The Right Buzz Issue 5

J A N I C E J O N E S
A U T H O R & W R I T E R

JANICE
JONES
With the debuts of the first two books in
her Dagger Chronicles Series, Janice Jones
entered the world of the published author.
During this experience, she has enjoyed
meeting and hearing from new readers
and writers. Although she can’t use all the
feedback and suggestions, she does try to
incorporate what she gets into all her
writing. Book 3 is with her new publishing
house, Chicago Review Press. She is
looking forward to starting the editing
process and having Book 3 hit the shelves
soon.
An avid reader, Janice started writing in
high school. As a student journalist, she
learned the writing process and honed her
researching skills as well. Although
journalism was her first love, she was
always drawn to fiction. Worldbuilding
and characters interested her most about
writing. Giving life to imaginary worlds
was a way to escape. As an adult, Janice
began writing short stories, just for
herself. But, after finding that she really
enjoyed writing, she decided to give fiction
writing a try.
With the encouragement of her family, she
sat down and began to write notes and
scenes on what would become the Dagger
Chronicles Series. Her process is always to
handwrite whatever ideas come to her
mind, then put them on a computer. The
process of writing in notebooks first helps to
keep her focused. It also helps to flesh out
characters and interactions before
committing the story to the computer. Her
desk is covered in notebooks that are filled
with different scenarios and story ideas that
she has yet to make into full-fledged stories.
After the completion of the Dagger
Chronicles Series, Janice plans to polish the
screenplay for the series that she is working
on with her younger brother, Jordan. Soon,
they will begin the process of shopping it
around to streaming services and the like.
She hopes to develop contacts in the
television industry as soon as current travel
bans have been lifted.
Currently, Janice works as a Technical
Writer for an Engineering firm in Fort
Worth, Texas. She appreciates all the
feedback and encouragement she has
received and is looking forward to the
future. Janice would like to thank her family,
friends and the team at Amberjack
Publishing and Chicago Review Press for
this exciting opportunity.
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N I N A
R O M A N O
B a c k g r o u n d f o r W r i t i n g a n
A m e r i c a n W e s t e r n
R o m a n c e

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My western novel: The Girl Who Loved
Cayo Bradley, came into being because I
absolutely love New Mexico and the
American west and have always had a
fascination for Native American culture.
As a young girl, I was interested in
pioneers, history, geography, and Indian
lore. I watched western films and still do.
Scenes and settings play an integral part in
devising the Western story. Movies are
visual stories—old and new—classics or
even B category have something
inspirational to offer: language, type of gun
or knife, how incidents play out.
When I was little, my father took me to
Jones Beach, New York, in summers. A
huge teepee was set up with a beautiful
Indian girl who had long black braids,
clothed in a white buckskin beaded and
fringed dress.
I assumed as an adult I was going to
become an Indian princess like her, but so
far this hasn’t happened. But as a
teenager, my Dad taught me how to string
a bow for archery, and the basics of the
sport. I took archery lessons in college.
Later on, I took a course in hunting with
bow and arrow—the only gal in the class!
The pull on the bowstring is fifty-five
pounds or more, so it can’t be held long
and released quickly—better have a good
beam on the target. I incorporated
knowledge of archery in my novel.
I read and continue to read western
authors: Larry McMurtry, Louis L’Amour,
Zane Grey, Willa Cather, E. Annie Proulx,
James A. Michner, Jack London, Charles
Frazier, Cormac McCarthy, and a slew of
others, including indie authors. I visited
museums with Western Art like Crystal
Bridges Museum of American Art in
Bentonville, Arkansas. I studied old maps
and have a library filled with research
books of dress, food, language, customs,
weapons, trains of the era.
I’m a poet, and one of my favorite
American poets, Mary Oliver, said this
about poetry: “Look for verbs of muscle,
adjectives of exactitude. The idea must
drive the words.” I also select vivid, vibrant
nouns. These inform my writing style and
technique. In fact I write poetically and
while writing the novel, I fell in love with my
character Cayo Bradley, a cowboy, who is
a multi-dimensional personality. I was so
taken by him I wrote a collection of poems,
Westward: Guided by Starfalls and
Moonbows, including a novel dedication
poem, “Cayo Bradley.”
While visiting New Mexico, I purchased
books about history and about the Jicarilla
Apache Nation including their dictionary,
which isn’t easy to use, I guarantee it! I
visited the Santa Fe Library, The Indian
Arts and Cultural Museum, the
Wheelwright Museum, where I found
handouts about the Jicarilla, the tribe I was
writing about. I talked to the people of
Santa Fe to glean oral history.
I’m blessed because I’ve travelled all over
the West. What evolved in my novel were
traditions, rituals, culture, myths, and
legends. And if the Almighty gives me time,
I don’t think I’m quite done with tales of the
West.
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The Italian Pasta
According to Wikipedia, is a staple food of traditional
Italian cuisine, with the first reference dating to 1154 in Sicily.
It is also commonly used to refer to the variety of pasta
dishes. Typically, pasta is a noodle made from an unleavened
dough of a durum wheat flour mixed with water or eggs and
formed into sheets or various shapes, then cooked by boiling
or baking. It can also be made with flour from other cereals
or grains. Pastas may be divided into two broad categories,
dried (pasta secca) and fresh (pasta fresca).
Most dried pasta is commercially produced via an
extrusion process. Fresh pasta was traditionally produced by
hand, sometimes with the aid of simple machines, but today
many varieties of fresh pasta are also commercially produced
by large-scale machines, and the products are widely
available in supermarkets.
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We All Scream for
Ice Cream!
An ice cream is a sweetened frozen food typically eaten as a snack or dessert. It is usually
made from dairy products, such as milk and cream, and often combined with fruits or other
ingredients and flavours. It is typically sweetened with sugar or sugar substitutes.
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Preparing the
Best Sandwiches
for School
A sandwich is a food item consisting of one or
more types of food, such as vegetables, sliced
cheese or meat, placed on or between slices of
bread, or more generally any dish wherein two or
more pieces of bread serve as a container or
wrapper for some other food. The sandwich was
originally a portable food item or finger food
which began to be popular in the Western World.
Today sandwiches in various versions are found
worldwide.
Sandwiches are a popular type of lunch food,
taken to work, school, or picnics to be eaten as
part of a packed lunch. The bread can be used
plain, or it can be coated with one or more
condiments such as mayonnaise or mustard to
enhance the flavours and texture.

The Secret Ingredient to a
Delicious Cuisine
According to Wikipedia, many plants and plant
parts are eaten as food and around 2,000 plant
species are cultivated for food. Many of these plant
species have several distinct cultivars.
Seeds of plants are a good source of food for
animals, including humans, because they contain
the nutrients necessary for the plant's initial
growth, including many healthful fats, such as
Omega fats. In fact, the majority of food consumed
by human beings are seed-based foods. Edible
seeds include cereals (corn, wheat, rice, et cetera),
legumes (beans, peas, lentils, et cetera), and nuts.
Oilseeds are often pressed to produce rich oils -
sunflower, flaxseed, rapeseed (including canola
oil), sesame, et cetera.
Seeds are typically high in unsaturated fats and,
in moderation, are considered a health food,
although not all seeds are edible.
Large seeds, such as those from a lemon, pose a
choking hazard, while seeds from cherries and
apples contain cyanide which could be poisonous
only if consumed in large volumes.
Fruits are the ripened ovaries of plants,
including the seeds within. Many plants and
animals have coevolved such that the fruits of the
former are an attractive food source to the latter,
because animals that eat the fruits may excrete the
seeds some distance away. Fruits, therefore, make
up a significant part of the diets of most cultures.
Some botanical fruits, such as tomatoes,
pumpkins, and eggplants, are eaten as vegetables.
Vegetables are a second type of plant matter
that is commonly eaten as food. These include root
vegetables (potatoes and carrots), bulbs (onion
family), leaf vegetables (spinach and lettuce), stem
vegetables (bamboo shoots and asparagus).
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L O R R A I N E
W H I T E
A U T H O R & W R I T E R

APRIL'S
AUCTION
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So, I’m finding this article harder to write
than I thought I would. Will I say the right
things, will the readers ‘get me’ and, am I
over thinking this? I swiftly came to the
conclusion, that yes, I am over thinking this.
I’ve been a career driven woman for a long
time. I spent ten long years travelling the
country teaching nurses and assistants to
work with Spinal Cord Injury Patients after
years of study.
I could be in Hampshire one week, Cornwall
another and then Leicester the next. At the
time it was great! It never bothered me. I am
a married woman but when your husband
was in the Army as a Corporal MMF and
based in Germany, time at home during the
working week wasn’t really something I
needed, or wanted, for that matter.
It was only when he joined the Metropolitan
Police Force that I decided to take a step
back. I now work full time in the Childcare
Apprenticeship industry as an Advisor and
am loving life at home: I even got a cat!
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My writing career sparked when I spent all
those years in hotel rooms on my own for
the week. I read. I mean, I really, really read.
I read good books, bad books, fantasy,
thriller, horror and even went into a stint of
reading Mills and Boon! It was then that I
realised my imagination was running riot
and I had to put my thoughts into words:
they needed to get on paper.
My first Novel was gruelling. At 120K words
I put my life and soul into the pages. It took
around twelve years to get it done. I almost
gave up.
It was so hard to juggle work, home and my
writing passion and I found myself putting it
aside for a long time. Only earlier this year I
made the decision to get back to the
drawing board and finish it off. Finally in
March I had it published and I am in love
with it.
The Beauty of Death! What a name huh? A
lot of people have asked me what the name
is meant to mean: truthfully, the book is
about the Angel of Death who is punished to
live a mortal life and one of her companions
gave her the nickname the Beauty of Death:
hence the title was born.
Another awesome story told by L.A White! So gripping, I couldn’t put it
down. I’ve not read much from this genre before but the author has
really opened my eyes to it and I’m 100% addicted now!
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L.A WHITE
On the side, I spent about six months delving
into writing a Techno Thriller and this is where I
have found my niche. Allowing my characters to
have their own troubles and strife, I enjoyed
writing this more than my first book. At a short
33K words the Novella poured out of me and I
was so proud to see April’s Auction reach #3 in
the Techno Thriller section on Amazon when I
ran a free promo in May this year.
It was then I felt I had succeeded as an Author.
100’s and 100’s of copies were downloaded in a
few days and I had only planned for it to be a
standalone book: now, with all the hype it has
created and the feedback I have had from my
reader’s, I have decided to make it a collection
and am currently working on the second
instalment, April’s Escape.
So, I’m waffling now. I know when I’m waffling
because I tend to stare at the pages thinking
‘what else should go on it’. If this was a text
message, I’d have added a LOL onto the end by
now! I’ll bid you all a safe wellbeing through
these awful Covid-19 times and I hope that you
find pleasure in everything you read.
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A R I A B L A K E
A u t h o r & W r i t e r

Kamaya
A U T H O R & W R I T E R
Tarpley

KAMAYA
TARPLEY
My name is Kamaya Tarpley and I am
Author to ten dark fantasy as well as
thriller novels. I have written works such
as Mother Maiken and the War of the
Realms, Sugar Coated Savage, and
Archmidean featuring actor Robert
Ri’chard on the cover. My first two, the
Alicia Vale Series, are military romances
and though I have strayed away from that
genre, I do have a special place in my heart
for them.
I am currently writing Gumdrop Hollow,
yet another dark fantasy novel scheduled
to be released in December 2020. It is a
twist on the Krampus tale and highly
anticipated due to this.
After Alicia Vale: I Salute You, the
predecessor to the two, I had my first book
signing and soon after, my first appearance
at the Las Vegas Book Festival. I learned
about having the appropriate audience for
your book and the meaning of a good
editing job. I have since corrected the
editing but have definitely switched
genres.
My move into dark fantasy novels would
begin with my third novel, Evolve. It is
about “Evil Mermaids” as I like to say when
shooting my shot with everyone and
anyone who will listen. From there, I have
taken old legends and made them new or
modern.
I was previously represented by Upscale
PR Firm as their featured author. We
have parted ways but I still treasure them
deeply. I am self-published but I don’t look
at it as a disadvantage and rather, an
asset. I take care of the editing, covers,
formatting, as well as the writing of
course.
I really and truly believe that if you love
what you do, it is not really work. I would
change my occupation for nothing in the
world. My website suffered due to Covid-
19 but I have every intention of bringing it
back to fruition. Currently I’m recovering
from a stroke so writing Gumdrop Hollow
has not been easy but it will get done.
Taking up outpatient physical and
occupational therapy has really gotten
the creative juices going. I write death
scenes for my therapists every day (haha).
It may not be ideal but I am really happy I
get to tickle my laptop’s keys after about
two months away. I am going after this
next novel with the zeal I had when
writing book number 1.
I cannot wait to show you all what I have
up a sleeve. Here’s to a “thrilling” summer
for us all!
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D A N H A M A L
A u t h o r & w r i t e r

DAN
HAMAL
It turns out I have written some incredibly
inspirational pieces since, including Land
of the Lockst which is a poetic story of my
journey of recovery over a 3 week period. (
the title is Land of the Lockst, not a
misprint).
My name is Dan Hamel aka Hunter Dan. In
October of 2011 I wrote my first poem
titled A Hunter's Prayer. The idea started
from a line I had bouncing around in my
mind for quite some time. I had always had
the ability to write creatively but never
applied it in a poetic form of expression. I
worked on it all month long and when I
was finished I was very proud of my
accomplishment.
In December of 2014 we were divorced. I
wrote more poems during that year, many
about our relationship. They were truly a
form of healing as I initiated the divorce
but of course at times I second guessed my
decision because like anyone would, I
feared change and the unknown. 2015 was
a new beginning for me. I continued to
write but that book of poems she
suggested I publish, I did just that.
I shared it with friends and family and
everyone seemed to love it. Since that
poem was a hit, I had another outdoorsy
poem in mind since I felt like writing about
nature was going to be my specialty. I
completed I'm a Tree. I continued to write
poem after poem but found other topics to
write about that inspired me. I would print
the poems and share them with everyone
who would read them.
Time went by and after 3 years I had quite
a collection of poems. My wife at the time
had been telling me to stop giving out my
poems and publish a book. In early 2014 I
entered a rehab on February 23rd because
I had a drinking problem. I needed help
because I couldn't do it on my own. That
rehab saved my life. I not only thought I
wouldn't be able to write sober, I wasn't
sure I would be able to do anything sober.
When I sent all my poems to the publisher
I explained why I signed them all Hunter
Dan. It was my nickname and they said,
"that would make a great pen name, so I
kept it.
Inspirations and Emotions/ Seven Layers
to the Truth was a proud moment for this
small town Vermont boy. Late in 2015
while grocery shopping in a Walmart
Supercenter, I ran into a friend I used work
with and grew up with.
She was shopping with her husband. We
were talking about my book and I
mentioned having this children's book idea
about bullying that inspired me as I
witnessed an event I was a part of 4 years
ealier while I was coaching basketball.
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I just needed an illustrator to work with.
She said " I'm an artist". She showed me
pictures of some of her work on her phone.
I never knew she had artistic talent. I said "
Pam let's team up and do this". Right there
in Walmart in the frozen food section we
shook hands and became a team. In 2016
we published Take the Bullying by the
Horn's. In 2017 I entered it in the Book
Excellence Awards and it won for
Children's Inspirational/ Motivational.
In 2018 at Pam's request we tackled an
educational tool for parents and children
that is likely the most difficult topic
children will ever face. The death of a
family member, a loved one or a pet. It's
Ok to Cry was done with grace, dignity and
truth. We entered it in the 2019 Book
Excellence Awards and it won for
Children's Educational category.
On February 12th of this year I had my left
knee replaced. Up until 10 years ago, I was
an avid runner. I raced hundred's of races
as an adult including two marathons.
Having two meniscus surgeries 8 weeks
apart was the beginning of the end of my
running career.
In fact when I woke up from the second
one, my doctor said, "your running days
are over get a bike." He wasn't kidding.
The last two years have been very painful,
I put it off as long as I could stand it.
When I had the surgery my plan was to
start another novel and write the next two
books in the children's series. Also to
figure out what I need to do to take
ownership of my business as as an author. I
joined a handful of writer's groups and
immersed myself in getting involved.
Also in 2019 I published my first novel
Rebel Reprieve. A project I started writing
in 2013, writing about half but having a
hard time finding time to complete it. It
wasn't until the summer of 2018 that I
went away on summer vacation and
secluded in a hotel with a goal of finishing
this novel. On Thursday of that week at
12:25 pm, I wrote the end. I almost cried I
was so happy with how it came out.
Then after having some publisher issues
that was extremely frustrating throughout
2019, I entered Rebel Reprieve in the
2020 Book Excellence Awards and found
out in early March it won for Adventure
Fiction. I couldn't be happier with how my
books have turned out.
I have learned so much. I also found myself
an editor because I knew my books were
flawed. That has turned out to be the
single most beneficial thing I've done these
three and a half month's next to my knee
rehabilitation.
Carolyn has taught me so much that I
didn't know as an author. Not only have
we polished the next children's book to
perfection, she's gone back and edited
Take the Bullying by the Horns and It's Ok
to Cry.
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She is now negotiating with an art grad to not
only illustrate What's Wrong with Daddy and
then book number 4, she is potentially going to
illustrate the revised first two children's
books. Then I will publish all 4 myself and cut
my ties with the Vanity publisher and Vanity
publishing all together.
I will most likely have her edit Rebel Reprieve
and republish that under my own brand as
well. At some point during that process I will
pick back up the new novel I started and
continue with that story.
Author Bio: Author Hunter Dan was born,
raised and still a resident of Vermont.
I'm a father, grandfather, brother, friend
and truck driver. I enjoy hunting, fishing,
biking, hiking, exercise and time with
family and friends. I enjoy writing and
know that emotions are best laid out on
paper.
In addition to all that good stuff, in my journey
these last few months I became friends with
another author who not only writes but he and
his partner Nicole promote author's on their
radio program The Right Buzz. I had the honor
of spending an hour being interviewed by
them, which felt more like a conversation.
In addition to all those tasks that Wayne Clark
has up his sleeve, he began coaching author's
recently. I had no hesitation jumping on board
his craft to enhance my platform and build my
"Brand." I enjoy what I do and hope that
someday sooner than later this truck driver of
31 years can park my rig for the last time and
hang up my keys. From there I hope to be able
to toot my own horn.
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Author & writer
HEZEKIAH MORRIS

HEZEKIAH
MORRIS
Always tell yourself that you are Somebody
and to keep plugging away. Your story will
always be different from someone else’s so
don’t measure your work to there’s but
what is in your heart!!
My name is Author Hezekiah Morris I am an
author of four books Restoring Hezekiah:
Changing Generation, Restoring Hezekiah:
Me & Only Me, Remember Them Days
When We Were Young, and The Player In
Me! I started writing when I was
incarcerated and I just wanted to put my
story out there for all those to read to see if
I could help others that were in the same
position as I had been in!!
The hardest thing about writing is
wondering if anyone is going to read your
story and if they are going to like what you
have to say!! I write self-help books and
erotica romance. I write because it takes me
to a place where there is no hurt, no pain,
and I can be myself.
I am free to be who I want to be without
anyone judging me!!! I write because I feel
my stories need to be told, and to help
others who have been through depression,
domestic violence, and drug abuse. I actually
deal with depression and bipolar.
I think it is very important that we pay
attention to our wellbeing and how we
conduct ourselves. Every day is not going to
be a good day but if we put one foot forward
and believe in ourselves we can accomplish
whatever we put our minds too.
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My mission is to uplift and inspire children,
teenagers, adults across the world that no
matter the circumstances you are put in or
whatever life throws your way always
dream, always have self confidence that you
can be whoever, or do whatever you want in
life if you stay focused, work hard and be the
best version of yourself.
How do I plan to carry my mission? I plan to
give back to the communities with volunteer
work help children with less than to tap into
their talents.
I want to continue to write books each time
giving the world life lessons that I have been
through. It's not a small task but being able
to help others is my mission. I am a humble
man who's heart has been through a lot in
life. Trying to show people the man that I am
behind the smile.
The hard work and dedication that I apply to
my life to try and be a better man a
productive member of society. The talents
that I have I'm trying to put on display so the
whole world can see.
Accomplishing this goal is my motivation
each day I wake up and it should carry on to
others as well and each day that we wake up
we should tell ourselves everyday that "I am
Somebody". "I am Hope
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