C.M. Skiera Announces New Release

Crimson  and Cream Author C.M. Skiera is pleased to announce the release of his epic fantasy book, Crimson & Cream.

Crimson & Cream recounts an unlucky orphan boy’s adventurous tale of flight and discovery as he unravels his tortured past while securing his tenuous future. The murder of Eadriel and Elvar’s parents forfeited their birthright and sent them fleeing for their lives. The fugitive twin brothers were adopted by an underground orphan gang. During a risky foray, a sentry chased the twin intruders into an unfamiliar cavern. Lost underground, they encounter a strange beast that changes their lives forever, and starts a harrowing journey for survival.

Crimson & Cream was published in August 2012 and is endorsed by Grub Street Reads. It is available on Amazon.com, Amazon UK, Barnes & Noble, Smashwords and other online booksellers.

Patrick Turley Announces New Release

WELCOME TO HELLAuthor Patrick Turley is pleased to announce the release of his new book, Welcome to Hell: Three and a Half Months of Marine Corps Boot Camp.

The only existing first-person, insider account of Marine Corps Boot Camp, documenting the good, the bad, the ugly and the hilarious in the making of the Few and the Proud. Patrick Turley captured it in his forthcoming book “Welcome to Hell: Three and a Half Months of Marine Corps Boot Camp”. John Patrick Shanley said it only as a former Marine and Pulitzer Prize winner could: “It’s great to have gone to Marine Corps boot camp. It’s terrible to be in Marine Corps boot camp. It’s fun to read about Marine Corps boot camp.”

“This well-told and entertaining insider’s description of the deadly serious and also sometimes humorous process of making Marines will bring back memories to all former Corps members and provide some understanding of their special quality to those who only occasionally glimpse them in an airport.” – Publisher’s Weekly

Welcome to Hell: Three and a Half Months of Marine Corps Boot Camp was released on on August 14, 2012 by Chronology Books (an imprint of History Publishing Co.). It is available on Amazon.com, Amazon UK, and Barnes & Noble in print and as an e-book.

Katherine L. Holmes Announces New Release

Curiosity Killed the Sphinx and Other StoriesAuthor Katherine L. Holmes is pleased to announce the release of her short story collection, Curiosity Killed the Sphinx and Other Stories.

Curiosity Killed the Sphinx and Other Stories is a collection of short fiction exploring the complexities of life. Laying the profound beside the mundane, author Katherine L. Holmes creates rich and complicated characters who search for identity, meaning, and purpose within a world often dangerous and sometimes even cruel.

A couple clashing with early computers, a divorced woman finding her scattered family to be strangers, a girl running away to the shop where her parents’ antiques were sold, Midwestern college students in weather and water emergencies – these are some of the conflicts examined by the author.

Curiosity Killed the Sphinx and Other Stories was published as a paperback in late May, 2012, and in Kindle and ebook in August 2012 by Hollywood Books International, the fiction imprint of Press Americana. It is available on Amazon.com, Amazon UK, Barnes & Noble and other online booksellers.

Lynne Cantwell Announces New Release

FissuredAuthor Lynne Cantwell is pleased to announce the release of her new book, Fissured: Book Two of the Pipe Woman Chronicles.

If anything can go wrong…

Naomi’s having a bad week. She’s already overwhelmed by setting up her solo mediation practice and second-guessing her relationship with Joseph. An old acquaintance seems to be setting up shop down the road from their friend Charlie’s ranch. And Charlie has a new pal: a filmmaker who might be the Investigator – except that he doesn’t exactly believe in teamwork.

Then a jaguar attacks her in downtown Denver….

Fissured: Book Two of the Pipe Woman Chronicles was released on June 2012 by Catapult Press. It is available on Amazon.com, Amazon UK, Barnes & Noble and Smashwords as an e-book.