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Alan L. Bates’s New Book You Were Not Invited, So Why Did You Come

Norwalk, CA, April 09, 2024 — Alan L. Bates, who was born and raised in Washington State, has completed his new book, “You Were Not Invited, So Why Did You Come?”: a suspenseful tale that explores complex family dynamics.

Author Alan L. Bates grew up on a farm, loves animals, makes leaded stained glass, loves the outdoors and wilderness, and ended up in the big metropolis of Los Angeles.

Bates writes, “Brian is a little slow on following Stew and lets out a crazy scream and tries to tackle Jeff. ‘Okay,’ says Jeff and delivers a right cross that sends Brian to the deck. “One more for the road,” he says and grabs Brian by the shirt and short jabs him in the chops, then he cuffs him in the back of the head. ‘You like that?’”

Published by Page Publishing, Alan L. Bates’s intriguing tale allows readers to glimpse the innerworkings of this family.

Readers who wish to experience this captivating work can purchase “You Were Not Invited, So Why Did You Come?” at bookstores everywhere, or online at the Apple iTunes Store, Amazon, Google Play, or Barnes and Noble.

Author RM Suhuncheck’s New Book Till the Bitter End

New York, NY, April 09, 2024 –RM Suhuncheck completed his new book, “Till the Bitter End”: an eye-opening work that shares the twists and turns of the author’s career. Working for twelve principals, in spans that ranged from two months to seven and a half years, enabled him to develop his own set of strategies, learn what ideas worked, and accumulate enough stories that made him angry, made him laugh, and motivated him to write his story.

Author RM Suhuncheck writes, “My top priority was to be actively involved in learning about the daily operation of the building and, very importantly, to learn about the teachers. Every day, I attempted, and quite often succeeded, in visiting every classroom two or three times a day. These informal observations, where I would observe a lesson for fifteen to twenty minutes, exposed me to various teaching strategies and techniques. I was learning a lot.”

Published by Newman Springs Publishing, RM Suhuncheck’s candid work offers insight into the experience of being an assistant principal for a long period of time.

Readers who wish to experience this reflective work can purchase “Till the Bitter End” at bookstores everywhere, or online at the Apple iBooks Store, Amazon, or Barnes and Noble.

Vicki Bisbee’s New Book Assiniboine Nakoda Book of Basic Words

Wolf Point, MT, April 08, 2024 -Fulton Books author Vicki Bisbee, a retired school counselor, has completed her most recent book, “Assiniboine (Nakoda): Book of Basic Words”: an educational guide meant for readers of all ages to help them learn basic words and pronunciations of the Assiniboine language.

Born and raised on the Fort Peck, Indian reservation, author Vicki Bisbee attended MSU-Northern, where she earned a bachelor’s degree in business education and a master’s degree in education – guidance and counseling. Both of Vicki’s parents attended boarding schools and her mother is Chippewa from the Turtle Mountain Reservation in ND and her dad is Assiniboine. There was no Native American culture taught in school but much of that had changed when Vicki returned to the reservation in 1992. In 1996, Vicki enrolled in Native American Studies at Fort Peck Community College and began her journey by participating in her first Medicine Lodge in 1997, which finished in June 2000.

“Great efforts are being made to revitalize the Assiniboine language on the Fort Peck Reservation and areas where Assiniboins reside,” writes Vicki. “The Fort Peck Community College on the Reservation has been instrumental in teaching the Assiniboine culture and rich language. This book is a brief guide of basic words and pronunciation.”

Author D.D. Darwin’s New Book Life’s Little Mysteries

New York, NY, April 08, 2024 –D.D. Darwin, who has traveled much of the world working for many of the leading companies in the aerospace and defense industry from which he retired as a vice president of such a firm, has completed his new book, “Life’s Little Mysteries”: a captivating of unique and intriguing short stories that feature a variety of characters and themes.

Author D.D. Darwin proudly received his honorable discharge from the US Marine Corps. And today continues to write of his adventures.

Darwin writes, “How is it you can know a person (my dad) your entire life yet seldom take the time to see what he looks like? On a scale of one to ten, he would score a four or five in appearance. His stubby beard shone salt and peppery. While the hair atop his head gave evidence of thinning, this emphasized his receding hairline. Pop’s facial structure was too thin to be oval yet not thin enough to be a hatchet face. His nose took a slight jog to the right from some mishap in the 1930s while he served in the CCC projects. Still, for all that, the single most striking feature was his sparkling pale-blue eyes that were accented by his chestnut-brown skin. One more thing, somewhere, somehow from the time we had left his home several hours before, a metaphysical change had taken place. Years appeared to drop from his appearance. No longer was he an old man but a man filled with vitality, boundless strength, and as I was to find out, incredible endurance.”

Annemarie Estor Wins the 2024 Frederick Turner Prize for Poetry

Dallas, TX, April 08, 2024 — Mundus Artium Press announces that the selection committee has unanimously selected the Flemish Poet Annemarie Estor as the 2024 Frederick Turner Prize for Poetry.

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At a time when poetry is shrinking in its range, in its form, and its ambition, Annemarie Estor stands out. Wildly inventive, her huge vocabulary spans every genre and field of discourse, her gentle irony shines a light into every civilizational secret, and her passionate love of life, even in our doubtful times, makes us feel that we are not at the end of things but at the beginning. Long poems like No Man’s Land Night and The Armpits of the Beast explore the mysterious underworld landscapes of our current civilization and the transformative realm of sexual desire, crossing boundaries that are cultural, moral, philosophical and political, and never entirely “correct.”

Estor is that rare phenomenon, the learned poet who is also spontaneous, comic, and passionate. Her curiosity extends across cultures and across the sciences. Her beautiful and sardonic Flemish translates into a new tone in English, one that is both self-assured and hopelessly self-revealing. Winner of two of the most important Flemish prizes, the Herman de Coninck Prize and the Jan Campert Prize, among many other honors, her work deserves to be internationally known.

Mundus Artium’s Frederick Turner Prize for 2024 thus goes to Annemarie Estor. They hope that the prize will spur more translations of her work in other languages.

The Frederick Turner Prize committee does not confine itself in its search for excellence to free verse poetry, but seeks to recognize the many shaped, sung, and crafted forms of poetry that have arisen independently in human cultures all over the world. Its chief criterion is beauty, and it reflects its namesake’s interest in a philosophy of esthetics that includes the evolution of the cosmos. The prize includes a personalized medal, a diploma, and an award of $1,000.