ATTENTION: Lovers of ‘mystery fiction’ novels with an endearing central character!

Scheduled for release in mid-August, 2011, AN ARIZONA TRAGEDY – A Bailey Crane Mystery (1), by Billy Ray Chitwood, is the first book in a five-book ‘Bailey Crane Mystery Series.’ The remaining four books are written, being tweaked, and all will be out in 2011 or early 2012. Each book in the ‘Bailey Crane Series’ stands alone but will show a natural life progression of the central character.

Meet Bailey Crane, a son of the south, living in Phoenix, Arizona. Bailey is six feet tall, one hundred eighty-five pounds, a ruggedly good looking guy in the mold of a young Christopher Plummer. He has just enough nuance in his charming southern manners and speech to make him appealing to most, perhaps a bit too flamboyant for some. He’s got a soft manufacturing rep business that brings in easy money. He’s an actor on the local and regional scene, doing television commercials, print modeling, and some theater. He’s a private investigator for a few attorney friends in town, and, a former cop, he is an auxiliary detective for the Phoenix PD. Bailey has love, friends, golf, and a bon vivant life style. For the most part the man is a crusader without a cape and has life just about where he wants it.

In An Arizona Tragedy - A Bailey Crane Mystery (1),  Bailey’s life takes a perilous and tumultuous twist when a young friend is brutally murdered in the Arizona desert. The friend, a twenty-six year old single mother and model, goes missing for weeks, is then found in a desert arroyo just northeast of Scottsdale, her skull crushed, her body unrecognizable.

Working privately on an estate matter for one of his attorney friends, Bailey finds the name of the woman’s boyfriend. The discovery does not necessarily have great significance but it does start the wheels turning in the mind of our southern sleuth.

Bailey becomes a target for an unknown assassin and ends up battered, bruised, and angry. His anger pushes him deeper into his friend’s homicide, and, finding a possible homicide connection, he travels to Washington, D. C., to the hallowed halls and offices of the nation’s lawmakers. At his hotel across the Potomac, the unknown assassin strikes again, this time wounding our protagonist. The bad guy gets away, and Bailey has a temporary stay in a Reston, Virginia hospital.

Through more ironic turns and twists, Bailey goes on to solve not only his friend’s homicide but another in the nation’s capital. With the help of his Phoenix PD buddies, and, one very special female cop, the bad guy behind the homicides is caught. The climatic ending scene in this Bailey Crane caper is nail biting tense and will keep the readers riveted to their seats of choice.

 An Arizona Tragedy was inspired by two actual homicides. The Phoenix homicide of the young mother and model has never been solved. With the ravages on the body by the monster who did this deed, by the desert heat, and by denizens of the habitat, evidence was scarce. This Phoenix murder was also very personal for the author … he was a friend of the real murder victim. While An Arizona Tragedy was written to be commercially acceptable and successful, the author also wanted it to be a token of remembrance.

For more information and brief synopses on other books by the author, vitae on the author, please visit: http://www.wix.com/brchitwood/thecrackedmirror Please note: one in the ‘Bailey Crane Series’ was inadvertently not included on the website. That title, THE BRUTUS GATE – A Bailey Crance Mystery, will be on the website soon.

Please follow the author on twitter: http://www.twitter.com/brchitwood

Serialization has been proven to be an effective approach for book publication on traditional paper media such as newspapers and magazines.  It benefits authors and publishers by providing them feedback during the writing phase so that the quality of the writing can be improved and the plot of the story can be shifted to better accommodate readers’ need along the creation of the work. With the power and potential of Internet, Bookmato launched the first online website where authors and publishers are enabled to not only share but sell books in serial. Thanks to the timeliness of Internet, feedback can now be delivered from readers to authors instantly and seamlessly. Additionally, this new model for book publication will give online book community another choice and boost the discovery of indie books written on Internet.

Bookmato is a dedicated website for indie books from authors on the Internet. Its goal is to build up a bridge to connect books composed and available online with their potential readers as electronic books reading is becoming more and more popular in the market. Moreover, Bookmato believes that books on Internet are unique existences but not supplementary add-ons to their printed-out counterparts. As a result, books online are forming a distinct new market which differs from traditional book market because of the technical advantages and flexibility being granted by electronic devices and Internet. As information on Internet can be gathered and distributed easily, widely and fast, Bookmato introduced the system to its website where composition, promotion and consumption of books are integrated together and the cost is greatly reduced.

Furthermore, Bookmato is a user-centered platform thus it is developing the system on which the quality of books is evaluated by readers only yet not be judged by the owners of the website. It provides authors and publishers with freedom and fairness. Moreover, as Bookmato is only a platform but not an electronic substitution of traditional publishing houses, authors and readers can deal with each other directly and authors are given 100% control of their works. As a platform, Bookmato only takes small portion of the book selling profit to cover its service expenses. Therefore the royalties for authors and publishers are up to 80% which is significantly greater when compared with traditional publishing houses.

Bookmato launched the serialization selling system as a unique feature of its platform because it is a win-win for indie authors/publishers and readers on Internet.

For indie authors and publishers, the competition is more intense on Internet. Serializing in-progress works gives them the opportunity to obtain feedback as soon as possible and enables many marketing strategies which cannot be done in traditional book market. For instance, one can share first few chapters of his book for free to attract readers before commercialization. Other than that, along the serialization stage, the price of each new chapter can be fine tuned to seek the perfect equilibrium between supply and demand. Additionally, as readers’ feedback can be provided instantly, authors and publishers are even given the possibility to refine characters and plots in their books to enlarge their audience in a timely fashion. Last but not least, it gives authors and publishers a handy report of the commercial capability of their books in its potential paperback and hardcover market. As the whole process is done on Internet and can be terminated readily, even a book fail, the cost will be tolerable.

On the other hand, readers take the advantage for not purchasing the book in whole before reading. With the serialization system, readers are given the flexibility of pay as you read. Thus if a book’s quality drops in the middle, readers can simply stop reading and save the money for the rest part. Readers are enabled to get a general idea of books with a very low cost and spend money on books more wisely. Moreover, since the feedback from readers can be appreciated and adopted by authors during writing, readers will feel involved and the conversion rate for readers to become consumers will hugely increase.

Bookmato is currently working on improving the features on its platform and introducing new functions to help readers locate interests easily and smoothly. Unlike other e-book self-publishing site, Bookmato is not building a book directory or book uploading system but a platform where readers’ opinions matter and can help good books from indie authors and publishers gain more eyes. Moreover, Bookmato is empowering online interaction between authors and readers by providing better user experience and more interactive and easier-to-use web services.

A website for people to buy affordable eBooks recently launched.
People who are in constant search for will be happy to learn about a website called “Ooh!”. This site was created to provide people who are avid eBook readers a way to acquire eBooks in more affordable prices. Aside from this people accessing this site do not need to be owners of Apple made computers to be able to purchase the books.
More and more people are turning into reading eBooks these days. This is because reading eBooks provide a lot more benefits than reading traditional paper made or hard bound books. eBooks also provide readers new ways to read their favorite books. Unlike traditional books, people will be able to carry as many eBooks as they want by just saving them into a flash drive or a laptop. There are also certain gadgets today that are very easy to carry around and are capable of opening eBook files.
People will find this website very easy to navigate. They can check on the newly released products by clicking on the appropriate tab. OohStore which is also an itunes store alternative allows people to select and check out the different kinds of eBooks or music tones that are available for sale. The delivery of the products is as prompt as it can be. All people need to do is select the eBook title they want to purchase by clicking on its icon. The website will bring them to another page that will present them with a brief description of the product they are eyeing to buy. Once they are decided they can simply enter their email addresses and it will bring them to the checkout page.
OohStore.com, an iBookstore alternative accepts PayPal and any other major credit card payments. People can register as an affiliate for free. For more information they can always contact the owner of the website through email.
People will be delighted to browse this website to purchase their favorite eBooks. This website also constantly updates their stocks therefore people can always check back later for titles that are not available yet. They just simply need to go to http://www.OohStore.com so be able to acquire more information regarding this online store.

June 16, 2010-  TSB Magazine announced the release of The Little Black Book of Openers, the first completely free product to give aspiring pickup artists a collection of tested, proven pua openers.

“In talking to our readers it became very clearly that they were still struggling with how to start a conversation with a woman,” said Bobby Rio.  “So we decided to put together a collection of the best pua openers that would give them an endless supply of opening lines.”

Men have a serious fear of starting conversations with women.   A big part of this fear is that they don’t know what they are going to say, or they are afraid of saying something stupid.

“The initial response to the Little Black Book of Openers is better that we expected,” continued Bobby Rio, “I think what we’re seeing is that men absolutely love the idea of using opening lines that have been proven to work.”

For example, Rio said that men were finding that their confidence was increased just knowing that they were not going to face that awkward silence that frequently haunts their conversations with women.  “We knew that a lot of men are on the internet searching for pua openers, so we figured we’d make it easy for them and create a collection of our favorites… and give it away free.  For those unfamiliar with the term, pua openers, is short for pick up artist openers.

With the Little Black Book of Openers men will now be able to:

• Approach more women with a proven opening lie
• Engage more women in conversation
• Be more confident knowing they won’t stall out or say something stupid.

The Little Black Book of Openers is just the latest free release from TSB Magazine.  TSB Magazine is an online men’s magazine that provides dating, fashion, and lifestyle advice for the single man.

Lindsay Chandler is a complicated woman caught in the shallow society of Manhattan’s snooty Upper East Side social X-rays in this funny and deliciously naughty take on the boy-next-door story certain to appeal to the 21^st century female.

This witty and inspirational novel follows the love-struck Lindsay, a multi-tasking, working wife and mother, on an infatuation-turned-obsession for her upstairs neighbor – a man she recently met on the elevator. Hers is an aspiration filled with hope and wonder, warmth and wanton lust.

Life is perfect on the outside for Lindsay: Handsome attorney husband, two healthy children, friends, a job with flexibility and a beautiful New York City home. Then one day on the elevator of her posh luxury high-rise, she meets “The Man Upstairs,” and becomes convinced that he is the perfect one.

Her friends try to tell her, “Perfect men only exist in online dating profiles.”

Nonetheless determined not to become a member of the Lonely Wives Club, Lindsay devises Plan B, a practical strategy to change herself, maintain her new friendship and improve her life.

But can a girl who actually eats cheeseburgers with fries make this happen on the Upper East Side without counting calories?

Readers of this book will discover the secrets of survival and the thrill and humor of falling in love in the most exciting city in the world, and perhaps come away from it with a Plan B for winning at life of their own.

In the tradition of Sex and the City, Bridget Jones’s Diary and The Ivy Chronicles, Size Eight in a Size Zero World is the contemporary story of a good girl who is trying to do the right thing and the wrong thing at the same time, while remaining true to herself, whoever that is.

About the Author

Accidental author Meredith Cagen, a New York City resident, has drawn on a storehouse of personal experience in writing this exciting, unpredictable, and yet believable, adventure in romance.

“My debut novel is fiction based on my reality as an Upper East Side working wife and mother. Surrounded by seemingly picture-perfect, double-processed blonde mannequins dressed in look-alike designer clothes, with their honor roll children and bland husbands who lead extraordinary lives, I found myself wondering whether ‘having it all’ means giving up the most important thing: your uniqueness.

I have become an unofficial commentator on lifestyles while observing this search for personal perfection in a world devoid of passion. Where else do women compete to position themselves with such vicious intensity?”

Media Contact Information

To arrange an interview, or request a review copy or additional information:

Meredith Cagen (212) 289-2880; (212) 860-9005.

[email protected], [email protected]

www.meredithcagen.com, www.sizezeroworld.com

Romance for a married woman with children?  by accidental author Meredith Cagen

Comedic Biting NYC Social Commentary Novel:  Size Eight in a Size Zero World

Love or Loyalty?  Lust or Loneliness?

Life seemed perfect until she met him in the elevator of her Upper East Side luxury high rise building.  She affectionately refers to him as “The Man Upstairs.” Like many females, Lindsay Chandler has everything she thought she ever wanted:  Handsome attorney husband, two healthy children, job with flexibility, beautiful New York City home, and friends.

Imagine after 10 years of marriage, this multi-tasking phenom starts to revolt against her status quo.  Fed up being surrounded by double processed pampered size zero Manhattan socialites at her children’s schools and ignored by her husband. This disgruntled working wife and mother develops s romantic crush on The Man Upstairs.  He is the perfect man.  Ah, if only that was true.

Can a girl who enjoy cheeseburgers with fries find happiness in a fulfilling relationship?

In the tradition of Sex and the City, Bridget Jones’s Diary, The Ivy Chronicles, and The Devil Wears Prada, Size Eight in a Size Zero World, is a modern-day story of a good girl who is trying to do the right thing while remaining true to herself.

About The Author

“This is a fictional story but based in my reality as an Upper East Side working wife and mother. Living in Manhattan I am surrounded by seemingly picture perfect double-processed blonde women in designer clothes with honor roll children, indulgent husbands leading extraordinary lives. These days the pressure on women to be perfect, comes from all directions.  No one fat is ever photographed seriously for Page Six. Does having it all mean you give up your uniqueness?”

www.sizezeroworld.com

Media Contact

To arrange an interview, or request additional information

Meredith Cagen 212 289-2880

212 860-9005

[email protected]

[email protected]

Maid of Heaven: The Story of Saint Joan of Arc is a best selling biography about the incomparable and legendary Saint Joan of Arc.  Now with the help of Google Books a limited number of pages can be previewed providing everyone with glimpse of the unique nature of this particular book about Saint Joan of Arc.  Every page in Maid of Heaven contains unique drawings depicting the life of Joan that accentuate the beauty and understanding of the poetic verse contained within.  There are also seventeen full page pictures of Joan of Arc covering many of the major events of her life.

Once people get a chance to preview Maid of Heaven they have a much better understanding of why the book has been hailed by Joan of Arc experts across the world as a must read.  Chris Snidow, the leader of five Joan of Arc Pilgrimages in France, proclaimed:  “I’ve read many books about France’s Patron Saint, Joan of Arc, but never seen one like Maid of Heaven . . . Mr. Kennedy does an amazing job of putting such a lyrical story into captivating lyrical form.”  Virginia Frohlick of the St. Joan of Arc Center in Albuquerque, NM, explained how she “devoured it in one sitting” and “was impressed by his clever English prose that was able to combine actual historical fact and the words spoken by Joan of Arc herself.”  Sergio Vargas of San Cristobal Antiques Fine Art called Maid of Heaven:  “An epic flash back that watered my eyes. . . I did not expect this breathtaking story.”

This digital preview of Maid of Heaven at Google Books is an opportunity for people everywhere to see exactly what all the experts have been raving about.

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New-technology publisher promises traditional, top-quality reading, and the amusing as well as poignant stories collected in “THE GUARDSMAN OF MURRAY HILL” are on the bookshelves NOW!

New York, 1st September, 2009

Famous and not-so-famous patrons of the New York saloon “The Guardsman of Murray Hill” reveal many outrageous secrets in R.M. Gibson’s first re-telling of stories originally jotted down by the late industrialist Paul Lanier.

The Black Leaf Publishing Group publishes the extraordinary stories collected by the late Paul Lanier, who observed with keen eyes and ears life itself as well as fellow regulars at his favourite New York saloon. Author R.M. Gibson, Paul Lanier’s life-long friend, resurrects so far unpublished manuscripts and “The Guardsman of Murray Hill” is the first of five books to be published.

New Yorker Paul Lanier was a multi-facetted man whose varied career included paratrooper, corporate executive, consultant, entrepreneur and author. He met his colourful characters in ‘The Guardsman’, a saloon in the Murray Hill district of New York City. Even though the identities of the protagonists had to remain anonymous, their stories are true confidences collected in an atmosphere of slightly inebriated and friendly conviviality.

Quote from ‘The Guardsman of Murray Hill’:

“`[...] so the Guardsman became one of the places that Wren and Bobby used to supply their unceasing need for sex partners. At the same time, Wren “worked” maybe ten or twelve places on a regular basis. The Guardsman, however, was especially fruitful for them because of the sizeable number of regulars and their diversity.”

A spokesperson for Black Leaf said, “The characters range from highly amusing to downright bizarre, events that unfold are sometimes funny, sometimes tragic and more often than not border on the outrageous. ‘The Guardsman’ is a saloon that could have inspired the television programme ‘Cheers’. You will meet an English poet working as a janitor, an inventor without any entrepreneurial skills, read a hilarious story behind a curious needlepoint hanging and much, much more.”

From a reader: “I enjoyed this book as I could ‘dip in and dip out’.  I admired the skill of the author in his close observations of his characters and his ability to produce laughter, feelings of poignancy and anger in the reader.”

The author, Paul Lanier’s lifelong friend, R. M. Gibson, has himself led a colourful life.  After serving on a minesweeper during the Korean conflict and graduating from Indiana University he began his career working for the California company which built the Apollo Spacecraft, later going on to work in oil, basic metals and executive search businesses. He and his wife now live in Europe. For more information see his website: http://rmgibson.com. For more copies of his book contact the publishers – www.blackleafpublishing.com.

The Black Leaf Publishing Group has been established with a mission : to bring ‘old-fashioned’ top-quality reading to new audiences by employing economically-viable new publishing and printing methods. The Black Leaf Publishing Group also offer new as well as established authors the opportunity to receive individual attention and ‘tender-loving care’ in the traditional way from a dedicated team whose passion is the written word.

As the rate of child obesity continues to increase, it is time to help kids learn how to make nutritious decisions.

The K-5 200 page USDA based Nutrition EZ book is finally available!

This wonderful and engaging standard based resource provides great ideas on incorporating nutrition education within the core curriculum.   Additionally, in this day of teacher directed curriculum, NUTRITION EZ gives kids many opportunities to be involved in the learning process; measuring the amount of sugar in popular beverages and food items, reenacting the milling process to learn the difference between whole and refined grains, and measuring the circumference of delicious produce all the while understanding the healthy benefits of specific nutrients are just the beginning!

NUTRITION EZ is for parents and teachers who wish to instill healthy life long habits in children who are constantly influenced by less healthy food options from media, schools, and fast foods.

Nutrition EZ has quickly become popular with teachers such as Kim Giorgio who with bounds of energy stated, “nutrition has become my students’ most favorite subject in my class.  Building 3D food pyramids, sanding whole grains, playing fat detective, measuring grams of sugar, and tasting healthy fruit and vegetables keeps them engaged.  All the while they forget they are practicing core skills in reading, writing and math.  This book has helped me make education more engaging and fun for my students.  Nutrition EZ truly is a must for every teacher and parent!”

To learn more about Nutrition EZ, please go to www.nutritionez.org.

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“Spring crept softly… almost furtively, into the western realms of Falanholme that year. For still, the bitter, icing winds from off the grey, flinty mountains tugged and whimpered about the tree-tops that surrounded the old Algethi Garrison of Calverstock, deep in the forest of the Delvlings that bordered the Kingdom of Lorenfalu. The fragile Moonflower buds were only now beginning to struggle bravely from the woodland floor through the last of the winter snows that lay all melting into spidery islands, creating a soft, green and white patchwork amidst the trees.”

So begins “A BRIGHT AND SHINING LAND”… the first book of a new Epic Fantasy Trilogy titled “THE ETERNAL WATCHTOWER.”

Just when we thought that there would never be another decent Epic Fantasy that wasn’t just one more Tolkien or Conan rip-off, here comes the first part of a Trilogy that doesn’t revolve around Elves, or Sword and Sorcery.
With J. K. Rowling completing The Harry Potter series, and the effective closing of The Middle Earth saga with the publication of Tolkien’s CHILDREN OF HURIN; readers are searching for something new and exciting… and this could well be it.

A BRIGHT, AND SHINING LAND stands out  from the “New Generation” of Fantasy Novels…  the author, D.W. Mace has created a world that will entertain and excite readers without suffocating them with great tracts of description. His world is suggested; rather than visually rammed down the throat. This is classic, old-time narrative, where the reader uses his imagination to visualise the great sweeping landscapes that his characters inhabit. The author has created a world which is not so very different to that, which ours might well have been, in the far distant, forgotten past.
The story is, as one would expect; another facet of the “Good versus Evil” scenario. but, It’s really refreshing to find an author who is not afraid to sacrifice a few central characters along the way. This is indeed, quite a change from the usual immortal heroes and heroines; and, there is real humanity in these characters.
Although this first book is effectively, a scene-setter for the complete Trilogy;  it really is a page-turner. You get immersed in the plot, and can never be really certain that the good guys will actually survive.
For a first novel, this is impressive stuff;  the author hasn’t padded it out with generic cotton wool and cliches, just to lengthen the plot. The sub-plots merge seamlessly into the whole, and the basic premise of imagining the reader is actually listening to the story being read, as it unfolds from the pages, is unusual, but very effective.

A BRIGHT, AND SHINING LAND is filled with romance, vicious battles; ever-creeping evil, and believable, constrained magic.

If you are a devotee of Middle-Earth-style adventure, then this book is for you.

A BRIGHT, AND SHINING LAND is published by the Arts Council supported YouWriteOn. com, and Legend Press; the UK’s youngest-run, mainstream fiction publisher; and is available in online bookstores, including Amazon worldwide, The Book Depository. com. Alibris, etc.  Check out the author’s blog at: http://calladhor.blogspot.com/

Book Details:
# Author: D.W.Mace.
# Paperback: 284 pages
# Publisher: YouWriteOn; 1st edition (June 13, 2009)
# Language: English
# ISBN-10: 1849238162
# ISBN-13: 978-1849238168
# Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.6 inches
# Price: $12.99 (USD.) £7.99 (GBP.)