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Adonis Devereux
Evernight Publishing
ISBN: 978-1-77130-020-9

Max is a soldier down on his luck, and when the king sends out a call for volunteers to solve the mystery of the twelve dancing princesses, Max figures he has nothing to lose. Nothing, of course, except his head if he should fail. Max has faced death before and doesn't fear it, but when he meets the princesses, all lovely, light-hearted, and battling constant exhaustion due to their mysterious nightly escapades, he realizes he could lose his heart as well.
 
To win his princess, Max must break the spell. But he must face the truth that the twelve princesses are terribly naughty and do much more than just dance, and he will have to join in the amorous festivities himself to get them out.

Adonis Devereux
Evernight Publishing
ISBN 978-1-927368-88-6

Our third novel, "Chasing Earth and Flame", was released by Evernight on April 2nd, 2012. This book continues the adventures of Gilalion's varied and compelling heroines and heroes.

Blurb: Nevia is the daughter of the First House of Nirrion, but though she is both a powerful elemental mage and a cunning political mind, she is her father's property. She is promised to Melenius, the only other noble elementalist in the city, but she is not certain she approves of her father's choice. She has a stronger will than anyone has ever given her credit for, and she is determined to find and keep the love of the only man who can conquer her heart of earth and flame.

Neil Ansell
Penguin
978-0141049328

 ‘I lived alone in this cottage for five years, summer and winter, with no transport, no phone. This is the story of those five years, where I lived and how I lived. It is the story of what it means to live in a place so remote that you may not see another soul for weeks on end. And it is the story of the hidden places that I came to call my own, and the wild creatures that became my society.'

Coming out early in Penguin paperbacks on 02/02/12 after selling out in hardback.

The book was widely reviewed on first release – here is a selection of quotes that didn’t make it to the book jacket.

‘Birds are at the heart of this extraordinary book. His imaginative life literally...

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Martin Bodenham
Musa Publishing
978-1-61937-071-5

My crime thriller novel, The Geneva Connection, was published by Musa Publishing yesterday.

Special thanks go to all those members of Litopia who kindly offered advice and support during the various drafts of what was then called “Jivaro”. I am particularly grateful for the feedback received in the Houses. At the back of the published novel is an acknowledgment to Litopia.com as a small recognition for the great help.

More information on the book can be found on my website (www.martinbodenham.com) or by searching on the book title on Amazon.

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Adonis Devereux
Evernight Publishing
978-1-927368-30-5

We are pleased to announce our second Evernight release which came out December 26, 2011.

This bestselling novel continues the tales of Gilalion, our fictional world, though the story is set in a different region from Worth His Freedom.

Here's a taste: The telepath Elemia has spent her whole life training for her chance to marry the god-king in his far-away capital, but then she meets Abbas – and everything falls apart as they fall for each other. Derided as a half-breed, Abbas is barely tolerated by his own people, and Elemia is cast out of her order of novices for being with him. As punishment, Elemia is to be sold in marriage to Abbas' older brother, though her mind has already joined with Abbas'. The lovers would do anything to avoid this untenable situation...

Brian Clegg
St. Martin's Press
0312656882

I'm delighted to say that my latest book, How to Build a Time Machine is now published in the US. You can read more about it/buy a copy if so inclined at its web page.

Until recently, travelling through time seemed little more than fantasy. But quantum theory and particularly relativity open up ways to make time travel possible - and I still find it remarkable that no physical law prevents it.
How to Build a Time Machine explores our best understanding of time but really concentrates on how to manipulate it. There's the story of a time...

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Keith Pyeatt
Musa Publishing
978-1-61937-010-4

Above Haldis Notch is an afterlife thriller/horror novel

PHYSICAL DEATH IS TRAGIC, BUT THE DEATH OF A SPIRIT IS A LIFE FOREVER LOST.

Two neighboring families--one loving and respected in the community, the other made dysfunctional by abuse and scandal--must join forces to save a small Vermont town from a vindictive spirit who threatens not only their lives but also their afterlives.

Above Haldis Notch was released as an eBook on November 25, 2011. It's available for purchase through Musa Publishing,...

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Carolyn Rosewood
Evernight Publishing
978-1-927368-04-6

Book 3 of my Seduced By A Demon series is available at:

http://www.evernightpublishing.com/playing-for-keeps-by-carolyn-rosewood/

Damien Walker has just hired a sexy new bartender, and landed himself trouble, with a capital 'T'. Teresa's on the run, but from something more sinister than human law. She's a demon on the lam from Hell, trying to hide away in this sleepy town. A job in Damien's bar seems the perfect cover. He doesn't ask questions and he's great eye-candy too. What could be better?

But Teresa isn't the only one with a secret identity and a past they'd rather not remember. Damien...

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Catherine Cavendish
Etopia Press
B005ZV450A

For no apparent reason, Nadine, Maggie, Gary, and Nick are invited to dinner at the lavish home of top fashion writer, Erin Dartford. But why has she invited them? Why doesn't she want her guests to mingle? And just what is it about the mysterious Erin that makes them want to run for their lives?

Little do they know that as they prepare to eat their first course, an evil as old as mankind is about to be unleashed. And revenge really is a dish best served cold...

 

To read an excerpt, please go to:

http://www.catherinecavendish.com/p/cold-revenge.html

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Jasen Quick
Etopia Press

Some secrets are easier to keep than others.

Cage Reynolds has never been able to live in the same town for more than ten years because his secret becomes harder to hide the longer he stays in one place.

Having survived two world wars and the death of his is wife, Cage is lonely and depressed.

On the day that he is pushed in front of a bus by a mysterious man, Cage meets a mysterious young woman who has a secret of her own.

A secret that will change his life forever.

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Catherine Cavendish
Gypsy Shadow Publishing 26th September 2011
ISBN # 9781619500150

Every night, Jane Furnival prays for the souls of the dead celebrities she most admires. Somewhere, in a parallel dimension, those she prays for must gather and it’s an odd assortment of stars – from Jim Morrison, John Lennon and Marilyn Monroe to Agatha Christie who’s still writing plotlines in her notebook. But can they help her resolve the biggest crisis in her life? Her formidable, long-dead Aunt Margaret decides if anyone can, Jim Morrison’s her man, so accompanied by Marilyn Monroe in a skin-tight gown, the two set off on a mission to find $5000 before breakfast.

'Say A Little Prayer is my fun, short ghost story, available in a varietyof e-formats from Gypsy Shadow Publishing...

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Keith Pyeatt
Etopia Press
978-1-936751-58-7

Dark Knowledge, a paranormal thriller/horror novel

WHEN GOOD AND EVIL INTERTWINE,
TAKING ONE MEANS ACCEPTING THE OTHER.

A mentally challenged man named Wesley can't resist a gift of knowledge, but it comes with a dark destiny. Now he must fight to survive in two worlds, piece together his heritage, and weigh the value of his soul against the fate of mankind.

Dark Knowledge was released as an eBook by Etopia Press on August 19, 2011. It should be available in paperback by the end of 2011.

I'm Keith Pyeatt, known as bump around here. I write paranormal thrillers I call "horror with heart." Dark Knowledge is my second published novel. The first, Struck...

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Adonis Devereux
Evernight Publishing
978-1-927368-06-0

Miria, a young noblewoman on the cusp of an arranged marriage, meets the Ausir Tsalrin, her father's mysterious assassin, and sparks fly immediately. They face obstacles of political machinations and racial intolerance. Tsalrin is trapped by an ancient curse, and Miria cannot escape her father or the husband to whom he would sell her, a man who sees her merely as a political tool. Miria and Tsalrin's position is impossible, but neither one will give up their hidden love. Theirs is a story of struggle against abuse, bigotry, and paterfamilias. Their love is both their greatest danger and their only comfort as they search for their mutual freedom.

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This is our first novel, and Isabelle and I thrilled to share it with you all. Being fantasy romance, it is set in an...

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Ute Carbone
Etopia Press
978-1-936751-55-6

Beanie MacKenzie and her husband Mac have led perfect lives, with perfect families and perfect jobs they both love, he a leading cardiologist, she a teacher at a school for troubled children. Now they have the perfect home, a big house on a quiet Albany street, just perfect for raising a big family. Only the babies they’ve been trying so hard to conceive just won’t come.

Stressed in her marriage and fearing she may never bear children, Beanie throws herself into her work, surrounded by society’s throwaways. Enter Beanie’s new student, seven-year-old Blueberry Truth Crowley, a fiercely...

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Tone Milazzo
ChiZine Publications
978-1926851358

Living in St. Jude, a 110-year-old dying city on the edge of the Mississippi, is tough. But when a letter informs fourteen-year-old Cinque Williams of the passing of the father he never met, he is faced with an incomplete past and an uncertain future. A curse meant for his father condemns Cinque to a slow death even as it opens his eyes to the strange other world around him. With help from the ghost Willy T, an enigmatic White Woman named Iku, an African Loa, and a devious shape-shifter, Cinque will learn that sometimes too much knowledge can be dangerous - and the people he trusts most are those poised to betray him.

http://pickinguptheghost.tonemilazzo.com/

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Edited by Alan Bissett & Carl MacDougall...and featuring a poem by Irene Cunningham
New Writing Scotland 29 ASLS
978-1-906841-06-5

New Writing Scotland 29 is out and I'm in it and it's a great buy for £7.95!. Really, it's a lot of pages - 226, a solid book full of fabulous poetry and short fiction and definitely an anthology a writer should have on their shelves.

Wink

http://www.arts.gla.ac.uk/scotlit/asls/NewWriting.html

Back blurb: 'New Writing Scotland is the principal forum for poetry and short fiction in Scotland today. Every year it publishes the very best from both emerging and established writers, and lists many of the leading literary lights of Scotland among its contributors.'

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Carolyn Rosewood
Evernight Publishing
978-1-926950-66-2

Hunted, Book 2 of my Seduced By A Demon series, is available at Evernight Publishing, All Romance E-Books, OmniLit, Bookstrand, 1Place For Romance, Amazon, Amazon.uk,...

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Catherine Cavendish
Etopia Press
ISBN: 978-1-936751-42-6

Upstairs, Downstairs, and in My Lady’s Chamber…

 

As soon as Lydia sees Goose Green Farm, she knows something’s wrong. Why would John bring her to a derelict farmhouse miles from anywhere in the middle of the Yorkshire Moors? Refusing her pleas to go home, she can see that something is happening to him. As they enter the house, he seems possessed by a sinister presence that draws him to it and threatens his very existence. A terrified Lydia knows she will have to do whatever she can to rescue him from the clutches of a spirit who is hell-bent on revenge.

This is my Paranormal Suspense short story, available from:

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Carolyn Rosewood
Etopia Press
978-1-936751-45-7

My sexy romantic suspense, HAUNTED HEART, is available from the Etopia Press, OmniLIt, All Romance E-Books, Barnes & Noble, Manic Readers, Amazon UK,...

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J.S.Watts
Lapwing Publications, Belfast
978-1907276-64-4

Cats and Other Myths is the debut poetry collection from J.S.Watts. It is a book that finds contemporary relevance in the echoes of myths and legend and the mythic in the day to day world around us. Given truths are questioned and examined and if this means that dearly held beliefs are seen as the fairy tales they are, then so be it. These are poems of history and humanity, love and relationships, life and death and the things in betweeen. Oh, and yes, there are also cats.

Cats and Other Myths was Poetry Kit book of the month for May 2011. It is available from selected bookshops, Amazon, the Lapwing website www.lapwingpoetry.com and the author's own website, www.jswatts.co.uk

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