From the Ashes of Courage    by J. Timothy King
Price: $3.97 USD. 53080 words. Published on January 20, 2010. .
Gail Bishop is a headstrong, driven, single-minded businesswoman, a successful independent professional at only 29 years old. But she still feels empty. Eddie Chase is a fun-loving real-estate agent who made a mint in the boom market, now fast running out of money. And their friends set them up on a blind date, unaware that many years ago, they were once married to each other...

The Proper Order of Things    by Tara Benwell
Price: $4.99 USD. 90120 words. Published on July 11, 2011. .
Inspired by the true life Connecticut circus fire of 1944, The Proper Order of Things is a coming of age novel set in the 1980s in Southwestern Ontario. With parents whose secret past haunts every limb of the family tree, and siblings who range from rats to copycats, Caroline is sure to face a difficult journey no matter which household she chooses.

The Proving    by Tom Szollosi
Price: $3.50 USD. 69170 words. Published on August 3, 2011. .
Edgar Lamp is no average mass murderer. What sets him apart is technique: he separates victims from their internal organs. Lt. Husky Martin, LAPD Homicide, must stop Lamp, who sees his ability to kill as a miracle, and remembers what his religious fanatic grandfather said: "The whole world wants a miracle, and the miracle is in the Proving." Lamp has a lot of proving to do, and he loves his work.

Creating Fictional Characters    by Lillie Ammann
Price: $1.99 USD. 9000 words. Published on August 7, 2011. .
Characters are the building blocks of fiction. Even in action stories, the action has to happen to characters. Phonetically, the word character begins with "care." Characters have to care about something for readers to care about the characters, and if readers don't care about your characters, they probably won't care about your plot, either. Learn how to create characters readers care about.