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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Jill Stukenberg’s novel News of the Air (previously titled Labor Day) was selected as the 2021 winner of the Big Moose prize from Black Lawrence Press and will be published in fall 2022. Her short stories have appeared in Midwestern Gothic, The Collagist (now The Rupture), The Florida Review, and other literary magazines. An Associate Professor of English at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point, she has published in the area of creative writing pedagogy and has over twenty years of experience as a writing teacher. (Photo credit: Emma Whitman)
ABOUT THE BOOK - NEWS OF THE AIR
Allie Krane is heavily pregnant when she and her husband flee urban life after a rash of eco-terrorism breaks out in their city. They reinvent themselves as the proprietors of a northwoods fishing resort, where they live in relative peace for nearly two decades. That is, until two strange children arrive by canoe. Like the small ecological disasters lapping yearly at their shore, have the problems of the modern world finally found Allie, her husband, and their troubled cypher of a teenage daughter? This eco-novel of a family, told from three points of view, explores how we remake our lives once we open our hearts to all the news we've chosen to ignore.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR - JULIETTE GODOT
With over 40,000 ancestors catalogued in her family tree, genealogist Juliette Godot has found many memorable characters. All of them have a story, some must be told. Her award-winning debut novel, From the Drop of Heaven, brings one of her sixteenth-century families to life.
ABOUT THE BOOK - FROM THE DROP OF HEAVEN
It’s 1582. Banned books in tow, accused seditionist, Martin, escapes the pyre, finding safety with Nicolas’s family. When Nicolas and his love, Catherine, are caught with the books, all three are forced to fight for their lives. From the Drop of Heaven is based on the author’s family tree.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
William Martin is the New York Times bestseller of twelve novels, a PBS documentary, book reviews, magazine articles, and a cult-classic horror movie. His first Peter Fallon novel, Back Bay, established him as "a master storyteller." He has been following the lives of the great and anonymous in American history ever since. His latest, the "propulsive" December '41, captures the atmosphere in the United States int he weeks after Pearl Harbor.
ABOUT THE BOOK - DECEMBER '41: A World War II Thriller
On the day after Pearl Harbor, shocked Americans gather around their radios to hear Franklin Roosevelt declare war. In Los Angeles, a German agent named Martin Browning is planning to kill FDR on the night he lights the National Christmas Tree. Who will stop him? Relentless FBI Agent Frank Carter? Kevin Cusack, a Hollywood script reader who also spies on the German Bund of Los Angeles, and becomes a suspect himself? Or Vivian Hopewell, the aspiring actress who signs on to play Martin Browning's wife and cannot help but fall in love with him?
The clock is ticking. The tracks are laid. The train of narrow escapes, mistaken identities, and shocking deaths is right on schedule. It's a thrilling ride that will sweep you from the back lots of Hollywood to the speeding Super Chief to that solemn Christmas Eve, when twenty thousand people gather on the South Lawn of the White House and the lives of Franklin Roosevelt and his surprise guest, Winston Churchill, hang in the balance.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR - Dr. Victor Acquista
Dr. Victor Acquista is an international author and speaker following careers as a primary-care physician and medical executive. He is known for "Writing to Raise Consciousness." He is the creator and narrator/host of a podcast series, Podfobler Productions. Dr. Acquista has a longstanding interest in consciousness studies, is a student of Integral Theory, and strives to do his part to make our planet a wee bit better. He lives with his wife in Florida and is a member of the Authors Guild, Mystery Writers of America, the International Thriller Writers, and the Florida Writers Association.
ABOUT THE BOOK - REVELATION (Out Today!)
An ancient conspiracy is about to be exposed…
Since the dawn of civilization, a clandestine Brotherhood has been secretly organizing a hidden agenda. As the Illuminati orchestrate worldwide catastrophic events to establish a New World Order, only Serena Mendez and an ancient society with ties to Atlantis can save humanity from centuries of manipulation. Serena may have completed her training, but she is a warrior without a weapon. As Serena and her allies work to defeat the Illuminati, she must decipher seven mysterious messages that hold the key to survival in this thrilling race to unlock a secret that will change humankind—forever.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Coco Picard is a writer, cartoonist, and curator. She is the author of The Chronicles of Fortune (Radiator Comics, 2017), which was nominated for a DiNKy Award. Her art criticism and comics have otherwise appeared under the name Caroline Picard in Artforum, Hyperallergic, The Paris Review, and Seven Stories Press, among others. She started the Green Lantern Press in 2005, received her MFA from the School of the Art Institute and was a Bookends Fellow at Stony Brook University. Her novel, THE HEALING CIRCLE is out as of yesterday, August 16th.
ABOUT THE BOOK - THE HEALING CIRCLE
A mother abandons her family in California to pursue a miracle cure in Munich. Once she gets there however, she wonders if she might have already died. Bedridden with a terminal diagnosis, memories, nurses, immoral doctors, foreign television broadcasts, and phone calls from children intrude upon her consciousness. An aloe plant called Madame Blavatsky is her primary companion.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Corie Adjmi is the author of the short story collection Life and Other Shortcomings, which won an International Book Award, an IBPA Benjamin Franklin award, and an American Fiction Award. Her prize-winning essays and short stories have appeared in dozens of journals and magazines, including HuffPost, North American Review, Indiana Review, Medium, Motherwell and Kveller. She’s been featured in Travel and Leisure, New York Magazine, The Hollywood Times, Parade and BuzzFeed. Her forthcoming book the novel titled The Marriage Box, was named a Must-Read New Book of 2022 on Katie Couric Media, and is due out in August 2022. When she is not writing, Corie does volunteer work, cooks, draws, bikes and hikes. She and her husband have five children and a number of grandchildren, with more on the way. She lives and works in New York City.
ABOUT THE BOOK - THE MARRIAGE BOX
Casey Cohen, a Middle Eastern Jew, is a sixteen-year-old in New Orleans in the 1970s when she starts hanging out with the wrong crowd. Then she gets in trouble—and her parents turn her whole world upside down by deciding to return to their roots, the Orthodox Syrian Jewish community in Brooklyn. In this new and foreign world, men pray daily, thanking God they’re not women; parties are extravagant events at the Museum of Natural History; and the Marriage Box is a real place, a pool deck designated for teenage girls to put themselves on display for potential husbands. Casey is at first appalled by this unfamiliar culture, but after she meets Michael, she’s enticed by it. Looking for love and a place to belong, she marries him at eighteen, believing she can adjust to Syrian ways. But she begins to question her decision when she discovers that Michael doesn’t want her to go to college—he wants her to have a baby instead.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Judge, author, litigator, wife, step-mom, mother of twins, and civic volunteer, are all words used to describe Debra Goldstein. Debra's life and writings are equally diverse. She's the author of the Sarah Blair mystery series (out by Kensington Press). The main character, Sarah, like her, is a cook of convenience who might be scorched if she gets too close to a kitchen.
ABOUT THE BOOK - FIVE BELLES TOO MANY (Sarah Blair Mystery, Book 5)
When Sarah Blair’s mother participates in a reality show competition for brides in Wheaton, Alabama, things get a little too real as a murderer crashes the wedding party. Sometimes Sarah’s mother, Maybelle, can be higher maintenance than her Siamese cat RahRah. Maybelle and her friend, Mr. George Rogers, have been chosen to be one of five couples competing for a small-town “perfect” wedding and dream honeymoon on a Southern Belles reality show—and guess who has to be chaperone. Even more vexing, the producers have decided to put up the crew and participants at the restaurant/bed and breakfast owned by Sarah’s nemesis Jane Clark.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
The daughter of a law professor and a potter, Leslie Karst learned early, during family dinner conversations, the value of both careful analysis and the arts—ideal ingredients for a mystery story. She spent her early years in various locales from Columbus, Ohio to South America and England. Leslie was able to parlay her humanities degree into employment waiting tables and singing in a new wave rock and roll band. Exciting though this life was, however, she eventually decided she was ready for a “real” job, and ended up at Stanford Law School. Leslie worked for twenty years as a research and appellate attorney for a civil law firm. She rediscovered a passion for food and cooking and returned to school for a degree in culinary arts from Cabrillo College.
ABOUT THE BOOK - THE FRAGRANCE OF DEATH
Restaurateur Sally Solari is a champion, both in the kitchen and on the case, but after getting mixed up in one too many murders, she's noticed her Nonna's friends have now taken to crossing themselves when they see her in the street. Adding to her woes, a sinus infection has knocked out her sense of smell, making cooking on the hot line difficult, indeed. Nevertheless, Sally is determined to stay out of trouble and focus on her work.
But then her old acquaintance Neil Lerici is murdered at the annual Santa Cruz Artichoke Cook-Off, and her powers of investigation are called into action once more. Could Neil have been killed by the local restaurant owner who took his winning spot at the competition? Or maybe by one of his siblings, who were desperate to sell the family farm to a real estate developer?
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Randall Silvis is the multi-genre author of nineteen critically acclaimed novels, three story collections, and two books of creative nonfiction. He was the first Pennsylvanian to win the prestigious Drue Heinz Literature Prize (1984), and was chosen for that award by author Joyce Carol Oates. His work has been published in over a hundred editions in several languages. Silvis has twice been nominated for a Pushcart Prize for his short fiction, and was a two-time Hammett Prize finalist for literary excellence in the field of crime writing (for An Occasional Hell and Two Days Gone.) The recipient of two National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowships, a Fulbright Senior Scholar Research Award, and six writing fellowships from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts for his fiction, drama, and screenwriting.
ABOUT THE BOOK - THE DEEPEST BLACK (Pre-order now and get it 8/16/22)
Where does the line blur between fact and fiction? Acclaimed author Randall Silvis is looking for a story—any story to follow up the series of gripping mystery novels that catapulted him to success. And then, out of nowhere, a story appears. A mysterious stranger named Thomas Kennaday tips Silvis off about a series of murders in a small Pennsylvania town, sending Silvis off on a tentative investigation in hopes of finding material for his next novel.
What Silvis discovers is much more than a typical small-town murder case, and it soon becomes clear that Kennaday, who seems to have disappeared into thin air, is somehow pulling the strings of the investigation from behind the scenes. Based on true events, The Deepest Black is a profoundly thoughtful, unsettling read, and a crime novel unlike any you've ever read before.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Dennis Galloway has lived in a variety of cultures, giving him a wide range of experiences. He incorporates many of these experiences in his writing so the characters you meet feel real and it seems like you are really there in the places he writes about. Dennis grew up with a vivid, active imagination which serves him well in developing unique and exciting stories. His imagination provides him with ideas in the creative areas not only of writing, but in video, photography, and public speaking. Dennis's stories have been incorporated in documentaries, videos, podcast programs, articles, short stories and novels that cover a wide range of venues from children's stories to adult fiction.
ABOUT THE BOOK - THE PEN: Sultan's Wisdom
Harold wanted a better life. He wanted a life that would free him from the shackles of his mundane existence. He wanted freedom, love, and a life that made his soul soar high. But how could he obtain those things? The surprising solution lay in an antique pen Harold purchased. At first, he thought he would just write down his thoughts, but he soon discovered the pen had a mind of its own. The pen took over, forcing Harold to write what it wanted, using a beautiful curly script in a language he didn’t understand.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Marty Ambrose is the award-winning author of a historical mystery trilogy: Claire's Last Secret, A Shadowed Fate, and Forever Past, all set around the Byron/Shelley circle in nineteenth-century Italy. Her fiction has earned starred reviews in Publisher's Weekly as well as a gold medal for historical fiction in the FL Writers Association's Literary Palm Awards. Marty teaches English at FL Southwestern State College and taught for the SNHU Creative Writing MFA program. She teaches 19th-century British literature, composition, and fiction writing. She has edited the FSW literary journal, served on student scholarship boards, and is a member of The Byron Society, Historical Novel Society, and Women's Fiction Writers Association.
ABOUT THE BOOK - FOREVER PAST (A Lord Byron mystery Book 3)
Italy, 1873. Claire Clairmont, one of the last surviving members of the Byron/Shelley circle, is determined to uncover the true fate of Allegra, her daughter conceived with Lord Byron. But her quest so far has been fraught with danger, and Claire knows she has enemies who will stop at nothing to keep past secrets hidden.
When she learns of a stunning revelation involving the abbess and Allegra, Claire returns to the convent of Bagnacavallo with her close companions to confront the abbess, and soon finds herself grappling with a series of chilling and threatening events.
As Claire finally closes in on the truth, could someone in her closest circle be plotting against her? And can she survive long enough to get the answers she craves?
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Sue Mell earned her MFA from Warren Wilson, and was a 2020 BookEnds fellow at SUNY Stony Brook. Her work has appeared in Narrative Magazine, Hippocampus Magazine, Jellyfish Review, Cleaver Magazine, and elsewhere. Her collection of micro essays, GIVING CARE, won the 2022 Chestnut Review Prose Chapbook Prize, and her story collection, A NEW DAY, was a finalist for the 2021 St. Lawrence Book Award. PROVENANCE is her debut novel.
ABOUT THE BOOK - PROVENANCE - WINNER OF MADVILLE'S BLUE MOON NOVEL COMPETITION
Still grieving his wife's early death, DJ has spent the last three years-and the money from her insurance policy-collecting guitars, composing music, and continuing to shop the Brooklyn stoop sales and flea markets they'd always enjoyed. When his building is sold, he takes refuge in his younger sister's half-finished basement, imagining a comfortable and solitary retreat in Hurley, the small Hudson Valley town where they grew up. Instead, he finds himself caught up in her troubling divorce, drafted as caregiver for his 11-year-old niece, and unable to face or afford a storage unit crammed with hundreds of vinyl records and every other scrap of his former life. DJ gifts his niece a marbled glass egg, a porkpie hat, and one of his prized guitars. But what's asked of him, on his return to Hurley is not to give the perfect object-it's to give of himself.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Anne Whitney Pierce is a lifelong Cantabrigian and the author of two books, Galaxy Girls: Wonder Women (1993) and Rain Line (2000). While raising her three daughters, she taught writing in the graduate Writing Program at Emerson College in Boston and to younger students in the Cambridge Public Schools. Her short fiction has appeared in the Virginia Quarterly Review, The Chattahoochee Review, The Boston Globe Magazine, Kansas Quarterly, Crosscurrents, and the Southern Review, among others.
ABOUT THE BOOK - DOWN TO THE RIVER
Down to the River is a family saga set in the late 1960s in Cambridge, Massachusetts during the Vietnam War. Twin brothers, Nash and Remi Potts, have grown up as entitled, Harvard-educated, golden boys, heirs to an old, but dwindling family fortune. With the passage of time, the gold veneer of prosperity begins to chip away, and their lives begin to falter. We meet Remi and Nash in 1968, in their mid-forties and partners in a sporting goods store in Harvard Square. The twins' marriages are in trouble. Their youngest children, Chickie and Hen are coming of age during the turbulent urban wilderness of the late 1960s— school bomb threats, racial tensions, war protests and demonstrations at Harvard and beyond. With all hell breaking loose at home, and any semblance of “parenting” hanging ragged in the wind, the two cousins are left largely to their own devices. Suddenly freed from old rules and restrictions, they head out onto the streets of Cambridge, which become their concrete playground, tumbling headlong into a world of politics, sex, drugs, rock and roll. Chickie and Hen forge an unbreakable bond as they join forces and hearts to stay afloat in the sea of upheaval that surrounds them, the lines of family love and loyalty often blurring.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR - DANA KING
Dana King was born in New Kensington PA; the building is no longer a hospital. He spent the first four years of his life living in an apartment in Arnold PA; that building has since burned to the ground and is now a vacant lot. Dana grew up in Lower Burrell PA, which is still there, though everyone is nervous when he comes to visit. The first memory he can attach to a time and place is riding in the car to the new house on October 13, 1960, as Bill Mazeroski hit the home run that won the World Series.
A classically-trained musician, Dana holds a Bachelor’s degree from Indiana University of Pennsylvania (no, not the other one), and a Master’s in Trumpet Performance from New England Conservatory, where he studied with Charles Schlueter of the Boston Symphony.
ABOUT THE BOOK - WHITE OUT
It’s been a tough winter in Penns River and things aren’t getting any better. A major snowstorm looms as a police officer shoots and kills a man after a bar fight. There are four complicating factors:
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No weapon is found on the dead man.
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The cop is Black; the victim is white.
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The victim is not just white; he’s a white supremacist.
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A national leader of the movement wants to use Penns River to set an example and create a martyr for the cause.
Fellow travelers from several neighboring states converge on the town for the funeral as an even bigger snowstorm roars in with them.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Donna Gordon is a fiction writer and visual artist from Cambridge, Massachusetts. She graduated from Brown, and was then a Stegner Fellow at Stanford, a PEN Discovery, and Ploughshares Discovery. She received the 2018 New Letters Publication Award, and was a finalist for the 2019 Black Lawrence Press Big Moose Award, a semi-finalist for the 2019 Dzanc Books publication award, a semi-finalist for the 2019 Eludia Award, Hidden River Arts, and is currently a semi-finalist at YesYes books for her novel, What Ben Franklin Would Have Told Me.
ABOUT THE BOOK - WHAT BEN FRANKLIN WOULD HAVE TOLD ME
A vibrant thirteen-year-old boy who is facing premature death from Progeria (a premature aging disease); his caretaker TomÁs, a survivor of Argentina's Dirty War, who is searching for his missing wife, who was pregnant when they were both "disappeared;" and Lee's single mother, Cass, overwhelmed by love for her son and the demands of her work as a Broadway makeup artist. When a mix-up prevents Cass from taking Lee on his "final wish" trip to Washington, D.C. and Philadelphia to pursue his interest in the life of Ben Franklin, TomÁs--who has discovered potential leads to his family in both cities--offers to accompany Lee on the trip. As one flees memories of death and the other hurtles inevitably toward it, they each share unsettling truths and find themselves transformed in the process. Set during the Ronald Reagan presidency, this lyrical novel transcends an adventure story to take the reader on an unforgettable journey which explores love, family and the inevitability of change.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Steve Berry is the New York Times and #1 internationally bestselling author of twenty-one novels. His books have been translated into 41 languages with over 25,000,000 copies in 52 countries. They consistently appear in the top echelon of The New York Times, USA Today, and Indie bestseller lists. Somewhere in the world, every thirty seconds, one of his novels is sold.
ABOUT THE BOOK - THE OMEGA FACTOR
Enter UNESCO investigator, Nicholas Lee, who works for the United Nations’ Cultural Liaison and Investigative Office (CLIO). Nick’s job is to protect the world’s cultural artifacts—anything and everything from countless lesser-known objects to national treasures.
When Nick travels to Belgium for a visit with a woman from his past, he unwittingly stumbles on the trail of a legendary panel from the van Eyck brothers' Ghent Altarpiece, stolen in 1934 under cover of night and never seen since. Soon Nick is plunged into a bitter conflict, one that has been simmering for nearly two thousand years. On one side is the Maidens of Saint-Michael, les Vautours—the Vultures—a secret order of nuns and the guardians of a great truth. Pitted against them is the Vatican, which has wanted for centuries to both find and possess what the nuns guard. Because of Nick the maidens have finally been exposed, their secret placed in dire jeopardy—a vulnerability that the Vatican swiftly moves to exploit utilizing an ambitious cardinal and a corrupt archbishop, both with agendas of their own.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Sarah Humpherys lives in Lehi, Utah and is a die-hard fantasy nerd that can't stop talking about dragons and anime. She is trying to get through high school by burying herself in Japanese TV shows and creating her own worlds and characters. She does make friends, but only with people who can stand her habit of constantly talking during movies to critique the plot, her memorization of the How to Train Your Dragon Wikipedia page, and a monologue explaining why Doctor Strange is obviously the best avenger.
ABOUT THE BOOK - STONE COLD
In a kingdom where emotion is punished by death, Princess Syona is forced into a marriage alliance to stop a thirty-year war. She must choose between her duty to the kingdom or the boy she truly loves.
In the Kingdom of Ashlon, emotion is considered a weakness and a danger. To help their society run perfectly, the king has ordered everyone to wear enchanted stones that take away emotion. However, there are some people, Malopaths, that are not affected by the stones and are hunted down and executed. The princess of Ashlon, Syona, is a Malopath. She becomes antisocial and stays in the shadows, afraid of her secret being exposed. When her brother dies, Princess Syona becomes the heir to the kingdom and must try harder than ever to fake being emotionless. As crown heir, she must navigate a marriage alliance with an enemy kingdom, political conspiracies, and a love triangle between her betrothed and her childhood friend and guard. Stone Cold shows that emotions are what make humans human and that people shouldn’t be afraid to be themselves.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Brooks Eason was born in New Orleans in 1957 and given up for adoption by his teenage mother, who was wealthy but unwed. He was adopted and raised by wonderful parents in Tupelo, Mississippi, and has practiced law in Jackson, Mississippi, for more than 35 years. He is the author of three books.
ABOUT THE BOOK - REDEMPTION: The Two Lives of Harry Brooks
In the first half of Harry’s life, he embezzled money from the Uniontown, PA, school district where he was the elected superintendent, left his wife for another woman, and sought to escape by booking passage on a Cunard liner to Liverpool. But his plan was foiled, Scotland Yard arrested him when the ship docked, and he was extradited, tried, convicted, and served three years in Western Penitentiary in Pittsburgh. In the second half of Harry’s life, he came to the South, where he spent his last thirty-five years as a revered and successful Methodist minister and church official. He was a district superintendent overseeing a hundred congregations at the time of his death in 1942. In 1934, when President Roosevelt spoke to a crowd of 75,000 in North Mississippi, Harry was chosen to give the invocation. Nobody in the huge crown knew the preacher at the lectern was an ex-con.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR - KELLY HITCHCOCK
Raised by a single father in the small town of Buffalo, Missouri, Kelly has fond memories of life being broke living in the Ozarks that strongly influence her writing and way of life. She’s a graduate of Missouri State University, where she earned a Bachelor of Arts in Creative Writing. She has six-year-old identical twins and a full-time job, so writing and picking up LEGO are the only other things she can devote herself to.
ABOUT THE BOOK - COMMUNITY KLEPTO
As Ann battles the inner demons that plague her millennial psyche, she must also battle the fiends that plague her at the gym: the loudly grunting beefcake who can’t be bothered to drop his weights at a reasonable volume, the naked old lady in the locker room using a towel as butt floss, the housewife in yoga pants that obviate the need for yoga wheeling her double stroller up and down the indoor track. Set in suburban Kansas City in the early 2010s, Community Klepto—a droll combination of Bridget Jones’ Diary and Choke—makes incarnate the characters and shenanigans that go on in every gym in the world.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
USA Today Bestselling author Sariah Wilson has never jumped out of an airplane, never climbed Mt. Everest, and is not a former CIA operative. She has, however, been madly, passionately in love with her soulmate and is a fervent believer in happily ever afters—which is why she writes romance. She grew up in southern California, graduated from Brigham Young University (go Cougars!) with a semi-useless degree in history, and is the oldest of nine (yes, nine) children. She currently lives with the aforementioned soulmate and their children in Utah, along with cats named Pixel, Callie, and Belle who do not get along. (The cats, not the children. Although the children sometimes have their issues, too.)
ABOUT THE BOOK - CINDER NANNY
With her sister’s medical bills mounting, Diana Parker can’t say no to a high-paying opportunity like this: accompany a wealthy couple to Aspen and nanny their precocious five-year-old son for three months. Necessary qualifications? She must know how to ski and teach math, speak fluent French, excel at social graces, and hold a master’s degree in childhood development. Who’ll be the wiser that Diana’s only skill is packing for Colorado?
So far, so good—having a con woman for a mother has turned out to be a benefit, even if Diana has complicated feelings about telling lies. But she’s doing this for her sister. And the perks—like a ticket to a lavish charity fundraiser, a new gown, and a Prince Charming–adjacent earl named Griffin Windsor—are pretty irresistible. Diana can’t deny the Cinderella vibe. Even so, wary of gold diggers and scandal, England’s most eligible bachelor is nevertheless falling for Diana.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
As a little girl growing up in the Bronx, she told her friends stories she made up, but pretended were true (imagined reality was better received by the audience). She wrote her first short story when she was twelve. In middle school, she would submit book reports about her stories with fake author names. They never caught her and she always received A's. Under her graduation picture in the Evander Childs High School yearbook next to her name read for her ambition: writer. Although marriage, children, and career sidelined her true passion, it never squelched Karen Osborne's desire to write.
ABOUT THE BOOK - RECKONINGS
For all her adult life, Roxy suppressed the impact of two traumatic events—being abandoned by her mother at the age of twelve and being raped by her boyfriend, Spider, at eighteen. She never told anyone but her best friend about the rape. Though happily married to Carl, they both long to be out from under the thumb of Carl’s domineering father, for whom they both work. And she’s convinced that her first play—being staged at the community theater with her movie-star friend from high school in the lead role—is the ticket to that better life.
But now Spider is back, a successful land developer with a proposal to revitalize the town and solve the theater’s financial woes. When he takes an interest in Jewel, Roxy’s eldest daughter whose paternity she’s not entirely sure of, and engineers a big win for Carl in a private poker game, Roxy knows he’s up to his old tricks. She’s determined to expose him before he can harm her family or her beloved theater.
Karen E. Osborne traces the treacherous path between good intentions and poor decisions rooted in the shame of toxic secrets.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Davida G. Breier was born in Miami, FL She’s worked as a youth sports photographer, TV extra, substitute teacher, jewelry maker, bookseller, and ATM cleaner. She won the Literary Death Match, Baltimore 3.0 event in 2011. She’s spent the last two decades in various roles within the book industry and currently works for Johns Hopkins University Press. Davida lives in Maryland with her family, a pack of wee rescue dogs, a rescue tortoise, and two companion chickens.
ABOUT THE BOOK - SINKHOLE
Humidity, lovebugs, and murder. Lies from the past and a dangerous present collide when, after fifteen years in exile, Michelle Miller returns to her tiny hometown of Lorida, Florida. With her mother in the hospital, she's forced to reckon with the broken relationships she left behind: with her family, with friends, and with herself.
As a teenager, Michelle felt isolated and invisible until she met Sissy, a dynamic and wealthy classmate. Their sudden, intense friendship was all-consuming. Punk rocker Morrison later joins their clique, and they become an inseparable trio. They were the perfect high school friends, bound by dysfunction, bad TV, and boredom―until one of them ends up dead.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR - ADAM FROST
ADAM FROST was born and raised in Vancouver. He began as an actor, and now works as a television writer and producer, best known for the crime shows Tribal and Castle. He lives on the east side of Los Angeles and is also one helluva T-ball coach.
ABOUT THE BOOK - THE DAMNED LOVELY
A murder mystery set in East LA about a struggling writer who drowns his days surrounded by misfits and burned-out ex-cops at a dive bar called The Damned Lovely. When a local patron turns up strangled under mysterious circumstances, he’s determined to learn the truth about her murder.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Brian C. Johnson honors the struggles and accomplishments of the ordinary citizens who launched the Civil Rights Movement by committing himself personally and professionally to the advancement of multicultural and inclusive education. During AY 2018-2019, Dr. Johnson served as a postdoctoral scholar in the department of Communication Studies at Bloomsburg University. He is currently a part time instructor of interpersonl communication at Luzerne County Community College.
He earned both bachelor's and master's degrees in English from California University of Pennsylvania, and a Ph.D. in communications media and instructional technology at Indiana University of Pennsylvania in December 2016. Brian is the co-author of Reel Diversity: A Teacher’s Sourcebook (2008), winner of the 2009 Phillip Chinn Book Award by the National Association for Multicultural Education and a revised edition in 2015, ,and We’ve Scene It All Before: Using Film Clips in Diversity Awareness Training (2009).
ABOUT THE BOOK - ME, MY SELFIE, AND I
Nahim Lightbourne finds himself as the only black student at an exclusive private school. His peers have a funny way of showing their friendliness with all their racial jokes and jibes. Nahim feels alone until his high school hires its first black teacher. He must learn how to bear up against the tide-until a class lesson goes awry.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Colin Conway is the creator of the 509 Crime Stories, a series of novels set in Eastern Washington with revolving lead characters. They are standalone tales and can be read in any order.
He also created the Cozy Up series which pushes the envelope of the cozy genre. Libby Klein, author of the Poppy McAllister series, says Cozy Up to Death is “Not your grandma’s cozy.”
Colin co-authored the Charlie-316 series. The first novel in the series, Charlie-316, is a political/crime thriller that has been described as “riveting and compulsively readable,” “the real deal,” and “the ultimate ride-along.”
He served in the U.S. Army and later was an officer of the Spokane Police Department. He's owned a laundromat, invested in a bar, and ran a karate school. Besides writing crime fiction, he is a commercial real estate broker.
Boom, done.
ABOUT THE BOOK - THE RIDE ALONG (co-authored with Frank Zafiro)
The Tyler Garrett scandal rocked the Spokane Police Department two years ago. Now, a consent decree governs the agency with Washington D.C. directing its reform. It’s a tumultuous time in the city, and public outcry over local and national events is high.
Change is in the air.
Officer Lee Salter is a third-generation cop who bleeds blue. Amid the departmental chaos, he does the only thing he can—be a good officer. That means showing up for every shift, responding to calls for service, and always doing the right thing. All the while, the Department of Justice and its local supporters hope to catch another officer in its net of reform.
Salter refuses to be that officer.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Connie Berry’s dream of becoming an archaeologist ended when she learned there was more to it than discovering the tombs of lost pharaohs. Instead, she created the Kate Hamilton Mystery series, set in the UK and featuring an American antiques dealer with a gift for solving crimes.
Her debut mystery, A Dream of Death, won the IPPY Gold Medal for Mystery and was a finalist for the Silver Falchion and Agatha awards.
ABOUT THE BOOK - THE SHADOW OF MEMORY (Fourth in the Kate Hamilton Mystery series)
As Kate Hamilton plans her upcoming wedding to Detective Inspector Tom Mallory, she is also assisting her colleague Ivor Tweedy with a project at the Netherfield Sanatorium, which is being converted into luxury townhouses. Kate and Ivor must appraise a fifteenth-century paintingand verify that its provenance is the Dutch master Jan Van Eyck. But when retired criminal inspector Will Parker is found dead, Kate learns that the halls of the sanatorium housed much more than priceless art.
Kate is surprised to learn that Will had been the first boyfriend of her friend Vivian Bunn, who hasn’t seen him in fifty-eight years. At a seaside holiday camp over sixty years ago, Will, Vivian, and three other teens broke into an abandoned house where a doctor and his wife had died under bizarre circumstances two years earlier. Now, when a second member of the childhood gang dies unexpectedly—and then a third—it becomes clear that the teens had discovered more in the house than they had realized.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Sylvain Neuvel is a Canadian science fiction writer, known as the author of The Themis Files. He was born in Quebec City and raised in the suburb of L'Ancienne-Lorette. Neuvel was educated at the University of Montréal and the University of Chicago, and runs his own professional translation agency.
ABOUT THE BOOK - UNTIL THE LAST OF ME: Take Them To the Stars (Book 2)
The First Rule is the most important: Always run, never fight. For generations, Mia’s family has shaped human history to push them to the stars.
The year is 1968 and she is on the cusp of destiny, poised to launch the first humans into space. But she cannot take them to the stars, not quite yet. Her adversary is at her heels, the future of the planet at stake, and obeying the First Rule is no longer an option. For the first time in one-hundred generations, Mia’s family will have to choose to stand their ground, risking not only their bloodline, but the future of the human race. A darkly satirical thriller, as seen through the eyes of the women who sacrifice all to make progress possible and the men who are determined to stop them.
Always run, never fight.
Preserve the knowledge.
Survive at all cost.
Take them to the stars.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Judith F. Brenner is the author of The Moments Between Dreams, a novel. She's a former journalist, an editor, and publisher of Sharpeners Report, a national publication with paid circulation in a professional service and repair industry. Her personal essays have been published in literary magazines and parent magazines. She completed the Iowa University Mini-MFA program in 2019. Judith is a member of the Loft Literary Center in Minneapolis, and the national Professional Editor’s Network, the Chicago Writers Network, and the Women's Fiction Writing Association.
ABOUT THE BOOK: The Moments Between Dreams, A Novel
Carol misses red flags about Joe’s need for control before she marries him, dashing her dreams for herself and her family. Trouble escalates after their daughter Ellie is paralyzed by the polio virus and Joe returns from WWII. Carol realizes how brutal waking life can be, and she conceals bruises and protects her children the best she can. The Moments Between Dreams is a captivating story of a 1940s housewife who conforms to the rulebook of society until Joe pushes her too far. His constant intimidation shrinks Carol’s confidence while she tries to boost Ellie’s. Church-going neighbors in Carol’s tight-knit Polish community are complacent, but Sam, a handsome reporter, stirs up Carol’s zest for life. Despite impossible circumstances, Carol plans a secret escape. Along a risky path, she empowers her daughter to know no limits and teaches her son to stop the cycle of violence and gender discrimination.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Jodé is a life long resident of Poughkeepsie, New York, which serves as the setting for her legal suspense novels. In her writing, she draws upon her experiences as an attorney to capture the tensions that arise when a small community is rocked by tragedy. Jode's debut thriller novel, "The Midnight Call", was released by Immortal Works Publishing in 2019. "The Midnight Call" won the 2020 Bronze IPPY Award, the 2020 American Fiction Award, the 2021 Independent Press Award for Legal Thriller, was a 2021 Book Excellence Award Finalist, was short-listed for the 2019 Clue Award and received the First Place Blue Ribbon as "Best Police Procedural" by Chantireviews.com.
ABOUT THE BOOK - HOOKER AVENUE
Released by Level Best Books last week, is the second installment in her "Queen City Crimes" series inspired by true crimes in the Hudson Valley. Being a Good Samaritan is hazardous. Amid a violent Hudson Valley thunderstorm, Jessie Martin discovers a woman lying unconscious in a roadside ditch. The badly beaten victim, Lissie Sexton, a local prostitute, claims she's escaped the attack of a killer. Jessie's more than a casual driver who passes by; she's a criminal-defense attorney. And Lissie is more than an ordinary hooker. She's the key witness in a cold case under investigation by Jessie's estranged longtime friend, Detective Ebony Jones. And now Ebony can't find her witness. Jessie's new boss has sent Lissie into hiding. If Jessie reveals Lissie's location she compromises her client, her firm and her professional ethics. If she doesn't, she risks alienating not just Ebony but the entire police department backing her. A simple act of compassion forces Jessie to choose between her duty and her friend.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Dinitia Smith is the author of four previous novels, most recently The Honeymoon (Other Press), and her short stories have been published in numerous magazines. For 11 years, she was a reporter at the New YorkTimes where she wrote on literary topics and intellectual trends. She has won many awards for her writing, including fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Ingram Merrill Foundation, the MacDowell Colony and the Bread Loaf Writers Conference. She is also an Emmy Award-winning film maker. Her film, Passing Quietly Through, was chosen for the New York Film Festival, and shown at the Whitney Museum and the Museum of Modern Art.
ABOUT THE BOOK - THE PRINCE
Money. Power. Sex. Family. These conflicts propel the world’s greatest novels. They seared the pages of The Golden Bowl by Henry James when it was published in 1904, and they inflame Dinitia Smith’s retelling, THE PRINCE creating a modern classic with twists and turns that even James couldn’t imagine.
Smith, a multiple award-winning former New York Times reporter, uses the modern equivalent of the glittering high society setting of the Golden Age to tell the story of a father and daughter and the prince who comes between them. Set partially on Woodford Island, based on Gardiners Island off the coast of East Hampton, THE PRINCE reconstructs the claustrophobic tension of the original while exploring the four central relationships with a fresh, modern gaze.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Rosow is an independent author—still working on his “day job” in the design and construction industry. He has self-published three novels. After his first story was rejected by the usual publishing houses, Rosow decided to forge his own path. Turns out those publishers were wrong; his first release, FALSE ASSURANCES, became a best-seller and was optioned as a feature film by Spyglass Media. Sequels. THREAT BIAS, SUBVERSIVE ADDICTION, and (soon!) VITAL DECEPTION continue the story of his unique and compelling protagonist, Ben Porter.
ABOUT THE BOOK - VITAL DECEPTION
Six months after being tasked with an off-the-books, international investigation, Ben Porter finds himself bedridden in a Washington, D.C. hospital, beset with mysterious, life-threatening symptoms. Faced not only with tragedy but also with mounting pressure from his superiors, Ben is forced into an impossible choice: does he fulfill his duty, or does he disobey his command? Or… can he do both?
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Samantha Downing is the author of the bestselling My Lovely Wife, nominated for Edgar, ITW, Macavity, and CWA awards. Amazon Studios and Nicole Kidman's Blossom Films have partnered to produce a feature film based on the novel. Her second book, He Started It, was released in 2020 and became an instant international bestseller.Her third thriller, For Your Own Good, was released in the US on July 20, 2021. It has been optioned by Robert Downey Jr. and Greg Berlanti for HBO Max. She currently lives and works in New Orleans.
ABOUT THE BOOK - SLEEPING DOGS LIE
From the internationally bestselling author of My Lovely Wife and For Your Own Good comes a twisted, entertaining novella about a dog walker swept into a criminal investigation when her client winds up dead.
Shelby works as a dog walker in northern California, and she’s just finished up her bi-weekly trip to the park with a husky named Pluto. When she brings him back to his house, she finds his owner—Todd Burke, a well-known local businessman and founder of an organic supplements company—lying on the bathroom floor, dead. A detective arrives on the scene. As she interviews Shelby, the body is inspected by a medical examiner, and more cops search Todd’s home, it becomes clear that the victim’s life was less picture-perfect than his clean-cut persona might lead you to believe.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR - JOSHUA SENTER
Joshua Senter is an award-winning TV writer and producer known for his work on such acclaimed hits as The L Word and Desperate Housewives as well as his previous novel, Daisies. He lives in Los Angeles with his husband and their two cats.
ABOUT THE BOOK - STILL THE NIGHT CALL
“Majestic” (writes Booklist). As the world changes around him, dairy farmer Calem Dewayne Honeycutt struggles to contend with both his past and future — and the Night Call haunting his present. “A truthful, honestly told story” that “triumphantly understands the Midwestern psyche, delivering moments of beauty and tragedy.” (Kirkus Reviews starred review), AND WON BEST INDIE BOOK OF 2021.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR - BECKY BOHAN
Becky Bohan earned her Masters in English Literature from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She is the retired Vice-President of a training consulting company. Her novel A Light on Altered Land was a finalist for a 2020 Goldie from the Golden Crown Literary Society. Becky lives in North Fort Myers, Florida.
ABOUT THE BOOK - A LIGHT ON ALTERED LAND
Book blurb for A Light on Altered Land: A radiant story of a lesbian widow and country club divorcée who have suffered life-changing losses. On a road trip across the American West involving a confrontational daughter and a run-in with the law, they meet challenges with wit, wisdom, and humor, while striving to trust the path opening before them.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Ashley Winstead holds a Ph.D. in contemporary American literature from Southern Methodist University and a B.A. in English and Art History from Vanderbilt University. She lives in Houston, TX, where she drinks red wine and dreams up novels.
ABOUT THE BOOK - FOOL ME ONCE
Lee Stone is a twenty-first-century woman: she kicks butt at her job as a communications director at a women-run electric car company (that’s better than Tesla, thank you), and after work she is “Stoner,” drinking guys under the table and never letting any of them get too comfortable in her bed. That’s because Lee’s learned one big lesson: never trust love. Four major heartbreaks set her straight, from her father cheating on her mom all the way to Ben Laderman in grad school—who wasn’t actually cheating, but she could have sworn he was, so she reciprocated in kind. Then Ben shows up five years later, working as a policy expert for the most liberal governor in Texas history, just as Lee is trying to get a clean energy bill rolling. Things get complicated—and competitive—as Lee and Ben are forced to work together. Tension builds just as old sparks reignite, fanning the flames for a romantic dustup the size of Texas.
*Photo Credit - Luis Noble
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Alan Winter was born in Newark, NJ and graduated from Livingston High School. He graduated with honors in history from Rutgers College, New Brunswick, NJ, before pursuing advanced degrees from Columbia and NYU. His many professional accomplishments include editing a journal for eleven years, publishing more than twenty scientific articles, and being appointed associate professor at both Columbia and NYU.
Parallel with his professional career, Alan began to write fiction. That was more than thirty-five years ago.
ABOUT THE BOOK - SINS OF THE FATHERS
Sins of the Fathers is the eye-opening novel―based on historical facts―of the efforts of German military leaders, career civil servants, and clergy to solicit England’s assistance to bring down the tyrant in 1938. When Prime Minster Neville Chamberlain refused to meet with them, they turned to Winston Churchill, who secretly supported their cause. Armed with a strongly worded letter from the future prime minister, they waited for Hitler’s telephone call ordering German troops to invade Czechoslovakia―the signal for their uprising. But the call did not come. Instead, Prime Minister Chamberlain went to Hitler’s apartment in Munich only to bow to the dictator’s will. The invasion was over before it began―and with that, so was the coup. Flying home, Chamberlain announced he had obtained “peace for our times.”
ABOUT THE AUTHOR - WILLIAM MAZ
WILLIAM MAZ was born in Bucharest, Romania, of Greek parents and emigrated to the U.S. as a child. He is a graduate of Harvard University, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, and Yale residency. During his high school and undergraduate years, he developed a passion for writing fiction. He studied writing at Harvard, the New School, The Writer’s Studio in New York City, and with Gordon Lish, and is now writing full time. The Bucharest Dossier is his debut novel.
ABOUT THE BOOK - THE BUCHAREST DOSSIER
Chanticleer International Book Awards 2020 Grand Prize Winner in Global Thrillers
Bill Hefflin is a man apart—apart from life, apart from his homeland, apart from love. At the start of the 1989 uprising in Romania, CIA analyst Bill Hefflin—a disillusioned Romanian expat—arrives in Bucharest at the insistence of his KGB asset, code-named Boris. As Hefflin becomes embroiled in an uprising that turns into a brutal revolution, nothing is as it seems, including the search for his childhood love, which has taken on mythical proportions. With the bloody events unfolding at blinding speed, Hefflin realizes the revolution is manipulated by outside forces, including his own CIA and Boris—the puppeteer who seems to be pulling all the strings of Hefflin’s life.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
CHUCK MARTEN is a crime novelist living outside New York City. He is also a licensed physician, which is to say he has plenty of experience cleaning up other people's messes. Most of his writing results from sleep deprivation. BAD GUY LAWYER is his first novel.
ABOUT THE BOOK - BAD GUY LAWYER
The only time Guy McCann stops talking is when he’s downing scotch. Guy was a hot-shot attorney for the West Coast mafia until he got cold feet and split town, earning a target on his head. Now he’s lying low in Las Vegas, giving back-room legal advice to second-rate crooks while pining over his old girlfriend Blair, a syndicate working girl with a razor wit and zero inhibitions.
When Blair is committed to a psychiatric ward, Guy is drawn back to the dangerous underworld of Los Angeles. Next thing he knows, Blair has escaped from the hospital and Guy’s former mafia associates are on her trail, with Guy caught in the crossfire.
Enter Dr. Happy, a mob physician dissatisfied with performing hotel room surgeries. Suspecting Blair holds a secret that might be their ticket to freedom from the syndicate, Dr. Happy forces his unsolicited assistance and callous bedside manner onto Guy. With the not-so-good doctor in tow, Guy follows Blair’s demented trail of breadcrumbs through nightclubs and major league ballparks, pursued by a switchblade-happy mafioso with a penchant for disembowelment. All Guy wants is to survive long enough to find Blair, but she may not want to be found.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Winner of the 2015 PWA Shamus Award and the 2015 ITW Thriller Award for Best Original Paperback Novel for MOONLIGHT WEEPS, Vincent Zandri is the NEW YORK TIMES, USA TODAY, and AMAZON KINDLE OVERALL NO.1 bestselling author of more than 60 novels and novellas including THE REMAINS, EVERYTHING BURNS, ORCHARD GROVE, THE SHROUD KEY and THE GIRL WHO WASN’T THERE. His list of domestic publishers include Delacorte, Dell, Down & Out Books, Thomas & Mercer, Polis Books, Blackstone Audio, and Oceanview Publishing. An MFA in Writing graduate of Vermont College, his work is translated in the Dutch, Russian, French, Italian, and Japanese.
ABOUT THE BOOK - MOONLIGHT KILLS
When Dick Moonlight PI and his professional impersonator sidekick, Fat Elvis, uncover the head of a decapitated, long blond-haired woman under the floorboards of an under-construction luxury home, they come into contact with a husband-and-wife construction team who also fancy themselves Hollywood filmmakers. Only, it turns out that the filmmakers aren’t interested in making romcoms, but instead, snuff films. With Fat Elvis the perfect candidate for a starring role in their new film, Moonlight is hired by the police to go undercover and expose the snuff film operation which, it turns out, is also partly financed by Mexican drug cartel gang members. The stakes and the body count in this hard-boiled thriller are higher than a box office smash hit, and far more deadly. For fans of Joe R. Landsdale, Michael Connelly, Ace Atkins, Robert B. Parker, and more, New York Times and USA Today bestselling, award-winning author Vincent Zandri delivers another novel in the gritty, fast-paced Dick Moonlight PI series that promises to keep you up all night.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Andy Rausch has written nearly fifty books, including fiction and nonfiction. (His nonfiction appears under the name Andrew J. Rausch). His fiction titles include Layla's Score, American Trash, and Until One of Us Is Dead.
ABOUT THE BOOK - HELL TO PAY (Out 3/14/2022)
Dirty ex-cops Robert “Diggy” Diggs and Dwayne “Stick” Figgers have found themselves in hot water. After Kansas City drug lord Benny Cordella discovers they have wronged him, he devises an insane plan: he will force them to commit suicide. This, he believes, will send them to Hell, where they will track down Dread Corbin, the man who killed his daughter. Of course, Diggy and Stick don’t believe this is possible, but they will soon discover that Hell is real.
Diggy and Stick quickly find that Hell is quite different from the world they’re used to. It’s one giant, endless urban landscape populated by liars, cheats, and murderers—and those are the good ones. But Hell isn’t the pit of fire they expected. It’s dark and rainy around the clock, and almost everyone there is a member of one of many criminal organizations. Worst of all, there are no women. With the help of infamous Deadwood pimp and killer Al Swearengen, Diggy and Stick will hunt for sadistic, disfigured killer Corbin.
Hell to Pay: Diggy and Stick Book One is unlike any crime novel you’ve ever read before. It’s dark, dangerous, edgy, and laugh-out-loud hilarious. Buckle up for one hell of a ride!
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Otho Eskin published his first thriller, The Reflecting Pool, to great reviews and book club interest in 2020. It was an Amazon Editors’ Pick for Best Mystery, Thriller and Suspense. The Reflecting Pool follows Marko Zorn—a Washington D.C. homicide detective who has a strong ethical compass but refuses to play by the rules. The sequel, Head Shot, also featuring Marko Zorn will be released in December, 2021. Before he turned to writing fiction, Otho Eskin served in the US Army and Foreign Service in Washington and in Eastern Europe. He was Vice-Chair of the US delegation to the U.N. Conference on the Law of the Sea, negotiated on the International Space Station, was principal US negotiator of international agreements on seabed mining and was the US representative to the U.N. Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space.
ABOUT THE BOOK - HEAD SHOT (Book 2 of the Marko Zorn series)
Washington, D.C. homicide detective Marko Zorn is investigating the murder of an actress—an old love—when he is assigned to protect the visiting prime minister of Montenegro, the beautiful Nina Voychek. Political enemies are planning her assassination—this, he knows—but now it's apparent that he, too, is a target. As he foils the initial attempts on his life, he pulls out all stops—deploying his sometimes nefarious resources—to hunt whoever is targeting him and prevent an international tragedy on American soil. Decoded messages, Supermax prisoner interviews, mafia lawyers, and an ancient Black Mountain curse swirl among the icons of D.C. Marko and his young partner, Lucy, face down what may be multiple assassins with diverging agendas. Or are they facing one assassin—the deadliest and most elusive on the international stage?
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Maggie Smith founded ArtSource, a leading art consulting company, but when her business was acquired in 2017, she pursued her dream to become a full-time writer. The result is her debut novel, Truth and Other Lies, which will published March 8, 2022, by Ten16 Press. In addition to writing, Maggie hosts the podcast Hear Us Roar for the Women’s Fiction Writers Association, which boasts over 110 episodes and is available on Apple Podcast, Spotify, IHeartRadio, and Amazon Music. Her short story, THE DEVIL YOU KNOW, was published in the 2018 anthology False Faces and she’s a monthly blogger for Rocky Mountain Fiction Writers. A board member of the Chicago Writer’s Association, she serves as Managing Editor of their on-line literary publication The Write City Magazine. She makes her home in Milwaukee with her husband Scott and her aging but adorable dog Colt.
ABOUT THE BOOK - TRUTH AND OTHER LIES (out today!)
Megan Barnes' life is in free fall. After losing both her job as a reporter and her boyfriend in the same day, she retreats to Chicago and moves in with Helen, her over-protective mother. Before long, the two are clashing over everything from pro-choice to #MeToo, not to mention Helen's run for U.S. Congress, which puts Megan's career on hold until after the election.
Desperate to reboot her life, Megan gets her chance when an altercation at a campus rally brings her face-to-face with Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Jocelyn Jones, who offers her a job on her PR team. Before long, Megan is pulled into the heady world of fame and glamour her charismatic new mentor represents.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
There is nowhere on earth Erica Ferencik won’t go to take you out of your head and into the great wild world. An award-winning novelist, Ferencik writes adventure novels featuring women who brave not only internal struggles but face extreme challenges in their environment: remote forests, steaming jungles, and desolated icescapes.
ABOUT THE BOOK - GIRL IN ICE
Valerie “Val” Chesterfield is a linguist trained in the most esoteric of disciplines: dead Nordic languages. Despite her successful career, she leads a sheltered life and languishes in the shadow of her twin brother, Andy, an accomplished climate scientist stationed on a remote island off Greenland’s barren coast. But Andy is gone: a victim of suicide, having willfully ventured unprotected into 50 degree below zero weather. Val is inconsolable—and disbelieving. She suspects foul play.
When Wyatt, Andy’s fellow researcher in the Arctic, discovers a scientific impossibility—a young girl frozen in the ice who thaws out alive, speaking a language no one understands—Val is his first call. Will she travel to the frozen North to meet this girl, and try to comprehend what she is so passionately trying to communicate? Under the auspices of helping Wyatt interpret the girl’s speech, Val musters every ounce of her courage and journeys to the Artic to solve the mystery of her brother’s death.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Kathryn Lane is the award-winning author of the Nikki Garcia Mystery Series. She draws deeply from her experiences growing up in a small town in Mexico as well as her work and travel in over ninety countries around the globe during her career in international finance with Johnson & Johnson. Kathryn loves the Arts and is a board member of the Montgomery County Literary Arts Council. Kathryn and her husband, Bob Hurt, split their time between Texas and the mountains of northern New Mexico where she finds it inspiring to write.
ABOUT THE BOOK - MISSING IN MIAMI
A woman is dead, a teenager is missing, and the partners of a vacation stem cell travel agency in Miami are suspects. One partner is the father of the missing girl and the other one is the husband of the murdered woman. The widower is unreachable, having taken clients on a stem cell therapy trip to the Caribbean. Nikki Garcia investigates the girl’s disappearance and, in the midst of conflicting testimony from witnesses, it’s impossible to distinguish victims from perpetrators. Following a trail of evidence, Nikki and Eduardo, her husband, assume undercover identities and fly to Havana, Cuba, only to find a world of deceit, betrayal, and espionage. When Eduardo locates the widower, he attempts to gather sensitive information on the missing teenager and reveals more information than he should. Nikki’s colleagues in her Miami private investigator office fear the worst when communication with Nikki becomes impossible.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR - FREDRICK SOUKUP
Fredrick Soukup is a St. Paul-based literary fiction author and graduate of St. John’s University. His debut novel, Bliss (Regal House Publishing, 2020), was a finalist for the 2021 Minnesota Book Awards and received a 2020 IPPY bronze medal in the category of Great Lakes Fiction. Soukup was recognized as a semifinalist for the 2017 American Short Fiction Prize and a finalist for the 2020 Eric Hoffer Award.
ABOUT THE BOOK - BLOOD UP NORTH - Released yesterday, February 15, 2022!
Sister and brother. A loyalty forged in the crucible of their tragic upbringing in the Northwoods town of Backus, Minnesota. Cass, a quiet young woman caring for the grandmother who raised them. Jack, a fugitive carrying a life-changing sum of stolen drug money. Desperate, trusting only his sister, Jack enlists her help in burying the cash in their grandmother’s back acres. Cass agrees to the scheme, a decision that soon endangers not only her unassuming backwoods existence, but both of their lives. Jack returns to hiding, and Cass learns of the bounty placed on his head, as the cast of characters in their orbit—some villains, some saviors, some perhaps both—emerges. Their corrupt cop uncle and lawless cousins. Their father, a violent, conniving career criminal whom the siblings blame for their mother’s unsolved murder many years ago. Claiming reformation, he pledges to ensure her and Jack’s safety. Bowed by the burdens of her love for Jack, haunted by a past that seems poised to repeat itself, Cass realizes that her survival may depend on her own measure of wickedness.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR - TG WOLFF
TG Wolff writes thrillers and mysteries that play within the gray area between good and bad, right and wrong. Cause and effect drive the stories, drawing from 20+ years’ experience in Civil Engineering, where “cause” is more often a symptom of a bigger, more challenging problem. TG Wolff holds a Master’s Degree in Civil Engineering and is a member of Mystery Writers of America and Sisters in Crime.
ABOUT THE BOOK - RAZING STAKES
The first day of summer is the last day of a young accountant’s life. Colin McHenry is out for his regular run when an SUV crosses into his path, crushing him. Cleveland Homicide Detective Jesus De La Cruz finds the vehicle in the owner’s garage, who’s on vacation three time zones away. The setup is obvious, but not the hand behind it. The suspects read like a list out of a textbook: the jilted fiancée, the jealous coworker, the overlooked subordinate, the dirty client.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR - LESLIE LEHR
Leslie Lehr explores the duality of today’s women to navigate a new path between sexy and sacred. Salma Hayek is developing Leslie’s critically acclaimed new memoir, A Boob’s Life, into a comedy series for HBO Max. A prize-winning writer, Leslie’s books include What A Mother Knows, a Target Recommended Read, Wife Goes On, and 66 Laps, winner of the Pirate’s Alley Faulkner Prize. Her nonfiction books include Welcome to Club Mom, Club Grandma, excerpted on FisherPrice.com, and Wendy Bellissimo: Nesting, featured on Oprah.
Leslie’s personal essays have appeared in the New York Times Modern Love column (narrated by Katie Couric on NPR), HuffPost, Yourtango, and in anthologies including Mommy Wars, The Honeymoon’s Over, and On Becoming Fearless. She wrote the original screenplays for the indie romantic thriller, Heartless, and the comedy-drama, Club Divorce.
ABOUT THE BOOK - 66 LAPS: A NOVEL
When a ‘friend’ points out Audrey’s first gray hair, she slaps her. The sound echoes, plaguing her with insecurity as she adjusts to being home with a new baby. Then her husband mentors a younger woman at work in the back lots of Hollywood - and Audrey fears the worst. Heartbroken, Audrey sets in motion a chain of events that she cannot control. She swims laps in her backyard pool, trying to make sense of her life. But all the while she is missing the point, swimming in circles. As the tragedy unfolds, she gives up all hope. Ultimately, she finds that only love endures…and dives back in.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR - JACQUELYN MITCHARD
Jacquelyn Mitchard is the New York Times bestselling author of 22 novels for adults and teenagers, and the recipient of Great Britain’s Talkabout prize, The Bram Stoker and Shirley Jackson awards, and named to the short list for the Women’s Prize for Fiction. Her first novel, The Deep End of the Ocean, was the inaugural selection of the Oprah Winfrey Book Club, with more than 3 million copies in print in 34 languages. It was later adapted into a major feature film starring Michelle Pfeiffer.
ABOUT THE BOOK - THE GOOD SON
What do you do when the person you love best becomes unrecognizable to you? For Thea Demetriou, the answer is both simple and agonizing: you keep loving him somehow.
Stefan was just seventeen when he went to prison for the drug-fueled murder of his girlfriend, Belinda. Three years later, he’s released to a world that refuses to let him move on. Belinda’s mother, once Thea’s good friend, galvanizes the community to rally against him to protest in her daughter’s memory. The media paints Stefan as a symbol of white privilege and indifferent justice. Neighbors, employers, even some members of Thea's own family turn away.
Meanwhile Thea struggles to understand her son. At times, he is still the sweet boy he has always been; at others, he is a young man tormented by guilt and almost broken by his time in prison. But as his efforts to make amends meet escalating resistance and threats, Thea suspects more forces are at play than just community outrage. And if there is so much she never knew about her own son, what other secrets has she yet to uncover—especially about the night Belinda died?
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
As a child, Cassie wanted superpowers and to be like Princess Leia, fighting the Empire alongside unlikely heroes. She also wanted a pet tiger. Suffice it to say, she lost herself in books, from fantasy to sci-fi to a suspenseful romance. Cassie grew up in Albuquerque, New Mexico, graduating with a degree in marketing, and marrying her husband, Louie. After a few years in the business world, she became a stay-at-home mom, raising her two sons, Tyler and Chase. Her passions in life are her faith and her family. And now, writing—creating worlds where adventure awaits.
ABOUT THE BOOK - CHASING THE DARKNESS
Pain is inescapable. Suffering is a choice. Azrael, the Angel of Death, knows pain. The deaths of his mother and sister, as well as his harsh experiences in the Watch Guard at age twelve, have brutally shaped him into the most feared assassin in all of Pandaren. Azrael's role as a Hunter requires him to search for those with magic, called Spectrals, which he is happy to do. Hunting allows him to pursue his true goal--exacting revenge on the Fire Spectral who altered the course of his life. Azrael's obsession with revenge and power leads him to undergo an experimental procedure that gives him magic, but when this procedure has unexpected and dangerous side effects, he becomes a liability to the Hunters and the Watch Guard. Rescued by the people he has sworn to eliminate, Azrael finds himself questioning everything he once believed as years of secrets and lies are exposed. His very nature is challenged as he battles unfamiliar emotions and navigates relationships that contradict the heart of a killer.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Colin Conway is the creator of the 509 Crime Stories, a series of novels set in Eastern Washington with revolving lead characters. They are standalone tales and can be read in any order.
He also created the Cozy Up series which pushes the envelope of the cozy genre. Libby Klein, author of the Poppy McAllister series, says Cozy Up to Death is “Not your grandma’s cozy."
ABOUT THE BOOK - STRAIGHT OUT OF NOWHERE
Rule #3 – Leave when it’s time.
For a guy that lives his life by a set of written rules, former deputy Sam Strait has made a habit of casually violating one of them. He’s violated it to find the killer of stranger. He’s broken it to solve a friend’s murder. He’s constantly disregarding it for beautiful women.
But whatever the cause, Sam is determined to adhere to all the rules this summer.
So, when an attractive woman shows up claiming she killed her friend, Sam is hesitant to get involved. The woman doesn’t remember how it happened, but the crime scene is littered with evidence proving her guilt.
It should be a slam dunk case for the investigating officers. Knowing this forces Sam to reluctantly help. Because he remembers a time when he was accused of a crime and no one believed him, and he won’t let this woman go through that drama alone.
Strait Out of Nowhere is the third book in an exciting new series from the author of the 509 Crime Stories and the co-author of the Charlie-316 series. If you like your crime fiction with a dose of humor, then pick up this book today.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Before he turned to writing fiction, Otho Eskin served in the U.S. Army and in the United States Foreign Service in Washington and in Syria, Yugoslavia, Iceland and Berlin (then the capital of the German Democratic Republic) as a lawyer and diplomat. He was Vice-Chairman of the U.S. delegation to the United Nations Conference on the Law of the Sea, participated in the negotiations on the International Space Station, was principal U.S. negotiator of several international agreements on seabed mining and was the U.S. representative to the United Nations Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space. He speaks French, German, and Serbo-Croatian.
Otho Eskin has also written plays including: Act of God, Murder as a Fine Art, Duet, Julie, Final Analysis, Season in Hell, among others, which have been professionally produced in Washington, New York and in Europe.
ABOUT THE BOOK - HEAD SHOT
Washington, D.C. homicide detective Marko Zorn is investigating the murder of an actress—an old love—when he is assigned to protect the visiting prime minister of Montenegro, the beautiful Nina Voychek.
Political enemies are planning her assassination—this, he knows—but now it's apparent that he, too, is a target. As he foils the initial attempts on his life, he pulls out all stops—deploying his sometimes nefarious resources—to hunt whoever is targeting him and prevent an international tragedy on American soil.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Being an Emergency Room physician for close to forty years, Dr. Mucci found that the pandemic brought forth new horrors in the ER. Writing this fantasy story about Ignatius became an enjoyable escape for him from all that was happening in the real world.
ABOUT THE BOOK - IGNATIUS & THE SWORDS OF NOSTAW
Fifteen-year-old Iggy is good at three things: languages, witty retorts, and running from a fight. When a guy pulls a knife on him during a high school argument, all the banter in the world isn’t enough to save him, so Iggy resorts to his backup plan—running. But before he can make his escape, the locket he always wears around his neck heats up, and someone tackles him from behind, pinning him to the ground.
Iggy’s never thought of himself as a fighter. He’s spent his life running from anything that can’t be solved with a quick one-liner or a snarky comeback. But as he learns more about the strange place he’s landed, one thing becomes abundantly clear: in the World on Skye, they need a hero. And Iggy just might be the one they’re looking for, even if he’s not so sure.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Lynne Reeves is a nationally recognized expert on relationships and family life. Writing as Lynne Reeves, her new novel of domestic suspense, The Dangers of an Ordinary Night which published November 9, 2021.
ABOUT THE BOOK - THE DANGERS OF AN ORDINARY NIGHT
On a chilly fall evening at the prestigious Performing Arts High School of Boston, best friends Tali Carrington and June Danforth go missing after auditioning for a play. They’re last seen in grainy, out-of-focus surveillance footage that shows them walking away from the school. Two days later in a town south of Boston, Tali is found disoriented and traumatized by the ocean’s edge, while June is pronounced dead at the scene.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
USA Today Bestselling author Sariah Wilson has never jumped out of an airplane, never climbed Mt. Everest, and is not a former CIA operative. She has, however, been madly, passionately in love with her soulmate and is a fervent believer in happily ever afters—which is why she writes romance. She grew up in southern California, graduated from Brigham Young University (go Cougars!) with a semi-useless degree in history, and is the oldest of nine (yes, nine) children. She currently lives with the aforementioned soulmate and their children in Utah, along with cats named Pixel, Callie, and Belle who do not get along. (The cats, not the children. Although the children sometimes have their issues, too.)
ABOUT THE BOOK - THE PAID BRIDESMAID
Rachel Vinson is a bridesmaid for hire: part confidante, part wedding planner, and one hundred percent pretend BFF. Discretion guaranteed. Her next gig is a destination wedding—livestreamed and sponsored—for an Instagram influencer. That means a paradise of new contacts, which could be a boon to her already booming business. If Rachel can keep the very handsome and slightly too interested best man at bay, that is.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Stella Claire ter Hart is a well known Canadian composer, educator, adjudicator and accompanist. She is directly descended from the Italian composer, Tomaso Vitali and has many other musical family members and ancestors. Stella is the only individual in Canada to have been awarded all four available diplomas from the Toronto Conservatory of Music: piano pedagogy, piano performance, composition, and theory.
ABOUT THE BOOK - DISCOVERING TWINS
My mother carried secrets and covered them with lies. She didn't mean to. They were thrust upon her. But little by little, her secrets gradually unravelled and became part of my existence. She was terrified that her secrets would be discovered, and this terror dominated her life. My first glimpse came in 1978 when I travelled with my mother to Holland, the country of her birth and my ancestors. I was introduced to relatives I never knew existed, on both sides of the family. Picking up on clues, I realized that my mother’s background was Jewish. Dutch Jewish. Holocaust Jewish. She was unable to speak of it, and I was forbidden to bring it up. After my mother died, I felt a freedom and obligation to discover more. What I uncovered was staggering and shocking. Based on true stories, “Discovering Twins” uses historical fiction to bring lost family members to life, non-fiction to recount facts and events, and memoir to unite the two into one.
Winner of the BookView Review Gold Award and the Literary Titan Good Book Award.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Lindy Miller Ryan is a multi-genre award-winning and bestselling editor and author who grew up cutting her teeth on Goosebumps and now counts Anne Rice, Grady Hendrix, and Neil Gaiman among her favorite authors. She writes clean, seasonal romance under the name Lindy Miller, where her books have received numerous awards and been adapted for screen. Currently, she is collaborating as the lead author on a horror franchise project with a top veteran Hollywood director and an award-winning screenwriter.
ABOUT THE BOOK - SLEIGH BELLS ON BREAD LOAF MOUNTAIN
Roxanne Hudson’s trip “home for the holidays” gets an unexpected detour when she awakens in the arms of a rugged park ranger after a spin-out on a snow-covered mountain road. It looks like this Christmas is going to be spent snowed in with Ranger Mark in his remote cabin in the Green Mountains… but is that such a bad thing?
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Gabrielle St George is a Canadian screenwriter with over 100 credits producing TV shows, both in the USA and Canada with feature film scripts optioned in Hollywood. Gabrielle writes humorous mysteries and domestic noir about subjects of which she is an expert—-mostly failed relationships, hence her début soft-boiled series, THE EX-WHISPERER FILES, which launched with HOW TO MURDER A MARRIAGE on July 20, 2021 from boutique American mystery publisher Level Best Books. Gabrielle lives on a fairy-tale farm along the Saugeen River and spends weekends at her 1930s cabin on Lake Huron with her partner and their extremely disobedient dogs.
ABOUT THE BOOK - HOW TO MURDER A MARRIAGE
Gina Malone-bestselling relationships advice author and expert on exes, meddles in other people’s affairs for a living. It makes for enemies. One of them is scaring her to death. A modern-day Miss Lonelyhearts, Gina’s smart, she’s sassy, she’s got a potty mouth, and she’s determined to live life on her own terms. She’s also divorced, an empty nester, and turning fifty. In the true spirit of mid-life crises, Gina dyes her hair, pierces her nose, and moves to a tiny tourist town on the Canadian shores of Lake Huron. Just as she’s settling into her new life and deciding whether to fall into bed with her hot contractor, Gina advises a reader to leave her husband, right before the woman goes missing. And Gina’s got a stalker. Is it her vengeful ex-husband, the abusive ex of the missing woman, or her new crush’s crazy ex? All three would love to get her alone in some dark and deserted place, which isn’t tough to do since her new residence is an old family cottage she’s renovating on an empty stretch of beach. Can Gina outsmart her stalker and find the missing woman before the noose around her own neck gets any tighter?
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Karen E. Osborne has been writing since the age of twelve and making up stories for as long as she can remember.
She wrote the first draft of Getting It Right (Akashic Books) on airplanes, in the Delta Sky Club, and in hotel rooms around the country and the world during the books amazing book tour. Friends hosted her in their homes, clubs, events, conferences, and book clubs. Independent and Barnes & Noble bookstores across the country welcomed her.
A native New Yorker, Karen and her husband, Bob have two grown children and three grandsons. They now live in Port Saint Lucie, FL.
ABOUT THE BOOK - TANGLED LIES
2021 Finalist, The Best Thriller Book Awards on BestThrillers.com
On an icy day in February, African American grandmother Vera Moon arrives home to find her grown son Charlie brutally murdered. She vows to find the killer who has managed to elude the police. Not knowing where to begin, Vera is involved in a suspicious hit-and-run car accident, witnessed by a young Irish American woman, Dani, on the run from the train-wreck of her own life.
As circumstances throw Vera and Dani into an unlikely alliance, the two find themselves embroiled in a web of truths and lies that imperils them both, but also may bring Charlie's murderer to justice.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Frank primarily writes gritty crime fiction from both sides of the badge. This includes his River City series (an ensemble cast of police officers) and his SpoCompton series (a rotating cast of criminals). His storytelling creed is that the good guys usually win… but not always, and never without a cost. (Hey, a man’s gotta have a code).
Frank served in the U.S. Army from 1986-91 in Military Intelligence as a Czechoslovak linguist. In 1993, he became a police officer in Spokane, Washington. During his career, he worked as a patrol officer, corporal, and detective before entered into leadership roles, becoming a sergeant in 2002. He was fortunate enough to command patrol officers, investigators, K-9 officers (and their dogs!), and the SWAT team.
ABOUT THE BOOK - DIRTY LITTLE TOWN
It's 2003, and times are tough for the River City Police Department. The city budget is collapsing, forcing an already understaffed department to contemplate laying off cops. The community is upset over the handling of recent events, and their anger is impacting the agency from the ground up. Negotiations with the police union are somehow both heated and stagnant at the same time. To "fix" the problem, the mayor appoints a new chief, but the cure may be worse than the disease.
Worse yet, a killer is stalking the streets of River City, targeting vulnerable women. Rookie detective Katie MacLeod is assigned to assist in the effort to stop him but the case is stymied.
Somehow, the men and women of RCPD have to put aside all of the distractions and focus on their jobs – to serve and to protect.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
WILLIAM DUNLAP is an artist, writer, arts advocate and commentator with a career spanning more than four decades. His paintings, sculpture, drawings and constructions are included in public and private collections, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, The National Gallery of Art, Mississippi Museum of Art, Corcoran Gallery of Art, the Ogden Museum of Southern Art, Lauren Rogers Museum, Mobil Corporation, Riggs Bank, IBM Corporation, Federal Express, The Equitable Collection, Arkansas Art Center, the United States State Department, the U. S. Federal Reserve, and United States Embassies throughout the world. He is the author of SHORT MEAN FICTION: Words and Pictures, a collection of short stories with drawings, Nautilus Publishing, 2016, as well as LYING AND MAKING A LIVING.
ABOUT THE BOOKS - SHORT MEAN FICTION
Like tales from the Old Testament, these stories are mean, rampant with sex, violence, and death. All are figments of an active, if not fertile, imagination, and brevity may be their greatest charm. They are fictions through and through. The drawings scattered throughout this volume are not illustrations, but live in the same place the sketchbooks where Dunlap first wrote the stories, forgot them, then found them again.
LYING AND MAKING A LIVING
Lying and Making a Living picks up where Short Mean Fiction leaves off. It contains more of the irreverent, hard-hitting, exhilarating, ironic, and emblematic prose we’ve come to expect from Dunlap, whose language is something of a Southern birthright and whose characters are defined by their notorious deeds..
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Patricia Dunn is the author of the young adult novel Rebels by Accident. Her writing has appeared on Salon, in The Village Voice, The Nation, LA Weekly, The ChristianScience Monitor; in the anthology Love, InshAllah: The Secret Love Lives of American Muslim Women (Soft Skull); and elsewhere.
Patricia was Senior Director of the Writing Institute at Sarah Lawrence College, and is co-founder of The Joe Papaleo Writers Workshop in Cetera, Italy. This Italian-American, Bronx-raised, rebel has traveled the world. These days, she can be found on her living room couch working on her next novel, or zooming with aspiring and established writers, of course, always in a suit and tie. Last Stop on the 6, her first novel for adults, is forthcoming with Bordighera Press, Fall 2021. Patricia holds an MFA in creative writing from Sarah Lawrence College.
ABOUT THE BOOK - LAST STOP ON THE 6
Angela Campanosi fled her home in the Italian-American enclave of Pelham Bay, the Bronx, after an accident left her brother, Jimmy, an up-and-coming actor, paralyzed. Now, ten years later, on the eve of Jimmy’s wedding, anti-war activist Angela returns home from LA to grapple with the guilt, secrets, and idiosyncrasies that make family, family. What could possibly go wrong?
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Rudy Ruiz is a writer of literary fiction. A native of the U.S.-Mexico border, his earliest works were published at Harvard, where he studied literature, creative writing, government, and public policy, earning bachelor’s and master’s degrees. “Seven for the Revolution” was Ruiz’s fiction debut. The collection of short stories won four International Latino Book Awards. Ruiz’s short fiction has appeared in literary journals including Border Senses, The Ninth Letter, New Texas, and the Notre Dame Review. In 2017, Rudy Ruiz was awarded the Gulf Coast Prize in Fiction. In 2020, Ruiz was a finalist for both the Texas Institute of Letters’ Best Short Story Award as well as the Texas Observer’s annual Short Story Contest.
ABOUT THE BOOK - THE RESURRECTION OF FULGENCIO RAMIREZ
Fulgencio Ramirez is conducting his daily ritual of reading the local obituaries in his cramped pharmacy office. After nearly a quarter of a century of waiting, Fulgencio sees the news he’s been hoping for, his nemesis, the husband of Carolina Mendelssohn, has died.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR - YASMIN ANGOE
Hailing from Northern Virginia, Yasmin Angoe is a first-generation Ghanaian American who grew up in two cultural worlds. She taught English in middle and high schools for years, served as an instructional coach for virtual teachers, and works as a freelance developmental and copy editor.
Yasmin received the 2020 Eleanor Taylor Bland Award for Emerging Writers of Color from Sisters in Crime, of which she’s a proud member. She lives in South Carolina with her beautiful blended family, and when she’s not writing, Yasmin’s editing for clients, trying new recipes, or absorbed in an audiobook.
ABOUT THE BOOK - HER NAME IS KNIGHT
Stolen from her Ghanaian village as a child, Nena Knight has plenty of motives to kill. Now an elite assassin for a powerful business syndicate called the Tribe, she gets plenty of chances. But while on assignment in Miami, Nena ends up saving a life, not taking one. She emerges from the experience a changed woman, finally hopeful for a life beyond rage and revenge. Tasked with killing a man she’s come to respect, Nena struggles to reconcile her loyalty to the Tribe with her new purpose.
Meanwhile, she learns a new Tribe council member is the same man who razed her village, murdered her family, and sold her into captivity. Nena can’t resist the temptation of vengeance—and she doesn’t want to. Before she can reclaim her life, she must leverage everything she was and everything she is to take him down and end the cycle of bloodshed for good.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
David B. Seaburn is the author of seven novels with his eighth, Broken Pieces of God, being released in September 2021.
David's first publication was a series of poems when he was in seminary at Boston University (1972-75). He continued writing while serving a church for six years, mostly short stories, plays, songs, essays and two manuscripts of inspirational prose. He entered the field of marriage and family therapy in 1986 and was Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Family Medicine at the University of Rochester Medical Center where he did extensive academic writing. During this period, he co-authored two professional books and wrote over 60 papers and book chapters.
He started writing fiction in 2000, completing his first novel, Darkness is as Light, in 2001. It was published in 2005.
ABOUT THE BOOK - BROKEN PIECES OF GOD
Seaburn returns to the domestic arena to explore the complex and extraordinary lives of an ordinary American couple, Eddy and Gayle Kimes. Eddy, a supervisor for a cable company, loses his job. Gayle, a tax accountant, is recently diagnosed with ovarian cancer. Unemployment, failed chemotherapy, and no insurance bring them to life’s precipice. Desperate, Eddy turns to a statue of Jesus, seeking a miracle, while Gayle dives deeper into a scheme she has been concocting for twenty-five years. In the meantime, their adult offspring, Rich and Sandy, grapple with the aftershock of a tragic incident that has shadowed their lives since high school. What will happen when their secret is revealed? At the eleventh hour, Gayle re-enters treatment and the family pulls together. Will it be too late?
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Anne Schlea is an avid reader. She has a deep love of paranormal fiction, history, and mythology. By merging these loves into one, she creates a vibrant world any reader can step into. As a child, Anne read the entire paranormal fiction section of her hometown library in Northwest Ohio. Today, her personal collection holds over 3,000 titles.
ABOUT THE BOOK - ORPHAN OF THE FALLEN
Marissa Cazut lives in the shadow of her parents, two Fallen warriors who gave their lives when she was only five. Marissa, raised by her aunt, lived most of her life among humans and away from her people. Now that she’s finishing up her final year of school, it’s time for her to make the most important decision of her life – does she follow her parents’ footsteps and become a soldier, or does she take the safe route and live in the security of a Fallen city?
ABOUT THE AUTHOR TEAM
Rosemary and Larry Mild, cheerful partners in crime, coauthor mystery and suspense fiction: the Dan & Rivka Sherman Mysteries, the Paco & Molly Mysteries, two Hawaii suspense novels; a sci-fi novella; and three books of short stories. They’re members of Mystery Writers of America, Sisters in Crime, and Hawaii Fiction Writers.
ABOUT THE BOOK - DEATH RULES THE NIGHT
DEATH RULES THE NIGHT is the fourth Dan & Rivka Sherman Mystery: A sizzling tell-all book about a prominent Maryland family who go missing. Family secrets lurk inside their home, dating back to the American Revolution. Are the three unhappy sisters and their miserable brother involved? Dan insists on investigating, despite stalkings, threats, break-ins—and a brutal murder. Rivka fears for his life.
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Joanna FitzPatrick was raised in Hollywood. She started her writing habit by applying her orange fountain pen and a wild imagination to screenplays, which led her early on to produce the film White Lilacs and Pink Champagne.
Accepted at Sarah Lawrence College, she wrote her MFA thesis Sha La La: Live for Today about her life as a rock ’n’ roll star’s wife. Her more recent work includes two novels, Katherine Mansfield, Bronze Winner of the 2021 Independent Publisher Book Award (IPPY) in Historical Fiction, and The Drummer’s Widow. The Artist Colony is her third book.
Presently, FitzPatrick divides her time between a cottage by the sea in Pacific Grove, California and a hameau in rural southern France where she begins all her book projects.
ABOUT THE BOOK - THE ARTIST COLONY
July 1924. Sarah Cunningham, a young Modernist painter, arrives in Carmel-by-the-Sea from Paris to bury her older sister, Ada Belle. En route, she is shocked to learn that Ada Belle’s suspicious death is a suicide. But why kill herself? Her plein air paintings were famous and her upcoming exhibition of portraitures would bring her even wider recognition.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Jane Ward is the author of HUNGER and THE MOSAIC ARTIST, shortlisted for the 2015 Eric Hoffer Award Grand Prize. Her third novel, IN THE AFTERMATH, (She Writes Press), released September 21, 2021.
Jane graduated from Simmons College with a degree in English Literature, the desire to write novels, and an aptitude for–and love of–cooking. Upon graduating, she began working almost immediately in the food and hospitality industry, trying her hand at catering for Creative Gourmets in Boston, planning corporate parties at The 95th Restaurant in Chicago, and baking on the weekends at Quebrada Bakery in Arlington, Massachusetts. Learn more about Jane at janeaward(dot)com.
ABOUT THE BOOK - IN THE AFTERMATH
When David Herron—overwhelmed and despairing, his family’s business and finances in ruin due to the bursting lending bubble of 2008—takes his own life one chilly spring morning, he has no idea the ripple effect his decision will set into motion.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR - MAGNETISM (Book 6)
British-born, Montreal-raised, New York City honed, JACQUELINE GAY WALLEY, under the pen name, Gay Walley, has published four novels, Strings Attached (finalist for the Capricorn and Pirate’s Alley/Faulkner Award) The Erotic Fire of the Unattainable: Aphorisms on Art, Love, and the Vicissitudes of Life (finalist for Paris Book Award), Lost in Montreal, and Duet. Her award-winning play, Love, Genius and a Walk opened in New York City in 2013 and will open in London Fall of 2021. Her film, Erotic Fire of the Unattainable: Longing to be Found has been selected and shown in the 2020 virtual Brooklyn Film Festival, Sarasota Film Festival, Cinequest Film Festival and will show in American Fringe Festival in Paris in November 2021. She teaches writing privately in New York, as well as edits and ghostwrites.
ABOUT THE BOOK
VENUS AS SHE AGES COLLECTION, takes an unflinching female artist from youth to her late sixties. Alternatively witty, alternatively searing, the six novels feature artistic, free-spirited women, face existential issues. The collection is risky, literary, pushing boundaries in form, style and the exploration of the feminine psyche, following a female through situations that challenge and test her commitment to truth, beauty, love and freedom.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Dominic Martell has worked as a teacher and translator. He was born in the United States and has lived and traveled extensively in Latin America, Europe and the Middle East. His first three novels featuring repentant ex-terrorist Pascual Rose appeared in the 1990s, chronicling Pascual’s quest for atonement in the chaotic post-Cold War years. A quarter of a century later, in the post 9/11 world, Martell decided to bring Rose out of retirement.
ABOUT THE BOOK - BLACK CHAIN (OUT YESTERDAY!)
Anyone who knows both Pascual's names means trouble, and Pascual has a feeling that the Yank who has tracked him to a cheap Marseille bistro is going to spoil more than his lunch. The Agency needs another favor, but there's a carrot with the stick this time-one million dollars. All Pascual has to do is deliver the ransom for some hijacked government data. But when the hackers get hacked and the new deal involves a human life, the job suddenly gets a lot more complicated. Pascual finds his sympathies lie with the hacker, and with a hundred million dollars in gold-backed cryptocurrency at stake, he suddenly has a whole roster of enemies to go with his new friend, from Syrian thugs to mysterious Russian operatives. The complications take Pascual to the banking district of Monaco, a secret prison in war-torn Yemen, an anarchist squat in chaotic Athens, and the haunted streets of Istanbul, with no one to trust but himself and his only certainty--the need to guess right-or else.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Susan McCormick is an award-winning author and doctor who lives in Seattle. She graduated from Smith College and George Washington University School of Medicine, with additional medical training in San Francisco and Washington, DC. She served as a doctor for nine years in the US Army before moving to the Pacific Northwest and civilian practice. She is married and has two boys. She loves giant dogs and has loved an English mastiff, Earl, and two Newfoundlands, Edward and Albert. s
ABOUT THE BOOK - THE FOG LADIES: IN THE SOUP
"Humorous and compelling." New York Journal of Books
The Fog Ladies are back, in the third installment of this endearing cozy murder mystery series. "There was a man in the soup." When the Fog Ladies volunteer at a San Francisco soup kitchen, these spunky elderly friends plus one overworked young doctor-in-training envision washing and chopping and serving. Not murder. Now the soup kitchen is doomed, and the mysteries have just begun. Was the death rooted in a long-ago grudge? Can they save the soup kitchen? Will they find the killer? Could the Fog Ladies, too, end up "in the soup"?
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Kerry Anne King (who also writes as Kerry Schafer) is a Washington Post and Amazon charts bestselling author who writes compelling and transformational stories about family and personal growth with elements of mystery, humor and an undercurrent of romance, and sometimes a touch of magic.
ABOUT THE BOOK - OTHER PEOPLE'S THINGS
Unemployed, undereducated, alienated from her family and her husband, and on the brink of prison time due to what she calls her “Object Relocation Program, Nicole accidentally exposes a long buried tragedy when she relocates a seemingly ordinary paperback from one place to another.
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
"Write what you know." In pursuing his literary career, Dr. Randy Overbeck has clearly heeded this sage advice. From the beginning, he has chosen to set his narratives—whether edge-of-your-seat thriller, classical whodunit, or eerie ghost story—squarely in the realm of school. His three plus decades of experience as a teacher, professor and school leader has infused his writing with a rare authenticity about the world of education, even as the protagonists of his tales tackle daunting, out-sized challenges.
ABOUT THE BOOK - SCARLET AT CRYSTAL RIVER
All Darrell Henshaw wanted was to enjoy his honeymoon with his beautiful wife, Erin, in the charming town of Crystal River on the sunny Gulf Coast of Florida. But his carefully laid plans go sideways when they discover a hidden painting of two young Latino children, which turns out to be haunted. Is Darrell willing to derail their entire honeymoon in this perfect, quiet corner of the world to unravel the mystery of the children's deaths?
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Ruth Hull Chatlien has been a writer and editor of educational materials for twenty-five years. Her specialty is U.S. and world history. She is the author of Modern American Indian Leaders and has published several short stories and poems in literary magazines. The Ambitious Madame Bonaparte is her first published novel.
She lives in northeastern Illinois with her husband, Michael. When she’s not writing, she can usually be found gardening, knitting, drawing, painting, or watching football.
ABOUT THE BOOK - KATIE, BAR THE DOOR
From a childhood of parental loss, religious repression, and sexual shaming, Katie Thompson suffers deep wounds and persistent self-doubt. Her desire to find meaning through education and a career is threatened by those who push her to conform to a more traditional path. In her desperate search for love, Katie makes disastrous choices about men, leading her to the brink of self-destruction. Her journey through Katie, Bar the Door is the universal quest for healing and hope as she struggles to save herself and her dreams.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Rick Lenz now focuses on writing, after a 45-year career as an actor and playwright, during which he was privileged to work with many of the finest actors and directors in film and theatre. His other books include a gut-wrenching memoir, North of Hollywood, and two award winning novels, The Alexandrite and Impersonators Anonymous.
ABOUT THE BOOK - HELLO, REST OF MY LIFE
Long married to Samantha, the love of his life, Danny is thrown back in time and given a second chance at his Hollywood dream. He doesn’t want it. He wants Sam, off in the future—which is now his “Kansas.” A sharkish agent, a worldly-wise teen, a New Age fortune teller, a sexy wicked witch and the magic of film obstruct or fast-track his journey.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Robert Dugoni is the critically acclaimed New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post and #1 Amazon bestselling author of the Tracy Crosswhite police series set in Seattle, which has sold more than 6 million books worldwide. He is also the author of The Charles Jenkins espionage series, and the David Sloane legal thriller series. He is also the author of several stand-alone novels including The 7th Canon, Damage Control, and the literary novel, The Extraordinary Life of Sam Hell - Suspense Magazine’s 2018 Book of the Year, for which Dugoni’s narration won an AudioFile Earphones Award; as well as the nonfiction exposé The Cyanide Canary, a Washington Post Best Book of the Year. Several of his novels have been optioned for movies and television series.
ABOUT THE BOOK - THE WORLD PLAYED CHESS - OUT YESTERDAY!
In 1979, Vincent Bianco has just graduated high school. His only desire: collect a little beer money and enjoy his final summer before college. So he lands a job as a laborer on a construction crew. Working alongside two Vietnam vets, one suffering from PTSD, Vincent gets the education of a lifetime. Now forty years later, with his own son leaving for college, the lessons of that summer—Vincent’s last taste of innocence and first taste of real life—dramatically unfold in a novel about breaking away, shaping a life, and seeking one’s own destiny.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Tori Eldridge is an Anthony, Lefty, and Macavity Awards-nominated author of the Lily Wong mystery thriller series and an upcoming dark fantasy set for a May 2022. Before writing, Tori performed as an actress, singer, dancer on Broadway, television, and film. She is of Hawaiian, Chinese, Norwegian descent and was born and raised in Honolulu where she graduated from Punahou School with classmate Barack Obama. Tori holds a fifth-degree black belt in To-Shin Do ninjutsu and has traveled the US teaching seminars on the ninja arts, weapons, and women’s self-protection.
ABOUT THE BOOK - THE NINJA BETRAYED - OUT TODAY!
Things get personal for Chinese-Norwegian modern-day ninja Lily Wong in Hong Kong when she dives into the dangerous world of triads, romance, and corporate disaster during the height of the pro-democracy protests. Lily’s mother has been summoned by her grandfather, Gung-Gung to attend an emergency board meeting. Lily is happy to step into her father’s place. Plus, her new boyfriend, Daniel Kwok is there for business. Lily and her mother, Ma stay at her grandparents' hillside home on Hong Kong Island, but tension between Gung-Gung and Ma makes it hard to enjoy the beautiful surroundings, especially with the city in turmoil. Gung-Gung won’t say anything about the meeting and Ma is worried that her career is in jeopardy. Meanwhile, the teenage daughter of Gung-Gung's driver is pulled into the dangerous riots. As Lily and Ma discover shaky finances, questionable loans, and plans for a future involving them both, Lily's escalating romance with Daniel puts her heart at risk. Will her ninja skills allow her to protect Ma, the family business, and a renegade teen while navigating love, corporate intrigue, and murderous triads?
ABOUT THE AUTHORS - Wilnona Marie & Brandy Miller are part of The And I Thought Ladies
The Ladies started this journey with the simple thought that life is different from textbook or what society told them. They missed some things. They forgot to to teach everything needed to be a successful women in today's world. The ladies came together to write a book about what they have learned along the way throughout their lives. The And I Thought Ladies range in age from 26-62 ( they are all 27 and holding) and have done every sort of job and faced challenges involved at every level of life. They discuss everything from surviving domestic violence to throwing the perfect twenty dollar party.
ABOUT THE BOOK - FREE FALLING AND LOVING IT
To save her dying event planning firm, Haillie Prescott accepts her first job after ten years shut away from the prying eyes of society blogs and gossip columns with the only company that bothers to call her back – even if it means working with her ex-husband and the woman who led him to abandon her. Haillie Prescott. Once a powerful executive in her own right, she allowed the crushing blow of her divorce to destroy her confidence and spent a decade in seclusion nursing her wounds until a threat to the one true abiding love of her life – her event planning firm – draws her out of hiding and thrusts her back into the world of high society. As she struggles to overcome the obstacles thrown her way in order to pull off a successful charity ball, she finds herself tangled up in relationships with a parking lot attendant and a high powered executive that unexpectedly reignite the sparks of interest from her ex. With no idea where her life will take her next, Haillie is indeed, “Free Falling and Loving It.”
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Margaret Mizushima writes the award-winning Timber Creek K-9 Mysteries. She serves as president of the Rocky Mountain Chapter of Mystery Writers of America and was elected Rocky Mountain Fiction Writers’ 2019 Writer of the Year. She lives in Colorado with her veterinarian husband where they raised two daughters and a multitude of animals.
ABOUT THE BOOK - STRIKING RANGE
The past and present collide when Deputy Mattie Cobb and her K-9 partner Robo are torn between investigating her father’s cold case and the death of a young mother. As a deadly storm batters the area, taking its toll on the sheriff’s department, Mattie and Robo search for the woman’s missing infant.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Matthew Fitzsimmons is a Wall Street Journal bestseller who lives in Washington, D.C., where, for over a decade, he used to teach English literature and theater at a private high school. He now cohabitates with a pair of old boots, collects bourbon and classic soul LPs, and wonders if he will ever write anything half as good as the first sentence of James Crumley’s The Last Good Kiss.
ABOUT THE BOOK - CONSTANCE
In the near future, advances in medicine and quantum computing make human cloning a reality. For the wealthy, cheating death is the ultimate luxury. To anticloning militants, it’s an abomination against nature. For young Constance “Con” D’Arcy, who was gifted her own clone by her late aunt, it’s terrifying.
After a routine monthly upload of her consciousness—stored for that inevitable transition—something goes wrong. When Con wakes up in the clinic, it’s eighteen months later. Her recent memories are missing. Her original, she’s told, is dead. If that’s true, what does that make her?
ABOUT THE AUTHOR - LEMONY SNICKET
Lemony Snicket claims he was nowhere near the scene of the crime. He is the author of several other unpleasant stories, including those in the bestselling: A Series of Unfortunate Events, and The Lump of Coal.
ABOUT THE BOOK - POISON FOR BREAKFAST
A Note from the Publisher: In the years since this publishing house was founded, we have worked with an array of wondrous authors who have brought illuminating clarity to our bewildering world. Now, instead, we bring you Lemony Snicket. Over the course of his long and suspicious career, Mr. Snicket has investigated many things, including villainy, treachery, conspiracy, ennui, and various suspicious fires. In this book, he is investigating his own death. Poison for Breakfast is a different sort of book than others we have published, and from others you may have read. It is different from other books Mr. Snicket has written. It could be said to be a book of philosophy, something almost no one likes, but it is also a mystery, and many people claim to like those. Certainly Mr. Snicket didn’t relish the dreadful task of solving it, but he had no choice. It was put in front of him, right there, on his plate.
ABOUT THE AUTHORS
ED FULLER
Since 2012, Ed Fuller has been an adjunct professor of Leadership at the University’s College of Hospitality in Pomona and San Diego State University. He is also an adjunct professor at the Paul Merage School of Business @ the University of California, Irvine. He serves as a Board Member of The Mind Research Institute. He is also a former Director of the FBI National Academy Associates Foundation. Mr. Fuller served as a Captain in the U.S. Army and was awarded the Bronze Star and Army Commendation Medal for service during missions in Vietnam and Germany.
GARY GROSSMAN
Gary Grossman is a print and television journalist, an Emmy Award-winning network television producer and a film and TV historian. He has worked as producer for NBC News, ABC, CBS NBC, and 29+ cable networks. Grossman is a partner with in Weller/Grossman Productions a documentary production company. He began his career at 15 as a disc jockey at WHUC, his local radio station in Hudson, New York. Grossman lives in Los Angeles with his wife, writer Helene Seifer, and their children Sasha, Zachary, and Jacob. He is a member of the International Thriller Writers Association.
ABOUT THE BOOK - RED DECEPTION
When terrorists bomb bridges across the country and target the Hoover Dam, America's vulnerable infrastructure becomes a matter of national security. But Dan Reilly, former Army intelligence, predicts the attacks in a secret State Department report written years before. Somehow the report gets leaked and is now in the hands of enemies. With D.C. distracted by domestic crises, the Russian President sends troops to the borders and is ready to reclaim Russia's rightful territory. Tensions in Europe threaten to boil over as a besieged American president balances multiple crises that threaten to upend the geopolitical order.
ABOUT THE TODAY'S GUEST AUTHOR - LINDY MILLER
Lindy Miller is a multi-genre award-winning and bestselling editor and author who grew up cutting her teeth on Goosebumps and now counts Anne Rice, Grady Hendrix, and Neil Gaiman among her favorite authors. She also writes clean, seasonal romance under the name Lindy Miller, where her books have received numerous awards and been adapted for screen. Currently, she is collaborating as the lead author on a horror franchise project with a top veteran Hollywood director and an award-winning screenwriter.
ABOUT THE BOOK - ALOHA WITH LOVE
After a tough week that includes losing a big job opportunity and being dumped by her long-term boyfriend, Jenna Burke receives word that her beloved Aunt May passed away.
Traveling back to her Hawaiian hometown for the reading of the will, Jenna discovers she and her sister have inherited May’s dilapidated Victorian home on desirable beachfront land. The sisters can do whatever they want with the property, but there’s one catch: the house must be renovated before it can be sold, and Jenna has to oversee the work. Their Aunt even stipulated the contractor for the job—Ben Fletcher—who has a gift for making things beautiful again. He also has another skill: driving Jenna crazy.
ABOUT THE AUTHORS - GARY GROSSMAN AND ED FULLER
ABOUT THE BOOK - RED DECEPTION (THE RED HOTEL SERIES)
When terrorists bomb bridges across the country and threaten the Hoover Dam, the vulnerability of America's infrastructure becomes a matter of national security. But Dan Reilly, a former Army intelligence officer, predicted the attacks in a secret State Department report written years earlier—a virtual blueprint for disaster, somehow leaked and now in the hands of foreign operatives.
With Washington distracted by domestic crises, Russian President Nicolai Gorshkov sends troops to the borders of Ukraine and Latvia, ready to reclaim what he feels is Russia's rightful territory. Tensions in Europe threaten to boil over as a besieged American president balances multiple crises that threaten to upend the geopolitical order.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Jule Selbo is an award-winning novelist living in Portland, Maine. She is a member of Mystery Writers of America and Sisters in Crime. Jule is a screenwriter, a playwright, and a professor.
ABOUT THE BOOK - 10 DAYS: A Dee Rommel Mystery
Early summer, Portland, Maine… Eleven months after young policewoman Dee Rommel’s mysterious and life-altering on-the-job injury. Her medical leave is nearly up, and the Police Department and her ex-training officer, newly-single Detective Donato, expect her to reinstate. But her decision is postponed when she’s challenged to step in for her godfather - private investigator Gordy Greer - to investigate the disappearance of a brilliant high-tech heiress, Lucy Claren, who has announced hasty wedding plans that could derail her father’s empire. Life is further complicated when Dee’s good friend, Karla, is physically assaulted by a sadist that Dee helped put behind bars. Newly released, he decides to turn his sights on justice-driven Dee, making it his personal mission to ensure her failure – and demise. Dee dangerously navigates through the two worlds of crime – determined to survive them both… in just ten days.
ABOUT THE BOOK
Beth Davis and Marjorie Williams were best friends who could not be any more alike, though when Marjorie succumbed to the temptations of young adulthood, Beth found solace in the teachings of Christianity. However, when tragedy strikes, Marjorie questions whether Jesus can help her find her way.
ABOUT JEFFERY YOUNG
Jeffery Young is an award-winning writer and Army veteran whose multi-faceted career has included work in the culinary field and in the newspaper industry. Jeffery holds degrees in communication and criminal justice, and his work with AmVets California garnered interest from President Ronald Regan
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Deliah Lawrence is a Maryland-based attorney, and award-winning author of two romantic suspense novels (Gotta Let It Go and Gotta Get It Back). She’s also a blogger and workshop facilitator who writes poetry and short stories. Her short stories have been featured in the Creatures, Crimes and Creativity 2013, 2014 and 2018 anthologies. Most recently, she won the Best of Contest prize in Reading Works' Second Annual Short Short Story contest for her story entitled, Migration and Back.
When Dee isn’t writing, you can find her reading a book, indulging in her addiction to investigation discovery shows or painting her yet-to-be exhibited oil artworks of landscapes, portraits or whatever else comes to her creative mind. Constantly on the go, Dee is also an active member of the Maryland Writers’ Association, Black Writers’ Guild of Maryland, Sisters in Crime and Greater Baltimore Cultural Alliance.
ABOUT THE BOOK - GOTTA GET IT BACK
Former prosecutor Deidre Hunter can’t leave well enough alone. When her longtime mentor, a prominent judge, is found dead in his Baltimore home, she becomes hell-bent on tracking down his killer. Not willing to wait for the wheels of justice to turn, she launches her own investigation that puts her at odds with a conniving wealthy socialite who may hold the key to solving the murder.
Tension mounts when Deidre obtains a clue from her ex-husband and withholds it from her lover, Detective Hill Harris. Despite Hill’s warnings to leave the investigation to him, she pushes forward, falling deeper into a web of lies, lust, and betrayal.
With danger surrounding her and mistrust creating a wedge in her relationship with Hill, will Deidre ever get back what she values most?
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Mike Bond is a best-selling novelist, war and human rights journalist, and environmental activist. He has covered guerrilla wars, death squads, and military dictatorships in Latin America and Africa, Islamic terrorism in the Middle East, and ivory poaching and other environmental battles in East Africa and Asia. His critically acclaimed novels take the reader into intense situations in the world's most perilous places, into wars, revolutions, dangerous love affairs and political and corporate conspiracies, making "readers sweat with [their] relentless pace." (Kirkus) and drawing them "into a land and a time I had not known but left me with my senses reeling." (NetGalley Reviews)
ABOUT THE BOOK - AMERICA
For four young people, the Sixties is a decade of promise and freedom. For orphaned Troy, it’s the joy of living with his new family and exploring the world of flight and outer space. For Tara, the girl he loves, the power of song as she evolves into a rock’n roll star. For his new brother, Mick, a football hero and rebel, a time to question everything, including the fast-growing war in Vietnam. And for Daisy, the girl Mick loves, a chance to fight for equality, join the Peace Corps, and expand her study of the human mind.
America is the first of Mike Bond’s seven-volume historical novel series, capturing the victories and heartbreaks of the last 70 years and of our nation’s most profound upheavals since the Civil War – a time that defined the end of the 20th Century and where we are today.
Through the wild, joyous, heartbroken and visionary lives of four young people and many others, the Sixties come alive again, as do its questions: what is life? What is freedom? What was lost, what was won?
ABOUT THE AUTHOR - ERICA ABEEL, a former dancer, is a college professor and journalist. As a film critic she has contributed to Indiewire, Film Journal, and Huffington Post. Erica has published 5 books, including the novel Women Like Us, which was a Book-of-the-Month Club selection. Based in New York City and Long Island, she loves to write about feisty women of the 50s who defied their repressive period to chart their own course before the upheavals of the 60s. Her new novel Wild Girls is featured in Oprah magazine’s January 2017 “10 Titles to Pick Up Now,” and touted as a “libidinous period novel [that] follows three budding feminists through an elite women’s college, the New York art scene, and Allen Ginsberg’s bed, as they redefine womanhood for themselves and future generations.”
ABOUT THE BOOK - THE COMMUNE
The Commune is a comic satire and roman a clef that takes us inside the Hamptons commune populated by the newly liberated women present at the creation of the seminal 1970 Women’s March for Equality. The Commune’s pioneering feminists can talk the talk, but find themselves whipsawed between the bold new ideals of the women’s movement and the powerful tug of the past – and therein lies drama.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Internationally bestselling author Tess Gerritsen took an unusual route to a writing career. A graduate of Stanford University, Tess went on to medical school at the University of California, San Francisco, where she was awarded her M.D.
While on maternity leave from her work as a physician, she began to write fiction. In 1987, her first novel was published. Call After Midnight, a romantic thriller, was followed by eight more romantic suspense novels. She also wrote a screenplay, “Adrift”, which aired as a 1993 CBS Movie of the Week starring Kate Jackson
ABOUT THE BOOK - CHOOSE ME (out July 1st!)
Taryn Moore is young, beautiful, and brilliant…so why would she kill herself? When Detective Frankie Loomis arrives on the scene to investigate the girl’s fatal plunge from her apartment balcony, she knows in her gut there’s more to the story. Her instincts are confirmed when surprise information is revealed that could have been reason enough for Taryn’s suicide—or a motive for her murder.
To English professor Jack Dorian, Taryn was the ultimate fantasy: intelligent, adoring, and completely off limits. But there was also a dark side to Taryn, a dangerous streak that threatened those she turned her affections to—including Jack. And now that she’s dead, his problems are just beginning.
After Frankie uncovers a trove of sordid secrets, it becomes clear that Jack may know the truth. He is guilty of deception, but is he capable of cold-blooded murder?
www.tessgerritsen.com
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Susan K. Hamilton is the award-winning author of dark/urban fantasy books including Shadow King and The Devil Inside. Horse-crazy since she was little, she pretty much adores every furry creature on the planet (except spiders). She also loves comfy jeans, pizza, and great stand-up comedy. Susan lives near Boston with her husband and a cat who runs the house like a boss.
ABOUT THE BOOK - THE DEVIL INSIDE
An ambitious devil determined to be Hell’s #1 Sales & Acquisitions agent starts an illicit affair with a disgruntled angel. When her biggest rival in hell uncovers her deepest secrets and threatens those she cares about most, she’s forced to take drastic measures before all hell breaks loose.
www.susankhamilton.com
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Jenn Bouchard's debut novel FIRST COURSE was published on June 21st with TouchPoint Press. A high school social studies teacher of twenty-one years, she lives in the Boston suburbs with her husband and two children. She is an avid cook and devoted Red Sox fan.
ABOUT THE BOOK - FIRST COURSE
Janie lost almost everything, but to hang on to what’s left, she’s back in coastal Maine at her family’s summer house. Here she cooks up a storm and avoids dealing with her future, until she has no choice but to confront it head on.
www.jennbouchard.com
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
ERICA ABEEL, a former dancer, is a college professor and journalist. As a film critic she has contributed to Indiewire, Film Journal, and Huffington Post. Erica has published 5 books, including the novel Women Like Us, which was a Book-of-the-Month Club selection. Based in New York City and Long Island, she loves to write about feisty women of the 50s who defied their repressive period to chart their own course before the upheavals of the 60s. Her novel Wild Girls is featured in Oprah magazine’s January 2017 “10 Titles to Pick Up Now,” and touted as a “libidinous period novel [that] follows three budding feminists through an elite women’s college, the New York art scene, and Allen Ginsberg’s bed, as they redefine womanhood for themselves and future generations.” Her latest novel is THE COMMUNE.
ABOUT THE BOOK - THE COMMUNE
a comic satire and roman a clef that takes us inside the Hamptons commune populated by the newly liberated women present at the creation of the seminal 1970 Women's March for Equality. The Commune's pioneering feminists can talk the talk, but find themselves whipsawed between the bold new ideals of the women's movement and the powerful tug of the past - and therein lies drama.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Kris Faryn is a multi-award-winning author of Young Adult Dark Fantasy books and adult suspense. She also co-authors a suspenseful supernatural detective series with author Jules Lynn, The Muse Island series. Kris is captivated by the study of creativity and word-play, as well as the origins of stories, many of which find their roots in mythology. Kris strongly believes in turning dreams into realistic goals and that everyone has something special and unique to offer the world.
ABOUT THE BOOK - Song of Destiny (The Siren's Call Series Book 1)
Korrina Lore has a secret. Her voice can kill. She used to love to sing, but now she’s suffocated by fear. After four years of friends and family thinking she is crazy and having become riddled by the trauma, she finally learns the truth. She is a siren straight out of the Greek myths of old. When a talking owl arrives, warning Korrina of the world’s fate if she does not accept her destiny and place amongst the sirens, Korrina is torn. Should she sing, the one thing she promised she would never do again, to save the world? Meanwhile, her best friend Jared and new kid on the block Luke vie for her attention.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Ellen Michaelson, MD holds an MFA from Pacific University. On faculty at OHSU in Portland, Oregon, and board vice president of the NW Narrative Medicine Collaborative, her work has appeared in Creative Nonfiction, Portland Monthly, Literature and Medicine, and Women in Solitude. The Care of Strangers is her first novel.
ABOUT THE BOOK - THE CARE OF STRANGERS
Sima, an immigrant orderly, meets second-generation intern, Dr. Mindy Kahn, in a Brooklyn inner-city hospital. Faltering in the face of pressure from her mother to settle for being safe in America, Sima reaches out to the struggling doctor, and the two young women bond as together they strive to find themselves. Winner of the 2019 Miami Book Fair/de Groot Prize, The Care of Strangers is a moving story about friendship set in a gritty Brooklyn hospital, where a young woman learns to take charge of her life by taking care of others.
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Terrence McCauley is an award-winning writer of Thrillers, Crime Fiction and Westerns. His first two Aaron Mackey westerns (WHERE THE BULLETS FLY and DARK TERRITORY), published by Pinnacle, were finalists for the Western Writers of America's Silver Spur Award. WHERE THE BULLETS FLY won the Western Fictioneers Award for Best Novel in 2018. The third and fourth books in the series, GET OUT OF TOWN and THE DARK SUNRISE, were published in 2020.
ABOUT THE BOOK - THE DARK SUNRISE
At long last, U.S. Marshal Aaron Mackey and Deputy Billy Sunday will see crime baron James Grant and his kill-crazy cronies stand trial for the mayhem and suffering they unleashed on the people of Dover Station. But as Montana Territory’s statehood is approaching, murdering devils like Grant can no longer be tolerated in positions of political power.
Or can they? Montana’s capital of Helena follows its own set of laws—laws that not only set Grant free, but give peacekeeping authority to a sadistic murdering gunslinger like Colonel Warren Bell, Mackey’s commanding officer during the war. The city’s leaders prefer keeping killers like Grant and Bell under their thumbs.
Mackey knows there’s no controlling these bloodthirsty madmen. And if they think they’re above the law, then Mackey and Billy will just have to appoint themselves judge, jury, and executioners . . .
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Connie Berry is the author of the Kate Hamilton Mysteries, set in the UK and featuring an American antiques dealer with a gift for solving crimes. In 2019 Connie was a finalist for the Agatha Award’s Best Debut. She loves history, foreign travel, cute animals, and all things British.
You can find Connie Berry at www.connieberry.com
ABOUT THE BOOK - THE ART OF BETRAYAL
American antiques dealer Kate Hamilton is in Long Barston, tending a friend’s antiquities shop. When a Chinese jar vanishes and a body turns up in the middle of the May Fair, Kate battles spring floods and the murky depths of Anglo-Saxon history to unmask a killer with an old secret.
www.connieberry.com
ABOUT THE AUTHOR - CHRISTOPHER ROSOW
When not writing, Christopher Rosow works in the design and construction space. And, when not working or writing, or enjoying time with his amazing family, you can probably find him sailing somewhere out on the water. He lives in Connecticut with his family, his dogs, and way too many boats.
ABOUT THE BOOK - SUBVERSIVE ADDICTION
FBI Special Agent Ben Porter creates a formidable, off-the-books team tasked to hunt down and capture America's most-wanted terror suspect. Venturing far beyond the borders of the United States in search of his target, Ben uncovers clues that lead him not only toward his prey, but also deep inside an insidious, international plot-one that targets every person who is connected online . . . including you.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Joani Elliott is very good at cartwheels, imitating Disney Princesses, and making soup. She grew up with six sisters and two brothers and can easily apply make-up using the toaster as a mirror. She has taught middle school English (a little like playing Wac-a-Mole) and writing at Brigham Young University and the University of Maryland. Her husband and she are the parents of two daughters. Joani and her family live in Utah by the mountains, next to a lake and a river.
ABOUT THE BOOK - THE AUDACITY OF SARA GRAYSON
Sara Grayson is a 32-year-old, part-time greeting card writer about to land the toughest writing assignment of her life. Three weeks after the death of her mother, a world-famous suspense novelist, Sara learns that her mother’s dying wish is for her to write the final book in her wildly popular Ellery Dawson series. Sara has lived alone with her dog, Gatsby, ever since her husband walked out with their Pro Double Waffle Maker and her last shred of confidence. She can’t fathom writing a book for 30 million fans—not when last week’s big win was resetting the microwave clock. But in a bold move that surprises even her, Sara takes it on. Against an impossible deadline and a publisher intent on sabotaging her every move, Sara discovers that stepping into her mother’s shoes means stumbling on family secrets she was never meant to find—secrets that threaten her mother’s legacy—and the very book she’s trying to create.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
RYAN SAYLES is the Derringer-nominated author of the Richard Dean Buckner hard-boiled PI series, The Subtle Art of Brutality, Warpath and Albatross as well as the standalone novels Goldfinches and Together They Were Crimson. His short fiction has appeared in dozens of venues in both print and digital media. He was the editor of the clown-themed anthology Greasepaint & .45s and has been included in numerous others such as the Anthony Award-nominated Trouble in the Heartland: Crime Fiction Inspired by the Songs of Bruce Springsteen and Unloaded: Crime Writers Writing Without Guns. He is a founding member of Zelmer Pulp, a writer's group publishing a wide array of genre fiction. Ryan was formerly a submissions editor at the now-defunct The Big Adios website as well as a columnist/interviewer at Out of the Gutter Online. He is Midwestern and formerly military and police.
ABOUT THE BOOK - IT'S UGLY BECAUSE IT'S PERSONAL
In the city of Carcasa, gunshots devastate the night as a patrol officer makes a traffic stop. The occupants—three dealers caught in the act of muling—set into motion a course of actions that can only end badly. Now, one is dead, another fleeing on foot and the third tearing through neighborhoods in a bumper car-style chase. Furious, grief-stricken officers on their heels with their brother fighting for his life on the side of a road.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Kris Faryn is a multi-award-winning author of Young Adult Fantasy books and Adult Suspense. Most importantly, Kris believes in turning dreams into realistic goals and that everyone has something special and unique to offer the world.
ABOUT THE BOOK - SONG OF WINGS
Seventeen-year-old Korrina fights a constant compulsion to sing, a battle she refuses to lose because when she sings, people die. Her world shatters when she discovers she is a mythological Siren, and her destiny demands she use her song to kill. She has a decision to make. Should she walk into a future that seems preordained, or choose instead to save those she loves?
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Winner of the 2015 Private-eye Writers of America Shamus Award and the 2015 ITW Thriller Award for Best Original Paperback Novel for MOONLIGHT WEEPS, Vincent Zandri is the NEW YORK TIMES, USA TODAY, and AMAZON KINDLE No.1 bestselling author of more than 40 novels including THE REMAINS, EVERYTHING BURNS, ORCHARD GROVE and THE GIRL WHO WASN'T THERE. In 2014, Suspense Magazine named Zandri's, THE SHROUD KEY, as one of the "Best Books of 2014." He lives in Albany, New York and Florence, Italy. For more go to WWW.VINZANDRI.COM.
ABOUT THE BOOK - PARADOX LAKE
Sculptor and single mom, Rose Conley, is haunted by her tragic past and anxious about her uncertain future. She needs to get away from it all. On sabbatical from the college where she teaches art, she and her daughter rent a house for three months in the Adirondack lakeside community of Paradox. Rose desperately needs time alone with her twelve-year-old daughter before the teenage years hit. In the wake of the premature deaths of her oldest daughter, Allison, and her husband, Charlie, Rose wants nothing more than to nurture Anna every moment she can. But idyllic Paradox Lake transforms into a nightmare when a monster from the past invades Rose's retreat—and targets her daughter for his special brand of horror.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Seth's background as a musician and a lifelong music enthusiast has shaped the fictional characters in “The Authors of this Dream” -- guitarist Jimi Hendrix informed Seth’s idea of a musician as a kind of spiritual messenger; Guns N’ Roses singer Axl Rose and Jim Morrison of The Doors influenced his image of Brandon as someone who acts on raw impulse and emotion onstage; and Nirvana’s Kurt Cobain inspired him with an example of how an artist, speaking for his or her self, can spell out the hopes, fears and passions of a whole generation.
ABOUT THE BOOK - THE AUTHORS OF THIS DREAM
Brandon Chane's life is spinning out of control. After an altercation at a performance venue nearly proves fatal, he's at the mercy of dark forces threatening to tear his life apart. A gifted poet and musician, efforts to channel his pain, frustration, and thwarted love through music may not be enough to save him.
Saul Mason, a crisis counselor, insists Brandon's life and destiny are of his own making. With Saul's guidance, Brandon begins a turbulent path of healing and spiritual awakening.
But as his band looks forward to a Battle of the Bands in NYC, a crisis of faith threatens to derail this big break. Brandon finds the dream he's worked so hard to achieve is not a cure-all. Could there another more resounding answer to be found?
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Kerry Anne King (who also writes as Kerry Schafer) is a Washington Post and Amazon charts bestselling author who writes compelling and transformational stories about family and personal growth.
ABOUT THE BOOK - A BORROWED LIFE
When her controlling husband of 30 years dies suddenly, Liz risks everything to explore a wider life and a new love despite the efforts of her daughter trying to hold her back. “Earthy, unpredictable, and wildly enjoyable.” —Barbara O’Neal, a Wall Street Journal and Washington Post bestselling author of When We Believed in Mermaids
ABOUT THE AUTHOR - Kaira Rouda
A former magazine editor, and society columnist, Kaira won the Stevie Award for Women in Business for creating the first female-focused residential real estate brand, Real Living, and growing the brand to more than 22 states before its sale to Berkshire Hathaway. Her first nonfiction books led to a national speaking tour where she inspired thousands. Turning to a full-time writing career, her most recent works are Best Day Ever and The Favorite Daughter. As well, Kaira has received numerous awards for her community service, including the national Kiwanis Service to Mankind Award, among many others. She lives in Southern California with her husband, Congressman Harley Rouda, and her four twenty-something children.
ABOUT THE BOOK - THE NEXT WIFE
Kate Nelson had it all. A flourishing company founded with her husband, John; a happy marriage; and a daughter, Ashlyn. The picture-perfect family. Until John left for another woman. Tish is half his age. Ambitious. She’s cultivated a friendship with Ashlyn. Tish believes she’s won.
She’s wrong.
Tish Nelson has it all. Youth, influence, a life of luxury, and a new husband. But the truth is, there’s a lot of baggage. Namely, his first wife—and suspicions of his infidelity. After all, that’s how she got John. Maybe it’s time for a romantic getaway, far from his vindictive ex. If Kate plans on getting John back, Tish is one step ahead of her.
She thinks.
But what happens next is something neither Kate nor Tish saw coming. As best-laid plans come undone, there’s no telling what a woman will do in the name of love—and revenge.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Samantha Downing is the author of bestselling thrillers My Lovely Wife, He Started It. Her latest book, FOR YOUR OWN GOOD, set in a prestigious private school about a devious teacher who is determined to teach all his students a lesson, comes out July 20. She currently lives in New Orleans, where she is furiously typing away at her next novel.
ABOUT THE BOOK - HE STARTED IT
Beth, Portia, and Eddie Morgan haven't all been together in years. And for very good reasons--we'll get to those later. But when their wealthy grandfather dies and leaves a cryptic final message in his wake, the siblings and their respective partners must come together for a cross-country road trip to fulfill his final wish and--more importantly--secure their inheritance. But time with your family can be tough. It is for everyone. It's even harder when you're all keeping secrets and trying to forget a memory--a missing person, an act of revenge, the man in the black truck who won't stop following your car--and especially when at least one of you is a killer and there's a body in the trunk. Just to name a few reasons. But money is a powerful motivator. It is for everyone.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Cate Holahan is the USA Today Bestselling author of domestic suspense novels The Widower’s Wife, One Little Secret, Lies She Told, and Dark Turns, all published by Crooked Lane Books. Her fifth domestic suspense novel, Her Three Lives just released April 20th by Hachette Books' Grand Central Publishing. In a former life, Cate was an award-winning journalist, writing for The Record, The Boston Globe, and BusinessWeek, among others. She was also the lead singer of Leaving Kinzley, an original rock band in NYC. She lives in NJ with her husband, two daughters, and spends a disturbing amount of time highly-caffeinated, mining her own anxieties for material.
ABOUT THE BOOK - HER THREE LIVES
Her public life: Jade Thompson has it all. She’s an up-and-coming social media influencer, and she has a beautiful new home and a successful architect for a fiancé. But there’s trouble behind the scenes. To Greg’s children, his divorce from their mother and his new life can only mean a big mid-life crisis. To Jade, his suburban Connecticut upbringing isn’t an easy match with her Caribbean roots.
Her private life: A savage home invasion leaves Greg house-bound with a traumatic brain injury and glued to the live feeds from his ubiquitous security cameras. As the police investigate the crime and Greg’s frustration and rage grows, Jade begins to wonder what he may know about their attackers. And whether they are coming back.
Her secret life: As Greg watches Jade’s comings and goings, he becomes convinced that her behavior is suspicious and that she’s hiding a big secret. The more he sees, the more he wonders whether the break-in was really a random burglary. And whether he’s worth more to Jade if he were dead than alive.
ABOUT THE BOOK - COMPLICIT
When a student is brutally murdered, psychologist Kate Medina’s desire to help, puts her directly in the crosshairs of an enemy who remains largely in shadow. As her past and present collide, Kate is dragged into the middle of a dangerous game where only one thing is clear--no one can be trusted.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Amy Rivers is an award-winning novelist and writer of short stories and personal essays. She is the Director of Northern Colorado Writers, and holds degrees in psychology and political science—two topics she loves to write about. She was raised in New Mexico and now lives in Colorado with her family.
www.amyrivers.com
ABOUT THE BOOK - THE PARIS APARTMENT
2017, London: When Aurelia Leclaire inherits an opulent Paris apartment, she is shocked to discover her grandmother’s hidden secrets—including a treasure trove of famous art and couture gowns. One obscure painting leads her to Gabriel Seymour, a highly respected art restorer with his own mysterious past. Together they attempt to uncover the truths concealed within the apartment’s walls. Paris, 1942: The Germans may occupy the City of Lights, but glamorous Estelle Allard flourishes in a world separate from the hardships of war. Yet when the Nazis come for her friends, Estelle doesn’t hesitate to help those she holds dear, no matter the cost. As she works against the forces intent on destroying her loved ones, she can’t know that her actions will have ramifications for generations to come.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Award-winning author Kelly Bowen grew up in Manitoba, Canada, and attended the University of Manitoba, where she earned Bachelor of Science and Master of Science degrees in veterinary studies. She worked as a research scientist before realizing her dream to be a writer of historical fiction. Currently, Kelly lives in Winnipeg with her husband and two sons. www.kellybowen.net
ABOUT THE GUEST
Matthew Arkin has over 40 years experience on stage, film, and television. He is a fiction author and Director of the Acting Intensive Program at South Coast Repertory, is an associate faculty member and director at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts. His theater credits include numerous Broadway and off-Broadway appearances, most notably in the role of Gabe in New York production of the Pulitzer Prize winning Dinner With Friends, for which he received a Drama Desk Nomination.
The Hagen Workshop introduces actors to the exercises developed by the legendary Uta Hagen. Equally applicable to work on stage or film and television, each exercise focuses on a different challenge facing the actor. By practicing the exercises, the actor achieves a deeper awareness of his own behaviors and impulses, thereby allowing for greater contact with self and others during performance. Each exercise is addressed by the individual actor at home and then brought into class for greater exploration. This allows each student to work at their own pace and focus on areas where they need the most development.
ABOUT THE PODCAST
The Arkin Brothers Talk About Movies https://www.arkinbros.com/ "We grew up on movie sets. Now we act, write, direct, produce, edit, and teach. So we know a thing or two about movies. And even when we don’t, we’ll talk about them anyway. Each week we dissect one movie and whatever else strikes our fancy. Informed opinions, inside information, occasional guests, personal stories, and tons of spoilers."
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Sarahlyn Bruck is the author of Daytime Drama (2021) and Designer You (2018). Her debut novel, Designer You won the 2019 Indie Star Book Award and was included on the 2018 “35 Over 35” list.
Sarahlyn grew up in the Bay Area and spent a great deal of time in Southern California, where she attended college before moving to West Hollywood. The years of living and working in L.A. gave Sarahlyn a taste for the fun, fast, ambitious, and creative people involved in the entertainment industry. When Sarahlyn and her family moved to Philadelphia in the summer of 2007, she fell in love with the east coast feeling of being close to the center of politics and culture, but she never forgot or lost her affection for the buzz of the entertainment industry. Her latest novel, Daytime Drama, was born of that love and the cold Philadelphia winter.
When she’s not writing novels, Sarahlyn teaches writing and literature at a local community college. She still lives in Philadelphia with her husband, daughter, and cockapoo.
ABOUT THE BOOK - DAYTIME DRAMA
Soap opera star by day, harried, single mom by night, Calliope Hart’s life is a delicate balancing act. When the network cancels her show, Callie’s world crumbles and she must decide whether it’s more important to fight to save the show or take a risk and start over from scratch.
By day, for 25 years, soap opera fans have known actress Calliope Hart as Napa Valley’s resident diva, Jessica Sinclair. By night, Callie is a flustered breadwinner, scrambling to provide for her 12-year-old son and her mother. So when the network announces that her show will be canceled, Callie is beyond shocked—she doesn’t know who she is anymore.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Jennifer Gold is an award-winning author of book club fiction. Her books feature themes of love, second-chances, and self-discovery. Her debut novel, The Ingredients of Us, won a Book Excellence Award in 2020 and was a two-time Finalist for the 2020 International Book Awards. Her second novel, Keep Me Afloat, was a 2020 Best Book Award finalist. Booklist has called her characters “multifaceted” and her storylines “compelling” and “bittersweet.” When she’s not writing, you can find her sipping coffee, enjoying the outdoors, or curled up with a book. She loves nature documentaries and stories with realistic hopefully-ever-afters. Jenni is a travel-obsessed romantic living in the Pacific Northwest with her husband and three cats.
ABOUT THE BOOK - KEEP ME AFLOAT
Five years ago, marine biologist Abby Fisher made a mistake that cost her everything. Rather than face the consequences, she fled home to start anew—and built the career she’d always dreamed of. But when her research program runs out of funding, she’s adrift once again and decides to return to the safe harbor of her family and friends.,, Except nothing at home is how she remembered.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Tori Eldridge is the multi-awards nominated author of The Ninja Daughter, The Ninja’s Blade, and The Ninja Betrayed. Her shorter works appear in anthologies and the inaugural reboot of Weird Tales. She’s a Nicholl Fellowship semi-finalist screenwriter and fifth-degree black belt ninja. Tori has performed on Broadway, television, and film.
ABOUT THE BOOK - THE NINJA'S BLADE
Lily Wong―a Chinese-Norwegian modern-day ninja―has more trouble than she was bargaining for when controlling grandparents arrive in Los Angeles from Hong Kong at the same time she goes undercover in the dangerous world of youth sex trafficking. As she hunts for a kidnapped prostitution victim, a missing high school girl, and a sociopathic trafficker, the surviving members of a murderous street gang hunt for her. Life would be easier if Lily knew who to trust. But when victims are villains, villains are victims, and even family is plotting against her, easy is not an option. All Lily can do is follow the trail wherever it leads: through a high school campus polarized by racial tension or the secret back rooms of a barber/tattoo/brothel or the soul-crushing stretch of Long Beach Boulevard known as The Blade. She relies on her ninja skills to deceive and infiltrate, rescue and kill―whatever is necessary to free the girls from their literal and figurative slavery. If only those same skills could keep Lily’s conniving grandparents from hijacking her future.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Lainey Cameron is a digital nomad and author of women’s fiction. A recovering tech industry executive, her award-winning novel, The Exit Strategy, was inspired by a decade of being the only woman in the corporate boardroom. It’s been called a “rallying call for women to believe in themselves and join together." Lainey's the founder and host of The Best of Women’s Fiction interview series and podcast, proud member and volunteer with Women’s Fiction Writers Association, believes community makes the author's life worthwhile, and is on a mission to obliterate the term aspiring writer. Originally from Scotland, Lainey has a soft spot for men in kilts and hanging out with anything equine (donkeys rock!). Find her online at laineycameron.com
ABOUT THE BOOK - THE EXIT STRATEGY
Winner of 2020 Readers' Favorite Award for women’s fiction. Tech executive Carly can’t wait to marry the man of her dreams. But her fiancé is already wed to Silicon Valley top investor Ryn Brennan who's on the verge of achieving everything she dreamed. She’s succeeded in the sexist venture capital world, has a supportive husband, and is about to close the deal of her career, until she meets her husband’s mistress across the negotiating table. Carly is an accomplished scientist, caring single mom, and co-founder of a startup. Once she marries her fiancé, she’ll have the life she craves. But she’s blindsided to discover her fiancé is already married. In an industry full of sexism can the two women rise above and work together to ensure their success?
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
JOEL C. ROSENBERG is a New York Times bestselling author of sixteen novels and five nonfiction books with nearly 5 million copies in print. Rosenberg’s career as a political thriller writer was born out of his filmmaking studies at Syracuse University, where he graduated with a BFA in film drama. He also studied at Tel Aviv University during his junior year. Following graduation from Syracuse, he moved to Washington, D.C., where he worked for a range of U.S. and Israeli leaders and nonprofit organizations, serving variously as a policy analyst and communications strategist. He has been profiled by the New York Times, the Washington Times, and the Jerusalem Post and has appeared on hundreds of radio and TV programs in the U.S., Canada, and around the world. The grandson of Orthodox Jews who escaped out of czarist Russia in the early 1900s, Rosenberg comes from a Jewish background on his father’s side and a Gentile background on his mother’s side. Visit Joel's website joelrosenberg.com and follow him on Twitter (@joelcrosenberg) and Facebook (facebook.com/JoelCRosenberg).
ABOUT THE BOOK - THE BEIRUT PROTOCOL
Kings, queens, presidents, vice presidents, celebrities and CIA agents have all thrilled to the work of the oracle of suspense, Joel C. Rosenberg. Now the New York Times bestselling author unveils his fourth Marcus Ryker novel, THE BEIRUT PROTOCOL (Tyndale House Publishing, March 9, 2021) – ripped from tomorrow’s headlines. His new thriller reveals the CIA’s most valuable operative, Marcus Ryker, as he’s never been seen before. In the latest installment of Rosenberg’s gripping series, Ryker finds himself in the most dangerous situation he has ever faced – as a prisoner, brutalized and dragged deep behind enemy lines, unable to use his acquired skills to save lives.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Terry Persun's books have taken readers to the uncharted worlds near the edge of the galaxy, to lands where shape shifters battle humans, to the near future in both technology and shamanism, all while keeping the pace matching a thriller or suspense novel. Despite his adventures into other worlds, altered states, and other people's lives, he says he's fairly average--but that's not a consensus among his peers, not by any means. Persun lives in Washington state with his wife, seven horses, dozen or so chickens and several cats. There's no telling what animals will come to live with them next. When he's not writing or with the animals, you probably won't see him--except on social sites or at his website: www.TerryPersun.com
ABOUT THE BOOK - STEALING CHILDHOOD
Human trafficking kingpins, a shamanic sect, and a reluctant FBI team merge to stop Dan and Jason Johnston from doing their best shamanic work. The Team is called to work with the FBI on a human trafficking assignment, targeted at Native American teens. Agent Rafsky, who doesn’t know why Dan and his son were called in on the case, is skeptical of their skills. She has her own way of handling things and would rather go solo to do the job. The whole operation is delicate and could result in failure as well as the deaths of some of the girls. Complications escalate once Dan realizes that other Shamans are involved. As the novel pitches Dan and Jason against dangers found while in altered states of consciousness, they also have to deal with skepticism and physical roadblocks from the FBI. Everything comes to a head when the FBI uses Jason to infiltrate the trafficking operation and gets found out. That’s when Dan gets physically involved himself, putting him, Jason, and his friend in danger.
ABOUT THE BOOK - BABY MOSES
After years away, Moses is visiting Miss Clio, the woman who found him as a baby in a basket on a creek mudbank. Harve and Enos are a couple of hardscrabble losers making time at the local Grain & Feed. They need nineteen dollars to pay back the boys at the V.F.W. so they can get back in Friday night’s card game. Their plan: grab a shotgun and rob a Black church during Sunday service. This story is about seven church robberies, the Chicken Shack, pipe tobacco, a double-barrel shotgun, a library book, the Dicks cousins, a flat rock by a creek, three bus tickets, a granary, a bag of MoonPies, an Italian piano factory, the Colonel, four dollars in pennies, a cellar, dusty jackweed, Charlie’s Roadside Diner, a swamp shanty, Sergeant Isaac “Catfish” Dudley, hot peppers, a poker game, the Klan, and one pipe wrench.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
John Cowlin’s second book is Baby Moses. His previous book was Monster City. He has been an educator for more than 25 years.
ABOUT THE BOOK - THE KAISER'S WEB
In New York Times bestseller Steve Berry’s latest Cotton Malone adventure, a secret dossier from a World War II-era Soviet spy comes to light containing information that, if proven true, would not only rewrite history — it could impact Germany's upcoming national elections and forever alter the political landscape of Europe.
Two candidates are vying to become Chancellor of Germany. One is a patriot having served for the past sixteen years, the other a usurper, stoking the flames of nationalistic hate. Both harbor secrets, but only one knows the truth about the other. They are on a collision course, all turning on the events of one fateful day — April 30, 1945 — and what happened deep beneath Berlin in the Fürherbunker. Did Adolph Hitler and Eva Braun die there? Did Martin Bormann, Hitler’s close confidant, manage to escape? And, even more important, where did billions in Nazi wealth disappear to in the waning days of World War II? The answers to these questions will determine who becomes the next Chancellor of Germany.
From the mysterious Chilean lake district, to the dangerous mesas of South Africa, and finally into the secret vaults of Switzerland, former-Justice Department agent Cotton Malone discovers the truth about the fates of Hitler, Braun, and Bormann. Revelations that could not only transform Europe, but finally expose a mystery known as the Kaiser’s web.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Steve Berry is the New York Times and #1 internationally bestselling author of twenty novels whose books have been translated into 41 languages with 25,000,000 copies in 52 countries.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Andrew has been nominated for the Edgar Award for his book Black Fall and the Thriller Award for Name of the Devil and The Naturalist – an Amazon Charts best-seller that spent six weeks at the number one spot for all books on Amazon. Prior to his first publishing deal, Andrew was listed by Amazon as one of the top-ten best selling indie authors of the year. Andrew starred in the Discovery Channel Shark Week special Andrew Mayne: Ghost Diver where he swam alongside great white sharks using an underwater stealth suit he designed. Andrew also starred in the A&E magic television series Don’t Trust Andrew Mayne.
ABOUT THE BOOK - BLACK CORAL
Sloan McPherson and the Underwater Investigation Unit have discovered a van at the bottom of a murky Florida pond. Sealed inside the watery tomb are the bodies of four teenagers who disappeared thirty years ago after leaving a rock concert. To authorities, it looks like a tragic accident. To Sloan, it looks like murder. Every piece of evidence is starting to connect to a string of cold case vanishings throughout Florida. Clue by clue, Sloan navigates the warm, dark waters where natural predators feed, knowing that the most dangerous one is still above the surface—nesting and dormant. But when a fresh young kill is found in the Everglades, Sloan fears that her investigation has reawakened a monster. How can she catch someone who’s a genius at hiding in plain sight? By acting as prey. The dangerous gambit is working—only too well. She’s being lured into a deception of the madman’s own design. Has Sloan set a trap for a serial killer? Or has he set one for her?
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Daniel Pyne is the author of five novels: Catalina Eddy, Fifty Mice, Twentynine Palms, and A Hole in the Ground Owned by a Liar. His latest novel is WATER MEMORY. Among his many screenplays are Pacific Heights, Doc Hollywood, the remake of The Manchurian Candidate, and Fracture. He made his directorial debut with the independent film Where’s Marlowe? His list of television credits (creating, writing, and showrunning) spans Miami Vice to Bosch. Pyne has worked as a screen printer, a sportswriter, an ad man, and a cartoonist and has taught screenwriting at the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television for more than two decades. He splits his time between California and New Mexico.
ABOUT THE BOOK - WATER MEMORY
Black ops specialist Aubrey Sentro may be one concussion away from death. But when pirates seize the cargo ship she’s on, she must decide whether to risk her life to save her fellow passengers. Sentro’s training takes over, and she’s able to elude her captors, leaving bodies in her wake. But her problems are just getting started. Her memory lapses are getting more frequent, symptoms of serial-concussion syndrome. As she plays a deadly game of cat and mouse with the pirates, she pushes herself to survive by focusing on thoughts of her children. She’s never told them what she really does for a living, and now she might not get the chance. While her memories make her vulnerable, motherhood makes her dangerous.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Heidi M. Thomas grew up on a working ranch in eastern Montana. She had parents who taught her a love of books and a grandmother who rode bucking stock in rodeos. Describing herself as “born with ink in my veins,” Heidi followed her dream of writing with a journalism degree from the University of Montana and later turned to her first love, fiction, to write her grandmother’s story. Heidi is a member of Women Writing the West, Professional Writers of Prescott, and Arizona Authors Association, is also a manuscript editor, and teaches local memoir and fiction writing classes. She is an avid reader of all kinds of books, enjoys the sunshine and hiking in north-central Arizona, where she writes, edits, and teaches memoir and fiction writing classes.
ABOUT THE BOOK - RESCUING SAMANTHA
With dreams of raising Thoroughbreds, Samantha Moser leases the Montana ranch that once belonged to her great grandmother, a trail-blazing rodeo cowgirl.After back-breaking work to fix up the abandoned, dilapidated ranch and a disastrous blizzard, her fiancé lacks the courage that runs in Samantha’s blood, and he leaves her.Struggling with shattered dreams, a proposed takeover of the land for an exotic animal refuge, and financial difficulties, Samantha must take a job on a dude ranch. In the midst of all the uncertainty, she rediscovers the healing power of horses for children and what life’s purpose is for her. But knowing her purpose might not be enough. Can she help a young girl overcome her insecurities, battle the investment group threatening the land, and trust the man who has a stake in the takeover while he professes his help?
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Originally from south Louisiana, Nola Nash now makes her home in Brentwood , Tennessee, with her three children. Growing up in Baton Rouge, she spent long hours onstage or backstage in the local community theaters. Her biggest writing inspiration was the city of New Orleans that gave her at an early age a love of the magic, mystery, and history. There are few better places for her to dream up stories than walking through the French Quarter or Garden District imagining what those places could tell.
ABOUT THE BOOK - CRESCENT CITY SIN
Having been brought back through the veil after her death, Zéolie wakes to find she’s being cared for by the mother superior. Secrets are slowly revealed as Mother Micheaux explains her connection to the past Zéolie’s father kept hidden all her life. Once her strength has returned, Zéolie tries to ease back into her home and life without Louis, but soon finds herself helping a young man who mistakenly shows up at her house looking for his long-lost mother.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Deborah Gaal was an entrepreneur, corporate exec, and business coach before devoting herself full-time to writing. Her debut novel, The Dream Stitcher, was a finalist of the National Jewish Book Awards, and won the IndieReader Discovery Award for Literary Fiction. Synchronicities on the Avenue of the Saints is her second novel.
ABOUT THE BOOK - SYNCHRONICITIES ON THE AVENUE OF THE SAINTS
A tale of good and bad medicine; the kind of fiction likely to leave readers breathless with laughter, deep contemplation and suspense, as family members mess with each other’s lives from beyond the grave—IndieReader. Great for fans of: Chloe Benjamin’s The Immortalists, Mark Haddon’s The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time—Booklife.
ABOUT THE BOOK - A STRANGER AT THE DOOR
Rachel thinks her family’s troubles are behind them. She’s in a happy relationship, has a job she loves working with the local PD, and her two children seem to have adjusted to their new life in the suburbs. But when her teenage son’s teacher is found brutally murdered in his own home, and Rachel discovers he wrote a cryptic email to her just before his death, she sets out to investigate. She learns of a charismatic businessman running a pyramid scheme designed to entice susceptible young men with promises of money and social status. And to her horror, her own son has fallen prey. She’s determined to regain her son’s trust and attention and solve the murder, but when a figure from her past reappears, the situation becomes even more personal. One thing is certain: Rachel will do whatever it takes to keep her children safe.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Jason Pinter is the internationally bestselling author of the Henry Parker thriller series, standalone thriller The Castle, and two children's books. He has been nominated for the Thriller Award, Strand Critics Award, Barry Award, Shamus Award, and more. His novel, The Mark was optioned to be a feature film, and there are over 1.5 million copies of Jason's books in print worldwide. Jason Pinter is the Founder and Publisher of Polis Books, and was named one of Publisher Weekly's inaugural Star Watch honorees, which "recognizes young publishing professionals who have distinguished themselves as future leaders of the industry." He has written for The New Republic, Entrepreneur, Esquire, and The Daily Beast, and has been featured in Library Journal, Publishers Weekly, Mystery Scene and many other publications. He lives in New Jersey with his wife and two daughters.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Lisa Braxton is an Emmy-nominated former television journalist, an essayist, short story writer, and novelist. She is also a creative writing instructor. Recently, her debut novel, The Talking Drum was selected by Shelf Unbound book review magazine as the overall winner of its 2020 Independently Published Book Award. She has also received an outstanding literary award from the National Association of Black Journalists for The Talking Drum. Her stories and essays have appeared in Vermont Literary Review, Black Lives Have Always Mattered, Chicken Soup for the Soul and The Book of Hope. The Talking Drum, is about 3 young couples in the early 1970s and how they're affected when an urban redevelopment project takes over a neighborhood.
ABOUT THE BOOK - THE TALKING DRUM
It is 1971 and Bellport, Massachusetts is a dying factory town. Urban redevelopment will have implications for the residents. Sydney Stallworth has left her law studies to support her husband’s dream of opening a business in the heart of the black community. For Omar Bassari, a drummer from Senegal, Bellport will be the launching pad from which he hopes to spread African culture across the world. Della Tolliver has built a fragile sanctuary for herself, her boyfriend, and her daughter Jasmine, a troubled child prone to nightmares and outbursts. Tensions rise as the demolition date moves closer and suspicious fires begin to break out. Bellport’s residents find themselves increasingly at odds with the political system that is manipulating their lives and their relationships. Examining the profound impact of gentrification, The Talking Drum explores intra-racial, class, and cross-cultural tensions, along with the meaning of community and belonging.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Opa Hysea Wise is an American author, born to mixed race parents. As a lesbian woman of color, she came to experience a sense of “otherness,” which fueled her desire to discuss diversity as the woven fabric within the American tapestry. She worked as a Training and Development specialist in Government and Corporate organizations. Often tasked to develop and deliver diversity courses, Opa brought a sense of understanding, compassion, and a call-to-action to her audience, with the firm knowledge that returning to the connection we all have would be but one step to returning to love. As both a Jack Canfield Success Coach and an author, Opa Hysea Wise looks to set a fire within the hearts of both her students and her readers. Her book No Place to Hide released Nov. 3 2020.
ABOUT THE BOOK - NO PLACE TO HIDE
Against hope, Smythe Windwalker Daniels’ anonymity is compromised and a threat has been made against her life. The danger impacts not only her life but the lives of those around her. She reluctantly accepts the FBI’s protection, hoping to testify and bring a promise of justice to a community.
Smythe is a woman with vision and fire in her soul. From a young age, Smythe was discriminated against as a mixed race girl in a predominantly white neighborhood. She leaves her career to escape the corporate rat race, only to get entangled in a pesticide poisoning cover-up attempt by a mega corporation. While on the run, she seeks to find meaning in events that now threaten her life. Through a series of misadventures she discovers how all events are woven together in this tapestry called “life.”
As she uses her past experience to find meaning in the present, she begins to see beauty in the midst of chaos. But the harder she tries to hide, the more difficult it is to survive.
www.opahyseawise.com
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Tara Lush is a Florida-based novelist and journalist. She's an RWA Rita finalist, an Amtrak writing fellow and the winner of the George C. Polk award for environmental journalism. For the past decade, she's been a reporter with The Associated Press, covering crime, alligators, natural disasters and politics. She also writes contemporary romance set in tropical locations. Tara is a fan of vintage pulp fiction book covers, Sinatra-era jazz, 1980s fashion, tropical chill, kombucha, gin, tonic, seashells, true crime podcasts, Art Deco, telenovelas, street art, coconut anything, strong coffee and newspapers. She lives on the Gulf Coast with her husband and two dogs.
ABOUT THE BOOK - GROUNDS FOR MURDER
When barista Lana Lewis' best -- and most difficult -- employee abruptly quits and goes to work for the competition just days before the Sunshine State Barista Championship, her café's chances of winning the contest are creamed in the first of Tara Lush’s newly launched coffee shop series GROUNDS FOR MURDER (Coffee Lane Books; December 8, 2020). In front of a gossipy crowd in the small Florida town of Devil's Beach, Lana's normally calm demeanor heats to a boil when she runs into the arrogant java slinger. Of course, Fabrizio "Fab" Bellucci has a slick explanation for jumping ship. But when he's found dead the next morning under a palm tree in the alley behind Lana's café, she becomes the prime suspect.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Brooks Eason loves stories - reading and writing them, hearing and telling them. He also loves music, dogs, and campfires as well as his family and friends. Brooks has practiced law for more than thirty-five years but is giving up writing briefs to write books. Brooks, who has three children and four grandchildren, lives in Madison, Mississippi, with his wife Carrie, their senior rescue dogs Buster and Maddie, and a stray cat they adopted and named Count Rostov for the hero in Amor Towles' novel A Gentleman in Moscow. In their spare time, Brooks and Carrie host house concerts, grow tomatoes, and dance in the kitchen.
ABOUT THE BOOK - BEDTIME WITH BUSTER
Do you channel your dog? In Bedtime with Buster, author Brooks Eason does. And does he ever! In this hilarious, insightful new book, the author and his handsome hound Buster debate a number of existential questions for dogs: Why don’t they live as long as people do? Why don’t they have thumbs? Why can’t mixed-breed dogs compete at Westminster? And what did a hound dog ever do to Elvis?
Buster is both philosopher and humorist, a four-legged Mark Twain. He would be wise and funny if he were a person. For a canine, he’s a doggone genius. Unfortunately, having been told all his life how handsome he is, Buster is also vain. He thinks of himself as a young Sean Connery. When he walks past a mirror, it’s all he can do not to lick the glass.
ABOUT THE ILLUSTRATOR
Bob Fugate has studied art independently since his youth in the 70s and 80s. John Gaddis of the American Society of Watercolor Artists was an important mentor to Robert in his teenage years, and the two traded art lessons for tennis games.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Robert Hoyman is a graduate of the University of South Florida. For 41 years he served in public and private schools across the United States in Tampa, Berkeley California, Alexandria Virginia, the Space Coast of Florida, and rural southwestern Virginia. Limerick Comics is his debut book. Born in Brownsville, Pennsylvania, Robert moved to the Space Coast of Florida at the age of 12 where he was a witness to a host of historic launches from the Gemini, Apollo, and Space Shuttle programs. He and wife Robin have two grown sons and share their home in Melbourne, Florida with a precious pug named Gus.
ABOUT THE BOOK - LIMERICK COMICS
Limerick Comics offers lighthearted original limericks on a wide range of history and science topics, each with an informational panel of surprising facts, presented in entertaining comics. Young readers of all ages are invited to linger on each page to enjoy the humor, ponder inferences, and view the evocative details of each illustrated panel. This innovative blend of verse and fun facts is crafted to appeal to reluctant and avid readers alike. Limerick Comics is a cross-curricular deep-dive sure to provide a springboard for discussion between kids and parents, or teachers and students.
ABOUT THE BOOK - WHISPERS
Stacey, a single white contract lawyer, is beyond excited to treat her blood-sister Emily, black sister-inlaw Amalia and their four girls to a dream vacation at Disney World. She’s gone all out, even renting a palatial air BNB with a pool. Stacey recounts, first hand, the experience of realizing how different the world is for her black family juxtaposed to her white family. As Stacey slowly awakens to her own inherent privilege, she and her sisters dismiss their children’s stories of a monster, known as Mister Tasty Treats, whom the girls believe is stalking them.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Born into a Special Forces family, Bartron grew up all over the USA and Germany. As a small child she became passionate about human rights, equal rights and free speech. This and her inability to keep her views to herself, created…conflict within her traditional Nazarene family. After visiting Dachau she joined the Model UN and planned to work in international affairs with the hopes of helping prevent similar future atrocities.
How far would you go to protect the wonderful life you’ve established with your spouse? Complex and thorny questions about marriage, fidelity and domestic security are at the crux of this mesmerizing new thriller by A.R. Torre, pseudonym for New York Times bestselling author Alessandra Torre, who has captivated readers all over the world with more than twenty novels of romance and suspense. EVERY LAST SECRET raises the heat on the plotting and counterplotting with such delicate mastery that even readers who can see perfectly well where this is all going will race to watch it get there.
Torre was inspired to write the book after a close friend discovered that her husband was having an affair, and the woman he was seeing turned out to be mentally unstable. Heartbroken for her friend and horrified by the ordeal, Alessandra began to speculate: How far might a woman go to preserve her marriage and its trappings—especially when social status and major financial assets are at stake—when the relationship is threatened by infidelity?
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Barbara Briggs Ward is the author of a Christmas trilogy for adults featuring The Reindeer Keeper, The Snowman Maker and The Candle Giver as well as, A Robin’s Snow, an Amish soft mystery and The Tin Cookie Cutter, a Christmas story. Barbara’s short stories have appeared in two, Chicken Soup for the Soul books and The SaturdayEvening Post online.
ABOUT THE BOOK - THE REINDEER KEEPER
On a Saturday morning in early January of 2009, while watching snowflakes fall to the ground, the image of my grandfather’s old barn came to mind. Then from somewhere came three words-The Reindeer Keeper. That’s when I realized there was a story in that barn. I was certain it was a Christmas story with an old barn playing a pivotal role. A few days later I sat down and began writing The Reindeer Keeper-a heartwarming Christmas read. Turns out this Christmas proves to be more magical than anticipated with the rekindling of a belief rooted in childhood.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Ed. Weinberger, who has written for such diverse comedians as Bob Hope, Richard Pryor, and Johnny Carson, began his career in the early ’60s with Dick Gregory. He wrote and produced for The Mary Tyler Moore Show, co-created Taxi, Dear John, and The Cosby Show. He also executive produced and created Amen, Sparks, and Good News. Honors include three Golden Globe Awards, a Peabody, and nine Emmy Awards. In 2000, he received The Writer’s Guild of America Lifetime Achievement Award. He is the author of the one-man play A Man and His Prostate, which starred Ed Asner and toured nationally for five years. In 2017, he co-authored the book The Grouchy Historian, An Old-Time Lefty Defends Our Constitution Against Right-Wing Hypocrites and Nutjobs.
ABOUT THE BOOK - GOTCHA! INSIDE TRUMP'S 2020 CAMPAIGN
GOTCHA! spans the critical period from March 5, 2020 until January 24, 2021. Weinberger conjures up Trump’s private realm as he meets with his re-election committee; has a hush-hush dinner with Laura Ingraham; makes an angry early-morning call to Don Jr.; and asks Melania whether his bullet-proof vest makes him look fat. Trump tries to push through a Covid-19 vaccine; attempts to build rapport with African Americans; and even More Page Two gets away with shooting a protester on Fifth Avenue – a prophesy come true (at least in the novel) that is applauded by the NRA.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR - AA CHAMBERLYNN
Alexia writes novels about magic, adventure, and romance. She lives in Florida with her son and a menagerie of animals. When she's not writing or reading, she can be found playing with horses, drinking wine, traveling to the next place on her global wish list, or maybe doing yoga. Dr. Who, unicorns, and katanas make her very happy.
ABOUT THE BOOK - WAR OF DAISIES
Hawk’s Hollow, Colorado. 1894. Four young women with very different lives and very different dreams, except for one thing: they were chosen to be the Riders of the Apocalypse.
Author Robin Wilson, plagued by allergies and asthma since infancy, has become an expert in Clean Design—creating allergen-reduced home environments that comfort and protect families. Using Wilson’s four principles of design—sustainable, reusable, recyclable, and nontoxic—every room in the home, from attic to basement and entryway to bedroom, can look sensational and stylish while reducing “your wheezing and sneezing.” Clean Design leads to amazing results: fewer allergy symptoms and asthma attacks, easier breathing, and better overall health.
Whether building a new home, renovating, or simply updating the design of their current home, Wilson offers suggestions for the best eco-friendly, healthy, nontoxic furniture, wall and floor coverings, and window treatments to dramatically improve indoor air quality and reduce household exposure to dust, pet dander, pollen, mold, dust mites, smoke, household chemicals, airborne toxins, and other allergy and asthma triggers. By making eco-friendly design choices, you will not only protect yourself and your loved ones, but also contribute to the health and sustainability of our planet at the same time.
Using traditional solutions, new methods, and some of her grandmother’s secrets, Wilson empowers you to incorporate Clean Design into your home, influencing your lifestyle, increasing your family’s wellness, and proving that “eco-friendly can be beautiful!”
ABOUT AUTHOR JEFFERY DEAVER
A former journalist, folksinger and attorney, Jeffery Deaver is an international number-one bestselling author. His novels have appeared on bestseller lists around the world, including the New York Times, the Times of London, Italy’s Corriere della Sera, the Sydney Morning Herald and the Los Angeles Times. His books are sold in 150 countries and have been translated into over twenty-five languages. He has sold 50 million books worldwide. The Bone Collector was made into a movie featuring Denzel Washington.
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ABOUT PUBLISHER JOHN RAAB
Suspense Magazine and Suspense Publishing have been a staple in the book industry since 2007. In 2010 they decided to start publishing books. They saw that there were authors out there that have such incredible talent, but for some reason were not able to find a publisher. Since then Suspense Publishing has published over 80 books with ten of them winning awards--from the Tony Hillerman Award (three-time winner) to the Florida Book Awards, Suspense Publishing gives the reader exactly what you have been looking for, great stories.
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
A lawyer and former diplomat, Otho Eskin served in the U.S. Army and U.S. Foreign Service. He was Vice-Chairman of the U.S. delegation to the United Nations Conference on the Law of the Sea, participated in negotiations on the International Space Station, was principal U.S. negotiator of several international agreements on seabed mining and was the U.S. representative to the United Nationals Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space. He has also testified before the U.S. Congress.
ABOUT THE BOOK - THE REFLECTING POOL
features an exciting but unlikely new hero in Marko Zorn with action beginning at the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool in D.C. Zorn, a Washington DC homicide detective operates by his own rules. He hates guns and abhors violence and normally carries no weapon, relying instead on his quick wits and cool nerve if he gets into trouble, but he’s capable of violent action when necessary. When Zorn investigates the murder of a young Secret Service agent, he learns that forces within the US government are determined to prevent him from finding the killer. Zorn uncovers a connection between the victim, a doomed love affair in the White House, and a domestic white supremacist terrorist group that plans to assassinate the U.S. president. Zorn’s life is complicated when a Washington crime boss – a ninety-year old woman—orders him to eliminate her chief crime rival—her grandson. He quickly becomes embroiled in a gang war and becomes hunted as well as the hunter and he must use all his skills to avoid becoming the victim.
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ABOUT THE BOOK: THE FOG LADIES: Family Matters
When a family man kills his wife with kitchen shears, the Fog Ladies—spunky senior sleuths and one overtired young doctor living in an elegant apartment building in San Francisco—delve in. Their probing finds the threat is perilously close to home, endangering another troubled family struggling to survive.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Susan McCormick is a writer and doctor who lives in Seattle. She graduated from Smith College and George Washington Medical School. She also wrote Granny Can’t Remember Me, a lighthearted picture book about Alzheimer’s disease. She is married with two sons, and, until recently, a giant Newfoundland dog, Albert.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Lynne Sharon Schwartz is the author of twenty-seven books that include the novels Disturbances in the Field, Leaving Brooklyn, a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award and Rough Strife, a finalist for the National Book Award and the Pen/Hemingway First Novel Award. Schwartz is the recipient of fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts and the New York State Foundation for the Arts. She teaches at the Bennington College Writing Seminars.
ABOUT THE COLLECTION OF SHORT STORIES - TRUTHTELLING
A man generously lends his car to his ex-wife, and is bewildered when she not only neglects to return it but makes increasingly implausible excuses for her actions. A neat and orderly clothing store owner is taken in and manipulated by an ailing elderly neighbor. A wife left by her husband for a younger woman is forced to visit the couple in order to see her children—and makes a startling realization about her former spouse. In these stories and others, including an O. Henry Award winner and a Best American Short Stories selection, National Book Award finalist Lynne Sharon Schwartz presents readers with a cast of indefatigable New Yorkers whose long-established routines are disrupted by mishaps or swerves of fate.
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ABOUT THE AUTHORS
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Joe English worked as a ranch hand at the Wild Horn Ranch in Florissant, Colorado. He has graduated cum laude from Colorado College in Colorado Springs and after got an MA from Rice University in Houston and is a Woodrow Wilson Fellow. English has been featured in a 60 Minutes broadcast. He was a professor at Triton College but now spends much of his time in Sosua, Dominican Republic. English's writings have appeared in the Chicago Tribune, the Chicago Sun-Times, the Chicago Reader and Co-Existence, the literary journal which featured the works of Henry Miller. His most recent publication, the short story Mrs. Padgett's Pearls, was selected by Zimbell House Publishing for the anthology After Effects.
ABOUT THE BOOK - SOMEBODY ELSE'S TROUBLES
Travers Landeman a businessman from Ohio has troubles. His teenage nephew, Matthew, has been abused by his parish priest. Unhappy with life, Travers fakes his death and unwittingly sets off a series of events. The years pass. It appears Travers has gotten away with it until Albert McNab is hired by an Insurance Company to bring Travers back to Ohio. Meanwhile, Joe Rogers leads a group of amateur archeologists. At a dig site, they discover an ancient treasure, a jeweled mask dating to the Arawak period. How does a mask become important in Travers life and in Joe's life? And how do everybody's troubles come together?
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Violinist turned author ERICA MINER has had a multi-faceted career as an award-winning author, screenwriter, journalist and lecturer. A native of Detroit, she studied violin with Boston Symphony Orchestra concertmaster Joseph Silverstein at Boston University where she graduated cum laude; the New England Conservatory of Music; and the Tanglewood Music Center, summer home of the Boston Symphony, where she performed with such celebrated conductors as Leonard Bernstein and Erich Leinsdorf. Erica went on to perform with the prestigious Metropolitan Opera Company for twenty-one years, where she worked closely with renowned maestro James Levine.
When injuries from a car accident spelled the end of her musical career, Erica drew upon her lifelong love of writing for inspiration and studied screenwriting in New York and Los Angeles with script gurus Linda Seger and Ken Rotcop. Erica’s screenplays have won awards in a number of recognized competitions such as WinFemme, Santa Fe and the Writer’s Digest.
ABOUT THE BOOK - STAGED FOR MURDER
Violinist Julia Kogan, having survived murderous mayhem at the Santa Fe Opera, heads to the San Francisco Opera with her significant other, former NYPD detective Larry Somers, and their five-year-old daughter Rachel. There, Julia finds that fiery artistic temperaments can still result in murder.
ABOUT THE REAL BOOK SPY
Praised as “one of today’s finest reviewers” by Gayle Lynds (New York Times bestseller and award-winning author), Ryan Steck has “quickly established himself as the authority on mysteries and thrillers.” (A.J. Tata, Bestselling author of the Jake Mahegan thriller series.)
Since launching The Real Book Spy, Steck has broken relevant industry news, written hundreds of book reviews, and conducted interviews with many of the genre’s top thriller authors on his way to becoming one of the most respected voices among thriller fans.
“He’s the guy people in the mystery/thriller world talk to behind the scene.”
— Mark Greaney, #1 New York Times bestselling author
A former sports writer who transitioned into publishing word in 2014, Steck worked as a book critic and reviewer for several other websites and media outlets before launching The Real Book Spy in December of 2015. Since then, he’s worked with a number of authors as a “book doctor,” and earned a loyal following of diehard readers and become the go-to source for all things thriller.
“The Real Book Spy is a great follow”
— Brad Thor, #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Scot Harvath series
A resident of Michigan, along with his wife and their six kids, Steck cheers on his beloved Detroit Tigers and Lions during the rare moments that he’s not reading or talking about books on social media. He can be reached via email at Ryan@TheRealBookSpy.com
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Susannah has been featured in several national periodicals and has appeared on national television including The Today Show, Good Morning America, CBS, CNN, and MSNBC. She has been a guest on NPR and Sirius Radio and speaking appearances include Credit Suisse, Bayer Diagnostics, UBS, United Way and the Society of the Four Arts. Several of her titles have been optioned by Lifetime and HBO. For over two decades she has taught in the Writing Department at Marymount Manhattan College and has guest taught in the Writing Institute at Sarah Lawrence College. She has served as a literary panelist for the New York State Council on the Arts, as a judge for the International Emmys and as Vice Chair of the Mentoring Committee of the Women’s Leadership Board at the JFK School of Government, Harvard.
ABOUT THE BOOK - THE PALM BEACH SCANDAL
Veronica and Simon Cutler and their dazzling adult daughters, Elodie and Aubrey, strike an enviable pose, the ultimate Palm Beach family. In a town where social aspirations, wealth and charm prevail, they are transcendent. While the sisters are polar opposites, they are fiercely loyal to each other. When Elodie receives the shocking news that she is no longer able to conceive a baby, she turns to Aubrey.
Aubrey, a free spirit, isn’t interested in marriage or children, yet when her sister asks her to carry her child, she can’t say no, despite her mother’s warnings. And then one stupefying secret, meant to be buried forever, is unearthed and no one in the Cutler clan is able to turn back. As the family is shaken to their core, Aubrey and Elodie must realize their places in the world and the lives they want to lead. 
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
M.L. Huie is a writer, teacher and actor. In addition to working ten years as a features journalist, he has written several plays that have been performed throughout the US and in the UK. He is a proud member of Actor's Equity Association, and teaches theatre and acting at the university-level. He is married to a brilliant woman and has two genius kids. Like Livy Nash he loves the northwest of England and has a Yank’s appreciation for a good Lancashire Hot Pot. He is an avid runner, loves hockey and, of course, reads constantly.
ABOUT THE BOOK - NIGHTSHADE
M. L. Huie returns with the next Livy Nash historical mystery, perfect for fans of Susan Elia MacNeal's Maggie Hope series and Kate Quinn's The Alice Network. British spy Livy Nash has never had many friends. But fellow agent Margot Dupont was the exception to the rule. At least, until she disappeared during one of their missions in World War Two, never to be heard from again. Since then, Livy's made do. Some people, you just can't replace. But when the British pick up Margot's call sign--NIGHTSHADE--years after the war, Livy can't help the glimmer of hope that she might see her old friend again. But Livy has her doubts: what their enemies are using it to lure out Livy and her team? What if it's all a trick? As Livy is pulled deeper into the shadows of treachery, the possibility of finding Margot alive diminishes as the danger grows. How much will she have to sacrifice to find a friend she thought she'd lost forever?
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Like most writers, Karol Hoeffner's working life has been a process of re-invention both as a creator and as an entrepreneur. She says, "Every time we writers open our laptops to give voice to the stirrings in our soul, we re-invent ourselves in the lives of our characters." Her latest work, Knee Deep, illustrates her point perfectly. She fell in love with New Orleans on her first visit when she was sixteen, the same age as its main character, Camille. Her long love affair with the Crescent City inspired her to craft her story, that of a young woman who learns to survive both love and loss.
ABOUT THE BOOK - KNEE DEEP
Named after a hurricane, Camille is the rebellious sixteen-year-old daughter of a New Orleans bar-owner who grows up in the shadow of Bourbon Street, raised on stories of hauntings, lusty encounters and voodoo magic. And even though her family loses their home in a hurricane, she counts herself among the lucky until she discovers that her eighteen-year-old neighbor whom she secretly loves goes missing in the storm. In Camille's own words: "This is the story of what happened to me on Fat Tuesday, how I ended up on the steps of St. Mary’s, the hem of my pirate’s petticoat soaked in somebody’s else’s blood. Although I know the story to be true, I don’t totally believe it myself. Like all good tales born out of the bayou, mine involves the dead, the living and the one trapped in the brackish waters between heaven and hell. It is the story of true love and true disaster, and at the end of it, I’ll leave it up to you to decide which is the harder to survive."
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TWENTY YEARS OFF THE GRID AND HE THOUGHT HE WAS SAFE
Pascual Rose is back—and this time the lives of his wife and son hang in the balance.
Years ago, Rose put his life as a terrorist behind him. He sold out his colleagues for a new identity and low profile in Barcelona. All was quiet until he received a midnight text: Come join us on the terrace.
The stakes are high: if he fails, it will cost him his family; if he succeeds, one million euros will buy a lot more than translation piecework will. But the money-laundering scheme involves a nexus of diverted revenues, shell companies and cryptocurrencies, peopled by shadowy benefactors, Russian mobsters, German intelligence agents, and a mysterious woman with a chilling warning: Get out before it’s too late.
Rose races against time, navigating twists and turns and mortal danger knowing no one can be trusted and nothing is happenstance. Can he uncover who is behind the operation that has the potential to destroy entire governments and global financial markets before he loses everything?
DOMINIC MARTELL, who has worked as a teacher and translator, was born in the United States and has lived and traveled extensively in Latin America, Europe and the Middle East. His first three novels featuring repentant ex-terrorist Pascual Rose appeared in the 1990s, chronicling Pascual’s quest for atonement in the chaotic post-Cold War years. A quarter of a century later, in the post-9/11 world, Martell decided to bring Rose out of retirement. Kill Chain is the first 21st-century misadventure of Pascual Rose.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Donna Baier Stein is an award-winning novelist, short story writer, poet and writing teacher. A founding editor of Bellevue Literary Review, she founded and publishes Tiferet Journal. Her work has appeared in Next Avenue, Virginia Quarterly Review, Saturday Evening Post, Writer's Digest, Washingtonianm and many other journals.
SOME REVIEWS FROM THE BOOK - Scenes from the Heartland: Stories Based on Lithographs by Thomas Hart Benton
"An artistic, sympathetic imagining of the life of a 19th-century woman who made headlines for all the wrong reasons."- Kirkus Reviews
...(this) blend of love story, scandal, and mystical experience is satisfying and entertaining. - Publishers Weekly
Foreword Reviews 5 star Winner
ABOUT ROBIN WILSON
Robin Wilson created an eponymous lifestyle brand, author, designer and real estate developer - the entrepreneurial founder of a conglomerate focused on "everything for home" using Clean Design protocols.
MEDIA – a two time #1 Amazon bestselling author, Robin has been featured on multiple news segments as an expert on eco-friendly design and allergy-focused segments. She has hosted an LX-TV Open House segment for Earth Day and been featured on HGTV's "Selling New York", among other television programs.
WELLNESS ENTREPRENEUR – Robin's life mission is to recognize that 1 in 4 people suffer from allergies or asthma (over 60 million people), and with her Clean Design message, she hopes to educate consumers about hypoallergenic options. To achieve her goals, she has written two books, spoken to media and audiences about simple solutions for their personal ecosystem - home! With a personal medical journey of allergies and asthma, she is an expert on creating an eco-healthy lifestyle.
ABOUT THE BOOK - CLEAN DESIGN
Designer Robin Wilson shares tips and tricks to detoxify and beautify your interior spaces and to help you create a more stylish and healthy home.
Author Robin Wilson, plagued by allergies and asthma since infancy, has become an expert in Clean Design—creating allergen-reduced home environments that comfort and protect families. Using Wilson’s four principles of design—sustainable, reusable, recyclable, and nontoxic—every room in the home, from attic to basement and entryway to bedroom, can look sensational and stylish while reducing “your wheezing and sneezing.” Clean Design leads to amazing results: fewer allergy symptoms and asthma attacks, easier breathing, and better overall health.
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ABOUT THE BOOK - GENESIS
The Old One is the first of the vampires. She takes the human Daniel under her wing, bringing him along on a journey that leads to the origin of the vampires. Daniel landed in Berlin, Germany, over a year ago because he kept the wrong friends. Little did he know that he’d come to love the old city, his job, and his life in Europe. Now that Aiden has arrived, a quiet, red-headed, refuge from a war back in the states, Daniel is settling into a domestic life he never dreamed he’d have. The arrival of The Old One, the mother of all vampires, turns Daniel’s domestic happiness on its head as she drags him away on an adventure through archeological sites of Europe, America, and Egypt on a hunt for origin of vampires. Can Daniel, an ardent agnostic, walk through the birthplace of religion without questioning himself? And can he win the heart of a woman so destroyed by her past that she barely has hope for the future?
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Anne Schlea was born and raised in Northwest Ohio where she spent much of her childhood on her Grandparent’s farm. She graduated from Woodmore High School and then went on to Berry College in Rome, Georgia, where the first chapters of the Retribution Universe began to take shape. Anne is an avid reader with over three thousand books in her personal collection. As a teen, she read the entire paranormal fiction and romance sections of her local library. Today, Anne lives in the northern suburbs of Atlanta, Georgia, a short drive from the Appalachian Mountains, with her husband and her cat. She loves visiting wineries, making music, running her business, and hanging out with her Siamese cat, Rosanna.
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ABOUT THE BOOK - THE LAST AGENT
Betrayed by his own country and tried for treason, former spy Charles Jenkins survived an undercover Russian operation gone wrong. Exonerated, bitter, and safe, the retired family man is done with duplicitous spy games. Then he learns of a woman isolated in Moscow’s notorious Lefortovo Prison.
If it’s Paulina Ponomayova, the agent who sacrificed her life to save his, Jenkins can’t leave her behind. But there’s no guarantee it’s her. Or proof Paulina is still alive. To find out, Jenkins must return to Russia, blackmail Viktor Federov, a former Russian officer, into helping him infiltrate Lefortovo. The irony? The enemy who once pursued Jenkins across three continents is now the only man Jenkins can trust.
Every step of the way, Jenkins is hunted by a brutal Russian agent on a killer quest of his own. Out of loyalty to Paulina—dead or alive—Jenkins is putting everyone’s life on the line for a new mission that could be his last.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Robert Dugoni is the critically acclaimed NY Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post and #1 Amazon bestselling author of the Tracy Crosswhite police series, which has sold more than 6 million books worldwide. Several of his novels have been optioned for movies and TV series. Dugoni is the recipient of the Nancy Pearl Award for Fiction and a two-time winner of the Friends of Mystery Spotted Owl Award for best novel set in the Pacific Northwest. Dugoni is a twotime finalist for the International Thriller Award, the Harper Lee Prize for Legal Fiction, the Silver Falchion Award for mystery, and the Mystery Writers of America Edgar Award.
ABOUT THE BOOK - BEAUTY
Amy Wong is an up-and-coming designer in the New York fashion industry; she is young, beautiful, and has it all. But she finds herself at odds with rival designers in a world rife with chauvinism and prejudice. In her personal life, she struggles with marriage and motherhood, finding that her choices often fall short of her traditional family's expectations. Derailed again and again, Amy must confront her own limitations to succeed as the designer and person she wants to be.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Christina Chiu is the grand-prize winner of the James Alan McPherson Award for her novel, Beauty. She is also author of Troublemaker and Other Saints, published by G.P. Putnam’s Sons. Troublemaker was alternate selection for BOMC and QPB, a nominee for a BOMC First Fiction Award, and winner of the Asian American Literary Award. Chiu curates and co-hosts the Pen Parentis Literary Salons in New York City. She received her MFA in writing from Columbia University.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Terry Persun's books have taken readers to uncharted worlds near the edge of the galaxy to lands where shape shifters battle humans (the "Doublesight" series), to the near future in both technology and shamanism, all while keeping the pace of thriller novels. Persun also writes historical fiction, contemporary crime, and mainstream novels. Persun lives in Washington State with his wife, their horses, chickens, and several cats (domestic AND stray). There's no telling what animals will show up to move in next. When he's not writing or with the animals... he secludes himself away to meditate. You can learn more about Terry Persun at www.TerryPersun.com
ABOUT THE BOOK - STEALING CHILDHOOD
The FBI call in Dan and Jason for a human trafficking assignment targeting Native American teens but Agent Rafsky is skeptical of their skills and has her own way of handling things. A long-ago friend of Dan’s now appears but seems very suspicious. The whole precarious operation might fail causing the deaths of some of the girls. Complications escalate once Dan realizes that other Shamans are involved. As Dan and Jason are pitted against dangers, the FBI remains skeptical of their talents. Everything blows up when the FBI infiltrates the trafficking ring using Dan and he gets caught. But troubles escalate when Dan puts his best friend, Jason in harm's way.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Gary F. Bengier is a writer, philosopher, and technologist. After a career in Silicon Valley, Gary pursued passion projects, studying astrophysics and philosophy. He's spent the last two decades thinking about how to live a balanced, meaningful life in a rapidly evolving technological world. This self-reflective journey infuses his novel with insights about our future and the challenges we will face in finding purpose.
ABOUT THE BOOK - UNFETTERED JOURNEY
One of the most anticipated novels of 2020, Unfettered Journey is a captivating and fast-paced futuristic love story rooted in hard-science, physics, and philosophy. A story about survival and resilience in an imperfect world, this speculative fiction novel is a guaranteed page-turner filled with powerful characters in quests for meaning in their lives.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Zarrar Said was born in Lahore and spent his childhood between Dubai, Lahore and the US. He has an undergraduate degree in business from The Ohio State University and a graduate degree in quantitative finance from George Washington University. Zarrar's debut novel, Pureland was released July 20, 2020.
ABOUT THE BOOK - PURELAND
In the fictional story of Dr. Abdus Salam, Nobel prize winning physicist excommunicated by his country of birth who spent his adult life in exile, Salam's achievements in science were eradicated from Pakistan's history. Pureland is the retelling of Salam's story through magical realism. An assassin, accused of heinous acts, narrates. He claims responsibility for the murder of Nobel Prize winner, Salim Agha. He begins by explaining Salim's relationship with his beloved nation, Pureland. Rife with mysticism, Salim's life commences with a spiritual prophecy: Salim is destined for greatness but, born into poverty, the prophecy begins to fade. But General Khan sees something special in Salim who falls in love with Khan’s daughter, Laila, who becomes his muse and his curse. A love so powerful that he vows to do anything to win her heart, Laila becomes the embodiment of everything he is destined for. But things go terribly wrong. Inspired by true events of Pakistan’s only Nobel Prize winning physicist, Pureland is a tour-de-force debut about a nation that has lost its way, its people who suffer from unspeakable tyranny, and a remorseful hero whose legacy has been wiped out by hatred.
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ABOUT THE BOOK - DAUGHTERS OF SMOKE AND FIRE
Set in Iran, this extraordinary debut novel takes readers into the everyday lives of the Kurds. Leila dreams of making films to bring the suppressed stories of her people onto the global stage, but obstacles keep piling up. Leila’s younger brother, Chia, influenced by their father’s past torture and imprisonment, and his deep-seated desire for justice, begins to engage with social and political affairs. But his activism grows increasingly risky, and one day he disappears in Tehran. Seeking answers about her brother’s whereabouts, Leila fears the worst and begins a campaign to save him. But when she publishes Chia’s writings online, she finds herself in grave danger as well.
DAUGHTERS OF SMOKE AND FIREis an evocative portrait of the lives and stakes faced by 40 million stateless Kurds and a powerful story that brilliantly illuminates the meaning of identity and the complex bonds of family, perfect for fans of Khaled Hosseini’s The Kite Runner and Adichie’s Half of a Yellow Sun.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Ava Homa is a writer, journalist, and activist specializing in women’s issues and Middle Eastern affairs. She holds an MA in English and creative writing from the University of Windsor in Canada. Her collection of short stories, Echoes from the Other Land, was long-listed for the Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award, and she is the inaugural recipient of the PEN Canada-Humber College Writers-in-Exile Scholarship. She was born and raised in the Kurdistan Province in Iran and now divides her time between Toronto and the Bay Area. Daughters of Smoke and Fire is her debut novel.
ABOUT THE BOOK - INTERFERENCE
Quantum physicist Matt Bronik is suffering from strange, violent seizures that medical science seems powerless to explain—much to the consternation of his wife, Brigid. Matt doesn’t think these fits could be related to his research, which he has always described as benign and esoteric. That, it turns out, is not quite true: Matt has been prodding the mysteries of the quantum universe, with terrible repercussions for his health. And perhaps even for humanity as a whole.
Then, in the midst of another seizure, Matt disappears. When foul play is feared, there is no shortage of suspects. Matt’s research had gained the attention of Chinese competitors, an unscrupulous billionaire, and the Department of Defense, among others. With Matt’s life in clear danger, Brigid sets out to find him. Will Matt be killed before she reaches him, or could the physics that endangered him actually be used to save his life?
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
International bestselling author Brad Parks is the only writer to have won the Shamus, Nero, and Lefty Awards, three of American crime fiction’s most prestigious prizes. His novels have been translated into 15 languages and have won critical acclaim across the globe, including stars from every major pre-publication review outlet. A graduate of Dartmouth College, Parks is a former journalist with The Washington Post and The (Newark, N.J.) Star-Ledger. He is now a full-time novelist living in Virginia with his wife and two school-aged children.
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Ardre Orie is a social activist, entrepreneur, publisher, philanthropist, and author on a mission to give marginalized voices a platform to speak. She is the CEO of 13th & Joan Publishing and the founder of 100 Seeds of Promise, a literary initiative that empowers men of color to document their own narratives and guarantees their representation as published authors. As a Celebrity Ghostwriter, Orie has written for a host of clients including Grammy Award-winning artists, A-list Hollywood actors, professional athletes, and a bevy of entrepreneurs and everyday heroes. Orie's work has been featured on VH1, MTV, WETV, Bravo, BET, Centric, and more.
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ABOUT THE BOOK - Straight Up: Honest, Unfiltered, As-Real-As-I-Can-Put-It Advice for Life’s Biggest Challenges
Who do you have in your life who’s not afraid to tell you the honest-to-God truth? Who do you have who’s a real source of wisdom when life gets real?
With his trademark combination of raw honesty and practical next-steps, Trent Shelton will help you navigate through some of the most confusing topics of life, including relationships, friendships, fear, depression and your own past trauma. And while you might not make it out of the storms of life unscathed, the wisdom and lessons in this book can help you can make it out stronger.
This book is: imminently honest and practical, helping you take real next steps toward being the best you.easy-to-read. It is organized into 64 different bite-sized chunks of content that you can pick up and read when you have time.real and raw. Trent vulnerably shares his own story, including his own missteps that have resulted in the hard-won lessons he shares. ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Trent Shelton is a motivational speaker, former NFL player, and founder of the non-profit RehabTime. Trent reaches millions of followers of all ages each week with his videos and messages about relationships, personal success, life, and faith.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR & THE BOOK
When Olive MacLeod met famous naturalist Boyd Alexander in the early 1900s, her impressive spirit led him to ask her to be his wife. Shortly thereafter, the naturalist encountered serious trouble during an expedition to West Africa in 1910. When Olive got word that something had happened to Boyd, she headed to unmapped regions to find him, willing to face down any danger.
Olive the Lionheart is the thrilling true story of her astonishing journey. In jungles, swamps, cities, and deserts, Olive and her two companions, the Talbots, come face-to-face with cobras and crocodiles, worldly native chiefs, a murderous leopard cult, a haunted forest, and even two adorable lion cubs that she adopts as her own. Making her way in a pair of ill-fitting boots, Olive awakens to the many forces around her, from shadowy colonial powers to an invisible Islamic warlord who may hold the key to Boyd’s disappearance. As these secrets begin to unravel, all of Olive’s assumptions prove wrong and she is forced to confront the darkest, most shocking secret of all: why she really came to Africa in the first place.
Drawing on Olive’s own letters and secret diaries—documents which have never been published—Olive the Lionheart is a love story that defies all boundaries, set against the backdrop of a beautiful, unconquerable Africa.
BRAD RICCA is the author of the Edgar Award-nominated Mrs. Sherlock Holmes and Super Boys, and winner of the Ohioana Book Award for Nonfiction. He won the St. Lawrence Book Award for American Mastodon. Ricca lives and works in Cleveland.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
James A. Ross is the author of "Hunting Teddy Roosevelt," which will be released on July 31, 2020 by Regal House Publishing. His short fiction has appeared in publications including The South Dakota Review, Santa Clara Review, Whiskey Island Magazine, Phantasmagoria, The Distillery, Lost River Lit Mag and Embark.
ABOUT THE BOOK - HUNTING TEDDY ROOSEVELT
It’s 1909, and Teddy Roosevelt is leaving office in a funk. Much of what he had hoped to accomplish as president remains undone and his controversial decision to follow George Washington’s example and not to run for a third term now seems like the biggest mistake of his life. But he leaves in spectacular fashion—assembling the largest safari ever undertaken and leading it on a year-long expedition through East and Central Africa. His account, African Game Trails, becomes an international bestseller. But it only tells part of the story. HUNTING TEDDY ROOSEVELT tells the rest.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Ann Crawford is a fun-loving, world-traveling, high-flying, deep-diving, and living-to-the-max author of ten books. Crawford is a #1 Amazon bestselling and award-winning author whose novels go as high and deep as she does. Readers often say the worst part about her books is that they end.
ABOUT THE BOOK - LIFE IN THE HOLLYWOOD LANE
Trish, an LA actor, is bereft after her best friend commits suicide. The glamorous yet tough-as-nails Hollywood is Trish's backdrop and a reflection of her self as she stumbles on through an actor's life of casting calls and premieres, rejection and acceptance. Slowly Trish releases the idea of how her life should be and embraces the messy, flawed, yet stunningly beautiful truth of how it is.
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Randall Silvis is the internationally acclaimed author of over a dozen novels, one story collection, and one book of narrative nonfiction. Also a prize-winning playwright, a produced screenwriter, and a prolific essayist, he has been published and produced in virtually every field and genre of creative writing. His numerous essays, articles, poems and short stories have appeared in the Discovery Channel magazines, The Writer, Prism International, Short Story International, Manoa, and numerous other online and print magazines. His work has been translated into 10 languages.
ABOUT THE BOOK - NO WOODS SO DARK AS THESE
Former Sergeant Ryan DeMarco's life has been spent in defiance—he's defied death, loneliness, and betrayal all while fighting the worst parts of humanity. He's earned a break, and following the devastation of their last case, DeMarco and his girlfriend Jayme want nothing more than to live quietly in each other's company. To forget the horrors they've experienced and work on making each other whole again.
But dreams of a peaceful life together are shattered when two bodies are discovered in a smoldering car in the woods, and another is found brutally mutilated nearby. Much as he'd like to leave the case to his former colleagues, dark forces are at play and DeMarco cannot escape the vortex of lies, betrayal, and desperation. He and Jayme are dragged back into the fray, where they must confront the shady dealings of a close-knit rural community.
Perfect for fans of murder mystery books and suspenseful thrillers alike, No Woods So Dark as These explores the atrocities humans are capable of when pushed to their limits. In this highly-anticipated addition to Randall Silvis' books, Ryan DeMarco is forced into a case that might break him for good.
www.randallsilvis.com
ABOUT THE BOOK - A SUITABLE NECKLACE
Sabine Kumar, a con-artist and cat burglar, returns to Delhi with a scheme to exact revenge on JJ Singh, her ex-partner and lover, who, five years prior, gave her up to the Indian police and cut a deal to save himself, sending her on the run. She sets her sights on the famous Barodan Necklace, created by the House of Richemont in Paris for the Maharajah of Barodan in 1920. The necklace mysteriously disappeared during the partition of India in 1947 and, now, more than seventy years later, has just as mysteriously reappeared. The necklace is to be worn by famous Bollywood actress, Priya Chopra, at a high-society Delhi party thrown by JJ for her and her new husband. Sabine plans to rob the necklace at the party and brings in Indi and Gema, a couple of old friends to execute the heist. But it goes wrong, and the necklace is out in the wind.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Writer and wine sommelier, Kim Ahktar's career spans the 1990's to the 2000's at CBS working for Dan Rather as his chief of staff and spokesperson. Her novel A SUITABLE NECKLACE was released June 2020.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Christopher Coake is the author of the novel You Came Back and the story collection We’re in Trouble winner of the PEN/Robert Bingham Fellowship. His new collection, You Would Have Told Me Not To, RELEASED TODAY by Delphinium. In 2007 he was named one of Granta's Best Young American Novelists. His short fiction has been anthologized in collections such as Best American Mystery Stories 2004; The Best American Noir of the Century; and Gutted: Beautiful Horror Stories; and in numerous literary journals. Coake received his MFA in fiction from the Ohio State U and an MA in fiction from Miami U of Ohio. He is an Associate Professor of English at the U of Nevada, Reno. He directs the MFA program in creative writing there where he lives with his wife, Stephanie Lauer, and their two dogs.
ABOUT THE BOOK - YOU WOULD HAVE TOLD ME NOT TO
These stories arrive amid the #Metoo movement. They examine the fallout from failed relationships between men and women, relationships that have crumbled under the weight of betrayal, misplaced hopes, illness and from masculinity at its most toxic and misguided. These fictions ask very contemporary questions: how do ex-spouses learn to live again in proximity to one another; how do we make peace with our bodies and their own worst impulses; how do we learn to turn and face, full-on, the worst mistakes of our younger selves?
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Tiffany Rosenhan is the debut author of young adult spy thriller, GIRL FROM NOWHERE. She is a mother to four young daughters, and has a degree in Political Science. She loves to travel the world with her children and husband, a critical care physician. She resides in Millcreek, Utah.
ABOUT THE BOOK - GIRL FROM NOWHERE
Ninety-four countries. Thirty-one schools. Two bullets. Now it's over . . . or so she thinks. Sophia Hepworth has spent her life all over the world--moving quickly, never staying in one place for too long. She knows to always look over her shoulder, to be able to fight to survive at a moment's notice. She has trained to be ready for anything.
Except this. Suddenly it's over. Now Sophia is expected to attend high school in a sleepy Montana town. She is told to forget the past, but she's haunted by it. As hard as she tries to be like her new friends and live a normal life, she can't shake the feeling that this new normal won't last.
Then comes strong and silent Aksel, whose skills match Sophia's, and who seems to know more about her than he's letting on . . .
What if everything Sophia thought she knew about her past is a lie?
Cinematic and breathtaking, Tiffany Rosenhan's debut stars a fierce heroine who will risk everything to save the life she has built for herself.
Website -www.tiffanyrosenhan.com
Instagram - @tiffany_rosenhan and @girlfromnowherebook
Email – tiffanyrosenhanauthor@gmail.com
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ABOUT THE BOOK - The Armageddon-Two Step
...is a novel about reality and truth built for the Age of Trump; a comedic farce tinted with magical-realism about a young man named Shelby Albert Goddard.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR - Michael Loyd Gray
Gray's novel Well Deserved won the 2008 Sol Books Prose Series Prize and his novel Not Famous Anymore garnered a support grant from the Elizabeth George Foundation in 2009. His most recent novel, Exile on Kalamazoo Street, was released in 2013 and he co-authored the stage version. Gray's novel The Canary, which reveals the final days of Amelia
Earhart, was released in 2011. King Biscuit, a young adult novel, was released in 2012. He is the winner of the 2005 Alligator
Juniper Fiction Prize and 2005 The Writers Place Award for Fiction.
ABOUT THE BOOK - DERAILED
PI Kelly Pruett is determined to make it on her own. And juggling clients at her late father’s detective agency, a controlling ex, and caring for a Deaf daughter was never going to be easy. So she takes it as a good sign when a letter left by her dad ties into an unsolved case of a young woman struck by a train.
Hunting down the one person who can prove the mysterious death was not just a drunken accident, Kelly discovers this witness is in no condition to talk. And the closer she gets to the truth the longer her list of sleazy suspects with murderous motives grows. Each clue exposes another layer of the victim's steamy double life.
Can Kelly pinpoint the murderer, or is she on the fast-track to disaster?
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Mary Keliikoa writes mystery and suspense stories about the adventures of tenacious PI Kelly Pruett who has inherited her father's agency.
For years, Mary worked as a legal secretary which gave her a front row seat on legal maneuverings. She loved the unfolding of a case from the first documents being run to the courthouse to preparing for trial. That love is one of many reasons she gravitated to writing mystery and suspense. "And yes," she says, "I’m that person that actually gets excited when called for jury duty."
For Mary, the legal system is an incredible lens by which to see what makes people tick. This is what she infuses into her novels, along with characters striving to overcome significant odds to find meaning and purpose in this crazy world. "I mean," says Keliikoa, "aren’t we all?"
www.marykeliikoa.com
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
A.C. Efverman is a Swedish bestselling author. Her first novel was published in Sweden year 2002. Novels from her latest series 'Kommissarie Morgan Callaghan/Sydney-serien' have been bestsellers on Amazon many times. A.C. Efverman was born and raised in Stockholm, and she travelled the world on and off for six years before she settled in Australia year 1996. During her travels she saw and experienced many things, and in one horrific moment she had a gun pointed at her head by a serial rapist. She writes from her experience of being a victim of crime - and over twenty years of research on real-life murderers, police procedures and forensic data. Her novels contain the same main characters, and the stories are set in her adopted home town Sydney.
ABOUT THE BOOK - GAME
In her latest Sydney Series novel, GAME, three women are found naked and brutally murdered in central parts of Sydney - and DS Morgan Callaghan is assigned to lead the investigations of what seems to be the work of a serial killer. One of the murder victims is a young Danish citizen - and as Sydney is hosting the World Cup in a few weeks' time, Morgan has added pressure from his superiors and FIFA to find the killer before more people from all over the world descend on Sydney to watch the World Cup games. At the same time, Morgan's mother is dying, and Morgan is torn as his family doesn't understand how much time he has to spend at work. GAME is a dark thriller that takes you on a journey through Sydney: where you will get to know Detective Sergeant Morgan Callaghan and the people in his life. You will also follow the murder investigations closely - all the way to the twisted end.
https://www.goodreads.com/acefverman
https://www.amazon.com/A-C-EFVERMAN/e/B013J9VYYO
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Winner of the 2015 PWA Shamus Award and the 2015 ITW Thriller Award for Best Original Paperback Novel for MOONLIGHT WEEPS, Vincent Zandri is the NEW YORK TIMES, USA TODAY, and AMAZON KINDLE No.1 bestselling author of more than 30 novels including THE REMAINS, EVERYTHING BURNS, ORCHARD GROVE and THE DETONATOR. His list of domestic publishers include Delacorte, Dell, Down & Out Books, Thomas & Mercer, and Polis Books.
ABOUT THE BOOK - THE GIRL WHO WASN'T THERE
Trust no one. Not your best friend, not your wife, not the police—and certainly not yourself.
Sidney O'Keefe just wants to spend a peaceful weekend alone with his wife and daughter in the vacation paradise of Lake Placid, New York—now that he's been paroled after a ten year stretch in a maximum-security prison.
But any illusion of a peaceful future is destroyed when his eleven-year-old daughter, Chloe, suddenly disappears from the iconic beach scene, leaving Sidney and his wife, Penny, stricken with fear and panic. When it's determined that his old crime boss, Mickey Rabuffo, might be behind the abduction, it becomes apparent that the past has not only come back to haunt Sidney, but it's come back to kill the entire family. With the village police assuming that Sidney, an ex-con with a history of prison violence, is responsible for his daughter's disappearance, Sidney is left with no choice—he needs to take the law into his own hands—not only to expose the truth about what's developing into a conspiracy of Biblical proportions, but also to render his own particular brand of rough justice.
ABOUT THE BOOK - YOU CAN GO HOME NOW
How far would you go to protect yourself and your children from domestic abuse at the hands of a husband, a boyfriend, a partner? This is the question at the heart of literary thriller YOU CAN GO HOME NOW out by HarperCollins on June 23, 2020. Elias' tough heroine Nina Karim confronts her own moral compass of right and wrong in her pursuit of justice—and revenge. Nina is a single, 31-year-old homicide detective in the Long Island City PD. Her current investigation focuses on a series of cold case murders by abusive men. The women connected to these men all have the same alibi: they were in Artemis, a battered women’s shelter when their husbands were murdered. Nina goes into Artemis undercover and finds the goings-on may align with her tragic past when her father was assassinated, propelling Nina to become a police officer in order to find his killer and extract her own bloody justice. Nina’s quest for revenge comes together in a stunning climax. Razor-sharp dialogue, relentless action, and nuanced characters set YOU CAN GO HOME NOW far apart in a crowded field of psychological suspense thrillers. The novel’s political undertones and powerful message of social justice pose complex questions that will resonate for the reader long after the last page is turned.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Michael Elias is an award-winning writer, actor, and director who has written film, television, theatre, and fiction. Elias has made a lifelong career writing for the stage and screen. He was nominated for Best Director at The Cable Ace Awards. His semi-autobiographical play The Catskill Sonata about a small hotel in upstate New York was directed by Paul Mazursky with the LA Weekly naming it one of the best ten plays of the year. Michael Elias lives in Los Angeles and Paris.
https://www.michaeleliaswriter.com/
ABOUT THE BOOK - THE KING & THE QUIRKY
Do our childhood selves always inform who we are as adults? Can you be a stay-at-home mother and still be a feminist? Does the word “soulmate” actually have many meanings? Should we believe in the “true love” narrative? These are just some of the questions Heather asks in her new memoir, The King & The Quirky, being published by Regal House Publishing in 2020. Stay tuned for the answers.
“[The King & The Quirky] is a powerful memoir of a process that will be familiar to many women: one which involves the remarkable task of reconsidering life's goals and possibilities within and beyond the traditions of marital bliss and connection… [Siegel’s] memoir represents an important survey of both the evolution of hope and self and the end results of such pursuits, creating an accessible, humorous, involving account highly recommended for women at various stages of growth.” --Diane Donovan, Midwest Book Review
ABOUT THE AUTHOR - HEATHER SIEGEL
Heather Siegel is a writer, teacher, and creative with interests in the arts, food, and animal welfare. In her past life, she founded several independent businesses, including a coffeehouse, a café, an organic juice bar, and a natural beauty bar. She currently teaches creative and academic writing for local colleges, continuing education programs, and private workshops. She holds an MFA from The New School University and lives in the woods of Long Island with her family in a farmhouse that always needs something fixed.
Addiction is a stealth predator. Unrecognized, it will grow and flourish. Unchecked, it destroys.
Marilea Rabasa grew up in post-WWII Massachusetts in a family that lived comfortably and offered her every advantage. But they were also haunted by closely guarded family secrets. Alcoholism reached back through several generations, and it was not openly discussed. Shame and stigma perpetuated the silence. And Marilea became part of this ongoing tragedy.
From an unhappy childhood to a life overseas in the diplomatic service to now, living on an island in Puget Sound, Stepping Stones chronicles Marilea’s experiences, weaving a compelling tale of travel, motherhood, addiction, and heartbreaking loss. The constant thread throughout this story is the many faces and forms of addiction, phantoms that stalk her like an obsessed lover. What, if anything, will free her of the masks she has worn all her life?
An inspiring, poignant recovery story, Stepping Stones tells how Marilea took on the demons that plagued her all her life—and defeated them.
www.recoveryofthespirit.com
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ABOUT THE BOOK - THE GRETCHEN QUESTION
A single mother, torn between protecting her only child or revealing herself fully to the people she loves most, Roberta finds herself at war with conflicting loyalties, the increasing betrayal by her own body, the confused love she feels for her oldest friend, and a trauma from her past that casts a deep and possibly permanent shadow not only over her own life, but over the legacy she will bestow upon her son. Portraying the most intense and even shameful moments of motherhood, and the things we leave unsaid even to those we want most to hear them, the novel is also a celebration of one woman’s private reckoning with the source of her life’s most profound pain – as well as its greatest pleasure.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Jessica Treadway held a fellowship at the Bunting Institute of Radcliffe College and taught at Tufts University before joining the faculty at Emerson College where she is a Senior Distinguished Writer in Residence. Her two most recent novels are How Will I Know You? a People Magazine Book of the Week, and Lacy Eye a Target Book Club pick--both published by Grand Central Publishing. She is a Flannery O'Connor Award winner for Short Fiction. Her fiction has been published in The Atlantic, Ploughshares, The Hudson Review, Glimmer Train, AGNI, Five Points, and has been cited multiple times in The Best American Short Stories annual anthology. Jessica has published essays and book reviews for publications including The Boston Globe, The Chicago Tribune, Glamour, and The Huffington Post. She has received awards from the NEA and the Massachusetts Cultural Council.
www.jessicatreadway.com
ABOUT THE BOOK - THE TANTALIZING TALE OF GRACE MINNAUGH
Eleven-year-old Grace Minnaugh is not a fan of big changes. She's miserable during her first weeks in the seaside town of La Toya, sulking like a spoiled brat. Her family embraces the California lifestyle and Grace decides to embrace the seductive beauty of the sea. One fateful morning, while taking a predawn swim, she is caught in a thunderstorm. Without the ocean skills to survive, she's sucked below the surface, convinced she will drown. Instead, a new life begins. Gills rip open from behind her ears and her legs fuse together to form a fishtail. Grace Minnaugh is a mermaid, and a gorgeous one at that. On land, Grace is still the same walking, talking social misfit she's always been. But in the salty sea, she's an underwater marvel. Grace decides not to tell a soul about her flip-floppy double life, but things get complicated when Grace befriends Alfie DeCosta, a kid who's obsessed with finding an elusive shipwreck off the coast of La Toya. Grace knows exactly where the shipwreck is. But she can't tell Alfie about it, or can she?
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
As a young girl, Alice Kaltman longed to be a mermaid. Her idol sat demurely on the Chicken of the Sea tuna fish cans. She peeled labels off to save the image. To this day, Alice is most at home when upside down and underwater. She has been swimming her entire life and surfing for the better part of adulthood. It's no surprise her two novels are totally ocean-centric. "The Tantalizing Tale of Grace Minnaugh" is about a mermaid, and "Wavehouse" is about a surfer. Her short fiction (for adults) takes place on land, sea, and air. She's thrilled that "Staggerwing", a collection of her favorites, is available here Amazon and everywhere else books are sold.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
David was born and raised in Natchez, Mississippi. He is an attorney and former mayor. He holds undergraduate and master’s degrees in political science, in addition to a law degree. David has written three novels and four screenplays. His third novel, The Third Gift, will be released this summer.
ABOUT THE BOOK - THE RISING PLACE
What if you found an old box of love letters from World War II, written by an old maid who had just died—would you read them? And what if you did and discovered an amazing story about unrequited love, betrayal, and murder that happened over seventy years ago?
A young lawyer meets Emily Hodge, a 75-year-old spinster shunned by her hometown society, and can't understand why she lives such a solitary and seemingly forgotten life. But the letters she leaves for him reveal how her choices caused her to be ostracized—but definitely not forgotten by those who loved her.
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Brian C. Johnson honors the struggles and accomplishments of the ordinary citizens who launched the Civil Rights Movement by committing himself personally and professionally to the advancement of multicultural and inclusive education.
He earned both bachelor's and master's degrees in English from California University of Pennsylvania completed his PhD at Indiana University of Pennsylvania in Communications Media and Instructional Technology in December 2016. His research examines the role of mainstream film in the development of social dominance orientation.
Johnson serves on the ministry team at Revival Tabernacle in Watsontown, PA where he is an associated pastor, youth minister, and leads the Kingdom Writers' guild. He is formerly a film reviewer for Christian Spotlight on Entertainment (www.christiananswers.net).
Follow him on Twitter: @theREELBrian
ABOUT THE BOOK - SEND JUDAH FIRST
A young girl’s life is shattered when she is stolen from her African village in a midnight raid. Ruthlessly torn from her family to be beaten, chained, degraded, and enslaved in a heartless world she can barely comprehend. The slave ledger at Virginia’s Belle Grove Plantation only reveals that Judah was purchased to be the cook, gave birth to 12 children, and died in April 1836. But, like the other 276 faceless names entered in that ledger, Judah lived. Brian C. Johnson’s important work of historical fiction goes beyond what is recorded to portray the depth, humanity, and vulnerability of a beautiful soul all but erased by history. For Judah, as Johnson notes, “did the ultimate—she survived. Not as a weakling, but resilient and determined.”
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
TOM CLAVIN is a #1 New York Times bestselling author and has worked as a newspaper and web site editor, magazine writer, TV and radio commentator, and a reporter for The New York Times. He has received awards from the Society of Professional Journalists, Marine Corps Heritage Foundation, and National Newspaper Association. His books include The Heart of Everything That Is, Halsey’s Typhoon, and Reckless. He lives in Sag Harbor, NY.
Praise for TOMBSTONE
“Rootin’-tootin’ history ... Updating the old notion that the Earp myth is the American Iliad, the author is at his best when he delineates those fraught spasms of violence. Buffs of the Old West will enjoy Clavin’s careful research and vivid writing.”—Kirkus Reviews
“Clavin briskly sketches dozens of historical figures and gamely interrogates primary and secondary sources to separate fact from fiction. This animated account entertains”—Publishers Weekly
“Clavin shows that there is more to the story of Tombstone than the Earps and the well-known gunfight. Readers who enjoyed the first two books in this popular history trilogy will look forward to this excellent and fitting conclusion.”
—Library Journal
www.tomclavin.com
ABOUT THE BOOK
"Danger in the Coyote Zone compels and thrills with trademark Kathryn Lane qualities: page-turning suspense, contemporary 'ripped-from-the-headlines' conflict, dangerously high stakes, and passionately evoked romance. You will see the world differently after accompanying these memorable characters to a zone where 'the devil is on the loose.'” -Dr. Cliff Hudder, a member of the Texas Institute of Letters and author of Pretty Enough for You and Splinterville
"Kathryn Lane’s spunky Latina heroine, Nikki Garcia, is back in Danger in the Coyote Zone. When the story opens, Nikki is vacationing in the Yucatán with her fiancé Eduardo, but their lovefest is interrupted by a call from her boss to investigate a kidnapping in San Miguel de Allende. Not only is this a page-turning thriller with twist after heart-wrenching twist, but it brings awareness to the very real issue of human trafficking." -Review by Sharon Marchisello, author of Going Home and Secrets of the Galapagos, and book reviewer for the Killer Nashville International Mystery Writers’ Conference.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Kathryn Lane, award-winning author of the Nikki Garcia Thriller series, sets her novels in foreign countries and her short stories in exotic places.
Kathryn credits her imagination to growing up in Mexico, a country which was rich in storytelling and steeped in cultural traditions. Her creativity was first expressed by painting in oils and when reality of earning a living set in, she studied accounting and finance, and joined a multinational corporation where she obtained her dream job of traveling abroad.
After two decades in the corporate world and having visited over 90 countries, Kathryn left to fulfill a second dream – writing mystery and suspense novels.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Joseph Badal is a decorated Vietnam veteran and the author of 16 suspense novels. He is an Amazon #1 Best-Selling Author, a two-time winner of the Tony Hillerman Prize, an Eric Hoffer Award Winner, has earned multiple Gold Medals from the Military Writers Society of America, and a “Finalist” in the International Book Awards.
ABOUT THE BOOK - PAYBACK (Suspense Publishing)
"Payback has everything: an intriguing, single-minded protagonist; cunningly evil bad guys; well-drawn settings; a possible romance; and, best of all, a complex plot based on dark revenge. Author Badal never runs short of clever ways to challenge readers’ assumptions as the absorbing, action-filled plot brilliantly unfolds." -Anne Hillerman, New York Times best-selling author
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
As a child, Melanie Cossey delighted in reading stories that left her feeling disturbed, like Shirley Jackson's The Lottery, and Poe's The Telltale Heart. Her love of the Victorian period combined with her penchant for impactful, unsettling stories nurtured her desire to create troubling tales of gothic horror. Melanie's short, The Nymphalidae won Honorable Mention in the Storm Crow Tavern's 2015 Tales from Beermat Microfiction Contest. Her short fiction has been shortlisted in numerous contests. Melanie's gothic horror, A Peculiar Curiosity, was released on October 26, 2018 by Fitzroy Books. She is a member of the Horror Writer's Association.
ABOUT THE BOOK - A PECULIAR CURIOSITY
Anthropology professor Duncan Clarke must get a handle on his anxiety disorder by the end of Christmas break, or risk losing the position to which he has tirelessly devoted himself for decades. When Clarke intercepts a box of macabre curiosities, he discovers a travel journal from 1865 containing frantic scribblings of Edward Walker--an eccentric Victorian curiosity dealer. Tucked within the journal is a disturbing drawing of a young boy, "Specimen Z", the apparent victim of a Haitian Vodou witch doctor. Desperate to salvage his professional career and discover the fate of the mysterious boy, Clarke follows gruesome clues left within his predecessor's relic collection and discovers a dark secret Walker kept in his basement and a connection to the brutal crimes terrorizing London. Clarke's holiday pastime becomes an all-consuming obsession as he begins to understand the chilling implications of the journal and the horror that ties his fate to Walker's-for Clarke will stop at nothing to discover the truth, even at the cost of his career, his family, and his very life.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07KCQ96SY/
www.melaniecossey.com
ABOUT THE BOOK - THE LAST TRIAL
At eighty-five years old, Alejandro "Sandy" Stern, a brilliant defense lawyer with his health failing but spirit intact, is on the brink of retirement. But when his old friend Dr. Kiril Pafko, a former Nobel Prize winner in Medicine, is faced with charges of insider trading, fraud, and murder, Stern's entire life's work is put in jeopardy when he decides to take on this one last trial.
In a case that will be the defining coda to both men's accomplished lives, Stern probes beneath the surface of his friend's dazzling veneer as a distinguished cancer researcher. As the trial progresses, he will question everything he thought he knew about his friend. Despite Pafko's many failings, is he innocent of the terrible charges laid against him? How far will Stern go to save his friend, and -- no matter the trial's outcome -- will he ever know the truth?
Stern's duty to defend his client and his belief in the power of the judicial system both face a final, terrible test in the courtroom, where the evidence and reality are sometimes worlds apart.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Scott Turow is the author of eleven bestselling works of fiction, including Identical, Innocent, Presumed Innocent, and The Burden of Proof, and two nonfiction books, including One L, about his experience as a law student. His books have been translated into more than forty languages, sold more than thirty million copies worldwide, and have been adapted into movies and television projects. He has frequently contributed essays and op-ed pieces to publications such as the New York Times, Washington Post, Vanity Fair, The New Yorker, and The Atlantic.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Aimee Liu is the author of numerous bestselling novels as well as nonfiction books on medical and psychological topics. Her work has appeared in the Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Review of Books, Ms., and many other publications. She is on the faculty of Goddard College's MFA in Creative Writing Program at Port Townsend, WA. Aimee grew up in Connecticut but spent two of her earliest years in India. Her father was born in Shanghai, the son of a Chinese scholar-revolutionary and his American wife. You just might find a few of these threads in her novels!
She received her BA from Yale University, studying painting. After setting visual art aside for decades, she's recently come roaring back into this medium, courtesy of Instagram! You can find her current "PhoPaintings" @aimeeeliu. Aimee returned to grad school to earn her MFA from Bennington Writing Seminars. She worked as a flight attendant, edited business and trade publications, and was an associate producer for NBC's TODAY show before turning to writing full-time. She lives in Los Angeles.
ABOUT THE BOOK - GLORIOUS BOY
Glorious Boy is a tale of war and devotion, longing and loss, and the power of love to prevail.
Set in India's remote Andaman Islands before and during WWII, the story revolves around a mysteriously mute 4-year-old who vanishes on the eve of Japanese Occupation. Little Ty's parents, Shep and Claire, will go to any lengths to rescue him, but neither is prepared for the brutal and soul-changing odyssey that awaits them.
Visit her website at www.aimeeliu.net
Facebook: @AimeeLiuBooks; Twitter: @aimee_liu Instagram: @aimeeeliu
ABOUT THE BOOK - LOVE, DEATH & RARE BOOKS (Biographical fiction/family life)
(Delphinium Books, March 17, 2020) Chas. Johnson & Sons (a bookstore) has been a family operation for three generations—grandfather, father and son. But when it comes time for Gabe Johnson to take the reins of the business, the world of books has changed, and the combination of the internet and inner city rents, forces the store to close. But instead of folding his hand, Gabe decides to risk everything he has and reopen the shop—and, in a sense restart his life—in a small town on the shores of Lake Michigan. Haunted his entire life by an obsession with a former lover, he finds her again only to be faced with yet another even more difficult challenge that threatens the well-being of the revival of the bookstore as well as the fate of his rekindled relationship.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR - Robert Hellenga is an American novelist, essayist, and short story author. His seven novels include The Sixteen Pleasures, The Fall of a Sparrow, Blues Lessons, Philosophy Made Simple, The Italian Lover, Snakewoman of Little Egypt, and The Confessions of Frances Godwin. In addition to these works, he has written a novella along with a collection of short stories in The Truth About Death and Other Stories. Hellenga has also published scholarly essays and literary or travel essays in various venues, including The National Geographic Traveler, The New York Times Sophisticated Traveler, and The Gettysburg Review.
http://www.roberthellenga.com
www.twitter.com/RobertHellenga
www.facebook.com/robert.hellenga
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Paul Martin Midden is the author of five previous novels, each of which explores different writing styles. He practiced clinical psychology for over thirty years.
Paul’s interests include historic restoration, travel, fitness, and wine tasting. He and his wife Patricia renovated an 1895 Romanesque home in 1995, and continue to enjoy urban living.
ABOUT THE BOOK
When Riley Cotswald, working on her second novel, leaves her husband, she gets more than she bargained for. Her journey is echoed in the book she is writing, and events play out in her real life and that of her characters in unexpected and sometimes dangerous ways.
http://www.paulmidden.com
https://www.amazon.com/Riley-Paul-Martin-Midden/dp/0985922389/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1573574344&sr=1-1
https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/riley-paul-martin-midden/1133844754?ean=9780985922382
ABOUT VOICE ARTIST TAMARA CHRISTIANS
There is rarely a day that Tamara is not working on a project. Tamara is a seasoned model, chef, actress, and singer. At the age of four, she was "discovered" by the artist, Jessica Zemsky, a New York City native with a talent for painting children. Eight years of sitting for Jessica's portraits and a lifetime spent in her grandparents' gallery provided her with the foundation to become one of Philadelphia's most frequently requested fine art models. Her blog, "Model-Logue", explores what it means to be a modern-day muse, and how posing nude influences her personal and professional lives.
Tamara loves books and tattoos, good whiskey, and the occasional cigar. She shoots a solid game of pool and dances West Coast Swing. She has a big gray tabby and a porch full of plants. You can follow her adventures on Instagram, where her cat has made her very popular, and on goodreads, where she's always growing her bookshelf.
Tamara is a graduate of the American Musical and Dramatic Academy in New York City, and an alumnus of the St. Patrick's Cathedral Choir. Listeners describe her voice as warm, sultry, and welcoming. Her literary interests span many genres, and she will happily take you on an adventure to anywhere.
http://www.tamaracreads.com
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TamaraCReads/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/tamaracreads
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
David Puretz is the author of The Escapist, is the Editorial Director of the literary journal Global City Review and the creator and founder of the quarterly burly bird zine, which is sponsored by Fortroyal Foundation, a non-profit for the conservation and preservation of the arts. Currently, Puretz resides in New York City where he teaches writing at Yeshiva University.
ABOUT THE BOOK - THE ESCAPIST
A propulsive story with profound insights about freedom and imprisonment, motion and stasis, chance and destiny, The Escapist delves deeply into the internal and external calamities that shape this special human life and mind. Mental health, family conflict and abuse, drug addiction, and sexuality are intricately woven together in a turbulent pre-Trump America in this dynamic and layered narrative of violence and hope.
https://globalcitypress.com/
https://davidpuretz.com
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Bestselling author Marcia Clark is a criminal lawyer who went on to become a prosecutor in the L.A. District Attorney’s Office in 1981. She spent ten years in the Special Trials Unit, where she handled a number of high profile cases, including the prosecution of stalker/murderer Robert Bardo, whose conviction for the murder of actress Rebecca Schaeffer resulted in legislation that offered victims better protection from stalkers as well as increased punishment for the offenders. She was lead prosecutor for the OJ Simpson murder trial.
ABOUT THE BOOK - FINAL JUDGMENT
When it comes to relationships and self-preservation, defense attorney Samantha Brinkman has always been cut and run. But it's different with her new lover, Niko, an ambitious and globally famous entrepreneur. Sam is putting her faith in him. She has to. He's also her new client—a suspect in the murder of an investor whose shady dealings turned Niko's good life upside down. He had the motive-revenge. As did many others who banked a fortune on the wrong man. That's a point in Niko's favor. So is his alibi for the day of the slaying. Until that alibi mysteriously disappears. As Sam's feverish search for another viable killer begins, the investigation only leads deeper into Niko's past and its secrets.
www.marciaclarkbooks.com | www.facebook.com/thatmarciaclark
www.instagram.com/thatmarciaclark/ | www.twitter.com/thatmarciaclark
https://www.amazon.com/Final-Judgment-Samantha-Brinkman-Marcia/dp/1542091179/
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Steven Mayfield was born and raised in Nebraska. He is a past recipient of the Mari Sandoz Prize for Fiction and the author of over fifty scientific and literary publications. His collection of shorts, Howling at the Moon was a Best Books of 2010 by USA Book News and an Eric Hoffer Award Finalist. His novel Treasure of the Blue Whale just released by Regal House Publishing April 2020. Steven currently resides in Portland, Oregon with his wife, Pam and three Goldendoodles.
ABOUT THE BOOK - TREASURE OF THE BLUE WHALE
In Depression-era tale, young Connor O'Halloran decides to share a treasure he's discovered on an isolated stretch of Northern California beach. Almost overnight, his sleepy seaside village is transformed into a bastion of consumerism, home to a commode with a jeweled seat cover, a pair of genuinely fake rare documents, a mail-order bride, and an organ-grinder's monkey named Mr. Sprinkles. When it turns out that the treasure is not real, Connor must conspire with Miss Lizzie Fryberg to save their friends and neighbors from financial ruin. He learns to sail a boat and about sex. He meets a real actor. He sneaks into villainous Cyrus Dinkle's house and steals his letter opener. He almost goes to jail. He loves Fiona Littleleaf. He finds a father. And best of all, he and little brother, Alex, reclaim their mother from the darkness of mental illness.
https://www.regalhousepublishing.com/product/treasure-of-the-blue-whale/
https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/treasure-of-the-blue-whale-steven-mayfield/1132417013
ABOUT JENNIFER GOLD
Jennifer Gold is an award-winning author of book club fiction. Her books are about the relationships of career women, featuring themes of love, second-chances, and self-discovery. Her debut novel, The Ingredients of Us, won a Book Excellence Award in 2020. Booklist has called her characters “multifaceted” and her storylines “compelling” and “bittersweet.”
ABOUT THE BOOK - KEEP ME AFLOAT
Five years ago, marine biologist Abby Fisher made a mistake that cost her everything. Rather than face the consequences, she fled home to start anew—and built the career she’d always dreamed of. But when her research program runs out of funding, she’s adrift once again and decides to return to the safe harbor of her family and friends. Except nothing at home is how she remembered. What’s worse, she keeps running into the people she hurt years ago—and they aren’t ready to forgive her. Abby is determined to atone for her mistakes, but she can’t seem to move beyond her guilt for a chance of future happiness.
whttp://www.jennifergoldauthor.com
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Paula Vail is the Owner & Founder of Wellness Inspired, published author of the book "Why Am I so Happy?", and Reiki Master/Teacher. Paula is a TV/Radio Host and inspirational speaker/mentor. She’s been featured in NYC Times Square as well as in multiple publications including "Publisher's Weekly, Women of Distinction”, NYK Daily and others.
ABOUT THE BOOK - Why Am I So Happy?
Why Am I So Happy? is for anyone looking to expand their happiness, which indeed resides in all of us. Each chapter provides insight & tools that every reader can use in their own lives to become empowered, make new choices, develop a positive attitude, and manifest their hearts desire.
FIND PAULA VAIL AT THESE SOCIAL SITES
https://www.facebook.com/paula.vail.98
https://www.linkedin.com/in/paulavail/
www.wellnessinspired.com
https://youtu.be/JppJCuXddA4
ABOUT THE AUTHOR - NED RANDLE
Ned Randle resides in Southern Illinois, across the Mississippi River from St. Louis, where he writes fiction and poetry. He studied writing at Washington University, Webster University and Southwestern Illinois College. His novel Baxter’s Friends, a work of literary fiction by Coffeetown Press is available for order on Amazon.com.
ABOUT THE BOOK - THE ST. MICHAEL POKER & DRINKING CLUB (Regal House Press)
When Father Thomas Abernathy’s loneliness is compounded by the loss of a beloved pet, he conceives an idea for a social club for clergymen where they can play cards, have a few drinks, and socialize. He brings together a wellborn Methodist minister, a dogmatic Lutheran pastor, and an enigmatic, evangelical preacher. Father Tom soon finds the Lutheran pastor, Rev. Theo Swindberg assuming a preternatural place in his life. The man is nervous and doleful, and to learn what makes him tick, Father Tom attends a service at the Lutheran Church, where he falls under the spell of the pastor’s wife, Naomi. When Naomi is diagnosed with an aggressive form of cancer, Swindberg calls upon Father Tom to pray over her healing, a request which could be a career-ending departure from Father Tom’s church’s tenets. Father Tom struggles with his feelings for Naomi, and when he reluctantly agrees to Swindberg’s request, he also finds himself struggling with his faith. In the end it is faith, hope, and love that renews them all.
Writer/Producer Steve Cubine is a graduate of the University of Tennessee-Knoxville with a degree in broadcast journalism. He began his career in the art department on projects like Universal's "Mercury Rising," the NBC's TV series "Players," and the FOX's TV series "Get Real," which starred Anne Hathaway and Jesse Eisenberg.
Cubine is the writer/producer of the hit comedy digital series "Break A Hip' which stars Christina Pickles & Britt Hennemuth and features guest-star turns by Allison Janney, Octavia Spencer, Peri Gilpin, Jim Rash and Priscilla Barnes.
Highlights of Cubine past films as producer include "Brave New Jersey" starring Tony Hale and Anna Camp, "Lucky" with Colin Hanks, Ari Graynor, Jeffrey Tambor and Ann-Margret, Miramax's "Our Very Own," starring Allison Janney, Cheryl Hines, Jason Ritter, Keith Carradine. "Our Very Own" received a 2005 Independent Spirit Award nomination for Janney, and went on to win many festival awards. He also was on the producing team of the cult favorite "Sordid Lives," a comedy written and directed by renowned playwright Del Shores and starring Bonnie Bedelia, Beau Bridges, Delta Burke and Olivia Newton-John. "Sordid Lives" was a major success on the film festival circuit.
Cubine is also a writer. His first novel, "Walking On Electric Air," was published in February of 2010.
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0003119/bio
https://www.facebook.com/steve.cubine
https://www.amazon.com/Walking-Electric-Air-Stephen-Cubine-ebook/dp/B003AOA7XS/
ABOUT THE AUTHOR - KATRIN SCHUMANN
Katrin Schumann is the author of This Terrible Beauty and the Washington Post bestseller The Forgotten Hours. Katrin teaches writing at GrubStreet and was an instructor in PEN's Prison Writing program. Her work has been featured on TODAY, Talk of the Nation, and in The London Times, among others.
ABOUT THE BOOK - THIS TERRIBLE BEAUTY
Historical fiction novel THIS TERRIBLE BEAUTY tells the tale of When Bettina Heilstrom—now a successful photographer living in the US—receives unexpected news of the family she was forced to leave behind in East Germany, she embarks on a quest that takes her behind the Iron Curtain, and forces her to re-evaluate what family really means.
Websitewww.katrinschumann.com
Amazon buying sitehttps://amzn.to/2wi5obZ
Instagram @katrinschumann
Author Facebook page @katrinschumannbooks
ABOUT JIM THOMSEN
Jim Thomsen has been a manuscript editor since 2010. He has provided developmental editing, line editing, copy editing and proofreading services to more than three hundred author clients since 2010. Before, he spent more than twenty years as a reporter and copy editor at newspapers all over the West Coast. He is based in his childhood hometown of Bainbridge Island, Washington, and can usually be found wielding his red pen in the island’s coffee shops, pubs and cafés. When not editing, Jim can be found writing and reading hardboiled crime fiction, and taking “Noir Where You Are” photographs for his Instagram page.
ABOUT JIM'S EDITING SERVICES AND WRITING
Jim provides the following editing services:
LINE EDITING - It’s my focus and my specialty. A good line editor knows the difference between active and passive prose and can turn dull prose into something more engaging.
DEVELOPMENTAL EDITING - I help authors shape the flow and structure of their stories, to maximize the commercial potential of their manuscripts, in accordance with the teachings of some of top story-craft gurus in the industry, via lengthy editorial memos and extensive notes in the manuscript document.
COPY EDITING - I come into the picture after your work has received a developmental or story edit, or has been read by critique partners or beta readers and revised upon their recommendations.
PROOFREADING - I give copy-edited manuscripts a careful line reading for stray typos, misplaced punctuation, and formatting errors.
"Jim Thomsen is among my most valued frontline readers. He gives it to me straight and pushes me to write the best book I can write." -Jonathan Evison, New York Times bestselling author of literary fiction
www.jimthomsencreative.com
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Michelle Cox is the author of the multiple award-winning Henrietta and Inspector Howard series as well as “Novel Notes of Local Lore,” a weekly blog dedicated to Chicago’s forgotten residents. Her books have been praised by Kirkus, Library Journal, Publishers Weekly, Booklist, Elle, and many others. She resides in Chicago.
ABOUT THE BOOK - A CHILD LOST
In her latest HENRIETTA AND INSPECTOR HOWARD NOVEL "A CHILD LOST," Clive and Henrietta find themselves investigating the disappearance of a German immigrant woman who has left behind an epileptic child. Their search leads them to Dunning, a notorious insane asylum, where Henrietta begins to suspect very dark things may be occurring. When Clive doesn’t believe her, she decides to take matters into her own hands . . .
Links:
Website: http://michellecoxauthor.com/
FB: https://www.facebook.com/michellecoxauthor/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/michellecox33
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/michellecoxwrites/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/michelle-cox-ab8700193/
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Eric Sean Rawson lives and teaches in Southern California. A graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, his fiction and poetry have appeared in numerous places, including Slate, Commonweal, Ploughshares, Agni, and Stories. He is the author of The Hummingbird Hour, Expo, and American Subcultures, in addition to his new novel, Banana Republic.
ABOUT THE BOOK - BANANA REPUBLIC
When William Sydney Porter faces prison for embezzlement in Austin, Texas, he catches the first tramp steamer to Central America. The year is 1905. He washes up in the town of Coralio, in a country with no extradition treaty with the U.S. and a government at the mercy of American scoundrels, drunks, and robber-barons. Porter establishes himself as a newspaper printer, despite violent opposition from the most powerful individual in the country—Walter Whitaker, the president of the Vesuvius Fruit Company, who sees Porter's newspaper as a threat to his plans to overthrow the government and install a puppet who will give him concessions to build a railroad to the new Panama Canal. Banana Republic is a comic tale of greed, ambition, and gunboat diplomacy.
Amazon
https://www.amazon.com/Banana-Republic-Eric-Rawson/dp/1947548913/
Regal House
https://www.regalhousepublishing.com/product/banana-republic/
Personal Website
https://ericrawson.com/
PART II - AUTHOR, RANDALL SILVIS joins Susan Wingate for Episode 6 of 7 on Dialogue’s Expert Panel on Writing & Publishing series for Dialogue's 10-Year Anniversary!
Randall Silvis is the multi-genre author of twenty critically acclaimed novels, story collections, and a book of creative nonfiction named a Best of the Year book by the Toronto Globe & Mail. He was the first Pennsylvanian to win the prestigious Drue Heinz Literature Prize (1984), and was chosen for that award by author Joyce Carol Oates. His work has been published in over a hundred editions in several languages.
Randall's next title NO WOODS SO DARK AS THESE is part of his extremely popular Ryan DeMarco Mystery Series.
Website: www.RandallSilvis.com
ABOUT JANE FRIEDMAN
Jane Friedman has 20 years of experience in the publishing industry, with expertise in business strategy for authors and publishers. She's the editor of The Hot Sheet, the essential industry newsletter for authors and has previously worked for F+W Media and the Virginia Quarterly Review. In 2019, Jane was awarded Publishing Commentator of the Year by Digital Book World.
Her newest book The Business of Being a Writer, Publishers Weekly said it is "destined to become a staple reference book for writers and those interested in publishing careers." Also, in collaboration with The Authors Guild, she wrote The Authors Guild Guide to Self-Publishing.
In addition to being a columnist with Publishers Weekly and a professor with The Great Courses, Jane maintains an award-winning blog for writers at JaneFriedman.com; her expertise has been featured by The New York Times, The Washington Post, NPR, PBS, CBS, the National Press Club and many other outlets.
Jane has delivered keynotes and workshops on the digital era of authorship at worldwide industry events, including the Writer's Digest annual conference, Stockholm Writers Festival, San Miguel Writers Conference, The Muse & The Marketplace, Frankfurt Book Fair, BookExpo America, and Digital Book World. She's also served on grant panels for the National Endowment for the Arts and the Creative Work Fund, and has held positions as a professor of writing, media, and publishing at the University of Cincinnati and University of Virginia.
In her spare time, Jane writes creative nonfiction, which has been included in the anthologies Every Father's Daughter and Drinking Diaries. If you look hard enough, you can also find her embarrassing college poetry.
JaneFriedman.com
The Hot Sheet
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Dan Kopcow’s stories have appeared in dozens of literary magazines nationally and internationally. His short story, The Cobbler Cherry, was included in the anthology, Thank You, Death Robot, which won an Independent Publishing Award for Best Science-Fiction and Fantasy and was named a Top Ten Fiction Novel by the Chicago Tribune. He is currently at work on three novels.
ABOUT THE BOOK - WORST. DATE. EVER
We've all experienced dates brimming with horror, comedy, drama, tension, and lunacy. Sometimes in the same evening. This short story collection captures the vulnerability, desperation, and bravery of putting yourself out there. The characters in these stories are undergoing the worst dates of their lives. Whether on a first date, a weekend getaway with a significant other, or the target of an intricate revenge scheme, the characters in this collection reflect the spectrum of emotions and reactions when they decide to lower their guard and let somebody in. And then it all goes spectacularly Hindenburg.
https://dankopcow.com/
https://www.regalhousepublishing.com/product/worst-date-ever/
https://www.indiebound.org/book/9781947548169
https://www.facebook.com/DanKopcowAuthor/
https://twitter.com/DanKopcow
PART I - AUTHOR, RANDALL SILVIS joins Susan Wingate for Episode 6 of 7 on Dialogue’s Expert Panel on Writing & Publishing series for Dialogue's 10-Year Anniversary!
Randall Silvis is the multi-genre author of twenty critically acclaimed novels, story collections, and a book of creative nonfiction named a Best of the Year book by the Toronto Globe & Mail. He was the first Pennsylvanian to win the prestigious Drue Heinz Literature Prize (1984), and was chosen for that award by author Joyce Carol Oates. His work has been published in over a hundred editions in several languages. The recipient of two National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowships, a Fulbright Senior Scholar Research Award, and six writing fellowships from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts for his fiction, drama, and screenwriting, Silvis received a Distinguished Alumni Award from Clarion University of Pennsylvania in 1988, and in 2001 received the same honor from Indiana University of Pennsylvania. In 2007 IUP bestowed upon him an honorary Doctor of Letters degree for “a sustained record of distinguished literary achievement.” Also a prize-winning playwright and produced screenwriter, Randall’s work has appeared on Best of the Year lists from the New York Times, the Toronto Globe & Mail, SfSite.com, Strand magazine, and the International Association of Crime Writers, and has been hailed as “masterful” not only by the New York Times Book Review but also by Publishers Weekly, Booklist, Mystery Scene magazine, and several other review sources. His two novels from 2017, (Two Days Gone and Only the Rain) were Amazon #1 Bestsellers in Psychological Suspense.
Website: www.RandallSilvis.com
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Fredrick Soukup is a St. Paul-based author, whose debut novel BLISS (Regal House Publishing) will hit shelves this March. He has published works in Fluent Magazine and Sou’wester. Soukup was a semi-finalist for the 2017 American Short Fiction Prize and recently shortlisted by C&R Press for their 2019 Book Award.
ABOUT THE BOOK - BLISS
In search of meaning amid America’s sedated upper middle class, a cynical college graduate forgoes medical school and moves to inner-city Chicago. When he falls in love with a woman uncompromisingly devoted to her community, he finds himself caught between two lives, one he does not want and one he cannot have.
WEBSITE: www.fredrick-soukup.com
BUY LINK: www.regalhousepublishing.com/product/bliss/
SOCIAL SITES:
Twitter (@21stcenturyfred). Facebook (Fredrick M Soukup). Instagram (fredrick.soukup)
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Steve Berry is the New York Times and #1 internationally bestselling author of nineteen novels, which include: The Warsaw Protocol, The Malta Exchange,The Bishop’s Pawn,The Lost Order,The 14th Colony,The Patriot Threat,The Lincoln Myth,The King’s Deception,The Columbus Affair. Steve's books have been translated into 40 languages with 25,000,000 copies in 51 countries. They consistently appear in the top echelon of The New York Times,USA Today, and Indie bestseller lists.Steve was born and raised in Georgia, graduating from the Walter F. George School of Law at Mercer University. He was a trial lawyer for 30 years and held elective office for 14 of those years. He is a founding member of International Thriller Writers—a group of nearly 6,000 thriller writers from around the world—and served three years as its co-president.
ABOUT THE BOOK - THE WARSAW PROTOCOL
In Berry’s latest Warsaw Protocol, one by one seven precious relics of the Arma Christi, the weapons of Christ, are disappearing from sanctuaries across the world. After former Justice Dept agent, Cotton Malone, witnesses the theft of one of them, he learns from his old boss, Stephanie Nelle, that an auction will be held where incriminating information on the president of Poland will be offered to the highest bidder. The price of admission to that auction is one of the relics. Malone travels to Poland to steal the Holy Lance-a 1000-yr-old spear sacred to not only Christians but to Poland. But things go terribly wrong and Malone is caught in the middle of a bloody war—the outcome of which turns on a secret known as the Warsaw Protocol.
LITERARY AGENT, AMANDA LUEDEKE OF MACGREGOR-LUEDEKE LITERARY AGENCY joins Susan Wingate for Episode 5 of 7 on Dialogue’s Expert Panel on Writing & Publishing series for Dialogue's 10-Year Anniversary!
Amanda Luedeke (LEE-duh-key) wrote her first book – a picture book entitled A Cat – when she was 5 years old. Though the scintillating masterpiece never made it to bookstore shelves, it solidified her dream to one day work in the book industry.
Amanda was a 2006 graduate of the acclaimed Professional Writing program at Taylor University, and she brings a background in marketing and advertising to her agent role. Over the years, she has kept one foot in the marketing world, working with brands such as Vera Bradley, Peg Perego, Tecomet, Do It Best, Minwax, Pratt & Lambert, HGTV Home by Sherwin-Williams, and more.
MACGREGOR-LUEDEKE LITERARY AGENCY is a boutique agency representing eighteen amazing authors.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
BRIAN C. JOHNSON earned both bachelor’s and master’s degrees in English from California University of Pennsylvania and a PhD at Indiana University of Pennsylvania in Communications Media and Instructional Technology. His research examines the role of mainstream film in the development of social dominance orientation.
Johnson serves on the ministry team at Revival Tabernacle in Watsontown, PA where he is a church elder, youth minister, and leads the Kingdom Writers’ guild. He is a film reviewer for Christian Spotlight on Entertainment. He and his wife, Darlene, have four children—Kasey, Thomas, Aubyn, and Analisa.
ABOUT THE BOOK - SEND JUDAH FIRST: The Erased Life of an Enslaved Soul
A young girl’s life is shattered when she is stolen from her African village in a midnight raid. Ruthlessly torn from her family to be beaten, chained, degraded, and enslaved in a heartless world she can barely comprehend. The slave ledger at Virginia’s Belle Grove Plantation only reveals that Judah was purchased to be the cook, gave birth to 12 children, and died in April 1836. But, like the other 276 faceless names entered in that ledger, Judah lived. Brian C. Johnson’s important work of historical fiction goes beyond what is recorded to portray the depth, humanity, and vulnerability of a beautiful soul all but erased by history. For Judah, as Johnson notes, “did the ultimate—she survived. Not as a weakling, but resilient and determined.”
BRIAN'S WEBSITE: https://www.briancjohnson.net/
ON AMAZON: https://www.amazon.com/Send-Judah-First-Erased-Enslaved-ebook/dp/B07VSC6957/
FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/Brian-C-Johnson-244477705854/
TWITTER: https://twitter.com/theREELBrian
AMAZON AUTHOR PAGE: https://www.amazon.com/Brian-C-Johnson/e/B001JS4396/
2020 MARKS DIALOGUE'S 10-YEAR ANNIVERSARY!
PUBLISHER, JAYNIE ROYAL OF REGAL HOUSE PUBLISHING joins Susan Wingate on Episode 4 of 7 - the Dialogue Expert Panel on Writing & Publishing series for Dialogue's 10-Year Anniversary!
Jaynie Royal is the editor-in-chief at Regal House Publishing. While Jaynie’s academic background is in history and archaeology, she has long nursed a passion for literature. After spending many years navigating the publishing industry, Jaynie decided to start a new enterprise that invested deeply, meaningfully and significantly in its authors: Regal House Publishing. Since, Regal has grown to encompass two imprints: Pact Press, Fitzroy Books, and the nonprofit arm, The Regal House Initiative. Jaynie has worked as a senior marketing strategist, and has advanced certifications in
digital marketing and marketing management from the American Marketing Association. She is extremely proud of the talented editing team that has been assembled at Regal and thrilled to provide all of our authors with a high level of editorial excellence.
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pj.royal.98
Website: http://www.regalhousepublishing.com
ABOUT THE AUTHOR - ELIZABETH AJAMIE BOYER
Elizabeth writes a blog and a Christian Historical fiction author. She co-writes and edits TJ Boyer's epic Sci-Fi stories. You can find both authors at MirrorGate Chronicles.
ABOUT THE BOOKS
FREEDOM TO THE PRISONERS - Running from the South to the North looking for their freedom, Joe and Berutha Petersen held hands as they stood with other slaves in the shadows of the peach trees near the Ohio River bridge just outside of the town of Maysville, Kentucky. The conductor walked up to his associate, already there keeping the small group quiet. As he gave them final directions for their trek, the new conductor recognized Joe and Berutha and nodded at them while he doled out few supplies to everyone. Berutha’s heart pounded in her chest in anticipation and trepidation about the escape.
MEMORIES OF WAR - A new graduate from Auburn Theological Seminary in New York, Markus Petersen travels across the country with his new wife, Meggie, to settle in Maysville, Kentucky right before the beginning of the Civil War. Unbeknownst to them, their life becomes caught up in the tumult of the war between the States when Markus becomes involved in the Abolitionist movement and assists his friend, John, Jr. with spiriting slaves to the north via the Underground Railroad.
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Kathryn Lane, award-winning author of the Nikki Garcia Thriller series, sets her novels in foreign countries and her short stories in exotic places. Kathryn credits her imagination to growing up in Mexico, a country which was rich in storytelling and steeped in cultural traditions. Her creativity was first expressed by painting in oils and when reality of earning a living set in, she studied accounting and finance, and joined a multinational corporation where she obtained her dream job of traveling abroad. After two decades in the corporate world and having visited over 90 countries, Kathryn left to fulfill a second dream – writing mystery and suspense novels. Fans of strong female protagonists and suspenseful stories are likely to enjoy Kathryn’s work.
ABOUT THE BOOK - Revenge in Barcelona
Readers’ Favorite calls REVENGE IN BARCELONA a spellbinding novel that will entice fans of thrillers and sleuth stories.
Nikki Garcia, a private investigator, escapes from life-threatening work in Mexico. With her fiancé Eduardo Duarte, they travel to Spain only to suspect her assailant has followed them to Barcelona. After witnessing a seemingly unrelated terrorist incident at a tourist attraction, Nikki realizes she may have been the target of the attack. To survive, she and Eduardo must act quickly to uncover who is stalking her.
www.kathryn-lane.com
DIALOGUE PRIME TIME PRESENTS
Author Robert Isenberg joins host Susan Wingate on Thursday, Dialogue Prime Time when he talks about his latest book, Why Men are Suspicious of Yoga: And Other Very, Very Funny Stories
ABOUT THE AUTHOR - ROBERT ISENBERG
Robert AKA "robear" Isenberg has probably spent 95% 0f his life daydreaming, which is where his stories come from. He also loves sales and marketing. When he was a teen he sold encyclopedias unsuccessfully door to door. A few years later he established Robert's Fairly Famous Roast Beef Sandwiches in singles bars in N.Y.C. His promo: "Our sandwiches are not only illiterate, but they are thick!!" He was a big hit with the ladies. Robert could cook a rare find, like his roast beef sandwiches.
Sometime later Robert went to work for a boot company. For the next thirty-five years, he spent his time designing boots and shoes from many countries, including China. He and his wife Esther established an office in Shanghai that was run by Alice Su, a wonderful example of China's magnificent work ethic. Now robear has written fifty-five very, very funny stories and when asked nicely he is willing to perform them.
ABOUT THE BOOK - Why Men are Suspicious of Yoga: And Other Very, Very Funny Stories
Political ads will make you sad, my book will make you glad. "Why Men are Suspicious of Yoga" is a compilation of fifty-five very, very funny stories and one yoga story---all guaranteed to make you smile and laugh.
Buy the Book: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07RRD6SV7/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/robearisenberg/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/robertisenberg1
Website: http://robear68.blogspot.com/
2020 MARKS DIALOGUE'S 10-YEAR ANNIVERSARY!
TERRY PERSUN, Amazon Bestseller and award-winning author joins Susan Wingate on Episode 3 of 7 - the Dialogue Expert Panel on Writing & Publishing series for Dialogue's 10-Year Anniversary!
Terry Persun has been writing for a living for over thirty years and has written in many genres. He enjoys playing around with writing by working in different genres, such as science fiction, fantasy, thriller, crime, romance, and literary. He also writes poetry and nonfiction. Persun has been a board member and Agent & Editor Liaison for the Pacific Northwest Writers Association (PNWA) since 2004. He's also a writing coach and teaches writing at conferences and workshops. Writing is his career and passion.
Website: http://www.terrypersun.com
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TerryPersun
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Lillah Lawson’s debut novel, Monarchs Under the Sassafras Tree, was published in September 2019 (Regal House Publishing). Her dark fantasy deadrockstar will be published in Fall 2020 (Parliament House Press). Happiest when straddling literary genres, she enjoys writing both historical fiction and what she calls “nerdy-noir”. Lillah is a voracious reader and music lover, and is currently working on a novel set in the late-1960’s. She lives near Athens, GA.
ABOUT THE BOOK - MONARCHS UNDER THE SASSAFRAS TREE
O.T. Lawrence is about as content as a cotton farmer can be in Five Forks, Georgia. That is, until illness and Black Tuesday take everything he holds dear. He’s at rock bottom when he receives an odd letter from from his past - mysterious Sivvy Hargrove, who’s been locked in Milledgeville Asylum for a decade. O.T. embarks on a foolhardy journey across North Georgia to uncover the strange girl’s story - a past even more painful than his own.
Website: https://lillahlawson.wordpress.com/
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/lillahlawson
Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/LillahLawson
2020 MARKS DIALOGUE'S 10-YEAR ANNIVERSARY!
JOSHUA GRAHAM, NY Times Bestseller and award-winning author joins Susan Wingate on Episode 2 of 7 - the Dialogue Expert Panel on Writing & Publishing series for Dialogue's 10-Year Anniversary!
Joshua Graham is the New York Times, USA Today, Amazon and Barnes & Noble #1 bestselling thriller author of Beyond Justice, Terminus, and Darkroom, the winner of the International Book Award, Forward National Literature Award, USA Book News Best Books Award, and host of Thriller Radio
ABOUT THE AUTHOR - MELISSA G. HENDERSON
Melissa Henderson is a writer of inspirational messages through fiction, non-fiction, devotions, blog posts, articles and more. Her first children’s book, “Licky the Lizard” released in 2018. Along with writing, her passions are volunteering in church and community. The family motto is “It’s Always A Story With The Henderson’s”.
ABOUT THE BOOK - LICKY THE LIZARD
Licky the Lizard is friendly. Like you and me, he’s created by God. There are times we forget God created all of us and differences make us afraid. Find out what happens when Licky comes face to face with a lady and how they respond to each other.
Melissa Henderson's website: https://melissaghenderson.com/about-me/
Buy the book here: https://www.amazon.com/dp/1641111399/
DIALOGUE PRIME TIME PRESENTS
Author Anne Devereux-Mills joins host Susan Wingate on Thursday, Dialogue Prime Time when she talks about her latest book, The Parlay Effect: How Female Connection Can Change the World
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Anne Devereux-Mills is a seasoned connector, speaker, author and advocate who spent the first half of her career building and running advertising agencies in NYC as Chairman and CEO. When hit with progressing cancer, she took time to reassess her career and hierarchy of needs. In 2012, before the #MeToo movement, she founded Parlay House, a salon-style series of gatherings which includes over 5,000 women across the globe.
She is committed to issues about inclusion and empowerment. Beyond Parlay House, Anne works with SHE-CAN an organization that mentors next generation female leaders coming from post-genocide countries.
ABOUT THE BOOK
In The Parlay Effect-How Female Connection Can Change the World, Anne Devereux-Mills uses her insights as Founder of Parlay House to show how small actions can create a cascade of positive change, in your life and in the lives of others.
When cancer stripped her of everything that had been her identity, she set out on a path to rediscover herself and recreate her life. Recognizing that she was missing authentic relationships that were not based on what she “did” for a living, but what she cared about as a person, in 2012 she founded Parlay House, a now-international series of salons that brings together diverse groups of women to talk about topics they rarely discuss. As the gatherings grew, she saw how they triggered small actions among participants and resulted in waves of connection and support well beyond the live gatherings. She dubbed that cascade “The Parlay Effect.”
https://www.amazon.com/Anne-Devereux-Mills/e/B081VTCNXC/
2020 MARKS DIALOGUE'S 10-YEAR ANNIVERSARY!
Vincent Zandri, NY Times Bestseller and award-winning author kicks off Dialogue Expert Panel on Writing & Publishing series for Dialogue's 10-Year Anniversary!
Winner of the 2015 PWA Shamus Award and the 2015 ITW Thriller Award for Best Original Paperback Novel for MOONLIGHT WEEPS, Vincent Zandri is the NEW YORK TIMES, USA TODAY, and AMAZON KINDLE No.1 bestselling author of more than 30 novels including THE REMAINS, EVERYTHING BURNS, ORCHARD GROVE and THE DETONATOR. His list of domestic publishers include Delacorte, Dell, Down & Out Books, Thomas & Mercer, and Polis Books. An MFA in Writing graduate of Vermont College, his work is translated in the Dutch, Russian, French, Italian, and Japanese. Having sold close to 1 million editions of his books, Zandri was also the subject of a recent major feature by the New York Times. He has also made appearances on Bloomberg TV and the FOX News network. In December 2014, Suspense Magazine named Zandri's, THE SHROUD KEY, as one of the "Best Books of 2014." Recently, Suspense Magazine selected WHEN SHADOWS COME as one of the "Best Books of 2016". A freelance photo-journalist and the author of the popular "lit blog," The Vincent Zandri Vox, Zandri has written for Living Ready Magazine, RT, New York Newsday, Hudson Valley Magazine, The Times Union (Albany), Game & Fish Magazine, MudTribe, and many more. He lives in Albany, New York and Florence, Italy. For more go to WWW.VINCENTZANDRI.COM
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
James D. Bell is an award-winning author of two novels, Vampire Defense and Maximilian’s Treasure. He is a retired Judge who received the highest bar association approval ratings ever given to a Mississippi Circuit or County Judge and is listed in in Outstanding Lawyers of America.
ABOUT THE BOOK
Rumors of gold on their farm cause 150 years of tragedy for a Choctaw family, culminating in the grandson charged with the murder of 3 scalped victims. Two young lawyers defend the family from false charges, fortune seekers, adventurers, and a homicidal maniac. Follow the clues and find Maximilian’s Treasure.
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FACEBOOK PAGE: https://www.facebook.com/VampireDefense/
A SPECIAL CHRISTMAS SHOW AIRING
Featuring NY Times & International bestseller, Frank Peretti!
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Robert Bryndza is also the author of the Detective Erika Foster series, which includes the #1 international bestseller The Girl in the Ice, as well as The Night Stalker, Dark Water, Last Breath, Cold Blood, and Deadly Secrets. He has sold over 3 million copies of his books and been translated into 28 languages. In addition to writing crime fiction, Robert has published a bestselling series of romantic comedies. He is British and lives in Slovakia with his husband.
Visit his website at www.robertbryndza.com
Twitter & Instagram @RobertBryndza #RobertBryndza
Facebook: www.facebook.com/BryndzaRobert/
ABOUT THE BOOK - NINE ELMS
Inspired by the complex and psychologically twisted relationship between Clarice Starling and Dr. Hannibal Lecter in Thomas Harris’s The Silence of the Lambs, Bryndza explores the relationship between a heroine and a charming psychopath—who are devastatingly linked. Kate Marshall is a former police detective and recovering alcoholic, who fifteen years later, is still haunted by the scandal that clouded her victorious capture of the notorious Nine Elms serial killer and ended her career. Now a lecturer at a small coastal English university, she’s doing her best to take care of her young son but, given her traumatic past, she must lean on her mother for assistance.
Her quiet life is shattered when a copycat takes up the work of the Nine Elms killer, and more bodies turn up under eerily familiar circumstances. Kate enlists her brilliant research assistant, Tristan Harper, and draws on her prodigious and long-neglected skills to catch this new monster. Rules that constricted her as a police detective no longer apply in the private sector. Unwavering in her pursuit, she hopes success will bring redemption, but much more is at stake. Kate was the original killer’s intended fifth victim—and his successor is determined to finish the job.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR - SID BALMAN
A Pulitzer-nominated national security correspondent, Sid Balman has covered wars in the Persian Gulf, Somalia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, and Kosovo, and has traveled extensively with two American presidents and four secretaries of state on overseas diplomatic missions. A fourth-generation Texan, Balman lives in Washington, D.C. with his wife, three kids, and two dogs.
ABOUT THE BOOK - SEVENTH FLAG
The U.S. and Europe have unraveled since World War II and radicalism has metastasized into every community, and no place is immune, including a small West Texas town, where four generations of an iconic American family and a Syrian Muslim family carve a farming empire out of the unforgiving high desert.
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Instagram: @sidbalman
Amazon purchase link: https://www.amazon.com/Seventh-Flag-Sid-Balman-Jr/dp/1684630142
IndieBound purchase link: https://www.indiebound.org/book/9781684630141
ABOUT THE BOOK - GAVIN GOODE
“I don’t know how and I don’t know why, but I think I died today.” So begins the complex and mysterious journey of Gavin Goode and his family. What happened to Gavin and why? What secrets will emerge along the way? Frankie, his wife and a dress store owner, feels guilty, but why? His son, Ryan, who owns an ice cream parlor, and daughter-in-law, Jenna, who is a bank manager, are expecting their first baby. How will this trauma affect them? And what of Rosemary, Frankie’s best friend? Or Ben Hillman and eleven-year-old, Christopher? How are they implicated in the events that unfold around Gavin’s misfortune? This is a story of despair and hope, dreams and reality, uncertainty and faith, humor, secrecy, forgiveness and beginnings.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR - DAVID B SEABURN
David B. Seaburn has written seven novels, most recently, Gavin Goode (2019, Black Rose Writing). This novel was a finalist for the American Book Fest “Best Book” in General Fiction (2019). Seaburn teaches writing. He is also a retired marriage and family therapist, psychologist and minister. He and his wife live in western New York.
Website: www.davidbseaburn.com
Twitter: https://twitter.com/dseaburn @dseaburn
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/david.seaburn
Amazon profile: www.amazon.com/author/davidbseaburn
A great memory from June 23, 2011. We are full of thanks for this special airing of Jerry Jenkins when he visited hosts Susan Wingate and Joshua Graham.
Jerry Jenkins is the author of more than 190 books with sales of more than 70 million copies, including the bestselling Left Behind series.
Jerry Jenkins has been steeped in the craft of writing for more than 40 years. With 21 New York Times bestsellers (seven debuting at #1), 186 books, and over 70 million copies sold, he has become one of the most commercially successful writers of our time.
www.jerryjenkins.com
ABOUT THE AUTHOR - KRISTALYN A. VETOVICH
Bestselling author of the Shifted series, Driven Fearless: The Complete Roadmap to Driving After An Accident, and more, is an internationally published novelist and metaphysical expert who helps people find emotional healing through the joy of reading. With a degree in English literature and experience in writing and publishing books, she provides expert advice to encourage authors to finally make their writing dreams come true. She currently writes her own blog and has her own podcast entitled: Every Day Magic. KristaLyn lives in a tree house in Elysburg, Pennsylvania with her husband and corgi, Jack.
ABOUT THE BOOK - STRAYED (A "Shifted" series novella)
In the battle between good and evil, humans don't stand a chance on their own. But for every living soul, there is a Firn: a spirit assigned to guide and defend humans from demonic beings like the Aropfain. Earning a place in the fight requires several lifetimes of service, experience, and sacrifice. After her most recent life as a martyr in ancient Rome, Anaya is only one step from achieving that goal. If she succeeds, she might become the Firn with the most important mission: guiding the human who will save the world-or end it. But when Anaya is paired with the notoriously difficult Jordin, her chances of success dwindle. Jordin isn't like other souls. He's strong, volatile, and a prime target for the Aropfain. It isn't long before he falls for an Aropfain ploy that could jeopardize his chances of becoming a Firn and endanger the entire world. Only Anaya, as his partner, can save him. Will she succeed, or will she fail and take humanity with her?
ABOUT THE AUTHOR - KAREN WHITE
With almost two million books in print in fifteen different languages, Karen White is a New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of 26 novels, including the popular Charleston-set Tradd Street mystery series. Raised in a house full of brothers, Karen’s love of books and strong female characters first began in the third grade when the local librarian issued her a library card and placed The Secret of the Old Clock, a Nancy Drew Mystery, in her hands. Karen’s roots run deep in the South where many of her novels are set. Her intricate plot lines and compelling characters charm and captivate readers with just the right mix of family drama, mystery, intrigue and romance.
ABOUT THE BOOK - CHRISTMAS SPIRITS ON TRADD STREET
Melanie Trenholm should be anticipating Christmas with nothing but joy—after all, it’s only the second Christmas she and her husband, Jack, will celebrate with their twin toddlers. But the ongoing excavation of the centuries-old cistern in the garden of her historic Tradd Street home has been a huge millstone, both financially and aesthetically. Local students are thrilled by the possibility of unearthing more Colonial-era artifacts at the cistern, but Melanie is concerned by the ghosts connected to it that have suddenly invaded her life and her house—and at least one of them is definitely not filled with holiday cheer…
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Brooks Eason has practiced law in Jackson, Mississippi, for more than 35 years but is giving up writing briefs to write books. He lives with his wife Carrie, their two elderly rescue dogs, and an adopted stray cat. In their spare time, the Easons host house concerts, grow tomatoes, and dance in the kitchen.
ABOUT THE BOOK - Fortunate Son - the Story of Baby Boy Francis - OUT TODAY!
Julie Francis was a beautiful, wealthy socialite from Tulsa with a golden future. But during the fall semester of her freshman year of college, she learned she was pregnant. She was only 17. Paul and Margaret Eason were a middle-class couple from Tupelo, Mississippi, who couldn't have children of their own. They had previously adopted a daughter, but they desperately wanted a son to complete their family. Their worlds converged at a home for unwed mothers in New Orleans. The day Paul and Margaret took baby boy Scott Francis home, he became Brooks Eason. Mother and son never saw each other again, but life has a way of coming full circle. FORTUNATE SON is a heartwarming true story about the power of family.
www.brookseason.com
www.wordcrafts.net/books/fortunate-son/
www.facebook.com/brooks.eason
ABOUT THE AUTHOR - KristaLyn Vetovich
Bestselling author of the Shifted series, Driven Fearless: The Complete Roadmap to Driving After An Accident, and more, is an internationally published novelist and metaphysical expert who helps people find emotional healing through the joy of reading. With a degree in English literature and experience in writing and publishing books, she provides expert advice to encourage authors to finally make their writing dreams come true. She currently writes her own blog and has her own podcast entitled: Every Day Magic. KristaLyn lives in a tree house in Elysburg, Pennsylvania with her husband and corgi, Jack.
ABOUT THE BOOK - STRAYED (A "Shifted" series novella)
In the battle between good and evil, humans don't stand a chance on their own. But for every living soul, there is a Firn: a spirit assigned to guide and defend humans from demonic beings like the Aropfain. Earning a place in the fight requires several lifetimes of service, experience, and sacrifice. After her most recent life as a martyr in ancient Rome, Anaya is only one step from achieving that goal. If she succeeds, she might become the Firn with the most important mission: guiding the human who will save the world-or end it. But when Anaya is paired with the notoriously difficult Jordin, her chances of success dwindle. Jordin isn't like other souls. He's strong, volatile, and a prime target for the Aropfain. It isn't long before he falls for an Aropfain ploy that could jeopardize his chances of becoming a Firn and endanger the entire world. Only Anaya, as his partner, can save him. Will she succeed, or will she fail and take humanity with her?
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Michael Bowen is a retired trial lawyer whose clients have included the Milwaukee Brewers and an inmate on death row. He has published twenty-one novels, including nineteen mysteries. His greatest accomplishment, however, was graduating from Harvard Law School without feeling called upon to write a book about it.
ABOUT THE BOOK - POLITICAL THRILLER "FALSE FLAG IN AUTUMN"
Blurb: Political thriller featuring Washington apparatchik Josie Kendall, who risks her career foiling a planned October surprise before the 2018 mid-terms and has to decide whether to risk her neck foiling one in 2020. For Josie to end up on the side of the angels, she’ll have to find angels who play a little dirty.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Celebrated husband-and-wife mystery writers Rosemary and Larry Mild will unveil a new short story collection, Copper and Goldie: 13 Tails of Mystery and Suspense in Hawai‘i this September. Rosemary and Larry Mild are coauthors of two popular suspense novels set in Hawai‘i: Cry Ohana and its sequel, Honolulu Heat—as well as the Paco & Molly Mysteries, the Dan & Rivka Sherman Mysteries, and a sci-fi novella.Death Goes Postal, first in the Dan & Rivka series, is also available as an Amazon Audible Audiobook.
ABOUT THE BOOK
Homicide detective Sam Nahoe takes a bullet in his spine in the line of duty. Disabled, his career with the Honolulu Police Department shattered, Sam is left to wonder “What now?”
Jobless, lonely, and divorced, Sam becomes an independent Checker Cab driver. In need of a partner, Sam adopts a rescue golden retriever mix. He trains the (usually) adorable, incredibly smart Goldie to perform neat tricks like growling at a fare who doesn’t tip. Sam and Goldie cruise O‘ahu for fares, but it turns out criminals need taxi service, too. Among those criminals: bank robbers, kidnappers, vengeful wives—and even killers, compelling Sam to get his private investigator license.
And so begins this wild, witty, and wickedly entertaining collection of detective stories. Brimming with action, intrigue, and humor, Copper and Goldie is filled with charming characters of both the two- and four-legged variety. Fun, fresh, and feisty, Copper and Goldie includes 13 original stories all set against the backdrop of the to-die-for Hawai‘ian setting.
Amazon: https://amzn.to/2mncTsY
*This show is sponsored by Maryglenn McCombs Book Publicity http://www.maryglenn.com
ABOUT THE BOOK - THE HEALER'S DAUGHTER
A terrorist bombing in Bergama, Turkey kills twenty-three people including three children. Modern Bergama is built on the site of ancient Pergamon, a city whose art and wealth and culture rivaled Athens. It was also the home of the Aesklepion, the world's greatest healing center, and the birthplace of Galen, the Roman Empire's most famous doctor. Tugçe Iskan, a Turkish Ministry investigator, finds evidence that links the terrorism to a powerful criminal family and to Galen's life and Pergamon's lost treasures. But Iskan is alone, an outcast in the Ministry because she is honest, diligent, and a woman. As Iskan delves more deeply into the heinous attack, she needs allies outside the Ministry. She must turn to Özlem Boroglu, a local archeologist, and Boroglu's daughter Elif, an artist with an affinity for ancient Aegean goddesses. Can these three women defeat ISIL terrorists, criminal oligarchs, and corrupt officials? Can they even survive?
ABOUT THE AUTHOR - JAY AMBERG
Jay Amberg is the author of twelve books. He received a BA from Georgetown University and a PhD from Northwestern University. He has taught high school and college students since 1972. His latest book, The Healer’s Daughters, is now available from Amika Press. Amberg has also published Bone Box, Cycle, America’s Fool, Whale Song, and compiled 52 Poems for Men.
Prior to Amika Press, Amberg published thriller novels Doubloon (Forge), Blackbird Singing (Forge) and Deep Gold (Warner Books).
www.jayamberg.com
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Susan McCormick is an author and doctor in Seattle. She graduated from Smith College and George Washington University School of Medicine, with additional medical training in Washington, DC and San Francisco. She is married and has two boys, plus a giant Newfoundland dog, Albert.
ABOUT THE BOOK - THE FOG LADIES
The Fog Ladies is a cozy murder mystery with a group of spunky older women and one overworked, overtired, overstressed medical intern who all live in an elegant apartment building in San Francisco where old ladies start to die.
Susan McCormick's Website is https://susanmccormickbooks.com
Buy the Book!
https://www.amazon.com/Ladies-Francisco-Cozy-Murder-Mystery/dp/1509227008/ref=sr
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WHAT VICKI-ANN BUSH SAYS ABOUT HERSELF
I'm originally from New York, and now reside in Las Vegas, Nevada. I've been writing for as long as I can remember, and wrote my first book when I was thirteen. It was for a school project, and I loved every minute of it. The desert has been a great source of inspiration for my paranormal brain. The creepy is hidden in the shadows of it's beauty, and it's food for my strange and unusual creative side.
ABOUT THE BOOK - Alex McKenna & The Geranium Deaths
For Alex McKenna, high school is just a distraction from the love of his life, Margaret, with whom he can't wait to spend more time once they get to college. In many respects, Alex is just an average seventeen-year-old boy...except for the fact he's a transgender medium born from a long line of Strega witches, possessing the ability to communicate with ghosts. With the help of Margaret and his talented Strega great-grandmother, Alex will learn how to strengthen his abilities. The dead need Alex to help them reconcile issues they left behind—and he finds that he needs them, too. As his abilities multiply, assisting the dead becomes an outlet to channel his new energy, giving him the strength to come to terms with who he is as a transgender male, and how far he will choose to go.
http://www.vickiannbush.com
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07VTQ6M1S/
https://www.facebook.com/vickiann.guidicebush
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Celebrated husband-and-wife mystery writers Rosemary and Larry Mild will unveil a new short story collection, Copper and Goldie: 13 Tails of Mystery and Suspense in Hawai‘i this September. Rosemary and Larry Mild are coauthors of two popular suspense novels set in Hawai‘i: Cry Ohana and its sequel, Honolulu Heat—as well as the Paco & Molly Mysteries, the Dan & Rivka Sherman Mysteries, and a sci-fi novella.Death Goes Postal, first in the Dan & Rivka series, is also available as an Amazon Audible Audiobook.
ABOUT THE BOOK
Homicide detective Sam Nahoe takes a bullet in his spine in the line of duty. Disabled, his career with the Honolulu Police Department shattered, Sam is left to wonder “What now?”
Jobless, lonely, and divorced, Sam becomes an independent Checker Cab driver. In need of a partner, Sam adopts a rescue golden retriever mix. He trains the (usually) adorable, incredibly smart Goldie to perform neat tricks like growling at a fare who doesn’t tip. Sam and Goldie cruise O‘ahu for fares, but it turns out criminals need taxi service, too. Among those criminals: bank robbers, kidnappers, vengeful wives—and even killers, compelling Sam to get his private investigator license.
And so begins this wild, witty, and wickedly entertaining collection of detective stories. Brimming with action, intrigue, and humor, Copper and Goldie is filled with charming characters of both the two- and four-legged variety. Fun, fresh, and feisty, Copper and Goldie includes 13 original stories all set against the backdrop of the to-die-for Hawai‘ian setting.
Amazon: https://amzn.to/2mncTsY
*This show is sponsored by Maryglenn McCombs Book Publicity http://www.maryglenn.com
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Judge Debra H. Goldstein is the author of One Taste Too Many, the first of Kensington’s new Sarah Blair cozy mystery series. She also wrote Should HavePlayed Poker and 2012 IPPY Award winning Maze in Blue. Her short stories, including Anthony and Agatha nominated “The Night They Burned Ms. Dixie’s Place,” have appeared in numerous periodicals and anthologies including Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine, Black Cat Mystery Magazine, and Mystery Weekly. Debra serves on the national boards of Sisters in Crime and Mystery Writers of America and is president of SinC’s Guppy Chapter and the Southeast Chapter of MWA.
ABOUT THE BOOK - TWO BITES TOO MANY (Released today)
For culinary challenged Sarah Blair, there’s only one thing scarier than cooking from scratch—murder!
Married at eighteen, divorced at twenty-eight, Sarah Blair knew starting over would be messy, but things fall apart completely when her ex drops dead, seemingly poisoned by her twin sister’s award-winning rhubarb crisp. Now, with RahRah, her Siamese cat, wanted by the woman who broke up her marriage and her sister wanted by the police, Sarah needs to figure out the right recipe to crack the case before time runs out. Unfortunately, for a gal whose idea of good china is floral paper plates, catching the real killer and living to tell about it could mean facing a fate worse than death—being in the kitchen!
GET IN TOUCH
Website – www.DebraHGoldstein.com
Facebook – https://www.facebook.com/DebraHGoldsteinAuthor/
Twitter - @DebraHGoldstein
WHAT THE AUTHOR, CAMILLE PAGAN, SAYS ABOUT HERSELF
I’ve been telling stories as long as I’ve been able to hold a pen, but I didn’t write a novel until about ten years ago. I had just given birth to my first child and a dear friend was battling terminal cancer; I guess you could say life’s big questions were on my mind. I began writing at night after my daughter went to bed, and after many tough but exhilarating months, completed the draft that would become my debut, The Art of Forgetting. The experience changed me—even before I typed “The End,” I knew I wanted to do it again (and again and again).
ABOUT THE BOOK - I'M FINE AND NEITHER ARE YOU
Wife. Mother. Breadwinner. Penelope Ruiz-Kar is doing it all—and barely keeping it together. Meanwhile, her best friend, Jenny Sweet, appears to be sailing through life. As close as the two women are, Jenny’s passionate marriage, pristine house, and ultra-polite child stand in stark contrast to Penelope’s underemployed husband, Sanjay, their unruly brood, and the daily grind she calls a career.
Then a shocking tragedy reveals that Jenny’s life is far from perfect. Reeling, Penelope vows to stop keeping the peace and finally deal with the issues in her relationship. So she and Sanjay agree to a radical proposal: both will write a list of changes they want each other to make—then commit to complete and total honesty.
What seems like a smart idea quickly spirals out of control, revealing new rifts and even deeper secrets. As Penelope stares down the possible implosion of her marriage, she must ask herself: When it comes to love, is honesty really the best policy?
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Johanna Stoberock is the author of the novels Pigs (Forthcoming, Red Hen Press, September 2019) and City of Ghosts (W.W. Norton). Her short stories and essays have appeared in numerous publications, including Better: Culture & Lit, The Wilson Quarterly, Copper Nickel, Front Porch, and the 2014 Best of the Net Anthology. A 2012 Jack Straw Fellow and 2013 Artist Trust GAP awardee, Johanna has received residencies from the Corporation of Yaddo, the Vermont Studio Center, and the Millay Colony. She lives in Walla Walla, Washington with her husband and two children.
ABOUT THE BOOK
In her exquisite new novel, PIGS by Johanna Stoberock (Red Hen Press, October 1, 2019, Paperback Original), a fable for adults, readers visit a desert island populated by giant pigs, parentless children and a few villainous and greedy adults, exploring what happens when the systems in place to dispose of the things we throw away break down.
Four children sort all the world’s trash that washes ashore and feed it to the pigs, but when a barrel arrives with a boy inside, the children must decide whether he is more of the world’s detritus, meant to be fed to the pigs, or whether he is one of them.
Examining questions about community, environmental responsibility, and the possibility of innocence, PIGS asks us to look at the trash we create, the things we throw away without thinking, and how to dispose of it all in a time when the world’s recycling programs are being threatened, refugees are turned away at borders, and climate change is inevitable.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Steve Mariotti changed career paths in 1982 when he decided to move from the corporate sector and become a special education teacher in the New York City school system. Mr. Mariotti’s first assignment was in the East New York section of Brooklyn, and his last was in the Fort Apache section of the South Bronx.
ABOUT THE BOOK - GOODBYE HOMEBOY
One sunny afternoon in 1982, a young businessman experienced a terrifying mugging in New York City that shook him to his core. Tortured by nightmares about the teens who roughed him up, Steve Mariotti sought counseling. When his therapist suggested that he face his fears, Mariotti closed his small import-export business and became a teacher at the city’s most notorious public school--Boys and Girls High in Bed-Stuy. Although his nightmares promptly ceased, Mariotti’s out-of-control students rapidly drove him to despair. One day, Mariotti stepped out of the classroom so his students wouldn’t see him cry. In a desperate move to save his job, he took off his watch and marched back in with an impromptu sales pitch for it. To his astonishment, his students were riveted. He was able to successfully lead a math lesson for the first time. Mariotti realized his students felt trapped in soul-crushing poverty.
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Rebecca (RA) Cook was born in Alaska, a land of extremes. She grew up in Anchorage, which is in the South Central part of Alaska, and spent the first 30 years of my life there. Since her childhood, she's wanted to be a professional artist with her goal in sight throughout her career starting as a receptionist for an ad agency. Within several years, she moved to media buyer, then media director. As an entrepreneur, RA Cook established the first frame shop and art gallery on the Kenai Peninsula. Then came Hawaii where her husband and she opened one of the first digital print shops. Later at John Muir Publications in Santa Fe, NM, Cook learned book design and went on to become art director for a New Age trade publication on Orcas Island. After graduating with an Illustration degree from Academy Art University in San Francisco, CA in 2007, she self-published her first children’s picture book: Calvin Splinter & His Splendid Splinter Ideas, in 2018. Currently RA Cook is promoting her book, working on Giganta, An Epic Tale, one trade adult novel and a short story collection.
ABOUT THE BOOK - Calvin Splinter & His Splendid Splinter Ideas
After a terrible storm in the Kingdom of Lumaria, with the help of a butterfly named Howie and Woolie, a caterpillar, Calvin Splinter, a forest nymph, gathers the other splinters from the storm. Using his intuitive ideas and The Humming Song, a catchy tune, they rebuild the Great Forest.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Victoria Landis is a writer, editor, and artist. A 16-yr member, and former board member, of Mystery Writers of America, she Co-Chaired the SleuthFest Writers’ Conference from 2015-2018. She’s taught at the Alvin Sherman Library at Nova Southeastern U., the Authors Academy at Murder on the Beach, and at SleuthFest.
ABOUT THE BOOK - JORDAN
Part cautionary tale, part spine-tingling thriller, JORDAN is a tense, masterfully plotted novel about a woman with an extraordinary gift that could help mankind. Unfortunately, with the current state of viral social media, word gets out too fast. Chaos erupts, mass hysteria reigns, and people are dying.
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Macavity Awards for Best Non-fiction, Edgar Award for Best Critical/Biographical, 2009, 1992 · African American Mystery Writers: A Historical and Thematic Study, Out of the Woodpile, Anthony Award for Best Critical/Nonfiction Work, 2009, 2005 · African American Mystery Writers: A Historical and Thematic Study, Famous American Crimes and Trials, Agatha Award for Best Non-Fiction, and 2008 · African American Mystery Writers: A Historical
Frankie Y. Bailey, PhD is a professor in the School of Criminal Justice University at Albany (SUNY). She studies crime history, and crime and mass media/popular culture and material culture. She is the author of five mysteries featuring amateur sleuth Lizzie Stuart and two police procedurals novels featuring Albany police detective Hannah Stuart. For more information see her website: http://www.frankieybailey.com and http://www.albany.edu/scj/frankie_bailey.php
ABOUT THE BOOK - A DEAD MAN'S HONOR (A Lizzie Stuart Mystery)
Crime historian Lizzie Stuart goes to Gallagher, Virginia for a year as a visiting professor at Piedmont State University. She is there to do research for a book about a 1921 lynching that her grandmother, Hester Rose, witnessed when she was a twelve-year-old child. Lizzie's research is complicated by her own unresolved feelings about her secretive grandmother and by the disturbing presence of John Quinn, the police officer she met while on vacation in England. When an arrogant but brilliant faculty member of Piedmont State University is murdered, Lizzie begins to have more than a few sleepless nights. A Dead Man’s Honor is a haunting story that will keep you awake nights, too.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Through unexpected characters and vivid prose, Olivia Hawker (aka Libbie) explores the varied landscape of the human spirit. Olivia’s interest in genealogy often informs her writing. Her first two novels from Lake Union Publishing, The Ragged Edge of Night and One for the Blackbird, One for the Crow (2019), are based on true stories found within the author’s family tree. She lives in the San Juan Islands of Washington State with her husband Paul and several naughty cats.
ABOUT THE BOOK - ONE FOR THE BLACKBIRD, ONE FOR THE CROW
Release Date: October 8, 2019
From the bestselling author of The Ragged Edge of Night comes a powerful and poetic novel of survival and sacrifice on the American frontier. Wyoming, 1876. For as long as they have lived on the frontier, the Bemis and Webber families have relied on each other. With no other settlers for miles, it is a matter of survival. But when Ernest Bemis finds his wife, Cora, in a compromising situation with their neighbor, he doesn’t think of survival. In one impulsive moment, a man is dead, Ernest is off to prison, and the women left behind are divided by rage and remorse.
ABOUT - THE RAGGED EDGE OF NIGHT
For fans of All the Light We Cannot See, Germany, 1942. Franciscan friar Anton Starzmann is stripped of his place in the world when his school is seized by the Nazis. He relocates to a small German hamlet to wed Elisabeth Herter, a widow who seeks a marriage—in name only—to a man who can help raise her three children. Anton seeks something too—atonement for failing to protect his young students from the wrath of the Nazis. But neither he nor Elisabeth expects their lives to be shaken once again by the inescapable rumble of war.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Jeffrey Blount is an award-winning author of two novels, Almost Snow White, winner of the 2013 USA Best Book Awards, and Hating Heidi Foster, winner of the 2013 Readers Favorite Book Award for young adult literature.
He is also an Emmy award-winning television director. During a 34-year career at NBC News, Jeffrey directed a decade of Meet The Press, The Today Show, NBC Nightly News, The Chris Matthews Show and major special events. Jeffrey speaks on issues of race, social justice and writing. He's also an award-winning scriptwriter for films on display in the Smithsonian Museum of African American History and Culture. Born and raised in Smithfield, Virginia, he now lives in Washington, DC.
ABOUT THE BOOK - THE EMANCIPATION OF EVAN WALLS
“If you aren’t already ‘woke,’ you will be after reading this book.”—Mary Batten, author of Aliens from Earth
EVAN WALLS IS TERRIFIED by the birth of his first child because he doesn’t want her to suffer the isolation he had as a child. Seeing his torment, his wife, Izzy, prods him to explain. He tells of being a black child growing up in the racially charged 1960s. Inspired to overcome the racism and class status imposed on blacks, he dreams of a life bigger than that lived by most everyone he knows in the small Virginia town of Canaan. He is resented by friends and family for desiring a life better than theirs. Among the smartest in his class, Evan becomes a target of white kids threatened by the forced integration of their schools. Caught in a crossfire of hate from whites and his own people, who question whether he is black enough, Evan is often alone and bewildered. Only the love of his great grandmother, Mama Jennie, and his mentor, Bojack, keeps him on track. Together, they help Evan find perspective and peace.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR - JENNIFER GOLD
A proud Pacific Northwest native, Jennifer Gold got started writing women's fiction during her time as a baker. She has a passion for writing about the relationships of career-focused women — the victories, the struggles, and everything in between.
When she's not writing books, Jennifer can be found spending time with her husband, horse, and two cats. She has a weakness for espresso, ice cream, and chocolate. Jennifer holds a master's degree in writing and lives in Washington state.
ABOUT THE BOOK - THE INGREDIENTS OF US
A delicious novel about the sweet and sour ingredients of life and love.
Elle, an accomplished baker, has a recipe for every event in her life. But when she discovers her husband’s infidelity, she doesn’t know what to make of it. Jam, maybe? Definitely jam.
Fed up with the stale crumbs of her marriage, Elle revisits past recipes and the events that inspired them. A recipe for scones reminds her of her father’s death, cinnamon rolls signify the problematic courtship with her husband, and a batch of chocolate cookies casts Elle in a less-than-flattering light. Looking back, Elle soon realizes that some ingredients were missing all along.
After confronting her husband, Elle indulges her sweet tooth in other ways, including a rebound that just leaves her more confused. As secrets from the past collide with the conflicts of the present, Elle struggles to manage her bakery business and maintain the relationships most important to her. In piecing her life back together, will Elle learn to take the bitter with the sweet?
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WHAT TERRY PERSUN SAYS ABOUT HIMSELF
Unless you haven’t already guessed, I love writing. I am traditionally and self-published with novels, novellas, short stories, poetry, nonfiction books on writing and spiritual subjects. I’m a writer.
I read in multiple genres. In the past six months or so, I've read how-to books, fiction across genres, poetry collections, books on spirituality, books on business and marketing, and books on specific subjects like curiosity, shape-shifting, and shamanism. Then there are the magazines I read, like Discover, ID, Scientific American, Poets & Writers, The Writers' Chronical, and many others.
ABOUT THE BOOK - BIOMASS REWIND
BIOMASS REWIND follows a group of “made” humans manufactured and trained by a sapient ship to colonize a new Earth-like planet. Once on the surface, the squad must evade gruesome death at the claws, leaves and wings of the hostile native wildlife--if they don't end up killing each other first. But when they find evidence that they aren't the first humans to walk the planet, their mission becomes suspect. If this is not their first visit to “Beauty”, then what is their ship's motive, and how could they survive what other versions of themselves could not?
ABOUT THE BOOK - STEALING CHILDHOOD
A reluctant FBI team merge to stop Dan and Jason Johnston from doing their best shamanic work against evil forces. Dan and Jason are called to work on a human trafficking assignment, targeted at them. Agent Rafsky is skeptical, has her own way of handling things and would rather be left alone. Dan and Jason are pitted against dangers found in altered states. Everything explodes when the FBI uses Jason to infiltrate. Then Dan gets physically involved and finds himself in danger.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
DIANE A.S. STUCKART is the New York Times bestselling author of the Black Cat Bookshop Mystery series (writing as Ali Brandon). She’s also the author of the award-winning Leonardo da Vinci historical mysteries, as well as several historical romances and numerous mystery, fantasy, and romance short stories. The first book in her Tarot Cats Mystery series is FOOL’S MOON, available in trade, large print, and Kindle versions. Her Georgia B&B Mystery series from Crooked Lane Books launched July 2019 with PEACH CLOBBERED, written as Anna Gerard. Diane is a member of Mystery Writers of America and has served as the 2018 and 2019 Chapter President of the MWA Florida chapter. She lives in the Everglades with her husband. www.dianestuckart.com
ABOUT THE BOOK - PEACH CLOBBERED
Nina Fleet’s life ought to be as sweet as a Georgia peach. Awarded a tidy sum in her divorce, Nina retired at 41 to a historic Queen Anne house in quaint Cymbeline, GA. But Nina’s barely settled into her new B&B-to-be when a penguin shows up on her porch. Or, at least, a man wearing a penguin suit. Harry Westcott is making ends meet as an ice cream shop’s mascot and has a letter from his great-aunt, but a peek under the beak tells Nina it’s not Harry inside the costume, but Bainbridge. What was he doing in Harry’s penguin suit? Was the developer really the intended victim, or did the culprit mean to kill Harry? Whoever is out to stop Harry from contesting the sale of his great-aunt’s house may also be after Nina, so she teams up with him to cage the killer before someone clips her wings in Peach Clobbered, Anna Gerard’s charming first Georgia B&B mystery.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
BORN IN CHICAGO, raised in the rolling farmland of northern Illinois, surrounded by the music, art, books, and theater her parents insisted be brought to the table, Devon Wilke learned early the call of her creative Muses. Never one to limit her artistic pursuits, she designed a career that’s intertwined theater and rock & roll, photography and design; screenwriting, journalism, and long-form fiction, bringing the sum total of her creative experience to each medium in which she’s engaged.
A longtime contributor to news media and media sites, her trademark “sass and sensibility” infuses her op-eds, essays, and social commentary with wit, candor, and occasional provocation. Her novels, short stories, and screenplays are rich in vivid characters, plots both unique and recognizable, with always an elemental mix of heart and soul.
Along with her debut novel,AFTER THE SUCKER PUNCH, and second novel, HYSTERICAL LOVE are available online and in select bookstores. Her screenplay, A Minor Rebellion was an “official screenplay selection” at the 2018 Beverly Hills Film Festival and a semifinalist in the 2018 ScreenCraft Screenwriting Fellowship. Her latest novel, contemporary drama, THE ALCHEMY OF NOISE was published April 2019 by She Writes Press.
ABOUT THE BOOK - ALCHEMY OF NOISE
In a world so full of lonely people and broken hearts, Chris Hawkins, a black sound engineer from Chicago’s south side, and Sidonie Frame—white, suburban-raised, the head manager of one of the city’s most elite venues—meet by work-related happenstance and fall quickly in love, convinced that by that act alone they can inspire peace, joy, and happiness in the world around them. The world, however, has other ideas.
ABOUT THE AUTHR ---- RANDALL SILVIS
Ryan DeMarco Mystery Series:
Two Days Gone (Book 1)
Walking the Bones (Book 2)
A Long Way Down (Book 3)
Randall Silvis is the internationally acclaimed author of over a dozen novels, one story collection, and one book of narrative nonfiction. Also a prize-winning playwright, a produced screenwriter, and a prolific essayist, he has been published and produced in virtually every field and genre of creative writing. His numerous essays, articles, poems and short stories have appeared in the Discovery Channel magazines, The Writer, Prism International, Short Story International, Manoa, and numerous other online and print magazines. His work has been translated into 10 languages.
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ABOUT THE BOOK - A LONG WAY DOWN
Just when you think you've reached the bottom...
Ryan DeMarco would rather not go home. Not now, maybe not ever. But when his estranged wife attempts suicide, he has no choice but to return to western Pennsylvania, and all the memories that wait for him there. Unfortunately, it's not only ghosts from the past waiting to greet DeMarco upon his return. An old high school classmate has risen through the ranks to become a county sheriff, and he is desperate for help investigating a series of murders that might tie into a cold case from his and DeMarco's school days.
DeMarco and his new love, Jayme, agree to join the team working on the case. But it's not easy for DeMarco to be walking the streets of his troubled past, and the deeper he and Jayme dig into the disturbing murders the less likely it is that either one of them will escape the devastation.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Before Kay Kendall began to write books, she was an award-winning international public relations executive, working in the US, Canada, the Soviet Union, and Europe. Ask her about working in Moscow during the Cold War—and turning down a job with the CIA in order to attend grad school at Harvard. Because of her degrees in Russian history, Kay often brings Cold War elements into her tales. She takes great pains in her books to get historical settings and details right—no anachronisms allowed.
Kay is president of the Southwest Chapter of the Mystery Writers of America and is a member of the national board of MWA. She and her Canadian husband live in Houston, Texas, and have rescued abandoned pet rabbits for 20 years. They have a tolerant spaniel who co-habits with the three bunnies that currently reside with them. Over the years they have rescued 14 rabbits.
ABOUT THE BOOK "AFTER YOU'VE GONE"
Twenty-three-year-old Walter MacGregor craves adventure, her desires whetted by Sherlock Holmes tales. Her prayers are answered when her father’s rum-running brother Rory lands on the MacGregors’ doorstep, fleeing from enraged bootleggers. In quiet Gunmetal, Texas, during Prohibition, Rory’s tales of adventure charm Wallie, but appall her father, a respected judge.
When a freak accident horrifies the small town, Wallie believes she sees a crime scene that shows evidence of foul play. In short, it’s murder. Annoyed that no one agrees with her—including the sheriff and her dad—she sets out to prove her theory. Soon she is knee-deep in flappers and floozies, Chicago thugs sent south by Al Capone, and a crime lord in the sinful port city of Galveston. Her prim aunt wants her to pay more attention to her eligible suitors. Can Wallie stay alive long enough to figure out which one is her true love?
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
In pursuing his literary career, Dr. Randy Overbeck has clearly heeded this sage advice. From the beginning, he has chosen to set his narratives—whether edge-of-your-seat thriller, classical whodunit, or eerie ghost story—squarely in the realm of school. His three plus decades of experience as a teacher, professor and school leader has infused his writing with a rare authenticity about the world of education, even as the protagonists of his tales tackle daunting, out-sized challenges. In his career, Dr. Overbeck has held a wide range of positions and has brought this knowledge and insight to the characters he has created. For example, in his early years, he served as an English teacher and student newspaper adviser, much the same as Dee Dee Sterber, the heroine of Leave No Child Behind. (Leave No Child Behind, a thriller about the terrorist takeover of a small town school and the teacher who confronts the intruders in her own hallways, was published in 2010).
ABOUT THE BOOK - BLOOD ON THE CHESAPEAKE
Wilshire, Maryland, a quaint shore town on the Chesapeake, promises Darrell Henshaw a new start in life and a second chance at love. That is, until he learns the town hides an ugly secret. A thirty-year-old murder in the high school. And a frightening ghost stalking his new office. Burned by an earlier encounter with the spirit world, Darrell doesn't want to get involved, but when the desperate ghost hounds him, he concedes. Assisted by his new love, he follows a trail that leads to the civil rights movement, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and even the Klu Klux Klan. Then, when two locals who try to help are murdered, Darrell is forced to decide if he's willing to risk his life—and the life of the woman he loves—to expose the killers of a young man he never knew.
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ABOUT THE BOOK - A LONG WAY DOWN
Just when you think you've reached the bottom...
Ryan DeMarco would rather not go home. Not now, maybe not ever. But when his estranged wife attempts suicide, he has no choice but to return to western Pennsylvania, and all the memories that wait for him there. Unfortunately, it's not only ghosts from the past waiting to greet DeMarco upon his return. An old high school classmate has risen through the ranks to become a county sheriff, and he is desperate for help investigating a series of murders that might tie into a cold case from his and DeMarco's school days.
DeMarco and his new love, Jayme, agree to join the team working on the case. But it's not easy for DeMarco to be walking the streets of his troubled past, and the deeper he and Jayme dig into the disturbing murders the less likely it is that either one of them will escape the devastation.
Ryan DeMarco Mystery Series:
Two Days Gone (Book 1)
Walking the Bones (Book 2)
A Long Way Down (Book 3)
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Randall Silvis is the internationally acclaimed author of over a dozen novels, one story collection, and one book of narrative nonfiction. Also a prize-winning playwright, a produced screenwriter, and a prolific essayist, he has been published and produced in virtually every field and genre of creative writing. His numerous essays, articles, poems and short stories have appeared in the Discovery Channel magazines, The Writer, Prism International, Short Story International, Manoa, and numerous other online and print magazines. His work has been translated into 10 languages.
www.randallsilvis.com
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Robert Dugoni is the critically acclaimed NY Times, Wall Street Journal and Amazon Best Selling Author of The Tracy Crosswhite series. The Crosswhite Series has sold more than two million books and My Sister’s Grave has been optioned for television. He is the author of the best-selling David Sloane series, The Jury Master, Wrongful Death, Bodily Harm Murder One and The Conviction, and the stand-alone novels The 7th Canon, a 2017 finalist for the Mystery Writers of America Edgar Award for best novel, The Cyanide Canary, A Washington Post Best Book of the Year, and several short stories. He is the recipient of the Nancy Pearl Award for Fiction, and the Friends of Mystery, Spotted Owl Award for the best novel in the Pacific Northwest.
ABOUT THE BOOK - THE EIGHTH SISTER
Former CIA case officer Charles Jenkins is a man at a crossroads. In his early sixties, he has a family, a new baby on the way, and a security consulting business on the brink of bankruptcy. His former bureau chief shows up at his house with a risky new assignment, travel undercover to Moscow and locate a Russian agent believed to be killing members of a clandestine US spy cell known as the seven sisters.
Desperate for money, Jenkins agrees to the mission and heads to the Russian capital. But when he finds the mastermind agent behind the assassinations—the so-called eighth sister—she is not who or what he was led to believe. Then again, neither is anyone else in this deadly game of cat and mouse.
Pursued by a dogged Russian intelligence officer, Jenkins executes a daring escape across the Black Sea, only to find himself abandoned by the agency he serves. With his family and freedom at risk, Jenkins is in the fight of his life—against his own country.
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Kathryn K. Abdul-Baki was born in Washington D.C. to a Palestinian father and American mother. She grew up in Iran, Kuwait, Beirut, and Jerusalem where she attended Arabic, British, and American schools. She attended the American University of Beirut for two years and earned a BA in journalism from George Washington University where she received an MA in creative writing. Her books are taught at universities in Multicultural Literature and Arab Studies departments. Baki is a frequent lecturer at universities including Georgetown University, Mary Washington University, and Tufts University.
Her husband and she with there three children reside in McLean, Virginia. She loves to dance and teaches and performs Argentine Tango in the Washington DC area.
ABOUT THE BOOK - A MARRIAGE IN FOUR SEASONS
After a devastating stillbirth and longing for a second child, English professor Joy explores Granada, Spain, hoping to ease her heartbreak and rekindle a relationship with her husband, Richard. Instead, their trip leads to an erotic interlude between Joy and a handsome stranger—and Richard, filled with disappointment at his disintegrating marriage, embarks on an affair with vivacious Belinda. After learning of Richard’s affair, Joy divorces him and moves to Virginia. Despite her lingering bitterness over his infidelity, Joy is inspired by the centuries-old love story between Sultan Suleyman and his Russian concubine, Roxelana, and in traveling to Istanbul with Richard finds herself attracted to him anew. However, Richard has a shocking confession: Belinda has had his daughter,
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
G. Elizabeth Kretchmer grew up on the south side of Chicago, the youngest of three children in a family that revered the annual summer vacation. They traveled east to frolic in the waves of the Atlantic, north to ride untamed horses in the Canadian Rockies, and south to barter for trinkets in the border towns of Mexico. But her favorite trips were always to the Great American West, where raptors soared and mountains loomed and evergreens towered overhead, and where history and adventure and spirituality seemed somehow inextricably and inexplicably linked to the landscape. By the time she was in her mid-twenties, she found a permanent ticket to the West and has lived there ever since.
ABOUT THE BOOK
“To call Bear Medicine a novel about any singular objective would be to understate its importance as a multi-faceted story that embraces several different issues. Readers seeking a strong, woman-centered story that gives much food for thought about these challenges will find Bear Medicine an absorbing, purposeful read where the power of the bear results in rebirth and revelations.” ~ Diane Donovan, Midwest Book Reviews
“Bear Medicine shares what happens when people are unthinking, unkind, and use power as a means to control the lives of others and the healing that can arrive when we support one another. Kretchmer writes ‘from where the sun now rises we will fight forever.’ It is a rallying cry for those believing in humane co-existence with all life on this planet. I welcome this teaching.” ~ Deb Lecos, Windy City Review
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR - DWAINE RIEVES
A native of Mississippi, Dwaine Rieves worked during high school and college as a Frisco Railroad brakeman and a maintenance man at the local garment plant. He graduated from the University of Mississippi School of Medicine in 1979 and completed his training in Internal Medicine at Vanderbilt University. In 1983, he moved to the small city of Natchez, Mississippi to repay his debt to the state by working in the local county health department. This was an experience that would transform him and shape the remainder of his life.
Rieves began writing many years ago in the hospital while waiting for patients to complete tests or procedures, becoming enthralled with the power of words when they are allowed to flow freely from human experience. When the spirit insists, he explores his observations and thoughts in poems, essays and fiction.
ABOUT THE BOOK - SHIRTLESS MEN DRINK FREE
Doctor Jane Beekman has seen her dying mother’s soul, a vision about the bed—a soul struggling with a decision, some undone task, something in this world too noble to leave. The sight was brief, but surely a lesson. The lingering question—Why?—prompts a shift in the doctor’s priorities. For in this election year Jane must do what her mother, an aspiring social activist, would have done.
Set amidst 2004’s polarizing election fears—immigrants and job take-overs, terrorists in waiting, homosexuals and outsider agendas—Shirtless Men Drink Free makes vivid the human soul’s struggle in a world bedeviled by desire and the fears that leave us all asking—Why?
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Sharon Hooper is a Professional Certified Coach with over four decades of successful business experience. From directing one of the world’s largest child development centers to becoming President of an independent record company, her novel marketing strategies and passion for challenges has helped hundreds of people to reach their goals and achieve the success they have dreamed of.
ABOUT THE BOOK - From Dreams to Action: A Proven Method to Achieve Your Goals
Is there a dream you would like to pursue but every time you set out to do it, you end up losing courage, direction or motivation? Perhaps you can’t quite identify your passionate goal. This course will help you discover your own promising path, along with the concrete steps of how to reach your desired results to make your goal happen.
http://www.sharonhooper.com
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Zandri's list of domestic publishers include Delacorte, Dell, Down & Out Books, Thomas & Mercer, and Polis Books. An MFA in Writing graduate of Vermont College, Zandri's work is translated in the Dutch, Russian, French, Italian, and Japanese. Recently, Zandri was the subject of a major feature by the New York Times. He has also made appearances on Bloomberg TV and FOX news. In December 2014, Suspense Magazine named Zandri's, THE SHROUD KEY, as one of the "Best Books of 2014." Recently, Suspense Magazine selected WHEN SHADOWS COME as one of the "Best Books of 2016". A freelance photo-journalist and the author of the popular "lit blog," The Vincent Zandri Vox. For more go to WWW.VINCENTZANDRI.COM
ABOUT THE BOOK "THE CARETAKER'S WIFE"
When ex-con and novelist JA Kingsley loses everything he ever cared about, including his wife and teenage daughter, he abandons his home in order to start anew, write a new book, and most of all, restart his fractured life. Traveling to the Adirondack Mountains, he checks himself into The Loon Lake Inn, a peaceful, lake-side resort. For a brief moment, he feels at peace with himself and a world that has seemingly turned its back on him.
But what he doesn’t expect is the lurid attraction that ignites between him and the wife of the owner of the Loon lake Inn, who has connections to some of most dangerous people imaginable. And what begins as a torrid affair turns into something much more sinister when they decide that nothing will stand in the way of their love--including murder.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR - KAREN WHITE
Karen White is the New York Times bestselling author of more than twenty novels, including the Tradd Street series, Dreams of Falling, The Night the Lights Went Out, Flight Patterns, The Sound of Glass, A Long Time Gone, and The Time Between. She is the coauthor of The Forgotten Room and The Glass Ocean with New York Times bestselling authors Beatriz Williams and Lauren Willig. She grew up in London but now lives with her husband and two children near Atlanta, Georgia. Visit her online at www.karen-white.com.
ABOUT THE BOOK - DREAMS OF FALLING
Nine years ago, a humiliated Larkin Lanier fled Georgetown, South Carolina, knowing she could never go back. But when she finds out that her mother has disappeared, she realizes she has no choice but to return to the place she both loves and dreads–and to the family and friends who never stopped wishing for her to come home.
Ivy, Larkin’s mother, is discovered badly injured and unconscious in the burned-out wreckage of her ancestral plantation home. No one knows why Ivy was there, but as Larkin digs for answers, she uncovers secrets kept for nearly fifty years–whispers of love, sacrifice, and betrayal–that lead back to three girls on the brink of womanhood who found their friendship tested in the most heartbreaking ways.
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR, LESLIE KARST
The daughter of a law professor and a potter, Leslie Karst learned young the value of both careful analysis and the arts—ideal ingredients for a mystery story. Putting this early education to good use, she now writes the Sally Solari Mysteries, a culinary series set in Santa Cruz, California.
ABOUT THE BOOK, MURDER FROM SCRATCH
Sally Solari’s cousin Evelyn may be blind, but she can see all too clearly that her restaurateur mother’s death wasn’t an accident. Danger confronts the cousins as they investigate the murder, and delve into the world of macho commercial kitchens and the cut-throat competitiveness that can flame up between chefs.
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Judge Debra H. Goldstein is the author of One Taste Too Many, the first of Kensington’s new Sarah Blair cozy mystery series. She also wrote Should HavePlayed Poker and 2012 IPPY Award winning Maze in Blue. Her short stories, including Anthony and Agatha nominated “The Night They Burned Ms. Dixie’s Place,” have appeared in numerous periodicals and anthologies including Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine, Black Cat Mystery Magazine, and Mystery Weekly. Debra serves on the national boards of Sisters in Crime and Mystery Writers of America and is president of SinC’s Guppy Chapter and the Southeast Chapter of MWA.
For culinary challenged Sarah Blair, there’s only one thing scarier than cooking from scratch—murder!
Married at eighteen, divorced at twenty-eight, Sarah Blair knew starting over would be messy, but things fall apart completely when her ex drops dead, seemingly poisoned by her twin sister’s award-winning rhubarb crisp. Now, with RahRah, her Siamese cat, wanted by the woman who broke up her marriage and her sister wanted by the police, Sarah needs to figure out the right recipe to crack the case before time runs out. Unfortunately, for a gal whose idea of good china is floral paper plates, catching the real killer and living to tell about it could mean facing a fate worse than death—being in the kitchen!
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR - THERESA MATHEWS
Theresa Mathews lives on an island in the Pacific Northwest where she works from her home office as a Corporate Recruiter. She loves to travel, spend time on or near the water, hike, enjoy music, feel the rumble of a Harley Davidson motorcycle, and cook for family and friends. She is working on her second book, a novel.
ABOUT THE BOOK - "FISHING WITH HYENAS"
When city girl Theresa falls madly in love with commercial fisherman Captain Bart, she trades her urban lifestyle for a grueling job as crew on his ninety-two-foot tuna boat in the middle of the North Pacific Ocean. During their three-month journey, she battles waves the size of four-story buildings in hurricane-force winds and almost loses her mind, but wins the respect of the Hyenas—an elite group of fishermen who become her extended family.
When Captain Bart dies at sea of a massive heart attack, Theresa must survive her worst nightmare and nearly drowns in grief and financial devastation.
FISHING WITH HYENAS is a true story about the power of love, the pull of Mother Ocean, and overcoming loss.
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR - Vicki-Ann Bush
Ms. Bush is originally from Long Island, New York, and currently resides in Las Vegas, Nevada. Originally writing children stories, Ms. Bush has found her niche in YA fiction. Delving into the genre of paranormal, she often gets inspiration from the surrounding desert.
Newly released is the adult fiction, Saving a Life, from Solstice Publishing. In addition, coming in Fall 2019 from The Parliament House, the YA Paranormal LGBTQ, Alex McKenna & The Geranium Deaths. A series of books that will feature a seventeen year old, transgender boy with paranormal abilities.
ABOUT THE BOOK - "SAVING A LIFE"
The golden years have escaped Walter. Waking up is merely an inconvenience to an end he yearns for. Harboring a secret that slowly chips away pieces of him every day, he struggles to fit in to a society he no longer deems worthy. That is until an unexpected romance with a long time friend, gives him a reason to smile again. Struggling with his inner demons, he fights to hold on to his new love and resolve the pain that threatens their relationship.
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IRINA, Book Two of The Good Neighbors series.
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A sequel to "The Good Neighbors", "Irina" takes place in 1932 and is the story of the last member of the Romanian Dacia family, the lead dancer of the Romanian State Folk Dance Ensemble, Irina, who plans to defect when the Ensemble reaches New York City at the beginning of its tour of America. Irina has been marked for death by the Iron Guard in Romania, a group trying to regain control of the country by spreading fear and hate. She sends a letter, through friends, to her Uncle Joseph in South Dakota, hoping that he can help her escape, but doesn't know if he has even received the letter. Her main persecutor is Deben, the lead male dancer of the ensemble, whose mission is to kill her before the troupe returns to Romania. Irina finds help in foiling Deben's plans when she makes a new friend on board the ship to America, Mrs. Ida Epstein, a woman of experience, courage, wealth, and compassion who puts herself at risk also to protect Irina.
On their farm in South Dakota, the Dacia family receive the letter and in spite of having little money or resources, find a way to obtain a car, and with their singing and fighting neighbor August Wagner, Joseph and his wife Elizabeth, make a road trip from South Dakota to New York City. There are repercussions from the Chicago gangsters of "The Good Neighbors" as well as new involvement with the Greek mob in Sioux City, Iowa. In spite of the difficulties of the road trip, the group arrives in New York and confronts the treachery of the Iron Guard in Irina's rescue. Other surprises await the group in New York, and back on the farm as the Dacias continue their efforts to become "real" Americans and to grasp the "American Dream" of progress, tolerance, fair play, and neighbors helping neighbors.
ABOUT THE BOOK
BLOOD & WISDOM - PI Karl Gatlin takes Aria Piper’s case when a threat arrives—“if she doesn’t stop doing Satan’s work…” A few hours later, a headless John Doe bobs up in the wishing well at Aria’s New Age spiritual center near Santa Cruz, California.
With canine Larry by his side and a wise-ass hacker helping out, Karl confronts a ruthless pastor, the dead-eyed leader of a drug gang, and several suspicious members of Aria’s own flock as he hunts for answers.
More murders lead to more questions. How could violence on this scale emerge from such a peaceful spiritual community—led by Aria, no less, the kindest, wisest person Karl has ever met? Will Karl’s psychologist training be enough to save his new lover’s life?
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Verlin Darrow is currently a psychotherapist who lives with his psychotherapist wife in the woods near the Monterey Bay in northern California. They diagnose each other as necessary. Verlin is a former professional volleyball player (in Italy), unsuccessful country-western singer/songwriter, import store owner, and assistant guru in a small, benign spiritual organization. Before bowing to the need for higher education, a much younger Verlin ran a punch press in a sheetmetal factory, drove a taxi, worked as a night janitor, shoveled asphalt on a road crew, and installed wood flooring. He missed being blown up by Mt. St. Helens by ten minutes, survived the 1985 Mexico City earthquake (8 on the Richter scale), and (so far) has successfully weathered his own internal disasters.
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR: JAMIE BECK
National bestselling author Jamie Beck's realistic and heartwarming stories have sold more than two million copies. She is a Booksellers' Best Award and National Readers' Choice Award finalist, and critics at Kirkus, Publishers Weekly, and Booklist have respectively called her work smart, uplifting, and entertaining. In addition to writing novels, she enjoys dancing around the kitchen while cooking and hitting the slopes in Vermont and Utah. Above all, she is a grateful wife and mother to a very patient, supportive family.
ABOUT THE BOOK: THE MEMORY OF YOU
Steffi Lockwood has survived more than most. Recovering from an assault, she returns to her Connecticut hometown to rebuild her life the best way she knows how: with her hands. But starting a remodeling business with one longtime friend puts her in the middle of a rift with another. Worse, being hired by her ex-boyfriend’s mother forces her to confront old regrets. Public defender Ryan Quinn wasn’t shocked when his wife left him, but he was floored when she abandoned their daughter. With his finances up in the air, the newly single dad returns to his childhood home in Sanctuary Sound. Although Steffi and Ryan are different people now, dormant feelings rekindle. But when Steffi’s secrets begins to surface, will it bring them together…or tear them apart for good.
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Randall Silvis is the internationally acclaimed author of over a dozen novels, one story collection, and one book of narrative nonfiction. A prize-winning playwright, produced screenwriter, and prolific essayist, Silvis has been published in virtually every genre of creative writing. His stories have appeared in Discovery Channel magazines, The Writer, Prism International, Short Story International, Manoa, and other online and print magazines. His work has been translated into 10 languages. Silvis’s literary awards include two writing fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the prestigious Drue Heinz Literature Prize, a Fulbright Senior Scholar Research Award, six fellowships for his fiction, drama, and screenwriting from the Pennsylvania Council On the Arts, and an honorary Doctor of Letters degree awarded for “distinguished literary achievement.”
ABOUT THE BOOK "FIRST THE THUNDER"
Products of their run-down Pennsylvania mining town, three brothers grapple with their lives in decline. Harvey drives a delivery truck; Stevie works odd jobs; and Will is a struggling bar owner whose wife, Laci, is edging toward desperation when her boss offers her more money…for a price. Then, in this tight circle where prosperity is rare—and hope, even rarer—comes a breaking point in a simple but indefensible slight…
When Harvey gets shafted by his brother-in-law in a deal over a vintage Indian motorcycle, he enlists the help of Stevie and Will to set things right. But the revenge plan goes awry, and the three men stumble upon a shocking secret that, if revealed, would upend their lives.
As they’re crushed under the weight of a nightmarish truth and the damning evidence in their possession, it’s up to Laci to save her family from the coming storm the brothers have wrought. And no one is prepared for the fallout.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
An indie novelist out of central Massachusetts, Robert Crawford specializes in historical psychological thrillers, especially in 19th century Boston and New York.
ABOUT THE BOOK "TATTERDEMALION"
Manhattan, 1889. Scott Carson retreats to his parents’ basement. After his final battle with Jack the Ripper, the reclusive photographer tries to reassemble his shattered psyche. Then Jacob Riis shows him a photograph sent by an NYPD detective of a dead girl sitting on the lap of an adult.
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Back to writing as DIANE A.S. STUCKART who has a brand new series coming out this November -- The Tarot Cats Mysteries from Midnight Ink with Book One, FOOL'S MOON, which introduces Brandon and Ophelia, black cat siblings who are every bit the clever sleuths as Hamlet. And, even more exciting, She has a second series that will launch in 2019 -- the Georgia B&B Mysteries from Crooked Lane which will be written as Anna Gerard.
Diane Stuckart is a Texas native with a degree in journalism from the University of Oklahoma. Though she's a westerner at heart, she moved to Florida a dozen years ago and now can almost call herself a Floridian. She's married, lives in the boonies, and is caretaker to several dogs and cats...including the real-life Brandon Bobtail and Ophelia!
Another exciting update -- I'm currently serving as Chapter President of the Florida Chapter of Mystery Writers of America.
ABOUT THE BOOK "FOOL'S MOON"
Book 1 in the new "Tarot Cats Mystery Series" published by Midnight Ink. When two clever black cats join forces with a hapless Tarot card reader to solve a murder, the result is a purr-fectly magic!
What the critics say about FOOL'S MOON
"Lighthearted and quirky, this will enchant cozy readers and animal lovers." ~~Publishers Weekly
"[Stuckart] writes throughout with charm and warmth. Anyone with a pet will enjoy." ~~Kirkus?
"[E]nough twists to keep even the most savvy reader guessing. Overall, FOOL'S MOON is surprisingly delightful, [and] plenty of fun..." ~~Meredith Frazier, Reviewing the Evidence
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Mindy Tarquini grew up convinced that there are other worlds just one giant step to the left of where she’s standing. Author of the critically acclaimed and award-winning Hindsight (SparkPress 2016) and The Infinite Now (SparkPress 2017), Tarquini’s writing has appeared in Writer’s Digest, BookPage, Hypable, and other venues. An associate editor on the Lascaux Review and a member of the Perley Station Writers Colony, Tarquini is a second-generation Italian American who believes words have power. She plies hers to the best of her ability from an enchanted tower a giant step left in the great Southwest.
ABOUT THE BOOK
In Panduri, an enchanted city seen only at twilight, everyone's path is mapped, everyone's destiny decided, their lives charted at birth and steered by an unwavering star. Everyone has his place, and Matteo, second son of Panduri's duca, is eager to take up his as Legendary Protector--at the border and out from under his father's domineering thumb. Then Matteo's older brother pulls rank and heads to the border in his stead, leaving Panduri's orbit in a spiral and Matteo's course on a skid. Forced to follow an unexpected path, resentful and raw, Matteo is determined to rise, to pursue the one future Panduri's star can never chart: a life of his own.
Brigadoon meets Pippin in this quirky tale of grief steeped deep in Italian folklore and shimmering with hope--to remember what helps, forget what hurts, and give what remains permission to soar.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Ann Howard Creel writes historical novels about strong female characters facing seemingly impossible obstacles and having to make life-changing decisions. In her new novel, THE RIVER WIDOW, a former tarot-card reader turned widow and stepmother must escape the clutches of an evil family while also facing the crime she herself has committed. In THE WHISKEY SEA, a fierce young woman becomes one of the only female rumrunners on the Atlantic Coast during Prohibition. And in WHILE YOU WERE MINE, a New York City nurse must give up the child she has raised as her own during World War II.
ABOUT THE BOOK
The River Widow - Her freedom must begin with a lie. In 1937 with flood waters approaching, Adah Branch accidentally kills her abusive husband, Lester, and surrenders his body to the raging river, only to be swept away herself. So begins her story of survival, return to civilization, defense against accusations of murder, and the fight to save herself and her step-daughter, Daisy, from the clutches of her husband’s notoriously cruel family, who have their sights set on revenge for Lester’s death. Essentially trapped, Adah must plan an escape. But when she develops feelings for the one person essential to her plan's success, she faces a painful choice: Will she choose to risk everything saving Daisy or take the new life offered by a loving man?
ABOUT THE BOOK
Her son accidentally kills a man.
They cover it up.
Then everything goes wrong.
When eighteen-year-old Joshua Mayo takes a man’s life in a terrible accident, he leaves the scene without reporting the crime to the police. He hopes to put the awful night behind him and move on with his life. But, of course, he ends up telling his mother, Karen, what happened.
ABOUT THE AUHTOR
Tom Hunt is an award-winning advertising copywriter. He has worked for some of the nation’s largest and best-known agencies, including J. Walter Thompson and Saatchi & Saatchi. Killer Choice was his first novel. Visit Tom Hunt online at tomhuntwriter.com and on Twitter @TomHuntWriter.
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S P E C I A L A I R I N G!
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Tim has lived in Boston, Sarasota, Florida, and for the last twenty-four years on two acres in the foothills of the coastal range of western Oregon. For the last two decades he has owned and operated a commercial contracting business specializing in furniture and wood restoration for the hotel and cruise ship industries. In 2015 he retired from contracting to write full-time. Tim is married and has two daughters. He grows wine grapes on his acreage, remains an avid hiker, and travels extensively. Tim's poetry, essays, and short fiction has appeared in The Florida Review, The South Dakota Review, Lake Effect, The Briar Cliff Review, and the Tillie Olsen Award-winning anthology Tales From The Construction Site, among many others.
ABOUT THE BOOK
Chance is a hitman with hippie roots and deep emotional wounds, disillusioned by life and stung by love?and his next target is the woman who rejected him. But taking on such a job is not without complications. As he closes in on his victim, Chance struggles to rediscover the competitive edge that normally makes him so deadly.
?Faye Lindstrom escaped a life of captivity and addiction in Quintana Roo, but she can’t flee the woman she has become. For now, she holes up in a house in Crooked River owned by an old friend, the reclusive novelist William Dieter. But that safe haven will only last until the end of the summer, assuming that the violence in her past doesn’t catch up to her first.
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR - BAILEY DAY
Bailey Day’s story writing began when she was insulted by a peer in 4th Grade, who told her she was only able to write “girly” stuff. As if a gauntlet had been thrown, that very same day she started writing about monsters and demons and has since filled hundreds of journals with incredible stories and ideas. Bailey has been working on her debut, “The Amazing Imagination Machine” for two years, starting out as a middle grade adventure and, after serious rewrites, coming to fruition as a Young Adult Thriller. Bailey lives in Washington State with her parents, her older brother, and her dog, Smoochy.
ABOUT THE BOOK - THE AMAZING IMAGINATION MACHINE
In an old, abandoned toy factory, a teenager passes through a strange device that brings his worst nightmare to life, and he must kill it and all the monsters spawned from the machine before they kill him.
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR, C. HOPE CLARK
C. Hope Clark was born and reared in the South, from Mississippi to South Carolina with a few stints in Alabama and Georgia. The granddaughter of a Mississippi cotton farmer, Hope holds a B.S. in Agriculture with honors from Clemson University and 25 years’ experience with the U. S. Department of Agriculture to include awards for her management, all of which enable her to talk the talk of Carolina Slade, the protagonist in most of her novels. Her love of writing, however, carried her up the ranks to the ability to retire young, and she left USDA to pen her stories and freelance.
ABOUT THE BOOK - LOW COUNTRY BRIBE
A bribery case gone wrong leads a woman into the deep, dank Carolina Lowcountry on a manhunt. Carolina Slade, a by-the-book federal county manager in the coastal Lowcountry of South Carolina, reports an attempted bribe only to find herself a key player in a sting operation run by Resident Agent-In-Charge Wayne Largo from the Feds' IG Office in Atlanta. However, the IG isn't telling Slade everything about this case or the disappearance-presumed-murder of Slade's boss the year before. When the sting blows up, both cases are put on hold and Wayne is yanked back to Atlanta, leaving Slade to fear not only for her life and job, but for her childrens' safety. Suddenly, operating by the book is no longer an option.
ABOUT JANE ISENBERG
Jane’s professional writing career began in 1994 with the publication of the award-winning Going by the Book, a memoir about teaching high school English in New Haven Connecticut in the Sixties. In 1999 she gave readers The “M” Word, the first mystery in the Bel Barrett Mystery Series which chronicles the sleuthing of a menopausal community college English prof. Her award-winning historical mystery, The Bones and the Book, published in 2012, is set in Seattle’s Jewish community during the Gold Rush and in 1965. In Jane’s newest book, Murder in the MeltingPot, published in 2018, a young woman explores life, love, and death in Central Washington’s compelling Yakima Valley.
ABOUT "MURDER IN THE MELTING POT"
Tormented by her troubled past, Miranda Breitner retreats to Central Washington’s fertile and culturally diverse Yakima Valley where she hopes to start over by opening a B&B. When an Orthodox Jew sent from NYC to kosher juice grapes is murdered nearby and the local police can’t discover the killer, tourists stop coming and their fear threatens to ruin her business. Motivated by a deathbed promise and a growing determination not to be victimized again, Miranda risks her life to unmask the murderer and keep her promise.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Tim Applegate is the author of three poetry collections--At the End of Day (Traprock Books), Drydock (Blue Cubicle Press), and Blueprints (Turnstone Books of Oregon)--as well as the novels Fever Tree (Amberjack Publishing) and Flamingo Lane (Amberjack Publishing, forthcoming). ?Tim Applegate was born in Ft. Benning, Georgia and grew up in Terre Haute, Indiana. In 1978 he obtained a B.A. in journalism and literature from Indiana University.
ABOUT THE BOOK
Chance is a hitman with hippie roots and deep emotional wounds, disillusioned by life and stung by love?and his next target is the woman who rejected him. But taking on such a job is not without complications. As he closes in on his victim, Chance struggles to rediscover the competitive edge that normally makes him so deadly.
Faye Lindstrom escaped a life of captivity and addiction in Quintana Roo, but she can’t flee the woman she has become. For now, she holes up in a house in Crooked River owned by an old friend, the reclusive novelist William Dieter. But that safe haven will only last until the end of the summer, assuming that the violence in her past doesn’t catch up to her first.
I am a military brat—and I say that with great pride. My sisters and I went traipsing all over the world with my father and mother; he, a United States Army colonel; she, the general in charge of our family.
Because we were brats, we grew up in the eye of the storm… We lived in Yokohama, Japan, just a few years after Japan surrendered and World War II ended. We were in the crowd the day the Emperor of Japan came out in public for the first time ever to show himself to the Japanese people. Before that, the Japanese had thought of their emperor as a god, not a mere human. Those were the days when raising brats was often a shared responsibility between parents and a local nanny. So I answered to General Mom and my Japanese nanny, Kasikosan. To my family, I spoke English; to my nanny, I spoke Japanese. Our first brat adventures, at least that I remember, took place in post-war Japan.
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Sky Marshal and former Army Ranger, Sam Savage has just been handed his most dangerous assignment yet, and it has nothing to do with keeping a plane full of innocent people safe while cruising the friendly skies at 35,000 ft. This time, the sky marshal is on the trail of a New Viet Cong terrorist bent on wreaking havoc on a hotel full of American and Chinese business people. Channy Linn is a new breed Viet Cong in that he’s not just leading a band of militant irregulars who are defending their home turf. They are instead, a band of terrorists, a la Al Qaeda, bent on the violent destruction of anyone or anything that doesn’t follow their twisted ideology.
Along with his field asset, the beautiful but lethal Cindy, Sam will go on the hunt for Channy beginning in Bangkok, Thailand, making their way through Cambodia and finally into the jungles of Vietnam, where Sam will face one of the most terrifying ordeals of his life—being trapped inside the narrow, underground tunnels of Cu Chi.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Zandri's list of domestic publishers include Delacorte, Dell, Down & Out Books, Thomas & Mercer, and Polis Books. An MFA in Writing graduate of Vermont College, Zandri's work is translated in the Dutch, Russian, French, Italian, and Japanese. Recently, Zandri was the subject of a major feature by the New York Times. He has also made appearances on Bloomberg TV and FOX news. In December 2014, Suspense Magazine named Zandri's, THE SHROUD KEY, as one of the "Best Books of 2014." Recently, Suspense Magazine selected WHEN SHADOWS COME as one of the "Best Books of 2016". A freelance photo-journalist and the author of the popular "lit blog," The Vincent Zandri Vox. For more go to WWW.VINCENTZANDRI.COM
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Karen Ingalls is a retired RN, blogger, and author of three books. Her first book is an award-winning non-fiction about ovarian cancer and how to cope with this too often terminal disease. Novy’s Son is a novel based on her father’s journey making life-changing choices in the hopes that his father would be proud of him. Her third book is a historical fiction which won two awards for the story about the love affair between Augustus Saint-Gaudens, America’s premier sculptor and his model. It is based on fact. She is currently working on another novel which she hopes to have published in early 2019.
ABOUT THE BOOK
Outshine: An Ovarian Cancer Memoir. The word cancer creates fear in everyone yet it does not need to control one’s life. When I was diagnosed with ovarian cancer, I realized how little I knew about it even though I was a nurse. As I began to educate myself I felt overwhelmed by the prevalent negativity of cancer. Rather than let cancer control my life, I focused on the blessings of life, rejoicing in each day, and finding peace in spirituality. I believe that the beauty of the soul, the real me and the real you, outshines the effects of cancer, surgery, chemotherapy, and radiation. Disease is not an absolute, but a challenge to recover.
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Mark Zaslove, author of DEATH AND TAXES, is a writer/director/producer of both live-action and animated movies and television. He creates content for all major studios, including Disney, Universal, Paramount, and Warner Bros. A two-time Emmy Award winner for writing/producing, and a recipient of the Humanities Prize (for writing about uplifting human values in television and movies), he also writes short fiction and has served as a senior editor on various magazines. A graduate of the University of California, Berkeley, he lives with his teenage son in Los Angeles.
ABOUT THE BOOK
Mix one badass IRS agent with a gang of murderous Mongolian drug traffickers. Add an assortment of quirky but lovable characters, and you’ve got the makings of a gripping thriller, aptly titled DEATH AND TAXES (Aperient Press; June 2018) by Emmy Award-winning writer Mark Zaslove. This riveting debut novel features Mark Douglas, an ex-Marine turned IRS agent, who, along with auditing the weird and the profane, also spearheads weekend raids with his gang of government-sanctioned revenuers, merrily gathering back taxes in the form of cash, money order, or more often than not, the debtor’s most prized possessions.
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Verlin Darrow is a psychotherapist who was patted on the head by Einstein, nearly blown up by Mt. St. Helens, survived the 1985 8.0 Mexico City earthquake, and, so far, has successfully weathered numerous internal disasters. He lives with his psychotherapist wife in Northern California. They diagnose each other as necessary.
ABOUT THE BOOK
Blood and Wisdom puts a fresh twist on the classic PI novel. Protagonist Karl Gatlin, a psychological-minded PI, finds himself in unusual—and dangerous—circumstances when he falls in love with a spiritual-minded client. When Karl takes on Aria Piper’s case, it was no more than a threat—phone calls warning Aria to either “stop doing Satan’s work” or meet an untimely demise. But then a headless John Doe bobs up in the wishing well at Aria’s New Age spiritual center near Santa Cruz—and it’s abundantly clear that what Karl thought was a fairly innocuous case is anything but.
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ABOUT BIOMASS REWIND
For fans of Ben Bova, Robert Silverberg, and Greg Bear, BIOMASS REWIND follows a group of “made” humans manufactured and trained by a sapient ship to colonize a new Earth-like planet. Once on the surface, the squad must evade gruesome death at the claws, leaves and wings of the hostile native wildlife--if they don't end up killing each other first. But when they find evidence that they aren't the first humans to walk the planet, their mission becomes suspect. If this is not their first visit to “Beauty”, then what is their ship's motive, and how could they survive what other versions of themselves could not?
Asking the big questions plaguing our society today and always, BIOMASS REWIND is a thrilling deep-space ride that stays with you long after you've finished reading.
ABOUT SCIFI AUTHOR TERRY PERSUN
Terry Persun's books have taken readers to the uncharted worlds near the edge of the galaxy in "Hear No Evil", to lands where shape shifters battle humans in the "Doublesight" series, to the near future in both technology in "The Killing Machine" and "Revision 7:DNA", and shamanism in "The NSA Files" and "The Voodoo Case". All stories keep pace with thriller novels. He's also writes historical fictiton, contemporary crime, and mainstream novels.
Persun lives in Washington state with his wife, seven horses, dozen or so chickens (at any one time), and several cats (a few strays). There's no telling what animals will come to live with them next. When he's not writing or with the animals...well, you probably won't see him--except here: www.TerryPersun.com
A STEEP PRICE, Book Six of the Tracy Crosswhite Mystery series
Called in to consult after a young woman disappears, Tracy Crosswhite has the uneasy
feeling that this is no ordinary missing-persons case. When the body turns up in
an abandoned well, Tracy's suspicions are confirmed. Estranged from her family,
the victim had balked at an arranged marriage and had planned to attend graduate
school. But someone cut her dreams short.
Solving the mystery behind the murder isn't Tracy's only challenge. The detective
is keeping a secret of her own: she's pregnant. And now her biggest fear seems to
be coming true when a new detective arrives to replace her. Meanwhile, Tracy's colleague
Vic Fazzio is about to take a fall after his investigation into the murder of a
local community activist turns violent and leaves an invaluable witness dead.
Two careers are on the line. And when more deadly secrets emerge, jobs might not
be the only things at risk.
ABOUT ROBERT DUGONI is the critically acclaimed New York Times, #1 Wall Street Journal and #1 Amazon Best Selling Author of The Tracy Crosswhite series, My Sister’s Grave, Her Final Breath, In the Clearing, and The Trapped Girl. The Crosswhite Series has sold more than 2,000,000 books and My Sister’s Grave has been option for television series development. He is also the author of the best-selling David Sloane series, The Jury Master, Wrongful Death, Bodily Harm Murder One and The Conviction, and the stand-alone novels The 7th Canon, a 2017 finalist for the Mystery Writers of America Edgar Award for best novel, The Cyanide Canary, A Washington Post Best Book of the Year, and several short stories. He is the recipient of the Nancy Pearl Award for Fiction, and the Friends of Mystery, Spotted Owl Award for the best novel in the Pacific Northwest.
ABOUT DEBORAH SANTANA
Deborah Santana is the editor of All the Women in My Family Sing. She is an author, business manager, and activist for peace and social justice. Her non-profit, Do A Little, serves women and girls in the areas of health, education, and happiness. With a passion to provide educational opportunities for girls and women, Ms. Santana collaborates with organizations that work to prevent and heal relationship and sexual violence, improve the lives of America's abused and neglected children, and a worldwide community of artists and allies who work for empowerment, opportunity, and visibility for women artists.
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ALL THE WOMEN IN MY FAMILY SING is monumental and timely as human rights and justice are being challenged around the world. It is a watershed title that is both written and published entirely by women of color, including the editing, book cover design, and promotions. Our vision is to empower underrepresented voices and to impact the world of book publishing in America — particularly important in an industry that considerably lacks diversity. Since the Women’s March in January 2017, there has been a growing sense of solidarity among women who refuse to be silenced. What began as a protest of women from every racial and socioeconomic background has evolved into a social and political movement. The last several months have proven that women’s voices really do matter and can make a difference. Read more at the AllTheWomenInMyFamilySing blog.
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Biography
Stephen Murray was born in England and raised in different countries throughout Southern Africa. Upon completion of his education, he returned to England before moving to California in 1976. He has traveled extensively throughout the world. Apart from traveling and writing, he enjoys theatre, concerts, music, reading and current affairs. The Chapel of Eternal Love and the sequel, Return to the Chapel of Eternal Love, are his first published works of fiction. Stephen has recently published a murder mystery, Murder Aboard the Queen Elizabeth II. He makes his home in Las Vegas where he has lived since May 2003.
Synopsis
Known for its lavish hotels and casinos, beautiful showgirls and sumptuous buffets, Las Vegas is home to an abundance of wedding chapels, earning the city the title as ‘the marriage capital of the world’. Follow Rosemary, the wedding organizer, and Buster, her dachshund with a nose for matrimony, as they guide you through the fictional stories of The Chapel of Eternal Love. Share the poignant, moving and occasionally humorous tales of the young and old, first-time sweethearts and long-lost loves. Discover the joys, sorrows and journeys that led each of them to The Chapelof Eternal Love.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR, MARGARET MIZUSHIMA
Margaret Mizushima is the author of the critically acclaimed Timber Creek K-9 Mysteries. Her books have garnered a Reader’s Favorite gold medal and have been listed as finalists in the RT Reviewers’ Choice Awards, the Colorado Book Awards, and the International Book Awards. Margaret serves on the board for the Rocky Mountain chapter of Mystery Writers of America, and she lives in Colorado where she assists her husband with their veterinary practice and Angus cattle herd. She can be found on Facebook/AuthorMargaretMizushima, on Twitter @margmizu, on Instagram at margmizu, and on her website at www.margaretmizushima.com.
BURNING RIDGE
Colorado’s Redstone Ridge is a place of extraordinary beauty, but this rugged mountain wilderness harbors a horrifying secret. When a charred body is discovered in a shallow grave, officer Mattie Cobb and her K-9 partner Robo are called in to spearhead the investigation. But this is no ordinary crime—and they soon become the targets of a ruthless killer.
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ABOUT THE BOOK
Set in Chicago, between early 1900 and the 1940's, Whisper in the Blood is a novel during that period when Irish and Italians were especially biased toward each other. Vito Savio, a poor Sicilian immigrant, is struggling to provide for his family when one of his sons gets entangled with "The Outfit", and Vito is thrown back into a life left in the old country.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
s. h. montgomery grew up in a small town in the Texas Panhandle, but lived 30 years in Chicago before relocating to Las Vegas, Nevada in 2003. She has two children, a sister who lives in Glasgow, Scotland, and a niece living in Barcelona, Spain. A former assistant/co-writer to a screenwriter, s. h. montgomery majored in journalism at Texas Tech University, took creative writing at Northwestern University and Columbia College in Chicago, and has written freelance travel features for weekly and daily newspapers.
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ABOUT THEASA TUOHY
Theasa Tuohy, novelist, journalist and playwright, has worked for five daily newspapers and the Associated Press. She has happily turned her life experience and reporting skills to fiction featuring female reporters. "Flying Jenny" is her second novel. Her debut novel, "The Five O'Clock Follies," about a female correspondent in the Vietnam War, was praised by Kirkus as "An engrossing portrait of a woman among men in wartime." As a playwright, Theasa co-authored the book, or libretto, of Scandalous: The Musical, an award-winning show about the life of D. H. Lawrence. She is currently working on a mystery series set in Paris. She is a graduate of the University of California at Berkeley, and lives in Manhattan.
ABOUT "FLYING JENNY"
Jenny Flynn defies the odds and convention. "You can't fly in a skirt," she snaps in response to a question from Laura Bailey, an equally brash young woman who is crashing through her own glass-ceiling reporting for a tabloid newspaper. In "Flying Jenny," the two continually clash as Laura chases the story cross-country following Jenny's barnstorming escapades.
A vivid and exciting portrait of an earlier time when airplanes were such a thing of wonder that crowds of spectators swarmed onto runways for a dangerous view of the exploits of the men − and women − pioneers of flight.
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ABOUT BRUCE HOLBERT
Bruce Holbert is a graduate of the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop. His work has appeared in The Iowa Review, Hotel America, The Antioch Review, Crab Creek Review, Other Voices, The Contemporary West and the New York Times. Holbert grew up in the Grand Coulee near the Columbia River. His family was among the and among the first settlers of the country. His first novel, Lonesome Animals was a top ten pick in 2012 for The Seattle Times; it was followed by The Hour of Lead in 2014 (both Counterpoint), which won the Washington State Book Award 2015 and was named by Kirkus Reviews as a top 100 pick for 2014. Holbert’s most recent novel, Whiskey is with MCD and Farrar Straus & Giroux.
ABOUT WHISKEY
Whiskey is the story of two brothers, their parents, and three wrecked marriages, a searching book about family life at its most distressed — about kinship, failure, enough liquor to get through it all, and ultimately a dark and hard-earned grace. With the gruff humor of Cormac McCarthy and a dash of the madcap irony of Charles Portis, and a strong, authentic literary voice all his own, Bruce Holbert once again traverses the harsh landscape of America’s northwestern border and finds a family unlike any you’ve met before.
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Spirit Catchers came from an story idea that involved Nazi zombie werewolves that was terrible. Randy Brown liked the heroine, Archeologist Gabrielle Graham and after many incarnations, Spirit Catchers came about.
He began The Archeologist and the High Mountain Bok Choy while he was working on the first edits of Spirit Catchers.
He is working on The Archeologist and the Wedding and hopes to have it out by the end of the year. As well as a collection of short stories he's compiling. He's always been an avid reader.
A lifelong writer, Randy Brown is a member of Coeur Du Bois chapter of RWA. His first book, The Archeologist and the Spirit Catchers was released October 2017. It is followed by; The Archeologist and the High Mountain Bok Choy, The Archeologist and the Telling and The Archeologist and the Wedding.
Quinn Kilbride, his twin sister Fiona, and Gabrielle Graham have six days to banish a curse that holds thirteen spirits captive before the California Parks Department starts developing a cave as a tourist attraction. While searching for answers, Quinn is given a clue that nearly kills him.
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ABOUT THE BOOKS
Drop of Wizard's Blood is Douglas Arvidson's latest novel. Book III in The Eye of the Stallion Series
A whispering: Dag-gar is dead.
The air is cold on his skin and there is the sound of wind howling across a desert and there is darkness; though his eyes are open, all is darkness. He tries to call out but there is no voice inside him; there is nothing inside him. He listens…
Brothers of the Fire Star
When the Japanese army invades the island of Guam at the outset of World War II, two boys of different races and from different cultures escape in a small sailboat. Now they must learn to live together and master the secrets of the ancient Pacific navigators if they are to survive
Brothers of the Fire Star has won four literary awards in Young Adult Fiction, Adventure Fiction, and Historical Fiction and is being used in school literature and reading programs.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Douglas Arvidson grew up on a farm in Massachusetts. After serving in the military, he completed a Master’s degree, worked as a journalist, and spent twenty-five years overseas where his short stories and essays were published in literary magazines. In 1997 he won an international short story competition in Paris and later four novels were published by Crossquarter Publishing Group of Sante Fe, winning multiple literary awards including top honors in the 2017 New Mexico-Arizona Book Awards and a 2013 Book-of-the-Year Finalist Award from ForeWord Reviews. He has twice been an International Literacy Association Visiting Author. He is now working on a multi-volume family saga set in New England.
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ABOUT C. HOPE CLARK
Possessed by a heart full of Southern, C. Hope Clark creates traditional mysteries with tough yet vulnerable female sleuths. Award-winning, both The Carolina Slade Mysteries and The Edisto Island Mysteries depict the intense and inspiring backwoods, rural, and Lowcountry South Carolina settings Hope loves so much.
ABOUT THE BOOK "LOW COUNTRY BRIBE"
The farmers aren't speaking in an idyllic small Southern town where blackmail and sex are hush-hush until they become murder. Forced to coach an investigation from the sidelines, Slade clandestinely struggles to solve a case fast going sideways. One wrong move and she may lose everything.
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ABOUT VINCENT ZANDRI
Returning guest and winner of the 2015 PWA Shamus Award and the 2015 ITW Thriller Award for Best Original Paperback Novel for MOONLIGHT WEEPS, Vincent Zandri is the NEW YORK TIMES, USA TODAY, and AMAZON KINDLE No.1 bestselling author of more than 25 novels including THE REMAINS, EVERYTHING BURNS, ORCHARD GROVE and THE CORRUPTIONS. Zandri's work has been translated into 5 languages. Suspense Magazine named, THE SHROUD KEY, as one of the Best Books of 2014 and selected WHEN SHADOWS COME as one of the Best Books of 2016. Vincent Zandri lives in Albany, New York.
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ABOUT THE CHASE BAKER TRILOGY
Book 1: Chase Baker and the Lincoln Curse - Renaissance man and adventurer, Chase Baker, goes in search of a cursed dress stained with Abraham Lincoln's blood from the woman who wore it in the Presidential Box at Ford's Theater on the night he was assassinated by John Wilkes Boothe on the heels of the Civil War.
Book 2: Chase Baker and the Da Vinci Divinity - The Da Vinci Code isn't the entire story. In this book, Chase attempts to uncover a legendary cave in the Northern Italian forest before a team of Russian and Iranian hardliners do. What's so important about the cave? It's the place where Leonardo Da Vinci received divine inspiration which enabled him to create other worldly inventions and works of art including the Mona Lisa.
Book 3: Chase Baker and the Seventh Seal - Chase travels to Israel to prevent Armageddon by uncovering the Seven Seals, or Bible Codices, that are said to rival the Dead Sea Scrolls in historical significance, but that also contain a direct connection not only to God, but to Satan. Is it the end of the world as we know it as the forces of good and evil prepare to do battle? Tune in to find out.
BIO
As a former professional pilot, Philip Donlay travels have taken him to over forty countries on five continents. He divides his time between Montana and the Pacific NW. He is the bestselling author of eight novels including his latest, Speed the Dawn.
BLURB
Flying over California, Dr. Lauren McKenna witnesses hundreds of fragmented meteors hurtle to the ground, creating huge fires in the parched landscape of Northern California. In Monterey, trapped by the flames, Donovan Nash has one last, desperate, chance at survival, as Lauren and the Pentagon execute a daring plan to stop the raging fire from reaching San Francisco. A forest fire big enough to burn everything from Big Sur to the Bay Area, it’s not that it can’t happen, it just hasn’t happened yet.
Powerful, unrelenting action drives Donlay’s eighth adventure novel. Few thriller fans will be able to resist the breakneck pace. - PW
Fast paced, spellbinding, and packed with exhilarating thrills and chills, Speed the Dawn is a well-written and electrifying novel. - NY Journal of Books
This is a story so energetic and realistically portrayed that smoke seems to drift from the book's pages. With whirlwind, high-tension action, Speed the Dawn is a quintessential disaster novel and a high-concept thriller. - Foreword Reviews
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2394: Mirrors of the Past Author: P. RoscoeLength: 290 pagesGenre: Fiction; Mystery; Thriller; RomanceAvailable format for review: Physical book; E-book code for download; PDF fileBook Blurb: “2394” opens with two survivors of a global disaster, Resha and Swallow, recounting the story of a world sent into two centuries of hibernation. This apocalyptic period was caused by an extreme classism that had allowed the elite of the world to use and abuse individuals by controlling and exploiting new technology. What then followed was a sequence of scientific misjudgments by those in control nearly driving the planet to the brink of destruction. Centuries later, the survivors awaken to discover a world different then how they left it and set out to uncover the truth behind their slumber. Resha is thrust into the role as leader of her clan and struggles desperately to avoid the mistakes of their world’s ancestors. As she searches for peace and answers, her connection with the younger Swallow grows. The two set out on a quest to examine their past, the planet and their feelings for each other. Available at Amazon, Barnes and Noble
Michelle Cox holds a B.A. in English literature from Mundelein College, Chicago, and is the author of the award-winning Henrietta and Inspector Howard series, as well as the weekly “Novel Notes of Local Lore,” a blog dedicated to Chicago’s forgotten residents. Cox lives in the Chicago suburbs with her husband and three children and is currently hard at work on the fifth book of the series. In her vast free time, she sits on the Board of the prestigious Society of Midland Authors and is a reviewer for the New York Journal of Books.
"Cox’s eye for historical detail remains sharp… A pleasant, escapist diversion.”
—Kirkus Reviews
"The mix of sleuthing and aristocratic life pairs well with Rhys Bowen’s Royal Spyness series.” —Booklist
"A Promise Given is a well-told story which had me immersed and wanting more. Well done!” — Windy City Reviews
"Fans of Henrietta and Inspector Howard will delight in Michelle Cox’s latest novel. Romantic and atmospheric, A Promise Given offers an intriguing glimpse into 1930s Chicago, by weaving in authentic period details and exploring the social tensions of the day. The unlikely pairing of the Howards—two characters from very different worlds—provides a tender love story."
—Susanna Calkins, award-winning author of the Lucy Campion Historical Mysteries
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ABOUT AUTHOR ROBERT REDICK
Robert Redick is the author of the new epic fantasy and (anti-war) war novel, Master Assassins; as well as the critically-acclaimed series The Chathrand Voyage Quartet. His books have been praised by Patrick Rothfuss, Mark Lawrence, Terry Brooks, the LA Times and innumerable fantasy and science fiction publications, and has been nominated for several major awards. He has lived in Indonesia (where he wrote Master Assassins), Colombia, Argentina and Europe, and now makes his home in Western Massachusetts.
ABOUT NOVEL "MASTER ASSASSINS"
Praised by Patrick Rothfuss when he said, “I love so much I wish I could have written it,” Master Assassins is an epic fantasy about war, family, racism, fanaticism and the nature of genius. It follows Kandri and Mektu, brothers drafted into a horrific religious war and rivals since childhood, who stumble into mortal conflict with their own people’s lunatic queen/Messiah, and hence into a battle for the soul of their desert continent.
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Debra Dean is the bestselling author of four critically acclaimed books that have been published in twenty-one languages. Her debut, The Madonnas of Leningrad, was a New York Times Editors’ Choice novel, a #1 Booksense Pick, a Booklist Top Ten Novel, and an American Library Association Notable Book of the Year. It was long listed for the IMPAC International Dublin Literary Award. Confessions of a Falling Woman, a collection of short fiction, won the Paterson Fiction Prize and a Florida Book Award.
Debra was born and raised in Seattle, Washington. The daughter of a builder and homemaker and artist, she was a bookworm who never imagined becoming a writer. “
ABOUT HIDDEN TAPESTRY
Hidden Tapestry reveals the unforgettable story of Flemish American artist Jan Yoors—childhood vagabond, wartime Resistance fighter, and polyamorous New York bohemian. At the peak of his fame in the 1970s, Yoors’s photographs and vast tapestries inspired a dedicated following in his adopted Manhattan and earned him international acclaim. Though his intimate friends guessed the rough outline of his colorful life, Hidden Tapestry is first to detail his astonishing secrets.
At twelve, Jan’s life took an extraordinary and unexpected turn when, he wandered off with a group of Roma and continued to live on-and-off with them and with his own family for several years. As an adult in German-occupied France, Yoors joined the Resistance and persuaded his adoptive Roma family to fight alongside him. Defying repeated arrests and torture by the Gestapo, he worked first as a saboteur and later escorted Allied soldiers trapped behind German lines across the Pyrenees to freedom.
Told in arresting detail by Debra Dean, Yoors’s story is a luminous and inspiring account of resilience, and love.
Listen in to hear the first chapter of THE MOON SPYER, a story about a mother, her daughters, MacKenzie and Tessa, and what happens to their family when one of the girls dies in a freak accident.
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ABOUT ECHO MOON
A past life, a past war, and a past love. Peter St John can’t foresee a future until he confronts his past sins.
When photojournalist Peter St John returns home after a two-year absence, the life he’s been running from catches up. For years his mother’s presence, coupled with Pete’s own psychic gift, has triggered visits to 1917. There, he relives battles of the Great War, captures the heyday of Coney Island on canvas, and falls in love with an enchanting and enigmatic songstress named Esme. Present-day Pete still pines for Esme, and his love endures… but so does his vivid memory of killing her.
Determined to finally confront his former life, Pete is dismayed to discover family heirlooms which serve as proof of his crimes. He also meets a young woman with a curious connection to his family, who is more than what she seems. As century-old secrets unravel, can Pete reconcile a murder from his past before it destroys his future?
ABOUT LAURA SPINELLA
Not all my novels are about ghosts, though I seem to have a good relationship with the ethereal world. Unstrung offered a change of pace for me and readers. The mainstream women’s fiction novel met with solid critical acclaim, including a starred review from Publishers Weekly, as well as being named to PW’s seasonal list of most anticipated and notable titles. I hope readers are as taken with quirky and capricious Olivia Klein as I was; I had the most marvelous time writing about her.
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ABOUT MATT HEBERT
Author Matt Hebert works as an engineer in Omaha, Nebraska. At 30 years old, his efforts in writing now span 25 years, with many of his childhood stories culminating into the Surface Series Trilogy, Matt’s first self-published works. When not writing, Matt enjoys spending time with his wife Gaby, and working on their 102-year-old home.
ABOUT BEYOND THE SURFACE
Beyond the Surface is the final installment in the Surface Series and will be released on Valentine’s Day, 2018, just in time for Kansas City’s Planet Comicon. The book will conclude the tale of heroes Sembado and Kaluna as they continue to try and make sense of an ever changing landscape.
Their impossible journey began beneath the Pacific Ocean's surface. Their harrowing escapade breaking the surface was just half the battle. Now, Sembado and Kaluna will face their greatest challenge yet as they venture beyond the surface. Who are these strangers who call themselves the Stewards? Are they truly friend or foe? Have Sembado and Kaluna finally escaped the thresholds of evil and found paradise or does tyranny have a new name and face? These questions will be answered in the epic conclusion to the Surface Series.
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ABOUT AUTHOR CLIFF PROTZMAN AND HIS LATEST NOVEL "DEAD AIR"
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BIO
Cliff was born and raised in Pittsburgh. PA and attended the University of Pittsburgh, majoring in Business Administration. After a long career in banking and finance, he rekindled his passion for writing acquired as a reporter for his school newspaper.
ABOUT THE BOOK
Dead Air signals trouble at the radio station. Glenn Beckert discovers his high school best friend is shot in the head while on the air. Beck, the owner of Blue Water Security, is employed to provide security for the station.
He becomes willingly embroiled in the investigation by the not-so-innocent widow. The list of potential suspects is long, gleaned from the numerous extramarital affairs of the victim and widow. The pending sale of the radio station has created friction between his now dead friend, Richie Zito and the major stockholders. Motives for murder becomes increasingly murky after the search reveals an encrypted file on Zito's laptop.
His friend's past dark secrets force Beck to face his own past. His client’s startling revelation forces Beck to deal with his inner convictions. Betraying confidences could expose the killer. Either way his life is in jeopardy.