New Fiction Release Shares One Woman’s Romantic Issues In Her 20s and 30s; Book by Meredith Collins

Dog Ear Publishing releases “Mr. Rights Gone Wrong” by Meredith Collins.

This new fiction release published by Dog Ear Publishing is a tale of one woman’s two marriages, and the different issues she faces at different periods in her life.   Author Meredith Collins tackles the topic with verve and sensitivity, leaving readers rooting for Madison and her quest for true, lasting love.

In her twenties, Madison Leigh marries her boyfriend out of a desperate need to leave her parent’s oppressive home.  His proposal is not exactly the stuff of dreams, but Madison overlooks that and approaches her future with optimism.  After years of verbal abuse, Madison decides to take her two beautiful children and leave her husband, independent for the first time in her young life.  Single motherhood is less than ideal, but it’s better than dealing with an extremely unhappy marriage.  On one of her rare, treasured nights out, Madison meets Jake, a single dad chock full of charm who seems to enjoy Madison’s straightforward attitude and lack of pretense.

Quickly, Madison and Jake become serious about each other, their relationship full of the romance Madison found lacking in her first marriage.  In a short period of time, the two are married, and the two families become blended into one.  The additional stability is a relief for Madison and her children, and things go smoothly for a time. After a strange and flirtatious IM from an unfamiliar woman, Madison starts to become suspicious about Jake’s activities outside of the home.  Can she trust her new husband?  Will she be hurt again?

Mr. Rights Gone Wrong is a gripping portrait of two marriages, both from the female point of view.  Madison is a character to whom readers will relate, a real woman with flaws and foibles that don’t detract from her frank charm.  Author Meredith Collins is an avid writer, with a column for Statement and contributions to Glass Heel and Women Forbes. Collins resides in Colorado with her family; this is her first novel.

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For additional information, please visit www.mrrightsgonewrong.com.

Mr. Rights Gone Wrong

Meredith Collins

Dog Ear Publishing

ISBN: 978-1-4575-1759-4                        240 pages                        $14.95 US

Available at Ingram, Amazon.com, Barnes & Noble and fine bookstores everywhere.

About Dog Ear Publishing, LLC

Dog Ear Publishing offers completely customized self-publishing services for independent authors. We provide cost-effective, fast, and highly profitable services to publish and distribute independently published books. Our book publishing and distribution services reach worldwide. Dog Ear authors retain all rights and complete creative control throughout the entire self-publishing process. Self-publishing services are available globally at dogearpublishing.net and from our offices in Indianapolis.

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Author Roger Dufau Challenges Attitudes about Food in Newly Released Book

Dog Ear Publishing releases “We Are What We Think and What We Eat” by Roger Dufau.

A longtime chef and restaurant operator shares his life story and views on spirituality and its relationship to food in this new book released by Dog Ear Publishing.

From his early days in the Basque region of France, author Roger Dufau has been immersed in a culture featuring food and all its flavors. In this new autobiographical book, the restaurateur and chef explores the link between food and spirituality in all facets of life. He’s not afraid to tackle controversial subjects like genetically modified crops and current reliance on fast food and prepared food, all things he says are making individuals and society sick. His solution to those problems is to eat well, buy locally and work with nature instead of against it.

Dufau writes that a recurring dream he had featuring the phrase “You are the result of what you think and what you eat” forced him to reflect on the importance of food and thoughts. The reflection affected his life and inspired the book. Recommended by bestselling authors Neale Donald Walsch and James F. Twyman, “We Are What We Think and What We Eat” is divided into two sections. The first features the author’s life story while the second focuses on issues related to the production of food. More than a dozen of the author’s recipes appear at the end of the book, as well as an extensive reading list.

Dufau’s history includes time spent in Canada as a draft dodger during the Algerian War, opening his first restaurant in France, an out-of-body experience during a tonsillectomy, a trip around the world and insights into creating and running a successful restaurant. Fascinating tidbits about his family – such as his mother serving as a leader in the French resistance and his grandmother serving meals to the composer Maurice Ravel – add spice to this intriguing work. The author’s interest in spirituality – and exploring that side of his nature – ends his marriage but opens up a whole new world for Dufau. He combined two of his passions – cooking and spirituality – by opening a bed and breakfast he still runs with his third wife, Kathleen.

It’s the spiritual aspect of life that drives Dufau these days. “I believe that the meaning of spirituality is life being in harmony with itself in all aspects of creation,” he writes. Part of that harmony involves food choices and production, such as limiting genetic manipulation of plants and animals in favor of more natural and sustainable options like organic food. Dufau also questions unfair international trade practices, the business practices of giant food-producing companies and fast-food chains and the addition of corn syrup to so many food items. He holds out hope for the future, however, writing “Natural choices beneficial for the greater good with the backing of science and spirituality will at some point become a priority.”

This is the first book for author Roger Dufau, who operates Drew House, a bed and breakfast in Elora, Ontario, that hosts cooking classes, seminars, retreats and community events.  The chef and restaurateur has owned and managed 16 restaurants and eateries on three continents, including Maison Basque in Toronto, Panache in Hobart, Tasmania, and Le Petit Gourmet in Toronto, established with his mother.

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For additional information, please visit www.rogerdufaubooks.com.

We Are What We Think and What We Eat

Roger Dufau

Dog Ear Publishing

ISBN: 978-1-4575-1540-8                        308 pages                        $15.95 US

Available at Ingram, Amazon.com, Barnes & Noble and fine bookstores everywhere.

About Dog Ear Publishing, LLC

Dog Ear Publishing offers completely customized self-publishing services for independent authors. We provide cost-effective, fast, and highly profitable services to publish and distribute independently published books. Our book publishing and distribution services reach worldwide. Dog Ear authors retain all rights and complete creative control throughout the entire self-publishing process. Self-publishing services are available globally at dogearpublishing.net and from our offices in Indianapolis.

Dog Ear Publishing – self-publishing that actually makes sense.

New Non-fiction Release Provides Tips to Lower Your Income Taxes; Book by Scott Jefferys

Dog Ear Publishing releases “The Best Tax Savings Strategies and Tips” by Scott Jeffreys.

This new non-fiction release, The Best Tax Savings Strategies and Tips, published by Dog Ear Publishing, is a guide to reducing taxes, and is written by author and tax expert, Scott Jefferys.  Scott uses his MST and years of CPA experience to aid readers in the tax planning strategies that will ensure they keep the maximum amount of money possible.

The average citizen finds tax time to be one of the most stressful times of the fiscal year.  Ever-changing laws, complexity of the tax code, and looming deadlines can cause panic, leading to an annual headache that seems to be inevitable.   However, author, Scott Jefferys is here to help.   An experienced, seasoned CPA, Jefferys has taken his knowledge and turned it into a no-nonsense, easily understood book that will help taxpayers in every bracket keep as much of their hard-earned money as possible.

Using real-life examples, Jefferys provides strategies and checklists that readers can use throughout the year to guarantee that their deductions will be maximized as their audit chances shrink.  Small business owners can seek answers to many tax questions that plague them, from the best time to mail your tax professional year-end or mid-year information to how best to safely take advantage of some confusing business deductions.  The book shares advice on how to best use a tax professional throughout the year so that no surprises occur at tax time.  Readers interested in personal tax planning will find helpful tips and checklists for such common issues as claiming dependents to medical deductions.  With the expertise of a seasoned tax professional, even the least experienced taxpayer can feel confident in his or her ability to utilize a tax professional in a proactive manner that may ultimately help them to save money while filing an accurate tax return.

The Best Tax Savings Strategies and Tips is an excellent source of useful information for individuals as well as small business owners who wish to reduce their chances of audit and keep as much of their income as possible.  Jefferys is a Certified Public Accountant with a Master’s Degree in Taxation, and has managed his own CPA firm in Exton, PA, for nearly two decades. Jefferys and his wife live in the suburbs of Philadelphia with their two children.

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For additional information, please visit www.yearroundtaxplanning.com

The Best Tax Savings Strategies and Tips

Scott Jefferys

Dog Ear Publishing

ISBN: 978-1-4575-1714-3                        152 pages                        $15.00 US

Available at Ingram, Amazon.com, Barnes & Noble and fine bookstores everywhere.

About Dog Ear Publishing, LLC

Dog Ear Publishing offers completely customized self-publishing services for independent authors. We provide cost-effective, fast, and highly profitable services to publish and distribute independently published books. Our book publishing and distribution services reach worldwide. Dog Ear authors retain all rights and complete creative control throughout the entire self-publishing process. Self-publishing services are available globally at dogearpublishing.net and from our offices in Indianapolis.

Dog Ear Publishing – self-publishing that actually makes sense.

Joan Louthain Ayer Presents Loving Look at 75 Classic Children’s Books in New Release

Dog Ear Publishing releases “A Time of Wonder: 75 Reviews of Classic Books for Beginning Readers” by Joan Louthain Ayer

A teacher and newspaper columnist presents a compilation of reviews of classic children’s books in this new book released by Dog Ear Publishing.

First learning to read is “a time of wonder,” notes longtime teacher Joan Louthain Ayer, a mother and three-time grandmother and newspaper reviewer of children’s books. In this new collection of reviews, Ayer writes about 75 classic books meant for emerging readers, including Newbery and Caldecott Medal winners or runners-up for those awards. Some books work well for independent reading, while others provide perfect read-aloud opportunities.

The reviews in “A Time of Wonder: 75 Reviews of Classic Books for Beginning Readers” offer biographical tidbits about the authors and just enough of each book’s plot to entice young readers (and those helping them select books.) Each review also includes the author’s birth date, allowing teachers to celebrate those days in the classroom if they desire. Selections range from books from the first half of the century, like Edward Ardizzone’s 1936 classic “Little Tim and the Brave Sea Captain and Virginia Lee Burton’s 1939 illustrated book “Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel,” as well as more recent classics like the1997 book “Is That You, Winter?” by Stephen Gammell. Others include “The Fire Cat” by Esther Averill, “Stone Soup” by Marcia Brown and “Amelia Bedilia” by Peggy Parish.

Nonfiction titles also star in this inclusive compilation. “A Picture Book of Benjamin Franklin” by David Adler, makes the list, as well as “It’s Thanksgiving” by Jack Prelutsky and “Johnny Appleseed” by Steven Kellogg. Ayer adds a list of 25 other books she recommends children explore. Part reading guide and part excuse to reminisce about favorite books, the selections in “A Time of Wonder” encourage parents to nurture reading skills and literary discussions. As Ayer writes in the introduction, “As you remember your favorite childhood books, talk to your child enthusiastically about them. Try to track them down and read them aloud as you cuddle on the couch. Nothing else can compare to this magical time you spend together.”

Author Joan Louthain Ayer served as an elementary school teacher for many years in Madison, Wis., Wayne Township in Indianapolis, and in Carmel and other Indiana communities. She graduated from the University of Wisconsin at Platteville and has a master’s degree from Butler University. She attended several Mid-winter Children’s Literature Conferences at Butler and the Iowa Summer Writing Festival at the University of Iowa. Ayer, who reviewed children’s books in her column “Read to Me” in the Tribune-Star in Terre Haute for 15 years, also wrote “Beyond Good Night, Moon – 75 Reviews of Classic Books for Young Children,” also published by Dog Ear Publishing.

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For additional information, please visit www.JoanAyersReviews.com.

A Time of Wonder: 75 Reviews of Classic Books for Beginning Readers

Joan Louthain Ayer

Dog Ear Publishing

ISBN: 978-1-4575-1577-4                        100 pages                        $11.95 US

Available at Ingram, Amazon.com, Barnes & Noble and fine bookstores everywhere.

About Dog Ear Publishing, LLC

Dog Ear Publishing offers completely customized self-publishing services for independent authors. We provide cost-effective, fast, and highly profitable services to publish and distribute independently published books. Our book publishing and distribution services reach worldwide. Dog Ear authors retain all rights and complete creative control throughout the entire self-publishing process. Self-publishing services are available globally at dogearpublishing.net and from our offices in Indianapolis.

Dog Ear Publishing – self-publishing that actually makes sense.

New Book by Sophie Britten Offers Tales of Pioneer Life in California

“Historic photos scattered throughout the book enhance this richly detailed narrative.”

The discovery of several boxes of newspaper clippings in this new book inspires a third-generation California native to write the history of the region. This new book released by Dog Ear Publishing features historic photos and detailed descriptions of the land and its people over a 100-year span.

Rolling, wooded hills next to high mountains that fed rivers and the chance for a fresh start lured pioneers to Three Rivers in the 1850s. Drawing on her own family’s history, in this new book author Sophie Britten presents a picture of their daily life as well as shedding light on those who followed, detailing 100 years of the area’s history. Family lore shares equal billing with history in this intriguing look at pioneers in California.

“Pioneers in Paradise: A Historical and Biographical Record of Early Days in Three Rivers, California 1850s to 1950s” covers a lot of ground, literally. In the first section, Britten describes the apple and pear orchards of Three Rivers and cemeteries, as well as community events, services and organizations, natural hazards, schools, and early business ventures like the broom handle factory, fish hatchery and saloon. Britten brings history alive with her detailed descriptions of daily life, including a mention of when Three Rivers was a “hot spot” for motion pictures. Between 1925 and 1929, she writes, a number of films were made there and in nearby parks.

The second section features stories about specific families, told in chronological order. The stories reveal hard-working people and colorful characters, including Mary Holben Trauger, the first white woman to stay in the Mineral King Mining District through an entire winter in the 1870s and a former playmate of William McKinley, future president of the United States. Mary, who helped her husband find the buried and wounded during a snow slide, became known as Mineral King’s “Angel” for that work and for caring for ill or injured silver miners. Historic photos scattered throughout the book enhance this richly detailed narrative.

Author Sophie Britten, a retired rancher, is the third generation of her family to live in Three Rivers and the nearby foothills and mountains. Her family has done cattle ranching, stock packing and citrus farming in the area. Britten, who has published manuscripts, wrote the book after discovering boxes filled with newspaper clippings from area papers. She already is planning another book on the Loverin family and one on an early visitor to the Kaweah canyons. 

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For additional information, please visit www.brittenbooks.net.

 

Sophie Britten

Dog Ear Publishing

ISBN: 978-1-4575-1650-4                        348 pages                        $19.95 US

 

Available at Ingram, Amazon.com, Barnes & Noble and fine bookstores everywhere.

 


About Dog Ear Publishing, LLC

Dog Ear Publishing offers completely customized self-publishing services for independent authors. We provide cost-effective, fast, and highly profitable services to publish and distribute independently published books. Our book publishing and distribution services reach worldwide. Dog Ear authors retain all rights and complete creative control throughout the entire self-publishing process. Self-publishing services are available globally at dogearpublishing.net and from our offices in Indianapolis.

Dog Ear Publishing – self-publishing that actually makes sense.

Mock Solider Has Unbelievable Adventure in New Novel Released by Daniel Finck

Dog Ear Publishing releases “Reenact This! A Nightmare Adventure in the Civil War” by Daniel Finck.

A pizza delivery man who attends a Civil War battle re-enactment just to talk with a girl he likes gets thrown into the misadventure of a lifetime in this new book released by Dog Ear Publishing. The author’s love of history comes through clearly in his detailed description of the era.

Being in the wrong place at the wrong time during a Civil War battle reenactment at Kernstown, Va., changes 21-year-old George Kidman forever. Kidman, the main character in this compelling new novel, suffers burns and a head injury when he gets caught between battle lines during a charge made without orders. As he runs to a gap in a stone fence that looks safe, Kidman doesn’t see the cannon that’s about to fire. As a result, instead of seeing a mock battle simulating hundreds of wounded, the eight thousand spectators see one man actually go up in flames.

“Reenact This! A Nightmare Adventure in the Civil War” follows George as he takes part in one adventure after another. He wakes up from his injuries and realizes things have changed just a bit and he doesn’t know why. Things come into focus a bit more when he spots man on a horse that he’s seen before only on T-shirts and coffee mugs at the souvenir stall: General Stonewall Jackson. Apparently George has somehow fallen into an actual war as a Confederate soldier.

Making the best of things, George becomes friends with a raider from Turner Ashby’s cavalry and joins the Stonewall Brigade’s Bluestone Rangers. While trying to figure out what happened – and survive hard marches, more brutal fighting and near-fatal attacks from his comrades – George discovers a few things he didn’t learn in history class. Helping a too-shy suitor win a Southern belle, starting a salvage business and teaching a slow boy how to defend himself are just a few acts that keep him busy. As he works to survive the hardships of war, George wonders if he’ll ever get back or be just another soldier lost to the cause.

This is the first novel for author and amateur historian Daniel Finck, who has been interested in the Civil War since the centennial, in the 1960s. Finck, born in Philadelphia, moved to Virginia while serving in the U.S. Air Force. He works in critical care nursing at a teaching hospital, having spent three decades as an EMT/paramedic. He did graduate studies in American literature at Virginia Commonwealth University.

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For additional information, please visit www.danielfinck.com.

Reenact This! A Nightmare Adventure in the Civil War

Daniel Finck

Dog Ear Publishing

ISBN: 978-1-4575-1633-7                        508 pages                        $25.96 US

Available at Ingram, Amazon.com, Barnes & Noble and fine bookstores everywhere.

About Dog Ear Publishing, LLC

Dog Ear Publishing offers completely customized self-publishing services for independent authors. We provide cost-effective, fast, and highly profitable services to publish and distribute independently published books. Our book publishing and distribution services reach worldwide. Dog Ear authors retain all rights and complete creative control throughout the entire self-publishing process. Self-publishing services are available globally at dogearpublishing.net and from our offices in Indianapolis.

Dog Ear Publishing – self-publishing that actually makes sense.