Friday, September 30, 2016

Catching UP!

Technical Difficulties Defeated by 
geekatoo.com!
Gotta Love those guys!


Galleys that went out or went out again this week:
   Fourteen-year-old Luke dreams of spending July at  Camp Unlimited, where campers explore cave networks, set off fireworks in pyrotech workshops, and sleep in tree house hammocks. But to get into the camp, Luke needs to demonstrate excellence in a sport, the arts, or
school.
   More likely, he’ll end up at SURF, his town’s rec camp, where athlete’s foot, mildew, and warts plague the gym, bedbugs and lice infest the couches, and clumps of hair make frequent appearances in the burgers.



LOVE BITES, by Barbara Garro.
   Now in her eighth decade, Barbara Garro, at the early
death of her mom, became powerfully propelled into
poetry. Poem after poem, flows through her as she
shares the spirit of a lifetime in innermost love
thoughts, fears and dreams. Love Bites is Garro’s debut
poetry collection, first in a Series.




































Work began or Continued on the following:

NOODLES, by Elan Mufti 
    An Indonesian army general's son, who recently graduated high school, continues his education at a college in San Francisco. The 19-year-old was a boy headed for trouble. His father hoped that the responsibility and overseas life experience would change his son's attitude. In fact the culture shock does make him change, but not in the way his father hoped for...



WANTED: ROYAL PRINCESS sHOCK AND AWE, by Anna Dynowski, Royal Hearts of Mondoverde Series, Vol. 4
   Prince Maximillian, the playboy prince, is having way too much fun with the ladies, young and old and everything in between, to keep his name clean. Incorrigible, he’s been synonymous with scandalous headlines since he turned sixteen. While his laughing eyes, smooth talk, and charming manner make him the darling female population, the Graziano royal family despairs of him ever settling down. But can he find a woman who will rein in his wild streak and fix his princely image?














































THE LAST CHRONICLER by Judy Johns Heathcoe
While tunneling through a mountain in the Russian Southern Urals, a team of engineers are trapped in a deep, large, cavern containing a living rain forest. Looking for a way out, they discover a hermitage that once was home to a historical society who called themselves chroniclers, whose members were able to travel in time to view a famous person or event in order to record history correctly.
In the hermitage library, among the many chronicles, they are privileged to view the lives of Vincent van Gogh, Edgar Allan Poe, and Nicholas II, last Tsar of Russia, and his family.  But hiding out and watching their every move are the remaining chroniclers who are determined to keep their existence a secret, even to the point of murdering any that discover it. The engineers find themselves running for their lives through the seemingly endless forest, wondering whether they would face death at the hands of the dangerous and adamant chroniclers. . .or the primeval creatures of the forest.


 Jack's News!
  by your Official Bookstore Cat, 
and Gossip Columnist.
      Sorry to say I haven't had a lot of mail this week, but then neither has anyone else here, because we had Computer Virus that destroyed our chances to reach the Internet, and for anyone else to reach us, except Intermittently. Ar least now we have one computer working and promises that the other will be fixed forthwith.

    Arline had a toothache all week. Between that and the missing E-mail she has been CRANK-KEEEEEY!!!

   Roger played for me this morning and we caught up on my favorite songs, while Arline got the orders caught up. SO000, if You ordered books from us this week they are being taken care of NOW!
   PLEASE don't YOU forget to send me news of any personal appearances, signings and so on... so I'll have some gossip to pass on next week.
Just send an e-mail to arline@mail.com with 
 "News for Jack" 
 in the subject line, and
I'll make sure it shows up here for all the world to see!

Thursday, September 29, 2016

Sorry for the Delays

***Massive Internet Problems ***

Sorry for delays, and missing blogs. 

Will return ASAP!

Monday, September 26, 2016

Monday Special

I Live In Two Worlds Series, Vol.1

by DJ Swykert

Maggie Elizabeth Harrington is the story of a young woman in the 1890s, whose world is a remote northern Michigan mining town, where she tries to save a pack of young wolves from a bounty hunter. A terse historical love story of a young woman’s struggle with environmental and moral issues concerning the slaughter of wolves, and the church’s condemnation of her love for a young man, are as real in today’s global world as they were for young Maggie more than a century ago.


Friday, September 23, 2016

Catching UP!

Galleys went to press or went to press again this week.
WANTED: ROYAL PRINCESS sHOCK AND AWE, by Anna Dynowski, Royal Hearts of Mondoverde Series, Vol. 4

   Prince Maximillian, the playboy prince, is having way too much fun with the ladies, young and old and everything in between, to keep his name clean. Incorrigible, he’s been synonymous with scandalous headlines since he turned sixteen. While his laughing eyes, smooth talk, and charming manner make him the darling female population, the Graziano royal family despairs of him ever settling down. But can he find a woman who will rein in his wild streak and fix his princely image?

SECOND GROWTH, by Joan L. Cannon

    Serge Dziminowicz is hampered by his past in a dysfunctional family. 
When his career and his marriage both are destroyed by his feckless father, his reputation and his livelihood in shambles, he is forced to leave behind everything that has become meaningful to him. In rural Vermont, he stumbles on a way of life that nourishes a second growth. A near tragedy is the catalyst that enables him to dare to trust. He ultimately learns he must lower his own barriers.


Galleys that went out or went out again this week:
   Fourteen-year-old Luke dreams of spending July at  Camp Unlimited, where campers explore cave networks, set off fireworks in pyrotech workshops, and sleep in tree house hammocks. But to get into the camp, Luke needs to demonstrate excellence in a sport, the arts, or
school.
   More likely, he’ll end up at SURF, his town’s rec camp, where athlete’s foot, mildew, and warts plague the gym, bedbugs and lice infest the couches, and clumps of hair make frequent appearances in the burgers.



LOVE BITES, by Barbara Garro.
   Now in her eighth decade, Barbara Garro, at the early
death of her mom, became powerfully propelled into
poetry. Poem after poem, flows through her as she
shares the spirit of a lifetime in innermost love
thoughts, fears and dreams. Love Bites is Garro’s debut
poetry collection, first in a Series.




































Work began or Continued on the following:
NOODLES, by Elan Mufti 
    An Indonesian army general's son, who recently graduated high school, continues his education at a college in San Francisco. The 19-year-old was a boy headed for trouble. His father hoped that the responsibility and overseas life experience would change his son's attitude. In fact the culture shock does make him change, but not in the way his father hoped for...
















THE LAST CHRONICLER by Judy Johns Heathcoe
While tunneling through a mountain in the Russian Southern Urals, a team of engineers are trapped in a deep, large, cavern containing a living rain forest. Looking for a way out, they discover a hermitage that once was home to a historical society who called themselves chroniclers, whose members were able to travel in time to view a famous person or event in order to record history correctly.
In the hermitage library, among the many chronicles, they are privileged to view the lives of Vincent van Gogh, Edgar Allan Poe, and Nicholas II, last Tsar of Russia, and his family.  But hiding out and watching their every move are the remaining chroniclers who are determined to keep their existence a secret, even to the point of murdering any that discover it. The engineers find themselves running for their lives through the seemingly endless forest, wondering whether they would face death at the hands of the dangerous and adamant chroniclers. . .or the primeval creatures of the forest.


 Jack's News!
  by your Official Bookstore Cat, 
and Gossip Columnist.
      Sorry to say I haven't had a lot of mail this week.

    Arline's depressed, but that's not  unusual. She's had a lot of questions and she's answering them the best she can...I guess.  Personally I didn't think it was so hard to understand...

1. The WriteWordsInc.com web site will close on or before the beginning of next year.

2. All our published books will remain on sale at Amazon.com and other web bookstores unless you tell us to STOP because you've made other arrangements.
    a. In making other arrangements you are free to use, without charge, any and all files and covers created by us, but NOT our ISBNs, as ISBNs are publisher specific. If you sign with another publisher, or self publish, you must NOT use an ISBN attached to OUR company...

3. After the first of next year,  you will only be paid once a year, in January.

See? Not so complicated. Even Spunky gets it!

   Roger's done being mad at me, I guess, cause he played his guitar twice this week. He's still giving me that diet cat food instead of treats, though.

   Spunky snuck out and stayed out all night (everything I do she tries to copy me).  Now I KNOW she wasn't interested in Lady Cats, so I don't know what she thought she'd do out there under the Harvest Moon...
   PLEASE don't YOU forget to send me news of any personal appearances, signings and so on... so I'll have some gossip to pass on next week.
Just send an e-mail to arline@mail.com with 
 "News for Jack" 
 in the subject line, and
I'll make sure it shows up here for all the world to see!

Thursday, September 22, 2016

Poetry Prize


2017 Griffin Poetry Prize 

Deadline Reminder (December 31, 2016)


This is a reminder that the second and final deadline for the C$200,000 2017 Griffin Poetry Prize is December 31, 2016. Books must be submitted postmarked no later than December 31, 2016 for books published between July 1 and December 31, 2016.
Please remember to complete all necessary customs/duties paperwork when shipping your entries.
For information on updates to the Griffin Poetry Prize submission deadlines, click here to read our recent announcement. If you have any questions regarding the rules, or would like to download an entry form, please visit our web site, at:
www.griffinpoetryprize.com.
I look forward to receiving your entries soon!
Best wishes.
Ruth Smith, Executive Director
The Griffin Trust For Excellence In Poetry
363 Parkridge Crescent
Oakville, Ontario L6M 1A8
Canada
Telephone: (905) 618-0420


Wednesday, September 21, 2016

Banned Books Anyone?

How Many Have You Read???


by Mark Twain

The classic tale of a young boy and a runaway slave, that was banned early-on because of its anti-slavery sentiments and later, by educators, because of its use of vernacular English.


American Library Association List of Top 100 Banned Books


Actually their website is three short, but The Top 97
Banned Books doesn't quite have the same Punch!

1. The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald

2. The Catcher in the Rye, by J.D. Salinger 

3. The Grapes of Wrath, by John Steinbeck


4. To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee


5. The Color Purple, by Alice Walker


6. Ulysses, by James Joyce


7. Beloved, by Toni Morrison


8. The Lord of the Flies, by William Golding


9. 1984, by George Orwell

11. Lolita, by Vladmir Nabokov


12. Of Mice and Men, by John Steinbeck
15. Catch-22, by Joseph Heller


16. Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley


17. Animal Farm, by George Orwell


18. The Sun Also Rises, by Ernest Hemingway


19. As I Lay Dying, by William Faulkner


20. A Farewell to Arms, by Ernest Hemingway

23. Their Eyes Were Watching God, by Zora Neale Hurston


24. Invisible Man, by Ralph Ellison


25. Song of Solomon, by Toni Morrison


26. Gone with the Wind, by Margaret Mitchell


27. Native Son, by Richard Wright


28. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, by Ken Kesey


29. Slaughterhouse-Five, by Kurt Vonnegut


30. For Whom the Bell Tolls, by Ernest Hemingway

33. The Call of the Wild, by Jack London

36. Go Tell it on the Mountain, by James Baldwin

38. All the King's Men, by Robert Penn Warren

40. The Lord of the Rings, by J.R.R. Tolkien

45. The Jungle, by Upton Sinclair

48. Lady Chatterley's Lover, by D.H. Lawrence


49. A Clockwork Orange, by Anthony Burgess


50. The Awakening, by Kate Chopin

53. In Cold Blood, by Truman Capote

55. The Satanic Verses, by Salman Rushdie

57. Sophie's Choice, by William Styron

64. Sons and Lovers, by D.H. Lawrence


66. Cat's Cradle, by Kurt Vonnegut


67. A Separate Peace, by John Knowles

73. Naked Lunch, by William S. Burroughs


74. Brideshead Revisited, by Evelyn Waugh


75. Women in Love, by D.H. Lawrence

80. The Naked and the Dead, by Norman Mailer

84. Tropic of Cancer, by Henry Miller


88. An American Tragedy, by Theodore Dreiser

97. Rabbit, Run, by John Updike