This novel, at about 300 words, is far too short to be called a short story, never mind a novella or novel. It is a mildly humorous and very short thriller intended to bring a smile to your face, while serving as an example of a well-formatted eBook. It is just the right length to serve as an example of how to format a novel that can be turned into an eBook, automatically, with the Nepo Press eBook formatting service as described at nepotism.net/formatting. Plea...

Mobi Machine (Your Kindle Formatting Butler) is the first of the three user manuals for Mobi Machine (the Nepo Press web-based book formatting system). This book focuses on how to make Mobi files (eBooks) for the Amazon Kindle and Kindle Apps, showing you everything you need to know to get started. If you want to create eBooks for the Kindle, this is the book to start with.For making EPUB books (B&N, Kobo, Apple, etc.), start with EPUB Machine (Your EPUB Formatting But...

THREE MORE GRIPPING MYSTERIES SET IN LATE NINETEENTH CENTURY NEW ZEALANDTHE SECOND BOX SET IN THE SERGEANT FRANK HARDY MYSTERIES (BOOKS 4-6)Join Sergeant Frank Hardy and Mette Hardy in these three exciting, action-packed mysteries.DEAD SHOTFrank and Mette take on the protection of a thoroughbred stud horse targeted by a brutal gang from the north. But when members of the gang are found closer to home than th...

EPUB Machine (Your EPUB Formatting Butler) is the second ofthe three user manuals for the Nepo Press web-based book formattingsystem. We might call the system EPUB Machine when making EPUB files,Mobi Machine when making Mobi files, and PDF Machine when making"camera-ready" PDF files for printing paperback books. The samesystem does all three. This book focuses on how to make EPUB files(eBooks) for the Barnes & Noble NOOK and NOOK Apps, Kob...

FROM NEW ZEALAND: THREE ATMOSPHERIC AND ENGAGING HISTORICAL MYSTERIES IN ONE SETIn late nineteenth century New Zealand, Sergeant Frank Hardy, ex British soldier from the 57th Regiment, battles for survival and for his own life as he carves out a new existence for himself and his family in the prehistoric but stunningly beautiful bush. An "atmospheric and engaging" series.This three-book anthology (box set) includes, in chronological...

When Sergeant Frank Hardy's father, James Hardy, arrives from England, he's accompanied by a woman he met on the voyage. In forced quarantine on Somes Island in Wellington Harbour, Frank is visited by a man claiming to be a detective from the Chinatown Squad in San Francisco, who warns Frank that his father is in deep trouble. The woman has enemies, and they are on the way to New Zealand to find her and kill her. If James Hardy gets in their way, he's a dead man.Fr...

Advanced Mobi and EPUB Machines is the third of the three user manuals for the Nepo Press web-based book formatting system. We might call the system Mobi Machine when making Mobi files, EPUB Machine when making EPUB files, and PDF Machine when making "camera-ready" PDF files for printing paperback books---the same system does all three---but we will usually refer to all three as just Mobi Machine. This book is a supplement to the two beginning manuals...

New Zealand, November 1868: Sergeant Frank Hardy has been sent into hostile territory to bring back a witness to the murder of a prominent man, but the killer is still out there and the rebels are closing in.After escorting a prisoner down from the front, Sergeant Frank Hardy of the 57th Regiment ("The Diehards") is ordered to return north to Woodall's Redoubt to bring a murder witness back to headquarters. A retired major and his wife, relatives of the new governo...

These are the writings from the journals of Sgt. Frank Pappas, who wrote about his experience in the army during World War II. Sergeant Pappas was in the 327th Field Artillery Battalion, C Battery, Eighty-Fourth Infantry Division. His writings are from October 20, 1944, to September 14, 1945, and describe his training experience in Camp Howze in Texas, Camp Claiborne in Louisiana, and Camp Kilmer in New Jersey. He also writes about his experiences fighting the Germans on the front lines. S...

New Zealand, 1878: Awaking from a chloroform-induced sleep in a remote underground cell, Sergeant Frank Hardy must search his compromised memory to discover why he has been imprisoned. Meanwhile, his fiancee, Mette, and his partner Constable Will Karira, search for him. When an earthquake followed by a fire comes to his rescue he goes on the run, unable to return to his home and his new fiancée. How can he find the answer to his question and return to his former life? And ...

NEW ZEALAND, 1878: Has the missing man been murdered in the dense bush, or has he simply abandoned his wife and children for another woman?Sergeant Frank Hardy and his new wife Mette attempt to solve two real mysteries from nineteenth century New Zealand: the whereabouts of Peter Kane, who left his home to look for work and did not return, and the brutal murder of an accommodation house owner who was splitting palings in the bush. Were they connect...

He's all that's standing between his family and a hired assassin. And he's unarmed.After Sergeant Frank Hardy watches the invasion of a peaceful Māori village by the Armed Constabulary, with crops destroyed and innocent men imprisoned, he lays down his rifle and swears never to shoot in anger again. Then he learns that a contract killer has come from America to avenge the death of a crooked detective from San Francisco. The killer is targeting the ...