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Congratulations to Mary Smith

Mary Smith’s new book, Drunk Chickens and Burnt Macaroni: Real Stories of Afghan Women, has been nominated for The People’s Book Prize in the non-fiction category.

Drunk Chickens and Burnt Macaroni: Real Stories of Afghan Women provides a remarkable insight into the lives of the women in Afghanistan with whom the author lived and worked. Despite the many hardships in their lives they are not all hopeless downtrodden victims but women of courage, determined to make the best of life for themselves and their children.

Readers are taken on a journey from the northern city of Mazar-i-Sharif to the remote mountainous region of Hazara Jat, allowing them to get to know – and care about – the women as they deal with djinn, health classes, life and love.

Drunk Chickens and Burnt Macaroni was released on 11/24/2012 by Indigo Dreams Publishing and is available through Amazon.com and Amazon UK.

For this award there is no panel of judges; the winner in each category is decided entirely by members of the public who can read extracts of the shortlisted titles before casting their vote.

Mary said: “I’m thrilled to have been nominated for The People’s Book Prize. However, I’m up against some strong contenders, including Roger Moore writing about James Bond, who are published by mainstream publishers. I’m really hoping the indie author community will get behind Drunk Chickens and Burnt Macaroni and vote for it.”

You can learn more about the People’s Book Prize at their website site here.

Lance Charnes Announces New Title

Author Lance Charnes is pleased to announce the release of his new international thriller, Doha 12.

Jake Eldar’s and Miriam Schaffer’s names may kill them. Jake and Miriam grew up in Israel and emigrated to build new lives in America. Neither knows the other exists…until the Israeli intelligence agency Mossad uses their identities in an operation to assassinate a high-ranking Hezbollah commander in Doha, Qatar.

Now Hezbollah plans to kill them both.

When his wife is murdered in a botched hit meant for him, Jake and Miriam try desperately to outrun and outfight their pursuers while shielding Jake’s young daughter from the killers on their trail. Hezbollah, however, has a fallback plan: hundreds of people will die if Jake and Miriam survive.

Doha 12 was released on December 15, 2012 and is currently available from Amazon.com (purchase and Kindle Owner’s Lending Library) and Amazon UK. Trade paperback and ePub formats are coming soon.

Martin Hill Announces New Release

Author Martin Hill is pleased to announce the release of his new military mystery thriller, The Killing Depths.

Special Agent Linus Schag, an “agent-afloat” for the Naval Criminal Investigative Service, is sent aboard the USS Encinitas, the Navy’s first attack submarine crewed by both men and women, to investigate the apparent suicide of a female sailor. But Schag knows the death was no suicide. It was murder. And his investigation soon discovers it’s only the first was several homicides aboard the submarine. With the Encinitas engaged in a life-or-death struggle with a renegade Iranian sub, Schag must discover the culprit’s identity before the killer’s murderous rampage destroys the Encinitas itself.

The Killing Depths was released on November 24, 2012 and is available through Amazon.com, Amazon UK, and Barnes & Noble.

David Antrobus Announces New Title

Author David Antrobus is happy to announce the release of his new non-fiction satire book, Endless Joke.

Endless Joke is a collection of essays. It’s funny. It’s irritating. It’s the book you never realised you needed. But you do. If you want to stay safe (not to mention sane) between the twists and turns and death throes of the old publishing monster and the anarchic new killing fields of epublishing, this book will help in that regard. Often wearing its sometimes snarky heart on its sleeve, a lifetime’s love of the written word fills its pages. In short, it’s composed of equal parts passion, humour, angst and a kind of bewildered, contemplative awe.

Endless Joke was released in October 2012 and is available on Amazon.com, Smashwords, and Barnes & Noble.