NEWSFLASH: TRESTLE PRESS HOSTING NEW FAITH AND INSPIRATIONAL SERIES!

Trestle Press announced today its newest ongoing series, Mark Miller’s One. The series will feature a variety of authors telling true-life stories of faith and inspiration. We expect this groundbreaking series to be emotionally charged as it is sure to cross the boundaries of many beliefs. One will be an spiritual anthology of real stories about how faith works on this one planet we all share.

“It is a privilege to take the lead on a totally new concept for Trestle,” series frontrunner Mark Miller said. “I want to thank Trestle for giving me this opportunity. As One develops, I don’t want to be beating anybody over the head. We’re not trying to change beliefs. I only hope we can open some eyes. Maybe we’ll help people realize that no matter what we believe, we are all part of this one Earth.”

Mark Miller is the author of The Empyrical Tales, available in paperback from Comfort Publishing. In addition to One with Trestle Press, Miller has participated in the Author’s Lab series. His turn with Giovanni Gelati, A Prince in Trenton, Seriously?, received high praise as a family-friendly story. Miller is also the author of Trestle’s upcoming release Daniel’s Lot. Daniel’s Lot is a novel adaptation of the faith-based movie of the same name starring Emmy Award winner Gary Burghoff (Radar on M*A*S*H). The movie is available on DVD from Bridgestone Multimedia and will soon be appearing on syndicated cable.

You can find more information at www.MillerWords.com , www. EmpyricalTales.blogspot.com  , or Facebook.com/EmpyricalTales . Trestle Press can be found at www.trestlepresspublishing.com   or www.thenovelspot.ning.com . Visit the Daniel’s Lot movie website at www.DanielsLot.com

NEWSFLASH: LEONA DEROSA BODIE SIGNS WITH TRESTLE PRESS

NEWSFLASH:  Leona Derosa Bodie, author of the award winning “Shadow Cay” , has signed on with Trestle Press to produce a series of digital short stories. The first one to be released is entitled “COCOONED IN DARKNESS”, and it is a prequel to Shadow Cay. Here is the synopsis:

“On a bleak night, Claude’s world crumbles around him. Forced to confront his own frailties after a series of life-changing events, and compelled to make an impossible choice, Claude Pelletier flees Miami on a sailboat. He finds his past haunting him at every turn and old demons rising up to torment him.”

Leona DeRosa Bodie is an Author, Freelance Writer, Editor, here website is  www.leonabodie.com  . She is the author of the upcoming book “FEAR THE WHISPERS” , and the award-winning thriller “SHADOW CAY”, she is also Vice President, Florida Writers Association, Inc., and Group Leader, Palm  City Word Weavers. Trestle Press is proud to be working with her and looks forward to being a partner in her success

Angelaique LaFontaine drops in to say HI!

Hi Everyone!

So I gave my very first blog talk show interview a couple of weeks back.  If you didn’t have a chance to hear it, you can go to:

http://www.blogtalkradio.com/gelatisscoop/2011/06/29/alexandrea-weis-and-angelique-lafontaine-are-my-guests

I had a lot of fun doing it but I actually learned some stuff about myself too…maybe some of you can relate to this as well. 

As artists and/or authors, there is always going to be a question asked by others, “How did you come up with that?”  I was asked that very question during my interview and I felt as though I stumbled over my answer because I never really thought about it.  I mulled over the question for a week or so after the interview and looked at some of my art and read some of my written works.  I found it kind of interesting because it would appear that my writing or art doesn’t have  a consistency to it but what I discovered is that it does. 

I could pinpoint the exact emotion I was feeling or the event that was taking place in my life to inspire each and every piece.  That is where the consistency is found.  How does that define or explain the origin from where the piece develops from?  For me, it’s that I take emotions that I feel and I personify them or attach a visual image in my mind to that emotion; whether it is a creature, a location, or a thought.  The product that is a result of that image is the painting or the story that I come up with.

In every story that I’ve ever written, there is at least one specific object or person that I describe in great detail and it’s that item that is the focal point behind the story; this allows me to create written works or visual art as an emotional extension of myself. 

So in short, my creative energy is of course a product of my emotion at the time (as is the situation with most artists/authors) but the actual artistic piece that I develop comes from a mental visual that I subconsciously attach to that emotion/event.  Good stuff!! 

Thanks everyone and have a great day!

Angelique LaFontaine

www.AngeliqueArtWork.com

http://angelique-lafontaine.blogspot.com/

Counter Point Mark Miller has his Time and Two Cents

There’s this guy I have somehow become entangled with, but don’t remember quite how. Probably through Facebook. You know how you seem to accumulate people on there, like putting a book on a shelf and accumulating dust? When you go back a week or two later, wow! Where did all this dust come from?

Maybe that’s a bad analogy because Giovanni Gelati is anything but dusty. I can’t imagine he sits still long enough to gather dust. This guy is one of the most outgoing, supportive and imaginative people I have ever worked with.

Like a magnet, he draws talent to him (assuming I have talent). We put together this little piece you are about to read.

Oh, sorry, I’m Mark. Mark Miller is the author of The Empyrical Tales, a fantasy-adventure series about two sisters and their life in the land of Empyrean. Empyrean is the world I created where fairytales, folktales, myths and legends from all over our world came to exist in the same place. As of this writing, the second book in the series, The Lost Queen, has been available in paperback from Comfort Publishing for little over a month. You can get more info at my site: www.MillerWords.com (plus you can order autographed copies there).

So, I try not to pass up great opportunities and the G-Man’s Author’s Lab is one of those. I wedged myself in there and over the course of a few days, we wrote some fun. Being that my writing is about creating strong, positive female role models for my daughters, I kinda made Mrs. Gelati the hero this time. She usually is the one that needs to be saved.

I want to give a big Thank You to Giovanni. Thanks also to Trestle Press. And Thank You, Reader. You’re who we do this for. I hope you enjoy!