Bill Powers
Detective Lieutenant Bill Powers has spent the past fifty years working in one capacity or another in the criminal justice system: thirty-three years as a sworn police officer with a majority of that time working as both an investigator and an academy instructor, and later as an assistant professor teaching classes on investigation and courtroom testimony to students in a forensic science program at a Boston medical school.
Now, with decades of experience, an overflowing satchel of institutional knowledge and formal education behind him, Bill has turned his attention to writing, teaching and hopefully, showing the human side of policing. He has written two books and produces a podcast about his experiences and current issues in policing.
Excerpt from Murderous Rage
I rarely fly to a crime scene with blue lights and a blaring siren because normally the detectives are already there and the scene is preserved and under control. This time was different. It wasn’t normal. I could hear the tension and concern in Duke’s voice. Seven victims in a workplace shooting exceeded anything I had ever heard of in Massachusetts. In fact, to the best of my knowledge, the largest mass murder in the commonwealth was five, and that was more than twenty years earlier inside a closed Boston bar in a gangland-style massacre.
I drove as fast as I could while trying to manage non-stop incoming calls. I was doing seventy-five and police cars from other cities and towns passed me as if I was standing still.
Duke called three times while I was talking with Johnny McEvoy, who was also heading to the scene. Like me, he was trying to gather help from his side of the office to report to the scene to help in locking it down, assessing what happened, and starting to formulate a game plan.
I figured something was going wrong if he was that persistent. “Yes, Duke,” I answered. “I’m getting off 128 now and should be there in about five minutes unless traffic is all backed up.”
“Can you make it any faster?” he asked, “The NEMLEC SWAT team is here, all suited up and getting ready to go in. I’ve told them no and to wait for you, but they aren’t listening to me. I really need you here.”
Doyle Glass
Author, historian, and sculptor dedicated to honoring those who fought for freedom. He is a master at recounting true stories of brave men and women who were outnumbered and out-gunned but continued to battle toe-to-toe with ferocious opponents in war.
His first book, Lions of Medina, gives a firsthand account of the sacrifices made by the Marines of Charlie Company during Vietnam.
His second book, Swift Sword, chronicles the gut-wrenching story of valiant Marines in Vietnam who endured a horrific firefight isolated on a lone knoll in the Queson Valley.
Coming in 2024, Unthrottled: The Story of Robert Benoist will reveal the harrowing story of Robert Benoist, a famous French Grand Prix World champion in the 1920s and Le Mans race winner in the 1930s, who risked everything as a British secret agent to help rid France of the Nazi occupation during WWII.
Excerpt from Unthrottled: The Story of Robert Benoist
JUNE 26, 1943: THE PING PONG BAR
“What is the phrase again? The one we are to ask the barman?”
Still dressed in his white racing overalls, Maurice struggled to keep up. The night was hot and sticky
and the street, Rue Brunel, just off the avenue Grande de L’Armee, was the last place I wanted to be.
“Have you seen Gilbert?” I said. “He’ll know who we are looking for.”
A few feet up the street, I caught sight of a red neon light. It flashed “Ping,” “Pong,” then “Bar” above a
heavy oak door. Just a half hour before curfew, we didn’t have much time. If we were going to find Dericourt,
it had to be here, tonight.
“Are you sure this is a good idea? Maurice asked.
I said nothing. Without checking my pace, I closed the distance to the flashing light, seized the handle
of the door, opened it, and stepped inside.
The bar was long and narrow. To my right there was a counter fronted by four backless stools, behind
that stood a short, round man who I took to be the barkeep. To the left, there were six tables with three
chairs each. The back of the windowless room opened to a larger square, one that held three ping-pong
tables.
The air was stale and smelled of cigarettes and body odor. And, something else- the smell of grease and
meat.
To my left, three German soldiers sat at one of the tables. They were laughing, smoking, and drinking
beer. In the lap of the largest one sat a pretty, young French girl about the same age as my daughter.
In the back, German soldiers, six of them, occupied all three tables. There were two at the end of each
table, stripped down to their shirtsleeves, talking loud and sweating as they repeatedly whacked about a
small celluloid ball. The clatter of the balls on paddles, the guttural sounds of their voices, the smells, and
the lack of time all scraped at my nerves like sandpaper.
“Nine of them,” Maurice muttered. “We should come back another time.”
Dennis Blackmon
Working on his second historical thriller in the Dr. Margaret Loughlin, Aviation Investigator Series, Dennis has also spent the last 6 months working with the production of the play he co-wrote with Regina D. Wells, Montgomery the Musical. The production played to a full house over four shows at the Carrollton Center for the Arts in Carrolton Georgia in February.
Katia Vitale-Davis
PAPER DIAMONDS, How I learned that (sometimes) they’re the best
Katia’s story of a life that spans experiences from living in a trailer in Idaho to a home in Malibu is fascinating: “I love the juxtaposition of my Idaho childhood home in the cow pasture next to my Malibu house on the beach. As a teenager I sunbathed on my mother’s plastic lawn chair in that cow pasture and fantasized about living in a house on the beach in a world where I didn’t worry about my parents’ ability to pay rent or buy food. A world where I wouldn’t be told, ‘It’s time to move.'”
Katia has launched a beautiful website while she’s at work writing her 2nd book!
About Paper Diamonds
Kristine June Leach grew up deep in the Idaho mountains at the edge of the Nez Pierce reservation, where she felt the annual powwow drums vibrating beneath her feet.
In her twenties, she fled her crazy, co-dependent family and her hard-scrabble roots via a dysfunctional marriage, leaving America—and her husband–behind.
Obsessed with reinventing herself from Kristine, the self-loathing misfit from Idaho to a glamorous and adored “star”, she studied in California, Hawaii and Egypt to master the art of Middle Eastern dance, performing on Santorini as the “half-Greek Katia Vitale,” a name partially inspired by sign over a used-car lot.
Her fame grew as she performed with her own production company in Los Angeles. She was painted by artists, graced album covers, had legion fans, but everywhere she went, Idaho (and often her eccentric and loving but co-dependent parents) came along for the ride. And just when she met and fell in love with the man of her dreams—the legendary Hollywood producer of the HIGHLANDER film and TV franchise—she teetered off the edge of her alcohol dependency, going straight from a Malibu beach house into serving time in Lynwood Women’s jail, an experience that left her with unexpected gifts.
Her dark and outrageous and often humorous adventures, both before and after Lynwood, taught her that although her childhood wounds had left an indelible imprint on her spirit, they did not define her. Through hard-won wisdom, she took a trip Greece, where she could sit peacefully, in solitude, on a terrace on Santorini, watching the famed sunset—finally embracing both Kristine June Leach and Katia Vitale.
Jim Seals
A retired Circuit Court Judge in Fort Myers, Florida, Judge Seals believes in the power of writing: “I wrote detailed judgments, orders and rulings, fully explaining my thoughts and reasoning on my cases in the best judicial prose I could muster. I firmly believe my in-depth writing influenced lawyers on the losing side to discourage their clients from appealing my rulings, thus saving a lot of people time and money.”
Judge Seals’ blog focuses on memorable court cases, plus essays on law-related matters and opinion pieces and essays on politics, religion and today’s turbulent culture.
From Judge Seals’ Blog
It’s the third day of a medical malpractice trial – typically known as the litigation equivalent of war – and so far, things aren’t going well for the plaintiff-patient. After two days of making no headway, the plaintiff’s attorney knows that victory is unquestionably slipping away.
It’s now clear to me that this case is what I call a “line-in-the-sand” case. Let me briefly explain. Many patients often undergo medical treatment and, even though the doctor was not negligent, the results did not turn out as hoped for or expected. They may convince themselves that the doctor committed malpractice, and seek legal counsel. Those patients who consult with experienced, ethical plaintiff lawyers, and become convinced they have no case, will luckily avoid the ordeal of litigation. However, there happens to be a certain class of lawyers who, working with certain doctors of dubious qualifications, will file med-mal lawsuits despite there being little or no evidence that the doctor actually did something wrong. Their goal is to reach a quick settlement in the expectation that the doctor’s insurance company will have no appetite to take the case through a long, expensive trial. However, every once in a while, a med-mal insurance carrier and the accused doctor will cry “enough,” draw a line in the sand, and offer nothing. This is one of those cases, and the defense has the perfect lawyer for the occasion, a feisty Cuban from Miami named Benny.
Leslie Levy
Leslie M. Levy is an author, public speaker, and mental health advocate. She holds a graduate degree in social work. Leslie became a certified instructor through a program at the Therapeutic Writing Institute and taught creative journaling techniques for a brief time. Soon after, she began her real dream of writing for an audience. She also speaks for audiences as a NAMI In Our Own Voice presenter and shares her mental health recovery story with others. Leslie enjoys playing table tennis, hiking, spending time with friends, and being coach potatoes with her husband, daughter, and pet Schnoodle, Milo. She lives in Los Angeles.
Lullabies in Bedlam
During a bipolar episode following the birth of her baby, 18-year-old Raya commits a shocking crime. As a result, she loses custody of her infant. Raya ends up in a psychiatric hospital where she longs for nothing more than a sweet connection with her newborn daughter. Instead, she must grapple with mental illness, fierce guilt, and the heartache of losing a child. Without a real reason to recover, Raya’s discharge is denied time after time.
She’s ready to give up on life altogether when she drags herself to yet another therapy session with the new doc on the ward. Something stirs deep within Raya when she meets Dr. Heschel. All she knows is that she feels alive, truly seen, and worthy of recovery. With new hope, armed with courage, tough wisdom, and a surprising sense of humor, she finds her way out of the hospital and into the real world.
Still, Raya yearns for the lost relationship with her daughter. When a twenty-something woman with the same inherited illness and a hauntingly familiar face turns up in her support group, little does Raya know it, her life will be turned upside-down.
Lullabies in Bedlam is a novel about heartbreaking loss, the unshakeable bond between mother and daughter, and the sacrifices we make to protect our loved ones, even while mental illness threatens to harm those connections we hold dear.
Alexandra Diaz
Alexandra Diaz is a Cuban-American spending her time between Bath, England, Santa Fe, NM, and the rest of the world. She has an MA in Writing for Young People from Bath Spa University and has led various workshops since she was fourteen. As a result of being homeschooled for most of high school, she’s fascinated by teenage school life and the drama that occurs in those quarters. One of the reasons she writes is to experience life in someone else’s shoes. She is a “jenny of all trades” having worked as a nanny, teacher, film extra, tour guide, and dairy goat judge (seriously). She currently teaches creative writing and circus arts, though not at the same time.
Farewell Cuba, Mi Isla
Victoria loves everything about her home in Cuba. The beautiful land, the delicious food, her best friend and cousin, Jackie, and her big, loving family.
But it’s 1960 in Cuba, and as the political situation grows more and more dangerous, Victoria, her parents, and her two younger siblings are forced to seek refuge in America with nothing more than two changes of clothes and five dollars. Worse, they’re forced to leave the rest of their family, including Jackie, behind.
In Miami, everything is different. And it’s up to Victoria to step up and help her family settle into this new world–even though she hopes they won’t be there for long. Back in Cuba, everything feels different, too. Jackie watches as friends and family flee, or worse, disappear. So, when she’s given a chance to escape to America, she takes it–even though she has to go alone. Reunited in Miami, can Victoria and Jackie find a way to bring the rest of their family to safety?
Based on Alexandra Diaz’s mother’s real experiences as a Cuban refugee in America, this is a moving and timely story about family, friendship, and fighting for your future. whodunit.
Peggy van Hulsteyn
During her career, van Hulsteyn has been Assistant Travel Editor of Mademoiselle Magazine in New York, southeastern director of Publicity for American International Pictures in Atlanta, owner of an award-winning advertising agency in Austin and advertising lecturer at the University of Texas. Van Hulsteyn won the Southwest Writers Workshop Storyteller Award for Best Novel for her murder mystery in-progress. She was awarded first place for non-fiction by The New Mexico Press Women for her book, Mind Your Own Business and she won a Certificate of Excellence in Humor for Vanity in Washington from the Cat Writers Association.
The Art of Murder
Released November, 2020
Why did Melissa have to die? That’s what her older sister, Micaela (Mickey) Moskowitz wants to know. Mickey, a prominent New York City journalist, returns to her hometown of Santa Fe in a quest for answers. She enlists Berg, her physicist paramour, and fiery District Attorney Lupita, her closest friend, to help solve the crime that shattered Mickey’s life forever. This trail-blazing trio of sleuths encounter an eclectic cast of characters, some charming and eccentric, some sinister and threatening. The plot interweaves the high-tech world of Los Alamos and a swaggering scientist with the legendary art world of Santa Fe and an ethically challenged U.S. senator.
Author Peggy van Hulsteyn, a long-time Santa Fe resident, knows these worlds intimately. The Art of Murder is a smart, engaging, and entertaining novel for readers who love eccentric New Mexico and who enjoy a good whodunit.
Yoga and Parkinson’s Disease
A practical how to guide to using yoga to manage stress, improve mental alertness, increase flexibility, correct posture and improve the quality-of-life of readers with Parkinson’s. It follows the author’s own experience and research studies in the subject that have shown a correlation between yoga practice and better health and outcomes after a Parkinson’s Disease diagnosis. More than simply an exercise guide, the book is a deeply soothing form of moving meditation and physical activity that is a safe way to rebuild strength, stamina, and flexibility.
Lee Maguire
Lee Maguire is a lifelong reader of mysteries with a similar interest in writing. Lee’s passion for psychology, and a longstanding career in that field (psychotherapist, consultant, evaluator), with a particular interest in clinical hypnosis, writing psychological thrillers has become his focus. With two books out in The Broken Minds Thriller series, and a third in development, Lee’s passion and experience come alive in the character of Dr. Bryce Davison.
If you’re a fan of suspense thrillers with a psychological emphasis (including some mystery and crime thrown in), consider Closer Than You Think. If you’re a fan of Jonathan Kellerman, Stephen White, and Sarah Lovett, you’ll enjoy this book. This book is also for those who enjoy cerebral mysteries.
Closer Than You Think
Something is amiss…Doctor Bryce Davison is a psychologist. His work, helping others, provides a respite from the dysphoria that troubles him in other settings. But cracks are beginning to appear in his psyche. He’s troubled by events from his past–one, years ago, and one, more recent. And if that’s not bad enough, his marriage is on the rocks. He’s finding it more challenging to get through his days. Depression, anxiety, loss, and grief are the companions surrounding him each day, and nights are the worst.
Bryce understands he must deal with his emotions, work through the difficulties. But, then, out of the blue, other things begin to happen. Unnerving things–a scent on a pillow. Cryptic email messages. Phone calls. Items out of place. The sense of being watched or followed.
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Dianne Romain
Dianne Romain, philosophy professor turned fiction writer, lives with writer Sterling Bennett in the house she designed in Guanajuato, a colonial city smack in the center of Mexico and the site of her novel The Trumpet Lesson.
Dianne grew up and went to college in Missouri before moving to Berkeley for graduate school. After completing her Ph.D. in philosophy, she stayed in California, teaching at Mills College, U.C. San Diego, and Sonoma State University. She also taught philosophy and yoga to prison inmates during a year’s sabbatical in Mexico.
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The Trumpet Lesson
In Romain’s poignant, yet witty novel about secret love and loss, a woman skilled at translating the words of others must learn to understand her own heart.
When Callie Quinn becomes pregnant at seventeen in 1960s rural Missouri, her outraged father, with her mother’s acquiescence, insists that no one ever know. Callie complies, goes away, and gives up her baby. But not for their reasons. The baby’s father is black. She accepts loss in silence to protect him from the era’s racist violence. Over thirty years later in a colonial Mexican gem of hidden rivers and maze-like footpaths, Callie, skilled at translating the words of others, still never speaks of her child. Though she has located her, she tells herself that her daughter does not want to know her. Devoting her days to perfecting translations, obsessive cleaning, evading roving Jehovah’s Witnesses, and dreaming up darkly comic morality tales to calm down her closeted friend Armando, she guards against her own longing.
Larry Kilham
Award-winning author Larry Kilham is a graduate of the University of Colorado and MIT. For many years he was a high-tech entrepreneur and world traveler. Larry moved to Santa Fe, New Mexico and has written four novels and seven nonfiction books. These focus on creativity and invention, artificial intelligence, and small business. Currently, he is focused on writing poetry with themes of living with nature in this age of digital technology.
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Larry Kilham received a first-place award from SouthWest Writers for his short memoir of his uncle Jim Breese titled “As I Remember Him.” You can see it at http://www.larrykilham.net/jim-breese/.
Sarah Jones
Sarah Jones is a graduate of the University of Tennessee and has worked as an English teacher and a business writer before retiring to a lake community north of Atlanta, Georgia where she belongs to three book clubs, plays golf and tennis, lounges on the lake, and hosts dinner parties. Her memoir, Quicksand: A Cautionary Love Story, was published in 2011 and turned into a screen play. Summer Squall is her second book and published in 2019 by Sunbury Press. A true southerner, her writing draws from her life in East Tennessee, metro Atlanta, and the Gulf Coast of Florida and Alabama. Her book reviews and wine pairings can be found on her website Sarahjonesauthor.com.
Summer Squall
Beth Gardner knows what she wants. As she approaches her thirtieth birthday, her life has progressed like the to-do list stuck to her refrigerator. Fulfilling job? Check. Condo in a trendy Atlanta neighborhood? Check. Supportive friends and a cat to cuddle? Check and check. Safe distance from her childhood in Tennessee? Big check. But something is still missing.
When she meets the charming Mark Berger out dancing one night, it’s love at first tango. Adventurous and athletic, Mark encourages her to venture out of her carefully constructed life and begin a new life with him in southwest Florida. “Slow down,” her friends advise. “What’s the hurry?” her therapist asks. “Why not?” Beth responds. “Why not happiness for a change?”
But will open-water diving, night lobster hunts, and off-shore sailing offer smooth waters for the couple? Or will the dangers and secrets of the deep pull them under? Determined to make this relationship work, Beth is about to find out.
Full of adventure and reflection, Summer Squall explores how the correct course in life isn’t always straight line.
Quicksand: A Cautionary Love Story
What do you do when FBI agents show up at your office and inform you that everything you believe about your spouse is a lie?
When Sarah first met Justin, he was charming, intelligent, and affectionate, everything she had been looking for in a partner. As the truth about the man who had shared her bed for years begins to emerge, Sarah realizes that love, trust, and devotion can be blinding, binding, and devastating.
For anyone who has wondered how intelligent people can get ensnared by a sociopath’s web of deception, Quicksand will show you just how insidious narcissists are – and how you can emerge stronger than ever once you’ve broken free.
Charles Petrie
Charles Petrie is a former UN official who rose to the rank of Assistant Secretary General before resigning from the organization in 2010. He has had close to thirty years’ experience working in contexts of conflict and famine, some of it with Médecins Sans Frontières and Care International (Mali and areas under the control of the Eritrean People’s Liberation Front) and much of it with the UN system (Sudan, Somalia, Rwanda (during the 1994 Genocide), the Middle East, Democratic Republic of the Congo, and Afghanistan).
The Triumph of Evil
The Triumph of Evil centers around two United Nations officials. One is a Rwandan who is accused, during the 1994 genocide, of having commandeered UN assets and having been involved in the killing of at least 32 people, including UN colleagues. The other is Charles Petrie, a French/British national, who with a small group of associates attempted to force the United Nations to bring this man to account for his actions.
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Donna Markussen
Take Command of Your Total Health
Donna Markussen is an advocate and champion for those who are determined to embrace health and wellness in their life. Her latest book, Take Command of Your Total Health, …”helps you obtain optimal health through whole foods nutrition, positive lifestyle interventions, and self-care secrets.”
Take Command of Your Total Health made Amazon’s Best Seller’s list, number 25 in women’s health!
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Finding My Way
Donna’s book Finding My Way, carries readers through a dark and winding path towards light, acceptance, and perspective. Instead of obsessing over the roadblocks set in our path, the author challenges us to let the light in and illuminate the lessons that each struggle can share with us. Ask not, “Why Me?” Ask instead, “What have I learned?” It is time to recognize the significance of our suffering and let it mold us into a stronger more resilient person.
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Carol Anderson
You Can’t Buy Love Like That
We are happy to announce that our coaching client, Carol Anderson, has won 12 awards for independent books, including Hollywood Book Fest General Non Fiction – Winner; National Indie Excellence Awards Sponsor’s Choice; Beverly Hills Book Awards Regional Non Fiction Midwest – Winner; Independent Author Network Book of the Year Awards Outstanding General Non-Fiction. Listen to an interview with Carol on The Authors’ Show>>
Hugh Simpson
Borderline Decision
We’re thrilled to announce the publication of a new book, Borderline Decision, by Hugh Simpson. We have been honored to be Hugh’s writing coaches and editors for the past two years because he has amazing stories to tell! Hugh’s 20+ years of military service in Asia and the Middle East has given him lots of good material for his geo-political action thriller series. And now he has five more books in the works!
You can learn more about Hugh and his stories at HughDSimpson.com.
Louis Bezich
Crack The Code
Crack The Code presents an unconventional, motivation-based approach to health for men 50 and over. Ten strategies for creating and maintaining inspiration for a healthy lifestyle are advanced from a platform of survey research, interviews and the author’s personal experiences. Primary audiences for the book are men over 50 and the people that love them; their wives, partners, children and grandchildren. Additional audiences include health care providers, insurers, policy makers, men of all ages who want to find motivation for healthy behavior and anyone who has struggled with their health.
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Rachel Sawden
Runaways
Rachel Sawden celebrates a successful launch of her new book. Rachel hails from the beautiful, yet tiny island of Bermuda, Rachel is an avid wanderer whose travels around the globe inspire her writing.
Runaways is about Harper Rodrigues, a woman who loses her job, boyfriend and apartment in one day. On a whim, she books a trip around the world with her girlfriends.
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Peter Gibb
King Of Doubt
In a small town on the west coast of Scotland, five-year-old Peter Gibb trades his soul to the devil in a futile attempt to win the approval of classmates, teachers, and parents. Follow the story of Peter’s humorous but desperate struggle to find a way out of the dungeons of doubt. An insightful tale of lost and found, King of Doubt grips you with tension as it warms you with heart. Anyone who has ever struggled with self doubt — and who among us hasn’t? — will see themselves in these pages. This moving story, one man’s journey from doubt to wonder, will fill you with hope and promise. The story rivets your attention to the final word, while the beauty of the language still sings long after the reading.
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Matthew Neill Davis
The Art of Preventing Stupid
Matthew Neill Davis owns and manages Davis Law, PLLC, a firm dedicated to helping ambitious business owners become rock-star entrepreneurs. To do this, the firm finds solutions to pressing problems and runs custom legal departments for businesses and nonprofits. The firm proactively protects and improves businesses by removing legal hassles so that the owners and managers can focus on running their businesses. They do this by using the comprehensive, proprietary systems Davis developed while serving as general counsel for a range of companies. Currently the firm has offices in Oklahoma City; Tulsa; Wichita, Kansas; and Enid, Oklahoma, with plans for expansion. Davis Law has thrice made the Law Firm 500 for being among the fastest-growing law firms in the nation.
Davis lives in Enid, Oklahoma, where his family has lived for six generations, because he loves having ancestral farms and the three-minute commute. He is married to Allison Davis, a former producer for ABC in Los Angeles and an entrepreneur in her own right. They have five children, one adopted from Russia and one adopted from Ethiopia. They live in a very noisy, busy house. They have chalked up one National Merit Scholar to date. Davis holds a JD from the University of Oklahoma, an MPA from Cornell University, and a BSS from Cornell College.
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Peggy Aylesworth Levine
Among These Several
Among These Several relates the circumstances of four people living in a four-plex apartment building in Santa Monica, California. Two are middle-aged: Vanessa, divorced, working as an art archivist; Patrick, an ex-professor who has resigned from an eastern college, under complex circumstances. Two are in their late twenties: Jason, an aspiring filmmaker; Felice a caterer with emotional ties to a man in France. The novel deals with their individual circumstances and their relationships with each other. Available as paperback October 8, 2019
Morning in the Long Night City
A new novel by poet and author Peggy Aylsworth Levine. It deals with a young woman working in New York city during WW II. She is a poet, composing a blank verse play focusing on women’s struggle as artists. The language of the novel has a poetic
bent. Peggy Aylsworth Levine, American psychotherapist, poet, writer. Vice president Valley Center of Arts, 1956-1957, publicity director, 1955-1965; publicity director Alliance for Survival, Santa Monica, 1979-1981; co-director West Coast Writer & Artists Forum, since 1998.
ELUSIVE GOODNESS Should I no longer hang a work of art from the readiness of my neck? Should I rather wear the current fashion: tattered jeans, their holes a ploy to brother those among us worn and torn? When goodness or compassion challenge ways and means toward honored reputation, strange are the measures we concoct. Look to the highest office, in twenty seventeen, oozing its duplicity in wily shuttles. Oh, deception! Thy name is Dolos.
Renowned poet and novelist, Peggy Aylsworth Levine, reads from her recently published novel, Morning in the Long Night City, on March 2, 2019 at Beyond Baroque in Venice, CA. This reading took place 2 months before Peggy’s 98th Birthday!
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Michele Schneider
A former special education teacher, Michele “Mish” Schneider was one of the first female floor traders on Wall Street. Today she serves as Director of Trading Education at MarketGauge.com, a 20 year industry-leading financial publishing company. With Plant Your Money Tree, Mish combines her love of teaching with her world-class expertise in finance and investing. She won the award for the Best Stock Pick in 2018 for RealVision. She is a managing member of MarketGauge Asset Management, LLC (an RIA), and also writes a daily blog called Mish’s Market Minute. When she’s not changing lives through education, Mish spends her time exploring Sante Fe, New Mexico with her husband (and fellow trader) Keith.
Plant Your Money Tree
Plant Your Money Tree offers readers a strategic and actionable way to look at their financial life with a completely new attitude of confidence, empowering them to make smart decisions regarding: -What to do with their money -How to grow their money -When to make smart personal choices such as changing careers, guiding their kid’s education, expanding their business, buying a house, putting money in a savings account, capitalizing on social trends and investing in the future -How to manage their existing portfolios and 401Ks In clear and accessible language, Mish Schneider walks the reader through the six most essential sectors of the U.S. economy as seen through six market phases —bullish, caution, distribution, bearish, recuperation, and accumulation. She illustrates how to easily recognize these phases, understand their interrelationships and explains to readers why they should care.
Alexandra Diaz
The Crossroads
After crossing Mexico into the United States, Jaime Rivera thinks the worst is over. Starting a new school can’t be that bad. Except it is, and not just because he can barely speak English. While his cousin Ángela fits in quickly, with new friends and after-school activities, Jaime struggles with even the idea of calling this strange place “home.” His real home is with his parents, abuela, and the rest of the family; not here where cacti and cattle outnumber people, where he can no longer be himself—a boy from Guatemala.
Alexandra Diaz is a Cuban-American spending her time between Bath, England, Santa Fe, NM, and the rest of the world. She has an MA in Writing for Young People from Bath Spa University and has led various workshops since she was fourteen. As a result of being homeschooled for most of high school, she’s fascinated by teenage school life and the drama that occurs in those quarters. One of the reasons she writes is to experience life in someone else’s shoes. She is a “jenny of all trades” having worked as a nanny, teacher, film extra, tour guide, and dairy goat judge (seriously). She currently teaches creative writing and circus arts, though not at the same time.
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