Mark Budman Announces the Release of “Time Fighters: The Shifter Prince”

Time FightersTime Fighters: The Shifter Prince, the young adult paranormal romance by Mark Budman, has just been released by The Lone Knight Publishing company. It is available for Kindle through Amazon.com.

In the country of Poslopia, the last totalitarian country of Europe, the resistance leader is about to get executed. The only people who can save her are 17-year-old Yaroslav, a shape-shifter, a trouble-maker and the scion of an old dynasty, and Amber, an American exchange student and a time traveler. Together, they go back in time to find the ancient True Shield that can help them to liberate the captive. The clock is ticking. Time is of the essence.

Mark Budman is also the author of My Life at First Try (Counterpoint Press), reviewed by People magazine, Boston Globe, San Fransisco Chronicle and The Washington Post.

Ioana Visan Announces the Release of Human Instincts

Human InstinctsAuthor Ioana Visan is pleased to announce the release of her apocalyptic novella Human Instincts:

Dr. Deanna Nichols is a geneticist searching for a cure to save the world. After the war nearly destroyed it by releasing an aggressive virus, it was the vaccine that killed the humanity’s chances for progress and survival. Deanna feels guilty because she has participated in creating the vaccine, and General Mackenzie never lets her forget that.

Their luck changes when they are contacted by the convicts held in a secret military prison hidden in the arctic desert. The C deviance criminals are willing to negotiate and provide unaffected DNA samples in exchange for supplies and a visit paid by the doctor herself. Suddenly there’s hope, so Deanna embarks on a dangerous journey to a grittier reality than she had expected.

Could a woman alone save the world?

Human Instincts was released on June 13, 2012 and is available through Amazon (US, UK, FR, DE, IT, ES) and Smashwords.

 

New Release: Music Speaks

Music SpeaksAuthor LB Clark is pleased to announce the release of Music Speaks, an anthology of short stories featuring authors Christopher T. Grace, Ann Cathey, David Antrobus, Pam Bainbridge-Cowan, Erin McGowan, James Clark, Laurie Sorensen, JD Mader, and LB Clark.

Music is everywhere, seeping into every corner of our lives, and it has a special kind of magic. It can spark a long-buried memory, bring people together, change a mind, or even save a life.

Within the pages of Music Speaks are eleven short stories from nine independent authors. These stories cover a wide range of genres—from romance to dystopia—but they are all unified by a single theme: the power of music.

100% of profits from the sale of this book will go to the MusiCares Foundation—a non-profit organization that helps musicians in times of need.

Music Speaks was published 6/17/2012 by Lone Star BookWorks. It’s available in ebook format through Smashwords, Amazon.com, and Barnes and Noble. It will soon be available in print as well.

 

Author Darcy Scott Announces Her New Release: Matinicus

Matinicus cover Author Darcy Scott’s new mystery, Matinicus, is now available. It was released in May of 2012 by Maine Authors Publishing.

Matinicus pits a renegade fishing community against an unhappy child-bride of the 1820s, a defiant twenty-first-century teen, and a hard-drinking botanist—Dr. Gil Hodges—who escapes to the island of Matinicus to avoid a crazed ex-lover and verify a purported 22 species of wild orchid.

But if Gil’s hoping for peace and quiet, he’s come to the wrong place. Infighting among loose-knit lobstering clans have left them hostile to outsiders. When a beautiful stranger arrives, old resentments re-ignite and people begin to die—murders linked, through centuries of violence, to a diary whose secrets threaten to tear the island apart.

Kirkus Reviews says that Matinicus is “The kind of book readers will tear through, only to find themselves hungry for more.”

Matinicus is available through Amazon.com in print and for Kindle, Smashwords and select Indie book stores.