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Cierra Cantrell has had little experience with men after a painful experience in her life left her too insecure to discover and free the passionate woman within.

After following the advice of her mother, Cierra agrees to accept family friend Isabella Duvall’s offer for help in obtaining a marriage of convenience.

When Isabella’s gorgeous brother—shows up,…

The current issue of Mystery Readers Journal focuses on the theme Mystery in Asia.  An essay on my time in South Korea has me rubbing shoulders with luminaries the like of John Burnett, Colin Cotterell, Tim Hallinan and others. Lots of interesting content for the mystery lover. https://mysteryreaders.org/journal-index/mystery-in-asia/

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Pretty Mea Crossing took a desperate chance at an exciting weekend getaway with a drop dead, gorgeous lawyer.  Unfortunately, things didn’t exactly go as planned.  Instead of being surrounded by warm surf and sand on the romantic Pacific Coast, Mea awakens at a small air strip in Texas.

Her host turns out to be a local cattle rancher,…

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Fast cars and faster women were apparently all that interested handsome Forrester Tremaine, until he was stranded in upstate…

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Catriona Whitaker and her two children came to the quiet Scottish village of Yarrow Castle unaware of the magical secret…

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     All Franki O’Connor wanted was a nice quiet vacation at the old lightkeeper’s…

International spy Alabaster Black returns in this the latest instalment in Valjan’s exciting mystery/suspense Roma series.

This time Alabaster (aka Bianca Nerini) and her colleagues takes us to Naples, where tension is rapidly escalating between mafia clans and where she must outwit a powerful crime syndicate named Camorra.

Counterfeited euros and…

The plot of this book "A fateful opportunity" is a work of fiction, and is a product of the author's imagination. The protagonist and the different characters names, and the plot's background descriptions are fictitious; any resemblances to actual…

When Daphne Dale reads the advertisement, she’s delighted.  “Sensible gentleman of means seeks sensible lady of good breeding for correspondence, and in due consideration, matrimony.”  It’s just the sort of thing she’s been looking for.  Posing as Miss Spooner, she replies to the ad, and begins an engaging correspondence with Mr. Dishforth, a gentleman entirely suited…

Gabriel’s short stories and some of his poetry continue to appear in literary journals and online magazines. Ronan Bennett short-listed Gabriel for the 2010 Fish Prize. Gabriel won first prize in ZOUCH Magazine’s inaugural Lit Bits Contest. Winter Goose Publishing publishes his Roma Series: Roma, Underground(February 2012), Wasp’s…

Just released a brand new romance under my new pen name, Abigail Yorkshire - O, Sweet Desire.  Here's a little bit about it:

To save her family, lovely Katherine Overton agrees to marry Richard Warwick, the mysterious and powerful Earl of Devonshire.  Richard awakens Kate to passion, making her yearn for a different kind of life than the one she’s…

Revelation is a story that resembles Dan Brown’s Da Vinci Code.  If you enjoyed that book you will certainly love this intriguing page turner too.  It is a book about murder, betrayal, intrigue, and the holy church.

     Michael Gabriel Raphael is a devoted husband and father, enjoying a peaceful and fulfilling life. Then one day, one moment later, he is thrown into an abyss of frustration, torture, and suffering the likes of which is very hard to fathom.…

I just put together a Facebook fan page for Author Neil D. Ostroff. http://www.facebook.com/#!/pages/Facebook-Page-of-Author-Neil-D-Ostroff/124794694205967?sk=info

I sent out a bunch of notices through social marketing and guess what? I already have almost 2,000 likes. The internet is just amazing! Anyway, I’ve got everything in place for my winter marketing blitz. I’ve got…

It’s done! I’ve just put money into promotion. A pretty good chunk, actually. I’m starting with Kindle Nation Daily site. I’ve done some research and heard a lot of positive things about this site and what it can do for your sales. They even have a statistics page that shows you all the books whose ranking went down after placing ads. I signed up for two campaigns. One, the bigger one, won’t start until March, which is fine because hopefully there’ll be many more Kindle owners by then. The…

My brother sent me an article the other day that inspired me beyond belief. I’ll attach it at the end of this post. Basically, it’s the story of a self-published success. I know, I know, I’ve read a thousand of them, also. But this one struck me different, mainly because this author did everything I have done to market and promote with one exception. She used the pay promotion on her sites and I have not. See, I’ve been mistakenly foolish with my numbers. I was putting book sales in…

Been doing the interview thing a lot lately and I think it’s starting to pay off. Not only does my name come up more often in search engines but I’m noticing visits to my blog and website are increasing. Of course, this could also be the result of my article experiment, which I’m waiting for the final stats. Speaking of my Author’s Den website, I recently signed on with GoDaddy to build a website myself that I can update, and let me tell you, it’s not nearly as easy as they claim. I spent…

Do you know if you write a page a day that within one year you will have written a book? How many times have I heard that one? If that one book takes a year to write then the revision process would have to take many years. Truth is, writing a first draft is the easy part. I can usually belt one out in a few months. But the revision; forgetta’bout it. That’s the time consuming stuff, though I am getting better at it as I get older (and hopefully wiser). I’m also getting better as a…

Hit 6,000 words today on my new novel. It's an easy and exciting write because anything can happen in a world that isn't real. I see the book getting a little deep in the philosophical area once the characters begin to realize the nature of their existences and how it all could just disappear. We'll see where the story takes me. Right now, I'm still developing characters and relationships and setting the scene for a wild ride through the possible and impossible.

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