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1. Public School Teachers … An Inside Look

   About Public School Teachers … An Inside Look:

   Remember Mrs. Gardener … and remember Mr. Jacobs? We all love and remember our favorite teachers but most of us never knew what mattered to them or what might be going on in their head. Public school teachers tend to seem “otherworldly” … and different from us, somehow.

   “Inside Public School Teachers” does just that — it takes you inside, behind the scenes, and into the life and mind of public school teachers. You will come to understand what makes them tick, come to understand their hopes, fears, and dreams. You will come to see just how much you actually have in common with public school teachers.

   Ms. Susan Albright has mental issues but performs just fine in the classroom. Mrs. Lorna Brooks loses her teaching license because she refused to give a student a dollar. Mr. Cardena can hardly believe a student actually gave him an apple. Mr. Kelly experiments on his students. Ms. Messina is sugar and spice, and everything nice.

   “In depth” pretty much describes this look into public school teachers … their emotions, their strengths, hopes, and their foibles. Public school teachers are just people like all the rest of us. They are a bit special, in our society … but they are just folks, nevertheless.

   Keywords: public school teachers, teaching, schools, classrooms, an inside look, students, educators, school personnel, retirement, teachers, teacher’s retirement, teaching license

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   Author Bio:
   Lewis A. Ferguson is the author of over 60 published Street Articles concerning teachers and education. Lewis is a veteran middle school and high school art teacher who enjoys educating and inspiring students of art. His online introductory drawing course is current and ongoing. Lewis lives in New York, NY.

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2. Lady Justice and the Organ Traders

   About Lady Justice and the Organ Traders:

   A badly burned body with a fresh incision and a missing kidney leads Walt into the clandestine world of an organ trader ring that has set up shop in Kansas City.

   Walt is determined to bring to justice the bootleggers, who purchase body parts from the disadvantaged and sell them to people with means, until a relative from Maggie’s past turns up needing a kidney to survive.

   Once again, Walt discovers that very little in his world is black and white.

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   Author Bio:
   Award-winning author, Robert Thornhill, began writing at the age of sixty-six and in four short years has penned sixteen novels in the Lady Justice mystery/comedy series, the seven volume Rainbow Road series of chapter books for children, a cookbook and a mini-autobiography.

   Lady Justice and the Sting, Lady Justice and Dr. Death, Lady Justice and the Vigilante, Lady Justice and the Candidate, Lady Justice and the Book Club Murders and Lady Justice and the Cruise Ship Murders won the Pinnacle Award for the best new mystery novels of Fall 2011, Winter 2012, Summer 2012, Fall 2012, Spring of 2013 and Summer 2013 from the National Association of Book Entrepreneurs.

   Many of Walt’s adventures in the Lady Justice series are anecdotal and based on Robert’s real life.

   Although Robert holds a master’s in psychology, he has never taken a course in writing and has never learned to type. All 27 of his published books were typed with one finger and a thumb!

   His wit and insight come from his varied occupations, including thirty-three years as a real estate broker. He lives with his wife, Peg, in Independence, Missouri.

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3. If Mistakes Could Fly, You’d be a Superhero

   About If Mistakes Could Fly, You’d be a Superhero:

   It’s a given that at some point in your life there was a knock on your front door, and when you answered it the police, a detective, or both were crowding the door frame. It happens to everybody…it is assumed. Probably the police sergeant appeared at your door as well. Perhaps even a superhero in a ski mask and wearing a beach towel as a cape has made an appearance.

   If you are like most people, you have probably wondered how such an incompetent and motley group found their way to your house in the first place, since all you had been doing was hosting a hot-chocolate party with your stuffed animals…or reading a book of short story mysteries. Well, in the maiden offering of the Jonny Gonzo and Money Man series, “If Mistakes Could Fly…” all these characters show up on your kindle, instead of at your house; there’s much less breakage that way. What they do once they arrive is something you will have to find out for yourself.

   Listen, great literature is rife with angst, sorrow, redemption, jubilation, self doubt, and conquest. Fictional landscapes scan the scope from Zane Gray’s painted deserts, Jules Verne’s fantastical worlds, all the way to Dostoyevsky’s dungeons of the mind. Jack Kerouac’s Martin family struggled with dissolution in, “The Town and the City.” Dostoyevsky’s Raskolnikov struggled with the question of murder. The great writers all bring something to the table of classic writing, but with “If Mistakes Could Fly…” Kenyon Ledford has brought a food fight.

   In the annals of crime stories, the quirky Jonny Gonzo and Money Man probably don’t rate all that highly. After all, what good is a shady superhero who really doesn’t do much other than a little petty theft here and there, and a self-appointed detective who doesn’t even have a driver’s license, let alone a badge?

   Nevertheless, these two geniuses manage to show up at crime scenes at just the right (?) time, but they often create more crime scene tape than they manage to tear down. Fortunately, (??) Police Sergeant Joe Bidwell always shows up to restore order.

   A crime reporter needs to arm himself with the following questions: who, what, when, where, and how?But from Money Man’s first heroic appearance at a crime scene in a subway, to Gonzo’s idiotic destruction of a writers’ workshop, you will follow these heroes through each of these crime stories, from adventure to adventure, and the only question you’ll be asking is: why? Why do people in distress call on Money Man? Why would anybody call Jonny Gonzo to the scene of a crime? Why would anybody even chronicle the events of these so-called heroes? Why won’t anybody stop them from ‘helping out?’ Why would anybody even want to read humorous short stories about these characters? Indeed, why would anybody pay for this so-called privilege? Okay, that’s two questions too many, but just what is their deal?

   The truth is, nobody really knows what their deal is; not yet. Perhaps they all exist on another plane where the bungling stars of these short story mysteries are the norm, or perhaps they’re just the usual cast of characters you’re used to dealing with on a Wednesday night after bowling.

   In this first installment of the Jonny Gonzo and Money Man series, you will not only meet these two characters, but will also discover a bizarro side of Batman and Robin in the bonus short story; Tasmaniacs! So, who’s that knocking on your front door? Buddy, it ain’t the Avon Lady…Click on the “Look Inside” feature. It’s like peaking through the front door while keeping that little chain on it.

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   Author Bio:
   Kenyon Ledford wanders this world playing a flute and showing up to scenes where a hero is desperately needed. Then he gets his ass kicked, because people like flute players as much as they like mimes and drumming circles. He then goes home, fires open the scotch, and relays his adventures using his imaginary friends, Jonny Gonzo and Money Man to tell the sad tale.

   Kenyon has been published in Jersey Devil Press, Flash Fiction Online, Speke from the Harbour, and Short, Fast, and Deadly. Jonathan McEuen has recorded Kenyon’s song, “Roadhouse,” which will hopefully be released. Soon. As always, Kenyon wishes you a bitchin’ day. Hey, wanna jam to “Stairway to Heaven?”

   Oh, Forever Everton!

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4. Summoned by Rainy Kaye

   About Summoned by Rainy Kaye:

   Twenty-three year old Dimitri has to do what he is told—literally. Controlled by a paranormal bond, he is forced to use his wits to fulfill unlimited deadly wishes made by multimillionaire Karl Walker.

   Dimitri has no idea how his family line became trapped in the genie bond. He just knows resisting has never ended well. When he meets Syd—assertive, sexy, intelligent Syd—he becomes determined to make her his own. Except Karl has ensured Dimitri can’t tell anyone about the bond, and Syd isn’t the type to tolerate secrets.

   Then Karl starts sending him away on back-to-back wishes. Unable to balance love and lies, Dimitri sets out to uncover Karl’s ultimate plan and put it to an end. But doing so forces him to confront the one wish he never saw coming—the wish that will destroy him.

   A dark twist on genie folklore, SUMMONED follows a reluctant criminal as he unravels the mystery of the paranormal bond controlling him.

   SUMMONED is represented by Rossano Trentin of TZLA.

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   Author Bio:
   Rainy Kaye is an aspiring overlord. In the mean time, she blogs at RainyoftheDark and writes paranormal novels from her lair somewhere in Phoenix, Arizona.

   She is represented by Rossano Trentin of TZLA.

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5. The Beautiful-Ugly (Book 1 of the Beautiful-Ugly Trilogy) by James Snyder

   About The Beautiful-Ugly (Book 1 of the Beautiful-Ugly Trilogy) by James Snyder:

   The moment she felt her consciousness seeping back inside her, she knew where she was. She didn’t have to look. Or listen. No one had to come whisper in her ear. She could smell it that far out, returning…

   When sixteen-year-old Connelly Pierce wakes up inside an unknown psychiatric hospital, with both her wrists slashed, she begins the arduous task of piecing together the events of her life that led her there. Her own cognitive behavioral therapy (as she had learned so well from them). Starting with the sudden death of her mother and father when she was six, and the only world she knew disappeared, literally, overnight. That’s when, with no known or, at least, close relatives, she and her nine-year-old brother Eric find themselves cast into the nightmare quagmire of government child protection agencies, and Connelly begins her incredible, fourteen-year journey—her odyssey—into her own brave new world. A world, she realizes, she must not only quickly adapt, but fight back as well, if she hopes to survive.

   Book One of the Beautiful-Ugly Trilogy.

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   Author Bio:
   James Snyder was born in Memphis, Tennessee and fell in love with the cadence and sound of storytelling as a child, listening to the meandering tales of his Southern grandmothers and great aunts. While still a child, his family moved to Napa Valley, California where he attended middle and high school, and began taking writing classes at the local college. He left after a year to join the military, and was a soldier with a tactical mobile operations unit in Germany. It was there, while pulling a Harz mountaintop guard duty one night during a snowstorm, he had the chance encounter with another soldier that ultimately became the genesis for his military thriller, AMERICAN WARRIOR.

   His second novel is the suspense thriller, DESOLATION RUN. In addition, he has just released the YA/NA trilogy, THE BEAUTIFUL-UGLY.

   “Berlin Diaries” is his blog at JamesSnyder.net where he further discusses the backgrounds of his writings.

   He currently lives in Texas.

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6. Totem (Book 1: Scars) by C Michael Lorion

   About Totem (Book 1: Scars) by C Michael Lorion:

   It’s Monday, February 6, and as the blizzard of ’78 descends upon Massachusetts, Achak and Kimi, two people from a different time, enter a land their tribe once inhabited. One seeks revenge for a past massacre, the other, regardless of the personal cost, is determined to save the people of Old Wachusett.

   Sixteen-year-old Abby Graham and her once-boyfriend, eighteen-year-old Josh Schofield, now live in that land. Together, if they can find a way to get beyond past hurts, they will defend their city. Unknowingly, Josh and Abby may be the keys to unlocking the Totem, an ancient relic that possesses the spirits—and more?—of a tribe that once dwelt in the land of Old Wachusett.

   Totem: Scars is the first in a trilogy that will span one year in the fight for the survival of the inhabitants, both present and past, of Old Wachusett.

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   Author Bio:
   C Michael Lorion lives in the small town of East Templeton, Massachusetts with his lovely wife of twenty-three years and six of his seven wonderful children. He’s been a librarian, automotive parts clerk, teacher, and newspaper delivery driver. He was the lead writer for three Easter dramas at his former church.

   He reads as much as he can, relishing the books of Stephen King, Robert McCammon, Christopher Golden, Peter Straub, Dean Koontz, Dan Simmons, Eric Nylund, Brandon Sanderson, to name a few.

   He enjoys playing Apples to Apples and watching Phineas and Ferb, Curious George, Kick Buttowski, and Kickin’ It with his children. His favorite places to go out to with his wife are Barnes & Noble, The Book Mill, Applebee’s, and Nu Cafe.

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