Whitehall Publishing Authors Giveaway & Cheryl Pula Interview

Book Genre: Western historical
Publisher: Dark Gopher
Release Date: March 26, 2012
Buy Link(s):
Amazon | Author Amazon Page

Book Description:

In the year 1850 Marcus Gale must get out of New York due to some unfortunate gambling debts. He takes passage on a sidewheel steamer headed for the California gold rush. He's signed on as stoker, without knowing what that is. In the three month voyage to the new land, he works his way to assistant engineer, is nearly killed, foils a kidnapping, and brings gold to California, among other adventures.

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The author was born a long time ago. He spent three years in the US Army where he learned a lot of vital skills, such as how to use a soldering iron and screwdriver, as well as how to make the bed, mop the floor, and wash dishes. He grew up and spent most of his life in San Francisco. After obtaining a useless liberal arts degree, he became a social worker and did more than 20 years in the mean streets of New York City, San Francisco, and rural California. He is now devoted to writing books, which he should have been doing in the first place. He has written some science fiction and fantasy, but is now mainly interested in tales of the Old West. In this case, The Old West means California, Nevada, and especially Old San Francisco. Steve has currently eight novels in print, with a ninth, “The Inventor,” due for publication by September 1. Two others are completed and in the pipeline.

Author Links -

https://authorcentral.amazon.com/gp/books

www.stevebartholomew.com

https://twitter.com/SteveBartholom1

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Book Genre: Historical Fiction/ War Fiction
Publisher: Woodwind Press
Release Date: Jan 15, 2013
Buy Link(s): http://www.amazon.com/Special-J-E-Pendleton-ebook/dp/B006W09CWO/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1407249401&sr=1-1&keywords=the+special

Book Description:

A call from a stranger leads me on a journey I could never have imagined. The caller said he had my uncle’s car. How could this be? My uncle died in WW II when his plane was shot down over the Bay of Biscay off the coast of England. After some questioning I realized I had the opportunity of a lifetime. An opportunity to learn a bit about the uncle I had heard about my entire life, an uncle who died 3 years before I was born, an uncle I had always wanted to know more about. I also was being given the gift of a car that had been built by this uncle’s own hands and the hands of those he had been close to in his final years. The real treasure was the bond I formed with a man and the incredible story he told. The story of my uncle, the building of the car, and the people they both loved.

The Special is a fact based novel; the story of family, love and trust in the face of worldwide catastrophe. In 1941 Billy Pendleton hitch-hiked to California to seek his fortune not knowing what the future held. After encouragement from his new found friend and landlord he is soon building an automobile to set speed records and rubbing elbows with some true legends of motor racing history. Into this heady world walked the woman that would change his life forever. As the car is built romance blooms and the world slips into a war that will touch every person on the planet.

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J. E. (Jim) Pendleton was born and raised in Fort Worth, Texas. He has had an interest in automobiles and history for most of his life. He spent several years as an SCCA road racer and a lifetime involved with hotrods. It wasn’t until after he retired from a long career in the telecommunications industry that Jim decided to pursue another of his dreams and write his first book.

His first novel, The Special, was born from his love of family, hotrods and history. These are topics that are sure to be the center of future works. He is currently working on a series of novels where a young China Marine watches regional conflict explode into what becomes World War II. Jim has long considered World War II the single most important historical event of the twentieth century. His father fought in the Pacific and his uncle, Billy Pendleton is the main character in The Special and was lost in the Battle of the Atlantic.

Author Links -

http://jependleton.com/

https://twitter.com/jependleton

https://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Special/277976858931987?ref_

https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/5827150.J_E_Pendleton?from_search=true

http://www.amazon.com/Special-J-E-Pendleton-ebook/dp/B006W09CWO/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1407249401&sr=1-1&keywords=the+special

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Book Genre: Historical fiction
Publisher:Whitehall Publishing
Release Date: August 2014
Buy Link(s): www.8thmilitary.com;

Amazon.com 

Book Description: This is the first in a series of 7 books on the B-17 bomber crews in World War II England. All the “action sequences” are based on the actual experiences of men who flew with the 8th in the war, and were personally interviewed by the author. The story begins:

It was February 1942 when two future B-17 pilots began their training from Primary to Advanced Flight School where they become best friends. Join Captain Jack Harrington (age 22), the pilot, a Nebraska farm boy; Lieutenant Matt Moore (age 21), the copilot who is half Cheyenne Indian; Lieutenant Dale Kennedy (22), the navigator, a high school teacher; Lieutenant Kenny Donnelly (21), the bombardier, the son of a multimillionaire; and gunners that include Sergeant Keith McNeil (24), a career Army man; Sergeant Greg Cerminaro (19), a college student until the war intervened; Sergeant Al Schulze (19), a bottle capper from a Wisconsin brewery; Sergeant Joe Angelino (21), a longshoreman; Sergeant Jim Robinson (20), a truck driver, and Sergeant Tad Furmanski (18), a Polish national who survived the horrors of the Auschwitz death camp, as they move to England and become members of the 324th Squadron of the 91st Bombardment Group (heavy), stationed at United States Army Air Force Station #121. Fly with the rookies through their first mission to bomb German airfields at Romilly-Sur-Seine, France, on December 20, 1942. Listen to their reactions to the shock of combat and relate what it is actually like to fly dangerous daylight precision bombing missions.

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A native of New York Mills, New York, Cheryl Pula is a retired Reference Librarian. She is a Regents graduate of New York Mills Jr.-Sr. High School, with a concentrate in science and mathematics. Cheryl attended Mohawk Valley Community College in Utica, New York, where she received an Associate Degree in Liberal Arts, then went to SUNY Oswego, where she earned a Bachelor of Arts Degree in the Russian Language with a minor in German. She was on the Dean’s List at both schools. After substitute teaching in the New York Mills Union Free School District for five years for both foreign language and special education classes, she went back to school and received a Master’s in Library and Information Science from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, where she is a lifetime member of the University of Michigan Alumni Association. Her first library position was as the supervisor of the Lending Department at the Mid-York Library System in Utica, where she performed all the reference work for the system’s 43 member libraries. After almost ten years, she became the Head of the Adult Services Department at the Utica Public Library in Utica, then in 1987, the Reference Librarian at the Dunham Public Library in Whitesboro. Though officially retired in August 2011, she now works part-time at the New York Mills Public Library in New York Mills, NY.

In 1988, she was awarded the New York Library Association’s Intellectual Freedom Award. She served on the Board of Trustees of the New York Mills Public Library. Cheryl also teaches for the Mohawk Valley Institute for Learning in Retirement at SUNYIT in Marcy, New York, teaching a variety of historical subjects to retirees who are interested continuing their education. She has taught courses on unsolved historical mysteries; the American Civil War; World War II; The Titanic and several other topics.

Cheryl was a founding member of the New York Mills Historical Society, and served as its first president in the late 1970’s. She is currently the village historian of New York Mills and President of The History Club, which she founded in Whitesboro in 1995. She is the club’s newsletter editor. She is also the founder, current secretary and newsletter editor of the General Daniel Butterfield Civil War Round Table in Whitesboro. She is a member of the American Legion Auxiliary of the Arthur Moran Post #66 in Camden, New York, as well as an honorary member of the Memphis Belle Memorial Association of Memphis, Tennessee. She is known around the central New York area for presenting a number of historical lectures (89 to be exact!) on topics from the Titanic to the first moon landing in July 1969. Cheryl was elected “Historian of the Year” by the Oneida County Historian’s Association in 2006. In 2010, she was listed in Who’s Who In America.

She is an author, having written on Irish immigrants to the Utica area in a book entitled Ethnic Utica, published in 1994 by Utica College. With her brother, she is co-author and co-editor of a book on the Civil War regiments from Oneida County, which was published by the Eugene Nassar Ethnic Studies Department of Utica College in November 2010 entitled, With Courage and Honor: Oneida County’s Role in the Civil War. She is a contributing author, co-editor and served as proofreader for The Polish-American Encyclopedia, published by McFarlane Publishers in January 2011. For her work on the Encyclopedia, she has just been awarded the Polish-American Historical Society’s Distinguished Achievement Award. She is author of a novel, the first in a proposed series about Eighth Air Force bomber crews in World War II England, titled The Children’s Crusade, was published in October 2011 by Whitehall Publishing. At this point, six more have been published: The Ragged Irregulars (April 2012); The Rookie (July 2012); A Wing and a Prayer (January 2013); Maximum Effort (July 2013); The Dogs of War (January 2014) andAbove and Beyond (July 2014). The eighth in the series, Some Gave All is currently in the writing stage.

Author Links -

Website: www.8thmilitary.com

Amazon page: http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss_1?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=cheryl%20pula&sprefix=chery%2Caps&rh=i%3Aaps%2Ck%3Acheryl%20pula

https://twitter.com/CherylPula

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September 14 - Introduction at VBT Café Blog
September 15 - Spotlight at 3 Partners In Shopping - Nana, Mommy & Sissy Too!
Spotlight at Coffee, Books & Art
September 16 - Spotlight at Cherry Mischievous
September 17 - Guest Blogging at Mythical Books (Steve Bartholomew)
September 18 - Guest Blogging at Mythical Books (J.E. Pendleton)
September 19 - Guest Blogging at Mythical Books (Cheryl Palu)
September 19 - Guest Blogging at Lori's Reading Corner
Spotlight at Deal Sharing Aunt
September 20 - Guest Blog & Review at My Life, Loves and Passions

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CHERYL PULA

1.    Tell a little about yourself (short bio)

A native of New York Mills, New York, Cheryl Pula is a retired Reference Librarian.  Cheryl attended Mohawk Valley Community College in Utica, New York, where she received an Associate of Arts degree in Liberal Arts; SUNY Oswego, where she earned a Bachelor of Arts Degree in the Russian Language with a minor in German, and a Master’s in Library and Information Science from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. She has worked at the Mid-York Library System and the Utica Public Library, both in Utica, New York,  then in 1987, the Dunham Public Library in Whitesboro, NY. In 1988, she was awarded the New York Library Association’s Intellectual Freedom Award. Cheryl also teaches for the Mohawk Valley Institute for Learning in Retirement at SUNYIT in Marcy, New York, teaching a variety of historical subjects to retirees who are interested continuing their education. Cheryl was a founding member of the New York Mills Historical Society, and served as its first president in the late 1970’s. She is currently the village historian of New York Mills. Cheryl was elected “Historian of the Year” by the Oneida County Historian’s Association in 2006. She is an author, having written a chapter in Ethnic Utica. With her brother, she is co-author and co-editor of a book on the Civil War regiments from Oneida County, entitled, With Courage and Honor: Oneida County’s Role in the Civil War. She is a co-author and co-editor proofreader for The Polish-American Encyclopedia, for which she received the Polish-American Historical Society’s Civic Achievement Award. She is author of several novels about Eighth Air Force bomber crews in World War II England, published by Whitehall Publishing. 

2. What is your latest writing accomplishment? (book title and a brief synopsis of what it

is about)

            The latest is book #6 in my World War II Eighth Air Force series, entitled THE DOGS OF WAR. It is a continuing story, featuring the same characters introduced in the first volume. In this, the crews of the 91^st Bomb Group are in the thick of 1944 and are flying dangerous daylight bombing missions. During the course of the book, some are injured, one goes home on leave (so we see what it was like on the home front), and the story ends with a cliffhanger ending, with one pilot with a gun literally to the back of his head as a crewman goes “flak” happy. Though the books in the series are novels, all the action is based on real-life experiences of men I interviewed who flew in WWII.

3.    What was your inspiration for your latest work?

Personal interviews with World War II veterans of the 8^th Air Force and a life-long interest in WWII aviation and B-17 bombers.

4.    Tell us a little about any other works you have published or will be publishing.

I was co-author of a book on the Civil War regiments of our county in Upstate New York. Recently, I worked with Whitehall Publishing to do two books in a new series called IT’S A MYSTERY, featuring unsolved historical mysteries. The first is about unsolved murders (Jack the Ripper; Lizzie Borden; The Mad Butcher of Kingsbury Run; the Black Dahlia and The Zodiac). The second is about unsolved WWII mysteries (The Philadelphia Experiment; Disappearance of Glenn Miller; The Amber Room; the Flight of Rudolf Hess and the disappearance of Raoul Wallenberg---these are all NON-FICTION as opposed to my novels). I am working on a couple more non-fiction mystery books and book #7 in the World War II series.

5.    How long have you been writing and how did you fall into it?

I’ve been writing since I was in high school, but didn’t get anything published until 2010 when we did the Civil War book. I’ve always wanted to write, but never had the courage to try and get it published. I actually took the step when a friend was published and I asked her which publisher she went with, I called, and the rest is history.

6. Please tell us a little about your writing process. (best time of the day for you to write,

do you write longhand or on computer, etc)

            I usually do most of my writing after work, between 6 PM and midnight or the wee hours of the morning. I write on my laptop, never longhand. My penmanship is atrocious.

6.    If a fiction writer, are any of your novels based on events in your life?

No, but they are based on the experiences of WWII veterans than I have personally interviewed who fought in the war. I also name my characters after people I know.

8. What was the greatest challenge you faced with publishing your work? (logistical

challenge - finding a publisher, making the decision to go indie or traditional - working to

a deadline, etc)

            The hardest for me was finding a publisher. All the “traditional” publishers suggested I change my name and get a pseudonym---because people would take books about World War II aviation seriously if written by a woman! One place that DOES take them seriously is the U.S. Air Force Academy, as all my books are in their library.

9. Do you have a favorite author or book?

            I like David Hackett Fischer, who writes non-fiction history (PAUL REVERE’S RIDE, WASHINGTON’S CROSSING) because his books read like novels though they are non-fiction. I also like Michael Shaara’s THE KILLER ANGELS about the battle of Gettysburg.

10. Do you have any advice for other indie authors?

            Write about what you know or subjects interesting to you. I find if you do that, you are comfortable with what you’re writing, and the process is a lot easier.

11. What genre or genres do you write and why?

            I do both fiction and non-fiction, pertaining to history. I love history, and have always been fascinated by it, especially the human aspects. History is made by human beings, and I found it dull in high school when teachers just talked dates. Tell us about the people!

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