Randi Botnick, author of 4th Dimensional Healing: A Guidebook for a New Paradigm of Healing took silver in the Independent Publishers Living Well Now Award category Healing Arts / Bodywork / Energy Techniques. Congratulations Randi!
HenschelHaus Author Nick Chiarkas will appear at Read Between the Wines. He looks forward to Read Between the Wines and discussing his novel “Weepers”, which just won Third Place in the Public Safety Writers Association’s 2016 national competition for “Best full-length Published Novel.”
Time: Saturday, September 17 at 12 PM – 3 PM
Fermenting Cellars Winery, 2004 W. Manogue Rd., Janesville, WI 53545
Admission: Free
Enjoy a day of tasting wines and meeting nine Wisconsin authors at Fermenting Cellars Winery. Picnic lunches available for purchase.
Authors in attendance with their books for sale/sampling include:
Julie Castle, Nicholas Chiarkas, Sherry Derr-Wille, Linda Godfry, Margaret M. Goss, Pat Hall, HR Jones, Jerry Peterson, Leanne Lippincott-Wuerthele
Congratulations to Nick Chiarkas for taking third place in the 2016 Public Safety Writers Association contest for his book Weepers!
The subtitle of Marian Freund’s book is what grabbed me first: “Teaching My Dying Father How to Love Me.”
Resonating in those eight words are notes of unfinished business, loss and finally triumph of the heart.
“What I realize,” she writes, “is that I am having a relationship with dad that I have never had in my life, and it is all overshadowed by the fact that he is dying. To lose what is just beginning is hard to contemplate, much less accept.”
The Shepherd ExpressMilwaukeean Cari Taylor-Carlson has always been wildly passionate about the outdoors and is no stranger to kayaks, camping tents or canoes. But after a painful divorce in the 1980s, she took her passion to another level when she abruptly left her suburban existence to found Venture West, an outdoor adventure travel company. In her new memoir, Life on the Loose: My Journey from Suburban Housewife to Outdoor Guide, this conversant Wisconsin writer provides a courageous and honest account of her 30-year business venture with Venture West, leading weeks-long group tours across the country to destinations ranging from Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore to Zion National Park.
The Star, Sun PrairieRick Wehler has viewed his life with humor — from medical travails, raising three sons and adventures in both Wisconsin and his Minnesota hometown.
Rick started writing stories about his life when emailing back and forth with his sister. He eventually began sharing them with friends and family and after years of their urging, he just published a collection of stories and anecdotes titled North of Normal: Minne-Sconsin Stories.
The Pivotal Life: A Compass for Discovering Purpose, Passion & Perspective, by Jeffrey Wenzler, tied for second place in the 2016 Independent Publisher Awards in the Inspirational/Spiritual category.
Richard Van Scotter has published his fourth book, and first novel, “Thin Ice: Race, Sports and Awakening in the1950s.”
The Elkhorn native has set the story in a southeastern Wisconsin city named Elk Woods, which he says is “mildly disguised and based on actual settings and events with creative license.” Walworth County residents will have little trouble identifying the models for villages, their high schools and teams.
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by Michael Popke
The Isthmus
December 3, 2015
Catholicism plays a central role in the debut novel from Madison author Margaret Goss, but readers need not share her beliefs in order to relate to The Uncommitted — a surprisingly dark tale of spiritual struggle.
Published by Three Towers Press in Milwaukee, this story set in St. Paul, Minn., contains references to such Madison institutions as UW Children’s Hospital (now American Family Children’s Hospital) and Culver’s, and revolves around Josephine Reilly, a 35-year-old mother of three who can communicate with the dead via dreams, visions and telepathy. While experimenting with what she initially considers a “gift,” she unlocks an invisible evil that threatens her family and drives her to the brink of self-destruction.
Beginning at about the halfway point, diligent readers will be able to put together some of the pieces and anticipate the book’s conclusion, but they should keep reading. An epic final scene set in a desolate Arizona cemetery attempts to bring closure; then Goss adds a provocative twist in the epilogue.
Read the full review at The Isthmus
By Maile Bucher
Town News Today
Mequon, WI
11/25/15
“The Pivotal Life: A Compass for Discovering Purpose, Passion & Perspective” invokes readers to consider a more conscious life plan.
The book shares stories from Mequon resident and Homestead High School alum Jeff Wenzler’s “pivotal life,” which encompasses the major points of humility, wisdom, belief, honor, reflection, shared life, movement and opportunity. Read more…
HenschelHAUS Publishing is proud to announce our 2015 USA Book Awards Finalists
Feng Shui & Charlotte Nightingale
by Pam Ferderbar
HenschelHAUS Publishing, Inc.
978-1595983985
Finalist in the Fiction: Chick Lit / Women’s Lit Category
Our Final Melody: Teaching My Dying Father How to Love Meby Marian L. Freund
HenschelHAUS Books
978-159598409-8
Finalist in the Health: Death & Dying Category
In Warm Blood: Prison and Privilege, Hurt and Heartby Judith Gwinn Adrian & DarRen Morris
HenschelHAUS Publishing, Inc.
978-1595982735
Finalist in the Multi-Cultural: Non-Fiction and True Crime: Non-Fiction Categories
The METUS Principle: Recognizing, Understanding, and Managing Fearby Brian A. Peters, M.Ed., M.S.A., M.B.A.
Mavenmark Books
978-1595982872
Finalist in the Philosophy Category
Healing the Soul: Unexpected Stories of Courage, Hope, and the Power of Mind
by Bhupendra O. Khatri, MD
HenschelHAUS Publishing, Inc.
978-1595983442
Finalist in the Health: General and Self-Help: Motivational Categories
BBC News
Oct 10, 2015 | Norfolk
A graveside ceremony has been held at Norwich Cathedral ahead of the 100th anniversary of the death of World War One nurse Edith Cavell.
Ms Cavell served in a hospital in Belgium and treated Allied, German and Austrian soldiers.
She was executed by a German firing squad on 12 October 1915 after helping Allied prisoners escape to Holland.
Hundreds packed the grounds of the cathedral, including dignitaries from Belgium and Germany. Read more…
Heroic WWI nurse gets her due
Ten years ago East Falmouth resident Terri Arthur visited England to research the life of fellow nurse Edith Cavell, who was executed by the Germans during World War I. On that trip, Arthur wandered into a ceremony in Cavell’s hometown commemorating the nurse’s wartime heroics.
Cavell, who operated a nursing school and hospital in German-occupied Belgium, had helped smuggle at least 200 Allied soldiers into the Netherlands so they would be safe from the Germans. In August 1915, she and some of her associates were arrested by German authorities. Convicted on charges of treason, she was executed by a firing squad.
“Feng Shui & Charlotte Nightingale” is a quick, fun read…the plot is engaging and readers will enjoy watching Charlotte’s transformation.
Read full review here.
In addition to officially receiving her first place award from the Midwest Publishers Association for her novel Fatal Decision, East Falmouth resident, Terri Arthur, was also honored by State Rep. David Vieira with a Citation of Recognition from the statehouse signed by House Speaker, Robert DeLeo.
The ceremony was held on July 24th in Falmouth and attended by over 80 friends and colleagues. Arthur’s’ publisher, Kira Henschel from Henschel Haus Publishing in Milwaukee, WI, presented the prize.
“I am so honored to receive this award,” said Arthur. “A lot of hard work went into this book. It was well worth all the effort because it is a story that needed to be told.”
Arthur’s book, Fatal Decision: Edith Cavell WWI Nurse, tells the powerful story of the legendary Edith Cavell, a British nurse who defied the brutal German military in WWI by working with the resistance movement in Belgium to rescue Allied soldiers and escorting them to safety. Arthur is also a Registered Nurse.
Fatal Decision is now in its second printing. The British edition is available as Fatal Destiny: Edith Cavell WWI Nurse. An audible version of the book is available on Audible.com. The CDs are due to come out in August.
Longtime Middleton resident Nick Chiarkas’ debut novel, “Weepers,” is a gritty tale of crime, revenge and redemption on the streets of New York City where the author spent his formative years.
The air was thick with pesticides and the shouts of children. Adult voices hurdled down from apartment windows. Gang members, merchants, cops, priests and mothers lived side by side, playing out their individual dramas on concrete stages of streets and stoops.
“If I close my eyes and imagine it, there is always a hint of DDT in the air,” recalls Nick Chiarkas, smiling tenderly as he envisions the housing project where he grew up on New York City’s lower east side. “As kids, we would chase the trucks that drove through the city spraying it. Elsewhere people were shouting from windows. Men would urinate in the street, between parked cars, and that was considered okay.”
The digital revolution has written a nail-biting new chapter for book publishers. E-books are overtaking their paper-bound counterparts as bookstores vanish and Amazon.com inflicts unrelenting price pressure on a time-honored trade. Read more…
by Beth Davis
Feb. 2o13
Natural Awakenings – Milwaukee Edition
Kira Henschel, owner of HenschelHAUS Publishing, has always had a passion for words, so it comes as no surprise that although her career began in technical translation, it would eventually lead to publishing.
After earning bachelor degrees in international relations and geology at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, Henschel moved to Innsbruck, Austria, in 1979, to take care of her grandmother. In 1984, she established her own technical translation company with 60 freelance translators working in 32 different languages. The team translated technical documents in the fields of engineering, business and geology, as well as several books on various topics, before she sold the agency in 1990.
By Ed Huyck
Reporter Weekly News
The story of the death of JoAnn and Dick Deveny’s young son and its impact on the family has been a long time in the telling.
“I wrote this book 17 years ago. I rewrote it and revised it. I put it out to publishers and was rejected,” JoAnn Deveny said.
The Pink Paper
Oct/Nov 2012
Chelsea Wolf
Ansley M. Dauenhauer’s first novel, “Cancer Slam” is a must-read for anyone involved with a breast cancer diagnosis. As a teenager, my mom was diagnosed with breast cancer and I had no idea what that meant for me and my family. “Cancer Slam” follow the Bennett Family through the initial diagnosis and mastectomy, to the chemotherapy treatments and subsequent hair loss. Through their journey, everyone stays extremely positive and open with one another. As a kid or young adult, it can be scary to think your whole life is going to change, especially when you are not even sure why. When Liz Bennett is diagnosed with breast cancer, she explains in the perfect way exactly what is going on in her body and how the rest of the family will be affected. Dauenhauer creates characters that are not only relatable, but who you root for and sympathize with. As a kid who has a sick parent, it’s easy to feel guilty for longing for normalcy. Hannah’s range of emotion, from anger to scared to sad to an adult-like acceptance, keep the story true to life. I laughed. I cried. But most of all I stayed positive because I think that’s what the Bennett Family would have wanted. I loved this book and believe it is an important read for anyone, not just young adults,dealing with a cancer diagnosis.
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