Be sure to check out what they have coming next for their readers. I try to pick authors who are interesting studies and ask them unique questions for our Q/A section.
Check out the Showcase feature of the HBS Author's Spotlight. I have included those authors in this class. Also, we have added the Author Bundles we have posted this month.
Thanks to the following outstanding authors for a great month. Here is a summary of our March 2016 crew.
Inge-Lise Goss
Author Genre: Paranormal, Romance, Mystery
Website: Inge-Lise Goss, Author
Twitter: @IngeGoss
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Inge-Lise Goss was born in Denmark, raised in Utah and graduated from the University of Utah, magna cum laude. She is a certified public accountant and worked in that field for over twenty years. Goss lives in the foothills of Red Rock Canyon with her husband and their dog, Bran. She spends most of her time in her den writing stories. There, with her muse by her side, her imagination has no boundaries, and her dreams come alive. When she's not pounding away on the keyboard, she can be found reading, rowing, or trying to perfect her golf game, which she fears is a lost cause.
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Next: Right now I’m working with an editor and putting some final touches on Compelled. That novel will be released sometime this summer. It’s about a hard-wired, no-nonsense New York police detective being forced by a dead woman’s spirit to find evidence that will free her wrongfully imprisoned husband for her murder in San Diego.
Social media: I’ve found social media is a valuable tool for promoting my books and obtaining new readers. Readers send me private messages through both Twitter and Facebook, which I’m always happy to receive. Without social media and my website, I wouldn’t be able to get the word out about my books.
Personal appearances: When my first book, The Tegen Cave, was published, I had a launch party in both Las Vegas and Salt Lake City. The parties were a lot of fun, and I sold quite a few autographed books. Since I wanted to expand the number of people who could attend, my subsequent book launches have been scheduled through online promoters.
Covers: With the exception of The Cost of Crude book cover, my book covers have been designed by eBookLaunch.com. After I give them a basic theme, they designed it and send me drafts until I’m satisfied.
Author bundles: The publisher of Undiscovered Gems, An Anthology of Fiction Talent, sent out a request for submission. Since I was anxious to have a publication under my belt, I submitted a short story, “Planted Seed”—a dark tale. I was ecstatic when they selected it to be part of the anthology. Having a short story published helped spruce up my query letter. Shortly thereafter, my manuscript, The Tegen Cave, was picked up by a small publisher.
Support groups: The Las Vegas Writers group has a speaker each month, and I gain some valuable information from those presentations. I’m also a member of The Rainbow Critique Group. I am grateful to the members of that group for all of the knowledge I have gained through their critiques.
Giveaways: Within a few months of a new release, I provide five books for a Goodreads Giveaway. I have found that to be a very helpful way in getting the word out about my novels. Also, it generates more reviews on Goodreads, which drives more sales. During Facebook events, I have sometimes given books away as prizes. Some of the recipients write a review when they finish reading it. I love getting more reviews! So, giving away books through those events has been well worth the cost.
Reviews: I do seek professional reviews since they are highly regarded in the publishing industry, and some promotion sites won’t accept your book without a professional review.
Author's Book List
Tegen Justice
Cisco Bandits
The Cost of Crude
The Tegen Cave
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D.E. Ireland
Author Genre: Historical Mysteries, Humor And Comedy, Mystery
Author's Blog: D.E. Ireland Blog
Website: Welcome to D.E. Ireland
Twitter: @DEIrelandAuthor
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Author Description:
D.E. Ireland is the pseudonym of award-winning authors and Anglophiles Meg Mims and Sharon Pisacreta - collaborating on the Eliza Higgins and Henry Higgins cozy mystery series for St. Martin's Minotaur. Book 1, WOULDN'T IT BE DEADLY, was nominated for an AGATHA AWARD. MOVE YOUR BLOOMING CORPSE is the second book of the series.
Both Meg and Sharon live in Michigan and are big fans of George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion, Downton Abbey, Mr. Selfridge, Sherlock Holmes, classic and contemporary cozy mysteries. They prefer reading and visiting tea rooms to housework.
Meg Mims
Author Genre: Historical Fiction, Mystery & Thrillers, Romance
Website: Meg Mims
Author's Blog: Meg Mims
Blog: D.E. Ireland Facebook
Twitter: @megmims
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Author Description:
Award-winning mystery author Meg Mims -- also one-half of the writing team of D.E. Ireland for the Agatha-nominated Eliza Doolittle & Henry Higgins Mystery series from Minotaur Books -- lives in Southeastern Michigan with her husband and a sweet Malti-poo. She loves writing novels, novellas and short stories, both contemporary and historical. Meg also earned a Spur Award for Best First Novel, a Laramie Award and an M.A. from Seton Hill University's Writing Popular Fiction program.
She's loved reading mystery, western, historical, romance and other genre fiction since first grade's adventures of Spot, Dick and Jane. She has published hundreds of freelance articles. Meg enjoys gardening, crafts, watercolor painting, with housework last.
Sharon Pisacreta
Author Genre: Mystery
Website: Sharon Pisacreta
Author's Blog: Lake Effect Living
Twitter: @Spisacreta
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Author Description:
Sharon Pisacreta is an award-winning author who lives along the beautiful shoreline of Lake Michigan. She declared herself a writer at age nine and hasn't looked back since. Published in romance, mystery, fantasy and nonfiction, Sharon is a former archaeologist who loves to read and write about history. Her work appears under the names Sharon Pisacreta, Cynthia Kirk and - most recently - D.E. Ireland. She has teamed up with friend and fellow author Meg Mims to write a mystery series as Ireland for St. Martin's Press starring Eliza Doolittle and Henry Higgins. WOULDN'T IT BE DEADLY is the first book in the series with a release date of Sept. 2014.
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Next: It’s an Edwardian version of Four Weddings and a Funeral…but with several murders thrown in.
Personal appearances: We will both be appearing at Malice Domestic conference at the Hyatt Regency in Bethesda, Maryland from April 29-May 1, 2016. Readers should also check out D.E. Ireland on Facebook and Twitter, and at deireland.com.
Audio books: Because we’ve had great feedback from readers who loved the audiobook versions, we hope this has resulted in expanding our audience. That’s hard to gauge, though. At this time it seems most readers still prefer a print book or an iPad, Kindle, or Nook in their hands.
Authors working together: Friends since college, we have always supported each other personally and professionally. Although we’ve each had novels published on our own, we knew we’d eventually collaborate on something. When Meg came up with the idea of Eliza Doolittle and Henry Higgins solving mysteries together, both of us realized it was the perfect team project…
Support groups: Sisters in Crime helps women authors in the mystery/thriller field which is still often dominated by men. D.E. Ireland is also one of eight “historical” authors in Sleuths in Time, which has a presence on Facebook.
Book launch process: Our publisher handles the book launch process by sending out multiple advance review copies. As soon as it’s available, we post the new cover on social media. We always participate in extensive blog tours within the first few weeks after publication to help spread the word. And we maintain a daily presence of Facebook and Twitter by posting and tweeting about our books, writing, and all things British.
Author's Book List
Move Your Blooming Corpse
Wouldn't It Be Deadly
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Anya Lipska
Author Genre: Mystery & Thrillers, Literature & Fiction, Historical Fiction
Website: Anya Lipska
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Anya Lipska is the pen name of a British crime writer married to a Pole. 'I chose Lipska because my real surname is impossible to pronounce...' she says. Living in East London with its big Polish community gave her the inspiration to create Kiszka, a Polish private detective/fixer, who came to the UK to escape communist rule in the Eighties, and is now in many ways a Londoner. A journalist by background, Anya was able to draw on contacts among murder detectives, pathologists and lawyers. 'Sometimes those research conversations in the pub get overheard and we get some very funny looks!'
The series quickly won critical acclaim leading to Anya being chosen for 'Queen of Crime' Val McDermid's New Blood panel at Theakstons Crime Festival - Europe's biggest crime writing event - in 2013. Originally trained as a journalist, Anya now writes and produces documentaries for the BBC and Channel 4 in the UK, and international broadcasters like Discovery Channel. She's made programmes on everything from Leonardo da Vinci to plane crashes; mammoth cloning to Cleopatra's lost tomb. "I consider myself incredibly lucky to have such an interesting job," says Anya, 'It keeps me buzzing with ideas that I can work into my fiction, but nothing matches the excitement of creating characters and weaving plot."
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Next: I’m giving Kiszka and Kershaw a temporary rest while I pursue an idea that’s been ricocheting around my brain for a few months. I can’t say too much, but I will say that it’s once again set in a gritty part of London, many scenes take place in a mortuary, and there’s a babcia - a Polish grandmother – among the cast of characters.
Social media: I really enjoy twitter, much more, I must confess, than Facebook. I like its brevity, and the way you can really focus on the things you’re interested in. I let it grow organically, really, because I think if your twitter timeline is just a relentless juggernaut of self-promotion that can be really off-putting. It’s been a terrific way of engaging with readers right after they’ve read the books.
Covers: Credit for the overarching style must go to my publishers, the Friday Project, part of HarperCollins: they came up with the look for book 1 and continued it through the series. In the US, where I self-publish, I ran with that look but shot the covers myself – great fun!
Audio books: I have met people who have listened to the audio books and they’ve been very positive about the way the narrator brings them to life. I’m not (yet) an audio book listener but I can definitely see its appeal and I think there’s a huge untapped market there.
Support groups: Killer Women is a small, informal collective of female writers set up by Melanie McGrath and Louise Millar. Most of us live in and around the London area, so it’s easy for us to get together to drink and plan group activities. Its main aim is to supplement the publicity and marketing efforts of our publishers and to act as a contact point for literary festivals and events, but this year we’re excited to be launching our very own crime fiction festival in London in October.
Reader list: I’ve only very recently started a reader list on my website and am scratching my head about how to stay in touch with my twitter followers who are fans of the Kiszka and Kershaw series without sending them unwanted DMs. There’s so much to do on the publicity and marketing front that I sometimes despair of writing any actual, you know, books…!
BBC Drama acquired the rights to the Kiskza & Kershaw: I was absolutely thrilled when BBC Drama optioned the rights to the series, and when they commissioned the first script from a well-known TV screenwriter, but my excitement is tempered by caution, because the attrition rate between script-stage and production is pretty sobering. If it does happen, I’ll be toasting London’s wonderful Polish community with large quantities of wodka.
Author's Book List
A Devil Under the Skin
Death Can't Take a Joke
Where the Devil Can't Go
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Tim Vicary
Author Genre: Crime and Historical Novels
Author's Blog: Tim Vicary - Author
Website: Tim Vicary
Twitter: @TimVicary
E-Mail: tim.vicary@york.ac.uk
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Hi. My name's Tim Vicary and I'm an author and a university teacher at the Norwegian Study Centre at the University of York, England. I've written three crime/legal thrillers in 'The Trials of Sarah Newby' series, and I'm currently writing a fourth. I've also written four historical novels, two children's books, and about twenty graded readers for foreign learners of English in the Oxford Bookworms series, published by Oxford University Press, two of which, Titanic and The Everest Story, won awards from the Extensive Reading Foundation in 2010 and 2011 respectively.
My legal thriller, A Fatal Verdict, was awarded a B.R.A.G Medallion for an outstanding independently published book in 2012, and in 2013 Bold Counsel won the Awesome Indies Seal of Approval.
I live in the English countryside, near York. When I'm not writing I like horse-riding, cycling, and swimming.
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Next: I am three quarters of the way through the fourth novel in the legal thriller series The Trials of Sarah Newby. If all goes well it should be published sometime between Easter and midsummer.
Social media: Two or three years ago I built up a reasonable following on Twitter, and at that time I think it helped to sell books. But after a while I got fed up with pestering people to buy, and gave up using Twitter entirely for over a year. Recently I have returned to it but now I find its main value is in making contact with interesting sites , like this one, which I wouldn't know about otherwise.
Covers: They are all created by my good friend Cathy helms at Avalon Graphics. It's a two way process - I give her such ideas as I have and she uses her artistic skills to interpret them.
Audio books: The audiobooks sell moderately well but it's hard to tell what effect they've had on sales of ebooks and paperbacks. It was fun to make them but extremely time-consuming, as I've described somewhere on my blog.
Bundles: Women of Courage is the only box set I've made so far. The idea of course was to offer readers a bargain - three books for the price of one and a half. Sadly my historical novels don't sell as well as the legal thrillers, which is a pity, because they're just as good if not better, in my humble unbiased opinion.
Giveaways: I've tried quite a few paid promotion sites, but most cost-effective by far is Bookbub. (I like Fussy Librarian too, but it's much smaller) Twice I've given away huge numbers fo free copies of A Game of Proof, the first book in The Trials of Sarah Newby series, and each time I've seen big increases in sales of the series, sustained over many weeks.
Reader list: …I've only just realised how important this is. My main focus over the coming year, apart from writing, is going to be to build this up, in every way possible.
Author's Book List
The Murder of Mary Jones
Nobody's Slave
The Monmouth Summer
Cat and Mouse
The Blood Upon the Rose
Bold Counsel
A Fatal Verdict
A Game of Proof
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Dianne Harman
Featured Book: Trouble at the Kennel
Author Genre: Romance and Literary Fiction
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Twitter: @DianneDHarman
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Dianne Harman draws her stories and characters from a diverse business and personal background. She owned a national antique and art appraisal business for many years, left that industry, and opened two yoga centers where she taught yoga and certified yoga instructors. She's traveled extensively throughout the world and loves nothing more than cooking and playing with her new puppy, Kelly.
Being a dog lover and having attended numerous cooking schools, she couldn't resist writing about food and dogs. She is the author of three cozy mystery series: Cedar Bay, Liz Lucas, and her newest, High Desert. Each of these books contains recipes from her travels. She is also the author of the award-winning suspenseful Coyote Series.
A number of books in her cozy mystery series have been designated by Amazon as All-Stars because of their sales, and Dianne has been named by Amazon seven times as one of their most popular authors.
She invites you to visit her web site at: www.dianneharman.com and sign up for her newletters. You'll receive a free book and have a weekly chance to win an autographed boxed set of the Cedar Bay Cozy Mystery Series.
Author's Book List
Trouble at the Kennel
The Blue Butterfly
Murder in Cuba
Murder At The Bed & Breakfast
Murder & The Monkey Band
Murder at the Cooking School
The Death Card
Murder in Calico Gold
Murder and Brandy Boy
Murder in the Pearl District
Murder in Cottage #6
Marriage and Murder
White Cloud Retreat
Murder at Jade Cove
Kelly's Koffee Shop
COYOTE SERIES
CORNERED COYOTE
Coyote in Provence
Blue Coyote Motel
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J.A. Jance
Featured Book: CLAWBACK
Author Genre: Mystery & Thrillers
Author's Blog: J.A. Jance - NYT Bestselling Author
Website: J.A. Jance
Twitter: @JAJance
E-Mail: jajance@jance.com
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J.A. Jance is the top 10 New York Times bestselling author of the Joanna Brady series; the J. P. Beaumont series; four interrelated thrillers featuring the Walker family; and eight books featuring Ali Reynolds.
As a second-grader in Mrs. Spangler’s Greenway School class, I was introduced to Frank Baum’s Wizard of Oz series. I read the first one and was hooked and knew, from that moment on, that I wanted to be a writer.
The third child in a large family, I was four years younger than my next older sister and four years older than the next younger sibling. Being both too young and too old left me alone in a crowd and helped turn me into an introspective reader and a top student. When I graduated from Bisbee High School in 1962, I received an academic scholarship that made me the first person in my family to attend a four year college. I graduated in 1966 with a degree in English and Secondary Education. In 1970 I received my M. Ed. In Library Science. I taught high school English at Tucson’s Pueblo High School for two years and was a K-12 librarian at Indian Oasis School District in Sells, Arizona for five years.
My ambitions to become a writer were frustrated in college and later, first because the professor who taught creative writing at the University of Arizona in those days thought girls "ought to be teachers or nurses" rather than writers. After he refused me admission to the program, I did the next best thing: I married a man who was allowed in the program that was closed to me. My first husband imitated Faulkner and Hemingway primarily by drinking too much and writing too little. Despite the fact that he was allowed in the creative writing program, he never had anything published either prior to or after his death from chronic alcoholism at age forty-two. That didn’t keep him from telling me, however, that there would be only one writer in our family, and he was it.
My husband made that statement in 1968 after I had received a favorable letter from an editor in New York who was interested in publishing a children’s story I had written. Because I was a newly wed wife who was interested in staying married, I put my writing ambitions on hold. Other than writing poetry in the dark of night when my husband was asleep (see After the Fire), I did nothing more about writing fiction until eleven years later when I was a single, divorced mother with two children and no child support as well as a full time job selling life insurance. My first three books were written between four a.m. and seven a.m.. At seven, I would wake my children and send them off to school. After that, I would get myself ready to go sell life insurance.
I started writing in the middle of March of 1982. The first book I wrote, a slightly fictionalized version of a series of murders that happened in Tucson in 1970, was never published. For one thing, it was twelve hundred pages long. Since I was never allowed in the creative writing classes, no one had ever told me there were some things I needed to leave out. For another, the editors who turned it down said that the parts that were real were totally unbelievable, and the parts that were fiction were fine. My agent finally sat me down and told me that she thought I was a better writer of fiction than I was of non-fiction. Why, she suggested, didn’t I try my hand at a novel?
The result of that conversation was the first Detective Beaumont book, Until Proven Guilty. Since 1985 when that was published, there have been 21 more Beau books. My work also includes 14 Joanna Brady books set in southeastern Arizona where I grew up, and seven Ali Reynolds books, set in Sedona, AZ. In addition there are four thrillers, starting with Hour of the Hunter and Kiss of the Bees, that reflect what I learned during the years when I was teaching on the Tohono O’Odham reservation west of Tucson, Arizona.
The week before Until Proven Guilty was published, I did a poetry reading of After the Fire at a widowed retreat sponsored by a group called WICS (Widowed Information Consultation Services) of King County. By June of 1985, it was five years after my divorce in 1980 and two years after my former husband’s death. I went to the retreat feeling as though I hadn’t quite had my ticket punched and didn’t deserve to be there. After all, the other people there were all still married when their spouses died. I was divorced. At the retreat I met a man whose wife had died of breast cancer two years to the day and within a matter of minutes of the time my husband died. We struck up a conversation based on that coincidence. Six months later, to the dismay of our five children, we told the kids they weren’t the Brady Bunch, but they'd do, and we got married. We now have four new in-laws as well as six grandchildren.
When my second husband and I first married, he supported all of us–his kids and mine as well as the two of us. It was a long time before my income from writing was anything more than fun money–the Improbable Cause trip to Walt Disney World; the Minor in Possession memorial powder room; the Payment in Kind memorial hot tub. Eventually, however, the worm turned. My husband was able to retire at age 54 and took up golf and oil painting.
One of the wonderful things about being a writer is that everything–even the bad stuff–is usable. The eighteen years I spent while married to an alcoholic have helped shape the experience and character of Detective J. P. Beaumont. My experiences as a single parent have gone into the background for Joanna Brady–including her first tentative steps toward a new life after the devastation of losing her husband in Desert Heat. And then there’s the evil creative writing professor in Hour of the Hunter and Kiss of the Bees, but that’s another story.
Another wonderful part of being a writer is hearing from fans. I learned on the reservation that the ancient, sacred charge of the storyteller is to beguile the time. I’m thrilled when I hear that someone has used my books to get through some particularly difficult illness either as a patient or as they sit on the sidelines while someone they love is terribly ill. It gratifies me to know that by immersing themselves in my stories, people are able to set their own lives aside and live and walk in someone else’s shoes. It tells me I’m doing a good job at the best job in the world.
Author's Book List
Clawback
No Honor Among Thieves
Cold Betrayal
A Last Goodbye
Remains of Innocence
The Old Blue Line
Moving Target
Second Watch
After the Fire
Judgment Call
Deadly Stakes
Left for Dead
Exit Wounds
Breach of Duty
Birds of Prey
Edge of Evil
Paradise Lost
Betrayal of Trust
Fatal Error
Payment in Kind
Minor in Possession
A More Perfect Union
Improbable Cause
Dismissed with Prejudice
Justice Denied
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Title: Deep Cover
Author: Leslie Jones
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Author: Leslie Jones
Author Genre: Military
Website: Leslie Jones
Twitter: @LeslieJonesBks
E-Mail: leslie@lesliejonesbooks.com
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Leslie Jones has been an IT geek, a graphics designer, and an Army intelligence officer. She's lived in Alaska, Korea, Belgium, Germany, and other exotic locations (including New Jersey). She is a wife, mother, and full-time writer, and splits her time between Scottsdale, Arizona and Cincinnati, Ohio.
Title: Band of Bachelors: Lucas
Author: Sharon Hamilton
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Author: Sharon Hamilton
Author Genre: Romance, Paranormal, Suspense
Website: Sharon Hamilton
Author's Blog: Sharon Hamilton - SUNDAYS WITH SHARON
Twitter: @sharonlhamilton
E-Mail: SharonHamilton2001@gmail.com
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NY Times and four time USA/Today, Top 100 Amazon Bestselling and multiple award-winning Author, Sharon Hamilton's storytelling satisfies like a thick bar of chocolate. Sharon's romances are scorching hot, filled with suspense, adventure and adrenaline-pumping action.
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Sharon and her husband live in Northern California, in the heart of the Wine Country, where most of her stories take place. When she isn't writing, she can be found getting vera vera dirty in her flower and vegetable gardens.
Title: Rough Day
Author: Shelley Coriell
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Author: Shelley Coriell
Author Genre: Romance
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Twitter: @ShelleyCoriell
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Shelley Coriell is an award-winning author of romantic suspense and novels for teens. Her debut romantic thriller, The Broken, was named one of the Best Romances of Summer 2014 by Publishers Weekly and a Top Pick/4.5 Stars by Romantic Times Book Reviews. An avid foodie and former restaurant reviewer, Shelley lives in Arizona with her family and the world's neediest rescue weimaraner.
Title: Star People Legacy
Author: T.L. Smith
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Author: T.L. Smith
Author Genre: Romance, Suspense
Website: T.L. Smith
Author's Blog: T.L. Smith
Twitter: @tlsmithbooks
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T.L Smith Lover of chocolate, books, but mostly words.
T.L Smith loves to travel, loves to shop for books, sometimes shoes ;-)
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7 Sykos
Author: Marsheila Rockwell/Jeffrey J. Mariotte
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Detached from the world, how are seven psychopaths going to save it?
Phoenix is one of the most populated cities in America…but not for long. With a mysterious sickness spreading through the streets, two things are becoming very clear: there’s no cure, and it doesn’t necessarily kill you.
Instead, the so-called “Infecteds” have become a living plague, killing and eating everyone they come into contact with. Chaos is spreading, and no one is safe.
No one, that is, except for a group of psychos.
Somehow unaffected by the disease—and with promises of clemency for their monstrous pasts—a group of seven is sent downtown to hopefully find the cause of the disease…and therefore a cure. But when the asylum is the size of a city, it no longer matters who is running things.
Not when everyone is running for their lives.
Author: Marsheila Rockwell
Author Genre: Fantasy, Horror, Crime
Website: Marsheila Rockwell
Twitter: @MarcyRockwell
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Author Description:
Marsheila (Marcy) Rockwell was born [redacted] years ago in America's Last, Best Place. A descendant of kings, pilgrims, Ojibwe hunters and possibly a witch or two, she spent the first few years of her life frolicking gleefully in a large backyard that is now part of one of the nation's largest Superfund sites. Perhaps that explains her early penchant for fantasy and horror - the first book she ever read (at the tender age of three) was Frank L. Baum's "Ozma of Oz."
Marcy sold her first short story to Marion Zimmer Bradley while in college and her first novel to Wizards of the Coast in 2005. She now lives in the desert in the shadow of an improbably green mountain surrounded by her children, her vast collections of Wonder Woman/Girl figures, and far too many books.
Author: Jeffrey J. Mariotte
Author Genre: Thriller, Horror, Fantasy
Website: Jeff Mariotte.com
Author's Blog: Dispatches from the Flying M
Twitter: @JeffMariotte
E-Mail: jmariotte@aol.com
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Jeff Mariotte was born in Park Forest, Illinois. He moved away from there at the age of six, when his father, a civilian working for the Department of Defense, was transferred to Paris, France. Since then he's lived in Arlington and Reston, Virginia, Worms and Schriesheim, Germany, San Jose, San Diego, and Arizona.
He graduated from San Jose State University with a degree in Radio/TV/Film. He has worked delivering the Washington Post, in a comic book store and a fast food restaurant, selling encyclopedias door-to-door, and as maintenance supervisor for a large regional shopping center. He was the manager of Hunter's Books, La Jolla when his first fiction was published. He has been VP of Marketing and Senior Editor for comic book publisher WildStorm Productions, Editor-in-Chief for IDW Publishing, a co-owner of independent specialty bookstore Mysterious Galaxy, and a freelance writer and editor.
He is passionate about-among other things-reading, the deserts and mountains and forests of the American West, modern and historical, politics, photography, independent bookstores, and whatever else strikes his fancy at any given moment.
Title: Larry Goes To Space
Author: Alan Black
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Author: Alan Black
Author Genre: Science Fiction, Christian, Humor And Comedy
Website: Alan Black Author
Twitter: @alblack77
E-Mail: Alblack77@cox.net
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Author Description:
Alan Black has been writing novels since 1996. His writing tastes are as eclectic as his reading preferences. He is a #1 Amazon best selling author for Metal Boxes, a young adult, science fiction, military, action adventure. Black is an indie multi-genre writer who has never met a good story he didn't want to tell.
Alan Black's vision statement: "I want my readers amazed they missed sleep because they could not put down one of my books. I want my readers amazed I made them laugh on one page and cry on the next. I want to give my readers a pleasurable respite from the cares of the world for a few hours.
I want to offer stories I would want to read."
Title: The Three Fates of Ryan Love
Author: Erin Quinn
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Author: Erin Quinn
Author Genre: Romance, Paranormal, Literature & Fiction
Website: Erin Quinn
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New York Times Bestselling author Erin Quinn writes romance for the thinking reader. Her books have been called "riveting," "brilliantly plotted" and "beautifully written" and have won, placed or showed in the Booksellers Best, WILLA Award for Historical fiction, the Orange Rose, Readers Crown, Golden Quill, Best Books, and Award of Excellence.
Title: Relic
Author: Deena Remiel
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Author Genre: Romance
Website: Deena Remiel - Urban Fantasy and Paranormal Romance
Twitter: @deenaremiel
E-Mail: dremiel@yahoo.com
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My name is Deena Remiel, and I am an author of paranormal romance, urban and dark fantasy, and romantic suspense. I also teach language arts to middle schoolers. I belong to RWA national and the Desert Rose Chapter of RWA, where there are outstanding people writing fabulous stories.
I grew up in Philadelphia, home of the most amazing cheese steaks, soft pretzels, oh and the Liberty Bell. My husband and I began our own family in New Jersey, and just a few years ago, Arizona called to my spirit and tempted my husband with much better weather! We moved our family, and the rest is history, or the present, as the case may be!
These are a few of my favorite things: writing and reading of course, chocolate, music with lyrics or melodies that speak to me, soaking baths, singing in the shower, dancing with my buds, romantic dancing with my hubbie, scrapbooking, watching my girls enjoy what they love to do, and laughing at jokes. Visit my website for the latest news and available books: www.deenaremiel.com.
Title: Out of Left Field
Author: Morgan Kearns
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Author: Morgan Kearns
Author Genre: Romance
Website: Morgan Kearns.com
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E-Mail: morgan@morgankearns.com
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Morgan Kearns is an Emmy-Nominated Journalist turned Bestselling Contemporary Romance Author with readers cheering for her Deadlines & Diamonds series. Some of her favorite people include those who step out of her thoughts asking for their stories to be told. Grab a book and meet them today!
She is the Director of Buildin' the Dream, Authors Helping Authors Conference. May 29th-31th, 2015 www.BuildinTheDream.com
If not glued to her laptop, Morgan can be found with her nose stuck in a book or cheering for her own little athletes. She lives in Northern Arizona with her amazing family and her English Bulldog, Gus.
Deadlines & Diamonds series: Fade to Black, In It To Win It, High Pressure (coming Summer 2014), Out of Left Field, Lucky 13, Hard Break, When at First (coming Summer 2014).
Bound by a Touch series: Heart Ache
Gossip of Mysterious Lane series: The Seduction of Damian, and His Destiny is Karma.
Title: Wisdom
Author: Patrick Tylee
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Author: Patrick Tylee
Author Genre: Science Fiction, Young Adult, Children's
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I write about people and relationships. The people may not be from Earth, or even humans at all. The relationships may be adversely effected by multi-spacial anomalies. Sci-fi.
Seriously though, my hope is to meet the reader halfway, where their imagination and creativity can merge with the characters, locations and all the little details that bring the fictional story to life. When you get the chance to enter into one of my stories, you should enjoy yourself. Hang out with the Synthetics, take a nap upside down from a Dreamish conduit, jump into a Blackball and see what planet you end up on. Or find yourself a hormonal teenager in a family of scaly Eutherids.
My own family is made up of people and creatures that have volunteered to live our lives together. Not really sure who adopted who, but it works for us. Normal? The treadmill is covered in dust and junk mail - I guess that's normal. But the rest of it's as goofy and fun and messed up as anyone else. Wonderfully abnormal, if you please! I get irked with smartphones, and having to download a fuel-map into my motorcycle's CPU. I just want to look at the Milky Way from my back yard, read every book I can, and chase around the house with the kid and the saluki.
Thanks so much for buying one of my books. You could've spent your entertainment budget on so many other things. When I'm writing, I don't forget that.
Title: Song of the Ancients
Author: Sandy Wright
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Author: Sandy Wright
Author Genre: Paranormal & Urban
Website: writerSandy
Twitter: @sinazAZ
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Sandy Wright is an award-winning author of paranormal and romantic suspense novels, poetry and short fiction. Her newest novel is Song of the Ancients, set in the magical red rocks of Sedona, Arizona.
Sandy loves to take ordinary characters and put them in extraordinary situations that change their view of this world. A journalism major and teacher, she is also a 2nd degree Wiccan High Priestess with a coven in the Phoenix, AZ area.
Born and raised in the midwest, Sandy lives in Arizona with her husband, college-age son, and three huge black cats, including Shadow Moon, who is also a character in her first book. The most recent addition to the household is Teak, a laid-back (yeah, right) Australian Shepherd/Border Collie mix puppy. The cats despise him, of course.
Title: Sleight of Hand
Author: Anne Marie Becker
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Author: Anne Marie Becker
Author Genre: Romance, Thriller, Suspense
Website: Anne Marie Becker
Twitter: @annemariebecker
E-Mail: AnneMarieBecker@me.com
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An award-winning author of romantic suspense, Anne Marie has always been fascinated by people--inside and out--which led to degrees in Biology, Chemistry, Psychology, and Counseling. To date, as a tutor, waitress, personal and family counselor, and high school counselor, she has indulged her curiosity through sanctioned professions. Now, as a stay-at-home mom of three children, her passion for understanding the human race is satisfied by her roles as mother, wife, daughter, sister, and writer. She writes to reclaim her sanity.
Title: The Minstrel's Tale
Author: Anna Questerly
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Author: Anna Questerly
Author Genre: Historical Fiction, Fantasy, Young Adult
Website: Anna Questerly
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Bookseller and bibliophile turned author, Anna Questerly writes medieval fiction and fairy tales for smart kids and young hearts. For adults, she writes utopian fantasy as A.J. Questerly.
Title: Leaving Norway
Author: Kris Tualla
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Author: Kris Tualla
Author Genre: Romance
Website: Historical Romance & Suspense by Kris Tualla
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Kindle Top-100 author Kris Tualla, a dynamic award-winning and internationally published author of historical romantic suspense, writes with a fast-paced and succinct style. Her plots are full of twists, passion, and very satisfying outcomes! Kris started in 2006 with nothing but a nugget of a character in mind, and has created a dynasty with "The Hansen Series" and "The Discreet Gentleman Series."
Kris is an active member of Romance Writers of America, the Historical Novel Society, and Sisters in Crime. She is an enthusiastic speaker and teacher, and created Arizona Dreamin' - Arizona's first romance-reader event: ArizonaDreaminEvent.com - and it's author-focused companion: BuildintheDream.com
"In the Historical Romance genre, there have been literally countless kilted warrior stories told. Well, I say it's time for a new breed of heroes! Come along with me and find out why: Norway IS the new Scotland!"
Big, blond, buff and beautiful men, with eyes the colors of seawater, and the wild, untamable blood of their Viking ancestors flowing through their veins. Do you feel it? The Hansen Men of Arendal, Norway - whose stories extend from post-plague Europe in 1354 through the 1840s American western expansion - are just such heroes.
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Star-crossed lovers and second chances … meet guys and gals with good reason to guard their hearts even as they follow their dreams.
Enjoy eight sweet contemporary romances penned by award-winning and best-selling authors in the Spring Into Romance Boxed Set. From betrayal and conflict to secrets and scandals, get ready for a variety of books that will satisfy the romance junkie in you.
Cleaning Up Love by Lacey Wolfe Penny Watson is hiding from her horrific past as the housekeeper to celebrity Brock Foxx. With a scandal of his own, he entices Penny to be his fake girlfriend. Before long, Penny is swept up in the spotlight as Brock Foxx’s latest fling. While she should be loving it, she’d also worried that the men she’s running from will find her.
The Vet's Secret Wish by J.L. Campbell Matthias Laing strikes an uneasy compromise with Toni Nevers, who agrees to marry him on Valentine's Day—eleven months away. A man of action, Matthias can't rest easy after Toni's ex admits he wants her back. With Toni's daughter and her small army of pets on his side, Matthias rolls out a plan to get Toni to reconsider the length of their engagement and opt for a summer wedding.
Misty Mountain by P.C. Zick When Lacy and George begin dating, each of them keeps a shield around their hearts. Lacy's been hurt so many times, she's afraid to let another man come close. George, reeling from a bitter divorce, doesn't trust women. If they can put down their shields long enough to discover the love growing between them, then nothing will stand in their way to finding happiness.
You Belong with Me by Melissa Storm Will Porter lives a life of order and routine, so, of course, he’s miffed when a savage Rottweiler picks a fight with his golden retriever at the dog park. His anger quickly vanishes when he looks into the tearful eyes of the dog’s owner—eyes that look strikingly similar to his ex’s. Even though he’d like nothing more than to run in the other direction, he’s unable to ignore the beautiful stranger’s request for help in taming her new dog…
Love & Light by Michele Shriver After watching her mother succumb to illness, Kori Walsh sank into a depression that she can’t snap out of. As the star pitcher on his college baseball team, Landon Grayson has plenty of girls vying for his attention, yet finds himself drawn to the sullen girl who keeps showing up to watch practice every day. Can Landon show Kori that there is light after darkness, and if he does, will love blossom?
Mail-Order Groom by Cindy Flores Martinez Lisa's wedding is canceled when she catches her fiancé, Jeff, with another woman. In a twist of fate, she meets Krzysztof from Poland who is seeking an American woman to marry him and help him stay in America. After hearing his heart-tugging story, Lisa says "I do" to him. It's strictly a business deal. He’s not planning to stay in America forever, but she starts falling for him.
Love on the Slopes by Amy Manemann Jessa Hartley is haunted by memories of the night she threw herself at her childhood crush, Dominic DeRenzi – and he turned her away. Now all grown up, Jessa has moved on and is determined to buy the ski lodge of her dreams. Until Dominic shows up and buys it out from under her. Dominic broke her heart the first time he left. Can he make her see this time around he’s here to stay?
Ensnared by Jade Kerrion The two Falconer boys, Raphael and Michael, were named for the archangels. At twenty-two, Lily Herald married Raphael, the first Falconer boy. By twenty-five, she was divorced, having traded in her wedding ring for two near-fatal bullet wounds. No one knows why she’s returned home, to the place of so many shared and painful memories, but Michael Falconer’s determined to find out before she destroys what’s left of his family.
Title: Cleaning Up Love
Author: Lacey Wolfe
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Author Genre: Romance, Contemporary
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Lacey Wolfe has always had a passion for words, whether it's getting lost in a book or writing her own. Her goal as an author is to have a romance for everyone, whether it's sweet, sensual, or spicy. She's had several books on the Amazon best seller lists. When she isn't writing, she can be found running, talking to her pets, spending time with her family, or lost in some sort of craft. Oh, and she takes kindly to anyone who feeds her cookies.
Lacey lives in Georgia with her husband, son and daughter, their herd of cats, and one black lab who rules the house.
Author: J.L. Campbell
Author Genre: Romance, Women & Gender Studies, Young Adult
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J.L. Campbell is an award-winning, Jamaican author who writes romantic suspense, women's fiction, new and young adult novels. She has written thirteen books, four novellas and two short story collections.
Her novels include the Island Adventure Romance series, which currently has five exciting, stand-alone stories and features feisty women and determined men. Campbell's mission is to write stories that entertain and educate readers. She also writes under the pen name Jayda McTyson.
She is a certified editor, who also writes non-fiction.
Title: Misty Mountain
Author: P.C. Zick
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Author Genre: Literature & Fiction
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Author's Blog: Living Lightly
Twitter: @PCZick
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Best-selling author, P.C. Zick describes herself as a storyteller no matter what she writes. And she writes in a variety of genres, including romance, contemporary fiction, and nonfiction. She's won various awards for her essays, columns, editorials, articles, and fiction.
Many of her novels contain stories of Florida and its people and environment, which she credits as giving her a rich base for her storytelling. "Florida's quirky and abundant wildlife - both human and animal - supply my fiction with tales almost too weird to be believable." Her Behind the Love trilogy - contemporary romance - is also set in Florida, but she's now working on a series set in the Smoky Mountains.
Her fiction contains the elements most dear to her heart, ranging from love to the environment. All of her novels contain elements of romance with strong female characters and descriptive settings. She believes in living lightly upon this earth with love, laughter, and passion, and through her fiction she imparts this philosophy in an entertaining manner with an obvious love for her characters, plot, and themes.
Title: You Belong with Me
Author: Melissa Storm
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Author Genre: Contemporary, Spirituality, Romance
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Melissa Storm is a mother first, and everything else second. She used to write under a pseudonym, but finally had the confidence to come out as herself to the world. Her fiction is highly personal and often based on true stories. Writing is Melissa's way of showing her daughter just how beautiful life can be, when you pay attention to the everyday wonders that surround us.
Melissa loves books so much, she married fellow author Falcon Storm. Between the two of them, there are always plenty of imaginative, awe-inspiring stories to share. Melissa and Falcon also run the business Novel Publicity together, where she works as publisher, marketer, editor, and all-around business mogul. When she's not reading, writing, or child-rearing, Melissa spends time relaxing at home in the company of her three dogs and five parrots. She never misses an episode of The Bachelor or her nightly lavender-infused soak in the tub. Ahh, the simple luxuries that make life worth living.
Title: Love & Light
Author: Michele Shriver
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Author Genre: Real Life Women’s Fiction, Chick Lit
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Twitter: @micheleshriver
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I was born in Iowa and raised in Texas and now live in Iowa again. I am proud to consider both states to be home, and therefore poke fun at both of them, but it's always meant in the nicest way possible. I am a practicing attorney with a focus on juvenile law and have also worked as an educator, and some of my experiences have found their way into my writing. My dream is to someday pay the bills as a writer and be able to spend winters in the Dallas area going to Dallas Stars hockey games. In my free time, when I'm not writing, I am probably at a Zumba class, riding my bike, watching a football, hockey or soccer game on TV, or enjoying a glass of wine while I lose myself in a good book written by someone else.
Title: Mail-Order Groom
Author: Cindy Flores Martinez
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Website: Cindy Flores Martinez - Author
Twitter: @AuthorCindy
E-Mail: cindyfloresmartinez@gmail.com
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My name is Cindy Flores Martinez and I'm from a suburb of Los Angeles. I write sweet romantic comedy and inspirational romance. My debut novel, Mail-Order Groom, started out as a screenplay and movie project. I spent years shopping it around Hollywood, New York, and other parts of the world and had two well-known actors: an Academy Award nominated actor and a blockbuster film actress, interested in portraying the lead character's parents. After not finding the success I wanted, I officially canceled my film production company, Mail-Order Groom LLC, in November of 2009 and embarked on the journey of turning my screenplay into a novel. I have an MFA in Creative Writing with an emphasis in Screenwriting. I have been a screenwriting instructor, screenplay consultant, script reader, and screenplay collaborator.
Title: Love on the Slopes
Author: Amy Manemann
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Author Genre: Romantic Suspense, Young Adult Paranormal Romance, Contemporary Romance
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Amy Manemann is an International Best Selling Author. She writes sexy and intriguing romantic suspense, young adult paranormal romance, contemporary romance (NEW), and dabbles in children's books. She resides in her hometown along the Mississippi river with her husband and their two children. When she isn't plotting her next book, she enjoys spending time with her family and friends, and diving into a good book. Amy is also a site administrator for the World Literary Café, an online literary community for authors and readers. www.worldliterarycafe.com.
Title: Ensnared
Author: Jade Kerrion
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Author: Jade Kerrion
Author Genre: Science Fiction & Fantasy
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E-Mail: jade.kerrion@gmail.com
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Jade Kerrion, an award-winning author, got her start in fan fiction. She developed a loyal reader base with her fan fiction series based on the MMORPG Guild Wars. She was accused of keeping her readers up at night, distracting them from work, housework, homework, and (far worse), from actually playing Guild Wars.
And then she wondered why just screw up the time management skills of gamers? Why not aspire to screw everyone else up too? So here she is, writing books that aspire to keep you from doing anything else useful with your time. She lives in Fort Lauderdale, Florida with her wonderfully supportive husband and her two young sons, Saint and Angel, (no, those aren't their real names, but they are like saints and angels, except when they're not.)
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