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| --Fiction-- |
| THE CHOSEN
by Wayne
Waverly.
What is the true nature of evil in this world? Why would a benevolent
Creator bring evil into existence? And what is the responsibility of
each human in responding to that evil? These are the questions that
confront Brian Alderman, a young man possessing bizarre powers he can
neither understand nor control, as he struggles to accept a destiny
bequeathed to him--and a burden placed upon him--without his consent.
Brian is "The Chosen", and only he can save the living world from that
which is anathema to Creation, the sentient source of all evil, the
entity referred to in the Dead Sea Scrolls as "the Darkness." This
high concept, 80,000-word Dark Fantasy represents an attempt to
redefine for a contemporary audience that which the late Joseph
Campbell referred to as the "Monomyth," that one essential story that
permeates every mythology and established religion, every epic tale
that has been told. It is both raw and surreal, visceral yet mystical,
a fast-paced thrill ride that provides the reader a contemplayive
examination of his or her own spiritual identity. [Approximately
80.000 words, Manuscript Completed]
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DROWN THE STAGE WITH TEARS, by Joseph Geringer, relates
the conspiracy hatched
by Southern obsessive John Wilkes Booth, first to kidnap, then to kill,
President
Lincoln. This story follows the
chronology of recorded fact with moments of fiction injected to keep
the story
rushing like a taut mystery. Throw in a Yankee detective who tries to
outstep Booth
along the way. And, so that the story isn't all shadows and gunpowder,
we meet love
interest Anna Surratt who—like other characters in the
novel—has been previously
upstaged. Then there is the tragic Mary Surratt, Anna’s
mother, hanged for a
conspiracy that she knew nothing about. TEARS
is exceedingly rare in that it steps inside the Surratt boarding house
to
animate the family's domestic life. As the cast stirs amazingly to
life, it
does so in a restored [Approximately
100,000 words, Manuscript Completed] |
| A FORTUNE IN LIES by Jason Carter
is the story of 34 year old Eric Matthews who
is catapulted into a race against time after learning of his wife,
Michelle’s, abduction and her abductor’s plot for a
twelve-hour ransom
recovery. Forced to stay inside a strict set of boundaries to ensure
his wife’s safety, Eric’s actions are not only impossibly
daring, but
also under constant surveillance. Meanwhile, when two Long Beach
detectives, Wallace Trimble and Jonathan Childress, begin their
investigation into the untimely death of a young woman, the question of
whether or not she could be Eric’s wife is raised. The story of
love,
trust, betrayal and murder, A FORTUNE IN LIES an adrenaline-pumping
rollercoaster that will rocket you through plot twists and turns and
keep you guessing from beginning to end.
[Approximately 90,000 words.
Manuscript completed]
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| THE FIRST DAY OF CHRISTMAS
by Pamela Chillemi-Yeager.
Two years ago fourteen-year-old Faith McKay
was found dead of an overdose, an enigmatic tattoo etched on her
breast. Although her death was ruled an accident, Mick
Christmas, the former homicide detective who worked the case, believes
otherwise. Mick wants nothing more than to work on his dairy
farm, but the past won't let him.. Carly McKay, Faith's mother, a woman
Mick has never forgotten, is being stalked and harassed. At
the same time, a local debutant ends up missing, involved with the same
New Age cult linked to Faith's death. Soon Mick is embroiled in a
series of escalating events, trying to keep one step ahead of the
killer now threatening both women. (The short story from
which this novel sprung appeared in Dark Region's
Year's Best Fantastic
Fiction, Volume 5, and received an Honorable Mention in St. Martin's
Year's Best Fantasy & Horror, Vol. VII) [Approximately
80,000 words. Manuscript completed]
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LEFT LUGGAGE by Geoff
Nelder contains a
shattering original premise. The concept of memory is examined as the
part it plays in making us who we are. From space is brought a
suitcase-size
object that fundamentally affects memory. A few escape its invidious
consequences
and attempt to secure a future. Dangerous, yet sometimes humorous
action takes
us from orbit in the International Space Station to an apparent
sanctuary in a
remote valley in
[Approximately
108,000 words. Manuscript completed]
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| NEVER FOREVER,
by Judy Light Ayyildiz,
Forced out from the western provinces of the weakening Ottoman Empire
and into the heart of Anatolia and the establishment of the new Turkish
Republic, Adalet embodies both the dreams and struggles of the 20th
century woman. She is disowned for her love. She fights for the new
ideals of tomorrow and for her children. She is engendered by war and
an era that gave Turkish women a secular voice even before much of the
west. But she never is able to buck the traditions and dilemmas faced
by a woman determined to own her independence. Adalet was
born
into the grace and education of high Ottoman society, where European
ideals fostered the uprising of the Young Turks. She is one of the many
builders, wives and mothers of the new state whose bold pride secured a
revolution. As Adalet's life folds dreams into deception, love into
rejection and birth into loss it is her inner strength, a spirit forged
in both East and West that stands down and rebuilds. [Approximately 90,000 words. Manuscript
completed]
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| OUTSIDER,
by Stephen Tobias.
Nathan Lerner, photographer and art professor has been unable to work
since the loss of his daughter to leukemia and the subsequent break-up
of his marriage. He keeps his lack of creative output secret,
re-cycling his old negatives and sleep walking through his days. When
an elderly tenant in a building Nathan owns moves into a nursing home,
Nathan goes to clean out his apartment and finds a vast collection of
original art done by the reclusive and disturbed ex-janitor, Herman
Vireck. The art, done on cheap sketch paper with Woolworth water colors
and using sophisticated techniques of collage and blending of sacred
and profane images will eventually be recognized as the work of an
obsessive genus and effect the work of hundreds of contemporary
artists. For Lerner the discovery of Herman’s work sends him
on a tortuous journey into the nature of his own creative sensibility
and to the dark secrets surrounding his daughter’s hidden
relationship with “crazy” Herman.
OUTSIDER is loosely based on the life of outsider artist Henry Darger, about whom little is actually known. It is hoped that through this fictional exploration of the imagined relationship between Nathan and Herman an emotional satisfying conclusion can be brought to some of the questions that surround this disturbed and elusive genius. (Approximately 100,000 words. Manuscript Complete) |
| THE PATH OF INCORRUPTIBLE LIGHT
by Sherry Karasik,
a suspense novel, based upon events transpiring in
India today where the covert war to preserve Hindu ideology is gaining
momentum with the militant Bajrang Dal. The story follows the brutal
rape of a nun and the birth of her deformed child that a monk and a
journalist risk their lives to save. [Approximately 90,000 words. Manuscript
completed]
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| A PERFECT SACRIFICE by Chris C. Ewing.
Driven by her past, Erin Cooper blackmails the human
race into cooperation when she gathers a diverse group of people gifted
with extraordinary healing powers. As she explores her own incredible
abilities, she also uncovers a dark side to her powers and their
suspected other-worldly source. Government leaders have their own
reasons to learn more about the Healers and will stop at nothing to
uncover the truth. Ultimately, it is the Healers who must pay a
terrible price in a battle for the survival of the human race in this
science fiction adventure. [Approximately
89,000 words. Manuscript completed]
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| A PLACE TO BE FREE
by Hugh
Mannfield is set in a future where machines have
become an
extension of the mind, scientists have learned how time assumes
physical form,
and humans are migrating into space. In
this future, antigravity technology is transforming the moon into a
living
world and setting the stage for a technological clash that will
violently
reshape civilization. When
off world
ballots are thrown out in the US
presidential election down on Earth, the colonies revolt. Some of the
rebels have
more in mind than
independence and in order to prevent global devastation, Captain Jack
Hawkins,
and Specialist Amanda Yeager must track a band of rebel extremists who
have
stolen an antigravity field generator beyond Mars to the asteroid mines
on
Ceres. Along the
way they learn the
explosive hidden truth about antigravity fields, secrets of space-time
manipulation
that Albert Einstein may have taken to his grave. [Approximately 100.000 words.
Manuscript completed]
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| THE PROMETHEUS GATE
by Frank
Cavallo.
After more than four decades behind bars, notorious serial
killer
Al Grimsby stages an inexplicable escape. Christina Falcone,
the
FBI’s top behavioral analyst, is assigned to hunt him
down.
Her investigation leads her into a maze of conflicting clues: secret
government experiments, legends of lost gods and an archaeologist named
Carter McAlester—who works for a shadowy organization with
their
own agenda. From the streets of Berlin to the ruins of
Babylon
they race to find a legendary artifact that may hold the key to an
unspeakable power—a power that Al Grimsby may already
possess,
and which may have driven him mad. Plagued by nightmares and
dark
visions, they must discover the truth before Grimsby can finish his
bloody work. Before the Prometheus Gate can be opened. [Horror. Approximately
120,000 words. Manuscript Completed]
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| THE PUZZLE BOX by Chris C. Ewing. A
chain of bizarre events is set in motion when
geologist Thomas McEwen discovers an intricately-carved wooden box in
the mountains of Wyoming. No one seems to know what is inside the
sealed box but many are willing to go to great lengths to find out.
When a university professor is murdered for researching the artifact,
the Abbess of a mysterious rogue church in the mountains offers Thomas
sanctuary. Caught in over 100 years of eerie destiny, Thomas races to
find the ancient truth before he becomes yet another victim of the PUZZLE BOX. [Approximately 71,000 words. Manuscript
completed]
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| SPEAK
OF ME IN WHISPERS by M.
Bert Schulz.
Looted Russian Imperial jewels are
steadily seeping from the Nazi bloodstream, stolen as the treasures
make their way to black market auctions outside the Third Reich and
funding Hitler's war machine. The suspects are the usual: resistance
operatives, Allied spies, and corrupt officials, but Berlin isn't
particular as to who pays the ultimate price, as long as the example is
quick and severe. Enforcers are sent to the seaport of Rostock from
factions competing for Hitler's favor. Lena Schiller knows the danger
in trying to deflect suspicion from her friends, but she had no idea
that manipulating a Gestapo investigation would also send her on a
collision course with her mother's tragic Imperial past. Now her own
escape attempt echoes the dangers her mother faced during the bloody
Russian Revolution: Fabergé —French by name,
Russian for priceless Imperial splendor. [Approximately 100,000 words. Manuscript
completed]
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| UNDER LOW SKIES is another
adventure from Ed Teja
with the exotic background of the
Southern Caribbean and South America to add spice. The action-oriented
adventure murder mystery is peopled with interesting and likable
characters. [Approximately 80,000 words. Manuscript
completed]
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| James Grundvig's
historical novel, VIKING TWILIGHT,
is an epic adventure of one man's spiritual quest set against the
backdrop of the eleventh-century Christian expansion on the eve of the
First Crusade. The saga comes alive as we follow the heroic quest of
Haakon, the exiled Viking Chieftan who struggles to find faith with the
dying gods of Norse culture and the new "desert" god of Christianity. [Approximately
100,000 words. Manuscript completed]
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| WORDS OF GRACE by Pam Chillemi-Yaeger
is the story of one woman's journey back to her
hometown, the calamities of her lively Italian family, as well as the
heartbreak of first love, family secrets and the surprising danger
facing old friends in small-town USA. [Approximately 80,000 words. Manuscript
completed]
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| --Poetry-- |
| A RECEPTIONIST CALLED HOPE
by Donna Michele Hill
is a collection of poetry. Donna
Michele Hill's poems are real slices of life cut from her tender heart.
She writes with grace and dignity. She presents hard edges, and softens
them to go down smoothly, and then settle in memory. Her poetry is
candid, couched in images she marks as uniquely her own. She draws us
in because she communicates and does so with flair, honesty, and wit.
Donna's work can also be passionately erotic. In some of her poems, the
healing touch is the touch that sizzles the skin & rushes the
blood to where it feels best. Despite all the other roles that crowd
her life, she remains all woman and her erotic poetry leaves no doubt
about this. Take a little taste; let it linger on the lips awhile. [Manuscript completed]
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| --Nonfiction- |
| AUTISM'S
RAZOR by James
Grundvig
fuses the two biggest stories of the new century--the autism epidemic
and the 9/11 terrorist attacks--in the life of one autistic boy, who
fell victim to extraordinary circumstances with the failure of the U.S.
governmental agencies that were designed to protect him. Poisoned by
the mercury used in baby vaccines, and then by the toxic smoke spewed
from the fires of Ground Zero on the day after 9/11, this true story
follows the child's saga, from becoming a "human magnet," unable to
excrete heavy metals, to his ongoing detoxification with chelation. [Approximately
90,000 words. Manuscript completed]
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| CALLED
TO BE: AN ALPHABETICAL BOOK OF MEDITATIONS ON THE STATE OF BEING [Manuscript completed]
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| DARK REDEMPTION: THE CLUB KID KILLER AND THE WOMAN WHO LOVED HIM
by Pamela Chillemi-Yeager.
Macauley Culkin starred in the movie("Party
Monster")about his life and crimes. He has been interviewed
on Extra!, 20/20, and A&E. He is Michael Alig, the
former party promoter extraordinairre who once ruled Manhattan's
glittering nightworld. At the height of his popularity, Alig ended up
in a deadly quarrel that left Angel Melendez, his roommate and dealer,
dead. Now serving 10-20 years in Southport Correctional facility for
manslaughter, his popularity continues in underground circles.This is
the story of Alig's life both before his reign as king of "The Club
Kids", as well as his life behind bars, with information never before
published, focusing on the romance between Alig and the trusting woman
who fell in love with him. [Approximately 70,000 words. Manuscript
completed]
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| HEY DOC: REVELATIONS OF A MODERN FAMILY DOCTOR
by Richard Bowles, MD.
Dr. Bowles, with his patients' permission,
shares his amazing and intimate dealings with them. He was
there. He spoke with them. He touched
them. He spoke with family members. They trusted
him, or they didn't. Things worked out well, or they
didn't. He was sued. The reader is invited on one
fantastic life adventure after another. [Approximately 75,000 words. Manuscript
completed]
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| LOCKDOWN--ADVENTURES IN
INCARCERATION; A memoir/black comedy, by John J. Reiner.
When a strait-laced attorney is jailed for a crime he didn’t
commit, he must use his background in psychology, sociology,
pediatrics, and, especially, his sense of humor to first thwart and
ultimately befriend his fellow inmates and the jail staff, who, thanks
to Erin Brockovich, peg him as “the enemy” and use
malevolent and comical methods in their attempts to wreak havoc upon
him and explode his “good time” release credits to
maximize
his jail term and prevent him from returning to his home and family
until the latest possible date. [Approximately
90,000 words. Manuscript Completed]
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| PAINTED LADIES: LEARNING ABOUT ART THROUGH CONTENT
by Fred Heffner is
an art book with a collection of 150 high interest
paintings, each with a brief commentary on the artist and the work,
designed for the general audience who know what they like, but want to
learn more about it in plain English. [Manuscript completed]
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| Finally—the
new diet book 35 million
American women have been waiting for! THE TEN-POUND
SECRET
focuses exclusively on dieters who want to lose ten pounds and combines
a no-nonsense six-week diet program with insightful motivational
psychology. Emily Cena,
together with Dr. Erin
Wirth-Beaumont, a psychologist specializing in human motivation,
created an exciting new weight loss plan for the
“almost-slender” woman. Women who need to
lose just a few pounds need a different approach than mainstream diets
designed for their heavier sisters, and THE TEN-POUND SECRET
explains the special obstacles they face and shows them how to
successfully slim down and shape up. Ms. Cena developed this
diet program when she retired from practicing law and moved to the
Virgin Islands—when it’s swimsuit season every day
those few extra pounds have got to go—and by following the
few simple rules she outlines for her readers she lost the six pounds
that had been annoying her for years. THE TEN-POUND SECRET is
entertaining to read and makes dieting success simple by providing
detailed, day-by-day guidance and inspiration. [Approximately 70,000 words. Manuscript
completed]
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| The
stress of striving for perfection and fixing all the mistakes of
imperfect friends and family can send anyone over the edge. TIME:
TYRANT OR TREASURE - A WORKBOOK FOR RECOVERING PERFECTIONISTS, WORKAHOLICS AND OTHER DRIVEN PEOPLES
by Kathleen M. King
offers a light-hearted, but practical 11-step
approach to help overly serious perfectionists embrace life in all its
messiness. Perfectionists often view time as a tryant. By locking up
“Time the Tyrant” and unlocking “Time the
Treasure,” they can learn to live with imperfection in
themselves and others so that they can laugh, play and enjoy
life. Ms. King uses tools like "planned
spontaneity,” “possibility lists” and
“adult play therapy” to help perfectionists rework
their relationship with time. Readers will learn to let time become a
bottomless treasure chest of possibilities that they open each morning
to take out what they need to make the day calm, stress-free and joyous. [Approximately 30,000 words. Workbook format.
Manuscript completed]
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| UPSTATE
by Bryan
Sobolewski. My father, brother, and I robbed jewelry
stores in Today I'm clean, living a quiet life, on a tiny island, content. I prefer it that way, considering where I could be. Prison never leaves me. It haunts my dreams. Dad visits on Sundays and carries on like twelve years in prison is a part of everyday life. My therapist tells me guilt in the absence of a crime is neurotic. What about guilt in the presence of one? He also says there are no bad people, only people with greater or lesser degrees of mental health. Am I bad? Sometimes it takes convincing to believe otherwise. [Approximately
80,000 words, Manuscript Completed]
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