Jeanie Loiacono will be participating in The Houston Writers Guild Annual Agents & Editors Conference, voted best in Texas!
Location: Houston Marriott Westchase . 2900 Briarpark Drive . Houston, TX 77042
Date: April 24, 25, 26, 2015
Jeanie will be taking pitches and doing panels.
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I believe God wants you to know that nothing is as bad as it seems. Nothing.
There is a benefit and a blessing hidden in the folds of every experience and every outcome. That includes
every and any ‘bad’ thing that may be happening to you right now.
Change your perspective. Know that nothing happens ever that is not for your highest good. All that needs to change for you to see this…is your definition of ‘Highest Good.’ www.CWGPortal.com
There is a reason for everything.
Judge Douglas McCullough, author of Sea of Greed, will be a Guest Speaker to Military Officers Association of America, Triangle Chapter at North Carolina State University Faculty Club, Raleigh, NC
Date/Time: 6:30 pm, March 18, 2015
Links: www.trianglemoaa.com www.seaofgreedbook.com
Heaven Enough takes you on a thought provoking journey. Do we love enough, why do we make the choices we make and is there more or did we just settle into our life? Both engaging and entertaining Heaven Enough was the perfect book to curl up with on a rainy day. Just remember to have tissues handy.
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Loiacono Literary Agency takes on From Silt and Ashes, Rochelle Wisoff-Fields sequel to Please Say Kaddish For Me!
Rochelle Wisoff-Fields
Barefoot, wearing only a nightgown, sixteen-year-old Havah Cohen alone escapes the brutal massacre by the Czarist tyranny that destroys her home and slaughters her family on a frigid November night in 1899.
Havah (standing)
Love ignited, lost and found, insurmountable struggles and challenges, Kishinev’s Jewish pogroms and all odds against them, Havah and her soul mate, Arel Gitterman, withstand the storms of life in this unforgettable story of a time and place rarely spoken of.
From Silt and Ashes takes us from there to Kansas City and London…Havah Gitterman, Ulrich Dietrich, and Nikolai Derevenko have one thing in common: the three friends have all been profoundly affected by the Kishinev pogrom of 1903, the first one in Eastern Europe’s Pale of Settlement to be internationally recognized.
The story follows these three lives, their loves and their persecutions as Jews in Europe and in the United States. The horrors of human slaughter stay with them, follow them wherever they go—forever imbedded in their minds. “The answer is simple but not easy.” Havah knelt, took Zelda’s smooth hands in hers and gently stroked them with her thumbs. “As one must, one can.”
Rochelle Wisoff-Fields is an exemplary author that brings forth events that most know nothing of nor would believe ever happened had she not done so. These stories must come to light, just as The Diary of Ann Frank or Sarah’s Key.
Fields’ short story “Savant” has been published in Voices, Vol. III. Another short story, “The Swimming Lesson,” is included in Echoes of the Ozarks, Vol. VI and a third, “Reap the Whirlwind” in Voices, Volume IV. Two of these stories are included in her own short story collection with original artwork This, That and Sometimes the Other. All of these anthologies were published by High Hill Press. www.facebook.com/RochelleWisoffFields.author
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Dedication at the US Embassy in Ethiopia for Colonel John Robinson, The Man Called Brown Condor
In March 2014, Thomas E. Simmons was invited to Ethiopia in honor of his biography of John Robinson, The Man Called Brown Condor. The memorial luncheon took place at the residence of H.E. Girma Wolde Giorgis in Addis Ababa.
This year, the US Embassy in Ethiopia has named part of the Embassy garden for John Robinson, erecting an impressive marble and brass marker in the garden. The US Ambassador also honored him with a proclamation.
His Excellency former President of Ethiopia, Grima Wolder Giorgis shakes the US Ambassador Patricia M. Haslach’s hand.
Ethiopian Airlines, founded by Colonel Robinson, is considering naming a plane after him to give his legacy and historical achievements more visibility to the general public. If this action is approved by Ethiopian Airlines, Colonel John C. Robinson will be flying again.
Known as the Father of the Tuskegee Airmen, Robinson is also credited for training African Americans and Ethiopians to be great aviators. When asked, His Excellency former President of Ethiopia, Grima Wolder Giorgis who was trained as a pilot by Robinson, says in an interview, “He (Colonel Robinson) was eager to make Ethiopians good flyers, and I can say he was a very good teacher in flying.” http://www.thereporterethiopia.com/index.php/opinion/viewpoint/item/1785-colonel-john-c-robinson-father-of-ethiopian-airlines
There is also a bust of Robinson in the Gulfport, Mississippi airport. He was born and raised in Gulfport, and also saw his first airplane land there when he was but a boy.
An excerpt from The Man Called Brown Condor –
Celeste Robinson Cobb (John Robinson’s mother) said, “And you gonna’ have to put away all that dreaming ‘bout flying. It scares me, son, and besides, truth is, no black man got any business fooling ‘round wit aeroplanes. Ain’t no Black gonna’ git a chance to do no flying. That’s just the way it is. You old enough to know that.”
Robinson replied, “I’m gonna git’ me some kinda paying job, save the money to help you and Daddy git’ me to collage.” After thinking a moment he added, “But you wrong ‘bout one thing, Momma. Someday this black man gonna’ fly.”
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Heidi Schussman interviews Chuck Walsh, author of Shadows On Iron Mountain, Backwoods Justice, A Passage Back, A Month of Tomorrows and soon to be released, A Splintered Dream
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Touchpoint Press takes on award-winning author Thomas E. Simmons’ epic novels By Accident of Birth and its sequel, The Last Quinn Standing!
Confederat soldier is shot in By Accident of Birth
Thomas E. Simmons
Sinking of the Lusitania 1915, The Last Quinn Standing
These two stories span the Atlantic, from the US during the Civil War to Cuba and France and, in the end, to Ireland and WWI.
As you aware, 2015 is the 150th anniversary of the end of the Civil War where By Accident of Birth starts out, at the battle of Vicksburg in 1863. It is also the 100th anniversary of the sinking of Lusitania which eventually led to America’s entry into the WWI. And so begins the sequel, The Last Quinn Standing, which carries us further on through the eyes of Ansel Quinn, the last of the Quinn bloodline.
A most incredible life and tragic end begins in 1915 as Bethany Quinn receives a call from the British Crown saying she is in possession of a cache of arms stored in her sugar mill warehouse in Cuba. An era she thought long past is resurrected in the last “special cargo” shipment to England to aid the allies in WWI. In preparation for the trip, she re-reads her mother’s and Dr. Perkins’ diaries which brings us to that fate-filled day in 1863, and takes us on a journey we will never forget…
During the siege of Vicksburg July 1863, sixteen-year-old Annielise Quinn is shot by a stray bullet which had passed through the groin of a confederate soldier and lodged itself in her pelvis nicking her uterus, thus impregnating her. The only persons to know of the “bullet baby” were her immediate family and Dr. Perkins. Two-year-old Beverly Bethany Quinn is the only survivor when a trio of crazed Yankees slaughters her family. Having been hid in a basket by her mother, Annielise, she is found by the Quinn’s nanny, Arabella, and taken to be raised by Dr. Perkins in Vicksburg, and subsequently her Uncle Jonathan who lives in Cuba.
Wars, love, friendships, tragedies, clandestine shipments and harrowing escapes—unforgettable. As unbelievable as it may sound, the events mentioned in this manuscript did actually take place.
Thomas E. Simmons is the author of Escape from Archangel (University Press of Mississippi), The Man Called Brown Condor (Sky Horse Publishing) and Forgotten Heroes of World War II: Personal Accounts of Ordinary Soldiers Land, Sea and Air (Taylor Trade Publishing). He has also written numerous magazine articles, an example of which, “Growing Up With Mr. Faulkner,” was published in The Oxford American, a literary magazine founded by John Grisham. The Man Called Brown Condor was presented to the president of Ethiopia and Simmons was invited to Ethiopia in March 2013 for a week-long celebration and dedication to John Robinson, the man called ‘Brown Condor.’ Simmons was also honored by the Mississippi State Senate for efforts in bringing Robinson’s life to light, a man who deserves to be known for his achievements. In November 2014, three of the contributors to Forgotten Heroes of WWII sign copies of the book alongside Simmons in Biloxi, Mississippi – Harry Bell, Jerry O’Keefe and Oscar Russell.
Simmons grew up in Gulfport, Mississippi, attended Marion Military Institute, the U. S. Naval Academy, the University of Southern Mississippi and the University of Alabama. Simmons has been a commercial captain of a seventy-foot sailing vessel, a pilot since the age of sixteen, (over 3000 plus hours in the air; having flown professionally and participated in air shows flying aerobatics in open-cockpit bi-planes), and in the late 1950s he served as an artillery officer in Korea. www.thomasesimmons.net www.touchpointpress.com
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Blizzard by Buzz Bernard is scheduled to open for entries for the Goodreads Giveaway starting tonight at midnight, Thursday, February 19th, and will end at midnight Wednesday, March 18th. Two (2) copies will be given away to Goodreads members in United States and Canada. Don’t wait! Join and enter! Read about the Southern Snowstorm of the Century! https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24964364-blizzard?from_search=true
Buzz Bernard, author EYEWALL, PLAGUE, SUPERCELL, BLIZZARD
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