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My newest book from The Wild Rose Press
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On Rightside/Wrongside, women are in charge and men live behind a 200-mile Border Fence. Their only interactions are for sex, which women control with force and long- entrenched law. Mothers raise daughters, and fathers know nothing of them. Women send sons across the Fence to their fathers in Wrongside and never know if they live or die. New Rightside president Alanna Olaffson believes, along with her countrywomen, that female empowerment is a good thing, a necessary thing, right up to the time it goes frighteningly wrong. AfterJessie Sandova, who is pregnant with a boy, meets a woman who recently sent her son across the Fence the two women hatch a plan that quickly grows beyond their control. As they carry out their audacious ideas, Rightside and Wrongside deal with smuggling, intrigue, sabotage, kidnapping, and ultimately civil war that forces cataclysmic societal change. Rightside/Wrongside is available in paperback or e-book at all online book retailers. |
From Brian Anderson, author of A Cough of Birds:
"Author Cathy Hester Seckman has painted a vivid portrait of what can happen to a society divided. Filled with engaging characters, poignant romance, and pulse-pounding tension, the novel is both a cautionary tale and an enduring story of redemptive love between couples as well as the unbreakable bond that parents feel for their children."
"Author Cathy Hester Seckman has painted a vivid portrait of what can happen to a society divided. Filled with engaging characters, poignant romance, and pulse-pounding tension, the novel is both a cautionary tale and an enduring story of redemptive love between couples as well as the unbreakable bond that parents feel for their children."
Working with my friend, fellow author, and map artist Susan Dexter, at the Holy Spirit Parish Festival in New Castle, Pa.
Ohio Day Trips, first edition
AdventureKEEN Publications released this book in 2018 and it's still going strong. Besides being available online and in bookstores, it's for sale at several businesses around East Liverpool.
From world-famous attractions like the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame to quirky discoveries like the Dum Dum Candy Museum and Factory, Ohio has a day trip to interest anyone. Trips can be planned for one or two attractions in a day, or strung together for a week of unique adventure. The book is divided into themed sections including Outdoor Adventure, the Arts, Historic Buildings and Architecture, Beaches and Dunes, and more.
So if you've ever wanted to wander through a field of six-foot-tall concrete ears of corn, explore a lithoplane museum, or pay your respects at Annie Oakley's grave, here's the book that can get you to all those places and more.
This Images of America title from Arcadia Publishing was released in 2015 and it's also still going strong. Besides being available online and in bookstores, it's for sale at several businesses around East Liverpool.
Once known as the Pottery Capital of the World, East Liverpool boasted some 300 potteries in its heyday, along with many ancillary industries. When British immigrant Thomas Bennett found promising clay deposits along the Ohio River, he opened the city's first one-kiln pottery in 1839. From that humble beginning the industry burgeoned, eventually spreading up the hills and up and down both sides of the river.
Besides sturdy kitchenware, hotel china, toilet ware, and ceramic doorknobs, the potteries produced Lotus Ware, Lu-Ray, and Fiesta Ware. The men, women, and children who worked in the potteries also built a town with a busy and complex social life. East Liverpool struggled after the collapse of the pottery industry in the second half of the 20th century, but has persevered into the 21st century with hope.
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Too Many Secrets
1966 is the beginning of everything for college friends Kate, Elsa, and Sunny. Kate meets what she is sure was the love of her life, Elsa has discovered her calling, and Sunny has found Doc. After college, Elsa changes her name to Elise and chases movie stardom in Hollywood, while Katy drifts into a fairytale marriage with politically ambitious David. Sunny and Doc found a commune in Tennessee where Doc struggles with memories of Vietnam and Sunny raises other people’s children. Star, their oldest, grows into a headstrong, opinionated teen who resents her boring responsibilities and believes her parents are impossibly naïve. When she discovers her parents aren’t who she thought they were, she triggers cataclysmic change in the lives of her parents and their old college friends. I wrote this indie novel with fellow author Darlene Torday. H20 Mysteries
Drip...Drip...Drip... From the trickle of the early morning bathroom faucet to the innocent flow of a river under the bridges we travel across; from the sparkling mountain streams that form a pristine lake, to the rolling waves of a vast ocean, life-sustaining water is an ordinary part of our daily lives. Dare to look closer. Danger and darkness may lurk in the ordinary. H2O Mysteries is a collection of 17 short stories with one common theme – disappearance by water. Some of the stories are true to life, others have paranormal affects. I wrote these indie-published short stories with fellow authors Darlene Torday and Debbie Schukert. It's available on Amazon. |
Bad Moon Rising
Peace, love, murder . . . The love that symbolized Woodstock changes for Riley, Heather, Ritchie, Lance, and Terry when they return to Kent State University and are drawn into a murder investigation. Two drifters, Laurel and Mango, are also caught in the investigation. Between Woodstock and the Kent State shootings, the characters mature and change as they make decisions that will affect the rest of their lives. This fictional story is set in 1969-70, when both the country and its young people were irrevocably changed. I wrote this indie-published historical fiction book with fellow authors Darlene Torday and Debbie Schukert. It's available on Amazon.
Peace, love, murder . . . The love that symbolized Woodstock changes for Riley, Heather, Ritchie, Lance, and Terry when they return to Kent State University and are drawn into a murder investigation. Two drifters, Laurel and Mango, are also caught in the investigation. Between Woodstock and the Kent State shootings, the characters mature and change as they make decisions that will affect the rest of their lives. This fictional story is set in 1969-70, when both the country and its young people were irrevocably changed. I wrote this indie-published historical fiction book with fellow authors Darlene Torday and Debbie Schukert. It's available on Amazon.
Weirdo World
When lightning strikes, you never know where you’ll end up . . . or when.
They say it’s rare for a person to survive a lightning strike, but that’s exactly what happened when 12-year-old Hunter shoved a time card into an antique punch clock. Not only did he survive the hit, he was sent back in time to 1963. Hunter finds himself trapped in a strange new place, where computers and cell phones don’t exist, and Tarzan is the biggest superhero.
Hunter must convince Bobby, Eddie, Davey, and Roy that he really is from 2010 before they will help him figure out a way to get home. The original publisher for Weirdo World, Cool Well Press, has folded, and the book is now indie-published on Amazon.