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1. A Brief Guide to Taos by Teresa Dovalpage
   Award-winning Cuban author and playwright Teresa Dovalpage currently lives in Taos, New Mexico, and is the author of six published novels, including A Girl like CHe Guevara (Soho Press, 2004), Muerte de un murciano en La Habana (Death of a Murcian in Havana), and El difunto Fidel (The Late Fidel). Death of a Murcian in Havana was runner-up for the 2006 Herralde Award in Spain, and The Late Fidel won the Rincon de la Victoria Award in Spain in 2009. Her works have appeared in Rosebud, Latino Today, Afro-Hispanic Review, Baquiana, La Peregrina, Letras Femeninas, El Nuevo Herald, The Taos News and other publications.
2. The Delmar Shark Chronicles: Isola di Squalo by Heidi Peltier
   I am what they call a "jack of all trades but a master of none." I write, draw, paint, cook, bake, photograph, video edit, and craft. My most important job though is being a wife to my wonderful husband of thirteen years, Chris, and being a mom to our two precious boys, Ethan and Rory. Between driving my "should-have-been-a-yellow-school-bus" minivan to take kids to school, pick them up, take them to various practices, and watching soccer and baseball games, taking zumba classes, rehearsing with my church handbell choir, and doing my own recreational reading, I don't have a lot of time to write. But when I do, I enjoy it, and you can be sure I give it all I've got. I hope to continue it and to have an audience ready for more.
3. The Sock Wars
   Maia left the tech sector to write about migraines, sock thievery, and...the tech sector. The Sock Wars is her debut novel. The first chapter of "The Sock Wars" was published as a short story/novel excerpt titled "Irish Drinking Socks," and became a Kobo bestselling short story. Maia's next novel is "The Migraine Mafia," the story of a thirtysomething's quest to come to terms with a chronic illness. It will be released December 2013. You can reach Maia online at www.maiasepp.com.
4. Hot on Her Trail – Sweeter Version by Sable Hunter
   Sable's hometown will always be New Orleans. She loves the culture of Louisiana and it permeates everything she does. Now, she lives in the big state of Texas and like most southern women, she loves to cook southern food - especially Cajun and Tex-Mex. She also loves to research the supernatural, but shhhh don't tell anyone. Sable writes saucy romances. She lives in New Orleans. She believes that her goal as a writer is to make her readers laugh with joy, cry in sympathy and fan themselves when they read the hot parts - ha! The worlds she creates in her books are ones where right prevails, love conquers all and holding out for a hero is not an impossible dream.
5. FLAT BROKE? How to Get Back on Your Feet, Fast! by J.J. Luna
   Luna has been quoted in the Wall Street Journal, profiled in Playboy, and interviewed on the G. Gordon Liddy Show. His most popular book, How to be Invisible, is available in all major book stores and on Amazon.com. The information in FLAT BROKE? ebook is based upon the author's own experiences over a long lifetime. If you’d like to do any one of the following things, this book is for you! • Buy land with a cabin on it for less than $5,000. • Sell a unique property fast using one of three methods • Double your money with a property thought to be worthless. • Get a 100-percent return in one year by using an option. • Turn $500 into $250,000 in a third-world country. --Email: Jack@jjluna.com
6. A Divide Beyond Reason
   Roger Emile Stouff is the son of Nicholas Leonard Stouff Jr., last chief of the Chitimacha Tribe of Louisiana, and Lydia Marie Gaudet Stouff, daughter of a Cajun farmer. He has been a journalist for more than thirty years and writer of the award-winning column "From the Other Side" in the St. Mary and Franklin Banner-Tribune. He was featured on the television show "Fly Fishing America" in 2006, and was writer and narrator of the documentary "Native Waters: A Chitimacha Recollection" on Louisiana Public Broadcasting in 2010. Based on his two memoirs, "Native Waters" and "The Great Sadness," the show is now showing on public broadcasting stations nationwide, was nominated for an Emmy and was recipient of a Bronze Telly Award. He writes extensively about his Native American ancestry in autobiography, fiction and short stories, including the connection the Chitimacha, "people of the many waters" hold to the ancestral waters of the Atchafalaya Basin. With co-author Kenneth Brown he has also authored science-fiction and epic fantasy novels, including the first two books of the series "The Allidian Saga."
7. Tempest (Destroyers, Book One)
   Holly Hook is the author of the Destroyers Series, which consists of five young adult books about teens who are walking disasters...literally. She is also the author of the Rita Morse series, a young adult fantasy series still in progress, and After These Messages, a short ya comedy. Currently she is writing Twisted, a spin-off of the Destroyers Series due out in December. When not writing, she enjoys reading books for teens, especially ya fantasy and paranormal series with a unique twist.