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Interview with Tom Wood

Author of Vendetta Stone

Tom Wood is a former sports writer and copy editor for The Tennessean, Nashville’s daily newspaper. Since his retirement, he has continued to contribute freelance articles for several news outlets. He is also an actor and has appeared in several episodes of the ABC series Nashville. His prior literary work includes a piece for the anthology, Filtered Through Time, and as a contributor of an interview for Feast of Fear: Conversations with Stephen King. Continue reading

One for the Road 

By David J. Mather

Uno para el camino does not have the same meaning as Frank Sinatra’s “One for My Baby and One More for the Road.” Tom Young, or Don Tomas, as his Chilean friends know him, is a Peace Corps volunteer sent to an impoverished region of Chile to help with reforestation and the building of a road. A recent college graduate from the Boston suburbs Tom’s motives for joining the Corps are not entirely altruistic—he also wants to avoid the Vietnam War and the Peace Corps gets him a draft deferment. Continue reading

Interview with David J. Mather,

Author of One for the Road

David served in the Peace Corps in Chile from 1968 to 1970, and his experiences there provided the background for this novel. After the Peace Corps he started a successful specialty lumber business that sold rare domestic woods nationwide. He has traveled extensively, especially throughout Latin America. Continue reading

A Billy Sunday Kind of Love

A Psychic Socialite Story

By Jane Sevier

If this opening line doesn’t grab you nothing will. “When Calpurnia Waters volunteered to let the Amazing Waldo make her disappear, she never dreamed it would be for good.”

Ms. Sevier’s second novel of the Psychic Socialite series jumps right into magic, murder, and mayhem. Many of my favorite characters from Fortune’s Fool return and we are introduced to a new group of marvelously mysterious players, each with a set of questionable motives. Continue reading

Interview with Jane Sevier,

Author, A Billy Sunday Kind of Love,

A Psychic Socialite Story

Jane is the author of Fortune’s Fool, the first novel in the Psychic Socialite series and a 2010 finalist for the coveted Romance Writers of America Golden Heart Award. Jane loves travel and has lived in Dallas, Paris, Washington, D.C., Austin, and Nashville. An 8th-generation Tennessean, she will always be a true child of the South, no matter where she hangs her hat. Continue reading

Woman of the Land

Mary, Mother of The Christ 

By Louise Draper Colln

The story is told in the first person by Mary, the mother of Jesus Christ, and begins with her reminisces of a childhood experience. The reader is immediately introduced to the ever-present threat of the Roman army to Israelites as cross words are exchanged between Mary’s father and a Roman officer.

Ms. Colln rapidly walks us through the daily life of women and children during the period and takes us to the surprising reaction of Mary’s parents to the announcement her carrying the child of God. Disbelief in a virgin conception leads to fear of stoning for the sin of adultery. And what would be the reaction of her betrothed, Joseph? Continue reading

Interview with Louise Draper Colln

Author, Woman of the Land

Mary, Mother of the Christ

Louise is the author of five nationally and internationally published books. Four of them have been reprinted, three in anthologies. She writes both historical and contemporary books. Her poetry and short stories won statewide contests and have been published in national magazines. Louise served as editor for a genealogy magazine in Missouri and for the Middle Tennessee Scottish Society Newsletter. She was secretary to the Council For The Written Word, Middle Tennessee Scottish Society, and the governing board of the Tennessee Writers Alliance. Continue reading

First in a Field of Two 

A Junior Tennis Memoir

By Barry Buss

If you thought tennis was a dainty game then you don’t know tournament tennis. It’s a shark tank where only the winner survives. If you want to put your child into junior tennis tournaments then make sure he or she has a very strong self-esteem. The game only rewards the winner. But this memoir is about much more than junior tennis; it’s also about parental mistakes and teen drug and alcohol abuse. Continue reading

Interview with Barry Buss

Author of

First in a Field of Two

A Junior Tennis Memoir

 A tennis prodigy, Barry Buss and was selected for America’s Junior Davis Cup team, a scholarship athlete and member of the UCLA tennis team. Mr. Buss currently conducts tennis clinics educating families concerning the environment of junior tennis. Continue reading

Baden-Powell’s Beads 

By Paul D. Parsons

Dr. Parsons takes a bit of history, a pinch of magic, a hint of mystery, a large dollop of suspense and throws them together in the mixing bowl of his imagination to create a page-turning novel that entertains the reader from the opening sentence to the final page.

His story opens with a Prologue describing the horrific scene of an 1888 battlefield in South Africa. Black flies swarm over the bodies of dead Zulus. The scene is an attention getter and introduces the mystical beads and how Baden-Powell obtains them. Chapter One opens in Langley, VA, in 2005 with two Homeland Security Agents assigned to investigate a cryptic message from an unknown source regarding a link between the beads and ritualistic killings. Continue reading