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Back as a stand-alone ebook: Oakley is a lesbian, a vampire, and a stripper. She and her mortal lover Hollie have their issues, but Oakley's unlife is going well...so why does she find herself waking up chained to a chair in the basement of The Third Eye Gentleman's Club? Could it have something to do with her favorite pro basketball player, flamboyant, New Orleans-bred Johnny Lee Bayliss?

(Yes, I named a character after Timothy James Bayliss from Homicide: Life on the Street.)

"Oakley Falls" was originally published in the Vamps anthology from Torquere Press. Get the ebook for 99 cents now from these retailers:

Apple Books
Barnes and Noble
Kobo/Rakuten/Walmart
Smashwords
Tolino
Vivlio

Oliver's Famous Clam Chowder

Herbert: A Romantasy

Are you looking for an audiobook you can listen to with the whole family? Do you want to introduce your children to classic literature, help them gain an appreciation for books, and improve their vocabulary?

Aesop, according to tradition, was a storyteller who lived in Ancient Greece. This volume collects ten of Aesop's fables: The Young Crab and His MotherBelling the CatThe Town Mouse and the Country MouseThe Fox and the GrapesThe Bundle of SticksThe Lion and the MouseThe Shepherd Boy and the WolfThe Frogs Who Wished for a KingThe Rat and the ElephantThe Crow and the PitcherThese are all good lessons to learn at a young age, but not too challenging for kids to understand. Find this audiobook for 99 cents on the following platforms:
Everand (Scribd): https://www.everand.com/audiobook/712089234/Aesop-s-Fables-for-Children
Kobo, Walmart: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/audiobook/aesop-for-children-3?sId=fa7f94cb-4f8e-4cb8-82c3-d4bd43951de6
If you're in the market for something a little more adult to listen to and you enjoy nonfiction, maybe you'll prefer Northern Drinking.

Where did Anglo-Saxon drinking customs come from? To answer this question, John Ashton looked back at artifacts from Beowulf to drinking horns. The resulting drinking history is anything but dry.
"Northern Drinking" is a chapter excerpted by Ashton and James Mew's 1892 book Drinks of the World. You can find this audiobook for 99 cents from the following retailers:
NOOK Audiobooks (Barnes and Noble): https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/northern-drinking-john-ashton/1148106371?ean=2940194978496
Everand (Scribd): https://www.everand.com/audiobook/906020096/Northern-Drinking
Kobo, Walmart: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/audiobook/northern-drinking?sId=49df5acf-3519-4fa5-9ddb-d45dd8dcf39f

In this episode of Overdue Podcast, hosts Andrew and Craig discuss O. Henry's short story collection The Four Million.

If you like listening to O. Henry short stories, you might enjoy Art and the Bronco .


Apparently, I've never mentioned Overdue Podcast on this blog before. I'm surprised, because I've been listening to this books podcast for years. A brief list of some of the many, many books they've covered since February 2013:
The Amityville HorrorAnimal FarmBad FeministBunniculaCharlotte's WebThe Color PurpleThe Da Vinci CodeFifty Shades of GreyFrankensteinGone GirlGone With the WindThe Haunting of Hill House
The History of LoveHow to Win Friends and Influence PeopleThe Legend of Sleepy Hollow
Little WomenReady Player OneRosemary's BabyTill We Have FacesTo Kill a MockingbirdWuthering Heights
...You get it: A combination of classics and popular literature. 
Jokingly, I say that I theorize that Andrew and Craig of Overdue are secretly Ghost Beach, the dj duo named after a Goosebumps book. 

"We Didn't Start the Fire," Part I
Part II: British Beatlemania 
Part III: Julie S. Howlin
Part IV: Firestarters Podcast
Part V: Firestarters Podcast Continued
Part VI: Firestarters Podcast Continued Some More

[Verse 5]

Birth control, 
Ho Chi Minh
Richard Nixon back again
Moonshot, 
Woodstock
Watergate, 
punk rock
Begin, 
Reagan, 
Palestine
Terror on the airline
Ayatollahs in Iran
Russians in Afghanistan
Wheel of Fortune, 
Sally Ride
Heavy metal suicide
Foreign debts, 
homeless vets
AIDS, 
crack, 

Bernie Goetz

Hypodermics on the shores

China's under martial law
Rock and Roller cola warsI can't take it anymore...

 

In the mood for a Western? Stream Art and the Bronco by O. Henry, a Western short story available now on Kobo (Rakuten, Walmart) and 

Walmart/Kobo Link: kobo.com/us/en/audiobook/art-and-the-bronco-1
Everand/Scribd Link: https://www.everand.com/audiobook/906020046/Art-and-the-Bronco

Here's a sample:

That's my campfire from this past weekend, by the way. The husband and I stayed at a camper in Niles, Michigan. 

Back as a standalone e-book: Their vampire friends insist that werewolf couple Natalie and Matthew really must try Oliver's famous clam chowder. When the wolf pair meets the vampire chef, though, it's Oliver himself who's on the menu.

Heat level: Spicy. This is a male-male-female erotic romance.
Ending: Happily-for-now. This story continues in "Oliver's Good Night Kiss."

Oliver's Famous Clam Chowder is available for 99 cents at the following ebook retailers:

Apple Books
Barnes and Noble
Everand
Kobo at Rakuten
Smashwords
Tolino
Vivlio

Would you like to listen to a completely free short story on YouTube? Sample Grimm's Fairy Tales with the spookiest story in the collection, "The Youth Who Went Forth to Learn What Fear Was." Unlike Oliver's Famous Clam Chowder, which is definitely for adults only, the Brothers Grimm's folk tale is appropriate for most ages. Adults listening with young children should be aware that it mentions death, ghosts, and corpses. 

When the audiobook drops, all 60+ tales, in one collection, will also be 99 cents.

"We Didn't Start the Fire," Part I
Part II: British Beatlemania
Part III: Julie S. Howlin
Part IV: Firestarters Podcast
Part V: Firestarters Podcast Continued

Part VI: Firestarters Podcast Again is as follows.

Hemingway, Eichmann
Stranger in a Strange Land
Dylan,
Berlin
Bay of Pigs invasion
Lawrence of Arabia
British Beatlemania
Ole Miss,
John Glenn
Liston beats Patterson
Pope Paul, Malcolm X
British Politician sex
J.F.K. blown awayWhat else do I have to say?
[Chorus]We didn't start the fireIt was always burningSince the world's been turningWe didn't start the fireNo, we didn't light itBut we tried to fight it...

Available now as a stand-alone erotica ebook: "Post Op" by Erin O'Riordan. 

Liv Stenke prefers to keep a level head when it comes to romantic entanglements. When she meets the mysterious, and occasionally downright weird, Dante Sugar, all of her usual reservations are overcome. 
What exactly is Dante's deal, though? Is he even human?
eBook on Apple Books
eBook on Smashwords
Heat level: Steamy. 
Ending: Happily-for-now.

"Herbert" previously appeared exclusively in The Erotica Anthology. Read a sample here. 

Available now as a stand-alone erotica ebook: "Post Op" by Erin O'Riordan. 
Dr. Maggie Keller is a respected surgeon and a good girl. So why can't she stop thinking about her patient Joey and his beautiful boyfriend Max?
Heat level: Steamy. This is a guy-guy-lady menage erotic romance.
Get the ebook for 99 cents on Smashwords!Also available, and also 99 cents, on Kobo at Rakuten (for iOS and Android)And also available at Everand and Vivlio 

Joseph Stalin, 

Malenkov

Nasser

and Prokofiev

Rockefeller, 

Campanella

Communist Bloc

Roy Cohn,

Juan Peron

Toscanini,

Dacron

Dien Bien Phu Falls,

"Rock Around the Clock"

Einstein,

  
James Dean

Brooklyn's got a winning team

Davy Crockett,

Peter Pan

Elvis Presley,

Disneyland

Bardot, 

Budapest, 

Alabama, 

Khrushchev

Princess Grace

Peyton Place

Trouble in the Suez