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	Words With Jam - February 2012	by Danny Gillan Feb. 09, 2012	$1.99	45330 words	Sample 20%
	Author bio: As a youth, my main ambition was to find success as a musician. I've been playing the guitar since I was six, and, in my teens and twenties, played in and wrote songs for a number of bands in and around Glasgow, with varying degrees of failure. As I grew older, and every inch lost to my hairline resulted in two being added to my waistline, I came to realise that rock godhood was no longer a viable option, but it has always stuck with me how much I enjoyed the writing process. At the same time as seeking out failure and misery in the music world I have had a couple of other careers. Upon dropping out of university for a record third time (my mother is so proud), I got my first pub job. For five or six years I spent pretty much all of my waking hours pulling, and drinking, pints in several of Glasgow's finest licensed premises. Pub work can be a great life, as long as you don't mind the terrible wages and complete lack of career prospects, but eventually I found myself inexplicably hankering after something a bit more fulfilling. Through a casual acquaintance I was introduced to the world of social care, more specifically that of supporting adults with learning disabilities and/or mental health problems. I spent the next eight years working in this field, starting as a voluntary music tutor and rising to the dizzying heights of senior management with a large voluntary organisation operating in the West of Scotland. Eventually, however, constant battles with social workers about funding, and support staff about the importance of turning up for a shift, started to get to me. Eight years ago I handed in my notice and went back to pulling pints, at least initially. I'd managed, through blatant nepotism (my sister was the manager), to get a job in a posh Glasgow hotel. For the first year or so I happily reacquainted myself with Glasgow's drinking culture, but it didn't take them long to notice I was relatively good with unimportant things like words and numbers, and I found myself charged with thankless tasks such as accounts, payrolls and answering complaint letters. This was not fun, believe me. I soon tired of all that and, in 2006, returned to social care. Nepotism played its part once again, when a former manager called me with a job offer. The hours are awful and the money's rubbish, but apart from that I'm quite enjoying it. Anyway, back to writing. I had a couple of false starts. I wrote some brilliant opening chapters, establishing characters, locations and relationships. The problem was that I could never get past that first chapter. It soon became apparent that plot, of all things, was something of a prerequisite. This threw me for a while. And then I had an idea. What would happen if a failed musician (okay yes, me) became depressed (don't ask) and killed himself, then got famous? That could be a plot. From that initial idea I sketched out a plot revolving around the friends and family of the musician in question, and found I was able to explore a diverse set of themes including social care, music, familial relationships, friendship and mental health issues, hopefully with a decent dose of humour and sensitivity. Will You Love Me Tomorrow is the end result of many subsequent months of toil and frustration, and was selected as the Scottish Region winner of the Undiscovered Authors 2007 competition. The book was published by Discovered Authors in October 2008. Since completing the book I have written a number of short stories, something I hadn't attempted before. I've found this an excellent way to practice and polish my writing, as well as an opportunity to experiment with style, tense, point of view etc. One of my short stories is due for publication in a future edition of Chapman magazine and another has recently been accepted by Bridge House Publishing. Another appears in an anthology produced by the Arts Council funded writers' site YouWriteOn.com, and a fourth is due to appear later this year in Short Fuses, and anthology produced and published by the Bookshed, an online writing and publishing community. I have now completed my second novel, Scratch. It tells the tale of Jim Cooper, a Glaswegian thirty-something office worker who decides to leave his job, sell his flat, pay off his debts and start his adult life again from scratch. Maybe this time he can do it properly and get (or, rather, keep) the girl. The fact that the girl is happily married and lives in another country, and her Bruce Lee obsessed father seems to want to be Jim's new best friend are only the beginning of his troubles. Scratch is an un-sanitised, emotionally honest and hilariously candid story about what it is to grow up as opposed to simply change age, as told by a man who doesn't know what any of those words mean.
	Beginning eBook Writing	by Frank Tudor Feb. 06, 2012	$2.99	3276 words	Sample 10%
	Author bio: Frank Tudor is oldest of three children, second generation American, and first to go to college to get a B.A. and M.A. in his family. He is a writer, programmer, and start-up specialist. He is married with three children and lives in a small town in Nebraska. When time allows he enjoys fishing or rock hounding in Wyoming, South Dakota, Montana or Idaho with his wife and kids.
	PHP 2011 Juryrapporten	by PaulHarland Prijs Feb. 04, 2012	$4.99	74252 words
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	Writing a Novel That Works	by Sean Daniel Shortwinter Jan. 20, 2012	$0.99	20295 words	Sample 5%
	Author bio: Sean Daniel Shortwinter began asking himself what Heaven would really be like back in 1995...and created a fictional world based on that question soon afterwards. In Heaven, there is infrastructure where people have jobs based on their abilities, such as JHAD (Joint Human Analysis Directorate) where talented signal analysts track murderers for God. And Gandhi opened an all-you-can-eat buffet soon after coming home. All those years of fasting, you see. The side we can't see has rules...all Belgians are sex offenders, the French automatically go to Hell for being - well, French. And Swedes always have a job waiting for them in Heaven when they die. They invented the Volvo, after all. Heaven is a place where God has a three-legged, one-eyed dog named Lucky, and believes that mankind's greatest accomplishments are the Volkswagen Beetle and Tab. On a more somber side, God also believes three things are always worth fighting for - Love, Children and Peace of Mind....and He's bone-cancer serious about the children. Harm a child and you'll find yourself thrown into the Poison Well - the black hole prison in Hell. Count on it. Coming soon: 'Poison Well' and 'She is My anger'
	Step-by-Step How To Create & Publish Your eBook	by Shai S Bitton Jan. 15, 2012	$1.99	4833 words	Sample 15%
	Author bio: I am a Canadian from Toronto, Ontario. Where I've attended University. I have interests in different things and always eager to explore new things. Thus said I've started in the computer field. Where attended college to achieve my Computer Engineering. I've developed in computers for a while. Through out the years I've become interested in Business where I've entered into business school for an M.B.A. and accounting degree. As an Aquarius I am a person of reason and truth. The courses of philosophy in university attracted me to get into Philosophy. Where I've majored in Philosophy. This has opened my mind and thought. Viewing things in many different ways. To reason, analyse, questions and argue on issues. This mind thinking has developed my mind to argue and debate. Which enough said. Lead me to attend in Law School. As a litigator I've had hands on, on many issues and encounters in life. Interesting, appealing rewarding. During these years I've started in one of my sport activities. Scuba Diving. Starting as a diver only in Toronto, Ontario. I've found this to be my favourite passion. Including underwater photography. To make things short I am presently a Open Water Scuba Diver Instructor and Photographer. Simply! getting people to engage in the passion that lead me to drop everything and pursue my unknown passion for the underwater environment.
	Publishing a Book: 101	by Beatrice McClearn Jan. 15, 2012	$0.99	1092 words	Sample 20%
	Author bio: McClearn began writing at age 9 but began her professional career at the age of 26. It was then she was hired to complete freelance projects with various companies throughout the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area. Meanwhile she dedicated the rest of her time writing for blogs such as MindPlay, Confessions of a Fat Girl, and Road to Recovery.
	55 Tips for Authors	by Alice Anderson Jan. 01, 2012	$0.99	2849 words	Sample 20%
	Author bio: Alice Anderson writes romantic suspense and contemporary romance. She lives in the Southeast with her husband, dog and two kitties. When she’s not slaving over her latest novel, she’s hard at work creating designs for other authors and promoting romance to the world through her creation, the CataNetwork. Alice is a member of RWA, Georgia Romance Writers, Fantasy, Futuristic & Paranormal Chapter, CataUniversity, and RWClist. For the last several years Alice put her art background to use creating designs and promotion for authors. She’s created four communities that are popular with readers. And her website for writers has been named one of the Top 101 Websites for Writers by Writer’s Digest. Twice.
	No More Excuses! - Write a Successful E-book Now	by Toby Welch Dec. 30, 2011	$1.99	10878 words	Sample 20%
	Author bio: After living in a dozen countries and earning an accounting degree, Toby Welch followed her dream of becoming a writer. Since penning an article in 2003 on travelling to Saudi Arabia, Toby hasn't stopped writing and has over 200 published print articles to her credit and another 250 online pieces.
	Gregath Company, Incorporated Catalog	by Gregath Publishing Company, Inc. Dec. 19, 2011	Free!	45183 words	Read a sample
	Author bio: A family-run, independent publisher since 1970: Carrie Ann Cook, the fourth generation, became owner/publisher in 2010. Publishing all types of books, their focus is on genealogy and history. Offerering services for hard or soft bound as well as electronic publishing. This includes manuscript (or pre-press) formatting preperation, with limited PR and web services and much more. Customer service is key for their subsidy clients as well as their select royalty ones.
	How to Sell Your Baby: A Quick Guide to Promoting Your Book	by Nandi Berry Dec. 18, 2011	Free!	7612 words	Read a sample
	Author bio: Hi and Welcome! So you want to know about me... well I'm married SAHM (Stay At Home Mom) with two kids. I'm also an ex-erotic author. I was multi-published with several publishers, until I became disillusioned with the industry and I'm a little cynical about it at times. Yet I still have a passion for the written word, especially sexy ones, I created my blog to share that passion. And since I can't get rid of those pesky plot bunnies I dabble with short stories now and then.
	Fake!	by Graham Murray Dec. 17, 2011	Free!	1918 words	Read a sample
	Author bio: As a full-time author, I have what is possibly the best ‘job’ in the world, though I do not see writing as a job. Having been blessed with a vivid and active imagination, I am never short of material around which to build a story and have enough backlog material to last several lifetimes. In any event, storylines are everywhere. Just look around you - wherever you are - and there’s your story! Even a pitch-black room is a story in itself if you have the imagination. A writer without imagination is called a blank page, or ‘writer’s block (which I do not believe even exists). That said, my work tends to include elements of humanity, loss and grief, revenge, retribution, riddles and a plethora other hooks to keep readers turning pages (or hitting ‘Next”). Some of my simple riddles in stories have yet to be solved! (see “The Importance of Looking Right” for an example.) If you’re a ‘skipper’, i.e. you tend to ‘skip’ over blocks of text, then my work is definitely not for you. Very often in my stories, EVERY word is there for a reason, and if you’re a ‘skipper’ you are sure to miss a critical clue or aspect of the story which may render it meaningless to you. Who skips over stories anyway? Why read at all if you’re going to do that? In one of my stories, it is a single punctuation mark that emphasises the point of the story. Although it is a single ‘ . ’, the relevance of that single period runs into several paragraphs. The story in question is “Small Mercies”. All authors include aspects of their own life and personality in their writing. When I read back through some of my material, I often wonder how true this is. If a psychologist were to attempt to compose a ‘profile’ of me based on my writing, I would certainly either be the weirdest or most wanted person on earth! All of my stories contain a moral in one form or another and I like to keep these obscure and make the reader think about what they have just read. I never ‘spell it out’ in any of my stories. If you didn’t ‘get it’, your either skipped over a critical clue or misunderstood a vital part of the story. Read it again – the answer is ALWAYS there! Some people have read my short stories several times before they finally see the clues. And then they find them all! Try “To Be Frank” as a classic example of clues dotted all over the place. Many readers do not get this story, even right at the very end, where I DO spell it out. Amazing. As for my ebook entitled, “Li’l Red in the Hood”, I am always flabbergasted at how many people simply do not get what that story is all about. 99% of readers completely miss the point! Hint: it is British comedy! That may explain a lot . . . I take great pains to include these little titbits in my work, often taking days just to write a few paragraphs to ensure that the words are precisely the way they need to be. For me, writing is like building the innards of a fine Swiss watch. The face (cover) is easy, but the mechanism (story) is what makes it . . . well, Swiss. And therein lies the difference between experienced and new writers. New writers have yet to learn the subtle nuances and tend to blurt out stories, rather than sneakily guiding and misleading their readers and then smacking them with a punchline. My regular readers know that I make my books free for the first 24 hours or so, but then I charge for them. See my various works on the reasons for this. I don’t give away my work other than for promotional reasons. Freebies don’t pay the mortgage! Newbies just don’t get this. Between May and December of 2001, I sold just over 34,000 copies through Smashwords’ Distribution Channels, although I publish mainly on Amazon. 2012 looks like being a better year and hopefully we have now seen the end of all the vampire/werewolf/lesbian tedium and the real, adult fiction can come to the fore once again. I sure do miss it. If you need to contact me for any reason, the information is in any of my books, printed or ebooks. I look forward to hearing from you. I try to answer all my email, although this can take some time as my inbox gets quite hectic at times.
	How to Publish Ebooks	by Vince Jensen Dec. 13, 2011	$1.99	1837 words	Sample 11%
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	Words With JAM - December 2011	by Danny Gillan Dec. 02, 2011	$1.50	50442 words	Sample 20%
	Author bio: As a youth, my main ambition was to find success as a musician. I've been playing the guitar since I was six, and, in my teens and twenties, played in and wrote songs for a number of bands in and around Glasgow, with varying degrees of failure. As I grew older, and every inch lost to my hairline resulted in two being added to my waistline, I came to realise that rock godhood was no longer a viable option, but it has always stuck with me how much I enjoyed the writing process. At the same time as seeking out failure and misery in the music world I have had a couple of other careers. Upon dropping out of university for a record third time (my mother is so proud), I got my first pub job. For five or six years I spent pretty much all of my waking hours pulling, and drinking, pints in several of Glasgow's finest licensed premises. Pub work can be a great life, as long as you don't mind the terrible wages and complete lack of career prospects, but eventually I found myself inexplicably hankering after something a bit more fulfilling. Through a casual acquaintance I was introduced to the world of social care, more specifically that of supporting adults with learning disabilities and/or mental health problems. I spent the next eight years working in this field, starting as a voluntary music tutor and rising to the dizzying heights of senior management with a large voluntary organisation operating in the West of Scotland. Eventually, however, constant battles with social workers about funding, and support staff about the importance of turning up for a shift, started to get to me. Eight years ago I handed in my notice and went back to pulling pints, at least initially. I'd managed, through blatant nepotism (my sister was the manager), to get a job in a posh Glasgow hotel. For the first year or so I happily reacquainted myself with Glasgow's drinking culture, but it didn't take them long to notice I was relatively good with unimportant things like words and numbers, and I found myself charged with thankless tasks such as accounts, payrolls and answering complaint letters. This was not fun, believe me. I soon tired of all that and, in 2006, returned to social care. Nepotism played its part once again, when a former manager called me with a job offer. The hours are awful and the money's rubbish, but apart from that I'm quite enjoying it. Anyway, back to writing. I had a couple of false starts. I wrote some brilliant opening chapters, establishing characters, locations and relationships. The problem was that I could never get past that first chapter. It soon became apparent that plot, of all things, was something of a prerequisite. This threw me for a while. And then I had an idea. What would happen if a failed musician (okay yes, me) became depressed (don't ask) and killed himself, then got famous? That could be a plot. From that initial idea I sketched out a plot revolving around the friends and family of the musician in question, and found I was able to explore a diverse set of themes including social care, music, familial relationships, friendship and mental health issues, hopefully with a decent dose of humour and sensitivity. Will You Love Me Tomorrow is the end result of many subsequent months of toil and frustration, and was selected as the Scottish Region winner of the Undiscovered Authors 2007 competition. The book was published by Discovered Authors in October 2008. Since completing the book I have written a number of short stories, something I hadn't attempted before. I've found this an excellent way to practice and polish my writing, as well as an opportunity to experiment with style, tense, point of view etc. One of my short stories is due for publication in a future edition of Chapman magazine and another has recently been accepted by Bridge House Publishing. Another appears in an anthology produced by the Arts Council funded writers' site YouWriteOn.com, and a fourth is due to appear later this year in Short Fuses, and anthology produced and published by the Bookshed, an online writing and publishing community. I have now completed my second novel, Scratch. It tells the tale of Jim Cooper, a Glaswegian thirty-something office worker who decides to leave his job, sell his flat, pay off his debts and start his adult life again from scratch. Maybe this time he can do it properly and get (or, rather, keep) the girl. The fact that the girl is happily married and lives in another country, and her Bruce Lee obsessed father seems to want to be Jim's new best friend are only the beginning of his troubles. Scratch is an un-sanitised, emotionally honest and hilariously candid story about what it is to grow up as opposed to simply change age, as told by a man who doesn't know what any of those words mean.
	How to Make an Ebook: Using Free Software	by R. L. Copple Nov. 26, 2011	$3.49	41589 words	Sample 20%
	Author bio: R. L. Copple's interest in speculative fiction started at an early age, after reading "Runaway Robot" by Lester Del Ray. Many others followed by Asimov, Bradbury, Heinlein, Tolkien, C. S. Lewis, among others. He has written for religious purposes but started writing speculative fiction in 2005. Infinite Realities marks his first book, a fantasy novella. His second book, first full length novel, Transforming Realities, hit the shelves March 2009. He has been published in several magazines.
	Guida allo Stile Smashwords	by Mark Coker Nov. 26, 2011	Free!	23121 words	Read a sample
	Author bio: I'm Mark, founder of Smashwords. Our mission is simple: we want to create the world's single best ebook publishing and distribution platform for our indie authors, publishers, literary agents and retailers. I'm co-author with my wife of Boob Tube, a novel that explores the wild and wacky world of Hollywood celebrity. I also wrote the Smashwords Book Marketing Guide (how to market any book for free), the Smashwords Style Guide (how to format, produce and publish an ebook) and The 10-Minute PR Checklist (helps entrepreneurs and business managers think more strategically about public relations. It's not written for authors, though some authors find it valuable.). When I'm not writing or working on Smashwords, I enjoy gardening, traveling and hiking tall mountains, the tallest of which has been Mt. Kilimanjaro. Write me at first initial second initial at you know where dot com (though please direct all support inquires to the "comments/questions" link you'll find on any Smashwords page).
	Der Smashwords Formatierungs- Leitfaden	by Mark Coker Nov. 05, 2011	Free!	13193 words	Read a sample
	Author bio: I'm Mark, founder of Smashwords. Our mission is simple: we want to create the world's single best ebook publishing and distribution platform for our indie authors, publishers, literary agents and retailers. I'm co-author with my wife of Boob Tube, a novel that explores the wild and wacky world of Hollywood celebrity. I also wrote the Smashwords Book Marketing Guide (how to market any book for free), the Smashwords Style Guide (how to format, produce and publish an ebook) and The 10-Minute PR Checklist (helps entrepreneurs and business managers think more strategically about public relations. It's not written for authors, though some authors find it valuable.). When I'm not writing or working on Smashwords, I enjoy gardening, traveling and hiking tall mountains, the tallest of which has been Mt. Kilimanjaro. Write me at first initial second initial at you know where dot com (though please direct all support inquires to the "comments/questions" link you'll find on any Smashwords page).
	Story Starters: A Workbook for Writers	by Michelle Richmond Nov. 02, 2011	$5.99	7920 words	Sample 20%
	Author bio: Michelle Richmond is the author of four books of fiction, including the New York Times bestseller The Year of Fog and the award-winning story collection The Girl in the Fall-Away Dress. She has taught creative writing at the University of San Francisco, California College of the Arts, Bowling Green State University, and St. Mary's College of Moraga, and has served as CJ Chair at Notre Dame de Namur University. She lives in Northern California.
	Gun in Cheek : An Affectionate Guide to the Worst in Mystery Fiction	by Bill Pronzini Oct. 21, 2011	$3.99	81828 words	Sample 20%
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	Words With Jam - October 2011	by Danny Gillan Oct. 04, 2011	$1.50	39611 words	Sample 20%
	Author bio: As a youth, my main ambition was to find success as a musician. I've been playing the guitar since I was six, and, in my teens and twenties, played in and wrote songs for a number of bands in and around Glasgow, with varying degrees of failure. As I grew older, and every inch lost to my hairline resulted in two being added to my waistline, I came to realise that rock godhood was no longer a viable option, but it has always stuck with me how much I enjoyed the writing process. At the same time as seeking out failure and misery in the music world I have had a couple of other careers. Upon dropping out of university for a record third time (my mother is so proud), I got my first pub job. For five or six years I spent pretty much all of my waking hours pulling, and drinking, pints in several of Glasgow's finest licensed premises. Pub work can be a great life, as long as you don't mind the terrible wages and complete lack of career prospects, but eventually I found myself inexplicably hankering after something a bit more fulfilling. Through a casual acquaintance I was introduced to the world of social care, more specifically that of supporting adults with learning disabilities and/or mental health problems. I spent the next eight years working in this field, starting as a voluntary music tutor and rising to the dizzying heights of senior management with a large voluntary organisation operating in the West of Scotland. Eventually, however, constant battles with social workers about funding, and support staff about the importance of turning up for a shift, started to get to me. Eight years ago I handed in my notice and went back to pulling pints, at least initially. I'd managed, through blatant nepotism (my sister was the manager), to get a job in a posh Glasgow hotel. For the first year or so I happily reacquainted myself with Glasgow's drinking culture, but it didn't take them long to notice I was relatively good with unimportant things like words and numbers, and I found myself charged with thankless tasks such as accounts, payrolls and answering complaint letters. This was not fun, believe me. I soon tired of all that and, in 2006, returned to social care. Nepotism played its part once again, when a former manager called me with a job offer. The hours are awful and the money's rubbish, but apart from that I'm quite enjoying it. Anyway, back to writing. I had a couple of false starts. I wrote some brilliant opening chapters, establishing characters, locations and relationships. The problem was that I could never get past that first chapter. It soon became apparent that plot, of all things, was something of a prerequisite. This threw me for a while. And then I had an idea. What would happen if a failed musician (okay yes, me) became depressed (don't ask) and killed himself, then got famous? That could be a plot. From that initial idea I sketched out a plot revolving around the friends and family of the musician in question, and found I was able to explore a diverse set of themes including social care, music, familial relationships, friendship and mental health issues, hopefully with a decent dose of humour and sensitivity. Will You Love Me Tomorrow is the end result of many subsequent months of toil and frustration, and was selected as the Scottish Region winner of the Undiscovered Authors 2007 competition. The book was published by Discovered Authors in October 2008. Since completing the book I have written a number of short stories, something I hadn't attempted before. I've found this an excellent way to practice and polish my writing, as well as an opportunity to experiment with style, tense, point of view etc. One of my short stories is due for publication in a future edition of Chapman magazine and another has recently been accepted by Bridge House Publishing. Another appears in an anthology produced by the Arts Council funded writers' site YouWriteOn.com, and a fourth is due to appear later this year in Short Fuses, and anthology produced and published by the Bookshed, an online writing and publishing community. I have now completed my second novel, Scratch. It tells the tale of Jim Cooper, a Glaswegian thirty-something office worker who decides to leave his job, sell his flat, pay off his debts and start his adult life again from scratch. Maybe this time he can do it properly and get (or, rather, keep) the girl. The fact that the girl is happily married and lives in another country, and her Bruce Lee obsessed father seems to want to be Jim's new best friend are only the beginning of his troubles. Scratch is an un-sanitised, emotionally honest and hilariously candid story about what it is to grow up as opposed to simply change age, as told by a man who doesn't know what any of those words mean.
	Lost the Plot? 500 Writing Prompts and How To Use Them	by Adam Maxwell Oct. 03, 2011	$4.49	21094 words	Sample 15%
	Author bio: Adam lives a semi-misanthropic life beside the seaside in Northumberland in the UK. He spends most of his days in the attic and sometimes throws pebbles at passers-by. His first book, Dial M for Monkey was published in 2006 and was a cult success on both sides of the Atlantic. The time Adam doesn't spend writing is spent building websites including his own www.adammaxwell.com where you can also see more of his short stories, flash fiction and listen to his award winning podcast. If you keep coming back here and visiting his website he may consider a cessassion of pebble-throwing but if you wave at him he will not wave back.
	Promo Bytes: Author Newsletter and Goodreads	by Lisa Hughey Sep. 29, 2011	Free!	3170 words	Read a sample
	Author bio: Lisa Hughey has been writing romance since the fourth grade, which was also about the time she began her love affair with spies. Harriet and Nancy Drew and the Hardy Boys later gave way to James Bond and Lara Croft and Jason Bourne. Exploring the complex nature of a profession that requires subterfuge and lies fascinates her. She loves combining her two passions into fiction and hopes you love the results. You can find her on the web at www.lisahughey.com, or the group blog www.pensfatales.com ,on Twitter @lisahughey and on email: lisahughey@pacbell.net She loves to hear from readers! Happy reading!
	Writer's Companion	by Carlos Cortes & Renée Miller Sep. 28, 2011	$14.99	246233 words	Sample 5%
	Author bio: Renée Miller Growing up in Tweed, Ontario—the summer home of Elvis’s ghost—Renée Miller learned early that in a small town, only dreams escape the neighbors’ inquest. So, she dreamed, tasted adventure through books, and created wonderful hidden worlds in her childhood stories. One day, she discovered a little book titled “IT” by Stephen King and writing became her passion. Before losing whatever little common sense she had left, Renée worked as a bartender, waitress, convenience store clerk, gas station attendant, office administrator, lumber yard inventory control something-or-other, coffee-slugging drive-thru grunt, and day-care provider. When the excitement of that daily grind proved too much, she opted out of one asylum and jumped into another: she became a professional writer. Renee now freelances to pay the bills and has published short fiction and hundreds of articles including, but not limited to, how to install vinyl tile and the seven taxonomies of the kingdom of roses. Still residing in Tweed, she lives the glamorous life of a Canadian housewife and underpaid scribe with her three children and a man who has stopped pretending to know what’s going on. Carlos J Cortes Born in Madrid, Spain, Carlos J Cortes grew up on the streets. Over the years he’s worked as an altar boy, musician, waiter, lightning rod installer, site engineer, salesman, dishwasher, night porter, and sundry other high-level executive jobs. Eventually, he settled down as a design engineer specialized in high-level lighting and remote sourcing. But the fun didn’t stop there. His hearing is impaired from being near a bomb at too close quarters; he spent a stretch in an African jail, crossed the Israeli-Egyptian border inside the trunk of a car, and in lean times drove a taxi in Rio de Janeiro. As a consultant on civil and military installations, he has traveled the five continents and written seven texts on lighting, light physics and fiber optics systems. At present, as Chief Technical Officer, he leads the R&D division of a Norwegian group of hi-tech companies, and lives in Barcelona, Spain. A competition bridge player, Carlos has co-authored three books on different aspects of the game. His published fiction includes “Perfect Circle,” now in its second printing, “The Prisoner,” nominated in 2010 for the Philip K. Dick award—both with Random House—and “Ménage à 20,” with Renée Miller and a bunch of talented mongrel writers. His favorite book is Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes, which taught him that a life without dreams is only existence.
	So you want to write a novel	by J.P. Kurzitza Sep. 21, 2011	Free!	5032 words	Read a sample
	Author bio: I spew unfathomable, creative prose specifically tailored for the youthfully inclined and imaginatively arrested. That is to say, I write Urban Fantasy and YA Fiction novels. When I say "YA Fiction," I don't mean "Young Women's Fiction," I mean actual young adult stories that anyone of any age can read and thoroughly enjoy. I'm a procrastinator by nature, so when I took on the responsibility of being a Stay-At-Home-Dad (SAHD), I was forced to "grow up" and learn to keep things organized. I have no doubt that this one quality aided me immensely on my authoring journey, and will continue to do so. In my spare time (when I'm not writing) I enjoy scrubbing toilets, washing dishes, and changing diapers (it's funny what types of activities give you enjoyment once you become a SAHD). I also enjoy all major sports, I'm a huge movie buff, and I like messing around with Photoshop---sure helps with designing book covers. I've got 3 boys, 1 girl, 1 dog, and 1 cat. And 1 wife. Yeah... my life is busy.
	How to Write Hot Sex: Tips from Multi-Published Erotic Romance Authors	by Shoshanna Evers Sep. 16, 2011	$4.99	40408 words	Sample 20%
	Author bio: Bestselling multi-published romance author Shoshanna Evers writes for Ellora’s Cave, The Wild Rose Press, Cleis Press, and Berkley/Jove, as well as becoming an Amazon Erotica Bestseller and #1 Amazon Authorship Bestseller with her self-published books. When she’s not writing hot romance, she’s a stay-at-home mom, a syndicated newspaper advice columnist, and a registered nurse. Her favorite thing to do is cuddle up with a good book…and her husband. Shoshanna lives with her family and three big dogs in Port Saint Lucie, Florida. She welcomes emails from readers and writers at shoshanna.evers @ yahoo. com (no spaces).
	Writing Fight Scenes	by Rayne Hall Sep. 11, 2011	$4.99	40512 words	Sample 30%
	Author bio: Rayne Hall is the author of thirty books in different genres and under different pen names, published by twelve publishers in six countries, translated into several languages. Her short stories have been published in magazines, e-zines and anthologies. After living in Germany, China, Mongolia and Nepal, she has settled in a small Victorian seaside town in southern England. Rayne holds a college degree in publishing management and a masters degree in creative writing. Over three decades, she has worked in the publishing industry as a trainee, investigative journalist, feature writer, magazine editor, production editor, page designer, concept editor for non-fiction book series, anthology editor, editorial consultant and more. Outside publishing, worked as a museum guide, apple picker, tarot reader, adult education teacher, trade fair hostess, translator and belly dancer. Currently, she writes subtle horror and outrageous fantasy fiction and tries to regain the rights to her out-of-print books so she can republish them as e-books. She edits a series of themed short story anthologies (coming soon), and teaches online classes for writers ('Writing Fight Scenes', Writing Scary Scenes','Writing about Magic', 'Edit your Writing'and more). https://sites.google.com/site/writingworkshopswithraynehall/ The author portrait is by the artist Kuoke.
	Literary Lunes Magazine, September issue	by Beth Ann Masarik Sep. 06, 2011	Free!	9569 words	Read a sample
	Author bio: Beth Ann Masarik was born on Long Island, NY in the year 1984 with an over-active imagination. She used to love playing make-believe games, and now loves creating her own fantasy worlds. Masarik has been writing since she was 15 years old, and had her first newspaper article published in her high school newspaper in her sophomore year. She has taken several creative writing classes, and started writing her very first novel in college, and is currently searching for the right literary agent. Aside from writing novels, Masarik enjoys bowling, gaming, and role playing online. She enjoys reading fantasy novels written by Richelle Mead, L.J. Smith, and J.K. Rowling, and looks to them for role models.
	Reading a Writer's Mind: Exploring Short Fiction - First Thought to Finished Story	by Linda Acaster Sep. 02, 2011	$2.99	53721 words	Sample 15%
	Author bio: An award-winning writer and novelist living in Yorkshire (England, UK), Linda Acaster is the author over 100 articles & short stories ranging from Horror to Crime to Literary, four novels and a fiction-writer's resource. See links at the foot of the page. "Torc of Moonlight" Paranormal thriller set in contemporary/Romano-British northern England, the first in a trilogy of novels about the resurrection of a Celtic water goddess. Includes research articles, author interview, excerpt from Book 2: "The Bull At The Gate". Adult content. "Contributions to Mankind and other stories of the Dark" A selection of short, dark, ghost and speculative fiction, and an introduction to "Torc of Moonlight". "Beneath the Shining Mountains" Romantic suspense set among the Apsaroke people of the northern plains of America when the land was theirs alone. Heat level: sensual "A Hostage of the Heart" Mediaeval romantic suspense set on the English/Welsh borders in 1066 Heat level: sweet Available as ebook and audio download "Dead Men's Fingers" Post Civil War Western set on a wagon train crossing the Oregon Trail (p/back).
	Bad Agent, No Catnip! Bad Career Advice and Questionable Misinformation from the World's Worst Literary Agent, Sydney T. Cat	by Sydney T. Cat Aug. 10, 2011	$4.99	14477 words	Sample 20%
	Author bio: ANYONE can print up cards and call themselves an agent... EVEN A CAT! AND IT IF IS NOT PROHIBITED, THEN IT IS MANDATORY! For years now, "World's Worst" literary agent, Sydney T. Cat has been blogging the scams, cons, gaffes, and foul-ups (all based on reports of the activities of real-life "agents") she uses to separate her clients from their money, screw-up their careers, and crush their dreams! Now, she's an author herself, sharing her "Bad Agent Wisdom" with the world! Her motto: ALL WRITERS NEED CAT SUPERVISION!
	Words With JAM - August 2011	by Danny Gillan Aug. 08, 2011	$1.50	47369 words	Sample 20%
	Author bio: As a youth, my main ambition was to find success as a musician. I've been playing the guitar since I was six, and, in my teens and twenties, played in and wrote songs for a number of bands in and around Glasgow, with varying degrees of failure. As I grew older, and every inch lost to my hairline resulted in two being added to my waistline, I came to realise that rock godhood was no longer a viable option, but it has always stuck with me how much I enjoyed the writing process. At the same time as seeking out failure and misery in the music world I have had a couple of other careers. Upon dropping out of university for a record third time (my mother is so proud), I got my first pub job. For five or six years I spent pretty much all of my waking hours pulling, and drinking, pints in several of Glasgow's finest licensed premises. Pub work can be a great life, as long as you don't mind the terrible wages and complete lack of career prospects, but eventually I found myself inexplicably hankering after something a bit more fulfilling. Through a casual acquaintance I was introduced to the world of social care, more specifically that of supporting adults with learning disabilities and/or mental health problems. I spent the next eight years working in this field, starting as a voluntary music tutor and rising to the dizzying heights of senior management with a large voluntary organisation operating in the West of Scotland. Eventually, however, constant battles with social workers about funding, and support staff about the importance of turning up for a shift, started to get to me. Eight years ago I handed in my notice and went back to pulling pints, at least initially. I'd managed, through blatant nepotism (my sister was the manager), to get a job in a posh Glasgow hotel. For the first year or so I happily reacquainted myself with Glasgow's drinking culture, but it didn't take them long to notice I was relatively good with unimportant things like words and numbers, and I found myself charged with thankless tasks such as accounts, payrolls and answering complaint letters. This was not fun, believe me. I soon tired of all that and, in 2006, returned to social care. Nepotism played its part once again, when a former manager called me with a job offer. The hours are awful and the money's rubbish, but apart from that I'm quite enjoying it. Anyway, back to writing. I had a couple of false starts. I wrote some brilliant opening chapters, establishing characters, locations and relationships. The problem was that I could never get past that first chapter. It soon became apparent that plot, of all things, was something of a prerequisite. This threw me for a while. And then I had an idea. What would happen if a failed musician (okay yes, me) became depressed (don't ask) and killed himself, then got famous? That could be a plot. From that initial idea I sketched out a plot revolving around the friends and family of the musician in question, and found I was able to explore a diverse set of themes including social care, music, familial relationships, friendship and mental health issues, hopefully with a decent dose of humour and sensitivity. Will You Love Me Tomorrow is the end result of many subsequent months of toil and frustration, and was selected as the Scottish Region winner of the Undiscovered Authors 2007 competition. The book was published by Discovered Authors in October 2008. Since completing the book I have written a number of short stories, something I hadn't attempted before. I've found this an excellent way to practice and polish my writing, as well as an opportunity to experiment with style, tense, point of view etc. One of my short stories is due for publication in a future edition of Chapman magazine and another has recently been accepted by Bridge House Publishing. Another appears in an anthology produced by the Arts Council funded writers' site YouWriteOn.com, and a fourth is due to appear later this year in Short Fuses, and anthology produced and published by the Bookshed, an online writing and publishing community. I have now completed my second novel, Scratch. It tells the tale of Jim Cooper, a Glaswegian thirty-something office worker who decides to leave his job, sell his flat, pay off his debts and start his adult life again from scratch. Maybe this time he can do it properly and get (or, rather, keep) the girl. The fact that the girl is happily married and lives in another country, and her Bruce Lee obsessed father seems to want to be Jim's new best friend are only the beginning of his troubles. Scratch is an un-sanitised, emotionally honest and hilariously candid story about what it is to grow up as opposed to simply change age, as told by a man who doesn't know what any of those words mean.
	A Book Inside, How to Write, Publish, and Sell Your Story	by Plain and Simple Books Aug. 08, 2011	$3.99	18801 words	Sample 10%
	Author bio: Carol Denbow is the author of six books, contributor to two others, and editor of more than ten Websites, including, A Book Inside online at http://abookinside.blogspot.com and Author’s Box at http://www.authorsbox.com. She is also a regular contributor to numerous writers’ websites and newsletters and has been a featured guest on radio and television. Carol’s Books Include: A Book Inside, How to Write, Publish, and Sell Your Story (2008), Plain & Simple Books, LLC How to Organize a Virtual Book Tour (2008), Plain & Simple Books, LLC Are You Ready to Be Your Own Boss? (2006), Plain & Simple Books, LLC 101 Ways to Market Your Book For Free (or really cheap)
	Creating Fictional Characters	by Lillie Ammann Aug. 07, 2011	$1.99	9007 words	Sample 25%
	Author bio: Lillie always dreamed of writing someday—suffering a stroke made her realize that someday had arrived. As soon as she could, she sold the interior landscape business she had owned and operated for twenty years and started a new career as a freelance writer. She has published two novels, Stroke of Luck, a contemporary romance, and Dream or Destiny, a romantic mystery, and is working on her next book. As a freelancer, she works with authors and publishers to prepare manuscripts for publication; writes and edits business documents; and helps families and individuals compile family histories and memoirs. She especially enjoys helping self-publishing authors navigate the publishing maze and likes to think of herself as a book midwife. Lillie lives with her husband—and hero—of more than forty years in San Antonio, Texas.
	Living, Breathing, Writing: A Lesson A Day, Volume 2	by Chelle Cordero Aug. 05, 2011	$5.99	21526 words	Sample 20%
	Author bio: Chelle Cordero, author of eight novels,including the fabulous re-release of her debut novel, Courage of the Heart (VHP February, 2009), Final Sin (VHP May, 2009), Hostage Heart (VHP, August 2009) and A Chaunce of Riches (November 2009)and with pieces in five anthologies, regularly published by Gannett Newspapers, SPOTLIGHT Magazine, Hudson Valley Magazine, and other national magazines and regional publications. Ms. Cordero is also a partner in By-Lines, an editorial and photography company catering to the business community. She lives in the New York suburb of Stony Point with her husband of thirty-six years, and her son; her daughter and son-in-law live nearby. In her spare time, and sometimes when she has none to spare, Chelle is an avid reader and fan of Danielle Steel, Faye Kellerman, Dean Koontz, Patricia Cornwell and other popular novelists.
	Ebook Publishing Guide for Independent Authors	by O-O Happiness Aug. 03, 2011	$2.99	4731 words
	Author bio: What can I say? I love writing. I love being able to publish my thoughts to a global audience. I love seeing someone buy one of my books. My favorite books so far? I really enjoyed writing the Day God Returned. I liked the twist in the ending. I hope you do as well. And it was satisfying writing The Perfect Society, I am glad I now have my thoughts on this subject down for all to read. Its important we aspire to having a better society. Of course, I have to add that my Eurovision Betting Guide 2011 accurately predicted the $11 to $1 winner using my clever little Eurovision system, not bad picking the winner out of 43 entrants. I hope you like my ebooks.
	They Stole Your Book! Now What?	by Ruth Ann Nordin Aug. 03, 2011	Free!	6782 words	Read a sample
	Author bio: I'm a stay-at-home mom of four young boys and a proud military wife. When I'm not writing, I am researching marketing methods, networking, and reading. When I'm not doing that, I am playing with the kids. I currently live in Nebraska, but that is subject to change depending on the military.
	How To Write Short Story Reviews	by Graham Murray July 30, 2011	$0.99	4489 words	Sample 30%
	Author bio: As a full-time author, I have what is possibly the best ‘job’ in the world, though I do not see writing as a job. Having been blessed with a vivid and active imagination, I am never short of material around which to build a story and have enough backlog material to last several lifetimes. In any event, storylines are everywhere. Just look around you - wherever you are - and there’s your story! Even a pitch-black room is a story in itself if you have the imagination. A writer without imagination is called a blank page, or ‘writer’s block (which I do not believe even exists). That said, my work tends to include elements of humanity, loss and grief, revenge, retribution, riddles and a plethora other hooks to keep readers turning pages (or hitting ‘Next”). Some of my simple riddles in stories have yet to be solved! (see “The Importance of Looking Right” for an example.) If you’re a ‘skipper’, i.e. you tend to ‘skip’ over blocks of text, then my work is definitely not for you. Very often in my stories, EVERY word is there for a reason, and if you’re a ‘skipper’ you are sure to miss a critical clue or aspect of the story which may render it meaningless to you. Who skips over stories anyway? Why read at all if you’re going to do that? In one of my stories, it is a single punctuation mark that emphasises the point of the story. Although it is a single ‘ . ’, the relevance of that single period runs into several paragraphs. The story in question is “Small Mercies”. All authors include aspects of their own life and personality in their writing. When I read back through some of my material, I often wonder how true this is. If a psychologist were to attempt to compose a ‘profile’ of me based on my writing, I would certainly either be the weirdest or most wanted person on earth! All of my stories contain a moral in one form or another and I like to keep these obscure and make the reader think about what they have just read. I never ‘spell it out’ in any of my stories. If you didn’t ‘get it’, your either skipped over a critical clue or misunderstood a vital part of the story. Read it again – the answer is ALWAYS there! Some people have read my short stories several times before they finally see the clues. And then they find them all! Try “To Be Frank” as a classic example of clues dotted all over the place. Many readers do not get this story, even right at the very end, where I DO spell it out. Amazing. As for my ebook entitled, “Li’l Red in the Hood”, I am always flabbergasted at how many people simply do not get what that story is all about. 99% of readers completely miss the point! Hint: it is British comedy! That may explain a lot . . . I take great pains to include these little titbits in my work, often taking days just to write a few paragraphs to ensure that the words are precisely the way they need to be. For me, writing is like building the innards of a fine Swiss watch. The face (cover) is easy, but the mechanism (story) is what makes it . . . well, Swiss. And therein lies the difference between experienced and new writers. New writers have yet to learn the subtle nuances and tend to blurt out stories, rather than sneakily guiding and misleading their readers and then smacking them with a punchline. My regular readers know that I make my books free for the first 24 hours or so, but then I charge for them. See my various works on the reasons for this. I don’t give away my work other than for promotional reasons. Freebies don’t pay the mortgage! Newbies just don’t get this. Between May and December of 2001, I sold just over 34,000 copies through Smashwords’ Distribution Channels, although I publish mainly on Amazon. 2012 looks like being a better year and hopefully we have now seen the end of all the vampire/werewolf/lesbian tedium and the real, adult fiction can come to the fore once again. I sure do miss it. If you need to contact me for any reason, the information is in any of my books, printed or ebooks. I look forward to hearing from you. I try to answer all my email, although this can take some time as my inbox gets quite hectic at times.
	Ink Stains	by Lara Zielin July 24, 2011	$2.99	7312 words	Sample 15%
	Author bio: Lara Zielin is the author of the young-adult novels DONUT DAYS and THE IMPLOSION OF AGGIE WINCHESTER. She lives in Ypsilanti, Michigan, where she eats cheese entirely too often and bedazzles stuff she probably shouldn't.
	30 Secrets Published Authors Know	by Judy Rosella Edwards July 22, 2011	$1.23	4625 words	Sample 20%
	Author bio: An experienced freelance writer and new media specialist, Judy Rosella Edwards focuses primarily on genealogy and history. She writes regular columns for GenWeekly. She has published several titles in Holly Lisle's "The 33 Worst Mistakes Writers Make..." series. She has written for Suite 101's Museum & History Studies. and is a regular contributor to Helium. Edwards is a contributor to the Dictionary of Unitarian and Universalist Biography and is a past presenter at the Illinois Historic Preservation Agency's annual Conference on Illinois History. She encouraging other writers through her ::ThinkFast:WriteFast:: project. She finds that interviews become most interesting when you get off-topic and have a sincere conversation with people. "When I interviewed Gary Lockwood, I really wanted to present a side of him that most people don't see," she says. "He was expecting questions about "Space Odyssey: 2001" and UFO's, but I asked him if he had been to New Mexico before. He stared at me for a moment, then motioned for me to step away from the rest of the media crush. He told me his first "appearance" ever was as a trick rider in the Monty Montana Show and he began with shows in New Mexico. He went on to tell me how much he loved the artist Georgia O'Keeffe. I told him he was across the parking lot from a museum where he would find O'Keeffe originals on exhibit. I am sure it was not what the science fiction buffs were expecting but he clearly appreciated being asked an unusual question and having a true conversation -- and I got a front page interview that the rest of the media weren't privy to until it was already in print!" She holds a Master's degree in Instructional Systems Technology from the College of Education at Indiana University. She lives in Central Illinois with her husband, Jeff Imig, and their cats.
	Advanced Plotting	by Chris Eboch July 20, 2011	$4.99	35081 words	Sample 20%
	Author bio: Chris Eboch's novels for ages nine and up include The Eyes of Pharaoh, an ancient Egyptian mystery; The Well of Sacrifice, a Mayan adventure; and the Haunted series: The Ghost on the Stairs, The Riverboat Phantom, and The Knight in the Shadows. Read samples at www.chriseboch.com. Chris also writes for adults as Kris Bock. Rattled launches her new romantic suspense series featuring treasure hunting adventures in New Mexico. Read the first three chapters at www.krisbock.com.
	Writing Love: Screenwriting Tricks for Authors II	by Alexandra Sokoloff July 18, 2011	$2.99	141521 words	Sample 20%
	Author bio: Alexandra Sokoloff is the author of the supernatural thrillers THE HARROWING, THE PRICE, THE UNSEEN, and BOOK OF SHADOWS (St. Martin's Press), the paranormal romance, THE SHIFTERS, and the upcoming paranormal trilogy TWIST OF FATE (Harlequin Nocturne). She is also the author of SCREENWRITING TRICKS FOR AUTHORS (AND SCREENWRITERS!), a workbook based on her internationally acclaimed blog and workshops. She is a Thriller Award winner and a Bram Stoker and Anthony Award nominee. The New York Times Book Review called her books "Some of the most original and freshly unnerving work in the genre." As a screenwriter, Alex has sold original horror and thriller scripts and adapted novels for numerous Hollywood studios, for producers such as Michael Bay, Laura Ziskin, David Heyman, and Neal Moritz. Alex has served on the Board of Directors of the Writers Guild of America, and the board of Mystery Writers of America. She is also the founder of WriterAction.com, an online community and resource center of 2000+ professional screenwriters, and is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of UC Berkeley. http://alexandrasokoloff.com http://screenwritingtricks.com
	How to Join the eBook Revolution	by Graham Murray July 14, 2011	$0.99	13171 words	Sample 40%
	Author bio: As a full-time author, I have what is possibly the best ‘job’ in the world, though I do not see writing as a job. Having been blessed with a vivid and active imagination, I am never short of material around which to build a story and have enough backlog material to last several lifetimes. In any event, storylines are everywhere. Just look around you - wherever you are - and there’s your story! Even a pitch-black room is a story in itself if you have the imagination. A writer without imagination is called a blank page, or ‘writer’s block (which I do not believe even exists). That said, my work tends to include elements of humanity, loss and grief, revenge, retribution, riddles and a plethora other hooks to keep readers turning pages (or hitting ‘Next”). Some of my simple riddles in stories have yet to be solved! (see “The Importance of Looking Right” for an example.) If you’re a ‘skipper’, i.e. you tend to ‘skip’ over blocks of text, then my work is definitely not for you. Very often in my stories, EVERY word is there for a reason, and if you’re a ‘skipper’ you are sure to miss a critical clue or aspect of the story which may render it meaningless to you. Who skips over stories anyway? Why read at all if you’re going to do that? In one of my stories, it is a single punctuation mark that emphasises the point of the story. Although it is a single ‘ . ’, the relevance of that single period runs into several paragraphs. The story in question is “Small Mercies”. All authors include aspects of their own life and personality in their writing. When I read back through some of my material, I often wonder how true this is. If a psychologist were to attempt to compose a ‘profile’ of me based on my writing, I would certainly either be the weirdest or most wanted person on earth! All of my stories contain a moral in one form or another and I like to keep these obscure and make the reader think about what they have just read. I never ‘spell it out’ in any of my stories. If you didn’t ‘get it’, your either skipped over a critical clue or misunderstood a vital part of the story. Read it again – the answer is ALWAYS there! Some people have read my short stories several times before they finally see the clues. And then they find them all! Try “To Be Frank” as a classic example of clues dotted all over the place. Many readers do not get this story, even right at the very end, where I DO spell it out. Amazing. As for my ebook entitled, “Li’l Red in the Hood”, I am always flabbergasted at how many people simply do not get what that story is all about. 99% of readers completely miss the point! Hint: it is British comedy! That may explain a lot . . . I take great pains to include these little titbits in my work, often taking days just to write a few paragraphs to ensure that the words are precisely the way they need to be. For me, writing is like building the innards of a fine Swiss watch. The face (cover) is easy, but the mechanism (story) is what makes it . . . well, Swiss. And therein lies the difference between experienced and new writers. New writers have yet to learn the subtle nuances and tend to blurt out stories, rather than sneakily guiding and misleading their readers and then smacking them with a punchline. My regular readers know that I make my books free for the first 24 hours or so, but then I charge for them. See my various works on the reasons for this. I don’t give away my work other than for promotional reasons. Freebies don’t pay the mortgage! Newbies just don’t get this. Between May and December of 2001, I sold just over 34,000 copies through Smashwords’ Distribution Channels, although I publish mainly on Amazon. 2012 looks like being a better year and hopefully we have now seen the end of all the vampire/werewolf/lesbian tedium and the real, adult fiction can come to the fore once again. I sure do miss it. If you need to contact me for any reason, the information is in any of my books, printed or ebooks. I look forward to hearing from you. I try to answer all my email, although this can take some time as my inbox gets quite hectic at times.
	How to Launch A Christian Best Seller Book, the John 3:16 Marketing Network Manual	by Lorilyn Roberts July 09, 2011	$2.99	26568 words	Sample 20%
	Author bio: Lorilyn Roberts graduated Magna Cum Laude from the University of Alabama in 1993 with a B.A. in Interdisciplinary Humanities/Social Sciences. She won an award for "Outstanding Senior Project" upon graduation for her coursework that was done in conjunction with her on-site study at the Institute of Holy Land Studies in Jerusalem. Ms. Roberts is currently working on her Master of Arts in Creative Writing from Perelandra College. As a Certified Court Reporter, Ms. Roberts has made contributions to the journal published by the National Court Reporters Association. She has spent the last ten years providing real-time broadcast captioning for television. Ms. Roberts blogs on several websites including searchwarp.com and faithwriters.com. Lorilyn Roberts' first book, The Donkey and the King, had a second printing last year, and is a beautifully illustrated children's book published by Virtualbookworm.com. In her latest book and memoir, Children of Dreams, the many pearls of suffering Lorilyn Roberts has experienced enable her to share deeply from the heart. Ms. Roberts is intimately familiar with adoption, having also been adopted as a child, and is able to present the spirit of adoption, as never before captured, in Children of Dreams. Her writing shows how God is able to restore dreams and bring redemption. When Ms. Roberts is not writing and closed captioning for television/web, she homeschools her younger daughter, Joy, who is in sixth grade.
	Stephen King is Richard Bachman	by Michael Collings June 30, 2011	$7.99	58145 words	Sample 20%
	Author bio: For the past twenty-five years, Michael R. Collings has taught literature, composition, and creative writing at Pepperdine University in Malibu California, with classes ranging from Milton and the Renaissance Epic to Myth,Fantasy, and Science Fiction. Along the way, the author has worked with Children’s Literature, Epic, Lyric Poetry, and as many other subjects. Michael R. Collings has also published analytical bibliographies of Orson Scott Card, Stephen King, and Peter Straub (all from Overlook Connection Press). Other books include In the Image of God (Greenwood 1990), the first book-length study of Card’s works; Scaring Us to Death (Borgo 1999), a study of Stephen King as a cultural phenomenon; and half a dozen additional books on Stephen King (Starmont House). His most recent release is All Calm, All Bright: Christmas Offerings from Wildside Press.
	Book Magic: Turning Writers into Published Authors	by Julie H. Ferguson June 24, 2011	$8.99	28681 words	Sample 15%
	Author bio: Julie believes writers need practical assistance, current information, and support from published authors throughout their journeys to publication. So far, she has guided hundreds of aspiring authors towards publishing success through her workshops and individual coaching. Publishers like Penguin Canada and HarperCollins have published her clients' books. A working non-fiction writer for 41 years, Julie is the author of six books for writers, including "Book Magic: Turning Writers into Published Authors" (3rd ed. June 2011) and "Crafting Irresistible Query Letters that Result in Publication," four books on Canadian history, and several photo portfolios. Her latest commercially published book is a teen biography, James Douglas: Father of British Columbia (Dundurn 2009). She has co-judged the non-fiction contest of the Surrey International Writers' Conference 2006 and the Young Writers Scholarship 2008-10. Julie is a proud member of the BC Assn of Travel Writers, the Federation of BC Writers, Photoclub Vancouver, and formerly of the Canadian Association of Professional Speakers. She owns and operates Beacon Literary Services - products and services that provide aspiring authors with the knowledge and skill to get commercially or self-published.
	Secrets Revealed: How To Successfully Create Huge Amount Of Money Creating, Selling And Publishing Your Ebook	by Crimson Carlito June 17, 2011	$2.99	8693 words	Sample 30%
	Author bio: The author is a Real Estate Contractor, Investor, and Foreclosure Cleanup Business owner. As a result, readers learn crucial start-up tactics from a real estate professional with pointed experience in several real estate industry capacities.
	Secrets Revealed: How To Successfully Create Huge Amount Of Money Creating, Selling And Publishing Your Ebook	by Crimson Carlito June 17, 2011	$2.99	8693 words	Sample 30%
	Author bio: The author is a Real Estate Contractor, Investor, and Foreclosure Cleanup Business owner. As a result, readers learn crucial start-up tactics from a real estate professional with pointed experience in several real estate industry capacities.
	The First Ten Steps	by M. R. Mathias June 10, 2011	$4.99	6799 words	Sample 15%
	Author bio: The jewel you see glowing in the ring in my author photo isn't really a jewel at all. It is the crystallized tear of a real dragon. In my novel "The Royal Dragoneers" you might find the moment where this wonderfully magical tear drop fell from a green dragon's eye. It hardened on its way down to land in a mess of troll corpses that the dragon was laying on. My grandfather died before I was born, but the ring was given to me by my mother after my grandmother recently died. My grandfather had apparently won the ring in a poker game near the Red River between Texas and Oklahoma sometime in the early 1900's. It has been a boon to me, the magic of the teardrop, for it brought you here didn't it? Now treat yourself to something fantastic and try out the free sample of one of my novels. I hope you enjoy the journey. It will be spectacular. Thanks M.R. Mathias Follow me @DahgMahn on twitter Smashwords Notes: The map for the known kingdoms in "The Sword and the Dragon" can be found under the cover image at my website: http://www.mrmathias.com/ The map for the land of the Dragoneers can be found here: http://www.mrmathias.com/Dragoneers.html ***FREE READS*** by M. R. Mathias *Dragoneers Saga: "The First Dragoneer" - novella "Marcherian" - flash fiction *Wardstone: "The Blood of Coldfrost" - flash fiction
	Akayoshi's Contrarian Compendium of Cool Indies	by Mark David Ledbetter June 10, 2011	Free!	12363 words	Read a sample
	Author bio: 1950, I was born on a mountaintop in Tennessee (or at least in sight of a mountaintop). After that, there were a few years in Texas followed by one more move to a small town east of San Francisco. Summers were spent living out untold (and, to adults, untellable) adventures in the yellow oak-sprinkled foothills of Mt. Diablo. The oaks, though, along with the walnut orchards down in the valley, have all been leveled to make way for the great suburban migration. My family was part of that migration, but an early part, thus a part on the edge. Our house bordered wildlands. We kids, at least those so inclined, had access to a world of magic and dreams. We grew up free. Now the small towns in the valley have all grown together into one borderless mass. Only the profile of Mt. Diablo, the steady pole of my childhood's inner compass, remains. I grew up intellectually, but not academically, inclined. That is to say, I studied, but rarely what was assigned at school. I scraped by, only really finding my place years later in graduate school. I pursued linguistics, after discovering that Language - not literature, not foreign language, but language itself - was a window on the human mind. I built my career in Japan on that, first as an English teacher, much later as a teacher of linguistics and North American history. I've been in Japan thirty years, now, raising a family and becoming rather Japanized in my ways. I've kept tabs on America with both the intimate understanding of an insider born there but also the perspective of an outsider. Dual sight has, I believe, been fruitful. In any case, after 9/11, I applied my insider-outsider perspective to a search for answers to that tragedy. The result was first Globocop and then the first two volumes of America's Forgotten History, an envisioned five volume series written from a constitutionalist, libertarian, and always (I hope) sympathetic point of view. The great American experiment is in crisis but not yet buried. This is my contribution towards reviving it. Those books are not up yet on smashword but can be found in Amazon's kindle library for a dollar fifty each.
	Könyvkonnektor blog bejegyzések	by Pál Kerekes May 24, 2011	Free!	7481 words	Read a sample
	Author bio: The author is an IT-librarian, computer science writer. He disposes of a PhD academic degree. His PhD thesis deals with the relationship between electronic culture and e-government . He is author of The eBook Guide as well as The Electronic Book. Founder and editor of Könyvkonnektor (BookConnect) blog.
	Screenwriting Tricks For Authors (and Screenwriters!)	by Alexandra Sokoloff May 10, 2011	$2.99	90205 words	Sample 20%
	Author bio: Alexandra Sokoloff is the author of the supernatural thrillers THE HARROWING, THE PRICE, THE UNSEEN, and BOOK OF SHADOWS (St. Martin's Press), the paranormal romance, THE SHIFTERS, and the upcoming paranormal trilogy TWIST OF FATE (Harlequin Nocturne). She is also the author of SCREENWRITING TRICKS FOR AUTHORS (AND SCREENWRITERS!), a workbook based on her internationally acclaimed blog and workshops. She is a Thriller Award winner and a Bram Stoker and Anthony Award nominee. The New York Times Book Review called her books "Some of the most original and freshly unnerving work in the genre." As a screenwriter, Alex has sold original horror and thriller scripts and adapted novels for numerous Hollywood studios, for producers such as Michael Bay, Laura Ziskin, David Heyman, and Neal Moritz. Alex has served on the Board of Directors of the Writers Guild of America, and the board of Mystery Writers of America. She is also the founder of WriterAction.com, an online community and resource center of 2000+ professional screenwriters, and is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of UC Berkeley. http://alexandrasokoloff.com http://screenwritingtricks.com
	Break Free from the Slushpile	by CJ Lyons April 29, 2011	$6.99	20327 words	Sample 20%
	Author bio: As a pediatric ER doctor, CJ Lyons has lived the life she writes about in her cutting edge suspense novels. She has assisted police and prosecutors with cases involving child abuse, rape, homicide and Munchausen by Proxy and has worked in numerous trauma centers, as a crisis counselor, victim advocate, as well as a flight physician for Life Flight. CJ credits her patients and their families for teaching her the art of medicine and giving her the courage to pursue her dream of becoming a novelist. Her first novel, LIFELINES (Berkley, March 2008), received praise as a "breathtakingly fast-paced medical thriller" from Publishers Weekly, was reviewed favorably by the Baltimore Sun and Newsday, named a Top Pick by Romantic Times Book Review Magazine, and became a National Bestseller. LIFELINES also won a Readers' Choice Award for Best First Novel. Her second novel, WARNING SIGNS, was published by Berkley in January, 2009, with the third, URGENT CARE, in November, 2009. To learn more about CJ and her work, go to www.cjlyons.net.