BOOKS BY MY FRIENDS
BONNIE BUCHMAN, JOY E. HELD, ROZ MACLAREN, BARBARA JEAN MILLER & JAMIE SEITZ
Thursday, 28 November 2024
Welcome to Books By My Friends! Today we are featuring:
BONNIE BUCHMAN
JOY E. HELD
ROZ MACLAREN
BARBARA JEAN MILLER
JAMIE SEITZ
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BONNIE BUCHMAN
BOOK: Witness to Healing in Autism: Successful Treatments
AUTHOR: Bonnie Buchman, ND, RN, PhD
GENRE: Nonfiction
BLURB:Dr. Bonnie Buchman ND RN PhD continues her Witness to Healing series documenting and discussing successful treatments along with stories of her patients suffering from autism. This is book two of five in the series and more in depth and highly referenced.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Dr. Bonnie holds degrees in the natural sciences as well as naturopathy and nursing.
She is very much in tune with both mainline medicine and natural modalities.
She has, over the years, worked in many fields of healthcare, different venues of nursing and held a private practice in natural health for nearly thirty years. She enjoys assisting people to better health, mind, body snd spirit. Currently writing a series of five books that will hopefully educate while making readers laugh and gasp. So many do not know what goes on behind the scenes.
She is a member of the Holistic Heath Sciences Association, the American Holistic Nurses Association, the American Naturopathic Medical Association, and the American Association of Drugless Practitioners, as well as being a registered Holistic Health Counselor and a Registered Nurse.
Dr. Bonnie is a retired nurse/naturopath currently writing a series of books under the title Witness to Healing.
JOY E. HELD
BOOK: The Mermaid Riot
AUTHOR: Joy E. Held
GENRE: Young Adult Historical Fantasy
BLURB: Serena Robinson and Tobi Doyle have been friends for sixteen years. Living next door to each other along the Ainsley River in South Carolina, they built sandcastles, played pirate ship, and collected shells virtually every day until a freak accident at the Robinson Phosphate Mine Company takes away someone near and dear to Tobi’s heart. When Serena and Tobi witness the neighborhood apothecary lifting a limp body from his fishing boat, they don’t realize they will be forced together in a life-or-death effort to save a mermaid! Tobi never believed in mermaids until he held one in his arms.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Joy E. Held is an author, educator, book coach, yoga teacher, and founder and creator of My Writeday Subscription Box for writers. She is a member of The Authors Guild and The Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators. She lives in West Virginia with her husband.
ROZ MACLAREN
BOOK: Venom and Blaze
AUTHOR: Roz MacLaren
GENRE: Fantasy
BLURB: “During a time when unicorns roamed free and dragons cast shadows across the sun, the wise men and women of the land told stories of a troubled future. The legends whispered of a time when every baby born would be blonde, genial and entirely Good. But straight after it would emerge a baby with black hair, dark eyes – and an entirely different nature. They would be called Mirrors, and nobody would know from whence they came or what to do with them once they arrived.” Venom wants a normal life where no one can tell her what to do, especially her father, King Viper.
Blaze wants to be free, after all, he has been imprisoned in a dungeon since he was a baby.
Thorn wants to get the girl, which is a shame, because the girl has other things on her mind. At least one of them is going to be disappointed.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Roz MacLaren is a Scottish YA author who lives in the Inner Hebrides with her black and white cat. Roz wrote her first novel at the age of six. It was terrible and fortunately has never seen the light of day. However, Roz went on to become a professional writer at the age of seventeen and even received a BA (Hons) in Creative Writing. She is always writing at least one novel at any given time – and sometimes she actually finishes them. Roz has an extensive collection of novels, only rivalled by her equally extensive collection of impractical shoes. When not writing, she can be found reading, running or napping. You can keep up with all this excitement by following her on social media.
TRIGGER WARNINGS: There is one intimate scene that fades to black. The book is not suitable for anyone with arachnophobia. Childhood trauma and abuse are depicted and there is graphic violence and death. Reader discretion is advised.
BARBARA JEAN MILLER
BOOK: Eloping in Stages
AUTHOR: Barbara Jean Miller
GENRE: Regency Romance
BLURB: Daniel Clay notifies Vella Price of the elopement of his nephew Giles with her niece Kitty. In their travels by stage and carriage they desperately try to find their wards and prevent a runaway marriage. Suddenly they realize they are the ones who have been compromised, but also that they have fallen in love.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Barbara Jean Miller is an author, educator, and nature observer living in western Pennsylvania.
JAMIE SEITZ
BOOK: Weight of Water
AUTHOR: Jamie Seitz
GENRE: YA Contemporary/Romance
BLURB: The majority of Quinn Keaton’s life has been spent living in the shadow of her mother’s debilitating grief. After her brother Griffin's accidental drowning sixteen years ago, her mother retreated from the world with Quinn in tow. Water, strangers, heartache, and the unknown become possible threats to their small, safe life, so she created an insulated bubble where nothing could harm them. But now, Quinn isn't sure where her own insecurities and fears begin and where her mother's end.
When an opportunity arises for Quinn to spend her senior year abroad at an English boarding school, her mother demands she turn it down and threatens to disown her if she goes. Quinn's first act of rebellion opens the door to what her life could be if she is brave enough to live it.
As her world expands in England with new friends and a chance at love, Quinn wonders how she can ever go back to her previous life, even if it means letting her mother go.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Jamie Seitz is a middle-grade and young adult fiction author. Her funny backyard garden adventures also become stories that pop up in the monthly humor column, In the Weeds, in Garden Gate Magazine. Besides writing, her talents include being an expert maker of guacamole and the perfect mixed CD for any road trip, knitting extremely long scarves, and having a knack for finding the funny in everyday life. She lives in Iowa with her husband, four kids, two dogs, three cats, and a partridge in a pear tree.
Jamie's debut, Weight of Water, in which teenager Quinn Keaton has been held back by her mother's grief her entire life, breaks out of her cocoon, develops the resolve to pave her path to a brighter future, will be out for publication November 19, 2024, with Fire & Ice Publishing.
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Daniel Clay notifies Vella Price of the elopement of his nephew Giles with her niece Kitty. In their travels by stage and carriage they desperately try to find their wards and prevent a runaway marriage. Suddenly they realize they are the ones who have been compromised, but also that they have fallen in love.
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JOY E. HELD is an author, educator, editor, entrepreneur, and literary citizen responsible for this site and its contents. She is the author of
Writer Wellness: A Writer’s Path to Health and Creativity (Headline Books, Inc., 2020)
Writer Wellness Workbook: A Guided Workbook and Journal to Accompany Writer Wellness: A Writer’s Path to Health and Creativity (Headline Books, Inc., 2023)
The Mermaid Riot (Fire and Ice YA, 2024) Young Adult Historical Fantasy
She writes spicy historical fiction under a pen name.
She is the winner of multiple writing and book awards:
West Virginia Writers, Inc. Annual Writing Contest, Honorable Mention, Novel, 1998.
New York Book Festival, Honorable Mention, Writer Wellness, 2020.
Next Generation Indie Book Awards, Finalist, Writer Wellness, 2021.
Northeast Ohio Romance Writers of America, Member of the Year, 2020.
Northeast Ohio Romance Writers of America, First Book Award, 2020.
She is an adjunct faculty member in the Southern New Hampshire University Online MFA Creative Writing.
She is a proud graduate of Seton Hill University in Greensburg, PA with an MFA in Writing Popular Fiction.
She is a member of The Authors Guild and the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators.
Joy is the founder and CEO of My WRITEDAY Subscription Box for writers and readers.
