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The Adventures of Jimmy Crikey in the Sky Islands (and beyond) by Wallace Briggs

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Jimmy Crikey is the orphan alien who chose to live on Earth.
Once bullied beyond endurance Jimmy developed his abilities to protect his new Roombelow home from the dangers that threatened.
Far above Earth, the Sky Islands are invaded by the galactic race of Zyrons.
It needs Earth’s four witches, the ancient Weatherman and the developing magic of the tiny apprentice witch, Jade, to overcome the invaders, with a little help from Jimmy Crikey and XRU.
The Weatherman disappears and the witches unite to search for him throughout the Solar System in Jimmy’s starship.
Their search takes them to the hidden caverns of Mars where stick-like beings called Ropians live below the surface of the barren planet.
The Ropians become an interplanetary threat when their need for water threatens Earth.
The supernatural forces of the four witches, the wisdom of the Weatherman, the knowledge of Jimmy and XRU, combine to challenge the threat.
Will victory assure freedom for the Weatherman?

Targeted Age Group: MG to Tweens
Genre: Children’s Audiobooks

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The Amazing Adventures of Jimmy Crikey by Wallace Briggs

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Beneath the very ground on which you walk and beyond the stars above your head are more worlds than you could ever dream of: there are monsters of which to be afraid, there is magic wielded by witches and sorcerers, there are epic adventures in worlds far across the ocean, and fearsome weapons which threaten to destroy everything.

Jimmy Crikey is a the alien child who chose to stay on Earth, despite the bullies. This brave soul overcomes and faces some pretty scary challenges. Solving mysteries and averting mayhem, his incredible courage allows him to free up his abilities to shine and rise above every challenge in his path on his way to discovering why he looks so very strange.

With a bright red mop of unruly hair, big blue eyes, a small snub nose, pointed ears, and enormous feet, poor Jimmy is ridiculed by the neighborhood children and runs away in search of a world where he fits in. Following a midnight flight through the forest, he stumbles into a lost, underground world called Roombelow, and magic, adventure, danger, and excitement await.

From the little lady who lived at the bottom of a well but didn’t klnow how she got there, to a starship that wants to take him home, trolls, little people, traders, and diamonite stealers, even water sprites, witches, helpful dolphins, and interplanetary warfare, Jimmy copes with it all and learns the biggest lessons of his life.

Targeted Age Group: 7 – 14
Genre: Children’s Audiobooks

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Tagged With: adventure, Aliens, Battles, Bullies, Children's stories, Fantasy, magic, MG/YA, Wallace E BRiggs, witches

The White Field by Douglas Cole

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The White Field is a fast-paced journey of a man, Tom, fresh out of prison and trying desperately to rebuild his life. But he is caught by mysterious, unseen forces beyond his knowledge or control. After his release from prison, he is dropped back into the world in the wastelands of the city. In the menial work afforded the underclass, he begins his new life among characters at the edges of society, dwellers of the netherworld such as Raphael, a former cop from Mexicali singing Spanish arias in the mists of the industrial night among drug addicts and crooked cops; Tony, a stoner scholar with an encyclopedic knowledge of history based solely on the intricate study of rock and roll; and Larry, the bloated, abusive manager trapped as much as his workers in a world of tedium and repetition and machines. Think, The Three Stooges on acid. Unable to reconnect with what’s left of his family, Tom embarks on a criminal path more harrowing than the one that led him to prison in the first place. Lured in by the nefarious, Thane, he slips into a plan that will leave him with no way back. And with no place left in this world to go but prison, he makes one last run for freedom. Will he escape?

Targeted Age Group:: 18-70

What Inspired You to Write Your Book?
Escape! And what traps us. The book is both a crime drama and a meditation on Plato's Allegory of the Cave.


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Tagged With: adventure, crime, Douglas Cole, drama, Family, literature

Shadow of Wolves by J.R. White

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Shadow of Wolves by J.R. White

A tortured gunfighter. A Navajo outcast. – And the Creature whose claws would stain the stones of the Mojave red.
Flush with raw silver and ruled by a baron with an iron fist, the tiny mining outpost of Shank’s Point is under siege by a sinister evil.
When the rising sun reveals the claw-torn bodies littered among the rocks, John Swift-Runner calls on his old friend, a vagabond gunfighter, to stand with him against the slaughter he knows will come.
But as their band of misfits hunts for the creature on the burning sands of the Mojave, they stumble into a generations old mystery that goes beyond shamanic curses and into the bloodstained pages of legend.
Can the killing be stopped?
And can a tortured gunman like Kit Barker – with a terrible secret of his own – prevail against something as savage and eternal as the Beast?

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Tagged With: action, adventure, cowboy, gunfighter, horror, J.R. White, monster, paranormal, werewolf, western

Amie African Adventure by Lucinda E Clarke

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Amie African Adventure by Lucinda E Clarke

Amie reluctantly agreed to accompany her new husband to go and live in Africa. Life was very different but she soon made friends and began to enjoy life. Then civil war broke out and she was left behind when the last plane evacuating the foreigners took off from the airport. Now, Amie was on her own, alone, and defenseless. To survive she sets out to walk to safety across the African savannah.

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Tagged With: action, adventure, Africa, east Africa, heroine, living overseas, Lucinda E Clarke, Survival, thriller, travel

The Mystery on Lighthouse Island by Robin Rowles

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Julian, Lucy, Anne and Stan are feeling excited about their summer holiday. Unfortunately, their initial plans have to be changed at the last moment – due to an unexpected event!
Luckily, their new arrangements are packed with lots of fun, excitement, challenges and some surprising adventures! Best of all: The four children discover a thrilling mystery on Lighthouse Island. Will they be able to track down the culprits? Will justice be done? It’s time to find out!
Join Julian, Lucy, Anne and Stan on their fabulous journey. I’m sure you won’t be disappointed!

Targeted Age Group: 8 – 12
Genre: Children’s Audiobooks

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Tagged With: adventure, audiobook, cozy mystery, family life, friendship, fun, holidays, kids, robin rowles, team-work

Never (Prequel to The Amber Isle) by Ashley Capes

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Never (Prequel to The Amber Isle) by Ashley Capes

Adventure? Check. Magic? Check. Sarcasm? You bet. Join Never as he hunts for the truth about his true name in an epic fantasy quest full of action and mystery – starting with the daring theft of a treasure map!

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Audio Book: Net Impact by Donald J. Bingle

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Dick Thornby is not Hollywood’s idea of a spy.

In his rough and tumble job there are no tailored Italian suits, no bimbos eager to please, and no massive underground fortresses built by evil overlords seeking world domination—just an endless series of sinister threats to the safety and security of the billions of mundane citizens of the planet. Sure, Dick’s tough and he knows a few tricks to help him get out of a tight spot, even if his boss accuses him of over-reliance on an abundance of explosives. But he’s also got a mortgage, a wife upset by his frequent absences on “business” trips, and an increasingly alienated teen-age son who spends way too much time playing in gaming worlds on the computer.

When a mission to bust up an arms exchange in New Zealand goes spectacularly bad, ending with the showy destruction of the Dunedin port facility, Dick is thrown into a maze of conflict involving Hong Kong arms dealers, cyber-criminals, Chinese government goons attempting to suppress computer access by dissidents, and even militant Maoris seeking rocket launchers to shoot down tourist-laden jumbo jets. Then a young computer expert back at the Philadelphia headquarters for The Subsidiary, an international espionage agency created in the aftermath of 9/11, discovers that the bad guys are involved in a vast conspiracy. Dick is forced to partner with the espionage neophyte to battle evil on multiple fronts, leading to a final confrontation that incorporates real-world conspiracy theories and cutting-edge technology.

In the end, Dick can save his partner, save his marriage, save his son, or save the world, but he can’t do it all.

Narration and voices by Bruce Pilkenton.

Targeted Age Group: Adult
Genre: Thriller

What was your inspiration for this book?
I used to play a lot of classic role-playing tournaments at game conventions–in fact I was the world’s top ranked player in the RPGA for about fifteen years. Not only did those tournaments include the traditional worlds like Advanced Dungeons & Dragons, Paranoia, Star Wars, and Call of Cthulhu, but some of the more overlooked spy-oriented systems like Top Secret, Timemaster, and James Bond. I also read a fair number of thrillers and watched a fair number of spy movies, but the spies were almost always either supercool experts at everything or shadowy loners. For Net Impact, I wanted to write about a spy who was just a regular guy. Sure, he would have some training and skills, but he would also have weaknesses and vulnerabilities. Plus, his family–yes, family–wouldn’t know he was a spy.

To further raise the stakes, I wanted to put this spy in a world no spy had ever really been in before. Fortunately, tech’s explosion has provided just such places to go–and the criminals and goons are already doing plenty of business there.

Take a look at the reviews and if they look interesting, I’d appreciate it if you give Net Impact a try, then add your own review on Amazon or wherever you usually talk/blog/share/post/tweet/write about books. When you wrote the book did you know you were going to offer it as an audio book?
No.

Why did you decide to produce an audio book?
Since my writing style is very cinematic, I thought it would be interesting to have an actor, like Bruce Pilkenton, who is superb at doing different voices and accents put together an audio version as a kind of poor-man’s movie of the book.

Also, by producing an audio version of my thriller, I could differentiate it from the zillions of other thrillers out there and put it in a much smaller marketplace where it would have greater visability.

How did you choose the reader for the book and the production company?
I’ve known Bruce Pilkenton for a long time and he is great at voice work, so I contacted him about the project. He sent an audition file and was great at working with me to fine-tune the voices how I wanted them. Bruce has his own studio, so it made it cost-effective for him to do the whole project.

If someone is thinking about creating an audio book, what advice would you give them?
The acx.com process is pretty straight-forward and they are very responsive if you have questions. You can also get bunches of actors to audition to find the one who is right for you. What else would you like to share with readers about your audio book?
I’d really like feedback, both on the book itself, and on the audio experience. I have two other thriller novels and this first audio-book is an experiment to find out if there is an audience sufficient to make those other thriller novels into audio books, too.

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Link To Buy Audio Book On Amazon
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Tagged With: action, adventure, computers, conspiracy, Donald J. Bingle, Espionage, games, mystery, new zealand, spy, thriller

Audio Book with Sample: Two Shadows – The Inspirational Story of One Man’s Triumph Over Adversity by Charlie Winger @WingerBooks

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From the darkness of a six by eight foot cell in solitary confinement to the top of the highest peak in the Western Hemisphere, this is the captivating story of one man’s struggle to recover from a troubled past.

Charlie is known to his friends as an accomplished mountain climber and entertaining storyteller. Few know the story of his childhood, filled with neglect and abuse. Fewer still realize that he spent seven years of his youth in the shadow of juvenile detention and prison.

After relegating those painful memories to a place far from his current life, Charlie is confronted with his past as he tries to enter Canada for an ice climbing vacation with friends.

“Have you ever been convicted of a felony?” the Canadian Border Services Officer inquired. “No,” I responded with a straight face and sweaty palms. “Are you sure you’ve never been convicted of a felony?” he repeated. “Not since 1955,” I admitted, guiltily. So began my journey back in time to a place I thought I had forever left behind.

Charlie faces his past once again, finding strength in his unconquerable spirit, unique sense of humor, and the focus he’s found through his passion for mountaineering. He takes you from the tenements and alleys of pre-World War II Chicago through jails, reformatories, and the hell that was prison. From solitary confinement to the jungles of the Amazon, the heights of the Himalayas, the isolation of the desert Southwest, and many points in between. His story will move you, entertain you, frustrate you, and ultimately inspire you to turn the dark shadows of life into the triumphant shadows cast by the mountains you climb — whatever form they may take.

Targeted Age Group: 18+
Genre: Memoir / Adventure

What was your inspiration for this book?
For decades I had been tinkering with writing a novel based on my life. Being denied entry to Canada for an ice climbing trip several years ago brought many difficult and painful memories to mind — memories which I thought I had set aside for good. Finally, following a climbing accident at age 72, I found myself flat on my back for months. I had plenty of time to think and reflect, and plenty of time to write. I wanted to tell the true story of my life to demonstrate how extremely difficult obstacles early in life can be overcome. I’m proud of how my life turned out, and hope others can be inspired by my story.

Plus, I love telling climbing stories. When you wrote the book did you know you were going to offer it as an audio book?
No, that hadn’t occurred to me. I daydreamed of having a movie made about my life, but so far nothing’s happening in that department.

Why did you decide to produce an audio book?
The audio book was actually my wife’s idea. Diane is the “publicist” for all our books — even the ones with traditional publishers. Two Shadows is a book filled with tales, so it seemed to lend itself very well to audio. We imagine many climbers will listen to it during road trips and while backpacking, and hope it will get them psyched up for their own adventures.

How did you choose the reader for the book and the production company?
We’ve had good experiences with Amazon’s Kindle program and thought using ACX (another Amazon company) to search for a narrator would be a good fit. We listened to a number of audio samples to find voices and styles which seemed right for the job, then asked a few narrators to submit auditions. We intentionally chose excerpts from the book with very different moods: straight narrative, a dramatic mountaineering situation, and a humorous section. We’re very pleased with the results from using Paul Kelly to narrate the book.

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Author Home Page Link
Link To Buy Audio Book On Amazon
Link to Audio Book for sale on iTunes
Link to Audio Book for sale on Audible

Social Media:
http://www.facebook.com/WingerBooks
http://twitter.com/WingerBooks
http://pinterest.com/wingerbooks/

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