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The memoir Angel Hero: Murder in Hawai’i, A True Story by Lizbeth Hartz tells the story of 30-something Liz when she found true love in the early 80’s. Her heartthrob Vic gave her back her voice, squelched since childhood. He also inspired Liz to keep writing until she finished this 3^rd and final edition of her book about him three decades later. Author Lizbeth Hartz explains more about her book and why she wrote it.

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Angel Hero is a true crime romance memoir, with names, locations and dates […]

I have always strived to embrace Helen Keller’s belief that “Life is an adventure or nothing at all.” That has helped sustain me as I confront the challenges of aging, and as I am forced to accept that I am a mortal being who will die. My writing helps me feel vital and gives me a sense of purpose.

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The Hourglass: Life as an Aging Mortal confronts death and its precursor, aging, head on. It offers ways we can ease the burdens and enhance the joys of growing old.[…]

Phillip Giambri’s debut book Confessions of a Repeat Offender: Musings on a Life Gone Right in Spite of Myself is filled with stories that illustrate his divergent perspective of life. Born in South Philadelphia, at eighteen he enlisted in the US Navy and served in the Submarine Force during the Cold War. He wrote anonymously about incidents his shipmates were involved in during long periods at sea for the sub’s daily newsletter, The Silent Service Breakfast News. Giambri left the military at twenty-two and then worked as a banker, actor, announcer, hairstylist, recording engineer, photographer, mail-order minister, and computer […]

Lance Olsen is the author of the Sharky Marky and The Big Race(2014), Sharky Marky and the Scavenger Hunt: An Alphabetic Adventure (2015), and Sharky Marky and the Supermarket Sweep (2017).

Early in his career Lance found himself in Hollywood where he would go on to executive produce two feature films: King Cobra (1999) and Pinata Survival Island (2002). After his brief stint in LA, he decided to move back to New Orleans and pursue a career in the arts.  Lance resumed a writing career while at the same time taking classes in video-editing and graphic design.

When she isn’t writing, E.P. Clark teaches Russian at Wake Forest University.  “The Midnight Land” is her first full-length novel, but unlikely to be her last.

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To pare it down to its essence, The Midnight Land is about a woman who has to figure out how to reconcile the demands of leadership and mercy.  She’s basically empathic, so she’s constantly aware of the suffering of others around her, and also how stopping one person’s suffering might cause someone else to suffer.  She has to figure out how to stand […]

Nikki lives in the magnificent Pacific Northwest in the USA with her husband, two horses, two cats, and one slightly crazy dog. She feeds her imagination by sitting on the ocean in her kayak gazing out across the never-ending water or hanging from a rope in a cave, embraced by darkness and the sound of dripping water.

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Dissident is about Indigo, a young woman whose father was put to death for treason. She is stuck in an abusive engagement and must hide most of her extraordinary ascard power from […]

Jack Dancer is a Southerner born and bred living in Southern California with his beautiful wife Linda; Lucy Mae a designer dog of infinite breeding and dubious appearance and Cleo the aptly named cat. Two horses, “Prince” Riki and Dusty “Butthead,” also fittingly named, round out the Dancer troupe.

After twenty-five years as an advertising executive and business owner Dancer retired to take up the writer’s life and shake up the female-dominated romance genre with fast-paced action-packed thrillers with large doses of comedy written from a man’s perspective.

Nearly all romance novels are written by women authors for women readers, […]