Challenging Romance E-Books - A Special Offer 50% off Humor (Steve Pitt) and Mystery (David Dawson)

Dec. 9, 2010 - PRLog -- The New York Times reports that statistics compiled by Bowker show that romance e-books are the fastest growing e-books because the reader has become the modern day brown paper bag. You no longer have to be embarrassed to be seen reading some steamy title on the bus or train. Your seatmates will not be able to see the cover of the book you are engrossed in.

But with Steve Pitt, you will be laughing out load and people will ask what you are reading. We can almost guarantee it. His collection of stories in My Life and Other Lies: Tales From the Writer's List has been described as "pee-your-pants funny. This book should come with a warning label or pack of adult diapers"  according to Helena Katz, author/journalist, Fort Smith, NWT

Blog Critics had this to say about his book "Pitt displays an ability to weave wit, humor and nostalgia into artful story-telling similar to the works of Garrison Keillor, the celebrated author of Lake Wobegone Days, and Jean Shepherd whose collected anecdotes eventually became the holiday classic A Christmas Story"

Norm Goldman on Bookpleasures.com said "Combining witty humor with the absurd, Pitt reminds us that having a good sense of humor enables us to tolerate and sometimes triumph over some annoying and even terrible events that befall us from time-to-time during our life."

For more information about this title, visit http://www.bridgeross.com/mylife.html All e-book versions of this book that are available on Smashwords can be purchased for 50% off using the coupon number on the website at checkout. If you prefer Kindle, there is a link to the Kindle version on Amazon which includes an inexpensive sampler at $2.99 as well.

If you want realistic mystery with humor, then the books by David Laing Dawson are also for you. Dawson's works have been translated into seven languages and, as a practicing psychiatrist, he brings a perspective and a realism to his works that is rare. Publishers Weekly has called him "a surehanded competitor of Robin Cook"

Don't Look Down, his latest, deals with four men, age 18 to 81, who have murdered, and now share a room in the secure forensic psychiatry ward. Both the tragedy and comedy of their lives are revealed in this book described as "authentic from beginning to end" by Blog Critics and as fiction that rings true.

Slide in All Direction is "A little Elmore Leonard, a little Seinfeld" (from Amazon) and "a work of fiction that's as close to reality as it gets" . Its "Compelling characters find their way through a storyline bursting with crime, murder, addiction, tough love and tenuous redemption. Yet it doesn't feel crowded. You may not root for the characters but I'm betting you'll end up pulling for them."  (Hamilton Spectator)

The Intern was originally published in hardcover and reprinted by Bridgeross. It takes place during the tumultuous sixties where fictional Dr. Robert Snow interns in a big city hospital. Dawson lets his readers feel the triumphs and tragedies, the exhausting, overwhelming experiences of hospital life and death. Set against the social upheavals of 67/68 the author once again gives us vital characters struggling in an ambiance that rings all too true.

More details and the 50% off coupon codes for Smashwords are available at http://www.bridgeross.com/dawson.html

Another earlier work, Essondale, is also available on both Smashwords and Kindle versions on Amazon at the introductory price of $2.99.

Waking from a drunken stupor in a small green room, the doctor finds he's on the other side of the diagnosis - in a place where life and mental health seem to be going pretty cheap these days. Murder and sexual abuse haunt the hospital, but Snow doesn't really care. He'd rather be dead anyway. When a charming, manic cowboy and a world-weary intellectual invade Snow's self-imposed isolation, they drag him out of his depression - and into the heart of Essondale's black mysteries...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mz8KHrkb1eM




For an interview with Dawson, visit http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nuH3djl5FF4

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Publishers of My Schizophrenic Life: The Road to Recovery From Mental Illness by Sandra Yuen MacKay - "remarkably compelling" - Library Journal and The Adolescent Owner's Manual by Dr. David Laing Dawson - A highly readable guide for parents of teens