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Mayhaven Publishing, Inc.

PO Box 557 - Mahomet, Illinois 61853

Publisher Doris Replogle Wenzel

by Dee Siegmund

In response to those who have asked about this portrait. Dee Siegmund painted this spontaneious oil painting as I worked in her studio in Mahomet, IL

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Calendar of Events - 2010

January—The State of Maine Museum, Augusta, Maine, featured Nancy Orr Johnson Jensen's book and audio book: Helen, Ethel & The Crazy Quilt—Based on the 1890 Letters Between Helen Keller and Ethel Orr. The actual quilt and the letters from Helen Keller to Ethel Orr are on display and the author will be available for interviews and signings. Author Judith Joy (A Doorway Through Space) recently visited the museum and was impressed with the quilt, the letters and presentation of the book and audio book.

January 10—Doris Replogle Wenzel (publisher and editor) was Alex Ruggieri's guest on WCIA TV's One on One—right after Face the Nation and just before the game! Those who missed can Google One on One with Alex Ruggieri can Google it.

February—The Children's Writer newsletter includes quotes from Doris Replogle Wenzel in an article on Science Fiction for Children and Young Adults.

February 17—Harry Haines, (Orphan, and Texas Panic!) will be a guest speaker at the Southwest Writers Event in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

February 25, 4:30—6:30 PM Dan Guillory will read from his highly acclaimed book and audio book (The Lincoln Poems) at Barnes & Noble in Champaign, IL.

March 4—Heidi McIntyre (Jack's Snack Attack) will be featured at the Family Literacy Night at the "A" rated PS 154, 6-8 PM, 333 East 135th St, Bronx, NY.

March 14—Doris Wenzel will speak at the University of Arizona, Tuscon's Festival of Books from 11:30 to 12:30. A book signing will follow.

April 11-14—Ed Asner, actor (UP, and co-author with Burt Hall of Misuse of Power), will portray FDR in Covington, VA.

April, 16-17—Meet Mayhaven's Illinois Authors, Rantoul, IL Library Festival.

April 18—Mayhaven authors will be featured at the Early American Museum and the Mahomet Library in Mahomet, IL. Watch for details.

April 19—Doris Replogle Wenzel will be a guest at The Reading Circle in Champaign, IL

May 22—Heidi McIntrye will have a signing at Barnes & Noble.

May 7-23, Yoli (Cruisin' Sarah) willl direct The Dark Side of Zylo’s Moon, a science fiction play for the Pittsburgh, PA Children's Theater.

June 2010—Doris Wenzel will be speaking to the Frontiers in Writing at Amarillo, TX.

September —Doris Replogle Wenzel will be a judge for the First Annual Independent Writer's Conference in Studio City, CA

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Mayhaven provides a rich assortment of books and audio books for Children, Older Children, and Young Adults. Here are a few for Younger Children:

Cullen Porter's Grandpa Grumpy Pants

Book and Audio Book

Read by the Author

Illustrated by Jean Spencer

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If you like fireflies, you will like Todd Porter's Firefly Fred, and Dana Marquess' Night of the Lighted Freedom

Todd Porter's Firefly Fred

Book and Audio Book

Read by Faye Porter

Illustrated by Brian Pantenaude

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Dana Marquess'
Night of the Lighted Freedom
A Firefly Fantasy

Book and Audio Book

Marquess wrote this book for her brother Russell P. Marquess.

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Dawn Story's
Prisoner of Filmore Street
Winner of Mayhaven's Award for Children's Fiction

When he scraps with his little sister, Timmy gets sent to his room. All about stretching the truth a little!

Illustrated by Jean Spencer

Watch for the Audio Book

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Valerie Huffman Osborn's
A Week of Bunnies
Illustrated by Michael Osborn
Edited by Kimberly Osborn
This is a wonderful way to introduce to a child the great feeling kindness can bring to you. Using loveable little bunnies, the author creates a world of helping.
Available in Book and Audio Book
Audio Book Read by the Author

Music by John Dee and the IQ Illinois Woodwind Quartet

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Nancy Orr Johnson Jensen's
Helen, Ethel & The Crazy Quilt
Based on the Letters 1890 Letters Between Helen Keller and Ethel Orr
Illustrations by artist Dawn Peterson
When author Nancy Jensen first pulled the 100 -year-old quilt, in vivid color, and excellent condition from her mother's trunk, both of us realized a story was also packed in that trunk, waiting to be written. It would still be years before Nancy, a librarian and busy wife and mother would find time to bring it to life.
Available in Book and Audio Book
Audio Book read by the Author
Audio Music performed by the Author
Visit the sites included in this book on Bailey Island, Maine.

—Older Children/Young Adults—

Judith Bourassa Joy's
A Doorway Through Space
Winner of Mayhaven's Award for Children's Fiction

A trip through a black hole finds a brother and sister on another planet.

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PJ Farris' Crossover Dribble
Book and Audio Book
a novel for young adults

Featured in an article in the Illinois Reading Council Journal. Farris was also the Keynote Speaker at 2009 Illinois Reading Council Conference.

See our Catalog for additional books and audio books for children of all ages.

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—Adult Readers—

Romance

Margaret Hay Van Damm's
The River Love
Mature Romance set in the Steamy South
Available in Book and Audio Book

Audio Book Read by the Author

Margaret Hay VanDamm is the daughter of George Hay, founder of Nashville, TN's Grand Ol' Opry.

Mystery and Suspense

L.W. Stevenson's
A Family Possessed

This chilling ghost story has become a favorite with readers and is scheduled for a third printing.

Book and Audio Book
Audio Book Read by Brian H. Porter

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Robert Isham Auler's
Keep and Bear Arms

Terrorists in the Heartland. This courtroom drama draws on Auler's considerable experience as a defense attorney.

A novel of suspense set in Central Illinois

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John Knoerle's
The Violin Player
Winner of Mayhaven's Award for Fiction
A Riveting Novel of Suspense
A Stalker Finds His Prey

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See our Catalog for a listing of all books and audio books

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
Joyce Bringenberg - Cataloger
Joan Schneider - Associate
Amanda Wendel - Associate
Tammy Green - Associate
Michelle Mondloh - Associate
Leigh Gardner - Associate
Christine Gerrish - Associate
Donald Ladd - Page
Laura Kubicek - Page
Jenna Stoeber - Page

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.

"People love their beef and the threat of anything wrong with it could cost billions of dollars. Texas Panic tells the tale of Mad Cow Disease hitting American and how one veterinarian, James Robert Masterson, is faced with the first possible case of Mad Cow Disease in Texas history. Prophetic, entertaining, and intriguing, Texas Panic is a top pick for speculative fiction fans who want to know what could be."

—James A. Cox, Editor-in-Chief, The Fiction Shelf, Midwest Book Review

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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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There may be no better book for these times than Brian H. Porter's Harvey's Life - Now What? Out of work, and running out of hope, Porter has written these short stories: some humorous, some dark, searching for reason in an unreasonable world. Brian Porter first presented samples of his writing as Mayhaven's guest author.

Book and Audio Book Read by the Author.

We are happy to announce that the Illinois Radio for the Visually Impaired broadcast Porter's, Harvey's Life - Now What? (Narrated by Ed Walsh.)

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Marilyn Arnold's Unidentified Lying Objects takes you to the Red Rock area of Utah, where some very strange characters are caught up in a flash flood. A prolific author, Arnold won Mayhaven's Award for Fiction with Minding Mama (now in its second printing).

"....another knock-out story by Marilyn Arnold, the master of humor....The reader might be surprised by the number of 'lying objects,' mortal and otherwise, that turn up in the book's pages....All of these personalities warp and woof smoothly through the narrative in a tapestry of humor, eccentricity, and affection...." -Patricia Russell, Senior Sampler

Arnold's Perfecting Amiable, like Minding Mama and Unidentified Lying Objects, are full of laugh-out-loud humor, and also leave the reader with something to ponder. Cover illustrations were created by Aaron Porter and Doris Wenzel.

—Nonfiction—

Lincoln's Travels on the River Queen During the Last Days of His Life by Wayne C. Temple. Also available in audio book—read by the author.

This is the eighth book written about Lincoln by Temple. This nonfiction work presents Lincoln in a little known setting. Temple has been called the greatest living Lincoln historian, and is a recipient of the Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial edition of the Order of Lincoln, the highest honor that can be awarded by the State of Illinois (2009). You may also see him as a guest historian in Prelude to the Presidency, now playing on PBS stations. Check your local schedule for dates and times.

"Once again, Lincoln scholar extraordinary Wayne Temple has filled a void in the Lincoln literature with an authoritative, exhaustive, and irresistibly lively account of one of the 16th President's favorite perks: his riverboat. Any Lincoln enthusiast lucky enough to pick it up will find it impossible to set aside; impeccably researched, it reads like an adventure story. The River Queen was a witness to history. Fortunately for us, so is Wayne Temple."

— Harold Holzer, co-chairman, U. S. Lincoln Bicentennial Commission

Dr. Temple's book, Abraham Lincoln: From Skeptic to Prophet, has been included in the top 100 books on Lincoln. Mayhaven is pleased to have published ...Skeptic... and four other books by Dr. Wayne C. Temple. (See Catalog)

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The Lincoln Poems, by Dan Guillory

Also Available in Audio Book

Guillory's poems, that have been called both lyrical and audacious, are based on events in Lincoln's life. Guillory, a prolific and insightful writer of both history and poetry.

"....these poems can stand on their own. ....Lincoln's voice here will have its greatest effect when it speaks of the smaller moments of a large and complex life.... Guillory's Lincoln draws simple but illuminating parallels to his and our greater preoccupations. When the lines are distilled with some flavor of a Thoreau or a Dickinson readers may feel most rewarded....
—Margaret Heilbrun, Library Journal, March 1, 2009

"Part history, part mythology, and all word music, "The Lincoln Poems" is Dan Guillory's loving tribute to the nation's first and only poet President. Guillory channels Abraham Lincoln through the ages and into the moment, breathing fire and wit and soul into his marbled memory. The results are audacious and inspired. Read these poems. Read them aloud. Give voice to your own inner Lincoln."

—William Furry Executive Director, Illinois State Historical Society

"....This is a fine book, well crafted, well produced, and complete in itself, but it also has a value to drive one further into investigating this man who, in my travels abroad, I have found is better known than any other American. A final word on the last three poems, "Contents of My Pockets, April 14, 1865"; "Bullet in My Brain, April 15, 1865"; and "Alternate Ending". These are a tour de force. I have never felt Lincoln's death more keenly than in reading this trio, after the cumulative effect of the whole book. They are unforgettable."

—A brief portion of a much longer review on The Lincoln Poems in the Illinois Times by Jacqueline Jackson, books and poetry editor, and professor emerita of English at the University of Illinois at Springfield

Watch for a new book by Guillory, published by Mayhaven Publishing, Inc.

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