Michael Collins currently resides within the Bureau of Prisons.
When not writing he earns .37 cents an hour as a GED and Computer Applications tutor.
As a free member of society he attended Nashville State Technical Institute, Tennessee State University, East Tennessee State University, and the University of Tennessee. The award-winning author misses his cat and looks forward to 2017.
A dozen years of higher education have left Eric McCormick content with mediocrity, possessing no ambition beyond peddling high grade marijuana and nodding out on his couch. Life grows jealous of his non-participation and employs cannibalistic bacteria and judo chopping federal agents to attack his heart, Eric dodges the blow with help from Oxycontins, prosciutto, and big city heroin, but the move proves too much for his patched heart.
This debut novel — based on true events and written from inside a United States Penitentiary — brings the consequences of heroin addiction from the unseen shadows of college campuses into the leisurely shade of an afternoon read.
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RICHARD BLAHUT is the author of numerous poems and short stories, including “Poor Georgie” and “Mind at Large.” He is also a blues-based lyricist and composer; many of his songs, including ”Blue-Collar Draft Beer,” play a role in Undersong, his debut novel.
A graduate of Columbia College Chicago, he lives in the Printers Row neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois.
Steve is a world-renowned rock musician with a complicated past who struggles with personal demons and addictions. During the rise of his bands, Ripe and The Deep Six, he and his bandmates undergo many trials and transformations.
Through a series of events and setbacks, including many examined from the vantage point of memory, Steve becomes enlightened and overcomes his troubled circumstances. Still, his life takes complicated and unexpected turns. Dealing with tragedy, drug and alcohol abuse, and the unpredictable characters in Steve’s life, Undersong is a series of ebbing and flowing rock-and-roll episodes.
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Born and raised in the San Joaquin Valley of Central California. Pam has always had a vivid imagination. She has been interested in the supernatural and the sexual content of a good book– so she combined the two in Circle of Lust — from the shocking to the totally unacceptable. Pam lives with her husband in Porterville, California.
Elizabeth fell in love instantly with the blond, beautiful specimen of a man. That is when her horrors began, she just didn’t know it yet. This is a book of lust, hate, horror and evil. Obsession, madness and drugs play a big part of the story not to mention sex and depravity. Elizabeth can not escape, there is no way out of this hell pit. Ride this emotional roller coaster to see how she survives.
ISBN – 978-1-935607-09-0
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Nescher Pyscher lives in a haunted house with a woman who’s far better than he deserves, their two-year-old son, two cats and a million ghosts. He wants to spend the rest of his life telling stories. Nescher believes in God, magic, true love and the inevitability of the ineffable. His stories are about the lies we tell each other and the things we really believe. He wants to spend the rest of his life telling stories whether people listen or not.
The Library is pleased to present “It Itches! An Evening with Nescher Pyscher” on Tuesday, Feb. 14, at the Crossroads Branch. The program begins at 6:30 p.m. and includes a talk, along with a question and answer time with the author.
WHEN: Tuesday, Feb. 14, 2012, at 6:30 p.m.
WHERE: Crossroads Branch, 63500 Byesville Road, Cambridge
For further information regarding this or any other adult programming event, contact the Main Branch at 740-432-5946, Crossroads Branch at 740-432-7536 or Byesville Branch at 740-685-2236.
Currently living in Virginia, Jack Wilson is Professor Emeritus of English at Old Dominion University. He has taught American Literature in Morocco and in Spain as a Fulbright Lecturer.
His major interests are exploring ideological systems, writing and European travel, preferably in Spain and the French Pyrenees.
Barry Vass was born and raised in Ontario, California. He was educated at Cal-Poly, Pomona and U-Hawaii, Manoa. For the past 27 years he worked in various Las Vegas casinos dealing blackjack, roulette, Pai Gow, baccarat, Carribbean Stud, 3-card poker, and as a floorman. He currently resides in Lancaster, Ohio.
His third novel, the sequel to Free Money, is called Another Day In Paradise and will be released in August of this year by Whiskey Creek Press.
His forth novel, Portals, is a sci-fi thriller with illustrations by Alexandra Nys of Australia. It is scheduled for release in January, 2013.
Edith M. Baer received her Masters Degree from Hunter College in New York and worked as an elementary school teacher and reading specialist.
In her spare time she enjoys poetry, classical music, art, archaeology, spiritual healing, bird watching, and love of nature. She lives in Maryland with her husband Robert.
WWII: Rememberances, Observations, Perspectives
J. K. Nail lives in Indianapolis. He’s an active community member and enjoys a weekly get-together his retired pals.
Driving on the Wrong Side of the Road
Born and raised in the United Kingdom, Michael Britton trained as a Mechanical Engineer and worked inthe exciting field of cement manufacture before being uprooted and relocated to the United States in1996 by his employer.
He lives in Birmingham, Alabama, married to Southern Belle, Pamela, and works in the equally excitingbusiness of quicklime manufacture. Michael has had several technical articles published in cement trademagazines and enjoys anything to do with aviation, walking in the woods, and listening to teenager’s rock music.
As an aged professional, Dale has an inquisitive mind which has been obsessed with the meaning of life and our place in the universe. After graduating from the University of Nebraska with a doctorate degree, he has been wandering in the mountains of Wyoming for thirty years contemplating the great questions.
To some, this may seem like chasing rainbows, but to this author, it was the challenge of a lifetime. Spiritual concepts were closely examined in the glaring light of scientific knowledge, and basic, common-sense conclusions were
