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‘Unexpected Friends’ Now Available!
Pocono Township resident and Shaggy Dog Productions Author, Sahar Abdulaziz has recently released her new literary fiction novel, Unexpected Friends, the third book in The Abernathy & Crane Series. In the story, she reintroduces her readers to Irwin Abernathy––former local librarian, book snob, proud loner, and overall grump. Upon retirement, Irwin opened The Abernathy & Crane Bookshop in town with his friends, who he now considers family. And then the unthinkable happened… Saying goodbye is never easy. During their long friendship, Cornelia Parish had been the bane of Irwin Abernathy’s existence. Forever minding his business and trying to run his life. But even in death, Cornelia seems determined to make…
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COMING SOON! Unexpected Friends, Book 3 in The Abernathy & Crane Series
No matter what life journey you’re on or the heartbreaks you have faced along the way, it’s never too late to rediscover true friendship. Saying goodbye is never easy. During their long friendship, Cornelia Parish had been the bane of Irwin Abernathy’s existence. Forever minding his business and trying to run his life. But even in death, Cornelia seems determined to make sure her best friend––former librarian, current bookshop owner, and interminable grumpy curmudgeon––doesn’t spend the rest of his insufferable days alone. Irwin is heartbroken. He loved Cornelia, and her death has left him shattered. But nothing––nothing–– could have ever prepared him for the estate attorney’s phone call on…
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Announcing a Special Deal on M.A. Moore’s The Stars to Guide Them
Get your free Kindle Edition of this new release from Shaggy Dog Productions author M.A. Moore on Amazon from December 5-7, 2020! The Stars to Guide Them is an action-packed thriller that combines an exciting story and full-bodied characters you can really care about. Astronomer Miriam Adler discovers an anomaly in a star map from a manuscript written in the 1300s. The map includes astronomical discoveries only made in the 20th century – almost 800 years after the map was created. In her search for the truth, Miriam puts herself, and a few unusual friends, in the cross hairs of powerful factions within the Vatican. The action in this book will…
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Belinda M Gordon is Named as a Finalist in IAN Book of the Year Awards for 2020
The prestigious IAN Book of the Year Award named Belinda M Gordon’s newest release, The Good Pharmacist’s Deadly Secrets, a finalist in the category of ‘Mystery’. The Independent Author Network (IAN) is a community of authors who are self-published or published by a small indie press. They have been presenting the Book of the Year award since 2015 to recognize outstanding works of both fiction and non-fiction. Entries are judged by experienced reviewers, authors, publishers, and editors. Works of fiction are judge on the following criteria: vibrant covers, attention-grabbing openings, memorable characters, crisp dialogue, captivating and original plots, and climactic, memorable endings. “Congratulations to Belinda M. Gordon, author of The…
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Mary Anne Moore Interviewed by Fellow Author
Mary Anne Moore was interviewed by Ralph Hieb, member of The Bethlehem Writers Group for their October 2020 newsletter. Check out how M.A. Moore views her journey from musician to scientist, and finally to an author, and how she continues to evolve and grow into her brand. Interview
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Let’s Connect is now available at Amazon and through Kindle Unlimited.
Shaggy Dog Productions, LLC’s most prolific author, Kelly Jensen, has a new novella already lauded by her fans as a lighthearted, entertaining read. Let’s hear a little about the book from the author herself—and don’t miss the excerpt that follows! I originally wrote Let’s Connect as a serial for my newsletter subscribers, posting a chapter a week about the dating adventures of a sad and lonely, recently divorced fifty-year-old. I thought the story would be fun, and it was. Some of Dan’s dates are truly awful—in a totally fun way. But when Dan began to actually connect with someone, the story deepened into an examination of not only what Dan wanted,…
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Abdulaziz Releases Book 2 in The Abernathy & Crane Series
Shaggy Dog Productions is proud to announce a new release by award winning author Sahar Abdulaziz. Place your order now to get your copy on its release date! COMING SOON! August 12, 2020 DEVOTED FRIENDS (The Abernathy & Crane Series Book 2) AVAILABLE NOW FOR PRE-ORDER! Grouchy former librarian Irwin Abernathy, presently the co-owner of Abernathy & Crane, is busy preparing the bookshop for the holidays. Meanwhile, his neighbor and nemesis, Alastair Brooke, lays dying next door. It’s no secret that Irwin and most of the town dislike the irritating antique dealer, but Irwin can’t imagine what nasty deed the vile little man did to deserve being murdered! Then…
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TOALC (The Older Adult Learning Community) Free Online Friday Lecture Series: Focus on Women
Dr. Mary Anne will talk about her latest book, I Have Become Death, a phrase from the Bhagavad Gita and repeated by Robert Oppenheimer as he witnessed the first A-bomb test in New Mexico. “I traveled to Egypt in the spring of 2010, only a few months before the Arab Spring devastated the region. The modern Egyptian doesn’t relate to the time of the pharaohs, except for the tourist dollars it brings in. But to travel there had been a dream of mine since we studied Egypt in my fourth-grade class. “My stories are character driven. My heroine is smart, but fallible, my locations exotic. I combine a little of…
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Gordon Releases ‘The Good Pharmacist’s Deadly Secrets’
We’re pleased to announce the release of the first book in Belinda M Gordon’s new series, The Findale Fae Mysteries. The Good Pharmacist’s Deadly Secret is now available on Kindle and in paperback wherever books are sold. This new series is set in the same world as to Gordon’s The King’s Jewel Series and yet the genre has changed. The Findale Fae Mysteries are urban/contemporary fantasy fused with a cozy mystery. Sloan, a fae from the original series is now living in Findale on Tressa’s estate in the Pocono Mountains of Pennsylvania. What’s different is she has a mystery to solve—the sooner the better. Here are a few comments from early…
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New Release from Susan Moore Jordan
The Case of the Chrysanthemum Murders, Book 5 in the cozy mystery series “The Augusta McKee Mysteries”, is now available for purchase on Amazon in paperback and Kindle editions! We’re excited to bring you an excerpt from this highly anticipated next chapter in Augusta and Malcolm’s story. McKee, former opera singer and professor of music for two Cincinnati colleges, is enjoying her idyllic European honeymoon with Homicide Detective Malcolm Mitchell––until the day a fellow faculty member at the Conservatory of Music, a violinist and member of the Chrysanthemum String Quartet, is found dead in the same Paris hotel where they are staying. Within a week, a second member of the…