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Sherry’s comments from the Up and Coming Authors group.

Thanks for reading, Dialma :)

Glad you liked it...sorry you gagged, LOL!

Discuss Danny Chalmers is THE PRINCIPAL here.

Discuss Megan's Way here

That's great, Melissa, thanks!

Can't wait to hear what you and your children (if they read it) think :)

Which one will you be reading?

I was told by the author that this book won't be available in US until March, so we will leave this up through the end of March :)

I just removed some posts from authors promoting their writing. If you see you were removed, please re-post at "authors spam here".

Congrats, Melissa!

Sean,

Please move this to the Authors Spam Here thread :)

I'm excited that he was willing to work with us :)

ENTER HERE for a signed copy of THE GARGOYLE.

Post your name to this thread ONLY AFTER you have read one of this months independent author group reads AND have posted a review on GoodReads. The groupreads that qualify are Danny Chalmers is THE PRINCIPAL and Megan's Way.

Good luck!

February's giveaway is an exciting new author. He was voted "Most votes for New Author For the New Year" in the group TNBBC. He has agreed to help our group out by giving a signed copy of his book to our February winner!

Here is the synopsis to his book The Gargoyle

The narrator of The Gargoyle is a very contemporary cynic, physically beautiful and sexually adept, who dwells in the moral vacuum that is modern life. As the book opens, he is driving along a dark road when he is distracted by what seems to be a flight of arrows. He crashes into a ravine and suffers horrible burns over much of his body. As he recovers in a burn ward, undergoing the tortures of the damned, he awaits the day when he can leave the hospital and commit carefully planned suicide—for he is now a monster in appearance as well as in soul.

A beautiful and compelling, but clearly unhinged, sculptress of gargoyles by the name of Marianne Engel appears at the foot of his bed and insists that they were once lovers in medieval Germany. In her telling, he was a badly injured mercenary and she was a nun and scribe in the famed monastery of Engelthal who nursed him back to health. As she spins their tale in Scheherazade fashion and relates equally mesmerizing stories of deathless love in Japan, Iceland, Italy, and England, he finds himself drawn back to life—and, finally, in love. He is released into Marianne's care and takes up residence in her huge stone house. But all is not well. For one thing, the pull of his past sins becomes ever more powerful as the morphine he is prescribed becomes ever more addictive. For another, Marianne receives word from God that she has only twenty-seven sculptures left to complete—and her time on earth will be finished.

Already an international literary sensation, the Gargoyle is an Inferno for our time. It will have you believing in the impossible.

See "Enter for THE GARGOYLE" for how to win the signed copy.

Title - Danny Chalmers is THE PRINCIPAL

Page count - 102 (large print)

Genre - fiction/children's chapter book

Summary -

So Principal Leymore gave me the keys to the
school one day because he was sick. I was just suppose
to open the doors for everyone—that’s it! But
crazy Ms. Winless got all loopy and forced me to be
principal for the day.

At first I didn't want to, but then I felt the power!
I got to tell everyone what to do! Even my older
brother Ronny (who is a big jerk by the way) had to
listen to me! But like pretty much every grown up
likes to say: It was all fun and games until…

TRAILER: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hqWzj3...

PURCHASE:

The book is available for $5.00 (plus shipping) until 2/28 at https://www.createspace.com/3386505
(normal price is $6.25) I must warn that the physical book has a few spelling errors (aloud for allowed and by for bye) that I haven't had a chance to correct yet.

I do, however, have a corrected pdf copy available here on GoodReads at no charge until 2/28. It will be removed on 3/1. You can download it here http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/66... Just click the download. ebook button to the right.

I will post something soon :)

Melissa, please post a little about yourself in this thread.

Title - Megan's Way

Page count - 304

Genre - literary fiction

Summary -

A fortune teller foresees death and casts a spell of paranormal abilities on one of two young girls. 21 years later, one of them is a single mother of a teenage daughter, has terminal cancer, and the ability to feel what her daughter feels. The other is haunted by a secret that could threaten their lifelong friendship and forever change the teenage girl’s life. Meanwhile, the daughter struggles to find the identity of her father, acting out in dangerous ways—even the paranormal connection she shares with her mother might not be enough to save her. Can her mother’s love reach beyond the grave to save them all from a lifetime of lies?


PURCHASE:

Book will be sold for $12 each (instead of the $14.95 list price) plus shipping. Priority mail shipping is $4.95. Author will sign each book she sells to our members.

Purchase information will be posted by the author to this thread shortly.

Thank you, Claudia, for donating a copy for our January giveaway!



Simon is a fourteen-year-old Orphan with No Options: an O.W.N.O. And "oh no" pretty much sums up his life. He's stuck in Grimstown with his prank-pulling grampa and a housekeeper-slash-nanny from you-know-where. Worse, Simon can't remember a thing about his childhood. Then one night, a bizarre dream unlocks some of those forgotten memories, leaving Simon with half of a key in his pajama pocket and a growing awareness that he's in the middle of a dangerous plot that threatens to destroy Emogen, a hidden realm connected to Earth. In order to save Emogen - and his best friend - from a deadly curse, Simon needs to find out who he really is. But can he discover his true identity before it's too late?

FEBRUARY READS ARE:

Megan's Way, Danny Chalmers is THE PRINCIPAL and Smudge's Mark

Megan's Way and Danny Chalmers are our independent reads for the month. These two books will qualify you to enter for our February giveaway.

Smudge's Mark is our traditional read for the month. I would like to thank the author of this book for donating a copy for our January giveaway!

Welcome, Erin

Glad you liked the read, Dialma!