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Touring the blogosphere this month is fantasy author Star Davis, whose debut novel, BLOOD FORSAKEN, is a pre-quel to her new Divica series. Everyone who comments under this post will receive a PDF sample of the first three chapters of Blood Forsaken. Just contact her directly at info@stardavies.com and let her know you’re interested. Those [...]

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The Book:
Murder is no respecter of persons…
Richard Hayward’s promotion and move from the big city life to the sleepy town of Burshill, England, has been shattered. Sir John Bury needs a murder solved.
The results of Richard’s investigation cause a ruckus when several ladies of a particular ‘class’ become part of the inquiry. As the [...]

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Mrs. Lieutenant: A Sharon Gold Novel
by Phyllis Zimbler Miller
Women’s Fiction
They had their whole lives to look forward to – if only their husbands could survive Vietnam. In the spring of 1970 – right after the Kent State National Guard shootings and President Nixon’s two-month incursion into Cambodia – four newly married young women come together [...]

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Rosemary Jones works for an opera company (writing, not singing) and has been a writer for several different types of community newspapers and trade magazines, including a stint on a Chinese-language newspaper and writing for a maritime magazine. Her nonfiction books include a series on book collecting published by Schroeder and her short stories have [...]

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The Book:
This is the Book Every Travel Writer Has Waited For! Travel writing may be an art-but putting together a guidebook is a craft! Author Barbara Hudgins offers a minimum of hype and a maximum of help for anyone who has ever dreamed of putting their travel lore into prose.
Crafting the Travel Guidebook shows the [...]

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On the night their mother drowns trying to ride out a storm in a sailboat, sisters Marnie and Diana Maitland discover there is more than one kind of death. There is the death of innocence, of love, and of hope. Each sister harbors a secret about what really happened that night—secrets that will erode their [...]

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Joan Upton Hall taught English for twenty-eight years. During that career, she was editor and cartoonist for a teacher newsletter, The RRAFT Report, which won state and national awards. Now a full-time freelance writer, she instructs creative writing classes, speaks at writers’ conferences, is the North Texas representative for ByLine magazine, and serves for the [...]

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The Author:
“Fascinated by the supernatural from an early age, I started writing the first sentences of my novel Darksome Thirst during lulls in activity as a second-shift computer operator many years ago.
Unable to devote myself full-time to my writing because of work and pursuing my Bachelor’s degree at night, I shelved the novel until 1999. [...]

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The Author:
“Life is our daily teacher. One lesson begets another and then another.
“Once-upon-a-time life kicked me off my writer’s path and led me to pursue a more practical profession. My childhood dream of becoming a journalist was silenced.
“Years later, I became a single parent, not by choice but by necessity, and my most trustworthy [...]

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The Author
Candis C. Coffee grew up in West Texas, where her family has lived since 1848, when they immigrated from Ireland. The house in Mariposa is based on the 150-year-old home of her grandparents on the banks of the Concho River in San Angelo.
Candis spent nearly fifteen years in Santa Monica, California, where she was [...]

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