Sweet Success Celebrates LS Hawker's New Release

By Ann S. Hill 

End of the Road

Great minds can change the world . . . or leave it in ruins

When tech prodigy Jade Veverka creates a program to communicate with her autistic sister, she's tapped by a startup to explore the potential applications of her technology. But Jade quickly begins to notice some strange things about the small Kansas town just beyond the company's campus--why are there no children anywhere to be seen, and for that matter, anyone over the age of forty? Why do all the people living here act uncomfortable and jumpy?

On the way home one night, Jade and her co-worker are run off the road, and their lab and living spaces are suddenly overrun with armed guards, purportedly for their safety. Confined to the compound and questioning what her employers might be hiding from her, Jade fears she's losing control not only of her invention, but of her very life. It soon becomes clear that the threat reaches far beyond Jade and her family, and the real danger is much closer than she'd ever imagined.

Paperback: 264 pages

Sold by Harper Collins Publishers

Publisher: Harper Collins Witness Impulse (March 21, 2017)

Language: English

ISBN-10: 0062435248

ISBN-13: 978-0062435248

www.LSHawker.com 

John Stith Author Signing on Hook on Books

By: Ann S. Hill 

On Saturday, February 11th, meet author John Stith who will be signing books at the downtown location of Hooked on Books, address 12 E. Bijou Street, 80903. 

Before attending the event, see an archived article recently published here on John’s many works. Next, get your own signed copy of at least one representative from John’s long list of published books.

Also check out a Facebook post on the signing: https://www.facebook.com/events/221286271663808/

John E. Stith’s novels include REDSHIFT RENDEZVOUS (Nebula Award nominee), MANHATTAN TRANSER (Hugo Award Honorable Mention), REUNION ON NEVEREND, and RECKONING INFINITY, among others.

Sweet Success Celebrates K.B. Wagers

By: Ann S. Hill

After the Crown, a science fiction by K.B. Wagers, will be released in paperback on December 13th by Orbit. (ISBN0316308633) The book is 100,000 words. Katy’s synopsis of her adrenaline-fueled Star Wars-style sequel to Behind the Throne follows.

Former gunrunner-turned-Empress Hail Bristol was dragged back to her home planet to fill her rightful position in the palace. With her sisters and parents murdered, the Indranan Empire is on the brink of war. Hail must quickly make alliances with nearby worlds if she has any hope of surviving her rule. 

When peace talks turn violent and Hail realizes she's been betrayed, she must rely on her old gunrunning ways to get out of trouble. With help from an old boss and some surprising new allies, she must risk everything to save her world.

K.B. Wagers lives and runs in the shadow of Pikes Peak. She loves flipping tires and lifting heavy things. She's especially proud of her second-degree black belt in Shaolin Kung Fu and her three Tough Mudder completions. When not writing science fiction she can be found wrangling cats with her husband or trying to keep up with her teenaged son.

Are you a member of Pikes Peak Writers and have a Sweet Success story? Contact :   annppwsweetsuccess@gmail.com

Pikes Peak Writers Celebrates Andrew Beasley

By: Ann S. Hill

Congratulations to Andrew Beasley whose historical novel took second place in the 2016 Colorado Gold Writers Contest. The Chinese Ghost is a work of fiction of 87,000 words. It is set in 1854 in California.

Shay Hardiman receives an inheritance: land, a cabin, and Wei Lu, a Chinese slave woman. They resent their enforced relationship but overcome their differences in face of threats from Colonel Jackson Carleton. In a frontier society where the strong take what they want, Carleton attempts to force them from their new home. Their survival depends on their trust in one another, and the wisdom of their desperate decisions. When an elderly Chinese man uncovers a long-buried secret, Hardiman and Wei Lu use it to defeat Colonel Carleton and secure their future.

Andrew Beasley has written professionally for the past twenty years. He’s been a freelance, non-fiction author for magazines of the Taunton Press (Fine Homebuilding, Fine Woodworking, Fine Gardening), and has appeared in a number of televised episodes for the DIY and HGTV networks. He flew supersonic jets as an Air Force pilot and now flies an experimental aircraft with which he has won a pair of races. He enjoys both literary and historical fiction and is currently working on short stories and a novel set in Europe in the 1920s.

Andrew’s email: 218fictionavenue@gmail.com

Sweet Success Celebrates Natalia Brothers

Sweet Success Celebrates Natalia Brothers

Soul of the Unborn is a dark fantasy penned by Natalia Brothers and published during November.  Both paperback and digital versions will be available on Amazon. (ISBN9781944728083-print; ISBN9781533770073-digital) City Owl Press is publishing the novel of 370 pages. Following are Natalia’s synopsis and bio.

Posing as a folklore tour guide, Valya Svetlova takes a group of American students and their professor, Chris Waller, to her summer home in the Russian village of Vishenky for a few nights of supernatural phenomena. She plays the perfect hostess. For Valya doesn’t want anyone to discover she harbors selfish motives when it comes to one participant, the only person who can refute a tale declaring her a stillborn resurrected by a paranormal entity.

Within hours of their arrival, Valya learns that the students foster some dangerous agendas of their own. Her nascent feelings toward the handsome professor inhibit her ability to control the supernatural manifestations and her inquisitive guests. When her unforeseen affection turns Chris into a target, Valya faces an excruciating reality. It’s no longer in her human power to ensure her guests’ safety. Yet to keep them alive, Valya must brush off her humanity and become the thing she fights so desperately to prove she is not—a soulless monster.

Born in Moscow, Natalia grew up with the romance and magic of Russian fairy tales. She never imagined that one day she’d be swept off her feet by an American Marine. An engineer-physicist-chemist, Natalia realized that the powder metallurgy might not be her true calling when on a moonless summer night she was spooked by cries of a loon in a fog-wrapped meadow. What if, a writer’s unrelenting muse, took hold of her. Two of her passions define her being. Natalia is an orchid expert and she writes dark fantasy.

Email: NataliaBrothersAuthor@gmail.com

Website NataliaBrothers.com

Where to buy/read website https://amzn.com/B01MD03ERD