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Who Killed Abigail Watson?	by Angela Schiavone Apr. 23, 2010	$8.99	24867 words	Sample 10%
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Shaylee Druid's Daughter	by Bret Jordan Aug. 20, 2009	$4.00	24835 words	Sample 10%
Author bio: Bret Jordan has lived in Southeast Texas all his life. He is married and has four children, girls with an array of personalities that often boggle his mind. By day he programs computers and by night he works as a freelance artist. When not working, drawing, or spending time with his family, he reads and writes stories of horror and dark fantasy. On summer weekends he can often be found running his motorcycle down the roads of East Texas.
Massacre on the Anvil of War	by Leon Clarke Apr. 10, 2010	$2.99	24739 words	Sample 50%
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The House at Paradise Point	by Lazarus James Dec. 18, 2009	Free!	24576 words	Read a sample
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Whirl of the Wheel	by Catherine Condie Dec. 26, 2009	Free!	24389 words	Read a sample
Author bio: Born in Cambridge,UK, Catherine began her career in PR and corporate communications, progressing as an editor of science journals, and as communications advisor for a European programme. She currently works in internet marketing and is a school literacy governor. Catherine is also a singer/songwriter and guitarist, and plays in a rock band.
Insemination	by Denise Kim Wy Jun. 12, 2010	$1.90	23573 words	Sample 30%
Author bio: Born on May 30, 1991, Denise Wy describes herself as a stubborn and happy-go-lucky individual who enjoys watching chic flicks, reading novels, shirt designing and talking to stuffed animals. She finds writing as a way of creating a world where she can make fun of other people or just simply tell a story out of sheer boredom. She is currently taking up Fine arts majoring in Industrial Design at the University of Santo Tomas.
VOLTINI (or How the Amazing Voltini Came into My Life) YA	by Tim Myers Aug. 06, 2010	$1.99	23558 words	Sample 35%
Author bio: I've been writing mysteries since 1993, and have published over 20 novels with Penguin/Berkley, Penguin/NAL, St. Martin's Press, and Kensington. I write under the names Tim Myers, Chris Cavender, Casey Mayes, Elizabeth Bright, Melissa Glazer, and more. Growing up, my favorite reads were traditional mysteries, with a slant toward cozies, and that's what I write!
Spirit Lights	by Bonnie Turner Apr. 09, 2010	$3.99	23506 words	Sample 35%
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The Resurrections of Robert A Heinlein: Genesis	by Sandy Sandfort May. 04, 2010	$3.33	23310 words	Sample 75%
Author bio: Over the years, I have written a lot of non-fiction for Wired, Soldier of Fortune, Reason, LA Times, Mondo 2000, etc. (Just Google ["sandy sandfort"] if you are curious. BTW, I am NOT the Dutch sex researcher.) Now, I am trying my hand at fiction. I write the stories from which the online comic strip, ESCAPE FROM TERRA, is adapted. http://bigheadpress.com/eft?page=1 The first collection of strips comes out on July 7, 2010. Also, ADVENTURES IN HUMAN SPACE, the first collection of the stories from which the strip is adapted will be out in June, 2010. I think THE RESURRECTIONS OF ROBERT A. HEINLEIN: GENESIS, is the best thing I ever wrote (but all the other stuff is pretty good too). I have lived around--Kansas City, Flagstaff, San Francisco, Costa Rica, Singapore and now Panama, where I live in a volcano. I have visited a number of interesting places in the world. The least known of which is Funafuti the capital of the island nation of Tuvalu.
The Eye of Erasmus	by Teresa Geering Jul. 13, 2010	You set the price!	23164 words	Sample 25%
Author bio: Teresa Geering is a leading light behind the Struggling Artists website which promotes new, self- and un-published authors. She is also in the process of writing a series of four books, of which 'The Eye of Ersamus' is the first.
Dying for Ice Cream	by MaryJanice Davidson Jun. 09, 2010	$6.95	22944 words	Sample 15%
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Infinite Realities	by R. L. Copple Dec. 07, 2009	$2.99	22897 words	Sample 50%
Author bio: R. L. Copple's interest in speculative fiction started at an early age, after reading "Runaway Robot" by Lester Del Ray. Many others followed by Asimov, Bradbury, Heinlein, Tolkien, C. S. Lewis, among others. He has written for religious purposes but started writing speculative fiction in 2005. Infinite Realities marks his first book, a fantasy novella. His second book, first full length novel, Transforming Realities, hit the shelves March 2009. He has been published in several magazines.
Tales From the Drake House Outhouse	by Joe Novara Jan. 03, 2010	$0.99	22897 words	Sample 15%
Author bio: Retired, living in Kalamazoo, MIchigan, I teach English at a local community college and write and travel and write and windsurf on Lake Michigan and write some more while I wait for my grandkids to get old enough to read my stories. I hope they don't resent me for that.
The Perfect Game: Baseball Memories	by Roy B Merritt Apr. 29, 2010	$7.99	22886 words	Sample 50%
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The Gateway	by Steve Simons Sep. 25, 2009	Free!	22873 words	Read a sample
Author bio: Steve Simons is primarily a writer of Science Fiction, aimed at a FAMILY audience, although he has turned his hand (or should that be wordprocessor) to other forms of story. Steve started using his creative imagination as a child, entertaining groups of children in the neighbourhood. Many was the time that the children would get into trouble for getting back home later than heir normal "get in by" time, as they got engrossed in one of Steve's stories. Breifly, Steve put his pen to work, writing short stories for the entertainment of family and freinds, but nothing serious came of that. Then in later life, Steve took up the pen again and started writing scripts and short stories for a children's podshow called KidsCastUK. This grew into two shows, one specialising in Science Fiction and Steve took key writer role on that show. Encouraged to do even more, Steve wrote his first book "The Sphere of Time", this grew to become a 3 book series TSOT 1 -3.
Royals	by Denise Kim Wy Feb. 09, 2010	$1.50	22815 words	Sample 20%
Author bio: Born on May 30, 1991, Denise Wy describes herself as a stubborn and happy-go-lucky individual who enjoys watching chic flicks, reading novels, shirt designing and talking to stuffed animals. She finds writing as a way of creating a world where she can make fun of other people or just simply tell a story out of sheer boredom. She is currently taking up Fine arts majoring in Industrial Design at the University of Santo Tomas.
Cupid's Love Potion	by Pamela Diane King Jul. 11, 2010	$2.99	22657 words	Sample 26%
Author bio: Pamela Diane King lives in Durban, South Africa. She graduated from the University of KwaZulu-Natal with a Bachelors and an Honours degree in Psychology. She also completed a Postgraduate Certificate in Education with distinction. Writing has always been her passion. She loves musicals, chick flicks, chick lit, and Sex and the City.
Banto Carbon and the Prehistoric Proboscis	by Arne Bue May. 30, 2009	$1.99	22567 words	Sample 10%
Author bio: Arne Bue is a lifelong Alaskan, living in Anchorage, Alaska, with his wife, Shirley Bue, the author of Humble Snyder. Arne Bue is the author of The Lid, Baxter Bog Interlude, Night of the Tustumena and Banto Carbon and the Prehistoric Proboscis. http://home.gci.net/~bue/index.html
Bitty and the Guardian of Sespria	by Janice Reynolds May. 03, 2010	$2.99	22440 words	Sample 27%
Author bio: Janice Reynolds lives in Plano, Texas with her husband and two children. After a career holding middle management positions in advertising and film post production industries, Janice began a career writing childrens fiction and adventure stories. In addition to writing and illustrating Swish and the Raptor, the first book in the series--The Squirrel Squad Adventures, she has also authored Emily, Brave and Swift and Bitty and the Guardian of Sespria (book one of the Beatrice Coleman series). She is currently working illustrations and final edits for Emily, Brave and Swift.
The Wishing Field	by Liz Trigg Jan. 11, 2010	Free!	22279 words	Read a sample
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Jantarina	by Marko Simčič Apr. 08, 2010	Free!	22126 words	Read a sample
Author bio: Born in 1962 in Ljubljana, the capital of Slovenia, Europe. He works in Ljubljana in information technologies. In his spare time he writes crime and spy novels, poems for children and for adults and fairy tales. All of his work was published in daily newspapers, magazines for children or books. The spy novel ‘The thirteenth island’ (Trinajsti otok) was published 1996 as a pocket book. His book ‘The four seasons sprites’ (Štirje letni škratje, december 2000) is a fairy tale, illustrated by woman painter Daša Simčič. His latest book is ‘The magic van' (Čarobni kombi, september 2003), a fairy tale, illustrated by Matjaž Schmidt.
Royal Blood	by Kolina Topel Jun. 08, 2010	$0.99	22018 words	Sample 10%
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Hilda the wicked witch	by Paul Kater Jul. 23, 2010	Free!	21661 words	Read a sample
Author bio: I am an IT consultant who loves reading and writing. I'm also a Linux user, but that is nothing to worry about. I love reading (SciFi, Fantasy, Steampunk, humourous things like Discworld), and I've been an amateur-author since years, writing SciFi, Fantasy and lately I also tried my luck with Steampunk. Although I live in the Netherlands, for some reason I have never written a story in Dutch...
Short Fictional Stories	by Carl East Mar. 28, 2010	Free!	21291 words	Read a sample
Author bio: I was born In Hull, Yorkshire, England in 1956. I started to write at the age of 44 in the year 2000, and I wasn't very good. I slowly learned over the years that followed, mainly from people online who gave up their time to help me. I chose to write imaginative things, and sometimes allowed my own imagination to get away from me. I started with erotic tales before going onto more serious stuff, although having said that my erotic stories have been popular. The first book I got published was "The Second Apprentice" followed closely by "The Talking Sword" both of which are sword and sorcerer type tales. My favorite release though was "Hell's Gate" but none of these three books have been downloaded yet and they're all available at Amazon. They just seem to want my erotic stories. lol I now live in America and have done for the past 5 years. As you can see from my photo I'm happily married and intend to stay that way. Carl
Redemption: Stains of Yesterday	by Jasmine Denton Jul. 29, 2010	$3.00	21092 words	Sample 20%
Author bio: I started writing because I had things to say. It's that simple. =)
The Pandoran War Serial Part One	by Dante D'Anthony Jul. 08, 2010	$2.99	20984 words	Sample 50%
Author bio: Born in "South Buffalo", I began reading science fiction at a young age. Clarke's "The City and the Stars" introduced me to the concepts of deep time and super computers at 11 in the Ripley Central School Library; an original edition with period art on the cover. Continuing with as many of the golden era Science fiction authors as I could find, I read on up to college where in my first semester I set aside dreams of a Sci-fi career for more practical pursuits in Architecture, Education, and Finance. I continued writing, however-all too often watching my ideas and visions actualized by others of a similar bent-just as Thoreau said such would be. With the advent of current technologies in animation, word processing, and the internet the circle is complete and Chronos Productions is launched. Mankind is at a great crossroads. Like the Chinese who burned their great treasure ships rather than engage the world, we can turn our backs on a vigorous program of space settlement. Or like the Europeans of the same era we can step forward to new worlds and watch the standards of living and quality of human life reach unimagined potentials.
Snapdragon Alley	by Tom Lichtenberg Nov. 15, 2009	Free!	20954 words	Read a sample
Author bio: I've been writing for many years and only recently started putting my books out there as free e-books. I've got a whole bunch of them; most are short novels, usually around 20,000 words. I tend to write fast and make everything up as I go along, so the stories often change radically from day to day, and sometimes end up far from where I thought they would go. The joy of writing, for me, is in the adventure of improvisation. Most of my books have elements of science fiction, mystery, satire, suspense, supernatural and more, but I just think of them as stories. 'Renegade Robot' is my newest story. It's a light-hearted comic take on the myth of the 'Singularity', that event after which "nothing will ever be the same again". In these days of constant, well-funded hysteria, how could we distinguish a real Singularity (if and when it comes) from any other panicky 'headline of the day'? In 'Renegade Robot', our hero is a "robot exterminator", stamping out minor infestations of nuisance rogue robots, who gets caught up in a frantic news cycle. Q: Why did you go indie? Indie e-books on the internet are a dream come true for me. I've never been interested in publishing for money, but always wanted to share my stories. I've also been inspired by the open-source software movement, and by the talented local musicians in my neighborhood who love to play together and just have a great time. I've always wished that art and culture would be more about sharing and community, and less about grabbing every penny you can find. It's just the way I feel about it. Q: Who are your favorite authors in your genre? I'm mostly partial to madly inventive innovators, humorists, absurdists and satirists of all ages, including Jorge Luis Borges, Philip K Dick, Stanislaw Lem, Kurt Vonnegut, Mark Twain, Italo Calvino, Franz Kafka, Julio Cortazar, Eugene Ionesco, Luis Bunuel, and Macedonio Fernandez.
SEVERED FRILLS	by Monica P Nov. 24, 2009	$2.50	20817 words	Sample 15%
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The First Dragoneer	by M. R. Mathias Aug. 18, 2010	$1.00	20795 words	Sample 33%
Author bio: When I'm not writing books, I'm fishing or playing poker. The map for the known kingdoms in "The Sword and the Dragon" can be found under the cover image at my website.... www.mrmathias.com FREE Coupon for "The First Dragoneer"code:ZQ99Y FREE Coupon for "The Adventurion" code: NJ46X THESE COUPONS ONLY GOOD UNTIL HALLOWEEN!
Lessons Learned at Summer Camp	by Colleen Wait Feb. 27, 2010	$2.75	20720 words	Sample 50%
Author bio: Colleen Wait is married with 4 children. She has been very involved in her church's youth activities including children's musical, Daughter's of the King, SonQuest and various other youth events. She has just returned from a local mission trip with her church's youth group. She is an avid reader, especially the classics and began writing short stories in elementary school. Please return often to find other books that will be soon uploaded. Colleen is also a runner who has began racing 5K's 2 years ago. She did her first half-marathon March 2010. Colleen's son Devin, has just entered the Air Force. His photograph graces the cover of 'Mount Mission'.
Subject: FWD	by Lynette Ferreira Aug. 30, 2010	$2.99	20661 words	Sample 20%
Author bio: Lynette E. Ferreira was born in 1967 in a small town in the Northern Cape Province, South Africa. She lived for more than a decade in Co. Dublin, Republic of Ireland and returned to South Africa in 2008. She has qualifications in Marketing, Event Management and Web Design. She now lives in Gauteng, South Africa and is married with three children.
Box of Hair, a Fairy Tale	by Heath Buckmaster Apr. 02, 2010	$1.99	20221 words	Sample 20%
Author bio: Heath L. Buckmaster is a fiction author, Anglophile, technology geek, an avid blogger, a freelance photographer, and a lover of diet Pepsi vanilla. He currently works as an Information Technology Manager for a large manufacturing company. He is the author of several books of poetry, short stories, and general fiction, including the Princess Carrina series for Young Readers. Although he has been writing for many years, his formal writing career began in 2006 while participating in the National Novel Writing Month competition.
Glide Like Ghosts	by Kara Thorpe Feb. 26, 2010	Free!	19867 words	Read a sample
Author bio: Twentysomething Texas girl just trying to juggle work, going back to school, a husband, two cats, writing (hopefully) the next bestseller, and holding on to my sanity.
The Silver Ring	by Robert Swartwood Feb. 10, 2010	Free!	19679 words	Read a sample
Author bio: Robert Swartwood was born in 1981. His short fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in Postscripts, Chizine, Space and Time, elimae, Wigleaf, PANK, and The Los Angeles Review. He is the editor of Hint Fiction: An Anthology of Stories in 25 Words or Fewer, forthcoming from W. W. Norton & Company.
Household	by Monica P Nov. 24, 2009	$2.00	19642 words	Sample 15%
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Finding Imagination: Dreams, Discoveries, Adventures	by Jean Pierre Crisan Nov. 19, 2009	$6.99	19363 words	Sample 50%
Author bio: Since 1978, under the brilliant mentorship of editor Sid Dominitz, my articles in The Northcoast Econews began my involvement with socio political issues. I went on to write grants that helped bring the non-profit organization, Net Energy Inc. funds for energy consevation and alternative energy education. My writing has also provided the unique types of contracts and correspondence that has helped empower my design and custom fabrication business which has grown, in more recent years, to providing content for a variety of business and political web sites. My comment postings, as Lux Veritas, appear on the NPR and Huffington Post web sites, as well as in my hometown newspaper, The Athens Banner Herald. I have also written the novels: Finding Imagination, and Jerrod’s Mountain.
Cleva Treva and the Cubic-Crystalizer	by Berne Williams Jul. 31, 2010	$3.99	18922 words	Sample 50%
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Sihirli Yüzük	by B&B Tic.Ar. Hizmetleri Aug. 22, 2010	$1.99	18892 words
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Rebuilding My Life	by Tim Myers Jul. 30, 2010	$1.99	18876 words	Sample 50%
Author bio: I've been writing mysteries since 1993, and have published over 20 novels with Penguin/Berkley, Penguin/NAL, St. Martin's Press, and Kensington. I write under the names Tim Myers, Chris Cavender, Casey Mayes, Elizabeth Bright, Melissa Glazer, and more. Growing up, my favorite reads were traditional mysteries, with a slant toward cozies, and that's what I write!
Halfway House	by David R. Grigg Sep. 01, 2009	$0.99	18687 words	Sample 50%
Author bio: David R. Grigg is a software developer who lives in Melbourne, Australia. Now 58 years old, he has worked in the field of interactive multimedia for over two decades, and owns a part interest in Kaleidio Pty Ltd, which specialises in creating interactive theaters and exhibits. He has also worked in public relations and as a journalist and sub-editor. During the 1970s and 1980s, David was deeply involved in the science fiction fan community, publishing fanzines and helping organize SF conventions, eventually becoming Chairman of the 43rd World SF Convention held in Melbourne in 1985. He is also the author of a number of professionally published short stories and two short fantasy novels for teens, “Halfway House” and “Shadows”. As a software developer, he has produced several shareware programs for iPod owners related to audiobook creation and conversion, and runs his own web site at http://rightwordsoft.com, where he also now writes regularly for his blog “Megatheriums for Breakfast”. He owns several Apple iPods, and has become passionate about the iPhone/iPod Touch as a platform for reading e-books. David is married, with one adult daughter.
PERSUASION	by Monica P Dec. 06, 2009	$2.50	18474 words	Sample 15%
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"Don't Give Up," Said Mom	by Christina Leigh Pritchard Aug. 31, 2010	$0.99	18299 words	Sample 25%
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Shadows	by David R. Grigg Sep. 01, 2009	$0.99	18104 words	Sample 50%
Author bio: David R. Grigg is a software developer who lives in Melbourne, Australia. Now 58 years old, he has worked in the field of interactive multimedia for over two decades, and owns a part interest in Kaleidio Pty Ltd, which specialises in creating interactive theaters and exhibits. He has also worked in public relations and as a journalist and sub-editor. During the 1970s and 1980s, David was deeply involved in the science fiction fan community, publishing fanzines and helping organize SF conventions, eventually becoming Chairman of the 43rd World SF Convention held in Melbourne in 1985. He is also the author of a number of professionally published short stories and two short fantasy novels for teens, “Halfway House” and “Shadows”. As a software developer, he has produced several shareware programs for iPod owners related to audiobook creation and conversion, and runs his own web site at http://rightwordsoft.com, where he also now writes regularly for his blog “Megatheriums for Breakfast”. He owns several Apple iPods, and has become passionate about the iPhone/iPod Touch as a platform for reading e-books. David is married, with one adult daughter.
Jacob Have I Loved	by William Woodall Mar. 11, 2009	Free!	18078 words	Read a sample
Author bio: I've been writing stories almost since I was able to pick up a jumbo crayon and put words on paper. I love what I do and I feel blessed to have the opportunity to share these tales with my readers. My work is typically classified as young adult literature, if only because the stories are clean and most of the characters are young. There's more to it than that, though. Every book I've ever personally loved has been what I'd call ageless. That is, it contains something that can touch the heart of a child while he's still too young and raw to appreciate subtlety, but there's also something in it that he can still feed on when he's old and gray, although perhaps not the same things. It's my aspiration to write stories like that. In fact, the majority of my readers are adults who want to read something that will uplift them and make them feel glad to be alive that day. We all need beautiful stories, and without them we suffer. If you'd like to know more about me or my work, please visit my official author's website at www.williamwoodall.org
Rolland Love's Ozark Mountains American Royal Series #2	by Rolland Love Jul. 11, 2010	$4.99	17548 words	Sample 30%
Author bio: Reviews: To understand Overland Park writer Rolland Love, think MARK TWAIN." Nick Kowalczyk, The Kansas City Star. Amazon.Com - Featured Author Review - Rolland Love – "To this day the Ozark Mountains remain an untouched natural wonder. Rolland Love’s ability to paint this landscape in clear, crisp detail stems from his time spent with the "solitude of the streams, deep hollows and blue-hazed vistas" over the course of his life. His deep-rooted passion for the Ozarks has transfigured his MARK TWAIN writing style into a series of fantastic tales Huck and Tom could have only dreamed of about." The Ozark Mountains Stories Series is Enjoyed by All Ages. Rolland is a speaker, award-winning author and performer. He teaches writing, storytelling, journaling and Lewis and Clark workshops for Kids and a workshop for Senior Adults about why it is important that they write their life story. He has made presentations to Boy Scouts, Schools, Libraries, Camp Fire USA, Retirement and Assisted Living Facilities, Churches, Dinner and Business Meetings, Civic Groups … He played a doctor on TLC – Discovery - Mystery Diagnosis. He has had stage and film roles as a villain, monk, medical healer, grandpa, John Calvin McCoy, founder of Westport Missouri, Silas Goodrich, Expert Fisherman with Lewis and Clark during the bicentennial in 2004, Major John Neelly in Grinder's Stand: A Tragedy of Blood, a stage play written by Oakley Hall III. Love has published (3) novels, (40) short stories, a best selling computer directory and co-authored an award-winning cookbook Homegrown in the Ozarks: Mountain Meals and Memories. Review: “I have read a number of Rolland Love’s stories set in the Ozark Mountains and they are all nostalgic, and entertaining. I would recommend his writings to parents who want to show their children the pure joy of living experienced by kids growing up in a simpler place and time". By Dave Hargis (Columbia, MO USA) VIDEOS, PHOTOS, BIO ... http://www.google.com/profiles/sunnybiscuitdog
Affluent Influence	by Monica P Nov. 24, 2009	$2.50	17441 words	Sample 15%
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Dawn of Darkness	by Rina Robinson Nov. 26, 2009	$3.99	17433 words	Sample 10%
Author bio: Rina Robinson writes fantasy. Although Rina writes poetry and short stories her love is fantasy fiction. Rina feels that imagination should figure in everybody's life and this shows in both her works of fiction and the paintings, which fill her time when she is not writing. Rina was born in the UK and came to Australia after years of performing on stage and in cabaret. Soon after her arrival in Queensland she married and changed direction. Becoming an Australian citizen was a landmark in Rina's life as well as bringing up two children. Now they are grown Rina feels she has time to fulfil her own fantasies. She now lives with her husband on beautiful Lake Macquarie. Rina's first writing was for magazines but she always had a wish to write a novel and she is currently working on a full-length fantasy novel Dawn of Darkness is her first short novelette.
EVIL CAMP	by Scoop Jackson (aka Paul McMurray) Jul. 09, 2010	$0.99	17420 words	Sample 30%
Author bio: As part-owner of a campground in Wisconsin for 25 years, I've heard and told many a scary story around a campfire, and I've seen all the goofy things that happen when you're camping, whether you're having fun or just TCB--so that's how EVIL CAMP & 'Adventures' came about. Enjoy! Mrs. Scoop and I have 2 dogs and--surprisingly- we don't camp, not since an animal or a mean camper pooped in our tent. But we still visit our friends for more stories, and they are happening!
Struck by Conscience	by C.K. Green Apr. 29, 2010	$3.99	17347 words	Sample 15%
Author bio: I'm a mother, a wife, a teacher and a writer. I spend my days cleaning house and teaching school while wondering when my fairy godmother will arrive and return me to my rightful place. In my previous life, I taught middle school English and history. I was born in California but I've since transplanted to North Carolina. I love history, reading, photography, Period Dramas, and spending time with my kooky family.
Thurber's World	by Liz Trigg Dec. 07, 2009	Free!	17137 words	Read a sample
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