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Warlords of Llantatis by Dominic Green
About Warlords of Llantatis by Dominic Green
WARLORDS OF LLANTATIS’s graphics, gameplay, and immersive three-dimensional virtual reality experience took the online role playing gaming world by storm when it was first released – but it was first released over fifteen years ago. Now it’s a haunt for the nostalgic and unfashionable. Cyrus Baggett and Raj Rengarajulu have been pretending to be Smelrond of Quimnimbriel and Mordaxxe, Pwner of Noobs since college. Now they’re old, married, and wanted by most of the crowned heads, secret police organisations and demonic familiars of the game universe. They are considering growing out of this thing – at least, until they meet the Character With No Name. The Character’s player is living in one room, which he has never left and appears to be being held in against his will. He doesn’t know where in the world the room is; he doesn’t even know his own name. The only way of finding out more about him is through playing Warlords of Llantatis, and that can only happen if Mordaxxe and Smelrond can keep him alive for long enough to talk – and if they can stay alive themselves, with Beëlzebelle and the Munchkins, Wizard Sparklebeard and Titanowang Lord of Fertility at large in the same universe.
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Dominic Green was born some time ago. He remembers when telephones were attached to the wall with cables. As a child, he was lied to by magazines that told him he would be living on the Moon in the year 2000 wearing silver rocket boots. People have been publishing science fiction by him since 1996, ha! The fools. In 2006, he was nominated for a Hugo Award for his story, The Clockwork Atom Bomb. He is married and has three cats and a Newfoundland dog who is the world’s first life form to consist entirely of drool.
The Fearless Highlander by Amy Jareckci
About The Fearless Highlander by Amy Jareckci
Heir to the most notorious clan in the Highlands, Hugh MacIain hides his identity while imprisoned in the bowels of Fort William’s hell. Aye, this braw warrior has endured horrors that should have seen him dead, though now it appears it’s the bloody flux that will send him to Satan’s fire.
Optimistic, competent, and captivating, Charlotte Hill takes pity on the fevered prisoner sprawled atop a cot in the fort’s surgery. When finally the Highlander opens his eyes, he seizes her heart with a pained stare. Truly, this is no commoner—but in 1692, a warrior loyal to the Jacobite cause and the daughter of a government colonel may as well be worlds apart.
After his escape, Hugh snatches his chance to woo the lass, until disaster strikes. While war and lust for vengeance force Charlotte further from Hugh’s arms, the couple’s romance seems aimlessly adrift on the open sea. Before they sail too far apart, can the tender love of an English lady coax a determined Highlander from his path of revenge?
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Key of Mystery, book I in the NIGHT ANGELS CHRONICLES, by K. H. Mezek
About Key of Mystery, book I in the NIGHT ANGELS CHRONICLES, by K. H. Mezek:
Be careful who you love, it just might kill you.”
Beneath Los Angeles there are over 280 interconnecting tunnels…and there is a Hopi legend that they lead to an underground city, built thousands of years ago by the Lizard people to escape a rain of fire. In the 1934 a man named Schufelt convinced the Los Angeles City Council to fund his search to find the city. He was sure that somewhere hidden within was a secret chamber holding vast treasure and a tablet upon which was written the Secrets to the Origins of Life. Whoever possessed this tablet would have the knowledge and power of God. Schufelt claimed to have almost reached his destination when he inexplicably disappeared. But the search for the tablet did not end there. It now continues with the horrific death of Sera Patterson’s father and the mysterious key that he leave behind…
Sera places the key on a chain around her neck and vows to avenge her father. Strange characters arrive in town including the otherworldly Night Angels, who claim to be sent for her protection.
Sera falls hard for one of them—exotic, arrogant Peter. But what if his promise of love is only a ruse to gain access to the key? As Sera’s connection to the key grows, so do her supernatural powers. Guided by clues left by her father, Sera searches for the hidden chamber beneath the city, hoping to save what lies within before the sinister mayor and his deadly followers drown humanity in a bloodbath.
Here is the beginning of the first chapter:
Friday the 13th. My eighteenth birthday. The day it all started or the day it all ended, depending how you look at it.
My eighteenth birthday and all I could think about was death.
Unexpected, swift, ruthless. There it was, breathing down my neck and whispering that I would be next. Death and destruction.
And love.
Be careful who you love. It just might kill you.
Everybody dies—it’s the great equalizer, as they say. No matter if you fight to the end or give in peacefully, no matter if you die alone or you make the front page news, no matter if you’re thrown into an unmarked grave or a pyramid is built in your honor, you’re still plain old dead. And as much as you’d like to hope otherwise, the world moves right along without you, be you Hitler, or Cleopatra, or the local plumber.
But this death…O This death that was quickly pushed under the rug and hidden away and made to appear insignificant turned out to be anything but. This death was so cataclysmic that it not only destroyed my life and the lives of my mother and my brother, but like a terrible plague, it infected the lives of everyone in the town where I grew up, and threatened to do the same to the entire world.
You know what they say: it never rains in LA, but when it does, it pours. Well, it was pouring that day.
The day of my birthday.
The day of my dad’s funeral.
I was holding tightly to a big black umbrella, sturdy enough for a London downpour, imagining myself flying off with the wind just like Mary Poppins, while valiantly shielding my mom and younger brother as best I could, all three of us huddled closer to each other than we ever got under normal circumstances and still getting wet around the edges. A minister was speaking, but I couldn’t have told you what he was saying. He probably couldn’t have either. He was giving some generic speech, the one he gave for all the families he didn’t know, clearly in a rush to get it over with and why wouldn’t he be, it was miserable out there and his nose was red and runny as if he had bad cold.
All I could do was to stare at the coffin, unable to believe that this was real. I should have been blowing out the candles on my birthday cake while my family and best friends looked on, not teetering on the edge of a gaping hole that was soon to be covered like all the thousands of other plots that rose and fell across the hilly cemetery like the Devil’s patchwork quilt.
Tomorrow, a tombstone would mark my dad’s last resting place with these inadequate words chiseled on it:
In Memory of Theodore Patterson, dearly beloved by his wife Celia and children Sera and Salem. May God reunite us in Heaven.
The lid of the coffin was closed, the body sealed inside. A framed picture of my dad, Theo, was propped on an easel by the coffin, his dark green eyes sparkling with laughter, his mouth in a wide, happy grin. Rain ran down the picture in little rivulets, and I watched as his face turned into a soppy mess. It made me think of what was in the coffin, soon to be eaten away by worms until there was nothing left but a grinning skeleton. And that led me to the worst thought of all. What was in there? What did his broken body look like? I’d been too afraid to ask why the lid was closed. I could guess and that was bad enough.
It was impossible to comprehend that my dad was no longer a living, breathing person. He no longer existed. He would never laugh. He would never tell me any more stories about my Irish grandpa or my Mexican grandma. He would never whistle in the morning as he put on his jacket and then sigh and say, “Heigh ho, heigh ho, it’s off to work I go,” as if he were one of the Seven Dwarfs. It sounded stupid at the time, but now I would give anything to hear those silly words.
I had to bite my lip in order not to cry. I was determined not to cry, not in front of all those people who obviously didn’t want to be there doing their “duty”, every face wearing the same sad mask while thinking they just wanted to get the hell out of the rain.
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Karen Hunt, aka KH Mezek, is the author and/or illustrator of nineteen children’s books and the co-founder of InsideOUT Writers, a creative writing program for incarcerated youth in Los Angeles, and the founder of the MY WORLD PROJECT, connecting youth who live in remote, and sometimes violent and poverty stricken, areas around the world through art and writing. She is a 2nd degree black belt in Tang Soo Do, a first degree brown belt in Eskrima, and a boxing and kick-boxing trainer. As a child, she and her family escaped out of Egypt right before the 6 Day War, lived in a 17th century castle in Switzerland and ‘smuggled’ Bibles into communist countries, to name a few of her adventures. As an adult, she continued her adventures, living between London and a village in Yugoslavia. She writes her YA works under the name KH Mezek. Key of Mystery, book I in the YA Urban Fantasy series, NIGHT ANGELS CHRONICLES, was published February 5, 2016 with Evernight Teen. Key of Mystery is on Amazon’s TOP TEN HOT NEW RELEASES for YA Fantasy and Supernatural. It is on e-book and will be released in print within the next three weeks.
The Gun Trial
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Guns fire and lives shatter. Media wars and clashing egos drive a legally pivotal, riveting trial against gun sellers. A Dartmouth student’s death triggers a treacherous and deadly legal fight for justice against gun sellers. Only the small Los Angeles firm of Kraus & White will take on the difficult, cutting-edge case against the gun establishment, corporate oligarchs, and hostile media. Amidst internal strife at Krause & White, the lead trial lawyer Sophia Christopoulos and her colleagues battle parochialism and danger in Bakersfield, litigate against well-financed and corrupt opposing counsel, and overcome violent deaths. Fighting for her life and her firm’s survival, Sophia takes the case to its climactic trial in hostile Kern County, California. Scandal and treachery are compounded by demonstrations, deaths, and the the ratings-hungry media. Racial, ethnic, gender, and geographic tensions fuel the already volatile mix. The dramatic conclusion only serves to emphasize the ubiquity and difficulty of gun violence and guns themselves in America.
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After a life time of writing poetry, books, nonfiction, and legal documents, it was author Ray Bradbury’s friendship and encouragement that finally inspired Dale E. Manolakas to pursue writing as a career. He taught her that the characters wrote the book–she didn’t.
Raised just outside Los Angeles by a surgeon father and a homemaker-author mother,
Dale E. Manolakas earned her B.A. from the University of California at Los Angeles, and M.A., M.S., Ph.D. and J.D. degrees from the University of Southern California. She is a member of the California Bar, had the privilege of clerking for The Honorable Arthur L. Alarcón at the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, was a litigator in two major Los Angeles law firms, and a senior appellate attorney at the California Court of Appeals, as well as an Administrative Law Judge.
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At Odds with Destiny
Each one of the novels in this boxed set is outside the box. Open it at your own risk!
Bestselling, critically acclaimed, and notoriously creative authors from across the book continuum join forces to bring you At Odds with Destiny, everything you’ve wanted in a boxed set but thought you’d never find: full-length novels brimming with cozy mystery, suspense, romance, and biographical historical fiction. Finding themselves at odds with destiny, the characters in these stories fight to shape their future and define who they are. Come follow them in their amazing journeys.
Let in the dog and let out the cat, for this box holds dangers of the most rarefied kind!
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Uvi Poznansky is a California-based author, poet and artist. Her writing and her art are tightly coupled. “I paint with my pen,” she says, “and write with my paintbrush.”
She earned her B. A. in Architecture and Town Planning from the Technion in Haifa, Israel. During her studies and in the years immediately following her graduation, she practiced with an innovative Architectural firm, taking part in the design of a large-scale project, Home for the Soldier.
At the age of 25 Uvi moved to Troy, N.Y. with her husband and two children. Before long, she received a Fellowship grant and a Teaching Assistantship from the Architecture department at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, where she guided teams in a variety of design projects; and where she earned her M.A. in Architecture. Then, taking a sharp turn in her education, she earned her M.S. degree in Computer Science from the University of Michigan.
During the years she spent in advancing her career—first as an architect, and later as a software engineer, software team leader, software manager and a software consultant (with an emphasis on user interface for medical instruments devices)—she wrote and painted constantly. In addition, she taught art appreciation classes.
Her versatile body of work can be seen on her website, which includes poem, short stories, bronze and ceramic sculptures, paper engineering projects, oil and watercolor paintings, charcoal, pen and pencil drawings, and mixed media. In addition, she posts her thoughts about the creative process on her blog, and engages readers and writers in conversation on her Goodreads Q&A group.
Uvi published a poetry book in collaboration with her father, Zeev Kachel. Later she published two children books, Jess and Wiggle and Now I Am Paper, which she illustrated, and for which she created animations. You can find these animations on her author page on Amazon, and her author page on Goodreads.
Apart From Love (published 2012) is an intimate peek into the life of a strange family: Natasha, the accomplished pianist, has been stricken with early-onset Alzheimer’s. Her ex-husband Lenny has never told their son Ben, who left home ten years ago, about her situation. At the same time he, Lenny, has been carrying on a love affair with a young redhead, who bears a striking physical resemblance to his wife—but unlike her, is uneducated, direct and unrefined. This is how things stand at this moment, the moment of Ben’s return to his childhood home, and to a contentious relationship with his father.
Home (published 2012), her deeply moving poetry book in tribute of her father, includes her poetry and prose, as well as translated poems from the pen of her father, the poet and author Zeev Kachel.
A Favorite Son (published 2012), her novella, is a new-age twist on an old yarn. It is inspired by the biblical story of Jacob and his mother Rebecca, plotting together against the elderly father Isaac, who is lying on his deathbed. This is no old fairy tale. Its power is here and now, in each one of us.
Twisted (published 2012) is a unique collection of tales. In it, the author brings together diverse tales, laden with shades of mystery. Here, you will come into a dark, strange world, a hyper-reality where nearly everything is firmly rooted in the familiar—except for some quirky detail that twists the yarn, and takes it for a spin in an unexpected direction.
Rise to Power is the story of David as you have never heard it before: from the king himself, telling the unofficial version, the one he never allowed his court scribes to recount. In his mind, history is written to praise the victorious—but at the last stretch of his illustrious life, he feels an irresistible urge to tell the truth.
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Cursed: Black Swan (A Fixer Novel) by Ryan T. McFadden
About Cursed: Black Swan (A Fixer Novel) by Ryan T. McFadden
Nathaniel is a Fixer. He specializes in the dangerous and the bizarre, in the impossible. Cursed with a destructive entity named the Dark, a malevolent force that lives within him, Nathaniel takes on jobs others won’t.
Drawn into an elaborate plan to retrieve the legendary sword Black Swan, the job goes south when it’s stolen out from underneath him. Though he has failed in his mission, the underworld still believes he has it, and soon all the players start coming for him: the Syndicate, the Crucifiers, the Legion, and bounty hunters with dreams of gold.
And from his past comes a worse problem: Jane. They had been lovers until her murder. But now she’s here, very much alive, and her appearance isn’t fate, because she’s also making a play for the sword.
Before he can truly discover Jane’s intentions, a war erupts between the underworld players, and just like that, she’s gone again. Nathaniel realizes the only way to stay alive is to find Black Swan and finish his mission. And so he begins his infiltration into the underworld.
But Black Swan isn’t just a sword – it is a key that can open doors to different realms and times, and offers virtual immortality. And everyone will kill to get it.
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Ryan T. McFadden is a writer of fantasy and horror, with short stories and novellas published through Dragon Moon Press, Edge SF & F, and Absolute X-Press. In 2014, his novella Ghost in the Machine won the Aurora Award (Canada’s most prestigious award for SF&F) for Short Fiction.
His motley past involved such dangerous work as database administration, ice cream flavouring (seriously, that’s a thing), hockey league administration, screen printing, web design, furniture
building, and home renovations.
He lives in London, Ontario, with his two beautiful, but sometimes diabolical daughters, who he is sure are plotting to one day overthrow him.
The Killing Cure: Heal
After completing the one hundred year-long mission Julia was forced to carry out, she returns to the island where it all began. But rather than finding her beloved Charlie where she left him, the island which houses the cursed fountain of youth is abandoned. In her frantic search for Charlie, Julia will enlist the help of an unlikely ally—someone from her past whom she believed to be dead. This new partnership is rocky, but together they will work to solve the mystery of where Charlie has gone. But even more perplexing than his disappearance is what Charlie has become. With extraordinary abilities of his own, Charlie’s talents are valuable, and they’ve been found out by a dangerous foe. Journey again with Julia as she finds Charlie, unearths a wealth of secrets contained within the fountain of youth’s waters, and discovers that a mission she thought completed…has only just begun.
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CS Kendall spent her formative years growing up in the small town of McPherson, KS. As such, there was not much to do, so her imagination, which always lagged behind her age, had free reign. From playing dress up into her teens, recording radio shows with various voices and storylines with her friends, to dappling with the art of crafting a novel, there were few dull moments for her.
Enter adulthood, a day job, and the backburner. But story came calling, and finally, her imagination woke up and answered. Though she loves and is fulfilled by her job as a social work therapist, she equally enjoys running away in her mind to imaginary lands with made up people.
She lives happily with her husband and their two amazing children in southwest Michigan.
Creative Visualization: Access Your Imagination And Enhance Your Creative Practice
About Creative Visualization: Access Your Imagination And Enhance Your Creative Practice:
For centuries, creative visualization has been used in meditation to focus the mind. In more recent times, it’s been used to help people achieve their goals and enhance their performance. Building on these approaches, this book offers a series of unique exercises to help the reader access the deepest part of their imagination and bring their creative practice to new levels.
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Val Andrews is a visual artist and creative writer. She has exhibited her artwork widely throughout Australia and the UK. Passionately interested in the creative process, she has published a number of books on the topic. “Creative Visualization: Access your Imagination and Enhance your Creative Practice” is her fourth book about creativity. She frequently shares inspirational tips on her website.
CHEATC0DE: Play to Win. Play to Survive.
About CHEATC0DE: Play to Win. Play to Survive.:
Most people play the game: total immersion VR with full neural sync. But Hank lives it. In Unlimited Combat, he’s one of the best. He makes his own luck. And he plays solo. Until now. When a player offers Hank fame and fortune, it’s too good to pass up. To succeed, Hank must fight harder than ever before, pushing past the game’s safety protocols. His life is on the line, and when he’s captured, he knows he’s in too deep. Can he escape? And who can he trust?
Join Hank in the game-if you dare.
This book is part cyberpunk sci-fi and part technothriller. It’s a fast-paced tale with characters you can believe in and a plot that will keep you turning the pages.
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On Mikey’s first day at school he discovered the wondrous world that is The Book Corner, and he has never really left it.
On writing, Mikey says: “I love the savage magic of wordcraft – it’s edgy, exciting and much harder work than everyone thinks.”
He lives in the UK on the edge of the wilds of Dartmoor, with his wife, two children, and black Labrador called Lottie. He has more books than are strictly necessary, but not quite enough to have his house reclassified as a library. Apparently.
You can find out more on Mikey’s website: mikeycampling.com
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Mikey has had lunch with the late Sir Terry Pratchett a couple of times. And you’ll be pleased to know that Sir Terry was just as warm and humorous as his books.
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