Mayhaven Publishing, Inc.

Quality Publishing Since 1990

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Congratulations to the Pixar Animation Studios' Academy Award nomination for the hit animated film, UP. We are pleased that actor Ed Asner, "Carl," in UP, is also among Mayhaven's outstanding authors. And for those of you who would like to see Asner perform on stage, he is appearing as FDR (Franklin Delano Roosevelt) in PA and VA in March and April.

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Congratulations!

Congratulations to the Glen Carbon Public Library, Glen Carbon, Illinois, selected as the Best Small Library in America and we are proud of the entire staff, which includes Michelle Petersen, daughter of Mayhaven's publisher. The cover of the Library Journal is below, and the article is listed on line.

Staff: Anne Hughes - Director

Janet McAllister - Assistant Director

Michelle Petersen - Head of Circulation/Homebound Coordinator

Magi Henderson - Youth Services Director

Christina Walker - Youth Services Assistant

Susan Kesler - Head Cataloger

Best Small Library in America 2010 awarded by Library Journal and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

The following Mayhaven authors have been a part of the Glen Carbon library's lively literary programs: Cullen Porter, Dan Guillory, Donna Bennett, Donna Rhodes Collins, Doris R. Wenzel, Neva Swartz, The Ten Sisters, Valerie Osborn, Vinita Lawler, and Wayne C. Temple.

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Introducing!

—For Younger Children—

Heidi McIntyre's Jack's Snack Attack

There are lots of lovely plump children in this electronic world, and resisting the yummies isn't always easy. The author wrote this to encourage children to eat well and stay healthy, through lots of laughs and adventure.

Illustrations by Doris Replogle Wenzel

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—Older Children and Young Adults—

Yoli's Cruisin' Sarah, winner of Mayhaven's Award for Children's Fiction A mystery for older children and young adults. Yoli is a prolific writer and has been commissioned to write a children's play for Point Park Playhouse in Pittsburgh, PA. She will also direct the play in the spring of 2010. Artist Douglas Dean created the cover art. Yoli is also teaching a class for kids called Acting Out Art at the Carnegie Museum of Art.

Yoli, author of our newest young adult book, Cruisin' Sarah, visited Mayhaven Publishing with her husband Earl. We had lunch at the Hen House and talked and talked. Yoli directs and writes children's plays in Pittsburgh and husband Earl is a producer of plays in Pittsburgh. What a treat. And the best review of Cruisin' Sarah? My grand-daughters, a very tough audience.

Author Yoli and publisher Doris Wenzel at Mayhaven's warehouse in Mahomet, IL.

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Terri A. DeMitchell's Jigsaw is the second of DeMitchell's "Olde Locke Beach Mysteries" for older children and young adults. The first, You Will Come Back, won Mayhaven's Award for Children's Fiction. The covers for Jigsaw and You Will Come Back were created by Aaron Porter.

"Good thieves are hard to fine, much to the dismay of Rachel and Will. Jigsaw tells the tale of Rachel and Will as they face a band of thieves that are terrorizing their small coastal town. With the only clues being puzzle pieces left behind, Rachel and Will soon find that greed may not be this band of thieves only motivators. Jigsaw is a fine pick for young readers who are embracing novels for the first time." -Midwest Book Review, The Fiction Shelf

—Adult Readers—

Kirk Combe's, 2084 - A sci-fi novel that explores the limits of a world of extremes. Cover art by Clayton Combe.

2084 is a world run and employed by a single mega corporation, whose reach extends into the very brains of the population, tapping into their fantasies and their base drives at the expense of everyone and everything around them. This technically controlled society is opposed only by the shrinking members of a free-thinking humanity.

Author Kirk Combe believes fiction should not be a pleasant escape from social reality, but an intensive and imaginative exploration of it. 2084 is his first science-fiction novel.

A Professor of English at Denison University (Ohio), Combe has authored several books and articles, including A Martyr for Sin: Rochester's Critique of Polity, Sexuality, and Society (University of Delaware Press), Theorizing Satire: Essays in Literary Criticism (St. Martins Press). He has also published works of fiction and poetry in literary journals.

Combe has a B.A. from Davidson College (North Carolina) and an M.A. in English, Middlebury College (Vermont). He completed his doctorate and received his D.Phil. in English Literature from Oxford University (England). The author is originally from Idaho, and he has taught at universities in both Europe and the United States.

Kirk Combe and wife Brenda Boyle celebrate their marriage and their new books. View the contents on www.NewarkAdvocate.com

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Harry Haines' TEXAS PANIC! Harry Haines has set this newest novel of suspense, Texas Panic!, in the Beef Industry. Orphan, winner of Mayhaven's Award for Fiction, is set in the world of Horseracing—both industries thrive in the author's home state of Texas. Designer Steve Mayes created the jackets for both books.

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JUST IN: Collage: Poems and Essays, by Helen Stewart Rademacher, ushers in spring. Her wry wit and insightful musings bring many subjects into perspective. A surprise in every line.

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