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1. Tarot Spreads for Love, Career and More: Get Your Questions Answered by Ian Eshey
   Ian Eshey is an entrepreneur, software consultant and tarot enthusiast. His published work includes two non-traditional books on tarot: "6 Short Stories: Learn Tarot in a Day" and "Tarot Spreads for Love, Career and More: Get Your Questions Answered". Besides being aboard a sailboat somewhere on Mediterranean any time he can or occasionally competing in long-distance swimming, he's an avid reader of evolutionary psychology and of books on modern communication skills. Ian is also rumored to grab a Sci-Fi novel now and then, just to end up reading the complete works of the author - if the book was any good.
2. Storm Dancer by Rayne Hall
   Rayne Hall writes horror and fantasy fiction. Some of her stories are quirky; some are disturbing; most are dark. She is the author of over forty books in different genres (mostly horror and fantasy) and under different pen names, published by twelve publishers in six countries, translated into several languages. Her short stories have been published in magazines, ezines and anthologies. Rayne is also the editor of the Ten Tales books, a series of fantasy anthologies each featuring ten stories by ten authors on a different theme: Haunted: Ten Tales of Ghosts. Bites: Ten Tales of Vampires. Scared: Ten Tales of Horror. Cutlass: Ten Tales of Pirates. Undead: Ten Tales of Zombies. Seers: Ten Tales of Clairvoyance. Spells: Ten Tales of Magic. Beltane: Ten Tales of Witchcraft. Her Writing Craft books for authors are bestsellers: Writing Fight Scenes, Writing Scary Scenes, The Word-Loss Diet, Writing About Villains, Writing About Magic. After living in Germany, China, Mongolia and Nepal, and travelling in Asia, North Africa, Europe and the Middle East, Rayne has settled on the south coast of England. She has worked as a museum guide, investigative journalist, magazine editor, tarot reader, apple picker, adult education teacher and bellydancer. Her travels and careers have inspired her fiction. Even the bellydance scenes in Storm Dancer are authentic. When Rayne is not writing, she enjoys reading, gardening and teaching online classes for writers. She also loves sitting in roadside cafes sipping cappuccino, and long walks along the seafront, although those aren't always possible in the English rain. Here's a short youtube video: "Ten Random Facts about Rayne Hall."
3. Jackfish Reborn by Rejean Giguere
   Rejean Giguere is an avid outdoorsman, adventurer, photographer and artist. He enjoys fishing, hockey, golf, tennis, skiing and snowmobiling, his V-Max motorcycle and vintage Corvette. He grew up in Canada and Europe, and enjoyed a business career in Toronto and Ottawa. Visit his website at www.rejeangiguere.com.
4. Haven’s Rescue
   Author of "Haven's Rescue", Romance/Suspense/Christian Novel. Soon to be published in the autumn of 2013 "Sisters", sequel to the Haven's Rescue. Donna travels the US six months out of the year with her husband. She grew up around the globe, traveling with military parents often stationed abroad. She has a deep appreciation for the beauty and people of the world. She writes from the heart, she chose the fiction format, and often draws from her own life experiences. She is currently writing a new book that will contain three short stories, it will be titled "Three in One". She has a passion for motorcycling, skiing, reading, writing, photography, cooking, family, friends, and traveling.
5. DoggyPedia: All You Need To Know About Dogs
   Amy Morford has over twenty years of dog training experience with companion dogs, sport dogs and working breeds. Amy’s motivation to write about dogs stems from her love for them and their unbiased loyalty and devotion. Amy’s goal is to provide helpful, accurate information to assist dog lovers with raising and training a well-mannered, good-tempered, happy, healthy, well-adjusted companion, friend, partner and/or family pet.
6. Tortured Soul by Julia Laque
   Teacher by day, romance writer by night from Chicago, Illinois. I graduated from DePaul University in Chicago with a BS in Elementary Education and an MA in School Leadership from Concordia University. As an avid reader, I've been dreaming up stories since I was a little girl. When I'm not teaching, I'm in my home office with my cocker spaniel, writing. Tortured Soul is my first published novel.
7. Oh Human Child
   Walter Donway is a professional writer who is the author of internationally popular "The Price of Hannah Blake" and three other novels as well as short stories and poetry. His novels are for relatively sophisticated readers who enjoy strong plots, psychologically complex characters in complex situations, sex near the edge, and the tight, evocative, perfectly paced style of a poet. His articles and stories have appeared in dozens of publications, including Cosmopolitan, the Wall Street Journal, the Iowa Review, Medical World News, The New Individualist, and Long Island Voices. He Facebook page, "Romantic Revolution Books," is popular with readers who love novels, painting, music, and poetry in the great Romantic tradition. Walter and his wife, Robin, live in New York City's West Village and in East Hampton, Long Island.
8. Assured Destruction
   After crewing ships in the Antarctic and the Baltic Sea and some fun in venture capital, Michael anchored himself (happily) to a marriage and a boatload of kids. Now he injects his adventurous spirit into his writing with brief respites for research into the jungles of Sumatra and Guatemala, the ruins of Egypt and Tik'al, paddling the Zambezi and diving whatever cave or ocean reef will have him. He is a member of the International Thriller Writers and SF Canada, and the author of the Assured Destruction series, 24 Bones, The Sand Dragon, Hurakan, Ruination and several award winning graphic novels for young adults. His most recent project, The Terminals, has been optioned for television by Sudden Storm Entertainment.
9. Sundivers – Sun is a Star Gate!
   The author studied English and Mathematics in Northampton, Massachusetts. He took philosophy and psychology courses at UMass. Hector is actively researching Unformed Magnetism, Levitation, Ground Electricity, Darkatron Space and its interdimensional implications. He assumes physical reality to be an illusion created by the motion of space. In his mind (and others) everything is an illusion.
10. City With No Name by James Stone
    James Stone is a science fiction novelist and short story writer from Maryland. His debut novel, City With No Name, was originally published as a series of shorts before being pooled into one novel length work. James was inspired to write through the works of such great authors as Ray Bradbury, John Steinbeck, Neil Gaiman, Hunter S. Thompson, and Philip K. Dick. When not writing, James can be found working on all manner of Information Technology, browsing the classifieds for his next fantasy project car, or tending bar at home for friends and family. While currently working on more novel-length dystopian fiction, James is also putting the final touches on other short fiction projects to be published in digital format.
11. The Man Who Built Boxes and other stories
    Frank Tavares has been writing his entire professional life but only began publishing fiction in the mid-2000s. Carving out time before daylight, he’s written more than a dozen short stories that have been published in a variety of literary journals including Louisiana Literature, Connecticut Review, Story Quarterly, and The GW Review. In his day job, Frank is a professor of communication at Southern Connecticut State University. He is also one of the founding editors and active member of the editorial board of The Journal of Radio and Audio Media. For many years, he's also been known to listeners of National Public Radio as “The Voice of NPR.” Frank is just completing his first novel. An excerpt from Digging Up Mr. Bradley can be found in this collection.
12. Easy Vegetarian Cooking – with a month’s worth of quick dinner recipes based on Harvard Healthy Eating Plate
    Alexandra Beck is a mom with a demanding full-time job, which means that multitasking has become her second nature. She is a social scientist trained in observation, data mining and analysis. Alexandra is also a health-conscious foodie ... who resents spending too much time in the kitchen, because there's only that much free time in a busy person's day. To reconcile her contradictions, Alexandra's approach is to increase cooking productivity through learning, experimentation and innovation.
13. THE EAGLE’S COVENANT
    Michael Parker was born in 1941 and educated in London and Portsmouth. He left school with no qualifications but a natural ‘bent’ for English, and it was this ability that set him on the path to writing. Michael has written for as long as he can remember, but not with the success he first coveted. His first novel, NORTH SLOPE was published by Macmillan in 1980. His following manuscript, HELL’S GATE was rejected and so began a saga that lasted twenty six years, but more of that later. Michael’s second novel, THE SHADOW OF THE WOLF, was published in 1984 by Robert Hale of London. It was to be many, many years of writing and rejections before he saw his third novel published in 2007. This was HELL’S GATE, the novel he had been trying to get accepted since 1980. Other books followed: THE EAGLE’S COVENANT in 2007 (Robert Hale). THE DEVIL’S TRINITY in 2008 (Robert Hale). In May 2009 THE THIRD SECRET (now available as ROSELLI’S GOLD in Kindle and paperback on Amazon). A COVERT WAR followed that in 2010, and in 2011, THE BOY FROM BERLIN was released, once again published by Robert Hale. It has now been published in North America and Canada in paperback by Harlequin Books. THE EAGLE’S COVENANT will be published by Harlequin Books in November 2013. Michael met his wife Pat when he was sixteen and she was fifteen. They married in 1960, have four sons, ten grandchildren and celebrated their Golden wedding anniversary in January 2010. Michael has worked as an office boy, a Merchant seaman, a plaster’s labourer, a deck hand, a cinema projectionist, an RAF Technician and a maintenance technician in the food industry. He has also worked in the Middle East. In 1997 Michael and Pat moved to Spain and settled on the Costa Blanca. Michael’s hobbies are Football, snooker, and keyboard. He is member of Torrevieja Christian Fellowship (TCF) along with his wife, and used to play keyboard there as a member of the Praise and Worship team. Michael has described his writing hobby as a ‘Sweet curse’. He says that the joy comes from writing a full length novel, living with it, creating the adventure, the characters, the excitement etc., but the curse comes from the number of rejections that are received from almost all the publishers and agents he contacts. But perseverance is the key word, which was the case with HELL’S GATE: twenty six years in trying.