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Print: $15.00 Chuck Myer is an urban planner, freelance writer, playwright, consultant to arts, government, and religious organizations, and an actor and musician. He is described by many as a "Renaissance Man.” Melanoma Melodrama is Chuck’s graceful and courageous narrative of his battle with cancer. You will learn about a potentially fatal misdiagnosis doctors commonly make for malignant melanoma, about the course of the disease, and about available treatments as reflected in the author's own experience. Most importantly, you will come to understand from this first-person view how vital it is to face the diagnosis resolutely and assertively, and to prepare for the difficulties that accompany treatments for the disease. Author Chuck Myer writes, "I wish to tell my story, in the simple hope that it will help a future melanoma patient grapple with the sudden awful realities brought on by a seemingly benign spot on one’s skin." [Note: email the publisher for link to a download edition of Melanoma Melodrama.]
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Print: $15.00 Download: $7.50 Mike Doyle sets out to reopen a long-closed mine in California's Gold Country, with results that bring disaster to the town, inflame hatreds, and turn neighbors against one another. Inspired by a true event, this novel illuminates what happens when ambition sets off unexpected events. The Lostcreek Legacy will appeal to everyone who has been in California's Mother Lode Country, has seen its isolated towns, and who enjoys a story of people facing challenges in life and in love in a distinctive and historical setting.
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Print: $15.95 Anthology of mystery stories by Sacramento area writers who are members of Capitol Crimes, the Sacramento Chapter of Sisters in Crime. Edited by Kathleen L. Asay and Patricia E. Canterbury. Foreword by Robin Burcell. Introduction by Gabrielle Guedet. This unique story collection is a treat for Northern California residents, as it showcases area writers and settings. Little might you have suspected what devious minds reside in the greater Sacramento writing community! The book also serves as an example that other writing groups and organizations might want to follow in showcasing their own local talent, as the project was conceived and developed within the community (read the introduction for how that came about). Mystery readers from other areas are going to have fun with this original collection as well, drawing as it does on the talent of both established and aspiring mystery writers, under the watchful eye of editors Asay and Canterbury.
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Print: $7.50 Download: $3.50 The Pursuit of Publishing introduces options for getting a book into print. It concisely explains paths to publication, from standard commercial publication via agents and direct submission of queries or manuscripts to publishers, to alternatives that include self-publishing and more. The main text is followed by an annotated list of resources on the publishing trade and on writing. The Pursuit of Publishing helps the aspiring author to ask the right questions to pursue an appropriate publishing opportunity for a book manuscript and points him or her to specific sources for more information. Short enough to read at one sitting, it gives an overview that is hard to get from shelves full of books on writing and publishing. If you do not know where to start, start here. For information about the author, including bio., list of publications, and professional services offered, see www.umbachconsulting.com.
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Print: $15.95 Download: $5.00 Harold Frederic's minor classic of American Realism, The Damnation of Theron Ware, is presented here in a new edition.
Born in Utica, New York, in 1856, Harold Frederic was a journalist and writer now best known for his novel Illumination, its title in England, where Frederic lived from 1884 until his death in 1898, the year after Illumination was published. The novel is better known by its American title, The Damnation of Theron Ware.
The novel is in the realist tradition that, with variations, encompasses Mark Twain, William Dean Howells, Henry James, and others, and spans the period from the Civil War through the first decade of the twentieth century. The style’s impact was felt long after those years. Hallmarks of the style include central focus on characters, detail, realistic settings, and natural patterns of speech, not heightened or romanticized dialogue.
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Print: $9.95 Download: $4.95 This report reviews California’s major public works (infrastructure) growth during the Pat Brown administration, 1959-1967. In that period, California launched and built a significant part of the California Water Project, built and expanded major freeways, and built and enlarged college and university campuses. B/W interior, perfect bound.
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Print: $9.95 Herewith is a postmodernist exploration of the phenomenon, a churning, bubbling cauldron of the phenomenon laid out for all to see in its patchy reality. [NOTE: this is a joke, folks, created as a book-design experiment. Buy a copy to utterly befuddle some unsuspecting soul! Leave it where people can find it while you are watching, and enjoy the reaction. Or better yet, be astonished as they leaf through it, cast their eyes quickly over blocks of text, and do not realize that none of it makes a whit of sense. I have seen that myself, and was amazed.]
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