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Arline Chase
 Arline
Chase is something of a late-bloomer. It took her until she was forty
to realize what she wanted to be when she grew up — a writer, what
else? By then she had survived being the mother of two teenaged boys
while juggling homemaking and a full time job with college classes.
Arline
writes "some of everything" and lives in on Maryland's Eastern Shore
near the marsh, with the mosquitoes and the muskrats. She is a member
of the International Women'sWriting Guild, the Author's Guild, Sisters
in Crime, Mystery Writers of America, Romance Writers of America,
Electronically Published Internet Connection, Writers Bloc, The Eastern
Shore Writers Association, and the Publisher's Marketing Association.
She has
taught writing at conferences and in colleges, and worked nine years
for the Writer's Digest Correspondence School, Writers Online
Workshops, and was a "critter" for the Second Draft Criticism service
before starting out on her own as a "Writing Critter".
Arline also co-owns and operates Write Words, Inc. with it's two imprints eBooksOnThe.Net, a website that publishes and sells ebooks, and www.cambridgebooks.us, which publishes paper books.
SPIRIT OF EARTH
Book One of the "Spirit Series"
A Jack and Jill Mystery
The story is fiction, but the volcano was real.
Psychic Jill
Abercrombie's family consider her stone mad. She may yet prove useful
though, if they can marry her off to the right man. They're so intent
that she mustn't embarrass them at their "Musical evening" they quite
ignore the corpse in the garden along with the fact that one of their
guests may be a serial killer.
The new
scullery maid understands that Jillian only has "the sight" Her
brother, Jon, is so intent on his affair with a notorious actress that
he pays little attention to solving the crime that may, or may not, be
linked to a number of serial killings in the city.
Period Mystery
ISBN 978-1-59431-158-7
Perfect Bound, Trade Paperback, illus.
370 pages
Price: $16.95 (Also available as ebook for $5.50)
SPIRIT OF FIRE
Book Two of the "Spirit Series"
A Jack and Jill Mystery
When the most hated man in 1904 Baltimore is murdered, Jon Abercrombie searches for the killer as the city burns around him.
The story is fiction, but the fire was real.
As usual,
Jon's lawyer-father knows more than he should. Jillian, his psychic
sister, offers her advice, but her warnings of fire make little sense.
To make
matters worse, the victim's wife, everyone's primary suspect, is an old
childhood friend. Discovery of a blackmail scheme and more murders
build the suspense. Then Jon's mother is kidnapped by the killer, who
is convinced the detective knows more than he does. Can Jon track down
the murderer in the midst of the greatest conflagration Baltimore has
ever seen? Can he do it in time to save his mother?
Period Mystery
ISBN 978-1-59431-067-X
Trade Paperback, Perfect Bound,
224 pages
Price: $16.95 (Also available as ebook for $5.50)
KILLRAVEN
"A taste of Chesapeake Life as vivid as lemon pie."
Jeannie Butler
Author of Bingo and other Great Words of God
"Four Stars..."
Scribes Word Reviews
Set in the
1890s, Killraven is the story of Hope Voeschell, a young woman brought
up to believe in non-violence, and DeCoursey Rogers a Chesapeak Bay
waterman who has known violence first hand.
As a killer stalks them both, they meet and fall reluctantly in love on Killraven Island.
Mystery/Romance
ISBN 978-1-59431-137-4
Perfect Bound Trade Paperback
240 pages
Price: $16.95 (Also available as ebook for $5.50)
GO DOWN MOSES
The Story of Harriet Tubman
After
escaping to freedom herself, Harriet Tubman led more than 300 other
slaves to freedom. Then, she spied for the Union Army during the Civil
War.
A fictionalized biography, based on her published interviews with her biographer, and on other source records.
Fictional Biography:
ISBN 978-1-59431-013-0
Perfect Bound, Mass Market Paperback
150 pages
Price: $11.95 (Also available as ebook for $5.50)
GHOST DANCER
A New York debutante travels west for her health and meets a Medicine Man.
Broken
hearted, New York debutante Christianna Lawrence flees her home and
meets a Blackfoot white captive on Montana's high plains.
Saved from a
flash flood as a boy, Rowan Cameron was destined to become a shaman.
Divided by cultural misunder-standings, extraordinary lovers surpass
contrasting beliefs to unleash the magic and spirit of the Ghost Dance.
Romance/ Suspense
Trade Paperback, Perfect Bound
ISBN 978-1-59431-021-1
279 pages
Price: $15.95 (Also available as ebook for $5.50)
HOW TO PROMOTE, ADVERTIZE, AND MARKET YOUR PUBLISHED BOOK
By Mary Cox-Bilz & Arline Chase
 A
step-by-step guide that offers tools that you can integrate into your
own marketing plan. These suggestions have been strategies used by
authors to pull their books out of boxes, onto book shelves, and into a
customer's hands. Here's how to get attention for your published book,
from two authors who have practiced what they preach.
Spiralbound
104 pages
Price $10.00 (Mail Order Only)
(Also available as ebook for $5.50)
SWEET INVOCATION
Leanna and
Jamie married for convenience's sake. Now he's showing signs of
restlessness, while she wonders how to tell him she is pregnant.
Leanna is no
stranger to a May-December marriage, after all she first met Jamie when
he did chores for the older husband she had married right out of
school. Later, Jamie left town under something of a cloud and by the
time they met again, she was several years a widow. Now it's another
May-December marriage, only this time Leanna is the older partner.
Will they be able to work out their differences? Or will secrets from the past destroy their relationship?
Romance Novella
ISBN 1-59431-180-3
Available as ebook only for $2.50
LATE BLOOMER
Being a
college freshman at 35 isn't easy for Beth Reily. The last thing she
needs is to develope romantic illusions about her professor
Beth has a
teenaged son, a career, and a chance of a better position, if she can
just get her hands on that piece of sheepskin. She's delighted with the
opportunity of testing out of some of the basic classes. But Professor
Rutledge tells her he won't tolerate a student who tries to cut corners
with advanced placement tests. From then on, it's love--or war.
Romance Novella
ISBN 1-59431-178-1
Available as ebook only for $2.50
THE DREAM LOVERS
Apple and Junie were not only sisters, but the best of friends, until they quarrel over a man.
With the man
of her dreams MIA in Vietnam,Apple thinks it's best to make a life with
the man at hand. That's how the love of her life comes home to find her
married to someone else. She can understand his rage--and rejection.
What she can't understand is why he's dating her sister.
Romance Novella
Available as ebook only for $2.50
THE DROWNED LAND
Written by
the author of Ghost Dancer, this is a wonderful collection of sea-going
short stories, set in the Chesapeake Bay area of the Eastern Shore of
Maryland. Two of the stories formed the basis for the novel Killraven
which became an Eppie Finalsit in 2005
Short Story Collection
ISBN 1-59431-147-1
Available as ebook only for $4.50
SECOND FIDDLE
Is the bond of blood stronger than that of matrimony? A novella of family, and love in Appalachia.
The novella,
Second Fiddle is the tale of twin sisters who both marry the same
man--at different times of course. One twin learns from her mistakes,
while the other falls victim to jealousy and envy.
Romance Novella
ISBN 1-59431-176-5
Available as ebook only for $2.50
NO BROKEN PROMISES
The tale of a suburban housewife who tries to explian her youth in the '60s to her daughter
In this
novella,Chris McNeely had been a shy teenager in the sixties. The
victim of an disdainful mother and a brutal rape, Chris had insulated
herself against all feelings —good and bad. Then, thanks to Michael
Dove and Janey Hewett, Chris's life changed and by 1987 she is a
typical suburban housewife with a teenaged daughter of her own. Then
Lacey starts to ask questions about the sixties--embarrassing
questions--and Chris isn't sure how she can ever explain Woodstock and
the "summer of love" to her daughter.
Romance Novella
ISBN 1-59431-004-1
Available as ebook only for $4.50
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