SHOWCASE 16: Nine Indie Books To Tempt You

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SHOWCASE 16: Nine Indie Books To Tempt You

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ONE CHANCE FOR GLORY by Edward T. Heikell and Robert L. Heikell

Most people are well aware of Charles Lindbergh and his well-known 3600-mile solo flight across the Atlantic Ocean in 1927 while few have even heard of the incredible feat accomplished by Clyde Pangborn. He played the key role in making a nonstop 5500-mile Pacific Ocean crossing four years later, in 1931. During the crossing, Pangborn had to slip outside in the frigid night to make repairs at 17,000 feet, jettison the landing gear to reduce weight and drag and put the airplane into a terrifying high-speed dive to 1400 feet to restart the engine somewhere over the Bering Sea.

During and action-packed 41-hour flight, he eventually belly-landed in an airfield carved out of the sagebrush near Wenatchee, Washington.

Although the flight was nearly twice a long as the famous ‘Lindbergh crossing’ and the expertise required was considerably more taxing, Pangborn received insignificantly less fan fare.

Edward (Ted) Heikell and Robert (Bob) Heikell are brothers born in Yakima, Washington, and raised in Wapato, Washington

This is Ted’s first attempt at literature, but he has two DVDs on the market pertaining to hunting and fishing.

Also available from Amazon.co.uk

BRING ME THE HEAD OF EL MONTE SLIM by D.M. Ryan

Inspired during a long stay on a remote Pacific Island, the novel features a wacky, absurd and endearing cast of characters who undertake a quest to save the world from a corporate takeover.

Join El Monte, his trusty sidekick Pancho, and the irrepressible Annie Price on a coast-to-coast comic odyssey as they battle pharmaceutical hit men, suicide bombers, professional wrestlers and gay Native American bikers all out for the bounty on El Monte’s head.

D.M. Ryan’s novels, short-stories, and songs often revolve around society’s forgotten souls and underdogs. Ryan found inspiration for Bring Me the Head of El Monte Slim” during the two years he spent on Sand Island, Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge, in the Pacific, where, he says, “I lost my compulsive attachment to reality.”

Also available from Amazon.co.uk

TRUTH’S BLOOD by Tyler Roberts

It is the waning years of the American Empire. The Constitution and the Bill of Rights are fading memories, but the drones buzzing overhead are a constant reminder that everyone is being watched. The economy is in ruins and the countries European style welfare state stands at the brink of collapse. The United States can no longer pay its debts and China has come seeking payment in real assets. Select cities are nuked, power is out and burned out houses occupy neighborhoods like rotting teeth in the mouth of a crack addict. After occupying the United States China establishes work camps and begins rounding up the young males to extract oil, gas, timber and other natural resources as payment for what it is owed.

Truth’s Blood is the Lang family’s story of survival while attempting to rescue their sons from the chaos of the burning cities and the Chinese labor camps. With the United States experiencing the disintegration of society and foreign occupation, their challenge verges on the impossible.

Tyler Roberts grew up in the Pacific Northwest. He is trained in the fields of wildlife and biology. In addition to writing, his hobbies include organic gardening, managing a small orchard and beekeeping.

Also available from Amazon.co.uk

JACK DAWKINS by Charlton Daines

Jack Dawkins, once known as the Artful Dodger in the streets of London, was sent to Australia on a prison ship when he was little more than a boy. Now he has returned to find that London has changed while the boy has turned into a man.

With few prospects provided by his criminal past and having developed mannerisms that allow him to move amongst a higher strata of society, Jack turns his back on the streets that would have primed him as a successor to the murderer, Bill Sykes, and quickly remodels himself as a gentleman thief.

New acquaintances and a series of chance encounters, including one with his old friend Oliver, create complications as remnants of his past come back to plague him. Jack is forced to struggle for a balance between his new life and memories that haunt him with visions of the derelict tavern where Nancy used to sing.

Charlton Daines is an academic and an afficionado of fine Literature. As such, he has sought to add to the collective of world Literature with the occasional selection that might appeal to those with a love of Classics and Historical Fiction.

Also available from Amazon.co.uk

SWEET OBLIVION by Bailey Ardisone

Nari hates everything about her life except for her best friend Rydan, but now that they’ve been separated during their senior year of high school, she has to learn to make new friends without him. When strange unexplainable phenomenons start becoming an every day part of her life, Nari struggles to come to grips with reality. And with love.

Naminé has responsibilities. Duties. It is her obligation to fulfill all that is asked of her by their King. But when a glimmer of hope is introduced to her by a prisoner,she does all that she can to turn that hope into reality and finally end the vicious war that has been ensuing since she was born. Even if that means keeping it secret from her King. Even if it means carrying out the biggest betrayal against the King ever seen during her time.

Bailey Ardisone is a collaboration between two sisters who were born and raised outside of Chicago, Illinois. They took the last names of their two grandmothers to form their pen name and combined their creative forces to write the first book in their series, called Sweet Oblivion.

Also available from Amazon.co.uk

SHADOW DREAMING by Jan Hawkins

It is an ancient Lore. They are a people who live by different rules in a modern world. Reach out and touch the Dreaming of the Ancient Australian Aboriginal Lore and travel with the Rainbow Serpent and other Spirit Creatures of the Dreamtime. Learn how a world very different from your own survives amongst us. The loves, trials and passions of the Shaman who live sheltered by their Lore and yet who walk amongst us, ordering our lives in what is the oldest land and continuous culture on the Earth.

Each book, of the four books in the Dreaming Series is a story in its own right. Each Shaman you follow lives within the boundaries of the lives of others and yet their stories are unique, phenomenal and rich in diversity and ripe in challenge. The Dreaming Series – a flight into another world.

Australian Author, Jan Hawkins, was raised in the Australian bush on the outskirts of Sydney along the Georges River. Now residing in Queensland, she spent 20 years in education. Jan is passionate about the real living history of her country, its diversity and its people and has a strong desire to discover and experience new places. This fuels her travels throughout the land and her research and interest in Australia’s ancient Lore.

Also available from Amazon.co.uk

LEATHER TO THE CORINTHIANS by Tom Lucas

Gather round all you tattooed, lost soul wandering, Wi-Fi/Lo-Fi mutants! Come! Come listen to the hypnotic beat of my drum! Join me on trip to the Village, a strange and surreal place, where an epic battle will determine the fate of the human race! The GENERAL is determined to win this war as the insane clown insurgent wants to settle a score! He’s got a bone to pick with his nemesis the KING, the mad ruler of the Village who only cares about celebrity status and bling! You will meet a young SOLDIER, who fights to survive the melee, as he loses his humanity along the way!

Leather to the Corinthians is an absurd postmodern fable that defiantly flips a middle finger at modern American life. Through the perspectives of its multiple characters, it explores the absurdities of organized religion, the military, big business, fast food, advertising, sex, and the media. Witty, with bitter undertones, its story possesses a satirical spirit as it plays with traditional story structure, phrasing and cultural references. Its multiple layers encourage return visits as its characters have many more unique tales to tell.

Also available from Amazon.co.uk

THE SITY by Curran Geist

Victor’s memory has been damaged from months of torture and enslavement. But there’s one thing they couldn’t steal from him…the hope of finding his lost family. Carina is haunted by strange visions and the symbols etched into her skin. She will stop at nothing to discover her true identity.

In this tale of survival and vengeance, two young humans fight back against the oppression of an alien race called the Kuljik. Dangers and unspeakable horrors lie around every corner of the Sity, a violent metropolis where enslaved humans are abused for the pleasure of the aliens. Victor and Carina are both blessed with mysterious supernatural powers and represent humanity’s best hope to escape. Will their personal demons cause them to unravel as they forge the destiny of their futures?

In writing his first self-published novel THE SITY, Curran Geist has merged his love of science fiction, fantasy, and horror genres with his belief in combatting social injustices.

Also available from Amazon.co.uk

WHITE PICKET PRISONS by Phil Taylor

A coming of age story about four men who never really did. Lifelong friends are drawn to the neighborhood of their youth for a funeral and for the first time they see the idyllic neighborhood of their childhood through the eyes of adults and their shocking discoveries challenge everything they thought they knew about themselves and each other. Our heroes are the guys next door, grown-ups by day but the same goofy kids they always were when they’re together, humorously meeting adulthood and a murder mystery head on. The question is not will they survive the bad guys, but will they survive each other? With something for everyone White Picket Prisons is equal parts suspense, humor, nostalgia, and a little romance and a car chase thrown in for good measure.

Phil Taylor is a father of three, husband to one, and life-long smart ass to many. His first fiction novel, White Picket Prisons, is an ode to the life-long friends that shaped his life.

Also available from Amazon.co.uk

I hope you’ve enjoyed this Showcase, and I look forward to publishing another one soon, with books from Danielle Singleton, Elizabeth Eyles, Gareth Barsby, Brigit Reed, Frank Hofer, P.C. Zick and Phillip Frey

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