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	Gore Orphenage Road	by Lynn Hones Feb. 07, 2012	$4.99	25326 words	Sample 5%
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	Tears of Blood	by Allyson Nichols Feb. 05, 2012	$1.99	28245 words	Sample 20%
	Author bio: Hi!I'm Allyson.Most people call me Ally though.I am a 14 year-old girl that's still working on her writing.One of my friends is currently publishing a book and I thought since I started writing before her I might have a chance at getting my books published.I thought I would try out self-publishing first though.So,I'm going to see how my books do on here and if they do good I'll think about sending them to a publisher.I really hope you like my books and I love to hear what you have to say about them.I hope that someday I'll become a big writer and that's about it.I discovered this websote on Wattpad.com where there is a couple of my other books in the works.Once again,I hope you guys enjoy my books.Bye! :)
	Neewa the Wonder Dog and the Ghost Hunters	by John Cerutti Feb. 05, 2012	Free!	69122 words	Read a sample
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	The Adventures of Vivian Sharpe, Vegan Superhero	by Marla Rose Feb. 01, 2012	$3.99	146394 words	Sample 15%
	Author bio: Marla Rose is a writer, activist and community builder actively involved in Chicago’s flourishing vegan movement. In 1998, she and her husband created the pioneering vegan web magazine, Vegan Street. In 1999, at the request of the “Mad Cowboy” Howard Lyman, Marla co-founded and headed the Chicago chapter of EarthSave International, eventually producing an annual event called The Conference for Conscious Living that drew dozens of vegan leaders to Chicago over the next decade. This event ultimately grew into the innovative and popular festival, Chicago VeganMania, which has drawn thousands over the last three years. Meanwhile, Marla co-founded the Chicago Vegan Family Network, which has grown into a group of dozens of families all raising vegan children. In 2009, Marla and her husband were recognized by Mercy For Animals as Activists of the Year. In 2004, Marla published her first book, Marla’s Vegan Guide to Chicago and the Universe. Soon after, she began her blog, Vegan Feminist Agitator. She is a freelance feature writer and has had her work featured in VegNews magazine, One Green Planet and the Advocacy for Animals blog for Encyclopaedia Britannica, and she will have an essay published in the collection, This I Believe: On Motherhood, which is going to be published in Spring, 2012 . She also maintains two different columns for Examiner.com. Marla’s work has been reprinted in the Utne Reader, and in 2010, she was nominated for a prestigious Maggie Award for best feature story. The Adventures of Vivian Sharpe, Vegan Superhero is Marla's first novel.
	Lament: A Restraint Novel	by Sandra Madera Jan. 31, 2012	$2.99	59350 words	Sample 10%
	Author bio: Sandra Madera currently resides in New York and is a recent college grad, obtaining her bachelor's degree in science. However, her true passion has always been reading and writing. She has been writing short stories since she was a child. She recently published her first full-length novel entitled Restraint. For free short story downloads and for information on upcoming novels visit www.sandramadera.com and http://sandra-madera.blogspot.com.
	A Kiss for Emily	by J P Galuska Jan. 31, 2012	$2.99	81361 words	Sample 15%
	Author bio: J P Galuska is pleased to release her debut novel, A Kiss for Emily. She began writing in 2009 and self-published the YA book in January of 2012.
	CIC: The Canary Island Commandos	by Sean Patrick O'Mordha Jan. 30, 2012	$1.99	58649 words	Sample 20%
	Author bio: Sean O'Mordha, the Oldguey,is a displaced Celt who grew up riding horses through the Wyoming mountains. Following a career in law enforcement he helped raise three children and supporting his wife's career in Nursing education administration. Traveling between homes in southern Utah, northern Nevada and central California he stays busy writing while keeping an eye on a burgeoning number of grandchildren.
	Hostile Takeover	by Scott Roche Jan. 30, 2012	$1.49	9121 words	Sample 50%
	Author bio: I've been writing stories since I was a boy, but only recently have made inroads into becoming a published author.
	Demonized (Part 2 in the Lost Souls Trilogy)	by Anna Pescardot Jan. 28, 2012	$0.99	16248 words	Sample 20%
	Author bio: I'm live in northern England and I enjoy writing romantic comedies. I write to entertain and so I enjoy adding a little fantasy element to my down-to-earth stories. My newest books are a little darker and deal with paranormal romance, rather than chicklit. I have written these for the young adult audience. Although my books deal with romance I like to keep the content mostly suitable for everyone! Writing is my passion; as soon as I complete one book I'm already up and running on my next. I get bored easily, though and have had many jobs from fitness instructor and technical support advisor through to nursery nurse and my current job - maths tutor. I never tire of writing though - it's like an addiction! I like to bring some of my past experiences into my books and I hope this helps make the books believable for readers. I always like to hear from readers who have enjoyed my books and I welcome twitter and facebook followers as well as email comments. Bye for now Anna x
	Don't Get Fancy Nancy	by Mark Fitzgerald Jan. 27, 2012	Free!	13734 words	Read a sample
	Author bio: I am an unemployed architect. My future, which suits me just fine, will be that of a substitute school teacher, advanced guitarist and instructor of guitar, Volvo restorer and conspiracy theorist. And novelist. Right now, my penchant seems to be short little novels, novellas I guess they are. This is making me quite prolific. I might be in error. Maybe harder work on longer novels is best. I would be delighted to have any feedback on my works. Most of all, please read "The Undergrad" also available at Smashwords.
	Shattered	by Jezebel Jorge Jan. 27, 2012	$0.99	73165 words	Sample 20%
	Author bio: Jezebel describes her genre as Witch Lit. She is a solo practitioner Wiccan and proudly answers to the title of witch and / or bitch. Her strongest magickal powers are the ability to cast candle spells and communicating with those who have passed with a spirit board or through her dreams. When starting a new project she never knows where her characters might decide to take her. Sometimes it feels like she’s merely taking dictation from the voices running amok inside her head. Witches and pro wrestlers might seem like a strange combination, but Jezebel has spent most of her adult life around the inner workings of the wrestling business. She’s been a fan, ring rat (groupie), ring girl, valet, live-in girlfriend and lover and confidant to some of the most creative minds in the wrestling industry. When she’s not writing, Jezebel likes to get lost in a good book. She is owned by a 99.9 lb. spoiled rotten Golden Retriever / Great Pyrenees mix named Harry Potter.
	Talented	by Sophie Davis Jan. 26, 2012	$2.99	102015 words	Sample 20%
	Author bio: I'm a first-time author living in DC. I enjoy running in Rock Creek Park, shopping in Georgetown, and spending time with my two dogs, a poodle and a rescued Mutt. For more about me, please check out my website!
	Library of Illumination - Book Two	by Carol Pack Jan. 22, 2012	$1.99	13105 words	Sample 20%
	Author bio: Carol Pack is an award-winning journalist from Long Island, NY. In addition to this novelette, Carol has penned two novels: Code Name: Evangeline, an historic espionage thriller about a foiled Nazi invasion plot, and Evangeline's Ghost, a spy-after-death thriller.
	When the Squeaking Starts...	by Mary Lee Tiernan Jan. 21, 2012	$2.99	36291 words	Sample 20%
	Author bio: I was born in New York, but the lure of open spaces brought me west, and I now call Arizona home. Throughout my professional life as an educator and newspaper editor, my passion has always been writing. My other passion is exploring all the West has to offer, and I am often RVing down the road with my cat Charlie.
	The Blacker House	by Nicole Mulloy Jan. 21, 2012	$2.99	80088 words	Sample 20%
	Author bio: Nicole Mulloy lives in the beautiful rolling hills east of Cleveland, Ohio. She is happily married, with three fantastic children, and an overgrown vegetable garden. She lived in "The Blacker House" in high school and continued to have nightmares about it for years afterward until somebody told her to write about it. Those nightmares evolved into this terrifying, yet funny book about how a teenager battles with a real haunted house.
	The Mystery of the Black Moriah - the second Bean and Ab mystery	by David Crossman Jan. 19, 2012	$0.99	82538 words	Sample 33%
	Author bio: David A. Crossman is a modern-day polymath who – in common with polymaths throughout time – has yet to be sufficiently beguiled by any one sphere of endeavor to apply himself to it exclusively. As a result, he’s a best-selling novelist, an award-winning lyricist and composer, a writer of short stories, screenplays, teleplays, poems, and children’s books, a television producer/director (also award-winning), a video producer, radio/television talent, award-winning graphic, computer graphic artist, advertising copywriter, videographer, publisher, music producer, musician, singer, performer and … well, you get the picture. He’s shiftless – in all things but his devotion to Barbara his wife of…well, let’s say over 35 years and leave it at that.
	Deadly Desires (A Death Walker Novel-Book Two)	by Sarah Dieng Jan. 15, 2012	$3.99	107968 words	Sample 15%
	Author bio: I was born in Michigan, but somehow along the way ended up in Ohio, where I live with my wonderful husband. I started writing at a young age when I wrote my first story about a boy and his dog and read it to a handicapped neighbor. I am a hopeless romantic and have a very vivid imagination. I am addicted to horror movies, but there is no way I am stepping into a haunted house. Think dark hallway and a pop up clowns head *shiver*…yeah I know. I have never been out of the US, but would love to travel someday. My dream travel destinations are Ireland and Scotland. Sometimes I wish I was more like the characters I create in my head because they are outgoing, kick-butt heroines with a wicked attitude. Sometimes I also wish that I spoke fluent French, that way my husband would understand my sometimes attempts at Americanizing him. Some things just do not translate well in any language. Sarcasm is my best defense, which no one understands but members of my own family…which is really too bad. Deadly Dreams is my first novel.
	Serenity's Sight: Lessons	by Cynthia Sisco Jan. 14, 2012	$4.99	51314 words	Sample 10%
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	Sea Lavender	by Chika Onyenezi Jan. 13, 2012	$4.99	70404 words	Sample 10%
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	The Village: Warm Hearth, Warm Hearts	by A M Hanley Jan. 13, 2012	$1.99	79666 words	Sample 10%
	Author bio: A M Hanley is British but lives in Italy, writing and designing gardens.
	Between	by Mary Ting Jan. 10, 2012	$5.99	91997 words	Sample 20%
	Author bio: Mary Ting resides in Southern California with her husband and two children. She enjoys oil painting and making jewelry. Writing Crossroads was a way to grieve the death of her beloved grandmother. It was inspired by a dream she once had as a young girl.
	To Die For	by Betsy Haynes Jan. 09, 2012	$0.99	30997 words	Sample 20%
	Author bio: I've been an author most of my life. I've published 79 books, one of which was made into a Saturday morning tv series, another made into a Saturday evening tv movie. I currently teach jubenile writing for UCLA on line.
	Surprise War	by Monica P Jan. 06, 2012	$1.00	1151 words	Sample 15%
	Author bio: This author has been writing for around thirteen years. She began with poetry, and expanded into the field of creative writing. Despite the fact that creative writing is her main focus, she has also expanded into non-fiction writing.
	TOR Assassin Hunter	by Billy Bob Buttons Jan. 02, 2012	$0.99	42606 words	Sample 50%
	Author bio: Billy Bob Buttons is from Earth, the third planet from the sun in a small galaxy called the Milky Way. Subsequently, he is called 'Earthling'. He is 'normal' in many ways - for example, he enjoys chocolate. Note, any earthling suspected of not liking chocolate cannot be trusted and must be exterminated. Having observed this human from our ship, the following has been noted: He is 14,235 earth days old and plays a sport called 'tennis' a lot, in which he hits a fuzzy green ball over a net and shouts, 'Love 15'. Note, who are the 15? And why is he in love with them? He is also very popular and has 7,745,121 friends. They all live together in a place called 'London'. He has two matching baby earthlings called, 'No! No! Stop chewing on that electric cable!' and, 'There's no way she needs a nappy change! Is there?!' He also has a mate called 'Sorry, Darling' who seems vastly more intelligent and is the ruler of the dwelling. Finally, he spends lots of earth hours thumping two fingers on the keys of a primitive computer. To conclude, the specimen must be kidnapped, probed and tested.
	Strange Short Tales 2	by Charles Wells Dec. 31, 2011	Free!	19740 words	Read a sample
	Author bio: I was asked why I'm a writer and responded with the following. I didn't choose writing, it chose me. I've spent the better part of my life (and I'm 60 years old) writing, but I still hesitate to call myself an Author. I've written and published seven books, six are fiction, and still I don't feel like a writer because I don't fit my mental image of one. I don't feel compelled to be the next Mark Twain or Tom Clancy. I don't want to get filthy rich from my writing and I don't care for the glory of being recognized while walking down the street. All I want to do is entertain people and hold that wisp of power and control knowing I can make you laugh, or make you cry. I can take you to heaven or send you straight to hell, all with a few words placed appropriately. I can do in one paragraph what God needs seven days to accomplish. Best of all, I can make you think great thoughts or I can help you dream in a reality that I create. A reality you can enjoin or not with the flip of a book cover or press of a digital reader button. All of this isn't writing, it's insanity and escape for the sake of entertainment. http://www.wellstonpublishing.com Before turning to fiction writing, Wells spent most of his career as a newspaper reporter and journalist in middle Georgia. He covered everything from high school sports to front page news stories. During the last fourteen years of his career he worked as Managing Editor for “The Robins Review” a military town’s 25,000 weekly edition publication. The city’s mixed population of civilian and military called for a unique brand of writing skills that Wells found comfortable supplying. The highlight of his career was in 1988 when a sharply written article was picked up by the national wire services and republished around the world. The topic was the advance of technology in the Air Force’s electronic warfare division and aptly titled “Stone Age to Star Wars.” Copies of the article made it to the desk of then President Ronald Regan who had initially emblazoned the term into the minds of the world. The article also caught the attention of an NBC News Producer as well as ABC’s nightline’s Associate Producer, Terry Irving. The sad news through it all was that just as Wells’ writing career was taking off, his personal world was “going south and silent.” Plagued since childhood by an ongoing progressive hearing loss, Charles Wells lost all usable hearing and went completely deaf. When the handicap peaked, Wells found it impossible to function for the newspaper any longer and resigned at age 38. He fell back on his original “day job” returning to work as an electronics technician at the same military base where he once “entertained the troops.” When his hearing problems also unraveled his efforts there, he threw in the towel, took a disability from service and dropped out of sight for three long years. During that time he switched his writing presentations from the “pomp and ceremony” of print to the more open and space filling approach of the www. The writing needs of that medium grew to an insatiable level as more and more quality articles and information was needed to fill the millions of web pages springing up online. Best of all, those markets offered Wells a “deaf friendly” environment in which to work. He began his new career using old skills after refocusing his talents and adjusting them to the new technology and class of readers it presented. By swapping pen and paper for a keyboard and mouse, he positioned himself on the cusped of the informational highway. Still, he needed to crack the shell and get inside the medium which meant calling on his reputation as an old print writer and trying to capture the younger audiences of the internet. Normally bashful about self promotion, Wells shamelessly flaunted his accomplishments from the newspapers and soon gained the attention of higher ups in the news organizations that were testing the waters to see if there really was an audience online. All those “loud noises” made during his print career opened the doors for Wells and landed him a “digital online” job with CNN News of Atlanta. His “computer based” job description became one of the first “telecommuter” jobs in the world and for the next year he worked from home full time. CNN’s bold move to the internet was followed by a joint venture between computer software giant Microsoft and television’s NBC network. The two companies formed what is today MSNBC and then took CNN’s internet/TV interactive format and ran it deeper into the digital realms of society. Both networks quickly discovered the power behind having instant viewer response taken from “online news chat rooms.” MSNBC realized it faster and quickly moved the concept deeper passing CNN’s online presence during the second year of operations. After that, MSNBC became the envy of every news operation on earth especially to those wanting to work for them on the computer. Wells, still with CNN when MSNBC went flying past, watched and waited, trying to gauge the right moment to attempt a jump over to MSNBC. That moment came when MSNBC hired ABC’s Terry Irving and put him in charge of the “Don Imus in the Morning” simulcast show on the network. Irving’s first order of the day was to start an online interactive chat room and the man he wanted to operate it was Charles Wells. He had quietly spent a lot of time online in the CNN chats and had watched how well Charles had interacted and inspired comments from the users, comments that quite often made it to the bottom of any given news show’s TV’s screen as well. Wells enjoyed the interactivity and fun dealing with regular people online and relaying their questions and responses over to the on air television people. Best of all, his handicap wasn’t an issue or a problem. It never interfered with his work because one didn’t need to hear the words spoken. His computer scrolled them across his screen flawlessly. Still, Wells was a writer at heart and the tug to write fiction adventure stories was still strong but dormant. During the year he stayed at CNN he was constantly asking for web space in which he could write short journalistic features, a concept that today is referred to as “Blogging.” Wells idea was simply too far ahead of the times and his idea fell on deaf yet hearing ears at CNN. When he persisted and then demanded the space, his manager made it clear that CNN was not interested and to not mention it again. They felt that online readers would never sit still long enough to read a thousand words of personal opinions and commentary. Frustrated at the lack of insight shown by his employer, Wells resigned and almost gave up entirely on his attempt to join the web. He was on the verge of unplugging the computer when Terry Irving heard about his departure from CNN and dropped him an email asking if he was interested in opening a new chat room for radio personality Don Imus. Wells agreed to do so on the condition that he would get a small spot on the MSNBC website to write his daily commentary feature. Irving loved the idea and six weeks later, Imus in The Morning on MSNBC took to the air on the same day that “The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly” by Charles Wells hit the MSNBC web pages. It lasted over eight years and Wells never missed a deadline. The highlight, if one cares to look at it that way, of his career at MSNBC happened on that fateful morning of September 11, 2001. Wells was in charge of the morning Imus chat and assisting another host working in the news room chats. Between the two, there were over 150 visitors in the two chat rooms when the first aircraft hit the World Trade Center. His steady and cool handling of site visitors as they flooded in for the latest information, established his reputation as being one of the internet’s top hosts controllers after he juggled a staggering 2400 chatters solo for almost an hour until help could arrive. He then stayed on duty for a solid twelve hours straight. Even with such public exposure under his belt, Wells did not feel quite ready for prime book publishing especially since he was switching from factual reporting to fiction mystery as his genre of choice. After MSNBC ended the chat room days and let Wells and a dozen others go, he stayed below the radar for several years until 2009 when his first fiction novel hit the markets under the name “Sand Hill Estates the Murders.” That book, one of the first classes of digital only books offered online, trudged along quietly with modest sales but drew few raves or reviews outside the mystery community. In 2010 he took the characters and plots and reworked them, then expanded into today’s “Whispering Pines.” From one book grew a six and counting series of fast paced suspense thrillers geared for all age groups. Book seven has a tentative release date of January 2012. On several occasions during interviews, Wells was asked if he had plans yet to eventually wrap and end the series. “I haven’t told all the stories yet so no. At this time I’ve still got one story in progress and two more in mind waiting.”
	Desert Fire	by H.M. Prevost Dec. 28, 2011	$5.95	65291 words	Sample 20%
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	Something Wicked	by Vanessa Serrano Dec. 27, 2011	$1.99	72463 words	Sample 15%
	Author bio: Newbie writer, who teaches first grade in her spare time. When I'm not running after my two crazy boys or picking up after my hubby I'm reading every book I can get my hands on.
	The Bluestocking Girl: Book 2 of The von Strassenberg Saga	by Gwenn Wright Dec. 22, 2011	$2.99	81298 words	Sample 20%
	Author bio: My life is a fairytale....but not in that first mental image that pops up when you hear "fairytale." Not the shiny, sparkly, glitter floating through the air, glass shoes and rainbows image. Because when you think about it, fairytales usually start off with things being ho-hum and then suddenly there is this promise of something great about to happen..and then that something falls apart and then terror and loneliness ensue...and only after all of that does Prince Charming come in and they live happily ever after. That's my life. Except my life doesn't involve crowns or castles and we don't own a single horse. My prince charming came back to my life in a big, noisy truck after we hadn't seen each other for eleven years. We'd been engaged while I was in high school and he was in the Army (he was a senior when I was a freshman) but I got cold feet and didn't figure in his male pride...so we spent eleven years being stupid and getting terribly hurt. The man I married ran off while I was pregnant with our third son. My parents moved the boys and I back into their home, I started a cleaning business and, once #3 was born, I went back to school. Three years after their dad left I just happened across my high school sweetheart. We got married six months later. We may be poor. Our lives aren't what we thought they would be but dang it! We are blissfully happy. I started writing again in the midst of the vampire/paranormal craze, determined to write something with an original plot line for the poor teenagers around me (I've got at least a decade on my fellow students). Presently, I am working on book 2. It's slow-going. Very slow, as I am also interning at a newspaper and still in an Applied Journalism class. People ask what I want to do when I graduate in May. The answer is simple and impractical, "I want to finish writing Book 2." Writing has always been what I do. From the time I wrote my first poem in kindergarten I was hooked. There are numerous 3-inch binders in my basement to testify to the fact that I spent way too much time by myself as a child and as a teenager...Whenever I actually bothered to get in trouble my mother would ask my father, "What're we going to do? What're we going to ground her from?" My father's answer? "Take away her pens and paper."
	STINGERS	by W. G. Griffiths Dec. 20, 2011	$2.99	75041 words	Sample 20%
	Author bio: W. G. Griffiths lives on Long Island and is the award winning author of both fiction and Non-fiction titles which include, Malchus, Driven, Takedown, The Road to Forgiveness, Methuselah's Pillar, Stingers, and, Talons.
	A Date To Die For	by Mary Lee Tiernan Dec. 18, 2011	$2.99	45372 words	Sample 20%
	Author bio: I was born in New York, but the lure of open spaces brought me west, and I now call Arizona home. Throughout my professional life as an educator and newspaper editor, my passion has always been writing. My other passion is exploring all the West has to offer, and I am often RVing down the road with my cat Charlie.
	Cycles	by Lois D. Brown Dec. 16, 2011	$2.99	57817 words	Sample 20%
	Author bio: Lois received her bachelor’s degree in journalism and worked as a news correspondent in Washington, D.C. She later completed a Master’s degree in communications and started her own freelance business. She has written nearly fifty articles and books, many of which are about nutrition and the use of natural food supplements. She worked as the chief editor to a former New York Times best-selling author Dr. Neil Solomon, and she co-wrote a book on time management with former Miss America Sharlene Wells Hawkes. In 2004 she published a book with psychologist Victoria Anderson catered to Mormons about how to better manage stress and anxiety. She has presented material from this book to large audiences across Utah. Recently she has turned her interests to writing fiction after realizing the bedtime stories she tells her four children never put them to sleep.
	Earthwhistle!	by Carl B. Olsen Dec. 16, 2011	$1.99	70678 words	Sample 20%
	Author bio: Born in 1946, Carl B. Olsen grew up in London, England and Mississauga, Ontario, Canada, later moving to British Columbia, where for many years he worked in the pulp and paper industry. In 1993 he became actively engaged in the mass civil protests against logging in Vancouver Island's Clayoquot Sound region. Media coverage of his "industry insider" whistleblowing statement ended the main licence-holder's claims that it didn't pulp old-growth trees from the region. Earthwhistle! - a long labour of love - is his first novel. Carl currently lives with his wife on British Columbia's Sunshine Coast and can be contacted at colsen@dccnet.com
	A Darker Shade of Grey	by SueEllen Holmes Dec. 15, 2011	Free!	15980 words	Read a sample
	Author bio: The author is a neuroscientist with a specialisation in learning and memory. As an educational consultant, she has extensive connections to her favourite market: young adult. She lives ninety kilometres south of Sydney, Australia, with her husband, three teens and assorted pets.
	Devastation	by Shandy L. Kurth Dec. 14, 2011	$2.99	61539 words	Sample 10%
	Author bio: Shandy L. Kurth is a writer of Young Adult fiction. She is a teacher by day and a writer by night. She was born and raised in Kanas and lives and writes there with her husband.
	A Paul Dorset Sampler	by Paul Dorset Dec. 12, 2011	Free!	49407 words	Read a sample
	Author bio: Paul Dorset was born in Poole, Dorset in England in 1960 but has been living in America since 1995. He has been writing for many years and some of his early works were published in 'teen advice' columns. He has also had many technical articles published, mostly in the field of Computing. Paul currently lives in the Pacific Northwest but has traveled extensively and worked many times with teens and youth groups. It is this background combined with a vivid imagination that has enabled him to weave a tapestry of magic into complete novels. His first epic fantasy series, aimed at young adults, is entitled 'The Southern Lands'. However, the storyline is more than exciting enough to keep adults turning pages as the story unfolds. Paul is currently working on several other projects and hopes to release a couple of new books later in 2011. For up to date information on his projects, please read his blog which is linked below.
	Indiana Fire	by Neisa Hutson Dec. 10, 2011	$0.99	101465 words	Sample 10%
	Author bio: Hello, My name is Neisa Hutson and I am twenty years young. :) I have only one book finished, Indiana Fire, and it is now available here on smashwords! I'm very excited, and I've spents years writing this one. I live in West Virginia, and, no, I'm not in college. But, I am enjoying my time now either writing, reading, sketching, spending time with my dog Tia, or growing as a writer. I would love to add Massage Therapist to my list along with A Greeting Card Designer, someday maybe. But for now I'm just a wannabe writer, with a self published book!
	Summer of the Brother (The Seasons, Book 1)	by Ryan O'Riordan Dec. 09, 2011	$0.99	80812 words	Sample 10%
	Author bio: Ryan O'Riordan lives in a city you've probably never heard of in the middle of England and has always wanted to be a writer. His middle name is Ciaran, which means all his names end with the same sound (the technical term is assonance!) He is also a Pixar fanboy and has a dog called Zeus. Ryan writes lots of young adult fiction, and has 2 ongoing series (Serie? Series's? Serieses? Serious? It's just 'Series', isn't it...?) - 'The 01:23 Bardo', a dystopian detective series and 'The Seasons', a horror series about twin brothers, one of whom is a vampire.
	The Farm House	by Tim Hicks Dec. 08, 2011	$2.99	52152 words	Sample 20%
	Author bio: I'm a stay at home dad, who home-schools our two kids. Although I do have extensive experience writing short stories and articles, this is my first attempt at writing a novel. I also currently have a blog where I write about everything ranging from weight loss to landscaping and just about everything in between. Proudly, I am now a contributing author to Operation E-Book Drop.
	Strange Short Tales	by Charles Wells Dec. 05, 2011	Free!	11757 words	Read a sample
	Author bio: I was asked why I'm a writer and responded with the following. I didn't choose writing, it chose me. I've spent the better part of my life (and I'm 60 years old) writing, but I still hesitate to call myself an Author. I've written and published seven books, six are fiction, and still I don't feel like a writer because I don't fit my mental image of one. I don't feel compelled to be the next Mark Twain or Tom Clancy. I don't want to get filthy rich from my writing and I don't care for the glory of being recognized while walking down the street. All I want to do is entertain people and hold that wisp of power and control knowing I can make you laugh, or make you cry. I can take you to heaven or send you straight to hell, all with a few words placed appropriately. I can do in one paragraph what God needs seven days to accomplish. Best of all, I can make you think great thoughts or I can help you dream in a reality that I create. A reality you can enjoin or not with the flip of a book cover or press of a digital reader button. All of this isn't writing, it's insanity and escape for the sake of entertainment. http://www.wellstonpublishing.com Before turning to fiction writing, Wells spent most of his career as a newspaper reporter and journalist in middle Georgia. He covered everything from high school sports to front page news stories. During the last fourteen years of his career he worked as Managing Editor for “The Robins Review” a military town’s 25,000 weekly edition publication. The city’s mixed population of civilian and military called for a unique brand of writing skills that Wells found comfortable supplying. The highlight of his career was in 1988 when a sharply written article was picked up by the national wire services and republished around the world. The topic was the advance of technology in the Air Force’s electronic warfare division and aptly titled “Stone Age to Star Wars.” Copies of the article made it to the desk of then President Ronald Regan who had initially emblazoned the term into the minds of the world. The article also caught the attention of an NBC News Producer as well as ABC’s nightline’s Associate Producer, Terry Irving. The sad news through it all was that just as Wells’ writing career was taking off, his personal world was “going south and silent.” Plagued since childhood by an ongoing progressive hearing loss, Charles Wells lost all usable hearing and went completely deaf. When the handicap peaked, Wells found it impossible to function for the newspaper any longer and resigned at age 38. He fell back on his original “day job” returning to work as an electronics technician at the same military base where he once “entertained the troops.” When his hearing problems also unraveled his efforts there, he threw in the towel, took a disability from service and dropped out of sight for three long years. During that time he switched his writing presentations from the “pomp and ceremony” of print to the more open and space filling approach of the www. The writing needs of that medium grew to an insatiable level as more and more quality articles and information was needed to fill the millions of web pages springing up online. Best of all, those markets offered Wells a “deaf friendly” environment in which to work. He began his new career using old skills after refocusing his talents and adjusting them to the new technology and class of readers it presented. By swapping pen and paper for a keyboard and mouse, he positioned himself on the cusped of the informational highway. Still, he needed to crack the shell and get inside the medium which meant calling on his reputation as an old print writer and trying to capture the younger audiences of the internet. Normally bashful about self promotion, Wells shamelessly flaunted his accomplishments from the newspapers and soon gained the attention of higher ups in the news organizations that were testing the waters to see if there really was an audience online. All those “loud noises” made during his print career opened the doors for Wells and landed him a “digital online” job with CNN News of Atlanta. His “computer based” job description became one of the first “telecommuter” jobs in the world and for the next year he worked from home full time. CNN’s bold move to the internet was followed by a joint venture between computer software giant Microsoft and television’s NBC network. The two companies formed what is today MSNBC and then took CNN’s internet/TV interactive format and ran it deeper into the digital realms of society. Both networks quickly discovered the power behind having instant viewer response taken from “online news chat rooms.” MSNBC realized it faster and quickly moved the concept deeper passing CNN’s online presence during the second year of operations. After that, MSNBC became the envy of every news operation on earth especially to those wanting to work for them on the computer. Wells, still with CNN when MSNBC went flying past, watched and waited, trying to gauge the right moment to attempt a jump over to MSNBC. That moment came when MSNBC hired ABC’s Terry Irving and put him in charge of the “Don Imus in the Morning” simulcast show on the network. Irving’s first order of the day was to start an online interactive chat room and the man he wanted to operate it was Charles Wells. He had quietly spent a lot of time online in the CNN chats and had watched how well Charles had interacted and inspired comments from the users, comments that quite often made it to the bottom of any given news show’s TV’s screen as well. Wells enjoyed the interactivity and fun dealing with regular people online and relaying their questions and responses over to the on air television people. Best of all, his handicap wasn’t an issue or a problem. It never interfered with his work because one didn’t need to hear the words spoken. His computer scrolled them across his screen flawlessly. Still, Wells was a writer at heart and the tug to write fiction adventure stories was still strong but dormant. During the year he stayed at CNN he was constantly asking for web space in which he could write short journalistic features, a concept that today is referred to as “Blogging.” Wells idea was simply too far ahead of the times and his idea fell on deaf yet hearing ears at CNN. When he persisted and then demanded the space, his manager made it clear that CNN was not interested and to not mention it again. They felt that online readers would never sit still long enough to read a thousand words of personal opinions and commentary. Frustrated at the lack of insight shown by his employer, Wells resigned and almost gave up entirely on his attempt to join the web. He was on the verge of unplugging the computer when Terry Irving heard about his departure from CNN and dropped him an email asking if he was interested in opening a new chat room for radio personality Don Imus. Wells agreed to do so on the condition that he would get a small spot on the MSNBC website to write his daily commentary feature. Irving loved the idea and six weeks later, Imus in The Morning on MSNBC took to the air on the same day that “The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly” by Charles Wells hit the MSNBC web pages. It lasted over eight years and Wells never missed a deadline. The highlight, if one cares to look at it that way, of his career at MSNBC happened on that fateful morning of September 11, 2001. Wells was in charge of the morning Imus chat and assisting another host working in the news room chats. Between the two, there were over 150 visitors in the two chat rooms when the first aircraft hit the World Trade Center. His steady and cool handling of site visitors as they flooded in for the latest information, established his reputation as being one of the internet’s top hosts controllers after he juggled a staggering 2400 chatters solo for almost an hour until help could arrive. He then stayed on duty for a solid twelve hours straight. Even with such public exposure under his belt, Wells did not feel quite ready for prime book publishing especially since he was switching from factual reporting to fiction mystery as his genre of choice. After MSNBC ended the chat room days and let Wells and a dozen others go, he stayed below the radar for several years until 2009 when his first fiction novel hit the markets under the name “Sand Hill Estates the Murders.” That book, one of the first classes of digital only books offered online, trudged along quietly with modest sales but drew few raves or reviews outside the mystery community. In 2010 he took the characters and plots and reworked them, then expanded into today’s “Whispering Pines.” From one book grew a six and counting series of fast paced suspense thrillers geared for all age groups. Book seven has a tentative release date of January 2012. On several occasions during interviews, Wells was asked if he had plans yet to eventually wrap and end the series. “I haven’t told all the stories yet so no. At this time I’ve still got one story in progress and two more in mind waiting.”
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