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Lonie McMichael

Lonie McMichael

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Lonie McMichael has wanted to be a writer since age 3.

For many years she practiced her trade as a technical writer in the high tech industry. After going to graduate school, she found her calling in fat studies, exploring the fat individual’s experience. Graduating with a Ph.D. in technical communication and rhetoric, she wrote her dissertation on the medical rhetoric surrounding the “obesity epidemic” and how such rhetoric legitimizes fat prejudice—topics which have become two separate books, Talking Fat and Acceptable Prejudice? (the latter to be published by Pearlsong Press in 2013).

She is currently teaching professional and technical writing at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs and working on her third book about things fat.

The Seekers: The Children of Darkness (Dystopian Sci-Fi - Book 1)

The Seekers: The Children of Darkness (Dystopian Sci-Fi - Book 1)

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<p>New from the author of the multiple award-winning fantasy saga, <em>The Daughter of the Sea and the Sky</em>, winner of the <strong>Pinnacle Book Achievement Award, Fall 2014 - Best Book in the Category of FANTASY</strong>....</p><h1><strong><em>The Children of Darkness</em> by David Litwack</strong></h1><p>Evolved Publishing presents the first book in the new dystopian series <em>The Seekers</em>. [DRM-Free]</p><h2><strong>[Dystopian, Science Fiction, Post-Apocalyptic, Religion]</strong></h2><p><em>“But what are we without dreams?”</em></p><p>A thousand years ago the Darkness came—a terrible time of violence, fear, and social collapse when technology ran rampant. But the vicars of the Temple of Light brought peace, ushering in an era of blessed simplicity. For ten centuries they have kept the madness at bay with “temple magic,” and by eliminating forever the rush of progress that nearly caused the destruction of everything.</p><p>Childhood friends, Orah and Nathaniel, have always lived in the tiny village of Little Pond, longing for more from life but unwilling to challenge the rigid status quo. When their friend Thomas returns from the Temple after his “teaching”—the secret coming-of-age ritual that binds young men and women eternally to the Light—they barely recognize the broken and brooding young man the boy has become. Then when Orah is summoned as well, Nathaniel follows in a foolhardy attempt to save her.</p><p>In the prisons of Temple City, they discover a terrible secret that launches the three on a journey to find the forbidden keep, placing their lives in jeopardy, for a truth from the past awaits that threatens the foundation of the Temple. If they reveal that truth, they might once again release the potential of their people.</p><p>Yet they would also incur the Temple’s wrath as it is written: “If there comes among you a prophet saying, ‘Let us return to the darkness,’ you shall stone him, because he has sought to thrust you away from the Light.”</p><p><strong>Be sure to read the second book in this series, <em>The Stuff of Stars</em>, due to release November 30, 2015. And don't miss David's award-winning speculative saga, <em>The Daughter of the Sea and the Sky</em></strong></p>

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<p align="center"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><span style="font-size:10pt;">&quot;...a useful introduction to a burgeoning movement...will make readers question their attitudes about overweight people.&quot;</span><br /><span style="font-size:10pt;"><strong>Publishers Weekly</strong></span></span></p> <p align="center"> </p> <p align="center"><strong><em>&quot;Acceptable Prejudice? Fat, Rhetoric and Social Justice</em></strong> is an ideal book for people new to the concept of fat acceptance. McMichael writes a book that will answer all questions about this movement; she describes and explains the aesthetic and psychological issues surrounding the movement as well as its political, academic and health manifestations. Thus, this book is a veritable encyclopedia that explains the what, when, why and how of fat acceptance in ways palatable to both the serious scholar and the curious layperson. If you have anything to do with fat acceptance, <strong><em>Acceptable Prejudice</em></strong> should have a place on your bookshelf.&quot;<br /><strong>Erec Smith, Ph.D.</strong><br /> Professor of Rhetoric, Fat acceptance blogger</p> <p align="center"> </p> <p align="center">&quot;Prejudices can only appear acceptable so long as we fail to see them (and their connnections to each other) for their true impact in our lives. Lonie McMichael clearly exposes how weight prejudice interacts with racism, sexism, classism, ageism, and healthism—and how a wholehearted challenge to the former also necessarily addresses all of the ways we're excluded.&quot;</p> <p align="center"><strong>Marilyn Wann</strong><br /> author of <strong><em>Fat!So?</em></strong></p>