Musa Publishing
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"...And when a year was passed and the seasons came round as the months waned, and many days were accomplished, she bare nine daughters, all of one
mind, whose hearts are set upon song and their spirit free from care, a little way from the topmost peak of snowy Olympos. There are their bright dancing-places and beautiful homes, and beside them the Kharites and Himeros live in delight. And they, uttering through their lips a lovely voice, sing the laws of all and the goodly ways of the immortals, uttering their lovely voice. Then went they to Olympos, delighting in their sweet voice, with heavenly song, and the dark earth resounded about them as they chanted, and a lovely sound rose up beneath their feet as they went to their father..." Hesiod, Theogony 1
The Muses, the nine beautiful daughters of Zeus and Mnemosyne who became the patron goddessess of the arts in Greek mythology, are frequently summoned by the writer. You hear it all the time. "I'm waiting on my muse." Sometimes, a beautiful woman becomes the 'muse' for a famous painter--like Emma, Lady Hamilton did for Romney. And, of course, the word "music" derives from "muse."
Is it any wonder, then, that we took the term "Musa" (Italian for muse) as our own when we started our own publishing company?
There are a lot of reasons to start a new publishing company. But, you may ask, what are ours?
Well, it's all contained in our mission statement.
At Musa Publishing, the author comes first. Period.
See, we've been in your shoes. The founders of Musa have worked in publishing for a long time. We are writers, editors, artists, designers, financial officers. We've seen the insides of the industry, both the good and the bad. And what does that usually entail?
The author comes last.
We could have said the story comes first. That, too, would be true in a way. The story is always at the top of the list. But behind that story is an author--a writer, working away in whatever corner available, who sweats and breathes and lives that story until it begins to stand on its own. That's why at Musa, we say the writer comes first.
So check out our submissions guidelines. See if this company has something to offer you. One thing we can guarantee. At Musa, the author--you--will come first. Whether you write spec fic or romance, GLBT or contemporary fiction, you will get the same attention to detail and the loving care of the entire house behind you. So if your heart is full of song and your spirit free of care, don't sit around and wait for your muse.
Because Musa is here.
Welcome to the journey.
Where to find Musa Publishing online
Trusting Sydney
by Helen Hardt
Price: $3.99 USD. 49410 words.
Published by Musa Publishing on February 13, 2013. .
Sydney’s back in Bakersville for one reason. She needs to win as many large rodeo purses as she can to help her parents run their struggling ranch in Nevada. She doesn’t bank on running into Sam O’Donovan. All the sparks they shared five years earlier are still there, but so much else has changed. If only Sam could understand the decisions she made during their time apart…and trust her.
The Dominus Runes
by Peter Lukes
Price: $4.99 USD. 90120 words.
Published by Musa Publishing on February 5, 2013. .
Thomas Gianmarco is a master at leveraging the perfect deal. But this time, he's the item for sale, and the art of this deal could change the course of human civilization forever.
Paper Thin
by Chris J. Peterson
Price: $4.99 USD. 74590 words.
Published by Musa Publishing on February 5, 2013. .
Corporate yes-man Frank Osgood is thrilled when new goldenboy Eric Sarobbin brings unmatched success to his paper company. But Eric’s morals are paper thin, and his taste for teenagers leads to a million-dollar cover-up. With Frank still reeling from the implications, Eric skips town.
When a reporter rakes up big-time dirt on Eric, Frank must keep the paper empire from going up in flames.
The Reluctant Wedding Planner
by Eva Scott
Price: $3.99 USD. 42760 words.
Published by Musa Publishing on February 5, 2013. .
Stumbling around in the largely female world of weddings Dr Camden James gets a lead on the go-to girl for wedding flowers - Georgiana Mac Intyre. Georgi, reeling from a very public breakup, is not interested in men in anyway shape or form. Not even super-cute vets - even when they are clearly interested in her.
Luck
by Homer Eon Flint
Price: $0.99 USD. 5450 words.
Published by Musa Publishing on January 31, 2013. .
Death has claimed John Carter, or has it? Something miraculous remains of him—his beloved typewriter. Not an ordinary typewriter but one capable of reaching beyond the pale. Who will be touched by the messages pounded out on ordinary paper?
Sinclair Summer
by Beth Bowland
Price: $2.99 USD. 37940 words.
Published by Musa Publishing on December 27, 2012. .
Behind the gates of the exclusive Sinclair Estates, twin sisters encounter secrets, lunatics, and preteen madness.
Shades of Blue
by Richard C. White
Price: $1.99 USD. 8500 words.
Published by Musa Publishing on December 27, 2012. .
Caught between a demon and a devil.Between the beast behind us and the one waiting for us, I don’t see how we’re getting out of this situation. But, I’m not going down without a fight.
Late But Not Never
by Stephanie Campbell
Price: $0.99 USD. 6190 words.
Published by Musa Publishing on December 27, 2012. .
Trinity Davis is seventy-eight years old and has never been married. She spent her whole life living and breathing her career, but now, after being forced to retire, she realizes how much she's missed. After seeing a brightly colored pamphlet for a dance at the senior center, she decides to go. What she doesn't expect is to meet the soul mate that she has spent her entire life waiting for.
Horseman Spell
by Cheryl Rhodes
Price: $4.99 USD. 61950 words.
Published by Musa Publishing on December 27, 2012. .
Pam never expected to be spending time at the racetrack again, but a romantic connection with Scott – her new next door neighbor and ex-boyfriend’s brother - throws her back into the exciting world of horseracing.
The Wiccan Haus: Unveil My Heart
by Nya Rayne
Price: $2.99 USD. 33740 words.
Published by Musa Publishing on December 27, 2012. .
He has three days to win her heart or lose everything...including his life.
Can the residence of the Wiccan Haus bring these two together or will this be a case they just can't help.
Welcome back to the Wiccan Haus.
The Teacher
by Sharon Maria Bidwell
Price: $1.99 USD. 13210 words.
Published by Musa Publishing on December 23, 2012. .
The life Marvis has led makes him feel older than his years. He is many things, but foremost he’s a teacher, and cannot bear to see the brightest of minds going to waste. When one incautious word could betray him, who can Marvis trust?
Slacker Demons 3: Dancing With Cupid
by Jennifer Stevenson
Price: $4.99 USD. 73050 words.
Published by Musa Publishing on December 23, 2012. .
He's the defrocked Hindu god of sensual love. She's his virgin amnesiac runaway bride. Will she give up her crusade for women's rights to join him in heaven...in bed? Can he revive her goddess memories before the defrocking curse fries him to a crisp...again?
Between
by Clarissa Johal
Price: $4.99 USD. 81760 words.
Published by Musa Publishing on December 23, 2012. .
As a young girl, Lucinda was able to see spirits. Now, a dedicated young veterinarian, she is committed to the idea that every life can be saved. As Lucinda is drawn into a bitter tug-a-war from the forces around her, she is pulled into a dangerous twist of past and present events.
Unplanned
by Sarah Biglow
Price: $4.99 USD. 91180 words.
Published by Musa Publishing on December 23, 2012. .
A prenatal yoga studio in Boston brings together four expecting women who forge friendships that will carry each one of them through their unplanned pregnancies—and beyond.
Tommy
by Darrell McBreairty
Price: $3.99 USD. 54920 words.
Published by Musa Publishing on December 21, 2012. .
Young teacher, Sean Jones, returns to Maine after embracing a gay lifestyle in New York City. Sexually confused and emotionally conflicted Tommy cuts an emotional swath through Sean's life and the lives of everyone who loves him. His inability to acknowledge his true feelings, creates a triangle of instability between love, happiness, and the comfort of being who you are meant to be.
2012: The Rising
by Joanne Hirase-Stacey
Price: $5.99 USD. 101820 words.
Published by Musa Publishing on December 21, 2012. .
Can one man stop the apocalypse?
Mac finds himself tangled in a chaotic double life of lies, deceit, and evil. He struggles to do the right thing, but will he succeed?
Sorrow Part 4: The Gelded Wolf
by David Pilling
Price: $0.99 USD. 6770 words.
Published by Musa Publishing on December 21, 2012. .
As the Winter Realm slides into chaos, Felipe De Gascur and his fellow knights don't get far before they are forced to fight for their lives.
Far away in Temeria, Sorrow and Bail must learn to trust each other if they are to survive the barren wastes.
The evil Raven Queen charges Colken with an errand, but his heart is not in it...
Five Golden Suitors
by Jennifer Ann Coffeen
Price: $0.99 USD. 6170 words.
Published by Musa Publishing on December 21, 2012. .
Given an ultimatum from her father, Lady Penelope Waveland is forced to choose a husband from a list of five lovestruck suitors before midnight on Christmas Eve. But the beautiful and headstrong Penelope isn’t the type of lady to quietly obey. She creates a list of her own rules that her potential suitors must follow in order to win her heart.
Strip
by John Bruni
Price: $5.99 USD. 102890 words.
Published by Musa Publishing on December 21, 2012. .
Desperate times call for desperate measures, and when a team of unlikely criminals band together for an audacious score, everything is bound to go off the rails. A broke strip club announcer, an ex-con bodybuilder, a meth-head drag racer, and a career criminal have set their eyes on the local strip club, where a safe full of millions of dollars in cash awaits them.
Girls of Bakersville 2: Treasuring Amber
by Helen Hardt
Price: $3.99 USD. 48640 words.
Published by Musa Publishing on December 21, 2012. .
What's a rodeo queen to do when her past comes back to haunt her?
Kissing handsome rancher Harper Bay to avoid a confrontation with her past isn’t on Amber Cross’s “to do” list, but sometimes a situation calls for desperate measures. She doesn’t expect the kiss to leave her breathless.
Finally Ever After: Perceived Love
by Viki Lyn
Price: $1.99 USD. 12690 words.
Published by Musa Publishing on December 20, 2012. .
Pride will be the death of him. When psychic Nate Coleman dreams of a murder, he knows it's a premonition. He can't forget the image of his ex-lover with a bullet hole through his chest. Nate has no choice but to confront William and face the skeptical scientist's ridicule.
Mrs. Roth's Merry Christmas
by Holley Trent
Price: $2.99 USD. 34700 words.
Published by Musa Publishing on December 20, 2012. .
Santa gets more than he bargains for in his marriage of convenience to the queen of snark.
All Gillian wanted was to pick up a third job so she could buy her preschool students Christmas gifts. She didn’t think she’d be the one getting picked up instead.
Her new boss, Nicholas Roth, is the big man in charge at Santa Incorporated. But the sexy CEO has a holly jolly secret.
Daughter of the Earth and Sky
by Kaitlin Bevis
Price: $4.99 USD. 70610 words.
Published by Musa Publishing on December 20, 2012. .
Some vows can never be broken.
Persephone thought she could go back to her normal life after returning from the Underworld. She was wrong. The goddess Aphrodite is born among the waves with more charm than she can control. Zeus is stalking Persephone and her loved ones, and Thanatos is no longer content with Persephone's silence.
He wants her soul.
Buried Biker
by KM Rockwood
Price: $4.99 USD. 65480 words.
Published by Musa Publishing on December 20, 2012. .
The cops have decided Jesse wasn't the one who raped sometimes-girlfriend Kelly. But can he convince Kelly and her father's biker buddies that he had nothing to do with it? And since he's already on parole on a murder conviction, he's the first obvious suspect when the real rapist turns up dead.
Typical Day
by Gary K. Wolf
Price: $3.99 USD. 38640 words.
Published by Musa Publishing on December 6, 2012. .
From Gary K. Wolf, creator of Roger Rabbit...
Every morning Joyce Williams plays a game called LifeMaster. In one hour, LifeMaster takes him through his day. Joyce then goes out and lives exactly the day he’s played.
Until the day his game cube gets destroyed.
His life goes into default mode. LifeMaster plays the game. Joyce lives the life. Then LifeMaster changes the game of life to death.
Lady In Deed
by Ann Montclair
Price: $4.99 USD. 64640 words.
Published by Musa Publishing on December 6, 2012. .
Piety or passion... What's a lady to do? Lady Mary Rutherford believed she would live her entire life as a nun. But when King Henry VIII’s reformist movement makes practicing religion a dangerous proposition, Mary is forced to begin a new life with a family she doesn't know.
Mary is anxious to prove she’s a worthy lady, she’s tempted by the rakish Trent into deeds most unladylike…
Finally Ever After: Wyatt's Guilt
by Sara Daniel
Price: $1.99 USD. 11430 words.
Published by Musa Publishing on December 6, 2012. .
Nicole DeMonde’s car breaks down the moment she returns to her hometown for her brother’s wedding. The cop who stops to help her is none other than local hottie Wyatt Truman, who slept with her then dumped her when they were teens. She has no choice but to accept his help. However, she knows better than to trust him with her heart twice.
The Devil and Miss Webster
by Julia Parks
Price: $4.99 USD. 68530 words.
Published by Musa Publishing on December 5, 2012. .
Eleanor Webster is never afraid. Not until the Devil invades her home and threatens to turn her world upside down. But what scares her the most? Losing her carefully guarded position and family? Or her heart?
Will the devilish Captain Stephen Ransom ruin Christmas, or will he prove to be Miss Webster's most cherished gift?
Passport to Phelamanga
by Michael Sutherland
Price: $2.99 USD. 20800 words.
Published by Musa Publishing on December 5, 2012. .
Grab your passport for the roller coaster ride of your life as you travel through five mind bending journeys that will shock you out of your comfort zone, and take you into the new dawn you’ve always been looking for, to the land of Phelamanga.
Twin Sense
by Lydia Sharp
Price: $1.99 USD. 12670 words.
Published by Musa Publishing on November 25, 2012. .
two boys + two girls = one big mess
As girlfriends of the Taylor twins, Layna and Sherri have only been friends by association. Without the twins around, Layna and Sherri are tempted to go beyond friendship status.Then Keith tries to win Sherri back, and Kevin apologizes for rushing Layna. Now she's stuck inside a love quadrangle that has her reaching for the consolation cheesecake.
Unforgettable You
by Marci Boudreaux
Price: $4.99 USD. 55130 words.
Published by Musa Publishing on November 25, 2012. .
Is their love strong enough to survive their real lives?
Desperate to keep her ailing mother-in-law, Doreen, in the woman’s home, Carrie Gable agrees to board a handful of Hollywood’s most elite actors at the manor. Despite her resentment of the demands being placed upon her, she can’t help but be taken in by actor Will Walker.
The Midnight Queen
by Jessica Penot
Price: $5.99 USD. 91550 words.
Published by Musa Publishing on November 25, 2012. .
Aiela has spent her entire life sheltered from the world. Her only dream has been to escape the quiet island life she's know and find adventure in the world outside. Aeila escapes to the University, a world filled with technological wonders and exotic people. But her own history is dark and the secrets behind her birth may destroy everything that hold Aiella together.
Finding A Man For Sylvia
by Margaret Lesh
Price: $4.99 USD. 60040 words.
Published by Musa Publishing on November 25, 2012. .
A well-intentioned but clueless romantic is determined to find love for her lonely neighbor over her exasperated husband’s objections.
Finally Ever After: Kissing The Bridesmaid
by Dominique Eastwick
Price: $0.99 USD. 10270 words.
Published by Musa Publishing on November 25, 2012. .
A single kiss can change everything.Callie Sherman has moved past her silly schoolgirl crush on Aiden Marshall. But she is still haunted by the one kiss they shared the night before he married her best friend.Now divorced, Aiden isn't going to let anything get in the way of his second chance with Callie. This time, if he has anything to say about it, will be their finally ever after.
Shaw's Consequence
by Ralph Hartman
Price: $4.99 USD. 93100 words.
Published by Musa Publishing on November 25, 2012. .
Marcel Shaw is an exacting man for whom success is a birthright. In his business and in his home, he expects loyalty and undisputed authority. He wields the silver spoon as a weapon, to a warped and selfish end, and his family is fractured.
Trapped in his shadow, his wife and three daughters live with truths denied, secrets untold, and hopes hidden.
Shaala and the Tiger's Daughter
by Marsheila Rockwell
Price: $1.99 USD. 7960 words.
Published by Musa Publishing on November 25, 2012. .
Having left the desert behind her, Shaala hears rumors of a tribe of northerners who hunt and steal magick from its users. Hoping their power might be enough to finally free her from her curse, Shaala seeks them out, but a favor that great requires a favor in return - one that might well cost the life of an old, dear friend.
A Reason To Stay
by L.S. Murphy
Price: $1.99 USD. 20340 words.
Published by Musa Publishing on November 24, 2012. .
Within minutes of arriving in her hometown after a six year absence, Julianna Markum runs into Pace Carter, the last person she expected to see. Pace was her best friend during high school, but she left town without telling him, knowingly breaking his heart. Now that she’s back to help care for her ailing aunt, Julianna wants to make things right with Pace. If she could only find the words.
The Birchman
by Sandy Hyatt-James
Price: $5.99 USD. 106410 words.
Published by Musa Publishing on November 24, 2012. .
A view of what Britain might look like, one hundred and twenty years from now, if its social divide continues on its present path.
Captive
by Vonnie Hughes
Price: $2.99 USD. 16810 words.
Published by Musa Publishing on November 24, 2012. .
When Alexandra Tallis sets free the attractive man her sister foolishly tried to hold captive, her actions lead not only to a love she never thought to find, but also to a horrific family secret that threatens the fledgling love.
Books
Jack Gorman Got Cut By A Girl
by Musa Publishing
Price: $5.99 USD. 37480 words.
Published on August 23, 2012. Fiction.
Jack Gorman would rather spend his time swilling brewskies, scoring with the babes, and watching football. Instead, he's been cursed by sword-bearing girl he harassed while on a bender.
Now, karma is dragging Jack's sorry ass across time, space, and alternate histories. The curse can be broken if Jack manages to learn his lesson, but Jack is nothing if not consistent.
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