On this day of your life, I believe God wants you to know that fun is not defined as the absence of challenging circumstances, but as the absence of anger about them.

Of course, it is natural to become “fed up” with some of the worst conditions of physical life. Yet the fun of life is in embracing a perspective that allows you to look into the face of those conditions and demonstrate Who You Are in spite of them.

“Where is the fun in that?” you might say. The fun is in the victory, my friend. The fun is in the victory.

www.CWGPortal.com

Deer Hawk Publications Press Release Wounded Warriors Project

Aurelia Sands, CEO/Publisher

For immediate release

Deer Hawk Publications to Give Back

Deer Hawk to Donate July’s Proceeds to Charity

PENSACOLA, Florida – June 30, 2014 – Deer Hawk Publications today announced that all proceeds from their book sales in July will be donated to The Wounded Warrior Project. From July 1 through July 31, Deer Hawk Publications, an independent press based in Florida, will be donating all proceeds from the purchase of all their books to help wounded warriors.

“It’s a good way to give back to those who gave so much,” Aurelia, CEO/Publisher, Deer Hawk Publications, said, “There’s also no better time with Independence Day coming up. Both my husband’s and my family served in the military, so this charity is close to my heart. I was brought up to honor those who served. What better way than to donate?”

The Wounded Warrior Project is a nonprofit organization whose vision is “To foster the most successful, well-adjusted generation of wounded service members in our nation’s history.” In essence, they help wounded warriors get back on their feet.

Deer Hawk Publications opened its doors in 2005 with one author and one editor. Since then, it has grown to several editors, more than twenty authors and an impressive list. Deer Hawk enjoys finding new talent and books that do not fit into conventional categories.

All product and company names herein may be trademarks of their respective owners.

Contact information (press members only):

Aurelia Sands, CEO/Publisher

Deer Hawk Publications

850-375-9161

aurelia@deerhawkpublications.com

On this day of your life, I believe God wants you to know that good health is not the absence of symptoms, it is the presence of peace.

Do not confuse physical vibrance with spiritual vitality. You are not your body. Your body is simply a tool. A magnificent tool, for sure, but nothing more than that.

As with all tools, your body will from time to time need repair. And one day it will wear down completely. Your soul will do neither. Not now, not ever. Listen, therefore, to the whispers of the soul,
not the cries of the body. www.CWGPortal.com

BREAKING NEWS!

Okay, one announcement that can’t wait until tomorrow!

During the month of July, Deer Hawk Publications is donating all proceeds to The Wounded Warrior Project! Money from any book purchased from July 1 to July 31 will be given to this honorable charity! You will be getting and giving and getting at the same time—get a great summer read, give to a cause that gives back and get a write-off on your purchase as a donation—get, give, get. You could even go a step further and donate your book TO The Wounded Warrior Project. Troops need good books to read while waiting, whether in doctors’ offices, or during down time if they are still active duty. Books are the gifts that keep giving!

This is only some of the great reads published by Deer Hawk and represented by LLA. Others will be coming out within the next few weeks. For the comprehensive list, please go to  www.deerhawkpublications.com.

Loiacono Literary Agency welcomes new addition to the board!

Loiacono Literary Agency has appointed Robert Loiacono as Chief Operating Officer. Having spent the last thirty years as a developmental scientist, president and CEO of several companies, he is adding Chief Operating Officer of Loiacono Literary Agency to his Curriculum Vitae. Knowledge of corporations internationally, along with his networking capabilities, he is enhancing the productivity of the agency and its stronghold in publishing. As Engineering Manager, Tresu Royse, Inc., Dallas, the United States arm of Tresu Group of Denmark, he has vast experience in the printing industry worldwide. He will be assisting in all aspects of the company’s daily operations as well as planning for future ventures and acquisitions. His focus will be corporate analysis and head of the advisory board. He joins CEO/President Jeanie Loiacono and agent Evie Saphire-Bernstein. We welcome him and are looking forward to many years of sales and success.  www.loiaconoliteraryagency.com

On this day of your life, I believe God wants you to know that love is not what you want, it is what you are. It is very important to not get these two confused.

If you think that love is what you want, you will go searching for it all over the place.
If you think love is what you are, you will go sharing it all over the place. The second approach
will cause you to find what the searching will never reveal.

Yet you cannot give love in order to get it. Doing that is as much as saying you do not now have it.
And that statement will, of course, be your reality. No, you must give love because you have it to give.
In this will you experience your own possession of it. www.CWGPortal.com

Words from Pep – Dark magic of the ego

A cloudless dazzling sky, like an enormous parasol, arched above me. Leaving the rocky slope behind, I continued upward on the snow and ice. Now over 600 feet above the Arctic Ocean the sun’s reflected glare brought my pupils to their smallest aperture possible. I turned away from the brilliance, pulled dark goggles from my pack and slipped them over my eyes. In a few minutes crampons with one inch claws were secured to my boots and I ascended the glacier higher into the blue. Sweat began to build under my coat and hat. I lashed them to the pack. The silence was absolute. No movement of air. The only sound, blood pumping through my ears, labored breathing. Finally my second wind kicked in and it felt like I could continue upward, surmounting the very throne room of God. Around me photons of color filled my vision as microscopic crystals of ice refracted light. Step after step, higher and higher. Overcoming a drift of crusted snow I approached the final terrace of ice. Now on hands and knees I drove the toe claws of my crampons into the steep slope. Slivers of ice clattered downward through the still air. I leaned forward and pressed my body against the chill before the final rise. Slowly the angle reduced and before me loomed the edge of the world. I had conquered the climb. In the stillness, the crushing silence, I pushed my head over the granite lip. There 1300 feet below, tiny winged profiles soared above the still frozen ocean. I looked away, dizzy, unsteady and hugged the stone I lay upon. At that moment, in this northern world of blue, white and grey; sky, snow, and stone, I was stripped of pretense and pride, forced to confront the raw and humbling truth of my frailty. It is only by grace, pure and simple, that I exist at all. Only by grace that I am allowed the illusion of my dominion over life, and by an even greater grace I am brought back from the edge of arrogance to humility and gratitude. The conceit of my self-importance, my power, the deception of control, was driven out of the shadows by the light of a higher consciousness. As my ego struggled to return to the helm, to conjure again the smoke and mirrors of its dark magic, into the air my lips uttered simply, “Thank you for my existence.” A raven perched itself atop the cliff to my left. I smiled in appreciation to the Great Mystery for speaking to me. The iridescent bird croaked a bit of advice and leaped into the void. I turned and in meekness began my descent.

www.theteacherwithin.com

ONE WORLD  –  ONE FAMILY OF MAN  –  ONE CREATOR OF ALL

The book launch for Forgotten Heroes of WWII has been scheduled!!

Forgotten Heroes of WWII by Thomas E. Simmons, published by Taylor Trade, will have its book launch at Barnes & Nobel, Saturday, November 8, 2014 at 2 pm, 15246 Crossroads Parkway, Gulfport, MS 39503

“If you only read one book of the 11,000 plus books about WW II, this is the one you should read.  It takes you up close, maybe closer than you want to be, to the fight on land, sea and air, close to individuals representing the thousands or ordinary boys in all services who stood their post, gave their best, and kept us free.  They are heroes every one.”

Forgotten heroes, they truly are. Men of honor, integrity, and perseverance, love of God, country, and family who fought on many fronts and survived to tell their stories— stories of horrors seen which live on forever in their minds and hearts. These veterans are slowly “crossing to the other side” to be greeted by those who have long been there, welcomed with open arms. Men and women you share combat and service time with, you never forget, especially those you see take their last breath. These are the personal accounts that will live with you till the end of time.

Republished as a second edition with enhanced and added stories by Taylor Trade/Rowman and Littlefield www.rowman.com/TaylorTrade.com. Represented by Loiacono Literary Agency www.loiaconoliteraryagency.com Thomas E. Simmons www.thomasesimmons.net

Rogue Phoenix Press acquires Jocko Lee’s science fiction Tar Kyler – Time Traveling Mercenary!

Rogue Phoenix Press www.roguephoenixpress.com sees great potential in this inevitable series by Jocko Lee featuring Tar Kyler.

When ex-SEAL team leader, Tar Kyler is hired by an elite cartel to strong-arm a physicist who has created a time machine, the plan backfires and he becomes the scientist’s protégé. With only months to live, he has to teach Kyler everything he knows as well as ironing out a few issues with “Laws.” They discovered that if you travel to another time and make a change, then come home to the exact time you left, everything you changed went back like it was. Law #1 was that in order to make the change permanent you had to stay away at least two seconds.

Law #2 was you only got one chance to make a change. If you blew it, you were stuck with what history gave you. All the earlier attempts before they learned about Law #1 were impossible to retry because of Law #2.

Law #3 was that no matter what you did, sometimes fate is the deciding factor and you just can’t change it. You may make a few details different, but the results remained the same.

When the old man dies of cancer, Tar hides the time machine from the Cartel and they have to deal with him from now on. Although he does undertake several missions for the Cartel, Kyler refuses to put women and children in harm’s way which alters plans— and he also has a few agendas of his own. Who he recruits to assist him, how he does what he is hired to do, and also wants to do, modifies the past, present and future.

Lee’s other two epic novels, Buffalo Island (2016) and its sequel, Glass Wind Chimes (2017), will be published by Deer Hawk Publications. A native of North Carolina, Edwards spent over fifty years in several professions including being a fisherman, boat owner, trucking industry, worked in a machine shop running CNC machines. He is now retired and writing full-time. Edwards is currently working on The Travels of Jacob Spach, a fictional account based on the travels of his grandfather around the early 1900’s. Represented by Loiacono Literary Agency www.loiaconoliteraryagency.com

Loiacono Literary Agency acquires The Haunting of Aaron House by Joyce Zeller!

In Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, a place where ghosts, witchcraft and the paranormal are part of the local culture, an old farmhouse is haunted by two ghosts, Phineas and Amalie Peale, who have been trying to destroy each other for a hundred and fifty years; each possessing one half of the house. Phineas is an evil, powerful specter; Amalie is much weaker, unable to destroy him. To increase her strength enough to do so, she must inhabit the body of a human female living in the house. Her opportunity arises when the house, left vacant but still furnished since the death of the Aaron brothers two years past, is rented for two weeks by Paul Barlowe, a documentary film producer from Chicago, his wife Samantha and their son, Andy. Paul and Sam are targeted for a hostile take-over by the angry haints’ battle for supremacy, sometimes being completely consumed by them in the most sadistic ways.

Joyce Zeller, is the author of Maddies Choice (Coffeetown Press, 2014) and Love in a Small Town (Coffeetown Press, 2015) Having served in the US Army, written for magazines and newspaper cooking columns, Zeller is also a professional perfumer (School of Perfumery, London, England) and an aromatherapist, she constructs her stories with experience, flair and passion. She resides in Arkansas and is a member of Northwest Arkansas Writers Group. She has also written: The Hidden History of Eureka Springs, non-fiction history (History Press, 2011), Accidental Alien, a science fiction (Amazon, 2012) and her short story “Love is a Seed” is featured in Embrace: A Romance Collection, (2012 Goldmine Press). www.joycezeller.com www.loiaconoliteraryagency.com