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You will not want to miss out on this wonderful opportunity to pick up The Making of Tibias Ivory: Through the Eyes of Innocence from the JB Stillwater Direct Sales Bookstore. The book is also available at Barnes and Noble, Amazon, and Target.

Bound to a chair, hands tied, face covered in a burlap sack, five-year old Tibias Ivory- the illegitimate, bi-racial son of Bethany Ivory, the daughter of the small, southern town of Principle's leading preacher and a murdered, black, high-school superstar, Mahognus Hog Worthington- has had the innocence of his young life ripped away by the depths of bigotry and degradation of hate. These horrific transgressions left his father hanging from a tree and ripped Tibias' hometown apart before he ever took a breath. But the lessons that he learns from his mother, her new friend, Sergeant Luke Worthy, and an eccentric newcomer to Principle, Adam Zur, will give him the strength to believe that the impossible can happen and keep him from experiencing his father's fate. Deceit is brought to light, and the deeds of death will discover justice as the festering wounds of a town's heart are exposed to the divine love that can heal it.

O Si Yo, Hello
by Granville Holt

I am of the womb of the Earth
And from the womb of my Mother
My people came out of the cradle of life
Going North and East, crossing the big water
And making homes on a “new land”

My people were always here, always N D N
This was my home, this is my home
As long as the wind blows through the valley
And over the mountains, as long as the grass
Grows upon the prairie and the moss upon the Oak

As long as the whippoorwill calls
And the night Owl whoooos
I am a part of you, you are a part of me
I welcome you, WA DO
Thank you, for sharing this dream of words


As far as North is from South
As far as East is from West
I sing this song to the family of humankind
Pilamaya Yelo, you have pleased me
Wopila Tanka, many thanks…

© Granville Holt - All rights reserved

 

Let's welcome our newest guest poet, Aiswarya T. Anish from Kerala, Mengalam, a small village in Alappey in South INdia . Aishu is an award winning poet who writes about life from her perspective along the coast. Aishu's village was hit by the great Tsumani of 2004. You will love her work.

Happy and proud to annouce that author, Jill Lane will be our fifth celebrity guest author in our Holiday book - release 2011. Jill is a writer, public events organizer and travel agent. Jill does much to let everyone know just how beautiful our state of New Mexico truly is. She also owns the pristine and historic lodge "The Elkhorn" in Chama NM. You are going to love her "word Gift" contribution to this book!

A WONDERFUL AND WARM WELCOME TO OUR NEWEST GUEST AUTHOR, DAVID LESTER YOUNG. Davids observational and traditional poetry is a pure gem in the Stillwater world and I could not be happier to have him on board.

Update on Chicken Soup for the Positive Thinker which will be featuring my "Word Gifts" short story. Release date is now early September. B&N already proclaiming it a "Best Seller"

"ARRIVAL" by Mary Barnet and artist, Richard Schiff and published by us, Casa de Snapdragon, LLC has now been released and is selling in bookstores everywhere. You will know Mary as the Editor in Chief of "Poetry Magazine" which as most of you already know, is the longest running poetry magazine on the internet, and Richard Schiff, her husband, is an award winning artist whose work hangs in the Holocaust Museum as well as the Museum of Isreal. A real treat and wonderful addition to your own library!

WELCOME MICHAEL ZELTER!!!!! Our newest guest author is Michael Zelter and I could not be happier to welcome him aboard...go on in and read his life-giving poetry. You will love it!

CONGRATS TO ME, Janet K. Brennan. Jack Canfield has selected my short story "Word Gifts" for his "Positive Thinking" Chicken Soup for the Soul book to be released the 2nd of November. This will be my third Chicken Soup publication and I can't tell you how happy I am to be working with them again!

CONGRATULATIONS TO OUR GUEST POET, ZACHARY KLUCKMAN who Is now officially on staff at the PEDESTAL MAGAZINE as the Spoken Word Editor! Very excited.....

Hey readers, fans and fellow authors; Just a bit of news. I am in the process of writing my next novel "The Judas Chant" This is a novel of murder and intrigue and the ripple-affect that betrayal has on those that we love the most. Penguin Books has shown interest in this book and I should be finished with it, mid-summer. ALSO, all of my Harriet Fans will be happy to know that I will be writing a second "Harriet Murphy. " Because of the exceptional reviews I have received on this book, I can hardly say no to a sequel. Harriet was chosen as "Reviewers Choice by Midwest Book REview for the month of March" ... "Janet Brennan's Harriet Murphy is, like Isabel Miller's 'Patience and Sarah' is destined to become a twenty-first century classic work" (Lynn Strongin, review on Greenwich Village Gazette, etc.) You can pick up your copy of "Harriet Murphy. a Little Bit of Something" at all major bookstores as well as right here on my own web-site or direct from the publisher at www.casadesnapdragon.com. A fun and happy read!

My newest book of poetry, Gentle Tugs: a Celebration of LIfe, Love and Other Addictions with special guest poets, Charles ADes Fishman, Peggie Devan and Janet Yaeger is now available on Amazon and Barnes and Noble, as well as bookstores everywhere. Price is 15.95, less should you buy directly from my publisher or here on the web site.

Hooray...my book "Harriet Murphy: A Little Bit of Something" has been chosen by Midwest Book Review as the "Reviewer's Choice" for the month of March and appears in the Small Press Review. This review also appears in the Cengage Learning, Gale interactive CD-ROM series "Book Review Index" (published four times yearly for academic, corporate and public library systems) as well as such book review data bases as LexisNexis and Goliath. I am thrilled with this and I thank all of you who made this possible...Jan

Congrats to Lynn Strongin who has been nominated for two of StorySouth's Million Writers Awards: one is for "Hidden Child #9" in "Centrifugal Eye" (Also in Dzanc's BEST OF THE WEB) and the other for "Magnolia Second Hand Store" in MAGNOLIA A Florida Journal of Literary & Fine Arts.

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