About Love & Feathers: what a palm-sized parrot has taught me about life, love, and healthy self-esteem

When Shannon Cutts and Pearl first meet, she is still mourning the sudden passing of her first cockatiel, Jacob. The last thing she wants to do is to fall in love with another baby parrot! But one look at the tiny grey ball of fluff and Shannon just knows – he is love with wings, and they are meant to be together.

A lifelong parrot lover but by no means experienced at caring for cockatiels, Shannon quickly assumes the role of eager student, with Pearl as her willing and equally eager teacher. From negotiating victuals preferences to socializing with the parrot-phobic, making home improvements to avoiding the dreaded V.E.T., Shannon learns from her feathery sidekick how to meet his basic needs, offer extra enrichment, nurture and care for him, and be nurtured and cared for in return.

Pearl, in turn, opens a window for Shannon into a refreshing new world full of self-acceptance, self-respect, trust, laughter, love, and FUN. In Pearl’s world, everyone is a potential new friend, every mirror reflects prettiness, every meal is a celebration of good food and good company, and each new day is a great day to celebrate being YOU.

Today, 12 years after their first meeting, Shannon and Pearl are still blissfully joined at the beak. Love & Feathers, a book based on the popular blog by the same name, is their story.

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Author Bio:
Shannon Cutts is first and foremost a birdie and tortoise mama. She is also a writer, speaker, nonprofit founder, mentor, lover of retro threads, and champion of all things (and beings) recovered and recovering. Love & Feathers is her second book.

Pearl Cutts is fetching and feathery. He is a Golden Waffle Award−winning actor best known for his role as .007, pint-sized superspy. He also serves as CEO/super(bird)model for Wet Bird Couture. Pearl loves waffles and ladybirds and his ever-expanding flock of VIP fans (both feathered and featherless).

Mars Madness by Jodi Bowersox

It would only take a dream and twenty billion dollars to create a resort on Mars. But at a million dollars a ticket, it was a luxury that only the .01% could afford.

Until the Mars Madness Lottery.

For the price of a fifty dollar lottery ticket, even burger flipping Joes and Janes could have a shot at a Mars adventure. Even hyper-organizational, germophobic, scaredy cat, fussy pants Katrina McKenna, who only bought a ticket at her daughter Frankie’s insistence.

With the addition of one ex-husband, two new flames, a love-sick robotic maid, a ten-year-old cybersecurity whiz, a reclusive scientist and his genetically modified horses on a Mars transport four football fields in length with all the amenities of a cruise ship—plus a labyrinth—madness is just to be expected.

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Jodi Bowersox has never liked being put in a box. Over the course of her life, she has been an actress, seamstress, designer, business owner, homeschool teacher, kid’s choir director, and artist, so it’s only natural that her writing would take on an eclectic flare as well.

Her romance novels span genres from faith fiction to suspense to time travel to sci fi with small town and big city settings. In addition, she has children’s picture books to her credit, a book of stage productions, and a non-fiction Bible commentary.

As an award winning watercolor artist, Jodi specializes in pet portraits, and as a seamstress, she creates women’s vests out of men’s ties. You can view all her creative endeavors, as well as read samples of her books on her website.

Jodi lives in the heart of Colorado Springs with her husband and too many cats where they never get tired of looking at the mountain views.

About Lovers, Players & The Seducer Book I By J. A. Jackson

Lust and passion fueled star-crossed lovers Lacey & Kienan. Their love was packed with angst and heartbreak from the start. And her brother Nicholas is addicted to deceitful games.
A brother’s web of deceit begins this gripping novel that will propel you into a world of seduction, temptation and betrayal.
Will Lacey discover her brother’s deception before it’s too late?
When tragic forces are unleashed family lines are crossed revealing secret sins and shameful lies from the past. A past where the dead watch the living.

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J.A. Jackson is the pseudonym for an author, who loves to write deliciously sultry adult romantic, suspenseful, entertaining novels with a unique twist. She lives in an enchanted little house she calls home in the Northern California foothills. Her love for cooking and writing comes from her Southern roots of Louisiana and Arkansas.

About Mister Drainpipe

Homeless, alone, haunted by the shadows of the past, Mister Drainpipe is a beggar cast adrift on the streets of Addis Ababa. He ekes out life inside a concrete drain, atop a pile of rubbish.

His fragile world is about to implode.

A man who has lost everything, can still lose his soul.

By turns wrenching and savagely beautiful, this powerful, uplifting tale of life on African streets is set against the backdrop of recent events in Ethiopia. Mister Drainpipe’s struggles with homelessness, loss and mental illness frame a lucid window into an enigmatic, strife-torn country, where modernity and tradition collide in an ancient melting-pot of humanity.

Celebrate the triumph of the human spirit over terrible adversity. Taste hope.

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Marc is a South African-born dragon masquerading as an author, who loves writing about dragons and Africa, preferably both at the same time. He's the author of 25 fantasy books in 5 languages including 10 rip-roaring dragon fantasy bestsellers. Dragonfriend won a Gold Award for Fantasy in the 2016 IPPY Book Awards.

About Primed For Crime

Eight Authors, Eight Unforgettable Crime Thrillers! This award-winning and bestselling team brings you tales of crime, passion and deceit sure to enthrall mystery and thriller fans! To whet your appetite, here’s the first three books:

Mob Rules by Marc Ranier

Jeff Trask moves to Kansas City, where he begins an investigation into an international drug ring smuggling the deadly combination of fentanyl and heroin from the southern border to the Eastern Seaboard.

Troubled Sea by Jinx Schwartz

After witnessing a drug-deal gone wrong, a cruising couple sets off a deadly chain of events that lands them in a sea of intrigue involving a best friend, the Mexican Federal Police, the DEA, US Coast Guard, the INS, and a nasty drug cartel.

The Devil’s Workshop by John Scherber

An investment advisor falls 27 floors to his death in St. Paul. An auxiliary bishop is strangled in Houston. An art gallery owner dies in Santa Fe in the middle of the night. Their only link is an obscure painter living underground in Mexico, pulling the levers of a plan of revenge that goes back to the 1530s.

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Eight top drawer novelists combine to bring you a fantastic collection of crime stories. These writers have sold thousands and thousands of titles over the past few years. All of them are Amazon Bestselling Authors, some are USA Today Bestselling Authors and we've even tossed in a great screenwriter or two!

About The Assassin’s Trail

Homicide Detective Ryan Clark has a problem. A prominent businessman has been assassinated by a drive-by shooting. Two weeks earlier another man, in the same industry, was shot and killed. He suspects the assassinations are related and calls an old friend with the FBI. When FBI profiler Special Agent Sean Kruger arrives at the scene of the second murder, he agrees with Clark but is hesitant to get involved. After twenty-five years with the FBI, he is tired of the bureaucracy and politics of the job.

Kruger is ordered to wait but disobeys and proceeds with the arrest. When everything goes horribly wrong, he is suspended by the Director of the FBI. Now outside the protection of the agency, he must decide whether to walk away from his career or put his new marriage and life in danger by pursuing the assassin. An assassin whose ultimate goal is an attack in the center of the United States, an attack that will result in more innocent casualties than 9/11.

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J.C. Fields is the author of the award-winning suspense novels The Sean Kruger Series. His most recent book, A Lone Wolf is the start of a new series.

Unexpected Marriage: A Marriage Mistake Romance by Beverly Evans

Accidentally married and pregnant by my brother’s best friend.
The worse part?
I can’t even remember the night it happened.

Weddings are supposed to bring people closer together.
But for me, it ended with a breakup.
I thought I was prepared for the unexpected.
I thought I knew exactly what I wanted.

That was until my brother’s best friend walked back into my life.
Beck, with his captivating blue eyes, and his tall military sculpted body.
The most gorgeous man I’ve ever laid eyes on.
He’s a self-made billionaire, that will do anything to keep me safe.

Finding my marriage certificate in the mail,
Then news of my pregnancy on the same day?
I feel like I’m living in some crazy romance novel…

If only I knew how to tell him about us and our baby.
And if only things didn’t take a more terrible and unexpected turn.
Now, I’m here being held hostage.
Asking myself questions, wishing I had made different choices.
Like… Why didn’t I just listen to Beck?
Or…Will Beck be able to rescue me before it’s too late?

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Beverly Evans likes novels that will transport her into another world and provide her with a happy escape. But she enjoys writing those types of novels even more!

Beverly loves writing sexy, hunky, brooding, intense, and swoon worthy alpha billionaires. Her romance novels will leave you hooked to every page.

Her favorite holiday is Christmas, and if she could she would live forever in a little cottage by the beach.

Email her at Beverly.Evans@Evansromance.com to get in touch with her!