Ten16Press
TEN16 Press, an imprint of Orange Hat Publishing, was created to house fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and YA titles. Celebrating ten years of experience in the publishing industry, this family-owned and operated Independent Publisher in southeastern Wisconsin is proud to offer a variety of contracts including hybrid, self, and traditional. Both houses represent a diverse range of authors and books with over 300 titles.
Get to know our books at: www.orangehatpublishing.com/bookstore
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Bridges Library System
The Bridges Library System strengthens member libraries by fostering collaboration and innovation. It provides services and support to 24 public libraries in Waukesha and Jefferson counties through increased access to information and services, collaborative relationships, and greater fiscal security, benefiting residents of both counties.
Engage with us on social media: www.facebook.com/bridgeslibrarysystem
More information at: www.bridgeslibrarysystem.org
Jayne Caelan
Forged with Flames: Faith and Love During the Peshtigo Fire
Callie McKenna’s life revolves around the business she has built in the growing lumber town of Peshtigo, Wisconsin. She has no intention of sacrificing it for marriage, not even when handsome Tanner Slade crosses her threshold—even as she’s drawn to him like no other.
Tanner Slade was following orders when he was sent in search of a murderer, not looking to tie his life in knots. Yet that’s exactly the position he finds himself in where Callie McKenna is concerned. Certain he has led danger to her door, he’ll set aside his pride if it means ensuring her safety—until a disaster of unfathomable destruction and despair threatens to take her away forever.
Will their love be enough to renew his faith in God while preserving her own?
You can get a copy of Forged with Flames on Amazon.
Geoffrey Carter
From Three Towers Press, an imprint of Henschelhaus Books
The P.S. Wars: Last Stand at Custer High
Thicker Than Water
The P.S. Wars: Last Stand at Custer High is a thriller about a jaded teacher fighting to keep his impoverished public high school from being taken over by a ruthless corporation. He rallies the students, the faculty, and the community in the fight to their public schools public.
Thicker Than Water is an eco-thriller about two brothers fighting over the control of their surprise inheritance, the last tract of old-growth forest in Northern Wisconsin. Their conflict escalates, encompassing their entire family and the nearby town, until it erupts into a series of violent confrontation.
Chicago Writers Association
The Chicago Writers Association is a creative writing community of dedicated writers from Chicagoland and around the world founded in 2003 and organized as a not-for-profit organization in 2006. CWA members are both professional, published authors and those committed to joining their ranks. We focus our efforts on the necessary aspects of the professional writer: perfecting our craft and getting our work into the stream of commerce. We span many genres and styles. Our purpose is to share information, experience and encouragement. We are a welcoming community of those for whom written expression is an integral part of our lives.
Website & Social Media:
facebook.com/groups/chicagowrites
Chaplain Kathy Collins
The Mystic Chaplain: My Story
Best Book Awards Winner and International Book Awards Finalist
Kathy’s memoir takes you through the throes of fighting cancer to her awakening of the spiritual world, visions, messages, self-healings, and synchronized events to understanding our conscious oneness. The universal heart guided and embraced Kathy through her “Doubting Thomas” phase and guided her to surrender. The creative nudges experienced laid down the building blocks needed to lead Kathy to serve others. A timely story of having a heart with ears in our current world of need. Today she uses her gifts to help those transitioning at the end of life.
Chaplain Kathy Collins’ website
The Mystic Chaplain: My Story at Henschell Haus Books publisher’s website
Laura Clark-Hansen
Please Send Hats—One Baby Boomer’s Rude Awakening to Ovarian Cancer
Please Send Hats is a wonderful memoir that tells Laura Clark Hansen’s moving and often hilarious story of cancer survival. She combines vibrant reflections on her Baby Boomer past as she tells the story about the transformative power that cancer can have as it…Rearranges the present…Evokes memories of the past, and…Forever changes the future.
Please Send Hats emphasizes the great importance of early detection, teaches the warning signs of ovarian cancer that we can all be watchful for while providing hope and inspiration for survivors, their caregivers, and their loved ones.
The overall message is one of hope and healing as it follows her journey to rebuild, reclaim, and revitalize a life battered and bruised by illness.
Please Send Hats is available to order on the Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and A Room of One’s Own websites
Website: https://www.lauraclarkhansen.com
Bookselling Link: https://www.amazon.com/Please-Send-Hats-Boomers-Awakening/dp/194836557X
Beverly “Bev” Davis
Winging It!: A Monarch Love Story
A grandmother and granddaughter share a special bond as they watch a Monarch butterfly form and take flight. Truly a “Monarch love story,” this precious tale reminds us that we can each do our part in keeping the Monarch population alive and well.
Mary Gover Gray
Local author, Mary Gover Gray, has written two children’s books about her standard poodle. These picture books tell of two different adventures Dixie has when out and about with her owner. The poodle can’t seem to help herself when it comes to stepping beyond her owner’s reach. Choose Dixie Doodle the Helper Poodle at the senior center or Dixie Doodle the Happy Poodle watching a school’s field day event. Both fun stories have hidden paw prints for readers to find throughout the pages. NOW, either book can be purchased through Amazon.com in paper copy or Kindle ebook form. Ages 4-8 picture books
More information available on her website: https://marygovergray.com/home
Matthew Gutierrez
Notes I Wrote Along the Way
Notes I Wrote Along the Way is a collection of original poems inspired by the emotions that we gather up and confront on this journey called life. The themes of memory, environment, love, sexual-desire, dream, madness and death will paint a picture inside your mind, transporting you to a place of imagination and, even at times, fantasy. The poems are a bridge between yourself and the stories being told, bringing forth emotions and feelings of vulnerability, helping you revisit experiences, bringing to life past and present memories and moments from your personal life.
https://instagram.com/matthewjames_g or notes2poetry
Terri Karsten
In southeast Minnesota, award-winning author, Terri Karsten, can be found scribbling away on her next project. Karsten writes historical fiction and non-fiction for all ages. Her debut novel, A Mistake of Consequence (2015) takes adult readers into 18th century Colonial America. Her other books include When Luck Runs Out, an orphan train story for middle grade readers, The Legend of Goshado, a picture book retelling of a Japanese folktale, and Mindy Saves the Day, an early chapter book featuring a spunky 10 year old. Karsten’s non-fiction includes: From Brick to Bread: Building a Backyard Oven and Snags and Sawyers.
Social Media Link:
https://www.facebook.com/Wagonbridge-Publishing-104660696267570/?view_public_for=104660696267570
Book selling link:
http://www.terrikarsten.com/books-1.html
L’BRI PURE n’ NATURAL, Beth Thierfelder Independent Consultant
We are an aloe vera based skin care company based in Mukwonago, WI. We use superior ingredients that are formulated into safe, natural, affordable, and effective products to obtain superior results. We use restoring herbs, rejuvenating vitamins, fruit & plant essences, natural botanicals, and safe, food grade preservatives. We avoid all the cancer-causing ingredients, toxins, drying alcohols, artificial dyes and fragrances, harmful preservatives, and pore clogging goals that other skin care companies use.
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Website: lbri.com/bthierfelder
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Susan Lukas
Abiding Flame is an intricately woven tale of a flawed soul who learns about the possibilities and complexities of redemption. Through his many incarnations with his soul mates, he learns about love, forgiveness, and God’s infinite mercy.
http://www.susanlukas.com/books.html
Louise Endres Moore
For 57 years, Alfred told his family he had been a barber, chauffeur, and translator in World War II. But following the death of his wife, Alfred quietly started sharing a glimpse into his actual experiences. His daughter first began capturing those fractions of stories on napkins during her weekly nursing home visits, which grew into a nearly two-decade deep dive into his true role in the war—a reluctant front-line machine gunner in Europe from 1944 – 1945.
Kristin A. Oakley
A revolutionary town laden with liars. A reporter pushed to the brink. Will the story of a lifetime lead to his final breath? Chicago journalist Leo Townsend fears his career is faltering as fast as his sobriety. Subpoenaed to reveal a source to a grand jury, he’s staring down the barrel of a choice between unemployment or jail time. But he has no idea his new fluff piece on a homeschooling town could be the deadline on his life. Carpe Diem, Illinois is the suspenseful first tale in the Leo Townsend thriller series.
Social media link: https://kristinoakley.net/
Book selling link: https://amzn.to/2SSkc8J
Toccara Pittman
Triumphs and Perils of a Melanin Iroquois Queen dreaming on Baltic Avenue
My pledge to being a lifelong learner is one I took as a student. Now that I am a alumni of Ottawa University, As a writer my readers come first. I come from a long line of writers and loving counterparts. I began my new literary piece months ago. Writing makes me feel free. My head full of wild radical ideas that excite, amaze, but at times scares me. Writing for me is like being psycho analyzed. All the toxic situations, feelings, contributors to dysfunction cease to exist. I control my happiness. I am defining my reality. I create my reality.
Triumphs and Perils of a Melanin Iroquois Queen dreaming on Baltic Avenue at Amazon
Triumphs and Perils of a Melanin Iroquois Queen dreaming on Baltic Avenue at Xlibris
Laureanna Raymond-Duvernell
“Where do animals go in the winter?” many often wonder: it is a natural curiosity about the cycle of nature right outside our doors. Under in the Mud introduces ten different animals and how they survive winter’s cold temperatures. Based on the folksong “Over in the Meadow,” Mara C. Williams uses unique vantage points to bring the winter habits of the animals to life and Laureanna Raymond-Duvernell’s lyrical text makes this an excellent read-aloud.
Back matter is included to foster additional curiosity about the amazing ways that nature adapts to cold climates. A perfect addition to a winter reading collection!
Social Media/Website Links:
www.laureannawrites.com/mybooks
Gregory Lee Renz
Social Media Link: https://www.facebook.com/greg.renz.9
Bookselling Link: https://glrenz.com
A timely story of race.
Winner of the Gold Medal in the Reader’s Favorite International Book Awards, Midwest Book Award Winner, and Public Safety Writers Award.
Can an angry adolescent inner-city girl and a guilt-ridden firefighter overcome their racial biases in the fight of their lives? Beneath the Flames is the character-driven story of a young farmer and volunteer firefighter who leaves the love of his life to journey from the lush farmland of rural Wisconsin to the decaying inner-city of Milwaukee to prove himself as professional firefighter, seeking redemption from the crushing guilt he carries from a horrific tragedy.
Leigh Splitt
Wandering Girl
This summertime tale, set in 1970, will evoke memories of simpler days for those who lived in that era. Children will enjoy this story of friendship and adventure.
Linda, a lonely only child from an upper-class family, meets Peggy, a busy middle child from a middle-class family. Together the nine-year-old girls experience June in Wisconsin. Then their activities get them, their friend, Mark, and Linda’s teenage babysitter, Cindi, into trouble.
The girls’ solution causes them to embark upon an exciting journey that teaches them a lot about the area in which they live, and also themselves.