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Philip Abbondanza
Philip Abbondanza is a college graduate with a BA degree in Anthropology, with minors in Greek and Roman Classics from CUNY Brooklyn College, a retired Certified Respiratory Thera-pist and author of several fiction books, including The Sheepshead Bay Horror, The Roots of Happiness, several science fiction short stories, the sci-fi novella Sea Story, and the three books of The China Trilogy-White Lily, China Sword, and China Storm. He had also been a stringer for the Respiratory Therapy paper Respiratory Advance. He is also a United States Air Force veteran. He served 13 years as a substitute teacher for the Florida Lee County Board of Education and was a senior member of the Dolphin Squadron of the Civilian Air Patrol. What brought him to write what he calls his magnum opus was the interpretation of a dream segment that inspired him to write the story. “I knew I had a book in me someplace, but I didn’t quite know what it would be until I started to write it. I knew that what I dreamt would be part of it. Then, once I started to write, I couldn’t stop; my muse had complete control. It was like my hand had a mind of its own, so I let it write whatever it wanted. My sources were drawn from materials that I had been exposed to all my life, some of them gleaned from stories from my family who served in WWII, some from myriad reading and movies, some from the headlines of the 50s, 60s, and 70s that helped with my second and third book, China Sword and China Storm.
Richard Allen
Lara Anderson
Rita Angelini
Curt Ayers
C. P. TERTIUS is a pseudonym for a former military officer, corporate executive and university professor who is a semiprofessional musician, blue-water sailor and adventure traveler. He has attained both civilian and military graduate and postgraduate diplomas and has been published technically under an alias. His travels have taken him around the globe several times with major stints in Latin America, Europe and Asia and he has resided in South-East Asia for several years. He is the author of the travel, adventure, romance novel, "Every Man Truly Lives Alone", as well as "Tales from Home & Around the Globe" and "More Tales from Home & Around the Globe".
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John Benedict
This is my first book and I am 87 years old. It was published in the last month. I have received 50 copies and am beginning to promote the book anyway that I can. My life was quite adventurous- - One room schoolhouse with 8 grades - 13 in my graduating class in High School - Never knew anyone with a college degree except the Pastor and doctor - Graduated from University of Nebraska with an EE degree - Lived in 5 major cities - Started two companies - Had 4 surgeries including prostate cancer - Married for 35 years and had 2 children - In three years in the mid 90’s lost my company with 25 employees that I had built for 21 years (embezzlement and financial malfeasance), had prostate cancer surgery, had an unexpected divorce, and a brief bout with depression - Started another company and worked full time for 20 years beginning in 1997 - Cut back to semi-retired at 80 but by then had become financially comfortable again - Belonged to many churches, sports and political organizations Bet you can guess what the book is about! What I did right and what I should have done had I known. Book is called Encyclopedia of the Abundant Life and it covers 19 chapters of life starting with education and ending with aging. The neat thing about growing old is that you now see how it all turned out.
James Bennett
Daphnie Bercher
Joann Berger
Jeff Bogart
Lee Bomgaars
Bonnie Bozzo
J.C. Bruce
J.C. Bruce is a journalist and author of a series of books recounting the misadventures of Alexander Strange, America's only reporter covering news of the weird on a full-time basis. He also writes a column, Essential News, for Florida Weekly. The six books chronicling Strange’s adventures are, in sequence, THE STRANGE FILES, FLORIDA MAN, GET STRANGE, STRANGE CURRENTS, MISTER MANNERS, and STRANGE TIMING. They are available as hardcovers, trade paperbacks and eBooks at all major online book retailers. MISTER MANNERS and STRANGE TIMING are also available as audiobooks. Recently, STRANGE TIMING was named Book of the Year and won two Gold Medals in the annual Royal Palm Literary Awards sponsored by the Florida Writers Association. It also won the Bronze Medal in the Florida Book Awards and was a Finalist in the national Indie Book Awards. In previous years, STRANGE CURRENTS, GET STRANGE, and MISTER MANNERS received top honors in the Royal Palm Literary Awards for Best Mysteries. MISTER MANNERS was also honored by the Florida Authors and Publishers Association. Bruce also blogs on his website (jcbruce.com) and social media about current affairs, news of the weird, arts, culture, politics,, books, movies–basically anything that strikes his fancy. He has more than a thousand subscribers to his monthly newsletter on Substack. He was the journalist-in-residence at Wright State University in Dayton, Ohio, and, earlier in his newspaper career, he served as an editor, managing editor, or reporter at, among other places, the Naples Daily News, the Dayton Daily News, the Austin American-Statesman, the Longview News-Journal, the Mesa Tribune, the Miami Herald, the Palm Beach Post, the St. Petersburg Times (now the Tampa Bay Times) and the Tampa Times (now deceased). Once, he even served as the press secretary in Washington, D.C. for a congressman who ended up getting indicted and sent to prison. This job hopping has allowed him to experience varied swaths of our great country, sometimes without flashing blue lights in the rear view mirror. (Next to the law of gravity, his favorite statute is the one about limitations.) At various times along this journey, he nailed down a Master of Arts degree from Antioch University, a bachelor’s degree from St. Edward’s University, and also served time at the University of South Florida. A perpetual joiner, he's a member or has been a member of various professional organizations including the Mystery Writers of America, International Thriller Writers, Sisters in Crime, the American Society of News Editors, the Society of Professional Journalists, Investigative Reporters and Editors, and the Florida Writers Association. Bruce is a former director of the Dayton Literary Peace Prize and a former director (and lecturer) for the Antioch Writers’ Workshop. He's served as a juror for the Pulitzer Prizes and the National Journalism Awards.
