SHOWCASE 19: Another Ten Indie Books on Parade

Welcome to the nineteenth Showcase.

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SEBASTIAN by Christoph Fischer

Sebastian is the story of a young man who has his leg amputated before World War I. When his father is drafted to the war it falls on to him to run the family grocery store in Vienna, to grow into his responsibilities, bear loss and uncertainty and hopefully find love.

Sebastian Schreiber, his extended family, their friends and the store employees experience the ‘golden days’ of pre-war Vienna and the timed of the war and the end of the Monarchy while trying to make a living and to preserve what they hold dear.

Fischer convincingly describes life in Vienna during the war, how it affected the people in an otherwise safe and prosperous location, the beginning of the end for the Monarchy, the arrival of modern thoughts and trends, the Viennese class system and the end of an era.

As in the first part of the trilogy, “The Luck of The Weissensteiners” we are confronted again with themes of identity, Nationality and borders. The step back in time made from Book 1 and the change of location from Slovakia to Austria enables the reader to see the parallels and the differences deliberately out of the sequential order. This helps to see one not as the consequence of the other, but to experience them as the momentary reality as it must have felt for the people at the time.

Christoph Fischer was brought up near the Austrian border in Bavaria and has since lived in Hamburg, London, Brighton and Bath.  “Sebastian” is his second book and is part of the “Three Nations Trilogy”.

Also available from Amazon.co.uk

WHITE JADE  by Alex Lukeman

Book One in the PROJECT Series


WHITE JADE spins a web of deceit and murder across the globe, against the backdrop of a deadly international power game. Nick Carter is a man with a dark history of emotional and physical scars. He works for the PROJECT, a covert intelligence unit reporting to the President.
Selena Connor is an expert in ancient languages. When her wealthy uncle is murdered by someone looking for a 2000 year old book about the elixir of immortality, she’s thrown into Nick’s dangerous world. Nick is assigned to protect Selena and help her recover the missing text. It’s the beginning of a life and death adventure reaching from San Francisco to Beijing, from Washington to the high mountains of Tibet. Someone is determined to take over China and attack America–and Nick and Selena are right in the line of fire.Alex has been writing since he was twelve. He’s done a lot of traveling and been in a lot of strange situations. He was in the Marines and spent years on the road as a professional folk singer. You could say that he brings a varied life experience to his writing.

Also available from Amazon.co.uk



TERROR ON THE BEACH by Peggy Holloway




Someone is terrorizing the beach. They’re calling him the Beach Front Stabber. Sarah lives on the beach and but isn’t worried since her boyfriend is the sheriff. But then she discovers someone is trying to frame her for the murders and trying to make her think she is going crazy. No one believes her. What can she do?

Besides writing mysteries, Peggy likes to read (anything she can get her hands on), paint landscapes in oil and in enamel on glass. She enjoys swimming and walking on the beach.

Also available from Amazon.co.uk



SHADOWS OF TOCKLAND by Jeffrey Aaron Miller

A post-apocalyptic adventure set in plague-ridden mid-America. A troupe of traveling performers face an escalating series of troubles as they journey closer to the border of the Empire of Tockland. This is a harrowing tale, full of brutal fights, desperate escapes and quirky characters.

Jeffrey Aaron Miller is a 1997 graduate of the Creative Writing program at the University of Arkansas. He has held a wide variety of jobs over the years, from social worker to bus driver, from postal carrier to pastor, but through it all, he has remained a storyteller. He is the author of numerous novels, both print and e-books, in the genres of science fiction, fantasy and YA.

Also available from Amazon.co.uk



NO COMMITMENTS by Val Sharp

Set in the era of the Vietnam War, this is a love story of a young man and woman caught up in the throes of that time. CLAY STONER: Annapolis graduate, navy pilot, born and raised in the Ozarks, he’s a fun loving, carefree jet jockey…until he learns he is actually going to have to bomb real people. MARIANNA HAIZET: Daughter from a renowned Swiss banking family, sheltered in boarding schools while pursuing a career in music, has known little joy in life…until she meets Clay.  OUR COUPLE meet by chance in Nice during a Bastille Day weekend and when they part neither imagines their lives will ever cross again.

Val Sharp was a navy pilot during the era of this novel.  Afterwards he obtained a Columbia MBA and enjoyed a second career as a Wall Street investment banker and finance company president.

Also available from Amazon.co.uk



IN CHAINS by Michelle Abbott

Savannah, fleeing a turbulent relationship, seeks solace at her brother’s country farmhouse. It’s there that she meets Kayden; he’s her brother’s slave and considered less than human. These two damaged souls form an unbreakable bond, one that’s about to be tested, because Kayden is her brother’s property and he will stop at nothing to keep them apart.

Michelle grew up in south-east London. She now lives in the Kent countryside with her two grown-up sons.

She published her first book, ‘In Chains’ in April 2013.

Also available from Amazon.co.uk



ETHAN JUSTICE: ORIGINS  by Simon Jenner

Waking up beside the gorgeous Savannah Jones, John is shocked to learn she was for hire, and he can’t pay the price – a thousand pounds or broken legs.  In desperation, he turns to best friend, Mark, for the money.  Only one problem – Mark has a dagger in his back.

John and Savannah are plunged into a dangerous world where wits and adrenaline are their only weapons and trust in each other their only certainty.   As the body count mounts, they discover Mark wasn’t the person John thought, and his terrifying invention may well end up killing thousands, John and Savannah included.

A race to recover the missing invention pits the unlikely pairing against ex-SAS psychopath, Gregory Fisher, a man who will stop at nothing and kill anyone in his way to wreak revenge against the Government who stole his livelihood.

Simon Jenner is a man whose goal in life is to discover his goal in life.  He lives with his wife, who keeps his dream alive and his stomach tight against his trousers; his son, a dreamer just like his dad; and a dog who receives fuss like he’s the one doing the favour.

Also available from Amazon.co.uk

A PLACE TO LAY MY HEAD by Joe A. Moreland

In the early days of my youth, my family lived a nomadic life style–taking possession of unattended shelter wherever we could find it. We lived in tents, crumbling log cabins, abandoned houses, a barn, a school bus, and even a chicken coop. This is the tale of my life during those years as my mother and father slowly (but somewhat reluctantly) lifted themselves out of the post-Depression era into contemporary society.

Although the author published more than 35 scientific and technical reports during his career, this book is his first serious attempt at Creative Nonfiction writing.

Also available from Amazon.co.uk

EARTH’S BLOOD by Ethan Holmes

Captain Ben Vorghees doesn’t know why his massive cruise liner is being tossed around like a toy in a bathtub. Ito Isaki becomes a hero for just a moment by rescuing much of the staff and guests at a Japanese resort hotel only to look up and see an unstoppable black monstrosity looming in front of him.

For those of us who survived and exist in this rapidly changing, re-forming post-apocalyptic world it has become a matter of basic survival. We are certain there are survivors, individuals and small groups, yet we do not know how they will make it. There are no public utilities, no grocery stores and almost no modern forms of communication.

Ethan Holmes is a rural Pennsylvania-bred author currently residing in Northern Arizona. Ethan realized in his mid-teens that people enjoyed his writing enough for him to see poetry and songs published. This graduated into short story writing, advertising production, article writing and later magazine features. Approximately ten years ago Ethan took on the challenge of his first novel, Earth’s Blood.

Also available from Amazon.co.uk

A BLOODY BLOODY MESS IN THE WILD WEST by Justin Bienvenue

This is a gritty and gripping tale about the fictional town of Toomswood in 1870,  five years after the Civil War a small withering town fighting in another war against a slick corrupt Mexican business tycoon and his army of undead Civil War soldiers. It focuses on the struggles people suffered after the war, western tale and themes, triumph and tragedy and an epic battle against the undead. While the first two chapters do cover some hints of real-life aspects during the Civil War, the book itself is entirely fiction.

What happens when a wanted man in Mexico flees the country to take on an oil purchase in a small town on the border of Mississippi and Alabama? The same thing that happens when the son of a recently departed sheriff of the small town along with the rest of the town tries to stop him, They battle in an all out bloody war. When Javier “Bones” Jones acquires abilities from a mysterious stranger one night he then decides to take the town for everything it’s worth. It is up to a young man by the name of Emerson Shaw along with the rest of the town to put a stop to Jones and his sinister agenda, from wreaking havoc and turning their home into a desolate ghost town.

Justin Bienvenue lives in Massachusetts. He is a poet and author. His first book was a book of horror poetry entitled “The Macabre Masterpiece: Poems of Horror and Gore” published in 2010. While he mainly enjoys writing poetry, he has recently expanded his horizons and started writing stories, narratives and short stories.

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 Sharon Owen, Morag Macallum, Ethan Holmes, Alex Lukeman, Jacob Singer, Frances Gilbert, Daniel Quentin Steele, Beem Weeks and Peggy Holloway.