K Adrian Zonneville

Ian Patrick Perling is a mild-mannered music fixer and personal manager to many of the top rock and roll, soft rock, and singer/songwriters of the past fifty years. He is friend to the biggest stars and local garage bands. He is also quite happily anonymous. For all the help he has been to friend and client alike he is completely unknown outside the professional music circles. Until Fate and Fame decide standing in the wings watching his friends is not what he deserves. They believe he deserves recognition and his own fame. They are completely wrong though Ian will have to suffer through their ministrations before all realize the truth of that. The Sperling Chronicles is the journey of a man blithely enjoying life until two minor goddesses decide they should control the man's life. He seeks refuge from fame in London, New Orleans finally taking on a tour of a lifetime with friends and musicians. Fifty years of music and love go off in search of meaning, fun, and companionship

He was an immortal. He had mentioned it casual to people over the past several millennia and especially over the last eight years, since, yeah, since, usually to chuckles, knowing nods and a pat on the arm. It was a great conversion stopper. They didn't believe him, he didn't care, he didn't know why he tried. Yeah, he did, so they would leave him alone. He could prove his immortality if he had to, as he had a hundred, a thousand times before. He chose not to. He'd thought, as humans had evolved, they would be more accepting of concepts beyond their limited understanding. Their minds would be open to possibilities previously thought impossible, but they were philistines He would show them. It was simple. All he had to do was live forever. Or a reasonable facsimile thereof. Though he didn't have to live forever, did he? Not anymore, not when everyday was an eternity. That was immortality, every single day without Her. Cover design, art, and brilliance Janet Sipl

Kim has passed. Carrie is lost, alone and crushed under the weight of a thousand waves. Her life has, once again, been torn from her. Her heart broken, crushed and there is no one catching her freefall. Is that all that life holds for her? Pain, heartbreak, betrayal? Maybe she would have been better off if Dennis had never found her on the roadside and she had been allowed to throw herself into the ocean. Sometimes life is too much.It is then Kim's people showed up, out of nowhere, out of the ether, not quite all of them but enough so you would never know the difference. None could say, how exactly, they knew Kim had passed, or why they had come to this house in Newport, they just seemed to know. And none of them were bothered or curious about the happenstance, they accepted it was supposed to be this way.They came. They cooked. They drank. And they reminisced. And then they were gone. All except Dennis and Henry, the doctor from New Orleans. They will stay a little longer but even they have lives they must return to. And she will be left with memories, emptiness, loneliness, sorrow and no direction, no plan no future.Kim had found her salvation in her journey, maybe Carrie can do the same. She will complete what Kim started. It will be a spiritual quest to bring her closer to who and what Kim had been. The journey will allow Carrie to experience some of what Kim did in her last few months of life. She will discover her true path by following Kim's.But one person's journey is another person's dead end, as Carrie soon finds out. If she is too find any peace, any contentment, any chance at life and love, she must find her own path. Not follow a path not meant for her.She comes to that realization quickly, only to flounder in insecurities, her past, her guilt and her loneliness. If she is to dig out of the hole she has allowed herself to slip into she will have to build her own ladder. And she will have to find it alone, on the road.It is a trip of discovery of a country, of who she is and who she will become, of her love for Kim, whether she can shake off her distrust of humanity and whether she can break out of her self-created prison.

A Travelogue of Empathy and Humanity. A young woman is given a medical death sentence. Realizing she has never truly lived but, rather, has dedicated her life to 'the Plan', she makes the decision to collect the stories of others, seeing as how she has never had any of her own, so she has something to take with her when she passes. Setting out on a mission to discover life she meets ordinary people with extraordinary stories and soon comes to the realization that everyone who has lived has a wonderful, life defining story, even herself. Traveling the highways and two lanes across America she finds stereotypes are false, people are people and small towns and big cities contain the most interesting folks. She comes to collect stories and people but instead creates her own life. Live, laugh, love and learn while dancing with the Reaper