Mark Paul Smith
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STORY BY Mark Paul Smith
The Reporter
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Intent on finding his career path, a rookie reporter struggles to become a journalist at an Indiana newspaper in 1973. He climbs the ladder from writing obituaries to covering cops and teacher strikes and murder trials and community disasters. As he navigates the competitive politics of the newsroom, he gradually earns the trust of his curmudgeonly city editor. Along the way, he begins performing with a rock and roll band and falls in love. The choice between being a musician and a journalist becomes obvious after he writes a front page story on a job tryout at the Detroit Free Press.
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Rock and Roll Voodoo
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During the 1970s on a magic mushroom harvesting adventure in the Bayou, a young, aspiring rock and roll musician discovers the voice of Voodoo, which not only alters his life, but the life of his band, the Divebomberz. When the band is on the verge of making it big, tragedy strikes and Jesse is confronted with the hard truth that life is often a spiritual obstacle course designed to see if you can get over yourself. A book for rock and rollers of all ages and for restless souls who have chased a dream only to discover that what they really needed was with them all along.
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Honey and Leonard
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Honey and Leonard are in their seventies when they fall in love. Leonard is in the early stages of Alzheimer"s and Honey thinks her love will cure him.When their heirs try to keep them apart, they flee to France in violation of court orders. Pursued by police, press, and private investigators, they become an international media sensation. In a time just before cell phones and the Internet, they become the Bonnie and Clyde of love.Their whirlwind romance encompasses arsenic poisoning, elder law, Alzheimer"s, an Eiffel Tower arrest, and a Paris jail break.And through it all Honey is in the middle of the difficult process of discovering that love does not conquer all. Or does it?
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