About One Sip at a Time: a Memoir

Rita was born as a child of The Great Depression, a “mistake” on a failing farm in Nebraska, the fifth child of a destitute father nearly 70 years old. She grew up thinking she was unremarkable but all who engaged with her thought otherwise: she was remarkable in every way from her beauty to her wit to her insouciance to her skilled copywriting.

She began her career by writing liner notes for Capitol Records, casually “hanging out” with Frank Sinatra, Tony Bennett, Elvis Presley and other mega stars, simply enjoying their rehearsals and recording sessions, attending the Academy Awards numerous times as one of their guests. From there, she made her way over to NYC after a brief (and odd) interlude in Minneapolis.

Once in the city, Rita joined every leading marketing agency from Tinker’s Thinkers to Doyle, Dane & Bernbach to J.W. Thompson and more, surviving the Mad Men era of three martini lunches and ass-slapping. She became legendary for her perfume ads, launching the field with her provocative work for the House of Caron, Fleurs de Rocaille perfume (1963). The tagline, “Lead him down the garden path and lock the gate” was so risqué at the time that Time magazine and The New York Times banned the ads unless she removed “lock the gate”.

Next, the launch of Norell (1969), the first designer perfume where her tagline “Every time is the first time” still runs today, five decades later. She helped catalyze the “London Look” by introducing the model Jean Shrimpton to an American audience with Yardley perfumes and cosmetics.

Rita ascended the ranks quickly and was recruited by Revlon to become their first female vice president. There, she worked with Lauren Hutton to launch Charlie, a women’s perfume, and Chaz, a men’s cologne. Chaz featured a man with a manly moustache that American women were soon swooning for: one year after the ad campaign, Tom Selleck was cast as Magnum P.I. Rita was married twice to older, divorced men with children, defied stereotypes and went back to work after having children of her own and was one of the first to pay “manimony” to her ex-husband who was less successful than herself.

Rita enjoyed her life just as she enjoyed her martinis – one sip at a time. That was Rita, and this is her story.

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Growing up, I was that nerdy kid who loved playing with frogs and bugs so the pursuit of a path in biology happened quite naturally. But I loved writing! If only I could find a career that let me do both…

Enabled with a PhD in molecular biology from Queen’s University with research conducted at Case Western Reserve University along with a Masters in physiology from the University of Toronto, I initially set out on a path to advance science. Along the way, I learned that I preferred sharing information, guiding others and writing about my observations versus being at the bench. Not to mention the fact that I was accidentally exposed to a lot of radiation in a new lab that shouldn’t have been certified so quickly and that didn’t turn out so well for me.

The duality of my career as a scientist then as an author and journalist is hardly a surprise. Curiosity is at the core of both. However, being curious is only one part of the equation. Being a storyteller is the other.

Once I tapped into my “special sauce” of simplifying complex information into digestible bits intended for a broad audience, I was on my way. I’ve been part of the leadership teams for a Fortune 10 and a couple of Fortune 100s driving market research, innovation and marketing. I’ve also worked for and managed a number of startups and helped many of them launch, including a couple of my own. Today, I ghost-write for countless clients helping them tell their stories. In my spare time (haha – read “I never sleep”), I run a podcast, Women-in-Tech LIKE A BOSS and write a weekly Monday motivation and Friday wine down and chill column (GritDaily.com), among other content that features femTech and the achievements of its founders plus investors.

Two novels have been published under my name. My first, “One Sip at a Time: a Memoir,” won the 2018 US National Indie Book Gold Medal. “COVID-19: The Battle for Humanity” is my second novel.

I live in a busy household just outside of NYC (yes, on the Jersey side) with a wonderful man who likes wine just about as much as I do, together with two amazing wish-they-were-mine teenagers, two rescue dogs and a bunch of fish that swim mindlessly in a ridiculously large tank that is perilously perched above all of our home electronics. It’s a pretty average life, but I’ll take it.

About LIVING WITH LUPUS

Hello! Welcome to “Living with Lupus”.
Lupus is a disease of the immune system. Once a patient has been diagnosed with Lupus, they will be wondering how to live a normal life, when everything they have read makes it seem like that won’t be possible. Learn about the best things a person with Lupus can do to have a great life.
In this step-by-step guide, you will understand the disease, the person having such disease, and adapt to the situation.
Now you can take control of lupus and begin living a healthier, better life—today! This thoughtful, cutting-edge book can help you manage the flare-ups, symptoms, and side effects of lupus and put you back on the path to a more enjoyable, active lifestyle. Inside is compassionate, practical, and immediate guidance for anyone affected by lupus
If you or anyone you know is suffering from Lupus or any other autoimmune disease and you’re interested in getting back in the driver’s seat, this is the guide for you.
Here’s what makes this book special:
• Introduction & History of Lupus
• Causes & Symptoms of Lupus
• Lupus is not Contagious
• Do it yourself: Lupus Management
• Types of Lupus
• Daily Challenges of Living Happily with Lupus
• Living with Lupus with Grace and Courage
• Great Ideas to Deal with Lupus
• Much, much more!
This book is a comprehensive guide to alternative methods of healing for this pervasive ailment. You will experience self-esteem, emotional wellbeing, and proven, practical tips from the inside-out.

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Sanjida Ali Tithi was born in Dhaka, Bangladesh. She is a writer by passion and also a Social Media Expert. She is working as a Social Media Manager with different organizations. Her interests in Affiliate Marketing and Designing. She enjoys Writing and Designing new content.

About The Blind Will See: A Pride and Prejudice Variation, Regency Romance by Laraba Kendig

This is a low angst, clean, sweet Regency romance of 70,000 words (280 pages).

George Wickham joined the militia in Meryton to enjoy the company of handsome ladies and perhaps win a well dowered wife of his own. Instead, he is wounded in a training accident a few days after his arrival.
Miss Elizabeth Bennet, distressed on Mr. Wickham’s behalf, confronts Mr. Darcy, the man she believes dishonorably deprived Wickham of a valuable living in the church. She learns, to her shock, that the handsome militia man had been thoroughly dishonest about his former dealings with the handsome master of Pemberley.
With many false beliefs swept away, and a wounded and disfigured Mr. Wickham contemplating his life choices, beloved characters from Pride and Prejudice find themselves on a new trajectory for their lives. For when the Almighty shines His light into the lives of men and women, the blind will see.

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Laraba is a scientist by training, but a writer at heart. She writes stories similar to the ones she enjoys reading. They are interesting but light, romantic but not steamy. She is a super fan of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice, and has been having a wonderful time writing P&P variations, exploring how new circumstances affect the beloved characters. Her books include ‘I am Jael’ and ‘The Blind Will See’.

About Life, Loss and Love

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Susan Nicholson lives in Canberra the Capital of Australia and writes straight from her heart and likes to write about social justice issues. She gives a raw and honest account and writes so the average person on the street can relate!

Invisible Goodbye by Tierney James

On a calm moonless night, a Singapore airliner carrying several hundred passengers, including twenty of America’s top scientists and engineers, disappears over the Indian Ocean without a trace. Then one day an Enigma agent hiking through the Siberian forests of Russia, finds one of the scientists…alive.
Petrov hates Enigma, the secret intelligence organization that nearly destroyed his life, but duty drives him to inform the US Government he has located the missing scientists. Time is running out to orchestrate a rescue mission and destroy the technology given to the Russians. Petrov’s prize is reuniting with Tessa Scott, who he met in Afghanistan two years earlier and must face an old enemy. He has no qualms about destroying the one person who stands in his way, Captain Chase Hunter.
With her marriage on the rocks, Tessa decides to travel to Russia and assist the new ambassador. Change gives her clarity of what the future will hold as a single mom. When Petrov finds her in the clutches of a sadistic Russian general, she is more than willing to follow him into the wilds of Siberia.
Captain Hunter and his team design an escape plan for the American scientists and hope they don’t start WWIII in the process. Forced to put his hatred of Petrov aside, they work together to ensure military superiority stays in the hands of the US. He soon learns the cost of doing business with his enemy, might mean losing Agent Tessa Scott.

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Tierney James decided to become a full-time writer after working in education for over thirty years. Besides serving as a Solar System Ambassador for NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab, and attending Space Camp for Educators, Tierney served as a Geo-teacher for National Geographic. Her love of travel and cultures took her on adventures throughout Africa, Asia and Europe. From the Great Wall of China to floating the Okavango Delta of Botswana, Tierney weaves her unique experiences into the adventures she loves to write. Living on a Native American reservation and in a mining town, fuels the characters in the Enigma and Wind Dancer series.
After moving to Oklahoma, the love of teaching continued in her marketing and writing workshops along with the creation of educational materials and children’s books. Try some of her other books to bring a little adventure to your life. http://www.tierneyjames.com Speaking at book clubs, school functions, church and community groups are a few of the things Tierney enjoys doing when not writing her next adventure. She also helps beginning writers in their quest to becoming a published author through her workshops and classes. Family, two adopted dogs and gardening fill her life with plenty of laughter to share with others.
Tierney has been an Amazon #1 Best Selling author and won awards at the Annual Ozark Creative Writer’s Conference as well as the Sleuths’ Ink Mystery Writers.

About Waking Up in Medellin

Nikki Garcia, an American woman, arrives in Medellin, Colombia to investigate allegations of fraud against the General Manager of Amazonia Steel, a local affiliate of the multi-national corporation where she works. In her ensuing investigative work, she connects two accidental deaths at the Company to a much darker plot involving the man under investigation. To help with the investigation, she hires a former CIA operative to assist her. Nikki also meets a medical doctor she soon finds herself falling in love with until she is kidnapped and wonders if he is also part of the sinister plot threatening her life.

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Kathryn Lane, award-winning author of the Nikki Garcia Thriller series, sets her novels in foreign countries and her short stories in exotic places.
Kathryn credits her imagination to growing up in Mexico, a country which was rich in storytelling and steeped in cultural traditions. Her creativity was first expressed by painting in oils and when reality of earning a living set in, she studied accounting and finance, and joined a multinational corporation where she attained her dream job of traveling abroad.
After two decades in the corporate world and having visited over 90 countries, Kathryn left to fulfill a second dream – writing mystery and suspense novels.
Fans of strong female protagonists and suspenseful stories are likely to enjoy Kathryn’s work. The Nikki Garcia thrillers include:
Revenge in Barcelona – the latest release in the Nikki Garcia Thriller series. Finalist in the 2020 Eric Hoffer Book Awards. Also, Finalist in the Next Generation Book Awards for 2020.
Waking Up in Medellin – named Best Fiction Book of the Year 2017 by Killer Nashville. Also available in Spanish edition “Despertando en Medellin”
Danger in the Coyote Zone – first place winner in the Action/Adventure category in Latino Books into Movies 2018. It was also a finalist in the Thriller category at Killer Nashville 2018.
Kathryn’s short story collection, Backyard Volcano and Other Mysteries of the Heart, was named Best Short Story Collection 2018 by Killer Nashville.
Kathryn and her husband, Bob Hurt, split their time between Texas and the mountains of northern New Mexico.

How to Write, Publish, and Promote a Novel by Florence Osmund

If you are a new or aspiring writer with a story inside of you aching to get out but don’t know where to start, you’ve picked up the right book. “How to Write, Publish, and Promote a Novel” will take you through all the steps required to make your writing credible, engaging, and marketable.

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After a long career in the corporate world, Florence Osmund retired to write novels. “I strive to write literary fiction and endeavor to craft stories that challenge readers to survey their own beliefs and values,” Osmund states. Florence’s “How to Write, Publish, and Promote a Novel” and website www.florenceosmund.com offer substantial advice for new and aspiring writers including how to begin the project, writing techniques, building an author platform, book promotion and more. Florence continues to write where she lives on a small, tranquil lake in northern Illinois.

About Swim Move

From a USA TODAY bestselling author! It was a random crime on a dark Beverly Hills street. Or were the victims targeted?

When an old friend from high school shows up in P.I. Burnside’s office for help, neither have any idea that this case will spiral into fraud, kidnapping and murder. But as Burnside begins looking into his friend’s beautiful daughter, he uncovers more and more people who have a dispute with her – and a reason to inflict harm.

Burnside’s investigation takes readers on a harrowing journey through the best and worst of Los Angeles. Burnside navigates his way with a little help from some pro football players, and is forced to work around detectives from multiple police departments, who would prefer this case would just go away. And as Burnside unravels the mystery, SWIM MOVE builds to a pulsating climax, and will leave the reader hungry for more!

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David Chill is a USA TODAY Bestselling author. He was born and raised in New York City, and after receiving his undergraduate degree from SUNY-Oswego, he moved to Los Angeles where he earned a Masters degree from the University of Southern California. David Chill is the author of eleven novels in the Burnside Mystery Series, which feature a wise-cracking private investigator, who was a former LAPD officer and college football star.

The first Burnside novel, Post Pattern, was a an award winner in the Private Eye Writers of America contest for New Mystery Writers. The Burnside mystery series has received much critical acclaim, and all of his books have spent time on the Amazon best seller lists for mystery novels. David has also written a stand-alone political suspense novel, titled Curse Of The Afflicted, which details the journey of a political operative who is diagnosed with cancer, just as career is about to take off.

David Chill currently lives in Los Angeles with his wife and son. He is a big supporter of the USC Trojan football team.

About Can You Hear Me, Daddy?

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Renee keeps a diary after she finds out her daddy is sick with cancer. She even starts praying and asking God to make him better. But, what if he doesn’t get any better? She is worried that she won’t be able to talk to her daddy after he has gone, but her daddy encourages her to keep talking to him, no matter what.

“But how will I know if you can hear me?” she asks.
“Just have faith,” her daddy answers.

Even as he becomes sicker and weaker, she learns about the meaning of faith and sees how we can still have peace, hope and joy during such a difficult time.

It is not easy to talk to your kids about the difficult and uncomfortable topics of death, loss and grief. Hopefully, with this book, readers can be uplifted and learn about how faith in Christ can bring us peace and comfort, knowing that death is not the end, but the beginning of an eternity with our Father in Heaven.

This beautifully illustrated book aims to help families, schools and communities start conversations about death and grief by bringing hope and comfort. Death is a topic that is all too often avoided, yet it is inevitable in all our lives. We need to start having open and honest conversations with our children and loved ones to prepare for such times as these, to be able to cope with loss and grief, which can stay with us for a long time. It is important to find a way out of the darkness and sadness we will inevitably feel.

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Y.Y. Chan was born in Hong Kong but grew up in sunny Brisbane, Australia where she had Christmas during summer. She returned to Hong Kong to teach English after graduating from university. When her father passed away, she took a break from teaching to travel, read, and write. She now tutors English and works freelance for different educational institutes.

Her best writing comes out late at night when everyone else is asleep. ‘Can You Hear Me, Daddy?’ is her debut picture book. When she is not writing or teaching, she is either reading or looking for more books to add to her overflowing bookshelf.

About Familiar

For as long as she can remember, Arabella has communicated with those who exist only in memory.

Being the centre of attention growing up was uncomfortable, and now, as a renowned psychic medium, it is becoming more of a struggle. Arabella’s ability and reputation always made it impossible to hold onto lasting relationships, but with those who no longer walk this earth, that’s not the case.

Arabella returns to where it all began fifteen-years before – on the very same stage. After an evening reconnecting loved ones and exposing untold stories, Arabella can’t help but wonder about the one unclaimed ‘friend’, and their cryptic message.

In an unexpected turn of events, Arabella finds herself the subject of morning headlines and at the centre of Detective Barnes’ investigation.

Can Arabella use her ability to prove her innocence and uncover the truth about the past?

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Some say that T. J. Blake has many split personalities – by day he’s a content marketing specialist, by night he could be anyone of his characters.

Blake is author of the five star psychological thriller, ‘DECEPTION – A Love of Lies’.

“Clever writing. Genuinely smart. It tells me we’re in the hands of an author who knows what he’s doing,” Damien Seaman – Amazon review

His titles are available to read free through Kindle Unlimited.

Blake on his writing process – “When I go over my plot, I critique as a harsh and predictive reader. I don’t want a reader to guess what is going to happen before it happens that just ruins the fun, right?”

About The Trouble With Charlie

A mind-bending story of one teen’s descent into madness and another teen’s quest to prevent an unspeakable tragedy.

Fifteen-year-old Charlie Simpson is a ticking time bomb. If somebody doesn’t stop him, he is going to explode. Fellow student Sam Caffey has never met Charlie, but he’s been watching him. He knows that Charlie is dangerous, and he knows that if he doesn’t act fast, people are going to die.

But the more Sam learns about the enigmatic Charlie, the more he begins to question his own sanity. He wants to stop Charlie. He wants to tell somebody that Charlie has killed and is going to kill again. But he can’t. Something in his head won’t let him. Is Charlie controlling Sam’s thoughts? Or is Sam losing his mind?

Sam has seen Charlie kill, but nothing can prepare him for what Charlie is about to do next. Charlie wants revenge. He wants to kill everybody who has ever wronged him. Can Sam stop Charlie? Or will he be forced to join him?

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Kenneth Preston is the author of “The Perfect Moment Trilogy,” “The Clone Problem,” and “The Trouble With Charlie.” He was born and raised on Long Island and studied English at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. From literature to television to film, the myriad tales that painted his cultural landscape inspired him to begin writing his own stories. His first novel, “The Passing of Each Perfect Moment (The Perfect Moment Trilogy, Book 1) was published in 2015.

About The Unpopular Sheriff

Sheriff Pete’s job is to protect the citizens. But, they hate his guts. They think crime is rising. They don’t feel safe. And now there’s a mafia assassin lurking in town. Ride along with Kansas law…as Sheriff Pete stands off against his doubters and a murderous mafia in the dusty, deadly plains of the Midwest.

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Andrew Allan has written several #1 Rank Amazon books, including the popular Walt Asher and Sheriff Pete series. When he’s not writing he directs infomercials and cult movies and runs the movie website DailyGrindhouse.com. He lives with his family in Clearwater, Florida. He enjoys hearing from readers and can be contacted at AndrewAllanBooks.com. It’s well worth a visit.

About Comfort for the Grieving Spouse’s Heart: Hope and Healing After Losing Your Partner

This loss changes everything. How do we get through this? Who are we now? What’s next? Is healing even possible?

Oblivious to our suffering, the world around us speeds on as if nothing happened. Stunned, shocked, sad, confused, and angry, we blink in disbelief. Our hearts are broken. Our souls shake.

We look for comfort. Our broken, grieving hearts need it to survive.

Multiple award-winning author, hospice chaplain, and grief counselor Gary Roe is a trusted voice who has been helping wounded, grieving hearts find hope and healing for more than three decades. Written with heartfelt compassion, this warm, easy-to-read, and practical book reads like a caring conversation with a friend and will become a comforting companion as you navigate the turbulent waters of grief.

Gary’s desire is to meet you in your grief and walk with you there. Composed of brief chapters, Comfort for the Grieving Spouse’s Heart is designed to be read one chapter per day, giving you bite-sized bits of comfort, encouragement, and healing over a period of time.

In Comfort for the Grieving Spouse’s Heart, you will discover how to…
* Process complicated grief emotions (sadness, anger, guilt, confusion, guilt, anxiety, depression, feeling overwhelmed, etc).
* Navigate all the relational changes – feeling alone, misunderstood, isolated, and even rejected by those around you.
* Handle the increased stress and uncertainty that this heavy loss can bring.
* Deal with physical and mental health issues, illnesses, and new symptoms that often arise.
* Take care of yourself through diet, hydration, fitness, and rest.
* Deal with a myriad of practical issues (financial challenges, parenting, family activities)
* Handle the intense, deep loneliness that often comes with this loss.

You will also find hope in how to…
* Think through the challenging spiritual and faith questions that frequently surface.
* Relate well to the people around you – those who are helpful and those who aren’t.
* Overcome the tendency to run from emotional pain with unhealthy habits or compulsive behaviors.
* Deal well with triggers and the grief bursts that will come.
* Find the support you need for survival, recovery, and healing (safe people, fellow grievers, counseling, etc.).
* Develop a simple, realistic plan for birthdays, anniversaries, and holidays.
*Use your grief for good – for yourself, your family, and others.
*Allow this loss to give you greater perspective and motivate you to live more effectively than ever before.
*Make your life count, one day, one moment at a time.

Please don’t grieve alone. Let Comfort for the Grieving Spouse’s Heart join you on this arduous, tasking journey. Be kind to yourself. Take your heart seriously.

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Multiple award-winning author, speaker, and grief specialist Gary Roe is a compassionate and trusted voice in grief-recovery who has been bringing comfort, hope, encouragement, and healing to hurting, wounded hearts for more than 30 years.

Gary is the author of more than a dozen books, including the award-winning bestsellers Shattered: Surviving the Loss of a Child, Heartbroken: Healing from the Loss of a Spouse, Please Be Patient, I’m Grieving, and Teen Grief: Caring for the Grieving Teenage Heart. Gary has been featured on Dr. Laura, Wellness.com, Beliefnet, CBN, The Daily Positive, Thrive Global, and other major media and has well over 700 grief-related articles in print. He is a popular keynote, conference, and seminar speaker at a wide variety of venues.

A former college minister, missionary in Japan, entrepreneur in Hawaii, and pastor in Texas and Washington, Gary now serves as a writer, speaker, chaplain, and grief counselor with Hospice Brazos Valley in central Texas. Gary loves being a husband and father. He has seven adopted children. He enjoys hockey, corny jokes, good puns, and colorful Hawaiian shirts. Gary and his wife Jen and family live in Texas.

About WAR PEACE LOVE by Bobby Price

The debut poetry collection is divided into three parts: WAR, PEACE, and LOVE. Each chapter within invites you to experience the journey of self doubt, questioning love, the determination to be more, and the happiness of peace that all humans long for.

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Bobby Price works in Corporate America, the bastion of a civilized society. In order to keep his sanity within an undulating barrage of corporate-speak, he rescinds into a time when words meant power, freedom, and honesty.
Back in 2010, he was given a second chance after receiving a kidney transplant due to kidney disease. The poetry collection has been a dream in the making for years. Now it’s a reality that has come to past.

About The Gallipoli Evacuation by Peter Hart

The evacuation of Gallipoli was a life or death gamble. The expedition to wrest the Narrows from the Turks had failed, Constantinople remained an impossible dream. Now in December 1915, some 135,000 men, nearly 400 guns and 15,000 horses/mules were collectively trapped in the bridgeheads at Anzac, Suvla and Helles. The invaders found themselves caught in a nightmare scenario: they could not advance, but how was it possible to retreat from trenches overlooked by the Turks? Who would take the responsibility for the hard decisions to be taken? The soldiers? Or the vacillating politicians busy ‘passing the buck’ back home in London? With every day that passed the Turks moved up more guns, threatening to blast to pieces the flimsy piers, breakwaters and blockships that acted as makeshift harbours to feed and supply tens of thousands of men. And winter was coming. But the evacuation plans were brilliant, especially the early introduction of ‘silent periods’ to confuse the Turks. But it was still a damn close-run thing. A spell of bad weather in the final days might have destroyed the flimsy piers, leaving thousands trapped helpless should the Turkish guns open up and their infantry swarm over No Man’s Land. This then is the story of how the Gallipoli garrison escaped to fight another day.

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Peter Hart spent 39 years as the oral historian at the Sound Archive of the Imperial War Museum in London interviewing veterans about their experiences. He has written several acclaimed books on the First World War, with his latest work – The Gallipoli Evacuation – focused on telling the story of the last few months of the Allies’ Gallipoli and Dardanelles campaign. Peter Hart uses direct quotes from Gallipoli veterans themselves to bring to life the experience of this campaign.

About Written: A Story of Love, Secrets, Betrayal and Honour

What if your entire existence was based on someone else’s story, someone else’s dreams, someone else’s expectations ….someone else’s lies?
Written is the heart-wrenching story of a young girl’s struggle for freedom, and the uncovering of an intricate plan laced around forty years of secrets, betrayal and lies, in a family desperate to preserve their culture and honour.

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D.A. Lee is a Bangladeshi-born British author, artist and poet, best known for her Novel 'Written' published in 2019. Raised in a small town in Lancashire, England, Lee describes the cultural challenges of growing up in a Bengali household whilst navigating a western world.

Lee's Novel whilst fictional, draws on many of her own experiences of growing up in a Muslim family and explores the underworld of cultural expectations, arranged marriages, honour, abuse and domestic violence that often limit women's choices.

Lee first started writing as a form of self-healing through the challenges of home life. The word 'Written' had become a poignant theme throughout the book, a word often expressed culturally to describe the notion of determinism and predestination adopted by most traditional Muslim families as a way of life. Lee takes us on a journey through her character Eleanor, a young girl caught between a web of family secrets and lies where she comes into conflict with these values.

Today Lee is an advocate for women's freedom of choice and encourages women to speak out and seek help if they feel they are in danger.

About Solar Rift : 2120

“Solar Rift : 2120” tells two thrilling tales of realistic science-fiction and cyberpunk espionage, set in the asteroid belt and on Earth a century into the future.

On Earth, the private investigator and infiltration expert, Raz Kadir, and his business partner, the flamboyant Japanese hacker Namazu, take a job for the up-and-coming Viator Engineering and Logistics company. With their first job ending up as a bumpy ride, things start spiraling out of control when they’re asked to blur the boundaries of legality and morality. Before long, the pair are lost in the murky and deadly world of inter-corporate warfare and need to use all of their cunning in order to keep their freedom.

In the asteroid belt beyond Mars, pilot and navigator Zarina Verma and her two fellow crew-mates are coming to the end of their two-year tour of duty. Responding to problems that automated droneships fail to take care of, the crew encounters a destroyed mining station belonging to their employers, the TKR Corporation. As the mystery unfolds, the mission not only begins to strain their friendship but tests their mettle against an ever-increasing threat.

“Solar Rift : 2120” is a pair of novella-length stories that serve as a standalone book or as a prologue to the upcoming, full-length novel “Solar Rift : 2121.”

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Steve Rivers is a thoroughly un-British Englishman. He dislikes tea, hates cricket, and has rather decent teeth. (Although he does adore football)

He also writes – and he has been writing for fun since childhood. From the epic adventures of "Back to the Go-Kart," which involved all of his friends time-traveling in a complete rip-off, to awful Star Trek fanfiction and Star Wars online adventures in his teens.

Now, he is a full-time novelist, and is fast becoming known as "That guy chipping away at the mountain with his teaspoon." Solar Rift is the culmination of an idea that has been growing for over fifteen years now, bubbling away and taking on a life of its own. It merges together everything he loves about science-fiction, classic 80's and 90's movies, espionage and crime thrillers, to cyberpunk and Machiavellian intrigue.

With his trusty writing-partner, Jasmin Joachims, he has currently just finished writing the novella prologue to the series, 2120, and is already two-thirds through the huge first novel, 2121. With the series likely to run to at least five full-length novels, Steve may well get through more than a couple of spoons.

About Frogs Don’t Croak In The Winter

Private Eye Bob Roosevelt, once again not finding the love of his life, heads for the north country in December. His guardian angel tells Roosevelt he is an idiot and most sane people head to Florida or California in the winter. Roovelt ends up in Minnesota and falls smack dab in the middle of a gambling ring, a coven of witches, a priest who likes good whiskey, a lady who has lost her heart, and a little boy that needs a friend. To top it off there is a frozen body and two murdered cats. A snowmobile ride through humor and murder and a cast of characters your mother warned you about.

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Author Bio:
Robert K. Swisher, Jr. has been writing contemporary fiction since 1967. During this time seven of his novels were published by SUNSTONE PRESS ranging from young adult, contemporary, to historical fiction. Seven of these books are still in print of which three have been converted to e-books. He has received raving reviews from Publishers Weekly, Library Journal, Best Sellers, Midwest Book Review, and numerous others. Over the past several years OPEN TALON PRESS has released a highly acclaimed four book comedy mystery series about a Vietnam vet and his not so nice Guardian Angel, a hilarious golf book, an off center love story, two literary novels, a highly acclaimed reader participation novel and its sequel, and a tongue in cheek writing instructional book based on a course he taught that goes against the grain of what most creative writing instructors hold as dear. Swisher’s novels can be found on Amazon, your local bookstore, Author Central, Facebook, and Goodreads. He can be reached via his Facebook page. At the moment two fiction novels are being edited, he is working on a third, and a contemporary fiction novel, THE LONELY COWBOY, will soon be released by OPEN TALON PRESS.

About Camerica: Diaries Of My Time Online

Read the chronicled diary entries of 20-year-old Ashley Foley, as she navigates her way through a summer filled with webcamming adventures.

Readers will follow along as she creates her social media presence, discovers her sexual prowess and romances her boyfriend, Erik. They will also soon discover that she equally finds herself playing online with her best friend in the world, Karyn.

At-times comical, this story is written under the narrative of a frisky, foul-mouthed, geeky nerd who just wants to have a little fun while being home for the summer.

— Learn how to perfume a pair of panties properly. — Read up on the ins and outs of anal sex. — Discuss the struggles that go with becoming a webcam model.

As Ashley learns the trade, so will readers of her diary.

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Located in Southern California, Teddi Lee is a short story writer who enjoys taking real-world experiences and putting them in to conversational story form.

All of Teddi’s stories are based on real incidences – either experienced in person or shared by a close network of friends.

This type of eroticism has been enjoyed by female and male audiences alike.

Never shy, these stories explore what really goes on when primal human instincts take over.

About The Covenant

For many years it waits for the one.

A dark unexplored cavern waits in the rocky hills of the Welsh mountains where five friends take the plunge and delve into the unknown. Something sinister waits for them, biding its time when it can finally take what’s theirs.

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L.A.Griffiths lives in the UK where he has written his first ever book in the upcoming Siren Series. Broken is his first debut novel into the dark side of the supernatural where anything can happen. He has been writing at a very young age, turning anything into a story to keep him entertained. When not writing, his time is taken up by his two dogs, Challo and Ffi.