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What if you wrote a steamy, erotic novel that was so hot bookstores couldn’t keep it on their shelves?  What if you couldn’t tell anyone you wrote it?

With a mundane life as a nurse, a husband who is grazing other fields, and a daughter of an impressionable age, Cassie checks her horoscope one morning just for kicks and notices an article about romance novels and how profitable publishing could be if one could spin a good tale.

She pens Wild Rose under a pseudonym and it flies to the top of the charts, is the talk of the town, and people are clamoring to know who the author is.  What would her children think if they knew?  Or her own mother, who ‘taught her better’, and, worse, her husband who’d thought she’d turned back into a virgin since they’d not had sex in so long.  How could she be thrown into the spotlight and still be a good mom?

Wild Rose, Cassie’s caldron of prose, is woven through this story.  Set it the 70s, it is the story of Rosemary, a beautiful photographer who wants to be recognized for her body of work, not her haunting beauty.  Although a modern women, she is as adventurous sexually as she is with her camera and beds men like candy…until she falls in love.

Both novels parallel each other as Cassie realizes Rosemary is not so different from her.

When not writing Jeanne Skartsiaris also works as a Sonographer. Prior to that she was a medical/legal photographer for a plaintiff’s law firm. She attended creative writing courses at Southern Methodist University and is a member of Romance Writers of America’s local chapter, Dallas Area Romance Authors. Also the author of Surviving Life and Snow Globe. She lives in Dallas, Texas. www.jeanneskartsiaris.com Published by Black Opal Books www.blackopalbooks.com (release 2017)

Represented by Loiacono Literary Agency https://loiaconoliteraryagency.com/authors/jeanne-skartsiaris/

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and The Lies That Bind’s Big Josh

Voices Dr. King believed would have the final word—voices of unarmed truth and unconditional love.
– President Barak Obama’s State of the Union Address, 2016

Publisher by TouchPoint Press

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Represented by Loiacono Literary Agency

Amazon 

Florida Today Story

“Palm Bay author’s masterpiece? Inspiring kids to achieve”

http://www.floridatoday.com/story/news/2016/01/15/palm-bay-author-ron-lewis/78736712/

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Published by Saturn’s Moon Press, an imprint of Cactus Moon Publications Represented by Loiacono Literary Agency www.loiaconoliteraryagency.com

The Woods at Barlow Bend was selected as a WINNER for fiction in the BooksandAuthors.com 2015 Book of the Year contest.

Check out the complete list of winners at http://www.booksandauthor.com/2015-books-of-the-year.html. According to BooksandAuthors.com , their awards program “Honors great indie books from independent publishers, university presses, and noteworthy self-published authors. What makes BooksandAuthor.com special is our panel of judges: more than 100 booksellers and librarians determine the winners after a larger group of finalists is culled by our editorial staff.”

“I am thrilled to be honored by Books and Authors and bet Granny, my Hattie, an avid reader and lover of books, is smiling in heaven today!”

• Jodie Cain Smith, author of The Woods at Barlow Bend and Jubilee Bells (2016) http://thequeendom.org Published by Deer Hawk Publications Represented by Loiacono Literary Agency

Valerica Dietrich

All art by Rochelle Wisoff-Fields

Although she [Havah] had dusted it many times, a faded photograph in a silver frame caught her attention. A woman with pale curls around her face smiled at her from under a lace bridal veil. She lifted the picture from the table beside the piano.

“What was she like?”

“My Valerica.”  He took the picture from her. Then, holding it to his chest, he propped an elbow on the piano and rested his head on his hand. “Kolyah introduced us.”

“Dr. Nikolai?”

“She was his wife’s best friend. Do you believe in love at first sight, Havah?”

Not waiting for an answer, he continued. His spirit seemed to travel to a distant time and place. Tears shimmered in his eyes. “Valerica Dietrich. She was always the picture of fashion. But, if you ask me, she could’ve worn flour sacks and still have turned heads.

~~From Please Say Kaddish for Me

“Have you heard from your professor?”

“I got a letter this morning.” Havah took an envelope from her pocket. “How is he?”

“He’s so lonesome. Oh, he doesn’t say so, but I can tell by the way he talks about his wife and how much he misses her. She’s been gone thirteen years. It’s a pity he never remarried.”

~~From From Silt and Ashes

It was for his Romanian wife, Valerica that Ulrich moved to Kishinev, Moldova. Her death in childbirth dealt him a terrible blow from which he has never recovered. In Please Say Kaddish for Me, to keep her memory alive, Ulrich still has all of her belongings and refuses to sell the house they shared.

However, after experiencing anti-Semitic oppression and the carnage of the pogrom, he can no longer bear to remain in Kishinev.

As From Silt and Ashes opens he has sold the house and moved to London where he teaches at the Royal Academy of Music. Valerica’s wedding photo is ever by his piano for, as he’s told Havah, “She had music in her eyes.”

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Published by Argus Publishing 

Represented by Loiacono Literary Agency

Shanty Gold, by Jeanne Charters, is a finalist in the Readers’ Favorite Awards, 2016 Best Historical Novel! www.jeannecharters.com Published by Rogue Phoenix Press  Represented by Loiacono Literary Agency

Joyce Zeller’s novel of new beginnings, Love in a Small Town, is now available!

Joyce Zeller’s  Love in a Small Town addresses adult, parental and teenage issues, along with all their nuances: how single, adult parents have intimate relationships and how traumas from the past effect their solidity, teen sex and drugs, peer pressure, abuse and, on top of it all, adapting to a whole new life. Zeller touches the hearts of everyone, especially those of us who thought they would never experience unconditional love. Published by Rogue Phoenix Press.

When Chicagoan, David Martin, moves to Eureka Springs with his step-daughter, he is escaping urban America and all its violence, as well as memories of his deceased wife. A marriage of convenience ended in tragedy and left him to raise a fifteen-year-old daughter whom he has only known for two years. Both father and daughter are testing foreign waters: new home, school and work. Neither expected it, but where there is a will, there is love in a small town.

“I’ve wanted to be a writer since the first day I learned to read. Luckily, I’ve had many mentors who were willing to teach me, and I listened.  I’ve written six books, published five: The Hidden History of Eureka Springs (The History Press, 2011), Accidental Alien (Published by Joyce Zeller, 2012), short story “Love is a Seed” is featured in Embrace: A Romance Collection (Goldmine Press, 2012), Christmas for Annabel (CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform; 2014) and Maddie’s Choice (Coffeetown Press, 2013) a romance with her favorite theme, “that being human is a lonely business, but for everyone there is somebody to love. It’s a matter of finding them.” There will always be kids and animals in her books, and always, humor, “…because life without humor is unthinkable.” And, The Haunting of Aaron House was released just in time for Halloween 2015 (Rogue Phoenix Press), which set in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, a place where ghosts, witchcraft and the paranormal are part of the local culture.

Her latest achievement was being elected as Alderman to the Eureka Springs City Council. More stories to come… www.joycezeller.com Represented by Loiacono Literary Agency

Now available! The Hidden Congregation, The CareTakers and Patients in Purgatory by William T. Delamar!

Rogue Phoenix Press has just released the third in a string of books by William T. Delamar. The next two are due for release in 2016: The Brother Voice and The Other Voice, the first and second in a series about telepathic brothers on opposing sides of the Civil War.

If you read one of Delamar’s books, you crave more. His writing draws you within the pages; vicariously experiencing all the nuances of each character and place. For more information on his works: https://loiaconoliteraryagency.com/authors/william-t-delamar/

Help Mary Nida Smith and vote on the Best Submarine Nonfiction Books—Heroes Beneath the Waves: Submarine Stories of the 20th Century

Go here to see which books are on the list, and vote: 

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