Authorial Magazine - BookExpo + BookCon 2019 Edition
Authors, booksellers, distributors, and other professionals from the publishing industry will gather and get down to business in this year’s BookExpo + BookCon to be held at the Jacob Javits Center, New York City this coming May 29-31 and June 1-2, 2019. The expo is a great opportunity to learn strategies to boost business, meet new contacts, share, exchange ideas, and discover new trends in the industry. Since this is a grand event, we decided to make this issue grand as well. We start off with Ralph Mosgrove, author of Saying Thanks and Beyond: Is Saying Thank You Enough? as he shares his gratitude in a different way to those who have been kind and generous to his disabled wife. In “How to Manage Your Energy for the Birthing of Dreams,” Mary Plaza, author of The Matrix Teachings, teaches us the four areas of energy management. She conveys that managing our energy is far more powerful than just managing our thoughts. Betsy Fritcha, author of Apocalypse Here and Now! Are You Ready? talks about Jesus Christ as the one and only Voice of Truth in our Author’s Perspective section. We also got the chance to interview Raju Ramanathan, world renowned enlightenment guru and author of Souls from Mercury. Ramanathan shares what inspired him to write and offers advice to aspiring authors. We’ve been sending out invites to writers, illustrators, photographers, poets, essayists, and overall genius creators to find out if they’d be interested to join our little project that we started last year. We couldn’t be happier with the turnout! We received loads of contributions from renowned talents. In this issue, we’re featuring the works of Sally Ann Fenton-Sherrick, Cheryl Batavia, Carolyn Bourns, Ronald Higgins, Ivor Kovac, Mary Plaza, Kaye Beechum, Guru Madeleine, and Byron Gaskins. Expect more to come on our upcoming issues. Lastly, check out the places and the restaurants to go and try in our lifestyle article “What’s Eating in the Big Apple.” Visiting these places could inspire you to write your next book. We all love stories that resonate with our own, especially those that bring us to greater heights in mood and in thought. We hope you’ll enjoy reading this issue as much as we enjoyed piecing it together. Have a fun-filled weekend! All rights reserved for Authorial Magazine 2019 1321 Buchanan Rd. Pittsburg, CA 94565 l 925 255 0098
Authors, booksellers, distributors, and other professionals from the publishing industry will gather and get down to business in this year’s BookExpo + BookCon to be held at the Jacob Javits Center, New York City this coming May 29-31 and June 1-2, 2019. The expo is a great opportunity to learn strategies to boost business, meet new contacts, share, exchange ideas, and discover new trends in the industry. Since this is a grand event, we decided to make this issue grand as well.
We start off with Ralph Mosgrove, author of Saying Thanks and Beyond: Is Saying Thank You Enough? as he shares his gratitude in a different way to those who have been kind and generous
to his disabled wife. In “How to Manage Your Energy for the Birthing of Dreams,” Mary Plaza, author of The Matrix Teachings, teaches us the four areas of energy management. She conveys that managing our energy is far more powerful than just managing our thoughts.
Betsy Fritcha, author of Apocalypse Here and Now! Are You Ready? talks about Jesus Christ as the one and only Voice of Truth in our Author’s Perspective section. We also got the chance to interview Raju Ramanathan, world renowned enlightenment guru and author of Souls from Mercury. Ramanathan shares what inspired him to write and offers advice to aspiring authors.
We’ve been sending out invites to writers, illustrators, photographers, poets, essayists, and overall genius creators to find out if they’d be interested to join our little project that we started last year. We couldn’t be happier with the turnout! We received loads of contributions from renowned talents. In this issue, we’re featuring the works of Sally Ann Fenton-Sherrick, Cheryl Batavia, Carolyn Bourns, Ronald Higgins, Ivor Kovac, Mary Plaza, Kaye Beechum, Guru Madeleine, and Byron Gaskins. Expect more to come on our upcoming issues.
Lastly, check out the places and the restaurants to go and try in our lifestyle article “What’s Eating in the Big Apple.” Visiting these places could inspire you to write your next book. We all love stories that resonate with our own, especially those that bring us to greater heights in mood and in thought.
We hope you’ll enjoy reading this issue as much as we enjoyed piecing it together.
Have a fun-filled weekend!
All rights reserved for Authorial Magazine 2019
1321 Buchanan Rd. Pittsburg, CA 94565 l 925 255 0098
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Contributor - Poetry by Cheryl Batavia<br />
A Return to the Beach<br />
Karenia brevis…such a pretty name…<br />
Such an ugly reality for the state of Florida!<br />
The stench of death wafting up from the<br />
beach and seeping into our houses.<br />
Months of red tide: cabin fever, coughing,<br />
struggling to breathe, malaise.<br />
Motels, restaurants, charter boat captains...<br />
many businesses… all wondering<br />
if the snowbirds will ever return…<br />
Officially, the red tide has been over<br />
for several months now, though toxic<br />
blue-green algae still fouls our rivers.<br />
Snowbird cars with license plates from<br />
Ontario, Indiana, Vermont, Montana have<br />
crowded beach parking lots all season long.<br />
A plague of blizzards, northern<br />
climate change, may bother snowbirds<br />
more than Karenia brevis!<br />
I have been recovering my strength.<br />
Though the carnage is past, I am haunted<br />
by the smell of dead fish. I grieve the loss<br />
of sea turtles, manatees, and dolphins.<br />
I must overcome my fears and sorrow…<br />
walk on the sand, swim in the water.<br />
Today is the day! I will return to the beach!<br />
The sun is shining on pristine white sand,<br />
a fresh breeze blows in over bright blue water.<br />
A long, silvery shoal of tiny fish swim,<br />
just beyond the surf. A flock of pelicans<br />
are having a party far out on the sand bar…<br />
No humans allowed! I swim for a while,<br />
then walk along the beach, enjoying the sun<br />
and collecting shark teeth.<br />
Marveling at Mother Nature’s resilience,<br />
I am filled with hope that Florida may recover.<br />
The hurricanes that stir up sediments from<br />
the floor of the Gulf and Lake Okeechobee<br />
may be intensifying…climate change.<br />
Is it a natural cycle beyond our control?<br />
We do have the power to clean up<br />
Lake Okeechobee, stop releasing runoff<br />
into our rivers and oceans, and restore<br />
the flow of water to the Everglades. We can<br />
investigate issues of climate change, and<br />
plan a future with a healthier environment.<br />
We have the power. Do we have the vision?<br />
Can we exercise the will?<br />
AUTHORS PRESS<br />
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