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	Nightmares	by Jerome Brooke March 17, 2012	$1.99	2148 words	Sample 20%
	Author bio: GoodSamaritan Press Chonburi, Thailand Publisher - Jerome Brooke was born in Evansville, Indiana. He nowlives in the Kingdom of Siam. He has written Our Lady of Silk and many other books. His work has recently been published in a number of journals, including World of Myth – Welcome to Wherever - Indigo – Candidum - MelBrake Press blog - First Literary Review - Ides of March - Conceit - Pink Mouse - and Mirror Dance. Islespoetrylibrary.4mg.com Jeromevbrooke.wordpress.com Poemhunter.com/Jerome-brooke Poetryoftheisles.blogspot.com Myspace.com/jeromevbrooke
	Moorings	by Nancy Slavin March 17, 2012	$4.99	115602 words	Sample 20%
	Author bio: Nancy Slavin is a writer, teacher, and mother. Her work can be found in print at Rain Magazine, Barrelhouse, hipfish, Literary Mama, Avocet, and Hip Mama Magazine. Moorings was the Nina May Kellog first place winner of Graduate Fiction.
	Soledad en la guerra	by Joaquín Padeira March 17, 2012	$4.99	110763 words	Sample 20%
	Author bio: Joaquín Padeira (Madrid, 1958), abogado y escritor, es autor de numerosos cuentos, guiones y novelas, algunos de los cuales sólo en los últimos años han comenzado a ver la luz. En 2007 se publica con gran éxito de público su primera novela, "El aliento de la serpiente" (Literaturas Com Libros), obra de corte policíaco, en la que destaca el cuidado estudio psicológico de sus personajes y una pormenorizada descripción de los diversos ambientes en los que se desarrolla la acción. Tan sólo un año después se edita en catalán "Soledad en la guerra" (Maikalili, 2008), obra ambientada en la guerra civil española y "políticamente incorrecta", que no deja indiferente al lector. Literaturas Com Libros tiene proyectada su publicación en castellano en próximas fechas. En 2011 aparece "La tierra desnuda" (Literaturas Com Libros), obra cerrada y completa, ambientada a caballo entre España y Australia, que auna de manera excelente la tensión propia de una novela negra con el tono más profundo y psicológico de una composición de corte introspectivo. "La vida de los demás", última novela de Joaquín Padeira, consigue mantener una tensión constante mientras nos introduce con una narración ágil en ese lado bronco de la vida cotidiana que late junto a todos nosotros y que, cuando casualmente nos toca, es capaz de desbaratar todas nuestras seguridades. Con varias novelas en preparación, Joaquín Padeira reside actualmente en Madrid en donde compagina su actividad literaria con el ejercicio de la abogacía.
	Abraham The Anchor Baby Terrorist	by Sean Boling March 17, 2012	$4.99	74998 words	Sample 30%
	Author bio: Sean lives in Paso Robles, California with his wife and two children. He teaches English at Cuesta College.
	A Short Stay in Hell	by Steven L. Peck March 16, 2012	$2.99	27595 words	Sample 15%
	Author bio: Steven L. Peck is an evolutionary ecologist and professor of the philosophy and history of science. He is the author of a previous novel, The Scholar of Moab (Torrey House Press, 2011), and a forthcoming young adult novel, Spear from the Wealdend’s Tree (Cedar Fort Press).
	Gnawing the Bone: Dog Fiction	by Raud Kennedy March 16, 2012	$4.99	49499 words	Sample 15%
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	Before the Gates	by K. Zeth Ozbirn March 16, 2012	$2.99	70232 words	Sample 10%
	Author bio: View Blog @ finitenoir.blogspot.com K. Zeth Ozbirn has written for several journals and reviews. He revises ruthlessly with the over-critical eye of a Japanese sword smith folding his steel many times over, until the blade is strong and flexible at once. Stories should cut with the same quickness as a well-finished wakizashi. Each should be malleable to the reader's mind, ambiguous enough to bend like the best blade, but resiliently forceful enough to get the intention of the emotive impact to the reader intact. However, if there is time available, the reader should be able to spend time gazing at the sword to find its intricacies and carvings, the steel's polished glaze in the sunlight, the hand-wrapped gilded grip. He recently left the United States Navy, where he was a quartermaster and ship's diver/rescue swimmer. There is only ever one goal for the artist, to reach their audience, and to move them.
	On a Darkling Plain	by R.P. Burnham March 16, 2012	$3.99	116787 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.
	Rebecca	by Nealy Gihan March 15, 2012	$0.99	2676 words	Sample 20%
	Author bio: Ever since I could hold a pencil in my hand and form letters, I've been writing and surrounding myself with words. I am a former newspaper reporter and copyeditor who now labors as a corporate copywriter by day and lives as a fiction writer by night. I have a bachelor's degree in journalism from Hampton University and a master's in literary writing from DePaul University.
	The Farmer from Paypalia	by Ian Martin March 15, 2012	$0.99	1763 words	Sample 30%
	Author bio: Now I understand why my muse waited until I was 50 before giving me the nod. Mainstream publishers would never have touched the stuff I write. Years of humiliation and disappointment might have been too much for me to bear, and maybe I would have succumbed to full-blown alcoholism and drug addiction, and ended up by committing suicide. To save me from such a fate my muse held back until technology advanced to the point where I could safely sidestep those obscurantist gatekeepers trying to prevent me from getting to my readers. Now I can write what I like, put it up on Smashwords, and share the contents of my mind with anyone discerning enough to enjoy a certain brand of dark humour.
	The Many Change and Pass	by R.P. Burnham March 15, 2012	$3.99	138835 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.
	Before and After	by Michael O'Leary March 15, 2012	$2.99	7166 words	Sample 20%
	Author bio: Kia ora tātau He mihi kia koutou Mā te ako ka mārama Mā te mārama ka mātau Mā te mātau ka ora Horahia te marino Horahia i Rotorua Tukua te rangi mo te ruri Kia rerehu – i. E hinawa – e! Nō reira: tēnā koutou, tēnā koutou, tēnā koutou katoa. By learning comes understanding Through understanding comes knowledge and wisdom Through knowledge and wisdom comes life and well-being Spread out below lies Rotorua Lake; How calm and still it lies! This is our day for dance and song How far will the sound travel! My name is Michael O’Leary, I was born in Auckland in 1950 and I am from Irish and Te Arawa ancestors. This whakatauki is a mixture of two works: the first tells of the importance of knowledge and wisdom as life-affirming aspects of being a human in this world, the second comes from my own tribal roots and tells of the natural world, and how we must celebrate both the natural and human worlds in song and dance, and most writers, academic or otherwise, often ask the question: ‘How far will my voice and words travel?’ I am a writer, poet, novelist, artist and publisher, my Earl of Seacliff Art Workshop imprint has published over 120 titles of New Zealand literary works and in 2009 we celebrated 25 years of publishing. My own writing includes five novels, ten volumes of poetry, short stories, plus several non-fiction publications. My writing has been published in anthologies and my art work has been shown in galleries. In 2010 I had a work on display at Pataka in Porirua as part of the exhibition celebrating poet Alistair Campbell’s life and work. I have also worked with several Kapiti musicians who recorded a CD of songs inspired by my poetry which came out late in 2011. In the 1990s several of my songs were recorded by the Dunedin Irish band Blackthorn. In 1996 I was awarded my BA from Otago University and an MA in English from Victoria University in 2002. More recently I completed a PhD in the Gender and Women’s Studies Department at Victoria University. My thesis is titled ‘Social and Literary Constraints on Women Writers in New Zealand 1945 to 1970’, that is, from the end of WW2 up to the feminist movement of the late 1960s and 1970s. In the thesis is a chapter on Māori women writers of the period, much of which was previously unavailable. 'Unlevel Crossings', my novel was published by Huia Publishers in 2002 My CD Fences Fall released in 2011.
	A Broken Claw, A Cat's Eye Story	by Lander Kerbey March 14, 2012	$0.99	7450 words	Sample 20%
	Author bio: Lander M Kerbey was born in 1988, the result of a government breeding program which, with the collapse of the Soviet Union, was subsequently shut down. Left to his own devices, a young Lander Kerbey wandered the byways and highways of this great land, dodging semi trucks and whatever it is that travels on byways. In between being crowned Massasuga County cow-punching champion, and achieving near-folklore status in a chain of small towns near the Canadian border, Lander Kerbey discovered a love of the written word, and devoted his life to perfecting the art of writing. And the art of shaving with freshly-caught trout. Lander Kerbey has never been indicted for malfeasance and has the strength of three Boris Johnsons.
	A Lovely, Indecent Departure	by Steven Lee Gilbert March 14, 2012	$4.95	63866 words	Sample 20%
	Author bio: Steven Lee Gilbert was born in Fort Wayne, Indiana but considers his childhood home the green, rolling foothills of East Tennessee and the southern Appalachia mountains, settlement to all sorts of interesting people, composites of which can be found throughout his writing. Most of his adulthood he’s spent in the Sandhills and Piedmont of central North Carolina, where he lives now with his wife and family. Steven received his B.A. in English from the University of Tennessee in Knoxville, after which he was commissioned and served four years as an officer and paratrooper in the U.S. Army. While in school he had the pleasure of learning from Wilma Dykeman and in 2007 had the opportunity to work with Barry Hannah, both of which greatly influenced his writing. The next year, Steven was awarded a Durham Arts Council Emerging Artist Grant for Literature. He has also received recognition for his work as a writer from the Tennessee Writers Alliance. His work has been published in the Raleigh News & Observer, The Independent Weekly, Diabetes Health, and at Lifescripts.com. He is also the author of the blog, Without Envy. A Lovely, Indecent Departure is his first novel. You can read more about him at www.stevenleegilbert.com.
	Brother of Cloud in the Water	by William Davey March 14, 2012	$3.99	54804 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
	A Mile in These Shoes	by Sandra Shwayder Sanchez March 14, 2012	$3.99	60712 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.
	Paradis 777	by Werle Hugues March 14, 2012	$3.99	37390 words	Sample 20%
	Author bio: Auteur de 46 ans, j'ai plus de 16 oeuvres littérrires à mon acitf. Je me suis essayé à de nombreux genres différnets pour finir par inventer mon propre genre : Le Spirituel Fantasy. Mon style est fluide et simple, sans fioriture. Je ne cherche pas à convaincre mais à partager mes points de vue et mes intérogations sans pour autant avoir la prétention d'apporter des réponses définitives. Si vous aimez les histoires intriguantes avec des chutes inattendues, alors vous aimerez mon style direct.
	The Sense of an Ending : Behind the Story - (A Background Information Book Companion)	by Behind the Story March 13, 2012	$3.99	4473 words	Sample 20%
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	Still Alice: Behind the Story - (A Background Information Book Companion)	by Behind the Story March 13, 2012	$3.99	4814 words	Sample 20%
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	Buddha in the Attic: Behind the Story - (A Background Information Book Companion)	by Behind the Story March 13, 2012	$3.99	6282 words	Sample 20%
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	Under The House	by Leslie Hall Pinder March 13, 2012	$6.99	72638 words	Sample 20%
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	I Just Had to Come Down Here Once	by Sean Monaghan March 13, 2012	$1.49	3319 words	Sample 20%
	Author bio: Sean Monaghan is the author of more than one hundred stories, in print, online, on broadcast radio and podcast. His stories include "Back from Vermont" in Takahe, and "Pan Am 617 Heavy" in Bewildering Stories. Sean tutors in creative writing and writes book reviews for Your Weekend and The Press. Sean also writes fiction under the name Michael Shone.
	L.i.s.a.	by Nicholas Nicola March 13, 2012	$3.99	156141 words	Sample 20%
	Author bio: Nicholas Nicola is interested - on a creative level - in printmaking and writing; his 'day job' is casual teaching in Sydney. (For further details proceed to the website. Thank You).
	No Fixed Ground	by John Roman Baker March 12, 2012	$5.99	83061 words	Sample 15%
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	Superficial	by James Marshall March 12, 2012	$0.99	14201 words	Sample 20%
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	Little Bluestem: Stories from Rural America	by Brian Backstrand March 12, 2012	$3.99	62687 words	Sample 20%
	Author bio: Brian Backstrand is a poet and writer as well as an Episcopal clergyman. He has published poems and stories in several literary magazines, most recently in South Dakota Review and another is forthcoming in The Southern Indiana Review. He lives in rural Wisconsin where he and his wife Marilee own a farm and are in the process of becoming energy self-sufficient and living off the grid.
	The Return	by Margaret Guthrie March 12, 2012	$3.99	71611 words	Sample 20%
	Author bio: Margaret Guthrie received a B.A. in literature from Pacific University, Forest Grove, Oregon, and a Master of Social Work from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan. She is the author of Silent Truth, a novel and three books of poetry. She is a member of the Trail Ridge Writers, Columbine Poets of Colorado, Rocky Mountain Fiction Writers and the Lyons Itinerant Poetry Society. She lives with her husband in Estes Park, Colorado.
	Amalie in Orbit	by Gloria DeVidas Kirchheimer March 12, 2012	$3.99	57062 words	Sample 20%
	Author bio: Gloria DeVidas Kirchheimer is the author of the story collection, Goodbye, Evil Eye. Her work has been published in numerous magazines and anthologies and broadcast on National Public Radio. She is co-author (with Manfred Kirchheimer) of We Were So Beloved:Autobiography of a German Jewish Community.
	Farther...Than He Wanted to Go	by Eugene Paul March 11, 2012	$2.99	94341 words	Sample 15%
	Author bio: Eugene Paul has spent his life as a researcher, writer and teacher. His fascination with law enforcement and organized crime dates back to his high school days and provided much of the impetus for this current work. His varied experience as a counselor and observer of human nature enables him to create real characters who live, love and struggle in true to life situations. Even the most contemptible characters display their own unique virtues and value. His familiarity with British Columbia’s Lower Mainland allows him to develop vivid settings and scenes which invite you to walk in and feel mist and rain of a dismal Vancouver night or breathe in the salty air along Stanley Park’s Sea Wall. Eugene Paul, now retired, resides in southern Ontario with his wife of fifty years, and pursues his life-long passion for writing.
	The Mailbox	by Scott Pearson March 11, 2012	$0.99	2808 words	Sample 25%
	Author bio: Scott Pearson has had humor, poetry, nonfiction, reviews, short stories, and a novella published in traditional magazine and anthology formats, including three Star Trek stories, a couple of mysteries, and various non-genre pieces. His novella, Honor in the Night, in the Star Trek: Myriad Universes anthology Shattered Light, is available from Simon & Schuster. He is excited to make individual stories—both previously printed and entirely new—available in electronic format. Scott lives near the banks of the mighty Mississippi River, fabled in story and song, in personable St. Paul, Minnesota, with his wife, Sandra, and daughter, Ella.
	Night Voices	by Helen Hudson March 10, 2012	$3.99	62215 words	Sample 20%
	Author bio: Reviewed as a “superior writer” by The New Yorker magazine, Helen Hudson is the critically acclaimed author of Tell the Time to None, Meyer Meyer, The Listener, Farnsbee South, Temporary Residence and Criminal Trespass. All these works of fiction reflect her lifelong concern with social justice and responsibility. She also edited Dinner at Six: Voices from the Soup Kitchen, a collection of interviews with people she met while volunteering at a soup kitchen in her home town.
	You, Fascinating You	by Germaine Shames March 10, 2012	$4.99	79336 words	Sample 15%
	Author bio: Germaine Shames, has written from six continents--soon to add the seventh--on topics ranging from the Middle East crisis to Nazi art looting, from the struggle to save the Amazon to the plight of street children. Shames is author of the critically-acclaimed novel Between Two Deserts (Macadam/Cage Publishing), two earlier nonfiction books, and three feature screenplays. Her articles have appeared in such publications as National Geographic Traveler, More, Success, Hemispheres, Byline and many others. Her essays and short fiction have been widely anthologized. Shames holds a masters degree in Intercultural Studies. As a global executive, and later as a foreign correspondent, she has lived and worked in such diverse locations as the Australian outback, Swiss Alps, interior of Bulgaria, coast of Colombia, Fiji Islands, and Gaza Strip. She brings a tender acuity to her journalism and has made a mission of covering under-reported stories of grassroots activism and everyday heroism. Her fiction writing reflects the breadth of her worldview and fascination with the interplay of cultures, often drawing on events and settings from her sojourns abroad. In her latest novel, You, Fascinating You, the author returns to her roots in the performing arts to reveal a hidden epic researched across three countries over the course of five years. Praise for You, Fascinating You: "A love story reminiscent of that of my grandparents. I could not put it down." Kinga Nijinsky Gaspers "Germaine paints a vivid and accurate portrait of the world of ballet in pre and post war Europe. The epic drama expected on the ballet stage is dwarfed by the tragic real life events of her ballerina heroine, Margit Wolf. Penetrating descriptions of political brutality and the prepossession of romantic love, an ever present theme in classical ballet, make for a page-turning, impelling read." Janet Panetta, ballet master Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch “Germaine Shames’ beautiful depiction of the life of Margit Wolf and Pasquale Frustaci is told with such vivid and haunting detail, it's as if the reader is propelled back in time to witness a devastating journey of shattered dreams, juxtaposed with the strength and courage of the human heart. A tragic story, beautifully written.” Susan Jaffe, “America’s quintessential ballerina" "An epic story and a true story. This woman's life is the kind of character journey that makes for great movies." Howard Allen, "the Script Doctor" "Shames captures the essence of a ballerina with such expertise in her riveting story. Dancers succeed by creating beauty from effort; this book, too, shows that exquisite art can be made from history's hardships." Elana Altman, soloist dancer, San Francisco Ballet “In this heartbreaking and original novel based on the life of Hungarian ballerina Margit Wolf, Germaine Shames has crafted a story that will absorb readers fascinated not only by history and art, but romantic obsession. From Wolf's touching point of view, we see a valiant Jewish artist swept along by a combination of political horrors and her unfailing passion for her husband, famed Italian composer Pasquale Frustaci, who refuses to help her and her son escape from brutal life under the Nazis occupying Hungary. Shames' faithful, carefully researched portrayal of Wolf's blindness and history's cruelty makes this a compelling read.” Elizabeth Evans, author of The Blue Hour “Compelling, heart-wrenching, and heroic.” Jim Bencivenga, Christian Science Monitor Reviews of Between Two Deserts: “Shames, a former Middle East correspondent, handles the complexities of Eve’s visit to war-torn Jerusalem with a subtlety seldom seen in this genre. She is careful not to pass judgment on either side of the political equation as she skillfully intertwines the lives of this diverse cast of characters to produce a tightly executed, emotion-filled work.” Publisher’s Weekly “(The novelist) creates the intense atmosphere of an unstable world with grace and a sort of lyric power.” National Public Radio “One might expect the journalist and novelist to approach this story quite differently, but in Between Two Deserts, foreign correspondent Germaine Shames has realized a combination of these crafts, lucidly capturing those immutable qualities that speak to our souls.” Rain Taxi “In Jerusalem where rhetoric and revenge rule, Shames shows us humanity and insight.” Bloomsbury Review
	My Hometown Named Love	by Markus Ahonen March 10, 2012	$5.99	40375 words	Sample 20%
	Author bio: Markus Ahonen was born in 1972 in Helsinki, Finland. He grew up in Martinlaakso, a suburb of Vantaa, known as the childhood residence of famous Formula One drivers Mika Häkkinen and Mika Salo. He went to high school for a year in Auburn, New York when he was 17. After his military service in Finland he studied European Business Administration in Finland and Holland, later Communications and Finnish Literature achieving Bachelor of Arts degree from University of Turku, Finland. He has worked extensively as Editor and Editor-in-chief in local newspapers, as TV Script Writer for Finnish versions of game show Weakest Link and the Finnish modified version from shows Never Mind the Buzzcocks and They Think It's All Over as well as writing TV sketch comedy. His first crime novel Meduusa (Jellyfish) was awarded with third prize in Kouvola Crime Literature Festival 10th anniversary novel contest in 2006. The second crime-themed novel Palava sydän (Burning Heart) was published in 2008. After moving to Ireland in 2006, Markus has worked as a flying foreign correspondent having reported to newspapers and magazines from over 30 countries around Europe and elsewhere. Markus, a film, book, music and general knowledge enthusiast, lives in Malahide, County Dublin, Ireland with his son.
	Where the Wind Blew	by Bob Sommer March 10, 2012	$3.99	129127 words	Sample 20%
	Author bio: Bob Sommer’s work has appeared widely in literary, scholarly, and commercial publications. He is the author of Teaching Writing to Adults and co-author of The Heath Literature for Composition. His recent freelance work and stories have appeared in The Kansas City Star, Buzzflash, Cantaraville, and other print and on-line publications. He grew up in Hyde Park, New York, and attended Dutchess Community College (A.A.), Marist College (B.A.), SUNY New Paltz (M.A.), and Duke University (Ph.D). A new novel entitled A Great Fullness is forthcoming later this year: Set in Kansas during the period from the internet bubble of the mid-1990s through the early years of the Iraq War, A Great Fullness is the story of a girl who lives with a secret that even she doesn't know she possesses—the truth about her mother's death. He and his wife Heather live in Overland Park, Kansas, where they have raised three children to adulthood.
	Child (Special Edition)	by David Bobis March 10, 2012	$0.99	4877 words	Sample 15%
	Author bio: David Bobis is an award winning author whose latest short story, Child, was published in Ceriph #3 and Solarcide (a special edition of Child is now available on this website). Refer to www.generationend.com to find more works by David. David currently resides in Australia.
	Appetites	by Karen Walcott March 09, 2012	$1.99	4530 words	Sample 30%
	Author bio: Karen Walcott has been writing since she was 8 years old. She has an MA in Creative Writing from the University of New Hampshire and an MFA from Penn State. Karen lives in Philadelphia.
	The Detective's Vice	by R.D. Byron-Smith March 09, 2012	$3.99	96072 words	Sample 15%
	Author bio: Retired as a crime reporter, R.D. Byron-Smith spent four decades covering murder and mayhem for daily newspapers. He now brings an insider's perspective to his crime novels. He is published by Pilar Publishing, and lives in Southern California.
	Telling Tales	by John Wheatcroft March 08, 2012	$3.99	95813 words	Sample 20%
	Author bio: John Wheatcroft has published seven novels, three short story collections and eight volumes of poetry. His fiction and poetry have appeared in numerous magazines and literary journals in the U.S., Mexico, Canada, England, and Scotland, and he has also appeared in numerous anthologies. Catherine, Her Book, his novel based upon Wuthering Heights, was chosen as one of the best novels of the year by The New York Times, and he is also the author of the award-winning play, Ofoti. Mr. Wheatcroft is a WWII veteran and professor emeritus at Bucknell University. He lives in Lewisburg, PA.
	Hunting for Sparrows	by Beatrice Gerard March 08, 2012	$6.49	79509 words	Sample 20%
	Author bio: Beatrice Gerard has taught Elizabethan and Modern English Literature, and published in numerous academic journals. A large part of her academic work and her writing have focused on women's issues. She's the author of an award-wining collection of short stories to be published soon. She lives in Florida with her husband, three cats and an anthropomorphized yellow Lab.
	The Beautiful Death	by Federico De Roberto March 08, 2012	$1.90	10338 words	Sample 30%
	Author bio: Italian write, 1861-1927
	Splendor from Darkness	by William Davey March 08, 2012	$3.99	389726 words	Sample 10%
	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
	The Belvedere	by Gloria Pearson-Vasey March 07, 2012	$2.99	47020 words	Sample 15%
	Author bio: Gloria lives in a picturesque Ontario Victorian town with her husband, a son and their menagerie. She enjoys reading, travelling, music, nature, cemeteries, the tranquility of forests - and of course, writing. She especially treasures time with her children and grandchildren. She is a graduate of St. Michael's Hospital School of Nursing, Toronto, has a Master of Divinity degree from St. Peter's Seminary, London, and a background in psychology, music and journalism. A social justice activist, she is a founder of St. Francis Advocates which serves autistic persons and their families in southwestern Ontario.
	The Philter	by Stendhal March 07, 2012	$2.15	11519 words	Sample 40%
	Author bio: Pen name of Marie-Henri Beyle, 1783-1842 Best known for _The Red and the Black_ and _The Charterhouse of Parma_.
	Goldfish Tears	by Curtis Ackie March 07, 2012	Free!	34084 words	Sample 20%
	Author bio: Curtis Ackie is a young British-born novelist, short story writer and sometime poet, based in Zagreb, Croatia. His fiction is primarily concerned with the magic of dreams as escapism.
	The Wallahs of Paper Jail (US)	by Ron May March 06, 2012	$5.00	54288 words	Sample 15%
	Author bio: The writer withholds any account in part to cultivate an enigma but for the most to obscure a strikingly uneventful life.
	The Wallahs of Paper Jail (UK)	by Ron May March 06, 2012	$5.00	54264 words	Sample 15%
	Author bio: The writer withholds any account in part to cultivate an enigma but for the most to obscure a strikingly uneventful life.
	AffectionAires Part 3	by Jeffra Hays March 06, 2012	$2.99	40891 words	Sample 15%
	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!
	River Rats and Other Stories	by Jed Fisher March 06, 2012	$0.99	18801 words	Sample 20%
	Author bio: I retired after 24 years in the U.S. Military, earned a BA in English with a minor in Professional Writing, and have a passion for writing.
	My Movie	by David Pratt March 06, 2012	$9.99	90025 words	Sample 5%
	Author bio: David Pratt has published short fiction in Christopher Street, The James White Review, Blithe House Quarterly, Harrington Gay Men's Fiction Quarterly, Velvet Mafia, Lodestar Quarterly, and other periodicals, and in the anthologies Men Seeking Men, His3 and Fresh Men 2. He has directed and performed his own work for the theater, including appearances in New York City at the Cornelia Street Café, Dixon Place, HERE Arts Center, the Flea Theater, Theater of the Elephant, and the Eighth Annual New York International Fringe Festival. He has collaborated frequently with Rogério M. Pinto, and he was the first director of several plays by the Canadian playwright John Mighton. David holds an MFA in Creative Writing from the New School. Bob the Book is the second novel he has written, and it is the first to be published. He is currently at work on the book of a new musical.
	Love and Loyalty (and Other Tales)	by Maria Savva March 06, 2012	$2.99	28670 words	Sample 20%
	Author bio: Maria was born in London in 1970 She is a qualified solicitor as well as a writer Maria Savva's published works: 'Coincidences' 2001 'A Time to Tell' 2006 'Pieces of a Rainbow' 2009 'Love and Loyalty (and Other Tales)' 2010 'Second Chances' 2010 'Cutting The Fat' 2011 (co-author Jason McIntyre) 'Fusion' 2011 'Flames', a short story, appears in 'The BestsellerBound Short Story Anthology - Volume 1' 2011 'The Dream' 2011 'Isolation', a short story, appears in 'The BestsellerBound Short Story Anthology - Volume 2' 2011