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	Well of Life	by Roderic Anderson Jan. 30, 2012	$4.99	68932 words	Sample 10%
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	Journeys Through Darkness: A Biography	by Alina Oswald Jan. 10, 2012	$2.99	47554 words	Sample 10%
	Author bio: Alina Oswald is a writer/photographer covering unconventional, inconvenient and sometimes taboo topics that are often part of human reality and imagination. She has covered the HIV/AIDS, LGBT and artists communities for almost a decade, as much as vampire-related photography. Photography includes: headshots/portraits, events/weddings, fashion, nature (at its best and worst), and fine art photography. Books include: INFINITE LIGHTS: A DECADE OF 9/11 TRIBUTE LIGHTS (a collection of 9/11-related photography), VAMPIRE FANTASIES (a vampire-related photography collection), JOURNEYS THROUGH DARKNESS ( a biography of an award-winning, legally blind photographer), THE AWAKENING... (a poetic collection of photography) and THE BEST OF MJ (a collection of fabulous male fashion). For more details, please contact Alina Oswald online at her website, www.alina-arts.com, or blog, alinaoswald.blogspot.com.
	You and No Other - A Memoir	by Jane Weiss Bonnie Zahn Jan. 09, 2012	$7.95	91042 words	Sample 10%
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	Cancer Inc., The Half Full Side	by M.G. Evans Nov. 28, 2011	$0.99	20406 words	Sample 20%
	Author bio: Marc Grizanti-Evans Marc was born and raised in Florida. He is the youngest of five children and a descendant of an Italian father and Irish mother. He is currently living in the Dallas area with his partner, Curtis, and their two dogs. Marc also wrote “A Precious Gift”, a mystery about life and death that will keep you in suspense until the very end. He has a love for dance, writing, and travel—the inspiration of his current writing project, “Four Gay Guys on Vacation”, a comedy about his travels with Curtis.
	Knock, Knock, Can Coleen Come Out?	by Coleen Harty Sep. 12, 2011	$3.99	79786 words	Sample 20%
	Author bio: Coleen lives an unconventional life in Madison, Wisconsin, doing what she enjoys; that includes the conventional reading, writing, and arithmetic, but in her own way. This is her first book.
	The Gifted Ones	by Lisa Vaughn July 05, 2011	$0.99	57790 words	Sample 10%
	Author bio: Lisa Vaughn, a self-proclaimed 'hippie-chick' and freelance artist, has taken her creative voice to a whole new medium, with her autobiography, The Gifted Ones. A true story of resilience that sends a strong message of acceptance and the power of love - told in a raw, honest format, much like talking to an old friend. Everyone has a story...this just happens to be hers. Lisa currently resides in Florida along with her loving husband and four cats, where she continues to create her visions of self-expression.
	Blind: A Memoir	by Belo Miguel Cipriani April 25, 2011	$2.99	47645 words	Sample 15%
	Author bio: To read and write, Belo uses a desktop application for the blind called JAWS. His favorite snack is cold pizza and one of his past times is sneaking quick games of tug-a-war with his guide dog Madge throughout the day. Belo lives in San Francisco.
	Dirty Poole: A Sensual Memoir	by Wakefield Poole April 23, 2011	$7.99	103322 words	Sample 20%
	Author bio: Wakefield Poole (born 1936) is best known for his classy, visionary hardcore gay erotic films Boys in the Sand (1971) and Bijou (1972), which started the "porno chic" trend a year before Deep Throat was released. Few people know that Poole was a member of the corps de ballet in the waning years of the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo, and then went on to a successful career as a dancer, choreographer, and director on TV, Broadway, and the West End, working with theater legends Stephen Sondheim, Richard Rodgers, Noel Coward, Jerome Robbins, Ethel Merman, Gwen Verdon, and many more. In 1971, after seeing a typical example of gay porn, Poole asked himself why someone couldn't make one that wasn't sleazy and depressing. Then he set out to do just that. With a wind-up 16mm camera and the barely known actor Cal Culver (who took the name Casey Donovan), Poole and a small group of friends shot Boys in the Sand over several weekends in the Fire Island Pines, off the coast of Long Island. He released the film as if it were a legitimate mainstream movie, putting his own name above the title, doing press screenings, and advertising in the New York Times. Overnight, Boys in the Sand became an enormous financial success and Poole's theater career abruptly ended. He followed Boys in the Sand with the ambitious and technically dazzling film Bijou, which was also a hit with audiences and critics. Giddy with success, Poole put all his money into a project that he hoped would be his mainstream calling card, a nudity-filled straight version of Bible stories re-imagined from the woman's point of view. Visually sumptuous and unlike anything else film goers in the early 1970s had ever seen, Wakefield Poole's Bible was a flop—-rejected by both gay and straight audiences. In 1974, Poole left New York for the burgeoning gay mecca of San Francisco. He co-owned and operated the influential retail store/gallery/hair salon Hot Flash of America, was friends with Harvey Milk, and continued to make unique and successful erotic films, until he began a downward spiral into drug addiction. After a cocaine-fueled attempt at a Broadway comeback, Poole bottomed out, went cold turkey, and cleaned himself up. He eventually graduated from the French Culinary Institute at age 50 and became a successful corporate chef. He retired in 2003 and now lives a quiet life in northern Florida. He published his autobiography, Dirty Poole, in 2000, and it will be re-issued in a new edition in 2011. Poole has also appeared in a number of documentaries, including Ballet Russe, When Ocean Meets Sky, and That Man: Peter Berlin.
	New Life	by Jackson Williams Feb. 04, 2011	$3.99	85150 words	Sample 30%
	Author bio: Jackson Williams lives in the western portion of the United States since he got out of the Army six years ago. Originally he is from Montana, so that makes it easier to settle into another part of the same geographic area. Still, he's close enough to his home town that he can visit friends and family pretty much whenever he wants. He works as a Law Enforcement professional in his home area, which makes writing perfect, since it doesn't matter what shift he works, he can still write; plus, being in law enforcement gives him plenty of life experience. But his main career love is writing and he hopes to one day live off the royalties from his books. He likes writing erotic stories, mostly because people like reading stories that get them off. Let's face it, people like sex. And since he likes making his erotica humorous - at least he think it's humorous - it can make people laugh at the same time they're getting off, so they have two forms of relief for the price of one. He also enjoys biographies, so he decided his first novel would be about the life of an interesting person he thought deserved having his or her life told to the public. He began researching, looking for someone to write about who had a story so interesting and compelling he just had to make a book about it. What he found was someone who led a life so different from his own or anyone he knew, that he was in tears listening to how this story played out from childhood on. This became his first book, New Life, about the story of Brooke McKellogg who was born Robert (Bobby) McKellogg, but always knew she was supposed to be a girl and took the necessary steps to make this a reality. Will he ever write anything besides erotica? Who knows? He might. Maybe he'll write a western or some sci-fi. Anything's possible. Certainly his most recent forays into the realm of biographical drama ("New Life" and "The Ladyboy Killer") has been more than interesting, especially since the people he met during the research phase of these books proved to be among the most interesting people he has ever met. If you like his stories, drop him a line at: jackabillyhotness@gmail.com He promises to answer as soon as he can. Facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/jackson.williams.author My eBooks are: Biographies: New Life The Ladyboy Killer Fantasy: Sexposing SupraBabe Bug, Naked & Horny Screenplays: Meri XXXMas Cherry NecroTales Peace out, people, Jack
	Shorn: Toys to Men	by Dennis Milam Bensie Dec. 14, 2010	$6.95	84057 words	Sample 10%
	Author bio: Dennis Milam Bensie grew up in Robinson, Illinois where his interest in the arts began in high school participating in various community theatre productions. He holds a degree in Theatre Costume Design from Southern Illinois University at Carbondale and completed an apprenticeship in theatrical wig construction at Los Angeles Opera. He has costumed and wigged shows all over the country, including Oregon Shakespeare Festival, PlayMakers Repertory Theatre in Chapel Hill, NC, Alliance Theatre of Atlanta, Arizona Theatre Company, Actor’s Theatre of Louisville, and the Old Globe Theatre in San Diego to name a few. His costume and wig design for Valley of the Dolls at Empty Space Theatre in Seattle garnered him a feature article in Entertainment Design Magazine and a Seattle Times Footlight Award for Best Design. Dennis also teaches master classes in wigmaking and wig maintenance around the country. He has been on staff at Intiman Theatre in Seattle since 1992 and is proud to have been involved with such productions as Angels in America, Nickel and Dimed and the world premier of the Tony Award winning musical, Light in the Piazza. Shorn: Toys to Men is his first book. Dennis lives in Seattle with his three dogs.
	You're Lost Little Girl	by Ms. Jamie Antonia Symonanis Dec. 12, 2010	$0.99	83841 words	Sample 10%
	Author bio: Jamie Antonia Symonanis is a alumnus of Southern Illinois University in Carbondale. She is living EVERYWHERE and works as an author and painter. Ms. Symonanis has just finished work on her latest sci-fi adventure DeniseZen.
	NOSOTRAS OPENING THE DOOR TO OUR LOVE LIFE	by ROSA SANCHEZ Aug. 03, 2010	$14.99	44720 words	Sample 30%
	Author bio: Ofelia Fox, wife of the owner of the famous cabaret Tropicana of Havana, Cuba and Rosa Sanchez, pioneer f the Spanish radio in Miami, Florida, took residence in Southern California in 1964 and thir life unfolded like a cleaned up version of Thelma and Louise: the two faced their life together with an adventurous spirit and an unshakeable devotion for each other, raising Rosa's son, Toto and writing for the theater, radio and television. Winners of many awards they were best defined in the book "Women Playwrights of Diversity" a bio-bibliographical sourcebook by Jane Peterson and Suzanne Bennett, published in 1997: "Los Angeles based Rosa Sanchez and Ofelia Fox use theater to promote social awareness and have written extensively in both English and Spanish for radio, television and the theater. They combine comedy with serious themes..." Collaborators and physically inseparable for over four decades their relationship has defied time and death. Their book NOSOTRAS, OPENING THE DOOR TO OUR LOVE LIFE is timely and appropriate. It extols unconditional love, exudes faith in destiny and decidedly opens, not only the door to their love life, but to other spiritual concepts that slowly are coming out of the closet. For complete review, check Lydia Martin's article in the Miami Herald edition of November 1, 2009 "WHEN OFELIA MET ROSA."
	In Jupiter's Shadow	by Gregory Gerard Dec. 06, 2009	$0.99	72469 words	Sample 50%
	Author bio: Gregory Gerard's work has been published by Tiny Lights, The Stone Table Review, and World Voice. He teaches writing part-time at Writers & Books, Rochester’s adult literary center, and has been a guest instructor at the University of Rochester's Scholars Creative Writing Program. His memoir, In Jupiter's Shadow, chronicles a religious boy's struggle with forbidden attraction. It explores how we all receive messages about what we "should be" in life and how we sometimes work to hide truth from the most important person in our lives: ourselves. Gerard lives in Rochester, New York, with his partner of eleven years and their spitz husky.