Congrats to all our award Winners and Finalists!
Abithica, a debut novel by Susan Goldsmith won silver among finalists in the supernatural fiction category for the 2011 Reader's Favorite Awards.
Caves, Cannons and Crinolines by Beverly Stowe McClure is a finalist in the Novella category of the 2011 Next Generation Indie Book Awards and a finalist in the 2012 Eric Hoffer Book Award in the category Young Adult.
Double Forte' by Aaron Paul Lazar is a finalist in the 2012 ForeWord Book of the Year Award in the category of Mystery.
Equity of Evil by Rudy Mazzocchi is the winner of the Gold Medal for the Mystery/Suspense/Thriller category in the 2011 eLIT Awards; a finalist in the Suspense/Thriller category of the 2012 Next Generation Indie Book Awards and the winner in the Suspense Fiction category of the 2012 Global eBook Awards.
For the Birds by Aaron Paul Lazar is a finalist in the 2011 ForeWord Book of the Year Award in the category of Mystery.
Gaea by Robina Williams is a finalist in the 2010 Next Generation Indie Book Awards in Fantasy.
Gate to Nowhere by Leanna Sain won the Clark Cox Historical Fiction Award from the North Carolina Society of Historians, Inc.
Griffin's Fire by Darby Karchut is a Finalist for the Sharp Writ award in the YA Novel category.
Griffin Rising, a debut novel by Darby Karchut is the winner of the 2011 Sharp Writ Book Award for YA Novel and also won fourth place (Honorable Mention) in the YA category for the 2011 Readers Favorite Awards.
Healey's Cave by Aaron Paul Lazar is the winner of the Commercial Fiction category for the 2011 Eric Hoffer award, winner in the Paranormal category of the 2012 EPIC eBook Awards and a finalist in the category of Mystery Suspense in the 2011 Global eBook Awards.
Murder in the Pit by Erica Miner; a screenplay is in development with Little Studio Films/Tornado Pictures LLC.
Rue the Day by Ralph Freedman is the winner of the 2010 Next Generation Indie Book Award in Historical Fiction.
Shadows of Kings by Jack Whitsel is the winner in the 2012 Sharp Writ Book Awards Sci-fi/Fantasy category.
Sonora Wind by Florence Weinberg is a finalist in the 2010 Next Generation Indie Book Awards in Historical Fiction. Sonora Wind is a winner in the 2010 New Mexico Book Awards in Historical Fiction and a finalist in the category of Mystery/Suspense.
Splintered Light. by Lee Denning is a finalist in the Fiction: New Age category as well as a finalist in the Fiction: Science Fiction category in the 2012 USA Best Book Awards and is also a finalist in the 2012 ForeWord Book of the Year Award in the category of Adult Fiction-Religious
The Immortality Virus by Christine Amsden is the winner in the Science Fiction category of the 2012 EPIC eBook Awards.
Touch of Fate by Christine Amsden is a finalist and won Honorable Mention in the Legacy Fiction category for the 2011 Eric Hoffer award.
Publishing Notes
Jean Moynahan has placed her mystery, The Black Fountain Goddess with Twilight Times Books. Ms. Moynahan was born in Oregon but raised in Arizona. Before finishing her university studies, she served two years in Germany with the Army Signal Corps, an experience that years later would provide the basis for her first published book, a romance entitled Captain of Hearts. The Black Fountain Goddess: In rural Oregon, two ritualistic murders a century apart appear linked by an ancient cult. Jacob's ancestor hanged for the first crime; now a beautiful professor may be involved in the second. As Jacob finds the answers to more and more questions, one continues to haunt him: who is the Black Fountain Goddess?
Dr. James Stone has placed his suspense, Crypto, with Twilight Times Books. Dr. Stone is a computer security engineer in private consulting practice, primarily for the U.S. Department of Defense. He has a Ph.D. in electrical engineering, has held a professorship at a major university, and is currently preparing a cyber warfare course to be offered online by a major university. Crypto: Crypto chips unique to the National Security Agency are found where they have no business being. Pressured to explain, NSA assigns Ellen Drew to perform an internal investigation and work with the FBI task force. She is a brilliant and experienced ex-LAPD Homicide investigator who quickly becomes enmeshed in a web of politics, duplicity, and treason.
Scott Eder has placed his urban fantasy, Knight of Flame with Twilight Times Books. Since he was a kid, Scott Eder wanted to be an author and explored many genres through high school and college. Fantasy, though, captivated his soul. Tales of knights and magic, dragons and elves filled his dreams. After greasing the gears of the corporate machine for many years, he escaped the Information Technology vortex to focus full-time on writing. The stories he'd envisioned years ago—of nobility and strife, honor and chaos—demanded they be brought to life.
Knight of Flame: Warped by the very element he's supposed to control, Develore Quinteele, sixth Knight of Flame, must find the key to balance his fire-stoked rage and overcome a centuries-old tragedy to prevent his clandestine Order's ancient enemies from destroying all life in Tampa.
Ken Lizzi has placed Reunion, urban fantasy with Twilight Times Books. Ken is an attorney and the author of an assortment of published short stories. When not traveling – and he'd rather be traveling – he lives in Portland, Oregon with his lovely wife Isa. He enjoys reading, home brewing, exercise, and visiting new places. Reunion: Two sundered, nigh identical Earths merge. The union is cataclysmic. Portland police officer Nick Gates is one of the survivors. But for how long? In an altered world now patrolled by savage armies, inhabited by strange beasts and sorcerers, can anyone survive the Reunion? And can one Portland cop fight back?
Dina von Lowenkraft has placed Dragon Fire, a paranormal romance with Twilight Times Books. Born in the US, Dina has lived on four continents, worked as a graphic artist for television and as a consultant in the fashion industry. Somewhere between New York and Paris she picked up an MBA and a black belt – and still thinks the two are connected. Dina is currently the Regional Advisor for SCBWI Belgium, where she lives with her husband, two children and two horses. Dragon Fire: A young shape-shifting dragon must choose between his forbidden love for a human and face death, or fulfill his duty in an ancient blood feud and kill her best friend – forever ending any possibility of finding true love.
Janis Hashe has placed The Ex-Club Tong Pang, a humorous mystery with Twilight Times Books. Janis began making her living as a writer when she was hired by Sunset Magazine's trade publications division in 1988, and has held various staff jobs over the years, but prefers the precarious life of the freelancer. She also works as a media relations consultant and teaches theatre arts classes part-time. The Ex-Club Tong Pang: In mid-80s LA, retail worker and sometime-playwright Hannelore Herald is fascinated by Korean nightspot The Club Tong Pang. But the very day she decides to venture into it, she finds it’s closed—and encounters an attractive but elusive man who plunges her into a world of cross-cultural intrigue, crime and comedy.
Phyllis Humphrey and Carolann Camillo have placed their mystery novel, Eyewitness with Twilight Times Books. Eyewitness: Toni Abbott, an attractive TV soap actress, suffers amnesia after witnessing a murder. When her own life is threatened twice more, and she finds a second dead body, she realizes she must unravel the mystery or she'll become the third victim.
Phyllis Humphrey attended Northwestern University, married and raised four children in addition to writing. She sold short stories and articles to national magazines and has ghost-written three books. She writes a weekly blog which can be found on her website, www.phyllishumphrey.com.
From childhood, words captivated Carolann Camillo. She would write plays, collect props, take all the parts and direct the action. She attended the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, appearing as an extra in films and a couple of way off-off Broadway productions. Carolann, a native New Yorker, graduated from St. John's University and lives with her college professor husband in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Heather McLaren has placed her fantasy novel, Mythos with Twilight Times Books. Heather McLaren is a Cherokee writer who lives in southern Illinois with her husband and four children. Mythos, the first of six books in the Mer Chronicles, is her debut novel. Mythos: Risking life in prison if she is caught defying Atlantis's law forbidding human contact, eighteen-year-old Faren Sands falls head over fins in love with a handsome tourist she saves from an attacking sea demon. But will their newfound devotion survive war and an ancient mermaid civilization hell bent on destroying them?
Joan Heartwell has placed Hamster Island: a memoir with Twilight Times Books. Joan is a former indie publisher who makes her living now as a freelance writer, editor and book consultant while she continues to work on her own writing projects. Hamster Island is Heartwell's story of growing up ordinary in family that embodied dysfunction. Her childlike shame for her special needs siblings is balanced by a fierce love that, occasionally, enabled her to shed her diffidence and perform extraordinary feats of plunk and valor. Funny and heartbreaking simultaneously, Hamster Island is a coming-of-age in the tradition of such darkly comic memoirs as Mary Karr's The Liars Club and Augusten Burroughs' Running with Scissors; it delights while exploring issues of identity, transformation, and responsibility.
Barb Caffrey has placed her urban fantasy, Elfy, with Twilight Times Books. Barb is a writer, editor, musician, and composer. She holds two degrees and is an inveterate and omnivorous reader. Elfy: Bruno (né Jon) arrives in California from a parallel universe and is immediately confronted with problems galore. How can he rescue his mentor? What is a Dark Elf doing on Earth? Why is his new friend's house haunted? Ultimately, Bruno learns that no matter how screwed up things are, life and love are worth fighting for, while becoming yourself is the most powerful gift of all.
Terence James Mason has placed his thought-provoking political essay, No Loopholes: Getting Back to Basics, with Twilight Times Books. No Loopholes is one interpretation of how the Founders and Framers intended the Constitution to be applied.
Dora Machado has placed her fantasy novel, The Curse Giver with Twilight Times Books. Dora is the award winning author of the Stonewiser series. She is one of the few Hispanic women exploring her heritage and her world through the epic fantasy genre today. The Curse Giver: an innocent remedy mixer condemned to die for a crime she didn't commit must ally with the embittered lord pledged to kill her in order to defeat not only the vile curse obliterating their lives, but also the curse giver who has already conjured their ends.
F. W. Abel has placed his Civil War novel, Deeds of a Colored Soldier during the Rebellion with Twilight Times Books. After graduating from Fordham University, F. W. served for eight years as an infantry officer in the U.S. Army and currently works for the federal government. Deeds of a Colored Soldier during the Rebellion traces the story of Jedediah Worth, a teenaged slave who becomes a Union soldier, fighting for the freedom of his people.
Bill Swears has placed his SF adventure, Zook Country with Twilight Times Books. Born in Great Falls, MT to an Air Force family, he averaged less than a year living anyplace until his late teens. He's lived in England, Iran, Germany, and nine states. He flew military helicopters for twenty-two years, seven for the Army, and fifteen for the Coast Guard. Zook Country: Zooks are victims of Metamorphic Plague, a fatal disease that causes victims to behave like rabid apes who move so quickly that a normal person can't track them by eye. Entire cities have been devastated, and nobody knows which way the fight to survive will go.
Natalie Roers has placed her urban fantasy, Lucid with Twilight Times Books. A veteran writer, voice artist, and on-air personality, Natalie Roers has been the host of hit radio and television shows in just about every region of the United States. Lucid: Disfigured at birth and ostracized at school, Travis Hunter dreams of acceptance and secretly yearns for the affection of a beautiful young woman named Corrine. When a mysterious doctor promises to help Travis through something called lucid dreaming, Travis gets more than he ever bargained for and soon finds himself learning the secrets of love and life in a fantastic unconscious world.
Maria DeVivo has placed her YA fantasy, The Coal Elf with Twilight Times Books. Maria is represented by Carolyn Jenks Agency. The Coal Elf: Ember Skye is not another spell casting wizard or vampire groupie. She is a fed up teenage Coal Elf with a big ashy chip on her shoulder. After six years of obedient service in the coal mines, her possession of the fabled "Naughty List" sets into motion a chain of events that will see her take on her demonic boss, a mysterious Council and the head of the North Pole himself: Santa Claus!
That's right. Santa Claus is real. But this is not your little sister's Christmas tale!
Ralph Freedman has placed the final (and revised) version of Divided with Twilight Times Books. Divided won the Lewis and Clark literary award in 1947 and was published by Dutton in 1948. Ralph wrote, "As the author at two moments of my life: ages 28 and 92, I hope to speak to both ends of my generation in helping to explain the world we now live in."
Rudy A. Mazzocchi has placed his medical thriller Equity of Evil with Twilight Times Books. Rudy is represented by Erica Spellman Silverman of Trident Media Group, LLC. Based on true events, this bold novel involves one of the world's oldest and most emotional controversies. It addresses a fundamental question: can life-terminating procedures be intentionally redesigned to enable a new and growing life-giving industry? Pro-Life or Pro-Choice, prepare to be dragged right down the middle of raw and brutal reality.
Mark Spitzer has placed his quirky novel, Monstropocalypse Opus IV with Twilight Times Books. In the post-Apocalypse, teenage Finn finds himself drifting through a wasteland of genetic freaks, mad scientists and kidnappers. Along the way he meets a sarcastic hottie named Cat. Together they liberate the brainwashed slaves, confront a paranormal threat, and establish a democracy in a world gone to hell and back.
Travis "Doc" Taylor has placed a science fiction thriller Extraction Point with Twilight Times Books. Extraction Point, with Stephanie Osborn as co-author, is the start of an exciting new hard science fiction action-packed thriller series. Ray Brady leads an ultra-secret DHS team guarding against extraterrestrials and time-travelers. When they confront a mysterious man in NYC, he leaps from a ten-story building - vanishing in mid-air. Soon, researchers, gold, nuclear fuel, and other valuable commodities disappear world-wide. Who – or what – is this man? Can he be stopped?
Jack Whitsel has placed his epic fantasy Shades of Virtue with Twilight Times Books. Shades of Virtue is the second book in the Dragon Rising series.