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Author Friends:

Whoever said writing was a lonely occupation could not have been more wrong - I have met so many talented and supportive authors, and am proud to call them friends. If you are looking to discover a new read, I can heartily recommend their books - which span a multitude of genres.

David Leadbeater - Action and Adventure

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David Leadbeater
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​David Leadbeater is the author of over twenty Kindle International Bestsellers - the Matt Drake, Torsten Dahl, Alicia Myles and the UK Kindle Storyteller award-winning series, The Relic Hunters, as well as the Disavowed series and Chosen.

​For a true chronological reading order of the Matt Drake, Alicia Myles and Disavowed series' please visit his website. He has sold over a quarter of a million e-books on the Amazon Kindle.

Steven Bannister - Paranormal Mystery

Author Website
Steven Bannister
​on Amazon



​​Steven Bannister is the best-selling author of the acclaimed Black Mystery Series featuring DCI Allie St Clair. Steve's writing influences include James Lee Burke, Nelson De Mille, Steven King, Ray Bradbury and John Banville, among others.
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John Paul Davis - Historical Thrillers

Author Website
John Paul Davis
​on Amazon

​John Paul Davis is the International Bestselling author of six thriller novels and three historical biographies.

His first novel, The Templar Agenda, an historical thriller, has been ranked in the UK Top 20, including Top 3 in thrillers and number 1 in Historical Thrillers and Religious Fiction. It has also appeared in the top 10 in Historical Thrillers on Amazon US. 

Andy Lucas - Military Thrillers

Author Website
Andy Lucas
​on Amazon
I enjoy writing, as well as need it, and I am grateful for anybody who gives up their time and money to read my work. I will be releasing at least one new James Pace duology and one new Ian Flyn duology each year from now on, as well as additional thrillers and poetry anthologies in between. I will do my best to make each new book better than the ones before. Collaborating in the HOTBOX with top authors like David Leadbeater, Mike Wells and CR Hiatt has only served to fuel my passion for writing!​


Minna Rose - Cookbooks

Author Website
Minna Rose
​on Amazon
​​Minna Rose enjoys travelling and loves exploring different cultures through food. She adds her own twists to the recipes she discovers and loves to experiment on her family and friends. 
 
Fresh and nutritious food is very important for a healthy life,  just as tasty food, shared in good company, is essential for a happy and enjoyable life.
 
Minna Rose's cookbooks combine the two in her recipes, all of which are easy to follow and rec
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Rose Marie Shaw - Historical Fiction

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Author Website
Rose Marie Shaw
​on Amazon


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Rose Marie is Yorkshire born and bred, she is an avid writer of poetry and short stories with a twist and Ribbon of River is her first novel, set in the Yorkshire Dales and drawing on her keen observations of rural Yorkshire life. Ribbon of River is in part inspired by the people who have meant the most to Rose Marie over the years.



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​Janice Ross - Urban

Author Website
Janice Ross
​on Amazon


​Janice Ross was born in Guyana, South America and migrated to the USA in 1980. Although her citizenship certificate now reads the United States of America, she considers herself a citizen of the world. Sure she has not physically been around the world and back, but she's travelled in her mind and dreams.

CR Hiatt - Thriller​

Author Website
CR Hiatt
​on Amazon

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​CR HIATT writes action-oriented stories with strong female characters as the heroes, and a touch of romance. Created the series featuring the duo, McSwain & Beck, and A.T.U. Spy Series with Kyra 'Hotshot' Ray.



Annelise Fox -
Erotic Thriller

Annelise Fox
​on Amazon


Annelise Fox was born in the Netherlands, and though she currently resides in the UK, her heart is still in Amsterdam.
 
Theater Voyeur: Lights is her first book, allowing her to give full rein to her darker side!
 

Book Two—Camera, and Book Three—Action will follow soon

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Dormaine G - Paranormal

Author Website
Dormaine G
​on Amazon
Dormaine was born in Long Island, New York where she lived most of her life. As an adult she liked to travel out of the country though her favorite places to explore were her fantasy worlds as an author. She may be a nurse by profession but her heart has always belonged to writing.

​As a young child she spent many Saturdays in the library nurturing her love for books. There she discovered her fascination for the science fiction genre, through books, movies and graphic novels. 

 

Regina Jele-Ncube - Poems and Children's Books

Author Website
Regina Jele-Ncube
​on Amazon
Regina Jele Ncube is a writer and also has 15 years of primary school teaching experience. ​

She believes children can be taught to appreciate each other from an early age regardless of their backgrounds. She sees stories from and about other 'worlds' as a good source for learning, be it in a formal or informal setting.

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​Regina Jele-Ncube was born in Zimbabwe, Bulawayo, and now lives in the UK. She is passionate about reading and appreciates  the cultural differences in people.

Maretha Botha - Children's Books
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Author Website
Maretha Botha
​on Amazon

​Maretha Botha - night-owl, bookworm, espresso lover, chocoholic, bird watcher, gardener, cat-and dog lover, and hiker on the Darwen moors.

​Her children's (9-12) series of illustrated books called, "FAUNA PARK TALES" is based on "African Adventures of Flame, Family, Furry and Feathered Friends" a September 2012 GOLD MEDAL WINNER on Authonomy, a HarperCollins Publishers author site. 
   

JJ Toner -
​Thrillers

Author Website
JJ Toner
​on Amazon

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My background is in Mathematics and computing, but I have been writing full time since 2005. I write short stories and novels. My novels include the bestselling WW2 spy story 'The Black Orchestra', and its two sequels, 'The Wings of the Eagle' and 'A Postcard from Hamburg'.

Richard J Foster - 
Historical and Paranormal

Author Website
Richard J Foster
​on Amazon
Richard J Foster was born in Nantwich Cheshire. One of five brothers, he now lives in Kingston Upon Hull. He left school at age fifteen and began to serve his apprenticeship as a toolmaker. He gave it up before he finished serving his time to work on the river. Two years later he joined the Merchant Navy and sailed the world until he met his wife Margaret.

‘To anyone who decides to read my stories, I hope they will take you away from your everyday lives, and allow you to escape to another place, if only for a brief moment in time. Thank you.’
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T M Brown -
Historical Fiction
& Memoir

Author Website
T.M. Brown
​on Amazon


​An author like none other, who writes books that stand out for their ability to be real. Writing from the heart, t-m brown pours her
soul into her projects and the evidence is abundant whether you're reading "a life not my own", just between us - inspiring stories by women, "tethered angel" or "struggles of the women folk".

An inspirational and authentic voice!

Rosalind Minett - 
Short Stories &
Young Adult Historical

Author Website
Rosalind Minett
​on Amazon
Rosalind Minett (writing name) trained as a dancer, but grew to love acting more. She gained a place at RADA, but academic life took over. If it hadn’t, she would have spent her life interpreting characters that scriptwriters had created instead of working with them for real, and later, creating them herself. She studied in Birmingham, Sussex and Exeter universities before enjoying a career as a chartered psychologist. In this job, she met and worked with a wealth of characters. However, she much prefers working from imagination and now she is retired, can concentrate on fictional people of all ages.

Elisabeth Storrs -
Historical Fiction

Author Website
Elisabeth Storrs
​on Amazon
Elisabeth Storrs has long had a passion for the history, myths and legends of the ancient world. She graduated from University of Sydney in Arts Law, having studied Classics.
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Her curiosity piqued by an Etruscan sarcophagus depicting a couple embracing for eternity, she discovered the little known story of the struggle between Etruscan Veii and Republican Rome and the inspiration to write the TALES OF ANCIENT ROME series.

M. Louisa Locke -
Historical Fiction

Author Website
M. Louisa Locke
​on Amazon
M. Louisa Locke, a retired professor of U.S. and Women's History, has embarked on a second career as an historical fiction writer.

​Her Victorian San Francisco Mystery series features Annie Fuller, a boardinghouse owner and clairvoyant, and Nate Dawson, a San Francisco lawyer, who together investigate murders and other crimes. Her short stories give secondary characters from this series a chance to get involved in their own minor mysteries.

Mike Wells -
​Thriller and Suspense

Author Website
Mike Wells
​on Amazon
Mike Wells is an American bestselling author of over 20 "unputdownable" thriller and suspense novels, including Lust, Money & Murder and Passion, Power & Sin. He is also known for his young adult books, such as The Mysterious Disappearance of Kurt Kramer, The Wrong Side of the Tracks, and Wild Child, which are used by English teachers in high schools and colleges worldwide. Formerly a screenwriter, Wells has a fast-paced, cinematic writing style. 

C.K. Raggio - 
​Thriller

Author Website
C.K. Raggio
​on Amazon


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A native Long Islander, C.K. Raggio is an avid horror movie buff, die hard NY Islanders fan, and loves anything to do with the outdoors: boating, fishing, hiking. C.K. lives with her husband, gorgeous baby girl, a husky mix, a Jack Russell terrier, and one very temperamental cat.

Terry Maggert - 
Fantasy

Author Website
Terry Maggert
​on Amazon
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Left-handed. Father of an apparent nudist. Husband to a half-Norwegian. Herder of cats and dogs. Lover of pie. I write books. I've had an unhealthy fascination with dragons since the age of-- well, for a while. Native Floridian. Current Tennessean. Location subject to change based on insurrection, upheaval, or availability of coffee. Nine books and counting, with no end in sight. You've been warned.

Craig Jenkins - 
Science Fiction

Author Website
Craig Jenkins
​on Amazon


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Version is a science fiction thriller series within novels and an upcoming audio pod cast by the end of 2015.



Version is on Amazon through kindle and paperback

Darcy Delany - 
Short Stories

Author Website
Darcy Delany
​on Amazon


​Darcy Delany writes contemporary romance, chick lit, science fiction and historical fiction featuring strong, sassy and quirky heroines.
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Darcy loves history, fabulous food and old movies. A fan of British home shows, Darcy dreams of one day restoring a Georgian mansion, if she can pay contractors to do all the hard work for her.

Lilli Lea - 
Cozy Mysteries

Author Website
Lilli Lea
​on Amazon

​Lilli Lea is a flannel wearing squirrel lover that has had a passion for writing her whole life and has been creating adventurous works of literature since 2007. Within the last decade she was transplanted to Sioux Falls, South Dakota from Lodi, California with her husband and their four legged furry children. She has proudly worked for Walmart for the last 23 years, which has helped developed the Cat ‘n’ Dog series. 

J.D. Chase - 
Erotic Romance

Author Website
J.D. Chase
​on Amazon
​UK based, bestselling Indie author of contemporary romance ... otherwise known as elegantly filthy erotica. Shoeaholic. Introvert. Prude. Teetotaler. Compulsive Liar!! Well, not about the shoes ... I never lie about shoes! 

Seriously ...


I am the author of several #1 bestselling romance series - Orion the Hunter, Rouge Passion and Passion Noire. I'm not your average romance novelist ... but then, who wants to be average?

Ileandra Young -
Fantasy

Author Website
Ileandra Young
​on Amazon

I'm one half of a single author who separates her works with different names and (though she'll deny if it you ask) different personalities. I'm the fun, sane, vampire-loving half. ;-)

I write fantasy (though I occasionally dip into horror and comedy) usually with a contemporary slant. Though I do have some ideas lined up which will take readers to a rich fantasy world of my own devising, along with some home brewed races too.​

Nadege Nicoll -

​Children's Fiction

Author Website
Nadege Nicoll ​
​on Amazon




​​Nadege Nicoll was born in France but now lives permanently in New Jersey with her family. She stopped working to raise her three children and multiple pets, thus secretly gathering material for her books. She writes humorous fictions for kids aged 8 to 12. 

Mayapee Chowdhury -
Self-help, Childrens & Erotica

Author Website
Mayapee Chowdhury
​on Amazon


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​Mayapee Chowdhury is a spoken Word Artist who performs around the country. Mayapee has written for children and in the erotic genre. This book is based on Mayapee's own experience of divorce and the Family courts procedures.

​Selena Haskins -
​Urban

Author Website
Selena Haskins
​on Amazon
Selena Haskins' debut novel, "A River Moves Forward" (2013) was a best-seller in urban-fiction on Amazon. As the new kid on the block, Selena was voted in the Top 100 Authors category on ADB (Authors Database). Selena is also a contributing Author to the best-selling inspirational collection, "Just Between Us-Inspiring Stories by Women," which still ranks on Amazon's top ten. ​

Perri Forrest -
Romance​

Author Website
Perri Forrest
​on Amazon
Perri Forrest is a California based author with more than fifteen titles to her credit. A writer who becomes one with her characters, Perri has produced numerous outstanding titles including having reached number one in African American Romance on the Amazon Best Sellers list. The fan favorite novel, Captivated was an international hit debuting at number two in Women's Fiction for three consecutive weeks on the Amazon Best Sellers list in the United Kingdom and the United States.

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Oliver Raymond Knell - 
Memoir

Oliver Raymond Knell
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A shocking, touching and frank account of a life tormented by Obsessive Compulsive Disorder. Oliver describes early childhood coming to the conclusion that those around him are oblivious to the curse controlling his every move.

The child becomes a middle-aged man having experienced 50 years of internal warfare and many challenging adventures along the way.

Morag Macrae -
Teenage Reluctant Readers

Author Website
Morag Macrae
​on Amazon
​I  write short stories for teenage reluctant readers, to help them work through some of the problems that young people encounter in their daily lives, such as bullying, abuse, drugs self harming and alcohol.

I have just self published my first collection of stories called THE ZONE.
  Each short story has a different character  
with a different story line but the one thing they all have in common is that they attend a youth drama group named THE ZONE. 

J.K. Accinni -
Science Fiction

Author Website
J.K. Accinni
​on Amazon
J.K. Accinni was born and raised in Sussex County N.J. before moving to Sarasota Florida, where she lives with her four dogs, all rescued. Mrs. Accinni's passion for wildlife conservation has led her all over the world, including three trips to Africa, where ten years ago she fell in love with a baby elephant named Wendi, that had been rescued by a wildlife group. That baby is the inspiration for the character Tobi, the elephant featured in her fourth book titled Hive

P.S. Rowland -
Poetry

Author Website
P.S. Rowland
​on Amazon


​P.S. Rowland has journaled her entire life in poetic form. After sharing some of her work with friends, she was encouraged to share her art with others, and publish. 

Her first collection of poetry "Lest We Forget Life's Passion" was released January and "Cut Both Ways" in June 2015. 

Rebecca Lochlann -
Historical Fiction

Author Website
Rebecca Lochlann
​on Amazon

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"The Child of the Erinyes" is an eight-book journey spanning 4000 years: beginning in the Bronze Age, it follows the lives of two men and a woman as they are reborn seven times through history.

It has been described as mythic fantasy, "Loads of testosterone, slaughter, and crazy magic" (with a love story, of course.)

Joseph Erbal Konrad -Religion

Joseph Erbal Konrad
​on Amazon
In a first century Roman city an old woman exiled from home is visited by a mysterious stranger, a time traveler from the future. He seeks the story of her life, and the secrets of her son's… 

"The Life, Death and Times of Maryam the God-Bearer" is an eye-opening and humanizing look at one of history's most important women, her sprawling family and the world she lived in. 

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