Wednesday Writers Group

Look for these books by Wednesday Writer's Group members:

Hopping, Michael. Meet Me In Paradise (2007) Visionary Cal Pennypacker and bare-knuckles businessman Possum Staehle have built a chain of five and dime stores into Paradise Superstores Inc. The world’s second largest retailer is the low price purveyor of everything except salvation.

That may soon change. Some years ago God instructed Cal to prepare a place for the Second Coming in Houston. Now, as Apostle Caleb of the Tabernacle of the Seventh Seal, Cal has an influential television ministry. As CEO of Paradise he pressures its board to Christianize the Superstores. Possum thinks too much religion is bad for business. It’s time for Crazy Cal to go.

Poling, Nancy Werking. Out of the Pumpkin Shell (2009) The teaching careers of lifelong friends Harriet (Hat) and Elise have come to an end in spectacular style, with the two women leaving more than burning bridges behind them. Now they are looking menopause straight in the eye—and they don’t care one bit for what they see. Fight, they vow, we’ll fight the interloper tooth and nail. More than a tad bruised and battered from the struggle Hat and Elise undertake a journey to Bryson’s Mill, Indiana, birthplace of Elise’s mother, Rose, who by any definition was inadequate to the simplest tasks of motherhood. Stella May and Margaret, old friends of Rose, hold keys to a past very different from Elise’s memory. When Elise adamantly refuses to accept their conflicting reality, Hat is confronted with choices—and risks—about what friendship with Elise actually entails. For both friends the journey to Bryson’s Mill becomes a pilgrimage of a different kind into the past lives of women, into truth, into sisterhood, and most of all, into new possibility. Out of the Pumpkin Shell is one of the most affirming, humorous, and engaging novels you’ll read this or any year.

Zottoli, Judith. Memories:  a collection of poems (2007) The poems speak eloquently and evocatively of the poet's love of her world—both of the beauty of the seasons and of her own past in her family.

Stubblefield, Jerry. Homunculus (2009) "When a man can't achieve intimacy with someone else, such as a wife, he ends up achieving it with himself, which is no good." Hector Owen is well aware of his problem. He's a washed-up playwright whose imagination and creative impulse nevertheless have failed to wane in spite of his efforts to deny them. With a lacklustre career behind him and a failing, sexless marriage in the Appalachian town to which he has retreated, Hec suddenly finds himself in the company of his own creation, a nasty, yet frequently charming homunculus calling himself Robin. And Robin, once freed from his lifetime of confinement within Hec's over-stressed mind/body, has a dangerous agenda that includes sex, love, and ridding Hec of his lovely wife.