Lew Goddard Camrose, Alberta, Canada Born Fifty Years Too Late ![]() Photo of author's uncle. Buy the paperback - $5.00 Buy the Kindle - $0.99 |
Don
Blacklock was real. He was one of my maternal uncles and the second
youngest of six children in my mother’s family. |
Ruth Truman Camarillo, Calafornia The Professor's Obsessions: Jennie's Story ![]() Buy the paperback - $10.00 Buy the Kindle - $0.99 |
How
can one girl have so much happen when all she is doing is going to
college?Jennie, a pre-med sophomore, is selected to lead a student
mission team to work at an orphanage in Africa. Who would guess she
would find herself mixed up with terrorists, a drug cartel, the FBI?
Or, on campus with her best friend’s rebellion over an abortion? Then
there’s the pesky professor who seems to turn up everywhere she goes,
no matter how hard she tries to get rid of him. And what of that
professor who is love-sick from the first day he sees her? Will he risk
his job trying to date a student? Out-of-Here has new meaning. . . . |
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An
iPad and phone call turn the lives of Drs. Ben and Jennie Adkins and
their two sons, Jake and Larry. Jake is in Afghanistan; Larry is a
drop-out from Callegua University, his parents’ alma mater. Big choices
have to be made. Internet-talented Larry takes off for California and
coaxes his grandmother Joan to join him. This leads to a gang
surrounded mission in Santa Ana, CA and an intriguing girl. Meanwhile
his parents make a life change that brings them back to Callegua U. In
a campus speech, Dr. Ben presents his dream for Higher Education in the
2020’s, reaching around the world. A reluctant faculty buys in, money
flows from foundations, other colleges join, and Larry helps make the
dream a reality. . . |
Mary
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Five
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Mary
McIntosh revisits her diary for the years 1935-1939.
Over the five volumes she describes the abdication of the English King,
the fiery disaster of the Hinderberg, romantic rides in a rumble seat,
visits to England on a steam ship, her first sexual encounters with a
lover, and hundreds of other episodes brought back to her 90 year old
mind in clear and vivid detail from the diary entries she made so long
ago. So start with her 1935 and 1936 volumes and then take a peek into her 1937 diary. She will take you back to a slower and simpler time. And the interlude will soothe your soul and enliven your mind. |
Mary McIntosh St. Petersburg, Florida "Great job. Thanks so much!" Much Have I Travell'd ![]() Buy the paperback - $5.70 Buy the Kindle - $0.99 |
Mary
McIntosh is over 93 years
old, yet she writes with all the animation and verve of a twenty year
old. In this book she remembers her travels all over the
world and the adventures she enjoyed and the wonderful people whe
met. Try a sample and you'll find you want to read
more. And your feet may start itching to get up and go see
for yourself some of the wonderful sights Mary describes. You'll
also yearn for the times gone by before so many others had made
the trips Mary describes. In a slower and more innocent time
she moved through many cities and lands few Americans had yet
visited. It's a wonderful read and a real inspiration to get
up and get going! |
J. R. Nakken Tulalip, Washington Jacey Cameron in the Lost State of Franklin Volume 1 of the Magic Necklace Series ![]() Buy the paperback - $12.00 Buy the Kindle - $0.99 6 X 9 190 pages |
In
this first Jacey Cameron adventure for middle-graders, the motherless
12-year-old heroine inherits what her grandmother told her was a magic
necklace. It would on its own whim, Grandma confided, transport her
back in time. Busy with her first year of middle school on Port Ransome
Island in Washington state and not even half-believing her
grandmother’s tale, Jacey tucks the necklace box away in her top
drawer. She continues to touch the cold wood each night as she promised
and, not long after Grandma crossed over, the box was warm! Only then
did it open and allow Jacey to put the necklace around her neck and
goes to bed as she was instructed. She awakens in the 18th century, in
the household of John Sevier, governor of the self-proclaimed State of
Franklin. As the bound girl, Jane, she has charge of Sevier’s several
young children (there were sixteen in all), cards wool, does baby
laundry by hand and continually polishes Bonny Kate Sevier’s prized
puncheon floors. Nancy Ward, the Blessed Woman of the Cherokee, enters
the story early. She is a friend to John Sevier as well as a
representative of her people, for her wisdom has told her that the
whites will soon be “as grass in the meadow,” and she strives for
peace. At a Christmas gathering at John Crockett’s (Davy Crockett’s
father) at the mouth of Limestone Creek, little Catherine Sevier is
kidnapped by marauding Chickamauga warriors who also take Jane/Jacey
who has come to look for the child. Their adventures for several weeks
in the renegade indians’ camp are the heart of the story, as is Nancy
Ward’s rescue of the two girls. True to Grandma’s story, Jacey awakened in her own bed with the necklace back in its once more cold box. “But nothing came home with me, Grandma,” she whispered as she looked around her room. “And I’m not sure I made a difference as you said I would.” Only later did she find her memento of the Franklin trip, and learn in a history book what happened to John Sevier as six-times governor of Tennessee, in that land that once was Franklin |
Confessions of a Martian Schoolgirl J. R. Nakken Buy the paperback - $12.00 Buy the Kindle - $0.99 6 X 9 140 pages |
J.
R. Nakken is an author whose work crosses several genres, from short
stories to historical fiction and works for young adults. She lives
on the Tulalip Indian Reservaton north of Seattle, Washington, with
her soul mate and several felines. PRAISE FOR MARTIAN SCHOOLGIRL
Readers
Digest Assn. is proud to present Reminisce Magazine's Grand Prize
Winner in its inaugural Memoir Contest. Our judges found Confessions
of a Martian Schoolgirl an easy read of an honest story, with
fine detail of growing up in the 40s and 50s on the Midwest prairie.
Humor abounds amidst dark moments in an entertaining coming-of-age
tale. |
Ann Boult Walling Franklin, Tennessee "The Preservation foundation, under the leadership of Richard Loller, expedited the process of bringing my book to print in many ways. . . . I had no idea what would be involved in publishing a book. Richard made it all happen." Sunday Dinner Coming of Age in the Segregated South Ann Walling grew up in Nashville, Tennessee, in the 1940s and 50s in a family with deep roots in Mississippi and a history tightly bound to the Old South. To a small girl's sensibility, her family's lavish Sunday dinners were a liturgy that reinforced strict Southern mores she was taught never to question. But lurking behind the fine china were troubling contradictions, racial injustice, and tightly guarded family secrets. Told with clear-eyed empathy, Sunday Dinner is a remarkable story of a young woman's moral awakening amidst a society's painful reckoning with the past, and of the things we choose to embrace and leave behind about the places we come from and the people who define us. Buy the paperback - $11.95 Buy the Kindle - $0.99 6 X 9 184 pages Large Print | ![]() |
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This
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himself and his sons to celebrate his seventy-fifth
birthday. It ends with the story of a kitten named Resurrection that was born on Easter and died not many months later. And that story ties seamlessly in with George Mann's passing at eighty-nine and his final gift to his sons and family. George had taken his boys to his hunting camp from the time they were six. They learned to share his love of camping, hunting, and the outdoors. A gift that they, in turn, have passed on to their boys.. As his birthday drew near George conceived as a present to his sons a very special trip. It's object, hunting jaguars in Central America, did not quite turn out as planned. This is the Frank's first person account of that miserable 10 day survival experience where whatever could go wrong did. Filled with wonderful details of incompetent guides, sharing the airplane with chickens, disgusting food, “tourista” ills, night time terrors, fierce mosquitos and ticks, and filthy bodies and clothes—all the elements that made it a hell trip it bacame. But, as so often happens, this worse-ever experience has become in retrospect Frank's best memory of his loving father. And it has ended up the gift George Mann intended—an adventure he and his sons shared that was er filled with love and wonderful memories. ****** Frank Mann was born and raised in Florida, Fort Myers to be exact. He left briefly for a degree from Vanderbilt University in Nashville but returned in 1963 to begin a 50 year career in Florida politics--a long time state legislator, candidate for Governor in 1986, and currently a county commissioner for Lee County. He was also for 17 years spokesman for the Association for Retarded Citizens of Florida. He has worked to get government assistance for society's often overlooked citizens. He has written numerous political reports, news stories, and speeches, but his creative writing efforts are relatively recent. Twenty years ago Frank wrote a personal story on the subject of cats for a contest, which he won. A Story about a hunting trip to Honduras with his father and brother, his second creative effort, also won first prize when submitted to another contest. The two have been combined and have resulted in this, his first published book. Pretty good for a late blooming author! |
Donal Buchanan Danvers, Massachusetts "Thanks for doing such a wonderful job! I wish I’d known about your site years ago." The Naming of Joshua Bean ![]() Buy the paperback - $6.95 Buy the Kindle - $0.99 8 1/2 X 11 150 pages Large Print |
Born of missionary parents in
Japan, Donal Buchanan's has traveled widely throughout
Europe and Asia. Among his many jobs was work for the CIA in the
U.S., Japan, India, and Vietnam. THE NAMING OF JOSHUA BEAN Joshua Bean, the son of an
itinerant gunsmith, is in his 14th year when the story opens. |
W. Robert Abstein II Nashville, Tennessee "I am very pleased with my book and the readers of it have said how well it was done." (See full text) Standing In The Breach ![]() Buy the paperback - $8.00 Buy the Kindle- $4.99 6 X 9 108 pages |
These poems
and
meditations reflect the struggles and the joys of living the faith.
From sitting with a toad in search of a meal to reflections upon the
mystery of God becoming flesh each piece is an examination of doubt
and faith. The difficulties and the joys of being a minister during
times of transition are explored with an open and honest heart and
mind. |
Ciro T. De Rosa Babylon, New York "I am happy to write a testimonial about the help, consideration and guidance you gave me when I asked you about publishing my anthology." (See full text) The Door To Naples ![]() 6 x 9 190 pages Buy the paperback - $5.50 Buy the Kindle - $0.99 The stories in this book speak to the lives of the citizens and their priest who live in the ancient town of Casellino, in the Campania region of southern Italy. From the boy who gave his life in the fight against the retreating Germans during WW II, in An Unlikely Hero, to The Beloved Image of Oneself, and a |
beautiful
woman who could never conceive that her beauty would fade and
she’d
be left alone, and lonely. The Good Samaritan, who hoped to give
solace to those less fortunate, only to find that they wanted more than she could give. The old lady who realized she had lived too long, and was now leaving her home of seventy years with all its memories in the story, Moving Day. Envy and greed animates a man to conspire to steal an art gallery from his employer who treated him like a son in The Fifth Deadly Sin. Is the young novice in the convent of The Sisters of Mercy displaying the wounds of Christ’s Crucifixion in Stigmata? If so, is Don Ignazio’s faith challenged? In Unintended Consequences, lives are destroyed because of a clerical error. Don Ignazio is caught between two strong willed women in The Jealous Mother, who won’t consent to his son’s marriage and finessing Donna Rafe’ in Santo Piro, to continue her support of the church in need of repair. A young man comes from America to disinter the bones of his grandparents in The Ritual, and learns the mystery of life. An elderly couple who lost their son in the war is visited by The Stranger, who changes their lives forever. Finally, murder destroys the relative tranquility of Casellino in The Wolf Man of Casellino. Dr. De Rosa has taught English on the secondary level, in the ESL program for foreign students, and a review of major religions for Apollo College in Arizona. Ciro graduated Magna Cum Laude with a B.A. in English from Dowling College. He received his M.A. from Stony Brook University and a Professional Diploma in Reading from Adelphi University. He completed his Doctorate in 1994 in the Graduate Teachers Program from La Salle University.He is a member of The Italian American Writers Association.His short stories have been published in Voices In Italian Americana and articles about his travels to Italy in Italian America Magazine. He writes a bi-monthly column for a state wide journal.He and his wife, Giovanna, have two daughters, five grandchildren and four great grandchildren.When asked about his writing, he says that he attempts to write with Clarity, Brevity, Simplicity and Humanity. He hopes he’s done that with this book. |
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Dr. DeRosa, a talented writer, has created a Cityscape of
his beloved Brooklyn in a collection of 15 short stories that capture
the essence of what makes that bit of the world unique. His characters,
many of them of Italian background, work, play, love, and struggle amid
the streets,
homes, and buildings of the vast city - itself an underlying actor in
all the stories. Dig in and enjoy these wise and wonderful stories of a
time and place you will always remember. |
Richard F. Bishop Munich, Germany "I’ll try to describe just how my “book” came about through the auspices of the Preservation Foundation, Inc., and Mr. Richard Loller, a modern “Wizard of OZ” located in Nashville, Tennessee." (See full text) Out of Kalamazoo County ![]() 8 1/2 x 11 126 pages Buy the paperback - $5.95 |
Richard Bishop, Lt. Col., USAF (Ret.), lives with his wife Elfi in Munich, Germany. He retired as a Regular Officer in 1976 after 25 years of Military service in the Comptroller field (a broad career field in Financial Management). After his Military Service, he was a Lecturer in Business & Management Courses for City Colleges of Chicago (an American Community College) for 17 years in their Overseas Program for the Military in Germany. He holds the Bachelor of General Education (BGE) Degree from the University of Nebraska at Omaha, Nebraska (1966), and the M.A. Degree in Business Management & Supervision from Central Michigan University, Mt. Pleasant, Michigan (1974). He was licensed as a Public accountant in the State of Ohio for a number of years. His hobbies are his Computer and Old Languages such as Phoenician. He has published several articles about ancient languages in an Academic publication: Epigraphic Society Occasional Publications (ESOP) . |
Patricia M. Snell Kendall, New York Substitute Teacher Domain Enter at Your Own Risk An A-Z Memoir of Teaching at Kendall Elementary School
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I replied, saying: Maybe;
but all I would want is just a free souvenir for my former classmates - can you
get me a cheaper local Printing Shop there in Nashville,
Tennessee, than these expensive ones here in Germany? He was nice enough to
gather some estimates for me (they turned out to be rather high).
But then he said: "Let
me play out my connections to Amazon - they could be the most inexpensive of
all . . . better yet, they do all of the covering and layout and guarantee a
full, attractive finished Paperback or E-book product which local
print shops rarely can do -- if some local Print Shop would do the job it would
probably look like a pamphlet ; staples
and all. . . . and Amazon doesn't fret if it
turns out to be a non-Bestseller. Above all, don’t forget, Amazon is now
the biggest Publisher in the world."
The following events occurred
over a time-period of about two months (after those facts had sunk into my mind).
It started me
thinking seriously about a more professional product and I actually began
investing some overtime into an "exercise" of putting all my stuff
into book form. It was lots of work into the midnight hours. I had to cull
out all the Stories that were "Editorializing" (such as “Blue-eyed
Soul” and “Dueling Banjos”) but I kept the Memoir
stuff. A few paragraphs swapped here and there and a few new chapters to
create the historical big picture plus describing a rural "setting"
and it was done. At my request, Mr. Loller was kind enough to search for and actually locate a
satellite image showing the Great Lakes Basin for the cover.
I sent it in as an Adobe
Reader .pdf file to Mr. Loller
and that was it - he and his contact at Create Space Publishing Platform
- a subsidiary of Amazon (who operates Printing Plants located in Kentucky and
South Carolina) accepted it immediately, all in a few days.
A few corrections (plus
adding an Index) and the rest is history. It was issued on 21 November, 2014. Wow! - Amazon really is BIG and
they really spread it around for you and it is now listed at 10 Booksellers:
Amazon.com/books - Main
Supplier
Amazon.co.uk (Print on Demand)
AbeBooks.co.uk (Print on
Demand)
Alibris
Barnes & Noble
Books-A-Million
Bookstores.com
Half-Price Books
Powell’s
Schuler Books & Music
It
is now listed (complete with cover image) in an all Michigan on-line free Ad
(www.Mlive.com) and in an all World
on-line free Ad (www.freeadstime.org), as well.
To
add some “oomph” into the marketing, I put a classified ad (complete with cover
image and a LINK to Amazon) into the print version of the Stars and Stripes
Newspaper (Europe and Pacific: daily circulation: 350,000) and it was
listed there throughout January, 2015, together with a matching on-line listing
(also with a LINK to Amazon).
The
Military Officers Association of America Magazine (MOAA Magazine) notified
me that it will show a “one-liner” in the April, 2015, issue of their Magazine
(monthly circulation: 283,000) and then they will list it permanently in their
on-line MEMBER BOOKS database. They said it will include a LINK to Amazon.
The
very first copy was purchased by the Kalamazoo, Michigan, Central Public
Library from the trade information issued by Amazon. Another went to the
Mattawan Consolidated High School Library. So much for Posterity; (sort of like my
“Star” on the Hollywood walk of fame)
Rather
a long story, isn't it? Well, there's really no short version ! I’m getting a big
“kick” out of it; this short ride (November 2014 - March 2015) has been, so
far, a crowning achievement in my 84 years!
It’s
hard to keep your eyes on the original goal and I keep telling myself, it was
only printed for myself and my classmates (but, when you’re having so much
fun, it’s hard to ignore those anticipated incoming sales numbers!) My
enjoyment started with one little article for READER’S DIGEST Association’s Farm
and Ranch Living Magazine. But it grew tenfold with the chance Mr. Loller created for me at Amazon.
And
so, my Friends, if you have some stories, just bundle them all together and
send them off to Nashville. Probably they’ll not ever be recorded for Posterity
if you don’t do it right now. You could find out (just as I have) that: (1) the
magical hand of Mr. Richard Loller and (2) the Preservation
Foundation, Inc. and (3) the Amazon publishing world are just
made for you.
And
don’t forget; . . . People are waiting! . . . Posterity is waiting!