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1 2 3 Table of Contents Carla Neggers: A Rich and Varied Life Brings 10 Suspense and Love To Millions 10 30 Too Many Cooks Spoil the Pot 22Angela Evans Archetyping: The Librarian 34 Sofia St. Angeles 22 Medieval Castles The Other Man S.L. Carpenter in Africa?! 26 38 Janice L. Dennie 22 4 June 2016 42 InD’Angel Landing! 54 Ginger Ring 41 ANNOUNCING: The 2016 RONE Award 43 Finalists!! InD’Ear: Wait. What? Audiobook Awards?! Reviews: Ann Richardson Historical:41 62 Contemporary: 72 47 Paranormal/Fantasy 85 Unbinding Love An Angela Panther New Adult: 94 Mystery: Finale! Young Adult: 95 Carolyn Ridder Aspenson Suspense/Thriller: 97 Mystery: 101 57 Inspirational 103 Writer BEWARE! Science Fiction 104 Ellen Butler 41 Other: 106 5 6 Publisher/editor-in-chief: Our Staff: Technical Editor: TJ MacKay Ana Smith Executive Asst./Review Coordinator: Transcription: Tonya Smalley Ralph Conley Copy Editor: Graphics: Roberta Gordon, Rachel Rossano, Tammy Grant Jaimey Grant Julie York Technical: Video, Sound: Tim Prater Special Publications Editor: Sofia St. Angeles Reviewers:* Advertising/Marketing: Danielle Hill, Ruth Lynn Ritter, Sarah E. Bradley,Viola Robins, Amy Willis, Lynne Bryant, Belinda Wilson, Melody Prat Majanka Verstraete, Heather R. Nielsen, Stephanie Margaret Faria Lodes, M.P. Ceja, Kate Campbell, Lynn McKendrick, Gwenellen Tarbet, Lori Leger, Sloane Austin, Social Media: Janna Shay Chantel Hardge, Mary Nancy Smith, Jordyn Teel, Rose Mary Espinoza, Penelope Bartotto Carol Conley *Please note, ALL InD’tale staff are required to read and Mimi Smith review books Columnists: Material in this publication may not be Carolyn Ridder Aspenson reproduced in any form without written Ann M. Richardson permission. All books and material reviewed S.L. Carpenter by InD’tale have been read by the stated reviewer, and are the opinions of that reader. 7 Editor’s Note see why it is so exciting and anticipated? You can see the list of all the finalists in this very magazine. Just scroll through - you can’t miss them! Now you just need to grab your tickets for the big RONE awards gala event on Saturday, October 8th to see what amazing authors will be accepting those awards! Heck, our staff won’t even know until that night! A separate accounting firm tallies all votes and prints the winners and are then enclosed in the envelopes to be opened that night. It is SO exciting! And, since it is in conjunction with InD’Scribe Author Reader Conference, it is a fabulous way to end the weekend. It’s glitz and glamour, dancing and fun... no wonder it has been dubbed the “Oscars of Indie”! We would truly love to see you there! Just The voting is finished and the readers have let their pop over to: http://www.indscribe.com/ voices be heard in judging the best books of 2015 to grab your tickets! for this years RONE awards! CONGRATULATIONS!!! to all the finalists! They have endured the review round, the reader voting round and now just have one more hurdle to jump - the industry judges round - before one book in each genre will take home the coveted crystal book that announces to the world that their story is the best of the year! Can you Smiles, TJ Mackay 8 Contributors Angela Evans Ellen Butler Janice L. Dennie Ellen is an award winning novelist Janice is an Amazon.com bestselling Angela Evans has been creating living in Northern Virginia with her author of Romantic Fiction and World stories in her own imagination since husband and two children. She writes Literature. She began writing about she picked up her first book. When sexy, sassy romances with laugh out Ethiopian history after reading an she’s not writing new stories you can loud humor and edge of your seat article in a news magazine that referred find her binge watching cop shows suspenseful women’s fiction. When to Emperor Haile Selassie as The Lion looking for inspiration for those she’s not writing Ellen can be found of Judah. Born in Denver, Colorado creepy villains every suspense story running around after her children, and raised in Northern California, Ms. needs. Her first novel, Hiding In giving interior decorating advice to Dennie graduated from California State Plain Sight, is currently available neighbors, or holed up in her favorite University, before starting a career with from Evernight Publishing. chair with a glass of wine. Ellen admits a Federal Agency. She enjoys watching to having a penchant for shoe shopping football with her husband, traveling, and is an admitted chocoholic. and visiting her family. Ann M. Richardson Sofia St. Angeles Carolyn Aspenson Scott Carpenter Ann’s passion is narrating Sofia lives on the gorgeous Carolyn is the Amazon and A lifetime Californian, Scott well-written books with plot Olympic Peninsula where she Barnes & Noble best selling Carpenter lives the ordinary twists; even better if there’s keeps very busy loving her author of the Angela Panther life of a husband and father, humor incorporated. She husband and 8 children. Mystery Series, plus with the addition of three dogs has been described as Believe it or not, she has also numerous other fiction and and a couple of cats. Humor having a distinctly soft and written an award winning YA non-fiction books. has always played a large role feminine voice that in his life, and he enjoys book, and is finishing another When not writing, Carolyn surprisingly has no trouble making people smile. His on the very subject she writes spends her time editing digging into gritty stories range from the outright for InD’tale, Archetyping! manuscripts for Booktrope characters, or passionate absurd to the deeply poignant, As much as she loves writing, Editions as well as on a scenes. Ann has achieved and his mastery of the short she loves losing herself in the freelance basis, and the distinction of “Audible story format is undeniable. If pages of books that makes her providing freelance content Approved Narrator.” She is asked, he'll describe himself blush and smile even more. to various print and online also is an active member of as just another guy. His many She also has a terrible publications. Carolyn lives World-Voices Organization fans will tell you that his obsession with stiletto heels in Atlanta, GA with her and served on its Executive writing paints quite a different and regularly turns pirouettes husband and children. Board for three years. in her kitchen. picture. 9 Carla Neggers A Rich and Varied Life Brings Suspense and Love to Millions 10 Carla Neggers is a name that is a staple on the shelves of any store one might wander through. It is as common as a best friend... but what about the woman behind the name? What is someone who has found success for so many years like in person? Well.. we found out! She is highly intelligent, very conscientious yet incredibly warm, down-to-earth and, well... kind of like the best friend and side-kick everyone wishes to have! She loves the outdoors, travels to her beloved Ireland every chance she gets and even Binds time to play French horn in the symphony! Sit down with us while we introduce her and you will soon love her just as much as we do! InD: Not long ago a friend of mine mentioned, "My very favorite all time romantic suspense was "Cold Ridge" by Carla Neggers” and I went "I don't know if I have ever heard of that book before.” She replied, “I have remembered it all of these years because I have never found one that I like better." Now that I have read it (along with many more of your books!) I can absolutely see why! I notice also that your fans have such a wide variety of favorites as well. Many of the books readers say are their favorites I have never read and considered my favorites! That is amazing. CN: Isn't that one of the fun things of being a reader? You get to discover authors. I can remember so many authors that I have discovered. I would dive into a book that I loved the cover of or somebody had recommended and after enjoying it I would go, “Oh they have written all of these other books that I haven't read yet!” I can think of so many authors that I may have discovered later in their careers or they are just so proliic that they have tons of books out. InD: Honestly you are one of those. That has got to be an amazing feeling because you are in that elite category of being proliLic and being loved by so many. CN: I love to write! And I love that you mentioned "Cold Ridge" because that book was transformational for me in so many ways. I had a strong sense of the story from the start. I knew I wanted to write about a hero who was an air force pararescuer. I was even able to interview a pararescueman! He’s a great guy who was so helpful and so incredible that I still remember everything about the interview. “Cold Ridge” was a really, really awesome book to research and then to write. It launched a series of seven 11 InD: The Sharpe and Donovan series is the one that a lot of your fans ask a lot of questions about. And I was thinking, “Well stink! Everyone loves that series and it’s the one that I haven’t read!” I did get to the series with the Boston cops in Ireland. I have read a couple of those..