eTLC - A Showcase for Independent Authors
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The Blue Hour
Stephen R. Hulse (author)Product Description
The French call this time ‘l’heure blue’ – The Blue Hour. The time between dawn and sunrise when the sun is below the horizon, and the world is awash with a hazy blue shadowed hue that suspends us between the accepted division of light and dark. It should have been beautiful. For me, it was now only beautifully deadly . . .
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Shadow on the Wall
Pavarti K Tyler (author)Product Description
Recai Osman: Muslim, philosopher, billionaire and Superhero? Controversial and daring, Shadow on the Wall details the transformation of Recai Osman from complicated man to Superhero. Forced to witness the cruelty of the Morality Police in his home city of Elih, Turkey, Recai is called upon by the power of the desert to be the vehicle of change . . .
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The Gage Project
Friends of Gage (authors)Product Description
When Inknbeans Press learned Gage Bailey was going to undergo surgery, and endure a long and uncomfortable recovery, with scars he would never be able to hide, we asked a few people to put together some funny stories and points for a little book.
We thought we’d get nine or ten.
We got more than forty. And people offered artwork, editing services, a book trailer, support and marketing. The profits from this endeavor will go to helping other children who are facing surgery or treatment which require a long recovery, primarily through Ronald McDonald House . . .
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Foxy Lady
Rags Daniels (author)Product Description
Lady Carolyne Dryden is a brilliant and gifted young woman operating a policy auction house in London for her father. Late one evening she is brutally beaten, robbed and left to die. A few days later two bodies are found in the same house the assault took place. . . .
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Edge of Extinction
Kristen Stone (author)Product Description
Why were his people dying? This was a question Kianda Mala needed to answer. Considered a god because he had a tail, accepted as a leader, Kianda emerges from the jungle to confront the modern . . .
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Phobia
C.A. Shives (author)Product Description
Panic invades a quiet town at the discovery of a woman’s dead body, bound and covered with poisonous snakes. The grisly homicide ignites the instincts of police consultant Artemis Herne, who must confront his own haunted past to uncover the frightening pattern of the killer . . .
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The Shadowbearer
Terry C. Simpson (author)Product Description
Knight Commander Stefan Dorn, leader of the Unvanquished, has known only war, death and, victory. All in the name of his loyalty to King Nerian the Lightbearer, a man he idolized. Until now. . . .
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Hidden
Shalini Boland (author)Product Description
Hidden is a paranormal adventure that spans the centuries from modern England to 19th century Paris and ancient Cappadocia . . .
Note from the Author:
To celebrate the launch of Thicker than Blood, book 2 in my series, I’ve reduced Hidden to $0.99 for a limited time.
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The Hart Compound (This Artists’ Life, Vol 2)
Dana Sitar (author)Product Description
In August 2010, Madison comedian Nick Hart announced his intentions to run for Mayor of the city. At the same time, Dana Sitar was approaching divorce and trying to find her way as an aspiring writer. Their paths converged when the writer took the first of many leaps and reached out to the ambitious comedian, figuring he would have a good story to tell . . .
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Seeking a Scribe: Enchanted Bookstore Legend One
Marsha A. Moore (author)Product Description
Lyra McCauley is a writer and loves fantasy novels, but until she opens a selection from bookstore owner Cullen Drake, she has no idea he’s a wizard character who lives a double life inside that volume . . . or the story’s magic will compel her from the edge of depression to adventure . . .
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Featured Novels
An American Branch
Kenneth Wayne (author)Product Description
The Japanese post-war economic miracle halted in the 1990s, a time that has been called the “lost decade” by many. Although the country suffered a severe downturn, it was still flush with revenue, so certain sectors prospered. Due to the belief that college ensured a successful career and to the large number of young people at the time, higher education was in great demand. The domestic universities were unable to handle the short-term surge, so some Japanese companies formed joint-ventures with dozens of foreign universities to provide an “international” alternative.
An American Branch finds Wayne’s everyman, Charles Journeyman, as the director of an English language program at a new American university branch in Osaka. He is happily married to a lovely Japanese woman, but their inability to have children has created a distance between them. This increases as Journeyman becomes busier with work. Unexpectedly, he is given a seductive reward . . .
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Clip
Kenneth Wayne (author)Product Description
Imagine you’re watching a video posted on the Internet and catch a glimpse of yourself in it. The only thing is, you were never in the place where the clip was shot and you don’t know any of the people in it.
Charles is an expatriated American living in Japan who spots himself in a sex video that has gone viral. Initially, he dismisses it as a fluke. His apprehension fades after . . .
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Featured Anthology of Short Stories
Words to Music (Volume 1)
Wells, et al. (Authors)
Product Description
Short story anthology written by 40 authors from 12 countries. Authors from Australia, Canada, Finland, Germany, Ireland, Japan, Lebanon, New Zealand, South Africa, Spain, United Kingdom and United States collaborated with the common goal to entertain readers around the globe. The authors have chosen to give their royalties from this book to several deserving charities . . .
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Dedicated to Fukushima
The Tunge Pit
Kevin Kato (author)
Product DescriptionJon Dolan reaches for his cell phone, unaware he’s helping to kill a woman a mile away. A woman he’s never spoken to. A woman he can see. A woman who will spend her own last moments watching him die first. Kris was sure she knew what she was doing. But sometimes our decisions go wrong. Horribly wrong . . .
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