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Fantasy Author M. R. Mathias announces the September 15th, 2011 release of the long awaited Dragoneers Saga Book II Cold Hearted Son of a Witch.

Mathias says the eBook version should be available in early September.

The First Dragoneer, a 43-page novella, available FREE almost everywhere online, begins with just a small…

Larry Enright (1949- ) was born to Irish Catholic first‐generation immigrants and raised in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. After college, he moved to the Philadelphia area where for the past 40 years he has filled his life with many careers including teacher, musician, computer programmer, researcher, and writer. He has written three novels. "Four Years from Home" (2010) is…

Had me on the edge of my seat rooting for the protagonists--Reviewed by Donna M.

 James Goodal is living a life of isolation, solitude, and regrets. He sees his…

Sharon Cupp Pennington’s short stories have appeared in numerous online and print venues, with anthology contributions to The Rocking Chair Reader in the Coming Home edition (2004) and Family Gatherings (2005), A Cup of Comfort for Weddings: Something Old, Something New (2007), and Good Old Days Magazine (March, 2007). Her debut novel, Hoodoo Money, was released in May…

International bestselling independent author M. R. Mathias is proud to announce the upcoming release of the second installment of his Wardstone Trilogy: Kings, Queens, Heroes, & Fools. The ebook version will be available for download in late June 2011 with an official release date of July 4^th 2011. Mathias chose this date to celebrate the freedom…

A Texas millionaire rancher discovered his wife and bookkeeper had stolen thousands of dollars from him. After he demanded the money back, he started getting sick. While in the hospital, doctors were mystified as to how an otherwise healthy, energetic man could become so deathly ill. The dying man told everyone within earshot that his wife and bookkeeper were killing…

Thirty-one years ago, Buxly the Butcher went to trial for killing his entire family. He was found guilty, and sentenced to die for those crimes. Now, Janet Hale, a recently divorced nurse, has purchased the house unaware of the brutal murders that took place there so long ago. 

 

From the moment she, her eleven-year-old son, and his overprotective Rottweiler move…

Part I (Destruction From Twins) When a selfish enchantress seeks to steal mystical powers from her twin sister, she sentences the world of Lor Mandela and its inhabitants to death. In an effort to preserve itself, the soul of the planet appoints a Child of Balance named Audril Borloc who must solve a prophetic riddle known as the Advantiere. All hope seems lost,…

Dwayne Johnson knows he is different. He lives in a world that can always be depended on to remind him of his strangeness. Despite his social awkwardness, Dwayne meets a beautiful woman at a bus stop and soon his entire life transforms. Unfortunately his obsessions work against him, keeping the couple apart pushing Dwayne to the point of alcoholism and…

M. R. Mathias is an author who, in his past, spent several years in a Texas prison for minor possession. While he was there, he wrote several full length novels, and read several hundred more. The novels were written in longhand, without the luxury of spell…

Red Dobie Press (June 30, 2010)

978-0981595443

278 pages





A Family Forged by Adversity. A Community United by Dreams.





Addie loved to run along the river’s edge so the wind could blow through her long hair, released from the strict bun her father demanded. When Jed returned from the lumber harvest in the spring, she would fly…

If you are an independently published (self pub or small press pub) author you may be overwhelmed by the high cost of book promotion and by the sea of expensive options that may or may not see results.

The Independent Author Network is a community of self…

Dead of Knight: A Jack Staal Mystery

William R. Potter

RealTime Publishing (2009)

ISBN 9781849610261

Reviewed by Charline Ratcliff for RebeccasReads (11/10)

I was…

Lor Mandela – Destruction From Twins L. Carroll

RealTime Publishing (February 17, 2010)

978-1849610483



Lor Mandela – Destruction From Twins by L. Carroll

captured my interest even before I opened the book. The front cover

features a beautiful young woman with…

Battle Lines Undrawn

Written and illustrated by Rick Brooks

Mirror Publishing (August 24, 2010)

978-1936352814

100 pages







Follow an American teenager from his daily struggles at Jump School training to becoming a paratrooper in the 101st Airborne, to the beginning of the…

Mexican Autumn

John Howard Reid

Lulu.com (February 9, 2006)

978-1411677203

312 pages



Mexican Autumn is a short story collection that reads like a novel, full of intriguing characters and trademark charm and wit from author John Howard Reid.



The first sixteen shorts are inter-related and take place in a true Mexican fishing village called Bahia de los…