A directory of Smashwords ebooks available in the EPUB format.  Sample them online, then visit Smashwords to download samples or purchase the book.

	The Mormon	by Jon Thorpe June 05, 2010	Free!	8605 words	Read a sample
	Author bio: Jon Thorpe resides in the San Francisco Bay Area.
	BRAKENSTROOM	by Jacob Singer June 05, 2010	$8.00	73929 words	Sample 10%
	Author bio: JACOB ASHER SINGER WAS BORN in 1935 in a small town west of Johannesburg, in South Africa. After attending school at the Potchefstroom High School for Boys, he studied Pharmacy at the Chelsea Polytechnic in London, England. In 1960, he married Evelyn Jackson, and practiced successfully as a pharmacist for the next 25 years, retiring in 1985 and emigrating to Canada in December 1992. His first book, BRAKENSTROOM, is a book of short stories about Potchefstroom, the town he grew up in as a boy, and where he and his family lived for many years. His second book, THE VASE WITH THE MANY COLOURED MARBLES is now available from Amazon as an i-Book. The soft cover book is not yet available, but should be on bookstore shelves sometime in October. The story is based on true life experiences and people he knew in Potchefstroom. “There are so many stories to tell about South Africa” he says. “South Africa is a beautiful country, with a fascinating although controversial history. Unfortunately with the increase in criminal activity and tardiness in controlling violence it is rapidly falling into the ‘Africa trap.’ Jacob was never politically active, but he personally met and knew many of the active players on both sides of the political fence. When threatened by the security police for not giving them certain confidential information, he encouraged his children to emigrate, and joined them in Canada once they had established themselves.
	To Come Back So Far From Nowhere In Particular	by Jon Thorpe June 05, 2010	Free!	1744 words	Read a sample
	Author bio: Jon Thorpe resides in the San Francisco Bay Area.
	The Sister City Initiative	by Jon Thorpe June 04, 2010	Free!	4812 words	Read a sample
	Author bio: Jon Thorpe resides in the San Francisco Bay Area.
	幻想掌編集　雨に散る	by Syuppandokoro Tenteru June 04, 2010	$3.99	1422 words
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	The Album	by Sandra White June 04, 2010	$4.95	70057 words	Sample 20%
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	Never, Ever, Bring This Up Again	by Jon Thorpe June 04, 2010	Free!	2916 words	Read a sample
	Author bio: Jon Thorpe resides in the San Francisco Bay Area.
	Chips & Gravey: A Ghostly Love Story	by William Gough June 04, 2010	$5.99	63224 words	Sample 6%
	Author bio: William Gough is a writer, publisher, director, and a mentor. He has won such awards as the Gemini, Actra, Prix Anik, Genie, Bijou, Blue Ribbon - American Film Festival, and the Columbus Film Festival’s ‘Chris Plaque.’
In 2011 he released the final book of "The Terra Nova Quartet." His books are available for the Kindle & for all other e-book readers at Smashwords.
He teaches writing online for Vancouver Island University. PRAISE for William Gough's Books: "Gough’s writing is...poignant, spare, with the strength and subtlety of a fine woodcut..." E. Annie Proulx/ Maud’s House…is a literary compliment paid to a people whose richest bounty, next to the sea, is the gift of language. It is also a detailed snapshot of a lost era, lovingly developed in the darkroom of the writer’s memory. …it’s clear that the richness of language as it is spoken in Newfoundland is in Gough’s literary blood.” Michael Harris, The Globe and Mail “A good novel does something which happens only rarely in our day-to-day perceptions; It sets down what can happen in an instant of time. “Maud’s House is a wonderful book, a treat to read, and one of the best books I’ve read this year, period…” Peter Gard, The Evening Telegram
	Wherever You May Be Searching	by Wes Patterson June 03, 2010	$4.99	132119 words	Sample 50%
	Author bio: Wes Patterson (1938-2010) graduated with highest honors from Johns Hopkins University on a full academic scholarship, majoring in psychology and creative writing. He completed his post-graduate work at the University of Florida. After leaving school, for a brief period of time, he became involved in crossbreeding and popularizing animals and reptiles as pets. He believes, he was responsible for the current "ferret pet craze" as he "re-discovered" and "re-introduced" ferrets as pets in 1964. He popularized and sold ferrets by the thousands to pet shops throughout the U.S. from his animal and reptile farm in Melrose, Florida. There are now more than ten million pet ferrets in the U.S. and just recently New York City has become so inundated with the cute intelligent carnivores that the city council is considering new licensing laws. He also popularized the malamute-wolf cross and various snakes and other reptiles as pets. He has always been acutely aware of the environment and endangered vanishing species. His other life-long interests include, paranormal psychology (regression and reincarnation) and serious literature. He was a prize winner in the annual publication of "Best College Writing of 1964". His poetry and prose have been published frequently in anthologies and poetry journals throughout the world, including Russia, India and Japan. His writing deals with life, death and love and the ageless philosophical questions of existence that ancient philosophers have been pondering since the beginning of time. In 1992 he met and married Irina Trefilieva, a Russian doctor of medicine, who came from a country where poetry and literature are greatly appreciated. In her translation, much of his poetry has appeared in major Russian literary magazines and received excellent reviews.
	Beyond Redemption - The Forbidden	by Jax Alexander June 03, 2010	You set the price!	155729 words	Sample 50%
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	Embrace the Rain: A Novel	by Michael Holloway Perronne June 02, 2010	$4.95	41265 words	Sample 20%
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	A Girl Named X.	by Jon Thorpe June 02, 2010	Free!	45751 words	Read a sample
	Author bio: Jon Thorpe resides in the San Francisco Bay Area.
	The Trial of Frankenstein	by Walt Edinger June 02, 2010	$3.99	63866 words	Sample 50%
	Author bio: I teach medical ethics at the University of Toledo. I have taught and consulted on issues of research ethics and clinical ethics since 1987. I have found writing to be a way to express my doubts and frustrations about the cases I have been asked to address over the years. Most of my writing has been short stories or poetry. The Trial of Frankenstein is my first attempt at a longer work.
	Décades	by Anne de Gandt May 30, 2010	$2.99	11373 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.
	Spiritual Apathy	by Edward St Amant May 29, 2010	$5.99	67036 words	Sample 10%
	Author bio: E A St Amant is the author of How to Increase the Volume of the Sea Without Water, Dancing in the Costa Rican Rain and Stealing Flowers.
	Last of the Zacharys, A Novel with Songs	by Morty Shallman May 28, 2010	$9.99	134636 words	Sample 10%
	Author bio: Born and raised in Rock Island, Illinois, Morty Shallman has been writing and performing original songs since the age of 12, and wrote his first novella, "To Exist with the Night" while still in high school. Morty is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of the University of Chicago, where he studied creative writing with renowned novelist Richard Stern, and where he began to explore the nexus of music and literature. After serving as lead singer and songwriter for popular Chicago Rock Band, “Minds of Babes,” Shallman moved to Los Angeles, where he has released several critically acclaimed solo CDs, performed at top clubs, and continues his work as a singer-songwriter, novelist and screenwriter.
	Perception — a novel	by Dan Catalano May 28, 2010	$1.99	126582 words	Sample 50%
	Author bio: "A wild boy of no particular clan, ready for anything, always armed. Prefers fighting to toil, drink to fighting, chasing women to booze or battle: may attempt all three concurrently." - Nelson Algren, A Walk on the Wild Side
	Notes from an Isolated Man	by Craig Cain May 27, 2010	$0.99	11297 words	Sample 20%
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	An Exciting New Career in Medicine	by Michelle Richmond May 26, 2010	$1.99	4995 words	Sample 18%
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	The Seventh Compass Point of Death	by Richard Sanders May 26, 2010	$2.99	36170 words	Sample 10%
	Author bio: I worked as an Executive Editor at Entertainment Weekly for 11 years and (in two separate stints) at People magazine and people.com for 12 years. I often speak to young journalists and try to use myself as an example for inspiration—a guy who spent time in jail, rehab and a psych ward and somehow went on to become a successful editor at Time Inc. and managed to keep himself sane and alive. I’ve tried to reflect those experiences in these books My wife, Laurie, and I live in Garden City, N.Y..
	In The Light Of Memory	by Leonardo Lunanero May 25, 2010	You set the price!	18375 words	Sample 100%
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	On The Gathering Storm	by Jason McIntyre May 25, 2010	$2.99	63155 words	Sample 25%
	Author bio: Born on the prairies, Jason McIntyre eventually lived and worked on Vancouver Island where the vibrant characters and vivid surroundings stayed with him and coalesced into what would become his novel, On The Gathering Storm. Before his time as an editor, writer and communications professional, he spent several years as a graphic designer and commercial artist. Jason is the author of more than two dozen short stories, several novellas and full-length fiction. Currently, Jason is hard at work on a novel series about The Night Walk Men, based on the novelette of the same name. His latest full-length novel, THALO BLUE, is out now! Synopsis: A young man on the brink of true adulthood, Sebastion Redfield experiences an extreme, life-altering trauma when a trespasser breaks into his home. Sebastion and the psychiatrist assigned to help him recover from the break-in begin to unravel a more disturbing truth about his ordeal: that someone or some thing has been following Sebastian for some time...and he has no idea what kind of power and determination it has to ultimately find him.
	Maud's House	by William Gough May 25, 2010	$5.99	44578 words	Sample 6%
	Author bio: William Gough is a writer, publisher, director, and a mentor. He has won such awards as the Gemini, Actra, Prix Anik, Genie, Bijou, Blue Ribbon - American Film Festival, and the Columbus Film Festival’s ‘Chris Plaque.’
In 2011 he released the final book of "The Terra Nova Quartet." His books are available for the Kindle & for all other e-book readers at Smashwords.
He teaches writing online for Vancouver Island University. PRAISE for William Gough's Books: "Gough’s writing is...poignant, spare, with the strength and subtlety of a fine woodcut..." E. Annie Proulx/ Maud’s House…is a literary compliment paid to a people whose richest bounty, next to the sea, is the gift of language. It is also a detailed snapshot of a lost era, lovingly developed in the darkroom of the writer’s memory. …it’s clear that the richness of language as it is spoken in Newfoundland is in Gough’s literary blood.” Michael Harris, The Globe and Mail “A good novel does something which happens only rarely in our day-to-day perceptions; It sets down what can happen in an instant of time. “Maud’s House is a wonderful book, a treat to read, and one of the best books I’ve read this year, period…” Peter Gard, The Evening Telegram
	A Summer Wedding	by Jesse Greever May 25, 2010	$0.99	1035 words	Sample 25%
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	The Tunge Pit	by Kevin Kato May 24, 2010	$2.95	116391 words	Sample 20%
	Author bio: Kevin Kato is an avid writer and incurable traveler. Since pursuing an advanced education in forensic science he has hiked, biked, boated and otherwise locomoted through forty countries across six continents, mostly in legal fashion. When he is not on the road Kevin plays husband father and writer in Fukushima, Japan.
	Gina, Found Again - Part 4	by Lawrence Bridges May 18, 2010	$0.99	9591 words	Sample 50%
	Author bio: Lawrence Bridges is best known for his creative work in the film and literary world. Having directed hundreds of TV commercials and and Music Videos, founding his own editing and design company Red Car, Bridges has been able to bring his ideas to fruition across numerous forms of media, from poetry to internet TV game shows. He is considered the primary architect of the so-called “anti-commercial.” His feature film "12" has amassed a cult following, beginning with the much-hyped guerrilla drive-in screenings in downtown Los Angeles. More recently, he directed a series of six documentaries on prominent American authors for the NEA's Big Read Program, which included Ray Bradbury, Amy Tan, and Tobias Wolff. Lawrence's book of poems, Horses on Drums (Red Hen Press), was praised by The Literary Review as being part of a new group of "Dissociative Poets" who create coherent structure through startling juxtapositions and other unconventional means. In addition, he has been a guest lecturer in the department of English at Stanford University where he holds an MA degree. In October of 2009, Red Hen Press published his second book of poems entitled Flip Days. Bridges currently resides in Los Angeles with his wife Elizabeth.
	Disappearances	by Luke Bergeron May 18, 2010	$2.99	68718 words	Sample 30%
	Author bio: I’m a writer and a geek. I like eating stir-fry.
	Henry's Nursing Notes	by Ian Martin May 16, 2010	$0.99	18298 words	Sample 25%
	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.
	Of Sound And Silence	by Casey Dyson May 16, 2010	$0.99	1201 words	Sample 30%
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	The Bridge of Dreams and Predators: Two Short Novels	by Alex Shishin May 15, 2010	Free!	26398 words	Read a sample
	Author bio: Alex Shishin has published fiction, non-fiction and photography in Japan, North America and Europe. Originally from the San Francisco Bay Area, Shishin is a permanent resident of Japan. His recent and significant fiction publications include the following. "Booger Eater" in LITnIMAGE (2010). "Booger Eater Mon Amour" in Eclectica (2010), “In the Valley of Love and Delight” in Eclectica (2007). “Counterparts” in Prairie Schooner (2006). “Bulldozer” in Fiction Warehouse (2004; winner of an award from storySouth for one of the top online short stories of 2004). "Fish" in Intertext (2003). "The Eggplant Legacy" in Prairie Schooner (2003). Shishin's short story "Mr. Eggplant Goes Home," first published in Prairie Schooner (1996) received an O. Henry Award Honorable Mention in 1997 and was anthologized in Student Body: Stories About Students and Professors (University of Wisconsin Press, 2001). His short story "Shades," originally published in Sunday Afternoon (Kobe, 1992) was anthologized in The Broken Bridge: Fiction from Expatriates in Literary Japan (Stone Bridge Press, 1997) and reprinted by invitation in The East in 1998. “The Bridge of Dreams” (a novella published with "Predators" by Smashwords) first appeared in The JAIAS Journal (2009). Parts of Shishn's Smashwords novel Nippon 2357 (under the novel's earlier name) were published by Struggle Magazine in the late 1990's. Non-fiction by Shishin has appeared in many diverse journals, which include The Japan Times, The Mainichi Daily News, The Asahi Evening News, The Japan Quarterly, The East and Kyoto Journal. (Kyoto Journal has also published a number of his fiction pieces.) His early literary essays were collected in The Shy Voice in American Literature and Other Selected Critical Works, 1984-1997 (Seiji Shobo, Tokyo, 1997). Shishin has published scholarly articles extensively in Japan and has been anthologized in the United Kingdom, France and Germany. Shishin’s book Rossiya: Voices from the Brezhnev Era (a Russian-American memoir of a train odyssey through the Soviet Union and Poland) was published by iUniverse in 2006. It is available as a print-on-demand book from Amazon.com, Barnes and Noble the iUniverse online bookstore and a host of other distributors. The e-book edition is available exclusively from the iUniverse online bookstore. In March 2008 Shishin published a collection of photographs entitled Ordinary Strangeness with Viovio in conjunction with his joint exhibition at the Twenty-first Century Museum of Art, Kanazawa, Japan. It is available from the publisher online. Alex Shishin is co-author with Stephan F. Politzer of Four Parallel Lives of Eight Notable Individuals (Smashwords, 2011). Alex Shishin holds degrees in English from the University of California, Berkeley (BA) the University of Massachusetts, Amherst (MFA) and the Union Institute and University (PhD). ISBN numbers of Smashwords books: "The Bridge of Dreams" and "Predator": Two Short Novels ISBN 978-1-4523-8979-0 Nippon 2357: A Utopian Ecological Tale ISBN 978-1-4523-6226-7 The Cyber Dust Stories: Lost Internet Short Stories and Essays Centering on Japan ISBN: 978-1-4523-8800-7
	Heads	by Eddie Stack May 13, 2010	$2.99	61307 words	Sample 25%
	Author bio: Eddie Stack is an Irish writer. He received a Top 100 Irish American Award in 1991 in response to his book of short fiction, The West: Stories from Ireland. He is also the recipient of an American Small Press of the Year Award. Originally published by Island House (US) and Bloomsbury (UK), The West received excellent reviews on both sides of the Atlantic. Eddie Stack's work is included in State of the Art: Stories from New Irish Writers; Irish Christmas Stories, The Clare Anthology and Fiction in the Classroom. His stories have also appeared in literary reviews Fiction, Confrontation, Whispers & Shouts and Criterion 83. Stories from The West have been read on radio worldwide and a CD of four stories read by the author, with music by Martin Hayes and Dennis Cahill was released in summer 2002. His latest collection of stories, Out of the Blue, was published in Spring 2004. His work is available for Kindle on Amazon Eddie Stack was co-founder and artistic director of the Irish Arts Foundation in San Francisco. He was a member of the Irish trad group Last Night's Fun with Tommy Peoples, Paddy Keenan, Johnny Moynihan and the late Shane Holden. He is currently working on a book about the culture and traditional arts of Doolin, County Clare, Ireland. Due out in 2009, the book includes interviews with Micho Russell and Paddy Shannon as well as profiles on the Russell and Killoughery brothers. It has features on storytelling, dancing as well as music and songs from Doolin.
	The Box	by H. Lovelyn Bettison May 13, 2010	$2.99	51989 words	Sample 25%
	Author bio: H. Lovelyn Bettison was born into a creative family with a strong tradition of storytelling. From an early age, she wrote stories. Some of her first works of fiction involved talking trees and magical creatures. She started writing flash fiction in her early twenties. Before she knew it her flash fiction started turning into novels. Though the trees in her current stories don’t usually talk, she has remained true to her childhood interest in the magical aspects of life. She currently lives outside of London with her husband and stepson.
	A Huckster's Paradise	by Michael Antoniak May 12, 2010	$5.00	142774 words	Sample 33%
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	Norton's Ghost	by R Canepa May 10, 2010	$2.99	119213 words	Sample 50%
	Author bio: R. Canepa is a writer, musician, beginning composer, and general dabbler. Never content to stay in one place, whether physically or otherwise, he moved from California to Gainesville, FL and has been an English major, pre-medicine with emphasis on neurobiology, a middle school science teacher, and a programmer. Once upon a time, he also wanted to be a comic book artist, a chef, a stuntman, a robotics engineer, and a pilot. He still thinks those options sound pretty good. In his spare time, R. Canepa reads, watches movies, plays video games, and takes up way more hobbies than he could possibly have time for. Visit http://rcanepa.net for the scoop on it all.
	Einstein's Road Trip	by George Brinner May 10, 2010	$4.95	89434 words	Sample 30%
	Author bio: I paint pictures with orange skies and purple trees and write stories that explore the recesses of their character's minds-in a casual way. I own a little bar called Kahale's Beach Club in Kihei on the southern coast of Maui where I can take refreshment while the whales play. Maui has been home since I came to Hawaii by chance in the summer of nineteen seventy eight. One perk I have as an artist and writer is I can survive in one place about as well as any other, and so far I've found no place I would rather be. Occasionally my friends lounge in the shade of five palms that line the grassy knoll at the beach of Keawakapu - the Hawaiian word for forbidden harbor according to my bartender, Kimo Kuaana. They sip mai-tais and gin as they prattle on about this and that. Sometimes I join them, of course, but you may be more likely to find me in my studio a block away readying paintings for show or writing whatever comes to mind.
	White Pine	by F. J. Mackelroy May 10, 2010	Free!	1572 words	Sample 50%
	Author bio: F. J. Mackelroy is from Detroit, Michigan, the state with the motto, "Si quaeris peninsulam amoenam circumspice."
	Fighting for Eden	by Jeff Stilwell May 09, 2010	$4.99	104008 words	Sample 50%
	Author bio: Jeff Stilwell has spent many of his happiest years riding bareback at full gallop on the family ranch in the Yakima Valley where his father-in-law raised just about everything, including custom-fed cattle. Stilwell is indebted to John Schilperoort and his cousin (and customer) Harry Kwak for enduring thousands upon thousands of questions about the raising of Angus cattle. Stilwell, currently at work on his novel Running on Austen, has seen fifteen of his plays produced, earning such laurels as Enterprise Newspapers' judgment of One Tile Short: "an uninterrupted, 90-minute power pack with something to say...;" and Everett Herald's salute to Penny Upstart and the Widget War: "Clever dialogue and quips showcase Stilwell's talent for comedic writing..." The Driftwood Players production of Stilwell's Traffic Stop garnered two awards at the Kaleidoscope competition in 2007. Stilwell lives in Seattle with his wife, Manya, running their art gallery and writing about the local art scene at http://manyaveeselects.blogspot.com/.
	Días de llamas	by Juan Iturralde May 08, 2010	$4.63	180916 words	Sample 20%
	Author bio: Juan Iturralde nació con el nombre de José María Pérez Prat, en Salamanca el 15 de Junio de 1917. Su vida puede llenar, a lo sumo, una cuartilla, estudió en los Jesuitas de Chamartín de la Rosa, no muy concorde con su voluntad y, más tarde, con escaso entusiasmo, Derecho, primero en la Universidad Central y después en la Literaria de Salamanca. El alzamiento llamado nacional le sorprendió en Ciudad Real -donde su madre había fijado su residencia, con sus siete hijos, desde que enviudó- y la revolución y la guerra subsiguientes le pusieron en trance de perder la vida, aunque no tuvo jamás vocación de mártir o de héroe. El azar puso en su camino, durante la contienda, una multitud de ángeles custodios con mono de miliciano o uniforme del Ejército Regular Popular Revolucionario que le ayudaron a sobrevivir. Terminada aquella, terminó también sus estudios de Derecho, y en 1942 obtuvo plaza, en las oposiciones que se celebraron en dicho año, para ingresar en el Cuerpo de Abogados del Estado. Desde entonces, se dedicó a su profesión, capeó algún temporal político sin importancia, aprendió poco a poco a escribir y a ser padre. Tiene cuatro hijos y tres libros: El viaje a Atenas y Labios descarnados, publicados por Barral Editores en 1975, y Días de llamas, editado por primera vez en la Gaya Ciencia. Juan Iturralde falleció junto a José María Pérez Prat el 7 de abril de 1999.
	Inferno	by Todd Riemer May 06, 2010	$9.95	66786 words	Sample 30%
	Author bio: From the red deserts of Morocco, to the dark, fogged in streets of London, I have traveled the world soaking in both landscape and history to create a tapestry of collective memory. When I write, I pull constantly from this web of ideas; scraps of lectures, newspaper clippings, long lost vistas, the sensation of a soft touch, the distinctness of foreign smells. Through my craft I am concerned with stimulating all of the reader's senses, bringing to life the world and future I have constructed. My writing serves to show a possible destination, a possible vision of where we are heading. Though disturbing and dystopian, my vision is one that brings out the essence of the human experience; the choice to fight oppression or to submit, the choice between what is right and what is wrong. My characters, like most of the people I have met along my journeys, are not so clearly defined. I choose to examine their experience delving into the swirled gray shadows that exist between the world of good and evil.
	Delilah of Sunhats and Swans	by Melissa Volker May 03, 2010	$3.99	62865 words	Sample 20%
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	Brazen, a novel	by Jason Silva May 03, 2010	$1.99	80457 words	Sample 50%
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	Hans y las lluvias de Abril	by Juan Iturralde May 01, 2010	$4.63	104674 words	Sample 20%
	Author bio: Juan Iturralde nació con el nombre de José María Pérez Prat, en Salamanca el 15 de Junio de 1917. Su vida puede llenar, a lo sumo, una cuartilla, estudió en los Jesuitas de Chamartín de la Rosa, no muy concorde con su voluntad y, más tarde, con escaso entusiasmo, Derecho, primero en la Universidad Central y después en la Literaria de Salamanca. El alzamiento llamado nacional le sorprendió en Ciudad Real -donde su madre había fijado su residencia, con sus siete hijos, desde que enviudó- y la revolución y la guerra subsiguientes le pusieron en trance de perder la vida, aunque no tuvo jamás vocación de mártir o de héroe. El azar puso en su camino, durante la contienda, una multitud de ángeles custodios con mono de miliciano o uniforme del Ejército Regular Popular Revolucionario que le ayudaron a sobrevivir. Terminada aquella, terminó también sus estudios de Derecho, y en 1942 obtuvo plaza, en las oposiciones que se celebraron en dicho año, para ingresar en el Cuerpo de Abogados del Estado. Desde entonces, se dedicó a su profesión, capeó algún temporal político sin importancia, aprendió poco a poco a escribir y a ser padre. Tiene cuatro hijos y tres libros: El viaje a Atenas y Labios descarnados, publicados por Barral Editores en 1975, y Días de llamas, editado por primera vez en la Gaya Ciencia. Juan Iturralde falleció junto a José María Pérez Prat el 7 de abril de 1999.
	Raisinheart	by Tom Lichtenberg April 28, 2010	Free!	16640 words	Read a sample
	Author bio: Short absurdist comic-surrealist nonsense with poly genre mashup. Sincerely weird.
	A Fame of Two Halves	by Grimoire Books April 28, 2010	$0.99	83180 words	Sample 10%
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	The Year of the Blue Snow	by Kevin Walter April 28, 2010	$4.99	72940 words	Sample 30%
	Author bio: Kevin Walter graduated from the film studies program at Emerson College in 2003. He has been a working member of the film community in New York city since. He spends much of his time writing or reading. He currently resides in New Jersey.
	Parallels	by Jet Rockway April 27, 2010	$4.99	79503 words	Sample 33%
	Author bio: Jet Rockway was born in Rochester, NY, the child of hippie parents, who nurtured his interests in the arts. After the fall of the wall, he relocated to East Berlin, Germany, where he shares an apartment with his identical twin brother, piles of unread books, two lizards, and a vicious cat.
	Abattoir Jack	by Christopher Neilan April 27, 2010	$4.75	46108 words	Sample 10%
	Author bio: Christopher Neilan is the author of the Punked Books novel Abattoir Jack. Christopher Neilan began writing seriously when he realised it was unlikely that anyone would pay to hear him play guitar, and yet more unlikely that anyone would pay to hear him explain in detail his favourite Tom Waits songs. He has been “working” in TV comedy since 2005, when Sam Bain and Jesse Armstrong, writers of Peep Show, managed to get him a job on a sketch show, but relations on said show took a downward turn when he pitched a sketch based on a man French kissing a cat. Work has been sporadic ever since. He has written one novel and several short stories, has worked for producers Phil Clark (Peep Show) and Ash Atalla (The Office), and has been affiliated with a number of terrible short films (and a few alright ones). He plays his guitar at night and works behind a bar. He’s studying an MA and he does not have a car. He’s moved three times in three years but he’s not moved very far. Christopher has a degree in Film Studies from the University of Kent, a diploma in Filmmaking from the Brighton Film School, and has one pair of jeans that fit rather well. He lives in Brighton.
	Southern Man	by Connie Chastain April 25, 2010	$2.99	120148 words	Sample 25%
	Author bio: I'm a former staff writer for The Florida Sun, (now the Pensacola Independent News), which was published, starting in 1999, in Pensacola, Florida by former Congressman Joe Scarborough (now the star of "Morning Joe" on MS- NBC). My articles were all nonfiction and ran the gamut from travel to current events and chemtrails to Bigfoot in Dixie. I'm a ninth-generation Southerner. Born in Georgia, I grew up a preacher's kid in Alabama, attended Alabama Christian College (now Faulkner University) and married a Louisiana boy. I currently reside with my husband of 30+ years in L.A. (Lower Alabama -- aka, the Florida panhandle). Follow the links below for more on Southern Man: Publisher Website http://www.brasstownbooks.com Southern Man Trailers http://www.vimeo.com/6886887 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IWyQjZHWtPI http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mzTHqyBKFWU
	Apart from You	by Leonore H. Dvorkin April 25, 2010	$2.99	105861 words	Sample 25%
	Author bio: Leonore H. Dvorkin was born in 1946 in Chicago, Illinois. She and her author husband, David Dvorkin, have lived in Denver, Colorado, since 1971. Their son, Daniel Dvorkin, has written two science fiction novels with his father. Leonore works as a tutor of German and Spanish, a German to English translator, a proofreader/editor, and a weight training instructor. The print version of APART FROM YOU was first published by Wildside Press in 2000, and the revised version was published in 2010 by CreateSpace (now on Amazon). Leonore's nonfiction memoir is ANOTHER CHANCE AT LIFE: A BREAST CANCER SURVIVOR'S JOURNEY, published by Norilana Books in 2010. A Spanish edition will appear sometime in 2010 or 2011. Apart from You cover photo copyright 2009 by Leonore H. Dvorkin.
	Moment of Truth	by Marcus McGee April 24, 2010	$7.99	86764 words	Sample 20%
	Author bio: MARCUS MCGEE Curriculum Vitae Birth date August 8, 1960, Casablanca Morocco Locale 1960 – 1964 Casablanca, Morocco 1964 – 1967 Madrid, Spain 1967 – 1969 Omaha, Nebraska 1969 – 1984 Sacramento, California Valley High School (Speech, Debate, Languages, Music) California State University, Sacramento (Communication Studies major, French Language & Theatre Arts minors) 1984 - present Sacramento, CA and Los Angeles, CA Writing/Production History 1982 Three plays: Solomon and Constance, Michael Angelo, Stevie: The Eighth Wonder of the World 1983 Produced and directed Stevie at Sierra II Theatre, Sacramento, July; wrote stage play Table 21 Wrote No More Cheesecake!; began first novel 1985 Completed novel Deus Ex Machina, completed two plays: Caesar and Kidstuff 1986 Wrote stage play Dream and one-act Fashion 1987 Adapted Dream as screenplay; Piss Only on the Porcelain, short stories Till Death Do Us Part, Mr. Peacock, Anthropophagi 1988 Wrote The Love Tragedies and Remember 1990 Produced, directed and starred in No More Cheesecake! at the Sacramento Community Center Theatre, March; began Willie Brown biography 1994 Wrote Mommy! There’s A Little Boy Under My Bed! 1996 Completed Willie: The Man, The Myth & The Era; wrote short stories 1998 Founded Pegasus Books; Published An Essay: On Niggers and Squirrels; began writing legal novel; wrote Black Bertha 1999 Published short story collection: Four Stories; finished novel; wrote Apology 2000 Published novel Legal Thriller; Published An Essay: On The Execution of Timothy McVeigh 2001 Published short story collection: Synchronicity; began new novel 2002 Published thriller The Last Year 2003 Researched and developed Griot film project 2004 Completed short story collection: The Silk Noose; began sequel to Legal Thriller 2005-06 Published The Silk Noose; researched and developed thriller Viral Vector; continued writing Murder From the Grave 2007-08 Completed Murder From the Grave; began writing ViralVector; founded Parnassus Press Partnership Publishing 2009-10: Published Murder From the Grave; published Shadow In The Sky, published Moment of Truth, published Mommy, There’s A Little Boy Under My Bed! completed Viral Vector; began work on An Old Negro Spiritual and An Essay On What They’ve Called Us; Borders Book tour of the Northwest – Murder From The Grave a bestseller for region in Q4 2010 2011 Wrote and published How To Eat An Elephant and Two Matadors; converted all books to eBooks; greater emphasis on publishing new writers Personal: Single father raising two children; son Mark, 21 and daughter Natsumi, 14; fourth of seven children: four brothers and two sisters Extras: Fluent in French, competent at Latin and Spanish; accomplished at saxophone and other woodwinds; strong science, math, history, political science and religions background Hobbies: Reading history and philosophy; theatrical production; music and movies Passions: Writing, research, stories, wine, art, Odd Fact: Marcus managed an upscale/political/lobbyist hangout Chinese restaurant called Frank Fat’s, one block from the California State Capitol, for fourteen years.