About Life Without My Spouse:

Life Without My Spouse is written to give a look and a better understanding of what widowhood is like. It describes the different thoughts and emotions that widows and widowers deal with, and the changes that they face following the death of their spouses.
Every widow and widowers’ story is different, but they all share in the pain caused by the loss of their spouses. Life Without My Spouse gives a small look into that shared pain and the grief that comes with it. Shanette shares her personal and intimate thoughts and emotions from her journey, in hopes of helping others understand what life is like when a spouse dies.

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Shanette Booker is a resident of Beaufort, South Carolina, the author of Life Without My Spouse and Love, The Unspoken Words, a loving mother of three, and the honorable wife of the late Army Staff Sergeant Andre Booker; whom she dedicates her writings to. Through the pain and loss of her husband, she has found a way to pour her emotions on paper. Since she was young, Shanette has always been able to express what others couldn’t into words; and is seen in through her writings. She is the organizer of the Military Widows Mixer Retreat, the voice behind Surviving With Shanette on Facebook, a mentor to several military widows, and a blogger for TAPS.

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About Sewing Can Be Dangerous and Other Small Threads by S. R. Mallery:

These eleven long short stories combine history, mystery, action and/or romance, and range from drug trafficking using Guatemalan hand-woven wallets, to an Antebellum U.S. slave using codes in her quilts as a message system to freedom; from an ex-journalist and her Hopi Indian maid solving a cold case together involving Katchina spirits, to a couple hiding Christian passports in a comforter in Nazi Germany; from a wedding quilt curse dating back to the Salem Witchcraft Trials, to a mystery involving a young seamstress in the infamous Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire; from a 1980’s Romeo and Juliet romance between a rising Wall Street financial ‘star’ and an eclectic fiber artist, to a Haight-Asbury love affair between a professor and a beautiful macramé artist gone horribly askew, just to name a few.

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Let’s face it. S. R. Mallery is as eclectic as her characters. Starting out as a classical/pop singer/composer, she next explored the fast-paced world of advertising as a production artist while she simultaneously dipped her toe into the Zen biosphere as a calligrapher. Having started a family and wanting to work from the home, she moved on to having a long career as an award-winning quilt artist and an ESL/Reading instructor before settling on her true love––writing. Although her taste in reading is wide-ranging, she tends to write mostly historical fiction, where she can not only weave her characters into historical times and events, she gets to perform her second love: Research. Her short stories have been published in descant 2008, Snowy Egret, Transcendent Visions, The Storyteller, and Down In the Dirt.

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About Splash Down:

Join our excited junior firefighter as he visits his brave Uncle for the first time. Like any boy or girl with firefighting on the brain, our little guy jumps into action. His imagination goes into overdrive as he imagines himself driving the fire engine, sliding the pole, and even extinguishing fire. He is brought back to reality when he finds himself in a funny, not to mention embarrassing, situation. He learns that firefighting takes hard work, skill and practice, but if he works hard enough he can be part of the team. The book will be free to download from July 11 to July 15!

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Brooks Watson and James McDonald work together on the Chicago Fire Department. They came on the job together 19 years ago, went their separate ways, and eventually reunited at the same house, on the same shift. In addition to ‘answering the call’ while on shift each of these men gave frequent tours of the firehouse to many visitors both young and old, telling stories to wide eyed kids in the process. They now team up again to bring you this engaging story based on their experience and imagination.

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About Play On by Avery Cockburn:

Only 99 cents July 8 – 14, discounted from $2.99!

A tale of pride over prejudice on the soccer pitch kicks off this gay romance series set in Scotland.

Duncan Harris is on the edge. Scandal has shredded his LGBT soccer team’s history-making season, and now the once-unflappable striker is lashing out. Only one person can tame Duncan’s rage and make him feel like himself again…

Bullied by schoolmates in his wee village, Brodie Campbell lurked deep in the closet before coming to the city of Glasgow. Here at university he’s out and proud, but the years of abuse have left him emotionally paralyzed. Can flatmate Duncan help Brodie escape his past and heal his wounded heart?

As the two lads grow closer, Brodie can’t forget how athletes like Duncan once tortured him. When Duncan attacks an opponent who threatens Brodie, the situation escalates. Soon Brodie doesn’t feel safe anywhere—especially in Duncan’s arms.

To defeat the bullies who’ve wrecked his life, his mind, and his ability to love, Brodie must find the strength to fight his own battles. And Duncan must find the strength to let him.

Note: The Glasgow Lads series contains dirty talk with a Scottish accent, naughty bits of a gay nature, and characters who call soccer “football.”
Approximately 41,000 words/140 pages.

Glasgow Lads Series

More Warriors are on the way! Each stand-alone novel book features a new couple, so they can be read in any order.

– Play On (novella), May 2015
– Playing for Keeps, June 18, 2015
– Playing to Win, September 18, 2015
– Play It Safe (short story), November 2015
– Playing with Fire, January 2016

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Avery Cockburn (rhymes with Savory Slow Churn) is the author of the Glasgow Lads gay romance series set in modern-day Scotland. The series centers around the Woodstoun Warriors, an all-LGBT soccer/football team who seek and find love, one lad at a time.

Avery lives in the United States with one infinitely patient man and two infinitely impatient cats.

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About Epic Achievements Against Incredible Odds by Steve McCurdy:

This is the fascinating the story of how a few great Americans, between 1930 and 1952, overcame incredible challenges to build some of the world’s most remarkable architectural wonders.

Drawing upon his impressive knowledge of American history, the author chronicles the country’s emergence in the Roaring Twenties as the world’s pre-eminent builder of great dams, bridges, and skyscrapers. He skillfully combines little-known back stories with vintage photographs to show how America’s architects, engineers and contractors, working with arcane technologies and slide rules, used innovation, ingenuity, and inspiration to build some of the world’s most extraordinary structures faster and better than they have been built before or since.

Mr. McCurdy’s narrative includes:

• Hoover Dam

In the depths of the Great Depression, a man from Maine named Frank Crowe assembled a rag-tag army of 5,000 unemployed men in the middle of the Mojave Desert. Working in conditions that were sometimes brutal, without the benefit of modern technologies, Crowe and his men not only built the world’s greatest dam, but they finished it under budget two years ahead of schedule.

• The Golden Gate Bridge

In his account of the building of this celebrated bridge, McCurdy tells the little-known back story of Charles Ellis. Fired by a boss jealous of his engineering genius, Ellis worked tirelessly behind the scenes, without pay or acknowledgement, to write the bid specifications for every single component of the bridge. Although he is now regarded as the father of the bridge, Ellis received no recognition during his lifetime.

• The Empire State Building

Paul Starrett was an organizational genius, and is often referred to as the father of the American skyscraper. McCurdy tells the remarkable story of how, in 1931, Starrett built the Empire State Building from ribbon cutting to completion in the astonishing time of 391 days, a record which has never been challenged and which amazes structural engineers to this day.

• The Pentagon

Prior to the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941, 40,000 War Department personnel in Washington DC were spread out among 22 separate buildings. One man was given the task of bringing them all together under one roof. Less than eight months after he broke ground, Brehon Burke Somervell was moving employees into the world’s largest building, the 6.6 million square foot Pentagon.

• The SS United States

When he was eight years old, William Francis Gibbs began dreaming of building the world’s greatest ocean liner. Fifty-eight years later, on May 14, 1952, Gibbs guided his thousand foot long dream ship into open waters. With the greatest power to weight ratio ever achieved in any passenger vessel, the SS United States broke the transatlantic crossing speed record by 10 hours on her maiden voyage.

In the second half of Epic Achievements Against Incredible Odds, the author carefully traces the country’s post-war decline as the world’s great builder, and identifies and analyzes the causes of its slide. McCurdy ends his book with a frank and compelling assessment of how, when and whether, the United States will ever bounce back and re-establish its supremacy as the world’s master builder of architectural icons.

Order this book now to enjoy the unforgettable stories of the men behind of some of history’s most enduring engineering accomplishments.

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Steve McCurdy was born in Detroit in 1943, and spent his formative years in a small town in Northern Iowa. After graduating from the University of Northern Colorado in 1966 he spent 10 years working as a financial officer for NYSE companies. In 1977 Mr. McCurdy left the corporate treadmill and established himself as a consultant to small businesses seeking investment capital for start-up or expansion. Steve wrote more than 200 business plans and helped entrepreneurs raise millions of dollars of capital over a thirty-year career.

Today Steve writes passionately about how government excess stifles personal freedom and individual enterprise. He also has a lifelong love of American History, and enjoys researching and writing about the American story, particularly the revolutionary period and the early twentieth century.

Steve is now retired and lives in Tennessee.

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About Codename: Bear, Secret Agent By Geoffrey C Porter:

Razdorans want to claim Earth as their property, and under interstellar law, they can, if our governments fall into anarchy. They use a man named Centurian to fuel drug trades, assassinations, and human trafficking all across Earth. If they can claim us as a territory, youths will be shipped to factory planets, and mineral resources will be strip mined layer by layer.

Chor’Tan are friendly to mankind. They are close to us genetically. Their race is limited by the males of the species. A male Chor’Tan is no more intelligent than an Earth crocodile or alligator, and they want to cross breed with humanity to create a species with smart males.

An anti-crime agency is set up to fight Centurian’s forces, and they recruit a young man they Codename: Bear. He works with a team of other agents, going on missions trying to put an end to Centurian’s reign of terror.

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Geoff started writing in 2003. He penned his first novel between Thanksgiving and Christmas that year. He had high hopes for it, of course, but errors plagued his first draft. He was driven to create an epic fantasy next, Juxta, Magi. Then he crafted a military sci-fi, R.A.E.C.E. Genesis.

He spent hundreds of afternoons during his formative years dueling over a hot box of dice playing tabletop wargames such as Titan and Axis&Allies. These games have strong military components and fantasy elements.

Geoff taught himself to program computers as a young pup. The first software Geoff developed professionally was a Chemical Weapons Attack Simulator for the USAF. He did it in Visual Basic 3.0 in Win3.11, on a 386SX16 processor. Since then he has built websites professionally and browser based multiplayer kingdom games.

When he first started writing, he had no clue how to find publishers or submit stories. He didn’t know how to fix all the errors in his manuscripts. It kind of hit him like lightning one day that Sinclair Community College in Dayton, OH might have an English class worth taking. He discovered a plethora of writing classes, including the most awesome class ever, Text Editing. Geoff learned under published authors: Ed Davis and Tim Waggoner, among others.

As of 2015, Geoff has written eight novels and a novella. Most of them were self published. They were largely never sent to publishers, and he’s hoping to change his methods. He penned over fifty short stories. Fifteen of his shorts have been published.

For five years Geoff ran an eZine, Untied Shoelaces of the Mind. Being an editor, and having a slush pile to go through, has helped him grow as a writer. He quit mostly because he read one too many Man-Eats-Own-Leg stories.

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About A Woof in Sheep’s Clothing by JB Lynn:

While investigating the disappearance of a psychic matchmaker, Detective Brian Griswald meets dog trainer Stephanie Browne, a beautiful woman who can be just as prickly as the rescue mutts she works with.

Like her dogs, Stephanie’s not quick to trust, which is why she rejects the charming detective when he tries to pursue a relationship with her, but when Brian is dragged into a case involving Stephanie’s beloved dogs, the two must work together to find the truth.

Solving the mystery proves challenging for both of them and dangerous for Stephanie. Can Brian and a canine cavalry save her before it’s too late?

Romance, mystery and dogs for only 99 cents!

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Amazon best-selling author JB Lynn is a Jersey Girl transplanted to the Sunshine State, JB (you can call her Jen) writes laugh-out-loud suspense and mysteries, along with goosebump-raising thrillers, that all have a dose of romance.

She also guzzles coffee, spoils her dog, and wastes endless hours daydreaming.

She’s the author of the best selling series: CONFESSIONS OF A SLIGHTLY NEUROTIC HITWOMAN
and THE MATCHMAKER MYSTERIES series.

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About The Re-Org:

It is a time of great fear and crapped-in panties.

From the wretched grunt-worker cubicles, to the panic-stricken bunkers of middle management – to the spectacular mobile hot tubs of senior leadership – comes a sense of approaching doom. And not just any old doom. But a doom so awful, so enormous – and so categorically boneheaded…

That none dare speak it by name.

But it is a doom which comes a-calling nevertheless. Plunging them all into a winner-take-all showdown against an all-powerful force they cannot seem to overcome. Shoving them to the very limits of their endurance, their flex-time allotments and their humanity. And leaving them with no escape from that which they fear most upon God’s Good Earth…

The Re-Org.

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B.T. Lyng was employed by some of the largest corporations in the world.

For more than 15 years, he contributed to their pot-lucks, followed their rules and worked to gain their trust. Until one day, when no one was looking:

He escaped.

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About Looking for La La:

Bored stay at home mother, Cathy, finds her predictable routine upturned as she investigates a lipstick-covered love postcard sent to husband, Declan. Who is this mysterious La La? Could Declan really be having an affair? And – wait – is Cathy actually being stalked?

With all her friends hiding secrets, a sexy admirer igniting long-forgotten sparks, and the stress of organizing the school’s Save The Toilets dance, soon it’s not only Cathy’s marriage that’s in jeopardy. Add in the scheming antics of Declan’s new assistant and a possible murderer on the scene and the stage is set for a dangerous showdown and some very unsettling, even deadly, revelations.

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Ellie Campbell is a pseudonym for sisters, Pam Burks and Lorraine Campbell who collaborate across the mighty Atlantic, finding writing together the perfect excuse for endless phone conversations. They are equally passionate about travel, animals and the great outdoors. Although Pam lives near London, with husband, three children and a dog, while Lorraine is on a Colorado ranch near wild and wonderful Boulder with husband, five horses, five cats, one dog and four chickens – they both believe in enjoying life to the fullest, be it discovering new remote locations or going on trail rides in the beautiful Rocky Mountains.

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About Never Say Never by Melissa Shaw:

Emily is tired of being a New York stripper. Hiding a nasty incident and determined to get her old life back, she’s focused on making the money she owes the slush-for-brains bouncer at the club, Big Nick. But opportunity – and anxiety – presents itself in the form of Chase Newman, who reminds her what passion and trust are about. In spite of her hidden past and a deep-seated mistrust for men, Emily falls for him head-over-heels style. She doesn’t want to, but damn, this guy is fine as hell.

Emily clings to the pole and her fear of men, even though Chase is nothing but a gentleman. She tries desperately to push him away, while balancing her ambitions and avoiding Big Nick’s groping hands at the club. The more she trusts, the more she freaks the hell out, but she can’t help being drawn to Chase’s protective side. Pity really, when a woman from his past crashes into their lives with a shocking revelation which could tear everything apart.

Never Say Never Part One is a first book of four-part second chance romance serial.

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Melissa Shaw lives in the land of Prince Hamlet in a gorgeous suburb of Copenhagen, and uses the surrounds to craft romances which touch on the truth behind humanity. She likes strong female characters, flawed men, and strong bourbon. When she’s not hunched over her laptop, she’s wandering the streets searching for inspiration or sipping coffee at the local shop. Mostly she’s just writing. That’s what she does best.

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About Blue Hole:

Blue Hole (FREE) is a mystery suspense thriller based on a tale my Grandfather told about a body he found floating in a swimming hole in a wilderness area of the Ozark Mountains. The name Blue Hole comes from the sky blue color of a deep pool of water where a spring runs into Jacks Fork River from the mouth of a cave. Jacks Fork was named by Life Magazine as one of the most scenic float and fishing streams in the world.

Blue Hole and Sequel River’s Edge have received over (500) four and five star reviews and 122,00 downloads. In River’s Edge I aged Dub (12) and brother Tommy (15) by 50 years and made them Grandfathers who take their Grandsons to Blue Hole where a murder occurred the last time they were there in 1949. They become a family of cold case detectives. It’s not easy to solve a (50) year old murder but they prove their up to the task.

Blue Hole and River’s Edge were written for Young Adults but are novels enjoyed by all ages that are becoming popular as assigned reading in schools.

AMAZON KINDLE — Featured Author Review — Rolland Love “Love’s writing transfigures his Ozark Mountains stories into a series of fantastic tales Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer could have only dreamed of.”

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Rolland Love is the author of short stories, novels, a best selling computer book and a playwright. His writing style is compared to Mark Twain.

He created an authoring website used extensively around the world. http://www.imastory.com. Seniors use Imastory to write their life history. While interviewing parents and grandparents students use the educational version to write the life story of their Parents and Grandparents. Stories can be printed and used as fund raisers by selling selling copies to friends and relatives. Some of what many have to say about the website. http://tinyurl.com/kfemmg5

Rolland was a re-enactor with Lewis and Clark during the bicentennial expedition and played the role of Silas Goodrich, expert fisherman. He created a workshop about the adventure which he presents to schools, libraries, retirement centers, business and civic groups. He also wrote a stage play about his character Silas and preformed the production at the Kansas City Fringe Festival.

During Love’s (30) minute interview he talks about Steve Jobs Apple Computer, his experience on the Lewis & Clark expedition, the art of writing fiction, the importance of recording Life Stories and being a fishing guide at (12) years of age. http://tinyurl.com/mfxuut8

To schedule Rolland as a speaker or present workshops please contact him @ Email: storiesrus1@gmail.com Websites: http://ozarkstories.com – http://tinyurl.com/ogxxlup Twitter: @rollandlove Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/rolland.love

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