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Author JMJ Williamson has authored three science fiction novels. His latest, AndroDigm Park 2067, is a  gritty noir Sci-Fi based thriller, about the investigation into the murder of the CEO of the world’s larger cyber-tech company. His books are available on Amazon in both print and kindle format. The Book Cove: Tell us a little bit about yourself.  JMJ Williamson: I have always loved sci-fi movies. As producing a sci-fi movie was out of the question, the next best thing was to write sci-fi novels. In 2011, I retired from my job as an accountant in the City of London, with one of the world’ largest accountancy practices, and decided to follow my dream. Contrary to what people might think, accountants have to write a lot. And I wrote reports and lots of technical material, which would put most people to sleep. But since retiring I have put my writing skills to a different purpose. I have learned to be a storyteller. It takes time to learn these creative skills, and I admit I am s

Today we're welcoming author Kelly Wittmann to The Book Cove. She's the author of two novels -- the most recent titled  An Authentic Experience  was published February 2018 and is her first Young Adult novel. TBC: Tell us a little bit about yourself. Where are you from?  KW: I am from a suburb of Milwaukee, but I now live in Chicago. I am currently trying to make the leap from writing educational material to writing YA novels. Wish me luck, because I am going to need it! TBC:  How long have you been writing? KW:  I have been writing for almost two decades now. My first books, which were two middle-grade library books, were published in 2002. When I opened that box from my publisher and saw my name on those covers, it was the most thrilling experience, and off I went! TBC:  What was the inspiration for your most recent book? KW:  My benign brain tumor (I have fully recovered, thankfully!). TBC:  What was the hardest part about writing this book?

Author Leslie Handler tells the inspiration behind her latest book, Rats, Mice, and Other Things You Can't Take To The Bank. Leslie Handler is a 2015 Society of Newspaper Columnists award winner. She’s an international syndicated columnist with Senior Wire News Service and a frequent contributor to WHYY and CityWide Stories. She freelances for The Philadelphia Inquirer, ZestNow, and Boomercafe, as well as blogs for HuffPost. Her book, Rats, Mice, and Other Things You Can’t Take to the Bank, is available on Amazon and where other fine books are sold. The Book Cove: Tell us a little bit about yourself. Where are you from?  Leslie Handler: I grew up in Texas and The Cayman Islands. I married a Yankee thirty seven years ago and now I live in the Northeast with my husband and a zoo consisting of dogs, saltwater fish, a bird, and various tenants who have not actually been invited. TBC: How long have you been writing?  LH : Now this is a unique story. Although my degree is in Jo

RELEASED TODAY! This is a gritty noir, sci-fi thriller, set in the near future, where the large global corporations that dominate the cyber-tech, media, and entertainment industries hold the levers of political power. It’s a hedonistic, secular world struggling to deal with the introduction of a new generation of android workers, which threaten the livelihoods of their human counterparts. Just weeks before the opening of AndroDigm Park, the CEO of AndroDigm, the world’s largest android manufacturer, is brutally murdered at an Action Against Androids demonstration. Now Marshal Shelby, a modern-day bounty hunter, sponsored by the CEO’s daughter, must track down her assassins and find out who was behind the attack. His investigation takes him into the world of the super rich, where using cybernetics, cloning and human augmentation makes almost anything possible. At the centre of the investigation is AndroDigm Park, a fantasy park, where the super rich can indulge their wildest fan

Would you travel through time to save your brother’s life? How much would you be willing to sacrifice for the good of your family? Two brothers fight for their lives in two hospitals, one in 2007 and the other in 2017. Meanwhile their younger sisters, Kim and Violet, find themselves traveling a road where time is no longer constant. The four of them are hurtling toward an unknown future, or an unknown past. Determined to save the lives of both their brothers, Kim and Violet seek the help of a mysterious man who seems to hold the key to everything. Can they find the answers they need before time runs out? Purchase at Amazon About the author Greta Cribbs has worn many hats over the years, from mom to schoolteacher to church choir director. She constantly seeks out opportunities to indulge her many interests, but writing is the passion that has been with her the longest. She wrote her first poem at the age of nine and has been creating stories ever since. She published her first

From an award-winning syndicated columnist comes a collection of essays-sometimes nourishing, sometimes passionate, sometimes humorous, and always relatable. Read this book if you are feeling sad. Read this book if you need a good chuckle. Read this book so that you never ever feel like you’re alone. In one of the essays the author summarizes her embarrassment for not being supportive of her husband. She writes “When you’re sad, you get the kind [of tears] that roll down your cheek flowing freely. They drip down your collar and snot up your nose. No. These were different. These were tears of shame and embarrassment…These were tears that didn’t want to puddle or roll. These were tears that didn’t want to come out at all but couldn’t help themselves as they reluctantly dripped sideways into the hairline instead of following gravity down the face. These were my tears.” These essays shine light into the soul and leave it wide open for all to see.  This gifted storyteller is a kee

 Westfield, MA – New England mystery author Glen Ebisch announces the release of his historical romance, Dearest David (ISBN 978-1625267450), the story of a young woman, Abigail Taylor, who leaves her family farm fifteen miles outside of Concord, Massachusetts, to take a position as a servant in the home of transcendentalist lecturer Ralph Waldo Emerson. In Dearest David, after seventeen-year-old Abigail Taylor turns down a proposal from a well-off but uninspiring suitor, her impoverished parents feel that she must go out and make her own way in the world. Self-sufficient and bright, Abigail decides to take a position as a servant in the home of Ralph Waldo Emerson, rather than work on her family farm. Abigail only spends a few months during the year 1841 as a kitchen maid and part-time nanny to the Emerson children, but she experiences life in the Emerson household at the peak of both its intellectual and emotional intensity. She falls in love with the free-spirited but emotiona

An unforgettable, sweeping saga of romance, passion and history rooted in tales of maritime suspense… Three heiresses…three novels like no other. Upon Your Return  Fara risks her heart every time she’s with him, but she cannot deny him. Upon Your Honor  Chloe never imagined that the man she deceived would be the one man she can’t stop loving. Upon Your Love Adrienne must decide whether to succumb to desire or fight for love. …Will these remarkable women at last find what they’ve always wanted, or lose more than they can bear? Purchase at Amazon , MyBook , or Solstice Publishing About the author Marie Lavender lives in the Midwest with her family and three cats. She has been writing for a little over twenty-five years. She has more works in progress than she can count on two hands. Since 2010, Marie has published 23 books in the genres of historical romance, contemporary romance, romantic suspense, paranormal romance, dramatic fiction, fantasy, science fiction, myste

WINNER OF THE GO INDIE NOW! EXCELLENCE IN LITERATURE SEPTEMBER 2016 AWARD Lindsay Picou is sixteen going on thirty. She's been forced to not only take care of herself but to raise her little sister, too, because their mother, Gloria, is a part-time prostitute and a full-time wanderer. Then, Gloria meets Ben. He not only changes her life for the better but Lindsay's, too. These changes come with a set of challenges Lindsay isn't equipped for; she has to learn to be a student, a friend, and a daughter. In short, she has to learn how to be herself in a completely new world, and she is forced to learn things about the people in her life that both hurt and free her. Just when she starts to feel like she's getting a handle on things, she meets Micah, Ben's best friend, and things get a lot more complicated. ***This edition contains an excerpt from The Way We Go's companion novel, Growth Spurt **** Purchase at Amazon About the author Roxie Prince is an indi

 In this rogue’s tale, full of sound, fury, and surrealism, we meet Alex Fillameno, a writer who has traded in the machine-grind of New York for a bare bones existence in the high desert town of Taos, New Mexico. Recently divorced and jobless, Fillameno has become a regular at The End of the Road, the bar where he first encounters the alluring and enigmatic D.J., a singer and musician. Drawn to her mutable sense of reality, the two begin a romance that starts off relatively normal. When D.J. initiates Alex into the realm of sexual transfiguration, however, their lives turn inside-out, and what follows is an anti-hero’s journey into a nesting doll world of masks and fragments, multiples and parallels, time-locks and trauma; a world in which reality is celluloid and what you see is never what you get. Purchase at Amazon About the author Originally from Brooklyn, NY, writer, poet, spoken word performer, and playwright, John Biscello, has called Taos, New Mexico home sinc

Three hundred million years ago, the galactic community was taken by surprise. A catastrophic war with a hostile entity threatened to destroy all life, until the fight was postponed by a calamitous event known as the Great Conflation. With the majority of pre-Conflation empires in ruins and the Ascended Biologicals wiped out, the hastily-formed Wanderer Enclave tasked its fleet with unearthing answers and continuing the fight. One lone ship has found something, an innocuous world that it had marked for routine decontamination, that may hold vital answers. Gil, a young woman with special abilities, battles to save the future of her commune, and possibly much more. Purchase at Amazon About the author James Murdo was born and raised in London, where he still lives. He graduated from university with a Masters degree in Physics, which added fuel to his early love of science fiction. Having avidly read and followed many inspiring authors throughout the years, he decided t

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