Bragging Writes

 

Liquidating Life: In sharing this first-hand account of her husband's battle with glioblastoma multiforme, Laura Cogdill hopes to touch a chord with others on the same path, and to show God's grace and mercy to the end.

 

Loosing the Lightning is Lyla Faircloth Ellzey's novel about Lily, whose innocence is stolen at age five. Thiis abuse affects every choice Lily makes as she hides her painful secret behind closed lips that don’t smile as often as before.

 

Congratulations to Pat Spears, who has two short fiction pieces accepted for publication.  “Who Will Tell Their Stories” has been accepted by Snake Nation Review.  “From Day One” will appear in the anthology Crimes and Misdemeanors from Main Street Rag, scheduled for publication this fall.

 

Congratulations to Jenny Crowleywhose prose poem, "St. George Island Afternoon Memory," was accepted by Saw Palm literary journal for Places to Stand in Florida. Also to Doug Alderson, whose "Sitting with Longleaf" is on the site.

Catherine Cameron has created a how-to book that helps get job hunters from the resume to job ready and be able to successfully function in a business environment. Check out Are You Looking for an Administrative Job?

 

The third book in April Kelly and Marsha Lyon's detective series is now available on amazon. When movie action hero Micah Deifenschlictor is accused of murdering his longtime agent, private investigators Maureen O’Brien and Blake Ervansky are offered a small fortune by Micah’s attorney to prove her client’s innocence.

 

Stefan Kulakowski has published a new novel, Yesterday’s Tides, available as an e-book and paperback. A local Florida panhandle story, the novel is a salty sea tale accented with tragedy, love, heartbreak, and endurance.

In God Provides a Way of Escape, author Dr. Gwendola Williams explores the concept of nouthetic counseling— counseling with the scriptures—to help abuse victims escape from the abuse and begin to heal from their traumatic experiences.

 

In Lourdes Rodriquez's new book, Mandy, Princess of LaLa Land, Mandy and her Abuela (Spanish for grandmother) shared a special bond.

 

In Search of The Diamond Brooch, by Terri and Pete Gerrell, is an historical saga starting with the migration of the pioneer families to the North Florida area. The text includes the family’s personal account of the Battle of Natural Bridge.

Mark Canter has a science fiction/thriller novel out, Orchard of My Eye. Aria Rioverde, a professor of ethnomusicology, is rapidly going blind. Nat Colt surgically implants tiny computers in her retinas and brain that give her extraordinary sight. Aria and Nat find themselves fleeing a team of killers who will stop at nothing to get at the implants in Aria's head. He also has published another novel, The Bastard. It is a thoroughly researched, action-driven, dark epic about the missing decades in the life of Jesus. The novel realistically portrays a human Jesus as an outcast character caught in a clash of cultures during an age of brutality and violence.

 

Breathless: A Devotional Book For Connecting Your Heart With God's, Or How One Minute With God Each Day Can Change Your Life (Devotionals for Women and Men) by Dr. Judith Rolfs is available as an ebook.

New title by Doug Alderson: The Great Florida Seminole Trail is the first comprehensive illustrated guide to Florida’s historic and cultural sites that directly relate to the Seminole Indians, covering Seminole history from when they first migrated into the state in the 1700s to the tragic Seminole wars to contemporary Seminole culture.

Eileen Sperl-Hawkins has published her second poetry book, Another Door."Many of these poems found me as I volunteered at the Tallahassee Memorial Cancer Center," she says.

The Seven Hills Review 2013 has nominated "The One-Upper," a creative nonfiction piece by Iain Baird for the Pushcart Prize.

Lyla Faircloth Ellzey has released a second edition of her short story collection. She Is Womanhas tales of love, of betrayal, of fears, of global warming, of vampires, of fun and adventure.

 

 

 

 

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