Hot-Rod Magazine
Quinn Remington is waiting for his friend, Kim Wong, to get ready to go to a Drag Show, and finds the next months’ edition of Hot-Rod Magazine—an Adult Magazine— on Kim’s coffee table. Flipping through the rag, he freaks out when he discovers pictures of people he knows. Will Quinn confront them, or keep his knowledge of what they did a secret? What would you do?
As you know if you’ve been following this blog, I created “ePubnationwide.com” in 2011 to help people who didn’t want to learn how to do it themselves, get published.
I met Truman Godwin when we both belonged to the Plainview Writers Guild back in 1995.
He moved to Lubbock before I did, and after I started ePubnationwide, he wanted me to publish his books.
Truman died December 4, 2020 and his wife didn’t want to deal with his books, so I moved his eBooks from his Smashwords account to mine. Now, when you click on a link to my books at Smashwords, you’ll see Publisher Info, and his books under Publisher of “Newest”.
Since hindsight is 20/20, I realize now that I should have put them under my “Non-Adult” books account at Smashwords, since they are all non-adult. I’ll see if I can move them over there at a later time.
However, since Nancy isn’t interested in keeping his website up, I did move it to my site here. Click the button under his picture to be taken to his page here, so you can see his books and be taken to where you can purchase them.
Merry Christmas 2020
& Happy New Year!
Halloween Night
Free for a limited time
November 27-December 1, 2020
Book 1: Halloween Night—Shane decides to stay at his Great Great Grandparent’s old abandon, four-story house that appears to be right out of a scary movie for Halloween night and discovers that a friend of his is already there—in the bathtub.
Contains Adult Content. You must be 18 or older to read this book.
Halloween Night/Golden Locket Collection Series
I have re-released the Halloween Night/Golden Locket collection series. The nine-book collection is available on Amazon Kindle and Amazon KU only.
These do contain adult content and you must be at least 18 to read them.
Even though they are Halloween themed, they do cover Thanksgiving and Christmas.
“Have you ever flown to the top of a rainbow and slid down it into the pot of gold?” Sterling asked Jonathan while they were sunbathing on a quilt floating three feet off the ground on Jonathan’s virtual beach.
Find out what happens when Jonathan does it in, “Golden Locket: Mercury in Retrograde” Book 8 in the collection.
Happy Halloween
Halloween Night/The Golden Locket Collection Series
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"The Dead Can't Rest"
In 2007, Mrs. Eloise Cunningham, fifteen year-old, Eric Ramsey’s best friend and “Third Grandmother” as he called her, died of Leukemia. While helping his mother and Mrs. Cunningham’s son, Evan, close the house, Eric discovered Mrs. Cunningham was still there. No one could see her but Eric and didn’t believe him when he told them she was there.
In 2008, due to other people reporting they’d seen her looking out the window and also walking in the garden, the Whispering Pines Daily Times talked Evan into letting them partner with local businesses and anyone who would spend Halloween Night, all night, in the house, would receive one thousand dollars. However, no one has ever spent the entire night.
Now, in 2012, Eric is a sophomore in college and he and four freshmen decide to take the challenge. Eric rushes up to the house to ask Mrs. Cunningham what is going on, and discovers she is looking forward to the night and is concerned Eric will spoil her fun.
Ms. Annabelle Florence is a medium, who has never seen a ghost before, but has talked the local TV Station, WPTV Channel 43, into letting her have a segment on the Ten o’clock News called Investigating the Paranormal with Ms. Annabelle Florence.
Join Eric and Ms. Florence as they find out why, The Dead Can’t Rest.
Mathis in the Plainview Daily Herald
Lifestyles article
Going through a stack of papers the other day, I found this newspaper article.
In September of 2012 I had already moved to Lubbock, and Mary Byrd was the only member of the Plaiview Writers Guild living in Plainview, so we decided to close the Guild.
Carole Bell. of The Witness Writers took over our “time slot” for her group meetings.
Here, Carole Bell of The Witness Writers, and Mary Byrd and I, along with Texas High Plains Writers member, Bernice Simpson, attended a Witness Writers workshop in Plainview.
Author shares tips with Witness Writers
The Article
Author: Gail M. Williams | Lifestyles Editor
Section: News
Sunday, September 16, 2012
A man walks into a bookstore. “Where’s the self-help section?” he asks the clerk. She shrugs and replies, “If I tell you, won’t that defeat the purpose?”
Jennifer Mersberger uses that joke as an example of situational irony in her workshop, “Lighten Up! Nine ways to make your writing more relatable,” which she recently presented to Witness Writers at First United Methodist Church.
The group she spoke to were no strangers to irony, nor to helping themselves for that matter. They were in various stages of every writer’s dream — getting published. Some write successful blogs or columns, others are in negotiation with book publishers. Most were from Plainview, but some drove from Amarillo.
All of them were intense, educated listeners that wanted to hear what Mersberger, the author of two Christian books, had to say about improving their writing by using humor.
About the Presentor
Mersberger, 39, considers herself a Christian writer who happens to be funny, rather than the other way around. Her current book “One Size Fits All: How to Wear God’s Word,” published by Light Point Press, reached No. 15 in the Christian book genre on Amazon.
Unlike many writers, Mersberger didn’t grow up dreaming of being an author.
“I enjoyed English, but I didn’t start writing until I was an adult,” she said. Her first book “Parables of the Master Storyteller” began as a Bible study that she conducted just three years ago. A friend suggested that she have it published.
Mersberger lectures using worksheets with writing samples, both good and bad, that come from sources as diverse as Phillip Roth, author of “A Plight Against America,” and William Goldman, who wrote the movie “The Princess Bride.”
She is particularly hard on Philip Roth for a 100-plus word sentence and passes on some advice an early writing mentor gave her: “Don’t describe the wallpaper unless there’s blood on it.”
An example of humor as a coping mechanism comes from a real-life friend. “As a woman gathers the hair she lost from her chemo treatments, she says, ‘That color never looked good on me anyway.’”
After the lecture comes the time writers both long for and dread — the critique session. The writers break up into two small groups of four and five. Some have brought along copies to share, while others read their samples aloud or have someone else read for them.
Those who critique are gentle but firm, frequently alluding to Mersberger’s nine rules. Wouldn’t it be better to start in the middle? Is there too much detail here? The ones being critiqued question and scribble notes for later revisions.
At some level, most writing comes from personal experience, and Mersberger urges the writers to be “transparent.” When questioned about what that means, she said it means to be honest, to share your own experience.
However, she cautions, too much honesty can turn some readers off. In fact, one of her blog readers recently dropped her site because Mersberger was honest about her own display of anger during a family incident.
Mersberger recommends journaling and says she writes in her own journal every day.
“For me, journaling is very cathartic — that’s why I encourage people to do it. Sometimes it’s hard to see what God is doing in your life. Then I’ll read something I’ve written and say to God, ‘Oh, now I see what you’re doing.’ ”
Mersberger said she hopes her children will read her journals someday, “but that’s not why I write them. I do wish my parents would have done it for me.”
Mersberger lives in Newark on the outskirts of Fort Worth with her husband and two children. She is currently leading a new Bible study with three different women’s groups.
“Women’s ministry retreats have a different wave of creativity and shared insight that fuel my creative fire,” she said.
To read Mersberger’s blog and learn more about her, go to www.lamplightministries.com.
Witness Writers meets from 10 a.m. to noon on the second Saturday of every month at First United Methodist Church, 1001 W. Seventh St. in Plainview, Texas.
Followup
Since I located this article, I have attempted to contact Carole Bell with no success. I have talked to Mary Byrd, and she hasn’t talked to her, either. She also doesn’t know if The Witness Writers group is still meeting.