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"Meanwhile the sunsets are mad orange fools, raging in the gloom..."

At Breakwater Harbor Books we pride ourselves on finding some of the most talented Indie authors around and helping them to publish and succeed.

We enjoy all genres of books in BHB, from religious to horror, from sci-fi to paranormal.



All of our writers this year are getting amazing five star... Read more of this blog post »

Jo Nesbø’s publisher in Denmark, Modtryk, made a fantastic book trailer of Jo’s upcoming novel Police, please see below.

Police is the tenth installment in the Harry Hole series and will be published in Norway on June 6th. The novel is currently being translated into English and will be available...

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Hi everyone.

The giveaway promotion for The Siren Project has ended, so thanks to everyone who joined in. Congratulations to the winners (Nicole, Tamra, Wendy, Daniel, Joanne, Karen, Peter, Deb, Alisa and Tabetha), your free copies are in the mail, but have patience, as they are coming from Austra... Read more of this blog post »

Somehow I missed posting this with all the Reddit AMA hooplah going on. Upcoming4.me was kind enough to invite me over for a second "Story Behind" article, which you can read here.

Автор: Орсън Скот Кард

Издател: Ера

Година: 2012

Стр: 336

Цена: 12.99 лв



Класика.



Добре дошли в света на Орсън Скот Кард и неговата поредица за Ендър Уигин. Днес ще ви споделя страхотния първи роман от тази фантастична поредица - "Играта на Ендър". Първото издание на книгата на български е от 2001-а -... Read more of this blog post »

I think this is so fun:)

You know how my mom keeps saying she wants a poster of Rule? Well now she isn't the only one that can get
one!

Did you pre-order Jet? Follow this link and you can get a Rule poster for yourself :)
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I know this is a blatant brag - but my heart is beating so fast! I've just seen that Makeover Miracle is one of the top downloads in the romance section on i-tunes! Whoo Hoo! How exciting! Eeeeek! Cheers, Charmaine

I used to despise silence. I wore headphones, turned up the T.V., talked on the phone, and sang to myself all at the same time. Well, maybe not all of it, but it felt like all of it.

I’ll never forget going to camp as a kid. I attended a Christian camp, and they had rules. The rules weren’t hideo...

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Take a breath. Slow down. Dating doesn’t have to be so rushed. It does have to be right.

[Bonus material fromGet Lost.]

“The purposes of a man’s heart is like deep water, but a man of understanding will draw it out.” Proverbs 20:5

As the sun set on Tuesday, I went to God. He sat with m...

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I’m excited to announce that my book Shadow of Wrath has cracked the top ten in 3 Amazon categories: Scifi Dystopian, Children’s Books Science Fiction, and Teen Science Fiction.

[Related: Shadow of Wrath]

So how did I get my book to climb the Amazon rankings? I used a promotional website called Bo...

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If you don’t know where you are heading and how to get there, what are your chances of getting there? If you operate your finances on a pay as you go basis, taking it one month at a time, eating with ten fingers, how do you plan or hope to accumulate wealth. How will you [...]



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Ας ρώταγες ποιον αγαπώ / Νένα Φιλούση. Παράκεντρο, 2010.
Το βιβλίο διηγημάτων της Νένας Φιλούση (κατά κόσμον Έλενα Σάββα) «Ας ρώταγες ποιον αγαπώ», αποτελείται από δέκα νοσταλγικά διηγήματα. Κάποια από αυτά είναι βγαλμένα μέσα από την Κύπρο άλλων δεκαετιών ενώ μερικά αναφέρονται στη σύγχρονη επο... Read more of this blog post »

A huge development from Amazon:

Get ready for Kindle Worlds, a place for you to publish fan fiction inspired by popular books, shows, movies, comics, music, and games. With Kindle Worlds, you can write new stories based on featured Worlds, engage an audience of readers, and earn royalties. Amazon...

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I was invited by HERITAGE OF GRACEto participate in a blog challenge, so here goes!

Here are the questions:What is your favorite hymn? This is a hard one! I love Be Thou My Vision, Jesus I Am Resting, Resting, Come Thou Fount, To God Be the Glory, and I Am Resolvedin particular. It is hard to cho... Read more of this blog post »

One of my earliest blog posts was about dealing with critiques and I shared what I called the 30-40-30 rule that I learned from my uncle. Well I just had a short vacation with said uncle and found out I had the percentage wrong! He said it’s 40-20-40! So here’s my old post, revised a tad with tha...

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Tomorrow will mark the TWO WEEK dot on the countdown to IN TOO DEEP's debut.

*breathe breathe*

Well, of course, I am nervous. As a debut author this whole journey has been like an out-of-body experience...it's been surreal!

My journey went kind of like this:

*Commit to writing 1500+ words/day
*Hit 90... Read more of this blog post »

Glimmer of Hope
Stunning Miranda Harford once had the world at her feet. She was young, carefree, and desperately in love. But when her new husband left for London without her, her world fell apart. Devastated by his abandonment, Miranda fled their home, taking residence at her husband’s rarely v... Read more of this blog post »

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What was the first book you read that inspired you to become a writer?

Wow -- that’s hard to remember, because I was a book worm as a kid and enjoyed so many books! I think the two books that most inspired me were Pride and Prejudice and The Hobbit.

I hear you are working on a sequel to The Essence... Read more of this blog post »

For a limited time, Emancipating Andie will be on sale for 99 cents...so if you have it on your TBR, now would be a good time to snag it! ;)

http://tiny.cc/yakixw

The second
ebook in my Hittin’ the Trail series went on sale today. Hittin’ the Trail: Day Hiking Grand Canyon National Park offers the only complete list of day hiking trails in one of the nation’s favorite national parks. In addition, with one tap of the screen, you can:

g Plan days of fun fami...

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In 2006 I compiled a bibliography for a CD I had just released. I would change a lot, and add a lot, but its interesting to walk through my book shelves and raise an eyebrow now and then...

Bibliography

The Story of Civilization Vol. I - Xi, Will & Ariel Durant
Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh... Read more of this blog post »

I think I’m getting better at this interview thing… On another note… I was struggling with making progress on WARRIOR’S TOUCH over the past couple of weeks. Then last night, I had a thought about a scene that was OK, but just wasn’t quite doing it for me… Write it from another POV! At the […] Read more of this blog post »

Just got this heads-up from my editor! How incredibly cool is it that the entire Stark Trilogy ofRelease Me, Claim Me, and Complete Me are 1, 2, and 3 in the books/romance/erotica category on Amazon!

P.S. - Book two of myStark Trilogy-Claim Me- is in it's third week on the New York Times and US...

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Quentin: This is turning into a full-time job.

Jason: We never do four posts in a week.

Jake: You're both so lazy. <kisses Jason>

Jason: Are you having fun?

Jake: Yes. I'm learning a lot about giveaways and widgets and shit. Did you know you can only run a giveaway on Facebook with a third-par... Read more of this blog post »

I’m very please to share this congratulatory message from WordPress – fresh from yesterday.

Can I offer a great big

to everyone who has chosen to follow my random ramblingsover the past ten months. It’s been a hugely enjoyable and education journey and I hope you’ve been able to glean at least...

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If you traverse the interwebs on a regular basis then you may have spotted the catchy “Show Me the Awesome” posts that have been springing up hither and thither. Thither and yon. The initiative was started by Kelly Jensen, Sophie Brookover, and Liz Burns. Designer John LeMasney was, in turn, resp...

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“Even poetry, Sweet Patron Muse forgive me the words, is not what music is.”

“Music is at once the most wonderful, the most alive of all the arts,” Susan Sontag exclaimed. Anaïs Nin found in it “the mystery of our secret life.” And though science may have attempted to decode how music tickles our...

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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was born today.I came late to enjoying Doyle’s work, insofar as it exists beyond Sherlock Holmes. It took me an embarrassingly long time to figure out that Doyle wrote somethingotherthan the Great Detective, but when I did, boy howdy. I devouredThe White Company,The Exploit...

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This Author Spotlight featuresScience Fiction novelistPeter Laurentauthor ofThe Covert Academy (Volume 1).


Author Peter Laurent was born and raised in Auckland, New Zealand.He studied 3D animation in Auckland, then worked full-time in Mount Maunganui.

Peter then formed his own company, Indian... Read more of this blog post »

I actually made 2,000 likes on my Rebecca Berto (Novel Girl) Facebook page! Whoopee! Can you believe it? To say thanks, I’m giving away an eBook copy of Drowning in You. Entry is simple: ***2,000 likes giveaway*** Win an eBook … Continue reading → Read more of this blog post »

CBS has decided to pull the tornado-themed “Mike & Molly” season finale.

“Due to the tragic events this afternoon in Oklahoma, we are pre-empting tonight’s season finale of ‘Mike & Molly,’ which has a related storyline,” CBS said in a statement.

The finale was originally scheduled for 9:...

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Join over 80 authors sharing their hot reads and giving away exciting prizes. Wait! It gets even better. There will be two grand prizes awarded to two randomly drawn winners: a Kindle Fire and a $100 Amazon Gift Card. To be eligible to win the grand prize, you MUST leave a comment with a valid e... Read more of this blog post »

So, I finally got sucked into the time-sucking-image-seeking-black-hole-exciting-inspiration of Pinterest.

And it was all because of the wonderful Smitten Book Blog for reviewing Coffee and Cockpits and finding images to best suit Nina and Liam.

Here are the pictures she found:

and
I liked it so... Read more of this blog post »

Rob Columbus, Cam's love interest and
long time boyfriend is giving himself an introduction at Dru's BookMusings, and Dru is giving away a copy of The Begonia Bribe to
commenters!





And at noon today, I have a post at
Writer Space about the Murderous Bystanders all around us. Would
love it if people co... Read more of this blog post »

I’d made it to the motel parking lot when I heard the footsteps. A sombrero may make me look good, but it does shit for my hearing, so the bastards were able to scoop me up real quick. The first one gave me a hard slap on the top of the head with an opened palm. The bottle crashed to the ground,...

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Hello hello!

I have a bit of a treat today--a cover reveal of Rebecca Odum's new book, coming soon! I was lucky enough to edit this one; it's a pleasure to share some advance info with you. This is Rebecca's first book, and she's off to a good start. It's got a really interesting dystopian feel, a... Read more of this blog post »

It seems like every time I pop onto Goodreads there's a new kerfuffle brewing. People getting attacked for voicing their opinions, butthurt writers and their minions pissing and moaning over said opinions, and worst of all... uptight prudes flagging some truly fine pulchritude.

It's enough to mak... Read more of this blog post »

For those in the northern hemisphere, summer is here! What better way to celebrate summer vacations than to give (or receive) a sizzling hot spanking? After the rousing success of Love Spanks and Spank or Treat, Anastasia Vitsky and her team of spanking fiction authors have returned to bring you...

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House-sitter=check.

Pet food laid in=check.

Clothes brought up to Paris-grade=Sigh. Somehow even after more than a decade of doing it, I never manage to get this one down. And what’s with the 60 degree highs in Provence & Italy people? That throws all my packing off. I’m starting to believe in...

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Hello, M.J. I love your blog and have been dying to get on it! Thank you for having me. I’m here to
share about my current release, Flying in Shadows,
and about the non-profit organization I’ve teamed
up with for the month of May.

Operation Migration is completely amazing. They


raise highly endanger... Read more of this blog post »

Reblogged from Jane Dougherty Writes:

Book covers are important. I tend to judge a book on its cover, and will only read books with a naff cover if I know and like the author. And there are some terrible ones out there. In the old days, before Photoshop and computer graphics, when mass market pap...

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Get it at Amazon.

For a very limited time, the sequel to Relentless, Pieces of You, is on sale for 99 cents at the following retailers:

Amazon US / UK / CA / DE / FR / ES / IT / JP / BR
Barnes & Noble US / UK Nook
iTunes
Kobo Books
Smashwords
All Romance eBooks

This won’t last, so make sure you grab... Read more of this blog post »

Here are some events coming your way!

Giveaways:
Author Rachel A. Olson has an amazing giveaway starting May 24th.

My own little giveaway celebration which will start on May 25th and end on June 1st. Links will be posted on these dates so keep an eye open on my blog or facebook page!

New Website! Wo... Read more of this blog post »

Hi Reese! I was waiting for finished copies to come in bc I figured you’d prefer that (the book isn’t on sale until next month). I should receive them any day though, so please do send your school address to Anna.collomore@gmail.com. Sorry for the delay!! xAnna