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Fiction
Author:
Cynthia Leal Massey
Title:
Fire Lilies
Publisher:
Booksurge.com
Description: Fire Lilies is the epic saga of three generations of a northern Mexican
upper-class family torn apart by the Revolution of 1910 and by a betrayal
that will reverberate through generations. Two sisters--the "fire
lilies"--discover that the fiercest battles are fought on the landscape of
the heart.
Bio:
Cynthia Leal Massey is on the adjunct English faculty at San Antonio College.
Her fiction has appeared in the national magazine, Cricket, and in New Texas
2000, an anthology of works by Texas authors. Fire Lilies is her first novel.
Links:
www.Booksurge.com
www.cynthialealmassey.com/fiction
Author: Judy Mays
Title: The Midnight Angel of Bodmin Moor
Category/Genre: Historical Romance
Publisher: Wings ePress
Description: Adrian Warrick has completed his last
assignment. Those the crown wanted eliminated live no
more. But... their ghosts haunt him nightly.
Karalyn Marshall is determined to avenge the deaths of
her parents, even if it meant becoming a female
"highwayman."
Can the Midnight Angel defeat the spectors of Adrian'
past? And, can the love of a reformed pirate replaced
the need for revenge in Kara's heart?
Bio: Judy Mays lives with her husband, three sons, one
large dog, and an eighteen year old cat who rules
everyone in Selinsgrove, Pennsylvania, USA. The
Midnight Angel of Bodmin Moor is her third novel with
Wings. Judy can be reached at writermays@yahoo.com
Links: www.authorsden.com/judyamays.
Author:
Sheri L. McGathy
Title:
Elfen Gold
Publisher:
New Concepts Publishing
Description: The Elfen Race of Ra-Jee is in jeopardy--in
danger of becoming merely a memory. But destiny in the form of an ancient
crystal has decreed that one Elfen maiden, Ra-May, and one human male,
Michall, must meet, and in that meeting, venture forward to vanquish the evil
that has tainted Ra-Jee...or die trying.
Bio:
Born in Dayton, Ohio, Sheri's family moved around when she was
growing up, living in Ohio, Arizona, and finally settling in Kansas. Sheri is
married and has one grown son. She works in prepress in the graphic design
department as a Graphic/Copy Proofer and Editor. When not working, she enjoys
reading, writing, attending softball games, and spoiling her three dogs,
Hanna, Brenna and Hershey.
Links:
www.geocities.com/sheril_us/pages/characters.html
www.geocities.com/sheril_us/
Author:
Marilyn Meredith
Title:
Final Respects
Category/genre: Murder Mystery
Publisher:
fictionworks.com
Description: The first in the Rocky Bluff P.D. series, FINAL RESPECTS is about how the
personal lives of the police officers affect their professional lives, and
vice versa. Children using the mortuary as a playground trigger a series of
events that lead to murder and near devastation of the town of Rocky Bluff.
Bio:
Marilyn Meredith is the author of the Deputy Tempe Crabtree mystery series,
mass market paperback from Golden Eagle press, several other e-books, and an
instructor for Writers Digest School. She is a member of EPIC, SinC, MWA,
Novelists Inc. and California Writers Club.
Links:
fictionforyou.com
Author: Monette Michaels
Title: Vested Interests
Publisher: Atlantic Bridge
Description: An attorney and a former Navy Seal battle organized
crime and during the process discover each other.
Bio: Monette writes what she knows. After twenty years as a lawyer, she
knows reality is stranger than fiction and tries to color her books with
some of her real life knowledge. This is her third e-published
suspense/thriller.
Links: home.att.net/~medraper
Author: Kim Murphy
Title: Promise & Honor
Publisher:
Coachlight Press
Catagory/genre: historical fiction/romance
Description:
At the outbreak of the Civil War, Amanda Graham's husband dies a hero's
death. Left with no source of income, she smuggles medical supplies for
Lieutenant Colonel William Jackson and the Confederacy. Although a rogue,
Wil is a man of courage and fiercely loyal to Amanda. Lieutenant Samuel
Prescott, a soldier of honor and former comrade before the war, fights for
the Union. As opposing forces move into Virginia, Sam clashes with Wil on
more than the battlefield, when both men fall in love with Amanda. Torn by
grief and loyalty, Amanda struggles with the harsh reality that her way of
life has been altered forever by the growing storm...
Bio: Kim Murphy debuts with _Promise & Honor_, the first novel in a
Civil War trilogy. A resident of Virginia, she also co-edits the
historical fiction magazine, Bygone Days.
Links:
Kim Murphy - http://kimmurphy.net.
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Author:
Dorice Nelson
Title:
The Gunn of Killearnan
Category/genre: Historic Romantic Adventure
Publisher:
NovelInc Books
Description: "In a tale of treachery & danger, they were slaves to their passions... "
Bio:
Dorice Nelson began her writing career after an early retirement
from teaching and a move to the mountains in upstate New York, where she
lives with her attorney husband, a happy-go-lucky mixed-breed dog and two
personality-plus cats.
Links:
www.DoriceNelson.com
Author:
E. L. Noel
Title:
The Threshing Floor
Category/genre: Historical
Publisher:
fictionworks.com/
Description: 2001 EPPIE Winner, Best Historical Novel. Sir James Greybold, Crusading
Templar Knight, is drawn into a vile plot conceived by those who claim his
allegiance. Dishonored and accused of treason, he finds his true enemies are
hidden among his own ranks, and the tower of his code weakened by the siege
of lies laid against him.
Bio:
E. L. Noel has been writing for over twelve years in both the historical and
science fiction genres. Several of her articles, short stories, and reviews
have appeared in various magazines, on line and off. Her novel, THE
THRESHING FLOOR, a Frankfurt Ebook Award nominee and winner of the 2001
EPPIE Award for Best Historical Novel. Her new science
fiction novel is currently in the works at CrossroadsPub.com and will be
released later this year.
Links:
www.isp101.com/~mikenoel/index.htm
Author:
Nina M. Osier
Title:
Conduct Unbecoming
Category/genre: Science Fiction
Publisher:
firstprint.com
Description: Captain Rik Boehmer is the first Human, the first native of the colony on
Luna to which his ancestors fled from the Protectorate's compulsory
amalgamation of species, to leave that colony and enter military service.
For this his people have ostracized him, allowing him to come home only for
the purpose of fathering children in order to conserve the precious "pure
Human" genes his body carries.
Bio:
Nina M. Osier started "writing" at the age of two, when her parents decided to write down her stories and read them back to her. She is the author of science fiction novels Exile's End, Matushka, Silent Service, and Regs from eBooksOnThe.Net. Out next will be
Starship Castaways, from CrossroadsPub.com.
Links:
firstprint.com
www.geocities.com/nina_osier
Author:
Ariana Overton
Title:
The Devil is in the Details
Publisher:
Atlantic Bridge
Description:
Holidays are pleasant times, unless you live
in a small northern California town with a serial killer. FBI field agent Jake Daniels and his team of unlikely experts soon finds out just how unpleasant a holiday can be when they set out to capture a killer with a twisted sense of fun.
Bio:
Multi-published author, cover artist and reporter.
Links:
communities.msn.com/ArianaOverton
www.angelfire.com/ri2/theovertons
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Author:
Cynthia Leal Massey
Title:
Fire Lilies
Publisher:
Booksurge.com
Description: Fire Lilies is the epic saga of three generations of a northern Mexican
upper-class family torn apart by the Revolution of 1910 and by a betrayal
that will reverberate through generations. Two sisters--the "fire
lilies"--discover that the fiercest battles are fought on the landscape of
the heart.
Bio:
Cynthia Leal Massey is on the adjunct English faculty at San Antonio College.
Her fiction has appeared in the national magazine, Cricket, and in New Texas
2000, an anthology of works by Texas authors. Fire Lilies is her first novel.
Links:
www.Booksurge.com
www.cynthialealmassey.com/fiction
Author: Judy Mays
Title: The Midnight Angel of Bodmin Moor
Category/Genre: Historical Romance
Publisher: Wings ePress
Description: Adrian Warrick has completed his last
assignment. Those the crown wanted eliminated live no
more. But... their ghosts haunt him nightly.
Karalyn Marshall is determined to avenge the deaths of
her parents, even if it meant becoming a female
"highwayman."
Can the Midnight Angel defeat the spectors of Adrian'
past? And, can the love of a reformed pirate replaced
the need for revenge in Kara's heart?
Bio: Judy Mays lives with her husband, three sons, one
large dog, and an eighteen year old cat who rules
everyone in Selinsgrove, Pennsylvania, USA. The
Midnight Angel of Bodmin Moor is her third novel with
Wings. Judy can be reached at writermays@yahoo.com
Links: www.authorsden.com/judyamays.
Author:
Sheri L. McGathy
Title:
Elfen Gold
Publisher:
New Concepts Publishing
Description: The Elfen Race of Ra-Jee is in jeopardy--in
danger of becoming merely a memory. But destiny in the form of an ancient
crystal has decreed that one Elfen maiden, Ra-May, and one human male,
Michall, must meet, and in that meeting, venture forward to vanquish the evil
that has tainted Ra-Jee...or die trying.
Bio:
Born in Dayton, Ohio, Sheri's family moved around when she was
growing up, living in Ohio, Arizona, and finally settling in Kansas. Sheri is
married and has one grown son. She works in prepress in the graphic design
department as a Graphic/Copy Proofer and Editor. When not working, she enjoys
reading, writing, attending softball games, and spoiling her three dogs,
Hanna, Brenna and Hershey.
Links:
www.geocities.com/sheril_us/pages/characters.html
www.geocities.com/sheril_us/
Author:
Marilyn Meredith
Title:
Final Respects
Category/genre: Murder Mystery
Publisher:
fictionworks.com
Description: The first in the Rocky Bluff P.D. series, FINAL RESPECTS is about how the
personal lives of the police officers affect their professional lives, and
vice versa. Children using the mortuary as a playground trigger a series of
events that lead to murder and near devastation of the town of Rocky Bluff.
Bio:
Marilyn Meredith is the author of the Deputy Tempe Crabtree mystery series,
mass market paperback from Golden Eagle press, several other e-books, and an
instructor for Writers Digest School. She is a member of EPIC, SinC, MWA,
Novelists Inc. and California Writers Club.
Links:
fictionforyou.com
Author: Monette Michaels
Title: Vested Interests
Publisher: Atlantic Bridge
Description: An attorney and a former Navy Seal battle organized
crime and during the process discover each other.
Bio: Monette writes what she knows. After twenty years as a lawyer, she
knows reality is stranger than fiction and tries to color her books with
some of her real life knowledge. This is her third e-published
suspense/thriller.
Links: home.att.net/~medraper
Author: Kim Murphy
Title: Promise & Honor
Publisher:
Coachlight Press
Catagory/genre: historical fiction/romance
Description:
At the outbreak of the Civil War, Amanda Graham's husband dies a hero's
death. Left with no source of income, she smuggles medical supplies for
Lieutenant Colonel William Jackson and the Confederacy. Although a rogue,
Wil is a man of courage and fiercely loyal to Amanda. Lieutenant Samuel
Prescott, a soldier of honor and former comrade before the war, fights for
the Union. As opposing forces move into Virginia, Sam clashes with Wil on
more than the battlefield, when both men fall in love with Amanda. Torn by
grief and loyalty, Amanda struggles with the harsh reality that her way of
life has been altered forever by the growing storm...
Bio: Kim Murphy debuts with _Promise & Honor_, the first novel in a
Civil War trilogy. A resident of Virginia, she also co-edits the
historical fiction magazine, Bygone Days.
Links:
Kim Murphy - http://kimmurphy.net.
Author:
Dorice Nelson
Title:
The Gunn of Killearnan
Category/genre: Historic Romantic Adventure
Publisher:
NovelInc Books
Description: "In a tale of treachery & danger, they were slaves to their passions... "
Bio:
Dorice Nelson began her writing career after an early retirement
from teaching and a move to the mountains in upstate New York, where she
lives with her attorney husband, a happy-go-lucky mixed-breed dog and two
personality-plus cats.
Links:
www.DoriceNelson.com
Author:
E. L. Noel
Title:
The Threshing Floor
Category/genre: Historical
Publisher:
fictionworks.com/
Description: 2001 EPPIE Winner, Best Historical Novel. Sir James Greybold, Crusading
Templar Knight, is drawn into a vile plot conceived by those who claim his
allegiance. Dishonored and accused of treason, he finds his true enemies are
hidden among his own ranks, and the tower of his code weakened by the siege
of lies laid against him.
Bio:
E. L. Noel has been writing for over twelve years in both the historical and
science fiction genres. Several of her articles, short stories, and reviews
have appeared in various magazines, on line and off. Her novel, THE
THRESHING FLOOR, a Frankfurt Ebook Award nominee and winner of the 2001
EPPIE Award for Best Historical Novel. Her new science
fiction novel is currently in the works at CrossroadsPub.com and will be
released later this year.
Links:
www.isp101.com/~mikenoel/index.htm
Author:
Nina M. Osier
Title:
Conduct Unbecoming
Category/genre: Science Fiction
Publisher:
firstprint.com
Description: Captain Rik Boehmer is the first Human, the first native of the colony on
Luna to which his ancestors fled from the Protectorate's compulsory
amalgamation of species, to leave that colony and enter military service.
For this his people have ostracized him, allowing him to come home only for
the purpose of fathering children in order to conserve the precious "pure
Human" genes his body carries.
Bio:
Nina M. Osier started "writing" at the age of two, when her parents decided to write down her stories and read them back to her. She is the author of science fiction novels Exile's End, Matushka, Silent Service, and Regs from eBooksOnThe.Net. Out next will be
Starship Castaways, from CrossroadsPub.com.
Links:
firstprint.com
www.geocities.com/nina_osier
Author:
Ariana Overton
Title:
The Devil is in the Details
Publisher:
Atlantic Bridge
Description:
Holidays are pleasant times, unless you live
in a small northern California town with a serial killer. FBI field agent Jake Daniels and his team of unlikely experts soon finds out just how unpleasant a holiday can be when they set out to capture a killer with a twisted sense of fun.
Bio:
Multi-published author, cover artist and reporter.
Links:
communities.msn.com/ArianaOverton
www.angelfire.com/ri2/theovertons
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