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1. The Queen’s Blade V – Master of the Dance 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.
   
2. Aberration - Danielle Simmons grew up in a small town in California's Sierra Nevada Foothills. A voracious reader from an early age, she began writing poetry and short stories in elementary school, and continued that passion throughout high school and college. She studied literature, creative writing and communications at University of the Pacific in Stockton, California, where she received her Bachelor of Arts in English Literature. Danielle currently lives in San Francisco with her husband and son, where she is a public relations executive by day, and writer and blogger by night. Her first novel, Aberration, was a semi-finalist in the 2012 Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award contest.
   
3. Trying is Lying - Ashly Lorenzana was born on October 2nd, 1987 in Portland, OR where she continues to live today, with her Chihuahua mutt named Bub. With over five years of experience working as an independent escort, Ms. Lorenzana now devotes a great deal of her time to writing business, whether doing freelance work, blogging for fun, or ranting about her life in general and then calling it a book. In addition to enjoying crystal meth, she also considers herself an intense and competitive Scrabble player.
   
4. Rolling Thunder by Mark Berent - Lt Col Mark E. Berent, USAF (Ret), was born in Minneapolis, graduated from Cretin High School in St. Paul, and Arizona State University with a BSME. Berent began his Air Force career as an enlisted man then pilot training at Columbus and Laredo. He served three combat tours, completing 452 combat sorties, first in the F-100 at Bien Hoa then the F-4 at Ubon. He spent two years in Cambodia flying things with propellers and, through a fluke, ran the air war for a few weeks. He has logged over 4300 hours of flying time, 1084 of those in combat missions in the F-100, F-4, C-47 and U-10 over South Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia. He has flown 30 different aircraft. His decorations include the Silver Star, Legion of Merit, Distinguished Flying Cross with one oak leaf cluster, Bronze Star, Air Medal with twenty-four oak leaf clusters, Vietnam Cross of Gallantry, Cambodian Divisional Medal, and numerous Vietnam Campaign ribbons. He also earned US Special Forces and Cambodian jump wings. Since retirement, he established international operations for the sale of spares for combat aircraft; flew foreign aircraft such as the Swedish Viggen and RAF Jaguar and Hawk; wrote numerous articles for the Air Force Magazine; and was a pilot/reporter for the Asian Defense Journal. He wrote five Vietnam airwar novels (Rolling Thunder, see www.markberent.com). Recently flew his T-6 in airshows.
   
5. Lynna’s Beau by Kitty Margo - Kitty Margo was a former hairstylist, secretary, seamstress and phlebotomist before venturing into the ranks of the self employed with a commercial cleaning company. This allowed her the free time to pursue writing. She has four books available now and is close to finishing her fifth. She is a Twilight fanatic who frequently dreams of being bitten by Edward Cullen. Hey, he's a vampire so the 30 year age difference doesn't even matter! Visit her at kittymargo.com.
   
6. A 4th of July to Remember Book One - T.J. Honey is a Romance author who writes from many of her life experiences. The Kennewick Diaries takes much of its content from her own summers on the Columbia River. She writes full time and gets her ideas from real life. At this time, she has many new works in progress, including time travel, ghost romance, suspense, futuristic settings, and more Young Adult type of fiction. She likes to develop her characters emotionally, and then come from that premise in writing about them. They become real to her and sometimes argue about that way they want to be written!
   
7. Trail of the Chupacabra: An Avery Bartholomew Pendleton Misadventure - Stephen Randel, CFA, was born in Houston, Texas. He is a graduate of Texas Christian University. Steve now lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota with his wife and their two rescue dogs. Steve is a natural storyteller with a background as a financial services executive specializing in fiduciary liability and as a public speaker. His passions include cooking, college football and English soccer. Unfortunately he’s a long-suffering Queen’s Park Rangers supporter. Oh well, maybe this is the year. His favorite authors are Terry Pratchett, Neil Gaiman, Douglas Adams and Ferrol Sams. One of these is not like the others.
   
8. Just a Matter of Time: a Time Travel Romance - T. Michelle grew up in Texas and has been a professional writer for over twenty years. Having always had an affinity for writing, T. admits she enjoys and aims to create stories with "wit and grit". Although proud to have held on to her true Southern roots, she now lives in Colorado with her family to escape the humidity and bugs.
   
9. Fire & Water - Though she's been a writer all her life, Fire & Water is Betsy Graziani Fasbinder's debut novel. Her short works of fiction and memoir have been awarded two East of Eden Awards, a Jack London Award, the Floyd Salas Award for Fiction, and have been produced by Tim O'Connor as Readers' Theater in the Miners' Foundry Theater in historic Nevada City, California. Nestled in the hills of the San Francisco Bay Area, Fasbinder lives with her husband, one son on the launch pad and the other already launched in a nearby town. She is currently working on her second novel.
   
10. One Deadly Sister - Rod Hoisington lives in Florida, where he devotes full-time to his compulsion to dig into the souls and lives of fictional characters, bring them to life, and write worthwhile mystery stories about them.
    
11. MATCHPLAY - Dakota Madison has been writing since she learned to read and fell in love with books. When she's not at her computer creating spicy new romances, Dakota is traveling to exotic locales or spending time with her husband and their bloodhounds.
    
12. Mobsters, Gangs, Crooks and Other Creeps-Volume 2 – New York City - Joe Bruno's true book crime books include "Mobsters, Gangs, Crooks, and Other Creeps - Volumes 1 - 5," "Murder and Mayhem in the Big Apple." "The Wrong Man," and "Mob Wives - Fuhgeddaboudit!" "Mobsters, Gangs, Crooks and Other Creeps Volumes 1-5" are consistently ranked in the top 100 on Amazon in the genre "Organized Crime," as is "Joe Bruno's Mobsters - Six Volume Set," and "Murder and Mayhem in the Big Apple." Visit Joe Bruno's website at: josephbrunowriter.com, or at mobstersgangs.com. Joe Bruno's Blog is at http://joebrunoonthemob.wordpress.com/. Joe Bruno's Facebook page "Mobsters, Gangs" is at: https://www.facebook.com/mobstersgangs.
    
13. This Time Tomorrow by Rupert Colley - Rupert Colley, a former librarian, is the founder of 'History In An Hour', a series of titles that can be read in just sixty minutes - history for busy people. Published by Harper Press, part of HarperCollins, the books are available here on the Amazon Kindle. As well as the titles written by Rupert, there are a number of other authors writing for the series - all readable In An Hour, and all intelligently and engagingly written. Rupert's first novel, 'My Brother the Enemy', is a novella about two brothers, twins, and their rivalry and jealousies, and the girl they both love, set against the violent backdrop of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution, a "good, fast, page-turning read". His second novel, 'This Time Tomorrow', is set during and after World War One, a compelling story of war, brotherly love, passion and betrayal. Rupert's third novel, 'The Black Maria', set during Stalin's reign, in Moscow, 1935, is now out.
    
14. Bad Rap - William Byron Hillman is an actor, filmmaker, novelist and public speaker. William Byron Hillman is the published author of eleven novels Bill is also an actor with many films and television credits. He did a two-year stint on “Days of our Lives,” appeared in films like Ice Station Zebra, has been a motivational speaker at college campuses nationwide, sold many screenplays and produced, directed and wrote numerous well known movies. As an actor/filmmaker/novelist, Bill has a global following and appreciates all of his readers, fans and friends. Bill currently lives in South Carolina with his wife and 16 paws where he is putting the finishing touches on The Owl, Rollie Kemp’s fifth thriller. Author Web Site: http://www.williamhillman.com Author’s Amazon Page: http://www.amazon.com/author/williamhillman Author’s Blog: http://williambyronhillman.blogspot.com
    
15. A Study in Sin by August Wainwright - August Wainwright writes about money, passion, power, politics, societies, philosophies, and life - all the things worth reading about. He is currently writing two ongoing series. The Remy Moreau series is comprised of modern mysteries based loosely on the original Sherlock Holmes stories by Arthur Conan Doyle. The first book in the series, A Study in Sin, was released on May 20th, 2013 and will be followed by a new volume every 3-4 weeks. The second series has the working title "The Portrait" and is a political & philosophical thriller series.
    
16. Frog Dell’s Junkyard - Jak Locke is a lifelong New Orleans, LA resident who is involved in way too many entertainment projects for not enough money. He has recently discovered that writing books is a good way to temporarily forget about how hungry you are.
    
17. Relative Strangers - Here’s the bottom line… I love to laugh, I love to drink and I love to eat. I love writing. As a child I had stories going through my head. It took me a long time to realise I should write them down, therefore clearing my mind. Little did I know another one would pop up! I wanted to be painter since I was a child. I was told, while being assessed at the end of my art foundation, I should go into drama or be a stand-up comedian. I’m short, so even if I did ‘stand up’ it’d be hard to see me and I realise that was their way of telling me I was rubbish at art. I’ve worked in various jobs and I have been extremely lucky to do what I wanted to do… though I have a habit of changing my mind every so often. If you want something, go for it. The only thing holding you back is you. You only have one life so don’t say ‘if only’ say ‘well at least I tried’. Writing, like anything creative, is an exposure. Not everyone likes what you write, what you say or what you think… but some people do. That’s my focus. On the people who like what you write… what I write. And what keeps me going? Microdermabrasion and margaritas … seriously…