Greg Treakle was born and raised in southern New Hampshire but has lived and worked in the Northern Neck of Virginia since 1978. He received a degree in Mathematics from Virginia Tech and spent his career working for the US Department of the Navy. After retiring from government service, he self-published his first novel in 2022. Two Dreams & Other Tales is his second publication.
About Featured Book: Her Silver Fox Mountain Men by Kai Lesy “You’re not safe here,” he growls, his voice rough and dominant. “You’re coming with me.” It started with a scratching at my cabin door. I frantically call my reclusive neighbor, James McTierney— brooding,...
The author says:
“This book is not just a thriller – it is something more that makes us think about the actions and essence of the person himself! that one is truly not born a murderer, but one who becomes one.”
She continues ‘In my youth, I wrote scripts for school plays, and my literature teacher said that I had immense talent and should write my own book. To be honest, I took it as a joke and nothing more. However, in 2023, when my husband and I watched films (I won’t reveal the titles; I want readers to piece together this puzzle over time), I can only say that Jonathan Rhys Meyers starred in one of the films, while Jake Gyllenhaal starred in the other. That’s why I dedicated my book “In Still Waters” to them! Thanks to Jake, my character Toby Clark was born, and thanks to Jonathan, Milosh Dobrev came to life.’
About the author:
Natalie Shpet was born and raised in Moscow, now lives in the suburbs in a house with her large family. Natalie and her husband have four children. The writer has two higher educations: psychologist and manager. During her school years, Natalie wrote scripts for plays and therefore her school literature teacher said that she had enormous talent, and she needed to write books! In 2023, Natalie began writing her first novel, In Still Waters.
About Featured Book: Framed & Hunted by Edward Williams 99c New Year Offer, Runs to Feb 5th 2024 The reader is taken on a whirlwind tour of the world with the protagonist as he is targeted for malevolent and occult persecution by some very devious, well-funded and...
About Featured Book: God's Pale Horse by James Ryan "God’s Pale Horse" by James Ryan is a profound and unsettling exploration of historical injustice, intertwining divine mandates with human atrocities. Through a meticulous examination of the conquest and subsequent...
A hint of romance, a fight worth risking everything for, and a pair of engaging leading characters–—that’s the kind of book I like to read so that’s the kind I write.
When I’m not writing, I am a water aerobics enthusiast, amateur jewelry maker, struggling bridge player, and devoted grandmother.I grew up in Kentucky, went to college at the University of Georgia where I had way too much fun, and graduated from the University of Kentucky. After college, I worked for the Associated Press then became a reporter for “The Hartford Courant” in Connecticut. My two daughters were born there. My newspaperman husband got a job in Memphis and we moved there. I became a freelance speechwriter, publicist, and marketing person for major local companies, but my favorite gigs were with the Memphis City Schools and the Memphis Symphony Orchestra. I retired, and began doing what I’d wanted to do since sixth grade: write fiction.
I wrote short stories that appeared in such anthologies as “Now There Was a Story”, “Low Down Dirty Vote II and III”, “Mayhem in Memphis,” and “Mystery, Crime, and Mayhem”. Since I liked short stories, I tried my hand at a longer form and wrote a novella of love and murder, “The Yellow Fever Revenge.” What I really wanted to write a novel, and so was born the civil rights era suspense/thriller series, Sterling Brothers Ltd. So far the series includes “Justice Tomorrow,” “The Price of a Future,” and coming soon, “Wigs, Mustaches, and Other Disguises”.
Since every writer needs a support group, I am the immediate president of Malice in Memphis a Killer Writing Group.
About Featured Book: Dark Obsession: An Age Gap, Bratva Romance by K.C. Crowne "Keep your distance, princess. Or I'll be your ruin." I should listen. I’m Bratva royalty, and he’s my brother’s closest ally. Older. Scarred. Lethal. But as his dark gaze locks with mine,...
About Featured Book: Neanderball by Sofia Diana Gabel Geneticist Lucien Roux’s cutting-edge experiment to clone Neanderthals creates blurred lines between ambition and ethics after the clones are stolen and forced to play a brutal and violent game dubbed Neanderball....
Barbara Gilbert was born in Ft. Jackson, SC.
After graduating high school in 1985 she entered the United States Air Force, serving seven years as a SSgt in two separate career fields before being medically retired.
While running a family computer business she completed a double major and received her bachelor’s degree in business management and computer information systems. Later she was offered a teaching position at a Charter High School.
There she taught English, Computer Applications, Computer Repair, Consumer Math, Physics, and Earth Science. In the Public-School System, she taught Computer Applications, Web Design, E-Commerce, and Principle of Business. She was also the Technology Coordinator for the school.
Moving back to her spiritual home in Montana she again taught Earth Science and Computer Applications (MAC), until a second medical disability ended her teaching career.
Her hobbies include photography, painting, Ham Radio, SCUBA Diving, and a host of other interests that keep her busy on good days, and she manages to get by on the bad ones.
Writing got started with a NaNoWriMo challenge to her sons.
She published her first book “Future Apocalypse, Beginnings–A Time Travel Series” in May 2019 and republished a 2nd edition with additional information in 2022. She published the second and third installments in the series in May and November 2020, “Future Apocalypse, Journey to the City of Technology & Homeward Bound.”
About Featured Book: U R NOT WHAT U EAT: A Doctor’s Guide to Transform Your Pain to Pearls of Wisdom and Joy by Dr Zvi Pearlstein We have adult and child obesity epidemics worldwide. How is this possible when we are at our most intellectually and technologically...
About Featured Book: The Missing Schoolgirls by Peter Zander-Howell In 1938, two fourteen-year-old girls go missing from an exclusive boarding school. Did they abscond, or have they been kidnapped? The girls’ parents - and indeed the parents of many other pupils –...
About Featured Book: A Rhyming Book of Creatures and their Fascinating Features! by Olga De Sousa Sale Price = $2.99 from January 23 to January 28, 2025. Normal Price was $7.99 Children will truly delight in this unusual collection of engaging encounters with...
About Featured Book: A Pilgrim's Guide to Walking Wisdom: 11:11 Insights by Renee Baribeau NEW RELEASE! In spring 2024, I embarked on a life-altering pilgrimage along the Camino de Santiago, a journey that invited me to release my expectations, trust the path ahead,...
USA Today Bestselling author Erin Wright has worked every job under the sun, including library director, barista, teacher, website designer, and ranch hand helping brand cattle, before settling into the career she’s always dreamed about: Author.
She still loves coffee, doesn’t love the smell of cow flesh burning, and is currently living out her own love story in a tiny town in rural Idaho.
Greg Treakle was born and raised in southern New Hampshire but has lived and worked in the Northern Neck of Virginia since 1978. He received a degree in Mathematics from Virginia Tech and spent his career working for the US Department of the Navy. After retiring from government service, he self-published his first novel in 2022. Two Dreams & Other Tales is his second publication.
About Featured Book: Her Silver Fox Mountain Men by Kai Lesy “You’re not safe here,” he growls, his voice rough and dominant. “You’re coming with me.” It started with a scratching at my cabin door. I frantically call my reclusive neighbor, James McTierney— brooding,...
The author says:
“This book is not just a thriller – it is something more that makes us think about the actions and essence of the person himself! that one is truly not born a murderer, but one who becomes one.”
She continues ‘In my youth, I wrote scripts for school plays, and my literature teacher said that I had immense talent and should write my own book. To be honest, I took it as a joke and nothing more. However, in 2023, when my husband and I watched films (I won’t reveal the titles; I want readers to piece together this puzzle over time), I can only say that Jonathan Rhys Meyers starred in one of the films, while Jake Gyllenhaal starred in the other. That’s why I dedicated my book “In Still Waters” to them! Thanks to Jake, my character Toby Clark was born, and thanks to Jonathan, Milosh Dobrev came to life.’
About the author:
Natalie Shpet was born and raised in Moscow, now lives in the suburbs in a house with her large family. Natalie and her husband have four children. The writer has two higher educations: psychologist and manager. During her school years, Natalie wrote scripts for plays and therefore her school literature teacher said that she had enormous talent, and she needed to write books! In 2023, Natalie began writing her first novel, In Still Waters.
About Featured Book: Framed & Hunted by Edward Williams 99c New Year Offer, Runs to Feb 5th 2024 The reader is taken on a whirlwind tour of the world with the protagonist as he is targeted for malevolent and occult persecution by some very devious, well-funded and...
About Featured Book: God's Pale Horse by James Ryan "God’s Pale Horse" by James Ryan is a profound and unsettling exploration of historical injustice, intertwining divine mandates with human atrocities. Through a meticulous examination of the conquest and subsequent...
A hint of romance, a fight worth risking everything for, and a pair of engaging leading characters–—that’s the kind of book I like to read so that’s the kind I write.
When I’m not writing, I am a water aerobics enthusiast, amateur jewelry maker, struggling bridge player, and devoted grandmother.I grew up in Kentucky, went to college at the University of Georgia where I had way too much fun, and graduated from the University of Kentucky. After college, I worked for the Associated Press then became a reporter for “The Hartford Courant” in Connecticut. My two daughters were born there. My newspaperman husband got a job in Memphis and we moved there. I became a freelance speechwriter, publicist, and marketing person for major local companies, but my favorite gigs were with the Memphis City Schools and the Memphis Symphony Orchestra. I retired, and began doing what I’d wanted to do since sixth grade: write fiction.
I wrote short stories that appeared in such anthologies as “Now There Was a Story”, “Low Down Dirty Vote II and III”, “Mayhem in Memphis,” and “Mystery, Crime, and Mayhem”. Since I liked short stories, I tried my hand at a longer form and wrote a novella of love and murder, “The Yellow Fever Revenge.” What I really wanted to write a novel, and so was born the civil rights era suspense/thriller series, Sterling Brothers Ltd. So far the series includes “Justice Tomorrow,” “The Price of a Future,” and coming soon, “Wigs, Mustaches, and Other Disguises”.
Since every writer needs a support group, I am the immediate president of Malice in Memphis a Killer Writing Group.