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1. RanDumber: The Continued Adventures of an Irish Guy in L.A! by Mark Hayes - Mark Hayes is an Irish dreamer, schemer, drinker, thinker, bon viveur, enfant terrible, raconteur and fan of foreign words in italics.
   
2. The Closet by Jac Wright - Jac Wright is a published poet, a published author, and an electronics engineer educated at Stanford, University College London, and Cambridge who lives and works in England. Jac studied English literature from an early age of three, developing an intense love for poetry, drama, and writing in Speech & Drama classes taken every Saturday for fourteen years, and in subsequent creative writing classes taken during the university years. A published poet, Jac's first passion was for literary fiction and poetry writing as well as for the dramatic arts. You will find these influences in the poetic imagery and prose, as well as the in the dramatic scene setting and deep character creation in his writing. These passions - for poetry, drama, literary fiction, and electronic engineering - have been combined to create the first book in the literary suspense series, The Reckless Engineer. There are millions of professionals in high tech corporate environments who work in thousands of cities in the US, the UK, and the world such as engineers, technicians, technical managers, investment bankers, and corporate lawyers. High drama, power struggles, and human interest stories play out in the arena every day. Yet there are hardly any books that tell their stories; there are not many books that they can identify with. Jac feels compelled to tell their stories in The Reckless Engineer series. Jac also writes the literary short fiction series, Summerset Tales, in which Wright explores characters struggling against their passions and social circumstances in the semi-fictional region of contemporary England called Summerset, partly the region that Thomas Hardy called Wessex. Some of the tales have an added element of suspense. The collection is published serially in the tradition of Charles Dickens' The Pickwick Papers and Thomas Hardy's Wessex Tales. The first tale, The Closet, accompanies the first title in the author's full-length book, The Reckless Engineer.
   
3. How to Be Happier Right Now: 48 Fast-Acting Human Happiness Hacks - Kate Kennedy loves to help people create more meaningful and joyful lives. She has a unique gift for delivering a great variety of tips, tricks, secrets, and systems to help make your everyday life better, and she does so concisely and powerfully, with an inspirational twist.
   
4. 4th Of July Quiz Game Book: Independence Day Super Challenge - Larissa Larsen was born in Chicago Illinois. She has a Master Degree in Education and specializes in developing character and value literature for children. She has a great passion for creating curriculum which engages children through the creative arts. Her stories and developmentally challenging texts have been used internationally to promote imaginative 21st century learning skills through story-telling. Larissa believes in engaging the whole child. Her publishing services and blog Storyteller Shop.com reflects her philosophy of lessons of wisdom through the eyes of global understanding and respect. Larissa now resides in New Orleans LA with her family and pet Yorkie Brad Warren.
   
5. The Benton Kitchen Presents Manly Meals by Nancy L. Benton - Nancy L Benton was born in Buffalo, New York and has been married for 37-years. She is a highly sought after cook (not chef) and delights in her culinary talents. She believes in good food, the best ingredients, and affordability. She states, "I grew up in an Italian family and my mother made sure I participated in all household duties especially cooking. Some of my fondest childhood memories take me back to those weekends where I made homemade bread and pasta with my mother and the smells that would come out of the kitchen and permeate the house." Food is an experience and one that needs to be maximized since we require food daily.
   
6. The Benton Kitchen Presents An Italian Mama’s Cookbook by Nancy L. Benton - Nancy L Benton was born in Buffalo, New York and has been married for 37-years. She is a highly sought after cook (not chef) and delights in her culinary talents. She believes in good food, the best ingredients, and affordability. She states, "I grew up in an Italian family and my mother made sure I participated in all household duties especially cooking. Some of my fondest childhood memories take me back to those weekends where I made homemade bread and pasta with my mother and the smells that would come out of the kitchen and permeate the house." Food is an experience and one that needs to be maximized since we require food daily.
   
7. Sea Life Funny & Weird Marine Animals-Learn with Amazing Photos and Facts about Ocean Marine Sea Animals - P. T. Hersom started writing kids books with fun learning in mind motivated by his 3 year old Gabriel. He lives in Florida with his wife and son.
   
8. Article Writer Success - Computer Information Systems degree, retired networking analyst, Professional Photographer / part-time, E book Marketing / part-time. The rest of what time I have left is for rest, sleep, fishing, hunting or other outdoor activities. Sometimes I may have to swap one for the other.
   
9. Perfect Game by Will Swardstrom - Will Swardstrom is a high school social studies teacher in Southern Illinois. As the son of a telecommunications engineer in the 80's and 90's, he spent his childhood in Michigan, Arizona and Illinois. He has been married to his college sweetheart, Sarah, for 13 years and has one daughter, two cats and a very high-maintenance dog. This is his first published work. A young adult novel is in the works and should be published before Autumn 2013.
   
10. Young Gifted and Bad by Barry Davis - I have been writing for 10 years, primarily novels but also short stories and screenplays. I write because I have strong opinions and novels are the best way to convey those opinions while offering captivating entertainment. I was born in the ghetto and write from that vantage point. Although I have expanded into horror and fantasy novels my bread and butter is urban fiction. The Sweets Maybrey series is based upon assimilated knowledge of Philadelphia's criminal machinations. My goal is to bring the reader inside the sex and crime while revealing the humanity behind the brutality. My favorite food is, of course, a real deal Philly cheesesteak. I love to write at 3AM in my spare bedroom with a cup a coffee at my elbow. My favorite shows are Justified and Elementary.
    
11. Love Next Door by Amelia Bishop - I am a reader and writer of romantic erotic fiction of all varieties. Sometimes, the little stories in my head just need to be shared (and sometimes they are just for me). I enjoy red wine, black rum, shell-hunting walks along the seashore, and solo late-night drunken dance parties.
    
12. One Hundred Naked Girls - A consistent multi-tasker, Romanian born of Austrian and Hungarian parents, now a dual U.S.-Canadian citizen, Andy Halmay (originally Tibor Andris Halmai) has lived several lives on two continents and in three countries while enjoying that many more careers - a farmer, stevedore, actor, writer, director, producer in theater, radio, TV and motion pictures. A meteoric career on Madison Avenue took him from copywriter to Vice President, Creative on America's biggest TV spot account. Here he won five awards for creative excellence and created out of stock conditions for previously ailing products. Starting in radio before TV arrived he did his first radio commercial with Monty Hall and his first Network radio drama with the late Leslie Nielsen. In his spare time, during his advertising days he became active as a lyricist-composer and records producer, racking up over 30 record releases on major labels such as Columbia, RCA Victor, London, Brunswick, Colpix, Sunbeam with artists such as Paul Simon, Carl Perkins, Lillian Briggs, Fred Neil, Eddie Fontaine, etc. He has worked with legendary names such as Jackie Gleason and Lorne Greene. He once directed the famous Zsa Zsa Gabor in a winning TV commercial and formed a partnership with her for a cosmetics company. As an actor he worked with name directors such as John Huston and Arthur Hiller. As voice artist he has worked in New York, Toronto, Memphis and Los Angeles and once introduced the Pope on CBS TV network. He developed the original concept for the vacation time-share and the grandfather of the music video. While seldom thinking of himself as a writer, over the years he has more consistently paid the mortgage with income from his writing. "Out of compulsion," he states, "I write screenplays for films I want to direct and produce." One of these screenplays was seen by a publisher who wanted to publish its book adaptation. It was an emetic experience for Andy that decided him to write a book, publish it himself, and do it right for a change. He settled on writing his own biography which has grown so long it will come out in six volumes. In the interim, he dashed off a collection of some of his lyrics under the title IT AIN'T FINE IF IT DON'T RHYME published by Veni Vici Books, a division of his Veni Vici Entertainment; and now the book adaptation of his screenplay ONE HUNDRED NAKED GIRLS.
    
13. The Love Spell – Part One by Heath Buckley - My name is Heath Buckley and I have written for as long as I can remember. I was born in 1968 and creative writing started in childhood with a love for words and literature and grew into a profession - I was a journalist for many years winning several awards for my work on various UK magazines. As I grew and my interests expanded into politics and current affairs, both in the United Kingdom and abroad, then so did the subject of my writing. I write the kind of books that I like to read - fast paced thrillers that have both a familiar British and personal characteristic and an international perspective. I write books with strong characters immersed in bold storylines and they are, as far as it is possible to do so when writing fiction, based in reality. It is said that everybody has at least one book in them, one conscious string of imagination and creativity that can be translated into words and sentences and paragraphs with characters and a story - I have a lot more than one and I look forward to readers finding them on this platform. I have presented my books before many paper publishers over the years without success and yet here on Kindle what is great is that it is the public and the marketplace that decides what works and what doesn't. I live in London, one of the most dynamic cities in the world and a location famous across the world. I use it all the time in my books and I love it. Contact: heath_buckley@hotmail.com
    
14. Vision - Cathy Newcomb has a degree in English and has worked in the field of Public Relations. Currently she runs a daytime program for toddlers and a photography business. She lives in the great Midwest with her husband and two boys. When she is not writing, teaching or taking photos, she loves to kayak and hit the archery range.
    
15. Cool Creatures, Hot Planet: Exploring the Seven Continents by Marty Essen - Marty Essen is the six-time award-winning author of the book Cool Creatures, Hot Planet: Exploring the Seven Continents. Following the release of his book, Marty transformed Cool Creatures, Hot Planet into a multi-media show, called Around the World in 90 Minutes. He has been performing Around the World in 90 Minutes at colleges and other venues since 2008. It has become the second most popular slide show of all-time-behind Al Gore's "An Inconvenient Truth." Marty's show features exhilarating adventures, stunning photographs, and interesting discoveries from each of the seven continents. One part lecture, one part theater, one part slide show, one part comedy-it's the type of show where the audience has fun laughing at the stories, oohing and aahing at the photos, and then, when it's all done, they realize just how much they've learned.