Story behind the story: Women write book as tribute to friends

CC Brown
Authors of Dark Side
Featured in October 23 Joplin Globe 

Story behind the story: Women write book as tribute to friends   Click to link to story.

CC Brown is the pseudonym adopted by the three authors: Schyrlet Cameron, Carolyn Craig, and Kathy Brown. The women live in the Ozarks with their families.

Dark Side delves into the wildly popular world of the paranormal, taking readers on a suspense-charged ride filled with bloodthirsty vampires and extraordinary women.

Dark Side was chosen Best of Show at the 2011 Northern Oklahoma Literary Arts Book Festival. It was also chosen the “Number One Summer Read” by the Springfield News-Leader in 2011.  Dark Side is available at amazon.com, barnesandnoble.com, and smashwords.com.

New Arrival

Corn Cave Adventure Series

Zona Crabtree

Zona Mae (Raymer) Crabtree grew up in the East Texas oil fields. After attending Texas Woman's University she taught Speech and English in Dalhart, Texas. While there she met her husband, Joe, and gave up teaching for farming. In 1968 they moved to near Verona, Missouri, on Spring River. They have three children and several grandchildren. Between working beef cattle and milking Jerseys Zona has worked with 4-H, substituted for area schools, and watched untold numbers of music, ball, and wrestling events of the children. She worked with Aurora Community Theater for many years, serving on the board, directing, and occasionally acting. She and her husband enjoy attending western and Indian type events.

Her self- published CORN CAVE SERIES led her to Ozark Writers League in 2007. She is also a member of Western Writers of America.  Other writing is included in Alzheimer’s Anthology of Unconditional Love, OWL’s Echoes of the Ozarks III, IV, V, VI, and The Ozarks Reader magazine. 

Corn Cave Series includes Gray Wolf, The Travelers, White Dove, The Return, and Shadow of the Hawk . The Corn Cave Series is available at: http://www.zonacrabtree.com/ .

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MeMa's Manna Recipes

Mary Boll

When creating the MeMa's Manna cookbook series, author and cook Mary Boll collected recipes that delighted family and friends from northern Missouri down to the entertainment mecca of Branson, Missouri. Mary has three books in the series: MeMa's Manna Recipes for the Busy Person, MeMa's Manna 2: Simple Easy Budget Wise Recipes, and MeMa’s Manna 3: Better Than Take Out. Mary’s cookbooks are available on amazon.com.

Bolls says her cookbooks are for the busy person, because the recipes are quick and easy, and call for ingredients usually on hand in the kitchen. This is a down-home cookbook that will truly delight!

Need Help Polishing Your Manuscript?

Manuscript Editing and Proofreading Services

Consultant Janie Doss

The final part of the writing process is polishing your manuscript before it's offered to a publisher. Janie Doss can help you during this stage of the process. A writer herself, Janie has co-authored three teacher resource books, acted as an editor/proofreader for Mark Twain Media Publishers, and is a member of The Children’s and Young Adult Book Review Board of Missouri (BRB).

Services Offered

·         Proofreading including spelling, grammar, punctuation, capitalization, and subject-verb agreement, verb tenses, typographical errors, and sentence structure is $3.00 a page. Manuscript must be typed before submitting.

·         Editing and proofreading starting at $5.00 a page. Manuscript must be typed before submitting.  

·         Typing and word processing of handwritten manuscript is $20.00 an hour. This price does not include proofreading or editing. 

Contact Information

Janie Doss

Email: jdunbiasedopinion@gmail.com

New Arrival

Author: Penny Robichaux-Koontz is an author, (whose life story has been featured on national TV, chronicled in newspapers and told in local and national magazines) artist, teacher, inspirational speaker and business woman who traveled nationally and internationally launching businesses and coaching in the health and fitness industry.

Book: I Thought You Had a Bigger Dream  is the amazing true life story of Penny Robichaux-Koontz. Penny was completely paralyzed in 1952 at the age of three from polio. However, with her mother's guidance and her own determination, she overcame the first bout of this disease.  In the early 1980's she was struck with post polio syndrome and a devastating prognosis "you will never walk again." I Thought You Had a Bigger Dream is available at amazon.com.

To learn more about Penny Robichaux-Koontz and her book visit http://www.pennyrobichauxkoontz.com/  

Contest! Contest! Contest!

Kinta Storyteller Blends History, Ghostly Tales: For Family Fun on Stormy Nights is the work of the late Jones Barnett. The editor, Harriett Barnett Ford, is his daughter. The story beginning on page 85 of the book is unfinished. Harriet is awarding two hundred dollars for the best story completing the unfinished tale. The books is available on amazon.com.

Contest Submission Guidelines:

1.    Standard manuscript form. Double-spaced. Times New Roman, 12 pt. Font.

2.    Word count must be under 3,000 and pages stapled.

3.    No content your Sunday school teacher wouldn’t read.

4.    Author’s name and page number on each page in the header. (This judge doesn’t know many people in the area yet, so I’m not prejudiced, and even if I were, I know a good story when I read it.)

5.    Email submissions to: harrietf@centurytel.net

6.    Send postal submission to: H.L. Ford, 184 Appaloosa Tr., Saddlebrooke, MO 65630

7.    All submissions must be received, or postmarked by February 5, 2012.

8.    Include a cover sheet with contact information: Name, phone number, email address, age, and a very brief three to four line bio. 

The contest is open to all writers of any age. The winner will be contacted March of 2012.

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Author:Harriett Ford is a veteran reporter/columnist for the Rockford Labor News in Rockford, Illinois. She has written the popular Sara and Sadie's Sense and Nonsense, an advice and humor column appearing weekly in the Labor News since 1990. She currently resides in Missouri.

Books: Harriet's first book, Frankly Madame, won the WETA Chapter One Award in the Ozarks Romance Authors annual competition, and is the first title in the Beyond Fantasy series. Other titles in the series are Beyond the Third Circle and Beware. Her suspenseful style has been compared to Christian author, Frank Peretti.

Harriet's newest book is  If God Wants Me Well, Why Am I Sick? To find out more about Harriet Ford and her books visit www.deniedevidence.com . All titles are available for purchase at Amazon.com .