Savage Hills…where survival is incidental to the mission, and the mission just became ten thousand times harder. The Republic’s kids were soft. Technology had made them weak. Pushbutton war was a great concept, and indeed had let them steamroll many a weaker nation. But the Regulators weren’t made for this kind of war. The kind that required an iron will and a reservoir of endurance. Legions of troops would have been helpful too, but the Republic had been too decimated from years of … [Read more...]
Interview with Author – Hamish Adourian
About Hamish Adourian: I was born in Dundee, some of my earliest memories being of the windswept, rainy beaches off the east coast of Scotland. I grew up mainly in the ‘oil town’ of Grangemouth on the Firth of Forth, with brief spells in London and Oxford, and a couple of years in Florence, Italy. I moved down to London with my family in my mid-teens and have lived here ever since, though I of course regularly travel back to Scotland and enjoy exploring the different regions of Italy. I … [Read more...]
Interview with Author – Jim Hodgson
About Jim Hodgson: Jim Hodgson started writing in the mid 90s, after high school. When his adoptive mother passed in 2006, he turned to his writing as a means of coping with her loss. From there it became an invaluable part of his life. He’s the founder and editor of The Atlanta Banana, a satirical newspaper. He’s worked as a standup comic and as a sketch writer for Sketchworks. His work has been published in Georgia Music Magazine, Creative Loafing, The Art of Manliness, Dirge Magazine, … [Read more...]
Appaloosa Summer by Tudor Robins
Sixteen-year-old Meg Traherne has never known loss. Until the beautiful, talented horse she trained herself, drops dead underneath her in the show ring. Jared Strickland has been living with loss ever since his father died in a tragic farming accident. Meg escapes from her grief by changing everything about her life; moving away from home to spend her summer living on an island in the St. Lawrence River, scrubbing toilets and waiting on guests at a B&B. Once there, she meets … [Read more...]
Heronk by Ronald Richards @creativiapub
This book is bargain priced from 09/15/2014 until 09/21/2014 Meet Gustav, a wooden goose decoy whose quest begins with his "creation" at the hands of an old German craftsman in Illinois, 1930. Over the course of the next half century he is pulled along by the current of rivers, pushed by the energy of providence and influenced by the power of the human spirit. Through many travels and unexpected travails, his story offers a unique and insightful glimpse into the world of the waterfowler. … [Read more...]
Interview with Author – Karen Musser Nortman @RVmysteryauthor
Author Bio: Karen Musser Nortman, after previous incarnations as a secondary social studies teacher (22 years) and a test developer (18 years), returned to her childhood dream of writing a novel. Karen and her husband Butch originally tent camped when their children were young and switched to a travel trailer when sleeping on the ground lost its romantic adventure. They take frequent weekend jaunts with friends to parks in Iowa and surrounding states, plus occasional longer trips. Entertainment … [Read more...]
Birds of Eastern China by Brian Westland
This book is bargain priced from 04/14/2014 until 04/06/2016 China possesses many of the most interesting and beautiful bird species in the world. In total, the country is home to more than 1300 bird species which comprise more than 13% of all bird species. This book serves as an introduction to the rich bird life of China for the vast majority of the Chinese population which resides in the eastern half of the country and all those who are interested in birds, wildlife or the natural world in … [Read more...]
Cooking Wild & Wonderful by L. J. Martin @westwrite
What inspired you to write your book? A love of cooking which results in friends and family surrounding a table, and loving food, life, and each other. About your Book: Cooking Wild & Wonderful is not a "game" cookbook, but rather a labor of love from an author who lives in the west but has travelled over a good part of the world. He's been a cook by both vocation and avocation, and in fact worked his way through college as the only fry cook for 1,600 students. He is, however, a hunter … [Read more...]
Bats and Bones by Karen Musser Nortman @RVmysteryauthor
This book is bargain priced from 11/12/2013 until 01/31/2014 Camping can be murder! Frannie and Larry Shoemaker are retirees who enjoy weekend camping with their friends in state parks in this new cozy mystery series. They anticipate the usual hiking, campfires, good food, and interesting side trips among the bluffs of beautiful Bat Cave State Park for the long Fourth of July weekend--until a dead body turns up. Confined in the campground and surrounded by strangers, Frannie is drawn into the … [Read more...]
