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A Comprehensive List of All First Chapter Excerpts Posted at OnceWritten.comMay 2008
Yolanda Renee After a gritty Anchorage Detective, Steven Quaid, becomes involved with a beautiful widow, Sarah... 
Sarah Ulmer Have you ever been so fed up with parts of your life you wish you could take a sledgehammer and... 
Jacob LaCivita A struggling music critic goes back in time on a quest to save his sister from the relationship... April 2008
Judy Spurr TRAPPED will appeal to young readers who have struggled in school or had to deal with bullying. In... March 2008
Barbara Shine (editor) This unusual collection offers 52 short works by 11 remarkable everyday women. Writings are grouped... 
Cliff Ball The US government clones a famous scientist and he invents time travel so the government can change... 
Bill Haynes After 2000 years of imprisonment, Satan has been freed. Whose side will he join when the horsemen... 
Nash Black Writing as a Small Business is the perfect guide to help writers navigate the world of creative... 
D.L. Hale It's 1969 and life or death in Vietnam, but half way around the world, an elderly man is dying.... 
D.L. Hale It's 1947 in Tennessee Moonshine stills, bootleggers dot the landscape. Karen Quincy, young and... 
Michael Davis As a decorated Army Ranger, Eric Emerson is honor bound to defend the helpless, and trained to... 
Irene Steele Mildred Johnson is orphaned when her parents are killed in a protest for voting rights in the... February 2008
Terry Cloutier Everyone needs an escape from reality occasionally, but for Edward Fox, the fantasy world he... 
Michael Mordenga No one can breathe on the icy planet of Taros-Avros, but that didn’t stop colonization. The... 
Linda Taylor West Luke likes food a little too much. He wants to eat everything. When will he stop? Join Luke on this... January 2008
Diana Holquist Jasmine Burns has always wanted to know the name of her one true love. Her sister Amy is a gypsy... 
Michael Neill In his bestseller YOU CAN HAVE WHAT YOU WANT, Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) master trainer... 
Robert P. Theiss In his first book, Robert Theiss openly shares his spiritual journey which led him to develop a... 
Sabije Dervishi Veseli MYSTERIOUS SECRET is about a young girls soul that carrying a mysterious secret. This tragic story... 
Sabije Dervishi Veseli WHY DID YOU FALL IN LOVE WITH ME? is a unique love story, about a spiritual path one can take... 
Bettye Johnson The lineage of Mary Magdalene and Jesus has long been disputed, and now comes a novel based on... 
Paige Mercer Cummings A taut fast-paced mystery which adroitly shifts between the tumultuous events of the summer of 1964... 
Matthew Peterson Twelve-year-old earthling, Simon Kent, stumbles upon a secret that thrusts him into a bizarre... December 2007
Wendy Nelson Tokunaga Fresh-from-Japan Midori Saito gets lost in translation in San Francisco as she searches for her... 
Louise Lewis The author narrates the true story of her four-year journey of following messages received from... 
Tinisha Nicole Johnson SEARCHABLE WHEREABOUTS is the story of Rahkel Williams who’s trying to unravel the mysterious... 
Ludmilla Bollow This beautifully written novel explores the joys and sorrows of passion during the 1880's. ... 
M.W. Briggs THE SERAPHS is a compilation of time travel, alternate realities, parallel universes and alien... November 2007
Lily Sparkletoon Imagine a post apocalyptic world where only a few dare fight for freedom and of those who would put... 
Diana Holquist Pick out wedding dress and ignore psychic sister who says I'm marrying the wrong... 
Shobhan Bantwal Megha is sick with horror when she realizes that her husband and his mother are plotting to kill... 
Thomas E. Warner WE CARE ABOUT GOLF is a sequel to Mr. Warner’s first novel; he has increased his characters by... 
Dave Jeffers One of the immediate results of the 2004 General Election in the United States was the notion of... 
Scott Baker An extraterrestrial culture makes an urgent appeal to a powerful 17th century Ojibwe clan shaman... 
Rob Roberge In DRIVE, Rob Roberge brings together an eclectic group of characters bound by the Sarasota Sun, a... October 2007
Louise Shaffer Louise Shaffer follows her beloved novels The Three Miss Margarets and The Ladies of Garrison... 
Charlotte Barnes The book is a collection of poetry covering everything from love and loneliness to genetic testing... 
Anne Arsenault Real Solutions to Children's Health, is designed for busy parents who want health for their... 
Patrick O’Donnell Private investigator Phil Oxnard is called in to investigate a rash of robberies at Garwood... 
Miranda Mayer Aside from being forced to resolve such minor issues like figuring out why legions of dragons are... 
James Todd Cochrane A war has been waging for centuries; a magical and technological battle between good and evil. ... September 2007
A.D. Powell “Passing” For Who You Really Are: Twelve Essays in Support of Multiracial Whiteness is a manifesto... 
Jerusalmi Streete As I Tarry Along Life's Road is a collection of contemporary poems, which reflects various... 
Leona DeRosa Bodie One Is Fun follows a one-year-old as he enjoys the magic of daily activities until he finally says... 
Annie Grant You Think You’ve Got Bad Neighbors? When Annie and Pete moved into their new apartment,... 
Jonathan Damien A revolutionary airborne weapons system barely off the drawing board. A diverse and divided crew... 
Gary Val Tenuta Zeke Banyon, a Catholic seminary dropout, runs a homeless shelter in the old waterfront district of... August 2007
Jurgen Wolff More than just a how-to guide, YOUR WRITING COACH is a friendly coach and mentor, providing all the... 
Alfred M. Albers "In 1973, Alex Holloman got a job as a courier and met a wonderful lady. Suddenly, his world fell... 
Lani Diane Rich Carly McKay's life is going just fine until she produces a television piece on psychic quilt maker... 
Timothy Schaffert A failed erotic novelist; a hostess of prim sex-toy parties; an artist and a bookshop owner pursued... 
Mary Dombach Zeera is one of a dozen nubile young Argerians rocketed to Earth on a single-purpose mission: get... 
James Edwards Juliet's beloved Romeo dies for their love as does she. He chases her through time and awakens in... 
Jeri Doner The United States is a country at war. Andy Richardson sees enlistment as an opportunity to get... 
Barbara Shenouda For years, Canadian novelist Zlata Pierce remembered the horrible day when her Croatian family died... July 2007
Lynn Veach Sadler Lynn Veach Sadler weaves this coming of age tale with old wives' tales and a twist of menace to... 
Dwayne G. Anderson When a teenager from Los Angeles discovers that he is not entirely human, he becomes a social... May 2007
John Wills JUST A SEASON by new author, John T. Wills is a luminous story into the life of a man who in the... 
Rebecca Benston Rona Shively has seen a lot of things in her day, but nothing like the case brought to her by... 
Wayne L. Misner The poems help make sense of how people hold onto the thrills and memories of love, as they lose... 
Richard J. Lutz, Aloysius A. Lutz What kind of heroine did it take to build Twentieth-Century America? The people who built upon the... 
Tim Newman YESTERDAY’S FALCON opens when Gawain, knight of Arthur's Round Table, collapses at the portals of... April 2007Jerry Dickens Flashes of Life is a collection of eleven short stories. Though mostly fiction, many of my stories... 
J.A.Z.I. Hot shot detective Matthew Bediker has struggled with feelings of abandonment all his life. When... March 2007
Paul Alleyne, Emma Alleyne These Are Our Stories represents a compilation: a collection of poems, images, and two short... 
B. Gerad O'Brien A collection of short Irish stories that take you from humour to romance, from sad to sinister,... February 2007
Haydn ‘A chameleon, a liar, a bitch, a slut, a fag, King of Sleaze, Virgin Queen, a manipulator, a... 
Yvonne Jerrold Silent People: Hearing the Call of the Dodder is about the silent people who wander among us... 
Sam Moffie This hilarious novel explores Sheldon's desire to change his home life-and what happens when he... 
Judi Blaze A combination of mystery, suspense and romance, Beach People takes place on the Oregon coast where... January 2007
Nash Black Brewster County: Farm for sale, complete with brand new barn, old Corvette, and one dead body. It... 
Ina Albert, Zoe Keithley "Medical research demonstrates that when you write about what you feel, you feel better! This... 
Stephen L. Blain This is the story of Jim Spade’s humorous adventures and misadventures with eleven co-workers from... 
Edward T. Duranty The time period centers around the late 1950's when Newport was home to a large Naval presence. It... December 2006
C. Oakes Templeman Designed specifically to empower and educate business owners and organizational leaders, Templeman... 
Adra Young The Every Day Living Of Children & Teens Monologues is a collection of 51 actual events that have... 
Ciara Gold When a lone woman tries to raise a child alone in 1874, she discovers inner strength through the... November 2006
Eric Arvin A coming of age story with a supernatural bent, set on the campus of Verona College. The story... 
Brett Nicholas Moore Mother Goose wrote tales and nursery rhymes which captivated generation after generation. Her... October 2006
Christopher Ash When an arsonist arrives in Spartika City, both the police and Sean Hubbard, the costumed crime... 
D. Clayton Meadows It is autumn 1944. A German U-boat carries out a secret mission. Her course is north. She must make... 
Fran Silver A relationship between Franklin and a younger Meredith when fate intervenes......for the second... 
EllynAnne Geisel THE APRON BOOK provides full-color photos of new and vintage aprons from the author's collection,... 
Pierre Bateau Jacob Livingston is a young man with problems. After losing his parents to a brutal murder, he... 
Eduardo Santiago Like her native Cuba, Graciela Altamira is beautiful, defiant, passionate, and constantly... September 2006
Paul Spock Psychedelic Six is the story of Sylvester Wright, an insecure and immature young man at the... 
Lise Haines Beauty and privilege, a charming, handsome husband and two promising young daughters, money, a... 
Tichaona M. Chinyelu Join me as I weave words about the death of California and the path from Stevie to Sankara. Dig... 
Jackie Young If Love showed up bearing an IOU, what would you do? This is the underlying question and lesson... 
Dan Speers In exactly five days, a terrorist bomb will explode beneath the White House. With intelligence... 
V. Anthony Rivers Leesha Tyler is about to commit robbery when memories from her past start to consume her. Leesha... 
Jerry Cowling Political intrigue fueled by arrogance and a lust for power propel a Civil War Nightmare in which... 
Toni Johnson Gailia, a little fairy child who lives in a perfect world, has her world shattered after the death... August 2006
S.D. McKee The year is 2271. Jonathon Quinn, decorated war hero and captain of the flagship ICS Intimidator,... 
Anita Jefferson Turn an obstacle into an opportunity in one page. Climb Every Obstacle contains 101 everyday... July 2006
Rebecca Ruger Three short historical romance stories showing that some men will go to great lengths to get what... 
James Conroyd Martin A sweeping epic, AGAINST A CRIMSON SKY is an unforgettable tale of love, secrets, valor, and the... 
Carol S. Neumann The people of Larkspur have always enjoyed the simple pleasures that are associated with small town... 
Justin Zaza Men are all Murderers and Women are all Whores is a satire of a fictitious society that stereotypes... 
Gee Jae Arnold Life is a journey that will take us from the highest highs to the lowest lows, and back again in an... 
Hudson Owen THE ENDLES EVOLVING TRILOGY is a collection of related poems, a generational mythology written over... 
Lindy Hudis An innocent-sounding family reunion at an exclusive California beach resort turns into a weekend of... 
Suzannah Safi Alvairo, the handsome Spanish doctor, and Alaina, the wildly beautiful Australian, share a... 
Helen Downey A young girl in the sixties is out of touch with the Vietnam War, she is having those growing pains... 
Alma Bond CAMILLE CLAUDEL, A NOVEL begins with a prologue in which Camille Claudel, an old lady confined to... 
Marlys Marshall Styne This book is not a chronological autobiography, but a book about aging, retirement, teaching,... 
Judy Azar LeBlanc Happiness, fear, loneliness and love are all parts of a state of being that every person... 
Kerry Wood "Past Imperfect, Present Progressive" presents a gallimaufry of reminiscences by a vocal member of... 
Kenner Bisch During the ‘dog eat dog’ fighting in ‘the heat of battle’ of war, many things happen that normally... 
Debra Fulton White THE PAST Back at the University of Berkeley, the commitment to dedicate his life to... 
Victoria Howard Computer expert Skye Dunbar finds it almost impossible to put the events of the previous year... June 2006
R. Allen Downey Set sail for suspense when a supernatural ship goes on an evil mission. The suspense thriller... 
Lila L. Pinord Jessie Dancer is abducted from her home and held captive by a deranged mountain man when skye and... 
Bill Branley A novel about grief, hurricanes, hiking, Pablo Neruda, Ella Fitzgerald, and two Northwest baby... 
Mocha Sistah Lyrical ectasy as put forth by the pen of Mocha Sistah captures your mind, body and sensual spirit... 
Mike Leonard More baby boomers than ever are struggling to cope with watching their senior parents face the... 
Sweyn Plowright A handbook containing factual information about the known historical sources. It explains what we... 
Charlie Valentine It is America in the 1950s. Four different families play out their individual lives in different... 
Rosemary Esehagu THE LOOMING FOG is about life in rural Nigeria as seen through the eyes of an abandoned intersexed... May 2006
Gunnar Jensen Where do we come from? Who are we? Where are we going? It is important to understand our role in... 
P. June Diehl The writer’s world is both magical, the art of writing-and mundane, the craft. Journey with your... 
Sherri Fulmer Moorer Battleground Earth – Living by Faith in a Pagan World is an inspirational guide to applying... 
Macabee Dean One-liners, wisdoms, proverbs, quotable quotes--more than creative writing; they are a form of... April 2006
Betsy Gallup Eva knows all your secrets. She can tell the future, but she can't stop the string of murders... 
Raven W. Night Sometimes revenge is carried out beyond the grave. Two men, John Savior and Colonel Justice, are... February 2006
Charles O. Uzoaru, M.D. A West African Princess marries an irresponsible Commoner against her parents' wishes and pays a... 
Patrick Burke A powerful chronicle of a young Irish Catholic boy’s life in a small village in Southern Ireland... 
Liz DeJesus With this collection of poetry, not only has Liz DeJesus won me over even more with her writing but... 
Warren Thompson A fast-paced thrill ride through the Canadian world of covert and clandestine activities, from the... January 2006
Denise Skelton Benjamin Harrison, needs a private investigator. He meets adventurous, PI, Deanna Myers and is... 
Vivcooper The fast gun Sheriff gets fed up with an outlaw gang operating in his territory, so he and his... 
Mary Cunningham Best friends, Cynthia and Augusta Lee, or ‘Gus’ as she prefers to be called, are as “different as... 
Brenda Hill Ten Times Guilty is about a single mother's struggle for worth after a vicious attack. It's... December 2005
Kristi Sayles Jacob liked the attention he got when he told everybody that he had a pet monkey-until his teacher... 
Bettye Johnson A spellbinding tale of intrigue, historical information about Mary Magdalene, Jesus, adventure,... October 2005
Ian Duncan Smith Tony “Bono” Blair is a bit confused. He believes he is the famed British Prime Minister of the... 
Cynthia Wilder Supnet Cynthia Supnet, wife for 33 years, mother of 7 children, author of 7 books & founder of two... 
Sue Dent A vampire . . . A werewolf . . . Can two who were wronged make it right? Never Ceese is the story... 
Neil Davies Humans are being murdered on the planet Dirve. No one seems particularly bothered, except the... September 2005
Jennifer M. Wilson At the time of her death she was one of the most prosperous tavern proprietors in the colonies, and... August 2005
Joe McSweeney Is it his imagination or does there seem to be a clearing of the stale breath blowing from below? ... July 2005
Betty Sullivan La Pierre When it’s discovered Burke Parker might have been poisoned, the suspicion of guilt falls on his... 
Randall Towe The darkness comes because it always does. Now its time has come again. The endless struggle... 
Cindy Vega An exciting story about the young woman who worked as a flight attendant in a country that she... 
Leora Skolkin-Smith The novel is set in the Israel of the early 1960's. Liana's mother and aunt tell lively stories... 
Christine Hamm Discount Heaven: the latest poems by Christine Hamm. This is a dark and amusing collection... May 2005
Stephen Tanner In Tours de Farce -- Travel Travesties you'll chuckle through 28 chapters stuffed with the... 
Selena Robins The right woman. The wrong man. The road to Sabrina's destiny is lined with a mystical force. Will... 
Ian O'Connor The Jump examines the culture of big-time, big-business high school basketball by chronicling the... 
Paul Alleyne At the tender age of four, Traci Adams is kidnapped by a crazed drug dealer. Paralyzed by the fear... April 2005
Mark Barnes It is a game that 15 million people play for fun. But the men in Wall Street's newest league are... 
Dean Robbins Philip Cellars thought nothing interesting would ever happen to him. When he finds his friend... Denyce Porter Peyton This informative book was written for young people of African American descent. It offers brief... 
Liz DeJesus Hilarious and fast-paced, Note to Self deals with universal themes like loneliness, the... March 2005
Rob Roberge Nick Ray lives in a world where everything is for sale. University Ph.D.s, pig fetuses, bomb... 
Paul Tonks 'The Ajya-Na-Ku are coming, and should this rock fall the dragons will also turn, and this time the... 
Dawn Rachel Carrington Kira dreams of reclaiming the city the Timaran gods had taken from her at her birth and now, with... February 2005
Diana Wagman BUMP is the story of a trio of motorists and one policeman linked together by a tangled,... 
Derek Smith The Tecs are millennia-evolved humans who live on tall Spire that dominates the native City... 
Robert Farrell Twenty-seven-year-old Wendy Ahearn is a brilliant, world-renowned linguist. Her passion for music... 
John Schembra JUNE 1967- As Vincent Torelli stepped off the plane at Bien Hoa Air Base, he had a hard time... 
Judi Blaze As descendants of Irish Travelers, Maggie and her family are unable to change a way of life that... 
Ed Kovacs Maverick archeologist Dr. Sky Wilder has never been able to prove any of his outside-the-box fringe... January 2005
Barbara Elliott Carpenter Small town living at its best is portrayed in the pages of Starlight, Starbright…. The mysteries of... 
Terry Weide Come and meet a beautiful witch named Cassandra, and a young champion, Eric Leafstone, who are on a... 
Cynthia Borris Sexy, Complex and Satisfying! Something is wrong in Pelican Point. No, it's not the... 
Rose Senehi Nicky Sullivan can't turn her back on an injured animal, but this time she came to the island to... 
Wayne L. Misner The title tells us this is a self-help book. The author has us climb inside of the head of men to... August 2004
Dr. Bifford Debs Doctor Debs works in numerous concepts and issues while telling stories that demand the attention... 
Laurie Larsen For Cassandra Sloan, life smells like roses: her career is both financially successful and... 
Judi Blaze Raised by an abusive German Father and Sioux Mother in the windy railroad town of Deadrock,... 
Dr. Norman W. Wilson, Ph.D. Adam’s struggle during his shamanistic transformation, his search for his missing adopted father,... July 2004
Betty Sullivan LaPierre A bingo hall mystery!! More than a game ensues when Destiny Wilson disappears from the White Oaks... 
Norman W. Wilson, PhD. Even though he was nearly thirty, he still couldn't stop the gnawing in his gut. There had to be an... 
Leslie Schwartz Living in a small town in the mountains of California, Ethan Denton is a lucky man. Most things... 
James Conroyd Martin PUSH NOT THE RIVER is based on the diary of Anna Berezowska, a Polish countess who lived through... September 2003
Peter A. MacArthur A sex-spiced romp in pursuit of a diamond through Montreal’s west... 
Elizabeth Lucas Taylor After finding her husband with his lover, a distraught Lindsay jumps at the chance for a new life.... 
Jennifer Colt Meet Kerry and Terry McAfee—identical twin sisters who have nothing in common, save their red hair... 
Lorri Morgan Boom, cracked the thunder, almost immediately after the lightning had turned the sky from ink black... 
Paul James, Judith Hayes Forever After provides an easy-to-read, step-by-step approach that offers you practical... August 2003
Anoop Chandola An untold dramatic backside story of World War II from a remote Himalayan region of India that... 
Don Allen Beene This book takes DNA sequencing one step beyond, into the hidden world of the human psyche. It... 
Peter M.K. Chan The Mystery of Mind is a systematic and critical introduction to the philosophy of mind. At issue... 
Bogdan Tiganov Romanian For Sale is a bullet through the heart of society. It explores the contradictions... 
Linda A. Lavid Fiction is about the “what-ifs”, about the message and the meta-message, about life’s symbiosis... 
Christine Louise Hohlbaum Cartoon Cathy meets Erma Bombeck in this hilarious collection of short stories that will keep you... 
Terrence Cheng SONS OF HEAVEN is an epic novel set against the backdrop of one of modern history's most haunting... July 2003
Phoebe K. Carter Older women and Belly Dance--you are never too... 
Debra Tash Matthew Smith seizes Sarah Lloyd and her family as prisoners on a clear autumn day. Leading a party... |
