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1. Paradise Squandered by Alex Stefansson - 2013-05-29 01:16:46-04
   Alex Stefansson (born 1984 in Seattle, Washington) is an American writer of literary fiction. He grew up in the suburbs of Seattle and eventually attended Western Washington University in Bellingham, Washington. He foolishly chose the wrong major and is now just scraping by as a writer. Stefansson's writing is often influenced by sleep deprivation and too much caffeine. He currenly resides in Tacoma, Washington with his wife, toddler son and neurotic cat.
   
2. The Dark Side of Light: A Medieval Time Travel Fantasy - 2013-05-29 01:45:20-04
   I was born in Washington State, raised in Phoenix, AZ, and currently reside in Oregon. My first profession was a psychotherapist (individual, marriage, and family counseling) treating those suffering from depression, anxiety, panic attacks, post traumatic stress disorder, substance abuse, sexual abuse, family violence, and severe mental illness. I employed therapies such as communication skill building, relaxation training, systematic desensitization, bioenergetics, and psychodrama. I have also facilitated stress management, parenting, and self-discovery workshops that have aided in the psycho-spiritual healing of many. Education and training include an M.A. in Ed. in Counseling/Human Relations and Behavior (NAU), a B.S. in Sociology (ASU), and ten powerful months of psychological and metaphysical training in a Tibetan community. I've been a social activist from time to time (very hard) in educational matters, for women, and for Native Americans. Sometimes a woman's got to do what a woman's got to do! I have two grown children, a son and a daughter, now in college pursuing their dreams (my daughter is an author too), while I happily live out the second half of my life, doing what I love: teaching self-discovery workshops, writing, and meditating. With a background in college theater, my experience as a psychotherapist, and my profound interest in freeing the individual from unsavory sociological influence, I write entertaining and sometimes educational books that facilitate personal growth and transformation. I enjoy mixing it up by writing in various genres blending psychology, philosophy, fantasy, dark fantasy, romance, and even horror. I have been writing for twenty-five years, and I plan to write until I die. Writers block? Huh, what's that? My interests (aside from writing) are facilitating self-discovery workshops, composing songs, singing, meditating to classical music, metaphysical realms, philosophical exploration, deep meaningful conversations, playing in the ocean and rain and snow, walking through tall forests, sitting under the stars, (I am so not a party girl), traveling to foreign countries, genealogy, history, quantum physics, and cats. I have four lovely felines (yes, I am the cat lady). I love fairy tales, going outside the box, and reading between the lines. I strive to see what is often missed, and to not miss what can't be seen. There is such a life out there, and in there--beyond all perception! So I close my eyes, feel my inner rhythm, and jump off the cliff of convention. And when I land, though I might be quaking in my boots, I gather my courage and go exploring. Through travel, study, and work, I've gained a rich awareness of cultural differences among people and their psycho-social struggles. I have discovered that oppression often results from the unexamined adoption of outside perceptions. The healing always has been in the individual's stamina to expel out-side perceptions of self and and constructively exert one's unique core being into the world. I am driven to facilitate expanded awareness that people may separate who they are from who they are told to be. Embracing personal power by loving our unique selves in our weaknesses and strengths, in sickness and in health, for richer or poorer, for better or for worse . . . forever--is a key to joyous living. My motto is: Trust your story. Live the Mystery.
   
3. Minnesota Cold by Cynthia Kraack - 2013-05-29 01:45:53-04
   The voice of Sally Dodge, Minnesota Cold's heroine, came to me one winter morning as I drove across the Mississippi River to a job I should have left years earlier. For years I designed executive compensation programs within not-for-profits then moved to a publicly traded corporation and learned how the pressures of Wall Street influence decisions of individuals motivated by bonus plans and stock options. I wrote a few short stories about this amazing woman until I realized she was at the center of something bigger. My undergrad was in journalism then I earned a graduate degree with a major in labor economics. While working and raising kids, I wrote late into the night. Only after Minnesota Cold was picked up by a publisher did I apply to a MFA program and graduated from the Stonecoast Program in Creative Writing. Without my writing group I'm not sure I'd keep at this rather solitary occupation. Life isn't all writing. I love the outdoors, traveling, photography, my family and friends. Minnesota Cold was followed by Ashwood and Harvesting Ashwood.
   
4. Lightpoints by Peter Kassan - 2013-05-29 03:38:47-04
   Peter Kassan has been a writer for virtually his entire life, publishing poems in literary journals and national magazines while still a teenager. In his twenties, he was a staff writer at Children's Television Workshop, where he wrote, among other things, monologues for Bill Cosby. As a technical writer in the software products industry, his work included user's manuals, marketing materials, and business plans. He is also the author of a cover article about artificial intelligence in Skeptic Magazine. Mr. Kassan currently lives in Connecticut with his wife and their three cats. Lightpoints is his first published novel.
   
5. Every Other Weekend - 2013-05-29 03:56:57-04
   Tia Winston is from Arizona where the heat can drive ordinary people to do very naughty things. She writes erotica about women exploring their buried desires.
   
6. House of Fallen Trees - 2013-05-29 04:10:57-04
   Gina Ranalli is the author of several novels, including Mothman Emerged, Rumors of My Death, Praise the Dead, Suicide Girls in the Afterlife, Chemical Gardens, Wall of Kiss, and Mother Puncher. Her collection, 13 Thorns won the Wonderland Book Award for Best Story Collection of 2007. Her short stories have appeared in numerous publications including Bits of the Dead, The Beast Within, Horror Library Volume 3, and Dead Science, among others. Gina lives in Washington state where she is working on her next novel. You can communicate with her online at www.ginaranalli.com and on twitter at http://twitter.com/GinaRanalli
   
7. Out Of Darkness - 2013-05-29 04:11:16-04
   Jason D. Morrow lives in Omaha, Nebraska. He started writing when he was in college and never looked back. Producing three books in one year, Jason released The Marenon Chronicles in 2012. He then released Out Of Darkness, the beginning of a new paranormal series.
   
8. Forsaken – A Novel of Art, Evil, and Insanity - 2013-05-29 04:14:41-04
   Andrew Van Wey was born in Palo Alto, California, spent part of his childhood in New England, and currently lives as an expatriate abroad where he doubts his sanity on a daily basis. As a child of the late 80's and early 90's, Andrew fondly remembers a time when cell phones were the size of bricks, a good scare could be found in a stack of Stephen King books, vampires didn't glimmer nor go to high school, and a sleepover was best spent scaring friends with low budget horror on VHS.
   
9. The Antigirl Murders – Lets Begin - 2013-05-29 04:15:33-04
   Jeremy Swank began his career as an intelligence analyst for a foreign government. He is now a full time author and a consultant to police departments in the Northeast.
   
10. Haunted House - 2013-05-29 04:16:05-04
    JA Konrath is the author of eight novels in the Jack Daniels thriller series. They do not have to be read chronologically to be enjoyed, but for those who want to know the order it is: Whiskey Sour, Bloody Mary, Rusty Nail, Dirty Martini, Fuzzy Navel, Cherry Bomb, Shaken, and Stirred. Jack also appears in the novels Shot of Tequila, Flee, Spree, Three, Timecaster Supersymmetry, Banana Hammock, and Serial Killers Uncut, as well as the short story collection Jack Daniels Stories, and the novellas Floaters and Burners. He has sold over a million ebooks.
    
11. Yoga for Weight Loss: Ancient Wisdom for Modern Day People Who Want To Burn Fat and Stay Lean - 2013-05-29 04:16:33-04
    Tina Quick is an exercise enthusiast and food-lover. Tina loves teaching Pilates, yoga, Zumba and other exercises that help train and tone your abs and core. In addition,Tina is a plant-based diet athlete and she loves cooking healthy, delicious vegan food and teaching others how to eat a healthy plant based diet.
    
12. Cheap and Delicious Vegetarian Meals and Recipes (Vegetarian Cookbook and Vegetarian Recipes Collection) - 2013-05-29 04:16:59-04
    Hello Everyone! My name is Pamela Kazmierczak and I am an author of several nonfiction books. The majority of my books are cookbooks, as I love to cook for my husband and my two children, and I wanted to share the recipes with other busy people out there. I also publish other non fiction books about topics that interest me as well.
    
13. JACKSON’S PLAN Perseverance by Linda Talley - 2013-05-29 04:22:07-04
    ABOUT THE AUTHOR Linda Talley was born in Kansas City, Missouri. She holds a master’s degree in English Language and Literature and is a graduate of the University of Missouri – Kansas City School of Law. She currently resides in Hermann, Missouri, where she works as a writer and pursues her interests in cooking, gardening, botany and antiques. Her many eBooks for children include ALOHA POTTER! BASTET BEA’S OWN GOOD EMILY BREAKS FREE FEATHERS AT LAS FLORES HANA’S YEAR JACKSON’S PLAN LUDMILA’S WAY PLATO’S JOURNEY THANK YOU, MEILING TOAD IN TOWN These books are cleverly and skillfully written by a published author with a high level of literary talent and wit. The books have been proofed and re-proofed for the most exacting standards of accuracy in grammar, punctuation and fact checking. They have been reviewed…pre-publication…by teachers and librarians for relevance and the power of the message.
    
14. The Stranger from Hell by Van Holt - 2013-05-29 04:22:45-04
    Van Holt wrote his first western when he was in high school and sent it to a literary agent, who soon returned it, saying it was too long but he would try to sell it if Holt would cut out 16,000 words. Young Holt couldn't bear to cut out any of his perfect western, so he threw it away and started writing another one. A draft notice interrupted his plans to become the next Zane Grey or Louis L'Amour. A tour of duty as an MP stationed in South Korea was pretty much the usual MP stuff except for the time he nabbed a North Korean spy and had to talk the dimwitted desk sergeant out of letting the guy go. A briefcase stuffed with drawings of U.S. aircraft and the like only caused the overstuffed lifer behind the counter to rub his fat face, blink his bewildered eyes, and start eating a big candy bar to console himself. Imagine Van Holt's surprise a few days later when he heard that same dumb sergeant telling a group of new admirers how he himself had caught the famous spy one day when he was on his way to the mess hall. Holt says there hasn't been too much excitement since he got out of the army, unless you count the time he was attacked by two mean young punks and shot one of them in the big toe. Holt believes what we need is punk control, not gun control. After traveling all over the West and Southwest in an aging Pontiac, Van Holt got tired of traveling the day he rolled into Tucson and he has been there ever since, still dreaming of becoming the next Zane Grey or Louis L'Amour when he grows up. Or maybe the next great mystery writer. He likes to write mysteries when he's not too busy writing westerns or trying to find out when they are going to start making Twinkies again.
    
15. Penelope by Anya Wylde - 2013-05-29 04:31:50-04
    Anya Wylde lives in Ireland along with her husband and a fat French poodle (now on a diet). She can cook a mean curry, and her idea of exercise is occasionally stretching her toes. She holds a degree in English literature and adores reading and writing.
    
16. The Escape of Princess Madeline - 2013-05-29 04:42:18-04
    Kirstin Pulioff is a storyteller at heart. Born and raised in Southern California, she moved to the Pacific Northwest to follow her dreams and graduated from Oregon State University with a degree in Forest Management. Happily married and a mother of two, she lives in Oregon, and enjoys being a stay at home mom. When she’s not writing, she is busy with her kids and church.
    
17. Everyone Burns by John Dolan - 2013-05-29 04:44:49-04
    “Makes a living by travelling, talking a lot and sometimes writing stuff down. Galericulate author, polymath and occasional smarty-pants.” John Dolan hails from a small town in the North-East of England. Before turning to writing, his career encompassed law and finance. He has run businesses in Europe, South and Central America, Africa and Asia. He and his wife Fiona currently divide their time between the UK, the UAE and Thailand.
    
18. Cocktail Hour - 2013-05-29 04:45:48-04
    Tara McTiernan grew up in Greenwich, Connecticut and spent most of her childhood summers on an island in the Great South Bay on Long Island, New York - both of which are the settings for her novels, Barefoot Girls and Cocktail Hour, and her short stories. She currently lives in Raleigh, North Carolina with her husband, Ash. Visit the author's website at http://www.taramctiernan.com for more information including upcoming book releases and events.
    
19. See No Evil - 2013-05-29 06:17:46-04
    at Byrd has had thirteen books published by traditional publishers under a different name pen name. She was a bestselling author for one of her prior publishers. Her favorite authors are Lisa Gardner, Lisa Jackson, and Harlan Coben. If you like novels by these authors, you will most likely enjoy See No Evil. Cat is fascinated with all things mental health, which comes through in the psychological thrillers she writes.