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Published: Wed, 07/08/15

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Demon Frenzy by Harvey Click  

Demon-Frenzy-KDraws-kindle-coverSMALLAbout Demon Frenzy by Harvey Click:

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Searching for her lost brother, Amy Jackson returns to her isolated hometown in the Appalachian Mountains. But Blackwood has changed. Now it’s run by a mysterious drug lord who has something more lethal than guns to protect him. He has demons—more vicious, venomous demons than even Hieronymus Bosch ever dreamed of—and after Amy witnesses an unspeakable atrocity he unleashes all the frenzied furies of hell against her. Soon she is stalked by snakewalkers, herky-jerkies, toadfaces, listeners, harpies, centicreepers, and the sinister crying man, who weeps while he torments his victims.

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Author Bio:
Harvey Click, author of Demon Mania, Magic Times, The Bad Box and The House of Worms, earned an M.A. in English from Ohio State University, using his first novel as a master’s thesis. He has written five novels, four of them in the horror genre, and numerous short stories. He has taught English and creative writing for Ohio University, Ohio State University, the James Thurber House, and OSU’s Creative Arts Program.

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I Dreamt of Trees by Gilles DeCruyenaere  

cover_new_example_frontAbout I Dreamt of Trees by Gilles DeCruyenaere:

$0.99 from July 8 – 11

“an amazing first novel” – humanitysdarkerside.com

“spectacular writing” – Author Unpublished

“a rip-roaring, hedonistic adventure novel” – Readers’ Favorite

Selected as a “Pitch Perfect Pick” finalist by Underground Book Reviews!

Flasher-in-training Jason Crawford has dedicated his life to fighting the mysterious alien race which threatens the massive city-ship he calls home. A few days before his first mission, however, Jason discovers a terrible secret which could mean an end to his way of life forever. Fearing government reprisal for this new-found knowledge, Jason takes refuge in the Rim, a walled-off section of the ship where citizens are left to fend for themselves while the government ruthlessly plunders its resources.

While there, Jason forms an uneasy alliance with fellow exile Greg. Though they share the same goal of exposing the government’s terrible secret, their relationship is strained; Jason is selfish, profane and morally ambiguous, while Greg is generous, kind and liberal-minded.

Will Jason and Greg manage to achieve their goals despite their ideological differences? Will Jason ever escape the Rim, and if so, can he hope to regain anything even resembling the life of entitlement to which he was accustomed?

“I Dreamt of Trees” is a story of struggle and survival in a dystopian society built on fear and greed. Though you may be tempted to judge the characters, be certain of one thing: On the USS McAdam, no one is quite as good, nor quite as bad as they seem.

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Author Bio:
Gilles DeCruyenaere lives in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada with his wife Joanne and their fur-baby Yogi. In his spare time Gilles enjoys reading, watching movies, creating art and experiencing nature, as well as collecting rocks, minerals, antiques and Star Wars paraphernalia. A graduate of the Digital Media Design program at Red River College, Gilles recently served as film editor for the feature-length animated film “Emma’s Wings: A Bella Sara Tale”.

07/08/2015

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6 Minutes Wrestling With Life: A Family’s Tragedy to Triumph by JohnA Passaro  

20150630-KDP-200x300About 6 Minutes Wrestling With Life: A Family’s Tragedy to Triumph by JohnA Passaro:

Imagine yourself inside of a parent’s worst nightmare – within the 6 minutes your child lay unconscious.

Each second is passing faster than the last.

The minutes are mounting.

Your hope is dwindling.

The doctor, who has been working feverishly to revive your child has since stopped and is now heading toward you.

Rarely do we know life changing events as they are happening, but this time you know.

You know deep down, that in a few seconds, after a few words, your life is going to change forever.

All you keep saying to yourself as the doctor approaches is,

“Just don’t say it.

Just don’t say it.

Just don’t say ‘time of death’.”

******

Every Breath Is Gold Series

6 Minutes Wrestling With Life – Book 1 (FREE)

Again – Book 2

Your Soul Knows – Book 3

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Author Bio:
I always knew that I would write, I just had no idea how personal my first book, “6 Minutes Wrestling with Life”, would be to me.

I love to inspire, to motivate and show a different approach to solving life’s problems through my writing.

As a former athlete and youth coach, I believe that sports provides valuable life lessons that when learned and implemented can have a tremendous impact on a persons life.

I write with anecdotes and quotes which have had an impact on my life.

I have been a member of the secret club called the “Life Changing Events Club” since August 21st, 2009.

I have viewed life differently ever since.

I believe that everything that we do and everything that happens in our life – happens for a reason.

Sometimes that reason takes many years to come to the surface – but it will, and if you are paying attention you will realize the magnificence of how the universe works.

Hopefully I have touched you through my writing and have stirred your emotions enough to live life more fully.

Everything matters.

Every Breath Is Gold.

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Stars Across Time  

StarsFinalWeb400About Stars Across Time:

Air Force pilot Andromeda “Andie” Kim dreams of being chosen to join NASA so she can go to space. Instead, she’s stolen by savage kidnappers from a dystopian future where fertile women are needed for breeding purposes. One of her kidnappers, a man named Mace, goes out of his way to protect her from the other slavers, but she’s not about to trust him. All she wants is to escape and find a way back to her time before she’s sold as broodstock and stuck in this ruined world forever.

Colonel Aloysius “Mace” Theron of the Cascadian Alliance is a battlefield commander, not a spy, but after twenty years of service, he’s also trusted by his superiors. That’s why they choose him for a top-secret mission: to infiltrate an organization of thieves using a time machine to plunder the past. He’s supposed to find and destroy the machine, not fall in love with one of the captives, but Andie is as much of a fighter as he is, and he’s drawn to her from the beginning. Yet if he fights too hard to protect her, his identity will be discovered and his mission will fail, leaving criminals to terrorize the past, perhaps irrevocably changing history and endangering everyone he knows and loves.

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Before Ruby was old enough to talk, her parents took her to the drive-in theater to see Star Wars, and she has early memories of watching Buck Rogers and Star Trek reruns with her mom. It was probably a foregone conclusion that she would become a lifelong science fiction fan.

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The Coal Elf by Maria DeVivo  

finalcoverhires-CopyAbout The Coal Elf by Maria DeVivo:

Ember Skye is a fed up teenage Coal Elf with a big ashy chip on her shoulder. Having been torn away from a carefree life and forced into a world of dirt and darkness has started to get the best of her. And being the only girl-elf working as a coal miner at the North Pole doesn’t help much either!

Then there’s Sturd: a power-hungry, twisted elf with a checkered past and a serious grudge against Ember. Slowly but surely, his maniacal tendencies are revealed, leaving Ember with the sacred “Naughty List” literally in her lap.

When a mysterious illness threatens to decimate elves both Above and Underground, Ember is thrust into a journey that will see her confront the literal and figurative demons of her past and lead her to the head of the North Pole himself.

Yes! Santa is real. But this isn’t your childhood Christmas tale!

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Author Bio:
Maria DeVivo is a New York native who has had a lifelong love affair with “the pen.” A graduate of St. John’s University with a BA in English Literature, she has a passion for all things mystical and mythological. She has taught 7th grade Language Arts since 2000, and in 2010, designed the curriculum for an academic elective course entitled Folklore, where she has been able to share her passion and knowledge on concentrated topics such as folktales and mythology with her students.

Having grown up in a large Irish/Italian family (where Maria is the oldest child, and of course, the wisest) the mystery and wonder surrounding the holidays were a main staple of her upbringing. At the age of seven, when her mother finally admitted “the truth” to her, she has become somewhat of a “Santa-phile”, an obsession that has rooted its way into every fiber of her being. Maria is one of those people who cries when Santa makes His grand appearance at the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade. Coupled with an obsession for all things dark and demented, her debut novel, The Coal Elf, was born.

Maria now lives in Florida with her husband, Joe, and daughter, Morgan. When not teaching or writing or running around after her daughter, she enjoys drinking iced coffee, watching horror movies, and playing video games.

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Breaking Braydon by MK Harkins  

mk harkins book coverAbout Breaking Braydon by MK Harkins:

Playboy billionaire Braydon Decker changes women more often than designer ties. Scarred and humiliated as a teenager, he pledged long ago to never trust a beautiful woman again. But then he never imagined meeting one quite like Jain Parker.

Jain, a dedicated medical research scientist, learned early in college that her good looks were a hindrance and she’d have to tone down her beauty to be taken seriously, thus, Plain Jain was born, and men were no longer an issue. Of course, she didn’t count on running into Braydon Decker.

A successful venture capitalist, Braydon holds the key to whether Jain’s research company sinks or swims. When the two are forced to work together on a fundraising campaign, they’re instantly drawn to one another, despite their individual vows to remain unattached. As they navigate unchartered waters, their inability to trust wages war with their desire to love.

Hearts are broken and trust is shattered when betrayal and lies are revealed. Will the truth bring them healing and forgiveness, or will it be too late?

Breaking Braydon offers readers an emotional, compelling story filled with heartwarming humor, romance, heartbreak and love.

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Author Bio:
MK has always been a voracious reader. After hitting a dry spell of reading material, she decided to write the kind of book she’d like to read. This resulted in the creation of her debut novel, Intentional. (Award for Best Sweet Romance – eFestival of Words- August 2014)
Unintentional, the second book in the series, is based on the life of one of the characters in Intentional. Unintentional was written as a stand-alone book.

Breaking Braydon, another stand-alone book, is now available on Amazon.
When she’s not writing novels, she likes to spend her free time traveling the world, splashing in mud puddles (She lives in Seattle, what can she say?), watching movies and reading (!)

MK also runs her own business in her current hometown of Mercer Island, Washington.

She LOVES to hear from her readers!

mkharkins@hotmail.com

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Xoe Meyers Trilogy by Sara C. Roethle  

bundle-cover2-001About Xoe Meyers Trilogy by Sara C. Roethle:

A compilation of the first three books in the Xoe Meyers Series.

Xoe: Xoe Meyers had a normal life. So she was stuck going to high school, and she only had a few friends to call her own. She liked her normal life. Things were about to change though, because there’s a new guy in her small town, and he is anything but normal. Before Xoe can say, “Werewolf,” her best friend’s life is in peril, and Xoe’s world is turned upside-down. Then, of course, there’s Jason. Xoe doesn’t trust him as far as she can throw him, and given that he’s a vampire, she’d have to be able to catch him first.

Accidental Ashes: Last year Xoe’s life was turned upside-down. Things haven’t improved much. With the lives of her friends at risk, Xoe forgets to worry about another life…her own. With the reappearance of a face from her very distant past, and a random string of abductions to deal with, Xoe has to fight to keep things together. Even if ‘together’ is a far cry, ahem…howl, from the norm.

Broken Beasts: Xoe had hoped that after the events of the last few months, things would finally slow down. No such luck. The werewolves are out for blood, and so are the vampires apparently. Let’s not even get started on the problems her own friends are causing. Regardless of the danger, Xoe and her rag-tag entourage are in Moab, facing the werewolf coalition. Their final ruling will change Xoe’s fate, and the fate of her friends forever. Here’s hoping that’s a good thing.

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Sara C. Roethle is a Fantasy author and part-time unicorn. She resides in the Land of Enchantment, as far away from humans as possible…while still having internet.

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Paintball the Parent Parrot  

COVERAbout Paintball the Parent Parrot:

Cartoon adventures about a teenage boy and his deceased mother, who manages to reincarnate as a feisty, funny, colorful parrot, so that they may continue on with their lives together. Love is Eternal!

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Author Bio:
Hi There! Cheri Jensen here, wife and mother, who raised two wonderful sons, and currently living on the Sunshine Coast in British Columbia, Canada. The idea for Paintball came after the loss of my youngest son, Jason, who passed away at the age of 17, a few days after complications from a car accident in 2003.

A few months before the accident that took Jay away from us, he and I had been having breakfast at my home with his best friend, Daniel. I suddenly told the boys that if something ever happened to me that would cause MY passing, Jay was to go down to the local pet store that he and I would go to often, where we played with the animals and birds. I said I believed in a continuance after death, of some sort, and that I would try and come back as a parrot (talking ability of course!) and that Jay could come find me and bring me home, to continue our life and adventures together.

Well, both of them laughed hysterically! I think I caught Jay in mid gulp of his glass of milk, which spurted back out thru his nose, he was laughing so hard. I was serious and these guys thought I was nuts! I told Jay the code word to know it was me at the pet store was “Paintball”, as we both had enjoyed the game together on the weekends for years. “Mother and Son war-games with paint…..gotta love it!”

As fate would have it, we lost him a few months after that breakfast conversation. In the natural order of things, it should have been me. However, as many of us know, life is not fair, and these things happen.

So, in the last few years, I began tossing about the idea of bringing my original thought to life, in a wonderful attempt to keep his memory and our life together, alive. Hence, Paintball, the feisty little parrot that is the reincarnation of me, and what would have happened, if I had gone before him.
I hope you enjoy the adventures of Jay and Paintball, as much as I enjoy writing them in his memory!

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Will the R.E.A.L. Authorpreneur Please Stand Up?  

APPLE_ebook_v4r1About Will the R.E.A.L. Authorpreneur Please Stand Up?:

Have you ever wondered who is considered an authorpreneur or what it takes to become one?

This unique compilation by best-selling author Sharon Jenkins, featuring other award-winning and bestselling authors, is the first to take such steps to show you.
As the publishing landscape has changed, so have the requirements for successful authorship. This shift has resulted in the rebirth of the authorpreneur in a variety of forms.
In the new release, Will the R.E.A.L. Authorpreneur Please Stand Up?, you will follow R.E.A.L. (Relevant, Entrepreneurial, Action-Oriented, and Literary-Focused) authorpreneurs sharing their personal and diverse insights on how they became an authorpreneur and their tips for success.
Get into your favorite reading chair and cuddle up with a book that promises to be empowering, educating and entertaining.

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Author Bio:
Sharon C. Jenkins is the Inspirational Principal for The Master Communicator’s Writing Services. The Master Communicator’s writing services provides business communication services to small businesses, non-profits and authors. Sharon is also the mastermind behind the annual Authors Networking Summit (2010 – 2013), America’s Favorite Author Competition and Houston’s Favorite Author Competition.
Known as The Master Communicator, she is proficient in communicating in all forms of media: radio, newspapers, magazines, and spoken word. From 2010 – 2012, she worked as an editor for a major minority communications and marketing company in the 4th largest city in the U.S. She hosted the Blog Talk Radio Program, The Literary Showcase from 2010 – 2013. Sharon has moved to the HOA platform and hosts The Literary Fellowship on the third Saturday of each month at 10:00 am.
Sharon has helped hundreds of authors get their message to the masses through workshops, webinars, her radio show and coaching. She is currently also a senior publishing consultant for the award-winning Ellechor Publishing House. She has participated in numerous compilations, been a co-author and self-published three books.
Her solo-projects include: Beyond the Closet Door, Christ’s Rescue from Abuse, Authorpreneurship: The Business Start-Up Manual for Authors, which is the culmination of everything she has learned from her literary journey and that of other authors. Her latest release is Will the R.E.A.L. Authorpreneur Please Stand Up.

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The Manhattan Job: Adventures of Rucksack Willie – Teenage Investigative Writer  

the-manhattan-job-7-webAbout The Manhattan Job: Adventures of Rucksack Willie – Teenage Investigative Writer:

Teenage investigative writer Rucksack Willie flies from his Army base in Germany to work for a company in New York. He’s been writing since he was 13, and is thinking about leaving active duty to become a full-time freelance writer. A remote employee job would be great, too. This is the first in the new Wing It travel fiction series.

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Richard Morales is a freelance writer and former soldier. He was continuously employed by the US Army for over 35 years – with 30 years at overseas military bases. As a stringer and infantryman on active duty he received two first place Department of the Army Major General Keith L. Ware journalism awards, and two first place Department of Defense Thomas Jefferson journalism awards. When he is not writing, he is traveling.

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Arctic Wargame  

EthanJones_ArcticWargame_800About Arctic Wargame:

Arctic Wargame is the first book in the wildly popular Justin Hall spy thriller series, hitting Amazon’s Best Sellers lists in 2012, 2013 and 2014.

Canadian Intelligence Service Agent Justin Hall—combat-hardened in operations throughout Northern Africa—has been demoted after a botched mission in Libya.

When two foreign icebreakers appear in Canadian Arctic waters, Justin volunteers for the reconnaissance mission, eager to return to the field. His team discovers a foreign weapons cache deep in the Arctic, but they are not aware that a spy has infiltrated the Department of National Defence.

The team begins to unravel a treasonous plan against Canada, but they fall under attack from one of their own. Disarmed and stripped of their survival gear, they are stranded in a remote location. Now the team must survive the deadly Arctic not only to save themselves, but their country.

Arctic Wargame is an action-packed spy thriller in the bestselling tradition of David Baldacci, Brad Thor and Vince Flynn. Readers will enjoy a great tale of courage, fear and betrayal.

The bonus content includes the prologue and the first chapter of TRIPOLI’S TARGET, the second book in this series, which came out in 2012 and reached Amazon’s Best Sellers lists in 2012, 2013 and 2014.

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Ethan Jones is the author of the wildly popular Justin Hall spy thriller series. The first book in this series, Arctic Wargame, came out in 2012 and reached the Amazon’s Top 10 Best Sellers lists in 2012, 2013 and 2014.

The second book, Tripoli’s Target, was released in 2012 and was also very successful, catapulting to the top of the lists. The third book in the series, Fog of War, came out in 2013, and the fourth book, Double Agents, was published in 2013 as well.

Rogue Agents, the fifth adventure in the Justin Hall series, came out in 2014. The sixth thriller in the series, Shadow Agents, came out in December 2014, and the seventh book, Homeland, is expected to be released this August.

Ethan Jones has also started two new series: Carrie Chronicles, another spy thriller series featuring Justin Hall’s partner, Carrie O’Connor, in solo adventures, and Jennifer Morgan romantic suspense.

To learn more about Ethan’s current and future works and to read exclusive author interviews, books excerpts and book reviews, visit Ethan’s blog at ethanjonesbooks.wordpress.com

You can also join Ethan’s Fans Mailing List at this link: eepurl.com/HIG7r.

Ethan is a lawyer by trade, and he lives in Canada with his wife and son.

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Strictly Murder by Lynda Wilcox  

SM-200x300About Strictly Murder by Lynda Wilcox:

The estate agent’s details listed two reception rooms, kitchen and bath. What they failed to mention was the dead celebrity in the master bedroom. Personal assistant Verity Long’s house hunt is about to turn into a hunt for a killer. It will take some fancy footwork to navigate the bitchy world of dance shows, television studios, and dangerously gorgeous male co-stars. When Verity looks like the killer’s next tango partner, she discovers that this dance is … Strictly Murder

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Lynda’s first piece of writing was a poem in a school magazine. In her twenties she wrote pantomime scripts for Amateur Dramatic groups and was a founder member of The Facts of Life, a foursome who wrote and performed comedy sketches for radio. Now, she concocts fantasy stories for older children (10-13) and writes funny cozy mysteries for adults.
Lynda lives in a small town in England, in an untidy house with four ageing computers and her (equally ageing but very supportive) husband. She enjoys pottering in the garden where she grows brambles, bindweed and nettles along with roses and lilies. Oh! And slugs! Slugs that feed well on everything but the brambles and weeds.
Most of all, she loves to write – it gets her out of doing the housework. She also reads a lot and enjoys good food and wine.
So there you have it. Lynda writes, reads, and drinks red wine – but not, necessarily, in that order.

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Dead Man Walking – A Spy Amongst Us  

Native-Cover_5312665_Kindle-Front-Cover1About Dead Man Walking – A Spy Amongst Us:

Plunging behind the political curtain of Churchill’s World War II coalition government, where plotting and manipulation run rampant and turning in spies is a matter of global security, Dead Man Walking is Toby Oliver’s latest gripping thriller featuring Superintendent Luke Garvan and Major Spencer Hall.
When Lord Oakways is found murdered in his London home, a DCI working the crime scene stumbles upon
some potentially damning evidence in the cabinet minister’s diary: a meeting with Toniolo, a suspected Soviet spy operating at the heart of British government. The case is handed over to Garvan and Hall, whose investigation centers on two suspects: foreign minister Jeremy Haining, a close friend of Oakways and former left-wing firebrand, and Jamie Burdis, the disgruntled former foreign minister known for being a flagrant philanderer.
With the successful D-day landings, the Allied forces’ victory seems more and more certain—as does a seemingly inevitable face-off with the Soviets.
Garvan and Hall race to solve the murder and unmask the spy, but the more they dig, the more complex the web of betrayal appears to be.
Who is Toniolo? And can they find him, or her, before it’s too late?

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Author Toby Oliver, a former London civil servant with a degree in politics, is the author of Codename Nicolette and Mission Lisbon. He now lives with his family in West Sussex, where he’s already plotting his next novel.

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Baseball Team Signs Geezer – A Short Sports Story  

Geezer-Cover-2B-dupeAbout Baseball Team Signs Geezer – A Short Sports Story:

HE’S A GEEZER WITH A BUM KNEE
NOW HE’S THE STAR OF A DOUBLE-A BASEBALL TEAM

As Toby Noonan prepares to throw his first pitch at Bo Zaweski, he taunts , “I’ll take it easy on you, grandpa.”

After all, Noonan figures, the batter is an old geezer. Easy out.

Big mistake.

This 67-year–old geezer is the hottest hitter in the amateur league, with a special fondness for home runs. In short order Bo blasts the ball over the park fence, 350 feet away. And that’s just the beginning of a bad afternoon for Noonan’s team. In the end, Bo and his team trounce them 17 to 3.

He is the best hitter Noonan ever saw. He tells the slugger he could be famous playing professional ball for the city’s double-A team.

He has a bad knee, Bo says to Noonan, and no pro team is going to hire a geezer, anyway. As for fame, Bo says, “I never in my life wanted to be famous, so don’t get all upset if I tell you I think your idea is pure crap.”

Noonan won’t give up, and talks Bo into demonstrating his batting talents for C.B. Dollenberg, tight-fisted owner of the team as well as the local baseball stadium. It’s just for a lark, Noonan insists.

Impressed by Bo’s mind-blowing batting performance, Dollenberg offers him a place on the team at a miserly salary, on the condition that his batting average stays over .350. Desperate to fill empty seats in his ballpark, Dollenberg believes having a geezer who’s a first-rate slugger on his failing team will draw more fans to the games.

Noonan persuades Dollenberg to pay Bo a $25,000 bonus if he can break the batting average record of baseball legend Ted Williams, who batted .406 for the Red Sox in 1941. Dollenberg is certain no old geezer can have a better season than Williams in his prime, and doubles the bonus offer to $50,000, knowing he’ll never have to pay it.

Manipulated by Noonan, Bo impulsively leaves his job of 33 years, and signs on with Dollenberg, for the life of a minor league baseball player. It’s a wild season of cheering fans, home runs, and knee troubles, as Bo chases the batting average that makes him famous — and just might win him the impossible $50,000.

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Bruce Jay Bloom has been a writer all his adult life: a TV promotion director, advertising agency founder and creative director, playwright, and novelist. BASEBALL TEAM SIGNS GEEZER is a story that’s been coming to a boil ever since he became a baseball addict, which happened when he married his wife Sara, a lifelong Yankees fan. Admittedly a terrible baseball player himself, Bloom achieves his sports triumphs vicariously through Bo Zaweski, the hero of this 15,000 word adventure.

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