Jane B. Lee is a multi-novel author this is her ninth novel. They are in several genres, Romantic/Thrillers, Love Stories, Poems and Art. She is a playwright, a poet, short story author, painter, and sculpture. She holds two patents for environmental monitoring equipment. A world traveler she has visited 62 countries. Her travel adventures provide inspiration for her novels. Having been both rich and poor, male and female, she knows and writes about both worlds. I write novels to get them out of my head…and into yours.

The Fire in my Life, details the difficulties of transitioning from male to female, both mental and physical. Lisa sits alone in the dark on the beach in Hawaii, lost to the world. Having run away from her world in hopes of finding herself. Her thoughts take her back in time. She goes over all the difficulties she experienced from a decade of living as a woman. Finally, she makes the decision to begin her physical transition to becoming a complete woman. But as a woman in transition. On a lonely trip to Hawaii, she meets and falls in love with Diana A tall beautiful blue eyed woman.

I write memoirs that read like novels. My life has been a great adventure since I ran away to New Orleans at age fifteen, and I have lived on the road, hitchhiking around from the Rocky Mountians to across Africa to Nepal where I studied Buddhism under Lama Yeshe and Lama Zopa. My books are published by Tumbleweed Books, and available on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Kobo, AbeBooks, Better World Books, Bookshop.org, pretty much everywhere. And also can be found on the Worldcat, listings. This is the site libraries use to locate and buy or borrow books from, so can order from your library to read, see how you like it before you buy. No matter where you find my books, please leave a review.

I'm originally from Chicago, where I was involved with the radical anti-war and Civil Rights movements back in the 1960s, but I live in Seattle now, and I will be turning 75 in March. I'm a married grandpa of 3, semiretired, and teaching health requirements for caregivers with my wife. Traveling is our passion, although I'm not getting off the grid like I used to, which my books chronicle, and these days just keeping busy writing my books gives me great satisfaction. When I'm not writing I enjoy nature, walks through the woods or when I can, rare these days, I ride horses and socialize.

I write the first chapter of my next book, placing it at the end of the previous book (a teaser) Then I write the ending of the current book so all that is left is connecting the two chapters. I work on one chapter at a time with a basic plan, it works itself out.

Creating stories and using my experience as a top videogame designer, to add popular trivia seamlessly in every chapter, borrowing from stories like Hercules, The Odyssey and Dante's Inferno making these legendary stories current and my own.

I was telling stories before I learned how to write them down. Writing is as natural to me as breathing. So it is safe to say I was born a writer.

My latest publication was the final entry into a six-book series collectively titled Birds in Peril. #6 Bluebird of Happiness is Anne's story as she survives a profoundly humiliating experiece and begins a new life with the local badboy

I've always wanted to be a writer. Living in the world of my own imagination was the way I went through life. But, in 2020 I was in a car accident that shattered my ankle. I spent a year in bed and relearning to walk. Now that I was limited in mobility, it was like my imagination took over. I no longer had to feel guilty for wanting to sit and write, because I could not do anything else.

Most of my books are contemporary series. They stem around one family and deal with shifters. However I've recently started a new project where I rewrite fairy tales and old legends inside my world with the same rules of magic my world has that act as the distant past for my modern books. I love them. Gifts of the Fae is set in the Napoleonic Era and is a retelling of an old Czech fairy tale, "The Twelve Months." It is about a shy sheep shifter who falls in love with a fae lord in hiding. There is magic and adventure in a realistic historical setting. As usual, my books are more steamy than spicy, and are plot based fantasy rather than just romance. Gifts of the Fae is a voyage that spans the ocean from Europe to America proving that love conquers all, and a little fae deviousness can go a long way.

From the start I wanted to avoid a conventional linear structure. I felt the appropriate form for a memoir, at least my memoir, was one that allowed for moving back and forth between past and present, child and adult. Ever since I started writing poetry (in my mid-twenties) I’ve been reflecting back on my turbulent childhood and early adult years, wondering how I survived them, and what impact those years have had on my present way of doing things—both functional and dysfunctional. And as an expat I’ve been braiding cultures, American and Greek, ancient and modern, for over four decades now. So to me a braided structure just seemed natural.

One of the things that truly amazed me when I first came to Greece was how landscapes here, especially in central Greece, echoed the landscapes of my best childhood years, in California’s San Joaquin Valley. Touring Greece at 26, I was again riding buses between rows of towering eucalyptus trees, past orchards and vineyards, produce spilling out from roadside fruit and vegetable stands, whole families on tractors rumbling along the dirt shoulder. The warmth and raucousness of the Greeks reminded me of that Italian foster mother and Cherokee foster father I lived with for a few years in Fresno. In Greece I also found myself immersed in the landscapes I first encountered as a boy in Bible stories and Greek myths. “Real shepherds minding their flocks, real fishermen mending their nets,” as I write in the memoir.

I was an early reader. I started learning to read at age 3 when I grabbed Mom's leg and wouldn't let go until she promised to teach me to read. Dad led me through many of the classics- James Fenimore Cooper, Mark Twain, Edgar Allen Poe, and so forth. After reading so many of these books, I felt a need to write so I started out in third grade with a poem and in fourth grade I started a diary that didn't go far. My writing continued sporadically until college when the spark flamed up and I began writing in earnest.

My latest book was inspired by knowing someone who was trafficked as a little child and another I suspect was trafficked by the story I was told. In addition, I have been so disappointed by the lack of prosecution despite the evidence that has come out on some of our most prominent people. I also have had a lifelong interest in magic. Put these all together with an exciting and fast paced story, add some romance and mystery and you have my book.

“So how do you know you’re an author?” The question has been asked of me many times. “In my soul,” is always my answer. But no one has yet asked “When did you know you were an author?” To answer the question that no one has yet asked I would say “I guess in Grade Three”. The project that day was to write about a recent field trip. I won’t go into detail but my memoires had everyone in stitches laughing; a couple of my classmates said later that they’d never laughed so hard. Somewhere inside of me that little muse grinned from ear-to-ear and very quietly began to poke away at my sanity. Muses do that, you know. Later, in High School, is when my muse woke up. She hasn’t shut up ever since. The first day of a creative writing course our assignment was to write half-an-hour non-stop on anything and everything. Staring at the blank, lined, pages I could only ask “I have to write for half-an-hour non-stop? About what????” The teacher replied, “About anything and everything.” So used to being told what to do in school in those days, the idea that I could just do something on my own and be let loose, seemed beyond bizarre. “I’ll give you a zero if you don’t fill the page,” was his response. Incentive, then. The muse wrung her hands in mirthful glee. I simply stared in bewilderment at the blank page and wondered what kind of easy five-credit course did I think I had signed up for in a moment of insanity? My hand shook as I held the pencil to the paper and very thoughtfully put down, ‘the walls are beige; the girl in front of me is a blonde; I wonder how old the gum stuck under my desk is; and I am so frigging bored. (I thought if I can put anything down, then the odd cuss word should be acceptable). But at some point, after about a week, the muse lost patience and snapped. She (I know it’s a woman), whacked me upside the head and took over, controlling bitch. The flow began, just as the teacher had said it would. By the end of the day I’d filled four to six pages, my pencil a blur trying to keep up with the whirling dervish inside my subconscious. She hasn’t shut up since, and I don’t intend to have her stop either. You’ll probably find me on my deathbed, pencil in hand, a hundred and three years old, and there will be a long jagged line scribbling down the page, stating… …To Be Continued. Because some stories never end.

This is Book Three in the Ainsworth Chronicles: Into Dark Side. What if all the thousands of drug related deaths each year are not drug overdoses? This dark and gritty psychological paranormal thriller explores the depths of human despair and darkness as Carol Ainsworth tracks and is tracked by a cunning serial killer disguising murders as drug deaths. Along side her psychic Ms. Teak and her former shamanic ally, Charlie Stillwaters, face off against the enigmatic Martin Crowe aka Raven, as the team confronts a vigilante who is also targeting drug dealers while supernatural forces watch from the shadows. Reviews If you are expecting Harry Potter, read JK Rowling. However, if you are expecting Shaman and mysticism and spirit animals mixed up with Hercule Poirot, then Frank Talaber is who you should read. This is a stand-alone novel that draws on characters introduced in the other Ainsworth Chronicles books. The plot twists neatly and different situations are woven into a dramatic finale. What a great read! Paddy K. I just finished your book. I am floored! Your thought processes are way beyond my skills. But you did it again. I read your book while taking a bath, water was getting cold and my body was like a prune, but I had to finish it. You got me hooked and I couldn't put it down. Sandy Strebe “In the thick undergrowth the thump of padded feet echo to a full bloated moon as it cries out to the dark. Whisps of cold misting breath disturbs the stillness.” And with these few lines, Frank Talaber has me hooked again. All my favourite characters are back. While Carol Ainsworth, must solve a mystery of who is killing women and making it look like drug overdoses. The reading was so easy and riveting. I had to keep reading just to find out how the mystery gets solved. Oh, and Robin Hood?? Damn you, you’re still a bastard, Frank! Barry Harris It also features the return of one of my crazy characters, Charlie Stillwaters, from another series of mine. Stillwaters Runs Deep. I am also close to releasing my first sword and sorcery novel as well.

I had always written poetry and synopses, opinion letters of articles when inspired by the topic. This was different. My baby brother was born with Down syndrome; his birth had a dramatic effect on my family, with me spending my life ensuring his inclusion. We had moved from Vorhees, NJ, to Florida for our grandchildren, leaving Bruce in Philadelphia. Family visiting up north, not having us there, were no longer visiting with my brother. Now, diagnosed with Pancreatic cancer, 4 months to live, our story needed to be shared. My final guarantee of his memory never being forgotten.

My Sister Wants an Elephant, my second book, was so well-received by parents and my grandchildren that I decided to write another children's book with my grandchildren. Most of the story is complete, just waiting for them and edits

Spelling words, that's how I got started in the second grade. I used my spelling words to create stories, and I've been writing ever since then.

Oh. Finding Ophelia Moore was just released. It's the story of four friends who are trying to discover the real identity of their favorite author - Ophelia Moore, who has never done an interview, has never been on television, and has never attended a book signing. Her writing has done more for the marital bedroom than Fredericks of Hollywood and viagra combined.