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1. Real Santa

   About Real Santa:

   STARRED REVIEW BOOKLIST

   “If somebody doesn’t make a movie out of this book, there’s something wrong with the world. This could have been played as an out-and-out slapstick comedy, but instead the author approaches the story like a character study: a portrait of a man with the best intentions in the world watching those intentions collide with reality. It’s a steamroller of a story, starting small, with George’s idea, and getting bigger and bigger as George tries to put the elements together, as his obsession takes him further and further away from reality. Beautifully done.”

   David Pitts Booklist
   “The author marries the everyday dramas found in the novels of Tom Perrotta and Nick Hornby to the high camp of Carl Hiaasen or Dave Barry. Adults looking for a funny holiday-themed tale that doesn’t lose its sense of wonder in the face of realism will find a treat here. A lovingly crafted comedy about the madness that fatherhood inspires.”

   Kirkus Reviews
   Best-selling author Hazelgrove (e.g., Ripples; Tobacco Sticks) captures the human need to believe in something good. This book will satisfy readers looking for a happy Christmas story.– Library Journal
   “Hazelgrove’s lively improbable narrative will appeal to the readers in the mood for holiday fiction.”

   Publishers Weekly

   George Kronenfeldt is an unemployed engineer with one shot to keep his daughters belief in Santa intact. When Megan tells him the only way she will believe in Santa is if she can videotape him and then tells her fourth grade class she will prove the existence of Santa Claus by posting her video to YouTube, George realizes he must become the Real Santa.

   Real Santa is a funny heartwarming story of parenthood gone wrong and illuminates what lengths parents will go to keep their children happy

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   Author Bio:
   William Elliott Hazelgrove is the best-selling author of eight novels, Ripples, Tobacco Sticks, Mica Highways, Rocket Man, The Pitcher, Real Santa and the forthcoming Jackpine and The Pitcher 2. His books have received starred reviews in Publisher Weekly, Book of the Month Selections, Junior Library Guild Selections, ALA Editors Choice Awards and optioned for the movies. He was the Ernest Hemingway Writer in Residence where he wrote in the attic of Ernest Hemingway’s birthplace. He has written articles and reviews for USA Today and other publications. He has been the subject of interviews in NPR’s All Things Considered along with features in The New York Times, LA Times, Chicago Tribune, Chicago Sun Times, Richmond Times Dispatch, USA Today, People, Channel 11, NBC, WBEZ, WGN. His most recent novel, The Pitcher is a Junior Library Guild Selection and was chosen Book of the Year by Books and Authors. net. His next book Jackpine will be out Spring 2014 with Koehler Books. A follow up novel Real Santa will be out fall of 2014.

   He runs a political cultural blog, The View From Hemingway’s Attic.

   http://www.williamhazelgrove.com

   Authors Own words

   Born in Richmond, Virginia, and carted back and forth between Virginia and Baltimore, I blame my rootless, restless personality on my father. He was and is a traveling salesman with a keen gift of gab, great wit, a ready joke, and could sell white tennis shoes to coal miners.

   It was during these sojourns up and down the east coast I soaked up the stories that would later be Tobacco Sticks and Mica Highways. I think authors should exploit their family history before raping the rest of the culture for material.

   Dad finally got tired of the east and moved to the Midwest when I was fourteen. We settled outside of Chicago. It is here I came of age and went off to college for seven years — two degrees and one novel later I returned to Chicago and lived in many different apartments, trying to get a little two hundred page manuscript called Ripples published.

   When a local printer said he would take a chance on my book, I jumped and had my first novel published by a man who had never published anything. Great reviews and moderate sales put me back to my jobs as a janitor, baker, waiter, construction worker, teacher, real estate tycoon, mortgage broker, professor, security guard, salesman — anything to make a buck and keep writing. The printer lost his mind and published my second novel, too. That landed me with Bantam after some rave reviews and a paperback auction for my second novel, Tobacco Sticks.

   A third novel, Mica Highways, was sold on less than one hundred and fifty pages to Bantam and then I did a strange thing — I settled down to writing in Ernest Hemingway’s birthplace in Oak Park, Illinois. I have since been looking for the Great American Novel up in the old red oak rafters and I think I might have finally found one…. My new novel, Rocket Man, is an exploration of what the American Dream means today. A man moves to the suburbs and his life falls apart in one week. It is a satire but with events now, it seems very timely.

   A fifth novel, The Pitcher will be out in September 2013. The story of a boy with an incredible arm but no way to make the highschool team. When an old World Series pitcher agrees to coach him, he finds that a dream is sometimes all you have.

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2. Love Psalms

   About Love Psalms:

   This just may be one of the best inspired, Christian love stories to date. In the classic romance novel you will find a non fiction type of writing paired up with it because it explores the true life story of a man who lost love, lost faith, but found them both while walking along life’s path.

   Pastor Joey Bauer really poured his heart out in this one. He has tried to mix a non fiction feel with a warm tug on the heart that Christian romance novels give you. He has tried to tell his stories, show that Christian love can have a happy ending, even if the beginning is devastating to say the least. You will find in this book some strength and motivation as you read how Pastor Joey in the form of Adrian, lost his one true love to a horrific disease, but God saw him through it all. Through it all he learned to trust in Jesus, in the high times and in the low times, on the mountains and in the valley.

   Pick this book up today and be touched by its Christian love inspired message of hope. God’s grace is sure to speak to you in any situation you might be going through while reading the words off of this page. Accompanied by the book of Psalms you will find that even in bad times, Gods warm embrace is right around the corner. Don’t believe us? Check it out for yourself.

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   “Everybody falls, but the great ones get back up, again, and again, and again.”

   -Comeback Kids Ministries Pastor Joey

   This is the mantra that Pastor Joey lives by in his hometown of Stockton, California where he is the Senior Pastor of Comeback Kids Ministries. He is married with a wife named Janielle and two kids (Gavin, Hannah) as well as another child on the way. He and his family are very active in the community and having started a diaper and wipes ministry for the needy, they have seen many lives transformed not only through the kind deeds but the message of love, grace, and mercy that Pastor Joey Preaches. He is a motivator, and an inspiration to all who meet him.

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3. Sara’s Promise

   About Sara’s Promise:

   Do you believe in soul mates?

   William Grafton had the perfect life with his lovely wife, Sara, and two wonderful children. But one day his perfect forever was shattered when Sara died suddenly, leaving him alone to raise his children and wonder how he would ever get through life without his soul mate. Five years later, he finds himself looking into a familiar pair of blue-green eyes that remind him of Sara. The woman is the exact opposite of his late wife, yet he finds he is drawn to her. But after a few strange occurrences, he begins to wonder–are these just coincidences or has his Sara come back to him as she once promised in the form of this new woman?

   Annie Paxton doesn’t believe in soul mates or fate. She had watched her father die of a broken heart after her mother passed away and has since cast away any fairy tale ideas of love. Then she meets the man who has been haunting her dreams and she begins to see love in a whole new light. But her dream man is still tied to his deceased wife, and Annie doesn’t know if he will ever be able to break away from his past. As strange occurrences unfold, Annie wonders if William could ever truly love her for herself and not for the traits that remind him of Sara.

   Were William and Annie brought together by fate, coincidence or by Sara keeping her promise?

   **2013 National Indie Excellence Book Awards Finalist in Romance**

   **Semi-Finalist in Romance in The Kindle Book Review’s Best Indie Books of 2013**

   What readers are saying about Sara’s Promise:

   “With a realistic cast of characters who come alive and jump off the pages; a richly detailed and descriptive setting along the Oregon seaside; and a simply inspirational storyline that will have the reader experiencing the full gamut of emotions, Sara’s Promise is a tenderhearted story of love that will touch your heart and soul, and will resonate with you long after the last page has been read.” ~ Kathleen Higgins-Anderson – Jersey Girl Book Reviews

   “Sara’s Promise is a wonderful story that I just got lost in. Deanna writes such warm, beautiful words that makes one just keep reading and reading. I did not want to put the book down, I did not want to leave Sara’s world.” ~ The Book Bag – Susan Schliecher

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   Author Bio:
   Deanna Lynn Sletten is a bestselling and award-winning author. She writes heartwarming romances and women’s fiction novels with unforgettable characters. She has also written one middle-grade novel that takes you on the adventure of a lifetime.

   Deanna’s women’s fiction novels, Widow, Virgin, Whore and Maggie’s Turn have both made the top 100 bestselling book lists on both Amazon and Barnes & Noble in 2014. Maggie’s Turn was also a top 10 bestselling book on Barnes & Noble. Her romance novels Memories and Sara’s Promise both won semifinalist in The Kindle Book Review’s Best Indie Books of 2012 and 2013 respectively. Sara’s Promise was also a finalist in the 2013 National Indie Excellence Book Awards.

   Deanna is married and has two grown children. When not writing, she enjoys walking the wooded trails around her northern Minnesota home with her beautiful Australian Shepherd or relaxing in the boat on the lake in the summer.

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4. Girl Jacked

   About Girl Jacked:

   Girl Jacked is the first novel in the Jack Stratton series that has 450+ Five-Star reviews with over 125,000 eBooks and paperbacks in distribution. If you love a mystery with action, humor and a dash of romance, try Girl Jacked today.

   Police Officer Jack Stratton is hiding. Hiding from the world. From pain. From the memories of losing his best friend, Chandler, in Iraq. Suffering from PTSD, and isolated from those he cares about, the last thing Jack expects to hear is his foster sister Michelle is gone – Chandler’s sister. The words cut straight to his core. Although the police think she just took off, he knows Michelle would never leave those she loved behind – like he did. Now he must take action, find Michelle and bring her home… or die trying.

   The first novel in the Jack Stratton Mystery Collection introduces us to handsome rogue, Jack Stratton, and his dark past. With a debt of honor to his dead foster brother, Chandler, Jack’s guilt drives him into a world of deception and lies. As Jack’s walls begin to crumble, he must navigate the quirky characters that seep into the mystery of his foster sister’s disappearance. And in the sleepy community of Darrington, like so many things in this world, nothing is as it appears to be. The hidden mysteries that often go unnoticed begin to emerge as Jack and his new unpredictable sidekick begin to turn over the rocks. Following a trail that has grown cold, Jack must tread carefully to protect his job, his family, and his own life…

   Christopher Greyson’s novel weaves a tale full of mystery and action with humor and suspense. His unique stories and no-nonsense style of writing will take you on a page turning rollercoaster ride of emotions right up until the end.

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   Christopher Greyson is an author, actor, martial arts instructor and storyteller. He has degrees in Theatre, Communications and Computer Science.

   Christopher currently lives in Massachusetts with his wife and two children.

   His love for tales of mystery and adventure began with his grandfather, a World War I decorated hero. Christopher will never forget being introduced to his grandfather’s friend, a WWI pilot who flew across the skies at the same time as the feared legendary Red Baron. His love of reading and storytelling eventually lead him to write Pure of Heart, Girl Jacked, Jack-Knifed, Jacks are Wild and Jack and the Giant Killer.

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5. The Three Kitties that Saved My Life

   About The Three Kitties that Saved My Life:

   FINALIST 2014 RONE Award, Inspirational Book

   AN UPLIFTING TRUE STORY OF LOVE – from love and loss to love once again – a feel-good read
   #1 Amazon best seller in Love and Loss, December 2013
   #1 Amazon best seller in Educator Biographies, April 2014
   #1 Amazon best seller in Love & Romance, April 2014

   What if you suddenly lost your partner through life? How would you find the will to go on all alone? Would you ever be able to fall in love again? This is the true story of my journey from grieving widower, not caring if I lived or died, to the once-again happily married man I am today, a man who both loves and cherishes life. Come see how three lively, loving kitties completely turned my life around, giving me a new zest for living.

   My story begins with loss and tears, but it ends with lots of love and laughter. I hope that you will find yourself both entertained and inspired by my journey.

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   Author Bio:
   Michael Meyer is the author of mysteries, thrillers, humorous fiction, and non-fiction: Love and romance, laughter and tears, thrills and fears.

   His INTERNATIONAL SUSPENSE COLLECTION currently has two books: COVERT DREAMS, Book One; and DEADLY EYES, Book Two.

   His CONTEMPORARY/HUMOROUS FICTION COLLECTION currently has two books: THE FAMOUS UNION, Book One; and THE SURVIVAL OF MARVIN BAINES, Book Two.

   THE THREE KITTIES THAT SAVED MY LIFE was his heartfelt attempt to make things right again in his life after his first wife died, and putting this true story of love down on paper worked. It was something that he knew he had to do. One reviewer says of this book, “This is like drinking tea and honey on a cold day.”

   THE SIR RODNEY VIGNETTES is a collection of humorous anecdotal episodes in the life of an Old World Charmer, allowing the English professor side of Michael Meyer to come forth.

   He has resided in and has visited many places in the world, all of which have contributed in some way to his own published writing. He has literally traveled throughout the world, on numerous occasions. He has lived in Finland, Germany, Thailand, Saudi Arabia (where COVERT DREAMS – INTERNATIONAL SUSPENSE COLLECTION BOOK ONE – is set), and the U.S. Virgin Islands (where DEADLY EYES – INTERNATIONAL SUSPENSE COLLECTION BOOK TWO – is set). He gained the wanderlust to see the world, to experience other cultures, at an early age, and this desire has never left him. If anything, it has only gained in intensity as he has aged.

   Among the many unique things that have happened to him in his world travels, he has walked the streets of Istanbul with a detective, searching for a pickpocket who got him good. He has ridden on the back of a motorcycle in Tehran while the driver, who spoke not one word of English, pointed out all the sights to him. He has wrestled an Iranian soldier who tried to break into his hotel room in Tehran. He has had the paint completely stripped from his car as he drove across Saudi Arabia in a sandstorm. He has stood on the stage of a busy nightclub in Tokyo, singing “She’ll be Coming Round the Mountain When She Comes” to an audience feeling no pain from the Sake they were drinking. He has been chased by a family of mongooses (yes, that is the correct spelling) on the idyllic Caribbean island of St. Croix. And that is just the beginning of his long list of worldly adventures.

   As a recent retiree from a forty-year career as a professor of writing, he now lives in Southern California wine country with his wife, Kitty, and their two adorable rescue cats.

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6. Despite the Gentleman’s Riches

   About Despite the Gentleman’s Riches:

   Ginny and Jack go together like bean sprouts and French fries.

   Ever since her parents died in a car wreck while she was a tween, Ginny has yearned to be part of a family. Years later, she joins a nonprofit that is struggling to save her community from a polluting power plant, and in the process the young woman finally discovers like-minded souls.

   But when an unbearably handsome power-plant executive comes to town, Ginny’s simple world is tilted on its axis. With an effort, she’s able to ignore Jack’s good looks, but she has a harder time steering clear of his anguished younger sister, whose pain puts all of Ginny’s nurturing instincts on high alert.

   As the young woman hovers on the cusp between two new families, she realizes that she can’t have it all. But will Ginny be able to choose between her nonprofit buddies and the enticing businessman without losing her heart?

   This warmly sensual romance ends with a happily ever after and is on sale for only 99 cents!

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   Author Bio:
   Aimee Easterling has been spoiled by four dogs, has spoiled six cats, and has largely been ignored by two guinea pigs, four turtles, a cockatiel, and a slew of fish during her thirty-some year life. Studying biology and working as a naturalist have both informed her writing, but she’s quite willing to let reality slide in favor of a good story. When not writing, she loves to read and always keeps books by Robin McKinley, Patricia Briggs, and Elizabeth Peters on her shelf. She is currently hard at work writing her next novel.

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7. Murder in the Arboretum by Christa Nardi

   About Murder in the Arboretum by Christa Nardi:

   Another murder in small town Cold Creek has tensions rising. Clive Johnson, the groundskeeper at Cold Creek College, is a convenient scapegoat for a police chief who seeks an easy solution. Convinced Chief Pfeiffe has it all wrong, professor and psychologist Sheridan Hendley sets out to help prove Clive’s innocence. But not everyone is pleased by her enthusiastic search for the truth. Just as her life is looking up personally, it looks like she might be the next victim. This is the second in the Cold Creek series.

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   Author Bio:
   Christa Nardi is and always has been an avid reader. Her favorite authors have shifted from Carolyn Keene and Earl Stanley Gardner to more contemporary mystery/crime authors over time, but mystery/crime along with romance are her preferred choices for leisure reading. Christa also has been a long time writer from poetry and short stories to the Cold Creek series, Christa has joined many other reader/writers in writing one genre she enjoys reading – the cozy mystery. The series started with Murder at Cold Creek College; Murder in the Arboretum is the second in the series. Christa Nardi is a pen name for a real life professor/psychologist from the Northeast who is well published in nonfiction and technical venues.

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8. THE SOUL AJAR, A Love Story by Kiana Davenport

   About THE SOUL AJAR, A Love Story by Kiana Davenport:

   From bestselling Hawaiian author, Kiana Davenport, comes THE SOUL AJAR, a riveting political thriller and love story. Set primarily in Hawaii, New York, and Russia, here is a novel that brilliantly knits together four seemingly unconnected lives: Adam, a CIA intelligence operative who suffers from albinism, and is searching for the Russian assassin who killed his mother, an act he witnessed as a child; Lily a young Hawaiian journalist who falls in love with him; Bazil, an intelligence operative from Mumbai who befriends Adam; and Zahira, a beautiful Afghani girl running from the Taliban. In this searing and multi-faceted tale, Davenport reveals the path these characters travel as their lives become intertwined in a haunting and timeless story of the love that binds humans together, and the wars that continue to tear us apart.

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   Kiana Davenport is descended from a full-blooded Native Hawaiian mother and a Caucasian father from Talladega, Alabama. Her father was a U.S. Navy sailor who fell in love with her mother while stationed at Pearl Harbor. Kiana was born and raised in Honolulu, but her travels have taken her all over the world. *** She is the internationally bestselling author of the novels, SHARK DIALOGUES, SONG OF THE EXILE, HOUSE OF MANY GODS, and THE SPY LOVER. Kiana is also the author of three prize-winning story collections about the Pacific Islands: HOUSE OF SKIN, CANNIBAL NIGHTS, AND OPIUM DREAMS. These three volumes are now available as an ebook boxed set: PRIZE-WINNING PACIFIC STORIES, VOLUMES 1-3. *** A graduate of the University of Hawaii, Kiana has also been a Bunting Writing Fellow at Harvard University and a Visiting Writer at Wesleyan University. Her stories have won several O’Henry Awards, Pushcart Prizes, and The Best American Short Story in 2000. Her novels and short stories have been translated in nineteen languages. She divides her time between Hawaii and New York City. But her heart is always in her islands!

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9. Swan Deception by Gledé Browne Kabongo

   About Swan Deception by Gledé Browne Kabongo:

   Someone knows Shelby Cooper’s Secrets — and is out for blood

   Doctor Shelby Cooper is a brilliant research scientist with a past steeped in secrets and lies—lies about her true identity, her family, and what happened that summer night over two decades ago. But Shelby is a survivor no matter what, and now lives the life she only dreamed of with her powerful executive husband and two perfect kids in a picturesque New England town.

   When her ex-lover is discovered shot to death in the trunk of her car, overwhelming evidence points to Shelby as the killer, and to the police it’s an open-and-shut case. For the Cooper family, it’s the beginning of an agonizing nightmare. Someone knows Shelby’s dark secrets, someone who despises her, someone willing to kill to destroy her.

   To catch a psychopath and rescue his wife from a possible murder conviction, Jason Cooper must unravel the mystery of Shelby’s past even though their teenage daughter Abbie has other ideas about the investigation that could get her killed. As the clock ticks, a series of shocking revelations threatens to rip apart the Cooper family. But nothing can prepare them for a truth so horrifying, it may leave them shattered forever.

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   Author Bio:
   Gledé Browne Kabongo is the #1 Amazon Bestselling author of the novel Conspiracy of Silence. She grew up in the Caribbean where her love affair with books began but she swears it had nothing to do with the fact that the library in her town overlooked the Atlantic Ocean. At age 13, she migrated to the U.S.

   She earned both a master’s and bachelor’s degree in communications from Clark University and Framingham State University respectively. After college, Gledé did a brief stint as a freelance newspaper reporter. A career in marketing soon followed, with organizations in the technology media, trade publishing and non-profit sectors.

   When it comes to writing, Gledé describes her female protagonists in terms of brains and beauty, meet wounds and secrets at the corner of courage and vengeance. She lives in Massachusetts with her husband and two sons.

   Gledé welcomes your comments, feedback, likes and follows. Connect with her.

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10. Rising Star

    About Rising Star:

    Following an angel’s betrayal, mortals and celestials alike fought against the demons in the War of the Races. The Lord of Hells was sealed away, and though demonic activity waxed and waned over the centuries, no one thought there would be another full-out war against them. Two thousand years later, however, rumors are circulating that the Lord of Hells has a daughter, and demonic activity is on the rise.

    Few are willing to believe history will repeat itself, but those who do are feeling the weight. Gildas is one of six Ginjo, celestials who are bearers of the Farthest Lands, and diplomats of Celestia. He is haunted by the past and the future, and has personal ties to mortals. The young elf Ellina is that tie. She lives in Silver Crescent, a beautiful elven city in the ancient forest of Mithorin. Ellina wants to do what she can for her people and Gildas, but the more she hears Gildas’ reports, the more useless she feels. It isn’t long before both their worlds are turned upside down.

    Neil is a rogue demon who wants to escape his heritage and aid the mortals of Elyshaeza. But his very appearance leads to distrust. When he encounters the elf Shara, ambassador of Silver Crescent, he is taken to the largely human city of Notton, where he is to be judged. But there is a mystery in Notton, and Neil is charged with solving it. The mystery leads him and three elves, including Shara, to a gruesome discovery, with an outcome no one expected. But while Neil hopes to sever all ties with the Hells, he and his new friends learn that those he left behind are not willing to sever ties with him.

    Collie is a bookworm, and has never been outside her village home. She has had adventures through books, and that is all. But her world changes drastically when a beautiful, mysterious, and arrogant celestial named Shri unintentionally saves her and takes her to Celestia. He too believes there could be another War of the Races, and he wants Collie to do research for him. When one of the Ginjo goes missing, Collie takes matters into her own hands, and an encounter with a demonic mirror will literally take her to the Hells and back.

    Artemis is a Glarent, genderless celestials who are charged with protecting Celestia. But a battle on the mortal plane leaves Artemis wounded and abandoned. It strikes out on a quest with two mortals, but doing so leads it not only to question its role, but its very identity, as its confronted with mortal expectation, and its budding, strange powers.

    They all lead different lives, but they are all connected by the threat of another demonic war. Rising Star is the first of the Rain of Stars trilogy.

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    I am an only child, and have lived in beautiful Oregon all my life, but I have been to various states, Japan, Ecuador, and the Galapagos Islands. I earned a bachelor’s degree in English at Portland State University in 2013.

    I have always loved reading, but when I was little, it was hard for me because I am dyslexic. I was behind my first few years of elementary school, but by sixth grade, I was at college reading level, reading adult books and ahead of many of my peers. Don’t ask me to do math, though.

    I call myself a “girly nerd”. I love fantasy books, and am a big fan of Forgotten Realms, which is a Dungeons and Dragons setting. I am a huge collector and reader of manga (Japanese graphic novels). I like roleplaying online with friends via writing, and storytelling, and while I’m not the most technologically savvy person in the world, I like nerdy things. But I also like shopping, fashion–though I am not always update on the latest trends, and I have my own style–hair and skin care, and “girly” things.

    I have been ballroom dancing since I was twelve, before it was considered “cool”.

    Rising Star is my first novel.

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