Writers write. Many authors have one or more novels sitting on their desk that are as compelling and entertaining as their published works, but have not yet made it to your favorite bookseller.
Normally these gems are unavailable to readers...until now.
As a thank you to readers, the authors below are offering a free advance reading copy of their favorite as-yet unpublished novel in eBook format.
This is a unique opportunity to read more from your favorite authors as well as discover new ones! Simply click on the eBook icon of the novels you would like to read. These books can be printed, or read on a wide variety of devices, including your PC.
And best of all, these books are absolutely free.
Normally these gems are unavailable to readers...until now.
As a thank you to readers, the authors below are offering a free advance reading copy of their favorite as-yet unpublished novel in eBook format.
This is a unique opportunity to read more from your favorite authors as well as discover new ones! Simply click on the eBook icon of the novels you would like to read. These books can be printed, or read on a wide variety of devices, including your PC.
And best of all, these books are absolutely free.
It is a great thing to write. To be no longer yourself, but to move in an entire universe of your own creation.
- Gustave Flaubert
Melanie Lynne Hauser
Author of Confessions of Super Mom (NAL/Penguin) and Super Mom Saves The World (NAL/Penguin)
"IN THE BEGINNING, there was the pie. The pie was without form and texture (and any manner of identifiable filling), and darkness was upon the face of the Home Ec Teacher…"
So begins the story of two girls, a friendship, and a pie. JUMBLE PIE, to be exact. A Home Ec project gone very wrong, except for the fact that it brings together two very different young girls and helps them form a friendship that lasts through bad haircuts, unrequited love, endless incarnations of Madonna, and their own evolving dreams... Until New Year's Eve, 1999, when another pie comes along, resulting in a pre-party blow-up that sets Juliet and Emily, women now, to remembering how it all started.
Author of Confessions of Super Mom (NAL/Penguin) and Super Mom Saves The World (NAL/Penguin)
"IN THE BEGINNING, there was the pie. The pie was without form and texture (and any manner of identifiable filling), and darkness was upon the face of the Home Ec Teacher…"
So begins the story of two girls, a friendship, and a pie. JUMBLE PIE, to be exact. A Home Ec project gone very wrong, except for the fact that it brings together two very different young girls and helps them form a friendship that lasts through bad haircuts, unrequited love, endless incarnations of Madonna, and their own evolving dreams... Until New Year's Eve, 1999, when another pie comes along, resulting in a pre-party blow-up that sets Juliet and Emily, women now, to remembering how it all started.
Visit Melanie's website and blog: www.MelanieLynneHauser.com
J. A. Konrath
Author of Bloody Mary (Hyperion), Whiskey Sour (Hyperion), Rusty Nail (Hyperion), and Dirty Martini (Hyperion).
History has given us many exceptional people.
Science just brought ten of them back.
Thomas Jefferson - Joan of Arc - Attila the Hun
William Shakespeare - Vlad the Impaler - Abraham Lincoln
Albert Einstein - Jack the Ripper
It's going to be one hell of a fight.
THE LIST is a contemporary technothriller combining the humor of Christopher Moore with the action of Clive Cussler.
Author of Bloody Mary (Hyperion), Whiskey Sour (Hyperion), Rusty Nail (Hyperion), and Dirty Martini (Hyperion).
History has given us many exceptional people.
Science just brought ten of them back.
Thomas Jefferson - Joan of Arc - Attila the Hun
William Shakespeare - Vlad the Impaler - Abraham Lincoln
Albert Einstein - Jack the Ripper
It's going to be one hell of a fight.
THE LIST is a contemporary technothriller combining the humor of Christopher Moore with the action of Clive Cussler.
Visit JA's website and blog: www.jakonrath.com
Praise for Melanie Lynne Hauser's published works:
"...debut novel has a secret identity...it's unexpectedly poignant and packs an emotional punch despite the cheery veneer..." -- Publishers Weekly
"Escape into the world of Super Mom for a few hours...you'll be glad you did". -- Meg Cabot, author of Queen of Babble
"...TOTALLY different than all the rest of the books on the shelves...the perfect escape using romance, laugh out loud moments...!" -- Madison McGraw
"...debut novel has a secret identity...it's unexpectedly poignant and packs an emotional punch despite the cheery veneer..." -- Publishers Weekly
"Escape into the world of Super Mom for a few hours...you'll be glad you did". -- Meg Cabot, author of Queen of Babble
"...TOTALLY different than all the rest of the books on the shelves...the perfect escape using romance, laugh out loud moments...!" -- Madison McGraw
Praise for JA Konrath's published works:
"Whiskey Sour is the best debut of the year so far." -- Chicago Sun Times
"Competent, fast-paced...(a) cross between Carl Hiaasen and Thomas Harris." -- Publishers Weekly
"Engaging... full of humor... fans of Janet Evanovich will like this." -- Library Journal
"Whiskey Sour is the best debut of the year so far." -- Chicago Sun Times
"Competent, fast-paced...(a) cross between Carl Hiaasen and Thomas Harris." -- Publishers Weekly
"Engaging... full of humor... fans of Janet Evanovich will like this." -- Library Journal
Robert W. Walker
Author of over 30 novels including City for Ransom (Avon), Shadows in the White City (Harper) and City of the Absent (Harper).
Dead On explores the humor and pathos of a "failed" hero, Detective Morgan Strydwell, whose multiple attempts at suicide are constantly being interrupted by an "emergency" of one sort or another that he must attend to first. His thinking when he sees a child in danger is to take care of that business first before "offing" himself, and this leads to a meeting with Katrina (Kat) Holley, and when this lovely creature invites him for drinks, he again puts off "eating his gun." However, Kat Holley is not what she appears to be and their meeting leads Morgan into a noir nightmare of danger and intriuge in Atlanta, Georgia and the Blue Ridge Lake area where Kat and Morgan entice a killer who has plauged both their lives for years--the reason Strydwell is suicidal in the first place. The novel is in the best tradition of the Maltese Falcon but with a decidedly Rambo touch and some frightful touches to say the least.
Author of over 30 novels including City for Ransom (Avon), Shadows in the White City (Harper) and City of the Absent (Harper).
Dead On explores the humor and pathos of a "failed" hero, Detective Morgan Strydwell, whose multiple attempts at suicide are constantly being interrupted by an "emergency" of one sort or another that he must attend to first. His thinking when he sees a child in danger is to take care of that business first before "offing" himself, and this leads to a meeting with Katrina (Kat) Holley, and when this lovely creature invites him for drinks, he again puts off "eating his gun." However, Kat Holley is not what she appears to be and their meeting leads Morgan into a noir nightmare of danger and intriuge in Atlanta, Georgia and the Blue Ridge Lake area where Kat and Morgan entice a killer who has plauged both their lives for years--the reason Strydwell is suicidal in the first place. The novel is in the best tradition of the Maltese Falcon but with a decidedly Rambo touch and some frightful touches to say the least.
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Praise for Robert W. Walker's published works:
"Shadows in the White City" is historical mystery at its best." --The Chicago Tribune
"Walker's latest novel is an intelligent, absorbing, satisfying read that is both complex and multifaceted." --The Historical Novels Review
"Walker is at his lofty best with his latest. Intriguing story that comes alive with energy." --Midwest Review of Books
"Shadows in the White City" is historical mystery at its best." --The Chicago Tribune
"Walker's latest novel is an intelligent, absorbing, satisfying read that is both complex and multifaceted." --The Historical Novels Review
"Walker is at his lofty best with his latest. Intriguing story that comes alive with energy." --Midwest Review of Books
Visit Robert's website and blog: www.robertwwalkerbooks.com
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