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Friday, 03 May 2013 00:00 |
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Until Proven: A Mystery in Two Parts by Nora Gaskin
Lystra Books & Literary Services
$11.95, paperback / $6.99, e-book
ISBN: 978-0-9884164-0-6 (pb) / 978-0-9884164-1-3 (e-book)
October, 2012
Fiction - Mystery
Available from your local bookstore or www.Amazon.com
Until Proven: A Mystery in Two Parts is fiction, and a mystery. Two young women are murdered in their homes, forty years apart. One of the crimes is solved; the other is not. Both crimes involve the same two extended families. After the first one, both families tried to forget, to hide, to keep secrets. The second crime reminds us of Faulkner's famous words about the past--it is not even past. And it doesn't lose its power.
The seed-thought for Until Proven was a murder that took place in Chapel Hill in 1963. Nora was a twelve-year-old living in Chapel Hill at the time. The crime and its aftermath made an impact on her, so much so that decades later she wrote her novel, and she wrote a nonfiction account of the actual events. That account is Time of Death (below), available as an e-book.
Time of Death by Nora Gaskin
Lystra Books & Literary Services
$3.99, e-book
ISBN: 978-0-9884164-2-0
January, 2013
Nonfiction
Available from www.Amazon.com
An account of a true crime in Chapel Hill, NC, and the ways justice is denied. The death of Lucille Rinaldi and the accusations brought against her husband, Frank, became the seed-thoughts of Nora Gaskin's novel, Until Proven: A Mystery in Two Parts.
Nora Gaskin graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill with a BA in English, with Honors in Creative Writing. She studied with the great Max Steele and Louis Ruben. She then got her MA in English from the University of Washington in Seattle. As life will, hers took a detour and she had a long career as a stock broker and financial planner. After 24 1/2 years, she retired from that to resume her life as a working writer. |
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Last Updated on Thursday, 02 May 2013 15:40 |
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Monday, 29 April 2013 00:00 |
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The Half-Life of Home by Dale Neal
Casperian Books
$15.95, paperback
ISBN: 978-1-934081-41-9
April, 2013
Fiction
Available from your local bookstore or www.Amazon.com
The Half-Life of Home delves into the hard choice between saving your family or losing your land. Real estate appraiser Royce Wilder is struggling to rekindle his marriage and his relationship with his estranged teenage son. He is thinking about selling the family farm — no easy choice for a man who collects antiques because he can’t forget the past haunted by a crazy woman neighbor. But radioactive gas seeps from his birthplace, driving down prices and raising the stakes. Royce must unearth long-buried family secrets in an Appalachian community under threat in an always changing world.
Dale Neal is the author of the novels The Half-Life of Home and Cow Across America, winner of the 2009 Novello Literary Prize. His short fiction and essays have appeared in dozens of literary journals including Carolina Quarterly, Marlboro Review, and the Crescent Review. A graduate of the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College, he has been awarded writing fellowships to the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Hambidge Center, and the Knight Center for Specialized Journalism at the University of Maryland. He is also an award-winning journalist for the Asheville Citizen-Times. The North Carolina native resides in Asheville with his wife and dogs. |
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Last Updated on Monday, 29 April 2013 15:01 |
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Friday, 26 April 2013 13:50 |
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Wings of the Wind: A Cornucopia of Poetry by Kym Gordon Moore
Outskirts Press
$14.95, paperback
ISBN: 978-1-478718758
March, 2013
Poetry
Available from your local bookstore or www.Amazon.com
Wings of the Wind: A Cornucopia of Poetry is an eclectic full-length collection of poems depicting experiences illustrated through diverse forms of self-expression. Kym Gordon Moore portrays versatility in rhymed and free verse poems that convey stories about people, places, nature, inspiration, cuisine, music, celebrations, epiphanies and inanimate objects. Included in her compilation is a metrical sample of a Pantoum, Limerick, Elegy, and Haiku.
Wings of the Wind: A Cornucopia of Poetry contains eighty-one carefully chosen poems that are significant to the foundation of this collection and easy for readers to identify with. Besieged by segmented poetic elements of flight, your journey through the pages of this book will be entertaining, educational, emotional, nostalgic, stimulating and edifying.
Kym Gordon Moore, who is also author of Diversities of Gifts: Same Spirit is an award-winning recipient in poetry contests such as the Edward Davin Vickers Memorial Award and Oneswan Productions Writing Competition. Her poems appeared in Writers Digest Magazine, Poets for Peace: A Collection, Reach of Song, Home for the Holidays, and The Blind Man’s Rainbow anthologies. She was selected as one of the contributing authors for Chicken Soup for the Soul: Thanks Mom.
Kym is the co-founder of“Favorite Things for a CAUSE (Creating Awareness by Understanding Setbacks through Edification), a not-for-profit charitable mission promoting hope, goodwill, and mentoring, by collaborating with community alliances. She was selected as one of the U.S. 2012 and 2013 National World Book Night Volunteers for North Carolina. As one of the three 2009 General Mills Feeding Dreams Community Champions for the Charlotte, North Carolina market, Kym was recognized for her volunteerism with the Dove’s Nest, a subsidiary of The Charlotte Rescue Mission. She is a member of the American Author’s Association, the North Carolina Writers' Network, Poetry Society of America, and the American Marketing Association. Kym holds a B.S. in Criminal Justice, an MBA with a concentration in marketing, certification as an email marketing specialist, and certification as a corporate spokesperson. She lives in North Carolina with her husband Sharward L. Moore, Sr.
Visit her website www.kymgmoore.com; her blogs http://frombehindthepen.wordpress.com/; http://www.teaandpoetrybookclub.blogspot.com/; and connect with the author through Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Pinterest and Google +. |
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