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Ok here I go! See if this works out alright!Susan
Thank you, Faize! We have added our latest novel, Son Of Adam.
http://www.sonofadam.org
Son Of Adam, takes us on the thrill ride exposing the monster lurking inside each of us.
Cal, a black, rough tempered, hard-nosed automotive engineer driving his way around life’s twisting race-track until the second Gulf War places him on a collision course with a pedophile serial killer in a distant war-torn land. Lives changed forever in an instant of horror.
Seventeen girls missing and seventeen weeping mothers with no hope of rescue confuse the soldier’s motives and missions. A small, foreign village with a fledgling infrastructure barely able to support traffic stops was a pedophiles playground. The shadows of war and the prowling despot have free reign over the frightened village families until the killer gets sloppy, exposing his bloodstained trail. All the gory pieces fall together and the Army platoon moves in for the arrest. Mission accomplished for all, except for the soldier that found him – the one who had to search the killer’s bedroom and catalog all of his bloody souvenirs.
Back home and years later, the demons of that horrible day are still lurking in the darkness, pushing him from odd job to odd job around the country, spiraling an out of control life but weaving it back together with help from some unlikely outsiders – just like him.
The suspenseful story winds its way from the foothills of the Alps to the foothills of the Appalachians as a new journey begins. With twists and turns along the way, finishing in the unwanted answer to an age old question. A life redeemed in the midst of disgraceful mistakes and youth’s tiresome baggage, bringing him back to the tender answer to a divisive social issue: How can anyone be Pro-Life and Pro-Death Penalty?
From first homes to the German Oktoberfest and jumbo jet rides across the Atlantic Ocean to automotive assembly plants in the new south, Son Of Adam, exposes the inner workings of the fall-out from the heinous crimes and bloody investigation, pieced by painful piece.
Be careful what you ask… Son Of Adam.
http://www.sonofadam.org
Just reviewed a new indie book called "In the Fool's Footsteps" by Karen Hoffman on my blog, Cannibal Cutie: http://cannibalcutie.blogspot.com/
Hi Hannah. I am still feeling my way around GR and , I'm ashamed to admit, have no idea how to open a new thread. I'd like to open one to let readers know about my new novel and possibly gift a number of free copies to interested readers. How do I open one?
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My book will be out shortly and the publisher has an advert already. An interview of sorts with yours truly and a few samples. I'm really not comfortable promoting myself but that's how the game is played. So here's the link: http://smithcraftpress.com/songbook-f...
Hey Faize, can we put up short stories that are free?
They used to live in a city with a sun and two moons. No one was allowed to leave except the four young ultimate warriors once a year. The first one who returned to the City was acclaimed as the Champion. Nina was determined that she would be triumphant, but nothing could have prepared her for the horror she discovered outside the City Walls. This is "their" story, but is it our story too? We can come and go as we please. Can we? Will we KNOW what is going on if we live in similar times as these? They didn't know ...Is the story history or prophecy? According to all the Beta-readers In the Reign of the Ilev is a visual feast. Can it come true? You decide … 
As the ultimate outsider, Mary Meddlemore is not impressed with life on Earth, but she has a plan, an impossible plan. But what if it is possible? Andrew, the lonely young lawyer from Stonecity sees a woman everywhere, but she can't be real, because she can walk through glass. One step is all that is needed for love to become real. A quirky story, celebrating the regenerating power of stories. It can be seen as an allegory or a fable, but stories, like humans, cannot be labeled. This story will change your perceptions of stories forever.
An unusual collection of four short stories, which may be defined as fables, sending up certain aspects of human behavior, both humurous and somewhat sad, as well as short discussions on the gifts and joys of stories by Mary Meddlemore, an expert on stories as she, herself, is a character and inhabits the Story Dimension. According to Mary, stories cannot be labeled just as humans cannot be labeled. We are not rows of tins on a shop shelf and stories defy labeling and do just what they want!
Raised by Hand, Lifted by the Tides : a Southern Child's MemoirWhen we first meet Lily “Lil Bit” Dalton, she is quite literally drowning. This “lip flapping” event, along with others, takes place in the quirky, yet racially divided waterway township of Arcadia, Florida in 1954.
In Raised by Hand, Lil Bit recounts the years between ten and thirteen spent in the care of the woman she considers to be her grandmother, "Bubbah," and this woman's alcoholic son, Bobby. As the story opens, it’s been five years since Lil Bit’s mama, Violet, “dropped her off like nothin’ but a bit of dirty laundry,” when on “Ditch Thursday,” Lil Bit is pulled from the river by Sheriff Marin. The Sheriff’s act of heroism leaves her not only with the secret of what lies beneath the water, but also with gnawing doubts about Sheriff Marin, “the only white man worth a damn in all of Arcadia,” who also knows the river’s secret, but tells no one.
Like the tales told by the young heroines in the classics To Kill a Mockingbird and the Secret Lives of Bees, Lily “Lil Bit” Dalton’s quest to reunite with her mother, while also keeping the secret of the Massaquatta’s murky depths, takes readers on a tumultuous ride filled with adventure and mystery. But more importantly, Raised by Hand answers the age old question: What does it take to be a family?
So, if you like literary fiction--Southern Gothic, I'm looking to receive honest and objective reviews for my novel, Raised by Hand, Lifted by the Tides--A Southern Child's Memoir. The link to my page on Amazon is below. If your schedule permits, I can send you a mobi file or epub or pdf.
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B009KEXEQO
All the best,
Willett
Robert Italia
http://www.robert-italia.com
The holidays are approaching: A Christmas story for our turbulent times . . .
When Christopher Russo was in middle school and struggling with an unhappy home life, his artist-mother gave him one of many secret family treasures entrusted to him: an ancient diary unearthed from the mountains of her ancestral Austria. “Use the Book,” she implored him one fateful night. “It will save you.” To escape their monstrous father, if only in their minds, Chris and his younger sister turned to their faith and added a fantasy story called FOREVER CHRISTMAS; a Victorian-era Dream World inspired by all the art and artifacts—the sacred and the unholy—so influential in their lives. But after a deadly legacy claimed his mother and his first true love abandoned him, Chris tossed aside his “childish” beliefs, turned to science for solutions, then rewrote the story to fit his enlightened views—and settle old scores with all who have hurt him. But the Book is steeped in Alpine legends, holds a dark secret, and an even darker power that takes control during the Holy Season of Magic. And when his story came to life . . . .
One year later, another holiday season approaches. Chris, now a high school freshman, is battling his sister’s failing health, his treasure-seeking father who doesn’t “believe” in doctors, and his guilt for a terrible tragedy—all the while haunted once more by visions from the Dream World that he can no longer deny exists. Despite all the misfortune, there is one last hope still echoing in his mother’s words: a permanent escape to that Dream World where they’ll be free of neglect, illness, and shame. But Chris must confront the horrors that await if he wants to recapture all the love he once knew—and save his sister from the legacy that relentlessly stalks her.
Beware the power of science . . . and the Holy Season of Magic.
Take a look:
Robert Italia
http://www.robert-italia.com
The Midas Bird And Other PoemsHi my name is Mark and here is a free book of poems all originally published in the NSW School magazine. Cheers
Mark
Hey all, I'm Ben! One of the things I currently write is a series of short stories that I would label as horror-light, or speculative horror/supernatural, called The Penumbra. Currently, Volume 1 has been released with several more planned, with 2-4 loosely connected stories apiece.The Penumbra starts with two seemingly unconnected tales of a man stuck in a hellish trench in the Great War and a woman private eye in an unnamed city hired to do a strange job. From there things start to interweave and get weirder.
Volume 1 already exists in the wild, and the first story can be read FREE here:
http://thepenumbra.net
And links to buy the ebook (the first three stories of the batch) are here:
thepenumbra.net/purchase-now/
Hi Everyone. Riding with the Cop part of The Pleasure of His Punishment series has a HOT new cover and is now FREE for a Limited Time
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Happy reading, book junkies!
-Faize