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	The Elves of Lincoln High	by Rebecca Shelley Jan. 27, 2012	$4.99	89673 words	Sample 30%
	Author bio: Rebecca Shelley writes a wide variety of books—everything from picture books to spy thrillers. She especially likes to write about fantasy creatures such as dragons and fairies. Her children’s books are written under the Rebecca Shelley name. Her thrillers and other books for adults are written under the R. L. Tyler pen name. She also has two books out under the R. D. Henham pen name—Red Dragon Codex and Brass Dragon Codex.
	Last Plane out of Paris - Free Preview: The First 12 Chapters	by Paul Moxham Jan. 26, 2012	Free!	29849 words	Read a sample
	Author bio: Paul Moxham hails from Australia. He completed Year 12 in High School with high scores in English. After doing a stint at University he left to pursue writing full time. He has written two novels with a third to be published in Jan 2012. The first, The Mystery of Smugglers Cove is a childrens adventure book that is set in 1950's Britain and set in the style of Enid Blyton's Famous Five series. His second book, The Florida Chase, a young adult novel, is an action packed novel that is along the lines of The Hardy Boys. He has also written a number of screenplays which led to him being signed to a Los Angeles based manager early in 2011. One of his scripts, Blizzard, won the Gold Prize Award at the 2011 PAGE AWARDS
	Last Plane out of Paris	by Paul Moxham Jan. 26, 2012	$9.99	81284 words	Sample 20%
	Author bio: Paul Moxham hails from Australia. He completed Year 12 in High School with high scores in English. After doing a stint at University he left to pursue writing full time. He has written two novels with a third to be published in Jan 2012. The first, The Mystery of Smugglers Cove is a childrens adventure book that is set in 1950's Britain and set in the style of Enid Blyton's Famous Five series. His second book, The Florida Chase, a young adult novel, is an action packed novel that is along the lines of The Hardy Boys. He has also written a number of screenplays which led to him being signed to a Los Angeles based manager early in 2011. One of his scripts, Blizzard, won the Gold Prize Award at the 2011 PAGE AWARDS
	Kidnapped For Army Duty	by Monica P Jan. 19, 2012	$1.00	1238 words	Sample 15%
	Author bio: This author has been writing for around thirteen years. She began with poetry, and expanded into the field of creative writing. Despite the fact that creative writing is her main focus, she has also expanded into non-fiction writing.
	Handoff	by Dean Murray Nov. 22, 2011	$0.99	6073 words	Sample 20%
	Author bio: Dean started reading seriously in the second grade due to a competition and has spent most of the subsequent three decades lost in other people's worlds. After reading several local libraries more or less dry of sci-fi and fantasy, he started spending more time wandering around worlds of his own creation to avoid the boredom of the 'real' world. Things worsened, or improved depending on your point of view, when he first started experimenting with writing while finishing up his accounting degree. These days Dean has a wonderful wife and daughter to keep him rather more grounded, but the idea of bringing others along with him as he meets interesting new people in universes nobody else has ever seen tends to drag him back to his computer on a fairly regular basis.
	The Beginning in the End (Prologue Book)	by P.L Jolls Nov. 19, 2011	$0.99	776 words	Sample 20%
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	Robin and the Rubicelle Fusiliers	by William Forde Oct. 08, 2011	$5.00	48670 words	Sample 20%
	Author bio: William Forde was born in Ireland and currently lives in Haworth, West Yorkshire, England. He is the father of five children and the author of 28 published books and a musical play. He is unique in the field of contemporary children's authors through the challenging emotional issues and story themes he addresses, preferring to focus upon those emotions that children find most difficult to appropriately express. One of West Yorkshire's most popular children's authors, his books have been publicly read in over 2,000 Yorkshire school assemblies by over 800 famous names and celebrities from the realms of Royalty, Film, Stage, Screen, Politics, Church, Sport, etc. The late Princess Diana used to read his earlier books to her then young children, William and Harry and Nelson Mandela once telephoned him to praise an African story book he had written. Others who have supported his works have included three Princesses, three Prime Ministers, two Presidents and numerous Bishops of the realm.A former Chief Inspector of Schools for OFSTED described his writing to the press as 'High quality literature.' Forever at the forefront of change, at the age of 18 years, William became the youngest Youth Leader and Trade Union Shop Steward in Great Britain. In 1971, he founded Anger Management in Great Britain and freely gave his courses to the world. Within the next two years, Anger Management courses had mushroomed across the English-speaking world. During the mid-70's, he introduced Relaxation Training into H.M. Prisons and between 1970 and 1995, he worked in West Yorkshire as a Probation Officer specialising in Relaxation Training, Anger Management, Stress Management and Assertive Training Group Work. He retired early on the grounds of ill health in 1995 to further his writing career, which witnessed him working with the Minister of Youth and Culture in Jamaica to establish a trans-Atlantic pen-pal project between 30 primary schools in Falmouth, Jamaica and 30 primary schools in Yorkshire. William was awarded the MBE in the New Year's Honours List of 1995 for his services to West Yorkshire. He has never sought to materially profit from the publication of his books and has allowed all profit from their sales (approx £200,000) to be given to charity.
	The Tale of A Slave Named Ranon Bansur	by Alexander Deluigi Sep. 29, 2011	Free!	11199 words	Read a sample
	Author bio: I have done a lot of works since I was 12. I been working on making some of my D&D scenarios come true in my writing. I have pre-typed 10 Novels which need to be re-typed again. And i have 3 short novels on the way with at least 6 chapters. Im a furry artist and writer. Im also pre working on a webcomic to as well which is another side story of my main sequence novels. The short novels are side stories as well.
	Just Another Vicious Circle	by Dianna Hardy Sep. 20, 2011	Free!	4390 words	Read a sample
	Author bio: Dianna Hardy is a UK-based, multi-genre author of paranormal things, dark things, poetic things, sexy things, taboo things, and sometimes funny things. She mostly writes about witches, demons and angels. Scorpio, hermit, loves nature, animals, walking barefoot, the woods after rain, and Summer days. If you have to put her in the genre box, she writes about what you may consider to be "the paranormal", including paranormal romance, urban fantasy, gothic poetry and occult books.
	The Social War	by Monica P Aug. 21, 2011	$1.00	1155 words	Sample 15%
	Author bio: This author has been writing for around thirteen years. She began with poetry, and expanded into the field of creative writing. Despite the fact that creative writing is her main focus, she has also expanded into non-fiction writing.
	American Girl	by Tony Talbot June 23, 2011	$1.99	50696 words	Sample 20%
	Author bio: Tony Talbot was born in Leicester in 1972. He's survived various Prime Ministers, deely-boppers and learning to ride a bicycle at the age of 30. He lives in rural Leicestershire with an American wife he met online and a cockatiel.
	Pólemos	by Bri Herter June 06, 2011	$0.99	8322 words	Sample 20%
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	The Neutral Zone	by Courtney Wyant June 04, 2011	Free!	3937 words	Read a sample
	Author bio: Well I have been writing since I was 11 and now im almost 13. I love to write and I think I have talent but I write my best in Historical Times like 1700s and 1600s . Modern Day I can Not write or at least not well. And the thing is I have never read any historical Fiction st all. All I have came close to is simular to fairy tales like Ella Enchanted and Fairest. things simular to that. I have grown up in the SOuth with a Knack for country music and reading
	CodeName: Snake	by MM Rumberg May 10, 2011	$3.99	90957 words	Sample 20%
	Author bio: Mort is a retired U.S. Air Force Officer who served as a Rescue and Survival technician teaching escape and evasion and survival techniques to air crew members; survived a tour of duty in Vietnam and barely survived two tours in the Pentagon as a computer systems action officer. Mort was also an information technology consultant and a manager with a large international health care insurance company. He earned a Doctorate in Education at The Catholic University of America, received his Masters degree from National College of Education, and his Bachelor of Science degree from Arizona State University. He has been an adjunct professor of computer sciences for several universities in the Washington, DC area. For 10 years, Mort and his wife, Susan, lived aboard "Irish Gold," a motor yacht berthed on the Potomac River. Mort was a volunteer with the Alexandria, Virginia Police Department and the Animal Welfare League of Alexandria. Mort’s novel, CodeName: Snake, The Evil We Kill, a novel of revenge that takes place during WWII, won third prize in a national competition, and many of his short stories have won awards in national competitions. Now residing in Gold River, California, with their American Eskimo dogs, Yuki and Kori, he is busy working on several new novels and lots of short stories. His hobbies include magic, painting, genealogy and traveling.
	Fire Fight	by Lucas Moehlenbrock April 25, 2011	$0.99	810 words	Sample 20%
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	Hardly a Hero	by Michael Young March 21, 2011	$5.99	50793 words	Sample 5%
	Author bio: Michael Thomas Young, author Michael Thomas Young is an American story teller. He enjoys writing about the American West but has also written Political Satire and Biographical stories. He is currently working on his first Sci-Fi thriller. Born in Denver Colorado in 1951, Young is a direct descendent of the pioneers that settled the Southwest. Story telling was a main source of entertainment that was passed on by his family and planted in him, the seed of desire to be a story teller From the time he was eight years old he would entertain his two sisters, Sherree and Toni with stories he would make up on the spot. The stories pleased his sisters so that soon it became a nightly ritual just before bed time. By the time he was eleven Young had built a hiding place in the attic of his parents house where he spent many hours reading and writing stories. One summer night he was found out by his father who at first was upset that his son was using the attic but when he discovered some of the stories he had written he changed his mind and encourage his son to continue to write, but to do it in his room and not the attic. Like many writers Young had found out at an early age that the environment where one writes can influence the writers work. Young found that he did better when he was in an environment where he was alone and not disturbed. He let his imagination run wild and day dream and then wrote about his dreams and thoughts. At eighteen Young had finished high school and entered college but after his first semester he felt the need to get away from his home town and soon fell in with a friend who persuaded him that a life of adventure lay ahead of them and all they need do was to join the military and then the world would open up to them. This led to his entry into the US Air Force. The world did open up to him as he was sent to Vietnam during 1972 during the Easter Offensive by the NVA. After his discharge from the military he lived in Wyoming and fell in love with the mid west. He worked with horses and held a job at a grain elevator delivering grain and hay to local ranches. During his travels he lived in several states including Oregon, Wyoming, Colorado, Nebraska, and California. He sttled in California and continued his education and took work in communications and finally retail management. All the time he continued to keep story telling as part of his life and after he retired from the retail world he wrote his first novel . Hardly a Hero which chronicled his service in the military. He was first published in “La Herencia”2008
	Dragon's Fury - World War against America and the West - Volume III	by Jeff Head Feb. 05, 2011	$3.99	239418 words	Sample 10%
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	Dragon's Fury - World War against America and the West - Volume II	by Jeff Head Jan. 19, 2011	$3.99	280894 words	Sample 10%
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	Dragon's Fury - World War against America and the West - Volume I	by Jeff Head Jan. 14, 2011	$3.99	166658 words	Sample 10%
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	Eagles of Peenemunde	by Vincent Formosa Jan. 02, 2011	$3.99	99872 words	Sample 8%
	Author bio: Vincent Formosa is a writer who specializes in historical military fiction. Having grown up in the North of England, he studied at Cardiff University attaining a degree in Ancient History. He now lives in West Yorkshire where he works as a civil servant.
	Sandstorm	by Ted Simmons Sep. 24, 2010	$6.00	40297 words	Sample 30%
	Author bio: Ted spent most of his career as a technology manager for a major oil company, mostly in international producing operations. This gave him the opportunity to live and travel in some of the world’s most fascinating places. He developed a keen interest in the cultures and beliefs of other peoples, and believes many Americans would benefit from some of his insights. He lived in the jungles of Sumatra, the deserts of Kuwait, and traveled extensively in such far-flung places as China, Egypt, Vietnam, and the various countries in the Middle East (Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan, Turkmenistan). During the 1980s, Ted and his family lived in the suburbs of London, and he worked in a downtown office building just a few blocks from a horrendous act of terrorism perpetrated by the Irish Republican Army. This experience was the inspiration for the actions and characters in his novel Windstorm, young and old. As in all his stories, the main characters, Carter Chamberlain and Fiona McKenna, are beset with troubles at multiple levels, some external and some that they carry around in their own hearts.
	Postcards From Berlin	by Ryan Spier June 27, 2010	$1.99	58071 words	Sample 30%
	Author bio: I draw inspiration from my love of rock music, interests in modern history and appreciation of everything around me. Or maybe I was influenced by growing up watching Clint Eastwood and Christopher Lee films. Or maybe reading Stephen King from an early age that influenced me. I have written three novels and will hopefully one day get all three published. I am a member of Fanstory.com and Writelink and always get good reviews for my novels and short stories. I write stories about horror, war, intrigue, suspense, drama, action, suspense, crime, revenge and try to include hope in everything I write. When I’m not writing I’m practicing karate, listening to music, attending gigs, going to the theatre and cinema, jogging and annoying the neighbours.
	A Broken Hallelujah: Jim Tanner’s Private War	by Kevin Guest June 19, 2010	$2.99	55441 words	Sample 30%
	Author bio: Kevin M. Guest was born July 15, 1977. His passion for story telling often led him to day dreaming during school. In his off time he would spend hours writing short stories. In October you can find him working the barbeque booth at Reindeer Manor. He resides in Arlington, TX, with his lovely wife Tammi and their son, Chris.