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1. In the Mind of Christ by Dr. Harry Jay - Dr. Harry Jay is Director of Research for AppliedMindSciences.com, a mental health and mind research group of Applied Web Info, and is the author of over 100 books and research papers as a behavioral scientist. In his 31-year career, Dr. Harry Jay has contributed many new mental health treatment treatments and protocols using some of the new advances he has discovered in Energy Psychology. He specializes in addictions of all kinds, sexual abuse, child predation and gender relationships. He is also a board member to ePubWealth.com and serves on the science committee assisting non-fiction science writers in book publishing and promotion. As a leading behavioral scientist, he provides profiling services to the company's ForensicsNation.com unit as well as criminal psychology research to aid in identifying and apprehending child predators and cyber-criminals of all kinds. He resides in Southern Utah and enjoys the outdoors, fishing and photography.
   
2. Star Power – Using Celebrities for Interviews & Promotions by Dr. Leland Benton - Dr. Leland Benton is Editor-in-Chief of ePubWealth.com, a leading ePublisher company based in Utah. With over 1,000 authors in over 22-countries and with over 40,000 books in inventory, ePubWealth.com is an industry leader in ePublishing, book promotion, and ebook marketing. As the creator and author of "The ePubWealth Program," and "The ePubWealth Program ADVANCED," Leland teaches up-and-coming authors the ins-and-outs of today's ePublishing world, book marketing and promotion and writing techniques. He has assisted hundreds of authors in being successful in the ePublishing world.
   
3. The Northern Star: The Beginning - Mike Gullickson has written all his life for work and pleasure. During a honeymoon to Italy in 2008, he contracted a freak case of pericarditis (a condition that can affect the heart) and was housebound for a month. Idle hands, and "The Northern Star" novel series was born. Mike lives in Manhattan Beach, CA, with his wife, son, and dog - Oliver - who is nice most of the time.
   
4. Machines of Easy Virtue - Jack Price was born in Chicago, Illinois in 1958. In the 1960s, his family moved to the western suburbs, where he spent his early years as a fidgety Catholic schoolboy. He studied computer science and physics in college, worked his way up to a martial arts black belt, then turned to writing, both fiction and non-, getting short stories and articles published under various assumed names. Jack released his first novel, Machines of Easy Virtue, in 2012. He lives with his wife and a zooful of animals on the Chicago Northside.
   
5. Hidden Secrets by Angee Taylor - Angee was born in Houston, Texas in 1977, to an interesting family. Her mother and father separated when she was young. She lived with her mother who later remarried a wonderful man, who had a huge impact on her as she grew up. Angee has always had a love of reading, mostly paranormal. As a child, she would sneak up at late night when her mom thought she was sleeping, to read. They moved around a lot, eventually settling in Deep East Texas. Angee married at a young age and eventually divorced. She has raised her now 15 year old son alone. Angee works full time as a pre-hospital nurse and sometimes sees things that would make the rest of us have nightmares. On other days, she is blessed to see miracles. These things are what drive her to write. Angee describes her job as- “I fight to save people’s lives. Sometimes I lose, sometimes I win. It's the emotional roller coaster of that job, which leads me to writing. I'm able to put those emotions into my characters and let them out of my heart and soul.” In 2006, she was diagnosed with a rare disease, shortly after that she was told she would be on full disability in five years and most likely to be dead in ten. She’s fought to live a normal life every day sinceand is beating those odds. She works at a demanding job, is a single mom, cares for an elderly mother, and a hyperactive dog. Her life has inspired her Paranormal novel Hidden Secrets. Sit back and enjoy.
   
6. The Operator’s Manual for Planet Earth by D. Trinidad Hunt - D. Trinidad Hunt - International speaker, author, consultant, and facilitator with decades of expertise in the area of program development and delivery. In 1990 Trinidad, and business partner Lynne Truair, established Élan Enterprises LLC to provide organizational training for business leaders, corporations, not-for-profit organizations and schools across the globe. Known as a woman of vision by her clients, Trinidad is a captivating personality with a compelling message and is an expert both in corporate and educational program development. Her programs incorporate the latest in neuroscience, cognition and learning technologies. Participants achieve significant levels of success by focusing on high performance capacities. "When Michelangelo was asked, 'How did you ever create David?' he answered, 'I didn't create David. I saw David and then took away everything that wasn't him.' So it is with us. We don't have to search to discover our true purpose. We just have to see it and take away everything that stands between where we are and what we've seen," says Hunt with a smile on her face. Hunt continues, "My goal is to help others become more effective in whatever they do, to maximize more of their natural potential and to express themselves more fully. The result: richer, more rewarding relationships; enhanced joy and vitality; personal and professional success and satisfaction. All of this is reflected in greater professional and personal balance, physical health and mental stamina." Trinidad makes her home on the "Big Island" of Hawaii when she is not travelling and speaking. She enjoys connecting with readers and participants of her programs on her blog http://trinidadhunt.com or on her Facebook page.
   
7. Reluctant Gods by A.J. Aaron - I wrote my first book, "A New Reality - A Wake up Call to Life's Mysteries" because I had a true story I had to tell. It developed from an envelope of notes and scraps of papers collected over time from strange happenings. Being educated as an engineer and very pragmatic, I had to find answers to the occurrences. When answers arrived to every question, I had to tell the story. I enjoyed writing the first book so much I wanted to write another but without the restriction of it being a true story. That's when I wrote, "Reluctant Gods" by asking, "What if?" The story is fantasy fiction with a set of characters who became like real people to me, each with their own quirks, flaws and personalities. I'd laugh as I wrote and pictured them interacting as if they were real and in front of me. The feedback on the second book motivated me to stay with it and to create "Reluctant Gods II - The Demon Seth" which is now out. I hope all of you get the chance to take a look at it and let me know what you think. My goal now is to find more time to write and spread the pleasure of a fun, entertaining story to as many readers as possible.
   
8. Red Contract by Peter Wilben - With a distinguished career spanning over thirty years, Peter Wilben is best known for his Joe Grace thrillers, which are now available for the first time in digital. The books are set in the ruthless world of high finance, and as a former trader, who worked on Wall Street in its heyday, it is Peter's insider knowledge that makes him the master of the financial thriller. In 1982 while on holidays in Antigua Peter's briefcase was stolen. He spent the next 14 days locked in his room, writing a thriller about a man who goes on holidays, has his briefcase stolen and stumbles on a plot by terrorists to assassinate the Queen at the Epsom Derby. A few months later, Peter was offered a publishing contract. He has been a full-time writer ever since. On witnessing the dramatic changes occurring in the publishing industry over the past number of years, Peter saw an opportunity to find new readers online for his books. While many authors, even those of a younger generation, are reluctant to forgo print and embrace digital, the independent release of the Joe Grace novels as an ebook series represents the empowerment of authors in the digital age. Peter Wilben is the pen name of acclaimed Irish author Peter Cunningham. Peter lives in County Kildare, Ireland, with his wife, Carol, a Jungian psychoanalyst, with whom he has six children.
   
9. The Vanguard - SJ Griffin became a woman after successfully completing many years as a girl. After stints as an actor, a petrol station attendant, a copywriter, an editor, an amateur bike mechanic, a burger flipper, a playwright and riding an old fashioned bicycle in order to sell melting ice creams it became abundantly clear that the only thing she really wanted to do was write novels. So that's what she does. As a result she is far more pleasant to be around. The Vanguard trilogy is the first stage of a long term strategy to remain pleasant to be around, for the general good of humanity. The second part of the trilogy, The Replacement, will be published on 21 June 2013 and the final part of the trilogy, The Perfectionist, will be published in December 2013.
   
10. Personal Finance: Improve your Money control (2 books in 1) by Amit Eshet - By the time I turned 45 I was the owner of several apartments for rent, had a huge investment account and had enough money for my family's next generation. It is not too late for you too! Combining work and pleasure is everyone's desire, something which I succeeded to achieve, mixing my both hobby and profession: Handling Money. Have you ever been taught about finances? I'd guess not, and if so you are lucky to meet with me and my books. Unfortunately there is no financial education in this world! If you were not raised in a financially educated home, you would be doomed to endless costly mistakes during your life, mostly out of pure disinformation. This doesn't have to be your case, you can change your life. I hold a B.Sc in Economics and Management from Israel's leading university, the Technion. During my previous career, up until several years ago, I had managed for more than 20 years factories and acquisitions divisions and advised several industry-leading small and large scale businesses across the globe. The experience and knowledge I had gained during those years brought me to transform my career and concentrate on my biggest interest and pleasure: Financial Planning. While writing my books I have always been guided by a single goal in mind. My goal and foremost desire is to help everyone understand the financial world surrounding us and enjoy it as much as I do. After meeting hundreds of clients I decided to enlarge my outreach and share my knowledge through my books, focusing on the topics I found to be most interesting and relevant. With more than 25 years of expertise investing in stocks and real-estate, including of course taking care of my own family's budget, I offer you in my books precious advices and practices to wisely use your money and reach retirement richer and happier. I am happily married and raise three wonderful children. Voluntarily I lead the local small business association and serve as a member of the local BNI networking groupI truly hope and believe that my books will help you learn new interesting lessons and make your family's wealth greater while making the handling of all financial issues a pleasure rather than a burden. Enjoy and Good Luck.
    
11. Sugar & Squall by Jason Round - Jason Round is a magazine editor by day and closet novelist by night. He currently lives in Sydney, Australia with his wife and daughter. When he's not busy tapping keys, he can usually be found with either a camera or electric guitar in hand, photography and music being two things he absolutely cannot live without. Jason welcomes all feedback via round_2000 at hotmail.com. Sugar & Squall is his second full-length novel for teens.
    
12. Jenny Pox - J.L. Bryan studied English literature at the University of Georgia and at Oxford, with a focus on the English Renaissance and the Romantic period. He also studied screenwriting at UCLA. He enjoys remixing elements of paranormal, supernatural, fantasy, horror and science fiction into new kinds of stories. He is the author of The Paranormals series (Jenny Pox, Tommy Nightmare, Alexander Death) and other books. Fairy Metal Thunder is the first book in his new Songs of Magic series. He lives in Atlanta with his wife Christina, his baby son John, and some dogs and cats. Website: www.jlbryanbooks.com Twitter: @jlbryanbooks
    
13. The Seed Farm by Ruby Lord - I am originally from Manchester and I now live in Somerset in the UK. I am married and have one grown up son I have been married for 35 years this year. I enjoy reading and writing fiction. I particularly like historical fiction but I will read anything that I can relate to. I work from home and my husband works in the aerospace industry. My working career has mainly been in finance and I have worked for a big charity organisation in the UK. I started to write this book when I was diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis in 2008 when I developed optic neuritis which severely affected my vision. For me writing this book has helped me to work to my own personal goals, kept me occupied and kept the grey matter ticking over. I try to keep calm about everything in my life, sometimes this is very difficult. What is important is that I can do this and I have done it, for me that in itself is one more goal, now for the next one.
    
14. A Love Apart, a novel by Rachelle Rogers - Rachelle Rogers is a writer and poet. Originally from NYC, she received a BA in English Literature from Hunter College. In South Florida, she was a freelance editor, and dance writer for several publications, including The Fort Lauderdale News/Sun Sentinel. Author of A Love Apart, a novel, POSSOONS, stories, and Rare Atmosphere, a memoir, her work has appeared in several literary journals including Passager, Sow's Ear Poetry Review, Calyx: A Journal of Art and Literature by Women, and The Pedestal Magazine. She lives in Asheville, NC.
    
15. POSSOONS, stories by Rachelle Rogers - Rachelle Rogers is a writer and poet. Originally from NYC, she received a BA in English Literature from Hunter College. In South Florida, she was a freelance editor, and dance writer for several publications, including The Fort Lauderdale News/Sun Sentinel. Author of A Love Apart, a novel, POSSOONS stories, and Rare Atmosphere, a memoir, her work has appeared in several literary journals including Passager, Sow's Ear Poetry Review, Calyx: A Journal of Art and Literature by Women, and The Pedestal Magazine. She lives in Asheville, NC.
    
16. Secrets of Lemon Rediscovered - Author is strong proponent of Nature And Natural Product and have strongly believe that every human body should get natural organic products for external as well as internal consumption. Writing is one of the ways to spread these beliefs .
    
17. Dead Drunk: Surviving the Zombie Apocalypse… One Beer at a Time by Richard Johnson - Richard Johnson is a writer and small business owner that grew up in Galesburg, Illinois during the 80’s. He graduated from Monmouth College as a double major in History and English, and earned a Masters degree in History with a teaching certificate from Western Illinois University. He currently lives with his growing family in a small town outside of Chicago. Richard is a self-acclaimed expert of the zombie genre after spending countless hours watching B-rated horror movies. He is a good friend, a bad cook, and a terrible dancer. If there is a real zombie apocalypse, seek him out for protection. But bring plenty of beer.
    
18. Hollywood Stories: Short, Entertaining Anecdotes About the Stars and Legends of the Movies! - A professional tour guide in Hollywood, Stephen Schochet has researched and told thousands of entertaining anecdotes for over twenty years. He is also the author and narrator of two audiobooks Tales of Hollywood and Fascinating Walt Disney. Tim Sika, host of the radio show Celluloid Dreams on KSJS in San Jose has called Stephen," The best storyteller about Hollywood we have ever heard."
    
19. The Friday Edition by Betta Ferrendelli - Betta Ferrendelli has been an award-winning journalist since 1989, having worked at newspapers in Denver, Seattle and Albuquerque. She writes professionally today for an international heathcare magazine. She published her first ebook, The Friday Edition, July 2012.
    
20. Parachutes and Peppermints - Sadie Mills lives in Devon, England, with her Maine Coon cat. Sadie has worked in the legal profession for over fifteen years. She has also worked as a canine beautician and wedding chauffeur, as well as living in a restaurant for over two decades. In her spare time, Sadie enjoys scuba, travelling in the Middle East, and skydiving. She doesn't get much spare time, admittedly. Which is probably just as well. Sadie is currently available for weddings and bar mitzvahs. To contact Sadie and keep up-to-date with her latest releases, visit her blog or follow on Twitter and Facebook.
    
21. The Idiot Government Reviews - Pete is 32 and lives with his wife, Lucie, and their pet sofa, Jeff. He's been writing for just under three years and they've been pretty eventful; well, more eventful than he thought sitting on Jeff, typing, would be, anyway.
    
22. Call Sign White Lily - A career Manhattan corporate executive turned author, M.G. Crisci writes entertaining, message-based literary works, based on true stories and/or life experiences that are rich in approachable dialogue, graphic depictions, and surprising plots. He has been an award-winning newspaper reporter in America, and the recipient of the international award for editorial excellence by Rossiyskaya Gazeta in Russia. Recently, his ground-breaking book CALL SIGN, WHITE LILY, published in English and Russian, was awarded a certificate of achievement by the Federation of Russia for enhancing nonpolitical communications between our two nations. He is the first American author to receive that award.
    
23. The Last Jews in Jerusalem - Craig C. White was born in 1958 and born again in 1964. In the 1980’s he was an active member of Calvary Church in Santa Ana, California. The expositional bible teaching of then pastor Dr. David Hocking played a major role in building Craig’s biblical literacy. He has been a serious bible student ever since. The views contained in my commentaries are solely my own. I do not accept other views just because they are popular. I try to understand what the bible says. You will find interpretations here that you will scarcely find elsewhere. Prophecy is a big part of scripture. Today the world is becoming more aware of the bible’s dire predictions. We are looking over the precipice to the end time. Israel is at the center of bible prophecy. It will soon suffer the final seven year period of indignation spoken of by Daniel (Dan 9:24). Soon God’s judgments will be poured out on every nation (Rev 16:2-Rev 19). There are a lot of prophecy teachers out there. There is also a lot of misunderstanding and misinformation. There are many popular views that folks have become comfortable with. It is my job to afflict the comfortable. I am not interested in chasing every current event but my approach is to understand what the bible says. I offer verse by verse teaching with an understanding of our times.
    
24. Susie And The Missing Children - Susan Valentine has always enjoyed writing books for kids and young adults and over the years she has written many articles to different magazines. She is a very talented author and it is not long ago since she published “Susie’s Adventures to the Magic Island” and now she has just published her second book in the Susie series, “Susie And The Missing Children.”
    
25. Mystery of the Egyptian Scroll - Scott Peters writes action-filled adventure stories set in ancient Egypt. In addition to writing, the author has created over 300 museum, science center and theme park installations for such places as the Smithsonian, the Washington Children's Museum, Walt Disney World and Paramount Pictures. Peters also helped design an interactive TV show for the Nickelodeon Channel. Be sure and visit Scott's blog at egyptabout.com
    
26. Serving Time by Nadine Ducca - When Nadine Ducca was a child, she wanted to be a muppeteer for the Jim Henson Company. Several years later, she found herself far from the Muppets, living in Spain and studying Translation and Interpreting at the Autonomous University of Barcelona. After completing a Master's Degree in Medical Translation, she set her eyes on a PhD, then shrugged, and said, "I need a break from all this studying." From then on, she decided to dedicate her free time to her greatest passion: writing. She has published several flash fiction pieces in online magazines, although her biggest ambition has always been to write a novel. Serving Time is her debut novel, and more are on the way. Nadine is currently working on her second novel, Making Time. When she's not giving her characters a hard time (especially Eneld), she's at work coordinating the Cambridge English Language Assessment examinations, and occasionally translating documents or interpreting seminars for the city hall of Granollers, her place of residence.
    
27. The Cyber Chronicles Book III – The Core, by TC Southwell - T. C. Southwell was born in Sri Lanka and moved to the Seychelles when she was a baby. She spent her formative years exploring the islands – mostly alone. Naturally, her imagination flourished and she developed a keen love of other worlds. The family travelled through Europe and Africa and, after the death of her father, settled in South Africa. T. C. Southwell has written over thirty novels, ranging from fantasy and science fiction to romance and adventure, as well as five screenplays. Her hobbies include motorcycling, horse riding and art, and she is now a full-time writer.
    
28. The Proposal - I've been sitting here for 10 minutes wondering just what I should put in my bio. I mean, my life is so normal and boring.....why would you want to know anything about me? Do you really want to know that I have three wonderful, energetic kids? Or that I love to eat plain chocolate covered brazil nuts? Or that I love listening to the rain falling? The heavier the better. Or that I can't get enough sleep? And that I'm always shopping for groceries? And that the kids never stop eating/fighting/hollering for me? But do you really want to know that what I crave most of all (more than the dark chocolate covered brazil nuts) is a good nights sleep? As in a full 8 hours (10 preferably) of uninterrupted sleep. Oh, and I love to write. From YA fiction to contemporary romance. It's in my romantic fiction that I get to escape........