About Somethin’ for Nothin’by M.T. Bass

Anchorage, 1976 — Albert and Waxy flunk their Intro to Philosophy midterm and drunkenly decide to drop out of The Ohio State University and go to Alaska to “strike it rich” working on the Trans Alaska Pipeline. After Albert’s father cuts off his credit card, they get bartending & dishwashing jobs at an Anchorage bar, where Albert becomes involved with the bar owner’s girlfriend, CiCi, who is also the lead singer in the house band. Albert “acquires” a union card to get a pipeline job for himself, but then learns that Waxy has become part of a crazy scheme with Jimmi the Pilot, Beantown Bob and Moe the Eskimo to find and recover a long lost government payroll from an Air Force cargo plane that crashed in the Alaska Mountain Range decades ago.

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M.T. Bass did hard time as a “yute” standing in the corner or parked in public school cafeteria detention, until diagnosed with RDHD (Reality Deficit Hyper-Fictionalization Disorder). Rehab in a college English Department failed to cure his lying ways and he now litters the wild, wild web with words.

About Mage Catalyst by Christopher George:

Devon had always just assumed that he was normal, just like everyone else. It wasn’t until he met Renee that he realized that he was something different – something dangerous. He is a Mage.

Led into a world of corruption and temptation Devon soon learns that there is always a price for power.

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As an avid science fiction and fantasy reader Christopher George has been immersing himself in books from a young age. In 2004 Christopher completed his Bachelor of Multimedia at Monash University and has been working as an IT professional ever since. He currently lives in Melbourne with his partner, her daughter and three cats.

Mage Catalyst is his first completed novel and was written in a variety of hotel rooms and airports across Australia. Catalyst is his first non-technical piece and he finds it much easier to write fiction than software documentation.

It’s also very recently come to light that he is simply awful at talking about himself in the third person.

About Forty Days to Armageddon by Reynold Jay

Free Day: February 1, 2016
Written by the winner of the Hub Nugget Writer 2012 Award.
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FIVE STARS. Carol: a confirmed Kindle Reader
“I think the author should be nominated for best book of the year! His tenacity to research in-depth, difficult details with such clarity and timing keeps the reader wondering what’s coming next. He makes the story authentic in its disguise.
A brilliant book, one that deserves great acknowledgments. I loved it!”
A half-billion would die before it was over….
The day the Iranians set off a forty megaton nuke marked the beginning of a new world order. The Russians covertly assist the Admiral who sets a plan in motion disrupting the world’s oil supply that will ultimately alter the course of history.
The Western World is panic stricken with the thought that Iran threatens first Israel, then the entire world with nuclear destruction. The Iranian president continues his ranting at the UN that Allah has willed the destruction of the evil Zionists.
Old hostilities are tossed aside and new alliances are formed in smoke filled backrooms of the UN, the Kremlin and the White House. Third world nations, particularly Somalia, suddenly become strategically important and the super powers struggle to sort it all out and battle for position. The stakes could not be higher.
Houston Robinson, better known as Watchdogg, an unofficial Cabinet advisor to the president, sets out to discover the truth to all the crises that suddenly appear out of nowhere. Tourists are mysteriously kidnapped off the streets of Europe and surface in the largest supertanker hijacking in history. The USS George H.W. Bush is a target of an Iranian airbus attack in the Indian Ocean. Pandemonium in the oil futures markets sends oil prices to dizzying heights in a Venezuela Chinese oil coup. The entire planet it seems is being turned upside down when the Admiral seizes the world’s oil supply. Economies crumble at a dizzying pace while others flourish depending upon their role in the new order.
Watchdogg finds himself in backroom politics with the Amir Harazi the Prime Minister of Israel who has plans of his own to bring a stop to the Iranian missiles that threaten to destroy his country in another Holocaust.
You will be taken into the cockpits of Super Hornets and Lightning II’s with the men and women who carry out the orders of world leaders. You’ll witness the agonizing decisions of generals and commanders who place their careers on the line carrying out the orders of presidents and prime ministers. Inevitably Watchdogg runs head to head with the Admiral. Millions of lives hang in the balance as the world threatens to self destruct from greed and power.
This story is taken from tomorrow’s headlines. It’s a prophetic tale that will scare you with its chilling back room deals and double-crosses. Who is friend? Who is foe?
It’s a good thing Watchdogg is here to figure it all out and see that the Admiral’s plan to hijack the world’s oil is waylaid. Should he do it? Can he do it? Let’s hope so.

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Reynold Jay has authored a dozen books and co-authored a non-fiction book with Amara, “Eternal Defilement.” Once a Special Education teacher–now an author/publisher/restoration professional, he hopes to inspire his readers with this series meant for political thriller fans around the world. Reynold Jay says, “I wanted to predict the future at its very worst in this one. Let’s hope that there is a real-life Watchdogg out there that can save us from extinction!”

About Apocalypse Originsby R.A. Neely

Gregory had no idea what was in store for him as he headed for work that morning. How was this even possible? It was something out of a bad horror movie but this was suddenly his life. Trying to survive everyday, fighting off the infected. Worse, other survivors make the infected look almost pleasant. All Gregory wants is to keep his family safe. Can he do it in a world gone mad?

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I’ve just completed my first book and I have to say that it’s the fulfillment of a lifelong dream. I’ve always been an avid reader from the moment I could read. I spent a lot of my childhood underneath my grandmother’s dining room table reading the latest book I had managed to get my hands on. From that I began to have a desire to write my own book. I started off with fan-fiction type stuff. I’d write my own ending to my favorite books or the latest video game I had played. Fast forward a decade or two and I discovered self-publishing on Amazon. Next thing you know, I put pen to paper and here we are.

About SHIFT: Seven Steps to a Business That Serves You by Ted Gravlin

We’ve all heard the we need to work on our business not in our business. But, what exactly are the steps you need to take first? What tasks should you be working on to make your business into one that doesn’t need your personal attention every single minute of every day?

This book describes the steps that you need to take to build a business that is self sufficient. So that you can finally have the freedom that you’ve always wanted.

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Ted Gravlin is the guy with the magic power of knowing how to build and own a business in a way that allows him to follow whatever other passions strike his fancy. Father to 3 kids, he lives in Colorado and enjoys experiencing adventure and the beauty of the mountains.

About Elementals: The Prophecy of Shadows by Michelle Madow:

Elementals is the first in a new series that fans of Percy Jackson and The Secret Circle will love!

When Nicole Cassidy moves from sunny Georgia to gloomy New England, the last thing she expects is to learn that her homeroom is a cover for a secret coven of witches. Even more surprisingly … she’s apparently a witch herself. Despite doubts about her newfound abilities, Nicole is welcomed into this ancient circle of witches and is bedazzled by their powers—and, to her dismay, by Blake—the school’s notorious bad-boy.

Girls who get close to Blake wind up hurt. His girlfriend Danielle will do anything to keep them away, even if she must resort to using dark magic. But the chemistry between Blake and Nicole is undeniable, and despite wanting to protect Nicole from Danielle’s wrath, he finds it impossible to keep his distance.

When the Olympian Comet shoots through the sky for the first time in three thousand years, Nicole, Blake, Danielle, and two others in their homeroom are gifted with mysterious powers. But the comet has another effect—it opens the portal to the prison world that has contained the Titans for centuries. After an ancient monster escapes and attacks Nicole and Blake, it’s up to them and the others to follow the clues from a cryptic prophecy so that they can save their town … and possibly the world.

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Michelle Madow grew up in Baltimore, graduated Rollins College in Orlando, and now lives in Boca Raton, Florida. She wrote her first book in her junior year of college, and has been writing novels since. Some of her favorite things are: reading, pizza, traveling, shopping, time travel, Broadway musicals, and spending time with friends and family. Michelle has toured across America to promote her books and to encourage high school students to embrace reading and writing. Someday, she hopes to travel the world for a year on a cruise ship.

About Connor:

Strong. Sassy. Superhuman.

Connor’s mundane teenager life takes a U-turn when she discovers her incredible abilities, and a whole new world opens up around her. Thrilled by her newfound powers, she soon realizes that being special often means being singled out – and not always by those with good intentions.

With a group of friends who share similar abilities, Connor is set on a path of discovery and adventure as they try to find out more about their true self and origin. They soon find themselves pursued by Ronin; young, smart and out for revenge against them for reasons unknown.

The first novel in Dormaine G’s young adult fantasy series, Connor is a witty, intense read and an exciting debut.

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Dormaine was born in Long Island, New York where she lived most of her life. As an adult she liked to travel out of the country though her favorite places to explore were her fantasy worlds as an author. She may be a nurse by profession but her heart has always belonged to writing. As a young child she spent many Saturdays in the library nurturing her love for books. There she discovered her fascination for the science fiction genre, through books, movies and graphic novels.

Now she resides in Colorado with her husband and two feisty dogs. After many years of working in hospitals and travel nursing she took time off to pursue a career in writing. Her first novel “Connor” is in one of her favorite genres, young adult urban fantasy. Her second love is for horror of which she created the “Madame Lilly, Voodoo Priestess” series. This is just the start of her exploration as she stays locked up her office in Colorado spinning more tales.

02/01/2016

About Personal Branding: A Simple Guide To Reinvent & Manage Your Brand For Career Success by Dorothy Tannahill-Moran:

Pardon me, your brand is showing

Except maybe your brand, what you offer to others isn’t clear at all. Maybe you’ve felt like your tongue got stuck in your throat at networking meetings when people asked, “So, what is it that you do?”

You never have to be caught in the headlights again.

Even better, you can create the kind of image for yourself that helps you lock down jobs, makes promotions a snap, and gain the respect of your peers.

You’ll do that by taking a short and easy journey, guided gently by the hands of a pro who’s worked with hundreds of people just like you.

Designed in workbook form, you’ll both learn and write the template for your own personal brand at the same time – crafting a brand that’s in alignment with your goals.

Discover:
– How to figure out what your personal brand truly is
– Why your personal brand is vital to your career path
– How to communicate and demonstrate your brand at work, on social media and what other critical places you want to reinforce that branding
– How to do damage control when you blunder (which will happen at some point)
– How to reinvent and change your brand when your goals change

Don’t get stuck in dead-end jobs or be overlooked anymore. When you complete this workbook your own brand will pop out like the “S” on Superman’s chest. You’ll be comfortable telling others what you’re all about. Best of all, your branding will be aligned with your dreams.

If you liked “What Color Is My Parachute” or No More Monday’s: Fire Yourself-and Other Revolutionary Ways to Discover Your True Calling at Work”, you’ll want to add this book to your list.

“Easy to read and a snap to go through and institute. I can see where anyone would benefit, whether they’re just starting their career or reinventing themselves. This is a classic I’ll refer to if I ever decide to switch careers again.”- Amazon Reviewer

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Dorothy Tannahill-Moran, is an author, speaker and leadership coach. Dorothy helps people accelerate their career and discover their leadership potential. She has a unique perspective and deep knowledge on career development forged by twenty-one years of management at Intel Corporation and 7 years as a leadership coach. Dorothy has led hundreds of people to become impressive leaders internationally.
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About It’s Time to Wake Up! Poems and Messages that Inspire the Black Experience.:

Pick up this book while it is free starting February 1st.

This book has encouraging poems and messages. It inspires the black experience, giving a positive outlook in the community.

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My name is Marie Yvette. I am a poet and writer who loves to read. I have a romance novel written under another pen name.

About Growth Factor: Seven Keys to Define Your Message, Target the Right Customers, and Win Big in Business by BJ O’Neal

Many business owners and entrepreneurs have great intentions when starting their business but then at some point they’re all faced with the same issues: how to grow.

Growth Factor focuses on 7 key areas entrepreneurs must attend to in order to find success. This book will help you understand how to create growth in today’s business environment, providing you a roadmap and a set of practical tools to navigate its challenges.

These 7 key insights are the foundational building blocks to business growth that left ignored can be the reason for business failure.

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BJ O’Neal is successful entrepreneur with more than 20 years experience in the world of traditional & digital media, business ownership, coaching and more. As a founding partner and certified coach, teacher & speaker with the John Maxwell Team, he helps businesses achieve success through strategic marketing, branding and sales funnel techniques.

In addition, BJ has spent years working with radio stations across the country to expand their revue streams through integrative partnerships.

BJ lives just outside Franklin, TN with his wife DeAundra and three kids. For coaching and speaking information visit www.bjoneal.com or email to bj@bjoneal.com.

About Four Summer Days by Judy Nickles:

“Mamma, he could’ve killed you! It’s not the first time, and it won’t be the last!”
“He didn’t.”
“I could’ve killed him.”
Her mouth dropped open. “No, Tom! You’re your Papa’s boy. Killing’s not in you.”

After enduring ten years of his stepfather’s cruelty toward his family, Tom Morgan determines to move his mother and two brothers to Texas where their uncle has offered to help them make a fresh start. Putting together his plans, he makes a bitter discovery: what drove his beloved younger sister Hannah to leave home three years earlier. As he struggles with his rage, his family’s survival weighs heavily, and he faces unalterable–and unimaginable–decisions.
Tom’s long life, spanning post-Civil War Arkansas to the aftermath of World War II, is haunted by what he is forced to do during those four July days in 1876. The love of his family, their abiding faith in his commitment to do what’s right for all of them, and the memory of his Papa, who taught him that the measure of a man is his respect for the lives of others as well as his own, helps him live–and die– with the consequences of his actions.

Based on an actual family incident, the true circumstances of which are forever lost in time, the author has crafted a story of perseverance and survival. Look for the sequel, Return to Morgan’s Mountain, which brings the family forward to a new generation.

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Judy Nickles is a retired teacher, genealogist, traveler, British crime-drama fan, ghost tour- taker, and writer who has been spinning tales since she could hold a #2 pencil in her fat little fist. She writes “vintage romance”, stories spanning the First World War through the 50s, and also contemporary romantic suspense and cozy mysteries. After 5 traditionally-published books, she “went indie” with two series and some singles. She is proof that an old dog can learn new tricks—her laptop and her Kindle Fire are her favorite possessions. She is not aging quietly but rather having her adolescent rebellion 50+ years late: witness her forking over to fly in a World War II B-24 bomber built the year she was born. (You figure it out!). She has an alter ego as Mimi of five, one of whom had better turn out to be a writer before years of filed clippings and ideas make a bonfire for her less-imaginative sons.

About A Hard Days Night:

“A Hard Days Night” is the first in a series of erotic romances from the only male-female writing team in the world of romances. Bestselling expert of non-fiction romantic advice Greg Godek (“1001 Ways to be Romantic”) joins newbie writer and quiet-but-naughty recluse Anastasia Winters to create erotic romances that are sexy, sassy and classy. (“A Hard Days Night” is NOT about The Beatles, but it IS a rock ’n roll romance!) Freelance writer and aspiring romance novelist Abbey has a quiet, satisfying life with a loving, lovable, gentle boyfriend. Her one passion is the music of bad boy rock star Maxwell. The power and poetry of his songs resonate deeply with Abbey. She had fallen for him (“Um, for his music!” she insists) ten years ago, when she was just seventeen. And nothing had changed in the intervening ten years. Abbey and Maxwell had a unique relationship. One that he was totally unaware of. One day Abbey receives an unexpected gift that brings her face-to-face with the man of her dreams…Maxwell. He has everything a man could desire: Fame, fortune, success and access to as many beautiful/sexy women as he could possibly want—yet something was missing from his life. Can a bad boy rock star fall in love with a good girl from Iowa? Can they overcome the obstacles and people that would keep them apart? Can two people from opposite sides of life come together and stay together?

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Anastasia Winters has been a writer of romances for twenty-nine years but this is her first published book. She became interested in the wondrous world of romances when she discovered her mother’s copy of Love’s Wild Desire—Jennifer Blake’s 406-page exploration of unbidden ecstasy—in the back of her closet, behind the shoeboxes, under the magazines—when she was eight. She spent the next sixteen years as a closet reader of romances. Anastasia is thrilled to be the the writing partner of Greg Godek. (He’s a bestseller! He’s been on Oprah! OMG!) They have an amazing working relationship, and as a male-female writing team they seem to be nearly unique.

Greg Godek has been been writing relationship books (advice for real life romances) for twenty years, and writing romances for a three. Back in the roaring 90s he wrote and published 1001 Ways to be Romantic. The stars must have been aligned because the book sold three million copies. He decided it was a good idea to undertake the biggest book signing tour in the history of publishing: Two years spent criss-crossing America aboard a custom 36-foot RV, visiting 43 states and 189 bookstores. Along the way he was invited to appear on Oprah, Donahue, The Today Show and Good Morning America. His advice and antics have appeared in The Sunday New York Times, The Boston Globe, Cosmo, Playboy, Reader’s Digest and The National Enquirer. Greg and Anastasia and are currently writing the sequels to A Hard Days Night and are toying with ideas for some erotic romance for men.

About The Spanish Connection #17 Rafferty & Llewellyn:

A nine-months pregnant wife, a murder victim found down a trench in an archaeological dig minus his fingers, and very limited time, meant that Rafferty wasn’t a happy bunny. Superintendent Bradley, keen to net Charlie Carver, a Mr Big of Spain’s Costa del Crime, and the victim’s ex-employer, was putting the pressure on. And then Rafferty’s wife went into labour, and he had to rush back to England. But becoming a daddy pushed him to a belated answer to the murder mystery, and stopped someone else from becoming a victim, too.

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Geraldine Evans is a British novelist. She turned indie in 2010 after many years and eighteen novels in the traditional publishing world.

Her working life includes stints in a psychiatric hospital, a public library, running their own vehicle repair workshop with her mechanic husband, an au pair, behind bars, in factories, for the legal world, the energy world and the insurance world as an office temp. She’s helped out in the Constituency Office of her local Member of Parliament and looked after other people’s dogs while their owners took a holiday.

Her interests include photography, getting God-like in the greenhouse, learning keyboards and painting amateur portraits of unwilling victims.

About Mount Silenus: A Vertical Odyssey of Extraordinary Peril by Petronius Jablonski:

When novice climbers Trevor and Gaspar attempt Mount Silenus they discover that inspiration from a famous book makes a poor substitute for experience. Accuracy is important on mountains, especially one darkened by legends of a prehistoric sloth — the Abominable Unau — and the indigenous people who make sacrifices to it. As the text bears less and less resemblance to the terrain, squabbles over its interpretation become a battle of faith vs. reason. Those are best fought on flat surfaces.

Why does a man climb a mountain? To taste the distilled essence of life, to glimpse the clandestine maneuvers of his soul, and because he believes everything he reads. For two high school teachers who skipped their climbing classes, a masterpiece advocating spontaneity over skill proves irresistible. Unknown to them, the reclusive author honed his technique scaling barstools and brooding over the unjust fame of Nietzsche. He ignored eyewitness accounts of the Abominable Unau for stylistic reasons. Stories about wrathful apparitions infesting a labyrinth of caves didn’t make the cut either.

During a quixotic journey in the general direction of the summit, Trevor and Gaspar join a scientist investigating paranormal activity on one of the plateaus. The book fails to warn about traps set by the mountain people to protect the sacred site from desecration. When they fall into icy catacombs they must confront the source of the legends to survive. Inspired by a disastrous attempt on Denali.

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Petronius Jablonski studied Philosophy and Psychology at the University of Wisconsin Parkside. His published writing about the malevolence of lotus pods and the Zen of Megatherium is included in Some Call It Trypophobia, a collection of stories and an existential analysis of the phobia. Schrodinger’s Dachshund was his first novel. Publishers Weekly said it “reads like a surreal existentialist crisis, a stream-of-consciousness narrative that employs secrets and intrigue as a driving, page-turning force. … [He] is able to inject a sense of immediacy and intensity in the story by using sparse description that suggests more than it tells. … An engaging narrative.”

About A DAY THAT GOD MADE by Mike Masi:

A small commercial cargo plane in heavy weather slams into the frozen Alaskan tundra and disintegrates. The pilot is the only person on board and this is his day to die. Against all odds, the pilot miraculously survives the crash. He is now the only human being in nine hundred square miles of ice and snow and he’s hopelessly trapped within the wreckage. With the approach of night and little chance of rescue, death will still come. When the fundamental laws of science and probability are suspended, do we remain willing to accept luck as a satisfactory explanation? This is the author’s own true story of one extraordinary day.

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Mike Masi began his adult life as a dancer performing in nearly every major concert hall in the United States, including Carnegie Hall and Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. Knee damage led to stints as a waiter, accountant, oilfield roustabout and commercial airline pilot. He lives in an ancient hilltop village near the Adriatic Sea where life’s most important things are at his doorstep: good food, good coffee, good wine, good people and a soundtrack of church bells marking the graceful passage of time. A violent donkey crash is highly unlikely. A DAY THAT GOD MADE is his first book.