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	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.
	firstwriter.com First Short Story Anthology	by Various Authors April 04, 2012	Free!	24972 words	Read a sample
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	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.
	Egerius	by AM Kirkby April 04, 2012	Free!	6721 words	Read a sample
	Author bio: A M Kirkby writes a wide range of fiction, including fantasy, SF and historical novels and short stories.
	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.
	Yorick Magazine Spring 2012 Vol. I Issue 1	by Yorick Magazine April 01, 2012	Free!	12346 words	Read a sample
	Author bio: The Team! Editor-in-Chief - Alex Grover Alex is an English and Education dual-major at Rowan University with an Honors Concentration and a concentration in Creative Writing. As well as editing submissions for Yorick Magazine, he works on the staff of Avant, Rowan's literary magazine. Senior Editor - Cody Steinhauer Cody is a debutante of the fine arts, a title he has gained by destroying old pianos with dual hammers and writing poetry, which he recites at rustic coffee shops in New Jersey. He created Yorick Magazine for the purpose of giving literary opportunities to all who deserve them.
	Carthago Delenda Est	by Pablo D'Stair April 01, 2012	Free!	72656 words	Read a sample
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	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!
	To Find What You're Looking For	by Earnest Long April 01, 2012	Free!	17821 words	Read a sample
	Author bio: Earnest Long, the author has some experience or none of what he writes. The stories are fiction in the best tradition of storytelling. The author is past 40 years old but not past caring. He volunteers at a social group for people recovering from mental health problems, teaching computer skills. He lives in London.
	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.
	Between Blinks	by Janet Ference April 01, 2012	Free!	6717 words	Read a sample
	Author bio: I'm a fiction writer, novelist, and playwright. I love the worlds I can create with words. It's always a surprise to discover the lives of the people in these worlds, and I'm grateful to lose myself in the mystery of their stories. I've started a little self-publishing company, Blue Fern Press, to post my work online. I'm having a great time writing very very short stories for twitter. I'm also publishing novel excerpts, short stories, and flash fiction on my website, http://www.bluefernpress.com. Meanwhile, I'm in the midst of writing my third novel, Flying Through The Air With No Particular Ease. This story is drawing me into the hearts of three sisters who manage their tough lives with the aplomb of circus performers. My second book, a choral novel called Riversbend Elegy for guns, sax, and harp, is in the revisions process. I hope to publish it this year as an e-book. Riversbend Elegy is a jazz of voices lost in private grief, public conflict, and a few blind prayers. A young soldier has died at war. This novel gives voice to his family, as they gather in his small hometown to mourn his passing. They are singular folk, and their song is often a dissonant one, but the underlying chord of custom carries a familiar American tune. I grew up in the Midwest, raised by Southern parents. I now make my home in San Francisco with my husband, Jake, and our little mutt, Fritz. We live in a flat overlooking the bay, and I am constantly comforted by the ever-changing blues of that water. To learn more about my work, please visit my writer’s website at: http://www.janetference.com.
	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.
	Ash Cinema	by KUBOA March 31, 2012	Free!	53388 words	Read a sample
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	Exit Nothing	by KUBOA March 31, 2012	Free!	29281 words	Read a sample
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	Quintessence of Dust	by KUBOA March 31, 2012	Free!	38125 words	Read a sample
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	This Book is Fucking Stupid	by Christopher Nosnibor March 31, 2012	$1.99	64998 words	Sample 20%
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	Abstract	by H.B Boylan March 31, 2012	Free!	32526 words	Read a sample
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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.
	Candour	by Pablo D'Stair March 30, 2012	Free!	43529 words	Read a sample
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	+ One	by Brian Baleno March 30, 2012	$8.99	74314 words	Sample 15%
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	Pigs and Other Living Things	by Sean Boling March 28, 2012	Free!	14146 words	Read a sample
	Author bio: Sean lives in Paso Robles, California with his wife and two children. He teaches English at Cuesta College.
	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.
	The Birthday	by Ingrid Christensen March 28, 2012	Free!	4700 words	Read a sample
	Author bio: Ingrid was born and raised in the South Island of New Zealand on the outskirts of Christchurch. A passionate writer from an early age she recalls the exhilaration of writing her first story page after page it was so effortless. As she grew older despite her love of writing she allowed herself to be lead astray by her interest in fashion. Ingrid worked in the fashion industry in New Zealand and later Australia before returning to study at the University of Canterbury and completing a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology. While at university Ingrid pursued her interests in the French language and Arthurian Romance Novels from the era of King Arthur, Percival and Sir Thomas Moore. Graduating in December 2000 she returned to Australia and found herself working in Occupational Rehabilitation and Injury Management. Unfulfilled she later left her this career and embarked on a life at sea working as a Stewardess and Chef on privately owned Super Yachts for some of the most wealthy and influential people in the world. At present Ingrid is working on three novels in the Suspense/Thriller genre as well as completing short stories and poetry.
	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.
	A Tale of Romance	by Earnest Long March 27, 2012	Free!	3552 words	Read a sample
	Author bio: Earnest Long, the author has some experience or none of what he writes. The stories are fiction in the best tradition of storytelling. The author is past 40 years old but not past caring. He volunteers at a social group for people recovering from mental health problems, teaching computer skills. He lives in London.
	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.
	What Lies Buried	by John Bishop March 26, 2012	Free!	97582 words	Read a sample
	Author bio: John Bishop’s play The Greatest Woman in the World was produced in Perth in 2007. It was the only playscript nominated for the WA Premier’s Book Awards for that year and it contained the role of the young Maria Montessori for which Rebecca Davis won Best Actress in the Perth Equity Guild Awards. John’s other stage plays include Collisions, which was selected for the Australian Script Centre's collection, and An Agent Of Change, which has won awards for each of three productions and was produced for Canberra Community Radio. His radio play An End To The Partnership was broadcast on ABC Radio National's Airplay. What Lies Buried is his first novel. It started as the plot for a play but outgrew the possibilities of stage presentation when script assessors wanted to know more and more about the background of the characters.
	Tidewater Moon	by Don Katnik March 25, 2012	Free!	1381 words	Read a sample
	Author bio: Don Katnik resides in Maine with his wife and two dogs (pictured in bio photo). By profession he is a wildlife biologist but mostly he works to earn enough of a living to provide his dogs with the style of life they have come to expect. Besides writing, his favorite pasttimes are taking walks on the beach with his family, swing dancing, and discovering new brewpubs. Although much of his writing features dogs, his writing interest range from horror to scifi to "contemporary" (for lack of a better word). Favorite all-time book is "A River Runs Through It." Most inspirational author, though, is Stephen King (besides spinning good yarns, he has en eerie abilitly to capture commonplace scenes exactly right). It doesn't hurt that he lives up the road from me (not that we socialize, but you can't live in Maine and not be a King fan). Very new to the EPUB world, but convinced it is the only way that emerging writers have a chance of getting their work out there. It's great when readers are moved enough by something I wrote to let me know -- that's what it's all about.
	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.
	Falls the Shadow	by Tommy Dakar March 24, 2012	Free!	46320 words	Read a sample
	Author bio: Born in England Tommy Dakar now lives and works in Granada, Spain. His works have been published to critical acclaim on various literary sites, including Storychord, SNReview, Write this, Write From Wrong, Language and Culture etc He has also been published in Spanish on Palabras Diversas and Ariadna. A collection of short stories, A World Apart and other stories, has recently been published, along with his satirical novel Balls, and The Trap-Door, which is literary fiction. He is also working on another novel, due out soon. Here are some links to his published work. A World Apart published on Storychord. (http://storychord.blogspot.com/2010/11/issue-17-tommy-dakar-melanie-plummer.html) Also accepted for publication on MondayNightLit. Also published in print form by SNReview, Summer 2011 issue. Bellavista published on Language and Culture (http://www.languageandculture.net/backdrop.html) News of the World published 15th Feb 2011 on WriteFromWrong (http://writefromwrong.com/2011/02/14/fiction-february/#more-636) The Mystery Tour published November 2011 on Write This (www.writethis.com.) La Noche Mas Larga published in Spanish July 2011 at Palabras Diversas (www.palabrasdiversas.com) and Ariadna.com (http://www.ariadna-rc.com/numero51/lab56.htm).
	lifelongstolive.blogspot.com : A Blog	by Atul Sharma March 24, 2012	Free!	13380 words	Read a sample
	Author bio: I reside in Chandigarh,India. I work as a special needs teacher in a government school. I love to read and write in my leisure time. I love reading Khushwant Singh, Ruskin bond and Paulo Coelho.
	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.
	Born of Necessity	by Joe Boschi March 22, 2012	$0.99	79340 words
	Author bio: Joe was born and raised in northern New Jersey and where he lived and worked the first half of his adult life. He graduated from Seton Hall Preparatory High School and received his Bachelor of Science Degree in Electrical Engineering from Newark College of Engineering and his MBA from Seton Hall University. The first thirty-four years of his business career were in the Aerospace and Defense Electronics industries as a Program and Marketing Management Specialist with Lockheed, held various executive positions at United Technologies in New Hampshire and Connecticut and served as Vice President, General Manager at Loral in San Jose, California. Joe changed the focus of his career in the mid '90's when he assumed the leadership of marketing in the firm of Zenger Miller, and led the company's efforts to reposition itself as a business consulting specialist. In 1997, he became the COO of Quantitative Management Systems and restructured the company to expand its product lines and business base in dialysis billing. Joe retired to Florida in late 1999 with his wife Jo Ann. They have three sons located in Florida, New Jersey and South Carolina. His retirement was brief and Joe soon accepted a position managing a staff of golf course associates and assisted in the successful launch of a new golf course in 2006. Currently, he provides management consulting for the local golf course community where he lives. He turned his attention to writing and in January, 2010, he published his first book, Extra Innings, featured here on this website. As he continues in his new career as a literary writer, Joe plans to concentrate his writing on fictional subject matter. In his leisure time, Joe plays golf, gardens, bowls, and plays a musical keyboard and has traveled extensively around the world. Home | Our Associates
	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!
	Sometimes You Need To Be Able To Talk	by Earnest Long March 21, 2012	Free!	3981 words	Read a sample
	Author bio: Earnest Long, the author has some experience or none of what he writes. The stories are fiction in the best tradition of storytelling. The author is past 40 years old but not past caring. He volunteers at a social group for people recovering from mental health problems, teaching computer skills. He lives in London.
	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.