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Published: Wed, 05/10/17
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Lottie Barrett Lives (Again)
About Lottie Barrett Lives (Again):
It’s Halloween night, 1966. Thirteen-year-old Lottie has been dead a hundred years and the kids go up to the graveyard with the book of spells Charlene Pendergrass swiped from Miss Robespierre. The kids are going to have some fun scaring themselves, bringing Lottie back, but it turns out Miss Robespierre isn’t the faker everyone says she is and there’s nothing fake about her book either, and now there’s a ghost-girl walking the streets of Hope Mountain, and what to do with her?
Maybe nothing.
Lottie’s no zombie ax-murderer. She’s just a peculiar kid who wants to be a teenager, something she missed the first time. What else she wants is Bobby Clyde, cutest boy in the freshman class, and how can Bobby resist? Lottie is cute and sweet and funny, or are those things illusory, a witch’s spell on Bobby? And what’s Bobby going to do when it’s time for Lottie to go back up onto the hill? Bobby is determined to go with her. Lottie doesn’t think he should go but she doesn’t think she could live (or die) without him. Only Bobby’s mom and big sister can save him and before they can save him, they have to convince themselves it really is true, and there isn’t much time.
Lottie Barrett Lives (Again) is paranormal boomer fiction, YA for grownups. It’s no zombie bloodbath and just wants to be a lighthearted zombie romp. It’s a winter ghost tale, what can happen when a teenage zombie-girl arrives in nineteen-sixties small town America and just in time for the holidays.
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Hugh Centerville is retired and lives in New York’s Hudson Valley. He likes, in no particular order, baseball, fishing, tall spreading sycamores and old Indian stuff. Hugh is an author at Centerville Books. Some of his shorter works have appeared, or will appear shortly, in Hello Horror, Stinkwaves, and Another Realm.
When Hugh was a kid, he lived on a dairy farm across the road from a very old cemetery. Toward the back of the cemetery was the vault, a chapel-like building used to store the folks who died in winter and who wouldn’t be buried until spring. There were no graves behind the vault, except for one. It was Lucretia Jane Barrett, dead in 1866 and at the age of thirteen, and it made Hugh sad, Lucretia alone and forgotten back there, lost in the tangle of small trees and thick brush.
Hugh wondered about Lucretia. What kind of kid had she been? What made her laugh? What made her cry? What killed her? Hugh cleaned up around Lucretia’s grave and put wildflowers on it and with Lottie Barrett Lives (Again) he has brought her back.
Standing In The Storm, The Last Brigade Book 2
About Standing In The Storm, The Last Brigade Book 2:
It’s kick ass time again!
When the Last Brigade begins its mission of rebuilding America, they find enemies on all sides. In nearby Prescott, Arizona, a maniacal warlord proclaims himself the legitimate successor to the USA. To the east lurks the strange religious cult named the Caliphate of the Seven Prayers of the New Prophet, which kills anyone who doesn’t convert. And why is a Chinese military vehicle found to the north?
In a tornado of exploding metal, Nick Angriff risks everyone and everything to save the innocents he has sworn to protect. Outnumbered and outgunned, the 7th Cavalry will not be outfought. They must either stand in the storm or see their beloved country die a final death.
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Bill is an Active (voting) member of the Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers of America, the Society For Military History and the Alliance of Independent Authors.
He’s the world’s oldest teenager. Reading, writing, rock & roll and an awesome wife make for the perfect life. The occasional beach doesn’t hurt, either.
Bill grew up in West Tennessee, riding his bike on narrow rural roads lined with wild blackberry bushes, in the days before urban sprawl. He spent those long rides dreaming of new worlds of adventure. Childhood for him was one interesting activity after another, from front yard football to naval miniatures, but from the very beginning reading was the central pillar of his life.
Any and all military history books fascinated him, beginning before age 8. By his teenage years he had discovered J.R.R. Tolkien and Robert E. Howard, Robert Heinlein and Fritz Leiber. College found him searching for his identity, first majoring in forestry but discovering Creative Writing and knowing he had found his life’s work.
He turned to writing history and non-fiction and was published a number of times, including in World War Two magazine.
In September of 2014 he wrote the first pages of what would become Standing The Final Watch and its direct sequel, Standing In The Storm (coming late 2016). Who says you can’t teach an old dog new tricks? And if you like his work, a whole slew of new books are on the schedule of 2017 and 2018.
Solitaire (The Diamond Club Book 0)
About Solitaire (The Diamond Club Book 0):
Diamond Club, where secrets are sacred and diamonds are currency.
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Four years ago Scarlett Arrington’s life changed. The death of her mother introduced her to a father she never knew and life she didn’t want. As soon as she could, she left New York returning to California but not before a mysterious card arrived inviting her to join a secret exclusive diamond club.
Scarlett embarks an incredible journey to find the Pink Star. The world’s, rarest most expensive diamond, meeting with lies, obstacles, and the death of her estranged father, Victor Flint. With the Star nowhere to be found and the increasing pressure mounting to find it, Scarlett can do the only thing left to think of, break into the Flint penthouse, crack Victor’s safe and steal the family diamonds.
One Woman. One Diamond. One Exclusive Club.
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E.A. Weston was born and raised in Dublin Ireland, She now resides in southern California.
She is the best-selling author of New Adult contemporary, paranormal, and Fantasy romance novels. By day she stays at home with her daughter but each night she slips away to spin her tales and gets lost in her fantasy worlds.
As an avid reader, Elizabeth enjoys anything with a bit of romance and a paranormal twist. When she’s not writing or devouring her latest read, she can be found spending time with her family or watching movies.
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Journey to Honor
When twin boys are born, a servant with a grudge switches their birth order . . .
1366 A.D. – Kenric Fairfax is raised as the second son of the Earl of Shadowfaire. The day of his Knighting Ceremony, a tragedy takes place—and Kenric flees the north of England, putting his past behind him as he swears he will never marry. He becomes a trusted knight in service to Lord Michael Devereux, who asks Kenric to lead an escort party from London in order to bring his wife’s sister home to Sandbourne.
Avelyn Le Cler has spent a year as a lady-in-waiting to Queen Philippa and finds the treachery at the royal court not to her liking. She looks forward to a summer visit with her sister Elysande, who will soon give birth to her first child. While journeying from London, Avelyn discovers a secret about Sir Kenric Fairfax that could change his life—if he believes her.
But Avelyn is plagued with doubts since she has no proof to present Kenric. As the couple falls in love, Avelyn knows she must reveal to Kenric the truth she has learned about his birth—even if it costs her everything.
Join Kenric and Avelyn as the truth rips them apart—but their enduring love brings them together again.
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As a child, Alexa Aston gathered her neighborhood friends together and made up stories for them to act out, her first venture into creating memorable characters. Following her passion for history and love of learning, she became a teacher who began writing on the side to maintain her sanity in a sea of teenage hormones.
Alexa’s historical romances use history as a backdrop to place her characters in extraordinary circumstances, where their intense desire for one another grows into the treasured gift of love.
She is the author of The Knights of Honor, a medieval romance series that takes place in 14th century England during the reign of Edward III and centers on the de Montfort family. Each romance focuses on the code of chivalry that bound knights of this era.
A native Texan, Alexa lives with her husband in a Dallas suburb, where she eats her fair share of dark chocolate and plots out stories while she walks every morning. She enjoys reading, watching movies and sports, and can’t get enough of Fixer Upper or Game of Thrones. Alexa also writes romantic suspense, western historicals, and standalone medieval novels as Lauren Linwood.
Girl of Stone by Norma Hinkens
About Girl of Stone by Norma Hinkens
Dark schemes. The ultimate betrayal. They can’t afford to lose.
Led by the dauntless Trattora, the four surviving members of The Expulsion Project chart a treacherous course to their birth planet on a stolen stealth fighter. Forced to divert their hazardous mission when their ship comes under a brutal attack by Galactic pirates, The Four, as they are now known, find themselves caught up in a desperate struggle for survival on Razaran, a supposedly uninhabited planet filled with unimaginable terrors. Blood must be sacrificed to make their escape, but whose blood will it be? Time is running out for their birth parents trapped in the secretive NeuroOne processing plant on Mhakerta where the psychotic Artificial Intelligence, Preeminence, continues to extract the intellect of civilians, growing more powerful with every passing day.
Can The Four topple the robot military and navigate the treachery of those who would betray them before Preeminence destroys them?
Girl of Stone is the second novel in The Expulsion Project, a sci-fi, dystopian thriller trilogy with a whisper of romance, a heavy dose of adventure, and action galore. If you are a Firefly or Dark Matter fan, or still in Hunger Games or Cinder withdrawal, this is the book mashup for you!
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NYT and USA Today bestselling author Norma Hinkens grew up among rich storytelling traditions in her native Ireland, land of make-believe and the original little green man. A globetrotter at heart, she settled in California and began scribbling down the yarns that have been brewing in her head for years. In her spare time she retreats to rural Idaho to hike, bike and boat, but mostly to eavesdrop on mountain men and prepare for the apocalypse. If you like dystopian sagas, gritty heroines, and twists you won’t see coming, then you’ll love her turbo-paced thrill-rides!
The Long Black by J. M. Anjewierden
About The Long Black by J. M. Anjewierden:
For Morgan, growing up on the planet Hillman was brutal. Between the mines, the corrupt guards, and gravity twice that of Earth, just surviving as a ‘tunnel rat’ – one of the children sent into the deep tunnels to maintain and repair equipment – was hard enough.
Then her father gets her smuggled off planet, and she has to learn to live on her own in a much larger universe that doesn’t keep her down… because it doesn’t even acknowledge her existence.
Wanting to see the galaxy Morgan puts herself through school to become a starship mechanic, but dealing with faulty equipment, bad bosses, learning to trust anyone, and unexpected childcare responsibilities are the least of her worries once she runs afoul of space pirates.
Its a wonder she can get any work done at all.
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J. M. Anjewierden has lived in the Salt Lake Valley for his whole life – excepting two years spent living in Mexico – and he spends his days working for the county library system recommending as many awesome books as he can. He also runs the library’s Teen Dungeons and Dragons program, and the bilingual storytime each week.
He is nearly finished with a Masters Degree in Library Science, and lives in Sandy, Utah, with his wife, who is expecting their first child.
Shaza
Shaza, a Syrian-Canadian housewife, is happily married and living the Canadian dream with a beautiful house in the suburbs, a loving family, and amazing friendships. When shy and sweet Shaza decides to abandon her family and embark on a strange journey of her own, her friends—Najat, Sonia, and Reem— are left entirely baffled.
Did her husband harm her? Did she try and go back to Syria? Is she tied to the conflict?
They follow her journey which takes her to Istanbul, Jordan, Netanya, Mecca, Jeddah, and London.
Her friends come to learn the secrets which Shaza has harboured all of her life and in the process they come to learn a lot about themselves.
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N.G. Hanna lived her childhood in Egypt before immigrating to Canada. Her hobby is putting pen to paper and losing herself in a world far away. Her themes include family sagas, immigrant experience, and women’s issues.
The Spirit Seekers by J. K. Winn
About The Spirit Seekers by J. K. Winn
Can you escape the wrath of the Spirits?
Sandy Jacobs and Ben Rush are back on the trail of another mystery. The head archaeologist in charge of excavating an important Anasazi ruin on Pueblo land turns up dead. The San Sebastian people, long opposed to the dig because of its potential to disturb a sacred site, believe the spirits were behind this murder. They want the excavation immediately shut down and sealed off.
To make matters worse, someone is taking soil samples near the site and their purpose is unclear. Are they working in conjunction with the Pueblo government to protect the land and its people, or do they have another, more heinous, intent? And does this have anything to do with the murder?
Sandy and Ben turn to the police for answers to these questions, but they are of little help and might be protecting the authorities. Unable to sit by and do nothing, Sandy is again thrust into the role of detective, but without Ben’s backing. She’s determined to discover who stands to benefit from the archaeologist’s death, even though Ben isn’t so certain it’s a who, but rather a what. Cultural differences they’d put to rest arise anew and marital conflicts surface to complicate an already complex situation.
Are the ancestors truly opposed to the excavation and willing to wreak havoc? Will Sandy be able to discover the person…or spirit…behind the crime before it is too late? And, in the midst of all the confusion and contention, will whoever is responsible for the crime strike again?
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J K Winn has many stories to share. After years of working in the “real” world, including a job teaching college, working with the Indian Health Service, performing evaluations for the New Mexican courts, and even a stint on a hospital dialysis unit, she decided to reinvent herself in mid-life and pursue her love of story. She has three published novels, a play produced by the Actor’s Alliance Festival in San Diego, poetry anthologized in, For the Love of Writing, by the San Diego Writer’s Workshop and a play, Gotcha!, selected for a reading at the Village Arts Theater in Carlsbad, California, May 2012. She presently lives by the beach in San Diego County, California. Visit her at her blog: www.jkwinn.com
Tyson & Joey: Two Worlds Collide
About Tyson & Joey: Two Worlds Collide:
This is the story of two very different young men, from two very different worlds. Tyson is from the rough streets of Trentan, Joey from the affluent northern suburbs. The worlds of these two young men collide through a chance encounter, and as a result, they begin to question their life situations. This connection sparks a shared journey of self-development; one which brings about necessary changes for both men. The story has a self-help thread throughout, which is inspired by the author’s personal experience of living with anxiety and depression. The text conveys the truths that enabled him to rise out of suffering, and to live a life of peace and fulfilment. The teachings are centred on the concept of “present moment awareness”, and how this can be applied to everyday life.
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Tom Watts was born and raised in New Zealand and has spent some time living in Australia. After growing restless down under, he moved to London, where he currently resides and works as an urban designer, a career that he has been pursuing since graduating university. Tyson & Joey has been a background project for Tom, developing organically over several years as a response to his mental health challenges. For more information on the author and his works, visit tomjwatts.com.
Dragonfriend
Stabbed. Burned by a dragon. Abandoned. The traitor Ra’aba tried to silence Hualiama forever. But he reckoned without the strength of a dragonet’s paw, and the courage of a girl who refused to die.
This is the tale of Hualiama Dragonfriend, and a love which became legend.
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Marc is a South African-born dragon masquerading as an author, who loves writing about dragons and Africa, preferably both at the same time. He lives and works in Ethiopia with his wife and 4 children, 2 dogs and a variable number of marabou storks that roost on the acacia trees out back. On a good night there are also hyenas patrolling the back fence.
He’s the author of 18 fantasy books in 3 languages (2 more languages coming this year – watch this space!), including 8 rip-roaring dragon fantasy bestsellers. Dragonfriend won a Gold Award for Fantasy in the 2016 IPPY Book Awards. He’s currently working on The Girl who Loved the Whales, the second book of IsleSong, and planning Dragonstar, the 4th and final volume in the Dragonfriend series.
Once Upon a Tee Time
Author Lee Stone takes a special swing for all the golfers of the world with this priceless humorous fantasy.
An optical engineer has invented contact lenses that provide remarkable 20/5 vision, an accomplishment that will reset the bar for human performance. When a single prototype of the new technology mysteriously finds its way to an old golfer, the stage is set for the fanciful story of Ray “Jingles” Plumlee. Secretly armed with fourfold magnification through his right eye, Jingles quickly learns that size is indeed everything. A cup that looks like a bucket is almost impossible to miss. Sudden and seemingly Inexplicable success on the greens leads to fame, fortune, and fading friendships, forcing Plumlee to decide what matters most.
Golden-age fun for golfers of every age.
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Born and raised in Erie, Pennsylvania, Lee Stone made Alaska home for over thirty years. Now residing in Delray Beach, Florida, he began writing in 2014. Four initial books feature three different genres: the mystery adventures of eccentric fisherman Slacker Mills; the remarkable coming-of-age adventure of a teenage girl; and the epic fantasy story of a 72-year-old golfer and his friends.
Stone’s storytelling is unique in both its originality and keen awareness that both a hero and a villain reside in everyone, both a savant and a stooge. Only the degree and deployment of each set people apart.
Stone is also known in South Florida for his unique sand creations. Samples of his sand play can be viewed on Facebook under Delray Beach Sand or under Lee Stone Sand on youtube.
Free Fish Friday
Fresh new author Lee Stone serves up a provocative entrée with a generous side of humor in the inaugural book of the Slacker Mills Mystery Series.
Slacker, a vagabond fisherman extraordinaire, had found his personal paradise in Key West, Florida.. With his trophies covering the walls of the Rusty Hook tavern, and his fresh catch comprising the free Friday menu there, he was respected as a local hero. In the rum-gilded view of vacationing ladies, he also enjoyed billing as the “Catch of the Night.”
When his close friend and benefactor is the victim of a violent death, Slacker’s fantasy world collapses. A murder investigation spawns shocking revelations that rock the peaceful town … and point to him as the prime suspect.
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Born and raised in Erie, Pennsylvania, Lee Stone made Alaska home for over thirty years. Now residing in Delray Beach, Florida, he began writing in 2014. Four initial books feature three different genres: the mystery adventures of eccentric fisherman Slacker Mills; the remarkable coming-of-age adventure of a teenage girl; and the epic fantasy story of a 72-year-old golfer and his friends.
Stone’s storytelling is unique in both its originality and keen awareness that both a hero and a villain reside in everyone, both a savant and a stooge. Only the degree and deployment of each set people apart.
Stone is also known in South Florida for his unique sand creations. Samples of his sand play can be viewed on Facebook under Delray Beach Sand or under Lee Stone Sand on youtube.
Free Fish Friday
Fresh new author Lee Stone serves up a provocative entrée with a generous side of humor in the inaugural book of the Slacker Mills Mystery Series.
Slacker, a vagabond fisherman extraordinaire, had found his personal paradise in Key West, Florida.. With his trophies covering the walls of the Rusty Hook tavern, and his fresh catch comprising the free Friday menu there, he was respected as a local hero. In the rum-gilded view of vacationing ladies, he also enjoyed billing as the “Catch of the Night.”
When his close friend and benefactor is the victim of a violent death, Slacker’s fantasy world collapses. A murder investigation spawns shocking revelations that rock the peaceful town … and point to him as the prime suspect.
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Author Bio:
Born and raised in Erie, Pennsylvania, Lee Stone made Alaska home for over thirty years. Now residing in Delray Beach, Florida, he began writing in 2014. Four initial books feature three different genres: the mystery adventures of eccentric fisherman Slacker Mills; the remarkable coming-of-age adventure of a teenage girl; and the epic fantasy story of a 72-year-old golfer and his friends.
Stone’s storytelling is unique in both its originality and keen awareness that both a hero and a villain reside in everyone, both a savant and a stooge. Only the degree and deployment of each set people apart.
Stone is also known in South Florida for his unique sand creations. Samples of his sand play can be viewed on Facebook under Delray Beach Sand or under Lee Stone Sand on youtube.
BATTLE OF THE STARLORDS (War of the titans) by Prince Patrick
Long ago in a distant universe an ancient prophecy foretells of two kings that will be born. One king will be the savior of the universe and the other will be the instrument of its ultimate destruction. Now a galactic peacekeeper, Akira Solomon and his partner must stop this apocalypse and try to keep this force from tearing apart the universe.
Author Bio:
Prince Patrick
Born in Hamlet N.C in 1966
Graduated from Andrews High School
HIGH POINT N.C. in 1985.
Attended Oakwood College Huntsville,Al 1987- 1988
Current working for the Philadelphia, Pa school district.
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