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2011 December

"Charol beautifully captured the essence and heart of my book in the description she created for me. After working on this book for two years it was very difficult to stand back and create a summary that left readers compelled. Charol took on the challenge and, as always, delivered far more than I ever imagined." - Molly Fiore, Opting In! See the book description here:

Have you ever thought about ending your life?

Do you not feel “gotten”?

Does death seem the only answer, the only option?

You’re not the only one. I came desperately close to ending my life. Thoughts of suicide had nagged at me since I was a teenager. I lived obsessively in a roller-coaster craziness. It always felt like I was freefalling down a rabbit hole.

Opting In! is my yearlong struggle of trying to understand what I really wanted out of my life and why everything was always so agonizing for me. This is a brutally honest and raw look at my darkest secrets and what drove me to the brink of suicide. I share the stories of my greatest shames because I know how it feels to have no sense of direction, to be spiraling out of control, to feel that nothing matters, including me. I know how it feels to have no answers, no hope, to be utterly lost in despair.

I clawed my way back up again, and again. Through many breakthroughs, I found courage. I mustered will. I hung on — and discovered my soul passion! Now, no matter what happens, I know that what I do matters, that I matter. For the first time, I am living my life for me and living a life I love!

2011 June

William H. Lee, M.D., Over 50 Feeling 30!

Publishing December 2011

Remember the energy of your youth? You could run and play all day and never get tired? Remember how you never seemed to gain weight? How smooth your skin was?

Twelve major forces affect our health, memory, mood, and sanity: inflammation, sugar overload, free radicals, impaired natural detoxification, blood clots, stress, insufficient nutrition, insufficient exercise, shortening of our DNA telomeres, insufficient hormones (both men and women), deficiency in our human growth hormone, and deficiency in our brain neurotransmitters.

The good news is you can do many things to improve your health. Through bioidentical hormone balance, exercise, nutritional food choices, supplements, getting enough good sleep, and stress management, you can stop and reverse the effects of biological aging.

The body ages by becoming diseased. The human body is a miraculous machine. For many years, it puts up with insults, but eventually they take their toll on the body and wear it down. In this book, I tell you how to get your body back!

Learn how each of these physical conditions causes aging, how to:

• Remain vital and without chronic degenerative disease.
  

• Stop and reverse unhealthy life patterns.
  

• Feel and look decades younger!
  

Dr. William H. Lee, M.D., an OB/Gyn, is a specialist in Age Management, Functional Medicine, and bioidentical hormone replacement for both men and women. He also is the Medical Director for WAVi, a ground-breaking company developing devices that measure memory and differentiate dementia and Alzheimer’s disease. Practicing in Denver, Colorado, Dr. Lee’s national lecture schedule is posted on his website www.AgeManagementMD.com.

2011 December

Charol Messenger, The Soul Path

Publishing January 2012

BE HERE NOW

Are you living your life fully?

The Soul Path stretches both the beginner and the spiritual teacher to a new and clearer place within yourself. It clarifies where you are in your personal soul evolution, and reveals how to live from your incredible boundless being, resonating with wisdom and presence. Learn how to better serve yourself and others, and how to live all out, invigorated by your creative, limitless imagination.

• How does enhanced insight help you face life’s challenges with resilience and fortitude?
  

• What is the inner voice, and how can it help you every day for personal guidance?
  

• How can you tell the difference between a true spiritual teacher and a cult leader?
  

Through original teachings, anecdotes and guided exercises, this gentle book reveals the natural rhythm of the spiritual path. It sparks your innate knowing, uplifts you to possibilities, affirms who you really are, and inspires you to act on your aspirations—for your life is up to you!

2009 June

Philip K. Rhyu, The Liberation Symphony

Publishing March 2012

A dramatic international thriller, The Liberation Symphony is the true heroic war story of one family’s defection from North Korea. Two South Korean innocent young lovers are captured in 1950 at the onset of the Korean War and conscripted into North Korea’s communist army. Both the grand-prize winners of a recent national music competition, their talents are quickly recognized by North Korea’s Premier, Kim Il Sung, and they rise to prominence. Concert pianist Yoon Jung Ho and Choi Young Ae, a gifted soprano who soon becomes his wife, both personally serve the Premier who bestows on them the titles of The People’s Composer and The People’s Singer. Pretending loyalty to the despot, and later to his son Kim Jong Il, over the decades the passionate musicians create and perform numerous propaganda songs against America, which are popularized to the masses through military parades. Despite the honors, the couple has always felt like puppets of the regimes. However, they can never return to the South because they would be considered traitors.

Then Young Ae is betrayed and poisoned. In a final act of defiance, Jung Ho disregards Kim Jong Il’s thematic instructions to compose a “Liberation Symphony” to honor his dead father. Instead, through striking music and chorus, Jung Ho reveals the truth of North Korea’s wretched poverty and starvation of millions over the last fifty years and the punishing labor camps where people are still imprisoned today for political infractions. Jung Ho dies of poisoning in 1995 before he can defect from North Korea. However, his son, second wife, her daughter and granddaughter do eventually escape, after unimaginable hardships and secret imprisonments and with the aid of the U.S. State Department. After three long years of bare survival, Jung Ho’s emaciated middle-aged son smuggles out his father’s “Liberation Symphony,” which is performed at long last triumphantly in Seoul, South Korea, in 2003—giving a message of hope to all peoples who seek personal freedom, at whatever the costs.

For Mr. Rhyu, also see: query letters and synopsis (coming soon or I can email them) 

Henry Schulte, Misery Loves Company

Categories: Romantic suspense, light suspense, romance

Key words: romantic suspense, suspense, romance, mystery, novel, fiction, Miss Marple, Agatha Christie

Teaser

The perfect crime with an intriguing twist.

Teaser

Ill-fated young lovers race to stop a power-hungry madman.

Condensed (32 words)

Multiple suicides stun a cozy New England town. A handsome bodybuilder who is dying of a terminal illness and his sweetheart race to stop a power-hungry madman from destroying every trusting soul.

TYPICAL COVER LENGTH

Multiple suicides stun the cozy New England town of Knockwood, Vermont during a chilling icy winter. Six-foot-seven Kevin O’Reilly, a bodybuilder who looks like a golden Viking, is dying of a terminal illness. He has sold all of his belongings and left his life behind in California. His last action is to forgive his mother who abandoned him twenty years ago when he was twelve, except when he arrives from his cross-country drive she has just committed suicide.

Distraught that he may have prompted his mother’s sudden death, Kevin plunges into an investigation of several peculiar events … and discovers she was not the only recent suicide. Compelled to seek justice for what he is certain is his mother’s murder, with disintegrating health Kevin pushes himself at a breathtaking pace to stop a power-hungry madman and greedy alcoholic preacher.

An evocative young redhead at the health club smiles and for Kevin the room gets brighter. The ill-fated lovers, savvy elder Ruth, and voluptuous call-girl Angelica, face treachery at every turn and must draw on all their physical and mental strength to defy the sinister con artists whose demented plan will destroy every trusting soul.

LONG BOOK DESCRIPTION

Inexplicable suicides are haunting the cozy New England town of Knockwood, Vermont during a frigid icy winter. Six-foot-seven Kevin, looking like a golden Viking and a model of perfection, is dying of a terminal illness. His last action is to forgive his mother who abandoned him at age twelve, except that when he arrives from his cross-country drive she has just committed suicide.

Distressed at his lost chance and plagued with guilt, he seeks to understand what prompted her sudden death … and discovers that she was not the only suicide, nor the only one who willed her estate to the church. Compelled to seek justice for her, though his health is failing rapidly, he drives himself at a breathtaking pace to stop the power-hungry maniacal madman and greedy alcoholic preacher cohort from brainwashing the entire community.

When the stunning young redhead at the health club smiles, for Kevin the room gets brighter. Determined to help him, even though they have no hope of a life together, she spies on her corpulent, grotesque boss, whose drastic actions put in grave peril.

Befriended by a savvy, elder woman and a voluptuous call-girl, the ill-fated lovers face treachery and danger at every turn. 

BLURBS

Misery Loves Company is a fun thrill for lovers of romantic suspense. With its atmospheric charm and wit, it especially appeals to readers who like quaint settings, Miss Marple mysteries, and Murder, She Wrote. The warm and inviting characters make this story of seductive dangers irresistible. The perfect crime with an intriguing twist. A joy ride all the way through.” — Charol Messenger