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	So Long As You Don't Get Run Over You'll Be Fine	by Sam Jordison April 07, 2012	$4.00	7956 words	Sample 20%
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	Disentangled	by Pete Howells April 07, 2012	$4.79	98666 words	Sample 15%
	Author bio: Pete Howells was born in the North East of England. He attended Bretton Hall College where he studied Art and Drama. His first degree was from Leeds University, his MA from Brighton. Pete has taught English, Art and Drama to a variety of students. He spent 4 years as a singer songwriter touring with various bands before returning to teaching. His main interests remain Literature, Music and the Visual Arts. Pete is fascinated by the world experienced inside the mind and the effect the internal understanding has on our actions. “Those deemed, ‘mentally ill’, ’behaviourally disturbed’ or ‘psychologically damaged’ provide a backdrop to his work. He doesn’t claim to provide answers but he does attempt to ask the right questions through his character.”
	A Blessing and a Curse (Life Knows No Bounds)	by Andrea Clinton April 06, 2012	$2.99	91221 words	Sample 4%
	Author bio: Andrea Clinton is the niece of legendary, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's George Clinton of the funk band, Parliament/Funkadelic and is currently working on his and the families biography. Born in New Jersey, Andrea is a Novelist, Screenwriter, aspiring filmmaker, Editor in Chief of AMISTAD newspaper (and e-magazine) and high school English, World History and Geology teacher. She has a degrees in Journalism, English & Film, and is CEO of a non-profit organization called People Helping People, Inc. She started the "Life Knows No Bounds" series as a book of short stories. But each story took on a life of it's own, so, instead they are 4 novels & a short story that led to a short story book. Andrea is also CEO of a non-profit organization called People Helping People, Inc., and enjoys helping people where ever she goes. In 2003, Andrea was diagnosed with Lupus and it was then that she decided to contribute her stories to the world. Prior, she'd contributed her writings to newspapers and magazines.
	The Bastard Year	by Richard Zuras April 05, 2012	$9.99	38313 words	Sample 20%
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	WINTER GARDENS	by Reed Harp April 05, 2012	$8.00	28637 words	Sample 20%
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	Winter Gardens	by Reed Harp April 05, 2012	$8.00	28637 words	Sample 20%
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	The Termite Queen: Volume One: The Speaking of the Dead	by Lorinda J Taylor April 05, 2012	$3.99	131327 words	Sample 30%
	Author bio: A former catalogue librarian, Lorinda J. Taylor was born in Colorado Springs, Colorado, and worked in several different academic libraries before returning to the place of her birth, where she now lives. She has written fantasy and science fiction for years but has only recently begun to publish. Her main goal is to write entertaining and compelling fiction that leaves her readers with something to think about at the end of each story.
	Tokyo to Tijuana: Gabriele Departing America	by Steven Sills April 04, 2012	You set the price!	186218 words	Sample 20%
	Author bio: Steven David Justin Sills is a poet, novelist, and scholar of great books of the Western Canon. Review from the Arkansas Gazette: Papyrus: An Eloquent Ode to Life's Many Gritty Moments by Amy L. Wilson Arkansas Gazette Little Rock, Arkansas April 1990 An American Papyrus Steven Sills The Chestnut Hills Press Poetry Series 63 pages; $6.95 paperback Twenty-six poems make up this first published book by Steven Sills, 26, of Fayetteville. Sills' vision is often a dark one. He writes of the homeless, the abused, the forgotten people. He is also intrigued with the mystical, the sensual/sexual, loss--as in losing those whom we hold dear, such as a spouse or lover--as well as the lost, such as someone who is autistic, who seems unreachable. Sills' skillful use of the language to impart the telling moments of a life is his strength. He chooses his words carefully, employing a well-developed vocabulary. He is thoughtful about punctuation, where to break lines and when to make a new stanza. He's obviously well versed in "great" literature. Sills' command of language helps to soften the blows of some of the seamier passages found in his poems. Seamy may not be the best word to use. Perhaps gritty is a better word or just plain matter-of-fact and to the point, as in this descriptive passage from "Oracion A Traves De Gasshole," about the hopeless feelings of a respiratory therapy worker: "With the last of the air drawing in/ Begins to fold its walls; and he could imagine it/ Like he could imagine from inexact memories/ The woman last night at the hospital, whom he began to like---/ Her body pulling cell by cell/ Apart before he had a chance to finish the rescue with the hose." The book begins with "Post-Annulment2" a poem with a poignant description of society's displaced--"As the sun blazes upon the terminal's/ Scraped concrete/The shelved rows of the poor men"--and continues by describing a city scene through the eyes of a maintenance worker at the Hilton Hotel. The protagonist's wife has left him and he is taking the bus to work that morning, his mind wandering as he looks for the key to why she is gone. "He rings the bell. / The idea of her not home and legally annulled/ From his life--her small crotch not tightened to his desperate thrusts/ Makes him feel sick. He gets down from the bus./ He goes to work. He suddenly knows that he is not in love." As many poets will do, Sills could not leave this work alone. So a hybrid of this poem, "Post-Annulment" ends the book. In it, he has kept many of the original lines and added parenthetical remarks to expand on his ideas. It is in this context he allows himself to comment on religion: "Religion is a lie! Everything is a lie!" and on marriage: "Marriage, that sanctified legal rape, fosters the child-man to be a destined societal function as he grows up in the family unit." Not all of the poems are so bleak and cynical in every passage, however, as is apparent in "The San Franciscan's Night Meditations": "The night is full of impulses to live and run and seep heavily into its dark robes of silence and morbid rightness." People who do not feel comfortable examining in detail the darker side of life--the the details that the average person overlooks because it just hurts or feels to strange to look--will not enjoy this book. Serious writers of free verse, contemporary poetry and/or those who study it will not be disappointed. Sills, a native of Missouri, is a recent graduate of Southwest Missouri State University in Springfield. He currently is working in Fayetteville. Sills dedicated his book to Mike Burns, a poet and teacher at SMSU who helped him edit his work.
	The Unfettered Life of Kenyon of New Orleans	by Steven Sills April 04, 2012	You set the price!	49879 words	Sample 20%
	Author bio: Steven David Justin Sills is a poet, novelist, and scholar of great books of the Western Canon. Review from the Arkansas Gazette: Papyrus: An Eloquent Ode to Life's Many Gritty Moments by Amy L. Wilson Arkansas Gazette Little Rock, Arkansas April 1990 An American Papyrus Steven Sills The Chestnut Hills Press Poetry Series 63 pages; $6.95 paperback Twenty-six poems make up this first published book by Steven Sills, 26, of Fayetteville. Sills' vision is often a dark one. He writes of the homeless, the abused, the forgotten people. He is also intrigued with the mystical, the sensual/sexual, loss--as in losing those whom we hold dear, such as a spouse or lover--as well as the lost, such as someone who is autistic, who seems unreachable. Sills' skillful use of the language to impart the telling moments of a life is his strength. He chooses his words carefully, employing a well-developed vocabulary. He is thoughtful about punctuation, where to break lines and when to make a new stanza. He's obviously well versed in "great" literature. Sills' command of language helps to soften the blows of some of the seamier passages found in his poems. Seamy may not be the best word to use. Perhaps gritty is a better word or just plain matter-of-fact and to the point, as in this descriptive passage from "Oracion A Traves De Gasshole," about the hopeless feelings of a respiratory therapy worker: "With the last of the air drawing in/ Begins to fold its walls; and he could imagine it/ Like he could imagine from inexact memories/ The woman last night at the hospital, whom he began to like---/ Her body pulling cell by cell/ Apart before he had a chance to finish the rescue with the hose." The book begins with "Post-Annulment2" a poem with a poignant description of society's displaced--"As the sun blazes upon the terminal's/ Scraped concrete/The shelved rows of the poor men"--and continues by describing a city scene through the eyes of a maintenance worker at the Hilton Hotel. The protagonist's wife has left him and he is taking the bus to work that morning, his mind wandering as he looks for the key to why she is gone. "He rings the bell. / The idea of her not home and legally annulled/ From his life--her small crotch not tightened to his desperate thrusts/ Makes him feel sick. He gets down from the bus./ He goes to work. He suddenly knows that he is not in love." As many poets will do, Sills could not leave this work alone. So a hybrid of this poem, "Post-Annulment" ends the book. In it, he has kept many of the original lines and added parenthetical remarks to expand on his ideas. It is in this context he allows himself to comment on religion: "Religion is a lie! Everything is a lie!" and on marriage: "Marriage, that sanctified legal rape, fosters the child-man to be a destined societal function as he grows up in the family unit." Not all of the poems are so bleak and cynical in every passage, however, as is apparent in "The San Franciscan's Night Meditations": "The night is full of impulses to live and run and seep heavily into its dark robes of silence and morbid rightness." People who do not feel comfortable examining in detail the darker side of life--the the details that the average person overlooks because it just hurts or feels to strange to look--will not enjoy this book. Serious writers of free verse, contemporary poetry and/or those who study it will not be disappointed. Sills, a native of Missouri, is a recent graduate of Southwest Missouri State University in Springfield. He currently is working in Fayetteville. Sills dedicated his book to Mike Burns, a poet and teacher at SMSU who helped him edit his work.
	An Apostate: Nawin of Thais	by Steven Sills April 04, 2012	You set the price!	118609 words	Sample 20%
	Author bio: Steven David Justin Sills is a poet, novelist, and scholar of great books of the Western Canon. Review from the Arkansas Gazette: Papyrus: An Eloquent Ode to Life's Many Gritty Moments by Amy L. Wilson Arkansas Gazette Little Rock, Arkansas April 1990 An American Papyrus Steven Sills The Chestnut Hills Press Poetry Series 63 pages; $6.95 paperback Twenty-six poems make up this first published book by Steven Sills, 26, of Fayetteville. Sills' vision is often a dark one. He writes of the homeless, the abused, the forgotten people. He is also intrigued with the mystical, the sensual/sexual, loss--as in losing those whom we hold dear, such as a spouse or lover--as well as the lost, such as someone who is autistic, who seems unreachable. Sills' skillful use of the language to impart the telling moments of a life is his strength. He chooses his words carefully, employing a well-developed vocabulary. He is thoughtful about punctuation, where to break lines and when to make a new stanza. He's obviously well versed in "great" literature. Sills' command of language helps to soften the blows of some of the seamier passages found in his poems. Seamy may not be the best word to use. Perhaps gritty is a better word or just plain matter-of-fact and to the point, as in this descriptive passage from "Oracion A Traves De Gasshole," about the hopeless feelings of a respiratory therapy worker: "With the last of the air drawing in/ Begins to fold its walls; and he could imagine it/ Like he could imagine from inexact memories/ The woman last night at the hospital, whom he began to like---/ Her body pulling cell by cell/ Apart before he had a chance to finish the rescue with the hose." The book begins with "Post-Annulment2" a poem with a poignant description of society's displaced--"As the sun blazes upon the terminal's/ Scraped concrete/The shelved rows of the poor men"--and continues by describing a city scene through the eyes of a maintenance worker at the Hilton Hotel. The protagonist's wife has left him and he is taking the bus to work that morning, his mind wandering as he looks for the key to why she is gone. "He rings the bell. / The idea of her not home and legally annulled/ From his life--her small crotch not tightened to his desperate thrusts/ Makes him feel sick. He gets down from the bus./ He goes to work. He suddenly knows that he is not in love." As many poets will do, Sills could not leave this work alone. So a hybrid of this poem, "Post-Annulment" ends the book. In it, he has kept many of the original lines and added parenthetical remarks to expand on his ideas. It is in this context he allows himself to comment on religion: "Religion is a lie! Everything is a lie!" and on marriage: "Marriage, that sanctified legal rape, fosters the child-man to be a destined societal function as he grows up in the family unit." Not all of the poems are so bleak and cynical in every passage, however, as is apparent in "The San Franciscan's Night Meditations": "The night is full of impulses to live and run and seep heavily into its dark robes of silence and morbid rightness." People who do not feel comfortable examining in detail the darker side of life--the the details that the average person overlooks because it just hurts or feels to strange to look--will not enjoy this book. Serious writers of free verse, contemporary poetry and/or those who study it will not be disappointed. Sills, a native of Missouri, is a recent graduate of Southwest Missouri State University in Springfield. He currently is working in Fayetteville. Sills dedicated his book to Mike Burns, a poet and teacher at SMSU who helped him edit his work.
	Corpus of a Siam Mosquito	by Steven Sills April 04, 2012	You set the price!	73768 words	Sample 20%
	Author bio: Steven David Justin Sills is a poet, novelist, and scholar of great books of the Western Canon. Review from the Arkansas Gazette: Papyrus: An Eloquent Ode to Life's Many Gritty Moments by Amy L. Wilson Arkansas Gazette Little Rock, Arkansas April 1990 An American Papyrus Steven Sills The Chestnut Hills Press Poetry Series 63 pages; $6.95 paperback Twenty-six poems make up this first published book by Steven Sills, 26, of Fayetteville. Sills' vision is often a dark one. He writes of the homeless, the abused, the forgotten people. He is also intrigued with the mystical, the sensual/sexual, loss--as in losing those whom we hold dear, such as a spouse or lover--as well as the lost, such as someone who is autistic, who seems unreachable. Sills' skillful use of the language to impart the telling moments of a life is his strength. He chooses his words carefully, employing a well-developed vocabulary. He is thoughtful about punctuation, where to break lines and when to make a new stanza. He's obviously well versed in "great" literature. Sills' command of language helps to soften the blows of some of the seamier passages found in his poems. Seamy may not be the best word to use. Perhaps gritty is a better word or just plain matter-of-fact and to the point, as in this descriptive passage from "Oracion A Traves De Gasshole," about the hopeless feelings of a respiratory therapy worker: "With the last of the air drawing in/ Begins to fold its walls; and he could imagine it/ Like he could imagine from inexact memories/ The woman last night at the hospital, whom he began to like---/ Her body pulling cell by cell/ Apart before he had a chance to finish the rescue with the hose." The book begins with "Post-Annulment2" a poem with a poignant description of society's displaced--"As the sun blazes upon the terminal's/ Scraped concrete/The shelved rows of the poor men"--and continues by describing a city scene through the eyes of a maintenance worker at the Hilton Hotel. The protagonist's wife has left him and he is taking the bus to work that morning, his mind wandering as he looks for the key to why she is gone. "He rings the bell. / The idea of her not home and legally annulled/ From his life--her small crotch not tightened to his desperate thrusts/ Makes him feel sick. He gets down from the bus./ He goes to work. He suddenly knows that he is not in love." As many poets will do, Sills could not leave this work alone. So a hybrid of this poem, "Post-Annulment" ends the book. In it, he has kept many of the original lines and added parenthetical remarks to expand on his ideas. It is in this context he allows himself to comment on religion: "Religion is a lie! Everything is a lie!" and on marriage: "Marriage, that sanctified legal rape, fosters the child-man to be a destined societal function as he grows up in the family unit." Not all of the poems are so bleak and cynical in every passage, however, as is apparent in "The San Franciscan's Night Meditations": "The night is full of impulses to live and run and seep heavily into its dark robes of silence and morbid rightness." People who do not feel comfortable examining in detail the darker side of life--the the details that the average person overlooks because it just hurts or feels to strange to look--will not enjoy this book. Serious writers of free verse, contemporary poetry and/or those who study it will not be disappointed. Sills, a native of Missouri, is a recent graduate of Southwest Missouri State University in Springfield. He currently is working in Fayetteville. Sills dedicated his book to Mike Burns, a poet and teacher at SMSU who helped him edit his work.
	The End of the World and Other Stories	by Alexander Lurikov April 04, 2012	$2.99	36460 words	Sample 20%
	Author bio: Alexander Lurikov's first work of fiction, Diary of a Discontent, was published in June 2011 by Gray Cadence Publishing House. His most recent collection of stories, The End of the World and Other Stories, is currently available in paperback. Many of Lurikov's stories are available as e-books, including: Demise, A Continual Farewell, Grains of the Golden Sand, Oliver the Abominable, Man Seeking Women, Doctor Highlane, and The Key.
	Death Angel: a short story of literary fiction	by S. E. Lee April 03, 2012	$0.99	4346 words	Sample 15%
	Author bio: S. E. Lee lives and writes in the USA.
	My Governor's House & other stories	by Josh Karaczewski April 01, 2012	$1.99	7742 words	Sample 33%
	Author bio: Josh lives in the San Francisco Bay Area (which is a catch-all meaning that he doesn't live in any of the cool Bay Area cities), and studied at Westmont College in Santa Barbara (though his degree is not in English). Josh is a husband (rapturously happy), father (blissfully proud), and teacher (public high school - I know, ouch). Josh enjoys reading (primarily fiction), writing (obviously), video games (especially shooters and platformers), art (creation and appreciation), film (just appreciation), and travel (9 out of 10 times this means Disneyland). PS. Visitors to his blog will find coupon codes!
	Extremus Terra	by J.D. Stimpson April 01, 2012	$3.99	131202 words	Sample 15%
	Author bio: J.D. Stimpson, 28, was born on Wright Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton, Ohio. He lived everywhere from Vermont to San Antonio growing up, attending the University of Florida and receiving a degree in mathematics along the way. He currently lives in Warner Robins, Georgia, with his loving family: his fiance, Tina, and their happy-go-lucky border collie, Riley.
	Short Journeys	by Sylvia Morice March 31, 2012	$0.99	4056 words	Sample 30%
	Author bio: Sylvia Morice writes fiction, creative non-fiction and poetry. Her work, including several of the stories in Postcards From Home, has been published in various Canadian literary magazines, periodicals and newspapers and two of her short stories were published as a Chapbook 'Wages of Sin 'by Wild East Publishing. Sylvia maintains a blog at sylviamorice.wordpress.com where she writes eclectic, entertaining posts about life and she is currently working on a novel-in-progress. Sylvia is interested in any and all comments about her work and loves to connect with readers and other writers.
	Summer Day	by Frank Parker March 31, 2012	$2.99	61253 words	Sample 20%
	Author bio: Frank is a retired Engineer. He spent most of his working life in England where he was employed by UK based multi-national companies. He always wanted to write but has only found the freedom to do so since retiring to Ireland in October 2006. Formerly resident in Portlaoise, he now lives with Freda, his wife of 48 years, in Stradbally, Co. Laois, Ireland. To date he has published 4 e-books on Smashwords, 2 novels, a free book about the process of writing the first of these and a non-fiction work that describes the discoveries that lead to the establishment of the theory of man-made climate change.
	This Book is Fucking Stupid	by Christopher Nosnibor March 31, 2012	$1.99	64998 words	Sample 20%
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	1-877-Yes-Quit	by Thomas Wauhob March 30, 2012	$2.99	28137 words	Sample 10%
	Author bio: Thomas Wauhob grew up in Wichita Falls, TX. He lives and works in Austin. His short stories have appeared in Pindeldyboz, SNReview, Wilderness House Literary Review, and Dark Sky Magazine. This is his first long form work. In the twentieth century it would have been called a novella.
	+ One	by Brian Baleno March 30, 2012	$8.99	74314 words	Sample 15%
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	Confessions of a Sex Maniac	by David Henry Sterry March 28, 2012	$0.99	9086 words	Sample 20%
	Author bio: David Henry Sterry is a bestselling author, Huffington Post regular, award winning actor/comic, book doctor, teacher, and activist. His latest book is The Essential Guide to Getting Your Book Published (Workman). Before that was The Glorious World Cup (Penguin) about World Cup 2010. His anthology Hos, Hookers, Call Girls & Rent Boys was featured on the front page of the Sunday NY Times book review. His second memoir was Master of Ceremonies: a True Story of Sex, Drugs, Rollerskates and Chippendale's (Grove Atlantic/Canongate, 2008). He is writer of and performer in the one-man show "Chicken", based on his bestselling memoir Chicken: Self-Portrait of a Young Man for Rent (ReganBooks: 2002), which has been translated into nine languages, and is being made into a Hollywood movie. Putting Your Passion into Print (Workman, 2005), was based on the class he taught at Stanford. Satchel Sez: The Wit, Wisdom & World of Leroy "Satchel" Paige (Random House, 2001), was an ALA pick-of-the-year,. His story in San Francisco Noir (Akashic, 2005) was a finalist for the Henry Miller Award. His poetry has appeared everywhere from Santa Monica Review to the Hungry Orangutan. He's written for The London Times, The San Francisco Chronicle, Penthouse, and The Scotsman. And he’s written screenplays for Disney, Fox, and Nickelodeon. Sterry has taught at Reed College, University of New Orleans, Berkeley High School, Columbia, SF State, and to the US Department of Justice. He’s helped lawyers, models, architects, and writers present themselves and their ideas with clarity and passion. He’s also helped dozens of amateur writers become professional authors. Sterry wrote and performed in "Chicken", the show, which he presented at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, where it was named the UK's #1 play by The Independent. He’s performed with everyone from Robin Williams to Milton Berle to Will Smith to Michael Caine to Zippy the Chimp. As a TV pitchman he performed in over 750 commercials, winning 4 Clios. Starred in HBO's Emmy Award-winning Encyclopedia. Emceed at Chippendale's in NY. Sterry has produced events such as Pitchapalooza, an American Idol for books, which has sold out venues from the Miami Book Festival to the venerable Strand Bookstore. His Art of the Memoir has been presented from the 92nd St Y. to City Lights. Putting Your Passion Into Print has been presented everywhere from Miami-Dade College to the Texas Book Festival. Sex Worker Literati been done everywhere from the original Barnes & Noble in New York City to Powell’s in Portland, Oregon. Sterry has been featured in: The New York Times, The London Times, The Sunday Times, The LA Times, The Washington Post, New York Magazine, Details Magazine, BBC, NPR's Morning and Weekend Edition, as well as Talk of the Nation. Chicken was published by Canongate in the UK, Dutch (de Kern), German (Rowohlt), Spanish (Grupo Planeta), Croatian (Celeber), and Russia (Red Fish), and in Italian (Adelphi). Sterry has worked as a chicken, a chicken fryer, a master of ceremonies, a soda jerk, a cherrypicker, a poet, a building inspector, a telephone solicitationist, a limo driver, a barker, an industrial sex technician, and a marriage counselor. He graduated from Reed College, and loves his cat, his girls, and any sport involving a ball.
	Stalker	by Michael Grant March 27, 2012	$2.99	72485 words	Sample 10%
	Author bio: Michael Grant left the New York City Police Department after 23 years and went to work at W.R. Grace Company as a Security Coordinator. In 1990, Mr. Grant moved to Florida where he wrote his first three novels: Line of Duty, Officer Down, and Retribution. In 2006 he returned to Long Island where he has written six more novels: The Cove, Back To Venice, When I Come Home, Dear Son,Hey Ma,In The Time of Famine,and Krystal. Mr. Grant has a BS in Criminal Justice and an MA in psychology from John Jay College. He is also a graduated of the FBI National Academy. Mr. Grant currently lives on Long Island with his wife, Elizabeth, and their Golden Retriever, Jack. Mr. Grant has two daughters and four grandchildren. He can be contacted at mggrant08@gmail.com.
	Walk, Not Stay: a short story	by Jeff Posey March 27, 2012	$0.99	5971 words	Sample 30%
	Author bio: “Where did these rocks come from?” asked the geology professor. The fifty or so students ambling among the pile of stones at the bottom of the hill offered answers in tentative voices: a Precambrian ocean, an ancient river, the continental shelf …. The professor shouted “No!” to each answer. Then a skinny, prematurely balding student pointed at the top of the hill with his rock hammer and said in a ringing voice, “They come from up there!” “Exactly!” boomed the professor. That skinny boy was me. I’ve always had a flair for pointing out the embarrassingly obvious. Friends and colleagues say I have a gift for explanation, clarification, synthesis. I’m also fascinated by darned near everything. Which explains why I: Have a geology degree, nearly earned a degree in biology, nearly earned a master’s degree in journalism, spent a decade as a magazine writer and editor, did five-and-a-half-years of night school to get a master’s degree in financial analysis (of all things), and once tried my hand as an independent financial consultant. I like challenges. If I feel ignorant about something, that motivates me to figure it out. My work credits include: DFW Writers’ Conference, for which I was Director in 2011 Founder and sole member of Jeff Posey Enterprises LLC, the business entity for both my Author and Corporate work Javelin Marketing Group, where I labored on more than 80 pitches to prospective clients and placed nearly 50 stories in the trade press Carter & Burgess Inc. (now Jacobs Engineering Group Inc.), where I managed external and internal communications Free Range Communications Group Inc., a marketing/communications company I founded and managed for five years VHA Inc., where I started up and managed a book-publishing division American Way magazine where I managed more than fifty freelance writers and started up a fiction section D Magazine, where as City Editor covering Dallas politics I learned over and over that nothing is as it seems Sun Exploration and Production Co., where I looked for (and found) oil and gas deposits The University of Dallas and Fun/Ed Inc., where I taught people how to write fiction Along the way, I’ve earned an award for investigative magazine journalism, gathered more than a dozen speaking awards with Toastmasters International, and published about a half-dozen short stories with small literary magazines.
	Leftovers: A Novel	by Arthur Wooten March 26, 2012	$2.99	59756 words	Sample 10%
	Author bio: Arthur Wooten is the author of the critically acclaimed novels Leftovers, On Picking Fruit, Fruit Cocktail and Birthday Pie as well as the children's book Wise Bear William: A New Beginning illustrated by Bud Santora. He's also penned Arthur Wooten's Shorts: A Stroke Of Luck and The "Dear Henry" Letters. Also a playwright, his works include the award winning Birthday Pie, which had its world premiere at the Waterfront Playhouse, Key West, FL. His one act plays, Lily and The Lunch, have been produced Off-Off Broadway. For two years he has been the humorist for the London based magazine, reFRESH. Arthur grew up in Andover, MA and now resides in New York City.
	Straight People and Their Problems	by Lee Patton March 26, 2012	$2.99	7056 words	Sample 20%
	Author bio: After growing up in an immigrant/lumbering/fishing town on California's Mendocino Coast, and after college in Sacramento and San Francisco, I headed to Colorado to teach high school and work on my M.A. in Denver University’s Writing Program. In the late 80’s, I wrote plays for Denver’s legendary Changing Scene. That led me to develop plays produced in Arizona, New Hampshire, Oregon, and Alaska, then off-off Broadway in New York. A scholarship sent me to London to study theatre, where a jealous-love murder threat in our dorm inspired the fictionalized events of my first novel, Nothing Gold Can Stay (Alyson Books, 2000, published as Casey Nelson to avoid embarrassing my fellow students and teachers). In the second novel, Love and Genetic Weaponry: The Beginner's Guide (Alyson Books, 2009), I explored a completely fictitious Hitchcockian-paranoid-romance set among very real Western landscapes. The idea of the amateur sleuth fascinated me, especially my protagonist, Ray O’Brien, a young teacher forced into the role of accidental detective. He must solve the mystery and defuse danger using only his everyday wits and evolving insights into human nature. Like my character, I have found myself in the midst of a role I never predicted—accidental mystery writer. But I’m at work on the third novel in the series, Fresh Grave in Grand Canyon, which gives me a chance to explore more of what I love—whitewater rafting and the canyon’s surreal geology—and develop another romance interrupted, of course, by murder.
	Dark Metaphor	by Anachron Press March 26, 2012	$0.99	6904 words	Sample 20%
	Author bio: Colin F. Barnes is a writer and publisher from the UK who writes Speculative and Thriller fiction. He likes to take the gritty edginess from his surroundings and personal experiences and translate them into his stories. He also edits anthology and currently has two out: Killing My Boss and City of Hell Chronicles: Volume 1. Like many writers, he has an insatiable appetite for reading, with his favourite authors being: Stephen King, Ray Bradbury, James Herbert, Albert Camus, H.P Lovecraft, Clark Ashton Smith, China Mieville and a vast array of unknown authors who he has had the privilege of beta reading for.
	Catalogue Numérique	by Anne de Gandt March 24, 2012	Free!	10457 words	Sample 20%
	Author bio: Écrivain-photographe, Anne de Gandt crée des univers où se mêlent passé et présent, rêve et réalité. Son travail est une invitation aux voyages, à travers le temps, l'espace, la mémoire, l'identité et l'espoir. Writer-photographer, Anne de Gandt creates worlds which mingle past and present, dream and reality. She invites you to journey across time, space, memory, identity and hope.
	Virá a morte e terá os teus olhos	by Luis Soares March 24, 2012	$6.99	114917 words	Sample 20%
	Author bio: Luís Soares nasceu em 1972 e sempre viveu em Lisboa, apesar do fascínio pela viagem. Não se lembra de não gostar de música, cinema e livros. Outros gostos e desgostos foram sendo adquiridos. Por só precisar de uma caneta ou lápis, começou a escrever muito cedo. A sua primeira história era policial e passava-se em Londres. A segunda era interminável e passava-se em Lisboa e outros lugares imaginados. Em 2003 editou o primeiro de quatro romances pela Oficina do Livro, "Aquariofilia". A este e na mesma editora sucederam-se "Os Adultos" (2005), "Em Silêncio, Amor" (2007) e "Regresso a Barcelona" (2009). Escreve e lê todos os dias e gostava de só fazer isso, mas não pode. Paralelamente, sempre se interessou por tecnologias, particularmente as digitais e os ecossistemas que criam para uma expressão criativa e política mais desintermediada. Trabalhou no CITI, no Ministério da Cultura (quando ainda havia), na Associação Terràvista, como freelancer, na TV Cabo, PT Conteúdos, Beactive e no portal SAPO. Faz parte da equipa que gere o projeto MEO Kanal. Escreveu também sobre as questões da era digital das comunicações, textos com títulos como "O Utilizador é o Conteúdo", "Um Ponto Zero", "O Lugar de Hamlet", "A Inquietude Dinâmica" ou "Estranhos Anjos". Recentemente contribuiu também para o livro "Ideias Perigosas para Portugal" organizado por Gustavo Cardoso e João Caraça com o texto "Transformar as Escolas em Media".
	What Eats Us	by Jason Boyd March 23, 2012	$0.99	25672 words	Sample 25%
	Author bio: Jason Boyd resides in Texas's Dallas-Fort Worth area with his soon-to-be wife Jessica and their three cats. He likes interacting with readers and eagerly looks forward to getting emails from fans.
	El Puente Sobre el Caos	by Javier Orrego C. March 22, 2012	$12.00	180827 words	Sample 17%
	Author bio: Escritor chileno nacido en 1960 en la ciudad de Antofagasta. Amante de la sabiduría y la espiritualidad de todos los pueblos y de todos los tiempos, ha estado en contacto con fuentes genuinas de conocimiento tanto de Oriente como de Occidente. Escribe para entender el mundo en el que vive. Se define a sí mismo como un náufrago, un sobreviviente. “He dejado de ser yo. A estas alturas de mi vida ya no soy yo, sino lo que queda de mí: una braza ardiente dejada en la noche a orillas del camino. Pero permanezco aquí, siempre fiel a mí mismo, brillando para otros en medio de la edad más oscura del mundo...”. (de “Autobiografía NO-AUTORIZADA”)
	A Small Steel Box	by Sylvia Morice March 22, 2012	$0.99	3772 words	Sample 40%
	Author bio: Sylvia Morice writes fiction, creative non-fiction and poetry. Her work, including several of the stories in Postcards From Home, has been published in various Canadian literary magazines, periodicals and newspapers and two of her short stories were published as a Chapbook 'Wages of Sin 'by Wild East Publishing. Sylvia maintains a blog at sylviamorice.wordpress.com where she writes eclectic, entertaining posts about life and she is currently working on a novel-in-progress. Sylvia is interested in any and all comments about her work and loves to connect with readers and other writers.
	Sane Asylum	by Shelley Altamont March 22, 2012	$5.00	10642 words	Sample 20%
	Author bio: Shelley Altamont is a poet of the perverse. No allegiance is submitted to any value but that of beautiful writing. Please sign up for the mailing list to be notified of future releases: altamont@yarrowpaisley.com
	Chicago Time	by Richard Hellinga March 22, 2012	$2.99	74285 words	Sample 20%
	Author bio: Richard Hellinga was born and raised in the Chicago area. He worked for a dozen years in the IT industry and has a master’s degree from the Professional Writing program at USC. He now resides with his wife and children near Lansing, MI.
	La Bocca della VeritÃ	by Andrea Scordino March 22, 2012	$1.00	3749 words	Sample 5%
	Author bio: Diploma di specializzazione in analisi transazionale presso il B.I.T. di Torino
	Ancient Tales, Modern Legends	by Ted Gross March 22, 2012	$6.99	83311 words	Sample 10%
	Author bio: Ted Gross was born and raised in Manhattan, New York City and in 1978, moved to Israel, and currently resides in Jerusalem. In 2002, Ted as a reserve battlefield medic ended up in Jenin, and the battles that took place there became front-page news all over the world and the book (as of yet unpublished) "Three Weeks In Jenin" is a graphic experience of what was experienced in this village during that time. "Ancient Tales, Modern Legends" is a collection of short stories which were written over a period of many years Ted's love of the short story art-form is apparent in this book. His early reading was greatly influenced by I.B. Singer, O'Henry, Cheever and Vonnegut. He currently is working on the "Chronicles of the Children of Heaven" (a fantasy work) which the first Volume "A Tale That Is Told - Part 1" has been released on Kindle and in Paperback. A second collection of short stories is to be released as well. Over the years short stories by Ted have been published in various venues. "A Pot Of Gold" was recently published by Istoria Books (in their "Lunch Reads 4) with excellent reviews and is available on all electronic devices as well.
	AffectionAires Part 4	by Jeffra Hays March 21, 2012	$2.99	40860 words	Sample 20%
	Author bio: A zillion years ago, in the tiny spaces of my tiny mind, tangled yarns confused. O come! Come, reader! Join me as we -- characters all -- snip to clip the endless loop of interior consternation. Come, reader!
	Elijah's Coins	by Ted Gross March 21, 2012	$1.99	8762 words	Sample 20%
	Author bio: Ted Gross was born and raised in Manhattan, New York City and in 1978, moved to Israel, and currently resides in Jerusalem. In 2002, Ted as a reserve battlefield medic ended up in Jenin, and the battles that took place there became front-page news all over the world and the book (as of yet unpublished) "Three Weeks In Jenin" is a graphic experience of what was experienced in this village during that time. "Ancient Tales, Modern Legends" is a collection of short stories which were written over a period of many years Ted's love of the short story art-form is apparent in this book. His early reading was greatly influenced by I.B. Singer, O'Henry, Cheever and Vonnegut. He currently is working on the "Chronicles of the Children of Heaven" (a fantasy work) which the first Volume "A Tale That Is Told - Part 1" has been released on Kindle and in Paperback. A second collection of short stories is to be released as well. Over the years short stories by Ted have been published in various venues. "A Pot Of Gold" was recently published by Istoria Books (in their "Lunch Reads 4) with excellent reviews and is available on all electronic devices as well.
	Kapparot	by Ted Gross March 21, 2012	$1.99	5000 words	Sample 20%
	Author bio: Ted Gross was born and raised in Manhattan, New York City and in 1978, moved to Israel, and currently resides in Jerusalem. In 2002, Ted as a reserve battlefield medic ended up in Jenin, and the battles that took place there became front-page news all over the world and the book (as of yet unpublished) "Three Weeks In Jenin" is a graphic experience of what was experienced in this village during that time. "Ancient Tales, Modern Legends" is a collection of short stories which were written over a period of many years Ted's love of the short story art-form is apparent in this book. His early reading was greatly influenced by I.B. Singer, O'Henry, Cheever and Vonnegut. He currently is working on the "Chronicles of the Children of Heaven" (a fantasy work) which the first Volume "A Tale That Is Told - Part 1" has been released on Kindle and in Paperback. A second collection of short stories is to be released as well. Over the years short stories by Ted have been published in various venues. "A Pot Of Gold" was recently published by Istoria Books (in their "Lunch Reads 4) with excellent reviews and is available on all electronic devices as well.
	The Sunflower	by Ted Gross March 21, 2012	$1.99	5125 words	Sample 20%
	Author bio: Ted Gross was born and raised in Manhattan, New York City and in 1978, moved to Israel, and currently resides in Jerusalem. In 2002, Ted as a reserve battlefield medic ended up in Jenin, and the battles that took place there became front-page news all over the world and the book (as of yet unpublished) "Three Weeks In Jenin" is a graphic experience of what was experienced in this village during that time. "Ancient Tales, Modern Legends" is a collection of short stories which were written over a period of many years Ted's love of the short story art-form is apparent in this book. His early reading was greatly influenced by I.B. Singer, O'Henry, Cheever and Vonnegut. He currently is working on the "Chronicles of the Children of Heaven" (a fantasy work) which the first Volume "A Tale That Is Told - Part 1" has been released on Kindle and in Paperback. A second collection of short stories is to be released as well. Over the years short stories by Ted have been published in various venues. "A Pot Of Gold" was recently published by Istoria Books (in their "Lunch Reads 4) with excellent reviews and is available on all electronic devices as well.
	Arc of Passion	by Maura Stone March 20, 2012	$1.99	4947 words	Sample 30%
	Author bio: A former commercial banker, Maura Stone astounded friends and critics with her scathing sense of humor in "Five-Star FLEECING," the 2011 Winner of the National Indie Excellence Award for Comedy. She's back with a five-part comedy ebook series under the heading, "eDating Advice from the Bubbameistah." Channelling her mother as the character of the Bubbameistah, she kicks off the series with "Men, eDating and Mast*****ion" addressing online dating with sass and wit, a no-holds-barred rip-roaring parody of self-help books and web advice. Don't underestimate the Bubbameistah! She knows all about digital romance, having gone down this virtual path as described in her mini ebook on the go, "Arc of Passion." "Arc of Passion" is a literary pettifour with short stories for the time-challenged. Both "Men, eDating and Mast*****ion" and "Arc of Passion" sold on smashwords.
	The Heretic	by Ted Gross March 20, 2012	$1.99	8176 words	Sample 20%
	Author bio: Ted Gross was born and raised in Manhattan, New York City and in 1978, moved to Israel, and currently resides in Jerusalem. In 2002, Ted as a reserve battlefield medic ended up in Jenin, and the battles that took place there became front-page news all over the world and the book (as of yet unpublished) "Three Weeks In Jenin" is a graphic experience of what was experienced in this village during that time. "Ancient Tales, Modern Legends" is a collection of short stories which were written over a period of many years Ted's love of the short story art-form is apparent in this book. His early reading was greatly influenced by I.B. Singer, O'Henry, Cheever and Vonnegut. He currently is working on the "Chronicles of the Children of Heaven" (a fantasy work) which the first Volume "A Tale That Is Told - Part 1" has been released on Kindle and in Paperback. A second collection of short stories is to be released as well. Over the years short stories by Ted have been published in various venues. "A Pot Of Gold" was recently published by Istoria Books (in their "Lunch Reads 4) with excellent reviews and is available on all electronic devices as well.
	Reverieing	by Ted Gross March 20, 2012	$1.99	8223 words	Sample 20%
	Author bio: Ted Gross was born and raised in Manhattan, New York City and in 1978, moved to Israel, and currently resides in Jerusalem. In 2002, Ted as a reserve battlefield medic ended up in Jenin, and the battles that took place there became front-page news all over the world and the book (as of yet unpublished) "Three Weeks In Jenin" is a graphic experience of what was experienced in this village during that time. "Ancient Tales, Modern Legends" is a collection of short stories which were written over a period of many years Ted's love of the short story art-form is apparent in this book. His early reading was greatly influenced by I.B. Singer, O'Henry, Cheever and Vonnegut. He currently is working on the "Chronicles of the Children of Heaven" (a fantasy work) which the first Volume "A Tale That Is Told - Part 1" has been released on Kindle and in Paperback. A second collection of short stories is to be released as well. Over the years short stories by Ted have been published in various venues. "A Pot Of Gold" was recently published by Istoria Books (in their "Lunch Reads 4) with excellent reviews and is available on all electronic devices as well.
	Addiction, Obsession, Love	by Ted Gross March 20, 2012	$1.99	11690 words	Sample 20%
	Author bio: Ted Gross was born and raised in Manhattan, New York City and in 1978, moved to Israel, and currently resides in Jerusalem. In 2002, Ted as a reserve battlefield medic ended up in Jenin, and the battles that took place there became front-page news all over the world and the book (as of yet unpublished) "Three Weeks In Jenin" is a graphic experience of what was experienced in this village during that time. "Ancient Tales, Modern Legends" is a collection of short stories which were written over a period of many years Ted's love of the short story art-form is apparent in this book. His early reading was greatly influenced by I.B. Singer, O'Henry, Cheever and Vonnegut. He currently is working on the "Chronicles of the Children of Heaven" (a fantasy work) which the first Volume "A Tale That Is Told - Part 1" has been released on Kindle and in Paperback. A second collection of short stories is to be released as well. Over the years short stories by Ted have been published in various venues. "A Pot Of Gold" was recently published by Istoria Books (in their "Lunch Reads 4) with excellent reviews and is available on all electronic devices as well.
	The Angry Dust	by William Davey March 20, 2012	$3.99	85896 words	Sample 20%
	Author bio: William Davey’s literary prowess is well know in Western Europe and the Pacific rim. He has been called “an extraordinary writer” in France and “a lion with a heart” in England. Son of renowned painter Randall Davey, he was educated at Princeton, the University of California at Berkeley, New York University and the Sorbonne. He has been a high-goal polo player, an army instructor of horsemanship at Fort Riley, a commando during WWII in the First Special Service Force on which the Green Berets now fashion themselves, a member of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada, and the U. S. Chess Association. He has published three novels, a volume of short stories, and three volumes of poetry
	Three Novellas	by Sandra Shwayder Sanchez March 20, 2012	$3.99	67433 words	Sample 20%
	Author bio: Sandra Shwayder Sanchez earned a BA in Behavioral Sciences at University of Maryland and a Juris Doctor degree from Denver University Law School. Her law practice involved the representation of indigent clients in the Denver criminal, family and mental health courts. In the early seventies she built a house and farmed in rural West Virginia. She now lives in a small mountain town in Colorado with her husband Ed Sanchez. The short stories and novellas of Sandra Shwayder Sanchez have appeared in The Long Story,  Zone 3, The Healing Muse, Storyglossia, The Dublin Quarterly, and Cantaraville. Her first novel, The Nun, was published in 1992 by Plain ViewPress, and a new novel, The Secret of a Long Journey, a novel about the secret identity of generations from the Inquisition to New Mexico and told in magical realist style will be forthcoming this year from Floricanto Press.
	The Two Paths	by R.P. Burnham March 20, 2012	$3.99	108300 words	Sample 20%
	Author bio: R.P. Burnham edits The Long Story literary magazine and is a writer. He has published fiction and essays in many literary magazines. He has published five novels with The Wessex Collective—On a Darkling Plain, Envious Shadows, The Many Change and Pass, A Robin Redbreast in a Cage, and The Two Paths. Most of his fiction is set in Maine, where he was born and raised and has deep root; thematically his fiction explores the boundaries of the self and addresses the question of what our duties and responsibilities are to others. The Least Shadow of Public Thought, a book of his essays that introduce each issue of The Long Story, was published in 1996 by Juniper Press as part of its Voyages Series. He was educated at the University of Southern Maine (undergraduate) and The University of Wisconsin–Madison (graduate). He is married to Kathleen A. FitzPatrick, an associate professor of biology at Merrimack College in North Andover.
	Boy Youth Man	by X-Comm eBooks March 19, 2012	$3.50	53673 words	Sample 20%
	Author bio: X-Communication is the parent company of Overcoat Books, featuring the literary work of Joseph Maiolo, and Zenith City Press, publishers of fine books celebrating the history of Duluth, Western Lake Superior, and Minnesota's Arrowhead.
	A Robin Redbreast in a Cage	by R.P. Burnham March 19, 2012	$3.99	107642 words	Sample 20%
	Author bio: R.P. Burnham edits The Long Story literary magazine and is a writer. He has published fiction and essays in many literary magazines. He has published five novels with The Wessex Collective—On a Darkling Plain, Envious Shadows, The Many Change and Pass, A Robin Redbreast in a Cage, and The Two Paths. Most of his fiction is set in Maine, where he was born and raised and has deep root; thematically his fiction explores the boundaries of the self and addresses the question of what our duties and responsibilities are to others. The Least Shadow of Public Thought, a book of his essays that introduce each issue of The Long Story, was published in 1996 by Juniper Press as part of its Voyages Series. He was educated at the University of Southern Maine (undergraduate) and The University of Wisconsin–Madison (graduate). He is married to Kathleen A. FitzPatrick, an associate professor of biology at Merrimack College in North Andover.
	Holiday Memory	by Joanne Benford March 19, 2012	$0.99	6219 words	Sample 20%
	Author bio: Joanne Benford is a popular UK author of fiction, poetry and non-fiction. She started writing professionally aged 20, and now regularly writes for several magazines, including The Idler, Towards 2012, Cracked Mirror, Diva, Talking Stick and The Edge. Joanne also regularly writes features and articles for magazines such as Woman’s Own, People’s Friend and Best, where her short stories can also be found. Her first book, Down By The Water, was shortlisted for the Raymond Williams Publishing Prize. She graduated from Lancaster University with a BA Hons and Masters degree in Literary Studies and completed her PhD thesis at Sunderland University. Areas of research concentrate mainly on feminism, media and popular culture and include articles on many films, television programmes and cultural theories. She is currently completing her seventh novel, and is Creative Writing lecturer for the Open University.
	Come The Fall	by Marshall Ford March 18, 2012	$2.99	7542 words	Sample 20%
	Author bio: