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1. The Killing Depths by Martin Roy Hill - Martin Roy Hill is the author of the military mystery thriller, "The Killing Depths," and the award-wininng "Duty: Suspense and Mystery Stories from the Cold War and Beyond," a collection of new and previously published short stories. Martin spent more than 20 years as a staff reporter and editor for newspapers and magazines, before becoming a military analyst specializing in battlefield medical operations for the Navy. His freelance credits include Reader's Digest, LIFE, Newsweek, Omni, American History, Coast Guard Magazine, Retired Officer Magazine, the Los Angeles Times Sunday Opinion Section, and many more. Much of his freelance work involves historical topics, especially military history. He was a lead contributor to the 1995 WWII anthology, "From Pearl Harbor to Nagasaki: America at War," published by the Retired Officer Association (now called the Military Officer Association). Martin's short stories have appeared in such publications as Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine, Plan B Mystery Anthology, San Diego Magazine, and San Diego Writer's Monthly.
   
2. The Covert Academy by Peter Laurent - Author Peter Laurent was born and raised in Auckland, New Zealand. He studied 3D animation in Auckland, then worked full-time in Mount Maunganui. Peter then formed his own company, Indiana Games Limited, and has been freelancing art and animation back in Auckland ever since. "The Covert Academy" is his first novel, borne of a passion for creative storytelling.
   
3. Let Them Eat Cake: A Novel - Sandra Byrd is the bestselling author of more than 40 books for women and teens. Please learn more by visiting www.sandrabyrd.com
   
4. Talent Storm - Brian Terenna grew up in Doylestown, PA. He is a Fantasy, Sci Fi, and Paranormal romance writer. His first fantasy novel is, "Talent Storm." He is also writing a book review blog. He is an avid chess player and meditates regularly. Some of his favorite authors are: Brandon Sanderson, Steven Erikson, Jim Butcher, and Mark Lawrence.
   
5. The Lailly Worm - I'm an author living in East Hampton, Long Island, who spends at least as much time writing (and reading!) as I do on our glorious beaches or in our art galleries, shops, and restaurants. (Lots more than in our shops! But I like to take my wife, Robin.) My lifelong love has been stories with gripping plots driven by logic, heroes and heroines driven by impassioned values and desires, and places and action and dialogue that carry me away to "the homeland of my soul." Nothing brings these together like a battle for justice, a struggle for love and the fulfillment of sexual passion, the obsessive need to understand a mystery, a problem, a threat. My first novel, "The Price of Hannah Blake," will be followed soon by more novels, a second book of poetry, and a collection of essays and stories. I grew up on a farm in Massachusetts, but I've spent my career in New York City as a writer, publishing more than 100 articles, essays, and stories and helping foundations, museums, hospitals, schools, conservation organizations, and all sorts of other good causes with my writing talents. With this experience, and my long love affair with poetry (you can find my book, "Touched By Its Rays" on Amazon), I think you will find I am a stylist whose writing will be a pleasure to read--and will take you into places, characters, and the heart of action in a way that will make the pages fly by.
   
6. Deep Blue Secret by Christie Anderson - Christie Anderson has gone from a BA degree in Latin American studies at Brigham Young University, to pizza delivery driver, flight attendant, and office manager, to finally finding her true passion in writing. She enjoys movies, books, and being outside in the sunshine whenever possible. She misses the ocean like crazy, but is terrified of waves. She loves music and animals, and she's dabbled in photography, drawing, and golf (although that doesn't mean she's any good at it). She's still trying to convince herself she likes to cook. Christie grew up in Southern California and recently moved to Colorado with her husband. Visit her Web site at www.christieanderson.org "Every once in a while I come across a writer that is such a great storyteller, I can't put the book down. I forget where I am, what time it is, and if there's anyone around me... Christie Anderson is such a writer." ~Karen Hoover, Author of The Wolfchild Saga
   
7. Magic of Public Speaking: A Complete System to Become a World Class Speaker - Andrii Sedniev, MBA, is the founder and trainer of the Magic of Public Speaking system, which has helped hundreds of speakers worldwide to unleash their potential in public speaking in a very short period of time. Andrii's students say that the Magic of Public Speaking system is the most complete and powerful public speaking training that they have ever experienced. At the age of 19, Andrii obtained his CCIE (Certified Cisco Internetwork Expert) certification, the most respected certification in the IT world and became the youngest person in Europe to hold it. At the age of 23, he joined an MBA program at one of the top 10 MBA schools in the USA. Being the youngest student on the program and at the age of 25 he joined Cisco Systems' Head Office as a Product Manager responsible for managing a router which brought in $1 billion in revenue every year. These experiences have taught Andrii that success in any endeavor, doesn't as much depend on the amount of experience, but rather on the processes that you are using. Having dedicated over 10 years to researching and practicing a variety of different techniques, Andrii has created the Magic of Public Speaking system. This system is a comprehensive step-by-step program that will enable you to achieve in 2 months what most speakers never achieve in 10 years.
   
8. Dogs Aren’t Men - Dr. Billi Tiner lives with her husband, two children, three dogs, and three cats in Missouri. Dr. Tiner is a sports enthusiast and avid reader. She also enjoys spending time outdoors gardening and hiking. Dr. Tiner has written four middle-grader books: Welcome Home (2012 Next Generation Indie Award Finalist), Heart of a Hero, Friends for Life, and The Rescue Team. She is also the author of the young adult western series: Bounty Hunter: The Beginning (2013 Readers' Favorite Finalist) and Bounty Hunter: The Reputation.
   
9. THE HARLEQUIN FILES RESONANCE KEY BY OWEN NEWPORT - All my life I have created stories. I see a story in just about everything. To me life is a fantasy story filled with hero's and villain's. I listen to other people's life stories and enjoy their tales. When I left school I wanted to find the story of how we began. I wanted to find the tale that explained our knowledge, our religion and our past. I wanted to learn it all so I set out to study Philosophy. Through the years I absorbed various ideas from scholars both philosophical and scientific. I often took those ideas and crafted stories that contained my own philosophical ideology, and used role playing to share those stories with a small band of friends. Eventually that small group developed into a larger group and I found myself spending more time storytelling than studying. Then the stories fell silent... Ten years later the desire to story tell has returned. This time its different...
   
10. Kick Your Fat in the Nuts - Like most natural health experts, T.C. Hale (aka Tony Hale) began his career in stand-up comedy. Touring professionally as a comic for nearly a decade, he never envisioned that he would one day teach the world how to sleep, poop, and even lose weight. On Valentine's Day, 2004, Tony lost his voice and it never came back. After twenty-three doctors couldn't figure out the problem, Tony decided it was time to dig for his own answers. Eight years later, not only did Tony figure out his own issues, he also happened upon hidden information about how to improve countless other health problems. Though Tony likes to boast about the fact that he holds no legitimate credentials (nor does he believe that we need any more "experts" from the same pool of knowledge already failing so many with health issues), he is greatly respected by his peers in the natural health industry. The biggest manufacturers in the health, fitness and organic products industries send Tony their products every year in hopes of winning one of his GearAwards. Beyond working with many celebrity clients, Tony is on the executive board of The Coalition For Health Education, a nonprofit association that helps professionals and their clients learn about health through nutrition. Additionally, Tony teaches monthly webinars about nutrition to doctors, nutritionists and other health care professionals from more than thirty-five countries. You can also find Tony producing documentaries like, WHY AM I SO FAT? A film that teaches the truth about weight loss while showcasing Tony's client, Gabe Evans, who lost 200 pounds in 9 ½ months by treating Tony's word as gospel.
    
11. The Coach House by Florence Osmund - Florence Osmund grew up in an old Victorian home in Illinois, complete with a coach house, the same house she used as inspiration for her first two books. She earned her master’s degree from Lake Forest Graduate School of Management and has obtained more than three decades of experience in corporate America. Her renown website, florenceosmund dot com, is dedicated primarily to helping new authors. Osmund currently resides in Chicago where she is working on her next novel.
    
12. Peter in Flight by Paul Michael Peters - Paul Michael Peters is an American fiction writer based out of Ann Arbor Michigan.  After studying at the Second City in Chicago he spent extended periods of time living in Philadelphia and Toronto before returning home to his beloved big mitten shaped state.  "Peter in Flight" is his debut work.
    
13. Litany of Secrets by Luke H. Davis - Luke Herron Davis is the author of the Cameron Ballack Mystery series, of which Litany of Secrets is the initial volume. He is also the author of the poetry book Through a Child's Eyes, a tribute to his late son. Luke has taught in the ethics and religion departments at private schools in Missouri, Florida, Virginia, and Louisiana. He lives with his wife Christy and their children in Saint Charles, Missouri. Litany of Secrets is his first book with Dunrobin Publishing. Luke enjoys reading, writing, running, biking, and traveling in the Deep South. He is a dedicated fan of AMC's "The Walking Dead."
    
14. Human No Longer - About Kathryn Meyer Griffith... Since childhood I’ve always been an artist and worked as a graphic designer in the corporate world and for newspapers for twenty-three years before I quit to write full time. But I’d already begun writing novels at 21, over forty years ago now, and have had eighteen (ten romantic horror, two romantic SF horror, one romantic suspense, one romantic time travel, one historical romance and three murder mysteries) previous novels, two novellas and twelve short stories published from Zebra Books, Leisure Books, Avalon Books, The Wild Rose Press, Damnation Books/Eternal Press and Amazon Kindle Direct. I’ve been married to Russell for almost thirty-five years; have a son, James, and two grandchildren, Joshua and Caitlyn, and I live in a small quaint town in Illinois called Columbia, which is right across the JB Bridge from St. Louis, Mo. We have three quirky cats, ghost cat Sasha, live cats Cleo and Sasha (Too), and the five of us live happily in an old house in the heart of town. Though I’ve been an artist, and a folk singer in my youth with my brother Jim, writing has always been my greatest passion, my butterfly stage, and I’ll probably write stories until the day I die…or until my memory goes. All Kathryn Meyer Griffith’s Books available at Amazon.com here: http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss_1?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&field-keywords=Kathryn+Meyer+Griffith http://tinyurl.com/bth9h66 Egyptian Heart Audio Book now available at ACX here: http://tinyurl.com/cgyhl66 Witches Audio Book here: http://tinyurl.com/ltsx963 Novels and short stories from Kathryn Meyer Griffith: Evil Stalks the Night (Leisure, 1984; Damnation Books, 2012) The Heart of the Rose (Leisure, 1985; Eternal Press Author’s Revised Edition 2010) Blood Forge (Leisure, 1989; Damnation Books Author’s Revised Edition, 2012) Vampire Blood (Zebra, 1991; Damnation Books Author’s Revised Edition, 2011) The Last Vampire (Zebra, 1992; Damnation Books Author’s Revised Edition 2010) You Tube Book Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ZU77j_q4S8 Witches (Zebra, 1993; Damnation Books Author’s Revised Edition 2011) The Nameless One (short story in 1993 Zebra Anthology Dark Seductions; Damnation Books Author’s Revised Edition, 2011) The Calling (Zebra, 1994; Damnation Books Author’s Revised Edition, 2011) All Things Slip Away (Avalon Books Murder Mystery, 2006…Amazon Kindle Direct ebook & paperback 2013) Egyptian Heart (The Wild Rose Press, 2007; Author’s Revised Edition, Eternal Press 2011) My self-made You Tube Book Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cogCNYKzPqc Winter’s Journey (The Wild Rose Press, 2008; Author’s Revised Edition, Eternal Press 2011) You Tube Book Trailer address: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FZYCs2DVhHg The Ice Bridge (The Wild Rose Press, 2008; Author’s Revised Edition, Eternal Press 2011) You Tube Book Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=28HZqu-my1g Don’t Look Back, Agnes novella & bonus short story: In This House (2008; ghostly romantic short story out; Eternal Press 2012) You Tube Book Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e3q9rZryFMo BEFORE THE END: A Time of Demons (Damnation Books 2010) You Tube self-made Book trailer with original song http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j0-U9c2Lwfo The Woman in Crimson (Eternal Press 2010) You Tube Book Trailer Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qcRBvDI5G4Y The Complete Guide to Writing Paranormal Fiction: Volume 1 (I did the Introduction) 4 Spooky Short Stories (Amazon Kindle 2012) Telling Tales of Terror (I did the chapter on Putting the Occult into your Fiction) Dinosaur Lake (from Amazon Kindle Direct 2012) Human No Longer (Amazon Kindle 2013) Scraps of Paper –Revised Author’s Edition (Avalon Books Murder Mystery, 2003; Amazon Kindle 2013) My Websites: http://www.myspace.com/kathrynmeyergriffith (to see all my book trailers with original music by my singer/songwriter brother JS Meyer) http://www.bebo.com/kathrynmeyerG https://www.facebook.com/pages/Kathryn-Meyer-Griffith/579206748758534?fref=ts http://www.authorsden.com/kathrynmeyergriffith http://www.goodreads.com/profile/kathrynmeyergriffith http://www.jacketflap.com/K.griffith http://www.shoutlife.com/kathrynmeyergriffith http://romancewriterandreader.ning.com/profile/KathrynMeyerGriffith
    
15. How I Gorilla-Marketed my e-Books to Number 3; Still Damn Funny. Seriously. by Glen Stanford - I'm told that an author bio will help me sell books. Here's me with the gray beard and ukulele (from 21 Days) and the best "police lineup" expression that I can muster. The advice book says that readers want to know that they are hearing from a qualified expert, and my headshot should look friendly and professional. Check. Personally, I hate author bio pics. Reading is theater of the mind, and I would rather imagine what the author looks like than have his real life image etched in my brain. Now you won't be able to get the goofy beard out of your head. Scratching your eyes out won't help. Trust me on that one.
    
16. Mastering the Handstand Push-up - Born and raised on the West Coast, Grant Michaels has been a private trainer to competitive bodybuilders and strength athletes for more than three decades and has seen countless fitness fads come and go. He focuses his teaching on a combination of the time-tested exercises that have always been shown to produce results and cutting edge, science-backed methods.
    
17. Juices for Runners - Lars Andersen is a sports author, nutritional researcher and fitness enthusiast. In his spare time he participates in competitive running, swimming and cycling events and enjoys hiking with his two border collies.
    
18. League Of Angels - Thomas Tan was a former advertising man and Creative Director for HBO Asia, who adores classic adventure sitcoms and Sunday morning cartoons. He has written widely for print, radio and television, and has won various awards at Promax Asia and the New York Festival of Arts. He currently lives in sunny Singapore, surrounded by good food, great friends, and a beautiful princess to love. When he's not chasing gigs as a corporate scribe and television producer, he enjoys building castles in the air, with dragons to slay, demons to vanquish, and maidens to save. League Of Angels is his debut novel.
    
19. Safari Stanley’s Reptile Discovery – Peek-A-Boo Who’s Under the Rock? - Christopher Biggs is a children's book author and illustrator from Oxfordshire, England. When he's not out on one of his fantastical adventures with his animal friends, he spends most of his time with his wife and 4 sons - often embarking on equally fantastical flights of fancy.
    
20. Vessel (Book I: The Advent) by Tominda Adkins - Tominda Ann Adkins was born and raised in West Virginia. All her teeth are intact and she has never attempted second base with a farm animal. She does play banjo. Poorly. Her debut series, Vessel, is a fantasy about five amateur gods and the disenchanted mortal woman who's stuck with them. Tom currently lives, writes, works, and loves in Seattle, WA.
    
21. Silent Influencing - Michael has been providing operational, organizational and management consulting and training for over 14 years. He is a certified project management professional and Gestalt process facilitator, offering training, consulting, and solutions development in project and product management, process improvement, leadership, and team building programs Michael's professional background includes a significant amount of work in the telecoms, hi-tech, software development, R&D environments and petrochemical & infrastructure business. Michael's background is analytical and technical, however, he has a keen interest in human interactions and behaviors. He holds two engineering degrees from the prestigious Technion Institute of Technology: a Bachelor of civil engineering and a Masters of Industrial engineering. He has balanced his technical side with the extensive study and practice of Gestalt Therapy and "Instrumental Enrichment," a philosophy of mediated learning. In his consulting and training engagements, Michael combines both the analytical and technical world with his focus on people, delivering unique, and meaningful solutions, and addressing whole systems. Michael travels extensively to Europe and East Asia, conducting training and consulting. He understands people, organizations and cultures and has a high degree of comfort leading cross-functional and cross-cultural training. Whether he focuses on the "soft side" or on project business skills, or a combination of both, he is effective facilitating learning on myriad topics, including negotiations, conflict management, influence without authority, leadership, body language, and presentation. His style is facilitative, favoring Socratic Direction, employing a range of techniques, from mind mapping, NLP and accelerated learning to indoor gaming and active playful exercises. He has been working with a multitude of clients in a broad range of industries, ranging from high tech, medical, IT infrastructure, telecom to petrochemical. Michael engages participants from various backgrounds such as sales and marketing, operations, research and development and management.
    
22. 20 Delicious Homemade Sausage Recipes for Your Backyard Grilling - J.L. Borsberry is a retired I/S Specialist. His first book, published June, 2013 is called 20 Delicious Sausage Making Recipes for the Grill. It is dedicated to his father-in-law.
    
23. Albert Runs Away - J.E. Bell is a wife, mother and grandmother who has long been fascinated by the creative genius that went into many of the comics she knew as a child. Realizing children and grandchildren everywhere do not have the enjoyment of these old comics, she decided to write the comic stories as storybooks. Retired from a successful career as an organizational development specialist and corporate trainer, she now devotes her time to writing children's stories. As a child, J.E. Bell began writing, first poetry and then short stores. Her mother, Joyce, longed to be a published author long before the digital revolution made it easier to do so. Her mother, along with her sister, Terry, and daughter, Rachel, all passed from this life without being able to share their writing talents publicly. So it is to honor the memory of these three women who are so important in her life that J.E. Bell has chosen to spend her retirement in writing and publishing her books. J.E. Bell resides with her husband in Texas.
    
24. You Can Do It Yourself: Great Do It Yourself Home Improvements On A Budget - Gary was running an online home improvement store. He learned quickly that competition was everywhere and lots of big household company names owned all the important positions on Google. Could he compete as a small online store and get enough traffic to survive? Of course, he wasn’t looking to just ‘survive’ in business, he wanted to thrive selling all kinds of kitchen cabinets for people who wanted ready made solutions in the ‘do it yourself’ kitchen cabinetry business. Gary tried every internet method available to him until he finally found the one angle every one seemed to miss. Yes, even the big boys who had much larger budgets and dominated the internet space for all the keywords he wanted. Now, he is ready to share his secrets with you. Why? Because he understands all too well the need for small businesses to try and compete in today’s sophisticated internet marketing world. Why not help others do the same? He learned there is an answer to higher profits by using local marketing techniques like… -how to use press releases to laser target your traffic and bring you only the highest converting visitors to your website -why using some of the free online advertising resources like Craigslist and Backpage can bring you more sales daily -and, how to use free local listing services and directories to get you on the first page of google and (even in your front door)
    
25. Your Self Miracle – The Ultimate Success Coaching Guide That Will Change Your Life - Hi, I’m Graham Bowall (also known as “Sledge”) and the owner of changeyourlifepublishing.com which is the leading site for people wanting to change their lives for the better. I am an entrepreneur from a very humble background. I was very shy as a child and have transformed myself over the years from a quiet young man with no ambition to an owner of multiple businesses both online and offline. I have a massive passion for helping people change their life for the better.
    
26. Flash Bang by Kellen Burden - Kellen Burden was born and raised in Southern California and has bounced his happy ass to Denver, Colorado,Portland Oregon and Seattle, Washington. He works in the field of loss prevention, security and organized retail crime investigation, and has recently begun a career with the Oregon National Guard. Flash Bang is his first novel. One time, he fought a bear.
    
27. To Dare A Future: A Novel of Rage - Born in Wales, Dave Franklin published his first story in a fishing magazine at the age of sixteen. He emigrated to Australia in 1999 and made his living as a reporter, earning the distinction of being sacked twice by the same Perth-based newspaper group. He then spent nearly three years teaching English in Korea, during which the mortality rate of the children under his care remained at an impressive zero. He now teaches ESL to adults in Brisbane, helping (among others) Thai Lady Boys get to grips with their past participles. The major theme of Dave's small, character-driven stories is alienation, the symptoms of which include male immaturity, misogyny, dysfunction, violence, self-destruction and a childish glee in winding up the politically correct. There are no car chases or explosions in his books; instead he prefers outlandish sex scenes while focusing on exasperated loners full of doubt. People who like his work tend to see its humour (and disdain for his own characters) whereas his harshest critics take everything at face value. Indeed, some observers would argue that the highlight of his writing career, which has seen him produce five novels, remains being published in a fishing magazine.
    
28. The Awesome Adventure of Xiapo Yellip Zump – Let the Adventure Begin! - Jacob Spire (1986 - 2123) was born into a family of lawyers. Jacob has had several jobs, amongst which where being a receptionist, a butcher, an office manager, a warrior and a tech-support guy, until he finally settled on being a programmer. In his free time, Jacob enjoys drawing, writing and inventing games.
    
29. Brit the Misfit by Kally Mayer - Kally Mayer loves writing children's picture books that teach messages to kids but in a fun way. She worked as a youth worker and was the oldest of 7 children so has been around children her whole life. Reading and writing have always been a passion of hers and believes that children want to laugh and be entertained when they read. Literacy levels have a direct relationship to how well your child will do in life, so it is important that parents take time to read with their children everyday. She tests her books on her 3 children and 2 grandchildren before she publishes them.
    
30. Blurred Lines - Breena Wilde has been writing for more than ten years. She's sold more than half a million books in the last year under another name. Breena's had a lot of jobs. She's flipped burgers, worked in a hotel, and spent time managing people in customer service. She's lived everywhere, from Taiwan and New York, to California and Virginia, but Wyoming is home. Writing is the best job ever!!! BLURRED LINES is the first of many in her New Adult erotica series.
    
31. Beauty Rising - Mark Sasse was born in Western Pennsylvania, but has spent nearly two decades living, teaching, and writing overseas in Vietnam and Malaysia. He has advanced degrees in Humanities and English. Sasse has produced a variety of dramatic works such as "Grandparents' War", "Life with Stewart", "Spy Blue", "Take Two" & "Romans on the Couch." His works are known for unique and unpredictable plot-lines, strong characters, and thought-provoking dialogue. He also writes and directs for the drama troupe The RLT Players. Complete List of Works 2013 Novel: "The Recluse Storyteller" - to be released in October 2013 2013 Play: "Grandparents' War" - (Kindle/Paperback) 2012 Novel: "Beauty Rising" - (Kindle/Paperback) 2012 Play: "Life with Stewart" - (Paperback) 2011 Play: "Romans on the Couch" - (Paperback) 2011 Novella: "Spy Blue" - (Kindle/Paperback) 2011 Play: "Spy Blue: A Drama in Two Acts" - (Paperback) 2010 Musical Play: "Take Two" - (Paperback) 2008 Musical Play: "A Tad of Trouble - (unpublished)
    
32. The Way Is a River of Stars: A Buddhist’s Journey Through Northern Spain on the Camino Pilgrim Route - Helen Burns is an Australian writer and serial traveler. Her adventures have been published in National papers and journals. She has had poems and haiku published in The Famous Reporter, Free Xpressions and several Dangerously Poetic Anthologies. An encounter in Iran inspired her prize winning poem at the 2007 Byron Bay Writers’ Festival. The following year she was guest poet at Southern Cross University’s International Human Rights and Peace Conference. The Way is a River of Stars, Helen’s first travel memoir, was awarded a Varuna LongLines residency in 2007 at Australia's National Writers' House then shortlisted for the Varuna Harper Collins award in 2009.
    
33. The Dufus Diaries : Off to see the Wizard by Deon Potgieter - Deon Potgieter is an award winning producer, director and author. He is a single dad with two daughters and loves children. He is one of the original writers and creators of the SABC's primary children's brand YO TV, which has been their flagship for close on 18 years. He Produced, directed and co-wrote the SAFTA Best sitcom winner 2010, "Family Bonds" and his first book "Rose of Soweto" made the Alan Paton literary awards long list.
    
34. A Book of Dog Breeds For Children: They’re All Dogs - Amber Richards is a mother and full time nanny with a passion for children and teaching real life concepts.