tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-85865124269994469562024-03-05T14:21:26.431-08:00Daily Kindle BargainsDaily Kindle Bargainshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08395744651092593280noreply@blogger.comBlogger290125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8586512426999446956.post-51615273460005868662023-04-20T18:31:00.000-07:002023-04-20T18:31:27.314-07:00Kindle Book of the Day - The Housemaid by Freida McFadden<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://amzn.to/3mOYlBO" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="326" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh72zPFAaYgt07rF4TrlN60Xp5BzHIpfOsSa0LrTNDPlIul5o90QUk2ejCEXXYbYua7re6bQTpuj64aWbjcBwM2hLfZz2ZOQTZcnksA8bkY928Y1hj2OfFRza_183R3toWDgpPwUkFdEai9Z61T0_YHqxHfZ52Nlix8qD6i0hyvkKbxu8jDgufhR5GB/s320/housemaid.jpg" width="209" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b><a href="https://amzn.to/3LjKJIq" target="_blank">The Housemaid by Freida McFadden</a></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b><br /></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b>Description:</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="a-text-bold" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: 700 !important;">“Welcome to the family,” Nina Winchester says as I shake her elegant, manicured hand. I smile politely, gazing around the marble hallway. Working here is my last chance to start fresh. I can pretend to be whoever I like. But I’ll soon learn that the Winchesters’ secrets are far more dangerous than my own…</span><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Every day I clean the Winchesters’ beautiful house top to bottom. I collect their daughter from school. And I cook a delicious meal for the whole family before heading up to eat alone in my tiny room on the top floor.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />I try to ignore how Nina makes a mess just to watch me clean it up. How she tells strange lies about her own daughter. And how her husband Andrew seems more broken every day. But as I look into Andrew’s handsome brown eyes, so full of pain, it’s hard not to imagine what it would be like to live Nina’s life. The walk-in closet, the fancy car, the perfect husband.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />I only try on one of Nina’s pristine white dresses once. Just to see what it’s like. But she soon finds out… and by the time I realize my attic bedroom door only locks from the outside, </span><span class="a-text-bold" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: 700 !important;">it’s far too late.</span><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />But I reassure myself:</span><span class="a-text-bold" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: 700 !important;"> the Winchesters don’t know who I really am.</span><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></span><span class="a-text-bold" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: 700 !important;">They don’t know what I’m capable of</span><span class="a-text-bold" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: 700 !important;">…</span><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></span><span class="a-text-bold" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: 700 !important;">An unbelievably twisty read that will have you glued to the pages late into the night. Anyone who loves </span><span class="a-text-bold a-text-italic" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: italic !important; font-weight: 700 !important;">The Woman in the Window</span><span class="a-text-bold" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: 700 !important;">, </span><span class="a-text-bold a-text-italic" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: italic !important; font-weight: 700 !important;">The Wife Between Us </span><span class="a-text-bold" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: 700 !important;">and </span><span class="a-text-bold a-text-italic" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: italic !important; font-weight: 700 !important;">The Girl on the Train</span><span class="a-text-bold" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: 700 !important;"> won’t be able to put this down!</span><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Read what everyone’s saying about </span><span class="a-text-italic" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: italic !important;">The Housemaid</span><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">:<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />“I got </span><span class="a-text-bold" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: 700 !important;">severe whiplash</span><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> from the </span><span class="a-text-bold" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: 700 !important;">twistiest turns</span><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">… Every time I thought I had it figured out… </span><span class="a-text-bold" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: 700 !important;">WRONG!!!</span><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">… I am </span><span class="a-text-bold" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: 700 !important;">still reeling</span><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">… </span><span class="a-text-bold" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: 700 !important;">outstanding</span><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">… If you love </span><span class="a-text-bold" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: 700 !important;">a top notch psychological thriller </span><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">that will have you</span><span class="a-text-bold" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: 700 !important;"> questioning your own sanity</span><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">, then </span><span class="a-text-bold" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: 700 !important;">this 5 star read is for you</span><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">.” NetGalley reviewer, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />“</span><span class="a-text-bold" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: 700 !important;">What a wild ride!!!</span><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> Freida definitely delivered </span><span class="a-text-bold" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: 700 !important;">the best twisty ending</span><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">… </span><span class="a-text-bold" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: 700 !important;">Gripping from start to finish</span><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">… honestly, </span><span class="a-text-bold" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: 700 !important;">I just could not put it </span><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">down… An </span><span class="a-text-bold" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: 700 !important;">absolutely mind-blowing shocker</span><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> that </span><span class="a-text-bold" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: 700 !important;">kept me guessing</span><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> and </span><span class="a-text-bold" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: 700 !important;">on the edge of my seat </span><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">literally until the very end.” Goodreads reviewer, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />“</span><span class="a-text-bold" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: 700 !important;">One wild ride!</span><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">… </span><span class="a-text-bold" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: 700 !important;">So many twists and turns</span><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">… I was </span><span class="a-text-bold" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: 700 !important;">hooked</span><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> </span><span class="a-text-bold" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: 700 !important;">right away</span><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> – </span><span class="a-text-bold" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: 700 !important;">I even read my Kindle while waiting in my kid’s school pick-up line so I wouldn’t have to put this book down!</span><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">… addictive… pure perfection!” Goodreads reviewer, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />“</span><span class="a-text-bold" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: 700 !important;">Wow!!!</span><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">… Blimey! </span><span class="a-text-bold" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: 700 !important;">What a roller coaster ride this was!</span><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> It had me </span><span class="a-text-bold" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: 700 !important;">sitting on the edge of my seat!</span><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">… </span><span class="a-text-bold" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: 700 !important;">Superb</span><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> book!… </span><span class="a-text-bold" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: 700 !important;">Fantastic ending!!!!</span><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">… I </span><span class="a-text-bold" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: 700 !important;">highly recommend</span><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">… fantastic… Big fat 5 stars from me.” Goodreads reviewer, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />“</span><span class="a-text-bold" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: 700 !important;">SO GOOD</span><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">… I </span><span class="a-text-bold" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: 700 !important;">didn’t want to put it down!</span><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> I read </span><span class="a-text-bold" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: 700 !important;">70% in one sitting</span><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">… I was </span><span class="a-text-bold" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: 700 !important;">on the edge of my seat</span><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">… </span><span class="a-text-bold" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: 700 !important;">you will not see the ending coming! Drop what you are doing and pick up this book!</span><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">” </span><span class="a-text-italic" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: italic !important;">@Thriller_book_sisters</span><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />“</span><span class="a-text-bold" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: 700 !important;">You will NOT believe </span><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">the direction this book takes… A </span><span class="a-text-bold" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: 700 !important;">jaw-dropping</span><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> twist… A truly </span><span class="a-text-bold" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: 700 !important;">stunning</span><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> thriller that </span><span class="a-text-bold" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: 700 !important;">I could not read quickly enough</span><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">.” </span><span class="a-text-italic" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: italic !important;">@carriereadsthem_all</span><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />“I was </span><span class="a-text-bold" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: 700 !important;">obsessed</span><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> with this story… couldn’t get through the story fast enough… I was </span><span class="a-text-bold" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: 700 !important;">continuously gasping or saying “noooooo” out loud</span><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">.” </span><span class="a-text-italic" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: italic !important;">Sarah in Readerland</span><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />“I </span><span class="a-text-bold" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: 700 !important;">could NOT put it down</span><span style="background-color: white; 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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: ;">The launch of a brand new trilogy from New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Roxanne St. Claire set on the sun-washed beaches of Barefoot Bay!</span><span style="background-color: ;"> </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br style="background-color: ;" /><span style="background-color: ;">“Lively, light, pure entertainment! This Cinderella story is “Pretty Woman” on the beach!” </span><br style="background-color: ;" /><span style="background-color: ;">- Carly Phillips, New York Times bestselling author </span><br style="background-color: ;" /><br style="background-color: ;" /><span style="background-color: ;">Zeke Nicholas has turned his mathematical genius skills into a mountain of money. But Zeke sits on that mountain all alone, longing for the one thing money cannot buy: a lifelong partner and true love. Enter Mandy Mitchell...the maid at his thousand-dollar-a-night resort. </span><br style="background-color: ;" /><br style="background-color: ;" /><span style="background-color: ;">The minute they meet, Mandy knows he’s exactly the kind of trouble she should avoid...but Zeke does have one thing Mandy needs to gain the independence she craves. Will he give it to her? One look at Mandy, and Zeke turns his relentless ability to get what he wants into a full-on seduction and he’s ready to give her anything. But can Mandy face down the secrets of her past to find a fairy-tale future with Zeke? </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br style="background-color: ;" /><span style="background-color: ;">FBI criminal profiler Madison Harper understands dangerous minds. Tough, tenacious, with nerves of steel, she’s the best of the best. So is her new partner, Gabriel Roarke, a crack CIA operative who likes to do things his way. When the two are forced to jointly head up a task force investigating murder in high places – it’s no surprise that sparks begin to fly. </span><br style="background-color: ;" /><br style="background-color: ;" /><span style="background-color: ;">As they race through a shadow world of power, politics and deadly secrets, the passion that simmers between Madison and Gabriel soon ignites. But a clever killer at the top of his game </span><br style="background-color: ;" /><span style="background-color: ;">has challenged Madison to play to the very end. Now all she can trust is her instincts—and Gabriel, the one man reckless enough to keep her alive... </span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: ;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If you’d asked me a week ago, I would have told you that the best cupcakes were dark chocolate with chocolate cream cheese icing, that dancing in a crowd of magic wielders — the Adept — was better than sex, and that my life was peaceful and uneventful. Just the way I liked it. That’s what twenty-three years in the magical backwater of Vancouver will get you — a completely skewed sense of reality. Because when the dead werewolves started showing up, it all unraveled … except for the cupcake part. That’s a universal truth. </span></span><br />
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<b><a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B006WCYWFO/afterschoolsp-20">Attic Clowns: Complete Collection by Jeremy C. Shipp</a> is available on Kindle for just $2.99. This collection contains every story from Attic Clowns Volume One, Volume Two, Volume Three, and Volume Four.</b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Bram Stoker Award nominee Jeremy C. Shipp spins 13 tales of horror and dark humor in this highly conceptual collection. Angels and demons, husbands and wives, tormented ghosts and an army of men made of soap--all of them trapped in attics of the mind, attics of heaven or hell, the attics we make for ourselves or with which we ensnare others.</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /><br />Meet a paranoid astronaut whose jealousy drives him to extremes beyond murder...a miniature circus spawned from the mind of a woman with too much control...the underling demon Globcow who desires redemption even more than the taste of human feet...</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /><br />Men, women, children, and things beyond imagination all interconnect in ATTIC CLOWNS, where laughter is only the prelude to the bizarre and terrible.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">"Shipp’s boldness, daring, originality, and sheer smarts make him one of the most vital younger writers who have colonized horror literature in the past decade."</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">–Peter Straub, author of Ghost Story</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /><br />"I’m convinced Jeremy Shipp is a little bit crazy, in the best possible way. This is one of those books that alters your brain in a way similar to Philip K. Dick."</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">—Jeff VanderMeer, author of City of Saints & Madmen and Shriek: An Afterword</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /><br />"Shipp's clear, insistent voice pulls you down into the rabbit hole and doesn't let go." </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">--Jack Ketchum, author of The Girl Next Door</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /><br />"Jeremy Shipp is a very good drug. I hope this book gets banned in high schools soon!"</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">–John Skipp, author of The Emerald Burrito of Oz</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /><br />"Jeremy's impressive stories are as intelligent, entertaining, and moving as they are strange. Read him now."</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">—Carlton Mellick III, author of The Egg Man</span></div>
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<span class="biotext">Jeremy C. Shipp is the Bram Stoker Award-nominated author of Cursed, Vacation, and Sheep and Wolves. His shorter tales have appeared or are forthcoming in over 60 publications, the likes of Cemetery Dance, ChiZine, Apex Magazine, Withersin, and Shroud Magazine. Jeremy enjoys living in Southern California in a moderately haunted Victorian farmhouse called Rose Cottage. He lives there with his wife, Lisa, a couple of pygmy tigers, and a legion of yard gnomes. The gnomes like him. The clowns living in his attic—not so much. His online home is <a href="http://www.jeremycshipp.com/">www.jeremycshipp.com</a>.</span><br />
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Daily Kindle Bargainshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08395744651092593280noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8586512426999446956.post-65181348664596332332014-08-01T01:24:00.001-07:002014-08-01T01:24:55.128-07:00Free Kindle Book of the Day - My Five Monsters by Welcome Faith Shipp<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This is a delightful picture book about monsters! One monster has four teeth. Another monster has five eyes. What other monsters will we find? </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Welcome Faith Shipp: Today you are thinking of purchasing one of my little books. I created these books for my own classroom and I am thrilled to share them with parents & teachers who want their children to read more than just about red dogs or fluffy bunnies.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Background of "THE WHY" I created my books!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">As a kindergarten and first grade teacher of more than 25 years, I wanted my children to read more than just "fluff" books. So many of early reading books didn't correspond with the social studies and science standards. I did find books that covered these themes, but they were too difficult for my children to read. I started to write easy books for my children to read with themes integrated in them. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Also the requirements of kindergarten became higher and higher. The only way I could see to reach these high standards was to extend teaching into the homes. If my children were to accomplish these reading feats, the books must spill over past the school day. During the week my students would read these books in the classroom and then I sent them home for students to read them at home. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">My students excelled with higher and higher reading scores. I could see that parents were an integral part of learning for my children. With reading in the home done each day, parents can truly become partners in teaching. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Who is Donovan Candle? He is the consummate husband. Stable, hard-working, and dedicated to his wife, Donovan is a paragon of the Middle Class. </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /><br />Until now. </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /><br />Strange visions of a monochromatic world. Bizarre sensations of physical transparency. </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /><br />At first, Donovan fears he's losing his grip on reality, but as the week wears on and the odd afflictions intensify, he wonders if he is truly fading from existence. </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /><br />When his wife is abducted, his life goes from weird to terrifying. To get her back, Donovan must play by a stranger's rules. Will he be in time to save her-and himself-from the dangers of A Life Transparent?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">"I must confess, it's the first book I have read in a while that kept me fighting to keep my eyes open to find out what would happen next. An original, somewhat terrifying concept that not only makes you reflect on your own life, but question your own 'settling.' [. . .] I doubt Mr. Keisling intended his excellent tale as a `kick in the pants' to his readers, but it was a good kick in the pants to have, from an unexpected place."<br />--ParaYourNormal</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /><br />"Todd Keisling is an extraordinarily talented writer, and I will definitely be interested to see what novels he comes up with in the next few years. The strength here that I see is the originality of the story, the anxiety and psychological complexity of Donovan's character, and the sheer mastery of style and craft that Keisling realizes on the page." </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Todd Keisling is a two-time recipient of the Oswald Research and Creativity Prize for fiction. Born in Kentucky, he now lives with his wife and son somewhere near Reading, Pennsylvania. Contrary to popular opinion, he is a cat person. A Life Transparent is his first novel.</span><br />
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Daily Kindle Bargainshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08395744651092593280noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8586512426999446956.post-84175844939330217742014-08-01T01:00:00.001-07:002014-08-01T01:00:04.991-07:00Daily Kindle Bargains - Zephyr of the Ashes by Dawn Leslie Lenz<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The sun's intense draw lures out all the people of the world, while agoraphobic Chava Logan hunkers down inside her San Francisco apartment in terror. Slowly, more and more people succumb to the allure of the sun.</span><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br /><br />The Sun Pandemic is a global phenomenon that no one seems to understand or be able to fight. Alone in her apartment, Chava struggles against this unknown force. Can her neurotic behaviors actually save her life? A short story from our Orbits sci-fi/fantasy line.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">“Dawn Leslie Lenz’s character Chava Logan in “Zephyr of Ashes” is one of the more interesting, complex and endearing that I’ve encountered in any genre, let alone science fiction/fantasy. Her frailties, which include agoraphobia, its accompanying panic attacks and a certain innate shyness, actually buoy her survival capabilities as she experiences a horrific, inexplicable pandemic where people everywhere sacrifice themselves to the sun’s rays and spontaneously combust. The setting, San Francisco, lovely and familiar, is transmogrified into an unimaginable ruins of ashes, remnants of the unfathomable frenzy that has gripped the world, all the lovely streets and famous sites cloaked in death.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br />"Chava, though, does what agoraphobes do best: She hides in her efficiency apartment, her cat her only companion, and, avoiding the sun, makes a single evening foray to a neighborhood store to sustain the two of them. But supplies will someday run out. Are there any other survivors? What will she do when she must move on? Can anything, anybody rescue her? Like the people who have buckled to the irresistible lure of the sun in this rare world, a reader yields to Lenz’ mastery, word after word, page after page.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br />"There are so many ways to interpret this rich, fascinating work, which features a memorable, imaginative landscape, a deep psychological portrait, an unprecedented dilemma and, surprisingly, given these parameters, humor. You will never be able to watch narcissists on the beach or in the backyard again in quite the same way. And you’ll know that Mom’s advice was right: Don’t stay out too long in the sun, dear!"</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">--Tony Fitzpatrick, Author of Signals from the Heartland</span><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br /><br />"As we speak, the world is warming and experiencing its own corporeal collapse. It’s insightful to imagine the conditions that could prevail when unknown mysterious and realities such as a sun pandemic impose its wishes on the world. In “Zephyr of Ashes” Dawn Lenz attaches the unknown with the known, adds mystery to the already mysterious, and yes she prevails in illuminating and entertaining us with a very compelling story—as you would expect from an author of her caliber. </span><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Chava Logan, a mystery within a mystery, disabled because of panic attacks, has for five years been able to resist the temptation of the sun—deadlier and less subtle than any case of carcinoma—that has lured the world and reduced mankind to a group of doomed sunbathers. But it is Chava Logan and her feline companion, Vesper, who report to us, their most basic needs in a time when the world has changed leaving a zephyr of ashes. Bravo, Dawn Leslie Lenz!"</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">--Rick Bolner, Writer, CPA</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Dawn Leslie Lenz is a fiction writer and freelance editor. She is a Contributing Editor for River Styx literary magazine. Her work has appeared in books, journals, online, and elsewhere including The Green Tricycle, The Rambler, and Mirror, Mirror: Reflections on the Way We Look, among others. She is seeking representation for her first novel, Winged Victory. A Master of Fine Arts graduate of the Creative Writing program at the University of New Orleans, she has an undergraduate degree in English from Missouri State University. Dawn Leslie lives in St. Louis with her husband. She is currently hard at work on her next novel. </span><br />
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Daily Kindle Bargainshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08395744651092593280noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8586512426999446956.post-49525513059417052512014-02-21T07:29:00.001-08:002014-08-01T00:58:37.786-07:00Free Kindle Book of the Day - My Five Monsters by Welcome Faith Shipp<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This is a delightful picture book about monsters! One monster has four teeth. Another monster has five eyes. What other monsters will we find? </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Welcome Faith Shipp: Today you are thinking of purchasing one of my little books. I created these books for my own classroom and I am thrilled to share them with parents & teachers who want their children to read more than just about red dogs or fluffy bunnies.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Background of "THE WHY" I created my books!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">As a kindergarten and first grade teacher of more than 25 years, I wanted my children to read more than just "fluff" books. So many of early reading books didn't correspond with the social studies and science standards. I did find books that covered these themes, but they were too difficult for my children to read. I started to write easy books for my children to read with themes integrated in them. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Also the requirements of kindergarten became higher and higher. The only way I could see to reach these high standards was to extend teaching into the homes. If my children were to accomplish these reading feats, the books must spill over past the school day. During the week my students would read these books in the classroom and then I sent them home for students to read them at home. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">My students excelled with higher and higher reading scores. I could see that parents were an integral part of learning for my children. With reading in the home done each day, parents can truly become partners in teaching. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This is a delightful picture book about monsters! One monster has four teeth. Another monster has five eyes. What other monsters will we find? </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This picture book collection is intended for a child to read on his or her own. This is an early reading book for a preschool or Kindergarten child to begin his/her reading experience. This story is repetitive and uses simple sight words. Each page has original pictures that correspond with the writing on each page.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Welcome Faith Shipp: Today you are thinking of purchasing one of my little books. I created these books for my own classroom and I am thrilled to share them with parents & teachers who want their children to read more than just about red dogs or fluffy bunnies.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Background of "THE WHY" I created my books!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">As a kindergarten and first grade teacher of more than 25 years, I wanted my children to read more than just "fluff" books. So many of early reading books didn't correspond with the social studies and science standards. I did find books that covered these themes, but they were too difficult for my children to read. I started to write easy books for my children to read with themes integrated in them. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Also the requirements of kindergarten became higher and higher. The only way I could see to reach these high standards was to extend teaching into the homes. If my children were to accomplish these reading feats, the books must spill over past the school day. During the week my students would read these books in the classroom and then I sent them home for students to read them at home. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">My students excelled with higher and higher reading scores. I could see that parents were an integral part of learning for my children. With reading in the home done each day, parents can truly become partners in teaching. </span><br />
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<b><a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00ICH5X5A/afterschoolsp-20" target="_blank">Click here</a> to download My Five Monsters to your Kindle.</b><br />
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Daily Kindle Bargainshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08395744651092593280noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8586512426999446956.post-73144860722337430762014-02-13T12:03:00.000-08:002014-02-13T12:03:03.482-08:00The Animal Collection by Welcome Faith Shipp<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This collection contains the following four picture books: </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">WHERE SHOULD THE CATFISH BE? </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">THE LITTLE ANT </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">WHERE CAN BAT SLEEP? </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">TO BEE OR NOT TO BEE </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This picture book collection is intended for a child to read on his or her own. This is an early reading book for a preschool or Kindergarten child to begin his/her reading experience. This story is repetitive and uses simple sight words. Each page has original pictures that correspond with the writing on each page.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Welcome Faith Shipp: Today you are thinking of purchasing one of my little books. I created these books for my own classroom and I am thrilled to share them with parents & teachers who want their children to read more than just about red dogs or fluffy bunnies.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Background of "THE WHY" I created my books!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">As a kindergarten and first grade teacher of more than 25 years, I wanted my children to read more than just "fluff" books. So many of early reading books didn't correspond with the social studies and science standards. I did find books that covered these themes, but they were too difficult for my children to read. I started to write easy books for my children to read with themes integrated in them. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Also the requirements of kindergarten became higher and higher. The only way I could see to reach these high standards was to extend teaching into the homes. If my children were to accomplish these reading feats, the books must spill over past the school day. During the week my students would read these books in the classroom and then I sent them home for students to read them at home. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">My students excelled with higher and higher reading scores. I could see that parents were an integral part of learning for my children. With reading in the home done each day, parents can truly become partners in teaching. </span><br />
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<b><a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00HFKOZQ8/afterschoolsp-20" target="_blank">Click here</a> to download The Animal Collection to your Kindle.</b><br />
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<b>For the UK version, <a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Animal-Collection-Welcome-Faith-Shipp-ebook/dp/B00HFKOZQ8/" target="_blank">click here</a>.</b><br />
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Mark’s Asperger’s Syndrome makes things hard for him at school. Mark’s mom and dad think MORE school is the answer. They can’t be right--can they? When they enroll Mark in the new taekwondo school nearby, he finds that his class is filled with adults--and four kids from his school he’s never met before. So now he’s got to meet new people (ugh), learn MORE new skills (ack), and oh yeah…somewhere in there, he’s got to figure out how not to flunk English.</div>
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"Having had my own child with Asperger-y type symptoms, I can strongly relate to Mark's (and his mom's) frustration with schoolwork. I can see this story being beneficial to any child who may have a <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1304616704_0" style="border-bottom: 2px dotted rgb(54, 99, 136); cursor: pointer;">learning disability</span>, and even to those who don't."</div>
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"King of The Marshmallows is an uplifting story about a middle grade boy named Mark who has Asperger's. It was great to see Mark transform through the story because of his tae-kwon-do. Well written and compelling."</div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Lydia Ondrusek is a long-married mother of two attempting to write her way out of a </span><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1304566311_2" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">paper bag</span><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">. She writes poetry and fiction about whatever comes to heart. “King of the Marshmallows” is her first middle-grade short fiction series, and will be complete in six monthly stand-alone episodes. Find more of her work in </span><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1304566311_3" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">GUD Magazine</span><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">, </span><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1304566311_4" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Apex</span><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> Magazine, and various other venues on and off the net.</span><br />
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Her website is <a href="http://lydiaondrusek.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1304566311_5">http://lydiaondrusek.com</span></a>, and she spends far too much time on <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1304566311_6">Twitter</span>, where she is known as <a href="http://www.twitter.com/littlefluffycat">@littlefluffycat</a>.</div>
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<b>Description:</b><i>Gumshoe. Flatfoot. Bulldog. Professional snoop.</i> They've got a lot of words for someone like me. Most of them you wouldn't say on a Sunday in front of your mother. It's not easy being a private investigator in a town where no one is innocent, but it's twice as hard if you're a woman. I have to be twice as tough, twice as sharp, and take ten times as much horse manure to solve every case I take. Good thing I'm also ten times as much of a detective as all the coppers down at the station put together. Not that it would take a lot, but you know what I mean.</div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Right. So it all started when a man from my past showed up at my door one dark, rainy night. Of course, it's Seattle. I don't have to tell you it rains here, right? Right. So he was pounding my door. I was pounding a drink. He had a problem in need of solving. I solved problems for a needy living. It was a match made in heaven. Except that matches start fires, and fires are more in line with the opposite of heaven. I didn't know it yet but that's right where my world was headed with this case: straight to hell, with a whiskey chaser. I was about to be a lot toastier than I really wanted to be, and things were just getting warmed up.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">With eight 5-star reviews, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00C57KWRM/afterschoolsp-20">Emerald City Blues</a> is just $2.99 and free for Kindle users with Amazon Prime.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">" If you are at all a fan of hard-boiled detective stories, or urban fantasy, or well-written characters, or just plain want a fun read that's different from the usual stuff you pick, GET THIS BOOK."</span></div>
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"As a reader, you are immediately drawn into the shoes of his witty and clever heroine, Maddie Sheehan. Her thrilling investigative adventure is further enhanced by historical and cultural references. This well written book captivates you from beginning to end..."</div>
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--Bad Wolf, 5-star review on Amazon</div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i style="background-color: clear;">"No one is safe around a writer."</i><span style="background-color: clear;"> </span><span style="background-color: clear;">- Lanford Wilson, American playwright (1937-2011)</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br style="background-color: clear;" /><span style="background-color: clear;">Peter A. Smalley was not so much born as he was the object of a suitably ominous origin story. If only Marvel had been more attentive,</span><span style="background-color: clear;"> </span><i style="background-color: clear;">I, Writer</i><span style="background-color: clear;"> </span><span style="background-color: clear;">might even now be a successful comic and movie franchise starring Colin Farrell. So it goes.</span><br style="background-color: clear;" /><br style="background-color: clear;" /><span style="background-color: clear;">Like so many writers and mad scientists, Peter knew from an early age he was different from the other children. In the third grade he told his teachers he wanted to be a 'cemist' (sic) and although he has since fulfilled that precocious goal, his youthful ambitions in science came too late to fully obscure his first love; he had already written his first work of fiction a year prior, the accurately entitled </span><i style="background-color: clear;">A Second Grade Tragedy.</i><span style="background-color: clear;"> Since that tender age these twin abiding passions have illuminated the oft-crooked path leading through both his formal and informal educations.</span><br style="background-color: clear;" /><br style="background-color: clear;" /><span style="background-color: clear;">Peter was raised in Seattle, Washington. In 2011 his picture appeared in the New York Times for something that had nothing directly to do with writing, but coincidentally, his first self-published work also came out in 2011: a speculative fantasy novella titled </span><i style="background-color: clear;">The Burning Times</i><span style="background-color: clear;"> (<a href="http://amzn.to/NnWUkS" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">amzn.to/NnWUkS</a>). This was quickly followed by the full-length fantasy novel </span><i style="background-color: clear;">Grimme</i><span style="background-color: clear;"> (<a href="http://amzn.to/NQ6mMf" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">amzn.to/NQ6mMf</a>), which likewise took place in an alternate-history setting known as The Europas Cycle. He co-edited and contributed to the acclaimed recent anthologie </span><i style="background-color: clear;">20,001: A Steampunk Odyssey</i><span style="background-color: clear;"> (<a href="http://amzn.to/LouVko" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">amzn.to/LouVko</a>). His Shakespearean Steampunk novella </span><i style="background-color: clear;">Full Fathom Five</i><span style="background-color: clear;"> (<a href="http://amzn.to/SqSvgX" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">amzn.to/SqSvgX</a>) appears in the anthologie and as a stand-alone ebook. </span><i style="background-color: clear;">Disbelief</i><span style="background-color: clear;">, his first Paranormal Romance thriller, came out in Summer 2012. He is also the founder of Kindling Press, an independent epublishing imprint, along with co-founder Jason Vanhee.</span><br style="background-color: clear;" /><br style="background-color: clear;" /><span style="background-color: clear;">Peter can be found on Twitter (<a href="http://www.twitter.com/Peter_Smelley">@Peter_Smalley</a>), FaceBook (<a href="http://facebook.com/peterasmalley" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">facebook.com/peterasmalley</a>), Google Plus, and occasionally hither but more often </span><i style="background-color: clear;">yon.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Also, be sure to visit his <a href="http://www.kindlingpress.com/">small press website</a> and his <a href="https://www.amazon.com/author/petersmalley">Amazon author link</a>.</span></div>
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Daily Kindle Bargainshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08395744651092593280noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8586512426999446956.post-14773370921997688192013-08-02T12:29:00.001-07:002013-08-02T12:29:54.890-07:00Daily Kindle Bargain - King of the Marshmallows by Lydia Ondrusek<br />
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Mark’s Asperger’s Syndrome makes things hard for him at school. Mark’s mom and dad think MORE school is the answer. They can’t be right--can they? When they enroll Mark in the new taekwondo school nearby, he finds that his class is filled with adults--and four kids from his school he’s never met before. So now he’s got to meet new people (ugh), learn MORE new skills (ack), and oh yeah…somewhere in there, he’s got to figure out how not to flunk English.</div>
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"Having had my own child with Asperger-y type symptoms, I can strongly relate to Mark's (and his mom's) frustration with schoolwork. I can see this story being beneficial to any child who may have a <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1304616704_0" style="border-bottom: 2px dotted rgb(54, 99, 136); cursor: pointer;">learning disability</span>, and even to those who don't."</div>
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"King of The Marshmallows is an uplifting story about a middle grade boy named Mark who has Asperger's. It was great to see Mark transform through the story because of his tae-kwon-do. Well written and compelling."</div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Lydia Ondrusek is a long-married mother of two attempting to write her way out of a </span><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1304566311_2" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">paper bag</span><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">. She writes poetry and fiction about whatever comes to heart. “King of the Marshmallows” is her first middle-grade short fiction series, and will be complete in six monthly stand-alone episodes. Find more of her work in </span><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1304566311_3" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">GUD Magazine</span><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">, </span><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1304566311_4" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Apex</span><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> Magazine, and various other venues on and off the net.</span><br />
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Her website is <a href="http://lydiaondrusek.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1304566311_5">http://lydiaondrusek.com</span></a>, and she spends far too much time on <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1304566311_6">Twitter</span>, where she is known as <a href="http://www.twitter.com/littlefluffycat">@littlefluffycat</a>.</div>
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<a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B0053H3SYU/afterschoolsp-20"><b>Punch! (King of the Marshmallows) by Lydia Ondrusek</b></a><b> </b><b>is available on Kindle for just 99 cents</b>.</div>
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Ray’s parents are divorced and shuttling him back and forth. Nobody seems to realize how hard this has become for Ray. His only comforts are eating, and hiding out in video games. Now, gaming at school has gotten him suspended. Will taekwondo help him lose weight? Give him more discipline? His parents hope so. It’s the first thing they’ve agreed on in ages.<br />
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His gran doesn’t think Ray needs to worry about losing weight. She does agree he needs taekwondo, though. Taekwondo will mean somewhere to go, friends his age to spend time with outside of school, and something for Ray to feel good about besides his skill at video games.<br />
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"I love how this series is progressing with each story featuring a new kid but bringing in those from past stories in significant ways. Ray discovers a new family in the "Marshmallows" when he needs them most. The interaction between him and his new friends, as well as his grandmother, is delightful and charming--but always remains realistic. Looking forward to the next story! "</div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Lydia Ondrusek is a long-married mother of two attempting to write her way out of a </span><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1304566311_2" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">paper bag</span><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">. She writes poetry and fiction about whatever comes to heart. “King of the Marshmallows” is her first middle-grade short fiction series, and will be complete in six monthly stand-alone episodes. Find more of her work in </span><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1304566311_3" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">GUD Magazine</span><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">, </span><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1304566311_4" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Apex</span><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> Magazine, and various other venues on and off the net.</span><br />
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Her website is <a href="http://lydiaondrusek.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1304566311_5">http://lydiaondrusek.com</span></a>, and she spends far too much time on <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1304566311_6">Twitter</span>, where she is known as <a href="http://www.twitter.com/littlefluffycat">@littlefluffycat</a>.</div>
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Erin has never been secretive, but she's starting to wonder; is it still keeping a secret if you just don’t tell anybody? What if nobody asks?<br />
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Could what Margret and her friends (or henchmen) are doing be Erin's secret? Erin is being bullied at school. She hasn’t reported the abuse to anyone in charge, not her teachers, or her parents–she hasn’t even talked to her twin brother Tim about it. Erin believes her reasons for not discussing what’s going on are good. Or she did. She’s not so sure anymore.<br />
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The bullying has gone from insults to physical attacks that are getting dangerous. They’re bad enough that now Erin is scared to go to school. It’s stopped feeling like a safe place to be. Can what she’s learning in taekwondo help?</div>
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"BLOCK! is the second in the King of the <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1305306359_3">Marshmallows</span> series by Lydia Ondrusek. BLOCK! tells the tale of twins, Tim who has Asperger's and his sister Erin, who acts as his buffer. Unfortunately, Erin has problems of her own, in the form of a Mean Girl who makes snide comments. I'd recommend BLOCK! for any middle grade child, and definitely for the parents of kids this age."</div>
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--Joanne L. Huspek, 5-star review on Amazon<br />
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"King of The Marshmallows is an uplifting story...well written and compelling."</div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Lydia Ondrusek is a long-married mother of two attempting to write her way out of a </span><span class="yiv2142181636yshortcuts" id="yiv2142181636lw_1304566311_2" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">paper bag</span><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">. She writes poetry and fiction about whatever comes to heart. “King of the Marshmallows” is her first middle-grade short fiction series, and will be complete in six monthly stand-alone episodes. Find more of her work in </span><span class="yiv2142181636yshortcuts" id="yiv2142181636lw_1304566311_3" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">GUD Magazine</span><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">, </span><span class="yiv2142181636yshortcuts" id="yiv2142181636lw_1304566311_4" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Apex</span><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> Magazine, and various other venues on and off the net.</span><br />
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Her website is <a href="http://lydiaondrusek.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><span class="yiv2142181636yshortcuts" id="yiv2142181636lw_1304566311_5">http://lydiaondrusek.com</span></a>, and she spends far too much time on <span class="yiv2142181636yshortcuts" id="yiv2142181636lw_1304566311_6">Twitter</span>, where she is known as <a href="http://www.twitter.com/littlefluffycat" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1305306359_7">@littlefluffycat</span></a>.</div>
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Daily Kindle Bargainshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08395744651092593280noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8586512426999446956.post-34700746474965473632013-06-07T08:36:00.001-07:002013-06-07T08:36:04.895-07:00Daily Kindle Bargain - King of the Marshmallows by Lydia Ondrusek<br />
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<a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B004SBN8V0/afterschoolsp-20"><b>King of the Marshmallows by Lydia Ondrusek</b></a><b> </b><b>is available on Kindle for just 99 cents</b>.</div>
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Mark’s Asperger’s Syndrome makes things hard for him at school. Mark’s mom and dad think MORE school is the answer. They can’t be right--can they? When they enroll Mark in the new taekwondo school nearby, he finds that his class is filled with adults--and four kids from his school he’s never met before. So now he’s got to meet new people (ugh), learn MORE new skills (ack), and oh yeah…somewhere in there, he’s got to figure out how not to flunk English.</div>
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"Having had my own child with Asperger-y type symptoms, I can strongly relate to Mark's (and his mom's) frustration with schoolwork. I can see this story being beneficial to any child who may have a <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1304616704_0" style="border-bottom: 2px dotted rgb(54, 99, 136); cursor: pointer;">learning disability</span>, and even to those who don't."</div>
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--Joanne L. Huspek, 5-star review on Amazon<br />
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"King of The Marshmallows is an uplifting story about a middle grade boy named Mark who has Asperger's. It was great to see Mark transform through the story because of his tae-kwon-do. Well written and compelling."</div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Lydia Ondrusek is a long-married mother of two attempting to write her way out of a </span><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1304566311_2" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">paper bag</span><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">. She writes poetry and fiction about whatever comes to heart. “King of the Marshmallows” is her first middle-grade short fiction series, and will be complete in six monthly stand-alone episodes. Find more of her work in </span><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1304566311_3" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">GUD Magazine</span><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">, </span><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1304566311_4" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Apex</span><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> Magazine, and various other venues on and off the net.</span><br />
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Her website is <a href="http://lydiaondrusek.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1304566311_5">http://lydiaondrusek.com</span></a>, and she spends far too much time on <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1304566311_6">Twitter</span>, where she is known as <a href="http://www.twitter.com/littlefluffycat">@littlefluffycat</a>.</div>
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<b><a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B004SBN8V0/afterschoolsp-20">Click here</a> to download Ready! (King of the Marshmallows) to your Kindle.</b><br />
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<b><a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00818H7L8/afterschoolsp-20">Stretch! (King of the Marshmallows) by Lydia Ondrusek</a></b><b> </b><b>is available on Kindle for just 99 cents</b>.</div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Meet Mr. Yee's niece Zoe – she swings a mean bo staff, but doesn't usually use it in the kind of battles she fights. Zoe's spent a lot of time on her own because of her parents' professions, and has gotten used to taking care of herself. Now that she's one of the Marshmallows, though, she also has friends to take care of – to help, to teach, and to defend. Even Tim comes to trust her, both as friend and teacher.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">But is there any good way to help and teach someone your age who's not your friend; who may not be, may never be, anybody's friend? When you're used to making your own rules, how far will you (or can you) go for a good cause? Once you accept a responsibility, what do you do if it conflicts with other responsibilities? Coping with life can require you to make some big stretches.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">But even when she stretches herself to find a solution, Zoe realizes, a lot of where you go depends on where you've been in the past, on who you are in the very heart of you, and on who you come from. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">"I love how this series is progressing with each story featuring a new kid but bringing in those from past stories in significant ways...Looking forward to the next story!"</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">--Susan P. Sipal, 5-star review on Amazon</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">"King of The Marshmallows is an uplifting story...well written and compelling."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Lydia Ondrusek is a long-married mother of two attempting to write her way out of a </span><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1304566311_2" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">paper bag</span><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">. She writes poetry and fiction about whatever comes to heart. “King of the Marshmallows” is her first middle-grade short fiction series, and will be complete in six monthly stand-alone episodes. Find more of her work in </span><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1304566311_3" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">GUD Magazine</span><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">, </span><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1304566311_4" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Apex</span><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> Magazine, and various other venues on and off the net.</span><br />
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Her website is <a href="http://lydiaondrusek.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1304566311_5">http://lydiaondrusek.com</span></a>, and she spends far too much time on <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1304566311_6">Twitter</span>, where she is known as <a href="http://www.twitter.com/littlefluffycat">@littlefluffycat</a>.</div>
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<b><a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00818H7L8/afterschoolsp-20">Click here</a> to download Stretch! (King of the Marshmallows) to your Kindle.</b><br />
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<b>For the UK version, <a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Stretch-King-Marshmallows-ebook/dp/B00818H7L8/">click here</a>.</b><br />
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<a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B0053H3SYU/afterschoolsp-20"><b>Punch! (King of the Marshmallows) by Lydia Ondrusek</b></a><b> </b><b>is available on Kindle for just 99 cents</b>.</div>
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Ray’s parents are divorced and shuttling him back and forth. Nobody seems to realize how hard this has become for Ray. His only comforts are eating, and hiding out in video games. Now, gaming at school has gotten him suspended. Will taekwondo help him lose weight? Give him more discipline? His parents hope so. It’s the first thing they’ve agreed on in ages.<br />
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His gran doesn’t think Ray needs to worry about losing weight. She does agree he needs taekwondo, though. Taekwondo will mean somewhere to go, friends his age to spend time with outside of school, and something for Ray to feel good about besides his skill at video games.<br />
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Ray finds out that no matter how bad he thought things were, they can always get worse–and that when life punches you in the heart, it’s good to rely on friends who aren’t made out of sugar or pixels on a game screen.</div>
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"I love how this series is progressing with each story featuring a new kid but bringing in those from past stories in significant ways. Ray discovers a new family in the "Marshmallows" when he needs them most. The interaction between him and his new friends, as well as his grandmother, is delightful and charming--but always remains realistic. Looking forward to the next story! "</div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Lydia Ondrusek is a long-married mother of two attempting to write her way out of a </span><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1304566311_2" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">paper bag</span><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">. She writes poetry and fiction about whatever comes to heart. “King of the Marshmallows” is her first middle-grade short fiction series, and will be complete in six monthly stand-alone episodes. Find more of her work in </span><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1304566311_3" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">GUD Magazine</span><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">, </span><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1304566311_4" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Apex</span><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> Magazine, and various other venues on and off the net.</span><br />
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Her website is <a href="http://lydiaondrusek.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1304566311_5">http://lydiaondrusek.com</span></a>, and she spends far too much time on <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1304566311_6">Twitter</span>, where she is known as <a href="http://www.twitter.com/littlefluffycat">@littlefluffycat</a>.</div>
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<b><a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B0053H3SYU/afterschoolsp-20">Click here</a> to download Punch! (King of the Marshmallows) to your Kindle.</b><br />
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<b>Description:<br /></b><i>Gumshoe. Flatfoot. Bulldog. Professional snoop.</i> They've got a lot of words for someone like me. Most of them you wouldn't say on a Sunday in front of your mother. It's not easy being a private investigator in a town where no one is innocent, but it's twice as hard if you're a woman. I have to be twice as tough, twice as sharp, and take ten times as much horse manure to solve every case I take. Good thing I'm also ten times as much of a detective as all the coppers down at the station put together. Not that it would take a lot, but you know what I mean.</div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Right. So it all started when a man from my past showed up at my door one dark, rainy night. Of course, it's Seattle. I don't have to tell you it rains here, right? Right. So he was pounding my door. I was pounding a drink. He had a problem in need of solving. I solved problems for a needy living. It was a match made in heaven. Except that matches start fires, and fires are more in line with the opposite of heaven. I didn't know it yet but that's right where my world was headed with this case: straight to hell, with a whiskey chaser. I was about to be a lot toastier than I really wanted to be, and things were just getting warmed up.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">But hey, someone's got to do it. Why not me? Oh, right. Because I'm a dame, just a flatfoot floozie with a closet full of tar-black memories and a chip on my shoulder the size of Gibraltar. Maybe so. But I'll get this case solved no matter what it takes. Even if I have to call on skills I haven't used since my Master went off to combat Germany's special occult forces in the Great War. He never came back, and I'm still half-trained at best. Hopefully it's the right half. If not, I'm a walking obituary.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Remind me again why I do this for a living? Oh, that’s right: it's really not much of a living.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">With eight 5-star reviews, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00C57KWRM/afterschoolsp-20">Emerald City Blues</a> is just $3.99 and free for Kindle users with Amazon Prime.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">" If you are at all a fan of hard-boiled detective stories, or urban fantasy, or well-written characters, or just plain want a fun read that's different from the usual stuff you pick, GET THIS BOOK."</span></div>
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--Starglade, 5-star review on Amazon<br />
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"As a reader, you are immediately drawn into the shoes of his witty and clever heroine, Maddie Sheehan. Her thrilling investigative adventure is further enhanced by historical and cultural references. This well written book captivates you from beginning to end..."</div>
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--Bad Wolf, 5-star review on Amazon</div>
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<i style="background-color: clear;">"No one is safe around a writer."</i><span style="background-color: clear;"> </span><span style="background-color: clear;">- Lanford Wilson, American playwright (1937-2011)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Also, be sure to visit his <a href="http://www.kindlingpress.com/">small press website</a> and his <a href="https://www.amazon.com/author/petersmalley">Amazon author link</a>.</span></div>
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Erin has never been secretive, but she's starting to wonder; is it still keeping a secret if you just don’t tell anybody? What if nobody asks?<br />
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Could what Margret and her friends (or henchmen) are doing be Erin's secret? Erin is being bullied at school. She hasn’t reported the abuse to anyone in charge, not her teachers, or her parents–she hasn’t even talked to her twin brother Tim about it. Erin believes her reasons for not discussing what’s going on are good. Or she did. She’s not so sure anymore.<br />
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"BLOCK! is the second in the King of the <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1305306359_3">Marshmallows</span> series by Lydia Ondrusek. BLOCK! tells the tale of twins, Tim who has Asperger's and his sister Erin, who acts as his buffer. Unfortunately, Erin has problems of her own, in the form of a Mean Girl who makes snide comments. I'd recommend BLOCK! for any middle grade child, and definitely for the parents of kids this age."</div>
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--Joanne L. Huspek, 5-star review on Amazon<br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Lydia Ondrusek is a long-married mother of two attempting to write her way out of a </span><span class="yiv2142181636yshortcuts" id="yiv2142181636lw_1304566311_2" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">paper bag</span><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">. She writes poetry and fiction about whatever comes to heart. “King of the Marshmallows” is her first middle-grade short fiction series, and will be complete in six monthly stand-alone episodes. Find more of her work in </span><span class="yiv2142181636yshortcuts" id="yiv2142181636lw_1304566311_3" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">GUD Magazine</span><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">, </span><span class="yiv2142181636yshortcuts" id="yiv2142181636lw_1304566311_4" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Apex</span><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> Magazine, and various other venues on and off the net.</span><br />
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Her website is <a href="http://lydiaondrusek.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><span class="yiv2142181636yshortcuts" id="yiv2142181636lw_1304566311_5">http://lydiaondrusek.com</span></a>, and she spends far too much time on <span class="yiv2142181636yshortcuts" id="yiv2142181636lw_1304566311_6">Twitter</span>, where she is known as <a href="http://www.twitter.com/littlefluffycat" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1305306359_7">@littlefluffycat</span></a>.</div>
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Mark’s Asperger’s Syndrome makes things hard for him at school. Mark’s mom and dad think MORE school is the answer. They can’t be right--can they? When they enroll Mark in the new taekwondo school nearby, he finds that his class is filled with adults--and four kids from his school he’s never met before. So now he’s got to meet new people (ugh), learn MORE new skills (ack), and oh yeah…somewhere in there, he’s got to figure out how not to flunk English.</div>
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"Having had my own child with Asperger-y type symptoms, I can strongly relate to Mark's (and his mom's) frustration with schoolwork. I can see this story being beneficial to any child who may have a <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1304616704_0" style="border-bottom: 2px dotted rgb(54, 99, 136); cursor: pointer;">learning disability</span>, and even to those who don't."</div>
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"King of The Marshmallows is an uplifting story about a middle grade boy named Mark who has Asperger's. It was great to see Mark transform through the story because of his tae-kwon-do. Well written and compelling."</div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Lydia Ondrusek is a long-married mother of two attempting to write her way out of a </span><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1304566311_2" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">paper bag</span><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">. She writes poetry and fiction about whatever comes to heart. “King of the Marshmallows” is her first middle-grade short fiction series, and will be complete in six monthly stand-alone episodes. Find more of her work in </span><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1304566311_3" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">GUD Magazine</span><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">, </span><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1304566311_4" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Apex</span><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> Magazine, and various other venues on and off the net.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The impulse to collect springs from deep within the human psyche Squirrels gather acorns, rats collect shiny things, but only humans assign meaning to the objects they collect. Detritus is a collection of stories about the impulse to collect, preserve, and display gone horribly wrong.</span><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br />Kate Jonez and S.S. Michaels have assembled a diverse range of exceptionally disturbing stories from authors from around the world. Each of the stories, whether about a collection that is world changing or intensely personal, is sure to linger in readers’ thoughts and make them consider the possibility that malice and evil just might lurk in their own hoard of stuff. </span><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br /><br />Featuring: Kealan Patrick Burke, Jeremy C. Shipp, Mary Borsellino, Brent Michael Kelley, Phil Hickes, L.S. Murphy, Michael R. Colangelo, Neil Davies, Louise Bohmer, Edmund Colell, S.P. Miskowski, Michael Montoure, Lee Widener, Pete Clark, and Opal Edgar </span></div>
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<b><a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B006WCYWFO/afterschoolsp-20">Attic Clowns: Complete Collection by Jeremy C. Shipp</a> is available on Kindle for just $2.99. This collection contains every story from Attic Clowns Volume One, Volume Two, Volume Three, and Volume Four.</b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Bram Stoker Award nominee Jeremy C. Shipp spins 13 tales of horror and dark humor in this highly conceptual collection. Angels and demons, husbands and wives, tormented ghosts and an army of men made of soap--all of them trapped in attics of the mind, attics of heaven or hell, the attics we make for ourselves or with which we ensnare others.</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /><br />Meet a paranoid astronaut whose jealousy drives him to extremes beyond murder...a miniature circus spawned from the mind of a woman with too much control...the underling demon Globcow who desires redemption even more than the taste of human feet...</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /><br />Men, women, children, and things beyond imagination all interconnect in ATTIC CLOWNS, where laughter is only the prelude to the bizarre and terrible.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">"Shipp’s boldness, daring, originality, and sheer smarts make him one of the most vital younger writers who have colonized horror literature in the past decade."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">—Jeff VanderMeer, author of City of Saints & Madmen and Shriek: An Afterword</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /><br />"Shipp's clear, insistent voice pulls you down into the rabbit hole and doesn't let go." </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">--Jack Ketchum, author of The Girl Next Door</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /><br />"Jeremy Shipp is a very good drug. I hope this book gets banned in high schools soon!"</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">–John Skipp, author of The Emerald Burrito of Oz</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /><br />"Jeremy's impressive stories are as intelligent, entertaining, and moving as they are strange. Read him now."</span><br />
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<span class="biotext">Jeremy C. Shipp is the Bram Stoker Award-nominated author of Cursed, Vacation, and Sheep and Wolves. His shorter tales have appeared or are forthcoming in over 60 publications, the likes of Cemetery Dance, ChiZine, Apex Magazine, Withersin, and Shroud Magazine. Jeremy enjoys living in Southern California in a moderately haunted Victorian farmhouse called Rose Cottage. He lives there with his wife, Lisa, a couple of pygmy tigers, and a legion of yard gnomes. The gnomes like him. The clowns living in his attic—not so much. His online home is <a href="http://www.jeremycshipp.com/">www.jeremycshipp.com</a>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Things rapidly heat up, fall apart, and spin way out of control as Julia discovers more about her father, her unique ability, and herself, than she ever bargained for. In the end, Julia must decide what she truly believes in - and whom.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A romance of twists and turns, dire revelations and romantic entanglements, </span><i style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Disbelief </i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">is a smart, fast-paced modern Paranormal Romance with all the ghosts, werewolves, vampires and strong female protagonists you've been wanting ever since finishing the Twilight series!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">"</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Smalley weaves his words onto the page with a flourish and a clear passion for his genre." </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">--<a href="http://www.thegate.ca/reviews/012407/book-review-full-fathom-five-by-peter-a-smalley/">The Gate</a></span><br />
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"I loved the interactions with the creatures she meets in the story that move her closer to the climax.... They are detailed entertaining and really give insight into the potential strength Julie Knox has.”</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /><i style="background-color: clear;">"No one is safe around a writer."</i><span style="background-color: clear;"> </span><span style="background-color: clear;">- Lanford Wilson, American playwright (1937-2011)</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br style="background-color: clear;" /><span style="background-color: clear;">Peter A. Smalley was not so much born as he was the object of a suitably ominous origin story. If only Marvel had been more attentive,</span><span style="background-color: clear;"> </span><i style="background-color: clear;">I, Writer</i><span style="background-color: clear;"> </span><span style="background-color: clear;">might even now be a successful comic and movie franchise starring Colin Farrell. So it goes.</span><br style="background-color: clear;" /><br style="background-color: clear;" /><span style="background-color: clear;">Like so many writers and mad scientists, Peter knew from an early age he was different from the other children. In the third grade he told his teachers he wanted to be a 'cemist' (sic) and although he has since fulfilled that precocious goal, his youthful ambitions in science came too late to fully obscure his first love; he had already written his first work of fiction a year prior, the accurately entitled </span><i style="background-color: clear;">A Second Grade Tragedy.</i><span style="background-color: clear;"> Since that tender age these twin abiding passions have illuminated the oft-crooked path leading through both his formal and informal educations.</span><br style="background-color: clear;" /><br style="background-color: clear;" /><span style="background-color: clear;">Peter was raised in Seattle, Washington. In 2011 his picture appeared in the New York Times for something that had nothing directly to do with writing, but coincidentally, his first self-published work also came out in 2011: a speculative fantasy novella titled </span><i style="background-color: clear;">The Burning Times</i><span style="background-color: clear;"> (<a href="http://amzn.to/NnWUkS" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">amzn.to/NnWUkS</a>). This was quickly followed by the full-length fantasy novel </span><i style="background-color: clear;">Grimme</i><span style="background-color: clear;"> (<a href="http://amzn.to/NQ6mMf" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">amzn.to/NQ6mMf</a>), which likewise took place in an alternate-history setting known as The Europas Cycle. He co-edited and contributed to the acclaimed recent anthologie </span><i style="background-color: clear;">20,001: A Steampunk Odyssey</i><span style="background-color: clear;"> (<a href="http://amzn.to/LouVko" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">amzn.to/LouVko</a>). His Shakespearean Steampunk novella </span><i style="background-color: clear;">Full Fathom Five</i><span style="background-color: clear;"> (<a href="http://amzn.to/SqSvgX" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">amzn.to/SqSvgX</a>) appears in the anthologie and as a stand-alone ebook. </span><i style="background-color: clear;">Disbelief</i><span style="background-color: clear;">, his first Paranormal Romance thriller, came out in Summer 2012. He is also the founder of Kindling Press, an independent epublishing imprint, along with co-founder Jason Vanhee.</span><br style="background-color: clear;" /><br style="background-color: clear;" /><span style="background-color: clear;">Peter can be found on Twitter (<a href="http://www.twitter.com/Peter_Smelley">@Peter_Smalley</a>), FaceBook (<a href="http://facebook.com/peterasmalley" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">facebook.com/peterasmalley</a>), Google Plus, and occasionally hither but more often </span><i style="background-color: clear;">yon.</i></span></div>
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<b style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B005MWJMWI/afterschoolsp-20">20,001: A Steampunk Odyssey by Peter A. Smalley</a> is available on Kindle for just $4.99. </b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>For Amazon Prime members, the book is free in the Lending Library.</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>This collection was published by <a href="http://www.kindlingpress.com/">Kindling Press</a>. One story was reprinted in Imaginarium 2012, a collection of the best Canadian science fiction of the year.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>"I'm sorry, Captain Nemo. I can't let you do that."</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In 1870, Jules Verne published <i>20,000 Leagues Under the Sea</i>, an instant classic of Victorian science fiction that took readers a fantastical journey beneath the waves with dreams of wondrous technologies. A century later, filmmaker Stanley Kubrick directed <i>2001: A Space Odyssey</i>, a classic of modern science fiction film that took viewers on an even more fantastical journey into the stars...and showed them not only the wonders of technology, but also its terrors. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Whether diving beneath the waves or sailing among the clouds, readers of <i>20,001: A Steampunk Odyssey</i> will see how technologies of a past that never was can spring to life with all the wonder of futures that might never be. Some futures are darker than others, however, and the cost of discoveries and innovation may be higher than any human being is willing to bear. In this anthologie readers will find aspects of both Verne and Kubrick: wonders and terrors await, and discoveries and adventures lie around every corner - not all of them pleasant. Find out for yourself what you will dare, how much you will risk, and how far you may go in this anthologie of ten tales of wonder and imagination. <i>20,001: A Steampunk Odyssey!</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">"</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Smalley weaves his words onto the page with a flourish and a clear passion for his genre." </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">--<a href="http://www.thegate.ca/reviews/012407/book-review-full-fathom-five-by-peter-a-smalley/">The Gate</a></span><br />
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"For those new to steampunk, 20001 is a terrific way to sample a variety of flavors in the genre. For those already smitten with 19th century mad science, this anthology has a lot to offer. I read through colorful tales loaded with compelling descriptions and excellent attention to detail. 20001: A Steampunk Odyssey makes for an excellent primer for the novices and a pleasing voyage for fans.”</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">--R. K. MacPherson, Amazon review</span><br />
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<b style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">About the Author:</b><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /><i style="background-color: clear;">"No one is safe around a writer."</i><span style="background-color: clear;"> </span><span style="background-color: clear;">- Lanford Wilson, American playwright (1937-2011)</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br style="background-color: clear;" /><span style="background-color: clear;">Peter A. Smalley was not so much born as he was the object of a suitably ominous origin story. If only Marvel had been more attentive,</span><span style="background-color: clear;"> </span><i style="background-color: clear;">I, Writer</i><span style="background-color: clear;"> </span><span style="background-color: clear;">might even now be a successful comic and movie franchise starring Colin Farrell. So it goes.</span><br style="background-color: clear;" /><br style="background-color: clear;" /><span style="background-color: clear;">Like so many writers and mad scientists, Peter knew from an early age he was different from the other children. In the third grade he told his teachers he wanted to be a 'cemist' (sic) and although he has since fulfilled that precocious goal, his youthful ambitions in science came too late to fully obscure his first love; he had already written his first work of fiction a year prior, the accurately entitled </span><i style="background-color: clear;">A Second Grade Tragedy.</i><span style="background-color: clear;"> Since that tender age these twin abiding passions have illuminated the oft-crooked path leading through both his formal and informal educations.</span><br style="background-color: clear;" /><br style="background-color: clear;" /><span style="background-color: clear;">Peter was raised in Seattle, Washington. In 2011 his picture appeared in the New York Times for something that had nothing directly to do with writing, but coincidentally, his first self-published work also came out in 2011: a speculative fantasy novella titled </span><i style="background-color: clear;">The Burning Times</i><span style="background-color: clear;"> (<a href="http://amzn.to/NnWUkS" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">amzn.to/NnWUkS</a>). This was quickly followed by the full-length fantasy novel </span><i style="background-color: clear;">Grimme</i><span style="background-color: clear;"> (<a href="http://amzn.to/NQ6mMf" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">amzn.to/NQ6mMf</a>), which likewise took place in an alternate-history setting known as The Europas Cycle. He co-edited and contributed to the acclaimed recent anthologie </span><i style="background-color: clear;">20,001: A Steampunk Odyssey</i><span style="background-color: clear;"> (<a href="http://amzn.to/LouVko" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">amzn.to/LouVko</a>). His Shakespearean Steampunk novella </span><i style="background-color: clear;">Full Fathom Five</i><span style="background-color: clear;"> (<a href="http://amzn.to/SqSvgX" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">amzn.to/SqSvgX</a>) appears in the anthologie and as a stand-alone ebook. </span><i style="background-color: clear;">Disbelief</i><span style="background-color: clear;">, his first Paranormal Romance thriller, came out in Summer 2012. He is also the founder of Kindling Press, an independent epublishing imprint, along with co-founder Jason Vanhee.</span><br style="background-color: clear;" /><br style="background-color: clear;" /><span style="background-color: clear;">Peter can be found on Twitter (<a href="http://www.twitter.com/Peter_Smelley">@Peter_Smalley</a>), FaceBook (<a href="http://facebook.com/peterasmalley" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">facebook.com/peterasmalley</a>), Google Plus, and occasionally hither but more often </span><i style="background-color: clear;">yon.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Also, be sure to visit his <a href="http://www.kindlingpress.com/">small press website</a> and his <a href="https://www.amazon.com/author/petersmalley">Amazon author link</a>.</span></div>
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<b>For the UK version, <a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/20001-A-Steampunk-Odyssey-ebook/dp/B005MWJMWI/">click here</a>. </b> </div>
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<b style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B005X3W6C4/afterschoolsp-20">Full Fathom Five by Peter A. Smalley</a> is available on Kindle for just $2.99.</b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The American Civil War has ground the South into the dust for ten long years thanks in large part to the Anaconda Plan: with its naval dominance, the Union's unbeatable ironclad warships surround the entire South, slowly but surely constricting trade and isolating the Confederacy from any outside aid. Despite how long the South has been able to hold out, the end is assured. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Now two Confederate Secret Service agents and an engineer will take ship with a privateer captain and brave the Union naval blockade of New Orleans, daring the wrath of the North in a desperate attempt to reach Europe where Confederate gold can buy ironclad warships - and help the South win the Civil War. But when their ship is blown off course to an uncharted island somewhere in the Caribbean, the crew must decide if the best course for their mission lies with a European shipyard, or with the island's strange inhabitants. Whatever they choose, the course of the Civil War - and their own survival - hangs in the balance. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Full Fathom Five is a lovingly researched novella of war and bravery, love and betrayal, and soul-wrenching personal choices set against the rich backdrop of the American Civil War. Inspired by themes in Shakespeare, this story of one man's journey will remain with readers long after the final page is turned.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">"Clever, thought-provoking, and superbly written. Smalley weaves his words onto the page with a flourish and a clear passion for his genre." </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">--<a href="http://www.thegate.ca/reviews/012407/book-review-full-fathom-five-by-peter-a-smalley/">The Gate</a></span><br />
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"If you're a steampunk fan, or merely steam-curious, this is worth your time”</span><br />
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<b style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">About the Author:</b><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Peter A. Smalley was not so much born as he was the object of a suitably ominous origin story. If only Marvel had been more attentive, I, Writer might even now be a successful comic and movie franchise starring Colin Farrell. So it goes.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Like so many writers and mad scientists, Peter knew from an early age he was different from the other children. In the third grade he told his teachers he wanted to be a 'cemist' (sic) and although he has since fulfilled that precocious goal, his youthful ambitions in science came too late to fully obscure his first love; he had already written his first work of fiction a year prior, the accurately entitled A Second Grade Tragedy. Since that tender age these twin abiding passions have illuminated the oft-crooked path leading through both his formal and informal educations.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Peter was raised in Seattle, Washington. In 2011 his picture appeared in the New York Times for something that had nothing directly to do with writing, but coincidentally, his first self-published work also came out in 2011: a speculative fantasy novella titled The Burning Times (<a href="http://amzn.to/NnWUkS">amzn.to/NnWUkS</a>). This was quickly followed by the full-length fantasy novel Grimme (<a href="http://amzn.to/NQ6mMf">amzn.to/NQ6mMf</a>), which likewise took place in an alternate-history setting known as The Europas Cycle. He co-edited and contributed to the acclaimed recent anthologie 20,001: A Steampunk Odyssey (<a href="http://amzn.to/LouVko">amzn.to/LouVko</a>). His Shakespearean Steampunk novella Full Fathom Five (<a href="http://amzn.to/SqSvgX">amzn.to/SqSvgX</a>) appears in the anthologie and as a stand-alone ebook. Disbelief, his first Paranormal Romance thriller, came out in Summer 2012. He is also the founder of Kindling Press, an independent epublishing imprint, along with co-founder Jason Vanhee.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Follow Peter Smalley on Twitter: </span><a href="https://twitter.com/Peter_Smalley" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">@Peter_Smalley</a><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Also, be sure to visit his <a href="http://www.kindlingpress.com/">small press website</a> and his <a href="https://www.amazon.com/author/petersmalley">Amazon author link</a>.</span></div>
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<b><a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B005X3W6C4/afterschoolsp-20">Click here</a> to download Full Fathom Five (or a free sample) to your Kindle.</b><br />
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<b>For the UK version, <a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Full-Fathom-Five-ebook/dp/B005X3W6C4/">click here</a>. </b> </div>
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