Salem author Denise Robbins is launching the release of her latest techno-romantic thriller Killer Bunny Hill with a book signing at the Toadstool Bookstore in Milford, N.H. on July 11 at 2 p.m. to 5 p.m.

A software engineering manager by day, Robbins integrates her knowledge of computers and technology into all of her romantic suspense novels. In Killer Bunny Hill, the plot revolves around the relationship of manmade diamonds, computers and laser weapons, giving readers a glimpse into the breakthrough science of nanotechnology.

“Nanotechnology is fascinating and is going to affect us immensely in the future,” Robbins said. “It is being hailed as one the greatest technological breakthroughs because it touches everything.”

In Killer Bunny Hill, a wrong turn down the Bunny Hill hurls the main character into a chilling race against a killer’s bullet. Robbins uses the majestic New Hampshire mountains as the setting, and incorporates a little known fact of underground tunnels in the plot. “The New Hampshire mountains are the perfect location to combine beauty, romance and intrigue,” she said. “I can’t imagine a better setting.”

Robbins will be joined by three other authors of various genres at the Toadstool Bookstore. They include Diana Rubino, Shirley Ann Howard, and Nora LeDuc.

Readers can learn more about Robbins and her other novels at www.deniserobbins.com.

From Publishers Weekly
Burrough, an award-winning financial journalist and Vanity Fair special correspondent, best known for Barbarians at the Gate: The Fall of RJR Nabisco, switches gears to produce the definitive account of the 1930s crime wave that brought notorious criminals like John Dillinger and Bonnie and Clyde to America’s front pages. Burrough’s fascination with his subject matter stems from a family connection—his paternal grandfather manned a roadblock in Arkansas during the hunt for Bonnie and Clyde—and he successfully translates years of dogged research, which included thorough review of recently disclosed FBI files, into a graceful narrative. This true crime history appropriately balances violent shootouts and schemes for daring prison breaks with a detailed account of how the slew of robberies and headlines helped an ambitious federal bureaucrat named J. Edgar Hoover transform a small agency into the FBI we know today. While some of the details (e.g., t (more…)

Author Pens Medical Thriller Book about new form of virus. Could it actually happen?

PASADENA, Calif. – The Butterfly Virus, a new book by inventor Victor Grippi, is the second book in his trilogy about a scientist’s unexpected discovery of a new form of virus that breaks out in the Southwest.

A fast paced techno thriller, in the vein of Michael Crichton, The Butterfly Virus takes you on an action packed thrill ride into the unthinkable. Dr. Daniel Lamb, a renowned genetic engineer working on a revolutionary breakthrough in cloning technology, is called into action when an unknown virus breaks out in the southwest. The team gains an ally in John Featherstone, an archeologist, whose work on ancient Native American cultures provides a critical key to the unfolding global events.

Why is the military activating Operation Cave Eagle?

Why are some people immune?

Will Daniel and his team be able to survive a global outbreak and save mankind?

Find out within the pages of: The Butterfly Virus: A Thriller


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The Butterfly Virus: A Thriller by Victor Grippi is a fictitious story about the discovery of a new form of virus that spreads from the Southwest, and how it affects the global environment.

For more information or to request a free review copy, members of the press can contact the author at victor@atomicwriter.com or at the author’s website at www.atomicwriter.com .

The Butterfly Virus is available for sale online at Amazon.com and through additional wholesale and retail channels worldwide.

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About the Author
Victor Grippi is an author and inventor who possesses a biometric device patent. He is a member of the Planetary Society, a member-supported organization that advocates space exploration, founded by Carl Sagan. He holds a bachelor’s degree in computer science and has developed computer software for more than 18 years. He currently lives in Pasadena, Calif.

About Hyperspace Publications: Producer and Publisher of books, ebooks, screenplays, audio and visual media that excite the creative imaginative mind of the world. Nothing is impossible!

The Scream is pleased to announce our ebullient 2009 readers for the Scream in High Park Mainstage:

Oana Avasilichioaei is a poet and translator who’s most recent book is feria: a poempark (Wolsak & Wynn, 2008. A collaborative work with Erín Mouré, involving authorial and translational impossibilities, will appear as Expeditions of a Chimæra fall 2009 (BookThug).

Wakefield Brewster has been performing in a musical capacity since age six and writing for the past 16 years; he has made his dynamic presence on the scene with no uncertain terms. Writing in a political yet lyrical voice and performing with audaciousness yet unseen, he has blasted onto nearly 700 stages in the past seven years.

Margaret Christakos is a poet and fiction writer living in Toronto whose work has shown consistent interest in recombinant poetics, process writing and seriality. She has published six collections of poetry and one novel and given readings and seminars from her work since 1989.

Peter Culley from Nanaimo, BC, has published four books of poetry, including, most recently, The Climax Forest (Leech Books). His poetry & writings on visual art have been appearing for three decades in a variety of venues.

Jeramy Dodds lives in Orono, Ontario. His poems have been translated into Finnish, French, Latvian, Swedish, German and Icelandic. He is the winner of the 2006 Bronwen Wallace Memorial Award and the 2007 CBC Literary Award in poetry.

Paul Dutton is a poet, novelist, essayist, and oral sound artist who is internationally renowned for both his literary and musical performances; a member of the legendary Four Horsemen sound poetry quartet (1970–1988), he has taken his art to festivals, clubs, concert halls, and classrooms throughout Canada and across the United States, Europe, and South America. Eiríkur Örn Norðdahl is an Icelandic poet and the author of two novels. He is also an avid translator of foreign literature. He works with performance and sound-poetry, and regularly appears at poetry and music festivals, as well as dabbling in the dark arts of the concrete.

Lisa Foad’s debut story collection, The Night Is A Mouth (Exile Editions, 2009), has been praised by the Globe and Mail as “a brand-new thing.” Lisa lives in Toronto and is at work on her first novel.

Susan Holbrook is a poet and fiction writer whose first book, misled, was shortlisted for the Pat Lowther Memorial Award and the Stephen J. Stephensson Award. She teaches North American literatures and creative writing at the University of Windsor. Her second collection of poetry, Joy Is So Exhausting, is forthcoming from Coach House this fall.

Ryan Kamstra is a writer of poems, fiction, and songs. His first book of poems, Late Capitalist Sublime, was published by Insomniac Press in 2002. As a musician he is also known by the name Scratch Kamstra, and his band, Tomboyfriend, is fast becoming a cult sensation.

Shani Mootoo was born in Ireland and grew up in Trinidad. Her acclaimed first novel, Cereus Blooms at Night, was published in fourteen countries, was a finalist for The Giller Prize, the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize, and the Chapters/Books in Canada First Novel Award

Andrew Pyper is a Canadian writer of fiction. His fourth novel, The Killing Circle, has been published in the UK, the US and Canada, having been selected as one of the notable crime novels of 2008 by The New York Times.

Adam Sol’s third collection of poetry, Jeremiah, Ohio (House of Anansi Press 2008), has been nominated for the 2009 Trillium Award. He is also the author of Jonah’s Promise (Mid-List Press, 2000), which won Mid-List Press’s First Series Award for Poetry, and Crowd of Sounds (House of Anansi Press, 2003), which won the Trillium Award for Poetry.

Hosted by Misha Glouberman

A fantastic lineup! Be sure to come and listen to them read from their dead books on Monday, July 13, 2009 at the Dream Stage in High Park.

About the 2009 Scream Literary Festival
The 2009 Scream, Canada’s oldest and strangest literary festival, will explore the imminent demise of books, book culture and all that readers hold dear. Faced daily with the decaying vestiges of books, it’s time to stand over the open grave. Join us from July 2nd to 13th as we wander through poetic laments, predictions, ululations and dreams of technological salvation.

Visit http://www.thescream.ca for a list of festival events and performers.

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The Scream Literary Festival is one of the largest annual poetry festivals in Canada. We remain committed to our mandate: to bring Canadian writers from all genres, styles, backgrounds, and communities to our unique stage.

Denver, CO and Bigfork, MT – Children of all ages are gobbling up The Turkey’s Treat, the latest release from Outskirts Press author Marie Metroke that mixes goofy holiday fun with important lessons about the importance of family.

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I just want my Daughter back , Coming to terms with Bipolar 1 is a compelling narrative of a normal everyday mother who lives with the turmoil of having a child with Bipolar 1- and the wide range of emotions that consume her and her family as this illness takes over.  Bringing to life the shock and pain that comes with recognizing that their lives will never be the same, Author B C  Levinson, opens her heart to describe the loss and suffering a parent feels when this illness engulfs their lives.  The trauma of discovering that this doesn’t just happen to someone else gives Levinson a whole new perspective on Mental Illnesses.

Humbled when she realizes that her daughter is the one with more grounded principles, Levinson shares her guilt and confusion as she tries to cope with one of her daughters heartbreaking decisions. Through trial and error, I just want my Daughter back; illustrates how through determination and love both mother and daughter find the way to a hopeful new beginning. Families suffering through the effects of mental illness quickly find themselves identifying with the writer’s experiences as they discover ways they too can come to terms with Bipolar 1.

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I just want my Daughter back: Coming to terms with Bipolar 1