Martha Jette

Martha Jette

About

Martha Jette was born in Niagara Falls, Ontario. She has two college degrees. In 1968, she graduated from the 2-year Legal Secretarial course at Mohawk College in Hamilton, Ontario with a 3.6 grade point average. In 1986, she graduated from the 3-year Print Journalism at St. Clair College in Windsor with the Dean’s Award for Top of Class with a 4.0 grade point average.

       For about 12 years prior to taking the journalism course, she worked as a secretary in a number of offices, including the Hamilton Sheriff’s Office, lawyers and land surveyors. After graduating from St. Clair College, she assumed the role of Editor of Arts and Entertainment Forum, a free publication dedicated to the local creative arts scene.

        One year later, she was hired by the Brabant Newspaper chain and for the next 12 years was employed with several of the company’s newspapers. Her first job was as Entertainment Editor of half a dozen newspapers belonging to the Brabant chain. A year later, she became Editor of the Hamilton News. She continued on to become Editor of the Flamborough News.

     When the Brabant chain was sold to Southam Newspapers in the early 90’s, she moved to Senior Reporter of the Dundas Star News and then later joined forces with a former Ontario provincial minister to open a new paper called the Dundas Review. Due to health reasons, she retired in 1996 and has been on disability since then.

Since then, Martha has published five books:

1) “Glimpses” True Stories of the Paranormal (Self-published through Creative Book Publishers – ISBN# 0-975-4618-0-3) Sold through marthajette@yahoo.com

2) “Glimpses 2” It Could Happen To You! (Published by Saga Books, Calgary, AB. ISBN# 1-894936-38-8) http://www.freewebs.com/paranormalbooks, http://www.sagabooks.net

3) Talking To My Angel (children) Saga Books, ISBN# 1-894936-28-0) http://www.sagabooks.net

4) Playing With The Devil (Saga Books, ISBN# 1-894936-51-5) http://www.angelfire.com/planet/pwtd, http://www.sagabooks.net

5) The Man With The Magic Spectacles (Saga Books, ISBN# 978-1-894936-90-3) http://www.magicspectacles.bravehost.com, http://www.sagabooks.net

 6) Blood Vengeance: (Cold Case #4-183) Not of this World, to be released soon by Saga Books
7) Totally Scared: The Complete Book On Haunted Houses, to be released soon by Cacoethes Publishing House.

      Martha also owns and maintains a web site for those over 50 called Boomers Write, where writers can post their stories, articles and pictures. She also offers her expertise in the field of writing and getting published.

     Aside from the above, Martha also offers editing services, including preparation of proposals, book intros, critiques and reviews. She also has two groups on the Paranormal Awareness Society web site, writes for various on-line publications and sites, puts out a monthly newsletter entitled Glimpses of the Paranormal through Author’s Den, is a member of a local group called Hamilton Writers and is a member of Arts Hamilton’s Literary Committee.

      Martha also provides book reviews, which are posted at http://mjbookreviews.blogspot.com and at her Book Review group at The Book Marketing Network. (http://www.bookmarket.ning.com) 

      She has also been interviewed on several on and off-line radio shows, including CHML in Hamilton, Ontario, The X-Zone Radio Show, Midnight Highway Radio and a number of stations on Blog Talk Radio. See list below.

      Upon occasion, she also donates a part of her time toward helping other aspiring writers.

     Personally, Martha is a mother of two and grandmother of two who likes to spend her spare time with family, reading, writing, swimming and/or painting in oils and acrylics.

 

Web Sites:

Boomers Write: http://www.boomers-write.com
Paranormal Books: http://www.freewebs.com/paranormalbooks

Playing With The Devil: http://www.angelfire.com/planet/pwtd

The Man With The Magic Spectacles: http://www.magicspectacles.bravehost.com

Authors Den: http://www.authorsden.com/paranormal

Ryze Business Network: http://www.ryze.com/go/teeka1234

Blogs:

http://www.agingwithcreativity.blogspot.com

http://www.mjbookreviews.blogspot.com
http://talkingtomyangel.blogspot.com/

 

The Seekers: The Stuff of Stars (Dystopian Sci-Fi - Book 2)

The Seekers: The Stuff of Stars (Dystopian Sci-Fi - Book 2)

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<p>This second book in <em>The Seekers</em> dystopian series continues the story started in the critically-acclaimed <em>The Children of Darkness</em>, winner of the <strong>Pinnacle Book Achievement Award, Summer 2015 - Best Book in the Category of SCIENCE FICTION</strong>, and winner of the <strong>Awesome Indies Seal of Excellence</strong>....</p><h1><strong><em>The Stuff of Stars</em> by David Litwack</strong></h1><p>Evolved Publishing presents the second book in the new dystopian series <em>The Seekers</em>. [DRM-Free]</p><h2><em style="font-size:13px;line-height:1.6em;">“But what are we without dreams?”</em></h2><p>Against all odds, Orah and Nathaniel have found the keep and revealed the truth about the darkness, initiating what they hoped would be a new age of enlightenment. But the people were more set in their ways than anticipated, and a faction of vicars whispered in their ears, urging a return to traditional ways.</p><p>Desperate to keep their movement alive, Orah and Nathaniel cross the ocean to seek the living descendants of the keepmasters’ kin. Those they find on the distant shore are both more and less advanced than expected.</p><p>The seekers become caught between the two sides, and face the challenge of bringing them together to make a better world. The prize: a chance to bring home miracles and a more promising future for their people. But if they fail this time, they risk not a stoning but losing themselves in the twilight of a never-ending dream.</p><p><strong>Be sure to start with the first book in this series, the multiple award-winning <em>The Children of Darkness</em>. And don't miss David's award-winning speculative saga, <em>The Daughter of the Sea and the Sky</em></strong></p>

Story Behind The Book

For many years, I worked as editor of a string of newspapers. During that time, I encountered folks with strange tales to tell about ghosts, esp, premonitions, past lives and more. Of course, I could not use these stories in the newspapers, so I stashed them in a file. When I retired in 1986, I decided to pull out that file and review the stories. After conducting a few more interviews, I wrote a manuscript up in hopes of publishing them. That did not occur until a few years later when I decided to approach various publishers. The stories contained in this book are all garnered from folks in and around the Hamilton, Ontario area where I live.

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