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  About Dark is the Sky Twelve years earlier, Olivia and Joel Cameron invited the family to spend the weekend at their new country home. Olivia hoped to provide them all with a much-needed escape from their anxiety over the recession crippling the nation; instead, the visit ended in tragedy when Scott, Joel’s wild and outrageously sexy youngest brother, was found dead. The repercussions tore the family apart. Now, Olivia’s sister Violet has persuaded her to host a reunion. She claims it’s time they finally put the past behind them and laid their ghosts to rest. However, some wounds run too deep to heal, and some secrets are too destructive to remain hidden. Still grieving for the man she loved, Violet is determined to uncover the truth behind his death—a truth she believes lies within her own family. As the web of deceit and hostility begins to unravel, family ties are tested to the limit, and no one will emerge unscathed. Thursday Thirteen by Jessica Chambers 1. For 12 yea...

  1.  The Canker Death is my first full-length novel.  It's an adventure story about a reclusive, cynical computer geek who finds that one of his own servers has been cracked late one night and gets far more than he bargained for when he decides to track down the perpetrator.  What his search uncovers thrusts him, unaware, into a mad shifting between worlds, time and alien minds 2.  The Canker Death is not easy to classify.  I realize that many authors say this of their novels.  I only started saying so after my literary agent, editor, and, later, my readers all told me so.  Oddly enough, I wrote the book with both the literary and the sci-fi, fantasy audiences in mind, which is a bit of a strange mix.  I've been happily surprised to find that people with many different reading preferences have enjoyed the book.  If I were to really narrow it down, I'd say that science fantasy is the closest classification – sort of like Star Wars, w...

About Equity of Evil  A Venture Capital Fund makes a risky investment to start a challenging new business that appears capable of reaching profitability with modest capital requirements. The real challenge: optimizing one of the most frequently performed surgical procedure in the World — Abortion. Founding Partner, Roman Citrano, a successful entrepreneur turned venture capitalist, soon struggles with what he believes is his choice to establish the controversial new company. He soon realizes that he and others are but pawns on a massive, ugly chessboard being manipulated to benefit a far larger, illicit market in human organs for transplantation. Unknowingly, prime, hyper-enriched organs are spawned from the aborted fetuses and grown like hydroponic vegetables. An unfolding world of deceit, rape, human trafficking and assassination becomes deeply personal as Roman’s sole love interest secretly uses one of his new abortion services to terminate her untimely pregnancy. When she di...

Chris Cloud, author of the young adult book, A Boy Called Duct Tape is on Day Two of his virtual book tour with Pump Up Your Book . Today, he chats with As the Pages Turn . Visit his tour page during the month of April to follow along his tour.  About A Boy Called Duct Tape  Pablo Perez is a 12-year-old poor kid without much going for him. His classmates have dubbed him “Duct Tape” because his tattered discount-store sneakers are held together with…you guessed it, duct tape. He can’t escape the bullying.  Pablo’s luck, however, changes after he finds a $20 gold coin while swimming in a river near his home. Pablo later buys a $1 treasure map at the county fair. The map shows the route to the “lost treasure” of Jesse James. Pablo can’t help but wonder: Is there a link between the map and the gold coin? He is determined to find out, and he, his 9-year-old sister and 13-year-old cousin hire an ill-natured cave guide, and begin a treacherous underground adventure in se...

Chris Cloud, author of the young adult book, A Boy Called Duct Tape is on Day One of his virtual book tour with Pump Up Your Book . Today, he chats with Beyond the Books . Visit his tour page during the month of April to follow along his tour.  About A Boy Called Duct Tape  Pablo Perez is a 12-year-old poor kid without much going for him. His classmates have dubbed him “Duct Tape” because his tattered discount-store sneakers are held together with…you guessed it, duct tape. He can’t escape the bullying.  Pablo’s luck, however, changes after he finds a $20 gold coin while swimming in a river near his home. Pablo later buys a $1 treasure map at the county fair. The map shows the route to the “lost treasure” of Jesse James. Pablo can’t help but wonder: Is there a link between the map and the gold coin? He is determined to find out, and he, his 9-year-old sister and 13-year-old cousin hire an ill-natured cave guide, and begin a treacherous underground adventure in sea...

About Donations to Clarity The plan was simple: hoax bigfoot, then sell tours to bigfoot enthusiasts. The plan wasn’t brilliant, and neither were Harry, Earl, and Patch. The three chemical-abusing friends only wanted to avoid the 9 to 5 rat race, but their antics attract the attention of a real bigfoot. When the misogynistic Earl is mistaken for a female bigfoot by the nearsighted creature and captured; it is just the beginning of their problems. The U.S. Government has a plan to naturalize the mythical creatures living within the U.S. borders.  The problem is the plan needs to be carried out carefully.  You can’t just drop little green men and Sasquatch in the middle of Walmart without warning Ma and Pa Taxpayer. The naturalization program is not ready to be set into motion, and the rogue bigfoot is bringing too much attention to itself, including a feisty investigative reporter who uncovers the truth of the government conspiracy and two bigfoot researchers. No longer able ...

By Tamara Elizabeth Fabulously Fifty and Reflecting It! – Discovering My Lovable Me is my story, a story of a woman who has discovered how through my reflections, the truly fabulously lovable me; the authentic me that I was born to be. Today I am a confident, lovable courageous woman who realizes that fairytales don’t always have the ending of children’s books, but they can have the ending and continuation of what we truly want and believe. I have sass, courage, spunk, determination and attitude. This book is the result of hard work and perseverance on a self-love journey. It is the reflection of my life and from these reflections I have created a workbook for women traversing their own transitions to help them keep focused and heading in the direction of success. Each essay will strike a cord with the reader, as I have been where she has journeyed.  I am your voice. I speak as you. I have been where you have travelled. I have finished licking my wounds and jumped back into...

Welcome to day three of Just a Few Seconds Book Tour. Author Nemo James, willl be visiting Hollywood Daze Just A Few Second, A Story From the World of Music and Beyond  is a story of one man’s experience in the music business. It is an amusing and true story of a successful freelance musician whose gigs ranged from private parties to the very rich and famous to the roughest London pubs where playing the wrong song at the wrong time meant the difference between life and death. He takes more twists, turns and knocks than a mouse trapped in a pinball machine but the ending shows how the road to success can lead us down the strangest and most desolate of paths. Visit Nemo James at his website www.nemojames.com Watch his videos at YouTube

  It Wasn’t His Time Nine months after he began writing Such a Nice Boy Daren’s heart flatlined during a procedure to treat an arrhythmia.   Luckily, he was in a major hospital and a defibrillator had been placed on him, so all the doctor had to do was press a button. Time To Say More With Less A year after Daren began writing Such a Nice Boy he was laid off from what would be his final full-time “real” job.    With his free time he finished the first draft, a 144,000-word monster of a manuscript that went nowhere.   Note: the printed version weighs in at a svelte 76,000 words.   Daren worked with three editors who had him whittle Such a Nice Boy to its present length himself, the realities of the business. “For me,” said Krupa.   “I don’t like to send anything off without reading it over and over and making a half million changes.   Remember the percentages of a good book – 20 percent writing, 80 percent rewriting.   To me it’s all f...