About Pianist in a Bordello by Mike C. Erickson

Pianist in a Bordello

What would happen if a politician decided to tell the truth—the whole truth?
Richard Youngblood, aspiring Congressman, is about to find out. He’s running on a platform of honesty and transparency—and against the advice of his friends and advisers he’s decided to start with himself. His autobiography will lay his entire life bare before voters just days before the election.
And what a life he’s had. Born in a commune and named Richard Milhous Nixon Youngblood as an angry shot at his absent father, Richard grows up in the spotlight, the son of an enigmatic fugitive and the grandson of a Republican senator. He’s kidnapped and rescued, kicked out of college for a prank involving turkeys, arrested in Hawaii while trying to deliver secrets to the CIA…Dick Nixon Youngblood’s ready to tell all.
He’ll even tell his readers about the Amandas—three women who share a name but not much else, and who each have helped shape and define the man he’s become.
Are voters really ready for the whole truth?
Are you?
Pianist in a Bordello is a hilarious political romp through the last four decades of American history, from a narrator who is full of surprises.

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Mike C. Erickson grew up in the idyllic college town of Logan, Utah, but because of a twist of fate he graduated from high school in Honolulu. He left Hawaii brimming with aloha and enrolled at Utah State, where he was awarded two degrees and self-proclaimed minor intellectual status, which was of dubious value when the US Army invited him to vacation in South-East Asia. Ten days after leaving Vietnam, he began decades of dispensing pearls of wisdom as a high school history teacher, academic decathlon coach, and on occasion, as a community college instructor in the Sacramento area. Mike and his wife Trudy, have two grown sons and a grandson born soon after this novel is published. When not in Hawaii or another exotic locale, they live in Gold River, California. This is his first novel.

About Ghostdrums:

Marine Veteran, Marcus Lincoln, returns home after almost being blown to bits. His physical injuries are nothing compared to his mental state. He now sees the ghost of his best friend. In need of R & R he rents rooms from a landowner in small town Georgia. However, the landlord looks nothing like he imagined.

Victoria Silvershade is a spirit seeker. She wants to start a foundation that will allow her to help spirits who have not crossed over. And it just so happens, she has her own troupe of ghosts residing in her home. To bring in money, she rents out part of her house to Marcus, but fails to tell him his new landlord is a woman.

When her foundation sponsors begin to turn up dead, Victoria, Marcus, and their combined ghost family try to find the killer. But will they succeed before they become deceased themselves?

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Author Bio:
Sherrie Lea Morgan constantly searches for ghost walk tours in her home state of Georgia. There isn’t a haunted house she refuses to enter. Bouncing off story ideas with her twin sister is a past time of hers, as her dog Bennett refuses to respond to her questions. When not working her current manuscripts, she enjoys spending time with her family. Although her children refuse to join her paranormal movie thrills, they are supportive in her obsession of all things scary. Of course, they are always willing to travel with her. She endeavors to show her readers a different view of ghosts in her paranormal books. Sherrie Lea also works to weave other paranormal gifts in her novellas.

She is an active member of Romance Writers of America and her local chapter Georgia Romance Writers.

About The Dragon’s Ring by Debra Daugherty:

Sir James Trueblood is determined to capture a unicorn so he can marry Princess Isadora. The knight begins his quest, not realizing the Princess is following him in disguise. On his journey Sir James encounters a witch and a dragon. With the dragon’s ring his mission is a success, but then he learns the unicorn will die if not set free. Now he has a dilemma; marry the Princess or free the unicorn.

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Debra Daugherty is from Central Illinois, Land of Lincoln. Her country home is built on ground that has been in her family for six generations, since 1892. Although she doesn’t have any children, she has several nieces and nephews, and is “Mama” to two dogs, Honey, an American Stratford Terrier whom she rescued from the animal shelter, and a Chihuahua named CeCe. When she writes in her home office, Honey is at her feet, snoring. Both dogs are great listeners when she reads her stories aloud while working on revisions.

Debra’s love of writing began in grade school, and she credits her teachers for encouraging her. After graduating from high school, she worked as a clerk typist, but did take some night courses at Lincoln Land Community College in Springfield. When not writing children stories, Debra loves to spend time with her family, browse through antique shops, and travel. She’s been fortunate to have visited London, Paris, Rome and Edinburgh and these cities are now settings for her Young Adult mystery series, her work-in-progress. She’s also kissed the Blarney Stone, but says she was full of blarney before she kissed the stone.

About Which Half David by Mark W Sasse:

Is your obsession worth killing for?

American mission worker Tobin Matthews faces off against two imposing giants: a vicious gang of human traffickers and a corrupt justice system ready to imprison a group of hill tribesmen. But his greatest foe remains within as he finds himself wrestling with a broken marriage and a crippling set of doubts. When his brazen ex-lover shows up with her own agenda, she becomes the greatest temptation of his life, and he must decide how far he is willing to go to have her.

Which Half David is a modern twist on the centuries old tale of King David. Set against the lush backdrop of the fictitious Southeast Asian island nation of Sulu, it is the story of one man’s dramatic fall from grace and his struggle to come to grips with both halves of who he really is.

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Mark is a proud Western PA native but has lived most of the last twenty years in Vietnam and Malaysia. His experiences in Asia have redefined everything including his palate, his outlook on life, and naturally his writing. You can find him most days cruising around Penang Island, eating the local delicacies and taking in the sun and exotic breezes as he looks for interesting places to write.

He has authored four novels with number five and six already somewhere on the horizon. His interests cast a wide net – from politics to literature – to culture and language – to history and religion – making his writing infused with the unexpected as he seeks to tell authentic and engaging stories about people from all walks of life. His writing is straightforward and accessible to all, especially those who enjoy writing injected with doses of Asian culture, history, adventure, and delightful humor. You never know what you might get when you pick up a Sasse novel.

Besides novel-writing, Sasse is a prolific dramatist, having written and produced more than a dozen full-length dramatic productions. He especially is fond of the short play format and has won the Best Script award three consecutive years at the Short & Sweet Theatre Festival Penang. His play, “Words to Say at the End of the World” won five awards this year including Best Overall Performance and Best Director. His plays and short musicals have also been produced in Kuala Lumpur and Sydney, Australia. Performances of his scripts also won Gold and Bronze medals at the Southeast Asian Forensics Competition 2014.

His professional background is as diverse as his writing. He holds Master’s degrees from California State University Dominquez Hills and Azusa Pacific University in Humanities and TESOL respectively. His undergraduate degree was in English, which helped him develop his passion for creative writing. He has extensive experience in teaching English, history, and drama.

On top of all of this, he loves to cook everything from gourmet pizzas, to Mexican, to various Asian dishes. Flavor is the key of both his cooking and his writing. He very much hopes you enjoy the taste.

Published Novels and Short Stories of Mark W. Sasse
2016 Which Half David (release date TBD)
2015 A Love Story for a Nation – Kindle & Paperback
2014 If Love is a Crime: A Christmas Story – Kindle only
2014 The Reach of the Banyan Tree – Kindle & Paperback
2013 The Recluse Storyteller – Kindle & Paperback
2012 Beauty Rising – Kindle & Paperback

About Penned In:

Where do you think magic really lives? Do you think it lurks in isolated and ancient areas away from our sprawling cities? If so, you’d be wrong. Magic exists, is aware of us, and connects to our world by the last thing you would consider but no doubt own.

Join Steve as he finds out the truth to a question he certainly didn’t ask to have answered, and as his life undergoes a complete upheaval in New City; an unoriginal name for a unique metropolis.

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Author Bio:
As a young kid I loved the fighting fantasy books and attempted to recreate their nicely woven descriptive chunks of action with little success. I hung up my quill for a few decades before luckily re-finding my childhood passion through blogging.

Penned In is my first effort at writing a full novel based loosely around my life experiences generally and from working in the IT industry.

About True Alpha (Shifters in Seattle 1) : New Adult Paranormal Romance:

Mia is just a college girl trying to earn her business degree and dig out of the poverty she was born into—being a shifter is something she hides, hoping her secret won’t sabotage her dreams. Shifters live in the shadows of Seattle, after all, dangerous and generally criminal. At least, that’s what she thinks until a wolf saves her from an attack in an alleyway… and then turns up as the hot boss at her new dot-com internship.

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Author Bio:
Alisa Woods lives in the Midwest with her husband and family, but her heart will always belong to the beaches and mountains where she grew up. She writes sexy paranormal romances about alpha men and the women who love them. She enjoys exploring the struggles we all have, where we resist–and succumb to–our most tempting vices as well as our greatest desires. She firmly believes that love triumphs over all.

About Million Dollar Blues:

Take one 75 million dollar lottery win. Toss in a struggling restaurant and a weasel of an ex-husband. Spice heavily with one true love. Is it a recipe for disaster or the recipe of Temple’s dreams?

Winning the lottery will help Temple turn her restaurant, GIRLS WHO DISH, into a world-class establishment. Except, everybody wants a piece of lotto pie: her mother, her daughter, her best friend . . . and the furious staff members who didn’t win and sue for their share.

As Temple struggles with a case of MILLION DOLLAR BLUES, she’s blindsided by the return of her first love, James LeShan. Now a successful lawyer, James will help Temple out of her legal mess . . . but he has something much more personal in mind for the two of them.

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By the time she hit Grade Four, Laura Tobias knew she was going to be a writer. So did the teachers. It was the persistent daydreaming and invisible friends that tipped them off. The question was: how could she daydream for the rest of her life and get paid for it? The answer: Trade the crayons for a computer and write those stories down. Oh, and grow up first. She’s managed the first two. She’s still working on the growing up part.

Laura Tobias lives with her family, including two Shetland sheepdogs, in the Pacific Northwest. She’s an award winning author of 19 books for teens and children written as Laura Langston.

About The Spider’s Parlour by Jacqueline Henry:

Free download available on Amazon from Wednesday 30 November – Sunday 4 December 2016.
‘Deanna looked up at him, her eyes smiling, her short dark hair swept up and away from her face. He took her hand, helping her out of the limousine, highly conscious of her fingers wrapping around his. She was captivating, dressed in a short black dress, shoulder straps as thin as pencil lines, her glorious long legs sheathed in black gossamer stockings. Her neck was bare he noticed, thinking of how he would cover it in kisses and drape it in jewels as sparkling as her eyes. He felt helpless with love, at this moment in his life she held more sway over him than money. In his eyes she was priceless, more coveted than a Monet hanging on his wall; as rare as a mermaid in a droplet of water. Precious.’

All she did was take her dog for a walk, a small, mundane act that would change Deanna’s life forever. It was the day she met Lucian Finlay, the owner of The Fountain Hotel; a five star, deluxe, exclusive establishment catering to the whims and wishes of the upper echelon of Sydney society.
Lucian Finlay is the embodiment of his hotel.
He is the epitome of style and elegance.
He is despicable.
He will do what needs to be done to get what he wants.
He wants Deanna.
He wants to give her the world but first he will take her world away.

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Author Bio:
I live in a small coastal town a few hours south of Sydney. I used to live in the suburbs and have a full time job like everyone else I knew, until my husband and I decided that life was too short and that waiting until we were retired before we could enjoy life was a wait too long. So we did it, we left Sydney and now live in, I think, the most beautiful place on Earth.

Now I have time to write, now I have the time to concentrate on this obsession I have had for as long as I can remember; the wonder of words. It has always fascinated me how stringing a few words together makes a sentence, a few sentences become a paragraph and before you know it, there they are coming to life before my eyes, these people who have been dancing around the neurons and receptors of my brain, just waiting for their moment to burst out through my fingertips onto the page. It seems that once these characters have found the exit out of my head they take control of the situation, living their lives on the pages, saying their own words, sometimes the strength of their personality taking the story in a completely unexpected direction. I know, you’d think I’d have more control over the situation, right? But it doesn’t always end up that way. I find that some of these people (and they do become real people to me) come completely out of nowhere, someone who might have been a small, incidental character can suddenly take over the story.

In regard to my style of writing and who I might write like… well, I write like me. I’m not a genre writer. I write the stories the people in my head tell me to – and they’re all different. Although I will say, they all have a dark thread of some sort running through them, even my ‘nice’ stories tend to have a dark shadow lurking in the background. I’m not what you would describe as being of a bright, sunny disposition, although I do have a very well developed sense of humour.

Some of my characters are lovely, there has to be at least one to buoy up the story, and oddly, I’ve even had crushes on some of my characters, which is strange but beneficial from a writing standpoint as it inspires me to write more because I can’t wait to get back to that internal world and spend some time with that particular character again. And then there are those characters who are just plain mean and nasty and I question myself on where this person emerging out of the page is coming from. Sometimes I wonder if I have some kind of schizophrenic mental disorder and only venting through my writing keeps it in check, but I think a lot of writers think that at some point. My fear is – if I didn’t write, would I be some kind of twisted serial killer? Nah…

My writing influences would have to be Stephen King since I’ve devoured just about every one of his earlier books. I still pick the odd one up every now and again to see what he’s been up to. John Irving – a Prayer for Owen Meany. Classic. Now that’s how you bring a character to life on the page. But Daphne! Daphne! Ahh Ms du Maurier – she is the writer I aspire to, she is my kind of story teller; dark, brooding, but still oh so romantic.

And let’s not forget Emily Bronte – Wuthering Heights being one of my all time favourite books in the history of the world. Ever!

Anyway, that’s me. I have a website and Facebook page as well as Author Pages on Amazon’s Author Central, please feel free to check them out, (I’m currently giving away a freebie short story collection through my website).

Email: booksbyjac@gmail.com