http://awesomegang.com

Where Awesome Book Readers Meet Awesome Writers

1. Broken Birdie Chirpin by Adam G. Tarsitano - 2013-05-23 01:45:48-04
   Adam G. Tarsitano was born in 1977. He obtained a bachelor's degree in English and Literature from Binghamton University before graduating from St. John's University School of Law with a Juris Doctorate. He currently lives in North Carolina with his wife and two daughters. He enjoys writing (when inspired to do so), playing basketball, spending time with his family, and listening to music. Broken Birdie Chirpin, his debut novel, was created out of a desire to combine his love of rock n' roll (and its mythology) with an engaging coming of age tale. As the characters began to take on lives of their own, so did the story. The result: The writing process became one of the most rewarding experiences of his life. He hopes someday to replicate that magic with a second offering.
   
2. Vámonos! by Bill Stephens - 2013-05-23 02:15:47-04
   Bill Stephens wrote over 1,000 weekly columns for Harte-Hanks, Murdoch, and Hearst newspapers. His features on wine, food, travel, and outdoor appeared in Wine News, Wine Enthusiast, Wine Spectator, Food & Wine, Chef, and Field & Stream. For over 18 years he was the cliché newspaper columnist who had "The Novel" third drawer down in his desk. He finally pulled it out one day, and his debut novel, Vámonos!, is the result. You can follow Bill on his Blog, "Read It and Weep." www.publishersmarketplace.com/members/billstephens Stephens is a graduate of The University of Texas and studied creative writing at Trinity University, San Antonio. As an avid outdoorsman he has hunted and fished from Alaska to Mexico and has ridden his Harley Davidson Motorcycle coast-to-coast, border-to-border, and more than 12,000 miles in Mexico. He lives in Texas with his wife and her critters. Visit his Facebook Author Page www.facebook.com/authorbillstephens He soon will release his third novel, Woke Up This Morning, and a collection of short stories.
   
3. The Orange Moon Affair by AFN Clarke - 2013-05-23 02:17:45-04
   AFN Clarke is the bestselling author of the nonfiction book CONTACT, which was serialized in a British national newspaper and made into an award winning film by BBCTV. He also writes fiction of various genres. He’s lived all over the world, served in the British army, had a near death experience, lost half his insides and recovered from the physical and emotional traumas of war. A proud father of four daughters, screenwriter, pilot, race car driver, he loves to sail, listen to opera, cook gourmet meals, drink wine, read good books, have heated discussions and travel off the beaten path. Writing mainly fiction these days, he favors politically charged thrillers, suspense and intrigue, humorous satire and books about the challenges of human relationships, all of which reveal his curiosity about the world and his strong belief in the overwhelming power of love, laughter and of the human spirit. Books include: Contact, Collisions, An Unquiet American, Dry Tortugas, The Book of Baker Series (Dreams from the Death Age; Armageddon; Genesis Revisited) and The Orange Moon Affair, the first of the new Thomas Gunn suspense series with more coming soon. Please visit www.afnclarke.com for more information and leave your email for future updates.
   
4. A Diary of Greed and Lust - 2013-05-23 02:51:28-04
   Elia Mirca (which is a short version of her real name) spent her childhood in the Romanian village Neustadt, which is called Noiştat in the local language and Noul in some dialect. Later she moved with her family to the United States, where she lived for a short time in Boston and then moved to Germany, where she finished her degree in mathematics. After working some years as a software engineer for aerospace companies, she decided to follow her inner voice and her passion to write. To finance this, she took a job as a teacher, which also offered her the opportunity to teach at various schools in Asia. In a course at the University of Queensland, Australia, she learned to know and love that country. Most of her time she spends in Brisbane interrupted only by occasional visits to California. A word about my books: After a friend read the first version of "Julie's Passion: A Diary of Greed and Lust" he turned back to me saying: "Never judge a book by it's cover. Or in your case, by the first impression". Yes, my books are about sex, erotics, love and some kind of romance. But if one dives deeper into them other topics become the golden thread: psychology and the way we communicate. The way Juliane (or later Julie) makes her way through the world is one I call the "Bonobo way". Don't know about Bonobos? The are a kind of apes, close to chimpanzees. Other than the latter Bonobos solve any conflict through sex and tenderness. They even communicate by having sex. Chimpanzees solve conflicts violently. Humans share both sets of genes with these primates. So we can choose how we solve our problems. What way wins?
   
5. A Time to Love (A Mill Creek Crossing Romance) - 2013-05-24 01:45:52-04
   Angelina Rose has wanted to write ever since she could hold a pencil. The first daughter of immigrant parents, Angelina had her head buried in books, lost in a world of heroes, heroines and exotic places. It was a shocking experience that jump-started Angelina's author career. "I awoke in the ICU... I had been unconscious for several days," Angelina says. In 2010, Angelina had a long stint in hospital following her involvement in a motor vehicle accident: the longest time off work (as a Registered Nurse), she'd ever had in her life! It was then she took up pen and paper and started to write again, just as she had done when she was a child. She wrote four short fiction stories for young adults, entered them in several competitions, and managed to win three first prizes! After happily dipping her toes into writing those short fiction stories for young adults, Angelina has now authored four books in a new "Mill Creek Crossing Romance" series... contemporary romance intended for adults. The "Starting Over Series" is another contemporary romance series she wrote about a subject she knows well... nurses and their love life. At a recent reunion of her graduating class, she could not help but notice how the same girls would group together and laugh, chat, and even shed some tears over their lives since graduating. Many of the girls had divorced... so Angelina thought "what if a group of the nurses came up with a plan to meet in two years and have a new love story to share?" Then the first story in the series was born. There is always a story running around in her head. A man with thick dark hair, gray-blue eyes, with an engaging smile and a quick wit... or a girl crying over a broken relationship. She finds herself talking to these characters during her day: when she's doing dishes, or bathing babies at the hospital. These characters crop up on days at the beach or on walks through the neighborhood. This is how the stories start to grow. Angelina's mother was an author, so Angelina grew up with a love of words and stories. If she wasn't writing a short story about something that took her fancy, her head was buried in books... reading, reading, reading, as her brother constantly told her... When she's not spending time with her good looking man, or quality time with her laptop, she's working at the hospital, hanging out with her family and friends, or walking her two dogs around the neighborhood. Angelina spends as much time as she can traveling, then coming home and including some of those adventures in her stories. Angelina really loves to hear from her readers and she invites you to connect with her on Facebook as she interacts daily with her readers there!
   
6. Xoe by Sara C. Roethle - 2013-05-24 01:52:47-04
   Sara was born and raised in Southern Arizona. She now lives in the middle of nowhere with her giant beasts (that some mistake for dogs), and a few unmentionable humans. Sara grew up with an intense, somewhat scary love of reading. In an effort to supply teenagers with the escape that she had, she began writing young adult novels in 2009. She is now preparing to release her third book, and will continue to write until she either walks into the spirit world, or the full moon takes her.
   
7. Unintended Consequences by Marti Green - 2013-05-24 01:54:16-04
   After receiving her Master of Science degree and New York State Professional Certificate in school psychology, Marti Green realized her true passion was the law. She went on to receive her law degree from Hofstra University and worked as in-house counsel for a major cable television operator for twenty-five years, specializing in contracts, intellectual property law, and regulatory issues. A passionate traveler who has visited six continents, Marti Green now lives in central Florida with her husband, Lenny, and cat, Howie. She has two adult sons and four grandchildren. She enjoys golf, jogging and of course reading. Unintended Consequences won first place, suspense category, in the Florida Writers Conference Royal Palm Writing Competition.
   
8. Crossword by Alan S. Bricklin - 2013-05-24 01:59:04-04
   Alan has practiced as a surgical Pathologist for many years, starting in Philadelphia and ending up in California. He began to write fiction a number of years ago, possibly challenged to do so by competition from his brothers, both of whom have written numerous books and articles in the fields of Psychology, Health, Humor and Fitness. Alan has written two screenplays, several short stories and is working on a second novel. He has always been interested in the history of World War II and the art and craft of espionage. Enjoying the great outdoors in California by hiking and off-roading has been a source of great pleasure and inner peace for him
   
9. Jimmie Barnes by Barry Davis - 2013-05-24 02:05:44-04
   I love books – reading and writing them. As a child I used to hang out in the library near my west Philadelphia home. One of my brothers would have to stop around to remind me to come home and eat my dinner. My parents – Robert and Lena – loved to read so this affinity came naturally. I confined my love of books to writing until I reached my late 30's. Call it a mid-life crisis or what have you but I felt a void in my life. I felt that I had something to say but wasn't saying it, lost in the day to day grind of earning enough dollars to pay my mortgage and put food on the table. I returned to my first love, words, and began to write. I began by writing screenplays to enter an online contest held by the HBO reality show called Project Greenlight in the 2002 and 2003. Out of thousands of entries my screenplays finished in the top 100, which impressed me since I was a brand new writer. I then moved on to novels, stupidly believing that getting a novel published would be easy compared to getting a screenplay made into a movie. I can't say how wrong that was. There's nothing easy about it. Eight years later I have completed my sixth novel – THE ZOMBIE WHO WOULD BE KING – adapted from one of my most popular Greenlight screenplays. If you read my work, you will see that I love many types of books (I obey the axiom that you write what you read). I love historical fiction, crime, mystery, horror and science fiction. My TV is usually set to PBS or whatever baseball game that happens to be playing. When not writing, working or hanging with my family, I love to ride my bike. There's no better place to work a kink out in a book than on the back of good road bike. The boring but vital stuff: I am a University of Pennsylvania graduate who currently lives in suburban Philadelphia with his wife and two children. I have written screen plays, novels and short stories. I have had had several short stories published in webzines and print magazines.