So, I decided to publish Montgomery Lake High #1: The Right Person on Amazon Kindle. For any author, I’d say it’s the way to go! The customer gets a discount, the author gets better royalties, you still own the rights to your book, and it’s available immediately to the reader! To download The Right Person on Kindle for $7.99 click here.

If you love historical fiction, you should check out April W Gardner’s, recently released Wounded Spirits. Today marks the novel’s Amazon Book Launch.

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“In Wounded Spirits, April Gardner has skillfully blended research with fiction to create a story that entertains and educates. Wounded Spirits has something for everyone: forbidden love and romance, brutal war scenes, sacrificial love, history of the 19th century, and a faith that triumphs over adversity. This is a debut novel to remember.”

Suzanne Woods Fisher

Bestselling Author of The Choice

ABOUT THE BOOK:

On the frontier, Adela McGirth’s life is simple, rugged, and exactly to her liking. Her greatest concern is whether to marry the settlement’s most eligible young officer. When a distant war among the Natives spills over into a nearby skirmish, life takes a perilous turn. Deep in enemy territory Adela must choose between the man she loves and a baby that has yet to be born; will she be strong enough to wait on God’s provision?

A peace-loving yet loyal Creek warrior, Totka is forced to align with the extremist Red Stick faction whose purpose is to eradicate the Whites from Creek soil. In the midst of battle, Totka is assigned to protect those he is expected to hate–and kill. Life was simpler before his enemy became a beautiful face with a quiet strength and dignity he cannot resist.

Having lived a life plagued with death and loss, Zachariah McGirth is a man on a mission – he’ll have his revenge or die trying. Blinded by grief, he can’t see his way clear of yet another tragedy. Why has God taken everything from him…or has He?

Their lives molded by the course of history, can these Wounded Spirits learn to rely on God’s grace during one of the bloodiest conflicts in the South?

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“This is a solid debut from Ms. Gardner, one that demonstrates not only her skill with words, but her insight into the human condition. The characters will grip your heart, the story will seize your mind, and the hope at the end will leave you with the surety that your God is bigger than any human troubles.”

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Christian Review of Books

 

“Wounded Spirits is a powerful story of love, loyalty, the effects of war, and faith in God. The writing is vivid and compelling. The characters were so real I felt I knew them, and I was caught up in their lives and compelled to read on. The ending was sweet yet realistic. The story and its characters will stay with me for a long time. I look forward to reading future books by this talented author.”

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Chris Dunkin – Freshman
Activities: MLH football
Best Friends: Jason Davids, Jon Anderson, & Bryan Sartelli
Interests: football, baseball, Boston sports, anything social
Descriptive phrase: “the life of the party”

Courtney Angeletti – Freshman
Activities: School Council, Ski Club, Yearbook
Best Friends: Marielle Kayne & Julianna Camen
Interests: shopping, politics, Christianity, anything girlie
Descriptive phrase: “the mayor’s daughter”

Jason Davids – Freshman
Activities: MLH baseball, Ski Club, Engineering Club
Best Friends: Chris Dunkin, Bryan Sartelli, & Jon Anderson
Interests: making people laugh, socializing, architecture, sports, academics, girls, anything adventurous
Descriptive phrase: “the one that’s up to no good”

Bryan Sartelli – Freshman
Activities: MLH basketball, MLH baseball
Best Friends: Chris Dunkin, Jon Anderson, & Jason Davids
Interests: Boston sports, Courtney, friends, socializing, going with the flow
Descriptive phrase: “the nice guy”

Jon Anderson – Freshman
Activities: MLH baseball, MLH cross-country
Best Friends: Chris Dunkin, Bryan Sartelli, & Jason Davids
Interests: girls, meeting new people, sports, running
Descriptive phrase: “the ladies man”

Marielle Kayne – Freshman
Activities: Drama Club, Yearbook
Best Friends: Courtney Angeletti, Julianna Camen, & Chantal Kagelli
Interests: going with the flow, scrap-booking, Boston sports, shopping, anything her friends are up for
Descriptive phrase: “the good friend”

Julianna Camen – Freshman
Activities: Peer tutoring
Best Friends: Courtney Angeletti & Marielle Kayne
Interests: academics, nature, animals, traveling
Descriptive phrase: “miss goodie-two-shoes”

Chantal Kagelli – Freshman
Activities: MLH JV football & hockey cheerleading
Best Friends: Marielle Kayne, but also long history with Alyssa Kelly
Interests: family, friends, church, volunteering, photography, sports, Andy, socializing, creative writing
Descriptive phrase: “the good little church girl”

Cathy Kagelli – Freshman
Activities: MLH soccer, MLH basketball, Ski Club
Best Friends: Alyssa Kelly & Lisa Ankerman
Interests: being a social butterfly, running the show, laughing, sports, Jason, socializing, stirring up trouble
Descriptive phrase: “the one with all the gossip”

Alyssa Kelly – Freshman
Activities: MLH Social Planning Committee, Ski Club
Best Friends: Cathy Kagelli, but also long history with Chantal Kagelli
Interests: the latest gossip, anything girlie, fashion, working out, friends, socializing, hosting events, planning parties
Descriptive phrase: “the princess”

Andy Rosetti – Freshman
Activities: Student Council Class President, MLH hockey, Montgomery Community Service Association, Yearbook, Peer tutoring, Guidance Aide, Student Government, Ski Club
Best Friends: Bobby Ryan & Lisa Ankerman
Interests: pleasing people, volunteering, inspiring others, sports, friends, family, church, Chantal, school, socializing, just about everything
Descriptive phrase: “Mr. Perfect”

Lisa Ankerman – Freshman
Activities: MLH JV football cheerleading, Student Council Class Representative
Best Friends: Leslie Lucus, Andy Rosetti, Katherine Rossi, & Cathy Kagelli
Interests: her boyfriend Jeff, friends, socializing, Boston sports, planning & plotting, fashion, working out
Descriptive phrase: “the pretty one”

Katherine Rossi – Freshman
Activities: MLH Varsity football & hockey cheerleading, Student Council Class Secretary
Best Friends: Lisa Ankerman & Leslie Lucus
Interests: her boyfriend Bobby, cheerleading, friends, academics, decorating, fashion, writing
Descriptive phrase: “the quiet one”

Leslie Lucus – Freshman
Activities: MLH JV football & basketball cheerleading, Student Council Class Representative
Best Friends: Katherine Rossi & Lisa Ankerman
Interests: meeting new people, socializing, laughing, being silly, talking, cheerleading, dance, singing, volunteering
Descriptive phrase: “the social butterfly”

Marc Dunkin – Senior
Activities: Co-Captain of MLH Varsity football, Student Council Class Representative
Best Friends: Luke Davids & Matt Davids
Interests: football, friends, family, academics, working out, Boston sports, girls, Boston College, meeting new people
Descriptive phrase: “the jock”

Matt Davids – Senior
Activities: Captain of MLH Varsity Football, Captain MLH Varsity Wrestling, Student Council Class Treasurer
Best Friends: Ricky Samson & Marc Dunkin
Interests: every sport, friends, family, Allison, working out, UNH
Descriptive phrase: “the big man on campus”

Luke Davids – Junior
Activities: MLH Varsity basketball, Ski Club
Best Friends: Marc Dunkin & Pat Ryan
Interests: making people laugh, socializing, Boston sports, pulling pranks, hanging out with the senior class, music, working out
Descriptive phrase: “the flirt”

Allison Jordan – Senior
Activities: Captain of MLH Varsity football & basketball cheerleading, Dance Club, Yearbook
Best Friends: Michelle Taylor, Day Angeletti, & Katie McKnight
Interests: Matt, socializing, her best friends, cheerleading, working out, dancing, laughing, being silly, UMASS Amherst
Descriptive phrase: “the friendly one”

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BOOK LAUNCH

Rockland resident publishes her first book

By Ashlee Fairey
The Patriot Ledger
Posted Nov 02, 2010 @ 12:38 PM
Last update Nov 02, 2010 @ 04:52 PM

Rockland resident Stacy Padula’s first book, “Montgomery Lake High #1: The Right Person,” was published in August by Strategic Publishing Group.

It is the first of five novels in the Montgomery Lake High series, which follows a group of high school friends and their struggles with substance abuse and finding faith.

“I wanted to write a realistic series to represent what really happens in high school,” the 27-year-old author said.

She began writing the first book when she was a high school student and resumed writing in 2006.

The second book of the series, “Montgomery Lake High #2: When Darkness Tries to Hide,” is expected to come out in the spring.

Reach Ashlee Fairey at afairey@ledger.com.

Copyright 2010 The Patriot Ledger. Some rights reserved
http://www.patriotledger.com/entertainment/x294036521/Rockland-resident-publishes-her-first-book

A sneak peak inside Montgomery Lake High #1: The Right Person:

The Right Person: Prologue & Chapter 1

Please follow the link below:

http://astore.amazon.com/montlakehigh-20

Pembroke writer launches series

Written by Becca Manning

Thursday, 19 August 2010 10:04

It’s been nine years since she graduated from high school, but Pembroke native Stacy Padula remembers clearly what it felt like to be a teenager.“It was such a war zone,” she said of high school. “You’d have somebody say something about you and you’d be like, ‘I don’t even know where they got that.’ […] Between the rumors, the gossip, the fake friendships and the drugs … it was definitely a war zone.” A 2001 graduate of Silver Lake Regional High School, Padula has good memories, too, and is still best friends with people she went to school with. But she also believes kids may not get an honest picture of what high school is like before they get there. “I grew up reading a lot of books and it kind of painted a picture in my mind of what high school was going to be like, and then I stepped into it and it wasn’t anything like that,” Padula said. “It’s not Baby-Sitters Club; it’s not Sweet Valley High. I just felt like kids really needed books that were realistic to kind of prepare them.” Padula hopes to help fill that gap with a series of novels called “Montgomery Lake High.” The first in the series, “The Right Person,” was released this month, published by Connecticut-based Eloquent Books, part of Strategic Publishing Group. Padula started writing the series when she was in high school and rediscovered the books after college. “I read through them and I was shocked that at such a young age I knew what half the stuff I wrote about was,” she said. “I decided to edit them and write additional books to kind of connect them, to explain how one got to the other, and added in bits of wisdom I picked up along the way.” She sent out query letters to about 70 literary agencies, found one interested in representing her and then shopped the book around to publishers. “I started sending out the letters in January 2009 and got an offer by October 2009 from a publisher. I felt like it was forever, but evidently it can take a lot longer than that. I ended up signing with them in November,” Padula said. She is currently working on the second book in the series and said in total she has written five — though she doesn’t have plans to stop anytime soon. “I just want to keep writing. I want to know what happens next, because I don’t know when I sit down what I’m going to write but I know my characters,” she said. “It’s like watching a movie. You can’t wait for the end.” The first book tells the story of characters Chris Dunkin and Courtney Angeletti (later books center around other characters at the fictional school). “Chris is realizing he’s kind of gotten in over his head with partying at a young age and it’s really affecting his life. One day, he meets this girl and he’s just drawn to her, he just sees a light about her. Something’s different and he just wants to know what it is,” Padula said. “Courtney, the girl, had been raised as a Christian and she’s very strong in her faith and was able to not get pulled into what Chris and his friends are into. […] She’s dealing with getting pulled into high school and getting to know Chris’ friends and how all of a sudden she’s feeling like she doesn’t fit in and wanting to get accepted.” Padula said the books do follow a spiritual theme — the author grew up attending St. Thecla Church in Pembroke and now attends New Hope Church in Norwell — but that it isn’t overwhelming. “There’s a Christian message to it, but not like a rigid, follow-the-law message — more like the law of liberty and love and pursuing a relationship with Christ as opposed to following all these rules thinking that’s going to set you free,” she said. Padula grew up in Pembroke, moving to Kingston her sophomore year of high school. After graduating from Silver Lake, she attended Wentworth Institute of Technology in Boston where she studied architecture and interior design, temporarily putting her writing on hold. After college, Padula worked at an architecture firm for several years but felt something was missing. “I wanted to be doing something that helped. I wanted to be more involved with people and doing something I felt was useful and utilizing more of my talents and gifts,” she said. Padula got connected with JBG Tutors, a company that helps kids work on certain subjects and study for tests like the SAT and ACT. She recently was promoted to program director when the company expanded to JBG Educational Group, now doing career counseling and consulting as well as tutoring. She lives in Rockland and works mainly in the Metro West area of Boston, though the business is starting to expand. “I love my job. I literally wake up every day and I can’t believe I get paid to do this,” Padula said. “It also leaves me time to write.” Padula’s first book, “Montgomery Lake High #1: The Right Person,” is available now on amazon.com and barnesandnoble.com. Eventually, it will be available in whatever bookstores decide to order it through the distributor, Padula said. She said she is open to the idea of doing book signings or speaking to kids at school about her books. “I believe in the message behind the books, so anything that’s going to reach out and help kids find out about it, I’m open to,” she said. “[…] I figure the books will get in the hands of whoever is meant to read them. My hope is that they meet them wherever they’re at, and that it can prepare younger kids for high school or encourage kids who are in high school to kind of rise above it and to hold their ground, not buckle under the pressure.”

Please read article here:

http://www.wickedlocal.com/pembroke/features/x2092791813/Pembroke-author-pens-high-school-stories-offering-real-life-lessons

Well, news certainly travels fast! Today the Pembroke Mariner called me, requesting an interview about “The Right Person”.  I was excited for the opportunity! The article is going to be printed in Friday’s paper. I am very interested to see what it will say! It’s a strange feeling, to know someone is writing about you and the book that you wrote. Signing off now… Book #5 needs some editing!