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 Tim Bascom, member from Topeka, shares the following book news: I'm excited about the design for my new collection of short stories--Continental Drift--which is now available for pre-orders from Main Street Rag. I've learned to not be shy, since people won't know otherwise. You can save $7 if you order now. Just click this link, and I'd love to hear what you think of these stories about travelers crossing paths between the U.S. and eight different nations in Africa.
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Member Gretchen Eick (Wichita) shares a current Kansas read by Paul Lamb (Overland Park).  Paul Lamb (Lamble) is a Kansas author from Overland Park with two wonderful novels that are part of a series. ONE-MATCH FIRE is about a young working class family raising a son amidst from the wife's better off parents. It is about a father's love that begins with setting aside his dreams to marry the girl he loves and raisetheir surprise baby despite constant struggle. A cabin in the Ozarks built by his father is his lodestone and the place he was taught to be a person of integrity and a good man. Their son is different from his father and critical of him as he charts his own path and becomes a doctor. David Clarke's and his wife navigate learning that their son and the cabin is their haven as they learn about each other as adults. A beautiful, moving story. Book 2 PARENT IMPERFECT is the story of son Curt and his partner Kelly and the child they eventually adopt. It continues the saga of family connection despite differences and readers are intrigued to see how Curt comes to appreciate both his child and his father. The story is moving and readers will care deeply about this family and whether it will survive. The child Curt and Kelly adopt is "on the spectrum" and unusual but very creative. Type A Curt has a lot of growing to do. Lamb's ending is gripping and powerful. Both novels are available at bluecedarpress.com or from your favorite book supplier. (Barnes & Noble, Amazon, Kobo, WalMart online) both paperback and ebook format. Remember that authors benefit more when you buy from indie presses directly. $20 each --Gretchen Cassel Eick, author of Finding Duncan, The Set Up: 1984, They Met at Wounded Knee, Dissent in Wichita, Where is Ana Amara?, Maybe Crossings, & Dark Crossings What are you reading? Help us lift and share the good news about Kansas literature. Tag your book loves and reviews on social media with #ReadLocalKS and submit here to be posted on the Kansas Authors Club website.
Member Deborah Linn (El Dorado) shares her thoughts on The Last Rancher, a contemporary western novel by member Robert Rebin (Indianapolis, IN).  You know that feeling when you join a friend's big family Christmas or Thanksgiving? You are an outsider but are suddenly privy to all the inside jokes and one-liner snarks and back porch smoking sessions and cemented traditions, and it all seems a little too much and not ever enough all at the same time? You feel that maybe you shouldn't be plopped down in the middle of it, but you also experience this unique sense of warmth, so you don't want to leave? Maybe ever? That's the experience of reading Robert Rebein's The Last Rancher. The Last Rancher is one of the those character-driven stories that stays with you past the pages. It's the story of three adult children who, due to a medical emergency, are forced to face the reality of aging parents and end up examining the passage of time in their own lives--the passing of dreams and expectations and promises made to self and others. Adult children Michael and Annie are summoned home to the ranching community of Dodge City, Kansas where their stubborn father, Leroy; their steadfast mother, Caroline; and their baby brother, Jimmy (Oh, Jimmy, Jimmy, Jimmy...smh...) live. Leroy is in the hospital, possibly dying. Michael must take the financial reins while Annie takes the actual reins in order to keep the ranch alive. Jimmy, even though he still lives in Dodge, has too much baggage to come anywhere near anything that looks like reins. Returning home subjects Michael and Annie to a more realistic view of their lives. Sort of like returning to your old elementary school where everything seems smaller, dirtier, and maybe even a little distorted, Annie and Michael wade through what what perceptions to keep, what to correct, and what to leave behind. The reader can't help but to look inward and wonder the same things about his own life. As much as this is a character-driven family drama, The Last Rancher is more than that. The author works magic with time and place. The reader is drawn in both by the realistically flawed characters and the portrayal of Dodge City, a modern town holding desperately onto the glory of a past that, in reality, wasn't always so glorious. Dodge City was and is a place where it's sometimes hard to tell the heroes from the bad guys. Michael, Annie, and Jimmy struggle with this same problem in their own family, even with their own souls. It turns out that Dodge City, Kansas is the perfect setting for a story full of characters searching for a hero and a direction and a home, and maybe even a truth. There's a little bit of something for every reader in The Last Rancher--sports, cars, horses, violence, romance, drugs, religion, action, introspection, legal drama, family drama, car chases, affairs, loyalty, and love. If you like the Yellowstone series on Netflix, you'll love The Last Rancher. If you like stories with strong female protagonists, you love The Last Rancher. If you like falling in love with bad boys--or bad girls--you'll love The Last Rancher. What are you reading? Help us lift and share the good news about Kansas literature. Tag your book loves and reviews on social media with #ReadLocalKS and submit here to be posted on the Kansas Authors Club website.
Member Tracy Million Simmons, Emporia, writes about her latest Kansas read, Clocked Out by member Anna St. John, Haysville.  Clocked Out is the second book in the Josie Posey Mystery series by Anna St. John. I had every intention of reading Doomed by Blooms, the first book of the series (a 2024 Kansas Notable title!) but I was shopping at Watermark in Wichita and this one, a signed copy, was on the shelf, so I grabbed it! This is a cozy mystery, and the protagonist is very much the type of person I admire and can relate to. She's a journalist, retired from her big city job and now living in a small town in the great state of Kansas. As much as figuring out the mystery, watching Josie put her skills to work for the local police department when a talented young clock maker dies, I really enjoyed learning about the art of making clocks! Horology is a subject I had not spent a lot of time contemplating before this book. I love when a good read includes some educational bonus material. I appreciated Josie's friends, her relationship with the police chief, and the fact that's she's got a blossoming love interest. This is a very enjoyable book and I look forward to seeing what else is in store for Josie in future editions. --Tracy Million Simmons, Emporia, author of Tiger Hunting, a novel, and A Life In Progress and Other Short Stories. What are you reading? Help us lift and share the good news about Kansas literature. Tag your book loves and reviews on social media with #ReadLocalKS and submit here to be posted on the Kansas Authors Club website.
Michael D. Graves, member from Emporia, shares about his current Kansas read, The Wasp Queen, by Julie Stielstra, member from Ellinwood.  The Wasp Queen (Little Fox Books, 2023) by member Julie Stielstra, Ellinwood. ISBN 9798987569702 A kind queen is possessed by an evil spirit. The king and his princess are frantic. A lady’s maid knows what happened, but who would believe her fantastic tale? A wasp lurks in the shadows. A dog barks the truth - if only humans spoke “woof.” Julie Stielstra weaves a cunning tale of deceit and revenge, leaving us on edge until we reach the happy ending. Or do we? --Michael D. Graves, author of the Pete Stone series What are you reading? Help us lift and share the good news about Kansas literature. Tag your book loves and reviews on social media with #ReadLocalKS and submit here to be posted on the Kansas Authors Club website.
 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE EMPORIA, KANSAS: Meadowlark Press is pleased to announce the newest children’s title on the Meadowlark bookshelf. The Heights of Love, a poem by Boyd Bauman, illustrated by Onalee Nicklin is about the lengths a father will go to for a daughter. A little girl’s request for a bunkbed, so that her daddy doesn’t have to lean down so far to kiss her goodnight, leads to lofty dreams. When “she longed for a bunk bed tall enough she could nest in that tree,” her father’s love compels him to comply. Soon, the girl is sleeping among the clouds and stars. But is she satisfied? The 32-page illustrated book is a great bedtime story for daddies and dreamers. Bauman grew up on a small ranch south of Bern, Kansas, his dad the storyteller and his mom the family scribe. He has published two books of poetry: Cleave and Scheherazade Plays the Chestnut Tree Café. After stints in New York, Colorado, Alaska, Japan, and Vietnam, Boyd now is a librarian and writer in Kansas City, inspired by his three lovely muses. The book is illustrated by Onalee Nicklin, best known for her fantasy or “storybook” pencil drawings. The illustrations were done with graphite pencils and colored pencils. Onalee lives in a small cottage on a farm near Emporia, Kansas, with her husband, her cat, and numerous species of wildlife. She is the illustrator of the Kansas Notable Book (2022), Ava: A Year of Adventure in the Life of an American Avocet, story by Mandy Kern, and the author/illustrator of To Hide a Hazelnut. The Heights of Love is available through www.meadowlarkbookstore.com and wherever readers buy books. Meadowlark encourages readers to support their nearest independent bookseller by purchasing this and all books locally. ### Boyd Bauman and Onalee Nicklin are both members of Kansas Authors Club, District 2.
Paul Lamb (D2) was recently interviewed at Whispering Stories about his new novel, Parent Imperfect, and his writing life.   Pre-order is now possible for Duane L Herrmann's ninth book of poetry. Release date in 9 Aug 2024. The link is: https://bit.ly/4ck9Q8O  If you have news of writing events that would be of interest to all Kansas Authors Club members, or if you are a member (dues current) who would like to announce an achievement, please submit your news via this form.
 EMPORIA, KANSAS. Dodge City native Robert Rebein’s debut novel, The Last Rancher, a family saga set in southwest Kansas, will be published by Emporia’s Meadowlark Press on June 7, 2024.
Giving voice to the contemporary American West, The Last Rancher follows one family’s quest to survive on the demanding and starkly beautiful High Plains. Doing so will require the Wagners of Sawlog Creek to come together as never before to face stark challenges in the present as well as the long and lingering shadows of a tragic past. When a near-fatal accident befalls rancher Leroy Wagner on the eve of the annual wheat harvest, his daughter, Annie, a Ph.D. student in western New York, and her older brother, Michael, a Kansas City attorney, are summoned home to Dodge City and the Bar W Ranch. Their city-born mother, Caroline, and rebellious younger brother, Jimmy, join the effort to save the ranch and what remains of their family ties. Never far from any of their minds is the looming specter of Wade, first-born son and brother who died too young. What happens next will determine the future of the Wagner family and the land that has defined them for nearly a century. Will Leroy recover from his injuries? Will Annie take over the ranch or return to New York? Will Michael quit his corporate job and finally strike out on his own? Will Jimmy realize his dream of escape, or will a run-in with the police land him in the Ford County Jail? Early readers have praised the novel’s authentic Kansas setting and characters, its understated humor—a trademark of Rebein’s previous books—and its graceful rendering of land and animals, especially horses: “Love and horses, whiskey and weed, land and money: The Last Rancher has it all.” — Kyle Minor, author of Praying Drunk “Rebein’s characters are so real that I would swear I know them. I was hooked from the first page to the last.” — Cheryl Unruh, author of Gravedigger’s Daughter: Vignettes from a Small Kansas Town “I loved this book. A family drama with humor and heart, The Last Rancher gives you the prized shotgun seat and guns the gas. You’d be wise to buckle up.”— Sarah Layden, author of Imagine Your Life Like This “Dodge City, Kansas, has found its bard. His name is Robert Rebein, and his debut novel, The Last Rancher, showcases an assured new voice of the contemporary American West.” — Will Allison, author of What You Have Left About Robert Rebein Born and raised in Dodge City, where his family has farmed and ranched since the late 1920s, Robert Rebein is the author of two previous books set in Kansas: Dragging Wyatt Earp: A Personal History of Dodge City (Swallow Press, 2013) and Headlights on the Prairie: Essays on Home (University Press of Kansas, 2017). Both books were named Kansas Notable Books by the State Library of Kansas, and Headlights on the Prairie was a finalist for the High Plains Book Award. A professor of English at Indiana University Indianapolis, Rebein lives in the historic Irvington neighborhood of Indianapolis with his family and two ornery beagles. About Meadowlark Press Meadowlark Press, LLC is an independent publisher specializing in books by authors from the heartland. Tracy Million Simmons, owner and publisher, founded Meadowlark in 2014. In its first 10 years, the press has published dozens of books of poetry, fiction and nonfiction, including five Kansas Notable Book winners, a winner of the High Plains Book Award and a winner of the Midwest Book Award. This has been a good spring and I’d like to share my news. First, an excerpt titled “Damned Chickens,” from a longer story I wrote, was published in the “KAC 2024 Yearbook,” Page 94. Second, my story “Wait for Me” won first place in the Blue Cedar Press contest and will be published in the anthology “The Love Book.” Third, I won two first-place certificates for stories submitted to the 2024 Kansas Voices Writing Contest sponsored by the Winfield Arts & Humanities Council. They are “Everybody Eats at Neila’s” in Science Fiction/Fantasy, and “Dick Banal: The Quick and the Dread,” in Mystery. The two stories were published in the anthology of winning stories “35th Annual Kansas Voices Writing Contest 2024.” These are my first published fiction.  A charming collection of stories and poems about different forms of love. Entries selected by independent judges for inclusion. Great for gifts!  Eleven Directions explores what must be one of the world’s quirkiest lessons in orienteering, which perhaps explains how Gilkeson negotiated the real-life experiences that made these stories possible. Questions abound: What’s behind the mystery of his father’s missing uvula? Are these stories real or fictional? Are they memoirs with more than a few embellishments? It hardly matters because they hold the power to entertain and even enlighten us, the way good stories should. The titles of Gilkeson’s narratives by themselves lure us in. Where, exactly, is Topeka on the Danube, and who are the members of The Green Tea Cult? Who are Ms. Transylvania and Mr. Haircut? All of these stories deliver wonderful reading experiences. Gilkeson’s narrative voice creates the illusion that he’s right there with us, enjoying our pleasure in the stories he tells.  Publication: 1 September, 2024 Published by Tenacity Press Edited by Denise Low and Hal Zina Bennett $15.95, Paperback ISBN: 978-1-892193-02-5 For media inquiries and review copies: Email: [email protected]. Web: www.jimgilkeson.com Phone: (707) 696-2768  I just released the Ruriksaga on the 14th of May. It's a companion volume to the 4 fantasy mystery novels starring Edward Aethelredson already available. Here's the link to the whole series: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CCKWZKYQ  From Book 1: “Rob mixes intrigue, murder, and magic into his own cool blend.” – Larry Correia
Edward sought a future of honor and hope, but only got murder and mayhem. He came to the Empire of Makhaira to join the Imperial Guard, who admit only the best. Instead, he pledges his sword—and his life—to an innkeeper rather than the emperor. In a land known for intricate plots and ancestral enmities, the empire’s corruption seeks to end his life with knives in the night and hidden treachery. And he must face these blades while memories of a father slain, a king defied, and oaths broken threaten his soul. Can he find the one bringing schism, death, and hate before that steel tastes his blood? Or will be just another who came to the empire to lose everything?  Poetry that warms the heart in places where the sun forgot to shine. With eloquent finesse, Irsik explores the bonds between mothers, friends, and nature. Inviting readers to discover the divine in life’s smallest moments, Irsik provides a heartfelt connection to the human spirit to brighten the hidden corners.. In a collection dedicated to her younger self, D.A. Irsik shares words that evoke images of life, love, and belonging. … a nostalgic look at how the simple parts of life are, in the end, most important. —Curtis Becker, author of My Second Act and Greetings from Topeka. Sunshine in the Weeds is a lyrical odyssey into the human heart, where love, faith, and nature intertwine. … a journey from shadows to sunshine. … Her poetry gives emotional flight to those precious single life moments between mothers and daughters, mothers and sons and close friends and family members. Irsik’s poetry warms the heart in places where the sun has forgotten to shine. —Liz Martel … While the vast array of poems in Irsik’s collection reflect sunshine, she shares a smattering of weeds that allude to darker aspects of a woman who, while looking outward, comes to better understand the internal. —Ronda Miller, author of five poetry books including MoonStain, and the award winning children’s book, I Love the Child. With an honest and heartfelt voice, D. A. Irsik explores the dimensions of faith, loss, personal accountability, wonder of nature and creativity … the overall theme the reader is left with is the spark of magic, the sense of possibility and sorrow that can be found in the mundane. —Brenda White, author of Blue Collar Saint, which won the Kansas Notable Book in 2022. She also has been published in 105 Meadowlark Reader and the Write Bridge. … Irsik’s evocative words honestly portray the rawness and despair of grief, yet leave the reader with her personal sense of hope, encouraging each of us to take a little gut-check of our lives right here, right now. —Marcia Lawrence, journalist, photographer, stockbroker, editor, corn de-tasseler, musician, and mom. She is a lifelong scholar of regional history, an author, and a passionate researcher. Thank you, D.A. Irsik for sharing your sunshine. This deeply personal gift reflects the giver: thoughtful, generous, kind, motherly, beautiful in word and in fact. Your devotion to life and love glows in every word. —Jerilynn Jones Henrikson, has produced eight books for kids, a humorous memoir, a YA novel, and a creative nonfiction novella  Dugan’s poetry collection, A Record of Change, is a tapestry woven with the threads of age, love, and the poignant weight of loss. The author’s words remind us that vulnerability is the wellspring from which true metamorphosis emerges. Join Dugan on a voyage, where the soul’s evolution is illuminated through powerful writing that challenges, heals, and ultimately celebrates the resilience of the human spirit. "Attuned to the bluesy frequency of both inner and outer life, Dugan gives us a prescription. In this case, it is his poems—full of grit and softness, darkness and light. Give it a listen. It will help." —Kevin Rabas, Poet Laureate of Kansas (2017-2019), Improvise  Dugan’s debut collection explores the evolution of the soul when age can no longer be used as an excuse not to change or when the pain becomes too great to remain the same. These poems reflect the rigorous self-examination it takes to reinvent yourself. Through love, grief, and loss The author does this, while never losing sight of his collective humanness.
 Roy Stucky has been a member of Kansas Authors Club since 2017. He has served on the state board and as a leader at the district level. Roy is currently publishing with Barnes & Noble Press.  2010 - Transapparent: A Novel for Three-Dimensional Christians (a literary novel) Follow people lost upon the flat Earth of human wisdom to their encounter with Jesus alive in all dimensions. These layers speak in lyrics as well as prose. Though He accepts the simple, God is not simple. "Behold, I send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves: be therefore wise as serpents, and harmless as doves." Matthew 10:16 It was an age when everything was known but nothing understood. Choices multiplied; decisions withered. Roadblocks were shattered but the maps were burned. In such an age, our own, the traveler found it easy to move but hard to arrive. In such an age, our own, truth was worshiped yet denied. This is the story of a search for the foundation in a land where all bedrock had been pounded into sand. This is the story of a restoration.  2018- Truth War: A Play In Three Acts (a stage play) Enter the history of a nation destroyed by civil war. The point of conflict? The nature of T(t)ruth.  2019 - Library Dog: A Novel for Gifted Youth (a teen novel) Fraternal twins are surprised to meet a dog who lives in the local library. Their ideas about intelligence, and its limits, will be transformed.  2022 - Revelation: Keycode of the Bible (theology) Revelation's multitude of cross-references weave it firmly into the context of the Bible. This Revelation keycode unlocks the plan God hid in plain sight throughout the Word. Most of this book is Scripture text. No need to look up hundreds of related verses. This book displays cross-reference passages right after their Revelation verse. All you need do is read and understand. Instead of a "sword drill", focus on the patterns of Revelation's Biblical context. Revelation can key a core study of the entire Bible.  2023 - Dragons Drown and Other Musicals (stage plays) Four Musicals: Dragons Drown, Grounded, Every Sixty Seconds, Six of Me  2023 - Per Eyewitness: A Novel of Jesus (historic novel) A Novel of Jesus drawn from a harmonization of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John. No single Gospel conveys the full richness pictured in the Bible, an intensity beyond any invention two thousand years after the eyewitnesses were murdered for their testimony. Authors bent on "fixing" this testimony take away but even worse add things of their own. Let Jesus speak.  2023 - Sans Taboo: Poems by Roy Stucky (poetry)
Works in this volume are disdained by modern poetry for the crime of rhythm and rhyme. Far worse, in some eyes, many works also prize the Lordship of Jesus the Christ. Beware. Here there be outlaws.  Jet Dreams Take Flight
Imagine the sleek Learjet streaking across the sky in this high-flying adventure! Picture yourself zooming through the clouds as young readers discover the trailblazing history of the world's fastest business jet. This book's about talented people who had big dreams and just knew they could make them real. Meet inventor Bill Lear and engineer Dr. Hans Studer. These visionary founders combined creativity and expertise to make the impossible possible. Their Learjet could rocket across the country in a mere 4 hours! Follow their journey from sketching jet wing designs to witnessing their innovative dream take flight. But it wasn't easy. Yet they never even thought about giving up! Nope, they kept on working, figuring things out step-by-step. Finally, their hard work paid off big time! They made the Learjet, the quickest business jet in the sky. It's so speedy and smooth, it changed the way people think about flying! Readers will take off on an exciting ride through decades of Learjet's boundary-pushing innovations. Learning about the daring pilots who pushed the limits will ignite their own willingness to soar. The Age of Learjet will inspire the next generation of innovators to dream big, believe in themselves, and let their bold ideas take wing!" Aviation experts Dr. Peter Hamel, former Director of the Institute of Flight Systems, and Gary Park, aerospace engineer for over 50 years, stand alone as the definitive Learjet historians. Their insider engineering experience paired with exhaustive research resulted in the comprehensive 456-page book "The Learjet History: Beginnings, Innovations, and Utilization." Dr. Hamel brings decades of leadership in aeronautics programs and research. Mr. Park provides an insider perspective from directly working on Learjet certification. For this adaptation, nobody provides more authority and passion for bringing Learjet's untold stories to young readers. So, why should you read this book? Because it shows that when you've got a dream and you stick with it, amazing things can happen! Ready to make your own dreams fly?  Hazel Hart, member from Emporia, is running a free eBook promotion for Uprooted, the first book in the Hannah True series from March 17-March 20. Here is the link: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09QFH6QVQ Overcoming, the third book in the series, is up for preorder on Amazon and will go live on March 20. Overcoming: The Adventures of Hannah True, Book 3  Order from IngramSpark or bluecedarpress.com  February 1 Reginald D Jarrell, Finding Myron: an adopted son’s search for his birth father A Black man adopted by extended family and raised in a loving home is haunted by questions about the birth father that no one will tell him about. A haunting memoir about the power of DNA connection and the persistent need to know your roots. Jarrell’s story will be helpful for adoptees, adoptive parents, birth parents, as well as youth groups and classes in congregations and social studies classes. Retail Price: $20.00 ISBNs: 978-1-958728-16-1 (paper) & 978-1-958728-17-8 (ebook) LCCN: 2023949737  March 1 G. C. Eick, Where is Ana Amara? [an international thriller] When a Syrian journalist disappears from the London home she shares with her British partner while investigating the treatment of asylum seekers by Britain’s Ultra Party, her partner seeks help from four renegade Members of Parliament and the community of Syrian immigrants. Their search for Ana leads them to an international adoption network, Britain’s retired chemical weapons facility, and a runaway Saudi princess and provokes an international scandal. Retail price: $20.00 ISBNs: 978-1-958728-18-5 (paper) & 978-1-958728-19-2 (ebook) LCCN: 2024930300  March 15 Aida Dziho-Sator, For Me, the War Begins in an Elevator (poems) Aida Dziho-Sator was a child when the Bosnian War began in 1992. She has since become an internationally traveled professor of English Literature who somehow manages to also write exquisite poetry while teaching, applying for travel grants, and raising two children. Her poems are about relationships, memory, being a woman, and internal and external wars. They are truthful, powerful, and even funny. Retail Price: $15.00 ISBNs: 978-1-958728-21-5 (paper) & 978-1-958728-20-8 (ebook) LCCN: 2024930887  April 30 The Death Project: An Anthology for the Living 36 authors from different ethnicities and religions reflect in prose and poetry on losing loved ones and finding a way forward. Includes information on how different religions handle death and how people have coped with deaths from war, from police violence, suicide, murder, AIDS, dementia, illness. Perspectives include a mortician, a New Age spiritualist, a police officer, and women and men from around the world. New edition with added material. A book for congregations, funeral homes, and all those living with loss. Profits from will go to international health care workers. Retail price: $15.99 ISBNs 978-1-958728-22-2 (paper) & 978-1-958728-23-9 (ebook) LCCN: forthcoming  June 1 Paul Lamb, Parent Imperfect (a novel) Pressed by Kelly, newly married Curt and Kelly agree to adopt a child. But Kelly struggles with depression and memories of his family’s abusive rejection of him because he is gay and Curt is uncertain if he can love their unusual son. With the help of Curt’s parents, they work at it, sustained by the cabin in the Ozarks that has for generations been a lodestone for all of the men in Curt’s family. Can they be a family? Can the cabin’s magic include two outsiders, Kelly and their son Clarkson? A moving story of loving and making family in the Twenty-First Century. The sequel to One-Match Fire (2022). Retail price: $19.99 ISBNs 978-1-958728-24-6 (paper) & 978-1-958728-23-9 (ebook) LCCN: forthcoming  June 15 The Love Book: Collected Shorts on Love
Selected poetry, short stories, and memoirs about different kinds of love and loving for your favorite persons. These pieces were selected by judges from a contest held by Blue Cedar Press in 2024. Retail Price: $20.00 ISBNs: 978-1-958728-26-0 (paper) & 978-1-958728-27-7 (ebook) LCCN: forthcoming  Ann Vigola Anderson, D2, shipped and hand-delivered nearly 300 of her Limited Edition, signed and numbered, hard cover copies of The Adventures of Bottle Calf (Meadowlark Press, 2023) this week.
She continues to take orders and expects the next shipment of books to take place early in January 2024. About the Book: Author Ann Vigola Anderson takes us back in time to her grandparents’ farm where Bottle Calf was born during an early spring blizzard. With illustrations by the talented Sara Long, this gorgeous book will be your go-to for holiday gift giving and beyond. Grab a copy to reminisce or to share the stories and gorgeous art with your kids and grandkids. You are going to love Bottle Calf! My novel "One" is available at Trox Gallery and Gifts in Emporia. Also on Amazon.  All of us along for the ride, the little blue dot turns. The first curve of the sun appears, peeking up in the east. Sunlight moves across the Atlantic Ocean, and morning comes to New York City. The air is too hot, too thin, and millions of people struggle just to breathe, to stay alive. The world teeters on the brink of our final war. Traffic fills the streets, and people make their way on the sidewalks. Another mammal is on the sidewalk, a thriving rat dragging a piece of pizza. A woman screams while a nearby man marvels at the creature. “How much food is being thrown away to support thirty million of these mammals? Why are they throwing food away while so many Homo sapiens go hungry?” He snaps a picture of the rat and asks, “Is that pepperoni? I love pepperoni.” This chaotic meeting leads to an unlikely friendship between the man, the woman, and her son. Grace is a physicist, brilliant, beautiful, tasked with calculating entry paths of titan missile warheads—and filled with worry for her autistic son. Androgynous, eccentric Bob doesn’t care what Grace looks like. He makes Grace feel like he’s not looking at her, but into her. He asks unusual questions that make her take a deeper look at her life, “Does your job make you feel hopeful?” Jack, eleven, is uncoordinated, autistic, genius, and afraid he’ll never have friends. Bob sees Jack’s quirks as gifts and recognizes in him the potential to do anything, the future we could have if more people were like him. He takes the time to listen to Jack’s endless questions and answers them patiently. But soon others start asking their own questions about Bob, and there’s a very real chance the world isn’t ready to learn the answers. Can these three unlikely friends convince the world to accept the truth and save us all? Or will they push us over the brink?  If you have news of writing events that would be of interest to all Kansas Authors Club members, or if you are a member (dues current) who would like to announce an achievement, please submit your news via this form.
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