Jeannie Walker
AWARD-WINNING AUTHOR
I'm happy to present this author-to-author blog tour. For this, I have to thank a very good friend and amazing writer, Sheila Callaham. Sheila is the author of "Stories from Spirit". However, the beginning of this posting is supposed to be about me and my work - cool, huh? I get tagged by an author so I can write about my work and introduce you to other authors. What fun I am having....
I’m choosing to tell you about my newest book, "I Saw the Light". Amazon Link
And
now, drum roll pleeeeeze… for the awesome, inspiring authors that I’m pleased
to tag. I have read their books and highly recommend them to you.
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Sheila Callaham - "Stories from Spirit is a collection of spirit journeys and the gifts of wisdom that received during the experiences. Through a series of questions, readers reflect on their own spiritual path and then tap their own wisdom with guided meditations and facilitated spirit journeys. The book concludes with eighteen wonderful exercises meant to deepen the spirit."
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Richard Bunning
Richard's books: Another Space in Time, Esther and Athaliah:
Two Plays adapted from Those of Jean Racine
I am currently an author of
speculative fiction, yes, science fiction.
My most recent books are
"Another Space in Time", and the originally titled "Another
Space in Time, Returns".
I have some earlier books, which
are reworked neoclassical plays. These will be of interest to those who wish to
read Jean Racine in prose English. Yes, not everyone's cup of tea.
I am an advocate of independent,
vanity, and small press authors, and with this in mind regularly review. As
well as reviewing in all the usual places, including on my own site, I am also
currently a reviewer for Bookpleasures.
Above all, I like to be read.
Even if my works don't attract your interest I hope that you look at my GR
reviews, and thanks for wading through this interview.
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Roderick Low
Roderick's
books: Promises of Love and Good Behavior -
Reward and Dilemmas - Going Nowhere -
"Roderick Craig Low, the elder son of Scottish parents, was born and brought up in England. On leaving grammar school, he lived in Scotland for about five years before moving south to Yorkshire where he raised a family. It was then that he was able to apply his liking for language to his professional life, trading his role as a computer consultant for that of a technical author providing manuals to support software systems and business processes for many ‘big name’ companies. In 1994, he remarried. His book, ‘Writing User Documentation’, was published by Prentice Hall that same year. Creative writing, however, was the ultimate goal but the pressures of everyday life prevented its realisation. He moved to France in 2003 and, after a few years, found opportunities to devote more time to this activity in addition to the demands of the ‘day job’ and a two-acre garden – not to mention the delights of living in rural France. A first novel, ‘Three Hundred Hours’, was published in 2009, followed by ‘England 2026. After the Discord’, 'Going Nowhere', 'Rewards and Dilemmas' and 'Promises of Love and Good Behaviour', all published by Andrews UK. He has also written a number of short stories for conventional and on-line publication. I'd be delighted if you would take a look at my books, and hopefully, review them! Thank you very much!"
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Walter Ramsay
Walter's
Books: Beneath the Dune & COASTAL ACCESS
Walter's ramblings: "Taste
is an acquired sense. What one person my find only to be an appetizer, another
may savor as an entree." The same goes for the books we read.
As a long time teacher and coach
at Central Regional High School in New Jersey, Walter praises public education
and the dynamic students it produces. When not at the Jersey Shore, Walter is a
part time resident of the Central Florida coast. He became enamored with the
beauty, culture, and people of this pristine area over 30 years ago, and still
can't get enough. He has vigilantly taken the time to delve into the history of
this beautiful coast line and incorporated that background into his writings.
Walter spent much of his earlier
years traveling the Florida coast from Saint Augustine to Key West from his
father's home in Daytona Beach. When not working on his next
novel, Walter enjoys reading as well as outdoor activities that
include surfing and jogging.
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Rickey Bray
Rickey's book: Rendezvous Rock
Growing up in the rural Elgin,
Oklahoma area, my life was happily normal with my wife and three young
children. All of that changed abruptly on a spring day in 1978.
We were returning home from an
outing in the mountains when our car was involved in a head-on collision with a
drunk driver. After the screeching of brakes, glass shattering, and half of our
car destroyed, my wife and two of my three children were dead. I was only in my
early twenties and was unable to cope with the loss. I fell into a miasma of depression
and, unfortunately, turned to illegal drugs for consolation.
Even though I later remarried
and had two more children, I never fully recovered from my loss and continued
to use drugs as a crutch. All of this came to an abrupt halt fourteen years later
when my second wife and I were arrested in 1993 on numerous drug charges. Both
of us were sentenced to 32 years in prison!!! I was 39 years old!
Entering the prison system, I
felt as if I was in a void similar to the five stages of grief. First there is
denial, followed by anger, bargaining, depression, and finally, hopefully,
acceptance. It actually took me four years before I came to terms with my
situation and did a “life review.”
I finally asked myself, “Am I
going to try and accomplish something, even though I’m in jail, or am I just
going to give up?”
It was then that I decided to
try writing. I had always loved to read, so writing came quite naturally to me.
In prison there was no access to computers or the Internet for reference
materials, and the prison library consisted only of a box of tattered westerns
and romance novels, which in effect forced me to rely on my own imagination.
For me, writing became my therapy. I was finally able to deal with the death of
my wife and children, my incarceration, and overcome my dependence on drugs.
While in prison, I was very
fortunate that my cellmate was an artistically gifted person. We had an
unspoken agreement to keep our cell quiet so that each of us could pursue our
creative endeavors – I wrote and my cellmate, who was serving time for murder,
painted. I used him to critique my writing, and he used me as the subject of
many of his paintings. I now have a portrait that he painted which I take to
all of my book signings.
With the “time” to write and our
cell turned into a creative studio, I wrote six manuscripts using only a pencil
on yellow legal pads. My first published book, Rendezvous Rock, is a
romantic-drama with some light supernatural elements. One of the principal
characters is a contemporary witch. Yet I knew nothing of witchcraft and had no
way to do any research, so I concocted an earth-based religion to base the
story on. I tried to make the characters real and believable. Although
fictional, it seems real enough that it leaves the reader wondering … maybe?
The book placed second in the Fantasy Category of the 2010 Reader Views
Literary Contest and won the Cross Genre Category of the 2011 National Indie
Excellence Awards.
I am now a free man, however, I was in the
Oklahoma prison system for twelve years, from 1993 until 2005. Since my release
from prison, my wife and I divorced, but I have recently married a lovely woman
I have known since 1977 and now reside in Marlow, Oklahoma. I have also
returned to my previous profession as a house painter and serve as the foreman
for a painting company. I hope to eventually get all of my manuscripts
published. My life has turned around, and I am now only looking forward instead
of dwelling on the past.
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