Book one in the Charlotte Diamond Mysteries seriesWhen Charlotte Diamond retired to Diamond Cottage near Maryland's eastern shore of the Chesapeake Bay, she thought she had left her life of crime-solving it, that is-behind her, and is struggling to find a new purpose in life. But the small waterfront community of Hopewell on the Choptank, with its wealthy artistically inclined inhabitants, is hiding old crimes and dark secrets beneath its outward quiet and affluence. A surprising number of people from the community have intersecting pasts and dark secrets that Charlotte is unaware of and that become downright murderous, coming to a head when blockbuster movie actress, Brenda Brandon, arrives in the village in full retreat from a recent tragedy in her life. Brenda also brings unexpected romance into Charlotte's previously straight life. And Sam, the neglected husky who has attached himself to Charlotte, knows more about what is going on than he can tell her, even with his howling.

By the Howling (Charlotte Diamond Mysteries)

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Stowe, Olivia

Mystery

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Salted Away (Koniotis Cyprus Mysteries)

Literature & Fiction

Drew, Gina

Genre Fiction

Mouflon Brigade (Koniotis Cyprus Mysteries)

Fowler's Folly (Charlotte Diamond Mysteries)

Skyline 2016, the third in a series of annual publisher’s anthologies produced by Cyberworld Publishing, showcases the prose and poetry talents of Central Virginia writers. There is no overarching theme for the works in this anthology, so each can be discovered and appreciated on its own context and merits. Over half of the works found here are works by Central Virginia writers that won or placed in various Virginia regional and statewide writing contests during 2014 and 2015. Also included in the anthology are other works selected from the portfolios of these contest selectees, and special contributor works by established writers in the region.

Skyline 2016: Prose and Poetry by Central Virginia Writers (Skyline Anthologies)

Prum, Deborah M.

Kessler, Gary D.

Honenberger, Sarah Collins

Kock-Sheras, Phyllis R.

Lancaster, Martha Jean

Solomon, Elizabeth Doyle

Ruggieri, Elaine

Morris, Brenda A.

Mirabella, Sigrid

United States

<p>Despite having traveled all over the world in the last fifty years, with extended residences in Japan, Thailand, and Cyprus, the author of this anthology kept coming back, in person and imagination, to the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia. He met his wife in Charlottesville, where they both attended the University of Virginia, and then, although drifting off in foreign service assignments with the U.S. government, the couple didn’t leave central Virginia before buying their own slice of paradise in the Piedmont foothills of the Blue Ridge and returning to the region again and again until finally retiring there. The twenty-six stories in this collection, written over a fifteen-year period, are all set within sight of this range of mountains, located on either side of the mountain chain, and extending from Front Royal in the north to Roanoke in the south. Most have won or placed in regional prose contests or are extracted from published anthologies. All were written with the presence of the Blue Ridge Mountains very much in mind.</p>

Shadow of the Blue Ridge: Short Stories from Central Virginia

Short Stories & Anthologies

An inspirational guide to lateral thinking when writing family and personal histories. Whether or not there’s a heaven or a hell, people will live on in the memories of those they’ve left behind. On that premise, along with the belief that we all have life stories, philosophies, and influences simply by “having been,” to pass on down to later generations—that we don’t have to have been celebrities—Gary Kessler offers up a collection of vignettes on his somewhat unusual and adventuresome life and the events that influenced that life. Most of the vignettes, in the form of essays, short stories, and poems, in this collection were entries in writing contests and/or published in anthologies. Others have been added to fill in holes on life-influencing events. The purpose of Of Me I Muse is both to pass on a slice of “who we were/what influenced us” from two generations before the author—to the extent they could be captured and preserved in the eleventh hour of losing them—and an encouragement to others to record in some fashion, the major points of their lives before letting them be lost to help keep themselves alive in the minds of their descendants. You don’t have to have been a celebrity to play.

Of Me I Muse

Biographies & Memoirs

Community & Culture

Skyline 2017, the fourth in a series of annual publisher’s anthologies produced by Cyberworld Publishing, showcases the prose and poetry talents of Central Virginia writers. The title of the anthology is taken from the Skyline Drive, the parkway skipping along the top of the Blue Ridge Mountains in Virginia and providing centering for the region in which the authors showcased here are living and writing. Thus far the editions have followed the seasons in cover image, with this being the summer edition. Other than the Skyline Summer contest works, there is no overarching theme for the short stories, poems, and essays in this anthology, so each can be discovered and appreciated on its own context and merits. Over half of the works found here won or placed in various Virginia regional and statewide writing contests between September 2015 and September 2016.

Skyline 2017 (Skyline Anthologies)

Black, David

Galloway, Stan A.

Krystosek, Joy Merritt

Lanterman, Susan M.

Dixon, Lori

Holden, Lois M.

<p>Galicia is a fascinating part of Green Spain, the northern part of the Iberian Peninsula, and sits in the north western most part, surrounded on two sides by the sea and on a third by Portugal. This short anthology contains writings about Galicia, including several pieces about the Ribeira Sacra, the Sacred Riverbank. Included are stories and articles about its people and its landscape, including the seasons in the vineyards. Wine is a liquid that flows throughout Spain, and in the deep valleys of the Ribeira Sacra region the grapes and their harvest hold an even more special place in the hearts of the people.Galicia is a also a land of close families and small villages that have existed almost unchanged for centuries.We hope you enjoy this brief look at an ancient land, one full of generous people and natural splendours, and agree that there is indeed a lot of good in a life in Galicia.</p>

The Good Life in Galicia: An Anthology

Travel

Rock, Eddie

Bush, Stephen

Hillard, Robin

Vincent, J. P.

Kessel, Steve

Europe

Skyline 2018, the fifth in a series of annual publisher’s anthologies produced by Cyberworld Publishing, showcases the prose and poetry talents of writers who live or work in Central Virginia or otherwise have writing connections to the region. The theme for this edition and this year’s Skyline writing contest is “nighttime on the mountain,” which some invited authors and poets have also adopted as the setting of their pieces. There otherwise is no overarching theme for the short stories, poems, and essays in this anthology, however, so each can be discovered and appreciated on its own context and merits. Nearly half of the works found here won or placed in various Virginia regional and statewide writing contests between September 2016 and September 2017. The anthology is made up of fifty-five works by twenty-seven authors, presented in four sections: fiction (fourteen short stories), poetry (twenty-nine poems), nonfiction (eight essays), and, since this is a writer’s anthology, a section on writing and publishing (three essays and one poem). Nearly half of the authors here are represented by more than one work and in varied media to showcase their writing skills. Each edition of Skyline has lifted a featured writer or poet for recognition in addition to the works of invited established authors and contest judges, which are placed at the top of category sections. Skyline 2018 features and celebrates three male poets: Stanley A. Galloway, David Black, and Jack Trammell.

Skyline 2018: An Anthology of Prose and Poetry by Central Virginia Writers (Skyline Anthologies)

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