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                                                THROUGH PELICAN EYES: FIRST JESSIE MURPHY MYSTERY

 

I’ve always thought that Matlacha (say Mat-la-SHAY), the funky Pine Island Florida fishing village cum art colony would be a perfect setting for a mystery, when along comes Jessie Murphy, the perfect gal to sort out the riff from the raff of it all. You’ve got to love this lady, a Goodwill fashion queen, who comes across as a ditzy airhead whose best buddy is a Gargoyle named Gar.

 

Do not be fooled, there’s way more to Jessie than meets the eye, and do not, repeat, do not miss this true beach read with a pelican’s eye view of Florida’s magnificent barrier island landscapes.

 

                                         ~ Sara Williams – author of Millie McCall’s Full Moon Poker Night

 

Exceptional novel.  This story is thrilling, thought provoking; jd daniels has again written with style and imagination. A page-turning mystery, one that will grab you with an exciting opening, hold your attention to the final scene.  Don't miss this one: An excellent read. 

 

~ Robert Stein, Colonel, US Air Force, (Retired), author of six editions of novels, including Black Samaritan

 

 

Not really my current genre, still, I burned up the pages reading late into the night, dazzled and held by the plot, in love with this nut-case, and admiring an author who can write such poetic narrative, on top of authentic dialogue, and make it work, right up to the very last page.

 

                                        ~ Sidney B. Simon, Professor Emeritus, University of Massachusetts

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

In this compelling biography, author jd daniels creates a sensitive and humorous portrait of Jackie Day, from her humble beginnings to her active and dedicated 8th decade.  daniels distills countless interviews with Jackie Day, her colleagues and her family into an engaging narrative, peppered with Jackie’s own colorful language, stories and jokes.  I found myself laughing out loud at some of Jackie’s unique phrases and tales.  daniels chooses just the right stories and examples to give readers a multidimensional picture of Jackie.  Jackie Day comes alive on the page.

 

In The Old Wolf Lady/ Wawewa Mepemoa, daniels has created an engaging record of an important woman’s life and her contributions to Iowa and women’s history.

                                         ~  Marjorie Carlson Davis, author of Holding & Still Life With Coyote

 

The Old Wolf Lady inspires us all with its depiction of a woman who used her natural strengths and passions to live fully and to make a difference.

 

                                                       ~ Suzanne Kelsey, freelance writer, editor and writing coach

 

                                                            

                                SAY YES

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

                                                                 COVER ART BY RENOWN ARTIST PEG CULLEN

 

 

 

 

 

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Say Yes

 

Be like melting snow, wash yourself of yourself ~ Rumi

 

Dressed in a brown gauze gown

with a brass snake encircling her torso

the woman sat yoga-style on a bed of snow

speaking of the seven Hindu chakras

Whorls of energy

emanating from force centers

Listening, I closed my eyes

and the snake enlivened

tightening its grip

around her vulnerable neck

until the serpent’s mouth widened

and transformed

into a lotus blossom

as the snow beneath us

thawed and flowed into the nearby river

 

 

                                                        

 

Click on URL below to hear University of Iowa archived reading given at Prairie Lights Bookstore in Iowa City of poems from SAY YES.  Enjoy.

 

 

 

The next week SAY YES topped the Cedar Rapids Gazette's Bestseller List.  

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Minute of Darkness & Eighteen Flash Fiction Stories Released

 

Set in Turkey, amidst the backdrop of ongoing civil unrest, this tightly spun novella by jd daniels  delivers a cautionary tale about two reunited American women, each bearing painfully inaccurate visions of who she can become in the presence of the other given the burden of a dangerous shared past. Both women attempt to proceed down an emotional trajectory that will force them to come to terms with the wages of thieveries of objects, culture, and the heart

   ~ Tania Pryputniewicz, Managing Poetry Editor, The Fertile Source

 

 

 

COVER ART BY RENOWNED ARTIST CHERYL FAUSEL

AVAILABLE ON AMAZON

ISBN:  978-1939113269

 

Savvy Press, New York

 

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Available on Amazon, Prairie Lights Bookstore, Bert's Pine Bay Gallery & CW Fudge Factory in Matlacha, and The Sandman Book Company and The Copperfish Bookstores in Punta Gorda.  Ebook available on Amazon.