In the Midnight Hour by Reggie Ridgway (On Sale Now)

Doctor Jonathan Anderson is having the worst day of his life.

Forced to resign from his prestigious position as chief of surgery, he goes home to find his wife in bed with another man. On the brink of suicide, his wife tries to wrestle the gun from him and is accidentally killed. Convicted for her murder, he finds himself in prison, but after managing to escape, he ends up in the same hospital he ran, this time as a patient.

Hell-bent, Anderson seeks revenge on those responsible for ruining his life. Things are not as they should be, and a series of murders ups the stakes, but despite the work of two committed hospital employees and the investigating detective, the identity of the murderer and the motive for the heinous crimes may come too late to save any of them.

“A fast paced thriller with good story points and characters which are believable and worth reading about.” Author Scott Nicholson says. “You won’t want to go to the hospital again after reading In the Midnight Hour.”

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Meet the Author:

Reggie Ridgway is an author who lives in Lake Isabella, California. He draws from his experience as a military medic and an x-ray technologist. He is currently a full time writer and enjoys reading, writing, and blogging. He lives with his wife in a house on a mountain overlooking a scenic lake for his inspiration. He likes to write in the style of Robin Cook and Peter Clement.

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Title: In the Midnight Hour
Author: Reggie Ridgway
Word Count: 80,483
Pages: 330
ISBN: 9781590808795
Price: 2.99
Genre: Medical Thriller
Target Audience (Ages): 18 and above

Judge vs. Nuts by Una Tiers (On Sale Now!)

Fiona Gavelle is living a dismal existence. She works in a dusty law office where she does more secretarial than lawyer work and her husband thinks she should work and keep house simultaneously.

One snowy night, Fiona learns she has been unceremoniously booted from her crummy job, has the final argument with her spouse, leaving her no choice but to move in with her favorite aunt. With little else to do, she drives a friend to the funeral of a judge she saw at a reception. Luck strikes, or does it, when her influential friend finds her a new job and Fiona ends up involved in the probate case of the dead judge.

Before long, Fiona begins to discover things that don’t fit, but blithely moves along trying to focus on building her own law practice. She puts her heart into her work and tries to ignore her personal life, especially the raspy-voiced detective determined to prove the judge was murdered.

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Meet the Author:

Beginning with Sherlock Holmes, Una Tiers (pen name) loves the twists and turns of mysteries. Initially she planned to be a famous author, (after the veterinary dream died down, that is,) but her father encouraged her to go into business.

The business plan didn’t bode too well and Una studied English literature, Speech and Theater. Later, she followed her new dream of becoming a lawyer. Little did she suspect how the practice of law had become a business.

Her favorite authors include Sue Grafton, Harry Mark Petrakis, Miriam Grace Monfredo, and Phyllis Richman. She wrote a story after a particularly unfair incident in court and it grew into Judge vs. Nuts. Keeping in mind her squeamishness, Judge vs. Nuts, is a nice cozy murder mystery suitable for mint tea and ginger cookies.

Marcel’s Gift by Marie Colligan (On Sale Now)

One heart: two men.

She’s found the love of her life, too bad it isn’t the man she’s in love with. Love is fickle. It comes disguised in many forms.

It sneaked up on Canadian artist, Solange Bernard, like an intangible fog, breathing its magic whispers into her heart–compelling her, bewitching her, smothering her in the enchantment that was Ambrose. Her heart should have warned her when it recognized loves’ breathless spell. But she threw off the trappings of guilt and sin and wrapped herself in the shining aura of divine pleasure and discovery with Ambrose.

However, one question loomed with its confounding answer. “How was it possible for her to love two men at the same time…her husband and a priest of the Catholic Church?”

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Meet Marie Colligan:

A native of Jersey City, NJ, Marie finds her retirement in Lynchburg, VA. just the ticket for an ex-city girl. Having spent most of her leisure time sitting in the audience of New York City theaters, she now sits at her computer crafting lovely characters in authentic settings that populate her sensual, romantic novels.

She has won several writing awards in Fiction–most recently a 1st Place Award in a Writers’ Journal contest. Marie facilitates a weekly writer’s critique group. and is a member of the Hampton Road Writers, the Hillcity Writers the Piedmont Literary Group –all in Virginia–and the Greater Lehigh Valley Writers in Pennsylvania.

She is married, has one son and one grandson…and a rascal dachshund, Ebenezer.

Seeking Steampunk Submissions

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Echelon Press is seeking queries for a new Steampunk anthology to be published in February 2013. With the recent release of Her Majesty’s Mysterious Conveyance, we have had numerous requests for additional projects.

The 2013 anthology will be entitled Once Upon a Clockwork Tale, and feature four carefully selected stories that effectively retell a specific traditional fairy tale set into a solid Steampunk theme. This anthology will be published in both print and electronic formats.

Please send your queries, with a complete marketing strategy, to echelonpress@gmail.com no later than midnight February 15, 2012. Four queries that indicate a strong understanding of the type of stories we are seeking will be acknowledged, a contract provided, and a full manuscript will be requested no later than March 15, 2012. The authors will have until June 15, 2012 to submit their completed stories for editing.

Given that these stories will be contracted before they are written, Echelon Press reserves the right to void any contract with an author it feels cannot fulfill the obligation of writing a complete story within the acceptable premise.

Authors should be aware that completed works will be required to be between 15,000 and 20,000 words. There is no additional flexibility in the word count. All works must be suitable for readers 13 and older. This anthology will be published under the Echelon line, but we always strive to reach young readers.

Please do not submit any graphically violent or sexual premises.

Queries should include the following information:

• Name
• City, State
• Web/Blog URL
• Twitter ID
• Facebook URL
• Original fairy tale title
• Proposed anthology title
• Proposed story outline (no more than 500 words)

The House on Prospect by Bernadette Walsh (On Sale Now)

Ellen Murphy spent her childhood in an idyllic house by the sea. A house surrounded by flower-filled gardens and a white picket fence. A house she fled at eighteen. A house full of secrets.

When her mother Rose, an ex-nun, is diagnosed with terminal cancer, Ellen reluctantly returns home to care for her and uncovers a clue to the one secret that has haunted Ellen all her life: the identity of her father. But that is just one of the many secrets hidden behind the beautiful facade of the house on Prospect Road. Ellen discovers the high price both her mother and her Irish grandmother paid for the house on Prospect and she realizes that her meek mother is more of stranger to her than her absent father.

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Meet the Author:

Bernadette Walsh is a native New Yorker who, when she isn’t busy practicing law and tormenting her fellow commuters on the Long Island Rail Road with the tap-tap-tapping of her laptop, enjoys reading and now writing novels. As the daughter of an Irish immigrant, she has always been fascinated by the Irish immigrant experience and explores some of these themes in The House on Prospect. Bernadette has won several writing contests. The House on Prospect is her second published novel.

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Title: The House on Prospect
Author: Bernadette Walsh
Word Count: 60,000
ISBN: 9781590808580
Price: $2.99
Genre: Women’s Fiction
Email: bernadettewalsh.author@gmail.com

Blind Traveler’s Blues by Robert P. Bennett (On Sale Now)

The year is 2021. Natural forces have changed our world. As the Earth’s magnetic poles have shifted, pressure on the planet’s mantle layer is building. The bottom line…earthquakes now wreak havoc in areas they have never occurred before.

In Mexico, members of an archaeological team investigate the remains of an ancient village uncovered by a quake; racing to prove their theories about the civilization that once lived there. But, disaster strikes when the accidental destruction of an artifact unleashes a worldwide agricultural plague.

Halfway across the continent, Douglas Abledan, a blind computer technologist, embarks on a long-anticipated vacation. On the plane to Chicago, he meets world-renowned agricultural pathologist Cara Cordelia, but their chance meeting could cost them both their lives.

In this stand-alone sequel to his critically acclaimed “Blind Traveler Down a Dark River,” author Robert P. Bennett continues to bring us suspense and intrigue while exploring a world of the not too distant future. While society struggles with the impact of natural changes, the advancement of new technology enables a blind man to investigate a murder.

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Robert Bennett, a former social worker turned writer, lives in the house he grew up in with his mother, one of his two brothers, two dogs that don’t get along, and a turtle. His lifelong focus has been a concern for the needs of society’s disenfranchised. His articles span a wide range of topics from sports to technology and from politics to social justice. His fiction is grounded in real world events and technologies as well as his own philosophical concerns. “It is the act of truly living and believing in yourself that is important, not the manner in which that action is undertaken.” Mr. Bennett has spoken to groups of physical therapy students, church members and senior citizens, and has appeared on several radio programs. Contact Mr. Bennett through his website at www.enablingwords.com

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Author Name: Robert P. Bennett
Title: Blind Traveler’s Blues
Word Count: 58,043
ISBN: 9781590808665
Price: $2.99
Genre: Mystery/Sci-fi

Author Email: Rbennett@enablingwords.com

Assignment: Nepal by J.A. Squires (On Sale Now)

When Irene Adler receives a plea for help on her answering machine from a former classmate it sends her to Nepal, a land of beauty, tika flowers, blackmail, and murder.

The death of a Sherpa who has fallen on a mountain pass, student demonstrations, the murder of a Russian salesman, and finally, the bombing of a hotel in Kathmandu all have one thing in common: some photos for which people are willing to kill.

Enter Franklin Herbert, distinguished professor and Irene’s former mentor. Herbert is British, elderly, apparently scatterbrained, and–as Irene will slowly discover–not what he seems. Following a trail of murder and lies under the seemingly befuddled guidance of her old professor, Irene must discover the film’s content and those pursuing it in time to stop a terrible threat to the once peaceful mountain kingdom of Nepal with a little help from the mysterious Chwwaassaa Dyo.

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J.A. Squires is the pen name for two friends who have been working and playing together for nearly three decades. One is a working anthropologist who is past president of the National Association for the Practice of Anthropology and a founding member of the American Anthropology Association’s Practicing Anthropology Working Group and the Committee on Practicing, Applied and Public Interest Anthropology. The other is an award-winning author and playwright whose work has appeared in 15 countries and has been translated into 12 languages. Both enjoy travel and mysteries—the perfect combination for their protagonist’s vocation!

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Author Name: J.A. Squires
Title: Assignment: Nepal
Release Date: October 15, 2011
Word Count: 76,221
Pages: 277
ISBN: 9781590808542
Price: $2.99
Genre: Mystery
Target Audience (Ages): Adult

A View to A Kilt by Chris Redding (On Sale Now)

Waking up next to a dead guy can ruin your whole day.

When a wise-cracking interior decorator wants to put her past behind her, the dead body of the mayor’s son makes it pretty clear  that won’t happen too easily.

A conservative former computer geek for the FBI is holding on too tightly to his past. His wife died under suspicious circumstances and he believes the decorator has the information to solve the case. Unfortunately for him, she isn’t talking… until a series of events convinces her she needs protection especially when her biggest secret threatens to destroy both their lives.

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Chris Redding lives in New Jersey with her husband, two sons, one dog and three rabbits. Her first book, The Drinking Game, came out in 2004. She graduated Penn State with a degree in Journalism with an English minor. She’s been writing since she was ten. When she isn’t writing she works for her local hospital.

Force of Habit (On Sale Now)

All she wanted was a breath of fresh air. Was that too much to ask? 

Apparently so.

Isobel Enid Schuster never planned to go into space. She almost wished there had been no Vatican III, and the clergy had not gone co-ed, or at least the Jesuits had not.

 But all those things had happened. The Galactic Union Space-Troopers teamed up with the St. Bennedetta Jesuits to form the Space Academy Preparatory School, and now Bel is a Professor of Extra-Terrestrial Humanities and Value Systems  on a starship.

Restricted shore leave on the planet Llannonn is better than staying on the ship, especially when Bel swaps clothes with a close-look-alike Llannonninn woman and slips out to see the sights. But the woman is the target of a criminal from another planet. The woman thinks Bel is a police agent, come to take her place. The criminal thinks Bel is his target. Yet another criminal thinks Bel is a VIP he can kidnap and hold for ransom.

The only thing between Bel and a life of slavery in the provinces is the tenuous friendship she’s formed with Tetra Petrie, a language professor from the planet Gilhoolie.

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Get to know Marian Allen:

I was born in Louisville, Kentucky and now live in rural Indiana. For as long as I can remember, I’ve loved telling and being told stories. When, at the age of about six, I was informed that somebody got paid for writing all those books and movies and television shows, I abandoned my previous ambition (beachcomber), and became a writer.

I like connecting and reconnecting with people, meeting new friends and keeping in touch with the friends I already have.

My writing reflects this love of network. I try to remember, in my books and stories, that no one exists in total isolation, but in a web of connections to family, friends, colleagues, self at former stages of maturity, perceptions and self-images. Most of my work is fantasy, science fiction and/or mystery, though I write horror, humor, romance, mainstream or anything else that suits the story and character.

Professionally, I’m a member of Southern Indiana Writers, Quills and Quibble, Writing and Promotion (WRaP), and Green River Writers.

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The Key by Lois Carroll

Could opposites really be attracted? 

Kari, an underpaid American social worker on vacation in England, and the owner of a manor house there, Jeffreys, a recluse since his wife and young daughter disappeared? 

Kari finds out when a spirit in his garden gets her attention by pushing her in a muddy stream. Drawn into the mystery of his missing family, Kari wonders if she is the only one to see the vision. 

What is the family trying to hide? 

More importantly, could she take the chance of hurting Jeffreys by acting against his wishes and following the clues left by the spirit?

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Lois Carroll has been writing since her childhood when she received a daily diary as a gift.  With a bachelor’s degree in English Literature and a master’s in Theater, she began her professional writing and editing career working at a publishing company.  Now a wife, mother, and grandmother, she writes full time. To date she has published three hard cover books, two paperbacks, over a dozen e-books, plus short stories and non-fiction articles in national magazines. She has this and two other novels, a hard cover and a paperback, coming out in 2010. You can read about her available books and email her through her web site at: http://home.roadrunner.com/~topromances/lois_carroll/