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SMASHWORDS SUMMER/WINTER SALE RUNS JULY 1 THOUGH JULY 31

 Scribbler Tales Volume One

In Desperate Measures, Audrey learns of Paul’s duplicity when human cloning experiments go awry. Forbidden Lore beckons Arianna and Ethan into a haunted cemetery where they are confronted by a gathering of witches with evil intent . Adrian must challenge his father to marry Rina or suffer the fate of star-crossed lovers in Forever Lost. In The Hourglass, Flair makes a covenant with the Devil to keep Brice alive. Aaron reflects upon his childhood as a military brat in Sail with Me.

Scribbler Tales Volume Two

Madeline’s personal feelings clouds her judgment in Broken Promises where she must choose between love and obeying the law. When the guilty walk, a vigilante executes the criminals in Deception. Endgame finds a government researcher running for her life after discovering a horrific CIA secret in the isolated facility. A modern day Don Juan’s life is turned upside down in Malice when he is falsely accused of rape. In The Portrait, Holliday is obsessed with a formidable ancestor whose spirit wishes to possess her soul.

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When a highly classified schematic of a prototype engine is stolen, the evidence points to an inside job in Hidden Lies. In Nightmare, Melanie’s childhood demons carryover into adulthood when she returns to her ancestral home. Detective Newport races against time to apprehend a killer targeting prosecuting attorneys in Payback. The Night Stalker is not a figment of Pamela’s imagination as she tries to convince the police that her life is in danger. While trying to identify a serial arsonist, a Fire Marshall suspects a highly decorated firefighter in Turning Point.

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When the daughter of a wealthy entrepreneur is kidnapped, Agent Richards races against time to find her in Abducted. In Cunning, newlywed Charlotte von Lichtner is obsessed with Transylvanian folklore when she encounters her husband’s mysterious kinsman. Enamored finds Lady Margaret besotted with a younger man whose intentions are suspect in their unorthodox relationship. Will the murderer succeed as he flees the crime scene in Reckless? Doctor/patient confidentiality is sorely tested when Sarah reveals the truth about her lover’s death in Safeguard.

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In her quest for immortality, Lilly considers a Satanic covenant before the portal closes on All Hallows’ Eve in Bloodlust. When Felicity meets exotic Seth on a flight to Luxor, her fairy tale vacation is threatened by tomb robbers in Illusion. Manhunt finds Tami and Mick suspecting the newest member of their team while planning one final heist at the Diamond Exchange. Dr. Brenda Lancaster must develop a cure for a mutated pathogen before mankind becomes extinct in Pandemic. Angela plots her husband’s death in Revenge, unaware it may cost her the freedom she seeks.

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The Briton and the Dane: A wounded Danish Viking is secretly given succor by a young Anglo-Saxon woman who is intelligent, self-sufficient and not afraid to follow her convictions. Gwyneth and Erik fight to remain together in this story of love, betrayal, intrigue and warfare set in ninth century England.

The Briton and the Dane: Birthright: Rigr demands his Birthright, but King Guthrum refuses his claim; thus, the bastard son assembles his army while his father summons his forces. The bloodthirsty warriors confront each other on the windless plains of East Anglia, and the fate of England is in the hands of the gods of war.

The Briton and the Dane: Legacy Danish Prince Sven instigates a seaborne invasion, fueled partly by blind rage when he discovers that his brother, Prince Erik, has sworn fealty to the Anglo-Saxon king. Amidst the ferrous reverberation of a naval battle, one or all must die, and the fate of a nation hangs in the balance, one final time.

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25 NEW Paperbacks of The Night Porter by Mark Barry to be given away FREE...

25 NEW Paperbacks to be given away FREE...

 

Have you contacted Mark Barry yet to reserve your copy?

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THE OFFER

Did I mention the word FREE? 
Have I emphasised that enough?

This is The Night Porter.

It is the first complete piece of work from Green Wizard/Mark Barry for a year. 

It is approximately 250 pages long.

Those who have read the book so far - four people, my most trusted confidantes and allies - have described it as my best written work so far. 

They don't bulls**t me either. They give it me good and proper if they think I need it, which is often.

Readers who have read my books, whether they like the stories I come up with or not, universally say I know my way around a keyboard. So that assessment means a lot.

The book is completely accessible. 

It doesn't have the dark humour and shocking stories of Carla nor the cynical relationship monologues in Hollywood Shakedown. 

It has none of the violence of the two football books - UV and BBVD -  and none of the blood-curdling horror of The Ritual. 

It is a puzzle, an experiment, an innovation. One of those lithographs of impossible design renaissance tricksters sold on Florence Market.

Every book I write, I try to do something different, something no-one else is doing. 

Here's a big (unlike me) boast:

I don't think you will see an Indie published book like this anywhere in Cyberspace. Probably not a tradpubbed one either.

THE STORY

It's set in a hotel, in November, in the fictional town of Wheatley Fields, (based on Southwell, near Nottinghamshire, deep in Sherwood Forest). It is set over two weeks, underneath steel grey clouds of icy rain.

Four writers, all nominated for an upcoming awards ceremony, come to stay. One mega successful romance author, a top US thriller writer who sells in seven figures, a beautiful young YA tyro on the brink of world wide stardom...

...and a degenerate, nasty, bitter, jealous, trollish, drunken (but brilliant), self-published contemporary fiction author.

The eponymous, pseudonymous and anonymous Night Porter is instructed by a secretive and powerful awards committee to look after their EVERY need, to ensure they make it through the two weeks to attend the ceremony. 

At the same time as keeping an eye on their wishes, antics, fights, relationships and never-ending ego explosions. And trying desperately to avoid getting involved himself.

It's a comedy drama about writers (and Night Porters!) with twists and turns, nooks and crannies, shadows and mirrors, alongside some of my bizarre preoccupations and obsessions. 

It casts a sometimes shadowy light on modern publishing, the writing business - and the people in it.

Writers who like to read about writers and writing will enjoy the book. 

They may not AGREE with the comments. In fact, I can think of two comments in there which are going to get us all in serious trouble, but it will make a writer think and react.

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THE DEAL

I (will) have 25 The Night Porters  to give away in PAPERBACK. If you want an e-book instead, let me know. I prefer paperbacks so naturally I assume everyone else does (I'm just kidding, e-pop kids!).

Contact me on any media - FB, Twitter, Comments here - and when it is published, in approximately three weeks, I will POD the first 25 people to respond a copy and send it to your place. 

I suggest that this will be in the UK and/or America as I will be doing this through Createspace. 

Sorry - I had some trouble before with sending a book to Nepal and it left a lovely reader disappointed.

All I ask in return is that you review it on Amazon US/UK and any blog you have. If you can lend it to a pal after, then all the better. Not arsed about Goodreads.

Incidentally. If you HATE the book and my characters drive you mad, if you don't get past page thirty, if my comments and analyses leave you raging, or you don't think its very well organised, written etc, THEN GIVE ME A 1*. 

Did you hear that bit?

A 1* is welcome if you think it is necessary. I won't troll you or comment. I'll just scratch my head like a man in a warm hat.

That is MUCH better than a no review. I am not swapping a book for a 5* review - I am swapping it for a review  OF ANY KIND. I firmly believe it is quantity of reviews that is key rather than quality. 

There you go, look, an opinion.

Believe me, it'll take you four or five hours to read. It is 250 pages long (ish) and has a magnificent sixties-retro matte Imperial Purple cover designed with Dawn of Dark Dawn Creations and it has been properly edited by Mary Ann Bernal.

It's the most readable and accessible book I have created. Hence the investment (I've been saving).

So. Contact me on FB, Twitter, my e-mail if you have it, or carrier pigeon. 

I think you will enjoy the book. I'm hoping so and so are all the characters in the book.

Cheers, Mark/Wiz

Incidentally, if I am overwhelmed with applicants, which has happened before, I'll just put names in a hat. Ta!

Life After Hell is only #99cents USD for a limited time at Amazon, Smashwords and iTunes:

 

Life After Hell is only #99cents USD for a limited time at Amazon, Smashwords and iTunes:

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"After being separated from my mother twice in my 10 short years of life, I was more than a little excited at the prospect of being reunited with her again. Unfortunately, my elation was to be short-lived when the visits to my bedroom started. Threatening to send me away again or turn the loaded gun he kept in my wardrobe on us all, he kept my silence.

It was to be another six years until I escaped the abuse of my mother’s husband and another 30 years before I was able to bring him to justice. Ironically, the one person that should have protected me and helped me fight to stop him, my mother, is still with him to this day."