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Many of the experiences that Neffie went through were a combination of the things that my great-grandmothers and great-great-grandmothers went through. Although my parents and grandparents couldn’t recall all the slave master names and the people who played a pivotal role in my great-grandmothers’ and great-great-grandmothers’ lives, I took what information was given to me…
The Chronicles of Neffie is about a fifteen-year-old slave girl in Alabama in 1837. Told through her eyes and in her voice, this book will grab hold of you and not let go. You will experience her pains, her thoughts, her feelings, and her desires. Her biggest desire is to be free. If you want…
Shoebill murder birds don’t even look real to me, but they are. They can only be found in various parts of Africa. Their favorite places to hang out are in dense tropical marshes, swamps, and wetlands. So the chances of you running across this real-life hippogriff in a dark alley are nonexistent. That is comforting.…
In the fourth book of the Second Species series, love is in the air. This book focuses on Vlad and Andreas, the younger brothers of Marek Strigoi. Each one of them falls in love and want to marry. There is only one little problem; the females are human. Vampire law forbids marriage between mortals and…
When looking to describe something, such as loyalty, a grievance, etc, that is firmly implanted or established, it is tempting to say that it is deep-seeded. After all, a seed is buried deep beneath the dirt. Which of the following would be correct?A) Shelby’s hatred of mushrooms is deep-seated.B) Shelby’s hatred of mushrooms is deep-seeded.…
Well, here I am. Each day, I escape to another time period, sometimes even to another planet. This is the life of a writer. Hi, everyone. Today is not unlike most days. I’m busy editing, writing, and promoting my dystopian sci-fi and fantasy book series, Mystical Slayers. I grew up playing dungeons and dragons, and my…
They say a picture is worth a thousand words, but it is up to the author to write those thousand words. (Richard Petracca) Will you be the one to write those thousand words? When you look at a picture, do you only see what is right in front of your eyes? Or do you see…
Betty has lost her mind. I’m not sure that she was ever sane. Of the opinion that everything and everyone in her life has always been against her, she resents those she calls the Beloveds, people that she feels have everything going their way and who are getting all the things that she deserves. When…
Have you ever walked around in Alabama with an ice cream cone in your back pocket? I hope you’ve not put salt on a railroad track while there either. When you were flying over Alaska, were you caught staring at a moose out of your plane window? Would you be brave enough—or stupid enough—to wake…
In just ten weeks, Kate McCall has used her acting expertise, her theatrical flair, and her dramatic savvy (her words) to solve not just one or two, but many cases. It all started when her father was found dead, tied to a chair with his eyes blown out. He left Kate his private detective business.…
A hitchhiker, a man with no face, a car crash victim, an out-of-work actor, and Death himself all play a part in the macabre stories in this book.
They say a picture is worth a thousand words, but it is up to the author to write those thousand words. (Richard Petracca) Will you be the one to write those thousand words? When you look at a picture, do you only see what is right in front of your eyes? Or do you see…
Harry Potter went to a special school for wizards where he learned to control his powers. Teddy Cannon is going to a school where she is learning to control and use her psychic abilities. When the story begins, Teddy has been banned from every poker table in Las Vegas. She has disguised herself and is…
My Little Cities picture books introduce your children to four famous cities: London, England; New York City, New York; Paris, France; and San Francisco, California. Children immediately fall in love with these books because, well, they are books. My grandson Zander loves books, and he claimed them immediately, oohing and aahing over all the pictures.…
Hello, everybody. My name is Stephen Helmes, and I am the author of the Nightly Visits series. I was born in Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia, in the U.S.A. It’s a nice place to Google if you enjoy reading about historical locations. Fort Oglethorpe and Chickamauga are places where one of the major battles of the American…
How mysterious and scary is your monster? If your monster were to come to life and get lost in your town, would people’s hair stand on end when they saw it? Would they stop whatever they were doing and run from it? Would it cause them to fear for their lives? How do you make…
The research I did for Softly and Tenderly had me delving into things that I would never have learned about just for the fun of it. How fast does a person’s body decompose once they have breathed their last? Just the thought of that gave me chills. When are bugs first attracted to the lifeless…
You can’t see me, but I am here. I do believe I started mid-story. Please, forgive me; let me back up a bit. We are born with the ability to do great things. Will we be the next Beethoven, Shakespeare, or Joan of Arc and transform our darkness into something we can use to overcome…
Imagine that the battle for your soul’s eternal resting place was decided in a courtroom. You are on trial for every little thing, good or bad, that you’ve ever done in your life. Joe has always heard this voice. This voice helped him with his schoolwork and when bullied. This voice helped him with his…
Broken Chains takes place in Azerbaijan, Kenya, and Canada. It is a story of escape from abuse, psychological and physical. It is a story of poverty, deceit, dementia, and alcoholism. It is a story of errors in judgment. The daughter suffers because of her mother’s bad choices, yet she ends up making similar bad choices in…
Whether it be the 1910 horror film, Frankenstein, written and directed by J. Searle Dawley, or the 1974 comedy from Mel Brooks, Young Frankenstein, the image of the monster and his creator are forever etched into our minds. But with all the great adaptations to this fine story over nearly two centuries, we should not…
The story opens on the dark night of July 31, 1995. That night is dark in more ways than one. A ritualistic human sacrifice is being made. Oh, and the woman being sacrificed is pregnant. Then the story skips ahead to twenty-one years later. Has the sacrifice been forgotten? What about the child she was pregnant with? What became of it?
There are enough rules about when to use a comma and when not to use one to drive any normal person insane. Have you ever noticed that sometimes there are commas between adjectives and sometimes there aren’t? Why is that? Order of AdjectivesDid you know that there is an order in which adjectives should appear?…
Tragedy changes a person’s life. Some lives change for the better; others change in not so great a way. Some are pulled closer to God during times of pain and grief; others push God as far away as they can. Sol Harkens pushed God away. Let There Be Light is a love story. It is…
