Dear Reader, Love Michael Okon

 

Dear Reader,

From the bottom of my heart, thank you for taking the time and reading what was in my head just a few months ago.

I’ve been writing as far back as I could remember, specifically screenplays. After I learned about self-publishing, I began turning my scripts into novels under a pen name. Specifically, for my book Monsterland, in 2015, I was watching an 80s & 90s movie marathon with my kids – The Goonies, Gremlins, Back to the Future, Jurassic Park, etc… I wrote the ghost novels, I wrote the witches novels, but I wanted to write a monster novel. After watching all these films, it literally popped into my head – why isn’t there a theme park with zombies. I called my brother and told him about my idea and he flat out said no. It has to be a theme park with werewolves, vampires AND zombies. I started beating out the story that night. 

My mom is my publicity manager and she blitzed the bloggers with my book. That fall I was reading a book called Selling a Screenplay by Syd Field. In the book, there was an entertainment attorney named Susan Grode who seemed very knowledgeable about the publishing and film industry. I told myself, when I receive my first contract, I’m going to reach out to her to see if she could help me. About two months later, I received a post on Facebook from an agent in London who asked to represent me. I said sure and asked him to send me a contract. I emailed Susan and introduced myself and mentioned that I had someone who wanted to rep me and I was hoping she could read this contract. She told me before I sign with this London agent, why don’t I meet her friend in Brooklyn, an agent named Nick Mullendore with Vertical Ink Literary Agency. I met Nick for lunch and he signed me that day as his client. That evening, Susan brought me on as her client as well. Nick began trying to sell my book Monsterland to the big publishers and, as expected, it was rejected. Throughout his attempts of selling, he had a call with a film agent and he was pitching her a romance novel. She said she wasn’t really into romance and was looking for something with monsters. He sent her my book Monsterland, she read it over a weekend, and we had a call that Monday. She told Nick and me if we get the book published, she will get it into a producer’s hands to make into a film. Nick found a publisher called WordFire Press owned by Kevin J. Anderson, who has written all the Star Wars and Dune canon books. WordFire signed me to a two-book deal for Monsterland 1 & 2. After the deal was signed, my film agent did what she promised and got my book into the hands of a billion-dollar grossing producer who is now shopping my book to certain studios.  In two years, I went from a self-published author, to a published author with a literary agent, an entertainment attorney, a film agent, a two-book publishing deal, a publicist, and a producer who is interested in turning my book to a film. It’s been one wild ride, to say the least. 

Love, Michael Okon

 

Michael Okon is an award-winning and best-selling author of multiple genres, including paranormal, thriller, horror, action/adventure, and self-help. He graduated from Long Island University with a degree in English and then later received his MBA in business and finance. Coming from a family of writers, he has storytelling in his DNA. Michael has been writing from as far back as he can remember, his inspiration being his love for films and their impact on his life. From the time he saw The Goonies, he was hooked on the idea of entertaining people through unforgettable characters.

Michael is a lifelong movie buff, a music playlist aficionado, and a sucker for self-help books. He lives on the North Shore of Long Island with his wife and children.

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Logan Osborne has spent his life chasing the shadows of the past.

As a child, he watched helplessly as his father was snatched from a fishing boat by what he swore was a mermaid. No one believed him then. No one believes him now.

Determined to prove that mythical creatures exist, Logan is drawn back to the small coastal town where his nightmares began after another mysterious disappearance stirs the waters.

Teaming up with his pragmatic colleague Elliot Sheppard and his fiercely loyal friend Penny Swanson, Logan dives headfirst into an adventure packed with danger and deception. As they dig deeper, the trio faces resistance at every turn—a secretive agency with its own agenda, a suspiciously unhelpful police force, and Logan’s old flame, who may know more than she’s letting on.

What they uncover is far darker and more terrifying than Logan ever imagined: the truth about his father, the secrets of Minatuck, and the horrifying reality of the Mermaid of the Hamptons.

Will Logan and his friends expose the lies that have haunted him for years, or will they be Dragged Down Deep into the swampy, secretive underbelly of a town that guards its mysteries with deadly intent?

Dragged Down Deep is available at Amazon.

Dear Reader, Love Caitlin Rother

 

Dear Reader,

This book is about serial killer Wayne Adam Ford, a long-haul trucker who raped and killed four women, dismembered two of them, then did the rare deed of turning himself in so he wouldn’t kill again. I wrote this book because I was intrigued to learn more about the only serial killer I know of to surrender to authorities like this. As I dug deeper into this case, I found Ford to be a fascinating case study in what makes a sexual predator. 

I’m the New York Times bestselling author of 15 books, the majority of which are true crime books. My characters are not depicted in black and white terms, or as all good vs. all evil, because I don’t see the world that way. We live in a world of gray. I don’t believe mentally people are evil. They’re sick. 

So, it shouldn’t surprise you that I present Ford’s positive characteristics along with his telling interview sessions with detectives, during which he cries, confuses details about the more than 50 women he had rough sex with, including the four whom he choked out, but could not be brought back with CPR. Those interviews illustrate just how psychologically disturbed this man really is, and that he is aware of that. Please know that I’m not rationalizing or sympathizing with what he did to those women, I’m merely explaining it so you, the reader, can understand him better. 

Ford’s childhood surely had a formative influence on his actions later in life. His father, who worked in Army intelligence, was seen as intimidating and aggressive. His mother, who was apparently bipolar, tried to kill herself several times, and was promiscuous while her husband was away on intelligence missions. She told Ford that he was the product of his father raping her, which the father denies, but the fact is that Ford grew up believing that. 

Ford also joined the military. While he was a 19-year-old Marine, stationed at the El Toro base in Orange County, California, he stopped on the freeway to help a car crash victim. While he was holding his hand against the victim’s neck to stop the bleeding, he was hit by a drunk driver and knocked 40 feet down an embankment, suffering a severe head injury that kept him in the ICU for nine days. Ford was an odd bird and liked kinky sex with his girlfriend before the head injury, but according to his brother, this injury caused significant changes to his personality, and only heightened those urges, which were later diagnosed as paraphilias (think fetishes x 10). While Ford was still in the military, he also experienced a mental breakdown, during which he had to be restrained, administered Haldol, and hospitalized. He also sang a mean Elvis tune at karaoke and drove a school bus. Not what you’d expect in a serial killer, right? 

I don’t write books I want to read, but one word of caution. This is my second-bestselling title, but it is more gruesome than most of my other books, due to the subject matter. Still, I don’t go out of my way to present gore or violent details, just the opposite. So, for the hard-core true crime lovers, this book should be right up your alley. Same for those who are interested in learning about the dark side of the human condition. And for all readers, I want you to know that this updated re-released edition has 32 new pages of case developments that make for a happy ending, if there is such a thing in a book about a serial killer: Ford’s first victim, whom he dismembered, was recently identified via genetic genealogy as Kerry Anne Cummings—25 years after she went missing and was murdered. So, now Kerry has her name back, her family has closure, and I was able to pay a tribute to who she was before she became Ford’s victim, which I wasn’t able to do in the original edition. 

I hope you enjoy the book. If you did, I always enjoy hearing from readers!

For more information about me and my books, please go to my website, https://caitlinrother.com, or find me on social media. 

New York Times bestselling author Caitlin Rother has written or co-authored 15 books, ranging from narrative non-fiction crime to thrillers and memoir. Among her recent titles is an updated edition of BODY PARTS with 32 pages of new developments about the Wayne Adam Ford case, and DEATH ON OCEAN BOULEVARD, the story of the Rebecca Zahau death case. Coming out in June is DOWN TO THE BONE, about the McStay family murders, and in 2026, DOPAMINE FIX, the first in a two-book deal for a new crime fiction series with Thomas & Mercer. An award-winning investigative reporter for 19 years, Rother’s stories have been published in Cosmopolitan, the Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, The San Diego Union Tribune, The Boston Globe, Chicago Tribune, and The Daily Beast. Her more than 250 TV, radio and podcast appearances include 20/20, People Magazine Investigates, Crime Watch Daily, Australia’s World News, and numerous shows on Netflix, Investigation Discovery, Lifetime, HLN and REELZ. A popular public speaker, she also works as a writing-research coach-consultant and website designer. For fun, she binges on limited series, swims, and plays keyboards and sings in a jazzy bluesy trio called In the Lounge with her partner. Rother earned a bachelor’s in psychology from UC Berkeley and a master’s in journalism from Northwestern University. 

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BODY PARTS takes a deep psychological look at serial killer Wayne Adam Ford. A long-haul trucker, Ford confessed to picking up dozens of prostitutes and troubled women along California roads. He tortured and repeatedly choked them during sex, revived them with CPR, then did it again. Only four of them didn’t survive, he said, claiming that was an accident. After dismembering two of his victims, he dumped their bodies in the California Aqueduct and other waterways in Humboldt, Kern, San Joaquin, and San Bernardino Counties. Ford’s complex death penalty case made national news because he is one of the only serial killers to turn himself in and help authorities identify his victims. He was recently transferred from death row at San Quentin to a state prison in San Luis Obispo.  

Originally released in March 2009, this new edition of BODY PARTS has been updated with 32 pages of new developments about the identification of Kerry Anne Cummings, Ford’s first victim, whom he dismembered and who went unidentified for 25 years. If there is such a thing as a happy ending to a book about a serial killer, this is it. The new material takes the reader through the investigative process involved in solving a cold case like this one so many years after the fact. Kerry now has her name back and her family has closure after so many years of not knowing what happened to her, after being prevented from reporting her missing to police because she was using drugs. Rother is the first to interview the Cummings family about Kerry and her troubled life before she went missing in late 1997. 

Overall, the book is based on exclusive information Rother uncovered during her extensive research and exclusive interviews with Ford’s father and brother. She also interviewed, the prosecutor, sheriff’s detectives from all four counties, the defense’s sole investigator, and a woman who survived after being raped and tortured by Ford.  By obtaining a court order to release sealed court files and digging through boxes of evidence and investigators’ reports, Rother was able to paint comprehensive and compelling portraits of Ford, his family and his victims. Rother’s book shows readers how Ford’s family dynamics, his severe head injury, his bouts of mental illness, and his compulsive sexual perversions led to his tragic killing spree, tearful confessions, and dramatic trial.

This is a re-release with 32 pages of new developments about the recent identification of Ford’s first victim, Kerry Anne Cummings, through genetic genealogy 25 years after her murder. So, now she has her name back and her family has closure.

BODY PARTS is available at Amazon at https://www.amazon.com/Body-Parts-Serial-Killers-Compulsions/dp/0806543914.

Dear Reader, Love Kenneth A. Baldwin

 

Dear Reader,

We’re different, you and I. Maybe you remember the first time a grown-up told you that magic was just pretend. I do. When they said it, something didn’t sit well in me. How could grown-ups, people who admittedly didn’t even have an answer to all of a child’s many probing questions about the world, have any credibility to say magic was only pretend?

When I was an adolescent, I set out on a crusade to find where dragons came from. Yes, they told me dragons were only make-believe. But if that were true, why did they seem to pop up everywhere from every part of the world with only minor variations in their description? 

As I got older, I learned the truth about magic is more disappointing than it being make-believe. No. The truth of magic is that it’s right under our noses, and we choose to ignore it. But if you listen closely, at times, you can hear it sing.

It sang for me as I read the diaries of a French aero captain detailing his commission in 1916. He led a group of American volunteer combat pilots called the Lafayette Escadrille. The United States had yet to enter the WWI, but for some reason, magical or otherwise, this group of young men left all behind to risk their lives flying in airplanes and fight in a war for a country not their own. Airplanes had only been invented about ten years prior, but Germany, England, and France were already busy strapping machine guns to their wings. 

What do you call something like that? Courage? Insanity? Several of these pilots abandoned an Ivy League education. Some came from much humbler backgrounds. All of them were drawn to the call of adventure–a call with a scientifically immeasurable characteristics that yield tangible, world-changing consequences.

The Lafayette Escadrille’s celebrity contributed in great part to turning the tide of US public opinion about WWI, leading to its eventual alliance with the Triple Entente.

The hearts and souls of pilots like those men are what power the magic system in my novel series, The Shards of Lafayette. The story follows a young man, Marcus Dewar, who wants more than anything to be like his heroes from the Lafayette Escadrille, but despite being at war for years, can’t bring himself to take the life of another human being. His best friend, Jane Turner, is an aviation mechanic known for her unorthodox (pronounced magical) aircraft repairs. And despite her better judgment, she still believes she can protect her loved ones from the effects of the conflict.

The story celebrates the people and hearts that made history, and allows readers an opportunity to dive into a magic that hinges on what makes human nature so very powerful, in a time when it was almost lost.

If you pick up a copy, I hope that you’ll fall in love with the courage and contradictions of the people that populated one of history’s most enigmatic and important eras. I know I did.

Love, 

Kenneth A. Baldwin

 

Kenneth A. Baldwin writes stories that blur the lines between history, magic, dreams, and reality. He loves finding oddities in history books with unbelievable tales or unexplained phenomena. His first series, The Luella Winthrop Trilogy, takes place during just such a time when late 19th-century Victorians struggled to balance a surge of occultism and never-before-seen scientific advancements.

Before he started writing novels, Kenny paid his way through law school by writing, performing, and teaching humor. You can still catch him on stage or in corners of the Internet that feature sketch and improv comedy. Now, he lives nestled under the Wasatch Mountains with his wonderful wife, sons, and Golden Retriever.

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1918. France. Reports of unexplained rogue attacks have come in from both sides of the Western Front.

When Marcus Dewar is tasked with investigating the aerial bombardments, it’s not because of his aviation record. To make a name for himself, he will have to escort his best friend, a woman named Jane Turner known for her witchlike repairs on damaged aircraft, through some of the war’s most dangerous battle zones.

But when they learn the rogue pilots seek out arcane devices filled with magic powerful enough to alter the war, it will take more than some hedgewitch tactics and smart flying to return with their lives.

And in a conflict that values human life so little, that’s the least they have to lose.

The Shards of Lafayette: Drops of Glass Book 1 is available at Amazon at https://www.amazon.com/Drops-Glass-Magic-Shards-Lafayette-ebook/dp/B0C42B144X .

Dear Reader, Love Kimberly Cole

 

Dear Reader,

If you’re searching for a simple bump in the night or a teardrop falling from the sky, this is not your story. But if you seek adventures beyond the unknown—where time bends, danger lurks, and heroes are forged—then step into a mysterious portal to a kingdom on the brink of destruction. This is more than an adventure; it’s a fight for courage, unity, and hope.

I invite you to take an unfamiliar step, reach within yourself, stir up your God-given gifts, and step into your destiny—a journey that often requires great faith. So, let’s embark together. Pack your bags, fall in line, and follow me, because once you move forward, there is no turning back.

Love,

Kimberly Cole

 

 

Kimberly Cole was born in Baltimore and raised in Millersville, Maryland. She grew up in a very small home with six brothers and sisters. This was the beginning of where the fuse was lit with great expectations of creating stories to be read throughout the world. She completed high school at Old Mill High. Her hobbies are writing novels and reading good books. She finds it an enjoyment to help others by giving to charities, because they go to places she cannot be and charities impact lives which she may never get to see.  Ms. Cole’s favorite authors are C.S. Lewis (The Chronicles of Narnia) and Frank Peretti (Piercing the Darkness). 

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Liana, a widowed mother of Alicia and Emily, is in a desperate situation. After her car breaks down on a desolate road, she feels lucky to have her daughter’s friend Roger with them. As they begin a trek to seek help, Liana has no idea that she, her daughters, and Roger are all about to embark on the adventure of their lives. After the group finally reaches the vast doors of a mansion in the middle of nowhere, they are greeted by an eerie butler, who leads them to Sir Bronze Pierce, the master of the mansion who soon captivates Liana with his charming personality. Roger and the rest of the group are slowly drawn, one-by-one, through a portal into a different time, where they are soon thrust into a battle with a wicked warlord whose ultimate goal is complete domination. It is up to Alicia, Roger, and Emily to bring back harmony and peace to these strange kingdoms. As the three young people seek the help of the king’s court — a loyal Griffin, a powerhouse rock man, and other valiant warriors– they must unite against the forces of a warlord intent on destroying anyone who stands in his way.

Praise:

“During the late hours of the night, Roger woke up abruptly. He thought he was dreaming; an evil presence drew him out of his bed and into the hallway. He walked through all kinds of twists and turns and stopped suddenly in front of a door needing a repainting…In the center was a narrow slide with a small opening. ‘Look and see! Look and see!’ the voices called him out and urged him on. Bit-by-bit, Roger looked into the slot…” So begins a suspenseful, page-turning, dark fantasy read in the spirit of work like Terry Brooks, Stephen King, Gary Dauberman, and even the author’s literary inspiration, C.S. Lewis, who shares the author’s faith.

What Kimberly Cole does not have in terms of out-and-out, one hundred percent originality, she more than makes up for in terms of overall ideological presentation, characterization, and rich, immersive worldbuilding. You really feel like you’re experiencing a fast-paced fever dream if you delve into the text. There really is this sense of total, emotive immersion in the stakes at play, likely coming from the decidedly personal origins of the work. Cole herself clearly has decided to make this her passion project. The choices feel as much informed by superb storytelling technique, as they do by Cole’s unique vision. Cole herself states the following: “(The Vision of the Quest) was a test for me to write. At times, I struggled to tell my story…pushing on always, faith pulled me through to my goal. This book is special to me because I was talking with my husband sharing how I would love to write a book like Narnia with three children…The next morning my daughter, Meghan, had awoken from her sleep. She came to me excited saying, ‘Mom, I had an awesome dream with three children and their mother stranded on a dark road. I came to a mansion and knocked on a door when a butler answered’. She said there was an evil man named Sir Bronze Pierce and then I had taken the story from there. I could not have completed this book first without God’s help and my husband’s support.”

Indeed, Sir Bronze Pierce is one of the juiciest dark fantasy villains to grace the pages of a work like this in some time. He has this kind of dramatic, old-fashioned menace that at once retains a good sense of fun, while not shying away from what the narrative needs to be. I’m a big fan of a good, scary villain to raise the stakes for our heroes and heroines, and Sir Bronze Pierce is no exception to this. Again, this kind of quality likely comes from the work being intensely personal for Cole. Core aspects of the narrative are inspired by Cole’s daughter’s dreams, which adds a poetic and innocent quality to even the darker aspects of the story, and necessarily menacing scenes. The Christian element is also intriguing. More often than not, popular genre work with Christian themes tends to lean into distinctly paranormal, if not paranormal horror stories. Seeing something appealing to a wide audience with Christian themes is compelling, and a bit different from the usual, pantheistic nature of fantasy. — Cyrus Rhodes

The Vision of the Quest is available at Amazon, Barnes & Noble and Ewings Publishing LLC.

 

 

 

Dear Reader, Love Jean Hackensmith

 

Dear Reader,

I cannot express how honored I am that you decided to pick my book, "A Dream In The Wilderness" (Book One in The Wilderness Saga) out of the millions of historical romances out there. It sometimes seems that everybody and their brother are writing books these days, and yet you chose mine. There are even AI books arriving on the market as we speak, and I have to warn you. Be careful. As an experiment, I plugged an idea into an AI program one day just to see what it would spit out, and it was atrocious. (Thank God!) It takes a human to write about humans. To express the emotion; the love, the hate, the jealousy, the envy, the complacency. AI can capture none of that, because it is not human. 

 

I began writing over 40 years ago, when I was 22. (And, yes, I'm disclosing my age.) It all started during a phone call with my mom. I was, is, and always will be a doodler and, among all the curly cues, smiley faces, and thingamabobs that appeared on the paper in front of me there mysteriously emerged this line. One sentence. I read it to my mom, and her response was, "Man, that would make a great first line for a book." I still remember it today: "Jenny McCall awoke with a scream on her lips." That was it. I was hooked.

 

My favorite author at the time was Kathleen Woodiwiss. She wrote steamy historical romances. And I mean STEAMY. So, naturally, that's where I began my career as well. Thirty years and eleven novels later, frankly I started to get tired of writing basically the same old story over and over again, just in a different locale with different plot twists and different characters. So, I tried my hand at several other genres, including science fiction, mystery, thriller, and even a political novel. I enjoyed writing every one of them, but I had still not found my niche; that one book that would break through and actually get noticed--until "The Promise."

 

The idea for "The Promise" actually came from my sister. She helped me plan the basic plot, which took place during the 1930's and the Dust Bowl era--and then she passed away. I had about half of the book written by then, and just couldn't make myself pick it up again. It was HER book, not mine. Then one day, I realized I needed to finish it FOR her. "The Promise" was released in early 2024 and has sold over 20,000 copies to date. I cannot help but think that Sue is sitting up in Heaven right now nudging people to buy her book. After all, the most copies I'd sold of any one book before that was around 1000. What would you think?

 

Anyway, to make an already long letter a little shorter, I had discovered my niche. "The Promise" is basically a "sweet" romance (although it does have one steamy romance scene because, when polled, readers told me that's what they wanted and like a dummy, I listened.) They also wanted a sequel. So, I did a sequel AND a prequel. (I'm an author. What can I say?) Both of those are totally absent of graphic love scenes and contain only mild profanity. What a refreshing concept! To actually just tell your characters' story, throw in a lot of history, some humor, heartache, suspense, and sometimes greed (gotta have greed for a good book) and, for me anyway, it was the magic potion that worked. Every book in THE WILDERNESS SAGA, which is now four books strong, has those components. What they don't have is a lot of unnecessary sex and profanity that I finally realized just turns the majority of readers off.

 

So, if you're looking for a good, family-oriented, history-packed series set in the wilderness that was Superior, Wisconsin in the 1840s and will probably run close to 20 books before I'm done, check out THE WILDERNESS SAGA exclusively on Amazon. You won't be sorry you did. Oh, and if you do happen to enjoy those "steamy" romances also, check out my other books at www.jeanhackensmith.com.

 

Thanks, and happy reading!

 

Sincerely,

 

Jean Hackensmith

 

I have been writing since the age of twenty. (That’s 47 years and, yes, I’m disclosing my age.) I am the proud mother of three and grandmother to four wonderful grandchildren. After losing who I thought was the love of my life, my late husband Ron, in November of 2011, I met Rick. So, it is definitely possible to have more than one “love of your life.” Rick and I were married in July of 2018 and are still going strong today. He is my soulmate, my confidant, and my biggest fan. He has read every book I have ever written (even the romances!) 

Next to writing, my second passion is live theater. I founded a local community theater group back in 1992 and directed upwards of 40 shows, including three that I authored. I also appeared on stage a few times, portraying Anna in The King and I and Miss Hannigan in Annie. I am sad to say that the theater group dropped its final curtain in 2008, but those 16 years will always hold some of my fondest memories. 

I moved from Superior 15 years ago, seeking the serenity of country living. I also wanted to get away from the natural air conditioning provided by Lake Superior. We moved only 50 miles south, but the temperature can vary by 20-30 degrees. I guess I’m a country girl at heart. I simply love this area, and am lucky to, once again, have someone to share its beauty. I love the solitude, the picturesque beauty of the sun rising over the water, the strangely calming effect of watching a deer graze outside your kitchen window. Never again, will I live in the city. I am an author, after all, and what better place to be inspired than in God’s own backyard.

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Unable to find a teaching position in the flooded job market that is New York City, twenty-one-year-old Sarah Bentley accepts the position of nanny to Caleb Wachsmann’s three children after the farmer’s wife, parents, and infant son die in the Cholera epidemic of 1834. The twist? The job is in Superior, Wisconsin in the Michigan Territory, an unsettled wilderness located on the northwestern tip of Lake Superior.

Caleb is not looking for love; his heart will always belong to his beloved Annie. What he does need is a woman to watch after the children while he toils in the fields making a living for his family. Sarah turns out to be that woman. She raises his children with a gentle and loving hand and also helps Caleb to overcome an unbearable loss. As Wisconsin vies for statehood, the young couple will face challenge after challenge as they struggle to tame a wilderness that really doesn’t want to be tamed at all.

A Dream in the Wilderness is available at https://www.amazon.com/Dream-Wilderness-Saga-Book-ebook/dp/B0DJS19HMH.

Dear Reader, Love P.K. Eden

 

Dear Reader,

As a child, as you read or listened to those wonderful tales of princesses in towers, fairies bringing gifts to the new baby or princes fighting to save his one true love rom dragons, witches, or ogres, have you ever wondered what it would be like if all those wonderful and magical things in the fairy tales really did exist? I know I did. This is why when I decided to write fantasy I chose to write about some of the artifacts in the fairy tales written by the Brothers Grimm beginning with Snow White’s Magic Mirror.

But I knew I needed help to properly tell a story that would combine the world of today with the world the Brothers Grimm wrote about in their famous but also rather bleak and often gloomy stories. I asked a wonderful fellow writer, Patt Mihailoff, to help me blend today’s facts with yesterday’s fiction. Fortunately, she agreed, and P. K. Eden was born along with the first book in a three-book series about the Primogen Sentinels. The Sentinels defend the magical objects from fairy tales and folklore across all seven continents from discovery by mankind and from falling into the hands of Taltos, a rogue splinter group with followers who were once Primogens who want to use the objects for personal gain.

In book one, The Mirror, Snow White’s Mirror, has activated and predicts a major catastrophe if Dr. Ben Michaels gets into the cab at Penn Station, New York that is hit by a city truck and explodes. It becomes the calling of Siene Dower, a direct descendent of The Brothers Grimm and one of the Primogen Sentinels, to stop him and find out who wants him dead. She suspects it is the head of Taltos but needs Ben to help her discover why. The answer takes Ben and Siene, along with her brother, Reed, Sentinels from two continents, and both Lina, Thumbelina actually, and Shard, a piece of the Magic Mirror, in a race to find the answers before Taltos gains control.

After reading The Mirror, I’d like to ask you this question - Fairy Tales – Fact or Fiction. You decide.

I wish I could speak with you personally and hear your thoughts on this fantasy romp the blends love, betrayal, and commitment into the story Patt and I envisioned from page one. We both hope you enjoy The Mirror and hope to hear from you in the future.

All the best.

P. K. Eden

Patt Mihailoff and Kathye Quick

 

 

P.K. Eden is the alter ego of multi-published and award winning authors Patt Milhailff and Kathye Quick whose debut novel FIREBRAND was lauded as comparable to the Harry Potter series, garnered 5-Star reviews, and won numerous  Reviewer’s Choice Awards.

Born long, long ago in a place not so far away, Shenandoah, Pennsylvania, Kathryn Quick has been writing since the Sisters in St. Casmir’s Grammar School gave her the ruled yellow paper and a number two pencil.  She writes contemporary and career romances, romantic comedies, historical romances as well as urban fantasy. 

Kathye has twenty fiction books in print with various publishing houses and one non-fiction compilation of her town’s history at the behest of the Manville Library Bord.  She was honored to have been named an Amazon top 100 Romance Author for Ineligible Bachelor published by Montlake Romance. Other works include a three book  Grandmother’s Rings Series – Amethyst, Sapphire and Citrine, a rom-com series that follows three siblings as they use their Grandmother’s Rings given to them by their mother to find their soulmates. 

Because she has been fascinated by King Arthur and his knights for almost forever, her series Beyond Camelot, Brother Knights, is her vision of how the majestic kingdom may have survived after Arthur. Two books are written in this series with the third and final still in concept.

She is a founding member of Liberty State Fiction Writers and has been a part of Romance Writers of America and New Jersey Romance Writers.

She is married to her real-life hero, Donald, and has three grown sons, each having romantic adventures of their own. Her two grandkids, Savannah and Dax, happily cut into her writing time but she still manages to get a few pages done each day.

Website & Social Media:

Website ➜ www.Kathrynquick.com

Twitter ➜ https://x.com/KQuickAuthor

Facebook ➜ https://www.facebook.com/KathrynQuickBooks/

Instagram ➜ https://www.instagram.com/kathrynquickauthor/

Goodreads ➜ https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/217228581-the-mirror

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Thanks to novelist and editor, Dr. Nathasha Brooks-Harris who invited Patt Milhailff to write for several TRUE CONFESSION lines of magazines where she learned tight and entertaining writing and resulted in the publication of more than two hundred short stories and articles.

One of Patt’s most gratifying experiences was when she moderated a standing room only workshop at the African American Romance Slam Jam in 2004 and has since enjoyed speaking engagements at libraries, book clubs and other forums. 

She was awarded 2009 Author of the year and 2010 Mentor of the year by Romance writers of America, New York City Chapter, a terrific organization that helped her to obtain valuable lessons and insight while on her writing journey. 

Patt is also featured in A Dream Deferred, A Joy Achieved, a non-fiction novella by Charise Nesbit a co-producer at Tyler Perry Studios, about foster care, as well as being included in two of Times Bestselling Author Zane’s anthologies. 

Patt is one half of the writing duo P.K. Eden along with Kathye Quick, authors of Firebrand,  that received a five star Affaire de Couer Reviewer’s Choice Award. 

She is also a member of Liberty States Fiction Writers the home of a magnitude of talented writers and fellow authors and is the author of nine novels.  

Patt was raised, and educated in New York City, residing in  New Jersey, and has since relocated to Delaware.  

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What if you found out the artifacts from the fairy tales you loved as a child were real and one of them just predicted your death? That’s the dilemma Scientist Ben Michaels faces when Siene Dower, descendant of the Brothers Grimm, tells him that Snow White’s Magic Mirror sent her to stop him from getting into the cab that crashed and burst into flame right before his eyes at the intersection at Penn Station, New York City. Does practical Dr. Michaels dismiss everything he knows about reality and science and follow the curious and beautiful woman who just saved his life?

The Mirror is available at Amazon.