By Sixteen Ramos
Literature has a unique way of drawing readers into an imaginary world, making them feel, think, and experience the lives of characters like they’re their own. Fiction transports readers across time, space, and even into the depth of the human spirit. Whether it’s thrilling adventures of Sci-Fi worlds, or a transformative emotional journey, these 5 brilliant fiction writers have it all.
Elizabeth Harris
Elizabeth Harris, also known as Beth, is a woman who lived life with passion and wrote with boldness. Her writing life began with a journal and an inquiring heart. During raging emotional turmoil in the 1990s, Beth turned to writing to make sense of loss, pain, and a desire to belong. Beyond words, something was born: the beginning of deep personal change.
Beth also refers to herself sometimes as a HeArtist, an artist who works from the heart, for the heart. This persona runs deep in all she does. She is a devoted mother to her son, who struggles with severe disabilities and autism. Her experience as a caregiver has infused her art with elegance, richness, and deep compassion. Though her life may not have been easy at times, she has progressed with strength and hope with every step.
Beth, a certified Reiki master, also works with people going through emotional challenges and self-improvement. Her sessions are empathetic and assist other people in overcoming inner struggles and finding their value, peace, and purpose.
Through the art of journal writing, Beth developed an incredible skill of inner knowing and strength. Her writing provides readers with a sanctuary to step back, reflect inward, and heal on an individual basis. During the early 2000s, Beth started to venture into the theme of emotional disconnection; how so many individuals find themselves feeling disconnected from the deeper significance of the tapestry of everyday life. With compassionate wisdom, she encourages readers to reconnect with themselves and the world.
Beth’s words go beyond the world of words themselves. They are personal thoughts spun with descriptive images that move the soul. Every page holds the spirit of compassion, discovery, and generosity, meant to be felt as much as they are read. They bring solace for the grieving, hope for the lost, and support for anyone willing to rediscover their “True Cellf.”
Beth’s simple purpose is to help others manifest in lasting peace and a greater sense of connection to the deeper purpose in life. Beth believes that, even during the most difficult times, resilience and connection are possible.
Letters to Heaven
What happens to love when someone who is cherished is gone?
Letters to Heaven begins in the raw aftermath of loss, where grief is mixed with yearning and unanswered questions linger. After the death of her beloved grandfather, Beth Harris took solace in letter-writing, initially to him, and later as a form of self-reflection. Pouring her heart onto the page in a deeply personal journey through mourning, hoping, and recovery.
This moving collection of poetry and prose captures not just one woman’s search for peace but the collective desire to be connected to something much greater than herself, especially in moments of grief. In unflinching candor and profound reflection, Beth wrestles with concepts of eternal love and healing the self.
For anyone who has loved and lost, be it a person or a pet, Letters to Heaven offers a tender invitation: to seek healing, embrace hope, and to learn to find peace once more.
Dojo Johnjohn
A journey of love, surrender, and awakening through the eyes of a mother.
In the moving follow-up to Letters to Heaven, Beth Harris takes readers into a deeper realm of transformation. One born not from grief alone, but from the raw, unpredictable terrain of motherhood. Dojo Johnjohn is not just a journal; it is a spiritual dojo. A sacred space where life’s hardest lessons meet the unshakable power of love.
After years of longing for a child, and finally releasing that dream, Beth found herself unexpectedly expecting. It began as a joyful journaling practice for her unborn son. A keepsake of milestones, memories, and motherly wisdom. By six months of age, her son began showing signs of severe physical challenges, but no diagnosis came along. She lovingly named his condition nonconformitosis, a whimsical way to describe his unique, undefinable way of being in the world.
Her son didn’t fit the mold even within the special needs community. He could not walk, talk, or communicate in conventional ways. But what the world might have viewed as limitation, Beth viewed it as a powerful invitation. An invitation to surrender control, release expectations, and love unconditionally.
Through these journal entries, Beth records her son’s progress as much as that of herself. With every challenge came a mirror to reflect greater emotional barriers, where fear and resistance eventually gave way to acceptance.
With unflinching honesty, wit, and poetic insight, Dojo Johnjohn reveals what it means to mother a child who doesn’t conform to worldly norms, and the occurrence of a love that overcomes all circumstances. This book is a powerful reflection on unconditional love and the incredible strength that comes from surrender and love.
Peter A. Smit
Peter A. Smit is an author who dives deep into emotional and psychological influence from life altering events, which weaves the story that blends pivotal action with intense personal transitions. His novel doesn’t only entertain, it challenges readers to seek flexibility, introspect and the raw sentiments that come with navigating transitions.
Through his stories, Smit brings life to the intensity of human experience, creating characters that meet extraordinary circumstances and challenging alternatives. His books resonate with the readers who are ready for deep, transformative experiences and who seek guidance and inspiration through the imaginative world of fiction.
Life Will Never Be the Same Again
This suspenseful thriller book explores evocative themes, looking at the intersection where public health emergencies converge with individual courage.
Public health professional Dr. Nathan Hartwell and biologist Kristen James travel to Southeast Asia to conduct research on an unusual outbreak concerning illicit wildlife crimes. What starts out as research turns frightfully perilous when Kristen is kidnapped by a brutal underworld syndicate determined to keep the truth under wraps.
With Kristen gone and the crisis getting out of control, Nathan must call on his old friend Matt Jamison for help, a retired intelligence officer. Matt realizes this mission is different and personal. They investigate a hidden world of corruption and human trafficking with international implications.
This isn’t another action-packed suspense story, it’s a tale of courage, tough choices, and the gray areas between duty and belief. With suspense and self-realizations, this book will have readers lose track of time and space.
The Mystery at Los Panos
An ancient treasure. A dangerous jungle. And a family secret that could change everything.
When Susan sets out on a quiet winter morning with nothing more than a leash and a dog named Wolfie, she doesn’t expect to stumble upon a murder. She stumbles upon a mystery that stretches far beyond anything she could imagine, pulling her back into a world she thought she’d left behind.
Working with the brilliant but erratic Bart Eckland, Susan was a young biologist stationed far in the Panamanian rainforest years ago at Los Panos. Though their time together was fleeting, her daughter Teresa, who is going to unintentionally enter the same dangerous environment her mother once escaped, will live with the effects.
Teresa teams with quiet field researcher Scott Morrissey, whose relationship with Bart runs deeper than Bart knows, when Bart vanishes in the Amazon under mysterious conditions. Their path leads them into the heart of Brazil’s rainforest, where stories of Inca gold, illegal mining, and threatened species trafficking create a disturbing image of the hidden world of the jungle.
As they investigate, they discover a global conspiracy spanning continents from the verdant Amazon to the Middle East deserts, Israel’s ancient tunnels, and Caracas’ dangerous streets. A generation-old secret and those willing to kill to maintain it are at the center.
If you enjoy fast-paced adventures with complex storylines, and high-stakes missions, this book will captivate you till the very last page.
Amy Faulks
Amy Faulks is a master of complex world-building, whose artistry is to blend mystery-thriller with deep human emotions. Her stories take readers to a world beyond the stars, where political conspiracy, untamed megafauna and mysterious technology stir a storm of stress and tension. With a great mind for birthing compelling characters in immersive settings, she makes the stories feel both epic and personal.
Her latest work, Colony Three, revolves around the theme of a dystopian era based on survival. Characters in this story find themselves stranded on Arcadia, a foreign land full of mortal secrets, unwanted threats and raw chaos in a collapsing colony.
Colony Three
A journey into the unknown turns into a desperate struggle for survival in Colony Three, an exhilarating science-fiction novel about humanity’s fight to rebuild a colony when everything has collapsed.
When a colony ship, Atropos, crashes upon arrival, the survivors find themselves lost on the planet Arcadia, a beautiful world with Megafauna and danger lurking in the dark. When dust settles, it becomes clear that the planet is not the only threat – something or someone amongst them is sabotaging their efforts.
The story is led by survivors; Leslie, a healer with mysterious abilities, Kayne, a scientist and a soldier at heart, and Kirill, a bold pilot. As zero-gravity disasters, political conspiracy and an epidemic threaten to destroy the colony, they must meet the dangers of Arcadia and discover the truth before it’s too late.
With attention to details, brilliantly created thrilling narrative, and the balance between science fiction and human spirit, Colony Three is an incredible excursion to uncover secrets of the new world.
This novel is perfect for the readers who crave intense excitement through science-fiction, this immersive world will keep the readers hooked to the very last page.
Christine Sadler
Christine Sadler, also known as, C.A. Sadlowski, talks about history with an introspective look at the lives of nursing students in the 1960s. With painstaking care to detail and respect for the professional and personal growth of nurses, she transports readers to an era of change in the nursing profession, the breaking of long-standing conventions, and the maturation of young women who embraced difficult careers that have defined the current healthcare structure.
Her writing style combines careful historical detail with moving personal recollection, allowing readers to vicariously experience the grueling training, camaraderie, and hardships of St. Gertrude’s Hospital School of Nursing’s nursing students, more commonly referred to as St. Trudy’s students. Sadlowski, in her book, not only pays tribute to the bravery of these pioneering nurses but gives readers a glimpse into a formative and important era in the history of medicine.
St. Trudy’s School of Nursing: Cleveland 1963-66
Against the gritty 1960s Cleveland setting, St. Trudy’s School of Nursing revolves around the lives of a group of young women, newly graduated from Catholic high school, as they enter the tough and brutal world of nursing. Through challenging academic study, clinical rotations, and through the stern expectations of their teachers, these students learn that becoming a nurse requires far more than a knowledge of medicine; it requires discipline, personal sacrifice, and commitment.
This book provides a reflective journey through life in residence, characterized by the development of friendship in quiet periods between intense work shifts, and the intersection of the pursuit of academic achievement with the harsh reality of long nights of study, strict housemothers, and the unshakable smell of hospital antiseptic.
Apart from exploring the individual challenges and achievement of the students, the book also talks about the rich history of nursing in Cleveland. It mentions significant institutions such as the Cleveland Training School for Nurses, founded in 1884, which significantly contributed to the development of modern nursing education. Additionally, readers will learn about the national nursing movement, such as the contributions of people like Isabel Hampton Robb, and the establishment of Lakeside Hospital in 1898, which embraced a three-year curriculum, eight-hour workday, and systematic medical lectures – a revolutionary method of nurse training during those days.
At its core, St. Trudy’s School of Nursing is not simply a historical fiction novel; it is a tribute to the dedication, perseverance, and empathy displayed by nurses past and present. With the use of engaging narrative techniques, accurately researched historical background, and a touch of humor and warmth, Sadlowski offers a story that will resonate with anyone who has ever aspired to realize a dream, overcome adversity, or heeded the call to give care to others.
Terrance Glasscock
Terrance Glasscock is a visionary. He’s not just a writer but a historian, poet, and mystery enthusiast with an exquisite fondness for history. From the foggy castles of ancient England to the rain drenched alleys of contemporary Paris, his craft makes readers lose the sense of time and space. His multi-layered narrative consisting of romance, mystery, poetry, and mystery, sheds light onto his enriched background of ancient history.
The Soulfast Trilogy
The latest work of Terrance Glasscock is an entertaining mix of romance, thrill and historical mystery. Simon is professor of European mythology, whose love for Paris is as deep as his passion for unveiling the past. With his good looks and simple attraction, he perfectly fits into the city’s rhythm, but as he stumbles upon a mysterious object hidden behind an antique store, his life takes an unexpected turn.
The opening scene of the book describes exquisite details which take readers as if they were to witness it first-hand – Paris in rain, Seine shimmering under soft drizzle, and Simon absorbing the beauty of the city. He meets with an antique dealer, Jean-Marc, and determines the fate of an exciting journey. What begins as an exchange of banter quickly gravitates when he shows an ancient pagan relic.
With an immersive writing style, Glasscock crafts in a world where past and present collide, where the past is never really buried. The Soulfast trilogy is more than just a novel – this is an experience, drawing readers into a story that leaves an everlasting impact.
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