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1. For the Love of Ireland by Judy Leslie - 2013-04-11 02:56:47-04
   When I walked into the Antique shop at the age of 20 in the historic town of Bellingham, Washington, I had no idea that I would soon become its owner and would be surrounded by things I knew nothing about. I spent the next year researching everything from grandma’s collectables to old tables and chairs. I quickly learned that there was a story attached to every object no matter how trivial it may seem to the average person. Old wedding gifts, items saved and sacrificed for, mementoes, useful and frivolous objects, all filled my shelves. I lived in the back of the shop with my cat Betty, and cooked on an old wood stove that I fed with Presto Logs. In the evenings, I would sit in a creaky painted rocker, and scavenge through old black and white photographs and letters, pondering the lives of these long gone relatives. Scattered around me on the worn braided rag-rug, were the frozen memories from an era before I was born. Did they know someday a stranger would be pawing their personal belongings, I wondered? I tried piecing an image together of what life must have been like when these items were new. Were these people happy back then, had life turned out for them as planned? When people came into my shop I would offer them a fresh baked cookie, a cup of tea, and a comfortable chair to sit and stay a while. We would swap stories about old uncle’s Joe’s or aunt Gertrude’s hand-me-down trinkets and what they might be worth to someone that wanted that ‘junk’. Then I would remind them that perhaps they held some value that couldn’t be bought. Like a child’s first pair of ice skates or a set of hand embroidered tea towels made as a gift by a spinster losing her sight. Once I stirred their imagination they looked around my shop with fresh eyes and became curious about the objects surrounding them. I would share what I had learned about whatever they were attracted to and soon they would be walking out the door with their new treasure. It was the story they bought, the article was just evidence of the legend. So, it only made sense that someday I would become a historical fiction writer. Now, many years later with the shop long gone, I’m researching the internet and locating out-of-print publications to find secrets about the past. Instead of antiques, I collect fragments of news articles about the lives of real people most have forgotten. I love doing the detective work and unwinding the threads of these various characters from long ago and weaving them back together again in a new version of their story. My novel, For The Love of Ireland evolved from information I discovered about a Chicago couple and their connection to Ireland’s Land League, and the secret activities of the Irish-American organization the Clan na Gael. The fact that the wife was a journalist writing under a male name and the husband president of this secret organization made it a perfect story to write. During the 1880s Margaret Sullivan had managed to become a popular American journalist, while hiding her gender, and she was a staunch Irish Nationalist. I learned that she had ties not only to Ireland’s Michael Davitt, but Parliament member Charles Stewart Parnell, as well. I pondered what it must have been like for her during those times, wanting to help Ireland and yet restricted by an unscrupulous husband and a society that perceived women as the weaker sex. I was lucky that she wrote a book in 1881 and that I could get my hands on a copy. After reading it, I felt as though she reached out from the past and whispered For The Love of Ireland in my ear. If you would like to know more about my novel For The Love of Ireland, please go to www.for-the-love-of-ireland.com. There you can read about the real people my story characters are based on. And the next time you pass an Antique shop pop in and bring your imagination with you. You never know what story you might leave with.
   
2. Fallen Angel - 2013-04-11 03:30:30-04
   Mona Ingram was born in Ontario, Canada. Her family moved to British Columbia when she was twelve, and she can't imagine living anywhere else. In recent years she has lived in the Okanagan Valley and on Vancouver Island. In addition to reading and writing, traveling and bird watching are among Mona’s favorite pastimes. Mona’s first five books were published in hard cover by Avalon Books, which was purchased by Amazon in 2012. Those books are now available under Amazon’s Montlake imprint in hard cover, soft cover and e-book format, along with her many (twelve at last count) self-published novels. Mona writes contemporary romance novels and takes great delight in creating unexpected twists and turns in her story lines. She frequently sets her books in areas which are familiar to her, immersing the reader in the setting. One reader recently commented that “after reading Fixing Freddie, I felt as though I’d been on a trip to Vancouver”.
   
3. The Returns by M. K. Clinton - 2013-04-11 09:29:46-04
   M. K. Clinton lives in northwest Louisiana. She and her husband have been blissfully married for over thirty years. The parents of two grown children, they are now enjoying the freedom of not punching a clock every day. After working at a local high school as an office clerk, library clerk, and cheerleader coach for many years, M. K. decided to stay home and concentrate on writing. It is a much quieter existence, unless it is college football or baseball season. During those times, the household can get extremely loud. The couple shares their home with Tucker, a happy, fun-loving Golden Retriever, and Bentley, a lovable Basset Hound. She found the inspiration for her first book, The Returns, on Bentley's coat. He was born with a perfect number seven on his hip. Ironically, he is also the seventh dog that the family has owned.
   
4. 7 Cents & a Dream: My Incredible Journey from the USSR to Living the American Dream - 2013-04-11 11:17:03-04
   DANIEL MILSTEIN is founder, president and CEO of Gold Star Mortgage Financial Group. He has been recognized as the #1 loan officer in the United States; has achieved more than $3 billion in personal mortgage originations; and is one of the top 40 finance professionals in the nation, ranked by National Mortgage Professional Magazine. Milstein led the company to the Inc 500 list and one of the fastest growing companies in the United States. Gold Star has over 500 employees in 43 offices across the U.S. and has been named a Top Workplace in Michigan for three years by the Detroit Free Press. Milstein holds an honorary doctorate and BBA in business management from Cleary University, Ann Arbor, from which he graduated with honors. He is the author of The ABC of Sales: Lessons from a Superstar, which in March 2012 sold 10,000 copies and became the #1 sales book on Amazon.com and the thirty-first top seller of all ebook sales.
   
5. Richard’s Quartet Richard’s Quartet (The Complete Richard Series) - 2013-04-12 01:51:28-04
   Alex was born in 1974, he started writing since he was in school. Experimenting with poetry and short stories at first. In college he wrote a romantic short story that was deemed -too hot to publish- in any college publication at that time. Upon his graduation his father was diagnosed with Lou Gehrig's disease. That changed Alex plans and brought him down to earth and away from writing. Fifteen years into his career as a self made entrepreneur, he decided to go back to his first love, writing contemporary erotic romance. In 2012 he published his first novella, The End of Summer, hoping that it will be the beginning of a long and exciting literary adventure.
   
6. Holidays Frightened My Father and Other Stories by Walter Donway - 2013-04-12 03:44:06-04
   I'm an author living in East Hampton, Long Island, who spends at least as much time writing (and reading!) as I do on our glorious beaches or in our art galleries, shops, and restaurants. (Lots more than in our shops! But I like to take my wife, Robin.) My lifelong love has been stories with gripping plots driven by logic, heroes and heroines driven by impassioned values and desires, and places and action and dialogue that carry me away to "the homeland of my soul." Nothing brings these together like a battle for justice, a struggle for love and the fulfillment of sexual passion, the obsessive need to understand a mystery, a problem, a threat. My first novel, "The Price of Hannah Blake," will be followed soon by more novels, a second book of poetry, and a collection of essays and stories. I grew up on a farm in Massachusetts, but I've spent my career in New York City as a writer, publishing more than 100 articles, essays, and stories and helping foundations, museums, hospitals, schools, conservation organizations, and all sorts of other good causes with my writing talents. With this experience, and my long love affair with poetry (you can find my book, "Touched By Its Rays" on Amazon), I think you will find I am a stylist whose writing will be a pleasure to read--and will take you into places, characters, and the heart of action in a way that will make the pages fly by. I have been writing a LOT before publishing "Hannah Blake," just because I love to write, and in fairly short order please look for my next novels: "The Lailly Worm," "O Human Child," and "Sure Fire." Also, a book of short stories and another book of poetry! We have a long trip to make together. I want to hear from you. Every author does, unless so "celebrated" that he or she has gone into hiding. If you have another minute, I can explain something. Authors on Amazon NEED readers because reader reviews and ratings are the gold standard for other readers, because sales move a book up in prominence on the Amazon site, and because authors need the insights only readers can provide. (Not to leave out that it's such a great feeling to get a message from a reader who understands your work and loves the world you have created in a book!) So if you like my books, write a review. Brief is fine, sometimes better, but express yourself. And write to me anytime, and often, at WDonway@Gmail.com or my book imprint: RomanticRevolutionBooks@Gmail.com. I'm on Facebook, too--the only Walter Donway there, I think. Keep reading: To experience the world "as it might and ought to be" is the emotional fuel that keeps us all going, willing to fight for our values, willing to keep seeking our happiness in life.