About Mark R. Harris: My name is Mark R. Harris, and I was born in Kentucky, moved to New Jersey as a small boy, and met my wife in college in Pennsylvania. I currently live in Virginia with my wife and three sons, and I teach literature and write as much as I can. I also make hopefully-humorous videos that I post on Youtube. Fire in the Bones is my first novel, and I'm almost done drafting a sequel. I have written articles on literature for journals like Studies in Short Fiction, Cithara, and … [Read more...] about Interview with Author – Mark R. Harris
Buyer’s Guide: The Selene Experiment by Wendy C Giffen
Targeted Age Group: 18 – 75 Category: Science Fiction eBook price range: $2.99 About The Selene Experiment: One Woman holds the Key to a planet’s fate. The new Science Fiction Adventure Romance series by Wendy C Giffen reveals a genetic link with inhabitants of other worlds — long ago a dying star sent humans fleeing across the galaxy. Separated and alone, they discover a gamut of life forms and experiences before they find various places to survive. But not for long: On the planet of … [Read more...] about Buyer’s Guide: The Selene Experiment by Wendy C Giffen
Buyer’s Guide: The Trustee by Wendy C Giffen
Targeted Age Group: 18-75 Category: Science Fiction eBook price range: $0.99 About The Trustee: The Trustee Only $0.99 till the new year! Quiet, work from home, Lela risks all to recover her sister’s daughter’s inheritance so she can raise her, knowing it means a dangerous multi planetary journey she isn’t prepared for…and her true goal must stay a secret. The stakes are very high, nothing less than survival, and only one person she left behind knows just how minuscule her chances … [Read more...] about Buyer’s Guide: The Trustee by Wendy C Giffen
Buyer’s Guide: Show Time by Phil Harvey
Targeted Age Group: 18+ Category: Fiction Print book price range: 15.95 eBook price range: 9.99 About Show Time: Future viewing audiences have become totally desensitized to violence and entirely dependent on sensation to escape their boring workaday lives—an addiction nurtured by the media with graphic portrayals of war and crime and with so-called reality programming. Now, TV execs in pursuit of the only things they care about—higher ratings and bigger paychecks—have created the … [Read more...] about Buyer’s Guide: Show Time by Phil Harvey
I Have Lived Today by Steven Moore
England. 1960s. A cold, harsh autumn. On an isolated island, an abusive man forces his wife to run for her life. Their son Tristan, young and afraid, also flees the island and sets out into the world to escape his demons and find his mother. Hitchhiking beneath the backdrop of a wild and loveless November, Tristan encounters every possible character, from the genuinely kind to the inherently wicked. Beaten, robbed and stripped of even hope, Tristan finds himself on the gritty streets of London’s … [Read more...] about I Have Lived Today by Steven Moore
Approaching Twi-Night by M Thomas Apple
Journeyman relief pitcher Jonathan “Ditch” Klein was all set to be a replacement player during the 1994-1995 baseball strike…until the strike ended. Offered a contract in the minor leagues, playing at the same Upstate NY ballpark he once found success in high school, Ditch has one last chance to prove his worth. But to whom? A manager with an axe to grind, a father second-guessing his pitching decisions, a local sportswriter hailing him as a hometown hero, a decade older than his … [Read more...] about Approaching Twi-Night by M Thomas Apple
Seared by Sandra Gustafsson
Helena is incarcerated. She has crossed the lines, but what has she done? Once a week, Helena see a psychologist and talks with him, and the truth is presented piece by piece. For several years she had a relationship with a man who gave her the courage to live, despite her dark secrets, but she was always "the other woman" and finally Helena's fragile world crashes. We meet Helena in shards: talks with the psychologist interspersed with flashbacks to her childhood and Helena's inner … [Read more...] about Seared by Sandra Gustafsson
You Won’t Remember This by Kate Blackwell
The twelve stories in You Won't Remember This illuminate the lives of men and women who appear as unremarkable as your next-door-neighbor until their lives explode quietly on the page. Kate Blackwell's wry, often darkly funny voice describes the repressed underside of a range of middle-class characters living in the South. Blackwell’s focus is elemental—on marriage, birth, death, and the entanglements of love at all ages—but her gift is to shine a light on these universal situations with such … [Read more...] about You Won’t Remember This by Kate Blackwell
Interview with Author – Kameel Nasr
About Kameel Nasr: Kameel Nasr is the author of THE WORLD UP CLOSE, which details parts of his bicycle tour around the world. He is a tango dancer, art and music connoisseur, and the creator of the Curiosity Foundation which aims to promote international tolerance and sustainability. What inspires you to write? My writing has been diverse, including how-to books, a personal account of international bike travels, an academic book of Middle East terrorism, and now a Boston-based cozy mystery … [Read more...] about Interview with Author – Kameel Nasr
Interview with Author – Mike C. Erickson
About Mike C. Erickson: About the Author Mike C. Erickson’s birth and early education took place in the idyllic college town of Logan, Utah, but because of a twist of fate he graduated from high school in Honolulu. He left Hawaii brimming with aloha and enrolled at Utah State, where he was awarded two degrees and self-proclaimed minor intellectual status, which was of dubious value when the US Army invited him to vacation in South-East Asia. Ten days after leaving Vietnam, he began decades of … [Read more...] about Interview with Author – Mike C. Erickson
New Sun Rising: Two Stories by Lindsay Edmunds
This "appetizer" book is inexpensive in terms of both money (99 cents) and time (43 pages on the Kindle). The year is 2199; the place, the Reunited States. Kedzie Greer grew up in paradise: a small lakeside community with utopian ideals. But on turning sixteen — the age of legal adulthood in 2199 — Kedzie decides she has had enough of paradise. Story 1, “The Town With Four Names,” is about Kedzie's idyllic hometown, which has survived against all odds for more than three hundred years. … [Read more...] about New Sun Rising: Two Stories by Lindsay Edmunds
Buyer’s Guide: Monte Vista Village by Lynn Lamb
Targeted Age Group:: 18+ Category: Science Fiction Print book price range: $12.99 About Monte Vista Village: GROWTH IS HARD, BUT STAGNATION MEANS DEATH! “Lynn Lamb knocks the ball clean out of the park with her debut book. Simply put- Stellar read.” Diane L, Top 500 Amazon Reviewer THE APOCALYPSE— WOULD YOU SURVIVE? I’m Laura, and I survived global nuclear war. When I walked out into the devastated landscape, I didn’t find zombies, witches or vampires— what I found was infinitely … [Read more...] about Buyer’s Guide: Monte Vista Village by Lynn Lamb
