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	The Fairy Tale Bride	by Kelly McClymer Sep. 08, 2010	$2.99	88114 words	Sample 25%
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	The Ash Spear	by G. R. Grove Sep. 07, 2010	$5.99	118811 words	Sample 30%
	Author bio: After a long career as a mining geologist in California and Alaska, and a shorter one as a database administrator in Colorado, I’m currently writing my fourth novel set in 6th century Britain. For more information, see my blog or my author chat thread on LibraryThing.com
	Isabeau, A Novel of Queen Isabella and Sir Roger Mortimer	by N. Gemini Sasson Sep. 07, 2010	$3.99	129227 words	Sample 20%
	Author bio: N. Gemini Sasson holds a Master of Science in Biology from Wright State University where she ran cross country on athletic scholarship. She has worked as an aquatic toxicologist, an environmental engineer, a teacher and a track and cross country coach. A longtime breeder of Australian Shepherds, her articles on bobtail genetics have been translated into seven languages. Her non-fiction articles have appeared in The Aussie Times, The Australian Shepherd Annual, Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry, and History magazine. She lives in rural Ohio with her husband, two nearly grown children and an ever-changing number of sheep and dogs.
	The Ninth Lost Tale of Mercia: Runa the Wife	by Jayden Woods Sep. 06, 2010	Free!	7933 words	Read a sample
	Author bio: Jayden Woods is the author's pen name. She has written nine novels and five feature-length screenplays, but this year she is releasing a book for the first time. She graduated from the University of Southern California's Writing for Screen and Television program. She lived and worked in Los Angeles for five years before deciding to leave Hollywood and pursue her passion of writing prose and novels. Her historical fiction novel, "Eadric the Grasper," launches October 5 at Amazon.com.
	Flight of the Hawk	by G. R. Grove Sep. 06, 2010	$5.99	103179 words	Sample 30%
	Author bio: After a long career as a mining geologist in California and Alaska, and a shorter one as a database administrator in Colorado, I’m currently writing my fourth novel set in 6th century Britain. For more information, see my blog or my author chat thread on LibraryThing.com
	Storyteller	by G. R. Grove Sep. 06, 2010	$5.99	77450 words	Sample 50%
	Author bio: After a long career as a mining geologist in California and Alaska, and a shorter one as a database administrator in Colorado, I’m currently writing my fourth novel set in 6th century Britain. For more information, see my blog or my author chat thread on LibraryThing.com
	The Gatekeepers	by Richard Sutton Sep. 06, 2010	$4.95	105601 words	Sample 10%
	Author bio: From San Rafael, California on a windy January in 1952, I've taken quite a few steps. My father told me how to walk in the woods when I was about 6, how to pilot a boat when I was 8, bought me a Kay guitar when I was 9 then told me not to ever join the army when I was about 13. University of Oregon 1969 -- Everything else, until I met my wife on Canal Street in 1973, is complicated filler. In short, I've worn lots of different hats. Now, I have the chance to concentrate on what I really love about being alive in this amazing Creation, and to read what I like, when I like and listen to and make the kind of music that gives me peace. And to write. I learned my craft post-college, spending 20-plus years in the trenches of advertising and publicity as a graphic designer, marker-pen-jockey, art director and copy writer. I served the needs of a wide range of clients from corporate multinationals to non-profits and small retail businesses. Our family business, since 1985 has been trading and retail in the American Indian arts, primarily Southwestern cultures. Indigenous cultures world wide, have an amazing resilience and ability to endure despite the most repressive conditions imposed by more "advanced" occupiers. This has been the norm since our species emerged to find the ice melting! I try to reveal characters in whom this interplay and struggle is evident, in my work. Celtic/Irish themes are a specialty and a life-long interest, probably having something to do with my Irish-Anglo bloodlines and my Irish wife!
	Generations	by Rushton Woodside Sep. 05, 2010	$2.99	27735 words	Sample 17%
	Author bio: Born right at the mid-twentieth century point in Atlanta, still a sleepy southern city at that time. My mother's bookcase was filled with classics and I read them all before I was twelve, and re-read many. Steinbeck, Faulkner, Hemmingway and the like. For most of my life I have always had an active book going, if not two or three. I wrote a lot of poetry as a teen, and then progressed to songs once I learned to play the piano and guitar. After a successful eight years writing computer programs and technical documentation I entered book retail, and stayed there for nearly twenty years. I read good books to know how to write, and read bad books on purpose to know how not to write. I wrote Sarasota Bay in 2003-4 on impulse and it was published locally with great success. It was then that I got serious and studied many books on the craft.
	Threads: The Reincarnation of Anne Boleyn	by Nell Gavin Sep. 05, 2010	$3.99	126680 words	Sample 50%
	Author bio: Nell Gavin is married, with two grown children. She was raised in Chicago, spent many years in Texas, and now lives in Oklahoma.
	Midwyf : Liza	by Valerie Levy Sep. 05, 2010	$4.99	79240 words	Sample 30%
	Author bio: I've been a nurse and midwife all my professional life, and hold a PhD in Midwifery Studies from the University of Sheffield. My last post was Professor (Midwifery) in Hong Kong. I've published in many professional, peer reviewed journals, and co-edited the ‘Midwifery Practice’ series of textbooks, which are still in use worldwide. Now I'm retired, and I live in France with my husband, in an old farmhouse. The history of my profession fascinates me. I'm now at work writing the next in the series - 'Margaret' - to tell the story of midwifery and childbirth in 17th century England.
	怪談:妖しい物の話と研究　その1「耳なし芳一の話」	by kisaragi sasaoka Sep. 03, 2010	$1.00	120 words	Sample 50%
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	The All Nations Team	by Michael Jasper Sep. 03, 2010	$2.99	101026 words	Sample 10%
	Author bio: I grew up in the small town of Dyersville, Iowa, home of “The Field of Dreams.” I've published three novels and one short story collection, along with over four dozen short stories. I’ve been writing fiction since about 1995, when I moved out to North Carolina and attended N.C. State University, but I really started taking it seriously in 2000, when I went to the Writers of the Future workshop for my story “Mud and Salt” (a third-place winner for my quarter). I’ve not looked back since. In the past I’ve tried bartending, teaching junior high, painting houses, being a secret shopper, working construction, and many more jobs; I prefer fiction writing. For my day job, I work as a technical writer at a software company. I live with my wife Elizabeth, our two amazing sons, and Whit the Wonder Pup (a retired racing greyhound) in North Carolina.
	Il Mercante	by Nino Masiello Sep. 03, 2010	$4.99	58412 words	Sample 30%
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	The Hidden Will of the Dragon	by Charlie Courtland Sep. 02, 2010	$4.99	171247 words	Sample 50%
	Author bio: Charlie Courtland graduated from the University of Washington with a B.A. in English Literature with an emphasis on creative writing, and a minor in Criminology. She was born in Michigan and currently resides in the Seattle area with her husband and two children.
	The Shepherd King, Book One: Foundation Stone	by D. Avraham Sep. 02, 2010	$7.99	87613 words	Sample 15%
	Author bio: D. Avraham is the pen name for the author. He lives with his family in the Hebron Hills of Israel, the stomping ground of his hero, Dawid (King David), and the subject of his celebrated novel. Before immigrating to Israel from Cleveland, Ohio, he was a freelance writer for the Daily News Herald, The Cleveland Jewish News, and other publications. He was also a weekly columnist for New York’s Jewish Press.
	The Pull Of Freedom	by Brenda Barrett Sep. 01, 2010	$8.00	42385 words	Sample 25%
	Author bio: I am an obsessive reader who loves to write or an obsessive writer who loves to read. Any way you take it, the written word is generally paramount in my life. I read my first novel at age seven and wrote my first novel in high school for Library Studies class and got a fat A. Since then, the writing bug has bitten and the sting is still potent. I love other things too like cats, chocolate, cricket, track and field, and traveling.
	Yesterdays, A Collection of Short Stories	by J. Robert Whittle Aug. 31, 2010	$6.99	116563 words	Sample 20%
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	La comédie des masques	by Editions Ex Aequo Laurence schwalm Aug. 31, 2010	$3.99	167 words	Sample 20%
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	The Silurian Book Nine The Fox on the Water	by L.A. Wilson Aug. 26, 2010	$1.99	175269 words	Sample 20%
	Author bio: New and unconventional writer, I have self published a volume of works called The Silurian on lulu.com - The Silurian is the story of King Arthur like it has never been written before: an intimate first person narrative spoken by Prince Bedwyr, called The Fox, Arthur's foster-brother and closest friend. It is the narrative of their lives, from the day Arthur won his first battle and gained his rise to power, Bedwyr relates openly and honestly their most personal histories. So far, there are eight books of The Silurian. Book One of The Silurian received an 'Honorary Mention' in the 2007 London Book Festival. The Silurian series is available as both downloads and printed paperbacks on Lulu.com - http://stores.lulu.com/lindaaw Review: ‘The Silurian – The Fox and the Bear’ is not for the faint at heart. It is very descriptive and adult geared with battle scenes and interior stories that will keep you reading until the very end. It is action packed with romance in amongst the struggles of the characters. I believe this to be a highly evolved piece of reading for those who are masters of the Saxon battling days of long ago. You must pay attention to this story in order to achieve the reading pleasure author L.A. Wilson has prescribed in this novel. Mind Fog Reviews ~ Anastasia Cassella-Young www.anastasiasbookattic.com I also have three published novels (not about Arthur!) And "In Blood Covenant" - a Gothic vampire tale in the tradition of Ann Rice, published by Eternal Press at www.eternalpress.ca Also at Eternal Press - Son of the Sun, speculative fantasy with a twist... And finally, Rome's Perfect Boy, hot gay erotica by Alex Fox, at Eternal Press.
	The Spruce Gum Box	by Elizabeth Egerton Wilder Aug. 25, 2010	$7.99	90689 words	Sample 30%
	Author bio: Elizabeth Egerton Wilder’s debut novel, The Spruce Gum Box, began with her fascination in Maine’s Aroostook River and it’s early pioneers, and evolved over several years through research and daydreaming. While she mused, characters and story lines began to flourish and take on lives of their own, and at seventy-two years young, she achieved her goal of writing her first novel. New England native, Elizabeth (Betty) now lives in Eastern PA with Cal, her husband of over 50 years.
	Dream Helper	by Willard Thompson Aug. 25, 2010	$9.95	89021 words	Sample 50%
	Author bio: Willard Thompson is an award-winning fiction writer, lecturer and historian living in Montecito, California. Dream Helper, his first novel in his Chronicles of California trilogy of historical novels, was selected for a gold medal by the Independent Publishers 2009 Book Awards as the best fiction in the Western/Pacific Region. The second novel in the Chronicles, Delfina’s Gold, will be published spring 2010. His new novel, Delfina's Gold, the second of the Chronicles of California series will be published in Oct. 2010 Thompson was awarded The Sara Miller McCune Award by the John E. Profant Foundation for the Arts to write Dream Helper, which also won an award as a work in progress at the Santa Barbara Writers' Conference. In 2008 He won a Santa Barbara Writers Conference Community of Voices Scholarship.
	The Eighth Lost Tale of Mercia: Canute the Viking	by Jayden Woods Aug. 23, 2010	Free!	8664 words	Read a sample
	Author bio: Jayden Woods is the author's pen name. She has written nine novels and five feature-length screenplays, but this year she is releasing a book for the first time. She graduated from the University of Southern California's Writing for Screen and Television program. She lived and worked in Los Angeles for five years before deciding to leave Hollywood and pursue her passion of writing prose and novels. Her historical fiction novel, "Eadric the Grasper," launches October 5 at Amazon.com.
	The Wind-Sphere Ship	by Steven R. Southard Aug. 23, 2010	$2.99	6470 words	Sample 30%
	Author bio: Growing up in the Midwest, Steven R. Southard always found the distant oceans exotic and tantalizing. He served aboard submarines and now works as a civilian naval engineer. In his stories, he takes readers on journeys of discovery in many seas and various vessels. Steve has written in the historical, science fiction, fantasy, horror, and steampunk genres. Come aboard at http://sites.google.com/site/stevenrsouthard/ and voyage with his intriguing characters in tales of aquatic adventure.
	The Tree Line	by Andrew J. Olinde, Jr. Aug. 23, 2010	$2.99	6096 words	Sample 30%
	Author bio: I grew up in Baton Rouge, Louisiana and attended Louisiana State University. During college I majored in History with a concentration in the American Civil War. After graduation I got married to my wife, Lauren, and moved to Monroe, Louisiana to attend the University of Louisiana at Monroe Business School. I graduated with a Masters of Business Administration and currently work as a Healthcare Representative for Vantage Health Plan. I hope to become a successful writer in the future.
	A Thirst for War	by Raymond Gustavson Aug. 23, 2010	$5.99	102031 words	Sample 50%
	Author bio: I am retired after working for the VA Regional Office in St. Petersburg, FL where I was a Rating Specialist (RVSR) on the Appeals Team. I have a BS in Political Science from Austin Peay State University, Clarksville, TN, and extensive graduate credits in Political Science from Rutgers University. An avid reader, I write fiction and non-fiction and have published numerous articles. I am a member of Vietnow, and a contributing editor to their publication. Currently, I am working on several fiction projects, and a self-help book to aid veterans seeking benefits from the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). I live in Sebastian, Fl with my wife, Barbara, and a vivacious Labrador retriever named Mary.
	The Virgin King	by Joseph Fullam Aug. 22, 2010	$0.99	76215 words	Sample 20%
	Author bio: Visit my blog at www.ParanormalNYC.com to learn more about me. Make sure to check out the stories section.
	The Haunted Houses of Reindeer Manor	by Kevin Guest Aug. 21, 2010	$2.99	65019 words	Sample 30%
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	Heart of a Knight	by Barbara Samuel Aug. 20, 2010	$3.99	93941 words	Sample 30%
	Author bio: Barbara Samuel O’Neal has written a number of highly acclaimed novels, The Secret of Everything, The Lost Recipe for Happiness (a 2010 RITA Winner), No Place Like Home, Lady Luck’s Map of Vegas, and Madame Mirabou’s School of Love. She has won six RITA awards, two Colorado Center for the Book awards, and has made lists of favorites and best books of the year several times. As might be evident by her books, Barbara loves hiking, food, long distance walking, travel, and dance. She often blogs about her cooking experiments, her travels, and the writing life at www.awriterafoot.com, where she also shamelessly posts her photos. A native of Colorado, she now lives on the skirts of Pikes Peak with her partner, a British endurance athlete, and three animals who convinced her they needed rescue. Barbara writes as Ruth Wind, Barbara Samuel, and Barbara O'Neal.
	Rendezvous in Majorca	by Ian Feldman Aug. 20, 2010	$5.99	172902 words	Sample 20%
	Author bio: The author, Ian Feldman was born in Great Britain after WWII. His English mother (Teresa) was an RAF Photographic Reconissance Technician that worked with the 8th US Army Air Force in East Anglia during WWII. After the War, Teresa married Ian's father a US Army Air Force Officer that worked in US Army Intelligence at Bushy Park under Eisenhower's Command. Ian's English grandmother (Aileen) was an agent for British Intelligence and Scotland Yard from the 1930's. She spoke five European languages fluently and was trained by the SAS during the War to operate behind Nazi lines in Holland and France. Although Ian has lived in the US since the late 1940's, the secret diaries of his grandmother (Aileen) which were given to him upon her death have inspired Ian so much that they became the primary basis of all of his British Historical Spy Novels.
	The Crown in the Heather (The Bruce Trilogy: Book I)	by N. Gemini Sasson Aug. 20, 2010	$3.99	85691 words	Sample 20%
	Author bio: N. Gemini Sasson holds a Master of Science in Biology from Wright State University where she ran cross country on athletic scholarship. She has worked as an aquatic toxicologist, an environmental engineer, a teacher and a track and cross country coach. A longtime breeder of Australian Shepherds, her articles on bobtail genetics have been translated into seven languages. Her non-fiction articles have appeared in The Aussie Times, The Australian Shepherd Annual, Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry, and History magazine. She lives in rural Ohio with her husband, two nearly grown children and an ever-changing number of sheep and dogs.
	Beyond All Price	by Carolyn Schriber Aug. 20, 2010	$7.99	120847 words	Sample 25%
	Author bio: Carolyn Schriber received her PhD in History from the University of Colorado, where she worked in two very different fields: medieval Europe and 19th-century America. She enjoyed a successful career as a tenured professor at Rhodes College, specializing in medieval history and publishing extensively on relationships between Anglo-Norman bishops and kings in the twelfth century. She also served as Editor-in-Chief of the Online Reference Book for Medieval Studies (ORB), an early and extremely successful  approach to harnessing the resources of the internet to facilitate historical research. After she retired to Professor Emerita status, she turned her attention to her second love, the history of America's Civil War. In 2007 Dr. Schriber published an ambitious study of the Battle of Secessionville, the first re-examination of the impact of that battle in over a decade. She offered a fresh perspective and a valuable new approach to some of the issues concerning the American Civil War. After extensive research, she successfully blended the personal stories of two opposing soldiers with a detailed account of the battle. With a clear and engaging writing style, A Scratch with the Rebels illuminated the depth and diversity of perspectives from both sides of the conflict. It is an absorbing history for Civil War buffs and historians, as well as a general audience. Now she has written a historical novel that covers the same period. Beyond All Price tells the story of Nellie Chase Leath, who served as matron and nurse in  the Roundhead Regiment from Pennsylvania. Dr. Schriber lives near Memphis, Tennessee, with her husband Floyd Schriber and four opinionated cats. She is also active in Lions Clubs International and serves as Vice-President of the Mid-South Lions Sight and Hearing Service, a charitable organization that provides free eye and hearing care to those in need.
	The City of Man	by Michael Harrington Aug. 19, 2010	$9.99	200507 words	Sample 5%
	Author bio: Michael Harrington has a wide-ranging background in the social sciences and the arts. He has earned advanced degrees in economics, finance and political science and has worked in the securities and venture capital industries as an investment portfolio manager and financial analyst. In more recent years he has taught political science as a lecturer at the University of California and worked as a research fellow and public policy analyst, conducting studies for several policy thinktanks. His writings and research on political and economic issues have won several national awards and his opinions and letters have been published in a wide variety of national media journals, including The Wall Street Journal, The Economist, BusinessWeek, the Financial Times, and the Los Angeles Times, among others. On the artistic side his interests encompass music composition and performance, photography, and writing. He has composed music, written a play, taught music and designed websites for his photography and fiction writing. He enjoys a life-long fascination with the Italian Renaissance, its art, culture, and politics. He has lived and studied near Florence, e lui parla italiano abbastanza bene. His encompassing interests in society and creativity directed him toward this fascinating story of Savonarola and Machiavelli, a story that strongly resonates with the modern world.
	All I Want	by Shayne Parkinson Aug. 19, 2010	Free!	4923 words	Read a sample
	Author bio: I write historical novels set in New Zealand, starting in the 1880s. I've self-published four so far, and am working on a fifth. I'm fascinated by social history, particularly that of my own country. I live in a state of barely-controlled chaos; fortunately I share my life with an invariably calm and endlessly optimistic husband. I divide my time between an apartment in the city, in reach of good espresso, and a few acres in the country, where the rank grass in the orchard is kept under control by a small mob of sheep (and where we have our own espresso machine). When I'm not writing, reading, or engaged in mundane activities, I play the piano rather badly.
	A Bed of Spices	by Barbara Samuel Aug. 19, 2010	$3.99	97164 words	Sample 30%
	Author bio: Barbara Samuel O’Neal has written a number of highly acclaimed novels, The Secret of Everything, The Lost Recipe for Happiness (a 2010 RITA Winner), No Place Like Home, Lady Luck’s Map of Vegas, and Madame Mirabou’s School of Love. She has won six RITA awards, two Colorado Center for the Book awards, and has made lists of favorites and best books of the year several times. As might be evident by her books, Barbara loves hiking, food, long distance walking, travel, and dance. She often blogs about her cooking experiments, her travels, and the writing life at www.awriterafoot.com, where she also shamelessly posts her photos. A native of Colorado, she now lives on the skirts of Pikes Peak with her partner, a British endurance athlete, and three animals who convinced her they needed rescue. Barbara writes as Ruth Wind, Barbara Samuel, and Barbara O'Neal.
	The Moghul	by Thomas Hoover Aug. 19, 2010	Free!	218599 words	Read a sample
	Author bio: Live in New York City. Have published nine books. All available from Smashwords or my web site.
	A Hearing for Jim Thorpe, An Exercise in Frustration	by Michael Sheaffer Aug. 17, 2010	$5.95	37852 words	Sample 10%
	Author bio: Michael L. Sheaffer is a freelancer, online editor, author, and national training instructor. It is no accident that he is the one to offer all the facts about Jim Thorpe in his riveting book entitled “A Hearing for Jim Thorpe, an Exercise in Frustration.” Michael grew up in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, and feels closely assimilated to the memoirs of this famous athlete, his childhood hero. In 1969, Mr. Sheaffer was appointed to chair a committee called “Project Jim Thorpe.” The goal of this international organization was to have Jim Thorpe reinstated as the winner of the 1912 Olympic Pentathlon and Decathlon event. Michael spent years researching and gathering the facts revolving around the unfortunate situation with Jim Thorpe, as part of "Project Jim Thorpe". Mr. Sheaffer is retired and currently lives with his wife, Angela, in Alpharetta, Georgia.
	The Favourite Child	by Freda Lightfoot Aug. 17, 2010	$6.99	119099 words	Sample 20%
	Author bio: Born in Lancashire, Freda Lightfoot lived for a number of years in the Lake District where she ran a bookshop. She then tried her hand at the ‘good life’, kept sheep and hens, various orphaned cats and dogs, built drystone walls, planted a small wood and even learned how to make jam. She has now given up her thermals to build a house in an olive grove in Spain, where she produces her own olive oil. She has published over 30 novels including many bestselling family sagas and historical novels.
	Kitty Little	by Freda Lightfoot Aug. 17, 2010	$6.99	117666 words	Sample 20%
	Author bio: Born in Lancashire, Freda Lightfoot lived for a number of years in the Lake District where she ran a bookshop. She then tried her hand at the ‘good life’, kept sheep and hens, various orphaned cats and dogs, built drystone walls, planted a small wood and even learned how to make jam. She has now given up her thermals to build a house in an olive grove in Spain, where she produces her own olive oil. She has published over 30 novels including many bestselling family sagas and historical novels.
	The Prey	by Robert Smith Aug. 16, 2010	$1.98	146020 words	Sample 50%
	Author bio: Publications Novels: The Kramer Project, Doubleday Canada, 1975. The Fox Trap, Fawcett, 1978. The Prey, Fawcett, 1977. (paperback available at Amazon.com ) The Toymaker, Fawcett, 1984. (paperback available Amazon.com) The Keeper, Fawcett, 1986. Deadly Admirer, Fawcett, 1987. The Leopard, Fawcett, 1988. Vampire Notes, Fawcett, 1990. (paperback available at Amazon.com) Silent Witness, Fawcett, 1991. (paperback available at Amazon.com) Fate, NovelBooks, Inc.,October 15, 2001, Fictionwise. Books for Children Ponty and the Storm Machine Ponty Saves the Hippopotamuses Ponty and the Lost Trucks Internet Serials The Ducks of Doom, humorous fantasy available at: smashwords.com Ponty and the Lost City of Atlantis, and Ponty's Quest for Camelot, humorous fantasies for children available at memoware.com How I Got Here I was born in Kidderminster, England, before the steam engines went away. I moved to Calgary when airliners still had propellers, and grew taller there. Later, I acquired an assortment of degrees in English Literature at Queen's University, though I still haven't figured out what to do with them. In Toronto, I researched computerized information systems, long before Bill Gates invented the Blue Screen of Death. I wrote my first three novels while serving as Editor of Educational Digest, and when this proved viable, I ran away from my editor's cubicle. Now I spend most of my time drawing comics. So here I am, still in Toronto, with my wife and son, a cat, various computers, tea pots, and a coffee maker. I work in the utility room, near the laundry monsters and the litter box.
	The Three Musketeers For All	by Alexandra Dumas Aug. 16, 2010	Free!	232361 words	Read a sample
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	Last of the Ninth	by Stephen Lorne Bennett Aug. 13, 2010	$5.75	140435 words	Sample 35%
	Author bio: Stephen Bennett is a writer, scholar, diplomat, and a few other things besides. He resides in Ottawa, Canada, with his wife, daughter, two chinchillas, two cats and a retired racing greyhound.
	Silent Thunder	by Peter Tanner Aug. 13, 2010	$9.95	78937 words	Sample 50%
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	The Peel Incident	by J.F. Simpson Aug. 12, 2010	$6.99	95948 words	Sample 10%
	Author bio: For many years I have been writing professionally for magazines,newspapers, radio, television and film. Having authored several novels over the past thirty years, two published in print, I am now a believer in the advent of e-books. It is great to be able to make my novels available to the public. I have written several novels recently, based on my experiences living in the tropics, where there is no shortage of material.
	The Mostly True Adventures of Habukkuk Finn	by St. Wishnevsky Aug. 11, 2010	$4.99	95600 words	Sample 50%
	Author bio: Artistic Resume: Steve Wishnevsky 612 McCreary St. Winston-Salem, NC 27105, 336-661-9060 wishnevs@bellsouth.net Steve Wishnevsky was born in 1945 to a military family and has lived in Alabama, Connecticut, Northern California, Vermont, Tennessee, and North Carolina. He has been settled in Winston-Salem since 1984, and is well known as part of the literary and musical circles. He started in his chosen art form of Lutherie with informal studies under James A. Rickard, Chief Engineer, Ovation Guitars in Connecticut, in the late 1960’s and was creating informal and assembled instruments as long ago as 1960. He concurrently began to earn a living as a woodworker, making wooden toys and smoking accessories, under the name JWH Woodworks in Hartford, Connecticut, and Newark, Vermont. A fortuitous employment assisting the cabinetmaker at the Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Connecticut exposed him to original masterworks of art and sculpture, and to the rudiments of conservation and display. An interest in American Appalachian Musics led to an invitation from David A. Sturgill, a North Carolina Folk Heritage Laureate, to study musical instrument making in Piney Creek, North Carolina in 1973. There he studied with such luthiers as banjo maker Kyle Creed, fiddle maker Albert Hash, and guitar maker and National Folk Heritage Award winner Wayne C. Henderson. A few years later, the Sturgill family bought and moved two established guitar manufactories, Harptone, of Newark, New Jersey, and Microfrets of Maryland, to Independence, Virginia, under the name of The New River Music Company. Mr. Wishnevsky was foreman and production manager for this facility. In 1978, Mr. Wishnevsky accepted a position with Ovation Instruments in New Hartford, Connecticut, where he was able to study under James Rickard again and to exchange ideas with other master luthiers such as Seth Hedu, of Watertown, Connecticut, and Richard Starky, now of Martin guitars. Two years later, Mr. Wishnevsky moved to Middle Tennessee, where he was able to open his own studio devoted to the design and construction of mandolins and to also further his interest in sculpture. He was able to win some awards in local art festivals and to study under local sculptors such as Tom Jackson, and to study the Gallagher Guitar factory, in Wartrace, Tennessee. After further studies and touring the Gurian Guitar shop in New Hampshire and the Taylor factory in El Cahon, California, Mr. Wishnevsky has established a studio in Winston-Salem, where he makes guitars and basses, while also employed as a Master Cabinetmaker. He is one of the very few craftsmen in America to ever complete a full sized Double Bass Viol. He is now working on his tenth instrument of this class, and is also in serial production of the epitome of guitars, the Archtop, or Cello, Jazz Acoustic Guitar. He is also continues to experiment with Unique, Folk, and Art instruments, and has formed alliances with local visual Artists Jon Blackburn, Laurie Russell, and Ted Lyons, among others, to create decorated instruments of a new category and style. He has works in the permanent collection of some local establishments and has had a few gallery sales, notably at Morning Dew Coffeehouse and at Urban Art Ware. He is a fixture at the Summer on Trade Series for the last several years and usually vends at nearby Festivals and Shows such as The Enofest, Merlefest, Apple Chill, LEAF, The Mount Airy Fiddle Festival, Many Hands, and others. He believes that Lutherie is the pinnacle of woodworking, invoking as it does of all the senses except taste, and having a cross-disciplinary impact on the arts of music, sculpture, and ergonomics. A musical instrument must have visual appeal, produce pleasing sounds, be comfortable to the hands and body, and most importantly, serve as an interface with the nervous system of the performer in such an instinctive, supportive way as to facilitate that performer’s creation of his own art, and communion with his audience. The challenge is to induce mute wood and metals to give voice, and he feels he is becoming at least facile at this task.
	Saving Mona Lisa	by Michael Harrington Aug. 11, 2010	$9.99	64368 words	Sample 7%
	Author bio: Michael Harrington has a wide-ranging background in the social sciences and the arts. He has earned advanced degrees in economics, finance and political science and has worked in the securities and venture capital industries as an investment portfolio manager and financial analyst. In more recent years he has taught political science as a lecturer at the University of California and worked as a research fellow and public policy analyst, conducting studies for several policy thinktanks. His writings and research on political and economic issues have won several national awards and his opinions and letters have been published in a wide variety of national media journals, including The Wall Street Journal, The Economist, BusinessWeek, the Financial Times, and the Los Angeles Times, among others. On the artistic side his interests encompass music composition and performance, photography, and writing. He has composed music, written a play, taught music and designed websites for his photography and fiction writing. He enjoys a life-long fascination with the Italian Renaissance, its art, culture, and politics. He has lived and studied near Florence, e lui parla italiano abbastanza bene. His encompassing interests in society and creativity directed him toward this fascinating story of Savonarola and Machiavelli, a story that strongly resonates with the modern world.
	Heart of a Pirate / A Novel of Anne Bonny	by Pamela Johnson Aug. 11, 2010	$9.99	108369 words	Sample 10%
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	The Seventh Lost Tale of Mercia: Hildred the Maid	by Jayden Woods Aug. 09, 2010	Free!	7219 words	Read a sample
	Author bio: Jayden Woods is the author's pen name. She has written nine novels and five feature-length screenplays, but this year she is releasing a book for the first time. She graduated from the University of Southern California's Writing for Screen and Television program. She lived and worked in Los Angeles for five years before deciding to leave Hollywood and pursue her passion of writing prose and novels. Her historical fiction novel, "Eadric the Grasper," launches October 5 at Amazon.com.
	Midnight My Love	by Anne Marie Novark Aug. 09, 2010	$2.99	63289 words	Sample 20%
	Author bio: Anne Marie is a Texas girl, born and raised. Romance is her passion. She loves to read and write about men and women falling in love, overcoming life’s obstacles, and living happily ever after. She writes spicy contemporary novels, usually involving a cowboy or two, as well as Regency historicals. Married to her high school sweetheart, Anne Marie and her husband spend their leisure time working (actually playing) in the yard and renovating their 1956 custom-built house on a one-acre lot in the middle of the city. They have two grown children, three white rabbits, two mischievous cats, and one sweet puppy dog.
	Portrait of the Past	by Kate Halleron Aug. 08, 2010	$0.99	67366 words	Sample 50%
	Author bio: Kate Halleron lives on the Oregon Coast. She has been many places and done many things, and hopes to see and do even more.
	Guarded Conversations	by Ken Albertsen Aug. 08, 2010	$9.00	29659 words	Sample 30%
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