Cliff Ball has a Bachelor's of Arts in English from Midwestern State University in Wichita Falls Texas. Currently thinking of pursuing an MA in Technical Writing from University of North Texas. Born in Scottsdale, AZ in 1974, Cliff graduated from Mountain View High School in Mesa in 1992 and had a short story published during his senior year of high school. He's been writing since he was 10 years old, mostly short stories, poetry, and various goofy stuff like sarcastic surveys. He's mostly self-taught when it comes to writing, but a Creative Writing course in high school helped immensely. Cliff also works as a proofreader and editor.

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The Usurper

Gary Jackson is raised to hate. Hate the United States, and everything it has ever stood for. His mission is to destroy the country from within, allying himself with America's enemies, and one malevolent billionaire, to accomplish this task. Once elected to the highest position in the land, Gary puts his lifelong goals to work, and puts America onto the path of ultimate destruction. He stops at nothing to rid the USA of his political and spiritual enemies, until a small group decide they've had enough, and they want to stop him. Will they succeed or will the United States of America be relegated to the dustbin of history?

Publication Date:Jul 14 2010
ISBN/EAN13: 1453702725 / 9781453702727
Page Count:156
Binding Type: US Trade Paper
Trim Size: 6" x 9"
Language: English
Color: Black and White
Related Categories: Fiction / Thrillers

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Shattered Earth


Advanced humans, called Terrans, leave Earth when its threatened by a massive meteor. The remaining humans on Earth fall back into primitiveness. The advanced humans, and a group of aliens, the Ragnor, involve Earth in an interstellar war. Thousands of years later, the humans of Earth decide to do something about this. Interstellar politics will never be the same again once Earth is done with their revenge.

These Terrans involve themselves throughout human history. Some play as King Arthur and Merlin. Another is a scientist, whose name is Galileo, and he gets into all sorts of trouble for challenging official orthodoxy about the sun, the Earth, and which one is revolving around the other. Then, we have Amelia Earhart, who has a very valid reason for disappearing. When an alien spaceship gets shot down over Roswell in 1947, President Truman orders the creation of Area 51, Project Blue Book and Sign, and has the United States embark on a plan that will culminate 60 years in the future. Nothing will ever be the same again when the United States gets involved in interstellar politics. But, the whole plan backfires when Earth ends up the worse for wear over it. Other species find out what Earth did, since no one else was bold enough to even try, so they want to help bring down the Ragnor once and for all. The new President of the United States imagines a galactic federation or a republic, but, none of the other species wants anything to do with it. Once they destroy the Ragnor's technology, they leave the Ragnor to ponder why all the other species hated them enough to attack them. Will the galaxy remain at peace?

Publication Date:Nov 29 2010
ISBN/EAN13: 1456419269 / 9781456419264
Page Count: 272
Binding Type: US Trade Paper
Trim Size: 6" x 9"
Language: English
Color: Black and White
Related Categories: Fiction Science Fiction / Adventure
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Out of Time


A scientist discovers time is actually fluid; past, present, and future all exist at the same time. What he doesn't know, is if the current timeline can change when something is changed in the past. The US government wants him to find out. The theme being to make right what once went wrong.

The time travelers meet all sorts of 20th century icons, from the Titanic to Anne Frank to Roswell to the Apollo 13. However, someone is trying to stop them, and the future may never be the same again.

Publication Date:Oct 16 2010
ISBN/EAN13: 1453896961 / 9781453896969
Page Count: 122
Binding Type: US Trade Paper
Trim Size: 6" x 9"
Language: English
Color: Black and White
Related Categories: Fiction / Science Fiction / General
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