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CFI! The Book: A Satirical Aviation Comedy by Alex Stone

January 18, 2019 by donsloan

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Step into a world where student pilots repeatedly overshoot runways, foreigners desperate for a pilot's license are casually extorted for an upfront nonrefundable fee of $10,000. And their instructors are all so broke that they spray Windex on their dress shirts every day to avoid the expense of washing them.…

Hauling Checks: A Satirical Aviation Comedy by Alex Stone

December 10, 2018 by donsloan

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In the opening scenes of Hauling Checks, the pilot is gazing languidly out his cockpit window at an engine that’s fully engulfed in fire. The air traffic controller, who can clearly see the conflagration, asks if the airplane needs to make an emergency landing. “Nope, we’re good,” the pilot says…

Five Fathoms Beneath by J.R. Alcyone

December 3, 2018 by donsloan

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Alexandros Serafeim is a celebrated pediatric cardiothoracic surgeon in Perth, Australia, the land down under. He is entrenched firmly at the pinnacle of his hospital’s staff and quite literally saves lives on a regular basis. To his only son, Ambrose, he is a god. Someone to be admired and emulated,…

Smart Marketing for Indie Authors by Mike Kowis, Esq.

December 1, 2018December 1, 2018 by donsloan

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Award-winning author Mike Kowis, Esq., has done it again, practicing what he so eloquently preaches. He has rolled back the mysterious veil that has long kept many an independent writer from commercial success with his impressive new guide to help Indie authors market their books. Called, appropriately enough, Smart Marketing…

Formula Q by Alexander Charalambides

October 21, 2018October 21, 2018 by donsloan

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Hard-charging jetcar driver Vittoria Tarno and her intrepid racing team Goofé Troupé take their legendary racing prowess to Mars in this heart-stopping, totally cinematic look at next-gen interplanetary auto racing. But this spectacular spectator sport turns into a dangerous death duel somewhere along the way and you, the lucky reader,…

Encore: A Contemporary Love Story of Hypnotic Abduction by Tantra Bensko

September 28, 2018 by donsloan

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Miriam waits in the wings of the theater night after night, anxiously inhaling the aura of the woman for whom she is an understudy. She is, in theater parlance, a “standby” awaiting the instant in which she must assume the lead role in a sweeping, allegorical dance production that pays…

Maximize Your Book Sales With Data Analysis by Mike Kowis & Sharon C. Jenkins

September 28, 2018September 29, 2018 by donsloan

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It often comes as a shock to writers -- particularly the authors of novels and other works of fiction -- that once the supposedly "hard work" of crafting a well-written book is over, there then looms a more daunting and perplexing task. How do I market and promote my work?…

Cerberus Confidential (Primordial Realms Book 1) by Stacy Benedict

September 27, 2018 by donsloan

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Detective Niels Troelsen and his partner Detective Elan Cohen are once again primed for canine intrigue in Cerberus Confidential, author Stacy Benedict's offbeat and incredibly creative new science fiction/mystery mashup. In this slim volume, the two detectives must figure out just what happened to a libidinous lady who has stepped…

Beat Bop: A Varian Pike Mystery by Jack DeWitt

September 21, 2018September 21, 2018 by donsloan

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“Five-Plus Stars to Beat Bop” - Publishers Daily Reviews Smooth jazz-loving private investigator Varian Pike meets enlightened, poetry-quoting thief Ronnie Hayes at the very beginning of the excellent new P.I. mystery Beat Bop, by master storyteller Jack deWitt. And the unlikely duo immediately form an investigative alliance that is at…

The Separation by Thomas Duffy

September 6, 2018September 6, 2018 by donsloan

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Finn is a confused young man. And for good reason. He lives on a world in the distant future where the sexes have been separated for the first 22 years of their lives, supposedly for the greater good of society. But in fact, this both solves and creates problems. Sent…

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