Featured Book of the Week – I Was a Drummer and She Was a Dancer by Steven Thomas

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I was a drummer she was a dancer-a true love story [Kindle Edition]

Steven M. Thomas , Haans Peterson , Eric Svoboda

A fascinating journey through punk rock and new wave, love and loss, and finally joy and closure. From St. Louis to Martha’s Vineyard, and Germany to the Czech Republic. Drummer dancer reads like a diary of obsessive love and one man’s struggle to cope that finally led him to writing this brutally honest autobiography.
With 25 lyrics & 21 photographs as haunting and telling as the story itself.

SCI-FI/Fantasy Author of the Week – Gary Starta

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GaryStarta is a former journalist who studied English and Journalism at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst.His love for science fiction compelled him to write his first novel What Are You Made Of? published in 2006. Inspired by Isaac Asimov, the science fiction novel focuses on intelligent artificial life and whether sentient androids should possess the same rights as humans. The androids in Starta’s novel are created as hybrids – part machine, part human – further blurring the line between human and machine. Starta foresees a near future where humans will be forced to decide if intelligent machinery is indeed a life form. Possibly, in this near future, some humans will possess computer enhancements to overcome disabilities becoming hybrids themselves. The line between biological life form and mechanical life form continues to be examined in 2010’s Gods of the Machines.

Demon Inhibitions along with its preceding Caitlin Diggs (series) novels, Extreme Liquidation and Blood Web are reminiscent of the The X-files television/movie series. Contemporary authors Laurell K. Hamilton, Rachel Caine, Jim Butcher and Kelly Armstrong also fuel his aspiration to create paranormal suspense.

Starta’s crime novella ‘ Murder By Association’ blends mystery with forensic investigation. It is a departure from previous books because it contains no science fiction or paranormal elements. Its follow up is 2012’s Kindred Killers. Additionally, Starta foresees his 2008 novella ‘ Alzabreah’s Garden ‘ – a fantasy romance – as another out-of-the-box effort.

New Release – Eternal Illusion (Eternal Island Book 3) K. S. Haigwood , and Ella Medler

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Eternal Illusion (Eternal Island Book 3) [Kindle Edition]

K. S. Haigwood , Ella Medler

Eternal Island weaves its magical enchantments into every one of its people’s hearts. No one, human or immortal, is immune to the fiery touch of love, But trouble begins to brew anew when, with the last arrival, a malignant entity also makes it onto the island. Seeking to settle an old score first, he relies on dark magic in his pursuit to rule the world.
Manipulative and possessing qualities that make him hard to identify, let alone defeat, he can only be sensed by one person. Katrista’s dreams hold the key, but will anyone believe her, or will they allow an illusion to destroy them all?

This Weeks Featured Book – Cupcakes, Trinkets, and Other Deadly Magic (Dowser Series Book 1)

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Cupcakes, Trinkets, and Other Deadly Magic (Dowser Series Book 1) [Kindle Edition]

Meghan Ciana Doidge

If you’d asked me a week ago, I would have told you that the best cupcakes were dark chocolate with chocolate cream cheese icing, that dancing in a crowd of magic wielders — the Adept — was better than sex, and that my life was peaceful and uneventful. Just the way I liked it. That’s what twenty-three years in the magical backwater of Vancouver will get you — a completely skewed sense of reality. Because when the dead werewolves started showing up, it all unraveled … except for the cupcake part. That’s a universal truth.
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This 68,000 word urban fantasy is the first book of the Dowser Series by author Meghan Ciana Doidge.

Walk Away

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Walk Away
©Cleve Sylcox

You can make the blue skies, bluer,
The soft ocean breezes, softer,
The warm bed, warmer.

You can make love, lovelier,
The soft full kiss, fuller,
A warm embrace, warmer,

You can never take,
What you’ve given,

You can never remove,
A memory you made,

You can never hide,
A feeling so deep,

As I felt the day you,
Walked away.