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Amazing Authors Showcase

October 1, 1999

For those of you new to our ranks, thank you for dropping by the web site or for joining our mailing list. Your efforts to get the word out about this site have really paid off. With over twelve thousand hits on the site since its inception in August, the Amazing Authors Showcase represents an ever broadening readership, web-wide. We now have a broad spectrum of amazing writers, editors, actors and publishers from around the world who bring their stories to the site for your reading pleasure.

Please tell your friends about the site and give them a link or the following url so they can come and visit. The proper url (universal resource locater) for Amazing Authors is:

Amazing Authors on AOL

http://members.aol.com/df4pepper/writers.html

We have continued to add fabulous new writers to the Showcase. If you've not done so, drop by their pages and leave a note in the guest books. Then take a few minutes to read the stories we've posted for these writers. They are well worth your time.

OCTOBER'S FEATURED AUTHOR:

B. Colin Cubbage (BCW Cubbage@aol.com)

From her childhood home in Central Kentucky where she studied by kerosene lamps, B. Colin Cubbage traveled the world in route to her current retirement home in Colorado Springs where she lives with her husband Mike and two dogs.

Cubbage's debut book, THE PIT, available in electronic format from Cloudy Mountain Books, is an example of the change taking place in publishing due to the influence of the internet. Being a part of that change doesn't seem to intimidate this petite, red-haired grandmother at all.

She tells of spending a night in a Denver hotel room with nothing to watch on television and no nearby book store to satisfy her need to read. "Electronic books won't replace traditional printed volumes but will become an extension of the publishing industry. With internet access and electronic publishing you can enter a book store twenty four hours a day and exit with something to read."

According to Cubbage, THE PIT is classic pulp fiction meant to entertain the reader. She's short changing herself in that assessment of a book that takes a hard look at the cruel sport of dog fighting. Illegal in the United States, dog fighting continues to be a "big money" activity although attendance is a federal offense.

When asked where she goes from here, Cubbage stated without hesitation, "There are two books planned for character Kevin Drury and two others ready for publication. I've been writing a long time."

Reviews of THE PIT:

This fast action adventure novel is a real eye opener for both animal lovers and adventure seekers. The author weaves an interesting web of intrigue involving one of the little known 'sporting events' in America. It will capture the heart of every pet owner that has the courage to read this novel. A must read for the true seeker of adventure and all those concerned about animal rights. --Jim Grzych

Cubbage writes with an expertise and intensity that shuts out all except the written page. Don't have anything cooking on the stove when you read The Pit! --M E Morris, author of THE SAND CRABS, BIO STRIKE, LAST KAMIKAZE, STEALTH, and NORMAN H. SCHWARZKOPF: ROAD TO VICTORY

(Excerpts courtesy of Cloudy Mountain Books http://www.fictionforest.com/)

OTHER NEW AUTHORS

Teen Author of the Month, Jennifer (last names of our teen writers are not made public) (Maharet83@aol.com) lives in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida and is a very mature, articulate and talented 16 year old junior in high school. She is an outstanding student, aspiring to a college degree in chemisty. Jennifer is a band member who plays 5 instruments, and is into reading Anne Rice and science fiction. She is a computer buff as well, and her favorite things are her cat Sammie and being online with AOL.

Her amusing short story is now available for your reading enjoyment on the Amazing Authors site. Jennifer also has her own web graphics site at the following url:

http://www.angelfire.com/fl2/GraphicsByMaharet/index.html

ITEMS OF NOTE since the last newsletter:

Jon Baxley's (Wasp1946@aol.com) Arthurian fantasy, THE SCYTHIAN STONE will be available for purchase soon as a download, on floppy disk, or on CD from Cloudy Mountain Books. Check the CMB site for details: http://www.fictionforest.com/.

Edward TwarDokus' (Stage345@aol.com) western short story THE COWBOY'S LAST RIDE is now posted on his page for your reading pleasure.

OTHER NEWS:

The Writer's Club Romance contest for this quarter has been announced. Please check for details on the Amazing Authors site. Winners in this contest will be receiving their own pages on our site at the conclusion of the contest, along with a host of other prizes. Theme for the contest is the Y2K problem. For information, email Jackpoints@aol.com.

If you have news of your own writing exploits or something you think will be of value to the Amazing Authors readership, please send the information to be included with the next newsletter, which should be in the mail around the middle of October. By then, the Amazing Authors staff should have some exciting news about our rapidly expanding exposure on the world wide web. Check the next newsletter for details!

Until next time, we wish you all success in your writing and creative efforts.

The Staff of the Amazing Authors Showcase

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