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…
A Dime Is a Sign: Poems of Love and Loss (Feelings Into Words)
Description
<p>A psychic medium once said that if you find a random dime, it is a sign that someone that you have loved and lost is thinking of you.</p><p><strong>A Dime is a Sign Through Time</strong></p><p><em>If you find a dime, </em></p><p><em>You will know that I'm</em></p><p><em>Sending thoughts of love</em></p><p><em>Through the veil of time.</em></p><p> </p><p><em>Ten cents with a silver shine, </em></p><p><em>A sense sent you to help remind</em></p><p><em>That someone who left you behind</em></p><p><em>Is always living in your mind.</em></p><p> </p><p><em>Sending love and vibes, </em></p><p><em>Felt as psychic sighs ...</em></p><p><em>The ones that you miss, </em></p><p><em>Send you a kiss ...</em></p><p> </p><p>Sherrill S. Cannon's second book of poetry contains messages written through the years in poetic form that put feelings into words. As a teacher, many of her poems helped counsel troubled teens and friends.</p><p>There are three sections in the book: Heads, Spinning, and Tails ... (Love & Loss: Coin Toss?). The variety of lyrical poetry forms include free verse, blank verse, haiku, and sonnets, while some are just playing with words!</p><p>Hopefully, this is also a book of healing.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Sherrill S. Cannon, a former teacher and grandmother of ten, is the author of nine acclaimed rhymed children's books, plus a recent award-winning book of poetry <em>(A Penny for Your Thoughts), </em>which together have received 63 national and international book awards since 2011. She also wrote seven published plays for elementary school children that have been performed in over 25 countries. Most of her children's books emphasize consideration for others. Married for 58 years, she and her spouse are now retired, live in Pennsylvania, and travel in their RV from coast to coast, spending time with their children and grandchildren, and sharing her books along the way!</p><p> </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...
