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Dale Mayer


Biography

Freelance writer Dale Mayer lives in the beautiful Okanagan valley in British Columbia, Canada. She's multi-pubbed in nonfiction and is currently writing The Essential Series including The Career Essential Series(The Resume, The Cover Letter, The Interview), Lifestyle Essentials (Ergonomics for today's world, Raising the dyslexic child, etc.), and the Gardening Essential Series, (Beginning with Bulbs, Urban Farming, Gardening for Seeds, etc.).

Stay tuned as she adds to these and several other proposed series. For the last decade, she's written on all of these topics either under her own name or as a ghostwriter. As a researcher and technical writer, Dale has a wealth of knowledge she can't wait to share!

However, fiction is her passion. Here, she writes taut psychological suspense with romance and paranormal elements. She has recently branched out into writing both mystery and urban fantasy books for young adult with the occasional vampire book thrown in just for fun.

Where to find Dale Mayer online

Website: http://www.dalemayer.com
Twitter: DaleMayer
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    Blog: http://dalemayer.com/news-events/

    Books

    Family Blood Ties Set - 3 in 1    by Dale Mayer
    Price: $9.99 USD. 195330 words. Published on June 15, 2013. Fiction.
    This is a collection of the first three books in the series. This is not the whole series. Each book ends in a cliffhanger. Vampire in Denial Vampire in Distress Vampire in Design
    Unbound    by Dale Mayer
    Price: $4.99 USD. 86740 words. Published on April 17, 2013. Fiction.
    Go ahead. Take charge of your life. Move forward…if you can… Changing her future means letting go of her past. But Karin soon realizes bigger issues are facing her... Brian believes he's moved on…until he sees Karina in his audience…and realizes he's been lying to himself. Passion pulls them together, love binds them together, but a revengeful enemy determines to keep the two apart - forever.
    Sian's Solution    by Dale Mayer
    Price: Free! 12120 words. Published on April 9, 2013. Fiction.
    This 9k word short story introduces you to my Family Blood Ties series. This is Sian and Taz's story. The books in this series are Vampire in Denial, Vampire in Distress, and Vampire in Design. When a vampire discovers the human man she loves has been captured and hung in a blood farm, she goes against her own kind and risks everything to save him.
    Vampire in Design    by Dale Mayer
    Price: $4.99 USD. 81170 words. Published on April 7, 2013. Fiction.
    Left behind. Scared. And getting really pissed off. Tessa and her friends were supposed to be on their way home. On their way to safety. Instead she wakes up alone, with her friends kidnapped. Targeted and hunted, Tessa goes on the attack, desperate to find her friends and family. But her attackers want her odd genes and will do anything to have her locked down in their lab. Including kill her.
    Garden of Sorrow    by Dale Mayer
    Price: $4.99 USD. 120170 words. Published on March 31, 2013. Fiction.
    Her world is in chaos. His world is in order. She wants to help the innocent. He wants to catch the guilty. But someone is trying to make sure that neither gets what they want.
    Career Essentials: 3 in 1    by Dale Mayer
    Price: $9.49 USD. 95190 words. Published on March 9, 2013. Nonfiction.
    This book has it all! It's three books in one. The print copy is over 375 pages. This compilation includes the three Career Essential books - The Resume, The Cover Letter, The Interview. Learn everything you need to know right from creating a dynamite resume, a compelling cover letter to great interview techniques that will help you nail your interview. All three books are available separately.
    It's a Dog's Life (a romantic comedy with a canine sidekick)    by Dale Mayer
    Price: $2.99 USD. 31640 words. Published on October 28, 2012. Fiction.
    This is a NOVELLA of approximately 24,000 words = 70 odd pages. It's the first day of Ninna's job in the local animal shelter...and a dog is talking to her. Not just any dog...a fat, old, smart-alecky Basset Hound who says his name is Mosey. She can't quit, she needs this job. And then there's the yummy vet. Who turns out to live across the street from her in a much bigger house than her tiny ho
    Maddy's Floor    by Dale Mayer
    Price: $4.99 USD. 103450 words. Published on October 28, 2012. Fiction.
    Medical intuitive and licensed MD Madeleine Wagner thought she'd seen every way possible to heal a diseased body...then patients start dying from mysterious causes in her long-term facility. The terminally ill fight to get into her ward. Once there, many miraculously...live. So when her patients start dropping and she senses an evil force causing their deaths, she calls on her friend and mentor,
    Vampire in Distress    by Dale Mayer
    Price: $4.99 USD. 85950 words. Published on October 28, 2012. Fiction.
    Who you are on the inside is more important that what you are on the outside... But not when you?re fated to be a lab rat for the rest of your life. Sixteen-year-old Tessa, a vampire with weird throwback human genes, is an outsider in both worlds. Always the odd one. Now, imprisoned in a blood farm, she fights to free herself and rejoin her family and friends. Especially one young male vamp.
    Deadly Designs    by Dale Mayer
    Price: $4.99 USD. 71140 words. Published on October 28, 2012. Fiction.
    This is book 2 of the Design Series. Note - it has a cliffhanger ending! Drawing is her world...but when she's banished to a deadly new world and needs help, it's his world too. Her... Storey Dalton wants to go home - but something goes terrifyingly wrong and she ends up in her worst nightmare. There's no escape...not without Eric or her stylus. Then she finds someone who needs rescuing even mor
    Psychic Visions set - books 1,2 and 3 paranormal romantic suspense books    by Dale Mayer
    Price: $9.99 USD. 270830 words. Published on October 28, 2012. Fiction.
    This is the first three books of the best selling Psychic Vision series bundled together into one volume. This is a paranormal romantic suspense/thriller series. Tuesday's Child Hide'n Go Seek Maddy's Floor
    Gem Stone    by Dale Mayer
    Price: $4.99 USD. 79670 words. Published on October 27, 2012. Fiction.
    A juvie kid trying to stay on the right path stumbles into trouble... Gemma takes her camera everywhere. From juvie hall to a halfway home, the new hobby gives her a focus she'd never had before and... hope in a future. Until she takes pictures of something that could get her killed. And not just her...after she and another juvie girl are chased by a stranger to the halfway home that same night,
    Touched by Death    by Dale Mayer
    Price: $4.99 USD. 112280 words. Published on September 29, 2012. Fiction.
    Death had touched Jade Hansen once before, costing her an unborn child and perhaps her very sanity. A year later,she returns to Haiti with a team to recover the bodies of an American family from a mass grave. When the grave is opened, instead of finding peace, Jade is confronted with death and terror again. And the man who unexpectedly awakens her heart - is right in the middle of it all.
    In Cassie's Corner    by Dale Mayer
    Price: $4.99 USD. 65340 words. Published on August 26, 2012. Fiction.
    Faith and loyalty are tested as a young girl learns what it is to believe - in herself, in her friends, and in life after death.
    Hide'n Go Seek    by Dale Mayer
    Price: $4.99 USD. 97100 words. Published on October 22, 2011. Fiction.
    A twisted game of Hide’n Go Seek forces an unlikely alliance between a no-nonsense FBI agent and a search-and-rescue worker.
    Vampire in Denial    by Dale Mayer
    Price: Free! 63860 words. Published on August 11, 2011. Fiction.
    Blood doesn't just make her who she is...it also makes her what she is. Like being a sixteen-year-old vampire isn't hard enough, Tessa's throwback human genes make her an outcast among her relatives. Turning her back on the vamp world, she embraces the human teenage lifestyle—high school. But Tessa's dream turns into a nightmare when vampires attack the movie theatre and kidnap her date.
    Dangerous Designs    by Dale Mayer
    Price: $4.99 USD. 74380 words. Published on June 30, 2011. Fiction.
    (5.00 from 1 review)
    Drawing is her world...but when her new pencil comes alive, it's his world too. Storey Dalton, seventeen and lonely, finds a pencil on her way to school. It’s like as soon as she gets down one image, a dozen more are pressing in on her. Then she realizes her pictures are almost drawing themselves...or is it that her new pencil is alive?
    Tuesday's Child    by Dale Mayer
    Price: Free! 111060 words. Published on June 22, 2011. Fiction.
    (5.00 from 1 review)
    What she doesn’t want...is exactly what he needs. Shunned and ridiculed for something she can’t control, Samantha Blair hides her psychic abilities. Detective Brandt Sutherland only trusts hard evidence, yet Sam’s visions offer clues he needs to catch a killer. As danger and desire collide, passion raises the stakes in a game Sam and Brandt don't dare lose.
    Career Essentials: The Cover Letter    by Dale Mayer
    Price: $3.99 USD. 29140 words. Published on May 21, 2011. Nonfiction.
    The cover letter is often overlooked as a key marketing tool – the perfect introduction. It can be blank and uninteresting or it can offer the potential employer exactly what they are seeking. Don’t overlook this simple step that can improve your chances over other candidates. ake yours the one that brings the light of relief into the recruiter's eye as they see the perfect candidate.
    Career Essentials: The Interview    by Dale Mayer
    Price: $3.99 USD. 33550 words. Published on May 11, 2011. Nonfiction.
    Today’s economy is tough on everyone - especially job hunters. Reaching the interview stage is great, but it's critical that you interview properly - and dominate the competition. There is no room for errors, not with hundreds of solid candidates lined up behind you. This book will take you through the process step-by-step, showing you exactly what you need to know to land the job.
    Career Essentials: The Resume    by Dale Mayer
    Price: $3.99 USD. 32610 words. Published on April 6, 2011. Nonfiction.
    In our current economic climate, job seekers are facing tough competition. Often you have one chance to sell your talents to a potential employer. How? Through your resume - it’s the single most powerful marketing tool you have to showcase your skills and accomplishments. This book will show you how in an easy step-by-step way that anyone can learn. Isn’t it time you found your dream job?

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