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Peter SorosIf you use your smart phone, tablet, ipod, or a DSLR camera to take photos on a daily basis, then these fun exercises will have you finding magic everywhere to capture!

You’ll be filling up that empty wall space in no time with your new art! You’ll go from “no talent” to a photo magician in minimal time. The book is short and just the bare bones. No filler.

Don’t keep the magic waiting and start impressing family, friends, yourself and even strangers with your new artistic skill!

 

About the author, Peter Soros:

Peter SorosFor someone who would describe himself as a “home-body”, Peter Soros’s actions would tell a different story. At age 17, he home schooled himself his senior year of high school so he could graduate early and move to Italy. To much surprise his American high school diploma was not held in high regard, so he had to start at the 3rd of 5 years art specific high school, where he focused on graphic design. While in Sicily he also studied classical guitar privately for advancement at the music conservatory in Palermo. It wasn’t until Peter moved back to San Diego from Italy, that he began teaching himself photography.

He created every opportunity to grow his photography skills in the abundant, picturesque locations Southern California has to offer. Day and weekend photo trips to national parks, state parks, beaches or zoos were his real learning days. But the places Peter really felt home at, was shooting live music performances. His drive to be a music photographer lead him to a photography position for a musical instrument manufacturer. This thrust Peter into working directly with professional musicians, both in the photo studio and live stage, for promotional shots that would be ?published in U.S. and International guitar and bass magazines.

But Peter’s lust for growth continued, and after the untimely death of his father, Peter enrolled at the Musicians Institute in Hollywood, California, and graduated with a certificate in vocal performance. He has since released his first ever music video and has his music featured on various internet radio stations.

He currently lives in San Diego county and spends his days as a graphic designer, freelance photographer/videographer, entrepreneur, parent, songwriter, writer and studies Wing Chun kung fu and Filipino martial arts.

Peter is also the founder of two start-ups, PennyBox music streaming site and Vento bottles.

Visit his website: www.petersoros.com.

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T. S. Baed’s Book Deal on Amazon

T. S. BaedWolf shifter, Gage DeLuca didn’t like having his life planned for him. But if his uncle had his way, Gage would be married to a complete stranger before the New Year. Just as he was about to give in for the good of his pack, destiny literally knocked on his door.

Noel Ford was running from everything she didn’t want. She had no idea her headlong flight would lead her straight to the man of her dreams.

With the mate of his heart by his side, can Gage find a way to become Alpha and protect his pack?

This is a paranormal holiday story featuring a wolf shifter and a BBW who find love at Christmas time. I would rate it as a steam level 3 out of 5.

About the author T. S. Baed:

T.S. Baed is the writing duo of two best friends who love anything romance – paranormal, historical, contemporary – you name, they’ve probably tried it. They also write under the pen name of Lynn Richards

 


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Miles A. Maxwell’s Thriller is Free!

Miles A. MaxwellOne Of The Most Disturbing Stories You’ll Ever Read

Distant for many years, Franklin out of Pennsylvania and his step-brother Everon out of Nevada are connected by a single link: Their sister Cynthia.

Enter The Nightmare
A nuclear bomb is detonated in New York. Banker, wife, mother, Cynthia lives in New York.  The military has quarantined the city. All bridges and tunnels have been destroyed or blocked. Easterly winds have forced the bomb’s huge radiation cloud out over Long Island. But the wind is about to change.

Franklin climbs mountains and truly understands people. Everon can fly anything. And Cynthia’s brothers are determined to find her.

If it were your sister, what would you do?

***A ripping good tale of how intelligence and determination can overcome the near-impossible. And of the true price of altruism.

Before there was “Wool” there had to be a Loss Of Reason.

About the author of Loss of Reason, Miles A. Maxwell:

Miles A. MaxwellLong before 9/11, Miles used to lie in bed at night in his apartment on Manhattan’s Upper West Side — just across the park from where Cynthia, Steve and Melissa would be living — and listen to the sirens. Wondering when someone would drop “The Big One” on The City.

. . . Wondering how the millions of survivors — if there would be any — could possibly escape . . . the city government itself encouraging twenty-four hour personal survival kits — food, medicines, other critical essential personal items. See: Preparing for emergencies in New York City.

As time went on, whenever Miles would leave The City for a day or so for one reason or another, he would return with a creeping, growing, building sense of dread. Driving toward that beautiful skyline on I-95 or the 1 & 9, he would look at the skyscrapers and think, “Is this the day?”

He stuck with The City. It was his home. But to excise the paranoia, he spent his spare time writing the beginnings of this story: Loss Of Reason . . .

Until one night some homeless person stabbed a ballerina to death only a block away from his apartment on the street behind. It was a small, solitary death in the scope of the thousands who die in The City every year, but he took it as a sign. He never knew her, but the attack felt close and personal. He knew it was time to get out.

So he moved west. Out to the Rockies, to the desert, where he no longer felt trapped by the masses. Where he could see the horizon on any given day simply by walking outside. Where the sky was open and the air was clear. It took six months to recover as the paranoia slowly left him.

Was it truly paranoia? He watched TV that terrible day, like all Americans, with a horror that would have been sheer terror had he stayed, as the Twin Towers rumbled down. Not as a pinnacle of terrorism in The City, but as the beginning of things much worse to come.

Visit his website: http://www.stateofreason.com/

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Pianist in a Bordello is on sale today!

pianist in a bordello“What would happen if a politician decided to tell the truth—the whole truth?”

Richard Youngblood, aspiring Congressman, is about to find out. He’s running on a platform of honesty and transparency—and against the advice of his friends and advisers he’s decided to start with himself. His autobiography will lay his entire life bare before voters just days before the election.

And what a life he’s had. Born in a commune and named Richard Milhous Nixon Youngblood as an angry shot at his absent father, Richard grows up in the spotlight, the son of an enigmatic fugitive and the grandson of a Republican senator. He’s kidnapped and rescued, kicked out of college for a prank involving turkeys, arrested in Hawaii while trying to deliver secrets to the CIA…Dick Nixon Youngblood’s ready to tell all.

He’ll even tell his readers about the Amandas—three women who share a name but not much else, and who each have helped shape and define the man he’s become.

Are voters really ready for the whole truth?

Are you?

Pianist in a Bordello is a hilarious political romp through the last four decades of American history, from a narrator who is full of surprises.

About the author: Mike C. Erickson

Pianist in a Bordello author Mike C EricksonMike C. Erickson grew up in the idyllic college town of Logan, Utah, but because of a twist of fate he graduated from high school in Honolulu. He left Hawaii brimming with aloha and enrolled at Utah State, where he was awarded two degrees and self-proclaimed minor intellectual status, which was of dubious value when the US Army invited him to vacation in South-East Asia. Ten days after leaving Vietnam, he began decades of dispensing pearls of wisdom as a high school history teacher, academic decathlon coach, and on occasion, as a community college instructor in the Sacramento area. Mike and his wife Trudy, have two grown sons and a grandson born soon after this novel is published. When not in Hawaii or another exotic locale, they live in Gold River, California. This is his first novel.

As of April 2015, the book is now the award winning novel, Pianist in a Bordello, having garnered a nod by the Northern California Publishers and Authors for third place in General Fiction. It was also awarded two first places in fiction and humor by the Colorado Independent Publishers Association. In addition, Pianist was recently named as a recipient of the coveted BRAG awards. Publishers Weekly, Red City Reviews and Kirkus Reviews all included it in the top ten percent of Indie books that were submitted. The gold standard of book promotion, BookBub recently accepted Pianist in a Bordello for a featured position in their newsletter. BookBub only accepts between ten to fifteen percent of the hundreds of books submitted daily.

 


 

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Ann Warner’s Free eBook is Available Now!

Dreams for Stones (Dreams Saga Book 1) by Ann Warner

Ann WarnerPoignant and haunting, a love story of loss and second
chances. A man who has given up on love and a woman who has learned to let go of love too easily–it will take all the magic of serendipity, old diaries and a children’s story to heal these two.

Caught in grief and guilt over his wife’s death, English professor Alan Francini is determined never to feel that much pain again. He avoids new relationships and keeps even his best friend at arm’s length. His major solace
is his family’s ranch south of Denver.

Children’s book editor Kathy Jamison has learned through a lifetime of separations and a broken engagement that letting go is easier than hanging on.
Then she meets Alan, and for once, begins to believe a lasting relationship is possible.

But Alan panics and pushes her away–into the arms of his best friend. Now the emotions of three people are at stake as they struggle to find a way to transform their broken dreams into the foundation for a more hopeful future.

About the author, Ann Warner:

Ann WarnerA former Air Force brat turned clinical chemist, toxicologist, and university professor, Ann’s life took another turn in 2001, when she began writing fiction. After completing a perfectly dreadful novel (she didn’t know it was at the time) she talked her way into a graduate writing seminar and followed that up with several years of study as she continued to write. Along the way she made friends with other writers who have supported, critiqued, and eventually praised her novels. Her debut novel, Dreams for Stones, was a finalist for the Indie Next Generation Book Award.

Ann’s novels take advantage of the many unusual settings she’s traveled to or lived in including New Zealand, Australia, Peru, San Francisco, Wrangell Alaska, Colorado, Boston, and Puerto Rico. As well, her experiences as a toxicologist have added fillips of intrigue to many of her stories.

In Ann’s novels, the consequence of choosing to love or not to love is an underlying theme, as characters face crises and complications that force them to dig deep within themselves to discover their own resilience.

Ann has a readers’ group. Sign up here: http://annwarner.net/?p=517

Members of the group will receive a link to a short story along with insider information about Ann’s writing process, the stories behind the stories, and recommendations of books Ann has enjoyed.

Contacts for Ann:
Website http://annwarner.net/
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Email Contact http://annwarner.net/contact-ann/
Ann Warner’s Facebook Page  Author of Emotionally Engaging Fiction

What Readers say about Ann’s novels.

Dream for Stones
…incredibly vivid and emotional tale of love and loyalty, friendship, loss, and faith… Lynne Welch, Booklist

Love and Other Acts of Courage A Readers’ Favorite 5-Star selection
…a love story with fascinating details about maritime law, and the consequences of others’ heartless actions. S. Nolden

Counterpointe has over 40 five-star reviews on Amazon
…a compelling dramatic evaluation of what it means to be human, and what it means to love or be loved. The Midwest Book Review

Doubtful
Doubtful goes down as warm and smooth as chicken soup on a cold winter day. Compulsion Reads

Absence of Grace has over 90 four and five-star reviews on Amazon and is currently a free download.
…a riveting read of personal struggle, very much recommended reading. The Midwest Book Review