 |
LoneTree Publishing Agency www.LoneTreePubAgency.com |
|
LoneTree Publishing Agency www.LoneTreePubAgency.com |
Home
Frequently Asked Questions
Book Order Form
LoneTree Book Club
Meet the author: Col. Rodney L. Cron
Col. Rodney L. Cron is a retired senior, USAF intelligence officer (Defense Attaché to more than 20 African countries), a command pilot, world traveler, editor, multi-published author (fiction and nonfiction titles, magazine articles, special publications, etc.), taught “Writing Salable Fiction” at Ohio University (MS in English), judged romance contests (7 years), and has served as a freelance editor and agent for the past 15 years.
At Cross Purposes
A neophyte minister, Julia Parker faces barrier after barrier when she meets Donald Ferguson at Lake Walloon, Michigan. Unable to complete a “love” sermon for lack of experience, she – like Donald – hides secrets. Donald, on the fast track to ordination, initiates a religious center usurping Julie’s cabin. A boating accident triggers dreams about the sister he killed and the Gulf War. Julie, once date-raped, believes herself barren due to a previous injury. Julie suffers to succeed in her ministry while Donald saves Julie’s cabin. Hiding his role in the cabin fiasco, he asks Julie to join him as a TV evangelist, but she hates TV evangelism. Growing ill from overwork while “turning around” her church, Don takes her on a recuperation cruise. On their return, her 8220;Elders” scuttle her and Julie runs to Donald for solace. In a triple-twisting, on again-off again ending – Julie finally finds love in Donald’s arms and finishes her “love ” sermon.
This book is available from PublishAmerica.
Codeword: Apollyon shows terrorism’s “second wave” – following the bombings of the World Trade Center and Pentagon on September 11th, 2001, from the microcosmic perspective of two US intelligence officers who seek out local terrorists in their midst, fall in love, and put their lives in the balance ... as did the brave souls during “9-1-1.”
This book is available from IUniverse.
Just a Piddlin' Little, Two-Bit Murder
The sleepy town of Logan, Ohio, awakens to a series of bloody, “sexy” murders –involving the sheriff, his nubile wife, and several innocent bystanders – the wily ruse of a clever killer to even the score with a former CIA/DIA buddy. The dark, misty murders terrify the community suggesting a lurking monster.
Dr. Robert A. Carstairs, well-known author and criminology professor at Hocking College, risks his friendship and life to capture the elusive murderer. Or does he? In turn, he “fingers” the sheriff’s wife, the deputy, even the sheriff himself – a longtime friend –then forces the shadowy killer to emerge from the mists and darkness to face death.
Underestimating the former colleague’s “ Appalachian smarts,” the killer proves this was no “Piddlin’ Little, Two-bit Murder” after all.
As with all Cron’s books, the ending is a startling, unexpected triple-twist. Will the killer, the pursuer, or both, pay with their lives? And which is which?
This book is available from PublishAmerica .
Meet the author: Rodney Cron III
Rodney Cron III is a retired US Navy Master Chief who served as a nuclear reactor operator onboard submarines. He is a multi-published author (children’s fiction, computer programs and manuals, cookbooks, etc.) and a high school teacher (with a BS in Education and an MS in Creative Writing), who also has acted as a freelance editor and agent for the past 15 years.
Missed Connection
JT, 13, on earth since her mother’s death, is invited by her archeologist father to spend the summer on a distant planet. She misses the space bus and takes a cab, then crashes on a planet where magic works but machines don’t. She must hike 1,200 kilometers to be rescued!
Daariel, 14, a sorcerer’s apprentice, hasn’t completed his training; now his sorcerer has died! With no guidance, he ruins a farmer’s crops and embarrasses a young girl. Learning of JT’s crash landing, the town volunteers Daariel as a guide, ridding themselves of him.
The trek takes several weeks, with the two facing multiple dangers. They are challenged by dragons and trolls and ... each other. They argue, they fight, but they grow to like each other.
Reaching the spaceport, Daariel sees JT off, both promissing to write. Daariel apprentices to another sorcerer. JT reunited with her father. Will they ever meet again?
My Mother's Recipes
This book is dedicated to my mother, Ilogene C. Cron (1922-1998). These are her recipes, and those of her mother, Theodora (Babe) Mays, handed down by generations, gleaned from magazines, newspapers, book covers, and ads over the years. They made them theirs by using and reusing the recipes, revising them until they were totally satisfied, as were those of us who had the opportunity to sample the end products.
Try these recipes yourselves. As I have been told – repeatedly – use the recipes exactly as given the first time, then modify them to suit your taste. (I can’t stop myself from adding more garlic, onions and mushrooms than are called for!)
Good luck and good dining!
St. Peter's By the Sea UMC Cookbook
This book is dedicated to the members of St. Peter's By the Sea UMC in Corpus Christi, TX. These are their recipes, and proceeds of sales are returned to the church.
This cookbook contains a special recipe for child raising!
CLASSROOM BINGO Computer Program: This program was designed for use in any classroom using definitions. Cards can be printed two to a sheet of paper, with or without a free space. Up to 75 different possibilities can be used. Here, though, instead of calling out a letter and a number, the teacher provides the definition and the student finds the word or symbol(s) that correspond. This works really well for review prior to testing.
CLASSROOM TESTWARE Computer Program: This program allows construction of a test using multiple-choice question and answer sets. The test can then be printed and copied for classroom use. Students who are missing can take the test on the computer, with each student so tested getting a different sequence of questions. The program will also grade each test taken on the computer and provide that information to the teacher only.
MISSED CONNECTION Reading Program: The same book as above but in computerized format. The reader can select new names for the two main characters (their own and a friend’s, we expect). If used in a classroom, the characters cannot be changed but various students can read using the same computer (sequentially, of course) with a timed reading rate (minimums are set by the teacher). The student can read faster than the minimums but they cannot reduce the minimums.
The Girl in the White Bikini
An erotic coming-of-age tale set in Charleston, South Carolina, in 1973.
When Shaun's older brother, Don, is killed in a motorcycle accident, Shaun's dreams turn to nightmares. Don's death, and later return as a ghost, intent upon having sex, using Shaun's body, with the Girl in the White Bikini, forces Shaun, a fairly good high school student, to turn to drugs and alcohol. Picked up several times for drug abuse, Shaun faces being remanded to a juvenile detention center for up to eighteen months. Instead, the probation counselor gives him another chance. The counselor gets Dave and Carl, two neighborhood adults, to provide Shaun the place and opportunity to go straight. They put up a pool in their backyard and take Shaun under their wings. Dave and Carl see it as a chance for Shaun to learn to live with the turmoil of his life. Shaun and Don see it as a chance for Shaun to gain sexual expertise to get him ready to take on the Girl in the White Bikini. That chance finally comes, although it is nothing like what both Shaun and Don expected. As a result, Shaun shoves Don's ghost out of his life, believing that what he has learned from Dave, Carl, and his other friends is more important than Don's lust for sex.
Meet the author: John W. Brown
John W. Brown is a USAF, Korean War veteran who spent most of his business career managing steel service centers. There he became acquainted with the mills, factories, machines and people he delights in writing about. John calls upon his depth of color and motivation to immerse you in a “behind-the-scenes” tapestry of crime and passion. His knowledge of industry and its participants figure prominently in his writing.
Death Rides a Carousel
A hit-and-run accident becomes a murder when the body turns up missing during the burial. The victim's brother, Dan Starling, to solve the killing, digs into a bucket of worms involving his brother, a lover, the funeral director, and even the sheriff. Sorting it out, Dan becomes a target and the lover's cat is killed. Both witnesses and suspects fear for their lives. High tech drug sales intermingle with love until Dan fingers the murderer trying to kill him, too ... with a steel carousel.
Rogues' Bluff
Calling the bluff of a Satan's potpourri of mysterious rogues... John W. Brown's second mystery novel -- like his first, Death Rides a Carousel -- is set in southern Indian, not far from the Ohio River. The fictional Rogues' Bluff was long ago the site for wayward flatboatmen, thieves, and fugitives. Now a different breed of rogues contend for a valuable piece of land slated for industrial development -- with murder as the price they are willing to pay. With a pace that is both rapid and compelling, Brown moves detective Richard Scott between scenes in the boardrooms and country clubs of privileged company life to the remote woodlands, cave-dotted hills, and cliff-hanging roads of the Hoosier state's rural landscape. Readers, too, will hang on the cliffs of this always-interesting plot that combines industrial espionage with mystery and dark and hidden crime.
Death Wears A Cocked Hat
A deadly secret lies in the depths of Rose Cutter's Quarry. When Richard Scott returns home to Bloomington, Indiana, to take control of a struggling business, the welcome is somewhat less than warm. But things heat up as he uncovers unsavory goings-on at the business, his house is torched, and attemts on his life are made. Further complicating things is a reunion with his college sweetheart who has asked him to help solve a murder in which her son is implicated. Scott is attracted to her, but he doesn't want to get involved in a police matter. However, as he sifts through the jagged fragments of the events around him, trying to figure how the pieces fit, Scott discovers that he is involved -- more than he ever could have imagined -- in murder and mystery compounded.
Death Rides a White Horse is John Brown’s fourth mystery. Here, he reaches far into the past to launch Richard Scoot – sometime private eye, sometime lover, always entrepreneur and businessman – on a new trail of murder and intrigue. Here he stages another of his up-to-date, convoluted and multiple-plot novels filled with spine-tingling excitement. While this hard-hitting story has roots extending deep into history, the book’s unholy wedding of Japanese World War II atrocities with today’s terrorism provides a contemporary, twenty-first century account of horror. Its story and action are timely and modern. Its conclusion is menacing and unpredictable. Its threat is as vivid as today’s headlines.
Back to the Top