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• Aline Soules
• Audrey Lavin
• Benjamin Kwakye
• Bruce D. Johnson
• Carol Costa
• Carol Smallwood
• G. L. Rockey
• Garry McGiboney
• Gloria McMillan
• Jenn Blair Campbell
• Jennifer Gutierrez
• John Brantingham
• John Edwin Cowen
• John Paul Jaramillo
• Lynn Clarke
• Marie Bussing-Burks
• Marilyn Jaye Lewis
• Mary Ann Hutchison
• Meg Files
• Michelle Chen
• Ralph Valentino
• Reverend Loveshade
• S. K. Kelen
• S. Thomas Summers
• Steve Caplan
• Steven P. Unger
• T. Anders Carson
• Terence Culleton

Lynn Clarke received a J.D. from Harvard Law School (magna cum laude) in 1985. She has a Master of Studies from the University of Cambridge. Admitted to the West Virginia Bar in 1985, she has worked as the Special Counsel to the Bowles Rice McDavid Graff & Love, LLP in Charleston, working on employee benefits, ERISA, executive compensation, retirement, and taxation. Clarke’s published works are in areas of taxation, regulation, book reviews (Financial Planning Magazine), and on divorce (Paw Luxuries Magazine).

By Lynn Clarke, J.D.

Evidence and Judgment ($19.99 – Click to Purchase): The story follows Jane Sidley, a thirty-one year old moderately successful attorney, from the day she makes her last alimony payment to her rat of an ex-husband to the day he becomes a hero, falling from a tenth story window while trying to stop a terrorist bomber, sacrificing his own life to save the lives of Jane and her unborn child, whose paternity is uncertain. Jane survives the ordeal and learns to love again as she finds a new man who can accept her child, even if he cannot offer her wealth. (ISBN#: 978-1456501167. LCCN: 2011922235. 5.06X7.81″. 244pp.)

By Bruce D. Johnson

Bruce D. Johnson spent the first ten years of his working career as a purchasing agent for a furniture manufacturer. Seeking a change of pace from the corporate grind, and looking to be nearer to nature, he quit his job, bought a farm and went into the dairy business. This was a natural career move for him, as he had spent a week one summer on a dairy farm in Pennsylvania when he was sixteen. Many years later, word possessing software became commonplace, so, after selling the farm, Bruce wrote a funny book.

Adventures in Long Island and Abroad ($19.99 – Click to Purchase): Packed with irony, and sprinkled with a pathos and poignancy, Adventures in Long Island and Abroad is a collection of sixty hilarious, amalgamated stories with amusing twists at their conclusions. They are written with a sharp, original voice, a smart speedy delivery, and a sense of the absurd. The eccentric narrator’s wife is a federal judge who, unfortunately, in a rare lapse of judgment, was charmed by, and married a not so lovable misfit. Although interlinked, each chapter stands on its own as a bite-sized study in levity that you can enjoy in the time it takes to drink a cup of coffee.  This book is for anyone who loves a good laugh and appreciates sardonic wit. (ISBN#: 978-1456549183. LCCN:  2011922234. 5.06X7.81″. 348pp.)

By S. K. Kelen

S. K. Kelen grew up and was educated in Sydney but has lived and worked in Canberra since 1990. His poems have been published widely in Australia and abroad since the early 1970s. He has travelled widely and written many poems in and about East Asia and the Pacific as well as from the country of the mind. Kelen enjoys travelling and hanging around the house, philosophically.

Venom ($15 – Click to Purchase) is Kelen’s most recent book and includes poems that range in subject matter from domestic surrealities like gardening and parenting, memory, dreams, travel, art, life, love, politics and some animals and other creatures: imparted with this poet’s verve, wit and warmth—with a dash of venom. (ISBN#: 978-1456566418. LCCN: 2011922232. 5.06X7.81″. 90pp.)

By Marilyn Jaye Lewis

Marilyn Jaye Lewis is an award-winning writer of cutting-edge fiction, memoirs, and essays. The author of numerous short stories and novellas, her career has thus far spanned two decades and her work has been translated into French, Italian, Japanese, German, and Spanish. Her many novels include Freak Parade, In the Secret Hours, and the work-in-progress Curse of Our Profound Disorder (winner of a New Century Writers Award and a finalist in the William Faulkner Writing Competition). Readers can find her on the web at blog.marilynjayelewis.com.

Twilight of the Immortal ($30 – Click to Purchase) tells the remarkable story of early Hollywood through the eyes of Rosemary McKisco, a wayward young heiress who throws in her lot with the great Alla Nazimova, the first openly lesbian star of stage and screen. Fleeing a respectable marriage to a wealthy Broadway producer on the eve of America’s entry into the Great War, Rosemary follows Nazimova to Hollywood, navigating her twilight world where women prefer women and men prefer men. It is the heyday of the Silent Era––a time of indulgent excess, of scandals and free love. For a shining moment, Rudolph Valentino reigns as the silver screen’s “Greatest Lover” and Rosemary is not immune to his magnetic charm. As his trusted confidante, she stands by him through the curses of his outrageous fortune––and barely survives his sudden, tragic death. By 1927, as Valentino’s infamous funeral fades from the daily headlines to become the less volatile stuff of legend, Rosemary makes her peace with Hollywood at last, but at what cost? (ISBN#s: 1460904125/ 9781460904121. LCCN: 2011902172. 5.06X7.81″. 602pp)

By John Brantingham

John Brantingham’s work has appeared on Garrison Keillor’s daily show Writer’s Almanac, and he has had more than 100 poems and stories published in the United States and England in magazines such as The Journal, Confrontation, Mobius, and Tears in the Fence. He was nominated for a Pushcart Prize for a poem in his chapbook Putting in a Window, which was published by Finishing Line Press, and his second chapbook, Heroes for Today, was published by Pudding House Press. He is a full-time professor at Mt. San Antonio College in Southern California and one of two fiction editors of The Chiron Review, a nationally distributed literary magazine, and he lives happily east of Los Angeles with his beautiful wife Annie and their canine companion, Archie.

East of Los Angeles ($15 – Click to Purchase) follows life in that part of Los Angeles that few people dream of. Here, we find suburbs fading into the deserts and forests that ring the city. Here, Brantingham grew up with the ever present noise and light of the world’s busiest freeway. The people he writes about are making the best of the lives that they have found. (ISBN#: 978-1460925201. 5.06X7.81″. 72pp.)

By: G. L. Rockey

G. L. Rockey produced and directed a variety of television programs and managed TV station programming. While a program manager at KTSP-TV in Phoenix he represented NATPE to Germany. He has a master’s degree from Cleveland State University and taught courses there. Truths of the Heart is G. L. Rockey’s latest novel. He has written three other acclaimed works of fiction: The Journalist, a five star thriller with a “freightening ring of truth”; Time & Chance, a mystery/suspense set in Nashville; and a collection of sixteen “off-the-wall” short stories, Bats in the Belfry, Bells in the Attic. Also published is a non-fiction book, From the Back of the House: Memoriess of a Steakhouse Clan.

Truths of the Heart ($25 – Click to Purchase): Ensnared by life’s choices, Professor Rachelle Zannes marries ex-football star turned radio sport’s announcer–Carl Bostich. Initially swept up by Carl’s panache, mistaking his possessiveness as caring, she soon finds him to be selfish, controlling, and a philanderer. Seth Trudow is an art student taking Rachelle’s course. He is attracted to Rachelle and she is to him. At the same time, Seth is entangled with the eccentric Laura Toth, who is as possessive of Seth as Carl is of Rachelle. Things spin out of control as Carl becomes embroiled in an underworld gambling scandal. In the meantime, Rachelle’s class assignment leads to a private meeting with Seth, and they become entangled in a love affair that ends in bloody tragedy and pregnant vows. When the worst finally happens, Rachelle is set on pulling together her shattered life. (ISBN#: 978-1460983386. 5.06X7.81″. 332pp.)

T. Anders Carson is a people’s poet with Canadian and Swedish roots.  His work has appeared in over thirty-five countries, including translations into French, Greek, Japanese and Swedish.  He has published three chapbooks and two books of poetry entitled A Different Shred of Skin and Folding the Crane.  He is a Pushcart nominee and a Helene Wurlitzer Foundation Fellow. Carson has read from his work in a prison,
classrooms, disco, railway station, and a rock concerts. It is his openness and brutal honesty that has gained him a world-wide audience.

By: T. Anders Carson

Death Is Not the Worst Thing ($15 – Click to Purchase): is Carson’s third collection.  His work is an honest, direct exploration of our capacity to cope with brutal challenges.  He was orphaned young and had to look after his two grandmothers’ in his early twenties. Tough decisions were made.  Homes were applied for and applications were accepted. There is a saying when looking after the elderly in the Old Country; you have to fly over seven times before you bury them…  He did just that.  His maternal grandmother spoke no English, only the words “I love you” and “Merry Christmas.”  Together they make the journey through the paths of life.  In Sweden, you stop the ticking clock at the exact moment when a person dies.  The house then becomes silent.  The atmosphere is ripe for remembering when they were living. (ISBN#: 978-1463518127. 5.06X7.81″. 92pp.)

By: Carol Costa

Carol Costa is an award-winning playwright and a journalist. Carol has worked as an editor of books and newspapers, a business news correspondent, and managed a literary agency. Carol’s plays have been published and produced in New York City, Los Angeles, and regional theaters across the country. She has also worked as the Artistic Director of a community theater. She currently runs a Readers Theater in Tucson, Arizona that benefits a local charity. Over three of her books have been published by Penguin: The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Surviving Bankruptcy, Teach Yourself Bookkeeping in 24 Hours, and The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Starting and Running a Thrift Store. The first two books in the Dana Sloan series, A Deadly Hand, and The Master Plan, are being released as mass-market paperbacks by Harlequin’s Worldwide Mystery imprint.

The Seventh Messenger ($15 – Click to Purchase): The history of the House of David and its members is a fascinating, often sensational tale, filled with torrid relationships, emotion, and drama. It is the story of people who persevered in the face of hardships and scandal clinging to their faith and living together in peace and harmony. (ISBN#: 978-1463561024. 5.5X8.5″. 230pp.)

Ralph Valentino has been the owner of the Cambridge Literary Agency for fifteen years. His client list includes celebrities and best-selling authors. He is a graduate of Harvard University and a member of the exclusive Association of Author Representatives (AAR). He ghostwrote many novels. This is his first book under his own name. As an agent he has represented big names like Johathan Cain of Journey.

By: Ralph Valentino

Bomber’s Moon ($15 – Click to Purchase): is about a man who is only a pilot to impress the rich woman he plans to marry, and to stay in the social circle that she belongs to. Though he acts the part, he is no warrior. (ISBN#: 978-1463566357. 5.06X7.81″. 130pp).

By: Carol Smallwood

Carol Smallwood is in Best New Writing 2010. She edited Writing and Publishing: The Librarian’s Handbook, American Library Association, 2010. She’s a National Federation of State Poetry Societies Winner, a Franklin-Christoph Poetry Contest Winner. The co-edited, Women and Poetry: Tips on Writing, Teaching and Publishing by Successful Women Poets (Foreword by Molly Peacock) is forthcoming from  McFarland. Carol has appeared in several poetry journals and has a chapbook from Puddling House. Women Writing on Family: Tips on Writing, Teaching and Publishing: The Key Publishing House Inc., 2011 is her most recent anthology. Some of the Marquis publications Carol appears in are: Who’s Who in the World, Who’s Who of American Women.

Compartments: Poems on Nature, Femininity, and Other Realms ($15 – Click to Purchase): “Carol Smallwood offers a jewel-chest of small poems, sparkling with observation, wisdom and maturity. Each is so personal that one might imagine her wearing it as an adornment, but reaches into consciousness so as to enrich the experience of the reader. She touches nature gently, as in ‘A Spider in January’ and shares herself freely and colorfully. The collection is a prize and a delight.” –Patsy Anne Bickerstaff

Jenn Blair Campbell has published several short stories in the Montreal Review, Stone Table Review, and SNR Review among others.  Her novel The True and Full Account of Charlotte Monroe was a finalist for Carolina Wren Press’s Doris Bakwin Award. Originally from Yakima, WA, she has also lived in Scotland and Israel, and now resides in Winterville, GA with her husband David and daughter Katie.

Six Directions ($15 – Click to Purchase) follows Lila Edmundson, a middle aged English woman as she and her husband Horace take a trip to Egypt and Israel. Disenchanted with her overtly religious tour group and her husband’s irreverence and arrogance, she finds herself becoming closer to Whitman, their American tour guide—a man who seems to share some of the same intellectual and spiritual musings she does. In the end, however, she must come to terms with the fact that when the tour is over, she will return home again, and the visions of a different kind of life she allowed herself to briefly (and fervently) entertain must be put aside.

Michelle Chen: as a journalist, she has contributed to various independent media projects and outlets, including Alternet, Ms. Magazine, Newsday, and her old zine, cain. In addition to her work as a columnist for Colorlines.com and a contributing editor with In These Times Magazine, she has reported in China and Palestine and co-produced a public radio program on Asian America and the diaspora. At Yale University, she founded a zine library and alternative media resource center. She is currently in her native Manhattan, pursuing a Ph.D. in history at the City University of New York. Elsewhere along the way, she’s conducted ethnographic research as a Fulbright fellow in Shanghai, painted houses in Alexandria, dug through earthquake rubble in Haiti, and checked coats at a West Village jazz club.

Baby Pepper ($15 – Click to Purchase): It was in that coatroom where she reluctantly found herself beginning this collection of poetry one night.