Peter Simmons and the Vessel of Time by Ramz Artso @RamzArtso

Peter Chapter 4 Portland, Oregon October 22nd Afternoon Hours I sauntered out of the school building with my friends in tow and pulled on a thickly woven hat to cover my fluffy flaxen hair, which was bound to be frolic even in the mildest of breezes. I took a deep breath and scrutinized my immediate surroundings, noticing an armada of clouds scudding across the sky. It was a rather blustery day. The shrewd, trilling wind had all but divested...

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#AmReading - The Fault in Our Stars by John Green @realjohngreen

The Fault in our Stars by John Green Amazon Despite the tumor-shrinking medical miracle that has bought her a few years, Hazel has never been anything but terminal, her final chapter inscribed upon diagnosis. But when a gorgeous plot twist named Augustus Waters suddenly appears at Cancer Kid Support Group, Hazel’s story is about to be completely rewritten. Insightful, bold, irreverent, and raw, The Fault in Our Stars is award-winning-author...

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#Bargain Sand Dollar: A Story of Undying Love by Sebastian Cole @sebastiancole3

Beverly Hills Book Award winner, USA Best Book Award finalist, ForeWord Reviews Book of the Year Award bronze winner, International Book Award finalist, ForeWord Firsts debut literary competition finalist. The story opens with Noah Hartman, eighty years old, lying on his deathbed recounting his life of love and loss to Josh, a compassionate orderly at the hospital. As Noah’s loved ones arrive one by one, they listen in on his story, and we’re...

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Birth of an Assassin by Rik Stone @stone_rik

* Jez was already fit, an excellent shot, and he could fight – or at least that’s what he’d thought. But after more than six months of intensive training with Spetsnaz, he realized he’d only been scratching the surface. He’d not long been back from an exercise in Northern Siberia and he was tired, dirty. They’d given him a tent, a knife, no food, and enough clothes to keep out the brutal weather conditions – barely. When they dropped him off...

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Gringa – A Love Story (Complete Series books 1-4) by Eve Rabi @EveRabi1

This is the complete Gringa Series, books 1-4 being offered at a discounted price. SERIES DESCRIPTION: I was twenty-one, a sassy college student who took crap from no one. While holidaying in Mexico, I was accosted by Diablo and shot, because the motherfucker mistook me for a spy. I survived, only to encounter him again months later. How’s that for luck? Furious and sick of all that I’d been through because of him, I slapped him, told him...

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Author Interview – T.G. Ayer @TGAyerAuthor

Can you tell us about your main character? In FIRE (the Hand of Kali #1) Maya Rao just wants to be normal, the all-American girl. She’s tired of being different and just wants to fit in. What she doesn’t know is that she is the furthest from normal that she could possibly be. Who designed the cover? My cover artist Eduardo Priego Why did you choose to write this particular book? I’d written Norse mythology for my first YA so I thought I would...

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Indiestructible: Inspiring Stories from the Publishing Jungle @MsBessieBell

Tackling the Time Factor by Jessica Bell The biggest problem I had with deciding to go indie was the time factor. With a stressful full-time job as a project manager for the Academic Research & Development department at Education First, it was difficult for me to see how I could possibly work, write, blog, edit, publish, market, run a literary journal, direct a writer’s retreat, and live my life all at once. It doesn’t help that I’m a bit...

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Breathing for Two by Wolf Pascoe @WolfPascoe

ONE BREATHING LESSONS IN the freshman year of my anesthesia residency, I was given a lesson in breathing by a patient whom I’ll call Otto. Anesthesia residencies come replete with breathing lessons, but Otto was also teaching humility that day, a subject absent from the formal anesthesia curriculum. A doctor gets humility not from curricula but from his patients. I acquired a truckload of humility the day I met Otto, and the truck has only gotten...

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#AmReading - Planet Urth by Jennifer & Christopher Martucci @JennyMartucci

Planet Urth by Jennifer & Christopher Martucci Amazon Jennifer and Christopher Martucci, coauthors of the hit series Arianna Rose and Dark Creations, would like to take you on an exciting new journey. They invite you to visit Planet Urth… More than two hundred years into the future, human beings are an endangered species. The planet has been battered by war, its inhabitants plagued by disease and death. Few humans survived and remained...

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Author Interview – D.A.& M.P. Wearmouth @dampwearmouth

When you get free time on the internet or you go to the library – what do you want to read about? M – Science and Environment. D – I love to catch up on all of the daily news from around the world. I don’t like going cold turkey, I have to have my daily fix. Do you find the time to read? M – Yes I always find time for new and interesting books.  I read at night generally to wind down. D – Mostly on holiday or when traveling with work. I try...

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The Howling Heart by April Bostic

* * * * Three days after my father’s funeral, I landed at the airport in Denver. I rented a Jeep Wrangler, because I needed a four-wheel-drive vehicle to get up the mountain. The July weather was mild, so I wore khaki shorts, a plain white tee, and beige Vans sneakers. One of the odd things about finding our cabin was you had to find the nearby town first. I remembered we got lost during our vacation, which caused an argument between my parents....

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Joyfully Yours by Amy Lamont @Amy_Lamont

A fun and heartwarming holiday romance. When fate keeps throwing a handsome good Samaritan in her path, musician Faith Leary needs a little holiday magic to help her see he’s perfect for her. A musician and a priest walk into a grocery store—singer Faith Leary thinks this is a better opening for an off-color joke than a recipe for romance, until she finds herself ogling Father Michael in the checkout line the day before Thanksgiving. When Father...

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Author Interview – Christine Locke

What books did you love growing up? I read C.S. Lewis’ Narnia series and Laura Ingalls Wilder’s Little House series so many times, I lost count.  As I got into high school, I started to read the classics.  I settled on Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald by senior year.  It’s fun to watch people get interested in the literature of the 1920’s and ‘30’s again.  It seems like it’s coming back in a big way.  I think...

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Onio by Linell Jeppsen @nelj8

Chapter 4 For four days, Mel drifted in and out of consciousness. When she was able to swim up from the tendrils of death that held her, she dreamed vivid and horrifying dreams. Once, she sat up with a start and saw a scene from Dante’s Inferno. She saw a huge hairy man being flogged by a branchless tree trunk. The tree was very large and the branches on it had been cut crudely so that long splinters sprouted from its surface like jagged teeth....

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#Bargain Sub-Human by David Simpson @PostHuman09

PROMOTION: Now you can switch back and forth between reading the Kindle book and listening to the Audible audiobook. Add the professional narration of Sub-Human (Book 1) for a reduced price of $2.99 after you buy this Kindle book. Listen to Sub-Human Chapter 3′s sample here goo.gl/kdxS8i. Also, Post-Human (Book 2), Trans-Human (Book 3) and Human Plus(Book 4) are all $0.99 each for a LIMITED TIME as well! And their audiobooks are coming soon! ...

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Boundless by Brad Cotton @BradCott0n

Chapter 6 NOT TWENTY MINUTES after leaving the motel, young Ruby fell asleep upon her bag in the back seat. As the BMW crossed the border into Colorado just before lunch, Ruby had still not awoken. “When did you know?” Ray asked Duncan. He put down his book and looked over to the driver. “Know what?” “Did you just decide it one day or did you always think it?” “This again?” “Maybe it’s just a feeling,” Ray surmised. “Like people who think that...

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#AmReading - Hazardous Duty by Christy Barritt @cbarritt

Hazardous Duty by Christy Barritt Amazon Buying a gun to kill your wife: $3,000 Hiring Trauma Care to clean afterward: $1,500 Having that same cleaner uncover evidence that frames you: Priceless On her way to completing a degree in forensic science, Gabby St. Claire drops out of school and starts her own crime scene cleaning business. “Yeah, that’s me,” she says, “a crime scene cleaner. People waiting in line behind me who strike up...

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Birth of an Assassin by Rik Stone @stone_rik

* Dressed in white shorts and vests, the cadets gathered in a gymnasium void of equipment. Stripped to the waist, Nikolas held a dagger, trying to affect a muscular pose, but with too much belly and slack muscles. Well, put a pig in a pair of shorts, and it’s still a pig. Hold on to that picture, Jez thought and grinned. One after another, the cadets attempted to evade an armed strike from the enemy, but not one returned to the outer circle without...

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Author Interview – Keira Michelle Telford @mylostanddamned

Do you plan to publish more books? Plenty! The next book will be SILVER: Lex Talionis. It’s the eighth book in The SILVER Series, and also the first book in The Outlier Trilogy. Additionally, I’m working on the second book in The Prisonworld Trilogy, The Procuress, as well as a new series of (erotic) paranormal romance novelettes, The Nightside Stories. Tell us about your new book? What’s it about and why did you write it? In an over-populated,...

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Accountability Leadership: A Catalyst for Change – Dianne Worrall @DiWorrall

Accountability Leadership: A Catalyst for Change Accountability Leadership was inspired by a professional “epiphany” I experienced in my first senior executive post as an HR Director of a large government organisation. Soon after I took up the role of HR Director, it became clear that we were heading downhill fast on the delivery of a major business initiative. The crux of the problem was not our business competence. We were meeting our personal...

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Author Interview – Voicu Mihnea Simandan @vmsimandan

What’s The Matrix and the Alice Books about and why did you write it? The book that I’m virtually touring now is an intertextual study of the film The Matrix and the books Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll. The initial research for the book was done as part of my two-year master’s degree studies in Bangkok. I have probably seen The Matrix trilogy over one hundred times and having the book in my hands...

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In a Milk and Honeyed Land by Richard Abbott @MilkHoneyedLand

GAML IBALATU YEAR 15—BUL YEAR 16 Refreshing like rain are my words, distilling like dew is my speech, like cloudbursts upon the grassland, or rainfall upon the young crops. BARUK CAME OUT OF Danil’s house and set off across the ridge towards home. After completing his childhood and passing through the ceremonies to be counted as a young man of the community, he had deliberately set out to be noticed by Danil and the others of the raiding...

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