Storyteller On The Lake - Kawartha Lakes Authors Association

Storyteller On The Lake - The Official J.A. Aarntzen Website

"The Kawartha Lakes Authors' Association" was founded in 2005 by Sheila Jupe and Vic Wilbee. The KLAA has a membership of more than 20 published writers in the Kawartha Lakes region of Ontario, Canada. Most of the members are self-published or have a limited budget for advertising to sell their books. Through combined efforts the KLAA manages to exhibit their books at various locations throughout the LIndsay, Omemee, Fenelon Falls and Bobcaygeon district.

J.A. Aarntzen is proud to be a member of the Kawartha Lakes Authors' Association.

Outlined below are submissions received from the members of the Kawartha Lakes Authors' Association providing some details about themselves and their books.

Vic Wilbee
Vic is a cofounder of the Kawartha Lakes Authors' Association. He has written five books and is currently working on a sixth one. His titles include The Twilight Years which is an anthology of Vic's life; Adventurous Eye Vols. 1, 2 and 3. - a series of short stories that have happened to Vic; West of the Sun - a rags to riches drama following the saga of a Hungarian family that immigrated to Canada in 1920 and from these impoverished roots managed to build a successful enterprise."

Vic's new book titled Vanished, 186 pages in length, is about a young man's struggle with substance abuse. He suffers from memories of an abusive child hood that prevents him from succeding in today's society. Everytime he accomplishes a goal in life he keeps returning to the demons that live within him.

Rev. Janet Stobie
A Child Speaks is a collection of short stories written in the form of monologues by Rev. Janet Stobie. Rev. Jan's stories open the wisdom of the Bible to children and teens as they hear the voices of children in the Bible dealing with today's issues. Everyone, young and old and in between, will enjoy this fresh perspective on the familiar Bible stories.

Janet Stobie is a mother and grandmother as well as an ordained minister serving Dunsford United Church. Storytelling is one of the joys of her ministry. Over the years, Janet's congregations have encouraged her to publish these stories. They speak to the child in all of us.

To order A Child Speaks, contact Rev. Janet Stobie at janet.stobie@i-zoom.net or visit her website at www.achildspeaks.ca. Cost is $10.00 per book plus postage and handling.

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Her world began to fall apart on that fateful day on Pioneer Lake when her parents had that big fight with her grandfather. Little did any know that her grandfather would die that day and that within a week the remaining Meadowfords would be burying him. While at Silent Hills, Thora saw him for the first time. The rest of her summer she would be plagued by him. She began running. And even as she ran, he would follow, corralling her to the only possible destination that she could go, to the place where it all began.

Readers first met Thora Meadowford in The Little Boy of the Forest. Now in this next chapter in the Grappling Haven family legacy, follow Thora as she hovers on the brink of madness trying to make sense of a once proud dynasty and the curse that seeks to destroy it.

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Corman had the life. He was the biggest fish in the lake. He had many plump and content wives with whom he wiled away long, warm afternoons in a private cove. Everything was perfect for the carp. But then one night zebra mussels marched into his world. They scattered Corman's females away. Corman woke up the next morning to discover that he was alone. At once, Corman set out to find his lost harem. But his lake was big, and it was connected to a series of other lakes. His girls could be in any one of the lakes. Finding them would be like finding a needle in the haystack.