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Navidad by Elizabeth ZelvinShort Story/Historical 9pgs ebook
It's Christmas Eve, 1492, and the second night of Chanukah. The crew of the Santa Maria, including Admiral Columbus, are sleeping off a three-day party with the local Taino. Diego, the young Marrano sailor who first appeared in the Agatha-nominated story, "The Green Cross," climbs into the crow's nest to light his secret menorah. When the ship goes aground, consequences arise that will affect the history of the New World from that moment on.
A historical short story for the holidays from our Nibs literary line.
To request a review copy send your site links and ebook format to brendan@untreedreads.com
Artie and the Red-Headed Woman by Jan ChristensenShort Story/Crime 14pgs ebook
It's Christmastime in New York, and with a fresh stash of watches and fine jewelry in his athletic bag, Artie is riding the bus home. A red-headed woman across the aisle catches his attention, particularly since she seems so sad and so familiar. When the bus has engine trouble and the cops arrive, Artie and the woman both have urgent reasons to get away as fast as they can, Artie with his stash and Gina from her father, an old friend of Artie's. All is not what it seems with Gina, and the Christmas season brings more surprises wrapped up in the beautiful red-headed woman than Artie ever expected.
This is the second installment in The Artie Crimes short story series.
To request a review copy send your site links and ebook format to brendan@untreedreads.com
The Morning After by Melanie SuraniShort Story/Thriller 12pgs ebook
When Jen and Rahul are tardy joining their friends for a weekend getaway in the woods, they're shocked to find the cabin deserted except for Arjun, who has been stabbed. Rescue efforts lead to drama, heartbreak, and unexpected revelations in this short mystery from our Fingerprints line.
Review copies now available. Send blog links and ebook format to brendan@untreedreads.com
Confidence Tricks by Hamilton WaymireShort Story/Mystery 13pgs ebook
Private investigator Benson Keirstad agrees to check out Cybil, Mrs. Drummond's long-lost daughter. Tailing the young woman through Anaheim's Downtown Disney district, he discovers an unsavory confidence scheme. When Keirstad finally realizes that his confidence, too, has been betrayed, he fears it's too late for some of those involved.
A short story from our Fingerprints mystery/crime line.
Review copies now available. Send blog links and ebook format to brendan@untreedreads.com
Supreme Reflections by Joseph PfefferShort Story/Literary 5pgs ebook
A young writer travels to Mexico for inspiration, where he meets an elderly American couple with a colorful history. He has no idea how colorful until the wife excuses herself and her husband tells the writer a shocking secret about his wife. But is it true? Supreme Reflections is a short story of how people replace the real world with fantasy, then spend their lives trying to make their fantasies real.
Review copies now available. Send blog links and ebook format to brendan@untreedreads.com
Trade Secrets by Irene BlackShort Story/Literary 6pgs ebook
The long drive, ghastly weather and her business partner’s flu make an inauspicious start to Shazz’s sales enterprise. She sets up her silk tie stall at the craft market and waits for the customers to come along, but when they do something inevitably goes wrong. Throughout the day Shazz compiles a mental list of reasons for her lack of sales, but is she missing the point?
A short story from our Nibs literary line.
Reviewers and book bloggers: send your blog links and ebook format to brendan@untreedreads.com for a copy
CatManDo by Jack EwingShort Story/Horror 8pgs ebook
Many people own pets. Some people are owned by their pets. And a few, like elderly widower Rolf Stenstrom, take the concept of animal care to the extreme.
A short work of horror from our Spectres line.
Reviewers and book bloggers: send your blog links and ebook format to brendan@untreedreads.com for a copy
The Laundress of Silver Lake by Julie JansenShort Story/Science Fiction 6pgs ebook
In a future world of deadly solar flares and cloned dinosaurs, an investigative journalist sets out to uncover the truth about an urban myth: the Laundress of Silver Lake. As he wanders the banks of the lake he discovers some mysteries are better left unsolved.
A short story from our Orbits sci-fi/fantasy line.
Reviewers and book bloggers: send your blog links and ebook format to brendan@untreedreads.com for a copy
Hope everyone had wonderful holidays with more on the way. In between one and the other, perhaps you'd care to check out a short story for review?
A Little Death by Anne BrookeShort Story/Historical 12pgs ebook
When Abigail marries Nabal in the time of the rebel king David, she quickly discovers her husband's bullying ways and cruelty. Trapped in a loveless relationship but determined to fight, she finds solace in her growing relationship with servant girl Anna. Soon the two women are plotting to kill Nabal, but the increasing attacks from David threaten to destroy all their hopes for happiness.
A short work of historical fiction from our Nibs literary line.
Interested reviewers can send their blog links and ebook format to brendan@untreedreads.com
Gifts: A Southern Story by Augusta TrobaughLiterary/Family Drama 38pgs ebook
During the 1950s, young Jessica – Southern born but “being Yankee raised” -- spends Christmas in the small town of Galilee, Georgia, in the company of her Great-Aunt Kate, two other aunts, and a cousin. During this relatively brief visit, Jessica is subjected to full “Southernization” by the entire family.
As one means of teaching Jessica “who she is,” they tell her the family story of the J.P. Stevens Percale sheet, a singular present that has circulated back and forth between Great-Aunt Kate and her late husband’s Aunt Frances in Dallas for over forty years. The story of how that tradition began and why it continued for so long provides Jessica with her greatest lesson in the crash-course of Southern culture and manners. Conversely, she is also initiated into the brutal burden of Southern history.
Of all the family, only Aunt Cana, an African-American woman who has “been with” the family for as long as anyone can remember (and whose church-going, God-fearing Mama named her in honor of Christ’s miracle at the wedding in Cana of Galilee), knows the real secret behind the story of the cyclic gift. Of all the women who try to influence Jessica, Cana is the one who finally leads the child into an acceptance and then a somewhat reluctant celebration of Family -- “no matter how crazy it is!”
A light-hearted story on the surface, Gifts also portrays the full range of that era’s Southern history and culture: rigid racial and social stratification, a veritable worship of the past, an eternal honoring of Ancestors, an iron-clad adherence to good manners, and most of all, the restructuring of memory – the art of making a good story even better.
Click to read an excerpt of Gifts: A Southern Story
Interested reviewers can send their blog links and ebook format to brendan@untreedreads.com
Negative Space by Betsy MillerShort Story/Literary 7pgs ebook
After a recent miscarriage, a young artist shuts down emotionally. She separates herself from her feelings, seeing the world as a series of disconnected shapes and forms. As she returns to her art, she begins to look for ways to move beyond the pain of loss. Can she find the strength to leave the negative space of isolation and reconnect with her husband?
A short story from our Nibs literary line.
We have an excerpt available on our site.
Interested reviewers can send their blog links and ebook format to brendan@untreedreads.com
Happy New Year everyone! We thought we'd get started with a heart-warming family tale.
Rumspringa by Jesse S. GreeverShort Story/Literary 9 pages ebook
Excessive drinking. Chain-smoking. Methamphetamine addiction.
Such is the life of Wilma Burrows, a woman whose lifetime has been marred by an inexplicable string of bad decisions. Scarred and shattered, she tries to manage each day as it comes, desperate to keep herself from plunging into the abyss, but the demons are always a few short steps behind her.
Sixteen years ago, one of her many indiscretions resulted in the birth of pure and untainted innocence. But that shining glimmer of decency was whisked away, only to fade away as a distant memory.
But some days, even the most faded memories have a way of reemerging in unexpected ways.
And for Wilma, that day is today.
A short story from our Nibs literary line.
Come read an excerpt on our site.
Interested in a review copy? Send your blog link and ebook format to brendan@untreedreads.com
If Looks Could Kill by Rekha AmbardarShort Story/Mystery 5pgs ebook
When Carter Hoffman, leading biochemist of Lovelace Cosmetics, is found clubbed to death with a microscope, CEO Lillian Lovelace is distraught. She’s lost the originator of a breakthrough anti-aging cream, and she suspects Vince Gallegos, her competitor. After all, he’d been trying to wheedle Carter into working for him. Then there’s Kate Daly, Vince’s assistant, who has a bad crush on Carter and who suspects Lillian of pulling a few tricks of her own.
Detective Deb Summers has seen some interesting cases, but this one screams: looks aren’t everything.
A super-short work from our Fingerprints mystery line.
You can read an excerpt on our site.
Interested in a review copy? Send your blog link and ebook format to brendan@untreedreads.com
Deadly Choices by Jennie SpalloneThriller/Suspense ebook 96pgs
Originally published in 2005. First ebook edition.
One foggy November morning on Chicago’s West Side, paramedic trainee Beth Reilly faces a life or death choice that will put her own future in jeopardy. High on cocaine, her veteran paramedic officer slams their ambulance into a homeless, pregnant woman, forcing the woman into labor. Beth alone must decide who will live—the fetus fighting for life or the mother who is hemorrhaging to death. She can’t save them both.
Beth’s decision tests old friendships and creates new enemies. Her woman-hating boss tries to destroy her career. An ambitious prosecutor decides her trial is his ticket to a judgeship. A religious zealot treats her as a sacrificial lamb, diverting suspicion from the woman he loves. A handsome professor enters her life, but is the timing coincidental?
When one of her tormentors dies suspiciously, Beth realized her choices have turned deadly.
You can read an excerpt on the Untreed Reads site.
Interested in a review copy? Send your blog link and ebook format to brendan@untreedreads.com
Killer Flies by William D. HicksShort Story/Horror 9pgs ebooks
The Army plans to use a new breed of flies to protect combat soldiers. But Dr. John Pankow, their creator, is worried that his killer flies are uncontrollable. Will Mother Nature's most genetically-altered weapon be the ultimate armor, or the potential ravager of the entire world?
A work of short horror from our Spectres line.
You can read an excerpt on the Untreed Reads site.
To get a review copy please e-mail a blog link and your ebook format to brendan@untreedreads.com
Night of a Thousand Jeters by Jenifer LevinShort Story/Literary/LGBT 9pgs ebook
Will immersion in sports help two adopted Cambodian boys with special needs navigate their way towards a beautiful American manhood?
Will the author―queer, white, far from rich―survive the difficulties, mistakes, stupidities, flaws, longings and pitfalls of parenthood?
Will their beloved Manhattan, in the aftermath of 9/11, survive invasion by the nation’s wealthy elite?
Will their beloved Cambodia take history’s brutal lessons to heart, or will these be overshadowed by newly built towers of conspicuous consumption that encourage everyone to shop ‘til they drop?
Will a pickup baseball game near the George Washington Bridge reignite their dreams, bestowing them all with wit, hope and grace?
Reader: read on.
A short work from our Nibs literary line.
You can read an excerpt on the Untreed Reads site.
To get a review copy please e-mail a blog link and your ebook format to brendan@untreedreads.com
My wife and I write together under the pen name, M.A. Leslie. We are more in the paranormal/magical genre and have completed a MG magical realism novel Tristen & The Magic Shop, a paranormal thriller Liberty, and a paranormal mystery The Missing. We could use a review for any of them. We love feedback! Thanks everyone for checking them out!Please email us if you are interested - m.a.leslie1@gmail.com.
Also, for updates on our titles, you can check out our blog: http://www.maleslie1.blogspot.com
The Duel by Barbara MetzgerRegency Romance 197pgs ebook
Originally in print in 2005, now available as an ebook!
If only he could go back in time. Then Ian, Karl ol Marden, would not have dueled, and he would not have hit an innocent bystander -- a sickly lad, no less. And he certainly would never have brought the boy's sister, Athena Renslow, to stay at his house without a chaperone. On top of it all, the nineteen-year-old beauty is under the mistaken impression that Ian is the gentle hero who rescued her brother instead of the rogue who practically killed him. So, in order to keep the Renslows' lives from getting any worse, Ian resolves to marry the girl. But, Athena won't let the wealthy, handsome bachelor sacrifice everything for a country nobody, despite the urgings of both their families--and their hearts.
We have an excerpt available on the Untreed Reads site.
Book reviewers with blogs or who write for group review sites are welcome to review copies. Send your link and ebook format to brendan@untreedreads.com
Street Talk by Irene BlackShort Story/Literary 6pgs ebook
The tormented voice of a young drug-addict on the street below Ed’s apartment rekindles unwelcome memories and stirs his conscience. But is he about to jeopardise his comfortable life-style and his relationship with the woman he loves?
This short story was the First Prize Winner in the National Association of Writers’ Groups (NAWG) annual Short Story Competition. It was previously published in the 2003 winners’ anthology Smooth Pebbles, Pretty Shells.
An excerpt is up at Untreed Reads.
To request a review copy please send blog links and ebook format to brendan@untreedreads.com
Just found this group. Fabo.I'd love reviews of my new romance titles. The Boss and Her Billionaire is a contemporary category romance, slightly spicy, seriously fun.
Cruise director Michaela Western has everything she wants—everything except a sex life. But there are no secrets on cruise ships. She risked her job once for a dalliance with the Captain, and won’t do it again for a few minutes of toe-curling pleasure. Until a devilishly handsome new staffer with a body made for sin tempts her to walk on the wild side...
And A Talon at Her Throat is a paranormal novella. Hot, hard and full of feathers.
Torn between hiding her goddess lineage from mortals and needing her powerful gifts for self-preservation, Yasmin Freeman just wants to be ordinary. But when an assignment leads her to Gray, a Talon shape-shifter able to assume the deadly features of any bird of prey, the true nature of her abilities is revealed...
http://www.micheledewinton.com/contac...
Hello! My two-part YA fantasy novel "Dragontamer's Daughters" (DTD) doesn't have wizards, vampires, zombies, or super-heroic characters. It does have dragons, but I'm betting they're not like any you've read about before. If you're looking for something different in the YA fantasy genre, please e-mail me at kentonkilgore@kentonkilgore.com for an e-copy of each book.Goodreads page for DTD, Part 1: Pearl
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15...
Goodreads page for DTD, Part 2: Stormcaller
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15...
My site:
http://www.kentonkilgore.com/
Thanks! I hope to hear from you soon.
NEW BLOG ENTRY: Here is another snippet for #ssfsat from my dystopian science fantasy novel THE LACANTO PROJECT for which I am actively seeking an agent/publisher. THE LACANTO PROJECT is about an assassin who discovers that she is the genetic link necessary for the rise of a prophet in a dystopian world.COME ON OVER AND TAKE A PEAK!
http://tinacrone.blogspot.com
Speculative JourneysI've published an anthology of my previously published short stories. If you like scifi, fantasy and the weird, you might find this anthology entertaining. I'm looking for reviewers. SPECULATIVE JOURNEYS is an eclectic group of short stories ranging in themes from space exploration to Big Foot folklore.
http://tinacrone.blogspot.com
I am looking for the YA book reviewers for my debut novel, Forged by Greed, book one in The Forged Series.It is a paranormal romance/urban fiction novel. The main characters are shifters. The action takes place in present time, Seattle, although there are a few high fantasy scenes that transport a reader to the magical realms :-)
Blurb:
Two Seattle 16-year-old Shape Shifters, Jatred and Jasmira, are torn between following their hearts and protecting the order of the world. The path of the star-crossed lovers leads only to destruction.
The ancient Shape Shifter Races—the Winter wolves and the Summer leopards— live among humans and fit perfectly into modern life, while keeping secret societies with their own laws and traditions.
Two Goddesses, Crystal and Amber command their respective Races. One is on a quest to tilt the scale of power to her side. The other will never let it happen, even if it means sacrificing Jatred and Jasmira’s love.
The Amulet commissioned to bring stability into the world remains hidden and concealed with the help of advanced technology. Jatred is the guardian of the Amulet and key to the Goddesses’ conflict.
The forces of nature are disrupted. Earthquakes, tsunamis, and volcanic eruptions rake the world. The Goddesses go to war and summon all their Shifters to join in the conflict. Jatred and Jasmira must fight not only for their love but to protect the future of both Races and humankind.
Amazon link:
http://www.amazon.com/Forged-Greed-eb...
Goodreads link:
http://www.goodreads.com/giveaway/sho...
My website:
http://www.angelapeart.com
Contact email:
angela@angelapeart.com
Thank you! I'm looking forward to hearing from you!
I am an Australian paranormal writer and published poet. I am 22 years old and I won a writing competition in 2011 which led me to do a photo shoot. I'm currently writing a supernatural/crime novel which I will publish in the near future. If you like me, you can like my page, follow my blog and be updated with my posts! My website already has more than 81,000+ views! I have a page about my novel (which includes 5 chapters already up for reading) and ghost experiences too, as well as articles on many different haunted places around Australia, which I'm sure you'll find extremely interesting. But wait, it’s not just about the paranormal! I write about my life experiences and things I love to do. Feel free to follow and like the link underneath and give me a link to your pages and blog too. I’d love to give back as well! Please read and review my novel chapters and tell me what you think in the blog comments below.www.facebook.com/SKSAINItheauthor
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Just put your blog URL and if you have Twitter for that, I'll follow too. I will also follow anyone’s Facebook page associated with your blog. Happy blogging everybody!
Hi Alyssa,I'm always up for a review, so anyone who likes YA romance please message me for an e-copy of The Athena Effect :)
Also, my first book is now free in all e-book formats on Amazon, iTunes & Smashwords:
http://www.amazon.com/Between-Land-Ma...
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Hey this is my blog: http://drypath.blog.com/It's a story I started writing and I'm posting chapters in post form on my blog. I would really appreciate if you guys visit it and leave your comments. Here's a brief summary:
During your stay in the world Dry Path, you will discover your own little world destroyed by a disaster that has changed forever mankind. By following the adventures of Liam and Jill, two very different mercenaries that will keep you entertained throughout your endless readings. You have the chance to explore an unknown world, but also mysterious characters that will give you the propensity for endless action-packed adventures.
Cassie Scot: ParaNormal Detective***Early reviews needed for upcoming release
Cassie Scot is the ungifted daughter of powerful sorcerers, born between worlds but belonging to neither. At 21, all she wants is to find a place for herself, but earning a living as a private investigator in the shadow of her family’s reputation isn’t easy. When she is pulled into a paranormal investigation, and tempted by a powerful and handsome sorcerer, she will have to decide where she truly belongs.
“When sorcerers call the shots, what’s a girl without powers to do? Get ready for a ripper of a murder mystery full of romance and intrigue, where magic potions bubble, passions spark and vampires are definitely not your friend. Cassie Scot: ParaNormal Detective grabs you by the heart and won’t let go until the very last page. Well written, immersive and unputdownable. This is urban fantasy at its best. More please!”
–Kim Falconer, bestselling author of The Spell of Rosette, Quantum Enchantment Series
Release Date: May 15, 2013
Genres: urban fantasy/paranormal romance/new adult
ARC Formats: mobi, epub, pdf
contact: christine.amsden@yahoo.com
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Crime/Mystery/Fantasy Anthology 91pgs ebook
Grimm Tales is a collection of stories by some of the top names in online crime fiction, all based on classic fairy tales. As novelist Ken Bruen writes in his introduction, "Ever imagined what would have come down the dark pike if The Brothers Grimm were more Brothers Coen and wrote mystery?"
The collection is edited by John Kenyon, editor of Grift magazine, and contains 17 stories by Patricia Abbott, Absolutely*Kate, Jack Bates, Eric Beetner, Nigel Bird, Loren Eaton, Kaye George, Blu Gilliand, Seana Graham, Eirik Gumeny, R.L. Kelstrom, John Kenyon, BV Lawson, Evan Lewis, B. Nagel, Sean Patrick Reardon and Sandra Seamans.
To request a review copy send your site links and ebook format to brendan@untreedreads.com