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	Fifty ' Odd ' Poems	by Neil Davies Dec. 26, 2011	$2.99	8045 words	Sample 30%
	Author bio: I am fifty two years old and I have Parkinsons disease. This affects my mobility quite a lot but not my mind . I write my poetry as a way of keeping my sense of humour alive. I have been writing for quite a few years and my poems range from humourous things my daughters and granddaugher have said to obscene jokes transfered into rhyme and the meaning of life . I hope you enjoy your purchase. Please comment on my verses I would love to hear from you. Neil
	Titanic	by James Fitzpatrick Dec. 24, 2011	$2.95	6875 words	Sample 20%
	Author bio: James Fitzpatrick is an Irish writer and documentarian who writes using ‘Triplicism’. He has been writing for many years mainly working in Film Production, Sport and Teaching. From study and learning from historical writers, he created two new formats ‘Triplicism’ being one. In this you take a central character, from which you storyboard an incident or life. You use an invented or historical event, before infusing an undertone or emotion. Each poem should have three layers i.e. Modernism V Conceptualism, Poverty V Wealth, Moral Corruption V Natural Aggression and the storyline is nearly always accompanied by notes
	The Many Colours of Ink	by Máire Morrissey-Cummins Dec. 22, 2011	$5.00	7588 words	Sample 20%
	Author bio: I am Irish but have lived abroad for many years. I am a member of the Irish Haiku Society and Haiku Ireland and have had numerous haiku published online and in Presence magazine, Shamrock Magazine and other e-zines. I also write standard poetry. I am new to writing after years in the Financial world. I have found something very special in poetry. Check out my blog for standard poems. Thanks for reading my work. Máire
	A Rainy Evening	by Terry Trainor Dec. 19, 2011	$4.95	34763 words
	Author bio: Hi. My name is Terry Trainor and I write poems. Many many years ago the news ripped through the London Workhouses, Through all Bethnel-green, Spitalfields and through the Minories, Along Tower-hill and up to Shoreditch and Clerkenwell, To the very purlieus of the Seven Dials, and across the water in Southwark, Important news spread from ear to ear, overheard in chop houses, and cabs, Blackberries are ripe, and there are mushrooms in the forest turf. Like an electric thrill, it has darted far and wide, high and low, In the great workshops, whether sweating over a hot iron, or folding, Steaming dye-houses and hatteries or darting the shuttle amongst silken threads, The bread moulders, or makers of coffins for the dead, or their nails, To the farmers, the boys that roam the streets, and the hags in alleys, Everywhere there is just one thought, the blackberries are ripe.
	Life ... (plus ten)	by Barnaby Wilde Dec. 19, 2011	$0.99	9942 words	Sample 30%
	Author bio: Barnaby Wilde is the pen name of Tim Fisher. Tim was born in 1947 in Hertfordshire, United Kingdom, but grew up and was educated in the West Country. He graduated with a Physics degree in 1969 and worked in manufacturing and quality control for a multinational photographic company for 30 years before taking an early retirement to pursue other interests. He has two grown up children and currently lives happily in Devon.
	Noontide of the Year's Day	by Terry Trainor Dec. 14, 2011	$4.95	34763 words
	Author bio: Hi. My name is Terry Trainor and I write poems. Many many years ago the news ripped through the London Workhouses, Through all Bethnel-green, Spitalfields and through the Minories, Along Tower-hill and up to Shoreditch and Clerkenwell, To the very purlieus of the Seven Dials, and across the water in Southwark, Important news spread from ear to ear, overheard in chop houses, and cabs, Blackberries are ripe, and there are mushrooms in the forest turf. Like an electric thrill, it has darted far and wide, high and low, In the great workshops, whether sweating over a hot iron, or folding, Steaming dye-houses and hatteries or darting the shuttle amongst silken threads, The bread moulders, or makers of coffins for the dead, or their nails, To the farmers, the boys that roam the streets, and the hags in alleys, Everywhere there is just one thought, the blackberries are ripe.
	Poetry Collection	by Kirstyanne Ross Dec. 14, 2011	$1.00	4480 words	Sample 5%
	Author bio: Hi all, I hope you have enjoyed reading Old Magick. As you can see, I like the vampire genre, but it doesn't stop there. I love to read, some of my favourite authors include Terry Pratchett, Iain M Banks, Margaret Atwood, Robert Jordan and Anne Rice. There is quite a wide range of different styles of book and novella on my kindle at the moment and I am currently reading The Wheel of Time Series again, after finishing it (up to date anyway) and recently reading Snuff. I have more hobbies than reading and writing though, I also cross stitch and design patterns I am currently stitching some pieces that are a part of a magazine commission for the coming New Year. I normally spend some time stitching and take a break by writing. I am currently writing the sequel to Old Magick, set back in the 1400's it follows the same family. I am also storyboarding for the third and final in the series. I hope you like them and stay with me until the end. Happy reading Kirstyanne Ross x
	A Book of Christmas Poems	by Kirstyanne Ross Dec. 14, 2011	Free!	2713 words	Read a sample
	Author bio: Hi all, I hope you have enjoyed reading Old Magick. As you can see, I like the vampire genre, but it doesn't stop there. I love to read, some of my favourite authors include Terry Pratchett, Iain M Banks, Margaret Atwood, Robert Jordan and Anne Rice. There is quite a wide range of different styles of book and novella on my kindle at the moment and I am currently reading The Wheel of Time Series again, after finishing it (up to date anyway) and recently reading Snuff. I have more hobbies than reading and writing though, I also cross stitch and design patterns I am currently stitching some pieces that are a part of a magazine commission for the coming New Year. I normally spend some time stitching and take a break by writing. I am currently writing the sequel to Old Magick, set back in the 1400's it follows the same family. I am also storyboarding for the third and final in the series. I hope you like them and stay with me until the end. Happy reading Kirstyanne Ross x
	Animalia	by Barnaby Wilde Dec. 13, 2011	Free!	5207 words	Read a sample
	Author bio: Barnaby Wilde is the pen name of Tim Fisher. Tim was born in 1947 in Hertfordshire, United Kingdom, but grew up and was educated in the West Country. He graduated with a Physics degree in 1969 and worked in manufacturing and quality control for a multinational photographic company for 30 years before taking an early retirement to pursue other interests. He has two grown up children and currently lives happily in Devon.
	The Nonsensical Ramblings of a Beard	by Ashley Paddon Dec. 05, 2011	$1.49	1773 words	Sample 15%
	Author bio: Born in the summer of '71, and resident in the same Northeast corner of Hamphire, England for all my life. I have for many years been writing short nonsense poetry - as yet unpublished - and have now taken my first steps to serious writing. Outside of literary abandon, I juggle, and play various musical instruments, mainly ukulele. I also enjoy photography and creating digital art.
	Lauren Black Perfume	by Russell Gulliver Nov. 30, 2011	Free!	4506 words	Read a sample
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	Ice Melts	by Phyllis Anderson Nov. 27, 2011	$1.99	4381 words	Sample 20%
	Author bio: Born in 1969 and raised in Ayrshire, Scotland, nature has played a key role in Phyllis Anderson’s development as a poet and writer. As a child, she’d spend days that stretched beyond time, exploring the woodland surrounding her home. Whether climbing trees, picking primroses which clustered in copses, or meandering amongst blue bells, growing up was truly a sensory and wondrous experience. Now, forty two years old Phyllis’ life has turned full circle and she currently lives on a ten thousand acre country estate, where cows graze on pastoral landscape, an environment which fuels the poetic imagination. This first volume of poetry is the culmination of observations made by Phyllis Anderson throughout her life. Its title is taken from “Haiku for Mountaineers” which alludes to the hardships suffered by climbers to reach the oft elusive summit. Wise climbers realise that it is the mountain that conquers the heart of the climber.
	Quaker Holmes and Other Poems	by Pete Owen Williams Nov. 23, 2011	$1.99	10388 words	Sample 20%
	Author bio: Pete trained as an actor in The Northern School of Music and Drama, Manchester in the 60s. He put his acting career on hold whilst he taught Drama in a Secondary School with the intention of leaving after four years and re-activating the acting. After a career lasting forty-three years in which he lectured in Higher and Further Education, designing and developing drama courses, Pete retired in 2008. Throughout his life he has written fiction, drama and poetry. Many of his works were Theatre-In-Education projects for organisations like the Police, Alcohol Concern, and Road Safety organisations. In addition to writing, Pete is a performance poet, writing and performing his work in South Wales and the South West. He is also a photographer, presenter and web designer for Lens Flair Wales. (http://www.lfwales.co.uk)
	Tracks of Life	by Christopher John Scott Nov. 11, 2011	Free!	1176 words	Read a sample
	Author bio: I live in a small town in the North East of England. I generally write what ever comes into my head and sounds good to me. I hope that others find it intresting and enjoyable to read.
	A Poem for Me	by Jude Wharton Nov. 03, 2011	$1.50	6810 words	Sample 20%
	Author bio: My name is Jude and I’m a Mum, wife and director of a very small digital design company that my husband and I run together called 2nd Floor (www.weare2ndfloor.com) I love writing. I find it a great way to get my thoughts out, which is how my poetry started and more recently I have started my blog.
	The Personal Touch	by Joe Solomon Nov. 02, 2011	Free!	7034 words	Read a sample
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	Collywobblers	by Mary Cook Oct. 30, 2011	$2.99	3628 words	Sample 20%
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	From The Mind Of Madness	by Chris Barber Oct. 30, 2011	$2.00	9593 words	Sample 20%
	Author bio: most of my poetry is based very loosely on my life.
	Ghosts across our landscape - Haunting Tales & Living Verse of Ulaid	by Colin T. Mercer Oct. 28, 2011	$2.99	20405 words	Sample 10%
	Author bio: Colin T. Mercer is an Irish poet and writer who has also recently published 'For Irish Eyes – poetic experiences from Ireland'.
	Reflections	by William Andrews Oct. 28, 2011	$1.50	1471 words	Sample 20%
	Author bio: i am just an old man trying to find my way home im the one with no tshirt
	C.Sense	by William Andrews Oct. 28, 2011	$1.50	1342 words	Sample 15%
	Author bio: i am just an old man trying to find my way home im the one with no tshirt
	When Hope Can Kill & the Midnight Sun Poems	by John Hughes Oct. 12, 2011	$3.00	11912 words	Sample 15%
	Author bio: John Hughes was born in Colwyn Bay, North Wales, Great Britain in 1970. He has worked as a milkman, landscape gardener, newspaper photographer, occasional proof reader and a fish terminal goods inspector. He currently lives in Oslo, Norway. His other works are listed as follows: POETRY Aphelion (1992),Recuillément (1993)Black Tin Deed Box (1996)Preston Zeitgeist (1994) Money & Make-Believe (1994)Room Twelve (1995) The Fiend that He Became (1995) Poetry from Beyond the Dashboard (1996) Touché (1997) The Night is Young (1997) 58th Parallel (1998) The Plant Collector (1998) O Livro das Letras Casa (1999) Replica (1999) Passports for the Journey to the Mad Dam (2000) Flowering Off the Chrome (2000) Rolling Over the Bones & the Running Through Poems (2002) When Hope Can Kill & the Midnight Sun Poems (2005) Orpheus’ Loot (2007) FICTION Aphrodisiacs’ Spaghetti (2001) The Wondrous Adventures of Dip & Dab (2002) Deeper Tangled Grass (2005)The Bloody Shoots Burst Out of Us with Love & Bullets at their Roots (2010)
	Flowering Off the Chrome	by John Hughes Oct. 10, 2011	$3.44	6065 words	Sample 20%
	Author bio: John Hughes was born in Colwyn Bay, North Wales, Great Britain in 1970. He has worked as a milkman, landscape gardener, newspaper photographer, occasional proof reader and a fish terminal goods inspector. He currently lives in Oslo, Norway. His other works are listed as follows: POETRY Aphelion (1992),Recuillément (1993)Black Tin Deed Box (1996)Preston Zeitgeist (1994) Money & Make-Believe (1994)Room Twelve (1995) The Fiend that He Became (1995) Poetry from Beyond the Dashboard (1996) Touché (1997) The Night is Young (1997) 58th Parallel (1998) The Plant Collector (1998) O Livro das Letras Casa (1999) Replica (1999) Passports for the Journey to the Mad Dam (2000) Flowering Off the Chrome (2000) Rolling Over the Bones & the Running Through Poems (2002) When Hope Can Kill & the Midnight Sun Poems (2005) Orpheus’ Loot (2007) FICTION Aphrodisiacs’ Spaghetti (2001) The Wondrous Adventures of Dip & Dab (2002) Deeper Tangled Grass (2005)The Bloody Shoots Burst Out of Us with Love & Bullets at their Roots (2010)
	Alone Among Many	by Spargo Postle Oct. 09, 2011	$4.99	4933 words	Sample 20%
	Author bio: Spargo Postle has roamed and meandered his way through life watching and listening to the nations of people that exist around him. Thoughts & Emotion was the first set of poems to be published and was created as Spargo realised that we all have similar Thoughts and Emotion whilst we encounter a myriad of experiences. Why Don't You See Me is drawn from the loneliness witnessed in the people Spargo sees all around his world. Being lonely, or simply withdrawn, seems to be considered as an unseen virus that few people dare to speak out about else they become infected. Spargo Postle feels that poetry is no more than capturing a string of thoughts onto paper, so feel free to leave your thoughts in a review. But then if you would rather just read his work and browse on by, so be it.
	Twelve Poems Then Bedtime	by Richard Parr Oct. 05, 2011	Free!	2115 words	Read a sample
	Author bio: Born in England in 1986. Author, guest blogger, reviewer, promoter. Student of Creative Writing in London. Lives all over the place. I got into a taxi outside the station and said, 'Elizabeth Drive, please.' The driver turned around and said, 'My name's Dave.'
	Anonymous Lines	by David Francis Barker Oct. 04, 2011	$2.99	6515 words	Sample 10%
	Author bio: David Francis Barker is a Lincolnshire born artist and poet. Not the most prolific of writers, he has had poems published by Forward Press, Poetry 24 and Shot Glass Journal, among others. This collection reflects his life to date, never forgetting his roots in the rural landscape of eastern England and his continual frustrations with living in the modern technological age.
	Poems of Life	by Christopher John Scott Sep. 27, 2011	$0.99	1423 words	Sample 35%
	Author bio: I live in a small town in the North East of England. I generally write what ever comes into my head and sounds good to me. I hope that others find it intresting and enjoyable to read.
	Sayings	by William Andrews Sep. 23, 2011	$1.00	1110 words	Sample 10%
	Author bio: i am just an old man trying to find my way home im the one with no tshirt
	If	by William Andrews Sep. 23, 2011	$1.50	1284 words	Sample 15%
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	Reasons	by William Andrews Sep. 23, 2011	$1.50	1511 words	Sample 15%
	Author bio: i am just an old man trying to find my way home im the one with no tshirt
	Sense	by William Andrews Sep. 23, 2011	$1.50	1516 words	Sample 10%
	Author bio: i am just an old man trying to find my way home im the one with no tshirt
	A Haven of Shades	by Helen Young Sep. 22, 2011	$2.29	1165 words
	Author bio: Geek, published poet, occasional freelance writer/blogger.
	The Heart and The Hand	by Dean Harkness Sep. 21, 2011	$0.99	1477 words	Sample 20%
	Author bio: Book Cover Designer, artist, illustrator. I use many traditional methods and media from sculpture to paint as well as photography and computer graphics.
	Death Rattle	by John Hughes Sep. 21, 2011	$1.57	20277 words	Sample 16%
	Author bio: John Hughes was born in Colwyn Bay, North Wales, Great Britain in 1970. He has worked as a milkman, landscape gardener, newspaper photographer, occasional proof reader and a fish terminal goods inspector. He currently lives in Oslo, Norway. His other works are listed as follows: POETRY Aphelion (1992),Recuillément (1993)Black Tin Deed Box (1996)Preston Zeitgeist (1994) Money & Make-Believe (1994)Room Twelve (1995) The Fiend that He Became (1995) Poetry from Beyond the Dashboard (1996) Touché (1997) The Night is Young (1997) 58th Parallel (1998) The Plant Collector (1998) O Livro das Letras Casa (1999) Replica (1999) Passports for the Journey to the Mad Dam (2000) Flowering Off the Chrome (2000) Rolling Over the Bones & the Running Through Poems (2002) When Hope Can Kill & the Midnight Sun Poems (2005) Orpheus’ Loot (2007) FICTION Aphrodisiacs’ Spaghetti (2001) The Wondrous Adventures of Dip & Dab (2002) Deeper Tangled Grass (2005)The Bloody Shoots Burst Out of Us with Love & Bullets at their Roots (2010)
	The Magic Undercrackers	by Lee McGibbon Sep. 20, 2011	$0.99	5185 words	Sample 20%
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	The Urban Time Bomb	by D'Persona Sep. 13, 2011	$3.99	13659 words	Sample 20%
	Author bio: Hi, I am Donna Parkinson AKA D'Persona...a 43 year old self confessed accidental poet and the owner of Mad Jock Publishers. A family run self publishing business. I am here to share some of the poetry that I originally took up when my best friend Angela Edgar "inspired" me to write after her 1st book launch. Since taking up this writing lark in February 2008 I have written in excess of 1000 poems and have self published 4 books of my own... I write mainly about gun and knife crime,peer pressure,social responsibility and gang affiliation in a style that todays youth can clearly understand and hopefully relate to. I write to make a difference to our streets and to effect change in our communities. I believe we need to re-educate this generation and save then from themselves as the social realities envolved in our collective failure to do so is way to ugly to comprehend for our childrens children. Eventually I want to set up some Poetry/Music workshops with disadvantaged children in my local area. Its been a mad 2 and a half years for me as I just kind of fell into poetry... in fact my friends call me the accidental poet!!! I never knew that I had the ability to write until Angee was interviewed at her book launch and asked what would make all the hard work she had put into her book worthwhile... and she said that if she inspired just one person to start writing as a result of reading her book it would have all been worth it.... I looked around the room and remember thinking.... "bloody hell I better write something cos I don't think any of this lot are gonna do it"...so I went home and wrote her a poem and sent ot to her the next day telling her that she had inspired me to write... She said that it was actually really good and asked me to do another... and then another and before I knew it I was 'writing to order. Colleagues were giving me titles at lunchtime and I was knocking them out pieces and before I knew it I had written loads of stuff and was actually enjoying it..... WHO'D HAVE THOUGHT EH? 6 months down the line I had enough material to self publish my first book..... and the rest as they say is history!! By day I work as a Field Services Director in a London based Market Research agency but as I said above I also own a small self publishing company called Mad Jock Publishers. They published my first 2 books and then the originator k, Rols Sperling found it increasingly difficult to secure the time needed to dedicate to the project along with juggling his fulltime work and family commitments. Mad Jock had historically helped budding authors ( like myself) by making it possible for them to have their works published in a book that they and their family could treasure for generations at a very affordable price, so when I heard the company would probably close I decided to buy it myself and try to keep the sentiment going.... For the very ambitious writer, getting a first foot on the ladder and being able to send an already published work to major publishers and or media wheeler dealers, is no different than an actor turning up to an audition or a model attending a professional photo shoot or an artist sending copies of their portfolio to a prospective employer, So Mad Jock Publishers is there to serve the authors of this world... So thats me... if you want to know anything else just ask xxx
	Leaning Walls (Poetry of Falling Frames: Book 2)	by Daniel Buinac Sep. 07, 2011	$2.99	3861 words	Sample 20%
	Author bio: Daniel Buinac was born March 19, 1972 in Glina, Croatia. After spending childhood in Croatia, he lived his student years in Belgrade, Serbia. He won Serbian national award Pegaz for his first book of poetry Short Reminiscence of a Thread in 1995. He moved to London, UK in 2000, where he has been living and writing since.
	Classical Poetry	by Terry Trainor Sep. 06, 2011	$4.95	28310 words
	Author bio: Hi. My name is Terry Trainor and I write poems. Many many years ago the news ripped through the London Workhouses, Through all Bethnel-green, Spitalfields and through the Minories, Along Tower-hill and up to Shoreditch and Clerkenwell, To the very purlieus of the Seven Dials, and across the water in Southwark, Important news spread from ear to ear, overheard in chop houses, and cabs, Blackberries are ripe, and there are mushrooms in the forest turf. Like an electric thrill, it has darted far and wide, high and low, In the great workshops, whether sweating over a hot iron, or folding, Steaming dye-houses and hatteries or darting the shuttle amongst silken threads, The bread moulders, or makers of coffins for the dead, or their nails, To the farmers, the boys that roam the streets, and the hags in alleys, Everywhere there is just one thought, the blackberries are ripe.
	Winter	by Christian Zajdek Aug. 27, 2011	Free!	819 words	Read a sample
	Author bio: Learning to weave words whilst researching the bizarre, then putting what I can to paper.
	Guru - Niall McGrath	by Niall McGrath Aug. 21, 2011	$1.99	1985 words	Sample 20%
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	Classics	by Terry Trainor Aug. 21, 2011	$4.95	34763 words
	Author bio: Hi. My name is Terry Trainor and I write poems. Many many years ago the news ripped through the London Workhouses, Through all Bethnel-green, Spitalfields and through the Minories, Along Tower-hill and up to Shoreditch and Clerkenwell, To the very purlieus of the Seven Dials, and across the water in Southwark, Important news spread from ear to ear, overheard in chop houses, and cabs, Blackberries are ripe, and there are mushrooms in the forest turf. Like an electric thrill, it has darted far and wide, high and low, In the great workshops, whether sweating over a hot iron, or folding, Steaming dye-houses and hatteries or darting the shuttle amongst silken threads, The bread moulders, or makers of coffins for the dead, or their nails, To the farmers, the boys that roam the streets, and the hags in alleys, Everywhere there is just one thought, the blackberries are ripe.
	Sowing Seeds	by William Andrews Aug. 17, 2011	$1.50	1377 words	Sample 15%
	Author bio: i am just an old man trying to find my way home im the one with no tshirt
	Low-down London Love Ballads	by shoreditch boy Aug. 04, 2011	Free!	4928 words	Read a sample
	Author bio: shoreditch boy writes grotesque lyrical ballads and fu*ked-up fairytales on age-old themes of thwarted love, broken dreams and estate agency. he has gigged at Latitude, Nozstock, Camden Crawl and Edinburgh Festival, including sell-out shows at Gilded Balloon and Assembly Rooms. His debut collection of London-centric comical verse LOW-DOWN LONDON LOVE BALLADS includes such hits as Shoreditch Boy, King Neb, the £10 one, Soho Gypsy Rose Seller and The Sensimilia Song! "An extraordinarily strong and original voice...brave, clever, confident and articulate" - The Stage. "Comically surreal" - Metro. “Pick Of The Fringe 2008 *****" www.shoreditchboy.blogspot.com
	The Life and Times of Mr Grimez	by Mr Grimez Aug. 03, 2011	$0.99	7158 words	Sample 14%
	Author bio: Mr Grimez is an storyteller living in London. Living in the best city in the world provides much of his inspiration in his collection of poetry. This is poetry as you haven't read it before, modern vibrant this poems read like mini sagas each one a lyrical battle in which Mr Grimez endlessly emerges victorious. Its not all aggression and violence although Facebook Killer's Glasgow Kiss migh argue otherwise, there is a slow seduction with Flight of a Raven, relaxation with Mellow Time in London and even some good laughs with Food Love Feud. Read it. Review it. Love it.
	Thoughts	by William Andrews July 29, 2011	$1.50	1182 words	Sample 15%
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	I am a legend that is feared	by Mr Grimez July 20, 2011	Free!	558 words	Read a sample
	Author bio: Mr Grimez is an storyteller living in London. Living in the best city in the world provides much of his inspiration in his collection of poetry. This is poetry as you haven't read it before, modern vibrant this poems read like mini sagas each one a lyrical battle in which Mr Grimez endlessly emerges victorious. Its not all aggression and violence although Facebook Killer's Glasgow Kiss migh argue otherwise, there is a slow seduction with Flight of a Raven, relaxation with Mellow Time in London and even some good laughs with Food Love Feud. Read it. Review it. Love it.
	Best Consumed in Contemporary Moonlight (Poetry of Falling Frames: Book 1)	by Daniel Buinac July 14, 2011	$2.99	3268 words	Sample 20%
	Author bio: Daniel Buinac was born March 19, 1972 in Glina, Croatia. After spending childhood in Croatia, he lived his student years in Belgrade, Serbia. He won Serbian national award Pegaz for his first book of poetry Short Reminiscence of a Thread in 1995. He moved to London, UK in 2000, where he has been living and writing since.
	The Pottery Fish Poetry Collection	by Rosemary Peel July 11, 2011	$0.99	3440 words	Sample 15%
	Author bio: ** Remember to de-activate the adult filter to be able to view my adult novel, Lust, Love and Lies. Hi, my name is Rosemary. My nationality is English although my parentage stems from celtic roots. My main passion is writing but I also paint, mostly in oils. I am first and foremost a wife, mother and grandmother; previously a practical, down to earth business woman - now retired. Born dyslexic into an academically oriented family in the days before the disability was recognised, early years were not easy. But having to prove myself to myself, has stood me in good stead and toughened my character. I knew I could write - even if I couldn’t spell. My fear of reading in public led to the development of a keen memory. My inborn love of the written word helped me to overcome my disability and to eventually become a mainstream published author. I am now trying my hand at e-publishing. My writings include adult fiction, astrological books, poetry and children’s stories. Although not as young as I used to be, I hope I still remain ‘young at heart', always able to truthfully hold my hand up to a firm belief in the magic of childhood - not the J. K. Rowling kind (although I adore the books and films), but rather the wonderment of the Santa, Easter Bunny, Tooth Fairy years. My photo is a rather old one - taken many years ago - however at heart it still represents the real me. I love children and equate to them, some might say because deep down I have never entirely grown up. To tell the truth, I hope never really do. I am at present writing another children's story; this time for slightly older children, 10's to 15's and above. It is called Time Line and is a fantasy. Besides the web sites below I can also be found at rosemaryjpeel.tripod.com
	The Tog & The Froad	by Christina Ayckbourn July 08, 2011	Free!	1409 words	Read a sample
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	Fragments: A Collection of Short Poetry	by Steph 'Vixey' Acaster July 07, 2011	Free!	468 words	Read a sample
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