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Publisher's Pride: Books on Bestseller Lists - Spunky Grandmas and Other Amusing Characters (Mogren)

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  Today's publisher's pride,  Spunky Grandmas and Other Amusing Characters   by Ken Mogren, reached #98 on Amazon in the category of limericks and humorous verse. Description Spunky Grandmas and Other Amusing Characters  is a collection of over 100 entertaining, fictional mini stories about comical human behavior. Written in sonnet form, each of 22 chapters starts with a cartoonish illustration by Joella Goyette that introduces the theme of the stories that follow. Humorist, Ken Mogren, features grandmothers who are anything but stereotypical, as well as other folks whose behavior is best described as unconventional. Keywords Funny short stories,  Humorous character sketches,  Comic poetry book,  Mini stories in sonnet form,  Illustrated humor book,  Books about quirky characters,  Funny grandma stories,  Ken Mogren humor writing,  Funny grandma book,  Non-stereotypical grandmothers,  Feisty seniors in fiction,  ...

In Observance of Poetry Month

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  In observance of poetry month, MSI Press would like to share with its readers and fans books from two authors worth reading: One will bring a comforting smile to an unbidden tear. The other will bring an outright laugh page after page. Time spent with comforting and/or happy thoughts is time well spent indeed. Marti Wells-Smith's  Lamentations of the Heart Mingled with Peace and Joy  combines prose and poetry in a comforting missive for bereaved parents. Through its pages, one finds not only the resilience of the author but sources for anyone to develop needed resilience in the face of devastating life circumstances. When it came out, it quickly became one of Amazon's "hot, new releases." Lamentations of the Heart soulfully combines contemporary free verse poetry and nonfictional prose to tell the story of one mother's grief following the death of her only child. The author interweaves scriptural passages with the inevitable struggles to accept and make sense of...