Meet Heather Kuehl, Author of Fade to Black

Today I introduce to you Heather Kuehl, author of southern urban fantasy literature, a new blend of fiction that infuses the pop literature scene with new blood. New blood? Yes, quite literally, because while there are vampires involved, unlike the usual bloodsucker, these have dragons and super powers to contend with as well. Read on...


From Heather...


I feel like I was always meant to write. In sixth grade I discovered that I wanted to be a published author, and wrote hundreds of stories trying to get there. I started writing high fantasy because of my love for dragons. Around high school I discovered vampires and switched genres, but something was missing. I loved the magic of fantasy just as much as I loved the vampires of a paranormal world. Why can’t I do both? I asked myself, and created a world where you can walk outside and see a dragon fly by above office buildings and get attacked by a vampire that night.

Fade to Black started with a music lyric by Sublime, “Life’s too short so love the ones you’ve got, cuz you might get run over or you might get shot.” I was in my college creative writing class, and the assignment was to write a short story based off the song lyric that you pulled out of a hat. The second I read that line, Sarah Vargas appeared in my head. She was enraged at the werewolf that changed her and wanted nothing more in life than to hunt it down and kill it. By the time the assignment was due I was on chapter three and was showing no signs of stopping. It was then that I knew that I had something special.

Somewhere in the middle, I think around chapter nine, I hit a brick wall. Sarah had gotten herself injected with liquid silver and now had the strength of a human. She didn’t like it, and it got to the point that I realized that the plot could go no where with her like this. So I sat down, read through what I had, found where it went wrong, and started a rough outline from there (by the way, I do rough outlines now from the start so I don’t run into problems like this). With the liquid silver edited out of the story, we could move on and before I knew it I was finished!

I knew it was going to be hard to get Fade to Black published. Paranormal was so popular, especially vampires. I hoped that I could make a name for myself by writing about werewolves rather than vamps, especially since I thought the vampire trend was on the decline (I cannot see the future, so I didn’t see Twilight-mania on the horizon). Another thing I thought would set me apart was setting my book in Charleston, SC. I live about 20 minutes away from Charleston, so I knew the area and could describe it well. It has history, dating back to the late 1600’s. Most vampire books I had read were set in a big city or a small town; Charleston was neither. I crossed my fingers and hoped for the best, but it was a long time coming. Agent after agent rejected my book until finally I started looking at smaller presses. After all, ebooks were quickly becoming popular. What better way to break out! Eternal Press accepted Fade to Black and it was published in October 2009.

However, Fade to Black was not my first novel. My first novel was written in high school and featured a woman named Starlette. She was reeling from the death of her parents and wanted to seek revenge on the sorceress that did it. Everything about it showed how inexperienced of a writer I was. The dialogue was unbelievable, the plot twists made no sense, and the characters were just plain dull. But the plot had potential. I rewrote it during National Novel Writing Month, changing much of the story and making it ten times better than the original. Starlette was now a strong independent women looking for her father than was kidnapped by a sorceress. I didn’t polish up that manuscript until Fade to Black was accepted for publication. You can read Starlette’s story now, entitled Promises to Keep. It was published by Eternal Press in March 2010. It’s my baby and I’m so happy that I was able to finish it and share it with you.

Working with Eternal Press has been a blast. I especially love how they do the cover art. Most publishers have someone make up the art and the writer has no say in how it looks. However, Eternal Press has you fill out a form asking you what the characters look like and what’s going on so they can make the art meaningful. The same artist did the cover art for all three of my books; Amanda Kelsey. She’s done such a wonderful job. Sometimes I think she can take a peek into my brain, it’s that spot on.

Speaking of cover art, the art of Malevolent Dead is just gorgeous! I love how it complements Fade to Black. Which is a good thing, since it is the sequel. It takes place six months after the events in Fade to Black.

Here’s the blurb: To save everyone, she'll have to do the unthinkable. Werewolf Sarah Vargas thought all she had to worry about was the Blood Moon Corporation's retaliation. She never dreamed that another vampire would arrive, disputing Damian's claim over the throne to Charleston, SC. To make matters worse, he is no ordinary vamp; he's a vampire necromancer. Exceptionally hard to kill, Sarah will have do what ever she can to keep those that she loves safe... Even if it means doing the unthinkable.

I hope to have Eternal Press accept the last book in this series, Blood Moon, but first I have to finish writing it. I have so many ideas for so many books, I’m sure you’ll see my name a lot over the next several years. Hopefully on the New York Times Bestseller list. Hey, a girl can dream!

I would like to end this was some advice for writers; never give up. Keep writing and know that your first draft is never perfect. Personally, I’d recommend staying away from self-publish markets. Not a lot of people take those seriously yet and it might hurt rather than help. Work hard and you can reach your dreams.


Grab your copy of Promises to Keep and Fade to Black today, available from Eternal Press and Amazon.com. Get your copy of Malevolent Dead from Eternal Press on September 7th.


Heather Kuehl is the author of Promises to Keep, Fade to Black (#1 Bestseller in fantasy eBooks on Fictionwise.com), and Malevolent Dead as well as numerous short stories and poems. Visit Heather online at http://www.heatherkuehl.com/, http://www.heatherkuehl.blogspot.com/ or follow her on Facebook or Twitter.

Think About It Thursday

Think About It Thursday: Favorite Time Period

Think About It Thursday is a brand new meme hosted by Rachel at 1001 Books. Every Thursday she will post a book related question to give us all some fodder for discussion. It's a fun way to integrate with the blogging world so jump on the circuit and participate with either a comment or a post on your own blog, preferably in response to and linking to another person's blog.

If you would like to participate, then either write a blog post with your answer or comment on mine or other posts you find on her site. Be sure to share your post link on Rachel's post so that we can check out your answers.

If you do not have a blog or wish to create a post, then please just answer the question in the comments for Rachel's current Think About It Thursday post.

This week's question:
Is there a specific time period you enjoy reading about more than others? Medieval, turn of the century, great depression, contemporary, futuristic? What time frame floats your boat?

My response:

Admittedly, Rachel has thrown us a hard question to answer, but that's what makes it such a great one.

I love all the time settings of any really good book, but there is one in particular that stands out for me as the era that lends itself to some of my favorite books. The first half of the twentieth century was a time that saw so much growth and turmoil that there was and still is a wealth of material to inspire a good story. From Ayn Rand, with her staunch support of the indiviual through the ideals of her character Howard Roark in The Fountainhead to the wildly absurd stories spun by Kurt Vonnegut, the first half of the twentieth century is covered in a variety of themes and genre.

I wouldn't have thought on first guess that my preference would have approached my contemporary time. In light of all the stories set during the days of kings and queens or cast forward into the future (Sci-Fi is one of my favorite genres), but on close examination, I'd have to say that stories pulling from the essence of that era as we've changed from a farming society to an industrialized society in the western world, are the ones that address the socio-political issues that I so like to ponder ...questions that arise...

...about human challenge (Hemmingway's The Old Man and the Sea)
....about wealth, love and dignity (F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby)
...about poverty and social deviance (John Steinbeck's Cannery Row)
...about the nature of man (William Faulkner's Light in August)
...about racism and justice (Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird)
...about the awakening of female sexual empowerment (D.H. Lawrence's Lady Chatterly's Lover)
...about the resounding pain of World War II (William Styron's Sophie's Choice)
...about the boundaries of human brutality (William Golding's The Lord of the Flies)
...about the alienated (Kurt Vonnegut's Cat's Cradle)


Just a short list to name a few.

Take the Monkeys and Run by Karen Cantwell -- Book Review

If you've been looking for a book that can make you smile, then Take the Monkeys and Run by Karen Cantwell, should be your next pick for a good read. I recently received a complimentary copy from the author in exchange for a review and the light, but engaging mystery was just what I needed ...not too heavy, not too light and a dose of exceptionally well written characters and action.

In Take the Monkeys and Run, the heroine could be your neighbor or any one of the typical "Soccer Moms" you might know. Barbara Marr is both a relatable and comical character, which is precisely how Karen Cantwell writes a murder mystery with a refreshing new edge. Cantwell is an adept writer with the ability to create a sense of real danger balanced with comic relief.

When Barbara's seemingly average neighborhood is disturbed by her bone chilling discovery in the house next door, and the incident is mysteriously precipitated by the appearance of monkeys climbing in her trees, life in Rustic Woods, Virginia becomes anything but normal. The scene emerges from the readers own sense of suburban life and awakens even the most dormant of detective in us all. More importantly it evokes the sleuthing skills of the main character, a love troubled soccer Mom, prone to grandeur fantasies about a career as a screen writer and an all too available former beau. As she follows a trail of clues, we wonder if she is seeking comic relief from a complicated separation from her husband, is she simply functioning as any normal citizen concerned for her neighborhood safety or is she feeding off of the adventure of it all. The answers come swiftly as we follow her through her otherwise lackluster life and the domestic scenes drawn through her very really portrayed relationships with her children, mother and neighbors compell us to participate with her and invest in the outcomes.

Karen Cantwell's writing doesn't dissapoint. The pace clips along and delivers at all the right points carrying us on an internal journey to answer the questions surrounding the crime. What could possibly bring monkeys into a common neighborhood and what is their connection to the mysteries surrounding the house that sticks out like a sore thumb, you know the one that everyone avoids, due to fear, disrepair or an unapproachable owner? Every neighborhood has one.

If you like a good mystery but want a refreshing new take with a bit of light fare, enough to make you laugh out loud, then Karen Cantwell's Take the Monkeys and Run will take you there.

Here's more about the book as well as this LINK to buy it...only .99 cents on Kindle!


Film lover Barbara Marr is a typical suburban mom living the typical suburban life in her sleepy little town of Rustic Woods, Virginia. Typical, that is until she sets out to find the missing link between a bizarre monkey sighting in her yard and the bone chilling middle-of-the-night fright fest at the strangely vacant house next door. When Barb talks her two friends into some seemingly innocent Charlie’s Angels-like sleuthing, they stumble upon way more than they bargained for and uncover a piece of neighborhood history that certain people would kill to keep on the cutting room floor.


Enter sexy PI Colt Baron, Barb’s ex-boyfriend who would love to be cast as new leading man, filling the role just vacated by her recently estranged husband, Howard. When Colt flies in from out of town to help Barb, events careen out of control and suddenly this mini-van driving mother of three becomes a major player in a treacherous and potentially deadly FBI undercover operation. It’s up to her now. With little time to spare, she and she alone, must summon the inner strength necessary to become a true action heroine and save the lives of those she loves. The question is can she get them out alive before the credits roll?

Format: Kindle Edition

File Size: 371 KB

Sold by: Amazon Digital Services

Language: English

ASIN: B003SE7O40

I give Take the Monkeys and Run 4 out of 5 possible magic books.

The role of “The Dead Pearl Diver” of Portland Maine in the novel Swimming With Wings

by Lee Libro

The most surprising thing that I learned while writing Swimming With Wings, was the common ground I found with Benjamin Paul Akers, the true life sculptor of "The Dead Pearl Diver” a statue that fascinates my main character, Lark Jennison.

In addition to being a sculptor, Akers was an art critic for The Atlantic Monthly during the 1860’s and his musings on literature and art resonate with my own. He proposes that artistic expression is a co-creation,  the artists communion with the universe, or what many call God. I found this to be a very progressive, even New Age-like idea for someone in the 1860’s. What made it most surprising was that I discovered this after I had already written most of the novel which addresses this idea.

Aker’s ideas about art are present in his most noted piece, "The Dead Pearl Diver” housed in the Portland Museum of Art in Portland, Maine.

Aker’s Dead Pearl Diver is a statue of a young man reclined across an embankment at the bottom of the sea. A finely sculpted fish net drapes across his lower torso and in the unseen negative space around the youthful figure is the “water” into which the viewer is momentarily allowed to enter. The statue is rendered so lifelike that while standing there next to the young man, one might imagine that he is still breathing. But all at once you realize he can't be breathing because he is under water, dead and a statue A paradox hits you. It's as if he has drowned and yet it is this very realization which gives life to the marble.

I believe that everything I feel when I look at "The Dead Pearl Diver" is exactly Aker’s intended effect. The sorrow for a fallen young man who sought nothing more than to retrieve a beautiful pearl from the ocean floor is a common reaction to the piece, but a transcending message lingers with the viewer. The artist’s conveyance of this expression can only be achieved through the art, but if words came close to doing so then consider this excerpt from Aker’s article published in the January 1860 issue of The Atlantic Monthly: “the foremost purpose of an artist should be to claim and take possession of the self.” He later says that “genius (artist) is exquisitely fastidious, and the man whom it possesses must live its life, or no life.” "The Dead Pearl Diver" is considered to be Akers crowning masterpiece and in it I see his own sacrifice for art. Indeed I imagine that the statue is actually Akers himself, who indeed died as a young man before he had yet to achieve even greater co-creations with God.

Lark Jennison, a main character in Swimming With Wings, is very much defined by a similar experience of discovering herself through art. Much of her make-up is tied directly to having lost her father in a drowning accident, but it is her obsession with “The Dead Pearl Diver” that hearkens to her greater, human struggle to determine her spirituality. The title Swimming with Wings is a play on this idea as if to say that we are truly winged spirits mired in the waters of being human. While this struggle is literally displayed through the religious polarity between Lark and her love, Peter Roma and also in the symbolic Jennison mansion which hides the truth about their father’s death, “The Dead Pearl Diver” takes the central spotlight in this theme. When one looks deeply, though it is mentioned in but a few passages, the statue resonates with these same themes and thereby plays a role as predominantly as any one of the living characters.

Introducing Laura Vosika

Today I'm pleased to host a guest post by Laura Vosika, author of the Blue Bells of Scotland, historical fiction with a time travel twist.

Music has opened many worlds to me—opera, ballet, musicals, even ships as I once played on the dock for visitors to the recreated tall ship Endeavor on its journey around the world. Never did I expect that music might draw me to medieval Scotland!

Had I played a different instrument, I might have ended up elsewhere. But I played trombone, and as all who love the instrument do, I spent many hours working on a piece called Blue Bells of Scotland. The streaming banners and noble deeds of the lyrics begged for a story. My favorite book had been about four siblings who go into a Scottish keep and come out in medieval Scotland. Along with the image of a musician brash enough to gamble away his livelihood in a poker game, a story began forming in my mind. I started researching Scottish battles for a setting conducive to streaming banners and noble deeds. Somewhere between the Picts and the Jacobites, I discovered the Battle of Bannockburn, and my brash musician’s fate was sealed.

It has been a wondeful experience delving into the lives of people like Robert the Bruce and his queen Elizabeth whose course in life was charted by England’s aggression, Isabella MacDuff who lived in a cage on castle battlements for years, and James Douglas, the fierce warrior whose name became synonymous with terror among the English—the Black Douglas—yet whose reputation among his own people leaves him known even today as the Good Sir James.

I have enjoyed discovering the ways in which these people are like us, and yet, through their circumstances and surroundings, so different. And I think this is the appeal of historical fiction, especially time travel. We’re curious whether people who dress and speak and live so differently are really the same under the surface trappings, and I think we’re curious who we ourselves would be, in their surroundings. How different would you be if you lived in a castle with hundreds of others, instead of in a single-family home with central heating? If you attended jousting instead of baseball games? If you’d lived before the Reformation?

In Blue Bells of Scotland, Shawn Kleiner and Niall Campbell face this question. Shawn, a modern American musical phenomenon, who wears his selfishness like a badge of honor, finds himself in a world without his money and power, where not everyone is cowed by him, and few are amused by his fun-loving, womanizing ways. Niall, a devout Highland warrior, wakes up in Shawn’s life of luxury, knowing, for the first time in his life, days of peace, time to play the harp, and freedom from fear of death, enjoying a world where no one will object to anything he wants to do.

Shawn and Niall, with nothing in common but their looks and love of music, wake up to new worlds. How would any of us change in such a vastly different situation? How do they?

Blue Bells of Scotland is the first of a trilogy exploring how each changes as a result of their experiences. Copies are available at my website, and through amazon. If you love Scotland or history, stop by my blog, The World of the Blue Bells Trilogy, where I write about the events, people, and places of Niall’s life in medieval Scotland. Right now, there’s a giveaway going on for celtic music by DruidSong. Leave a comment for a chance to win. Also, please feel free to follow me at twitter, or get updates on my writing at Night Writers on facebook.



Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Blue-Bells-Scotland-Trilogy-Book/dp/0984215107/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1280023466&sr=1-1

My site: http://www.bluebellstrilogy.com/

My blog: www.bluebellstrilogy.com/blog

Twitter: www.twitter.com/lauravosika

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Theresa Danley, Author of Effigy, Brings Historical Accuracy, Thrill and Adventure to the 2012 Legend

From Theresa Danley comes the exciting new novel, Effigy, an adventure/thriller sure to satisfy readers intrigued with archaelogy, history, and the mysticism surrounding the Mayan culture. Here on Literary Magic today is a special feature post coming to you directly from this innovative and talented writer, as she describes her inside thought process for developing the concept behind her novel. Effigy emerges heads above the plethora of 2012 related literature with a fresh approach, that is both engaging and tangible through Danley's very real application of her research on Mesoamerican culture, history and science to the fiction form.

So without further ado, I'm proud to present to you Theresa Danley and her novel, Effigy:

Written by Theresa Danley :

A serial killer is on the loose, a priceless Mesoamerican artifact suddenly disappears and a team of archaeologists must decipher a web of historical clues before a solar eclipse destroys the current world age.

Thus begins the south-of-the-border adventure in my archaeological thriller, Effigy. In keeping with history and science, the story mingles ancient Toltec cosmology and mythology while sweeping the reader from the pyramids of Teotihuacan to the Aztec sunstone and beyond.

This is my first attempt at an adventure/thriller and I’m very pleased with how the story fell into place. It all came about when I was researching for a different story set in the American southwest. My research led me to the ancient Toltec civilization of central Mexico. I was immediately intrigued with the calendars of the Mesoamericans, so I began digging deeper into their complex cosmology from which the plot for Effigy began to take shape.

As this idea evolved in my head, I knew the story couldn’t be as effective without a 2012 setting, but I didn’t want Effigy to be just another doomsday story. My first step was to turn away from the Mayan phenomenon that has made 2012 so popular and focus on other cultures that may have had an earlier influence on the Mayans. I wanted to structure the story on an archaeological framework while highlighting the mythology and astronomy behind all the 2012 hype.

When I began this project in 2005, I knew nothing about the cultures of Mexico. Almost every angle of the story had to be researched, right down to the details of each scene set in Mexico. Over time, Effigy slowly evolved as I devoured every tidbit of information I could pull from books, the internet and anything else I could get my hands on. Luckily, I love history so the research was only one piece of the exciting ride Effigy led me on.

I find history to be a wealth of inspiration and I love finding little known or unknown gems that are just waiting to be polished into a story. I also like a good adventure. If I can entertain my readers with an exciting adventure, that’s great. But if I can somehow enlighten them with a little science and history along the journey, then I know I’ve done my job!

Title: Effigy

Author: Theresa Danley

ISBN: 978-1-60313-785-0

Format: E-book for now (hopefully will go into print at a later date)

No. of Pages: 457

Available at:

Whiskey Creek Press http://www.whiskeycreekpress.com/store/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=805&zenid=87a293e8186d99a99e6b5f558e7dff7f

Amazon http://www.amazon.com/dp/B003MGL9CW/?tag=eb_ca-20

Fictionwise http://www.fictionwise.com/servlet/mw?t=book&bi=110619&si=0

Interview With Karen Cantwell, Author of Take the Monkeys and Run

It takes a talented author to conjure up fun and entertainment in storytelling. Karen Cantwell has achieved this in her novel Take the Monkeys and Run, her debut mystery novel infused with just the right amount of light humor to make a good balance.

Today Literary Magic is happy to share with you a recent interview with Karen as she shares with us her writing process and what first inspired her to write Take the Monkeys and Run:




LM: How did you write your novel?
KC: The idea for this novel came to me through a true story. My neighbor was the first to live on our street – her house, being built at the tail end of the 1960’s was the sole house on our street for many months. Just days after moving in, she was in the kitchen when her kids ran in screaming and excited. There were monkeys on her roof. Three of them. It took many phone calls to various officials before an unidentified van arrived. Mysterious men retrieved the monkeys and the van disappeared. No one ever came by to speak to her or tell her where the monkeys came from. I just loved this story. My writer’s mind took off and ran with it. I sat down to my computer with no outline, and just started writing. I had a vague idea of how it would end, but that was about it. The characters just showed up for me when I needed them. It was the most fun I’ve had writing in a long time. I finished that first draft in about three months. What appears now is the result of several more drafts and re-writes.

LM: What is your favorite genre and why? Name your favorite books. What elements are needed to make a story not just good, but gripping?
KC: I don’t think I have a favorite genre. I tend to write mysteries and suspense because it is an easy and fun form for me to write in, but I don’t read exclusively in that genre at all. My favorite books are those that have GREAT characters. Characters with character. (smile) Years ago I remember reading John Irving’s Cider House Rules. It was the first John Irving I had ever read. When I finished the book, I was actually sad, because I felt those characters had become my friends. I KNEW them. I loved them. Many of his other novels have that same sense of character. After character, I want to read a book with a plot that pulls me effortlessly through the book. More recently, I think The Help by Kathryn Stockett has both of these elements – character and plot. Finally, I love humor. Humor feeds the soul. Stories that get bogged down in the serious depress me. I very specifically work to incorporate these three elements into my own writing every time I write, whether it’s a short story or a novel.

LM: What else have you written?
KC: Before Take the Monkeys and Run, I had written many short stories and a few one-act plays. My short story, “The Recollections of Rosabelle Raines,” was published in the mystery anthology, Chesapeake Crimes: They Had it Comin’ (Wildside Press, 2010) and another short story that I’m very proud of, “Little Red Boots,” won the Editor’s Choice Award in the short story competition at the online magazine, TheNovelette.com. Currently I am working simultaneously on the second in the Barbara Marr Murder Mystery series – Citizen Insane – as well as a Barbara Marr short story collection. Meanwhile, simmering on the back burner of my writing mind is a third Barbara Marr novel, Silenced by the Yams, and a stand-alone suspense title, Blurred Visions, about an optometrist who can “see” the future.

LM: What aspect of writing do I find most difficult?
KC: Re-writing. It has to be done. I never look forward to it. Probably because it just isn’t as fun as that first time you sit down and create that story and those characters out of thin air. For me that’s electric. Exciting. It’s why I write. Re-writing – not so much! Although, I have to admit, when the re-write is done, the victory is immensely satisfying.

LM:  Please summarize your book.

KC: I think the book description of Take the Monkeys and Run says it best:

Film lover Barbara Marr is a typical suburban mom living the typical suburban life in her sleepy little town of Rustic Woods, Virginia. Typical, that is until she sets out to find the missing link between a bizarre monkey sighting in her yard and the bone chilling middle-of-the-night fright fest at the strangely vacant house next door. When Barb talks her two friends into some seemingly innocent Charlie’s Angels-like sleuthing, they stumble upon way more than they bargained for and uncover a piece of neighborhood history that certain people would kill to keep on the cutting room floor.

Enter sexy PI Colt Baron, Barb’s ex-boyfriend who would love to be cast as new leading man, filling the role just vacated by her recently estranged husband, Howard. When Colt flies in from out of town to help Barb, events careen out of control and suddenly this mini-van driving mother of three becomes a major player in a treacherous and potentially deadly FBI undercover operation. It’s up to her now. With little time to spare, she and she alone, must summon the inner strength necessary to become a true action heroine and save the lives of those she loves. The question is can she get them out alive before the credits roll?

It’s a crazy story with some crazy characters and I hope that readers will stay hooked to the very end and think, “Wow – that was FUN” when they’ve finished. If that happens, I’ve accomplished my goal. (smile)

LM: What did you have to research?
KC: I did internet research on testing labs and specifically labs that do testing on monkeys. That was very sad. Take the Monkeys and Run is a funny story, but the reality of animal testing is NOT. I hope my readers come away with that understanding. I also didn’t know a thing about the FBI, so I bought a couple of books on “The Bureau” as we call it here in Northern Virginia. (Actually, I think even “The Bureau” calls it “The Bureau.”) Lastly, I purchased the ever helpful, Mafia for Dummies. Boy, did I learn a lot. Yikes.

LM: Why do you write?
KC: That’s an easy answer. I write to entertain. And if I do that, I’m a happy lady.

LM:  Who are some of your favorite authors?
KC: I studied Literature in college and that’s where I came to love both Charles Dickens and Mark Twain. I already mentioned John Irving and Kathryn Stockett. Add to those, Tom Robbins (talk about characters with character!), Janet Evanovich, Jennifer Weiner, Barbara Kingsolver and ….Dr. Seuss. Of course there are more, but that’s a good start.

Take the Monkeys and Run is available at: