About Rise From The Embers by Stacey Marie Brown

The King has fallen!
While Stavros moves to take over Lars’s throne, the war for the entire kingdom begins. However, this is no ordinary war against Seelie or Unseelie. The real enemy is the most powerful object in the world. The Stone of Fail.
Lars isn’t the only one the stone wants. Zoey Daniels is next on its list. And the stone will do whatever it takes to finally get the girl.
With a battle on all sides and lives of those they love threatened fae, humans, Druids, pixies, and a certain sprite-monkey will have to come together to save the true King, along with the world, from destruction.
Out of ashes, true heroes Rise from the Embers.
Don’t miss the FINAL installment of the Dark/Light/Collector Series, where your favorite characters unite to try and protect those they love, and the earth from the ultimate opponent.
Ember, Zoey, Kennedy, and Fionna lead the fight, but be prepared…
Not everyone will make it out alive.

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Author Bio:
Stacey Marie Brown is a lover of hot fictional bad boys and sarcastic heroines who kick butt. She also enjoys books, travel, TV shows, hiking, writing, design, and archery. Stacey swears she is part gypsy, being lucky enough to live and travel all over the world.

She grew up in Northern California, where she ran around on her family’s farm, raising animals, riding horses, playing flashlight tag, and turning hay bales into cool forts. She volunteers helping animals and is Eco-friendly. She feels all animals, people, and environment should be treated kindly.

About Cryo-Cop

Cryogenically frozen for 70 years in a military experiment gone wrong, can Nick Bradigan solve the cold case that put him on ice seven decades ago working only with ancient clues and skills from the 1940s? Or will Nick’s old-fashioned detective methods collapse against today’s high-tech criminal? Either way, time’s running out and, for Nick, there’s no tomorrow. . .

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Dr. T. L. Anderson travels annually to quite a number of writing conferences and enjoys helping writers of all levels expand their skills. When not writing, Dr. Anderson is a tournament chess player, an avid moviegoer, and a guest speaker when called upon. If you enjoyed Cryo-Cop and wish to communicate with Dr. Anderson, you may email him through the publisher at DrTLAnderson@SpindleGroup.com.

About Lessons From a Life Champion: Sometimes Even Winners Make Duty

Lessons From a Life Champion” is possibly the most important books of the 20th century. Some critics are even calling it the next Bible. It is the the inspirational true story of how three miracles changes one man’s life forever. People who have read it said that it changed their lives forever too. If you don’t believe me, my third cousin from Jersey didn’t read it, and he is still using heroin. Some guy I went to high school with didn’t read it either, and I just heard his wife left him because of his gambling problem. My nana and popop didn’t read it. Now they are both dead. This book will change your life. Just ask the guy who lives down the street from me who just got a D.U.I. He didn’t read this book either.
This is a smart, funny parody on memoir and self-help books. It is written in the overstated, self-indulgent prose you see in a lot of inspirational memoirs, and self-help books. The irony is that it is just an ordinary guy going through ordinary life problems. It is written in a conversational style, like as if the author were telling the story to a friend over a couple of beers making it a really east read. It reads as a compelling story of the ordinary and it is much more intelligent than the silly bathroom humor that you may think when you see the cover. It is a relatable narrative filled with smooth humor and an entertaining story.
“Life is too serious to be taken seriously.” That pretty much sums up this book. This takes every difficult or emotionally challenging event in life and jokes about it, It makes fun of everything from divorce to the death of a parent. I think people will enjoy this because my life experiences are very relatable and if they can find humor in my problems they can hopefully laugh at themselves a little too.

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A.J. Aberfeldy is an author, motivational speaker,blogger, 2nd cousin, 3rd best friend, drinking buddy, coworker, Secret Santa, ex-husband, and super fun weekend dad with no rules at his house. He is a former high school bully and problem drinker who has accomplished so many extraordinary things in life that his friends and family call him the not-retarded Forrest Gump.
He is a successful thousandaire whose net worth sometimes exceeds almost 3000 on some paydays. Recently he has unlocked all the secrets to personal growth and happiness, and he didn’t even have to read the self-help book his mom bought him for Christmas last year to do it. Once he accepted the man who was staring back at him in the mirror, he went out and found people even fatter and uglier than that person and made fun of them until he felt better about himself. Now he probably doesn’t even need his antidepressants anymore. When he is not busy working on personal growth and self-improvement you could find A.J. either getting drunk or eating at Chinese buffets.

About Rules of Limbo by Aralyn Kraft

Find your killer or embrace eternal peace, which would you choose?

Randy was faced with his worst living nightmare – his death – and given the choice of accepting the circumstances of his demise where he could find peace in the hereafter, or seek out the sordid truth with the assistance of the undead FBI.

It takes a lot to manage Limbo. It’s a tough job and William has been running it for a very long time. With all his knowledge and ambition, he still hasn’t found a way to bring justice to his killer or what he really wants – revenge.

For some, Limbo is home and a second chance to start over; giving them the chance to leave their colorful and sometimes treacherous pasts behind. For others, they’ve found a secret entry into the perfect hiding place for organized crime – and they’ll do whatever it takes to keep it that way.

Will Randy’s selfish act of still desiring escape from his death put everyone in Limbo in jeopardy?

Will a confrontational showdown through a cascade of events brings the realm of the living clashing with the land of the dead, unraveling a chain of dangerous events, bring their undead lives to a final curtain – once and for all?

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It’s tough when you grew up out in the sticks with nothing but dirt roads covered in tar or oil to keep the dust down. When I was a kid we didn’t have cell phones. There were no video games or video arcades, for that matter. Technicolor television was still new and the tv was bigger and heavier than the kid. We had literally four channels to choose from and usually you ended up watching the news nearly all the time. That, or soap operas.

Play time was after homework was completed and before dinner was served. There was no sneaking out to go somewhere, you lived in the middle of practically nowhere — there was no where to sneak off to and in the middle of the night no one wanted to get bit by a poisonous snake.

There was a lake to fish from and yes, we had schools we were bused to and from. If the electricity went out during a storm, we laid in front of the doorway at home with the door open for fresh air and ambient light to do our homework by.

Cars were huge and made more like a military tank back then. If you got into a scrape you probably didn’t feel it and most folks just walked away with an apology and a handshake.

So, what does any of this have to do with writing?

Everything.

For me, I read and created drawings because quite frankly it was fun. I loved reading! Still do. And when you’re a kid with nowhere to go, not much else to do, and living in the middle of “meh”ville, you find ways to entertain yourself. And before you ask, no. The neighborhood kids were always in trouble and almost always grounded so there wasn’t really a friend to go hang out with or play ball with, or even go fishing with.

My second love is a dead even passion for first place next to reading/writing — roller skating. Hey! Don’t laugh.

When we FINALLY moved from the sticks to the bigger sticks with less snakes, I ended up with a nice pair of cheap roller skates and fell deeply in love with them. I wore those suckers everywhere! Occasionally even to bed. Yes, I wore them out quickly. No, I didn’t get another pair until I was thirteen. THAT pair lasted me over thirty years and worth every penny! I am, in fact, a rink rat. (All-night skating, suicide drinks (a soda with every flavor soda in it), good music, good friends, and great times.)

At some point we moved to a big city which is the biggest sticks of all. Mom hated it. Dad had to work there and had no opinion on the city, only the never-ending traffic. Brother didn’t like the sticks and enjoyed working and living in the city.

Me? I love the city. I love the lights, the street music, the buskers, the blank thousand yard stare some people get when they walk by you. I love the evenings when the breeze is cool and the pavement is giving off just a little heat. I love the twinkling of the stores and the chimes above their doors. I love the smell of a thousand different types of food on every corner with everything you could possibly imagine as a cuisine. I love working high up in the skyscrapers on some floor with a view down the block where when the sun rises all you can see is this orange glow slowly illuminating the towers and roads. The near quiet and peacefulness between 5am and 6:30a. The perfect window for a sunrise in the metropolis.

And now a new escapade presents itself. Age. Eh! *growl*

I wasn’t all that aware of how old I was getting when I was in my twenties. Thirties showed a couple of white hairs and I shrugged saying, “That’s what dying your hair is for.” Forties? Who had time between the thirties and forties? I worked two jobs, studied for certifications, wrote whenever I could, skated when I found a little money and time, and slept wearily. Now, late forties leaning into the fifty mark? I had to give up a lot I love just to make ends meet. If I had to do it all again, yes, there’s things I would definitely change. But those things incorporate and make me the person I am today.

I believe in a lot of things. I believe in love at first sight. I believe in the power of healing through hugs and friendship. I believe there’s a time and a place for most things. I believe in having more than one love in your lifetime. I believe grief and loss doesn’t have to be the end of someone’s world. When my father passed away, it left my mother helpless and lost. I ended up taking a month off from work to try to get her to eat, sleep, work through her sorrow and fears. I took care of her the best I could and worked with her until I had to leave. My dad was a wonderful man, fantastic father, and according to mom, “The best husband anyone could ask for.” I mean seriously, who else would get up from watching television when their wife comes up and points to her belly and says, “I have this tiny little empty spot right here. It’s about the size of a cup of ice cream.” And then get his boots on with a grin and go to the store and by that woman ice cream.

Over ten years after his departure, she’s still kicking around and puttering around the house with her little dog. I believe people can be stronger than they know if they don’t give up and don’t give in to their despair. But I also know depression and anxiety can take root and put a strangle hold on life. That’s not hypothetical, that’s from personal experience.

Life isn’t perfect, but it is what we can make of it. I don’t take medications or anti-depression medications or anxiety pills, I just poor my soul into writing.

All those times a person picks up a book and flips through it, they never realize how much effort and passion went into every syllable, every word, every page. Every time that author spends countless hours putting everything onto paper then editing the crap out of it so it makes sense. Then revision after revision after another fifteen revisions and waffling between what they need to have the story move forward and that one line or sentence they love and want to keep because it felt good to write. “I can’t just ditch that! It was sheer brilliance! Whadda ya mean it doesn’t make sense? I’ll rewrite the whole damn book to make that one line make sense. You’ll see!” Oh yeah. Writers are like that.
Our work isn’t always about how much we get out of it but how much we put into it. It’s our blood, sweat, tears, hopes, fears, joys, elation of winning, heartache of losing, creation of worlds, people, fantastic creatures, perilous journeys, relationships that sometimes work and other times fail.

It’s all us.

I ask of you… next time you read something you like, go to that author’s site where you purchased the book or their blog (if online hit the like button or such), leave them a message telling them what you really liked and what resonated with you. Let them know you may have liked one character better than another. Let them know some of the passages may not have felt finished or that maybe you wondered what happened in some segment. Talk to them. They love to hear from you.

I’d love to hear from you too.

About The Strange Curse of Breda

It’s 1971 and a horrible murder has occurred near the town of Breda in west Michigan. A young woman, Jane Lucas, has been dragged into the woods and stabbed. The letters ZOSO from the Led Zeppelin album have been written in blood on her waist, which leads the police to think it might be a cult murder. Suspicion falls on the commune located on a farm near the town. The shock and horror townspeople feel after that murder, though, are nothing compared to the shock and horror people feel when another murder and then another murder of the same type occur.

The Strange Curse of Breda is about those murders and how they are finally solved. As each murder occurs, the level of fear in Breda intensifies, to the point that the townsfolk either flee the town, arm themselves to the teeth, or fall into an almost catatonic state of fear. The county sheriff, the state police, and even the FBI are baffled. However, Jim Leiden, a young man who runs a small grocery in Breda, finds a clue that may link all the murders together: The hanging of a man named Obadiah Kurtz that occurred in 1889. Jim researches the story and finds that the victims are descendants of the people who were responsible for hanging Obadiah. After Jim’s discovery, he’s in a race against time to try to get the police to believe him and find the murderer before he can kill the only person in the whole world who really matters to him: His beautiful fiancée Julie Veere, who happens to be one of those direct descendants!

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Steven Arnett was born in Detroit, Michigan, and enjoys writing fiction and poetry. He has degrees from Michigan State University and the University of Maine. He currently lives in Johns Creek, Georgia, with his wife, Delphine, and daughter, Vivienne.

About Chickenhawk

Eddie Ramos is a cop. He and his partner, Tommy Cucitti, are detectives in the elite squad known as Manhattan North Homicide. Eddie’s an old-fashioned kind of cop; heck, Eddie’s an old cop period. He’s a proud man; proud of being a cop, of having been a cop for a long time, and he’s proud that his marriage has survived the rigors of the job. All of these things, the things he’s proud of and considers important however are put to the test when young men and boys start winding up dead all over his town, young men and boys that share a common source of livelihood…they’re all prostitutes.
Tommy Cucitti is younger, brasher, more of a hothead and usually in trouble. He’s single and lives with his street-wise, hotheaded Armenian girlfriend; Daphne. Tommy and Eddie are two different kinds of men that are the same kind of cop; dedicated, hardworking and resourceful. They’re after a serial killer that manages to stay below their radar while the body count keeps climbing in a city that’s turning into a powder keg.

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Arnaldo Lopez Jr. was born and raised in Brooklyn, NY., but has since moved to Queens, NY where he has resided for about 23 years now. Before retiring, Arnaldo Lopez Jr had been employed by the MTA for twenty-eight years and was formerly employed as a dispatcher with the NYPD. Mr. Lopez is also a speaker and trainer, speaking on subjects as diverse as terrorism and customer service. He created the civilian counter-terrorism training program currently in use by New York City Transit and many other major public transportation agencies around the country.

As well as writing, Mr. Lopez is an artist and photographer, having sold several of his works over the years. As a writer he’s sold articles to Railway Age magazine, The Daily News magazine, Homeland Defense Journal, and Reptile & Amphibian magazine; scripts to Little Archie and Personality Comics; and short stories to Neo-Opsis magazine, Lost Souls e-zine, Nth Online magazine, Blood Moon magazine, Feed Your Monster e-zine, Fangs and Broken Bones horror anthology, Swallowed by the Beast horror anthology, Trembling with Fear horror anthology, Monsters Attack horror anthology, and the “A reflection of Me”: An AAMBC Anthology. He was also editor of Offworld, a small science fiction magazine that was once chosen as a “Best Bet” by Sci-Fi television. His first novel, Chickenhawk, is the winner of two International Latino Book awards.

Arnaldo Lopez feels that the writers that have influenced him the most are – in no particular order – Lawrence Sanders, Ernest Hemmingway, Robert E. Howard, Harry Turtledove, Isaac Asimov, Dean Koontz, James Patterson and Stephen King.

About Transform Your Cooking: A Grace-Filled Guide to Small Changes with a Big Impact in Your Kitchen by Kelly Kauffman

Are you constantly stressed about mealtimes?

Do you often wonder how you will be able to provide healthy food for your family, day after day?

Are you ready to transform your cooking and make it happen?

If you are serious about changing your family’s eating habits, then doing it all at once is probably going to be beyond most of us. Many people fall into bad habits through time constraints, poor preparation, finances and dozens of other reasons

Now, with Transform Your Cooking: A Grace-Filled Guide to Small Changes with a Big Impact in Your Kitchen, you can start to make the little changes that will have a big effect, with chapters that include:

Why you should care about what you eat
The things you should be eating
Nuts and bolts of meal planning
How to begin making changes
Fresh produce
Spices, condiments and sauces
Healthy fats
A selection of recipes to get started
And much more…
Becoming healthier doesn’t necessarily mean that you must change your life drastically, it just means being better prepared to do some small things that make the difference.

And with Transform Your Cooking you have a perfect companion to guide you on your way.

Transform Your Cooking is currently on sale for only 99 cents!

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Kelly is a homeschooling mom of five: two boys and three girls. She has clocked many hours in the kitchen and learned to improve her cooking out of necessity when her oldest child began showing signs of severe digestive problems.
Through the years, she has swung from making whatever is cheapest and easiest for dinner, to the opposite side of the pendulum – making everything from scratch with only the best, organic ingredients, before landing somewhere in the middle.
Her goal in life is to bask in God’s grace and to love her family and others with that same grace.
She has recently started a new blog, Home and Faith, where she writes about homeschooling, cooking, great books, and faith.