About
I would describe myself as the ultimate multi-tasker. Sometimes I even have to remind myself who I am for the day! That’s because I write under three different pen names and in three very different genres.
As Debrah Martin I write literary fiction. I also plot fast-paced and compelling thrillers as D.B. Martin and of course also pen my YA teen detective series as Lily Stuart.
So why not stick to just one name and one genre?
Variety is the spice of life, I reckon - and I have all these ideas – they have to come out somehow! My past careers have spanned two businesses, teaching, running business networking for the University of Winchester and social event management. I now make do with chairing the Wantage (not just Betjeman) Literary Festival in my hometown when I’m not writing. I also have two daughters and a dog to organise. See – more multi-tasking…
My Fingerpaint Masterpiece Coloring Book
Description
<p>Have you ever seen a "work of art" worth millions, which looks like something your child just brought home from school?</p><p>The dual perspective of "Beauty Is in the Eye of the Beholder" and just a little bit of "The Emperor's New Clothes" is evident in this clever artwork story of a child who paints a fingerpaint print in class and then loses it in the wind on the way home.</p><p>Illustrated from the point of view of a child, whose identity is left to the imagination of the reader since all of the illustrations are what the child sees, the fingerpaint print is interpreted by official "judges" as well as by bystanders. Should people be influenced by what others see, or use their own self-esteem to make their own judgments? This coloring book version allows children to illustrate their own version of the book, and even to create a "masterpiece" of their own!</p><p>This is the fourth rhyming children's coloring book by this award-winning author, whose other bestselling books include David's ADHD, My Little Angel, The Golden Rule, Mice & Spiders & Webs...Oh My!, Manner-Man, Gimme-Jimmy, The Magic Word, Peter and the Whimper-Whineys and Santa's Birthday Gift.</p><p><strong>About The Author:</strong> Former teacher Sherrill S. Cannon has won over 100 awards for her previous rhyming books and coloring books, and is also the author of 7 published and internationally performed plays for elementary school children. She has been called "a modern day Dr. Seuss." - GTMA Review</p>
Story Behind The Book
In the first of the trilogy, Patchwork Man, Lawrence Juste QC is faced with not only misdeeds from his past, but also an enigma – his recently deceased – wife, who now seems to have been far removed from what he thought her to be. He also, and worryingly, may have committed incest with the sister he never knew, having been separated from the family the day she was born. The product of that union might be Danny, the boy he defended from a charge of manslaughter, and who brings him back into contact with his birth family, including the brother he betrayed whilst in the children’s home, the abusive bully he’s been avoiding ever since and Kat – Danny’s social worker. Kat awakens his frozen emotions, the bully threatens to ruin him and the question of Danny’s parentage hangs over Juste like a guillotine waiting to fall.
Patchwork People is the second in the Patchwork trilogy. It opens in the aftermath of Lawrence Juste QC winning his young client’s manslaughter case and temporarily gagging the bully who’s threatened Juste since childhood. There’s an uneasy truce in place between Juste and his recently re-discovered family as his wife’s funeral approaches. It’s a period of calm before the storm – which arrives on the eve of the funeral with a package of ‘evidence’, apparently from a dead women, together with an ominous black edged blackmail card. A slow drip feed of similar items of evidence and clues eventually lead Juste to wonder whether his wife is really dead: ‘I think I cremated someone who wasn’t my wife.’
Juste has to piece together the clues, dodge a potential charge of murder himself after his troublesome sister is found dead in his kitchen and navigate the dangerous waters of determining whether his young client, Danny, is, or isn’t his son. The resolution involves an explosion, a revelation and a resurrection, leaving Juste with a new way forward, but still dodging the misdeeds of the past in order to tread it, but to tell any more would be a spoiler...
