Valerie Atkinson is a Mediator, Author, and Illustrator. She writes nonfiction and designs greeting cards. Her greeting card designs can be found at http://www.greetingcarduniverse.com/natashkasart

She serves as a Mediator for the Texas Department of Public Safety.

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The Unforeseen:

The perfect plan to disappear forever. No more cops. No more lawyers. In the end - freedom.

A restaurant full of patrons are enjoying lunch at their favorite downtown Kansas City lunch spot, when a group of armed men enter. The patrons had just become hostages. The elite group of mercenaries have but one goal: to hold the restaurant for less than five hours, until dusk. At sunset, the plan is for the hostages to be released. As the men and women flood into the street, the restaurant will explode and the mercenaries, along with their benefactor, will escape in the chaos created.

Simple enough but for a few minor details. Amongst the hostages is the hierarchy of Kansas City's organized crime; and watching them, four FBI agents. But the plan had accounted for their presence. In fact, the plan had covered every foreseeable contingency. However, the plan could not account for The Unforeseen.  

Amongst the patrons, a man named Logan and his girlfriend, Michele, on a lunch date celebrating an anniversary. Within minutes of being inside the restaurant, one of the armed men places his hands on Michele bloodying her perfect face, inciting Logan's rage. Unbeknownst to the armed men or Michele, Logan, is the world's most skilled killer for hire, who is now determined to avenge her. But he has to do so without revealing himself to the gunman, the FBI or most importantly, Michele.

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Deep in the swamps of the Okefenokee lives Hatchetface.

Betrayed by his friends, mauled by alligators and left for dead, he arose from his watery grave with superhuman strength, an indestructible body, and a vengeance as old and unstoppable as the land itself. Consumed with bloodlust, he patrols the swamps, protecting his home with an array of crude weapons.

But Hatchetface is just a myth, cooked up to scare the locals from venturing too far into the swamps.. or at least that's what everyone thinks.

Follow the story as hapless teenagers, land developers, police officers, and more wander a little too far into the darkness. Each of them will soon learn that the legend is all too real.

If you like classic slasher movies, you'll love the suspense, the horror, and the gore that can only come from Ernest Roberson, Sr.'s Hatcher!

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Sheri Chapman loves to laugh frequently and enjoys life. She loves to write multi-genre fiction. From memoirs to paranormal to horror to romance, she always has a computer nearby to write whatever inspires her. Being a part of Wild Dreams Publishing is a dream-come-true for Sheri!

Sheri has a few books on the Read-it-Before-You-See-It list. Wild Passion, renamed "Captive Heart" will be filmed this year (2019). Other books on the list include Werewolves Don't Like Green Beans (a YA coming soon), "Predatory Evil" (paranormal horror to be included in an anthology), and "A Killer, Revisited" (action/suspense to be included in a reincarnation anthology). More will come as progress is made.

Professionally, Sheri works as a teacher in Missouri Public schools and plans to retire in May of 2020 with thirty years of experience. She got her bachelor's degree and first masters in special education from Missouri State University. Later, she decided to pursue administration and got a second master's and a specialist degree from Lindenwood University in educational leadership. Instead of becoming a principal or person in a district's central office, she decided to raise her favorite animal: Pomeranian dogs. Sheri raises exotic colored fluffy babies and sells them to people who love to hold their little princesses or princes. She is licensed and inspected by Missouri State, USDA, her vet, and AKC. Someday, when she has less on her plate, Sheri would love to show her dogs.

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Cameron is your average, run of the mill, seventeen-year-old kid. He did have some random thoughts over the years that he wasn’t quite like others, but never talked about that with anyone—he didn’t want to be labeled a “freak.” Aside from that, everything about his life is about as normal as could be. He goes to school, has friends, has fun with girls at parties, and just enjoys his altogether normal life, until the night that everything is shattered.

Just before he turns eighteen, Cameron’s parents are murdered by home invaders wearing masks; and that’s when all hell breaks loose—literally.

Cameron is shoved head-first into a world that he never would have believed could possibly be real. A world where monsters truly exist, and not just the human kind, but the kind you read about in books and see in films. It’s up to Cameron, and a select group of freedom fighters, not only to save the earth, but also to save the galaxy and, along with it, his true homeland—Elyria.

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About Marina Makaron

​Marina Makaron is the author of Mashka and Mishka: Get trapped in a rainbow. She is also a fashion designer of her own brand and a winner of Best Print Collection and Luxury Lifestyle Awards. As well as a Mom of 4, a certified Ashtanga Yoga Instructor, and a pre-Certified Nutritionist. 

Mashka and Mishka: get trapped in a rainbow :Mashka and Mishka are siblings who can see each other only in the reflection but can never see themselves in the mirror. One day they wake up in a mystical land of singing sun near a skyscraper city of flowers, the Floreton. With the city's ruler, Tiny Royal de Vasil, they must save the magical land from Hue Burglar, who steals the colors in the night. In the process, they find secrets about the chanted realm as well as about themselves. Their adventures include flying over a bitting forest, escaping creeping shadows in a cabin on animal legs, meeting a golden phoenix-like creature, and so much more. Mashka and Mishka take on an uneasy journey to come back home, and most importantly, to find their own identity.

This brightly illustrated book takes a reader on an incredible ride while touching on an important message of gender identity and gender bias. It is a fantastic read for the whole family out loud before bed and a great personal escape while being curled up in your favorite lounge chair. Inspired by Eastern European folklore, this story fuses notes of history and modernity, country life and global cities from a global perspective.

"Mashka and Mishka get trapped in a rainbow" is full of colorful imagery, making it an entertaining book suitable for various reading levels.

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I know the answer to the world’s deepest secret,” Graham Newsdon, a functioning alcoholic and Harvard medical student and the protagonist of Into the Rabbit Hole declares in the novel’s opening page. After stumbling across a puzzling communication from his deceased Navy Seal brother, Graham must work to unravel a litany of secrets sobering in their implications not only for himself, but for the past twelve-thousand years of human history. Had he not, in his hungover state, opened the e-mail, Graham could have continued on his predetermined successful, if dysfunctional, path and never embarked on the paradigm-shifting journey that so loosens his grasp on reality and obliterates not only what he chooses to believe but what he trusts as fact. With the help of his long-term girlfriend, his quirky Mensan best friend, and his wild and athletic best girlfriend since childhood, he sets out to decode this complex cryptogram, which he soon discovers is charged with the potential to unhinge the very control that certain government officials are intent, at all costs, on maintaining. In the vein of Dan Brown, Micah Dank takes the reader on an electrifying hunt for what is real and what is possible, encountering along the way politics, conspiracy, fringe medicine, history, and language, and what it means to survive—thrive, even—when you have the weight of the world on your shoulders.

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BITCH HUNT

BY TAETRECE HARRISON In this riveting book, the narrator takes us into the insights of some of the most prestigious female attorneys and judges in the legal system. Bouncing from one perspective to the next, the narrator faces a crucial point as they reveal how these complex women handle the attack on themselves and reputation simply because of who they are viewed by others. As the book delve into the lives of each woman, the author reveals the complex dynamic between women in power. As we discover that education and the beginning of their careers are similar, we quickly learn that their conflicts are similar as well. While these powerful women deal with each conflict in their own individual ways, they all have to decipher who exactly is responsible for the conflicts they all seem to face.

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Author Denise Turney is the writer of the urban novels Love Pour Over Me, Portia, Love Has Many Faces, Spiral, Gada's Glory, Gregory The Lionhearted and Long Walk Up. Urban books author, Denise Turney, has more than 40 years of writing experience. She is a full-time writer whose works have appeared in popular African American magazines, diverse newspapers and women's periodicals such as: Essence, Ebony, The Network Journal, Madame Noire, America Online, Bahiyah Woman, Today's Black Woman, Parade, Sisters In Style, Your Church Magazine, Modern Dad Magazine, KaNupepa, The Trenton Times, Family Times, The Preacher's Magazine, Black Living, Princeton, New Jersey's Business and Entertainment Weekly - US 1, The Pittsburgh Quarterly, Pif, Q, The Trenton State College Literary Review, North Carolina University's Literary Journal and Obsidian II. African American author, Denise Turney, has also appeared on popular Christian and educational radio and television stations around the United States. Denise has spoken at major cultural festivals, writer conferences and colleges and universities, including Black Herstory, Spelman College, Emory University, Take Our Daughters to Work Day, Philadelphia Bible College and the Philadelphia Community College. She is a newspaper and magazine columnist and the editor of the literary periodical The Book Lover's Haven which you can subscribe to by clicking Subscribe BLH.

Denise host the international radio program Off The Shelf Books Talk Radio which airs on Blog Talk Radio live from 11AM-12PM on Saturday and 24/7 throughout the rest of the week. She has interviewed New York Times bestselling authors like Zane, Francis Ray, Roland Martin, Patricia Haley-Glass, Paulette Harper, Valerie Coleman, Tyora Moody, Omar Tyree and Tracey Price Thompson and Grammy Award nominee, Awiatka.

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After nearly 18 years, and two years of editing, my dark fantasy epic is ready to be released to the world. A mashup of Game of Thrones, Avatar the Last Airbender, and some good old Lovecraftian horror, The Man Without Hands (Suleniar's Enigma Book 1) is the start of an emotional, epic character driven story that follows a doomed people as they teeter on the edge of extinction, while the gods that rule their world prepare for the last war.

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