THE DESPERATE CYCLE (Savant 2012) is Tony Tame's second dramatic novel of Jamaica, but the theme is not confined to Jamaican society. It examines the ways in which succeeding generations of people in what is loosely called "third world countries" handle, with courage, humor and resilience, the mountain of odds which history stacks against them. This book does not treat any one participant in this "cycle" of inequality with particular distemper or sympathy. All the characters, from shifty polit... Continue reading ...
LIGHT SURFER follows the life of an enigmatic, abused child named Tony Jess. While Tony retreats further and further into autism, fate is plotting an out-of-this-world plan for his future that, even in his wildest "psychotic" dreams, he couldn't imagine. Sometimes, one needs to remain naïve for sanity's sake. At least, until the future has sufficiently gestated and is ready to become the present. On the other hand, the fate of Dr. Baird, Tony's psychiatrist, appears, like that of Dr. Baird's ... Continue reading ...
Back in the 1930s, Americans would struggle to part with twenty-five cents in order to spend part of an afternoon at the movies trying to forget the Great Depression and the uncertain times outside the theater. Screwball comedies provided the antidote to their desolation in this difficult time in our history. In THE LOONS (Savant 2012), I've recreated the spirit of laughable chaos reminiscent of the screwball comedies of the thirties with an eccentric family of seven DeLune cousins that neighb... Continue reading ...
David B. Seaburn draws from over thirty five years’ experience as a minister and psychotherapist to address some of the most basic issues of the human heart: loss, uncertainty, hope, fear, love, joy, seeking, wonder, and redemption. Seaburn has written and published three novels, DARKNESS IS AS LIGHT (2005) and PUMPKIN HILL (2007), and CHARLIE NO FACE (2011), which was a Finalist for the 2011 Indie Excellence in Books Award. Seaburn continues his focus on the dilemmas of human experience wi... Continue reading ...
“There are keys in the river. Life is one long river, a pretty voice sings.”
Sometime during mid-1994, I started writing essays, poems, and short stories to help me pass the O-level English exams which I had failed a couple of times in the past. I never thought I was writing pieces that would be read; rather, I began writing simply as practice for this important exam, a rite of passage to higher education in Zimbabwe. The works, however, continued to develop and evolve, as if they were st... Continue reading ...
When I first started writing TRAVELER'S REST back in 2005, it wasn’t my intention of writing a book. I had spent the last year and a half writing scripts for an Atlanta production company, my first paid gig as a writer. I enjoyed writing scripts, but I longed to writing stories. Given, the similar ruthlessness of both the book publishing and film-making worlds, I felt prepared. A screenplay doesn’t really come to life unless it is produced. If it isn’t produced, the script might as well... Continue reading ...
Flush with success after receiving first place for poetry in the 2011 London Book Festival for WAVELENGTHS - The 2011 Savant Anthology of Poetry, we bring you FIFTY-EIGHT STONES - The 2012 Savant Anthology of Poetry! FIFTY-EIGHT STONES presents thirty-four outstanding poems by eleven exceptional and many award-winning poets including
Shawn Canon, Nadia Cox, Helen Doan, David Gemmell, Richard Hookway,
Daniel S. Janik, Vivekanand Jha, Doc Krinberg, Julie McKinney, Francis
Powell and Jean Yam... Continue reading ...
ON MY BEHALF was
never meant to be published. It was merely a journal for my venting. Nothing
formal. My intent was to bring my life to light to myself and hopefully
band-aid some old gaping wounds.
As I was writing,
however, I had an epiphany. I thought ever-so-reluctantly: What if my story
mattered to someone, even helped them to realize things about themselves that
would have otherwise been swept under the rug and ignored? Wouldn’t that be
worth publishing? It suddenl... Continue reading ...
As I mentioned just before Savant Books released my previous novel, MANIFEST INTENT, I had returned to my roots as a lawyer after my first novel, the Hawaiian thriller KANAKA BLUES. My newest work, RULES OF PRIVILEGE, stays in that world, but strays from the environment of the big law firm into the orbit of solo practitioners, who sometimes struggle just to stay afloat. While the problems of large and small firms often are radically different, all lawyers, no matter the size of their firms,... Continue reading ...
In my opinion, an outstanding short story collection is the crowning glory of post-modern
literature, and as proof, I offer my readers BLOOD MONEY - TALES FROM TWO CONTINENTS.
Each story is complete,
but together, transcends individuality to timelessness and immortality. A
dramatic vision of humankind's greatness and shortcomings, BLOOD MONEY takes on Love, Regret, Lust,
Revenge, Hopelessness, Hope, Security, Adventure, Frustration and
Acceptance. In my stories, it's the characters' uniquely ... Continue reading ...
Forty years ago, during the height of the anti-Vietnam War movement, a large number of students at the University of California at Santa Barbara rose up in outright rebellion, burning down a branch of the Bank of America and clashing with police in three separate riots. The Isla Vista Crucible takes place at the university and the nearby student community of Isla Vista during that tumultuous 1969-1970 academic year. The story follows three roommates trying to live and enjoy their student liv... Continue reading ...
RANDOM VIEWS OF ASIA FROM THE MID-PACIFIC weaves together a series of
analyses focused on contemporary events in the Asia-Pacific region. This book is best seen as a learning
tool to help both the general reader and Asia
specialist to better understand the complexion of the region and true dynamics of
individual events. Newspaper articles, internet commentary, political discussions and debates come excitingly alive, and suddenly relevant, meaningful, and understandable. Of course, that alone ... Continue reading ...
An action/adventure novel about global petro-power-greed, THE OIL MAN features John Marx, an offshore oil derrick supervisor who unknowingly holds the keys to that power as well as to his, his family and friends' lives or deaths. An amateur conspiracy theorist, he, his wannabe James Bondish friend, Josh Platur, and his devoted wife, Anne, nonetheless have no idea as to why or what it is all really about. Not until Marx begins uncovers the threads of a real conspiracy, each of which exacts its... Continue reading ...
 When Edward Commons left his family - wife Melanie and daughter Gem – to go off to war in Germany during World War II, it was for love of country, patriotism and an overwhelming desire to participate.
Just as being a soldier fulfilled Edward's sense of duty, his wife Melanie set out to fulfill her duty to maintaining their family. Melanie’s talent as an artist helped secure a job in an airplane factory painting icons on the P40’s that rolled off the assembly line. Two years into the wa... Continue reading ...
Mail carrier Louise came to Oahu to start over. In the comfortable life she has built for herself, there are no surprises. She likes it that way. One day, while delivering the mail, Louise notices something wrong. One of her elderly customers, Mrs. Santos, is missing. Mrs. Santos lives alone and has no close family or friends. Even after Louise alerts the police,
she can’t stop worrying. Has Mrs. Santos fallen? Is she suffering from amnesia? Was she assaulted while walking to the store? Lou... Continue reading ...
AMMON'S HORN (Savant 2011) asks implicitly: When male verses female ego, in a case of love verses lust, which is the greater jackass? When the threat is a sexy little bitch ready to bring the financial world down about the world's ears, and her mentor is the god Apollo (Phoebee) in human guise; when the wager with his sister Didi (Aphrodite) says Phoebee will bed the bitch or, failing, spend a year as lackey in a Hollywood cathouse; when an army of acolytes on either side includes a scienti... Continue reading ...
The protagonists in my book, WHO'S KILLING ALL THE LAWYERS? are based on a couple of Special Operations Executive (SOE) agents I met during the cold war in Vienna, Austria, a few months after the end of World War II. My unit had moved from Italy into Austria to augment other units searching for fugitive Nazi’s mingling as Austrians citizens. Several of us were trained by army intelligence to not only seek runaways, but to fraternize with the general population and gather information for coun... Continue reading ...
On April 27, 1974, a young mother named Chan Kim is forced into the Killing Fields, where her baby girl dies. Why her child deserved to die remains the question at the center of Chan Kim’s search for love and hope throughout the novel. Who can help her somehow accept the injustice done to her? After surviving the Killing Fields, Chan Kim is summoned by Amery, a powerful spirit who claims that Chan is blessed with the psychic ability to change humanity’s destructive trajectory. Chan Kim is... Continue reading ...
WRETCHED LAND describes the passionate love, intense suffering and the miraculous survival of one family who lived in Ukraine through the hardships of World War One, the Civil War and World War Two including the famines of 1921, 1932-33 and 1947, and the cruel, Stalinist era. The story is fictional, interwoven into the fabric of Ukrainian history. The love between Dmytro, an impoverished aristocrat turned farmer, and Khrystina, daughter of a wealthy landowner, carries their family through the... Continue reading ...
Faced with the death of his best friend and artistic co-conspirator, the unraveling of his business, and the onset of debilitating illness, the author must summon all his resources to find a healing path. This involves asking unwanted questions , embarking on a medical paper chase, and inspection of what is truly important in his life. Through a series of serendipitous adventures, quixotic dramas, and a diligent practice of mindfulness, he begins to uncover a path with heart, imagination... Continue reading ...
Not many people have had multiple wives AND husbands, as I have had, so MY TWO WIVES AND THREE HUSBANDS may be an eye-opener. Mae West once said to me, “I owe it all to dirty living!” and in her case, as well as mine, it’s not just funny, it’s true. That is, if “dirty” means “unconventional." I believe people were meant to enjoy life, and I've tried to share my sense of joy, discovery and wonder in this, my love story. In addition to my human loves, I was also been ensnared by t... Continue reading ...
Introducing David B. Seaburn’s Just-Released Novel CHARLIE NO FACE: David B. Seaburn draws from over thirty years experience as a psychotherapist to address some of the most basic human issues: loss, uncertainty, hope, fear, love, joy, seeking, wonder, and more. Seaburn has previously written and published two novels, DARKNESS IS AS LIGHT and PUMPKIN HILL. Seaburn continues his focus on the dilemmas of human experience with his latest novel, CHARLIE NO FACE, a coming-of-age story about an el... Continue reading ...
With the departure of Rich’s sexy former au pair, Rich Cameron is left to find a love among his peers – first a sweet sister-like friend, and then a girl who changed in one summer from a needy adolescent into a voluptuous young woman. Both girls are attracted to Rich, one for his friendship, the other for his sudden celebrity when one of the boy wonder’s songs is picked up by a popular rock star. What develops in this strange, challenging year in our young man’s life is a closer b... Continue reading ...
Nearly 50 years after her death, Marilyn Monroe remains one of the most popular public figures of all time. Thousands of fans still talk about her on websites and in chat rooms, her image appears on an endless stream of commercial products, and artists and authors recreate her in their imaginations. Why are we so enthralled by the memory of this woman? Why does she exert such a powerful pull nearly a half century after her death? In part, of course, it is because she was both extraordinarily ... Continue reading ...
This second in the Savant "Color-Me-Please" book series is a fantasy full of adventures packed with illustrations to be colored by youngsters six to twelve years old. MYTHICAL VOYAGE: TALE OF THE WHITE PONCA is a multilayered story that demanding active participation from young readers and their parents. Written to challenge the mind and re-kindle the magic that exists in all of us, it is, ultimately, an individual journey replete with wide-eyed curiosity, exciting discoveries and ... Continue reading ...
Scot
Anthony, a young a lawyer on the cusp of making partner at a major Dallas law
firm, faces the biggest crisis of his young career: Someone is killing off the witnesses in his lawsuit with the
federal government. The only way
to smoke out the killer is to force the case to trial, even if that means
sabotaging reasonable settlement efforts–but the trial is aborted in
mid-stream when two more witnesses are killed.
Trying to put the case behind him, Scot and his wife take an
impromptu vacati... Continue reading ...
I think of Perilous
Panacea as being a techno-thriller in the genre popularized by Tom Clancy (note: I have no illusions about being another
Clancy—at least at this time). It
is based on today’s headlines, about nuclear terror set in the not-too-distant
future, involving Iran’s pursuit of nuclear weapons. It entails stolen plutonium and uranium and the clandestine manufacture
of atomic bombs within the U.S. and all the chaos emanating from such an
incident.
There have been other boo... Continue reading ...
Instead of focusing on what’s wrong with our education
system, including the arguments between non-profit and for-profit, online and face-to-face
learning environments, and the many other political dynamics which are nuanced,
heated, and topical, FALLLING BUT FULFILLED: Reflections on Multiple Intelligences focuses on what, in this writer’s
estimation, is the most important story in education: the story of learning.
FALLING BUT FULFILLED is a gentle book filled with the
personal stories o... Continue reading ...
Posted by Daniel S. on Tuesday, September 28, 2010,
In :
PreRelease
Back in the late twentieth century, media stories speculated about how organized crime or terrorist organizations could acquire enriched uranium and plutonium by hijacking trucks transporting it around the country. Stolen bomb-grade nuclear material could then be turned into atomic bombs by terrorist countries or terrorist organizations. The Atomic Energy Commission, which later became the Department of Energy, reacted to the critic's concern by beefing up security of storage sites and transp... Continue reading ...
I am happy to announce the release of my newest book and my first work of fiction. Although I’m pleased to have book praise from such folks as the directors of the Cousteau Society and the Algalita Foundation, I think the best endorsement comes from my anonymous proofreaders annotation sent to the publisher along with the final proofing markups: "It is a well-written, well-edited book, in my opinion. I also think it is an excellent read, full of vital information that everyone needs to be aw... Continue reading ...
Posted by Daniel S. on Wednesday, September 8, 2010,
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After nearly 35 years of acclaimed non-fiction books, chapters and articles on topics related to wellness, education, adventure, psychology and Indigenous worldviews, Four Arrows, also known as Dr. Don Trent Jacobs, presents his second work of fiction, LAST SONG OF THE WHALES (Savant, 2010). His first non-fiction, ground-breaking children's book, HAPPY EXERCISE: AN ADVENTURE INTO THE WORLD OF FITNESS FOR CHILDREN, was published in 1978. Over the years, this author's visionary publications hav... Continue reading ...
Whether for or against abortion, everyone has feelings about this issue, and with good reason: abortion speaks to the human condition like no other—the issue of freedom. MY UNBORN CHILD is the story of one woman’s struggle for personal freedom. Cassie O’Shaunessy loses her faith, her husband, and her unborn child, and she is so bereft with guilt that she wants to take her own life; but she has an experience with the Soul of her aborted daughter Seana that lifts her spirit to new heights... Continue reading ...
Twenty years ago, the seminal idea for MY UNBORN CHILD rushed into my mind with unprecedented ferocity when I read an ad in my hometown newspaper. A local parish priest offered a reward to “the first scientist of any discipline who can prove in the cold light of pure science that a little person begins to be a person at some moment other than the time of his or her conception in the womb.” My belief in reincarnation was so deeply ingrained that I was offended to the core by the priest’s... Continue reading ...
WILLIAM MALTESE'S FLICKER: #1 BOOK OF ANSWERS is the second book WILLIAM MALTESE has written for SAVANT, and is the first in an eagerly anticipated FLICKER teen-angst, candle-reader, vampire, werewolf, shape-shifter, demon, dragon, witch, warlock, tree-spirit, shadow-people, chimera, series of books that takes place in and around the central Washington State scablands town of Flicker. The geographical region in question has been, since the Earth’s very beginning, the origin of all the planet... Continue reading ...
Readers, thank you for taking the time to read about my new novel THE JUMPER CHRONICLES: QUEST FOR MERLIN'S MAP, the first in a series of books that follows the life of a boy and his friends as they explore their world of wondrous creatures hidden from the view of most poor mortals - a world created by the Nordic Gods Thor and Odin - a world of witches, hairy beasts and adventure. All my life I wanted to contribute to the fantasy world that Lewis, Tolkien and Rowling built, a world where tal... Continue reading ...
Who will enjoy my newest book, POOR RICH? Ages 15 and up: Teens, young adults, adults, gays, non-gays, parents, non-parents, those who have ever been in love with a supermodel (from afar, or even up close), those who have been tormented by peers, those who agonized through high school, those who breezed through high school, physically challenged, socially challenged, those who enjoy a good story, many good stories. If you fall within any of these categories, POOR RICH will prove titillating... Continue reading ...
POOR RICH is the story of 14-year-old Rich Cameron, an asthmatic, extremely allergic, brilliant nerd with a gay father and a homophobic step father who has only remained sane and functional because of therapy with a caring psychiatrist and the companionship of an irreverent parrot named U2.
That is, until the day all his allergies suddenly disappear. POOR RICH chronicles his life after allergies, as he escapes his bubble and joins the outside world. POOR RICH explores the moment in every ad... Continue reading ...
HAWAII - The very word evokes visions of Paradise–white, sandy beaches; swaying palm
trees; silver waterfalls; hula girls; Mai Tais; and luaus.Each year,
millions flock to the islands to soak up rays, splash in the surf, play golf,
and lounge around luxury resorts. But beneath the surface of this tourist
Mecca, a simmering resentment threatens to boil over at any moment as a proud
people, the native Hawaiians, find themselves servants in their own home, waiting hand
and foot on these white ... Continue reading ...
Posted by Daniel S. on Tuesday, May 25, 2010,
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Professor Charlie Cain has been sent by the U.S. Senate to investigate the various sovereignty groups in Hawaii and bring back a recommendation on controversial legislation pending in Congress that may recognize Native Hawaiian rights. But when Charlie turns up missing, and is later found dead, his former student, law professor Erin Hanna, travels to Hawaii to hunt for his killer and to finish his work. She joins forces with Hawaiian detective Tommy Kanahele, who has zeroed in on a prime su... Continue reading ...
It's time to 'book' your reservations to visit rural Wisconsin
through the eyes of Emma Benson and David Schlosser in Gloria Schumann's newly-released
book—CALLED HOME - TWO HEARTS ANSWER.
Rolling hills, dotted with grazing dairy cows, friendly
neighbors, nosy relatives, quaint farmhouses and all the residents of
Brooks, Wisconsin, await your arrival with great anticipation. Come and find out
why Emma and David felt 'called back' to their roots, why the vision of their
respective futures ... Continue reading ...
Posted by Daniel S. on Monday, April 12, 2010,
In :
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Called Home - Two Hearts Answer is the perfect escape for
romance lovers. Brooks, Wisconsin is waiting for visitors. Emma and David
recently returned to the farming community for reasons of their own and would
love to share their experiences with you. They invite you to surround yourself
in the rural atmosphere of central Wisconsin and find out what brought Emma and
David back to their roots and the basics of a people-focused life.
It's easy to identify with Emma's sense of responsibility ... Continue reading ...
I am thoroughly excited about the release of THE BAHRAIN
CONSPIRACY. No other novel describing terrorist activities has even
considered the heinous scheme depicted in the novel, yet it is an entirely
possible plan. That is what makes it so thrilling; the realism, the threat, the
on-going war against terrorism contributes to the believability of the story.
I know readers will identify with the impulsive Lt. Rob
Anderson who learns how to control expressing his emotions as well as the
unusual,... Continue reading ...
What would you do if your child came home from school one day and told you he’d been repeated beaten up by a bully? Would you go to the school to complain? Would you go to the parents of the bully? Would you go to the police, or would you take matters into your own hands?
 Steven Goldman handled it the only way he knew how and got arrested. But the story really begins over 35 years ago. At 12 years old he and his family moved from a quiet neighborhood in Toronto Canada to The San Fernando V... Continue reading ...
Posted by Daniel S. on Monday, December 21, 2009,
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“Today I Am A Man” is a fictional work based on fact about a 12
year old boy whose family moves from the bleak and wintery climes of Canada to
the sizzling hot culture of the fabled paradise of Los Angeles, California, in the early
60’s. The music of The Beach Boys and The Ventures were siren songs beckoning hopefuls... Continue reading ...
My collection of woodcuts entitled "The Interzone - A Man
of the Dark Grey," after almost a year in production, has just now been released by Savant Books and Publications. The works in my book were completed between 2005 and 2008. In
creating the book, I was myself pleasantly surprised that while the
foci, presentations and media changed over time, my interest in
portraying people in relation to today's big-city world didn't. By the
way, the title, "Interzone," was inspired by a rock band na... Continue reading ...
Posted by Daniel S. on Sunday, November 1, 2009,
In :
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SAVANT’s November
2009 release DARE TO LOVE IN OZ catapults author
WILLIAM MALTESE back into mainstream romantic/adventure
fiction 
“It was like returning to my home country after having lived
abroad for several years,” says internationally best-selling author William
Maltese in regard to his writing of S... Continue reading ...
Posted by Daniel S. on Monday, September 28, 2009,
In :
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The Village Curtain is an amalgamated collection of fictional stories and sketches, populated with imaginary characters, set in the coastal communities of Jamaica. Considerable effort was made to realistically convey conditions and methods employed village fishermen observed by the author during more than forty years of experience in the field. The pieces gradually introduce a range of “types” which frequently populate these sea front areas. Characters drift in and out of the narrative a... Continue reading ...
“TROPIC OF CALIFORNIA” - A SYNOPSIS by author R PAGE KAUFMAN “ Tropic of California: The Strains of Strauss” is a slowly unfolding satirical romp through Southern California with the definitive tragic character of the "new" 21st century, Alan Strauss. This twenty seven year-old, divorced ex-shoe salesman is a true life survivor, temporarily down on his luck, yet persistent as he is suddenly lifted up to a high executive position of a national seafood restaurant chain only, by a gran... Continue reading ...
Press Release (PRLog.com): Savant Books and Publications LLC, Honolulu, Hawaii, publishers of significant books and enduring media for the 21st century, is pleased to announce the world-wide release of Daniel S. Janik's newest children's book, "A Whale's Tale." "A Whale's Tale" chronicles the adventures of a juvenile humpback whale on his way from Hawaii to Alaska and back as told by his childhood sweetheart. "A Whale's Tale" is written specifically for adults to read aloud to children, and f... Continue reading ...
Posted by Daniel S. on Thursday, June 25, 2009,
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Pre-Release Announcement Hello Children's Book Fans! It is my pleasure to announce the impending release of Daniel S. Janik's hotly anticipated " A Whales Tale."
A delightful 92-page children's story with 20 black and white,
pen-and-ink illustrations by celebrated artist and illustrator Ruth
Janik, "A Whales Tale" recounts the adventures of a young, juvenile
humpback
whale on his way from his birthing grounds in Hawaii to Alaska and
back, as told by his childhood sweetheart. "A
Whales Tale" is ... Continue reading ...
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