Day: January 22, 2022
#BookTour “Mom, I Want a Pony” by Lois Poster
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Children’s Book
Publication Date: May 25, 2021
Publisher: MindStir Media
Mom I Want a Pony is the story of a young girl and her love for a pony. It was written with the hope that any child who has ever said those words – and any parent who has ever heard them – will read it and understand not only what is involved in this relationship, but also what is necessary to make it a safe and rewarding experience for all concerned.
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About the Author
Lois Poster is an ardent animal lover. She learned to ride when she was three years old, and has been involved with horses all her life. As an adult, she owned a show horse farm in Virginia. During those years, she showed in various parts of the country and took many ribbons, including the President’s Cup at the Washington National Horseshow.
Later, she retired to a farm in New England, with a pair of two-year-old geldings and a six-week-old filly. She trained the horses for pleasure riding only. She and the mare were constant companions. They were all together for twenty-two years.
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#BookBlitz “This is the Dream” by Owen Thomas
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Short Stories
Date Published: September 30, 2021
Publisher: OTF Literary
This is the Dream, ten stories less about dreaming than not dreaming. Ten stories about pulling free the gossamer mask of illusion and seeing the face of what has been true – about ourselves, about the people we choose to love, and about our path through the woods – from the very beginning.
JOHN. The bus driver whose lunchtime encounter with Andromeda reunites him with the one person he has spent a lifetime choosing to avoid. (Everything Stops).
WYATT. The Appalachian who wakes from a dream that his wife has been abducted by aliens to find that she has gone missing and wishing the explanation could be so benign. (Little Green Men).
RUTH. The chocolate-quality inspector whose compartmentalized solitude threatens complete suffocation until a renowned romance novelist reveals the paper-thin wall that separates despair and hope. (Paper Walls).
KATHY. The identical twin, so desperate to be original that she sacrifices her authenticity to a stranger on a plane, lying herself a new identity without any thought to the consequences. (Failure to Thrive – Act One: Flying and Lying).
KATJA and JUNE. The novelist and the reporter, bound by history, separated by an ocean, and united in a struggle to reconcile their own hearts one letter at a time. (Failure to Thrive – Act Two: Katja and June).
K.P. SORENSON. The convention speaker with a renewed hope of becoming a literary demiurge, looking for validation from an audience of would-be fans, but finding instead the very last man she expects and the only woman who can separate fact from fiction. (Failure to Thrive – Act Three: The Birds).
DANNY. The laid-off, newly separated factory worker whose life is in such dramatic contrast to that of his next-door neighbor, and George Clooney, that robbing a convenience store seems like his best option. (Hating George Clooney).
PETER. The teenager who, forced to spend Christmas in Hawaii with his younger sister, his parents, and the friends of his father not seen since college, discovers that reality is only a state of mind. (Island Santa).
ZOE. The Hollywood intern, working on a movie about a superhero with random powers, managing a telephone relationship with an anonymous criminal, and excavating the secret structure of creation. (Random Man).
CALI. The high school loner whose dreams of a dead classmate lead her to the razor’s edge between living and not living. (This is the Dream).
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