Abraham F. March (Abe F.March) is an international business consultant and author, living near Landau,Germany with his wife Gisela.
An active retiree, he enjoys hiking and exploringthe local vineyards and can also be heard singing with a regional men’s choir.Mr. March’s career has taken him around the world to work in many areas fromhis birthplace in the USA to Canada, Europe and the Middle East.
Mr. March grew up inYork County, Pennsylvania on the family farm, and he served in the USAF from1957-61.
His business career got underway with the computing sciences divisionof IBM's service bureau where he held positions as manager of administrationand operations analyst. He later joined an international cosmetic companywhere he rapidly achieved top distributor status and was promoted to vicepresident of sales development and product market management, an opportunitywhich took throughout the USA and into Canada, Greece and Germany.
With internationalexperience and an entrepreneurial spirit, Mr. March started his own importingbusiness headquartered in Beirut, Lebanon, for the distribution of cosmeticsand toiletries to the Middle East markets. With ease about him and a talent fordeveloping business relationships, he also functioned as a locator of goods andservices sought by Mid-Eastern clients before the civil war in Lebanondestroyed his successful business enterprise.
Mr. March returned to theUnited States to start over, and was soon working on an international level onceagain. His subsequent work involved Swan Technologies, Inc., a personalcomputer manufacturer in West Germany, and back to the US to work with StorkNV, supporting a fleet of 1200 Fokker Aircraft.
His first book, “To Beirut and Back - AnAmerican in the Middle East” was published in 2006, and is a memoir of hisadventures that took him to Lebanon in the 1970s.
His second book, “TheyPlotted Revenge Against America” was published in 2009, was inspired byAmerica’s invasion of Iraq.
His third book, “JourneyInto The Past,” with contributing author Lynn Jett, was published in 2009. It is a time travel romance story withsetting among the ancient castles of Germany.
<p style="margin:0px 0px 14px;padding:0px;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;font-size:14px;"><strong>"A somber, disturbing mystery fused with a scathing look at the fashion industry. </strong><strong>Mangin writes in a confident, razor-edged style."</strong><strong> - Kirkus Reviews</strong></p><p style="margin:-4px 0px 14px;padding:0px;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;font-size:14px;"><strong>Condom dresses and space helmets have debuted on fashion runways.</strong></p><p style="margin:-4px 0px 14px;padding:0px;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;font-size:14px;">A dead body becomes the trend when a coat made of human skin saunters down fashion's biggest stage. The body is identified as Annabelle Leigh, the teenager who famously disappeared over a decade ago from her boyfriend's New York City mansion.</p><p style="margin:-4px 0px 14px;padding:0px;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;font-size:14px;">This new evidence casts suspicion back on the former boyfriend, Cecil LeClaire. Now a monk, he is forced to return to his dark and absurd childhood home to clear his name. He teams up with Ava Germaine, a renegade ex-model. And together, they investigate the depraved and lawless modeling industry behind Cecil's family fortune.</p><p style="margin:-4px 0px 14px;padding:0px;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;font-size:14px;">They find erotic canes, pet rats living in crystal castles, and dresses made of crushed butterfly wings. But Cecil finds more truth in the luxury goods than in the people themselves. Everyone he meets seems to be wearing a person-suit. Terrified of showing their true selves, the glitterati put on flamboyant public personas to make money and friends. Can Cecil find truth in a world built on lies?</p><p style="margin:-4px 0px 0px;padding:0px;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;font-size:14px;"><strong>In high fashion modeling, selling bodies is organized crime.</strong></p>
As a child I loved the story, Rudolph the Red-nosed Reindeer and wondered why Santa and Mrs. Claus never had children. I thought that a Santa child would be a good way to bring new life to the Santa Story. Thus the story Santa Boy began and evolved over thirty-five years! Since there was a song for Rudolph, I wrote one that follows the story line for Santa Boy. Upon becoming a grandfather I dug out my treasured manuscript, and with the help of my daughter, Caroline, who enjoyed the story when she was a child, revived it. My daughter Christine sings the Santa Boy song.