Excerpt: Jesus The Jew No One Knows by D. C. Smith
About the Book: International Books Award: Best In Non-fiction History! In Jesus The Jew No One Knows D. C. Smith reintroduces history’s most misunderstood Messiah. He presents the Torah-observant teacher, accompanied by classical artwork and concise explanations, to show what actually happened to him both before and after Christianity took root in Roman-occupied Judea. Using […]
Excerpt: After the Wind: 1996 Everest Tragedy— One Survivor’s Story by Lou Kasischke
About the Book: http://www.afterthewind.com Near the top of Mount Everest, on 10 May 1996, eight climbers died. It was the worst tragedy in the mountain’s history. Lou Kasischke was there. After the Wind tells the harrowing story of what went wrong, as it has never been told before – including why the climbers were so […]
Excerpt: Holes in my Shoes by Alice Breon
About the Book: aandwbreon@comcast.net Journey back eighty years to a time of drugstore soda fountains, penny candy, homemade root beer, and ten-cent movies. Visit an era when people enjoyed such simple pleasures as sitting on the front porch, visiting with neighbors in the evening while the children played “kick the can” in a street devoid […]
Excerpt: Show Time by Phil Harvey
About the Book: http://www.philharveylit.com Future viewing audiences have become totally desensitized to violence and entirely dependent on sensation to escape their boring workaday lives—an addiction nurtured by the media with graphic portrayals of war and crime and with so-called reality programming. Now, TV execs in pursuit of the only things they care about—higher ratings and […]
Excerpt: Our Real Life in Christ by M. Alberto Zelaya Aragon
About the Book: http://www.ourreallifeinchrist.com Its essential to uncover the current malady affecting the organized Christian Church today, not its structuring and not necessarily its organizational approach, but present to it His solution, which has never been hidden or even veiled in His Word, which is that we must return to the true roots of Christianity, […]
Excerpt: Longevity by Laurel Blossom
About the Book: Longevity is a book-length narrative, a fictional prose poem told in fragments about the protagonist’s relationships with the women in her life and the deaths of those women: her mother, her best friend, her sister. Longevity is told in reverse, starting with the present and working back to the birth of the […]
Excerpt: House of the Last Man on Earth by Robert B. Marcus, Jr. and Ryan B. Marcus
http://www.rbmarcusjr.com About the Book: Richard Johnson, a college student, just spent his last dime on food, lost his wealthy girlfriend, and had his bike stolen. To add to his misery, he returns to his apartment where he runs into his strange neighbor. Convinced this bizarre man is more than he seems, Richard and his land […]
Marketing by Jake Kerr
my self-publishing journey In my last column on self-publishing I described the various grassroots methods I was using to get my middle grade novel, Tommy Black and the Staff of Light, noticed. It is important to note that my theory of a spark that lights a fire requires that the spark actually catch. It is […]
Review: Elvis is King: Costello’s My Aim Is True by Richard Crouse
Word on the street is that Elvis Costello has a memoir due any day now. For those who can’t wait, there’s Richard Crouse’s Elvis Is King: Costello’s My Aim Is True, a meticulously researched account of Costello’s early years and the release of his first LP with independent label Stiff Records. Of particular interest with […]
Poetry: Lucio Mariani
Contest by Lucio Mariani You’d ask if I were ever late. That’s a problem for people stuck between the second and last lanes. Me. I’m in lone pursuit. So that whether I’m early or late depends solely on the day’s disaffection. To catch the beat I clapped my hands once or twice, Before splashing my […]