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G. L. ROCKEY
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By way of Carnegie Mellon Drama Department, G. L. Rockey earned a B.A. from Michigan State University and a master’s degree from Cleveland State University. In the television industry, from Providence to Phoenix and cities in between, he produced and directed a variety of television programs and managed TV station programming.
From the Back of the House his first nonfiction book, Rockey has written three novels: Time and Chance, The Journalist, and Truths of the Heart. An anthology, Bats in the Belfry, Bells in the Attic, is a collection of sixteen short stories.
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Web page: www.glrockey.com
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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. READ REVIEW http://nobelprize.org/literature/laureates/1949/faulkner-speech.html PURCHASE TRUTHS |
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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. Purchase from Heritage Books |
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A stubborn journalist with old-fashioned notions of what the job entails uncovers an insidious plot by the President of the United States to use domestic terrorism as an excuse to abolish the Constitution. His means? Manipulation of ratings-hungry media willing to cut corners to grab a scoop. Zackery Stearn founded his Miami alternative press, The Boca, to provide an island of truth in the great sea of infotainment the modern media had become. The depth of deception he's discovered shocks even a self-professed cynic like him. Now all he has to do is stay alive long enough to expose the plot. PURCHASE from Zumaya Publications |
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Jack Carr, news director of Nashville's TV-12, believes in two kinds of time: his and real. He also believes in two kinds of chance: good and bad. Not sure who is writing the larger “script,” Jack weaves his way through a host of unsavory characters who are involved in kidnapping and body part trafficking. Falling for an undercover agent in the process sets both up for death. As they struggle to stay alive, time and chance unfold in a tangle of lies, greed, rape and murder. PURCHASE from Amazon |
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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 PURCHASE FROM WHISKEY CREEK PRESS |
