Heartfelt Short Stories and Profound Essays Found in New Collection
Tucson, AZ – April 4, 2018 – Wheatmark, Inc. is pleased to announce the release of The Fallacy of Closure: And Other Award-Winning Short Stories and Essays by Duke Southard. This collection of short stories and nonfiction essays cover a diverse ground of tales that will evoke strong emotions out of its readers.
Highly acclaimed for fiction filled with nuanced, believable characters, and suspenseful plots, author Duke Southard combines his stories for the first time alongside his compelling nonfiction essays in The Fallacy of Closure: And Other Award-Winning Short Stories and Essays.
This eclectic collection comprises a variety of expertly crafted tales — from a teacher’s scary night ride on a frozen lake, broken dreams, growing up with a Greatest Generation father, the tragedy of losing a son, and an apocalyptic fantasy. The collection also includes “The Fallacy of Closure,” winner of the 2016 Writer’s Digest Literary Competition, and two bonus chapters from the upcoming Parker Havenot novel from Southard’s popular detective series.
For more information about the book, or to schedule an interview with the author, please call Mindy Burnett at 520-798-0888 x100 or email support@wheatmark.com.
About The Author:
Duke Southard is an award-winning writer across numerous genres and publications. He is married, has three children, and lives in Arizona.
More about the Book:
The Fallacy of Closure: And Other Award-Winning Short Stories and Essays, ISBN 9781627875998, was released by Wheatmark, Inc. on March 28, 2018. The book has 136 pages and will be sold as a trade paperback for $8.95.
About the Publisher:
Wheatmark, Inc., founded in 1999, is a Tucson, Arizona-based publisher of trade titles that are available wherever quality books are sold worldwide. Wheatmark titles can be purchased in paperback, hardcover, or popular ebook formats. For more information, visit https://www.wheatmark.com.
Man-Hunt for Law-Escaping Criminal in Latest Novel
Tucson. AZ – April 4, 2018 – Wheatmark, Inc. is pleased to announce the release of The Vengeance Effect by Roger Neale. This action and adventure tale envelopes you in a world of dark pasts and rightful justice.
On a rainy morning in a coastal town in Washington state, a young woman begs Sam Troshin, a sportswriter for the local paper, to help her get rid of the body of a man who raped her teen-aged friend. His actions lead to his discovery of a trial thirty years earlier where three boys were acquitted of raping a high-school classmate. Two of those boys, middle-aged men now, have died in peculiar circumstances. The third has disappeared. The town newspaper speculates: has the victim returned to avenge herself?
A burnt-out pickup truck, a volleyball prodigy, an aging hitman, and a well-funded play in the local theater all have their part as Sam tries to find the third of the accused rapists.
For more information about the book, or to schedule an interview with the author, please call Mindy Burnett at 520-798-0888 x100 or email support@wheatmark.com.
More about this book:
The Vengeance Effect, ISBN 9781627875738, was released by Wheatmark, Inc. on April 2, 2018. The book has 286 pages and will be sold as a trade paperback for $14.95
About the Publisher:
Wheatmark, Inc., founded in 1999, is a Tucson, Arizona-based publisher of trade titles that are available wherever quality books are sold worldwide. Wheatmark titles can be purchased in paperback, hardcover, or popular ebook formats. For more information, visit https://www.wheatmark.com.
Second Volume that Continues To Show a New Side of How America Came To Be is Released
Tucson, AZ – April 4, 2018 – Wheatmark, Inc. is pleased to announce the release of The Yankee Road: Tracing the Journey of the New England Tribe that Created Modern America, Vol. 2: Domination by James D. McNiven. This is the second volume in this collection by Niven to explain this country’s rich roots of colonization and how America got to this stage.
Who is a Yankee and where did the term come from? Join author Jim McNiven as he explores the emergence and influence of Yankee culture while traversing an old transcontinental highway reaching from the Atlantic to the Pacific—US 20, which he nicknames “The Yankee Road.” The Yankee Road: Tracing the Journey of the New England Tribe that Created Modern America combines fascinating history with a travel narrative, taking the reader on a journey through the places Yankees and their descendants settled as they expanded westward. Using a physical road to connect locations important to the Yankee cultural “road,” McNiven takes us on side trips into individual stories, introducing readers to the origins of such large-scale and diverse ideas as conservation, public education, telegraphy, mass production, religion, and labor reform.
This second volume of a projected trilogy, Domination, centers on the growth of industry around the Great Lakes in the mid-nineteenth century into the twentieth century, something that led to the Yankee victory in the Civil War and the emergence of the reunited country as a major world power. Erastus Corning, Ida Tarbell, John Brown, JD Rockefeller, Henry Flagler, Thomas Edison, Henry Ford, the Kellogg brothers, the Wright brothers and Judge Gary, all make appearances.
For more information about the book, or to schedule an interview with the author, please call Mindy Burnett at 520-798-0888 x100 or email support@wheatmark.com.
About the Author:
James D. McNiven is professor emeritus of management at Dalhousie University in Halifax Nova Scotia, Canada, and senior policy research advisor with Canmac Economics Ltd. He has been the president of a regional think-tank, a senior government official, and former dean of the Dalhousie Faculty of Management. He has been the CEO of a small technology company and a member of a number of corporate and government boards. Dr. McNiven has written widely on public policy and economic development issues and is the author or coauthor of four books, including the first volume of The Yankee Road, www.theyankeeroad.com.
More about this Book:
The Yankee Road: Tracing the Journey of the New England Tribe that Created Modern America, Vol. 2: Domination, ISBN 9781627875196, was released by Wheatmark, Inc. on March 7, 2018. The book has 356 pages and will be sold as a trade paperback for $22.95.
About the Publisher:
Wheatmark, Inc., founded in 1999, is a Tucson, Arizona-based publisher of trade titles that are available wherever quality books are sold worldwide. Wheatmark titles can be purchased in paperback, hardcover, or popular ebook formats. For more information, visit https://www.wheatmark.com.
Translation of Ancient Buddhist Text Released
Tucson, AZ – February 26, 2018 — Wheatmark, Inc. is pleased to announce the release of The Great Prajna Paramita Sutra, Volume 2 , translated by Naichen Chen. This book portrays a deep philosophical journey to help readers along the road to self-revelation.
Buddha taught The Great Prajna Paramita Sutra in sixteen assemblies in four locations over twenty-two years. It was recorded posthumously by his disciples in six hundred fascicles of approximately five million words and is regarded as the largest canon in Buddhism.
For the last decade, translator Naichen Chen has worked on this sutra, and it is the only complete English translation from the Chinese Da Bo Re Bo Luo Mi Duo Jing rendered from Sanskrit about 1,350 years ago by Xuanzang (Hsüan-tsang). This is the second volume in a multivolume set.
The Great Prajna Paramita Sutra is important not only because of its extensive teaching, but because it explains what the great bodhisattva, the great bodhisattva path of cultivation, and the great bodhisattva vehicle are.
It depicts, manifests, and provides guidance on how one should learn to become a bodhisattva—and eventually a Buddha—transcending self-interest to reach a state of emptiness, selflessness, and nonattachment. Regardless of where you are on the path to enlightenment, you will be nourished by its parables and dialogues.
For more information about the book, or to schedule an interview with the author, please call Mindy Burnett at 520-798-0888 x100 or email support@wheatmark.com.
About the Author:
Naichen Chen was a professor of philosophy, Buddhism, and education at universities in Taiwan and the United States. He served as the president of National Hua Lien Teachers College in Taiwan and the University of the West (formerly Hsi Lai University) in Los Angeles, California. He has authored essays and books on education, religion, and philosophy in both Chinese and English. He holds a PhD in philosophy of education from the University of Florida.
More About This Book:
The Great Prajna Paramita Sutra, Volume 2, ISBN 978162787820, was released by Wheatmark, Inc. on March 2, 2018. The book has 462 pages and is being sold as a trade hardcover for $49.95.
About the Publisher:
Wheatmark, Inc., founded in 1999, is a Tucson, Arizona-based publisher of trade titles that are available wherever quality books are sold worldwide. Wheatmark titles can be purchased in paperback, hardcover, or popular ebook formats. For more information, visit https://www.wheatmark.com.
Fear, Politics, and Terrorism Come Together in Latest Thriller
Tucson, AZ – April 2, 2018 – Wheatmark, Inc. is pleased to announce the release of The Red Saguaro: A Novel of National Import by Robert Llewellyn. This Phoenix-based thriller brings national trembling fear to a local level.
On a scorching June day in Buckeye, Arizona, thirteen-year-old Juan Miguel Quilantan discovers a body impaled on a saguaro. The authorities quickly link the crime to radical Islamists who are planning an attack on the four million citizens of the Phoenix area, using some undetermined weapon of mass destruction.
Three people stand between the terrorists and a vulnerable metropolis: C. Ronald Cannon, a professor whose wife and children were murdered by ISIS; Laura Fatopoulos, a Muslim and FBI special agent who has dedicated her career to eradicating extremist factions; and boy-genius Juan Miguel, an illegal immigrant whose understanding of the electric grid exceeds that of most law enforcement professionals. Together, they travel to Austria and back—in only thirteen hours—to stop the terrorists from plunging the Valley of the Sun into chaos and anarchy.
Learn what the terrorists already know and your role to help alleviate this real-life threat by reading The Red Saguaro: A Novel of National Import.
For more information about the book, or to schedule an interview with the author, please call Mindy Burnett at 520-798-0888 x100 or email support@wheatmark.com.
About the Author:
Robert Llewellyn is an engineer, a seasoned leadership consultant, and the author of the nonfiction Leadership for the Recovering Quantoid: Boss-hood for Engineers, Accountants, Analysts, and Others with Severe Quantoidal Tendencies. He lives in Phoenix, Arizona.
More about this Title:
The Red Saguaro: A Novel of National Import, ISBN 9781278772, was released by Wheatmark, Inc. on January 11, 2018. This book has 320 pages and is being sold as a trade paperback for $19.95.
About the Publisher:
Wheatmark, Inc., founded in 1999, is a Tucson, Arizona-based publisher of trade titles that are available wherever quality books are sold worldwide. Wheatmark titles can be purchased in paperback, hardcover, or popular ebook formats. For more information, visit https://www.wheatmark.com.
“April Come She Will . . . “
“… when streams are ripe and swelled with rain.” With apologies to Paul Simon, here in the Sonoran Desert there are only dry streambeds this time of year. It did rain briefly, however, on the Saturday, March 10, day one of the Tucson Festival of Books, but that didn’t seem to deter the over 100,000 book lovers there. (The Festival’s now the third largest in the country. ) When I’m not working at Wheatmark, one of the things I do is volunteer for the Festival on the Book & Author Committee, where this year I was responsible for inviting authors who work in, or write about, the movie industry. Of all the authors I invited, the one who drew the biggest crowds was not a journeyman author with fifty titles, but first-time author Jenna Fischer. You may remember Fischer for playing Pam Beesly on the acclaimed television show The Office, or from any number of movies or plays. Why did she draw these crowds? Because she’s a celebrity. Celebrity means platform. The crowds were proof of the power of platform. Interestingly, her book, The Actor’s Life: A Survival Guide, contains a lot of excellent practical advice about platform building, most of which is equally as applicable to writers as it is to actors. In the book, she discusses how long the journey usually is, and how key relentless networking with like-minded people is. That’s why every Wheatmark author who made an appearance at the Tucson Festival of Books (see page 3 of this newsletter) was doing exactly the right thing by being there. You 
can’t develop your author platform unless you get out there and get known among the community of writers and readers. One Wheatmark author who seems to know all of this instinctively is Mary Contini Gordon, author of Chiriaco Summit: Built by Love to Last in the Desert. She’s booking as many events as she can in as many venues as she can. I recently attended one of them at a local Barnes and Noble. Mary had a charming co-host, colorful photos and maps to pass around, and, most importantly, a bunch of fascinating stories to tell — all in service of getting the audience interested in Chiriaco Summit. It was great. Keep it up, Mary!
While writing this piece, I chanced upon a notice that Jenna Fischer will be at the LA Festival of Books on April 22 — not surprisingly, continuing to build her platform!
Congratulations To Our Winners!
Congratulations to the following Wheatmark authors who were recently chosen as winners and finalists in the 6th Annual Beverly Hills Book Awards® Winners & Finalists.
Autobiography: Winner
An American Miner in Peru: A Lesson in Patience and Perseverance
Chuck Preble
Self Help: Motivational: Finalist
If I Can, You Can: Transformation Made Easy
David Zelman
http://www.transitionsinstitute.com/
Inspiration: Winner
Acupuncture for Your Soul, A Collection of Life Changing Aha! Moments
Rae Jacob
Become a Joiner
Grael Norton, Wheatmark’s Director of Marketing, does a fantastic webinar called “Do This First” which answers the question “What’s the first thing I should do now that I have written my book?” I won’t be a spoiler. You’ll have to watch the webinar (register at www.bookpublisher.com) to get the answer.
I have some “do this first” advice of my own, which answers the question “What’s the first thing I should do to market my books?”
Should you focus first on traditional publicity, advertising, social media marketing, getting reviews, entering book contests . . .? Based on my experience working with hundreds of successful authors, the simple answer is: Networking. In particular, networking within the community of people who are passionate about your genre or subject. Whatever other marketing you do, you will need members of this community to get your work, and you as an author, discovered by a large number of readers.
In his 2010 classic The Tipping Point, Malcolm Gladwell argues that for anything to go viral (like a book) it needs the help of following three types of people: mavens, connectors, and salespeople. Every fiction genre has its mavens (people who know everything about the genre), connectors (people who know all the best writers, editors, agents, and reviewers in the genre), and salespeople (people who can convince the readers of a genre to buy books.) Every nonfiction subject has the same. Where can you find all three types of people for your (fiction) genre or (nonfiction) subject? In writers’ groups focused on your genre or subject.
Say you write romance fiction, there’s the Romance Writers of America, www.rwa.org, an outstanding association of career-focused romance writers. They provide many online and regional networking opportunities, as well as a huge annual conference (next July in Denver).
Say you write biographies of women who contributed to the history, culture, or growth of the American West, there’s Women Writing in the West, www.womenwritingthewest.org. They also provide many online and regional networking opportunities. And they are having their annual conference this month in Tucson! (I’ll be attending as an acquiring editor.)
Whatever your niche or subject, I encourage you to find a writers’ group focused on your type of writing, and join it. The people most likely to read and get excited about your books to become the mavens, connectors, and salespeople that you’ll need to get discovered are in these organizations. Get to know them!
Publisher Wheatmark Announces Release of New Mystery Novel
Tucson, AZ – June 27, 2017 — Wheatmark, Inc. is pleased to announce the release of A Robin’s Snow by Barbara Briggs Ward. This is the last book in the author’s Christmas trilogy.
While curious of the world outside her Amish community, Annie Finley’s love for her husband, Daniel, and their son, Jacob, is why she’s content to stay. A devastating accident one stormy night changes that, propelling Annie beyond those boundaries. With the help of two women who sell Annie’s quilts, she learns those responsible for the accident are ruthless owners of a newspaper dynasty who’ll do anything to keep the presses running. A plan is devised enabling Annie to shed her simplicity and travel to Philadelphia where she infiltrates that dynasty, moving amongst them as one of them until the moment when she must make her move—a move with grave consequences reaching all the way to the White House in a fight over the Second Amendment.
For more information about the book, or to schedule an interview with the author, please call Mindy Burnett at 520-798-0888 x100 or email support@wheatmark.com.
About the Author:
Barbara Briggs Ward is a writer living in Ogdensburg, New York. She is the author of the beloved Christmas trilogy featuring The Reindeer Keeper, Yahoo’s Christmas Book Club’s December, 2012 Book of the Month; The Snowman Maker, released October, 2013, and The Candle Giver, released October, 2015. Her short stories have appeared in the Chicken Soup for the Soul books, Christmas Magic and Family Caregivers, plus Ladies’ Home Journal, Highlights for Children, and The Saturday Evening Post online. Barbara has been featured at Target Book Festivals in Boston and New York and on Mountain Lake PBS. Visit Barbara’s website at www.barbarabriggsward.com.
More About This Title:
A Robin’s Snow, ISBN 9781627874878, was be released by Wheatmark, Inc. on June 28, 2017. The book has 198 pages and is being sold as a trade paperback for $15.95 and as an ebook for $7.99.
About the Publisher:
Wheatmark, Inc., founded in 1999, is a Tucson, Arizona-based publisher of trade titles that are available wherever quality books are sold worldwide. Wheatmark titles can be purchased in paperback, hardcover, or popular ebook formats. For more information, visit https://www.wheatmark.com.
Book on Climate Change Vocabulary Released
Tucson, AZ – August 16, 2017 — Wheatmark, Inc. is pleased to announce the release of A Climate Vocabulary of the Future by Herb Simmens. A reference book for all things climate change, this book creatively and engagingly helps its readers stay informed about the topic.
A Climate Vocabulary of the Future offers a compelling perspective on climate change that breaks down the formidable challenges facing our species and our planet — rising temperatures, melting glaciers, and an indifferent global populace quietly overwhelmed by the science and inconceivable consequences of inaction.
By skillfully explaining — with humor, brevity, and clarity — more than four hundred new, as well as often overlooked words and phrases, A Climate Vocabulary of the Future empowers readers with the information they need to both understand and act.
For example, readers will learn the importance of dark snow, carbon war criminals, and negative emissions, as well as the background behind deceptively humorous phrases such as frozen chicken syndrome and robin carbon hood tax. Author Herb Simmens also offers many new ideas to inspire action before it is too late to save ourselves from ourselves.
Use A Climate Vocabulary of the Future as a reference or as a creative way to learn the many dimensions of climate change. Above all, use it to acquire the words, images, ideas, and actions necessary to thrive in a world increasingly dominated by climate chaos.
For more information about the book, or to schedule an interview with the author, please call Mindy Burnett at 520-798-0888 x100 or email support@wheatmark.com.
About the Author:
Herb Simmens has been a town manager, county administrator, head of planning for the state of New Jersey, and a college instructor. He has degrees from the University of Pennsylvania and Princeton and studied at the London School of Economics. He lives in Silver Spring, Maryland. Visit his website at herbsimmens.com.
More About This Title:
A Climate Vocabulary of the Future, ISBN 9781627875080, will be released by Wheatmark, Inc. on August 23, 2017. The book has 226 pages and is being sold as a trade paperback for $11.95 and as an ebook for $8.99.
About the Publisher:
Wheatmark, Inc., founded in 1999, is a Tucson, Arizona-based publisher of trade titles that are available wherever quality books are sold worldwide. Wheatmark titles can be purchased in paperback, hardcover, or popular ebook formats. For more information, visit https://www.wheatmark.com.