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J.G. Sauls
$5.99, e-book (paperback available late February, 2012)
ASIN: B006L95HCU
January, 2012
Crime Fiction
Available at Amazon.com or Barnes & Noble
With the fierce swing of an iron re-bar, Gino Traynor, computer programmer, shatters the porch post of a Nags Head, North Carolina beach cottage. Two men he loves are showered with splinters. The first, FBI agent Rob Hanson, Traynor’s best friend for two decades, has just asked a seemingly innocuous question about a pair of shoes. The second, Toby Gray, a nineteen year-old waiter who’s sharing Traynor’s bed, falls wounded with a two-inch sliver in the white of one eye. Beneath the surface, like a shark in the surf, lurks a years-old killing in the hamlet of Bee Spring, Kentucky.
Intricate, intimate, its characters richly drawn, The Magician’s Secrets is J. G. Sauls’ debut novel.
The less said about J.G. Sauls, the better, at least for the moment. He's saving the juicy personal details for The New York Times Review of Books interview, and his literary posturing and posing for The Paris Review. His website is www.jgsauls.com.
“Render Unto the Valley is a many-stranded tale of three generations of a star-crossed family struggling to mend itself and preserve something of its rightful heritage. In the midst of this tempestuous story stands Travis Whitfield, as stony hearted a bad hat as you are ever likely to meet. But the female forces arrayed against him are formidable. Are they strong enough to prevail? Read and you’ll find out. But be warned: It’s a breathless ride.” —Fred Chappell, North Carolina poet laureate emeritus and author of Ancestors and Others and Look Back All the Green Valley
"Senehi offsets suspense with local preservation and history details, and delivers handsomely. ...even late in the novel, there are some intriguing surprises. Ignore the archaic title and glib first paragraph... and enjoy the ride." —Rob Neufeld, "The Read" on WNC, December 28, 2011
Karen Godwell isn't as much ashamed of her mountain heritage as of what she once had to do to preserve it.
Karen reinvents herself at college and doesn't look back until her clan's historic farm is threatened. The gutsy curator at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art returns to the mountains only to come face to face with who she was and what she did.
Descendants of the early settlers still have a grip on the farmlands deep in the folds of the southern Blue Ridge Mountains, but the ground is shifting beneath their feet. Cousin Bruce, the town historian, sees life through the family's colorful 200-year past; Tom Gibbons, a local conservationist, keeps one eye on the mountains and the other on Karen; Karen's nine-year-old daughter, Hali, is in the throes of the mission her dying father sent her on; and Karen is hiding the ugly secret that drove her away.
As she wrestles her dangerously cunning brother for the farm, Karen straddles the divide between the staunchly independent mountain culture she comes from and the sophisticated world she has become part of.
Contemporary fiction writer Rose Senehi is noted for weaving environmental themes into the plots of her novels. A resident of Chimney Rock, North Carolina, and Murrells Inlet, South Carolina, Senehi moved to the South from Upstate New York in 1996. Render Unto the Valley is her sixth novel and the third in a series that take place in the southern Blue Ridge Mountains. Her fourth novel, In the Shadows of Chimney Rock, was a 2009 Southern Independent Booksellers Alliance Award finalist, and her fifth, The Wind in the Woods, was nominated for the Thomas Wolfe Memorial Award in 2010. Her other novels are Pelican Watch, Windfall, and Shadows in the Grass.
Fire & Chocolate: Poems from the Writers' Group of the Triad
Writers' Group of the Traid $9.95 paperback ISBN: 978-0984934904 January, 2012 Poetry Available from the publisher or at www.Amazon.com
“Twenty-nine poets… have pooled their considerable talent and creative energy to produce as delightful an anthology as I’ve had the pleasure to read in quite some time.” --Dr. Mark Smith-Soto, Editor, International Poetry Review
“Within these pages, one’s soul will be led on a sensuous journey from the sweetest sublime through the dark and earthy bittersweet of love and disappointment…(They) leave the reader renewed, confirmed and again believing in the power of poetry as prayer.” --Dr. Anjail Rashida Ahmad, Director, The Creative Writing Program, North Carolina A&T State University
“These poets have learned how to use the ‘crazy glue’ of words to bind up shattered lives, to comfort and challenge, and to lift the beauties of the world in celebration….A rewarding volume!” --Valerie Nieman, author of Wake Wake Wake (Press 53, 2006)
“These well-selected… poems ask us to look at the commonplace elements of the world…and, by giving them what Wordsworth calls ‘a certain colouring of imagination,’ make them seem mysterious and new.” --Janice Moore Fuller, Author, Séance and Sex Education, Writer-in-Residence, Catawba College
The anthology features works from poets from around the triad and includes poems about the Natural World, Love and Love Gone Wrong, Around the World and Home, Growing Up, Growing Old, Believing, Death and Loss, Art, Writing, and All that Jazz.
Listen with your heart to WGOT poetry; indulge in the fruit of fantasy, reality, love so jazzy, lost or free. Renowned poets agree on our quality.
The Writers' Group of the Triad is a not-for-profit organization of writers for writers. Their mission is to provide a supportive and creative atmosphere in which all levels of writers can write and revise with the help and advice of others. Their facilitators are professionals in every way and enjoy helping other writers with sense of story, organization, grammar, punctuation, spelling, and sentence structure problems. If they are successful as a group, then they will turn wannabee writers into magazine article writers and published authors. They are dedicated to helping their members improve their writing skills through peer review and the sharing of experiences at regular monthly meetings of subgroups.
Hats off to Jan B. Parker. Her flash fiction "For The Love of a Good Ending" will be fall-published in Press 53's What Doesn't Kill You and another flash, "Where Bugs Walk On Water" will soon be published in the quarterly journal, Main Street Rag.
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