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Published: Fri, 10/24/14
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- The Naive Guys: A Memoir of Friendship, Love and Tech in the Early 1990s by Harry Patz, Jr.
About The Naive Guys: A Memoir of Friendship, Love and Tech in the Early 1990s by Harry Patz, Jr.:Against the historical backdrop of New York City in the 1990s, “The Naive Guys: A Memoir of Friendship, Love and Tech in the Early 1990s” is a hysterical yet poignant coming-of-age novel. Mark Amici embarks on a challenging journey through the postcollege world, where he struggles to emerge from his sheltered upbringing to a life of sex, love, friendship, and career success.
Fighting through the bad economy of 1991, Mark takes an entry-level sales role at a growing tech company, Fishsoft, at the dawn of the Internet Age.
Living at home with his gruff uncle, mother, and older sister, Mark pursues his aspirations with a trio of wingmen, Pete, Sally, and Kostas. His quixotic search for love, his desire to truly understand his family, and his pitfalls through corporate machinations all provide a humorous glimpse during an uneven period of life transition.
Interwoven with key moments of the times, including the Bill Clinton and Rudolph Giuliani electoral victories, the first World Trade Center bombing, OJ Simpson, and New York’s NBA Knicks and NHL Rangers simultaneously in their respective finals, The Naive Guys tells the story of one man’s journey to uncover and fully understand his identity.
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“The Naive Guys: A Memoir of Friendship, Love and Tech in the Early 1990s” is the first novel by Harry Patz, Jr. It was published in August, 2014.Harry has been a participant of the Nantucket Atheneum Writer’s Group since October, 2013. He contributed a short story, “Off Season” for the group’s published anthology collection, The Moving Pen: A Nantucket Atheneum Writer’s Group Anthology, published in June, 2014.
Harry is president of Gondolin Advisors LLC, providing strategic advisory services to Communications, Media and Technology firms. He is a 20-year veteran of the tech and media industries, with executive positions at Microsoft Corporation and Velti. Harry holds an MBA from The Johnson School at Cornell University and a BS in Management from Boston College. He resides in Westchester, NY.
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- Chelsea Avenue
About Chelsea Avenue:
“I don’t come across books like Rosamilia’s CHELSEA AVENUE often. Infused with the dreamlike quality of memory, Rosamilia here fulfills the full measure of the promise I first saw in his DYING DAYS series. Beautifully dark, this book held me entranced. I couldn’t get enough!” -Joe McKinney, Bram Stoker Award-winning author of DOG DAYS and PLAGUE OF THE UNDEAD
Some things never stop until the deed is done.
On July 8th 1987, in Long Branch, New Jersey, The Haunted House Pier and Murphy’s Law club fires destroyed not only local landmarks, but everything Manny Santiago found dear.
And it isn’t over.
The entity responsible for killing Manny’s family and wreaking devastation in the small seaside community has reappeared. Again. And is growing in power.
Now every July 8th it returns, and this time survivors of the fires, including Manny, are being led back to the now-vacant lot on Chelsea Avenue, where the entity intends to finish what it started in 1987 once and for all.
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Armand Rosamilia is a New Jersey boy currently living in sunny Florida, where he writes when he’s not sleeping.He’s written over 100 stories that are currently available, including a few different series:
“Dying Days” extreme zombie series
“Keyport Cthulhu” horror series
“Flagler Beach Fiction Series” contemporary fiction
“Metal Queens” non-fiction music serieshe also loves to talk in third person… because he’s really that cool. He’s a proud Active member of HWA as well.
You can find him at http://armandrosamilia.com for not only his latest releases but interviews and guest posts with other authors he likes!
and e-mail him to talk about zombies, baseball and Metal:
armandrosamilia@gmail.com
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- Halloween Magic & Mayhem by Stella Wilkinson
About Halloween Magic & Mayhem by Stella Wilkinson:
How on earth did I end up here? I was supposed to be at a party kissing the boy of my dreams, instead I’m dancing naked on the town common, on Halloween, with a Coven of strange women who might be witches, a bunch of zombies that I have to return to their graves, a talking crow, and my pet ghost thrown in for good measure. Just yesterday I was an ordinary teenager…
On her sixteenth birthday Emily Rand discovers that she is a witch. Unable to control her spells she unwittingly raises zombies, and corporealizes the ghost haunting her house. She finds herself in a race against time to put everything right if she has any hope of getting to a certain Halloween party and seeing a certain boy again.
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Stella Wilkinson is a full time author with eight books currently available, plus three anthologies that she collated and edited for a children’s hospital charity. The anthologies contain nearly 100 short stories donated by authors (including Stella) from all over the world. Look out for the Omnibus Edition in November 2014.Stella loves writing about young adults and she devours paranormal romances, so it was inevitable that they would come together at some point. She is best known for her hugely successful Flirting Games Series, but has also recently started her Magic & Mayhem Series, soon to be followed by her ESP Series.
Stella lives in Pembrokeshire in Wales. Widely known as The Land of Dragons. She is lucky enough to live by the beach, and when she isn’t writing she is generally either tipping sand out of her shoes or cleaning mud off her wellies (it also rains a lot in Wales). Stella is an enthusiastic (if dreadful) cook, and loves to bake chocolate brownies by the dozen. She also collects antique books and first editions of any genre at all, so her walls are filled with dusty smelly old books on various boring subjects that she treasures and her family hates
You can find her on twitter @fantasyscribble or contact her direct at her website www.stellawilkinson.com. Be the first to hear about her new releases and join her mailing list here: http://eepurl.com/wEMmD
Available by this author:
The Flirting Games (Free!)
More Flirting Games
Further Flirting Games
The Flirting Games Trilogy, Books 1 – 3
Good @ Games
Halloween Magic and Mayhem (Free!)
Werewolf Magic and Mayhem
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- Waken by Angela Fristoe
About Waken by Angela Fristoe:Haunted by nightmares of her mother killing her, Janie just wants to be normal.
Tristan is out of her league and the emotions he draws from her are almost enough to make her ignore all of the weird things he says. Almost enough to ignore the way the entire town seems ready to pounce on her as if she were fresh meat.
Almost, though, isn’t enough when Janie finally discovers what the town is hiding. The town of Everod has been waiting for Janie and if she hopes to survive, she’ll need to confront the truth of who and what she really is.
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Born in Northern Canada, Angela grew up on the Canadian prairies amid dreams of becoming the next Dian Fossey or a world famous flight attendant. Those, however, were never meant to be. Instead, she moved to the United States where she divides her time between her family, writing, and her day job as an instructional coach.Angela was the winner and double finalist in the Romance category of The Strongest Start 2010 Contest hosted by TheNextBigWriter.com. Angela has three Young Adult novels published by Little Prince Publishing. Her novel Lie to Me (A Touched Trilogy, #1) was recently included in the USA Today Bestselling paranormal box set Pandora.
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- César: The Demon Lover’s Chronicles – Book 1 by Julian Coleman
About César: The Demon Lover’s Chronicles – Book 1 by Julian Coleman:Rachel and Angelina are devoted sisters. Their parents are leaders of a religious sect who resist using dark power. Because of that belief, they are betrayed and murdered by members in their clan. Rachel unleashes a firestorm on the mob allowing the sisters to escape. They and their followers settle in Virginia. A peaceful decade passes. Until César.
He is a handsome but insidious weapon. He seduces, rapes and nearly kills Angelina. He forces Rachel to use the dark power to save her sister. Angelina is rescued from death but she is changed.
Rachel sends Angelina to her mentor. She hopes that Auntie is powerful enough to restore her sister’s humanity. César pursues Angelina to the bayou. His lust evolves into obsession and her people are the casualties of his desire.
Angelina fights to not only to regain her humanity, but also to save the lives and souls of those she loves. It is a battle that will span of decades.
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I am an analyst by day, someone who was nursed on Star Trek and fell in love with Mr. Spock, and I am a deep dreamer by night. Actually it is my nightmares that forced, yes forced, me to write. I want others to see the things (beings) I see when I dream.César: The Demon Lover’s Chronicles – Book 1 by Julian Coleman is a post from Awesome Gang
- Winter Fall
About Winter Fall:
A post-apocalyptic thriller that’ll keep you on the edge of your seat from beginning to end…
On August 1st, 2019, the Yellowstone Supervolcano erupts in its most cataclysmic eruption ever, unleashing a scene of destruction such as humankind has never seen and triggering a civilization-ending volcanic winter.
The Durant family, taking an idyllic vacation to Yellowstone on the eve of its mighty eruption, are forced to fight for their lives as they make a hair-raising escape from the exploding supervolcano. They’re able to reach a place of relative safety at the homestead of a relative, only to realize their struggles are just beginning …
Join the Durants as they embark on an epic, hard-fought struggle for survival against all odds in a ruined, frozen landscape beset by hunger, lawlessness and civil war.
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Born and raised in North Carolina, Byron has a degree in Geography from the University of North Carolina. He has worked in a variety of occupations, including city planner, home inspector, home renovator, as well as serving a year in Americorps.Winter Fall is his first published book, with more to come. When not writing, he enjoys traveling, woodworking, photography and reading books of all sorts.
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- His (A Dark Erotic Romance Novel) by Aubrey Dark
About His (A Dark Erotic Romance Novel) by Aubrey Dark
I never meant to be here: tied up in bed next to a serial killer.
When I followed him home, I was just playing Nancy Drew. Trying to find out his secret. His kiss was intoxicating, and I thought he was harmless.
I was wrong.
Nancy Drew never ended up in a basement, handcuffed to a radiator, teased to the edge of insanity, begging to be let go.
Soon, I stopped begging to be let go.
Soon, I started begging to be HIS.
Author’s Note: This is a dark romance novel with mature themes that might make some readers uncomfortable.
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- Professor Kompressor out of this world by Nils Andersson
About Professor Kompressor out of this world by Nils Andersson:Professor Kompressor is an inventor. He is excellent at inventing and, even though his ideas don’t always work out as intended, you can’t keep an excellent inventor down.
A slight miscalculation leaves the Professor with time on his hands and he develops an obsession with space.
A flash of inspiration leads to an unexpected invention.
An innocent game triggers a sequence of events that are truly out of this world.
The fourth book in the Professor Kompressor series is set in the hostile environment of outer space. The stakes are higher and the inventions bolder. Lives are at risk in encounters with exploding stars, black holes and, just possibly, alien civilisations.
Professor Kompressor is a fictional character but his adventures are inspired by ideas from science and the modern world. They show that you can have a lot of fun with science and technology, especially if you allow for a little bit of creative mis-interpretation.
A book that entertains children of all ages from Professor Nils Andersson, award-winning author and an authority on matters of gravity and the extremes of our weird and wonderful Universe.
“Perfect Blend of Zany Adventure & Scientific Fact” – Amazon reviewer
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I was born in a small town in Sweden. I grew up, as people tend to do, formed a range of opinions about this, that and the other, and eventually went to university to study physics. Having finishing my PhD I roamed the world for a few years, eventually settling in the United Kingdom where I now work as a professor of Mathematics. I have always loved books, of all shapes and sizes, and probably read a bit too much for my own good. Most of the stuff I write can be found in science journals, and tends to be awfully technical on things like dead stars, black holes and waves of gravity. This made me wonder what it would be like to write a “real” book. Maybe one day I will find out…In the meantime, I have very much enjoyed writing the (now four) Professor Kompressor books. The inventive Professor was a creation of myself and my daughter – obviously inspired by the many bumbling inventors you will find in kids literature. The main difference is that my Professor often draws on actual science for his ideas. He may get it wrong, but this is where the inspiration comes from.
The feedback on these little books has been great. It is fantastic to hear that readers actually enjoy enjoy your stories. The third book in the series, Professor Kompressor under cover, was a Silver Award winner in the 2013 Wishing Shelf Independent Book Awards and also runner-up in the Best Children’s Fiction category of the 2013 SpaSpa Awards (also nominated for Best Cover). I don’t mind at all being second best. That will do nicely, thank you very much!
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- Food For Thought
About Food For Thought:Food For Thought was written by emerald Lindsay and Aqua Mareen. This book contains the range of medicinal benefits of foods such as Guava, Mangoes, Bananas and more. The authors discussed way in which certain foods can help to manage diseases such as Diabetes, Arthritis etc. They also explained how longevity can be achieved by eating healthier. Emerald and Aqua also provided references so you the reader can verify the mind blowing information they provide you with. After most chapters they gifted the readers with unique and healthy recipes. “Live Longer, Eat Healthier”
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Hi, I(Emerald Lindsay) am an avid reader and health freak. Reading and writing are both my passions , my blog(http://www.onepoundless.net) and my books give me a way to express both my passions for health and writing in a conjoined manner. I love sharing knowledge about the medicinal purposes and weight managing purposes of foods, herbs etc. I am from a small Caribbean country called Trinidad and Tobago where a lot of these fruits, vegetables and herbs are easily accessible ( I tend to have a couple in my back yard). I believe that the consumption of natural foods and herbs is the key to helps us live a better disease free life, and even if you are burdened with an illness/illnesses I still believe that natural Foods and herbs are the way to go. My family and I use natural foods for all our problems and they work excellently , some of my family members even nickname me “The Doctor”. So I hope you enjoy my blog and books as I enlighten the world about these natural wonders.Food For Thought is a post from Awesome Gang
- No Perfect Secret
About No Perfect Secret:A single secret beget a layer of lies. Betrayed thrice over by her husband, Anna believes her imploded life will right itself if only she buys a dog. Investigator Frank Caburn has other ideas. Man to the bone and manufacturing testosterone like Frito Lay does chips, he is at once attracted to Anna. All he wants is to fall in love and be done with it. Anna Nesmith is the one. But how to tell her without tripping over a layer of lies is beyond him. Adding to Caburn’s woe are his elderly bosses–both of whom who plan to keep their jobs until the Rapture or the sun burns out—whichever comes last–a cross-dressing dominatrix with OCD, a purple haired hacker on parole, and Anna’s back-stabbing mother-in-law. Falling love has never been more difficult!
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I hate writing these dang bios. I was born, I’m still living. That ought to be enough. I once was married, but now I’m not. I raised five kids, but they didn’t like they way they were raised, so now I just raise tomatoes. When a character finds his or her way into my imagination, reveals a little a problem and displays enough humor to hold my attention, I write his/her story. You won’t find titillating sex scenes in No Perfect Secret. I figure you already know where the body parts go and don’t need me to tell you. Other than that, I am as ordinary as your next door neighbor. I walk a dog, feed seven feral cats on my back porch, do laundry and love to cook. I lost my best dang cookbook in a flood which included Ann Landers or Dear Abby’s recipe for pecan pie and no fail divinity. If you happen to have the recipes, please message me on Facebook. https://www.facebook.com/pages/Accent-on-Romance/328632520587813No Perfect Secret is a post from Awesome Gang
- A MATCH MADE IN MYSTERY by JB Lynn
About A MATCH MADE IN MYSTERY by JB Lynn:Attorney Brady Stewart knows he’s in for a wild ride when psychic matchmaker Armani Vasquez tasks him with finding a Purple People Eater.
His life becomes even more complicated when he meets Amy Winn, a woman crazy enough to take on a would-be mugger, and desperate enough to come looking for a mysterious inheritance.
As Brady and Amy attempt to unravel the mystery behind the puzzling legacy, they can’t deny their mutual attraction despite the fact they live in different worlds.
Difficult choices put their budding romance at risk as they juggle Amy’s desire to unlock the secrets of a father she never knew and Brady’s need to tread carefully in order to protect his career.
Can they solve a mystery twenty years in the making? Or will doing so ruin any chance at a future together?
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When a fan told her that she’s a “fabulous author”, a “great sport”, and a “very cool chick”, JB Lynn immediately thought, “that’s what I want my obituary to say!”.A Jersey Girl transplanted to the Sunshine State, JB (you can call her Jen) writes laugh-out-loud suspense and mysteries, along with goosebump-raising thrillers.
She also guzzles coffee, spoils her dogs, wastes endless hours daydreaming, and does her best to be a “cool chick” (but if you ever see her running, swimming, or biking, you’ll know how dismally she fails).
Find out more about JB and her books at www.jblynn.com
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- Mr. Boggarty (The Halloween Grump)
About Mr. Boggarty (The Halloween Grump):Mr. Boggarty is the neighborhood’s grumpy old man. He doesn’t even hand out Halloween Candy. Trixie Cole and her friends are determined to teach Mr. Boggarty a lesson in Halloween etiquette. Little did they know that it would be them learning the true meaning of Halloween.
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Tevin Hansen is the author of numerous books and short stories, and also an editor for Stinkwaves Magazine. He currently resides in Idaho, where he enjoys skateboarding, reading half a dozen books simultaneously, and chasing his two small children around the house while singing horrendous versions of children’s songs. Find out more at www.handersenpublishing.com.Mr. Boggarty (The Halloween Grump) is a post from Awesome Gang