frights. After high school, he joined the US Navy and spent the next four years serving the country in the fighter training squadron VT-86 out of Pensacola, Florida. In college, he majored in Environmental Science and Geography with a minor in Geology and ended up with a teaching certificate for Secondary Earth Sciences. After one year of teaching fourteen and fifteen-year-olds, his desire to inspire young minds was laid to rest and he took up a position serving the State of Texas in the Correctional Field. In his spare time, he has produced over thirty novels which are currently being published in Kindle format as well as paperback at a much slower pace. His one aim is to entertain the reader with a good tale and hope that they may get something more from his work than just a laugh, a fright or a sigh.
Sorcerer: Very Interesting	by Bruce H Johnson Feb. 19, 2010	$3.99	275215 words	Sample 30%
Author bio: Bruce H. Johnson, writing as BJohn, is 63 years old and was born in Arizona. He went to school in Akron, Ohio and has a BBA from Kent State University (yes, of the National Guard â€œfame.â€). He missed the entire thing by about ten minutes). He spent eight years in the U.S. Navy as a Nuclear Power Engineering Laboratory Technician both on a ship and as an instructor in Idaho. Once leaving the Navy in 1978, he moved to Los Angeles and spent the next ten years as a computer programmer. Much of his duty involved documenting the various programs, languages and systems he worked on. In 1988, he joined a consulting group specializing in large computer system documentation where he has been ever since. The group has evolved from straight â€œtechnical documentationâ€ to business process analysis and providing solutions to problems. All his writing is in his spare time. â€œSorcerer: The Inner Circleâ€ is his first fiction work except for a very short story in the fifth grade.
The Tale of the Comet	by David George Richards Dec. 30, 2011	$2.99	275145 words	Sample 20%
Author bio: I was born in Manchester in the North West of England in 1957. Although I have moved around a bit, Manchester is still both my physical and spiritual home. I am a Northerner. I am also married to Rosanna, and have been now for over twenty years. I have an imagination that began when I was very young and never waned. I also like reading and so it was no surprise I suppose when I started writing. Because I am an unknown who has never been picked up by either an Agent or mainstream Publisher, I am a bit of a one man band. I even do my own covers and have become a bit of a digital artist as a result. I started writing when I was young and very bad. Now I am older and a lot better. My writing has improved too. I write science fiction, fantasy and romance stories. I also like to mix and match with romance in science fiction and so on. Female characters feature very prominently in my stories, many of them in strong and attractive leading roles. The reason for this is that I like women, a lot. In fact I adore everything about them, so it is no surprise that I enjoy reading stories where women feature prominently and that I should also enjoy writing stories where women feature prominently. It gives my stories a female bias, but I think they are better for it. I also like every character, even the monsters and villains, to have a realistic reason for being and doing what they do. Like reality, everything blurs. There is no right or wrong, just different viewpoints that lead to conflict. But I also like my out and out villains to be really bad. If you like science fiction, thrillers and romance stories with particular emphasis on leading female characters that are exciting and adventurous, look no further. You can also visit my website at www.booksandstories.com.
The First Four - The Tea Series	by Sheila Horgan Dec. 26, 2011	$3.59	274806 words	Sample 10%
Author bio: Blessed to be born into a strong Irish American family, Sheila describes herself as 'one of ten'. Sheila raised her son, as well as a plethora of other children she calls her own and now enjoys the title of Grandma. When asked about her writing, Sheila states, 'I devoted the first phase of my life to my parents and family, the second to my children, this last phase is for me. I love to write, share my somewhat skewed vision of the world, and with luck, make people laugh now and then.' Sheila is currently living in Tampa Bay Florida, where both her Tea series and Lessons, the series take place. She is busy writing the next book in each series. For the Tea series - Tea to Go. For Lessons, the series - Promises. She is also hard at work on a spin off of the Tea series - The Girls. The first book in the series is Las Vegas. Las Vegas features Morgan's great aunt, A.J.'s grandmother, and Adeline.
Fall of Creation	by Kenneth McDonald Nov. 27, 2011	$2.99	274714 words	Sample 25%
Author bio: I am an education consultant who works for state government in the area of curriculum. Prior to my current job, I taught American and world history at a number of colleges and universities in California, Georgia, and South Carolina. I started writing fiction in graduate school. In addition to my novels and short works, I have written a lot of serialized fantasy fiction that has been posted on the Story Hour forum at the Dungeons & Dragons fan site EnWorld.org, including stories placed in the Forgotten Realms, Shackled City, and Rappan Athuk settings. These stories have collectively received over two thousand reader posts and three hundred thousand page views. I am also an active member of the player community for the multiplayer computer game Neverwinter Nights, and have released over two dozen modules for that game on the Neverwinter Vault Web site. My doctorate is in European history, and I live with my wife, who is an attorney, in Sacramento, California.
The Erotic Bundles 1 & 2	by Carl East Feb. 12, 2011	$4.99	274142 words	Sample 20%
Author bio: I was born In Hull, Yorkshire, England in 1956. I started to write at the age of 44 in the year 2000 and I wasn't very good. I slowly learned over the years that followed, mainly from people online who gave up their time to help me. I chose to write imaginative things and sometimes allowed my own imagination to get away from me. I started with erotic tales before going onto more serious stuff, although having said that my erotic stories have been popular. The first book I published was "The Second Apprentice" followed closely by "The Talking Sword" both of which are sword and sorcerer type tales. My favorite release though was "Hell's Gate" and that one's doing very well now. Because my erotic stories are so popular, I will keep writing them. I'm well known for setting fair prices for my stories. One of them for instance is called "The Ultimate Collection of short erotic tales 1 & 2" and is priced at $4.99. If you were to buy each story separately, that book would cost you over $30. I now live in America and have done for the past 6 years. I'm very happily married and intend to stay that way. Carl
Magi	by L. Lindsey Flansburg Nov. 19, 2010	$3.99	274105 words	Sample 20%
Author bio: I am a CAD drafter living in Saratoga, Wyoming. I work over the Internet for a Company that has offices in most US cities and a few international locations. I spend a lot of time in front of a computer screen, so it seems natural to try a little writing, at least while the weather keeps me out of the mountains.
WindanSea	by Frederick Regenold Dec. 28, 2011	$1.99	273913 words	Sample 20%
Author bio: A native of Memphis, Tennessee and a graduate of Duke University and the Pasadena Playhouse, the author was a photographer for four years in the U. S. Navy. He spent 14 years in banking and 22 in the hospitality field. His first two novels, Never and Coast Walk, were published in 2002; the third, WindanSea, in 2003; and the latest, Tanto, in 2006. Since 1968 he's lived in La Jolla, California, which is the main setting for all of his stories. A year after graduation from Memphis Tech High, he joined the navy on the day following the start of the Korean War. In â€œBoot Campâ€ he was chosen Honorman of his company by fellow recruits, went to Airman School in Memphis, then to the Naval School of Photography in Pensacola, Florida. He served aboard the battleship New Jersey on the staff of Admiral Martin, Commander of the Seventh Fleet, before spending 13 months at North Island Naval Base in San Diego. The last two years in the navy were spent at Ford Island in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, where he received a letter of commendation from the Chief of Naval Operations for his photographic work. He also attended night classes at the University of Hawaii. With the G.I. Bill, Regenold graduated from Duke University where he was president of the Duke Players, the student theatrical group. He then attended the Pasadena Playhouse where he won the Faculty Scholarship and graduated cum laude. As a branch manager in banking at Ocean Beach, California, he was president of the Kiwanis Club and won first place in the National Public Speaking Contest for the American Institute of Banking. Later, while working at the Empress Hotel of La Jolla, he was chosen from 30,000 hotel employees in San Diego County, as Employee of the Year. When he stopped working about 1999, he began working toward a goal heâ€™s had since the age of 21: writing a novel.
King of Nod	by Scott Fad July 13, 2010	$2.99	273070 words	Sample 50%
Author bio: The author Scott Fad was born in Newark, Delaware and is a graduate of the University of Delaware. Scott has taken turns as a bouncer, a brick layer and a bartender as well as a management consultant and business executive. He received an honorable discharge from the US Navy and a black belt from the American Tae Kwon Do Association. He is a former amateur marathoner and boxer and is an accomplished painter and song writer. He currently works as a corporate officer in Wilmington Delaware. Scott lives in Landenberg, Pennyslvania with his wife, Leslie, and their two children - along with five dogs, three chickens, a cat and a horse. The award winning novel, KING OF NOD, is his first published work.
A Ring Realms Novel: Savant's Blood Series Book 1: Shadow of the Avatar	by Will Greenway June 08, 2011	$2.99	273015 words	Sample 20%
Author bio: First published in 1983, Will Greenway started his creative career wanting to draw and script comics. After a number of years, he found writing better suited to his skills. Aside from writing and art, Will is a self-taught programmer, PC technician, and network troubleshooter. He enjoys skiing, racquetball, Frisbee golf, and is steadfast supporter of role-playing games. To date he has completed eighteen novels more than twenty short stories, and numerous articles on writing. He resides in the Spring Valley suburb of south San Diego.
Ascendance Born	by Michael Smith Sep. 26, 2011	$2.99	271714 words	Sample 20%
Author bio: M.A. Smith is a freelance writer living in Asheville, North Carolina. He is the author if five novels.
Spider's Web	by Richard Buoye March 11, 2010	$5.00	271647 words	Sample 5%
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