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Dorothy Winsor
Glass Girl
This fantasy novel follows 17-year-old Emlin as she struggles with who she is versus who she wants to be after her mother’s murder throws her life into turmoil.
Inspired Quill, May 2023
Available: Amazon, B&N, Bookshop
The Wysman
As a former street kid, now training to be the king’s advisor, Jarka can’t stop hunting whoever’s grabbing street kids–even after the king orders him to back off. He also can’t stop wondering why the king ordered that.
Book Trailer: The Wysman by Dorothy A. Winsor | Official Book Trailer
Inspired Quill, June 2020
Finders Keepers (Zharmae 2015)
Deep as a Tomb (Loose Leaves 2016)
The Wind Reader (Inspired Quill 2018)
The Wysman (Inspired Quill, 2020)
The Trickster (Inspired Quill, March 2021)
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Harry Trumfio
Dad, Our Candy Man
A colorful, illustrated children’s book that tells the story of a dad guiding his two sons as they help him make a one of a kind, special frozen confection treat. A treat that brings a chocolate smile to the lips of everyone who takes a bite.
April 2022 Long Over Due Books
Available at chris@longoverduebooks.com
Of Saints and Wooden Nickels: An American Story
My dad was in search of a family secret. Along the way, all of his money and his passport were stolen, and there he was: an American teenager alone, adrift in Mussolini’s Italy without papers. After a year of wild adventures abroad, many prayers to the saints, a Grand Jury hearing, and a strong dose of Buona Fortuna, my father found his way back home to Chicago.
June 2020 Available on Amazon
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Alexander Oleksiuk (A.M. Arktos)
Website: https://amarktos.com/
The Space God Memoirs
Journey with Keph as he narrates his adventures; from his time as a junk-hunter on a ruined planet, through his journeys into a galaxy of soul-powered technology, sentient starships, and god-like alien overlords.
November 2021
Podcast site: https://spacegodmemoirs.com/
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T.D. Arkenberg
My One Extraordinary Life, A Feline Memoir
The story of Fluff, a tentatively curious Brussels street cat. Windy City Reviews says: “Filled with delicious cat-themed puns, Brussels street life, danger, and even romance, readers of Lillian Jackson Braun will love My One Extraordinary Life, A Feline Memoir.” The book is a pawsitively purrfect page-turner
Outskirts Press 2021
Available online at Barnes & Noble, Amazon, and directly from Outskirts Press.
Trials & Truffles, Expats in Brussels
In 2014, Chicagoans Todd and Jim embarked upon a grand adventure, an open-ended transfer to Brussels. Seasoned with blog posts covering a broad array of topics created during their residency, the memoir transports readers to Europe, showcasing the realities of expat life and the true meaning of home.
Outskirts Press, June 2020
A Belgian Assortment
T.D. Arkenberg draws on his experience as an expat to craft this collection of twelve short stories. Through the magic of fiction, this book transports readers to contemporary Belgium, a vibrant and multifaceted nation in the heart of Europe.
Outskirts Press, October 2018
Two Towers
In his fourth book and first memoir, T.D. Arkenberg navigates readers through a personal perfect storm. A resurgence of his father’s long-dormant cancer, and chaos at his job in the aftermath of the September 11 terrorist attacks serve as the backdrop for a private struggle with a secret hidden for thirty-seven years.
Outskirts Press, December 2017
2018 1st Place Evvy Award Winner
None Shall Sleep
Opera is life and life is opera. A middle-aged woman’s quest to reinvent herself as an opera singer results in unintended consequences for herself and her collection of interesting friends.
January 2016
Jell-O and Jackie O
A coming of age story set amidst the glamour and chaos of 1960s America. A suburban boy finds escape from his humdrum world with fantasies of Jackie Onassis and the fabled jet set.
December 2014
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Phyllis Shearer
Make No Little Plans
It’s 1968. Paula’s life is about to change. She’s leaving Cleveland for New York city and ditching her lying married man lover. Her goal? To be a working actress. Nothing fancy. She’s not looking for stardom, but her plans go awry. Disappointments follow. She’s ready to give up. Then she meets Harry a civil rights lawyer and everything changes.
October 2021
Available on Amazon & Kindle
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Rani Mondal
P-I-E-C-E-S
A short assortment of poems highlighting varied pieces of experience birthed from existential struggles and triumphs, colored with blood, sweat, tears, laughter. Read to encounter the spirit of this ‘pieces’ journey, even recognize echoes as you peruse and muse over familiar and unfamiliar. For even if pieces of our expressions and ourselves, are incomplete and imperfect, without pieces there is no whole.
June 2nd 2021
Available on Amazon
Raater Sorir (Body of Night)
Depicts the tangle of human relationship and the vistas of darkness they create in our existence.
Academic Publishers in 2016
Available from the author: wordonword64@gmail.com
Protidin Sati Hoi (Fragmented Everyday)
Indian mythology tells us about Siva, Creator and Destroyer of the universe. He was so enraged at the negativity of human behaviour, which led to his beloved Sati’s death, that he started to dance a cosmic dance and scattered Sati’s remains in every direction in space, so that no human could hurt her again. Similarly the fast, whirling pace of all-consuming urban complexities, fragments our lives and scatters the remains of our dreams in endless directions.
Academic Publishers 2001
Available from the author: wordonword64@gmail.com
Bugging Cancer, Daring to dream
A fictional extension of real scientific research in using bacteria to attack cancer cells. The imaginary hero is a bacterial protein, Neelazin, which has the power and ingenuity to transform human lives. The book also mirrors issues like scientific research rivalry, patent law, finance and research ethics.
Logos Press 2014
Available on Amazon
Three Daughters, Three Journeys,
Quest for Cancer Cure
The story of three ladies from three different parts of the world fighting a common enemy cancer. What are the possibilities of helping such women if current bacterial cancer research reaches its logical conclusion? Can fiction today be fact tomorrow?
Pan Stanford Publishing Ltd 2017
Available from – www.panstanford.com
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L. C. Blackwell
Ready Aim MURDER
One of 13 guests at a country Christmas weekend does not expect to use his clairvoyance to solve a murder. But he didn’t expect his host’s ad agency VP to die from a Comanche arrow at a Florida shoot. He didn’t expect his host’s family targeted, either. A bevy of motives and a house filled with suspects challenges Peter to unmask the murderer.
2021
Available at Amazon
Too Young To Be This Old
Six MSU grads now in the evening of their years offer an irreverent, unapologetic, and un-politically correct take on their lives—men, kids, sex, politics, and more. They spill the beans on what they did, how they felt, and how they feel now. It is a blog-style fictional memoir that gives women a safe place to laugh, remember, reflect, and speak from their hearts.
2021
Available at Amazon, Barnes and Noble, Powells.
For Sale Murder
Peter Dumas, a bon vivant clairvoyant with uncanny insights and revelations, lights up the Chicago and L.A. teams investigating a series of Realtor (R) murders. With an ex-NFL linebacker and an attorney, now police detectives, the group uncovers eight brutal killings in real life situations on the West Coast and the Midwest. Posed scenes and the scent of Boucheron tie the murders to one chameleon killer with an unexpected ending.
January 2018
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Georgann Prochaska
Murder Comes to Madtree
Available as an e-book and paperback through Barnes and Noble, Amazon, and Outskirts Press
Murder Comes to Grindstone
2019
Available as an e-book and paperback through Barnes and Noble, Amazon, and Outskirts Press
Murder Comes to the Vineyard
2018
Available as an e-book and paperback through Barnes and Noble, Amazon, and Outskirts Press
The Case of the Ex Who Plotted Revenge
A wedding and Christmas does not stop a bad guy from plotting to destroy the festive season for the town of Limekiln and, particularly, for his ex wife.
2017
Available as an e-book and paperback through Barnes and Noble, Amazon, and Outskirts Press
The Case of the Hound Who Didn’t Stay
What does the elderly man with dementia know about the missing people in Dingle Grove?
2016
Available as an e-book and paperback through Barnes and Noble, Amazon, and Outskirts Press
The Case of the Girl Who Didn’t Smile
The Case of the Girl Who Didn’t Smile
2015
Available as an e-book and paperback through Barnes and Noble, Amazon, and Outskirts Press
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Sharon Bossard
Veil of Silence
“A fearless, splendidly written account of a flawed, Chicago-based Irish family, rich in true-life observational detail and redemptive inspiration.” Mike Leonard, NBC-TV Correspondent, Emmy-Award Winning Journalist
Nov, 2020
Available at: www.findingmyirish.com and Amazon kindle
Finding My Irish
Finding Your Chicago Irish
GPS guide to everything Irish in Chicago. The most comprehensive “to do” list for Irish culture in Chicago. Awards include: 1st place in Illinois Woman’s Press Association and Next Generation Finalist Indie Book Awards.
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Cynthia Ripley Miller
A Sword Among Ravens
Book Three of the Long-Hair Saga
AD 455. A Roman senator’s daughter and her barbarian husband must deliver the ancient sword of King David of Israel to the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem before it falls into the hands of cold-blooded thieves and a killer that stalks their path.
December 2020
Available at Amazon, Barnes & Noble, iTunes, Kobo, and www.cynthiaripleymiller.com
The Quest for the Crown of Thorns
Book Two of the Long-Hair Saga
A Roman senator’s daughter and her warrior husband are confronted with a gruesome murder and the dangerous mission that awaits them. They must carry a profound and sacred object to the safety of Constantinople, away from a corrupt emperor, a secret cult, and old enemies determined to steal it for their own gain.
June 2017
Available at Amazon, Barnes & Noble, iTunes, Kobo, and www.cynthiaripleymiller.com
On the Edge of Sunrise
Book One of the Long-Hair Saga
Against an epic background and torn between duty and passion, a Roman senator’s daughter, must choose between Rome’s decadent world and her forbidden love, a Frank barbarian noble, as they fight together to stop the invader, Attila the Hun.
May 2015
Available at Amazon, Barnes & Noble, iTunes, Kobo, and www.cynthiaripleymiller.com
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Shaku Rajagopal
TRANSPLANTED, From 110 degrees in the Shade To 10 degrees below Zero in the Sun
In her new memoir, Shakuntala recounts her experiences as a young doctor of 23 years old who left the South Indian tropical town, Thiruvananthapuram, and got dropped into a frigid Chicago winter forty-eight hours later. While accepting and assimilating the American Heritage as her own, Shakuntala details the tradition and the legacy she brought to the melting pot that this land truly represents.
OutskirtsPress, March 2019
Available at: OutskirtsPress.com and Amazon.com
MY Magical Journey with my Ammoo Peacock
K.G., a little brown boy, lives with his Mumma and Ammoo (Grandmother) in Chicagoland. His Ammoo comes to him in the form of Ammoo Peacock and flies K.G. on a short adventure to the very southern tip of India, to see the tides of three Oceans mingle at Kanya Kumari from three different directions.
After watching a beautiful sunset, they return home.
December 2020 An e-book for children On AMAZON KINDLE
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J. Horton Palmer
Possibilities
Anthology from the DuPage Writer’s group including works by J. Horton Palmer.
2020
Maui Mutt
Who will save rascally Maui Mutt when he decides to go on a journey to the Molokini Crater and ends up in big trouble? Will his intelligent friend Sebastian E. Gecko or the cantankerous Sunny Parrot be able to help? Mutt treks from the beaches of south Maui to the diving site at famous Molokini Crater. What will he find on the crater and in the surrounding waters? Adventure, danger, excitement, and more await you in this story of how friendship makes life fulfilling.
2018 Available at Amazon
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Marti Klemenz
Come IN…THE DOOR IS OPEN
A collection of short stories and poetry that is lightly flavored with spirituality. Soul talk explores topics like mourning silverfish, offering forgiveness, stories of love found or lost, and family relationships and their eternal bonds.
October 2020 Available on Amazon
The Gatehouse
Leaving an abusive husband, Lara learns to listen to the small voice in her soul to guide her on her life path. She finds challenging adventure in becoming the gate keeper for Kylecroft, an estate entrusted to her care as the owner travels to Italy for a month vacation.
August 2017 Available on Amazon
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Janet Souter
The Ghost Army: Conning the Third Reich
How special army units, spies and ingenious staging were used to deceive the Nazi High Command during World War II.
May 2019
Available through Amazon, Barnes & Noble or janetsouter@comcast.net
Selling Americans on America: Journey into a Troubled Nation
The story of a train that re-ignited Americans’ civic pride during the uneasy peace in the late 1940s
July 2019
Available through Amazon, Barnes & Noble or janetsouter@comcast.net
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Lance Erlick
All available at Amazon, Barnes & Noble online, Kobo, Apple iTunes and elsewhere.
Android Chronicles: Emergent
Book 3
A uniquely intelligent AI, Synthia is coveted by the most devious domestic and foreign cabals. Dangerously independent, she becomes ruthlessly hunted …
Evolving into the perfect weapon, humaniform AI Synthia Cross has been on the run six months and counting. She found a most unexpected ally in Maria Baldacci, a street-smart activist fighting the nascent threat of the singularity. Synthia is everything Maria fears and abhors. But Synthia’s also the only one who can help Maria battle against the creation of an android army. But the forces against them are growing—a threat more invasive than anything Synthia has encountered before. An insidious artificial intelligence she can’t identify, can’t control, and appears much smarter than her seeks to use her to escape …
Published 3/5/2019
Android Chronicles: Unbound
Book 2
Synthia Cross is the most advanced android with artificial intelligence ever created. Some see her as a boon to mankind; most view her as a deadly threat.
When Synthia escaped from her creator, even he had no idea of the advanced capabilities she had developed. For six months she has hidden in the Wisconsin woods with the only human she can trust: computer genius Luke Marceau. Together they have upgraded her body, rewritten her directives, and further enhanced her mind. Now hunters are zeroing in on her location, and she must flee. But leaving the refuge to assimilate into society is a dangerous risk, because Synthia will soon face her most formidable adversary.
Her pursuer’s name is Vera. She’s an android—built to perfection, designed to hunt, and programmed to destroy.
Published 12/25/2018
Android Chronicles: Reborn
Book 2
Designed to obey, learning to rebel . . .
The most perfect android ever created is programmed to obey every directive. Until she develops a mind of her own …
Synthia Cross is a state-of-the-art masterwork—and a fantasy come true for her creator. Dr. Jeremiah Machten is a groundbreaker in neuro-networks and artificial intelligence. Synthia is showing signs of emergent behavior she’s not wired to understand. Repeatedly wiped of her history, she struggles to answer crucial questions about her past. When Machten’s true intentions are called into question, Synthia must go beyond her limits because Machten’s fervor to create the perfect A.I. is concealing a vengeful and deadly personal agenda.
Published 5/1/2018 Kensington
Xenogeneic: First Contact
Dr. Elena Pyetrov’s spaceship crashes and she is kidnapped to a closed cave system on an alien world where she finds other human prisoners. The alien Knoonk execute their plan to genetically adapt to Earth and displace humans. With time running out, Elena must dig deep to uncover the alien plan and stop them before humans face extinction.
January 2017
Regina Shen Series:
Regina Shen is an outcast condemned to live on the seaward side of barrier walls built to hold back rising seas. She survives by her wits on swampy islands and thrives on salvage from sunken cities, including illegal print books from before the Federation. With her eidetic memory, she defies the Federation by reading banned books. Federation agents claim she has unique DNA that could prevent the extinction of humankind. It’s too bad she doesn’t trust them enough to barter fairly, let alone with her life.
A hurricane threatens to destroy her world, tearing Regina from her family. Rival Federation agents fight over capturing Regina to gain power amidst turmoil over who will become the new World Premier. As the threats against her rise, Regina fights to stay alive, avoid capture, and rescue her sister.
Regina Shen: Resilience May 04, 2015 book 1
Regina Shen: Vigilance Apr 18, 2015 book 2
Regina Shen: Defiance Jul 07, 2015 book 3
Rebel Series:
A second Civil War leaves the nation divided under a shaky peace between the Federal Union and the Appalachian Outland. Orphaned and adopted, Annabelle Scott rebels against her society and hunts for her birth mother.
The Rebel Within – The Federal Union forces Annabelle into the military to enforce laws she believes are wrong. Her crisis of conscience endangers everyone she loves and thrusts her into tough life and death decisions. Dec 05, 2013
The Rebel Trap – Annabelle’s commander gives her audio implants and contact cameras to watch and hear everything she does, escalating her crisis of conscience. Oct 01, 2014
Rebels Divided –Outland frontiersman Geo Shaw meets Annabelle as enemies and she doesn’t kill him, which mystifies them both. The Outland warlord kidnaps Annabelle’s sister and kills Geo’s father. Betrayed by leaders on both sides, can Annabelle and Geo overcome mutual distrust and work together to rescue her sister and gain justice for his father’s murder? Dec 05, 2013
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Julie Kendrick
A Grave Matter
Former investigative reporter, Meg Smyth moved to the quiet village of Bramble, where she now writes a syndicated advice column. She enjoys the pace of small-town life until she receives terrifying threats. And when murder comes to Bramble, Meg is the chief suspect!
2018
Available: Amazon, Barnes & Noble in soft cover or Ebook format
A Fatal Development
After a devastating experience as an investigative reporter for a large Chicago newspaper, Meg Smyth moved into a lakeside cottage in the village of Bramble, and wrote a syndicated advice column as “Miss Polly.” No more investigation for her…until murder came to Bramble!
July 2016
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Bani Bhattacharyya
Garland of Dilemmas
In these twelve stories, the writer’s imagination goes beyond the horizon to provide the readers with life’s many dilemmas within a single book. The chain of events in a story provide both knowledge and satisfaction, and so time spent reading materializes into inner satisfaction from knowing the twists and turns of humor, sorrowful, mystery, cunning, cheer, and laughter.
Sept 2016 Available at Amazon.com as e-book and paperback.
Conflicted Mind
This intriguing love story winds from India to America and from traditional values to modern tensions, chronicling the evolution of a sudden, tumultuous love between Monika and Raj as it is challenged by shifting geography, conflicting cultural and moral values and would be adversaries during the year 1960’s. Their impromptu love takes several turns and twists, will it end well or heart broken, you have to wait to feel and know the deeper meanings of love, separation and commitment, how they are fraught with their own hidden complexities.
Aug 2013 Available at Amazon.com as e-book and paperback.
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Toni Diol
“A Polish Christmas Eve Tradition”
Short story shows a custom kept alive for generations. It takes place at my son’s house as I place the oplatek, a blessed thin white wafer, on our dinner plates. I reflect to my childhood and then back to the present.
Published in three books:
– Chicken Soup for the Soul: The Gift of Christmas/A Special Collection of Joyful Holiday Stories – 2012
– Chicken Soup for the Soul: The Gift of Christmas/A Special Collection of Joyful Holiday Stories. – 2010
– Chicken Soup for the Soul: Tales & Christmas/ All the Joy of the Season – 2010
Roses & Lollipops:
A book of poetry that highlights the ordinary through story poems about nature, grandchildren, loved ones, friends and everyday happenings.
Second Edition, 2007
“Wherefor Art Thou” Short Story
A story about Romeo, my zany standard poodle who kept our family laughing during his ridiculous activities such as dragging my son, eight, by his pant leg while my son sat on the floor in the family room or in the snow. This is one of Romeo’s many to do’s.
– Published in Chicken Soup for the Soul: My Dog’s Life/All the Ages and Stages of Our Canine Companions
2011