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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
 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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 :
PreRelease
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 ...
Posted by Daniel S. on Sunday, November 1, 2009,
In :
PreRelease
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 ...
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