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And Then He Was Gone by Joan Hall Hovey
About And Then He Was Gone by Joan Hall Hovey
“…Alfred Hitchcock and Stephen King come to mind, but JOAN HALL HOVEY is in a Class by herself!…”
J.D. Michael Phelps, Author of My Fugitive, David Janssen,
WHERE IS ADAM?
Julie Raynes’ husband has been missing for six months. Devastated and confused, she refuses to believe that he would leave her voluntarily, though her best friend thinks differently. However, her Aunt Alice, a psychic, tells her Adam has been murdered, and when she reveals how she knows this, any hope that Adam is still alive, dissipates.
The police are also beginning to believe that Adam Raynes was murdered. And Julie is their prime suspect. Her life in ruins, Julie vows to hunt down whoever is responsible for Adam’s murder and make them pay for their crime.
In the meantime, David Gray, a young man who was pulled from a lake by a fisherman when he was 9 years old, wakens from a coma after nearly two decades. Unknown to Julie, Adam and David share a dark connection, a darkness that threatens to devour both of them, in a terrifying race with death.
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Author Bio:
I’ve always been drawn to the dark side of the human psyche, and devoured everything from Edgar Allan Poe to Shirley Jackson growing up. It is no surprise to me I turned out to be a writer of psychological suspense, often with threads of paranormal, mystery and romance.
I like to write about ordinary women who are at a difficult time in their lives, and are suddenly faced with an external evil force. Women who are stronger than they think they are. I didn’t think a whole lot about theme until I had written a couple of books, but I realized with the writing of my third novel ‘Chill Waters’ that my books generally have to do with betrayal and abandonment in some form, and learning to trust again. And more important, learning to trust oneself. Almost any good book will tell you something about the author herself. (Or himself.) You can’t avoid it. But first and foremost I want to give readers a roller-coaster ride, one that keeps them on the edge of that proverbial seats and resonates in the imagination long after the last page is read.
In addition to my suspense novels including The Deepest Dark, Night Corridor, Chill Waters, Defective, Nowhere To Hide and Listen to the Shadows, my articles and short stories have appeared in any many publications including The Toronto Star, Atlantic Advocate, Seek, Home Life Magazine, Mystery Scene. My short story Dark Reunion was anthologized in investigating Women, Published by Simon & Pierre.
I’ve held workshops and given talks at various schools and libraries, including New Brunswick Community College, and the University of New Brunswick. I am also a tutor with Winghill School, a distance education school in Ottawa for aspiring writers.
I’m a member of the Writer’s Federation of New Brunswick, past regional Vice-President of Crime Writers of Canada and International Thriller Writers.
Author Your Success by Ray Brehm
About Author Your Success by Ray Brehm:
Have you ever thought about writing a book?
Most of us have. I bet you have even said something like, “Authoring a book is my goal, but I will get to it next year.” Then when next year arrives, you push it back another year. Finding precious time in a busy schedule is one of the hardest tasks many of us face. When’s the last time you’ve gone 5 minutes without interruption and worked on what you really want to do in life?
Author Your Success is a system to learn the most important items required in writing a book (or having it done for you). It is a system to get you momentum. That momentum will propel you to quickly churn out a book.
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Author Bio:
Ray Brehm is a Best-Selling Author, Entrepreneur, and founder of Dauntless Prose. Dauntless Prose helps entrepreneurs who are short on time, write and publish their books. Ray also provides guidance through free and paid online courses at his website raybrehm.com.
With a background in Real Estate and Information Technology, Ray has become an emerging writer focusing on enabling Entrepreneurs to become authors. Author Your Success is Ray’s third book. His prior books include The Soul of Success Volume 2 with Jack Canfield and The Perpetual Passive Income Machine.
Ray is a member of the National Academy of Best-Selling Authors™ and The National Association of Experts, Writers & Speakers®. Ray was also recently interviewed on America’s Top Authors™, which will air on CNN, CNBC and FOX News in the spring of 2017.
Messy on Purpose: The Science Behind Creativity
About Messy on Purpose: The Science Behind Creativity:
Are you a perfectionist? Do you need to be more creative? Would you like to know the exact brainstorming process used by creative geniuses like Galileo, Einstein and Steve Jobs?
Look inside to discover:
How to build creative confidence:
– Why all creative geniuses fail over and over, and how to respect our mistakes as stepping stones.
– Why playing the “tortured genius” can actually make creativity far more difficult.
– How to replace fear of dark, with fun of the dark.
How to orchestrate your creative plan of attack:
– Why your creative process stage determines your tactics.
– How creativity is a trainable skill, to be easily developed and exercised like a muscle.
– Many, many exercises to jump-start your project now.
How to brainstorm easily:
– When should you tense up? When should you relax?
– Why might you step back and let your ideas breathe, so they can simply come to you?
– And why are children so effortlessly creative? What’s their secret?
The art of creativity doesn’t require a degree – just a little time and patience. With the right tactics, we find our great ideas and bring them to life. Come look inside and see for yourself.
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Author Bio:
Chuck Rockroad is the lead creative coach at Catch Your Creativity™, and author of the Amazon #1 bestselling cat play manual, Play Like a Cat. He has helped countless writers, artists and musicians to overcome their creative blocks and work freely. His specialty is solving creative blocks – especially perfectionism – within one hour.
Chuck has also spent much time as a law office manager, project manager, and even fitness trainer. The author lives in Portland, Oregon with two chatty tuxedo cats, and his partner who is also basically a cat.
Across Enemy Space and Other Short Stories
About Across Enemy Space and Other Short Stories:
ACROSS ENEMY SPACE: A novella.
The Alliance and the Combine have been at war for decades, fighting a battle of attrition in a conflict that knows no end. Only one man, the bravest of the brave, can break the deadlock by travelling across enemy space in search of allies. But is it a lost cause? Is it already too late to save the Alliance? Indeed, is it even real?
THE PROSPECTOR: A short story.
They say that get rich schemes never work, but with luck, a little ingenuity, a rock hammer and a pair of magnetic boots, maybe this one will. Only time will tell…
THE BRIGHTEST OBJECT: A short story.
Not everyone has the chance to find themselves a little place in history. Shuttle pilot Bob Dymond did – but at what price?
GARBAGE DETAIL: A short story.
As the Harkonian exploration vessel Empirium prepares to leave system KL3034, crewman Pok chooses the worst possible time to go on a wild drinking spree. With the fearsome Master Sergeant Boz on the warpath there can be only one possible outcome – severe consequences for both Pok and his crew-mates.
And also, as it happens, for system KL3034…
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L.J. Simpson was born in Wolverhampton, England in 1956. He worked primarily in the steel industry until 1990 when he embarked on a fairly radical change of direction, moving to Japan where he opened a small English language school. Married with two grown up children, work still takes up a great deal of his time. The remainder he divides up between taking long walks by the sea with his ever faithful border collie, building model tall ships and writing.
Die By The Pen: A Romantic Mystery-Thriller
About Die By The Pen: A Romantic Mystery-Thriller:
Why Should Men Have All The Fun?
Three of the best men in the world are in love with Naomi Soul. They live in different parts of the country and Naomi sleeps with all of them but she barely has the time. Naomi’s busy solving cases for the FBI, and trying not to neglect her English bulldog Winston.
Someone’s killing world-famous authors using the methods in their stories. Naomi and her partner Agent Xue Tsang must find the most creative villain ever. And Naomi’s three boyfriends just might be able to help.
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Miles A. Maxwell — out of Cheyenne, Wyoming — is the author of Drone, Loss Of Reason, Search For Reason, the forthcoming Finding Reason of the State Of Reason series and the Mystery-Thriller Die By The Pen. An IFR certified private pilot, Miles speaks bits and pieces of ten languages, surfs, skis, sails and scuba dives.
Voland: A Sci-Fi Alien Romance
About Voland: A Sci-Fi Alien Romance:
With thoughts of betrayal running through his head, Voland has a plan to get Palzu’s sights off of his home planet and onto Earth. After all, there doesn’t seem to be anything on this planet worth saving.
After Voland and the rest of the Orbas split up to go their separate ways, he hopes to lay low and find a way back home after he’s sure that Palzu will take a better liking to Earth.
However, he hadn’t expected to find a human woman, Felicity, asking for his help. With each day he spends with her, he finds that she’s beginning to grow on him. Sure, the Earth may not be worth saving, but she seems to be…
Voland is the third book in the Warriors of Orba series, following the Orba warriors and the human women that love them. Each book in this page-turning science fiction series can be read as standalones. There are NO cliffhangers, NO cheating, and a GUARANTEED happy ending!
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Author Bio:
Zara has lived all over the United States, ranging from Los Angeles to Chicago to New York City. She has loved meeting new people and looking at the stars while trying to get away from the bright city lights.
She has loved writing ever since she was in 3rd grade, and finally decided to publish her work for a larger audience! She writes about steamy alien romances as well as cyborgs and time travelers too!
She likes watching movies on the weekends (who doesn’t like Sci-Fi?) with her golden retriever, Leo, and her boyfriend on their couch and traveling to new places.
Simplify Your Life from the INSIDE OUT: The 7 Keys to Finding Inner Peace
About Simplify Your Life from the INSIDE OUT: The 7 Keys to Finding Inner Peace:
Simplify Your Life from the INSIDE OUT: The 7 Keys to Finding Inner Peace
As the world gets busier and faster, your life can easily become more complicated, but it doesn’t have to be that way. In Simplify Your Life from THE INSIDE OUT: The 7 Keys to Finding Inner Peace, you will find the practical and effective advice that you’ve been seeking:
How to rediscover the peaceful way to live.
How to recognize and overcome the barriers to a life of simplicity.
The 7 Keys that will guide you in your journey and help you stay on your path.
A Unified Plan to Address Your Problems At Their Core
Most approaches to simplifying your life focus on the tangible and visible ‘stuff’ in your life, which although important, is just not enough.
The real issues lie beneath the surface: In the false beliefs and assumptions you hold about the way life works. What you’re looking for are real solutions to your real problems, not band aids.
Discover the Way to Inner Peace – Solutions Found In Life, Not In the Textbook
Have you tried following the advice of ‘experts’ in the field, but it seemed distant and disconnected from your reality? In this book you will:
Read real stories about real people…just like you.
Learn how each problem was faced… and solved.
Discover simple rules to apply in your daily life that work.
Unlock the Doors and Overcome the Barriers That Stand Between You and the Life of Simplicity That You Want.
Author Mark Wayne Smith shares with you the powerful, life changing lessons he learned when confronted with his own personal moment of awakening and found a way to a simpler life. The essence of that life is this:
Living in simplicity and peace is your natural state; it’s how you were created to live.
You don’t have to learn or master anything new: you only need to unlearn the years of complexity that the world has taught you, one layer at a time.
A New Look At Recovery from Drug and Alcohol Addiction with Promising Results
Based on the real-life experiences of the author, a recovering alcoholic himself, this book offers invaluable help to those in recovery.
The lessons of the 7 Keys will work for everyone, but if you or your loved one are in recovery, these lessons will provide invaluable help in building better relationships.
A Book That You Should Read At Least Once In Your Lifetime
• Written in simple and straightforward language.
• Real life examples of how each key has been applied, and the results achieved.
• Practical ‘first steps to take’ for each key to help you get started today.
• A Christian perspective to everyday problems, found in the Scriptures.
• A clear plan for you to return to the simple and peaceful life you once enjoyed.
As you learn the lessons of the 7 Keys and follow the steps in the plan, you will discover a whole new way of living your life by discarding old beliefs and questioning the rules that never really were true.
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Mark Wayne Smith is a retired management and engineering consultant, a recovering alcoholic, and, he says, ‘Mostly a very contented stay at home house husband.’ He currently lives in Macon, Georgia with Bonnie, his wife of over 30 years…and four rescue cats.
The Carnival Keepers
It’s 1879, and James, a time-wasting escapist, is trying to win a bet. His challenges include purchasing a lighthouse, hosting a séance, and spending the night with his father’s prize-winning stallion in a notoriously haunted attic. But the Carnival is in town for the All Hallows’ Eve celebrations, and the London Fog has other ideas for James. Something vicious is waiting to pounce and lead him unwittingly towards a destiny he could never have imagined.
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Amber Gulley moved from Australia to the South of Spain, where she lives with her husband and two cats beside the sea. Aside from writing, she enjoys painting and photography, almost anything that happened in the 80’s, and hopes in the near future to be able to focus on writing and illustrating children’s books, branch out into sci-fi, study architecture, genetics, physics, psychology, massage therapy (again), with a hopeful move from that into physiotherapy (maybe), and really just keep learning as much as she can.
The Long Road Home: A Devil Chasers MC Novella
About The Long Road Home: A Devil Chasers MC Novella:
Gavin wanted her – the girl with the long, auburn hair and gorgeous brown eyes that drove him wild, but it wasn’t that easy. The woman who haunted his dreams was under club protection, and it was his job to watch over her and protect her. Until he got his patch, she was off-limits. But he was patient. Sunny would be his.
Sunny Jacobs was working hard to get her life back on track after barely surviving a night from hell with her ex. The Devil Chasers MC had taken her in and protected her while she picked up the pieces. With her deranged ex-boyfriend still missing, she couldn’t shake her nightmares… even with someone as hot and mysterious as Gavin around.
Their path had been set- long and full of heart break. Would their love be strong enough to see them through the long road home?
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Leslie Wilder grew up in a small town in West Tennessee. A country girl at heart, she’s always thought that life is too short, but she had no idea how short it really was until her brother passed away in 2014. She’s always been an avid reader, loving the escape only a great book can give, and wondered if she had what it took to write one of the wild romances she’d come to adore. With the support of her family and friends, she published Inferno: A Devil Chaser’s MC, one year after her brother’s death. With him in mind, she fulfilled her lifetime dream of writing. Since then, she’s completed the Devil Chaser’s Series and continued on with the Satan’s Fury MC Series. She has so many stories in her head, and can’t wait to share each and every one.
Station At Diablo
Take a wild ride, full of adventure, as Aaron Kovak finds out what it’s like to be a Texas Ranger in the old west. He grew up hanging out at the Texas Ranger office in San Antonio. He fulfills his dreams and becomes a Ranger. Getting sent on assignment he meets beautiful girls, finds romance, and faces danger. He meets unsavory characters and struggles with questions of honesty and morality. He learns the difference between the lawman fantasies of his boyhood and the realities of life on the outlaw trail.
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I was born in 1959, one of the last of the baby boomers. I grew up in San Diego, California, and obtained a degree from the University of California, San Diego in micro-economics. Despite my best efforts at keeping it alive, an internet business I started in 1994 went belly-up in the summer of 2015.
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