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Alexander’s Song

About Alexander’s Song:

For a time in the 1940s, Alexander Bassett was one of the brightest stars in the literary firmament, an acclaimed novelist, poet, and playwright, a voice for social justice. But the years took their toll, Bassett’s work fell out of favor, and eventually, the man himself dropped out of sight. By the time the world learned of his death in 1969, few noticed or cared.

Years later, a school teacher named Andy Gillespie sets out to write about Bassett’s life and visits the author’s hometown, eager to learn about his early years. He arrives in Rock Creek, Michigan, expecting to find a small town proud of its famous son, but what greets him is something much different. Only a handful of old-timers even remember Bassett’s name, and most have no interest in Andy’s quest. Doors are slammed in his face. People turn away. Even the few who seem willing to talk – an enthusiastic high school student, an eccentric shopkeeper, a colorful hotel owner, an elderly hermit – raise more questions than they answer.

Despite the odds against him, Andy continues to dig. From dusty library shelves to the neglected stones in a lonely graveyard, from the pages of forgotten journals to the shores of a remote island, he gradually uncovers fragments of the truth, revealing glimpses into Alexander Bassett’s past that are unexpected, mysterious, and frightening.

Then the notes start to arrive.

Alexander’s Song is the story of an author nearly forgotten by time, a man whose life was nothing like it seemed, and a chain of darkness that began decades ago and is not finished yet.

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Taming Fear in the Age of Covid by Winfried Sedhoff


About Featured Book: Taming Fear in the Age of Covid by Winfried Sedhoff

Anxiety levels have surged since the arrival of Covid-19. At least one in three of us suffer some form of anxiety disorder. We are too easily scared and worried. But all hope is not lost.
Here is a new and innovative approach to overcoming anxiety and day-to-day fears and stresses.
Ultimately, our brain only needs two things for fears to be resolved, a plan or acceptance.
We all have the power to create and live calmer, more fulfilling, lives.

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On the Trail of the Unseen by Lynne Armstrong-Jones


About Featured Book: On the Trail of the Unseen by Lynne Armstrong-Jones

As a swordsman, Nico has battled many enemies over the years and met formidable challenges, but what good are his warrior skills when it comes to fighting against illness? Like many others, he and his wife and daughter have no choice but to flee the plague, heading north to his homeland.
Along the way, they face many dangers and uncertainties, but they also find an old friend who is fleeing with his family. Their sorcerer friends Xyron and Giever, with the Witch, Creda head north as well to avoid the plague after trying in vain to find a way to stop the plague and help the people. Back in the sorcerers' tower, the sorceress Aislin finds a possible solution to stop this terrible threat. However, putting her plan into action could place her entire future in jeopardy.

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Out of the Shadows

About Out of the Shadows:

An explosion. An injured bartender. A dead woman. Accusations of arson and murder.
Staff Sergeant Martha Richards, Air Force Military Training Instructor, fights to clear her lover, Tess Beck, and Jennifer Nichols, the bar’s owner. As she confronts and questions other suspects, Marty experiences accusations of her own. Her commander fires her from her Military Training Instructor duties for allowing Tess, a former trainee, to live with her. Being openly gay is not an option. She finds herself at a crossroads. Should she reenlist? Or separate from the Air Force, the only career she’s ever known? She loves her career, but she also loves Tess. During her quest, she experiences self-awareness and personal growth.

Vickie’s love of writing began in middle school. Her short stories have been included in several anthologies. Out of the Shadows is her second with Wicked Publishing, following Heartland.

Born in Knoxville TN. She grew up in southeast Michigan. During the Vietnam war, she enlisted in the U.S. Air Force. Her most memorable assignment was 45 days on Wake Island during the fall of Saigon. Following twenty years in the United States Air Force officer, she retired in 1992. Following her military retirement, she served another twenty years as a Veterans Service Officer, retiring a second time in 2016.

Education includes a B.A. in journalism from Southwest Texas State University and an M.A. from Chapman College.

Vickie is married to Lisa Marie. They love to travel and have taken several cruises. She has a son, Alex. Together they have two fur babies, Oliver and Nietzsche.

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Age Ain’t Nothing But A Number

About Age Ain’t Nothing But A Number:

You don’t know what real love is till you’re with a real man.
I’m tired of being with boys my age.
Older men know how to satisfy all my urges.

If you love steamy gay romances, grab this complete 3-book Age Ain’t Nothing But A Number Box Set.
In this collection you will find:

The New Bad Boy In Town
I knew from the start that I needed to avoid Cody Benton.
But he was everywhere on the construction site, making my life difficult.
There was a strong physical attraction between us, and I could see he didn’t know how to deal with it.
I couldn’t lie to myself about what I felt for him.
Even if it was dangerous.
I thought I could handle Cody.
But I was wrong.

Dear Professor
An unexpected connection with a student begins an uphill battle of self-discovery for me with serious consequences.
When Morgan came into my life, my world was turned upside down.
Coming to terms with my feelings for Morgan was the easy part.
It was facing the world, afterward that I struggled with.

My Protector
After I witnessed a terrible crime, finding myself being hunted and on the run, I met… him.
I met the man meant to protect me, at least fifteen years older than me, meant to shelter me from the men hunting me.
I just didn’t know that when I signed up to work with him that I would be signing up to work with one of the most handsome, rugged, and edgy men in the world.
We’re on opposite sides of the law, and our life outlooks are different, but I know I can get through to him, somehow… hopefully before I’m caught, or before the trial, when I may never see him again.

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Use Your God-Given Powers by Xavier Healy


About Featured Book: Use Your God-Given Powers by Xavier Healy

Are you a Christian who shuns all psychological theories and self-help techniques? You get depressed or have panic attacks but will not seek a therapist. You will not take any control of your thoughts and feelings because you believe the lord wants you to go through this? You don’t take control over anything in your life because you believe that god is in charge?

Perhaps you are the opposite of this. You read all of the self-help books and try the techniques. You have been to several different therapists all who tried a different approach. However, you still have anxiety and feel insecure and stressed at times.

Most people are in one camp or the other. They believe that they have the answer that works best for them. Perhaps their faith has helped them through many trials and tribulations but they reach a plateau where they don’t seem to go any further.

I wrote this book and the ones that follow to show you and others that you can have it all. You can enjoy the peace, love, and life purpose that the lord shows you. Additionally, you can benefit from all the self-help that has benefitted many people.

You can control your thoughts and feelings and choose how you feel in any circumstance. You can heal the emotional effects of past trauma. You can use the law of attraction to bring what you want into your life in a way that benefits everyone.

If you wonder how I can make such bold claims. I am a Licensed Professional Counselor and a Deacon at my Baptist Church. Over the decades I have seen people benefit from counseling and therapy. I have seen how people benefit from self help techniques having attended many seminars over the years.
I have also seen how people benefit from knowing the lord. I have seen people achieve peace, self-acceptance, become more loving, having a stronger sense of purpose because they know the lord.

The purpose of this book and the ones that will follow is to let you know that you can benefit from faith and the use of therapeutic self-help techniques. I want you to be enabled to live the best life that you can possibly live with all the tools you will need to live a life filled with joy, peace, and success.

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The Legend Is Born by Gerald R. Knight


About Featured Book: The Legend Is Born by Gerald R. Knight

This free book is an introduction to the series Legends of Ḷainjin

This faraway, pre-contact story begins with Helkena, a young, still untattooed girl enduring a typhoon crashing over the only island she has ever known. Her home is Wōtto, one of the dry, windswept atolls of the northern Marshall Islands. The newborn infant Ḷainjin has just been entrusted to her care by his mother, who has sailed her fleet of proas into the open ocean to save them from certain destruction.

Helkena, having barely survived the storm, must now travel to Naṃdik, a wet atoll in the southern rain belt of the Rālik Chain. As Ḷainjin’s surrogate mother, she will sail with the infant by outrigger canoe in the company of his maternal grandfathers. These kind men had recently helped the Wōtto Islanders overcome the terrible drought that typically follows a typhoon. With the trade-wind season approaching, it’s soon time to complete their voyage. The grandfathers begin teaching Helkena the traditional navigational arts along the way.

Her goal is to get her tattoos on Naṃdik and, in time, to find a man there to take home to Wōtto. She will need help to manage her matrilineally inherited lands, and she is related to most men in that small, dry world. But will she entice a man from the lush south to her barren desert island?

Far from being a simple story, this colorful, romantic tale presents a surprising background to the lovemaking culture of the Marshall Islands. It also reveals the early years of young Ḷainjin, the hero of the Legends of Ḷainjin historical literary fiction series.

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Before I Wake (Travels Across Time, Book 1) by Mary Ellen Johnson

About Before I Wake (Travels Across Time, Book 1) by Mary Ellen Johnson:

Historical novelist Magdalena Moore is haunted by the black-haired, black-eyed knight she first encountered during a past life regression. Across a lifetime, Magdalena searches for the truth about Ranulf Navarre and his Lady Jane.
Is Magdalena the reincarnation of Lady Jane?
Who is Ranulf Navarre, the knight who has tormented her across centuries–her once beloved or a figment of Magdalena’s writer imagination?
During a visit to Tintagel Castle, Magdalena is miraculously transported to thirteenth-century England, where she is indeed Lady Jane, and Lord Navarre her husband. But Ranulf is not the man of her imagination.
Why is Ranulf so cold and Janey so erratic? What secrets are they hiding? When England plunges into civil war, pitting the rebel baron Simon de Montfort against Henry III, Ranulf backs the wrong side, the side which will be annihilated at the Battle of Evesham. Knowing her husband is destined to die in battle, Janey/Magdalena tries desperately to cheat fate, save Ranulf, and finally find happiness. But when Magdelena, whose past and memories exist alongside Lady Jane’s, discovers her counterpart is the ultimate unreliable narrator, Magdalena uncovers a terrible truth which may prove too heinous to be forgiven.

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Amish Lantern Mystery Series Book Set: Volumes 1-3 by Mary B. Barbee


About Featured Book: Amish Lantern Mystery Series Book Set: Volumes 1-3 by Mary B. Barbee

Three compelling Amish mysteries with surprise endings in each – you won’t want to put down this collection of the first three books in the Amish Lantern Mystery Series. Grab your copy now for only $0.99 and become absorbed in the intriguing mysteries that revolve around the lives of the Amish and Englisch citizens of small town Little Valley, Tennessee.

This book set is on sale for $.99 through September 26th only.

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Before & After

About Before & After:

In the middle of the night, as the stars creep across the sky, Sam wakes to discover himself lying on a dock. He has no recollection of where he is or how he got there – nor does he know the identity of the dead woman lying next to him.
Sam, confused and lost, must hurry to figure out who this woman is, and how she died. Was she murdered? Should he go to the authorities and risk being a suspect?
Before he can decide what to do with his future, he must work to uncover his past, and the events leading up to the mysterious woman’s death. Who is she? More importantly, who is he?
In the midst of these questions, a blooming love affair with a young man, who may actually be part of his past, adds to the exciting twists and turns of this psychological thriller.

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The Secret of the Lost Pharaoh by Carolyn Arnold


About Featured Book: The Secret of the Lost Pharaoh by Carolyn Arnold

In Egypt’s Western Desert lies the tomb of an unnamed pharaoh that hides a secret so powerful, it could destroy the world as we know it.

Archaeologist and adventurer Matthew Connor has made a career of finding legends the world has all but forgotten. Though there’s one in particular that has fascinated him for years—the Emerald Tablets. Myth says that they possess the knowledge of the universe, allowing humankind to traverse Heaven and Earth, and have the power to bestow wealth and wisdom upon whoever possesses them. But if they fall into evil hands, it could cause a global disaster.

So when a former colleague stumbles across an ancient Egyptian hieroglyphic map that promises to lead to a pharaoh’s tomb and the Emerald Tablets, there’s no way he’s turning down her invitation to join the dig. He only has one stipulation: his best friends Robyn Garcia and Cal Myers come with him.

The road ahead isn’t going to be an easy one, and their shared dream of recovering the Emerald Tablets is being crushed at every turn. And just when they think it’s all over, they learn there are a few clues they have overlooked. But they’re no longer the only ones searching for the Tablets. Now, the fate of the world hangs in the balance, and soon they’ll find out that when it comes to hunting legends, they can’t trust anyone.

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Self-Elected: How to Put Justice Over Profit and Soar in Business

About Self-Elected: How to Put Justice Over Profit and Soar in Business:

Self-Elected is a story of abundance. Part memoir, part business guide, and part manifesto, it invites the reader to explore the convergence of social justice and profit. Lisa Wise tells a deeply personal story about being a child left behind and how that beginning, coupled with an intuitive knack for entrepreneurship, evolved into an intense desire to build security for herself and others. This work is both personal and practical in nature, providing budding entrepreneurs and those who want to revisit their business models with concrete recommendations for centering their companies in justice without ceding profits. It includes an array of research and case studies to build a compelling argument that prioritizing people and place is the truest path not only to financial success, but to a more equitable society. Self-Elected is the story of how one woman who grew up with housing insecurity went on to build a thriving family of property management companies, all while flipping the traditional scarcity-based business model on its head.
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Featured Author Sandy Hanna

Featured Interview With Sandy Hanna

Tell us a little about yourself. Where were you raised? Where do you live now?
I’m a BRAT, an acronym that stands for British Regiment Attached Transfer, an identity that dependents of military families proudly use to identify themselves with. We are a nomadic tribe resulting from a life of moving across the globe and country every two years. To say where I was raised is to say ‘everywhere.’ When I was six months old I went to England for three years and the moving around didn’t stop until my father, the Colonel, retired from military service in 1964. Vietnam was our most memorable posting from 1960-1962 and it was there that I had a zoo of sorts. The Vietnamese officers brought rabbits, roosters, an elephant, a blue-belly monkey, a stork, cats, and dogs as gifts. I couldn’t have been happier. After all this travel and more when I was on my own, I finally settled down, as best a BRAT can, in Lambertville, New Jersey. It is in this small river town, situated along the Delaware River, I have finally found home.

At what age did you realize your fascination with books? When did you start writing?
I became fascinated with books when I was ten-years-old and we were stationed in Saigon, Vietnam. There was no television and books were what I gravitated to for entertainment and knowledge. I will say that I would read almost anything in those days; sports books, biographies, horse stories, mysteries, it really didn’t matter. I just loved to read. I didn’t start writing until I was in college, preferring to paint the images of the stories I had in my mind. Today, I do both, write and paint.

Who are your favorite authors to read? What is your favorite genre to read. Who Inspires you in your writings?
I remember the day I wanted to find something to read and I was working in a small drug store in the town my parents finally landed after the military life was over. Above the store was a bookstore and I was asked to work there one evening as the employee who was normally scheduled was ill. As I wandered around I looked at the titles and the covers, selecting two that stood out to me for both: The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner and Tolstoy’s War and Peace. I was hooked and to this day I think William Faulkner is one of my favorite authors.

Tell us a little about your latest book?
When my father was in his eighties, he slid a document across the kitchen table to me that he had been carrying with him for many years and told me it was time. I asked him what it was time for and he asked me if I remembered our stay in Vietnam in the early 60s. I did. He then told me that what he was giving me was an expose on the Diem regime, supported by the United States, written by his Vietnamese counterpart, exposing the corruption and the anti-American sentiment of that regime. He asked me to write a book. When I asked why now so many years later, his response was ‘that in not understanding history we were destined to repeat it and were doing so in the Middle East.’ When I asked him if he wanted an accurate documentary, he said no. He wanted a compelling story written because American’s don’t like to talk about Vietnam. So, under orders from the Colonel, I wrote me memoir. I describe “The Ignorance of Bliss: An American Kid in Saigon” as “To Kill a Mockingbird” meets “The Great Santini” with “A Year of Living Dangerously” thrown in.

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Featured Author T.E. Ridener

Featured Interview With T.E. Ridener

Tell us a little about yourself. Where were you raised? Where do you live now?
Hello, everyone! I was born and raised in Southeastern Kentucky, home of the original recipe for KFC – NOT to be confused with the original KFC that opened, as that is in fact in Utah. But, Colonel Sanders roamed these parts when he was making that chicken, haha.
I still live in the same town – boring, huh?
I have a cat (Christine) and dog (Cujo) – notice a theme? I love my fur babies.

At what age did you realize your fascination with books? When did you start writing?
Oh, probably around 9 is when I realized both. I loved reading. I still love reading. I actually started writing way before I could technically write. I’d cut people out of magazines and sales papers to paste onto new paper, thus, telling my stories.

Who are your favorite authors to read? What is your favorite genre to read. Who Inspires you in your writings?
I love anything by Ashlyn Chase, Nancy Straight, Marie Hall, Shona Husk, and of course, my 3 OGs: Stephen King, Anne Rice, and R.L. Stine.
Every day people. Life. Nature. Sometimes, just something I hear or see while I’m out and about.

Tell us a little about your latest book?
The Ice King’s Heart is book 3 in my series The Descendants ( I promise I knew nothing about the books or movies when I originally wrote these ), and it follows Heidi (The Fire Princess) and Isaiah (The Ice Prince) as they return to Earth for one final showdown against the Darksygg.
Dun dun dun!
It’s been in the works since 2013-ish. If I don’t have it done by October 12th, I may just cry.

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Featured Author Olivia Nicol

Featured Interview With Olivia Nicol

Tell us a little about yourself. Where were you raised? Where do you live now?
My name is Olivia Nico. I am a self-published author and poet. I was born and raised in California. i moved to Texas when i was 19 or 20. I fell in love with the state and have lived here since then. I’m 30 now. I am married, I am a mom. I have no pets but my favorite animals are wolves and horses.

At what age did you realize your fascination with books? When did you start writing?
I have been reading since I was a little kid. I did not start writing until I was in high school.it was mainly silly little love poems about whoever I had a crush on at the time.

Who are your favorite authors to read? What is your favorite genre to read. Who Inspires you in your writings?
My favorite authors are: Shakespeare, Dacre Stoker, Bram Stoker, Edgar Allen Poe, and Chaucer. Reading Shakespeare’s work in school was what made me want to write poetry more seriously and influenced my current rhyming style. I don’t have a favorite genre; I will read anything that catches my eye. My husband and son are my main sources of inspiration. though, this current book was inspired by my favorite wrestler.

Tell us a little about your latest book?
My current book is a book of Christian poetry. The title is Words the Angels Speak. It is inspired by my favorite wrestler and the story of how he turned his life around and became a Christian. The poems are all about God, Christianity, especially being a Born-again Christian. They are short, rhyming poems that are meant to be entertaining and uplifting.

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Featured Author Shirley Goodrum

Featured Interview With Shirley Goodrum

Tell us a little about yourself. Where were you raised? Where do you live now?
I was raised and educated on two continents and four countries, South Africa, Britain, Zimbabwe (then Southern Rhodesia and Zambia ( then Northern Rhodesia, traveled on two Union Castle Liners, steam trains and cars with canvas water bags hanging on the front fender. My now home is forty-five minutes from any significant town and three generational. It has a magnificent view of no so distant mountains which I watch at sunset with a glass of red wine. I share the double storey space with four other adults, a teenager, a preteen, three dogs, three cats and two rats. The rats terrify me, and I haven’t ventured upstairs since the preteen brought them and their kit home.

At what age did you realize your fascination with books? When did you start writing?
Thanks to my late parents my life has never been book free, I’ve always loved reading and became the family scribe as soon as I learnt to write. When they died, I recognized my mother’s handwriting on the label of a plastic packet. It read ‘Shirley’s Writing.” Inside the packet I discovered a newspaper cutting of me winning a prize in a bra competition and all the stories, poems and articles I’d written as a girl. Mom had kept them all. The very next day I noticed an advert for a creative writing course, signed up and promised her I would write a book about the newspaper photo.

Who are your favorite authors to read? What is your favorite genre to read. Who Inspires you in your writings?
I read all genres, heck I read anything, even the back of cereal boxes and whatever else catches my eye. From a lifetime of reading it’s impossible to list my favourite authors, there are simply too many who have grabbed my attention, introduced me to marvelous characters and captivated my heart; they all inspire me, they all have apiece of me.

Tell us a little about your latest book?
My book, Baggage in a B Cup is the story behind that yellowed newspaper cutting. I took sample chapters to London and after three exciting ‘please send us the manuscript’ and the following disappointment of ‘sorry it’s not for us’, I took the proverbial book by the spine and published it on Amazon in January 2019. It’s the story of ordinary people facing extraordinary challenges, their good, their bad, their loves and belief, it’s sprinkled with humour and dedicated to my late mother and my family.
Pam Richards takes centre stage in the book. Small-busted, she wears unnecessary size 32B bras, and is smug in a strong twenty-year-old marriage. As the mother of three teenagers, one of them chronically ill, and a part owner of a fledgling company, she’s practiced at getting back on her feet when life whacks her behind the knees, but she’s devastated when depression hijacks her husband, Alex, and their seventeen-year-old daughter runs away with a convicted LSD dealer. Her jelly legs are too weak to support her and, as Alex withdraws into himself, cracks appear in the foundation of their loving marriage. Fear and loneliness tear at her sanity and topple her into a romance. She’s relieved when the runaway daughter returns, albeit pregnant, and thrilled to win a trip to Rio in a bra competition, but Alex can hardly get on his shrink’s couch let alone board a plane. She loves her husband, hates his depression and is a date away from a full-blown affaire. Does Alex get better, do they go to Rio, or will she slip between the illicit sheets?

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Featured Author Kelvin Bueckert

Featured Interview With Kelvin Bueckert

Tell us a little about yourself. Where were you raised? Where do you live now?
I grew up on a family farm in Manitoba, Canada. While on the farm I enjoyed many walks with my dog in the forest near our home. However, times change and now I’m living in a small rural town.

At what age did you realize your fascination with books? When did you start writing?
At a young age I enjoyed listening to books being read to me. As soon as I could read, I did and did a lot of it. I can’t remember when I started writing…but it was soon after I started to read.

Who are your favorite authors to read? What is your favorite genre to read. Who Inspires you in your writings?
I like to read Agatha Christie when I need a mysterious puzzle to ponder. I also enjoy the works of Stephen Lawhead. I find inspiration in many genres and writers actually.

Tell us a little about your latest book?
My latest book is a work of historical fiction. It is a broad overview of the history of my home province of Manitoba. It is also the story of a family and their struggle to survive through the massive changes coming their way.
It began as a theatre script. The original idea was to celebrate 150 years of Manitoba in 2020.
However, lock downs happened…frustration and gnashing of teeth followed, and long story short, I turned the story into a novella.

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Featured Author Michelle Murray

Featured Interview With Michelle Murray

Tell us a little about yourself. Where were you raised? Where do you live now?
A native Texan, I still reside in Texas, but have been blessed to travel the world. After a career in the United States Army, I decided to pursue my passions. These include writing, acting, traveling, camping, SCUBA diving, horsemanship, volunteering and spending time with my adult son, Kendal. I am also a host of talk radio program, Chelle’s Three Cents, on Blogtalkradio. I am the writer and Executive Producer of the KMP production “Mendacity.” You may also know my work from shows like “Man With a Plan” on CBS, or “Crazy Ones” with Robin Williams, or other broadcast shows like “The Cleaning Lady”. Additionally, I am the 2019 Miss North Hollywood California Plus America title holder. I hold an undergraduate degree in Entertainment Business and a Master of Fine Arts degree in Creative Writing. I am currently pursuing her Doctorate.

At what age did you realize your fascination with books? When did you start writing?
I have always had a fascination with books, even before I could read! I started writing, on a small scale, in kindergarten. I remember writing a little “daily newspaper,” and even making “books” from stories written and illustrated on notebook paper.

Who are your favorite authors to read? What is your favorite genre to read. Who Inspires you in your writings?
My absolute favorite author is John Grisham. He has a knack for blending procedure, adventure and thrill into quite intriguing tales. I also enjoy reading Herman Wouk and even Danielle Steele. All of them present vivid imagery which make their stories more attention grabbing to me. My favorite genre is a tie between historical fiction and crime/legal thrillers.

Tell us a little about your latest book?
My latest book, due out November 22nd, is Book Four of my Stoic Souls series. Each book of the series features relatable, but incredibly strong female protagonists. This book, Two Junkies and a Demon, depicts the thrilling adventure of what happens when the drug culture of a desert town intersects with the literal forces of Heaven and Hell.

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Featured Author Melanie Sypherd

Featured Interview With Melanie Sypherd

Tell us a little about yourself. Where were you raised? Where do you live now?
Hi, my name is Melanie Sypherd and I from California, raised in the heart of Los Angeles. I grew up with a love for anything and everything entertainment. In elementary school I was a member of the choir and orchestra classes and the local girl-scouts. Back then, I was sure that I would find a place in music, but when I was promoted to Thomas Star King Middle school, all of that changed. I auditioned for my first part in the school play and landed a role in “Tootsie” a comedy musical. It was in that performance that I stole the show and was bitten by the showbiz bug. Subsequently, I was voted “Most likely to pursue a career in entertainment” and started writing poetry and short stories.
In high school, I enrolled in a creative writing classes to help develop my writing techniques and the stories poured from my creative imagination. After high school, life really picked up, and I laid my pen down and put my story telling on the shelf until I created an after-school program to help promote the arts. I do not have any pets currently because life is too busy.

At what age did you realize your fascination with books? When did you start writing?
I started my love affair with books when I was 8 years old, asking my parents for nothing else for Christmas.

Who are your favorite authors to read? What is your favorite genre to read. Who Inspires you in your writings?
Yikes thats a tough one, I like many different authors. Off the top of my head, I like Alice Walker, Toni Morrison, Emily Bronte, Langston Hughes, Maya Angelou and many more. Currently, I am a fan of the Spirituality genre but am genuinely inspired by my own life experiences and my imagination.

Tell us a little about your latest book?
My book “The Patio” tells the story of Andrea Pierce, a reasonable, responsible woman whose life has been a concentrated effort of staying out of sight and out of mind. However, being nearly 6’ tall and drop dead gorgeous makes that a nearly impossible feat, not to mention she just so happens to be the one and only child of one of the most influential Hollywood movie directors/writers. Up until now however, she has done an excellent job and has found contentment in focusing on educational goals and her future career options despite her mother Maggie’s constant nagging about finding a man. Tonight however, Maggie may get everything that she has ever wanted for het daughter and Andrea just may get everything that she thought she never wanted.

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Featured Author Faye Hall

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Tell us a little about yourself. Where were you raised? Where do you live now?
I am an Australian author of Steamy Historical Romantic Suspense eBooks.

I live in Queensland, Australia where I was raised with my husband and 5 children.

I have had 16 books published with Venus Press, Red Sage and Beachwalk Press but due to each of these publishers closing their doors I am exploring the world of indie publishing via my family run company 4th Avenue Press.

At what age did you realize your fascination with books? When did you start writing?
I use to tell stories to my mum in the car and as soon as I could write, she encouraged me to write them down. I started writing poetry at about 10 and went into novels about 15.

I started reading comic books at a young age and was reading full novels by the age of 12.

Who are your favorite authors to read? What is your favorite genre to read. Who Inspires you in your writings?
My favourite authors are Amanda Quick and Agatha Christie and they are who inspired me to start writing.

Tell us a little about your latest book?
Carnal Transgression is inspired by my great grandfather who was an Irish policeman who immigrated to Australia.

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