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ROADS TO MEANING AND RESILIENCE WITH CANCER: Forty Stories of Coping, Finding Meaning, and Building Resilience While Living with Incurable Lung Cancer

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About ROADS TO MEANING AND RESILIENCE WITH CANCER: Forty Stories of Coping, Finding Meaning, and Building Resilience While Living with Incurable Lung Cancer:

★ The book tells the stories of 39 patients with ⚠ incurable lung cancer ⚠. It aims to help patients, families, and healthcare providers understand the experience of living with cancer. It also invites reflections on the essential questions of meaning, resilience, and coping with adversity in life. The author is a family doctor, teacher, and researcher who is also a stage IV lung cancer patient himself. He is patient number 40 ★

• Facing one’s mortality, patients with cancer develop an urgency to find meaning in life. They struggle with the illness, its emotional impact, and the consequences of treatments. However, with time, reflection, and support from others, they develop resilience. Cancer patients are not passive. Instead, they choose different strategies to maintain and restore their health. They also leverage a variety of approaches to cope better with their struggle.

The book is for cancer patients who are tarrying at the limits of time. It is also for those who live around patients with cancer: caregivers, families and friends, and health care providers. People who struggle with other illnesses will also find aspects of their story reflected here. Also, the ones who have experienced a crisis of identity will discover elements of their story here as well. By sharing the experiences of the forty authentic individuals, the book opens the space for them to teach others. ​

♥ This book is about the essence of the human experience at its limits. It is for every listener. ♥

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The Verses Versus Empire Collection

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About The Verses Versus Empire Collection:

A Dangerous Prophet for Dangerous Times!

Ever since Cain murdered Abel, the blood of innocents has cried to Heaven for justice, and never more eloquently than this!

“Through three imperial presidencies
The poet cries, voice in the wilderness,
Reed swaying in the wind, a bruisèd reed,
His motion stirred to music,
Daring to see and state the obvious,
Decry hypocrisy, prophetically to see
Not just the future but the now,
The awful now and make some sense of it,
The world a stage on which plays out
Congressional pantomime, a knot
Unable to untie itself. The blood
Of innocents cry out to Heaven where
These incensed lines as incense burn
With hate of Hate and hope of Hope.”

Created over 20 years, this three-volume work of unprecedented literary power overthrows the lies and blasphemies of three imperial presidencies under Bush, Obama, and Trump. Then ushers in a new awakened era with the dawn of Covid, echoing the abolitionist role of plague in the time of Moses.

You will find no resort to outdated ‘left-wing’ or ‘right-wing’ proclamation here, no flag-waving for Democrat or Republican, but a blazing fire of prophetic utterance exposing a litany of hypocrisy and fraud in our corridors of power—whether in Washington, London, Moscow, or Brasilia. Meanwhile, the author cheers on fellow prophets of our age, among them whistleblowers, prisoners of conscience, and investigative journalists.

That he does so not just in prose but poetry, raises this collection to the status of Homerian epic or Dante’s Divine Comedy. “Prose can make its fine arguments to the mind,” he writes in the Introduction, “but the mind is not ready to receive them unless poetry has first lifted the veil and inclined the heart to fall in love with truth.”

His tongue the pen of a gifted writer (Psalm 45:2), LeRoy serves both as prophetic lens on our political theatre and chronicler of key events in world history over two decades: fraudulent elections, unjust court rulings, illegal wars, extrajudicial assassinations, false-flag terrorism, institutional racism, planetary rape.

But LeRoy is not your typical fire-and-brimstone prophet. He also finds ample opportunity for satirical humor, even as he brings each White-House occupant in turn before the throne of God, whether to receive mercy or judgment. And his short stories are a delight.

All this is supported by a wealth of deeply researched historical record, including thoroughly documented footnotes and links to source material, as well as free links to the author’s own narrations.

Progressive forces will find herein a rousing call to courage and clarity at this critical time for planet and peoples. Never was divine fire more poetically expressed!

“A brave new presence in the politics of the globe.”
San Francisco Review of Books

“Abdiel LeRoy’s poetry and prose offer intellectual nourishment for critical thinkers and seekers of truth… I highly recommend this book and its companion editions to anyone who seeks to escape from the ‘Matrix’.”
Annemarie M. Osborne

“So well done. A remarkable command of the language and great sensitivity. And doing all this in an entirely new way, wading into (almost) unexplored literary territory.”
Claude Forthomme

“If you wanted to extend the critical view of American political history into the present beyond Gore Vidal’s ‘Biography of the United States of America,’ these books would be the ticket… A joy to read and an invitation to keep your eyes open as to what is really going on.”
Rogier F. van Vlissingen

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The Road to Delano by John DeSimone

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The Road to Delano by John DeSimone

It’s 1968, and a strike by field workers in the grape fields has ripped an otherwise quiet central California town down the middle. Jack Duncan is a Delano high school senior who is on his way to earning a baseball scholarship, hoping to escape the turmoil infesting his town. His mother has kept from him the real cause of his father’s death, who was a prominent grower. But when an old friend hands Jack evidence indicating his father was murdered, he is compelled to dig deeper. This throws him and his best friend and teammate, Adrian Sanchez, whose father is a striking field worker, into the labor conflict led by Cesar Chavez. Road to Delano is the path Jack and Adrian must take to find their strength, their duty, and their destiny.

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A Marketer’s Diary by Marcus Williams

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A Marketer’s Diary by Marcus Williams

This book is self help book designed to help newer marketing and sales professionals with knowledge learned by the author during his time in the field of marketing.

My book will be on sale as well from March 1st til 5th

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Just My Roommate Crush

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About Just My Roommate Crush:

She was my sister’s best friend, and I’d been in love with her forever, but, aside from one perfect night where we lost our v-card together.. she never saw me like that.

She’s only ever seen me as a shoulder to cry on.

Because of my divorce and a twist of fate, I ended up living with her. Roommates.

The temptation drove me mad.

I had to forget her, but how when she’s the star of every single one of my fantasies.

My friends tried to get me to look for a distraction, but dating just for fun doesn’t work when your entire life is falling apart and the woman you love is the only person who fulfills you.

She broke my heart once, I can’t let it happen again.

What happens when two star-crossed soul-mates make a life’s worth of wrong decisions until they are finally forced to face the truth?

This second chance romance will keep you turning the pages all night long! No cheating or cliffhangers, and of course, a HEA!

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Princess of Independence by Icarus Bobain

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About Featured Book: Princess of Independence by Icarus Bobain

Princess Cristina Trivulzio Belgiojoso is a forgotten figure of the Italian Revolution
Born into a family of nobility, Belgiojoso learned at a young age what
foreigners interested in ruling the Italian States could be like.
She spent the rest of her life dedicated to uniting her home country and ousting those foreigners
who only brought harm and discord to the country.
After a failed marriage to a prince and being banished to live in Paris,
Belgiojoso met many key players in the French Government, helping to further her cause.
Her social circles were ones that everyone desired to be part of.
When Belgiojoso becomes a mother, with no father to help her, she still works toward her goal of a unified country, raising her daughter to understand the importance of her heritage.

Will she have to choose between being a mother or being a patriot?

This Fiction book is available in these Formats: eBook, Print

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Where Flowers Bloom

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About Where Flowers Bloom:

Sometimes the only thing in the way of your happily-ever-after is you.

Romance writer Kendyll has been trying to accomplish the impossible her entire life—a fairytale ending. But that has proven easier in her tales of fiction than in her real life.

Hoping to refresh a relationship grown stale with her long-term fiancé Vance, Kendyll agrees to move to a small town in North Carolina. While house hunting, the unexpected happens. Kendyll walks onto a decaying estate, and it speaks to her, whispering of a past riddled with secrets waiting to be exposed.

A contractor, Wes, is hired to breathe life back into the old mansion and inadvertently brings back Kendyll’s smile. Wes strives to keep his distance, but the pull of attraction toward her is more powerful than his will.

Torn between the haunted past and the complicated present, new love and familiar loyalty, black and white, who will Kendyll ultimately choose to live out her happily-ever-after with?

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William Ottoway’s Utopia by Christopher Griffith

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About William Ottoway’s Utopia by Christopher Griffith:

‘Come, Manou, this is superstitious clap.’ So says William Ottoway to his island’s priest, for the modern world has surely extinguished any notion of the supernatural? But some who have lived before our technological revolution hold grave concerns about this new reality which has all but supplanted the numinous element of human existence. Despite warning from his best friend’s mother against attempting to replicate paradise, William puts faith alone in idealism to create a utopian society in the tropics. All seems well, until his serpent brother appears with temptation…

William Ottoway’s Utopia concerns the dream of a man who seeks to escape stresses of everyday life for promised ease in this world’s tropics; to his dismay, he is unable to flee influence of the one appliance which has arguably shaped all our experience in the last half century, the humble television set! William is a good man, but will he be ravaged and ruined by his brother Tom who brings discord and disharmony to his island paradise?

Rick With A (Bipolar) View details the experience of a young man suffering from bipolar disorder who wants to be a professional DJ. Unsure whether or not the repetitive beats of electronic music and his obsession with trance and techno may be the cause of his illness, he nevertheless accepts offer of a Friday night gig and ‘takes the roof off’ the nightclub, coming down back at home in glow and reflection of his achievement.

If all this sounds too intense then do please head over to Break Out the Bubbly!!, a comic piece set in a supermarket whose Manager is acting in very strange manner indeed. The initial boredom felt by our hero Emily is quickly shattered by Carol’s arrival and subsequent farce as she seems intent on closing the shop during opening hours to conduct inquisitions in the boardroom! The champagne keeps going missing, you see, and she needs to find the culprit. Is he, or she, a little closer to home than everyone thinks?

Fantasy for the next story, Saman’s Revenge, in which our titular hero is seriously miffed with the Earth-goddess Thera; she’s punished him an aeon ago for misdemeanour which he firmly believes really wasn’t his fault at all. Anyway, when you’re immortal and old as the hills themselves it doesn’t bother you too much to wait a few millennia before exacting your revenge on modern day teenagers Jack, Roxie, her boyfriend Mark and his brother Norman. But what is the young people’s relation to Thera, and temple ruins on top of the village hill, Shadyridge?

Which leaves Young Shakespeare, my imaginative retelling of some of Will’s ‘lost years’ when he reached London; after all, who wouldn’t want to fall in love with Anne, listen in awe to Sir Walter Raleigh’s perorations on, well who knows, meet his future friend and rival Christopher ‘Kit’ Marlowe, then cogitate at length upon the Reformation against whose profound change the budding writer begins to conclude he might wish to work?

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Hitting the Road Without a Map by Fred Rutter

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About Hitting the Road Without a Map by Fred Rutter:

A trip with a goal, but virtually no plan. The book is the true story of a road trip from Ohio to Oregon, which served as the catalyst for the author to confront some personal fears, deal with relationships, and become mindful of the freedom of living in the moment. It is also a testament to the joy of living sober. All the participants met in the rooms of alcoholism recovery.

Accepting the task to transport a large RV, which neither partner has driven, from Ohio to Oregon, the two acquaintances literally head west without a map. That miscalculation creates a problem which they realize also opens up possibilities. At its heart, this is a road trip, and the two men face equipment failures, a fire, and road closures as winter rapidly approaches. But they also experience the wonder of the West, and the freedom of an unscripted journey. The book is both travel memoir and a photo-essay of the trip.

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Intoxicated by Jeana E. Mann

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About Featured Book: Intoxicated by Jeana E. Mann

**FREE through 3/07/2021**
Uptight Ally Taylor has a crush on sexy, bad boy bartender Jack Jameson. Their harmless flirtations turn into a dangerous obsession when she gives in to his charms. Jack has secrets–secrets she might not want to accept. When a woman from his past arrives, he’s forced to deal with his demons or lose Ally forever. A friends-to-lovers, second-chances romance with all the feels.

This Romance book is available in these Formats: eBook, Print, Audiobook

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The Rave by J.R. Traas

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About The Rave by J.R. Traas:

“Time, it stretched before her, every second crawling by, lengthening like an uncurling worm. Alina absorbed it all in painful detail: the twinkles of firelight caught in the breastplates and gauntlets of the Chimaera Guard, the panic in Cho’s eyes, the spittle glistening on Mezami’s fangs, every growl and sputter of all their raised voices.”

The Aelfraver Trilogy, set in J.R. Traas’s futuristic fantasy world of El, is a story about teenage rebellion—against the ruling elite and their gods.

GO HOME, ALINA
When Alina K’vich lost her parents, her grandfather Dimas gave her a home and a purpose. At The School, he trained her to become an Aelfraver—a hunter of arcane beasts, demons, and other anti-human entities. For ten years, they built a life together. Then, one night, in the middle of preparing dinner, Dimas vanished.

Now seventeen, and stuck with her grandfather’s debts, Alina resorts to illegal Raves in her rundown hometown. But these small-time contracts simply aren’t enough: The School lies in disrepair, the power’s shut off, and the bills remain insurmountable. In a last-ditch gamble, she signs up for a Rave whose massive reward could rewrite her entire future. However, she’s far from the only Aelfraver to answer the call of such an alluring bounty…

Out of options, Alina sinks the last of her money into a forged Raver’s license and a one-way ticket to New El, the floating Capital. There, an unnamable horror—her target—busies itself slaughtering the nobility in the dead of night, leaving no survivors and no witnesses. Protected only by her wits and spells, Alina must find a way to save New El, her School, and herself.

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Awakening

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About Awakening:

“I suppose in a way I had always felt that the veil of this reality was thinly drawn,
that if I were to only reach out my hand, it would part before me, revealing a
world much more complex than I ever could imagine.”

​Jezebel is a solitary woman with a haunted past. Running a business in a small coastal town, she clings to the predictability of her days, seeking refuge in the silence. When an enigmatic new client comes into her life, she is drawn to him, unaware of the link she holds to his own tangled history.

He offers her a seductive proposal, and she is propelled into an entrancing world of pleasure that shatters her reality, and deeply alters her sense of self.

But underneath all his magnetism and power lies the human complexities of a grieving man running from his shadows. Will August surrender his centuries of pain and allow Jezebel fully into his life? And will Jezebel be able to navigate the landscape of what he has to offer?

Delivering a new meaning to the vampire archetype, Awakening is a multi-layered, sensuous, paranormal love story that reaches through the curtain of time. The intricate ties that connect these two to one another will forever transform the course of their lives, stretch the fabric of their reality, and awaken within them something deeper and more profound.

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Neglected Merge by Eve Koguce

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About Neglected Merge by Eve Koguce:

“Neglected Merge” is an inspirational thought-provoking futuristic romance novel. The story of fated lovers developed against a backdrop of a new post-apocalyptic world painted in bright tones. A fortuitous meeting of Tauria, an independent woman living in one utopian-style world, and Doron from high society of the other world, is destined to be the new beginning for both worlds.

Imagine the world, where everyone feels happy every minute of their lives. Work brings satisfaction, hobbies are encouraged, relationships are supposed to bring out only positive emotions. Does it matter that things that do not fit into the general happy pattern get discarded and disappear? Things like friendship and commitment. Things like true love.

The apocalyptic event that had changed the world forever, had done more than that. There are two worlds now, forced to co-exist side by side. Can they find a way to live together?

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Flight of the Wren

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About Flight of the Wren:

“An impressive and intricate novel that’s rich in character and full of action.” (Kirkus Reviews)

A Booklife Editor’s Pick: “Fox (the Grace Coffin series) enchants with his first Viking Age novel, a sweeping medieval saga that stretches across 11th-century Scandinavia… This exquisitely wrought medieval tale will appeal to fans of both fantasy and historical epics.”

In 1002 AD, a young shaman’s apprentice returns home to find that Norsemen have razed her village. Hilja begins an impossible quest to redeem her tribe and must use all her courage and craft to survive.

From the four corners of Scandinavia, Flight of the Wren weaves history with battles, magic, intrigue and romance, sweeping the reader on a collision course with the end of an age. A broad and lavish saga that spans five novels and thirty years, we follow several threads that weave across the weft of history, filled out by the weave of mystory.

In this first novel of the series, we witness the origins of Olav Haraldsson and the apprenticeship of Canute the Great under Thorkell. We meet the crafty Witch of Vestfold and her children, and watch as she shapes the future with her seidr magic.

Thorkell’s crew fights against vengeful Russians, as he sails to Uppsala to steal magical rune tiles for his wife, and all along, Hilja, our heroine, travels across the breadth of Scandinavia with her companion, ‘The Cursed Boy’ in search of her lost tribe.

A book with a huge heart, epic battles, and young heroes coming of age at the cusp of an era.

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Tough Karma: A Race Against Time

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About Tough Karma: A Race Against Time:

A chilling tale of loss, tragedy, psychic warfare, and eternal love.

Amber Macklin’s world is cruelly shattered when she loses her baby girl three months after her husband’s sudden death. Her cousin, Bryce, comes to her rescue, moving her into his home for fear she will kill herself from the grief. He provides solace and a shoulder to cry on, and he has loved her as more than a cousin for a long time. Amber and Bryce soon discover they are not blood relatives, which opens the door for romance as he pulls her through her darkest hours. When Mike, a college friend of Bryce’s, stops by to visit, Amber senses a deadly secret behind his nice guy persona. She has a frightening dream that Mike is trying to kill her and recurring sleepwalking episodes where she draws detailed pictures of him torturing her. Deeply troubled, Bryce uses his ability to astral travel to investigate Mike and uncover his terrifying past. Mike has had his eye on Amber for some time, and when he learns that Bryce and Amber have become lovers, he is furious. Mike abducts Amber and takes her to his rural Georgia hideaway, and Bryce must rely on his astral abilities to track her down. But will he be too late?

Tough Karma is a stand alone novel. The astral adventures continue in Dark Karma: Sword of Vengeance.

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Last Chance Harbor by Vickie M McKeehan

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Last Chance Harbor by Vickie M McKeehan

Twenty years ago, a pair of lovers disappear into the night to begin a new life. But is that really what happened?

New principal Julianne Dickinson is overseeing the renovation of the brand-new elementary school when an old wooden box surfaces among the rubble. Curiosity as to how it got there leads her to a disturbing theory about the two, young lovers and their vanishing act so many years earlier. When the mystery becomes too much, and she realizes she’s making waves, Julianne looks for help in an unlikely ally.

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The Order

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About The Order:

Land of the free. The shining city on the hill. America is the place anyone, with hard work and dedication, can fulfill their wildest dreams. It is where each and every one of us is in control of our own destiny. But is it really?

Jericho Morgan, an up-and-coming MMA fighter in his twenties, watches helplessly as his mother is shot in the head by an agent of the globe-spanning sinister conglomerate, the Order. This sets the young man on a quest for justice. Teaming up with an aging Scottish wanderer named Marcus Killihan, who has been battling the Order for many years, Jericho works tirelessly to find damning information on the organization. This puts him in the crosshairs of a merciless alien hunter/killer known only as the Assassin. If it takes Jericho more than one lifetime to bring the Order to its knees, then so be it.

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The Last Noah by David Cuff

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About Featured Book: The Last Noah by David Cuff To celebrate the launch of my author website and blog, The Last Noah is on promotion until at least the end of February, at 99¢ for the kindle edition and $9.95 for the paperback. (Similar … [Continue reading]

One Degree by Matthew Alan

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One Degree by Matthew Alan Can one moment change you life forever?Karl Thomas lives a simple, almost idealistic life. Despite that fact, he is determined to complicate it. Even if he doesn't think like the typical nine year old, he encounters … [Continue reading]

Fury of the Scorned

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About Fury of the Scorned: The green-eyed monster rears its head in "Fury of the Scorned." As Sugarfoot and Clarice begin a sweet romance in Jemison Beach, Freddie Dee Varner is having a meltdown in Sipsey. Furious that she’s been dumped, she sets … [Continue reading]

Enchanted Kingdoms

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About Enchanted Kingdoms: Old tales: New twist The stories you loved as a child have been twisted into wildly addictive tales that will bewitch you as an adult: enchanted castles, spellbinding magic, handsome princes, beautiful princesses, and as … [Continue reading]

Batey Ascending

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About Batey Ascending: Inspired by Alita: Battle Angel, Harry Potter's Quidditch game and the Tainos of the Caribbean. Human life has a second chance to live after Earth's destruction. Only a few made it to the spaceship. Nico, a young man with … [Continue reading]

Dark Riches by Kelly Myers

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Dark Riches by Kelly Myers Griffin Lawson was trained to steal, torture and kill… So, when my brother mails me a mysterious map that leads to a long-lost treasure and then disappears, I know this ex-CIA operative is the perfect man to help … [Continue reading]

Featured Author A.C. Ward

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Featured Interview With A.C. Ward Tell us a little about yourself. Where were you raised? Where do you live now? Accountant by day, writer by night. I'm a bit of a Japanophile and addicted to manga and dating sims. I have a dog, cat, gecko, … [Continue reading]

Featured Author Winter Fox

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Featured Interview With Winter Fox Tell us a little about yourself. Where were you raised? Where do you live now? I live in Southwest Harbor, Maine, with my wife, our dog and our cats. I have always worked for myself, starting as a musician, … [Continue reading]