If you enjoy reading uplifting magazine articles or books such as the Chicken Soup for the Soul series, then you'll love the new release 25 Years in The Rearview Mirror: 52 Authors Look Back, now available as a bargain e-book for Kindle, Nook, Smashwords, Kobo, and more. This collection of poignant and uplifting essays is the perfect book to enjoy over your morning coffee. The stories will warm your heart, raise your spirits and compel you to examine your own life.

My essay titled "Can One Beer Change Your Life?" is one of the stories included in the collection and tells about my career change.

As a tie-in to her mystery book Twenty-Five Years Ago Today, novelist and award-winning journalist Stacy Juba invited her author colleagues to answer the question “What were you doing 25 years ago?” Read about school days, quirky jobs, romance, raising a family, hard times, the writing journey, and find out what makes your favorite characters tick. This book will help readers to discover new authors for their to-read list, and inspire them to reflect upon the small defining moments that have shaped their own lives.

The book includes a foreword by Elaine Raco Chase, award-winning author of seventeen paperback novels with over 3 million books in print. Publishing credits of the contributing writers include New York Times bestselling, USA Today bestselling, and Amazon bestselling. They also include recipients of the Romantic Times Lifetime Achievement Award, Minotaur Books/Mystery Writers of America First Crime Novel Award, Mississippi Author Award, Benjamin Franklin Award and Eppie Award, as well as nominees of the Pushcart Prize, Agatha and Shamus Awards, to name a few of the many honors.


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For a list of authors and essay titles and more information, visit: StacyJuba.com


 Finally, join the 25 Years in the Rearview Mirror Yahoo Group. Readers are invited to stop by and answer regular memory sparker questions, discuss which essays resonated with them the most, meet many of the authors, and get the inside scoop on their latest book releases, special offers and news. Download tons of freebies in the Authors' Corner! 

 
 
I decided to put Chapter One of the second Bruce DelReno Mystery on Goodreads as a free preview.  
The book is tentatively titled  Stinger and you will understand why if you read chapter one, but not understand entirely.

Surely you will after chapter two, which is written, but not posted anywhere yet.  
This is the link for the preview:

http://www.goodreads.com/story/show/279644-stinger-a-bruce-delreno-mystery

The title is tentative, and the entire chapter is subject to editing depending where the story takes me.
I understand some authors map out the entire book, then write following the outline.
Not me, and I've heard many other authors.  Of course I have basic ideas for the characters and the plot, so many that I have to choose the exact course as I go along.

I'm so excited about a lot of things.  Getting Stinger off the ground is one.  I shot a round at even par last week.  The D-Backs are about to clinch their division.  100 degree days are probably over.  Much happiness and excitement to y'all.