Indie authors entertain troops with mass book donation

Twenty independent authors from across the United States have come together to show their support of those serving in the military overseas, announced Gordon Vivace, facilitator of Indie Author Promotions and author of Quoth the Booby, his humorous perspective on everything from parenting to politics, economics to education and travel to trials. The authors contributed two copies each of their works to be made available to the servicemen and women.
The mass donation of books from various genres was the brainchild of yours truly, Devorah Fox, an Indie AP member and author of the literary fantasies The Lost King and The King’s Ransom. “We were inspired to do this by author James Patterson’s recent giveaway of 200,000 of his titles to military members stationed in the U.S. and Afghanistan.” said Fox. “We’re independent authors not affiliated with a large publishing house. While we’re not in a position to ship out a pallet-load of books, we liked the idea of showing our support for our servicemen and women in this personal way. We hope our work will entertain them during their down time.”

The Indie Author Promo members compiled a collection of humor and science fiction books, thrillers, romances, fantasies and memoirs to provide the troops with a refreshing virtual respite from their important and challenging work. The participating authors contributed two copies each of their books.

In putting together the donation, Vivace discovered that postal regulations required that the books be shipped to a specific individual. Over Labor Day weekend 2013, Vivace shipped out the box of books weighing over 50 pounds to a 401st Army Field Support Brigade service member who is involved with the local Army “library.” The soldiers will have permanent access to the books.

The contributed books and their authors are:

Personal Baggage – Margaret McMillion

Pie – Kandy Kay Scaramuzzo

Where There Is No Comfort, Seven Days in Ethiopia – Juliann Troi

The Dragonfly Saga – Juliann Troi

The Lost King – Devorah Fox

The King’s Ransom - Devorah Fox

Heart Song – Samantha LaFantasie

Death Storm – GS Wright

Broken Things – GS Wright

Separate Truth – Michael McManus

Framed But Not Forgotten – Michael McManus

Mistress – Jessica Flaska

Captured – Jessica Flaska

Quoth The Booby – Gordon Vivace

He Walks With Dragons – Stanley Thornton

Dangerous Zeros – John Marshall Mills

Four Fathers, For Whom The Book Tells - George Pritchard Harris

Freefall – Linda Howell Betz

Love’s Second Chance – R. M. James

For a variety of reasons many authors including acclaimed award-winners choose to stay away from mainstream publishers and remain independent. Through Indie Author Promotions, over 100 authors collaborate to publicize and promote each others’ works and make them readily available via the Web site at http://indieap.cucinavivace.com.