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Published Books: Fiction
Novels, humor, mysteries, thrillers, science fiction and fantasy.
Below are books I've designed, illustrated, managed or otherwise had a hand in creating. If you're interested in any of these books, I can put you in touch with the author or publisher. Although the books are under the same category, notice how different they are!
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Starlight
by Fergus O'Connell
July 1916 and in France, the Battle of the Somme rages. In November, when he turns eighteen, Lewis Friday must join the Army. Until then he has the summer. He goes to Cornwall and falls in love with Helen, a separated woman twenty years his senior. Eventually he goes to war and somehow manages to survive, sustained by her letters. But just as the war ends and he will be reunited with her, she stops writing and vanishes. Devastated and grief-stricken by the loss of everything he had hoped for, Lewis sets out to unravel the mystery of her disappearance.
Fergus O’Connell’s previous novel, Call The Swallow, was short listed for the 2002 Kerry Group Irish Fiction Award and nominated for the Hughes & Hughes/Sunday Independent Novel of the Year.
FICTION
Trade Paperback / 129 x 198 mm / 338 pages
ISBN: 978-0956970602
Published by paper & celluloid
Visit the publisher's website at www.PaperAndCelluloid.com
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Disobedience Means Death
by Sarah Ettritch
Lesley and Mo can’t imagine life without each other. If it were up to them, they’d settle down, raise daughters, and lead happy, fulfilled lives. But they live on the planet Rymel, in a strict society that selects life-mates for its citizens and executes those who violate their life-bonds.
Girlfriends since their teens, Lesley and Mo know they should break up but can’t let each other go. They dread the day the state summons them to meet their selected mates.
Meet Lesley and Mo when they’re young adults in love and follow them until their time together runs out. Will they do what their society expects of them, or will they sacrifice their lives for their love?
FICTION / SCIENCE FICTION / SHORT STORIES
Trade Paperback / 5.5" x 8.5" / 390 pages
ISBN: 978-0-9813320-1-7
Published by Norn Publishing
Visit the publisher's website at www.RymellanStories.com
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Tamara's Child
by B K Mayo
Finalist in the "Popular Fiction" category of the
2010 National Indie Excellence Awards (NIEA)
Tamara Ames is sixteen years old, pregnant, and on her own when she arrives in the small lumber town of Fir Valley, Oregon, determined to make a new life for herself and her child. And when she falls victim to a diabolical scheme to steal her newborn baby from her, she is not about to give up her child without a fight, even if she has to take on the wealthiest and most powerful family in the county. But is Tamara fighting against her child’s own best interests? Only she can decide. And it’s a decision that she—and her child—will have to live with for the rest of their lives.
FICTION
Trade Paperback / 5.5" x 8.5" / 416 pages
ISBN: 978-0-9815884-7-6
Published by Fir Valley Press
Visit the publisher's website at www.FirValleyPress.com
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Hero: Book 3 in the EPIC Series
by Lee Stephen
Throughout its domination of Earth, humanity has been tormented by its own imperfection. The miracle of life is tarnished by the tragedy of sin. All fall short of the glory.
Three months have passed since darkness overwhelmed the Fourteenth of Novosibirsk—since the lion’s mane was surrendered for horns. Scott Remington has succumbed to the worst side of human nature, one consumed by violence and rage. He has become the very thing he sought to punish. With rightness hanging in the balance, he must now face the fiercest enemy he has ever known: himself.
Redemption awaits.
Will the fallen find their way?
SCIENCE FICTION
Trade paperback / 5.5" x 8.5" / 488 pages
ISBN: 978-0-9788508-4-5
Hardcover / 5.5" x 8.5" / 484 pages
ISBN: 978-0-9788508-5-2
Published by Stone Aside Publishing
Visit the author's website at www.epicuniverse.com
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Fierce & Unequal Combat
by K. Gordon Green
When aptly named Toronto urologist Dr. Henry Spiggott embarks on a quixotic quest—to hunt down that most elusive and fabled denizen of Canada’s north, the mythical creature known as a moose—the result is a Shakespearean romp through forest and swamp. Fans of Green’s previous offbeat humour (The Raven & I) will not be disappointed here: Spiggott and his band of quirky companions negotiate their unfamiliar environment with a mixture of dignity and ineptitude that transforms this epic tale into a classical comedy of errors.
FICTION / HUMOR
Hardcover / 5.5" x 8.375" / 240 pages
ISBN: 978-0-9809929-0-8
Published by Scale Books
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Outlaw Trigger: Book 2 in the EPIC Series
by Lee Stephen
They say every man has a breaking point—every man can be pushed off the edge. Scott Remington entered EDEN with the heart of a lion. He forged glory in the furnace of war. But on the heels of dawn, darkness awaits.
Only when stretched to the limit will a man truly learn who he is. That limit is about to be breached. Lines will be crossed. Sides will be chosen. And faith will be put to the test. Will the righteous prevail?
SCIENCE FICTION
Trade paperback / 5.5" x 8.5" / 300 pages
ISBN: 978-0-9788508-1-4
Hardcover / 5.5" x 8.5" / 300 pages
ISBN: 978-0-9788508-3-8
Published by Stone Aside Publishing
Visit the author's website at www.epicuniverse.com
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The Ball Player
by Clay Snellgrove
A poignant story about a young man’s life journey, The Ball Player takes the reader into the heart and mind of a gifted athlete. Burdened by his responsibility for his best friend’s death, and confused by a love for the same friend’s fiancée, this professional ball player tries for a second time to make it to the Major Leagues. More about how love and questions of fate can direct a man’s life, The Ball Player weaves a passionate drama around the world of professional baseball. Honest and compelling, the heart and mind of a relentless competitor fuels each chapter of this creatively crafted story of love and redemption.
FICTION
Trade paperback / 5.25" x 8.25" / 288 pages
ISBN: coming
Published by Loaded Press
Visit the author's website at www.claysnellgrove.com
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Stripped Down Running
by Andrea Nair
Outwardly, Hannah Friesen appears to have a wonderful life. She is intelligent, funny, adventurous, attractive, has money and a great husband. She has everything, so why is she throwing it all away?
Growing up, Hannah yearns to break free of her painful childhood and her controlling mother, and to live life on her own terms. Finally escaping to the city for a fresh start, Hannah revels in her freedom and frantically takes all she can. Life seems great until she begins to do things she, and those who love her, can’t quite understand. Hannah ends up on a self-destructive path that begins to rip her life apart. When the chaos becomes too great, she is forced to address the inner darkness that is blindly propelling her, or face losing everything. She must decide if her choice is life.
FICTION
Trade Paperback / 5.25" x 8"
ISBN: 978-0-9782077-0-0
Published by One Road
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Dawn of Destiny: Book 1 in the EPIC Series
by Lee Stephen
Some men go to war for the glory. Some men go to war to escape. For Scott Remington, war is entirely different. It is a belief. It is a calling. It is a destiny. Leaving everything behind—his fiancée, his future, his life—he embarks on a mission of faith into a battle he can barely understand. This is his story. This is his war.
This is only the beginning.
SCIENCE FICTION
Trade paperback / 5.5" x 8.5" / 312 pages
ISBN: 978-0-9788508-0-7
Hardcover / 5.5" x 8.5" / 308 pages
ISBN: 978-0-9788508-2-1
Published by Stone Aside Publishing
Visit the author's website at www.epicuniverse.com
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The Cattle
by Greg Sarwa
Now released in paperback.
Winner of ForeWord Magazine's Book of the Year Award
(Bronze in Science Fiction category)
Shortly after implementation of the “Real ID Act of 2005”, the United States National Identification System is created and an intense period of information gathering is begun. Detailed personal data about all U.S. residents is stored in a registered, highly secured database controlled by an enigmatic government agency. The governmental grip tightens with new laws requiring standardized state documents that comply with federal guidelines. And this is only the beginning!
The evening before the National Identification System officially becomes a reality, during the last control tests of the system, something goes wrong: someone accidentally discovers the real purpose of the implants. A secret agenda, hidden behind the “identity verification” cover, is exposed. What is the dark secret? Will we be warned? Can we be saved?
FICTION
Hardcover / 5.5" x 8.5" / 224 pages
ISBN 9766202-1-9
Trade Paperback / 5.5" x 8.5" / 224 pages
ISBN 0-9766202-0-0
Ampol Publishing, Inc.
Visit the author's website at www.gregsarwa.com
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Calling
by Joe Samuel Starnes
Evoking images of a fire-and-brimstone preacher ranting and raving his own personal message of salvation and a deep-voiced deejay spinning country music and reading the local news of fish fries, car wrecks and church bake sales, Calling digs beneath the surface of the Southern Baptist Church, commercial radio and small-town manhood.
Seated next to each other by happenstance on a bus headed out of Las Vegas, fallen Southern Baptist preacher and radio evangelist from Georgia, Ezekiel Blizzard Jr., and a down-and-out country music deejay from Louisiana, Timber Goodman, wouldn’t appear to be compatible. Yet as their ride through the desert progresses and their hardscrabble stories of childhood, drinking, drug-use, gambling, radio, religion, sex and violence in what Flannery O’Connor called the “Christ-haunted South” unfold, they discover they are on a mutual quest for redemption. Just as the Greyhound bus winds through the desert, this captivating tale takes readers on a journey into the deepest recesses of the human soul.
FICTION
Hardcover / 6" x 9" / 288 pages
Published by Jefferson Press
ISBN 0-97189-745-X
Visit the author's website at www.joesamuelstarnes.com
Visit the publisher's website at www.jeffersonpress.com
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Searching for the Postmark
by Jeff Donovan
Can one place help two people come to terms with the past, and can a series of long-distance letters provide the basis for a future? The story of two people brought together by the very distance that separates them, Searching for the Postmark is a summer read that will stay with you into fall, and winter.
FICTION
Trade Paperback / 6" x 9" / 308 pages
Trafford Publishing
ISBN 141200025-4
Visit the author's website at www.swammpybooks.com
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The Captain's Wife:
A Story of the Great Lakes
by Mary Eileen Wright
It was 1903. She was an 18-year-old Irish-Canadian piano prodigy in love with music. He was a 29-year-old Great Lakes captain in love with her sister.... Or so he thought.
Winner of the Writer's Digest National Self Published Book Award
FICTION
Trade Paperback / 6" x 9" / 392 pages
Peanut Butter Publishing
ISBN 0-89716-929-8
Second Printing 2000
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