“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 ...
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 ...
 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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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,
In :
PreRelease
“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 ...
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 ...
“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 ...
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