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ZP Author and Artist News for February 2015

News

 

ZP is still working to update our ebook store so we can get download links for your purchases and some other fancy capabilities. Feb-March we’re hoping will be our lucky months!

Greg Austin’s Sci-fi screenplay SIAN was a finalist at the Fantastic Planet Film Festival! The short story version, Morgan Jones and Greg Austin co-wrote with his brother, won a contest to be published in the 2015 Sci-fi anthology, Words in Future Tense. Super Congrats, guys!

Here’s a look at Tamian Wood’s lovely book cover work for another group.

 

 

Appearances

Feb 7-8, 2015 – Author Gloria Oliver andChibiChains will be at the Irving Convention Center as part of Dallas ComicCon Fan Days 2.0

Feb 13-16, 2015 – Author Roberta Rogow will be attending Boskone 52 in Boston, MA.

Fed 13-15, 2015 – Gloria Oliver andChibiChains will be at ConDFW in DallasElizabeth Burton and Rie Sheridan will also be there! Mini ZP Gathering! Woot!

Book Trailers

 

A new feature! We’ll try to post a different book trailer to the front page each month along with the news and monthly appearances.

This month is a book trailer for Christine Marciniak’s Honestly, Ali!.

 

ZP Author and Artist News for Dec 2014

December 2014

News

ZP is still working to update our ebook store so we can get download links for your purchases and some other fancy capabilities. Ran into a couple of issues, but they’re being worked out. This will happen! Soon!

Avalon Graphics aka Cathy Helms won the 2014 Rone Cover Award under the Mystery/Suspense catergory! Congrats!

See more of her cover work here.

Here is a poster artist Brad Fraunfelter made for a client. It includes the five main characters of the ongoing series. Isn’t it gorgeous?

Poster by Brad Fraunfelter

Each character was painted separately and then placed into the overall composite. The main character at center was created through the use of photography of a model in costume, and then was repainted in the computer. Also the Medusa character was created in a similar way. This was a model that was photographed in a studio setting, and was then manipulated and repainted over digitally to add the snake skin, snakes on the hair, jewelry, etc.



 


Appearances


Looks like all our authors are busy with their families this coming holiday season, so no appearance updates for Decemeber. But they do wish you and yours a wonderful set of holidays!




Book Trailers


 


A new feature! We’ll try to post a different book trailer to the front page each month along with the news and monthly appearances.


This month is a book trailer for Gloria Oliver’s Willing Sacrifice.



	


	





	

		
		
ZP Author and Artist News for Nov 2014
	


	
	
	

		
News


 


ZP is working to update our ebook store so we can get download links for your purchases and some other fancy capabilities. The looks is just about there, but there’s still lots to do. Keep checking back and we’ll let you know when it’s ready. This month we are even closer to ther reveal, but not quite there yet. Soon!


We are delighted to announce that JoSelle Vanderhooft’s Ebenezer is a finalist in the Lesbian Contemporary General Fiction category of the 2014 Rainbow Awards!


 


 


Appearances


 


Gloria Oliver will be at Roll 2 Play Nov 15 in Coppell, TX. She’ll be talking about her books, play Dungeons and Dragons, and stay for the showing of Wolf’s Children. She’ll be sharing the spotlight with the cast and crew of Tauiran Film’s webseries Party Girl.


On Nov 21-23, Roberta Rogow will be part at Philcon in Cherry Hill, NJ.


Roberta Rogow will also be participating at ChessieCon in Baltimore, MD on Nov 28-30.


 


 


Book Trailers


A new feature! We’ll try to post a different book trailer to the front page each month along with the news and monthly appearances.


This month is a book trailer for Dorien Grey’s Caesar’s Fall.


 



	


	





	

		
		
New Release – Zumaya Embraces – Some Enchanted Autumn
	


	
	
	

		
Some Enchanted Autumn


by Linda Andrews


Some Enchanted Autumn


 


Autumn leaves aren’t the only thing stirring in Pumpkin this Halloween


 


Avalon Lynch worked hard to escape the tarnish of her witching heritage. Everything she’s ever wanted is within her grasp, until a visit home and a mishap with a skeleton binds her to an offspring of The Dugan—Pumpkin’s equivalent of the Bogeyman.


Nicholas Dugan loves autumn—the changing leaves, the ripening harvest and the tricks played on their neighboring town. He’s content to watch the Halloween fun until a sinister prank reveals his family’s dark past and their cursed future.


Bound by their devotion to their families, Lonnie and Nick search for a mysterious prankster before his malicious tricks destroys both their futures.


Also at Kobo, Google Play, and All Romance eBooks


Purchase the trade paperback from Amazon as well as in ebook for Kindle and NOOK.


ISBN: 9781936144761


 


	


	





	

		
		
Ebenezer is a finalist in the 2014 Rainbow Awards!
	


	
	
	

		
You heard right!


 


Ebenezer by JoSelle Vanderhooft is a  finalist in the Lesbian Contemporary General Fiction category of the 2014 Rainbow Awards.


 


Finalist in the 2014 Rainbow Awards


 




 


 


 




It’s Christmas Eve in the city that never sleeps, but Ebenezer doesn’t feel like celebrating. Her girlfriend of ten years has just left her, her job as a debt collector is slowly killing her, and worst of all, she hasn’t truly acted in years.


But when three spirits representing the places and ambitions closest to her heart pay her a visit, Ebenezer just might find a reason to end her life???or a reason to keep going.


Set during the global recession, this retelling of Charles Dickens’s immortal classic A Christmas Carol explores the vagaries of growing up and exchanging old dreams for new meaning.






Purchase the trade paperback from Amazon as well as in ebook for Kindle and NOOK.

	


	





	

		
		
New Release – Zumaya Yesterdays – The Reluctant Commander
	


	
	
	

		
The Reluctant Commander


by Richard Patton


The Reluctant Commander


 


Some have responsibility thrust upon them.




The Neophyte Warrior Book 2


Twenty-two-year-old George Washington was pleased by his promotion to the rank of lieutenant-colonel and quite content to be the second-in-command of Governor Robert Dinwiddie’s expedition to remove the French from the Ohio Valley.


Then Joshua Fry, the mission’s elderly commanding officer, is killed in a fall from his horse. Washington, whose experience in battle is all but nonexistent, is suddenly in command of the Virginia Regiment at a remote field in the Allegheny Mountains called Great Meadows—and the enemy is coming.






Purchase the trade paperback from Amazon and Barnes and Noble as well as in ebook for Kindle andNOOK.


ISBN:    9781612710891


 


 


	


	





	

		
		
New Release – Zumaya Otherworlds – Mayhem in Manatas
	


	
	
	

		
Mayhem in Manatas


by Roberta Rogow


 


Mayhem in Manatas


 


 


A hireling’s work is never done




If people would only stop trying to kill him, Halvar the Dane might finally manage to do what he was sent to the island of Manatas to do—get the fugitive Leon di Vicenza on a boat back to Al-Andalus.


And he didn’t intend to kill two people before breakfast in the process.


However, once again murder and intrigue immerse the calif’s Hireling in more trouble than he ever wanted; and before he learns who murdered the pawnbroker, the mystery will take enough twists and turns to make a good man dizzy.






Purchase the trade paperback from Amazon and Barnes and Noble as well as in ebook for Kindle andNOOK.


ISBN:    9781612712550


 


 


	


	





	

		
		
New Release – Thresholds Imprint – Honestly, Ali!
	


	
	
	

		
Honestly, Ali! 


by Christine Marciniak


 


Honestly Ali Book Cover


 




Ali Caldwell thought her troubles were over, but she has a new one. She’s let her grades fall and now she’s on academic probation. She has to get her grades up or leave school.


Everyone is talking about an intriguing study system, but Ali realizes it’s nothing more than cheating, so she doesn’t use it. She studies for hours to get a perfect grade on her next test.


Instead of applauding, her teacher accuses her of cheating. To make things worse, the administration is certain that her boyfriend is the mastermind behind it all.


She needs to prove that not only didn’t she cheat, but Liam is innocent as well, before they both get kicked out of school.






Purchase the trade paperback from Amazon as well as in ebook for Kindle and NOOK.


ISBN:    9781612712499




 


 


	


	





	

		
		
ZP Author and Artist News for Oct 2014
	


	
	
	

		
News


ZP is working to update our ebook store so we can get download links for your purchases and some other fancy capabilities. The looks is just about there, but there’s still lots to do. Keep checking back and we’ll let you know when it’s ready.


 


Appearances


Roberta Rogow will be appearing at the 12th Annual Collingswood Book Fair Oct 11th in Collingswood, NJ.


Kim Baccellia will be part of KidLitCon 2014 at the Tsakopoulos Library Galleria in Sacramento, CA. She and two other authors will be discussing Finding and Reviewing the Best in Diverse Children’s and YA


On Oct 12, Roberta Rogow will be part of “Meet The Authors Day” at the Oldbridge Public Library in Oldbridge NJ.


Gloria Oliver will be at the Dallas Comic Con Fan Days Oct 17-19 in Irving, TX.


Lyndi Alexander is teaching two workshops October 18 in Erie, PA at the Pennwriters Mini-Conference: “A writer’s road trip 2.” There’s no need to pack a picnic lunch or look for a roadside rest, a luncheon buffet is included.


Alana Lorens is having a fundraising booksigning event in honor of Domestic Violence Awareness Month, in conjunction with Women’s Services, Inc., with her Pittsburgh Lady Lawyers series books, on October 28 at a local bakery. Two dollars from the sale of each book will go to the organization, which has a battered women’s shelter, counseling and much more to help survivors of domestic violence.


Arlene Sachitano will be signing books from her quilt mystery series The Harriet Truman/Loose Threads Mysteries at the International Quilt Festival in Houston, TX from Oct 29 thru Nov 2.


Book Trailers


 


A new feature! We’ll try to post a different book trailer to the front page each month along with the news and monthly appearances.


This month is a book trailer for Gloria Oliver’s In the Service of Samurai.


 



	


	





	

		
		
Cover Reveal – Honestly Ali!
	


	
	
	

		
From Zumaya Thresholds Imprint – the 3rd in the Ali Caldwell series by Christine Marciniak


Cover by Katelin Moul


 


Honestly Ali Book Cover


 


Ali Caldwell thought her troubles were over, but she has a new one.


She’s let her grades fall and now she’s on academic probation. She has to get her grades up or leave school.

Everyone is talking about an intriguing study system, but Ali realizes it’s nothing more than cheating. Instead, she studies for hours to get a perfect grade on her next test.

Instead of applauding, though, her teacher accuses her of cheating. To make things worse, the administration is certain that her boyfriend is the mastermind behind it all.

Ali needs to prove that not only didn’t she cheat but that Liam is innocent as well before they both get kicked out of school.


 


Coming soon in Trade Paperback, Nook, Kindle, and other ebook versions.

	


	



	
		

	



	

		


		
	




		
			

			

		

		

				
		
	
						




























		
				
			
	
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