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A Night Better Forgotten	by Nuala Breckenridge Sep. 08, 2010	$0.99	639 words	Sample 50%
This book is about a family who are dealing with the memory of their daughter's rape the best way they can.
Author bio: I've been writing since 4th grade and began to seriously consider writing as a careeer by the time I entered high school. I love to read and write a variaty of genres and I also enjoy pushing the boundries and mixing things up.
Julia's Future	by Linda Westphal Sep. 08, 2010	Free!	1649 words	Read a sample
A young widow searches for a way to begin again after the death of her husband.
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Dark Warrior	by Jade Cooper Sep. 08, 2010	$5.99	21055 words	Sample 10%
Vlad, the ancient vampire warrior must ready his army for battle with the werewolves. He has finally found the one, Lida. He struggles to keep her unknown while he holds onto self control by an unraveling thread. Her scent drives him wild, her body calls to him and a hunger he’s never felt threatens to destroy everything he has worked for. But for one taste of her, he might forsake the world.
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Pryderi's Pigs and other poems	by G. R. Grove Sep. 08, 2010	$2.99	18710 words	Sample 50%
This is my second poetry collection. Most of these poems are written in medieval fixed forms – one of my on-going quests being a search for ways of reproducing the sound and feel of medieval Welsh poetry in modern English. And yet, because the bardic art I practice is a performance art, these are in a larger sense not my poems at all, but merely pale imitations– poems preserved on paper.
Author bio: After a long career as a mining geologist in California and Alaska, and a shorter one as a database administrator in Colorado, I’m currently writing my fourth novel set in 6th century Britain. For more information, see my blog or my author chat thread on LibraryThing.com
Dark Consent	by Jade Cooper Sep. 08, 2010	$5.99	26204 words	Sample 10%
Stefan Kornak is a vampire who has been searching for his life mate for centuries. Taylor Brixton is an ordinary woman. She doesn’t know it yet, but she is the only mortal woman in centuries that has what every male vampire wants. Stefan tries to win her trust while fighting to keep her safe. It is a road filled with danger and erotic experiences.
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Zandoria	by Serge Genest Sep. 08, 2010	$6.00	52207 words	Sample 25%
À la suite d’une grave bévue, le fils d’un célèbre prince d’un royaume nordique a été exilé chez son oncle, en compagnie de ses deux fidèles serviteurs. En route, ils sont attaqués par une horde de créatures sanguinaires et en tentant de s’échapper, ils découvrent par hasard un sanctuaire ayant appartenu jadis à une divinité.
Author bio: Laissez-moi me présenter. Je m’appelle Serge Genest et je suis né dans la belle ville de Québec, au Canada. J’ai fait mes études en histoire à l’Université Laval et j’ai obtenu une maîtrise en ethnohistoire des Amérindiens en 1989. Depuis près de 10 ans, je travaille comme vulgarisateur historique auprès des groupes d’âge scolaire et j’organise des activités récréatives de types «intrigues et mystères» pour des entreprises, des clubs sociaux et des associations. Parallèlement à mes activités professionnelles, mon imagination vive m’amena, assez tardivement toutefois, à explorer le monde de la littérature de ma plume (dans mon cas, parlons davantage d’un clavier que d’une plume, car je rédige tout ou presque sur un traitement de textes). J’y consacre une bonne partie de mes énergies depuis 1995. J’adore créer et l’écriture demeure, pour moi, un excellent exutoire. Outre ma passion évidente pour l’histoire, les univers fantastiques et de science-fiction, je m’intéresse au cinéma, aux voyages, au tir à l’arc instinctif et au maniement de l’épée.
Wilding Nights	by Lee Killough Sep. 08, 2010	$4.99	100278 words	Sample 20%
Homicide detective Allison Goodnight has a big problem. A rogue werewolf killed the victim in her latest case. She knows the signs; she is a werewolf, too. Her whole family is. It is urgent that she close this case without revealing the killer’s nature before humans’ racial memory of her kind awakens. But her new partner Zane Kerr is watching her with unnerving intensity.
Author bio: Lee Killough has been storytelling since the age of four or five, when she started making up her own bedtime stories, then later, her own episodes of her favorite radio and TV shows. Because she loves both SF and mysteries, her work combines the two genres. Although published as SF, most of her novels are actually mysteries with SF or fantasy elements...with a preference--thanks to a childhood hooked on TV cop shows--for cop protagonists.
Diva (short stories)	by Jess C Scott Sep. 08, 2010	$0.99	19241 words	Sample 8%
A short story collection by author/artist/non-conformist, Jess C Scott. Diva showcases Jess’s penchant for “bending the rules”—read with caution. * * * Most of Diva features in Jess's writing/illustrating portfolio, Porcelain. Diva focuses on short stories, only.
Author bio: Jess identifies herself as an author/artist/non-conformist. Her literary work has appeared in a diverse range of publications, such as Word Riot, ITCH Magazine, and The Battered Suitcase. She was a research assistant to the 2010 Jossey-Bass/Wiley publication, My Lie. She is currently working on an urban fantasy project featuring cyberpunk elves. Her novella, The Devilin Fey, hit #1 in Amazon’s “Hot New Releases in Bargain Books” in July 2010.
Black Velvet (erotic short story)	by Jess C Scott Sep. 08, 2010	$0.99	14184 words	Sample 8%
An erotic short story in which two friends yield to their animal instincts, in a straight-up, gratuitous public encounter. BONUS / Story #2: A short story of a certain proposal/proposition, by a global superstar, to one lucky fan. These stories feature in Jess C Scott's bestselling collection, 4:PLAY.
Author bio: Jess identifies herself as an author/artist/non-conformist. Her literary work has appeared in a diverse range of publications, such as Word Riot, ITCH Magazine, and The Battered Suitcase. She was a research assistant to the 2010 Jossey-Bass/Wiley publication, My Lie. She is currently working on an urban fantasy project featuring cyberpunk elves. Her novella, The Devilin Fey, hit #1 in Amazon’s “Hot New Releases in Bargain Books” in July 2010.
4Play (gender bending short story)	by Jess C Scott Sep. 08, 2010	$1.49	17385 words	Sample 8%
A short story in which two guys see what’s really in their hearts, with the support—and shining example—of two girls in the same predicament. This story features in Jess C Scott's bestselling collection (of the same title), 4:PLAY.
Author bio: Jess identifies herself as an author/artist/non-conformist. Her literary work has appeared in a diverse range of publications, such as Word Riot, ITCH Magazine, and The Battered Suitcase. She was a research assistant to the 2010 Jossey-Bass/Wiley publication, My Lie. She is currently working on an urban fantasy project featuring cyberpunk elves. Her novella, The Devilin Fey, hit #1 in Amazon’s “Hot New Releases in Bargain Books” in July 2010.
Le roi des kmünds	by Serge Genest Sep. 08, 2010	$6.00	53784 words	Sample 25%
Un ermite d’une grande laideur est manipulé par une race d’immortels dont les dessins obscurs le conduiront dans des aventures extraordinaires…
Author bio: Laissez-moi me présenter. Je m’appelle Serge Genest et je suis né dans la belle ville de Québec, au Canada. J’ai fait mes études en histoire à l’Université Laval et j’ai obtenu une maîtrise en ethnohistoire des Amérindiens en 1989. Depuis près de 10 ans, je travaille comme vulgarisateur historique auprès des groupes d’âge scolaire et j’organise des activités récréatives de types «intrigues et mystères» pour des entreprises, des clubs sociaux et des associations. Parallèlement à mes activités professionnelles, mon imagination vive m’amena, assez tardivement toutefois, à explorer le monde de la littérature de ma plume (dans mon cas, parlons davantage d’un clavier que d’une plume, car je rédige tout ou presque sur un traitement de textes). J’y consacre une bonne partie de mes énergies depuis 1995. J’adore créer et l’écriture demeure, pour moi, un excellent exutoire. Outre ma passion évidente pour l’histoire, les univers fantastiques et de science-fiction, je m’intéresse au cinéma, aux voyages, au tir à l’arc instinctif et au maniement de l’épée.
Tongue-Tied (lesbian short story)	by Jess C Scott Sep. 08, 2010	$0.99	12134 words	Sample 10%
A short story featuring a voyeuristic succubus driven by jealousy, a dangerous fixation, and a duty to please the sexually unsatisfied women of the world. TONGUE-TIED features in Jess C Scott's bestselling collection, 4:PLAY.
Author bio: Jess identifies herself as an author/artist/non-conformist. Her literary work has appeared in a diverse range of publications, such as Word Riot, ITCH Magazine, and The Battered Suitcase. She was a research assistant to the 2010 Jossey-Bass/Wiley publication, My Lie. She is currently working on an urban fantasy project featuring cyberpunk elves. Her novella, The Devilin Fey, hit #1 in Amazon’s “Hot New Releases in Bargain Books” in July 2010.
Choconut Island	by John Skull Sep. 08, 2010	$9.00	1912 words	Sample 30%
Looahla, a young boy, lives.on an island, where choconut trees grow and produce creamy, yummy choconuts - which all the islanders love. Sadly, the islanders cannot eat the nuts or even go into their fields to work because nearby under the trees lives a horrigristog, which eats people if it catches them. Read the story and find out what Looahla does so he and the islanders can enjoy the choconuts.
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Companion Guide (Grave Danger)	by K.E. Rodgers Sep. 08, 2010	Free!	26414 words	Read a sample
The supplement guide to the novel,Grave Danger. The historical,physiological beginnings of the Eidolon(ghost)and flesh-eater(zombie) as well as bios of all major and supportive characters. This is a helpful guide to this fictionized and paranormal world.Included is an excerpt from Dead End, the second installment in the series.
Author bio: This self biography section is trying to appeal to the narcissism in me, is it not? But I guess there might be a few who would like to know a little bit more about me than beyond what is evident in my writing. So here it goes. Story telling is an innate program loaded somewhere in my human psyche. And without this creative outlet I might slip off the deep end. But then again that might be the best thing to happen in my craft. As a child I would fall asleep telling myself stories and they didn’t always involve me as the main character. Even in the dream world I am not always the person I am in the real world. Perhaps this multiple personality allows me to slip into the minds of the diverse population of my characters. When not stroking the keys on my laptop I am at my piano bench, creating living sound in the late night hours. I’m likely to play anything from Schubert to Alicia Keys and every genre in between. I love incidental music a lot; movie scores. Music is a different outlet. And as it usually happens the writing mixes with the music. Somehow, I’d like to find a way to converge these two mediums further. Science Fiction and Fantasy are my typical genres of work. Always there has to be an element of romance. Even in traditional fiction and non-fiction there needs to be a measure of romance. It’s a necessary component of human culture; sometimes sweet and enduring or heart pounding and carnal. I don’t twitter. I’m sorry, but my daily life is not exciting enough to tell. I’m not Jesus, and I can’t imagine anyone following me. Now if something did occur akin to an event in one of my stories, I’d tweet the hell out of that little yellow bird till he keeled over. Till then I’ll remain an elusive mystery in my reader’s minds. If there is a fact you’d like to know that you can’t figure out from my writing, please feel free to e-mail me at k_elis83@hotmail.com. (No naughty things, religious/political propaganda, elec. Viruses). Thank you for your interest in myself and my works. K.E. Rodgers
65 Below	by Basil Sands Sep. 08, 2010	$2.99	99362 words	Sample 50%
After twenty years hunting terrorists under orders to "render harmless", USMC Master Sergeant Marcus "Mojo" Johnson settles into a quiet retirement in the Alaskan backwoods. The idyllic life is shattered when he comes across an enemy about to unleash a nightmarish biological weapon on the world from the most unlikely of places. In the race to stop them nature itself turns on him.
Author bio: Author of three award winning action packed novels and ten short stories, Basil has built an audience of tens of thousands of listeners to the free podcast audio versions of his books. You can download them from his website, www.basilsands.com He is currently working on novel number four and taking the getting published thing seriously. One day you will hear his name in the media...hopefully it will be because his books have been published. The tapestry on which his tales began started at birth in rural interior Alaska and his school years among the Ohio cornfields where he wished to be anywhere else as long as it was exciting. He has lived in Alaska, San Diego, DC, Baltimore, and Ohio. He tried a career in the Marines but injuries sent him home after only six months. He worked as dining manager at NSA, owned a computer shop, was a carpenter, farmer, actor, lumberjack, voice actor, EMT, network admin, helpdesk supervisor, Boy Scout leader, IT trainer, radio talk host, youth minister, and after 9/11 was a sergeant in the Alaska Defense Force Coastal Scouts. Until a recent ski injury he had been an avid weight lifter and could bench pres 420 lbs. Now he's limited to a bit on the eliptical machine each day and curling the occasional pint of Guinness. He lives in Anchorage Alaska with his wife and sons.
Plutonian Parodies	by Rhys Hughes Sep. 08, 2010	$0.99	8007 words	Sample 10%
For more than twenty years Rhys Hughes has been producing carefully crafted parodies of his favourite authors, parodies written with love as well as a comic appreciation of the dark side. Now gathered together under one cover are the three parodies he regards as his finest. Three sly but deeply affectionate twists of the knife into the hearts of Poe, Lovecraft and Hemingway.
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Le naufragé sibérien	by Serge Genest Sep. 08, 2010	$6.00	44121 words	Sample 25%
Un jeune garçon de douze ans est retrouvé sain et sauf sur les lieux d’un attentat meurtrier, en plein cœur de Londres. Il aurait normalement dû mourir. Pourquoi est-il encore en vie et qui sont ceux qui le poursuivent sans relâche? Quel est le lien entre ce mystérieux garçon et le cataclysme qui a frappé la Sibérie en 1908?
Author bio: Laissez-moi me présenter. Je m’appelle Serge Genest et je suis né dans la belle ville de Québec, au Canada. J’ai fait mes études en histoire à l’Université Laval et j’ai obtenu une maîtrise en ethnohistoire des Amérindiens en 1989. Depuis près de 10 ans, je travaille comme vulgarisateur historique auprès des groupes d’âge scolaire et j’organise des activités récréatives de types «intrigues et mystères» pour des entreprises, des clubs sociaux et des associations. Parallèlement à mes activités professionnelles, mon imagination vive m’amena, assez tardivement toutefois, à explorer le monde de la littérature de ma plume (dans mon cas, parlons davantage d’un clavier que d’une plume, car je rédige tout ou presque sur un traitement de textes). J’y consacre une bonne partie de mes énergies depuis 1995. J’adore créer et l’écriture demeure, pour moi, un excellent exutoire. Outre ma passion évidente pour l’histoire, les univers fantastiques et de science-fiction, je m’intéresse au cinéma, aux voyages, au tir à l’arc instinctif et au maniement de l’épée.
The Golden Age	by Christopher O'Kennon Sep. 08, 2010	$1.00	2678 words	Sample 25%
Bedtime stories always show good winning out over evil. The hero makes all the right choices, and always wins. But what happens when good loses?
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Giving the Bride Away	by Sage Vivant Sep. 08, 2010	$4.95	68240 words	Sample 10%
Sherri: ball-buster or trailblazer? Paul, her husband: doormat or sensitive male? Daniel, the philosopher/artist next door: passive participant or puppet-master? Sherri, Paul, and Daniel redefine the sexual boundaries of marriage, for better or for worse.
Author bio: Sage Vivant founded Custom Erotica Source in 1998 and for 10 years, transformed her clients' fantasies into compelling erotic tales. She is the author of Your Erotic Personality (Berkley Books, 2007), and with partner M. Christian, has co-edited several erotica anthologies, including Garden of the Perverse, Amazons, and Confessions. Her stories have appeared in dozens of anthologies and can be heard on Playboy Radio. This is her first novel.
Anti-Christ's Birth; The Solomon Island Mystery	by Jesus Villalobos Sep. 08, 2010	$15.00	77277 words	Sample 20%
UFOs, monsters, government conspiracies; welcome to Terra Verde one of the Solomon Islands. STEVEN JOHNSTON escaped the terror on this small island once before only to be placed in an insane assylum. Now the hospital staff after six years of unsuccessful therapy has decided to make a return trip in an effort to cure him of his madness. Can Steven survive this time?
Author bio: Author of three books published by PublishAmerica. "Three Days of Darkness and the Coming Flood" "Time For Truth" "Forgotten Keys of the Kingdom"
Les victimes de l'ombre	by Laurent Noerel Sep. 08, 2010	$8.90	35737 words	Sample 20%
Laurent NOEREL redéfinit cette notion en nous présentant sa conception du fantastique dans ce recueil : il s’agit pour lui de maintenir du début jusqu'à la fin de chaque récit un climat d’angoisse qui sert, pour ainsi dire, de vêtement à la narration.
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Sword of Aris (Stormslayer)	by richard tombs Sep. 08, 2010	$4.99	55652 words	Sample 10%
The story of young Aris and his crew of adventurers as they fight against the Dragon God Malkor.
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Lemon Drops - the soul candy	by Courtney Trowman Sep. 08, 2010	$9.97	3856 words	Sample 25%
Lemon Drops - the soul candy, is a book of contemporary poetry/stories...humorous, bittersweet, and candy delicious.
Author bio: I've been writing poetry for about eighteen years.I currently live in Los Angeles, and am a professional modern and low flying aerial dancer. I also love collage painting. I have four poetry books available; One Fantastic Journey (only available through me) Lemon Drops Mariposa Let Me Out, Let Me In (Printed versions include photographs)
Jeremy Brown On Mars	by Simon Cheshire Sep. 08, 2010	$1.99	9730 words	Sample 25%
The totally loopy adventures of a schoolboy spy! He fights bad guys! He battles crime! He combs his hair! Action-packed laughs for all ages. When the local university is destroyed by a beam from outer space, Jeremy Brown, Spy, and his trusty sidekick Patsy find themselves facing a bunch of menacing, cheese-smelling aliens. “Pacey, funny and gripping” - Junior magazine
Author bio: Simon Cheshire's first title appeared in 1997, and since then his books have been published in many countries around the world, and in several languages. He writes in a tiny room that used to be a walk-in cupboard, but which is now crammed with books, pieces of paper and empty chocolate bar wrappers. Some things you didn't know about Simon Cheshire • He is allergic to cats, horses and the entire city of Coventry. • His favourite food is fish. Or possibly chocolate. • He has no dress sense whatsoever, and usually goes around looking like a mobile rubbish tip. • His favourite activity is reading late at night, when everyone else is asleep. • He writes on a laptop computer running Linux Mint, using OpenOffice to write his books, Weebly to maintain his website and PacMan to waste his time. • He hates gardening, swimming and Christmas. • He believes in the existence of extra-terrestrials. • When he was growing up, he wanted to be either an actor or a film director. • He has travelled in China, India and Egypt and really, really wants to go to the Moon.
Jeremy Brown And The Mummy's Curse	by Simon Cheshire Sep. 08, 2010	$1.99	9425 words	Sample 25%
The totally loopy adventures of a schoolboy spy! He fights bad guys! He battles crime! He combs his hair! Action-packed laughs for all ages. Jeremy Brown, Spy and his trusty sidekick Patsy travel to Egypt to discover the fate of two missing MI7 agents. “As he grapples with a gang of robo-mummies, he’ll have you in stitches” - The Times
Author bio: Simon Cheshire's first title appeared in 1997, and since then his books have been published in many countries around the world, and in several languages. He writes in a tiny room that used to be a walk-in cupboard, but which is now crammed with books, pieces of paper and empty chocolate bar wrappers. Some things you didn't know about Simon Cheshire • He is allergic to cats, horses and the entire city of Coventry. • His favourite food is fish. Or possibly chocolate. • He has no dress sense whatsoever, and usually goes around looking like a mobile rubbish tip. • His favourite activity is reading late at night, when everyone else is asleep. • He writes on a laptop computer running Linux Mint, using OpenOffice to write his books, Weebly to maintain his website and PacMan to waste his time. • He hates gardening, swimming and Christmas. • He believes in the existence of extra-terrestrials. • When he was growing up, he wanted to be either an actor or a film director. • He has travelled in China, India and Egypt and really, really wants to go to the Moon.
Jeremy Brown Of The Secret Service	by Simon Cheshire Sep. 08, 2010	$1.99	9536 words	Sample 25%
The totally loopy adventures of a schoolboy spy! He fights bad guys! He battles crime! He combs his hair! Action-packed laughs for all ages. When a high-tech satellite falls out of the sky, the race is on for Jeremy Brown, Spy and his trusty sidekick Patsy to get to it before the villains. “A fast-moving and very funny story” - Books In Schools
Author bio: Simon Cheshire's first title appeared in 1997, and since then his books have been published in many countries around the world, and in several languages. He writes in a tiny room that used to be a walk-in cupboard, but which is now crammed with books, pieces of paper and empty chocolate bar wrappers. Some things you didn't know about Simon Cheshire • He is allergic to cats, horses and the entire city of Coventry. • His favourite food is fish. Or possibly chocolate. • He has no dress sense whatsoever, and usually goes around looking like a mobile rubbish tip. • His favourite activity is reading late at night, when everyone else is asleep. • He writes on a laptop computer running Linux Mint, using OpenOffice to write his books, Weebly to maintain his website and PacMan to waste his time. • He hates gardening, swimming and Christmas. • He believes in the existence of extra-terrestrials. • When he was growing up, he wanted to be either an actor or a film director. • He has travelled in China, India and Egypt and really, really wants to go to the Moon.
To Die in Beverly Hills	by Gerald Petievich Sep. 08, 2010	$9.99	73125 words	Sample 20%
Treasury Agents Charlie Carr and Jack Kelly, investigating a counterfeiting ring, are tipped off by Det Travis Bailey of the LA police a cool, ruthless cop with some strange tastes in sex and women who warns them of a plot to murder their prime witness. They become involved in a phony stake out and Kelly is seriously wounded. Deeply suspicious, Carr is determined to avenge his partner's murder.
Author bio: Gerald Petievich belongs to that tiny group of writers who came to crime fiction from careers in law enforcement. He has been an Army counterspy and a U.S. Secret Service agent, using his real life experiences to achieve verisimilitude in his fiction. His novels are known to come as close as any in the mystery- and-thriller genre to a genuine realism. Three of his novels have been produced as major motion pictures. Gerald grew up in a police family. His father and brother were both members of the Los Angeles Police Department. He attended the Defense Language Institute in Monterey and later served in Germany as a US Army Counterintelligence Special Agent. As Chief of the Counterespionage Section, Field Office Nuremberg, he received commendations for his work during the 1968 Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia. In 1970 he joined the United States Secret Service where as a Special Agent he spent fifteen years engaged in duties relating to the protection of the President and the enforcement of Federal counterfeiting laws. It was during a long-term Secret Service assignment in Paris, France that Petievich discovered the works of Per Wahloo & Maj Sjowall, Graham Greene and John le Carre, and decided to become a writer. Later, while serving in Los Angeles as the US Secret Service representative to the Department of Justice Organized Crime Strike Force, Gerald's schedule consisted of rising at 4 AM to write before going to his government office. In 1985, Gerald left the Secret Service to pursue his writing career full-time. Gerald's first novel, Money Men, the first of his Charles Carr series of police procedurals, was based on a real-life L.A. case in which an undercover police officer was murdered. This novel and his other police procedural novels belong to the school of inverted detection: that is, the criminals are known to the reader from the beginning, and the suspense lies in how they will be found out and brought to justice. Though some of the detection is of the deductive or scientific types, most of it, just as in real life, involves simple legwork and the use of informants. Money Men introduces Charles Carr, a 20-year veteran of the Secret Service who is the central character in four Petievich novels. During a stakeout in a Sunset Boulevard motel, Carr and his partner Jack Kelly are listening in as an undercover agent arranges a counterfeit money buy in the next room. But the operation is blown and the agent is killed. After the shooting, Carr swears vengeance on the killer. The villain is Red Diamond, an aging counterfeiter just out of prison who is looking for another score. Carr's girlfriend is court reporter Sally Malone who fails in her every attempt to change Carr into something he isn't. Money Men was adapted into the United Artists motion picture "Boiling Point" starring Wesley Snipes and Dennis Hopper. Petievich followed up with three other Charles Carr novels, One-shot Deal, The Quality of the Informant and To Die in Beverly Hills. In One-shot Deal, Carr is six months from his 25-year retirement when he is assigned to hunt down Larry Phillips, a dangerous psychopath who plans to counterfeit millions of dollars in Treasury securities. In Petievich's third novel, To Die in Beverly Hills, Charles Carr is back in Southern California. At the center of the story is one of the author's most interesting villains, the devious and untrustworthy Beverly Hills detective Travis Bailey. Bailey is at the center of a burglary ring victimizing the stars. Carr goes after Bailey, cop against cop. In Petievich's novel The Quality of the Informant the story begins in a seedy a Hollywood bar, where villain Paul La Monica is discussing a cocaine deal with a movieland hair stylist known as "the dope pusher to the stars." The informant in the case, cocktail waitress Linda Gleason, provides the information to apprehend La Monica. But he escapes and kills her, setting Agent Carr on a trail of revenge. In To Live and Die in L.A. Petievich departs from of the Charles Carr series to write a mainstream thriller concerning Secret Service agent Richard Chance and his quest to destroy a vicious killer. In this novel the morals of the "good guys" wind up as much in question as much as those of the villain. To Live and Die in L.A. was the basis for the 1984 MGM motion picture of the same name, starring Willem Dafoe and William Peterson, who currently plays the lead in the number one rated CBS TV show "C.S.I." To Live and Die in L.A, has become a classic Film Noir and is a popular topic in film classes. Petievich’s L.A. crime thriller, Earth Angels, was based on his hands-on research with the Los Angeles Police Department's newly formed specialized gang detail. The novel ironically mirrors the now infamous LAPD Rampart Division scandal, but was written more than ten years earlier. Petievich’s next novel, Shakedown, was based on an idea that came to him while he was a U.S. Secret Service agent working on a long-term undercover operation involving the theft of government bonds. Petievich said: "I ended up in Hollywood being introduced to one of the most fascinating men I have ever met: a professional blackmailer who had spent years impersonating cops in order to extort movie stars. After I returned home, I sat up half the night making notes on what he had told me." Gerald's novel, Paramour also had a non-fiction background. Written years before the Monica Lewinsky scandal, the novel was loosely grounded on a case Petievich actually investigated involving a mysterious woman who was involved with a high-ranking White House VIP. Petievich's latest novel, “The Sentinel” is a political thriller that involves a White House Secret Service bodyguard and a beguiling woman with whom he is having a torrid affair: the First Lady. Critics consider sentinel to be Petievich’s most compelling novel to date. The motion picture based on it starred Michael Douglas and Kiefer Sutherland and was a 2005 box-office success. Gerald lives in Los Angeles with his wife Pam, a gourmet cook who trained at Paris' Cordon Bleu Cooking School. They have a daughter, Emma.
The Corrupt	by Jack Drew Sep. 08, 2010	Free!	8854 words	Read a sample
Hell is a gunslinger giving chase to a dark entity named Kelsis across the Arizona Territory of the 1800's. The chase has brought Hell to the town of Rehoboth where all is not exactly as it seems.
Author bio: In 2000, I entered two short stories in The Garden State Horror Writers' Association's annual short story contest. One story took Second Place and the other won the Graversen Award for that year. I was informed that no one has ever taken 2nd and 1st place together. After that, I was off and running. I've placed fiction in a bunch of outlets including print anthologies such as TALES FROM A DARKER STATE and DARK NOTES FROM NJ as well as web outlets like HORRORFIND.COM (under Brian Keene's helm) and the IN A FEARFUL STATE e-anthology from the GSHW. I currently reside in Central New Jersey where I split my time between my family and my writing. I've written several novels, all of which will be published in the next year or so from Screaming Aphony Press.
A Community Birthday	by Leslie Vaughn Weaver Sep. 08, 2010	$1.50	3657 words	Sample 35%
Monica, an African-American mother dealing with difficult times, is determined to throw a birthday party for her son at a local Mouse Land. When guests start canceling and the store managers begin demanding payment in full, Monica finds herself caught up in a case of racial bias. Can the situation be defused before the happy occasion becomes a nightmare? A short story from our Diversity line.
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The Twelve	by James K Burk Sep. 08, 2010	$3.99	80362 words	Sample 10%
Valtierra, a city-state, is governed by archetypes. Every two years they choose twelve men and women to wear the masks and to become the Wise Old Man, the Fool, the Mother, the Harlot, the Warrior, and the rest of the council. But now Valtierra faces hunger, decay, and an enemy on their border. When the need for leadership is greatest, one mask is worn by a foreigner and one mask hides a traitor.
Author bio: James K. Burk is to writing what a left-handed swordsman is to fencing; he approaches from different angles, seeing different openings. It's this quality that makes his chapbooks, STRANGE TWISTS OF FATE and ILLUSIONS OF SANITY so aptly named. His first fantasy novel, HIGH RAGE, is presently out of print and a collector's item. His second novel, HOME IS THE HUNTER, is about a faceless assassin who sometimes wonders if he'd also lost his soul. And, for fun, he's written stories for the Bubbas of the Apocalypse anthologies. "The Trailer Park Vampire Meets the Bubba Yumbie" was included in THE BEST OF THE BUBBAS.
In The Hands Of Time	by Ainy Rainwater Sep. 08, 2010	$4.99	77890 words	Sample 50%
Jason's new crew, Sien, is a visionary with disturbing visions---ill-suited for a small ship, which becomes even smaller when they pick up a family from Earth. Are her visions connected to the murder of a religious fanatic on Zan or to the overbearing McGraths and their enigmatic daughter? What Jason and Sien discover on the not-so-routine mapping assignment must be unraveled before time runs out.
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The Memoirs of Countess de Fontaine Part 2	by Missy Maxim Sep. 08, 2010	Free!	16469 words	Read a sample
Serial Story. A dark novel about a woman with magic in her heritage. Ilaria Vanderbilt meets a dashing foreigner while on a birthday trip to Las Vegas with her friends. William de Fontaine is gorgeous, charming, secretive, and never gives up on what he wants. Her 21st birthday is one she'll never forget. Join author Missy Maxim for a tale of supernatural intrigue and high stakes for our heroine.
Author bio: Ms. Maxim is a California resident with a music background. She's been writing non-stop for five years and loves compelling characters and happy endings.
Dark Hour Of The Night	by Daniel Nnerdy Sep. 08, 2010	$1.00	8588 words	Sample 50%
Dark Hour Of The Night: Is a book that contain very raw and interesting poems, of which its costs cannot be compared with its content value, and if well calculated later the price may be higher due to too much rushing of this first badge.
Author bio: Name: Daniel Nnerdy Date of birth: 15th June 1970 Place of birth: Obazu Mbieri Education Attended: Waterside Primary School Umukune, in 1980, Obazu Communty Grammer School, in 1985, and other Distant Education courses. Profession: Did little Trading, Played Football, and have been to several countries for researches but now residing in Cote D’ivoire, where I have put this work together. Parents: Son of Dr. S.O. Nnerdy and a holy mother Prophetess Felicia Nnerdy, of the Shabat Mission Ezuhu Nguru, all in Imo state of Nigeria. Married: Nay Children: Nay Interests: Reading Novels, Literatures, Fictions, Sports, Traveling, music, Watching Films and Writing.
The Last Witch of Manhattan	by Richard Lewis Sep. 08, 2010	$2.99	82274 words	Sample 50%
Eldie's mother, the last of the Balinese witches, has been abducted out of her Manhattan townhouse. Eldie's explorer father has vanished while searching for his wife. Now somebody wants to kidnap Eldie's invisible friend, Sam. With Sam's help, Eldie must develop her powers in order to rescue her parents and prevent a cosmic rift. But as she discovers, her powers are dark and troubled.
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Elder Wonder Comes of Age	by Jaron Summers Sep. 08, 2010	$4.99	91284 words	Sample 50%
A young man's hilarious quest for sex and God. In 1962, Jerry Wonder is a 19-year-old Mormon missionary who leaves South Dakota to save souls in New Zealand. But Elder Wonder is flawed. He is a compulsive masturbator, or in Mormon parlance, a "self-pollinator." Within its comic frame, the novel is informative about the Mormon Church and revealing of the ways older men stifle and control young men.
Author bio: Jaron Summers is an author and screenwriter living in Los Angeles. Like Jerry Wonder in Elder Wonder Comes of Age, Summers was a young Mormon missionary in New Zealand. He could not write this novel until after his mother's death.
Bound Darkly	by Tarrant Smith Sep. 08, 2010	$6.99	95152 words	Sample 10%
Sinnie cannot imagine the dark warrior prophesied for her by the goddess Blodeuwedd. He would be a warrior born of the dark, raised by the despised, and tempered by the unlikely – and her only chance at true love. After nearly a thousand years exiled in the world of men, Hueil, son of Caw, has returned home to the Dark Court of the unseelie to find his future in the unlikely form of Sinnie.
Author bio: Tarrant Smith graduated from Queens College in North Carolina with a degree in English literature. She currently lives near the beautiful town of Madison, Georgia with her husband, son, horses, dogs, and the odd assortment of stray cats. As a self-described kitchen witch, she has always sought out and nurtured the magick that can be found in the mundane trappings of everyday life.
The Fairy Tale Bride	by Kelly McClymer Sep. 08, 2010	$2.99	88114 words	Sample 25%
Miranda Fenster gave up on her own happily-ever-after following a disastrous London season. Determined to convince the impeccably proper Duke of Kerstone he was wrong to thwart her brother's love match, she waylays him and demands he help the star-crossed lovers. Instead, she discovers her second chance for a fairy tale ending depends upon uncovering the duke's darkest secret.
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DUMPED!	by Dee Dawning Sep. 08, 2010	$4.99	26775 words	Sample 20%
Blurb Lila Patterson receives the shock of her life when, after being stood up for lunch by her husband, she returns home and finds her things being moved into a moving van. Storming up to her husband, who, standing on the lawn, seems to be directing the movers, she receives and even bigger shock and faints when their lawyer, her long time friend from college, hands her a divorce petition.
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Deadly Lessons	by Marvin Miller Sep. 08, 2010	$1.00	27558 words	Sample 50%
As a young man, Steve had it all; parents that loved him, money, a good home and a promising future.The problem was that he wanted none of that. He was a sociopath that cared about nothing but himself. Instead of college, he went to prison and when he got out, he and his buddy went on a murderous rampage acorss Texas, New Mexico and Colorado.
Author bio: Just a little old man that likes to write books.
The Eulogist	by Matthew Montague Sep. 08, 2010	Free!	1868 words	Read a sample
If you are my family or friend, I’ve already written your eulogy.
Author bio: Matt Montague raises kids and grass-fed beef in the Finger Lakes of upstate New York. Please feel free to review my writing. I am anxious to learn what people think.
From Me, With Love	by B.K. Wright Sep. 08, 2010	$1.99	7421 words	Sample 20%
Married Until Monday: Trips to the cabin were the best of times for Thom and Julius. Thom had loved Julius since college. When his girlfriend leaves him, Julius turns to Thom. Kevin and Andy: Chance had made them brothers-in-law, now ex-brothers-in-law, and time together had made them friends and confidantes, with a palpable sexual tension between them.
Author bio: I have created/written Beau to Beau fictional stories of Male Love with sincerity to inspire gay men to embrace their sexuality and to enjoy their lives to the fullest, as is deservedly theirs to be realized. These stories are affirmations of the lives of gay men, a joyous celebration of the self as an entire person, not solely a gay person, which seems to be a “category” into which gay men have been thrust by the heterosexual community. This gay person categorization has been allotted with great negativity, seemingly to invoke a sense of shame into its inhabitants. Shame is not the gay man’s to be borne. Shame is the lot of the ignorant!~ My books are also available in print at my website - www.beautobeau.com. ~B.K. Wright~ Beau to Beau has a new author, B.J. Scott, who writes very XXX rated erotic gay short stories. They can be found at 1erotic ebooks, 1romance ebooks, and all romance ebooks, with full steamy excerpts on those sites.
我與貓的故事	by yami yami Sep. 08, 2010	Free!	18 words	Read a sample
這是在記錄我與貓相遇發生的故事!
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Brannai	by peter stulberg Sep. 08, 2010	You set the price!	85819 words	Sample 50%
Philip lay on the floor his body was still and lifeless, Torek turned and walked away with not an ounce of remorse for this had been just another upstart after his title of Lord of all Brannai. Daniel was sixteen when he was introduced into another world that he did not know existed, a strange world of adventure and magic.
Author bio: I am an unemployed Engineer from liverpool, I have spent the last eight momths writing a book called Brannai.To do this in between searching for work and keeping ontop of the house chores has been exciting to say the least.
EXTREME DIFFERENCE	by David Moreton Sep. 08, 2010	$6.00	75788 words	Sample 20%
Dumped on an alien world as an adult, with no memory, and among a strange bunch of people who had filled their own blank memories with myth and legend, what do you do? If you just agree with the others, you stand a good chance of losing what little sanity you have left, and if you don’t, you are labelled a heretic.
Author bio: Retired Research & Development Engineer. Interests:- Physics, Electronics, Chemistry, Renewable Energy Systems. Also:- writing Sci-Fi and building an adult realtime 3D adventure computor game.
Sex and Denial in a Northern Town	by Mark Curnane Sep. 08, 2010	Free!	2809 words	Read a sample
A fictionally account of a man lost to his own inadequate life view. He lacks the understanding needed to deal adequately with life. A first person narative.
Author bio: International Educator - currently Principal at a school Malaysia (2010)
Matt's War	by Tony McFadden Sep. 07, 2010	$4.99	85170 words	Sample 25%
All Matt wanted to do was build his telecommunications consulting business in Asia-Pacific. Until he interrupted a highjacking on a flight from Singapore, that's all he was doing. Other people have other plans for him now, and his life will never be the same. An international thriller spanning Malaysia to Australia, and north to Taiwan, hundreds of lives depend on Matt's actions..
Author bio: Born in Canada, but thoroughly sick of snow, I live, with my wife and two kids, in coastal Australia. Half a kilometre from the beach beats snow any day of the week. I write thrillers and mysteries and mystery thrillers. If you're a fan of Romances, Chick-Lit or anything without mysteries or thrills, you've come to the wrong place.
Rhyme & Reason	by Criseida Santos Guevara Sep. 07, 2010	$3.99	44114 words	Sample 30%
Claudia de Samos, en un quiebre emocional, a punto de esconderse bajo la cama y no salir, se toma un par de tequilas y nos cuenta como es que llego a la situacion en la que se encuentra. El cine mexicano y las canciones de Eminem, sirven para contar la historia de un personaje que arrebata la palabra y nos contagia su flow sobre sus sueños y la mujer que ama que acaba de embarazarse de gemelos.
Author bio: Nació en Monterrey, Nuevo León en 1978. Es maestra en Literatura Hispanoamericana por la New Mexico State University con especialidad en escritura creativa. Ha publicado ensayos sobre literatura mexicana y fronteriza en la revista de Humanidades del Tec de Monterrey. En 2003 co fundó la revista literaria de Universidad Estatal de Nuevo México, Arenas Blancas. Durante el verano de 2008 se reunió junto con varias escritoras de Monterrey para formar la Matraca Generation cuyo manifestó está en vías de construcción. Con Rhyme & Reason obtuvo Mención Honorífica en el Premio Binacional de Novela Joven Frontera de Palabras/Border of Words.
TDF (Incubus Short Story)	by Jess C Scott Sep. 07, 2010	$1.99	22746 words	Sample 10%
A short story, in which a demure young woman unleashes the "devil in" her, through the intimacy with an incubus—her incubus * * * The Devilin Fey is recommended for readers who are seeking something "different" in the "paranormal romance" genre.
Author bio: Jess identifies herself as an author/artist/non-conformist. Her literary work has appeared in a diverse range of publications, such as Word Riot, ITCH Magazine, and The Battered Suitcase. She was a research assistant to the 2010 Jossey-Bass/Wiley publication, My Lie. She is currently working on an urban fantasy project featuring cyberpunk elves. Her novella, The Devilin Fey, hit #1 in Amazon’s “Hot New Releases in Bargain Books” in July 2010.
Amity	by Jeremy Brooks Sep. 07, 2010	$3.99	64631 words	Sample 50%
Reclusive neckbeard Timothy Berbee has exiled himself from the world, and spends his time huddled with the reckless, sinister population of a website called Amity. When they turn their collective poison on him, his life turns into a battle to reconnect with his lost humanity, and a race against his own apathy to save the life of a stranger.
Author bio: Author of edgy, dark fiction with satirical undernotes.
Sex With Sarah Palin	by Neil Crabtree Sep. 07, 2010	$0.99	26235 words	Sample 55%
This is part one of Neil Crabtree's comic thriller, Rooster: The Big Kaboom. When his old partner shows up in Miami promising to make him rich, Rooster finds his world turned upside down. His ex thinks he's part of a shakedown on her husband, a couple of rogue agents use force to get things done, and his company becomes distributor of a device promising Virtual Sex with media darling Sarah Palin.
Author bio: Neil Crabtree lives and writes in Miami, Florida. His short fiction has appeared in online journals like Verbsap.com, BewilderingStories.com, DenverSyntax.com, Tuesday Shorts, and in print in American Fiction, Vol.11 2010 from New Rivers Press. His comic thriller, Rooster: The Big Kaboom, will appear later in 2010. He is currently working on the second Rooster novel, Not Dead Yet, and another short story collection, Lies My Penis Told Me. A children’s storybook, Good Stories For Little Kids, will appear in the fall, 2010. He is the editor of Smashwords Books Reviewed, a blogspot that reviews the work of writers and publsihers at Smashwords. Authors ask for reviews via his email address. http://smashwordsreviewed.blogspot.com

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