Lowell author Cynthia Beach pens The Surface of Water

February 19, 2024 emmapalova Leave a comment

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Cynthia Beach is a longtime professor of Creative Writing and author of Creative Juices for Writers and the novel The Surface of Water. Her articles, short stories, and contributions appear in newspapers, journals, and books like Hope in the Mourning, which is Zondervan’s grief bible.

Her novel tackles the complex theme of the celebrity status of megachurch pastor Matthew Goodman who is challenged by a 25-year-old new hire Trish Card in ways that awaken him.

Happy Valentine’s from the beach

February 14, 2024 Author Emma Palova Leave a comment

It really doesn’t get any better than this; the sound of waves, sand between my toes, and the warm Gulf breeze in my hair.

The crest on the waves forms white foam as the waves roll toward the shore. I lack nothing on this Ash Wednesday. The ashes were distributed this morning at the Epiphany cathedral after a beautiful homily with a poem written by a Cistercian monk about the love for God. I find peace on the beach and His love is overpowering.

It’s mid February and balmy 75 F degrees.

Service Club Beach in Venice Feb. 14, 2024

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Author Jessica K. Foster pens Andy and the Extroverts

February 9, 2024 emmapalova Leave a comment

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When an introvert winds up at a summer leadership camp, it’s a comedy of errors and a romance she’ll never forget. Seventeen-year-old bookish Andy has no friends.

When her over-involved mother dares to ship her off to summer leadership camp, she’s thrust into an introvert’s nightmare.

Everyone is a Communicator with a capital C, icebreaker activities are scheduled into every waking moment, and horror of all horrors: there’s no coffee. Even the girls who take her under their wing are the self-assured people Andy could never dream of becoming.

Then she meets Lucas—hot, attentive, and everything Andy reads about in her books. Though the girls in her cottage try to warn her about him, she’s swept into the first romance of her life. But when she discovers her friends may be right, she’ll have to find her inner confidence to save her summer and become the leader she was always meant to be.

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Fabulous sunsets on the Gulf

February 4, 2024 Author Emma Palova Leave a comment

Sunsets near Sharky’s Pier in Venice, FL inspire, motivate and calm spectators on the beach as they watch in awe the ever changing evening show. It’s free, every night, and first row seats guaranteed.

After a rainy morning, the February sky cleared up in the afternoon as the waves swelled and rolled over the sand leaving nothing behind, while erasing footsteps.

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Author Marie LaPres pens Beyond the Fort

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In Marie LaPres’ young adult fiction Beyond the Fort, the main character Christine Belanger has always loved learning about the past. Still, she may get more history than she bargained for when she finds herself at Colonial Michilimackinac in the year 1775. In the past, Christine meets fellow time travelers, Henri and Jacques, French fur traders, and British soldiers.

She quickly learns that the tensions are high between the French and British, and Henri and Christine uncover the plot of a British Leftenant who plans to eradicate all French settlers in the Mackinac Straits area. It’s up to Christine and Henri to save the settlers, and possibly change the course of history. Can Christine and Henri outwit Lewis and save the fort? Will Christine be able to survive Colonial America without all of the amenities she is used to…especially her cell phone?

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