New Book Release: Native American Style Flute - by Ami Sarasvati, CMP

 

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Learn to Play for Ceremonies on the Native American Style Flute

Create Your Musical Ministry

Do you feel called to play the Native American style flute for ceremonies, healing work, or spiritual gatherings?

This book offers a clear, grounded, and reverent pathway for musicians who wish to bring live Native American style flute music into ceremonial, meditative, and sacred spaces. Through step-by-step instruction, simple illustrations, QR codes leading to audio and video examples, charts, stories, and practical guidance, you’ll learn how to play the Native American style flute not just with technique—but with presence, intention, and service.

This is not a performance-based flute method. It is a contemplative approach to ceremonial flute playing.

Inside, you’ll explore essential foundations, including:

• Instrument fluency and musical artistry on the Native American style flute
• The role of silence in ceremonial and meditative music
• Performance versus service in sacred music settings
• Listening deeply to those you serve
• Musical modes simplified for intuitive flute playing
• Four foundational rhythms for ceremonial music
• Breath awareness and the phenomenal breath
• Simple melodic phrases for prayerful flute playing
• Mileage and Commitment

Whether you are new to the Native American style flute or seeking to deepen your ceremonial flute practice, this method provides an immediate on-ramp to a reverent, intentional way of playing. It is well suited for musicians interested in healing music, meditation music, spiritual music, and ceremonial flute playing.

Written for those who feel called to support ceremonies with live music—rather than to perform—this book emphasizes simplicity, attentiveness, and musical improvisation. It is ideal for spiritual practitioners, retreat leaders, music ministers, and anyone drawn to the sound of the Native American style flute.

Author Ami Sarasvati, CMP, is a teacher, musician, author, and retreat leader devoted to bringing light and harmony into the world. She approaches the Native American style flute as a healing journey rooted in listening, reverence, and service, and she joyfully shares this work with students near and far.

Create your musical ministry on the Native American style flute.

About the author:

Ami Sarasvati is the author of books and courses Learn to Play the Native American Style Flute: Discover Your Heartsong, Discover the Musical Modes on the Native American Style Flute, Learn to Play for Ceremonies on the Native American Style Flute: Create Your Musical Ministry, Musician’s Heart Journey, and Musician's Practice Journal. She is an active teacher, retreat leader, Certified Music Practitioner (CMP) and ceremonial musician. She has witnessed, again and again, the healing power of music for both the individual and the community.

Ami grew up in Manchester, NH, went to high school at St. Paul’s School in Concord NH, and got her BS in Journalism at Boston University in Boston MA in 1987. She lives in Arizona.

Credentials include:

Certified Music Practitioner since 2016 through Music For Healing and Transition Program

Graduate of Music for People's Musicianship and Leadership Program

Actively teaching Native American Style Flute on Lessonface, Teacher of the Year in 2020-2025 teaching private lessons and groups

Faculty teacher of Module 3 for Music For Healing and Transition Program

Retreat Leader and/or Retreat Contributor

Accredited T’ai Chi Chih Instructor

Poetic Medicine Facilitator

Advanced Labyrinth Facilitator (Veriditas)

HealthRhythms Facilitator

Her life’s purpose is to bring more light and harmony to the planet through live music, art, labyrinth walks, and poetry.

New Book Release: To Finish a Feud - by M. Redding

 

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If you are a fan of the X-Files, you will love this new agent, Trace Newater. He brings levity to the world of the supernatural, so check out book number 1 in this new ongoing FBI series.

There’s something about a feud... real or imagined, that burrows deep into the bones of a story. It doesn’t end when the last shot is fired or the last body is buried. Feuds linger. They echo. They learn how to wait. What begins as blood and pride often becomes something stranger over time, twisting justice, memory, and truth into shapes that no longer obey the rules of history.

To Finish a Feud is not just the first installment in the Trace Newater series... it is a time-fractured, mystery-layered descent into a conflict that refuses to stay in the past. What starts as an old Kentucky blood feud soon reveals itself as something far more unsettling... a legacy that moves through generations, leaving behind unanswered questions, impossible coincidences, and traces of events that shouldn’t be able to touch one another at all.

Set against the violent origins of 1882 and propelled forward by a modern-day FBI agent with a talent for asking the wrong questions or perhaps the right ones at exactly the wrong moment... the story weaves history, suspense, and quiet techno-conspiracy with forces that defy easy explanation. From a single gunshot near a courthouse to unexplained anomalies buried in forgotten records, from vanished men to artifacts that seem out of place in their own time, the past begins to press back.

At the center of it all is Trace Newater, a man driven less by answers than by patterns. As he digs into a cold case that should have stayed buried, Trace uncovers more than grudges and missing persons. He encounters distortions of time, of causality, of legacy, that suggest some stories don’t simply survive history… they bleed through it. What has been dismissed as coincidence, superstition, or legend may instead be evidence of something unfinished.

So, whether you’re here for the slow burn of history, the momentum of a present-day investigation, or the unsettling sense that time itself may be an unreliable witness... welcome. The feud isn’t finished yet.

About the author:

M. Redding is a writer who lives in the Phoenix area with his wife, Lee. He is a proud Arizona transplant, and originally grew up in the Detroit area but headed west to attend Arizona State University, where he studied Communication and became a lifelong Sun Devil fan. He’s called Arizona home for over 30 years and has no plans of trading the desert sunsets for snow shovels anytime soon.

A lifelong reader, Redding developed a love for writing somewhere between raising kids, working full-time, and wondering if there would ever be a quiet moment. Now that his children are grown, he finally has time to pursue the passion he's carried all along—telling stories. He writes with the hope that readers will laugh a little, think a bit, and maybe even stay up past their bedtime to finish just one more chapter.

Why I prefer standalone novels in my sci-fi series - by Vijaya Schartz

 

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Sometimes, you discover a novel and you like it, but you feel you are missing something, as it is part of a series, and you didn’t read the previous books. As a reader I found that frustrating.

I don’t want my readers to miss anything.

Another reason for writing standalones in series is that in each story there is a romantic element, and once the happy couple unites at the end, they may reappear later as secondary characters, but I need a fresh romance for the next story… and I like to write about a variety of different protagonists.

Consider my new series, The Protectors. In Book 1, Chi Warrior, my strong, disciplined, warrior heroine meets a handsome barbarian who shatters her preconceived ideas about the real world.

In Book 2, Chi Rebel, coming out in November 2026, the heroine is strong but flawed, making serious mistakes that could cost her life and cause planetary chaos… while the hero is a warrior monk in training.

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In the Chronicles of Kassouk, the alien planet with a human population evolves over the centuries, as each story features different characters, humans, aliens, and felines. From the prequel, Noah’s Ark, the story of how humans ended on the planet, to the conclusion, Snow Cheetah, when the planet is rediscovered by humans centuries later. Each book features a different couple in their struggle for survival, for human rights, freedom, and belonging.

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In all my series, the common thread is the setting, the world I created for each series. Whether it’s a Space Station like in the Byzantium series, or an alien planet, like in the Azura Chronicles and The Protectors, or a spaceship, like in the Blue Phantom series.

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Only for the Curse of the Lost Isle, a fantasy series following a family of gifted immortal ladies throughout the centuries, do the same main characters reappear in different books… as they did in history, according to Celtic legends.

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Happy reading!

Vijaya Schartz, award-winning author
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New Book Release: Gold Storm Rising - by M. Redding

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Some stories begin with discovery.

This one begins with a scream that no one can hear.

Gold Storm Rising is a science-fiction thriller forged in grief and driven by vengeance. Beyond the warships, secret technologies, and alien threats lies a far more dangerous force... what happens when a human being survives something they were never meant to survive.

The first contact with the enemy does not bring wonder. It brings annihilation. Ships vanish. Families are ripped apart in moments. Those left behind are forced to live with memories that never soften and questions that will never be answered. Survival becomes a curse... a reminder that the universe did not care who it destroyed.

This is not a story about hope saving the day. It is about obsession taking hold. About grief that refuses to heal and instead sharpens into purpose. The characters in these pages are not chasing glory or peace. They are chasing accountability... no matter the cost.

Revenge is not clean. It corrodes judgment, twists morality, and demands sacrifice from everyone it touches. As humanity races to understand an enemy that hides in the shadows of space, the line between defense and retaliation dissolves. Advanced stealth systems, covert missions, and brutal confrontations collide with raw human fury.

The darkness of space mirrors the darkness within those who choose to fight back. Every step forward pulls them further from who they once were. But turning back is no longer an option.

Gold Storm Rising delivers:

• Unflinching first-contact warfare
• A protagonist driven by loss, not heroism
• High-stakes space combat and covert technology
• A relentless descent into vengeance

This is science fiction without comfort ... where survival is only the beginning, and justice is written in fire.

If you’re drawn to darker military sci-fi, morally fractured heroes, and stories that ask how far humanity will go once everything worth protecting is already gone, this book is waiting for you.

Open it.

The Gold Storm does not forgive.

About the author:

M. Redding is a writer who lives in the Phoenix area with his wife, Lee. He is a proud Arizona transplant, and originally grew up in the Detroit area but headed west to attend Arizona State University, where he studied Communication and became a lifelong Sun Devil fan. He’s called Arizona home for over 30 years and has no plans of trading the desert sunsets for snow shovels anytime soon.

A lifelong reader, Redding developed a love for writing somewhere between raising kids, working full-time, and wondering if there would ever be a quiet moment. Now that his children are grown, he finally has time to pursue the passion he's carried all along—telling stories. He writes with the hope that readers will laugh a little, think a bit, and maybe even stay up past their bedtime to finish just one more chapter

New Book Release: Dollartorium - by Ron Pullins

 

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Called “a boisterous and thoughtful journey through the absurdities of modern capitalism” by Kirkus Reviews, DOLLARTORIUM follows Ralph, a man who makes world-class corndogs in a struggling Kansas shop. The work is honest, repetitive, and increasingly untenable as bills pile up and the economic gap widens.

With wit, compassion, and razor-sharp observation, Ron Pullins explores what it means to take pride in labor that society no longer values. At once funny and devastating, DOLLARTORIUM is a novel about work, survival, and the stubborn hope of people who refuse to disappear.

About the author:

RON PULLINS is a writer working in Tucson AZ. His works have been published in numerous journals including Typishly (Editor's Choice), Southwest Review, Shenandoah, Sunspot, etc., and been nominated for Pushcart. Pullins won the 2022 Malcolm Lowry award for Dollartorium, a satirical novel, forthcoming from Unsolicited Press, Feb 2026. His novella, Ice Dancing, 2019, has been published in Sunspot Literary Journal and Fracture will be published in the fall of 2025. Fracture was a finalist and published Sunspot 2023 First Chapter and the novella will be published in Sunspot Fall 2025. His plays, long and short, have won awards and been produced from coast to coast. A piece of his novel in progress, The Loin, was featured in a radio podcast by Mauhaus Productions, 2025.

New Book Release: Four Corners Voices - Stories - Essays - Volume 2 -

 

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Four Corners Voices: Stories, Poetry, Essays - Volume 2 is a collection of writing published by Four Corners Writers based in Cortez, Colorado. The pieces included (13 short stories, 25 poems, and 13 essays) were gathered through a submission process in the summer of 2025.

Gail Binkly (Editor), Sarah Carr (Editor), Chuck Greaves (Editor)

About the authors:

Jamie Nielsen is an ecologist and a returned U.S. Peace Corps volunteer, based in Flagstaff, AZ, with her husband, two teenagers, a puppy named Osa, and an ever-patient rescue dog, Rainy. Jamie’s writing appears in the Arizona Daily Sun, The Sunlight Press, Cleaver Magazine, Empty House Press, and she is a past contributor to the Arizona Authors’ Association Literary Magazine. She’s currently putting the finishing touches on her first memoir and next month’s Substack! She is honored to be one of more than 40 writers to be featured in the 2025 Four Corners Writers Anthology, Four Corners Voices, Vol 2.

New Book Release: Six Who Stopped the Steal - by Nancy Hick Marshall

 

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What Really Stopped the Steal in the 2020 Elections?

Explore behind the scenes of six men with strength, courage, and integrity who played a pivotal role in stopping the steal of the 2020 elections. This revealing account provides a basic primer for anyone seeking to understand these elections, what integrity looks like in action, and what it can mean for future elections.

Readers will learn:

• Who were the six?
• What monsters faced all Americans in 2020?
• What factors make a valid, canvassed, certified, audited election?
• What was the real story of the steal?
• What the six did, and why it mattered then—and now.

Nancy Hicks Marshall, an advocate for fairness and respect, draws upon her legal experience and familiarity with a county board of supervisors. By shining a light on these six men who courageously upheld their oath of office and their integrity, she offers this essential account of the 2020 elections and what we need to know going forward.

About the author:

Nancy Hicks Marshall was born and educated in the east and moved to Phoenix in 1975. She has always had a concern for fairness and strong dislike of the abuse of power. She writes in a conversational tone when possible, not overly academic, even when tackling a topic such as the nature of the voting process. A retired attorney, Marshall has written several books, usually fiction, for both adults and children.

New Book Release: Hula Girl - by Rob Lezcano

 

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Eighteen-year-old Tommy Tanner never expected his grandfather’s old yellow Corvette to carry him into a world of ancient gods, living legends, and dangerous magic.

But when Tommy discovers that a tiny hula doll on his dashboard is actually La’Ka, a sacred spirit tied to the goddess Pele, his life changes forever.

Suddenly, he is no longer just a kid trying to find his place.

He is the chosen guardian of a powerful legacy.

Guided by a mysterious journal, protected by talking great white sharks, and armed with a magical Makau necklace, Tommy is pulled into a hidden war for the soul of Hawaii. A dark force is rising, poisoning the land and threatening to extinguish Pele’s fire forever.

To stop it, Tommy must cross the ocean, face monsters born of corruption, and discover what Aloha truly means, not just as a word, but as a way of life.

Along the way, he will learn that courage isn’t about being fearless. It’s about standing anyway.

Hula Girl is a heartfelt, fast-paced coming-of-age fantasy that blends Hawaiian mythology, family legacy, humor, and adventure into an unforgettable journey.

About the author:

Rob Lezcano writes across genres, blending memoir, speculative fiction, magical realism, and myth into stories that explore memory, legacy, and the thin space between the ordinary and the impossible. His work circles questions of identity, love, faith, and the things we carry that refuse to release us. Rob mixes nostalgia with futurism, humor with heartbreak, and emotional honesty with bold invention. Influenced by writers like Ernest Hemingway, Ray Bradbury, Gabriel García Márquez, and Kurt Vonnegut, he treats tradition as conversation rather than rulebook, building both interconnected worlds and stand-alone stories meant to surprise and unsettle.

New Book Release: Uncaged Birds - by Mel Goldberg

 

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216 haiku written over several years, many published.

About the author:

Mel Goldberg spent decades teaching literature and writing to high school and college students across California, Illinois, Arizona, and as a Fulbright Exchange Teacher at Stanground College in Cambridgeshire, England. He taught people to read closely, to sit with a line until it opened up, and to trust what a few carefully chosen words could carry.

He sold most of what he owned and spent seven years traveling through the United States, Canada, and Mexico in a small motor home - following roads without fixed destinations, writing along the way.

He now lives in Ajijic, a village in Jalisco, Mexico, where the pace of life still allows a person to notice things. His stories and poems have appeared in print and online publications across the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia, and Mexico.

New Book Release: A Search for Connection - 30 Flash Fiction Stories - by Mel Goldberg

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A Search for Connection is a vivid and emotionally resonant collection of flash fiction stories each under 1,500 words that explores what it means to reach outward, inward, and across time in pursuit of understanding, belonging, and meaning. Ranging from stark realism to speculative science fiction, these stories offer quick but powerful glimpses into the human condition. Though brief, each piece lingers long after the final line, revealing how connection can be both fragile and transcendent.

The collection opens with A Bowl of Stew, a haunting post-apocalyptic snapshot that takes place in the smoldering aftermath of an atomic explosion. Through the simplest of details a lone survivor, a makeshift meal, a moment of reflection the story captures the ache of loss and the ember of hope even in devastation. It is an intimate portrait of survival, where the small act of preparing food becomes a gesture of defiance against annihilation.

 

About the author:

Mel Goldberg spent decades teaching literature and writing to high school and college students across California, Illinois, Arizona, and as a Fulbright Exchange Teacher at Stanground College in Cambridgeshire, England. He taught people to read closely, to sit with a line until it opened up, and to trust what a few carefully chosen words could carry.

He sold most of what he owned and spent seven years traveling through the United States, Canada, and Mexico in a small motor home - following roads without fixed destinations, writing along the way.

He now lives in Ajijic, a village in Jalisco, Mexico, where the pace of life still allows a person to notice things. His stories and poems have appeared in print and online publications across the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia, and Mexico.

New Book Release: The Gold Hunter, A Goldfinder Series Book - by Philip Atlas Clausen

 

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experiences a spiritual transformation guarded by the Old Ones for centuries. The vast amount of gold incites the interest of power mad Dain King. Here is a touching love story of brother for sister and youth’s desperate struggle to survive the darkness surrounding gold fever rampant on the slopes of the Sierra Nevada. Losing everyone he loves drives him to an unbearable desire for destruction. The maelstrom of the Civil War inspires Petr Valory to insane bravery, leading him to receive the Congressional Medal of Honor from President Abraham Lincoln in Washington City at a meeting of war-weary souls. Finally, Petr Valory returns home, where a mysterious woman has built a stone house on the old homesite of the Valoryvale, leading to a final showdown with Dain King and the destruction of Gold Lake. The historical legend of the “lost gold lake” has never been told in a novel. The Goldfinder Series introduces the category Mystifiction, which is action adventure for readers ready for a red-blooded hero who has lived many lives of gold. Its journey ranges from the gold rich Sierras to the mystical Pyramid Lake of the Paiutes, to rowdy San Francisco, to the Redwood Empire. This series is for seekers of historically inspired adventure infused with mysticism.

About the author:

Born in California, Philip Clausen enjoys hiking the Sierra Nevada Range and Redwood Empire for inspiration and ancient memories. Clausen has a B.A. in Journalism from San Jose State and he studied fiction at the Iowa Writers School (Festival). He lives in Tucson, Arizona, where he retired after years of blue-collar work. He is a lifelong Rosicrucian (AMORC). He is dedicated to strong plain language and strongly opposes the language of “intellectualism.”

The author's voice - by Vijaya Schartz

 

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Unknowingly, what we usually like about an author is the voice. But voice is not style, or grammar, or the way an author strings the words together. Voice is more personal. It’s the way authors look at the world and how they share their own perspective with the reader.

It’s not just the words they use, but the subtle details they point out for you to notice. It’s the small things they describe that reveal so much about a character. It’s how they set the mood for a scene, the details they choose to describe when they introduce the setting.

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Let’s consider the master. Stephen King mastered the spooky genre, because he knows how to manipulate the reader. There are so many odd things in the haunted house, but he will describe everything as simple and ordinary… except for one tiny little detail, almost insignificant, but very disturbing. It could be a stopped clock, a drop of blood on a rug, a faint smell that doesn’t belong, a weird or unfamiliar sound.

Depending on the particular genre of your novel, these details will vary.

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I remember as a very green writer decades ago, submitting short stories to magazines. One editor who liked my story gave me some feedback that always stayed with me. My protagonist opened a closet to grab a pair of boots, and the editor mentioned I had missed a golden opportunity to define that character for the reader.

The editor wanted to know what else was in the closet. It would tell her what kind of person the protagonist was. Surf boards and roller skates? Warm shawls and sweaters? Tennis racquets? Military uniforms? Work uniforms? Cocktail dresses, Sports teams memorabilia? Was it neat or messy? I never forgot that simple comment and learned so much from it.

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Over the years, I have learned a lot about my writing from editors and readers. Knowing what you write also can help in promoting your work. I'm a positive, happy person, a problem solver, and it reflects in my novels. I write tight and make no apology for it. Straight to the point. And all my books are fast reads.

I was accused once of being too wholesome in my novels. I take it as a compliment, as this was my goal. At the end of my novels, I want the readers to feel good about the resolution, the characters, and about themselves. Justice has been served, the villains have been punished, and the universe is a safer and better place... for now at least.

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My heroes and heroines are not perfect, but they thrive to be better. They are brave, sometimes fierce, willing to face overwhelming odds against a higher power, willing to sacrifice themselves to save innocent victims. I do not kill my protagonists at the end. My novels are upbeat, fast-paced, action-packed, sometimes epic. And if you shed a tear or two, don't worry, it will all be worth it at the end.

Happy Reading!

Vijaya Schartz, award-winning author

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New Book Release: The Cancer Chronicles: A Journey of Faith - by Elizabeth Ajamie Boyer

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When I wrote this first blog/chapter I knew my Mom would die soon. Dad had passed in 1996, and now she was following him, both of terrible diseases brought on mainly due to life choices. Mom passed away December of 2016.

At that time, I thought I would never get cancer. No one in our family ever had it, outside of some minor skin type cancers. I ate, yes still eat, healthy. I exercised.

Yet, I was chosen for such a time as this.

About the author:

As a writer, Elizabeth Ajamie-Boyer dedicates all her work to her Lord Jesus Christ. She has a bachelor’s degree in political science from ASU. She’s written six books, collaborated with her husband, TJ Boyer on a cozy murder mystery, and co-wrote several of the Mirror Gate Chronicle Books. She’s lived in Phoenix, AZ for most of her life.