I've Been Published!
We like to celebrate when our members have been published. This is where you'll find announcements of novels, short stories, articles, interviews and blogs being published in local, regional and national publications and outlets. Online publication counts too!
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  • Published in 2019
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Praline Dreams
Author: Annette Miller
Date Available: July 1

As the summer season ends, Daria Drake and her father prepare to close their ice cream shop on the Atlantic City boardwalk. After Labor Day, they'll return to the mer-city of Tor, their home under the ocean. When a handsome man enters one day and kicks out a trio of troublemakers, Daria's captivated but won't chance loving a human.
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Zale Monroe is the captain of the palace guard in Tor, but the queen has forced him to take a vacation. He didn't expect to find a beautiful girl and her father being harassed in their ice cream shop. These men are trouble, but how can he convince Daria of this without giving away his merman secret?

Astrobia: A Sonny and Breanne Mystery | Book 3
Author: James Paavola
Date Available: May 1

Eighth graders Sonny and Breanne look nothing alike—a short black boy, a tall white girl. Both very intelligent and academically focused, they are easy targets for bullies. Their special friendship develops when they discover they both have psychic powers: they can read minds, and ghosts communicate with them. Their spirit friends help them solve mysteries and deal with bullies.

​In Book 3 of the series, Sonny is contacted by the ghost of a former student who had been abducted by aliens from the planet of Astrobia. It is not long before Sonny and Breanne are both targeted by those same aliens.

Pact With The Devil
(Devil's Playground | Book 1)
​Author: Richard Powell
Date Available: April 28

EVER WONDER HOW THE COLD WAR STARTED?  In the Second World War's last days, Capt. James Ross commands a rifle company. While Justine Rothstein leads a band of partisans hunting Nazis. They join forces to liberate a Nazi death camp in Austria. Once they succeed, each go their separate ways.

With the Second World War drawing to a close, a second conflict between superpowers emerge. With millions displaced and homeless, dirty deals and deceit run rampant as the Americans and Russians jockey for advantage in this chaos.

In this climate, Justine and Ross meet again at the Nuremburg War Crimcs Commission. Justine searches desperately for her family deported by the Nazis, while Ross investigates the Holocaust's perpetrators. Together, they uncover a plot to supply a Nazi super weapon to the Russians — a bomber that can deliver a nuclear weapon from space.

The Yellow Fever Revenge
​Author: Jackie Ross Flaum
Date Available: April 1

​In the summer of 1878, Elizabeth McAlister lives in Memphis as yellow fever marches up the Mississippi River from New Orleans. She survived an outbreak years ago that killed most of her family. In the midst of this rumored epidemic she learns her rapist, the father of her toddler son, is in Memphis with his wife and son. Before yellow fever can get him, Elizabeth plans to kill the beast.
 
The story of the Memphis epidemic, which killed 5,000 people and emptied the city of more than half its population, is one for our Coronavirus  outbreak times. For Memphis, the plague was its defining moment—a tragedy which, one can argue, it has yet to recover from.

Journey to Destiney: Tigers on the Road | Book 1
​Author: Richard Powell
Date Available: March 5

In early 1941, a brutal Japanese invasion sweeps through China. America has yet to enter the Second World War, but aids the embattled Chinese. Four young American - three men and a woman - travel to China to join the effort — all for their own personal reasons. The mean join the Flying Tigers. The young woman works in her father's mission hospital that is regularly targeted by Japanese bombers.

Task Force Zombie: The Nameless
​Author: William Alan Webb
Date Available: Dec. 20

​The world thinks they are dead. America's enemies wish it was true. They are the rough men and women ready to commit violence on our behalf. They are the Nameless members of Task Force Zombie.

America's enemies in the War on Terror don't respect borders and don't play by any rules. The SEALs, Delta Force, MARSOC and USAF Special Operations Command, comprise our front line against those who want to spill the blood of the innocent. But after the Benghazi Embassy attack, a notorious Austrian arms dealer who sold the terrorists American Stingers takes refuge in Egypt and there is nothing the US military can do about it. Sending in conventional special forces would be an act of war.

That's when they get the call. Somebody high up in the American government wants that Austrian arms dealer dead, to cover up their own complicity in the sale of the Stingers. Whoever it is wants the Zombies to kill him...but never to make it home again.

The first prequel to The Last Brigade features the origins of Green Ghost, Vapor, Claw, Wingnut and all of the other Zombies of those books...including Adder.

Angel in Shadow
Angel Haven | Book 4
​Author: Annette Miller
Date Available: Nov. 13

When Kristin Mentor's friend never gets off the plane from England, she knows something is terribly wrong. A stranger confirms her fears Jack McClennan has been kidnapped. Reluctantly agreeing to let the stranger help her, she knows he's dangerous, not only to the bad guys, but maybe to her as well.

Grayson Styles is given the assignment to find Jack, but he doesn't want it. To take the job will bring him face to face with his past and the painful secret he keeps. When he meets Kristin, he has a feeling this woman will challenge his past and possibly, his heart.

Colorado Rancher
​Author: Patricia Potter
Available: Sept. 2019
Lauren MacInnes’s life has been up in the air for over a year—in a very different way from her flying days. The former fighter pilot is completely focused on her teen daughter after a devastating accident. An equine therapy program for children of veterans in Colorado offers new hope. And Lauren would give anything to see Julie smile again.

Rancher Reese Howard fascinates Lauren with his passion for helping wounded children and wild mustangs. He’s the first man to stir her interest since losing her husband. The gruff rancher is also her complete opposite—dedicated to the land, while Lauren longs to fly again. Julie still comes first, but is it time for Lauren to find happiness of her own…even love?​

Colorado Cowboy
​Author: Patricia Potter
Available: May 2019
Life as a traveling physical therapist suits former army medic Ross Taylor. Two weeks in Covenant Falls, Colorado, helping out at an equine therapy program won’t change his desire for freedom. So why does it feel like the whole town is trying to get him to stay—from the veterans at New Beginnings Ranch to the scruffy little dog who adopts him? And then there’s Susan Wall, the beautiful innkeeper he can’t stop thinking about.

For Susan, Covenant Falls is home, a safe place. Falling for a wandering man is a bad idea, no matter how much she’s drawn to him. But Ross wandered into her town. If he needs what she’s found here, she’ll try to help him find it, too…including love.

Tennessee Reunion
​Author: Carolyn McSparren
Available: March 2019

Can one determined trainer teach a vet how to love?
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Horse trainer Anne MacDonald is adamant she can turn a group of rescued miniature horses into helper animals for people with disabilities. But she’s not sure which is harder—training the minis or working with Dr. Vince Peterson, Williamston’s newest and most arrogant veterinarian. Can her Tennessee charm work on the horses…and on the commitment-shy Vince?