A child’s passion for learning and accomplishment is harnessed to attain peaceful rest, sleep, and sweet dreams. The book is also a joyful outlook on the appreciation of life.

In the first book of Nanu's fables, the story focuses on a little boy named Ari who has a love for balls. This passion is so powerful that he doesn’t want to sleep. A surprise solution unfolds which allows him to keep his passion and get sleep at the same time.

The story is an allegory for the celebration of the simple things in life.

RONNIE SWIRE SIEGEL is a landscape architect who spent her career designing nature-based outdoor play and learning environments for children. Her first book, Displaced, received several awards. Her second book is the first in a new series called Nanu's Fables where she seeks to engage children in a ways to help them grow and thrive individually, and connect with their community and with the earth.

Ronnie received a BA in Fine Arts and Natural Sciences from Colgate University and her Masters in Landscape Architecture from University of Pennsylvania.

She lives with her husband in the chaparral hills above Los Angeles.

Fourteen animals around the world are on a journey for survival when climate change displaces them to bizarre new habitats in this interpretive photo illustration picture book. Each story begins with a brief description of the animal’s habitat and why their current home is at risk. 

A section at the end of the book provides a summary of facts to help answer children’s questions about climate change.

Based in stark reality, but cushioned in whimsical fantasy, this book is intended to evoke action and emphasize our responsibility as stewards of the earth. Young readers will end the book with an optimistic prediction that we can work together to reverse the course of climate change to make our world enduring for all creatures. 

A thought-provoking blend of fantasy and unusual imagery and an urgent call to environmental action. --Kirkus Reviews

Ronnie Siegel considers her life’s work trying to connect children with nature.  Her background as a landscape architect and environmental artist has enabled her to see more acutely than most the everyday effects of climate change.

As a landscape artist, Ronnie has teamed with various groups to reinvent traditional play spaces with a more nature-based focus for urban children.

As an environmental artist, Ronnie recently completed an Interactive Global Art Project called Carry the EARTH, intended to use storytelling to bridge gaps between countries, cultures, ages, and economic divides, and unite people with the common thread that together we can make huge change to protect the planet.

Ronnie received a BA in Fine Arts and Natural Sciences from Colgate University and her Masters in Landscape Architecture from University of Pennsylvania.

She lives with her husband in the chaparral hills above Los Angeles.

The Factory of Maladies is an unflinching memoir exploring the stigma of mental illness, the danger of cults, and family dynamics. Confused and disoriented, Debbie Hartung awakens in a psych ward, her memories fragmented. The Factory of Maladies tells of her seven-day ordeal, a raw and visceral journey through the dehumanizing routines and unsettling encounters within the institution, written with a compassionate tone and dark humor. It also exposes the role family can play in helping or harming a patient in distress. Additionally, she bravely reveals the inadequacies of our current mental health system. Hartung's narrative exposes the disorientation and complexities of mental illness and a quest for healing amidst the chaos of crisis. The Factory of Maladies is heartbreaking, maddening, humorous, and most of all, hopeful.

 Hartung’s courage in writing this book is profound. It is not easy to reveal such raw emotions... it is an important look at mental health and how we treat those we deem to be mentally ill. Her storytelling is spellbinding and riveting, and you will want to stick with the story to find out how it turned out for her. Highly recommended. — John J. Kelly, Detroit Free Press

From the author’s Afterword in the book: “It took me seven years to write The Factory of Maladies because my experience was so intense; while writing, I also processed the PTSD I was experiencing as a result of my hospitalization. I wanted to give up many times...but deep down, I knew that if I completed my memoir, it would be the ultimate catharsis. After I finished and read it in full, I realized that it had the potential to help demystify the preconceived notions around mental illness and also that it might give a fellow sufferer hope and comfort and alleviate feelings of alienation.”

DEBBIE HARTUNG is a San Francisco writer and artist who enjoys traveling and live music. The Factory of Maladies is her literary debut.

Stories collected by Marla McKenna (bestselling author as seen in O, The Oprah Magazine) includingTaking Back My Life One Step at a Time by Scott Melesky

INSPIRING STORIES OF PEOPLE TAKING BACK THEIR POWER! Discover 21 inspiring stories of resilience, where authors share their unique journeys of reclaiming their power. They recount the challenges and external forces that once shaped their lives. These experiences helped them find the strength to heal, embrace self-love, and take back their power. Each amazing chapter offers an abundance of encouragement and valuable tools you can use to Take Back Your Power!

The book features best-selling authors, television, radio, and print personalities as well as eight-time published author, professional speaker, and accomplished 30-year journalist Scott Melesky.

“Job loss, accidents, and illnesses have all plagued me over the past three decades, but I’ve found ways to overcome each of these challenges... On June 12, 2017, I would face my most difficult challenge in my life which I feared would ultimately end it...” – excerpt from Taking Back My Life One Step at a Time by Scott Melesky

CHRONICLES OF TIME TRAVELERS AMONG US

Short Stories by: R. James Doyle, Rogelio Fojo, David Gerrold, RC Matheson, Christopher Priest, Terika Marija Smits, Fernando Sorrentino,  and more!

Desperate to escape their present circumstances, seven outcasts hunt down alleged visitors from the future.

 What happens when we hunt down elusive visitors from the future?

Discover a present where we invite, seduce, trap, love, hate, and even murder... our time-traveling twins.

R. James Doyle (aka Richard J. Doyle) held technical and managerial roles at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) over a career arc spanning forty years, working primarily at the interface of space exploration and computer science, with a focus on autonomous space systems. He was a member of a JPL team that consulted on the Babylon 5 sci-fi TV Series in the 1990s. Doyle had the pleasure of visiting Sir Arthur C. Clarke in Sri Lanka, in the year 2001. He recently published the Young Adult space adventure novel RAISING THE ROOF, part of Hugo and Nebula award-winning author David Brin’s Out of Time Series.

After making his mark as an award-winning journalist and science writer in Uruguay, Rogelio Fojo entered the world of filmmaking, working on productions in Los Angeles and earning a Kodak grant to direct his debut film, Chimera, which won Best Film at the Pasadena Film Festival. In 2018, he directed The Stooge, written by Christopher Priest (The Prestige) and featuring Robert Picardo (Star Trek). Now, he's blending his love for speculative fiction and cinema in a genre-bending sci-fi anthology about the effect of magic illusions in time travel, in collaboration with Doyle.

Out of Time Series YA sci-fi novel edited by Hugo and Nebula Award-Winning author David Brin

Fifteen-year-old Tallulah (Tullie) has a passion for the natural world and sensitivity to the history of her Choctaw people. One day a message appears literally out of nowhere, inviting her to the 24th century!

Future folk are recruiting teens from across time, to travel and explore where adults can’t. Along with a computer whiz-kid, a free diver from 19th century Ceylon, a cabin boy from 1906 arctic explorations, and others, including a Hawaiian octopus, Tullie is tasked with leading her team to an ice-roofed ocean world, many light-years away!

Braving radiation storms, ice tunnels, and lightless watery depths - plus a helpful but unreliable robot - Tullie and her comrades must find a way to protect this amazing world’s ecosystem before it’s too late!

...An imaginative book rich with original and provocative ideas... Doyle’s lifelong JPL career gives him scientific and technological insights that permeate the book and are easily understandable... Many readers will find inspiration, both scientific and human. The book may even be a formative experience for some. – S. George Djorgovski, Professor of Astronomy and Data Science, Caltech

R. James Doyle held technical and managerial roles at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) over a career arc spanning forty years, working primarily at the interface of space exploration and computer science, with a focus on autonomous space systems. He holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science specializing in Artificial Intelligence from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). 

Doyle was a member of a JPL team that consulted on the Babylon 5 sci-fi TV Series in the 1990s. He had the pleasure of visiting Sir Arthur C. Clarke in Sri Lanka, in the year 2001. He wrote the story Disentanglement in the speculative fiction anthology INNER SPACE AND OUTER THOUGHTS by Caltech and JPL authors.

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Based on the award-winning animated short film, this poignant, touching, and uplifting picture book about grief reminds us that loved ones never truly leave our side, and that they can even take shape as tiny, little dragonflies.

When Celine's best friend dies, she decides to wear a dragonfly bracelet to keep her close. After Celine and her family escape a car accident unharmed, she realizes she has lost the dragonfly bracelet. Rattled by the scary and unexpected series of events, Celine determines they must have a guardian angel watching over them.

Dragonflies symbolize transformation from a physical presence to a spiritual one. All too often we lose loved ones only to wonder where they've gone and if we'll ever see them again. In this true story of life, death, and everlasting friendship, Leah Is A Dragonfly Now helps readers cope with the loneliness, sadness, and anxiety we may feel after someone we love leaves us. Leah, now a dragonfly, reminds her best friend that she will always be by her side, even if she doesn't see her, and will always be looking out for her.

"Hi, friend. I'm here with you and always will be."

A heartwarming gift for older children and adults who have suffered loss and want to stay connected to their loved ones.

Erik Foge is an acclaimed writer whose Project Pegasus speculative fiction series is currently under consideration for adaptation into a limited series at Netflix and for theatrical acquisition at SONY.

We Know Your Name

At first glance, Dr. Erik Függer appears to be a mild-mannered curator and tour guide for the National Museum of American History. But in reality, he is a part of the CIA's newly formed O.G.D.S. Team 42, a group involved in infiltrating military installations, obtaining secrets of the Third Reich, and avoiding government-sanctioned assassins on the streets of Washington D.C. As Erik pursues dark truths that he knows could get him killed, he is caught up in a tempest of secrecy and lies - all of which he is forced to hide from everyone he knows.

One Way Roads

Governments can change the past…but at what cost? Dr. Függer is a Senior Analyst for the CIA when his research into what would have occurred had Nazi Field Marshal Rommel lived leads him to be recruited for Project Pegasus, a U.S. time-travel exploration program. However, Erik soon discovers that an alternate plan to kill another highly influential individual has already been set in motion. Lost in the past, it’s not long before he finds himself fighting for his very life against unknown operatives intent on preventing his success and changing the world forever.

Book 3 and Book 4 in the series are recent releases:

Horizons Without Boundaries
In book three of the series, Dr. Erik Függer is sent back to 1940 France during the Battle of Britain to prevent a looming global war in 2012. Tasked with dismantling a Nazi fifth column, Erik confronts forces that aim to sabotage America’s future role in WWII.

Between Methods & Madness

In the fourth installment, set in 1961, Erik is called upon by President Kennedy following a personal loss. Learning that the Normandy invasion in 1944 failed in this altered timeline, he returns to correct the course of history, risking everything to restore the truth.

Erik Foge holds a Bachelor's Degree in History, with an emphasis on Russian history and politics, from the University of Central Florida. His passion for history began at age thirteen when his parents sent him to Washington D.C. to learn about the United States and its governmental processes. The trip sparked Foge's interest in the federal government and the individuals within the Intelligence Community who are responsible for shaping the country's national policies. The characters in the Project Pegasus Series are drawn from his friendships and interactions with people from within the Intelligence Community at-large, the NRO; the NSA; the CIA; an Admiral and the Master Chief of the Sixth Fleet; Navy Seals, Astronaut John Glenn, and others.

Erik splits his time between Arizona and Los Angeles with his wife and business partner, Kristina, and their dog Esme.

1800’s California, still a Mexican Territory, saw the Gold Rush bring in immigrants from all over the world who spoke hundreds of different languages. The Mexicans referred to them as Anglos. Tiburcio Vasquez was just a boy when he witnessed the legacy of violence and crime that this change would bring, shaping his destiny. He grew up in the dusty streets of Monterey, California, watching as foreigners encroached on his homeland, bringing with them greed and destruction.

As he honed his skills as a horseman and a marksman, he saw firsthand the injustices suffered by his people. He witnessed families torn apart, land stolen, and women abused, and he knew that he could not stand idly by. So, he took up arms by becoming a bandit against those who sought to oppress his people, becoming a legend among the Mexican community. But with each robbery and each murder, Tiburcio could feel the darkness creeping into his soul. He was caught multiple times and escaped multiple times from San Quentin Prison.

Vasquez was and educated poet and dancer loved by the ladies, but feared by all men. This novel is a dramatic fictional account of his life from birth to his hanging at the young age of thirty-nine. At the time, the Mexican community saw him as a Robin Hood character. To this day, there are monuments that bear his name.

Vasquez is Rick’s sixth book. His first was an autobiography co-authored with Tom Bleecker, A Life at Risk. This was followed by a photography book about the homeless in Los Angeles, Sidewalks. Next was a historical adventure about two pilots flying from Sydney to London in the 1963 air race, The Challenge, of the Spirit of Sydney. His career as one of the top stuntmen in Hollywood was published as Too Old to Tell Lies. Hardened Warriors was a book about the Master Boxers who compete into their seventies.

Rick has a Bachelor of Arts degree, Summa Cum Laude from Southern New Hampshire University. He lives in Southern California with his wife and family.

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Thomas Jefferson Stoneshield VII, a WW2 soldier from a long line of warriors, dies while storming the beaches of Normandy. He ascends to a peculiar afterlife and becomes embroiled in a struggle between two godlike beings, with the future of all existence at stake. Along the way, he confronts haunting echoes of his past life, his own repressed desires, and the power of unyielding faith and despair.

“Godless Armageddon” is a visionary and ambitious journey that defies traditional storytelling to deliver a profound and imaginative exploration of the afterlife.” - Damir Salkovic, author of Collapse Years

From the author: “Godless Armageddon reflects my experience as a bisexual man in a society where bisexual men weren't supposed to exist. It also reflects my experience as an atheist in the US Army.”

Scott Coon is an award-winning short story writer and a former U.S. Army Intelligence Analyst. His work can be found in MOBIUS: The Journal for Social Change, The STEAM Journal at Claremont University, Dark Horses: The Magazine of Weird Fiction, Bewildering Stories, and others.

DYSTOPIAN FICTION

STAY OR LEAVE. DIE EITHER WAY.

In a ravaged world where survival depends on blind faith, true-believer Paige has one chance to escape an arranged marriage to a boy in her post-apocalyptic cult: by becoming its human sacrifice.

This role requires absolute purity, because the souls of her neighbors rest in her hands – but she’s starting to doubt her ability to deliver them to the afterlife. Not when she doesn’t know what to do with the inappropriate attraction she’s feeling toward another girl – her best friend, Mott.

When Mott and her brother get arrested, Paige finds her beliefs crumbling and faces two choices: hope that she’s pure enough to stay in the strict, zealous love their religion preaches, or run away from her idyllic community to the wastelands outside – to certain death.

... a piercing, beautifully rendered story of a young woman trapped between the demands of a rigid, post-apocalyptic society and her own awakening desires. A love story wrapped in a dystopian thriller tucked into a coming-of-age tale, Vessel hooks you immediately and moves with relentless, bristling tension toward its powerful conclusion. – Shawn Vestal, winner of 2014’s PEN Robert W. Bingham Prize and author of Daredevils and Godforsaken Idaho

RIE LEE (she/her/hers) is a recovering true believer. She's a little too obsessed with cults and almost definitely on some kind of FBI watch list for researching pipe bombs. She is an alum of the MFA program at Eastern Washington University.

SCIENCE FICTION: Humanity has survived over 500 years on a lifeless planet, but cities there are becoming overcrowded underneath protective domes.

An ensemble of characters with different scientific backgrounds are tasked with uncovering the truth about what happened to humanity’s home world and venture light years into the middle of the untamed universe to a frozen Earth. Their ensuing archeological study holds many secrets - lost technologies, remains of animals that went extinct centuries ago, and long forgotten chapters of human history.

Under the frozen Great Plains of North America, a secret government  research facility houses what may be their only hope for answers.

I have no idea what made me step away from my comfort genre and read this book. The book cover? The title? Both? Maybe the plot? I was getting interstellar vibes, and I had to pick the book up, and I enjoyed every single minute of it. – on line review

Born and raised in the Boston area, Erik James Troy went to school in Cambridge and moved to the town of Andover, MA for the latter half of his childhood.

After graduating from Pratt Institute with a degree in Film and Video, Erik made commercials and social media ads in the Boston area. During this time, he consulted with peers in defense, pharmaceuticals, and educational institutions in Cambridge, Massachusetts while he wrote Icarus Dawns.

Erik now works at Universal Studios and continues to write with the hopes of directing his first feature film in the near future.

FROM THE AUTHOR: Always a science lover, I began writing this novel while talking with scientists in the greater Boston area. Many characters in the book are based on these real people who have lived through real events. Their takes on morality, religion, and philosophy are interesting subjects that come up in the world of science.

To my readers, I would advise you to have an open mind and an open heart. Even the worst of villains have some insight to offer, and the best of heroes are never perfect.

A manual for achieving personal fulfillment

YOUR LIFEPATH: How to Make Each Stage of Your Life Exceptional is a manual for achieving personal fulfillment. It explains how we can each develop a unique life mission that will eventually become an enduring legacy we can contribute to the world. Our lives consist of five stages— adventures, mission, family, tribe, legacy. Fulfillment will ultimately be accomplished by figuring out what we were born to do and spending our lives doing it.

This book is for the new adult, the parent of a new adult, or an older adult who feels stuck. It provides information about how these greats— Jessica Alba, Giorgio Armani, Beyonce Knowles, Tom Brady, Coco Chanel, Jane Goodall, Jay-Z Carter, Steve Jobs, Michael Jordan, Carli Lloyd, George Lucas, Elon Musk, Danica Patrick, Kelly Slater, Oprah Winfrey—and many others, have pursued fulfillment and lived life on their own terms through their missions.

I highly recommend this book for those contemplating or evaluating their own life and those who are just starting out on their path through adulthood. – Steve H. Such a delightful approach to life! Engstrom gives us life lessons using engaging examples from rock stars to Alaskan bush pilots, from ancient historical characters to recent movies... – Marlissa S

Neal Engstrom is a Harvard graduate and Stanford MBA. He traveled the world and worked as a flight instructor and skydive jump pilot prior to becoming a commercial real estate professional. In 2006 he founded real estate investment firm, Engstrom Realty Fund. He and his wife of 27 years, Giselle, have raised three children and reside in Southern California.

Naisha aspired to be a traditional Bengali wife and mother, but a failed marriage to a mentally ill lawyer left her an outcast. There were few career options for a divorced Muslim woman in her traditional Bengali community.

Naisha immigrated to the United States and earned her graduate degree in social work. She then spent over thirty years counseling and providing critical support and therapy to America's children, veterans, and marginalized citizens.

This is a true story of an immigrant's journey through the seedier side of America. It reveals how her compassion and grace touched people's lives and rippled out to provide new hope and new beginnings.

SANDRA M. EMERSON is Professor Emeritus of public administration at California State Polytechnic University at Pomona and is the author of many scholarly papers and the text, The Public Administrator’s Companion, A Practical Guide. This is her first foray into writing creative nonfiction, documenting the story of her life-long friend Najma Alam Davis, who she met in 1968 while at college in Philadelphia, PA. She has embraced creative nonfiction as a more user-friendly means for encouraging and celebrating meritorious public service.

NAJMA ALAM DAVIS was born in the Bengali region of Southeast Asia and came to the United States in her late twenties. During her long career as a therapist, she got a unique education in the culture and values of her adopted land. Naisha in the Promised Land is her story.

Aaron’s book focuses on bringing peace, positivity, and healing to the world by sharing his personal experiences. He walks readers through his metamorphic story and makes recommendations for relentless determination and a strategic mindset to get through life’s challenges, achieve one’s goals and reach a whole new level of success.

Entrepreneur Aaron Douglas leads Aaron Douglas Projects, which focuses on innovative solutions and personal growth. He is dedicated to revitalizing communities and promoting authenticity. Aaron, who has been called a “highly passionate and visionary leader”, encourages the next generation to embrace challenges and pursue their passions with resilience.

(Motivational/Self-Help)

Private investigator Eliza Fox must be smarter than the police and a step ahead of the killer in this new book, "a mystery backed by experience in the investigative industry -- that of author Cathleen Watkins."– Midwest Book Review

DEADLY QUIET: The Eliza Fox Files (Book 1) When exchange student Martina Noto is found dead in the music practice rooms of Wexford College, there are few suspects and no clear answers. The nearest relatives are Martina’s cousins: Private Investigator Eliza Fox and her mother, Francesca Noto-Fox. As detectives Byron Comstock and Jessica Fonseca get familiar with the case, Eliza is determined to help catch the killer and is soon caught up in the twists and turns of finding the murderer, a far cry from her usual work as a paralegal. Eliza must overcome her own inexperience and learn to trust her instincts as she fumbles through her first high-stakes case.

Like her protagonist Eliza Fox, CATHLEEN WATKINS is a licensed private investigator in California. She has been involved with both criminal and civil cases, including those related to the #metoo movement, civil rights claims, and student cases involving sexual assault. She has mentored new investigators and developed training programs on interviewing and finding evidence. Cathleen’s experiences as an investigator have helped her write fictional characters and settings that feel genuine. 

Before becoming a P.I., Cathleen studied journalism in college and worked as an editor.  She grew up and continuesto live in Southern California with her husband, Dennis, and their Cardigan Welsh Corgi, Henry. Her grown children all live nearby.

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ABCs OF WOMEN IN MEDICINE is an empowering and educational children’s book that celebrates the remarkable contributions of female healthcare professionals. From Anesthesiology to Wellness, each letter of the alphabet introduces a different medical subspecialty. Children will learn about the vital roles that women play in fields such as cardiology, dermatology, and more.

My daughter loves this book! She’s fascinated by the different medical fields and the strong women featured. ABCs of Women in Medicine is both empowering and educational. – Parent, Janelle

Melissa Bent, MD, a pediatrician, mother, and debut children’s author, brings her passion for healthcare and storytelling to life in this engaging book. As a woman in medicine, Melissa understand the importance of representation and aims to inspire young minds through her captivating narratives.

Follow Melissa on Instagram @melissabentmd

A fable - One day, deep in a peaceful forest, a white rabbit named Luna makes a disturbing discovery: she has no footprints-indeed she is slowly disappearing. In a panic, and without answers, she flees her home to save herself. Her pilgrimage takes her through a wilderness in which she encounters creatures dangerous and beautiful, the incarnation of her desires, and the void she is running from. Luna's tale explores the universal search for belonging and presence through the limitations that keep us fragmented, and our longing to be whole.

A five-star fable...I highly recommend this unique take on the timeless themes of longing, personal integration, and facing our fears in search of something greater. – Mattimus (on line review)

Julianne Bigler has been plumbing the depths of the human experience and the psyche in her schooling, personal life, and through this story. Her body of writing spans a personal blog, poetry, content writing, and magazine journalism. She lives in San Diego. This is her first book.

A Fantasy Anthology...

CACOPHONY OF CROWNS is a discordant collection of short stories chronicling the chaotic rise and fall of power throughout the past, present, and future. Witness as Wren the fisherman deals with mortality, a hedonistic king is confronted with his darkest fears, and Atansha heals a kingdom with the strength given to her by the earth.

This chaotic mythology introduces the reader to the world of the Dark Forest, and all the planets contained within. It is a world filled with magickal beings, powerful rulers, and otherworldly happenings. Here, humans use magick to alter their realities, with some even ascending to gods, but not without finding the true price of power—a price few mortals wish to pay…

Praise for the book:

"A magical journey through so many places, people, and times, one I enjoyed revisiting more than once!"

"Super fun and imaginative."

"The Dark Forest village rules and is exactly the ideal fantasy environment I wanted to run away to as a kid"

GARRETT S. BROUSSARD is a software developer for Animation and Visual Effects, photographer, woodworker, hiker, and whiskey lover. He enjoys creature features, fantasy, and  science fiction shows of all kinds and calibers, as well as horror and nature documentaries.

He is fascinated with dogs, occult history, and Carl Jung’s work on archetypes.

A Romance/Adventure....Chances were slim that a young woman from the Provinces would encounter legendary Dusters during a short ride across the Wildlands. But when her coach is waylaid by masked riders and her coach mate is abducted, her adventure in the Wildlands begins with two Dusters named Rock and Stone.

Southern California native Ann Bernath has been writing since the age of 6, inspired by the "Author! Author!" episode of "The Patty Duke Show." In 2023, two of her short stories were included in the TechLit anthology Inner Space and Space and Outer Thoughts: Speculative Fiction from Caltech and JPL Authors. She self-published Rock. Stone. Pebble that same year.  Ann writes genre fiction - westerns and sci-fi/fantasy in particular – and has both a prequel and a fantasy novel in progress.

A travel memoir...Parker Emerson soaks up everything important and interesting about the sights and sounds of a trip and squeezes them out for the reader.

Travels with Spot: Paris to Zürich (the first in a series of Travels with Spot books) doesn’t just tell you where to be, it tells you how it feels to be there.

Parker G. Emerson has traveled throughout Europe, the United States, and parts of Africa, Mexico, and South Korea, beginning with an unguided trip to Europe in 1973. He acquired the nickname “Spot” as the navigation center supervisor on the nuclear missile submarine USS Simon Bolivar (SSBN641) for eight years and 15 deployments deterring global thermonuclear war.

He completed his B.S. in business administration at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, VA, while still on active duty. After leaving the US Navy, he moved to California where he worked in the aerospace industry and earned his MBA from the University of Southern California. Emerson has held senior management positions and has started and sold several companies. He is a co-author of The Public Administrator’s Companion: A Practical Guide 2nd edition. Now retired, he and his wife, Sandra, enjoy traveling and writing about their adventures.

Lotta Pedal once again taps into her scrappy confidence and quick wit to tackle another outdoor adventure; leading her to discover new things about the environment and gets creative on ways to help protect and love the planet just a little bit more. Sporting her very own signature style, a tray filled with freshly baked full-moon themed whoopie pies, and a newly renovated backyard treehouse, Lotta Pedal is ready to celebrate the first full moon of the summer. Join Lotta as she chases a mysterious night owl thief, avoids near cycling mishaps with her brothers and welcomes some unusual winter-like summer weather. Eventually Lotta catches her unwelcomed Buck Moon visitor and unexpectedly learns a thing or two about how to protect the natural environment around her. Lotta and her friends rally together and come up with a creative plan to help contribute to the care of the wildlife, plants, and trails at their local regional park. (ages 6-12)

Vanessa’s fondest childhood memories kick-started her thirst for adventure. A graduate of Queen’s University in Film Studies, her desire for storytelling led her to a successful career in advertising. Living in California, you’ll find her riding her favorite mountain bike trails, photographing wildlife or cruising down Highway 1. Her passion and respect for the outdoors is something she wishes to share with all her readers; to inspire them to get outside, explore their own worlds and the beauty of the natural environments around them.

Sporting her very own signature style, a box filled with freshly baked beach-themed cookies, and a newly designed surfboard, Lotta Pedal is ready for her first surf of the summer. Join Lotta for a West Coast adventure as she taps into her scrappy confidence and quick wit while she tangles with mysterious underwater thieves, a school bully, and some dangerous weather. Eventually, Lotta catches her wave and unexpectedly learns a thing or two about what is threatening the natural environment around her. Lotta and her friends rally together and come up with a creative plan to help protect the sea mammals and ocean waters around their local surf spot.

Vanessa’s fondest childhood memories kick-started her thirst for adventure. A graduate of Queen’s University in Film Studies, her desire for storytelling led her to a successful career in advertising.
Living in California, you’ll find her riding her favorite mountain
bike trails, photographing wildlife or cruising down Highway 1. Her
passion and respect for the outdoors is something she wishes to
share with all her readers; to inspire them to get outside, explore
their own worlds and the beauty of the natural environments
around them.

Big Bug Feelings, a picture book, is a wonderful bridge between caregivers and children, helping guide through even the toughest of feelings including tantrums, stress, impulse control, and more.

Big Bug Feelings engages kids and parents alike with friendly rhymes, accessible coping strategies, and a special look and find BUG!

A GREAT RESOURCE FOR ALL!

Jessica Stamm is a mom and dietitian. She is passionate about mindfulness and talking about feelings, starting at an early age. Her book explores tougher emotions and gives accessible coping strategies in a fun way.

Hearing your doctor say you have fibromyalgia and might be living with inflammatory pain for the rest of your life can be devastating. A kaleidoscope of emotions sets in. Sadness. Anger. Resentment. And then the question, ‘Why me?’

Emami’s book provides hope to those battling fibromyalgia. It takes readers on the writer’s personal journey of healing and shares actions and holistic approaches patients can take to combat and treat fibromyalgia.

Shari Emami is a published author and writer. She is also a board certified holistic health practitioner ( H.H.P.). She is a former fibromyalgia patient and disability advocate. She is also a firm believer in holistic living and has dedicated most of her life to learning about natural healing methods. She has been pain-free since since 2016. In her spare time she loves visiting her family and volunteers as an animal rights activist with The Humane League. She currently resides in Southern California.

From the poet: The poems in this collection are like patches on an Amish quilt. They are all separate and distinct, yet all unified into one complete piece. They are written in rhyme in traditional iambic pentameter.

The qualities I value in writing as in my life are authenticity, clarity and direct experience. Inspiration comes from many of the songwriter lyrics I’ve listened to obsessively since high school from the time of the Beatles, especially Bob Dylan, Chuck Berry, and Lucinda Williams. The poems are written to tell stories, my point of view on various social issues, and some, hopefully, to entertain.

David Nile Chase was born in Iowa, spent his childhood in small towns in Illinois and Indiana, and college years in Chicago from 1967-1971, during the turmoil of the student movement against the war in Vietnam. He arrived in LA in the summer of ’71 with the intention of experiencing everything in that zeitgeist after campus life. Chase studied acting and worked many restaurant jobs before going back to school to study psychology at Immaculate Heart College, Hollywood, where he became very interested in cognitive development and researched a link between children’s cognitive development and fairy tales. He went on to teach in the Los Angeles Unified School District for twenty-five years ending in 2012, during which time he wrote many short stories. He has also maintained a tome of journal writing since his university days.