Genre: Action - Adventure

Title: Cataclysm '79: The day the river stopped

Author: Robert Egby

While this is a work of fiction, set in British Columbia's spectacular Fraser Canyon, it might not be as far fetched as some might think because as recently as June of 2012, people were evacuated from the flood plain of the Fraser River.

This is a big book (464 pages) with a large cast of characters whose fates collide when a large portion of…

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Here is yet another Wister Town story wherein evil comes home with news from a whistle blower. Larger evil takes the form of an expensive, modern-day cult grown outside the borders of this small Midwestern hellhole...

The phone rings and rings until I cross the…

I just wanted to say a little something about the Village. In 2009, I was an internet dummy and knew very little about social networks or the world-wide net in general. IFOGO just happen to be one of the first social networking sites I stumbled on. I became a member here and have made good friends and contacts across the world. I was just finishing up my first novel and was looking for a platform to…

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    INDIAN LAKE, NY, November 22, 2012 /24-7PressRelease/ -- Ravenwolf Publishing has expanded the formats available for its five books, with all books available and ready to ship in time for the Holidays: The Dancing Valkyrie, The Vampire Valkyrie, And God Created Vampires, the second and newly revised edition of Adirondack Hikes in Hamilton County and Confessions of an Online Male Prostitute.



The sale of ebooks now tops…

Recently, my Jonathan Swift-style sarcasm (ie. A Modest Proposal) has drawn the annoying attention of a retarded theist or simply a fool professing belief in God. Yeah, I did suggest abortion machines as a means to help preserve the innocence of newborn children, especially for those devout and righteous Tea Party-tainted Republicans. It's evident my intention had been selfish and impractical; farcical because I do so enjoy such slapstick…

I would like to share the link to a review for my second novel "Assassin's Trap", available on Amazon and other online booksellers. Review of Assassin's Trap by D.C. Shaftoe Does this review make you want to buy the book?

This is just to let everyone know that I had a book signing on October 27th at one of the Starbucks locations on San Felipe road in San Jose.  Sold 17 books and found out this morning that my flyer has generated another sale of three books.

Couldn't be happier. Check out my site at www.dbponline.net and see if anything catches your fancy.

Thanks!

Intricate plotting is probably more necessary in a spy novel than in any other story and The Killing Ploy has it in spades.

While there are many characters including the good, bad and ugly, CIA agent Pablo de Silva is our main man as he journeys from Langley, to San Diego, Tijuana, London, Paris, Brussels and Vienna in pursuit of an American-born jihadist who might be preparing to raise the body count in his war against America.

Unbeknownst to Pablo and while he thinks he is…

My two books are sold by my publisher and on Amazon.com.

The Bell Witch Unveiled At Last! The True Story Of A Poltergeist is posted as a paperback book, a softcover book, an eBook, and as a Kindle book.

PublishAmerica:…

What does it mean to be “middling”? The Merriam-Webster dictionary describes it as being of “middle, medium, or moderate size, degree, or quality”. In other words, average. In this charming illustrated book for children and adults, local author R.S. Vern explores the middling life through the eyes of Haee, a…

How does one leave a middling – that is, average – life behind? And what does an unconventional existence look like?

In the second installment of a three-part series, local author R.S. Vern explores these questions and continues the story of Haee, a cat which is pretty average in every…

In searching for new ways to promote my books, I recently submitted my second novel "Assassin's Trap" for the Independent Publisher Book awards. It was an odd experience and I was only slightly more informed as to the purpose of the awards by the end of the submission as at the beginning. I'm wondering if there are other awards and contests that are open to self-published authors. I think that the most unique part of the experience was the fact that I spent more money to enter the contest…

Iread a lot, and I set 99% of books right back down again. The problem with most fiction is it throws off my rhythm. See, my writing pursues a flow. And popular fiction lulls me into complacency. If I read too much, it's like I spend all my time driving thirty miles an hour. Then when I'm on freeways, I'm uncertain of traveling over fifty five. And in that situation, my passengers would rather get out and walk. That's what happened to me, so I write my own terrors and…

This day,

Followed by rain and flood

Then drought and more storm

And above any other to come,

This day is remembered.

This day is not forgotten.

Sharp things,

Unworn whilst swept in wash,

All pass except one.

Unsmoothed at all by turbid water,

Comes a horned and spined thing…

"Render therefore unto Caesar the things which are Caesar's..."

Matthew 22:21

That stumped paraphrase there is the root of late America's greed and inequality. Sure, Christianity has been and often is a source of Good. In fact, Jesus is credited for garnering the cooperation of the early Christian cult with all-powerful Rome. Memory of the figurehead is said to have preserved His followers through…

I resent the Passive Voice. First, it's obvious not much in America, or anywhere in the world, can be published in which the subject receives in place of taking action. Second, the voice embodies my failed relationships. And the listless manner of speech has given me as much of nothing. I'm certain I project and imbue the voice with personality. Mayhap I do so because it's how my muse had first expressed herself. I may be lonely and that's why I anthropomorphize…

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The Ashes of Windsor

Categories:  Fantasy, Futuristic, Sci-Fi, Romance, YA

A powerful love in a lost world.

As Inari Giles looks forward to the end of her high school days and a bright future at an Ivy League university,…