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Degotoga is a fantasy novel about Degu, an oversized misfit with borderline selective mutism. He is acutely self-conscious about his alopecia, and suffers from obnoxious, self-absorbed parents and a broken family heritage. Degu had just turned 18 when El-li-si, his Cherokee grandmother, was brought to live with his family due to her increasingly bizarre behaviors. She recently had taken to flopping around on the ground in a ritualistic dance and then urinating on herself. El-li-si hadn't spoken in 13 years when she turned to Degu with an urgent plea that his brother was in trouble. "Degotoga, you got to listen to me good," she said raising her stare and holding motionless. "You got to come with me. Your brother is in trouble and we got to help him. We got to find him afore more bad stuff happens." "El-li-si, what are you talking about? I, I, I don't have a brother. I'm an only child." Degu would soon embark on his first vision quest, entering a parallel world, one in perilous imbalance, to search for his long lost brother, Wohali. Along the way, he will accompany his new friend, Ebony, as she seeks to bring peace to the restless Cherokee souls that died along the infamous Trail of Tears. He will also come face to face with the Raven Mocker, the omnipresent malevolent life force that is seeking to maintain dominion over him. Degotoga takes Young Adult readers through a maze of shifting realities to a poignant and triumphant conclusion.

Alphatorts are first and foremost created to be fun and whimsical. Beyond the whimsy however, alphatorts are designed to facilitate critical thinking in the arena of language, and vocabulary expansion. This is supremely relevant and needed in our age of warp speed communication technology, wherein we take more and more shortcuts (omg; lol) and use monochromatic vocabulary. We are losing the refined art of language within communication. So, what exactly is an alphatort? Well, it is a sentence, or two or three, that uses each letter of the alphabet, in order, with grammatical and contextual coherence. O.k., one can take a little license with the contextual coherence (a little, not excessively so, for this often provides the fun). It forces the writer and reader to work for meaning in an often light and fun way. It becomes enzymatic for the reader in the process of expanding critical language and vocabulary development. The alphatorts within this compilation are for kids of all ages, allowing for a minimal foundation of language construction and vocabulary development likely to be found among most students by the second grade. Alphatorts can be calibrated for other ages as well, and can range from the silly, to the poetic, and the sublime.

Book 2 in The Goodwill Vultures Club: No Time to Play. When Sergeant Geoff Murphy returns home, he is still haunted by the memories of his army tour in Afghanistan. Does the sight of Buzz's pet vulture, Rob, make things worse for him? Come along for this uplifting story of courage and redemption in the face of threat and uncertainty, for both Buzz and his new military vet friend. The Goodwill Vultures Club is the story of Buzz and Rob, who learn that even a bird with special needs is capable of bringing life and happiness to others.