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February 11, 2011

Bookaday: Pandora's Succession by Russell Brooks

Pandora's Succession - Action/Thriller

Where would you hide if you learned the CDC and a major pharmaceutical company unleashed a hyperdeadly microbe on the human race?
CIA operative, Ridley Fox, never stopped hunting his fiancée's killers—a weapons consortium called The Arms of Ares. When an informant leads him to an old bunker outside of Groznyy, Chechnya, Fox is captured, beaten, and left
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Published on February 11, 2011 05:00

February 10, 2011

Bookaday: Swallow by Tonya Plank

Swallow - General Fiction / Literary Fiction

Synopsis: Sophie Hegel is a shy New York lawyer from small-town Florence Arizona, known not for the Renaissance but for housing a large prison. She's just graduated from Yale Law School and landed her
first job when, one evening she feels a fist-like ball form at the base of her throat. Diagnosed with the psychological condition Globus Hystericus,
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Published on February 10, 2011 05:00

February 9, 2011

Bookaday: Failing Test by J.M. Pierce

Failing Test - YA Contemporary Fantasy    You know him, but you can't remember his name. He is the one that is always there, in the background, all but invisible to those roaming the hallways. What if he had a secret? What if it was a secret that even he didn't know?

Test Davis has always been a blur to those around him. He's a shadow like a million other kids--not smart enough for the academic
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Published on February 09, 2011 05:00

February 8, 2011

This Makes My Day!

I really have to give a shout out and a thank you to Eleni at La Femme Readers, because while cruising my email today, I noticed that my book, Bloody Little Secrets had popped up on her site!

I was so surprised that people are already excited about my upcoming book. SO cool. I'm hoping to have the first chapter up for you all in a couple of weeks.

In the meantime, check out the La Femme Readers
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Published on February 08, 2011 08:52

Adventures in Epublishing: Pricing and Marketing Experiment Results

I ended my 99 cent experiment a little soon, after only 17-ish days. It was meant to be a promotion, although I did have grand plans after selling sometimes 7 copies a day that maybe I would leave it at 99 cents. But with a new book (Megg Jensen's Anathema) coming out at my DarkSide Publishing label this next week, we decided it might be good to end the promo and put the price back to $2.99 so
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Published on February 08, 2011 08:34

Bookaday: The Eye of the Storm by William L.K.

The Eye of the Storm - Science Fiction/Fantasy

The Eye of the Storm opens the Stritonoly Chronicles series in glorious style on sci-fi-cafe.com. Dmitri, son of the Czar of Stritonoly, driven insane by the forbidden poison of the slave-race Acidel sets in motion a catastrophic chain of events. A terrifying and eternal force stalks the forest nearby as a storm of epic proportions gathers over the
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Published on February 08, 2011 05:00

February 7, 2011

Bookaday: The View From Here by Rachel Howzell

The View From Here - Psychological Suspense

The View from Here focuses on the beauties and hardships of marriage; the betrayals and promises made between husbands and wives; and the grief of one woman haunted by secrets.

Nicole Baxter has always tried to control every element of her life, but that control is slipping away. She has issues. Abandonment issues. Marital issues. Conception issues.
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Published on February 07, 2011 05:00

February 6, 2011

Bookaday: The Usurper by Cliff Ball

The Usurper - Thriller


Gary Jackson is raised to hate. Hate the United States, and everything it has ever stood for. His mission is to destroy the country from within, allying himself with America's enemies, and one very powerful and malevolent billionaire, to accomplish the deed. Once elected to the highest position in the land, Gary puts his lifelong goals to work, and puts the USA onto the
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Published on February 06, 2011 05:00

February 5, 2011

Bookaday: Death Has A Name by Jerry Hanel

Death Has a Name - Paranormal

Together with Detective Phil Dawson, Brodie Wade -- a psychic detective -- must summon all of his will to go head-to-head with a spiritual force known as The Truth to solve the latest string of gruesome murders. It appears that Dominick Fredrickton -- the Midnight Killer -- has returned from the grave. Can they stop Death before he is unleashed from eternal bonds?
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Published on February 05, 2011 05:00

February 4, 2011

Bookaday: One Hundred Open Houses by Consuelo Saah Baehr

One Hundred Open Houses - Contemporary Women's Fiction

Synopsis: 100 Open Houses is about real estate and life. It's about the whispers from the soul hole that we barely hear. Rebecca Haas, like all of us, is being tortured to death by the sameness of her life, her thoughts, her weight, the incessant self review of life choices, her indecision, her stalled writing career. Can a change of space
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Published on February 04, 2011 05:00