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An American Family in WWII has been vetted by Smithsonian Museum curators and is now on sale at National Air and Space Museum in Washington D.C. and Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center at Dulles, Virginia.

Author Dr. Sandra O'Connell will be reading from An American Family in World War II at the Brooks E. Kleber Memorial Readings at the Army War College in Carlisle, PA on November 4.

I sat in the middle of my bed...cross-legged and bug-eyed, all night. Id come to the realization that the gecko had...crawled up my bootcut jeans...gotten as far as my thighand due to the tight conditions...suffered a lack of oxygen. Gecko hypoxia.

MARIBETH SOUTHWORTH celebrated her fiftieth birthday. Irresponsibly. Her children deserted her in pursuit of their education. Selfishly. She finally sat down with a latte, her laptop and some leftovers after work each night, letting her mind wander. Dangerously.

Southworths collection of more than 50 quirky, edgy, in-your-face essays on her life so far, began as a private blog, Fifty and Feisty, and grew out of her readers enthusiastic reception.

Her stories take readers from her childhood, to her years in the workplace, dating and marrying a man she now lovingly calls Jack Sprat (well get to that later), raising children and living the typical American multi-tasking, melodramatic dream.

Ask her about the Jack Sprat thing and she says, no man wants to learn that his wife cant seesaw with him on a playground anymore. I know Im living a fairy tale, and it isnt Sleeping Beauty.

She Finally Sat Down is for those who know that a life can be full of missteps, mayhem and madness, but its still worth living and reading about. Vicariously.

If you own or manage a business, one of the best things you can do for yourself and for the business is to write a book. This is a more effective form of advertising and promotion than any newsletter or brochure could ever be. As an author, you achieve a credibility and stature that only few business people attain.

Most people who want to publish a children's book are surprised to discover that a book filled with full color illustrations will cost more to produce than they can sell it for. You can have a full color cover, course. And if you want to you can even include up to four pages of color illustrations.

The growth of Christian bookstores over the last few decades testifies to the enormous interest in this subject. If you have an inspiring story to tell - a story about faith, hope, peace - there are people who want to read about it.

The world seems to have an insatiable appetite for cookbooks. Many cookbooks are merely catalogs of recipes. What we like are cookbooks with personality and we can help you to get your cookbook out into the world. And we can also help you to turn your collection of recipes into a profitable fundraiser for your church or service organization.

Fiction continues to be the most popular categories among writers, even though all of the evidence shows that fiction is the most difficult to sell. If you want to write a novel that can find a niche audience, try the approach of two of our writers: that is, ground your fictional story in the kind of facts that readers can measure.

In recent years history has become something of a national pastime. We can't seem to get enough of the past, and now the bestseller list includes many history books. Community histories have caught fire around the country, and interest in genealogy has made family history books increasingly popular. We have also noticed a growing interest in company/corporate histories.

You don't have to be rich or famous to write an interesting, successful biography or memoir. But if you have the ability to be brutally (or even humorously) honest about yourself, people will read it. They'll read it because the truth about anyone's life...the unvarnished and detailed truth...is endlessly fascinating.

Books about military experiences, and particularly books about World War II, are among the most popular in the nation right now. If you have a war story but you need help with the writing, Word Association can help turn your memories into a book.

Non-fiction is a vast and popular genre. It encompasses all that is written about actual events and real people. It can be a real life mystery, love story, even a comedy. Sometimes there is a thin line between fiction and non-fiction; sometimes non-fiction can be told in a story form like a novel.

Few people write poetry to make money, so although we encourage manuscripts from talented poets, we do so with the tacit understanding that you will keep your day job.

This is the section in every bookstore that rings up the highest sales. If you've got a book about how to make people healthier, wealthier or happier, you can sell a lot of books.

You don't have to be an athlete to write a book about sports, but you do have to be an impassioned expert in some phase of it. Books about golf sell in the millions, and we've got quite a good one on our list. Books about running have been hugely popular for more than 20 years now, starting with The Complete Book of Running in the 1980s. And a sports book doesn't necessarily have to be non-fiction. Check out our superb thriller, Runners' Blood, a novel with a solid scientific grounding.

She Finally Sat Down: 50 Years of Memories, Musings and Melodrama

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