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Acclaimed Author Poet Palmer Smith Launches her Southern Poetry Collection with The Butterfly Bruises

Acclaimed author, professional creative writer, teacher, and poet Palmer Smith launches her Southern Poetry Collection of 80 poems and five short stories.

New York City, NY., May 3, 2021 -- Acclaimed author, professional creative writer, teacher, and poet Palmer Smith launches her Southern Poetry Collection of 80 poems and five short stories in “The Butterfly Bruises” ($18 U.S.) on May 15, 2021. Press Dionysus, a London, England-based independent publishing house, is working with IngramSpark for U.S. distribution.

Growing up in New York City, her mother packed up Palmer and her brother each summer for a road trip journey down the East Coast to visit extended family. Through the years, she experienced the sights, sounds, and smells of that Southern sojourn. She has sewn together those memories into a general meditation on animals, the ocean, miscommunication, childhood, Northeastern vs. Southern American culture, family, nature vs. technology, and the imagination of the introvert. This book may encourage readers to question what it means to be living and communicating in today’s world while readers the space to answer these questions on their own.

Palmer’s poems have been praised by the CFO of Garden & Gun Magazine and recognized by prominent author David Farley, who reviewed her book (see attachment). The leading photo for the book is by world-renowned photographer Jasper Soloff of Los Angeles, CA. The cover was created by entomology artist Evi Antonio of London, England.

Come meet Palmer at one of the venues onsite, outside, or on a ZOOM on her tour as she transverses the Southern and Midwestern states this summer and the Northeast this fall. She is available upon request to teach high school/college/university classes on poetry, please inquire. For more information, go to www.TheButterflyBruisesBook.com for a reading/book-signing schedule or to contact her directly by email.

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Bestselling Author Mary Ellen Lukas Talks About Mary Magdalene’s Role in Spirituality

In a time of such uncertainty, many turn to spirituality or religion to provide answers. However, the younger generations know how difficult it is to turn to religion when it has contributed to the mass amount of discrimination and injustice they are fighting to eradicate today.

A new bestselling book highlights how Jesus was the first feminist and how Mary Magdalene is a central figure in the church. While this may sound like a storyline in a Dan Brown novel, it has been whispered by many that Mary Magdalene wasn’t the stigmatized prostitute in the Christian religion. Instead she is the wife and companion of Jesus Christ.

Now, after many decades of Church rhetoric to eliminate Mary from the teachings of Christ, religious historian Mary Ellen Lukas discusses this and other outdated patriarchal religious institutions in her new book, Are You Still Mine? Mary Ellen Lukas is known throughout the world as a controversial and motivational speaker. She is the Foundress of the Eeshan Religion and Church of Metta Spirituality and School of Enlightenment.

You can review and order Mary Ellen’s book by emailing here: https://bit.ly/Are-You-Still-Mine

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Adam Frankenstein Search for a Soul Wins Book Prestigous Award

Frankenstein lives again in this short story collection that has won awards and critical acclaim.

Adam Frankenstein: Search for a Soul by Sheila English is a collection of short stories that has recently won the prestigious Literary Titan Award and garnered praise from readers.

Mary Shelley’s creature is over 200 years old, but the popular science fiction character still intrigues readers and critics alike. Each story gives insight to the creature and his life including a run-in with none other than Dracula.

"Poetically, and by murky gaslight, Sheila English dazzles the reader with pressing adventures and a companion by our side." - Literary Titan

The collections include four Adam Frankenstein stories in different eras. As he searches for his humanity in London brothels and French villages, he finds that sometimes his greatest obstacles are humans themselves.

"It is almost inconceivable that anyone would try to add to the Frankenstein legend, but this collection does so and does so well." - Paul Broome Amazon 5-Stars

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Author's New Book Receives Warm Literary Welcome - Side Steps Terrorizing Sound Bites

Amy Jean's Side Steps Terrorizing Sound Bites receives multiple five-star reviews.

Sherri Rosen, a NYC book publicist, says, "I just read this book, and it blew me away. Perfect time for a book like this telling it like it is. Provocative, pushing the envelope, honest. Just what we need right now! Buy it! You will be so glad you did!"

K.C. Finn, Readers' Favorite, says, "Author Amy Jean has created a true rollercoaster of poetic works and musings, one which delivers on both its structural front as a collection and the emotional front as an experience to work through. A particular highlight of the work for me was 'Faberge Egg,' which exuded such a powerful aura of artifice versus reality, and intelligently played this theme over our real lives, and 'Say It Isn't So,' which explores the importance of female empowerment, ideas of childhood naivety and the freedom that comes to us all from 'the game of life': chillingly brilliant."

Side Steps Terrorizing Sound Bites poetically reveals the diabolical ramifications of life being played rather than lived. Amy Jean shares personal trials, tribulations, and contemplation in a spirited, rhythmic chime. The struggle of women to be recognized in a male-dominated society is boldly depicted in activist poetry style. This collection shoots flares up at the historical missteps we habitually ignore. Fiery intensity and engaging illustrations amplify the words on the page and drive them home to readers who are open to engaging with our flawed history.

In Side Steps Terrorizing Sound Bites Part 2: Some things are black and white, Amy Jean continues to share the ramifications of repetitive historical missteps in an intense poetic clang. The poems hint at unknown universal truths, including direct indications that we currently do not have the freedom we assume we possess, nor are we privy to view reality. Implied impending euphoria holds the reader hostage, as she or he flips from page to page. You can feel the author's anguish surrounding the greed and jealousy holding humanity back from breaking through to universal liberation: A rapidly approaching future where the oneness depicted in Holy Scripture is a present and universal truth for all. Sincere tantalizing morsels of a gentle and enduring devotion seep sporadically between poems broadcasting profound rage regarding paths endured. You can feel the author's confidence build as she evaluates her worth against the negative feedback and denial she has experienced throughout her tumultuous, synthetic, and isolated existence; An existence she is painstakingly laboring to reconstruct, piece by piece, through intense contemplation. The juxtaposed nature of the work takes the reader on a rollercoaster ride of emotional highs and lows, culminating in a final AMEN. Illustrator, Eric Savage, delivers once again with heartwarming illustrations that poignantly captivate the essence of the words on the page. Side Steps Terrorizing Sound bites offer's poetic snippets of Amy Jean's memoir, The Kingdom Has Arrived.

MikeNilles Launched in Anticipation of Authors First Book

The blog will publish extra info and teaser chapters from Mike Nilles’ autobiographical novel, slated for release in September/October 2020.

Atlanta, GA - USA | June 22nd, 2020 -- MikeNilles.com is a newly launched book blog dedicated in preparation of writer Mike Nilles’ first autobiographical novel, set in Luxembourg in the 1970s. The novel tackles a personal story of abuse, tragedy, and mystery, mixing truth and fiction. It takes place in the towns of Steinfort and Rodange, in the heart of Luxembourg’s declining steel industry, where two working class families intertwine and clash. What follows is a gut-wrenching story of mistreatment and fractured relationships.

What started as a personal project has evolved into a tale that needs to be told, as per the author’s words. “When I began writing, (this book) started as nothing more than a form of self-therapy. Too much had happened that I could never bring over my lips,” Mike Nilles explains on his new blog. “But I can’t ignore that it happened. It started in the tiny town of Rodange, and what happened there followed me throughout my childhood, to Jean Asselborn’s municipality of Steinfort.”

In the lead up to the book’s release, Nilles plans to publish some of the book’s first chapters and release additional information to help readers learn more about the setting and put the puzzle pieces together. As an autobiographical novel, Mike Nilles’ new book will mix elements of truth and fiction, so it’s left to the reader to determine what really happened. Readers can also get in touch with Mike and share his story via the hashtag #mikenillesstory.

The book is set to be available for purchase in September/October 2020, with chapters and auxiliary information to be released in the lead up to the publication date.

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MikeNilles.com is a book blog created in anticipation of Mike Nilles’ first autobiographical novel, set in the towns of Rodange and Steinfort in Luxembourg, in the early 1970s. The book will recount a tale of hardship and abuse, encouraging readers to piece together the truth. Inspired by global movements like #MeToo, Mike Nilles decided that it was time to face his past.

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