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1. Dungeon Time by Kate Richards
   Kate Richards divides her time between Los Angeles and the High Sierras. She would gladly spend all her days in the mountains, but she’d miss the beach…and her very supportive husband’s commute would be three hundred miles. Wherever she is, she loves to explore all different kinds of relationships in her stories. She doesn’t believe one-size-fits-all, and whether her characters live BDSM, ménage, GLBT or any other kind of lifestyle, it’s the love, the joy I one another, that counts.
2. In Search of the Fun-Forever Job: Career Strategies that Work by Ellis Chase
   Ellis Chase is an experienced career management consultant. He is a sought-after speaker, known for his ability to connect with and motivate his audience. Whether he’s talking to large groups or individuals, whether the subject is career development or executive coaching, his energetic style and his years of experience in private practice, consulting firms, universities, and corporations get results. He has been a consultant to Columbia Business School for the past 11-plus years where he develops curricula and delivers workshops for the Business School’s Executive MBA Career Management and Alumni Relations Career Services; he coaches in the Program for Social Intelligence at the business school and advises EMBA students, and is a frequent speaker at other Columbia University colleges and graduate programs. He was an instructor at New York University’s Center for Career, Education, and Life Planning for almost 20 years and was an original Five O’Clock Club counselor, consulting in this national job search advising organization for 21 years. In addition to his private practice, Ellis has worked in some of the nation’s largest human resources and outplacement consulting firms; he also worked in manpower planning and staffing at one of the nation’s largest financial services institutions. He is a founding member of the New York Chapter of the Association for Career Management Professionals and holds a BA and MA from New York University.
3. Black Angel by Ira Berkowitz
   He was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York. Writing fiction was the furthest thing from his mind. He attended New York University, fully expecting to attend Medical School upon graduation. Instead, he wound up in law school. After enduring two years studying torts, contracts, corporate, real estate, and other legal matters - try curling up with the laws of riparian rights on a cold winter night - he decided there had to be a more interesting way to earn a living. Fortuitously advertising beckoned, and he found his niche. Inevitably, retirement came. After several months of doing absolutely nothing and hating it, Ira's wife asked how he planned to keep busy. He didn't have an answer. She suggested he try writing fiction. He patiently explained that he had never taken a creative writing course - and didn't plan to. And, he reminded her, marketing plans were the only pieces of fiction he had ever written. But with nothing else going on he took her advice. Ira's first effort at fiction garnered fifty rejections. But a few were encouraging, so he kept at it. His second effort, FAMILY MATTERS, the first book in the Jackson Steeg Mystery Series, was published in 2006 and won the Washington Irving Award for literary merit. And he repeated with OLD FLAME, published in 2008. In 2010, SINNERS' BALL, the third book in the series, won the Shamus Award for Best Crime Fiction Novel Of The Year. The fourth novel in the series, BLACK ANGEL was published in 2013. Ira is writing full time and considers himself lucky. There isn't a day he doesn't look forward to going to work.