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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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CALLED HOME - TWO HEARTS ANSWER Arriving Soon!

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 ...
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Dare to Love in Oz? - You Bet!

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...


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