So do you want to publish a book, but don’t know how
to go get started? Are you writing a book and have hit a wall? Or, are you like
me and have so many ideas that you don’t even know what to do with yourself?
Well… Did you know that Samuels Public Library is having a local authors fair
on Saturday January 25, from 1-4 p.m.? Come and meet people who have struggled
and succeeded in the endeavor of writing a book!
Here is just a small sample of the author’s books
that will be at the fair, more will be added shortly.
Smoke Eaters by Christine Andreae – Three years after qualifying for high command in the
Forest Service, Mattie McCulloch is finally assigned to her first big fire. She
is the first woman to hold tbe job. Under her are seventeen hundred troops and
an operation that costs one million dollars a day to run. Mattie is put in
charge of the fire after the camp is plagued with racial troubles, but that is
only the beginning of her problems. Her son Jim is stationed at Justice, and
she is torn between motherly concern and her duties as commander. Mattie also
has to deal with subordinates who do not want her in charge and a group af
nudists who do not want any firefighters on their land. As the tension of the
firefight heightens, readers also learn that there is a psychopath on the
loose. In his diary he writes about the games he likes to play with fire, and
the amount of rage he displays toward women is frightening. Soon he begins to
focus on Mattie with obscene and threatening messages.
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1,000
to 1! : claiming, breeding and racing thoroughbreds on a shoestring-and beating
the odds by Malcolm Barr – 1,000
to 1" is an anecdotal story about the varied people--from a cabinet
officer to a bell captain--who have owned inexpensive horses with the Hampshire
partnerships, the people who have trained and cared for the horses, and the
horses themselves. This is not a "how to" book since, during our 17
years in the business, despite business plans and racing plans and breeding
plans, and, you name it, any other plans, the dynamics constantly changed, and
we changed with them. Racing and breeding thoroughbreds always seem to us to be
a seat of the pants enterprise, with change being a constant. It is a story
about how to spin a $2,500 share into a two-year ownership involving three,
four, and sometimes five cheap race horses who, somehow or other, managed to
reach the winner's circle a phenomenal 20% of the time over a 17-year period,
some years twice that often. It is a story of how a group of novices stumbled
into breeding thoroughbreds successfully, accomplishing the near impossible--that
is, seeing all the foals they sent to the races wind up in the winner's circle!
It is also a story of blind faith, faith in our trainers, in our animals, and
in our jockeys who give their best for our entertainment in what can be, and
often is, the world's most dangerous sport.
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The
courageous follower : standing up to & for our leaders by Ira Chaleff – For every leader it is necessary to
have followers who work closely with them to achieve their goals. The
Courageous Follower gives followers the insights and tools needed to
effectively partner with their leaders. The results it offers are nothing less
than highly satisfying and productive working relationships, organizations that
are saved from the consequences of serious missteps by leaders, and leaders
whose careers are saved by honest and effective feedback from those who know
them best. The third edition has a new chapter on what people can do when they
don't have direct access to a leader, when orders that come down to them
through a hierarchy seem ill-advised -- a skill whose need has been thrown into
high relief by the recent failures of economic leaders.
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Rapunzel
let down : a fairy tale retold by Regina Doman – Hermes McCaffrey is sick and tired of
sharing his life with his father’s political career and his overbearing older
brothers. So during his family’s vacation in New England, when he meets
Raphaela, a lovely and brilliant girl dreaming in a hidden tower, is it
surprising that he wants her all to himself? But visiting Raphaela is
dangerous, and not just because of her mother’s paranoia about strangers or her
estate’s sinister caretaker. When Hermes decides to go too far, the results are
devastating for Raphaela ... and for Hermes as well.
What happens when falling in love means falling into
deep sin?
Demystifying
Mysticism Gratitude As Gift by Robert Colacurio
– Jesus gave the key to the Kingdom and to life more abundant when he gave us
the example of children. This book explores the idea that people are most
themselves when they achieve the seriousness of children at play. When folks
are most themselves, they naturally experience the beginnings of mystic
perception. The demystifi cation of mysticism starts as simply as the focused
attention of children at play, and takes small steps that, slowly but surely,
lead to a life changing relationship with the Divine and the entire universe.
Although this book is not intended to be a how-to manual, it nevertheless
brings the demystifi cation of mysticism down to daily experiences that can be
practiced by anyone. Mystic perception just penetrates beyond their surface
appearances. Once even the fundamentals of mystic perception become clarifi ed
in practice, sacred space opens up as one s natural environment. Within the
environment of sacred space, gratitude as a gift giving exchange becomes the
natural relationship one comes to enjoy with the entire universe.
The
Lost Tribe of Us by Heather Davis –In The Lost Tribe of
Us, Heather Davis offers her readers vivid, occasionally comic, more often
gut-wrenching poems that, in the first part of the book, engage with the lives
of members of a large family-all the vulnerabilities and pathos of poverty:
repossessed cars, joblessness, leaky roofs, too small houses, second-hand
clothing and teen-age pregnancy. Later, the scope of the poems widens to
include aspects of the world at large: war, terrorism, rape, imprisonment,
incest, mental illness, much of what troubled flesh is heir to. But to say
simply that the poems are about big subjects that really matter is not to do
them justice. They are invariably characterized by exquisite formal control,
the always lovely deployment of language that is a delight to the eye and ear.
The Lost Tribe of Us, is a wonderful first book by an exceptionally gifted
poet.
Stonewall
Jackson and Winchester, Virginia by Jerry Holsworth
– The relationship between Stonewall Jackson and the town of Winchester,
Virginia, began in June 1861 and lasted until his untimely death on May 10,
1863. Jackson's values and beliefs reflected sentiments of the vast majority of
the people of the Shenandoah Valley. This, coupled with his spectacular
successes on the battlefield, endeared Jackson to the people of Winchester,
helping to form a remarkable bond between the general and the townspeople that
is still remembered today. Local historian Jerry Holsworth chronicles the
relationship between Jackson and the soldiers and townspeople of Winchester
with information gathered from diaries, letters, journals and newspaper
articles. Holsworth also recounts stories of the 1862 Shenandoah Valley
Campaign, the battles that forever cemented Jackson's place in Winchester
history
Washington,
DC : a photographic portrait by Jake McGuire – This
photographic portrait is a celebration of Washington, DC, the capital city of
the world's greatest democracy. Jake McGuire has not only captured the famous
"post card" vies of this great city, he has captured its many moods
and seasons. Enjoy our nation's capital, a city with no equal in the world.
