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	"RELATOS ENREDADOS ENTRE EL MISTERIO"	by RENATA SKADA May 18, 2011	$5.00	1418 words	Sample 20%
	Author bio: INVENTO REINVENTO EL MISTERIO.
	...The Twain Shall Meet	by j guevara Oct. 16, 2009	$2.99	67313 words	Sample 20%
	Author bio: j guevara (lower case'j' and 'g') musician/storyteller/soul food chef. Global citizen and incurable peregrinator Have pen – Will travel. Last known address, 24n82w http://www.jguevaranovels.com
	1 God - Poems on God , Creator	by Nikhil Parekh Sep. 05, 2010	Free!	135898 words	Read a sample
	Author bio: Nikhil Parekh, 33 years of age, from Ahmedabad, India- is a Love Poet and Eight-time World Record holder with the Limca Book of Records India (Only 2nd in Official World Rankings to Guinness Book of World Records) for his poetry. These Eight World Records held by Parekh with the Limca Book of Records are for - (1) "Being the First Indian Poet to be published/featured in McGill English Dictionary of Rhyme which is the World's Number 1 English Rhyming Dictionary-for his poem: Come Lets Embrace our New Religion" (2) "Being the First Indian Poet to have won Poet of the Year Award at the Canadian Federation of Poets which is Canada's National Poetry Body endorsed by Governor General of Canada" (3) "Being the First Indian Poet to be published in a Commonwealth Newsletter for his poem on AIDS which is 'Aids doesn't kill. Your Attitude kills." (4) "Being the First Indian Poet to win an EPPIE award for best poetry e-book" (5) "Writing the most number of letters to and receiving the most number of replies from World Leaders and World Organizations". (6) "Being the First Indian Poet to be Goodwill Ambassador to the International Goodwill Treaty for World Peace - GoodwillTreaty.org". (7) "Being the First Indian Poet whose Poems have been made into Films at Youtube.com - The World's largest video sharing website". (8) " Being the 1st Indian Poet to be featured for his Poetry Book - 'Love versus Terrorism- Poems on Anti Terror, Peace' , at Wattpad.com - The World's most popular ebook community and largest website for reading books on mobile phones". * Images and Details of Parekh's complete World Records in Poetry and Awards can be visited at - www.worldrecordsandawards.blogspot.com . Parekh has composed thousands of poems on - God, Peace, Love, Friendship, Life, Anti Terror, Death, Mother, Father, Environment, Lovers, Humanity, Brotherhood, Philanthropy . He is also an author of several Poetry Books which include : "1 God" , "Love Versus Terrorism", "You die; I die", "Life = Death", "The Womb", "The Power of Black", "Hide and Seek", "If you cut a tree; you cut your own mother", "Longest Poem by Parekh-Only as Life"- These comprise of over 7000 pages of his Poetry in totality . His Poems and Poetry Books have had millions of viewers and downloads on the Internet and his collected Poems have been Awarded "FEATURED" at Scribd.com (The World's Largest Document website) . Parekh's Poetry has had the patronization and support of several World Leaders including U.S. President and Nobel Peace Prize Winner Barack Obama & the Queen of England . A complete compilation of the Poet's poems, poetry books, awards and works can be visited on the Internet at - nikhilparekh.org or nikhilparekh.com .
	1 Out Of 17 Calls Might Be Wrong	by Linda Sands May 06, 2011	$0.99	3522 words
	Author bio: The founder and editor of scratch, a quarterly literary contest and anthology, Linda's award-winning short stories and essays can be found in Skirt! Magazine, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Gwinnett Daily Post, Dana Literary Society, New Works Review, Byline, The Duck & Herring Company Pocket Field Guide, venuszine, zygote in my coffee, BigCityLit, oculartravel, espressofiction, Divine Caroline, NPR’s I Believe, Europe From a Backpack, The Signature Series, Golden Short Stories, O’Georgia! A Collection of Georgia’s Newest and Most Promising Writers, Big Water, Moronic Ox, Weird Year and soon to be in the Web de Sol anthology as a finalist in the Robert Olen Butler Fiction Contest. Linda attended the Southampton Writer’s Workshop on a full scholarship where she studied with Amy Hempel. While her Savannah-based novel, We’re Not Waving, We’re Drowning and her contemporary detective novel, 3 Women Walk into a Bar, are being shopped by Josh Getzler of Russell & Volkening, Linda keeps busy with a venture into non-fiction, a photo essay book on the modern truck driver. Meeting truckers and hearing their stories spawned a mystery series revolving around a tenacious female trucker from Louisiana named Jojo Boudreaux. Books coming soon. Writers, poets, readers, book lovers can write with Linda and her crew at waterside retreats via Write by the Water.
	10,000 Miles From Home	by Nathalia Li Sep. 09, 2011	$1.99	18684 words	Sample 25%
	Author bio: Ms. Li enjoys basketball, tennis, dance, and running. Her compelling interests include movies, art, philosophy, politics, photography, literature, and music. She has traveled widely in western Europe, North America, and China. She has worked as a teacher, journalist, prison guard, driver, cook, dishwasher, retail clerk, and booking agent for bands. She holds degrees in English, literature, and philosophy. She plays piano and guitar, jazz and blues. She is fundamentally committed to freedom of speech, thought, and belief. She often reflects on the friction between the way women see their lives and the way they live them. You may contact Ms. Li at: nli704115@gmail.com Books: Lolita; Crime and Punishment; On the Road. Movies: The Passenger; Lawrence of Arabia; Manhattan Musicians: Charlie Parker, John Coltrane, Thelonious Monk, Wynton Kelly, Gene Harris, Otis Spann, Muddy Waters, Cornell Dupree, Chuck Berry, Robert Johnson Artists: Rembrandt, Gustave Courbet, Picasso, Marcel Duchamp, Mark Rothko, Joseph Turner, Georgia O'Keefe, Salvador Dali, El Greco, Rodin.
	100 Words - Short Stories	by Ann Ahsberg Nov. 14, 2010	$1.99	1208 words	Sample 30%
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	107 Degrees Fahrenheit	by Barry Rachin April 15, 2011	$0.99	5740 words	Sample 20%
	Author bio: About the Author Born in Boston, Massachusetts, Barry Rachin spent several years stationed in Yokuska, Japan as a Navy medic caring for casualties during the Vietnam War. He has studied at the University of Jerusalem, lived on a kibbutz for a year and holds a degree in clinical counseling from Simmons College. A self-taught woodworker, he presently lives in Attleboro, Massachusetts with his wife and two daughters.
	2088	by Peter Rehard July 02, 2011	Free!	90196 words	Read a sample
	Author bio: A person that writes stories If you read one of my stories, when you find an error (if you have the time or care) email me what book and chapter it is in, so I can change it. Peterrehard@gmail.com
	22 Kisses	by Paul O'Cathain Jan. 16, 2012	$2.99	90963 words	Sample 20%
	Author bio: I have had a varied career in writing, teaching and industry. I believe in quantum writing, writing that considers the human being as composed of various states beyond those of the naturalistic. 22 Kisses describes dimensions of kisses, but I will also be publishing stories about other ways in which human beings exceed the limits of their dimensions and actions.
	24/7 No Overtime Pay	by Rebecca Rose Taylor Jan. 02, 2011	Free!	1123 words	Read a sample
	Author bio: I've loved to create stories since before I was able to write them down. It is my dream to have other people read my work. This is why I've decided to join Smashwords. When I'm not busy writing or editing my work, I enjoy reading, and discovering new authors.
	2984	by R. Vincent Riccio Dec. 04, 2009	$6.95	101903 words	Sample 33%
	Author bio: Author & Psychologist for over 25 years.
	3	by Moxie Mezcal March 31, 2010	Free!	21959 words	Read a sample
	Author bio: Moxie Mezcal lives under an assumed name in San Jose, California.
	3/17	by MaryPat Hyland Aug. 13, 2011	$2.99	64383 words	Sample 20%
	Author bio: Mary Pat Hyland is an award-winning, former newspaper journalist who writes mainstream novels and short stories set in upstate New York. “The Terminal Diner” is her fourth novel. Previous works include the Maeve Kenny series—“The Cyber Miracles” and “A Sudden Gift of Fate”—and a St. Patrick’s Day riff on Dante’s “Inferno” called “3/17.” Her work is inspired by authors such as Eudora Welty, Anne Tyler, John Irving and Flannery O’Connor and influenced by her Irish-American heritage. Hyland’s interests include the Irish language, gardening and cooking (yes, that includes pies).
	3000 Beats Per Second	by Andrew Berg Oct. 20, 2009	Free!	1850 words	Read a sample
	Author bio: Andrew Berg is a professional journalist in the wireless industry. He’s also a graduate of the MFA in Creative Writing program at Goddard College. Andrew lives with his wife and two beautiful kids in Madison, WI. Look for a pair of novels to be posted at Smashwords in the near future. You can find more of his fiction, poetry and technology writings on his blog, Speechless, at www.andrewjberg.blogspot.com
	6 Short Stories	by Robert T. Jeschonek Nov. 18, 2010	$2.99	34353 words	Sample 10%
	Author bio: Robert T. Jeschonek is an award-winning writer whose fiction, essays, articles, comic books, and podcasts have been published around the world. According to fantasy and science fiction luminary Mike Resnick, Robert "sees the world like no one else sees it, and makes incredibly witty, incisive stories out of that skewed worldview." Robert's young adult urban fantasy novel, MY FAVORITE BAND DOES NOT EXIST, is due in 2011 from Clarion Books, a division of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. A collection of his fantasy and science fiction stories, MAD SCIENTIST MEETS CANNIBAL, is available from PS Publishing in England. Robert has written for POSTSCRIPTS, ESCAPE POD, DRABBLECAST, SPACE AND TIME, PODCASTLE, DAW Books anthologies, and many other publications. His credits include STAR TREK fiction published by Pocket Books. His work appeared in three volumes of STAR TREK: STRANGE NEW WORLDS, winning the grand prize in Volume VI. He was also nominated for the British Fantasy Award for his story, "Fear of Rain." His story "One Awake In All the World" was called out in a Publishers Weekly starred review of the anthology DESTINATION FUTURE in 2010. His comic book work has appeared in JUSTICE SOCIETY OF AMERICA 80-PAGE GIANT 2010 #1 from DC Comics. He has also scripted stories for various indie comics, including WAR from Saddle Tramp Press and DEAD BY DAWN QUARTERLY and COMMERCIAL SUICIDE in the UK. Jeschonek is based in Johnstown, Pennsylvania. His website, www.robertjeschonek.com, features fresh daily updates on the world of writing and other alternate realities.
	::Hard	by Matthew Temple May 01, 2011	$5.99	107655 words	Sample 20%
	Author bio: Author of Things Said in Dreams, Camp Lake, and Murder Club Candy.
	A Bard for Highgrove	by Meic Stephens March 17, 2011	$3.90	41418 words	Sample 20%
	Author bio: Meic Stephens was born in Trefforest, near Pontypridd, in 1938. Educated at the University Colleges of Wales, Aberystwyth and Bangor, and at the University of Rennes, he was for many years Literature Director of the Welsh Arts Council and latterly Professor of Welsh Writing at the University of Glamorgan. He has written, edited and translated about 170 books, most of them to do with the culture of Wales, and founded Poetry Wales in 1965. His novel, Yeah, Dai Dando, appeared in 2008. He is Literary Editor of the magazine Cambria and Secretary of the Rhys Davies Trust. He has lived in Cardiff since 1966. The language of his home is Welsh, which he learnt as an adult, and he writes verse in it. He also contributes obituaries of eminent Welsh people to The Independent.
	A Beat, a Bong, and a Bang	by Anar Green July 17, 2010	$2.99	57518 words	Sample 12%
	Author bio: My novels and short stories have been centred around sexuality, drug culture, and the crises of facing the contemporary world. The characters are counter-cultural, surrounded by a society that is hostile to their choices. The humour is alternately dry or crude, and the sex is very explicit.
	A Beautiful Cup	by Chris Morgan May 23, 2011	$9.99	145834 words	Sample 20%
	Author bio: Chris Patrick Morgan lives in San Francisco. He keeps threatening to write more novels. Maybe one of these days he will follow through on that threat.
	A caçada ao assassino deturpador	by Fernando Barrile Jan. 10, 2012	$5.99	43712 words	Sample 20%
	Author bio: Fernando Barrile é um escritor independente nascido em São Paulo que publicou sua primeira obra em 2011, o livro que o lança no cenário literário é: A caçada ao assassino deturpador.
	A Cage of Bones	by Jeffrey Round April 22, 2010	$8.99	77221 words	Sample 10%
	Author bio: Jeffrey Round is an award-winning writer, director and playwright. His first novel, A Cage of Bones, was published in 1997 by the Gay Men’s Press (UK). It garnered acclaim and topped bestseller lists in Canada, the US, Iceland, Australia and others. His second novel, The P-town Murders: A Bradford Fairfax Murder Mystery, was published by the Haworth Press in 2007 and republished by Cormorant Books in Canada. Both books were listed on AfterElton’s Top 50 Greatest Gay Books for 2008. In 2009, Cormorant published Death In Key West, the second Bradford Fairfax murder mystery. The third volume in the series, Vanished In Vallarta, is set for spring 2010. His literary novel about the Bosnian war, The Honey Locust, is scheduled for a fall 2009 publication. In 2005, Jeffrey was nominated for the KM Hunter Artists Award for Literature for a body of work that includes short fiction, poetry and a novel-in-progress. His short film My Heart Belongs to Daddy premiered at the Director’s View Film Festival in 2002 and won awards for Best Director and Best Use of Music at the Hollywood North Movie Festival. Jeffrey founded and co-ran Best Boys Productions, an alternative theatre company, with producer John Davison. His first full-length play, Zebra, about the murder of librarian Kenneth Zeller, won the Gay and Lesbian Appeal’s Right to Privacy Award and was nominated for a Pink Trillium for Best Gay Play. In addition to his alternative theatre work, Jeffrey was also the stage director for Agatha Christie’s long-running hit, The Mousetrap, for three of its record-breaking years in Toronto. In 1990, Jeffrey founded The Church-Wellesley Review, Canada's first annual print journal for gay and lesbian creative writing. It ran for eleven years, eventually expanding into an on-line quarterly and reading series under the same name. In 2008, he began a new reading series, Proust and Company, co-hosted by Glad Day Bookshop in Toronto. Jeffrey has worked as a producer and writer for Alliance-Atlantis and the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. He is also a composer. Currently he is writing a suite of songs based on lyrics by Robert Frost, Allen Ginsberg, Shakespeare, and others, for acclaimed soprano Lilac Caña. The work will premiere at the St. Lawrence Centre for the Arts in September 2009. Jeffrey holds a degree in English Literature from Dalhousie University, where he also studied classical guitar and theatre. He is a graduate from the Humber School for Writers and attended Ryerson University’s Film and Television program.
	A Car Crash of Sorts	by Frank Marcopolos Aug. 26, 2011	$0.99	5566 words	Sample 30%
	Author bio: Frank Marcopolos began writing as a kid in the evenings after summer days of competing--always unsuccessfully--against the older neighborhood kids (the evil "teenagers") in the P.S. 207 schoolyard. After long, hot days of sporting failures, he discovered that by writing stories, his fictional heroes (almost always coincidentally named "Frank") could always end up saving the day from the taller, menacing forces arrayed against them. He usually composed these stories by flashlight as he wrote in a black-and-white Mead notebook while seated on a shelf in his bedroom closet. For some reason, this love of creating alternative--glory-promising--realities never died within him, and continues to this day. (Thankfully, his boyhood habit of naming all of his main characters "Frank" HAS died, however.) Frank still lives in Brooklyn, NY, not far from that very schoolyard, among others where he also spent portions of his youth failing at various sports. He notes with sadness that the current trend in public education is to chain up all schoolyards during the summer, presumably so that the painted-on-cement bases can't be stolen. Frank rocks a cable-free lifestyle, and ALWAYS knows where his towel is. ALMOST HOME is his debut novel. From 2000-2006, he was the editor of the critically acclaimed literary zine, "The Whirligig."
	A Child from the Wishing Well	by Raymond Nickford Aug. 04, 2011	$1.20	94486 words	Sample 5%
	Author bio: Raymond Nickford has said "To me, people are stranger than fiction and in many ways more fascinating." Perhaps this is what first led him to his degree in Philosophy and Psychology from the University College of North Wales and which has subsequently driven him to produce searching character studies in his collected stories "Twists in The Tale", novels and contributions to anthologies in the USA. Of his novel based in Cyprus, "Aristo's Family," Barbara Erskine, best selling author of "Lady of Hay" has commented on the "beautifully observed characters," the "intriguing and atmospheric scenes," and above all the suspense which made her "want to read on". Part Greek Cypriot, the author was raised amongst Greeks in England and has travelled extensively through Cyprus. He has particular admiration for the village people whose company and hospitality he has enjoyed so much in the Troodos Mountains. Though people may be stranger than fiction, still, souls - particularly troubled ones, the outsider, the lonely and any driven to extremity –have been indispensable for Raymond's paperback novels, "Aristo's Family," "Mister Kreasey's Demon" and "Twists in the Tale". Raymond believes that his teaching of English in colleges and as a private tutor visiting pupils from "shacks to mansions" and seeing the "absolutely delightful to the vaguely Little Lord Fauntleroy" has informed his latest literary thriller "A Child from the Wishing Well." This features an eerie music tutor, her young pupil Rosie and Rosie's paranoid and inept father, Gerard, who nevertheless yearns to mean more to his daughter. The E-book version of "A Child from the Wishing Well" is now published and available to buy. Candace Bowen - author of A Knight of Silence, has written: “Growing up in a suburb of Chicago, the first scary movie I remember seeing was the 1965 Bette Davis movie, The Nanny. To this day, that movie has always stuck with me as one of the great psychological thrillers of all time. For me, A Child from the Wishing Well, by Raymond Nickford, is reminiscent of that movie. Ruth, the eerie music tutor, and Gerard strap you in, and take you on a psychological thrill-ride to the very end.” Stephen Valentine - author of Nobody Rides for Free, comments: "The author gives great voice to his characters, describing well their idiosyncrasies. A good story must either go deep or wide, and with his background in psychology he goes deep within the human condition. For some adults, the ability to relate to a child does not come naturally, and requires enormous if not awkward effort. This is an often overlooked subject worth exploring." Raven Clark - author of The Shadowsword Saga says: "Raymond Nickford has a writing voice that has to be one of the most unique and intriguing I have come across. The story is both enjoyable and oddly chilling, all the more so for its apparent warmth. The pleasantness of Ruth and her liveliness should seem gentle, grandmotherly and appealing, a sweet old lady one could adore, but reading the trailer, what seems kindly suddenly turns sinister, her upbeat excitability oddly macabre. Each time she says lines like "Our Rosie," and speaks so excitedly, rather than hearing a pleasant old lady, I think of a bird screeching. Fingers down a blackboard. Will Gerard realize what he feels is not a symptom of his disease? And if not, will Heather uncover the truth and save Rosie before the hurricane that is Ruth sweeps her into oblivion?" Raymond confesses to a passion for plump, docile tabbies and is moved by the music and life of the composer Edward Elgar; his interest leading him each year to a cottage in the Malvern Hills and to the Three Choirs Festival. He is a member of the Elgar Society. He is currently working on another psychological suspense," Prey to Her Madonna". Here, the author says, "the intrigue moves between Madeira, an eerie French shrine, an English village and London".
	A Collection of Proverbs, Adages and Idioms	by Linda Alchin Dec. 07, 2011	$2.99	10097 words	Sample 15%
	Author bio: Linda Alchin is a website author specialising in English History. Her career initially focussed on conventional training techniques to provide adult education. With the advent of the internet she moved on to distance learning projects. Combining new technology with her love of history she has created a variety of highly successful educational websites which, in turn have lead to the publication of these books. She lives with her family just outside London.
	A Collection of Short Stories, Volume 1	by Wes Patterson Aug. 13, 2010	$4.99	110812 words	Sample 30%
	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.
	A Collection of Short Stories, Volume 2	by Wes Patterson Aug. 16, 2010	$4.99	117926 words	Sample 20%
	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.
	A Collection of Short Stories, Volume 3	by Wes Patterson Aug. 16, 2010	$4.99	97838 words	Sample 20%
	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.
	A Communion of Water and Blood	by Bernard Fancher Feb. 04, 2012	Free!	5389 words	Read a sample
	Author bio: I live on a small and mostly defunct farm in western New York, where the events of a typical day include writing and walking my dogs--items not necessarily listed in order of priority. (At least not from the dogs' point of view.)
	A Community Birthday	by Leslie Vaughn Weaver Sep. 08, 2010	$1.50	3657 words	Sample 35%
	Author bio: Leslie Vaughn Weaver is a native of Chicago, Illinois, he studied at Southeast Missouri State receiving a Bachelor of Science degree in Historic Preservation. He later took a position as the Collections Assistant at the DuSable Museum of African American History. In a pursuit to further educate himself, he joined the US Army where he was stationed in South Korea and Fort Monroe, Virginia. His stay with the Army was short lived but he found a way to rise to the rank of Sergeant in under two years. After an honorable discharge and receiving a Master of Science in Human Resources Management from Troy University, he moved to Hawaii where he began his work in Human Resources with the US Army as a civilian. Currently, Mr. Weaver attends Regent University where he is working on a second Masters in Script and Screenwriting. He continues his work with the US Army in Great Lakes, Illinois. He has since opened his own production company named A Six:19 Production where he plans to educate through Short Stories, Screenplays, Documentaries and Motion Picture Films. He plans to produce work in the mindset of being mentally and physically free. He's married to his beautiful wife Cheryl and three loving children.
	A Continual Farewell	by Alexander Lurikov June 28, 2011	$0.99	2588 words	Sample 20%
	Author bio: Alexander Lurikov's first work of fiction, Diary of a Discontent, was published in June by Gray Cadence Publishing House. It is currently available in paperback and e-book formats. Many of Lurikov's other stories are available as e-books, including: Demise, A Continual Farewell, Grains of the Golden Sand, Oliver the Abominable, Man Seeking Women, Doctor Highlane, and The Key.
	A Couple	by Fred Bubbers Oct. 24, 2009	$1.99	9405 words	Sample 25%
	Author bio: Fred Bubbers grew up in Elmhurst, New York where he attended Newtown High School. He received his Bachelor of Arts degree in English in 1982 from The State University of New York at Albany, where his writing appeared in various student publications. Since then he has been employed in the software industry in various roles from software engineer to data warehouse architect to development director. His personal essays, short stories and poems have appeared in such publications as The Oregon Literary Review, The Square Table, The Green Silk Journal, Lily, Seeker Magazine, Static Movement, Word Riot, The Angler, Cantaraville, The Shine Journal, Loch Raven Review, and The Big Stupid Review.
	A Dark Planetarium	by Scott William Carter Dec. 13, 2010	Free!	1750 words	Read a sample
	Author bio: SCOTT WILLIAM CARTER's first novel, The Last Great Getaway of the Water Balloon Boys, was hailed by Publishers Weekly as a "touching and impressive debut." His short stories have appeared in dozens of popular magazines and anthologies, including Asimov's, Analog, Ellery Queen, Realms of Fantasy, and Weird Tales. He lives in Oregon with his wife, two children, and thousands of imaginary friends.
	A Daughter's Love	by Lorraine Sears Aug. 06, 2010	$0.99	1332 words	Sample 25%
	Author bio: Lorraine Sears has always been blessed with a fertile imagination. As a young child, unable to control how far she strayed within the boundaries of her own mind, she often scared herself seeing faces in the curtains that hung in her bedroom. Then, as a teenager, many local people feared for her sanity, when she was regularly witnessed talking to herself when out walking her dog. What they didn't know is that in her mind Lorraine was in fact a hardened New York detective out stalking criminals with her weapon stashed safely in the waistband of her jeans. Reports would later confirm this weapon to be a harmless, empty water pistol. Now in her mid-thirties, but trying to fight the relentless tide of aging Lorraine tries to portray herself as responsible married mother of two to all but those who know her best. Her imagination is still her driving force, and through the years she has formed a strong bond with it, and now it works for her as opposed to against her; the many notebooks littering her home are a testament to this long and often fiery relationship. Finding opportunities to share her thoughts when and wherever she can, Lorraine writes a 'Wellbeing?' magazine for her employer, which is deployed to the 30,000 strong staff population in the UK. And she enjoys sharing her thoughts on books, film and music on Amazon. But it's in her spare time, when the children are in bed and the house is quiet that Lorraine feels she can let her true passion for creative writing take over. And since the birth of her daughter in 2003 she has been living with an ever increasing number of characters in her head, all demanding their stories be heard. Since joining Hothouse, a focused, on-line writing group, Lorraine has been pushing her brain extra hard to create her fiction and the toil has paid off.
	A Derivation of Love	by Sterling Lynch Oct. 30, 2011	$8.99	30039 words	Sample 15%
	Author bio: Sterling authors a blog, plays, poetry, songs, philosophical essays, performances, theatrical productions, and community. He wears his cap with suspicion. Social Media Set The Stage, a book he edited, is available on Amazon. It documents the story of how he and Mare Biddle met and collaborated thanks to social media. It includes two one act plays and the playwrights’ reflections on social media. Home In Time won The Ottawa Little Theatre's 69th National One Act Competition. The Root of All Squares (co-written with Sam Varteniuk) won the 2001 Toronto Fringe Festival and has been produced sixteen times, by four different companies. It premiered in New York at the 2007 Frigid Festival. He has a MA. in Religion and Culture (Wilfrid Laurier University), a MA. in Philosophy (University of Calgary), and a Ph.D. in Philosophy (Auckland University). He lives in Ottawa, Canada. Become a part of his story at www.sterlinglynch.com.
	A Dog Named Blue	by Hilary Walker July 25, 2011	$0.99	2373 words	Sample 20%
	Author bio: Hilary Walker is English, and lives in Maryland with her three horses, four dogs, crazy cat, normal American husband and typical teenage son. She recently became a U.S. citizen. She writes horse-related articles for ezinearticles.com and the DC examiner.com, freelances, and publishes equine non-fiction. Her humorous memoir "The Horse Bumbler" and equestrian self-help book "A Step-by-Step Guide to Entering Your First Dressage Competition" are now available in Smashword editions. Her light-hearted short stories are published as 'Pithy Pieces for a Palmy Penman' and available at Lulu.com and Amazon.com. Hilary competes at First Level dressage on Cruz Bay (see bio picture) the young horse she bred and trained, and spends the rest of her time avoiding household chores.
	A Down Home Feeling	by Harry McDonald Sep. 14, 2011	$0.99	3486 words	Sample 40%
	Author bio: My name is Harry McDonald. I live in Georgia, and started writing short stories in 2005. Most of my writings are humorous, a bit improbable, and have a Southern touch. I also have an interest in writing horror/ghost stories, and Southern Gothic, and plan to mainly publish serious stories someday. My first stories published here are A Damned Old Man, My Garden Is Bigger Than Yours, The Man in the Moon is Japanese, The Party Line, Her Big Hair Nearly Killed Me, A Feast To Die, For A Down Home Feeling, The Iron Bed, The Shadows On Maple Lane, and The Elusive Chocolate Eclair. Just 99 cents each! My style is not one of putting everything I have into the first paragraph, or even the first page. You have to read on - for they only get better as you go! I have a lot to learn about doing covers, but will keep working on it. If you have a handsome face, you can fill in for my profile picture! Thanks for reading.
	A Dream Floats in Oblivion & Other Stories	by Raja Sharma July 13, 2011	$3.99	28481 words	Sample 20%
	Author bio: Raja Sharma M.Sc.(Physics), M.Tech.(Metallurgy),M.A.(English), is a retired college lecturer. He has taught English Literature to University students for more than two decades. His students are scattered all over the world, and it is noticeable that he is in contact with more than ninety thousand of his students.
	A Dream of Kings	by Harry Mark Petrakis May 23, 2011	$9.99	47946 words	Sample 20%
	Author bio: Harry Mark Petrakis is the author of twenty-three books, short-stories, and essays, and has been nominated twice for the National Book Award. His books include the 'A Dream of Kings' (1966), set in Chicago, which was a New York Times bestseller. It was published in twelve foreign editions and was made into a motion picture (1969) starring Anthony Quinn. He has won the O. Henry Award, and received awards from Friends of American Writers, Friends of Literature, and the Society of Midland Authors. He was the Nikos Kazantzakis Chair in Modern Greek Studies at San Francisco State University and the McGuffy Visiting Lecturer at Ohio University. In 2004, the American College of Greece in Athens presented him with an Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters Degree.
	A Fame of Two Halves	by Kevin Mahoney April 28, 2010	$0.99	83180 words	Sample 10%
	Author bio: Kevin Mahoney is the editor of Authortrek.com, the Founder and Publisher of Punked Books, and the author of the novel A Fame of Two Halves. I was born in Slough in 1972, and where I went to Slough Grammar School (although it was called Upton Grammar then). I attended Anglia Polytechnic University in Cambridge for three glorious years (during which the University changed name twice - from AHEC, AP, to APU), where I was a member of Cambridge Student TV and a founding member of the Cambridge Media Group. Returning to Slough, I worked for Ottakars booksellers and became an editorial assistant on Story Cellar magazine. From 1995 to 1997, I attended Thames Valley University (which, unusually, has not changed its name), and was awarded an MA on their excellent Cultural Studies course. In 1998, I began a long stint of working for Amazon.co.uk, where I won the Amazonian Award in 2000, and where I edited their internal newsletter Amazone. In 2002, my essay on Masculinity in Dune, Spartacus, and Lawrence of Arabia was studied at the University of California. I left Amazon in 2005, and now live in Ealing with wife Michelle. My main preoccupation is editing the literary review magazine, Authortrek, portions of which have been reprinted in the US edition of Joanne Harris's Sleep, Pale Sister, and quotations from the site were used on the cover to plug Neal Asher's debut novel, Gridlinked. I also wrote a reading guide for the US edition of Joanne Harris’ novel Gentlemen & Players. I have performed poetry at London's Poetry Cafe, and at the Lyric Theatre in Hammersmith. For 3 years, I was the Web Content Manager for the Society of Young Publishers.
	A Fateful Trip	by B.K. Dell March 01, 2011	$0.99	10157 words	Sample 50%
	Author bio: Have you ever wondered why Harry Potter and Twilight are so popular? It is because readers seeking to avoid filth have no place left to turn. The industry of mature fiction has been overrun by people who confuse profanity with profundity and think that graphic depravity can substitute for insight. So the only guaranteed way to sidestep smut is to read books written for young audiences. We see the same phenomenon happening in movies, where the main box office winners these days are from Pixar, Disney, or Marvel Comics. My goal is to reinstitutionalize God-loving, America-loving, wholesome books for thoughtful adult readers. You can find me on the front page of every search engine by searching "conservative fiction".
	A Fear of the Dark and other stories	by John G. Paterson Feb. 08, 2011	$4.99	36157 words	Sample 20%
	Author bio: Born in St. Catharines, Ontario. Now living in Taiwan. Three short story collections in print, available at the author's website.
	A Few Short Stories Omnibus Volume 1	by C.D. Reimer April 20, 2011	$1.99	22307 words	Sample 30%
	Author bio: C.D. Reimer lives and works in Silicon Valley. His interests are ceramics, painting, tropical fish, and web programming. These keep him out of trouble when he’s not fixing broken users and consoling hurt computers. Currently working on his first novel, two short story collections, and various short stories. He had published 25+ short stories and appeared in a half dozen anthologies.
	A Few Worthy Options for the Soundtrack to Your Life	by Raymond A. Villareal July 26, 2010	$5.00	58395 words	Sample 20%
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	A Fox In The Old Hen House	by Luke Atkinson April 22, 2011	$0.99	5175 words	Sample 20%
	Author bio: My name is Luke Atkinson and I am a writer. I graduated from the University of Oklahoma with a degree in journalism in 2010. I have served as a writer, designer and editor for university publications and have freelanced for the past year. A fan of classic literature and poetry, I try to write as often as possible and promote other writers looking to publish their work. To put it simply: I like to write and share.
	A galamb	by Brátán Erzsébet Nov. 17, 2011	$1.99	9008 words	Sample 20%
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	A Galvanic Satyr in the Year Two Thousand and Eight, Being a Prophetic Vision by Charlemagne Dement	by Jules Wellesley Sep. 24, 2009	$0.99	18057 words	Sample 50%
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	A Game of Contact	by Michael Jasper Aug. 25, 2011	$0.99	10430 words	Sample 20%
	Author bio: I grew up in the small town of Dyersville, Iowa, home of “The Field of Dreams.” I've published eight novels, one short story collection, two non-fiction ebooks, and six dozen short stories in places such as Asimov's, Strange Horizons, O. Henry Festival Stories, Polyphony, Writers of the Future, and the Raleigh News & Observer. My website is http://michaeljasper.net. With artist Niki Smith, I created the digital comic IN MAPS & LEGENDS, which won the November 2009 competition at DC Comics' Zuda website; the comic is available via UnWrecked Press at a variety of digital distributors. For more information, see http://InMapsAndLegendsComic.com. 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.
	A gangorra	by Denny Yang Oct. 11, 2011	$4.99	19938 words
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	A Gentle Thief	by Amanda Dickson Oct. 21, 2011	$9.99	119293 words	Sample 15%
	Author bio: Amanda Dickson is a mother of five, radio announcer, writer, speaker, and lover of sunrises living in Salt Lake City, Utah. She is also a reformed lawyer and reluctant baker. She is the author of five books, four non-fiction titles and one fiction. She is currently working on two new projects, one non-fiction and one fiction. Writing is her sanity. Her children are the reason she is alive.
	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.