With many eerie similarities to the terrorism situation the U.S. is now facing, reviewing this book [THE JOURNALIST] after Sept. 11 was definitely a challenge. To do a fair review, I found I had to rely on my own training as a journalist to remove myself from the emotions I experienced in the reading to an objective narration of the story.
"The Journalist" is a captivating book that had me reading quickly to follow the developments as they occurred. The story progresses well with extremely believable characters. Reading a fictional accounting of a war on terrorism by a president with an agenda was both upsetting and thought provoking for me, but I must conclude the writing is very well executed to stir up so much in the reading.
Thrilling…"The Journalist," by G.L. Rockey is one story that not only captures you in the opening sentence and holds you spell bound till the end, it will also scare the socks off you wondering….."What if?" Zack, editor of a newspaper, discovers a political plot that has the potential to destroy life as we all know it, FREEDOM. Where's Zack to turn, is there anyone he can truly trust with his information, is the world coming to an end? This is soon to become a favorite with all Sci-Fi and Thriller Fans. Don't miss your chance in experiencing "The Journalist", it's a must read.
Kim Gaona
Sixteen short stories that round out the human condition. Easy, rewarding reading.
Bus Ride, Cora's Diary, The Doctor's Film, Seance Chat@livingdead.com, Fish Story, Him, Shroud of Turin, A little late, Classique Amour, Moments in Time, Chicken or Egg, Ms. Collette, Second Coming, F in English, Some Place Warm, What if
TRUTHS OF THE HEART,romance suspense, sizzles with conflict: M.S.U. professor, Dr. Rachelle Zannes marries ex-football star tuned radio jock, Carl Bostich. He is possessive, jealous, and a philanderer. Rachelle meets, taking her new graduate course, art student Seth Trudow. Magic between them, they fall in love. Affair. Carl finds out. In an enraged confrontation he falls to his death. Laura Toth, Seth's nutty and possessive female friend, kills Seth then herself. Rachelle's dream of beginning a new life, shattered, a new class year beginning, pregnant with Seth's child, she is sure she carries a rare gift to the world. Murder, rape, abusive behavior, gambling, bribes, suicide, fruit cakes . . . you name it, TRUTHS OF THE HEART has it all. The title is taken from William Faulkner's 1949 Nobel Prize acceptance speech.
I think your BATS IN THE BELFRY is one of the funniest books I've ever read. When I was formatting your book into the print galley and line scanning it for errors, I remember I got caught up in reading it. I was cracking up so much (laughing), I had a hard time concentrating on the line-scanning. I'll never forget that one story told via emails because I recognized a lot of those famous names. I hope you entered that book in the EPPIES because I think it will be a winner. :)
Cordially, Marsha Briscoe, Senior Editor, Whiskey Creek Press-General Line
TV-12 News Director Jack Carr has lived in a bottle since the loss of his beloved wife to cancer. On the other hand, just about any kind of medication is needed for him to deal with the dysfunctional mess that is Channel 12 under the management of Berry Frazer, who inherited his father's small broadcast empire but not his father's talent for running it. One of Jack's favorite hangouts is the Memphis nightclub Felix the Cat, owned by a twisted albino thug named Mike "Snakebite" Walker. Since life is pretty much over for Jack, he has no problem falling into a torrid affair with Snakebite's "main squeeze," a slightly over the hill country singer. Pushing boundaries has become his reason for existing. It's at Felix the Cat he discovers a tall, gorgeous "Kitten" named Gillian, and suddenly life isn't so dark. But Gillian harbors a secret, one that's tied in with an investigation Jack and his ace reporter Sago Yu are doing on a rash of disappearances of young women. She's an undercover agent for the TBI, and before all the mysteries are solved she and Jack will risk their growing attraction ending in disaster.
Located in the celebrated Cleveland Flats, Jim’s Steak House was the place to go for people from
Cleveland to London and beyond. Thousands of patrons from boat captains to movers and shakers
celebrated anniversaries, weddings, birthdays, graduations, special memories, and more at JIM'S. While dining on their favorite choice cuts of beef and famous hash browns, they ogled the fabled Cuyahoga River, the Terminal Tower, and giant oar boats easing round Collision Bend. Adopted into the JIM’S family at an early age, G.L. grew up living in the apartment above JIM’S and witnessed, from the back, top, and front, what some call the “hospitality business.” This is his – often humorous, sometimes poignant, always revealing – story of the clan that was part of Cleveland’s restaurant scene for some sixty years. Beginning with the restaurant’s founding in 1930 by Greek emigrant, James Kerkles; his marriage to much younger Hilda (later to be known as The Queen of the Flats), the story recounts Hilda’s years of nurturing (after James untimely death) a restaurant and her deceased sister’s son, Raymond Rockey. Raymond (Hilda called him “my boy”) was named manager of JIM’S at the age of twenty-three. Thrust onto a restaurant stage, tending his "baby that never grows up,” he, in more ways than one, indulged in the glow of a famous restaurant’s “big time strut and glow.”
Amid the JIM’S family ups and downs, the backdrop for the story is the JIM’S building–moved,
remodeled, finally located at 1800 Scranton Road in Cleveland’s Flats–it housed both business and family with the clan living upstairs and the business flourishing downstairs.
After Hilda death, Ray dumped into a sea of money and booze, some twenty years later, the empire depleted, Ray died. A failed stab at keeping the neglected restaurant open, less than two years later Jim’s Steak House closed its doors forever.
