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	SHADOWLAND	by Mrinal Bose March 12, 2008	$1.99	66437 words	Sample 50%
	Author bio: I'm a fiction writer, columnist,and literary blogger based in Kolkata, India. My fiction and columns have appeared in The Pedestal Magazine, January magazine, suite 101.com and Future among many other online and print magazines. In real life, I'm a practicing physician, and when I'm not attending on my patient, I'm either contemplating fiction or writing it.
	No Irish Need Apply	by Edward C. Patterson May 30, 2008	$0.99	34096 words	Sample 10%
	Author bio: Edward C. Patterson has been writing novels, short fiction, poetry and drama his entire life, always seeking the emotional core of any story he tells. With his eighth novel, The Jade Owl, he combines an imaginative touch with his life long devotion to China and its history. He has earned an MA in Chinese History from Brooklyn College with further post graduate work at Columbia University. A native of Brooklyn, NY, he has spent four decades as a soldier in the corporate world gaining insight into the human condition. He won the 1999 New Jersey Minority Achievement Award for his work in corporate diversity. Blending world travel experiences with a passion for story telling, his adventures continue as he works to permeate his reader's souls from an indelible wellspring. Works: Bobby's Trace No Irish Need Apply Cutting the Cheese Surviving an American Gulag The Road to Grafenwöhr The Closet Clandestine The Academician - Southern Swallow - Book I The Nan Tu - Southern Swallow - Book II Look Away, Silence Turning Idolater Come, Wewoka The Jade Owl The Third Peregrination - The Jade Owl - Book II The Dragon's Pool - The Jade Owl Book III The People's Treasure - The Jade Owl Book IV Are You Still Sumitting Your Work to a Traditional Publisher? Oh, Dainty Triolet
	Searching For Eldorado	by E. P. Ned Burke Sep. 18, 2008	$1.99	74864 words	Sample 30%
	Author bio: E. P. Ned Burke worked in publishing for more than 30 years. He is the author of 7 novels and numerous short stories and articles. Currently, he is president of E. P. Burke Publishing and serves as editor of Yesterday's Magazette and Writer's Magazette. He is also owner of many other Magazettes that can be found at http://www.magazettes.com.
	I Love You Maggie	by zanybooks Dec. 24, 2008	$3.49	77174 words	Sample 20%
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	In Search of Aimai Cristen	by zanybooks Dec. 24, 2008	$3.99	57927 words	Sample 20%
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	Only The Impassioned	by H. C. Turk Jan. 21, 2009	$2.99	85270 words	Sample 20%
	Author bio: A: This is hard. Q: Why is making a bio so hard for you? A: Because it's like talking. I don't like to talk; I like to write. Q: But people want to know about authors. Reading a book requires a lot of effort. A: Writing one ain't exactly playtime. Q: That's better. Go ahead, tell us more. Did you have a pleasant childhood? A: Ask my dog; he was there. Q: Your dog is stuffed. He's not a real dog. A: He's more real than you are. You can’t even ask a good question. Q: Here’s one: Why should people read your books? A: Because my puppy will be sad if they don’t. Q: We need to get serious here. How many novels have you written? A: 33. Q: I’ll bet your dog can’t count that high. How long have you been writing? A: I’ll answer if you promise not to kick my dog again (metaphorically). Q: He wouldn’t feel it—he’s stuffed. A: If someone kicked the stuffing out of you, I bet you wouldn’t enjoy it. Q: Would I enjoy it more than reading one of your books? Or would it be equally painful? A: You’re cruel to dogs AND to authors. Q: If you answer my last question, I promise to be nice. How many years have you been writing? A: [mumbles] Q: That’s pathetic. A: Why don’t you ask me about my stories? Q: Stories are for campfires. A: The basis of history’s greatest novels is the story: the story of nations, cultures, families, individuals. The greatest idea that can be expressed in fiction is story. Q: Great, so tell me about your characters. A: Dull and Dumb are not two of my characters, or characteristics. Q: Do you ever write about animals, stuffed or not? A: Rescued greyhounds in Heaven Again, tiny ponies in Only The Impassioned, mudfish in Resurrection Flowers, ghosts in An Atmosphere Of Angels. Q: Ghosts aren’t animals, they’re unsettled spirits. If ghosts continue to read, what will they find in your novels? A: They will find passion, idea, and spirited characters whose lives are a story. And puppies. My music is available here: http://hcturk.bandcamp.com/ My animated music videos are here: http://exposureroom.com/members/HCTurk
	Resurrection Flowers	by H. C. Turk Jan. 21, 2009	$2.99	86694 words	Sample 20%
	Author bio: A: This is hard. Q: Why is making a bio so hard for you? A: Because it's like talking. I don't like to talk; I like to write. Q: But people want to know about authors. Reading a book requires a lot of effort. A: Writing one ain't exactly playtime. Q: That's better. Go ahead, tell us more. Did you have a pleasant childhood? A: Ask my dog; he was there. Q: Your dog is stuffed. He's not a real dog. A: He's more real than you are. You can’t even ask a good question. Q: Here’s one: Why should people read your books? A: Because my puppy will be sad if they don’t. Q: We need to get serious here. How many novels have you written? A: 33. Q: I’ll bet your dog can’t count that high. How long have you been writing? A: I’ll answer if you promise not to kick my dog again (metaphorically). Q: He wouldn’t feel it—he’s stuffed. A: If someone kicked the stuffing out of you, I bet you wouldn’t enjoy it. Q: Would I enjoy it more than reading one of your books? Or would it be equally painful? A: You’re cruel to dogs AND to authors. Q: If you answer my last question, I promise to be nice. How many years have you been writing? A: [mumbles] Q: That’s pathetic. A: Why don’t you ask me about my stories? Q: Stories are for campfires. A: The basis of history’s greatest novels is the story: the story of nations, cultures, families, individuals. The greatest idea that can be expressed in fiction is story. Q: Great, so tell me about your characters. A: Dull and Dumb are not two of my characters, or characteristics. Q: Do you ever write about animals, stuffed or not? A: Rescued greyhounds in Heaven Again, tiny ponies in Only The Impassioned, mudfish in Resurrection Flowers, ghosts in An Atmosphere Of Angels. Q: Ghosts aren’t animals, they’re unsettled spirits. If ghosts continue to read, what will they find in your novels? A: They will find passion, idea, and spirited characters whose lives are a story. And puppies. My music is available here: http://hcturk.bandcamp.com/ My animated music videos are here: http://exposureroom.com/members/HCTurk
	Black Body	by H. C. Turk Jan. 21, 2009	$2.99	249064 words	Sample 20%
	Author bio: A: This is hard. Q: Why is making a bio so hard for you? A: Because it's like talking. I don't like to talk; I like to write. Q: But people want to know about authors. Reading a book requires a lot of effort. A: Writing one ain't exactly playtime. Q: That's better. Go ahead, tell us more. Did you have a pleasant childhood? A: Ask my dog; he was there. Q: Your dog is stuffed. He's not a real dog. A: He's more real than you are. You can’t even ask a good question. Q: Here’s one: Why should people read your books? A: Because my puppy will be sad if they don’t. Q: We need to get serious here. How many novels have you written? A: 33. Q: I’ll bet your dog can’t count that high. How long have you been writing? A: I’ll answer if you promise not to kick my dog again (metaphorically). Q: He wouldn’t feel it—he’s stuffed. A: If someone kicked the stuffing out of you, I bet you wouldn’t enjoy it. Q: Would I enjoy it more than reading one of your books? Or would it be equally painful? A: You’re cruel to dogs AND to authors. Q: If you answer my last question, I promise to be nice. How many years have you been writing? A: [mumbles] Q: That’s pathetic. A: Why don’t you ask me about my stories? Q: Stories are for campfires. A: The basis of history’s greatest novels is the story: the story of nations, cultures, families, individuals. The greatest idea that can be expressed in fiction is story. Q: Great, so tell me about your characters. A: Dull and Dumb are not two of my characters, or characteristics. Q: Do you ever write about animals, stuffed or not? A: Rescued greyhounds in Heaven Again, tiny ponies in Only The Impassioned, mudfish in Resurrection Flowers, ghosts in An Atmosphere Of Angels. Q: Ghosts aren’t animals, they’re unsettled spirits. If ghosts continue to read, what will they find in your novels? A: They will find passion, idea, and spirited characters whose lives are a story. And puppies. My music is available here: http://hcturk.bandcamp.com/ My animated music videos are here: http://exposureroom.com/members/HCTurk
	Well Deserved	by Michael Loyd Gray Jan. 25, 2009	$2.99	65088 words	Sample 20%
	Author bio: Michael Loyd Gray was born in Jonesboro, Arkansas, in the shadow of Graceland and Elvis Presley, the land of RC Colas and Moon Pies, but grew up in Champaign, Illinois. He earned an MFA in English from Western Michigan University and has taught at colleges and universities in upstate New York, Michigan, Illinois, Wisconsin, and Texas. He graduated from the University of Illinois with a Journalism degree and was a newspaper staff writer in Arizona and Illinois for ten years, conducting the last interview with novelist Erskine Caldwell. He is the winner of the 2005 Alligator Juniper Fiction Prize, the 2005 The Writers Place Award for Fiction. His novel Not Famous Anymore was awarded a grant by the Elizabeth George Foundation and his novel December's Children was a finalist for the 2006 Sol Books Prose Series Prize. A lifelong Chicago Bears and Rolling Stones fan, he lives with two insolent cats, EH and Moonpie.
	Nowhere Special	by M.I. Krupenich Jan. 26, 2009	$2.99	2103 words	Sample 40%
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	Forget What You Can't Remember	by Teel McClanahan Jan. 28, 2009	$4.99	76700 words	Sample 40%
	Author bio: Teel is happily married to an English teacher and they live together in Phoenix, AZ with a cat which does not appreciate having Teel read his books aloud to it nearly as much as you probably would. While satisfied with never having to shovel the desert's heat from his driveway, Teel is interested in experiencing more travel in his life - especially of sorts like "through time" and "to other planets," so feel free to invite him along if you're going. Teel is an independent author, artist, creative visionary, blogger, publisher, podcaster, and sometimes filmmaker. You can find out more about him and his other stories, novels, poetry and more by visiting Modern Evil Press: http://modernevil.com/
	Lost and Not Found	by Teel McClanahan Feb. 28, 2009	$4.99	104558 words	Sample 40%
	Author bio: Teel is happily married to an English teacher and they live together in Phoenix, AZ with a cat which does not appreciate having Teel read his books aloud to it nearly as much as you probably would. While satisfied with never having to shovel the desert's heat from his driveway, Teel is interested in experiencing more travel in his life - especially of sorts like "through time" and "to other planets," so feel free to invite him along if you're going. Teel is an independent author, artist, creative visionary, blogger, publisher, podcaster, and sometimes filmmaker. You can find out more about him and his other stories, novels, poetry and more by visiting Modern Evil Press: http://modernevil.com/
	Tokyo Zero	by Marc Horne March 04, 2009	$2.99	75400 words	Sample 50%
	Author bio: Marc was born in England, where he learned to read and write. Now he lives in Paris, working on his second novel.
	Love Knot	by Sheila O'Kelly March 07, 2009	$0.99	68654 words	Sample 75%
	Author bio: Sheila O'Kelly was born in Dublin, Ireland, to RTE broadcaster Kevin O'Kelly and his wife Ann. She previously worked as a sub-editor on the Irish Times and now works as a freelance journalist. She is the editor of the specialist journal Diabetes Ireland; she also edits documents into plain English; and gives training courses for businesses on 'How to write in plain English'. This is her first novel.
	De Médicos & de Loucos	by Raymundo Silveira March 10, 2009	$2.00	15042 words	Sample 10%
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	The West: Stories from Ireland	by Eddie Stack March 27, 2009	$2.99	32291 words	Sample 25%
	Author bio: Eddie Stack is an Irish writer. He received a Top 100 Irish American Award in 1991 in response to his book of short fiction, The West: Stories from Ireland. He is also the recipient of an American Small Press of the Year Award. Originally published by Island House (US) and Bloomsbury (UK), The West received excellent reviews on both sides of the Atlantic. Eddie Stack's work is included in State of the Art: Stories from New Irish Writers; Irish Christmas Stories, The Clare Anthology and Fiction in the Classroom. His stories have also appeared in literary reviews Fiction, Confrontation, Whispers & Shouts and Criterion 83. Stories from The West have been read on radio worldwide and a CD of four stories read by the author, with music by Martin Hayes and Dennis Cahill was released in summer 2002. His latest collection of stories, Out of the Blue, was published in Spring 2004. His work is available for Kindle on Amazon Eddie Stack was co-founder and artistic director of the Irish Arts Foundation in San Francisco. He was a member of the Irish trad group Last Night's Fun with Tommy Peoples, Paddy Keenan, Johnny Moynihan and the late Shane Holden. He is currently working on a book about the culture and traditional arts of Doolin, County Clare, Ireland. Due out in 2009, the book includes interviews with Micho Russell and Paddy Shannon as well as profiles on the Russell and Killoughery brothers. It has features on storytelling, dancing as well as music and songs from Doolin.
	Gingham Blindfold: A novel	by Eric Rohr April 04, 2009	$1.99	46207 words	Sample 25%
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	Greyhound Dreaming	by Cyn Mobley April 09, 2009	$0.99	54869 words	Sample 50%
	Author bio: USA Today bestselling author, former naval officer and lawyer. Eight Greyhounds, three Airedales, and a coupla mutts.
	Blind Spot	by Hugh McGuire April 11, 2009	$0.99	85723 words	Sample 75%
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	When Frogs Grow Feet	by G. Louis Jackson April 22, 2009	$4.00	182275 words	Sample 50%
	Author bio: Though born in Clarksdale, Mississippi, Michigan is home, and has been for most of his life. Raised in and around Pontiac, he considers himself a resident of southeast Michigan, where Detroit is the cultural hub. As a resident of the region, he has an insider's perspective on its people, a people whose lives are shaped by the nautural milieu and by inclinations which are reflective of the country in general and the Midwest in particular. This is his third published work, but his first full-fledged novel.
	Redemption Song	by Michael Hammond May 05, 2009	You set the price!	71451 words	Sample 50%
	Author bio: Michael has been writing for close to a decade. A former reporter and radio host, Michael has worked for the Canadian Press, Waterloo Region Record, Ottawa Sun and a number of other publications. He has also worked as a radio personality. His first novel, Redemption Song, was published in 2006 by Baico Publishing. The book was a featured bestseller on CanadaBooksOnline.com. Michael lives in Ottawa, Canada.
	North of Sunset	by Henry Baum May 07, 2009	$2.99	84921 words	Sample 30%
	Author bio: Henry Baum is the author of the novels The Golden Calf and North of Sunset and has published work in anthologies with Another Sky Press and 3 AM Magazine, as well as stories in Scarecrow, Identity Theory, Purple Prose, Storyglossia, and others. He lives in Los Angeles.
	La Mémoire du Carbone	by Frédéric Norton-Poulin May 08, 2009	$8.70	42949 words	Sample 35%
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	Humble Snyder	by Shirley Bue June 02, 2009	$4.95	63030 words	Sample 8%
	Author bio: Shirley Bue is a long-time Alaskan, living in Anchorage, with her husband, Arne Bue. She is the Author of Humble Snyder. http://home.gci.net/~bue/index.html
	Is Harvey Dunne?	by K. L. Romo June 04, 2009	$4.99	116437 words	Sample 15%
	Author bio: K.L. Romo has been a writer her entire life. Is Harvey Dunne? is her first novel. She lives in Duncanville, Texas with her husband, and multitude of children and grandchildren, and is currently working on her second novel. Please visit her at www.klromo.com We can touch the world – one word at a time! (Print version available at Amazon, Amazon Kindle, Barnes & Noble, and Wordclay.
	DARKNESS & LIGHT. A Modern Political Allegory	by Nicholas Nicola June 08, 2009	$1.99	31814 words	Sample 50%
	Author bio: Nicholas Nicola is interested - on a creative level - in printmaking and writing; his 'day job' is casual teaching in Sydney. (For further details proceed to the website. Thank You).
	Days of Awe	by Hugh Nissenson June 29, 2009	$12.00	71915 words	Sample 5%
	Author bio: Hugh Nissenson is the author of eight books, including the recent illustrated novel The Song of the Earth, which received a number of superb reviews in the New Yorker, the Washington Post and the Los Angeles Times among others. His previous novel The Tree of Life was a finalist for the National Book Award and the Pen-Faulkner Award in 1985. He lives in New York City.
	The Entitled	by Frank Deford June 29, 2009	$12.95	83552 words	Sample 5%
	Author bio: Frank Deford is a six-time National Sportswriter of the Year, Senior Contributing Editor at Sports Illustrated, commentator on NPR’s Morning Edition and a correspondent on the HBO show RealSports with Bryant Gumbel. In addition to being the author of more than a dozen books, he has been elected to the Hall of Fame of the National Association of Sportscasters and Sportswriters and has been awarded both an Emmy and a Peabody. Two of his books, Everybody’s All-American and Alex: The Life of a Child, a memoir about his daughter who died of cystic fibrosis, have been made into movies. Sporting News describes Deford as “the most influential sports voice among members of the print media” and GQ simply calls him “the world’s greatest sportswriter.” Deford resides in Connecticut with his wife, Carol.
	The Love Book	by Ken Wohlrob July 06, 2009	$2.99	37177 words	Sample 25%
	Author bio: I'm a writer from Brooklyn, NY, and the author of THE LOVE BOOK, a collection of short stories on sale now from Bully Press.The Love Book contains five gritty, absurd and darkly comic tales. These are very modern fables, with a great heart, a very biting sense of humor, and fully-fleshed out characters that you can sink your teeth into."You'll dig Ken Wohlrob's The Love Book, whether you like yourself or not. In fact, if you compare its cavalcade of kooks to you and the folk you call friends, it'll probably make you like yourself more."—Miami Sun Post"If The Velvet Underground's debut had been a short story collection, it may well have read like The Love Book."—Mike Bennett, author of One Among The Sleepless and Hall of Mirrors"These are stories that actually dare to be about things—that is, they have characters who are invested, committed, or otherwise trapped in certain strange or absurd lives who are looking for freedom and release. "—Tim Hall, author of Half Empty
	The Reader Suffers the Loss of Dostoyevsky	by Max G. Bernard July 08, 2009	$0.99	5453 words	Sample 55%
	Author bio: Max G. Bernard is the pen name of a writer with around 45 years of writing, editing, publishing, and journalism experience. He wrote for student, "underground," and radical newspapers in the 60's and 70's. He lives in the Midwestern region of Woodstock Nation, and is residing in the 1960's until something better comes along. He is involved in writing science fiction, mysteries, weird cross genre stories, and semi-autobiographical pieces. A fan of Bob Dylan's music, Alfred Hitchcock's movies, and Philip K. Dick's science fiction, he is married, with two children, and a dog. He is a fervent opponent of DRM (digital rights management) in publishing. He agrees with Tom Robbins that it is "never too late to have a happy childhood," and with the spirit of the statement, "Be realistic, demand the impossible."
	Ciao, Mephisto	by Ralph Moore July 16, 2009	$0.99	73097 words	Sample 20%
	Author bio: Ralph Moore was born in Illinois and was raised in a state orphanage: the ISSCS, in Normal. He worked his way through college to a B.A. and M.A., was drafted into the army for a two-year stint in Germany, worked a number of years in city and regional planning in the U.S., and in Peru, and then returned to academic studies, earning a Ph.D. He taught a bit in the U.S. and then two years at several Mexican universities. He now devotes time to his own interests: reading and writing. Never got rich, but learned a lot — always aiming at higher and higher levels.
	The Red Album of Asbury Park Remixed	by Alex Austin July 21, 2009	$1.99	80645 words	Sample 25%
	Author bio: Alex Austin is a Los Angeles playwright and novelist. His plays include The Amazing Brenda Strider, produced at Glaxa Theatre, Los Angeles, March-April 2000. Brenda was a Backstage West Critic’s Pick and won that year’s Maddy Award for Playwriting. It was produced at CoHo Theatre, Portland, October-November 2002. His play Mimosa was produced at Los Angeles Theater Center, March 2002. Mimosa was the featured play in Wordsmiths Playwrights Festival, presented by the City of Los Angeles Cultural Affairs Department. Mimosa is published by Playscripts Inc. His newest play, Dupe, had a workshop production at the Second Stage Theatre as part of the Blank Theatre’s Living Room Series and in July 2007 was featured in Ten Grand Production’s Cold Cuts Series in New York City. Dupe was produced in June/July 2008 at the Two Roads Theatre in Studio City. Austin’s one-act play Wet was performed at The Strawberry Festival in Los Angeles in November 2007. His fiction has been published in numerous literary magazines, including Caffeine, Bachy, Beyond Baroque, UCLA’s Westwinds and Cal Arts Black Clock. He is the author of the critically acclaimed novel The Perfume Factory, a coming-of-age novel set on the Jersey Shore, which was published in November 2005. The Red Album of Asbury Park, sequel to The Perfume Factory, was published by Virtual Bookworm in August 2008. Austin is a graduate of UCLA and has a Master’s degree in history from CSUN. Austin was born in Newark, New Jersey, spent his childhood in Edison and his teenage years in Union Beach/Keyport, where he graduated from Keyport High School. Austin later lived in Asbury Park, where he attended Monmouth College. Austin currently lives with his wife, Eileen, in West Hills, California.
	Glimpses of a Floating World	by Larry Harrison Aug. 09, 2009	$2.99	103229 words	Sample 10%
	Author bio: Larry Harrison started life as a cowman and yak keeper for the Tibetan Buddhist community at Karma Kagyu Samye Ling, in Dumfriesshire. After working his way up to the post of assistant dairyman on a commercial Ayrshire herd, he left Scotland in 1975 to work with disadvantaged children at London’s Clapham Junction. Larry became surprisingly good at persuading children not to stand on the railway tracks at Earlsfield Station, and he was able to talk them down from rooftops in Battersea, without them bombarding passers-by with slates. To this day, Larry is relieved that he was able to negotiate the release of everyone held hostage by Barry in the school unit. The Parks Department should not have left an axe unattended within sight of the building, and had Barry not been so amenable, the outcome could have been a good deal worse. (Thanks, Baz. What fun we had! Sorry to hear you were done last year for kidnapping that Assistant Governor on D Wing.) During Larry’s subsequent career, as a university researcher on alcohol and drug problems, he wrote Tobacco Battered, a BBC Radio 4 feature, and over fifty journal articles, academic books and book chapters. He was appointed Reader in Addiction Studies at the University of Hull, long a centre of excellence in problem drinking, before retiring to the East Yorkshire countryside to make cider and write fiction. Glimpses of a Floating World is his first novel.
	The War Journal of Lila Smith	by Irving Warner Aug. 10, 2009	$9.99	85533 words	Sample 10%
	Author bio: Irving Warner was born in Modesto, California in 1941. He moved to Alaska in 1964 where he stayed until 1996. During that time he worked in fisheries research, with a brief tenure in sea bird studies. Switching careers at the age of 40, he moved into community college teaching, teaching at Kodiak College, University of Alaska, Anchorage system, until 1996 when he took early retirement and took up full time writing. He moved to Washington state in 1996 and then on to Hawaii. He has since moved back to Washington. In 2002, his first novel Wagner, Descending: The Wrath of the Salmon Queen was published by Pleasure Boat Studio, as was the 2007 historical novel The War Journal of Lila Ann Smith.
	Celluloid Cowboy	by Scott C Rogers Aug. 10, 2009	$1.99	38669 words	Sample 15%
	Author bio: Scott C. Rogers is an American poet and writer. He co-runs Black Coffee Press, a small press in Detroit with Thomas Michael. Celluloid Cowboy is his first novel. His second, entitled Love Like A Molotov Cocktail To The Chest, is forthcoming in early 2010.
	Songs From the Other Side of The Wall	by Dan Holloway Aug. 11, 2009	$2.99	75465 words	Sample 20%
	Author bio: Member of the Year Zero Writers collective; organiser of the Free-e-day Festival; author of literary fiction; presenter of cultural studies papers; blogger; in search of a twenty-fifth hour in the day.
	The Woman Who Wrote King Lear and other stories	by Louis Phillips Aug. 13, 2009	$9.99	62589 words	Sample 10%
	Author bio: Louis Phillips, a widely published poet, playwright, and short story writer has written some 35 books for children and adults. Among his works are: two collections of short stories - A Dream of Countries Where No One Dare Live (SMU Press) and The Bus to the Moon (Fort Schuyler Press; Hot Corner, a collection of his baseball writings, and R. I. P. ( a sequence of poems about Rip Van Winkle) from Livingston Press; The Envoi Messages, a full-length play (Broadway Play Publishers). His books for children include The Man Who Stole the Atlantic Ocean (Prentice Hall & Camelot Books), The Million Dollar Potato (Simon and Schuster), and How to Wrestle an Alligator (Avon). His sequence of poems - The Time, The Hour, The Solitariness of the Place - was the co-winner in the Swallow's Tale Press competition (l984). Among his published books of poems are The Krazy Kat Rag (Light Reprint Press), Bulkington (Hollow Spring Press), The Time, The Hour, The Solitariness of the Place (Swallow's Tale Press), Celebrations & Bewilderments (Fragments Press), In the Field of Broken Hearts, and Into the Well of Knowingness. (Prologue Press). His most recent book is The Audience Book of Theatre Quotations (World Audience, Inc.). He teaches at the School of Visual Arts in NYC.
	La savante devait dominer	by Berger Rond Aug. 17, 2009	$9.10	41803 words	Sample 30%
	Author bio: Enfant, j'écrivais des histoires. Je voulais notamment écrire une trilogie sur les conquêtes militaires de l'Irak (ce tout petit pays engloutissait même les États-Unis dans le dernier tome). Finalement, l'idée s'est arrêtée à l'étape du concept. J'étais un peu plus persévérant quant aux jeux de société. La plupart n'étaient cependant que des variations de Monopoly. Une revue imaginaire n'était publiée que pour moi et elle incluait des équations mathématiques impossibles. Finalement, je me suis dit qu'il fallait tout de même penser aux autres un tout petit peu alors j'ai décidé que plus tard j'allais devenir un inventeur. Peu habile de mes mains et désintéressé par les sciences et les études, j'ai passé mon adolescence dans la musique. Que de soirées passées dans le sous-sol en enfant solitaire de parents travaillant souvent le soir et à l'extérieur! Films visionnés en boucles et quête insoluble du parfait jeu de rôles pour lequel je n'avais pas la patience et la discipline nécessaires. Finalement, la musique l'a emporté sur tout. Vers mes 18 ans, l'idée de joindre un groupe rock ne m'avait pas encore effleuré l'esprit et cela n'allait pas être le cas plus tard ; peut-être que j'ai manqué quelque chose d'important ou non. Par contre, les logiciels informatiques m'ont rapidement fascinés ; je remercie mon frère informaticien pour cette initiation. En l'espace de cinq ans, j'ai progressivement développé une méthode de composition personnelle. À 29 ans, j'ai déjà composé cinq albums très complexes d'une chanson que je n'ose plus nommer pour ne pas tomber dans l'erreur de me peinturer dans un coin. Disons que ma chanson est tout sauf ce que je l'ai qualifiée par le passé. Maintenant, je travaille également depuis quelques années sur des création écrites, encore sans égo et en espérant ne pas en développer un trop rapidement. 'Optimisme Irrational' est un projet de court métrage très divertissant que j'espère mener à terme avec mon collaborateur Christian Lalumière. 'La savante devait dominer' est de loin le texte sur lequel j'ai passé le plus de temps et qui contient mes idées écrites les mieux structurées. Je crois qu'il faut lire la logique interne de l'oeuvre et non l'absence de morale et de respect pour les politesses. Autrement, c'est un texte qui devient rapidement très violent sur le plan psychologique. J'espère l'avoir écrit sans prétention. Il est possible aussi que ce soit un texte difficile à lire et sans compassion. Mais, certains aiment ça !
	Le fantôme du quai d'en face	by Guy Alexandre Sounda Aug. 18, 2009	$7.98	24415 words	Sample 30%
	Author bio: Guy Alexandre Sounda est né au Congo Brazzaville. Il a créé son association, la compagnie du Théâtre Poème, en juin 1997 à Pointe-Noire. Il travaille autour de 3 registres (le drame, le poème, le conte) pour construire un langage qui au plus près résume ses idées-forces et induit une triple perspective : celle du poète dont le regard va de l'intérieur à l'extérieur des choses, celle du comédien dont l'expression co-verbale évoque le monde dans sa fluidité et sa complexité, puis celle du conteur dont la parole éclaire nos zones d'ombres. On l'a souvent qualifié de rêveur, rebelle, révolté, subversif. Ce sont là des indications qui justifient plutôt ses expériences : il a été formé aux techniques du jeu théâtral entre 1986 et 1992, initié au chant, au mime, à la danse, au conte, aux arts clownesques et à l'écriture et à croisé des personnalités généreuses dont l'apport a déterminé le reste du chemin. De Brazzaville à Rome, en passant par Ouagadougou, Bienne, Paris et Dakar, il a travaillé avec et ou sous la direction d'artistes, passeurs de mots et de rêves : Jean Claude Loukalamou, Nicolas Bissi, Gilles Butin, Lionel Pouliquen, Georges Mboussi, Guy Stanislas Matingou, Danièle Rétif, Paul Milongo, Clémentine Magiera, Anna Wolf, Annet Hernechen, Françoise Danjoux. Et aussi Roch Banzouzi, Victor Touakanda, Charles Baloukou, Eric Mampouya, Loredana Mauro, Nino Del'angelo, Lamine Ndiaye, Bernard Sallé, Gilles Boyer, Nzey Van Musala, Jonas Dian Daha Labou, Sylvain Massé, Jean Louis Ouakabaka, Roch Baloukou, Arthur Batouméni, Serge Francis Miankoulou. Des noms, mais surtout une colonne de fraternités somptueuses qui témoignent de fond en comble le parcours atypique d'un artiste miné par l'aventure intérieure. Il a dirigé de nombreux chantiers sur les travaux de Bernard Dors, Artaud, Brecht, Stanislavski, Grotowski, Tchekhov, Brook, et monté une dizaine de créations personnelles. Les plus connues : « l'Ile des enfants perdus, Y a t-il une âme dans mon vers ». Au cinéma, 2 rôles lui ont été confiés : le 1er avec « L'épreuve du feu » réalisé à en 1992 par Camille Mouyéké, et le 2e avec « Les nuits d'Antoine » par Olivier Michaux et Jean-Pierre Makosso en 1997. Comme conteur, il a raconté dans le réseau éducatif, les hôpitaux, les prisons, les veillées pour tous les ages, mêlant contes d'ici et d'ailleurs, s'inspirant des scènes du quotidien, des situations les plus banales. À Pointe-Noire, entre 1993 et 2001, il a enseigné le Français et le théâtre au lycée. De cette expérience sont nées les Journées culturelles de et pour l'enfance et la jeunesse, un festival que le Ministère de la jeunesse a soutenu. De juillet 2002 à juin 2004, Guy Alexandre Sounda a tourné dans plusieurs pays d'Afrique de l'Ouest (Bénin, Burkina Faso, Niger, Mali, Togo) avant de s'installer pendant 2 ans au Sénégal dans le cadre d'une résidence-implantation qui a débouché sur un festival, le chantier international de théâtre jeune public à Kaolack dont la 3e édition aura lieu en novembre 2009 à Saint Louis. Guy Alexandre Sounda réside actuellement en Italie.
	Clear Heart	by Joe Cottonwood Aug. 19, 2009	$1.99	138554 words	Sample 20%
	Author bio: Joe Cottonwood is the author of four award-winning novels for children including the best-selling Quake! His novels for adults include Famous Potatoes and Clear Heart. He has published a book of poetry, and he has written numerous songs. He has worked as a plumber, electrician, and carpenter and currently makes his living as a building contractor. His home is in La Honda, a small town in the mountains of California.
	The Twenty Dollar Bill	by Elmore Hammes Sep. 06, 2009	$2.99	54081 words	Sample 20%
	Author bio: Elmore Hammes is an independent author who has published several novels in a variety of genres. His short stories have been published online in Espresso Fiction and joyful!, and have appeared in the literary journal The First Line and the national Catholic magazine St. Anthony Messenger. When not writing or reading, he performs consulting services for other authors, including editing, formatting manuscripts and creation of Kindle or other e-book editions.
	The Silent Heart Beats	by Vince Dickinson Sep. 07, 2009	$0.99	74851 words	Sample 30%
	Author bio: Vince Dickinson is an author, songwriter, salsa-maker, university admissions advisor, husband, and father. He is finishing up the last little details on his second novel, Virtual Silence. He lives near Portland, Oregon, with his beautiful wife, their six kids, a chihuahua, a rabbit, and myriads of felines. His wife's garden produces the most amazing tomatoes and peppers for his homemade salsa (not available in any stores).
	Michelangelo's Shoulder	by John Moncure Wetterau Sep. 08, 2009	$0.99	48080 words	Sample 50%
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	Illyria	by Thomas F. Cook Sep. 12, 2009	$0.99	105790 words	Sample 25%
	Author bio: Thomas F. Cook was born in 1959 in northern Ohio. In 1980 he moved to New York City. He is an alumna of New York University. In addition to writing numerous plays and screenplays, he has worked variously as a telephone poller, knife salesman, typist and computer geek. He lives in Greenwich Village.
	The Nine Lives of Clemenza	by Holly Christine Sep. 13, 2009	$0.99	36736 words	Sample 20%
	Author bio: Holly Christine is the author of The Nine Lives of Clemenza and Tuesday Tells it Slant. She resides in Pittsburgh and is co-creator of the Pittsburgh South Writers Group.
	The Skinny: Adventures of America's First Bulimic	by Rayni Joan Sep. 19, 2009	$4.95	154572 words	Sample 20%
	Author bio: Rayni Joan grew up as Roberta Joan Weintraub in Newburgh, New York during the 1940’s and 50’s. During a critical period in the early 1970s, she was part of the Liberation News Service collective, where for $35 and 10 free meals per week, she researched and wrote news and feature articles. It was during this period that her ground-breaking feature article, “Women, Fat of the Land” appeared widely throughout the U.S. It was June, 1970, and Ms. Joan became the first public confessor to the then unheard of habit of binging and purging, later diagnosed in the 1980s as bulimia. Although the word and the fact of “bulimia” were largely unknown at the time, her compelling story containing her stunning confession was picked up by and published on the front pages of dozens of alternative weekly newspapers, where it struck a chord with more than a million women readers – a chord that resonates to this day. Although her public confession was a major turning point in her life, it nevertheless took Ms. Joan seven more years to kick the habit. Today, she shares her wisdom and experience in a tranquil setting with a select few Ms. Joan is now Director of the Center for Increased Consciousness, and lives near the beach in Santa Monica, California, with her husband, writer Robert Moskowitz. An ordained Interfaith Minister, she enjoys officiating at weddings and other life passages. She has three grown sons, wonderful daughters-in-law, and two gorgeous granddaughters.
	Night of the Tustumena	by Arne Bue Sep. 23, 2009	$4.95	74574 words	Sample 8%
	Author bio: Arne Bue is a lifelong Alaskan, living in Anchorage, Alaska, with his wife, Shirley Bue, the author of Humble Snyder. Arne Bue is the author of The Lid, Baxter Bog Interlude, Night of the Tustumena and Banto Carbon and the Prehistoric Proboscis. http://home.gci.net/~bue/index.html
	Rehearsal: The Highest Aim	by LK Hunsaker Sep. 23, 2009	$4.95	274167 words	Sample 2%
	Author bio: ~ Literary Romance With An Artsy Twist ~ LK Hunsaker is the author of a string of novels centered around the arts and societal issues, combined with strong romantic elements. As spouse of a decorated career soldier, she traveled widely, moved several times, and held down the home front. She was honored with meeting some of Washington D.C.'s top names and a prized possession is her first novel signed by a former first lady. Having received inspiration and instruction from her family of recognized artists, Hunsaker also holds arts and psychology degrees heavy with English and creative writing emphasis. She is now settled in western Pennsylvania with her husband and two children. LK has been called one of the "great storytellers" with "brilliant writing" by reviewers and peers, and has won several peer awards and commendations. Her short stories, poems, reviews, and articles have been published in literary ezines and print magazines.
	Nachtstürm Castle: A Gothic Austen Novel	by Emily C.A. Snyder Sep. 23, 2009	$2.99	45448 words	Sample 50%
	Author bio: Emily C. A. Snyder has been inventing stories since she was old enough to babble, and writing them down since she was old enough to dictate. A prolific writer, Snyder is also the author of The Twelve Kingdoms series from Arx Publishing, LLC which includes Niamh and the Hermit and Charming the Moon, as well as several plays, including Wallace’s Will from Playscripts, Inc. Snyder holds an MA in Theatre Education from Emerson College, Boston, MA and a BA in Literature and Drama from Franciscan University of Steubenville, OH. When not writing, Emily can most often be seen teaching or directing Shakespeare. And when not doing that, chances are she’s driving aimlessly in her car, singing at the top of her lungs.
	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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