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Authors: Elaine Stirling
Photo: Russell Howe
Elaine Stirling, at the age of ten, heard a voice inside her head that said, “Whatever you’re doing at the age of thirty, you’ll do for the rest of your life.” That, happily, turned out to be writing, which began with ten Harlequin romance novels in the 1980s, then branched out to short fiction with
Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine
and
Fantasy and Science Fiction Magazine
. In 2009, Elaine published her first nonfiction,
The Corporate
Storyteller: A Writing Manual & Style Guide for the Brave New Business Leader
. In 2012, Greyhart Press released
Dead Edit Redo
, a novella of horror and good medicine, and a collection of medieval form poetry by her heteronym, Alain C. Dexter, called
Dead to Rights: A Circularity of Glosas
.
When she’s not working on her latest novel, Elaine is a communication consultant who helps corporate executives discover their creative selves. She blogs at “Oceantics”,
www.elainestirling.wordpress.com
, and lives near Toronto, Canada.
by Alain C. Dexter
“…gives new life to the ancient form…”
— 5* Amazon review
Ladies and gentlemen, step right up, don’t be shy, and enter the rhyming gyre of glosas, forty-four line rock operas, poetic pas de deux, created by troubadours of the medieval Spanish courts.
Dead to Rights: A Circularity of Glosas
features eighteen dramatic mini-tales, introduced by quatrains and philosophies that include Poe, Milton, Epictetus and Dickens; spun to effervescence by the spirited Alain C. Dexter.
“Glosas deliver like a compact short story, in stereo; they’re a poetic high energy drink, a double shot espresso of verse. You can read one glosa and read it again several times to experience a kaleidoscope effect of something new with each reread. Or you can take in a whole wallop of them and begin to sense the underlying structure that gives the glosa its . . . well, glisten.”
— Alain C. Dexter
Dead to Rights: Contributors of Crown Stanzas—
John Milton, Gavriel Navarro, Herman Melville, Friedrich Nietzsche, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, William Butler Yeats, Charles Dickens, Edgar Allan Poe, John Donne, Rumi, John Keats, William Blake, Rainer Maria Rilke, Epictetus, Saggil-kīnam-ubbib, Enheduanna, Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra.
Available in paperback and eBook now from Greyhart Press
“…gives new life to the ancient form…”
— 5* Amazon review
Ladies and gentlemen, step right up, don’t be shy, and enter the rhyming gyre of glosas, forty-four line rock operas, poetic pas de deux, created by troubadours of the medieval Spanish courts.
Dead to Rights: A Circularity of Glosas
features eighteen dramatic mini-tales, introduced by quatrains and philosophies that include Poe, Milton, Epictetus and Dickens; spun to effervescence by the spirited Alain C. Dexter.
“Glosas deliver like a compact short story, in stereo; they’re a poetic high energy drink, a double shot espresso of verse. You can read one glosa and read it again several times to experience a kaleidoscope effect of something new with each reread. Or you can take in a whole wallop of them and begin to sense the underlying structure that gives the glosa its . . . well, glisten.”
— Alain C. Dexter
Dead to Rights: Contributors of Crown Stanzas—
John Milton, Gavriel Navarro, Herman Melville, Friedrich Nietzsche, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, William Butler Yeats, Charles Dickens, Edgar Allan Poe, John Donne, Rumi, John Keats, William Blake, Rainer Maria Rilke, Epictetus, Saggil-kīnam-ubbib, Enheduanna, Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra.
by Elaine Stirling
“…the kind of book to savor…”
— 5* Amazon review
Professor and best-selling poet Alain C. Dexter leaps to his death at Valletta Falls, moments after posting his final Facebook update, in the shape of a woman’s breasts. Thousands of fans click
Like
and move on; only one, in a small Icelandic town, sees through the morbid wit and takes measures to save him. Meanwhile, Constable Elsie Kalahash of the Ontario Provincial Police just wants to go on holidays. But when you’re a Cree medicine woman trained in the Backward-Facing Path, there are no days off.
Discover the story behind the Circularity of Glosas in this novella of horror and good medicine by Elaine Stirling.
Available in paperback and eBook now from Greyhart Press
“…the kind of book to savor…”
— 5* Amazon review
Professor and best-selling poet Alain C. Dexter leaps to his death at Valletta Falls, moments after posting his final Facebook update, in the shape of a woman’s breasts. Thousands of fans click
Like
and move on; only one, in a small Icelandic town, sees through the morbid wit and takes measures to save him. Meanwhile, Constable Elsie Kalahash of the Ontario Provincial Police just wants to go on holidays. But when you’re a Cree medicine woman trained in the Backward-Facing Path, there are no days off.
Discover the story behind the Circularity of Glosas in this novella of horror and good medicine by Elaine Stirling.
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— Book Work Brandy
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Andy McMillan is a soldier.
Will he also prove to be a hero?
More than a just a time travel romance, The Last Sunset is a tale of rebellion, of sacrifice and choice, of one man’s struggle to prove himself and the woman he needs to do so.
Available in paperback and eBook now from Greyhart Press
“…you will spend the rest of the day thinking about it once you close the back cover!”
— Book Work Brandy
#1 bestseller: Time Travel Romance — Amazon.com
#1 bestseller: Alternate History — Amazon.com
Andy McMillan is a soldier leading a training detachment in the Scottish Highlands. A blinding red light drags him back to a simpler age when the air is filled with the smell of peat fires and the sound of Gaelic voices, and one voice in particular: the beautiful Ishbel. But the Highlanders are in revolt and the redcoats are coming.
Andy McMillan is a soldier.
Will he also prove to be a hero?
More than a just a time travel romance, The Last Sunset is a tale of rebellion, of sacrifice and choice, of one man’s struggle to prove himself and the woman he needs to do so.