From the Editor...

Announcing a new book from William Maltese, author of over 200 novels. Now this one should be juicy. Move over Twilight series. This one's for us!

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William Maltese's Flicker - #1 Book of Answers (2010)
by William Maltese
320 pp.  8.25" x 8" Softcover
ISBN 978-0-9845552-4-6

William Maltese's Flicker - #1 Book of Answers chronicles the rise of one all-knowing, all-seeing, all-powerful teenage Grand Master Magician, and the battles fought by old and young, by magic (black and white), by demons, beasts and humans.


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Onaedo: The Blacksmith's Daughter
by Ngozi Achebe

Paperback: 368 pages
Publisher: MANDAC-GOLDBERG (March 11, 2010)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 098264731X
ISBN-13: 978-0982647318

An introduction to an African world that will haunt and surprise; an exquisite story told from a point of view that is rarely heard. This is a tale of two women separated by four hundred years but linked by history. Maxine a modern American woman who is half white and half African comes across a set of diaries written by a slave in the 16th century in her quest to connect with her Nigerian father. Then there is Onaedo a young woman from that era who found herself in the middle of events that were set in motion in a country far away from her small town in Igboland in West Africa. This is a coming of age novel set in a terrifying age - the age of Portuguese discovery.

About the Author
Ngozi Achebe was raised in Nigeria and also spent time in England, where she was born. Her interest in 15th and 16th century history was the catalyst for writing Onaedo - The Blacksmith's Daughter which is her debut novel. She currently lives in Olympia, Washington with her children Jennifer and Nnamdi and is a practicing physician.

 

Books for July 2010

Fierce Overture by Gun Brooke
ISBN10: 1-60282-156-9
ISBN13: 978-1-60282-156-9
Price: $16.95
Pages:  240
Genre: Lesbian Romance
Publication Date: July 2010, Bold Strokes Books, Inc.

Love doesn’t wait to be invited in…
 
Music superstar Noelle Laurent refuses to record the music her producers have lined up for her new album. Prepared to break her contract if necessary, all Noelle wants is a chance to sing her own songs. Desperate, the producers bring in their CEO, business tycoon Helena Forsythe, who is infamous for not taking any prisoners. Noelle expects the CEO to be the company bitch everybody fears but she is not prepared to be so affected by Helena's formidable presence and charisma.
 
For Helena, it's all about the money, so why change a winning game plan? However, when Noelle shows unexpected strength and courage in the negotiations, Helena knows she has to change her usual steamroller approach. Trying charm instead of brute force, Helena is blind-sided by her own unexpected feelings. When Noelle responds in kind, the stakes escalate for both women, who risk not only their professional futures but everything when it comes to their hearts.
 
 
 
Trauma Alert by Radclyffe
ISBN10: 1-60282-157-7
ISBN13: 978-1-60282-157-6
Price: $16.95
Pages:  320
Genre: Lesbian Romance
Series:  First Responders
Publication Date: July 2010, Bold Strokes Books, Inc.

When you spend your life battling death, who has time for love?

Dr. Ali Torveau knows just how fragile life can be—she sees death and tragedy every day in the trauma unit. Battling the dark forces of fate is her life’s work and she doesn’t want or need anything else, certainly nothing as transient as love. Plenty of women try to change her mind, but she never has any trouble saying no. Not until the day firefighter Beau Cross shows up in her ER and sets Ali’s carefully ordered world aflame.

 
 
Wolfsbane Winter by Jane Fletcher
ISBN10: 1-60282-158-5
ISBN13: 978-1-60282-158-3
Price: $16.95
Pages: 264
Genre: Lesbian Romantic Fantasy
Publication Date: July 2010, Bold Strokes Books, Inc.

The Iron Wolf mercenaries who guard travelers on the Misery Trail are notorious for their quick and casual sex lives.
 
Deryn may fit the stereotype better than most, but she has her reasons. A childhood tragedy has left her wary of forming attachments. If you don't care, then you can't get hurt, but you can still make a mess of things—such as the error of judgment that leaves her with no money, forced to spend the winter on a lousy job in a miserable little backwater.
 
There she meets Alana, local healer, vet, and woman of mystery. It does not take Deryn long to find out that Alana is more than she seems, and has her own perilous secret to keep. Yet Deryn still finds herself falling for the woman, so much so that her come-and-go lifestyle is at risk.
 
This would be bad enough, but serious trouble arrives for Deryn and Alana in the form of demon magic from the Time of Chaos—revealing that old legends are not merely material for ghost stories around the fire. As the danger increases, who do they need to fear more, the living or the dead?
 
 
Little White Lie by Lea Santos
ISBN10: 1-60282-163-1
ISBN13: 978-1-60282-163-7
Price: $14.95
Genre: Lesbian Romance
Series: Amigas y Amor
Pages:  192
Publication Date: July 2010, Bold Strokes Books, Inc.

Emie Jaramillo learned long ago that brains count more than beauty, and that’s just fine with her.  She doesn’t want, nor does she need, a relationship. When her prestigious academic career earns her an invitation to appear on a national talk show, she eagerly looks forward to discussing her genetics work. Little does she know that the episode is really entitled “Those bookworm looks have to go!” Worse yet, gorgeous makeup artist Gia Mendez—a woman around whom Emie stupidly lowers her guard—was in on the humiliating prank.

The fiasco just convinces Emie of what she knew all along: relationships are for other people, and women like Gia don’t belong anywhere near her world. But Gia’s about to make it up to Emie, by convincing her she has not only brains, but beauty...and she’s the only woman Gia wants in her life.

First in the Amigas y Amor Series