Outstanding review for JR Collins’s The Boy Who Danced with Rabbits

Outstanding review for JR Collins’s The Boy Who Danced with Rabbits                    the-boy-who-danced-with-rabbits

Good Reading … Dr. Fred Lodge

Senior Pastor First Baptist Church, Blairsville, GA

FBC Beacon Newsletter

Many of you know that I am an avid reader. At night before I go to sleep I especially like to read Christian novels. Today I want to recommend one that I think you will enjoy, especially since you know the novelist. We have several accomplished authors in our church family such as Leah Adams, Nancy Carter, and Doris Durbin. This gentleman is our most recent novelist. I am speaking of our own J. R. Collins.

Writing with an acute insight into the history and culture of his chosen time, Joe has captured the essence of life for the early settlers and Native Americans in our beloved Choestoe Valley. “Choestoe” is a Cherokee phrase that means, “dancing rabbits” and speaks of the abundance of small game in the valley.

An intricate mixture of tradition, history and fiction, The Boy Who Danced with Rabbits is a joy to read. Joe has captured the time, the language, and the society of the early white settlers as they mingled life and faith with the Cherokee.

From the stories that were handed down to Joe from generations of our best local storytellers, he has blended an engaging tale of a boy named Jeb growing up in the early days of our nation. History tells us that many Cherokee fought alongside Gen. George Washington in the Revolutionary War. Some of their decedents lived in the North Georgia area we now call home. One was Jeb’s best friend Wolf. These families, though different in culture, were united in the common bonds of survival and faith.

Jeb and Wolf were born the same night in different parts of Choestoe. Their fathers were as near blood brothers as a white man and a Cherokee could be. Their lives are intricately intertwined and their adventures keep you awake turning pages.

I think books like this should be required reading for all those who move into our beloved mountains. It captures the ethics and sense of morality that have been instilled for generations in our families. Part of what new folks find so charming about Blairsville and Union County are the actual values that have been handed down by our forefathers. The importance of family, the sense of community, the respect for the environment, the welcoming nature of the folks, the love of adventure, loyalty, commitment and the overall positive attitude that exudes in our community are all principles that are the essentials of life in Joe’s book and in the lives of our ancestors in this land we love.

You can sense the source of these and many other roots of our mountain heritage in this heartwarming tale of a boy coming into adulthood. If you like an adventure novel that is also a love story, mixed with growing faith and emerging manhood, you will enjoy Joe’s first book, The Boy Who Danced with Rabbits.

John House, author of Trail of Deceit, will be participating in a book signing at The Okefenokee Heritage Center

John House, author of Trail of Deceit, will be participating in a book signing at The Okefenokee Heritage Center in Waycross, Sunday, November 6th. The 3rd Annual Writer’s Guild reception and presentation of awards is from 2:30 to 4:30 at the Center at 1460 N. Augusta Avenue, Waycross, Georgia, to be followed by the book signing. www.okefenokeeheritagecenter.org

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Caroline Giammanco Events! Bank Notes: The True Story of the Boonie Hat Bandit

Caroline Giammanco Events! Bank Notes: The True Story of the Boonie Hat Bandit
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November 19, 2016

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ABC Books

2109 North Glenstone Avenue, Springfield, Missouri 65803

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November 26

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320 Mid Rivers Center Drive, St. Peters, Missouri 63376

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261 North 46th Street, Rogers, Arkansas 72756

 

Jeanie Loiacono to speak at The Gathering of Authors

ABOUT THE GATHERING OF AUTHORS
Texarkana Literacy/Charity Annual Event

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Jeanie Loiacono will be doing a session, Steps to Becoming an Author, for The Gathering of Authors Saturday, October 29th 11:30-12noon

2016 GOA Dates:  Friday Oct. 28th, and Sat. Oct. 29th –
Texarkana Arkansas Convention Center

http://www.gatheringofauthors.com/

We started this unique event in 2010, focusing on writers in and around our
area, but since has grown into something far greater.  We combine the importance
of literacy and giving into one.  Four years ago, we added St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital into our event as our Charity of choice to donate to, but later included Arkansas Children’s Hospital as well.  We bring in authors from all around to share their books, speak and do autographings at the event.  These wonderful authors have become like family to this event and together we all work hard to raise money for these two remarkable hospitals that do nothing but save children’s lives.  Please join our Gathering family and be a part of our event. 

Ginny Fite’s second novel in the Sam Lagarde series, No Good Deed Left Undone, is now available!

Ginny Fite’s second novel in the Sam Lagarde series, No Good Deed Left Undone, is now available!

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When Grant Wodehouse went to the barn that fine morning, he had no idea what good, bad, or ugly would take place—saddle a couple of horses, a little S&M with his neighbor and a pitchfork through his chest, pinning him to the wall, is what.

Who would not want him dead? Having bedded every female he’d ever laid eyes on, swindled anyone he had ever had business dealings with, and ignored and ostracized his children, one person said it was time to meet his maker…but who?

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Ginny Fite is an award-winning journalist who has covered crime, politics, government, healthcare, art and all things human. She has been a spokesperson for a governor, member of Congress, a few colleges and universities, and a robotics R&D company. She has degrees from Rutgers University and Johns Hopkins University and studied at the School for Women Healers and the Maryland Poetry Therapy Institute. She is the author of I Should Be Dead by Now, a collection of humorous lamentations about aging, three books of poetry: The Last Thousand Years, The Pearl Fisher, Throwing Caution; and a short story collection, What Goes Around.  Cromwell’s Folly is her first novel in the Sam Lagarde mystery series and No Good Deed Left Undone is the second. We are currently seeking publication of her novel No End of Bad. She resides in Harpers Ferry, WV. Represented by Loiacono Literary Agency  Ginny Fite

Published by Black Opal Books

CHARACTER STUDY – CHARLES ROSENTHAL by Rochelle Wisoff-Fields

CHARACTER STUDY – CHARLES ROSENTHAL

PUBLISHED OCTOBER 7, 2016 BY ROCHELLEWISOFF

As a girl in, Fruma Ya’el fell in love with an idealistic Jewish doctor from the United States.

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            “I was your age when a doctor came to visit Svechka—Dr. Rosenthal—all the way from New York, America,” she tells Havah. “He claimed it was his mission to recruit Jews to become doctors so we wouldn’t always be at the mercy of the Goyim. He stayed for two years and filled my head full of knowledge and dreams…”

            Recognizing Fruma Ya’el’s aptitude for medicine, Charles urged her to return to New York with him to study medicine and marry him. When tragedy struck she laid her aspirations to rest. Obeying her father’s wishes, she married Herschel. Dejected and heartbroken, Charles left Svechka.

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Dr. Charles Rosenthal – Original Artwork © Rochelle Wisoff-Fields

Setting down the tattered diaper she used as a polishing cloth, Fruma Ya’el reached into a concealed pocket in the wooden box’s lining and pulled out an old tintype. Lean, with black hair, bushy moustache and olive skin, to this day, Charles’ image held the power to quench her arid heart’s thirst if only for the briefest moment. The memory of his lips pressed hard against hers still lingered in her mind like sweet cream and honey.

             “Charles. I can’t.”

            “You’d rather rot in ignorance because of a narrow minded old man and a piece of paper than come with me?”

            “I’m all my father has left.”

            Charles’ dark eyes filled. He grasped her face with both hands. “I beg of you, Ya’el. Think. There are schools cropping up all over America for women. You’ll be a brilliant doctor, a medical pioneer.”

            “What about Papa’s honor?”

            “Damn ‘Papa’s honor’!”

~~Taken from Please Say Kaddish for Me

Published by Argus Publishing

Represented by Loiacono Literary Agency

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Watch for the third in Havah’s Series!

COMING SOON!

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A Foreign Affair by Amanda Matti is now available!

A Foreign Affair by Amanda Matti is now available!

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It was nothing but God’s grace that got them through it —together. Neither were spies, but they were persecuted and prosecuted as such.

At seventeen, Amanda McEwen joined the Navy as a Russian Linguist and was subsequently transferred to the NSA (National Security Agency) in Washington, D.C. She volunteered for a position that not many wanted, an agency deployment to Baghdad, Iraq tasked with assisting the CIA in rebuilding Iraq’s new Intelligence Service, the INIS (Iraqi National Intelligence Service). It is there she was given above-grade responsibilities, sent to the forefront of battles in charge of a four-man team and she fell in love with her Iraqi translator, Fadi Matti, an employee of the INIS.

Love knows no boundaries – not of country, culture, or political affiliation.

Labeled spies and traitors, the relationship caused a massive scandal that led to a joint criminal investigation by the NCIS, NSA and CIA for nearly a year for potential crimes ranging from misconduct clear up to espionage. Fadi was manipulated into becoming a CIA asset as a test of his loyalties; even so far as to send him on missions, leading to his arrest by a Shi’ite militia group who held and tortured him mercilessly for thirty-five days. Mandy was sent to Washington, D.C. to undergo numerous interrogations and spend forty-five days in Restriction. Neither knew what was happening to the other for over two months.

This is their story of governmental bureaucracies, mismanagement, and mishandling of agencies, terrorism, torture, and, most importantly, how love does conquer all.

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Amanda Matti holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Political Science from Wilmington College of Ohio and is currently pursuing a Master’s in International Relations. She began a career in journalism following her separation from the military in 2006 and returned to the Middle East where she documented the lives and experiences of Iraqi and Lebanese refugees living in Jordan who escaped the turmoil in their respective countries.

Represented by Loiacono Literary Agency   Published by Argus Publishing  Amazon