Articles by category: Novel Beginnings

It is time! Joseph thought.

With his tough carpenter’s hands, Joseph touched his wife's cheek, feeling the dampness from her tears. His own eyes clouded as he said "I know nothing of birthing a baby." Realizing they would never make Bethlehem before the child came, he took refuge in a shallow cave near a meadow where shepherds grazed their sheep. There, Mary, with Joseph's help, gave birth to her special child of God.

A Girl.

As Mary held the baby to her breast, she said, "We will call her, Lael. The name means Chosen of God." As she said this, there was a cry in the nearby cave. A young woman, alone, gave birth to a child.

Before she died, she named the boy.

Jesus.

What if a life-size papier-mâché dummy hitchhikes across America?

The concept is titillating and timeless: a 37,000-word comedy drama about a life-size dummy that is found leaning against a freeway sign outside Los Angeles, his thumb cocked in a hitchhiking gesture. He has a lunch box hanging from his neck. One word is painted on it: EAST. Inside the box is an unusual green book that begins: My name is Zazz. I am traveling east to an alien festival.

What if an original manuscript of William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet with an inscription to the playwright’s wife, Anne, and signed by Shakespeare is discovered? Not one fragment of an original manuscript penned by Shakespeare has been unearthed in the last 400 years. Such a manuscript would be priceless.

Without question, William Shakespeare is the most celebrated and quoted writer of all time. Whether you’re a longtime fan or new to his writing, The Everything Shakespeare Book, 2nd Edition will help you fully appreciate and understand Shakespeare’s works.

Cork Millner’s The Christmas Ornament is a joy! A warm, loving story of Maggie, a six-year-old deaf girl, in her search for her mother, Mary, who created fantasy Christmas ornaments. Maggie, and her great-grandfather, John Samuel Lindle, discover a red balloon, one that has traveled from Port Royal, California to Texas. The little girl calls it her “magic balloon.” The balloon will lead Maggie to her mother.

"I feel as though I've known you forever," she said. Have we been together somewhere in the past? As one heart touches another?"
He was too surprised to answer. It was a romantic notion. Too farfetched for his pragmatice mind. He brushed his fingers over her cheek and smiled.

"It was the day the sun died." Thus begins Jilian West Millner’s, novel, The Goddess Spot. The novel is a blend—as the author said—of the Mists of Avalon, Mort ‘d Arthur, Harry Potter, with a touch of The Wizard of Oz.

Chandler , a twenty-six-year old haute couture fashion and swimsuit model who is the sexually and physically abused wife of wealthy polo patron and player, Bo Cayman. Bo is determined to win the most prestigious polo trophy in America—the United States Open Championship. Within him is locked a terrible secret from his past that he can never reveal to his wife.