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(MMD Newswire) March 4, 2010 -- Joseph B. Woodley is elated to announce his newest publication, ‘WHEN THE PRODIGAL SON BECOMES THE FATHER: Recognizing the Past, Reclaiming the Future'. The real- life, inspirational story follows the life, the decisions and the consequences of those decisions made by Joseph Woodley. Stemming from his failure to come to terms with the anger and resentment he held toward his absentee father, Joseph turned from his values, his faith in God and the Church, and onto a course of self- destruction which resulted in a broken marriage, womanizing and even going to jail; At the most hopeless place in life he finds true salvation, healing, deliverance and comfort in the arms of the Heavenly Father and in becoming a single- parent himself.

Interwoven throughout the book are frank lessons that include, coming to terms with the past and messages that challenge men to take responsibility as fathers and families to press beyond their present concerns to remain faithful to their relationship with God. It provokes the reader to pause and think before taking action and to act with purpose.

WHEN THE PRODIGAL SON BECOMES THE FATHER is available starting February 19th, 2010 through www.joseph-woodley.com and amazon.com.

For additional information or to schedule an interview with the author Joseph Woodley please call
614 743- 3791 or email jwoo@joseph-woodley.com

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March 2, 2010 (MMD Newswire) In his new controversial, tell-all memoir, Man in the Shadows: Diary of a Private Eye (published by Author/House), award winning author Thomas A. Phelan finally reveals his true, death defying experiences traveling to various countries throughout the world as a security consultant, along with his sometimes dangerous dealings as a private investigator in New York.

A former New York City police officer, Phelan is no stranger to danger. In fact, he has been shot at, stabbed, bitten, dragged by a stolen car and crushed by another. Little did he know that his gig as aprivate detective would turn out to be as life-threatening, protecting men like Jimmy Hoffa, the Rolling Stones, and even the security advisor to the US delegate to the Mid East. His name has definitely appeared on many hit lists in this life time.

Man in the Shadows shares Phelan's incredible stories of saving a delegate from three Arabs who were believed to have assassinated the CIA Chief of Station in Athens, Greece, how his plane from Madrid, Spain was sabotaged at 39,000 feet and how unknown assailants tried to blow up his car back in the Big Apple. Follow bodyguard Phelan and milliomaire Howard Saft into secret meetings with Wilbur Mills Chairman of the Weighs and Means Committee, as well as other well-known people when Phelan is assigned to protect three cases containing more than $2 million in cash. Only Phelan can document these true stories and relive the fierce action that he has encountered (and narrowly escaped with his life) in his thrilling new memoir, Man in the Shadows.

Born and raised in New York City, Thomas A. Phelan eventually served in the US Marine Corps during World War ll and the Korean War. Later, after he studied Modern Criminal Investigation and forensic techniques, he joined the New York City Police Department in 1955, where he made more than 1200 arrests. In 1960, he left the NYCPD and opened his own detective agency, The Hunters, Inc. In addition, Phelan has been widely published in literary magazines and anthologies throughout the world. He has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize in poetry and has won seven Golden Poet Awards and three Poet of the Year award from the International Library of Poetry. He has also been listed in Who's, Who in Writers, Editors and Poets and featured in the New York Times "ON Books Column". In addtion to Man in the Shadows, Phelan has also published Cornucopia of Life, Love, Myth and Dreams, Modern Haiku, American Haiku and a Point Beyond Silence, a collection of award-winning poems that has received the prestigious Authors Award from the New Jersey Institute of Technology. He is presently editing his new books Jukaido, Cusp of Aquarius and Indian Lore. Phelan has won the New York Poetry Foundation Award, Poetry Press Award, and First Place in the Teaneck Foundation for Bergen Countywide Poetry Contest. He has read his poetry at WORTV Channel 9, New Jersey State Council on the Arts Festivals, Poets in Schools Program for the Lodi Board of Education, Bergen Poets Readings, Kenneth R. Balter Foundation Poetry Series and at the University of Illinois. Currently semi-retired, Phelan has four married children, six grandchildren, and two great-granddaughters. In major book stores.

Thomas A. Phelan 201-845-8679 tommypi1@aol.com

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(MMD Newswire) March 1, 2010 -- Building a Fortune 500 company from scratch was simple for Danny Potter. It only required hard work and brains. But discovering she has an identical twin sister and parents who are the cream of society is another matter. Raised in the mean streets of Chicago by her kidnapper's girlfriend, Danny doesn't do society or touchy-feely, but a killer is determined to eliminate both Danny and her sister and that's a language Danny understands. The assassin is in for a few nasty surprises from Danny's vast arsenal of unique weapons when they enter the playing field.

Austin McKean, a friend of the Townsend family, is suspicious of the newly discovered twin that his International Security firm stumbles upon by accident. Ex-military, Austin is all starch and vinegar and he couldn't have picked a more ill-suited woman to pique his interest if he'd tried. She has a murky past and enough secrets to rival Washington D.C. Intrigue swirls around them as they join forces to protect Danny and her sister while unveiling a mystery killer

From The Author

After spending several months creating Danny, I ended up with a woman who lives life on her own terms, along with Barkley, her one-eyed K-9 dropout companion. It's my opinion that every person who reads the book will wish they could drop all pretense of political correctness and become Danny, if only for a day. While writing Mirror Images, I found myself anticipating what hornets' nest Danny will stir up next and I think anyone reading the book will feel the same. I love quirky characters and Danny and Barkley, along with Austin McKean, captured my heart.

Personal Information:
Losing three fingers on my left hand was the prelude to my writing career. Winning a contest in high school should have prompted me to follow my dreams, but life got in the way and a wide assortment of careers followed until what I call "the day" happened.

An accident resulted in losing the three inside fingers of my left hand through the knuckles. After assuring my husband I loved him, I hightailed it to Mama's for six weeks where I received lavish comfort and attention.

Needless to say, Hubby was very happy when I returned home, but while I was at Mama's, an interesting thing happened. After a week at Mom's, boredom set in and I picked up one of her many romances novels lying around the house.

After reading several, I confidently announced to my Mother that I could write one of these and made plans to do so.

Well, eight years and eight manuscripts later, I sold my first novel.

It was harder than it looked.

I have now found my destiny in the mighty pen, or keyboard, and look forward to writing many more novels.

Marketing Information:
ISBN 1-60154-625-4
ISBN 13: 9781601546258
Page count: 348

www.thewildrosepress.com Available in electronic and paperback formats. Order through your local bookstore by using the ISBN #, or online through The Wild Rose Press, Amazon, etc.
$6.00 e-book
$14.99 print

In Conclusion:
Life has led me on a merry journey. After an assortment of careers, including teaching karate and modeling, I found the mighty pen was my true friend. Writing is not a choice. The stories bubble up in my head at the most inopportune moments (like during a Sunday morning sermon) and I simply have to put pen to paper. Or rather, fingers to keyboard. I love writing and hope people enjoy my characters and their stories as much as I do.

Liz Phelps
336-284-2149 www.lizphelps-author.com
Phelps1@yadtel.net

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Apple Pie for the Mind: A Recipe For Inspiration by Denis W. Day moves to inspire readers to use positive attributes to assist those in need

OSWEGO, Ill. (MMD Newswire) March 1, 2010 -- Apple Pie for the Mind: A Recipe For Inspiration by Denis W. Day offers a personal account of how spiritual gifts have changed the author's life and led him to help others.

Day believes that each person has a social responsibility to help and love others. Revolving around a Christian theme, Apple Pie for the Mind provides readers a firsthand account of divine events that allowed Day to positively change and affect the lives of others. Day hopes his book will allow readers to seek out ways to serve those in need.

According to Day, Apple Pie for the Mind is a "Christian recipe book for helping and loving others." Using his own inspirations, Day hopes to instill in his readers the blessings that can come from benevolent service. Apple Pie for the Mind seeks to reveal that every person has unique gifts that can be put forward to impact others and make positive changes in the world. Day believes that we have a social responsibility to help others in need with food, shelter, financial assistance or companionship.

He urges people to give whatever they can to those in need whether it be a room for a night, a cup of coffee, paying for someone's medication who cannot afford it or simply sitting with someone who needs some company. Day realizes that not all people can afford to spend money, but provides suggestions on how to help others beyond financial assistance.

Day also has experienced a number of spiritual events that have transformed his life, and his book. He explains how he received a message from God about the illustrations of his book. "I had no idea what illustrations could be used as the theme, or who can complete the art. One month before the manuscript is completed, I received a spiritual message from the Lord to use flowers for a theme. Thirty minutes later I unexpectedly met a Christian artist who specializes in painting flowers and immediately accepts the project without virtually any compensation," describes Day.

Apple Pie for the Mind: A Recipe For Inspiration is available for sale online at Amazon.com and through additional wholesale and retail channels worldwide.

About the Author
Denis W. Day is a retired business executive and believes becoming a Christian has been his most significant lifelong achievement. He has run a ministry for nearly 30 years to help those in need and has experienced life-changing and spiritual events. Day has five children and three grandchildren and lives in Oswego. Day often speaks publicly about his experiences.

MEDIA CONTACT:
Denis W. Day
Email: dday@applepieforthemind.com
Phone: (630) 240-5055

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Author Aviad Meitar describes the Viking-like methods used to compete with rival beverage companies in quest for success in An Unimaginable Journey

KIRYAT ONO, ISRAEL (MMD Newswire) March 1, 2010 -- First-time author Aviad Meitar explains the complex journey he and his team of entrepreneurs took to launch the first successful Pepsi franchise in Romania in the early 1990s in his new book, An Unimaginable Journey. Competing with a powerful and well-established competitor's franchise and launching a new brand in the freshly established market economy of Romania set the stage for an uphill climb to success, according to Meitar.

Fascinated with Viking culture, Meitar took on the task with no knowledge of the beverage industry or Romania using 1000-year-old Viking strategies. "My attack plan mirrored that of the ancient warriors," Meitar said. "I surrounded myself with good battle comrades, used top quality weapons, and concentrated on one target at a time. By the end of the first year of operation, we had four plants in Romania producing our products."

An Unimaginable Journey details the challenges of introducing a new brand in a market that had recently been released from communism. The book describes the journey of Meitar's bottling venture just as much as it describes the journey Romania took as a nation emerging as a new capitalist society. Meitar says that it was the spirit of his team that was most influential in overcoming obstacles and eventually selling the company to the second largest Pepsi bottler in the world.

As stated by Foreword Clarion Reviews, "The journey described by Aviad Meitar is nothing if not intriguing. This well-written and concise eyewitness account of building an American brand in an Eastern European country offers rare insight into how a business can succeed even in the face of the most daunting challenges."

An Unimaginable Journey is available for sale online at Amazon.com, and through additional wholesale and retail channels worldwide.

About the Author
Aviad Meitar set up the Pepsi business in Romania and oversaw it from inception, through growth, to its ultimate sale to PepsiCo's second largest bottler in the world. From there, Meitar set his sights on Bulgaria. He is currently the chairman of the Pepsi bottling company in Bulgaria. He earned his M.B.A. from Boston University and a law degree from Tel Aviv University. Meitar is married and has three children.

MEDIA CONTACT:
Aviad Meitar
Email: aviad@aviadmeitar.com

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Demystifying Dietary Supplements by Maureen Giuffre helps readers understand the health claims of the dietary supplement and herbal remedy business

ROCKPORT, Maine (MMD Newswire) March 1, 2010 -- Demystifying Dietary Supplements: Making Informed Choices by Maureen Giuffre, who is a registered nurse and recipient of a doctorate in nursing, argues that dietary supplements and herbal remedies can have very dangerous side effects and careful consideration should go into taking them.

"Americans spend billions on dietary supplements and herbal remedies, wasting their money and sometimes ruining their health," Giuffre says. She explains to readers what she believes is the duping of the American consumer done in the name of health. Demystifying Dietary Supplements seeks to give readers the tools to weigh the risks and benefits of products they might be interested in.

Written in everyday language, Giuffre strives to show the vast disparity in the regulations for pharmaceuticals versus those of supplements stating that manufacturers of dietary supplements and herbal remedies do not need to test their products before marketing. These remedies, Giuffre asserts, only come to the attention of the Food and Drug Administration when they have either harmed or killed people. She also points out that the use of supplements can often have disastrous results.

Written to be provocative and entertaining, Demystifying Dietary Supplements aims to show that taking these drugs can mean taking unnecessary chances with health.

Demystifying Dietary Supplements: Making Informed Choices is available for sale online at Amazon.com and through additional wholesale and retail channels worldwide.

About the Author
Maureen Giuffre was a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Clinical Nurse Scholar at the University of Pennsylvania. She received her bachelor's degree with honors in nursing from the University of Connecticut, her master's degree in nursing from the University of Colorado and her doctorate in nursing from the University of Rochester. A former research editor for The Journal of PeriAnethesia Nursing and Associate Professor at the University of New Hampshire, she now lives on the coast of Maine.

MEDIA CONTACT:
Maureen Giuffre
E-mail: giuffre@roadrunner.com
Phone: (207) 594-1281
Web: www.makinginformedchoices.com

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Whidbey Island, Washington State (MMD Newswire) March 1, 2010 -- Marilyn Randall, author/illustrator of children's books announced today the release of her newest children's book , SHARE FROM THE HEART , a story about a homeless dragon who befriends two orphaned brothers as they all three overcome their differences to learn about each other and become supportive friends. Ms. Randall creates stories that have moral and valuable life lessons for children and this one proves to be no different. Done in the poetry format for the infant to age eight, age group, she brings the characters to life with her unique artistic style allowing the reader to see the story as it unfolds. Xlibris is the publisher and Share From The Heart can be found at Xlibris.com and will be available at several online bookstores in the near future.

SHARE FROM THE HEART joins the growing list of children's books written and illustrated by this author, being number six on the list. BEST OF BEST FRIENDS, FOR FAITHFUL FRIENDS, INSIDE OUT, A HARD NUT TO CRACK and ELMER THE CHRISTMAS ELF are the titles of her earlier books and all of them can be found at her website www.marilynrandall.com.

In her own words, Marilyn speaks about this newest story and how she came up with the name Peter for the dragon. "Peter is a strong name and a name that represents kindness to me and this was the perfect name for this dragon fellow who seems to be ferocious and fierce yet turns out to be kind and compassionate. He is an exciting fellow and causes great concern when two brothers are startled by his presence on their way home late one evening. The story teaches us that when we can overcome differences and learn to accept those differences instead of rejecting them out of fear, we can accomplish many wonderful things. In Peter's case, he is rewarded with something he has longed for all of his life and the readers are treated to getting to know that there can be unexpected rewards for showing kindness and compassion even when differences seem to be insurmountable."

Ms. Randall is a former art director in the printing industry. She resides on Whidbey Island, near Seattle, in Washington State and considers her home to be the perfect serene environment needed to write and illustrate the characters she creates. She is now working on her seventh children's books, which she expects will be released in the summer of 2010. She is available for book signings and interviews and can be reached through her website at www.marilynrandall.com.

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Marilyn Randall
Sugarlynn1@aol.com
www.marilynrandall.com
March 1, 2010

The Ultimate Wedding Reception Book by wedding DJ Bill Cox and writer Janie Franz gives step-by-step advice on planning a reception from start to grand finale

SUGARLAND, Texas (MMD Newswire) February 26, 2010 -- The Ultimate Wedding Reception Book by Bill Cox and Janie Franz shows readers the best way to plan a wedding reception and avoid mishaps.

"The wedding reception can be the high point of a marriage, but it requires a lot of planning," says wedding DJ and improv comic Bill Cox. Cox has presided over 2,000 weddings and has firsthand experience on what can make or break a wedding reception, from running out of food to a poor choice of music. In The Ultimate Wedding Reception Book, he and co-author Janie Franz reveal the secrets for a fool-proof day that everyone will remember and enjoy.

The authors delve into budgeting, music, seating arrangements and more. Cox and Franz also encourage brides and grooms to use humor and visualization to calm fears of the unknown, envision their perfect day, and even learn what to do should something go wrong. The authors believe so strongly in their book that they are planning to make an option available on their website where readers can request their money back if they are not completely satisfied. "Everyone deserves to kick off their wedding with a great reception," say the authors, and they hope with the help of their book, that many dreams for a perfect event can become a reality.

The Ultimate Wedding Reception Book is available for sale online at Amazon.com and other channels.

About the Author
Navy veteran Bill Cox has been a wedding DJ since 1989 and has done over 2,000 shows. A writer and producer, he has written The Ultimate Wedding Ceremony Book with Janie Franz, and also stars in various comedy shorts and does comedy improvisation with a local comedy troupe.

MEDIA CONTACT:
Email: wmacox@comcast.com
Phone: (832) 444-5077
Web: www.weddingdjmatters.com

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Coyote Reloaded: The Metalithic Myth Motorvates by Yulalona Lopez creates the trickster character of Coyote as a Paleolithic punk in today's world

TALLEVAST, Fla. (MMD Newswire) February 26, 2010 -- American Indian mythic character Coyote is known for surviving, making mischief, and teaching children important life lessons about their culture. In Yulalona Lopez's Coyote Reloaded: The Metalithic Myth Motorvates, Coyote plunges into the modern, industrial world, pointing out human flaws and foibles even as he gets himself into trouble.

In Lopez's Coyote Reloaded, Coyote sets out to save human beings from their own greed and shortcomings. Thoughtless and vulgar, the character of Coyote manages to teach traditional values by violating them. He cheats as he runs for office, confronts the military-industrial complex and exposes the folly of war, and retires to Florida where he terrorizes the young and the old as he showcases lessons on aging.

Lopez has said that she got the idea for the stories while working as the biologist in an intentional community. She noticed that while many children did not love science, they adored stories that were related to science, particularly those of animals causing mischief. The author had many tales about coyotes her mother passed down to her, that she began telling the children. When she ran out of these stories, she began putting Coyote in situations with bankers, nuclear weapons and more to amuse friends and family on topics such as society, avarice and selfishness. Meant to educate as well as to entertain, Coyote Reloaded aims to be a catalyst for positive change and sends a message that humor can be found in the toughest of situations.

Coyote Reloaded: The Metalithic Myth Motorvates is available for sale online at Amazon.com and other channels.

About the Author
Yulalona Lopez dropped out of an astrophysics program at Harvard to become an amateur naturalist. She later began investing in commodities near her home in Oregon. This is Lopez's fifth book in the series, Coyote Redivivus.

MEDIA CONTACT:
Yulalona Lopez
Email: editor@3muses.us
Phone: (941) 447-7473
Web: www.3muses.us

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