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1. Haven’s Rescue - Author of "Haven's Rescue", Romance/Suspense/Christian Novel. Soon to be published in the autumn of 2013 "Sisters", sequel to the Haven's Rescue. Donna travels the US six months out of the year with her husband. She grew up around the globe, traveling with military parents often stationed abroad. She has a deep appreciation for the beauty and people of the world. She writes from the heart, she chose the fiction format, and often draws from her own life experiences. She is currently writing a new book that will contain three short stories, it will be titled "Three in One". She has a passion for motorcycling, skiing, reading, writing, photography, cooking, family, friends, and traveling.
   
2. DoggyPedia: All You Need To Know About Dogs - Amy Morford has over twenty years of dog training experience with companion dogs, sport dogs and working breeds. Amy’s motivation to write about dogs stems from her love for them and their unbiased loyalty and devotion. Amy’s goal is to provide helpful, accurate information to assist dog lovers with raising and training a well-mannered, good-tempered, happy, healthy, well-adjusted companion, friend, partner and/or family pet.
   
3. YOUR BEST WEEK EVER! a fun how to guide by Quinn Fargo - Quinn is a wellness coach, educator, author and renaissance lover of life. She writes to connect, share and inspire. Quinn is drawn to adventures that celebrate diversity & individuality. Her interests include circus arts and science fiction.
   
4. Ultimate guide to avoiding hair loss. - I am a massage therapist, wellness therapist, aromatherapist, nutritionist and holistic health practitioner. My passion for health and beauty led me to start working on my Wellness books. I hope you enjoy reading them and that they will guide you towards discovering the ultimate holistic wellness the way you deserve it! Read more about me: www.qiarta.com
   
5. Healthy Aging for Women over 50 - Pamela Richards wrote Healthy Aging for Women over 50
   
6. Bianca’s Adventures by Ana Gajic - Hello, my name is Ana, and I am from Belgrade. I love music so much that it is sometimes very difficult to resist talking in the singing mode :) What I don't like is when people try to guess my age, as they always think I am older than I actually am. So, I must be one of the few women that don't hide their age :) I am a freelance writer when the day starts, and when the day starts to feel sleepy I am a creative writer. So, I spend my days writing, and listening to music, both of which I find very relaxing. If only I could find those clothes with words all over them, I'd certainly wear them as I could wrap myself in words both metaphorically and literally :) I got to check Amazon for these out-of-fashion-but-suitable-for-me clothes :) I have published my first book "Bianca's Adventures", and I couldn't be happier about that. The book is about the girl called Bianca and her unique ideas and thoughts about the world. Her rich imagination and perception of the world are fun, but they also teach readers positive values. Although I am not a parent yet I know that parents also like to read a good book. "Bianca's Adventures" is a book that both children and parents can enjoy.
   
7. Tick Tock Baby Clock - Helen Conrad is an award-winning, best-selling author of more than 90 romances published under various pseudonyms with Harlequin, Silhouette, Loveswept, and others. She is currently revamping the best of her backlist, creating the Destiny Bay Series. The first six, Destiny Bay~Forever Yours--are available on Kindle. The next six are being launched right now under the Destiny Bay~Baby Dreams title and will be available on other sources as well. Destiny Bay--The Ranchers will be coming soon. Also in the works--sweet versions of the Destiny Bay Series.
   
8. DragonMan – Face Of The Unknown - Author, screenwriter and songwriter Ted Lazaris is the creator of an exciting new superhero known as DragonMan. Ted Lazaris resides in Hartford Wisconsin and is a member of the Freelance Writing Organization International (FWO-Int'l). Mr. Lazaris received the attention and a Letter of Commendation from former First Lady, Laura Bush who commented "I admire your efforts, through writing adventure stories, to encourage people of all ages to enjoy reading.
   
9. Write Him Off: Journal Prompts to Heal Your Broken Heart in 30 Days - Elizabeth N. Doyd is a relationship expert, spiritual counselor and published author. She has studied Buddhism, Kabbalah, hypnotherapy, astrology and numerology. Originally from Montana, Elizabeth has traveled around the world and currently lives in The Hague, The Netherlands. Her books are for those looking for guidance and healing in love, relationships and self-worth.
   
10. Amazing Love - K. Dawn Byrd is an author of inspirational romance. She holds a masters degree in professional counseling from Liberty University that she believes gives her better insight into the minds, feelings and emotions of individuals, which helps her to better understand her characters and develop them more fully. She's published in multiple genres and likes to say that she's written something for everyone!
    
11. MIHIRABALA - Formerly, prior to my father’s time, my forefathers were very famous. They were the landlords of our village then. Not a single leaf dared to shake without their permission. Such was their fame. With the passage of time, that renown had deteriorated and made us ordinary by the time of my birth. So I have been brought up in the surrounding of a lower middle-class family. There is nothing extraordinary in my educational qualification so as to make me boastful in that regard. I am, simply, a law graduate. Ten years back I have shifted my place of residence to the city of ‘CUTTACK’ to begin my law practice in the High-Court of our province and have been residing in this city since then. Though my law practice has no such charm, the city itself has a charm of its own which has induced me not to return back to my native village. Notwithstanding my ordinary upbringing, ordinary education and my failure in law practice, I am an avid reader of English literature since my childhood. The ordinariness of my life must have instilled in me this extraordinary reading habit. Place a book of any sort in my hand and I’ll forget the whole world instantly. This interest has encouraged me to go for writing a novel. “MIHIRABALA” is my debut novel. E-mail;- santoshkumardas19@gmail.com
    
12. Our Magic Bunk Bed: The Bedtime Adventures of Ally and Arthur - Adam Zollinger is an architectural illustrator by day, and a children's book author and illustrator by night. He specializes in digital painting and also 3d illustration. He also has a bachelor's degree in art history. He is happily married, and a father of four. He began writing books for his young children, who were also the inspiration for the books. He now makes his fun-loving stories available to children everywhere.
    
13. The Betrayal of Lies - Debra Burroughs can be found, most days, sitting in front of her computer in the beautiful Pacific Northwest, dreaming up and writing about strong women, their relationships with men (good and bad), involved in exciting and romantic situations.
    
14. Wild Country - "Van Holt is King of the Spaghetti Western..." --Rarebird1 "I had a feeling that Van Holt... might actually be the successor to Zane Grey, a master Western storysmith, whose novels set the style of a generation." --Stern0 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 eating Twinkies.
    
15. Lydia’s Tin Lid Drum by Neale Osborne - Neale Osborne was born in 1970, in Birmingham, England. A freelance artist since 1992, his illustrations and caricatures have appeared in a wide variety of places: on posters and packaging, on stage, in exhibitions, and publications such as the Times Literary Supplement, The Gramophone, Mojo and programmes for the BBC Proms. His debut children’s book ‘Lydia’s Tin Lid Drum’ was published in 2009, at a launch alongside fellow Oxford University Press authors Geraldine McCaughrean and Shirley Hughes. ‘The Castle of Desires’ is his first work for older readers ~ a ‘double-bill’ of tales that mirror each other: one, the story of a studio of animators set in the 1930s, interspersed with the Gothic legend of a castle that can fulfil the dreams of its keyholder ~ desires and ambitions with tragic consequences. His latest book is the follow-up to his debut. ‘Lydia’s Golden Drum’ is a stand-alone fantasy adventure, drawing upon many legends and folktales, but with the distinctive spicy flavour of ‘The Arabian Nights’. Many of Neale’s pictures, including a gallery of illustrations from the ‘Lydia’ novels, can be found at his official website ‘The Land of Oz'
    
16. Lose Belly Fat: 20 Amazing tips you can’t live without ! - A Midwesterner by birth, Alexis Cooper spent much of her childhood rewriting her favorite books to include herself as the main character. Later, she graduated on to writing her own books after "retiring" from her day job to become a stay-at-home mom. When not playing with her kids, playing with her pets, or cooking dinner for her family, you'll find her typing furiously and growling obscenities to the characters on the screen. She hopes you enjoy her writing and she would love to hear from you. Drop an email to alexiscooper.author@gmail.com, follow on twitter @acooperauthor, or follow her blog on her website www.alexiscooper.com! Happy Reading!
    
17. Deadly Election by Arthur Crandon - Arthur Crandon is a lawyer, blogger, reviewer and published author. He was brought up in rural Somerset in the UK, but left the rolling hills and cider for the warmer climes of Asia, where he has spent time in the Philippines and China, but now lives in Hong Kong – where cider and fish and chips are more readily available. When he is not lawyering or writing he enjoys playing the piano (classical) , fishing and occasionally drinking red wine. He is an active member of the Hong Kong Writer’s Circle and spends a lot of time helping other authors to market their books. You can find, learn about, and contact him at www.arthurcrandon.com ‘Deadly Election’ – the first thriller book in his ‘Asian Intrigue’ series has many five star readers reviews and is available in paperback and ebook from Amazon and other major book retailers:
    
18. Unsafe Acts - Bill Kirton lives in Scotland. He’s been a university lecturer and TV presenter, written and performed songs and sketches at the Edinburgh Festival, and had many radio plays broadcast by the BBC. He’s been a writing fellow at 3 universities and written books on study and writing skills in Pearson’s ‘Brilliant’ series. His short stories have appeared in several anthologies, including the Mammoth Book of Best British Crime 2010. Unsafe Acts is one of 5 Jack Carston mysteries. Other novels are a historical mystery, The Figurehead, a double award winning mystery/spy spoof, The Sparrow Conundrum, and the satire Alternative Dimension.
    
19. Sex in Secret – Part 1 – Max in the bar - I am Audrey Digne and I come from France. I have a boyfriend who does not satisfy me sexually, which is a big shame, as I love sex. I love to do sex, I love talking about sex, and now I discover that I love to write about sex, too. So I have started to document some of my more interesting rendezvous and would like to share them with the world. I like no-limit, hard, stinky, sweaty, erotic sex, so if you are interested in the same, please sit down and read about my sexual experiences. I hope you will enjoy reading them as much as I enjoyed doing my research for them. Who knows, maybe one day our paths will cross, and we can write a story together...
    
20. Lost Love - Sharma has been writing stories, screenplays and articles for last ten years. Converting day to day observations into relatable stories has been something that Sharma tries to convey through these writings.
    
21. Friendly Temptation by Elaine Radley - Elaine Radley is the pseudonym for someone named Nancy who was born in Southern California a zilllion years ago. She's been married over two decades, has two great kids and several furry and scaley critters roaming and swimming around her home. She started writing as a kid and was a little too influenced by S.E. Hinton at the tender age of twelve. Writing through school, she hit a wall in early adulthood when life got in the way of a creative mind. Fast forward too many years and she's returned to her original calling with a vengeance. She also decided to go back to school at that time and complete her degree because things just weren't hectic enough.
    
22. Good, Cheap and Healthy: 130 Family Meals We All Love and are Easy on the Budget (Healthy Cookbook Series) by Vesela Tabakova - Vesela Tabakova lives in a green heaven with her family of five, a crazy Jack Russell Terrier, some other dogs and all the birds in the world. Her passion is reading, cooking and preparing homemade beauty products for family and friends willing to experiment.
    
23. Oh Human Child - Walter Donway is a professional writer who is the author of internationally popular "The Price of Hannah Blake" and three other novels as well as short stories and poetry. His novels are for relatively sophisticated readers who enjoy strong plots, psychologically complex characters in complex situations, sex near the edge, and the tight, evocative, perfectly paced style of a poet. His articles and stories have appeared in dozens of publications, including Cosmopolitan, the Wall Street Journal, the Iowa Review, Medical World News, The New Individualist, and Long Island Voices. He Facebook page, "Romantic Revolution Books," is popular with readers who love novels, painting, music, and poetry in the great Romantic tradition. Walter and his wife, Robin, live in New York City's West Village and in East Hampton, Long Island.
    
24. Assured Destruction - After crewing ships in the Antarctic and the Baltic Sea and some fun in venture capital, Michael anchored himself (happily) to a marriage and a boatload of kids. Now he injects his adventurous spirit into his writing with brief respites for research into the jungles of Sumatra and Guatemala, the ruins of Egypt and Tik'al, paddling the Zambezi and diving whatever cave or ocean reef will have him. He is a member of the International Thriller Writers and SF Canada, and the author of the Assured Destruction series, 24 Bones, The Sand Dragon, Hurakan, Ruination and several award winning graphic novels for young adults. His most recent project, The Terminals, has been optioned for television by Sudden Storm Entertainment.
    
25. Sundivers – Sun is a Star Gate! - The author studied English and Mathematics in Northampton, Massachusetts. He took philosophy and psychology courses at UMass. Hector is actively researching Unformed Magnetism, Levitation, Ground Electricity, Darkatron Space and its interdimensional implications. He assumes physical reality to be an illusion created by the motion of space. In his mind (and others) everything is an illusion.
    
26. City With No Name by James Stone - James Stone is a science fiction novelist and short story writer from Maryland. His debut novel, City With No Name, was originally published as a series of shorts before being pooled into one novel length work. James was inspired to write through the works of such great authors as Ray Bradbury, John Steinbeck, Neil Gaiman, Hunter S. Thompson, and Philip K. Dick. When not writing, James can be found working on all manner of Information Technology, browsing the classifieds for his next fantasy project car, or tending bar at home for friends and family. While currently working on more novel-length dystopian fiction, James is also putting the final touches on other short fiction projects to be published in digital format.
    
27. The Man Who Built Boxes and other stories - Frank Tavares has been writing his entire professional life but only began publishing fiction in the mid-2000s. Carving out time before daylight, he’s written more than a dozen short stories that have been published in a variety of literary journals including Louisiana Literature, Connecticut Review, Story Quarterly, and The GW Review. In his day job, Frank is a professor of communication at Southern Connecticut State University. He is also one of the founding editors and active member of the editorial board of The Journal of Radio and Audio Media. For many years, he's also been known to listeners of National Public Radio as “The Voice of NPR.” Frank is just completing his first novel. An excerpt from Digging Up Mr. Bradley can be found in this collection.
    
28. Easy Vegetarian Cooking – with a month’s worth of quick dinner recipes based on Harvard Healthy Eating Plate - Alexandra Beck is a mom with a demanding full-time job, which means that multitasking has become her second nature. She is a social scientist trained in observation, data mining and analysis. Alexandra is also a health-conscious foodie ... who resents spending too much time in the kitchen, because there's only that much free time in a busy person's day. To reconcile her contradictions, Alexandra's approach is to increase cooking productivity through learning, experimentation and innovation.
    
29. THE EAGLE’S COVENANT - Michael Parker was born in 1941 and educated in London and Portsmouth. He left school with no qualifications but a natural ‘bent’ for English, and it was this ability that set him on the path to writing. Michael has written for as long as he can remember, but not with the success he first coveted. His first novel, NORTH SLOPE was published by Macmillan in 1980. His following manuscript, HELL’S GATE was rejected and so began a saga that lasted twenty six years, but more of that later. Michael’s second novel, THE SHADOW OF THE WOLF, was published in 1984 by Robert Hale of London. It was to be many, many years of writing and rejections before he saw his third novel published in 2007. This was HELL’S GATE, the novel he had been trying to get accepted since 1980. Other books followed: THE EAGLE’S COVENANT in 2007 (Robert Hale). THE DEVIL’S TRINITY in 2008 (Robert Hale). In May 2009 THE THIRD SECRET (now available as ROSELLI’S GOLD in Kindle and paperback on Amazon). A COVERT WAR followed that in 2010, and in 2011, THE BOY FROM BERLIN was released, once again published by Robert Hale. It has now been published in North America and Canada in paperback by Harlequin Books. THE EAGLE’S COVENANT will be published by Harlequin Books in November 2013. Michael met his wife Pat when he was sixteen and she was fifteen. They married in 1960, have four sons, ten grandchildren and celebrated their Golden wedding anniversary in January 2010. Michael has worked as an office boy, a Merchant seaman, a plaster’s labourer, a deck hand, a cinema projectionist, an RAF Technician and a maintenance technician in the food industry. He has also worked in the Middle East. In 1997 Michael and Pat moved to Spain and settled on the Costa Blanca. Michael’s hobbies are Football, snooker, and keyboard. He is member of Torrevieja Christian Fellowship (TCF) along with his wife, and used to play keyboard there as a member of the Praise and Worship team. Michael has described his writing hobby as a ‘Sweet curse’. He says that the joy comes from writing a full length novel, living with it, creating the adventure, the characters, the excitement etc., but the curse comes from the number of rejections that are received from almost all the publishers and agents he contacts. But perseverance is the key word, which was the case with HELL’S GATE: twenty six years in trying.
    
30. IMMORTALITY (and other short stories) - Josh Barkey was raised from diapers to diploma in the Amazon; then paid for an English degree by sticking thousands of baby trees into Canadian dirt. Now he lives in a shed in North Carolina, making stuff. He writes, paints, draws, takes photographs, and plays legos with his five-year-old. His most prevalent creative pursuit is currently screenwriting. He's had a few short films produced, and his second feature-length film, KILLING HARPER, is currently a quarter-finalist for the 2013 Nicholl Fellowship -- the most prestigious screenwriting competition in the world.
    
31. The Knight of Her Dreams by Jen Robyn - A good book is food for your imagination. When I was a child, my mother would create bedtime stories that I always looked forward to. In early school, they would give a topic and tell us to write something about it on big block paper. In high school, I wrote short stories to share with my friends, and even wrote a few novels. And in college, I was thrilled when a few poems and a short story I wrote were published by the Tyler Literary Review. Suffice it to say, writing has always been a part of me. From years of reading fantasy and romance novels, an idea came to me while on a car trip with my family. The thought of a girl unsuccessfully finding love, until one day she hears a voice say, "What if you were never destined to marry a man from Earth? Maybe your love will be found among the stars." I then wondered what would happen if such a man from another world did exist, surprising the girl to be the love she'd only dreamed of. And so the Dragons and Dreamphasers series was born. The story of Dominick and Julianna begins with "The Knight of Her Dreams," which takes place both on Earth and a hidden world of magic on the other side of the sun. They are two people from very different worlds who can only meet unconventionally, wishing to find a way to be brought together in reality. If only that was the only obstacle in the way. The story continues in "From Dream to Reality." Happy Reading!
    
32. The Spirit of America:Stories to Recognize the History, Humor and Heritage of Our National Culture - John Rayburn spent several decades in broadcasting. He served as a news/sports anchor and show host on both radio and television. His TV newscast achieved the largest Share of Audience figures of any major-market TV newscast in the nation. His network credits include reports and appearances on The Today Show, Huntley-Brinkley News, Walter Cronkite News, NBC Monitor, NBC News on the Hour, etc. He recorded dozens of books for the National Library Service via the Library of Congress and narrated innumerable Radio/TV recordings, as well as hosting Senior Showcase for nine years on a PBS-TV outlet. He interviewed celebrities from many walks of life, including Ronald Reagan (then SAG President), then-Senator John F. Kennedy, Presidents Richard Nixon and Harry Truman, Bob Hope, Milton Berle, Debbie Reynolds, Mickey Rooney, Arnold Palmer, Jack Nicklaus, Art Linkletter, Hugh Downs, Charlton Heston, Gene Autry, Tommy Dorsey, Stan Kenton, Nat King Cole, Helen Forrest, Stan Musial, Mickey Mantle, Bob Feller, Jack Dempsey, Muhammad Ali, Red Grange, Johnny Unitas, John Elway, Leslie Neilson, Jane Russell, Alex Trebek, and hundreds of others. Rayburn has traveled extensively throughout the nation, plus Europe, the United Kingdom, etc., gaining information and making observations about our national foibles.