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Stir-Fried Memories by Cherise Wyneken

Whispering Angel Books — Sun, 22 Apr 2012 17:33:53 GMT

Stir-Fried Memories by Cherise Wyneken is the latest release by Whispering Angel Books.

Like a Chinese menu, "Stir-Fried Memories" serves tasty morsels that appeal to a variety of interests. It is a collection of essays and personal experiences combined much like vegetables are mixed together in a wok fora tasty stir-fried meal heaped with flavor, color, nutrition, and fragrance. It offers readers a taste of living through humor, travel, childhood, major moves, sickness, death and family.

Cherise Wyneken is a freelance writer. Selections of her prose and poetry have appeared on over 200 journals, periodicals and anthologies. She has also written a novel, a children's books and two collections of poetry.

"I invite you to read the articles and live through them with me," Cherise says. "I often say that I feel like I’ve lived four lives: girlhood in a small South Dakota prairie town, teenage and young adult in the San Francisco East Bay Area, mid-life in Ft. Lauderdale, FL, and senior, back in the Bay Area in Albany, CA."

The book is being sold for $14.95, plus shipping, through www.whisperingangelbooks.com & www.amazon.com or other major bookstores.

Examiner.com and Enlightened Ferret blog

Whispering Angel Books — Sat, 17 Sep 2011 17:07:04 GMT

Nurturing Paws contributors have been featured in a poetry column by Cherise Wyneken. In the Examiner.com column, David O'Neal is interviewed about his story, "Streak: The Parrot Who Loves Me."

Rosalie Ferrer Kramer's poem, "Who?" is also featured in the column.

See the full article at:

http://www.examiner.com/poetry-in-oakland/poets-commune-with-creatures-1?CID=examiner_alerts_article

Nurturing Paws was also reviewed this week on the Enlightened Ferret blog, a wonderful blog written by AmyJo Casner.

http://www.enlightened-ferret.com/2011/09/i-received-nurturing-paws-in-mail.html

Check out these great websites!

Whispering Angel Books Video Review Contest

Whispering Angel Books — Sat, 13 Aug 2011 03:46:33 GMT

Oprah needs your video review of Nurturing Paws!

Contest

Anyone who posts a video review of Nurturing Paws on Oprah's site will be entered to win either a $100 gift certificate to Amazon or a $100 donation to the animal charity of their choice.

Time is limited, so upload your video today! Your chances of winning are excellent! To enter:

Upload your one-minute video review to:

http://www.oprah.com/book_club.html

Click on one-minute book review.

After you’ve uploaded your video, email your name to customerservice@whisperingangelbooks.com telling us you’ve uploaded your video.

All reviews uploaded by Saturday, August 19^th will be considered.

That’s it. A winner will be announced on Monday, August 22!

Nurturing Paws and Whispering Angel Books!

Whispering Angel Books — Sun, 07 Aug 2011 19:10:21 GMT

I'm happy to announce the great news...

Whispering Angel Books has launched a new and improved website. Please check it out!

We also just published our latest anthology, Nurturing Paws. It is filled with great short stories and poems celebrating the positive physical, emotional and spiritual healing effects of animals in our lives.

Nurturing Paws is an uplifting collection of more than 80 short stories and poems demonstrating the remarkable ability of animals to ease our physical and emotional pain while showing us love, compassion and acceptance.

These pieces, written by some of today's most prolific writers, will warm your hear, uplift your spirit and leave you with a greater appreciation of the unconditional love, comfort and friendship we receive from our pets.

Contributor Ysabel de la Rosa: Grief Blog

Whispering Angel Books — Sun, 27 Mar 2011 19:22:00 GMT

Whispering Angel Books' contributor Ysabel de la Rosa shared her loving tribute and the enduring life lesson she learned from her little sister in our anthology, Living Lessons. Now she brings us a new blog called Getting Along With Grief.

Her blog will focus on grief as more a recovery process rather than a traditional "healing" process. "It is not something we get over, as much as it is a set of experiences and emotions that we learn to live with," she said. The overall tone will be positive, helpful, honest and compassionate.

Beginning in May, monthly themes will be announced. If you have an interest in contributing poetry, prose, brief essay, book review or image, the guidelines are listed on her blog. The first invitation to readers is to write a haiku for Japan as they recover from the devastation that struck their country.

You can find her blog at:http://gettingalongwithgrief.blogspot.com

Whispering Angel Books Contributor Cherise Wyneken Joins Examiner.com

Whispering Angel Books — Thu, 24 Mar 2011 01:54:00 GMT

Whispering Angel Books' contributor Cherise Wyneken has been named poetry editor for Examiner.com. She is writing a weekly column focusing on poetry in the California Bay Area. Her purpose is to introduce the many poets in this area to the community. She will also analyze their poems for the benefit to those who say they don't like poetry because they don't understand it.

Tired and retired from teaching and raising four kids, Cherise Wyneken turned to writing. She began by taking creative writing courses at South Florida universities. Selections of her prose and poetry have appeared in a variety of publications, including two collections of her poetry, two poetry chapbooks, a memoir, novel, and a children’s book and audio-cassette. Her work has also appeared in our very own Hope Whispers and Living Lessons.

Cherise's work for children continues as seen on givingbooks2kids.com. She lives in Albany and can be reached at: cwyneken@sbcglobal.net.

Please visit her column at: http://www.examiner.com/poetry-in-oakland/cherise-wyneken

Congratulations, Cherise!

Nurturing Paws - Submissions Closed

Whispering Angel Books — Fri, 18 Mar 2011 14:29:00 GMT

The submission period for our next anthology, Nurturing Paws, has now closed. Thank you to everyone who sent in their wonderful, heart-warming poems and stories about the animals that touches their lives. We received a record-breaking number of submissions, far greater than for our two previous anthologies.

Please be patient as we receive everyone's entries. We know everyone put great time and care into their work and we want to show that same time and care in making our decisions. We will contact each writer as our decision is made.

Thanks again!

Whispering Angel Books

Just One Week Left!

Whispering Angel Books — Tue, 08 Mar 2011 13:56:00 GMT

There is only one week left to submit your uplifting and inspirational poem or short story to our latest anthology, Nurturing Paws. This anthology will celebrate the physical, emotional, and spiritual healing effects that animals have in our lives. The deadline is next Tuesday, March 15th!

Please see our website for all the submission details and guidelines. Visit www.whisperingangelbooks.com and click on submit your work.

Nurturing Paws, which will be released this summer, is our third anthology. It joins Hope Whispers, a collection of stories and poems illustrating the power of hope and faith in physical, emotional, and spiritual healing and Living Lessons, which relays life's most enduring lessons on courage, optimism, love and support as taught to us by those important people in our lives. To learn more about these anthologies, please visit our website.

Submissions Wanted: Deadline March 15th!

Whispering Angel Books — Thu, 03 Mar 2011 04:18:00 GMT

Whispering Angel Books is still accepting submissions for its latest inspirational anthology, Nurturing Paws. It celebrates the physical, emotional and spiritual healing power of animals in our lives. You may submit poetry or short stories of no more than 1,500 words. Please see our website for complete guidelines and submission details.

Go to: www.whisperingangelbooks.com and click on submit your work.

Uplift and Inspire Yourself with Affirm Your Life Now

Whispering Angel Books — Tue, 14 Dec 2010 22:02:00 GMT

Are you living the life you imagined? If not, I'd like to introduce you to a new workbook to help you achieve the life you've desired.

"Affirm Your Life Now by Dianne Hart Pettis is a combination workbook and journal designed to help you attract the prosperous life you were meant to have. Affirmations are positive statements that are full of creative energy. Everything you say, think, and focus on has energy. This workbook helps you to focus that energy using a process called Affirmatting. You'll use a variety of methods all at the same time to increase the power to attract what you do want in your life. This workbook contains information about affirmations, energy, and how to use the Affirmatting process - as well as sample affirmations for a healthy diet, general health, stress management, finances, healthy relationships, and more. You'll have enough blank affirmation pages for 8 weeks of journaling. You'll also be able to track your progress on the weekly summary pages. Start to affirm the life you want today!"

Based in Dayton, Ohio, Dianne is a Family Nurse Practitioner whose passion has been helping people with prosperity in mind, body, spirit, finances, and relationships by using the power of their minds. She provide health and wellness education, and coaching. She is also available to speak.

The workbook is available spiral-bound or loose-leaf for $12.95 and in a pdf version for $9.99 at www.affirmstore.com. She can be contacted by email at DPettis@aol.com or via her toll-free number (888) 887-4429.

Celebrate Cyber Monday with Free Shipping

Whispering Angel Books — Mon, 29 Nov 2010 06:37:00 GMT

Starting today, Cyber Monday, Whispering Angel Books is offering free priority mail shipping on all orders placed on its website until Saturday, December 18, 2010.

Our books include Hope Whispers, Living Lessons and Angel's Dance: A Collection of Uplifting and Inspirational Poetry.

To learn more about our books, please visit our website: www.whisperingangelbooks.com . Place your order today to guarantee arrival by Christmas!

Hope Whispers Flyer

Whispering Angel Books — Sun, 21 Nov 2010 04:59:00 GMT

Here's a flyer for Hope Whispers, which was our first anthology last year. It was created by poet Susan Berg, who contributed her poem, "My Lovable Old New Friend."

If you are a contributor who has created promotional materials for one of our books, please let us know. We'd love to share it!

Hope Whispers is available through the Whispering Angel Books website and all online booksellers.

Enter our manuscript contest now!

Whispering Angel Books — Tue, 16 Nov 2010 05:42:00 GMT

Whispering Angel Books is pleased to announce that we have just launched our first manuscript contest. We are currently accepting submissions of unpublished, full-length manuscripts that illustrate the resiliency of the human spirit over adversity. Your submission can be a single, non-fiction story or a collection of poetry or personal essays.

The winning author will receive a standard publication contract for their manuscript and receive 30 copies of their book free of charge. The book will also be available for purchase on our website as well as Amazon.com and other online booksellers. The author will receive royalties from any subsequent sales.

Please see our website, www.whisperingangelbooks.com, for complete guidelines. There is a $25 submission fee, payable by check, money order or PayPal for credit/debit transactions. All entries must be accompanied with an entry form and postmarked by June 1, 2011. Please do not email your manuscript.

Just a reminder...

Our latest anthology, Nurturing Paws, is accepting submissions of inspirational short stories and poems on the physical, emotional, and spiritual healing powers of animals in our lives. As always, anthology submissions are accepted via email only. The deadline is March 15, 2011.

Living Lessons Contributor: Melanie Rigney

Whispering Angel Books — Sat, 06 Nov 2010 19:20:00 GMT

Living Lessons contributor Melanie Rigney spent more years than she cares to remember as an editor—at Writer’s Digest, Advertising Age, Thomson Financial Publishing, Macmillan Computer Publishing, and United Press International. But it took a return to her Catholic roots in 2005 to identify herself as a writer.

“I’d been away from God for thirty years, not so much because I didn’t believe in Him as because I couldn’t believe He loved me,” Melanie says. “His presence as I dealt with a move to a new city, a divorce, and repayment of nearly $110,000 in credit card debt helped convince me that I am lovable.”

One of the people who helped her find her way back to faith was Patricia Lorenz, who is the subject of Melanie’s entry in Living Lessons. “Pat’s been my best friend almost from the week I met her,” Melanie says. “We’re both writers, but we’re very different in many ways—she has kids and grandkids, I don’t; I have a demanding day job; she doesn’t. And yet, we learn so much from each other.”

In addition to Living Lessons, Melanie is a regular contributor to Living Faith, the Catholic devotional and to Your Daily Tripod (yourdailytripod.blogspot.com), a Catholic blog. With Anna LaNave, she is the co-author of When They Come Home: Ways to Welcome Returning Catholics (Twenty-third Publications), a book for Catholic parishes about how to help those who have been away from the Church but are making their first stumbling steps back

“I said no when I was first asked to do the book, feeling under qualified to tell parish leaders what to do, and suggested the publisher contact Anna, who facilitated the program for returning Catholics at my parish. Anna said she’d only write it if we did it together. It turned out to be a rich experience, working together, and best of all, we’re still friends!”

These days, in addition to her nonfiction writing, Melanie has caught the fiction bug. Her first novel, about a couple seeking to repair a marriage after twenty years of mistrust and betrayal, is with her agent for consideration. In the meantime, she’s working on a book about a woman who finds forgiveness and redemption decades after causing a deadly car accident.

“For me, the most humbling and satisfying aspect of writing is hearing that my work spoke to someone, frequently in a way I never intended,” Melanie says. One example is that her Living Faith devotionals led to a request for her to lead a retreat, her first ever, in April 2011 in Alabama.

To learn more about the writing side of Melanie’s life, please visit www.melanierigney.com; for the editing side, please visit www.editorforyou.com.

Living Lessons: Lottie B. Corley

Whispering Angel Books — Sun, 24 Oct 2010 21:20:00 GMT

Living Lessons contributor Lottie B. Corley shares her poem “Trinkets,” which is based on the sad task of removing her mother’s possessions after her passing. Opening her mother’s door revealed a lifetime of love in the trinkets her mother kept.

Thus her poem “Trinkets” begins:

Locket’s of hair and baby barrettes.

Among all the trinkets that she had kept…

Although Lottie is a novice with regards to the publishing side of things, she is building her reputation mainly due to her poem “Trinkets.” Many people cry when they read it because they can relate to losing a loved one.

Lottie (pictured above) has been writing poems, songs and producing pen and ink artwork since the age of six. She attributes her love for writing and drawing from her dear mother, Josephine LoCicero and her husband, Michael Scott Corley who have always encouraged her to never give up and write what you feel, good or bad. “There is never a moment or event that cannot inspire her,” she said.

She is currently working on her memoirs: Trials and Turbulence, which deals with her abusive stepfather. Snags and Snares describes what she went through as a recovering alcoholic. When Panic Attacks talks about her recent diagnosis of panic disorder and the impact it has had on her life. And Truth is Stranger describes her spiritual experiences. Lottie is also currently working on her book of 50 poems that address many subjects including child abuse, infidelity and spirituality.

She has had her share of hard times. After surviving two head-on car accidents and an elevator accident, Lottie is glad to be alive and takes it one day at a time. She has always had to work harder than others to write, due to her dyslexia. Nevertheless, she feels she has overcome many of her obstacles through her writing. In addition to writing books and poetry, Lottie has also written and recorded several songs.

Lottie is now retired after working for several companies in the technology field. She has also worked as a volunteer EMT and had her picture appeared in several magazines for radio control enthusiasts.

Lottie has a huge heart for animals and spends a lot of time rescuing them. On one occasion, she rescued two opossum babies after their mother was shot by a neighbor. One, whom she named “Sweetie Pie” for her sweet and affectionate nature, became her pet and was even potty-trained. Lottie has also rescued birds, dogs, moles and cats, just to name a few. She doesn’t belong to any organizations. “God just brings them to me to care for,” she said.

If you are interested in sampling some of her work, go to http://www.poetshaven.com and type “Lottie” in the search field.

Submissions Wanted: Our Next Anthology

Whispering Angel Books — Tue, 19 Oct 2010 18:25:00 GMT

Whispering Angel Books is happy to announce that the theme for our next anthology has been selected. It will focus on the physical, emotional and spiritual healing powers that animals/pets have in our lives. The deadline is March 15, 2011 and part of the proceeds will benefit animal charities.

Submissions should be inspirational short stories, personal essays or poems based on actual events. They should be written in English, typed and no more than 1,500 words. There is no fee to submit. Please review the full guidelines on the website: www.whisperingangelbooks.com and click on Submit Your Work.

Whispering Angel Books Joins Burbank Holiday Fair

Whispering Angel Books — Sun, 17 Oct 2010 20:53:00 GMT

Whispering Angel Books is proud to announce that we will be selling our books at the Victory Tabernacle Church Holiday Craft and Vendor Fair next Saturday, October 23, 2010.

Victory Tabernacle is located at 1614 W.Victory Blvd in Burbank, California. The fair hours are 8am to 3pm. To learn more, please go to: www.victab.org/fair.

If you are in the area, please come by to support us and the other participating vendors.

Living Lessons: The Ebook is now available

Whispering Angel Books — Fri, 15 Oct 2010 23:46:00 GMT

I just wanted to let you know that the ebook version of Living Lessons is currently available at Powells.com. It should be available through BooksonBoard.com and Diesel-ebooks.com shortly. The ISBN for the ebook is different than the print version: ISBN: 9780984142125. It's offered in the Adobe Reader version, but it can be easily converted to an EPUB file if needed. Calibre ebook has a free conversion program at http://calibre-ebook.com/ should you need one.

Living Lessons Contributor Elayne Clift

Whispering Angel Books — Tue, 12 Oct 2010 17:46:00 GMT

Readers may be interested to know that Elayne Clift, whose essay "A Voice from the Past" appears in our recently published book Living Lessons, has authored a memoir that takes readers further into her growing up in small-town America in the 1950s.

To New Jersey, With Love and Apologies (OGN Publications, 1999) is a coming-of-age collection of prose and poetry that captures the experience and impressions of an intuitive young girl challenged by family illness, minority status (she is Jewish), and the values of a small community.Elayne looks back with nostalgia and humor while offering insights that resonate with others who remember the loneliness of adolescence. Written as a remembrance after she lost her parents and siblings, the book has been called "a bouquet of memories."

A visit to Elayne's website, www.elayneclift.com, will reveal all her published works as well as her monthly blog and a sample of the workshops she leads.

Living Lessons is available at www.whisperingangelbooks.com. Amazon.com and BN.com.

Tina Traster – Burb Appeal: The Collection

Whispering Angel Books — Thu, 07 Oct 2010 16:02:00 GMT

Living Lessons Contributor Tina Traster has published a humor collection of essays based on her eponymous New York Post column.

Is it me or is the word suburbia loaded?

Like 'stay-at-home mom' or 'Britney Spears', suburbia has its fans, satirists, detractors. Until 2005, I was smugly ensconced in the third category, a self-styled city slicker who wore black garb, told cabbies the best route to get across town, exchanged intimacies with people riding elevators. Typical New Yorker. Suburbia to me -- a psychologically-scarred Brooklyn-born kid whose family never 'made it' to Long Island -- was an aseptic construct where women over 40 lost their edge and their calf muscles because they spent their days driving to the strip mall and schlepping kids to soccer practice.

"That will never be me," I'd swear to my husband driving over the George Washington Bridge after visiting friends who lived in cavernous colonials with marbled foyers and Labrador retrievers. “Never!”

My lifelong scorn for suburbia enabled me to put up with every city-related inconvenience or absurdity. Circling like a hungry buzzard for a parking spot or keeping windows shut on hot summer nights to drown out whining sirens or the occasional gunshot. Even when I was tripping over my toddler's loot, I believed IKEA was the solution to our ever-shrinking 700-square-foot apartment.

We could not afford a bigger apartment in a steroidal real estate market but I would not contemplate suburbia.

I was mentally and physically asphyxiated by my long-held beliefs that the sticks were filled with people who stopped going to independent films and who ate dinner before 7. Sure I was yearning for room and trees and a driveway but my childhood demons were ninjas. It all started the day my family piled into the yellow Cadillac to see the white house for sale in Long Island. At ten, this was the most glamorous house I'd ever stepped inside of - it was nothing like the cramped ones in Brooklyn. My mother wanted this house and this life more than anything in the world. My father didn't. He thought a Cadillac in his driveway and a detached house in Canarsie was good enough. My mother's brooding and envy for greener pastures turned into scorn for all-things-suburban. An emotionally resourceful woman, she came up with plan B: raise her daughters to worship Manhattan.

To learn more about her book, read reviews and order, please go to: http://www.amazon.com/Burb-Appeal-Collection-Humorous-ebook/dp/B0042G0SZA

To learn more about Living Lessons, please go to: www.whisperingangelbooks.com.