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"...well written and full of action and suspense. I highly recommend this author."A State Library of Virginia fiction selection.
Tears at Sunrise
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My new book Letters to the Editor of Cthulhu Sex Magazine is a compilation of letters to the editor, forewords and afterwords into the vague semblance of a story about a possibility as to why the magazine no longer exists (except in the hands of a small cabal). A Lovecraftian tale about the sacrifices needed to develop a cult following. Available now in print and ebook https://www.amazon.com/Letters-Editor...
"...well written and full of action and suspense. I highly recommend this author."A State Library of Virginia fiction selection.
Tears at Sunrise
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"...each chapter has another twist and turn which makes it very hard to put down..."Stone Ponies
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"This book was a Wow! I love it, it had love, romance, mystery, and murder...I felt like I was there..."Silent Waltz
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Thrills. Mystery. Romantic Suspense.Do your Christmas shopping the easy way.
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The latest fun escapade in the Revenge is Fun series takes place in the Venice Canals community in the LA area. Twists, turns, a bit of humor and a satisfying bit of revenge. This light mystery series always has some underlying revenge, clues and surprises. Any or all of the 5 books in the series make great gifts for anyone who likes light mysteries. http://bit.ly/Scammed-K
"...each chapter has another twist and turn which makes it very hard to put down..."Stone Ponies
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"This book was a Wow! I love it, it had love, romance, mystery, and murder...I felt like I was there..."Silent Waltz
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A State Library of Virginia fiction selection."...well written and full of action and suspense..."
Tears at Sunrise
https://tinyurl.com/yd34qf7v
There's nothing like a western for adventure. Even better if it includes a mystery and a bit of romance.Sam Blake, a range detective, is on the trail of a rustler when he agrees to help a town sheriff protect a woman accused of murder from a lynch mob.Blake’s Rule
"No One Will Find Me - A Sandi Webster Mystery" is now available in both ebook and paperback format at Amazon.com.No One Will Find Me: A Sandi Webster Mystery
"...each chapter has another twist and turn which makes it very hard to put down..."Stone Ponies
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"This book was a Wow! I love it, it had love, romance, mystery, and murder..."Silent Waltz
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"...another story that I didn't want to end and kept me guessing throughout..."Pieces of January
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Answers to the questions about the effects of dimension traveling on human beings in my story, "To Chael", in the anthology Hell's Highway: Terrifying Tales of Tormented Travels by April Grey. You can get it on Amazon at https://www.amazon.com/s?k=april+grey... If holiday traveling isn't scary enough for you, get this book. Or perhaps it can provide you with reasons not to show up for the holidays.
Got a railroad buff on your gift list this year?He/she might enjoy Hear the Whistle Blowing: Railroad in the Coal Region. https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07...
Access Point: A Psychological Thriller by Tom Gabbay"Compelling characters and a narrative which keeps you guessing, Access Point is an engaging page turner. Highly recommended."
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Wouldn't we all want a second chance at life?
When young American art student Mia Fraser is brutally murdered steps away from her London house she shares with computer genius Ula Mishkin, it leaves the socially inept scientist heartbroken. When it becomes clear that Detective Sarah Boyd is making no progress in solving the crime using traditional methods, Ula creates a software program that allows her to reach into her dead housemates memory in order to reveal the identity of the killer. Entering the dead girls life through the echo of her memory, Ula learns that sometimes the past is best left undisturbed.
Access Point
I'm pleased to announce that I have signed with Little Roni Publishers for the release of my new children's book, Penelope's Purple Perfect Plan. Stay tuned.https://www.amazon.com/author/ronaldp...
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That's a fun title for kids. 🙂
My story "Family Fugue" was published as part of the anthology, Goodreads Best Short Stories 2019 by Beatrice Williams et al. You can get it on Amazon at https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B08372HMR... Work by those of us in the New Authors group here on Goodreads moderated by Grasshopper Bot. If your looking for something to distract yourself during these days of the virus, get this book. Be warned that some stories may be darker than others but all may help you create a new family of sorts.
Barbara wrote: "Ronald wrote: "I'm pleased to announce that I have signed with Little Roni Publishers for the release of my new children's book, Penelope's Purple Perfect Plan. "That's a fun title for kids. 🙂"
Great title - is it a picture book or a chapter book? age group it's aimed at?
Just discovered my publisher put kindle version of Turn of the Tide as a Kindle monthly deal at 99p. Also of course in KU, so free there. Rather disappointed that the Amazon categories it's showing in don't really fit - they have it as romance - sorry folks it isn't. It's a story of a fictional family trapped in the real history of a long-running clan feud in 16th c Scotland called the Ayrshire Vendetta - and all the pressures that places on family, on relationships and on personal integrity. My passion is to write authentic HF - and give the reader a 'you are there' experience. If anyone picks it up - I do hope you enjoy it.
My latest novel was released today.
It's my tenth published book, but it's unrelated to any that came before... except that it was inspired by my lack of success in attracting an agent for any of them. :-)
Margaret, You can access Amazon through your Author Central account, call them, and change the categories for your book...it might make a difference.Brinn
D.L. I don't know how serious you are in your writing career but there are places to go to get some tips...try the Facebook site 20Booksto50K It is celebrating its 40,000th member right now...very disciplined group of writers supporting other writers...with the idea that pumping out books built on top of books is a way to make a living as a writer...best wishes, Brinn
Brinn wrote: "D.L. I don't know how serious you are in your writing career but there are places to go to get some tips...try the Facebook site 20Booksto50K It is celebrating its 40,000th member right now...very ..."Thanks, Brinn. I think of writing more as more of a hobby, a means of self expression, and perhaps as an art than as a way to make money. I'm afraid that approaching writing as a career would take much of the fun out of it. I wouldn't mind a nice fat contract with a major publisher, but it's not my primary goal.
Hi D.L. Thanks for the quick reply...everybody has their own reasons for writing! Good for you...I have a reason for writing each of my books...besides entertainment, that is...and would dearly love to sell more so I could devote even more time to the bliss I feel, the contentment I feel, when I write... good luck to you!Brinn
May is Mystery Month. Are you doing your part to celebrate? https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07...
The Bludgeoning of the Suitor is a dark humor narrative poem about a dastardly Victorian-era crime, featuring two dozen vintage illustrations. Fourteen verses in twenty pages. https://www.amazon.com/Bludgeoning-Su...
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Resilience: The Life-Saving Skill of Story
by Michelle AuerbachThe book is about story-telling: how it can help us cope and change things....which seems like it would be quite useful these days. 🙂🍀🌸
Greetings:Thank you for the opportunity to announce the release of my latest title: "The Fifth Dimension" within the Christian Fiction genre.
https://www.amazon.com/Fifth-Dimensio...
Stan Kidder's marriage is in turmoil. A CIA operative, he discovers his best friend is missing, explosions erupt in Korea, Chinese subs are operating in the Red Sea and satellites are blown from the sky. Stan soon joins unlikely allies trying to make sense of the chaos. The Christian Intelligence Group (CIG) monitors an unseen dimension with the same sophistication as the world's leading intelligence agencies tracking spiritual darkness that impacts world events. When the Ark of the Covenant is stolen and his wife missing amid global upheaval, Stan must decide who to trust to save the world.Stan must learn to trust what he cannot see...
My other titles can be found either at their publisher site or:
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I'm thrilled my book The Bartered Body has been nominated for the 2020 Readers Choice Awards contest by TCK Publishing. I hope you'll consider voting here (in the mystery category) https://www.tckpublishing.com/2020-re...
Paperback HRH KING DONALD contains 2nd book in series (short read) free on Kindle 19-23 July http://www.amazon.com/dp/B08CNQHY9S
My short story, Ella's Garden, is the cover story in this week's edition of Piker Press.www.pikerpress.com
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Nice 'second chance' story Ronald. 🙂
A rookie officer is called to a nursing facility where a female guest has been murdered. Another guest, who claims to have been the woman's lover, is found in the room and offers shocking tales of senior sexuality. The Man Everyone Loved is one of two of my short stories now on sale for a limited time. The other is Open and Shut, about a murder-suicide the investigator isn't prepared to write off too quickly.
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Despite Covid and other disruptions of these distracted times, my latest work of historical non-fiction has appeared on time (though Goodreads doesn't seem to have managed to retrieve the cover, which came out rather well.)The Black Widows of the Eternal City: The True Story of Rome's Most Infamous PoisonersOn a sweltering July afternoon, five women were hanged in Rome’s Campo de’ Fiori as the entire city watched. Their crime: allegedly brewing poison to kill their husbands, then selling it to other would-be widows.
Subsequent narratives singled out one of them, a notorious psychic named Gironima Spana as the spider (a black widow, presumably) at the center of a deadly web of man-hating wives. For decades, Spana had mingled with Rome’s elite until a hangman’s noose put an end to her infamous career—but not her notoriety.
The newly recovered transcript of the 1659 investigation (which popes kept under lock and key for centuries, lest the poison recipe continue to circulate and more husbands succumb to it) prompts a reexamination of the crime, which has captured the public imagination for so long but has never been accurately told. It turns out that Gironima may never have actually poisoned anyone herself, unlike dozens of others who escaped the gallows.
Most other wives implicated in the case vanished into Spana’s shadow in later retellings of the tale. These forgotten, would-be widows had indeed resorted to murder to escape impossible marital predicaments, ranging from their husbands’ financial incompetence to laziness, jealousy, infidelity, sodomy, battery, and even murder. This new account reestablishes these women’s place in their own story and reveals what happened to them in the end.
“Better to get yourself hanged,” one poison dealer exclaimed to a badly battered, indecisive potential client. “Better to suffer just that single torment than so many: otherwise every day you’ll end up just like you are today”—a fitting slogan for the many wives who chose to risk a speedier end on a gibbet rather than endure a lifetime’s battery and abuse.
University of Michigan Press is currently offering it at a 30% discount on their website (www.press.umich.edu) with the promotional code UMPOISON.
https://www.press.umich.edu/flyers/97...
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Barbara wrote: "Well this is certainly a fascinating story! (Did you get the poison recipe? 🙂)"But of course (chapter 7, "Slow Poison") provides all the details....
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"...another story that I didn't want to end and kept me guessing throughout..."
Pieces of January
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