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1. The WishKeeper

   About The WishKeeper:

   –Teaser: “The fate of your wishes rests on the back of a broken-winged fairy.”

   –Short Amazon Summary:
   When a broken-winged, rebellious teenage fairy discovers that her family’s WishMakers made an all-important True Love Wish, she secretly ventures to the human world in order to grant it despite the impossibility and to prove that she can be a WishKeeper. An adventure to prove her worth turns into a battle against dark forces determined to harness the wish’s power, as well as the insecurities that arise within the little fairy herself.

   Shea Evenstar must overcome her doubts, fears and apprehensions, but even more so, the painful discovery of a hidden family secret.

   We, WishMakers, all have a WishKeeper assigned to us that protects and guides our wishes toward fulfillment. Teenage, broken-winged Shea is determined to become one.

   Longer Synopsis: We are all assigned a WishKeeper fairy at birth. This WishKeeper tends to, protects and guides every wish we make by supporting its growth, and keeping it happy and healthy. The YA fantasy, The WishKeeper, tells the story of one particular fairy that was never assigned a WishMaker. When her parents destroyed a True Love Wish, the explosion ripped and burned the wings from her back and thus Shea grew up handicapped, bullied and unable to fly. Now a rebellious, tattooed punk, teenage fairy with two mangled wings that draw ugly stares more often than sympathy, Shea’s only chance to prove her worth is to grant a newly made True Love Wish.

   Until the day her family WishMakers, Grayson and Miranda, made a second True Love Wish, Shea was barely a blip on a WishRadar. Despite her disability, anger, resentment and the all-too obvious chips on her shoulders, she knows she is better than any WishKeeper. Sneaking off to the human world with the naïve intent to wrangle a type of wish even the most skilled Keeper barely can, Shea is further annoyed by a WishKeeper recruit, Thane, who is tasked by her military father to babysit her. Through their impossible adventure in a land Shea had only ever dreamed about, she battles the difficult discovery of painful family secrets, a wish-mongering king and his cursed fairies, and the acceptance of her parents’ imperfections much less her own.

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   Author Bio:
   A native of Wisconsin, Maximilian Timm grew up in the nation’s circus capital where the local drinking fountains were the opened mouths of lions, a statue of a clown waving from between the legs of a giant elephant was at the center of town, and the Clown Hall of Fame was directly across the street from his house. Because of his father’s athletic roots, Max was raised to be a relative jock and somehow avoided the obvious fantasy world of his little hometown. Upon the age of twelve, however, his father secretly replaced Max’s copy of Mickey Mantle’s autobiography with an unknown writer’s book (unknown to Max, anyway) titled Tom Sawyer. Little did his father know, Max’s dreams of playing shortstop for the Chicago Cubs would slowly shift and evolve into an intention to create stories and maintain a career as a writer. From Twain to Tolkien to C.S. Lewis and Susan Cooper (The Dark is Rising), Max is forever grateful for his father’s equal devotion to athletics and the arts.

   After two years at the Holy Cross College at the University of Notre Dame, swimming through a Liberal Arts major and watching football, Max discovered the art of filmmaking and transferred to Columbia College Chicago. He majored in screenwriting and producing at Columbia, and eventually found himself dizzy within the entertainment capital, Los Angeles. After multiple assistant positions at film distribution and advertising companies, Max stumbled upon Writers Boot Camp (WBC) in Santa Monica, CA. Graduating from its Professional Membership in 2007, Max was asked to stay with WBC as a Membership Coordinator and Instructor. After six years, working his way up to Creative Director and Director of Development, Max worked with thousands of writers on their screenplays and novels, as well as personally consulted A-List celebrities.

   Both a screenwriter and novelist, Max has created a lifelong relationship with writing. His focus is within the realms of Middle Grade and Young Adult fiction, as well as movies geared toward family entertainment. He still believes James Howe’s Bunnicula series is one of the finest middle grade series ever written, and that Mr. Howe’s book, “The Celery Stalks at Midnight”, may very well be the best book title ever created. Currently living in a 100 year-old Craftsmen in the oldest neighborhood of Los Angeles, Max immerses himself in books and screenplays while secretly longing to move to the woods.

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2. I-35

   About I-35:

   “I-35 is a nail-biter of a road novel that crosses into the darkest territories of the soul. Brett Selmont brings serious game to this riveting thriller, and it takes some turns you absolutely will not see coming. Buckle up!”

   Jonathan Maberry, NYT’s Bestseller, Pine Deep Trilogy, Extinction Machine, multiple Bram Stoker award winner

   “London, Steinbeck and Kerouac all wrote books with highways running through them. By venturing into horror and the supernatural, Selmont charts a new direction for this classic form. “I-35″ takes the reader on a trip into madness and damnation but you’ll be glad to have gone along for the ride.”

   William Hjortsberg, NYT’s Bestseller, Falling Angel (Angel Heart)

   “Tough, incisive, evocative, adroit, tough. Selmont takes you on a genuinely gripping journey down a highway that will inspire you to lock your car as automatically as you buckle your seat belt. You’ve been waiting for this one…a nifty piece of work by a talented writer.”

   John Lutz, NYT’s Bestseller, Single White Female, multiple Edgar & Shamus award winner

   I-35 is the story of David, a loner in his late 20s from New York City who suffers from blackout migraines and has a penchant for painkillers. He wakes one morning, freezing in the backseat of his car, 1,500 miles from home, with no idea how he got there. After hearing a horrifying voicemail, he embarks on a harrowing journey through America’s heartland, searching for his estranged brother and his brother’s wife, while attempting to piece together his own fractured memory. Along the road, David meets a cast of strange and disturbing characters who become suspects in his clouded and paranoid mind. And just as the clues and dead bodies begin to add up; a chance encounter at a seedy Oklahoma diner leads him to Shawna–a beautiful girl, shrouded in mystery, who escorts him down a vertiginous path to the end of the I-35 highway…where a shocking truth is revealed.

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   Author Bio:
   Brett Selmont was born in New Haven, Connecticut. He studied at Pace University and Hunter College in New York City and at The American University of Paris. He currently resides in Los Angeles after living for many years in the Lower East Side of New York City and Brooklyn. He has written for The New York Press, L Magazine, Pulse of the Twin Cities, Motion Pictures Inc., Swan Soon Productions, the NY Waste and many others. bselmont@yahoo.com

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3. The God King

   About The God King:

   Heroes are not born, they are forged in the fires of apocalypse…

   Mercenary Kian Valara wants nothing more than to retire from a life of blood and butchery. But when an arrogant princeling offers him enough gold to buy a throne, Kian straps on his sword for one last mission. And besides, what could be easier than guarding a prince who wants to sow his royal seed in every backwater fortress and village throughout the realm?

   Turns out dying would’ve been easier…

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   Author Bio:
   James A. West is the bestselling author of the epic fantasy series Heirs of the Fallen, and the heroic fantasy series Songs of the Scorpion.

   Between gritty quests, he recently decided to dip a toe into the primordial sludge from whence he sprang, and penned the dystopian thriller, Beasts of the Field.

   James is a native of the Pacific Northwest, but life is a road of many turns. He served in the US Army, spent a year as a long-haul truck driver with his wife (who also happens to be his high-school sweetheart), and attended the University of Montana.

   He lives in Montana with his wife. His bodyguard, a Mini-Schnauzer named Jonesy, is always near to hand. James has been known to work for chips and salsa.

   While James spends most of his time navigating alternative realities, he periodically comes up for air at: jamesawest.blogspot.com

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4. Lessons Learned

   About Lessons Learned:

   One breathtakingly hot, passion-filled, night ignites a fire in his soul. Everything in his world should be nothing short of perfection…but he is Rainer Lawson.

   His wild evening with Emily is the Realm’s front-page story. Could he have lost the respect of the man that has been like a father to him? Could his family’s hard-earned fortune really dissolve before his very eyes?

   Evil rapidly cinches its chokehold, and everything his father fought and died for threatens to implode. Rainer attempts to protect those that he loves and satisfy the fiery passions between he and Emily, but everything in his world is spinning wildly out of control. His desire to prove himself could very well be his undoing.

   Sometimes the best of intentions are not enough, but perhaps it is the trials by fire that make the man. Steel sharpens steel, and passion burns white hot in “Lessons Learned.”

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   Author Bio:
   Jillian Neal is a New Adult author with a passion for passion. She tells strong character driven novels told from the male perspective. Her guys aren’t afraid to let us inside their minds or inside their bedrooms. Young love comes to life inside the author’s Realm along with sinister crime fighting, mixed in with a hearty dose of family. The engaging adventures will stretch your mind and keep you coming back for more.

   Jillian lives outside of Atlanta with her husband, and children.

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