PENELOPE'S TALE

 

I'm starting a new project and YOU can be part of the process.

Many, many moons ago, I wrote a book about Penelope's side of THE ODYSSEY. That book is currently out of print, but I want to re-release it. First I need to decide on a new title. Feedback, please! Go with a former title -- see above -- or call it something new? I'm leaning toward simplicity: just call it PENELOPE. What do you think? Leave comments, please!

Then, I need new cover art. I'll display some ideas for that in the next few weeks. I'll want feedback from you here, too!

Please leave comments and be part of the process, and maybe get your name in the thank you section of the book! Join me on this EPIC adventure.

Speaking of EPIC .... yes, EPIC: THE MUSICAL. Have you seen it? What do you think? For those who haven't heard of it (and I was one of you just a week ago) it's the story of THE ODYSSEY, put to music. Gotta find it, because I love THE ODYSSEY.

And this is why I'm re-releasing my Penelope book!

New Release Coming: DETOURS

 The next book in the Tabor Heights series, DETOURS, will be released in paper, ebook and audio on July 15.

What is Tabor Heights?

Welcome to Tabor Heights:

A friendly little town on Ohio's North Coast, where sweet romance is always in the air.

Here you'll be able to explore the lives of the members of the congregation of Tabor Christian Church in the space of two years. The stories overlap, and there's no one right place to start.

Just like any small town, you come in, you meet someone, you hear their story and get to know them. As you get to know these new friends, they introduce you to other people, and tell you about other interesting stories in town.

It's the same way with Tabor Heights. Start with the story that interests you the most, and then branch out.

Settle back and enjoy your visit.

Welcome!

DETOURS is Year 1, Book 2

A year in the life…

 

Roommates Bekka, Kat, and Amy have a lot in common: Theater students, pursuing writing careers, supporting each other in crises and heartaches. Amy keeps breaking up with her boyfriend. Kat never dates a boy more than twice. Bekka is too busy with part-time jobs and writing to even want a relationship. Especially seeing how miserable her roommates are in their love lives.

 

All that changes when Shane shows up. Bekka lets herself dream, even through the turmoil of Amy's boyfriend following his dreams and the effect on Amy, and the damage done by Kat's stepfather, and the destruction of her mother's marriage and dreams. Life is hectic -- especially when a con man tries to steal Bekka's chance at making her own dreams come true. Can't she have at least one miracle? The problem is that she and Shane never seem to meet up -- and then somehow Kat and Shane start dating, and once she dumps a guy, he never comes back. Bekka can't help hoping, though…

From Mt. Zion Ridge Press: www.MtZionRidgePress.com

The Tabor Heights books were originally published by Desert Breeze Publishing. When they closed their doors in 2018, Tamera Kraft and I started Mt. Zion Ridge Press, and spent the first couple years figuring out what we were doing, and re-releasing our orphaned books. The Tabor and Quarry Hall books were originally released by us in ebook only, with the original Desert Breeze artwork. NOW, we've designed new artwork, and have added audiobook to the offerings.

Hope you enjoy the re-released series, which will happen every other month .... for the foreseeable future!

In the Spotlight: BY FIRE AND STARS, Chorillan Cycle Book 3

BY FIRE AND STARS, Book 3 in the Chorillan Cycle, takes us back to Chorillan, where Kay'li's best friend, Lucas Aidan, goes through his own testing and training for his destiny.

Before Kay'li left Chorillan, Lucas' father put him and his brother, Sam, through an experimental treatment that would hopefully protect him from going through Phase.

Those hopes are crushed as Lucas' senses grow hyper-acute and

he develops a severe reaction to anything synthetic, to the point of illness.  His parents have a plan -- hide the fact that Lucas is going through Phase, keep him out in the wilderness at their family cabin, and pray that Phase is over and he can go back to normal living when the summer is over and their family goes home. No one needs to ever know that he has become a Wildling.

Disaster strikes their family cabin, and Lucas flees into the wilderness, driven by pain and fear. His survival in the wilderness makes him a legend, and when he finally is dragged back to civilization, he becomes the leader the Wildlings need as their enemies become more determined to destroy them.

Spotlight: The Chorillan Cycle -- Re-releasing the 5-book Commonwealth Universe Series

I'm pleased to announce that in the coming months, Writers Exchange e-publishing will be re-releasing the Chorillan Cycle, a 5-book series set in the Commonwealth Universe. These are some of the oldest published books in this SF series -- which is kind of ironic, because they're set in Age 3, or the "modern era" of the Commonwealth stream of history, as opposed to the Downfall or rebirth eras.

In the coming weeks, I'll be showing you the prototypes of the cover art -- they might be changed closer to release -- and a thumbnail sketch of the storyline.

I'm excited, and I hope you are, too!

The Chorillan Cycle revolves around the events on the colony world, Chorillan. Something is very wrong, and those in power are either too ashamed to ask for help, or else they have something to hide. Scout Captain Ian Fieran comes to Chorillan to track down some Gen'gineers who may be hiding in the wilderness of this colony world that has only been settled a few generations. He stays to try to solve the mystery and the problem, but it is up to his daughter, Kay'li, and her friends to finally bring resolution, save innocent lives, and solve a mystery and a problem that have been waiting centuries to be uncovered.

A little background: Ian and Kay'li are descendants of Bain Kern, the hero of the Sunsinger books, and cousins to Captain Jaklyn K'veer of the Leap ship Estal'es'cai -- other captains of the Leap ship have appeared in other books -- such as True Caderi and the Sunsinger novel, Leap Ships.

And to get you really confused -- and I hope interested! -- Jaklyn's mother is Alex, who made her first appearance in True Caderi and who appears in several stories in the Wildvine series, just starting to be released by Writers Exchange -- but the Wildvine books take place on Earth! How does a Leap captain start out as a college girl in the late 70s? Read the Wildvine books and fine out ...