QL4 by James Garrison is now available!

QL 4 is a story set in the Mekong Delta of Vietnam, 1969 – 1970… a young man’s struggle not only to survive but to live up to his principles

PFC Bell, ex-grad student and newly-minted U.S. Army MP, knows there’s more than a war going on along QL 4, the main road from Saigon into the Mekong Delta. It’s old-fashioned crime and vice, and he doesn’t want to get involved, but life for an American MP in 1970 Vietnam doesn’t work that way. Bell is led deep into a quagmire of deception, corruption and death, not only in the towns and military posts along the route, but also in the old French villa where he and his fellow MPs live.

Bell’s head tells him to mind his own business, serve his time and get out. But his heart, conflicted by a strong sense of morality in the midst of an unpopular war and the allure of an exotic place and its people, especially pretty young women, compels him to confront the dark side, no matter the cost.

An intense read, QL 4 is the final test for a disillusioned American GI as he searches for an honorable way out of his predicament.

Much of the material for QL 4 comes from Jim Garrison’s experiences as an MP in the Mekong Delta. He went from a sheltered, small-town life, drafted out of law school, to Vietnam in the blink of an eye. The endemic violence, corruption, and poverty, as well as the daily challenges of being a MP in a war zone, left a lasting impression that reached well beyond his years of practicing law.

Garrison returned to Duke Law School following his tour and wrote reams of legal briefs, memos, and other legal folderol. He began writing QL 4, after being asked by his son, “What did you do in the war, Dad?” He recently won first prize in the Houston Writers Guild contest for his poem “A Rising Tide.” Two other poems, “War of the Martins and Sparrows” and “A Dangerous World,” received honorable mentions. All three poems are included in the Houston Writers Guild Press anthology, Out of Many, One, which was released on April 2017.

www.jamesgarrison-author.com Represented by Loiacono Literary Agency www.loiaconoliteraryagency.com  Published by TouchPoint Press www.touchpointpress.com

Three chances to meet and hear author Rochelle Wisoff-Fields!

Rochelle Wisoff-Fields, author of Please Say Kaddish For Me, From Silt and Ashes, and As One Must, One Can, to read her poetry @ CloudBursT Congregation Beth Torah Sunday, May 21, 2017 https://www.facebook.com/events/1289255001162982/

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June 24, 2017 Corks & Canvas in Blue Springs, MO Corks & Canvas Art & Wine Walk – Downtown Alive Blue Springs www.downtownbluesprings.com/event/corks-canvas-art-wine-walk-3

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Thursday, October 26, Writer’s Block LA Talk Radio 8pm PST, 10pm CST, 11pm EST LA Talk Radio with Jim Christina and Bobbie Bell http://www.latalkradio.com/ and always channel 2, on ITunes, Stitcher, and there is always a pod cast after the show so you can listen to this interview or catch up on old ones.

Livin’ Where Rabbits Dance

Settlers living in the Southern Appalachian Mountains of 1827 were beginning to see changes they weren’t comfortable with. Men of questionable motives had been seen wandering the trails in search of gold. Paying no mind to the needs of the local folks they were invading.

Jeb Collins, a twelve-year-old settler boy of Irish decent, was growing to manhood in these mountains. He and his best friend and blood brother, Wolf, a full-blood Cherokee boy of the same age, cared deeply about what was happening.

With the coming of U.S. Soldiers to the mountains, death will follow. The boys soon realize their mountain peace is ending. A time of war is approaching. A war they must prepare for. A war they sense will not end well for the Cherokee. This fear makes them decide to fight the madness that is threatening their way of life before it grows. The dangers of their decision will force the boys to risk their lives doing what they feel is right. If death was the Will of the Great Creator, then all was just fine with them. They were ready to do what had to be done. After all, it is their home that will be lost if the evil is allowed to spread.

JR. Collins was raised in the valley he so passionately writes about. An ancestor of the first settlers to the area, he proudly claims heritage and roots through the people of the Appalachian Mountains that settled in the Choestoe Valley sometime in the latter part of the 1700’s. Collins grew up hunting and running the ridges of Choestoe from which the stories roots originated.

As of 2013, Collins has been Director of Advertising for The North Georgia News, after having worked as the editor for sports stories and special events. He is a graduate of Young Harris College. The Boy Who Danced with Rabbits was the first in the Choestoe series. Collins is currently working on the third.

Represented by Loiacono Literary Agency https://loiaconoliteraryagency.com/jr-collins/ Published by Argus Publishing (Release 2017)

May 19, 2017 12 1 p.m. Federal Point Yacht Club, Carolina Beach, NC, Cape Fear Sail & Power Squadron www.capefearsailandpowersquadron.org Federal Point Yacht Club, 910 Basin Road, Carolina Beach, NC 28428Get directions Please join the members of the Cape Fear Sail & Power Squadron Book Club #1 to meet and discuss the book Sea of Greed, with author J. Douglas McCullough. J. Douglas McCullough, the U.S. attorney who unraveled the Cayman Island Cartel, reveals never before known facts of the case that began on the docks in the historic fishing village of Beaufort, North Carolina, when authorities found a shrimp boat full of marijuana.” Light refreshments.  Read more Hosted by Sara Raleigh 910-409-9865

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September 23, 2017 10am- 4pm Carteret Community College Author Book Fair Morehead City, NC Crystal Coast Author Fair – Carteret Community College Foundation, Inc.www.cccfoundation.org/crystal-coast-author-fair.htm

Republican Judge Does The Right Thing?? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UnA72pDdN9I

Bracha Goetz’s interview on Writer’s Block LA Talk Radio http://latalkradio.com/content/writer-050417%20#audio_play Bracha Goetz – Author of 33 books to help children’s souls shine: http://www.amazon.com/author/spiritualkidsbooks-brachagoetz

At the April 26, 2017 awards for the Freddie Warder Naval Submarine League (NSL), midshipman Zachary J Rossi, USNR was presented with an Outstanding Achievement Certificate and a copy of Heroes Beneath the Waves: Submarine Stories of the Twentieth Century by Mary Nida Smith. Photos courtesy of NROTC Book provided by Joel M. Greenberg USSVI Tucson Base.

Author Interview with Jeanne Skartsiaris ~ New Release: Dance Like You Mean It

https://aliciadean.com/2017/05/04/author-interview-with-jeanne-skartsiaris-new-release-dance-like-you-mean-it/

Argus Publishing has acquired Daniel C. Lorti’s first in the Jim Factor novels, The Missing Factor!

Jim Factor, an engineer turned arms dealer, is approached at a convention in Europe by a gentleman with a sweet deal: be the moderator in negotiations with a client and make over a half million dollars. Wined and dined and receiving the funds, Factor bows out after finishing his part of the deal, thinking, Life is good.

Then the phone rings and all he hears is, “Run!” 

A novel of deadly cat and mouse that takes you across the globe with twists and turns, eliciting many gasps. Hunted by the Russian mafia, Factor must disappear yet hide in plain sight until… death or freedom.

A writer of factual fiction, Daniel C. Lorti is a former aerospace engineer with military sensors, weapons, and intelligence background, and a Chief Radar Engineer for the Northrop Grumman Corporation for many years. In 1995, he was appointed to President Clinton’s twenty-member conference committee for Trade and Investment in Northern Ireland. As an international arms broker, he conducted business in Europe, the Middle East, and Asia.

The Avignon Legacy, the story of a centuries-old missing Papal treasure, was his first novel. The Missing Factor is only the beginning of his series of Jim Factor novels. All are published by Argus Publishing. Represented by Loiacono Literary Agency.

http://www.southernwritersmagazine.com/MayComp.html