This Weeks Featured Authors

Rachael H Dixon

Slippery Souls (Sun Ray Bay Series)

Description: 

Libby has hit a bad patch in life, and just when she thinks things can’t get any worse she's killed in a car accident alongside her dog Rufus. During their transition to the afterlife’s Sunray Bay, Rufus somehow manages to absorb her soul – which, in turn, gives him human-like qualities and renders her soulless.

Accompanied by her now talking dog, Libby tries to unravel the mystery of her slippery soul, encountering many setbacks and dilemmas along the way. She has no idea why a group of monster slayers, headed by an ex-convict, are hunting her down, and when she teams up with rogue Peace & Order Maintenance Officer, Grim, she’s shocked to discover that there’s a mob of disgruntled vampires and a very angry mayor hot on their heels too.

Libby has never felt so unpopular, and begins to wonder whether it’s possible to die twice in one day...

* Suitable for readers 16+ 

Available through Amazon.co.uk

Bio provided by the author.

Rachael H Dixon lives in the northeast of England with her husband Derek and their furry, four-legged son Marvin. She's been writing pretty much ever since she could hold, albeit strangely, a pen, and her favourite subjects are anything to do with horror and/or the paranormal. Her love for the macabre stems from reading James Herbert novels and late nights spent watching black and white Vincent Price films as a young child.

She has a degree in Graphic Design, and when she's not busy writing and reading she enjoys drawing and painting. And, as with lots of other creative types, she loves a glass of red wine now and then.

Amanda Brenner

Tainted Legacy (Sid Langdon)

 

Description:

Sid Langdon, a newly licensed private investigator who wonders how he is going to pay his rent, gets his first case—complete with a corpse and a million dollars in missing jewels. And he is tapped to find the answers by the very man who may be responsible for both! So who done it? Sid wades through a sordid quagmire of blackmail, adultery and betrayal to find the answers—and let the chips fall where they may! It’s Sid’s first case—it might well be his last!

Available through Amazon.com

Bio provided by the author.  

Amanda Brenner is a native Midwesterner who has spent her adult life in the business world. She has traveled extensively throughout the United States, occasionally venturing into Canada and Nova Scotia. Her initial interest in writing started at an early age when westerns were the most popular attractions at the local theater. It seemed only natural that her first novel, Trail of Vengeance, should be in the western genre. In the course of plotting and fleshing out this work she lived at the library, scouring dozens of books for authentic details of life on the frontier in the 1880s. After finishing a second western, Shadow of the Rope, she began to explore a new direction and completed three contemporary mysteries involving a private investigator she created, the latest being The Mystery of the Nourdon Blue.

Randy Morris

Jehovah and Hades

Description:

The brothers, Jehovah and Hades, have always been at the top of their game as a high IQ computer hacker from M.I.T. and an unkillable assassin. When they're contacted by Rick to free a people oppressed by a dictator, both jump at the chance. Once they reach the Philippines, however, they realize that their limited resources and constant attacks sent from an unknown source severely limit their abilities. To make matters worse, the mayor has his own personal army that seems to anticipate their actions. Will they be able to rely solely on their brains and brawn to get the job done?

Jehovah and Hades also includes an introduction for its prequel: The Journals of Jacob and Hyde. 

Available through Amazon.com

Bio provided by the author.

I'm Randy Morris. I was born very close to Death Valley in California, but I grew up in Seattle, WA. I've loved reading and writing since I was a little kid and it's what helped me choose to pursue a bachelors degree in history. I've worked for Best Buy / Geek Squad for the past five years. I served as a missionary for two years in the Philippines and I speak Tagalog fluently. I love to travel and I tend to incorporate places that I've been and experiences that I've had into my writing.

Your Featured Authors This Week.

Damien Darby

 A Fun Interactive Psychological Adventure

 

 Description:

Believe it or not a gentle young man who'd just gotten out of a state psychiatric hospital in Oregon showed me this when I was twelve or thirteen. I don't know where he first learned it but I'll never forget. In fact, the impression it left and the things I discovered will stay with me to the end of my days. Everyone I've shown it to loved it so how could I resist sharing it with you?

I jam packed this eBook with fun, interactive, and psychological content that is meant to inspire, enrich, and enthuse. I know beyond the shadow of doubt that you'll feel invigorated, thankful, and fortunate to have bumped into it. Enjoy!

Available through Amazon.com


Bio provided by the author.

Damien Darby is an enthusiastic and infectious ebook author, a driven personal trainer, and web content provider. He composes regularly on subjects ranging from travel, current events, to health and exercise. His twelve ebooks so far fall in varying genres from Urban Fantasy and Paranormal Romance, to politically driven novels, spiritual adventures, and techno-thrillers. When he isn’t on his backside profusely composing, you’ll find him working out, hiking, jogging every day, and road tripping in the summers.

You can visit him at:http://www.amazon.com/Damien-Darby/e/B006NJCQ8G/ref=ntt_dp_epwbk_0

http://damiendarby.wordpress.com/damiens-ebooks/

Patricia Hunter

Our Master, Caesar

Description :

 A fast-paced novel about GAIUS JULIUS CAESAR, and the people who shared his extraordinary life - Cicero the orator; General Pompey, unwilling to tolerate a rival; crafty Cassius; Servilia, the mother of Brutus; and Cleopatra, prepared to barter her body for the throne of Egypt. 

You can find photos and art on Patricia's Caesar website : www.romanwriter.plus.com

 Available through Amazon.com

Amazon.UK

Linda David

Firestone Crystal

Description:

Agathea Fulstropp is looking forward to a luxury break in the Caribbean with her parents, but is livid when they announce that the trip has to be cancelled due to work commitments!  So instead of spending six weeks sunning herself on a tropical beach, Thea - as she insists on being called - finds herself unceremoniously packed up, and sent off to stay with a grandfather she barely knows for the entire summer! 

But it turns out to be the best summer of her life when her grandfather has a strange reunion with a mysterious childhood friend, and she is given the opportunity of a lifetime.

To visit a world beyond the stars, and become Earth's first student to be enrolled in an experimental Inter-Planetary Education Programme at the Firestone Academy, where lessons in telepathy, mind-reading and astral projection are the norm.

Things, however, are not as straightforward as they seem.  One of her fellow students makes no secret of the fact that he despises her, and will stop at nothing to make her leave…she is having increasingly disturbing, vivid dreams…and just who is that hideously deformed cave creature, and more to the point, what does it want with her?

Available through Amazon.com 

Bio provided by the author.

Linda David is a single mother of two and currently works as a college lecturer in Childcare. She was born in Cyprus in 1967 to parents who both hail from the Caribbean island of Nevis. Much of her childhood was spent moving from place to place as her father was in the RAF (Royal Air Force), so although she was raised mainly in England, she also lived in Germany as well as St Kitts and Nevis in the West Indies. She has always enjoyed reading and was encouraged to do so from a very early age, and that is partly what inspired her to write. Even today she can remember the excitement and wonder she used to experience as a child when reading fantasy and adventure stories, so she hopes that through her own writing, she will be able to inspire and encourage other children's interest and pleasure in reading as well.



You can visit her at: http://www.eternalrainbows.moonfruit.com
 http://www.feedaread.com/books/The-Firestone-Crystal-9781781760079.aspx
 http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Firestone-Crystal-ebook/dp/B006R72MNS

Featured Authors This week

Jess Mountifield

With Proud Humility

Description:

Marie's mother died protecting something, but what? Determined to find answers, Marie is prepared to go to any length to locate her mother’s legacy, even to pursue the man responsible for her death - Black Vane. No price is too dear to Marie, who gambles everything on a marriage of convenience to a ship's captain she knows she can’t trust, but who may be one ally she needs.

This is a historic story of romance and adventure, set on the Caribbean seas of the early 1800's, a tale of betrayal and sacrifice in pursuit of an unknown goal.

This is a clean novel of approx 85,000 words long. 

 Available at Amazon.com

And Smashwords.com

Bio provided by the Author.

Jess was born in the quaint village of Woodbridge, has spent some of her childhood in the States and now resides in the beautiful Roman city of Bath. She lives with her husband Phil and her very dapsy cat, Pleaides. Jess can often be found either in a cafe, grinning behind a large mug of hot chocolate, at her desk, getting annoyed with her cat for sitting on her keyboard, or on her comfy corner sofa with friends, enjoying her high definition tv and surround sound system.

William Amerman

Aries At Dawn

 

Description:

“It was either promote you or fire you,” Jeff’s boss explained. His smile arched wide beneath a sawed-off mustache. His hands twitched on the desk as if longing, aching for violence. Jeff sat across from him, straight in his chair, glad for the physical space between them. This was not your normal boss/employee relationship.

For the past two years, Jeff's life has been a test of endurance. He was a part-time supervisor for Unified Shipping, balancing one simple, relentless equation—-productivity. But his numbers are hopeless. His best employee is trying to sleep with the most vocal feminist on the team. His boss considers it good sport to threaten him daily in at least two different languages. His fiancée seems to be rethinking the marriage thing.

Then fate strikes. A horrific accident scatters debris hundreds of yards across a rain-slicked highway and Jeff is promoted to handle the fallout. He seizes the chance like the only rope out of hell. But there’s a catch to this wonderful promotion. A catch that has the potential to destroy the rest of his life, leaving him with one inevitable decision. And then people start dying. 

Available at Amazon.com

Bio provided by the Author.

William Amerman was born in Houston, Texas and obtained his Bachelors degree in English from The University of Texas - Austin, way back in the last century. He lived in Austin for eight years, then moved to Denver, Colorado to explore the whole "mountain man" lifestyle. In Denver he met a cute Dutch girl on a ski slope, whom he quickly wooed and followed back to her native country, The Netherlands. He married the cute Dutch girl in 1999 and they spent the next 7 years raising two sons and a sadly over-weight hound in a suburb of Amsterdam before moving back to the US in 2003. Their third son was born in 2005.

He received his MBA in Finance from Santa Clara University in 2009 and currently holds a "real" job in Information Technology in order to feed his three sons, but manages to write in the mornings and on weekends. His latest efforts are directed towards finishing a futuristic thriller trilogy based on a simple idea he had one late Saturday morning lying in bed, looking at the sky through a skylight window in the roof; proving that getting up early can be a hazard to creative thinking!

Contact information via email is: wamerman@gmail.comFeel free to contact him to discuss any of his works, writing in general, and especially with offers of pints of Guinness.

Greg Walker

The Way It Is

Description:

Twenty-year old Carson Rhodes leaves his home in Arizona with fifty-thousand dollars cash and a mission - to make sense of his life burdened with extensive port-wine birthmarks...or to end that life if he fails. At a campground in Missouri he meets Karen Hunter, a beautiful hitchhiker that has unwittingly accepted a ride from a local rapist. Carson finds himself thrust into the role of reluctant hero and fends off her attacker, who retaliates by recruiting a psychopath to track them down.

After narrowly escaping the pair, Karen joins Carson on his journey, but a collision with a deer postpones the trip and leads them to an abandoned church camp on the shore of Lake Erie in Pennsylvania. They fall in with a band of young adults trespassing on the property, led by the idealistic Charlie.

At the camp, Carson finds friendship and the stirrings of purpose, but tension between him and a loner named Jonas threatens to escalate into an explosive confrontation. Carson also must deal with his mounting feelings for Karen, even as he struggles to accept that she can never be his.

The Way It Is is a story of hope, betrayal, love, and one man's attempt to find purpose in the face of society's definition of the value of an individual. Will Carson find a new life...or will his journey, his choices, and the consequences lead to his ultimate destruction? 
Available at Amazon.com

Bio provided by the Author.

Greg Walker was born in Corry, Pennsylvania in 1973, and lived in a small village in Northwestern PA until moving to the Pittsburgh area at the age of 13, where he resides today with his wife and three children.

Living in a small, rural community as a child kindled a lifelong love of and connection with the natural world. His first novel, The Way It Is, is set largely against this backdrop, and also plays a part in upcoming works.

Besides writing, he enjoys reading, landscape photography and graphic design.

Visit his website at www.gregorywalker.weebly.com