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Featured Author: Florence Osmund

Florence Osmund earned her master’s degree from Lake Forest Graduate School of Management, and after more than three decades of working in corporate America, retired to write books. Her notable website is dedicated primarily to helping new authors – offering advice she wishes she had received before starting her first novel. Osmund currently resides in Chicago where she is working on her next novel.

 

The Coach House
by Florence Osmund
Available from Amazon and Barnes & Noble

The Coach House story begins in 1945 Chicago. Newlyweds Marie Marchetti and her husband, Richard, have the perfect life together. Or at least it seems until Marie discovers cryptic receipts hidden in their basement and a gun in Richard’s desk drawer.

When she learns he secretly attends a mobster’s funeral, her suspicions are heightened, and when she inadvertently interrupts a meeting between him and his so-called business associates in their home, he causes her to fall down the basement steps, compelling Marie to run for her life.

Ending up in Atchison, Kansas, Marie rents a coach house apartment tucked behind a three-story Victorian home and quietly sets up a new life for herself. Richard soon learns her whereabouts and lets her know he is not out of the picture yet, but ironically, it is the discovery of the identity of Marie’s real father and his ethnicity that unexpectedly affect her life more than Richard ever could.

 

Featured Author: Dianne Harman

Dianne Harman draws her stories and characters from a diverse business and personal background. She owned a national antique and art appraisal business for many years, leaving that industry and opening two yoga centers where she taught yoga and certified yoga instructors. Dianne has traveled extensively throughout the world, most recently dividing her time between Huntington Beach, California and Sacramento, California, where her husband was a Senator. She’s entertained Governors, Congressmen and numerous other political figures in her homes. An avid reader, Dianne brings the richness of her life experiences to her novel, Blue Coyote Motel.

Blue Coyote Motel was selected as a quarterfinalist in Amazon’s Breakthrough Novel Award contest and Goodreads Psychological Thriller of the Month Book.

Blue Coyote Motel
by Dianne Harman
Available from Amazon.

A suspenseful love story which begins in the barrios of Southern California and spans the globe in such diverse locations as Provence, South America, and the Himalayas. The beautiful Latina, Maria, and her husband, Jeffrey, a scientist fired from a prestigious laboratory, struggle to build a new life in a remote Southern California desert area as owners of the motel.

Jeffrey invents a “feel-good” wonder drug to help Maria with her depression. As Jeffrey becomes insane, he begins to experiment with the wonder drug. Six wayward travelers, including an alcoholic priest, a couple who own gold mines in Brazil, a depressed widow, a struggling salesman, and a Native American pediatrician, find themselves spending the night at the small motel. The next morning they wake up feeling better than ever. Has Jeffrey’s miracle drug delivered? Or is the nightmare of addiction only beginning?

Featured Author: O.L. Ramos

O.L. Ramos was born in Miami, Florida to immigrant parents. Ever since he was a very young child, it was his dream to write books, writing full length works as young as 8 years old. As a ravenous reader, he found himself picking up everything from “The Lord of the Rings” and “The Lion, Witch, and the Wardrobe” to works on the other side of the spectrum, like “The Notebook” (Although he’ll fanatically deny it). Professionally, he’s done a little bit of everything, from being a customer service representative over the telephone, to a sales manager for a retail giant, to even being a deputy sheriff. An unfortunate on duty incident limited his ability to perform his duties as a police officer, but this misfortunate had a silver lining; he was finally able to pursue his lifelong dream of being a writer. He now spends his day researching folklore, legends and myths for his work, notepad in hand in case he gets a good idea. His love for telling stories and writing will surely make for many more books to come.

The Keeper: Awakening
by O.L. Ramos
Available from Amazon.

Elizabeth is a brilliant loner with a troubling secret she doesn’t even know. As if the trauma of her mother being abducted before her eyes as a young girl wasn’t enough, the small town she lives in thinks she’s crazy. That all changed when she met Michael, a mysterious and handsome man who identified with her like no one else before. Michael’s long time friend Vincent visits and drops the bombshell of a lifetime on Elizabeth and her world becomes completely unraveled.

Vincent’s information has revealed the world for what it is; a place where the impossible is real, and myths and legends walk slyly in shadow. A world that Elizabeth will learn she too is a member. Now, the three are caught up in a thousand year long conspiracy they never could have imagined. The three must rely on one another and the secret connection they all share if they have a chance to survive.

Featured Author: Garry Rogers

Garry Rogers has a PhD in Physical Geography. He taught at Columbia University and UCLA, and currently serves as President of the Agua Fria Open Space Alliance, Inc.

He has published three nonfiction books, and hundreds articles in peer-reviewed science journals and conference proceedings. He is currently working on a sequel to his debut novel Corr Syl the Warrior, and a second volume on Arizona wildlife.

Learn more about Garry from his website and his Amazon author page. Continue reading “Featured Author: Garry Rogers”