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Each of us dreams of escaping the rhythms of our daily routines to experience bold new horizons and interesting people. Beth Jacobsen had the same wanderlust spirit, and she followed her dream by becoming a travel writer. People, Places & Peabod is a delightful romp across the continent of Europe as we explore the sights and meet an eclectic group of individuals who became an integral part of her life amid the backdrop of some of the world-s most popular travel destinations. We tour the locales and discover the personalities that influenced a naïve writer and transformed her into a veteran travel journalist. We view the world through the eyes of a travel professional as she grows from wide-eyed innocence to poised sophistication. It-s a lighthearted, philosophical journey through the joys, and sometimes the sorrows, of the glamorous world of travel. People, Places & Peabod is a delicious potpourri of fascinating characters and exciting destinations. It-s a collection of memories.

After four years as a professional baseball player, and fourteen more as a television sportscaster/producer, R.P. Taylor has journeyed throughout the world producing travel videos. When he is not producing videos, Taylor teaches World Destinations at a community college, and occasionally writes radio travel commentaries the local NPR affiliate.

It’s a land of bitter cold and blowing snow, of blazing sunshine and warm, gentle breezes. It’s a land of mountains and lakes, of cities and wildlife. it’s a land of rich history, yet full of unknowns. The Keweenaw is a part of the United States that rests farther north than 90% of the population of Canada. It sits in the Eastern Time Zone, but is farther west than Chicago. Over 600 feet above sea level, it still boasts the deepest of the Great Lakes.

Set in small towns, big cities, even at the North Pole, these stories deal with ordinary situations in unexpected ways. Elves revolt, a women finds her true calling in an unusual way, a fortune teller makes an ominous prediction, a priest prepares to retire, a new trend develops, a man and wife struggle with the death of a son. With humor and wisdom, both authors reveal themselves to have deep understanding of the human condition. Whether you skip around or read the stories in order, be sure to take time to savor the twenty-four tales in this collection.

Fiction. "John Woods' THE COMPLETE COLLECTION brings the small-town America of Sherwood Anderson's Winesburg, Ohio into conversation with Italo Calvino's fake travelogue, Invisible Cities, and that book's dreamish vision of Imperial China. Like Calvino's novel, the book evokes a kind of nearly Renaissance-like iconographic worldview of Memory and the Imagination, but one c...more Fiction. "John Woods' THE COMPLETE COLLECTION brings the small-town America of Sherwood Anderson's Winesburg, Ohio into conversation with Italo Calvino's fake travelogue, Invisible Cities, and that book's dreamish vision of Imperial China. Like Calvino's novel, the book evokes a kind of nearly Renaissance-like iconographic worldview of Memory and the Imagination, but one channeled through the disposable world of American children's toys and comic books. The flat voice is disconcertingly balanced between farce, comedy and deadly seriousness"--Johannes Goransson. "An accomplished artist and writer, in addition to being an entertaining and often an electrifying one. John Woods does something very original in his combining of the arts in this collection, and my hat's off to him in his two-hat achievement"--Stephen Dixon.(less)

Reading JDW's intricate little collection of stories about a small town and the covey of strange characters that haunt it, I was initially at a loss in trying to describe it. Here is this sleepy village, populated by tendancies and residents and laws worthy of a strange, pleasant dream. The inanimate shake with life. The episodes are farcical, but at the edge of every joke or wordplay is a hint of seriousness. Or perhaps it's the reverse. Punctuating each story is Wood's artwork, introducing cha...more Reading JDW's intricate little collection of stories about a small town and the covey of strange characters that haunt it, I was initially at a loss in trying to describe it. Here is this sleepy village, populated by tendancies and residents and laws worthy of a strange, pleasant dream. The inanimate shake with life. The episodes are farcical, but at the edge of every joke or wordplay is a hint of seriousness. Or perhaps it's the reverse. Punctuating each story is Wood's artwork, introducing characters and places with drawings that sometimes simplify, and sometimes complicate his subjects.

Be prepared to relax your sense of reality for Woods. One of the earliest tales relates the story of chopsticks, which are the required eating utensils of the town. Local chopstick shopowner Mr. Greenjeans has an enviable collection, topped by the most beautiful set, displayed in his store window, and ogled by the townspeople. One night he leaves the store unlocked and watches from a hidden locale to see what the people will do. Only one checks the door, Belle, the woman he wishes for unrequitedly. She takes the chopsticks, and Mr. G turns her in, with a quiet twist to his heart. Strange and poignant. Perhaps as if Garrison Keillor recalled something of Murakami's dreams.

I did like how the story seemed to be running on several different levels. It seemed like the things that were actually written were not what was really meant. For example, I kept wondering if the kiosks actually shanty town cardboard boxes and the “Hall― a dive bar. The enhabitance of the town seemed like people from a Bukowski novel, or f...more I liked it though I did not love it. Perhaps I just like a more streamlined narrative. The book was rich on character and unique descriptions but lacked plot.

A cycle of stories full of a whimsical inventiveness not unlike the French writer Eric Chevillard. Apparently Woods was mentored by Stephen Dixon whose blurb appears on the back cover though his writing style is very different. Hopefully there's a long and productive literary career ahead for this very talented new (to me at least) voice.

The Complete Collection... reads like a fairytale with a cast from the 1980s. For example, pop culture references abound, serving primarily as character names—Optimus Prime, Alf, Hacksaw Jim, Stormshadow, Punky Brewster, etc. The novel’s divided into sections, and each section utilizes an adept, black and white sketch as its preface. Fittingly, every section could stand alone, but, when combined, they do indeed form a coherent narrative....

What's really fun about this book is how it works as a collection of, well, people places, and things, in this little village. You move from character to character (many of them recurring), to particular events/settings (i.e., The Canals), and as you keep reading you get the sense that you're the collector, and you keep building a little world as each new person, place, and things winds its way into your possession. A fun fun read.

John Dermot Woods writes stories and draws comics in Brooklyn, NY. His first collection of comics, Activities, is now available from Publishing Genius Press. He is the author of the image-text novels The Complete Collection of People, Places, and Things, and, in collaboration with J. A. Tyler, No One Told Me I Was Going To Disappear. He and Lincoln Michel published their funny comic strip, Animals...more John Dermot Woods writes stories and draws comics in Brooklyn, NY. His first collection of comics, Activities, is now available from Publishing Genius Press. He is the author of the image-text novels The Complete Collection of People, Places, and Things, and, in collaboration with J. A. Tyler, No One Told Me I Was Going To Disappear. He and Lincoln Michel published their funny comic strip, Animals in Midlife Crises at The Rumpus. (Now they are hard at work on very long story featuring Werner Herzog as a park ranger.) He is a founder of the online arts journal Action, Yes and a professor of English and Creative Writing at SUNY Nassau Community College.(less)

According to books by Tyson Blue (The Unseen King), Stephen J. Spignesi (The Lost Work of ), and Rocky Wood et al. (Stephen King: Uncollected, Unpublished), there are numerous unpublished works by Stephen King that have come to light throughout King's career, including novels and short stories, most of which remain unfinished. Most are stored among Stephen King's papers in the special collections of the Raymond H. Fogler Library at the , some of which are freely accessible to the library's visitors, while others require permission from King to read. Additionally, there are a number of uncollected short stories published throughout King's long career in various anthologies and periodicals that have never been published in a King collection.

People, Places and Things is a self-published magazine sized collection of short stories written in 1960 together with his friend Chris Chesley and published using their own press. It comprises a mere 18 stapled together pages. Copies were sold to school friends for about $0.10 to $0.25 each. The original collection consists of 8 short stories by Stephen King, nine by Chris Chesley, and one co-production; according to King only one copy of about ten is left – he owns it himself. The Stories:

I've got to get away - It's like waking up, but the dreamer remembers nothing, not even his name. Shocked, he realizes that he's working at a conveyor belt and knows only one thing: He's got to get away. But he is immediately arrested by guards who reprogram him – for the dreamer is nothing but a faulty robot who seems to lapse into humanhood from time to time.

The Thing at the Bottom of the Well - A small boy enjoys torturing animals: He tears out the wings of flies, kills worms or mistreats a dog with needles. One day, he is lured to a well by a strange voice and climbs down mesmerized. When his body is found, his arms are severed from the body and there are needles in his eyes.

The Cursed Expedition - Two astronauts land on Venus, finding an Earth-like atmosphere and believing to have found Eden. There is delicious fruit, the temperature is perfect. But when one of the crew is found dead, the survivor is too late in realizing that the planet itself – or at least its surface – is alive, finally swallowing him and his rocket.

The Aftermath is an unpublished novella. The 76 page (200 pages by today's standards), 50,000 word manuscript describes life after a nuclear war suggesting the Armageddon was August 14, 1967; it was written at the time of the Cuban Missile Crisis, and at the same time he was beginning Getting It On (later to become Rage). It is currently stored among Stephen King's papers in the special collections of the Raymond H. Fogler Library at the University of Maine.[1]

Sword in the Darkness is the title of an unpublished novel. It is the longest of King's unpublished works, at approximately 485 pages (150,000 words) in length. Upon its completion in April 1970, it was rejected by twelve publishers. King has said that he now considers it unpublishable and intends for it never to be released to the public. The book's plot includes a character dealing with the suicide of his pregnant sister and the death of his mother from a brain tumor, and another character, a black activist lawyer, who incites a riot after speaking at a local high school. In 2006, a lengthy excerpt from the book was published in Stephen King: Uncollected, Unpublished, by Rocky Wood et al. (Cemetery Dance Publications, March 2006). The excerpt related the back-story of one character, a teacher named Edie Rowsmith. It is effectively a stand-alone horror-story in the style of the early Stephen King. The House on Value Street is the title of an unpublished novel. In his 1981 treatise on the horror genre, Danse Macabre, King describes his attempts to write a fictionalized novel about the kidnapping of Patty Hearst by the Symbionese Liberation Army. King talks about attempting multiple drafts from various angles, before deciding he could not finish the novel to his satisfaction. King does not describe the plot in any detail, except that the fictionalized SLA's headquarters would be in the eponymous house on Value Street.

In Danse Macabre, while examining how the seeds of effective may be found in the cultural climate and political current events, King credits his failure to complete House on Value Street as the genesis of his apocalyptic best-seller The Stand. As King tells it, he began free-associating on his SLA research, and typed the sentence "Donald DeFreeze is a dark man." This first evocation of his recurring villain Randall Flagg, and the societal malaise at the center of Value Street gave King his core ideas to begin The Stand.

THREE GUYS ONE BOOK originated as a way for three friends in the book business - Jason Chambers, Jason Rice and Dennis Haritou — to talk about books together. Featuring short reviews of stories and novels, publishing news, photography, and the popular 3G1B group discussion, the site launched in early 2008 with a conversation about Mark Sarvas’ Harry, Revised. In early 2009, Jonathan Evison, whose debut novel All About Lulu was another of the 3G1B early group efforts, accepted an invitation to become the mysterious “fourth guy.― Today, 3G1B has developed to include guest posts from writers and publishing personalities, extensive interviews, even more reviews, and most popularly, “conversations― in which the four guys opine on subjects such as ebooks, writing techniques, bookselling, p.r., and the future of publishing.

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