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Authors Express Promotion presents magazine: at the CENTER OF IT ALL for authors & writers - December 2015
The Memory Box Trilogy by Cindy Bauer
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I gave this trilogy 5 stars because it has all the ingredients I look for in a book, love, suspense, humor and faith. Family love is the key here.
ELIZABETH LEER
Elizabeth Leer is a Texas born, California native, now living in Colorado. She spent the first twenty years of her life living in California, traveling along the Pacific coast. A graduate of the Institute of Children’s Literature, writing for young adults and children is her main focus. Though fiction, her character's personalities stem from people who have passed in and out of her life, as well as family members.
Children's - Illustrated
Jessika spent her life swimming around the beautiful lagoon she was born in, staring at the skies wanting to fly like those amazing creatures of the sky. Join her and her friends on her adventure to accomplish her dream.
Format: PaperbackPublished: June 1, 2014ISBN-10: 1489570500ISBN-13: 978-1489570505Goodreads Review Highlights:
“…an extremely creative children's book. The story is cute and engaging.” ~ Brandi
Young Adult - Detective
In a small northern California coastal town, twelve year old John and Sheila witness as Billy the mailman is killed by a drunk driver and have to help Sheriff Stark prove it was Gordon Stockholm after his father Frank Stockholm uses his mobster flunkies to cover it all up.
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Published: April 7, 2013
ASIN: B00CF3596U
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“The book is a lively read and great for young adults.” ~ Marilyn
“Great read! Kept me interested throughout.” ~ Karen
"Months before it was announced by President Barack Obama, a novel by Canadian author Glen Carter eerily mirrors the White House rapprochement with Cuba. Though, Last Witness contains an explosive conclusion and certainly a more tragic beginning - from more than 50 years ago."
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A mysterious letter has reached retired FBI agent Ed Malloy. A letter bearing a name from a lifetime ago, from a woman who claims she saw what really happened on the day John F. Kennedy died in Dallas. Many were there to film the president, but Helena Storozhenko snapped a photo on November 22, 1963, that would have changed everything. Then she vanished. Until now. From her death bed in Odessa, the Babushka Lady provides a piece of evidence that will send Malloy and network television host Jack Doyle on a desperate search for the truth. She has summoned Malloy and finally reveals what she witnessed in Dealey Plaza. Malloy and Doyle need each other to solve a decades-old mystery, and to stop an assassin who is driven by the same evil which changed the world so tragically – so long ago. It all comes down to one place, one time, and one bullet as they race to prevent history from repeating itself – more than fifty years after a president was brutally slain – and Helena Storozhenko was The Last Witness.
'This is a sprawling thriller in the example of Jean Le Carre or Frederick Forsyth, with multiple characters, exotic globetrotting locations and a core plotline that twists and turns and cliffhangs chapter by chapter.'
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In the mountains of Colombia, an old man stumbles sweating and breathless into the Jaguar Forest. Cursed, he feels forced to commit a savage act, and a family is destroyed - his own. From Luis Mendoza's insanity, survivors emerge, but they will not know what their grandfather intended for them, even though they were the ones destined to die. Decades later, veteran reporter Jack Doyle is about to become his network's next anchor star. Doyle has always done his job the right way, and when eight girls, including a US senator's daughter, are brutally murdered, Doyle discovers a trail of blood and drugs that leads to Colombia. It's where the story is, even if his network bosses don't agree. Colombia is a country on fire and la violencia means no one is safe, including Doyle and his producer, the beautiful Kaitlin O'Rourke. Narco-terrorists strike. Doyle comes home. Kaitlin doesn't.
With his career and life adrift, Doyle struggles with the blame for his renegade assignment. Kaitlin was his friend. Possibly much more. Trying to rescue his soul, Jack sets sail. Alone and faltering on the Atlantic Ocean, he receives an astonishing message so bizarre it sets in motion his most dangerous assignment - a covert mission through the blood-soaked Colombian jungle to find a woman who stepped away at dinner and never came back. Doyle is plunged into a story of deception, betrayal, and a drug lord's insane plan to deliver an apocalyptic message to the White House. To stay alive, Doyle must confront his past and untangle his future. And before it's too late, he must uncover the unbelievable truth about Kaitlin O'Rourke and the Angels of Maradona.
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"Angels of Maradona is an entertaining novel that successfully maintains its established tone of mystery and tension...with each new page, Jack Doyle becomes increasingly real"
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"It has energy, verve and a fresh, fierce drive to tell a story...The sentence structure is short, precise, driven and full of action, as suits an action novel."
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"Employing his decades of experience as a veteran journalist, Carter has written a very sophisticated thriller...that stands shoulder to shoulder with best-selling thrillers."
- Harold N. Walters, The Packet
"Glen Carter has mastered his debut novel like a pro...[he] is sure to become an award-winning novelist"
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"You can sense the journalistic experience from the author throughout the novel...there are interesting characters, shady deals, and fast-paced action throughout."
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Glen Carter is an award-winning journalist who has worked in the high-pressure world of television news for more than thirty years. He has covered everything from national politics and world leaders to crime and deadly disasters. He is now applying his story-telling craft and decades of fact-driven writing to the flight of fiction. Angels of Maradona is his first novel, published in 2008 by Breakwater Books. His second, Last Witness, is available online Breakwaterbooks.com, Amazon.ca., Chapters.ca, and Kobo. Glen is currently hard at work on his third novel.
“Story telling is not a career, it's a calling. I've been writing true and compelling news my entire professional life. My novels are packs of lies.”
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Peter and Pattimari Cacciolfi writing team enjoy writing for children the most….
With the most recent publication of Frozen Time ~ a thrilling and adventurous book about a 17 year old who finds an Orb while out on dig with his father in Africa when searching for artifacts, Pattimari and Peter have published 16 books together. Peter is the sole author of The Influence and Pattimari has added 30 books to her credit to date.
Pattimari’s first novel, Time Heals, Forgiveness Mends, was based on a story of a friend who endured many things that happened in Time Heals, therefore there were feelings and emotions affiliated while writing it. Her second was a poetry book—from childhood to present—and the writing became so magical and fun, that she hasn’t stopped.
Pattimari’s novels range from crime/mystery to fantasy, but the books that she is the most proud of are the children’s books she and her husband, Peter, have written together.
Peter is a retired teacher, holds a master black belt, is a watch & clock master and has a Master’s Degree in English. Pattimari is a therapist who has worked with Autistic, ADHD, and troubled children and their parents.
Peter & Pattimari opened PnPAuthors Book Club for authors to promote their books and meet other authors. They have been praised on a UK radio show, have upcoming dates to appear on USA radio shows and have been awarded bestseller awards on Amazon.
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Rhyming Children's Stories, Poems and more by Peter & Pattimari Sheets Cacciolfi
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Convoy Murder
March 14, 2013
Jake was about to have it all. That is until a dead body is discovered. This bright young man was truly destined for greatness, even before he finished his masters degree in Financial Management. However, like so many other Americans, his dreams and career burst when the recession bubble burst, forcing him to put his life on hold and take up driving big rigs. Somewhere between his college achievements and looking for his first job in Financial Management, he developed a deep, dark secret that no one, including his lovely young wife and adoring parents could have imagined. And it was partly due to the hidden lies and secret life that he ended up being charged with murder and imprisoned.
Once in prison, Jake was stalked by fear and danger with his every move. The reader will follow Jake on a journey that includes a pit of sexual liaisons, and a series of twists and turns in the plot; underscored by the greed of even those who Jake trusted the most. During his brief but deadly ride through the justice system, Jake discovers that he wasn't the only master of deception and deadly plans. Convoy Murder has its shares of laughter, chuckles and plenty of tears for you the reader, as the mystery and intrigue will grip and pull you along with Jakes journey. A journey building up to an ending that no one could have ever imagined or seen coming!
Final Daze: "God's Way, or the Highway!"
In 2010, a poll showed that more than 80% of Americans claim to be Christians. At first glance that is one impressive figure. However, if we read what Jesus told His followers in Matthew 7:13-14, we see a serious contradiction between that poll finding and the Word of God. It is apparent, from what Jesus says, the gate and road to hell are “broad,” and flooded with “many.” Jesus taught in Matthew and Luke (13:24) that the gate to heaven is narrow like the path leading there. Furthermore, Jesus said that the narrow path has its difficulties, causing “few” to find and be able to enter the gate! Scriptures put the Bible at odds with the poll.
Final Daze: “God’s Way, or the Highway,” is an in depth examination of the narrow path, gate, and Romans 1:16-32 where Paul tells the people they have exchanged Biblical truths for their own understandings and wisdom. Not only do they believe their ways to be wiser than God’s way, but they worship their choices. Paul says God is close to turning them over to their error filled ways, lustful lifestyles, and degrading passions, once and for all! When God decides to turn mankind, individually and collectively, over to their own wickedness, it will be like a “spiritual fog, or daze” settling on and losing them to follow their sin, as they move ever closer to the final darkness and hell!
The “final daze” draped over those rebellious souls will result in their heading down the “highway to hell!” in massive numbers! Is there still time for those dabbling with worldly deities, cons and religions to come to God? Not really, as Jesus told us “today” is the day of salvation; not tomorrow, for tomorrow is not guaranteed for anyone. The coming haze will be a direct result of man’s personal arrogance, vanity, lust and love for the pleasures of the flesh which they try to justify with God’s Word. This is religious apostasy.
Pastor Zimmer provides a creative narrative that is upbeat, candid and prayerfully aimed at correcting the errors of the multitude before their time runs out. This book reflects his calling to the ministry, and his heartfelt desire to assist all who want, to exit the road to hell. The “trumpets in Zion have sounded” and the multitudes need to choose whom they’ll follow on earth into eternity. The right to call yourself a Christian is based on more than most are willing to commit to, personally and spiritually, in this life! Final Daze is composed in a way to make sure that those who claim to be His, have no doubt. For instance, the term Christian is used just three times in the New Testament.
The first was in Acts 11:26, when Barnabas and Paul, guests of the Antioch congregation, were referred to as Christians. The second is in Acts 26:28 when King Herod Agrippa II asks Paul if he can persuade him to become a Christian in such a short time. The final is in, I Peter 4:16 where believers are told, “if you suffer for being Christians, don’t be ashamed; instead, Praise the Father for the name you bear!” The etymology of “Christian” is embedded in the Greek suggesting that Christians are “follower’s of Christ” while proclaiming “He’s the anointed one.” The word also has close linguistic ties to the Latin with its adjectival ending suggesting Christians are those who “adhere to, or belong to Jesus, as in slave/owner relationship.” Thus you can clearly see that the term “Christian” when first used by the Antioch church and then by King Herod was truly an accolade to those who lived as “little Christ’s’!"
Final Daze is written to make sure that those who call themselves Christian are not merely wasting their one opportunity to have eternal life by practicing forms of religions. A Biblical Christian is one who is truly saved, washed in the blood of Jesus, and not merely carrying out some form of “religious lip service.” Biblical repentance, leading to salvation, requires an act of the heart and soul that changes ones entire eternal direction here on earth!
Thorn Daze: The Painful Truth About Prosperity Teaching
If you are struggling to understand why God has not healed you, than Thorn Daze is a must-read book. Pastor Zimmer candidly shares his personal struggles with healing, and only after many years of trial and error does he come to accept, understand, and apply the teachings of the Apostle Paul in 2 Corinthians 12:7-10 to his life. In a world that is filled with quick fixes for just about everything, the believer can easily lose faith when they are going through an emotional, spiritual, or physical storms. Too often, believers become so desperate to be rid of their physical and emotional struggles that they grasp at spiritual straws with the hope of discovering a God sent miracle and healing.
Pastor Zimmer examines the prosperity teaching movement in relation to 2 Corinthians 12:7-10, and discovers that he and other believers may be left to suffer in order to bring God glory. Through prayer, and His manifested grace, the believer can come to discover that His grace is more than sufficient in relieving pain and suffering. This is an open and honest look at the authors own pain and suffering over the years; his personal disappointment with God when it came to not being healed; and how he's grown to accept God's all sufficient grace and perfect will for his life.
Amazon (currently out of print – watch for second edition coming soon!) Prodigal Daze: My Long Road Home
Prodigal Daze is a very candid and at times, graphic portrayal of a young pastor's downward spiral into the dark world of pornography, failed marriages, and failed attempts at ministry. The willingness of the author to talk about the unthinkable should serve as a beacon of hope for any believer who is struggling with similar issues and hopelessly trapped in ungodly and unholy cravings and lifestyles. Prodigal Daze will lovingly and explicitly move the reader from Romans 7 (defeated by sin) to Romans 8 (victory over sin).
Prodigal Daze is a must-read book for all believers, because sin is something we are all subject to according to I John 1:5-10. The author shows us the patience of a loving Father who remains faithful to His promise to save us, even after we fall. Prodigal Daze speaks to every believer about the courage to move forward in midst of your trials.
Amazon (currently out of print – watch for second edition coming soon!) Rev. Paul G. Zimmer, II graduated from Azusa Pacific University in 1973 with a 3.88 GPA. He also graduated from the Boy Scouts of America’s National Executive Institute in 1984. While attending the NEI, Paul was elected by his peers to serve as their class president for the second half of the course, and finished at the head of his graduating class.
Zimmer also completed training for Gamesmanship Therapy for Children and Teens in a psychiatric setting at the Menninger Institute in Kansas City, Kansas. He was ordained a Southern Baptist Minister in 1984.
He is listed in numerous Who’s Who publications to include, Marquis, Strathmore, and Cambridge Who’s Who in America, the World, and the West. His career is spent working with children, teens, and families in crisis. He received the Riverside County Office of Education Youth Advocate of the Year award in 1993.
Rev. Zimmer and his wife, Shelly, write and sing Gospel music. They recorded an album in 1985. They have copyrighted numerous songs, and a book of poems that are set to popular songs from the 1960’s to the 80′s rock and roll generation. They have performed music all over the southern California area, including a Christian gathering at Knott’s Berry Farm.
In December 2000, Rev. Zimmer retired from the State of California Department of Social Services. He now dedicates his life to writing, publishing a 3-book series and most recently, a murder/mystery. His first two in the 3-book series now have limited availability, but he is in the process of republishing them again through another publisher. Watch for upcoming details soon!
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A new family arrives at Marten Downs.
Publication Date: 4.26.14
Cover Design by Cindy Bauer
Marten Downs, Part I, is set in England, Pre WWII—Part II will include what happens with the children of Marten Downs after WWII. The story of Marten Downs is fiction, though based on real events.
Next in line will be Blackburn’s personal testimony of faith, a book of short stories and a book of collective poems. All 4 books are set for publishing in print format next year.
Michael D. Blackburn began putting pen to paper in March 2009, having never written before. He often wonders where the words come from. He now writes short personalized stories, poems, religious and political comments, autobiographies, sports reports, and joke books. He ranges from poetry to prose as he ponders life’s past experiences, taking the reader back into a time when life was simple. He examines his own childhood and encourages readers to explore their own nostalgia. His poetry and prose are intended to hold up a mirror.
Readers may see themselves in his words and feel a ripple of surprise when they see where life’s path has led. His work is enjoyed by readers in the UK, America and New Zealand.
Read on, question your own perceptions, find yourself… and, most of all, enjoy.
Terry Preas memory kept alive - proceeds to offset expenses for granddaughter
Kittie Preas Koukalik was born in Texas and moved with her young husband, Terry, to the Bonita AZ area in 1973. In 1982, Terry started Preas Welding. Together they raised one special needs child and both their son and daughter have epilepsy. Kittie’s life changed when she suddenly became widowed at age forty-nine.
Kittie has been a strong advocate for the Developmentally Disabled and served as a volunteer and Chairperson for 15 years, resigning only when her special needs granddaughter, Trinity, was born, after Terry’s death.
Kittie has since remarried to a retired law enforcement officer/34 year USAF Veteran (CMSgt), Tommy Koukalik, but her debut book, How Can I Keep From Singing, tells her amazing story leading up to the tragic death of Terry and how she survived when she found herself in charge of the business he left behind.
All proceeds from her book, How Can I Keep From Singing, go to offset the expense of banking the cord blood for baby Angela.
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How Can I Keep From Singing – by Kittie Preas KoukalikTerry and Kittie Preas found a new life in the BonitaValley area in Arizona and it was there that they raised their two children. Preas Welding & Construction was founded in 1982 and became very successful as an agriculture related business. Terry & Kittie were only weeks shy of their 32nd wedding anniversary when Kittie’s world would be suddenly and forever changed. In May 2003, Terry was crushed to death while working on a job. He died before her eyes. Immediately Kittie was thrust into an unknown world of “widow” and a single woman running a welding business. This is the story of their love, Terry’s accident, and the pain, anguish and sorrow Kittie endured, even after she found new love. “We were still sweethearts. He just went to work one day and never came home”.
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Mr. Grumpy Lizard Meets the Giggling GirlsWritten by Joyce Shaughnessy
Illustrated by Dennis Shaughnessy
Her Majesty, Queen Craggy Crocodile of Reptile Land, sends Mr. Grumpy Lizard to meet four happy cousins, Hattie, Emi, Erin, and Katie Human. Come along for the fun as the four giggling cousins become the Official Ambassadors of Happiness in Reptile Land. Boys and girls alike will be enraptured by the lifelike reptiles and funny monkey. It is a fun read for all ages.
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Gryffon Master: Curse of the Lich King (Crystal Sword Chronicles)
(Volume 1)
by H. M. Schuldt, Christian Freed, Joyce Shaughnessy, Randall Lemon & Lynette White
In a place far away, there is a strange world of trolls and liches and other mysterious creatures. Two adventurers, Ragnar and Ahmad, have found themselves mysteriously transported into this dangerous jungle world. Ragnar Olafson, a Viking, and Ahmad Ibn Fazzat, a Persian, must work together to fulfill a destiny to rid the inhabitants of evil and return to their own homelands.
Ragnar is aided by two dwarves, Karlo and his young apprentice, Kerr. Finally the companions come face to face with the greatest danger of all, the evil black dragon, Barrel. Can Ahmad and the Gryffon Riders return in time to save them?
A remarkable work from five authors, Gryffon Master brings you a creative story packed with action and thrills.
No doubt it will leave an incredible understanding that there is a warrior in all of us.
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Joyce Shaughnessy lives in West Texas with her husband, Dennis, who is a physician. They have two daughters and four granddaughters.
Joyce has written and published five adult books and one children's book. She has also written several short stories which are included in the anthology series, GIANT TALES,published by Professor Limn Books. Joyce has edited the fourth in the series of GIANT TALES and has written two of the short stories. Visit her websites & blogs at:
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LAVA STORM: Giant Tales Apocalypse
Nature’s Raw Power Unleashed
In the near future, a great earthquake triggered a worldwide lava storm, destroying over half of the trees on Earth. Action, drama, and apocalyptic adventure flow from twenty-three short stories where the theme is My Brother's Keeper, written by twenty-three talented authors. Characters find out if life will ever be the same.
Written by twenty-three talented fiction writers from Writers750.com: Schuldt, Shaughnessy, Freed, Alexiou, Stafford, White, Lemon, Boggia, Dutton, Harkins, Stein, Bond, Clarke, Lacy, Reynolds, and Parker all return with more Giant Tales. New authors include Hamrick, Scavitto, Baskerville, Willett, Davis, Drew, and Tozer.
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The Unsurrendered
by Joyce Shaughnessy
Filipino-American armed forces were sadly under-prepared for war when Japan attacked both Pearl Harbor and the Philippines in December 1941. A spontaneous resistance movement sprang up throughout the islands among Filipino civilians of all ages and sexes, and among the American and Filipino soldiers who remained unsurrendered or who escaped imprisonment after the falls of Bataan and Corregidor.
American military intelligence agent Jacob Martin and Carla Santos, his Filipina wife joined The Unsurrendered as it slowly assumed control over more of the existing, rival guerrilla units on Mindanao and trained them to harass the Japanese. Their group grew even larger with thousands of patriotic male and female Filipinos, many of whom were enraged by the Japanese atrocities.
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Blessed Are The Merciful: Our Forgotten Soldiers
by Joyce Shaughnessy
Tragedy strikes…Nine hours after the Pearl Harbor bombing, the Japanese attacks the Philippines, starting a war against the United States that was to last four years. Despite the horrors of war, Elton and Susan fall in love. The American soldiers fight desperately for six months on the Bataan Peninsula, with the Army nurses at their side, rendering aid when possible. Finally, dying of starvation and disease, the Army discovers that the United States cannot send any supplies or men to fight the Japanese because they are committed to the European campaign first. They realize there is no escape from the Japanese. The Army ultimately must surrender.
Elton is forced to walk the Death March and to witness horrifying atrocities during the rest of the war at Camp O’Donnell, Cabanatuan, and on the Hell Ships, where Americans are murdered by Japanese cruelty and neglect. Susan is interred at Santo Tomas and secretly aids the Filipino Guerilla movement. Following his escape from a Hell Ship, Elton rejoins the frontlines with the Sixth Army Rangers in the operation to free Cabanatuan Prison Camp behind Japanese lines. And still their love survives…
Although this is a work of fiction, Blessed Are the Merciful involves the inhumanity and terrible consequences of war. It is a story about what happens to ordinary people when they are caught in extraordinary times. In understanding what happens when war is waged, people can strive toward the goal so that history does not repeat itself.
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A Healing Place
by Joyce Shaughnessy
A Healing Place is an historical novel based on the Great American Depression and WWII in the Philippines. Evicted from their Oklahoma farm, Amos and Molly and their three children are forced to find a new place to live. They find their healing place in Texon, Texas, a small oil camp just east of Rankin. It has everything they’ve been looking for, especially a welcoming community. Then when WWII is on the horizon, their son-in-law is in the Army in the Philippines when Japan attacks, forcing the men and women there to finally surrender. America is supplying the European front of the war first, and the Pacific is left without enough food, medicine, ammunition, or men to fight. The men are forced to walk the Bataan Death March, and Jed eventually finds himself in Cabanatuan prison camp. Addie, his wife, stays in Texon with her family. Jed finds his healing place in the power of prayer.
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Texas Gold
by Joyce Shaughnessy
TEXAS GOLD has the honor of being included in the White House Library by Mrs. George W. Bush.
Big things happen in Texas, but there's nothing quite like a West Texas tornado, especially to a small child living through it for the first time. I was just four years old and I remember my father waking me in the middle of the night, wrapping me in a blanket and picking me up in his strong arms.
That's the way it was in Texon, neighbors helping each other as if we were all one big family. We were poor, but we didn't know it; everyone was poor. Growing up in a Texas oil camp was an experience. Everywhere we looked there were oil rigs and the smell of oil. The noise and hum the pumps made as they pulled oil to the tanks were, at first, horrid. But one day I just didn't hear them anymore and, strangely enough, I miss them. Yes, Texon was more than the smell of an oil camp. It was such a special place that I would wish many times that I could have lived there forever.
Many of you know what I mean about the place you grew up, don't you? Now, TEXAS GOLD brings a remarkable Texon back to life.
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Jessie Best was born in the Ottawa Valley region and moved to the Toronto area as an adult. She has one son and two grandchildren.
Having spent most of her working life as a professional in the healthcare field, she has decided to make writing her second career.
Krikkit's Shoes: The Kingdom of D'Arragon is Jessie's debut as an author. She writes both adult and children’s fiction.
Krikkit’s Shoes: The Kingdom of D'Arragon
Life is pretty ordinary for Krikkit. Ordinary and rather boring. Boring, that is, until she places the shiny black leather shoes she rescued from beneath her bed, on her nine year old feet. Transported almost instantly to the Kingdom of D'Arragon, she becomes caught up in the mystery and magic of the royal D'Arragon Dynasty.
Sorcery and intrigue abound, but Krikkit's sense of adventure overcomes her fear and doubt as she enters a wondrous new world she could never have imagined existed. She attempts, with the help of Jara, a D'Arragon sorcerer, to prevent a century old prophecy from becoming a horrible reality that would change the royal dynasty forever.
Amidst all the excitement and chaos Krikkit encounters, she cannot help but wonder if she will ever get home again.
Works in progress:
House Incorporated
House was furious! Having vowed to never allow another tenant to cross his threshold again, he has just discovered that another group is on their way for the summer. He is determined to send them running and screaming into the night as he has all the others.
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Cindy Bauer of AEP interviews author Anjuelle Floyd, who chose to answer the questions in person in this video she created.
~~Anjuelle Floyd, author~~
stories of women
... making things right with friends ...
... resolving difficulties with intimates and significant others ...
... by bridging the divide, and mending wounds with their mothers ...
Just in from Leicester, England, MD (Michael Dennis) Blackburn has announced he has four new e-books in the works for publishing in 2014. They will include several new poems and short stories with the first titled, Marten Downs, and a little bit of humor, for which this author is well known and loved. M.D. Blackburn began putting pen to paper in March 2009, having never written before. He often wonders where the words come from. He now writes short personalized stories, poems, religious and political comments, autobiographies, sports reports, and joke books. He ranges from poetry to prose as he ponders life’s past experiences, taking the reader back into a time when life was simple. He examines his own childhood and encourages readers to explore their own nostalgia. His poetry and prose are intended to hold up a mirror. Readers may see themselves in his words and feel a ripple of surprise when they see where life’s path has led. His work is enjoyed by readers in the UK, America and New Zealand.
Read on, question your own perceptions, find yourself… and, most of all, enjoy.
Human Nature is MD Blackburn’s first book to be published. This collection of stories and rhymes has been gathered together for the first time in one volume, showing the author’s versatility as a writer. Please
click here to view a sample poem.
Human Nature is now available to order from most bookshops, including Amazon, or from the publisher’s online bookshop.
It will be such a wonderful new day,
The Sun conjoining with us in our play,
Into the garden of life, we are all born,
A warm welcome felt from a new Dawn.
This second collection of stories and rhymes has been published as a follow up to the his first work Human Nature. The title expresses the poet’s hope that his words will paint pictures in the mind of each reader.
Artistry in Words is available now to order from most bookshops, including Amazon, or from the publisher’s online bookshop.
Biography of an Ordinary Man Join MD Blackburn as he tells his tale in Biography of an Ordinary Man.
Do not be fooled by the title, the self proclaimed ‘bungle-o-dymonite’ is anything but ordinary. Blackburn’s writing style is quirky and fun as he reminisces about his days at school, playing sport, and his life as a husband, father, grandfather, and his most recent initiation into greatness. Along with a brief history of his ancestry, he offers insight into growing up in a post-war England.
Take a journey with MD Blackburn and learn about his life in Biography of an Ordinary Man, now available to order online from Lulu.
The Bowling DetectiveIs a story real murder story changed into fiction such that retired detective – Mick Schwartz - is kept occupied. He tries to solve cases with a little help from his friends at the local police station. Somehow he sees things that others do not.
The original murder took place on Cut Throat Lane, the name of the road when the story was passed around in the late 1940s. The road is now called ….in Leicester.
No we are not going to tell you, here are some clues at the Leicester end. A new church was built in the 1950s; there were allotments on the right; a smelly pond under a large tree on the left, with newts, frogs and all sorts of creepy things; we kept these in jam jars: for our mothers.
Mick solves the problem in Leicester and then it leads him to Margate, where they are experiencing the same problem.
Currently out of print – Copies may be purchased from the author!
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December 1967. Martin Luther King, Jr. has begun laying out plans for his Poor People’s Campaign. Florina Austin, newly married, spies a woman sitting on the steps leading up to the verandah where Florina and her husband will live. The woman’s uncanny knowledge of the space that Florina will inhabit leaves her suspicious. The following Sunday after church, Florina witnesses the woman she has come to know as
Agnes, caress Redmond’s cheek. The look in Redmond’s eyes betrays longing. Florina and Agnes are neighbors. Their husbands, Negro doctors in Poinsettia,
NC, hold prominent positions in the social and political life of their community.
When Agnes flees to Memphis and joins the Sanitation Workers Protests, all are aghast, none more than Florina.
As they move towards the fateful day Dr. Martin Luther King is killed, Florina learns that marriage exposes the vulnerabilities of all who pledge their trough and body. It casts an even greater shadow upon the ones who vow love unto death, and do not deliver what they have promised. When the Drum Major Died shows what happens when we resist change in favor of worn out tradition, but also what can and does occur when we open our hearts and embrace the words, “ ... be first in love ... be first in generosity ... He who is greatest among you shall be your servant. ...”
Anjuelle Floyd is the author of a collection of short stories, Keeper of Secrets … Translations of an Incident and two novels, The House and Seasons in Purdah. Her short stories and novels turn on the dynamics of women for whom life challenges impel them to examine the flawed relationships with their mothers in an effort to improve connections and interactions with their husbands and intimates. The House earned recognition in the 2011 Readers’ Favorite Awards.
Floyd is a wife of thirty years, mother of three, abstract painter, and licensed Marriage and Family Therapist specializing in
Mother-Daughter Relations and
Dreams. A graduate of Duke University, she received her MA in Counseling Psychology from
The California Institute of Integral Studies, San Francisco. She attended the Dominican Institute of Philosophy and Theology at the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, California, and received her MFA in Creative Writing from
Goddard College, Port Townsend, Washington.
She received certificates of participation from The Hurston-Wright Writers’ Week and The Voices of Our Nations Writing Workshops. The Spring 2006 Issue of The Pitkin Review, literary journal of Goddard College MFA Program in Writing, lists Anjuelle’s short story, The Kingdom of Heavenin the prose/fiction section. The 2008 Issue of Windhover, the literary journal of Mary Hardin-Baylor published Anjuelle’s short story, Eucharist, that Kaleidoscope Magazine, thejournal for the United Disabilities Services subsequently featured in their July 2009 Issue.
Also notable, she conducted the Master Fiction Class at the 2008 Winter Literary Festival hosted by The University of Mary Hardin Baylor in Belton, Texas.
A student of Process Painting for the last decade, Anjuelle has participated in The Art of Living Black Exhibitions 2004–2013 held at the Richmond Art Center, Richmond, California. On January 9th, 2013, Anjuelle received the Jan Hart-Schuyers Award for her painting, Intimacy, exhibited during the 2013 Exhibition of the Art of Living Black.
Anjuelle facilitates writing groups and provides individual consultation of fiction projects. She also gives talks onMother-Daughter Relations and The Healing Power of Mothers Loving Their Daughters Unconditionally, The Need for Family, The Writing Process as a Path Toward Self-discovery and Healing.
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Kathi Wyldeck is a private English, Science and Maths tutor and is the author of several grammar, writing and educational games books. She has previously worked as curriculum developer and head teacher of junior studies at two Sydney coaching colleges, and as a clinical and research technician at the Garvan Institute of Medical Research, and at Sydney and Macquarie Universities. She is the mother of three grown boys, the youngest of whom she home-schooled for several years. Kathi runs an educational website of active games, general knowledge quizzes and writing exercises, which she updates regularly at www.funfitnesslearning.com. She believes that a strong grounding in the fundamentals of the English language not only helps students with all their schoolwork, but also develops clear, logical thinking and good communication skills for adult life.
Several of Kathi’s books are available in a British, American and Australian version, plus she publishes in various e-book formats such as Kindle, Nook, Kobo, i-bookstore, etc. to accommodate as many children as possible. Most recently, Kathi has published her ‘English: A Comprehensive Course’ series for Grades 3 to 9 as e-books.
Some of her other books include:
How to Write - Writing Lessons for Middle School
Grammar and Vocabulary Games for Children
Games for Fun, Fitness and Learning
Everyday Spelling and Grammar
Family Games: Perfect for Families and Small Groups
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Buried Threads by Kaylin McFarren
Rachel and Chase are back in “Buried Threads,” the sequel to Kaylin McFarren’s “Severed Threads,” and this time not only has their romance heated up but so has the danger when they are hired to find ancient Japanese Samurai swords under the sea.
Rachel Lyons and Chase Cohen work together as the successful owners of a treasure hunting company. But a seemingly simple assignment – to track down a priceless gem that is thought to be buried in a shipwreck deep within the Sea of Japan – takes a startling, and dangerous, turn.
Faced with a monk’s dark prophecy that a natural disaster will soon strike Japan, killing millions, Rachel and Chase must embark on the mission of a lifetime in order to uncover the three cursed samurai swords that can avert the catastrophe. Chaos ensues as their adventure takes them from shark-infested waters and creepy caves to haunted hidden tombs and a confrontation with Yakuza gang members.
Time is running out as the prophecy’s day of reckoning draws near. Will Rachel and Chase succeed before disaster strikes? Purchase Buried Threads at Amazon.com to find out!
ISBN 10: 1492120464
ISBN 13: 9781492120469
Kindle ASIN: B00GCQTKHA
Price: $12.95 Paperback; $4.99 eBook
Kaylin McFarren, aka Linda Yoshida, is a California native who has enjoyed traveling around the world. She previously worked as director for a fine art gallery, where she helped foster the careers of various artists before feeling the urge to satisfy her own creative impulses.Since launching her writing career, McFarren has earned more than a dozen literary awards in addition to a finalist spot in the 2008 RWA Golden Heart Contest. A member of RWA, Rose City Romance Writers, and Willamette Writers, she also lends her participation and support to various charitable and educational organizations in the Pacific Northwest and founded the Soulful Giving Foundation. McFarren currently lives with her husband in Oregon, where they have three grown daughters and two grandsons.
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On the Moon
by SMJ Rigstad
On the moon, many years ago, lived ten toads. Come and enjoy these remarkable little space toads as they embark on a surprising adventure. Meet the sheriff, Trey, and see what mystery he is about to stumble upon, or maybe you want to play a little football with Tim! If that doesn't entice you, maybe you want to play leap frog with the tiny toad twins or see what Chef Tom is cooking up. Either way, there is adventure to be had in this clever, tongue-twisting tale of ten tubby space toads.
Presently Sarah is working side by side with her agent and she is busy writing children’s movie script which means taking a break from her own book projects for a while. Being a mother of three, all under the age of 5, Sarah juggles her passion for writing and her home life by combining the two elements. Inspired by her children’s imagination she takes her inspiration from activities and creative fun they have together. Born in 1984 as a ‘Hodgson’ (and a Scottish McDougall!), she has been writing since she was 6 years old. Not surprising she was bit by the writing bug early as she comes from a long line of authors and writers, her mother Julie Hodgson, to name one. To this date she has written 21 books/scripts and over the past 12 years Sarah has been meticulously cataloguing and perfecting each story.
Her mission: To keep imagination alive, to get children reading and enjoying the written word. Also to help get her messages of kindness, hope, friendship and maybe a little comedy to every child she meets. Her adult and self help books are part of her growing interest in the world of adult literature and expanding, perfecting, and improving her knowledge as a writer.
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Jodie And The Library Card by Julie Hodgson
Jodie Broom, a 12-year-old girl (almost 13!), is like most girls her age. She loves her friends, music, and is always up for a good adventure. What she treasures above all else are books and she is consumed by them, reading and collecting whatever she can to satisfy her voracious appetite for stories, facts, and history. But Jodie lives in the year 2075, and more than fifty years have passed since the banning of books and paper; it's a time when no one can own a printed book, or even print photographs. In this E-world, experiences are largely simulated, from the reconstituted food to the zoo that only shows films of all the extinct species. With her student library card, which gives her the ability to time travel, Jodie discovers that she and her friends can experience historical events and meet legendary characters, and can also find and bring home her precious books to keep safe in her secret hiding place. But her luck may soon run out as the authorities wise up to the youths' craftiness.
Publisher:
Bertrand Bookstore:
Best-Selling Author Julie Hodgson, now living in Sweden with her husband John, has travelled extensively all over the world writing for children. She has worked on the children's page of the Kuwaiti Times for about a year just before the first Gulf conflict in 1989, the story teller's page for the Dumfries and Galloway Standard, the press and journal Banff Standard, plus numerous other papers and short story books as well. She has also been featured a few times in the Portuguese newspaper Aponte and several other papers and magazines - such as Maria magazine and others.She now settles for a quieter life giving her more time to write stories, and is in popular demand for storytelling, having visited many schools in Portugal.
When last interviewed on the radio, Julie stressed how important it was for children to be able to read. She usually donates the proceeds from the sales of her books to charities.
She has just "hopped" on board Opera Omnias Publishing house and had a "Bilingual edition" book out last year - Jodie and the Library Card.
Julie is the author of several favorite children’s books, including Sally Socket and the Fire Angel, The Twilight Dance and Other Stories, Juno & the Half Man, Polly Mae, Juno & The Windwalker, The Mothaich, and many others.
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Roland Hughes’ newest novel - ‘as important as George Orwell’s 1984 and Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World’
What if the Mayans got the start of the end correct because they had survived it once before? What if our written history was just as accurate as the old tale about three blind men describing an elephant? What if classic science fiction writing and television shows each got a piece of it correct, would you know which ones? If your eyes can only see a tiny portion of a collage do you know it is a collage?
Sit back and watch the beads you have had all your life form the picture you could not see. Consider for one second the possibility of the story, then hang onto your mind with both hands while you take the ride.
For more information visit: http://www.johnsmith-book.comAbout the author:
Roland Hughes is the president of Logikal Solutions, a business applications consulting firm specializing in OpenVMS platforms and Qt on Linux. Hughes serves as a lead consultant with over two decades of experience using computers and operating systems. With a degree in Computer Information Systems, the author's experience is focused on systems across a variety of diverse industries including heavy equipment manufacturing, pharmaceuticals, stock exchanges, tax accounting, and hardware value-added resellers, to name a few. Working throughout these industries has strengthened the author's unique skill set and given him a broad perspective on the role and value of technology in industry. This book series is an effort to pass along some of his insights and skills to the next generation. Mr. Hughes' technical skill sets include the following tools that enable him to master and improve OpenVMS applications: DEC/VAX C, DEC/VAX C++, DEC BASIC, DCL, ACMS, MQ Series, DEC COBOL, RDB, POWERHOUSE, SQL, CMS/MMS, Oracle 8i, FORTRAN, FMS, and Java, among others. Being fluent in so many technical languages enables Hughes to share his knowledge more easily with other programmers.
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Award Winning Author Dr. Charles N. Toftoy Has New Book In The Works
Intriguing Thoughts To Awaken YOU
A Unique Approach
The author provides practical, rubber-meets-the road thoughts to INSPIRE us. The same characters are used from his first two novels. They, the Alpha Team, gather weekly around a fireplace to brainstorm important topics of life. Based on heavy research, the book is written FOR the reader and TO the reader.
This book should benefit young and older adults, men and women. It provides insights to help you ‘cope with personal difficulties, make self-improvements, and assist or care for others’.
"There’s an amazing conversation going on over by the fireplace and you’re invited to join in…but be advised this chat just might change your life.
The topics are current and ancient; basic life issues, profound human troubles, sacred customs and time honored rituals are part of the fireside exchanges. Rarely has the deeper issues of our lives been addressed in such an enjoyable, readable and truly useful way."
~~Jeff Duvall
Sgt E-5 (Ret.)
Vietnam Veteran
The author will donate proceeds from the book to the Disabled American Veterans (DAV) and the Wounded Warrior Project (WWP). DAV is a strong advocate for veterans rights and strives to insure they receive earned benefits. The WWP helps thousands of injured warriors and their families.
Dr. Charles Toftoy has worked in the military, corporate, and academic sectors. He was a US Army airborne ranger and infantry officer, and a highly decorated Vietnam veteran earning two purple hearts.
He has a doctorate in strategic planning, an MBA from Tulane University, and a BS in engineering from West Point. In the corporate world, he served as General Manager for Raytheon Service Company, Director of Marketing for Lear Siegler, Inc., and President of PATCH Associates, among others.
At George Washington University, he served as the director of the Entrepreneurial Small Business Program and taught at the undergraduate and graduate level in The Business School.
Toftoy has received numerous academic, corporate, and military awards and honors and currently serves as a business strategies advisor to several local companies in Arlington, Virginia.
Eyes Of Cold Case Killers by Charles ToftoyPublished December 20, 2011
Lars Neilsen, a professor-sleuth, and his highly skilled Alpha Team put their lives on the line to catch the cold case killer of twenty victims.
Taurus, nick-name for the killer, has a track record of murders from Buffalo, Albany, Philadelphia to the Washington, D.C. Metro area. His modus operandi is mostly strangulation---placing a plastic bag over the head of his victims.
D.C.'s heightened restlessness is reminiscent of the post 9/11, snipers, and anthrax scares. Everyone is walking on pins and needles, particularly in the Northern Virginia region. The entire nation watches.
It's In The Eyes by Charles ToftoyPublished August 18, 2009
A Psychopath Is Stalking Co-Eds In Washington, DC.
It's spring in Washington, DC - a beautiful time of year in the nation's capital, yet its citizens are uneasy. Their heightened restlessness is reminiscent of the recent 9/11, sniper, and anthrax scares. But this time the enemy is a psychopathic killer responsible for the deaths of four local university co-eds - raping and murdering them using rituals practiced by the Thuggees, killers for the Goddess Kali who were responsible for the deaths of more than two million travelers in India in the 17th and 18th centuries.
It's up to Lars Neilsen, a college professor and part-time sleuth, and his highly skilled Alpha Team to find out who is committing these atrocious murders. But Lars and his team are in for a few nasty surprises along the way...
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“A story about families that live with secrets and lies grounded in shame.”
About Last Flight Out…
How do you live the rest of your life when your doctor says, “You have Lou Gehrig’s disease, you probably have six months to live. Go out and have fun, do all the things you’ve wanted to do while you still can and prepare to die?”
Americans continue to fear death and dying. Comedian Woody Allen said, “I’m not afraid of death, I just don’t want to be there when it happens.” Phyllis Langton’s memoir, Last Flight Out: Living, Loving, & Leaving, is a passionate love story, one that deepens as she and her husband George Thomas live their way into the experience of ALS, its unremitting losses and its surprising gifts, with dignity, keen humor, a fighter pilot’s courage and a nurse’s unsentimental pragmatism.
“I know what’s going to be on my death certificate. That’s more than you can say,” George tells her after receiving his diagnosis.
How they are going to live the time that remains to them as a couple is also not in question, for they are equally committed to savoring every minute, respecting George Thomas's choices about what makes for a meaningful life, a meaningful death.
Supporting her husband's wishes is a moral as well as emotional choice on Langton's part, and definitely not always an easy one. As a medical sociologist, she invites her readers into an open discussion of some of these choices through a thoughtful discussion guide.
AmazonBarnes & Noble Publisher ♦♦♦
"Phyllis Langton has had as illustrious a career as anyone in academia, but she has taken infinite pains now to write a different kind of book. Her story of her husband's life with and death from ALS (Lou Gehrig's disease) yields many a valuable lesson, but this lesson above all: that dying, whatever its pains, can be both a negative and a positive experience. Here love and mortality, laughter and sorrow are all but inseparable, and their inseparability may help lessen a reader's fear of death and dying. Anyone who enjoys a deeply moving story will want to read this wondrous, indispensable book, and anybody who faces adversity, that is to say everybody, will need to read it."
Jeffery Paine––author of Father India, Re-enchantment, Adventures with the Buddha, and Tales of Wonder (with Huston Smith). Judge for the Pulitzer Prize and former vice-president of the National Book Critics Circle.
"Like many others, I've not been comfortable with the subject of death––the death of my loved ones or myself. How lucky we humans are to have Phyllis Langton's story as part of our lives. This moving book has allowed me to look death in the eye, and even find a way to laugh about it. Langton shows us that deep love and laughter make the sorrow and loss bearable, paving the way for this ultimate journey and beyond. . . ."
Jill Breckenridge––author of The Gravity of Flesh and Miss Priss and the Con Man.
“I couldn't put Last Flight Out down. I wanted it to go on so I could learn more about Phyllis and George and their story about facing ALS together. George had a terminal disease and he and Phyllis chose to live and love to the fullest! What an incredible message to read especially with a disease that takes and takes.”
Sharon J. Matland, R.N., M.B.A.––Vice-President of Patient Services, The ALS Association
“Who would have thought that disease can be a page-turner? But Phyllis Langton's bittersweet memoir of her fighter-pilot husband's last years shows that a good marriage can be as joyous in sickness as it is in health. Last Flight Out is a vivid, sparkling story about facing death with grace and high spirits.”
Mark Weston—author of Giants of Japan and Prophets and Princes: Saudi Arabia From Muhammad to the Present.
“Last Flight Out really touched my heart. As the hospice physician who cared for George, I found the description of the denial of his symptoms extremely compelling and riveting and it taught me to appreciate more deeply the psychological defenses which patients use to protect themselves against the perception of their own vulnerabilities. In addition, this memoir reminds all who read it of the paramount need to honor and respect a patient's wishes to control the conditions of care and medical treatment. George achieved a wonderful peace of mind as his disease relentlessly progressed. Everyone should be so fortunate to have such a resourceful and loving advocate for their partner.”
Dr. Henry Willner––Hospice Physician and Palliative Care Consultant, Capital Hospice.
About the author…
Words are my passion. It began as a young child when I lived in foster homes and a Children’s Home during the Great Depression in the 1930s and continued through the 1940s. I learned to write and tell stories to anyone who would listen as a way to connect with the people in my life. I didn’t understand why my friends and schoolmates lived a different life from mine: pretty clothes, bicycles, parents who picked them up in big, black cars, while I wore second-hand clothes and walked everywhere.
My writing passion flourished during the early 1950s, when as a student nurse, I learned to write narrative non-fiction in the form of 'nurse’s notes' on patients' charts that described in detail: how the wound smelled and the color of the wound drainage. Again, the medium was words.
My next writing journey began in the 1960s with my graduate education to earn a PhD in Sociology where the predominant medium was numbers. I learned a new form of thinking and writing that was heavily focused on the manipulation of quantitative data. Writing science was a challenge because I preferred words to numbers. But I accepted the challenge and evolved into a social science researcher, publishing books and articles as an academic sociologist. But my thirst for narrative non-fiction remained. This hunger led me to my current journey: creative non–fiction.
Early in 2000, my husband showed physical signs of a severe neurological disease: hand tremors, facial tremors, and slightly slurred speech. I began writing a journal of my observations. On Friday the 13th, 2000, he was diagnosed with ALS, commonly known as Lou Gehrig’s disease. I continued this journal throughout our journey. Journaling exposed me to myself. I found that sometimes I wanted the dying to happen sooner so I didn’t have to watch his pain and he would be free of this ugly disease, but then he would be free of me. The contradictions loomed large during the journey we shared.
In my late seventies, I continue to feed my passion as I write my memoirs, Last Flight Out: Living, Loving & Leaving, and Sweet Abandon: A Journey into Secrets and Lies. Belonging to a literary community helps me learn, grow, evolve, and connect with other human spirits––a precious gift.
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