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A Quirky Nautical Tale of Adventure, Misadventure and Justice Served

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Date Published: 11-09-2023

Publisher: Black Rose Writing

 

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Adventure, Justice, Romance, and…Chickens?

A deadly head-on collision took Matt’s wife from him. Who’s
ultimately responsible? The owner of a corrupt chicken corporation, Colonel
Clyde Clawson. His court battle – lost. His world –
shattered.

With limited sailing experience and his trusted first mate, Hank, a senior
rat terrier for company, Matt heads out from Corpus Christi Bay in a vintage
sloop, trying to outsail his bad memories and find a path forward.

A close encounter with a coral reef nearly wrecks his boat, a mishap that
draws him away from his loosely-charted journey, up the Intracoastal
waterway, and deep into the heart of Gullah Geechee country. Here, Matt will
learn some terrible truths about the Colonel, and together with his friends,
both old and new, find a way to fry the dastardly chicken king, once and for
all.

About the Author

Troy Hollan

Clucked, his debut novel, will be released 11/9/23. Hollan lives with his
wife and two spoiled rescue dogs in Austin, Texas. A lifelong traveler and
adventurer, he’s been a salvage diver in the Bahamas, joined treasure
hunters looking for lost shipwrecks, ran a beach bar on an island and once
biked across the Australian outback.

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Date Published: May 30, 2023

 

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This young female narrator, by the name of Tazz Iverson, will convince you
that there are unorthodox paths to triumph, even thru gloomy, violent, and
wildly unreasonable circumstances, especially those your parents, teachers,
or anyone who is supposed to care won’t vouch for. Dead-honest as she
is, she will likely make you laugh out loud and challenge you at your
core.

Having left her home country, friends and family, and her acceptance to a
creative writing course, she searches for fulfillment and revolution against
practically everyone, in a holiday resort in Scotland. Her growing contempt,
unrecognized brilliance, and unfulfilled gifts and desires send her from one
shithole to the next. There is a straightforwardness to the narration that
makes us really understand her when no one else does, which makes this
character study so engaging. This is not an easy character, but the honesty
she gives us is handed right to the reader with the stomach to discuss
it.

About the Author

ANJA HØVIK STRØMSTED

ANJA HØVIK STRØMSTED is an author, filmmaker, and artist of
works of fiction, short and feature films, music and music videos,
photography, and visual arts. She has studied Creative Writing at Gothenburg
University Valand School of Fine Arts and Film Production at New York
University Tisch School of the Arts. “The Dead-Honest Truth According
to Tazz ”, is her first novel.

 

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Literary Fiction, Novel in Verse

Date Published: June 7th, 2023

Publisher: Jackson Heights Press

 

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A lethal plague sweeps the globe. Millions have died. Survivors are
confined to their homes.

 

Gabriel passes his time in a small New York apartment on the city’s Upper
West Side. During the plodding solitude of the lockdown, he observes several
strangers in their nearby apartments. As he watches them struggle to survive
a world at risk of extinction, he wonders about their lives—where
they’re from, what they value, how they’re coping with a deadly contagion.
All alone, he develops a vague yet important connection to these people, an
affection for those who are struggling to survive isolation, fear and
looming death.

Told in powerful, spellbinding free verse, Gabriel’s observations grow
deeper and more elaborate as the endless days pass. But when he and a woman
from across the street begin to watch each other from afar, his imagination
begins to collide with the bleak reality of the times.

 

Praise for A Plague of Mercies

“… a captivatingly unconventional love story … brilliantly
observant poetry that captures a dark moment in our recent history.”
—Kirkus Reviews (Starred Review)

 

Praise for Adam Pelzman’s The Boy and the Lake

“Pelzman excels at creating an intensely atmospheric setting and
revealing how it shapes his characters’ identities and worldviews …
The narrative is full of rich, descriptive language … a
well-developed vintage setting and classic but thought-provoking
coming-of-age theme.” —Kirkus Reviews

 

Runner up for 2021 Selfies Book Awards U.S.

 

Praise for Adam Pelzman’s Troika (A Cuban Russian American Love
Story)

“Riveting drama and sensuous prose make for an unforgettable love
story … [a] beautifully rendered debut.” —Kirkus Reviews
(Starred Review)

“Pelzman’s talent and vision are formidable …”
—Publishers Weekly

“… transcendent, magnetic, intoxicating …”
—Bookreporter

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EXCERPT

 

There is a woman who lives in a building in New York City,

on the Upper West Side.

A man just a few years older lives in a building across the street.

These two people live at the same elevation,

the same height,

one hundred feet above the pavement,

above the crust of the earth.

They can see into each other’s apartments.

Every night before the woman gets into bed

she puts on a threadbare gray shirt.

The shirt is long and sleeveless and extends down to her knees.

She turns off the ceiling light

and then turns on a nightlight near her bed.

The light casts an amber glow reminiscent of a campfire.

The man in the other apartment wonders if the nightlight

is the woman’s response to a fear of the dark,

to a threat real or imagined,

an antidote of sorts.

After she turns on the nightlight

she looks briefly through her window.

Perhaps she is reflecting on another day passed.

Perhaps she is considering the quality of her life,

or the quantity that remains.

Perhaps she is scanning the dark street for signs of life,

for hope in any of its many forms.

 

About the Author

Adam Pelzman

Adam Pelzman was born in Seattle, raised in northern New Jersey, and has
spent most of his life in New York City. He studied Russian literature at
the University of Pennsylvania and went to law school at UCLA. His first
novel, Troika, was published by Penguin (Amy Einhorn Books) and later
republished by Jackson Heights Press as A Cuban Russian American Love Story.
He is also the author of The Papaya King (which Kirkus Reviews described as
“entrancing” and “deeply memorable”) and The Boy and the
Lake
(which is set in New Jersey during the late 1960s). His newest novel, A
Plague of Mercies
, is available for pre-order now.

 

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Literary Fiction, Novel in Verse

Date Published: June 7th, 2023

Publisher: Jackson Heights Press

 

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A lethal plague sweeps the globe. Millions have died. Survivors are
confined to their homes.

 

Gabriel passes his time in a small New York apartment on the city’s Upper
West Side. During the plodding solitude of the lockdown, he observes several
strangers in their nearby apartments. As he watches them struggle to survive
a world at risk of extinction, he wonders about their lives—where
they’re from, what they value, how they’re coping with a deadly contagion.
All alone, he develops a vague yet important connection to these people, an
affection for those who are struggling to survive isolation, fear and
looming death.

Told in powerful, spellbinding free verse, Gabriel’s observations grow
deeper and more elaborate as the endless days pass. But when he and a woman
from across the street begin to watch each other from afar, his imagination
begins to collide with the bleak reality of the times.

 

Praise for A Plague of Mercies

“… a captivatingly unconventional love story … brilliantly
observant poetry that captures a dark moment in our recent history.”
—Kirkus Reviews (Starred Review)

 

Praise for Adam Pelzman’s The Boy and the Lake

“Pelzman excels at creating an intensely atmospheric setting and
revealing how it shapes his characters’ identities and worldviews …
The narrative is full of rich, descriptive language … a
well-developed vintage setting and classic but thought-provoking
coming-of-age theme.” —Kirkus Reviews

 

Runner up for 2021 Selfies Book Awards U.S.

 

Praise for Adam Pelzman’s Troika (A Cuban Russian American Love
Story)

“Riveting drama and sensuous prose make for an unforgettable love
story … [a] beautifully rendered debut.” —Kirkus Reviews
(Starred Review)

“Pelzman’s talent and vision are formidable …”
—Publishers Weekly

“… transcendent, magnetic, intoxicating …”
—Bookreporter

About the Author

Adam Pelzman

Adam Pelzman was born in Seattle, raised in northern New Jersey, and has
spent most of his life in New York City. He studied Russian literature at
the University of Pennsylvania and went to law school at UCLA. His first
novel, Troika, was published by Penguin (Amy Einhorn Books) and later
republished by Jackson Heights Press as A Cuban Russian American Love Story.
He is also the author of The Papaya King (which Kirkus Reviews described as
“entrancing” and “deeply memorable”) and The Boy and the
Lake
(which is set in New Jersey during the late 1960s). His newest novel, A
Plague of Mercies
, is available for pre-order now.

 

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Literary Fiction

Date Published: October 26, 2022

Publisher: MindStir Media

 

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Sitting on a Rainbow: A 21st century Irish American Morality Tale, is a
story of severe loss and courageous resilience, financial markets and
malfeasances, Irish history and mythology, despicable greed and justice
rendered, and broken promises remaining to be mended.

Set in West Palm Beach, Fl. in 2013, or thereabouts, protagonist Patrick
Connelly (a.k.a. Paddy or Pat) is a mid-fifties paraplegic and veteran
stockbroker/financial adviser at a major Wall Street firm.

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Tossing his black Tumi shoulder bag across to the passenger seat, Patrick braced himself, thrust his folded chair in the open back, and pressed up and into his beloved silver bullet. Beloved for its utility and dependability, certainly not its sex appeal. A decade-old minivan is anything but sexy. He was sick to death of this same old routine. But what choice did he have? What reasonable choice, that is? He used to do it joyfully, for his family, his clients, and his own self-interest, of course. But not now, not like this. The idea of it had become nearly unbearable. 

Scooting down the brick-paved driveway, he glimpsed the early morning, sun-sparked chop of the Intracoastal Waterway before turning west past lush tropical foliage. Usually taking more interest in the architectural nuances of his historic neighborhood, he blew through it this day, his mood anything but leisured. He was late for a meeting. One he had no interest in attending. Dialing his Sirius radio to the Classic Rock channel, Richie Havens’s “Freedom” coursed through the cabin like an urgent cry. [1] Turning right at Olive and heading north, he moved along briskly. The heavier commute hadn’t finished showering yet. 

Patrick Connelly—Pat or Paddy to longtime friends—was moving steadily through his fifth decade and feeling every bit of it. Two grueling years spent in the entanglements of divorce had seemed like ten. The textured plaster and beamed interior walls of his Mizner-inspired house were lined with boxes he hadn’t yet labored to open. He retained the structure in the settlement only because Becky wasn’t interested, but its soul was long gone, in addition to most of the furniture. The process hadn’t been pain-free, that’s for sure. Going their separate ways was little different than their twenty-five years of wedded bliss had been. A daily grind where nothing came easy. Two well-meaning but mismatched people, each deserving better, he’d ascertained. 

In pursuit of that idealistic outcome, the brutal process of decoupling had left him wholly diminished, especially financially. That was the toughest part because finance was his business.

About the Author

James Patrick Rooney

First-time author James Patrick Rooney was born in Bronx, New York, raised
in Westchester County and has been living and working in Northern Palm Beach
County, Florida for his entire adult life. Young Jimmy’s first loves
included sports, particularly ice hockey, a variety of music and culture,
and his adopted homeland of Ireland.

When a hockey-related injury at age nineteen left him a paraplegic, he
turned his focus away from the physical toward developing his mind. Soon
after finishing college at then infamous “Suntan U,” he began a
successful thirty-year career in financial advisory with a major Wall Street
firm. About that same time, he met his enduring love – his family.
Married to Cindy ever since, together they’ve raised two superb
children, Patrick and Megan, who are now thriving young adults.

While managing an ambitious reading group (2005-2014), Jim was inspired to
write more competently (i.e., several college-level creative writing courses
and other modes of self-learning). To hone his skills he wrote short
stories, imaginary book reviews for his reading group, and later edited and
authored articles for the lifestyle website Throomers (2018-2020). After
stepping away from financial advisory in 2014, he began working on his first
novel. As is often said, starting with a few core ideas the story then wrote
itself.

Part memoir, part fiction, part fantasy, Sitting on a Rainbow is an honest
look at living with disability, while it also offers an insider’s view
of retail financial advisory and celebrates the current-day relevance of
Irish history and mythology. Jim hopes his lighthearted, romantic,
suspenseful, and cautionary morality tale will entertain all who come and
sit on the rainbow with him.

 

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