William potter

William potter

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William Potter attempted his first novel atage eleven when he scribbled a few lines about a giant rampaging crab. The teenyears kept his imagination in a state of unrest and he used poetry to journalpersonal thoughts, achievements and events of those times. He returned to hislove of storytelling in his twenties, writing numerous short stories; and nowin his forties, has completed two full-length novel manuscripts. Lighting theDark Side-Six Modern Tales represents his work from the past several years andis his first published book. The collection received the Editor’s Choice Awardfor short stories from AllBooks Review International in 2009. William residesin New Westminster, Canada with his wife and twochildren.

Friends in High Places

Friends in High Places

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<p>FRIENDS IN HIGH PLACES<br /><br />At barely nineteen, Angelica Donovan became one of the more successful winners of the T.V. show Our Next Super Model. The world assumed she was destined for a happy, fairy tale life as ‘Angel,’ the beautiful girl who was living the dream; sadly, that wasn’t to be the case. As the years passed, she flashed her million dollar smile to all her fans and fought to stay on top in a profession where you never knew who it was safe to trust while the fashion industry took big bites out of her heart and soul. And trust was a constant challenge for Angel due to the painful childhood secret she guarded as carefully as she did her heart. As a result, she never did find her true love on earth.<br /><br />When she wakes up ‘dead’ from a heart condition a month before her thirty-fifth birthday, Angel is at first relieved to find there is no death, just a change of state, like ice to water, and then she’s scared because her biggest and most important adventure is about to begin.<br /><br />Angelica is chosen to be an angel in training as a spirit guide for three souls on earth! Her assignment is to help two women to gain the courage and confidence to find, recognize and embrace the love that had eluded Angel in life. But her biggest challenge will be to save a very special little girl from the same evil experience that had poisoned Angel’s own earthly happiness and altered the course of her life.<br /><br />Will Angel be able to heal her own shattered soul in the process? And will the three souls she is guiding be able to recognize her, not as a ghostly threat, but as one of those ‘friends in high places’ we all have; the kind who often end up earning their wings.<br /><br /> </p>

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<div>By Jan Whitford (Jamestown, Rhode Island)<br /><br /></div><div>The book jacket claims these tales will exercise our emotions, capture our imagination,</div><div>and challenge us to think in new directions. Well, I'm here to tell you all that the author</div><div>delivers on all that plus much, much more!</div><div>These novellas and short stories are definitely page-turners, but what impressed me the</div><div>most was their character-driven force. Potter skillfully intertwined succinct narrative and</div><div>some natural, fast-paced dialogue to present characters so real, they leapt right off the</div><div>page and captivated me immediately.</div><div>Lighting the Dark Side is a collection of three novellas and three short stories, including</div><div>plenty of action, thrills, suspense, mystery, and even romance. We start with an engaging</div><div>story of an improbable romance between an obsessive-compulsive geek and a drop-dead</div><div>gorgeous woman, seemed doomed from the start. Next, there's an artist trying his best to</div><div>thrive and find love in spite of overbearing, cruel parents. Following that, Potter changes</div><div>directions and we're treated to a well-done, hard-boiled police procedural with a nice</div><div>twist. An end of the world by approaching comet thriller is on tap after that, with some</div><div>great flash-forward writing as well as another ingenious plot twist. Now, these are all</div><div>wonderful tales, but I believe Potter saved the best two for last.</div><div>The title, Blessing or Curse is self-explanatory, referring to a big lottery win. A</div><div>kidnapping for ransom follows and we're treated to some of the author's best dialogue. It's</div><div>hugely entertaining and there are virtually no wasted words Elmore Leonard style. And</div><div>finally, Potter ends (all too soon) with a heart-warming tale of a wayward teenage street</div><div>whore and a gentleman with a rescuer complex. It's a great, intertwined plot where all the</div><div>characters come together, in the same spirit of the Academy Award winning movie,</div><div>Crash. Once again, Potter showcases his writing talent, this time with skillful</div><div>interspersing of critical back-story in such a way as to avoid slowing the plot.</div><div>Well, by now you've probably guessed that I am highly recommending Lighting the Dark</div><div>Side. As I said, all the stories are captivating but more than that, I urge you to take note of</div><div>the writer's talent for character development and I'm sure you'll be impressed. In fact, I</div><div>shouldn't think it'd be long before a major publishing house snaps Mr. Potter up because</div><div>he belongs on the bookshelves with the likes of Jeffery Deaver and Peter Abrahams.</div>