Adding to the Qatalogue, works by authors going it alone and members of writers' networks from around the world. Click the links to buy their works from their own sites, from Amazon.com or from their storefronts on Lulu.com as the case may be.
Joshua Bush
First, featuring two outstanding works by Joshua Bush who lives in Minneapolis with wife Elizabeth and Riley, their cat who thinks he's a dog. Joshua has a BA in English Lit from Millikin University. In his free time, Joshua skis, bikes, hikes, travels and ... writes!
As well as selling at Amazon.com, Joshua is part of an online writers' network that lists their works on Porcupine Books. Or check Joshua's Storefront at Lulu.com ... or ... Hope Station, by Joshua Busch, available at Amazon.com After twelve years, Jayden Lander returns with his family to their former home, Hope Station.
Upon arriving at the space station, Jayden attends school, learning to use alien artifacts left by the mysterious Missing, and the more he understands about Hope Station the more he learns about his dead father.
Little does Jayden know he is about to have a dangerous encounter that will change everything on Hope Station.
The Acadian Adventures by Joshua Busch, available at Amazon.com Twelve year old Zoë, with help from her three companions, discovers a whole new world through an unlikely door.
Once there she battles the Sequoians, who are trying to take control of this new world that she’s come to love: Acadia.
Along the way, Zoë makes unlikely friends and has close encounters with pirates, Samurai, and even killer whales. And ultimately Zoë is left with the decision of returning home or staying in Acadia.
J. Russell Rose
A child of Appalachia, where story telling and music are an apparent birthright. I spent many years of my adult life, traveling and working through out the east, midwest and southwest regions of the U S, and if unknowingly, collecting details and characters for my life long fascination with writing and stories. These regions serve as backdrop for the stories and lives I have created.
Most of my adult life I have worked in the insurance industry. I am married with two grown children, and four wonderful grandchildren. My wife and I now live in East Tennessee, near the rugged mountainous region of our birth and childhood.
Looking Down on the Moon, by J. Russell Rose, available at Lulu.com [print & download] Secrets can destroy families and individuals.
Hidden in the past of Dolores de Los Rios is a secret that, though unknown to her, has affected her life since the day she was born. Share her sadness, her happiness, her struggles and her triumphs.
Murder in Pleasant Grove, by J. Russell Rose, available at Lulu.com [print] Murder has been committed in Pleasant Grove, VA, a typical bedroom community where middle class working Americans have fled to escape the problems and crime of city life.
The victim is a young wife and mother of two. The only suspect -- a homeless person seen fleeing the area. This is a story of what happens when two different worlds collide and there is Murder in Pleasant Grove.
Missing, by J. Russell Rose, available at Lulu.com [print] Timothy Addison left his Richmond, VA, home for a fishing and hiking trip to Colorado.
After nearly a month of no contact, his brother, Dr. Mark Addison begins to fear Tim has met with foul play.
Enlisting the assistance and efforts of Richmond PD's Mary O'Riley, Mark determines to find his Missing brother and bring him home.
In Search of Himself, by J. Russell Rose, available at Lulu.com [print & download] Successful writer Phil Martin wakes Monday morning not knowing who or where he is -- "... in another man's world, in another man's house, wearing another man's beige silk pajamas ..."
Trying to make sense of what's happening, he becomes bombarded with non-stop phone calls from people he doesn't recognize, demanding answers to questions -- when he has none. In a quest for his identity he travels to the remote reaches of Appalachia retracing the path of his birth family.
Marilee, by J. Russell Rose, available Lulu.com [print & download] Having fled a fifteen-year marriage, Marilee Taylor finds herself the central figure in a nightmarish drama not of her making.
Seeking refuge and time for reflection at an isolated lake house, she finds herself threatened by an intruder and ultimately on trial for his murder.
Tom McGreevy
A freelance poet who lives in Berkshire, England -- his neighbors are Windsor Castle and Legoland – Tom served 13 years in the British Armed Forces in such remote places as Belize in Central America, the Falkland Islands and Zimbabwe, as well as Europe and Northern Ireland.
Poems for Paula, by Tom McGreevy, available at Lulu.com or Amazon.co.uk [print] As it has been said, Tom writes beautifully and honestly, with a rare ability to illuminate large topics with a sideways glance at the small everyday incidents to which we all relate.
His poems present diverse images of life. Some reflect his military experiences; some his battle with prostate cancer, in which he is now thankfully in remission.
Poems for Paula is widely regarded as his masterpiece to date.
Matthew Rowe
Matthew lives in Louth, Lincolnshire. He is a recently short-haired, neurotic layabout who is unsure of his place in the world. He has written a lot and he wants to share it all, but no one with the money or power has let him as yet. He's only in his late twenties and remains foolishly optimistic. Some people think it is endearing.
His web site depicts just that kind of endearing character: MattCannotWrite
Great escapist reading ... Ever wondered how Little Red Riding Hood would grow up after her traumatic experience with the wolf, or how you might react when you wake up in someone else's body?
This eclectic anthology blends genres and crosses the limits of your imagination to bring you tales of breathtaking adventure, disturbing unreality and many unexpected twists.
Bob McDonald
Bob is Project Manager at a Cleveland, Ohio, web design firm by day, a writer every other time. He draws a lot of the material for his stories from the Forester series from his experiences with Cleveland State University’s student newspaper. He denies his writing is thought-provoking or captivating, but he’s wrong … as you can easily find out.
Dilemma, by Bob McDonald, available Lulu.com [print & download] It is the summer of 2000, and Reggie McCaffrey didn't ever expect to come back to his old college newspaper, the Forester. He also didn't expect to run into Brenda Alvarez, the girl he met during her freshman orientation. It's almost not surprising what happens next ... except for a couple of complications.
Flagrant Foul, by Bob McDonald, available Lulu.com [print & download] Davis Brown just wanted to be a regular college student, covering obscure sports for the school paper and hanging out with his uncle Phil. Then he was named sports editor right before the 2002-03 basketball season, and things got complicated.
Chaz Wood
Chaz has qualifications in graphic arts and media, and resides in the heartland of Scotland, rural Angus. As with most self-publishers, Chaz has a day job -- with one of the UK's biggest Internet broadband services companies. His first published full-length work of prose brings together his interests in the development of the Western church, esoteric mysticism and medieval history.
Marantha, by C. Wood, available Lulu.com [print & download] The Holy Spear of Destiny is vandalised in its display in the Vienna Hofburg Museum. Called upon to test its authenticity, metallurgist Vanessa Descartes realised she is involved in a horrific murder case ... and an even more terrifying reality is revealed -- the existence of an invisible holy war that has been fought since the middle ages and is about to end in blood and death on the streets of Vienna.