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About Crime Scene:

After discovering a photograph in a book of a little girl killed by her own mother, a woman becomes preoccupied wondering how anyone could kill their own child. One hot summer day the answer becomes all too violently clear. A short psychological thriller from our Fingerprints line.

About the Author:

In their October 2006 issue, Unzipped magazine said: “You could call him the Stephen King of gay horror.” And Dark Scribe magazine said: “Reed is an established brand – perhaps the most reliable contemporary author for thrillers that cross over between the gay fiction market and speculative fiction.” To date, Reed has fifteen books in print, and his short fiction has appeared in more than 20 anthologies. His novel, ORIENTATION, won the EPPIE Award for best LGBT novel of 2008. He lives in Seattle, WA. Visit him on the web at www.rickrreed.com.

How to Purchase Crime Scene:

Crime Scene can be bought directly from The Untreed Reads Store. GreenPass members save 15%. You’ll also find the title at Amazon for the Kindle, as well as most of the great retailers you see listed on the right side of our website.

Not seeing it at your favorite retailer on our list? It will be there shortly! It sometimes may take our distributors a week or two from release to post the title.

Be sure to check out our complete catalog of titles by visiting the new OUR TITLES tab at the top of our homepage.

All Untreed Reads titles are available for every platform and device, including the iPad, nook and Kindle. All titles are compatible with all reading applications. Title selection at individual retailers may vary depending on what they choose to carry.

About Catch a Killer by the Toe:

Marshal Sam Catlin’s attempts to keep order in the unruly Western town of Fairplay are becoming more challenging by the day. First is the discovery of the body of Caleb Tinker. Then, the local beggar is nearly killed and one of his oppressors turns up dead. When his investigation reveals the events may be related, Catlin finds he’d better solve the cases soon…or risk becoming the next corpse.

About the Author:

Pete Peterson is the author of The Relentless Gun, Reckoning At Raindance and A Dark Trail Winding, all published by Avalon Books. A fourth novel, Mark Of The Serpent, is available in softcover from PublishAmerica and as an audio book under the title of Black Clouds And Epitaphs. It will be released as an ebook by Untreed Reads in 2010.

He is a member of Western Writers Of America and an award-winning artist, painting scenes of the American West he loves.

Pete is the great-grandson of a Confederate veteran and de­scended from Cherokees who trudged the Trail of Tears. He is a devotee and student of frontier history and fiction, a lover of Western art.

How to Purchase Catch a Killer by the Toe:

Catch a Killer by the Toe can be bought directly from The Untreed Reads Store. GreenPass members save 15%. You’ll also find the title at Amazon for the Kindle, as well as most of the great retailers you see listed on the right side of our website.

Not seeing it at your favorite retailer on our list? It will be there shortly! It sometimes may take our distributors a week from release to post the title.

Be sure to check out our complete catalog of titles by visiting the new OUR TITLES tab at the top of our homepage.

All Untreed Reads titles are available for every platform and device, including the iPad, nook and Kindle. All titles are compatible with all reading applications. Title selection at individual retailers may vary depending on what they choose to carry.

Untreed Reads is very happy to announce that thanks to our partnership with Stacia J.N. Decker of the Donald Maass Literary Agency, Untreed Reads will be the ebook publisher for a new short mystery anthology tentatively titled Discount Noir. The anthology consists of super short/flash murder and mayhem centered around a very Wal-Mart/Target-esque backdrop.

The anthology contains works by: Patricia Abbott, Sophie Littlefield,
Kieran Shea, Chad Eagleton, Ed Gorman, Cormac Brown, Fleur Bradley, Alan Griffiths, Laura Benedict, Garnett Elliot, Eric Beetner, Jack Bates,
Bill Crider, Loren Eaton, John DuMond, John McFetridge, Toni McGee
Causey, Jeff Vande Zande, James Reasoner, Kyle Minor, Randy Rohn, Todd
Mason, Byron Quertermous, Sandra Scoppettone, Stephen D. Rogers, Steve
Weddle, Evan Lewis, Daniel B. O’Shea, Sandra Seamans, Albert Tucher,
Donna Moore, John Weagly, Keith Rawson, Gerald So, Dave Zeltserman,
Dorte Hummelshoj Jakobsen, Jay Stringer, Anne Frasier, Kathleen A. Ryan,
Eric Peterson, Chris Grabenstein and J.T. Ellison. The anthology was edited by Patricia Abbott and Steve Weddle.

Look for this title to be released in late September/early October.

About Kipling and Camping:

A displaced American and his British boyfriend, on a hiking trip into the mountains, find that the explorations of both wilderness and relationships have much in common with the works of Kipling. A short story from our Diversity line.

About the Author:

Sophia Deri-Bowen is a proud native Philadelphian, who packed up her life and moved to Wales not too very long ago. She’s still not quite sure how she managed it, but she now lives and studies in a beloved new country. Time not spent digging out from under a pile of research goes to following rugby union and baseball, knitting, and rambling as far and wide as possible. She is perhaps slightly too obsessed with old boats, the Welsh language, and finding a place that has a decent Belgian beer on tap.

How to Purchase Kipling and Camping:

Kipling and Camping is a short story in our Diversity short story line.  You can find this title by visiting The Untreed Reads Store. GreenPass members save 15%. You’ll also find the title at Amazon for the Kindle, as well as most of the great retailers you see listed on the right side of our website.

Not seeing it at your favorite retailer on our list? It will be there shortly! It sometimes may take our distributors a week from release to post the title.

Be sure to check out our complete catalog of titles by visiting the new OUR TITLES tab at the top of our homepage.

All Untreed Reads titles are available for every platform and device, including the iPad, nook and Kindle, and from nearly 50 retailers around the world including Amazon and Apple. All titles are compatible with all reading applications. Title selection at individual retailers may vary depending on what they choose to carry.

About One Mistake:

When Robert discovers a business card in a phone booth advertising astral projection lessons, he thinks he’s stumbled upon a way to improve on his ordinary life. Unfortunately, the instructor has much more sinister plans for his student. A short story from the bestselling author of Seeker and Off Flesh.

About the Author:

Welsh-born Andy Frankham-Allen’s passion for writing began with a love of Doctor Who. He’s been writing since as far back as he can remember, and, although unsuccessful, he wrote a Doctor Who novel for BBC Books in 1996 after an accident caused him to be out of work for four months. Following that, writing fell back into a hobby until 2001 when he began an ongoing fan-fiction series called Doctor Who: The Legacy, which carried on until 2006. This led to professional Doctor Who short stories in Big Finish’s anthology series, Short Trips, from 2004 to 2009. During this time he wrote an audio drama for Noise Monster’s Space 1889 series. In 2007 he created and co-edited a new eZine called Pantechnicon, for which he also wrote short stories in interviews. In March 2010 he self-published a trial-edition of the first book in his cross-genre Garden Saga, Seeker, to gauge the general readership it attracts. The book will be published in print in 2011 by Hirst Publishing, and available simultaneously in electronic format from Untreed Reads.

He has several stories in the pipeline for release over the coming months (both shorts and novellas), and is currently researching the second part of The Garden Saga. When he’s not writing, which isn’t very often, he can be found in a little glass box in Cardiff selling coffee and pasties (and making copious amounts of notes for his various writing projects).

How to Purchase One Mistake:

One Mistake can be bought directly from The Untreed Reads Store. GreenPass members save 15%. You’ll also find the title at Amazon for the Kindle, as well as most of the great retailers you see listed on the right side of our website.

Not seeing it at your favorite retailer on our list? It will be there shortly! It sometimes may take our distributors a week or two from release to post the title.

Be sure to check out our complete catalog of titles by visiting the new OUR TITLES tab at the top of our homepage.

All Untreed Reads titles are available for every platform and device, including the iPad, nook and Kindle. All titles are compatible with all reading applications. Title selection at individual retailers may vary depending on what they choose to carry.

When we hear the word “noir,” we’re usually whisked away to thoughts of Raymond Chandler, The Maltese Falcon, Double Indemnity and Mildred Pierce. But clowns? Well, certainly not the FIRST thing that came to mind, but after we received and read the manuscript for Huey Dusk our minds have broadened quite a bit. We hope you find this combination of humor and grit as appealing as we did. Untreed Reads will be bringing you more outings with our new, favorite clown in the months to come.

About HUEY DUSK:

Girl Scouts with guns. Maniacal mimes. Murder. Intrigue. Big floppy shoes. It’s all in a day’s work for Huey Dusk, clown and private dick. In his latest case, Dusk discovers there are plans afoot to rub him out. Can he locate his would-be killers before he ends up a puddle of greasepaint? Part noir, part humor and more fun than a three-ring circus, HUEY DUSK will change how you look at mysteries.

About The Author:

Whit Howland resides with his wife and their two cats in Godfrey Illinois. He is an avid reader of crime fiction and his favorite authors include, Donald E. Westlake (Richard Stark), Joe R. Lansdale, James Ellroy and Mickey Spillane. He looks forward to bringing you future stories about Huey Dusk.

How to Buy HUEY DUSK:

Huey Dusk can be bought directly from The Untreed Reads Store. GreenPass members save 15%. You’ll also find the title at Amazon for the Kindle, as well as most of the great retailers you see listed on the right side of our website.

Not seeing it at your favorite retailer on our list? It will be there shortly! It sometimes may take our distributors a week from release to post the title.

Be sure to check out our complete catalog of titles by visiting the new OUR TITLES tab at the top of our homepage.

All Untreed Reads titles are available for every platform and device, including the iPad, nook and Kindle. All titles are compatible with all reading applications. Title selection at individual retailers may vary depending on what they choose to carry.

We’d like to welcome Trevor Price to the lineup of authors here at Untreed Reads. Postmodern Medicine is Trevor’s first release with us, and we were extremely impressed. Equal parts satire and social commentary, Postmodern is a fictional look at the breakdown of society in the name of earning a buck. We have no doubt people will be discussing the ideas in this work for some time to come.

About Postmodern Medicine:

Ayeshia Smith has died, her organs donated to recipients around the country. FromBirth Ltd. and its leader Dr. Groome intend to profit from her death by creating a business of harvesting and donating organs. In an effort to increase the number of people willing to sign up to be a part of the venture, Mr. Mardin is hired to create a video for promotion of the company.

In the process of making the film and interviewing those who received her organs, Mardin realizes those who benefitted aren’t as gracious as (or grateful to) their donor. In the battle of profits vs. humanity, will anyone even remember Ayeshia Smith?

Author Trevor Price provides a timely, satirical commentary about the potential future of medicine in the world, and the sacrifice of humanity in the name of turning a profit.

About the Author:

Growing up in the industrial wasteland of the Midlands, moving to London was inevitable. After having worked in London in the Printing and I.T. sector, Trevor enjoys a much more sedate pace of life in rural Shropshire with his two great loves, his wife and his bees. Writing and beekeeping are the closest things to work he does these days. He also enjoys watching horror films and chewing over ancient Greek texts whilst munching his wife’s homemade cakes.

How To Purchase Postmodern Medicine:

Postmodern Medicine can be found and bought directly from The Untreed Reads Store. GreenPass members save 15%. You’ll also find the title at Amazon for the Kindle, as well as most of the great retailers you see listed on the right side of our website.

Not seeing it at your favorite retailer on our list? It will be there shortly! It sometimes may take our distributors a week from release to post the title.

Be sure to check out our complete catalog of titles by visiting the new OUR TITLES tab at the top of our homepage.

All Untreed Reads titles are available for every platform and device, including the iPad, nook and Kindle. All titles are compatible with all reading applications. Title selection at individual retailers may vary depending on what they choose to carry.

We’d like to welcome author Aaron Posey to the Untreed Reads family. The Warehouse is his first release with us, and at only $0.99 it’s a great way to experience this terrific new talent.

About The Warehouse:

A young policeman, anxious to make Detective, goes undercover on a drug bust. Will he live long enough to reach his promotion? Flash fiction from our Fingerprints mystery/thriller short story line.

About the Author:

Aaron was born and raised in Indiana and attended Purdue University where he studied Political Science.  He opted out of a degree for the stability that any writer/musician is entitled to.  After spending the better part of a year hitchhiking across the country honing his writing skills, he’s now back where it all began, pursuing markets for many of his other short stories and putting the finishing touches on both of his novels in progress.  He is currently writing songs for an upcoming album and praying the utilities don’t get turned off.

How to Purchase The Warehouse:

The Warehouse is part of our Fingerprints mystery/thriller short story line. You can find this title and the others in the line by visiting The Untreed Reads Store. GreenPass members save 15%. You’ll also find the title at Amazon for the Kindle, as well as most of the great retailers you see listed on the right side of our website.

Not seeing it at your favorite retailer on our list? It will be there shortly! It sometimes may take our distributors a week from release to post the title.

Be sure to check out our complete catalog of titles by visiting the new OUR TITLES tab at the top of our homepage.

All Untreed Reads titles are available for every platform and device, including the iPad, nook and Kindle. All titles are compatible with all reading applications. Title selection at individual retailers may vary depending on what they choose to carry.

The wait is over! Diary Entry #4 has been released in the bestselling series The Zagzagel Diaries. Author Bryl R. Tyne has announced there are only two Diary Entries remaining, so get in on the series now before it reaches its dramatic conclusion!

About The Zagzagel Diaries: Lost

The angel Zagzagel finds himself under direct orders from Big Papa himself to do his job and not interfere with fate’s outcome for his charge Charley. Charley’s had her own share of issues and loss in her life, and Zag’s pretty sure she deserves a break this time. Unable to follow the orders from Above, Zagzagel begins to realize that he may not be able to fulfill his duties much longer. Can he help Charley find closure and peace in his own way, or is it time to give up his wings? This is Diary Entry #4 of 6.The End Is Near!

About Author Bryl R. Tyne

BRYL R. TYNE is a wrangler by nature and a writer by choice. Balancing as many pronouns as hats, somewhere between the evil day job, editing, promoting authors, and helping a benevolent Sugar Daddy raise the last few of seven kids, Bryl writes. Homoerotic romance is a favorite, but many of Bryl’s stories cross genres. Comedy, Fantasy, Mystery, Sci-fi, Horror, even Westerns, Bryl’s tried them all.

How To Purchase This Title

“Lost” is part of the Zagzagel Diaries short story line. You can find this title and the others in the line by visiting The Untreed Reads Store. GreenPass members save 15%. You’ll also find the title at Amazon for the Kindle, as well as most of the great retailers you see listed on the right side of our website.

Not seeing it at your favorite retailer on our list? It will be there shortly! It sometimes may take our distributors a week from release to post the title.

Be sure to check out our complete catalog of titles by visiting the new OUR TITLES tab at the top of our homepage.

All Untreed Reads titles are available for every platform and device, including the iPad, nook and Kindle. All titles are compatible with all reading applications. Title selection at individual retailers may vary depending on what they choose to carry.

Today’s release is all about “new.” We have a new short story, a new price, a new review and it’s all from a fairly new author. Be sure to check out the five-star review this title has already received at Amazon, which you can view by clicking HERE.

About “A Daughter’s Love”

A young woman attempts to take care of her father who struggles with inner demons from his time at war. Can a daughter’s love overcome the ferocity of a battle being waged in the mind? A flash from the Nibs literary short story line.

About Lorraine Sears

In her mid-thirties, but trying to fight the relentless tide of aging, Lorraine tries to portray herself as responsible married mother of two to all but those who know her best.  Her imagination is still her driving force, and through the years she has formed a strong bond with it, and now it works for her as opposed to against her; the many notebooks littering her home are a testament to this long and often fiery relationship.

Lorraine’s  works have appeared in New Flesh Magazine, Pill Hill Daily Flash Fiction Anthology, 2011, Black Heart Magazine, Joyful!, This Magazine Will Change Your Life and Pond Ripples.

Read Lorraine’s blog at http://red-lorry.blogspot.com/.

How To Purchase “A Daughter’s Love”

We’re happy to announce that for our much shorter length works (stories that are under 2000 words), the new price will be only $0.99. We think this is a great way to get a taste of an author’s style without having to sacrifice your morning latte. If you like this story, you’ll also want to check out “A Summer Wedding” by Jesse S. Greever, which is also only $0.99 and available wherever ebooks are sold.

“A Daughter’s Love” is part of our Nibs literary short story line. You can find this title and the others in the line by visiting The Untreed Reads Store. GreenPass members save 15%. You’ll also find the title at Amazon for the Kindle, as well as most of the great retailers you see listed on the right side of our website.

Not seeing it at your favorite retailer on our list? It will be there shortly! It sometimes may take our distributors a week from release to post the title.

Be sure to check out our complete catalog of titles by visiting the new OUR TITLES tab at the top of our homepage.

All Untreed Reads titles are available for every platform and device, including the iPad, nook and Kindle. All titles are compatible with all reading applications. Title selection at individual retailers may vary depending on what they choose to carry.