Writing to Get Published by Vanessa O'Loughlin @inkwellHQ

Writing to Get Published: Bringing the Dream Alive (Second Edition)

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B004LB54XC

Revised and updated!

Essential tips on writing and getting your book published from The Inkwell Group's Vanessa Fox O’Loughlin, bringing together the very best from Inkwell Writers’ Workshops and the bestselling authors who facilitate them, as well as Vanessa's own years of experience as a literary scout.

Covering essential fiction writing tips and technique in Part 1, this accessible book provides practical advice on improving your fiction and preparing it for publication. Covering starting to write, plotting and planning, and character development as well as tips for writing winning short fiction 'Writing to Get Published' is vital reading for fiction writers who want to turn their work into the reality of print.

In Part 2 find out how to build an author profile to sell yourself, as well as your book, to editors and agents; find out how to ensure that your book is ready to submit, and get tips on writing that great covering letter. Vanessa explains the exciting options available to today's writers in a business that is in the midst of change.

The Inkwell Group is Ireland's largest and most successful Publishing Consultancy and has assisted authors to publication with Big Six publishing houses as well as independent and digital publishers in Ireland and abroad.With experience and insight from The Inkwell Group's founder and director Vanessa Fox O’Loughlin, 'Writing to Get Published: Bringing the Dream Alive' is an essential resource designed to help you get your book published.

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Deviations by Mike Markel @mikemarkel

Deviations (Detectives Seagate and Miner Mystery series)


Former police detective Karen Seagate is drinking herself to oblivion and having casual sex with losers from the bar when the new police chief tracks her down. It seems there were problems with her departure. A high profile murder gives Karen a chance to work as a detective again... but the new chief is one for the rules and Karen has too many deviations from official protocol. These deviations may get her fired. They may also get her killed. But she's determined they'll also help her find the killer.

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FlagShip Science Fiction and Fantasy Magazine

FlagShip Science Fiction and Fantasy - September 2010

FlagShip is an online-only SF/Fantasy short story magazine inviting you to launch into imagination. There are seven stories in this issue, including -
Too Damn Cold, by James Hartley - when a planet almost too hot to handle goes through a cold snap, what are the colonists to do?
Bringers of the Dead, by Doug Souza - the AI in his head drove him to kill, and together they were good at it. It was only a matter of time until they drew attention...
Face in the Abyss, by Charles Kyffhausen - Morgan LeFey's armies were so close - so very close to finally taking over the world. All she has to do is convince the champion of her enemies to change sides. What could possibly go wrong?
House of Shells, by Megan Arkenburg - She was the Royal Witchfinder, bound by oath to root out rogue wizards and bonewitches. But when she catches one bonewitch too man, her past may suddenly catch up with her.
The Paired Curse, by Billy Wong - Bors was... bored. The frontier fort was a fine place to train his troops, but too peaceful. The appearance of a noblewoman asking for training didn't seem like the kind of change he'd been looking for...
Mr. Silky Strikes Back by Alice Kemp - Her uncle was a smuggler of exotic pets. But when he started running a scam with a teleporting pet, he'd bitten off more than he could chew...
A Cowboy from King Arthur's Court - by Dave Cushing - the lone farmer welcomed the stranger in, but he had no idea how close to home the stranger's tales would come...

FlagShip Science Fiction and Fantasy - November 2010

FlagShip Issue 3 invites you to Launch into Imagination!
ggg.earth.gxy - When popup ads appear over the President's desk during a live press conference, can he make a deal with the aliens, or will he be biting off more than he can chew?
Ghost Deli - When the owner of a grocery chain dies, his more business-minded subordinates start making changes. Little do they know he left a piece of himself behind.
Atlantean Treasure - It was a beautiful necklace the old lady gave her, but when dreams of long ago and far away start invading her life, will she be able to bear its weight?
Worse Than the Disease - The zombie apocalypse was bad enough, but these survivors had the bad luck to stumble into the lair of the Last Human. Does he have a cure for zombies? And will it win the war for humans... or lose it?
Revival - A telepathic spaceman awakens from a too-long cryosleep to discover that most of the crewmen aboard the rescue ship are holographic projections. Now he has to deal with brains in jars, alien thoughts, and a too-real threat from an unlikely source.
Christmas Spirits - This private detective was all too used to handling odd cases. What other kind would you take to a dragon? But when a run-down theater suddenly develops a taste for murder, can Vern and Sister Grace crack the case before the Ghost of Christmas Future appears and does their client in for good?

FlagShip Science Fiction and Fantasy Magazine - July 2010
FlagShip is an online-only SF/Fantasy short story magazine inviting you to launch into imagination. There are six stories in this issue including -
The Pirate, by H. E. Roulo - The namegivers prophesied that he would be a pirate. But he lived on a world with no crime, and no open bodies of water...
Affinity, by Mary Merrell - The crows followed him wherever he went. But when a neighbor starts to notice, Talon's life is about to change...
Ruby's Child, by Philip Carroll - A dwarf maiden finds herself orphaned, alone, and with child when she returns to her ancestral home. Can the dwarves overcome their prejudice? Set in P.G. Holyfield's word of Caern, by his permission...
Inciting Incident, by Blake M. Petit - He was studying the superheroes to understand how their powers worked. At least, that's what he told them...
Apprentice, by Mike Plested - Charlie was apprenticed to the wizard, and thought he'd learn magic, but when all he learns is cleaning and cooking. When his complaints threaten to get him kicked out, what can he do to convince his master to let him stay?
AND
Snake Skin, by Brand Gamblin - author of Tumbler. Todd and Simon had worked together to develop the bionic "skins" that enhanced people's reflexes, strength, and speed. But when they reach the limits of human potential, how do they bring out the true potential of the 'skins? And what does it mean for humanity?

FlagShip Science Fiction and Fantasy - Jan 2012
FlagShip is shifting to shorter, leaner issues, and moving to a monthly schedule. That means that in 2012, expect to see a lot of FlagShip and Flying Island Press!

In This Issue:

Finding the Way Forward - The Editor talks about some new directions for the year, including the shift to monthly issues.

The Dame Wore White - She was a long, cool woman in a white dress, and nothing but trouble, but Mackleroy didn't care. He needed something to bring the spark back to his life.

Mercy - He was a man in a woman's world, hired to guide the Mender out to defeat the evil that had killed an entire town. What they found was mercy... of a sort.

Evolution: A Love Story. Shingling the house with old, useless CDs had seemed a good idea at the time. He really didn't mean for it to be a signal for alien spacecraft... and he certainly didn't think it was a marriage proposal!

View from the Poop Deck - Welcome to the End of the World. It's 2012! Finally! (In more than one sense of the word.)

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Twitter: @FlyingIslandPre

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Progeny by Shawn Hopkins @shawnahopkins

Progeny

It has been months since John Carter's estranged brother, Henry, has gone missing. When last heard from, he was sailing off to Bermuda in search of an author whose books deal with the esoteric traditions of past ages.

Reluctantly, John joins Henry's old Special Forces Teammates on a trip to Bermuda, hoping to discover the truth behind Henry's disappearance. But not all is as it seems in Bermuda, and the puzzle that awaits John on the small island paradise will prove to be more sinister than anything the world has seen in a very, very long time.

As the fingers of an ancient evil seek to draw him into another world - a world where all of Hell is trying to break loose - John must confront the truth of his own past... and pray that he might survive its revelation...

...that the WORLD might survive its revelation.

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Dark Horseman by Charisse Howard @CharHow

Dark Horseman: a historical romance

When Victoria “Tory” Allen learns her beloved Belmont has gone up in flames, she jumps on a horse and races home to her injured grandfather. Grandall's niece Sally frets: How will such a headstrong belle make any Virginia gentleman a proper wife? Among the young gentlemen who'd like to find out is Sally’s handsome son, Charles, a Charlottesville lawyer.

Grandall shocks his whole household by hiring a gruff, bearded stranger called Ned Finn to run Belmont until he recovers. Tory resents the intrusion, although she can't help admiring Finn’s skill with horses. Charles questions the newcomer's growing influence over the ailing old man. All soon realize that the mysterious Mr. Finn is not what he seems. New discoveries, and some clues from Shakespeare, throw Belmont’s social order into chaos. Tory faces a desperate choice: can she save her beleaguered home, or will this "battle of stallions" destroy it?

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A Summons To Perdition by John L. Work @WORK949

A Summons To Perdition (The Detective J.D. Welch Novels)

J.D. WELCH comes back for one last curtain call in this suspense-filled final novel in the series.

Our retired detective receives a phone call from prominent defense investigator Mike Woleski, who has a rather urgent request. He wants to hire the former cop to locate PATTY CURTIS, Woleski’s missing college freshman granddaughter.

Patty has disappeared with her Egyptian lover, HAMID KHAZEMI. He is one of a seven-member terrorist cell that’s been dispatched on a jihad mission which will kill hundreds of Americans.

Patty’s mother, MARY, is a rising star in Colorado politics and doesn’t want the police involved in the search for her daughter.

Welch enlists the help of retired detective JOE BRYERSON, a close friend. Using a clue provided by Patty's college roommate, the two retired cops set out across the country to find the missing girl.

A foreign-born conspiracy based on archaic historically accurate mandates from the founder of Islam, another unthinkable act of large-scale terrorism inside the U.S.A., murder, and some solid investigative work by two aging retired American cops all combine to make this novel a memorable thriller.

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The Necro Device by M.T. Dismuke

The Necro Device

John and Mary Hilt are hired to restore the Mandiev mansion isolated between four surrounding towns. In the past, the Mandiev brothers had a fatal accident which killed hundreds of local citizens. The event marks the beginning of a deadly device that will control its creator and affect the community for years to come. Mary Hilt will unlock the madness that spawned from its awakening. The Necro Device is a mind-melting, suspense thriller loaded with secrets, twists, and a diabolical plot.

A betrayal, a machine, a darker intent...

It has a purpose.

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Orion Rising by C.A. Masterson @CateMasters

Orion Rising

To the Byrne children, constellations were more than stick figures in the night sky. At their father’s telling, their myths became tales of adventure and romance for Percy, Allie, Mary and Aurie, whose names seem to imbue celestial royalty upon them. When the Orion River floods in 1965, the Byrne children are drawn to it like sailors to a siren’s call. After Aurie disappears in the river, their names seem more like a curse. Though self-imposed, the curse follows them through three decades before each learns the key to breaking it – love, and forgiveness. But sometimes the hardest person to forgive is yourself.



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Produce, Publish, Publicize by Sabrina Sumsion @sabrinasumsion

Produce, Publish, Publicize

Now with updated eBook details, Produce, Publish, Publicize give writers the upper hand in the publishing process. Read to the end for a bonus section on how to arrange a free eBook promotion and maximize your results as well as read an excerpt from Sabrina's other writing projects.

Do you want to increase your book sales? Are you ready to publish a book? Have you published a book before but weren't really satisfied with the experience and want to find a new publisher? Are you confused by all the options available to you as a writer? Maybe you want to make a million dollars or maybe you only want to record something for posterity. Whatever you motivation for venturing into the literary world, let Sabrina Sumsion, a publishing insider, help you navigate the muddied waters of the literary world.

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Something to Live for by Natalie G. Owens @natalie_g_owens

Something to Live for (Moonlight Dating Series)

Fifteen years ago, one fateful day bound the lives of two perfect strangers...

Melita Saari-Quinn is living the consequences of a traumatizing psychic event that turned her adolescence upside down. Now, disillusioned with her job as a psychotherapist and desiring a change from her lackluster existence, she hopes that something out of her ordinary sphere of existence - something totally uninhibited and spontaneous - will renew her zest for life.

Alex Moncado seems to have it all - good looks, a successful business, and a fun life in "party central" of the Mediterranean: the island of Malta. Except for one day in the year when he can't help but remember a tragedy that never should have been. One day he'd rather forget, because if he doesn't, the guilt will consume him.

Can one passionate night together banish the ghosts of the past and give two lost souls a second chance?


Only Fate can tell...

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Sweet Dreams of a Child by Audrey Pryor

"Sweet Dreams" of a child - short bedtime stories

This book is written by an 80-year-old grandmother of six and great-grandmother of 10. The Internet is foreign to her but she never tires of pursuing new things. Her book was written from stories she shared with her two sons when they were young and later told to their children. You too will enjoy reading to your loved ones.
Learn about Billy, the curious fishing worm; Dolly, the little dear stuck in the mud; and Benny the loveable clown. These stories will be treasured by your children and kept as a favorite memory when they are adults.

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Interview with Morgan St. James @LVWritingExamin

The Digital Ink Spot interviewed Morgan St. James, a former interior designer, Morgan spent many years designing interiors for model homes, celebrities, restaurants and offices.

Her writing career was launched when Designer’s West Magazine approached Morgan and her partner during the time they owned an interior design studio in California and asked them to write an article. Morgan discovered she loved writing. The article was so well-received, she wrote many more published “how to” articles for designers. From there, she expanded her topics to diverse subjects.

Splitting time between homes in Los Angeles and Las Vegas, she is a member of Henderson Writers Group, Las Vegas Writers Group, Public Safety Writers Group, Sisters in Crime/LA, Greater Los Angeles Writers Society.

The Digital Ink Spot: You write stories under your name and with your sister as a co-writer. How do you two divide the work?

I write the Silver Sisters Mysteries series with my sister, Phyllice Bradner. I also write novels, short stories, columns and articles on my own as well as with other co-authors. When I work with my sister, we write long distance utilizing email and the telephone. She lives in Oregon and I split time between L.A. and Las Vegas. We generally meet in person at her home or mine when we plot a book and spend a week or so filled with figuring out who does what to whom combined with a good sister visit. By the end of the week, we have plot notes and a strong sister relationship. What we develop is sort of like an outline, but not exactly the same, but we know the story, twist we’d like to add and where it is going. Then, since I’m a quick writer, I create the draft chapters and send them to her as they are ready. She is a trained editor and massages each and every word, then sends it back to me. If it’s a “wrap,” it goes into the first draft. Otherwise we go through a round of early edits.

When the first draft is finished, we meet for another week or so, print copies of the manuscript and read it out loud to each other and do another edit. We then read it through one more time and it is generally ready for the publisher at that point.


The Digital Ink Spot: Did your mother write Can We Come In and Laugh, Too? herself or did you help her?

I encouraged my mother to write it when she was 80 years old over her protests that she was not a writer. In the beginning, I wanted to be sure we had a record of all of the wonderful stories we’d heard from the time we were kids. My oldest son transferred her handwritten pages to his Mac back in 1990, but I kept the handwritten copy. He also gave me a printout. Then to my dismay, somewhere along the line I lost both and when his Mac went to the computer heaven in the sky, the digitized copy was lost as well. I searched everywhere I could think of but the file was nowhere to be found.

Mom passed away in 2006 as she approached her 97th birthday. In 2010 the file miraculously appeared, tucked away in a place I’d searched years before. It was as though she was sending a signal that she was ready to share her stories. Part I was written by Rosetta and I edited it. At least 90% of that part was written by her. Then I curated the stories for Part II from my sister, my kids and cousins and edited Part II. The result was a book that has delighted all who downloaded it or purchased the paperback. It is her gift of laughter to readers.


The Digital Ink Spot: I've read that you use family and friends as inspiration for your characters. Do they read your stories and try and guess who you have incorporated in a story?

Some do, although many of the characters are composites. My mother’s family was quite zany, as evidenced in Can We Come In And Laugh, Too? so we had a treasure trove to draw from. Then, in a few cases, like some of the stories in my short story collection The MAFIA FUNERAL and Other Short Stories, the real character is used and named. In others, like Devil’s Dance and The Devil’s Due, a pair of romantic suspense books I wrote as Arliss Adams, the character of Jen is based upon someone whose real story I knew many years ago. What happened to her gave me the idea for the first book. The second book is pure fiction. The character of Vince DeLuca was based upon a man I was very close to who passed away at an early age. The Silver Sisters mother Flossie is a composite of our own mother Rosetta and her sister Edna with a little of the Sophia irreverence from the Golden Girls thrown in. Their great uncle Sterling is inspired by our Uncle Sol. And, of course, Goldie is based upon Phyllice who did live in Juneau, Alaska for many years, owned an antique shop at one point like Goldie, and has a “salt of the earth” loving, giving personality. Godiva is my alter ego, although I’m not as selfish as Godiva, but I admit to being manipulative. I don’t have an estate in Beverly Hills but did live two houses from the Beverly Hills city limit at one time, and don’t write an advice column but people always come to me for advice.

The Digital Ink Spot: How do you gather all those tip and tricks you share on your blog and newsletter?

I’m a natural researcher and networker. I also belong to many writers groups in both L.A. and Las Vegas, plus attending lots of conferences and workshops. I hear the things people agonize about, absorb information like a sponge and put a lot of that into my articles. I also say that I’ve learned many things in the “School of Hard Knocks.” Generally when you learn by your own mistakes and those mistakes have consequences, you don’t make the same ones again. However, there are always new ones lurking in the shadows. In addition to solid advice, I try to share what I’ve learned by also including personal anecdotes and examples in both my Writers’ Tricks of the Trade book and columns in the hope of helping other writers. As a last source, when I read another writer’s article that hits home, I’ll do additional research and then write something with the further information I’ve discovered and include my own spin.


The Digital Ink Spot: What can readers expect from you in the future?

Wow. That’s a good question. There is so much always in the works. The funny crime caper I co-authored with Meredith Holland, Who’s Got the Money?, will be released by Oak Tree Press in mid July. It is a clever plot to scam the federal government out of millions. When three employees, former female executives who took jobs with the prison system selling furniture manufactured in federal prisons, discover the nefarious plot, the trio literally goes undercover like bumbling Charlie’s Angels. Lots of twists and turns and many laughs while the plot unfolds. Then in September, my creative nonfiction book, “Confessions of a Cougar,” will be released by Marina Publishing Group. The title and cover are pretty much self explanatory, so I’ll let them stir imaginations. The fourth Silver Sisters book, “Diamonds in the Dumpster,” is currently in work and we’re hoping for a late 2013 release. As if that wasn’t enough, I’m also co-authoring a book with true crime author Dennis Griffin. The story is one that is shocking, amazing and inspiring. The person behind the story endured many of the things my character in Devil’s Dance did, but that’s just the tip of the iceberg. Her story intrigues me beyond imagination and will be intense. In addition, I’ll continue to write articles, give workshops, talks and participate in panels. Now all I have to do is figure out how to fill the two or three minutes that might be idle each day!

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Mmm...No1...Cookbook by Michael Madden @Tumbattle

Mmm...No1...Cookbook
U.K.: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Mmm-No1-Cookbook-ebook/dp/B00822CN30

My kitchen is full of cookery books. There are region specific ones, celebrity television chef ones, food specific ones, curry is a particular favourite, and even one that explains how to catch, kill, hang and cook a possum! Added to this are a number of recipe cards that have fallen out of magazines, extracts from newspapers and periodicals, and hand written recipes passed down through the generations. Many of the books have pages stuck together, particularly the messy Nigella ones, whilst many of the magazine pages are torn and faded.

Now, whilst the feel of a 300 page cookery book might initially fill me with excitement at the prospect of new ideas and new ingredients, it is not too long before I realise that, for everyday cooking, I am only ever going to use one or two, and even the one or two are generally adapted to the tastes of my own family as well as the convenience of the ingredients. So, I decided that I would put all of my favourite recipes in one place, on the Kindle, an item that is likely to be treated with a lot more care than a newspaper cutting. I know that there are no pictures to go with the dishes, but I already know what the finished meal should look like. Another advantage of Mmm.No1...Cookbook on Kindle is that it provides a handy method of taking a list of ingredients to the shops!

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The Lump That Ate Long Island by Jeff Hite @JAHite

The Lump That Ate Long Island (Leaving The Cradle)

Leaving the Cradle

In 2047 humans finally left the Earth. In 2059, when the First Martian Colony claims independence, they find that even the vast gulfs of space won't stop them making war on each other.

The Lump That ate Long Island

Crewman Marcia (Long Island) March is new to the Earth battle fleet, and already she is having trouble. The lump in her mattress is making it hard for her to sleep, but her bunk mates and the officers on the Petra all think she is crazy. When her OOD finds her in the head after lights out she realizes this is going to be a long voyage for her. It will be an even longer one for the crew of the Petra when they learn how dangerous that lump is to all of them.

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Blacktop Styx by Blackie Noir

Blacktop Styx

BLACKTOP STYX is a crime / thriller, hard and tightly woven as chain-mail. Blending the dark tones of early James Elroy, and Boston Teran; the open road atmosphere of James Crumley, and the hard edged dialogue of Elmore Leonard, BLACKTOP STYX provides a rewarding adventure for fans of the neo-noir crime genre.

Over twenty years ago James ‘Jimmy Gee’ Giardello watched a bloody and battered ‘Slash’ Johansson hobble down an alley and out of his life. That had been the upside, the downside being, Inga, the woman who had been the cause of the rift between the two men, had aided Slash in making his exit. Slash might have lost the battle, but Jimmy lost the lady.

As the years passed Jimmy came to realize, Inga hadn’t been much of lady, and her leaving hadn’t been much of a loss. If the phone call had come from Inga, Jimmy would have shined it. The fact that it had been Slash on the line was enough to make Jimmy listen. When his old nemesis spoke of unfinished business between them, Jimmy didn’t waste time. He was in his pickup and on his way.

Not much is left of the behemoth that Jimmy had rode, drank, and ultimately battled with. Ninety pounds have been stripped from his frame by the ‘monster’, AIDS. Even as an enfeebled husk, Slash still has the strength to pull a trigger. This he quickly demonstrates by shooting Sheila; the woman who infected him and shares his high-desert trailer, while Jimmy looks on.

Unflappable in the face of this violence, Jimmy doesn’t do as well when Slash informs him that, twenty-three years ago, Inga had given birth to a daughter, Jimmy’s daughter.

Slash’s last act, after giving Jimmy a picture of the girl and a letter from Inga, is to fire a final shot from his pistol, ending the dregs of his existence. While Slash’s tribulations have come to an end, Jimmy’s have just begun.

On opening Inga’s letter, the first thing Jimmy learned about his daughter was her name . . . . Peril. By the time he had read the message in its entirety, he came to realize just how appropriate a name it was. While Peril has made few friends in her short life, her enemies are legion.

BLACKTOP STYX follows Peril’s full-tilt flight for her life, as well as Jimmy’s intense quest to track Peril down, before her varied and vicious pack of pursuers can run her to ground.

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This is Life by Seth Harwood @sethharwood

This Is Life - a Jack Palms Novel (Jack Palms Crime)

Jack is back! In this bigger, better, and more bad-ass sequel to the grass-roots sensation Jack Wakes Up, former movie star Jack Palms returns to find San Francisco spiraling into chaos.

When a crooked cop is taken apart by a .50 caliber anti-tank gun and the SFPD rules it a suicide, Sergeant Mills Hopkins hires Jack to find the cop-killer—and who’s covering things up. Teaming with former NFL lineman Freeman Jones and sexy Federal Agent Jane Gannon, Jack discovers that Russian pimp and drug runner Alexi Akakievich is cleaning house. Across the city, beautiful young sex slaves are turning up dead—a public message to their politically connected owners that Akakievich no longer needs their business. Now he just wants their power.

Soon Jack finds himself dodging both .50 caliber shells and double-crosses as he struggles to determine how high the city’s corruption goes and how far he’ll descend into the violence and depravity of his new life to stop it.

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The Dog Days of Summer in Lottawatah by Evelyn David @evelyndavid

The Dog Days of Summer in Lottawatah (Brianna Sullivan Mysteries)

Psychic Brianna Sullivan is back in "The Dog Days of Summer in Lottawatah," Volume 2 of the Brianna Sullivan Mysteries.

Brianna, still in Lottawattah, Oklahoma, is now being pestered by the ghostly ex-girlfriend of main squeeze Detective Cooper Jackson. The apparition won't move away from Cooper and towards the light until Brianna figures out who killed her.

Volume 2 of the series, a novella, finds Brianna selling lake lots for a new resort, attending her boyfriend's high school class reunion where the guests aren't all of this world, and tracking down a killer (or two). "The Dog Days of Summer in Lottawatah" has a mystery to die for, characters you'll love, and sparkling dialogue that will make you laugh out loud. Who knew ghosts could have such a good sense of humor?

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Drowning Mermaids by Nadia Scrieva @NadiaScrieva

Drowning Mermaids (Sacred Breath Series)

Deep under Arctic waters lies an ice kingdom carved into a glacier. Those who dwell within it possess magnificent biological secrets. Due to the dangers of impending war, the Princess of Adlivun is forced to flee her undersea utopia and regroup with her sisters in Alaska.

Captain Trevain Murphy is a successful king crab fisherman who has spent his life building his empire above the sea, and knows nothing of the empire beneath it. When he meets a mysterious dancer whose father has recently died, he extends kindness towards her, unaware of her unique genetics and royal lineage.

Trevain's attraction to the enigmatic Aazuria Vellamo will involve him in dangerous designs that will forever change his life, and his perspective on himself and his world. He embarks on perilous journeys in which he will need to release all of his insecurities and inhibitions in order to survive.

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The Spirit Archer by Mike Evers

The Spirit Archer

Some secrets are meant to be shared; and a boy’s encounter with England’s most legendary archer will change his life forever.

In 1237, a man journeys to a priory in Yorkshire to seek refuge and treatment for battle wounds. He is betrayed and murdered. His final, dying act is to fire an arrow through a window, asking to be buried where it lands.

Nearly eight hundred years later, a schoolboy’s incredible discovery will lead to a friendship that will alter his life forever.

And he’ll hear some tales and secrets of England’s most legendary archer of all.

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Protector by Vanna Smythe @Vanna_Smythe

Protector (Anniversary of the Veil, Book 1)

Kiyarran just wanted to become a Protector of the Realm, a member of an elite order of fighters. Strange and powerful magical abilities awaken inside him once his wish comes true. The Priesthood that secretly controls the realm see his skill as a threat, and Kiyarran begins to learn that little about life as a Protector is what he thought it would be. To top it off, Kiyarran is falling in love with Princess Issiyanna, his friend of many years.

Issiyanna faces and arranged marriage, but she has been dreaming of another man, her one true love. Now her long gone mother is calling to her, promising she will return and take Issiyanna to meet the man from her dreams.

The world is split in half by a barrier called the Veil. A terrible sacrifice was made to put it in place and now, as the 1000th Anniversary of the Veil draws near, a second sacrifice is called for to keep it in place.

Both Kiyarran and Issiyanna are needed for the Anniversary. Even though they only just learned of the Veil and neither know the role they must play ...

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Can We Come In and Laugh, Too? by Rosetta Schwartz @LVWritingExamin

Can We Come In and Laugh, Too?

Born in 1909, Rosetta was the youngest of a family of ten children. They didn’t have much money, but the riches of their zany antics and laughter overflowed into the neighborhood. That love of laughter continued throughout her long life. One of her fondest childhood memories was when neighbors knocked at their door, saying, “Can we come in and laugh with you?”

Rosetta Schwartz (later Rosetta Shifrin and finally Rosetta Lachman) wrote this memoir in 1989 when she was 80 years old. Her daughter, author Morgan St. James, uncovered it and edited it in 2012, adding her own comments and those from some family members as Part II, along with a reprint of “Shopping For Dancing Shoes,” Morgan's short story about Rosetta that is the first story in "Chicken Soup for the Shopper’s Soul."

She was a shining light—an inspiration to all. Her smile never dimmed, as seen on the cover photo taken by her grandson Jason Pransky when Rosetta was 95 years old. She passed away in 2006, just before her 97th birthday. We invite you to come on in and laugh with her.

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The Mafia Funeral by Morgan St. James @LVWritingExamin

The MAFIA FUNERAL and Other Short Stories

This collection by Award-Winning author Morgan St. James includes mystery, humor, a bit of romance and more. Some of the stories are inspired by true events, others are pure fiction.

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Before the Crash by Jasmine Schwartz

BEFORE THE CRASH: A MELISSA MORRIS SHORT STORY (MELISSA MORRIS DETECTIVE SERIES)

Melissa Morris is a thirty-something single New Yorker who works in one of the trendiest boutiques in Manhattan. She has it all, until the night she discovers something dreadful and frightening and just plain weird. Her life will never be the same.

Before The Crash is a prequel short story to the Melissa Morris Crime Novels, Farbissen and Fakakt.

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Snow White Blood Red by Cameron Jace @cameronjace

Snow White Blood Red ( A Grimm Diaries Prequel #1 )

What if all you knew about fairy tales was wrong?

Book description of Snow White Blood Red: A Grimm Diaries Prequel as told by the Snow White Queen:

I have always wondered why you never asked about my name. Was I so superficial to you? So stereotypical and mundane? Why did you treat me as if I were just the monster of the week? You know what I think? You never had the time to really hate me. You wanted to hate me, long before you even met me. You wanted to scrape my existence and avenge your childhood princess by laying all blame on me. What if they didn’t call me the Evil Queen, what if I told you the real story from my point of view instead of hers, would you ever think of me as an angel? Could I ever make you care? I know that deep inside of you, you adore me,but you’re just scared, afraid to admit how much you love the Snow White Queen.

This Grimm Diaries Prequels are a number of short books in the form of epistolary diary entries. The diaries are more of teasers for the upcoming series: The Grimm Diaries, allowing you to get a glimpse of what to expect of the series.

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Sexy in Stilettos by Nana Malone @NanaMalone

Sexy in Stilettos

What’s worse than having to watch your sister marry your ex fiancé? How about when that fiancé fires you from the family business?

Hyper-organized, event planner, Jaya Trudeaux is used to doing things by the book and never making waves. It’s a strategy that’s served her well until she finds herself in failure alley with no fiancé, no job and her thirtieth birthday looming. Maybe it’s time to change her methods. Starting with an unlikely date to the wedding from hell.

The only thing that can tie carefree, playboy, Alec Danthers down is his formidable step mother. When she calls him home to help find his wayward brother, he never imagines an uptight, list making, sass-talking woman would make him think about putting down roots.

Can Jaya put the lists down long enough to enjoy the ride that is Alec? Will Alec stop running long enough to recognize true love?

Warning: Sexy, sass talking women will make you laugh, cry and want a pair of killer footwear.

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Reluctant Protector by Nana Malone @NanaMalone

Reluctant Protector (Protectors Series #1)

For five years, Cassie Reeser has been her brother’s personal lab rat. Peter’s experiments have made her a stronger, faster, better human. And she’s not the only one – he’s been experimenting on others as well. For five years, escape has eluded her. Until now. When she finds out he plans to sell her as a human weapon she knows it’s now or never. To make her escape she’ll sacrifice family bonds and leave behind the one person who’s ever helped her. Cassie’s learned to shrink from kindness and to never trust anyone. She knows the day Peter finally captures her will be the day she dies. To elude her brother and save the others, she’ll have to risk her body and her heart. What she doesn't expect is a chance at a normal life.

Seth Adams is used to sifting through lies to find the truth. As a former war correspondent he knows what evils lurk in the world. When he finds Cassie hiding out in his car trunk, her story sounds like a fantastical dream. But, before long, he witnesses firsthand what she’s talking about when they’re attacked by a group of Peter’s soldiers. As a result, he goes through his own transformation into a super human and realizes the extent of what Cassie is running from. Cassie might not think she needs his protection, but he’ll die before he lets her brother have her back.

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Sundered by Shannon Mayer @TheShannonMayer

Sundered (A Zombie-ish Apocalypse, Book 1)


Compared to "I am Legend",  Sundered will take you into the dark realms of an apocalypse, with a new breed of zombie that will have your heart pounding, your palms sweaty and the pages flying.  A Novella with true bite.

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Black Beast by R.S. Guthrie @rsguthrie

Black Beast: A Clan of MacAulay Novel (Volume One)

Decorated Denver Detective Bobby Macaulay has faced down a truckload of tragedy over recent years. The death of his partner; the loss of his own leg in the line of duty; the companionship of his beloved wife to cancer; his faith in God to his inner demons.

After the man who ruined his leg and killed his first partner is executed, Macaulay becomes the lead detective investigating the Sloan's Lake murders. The method of killing in this double-homicide is so heinous it leads Macaulay and his partner down an ever-darkening path--one that must be traversed if they are to discover the evil forces behind the slaughter.

Just when Bobby Macaulay is questioning the very career that has been his salvation, he will discover a heroic history buried within his own family roots: The Clan MacAulay--a deep family lineage of protectors at the very core of a millenniums-long war against unimaginable evil.

"Black Beast" is the first in a series of "Clan of MacAulay" novels--a stellar first outing for new author R.S. Guthrie. The book is a page-turner that avoids meandering, written with tight prose that keeps the action flowing. The reader is taken inside the heart and mind of a common hero who will make you believe in good again--Macaulay is a believable, flawed character with whom each of us can relate and for whom each of us will cheer.

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Rebel by Arlene Webb @Arlene_Webb_

Rebel


Can an untamed lover distract from the desire to bring down the human race?

The unforgivable happens, and a mother’s determination that her little ones blossom becomes an obsession. With a plan and the will, all Settia needs is the means. A lowly hero agrees to help. His price? A moment of fun in the dark. When tendrils tighten and he’s smitten, he’s ready to sacrifice his all to prolong their pleasure. Many sentient creatures lose their heads upon falling in love, yet Settia never expects the glorious aftermath to be quite so painful.

Rebel is a 10,500 word paranormal that’s been labeled undefinable. Sweet romance, yet with adult inneudo. 
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Captain's Day by Terry Ravenscroft @terryrazz

Captain's Day
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At Sunnymere Golf Club meticulous plans put in place by club captain Henry Fridlington and his good lady wife Millicent ought to have guaranteed that his Captain's Day would be the best day of his life. However Henry has recently enforced a strict 'no swearing on the golf course' policy, a policy which has not gone down at all well with the membership - and a policy which is largely instrumental, along with more than a little help from Henry himself, in ensuring that far from being the best day in his life his Captain's Day turns into the very worst day of his life.

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Intersection of Broken Paths, A Nation of Lies Novel by D.E. Parrish @HogcountryHero

Intersection of Broken Paths, A Nation of Lies Novel

In this first book of the Nation of Lies series, author D.E. Parrish returns the thrill to thriller and reminds readers of what it is like to truly fall in love with characters and the stories they tell.

Special Agent Jared Nolan—FBI—is a drunk who has managed to all but destroy a career that started out with so much promise. Yet, with one foot out the proverbial door, he is given one last opportunity to put at bay those within the bureau who are lining up to see him out to the street. Worried that they may have a serial killer on their hands, the Little Rock police department has reached out for assistance, and Jared is dispatched to his hometown in Arkansas to help with the hunt.

Hours after arriving in Little Rock, Jared is paired with the hard-assed Detective Samantha Eubanks, and right away, the two are forced to look past their obvious differences and a lingering sexual tension as the roller-coaster ride to their killer begins. However, just as the two investigators feel as though they are about to get their hands on the man who can give them the answers they need to solve the case, he winds up dead by an assassin’s bullet. Feeling like they are back to square one, they discover that their killer is connected to a shadow government that is behind a centuries-old conspiracy to take over this country.

In the end, Jared and Samantha—aided by some old faces from Jared’s military past—get their killer, and in the process, a metaphorical wall is dropped—exposing the conspirators for the first time ever.

Readers will become captivated by this story and the characters who live it, as well as discover a way to not only follow, but to interact with them on social media. Intersection of Broken Paths is a million-dollar read at a dime-store price.

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Between Seasons by Aida Brassington @AidaBrassington

Between Seasons
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There are things Patrick Boyle will never forget: the sound of his own neck breaking at the moment of his death in the fall of 1970, the sweet taste of his mother's chocolate cake, and the awful day his parents abandoned him in his childhood house-turned prison.

Nineteen-year-old Patrick wonders for decades if God has forgotten all about him or if he's being punished for some terrible crime or sin over a lovely forty years trapped in an empty home. But when Sara Oswald, a strange woman with a mysterious past, buys his house, old feelings reawaken, and a new optimism convinces him that she's the answer to his prayers.

Things are never simple, though, especially when she begins channeling the memories of his life and death in her writing.

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Never Too Far by Thomas Christopher

Never Too Far

A harrowing story of love and survival.

In a future of scarce resources, where the possession of gas and diesel is punishable by death, a teenage boy and a pregnant girl must save their impoverished family. They must risk their lives on a terrifying journey to sell stolen fuel on the black market.

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Big Birthday Bash Giveaway for award-nominated author Billie Sue Mosiman @EdgarNominee

It's Billie Sue Mosiman birthday on June 5th and from now until then, she is giving you a present. She is giving away for free for a limited time about a fourth of her Kindle library. That's a lot of free ebook from one author and an awesome gift from Billie Sue Mosiman to you. There is no better opportunity to get an example of a writer's style and talent at one time. If you like horror and suspense or waiting for an opportunity to try, today is the day. If you would like to thank Billie Sue Mosiman in some way, take the time and review her work.

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