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My publisher, Second Wind, opened a brick and mortar bookstore, Barnhill’s, in Winston Salem, North Carolina. Barnhill’s features all Second Wind titles
as well as titles of other independent presses. They also sell wine, tea and gifts.
Second Wind Publishing, LLC, is an independent press that produces quality novels by talented authors with readable, distinctive voices. Each author
is chosen to be a part of the Second Wind family based on his or her ability to
tell a wonderful story.
A dozen writers were carefully selected during their first year of operation,
and several more have been selected as they continue to grow. I am fortunate to be one of those.
Check out the Second Wind Web
site for some of the best authors you haven’t read … yet.
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| Tina Westbrook at a booksigning for Letters From Alcatraz |
Tina Westbrook is the author of Letters from Alcatraz,
Return to Alcatraz, Cloak of Sanity
and Coffee with the Devil. A gifted writer, she’s also a fabulous photographer
and a beautiful person. I hope you’ll check out her work.
I met Terri Kirby Erickson through Facebook and I admire her poetry. Her poetry has won awards. She’s also one beautiful person. Her books of poetry,
Telling Tales of Dusk and In the Palms of Angels are available from
Press53. Telling Tales is a fine collection of poetry that is both accessible as well as moving—nothing too abstract.
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| Terri Kirby Erickson (photo courtesy of Superieur Photographics) |
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| J.B. Kohl |
Joy Leftow
is a poet of merit I met on Facebook. Talented, she writes of topics other poets would never
dream of exploring.
Jothy
Rosenberg
I met
Jothy several years ago when a former colleague of mine was doing a story on him for LuxEsto,
the Kalamazoo
College alumni magazine. A two-time cancer survivor—by the time
he was 19, he’d lost one leg and part of a lung—he was at that time writing a memoir that would become Who Says I Can’t. I had the privilege as well as the pleasure of working on the first draft.
As an editor, it’s easy to line edit, fix errant grammar and punctuation, typos, suggest passages to delete or
that need to be reworked; but it’s difficult, for me at least, to point out the weaknesses in a text—in Jothy’s
case, that he sometimes came across a trifle arrogant in relating his story. I’ve never been faced with an illness like
cancer, so I can’t say that maybe he was justified in thumping his chest, but I wondered if readers might not be turned
off by his “voice.” And so I told him. Jothy took my commentary like a trooper, better than I would’ve had
I been in his place.
So he set about making revisions and began submitting his manuscript to agents and publishers. He was met with several
rejections and asked me if he should self-publish—Jothy is inpatient and wanted his story out there. I advised him his
story was worthy of a traditional publisher and to persist. As a two-time cancer survivor, Jothy knows a thing or two about
perseverance.
Eventually Who Says I Can’t landed a home with Bascom Hill Publishing
Group, and it’s being met with great acclaim. Jothy and his story have appeared in the Boston media since its release late in 2009.
You don’t have to be a cancer survivor or patient to find Who Says I Can’t
an inspirational story.
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| Theodore Odrach |
Theodore Odrach was an émigré writer living in Toronto, Canada from
1953 until his death in 1964. He authored several novels and books of short stories in the Ukrainian language. Wave of
Terror, published by Academy Chicago Publishers, and translated by his daughter, Erma Odrach with an introduction by T.F.
Rigelhof, 2008, is his first novel to appear in English. It details the harsh realities of living under Josef Stalin’s
regime.
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A resident of Northville, Michigan, Stephen Sommerville’s photographs
have won contests and been published. His artistic eye has captured the essence of France, Scotland,
Canada, Mexico and Michigan. On top of that,
he managed to make me look presentable for my Web site as well as on my book covers.
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