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1. On the Back of the Beast by S F Chapman
   A lifelong Northern Californian, S F Chapman traded his construction job for the more docile profession of novelist in 2008 when the US economy faltered. The tireless author has since written eight books. His first, “I'm here to help” (published by Striped Cat Press in July of 2012), is a literary fiction novella about a teenage daughter looking for answers to some troubling inconsistencies in her birth certificate. “The Ripple in Space-Time” (published by Striped Cat Press in February of 2013) is Chapman's second book. It is an exciting science fiction detective adventure set in a moldering and corrupt future controlled by greedy warlords. The author’s third novel “On the Back of the Beast” is an action-packed Contemporary Fiction tale about a massive earthquake that destroys the San Francisco Bay Area. It will be published by Striped Cat Press in the summer of 2013. Other completed works awaiting publication are the post-apocalyptic soft science fiction MAC Series consisting of “Floyd 5.136,” “Xea in the Library” and “Beyond the Habitable Limit;” and a recently completed sequel to “The Ripple in Space-Time” entitled “Torn From On High.” Chapman is currently writing a rough-and-tumble literary fiction novel about homelessness called “The Missive In The Margins.”
2. How to Learn Higher Paying Skills
   Steve Churchill is a learning strategist and instructional designer who's successfully created training programs for thousands of employees in large retail corporations, the telecommunications industry, and for a well-known organizational consulting firm. He's launched his own instructional media company, Didactable, LLC. He's committed to helping people get better work and income through learning higher paying skills. He earned Master's and Bachelor's degrees, but his career and business depend primarily on self-taught skills.
3. Up with Lo by Roman Dee Hellwigi
   After spending ten years in an undiagnosed coma, I have awakened to a brave new world with the help of Dunkin' Doughnuts coffee and Johnny Walker Black (reasonably priced at Costco during the holiday season; although the sheer volume of amber colored liquid in thick glass containment can be visibly shocking amongst a large bag of broccoli florets and a ten pound cheesecake). I cook real food, which I plan to trademark as food-food, pet strange dogs, find chimney smoke erotic, cuss more than your average person to compensate for my over the top obsession with good manners and social etiquette, and recycle my underwear for use as dust rags. When I'm not saving my corner of the box from evil doers, I can be found talking fat shit and sharing an appetizer of fried chicken fingers with those same evil doers. I find social media to be the downfall of full frontal idle chit chat: a dying artform that when done correctly is scientifically proven to promote brief moments of sexual tension and/or total confusion that stimulates brain cells. I'm single handedly trying my best to keep it alive and well, and have much faith that it will rise again and continue to produce fun filled tingles in the lower regions. For the most part, I get off hard on the process of writing and believe internal censorship perpetuates taboos- none of which are ever provocative. As long as I keep waking up and things keeps getting funnier, I'll stick with it.
4. Death on a Dig
   I've been writing all my life, first in journalism and then in corporate communications. Death on a Dig is my first mystery and I've just made available a free short story called Murder in the Clubhouse, featuring young girl ballplayers of the 1940s as amateur sleuths. Girls of Summer: In Their Own League, my only published non-fiction book, grew out of my work as a television researcher. I've travelled in the UK, continental Europe, India, Mexico and Central America. Before apartheid was defeated in South Africa, I spent five years in Mozambique as an international volunteer, and I recently volunteered again for six months to work with a small social agency in northern India. I live in Toronto, Canada and am focusing now on writing and epublishing mystery fiction.
5. Keeper Of Reign Book 1 by Emma Right
   Emma Right is a happy wife and homeschool mother of five living in the Pacific West Coast of the USA. Besides running a busy home, and looking after their five pets, which includes two cats, two bunnies and a Long-haired dachshund, she also writes stories for her children. When she doesn't have her nose in a book, she is telling her kids to get theirs in one. Right worked as a copywriter for two major advertising agencies and won several awards, including the prestigious Clio Award for her ads, before having children.
6. Post Pattern by David Chill
   David Chill was born and raised in New York City. After receiving his undergraduate degree from SUNY-Oswego, he moved to Los Angeles where he earned a Masters degree from the University of Southern California. David Chill is the author of two novels, Post Pattern and Fade Route. Post Pattern was a finalist in the St. Martin's Press contest for new private eye mystery writers. Both novels have received critical acclaim. David Chill presently lives in Los Angeles with his wife and son.