After serving in the military, Idistinguished myself in the private sector, working with detective andcontract security firms throughout the United States. My company, MidMerc L.L.C. offers uniqueperspectives on many fields: Real Estate; Holistic Healthcare, and of course –publishing. I have long helda passion for literature and the arts, writing media scripts and freelancingfor corporate firms as well as performing in advertising campaigns, televisionand print.
<p> </p><p>Sophie is a psychic medium and animal communicator. She runs a small crystal shop called, Outta Time. The shop</p><p>Is located in a small district called Lents in Portland, Oregon.</p><p>Nick is a man who if you can't touch it, feel it or see it then it doesn't exist. He is sure she is a phony psychic who is bilking money out of his mother and he intends to expose her.</p><p>Sophie sees him as a non-believer, someone who could never understand her or her way of life. She is attracted to him but knows there can be no future for them unless he can be made to understand what her world is all about.</p><p>Their Guardian Angels get into the act to guide the two to a better understanding of each other.</p><p>Nick's Guardians help his deceased Father get through to Nick and help him to understand that death is not the end. He soon learns there can be communication between the living and the dead.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="ecxstatus-content"><strong><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Tahoma, 'sans-serif';color:#2a2a2a;">“</span></strong></span><strong><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Tahoma, 'sans-serif';">I'm midway through the book and quite digging it.<span class="ecxstatus-content"><span style="font-family:Tahoma, 'sans-serif';color:#2a2a2a;">!”</span></span></span></strong></p> <p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-indent:-.25in;"><span class="ecxstatus-content"><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Tahoma, 'sans-serif';color:#2a2a2a;"><span>-<span style="font:7pt 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span></span></span><span class="ecxstatus-content"><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Tahoma, 'sans-serif';color:#2a2a2a;">John Payne, “Los Angeles Weekly”</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="ecxstatus-content"><strong><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Tahoma, 'sans-serif';color:#2a2a2a;">“It was a bother to have to put the book down and get back to work. And Washington's totally believable characters are action-in-motion, nothing static about them or their black ops run by our invisible government arm that topples regimes, takes out enemies around the world and in general keeps things safe for multinational corporations.”</span></strong></span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-indent:-.25in;"><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Tahoma, 'sans-serif';color:#2a2a2a;"><span>-<span style="font:7pt 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span></span>Steve Giordano - Editor, “<span class="ecx786560516-25042010"><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Arial, 'sans-serif';">High on Adventure”</span></span> </p> <p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Verdana, 'sans-serif';color:#000000;">“MAGNETIC!!!!!! <span> </span></span></strong><strong><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Verdana, 'sans-serif';color:#000000;">Three Lives, by first time novelist Joe Washington, is a magnetic read - I couldn't put it down.”</span></strong></p> <p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-indent:-.25in;"><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Tahoma, 'sans-serif';color:#2a2a2a;"><span>-<span style="font:7pt 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span></span></span>John R. Vacca - <span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:115%;">"Tech Write Independent Reviewer"</span></span><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="font-family:Calibri, 'sans-serif';"></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="textrun"><strong><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Verdana, 'sans-serif';color:#000000;">“One can hardly wait for the sequel to this book.”</span></strong></span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-indent:-.25in;"><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Tahoma, 'sans-serif';color:#2a2a2a;"><span>-<span style="font:7pt 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span></span>Stacie Hearne – “Authorsreading.com”</p> <p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;color:#2a2a2a;">“Readers should avoid Three Lives if they're distressed by intense<br /> action or by fevered plotting. <span> </span>Otherwise, however, they should charge<br /> ahead. <span> </span>This is a novel deeply engaged in some of the international<br /> intrigue that we all want to think "can't happen here." … the<br /> story, deep with unexpected twists, ends up so believable that we're<br /> called on to admit it -- we've been warned.”</span></strong></p> <p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-indent:-.25in;"><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Tahoma, 'sans-serif';color:#2a2a2a;"><span>-<span style="font:7pt 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span></span>Ed Nelson – Independent professional reviewer</p> <p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;color:#2a2a2a;">“Joe Washington has written a tough gritty novel that forces his readers to crawl through the bloody underbelly of an urban sewer. A quote from his hero, Nicholas Gambit, explains: “growing up in a Kansas City ghetto, societal expectations for me were minimal. I was expected to kill and eventually be killed, a mere product of my environment.” <span> </span>That, like his creator, Gambit has survived to age 64 and lived to tell his compelling story gives readers a powerful rationale for joining him on his crawl through the sewer. How many even make it out, much less can tell the tale in a cogent, entertaining, and thoughtful manner?</span></strong><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Tahoma, 'sans-serif';color:#2a2a2a;"></span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-indent:-.25in;"><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Tahoma, 'sans-serif';color:#2a2a2a;"><span>-<span style="font:7pt 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span></span>Kay Carstens – Freelance professional reviewer<span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Tahoma, 'sans-serif';color:#2a2a2a;">, formerly with Penton Publishing</span></p>