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Fog Island Flowers
by Tonya R. Moore, 2008
Science Fiction
Paperback
268 pages
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Fog Island Flowers is one of Tonya Moore’s first forays into the self-publishing world. It’s what I would call a true diamond in the rough. Full of errors an editor would have caught (improper use of paragraphs and many missed and misspelled words), this is a story I couldn’t help but read.
The first book in the Cassandra series, Fog Island Flowers introduces the girl-god Cassandra Baron. A story about her parents, the technologically derived Anel and her half-human mate Jonathan, Fog Island Flowers chronicles Jonathon Baron’s return to his ancestral home and the madness that follows. A study of how advanced alien races rise and fall as gods to the lesser beings with whom they interact, the book enthralls.
How shall I put this? I’m a fan of Tonya’s later works, especially Pandora’s Lament, yet had I not known her I would still have given Fog Island Flowers a complete read. Don’t get me wrong, I believe the author owes it to herself and her future readers to go back and have this book properly edited and rewritten (I’ve had to do this with my own first novel, Tonya). But I have to tell you, Fog Island Flowers is a marvelous story.
If you’re someone interested in new and talented authors, and you can get past some substantial flaws, give Fog Island Flowers a try.
Copyright © Clayton Clifford Bye 2009
New novel stresses the importance of family values
by Todd M. Pree
Author, attorney, teacher and hospital CEO Paul Taylor draws from life experience and entertainment news to explore personal growth and responsibility in Rehabitation.
In Rehabitation, the world of a young man from a well-grounded, Midwestern family literally collides in a traffic accident with a young woman, once a child star from a dysfunctional Hollywood family, who is trapped in a pattern of self-destructive behavior. After determining that the actress was behind the wheel of the car, the boy’s father, a prosecuting attorney, offers the young woman a surprising lifeline-no jail time, provided she can live with his family, caring anonymously for his comatose wife for one year. The lessons learned and discoveries made during the tumultuous following year bring changes and growth to both. One must discover love as a daughter before she can become a woman and an actress, and the other must move beyond his father’s voice and find his own as a man and a writer.
Inspired by his own wife’s recovery from a serious stroke, Taylor infuses personal elements into a narrative that switches between a proto-screenplay, a coming of age novel and a son’s letter to his father. During his wife’s rehabilitation, Taylor’s oldest son suddenly announced he was dropping out of college to attend film school in Hollywood. The resulting juxtaposition of Midwest and Los Angeles culture provides the background for this novel about the value of family relationships.
“Today, many people are not well grounded in a network of extended family relationships, and, as a result, contact with others often becomes a collision instead of a true connection,” Taylor says. “Those collisions with other lives are too disconnected, too discrete to form a basis for real human relationships; therefore, it is important people recognize their responsibility to those whose lives intersect with theirs. We can’t save the world, but we can make an effort to save that part of the world that touches us directly.”
EXCERPT
[CHAPTER ONE]
FIRST DRAFT
Rehabitation is available for sale online at Amazon.com, BookSurge.com and through additional wholesale and retail channels worldwide.
About the Author
Paul Taylor received a bachelor’s degree in English literature from Dartmouth College, a master’s degree in literature and a law degree from Missouri University. After law school, he worked as an attorney in private practice and as a city attorney. He is currently the chief executive officer and chief legal counsel of Ozarks Community Hospital and resides in Webb City.
Home for an Angel by Ron Fulner, a children’s book of help and hope
Home for an Angel is the story of Timothy, the littlest angel. Timothy has a dream to help an earthly family who is considering adopting a child, but has to follow his heart and believe in himself before his dream, and the dream of this earthly family, can be realized. So, with the help of his friend, the angel Michelle, Timothy sets upon a journey of hope and encouragement that hopefully, with a little bit of faith, ends in a Home for an Angel.
Delightfully illustrated in watercolor, Home for an Angel utilizes the concepts of hope, faith and encouragement in the discussion of adoption. Being the father of an adopted child, Mr. Fulner understands the intricacies in explaining to a child the “why’s” of adoption and it is this understanding, and the desire to help other families, that propelled Mr. Fulner to tell this tale.
Home for an Angel is available for $20.00 plus shipping/handling only at http://www.homeforanangel.com/.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Ron Fulner, a Houston DE resident, is an up and coming children’s book writer who is currently working on the sequel to a Home for an Angel. Mr. Fulner has been involved in the Green Industry for over 30 years and is an Army veteran. For more information about his books, himself, or to schedule an interview, please visit http://www.homeforanangel.com.
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