The Character as Storyteller

Some people work best from an outline and I can certainly understand the role of structure in writing. When I sit down to write a story I have a loose outline generally including the character arc for the major players and what needs to have happened by the end. On more than one occasion I have been traveling down a road where I believed I knew what was around the corner only to be utterly surprised by the character having none of it. It's a…

Son of Mine: Redemption, Volume III

             Aaron’s father confronts his past demons and falls further into darkness and despair.   It will take a miracle for Aaron and his brother to find out the truth and set the family on a path of faith and forgiveness.

            As our journey of the DeAngelis family comes to a close, we visit one man’s tragic past…

Following unprecedented climatic changes, resultant pestilence and war brought the world into chaos. Eventually, each nation surrendered its sovereignty to form a global democracy, initially known as The Accord. However, the democratic government proved too weak and was soon replaced by a faux democratic rule. 

The year is 2073, and current…

From the author of Touched By All Creatures: Doctoring Animals in the Pennsylvania Dutch Country and Lowell: The True Story of an Existential Pig and Lions & Tigers & Mares—Oh, My! comes another riotous book of veterinary adventures.  

There’s a Bear in the Basement serves the reader a cocktail of humor, inspiration, and…

You: How did you get started writing for publication, Jeanette?

Jen: When my son was a baby, I wrote several poems for La Leche League, which they published in their international calendars.  I was thrilled to see my work in print, delighted that people all over the globe were reading it. LLL offered me a job editing the newsletter for our local region, but I turned them down, since I had two small children at the time, and wanted to devote all…

DECEITFUL THINGS SERIES BOOK II

D   r   e   a   d   f   u   l       P   l   a   c   e   s

When the horrifying images that Carter Dawson has been seeing for days finally come for him in the middle of the night, he clings to a new found hope deposited in him from a supernatural apparition.  On a quest to discover the root cause of his spiritual awakening, he visits a psychic named Balera…

REST THEIR SOULS: TWO THOUSAND YEARS OF GOD-PRAISING LAST WORDS―Last Words and Prayers to Rest Their Souls By

by Salvador SeBasco



Throughout the generations, across the world, no matter what culture one was born into, so many people, when their loved ones pass away, focus on the feelings of loss and forget to pray (truly pray) for that person.…

Trestle Press presents Sam Lang’s Reprisal, a digital short story series.

Reprisal is a dying town built on secrets and haunted by a mysterious shadow since its beginnings.

Eddie Newport must survive one night in this town with his oldest friend as a bus full of escaped murderers breaks down on Main Street.

Vengeance is on this bus. The prison transport…

Hi! First off my wife Sarah and I wish to thank everyone that has purchased our stories thus far. We are both humbled, happy and amazed at the response. We fully intend to deliver the best stories we possibly can and also have some great recipes for you. To date there are two stories, “Volume 1-TheEpiphany” and “Volume 2- Forgiveness”, in the series we have started…

Amish Knitting Circle: Complete Series is Volume 1-10 of a continuing short story series. Granny Weaver is spinning wool and decides to start a knitting circle, believing the women on her heart would be stronger if spun together. She invites five women, all with various issues such as infertility, poor body image and marital problems and haunting secrets. As they come…

 A gifted but unloved child from a planet light years from Earth and 600 years in the future is accidentally transported to Wyoming in 1937, where he's adopted by a female scientist who has chosen to study wolves in the wilderness, far from the Depression and the prejudices women in that era faced.

  Alan Zendell spent more than thirty years as a scientist, aerospace…

Interview with Gabriel Celtic

JT: Hello!

This is JT Lewis coming to you from beautiful Southeast Indiana!

(Crickets chirping)

Wha?

(Dammit)

Ok….I know you all came here for my interview with Gabriel Celtic, but I just found out…

   Pepper Jones just can’t help it. Even driving to work leads her into a mystery. Pulling over to help a woman acting crazy, she is immediately thrown into a life and death situation with her mysterious partner Jacob Longstreet. Racing through the woods at full speed, will they find a missing child before it’s too late?

   After that, a little-known classmate seeks…

1.  I teach English grammar and composition at a community college.

2.  I hate to talk; I prefer to write--odd how I became a teacher.

3.  I grew up on a farm.  I can tell anyone anything about cropping tobacco, the old-fashioned way.

4.  I met Michael Jordan, Sam Perkins, Kenny Smith, and Brad Daugherty in college before they became super…

Mark Miller’s educational and entertaining series Small World Global Protection Agency.

This new series is aimed at Young Readers anywhere from 3^rd to 6^th grade and will be available only in eBook from Trestle Press. The monthly short stories will be reminiscent of the adventure serials of the 1940’s with a contemporary setting. Each…

Gilbert A. Zanni has wanted to be a writer since his early teens. Now he’s found time to put some of his many ideas on paper, and has published – as an eBook – his first novel.

Called “Deceitful Things,” the novella is actually the first part of a trilogy.

Just released at the end of February at Amazon.com for Kindle and B&N.com for the…

FBI Agent Douglas and NYPD Detecitve Zucarelli are out on the streets.

They are face to face with the drug cartel couriers.

Decisions must be made in seconds.

What does the evidence mean?

***Remember this is a work of fiction, but due to the author’s incredible ability to tell a story, this may seem all too real. We assure you, none of it…

5 Things to know about Floyd Buck Periwinkle

1. I play the drums in the band “Behind the Eight Ball” and sing lead vocals on a number of the songs. Yes we are a cover band, but we have a great time and meet a lot of wonderful people.
2. By trade I am a Lawn Care Technician and am State Certified in a number of areas: Lawns, Trees and Shrubs, and…

Please help us pick the cover for the upcoming print book for Amazon Kindle Best-Selling Author Big Daddy Abel. Either leave a comment here, Big Daddy Abel’s Facebook wall ,Trestle Press Facebook wall or email me directly-gelati.giovanni@gmail.com

The book will be released April 21,2012. Here are the Two…

  5 Things others don’t know about me:

-         I am fluent in Russian

-         I competed in the 2002 NCAA Track and Field Championships in the 200 meter dash and 4x100 meter relay

-         The tip of my right ring finger was cut off by a sliding glass door when I was two years old

-         I have tried out for the TV shows Survivor…