About Sam Bowring: I'm an Australian author and stand-up comedian. My main genres are fantasy and children’s books. I like to take cliches and tropes of the genre and twist them around in new and interesting ways. I've written plays and for television. I was named after the family cat. I like croissants a lot. Too much, perhaps. What inspires you to write? I have always been somewhat of a show-off, and yet also somewhat lazy. Writing is a great way to show off without actually having to be … [Read more...] about Interview with Author – Sam Bowring
The Sicilian Job – Doing the Business Series Volume 1 by MT-B
The ultimate spaghetti western! Business isn't all about bottom lines, P/E ratios, gross margins, office affairs and IPO's. No Siree! Sometimes it involves avarice, absurdity, paraphilia and an oddly distinctive Prince Albert. Such is the case in this comic tale about the titanic clash between two competing business models, one a Texan telecommunications company (a gung-ho bastion of capitalist gunocracy) the other La Cosa Nostra (a deeply conservative citadel of crime and corruption). … [Read more...] about The Sicilian Job – Doing the Business Series Volume 1 by MT-B
Interview with Author – Nico Reznick
About Nico Reznick: Nico Reznick is a writer and spoken word performer of ambiguous immigrant extraction. Having spent her early life moving around various European countries as a 'corporate army brat', Nico now lives in Shakespeare country with her editor and two feline overlords. She has appeared as a warm-up act for a number of established poets, and is a regular attendee and guest at local spoken word events. Nico's darkly comedic début novel, Anhedonia, and her first collection of … [Read more...] about Interview with Author – Nico Reznick
Buyer’s Guide: The Science of the Lambs by MT-B
Targeted Age Group: Adults with a keen sense of humour Category: Humor (Fiction) Print book price range: $8.99 eBook price range: $3.99 About The Science of the Lambs: The book that puts the "diss" into "dystopia" and where meat really is murder. "The Science of the Lambs" is a witty and topical black comedy about our planets future history over the coming decade. It is the year 2025 and the world is utterly mad. The principal culprits for this outbreak of … [Read more...] about Buyer’s Guide: The Science of the Lambs by MT-B
Interview with Author – MT-B
About MT-B: MT-B is the pseudonym of a successful businessperson currently living in the UK. He was formerly CEO of a pan-European telecommunications company, held a number of senior Marketing, Sales and Strategic Development posts in other ITC companies, built forty eight call centres and has most recently been active in solar farm development and other renewable energy initiatives. Now the poor deluded fool believes that he’s an author! He has lived in Germany, Minnesota, Texas and … [Read more...] about Interview with Author – MT-B
Interview with Author – Marc Richard
About Marc Richard: Marc Richard is an author of horror, love stories, science fiction, and literary fiction that is otherwise unclassifiable. He even authored a semi-autobiographical novel about Borderline Personality Disorder. He promises something to read for every interest. All of his novels are peppered and spiced with his dark, twisted sense of humor. Originally hailing from Rumford Maine, he calls Portland Maine his home. He has an award winning personality, and is very handsome, … [Read more...] about Interview with Author – Marc Richard
Interview with Author – Robert Dodds
About Robert Dodds: Robert Dodds writes for both adults and children and has had books published by Andersen Press (Random House), Polygon, and A&C Black (Bloomsbury). He has also had short stories published by HarperCollins. His latest book is the gripping historical novel for adults, 'The Garden of Earthly Delights', inspired by the work of the 15th Century artist Hieronymus Bosch. His first novel for children, 'The Midnight Clowns' (2000, Andersen Press) was short-listed for the … [Read more...] about Interview with Author – Robert Dodds
What the Hand by Todd Stockwell
This book is bargain priced from 09/04/2014 until 09/11/2014 As the title, pulled from William Blake’s brilliant poem, “The Tyger”, suggests, the story involves the big questions of religion, just as Blake questions the apparent dichotomy of a creator of both good and evil. What the Hand follows the narrative of George Somerset, the reluctant Christian, who finds himself in paradise, having qualified for entrance by a “spider hair”. The book chronicles his life on the “Old Earth” as well as … [Read more...] about What the Hand by Todd Stockwell
