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RIGHT WAY, WRONG WAY...AND LION'S WAY

Posted by Daniel Janik on Wednesday, September 28, 2022, In : New Book Release 
It is estimated that there are more than forty million people today living in some form of slavery. In Africa, you can buy a slave child for about forty dollars. Every hour of every day, somewhere in the world, a child slave dies. I discovered these horrible statistics when pursuing a magazine assignment on chocolate. Obviously this did not fit in a story on truffles, but it haunted me. I imagined such a child, kidnaped from a loving home. I gave this child a name, Lion, and he proceeded to t...

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FINAL RETRIBUTION

Posted by Daniel Janik on Sunday, December 12, 2021, In : New Book Release 

EXCITING NEWS!


My new mystery/thriller, RETRIBUTION, has just been released by Savant Books and Publications.


In this sequel to the award winning THE LAZARUS CONSPIRACIES, Chicago Police Department detective “Mack” McPherson returns to the northeast Indiana lakes community after 23 years to confront those who he believes murdered his brother and others who covered up the crime. When they suddenly become murder victims, Mack is the prime suspect, challenging him to track a dangerous psyc...


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SHEP'S ADVENTURES, THE PERFECT YA ENTERTAINMENT!

Posted by Daniel Janik on Tuesday, October 26, 2021, In : New Book Release 

One particularly glaring weakness that I discovered while teaching in our public schools for thirty plus years is the shortage of really good reading material for preteens and early adolescents.  I am also the grandfather to two boys in that age group, and it is easy to see from that position also. That is why I decided to come out of my usual murder/mystery genre and write this story about my childhood dog and best friend, Shep.


Of course, my Shep could not actually talk, but I often imagin...


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LOVE SURVIVES WORLD WAR TWO (WWII)

Posted by Daniel Janik on Sunday, December 13, 2020, In : New Book Release 

"Secret World War II  Letters Found," screamed the headline in my mind.  


I’d found letters in the home I grew up in, so where could they have been hiding these past 80 years?  And, why did my dad choose to reveal them to me, just a month before his death, and after all those lonely years since hers?  Though questions like these were never answered, this shoebox full of love letters to my mom took me on a journey into the past: the past of my parents and their love affair via letters, and th...


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WILLIAM MALTESE FLICKER'S AGAIN

Posted by Daniel Janik on Tuesday, December 1, 2020, In : New Book Release 

AUTHOR/PROPHET?!


Writing as Christopher Dane in his 1981 book, "Riders of the Dragon," having predicted the 1997 Heaven's Gate suicides that accompanied the arrival of the comet Hale-Bopp ...


Did WILLIAM MALTESE predict the arrival of the 2020 CORONA virus in his FLICKER series [WILLIAM MALTESE'S FLICKER: #1 BOOK OF ANSWERS (2010), and its sequel, WILLIAM MALTESE'S FLICKER: #2 BOOK OF ASCENDANCY (2020)], wherein all the elderly are losing "power," young people gaining power without a clue how p...


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ALOHA LA'A KEA - 2020 SAVANT POETRY ANTHOLOGY IS HERE!

Posted by Daniel Janik on Thursday, July 9, 2020, In : New Book Release 
This year's anthology came into being during challenging times, epitomized by the COVID-19 pandemic. People everywhere are being forced to rethink every aspect of society and their individual lives. Without the selfless, tireless assistance of Savant Books and Publications, this year's anthology might never have risen above the vicissitudes of the times. I also want to acknowledge the devoted assistance of the numerous native Hawaiian and religious poets who helped bring this "praise" work to...
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TRUTH AND TELL: TWO CATERPILLARNAUTS LOOSE IN THE SOLAR SYSTEM

Posted by Daniel Janik on Friday, April 17, 2020, In : New Book Release 
WHOOSH! In the flash of an eye, after being led to a garden by a lying wasp, Truth and Tell, two brave caterpillars, are whisked away from their mother and their homeworld of Insecta, never to see it again! What is Insecta, you ask? It's a planet in the Andromeda Galaxy, and on it are large flowers that contain portals to other galaxies, including our own!  After this fateful teleportation, Truth and Tell are now in our solar system and in search of a habitable planet to call home after not l...

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CRITICAL WRITING: STORIES AS PHENOMENA

Posted by Daniel Janik on Friday, January 24, 2020, In : New Book Release 
CRITICAL WRITING: STORIES AS PHENOMENA (Savant 2020) brings to life many real-life examples of how to conduct a phenomenological case study and program evaluation within an educational context. 


This book helps point out ways to help budding researchers find their own voice within their own research project.  It also helps to teach researchers how to grow from their successes and setbacks from a practitioner's point of view to help save new researchers time and effort in creating a study of t...

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WORTH REMEMBERING

Posted by Daniel Janik on Sunday, December 22, 2019, In : New Book Release 
How does one write about the biggest event in human history...and make it real? How to show the impact of author Anne Frank and her diary on the world? Or, why did so many people follow Hitler?

Working with a cast and crew to bring the answers to these poignant questions and I'LL REMEMBER (Aignos 2019) -- my screenplay-novel -- to life was a daunting task but worth it.


This is the story of a young boy, at the beginning of his awkward teenage years, starting to question and to learn about the ...

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68 VIA CONDOTTI: THE VATICAN SECRET SERVICE

Posted by Daniel S. on Friday, March 29, 2019, In : New Book Release 
The three-book 68 VIA CONDOTTI series featuring Kate Keenan on special assignment with a cameo appearance by Koski and Falk simply had to be written. Years ago, when I visited and toured the Vatican, I was impressed by a nondescript entrance not far from the Spanish Steps marked simply "68 Via Condotti." Ostensibly, the extraterritorial headquarters of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta, I became intrigued by rumors that the Order, with it's extensive diplomatic connections, might be hosti...

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NAVEL OF THE SEA

Posted by Daniel S. on Wednesday, January 30, 2019, In : New Book Release 
NAVEL OF THE SEA (Savant 2019) is a collection of vignettes embedded within a novel about the two writers of the stories, husband and wife, Claude and Marianne, who have retired to live on the Maltese island of Gozo, Italy.  


Each story takes place in a different country during select time periods of history, spanning the golden age of ancient Greece to our modern era, and containing a common thread: unconventional romances. Claude and Marianne, married for 30 years, receive anonymous postcard...

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CLEOPATRA RETURNS VICTORIOUS

Posted by Daniel S. on Thursday, January 17, 2019, In : New Book Release 

The Cleopatra Re-Imagined series continues with Book Two – CLEOPATRA VICTORIOUS! 


Picking up where CLEOPATRA UNCONQUERED (Savant 2015), the prequel, left off, Cleopatra and her lover, Marc Antony have triumphed over their nemesis, Octavian. Antony, as Imperator, or ruler, of Rome, must govern his nation while still presenting it as a Republic, while Cleopatra, as Queen-Pharaoh must govern Egypt while maintaining an uneasy alliance with Rome, tending to her children and building futures for e...


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THE PRINCESS IN MY HEAD

Posted by Daniel S. on Thursday, September 20, 2018, In : New Book Release 

What I like best about THE PRINCESS IN MY HEAD (Aignos 2018) is that both the novel and the screenplay come together in one book.  Young readers can actively participate in the story by reading parts out loud, staging scenes and even creating their own musical. 

Two “princesses” – one in a Renaissance world and the other in modern time - are learning to lead and inspire, each in her own way.  This is a theme I visit in my adult mysteries also: the evolution of personal strength.  The her...


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PRIVATE PASTS, DEEP DESIRES, PAIN, EXALTATION, LOVE

Posted by Daniel S. on Tuesday, July 10, 2018, In : New Book Release 

Come meet these travelers in KINDRED the Savant 2018 Poetry Anthology. Travel with them into their private pasts, deepest desires, their pain, exaltation and loves. Walk with them on roads they've traveled; traversing, diverging, converging…or disappearing into a vanishing point in an uncertain place in past or future. 


KINDRED's poems are the products of nineteen different, outstanding poets, the poets serving as your personal driver into a wide variety of new and exciting realms. Settle in...


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ONE NIGHT IN BANGKOK IS NEVER ENOUGH

Posted by Daniel S. on Friday, June 15, 2018, In : New Book Release 
As he awakens on a plane, Miles Devereaux is confused, disoriented and otherwise oblivious to what has happened to him.  As the plane descends into an eye-popping spectacle of a city that is unlike any other, he soon discovers he has awakened sixty years in the future in the dazzling city of Bangkok.


Soon, he is on a visionary adventure and battle to save himself in a real-life game of chess. Miles is challenged with quickly adapting to an array of ingenious technology and engineering marvels...

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A WINTER SPIDER

Posted by Daniel S. on Saturday, April 28, 2018, In : New Book Release 
San Francisco, 1978, post Viet Nam…'ludes, fern bars, disco, fast money and a hunger for cocaine…

Remy Karras, ex-recon bush marine, drug mule and sometimes bagman for his boss, a go-fer for higher up mobsters, finds himself inside his own nightmare journey when his cousin Jack's attempt at bringing kilos of cocaine back from Lima ignites a savage chain of events. 


Remy's dangerous odyssey in his attempt to help Jack brings him up against a bizarre coterie of career criminals on whose perip...

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ISLAND WILDLIFE: EXILES, EXPATS AND EXOTIC OTHERS

Posted by Daniel S. on Friday, March 2, 2018, In : New Book Release 

     Visitors to the Solimar Guest House in Puerto Rico are experiencing more than sun, sand and sea. They are grappling with ways—often quirky and manic, sometimes violent or profane, but always in what they consider the sincerest terms—to straighten out their off-kilter lives.


     The adventures of the island locals, the political exiles and the ex-pats born, raised in and fleeing from the U.S. are played out in different parts of the island—from the seaside guest house to the...


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BO HENRY AT THREE FORKS

Posted by Daniel S. on Tuesday, January 23, 2018, In : New Book Release 
Bodine Henry, a U.S marshal of the 1870's American west sets out with warrants issued by Federal Judge Roads to hunt down, arrest and transport three criminals to the Judge's court in Kansas City. Soon after Bo begins his quest, he interrupts the hanging of a black man, Daniel Washington Blue, who has been accused of horse thievery by his captors. After an altercation with the accusers during which two are killed, Bo learns that the "charges" were false. He and "Blue" form an alliance to serv...

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ILLEGAL BY ANY NAME

Posted by Daniel S. on Thursday, January 11, 2018, In : New Book Release 
In true E. M. Duesel fashion, ILLEGAL (Aignos 2018) is a rousing venture into the lives of Mexican-American and other undocumented immigrants who live on the border between Mexico and the United States.


Unknown to Americans who are not plagued with this specific kind of prejudice, the Peña family illustrates how difficult it can be as first generation Mexican-Americans in an environment battling vigilantes, hate groups, and Mexican cartels. The story focuses on girls on the border who go mis...
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ALTERING THE FUTURE BY TELLING STORIES - StoryTeller

Posted by Daniel S. on Thursday, October 26, 2017, In : New Book Release 
The universe has its own love story, and it operates by the laws of surprise— divine surprise that is, where realities are created and destroyed for reasons that humanity develops and maintains.


StoryTellers are the agents of this cosmic work, moving through spacetime to collect the Stories of the universe, and occasionally to minimally tend to the catastrophes that may occur due to intergalactic perturbations. Vaks is one of the last remaining, and he may be the last one that you would wan...
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THE THIN LINE BETWEEN REALITY AND IMAGINATION

Posted by Daniel S. on Wednesday, October 4, 2017, In : New Book Release 
A REAL DAUGHTER is a psychological horror novel that offers readers a frightening take on step-parenting and a disturbing testament to the dark forces within us all. 


Following her infant daughter's crib death, Claire Carlin reinvents herself in Los Angeles as a landscape gardener. Meanwhile, she imagines the dead daughter alive—marking her birthdays, Christmas, first day of school—as if the child never died. 

Remarrying, Claire acquires an eight-year-old stepdaughter who is about the same ...

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CHANG THE MAGIC CAT ECLIPSES THE 2017 ECLIPSE!

Posted by Daniel S. on Monday, August 21, 2017, In : New Book Release 

Released the day before the 21 August 2017 total eclipse, CHANG THE MAGIC CAT (Aignos 2017), is an adventure written in an entirely new genre: that of a screenplay novel. Follow Ta Juan Chang, the mysterious, wise, all-knowing cat, in an enchanted mystery filled with human interlopers and usurpers as he works with his friends to find an heir to Briersly Manor and continue a legacy of magic dating back to the age of the Court of Kublai Khan.


With the help of the humans, Allnot and Peter,  Chang...


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AUTHOR NATALIE ROERS ROARS BOTH ABOVE AND BENEATH THEM

Posted by Daniel S. on Friday, July 7, 2017, In : New Book Release 
Derek Fisher is a teenage vagrant with a troubled past. The Scotts are a well-to-do suburban family. Their worlds couldn't seem any further apart, but when Derek takes refuge from the streets and secretly moves into the crawl space under the Scotts' home, their paths are set on an explosive predestined collision course.


Having spent most of my life writing other people’s stories (as an actress, journalist, television news anchor, and now voice artist) it is so refreshing to create my own sto...

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THINGS HEAT UP IN THE SOLAR TRIANGLE

Posted by Daniel S. on Friday, July 7, 2017, In : New Book Release 
Authoring a book like THE SOLAR TRIANGLE (Savant 2017) about Koski and Falk, is a stroll down memory lane with fictional action and some punchy lines added. The saying 'nihil novi sub sole' ('there's nothing new under the sun') from the Biblical Book of Ecclesiastes, never rang so true with this, their sixth adventure. Weather control, or more specifically, solar energy control, has ancient roots. 


The Greek philosopher Plato wrote about the lost continent of Atlantis in two of his books, TIMA...

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SADDAM'S PARROT TELLS ALL AT FLY-IN

Posted by Daniel S. on Monday, June 12, 2017, In : New Book Release 

The idea for SADDAM'S PARROT was largely inspired by two gripping stories about parrots—the documentary film, The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill, and the well known story of Alex, the amazing parrot studied and befriended by the Harvard cognitive scientist, Irene Pepperberg.  

I should add that for most of my professional life I've been an ecologist, fascinated by the nuances of animal behavior and the ways natural systems reach tipping points and crash. I knew that the story inside me invo...


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SHADOW AND LIGHT - 2017 Savant Poetry Anthology

Posted by Daniel S. on Thursday, June 8, 2017, In : New Book Release 

It is my pleasure to present the 2017 Savant Poetry Anthology, SHADOW AND LIGHT representing the best of the best 2017 poetry submissions. 



This year's anthology includes sixty-four outstanding poems by twenty-two poets including, in order of appearance, Rose Seaquill, Bipul Banerjee, Dr. Mike, Doc Krinberg, Jock Armour, Mr. Ben, Emily Anderson, Marianne Smith, Carolina Casas, Cigeng Zhang, Thomas Koron, Mark Daniel Seiler, Dwight Armbrust Jr, Uhene, Daniel S. Janik, Lonner F. Holden, Sara H...


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CEREUS - A DREAM THAT CAN KILL

Posted by Daniel S. on Monday, May 15, 2017, In : New Book Release 

Danny Bennet was adopted, but other than being raised by her two dads, her childhood was as mundane as her friends'. That is, until she learned that her biological parents had passed on the power to enter people's dreams and affect their waking lives. Before Danny has time to start processing this, she becomes the target of a dangerous group bent on stealing her power. They'll resort to anything, even kill, to get it. Love. Lies. Magic. Deceit. Fighting for her life.


"When I s...


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A BODILY REVELATION

Posted by Daniel S. on Sunday, March 5, 2017, In : New Book Release 

IN SEARCH OF SOMATIC THERAPY (Savant 2017) encapsulates the basic fundamental elements underlying dance, eurythmy and the laying on of hands—what I like to call “somatic therapy.” By that, I mean what can happen when humans come into contact with other living things. But it’s more than the somatic experience. It’s about the power to not just heal, but prevent illness and disease in a manner that’s both ancient and new. 


It is my hope that readers will come away with a new perspec...


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THE GUMSHOE - A 1940s NOIR DETECTIVE STORY EXTRAORDINAIRE

Posted by Daniel S. on Monday, February 13, 2017, In : New Book Release 

Chicago, 1947. Private investigator "Matt" McBride runs afoul of corrupt politicians, vicious mobsters  and a trigger-happy Texan femme fatale to prove that the "suicide" of his best friend was murder.  Matt's perilous journey to track down the killer nearly dead-ends in a motor home on a collision course with a cargo plane.


"Fun as it was to write THE GUMSHOE (Savant 2017), researching the story was quite challenging," says Rose. "Since I didn't have H. G. Wells' time machine to whisk me back...


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IN THE SHADOWS OF MY MIND

Posted by Daniel S. on Saturday, January 14, 2017, In : New Book Release 

Everyone knows that small towns hide secrets from outsiders. Whether you left and returned, came from elsewhere to attend college at the small liberal arts and technical university, or are just passing through on your way across the country, there are palpable stories hidden in the spaces between street lights. In IN THE SHADOWS OF MY MIND (Savant 2017), the town of Hazelwood has its share of secrets, even from the man it claims as its small-town hero, FBI Agent Stephen Lanford.


Stephen, a m...


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THE ADVENTURES OF PURPLE HEAD, BUDDHA MONKEY AND STICKY FEET

Posted by Daniel S. on Friday, December 2, 2016, In : New Book Release 

   Like many, I have fond memories of the physical and emotional excursions that took place during my childhood, adventures which required the same kind of risk-taking as the heroine in THE ADVENTURES OF PURPLE HEAD, BUDDHA MONKEY AND STICKY FEET (Savant 2016), namely Purple Head – an alien from another planet. 


   One time, I trekked deep in the woods with my best friend to a large children's slide hidden there. When we arrived, there were several goats roaming around the slide, blocking ...


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FINDING KATE AND FUTURE HOLLYWOOD/BOLLYWOOD

Posted by Daniel S. on Wednesday, September 14, 2016, In : New Book Release 

Hollywood, as I experienced it in the eighties, was already beginning to show it's age. Most of the stars who had made all the great films were either dead, retired, or locked suspended animation somewhere in between. By the time the new "Turks" began taking over, nothing was the same.  


In QUANTUM DEATH (Savant 2016), the fifth in my popular Koski and Falk series, I introduced a character named Kate Keenan, an amalgamation of the characters I met at Screenwriter's school at UCLA, whom I lea...


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LIBIDO TSUNAMI ROLLS ACROSS THE WORLD

Posted by Daniel S. on Tuesday, August 16, 2016, In : New Book Release 
LIBIDO TSUNAMI: Awash with the Droll in Life is a collection of forty short stories exploring human tragedy, drama, vulnerability and adventure. In them, I salute the absurd and quirky in life through humor, using the pen name, Cate Burns, to honor (or defame) the lineage in my maternal family that dates back to the Scottish poet Robert Burns. The stories are grouped into four themes: A Flood of Family, Male Amazements, The Unknown Hawaii, and The Life Divine. From surviving complicated relat...
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NO MORE WAITING FOR "ALL THINGS AWAIT"

Posted by Daniel S. on Wednesday, June 29, 2016, In : New Book Release 
ALL THINGS AWAIT is a story about the brief and chaotic summer misadventure of Lightly—an impossibly good-looking and hopelessly self-absorbed star quarterback from an elite Virginia college. A gifted and unstable synesthete, Lightly sets off with a photo of a remote beach and the help of an unpopular, overweight, and depressed classmate named Santana Montana in pursuit of a secret location where he believes all the parallel universes predicted by quantum theory—and all possible variation...
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A REAL TREASURE

Posted by Daniel S. on Monday, May 16, 2016, In : New Book Release 

There is no pleasure greater than playing with one's grandchildren. When they play and laugh heartily, one's heart skips with joy. The whole house comes alive and the spirits of everyone present soar sky high.

Unfortunately, children also fight amongst themselves. And fight they do with the same passion they show while playing. It takes a few minutes for elders to sort out the dispute and settle the matter. The children repeatedly say sorry, forget about it and resume playing. Unlike elders, ...


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THAT'S ONE BIG HEAVEN!

Posted by Daniel S. on Friday, May 6, 2016, In : New Book Release 

Shoot. He's there. I can see through the window. Not that I should be surprised, for he's always there (at least since my mom died, he is). It means that I'll have to sneak in, try and rush straight to my room in order to meditate.

Let me back up a bit. My name is Maureen (Mo for short); I'm sixteen, but I'm going to be a senior this fall 'cause my birthday's in September, so I'm really almost seventeen; and I've decided, only tonight, that I'm going to be a nun of the Swami Order, which ha...


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KOSKI & FALK #5: QUANTUM DEATH

Posted by Daniel S. on Saturday, March 12, 2016, In : New Book Release 

In QUANTUM DEATH (Savant 2016), the fifth in the Koski and Falk series, the two come up against what very well may prove to be their most complex and dangerous case yet: the Quantum Death Machine.


The product of the fertile late-night imaginations of myself and co-author Raymond Gaynor, the technological "heart" of the story is based on several recent scientific theories. Their application, or, as Koski and Falk discover, "weaponization" is quite beyond anything they've ever experienced. With...
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QUANTUM DEATH FOR ALL

Posted by Daniel S. on Saturday, March 12, 2016, In : New Book Release 

It was an honor and privilege to be asked to join with A. G. Hayes in the continued creation of protagonist Koski and Falk's world of international intrigue. In this fifth in the Koski and Falk series, the two face both a political and technological conundrum of global proportion, which threatens the very foundations of democracy, free trade and capitalism. In QUANTUM DEATH (Savant 2016), Koski and Falk must pursue separate assignments to find the kvantovaya mashina smerti, or Quantum Death M...


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VALEDICTORY

Posted by Daniel S. on Saturday, December 5, 2015, In : New Book Release 
     "Here's to changes," Calvin said. He nearly knocked the bottle from Earl's hand when they clinked.  He downed half the beer in the first swig.
     "Let's burn one," he said. He shook out two cigarettes from the pack in his shirt pocket, handing one to Earl. He lit his own with a match and then blew it out. He leaned in close toward Earl and the tips of their cigarettes touched, one transferring its fire to the one that was not lit.
      Earl wasn't much of a smoker either.  He drew more ...

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CLEOPATRA UNCONQUERED

Posted by Daniel S. on Wednesday, December 2, 2015, In : New Book Release 
What if Cleopatra and Antony had triumphed at Actium over Octavian, the first Emperor of Rome? Would our world have been changed? What would the Middle East, Europe, and, by extension, the rest of the world, look like if the course of Western history was determined not by Rome but by Egypt?


CLEOPATRA UNCONQUERED (Savant 2015), the first of three novels in a series, imagines this scenario. Cleopatra, historically the last queen of Egypt, becomes instead the mother of an Egypto-Roman empire, th...
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CRAZY LIKE ME?

Posted by Daniel S. on Thursday, August 6, 2015, In : New Book Release 

Aren't we all a little crazy?


Have you ever wished to be a fly on the wall of a therapy room? Been curious about other people's lives? Wondered if theirs are as messy as your own? Is everyone crazy, like me?


There's a saying among therapists that we are all a little crazy, and, given the world we live in, this may not be a bad thing. Who doesn't have a wild Uncle Earl who wears mismatched socks and drinks too much at family barbecues? Oh, he's quite lovable, the way he brings stolen lollipo...


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MORE MORE TIME

Posted by Daniel S. on Tuesday, July 21, 2015, In : New Book Release 
“Max yawned and began to stretch, stopping short when the pain in his neck shot down his arm. He walked back into his room, sat on the bed, and then lay back, pulling the sheet up to his chin. He rolled over onto his left side. His head sank deep into the pillow, and he closed his eyes. The events of the day receded into the darkness. His breathing deepened and slowed as exhaustion took over. The room was quiet. A mourning dove cooed outside his bedroom window. Just as sleep was about to ov...
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BALLERINA BIRDIES

Posted by Daniel S. on Tuesday, June 30, 2015, In : New Book Release 

What would the world be like if our children ceased to pursue their dreams? How dismal it would be without their expression! their song, their dance!


"That just cannot happen!
Get up little cutie.
Impressive art takes work,
The world needs your beauty!"

The birds in Ballerina Birdies know how to enjoy themselves, but they also know how rewarding hard work and discipline can be. Birds of all shapes and sizes are included, lest we miss out on anyone's talents. While this book will definitely be a...

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THE STORY OF ELAINE OF CORBENIC

Posted by Daniel S. on Friday, April 24, 2015, In : New Book Release 
Corbenic's valley lay hidden, in a corner of Lystenoys close by the sea, and it was not wholly by chance that any man found his way there, including Launcelot.

It was spring when he came; the hills of the valley were verdant, the gorse yellow all about, and the evening mists fragrant.  She was not looking for love that day…

She was Elaine, daughter of the fisher king and of the lineage of the grail keepers, and the mystery of the grail, the sacred cup that lay within Corbenic's walls, was in ...
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WRITTEN IN THE STARS

Posted by Daniel S. on Wednesday, March 18, 2015, In : New Book Release 
Many people go through life thinking that they are stuck—it might be a lower socioeconomic status, it might be a grueling job, it might be an unhealthy relationship—but even when all hope seems lost, some people can find the spark of hope. It is the singular star in a night sky that can guide the way. Despite the feeling that some things are set in stone, Written in the Stars is an anthology that says no, that's wrong. Nothing is set in stone, and everything can get better. It may take ti...
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THE DR. IS IN...OR IS HE OUT?

Posted by Daniel S. on Friday, September 5, 2014, In : New Book Release 
My newest release, THE HANGING OF DR. HANSON (Savant 2014), already began receiving wide spread interest and acclaim even before it was released. It's the tale of Dr. Hanson Bumgardner, better known as "Dr. Hanson." The story is set in the tumultuous mid-1800's when historic forces were driving the United States of America towards what seemed to be certain self-destruction.



Hanson Bumgardner is an historical figure. Researching his life, especially on the Western plains and during the Civil W...
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IN THE EYES OF THE SON

Posted by Daniel S. on Monday, July 28, 2014, In : New Book Release 
IN THE EYES OF THE SON (Savant 2014) is a fictional novel about a man's struggle to create a place for himself. Like Peter, the protagonist, I spent years building a life that was sound and stable, while trying to achieve success in a field of uncertainties. What I went through since my youth in Holland became the inspiration for Peter's story.



Peter dreamt of life with a camera. His left-wing father, Eduard – a journalist and former WWII photographer – at first supports his son’s ambit...
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"LITERARY MASTERPIECES" AND AUTHOR/BOOK PARTIES

Posted by Daniel S. on Saturday, July 19, 2014, In : New Book Release 
Richard Rose recently hosted a combined author/book release party with great success, his newly released THE LAZARUS CONSPIRACIES receiving accolades as a "masterpiece."



Way to go Richard!  Check out this books great review in the Huffington Post at

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/sugar-rautbord/post_7722_b_5398607.html

and this other great review in Chicago's "I On The Scene" at

http://ionthescene.com/2014/07/11/the-chicago-premier-of-the-lazarus-conspiracies-richard-roses-new-murder-mystery-mast...
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VOLUTIONS

Posted by Daniel S. on Sunday, June 22, 2014, In : New Book Release 
If you read The Paris Review; if you listen to NPR; if Tom Robbins makes your head spin while your heart sinks because, face it, you'll never make woo-woo magic with words the way he does; if Keats, Yeats, Joyce, or maybe T.S Eliot is a favorite, you'll particularly love this year's Savant Poetry Anthology, VOLUTIONS.



Another way of saying this, is if you have ever loved anyone, anything or any place so rightly or so wrongly that it hurt, hated (yes, hated) injustice, or thought poetry ought...
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Living in IMMINENT DANGER with LAWYERS

Posted by Daniel S. on Tuesday, March 11, 2014, In : New Book Release 
When A. G. Hayes' new action-adventure spy book, the third in the Koski and Falk series, IMMINENT DANGER (Savant 2014) was released, I for one, didn't expect it to mirror the mood of today's times and conditions quite so vividly. In the book, a rock-star/religious extremist attempts a 9/11 "comeback" by orchestrating the mass assassination of the world's religious leaders, including the Pope, at an Easter sunrise service at the Hollywood Bowl. Only Koski and Falk, two of Cerebrus' most experi...
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Author Richard Rose talks about the evolution of THE LAZARUS CONSPIRACIES

Posted by Daniel S. on Monday, September 16, 2013, In : New Book Release 

When I first conceived the idea for The Lazarus Conspiracies, I wrote it as a film script under the title “The Lazarus Project.” The script tells the story of a maverick Chicago cop who is so obsessed with seeing justice done that he repeatedly breaks the rules of police conduct in order to catch the bad guys. The script was a top ten finalist in the Illinois/Chicago Screenwriting 2000 Competition.

A few years later I decided to expand the script into a novel. In the process, the character...
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CAN TURTLES DANCE?

Posted by Daniel S. on Monday, August 12, 2013, In : New Book Release 
Hello Children's Book Lovers! 

It is my pleasure to announce the release of the third in the Savant "Color-Me-Please" series, THE TURTLE DANCES. This delightful 80-page children's story with 28 black and white, pen-and-ink illustrations by celebrated artist and illustrator Ruth R. Janik of A WHALE'S TALE fame recounts the adventures of Isla, a Hawaiian Green Sea Turtle, resting on the beach at Waikiki, who notices a dance couple practicing a partner routine for a dance competition. Intrigued,...
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TWO WORLDS TURNED UPSIDE DOWN

Posted by Daniel S. on Monday, July 22, 2013, In : New Book Release 
An exciting new mystery novel by author George Hudson!



In the midst of a secret love affair, passions flare and a murder is committed. The crime, however, is unsolved. Carefully constructed lies and public ignorance hide the truth, and the victim disappears into history. The lives of those behind are drastically changed, but they eventually move on, believing the truth is safely buried forever.

Thirty years later, an old skull is recovered on a dark night by several fishermen from the middle o...
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PARADISE, FOUND, LOST AND REFOUND

Posted by Daniel S. on Saturday, March 9, 2013, In : New Book Release 
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...
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LIGHT AT THE END OF THE TUNNEL?

Posted by Daniel S. on Tuesday, November 13, 2012, In : New Book Release 
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 ...
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ENOUGH DELIGHTFUL CRAZINESS EVEN FOR "THE LOONS"

Posted by Daniel S. on Tuesday, October 30, 2012, In : New Book Release 
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...
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JUMP INTO THE UNKNOWN WITH "CHIMNEY BLUFFS"

Posted by Daniel S. on Saturday, September 29, 2012, In : New Book Release 
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...
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KEYS IN THE RIVER

Posted by Daniel S. on Friday, August 10, 2012, In : New Book Release 


“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...
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SLAVES UNTO THEMSELVES and the need for a TRAVELER'S REST

Posted by Daniel S. on Thursday, June 28, 2012, In : New Book Release 

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...
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POETRY LIVES!

Posted by Daniel S. on Thursday, June 14, 2012, In : New Book Release 
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...
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Alive and Aware, Living Life as It Really Is

Posted by Daniel S. on Monday, June 4, 2012, In : New Book Release 

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...


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RULES OF PRIVILEGE

Posted by Daniel S. on Sunday, May 6, 2012, In : New Book Release 
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,...
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BLOOD MONEY - The Ultimate Collection of Post-Modern Short Stories

Posted by Daniel S. on Tuesday, February 28, 2012, In : New Book Release 
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 ...
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Riots, Rock and Roll, Casual Drugs and Recreational Sex

Posted by Daniel S. on Wednesday, February 15, 2012, In : New Book Release 
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...
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Not-So-Random Views of Asia from the Mid-Pacific

Posted by Daniel S. on Wednesday, February 1, 2012, In : New Book Release 
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 ...
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THE OIL MAN COMETH

Posted by Daniel S. on Thursday, November 10, 2011, In : New Book Release 

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...
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First Call to COMMUNION

Posted by Daniel S. on Saturday, October 1, 2011, In : New Book Release 


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...
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Almost Paradise

Posted by Daniel S. on Friday, September 16, 2011, In : New Book Release 
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...
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Everyone's Blowing AMMON'S HORN

Posted by Daniel S. on Saturday, July 2, 2011, In : New Book Release 
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...
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SO, A. G. HAYES, WHO IS KILLING ALL THE LAWYERS?

Posted by Daniel S. on Thursday, June 16, 2011, In : New Book Release 
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...
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Ilan Herman's CHAN KIM Released by Savant Books

Posted by Daniel S. on Monday, May 9, 2011, In : New Book Release 
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...
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WRETCHED LAND

Posted by Daniel S. on Friday, April 8, 2011, In : New Book Release 

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...
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IN DIRE STRAITS

Posted by Daniel S. on Wednesday, March 9, 2011, In : New Book Release 
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...
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MY TWO WIVES AND THREE HUSBANDS

Posted by Daniel S. on Tuesday, March 1, 2011, In : New Book Release 

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...
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CHARLIE NO FACE Just Released

Posted by Daniel S. on Monday, January 24, 2011, In : New Book Release 
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...
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Richer...and Richer!

Posted by Daniel S. on Tuesday, January 18, 2011, In : New Book Release 
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...
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Goodbye Waiting: HELLO, NORMA JEAN

Posted by Daniel S. on Tuesday, December 21, 2010, In : New Book Release 
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 ...
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MYTHICAL VOYAGE: THE TALE OF THE WHITE PONCA

Posted by Daniel S. on Friday, December 10, 2010, In : New Book Release 
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 ...
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A Book to Read with Manifest Intent

Posted by Daniel S. on Monday, December 6, 2010, In : New Book Release 



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...

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Perilous Times - Perilous Panceas

Posted by Daniel S. on Monday, November 29, 2010, In : New Book Release 
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...
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A Very Intelligent Read

Posted by Daniel S. on Thursday, November 18, 2010, In : New Book Release 
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...
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Savant Books and Publications Announces Release of Don "Four Arrows" Trent's LAST SONG OF THE WHALES

Posted by Daniel S. on Sunday, September 19, 2010, In : New Book Release 
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...
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Orest Stocco's MY UNBORN CHILD Released

Posted by Daniel S. on Monday, August 23, 2010, In : New Book Release 
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...
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Introducing MY UNBORN CHILD

Posted by Daniel S. on Thursday, August 19, 2010, In : New Book Release 
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...
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William Maltese Does It Again with WILLIAM MALTESE'S FLICKER

Posted by Daniel S. on Saturday, July 31, 2010, In : New Book Release 
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...
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W. C. Peever's THE JUMPER CHRONICLES: QUEST FOR MERLIN'S MAP Released

Posted by Daniel S. on Tuesday, July 27, 2010, In : New Book Release 
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...
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Just Released: Jean Blasiar's Newest Work, POOR RICH

Posted by Daniel S. on Saturday, July 17, 2010, In : New Book Release 
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...
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Introducing POOR RICH by Jean Blasiar

Posted by Daniel S. on Tuesday, July 6, 2010, In : New Book Release 
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...
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Mike Farris' Hawaii Murder-Mystery Thriller KANAKA BLUES Released!

Posted by Daniel S. on Thursday, June 24, 2010, In : New Book Release 
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 ...
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CALLED HOME - TWO HEARTS ANSWER is on the scene!

Posted by Daniel S. on Saturday, May 8, 2010, In : New Book Release 
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 ...
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THE BAHRAIN CONSPIRACY Hits the Streets!

Posted by Daniel S. on Wednesday, March 24, 2010, In : New Book Release 
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,...
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"Today I Am A Man" by Larry Rodness Now Available on Amazon.com!

Posted by Daniel S. on Sunday, February 7, 2010, In : New Book Release 
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...
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Tatsuyuki Kobayashi Enters the Interzone

Posted by Daniel S. on Thursday, December 10, 2009, In : New Book Release 
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...
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"Tropic of California" Sails Briskly Out of Port

Posted by Daniel S. on Friday, August 28, 2009, In : New Book Release 
“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...
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Worldwide Release of "A Whale's Tale" by Daniel S. Janik

Posted by Daniel S. on Saturday, August 1, 2009, In : New Book Release 
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...
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