Featured Indie Book: The Realm of the Hungry Ghosts

Featured Indie Book on Indie Author News: Literary Thriller The Realm of the Hungry Ghosts by Gary William Murning.

The Realm of the Hungry Ghosts, a cross-genre supernatural literary thriller, is the story of a family and group of friends—quite a dissatisfied lot, in many regards—who find their individual need to take more from life gradually unraveling the fabric of the world around them (in a very literal way). The author wanted to explore the whole concept of dissatisfaction and how we, culturally, individually, and constantly feel the need to strive for more.  

The Book has been self-published (GWP Publishing) via Lightning Source and is available as eBook or Paperback (416 pages).

About the Book

For Sonny Moore, writer and family man, chance discovery and the force of untethered past are about to impact on his life in ways both unimaginable and profound.

Featured Indie Book: Black December (Scott Hunter)

Featured Indie Book on Indie Author News: Mystery Thriller Black December by Scott Hunter.

Black December is a dark novel about one man’s struggle to come to terms with a tragic past, ill health and a bizarre murder. It is both tragedy and crime thriller. The setting is highly unusual. The characters are real people with real issues and problems. And the murderer is . . . read it and find out!

The Book has been self-published via Smashwords, Lulu, and Amazon and is available as eBook or Paperback.

About the Book

DCI Brendan Moran, world-weary veteran of 1970s Ireland, is recuperating from a near fatal car crash when a murder is reported at Charnford Abbey.

The abbot and his monks are strangely uncooperative, but when a visitor from the Vatican arrives and an ancient relic goes missing the truth behind Charnford’s pact of silence threatens to expose not only the abbey’s haunted secrets but also the spirits of Moran’s own troubled past.

Featured Indie Book: Queer Greer (A.J. Walkley)

Featured Indie Book on Indie Author News: YA Novel in the LBGT Genre) Queer Greer by A.J. Walkley.

QUEER GREER is one of the few books currently available that deals with bisexual issues and the problems teenage girls must face when coming to terms with their sexuality. It was written with the intention of helping anyone dealing with such issues realize that they are not alone and that what they are feeling is natural.

The Book (re-release) has been (self-)published via the independent publisher Rocket Science Productions (March 27, 2012) and is available on the Rocket Science Website as Paperback and on Smashwords as eBook. [see links at the end of this article]

About the Book

QUEER GREER is a coming of age story about high school junior Greer MacManus. Greer is uprooted from her childhood home in South Carolina when her father is determined to fulfill his strange but pressing dream to become a border-crossing coyote. Her parents take her and her younger sister to Prescott, Arizona to start a new life closer to the border. Greer enters a new school with the hopes of reinventing herself from the wallflower with one friend to speak of, to become more of a social butterfly. She soon finds herself among the company of athletes, a swimmer herself.

Featured Indie Book: Feathermore (Lucy Swing)

Featured Indie Book on Indie Author News: YA Paranormal Feathermore by Lucy Swing.

Feathermore is the Book #1 of the Feathermore Trilogy and Lucy Swing's Debut Novel after the Novella Bloody Valentine.

The Book has been self-published via CreateSpace, Smashwords and Amazon KDP and is available as eBook and as Paperback (March 2, 2012). 




About the Book

When the one thing you live for is taken from you, do you let it go or do you fall?

Jade, like any other student at Brushwood High, awaits the start of the school year with a certain measure of dread. Worse, she is being threatened by a voice that only she can hear—a voice that lurks at the edges of her awareness, haunting her and warning her of something unknown. She has always been able to count on her two best friends, Claire and Nate, but can she confide in them now? About this? Would they even believe her?

Featured Indie Author: Jesse Sublett (ex-Punk Rocker "The Skunks")

Featured Indie Author on Indie Author News is the Ex-Punk Rocker (The Skunks) Bassist Jesse Sublett who re-released his Crime Novel Rock Critic Murders as a 25th Anniversary Edition.

The Book is not just a book - it comes with photos, artwork, music and videos and it is interactive to use.

The new edition is available at the Apple iTunes Store for iBooks 2.0 - A sample can be downloaded to your iPad. [see links at the end of this post] Jesse plans other versions downloadable on Smashwords. You will find updates at this place once released.
The Book has been self-published with Apple iBooks Author 2.

Indie Author Interview: Jeannie Walker

Enjoy Today's Interview with Indie Author Jeannie Walker, Author of the True Crime Thriller 'Fighting the Devil'. Find out more about the book Fighting the Devil in this article we posted earlier.

Interview with Jeannie Walker

Alan Kealey (Indie Author News): What is your (writing) background?
Jeannie Walker: I studied Creative Writing in New York and Connecticut.


Who are your favorite writers, your favorite book, and who or what are your writing influences?
Stephen King, Ann Rule, Dean Koontz, Margaret Mitchell - They and many other authors have influenced me greatly.

Featured Indie Book - Nimpentoad

Featured Indie Book on Indie Author News: Children's Fantasy Nimpentoad by Joshua and Harrison Herz (together with their Father Henry L. Herz.

Bill Maus and Sean Eddingfiled are the Illustrators of this Fantasy Book which received excellent Reviews. (On Amazon 26 out of 26 Five-Star Reviews!)

This Book was co-written and promoted by two young kids. Henry's boys have conducted numerous public readings and signings of our book, including at San Diego elementary schools, libraries, YMCAs, farmer's markets, and book stores. They have become quite proficient public speakers.

How to use Kickstarter to fund your Indie Book Project

Guestpost on Indie Author News from Author Kahlen Aymes about "How to use Kickstarter to fund your Indie Book Project." Kahlen Aymes has set up her own Kickstarter Project to fund her book project: "The Future of Our Past" (Book 1 of The Remembrance Trilogy)

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There is a wonderful new way to gain exposure and help fund your indie writing projects! Kickstarter is a web site that is set up for writers, film makers, artists, musicians, publishing platforms, etc... to garner funding in the form of pledges so that you can launch your career in the arts!

I'm releasing my debut novel, The Future of Our Past in the next couple of weeks and my sister suggested this site to me after she pledged for a cookbook author in the St. Louis area.  It's a brilliant concept that makes it possible to reach your goals and dreams!  

Indie Author Interview: B Kent

Today's Interview is with Indie Author B Kent, Author of the YA Fiction 'And So It Happened' and four other books. The short novel (80 pages) has been self-published via Lulu and CreateSpace.  

Interview with B Kent

Alan Kealey (Indie Author News): What is your (writing) background?
B Kent: I didn’t grow up dreaming I would be a writer. I discovered it. As a writer I would describe it as, “discovering the something that was in my heart all along.”

I have been a writer for years in the business world including: technical writer, instructional designer, curriculum designer, and a marketing communications writer/designer.

I’ve been fiction writing since 2000, so that makes twelve years. I spent 5 years on my first book; writing and learning and making all the common mistakes. My best writing is always my most recent writing because I get better every day—as every writer should. I’ve written 5 books to date (Majee Legends, Hidden Magics, Snow Boy, And So It Happened, & Afraid), but only have recently begun publishing them. All but Afraid are currently available.

Featured Indie Book: The Living Room - (Bill Rolfe)

Featured Indie Book on Indie Author News is a Gen.Fiction/Romance Short Novel The Living Room by Bill Rolfe. The Book has been self-published via LTD Publications and is available as Paperback (142 pages, 42,500 words) or as eBook for Kindle on Amazon or at the Author's Website.

A Novel of Life, Death, Love - and Miracles


Book Description

Daniel’s dedication to his career, fueled in part by a tragic loss during his childhood, has made him a successful and sought after professional working in New York. His drive to the top however, hasn’t been without sacrifices to his personal life, or lack thereof.

Alone and feeling unfulfilled without a partner to share in his achievements, he begins to wonder if this is all there is for his life.
 

40 eBooks from 30 Indie Authors (3/14 to 3/18)

30 Indie Authors are promoting their (more than 40) eBooks for Kindle from March 14 to March 18. The Indie Book Collective IBC has organized this FREE event.

Promo-Event is over! These eBooks are NOT free anymore! Please, check on the prices before you download one or more of these eBooks!

Featured Indie Book: Somewhere Over the Freaking Rainbow (L. L. Muir)

Featured Indie Book on Indie Author News is the Paranormal YA Fiction Somewhere Over the Freaking Rainbow by L. L. Muir. The Book has been self-published via Smashwords and Amazon CreateSpace and KDP Select and is available as Paperback (310 pages, 70,000 words) or as eBook for Kindle.


Somewhere Over the Freaking Rainbow (L. L. Muir)
-Book 1 of The Angels of Somerled-

Book Description

Jamison is crushing on the new girl next door. Bad news-the neighbors are Somerled cult-members killing off their own. Worse news-she's next in line for sacrifice. Jamison will have to rise above the coward he thinks he is to get to the bottom of it all.

Featured Indie Book: Sanctuary ( Terry W. Drake)

Historic Fiction on Indie Author News: Author Terry W. Drake has finished writing and self-published (via Xlibris) the first two books in the Father Damien's War trilogy based in Bergamo, Italy on historic events of the times of World War II in Italy, Switzerland, etc. The books are fiction but written with the historic occurrences of the times intertwined with the characters of the trilogy.

Sanctuary (by Terry W. Drake) - Book 1

Set at Saint Francis in Bergamo, Italy during World War II, Sanctuary follows Father Damien whose primary concern is to shelter a handful of citizens who have sought sanctuary in his church.

Among the elderly and unable to travel are seven young men who stay behind to protect their families. Father Damien and his force have the opportunity to confront Colonel Anton Fahn of the German regiment that attacked the sister city of Clusone to the north.

They ransacked the village and have taken everything of value that they could carry on their way to Switzerland. Their detour to Bergamo to the south has disturbed his fellow officers.

Indie Author News Interview: Rachel Thompson

Enjoy the Indie Author News Interview with Rachel Thompson, the Queen of Snark, BadRedhead, Rachel in the OC, Twitter Authority, and the Author of The Mancode: Exposed and A Walk In The Snark.

Interview with Rachel Thompson

On Rachel

Alan Kealey (Indie Author News): What is your (writing) background? 
Rachel Thomson: I started writing at age ten and never really stopped. I have a Journalism degree from California State University Sacramento (along with Communications Studies) and took a number of Creative Writing classes in college and throughout my life, online and locally. Finally, I started blogging in ’08 and that really started me on my current path.


What inspired you to become an Author? 
I always knew I wanted to write books. I was that kid in Kindergarten who said “I will be a writer.” And I am. It just took a while to get here.

Featured Indie Book: Hot Dogs Under The Dakota (Johannes Gouws)

Featured Indie Book on Indie Author News: Hot Dogs Under The Dakota by Johannes Gouws. Hot Dogs Under The Dakota is a Literary Fiction (494 pages - June 2011), self-published via Amazon KDP Select, CreateSpace, and Smashwords.

Book Description

Will a spirited boy trapped in an abusive environment resort to murder?

Told through the eyes of twelve year old Petie, the story moves to twelve months earlier where we find Petie (once again) abandoned by his wayward mother on his grandparents’ doorstep.

Resourceful, stubborn, and bright, Petie has his day and night times neatly partitioned, and confides in Rob, his imaginary friend, but we soon glimpse dark forces at play as his need for a father figure clashes with Granddad’s clandestine visits to his room. The reader shares this inner turmoil as the boy launches into desperate plots from match-making for his mother to the lure of African witchcraft and the promise of Born Again Christians to escape his torment. Only when his growing rage is channeled into boxing and his self-worth grows does Petie begin to understand that his options are limited and his thoughts turn to murder.

Ideas to Use Audio to Get The Word Out (Guest-Post: Thomas Sullivan)

Ideas to Use Audio to Get The Word Out to your Readers is a Guest Post on Indie Author News from Author Thomas Sullivan. 

Hey, I’ve Heard About Your Book

Ideas For Using Audio Resources To Get The Word Out

The audio world is often overlooked by indie authors looking to spread the word about their work. Yet, there are a number of great opportunities out there for authors, and most of them are free. Podcasters, internet radio hosts, and audio-journal editors are always looking for interesting authors with exciting stories, both fictional and true. Below are a few great resources available to authors:

Featured Indie Author: Rebecca Hamilton (Forever Girl Series)

Featured Indie Author on Indie Author News: Rebecca Hamilton - Author of the Fantasy Series The Forever Girl.

About Rebecca Hamilton

Rebecca Hamilton writes Paranormal Fantasy, Horror, and Literary Fiction. She lives in Florida with her husband and three kids, along with multiple writing personalities that range from morbid to literary. Rebecca is fascinated with everything Salem.

Rebecca's fascination with the Salem Witch Trials started the second she heard about it, sometime in school. Rebecca guesses it was when she read the Crucible, but it might have been before that.

Featured Indie Book: The Royal Sheikh (Katheryn Lane)

Featured Indie Book on Indie Author News: The Royal Sheikh by Katheryn Lane. The Royal Sheikh is a Romance, self-published via Amazon KDP. The Book has received some great reviews on Smashwords, Goodreads, and Amazon.

Reviews (Excerpts)

- "The Royal Sheikh reads like a classic Harlequin romance which absolutely thrilled me. It's a classic tale of love that can be read by older and younger readers alike. Reading this book swept me back in time to my early teenage years and reminded me how warm and special love could be. I think this is an incredible read and it will remain on my shelf for years to come." - Michael Hughes

- " [...] The Royal Sheikh will keep you on edge wanting to get to the end. What will Clare do? What will Rafiq say? How will they overcome this? You will cry, your heart will melt, and you will want to root for Rafiq and Clare. Grab your tissues and some tea and settle in for this romance roller coaster." - S. M. Fatta (Beauty Brite Reviews)

Featured Indie Book: Leandra's Enchanted Flute

Featured Indie Book on Indie Author News: Leandra's Enchanted Flute by Katy Huth Jones. It is a short YA Fantasy, published via independent Publisher Cool Well Press, for mid-grade reader ages 10 and up. The Book has received great reviews, is not autobiographical but includes a lot of the author's experiences.

Reviews (Excerpts)

- "When I first started reading Leandra's Enchanted Flute, I was immediately drawn in by the lovely writing. I don't want to give away too much, but suffice it to say that the character of Leandra is so well drawn, I felt as if I were right there in the room with her [...]" - Journey (Amazon)