David Wisehart- Devil's Lair

David Wisehart is the author of an historical fantasy novel, Devil's Lair. He was the writer-director-producer of Valentino: a play in verse at the 2010 Hollywood Fringe Festival. He also wrote the libretto for an original opera, The Other Wise Man, that he will direct for the 2010 holiday season. For Fox Interactive he produced James Cameron’s Titanic Explorer and three video games based on The Simpsons. For Virgin he produced educational software based on Charles Schulz’s Peanuts characters. David wrote art history documentaries for Philips Media. He received his B.A. in Film and Television from UCLA, and was the Review Editor for the Daily Bruin. He served as a research assistant for The Aerospace Corporation. During high school he programmed computers for NASA.


Devil's Lair is a thrilling adventure through Dante's Inferno. It is the year of our Lord 1349. The world is dying as the Black Death sweeps through Europe. One hope survives: a vision of the Holy Grail. Stolen by Lucifer, the Grail now lies in the lowest circle of Hell. To save the human race, someone must steal the Grail from the Devil and return it to the world above. Four pilgrims—a knight, a friar, a poet, and a prophetess—journey down into Hell to confront their deepest fears...and the Devil himself.

Q: What will e-readers like about your book?

It's an epic historical fantasy with strong characters, a tense plot, and a satisfying conclusion.

Q: Why did you go indie?

To control my own destiny.

Q: Who are your favorite authors in your genre?

My historical fantasy novel is heavily influenced by my love of J.R.R. Tolkien, Umberto Eco, Gene Wolfe, Jorge Luis Borges, George R.R. Martin, Homer, Virgil, and Dante.

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Linda Acaster--Hostage of the heart

Linda Acaster is a mainstream published UK novelist, with a host of short fiction and non-fiction to her credit, who is digitally indie authoring her backlist as a springboard to launching the first of a trilogy of contemporary thrillers as original ebooks.

Hostage of the Heart is a Mediaeval romance set on the English-Welsh borders in 1066. With the northern militia gone to support the new king, Rhodri ap Hywel sweeps down the valley to reclaim lands stolen by the English, taking the Saxon Lady Dena as a battle hostage. But who is the more barbaric: a man who protects his people by the strength of his sword-arm, or Dena’s kin who swear fealty to a canon of lies and refuse to pay her ransom? Dare she place her life in the hands of a warrior-knight shielding dark secrets of his own?


What will e-readers like about your book?
It’s a fast-paced adventure offering a different perspective on an era of British history, not the courtly lives of the powerful, but the ordinary people on the ground who always bear the brunt of others machinations. Dena might be a ‘lady’ but she’s a poor relative accepted into her uncle’s household to gain him prestige by marriage. When events turn, she becomes first disposable, then a bargaining tool. What price integrity? What price truth?


Why did you go indie?
Hostage of the Heart, and my other historical romance Beneath The Shining Mountains, were originally mainstream print novels. I’ve had their rights reverted for some time and as indie ebook publishing on Amazon has opened to non-USA citizens I decided to bring them to a different readership, and use the experience as a dry run for my contemporary Torc of Moonlight. It’s been a fascinating learning curve.

Who are your favorite authors in your genre?
Rosemary Sutcliff’s novels showed me how history could be made both exciting and educational, and it’s something I always try to emulate. No matter what the genre, readers should be able to leave a novel having been intrigued by something factual. Modern authors in the Medieval romance genre include Lindsay Townsend, a UK writer who has had better success in the USA than in her own country, which says a lot more about publishers than it does readers.

Amazon US Kindle page http://tinyurl.com/3a2dyz5

Amazon UK Kindle page http://tinyurl.com/24xbekn

Smashwords page https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/14120
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Donna Faz- The Merry-Go-Round

Donna Fasano is an award-winning, best-selling author whose books have sold over 3.5 million copies worldwide.

“. . .complex, funny, and realistic. . .” ~Wilmington News Journal

The Merry-Go-Round: When Lauren divorces her husband, she has one thought on her mind...stepping off the merry-go-round. However, her life quickly turns into a three-ring circus: her hypochondriac father moves in, her ex is using her shower when she's not home, and her perky assistant is pushing her out into the fearsome dating world. She also has to decide if the dilapidated barn and vintage merry-go-round she was awarded in the divorce settlement is a blessing or a bane. As if Lauren's personal life isn't chaotic enough, this slightly jaded attorney is overrun with a cast of quirky characters who can't stay on the right side of the law. What's a woman to do? She can allow life to spin her in circles forever. Or she can reach out and grab the brass ring.


Q: What will e-readers like about your book?
The Merry-Go-Round is a romantic women's fiction novel that sort of slips over into the chick lit category, too. It's different in that the book opens with a couple getting a divorce. Some of my readers have said that they've never read anything quite like it and that certain scenes have made them laugh right out loud. I'm proud of that!

Q: Why did you go indie?
My editor at Harlequin bought this book for their line of women's fiction called NeXt. However, the line folded just as I was finishing the manuscript so the rights to the book reverted to me. I hated the idea that this book was sitting on my desk gathering dust. So I published it, and I don't mind saying I'm enjoying being an independent author.

Q: Who are your favorite authors in your genre?
Susan Elizabeth Phillips, Jennifer Crusie, Maggie Osborne, Jennifer Greene...too many to mention.

Amazon US: http://www.amazon.com/The-Merry-Go-Round-ebook/dp/B002ZNJL78
Smashwords: http://www.smashwords.com/books/view/9466

Scott Nicholson-- Murdermouth: Zombie Bits

Scott Nicholson is a writer, journalist, and freelance editor living in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina. He is author of Speed Dating with the Dead, Drummer Boy, and 10 other novels, five story collections, four comics series, and six screenplays. He also edited the free writing manual Write Good or Die. He's currently on the Kindle Giveaway Blog Tour, sponsored by Amazon, Kindle Nation Daily, and Dellaster Design.

Murdermouth: Zombie Bits is a collection of eight stories featuring zombies, including the original "A Farewell To Arms," written exclusively for this volume. It includes two tales from the Eden Studio "All Flesh" series, as well as the comic script for the Murdermouth pilot comic. Donate $25 and you can appear drawn as a zombie in the comic. It also includes a bonus story from Jack Kilborn, as well as Jonathan Maberry's "Zombie Apocalypse Survival Scorecard."

Q: What will e-readers like about your book?

Possibly nothing, if you don't like zombies. Generally, there is less emphasis on blowing off heads with shotguns and more exploration of how people handle extreme change and how their minds turn under survival pressure. Plus the obligatory "What would it be like to be a zombie?" However, I am pretty sure there are enough dripping body parts to satisfy your taste for zombie gore. And Maberry's scorecard will help prepare you for the end of the world, if we all live that long.

Q: Why did you go indie?

We're all as indie as we want to be. I published six novels in New York and two collections in the small press, so I have a pretty good understanding of how the business works. More importantly, how it does or doesn't work for me. Putting out my own work is the best choice right now, both artistically and commercially. I am grateful for my experiences and appreciate my paid apprenticeship in traditional publishing and I hope to do something in that arena again. However, I am truly enjoying the new partnerships I've made this year.

Q: Who are your favorite authors in your genre?

"Night of the Living Dead" is still one of my favorite movies, maybe because it takes itself so seriously, unlike the modern humorous-zombie genre. Romero is clearly the godfather, but I also enjoyed in fiction The Book of the Dead anthologies, and the work of Jonathan Maberry and Brian Keene. I never thought zombies would work in mainstream fiction until Keene launched the sub-genre practically single-handedly with "The Rising." Max Brooks isn't horror but I dig his work, and my friend Eric S. Brown is doing some crackling mash-up stuff.

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Rob Steiner-- The Last Key

Rob Steiner was born in 1972 in Watervliet, MI. He currently lives in Michigan with his wife, daughter, and “wiener-cat” Scully. When he's not spending time with his family or writing books, he's dreaming of one day taking over for Guy Fieri on Diners, Drive-ins and Dives.

Andea is a land where humans have learned to harness their Faith --the life essence in all living beings -- to magically shape the world around them. It is a place where warrior-priests called dahkshari keep order by serving as judge, jury, and executioner. And where common Andeans strike out into the unknown frontier along Andea’s borders to escape the overcrowded Great Cities and the strict Faith dogmas of Andea’s cleric lords.

Raven Byrne is a novice dahkshari about to complete his training when he discovers that a popular Andean war hero named Thallan Brael wants to use an ancient magic called the Reaping Key to avenge the deaths of his family killed in Andea's recent war with neighboring Loquath. With the Key, Brael could “reap” the souls of every Loquathi man, woman, and child. The guilty and the innocent would pay for the lives
of Brael's dead family.

With the help of Brael's niece, Seala Mesalek, and an outlaw band of Faith heretics, Raven embarks on a journey across Andea's dangerous frontier to stop Brael from using the Reaping Key to commit genocide. Along the way Raven learns to put aside his prejudice against heretics, and his doubts in himself, to become the honorable dahkshari Andea needs.

Q: What will e-readers like about your book?
For only $1.99 readers will get a fantasy thriller filled with magic, monsters, characters to love and characters to hate. The good guys aren't as nice as you think, and the bad guys...well, they're not what you'd expect, either.

Q: Why did you go indie?
I'm proud of this book, and I wanted to get it into the hands of the people who count – fantasy readers. I'm a patient guy, but after five years of my agent getting “positive rejections” from every fantasy publisher in New York, even I was getting antsy.

Q: Who are your favorite authors in your genre? Robert E. Howard, Robert Jordan, Steven Erikson, Terry Goodkind, Brandon Sanderson, Jim Butcher, Margaret Weis, Tracy Hickman. I've learned something about storytelling from each one, and readers will find their influence in THE LAST KEY.


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William T. Prince-- The Legend of Sasquatch

William T. Prince is a full-time corporate security director and part-time writer. A Native Texan, he presently lives near Houston with his wife and twin daughters. In addition to reading and writing, his interests include classical music, fine coffee, premium cigars, and computers. Published in 2008, The Legend of Sasquatch is his first novel. He will publish his second this year.

In this action-packed character novel, Sasquatch is not the mythical creature rumored to haunt the forests of North America. He is a young Texan named Clint Buchanan ("Buck Hannon") who prowls the streets of Dallas in the late 1970s. Clint seems to have it all--size, strength, intelligence, personality, looks, and any woman he wants. Unfortunately a combination of bad choices and bad luck has tragic results. Join this behemoth as he faces the life-changing and character-defining events of his late adolescence with a colorful supporting cast.

Q: What will e-readers like about your book?
I have fashioned a gripping story that is primarily a character study, but which also includes a great deal of realistic action and an interesting romance to boot. It is difficult to put down, and many readers report completing it in one sitting. It is gritty and intended for mature readers, but it appeals to men and women equally. My characters are complicated, imperfect, and compelling.

Q: Why did you go indie?
The traditional publishing industry is virtually closed. A writer can't get published without a good agent, and he or she can't get a good agent without having been published. By the time I got around to writing my first novel, I was too old to try to get published the old-fashioned way. I didn't have years to beat my head against a wall and hope that I got lucky, so I decided to publish my book myself. Today's technology makes print-on-demand a viable alternative for getting a "dead-tree book" on the market, and e-book publishing is a piece of cake. I was able to cover both bases with minimal investment, and I have complete control of my work and hold all copyrights.

Q: Who are your favorite authors in your genre?
Russell Banks and John Irving


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Smashwords: http://www.smashwords.com/books/view/12007

Off Flesh-- Andy Frankham-Allen

Andy Frankham-Allen has written variously for Big Finish Books' Doctor Who anthologies, Short Trips, as well as for Noise Monster Productions' Space 1889 audio series. For five years he was editor of the Doctor Who: The Legacy online series of stories, as well as co-editor (and co-founder) of the eZine Pantechnicon. He's currently living back in his native Wales, and is all set to take the publishing world by storm with a selection of short stories, novellas, and the first part of his Garden Saga, Seeker!

Off Flesh is a macabre little tale about a grey man living a grey life who goes to a very grey convention. And there he meets the youthful and energetic Mr Wyndham. The grey life may be boring, but it is often safer. As Mr Jensen discovers when he begins to investigate the sudden disappearance of Mr Wyndham.



Q: What will e-readers like about your book?

It's an intruiging little tale which follows a married man captivated by another, with dire consequences. As one reviewer put it, it's a mix of the fantastical stories by Roald Dahl and the Hammer House of Horror anthologies from the '70s.

Q: Why did you go indie?

I prefer indie publishers because they care more about the author and the art; their driving force is not the big buck sign at the end of the deal.

Q: Who are your favorite authors in the suspense, mystery, horror, and thriller fields?

My ultimate favourites are John Connolly and Karin Slaughter, but I also follow such authors as Stephen King (who doesn't!), James Herbert, Mark Morris and Stephen Gallagher.


Amazon - http://www.amazon.com/Off-Flesh-ebook/dp/B003VYC3PW
Smashwords - http://www.smashwords.com/books/view/19099
and the official Untreed site - http://www.untreedreads.com/?p=1797