Duane’s novel Sweetland is now finished, and the first query letters have gone out to agents. Another query will go out to TOR Books next week.

If you would like to read excerpts from Sweetland, or chapters from the second book in the trilogy, New America, you can find them on the Sweetland Trilogy website.

Duane’s novel, Sweetland has been with the editor for a couple of weeks now, and I am beginning to receive very positive feedback from her, and also from my readers. In the meantime, I have begun work on New America, book two of the trilogy. I have posted some of my initial draft on the Sweetland website. I would love to have your comments.

Our novel, Bartlett House now has twelve chapters online, and has received some very nice reviews from Web Fiction Guide. Check it out, it’s free to read and will be posted in its entirety.

We have decided to post our mystery novel, Bartlett House to the web in it’s entirety. The first eight chapters are now up, and we will release another one each Thursday, through May 7, 2009.

You can find it here: Bartlett House: A Will Adelhardt - Lucy Hidalgo Mystery.

We’ve posted a draft of the first three chapters of Duane’s new dystopian novel-in-progress, entitled Sweetland. He is now finishing up the second draft, and will soon be sending it out to selected readers for feedback. We hope you enjoy it.

The Eye of the Moon, a new memoir by South African native, Shelley Davidow, is scheduled for release in July by The Habit of Rainy Nights Press. Davidow is the author of several children’s books dealing with Africa and African identity. Ms. Davidow is a former resident of Oregon, and is one of the poets included in our first book, Raising Our Voices: An Anthology of Oregon Poets Against the War.

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