Ann Herrick’s newest YA novel, All’s Fair in Love and Words, is now available from Books We Love Publishing.

Book Blurb:
“Laurel can’t handle her new authority as editor of the yearbook, especially when it comes to Matt, the new guy at school who has her head spinning!”

Author’s Web Site: http://annherrickauthor.com

More about All’s Fair in Love and Words, including purchase links: http://bwlpp.com/herrick.php

A book like no other is what you’re holding in your hands at this very moment.  An incredible true story of a life lived like no other. It is a story of one man?s journey that begun in New Zealand.

Written in two volumes, the first which is what you’re about to read starts from the very beginning of a childhood that speaks honestly about the destruction that a child experiences from witnessing first hand domestic violence between his two parents.

Parents who at one stage did very much love one another but an affair soon rocked that marriage and pulled the family apart.

The onslaught of heavy drinking by a father who lost his grip on his own family and became a violent man. Something any child should never have to witness.  Watching a father who was always such a loving man but towards their mother, he would turn anger into fists of fury.

Christian escaped his broken home into a world of gangs. A gang culture that is ripe throughout the land of most of New Zealand. Gangs, which can at times become like another family where a young lost soul can find a sense of belonging within. But with gang culture comes trouble.

He was in trouble with the law, trouble with others and most of all trouble with himself. With no father figure at home to keep him in line but only a loving mother who now couldn’t cope. Christian had become the man of the house protecting his sister and mother but also running wild living a life of danger and corruption.

Read through this epic tale of one child’s struggle to belong. The battles that life presents him with and the heartache of such sorrow and sadness that any person will find upsetting. read more »

The Rena’s Promise International Creative Writing Camp. Created to further the vision of Holocaust survivor Rena Kornreich Gelissen and in honor of her memory, Rena’s promise is a promise to create a more ecumenical world unhindered by prejudice, racism or hatred by bringing young people together from all walks of life and providing them with a place to develop the cultural and creative voices of Generation NEXT. This one week intensive writing program is for young people between the ages of 14-17, who want to explore their own unique gifts as writers by working with professional writers.   The camp will be held July 2-8, 2011 in Shelter Island, New York.  For more details about the camp you can go to www.renaspromise.com

California - March 2, 2001: Aging is our universal full time job. The real inner self can be much more successful than previously imagined. Now is the time to make peace with your past so you don’t mess up the present!

Author Marcia Casar Friedman, having honorably fulfilled all the author requirements imposed by the powers that be, is hereby presenting the release of her book “Aging Is A Full Time Job.”

Take this encouraging journey of reading and writing to open the window to your soul, while exploring and processing the depths of past events. Get ready to go on an optimistic highway to self-awareness. Learn more about the unique person you are aging into, no matter what you identify as your chronological age number.

This distinguishing book provides valuable insights into appreciating the truth of not being perfect. The keys to being courageous with self-acceptance are presented in an easy to read, professional page format. With such a unique approach, the reader can review past events, their effects, and how to work in a positive manner with “Who am I?” instead of the usual negativity from judgmental reactions.

Ms. Friedman was a teacher for the Pittsburgh Public Schools, Los Angeles School District, and a Cal State University master student teacher.

Writing, sociology, and psychology have always been her passions. She conducted adult training programs in English as a Second Language, created “feelings workshops,” behavior modification classes and was a trainer for various businesses. Her enduring belief is that “learning never ends!”

Life changes gave Ms. Friedman the opportunity to follow her interests, to use these experiences to help others. She initially planned to write a life script, resume, or memoir, however was motivated to better understand and improve the present in order to move forward to the future. Then she realized it was important to share the learned tools so others could be rewarded by discovering their own path and be encouraged to pass the torch.

Marcia Casar Friedman: marcia@agingisafulltimejob.com