Larry Plumb Is Still Here by P.A. Kane

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Larry Plumb Is Still Here by P.A. Kane
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Genre – Literary Fiction
Page Count – 368
Cover Designer – Donna Kane

Larry Plumb Is Still Here tells the poignant and often humorous story of a man wrestling with relevance in a rapidly changing world. Larry Plumb, a fifty-six-year-old suburban Highway Commissioner and Senior Utility Specialist in Western New York, is the quintessential everyman – diligent, reliable, and steady. But as his family and community challenge his once-unquestioned authority, Larry finds himself adrift in a sea of shifting societal expectations and personal regrets.
Through daily routines like feeding and caring for his egg hens, navigating tense family dynamics with his wife, Maureen, and daughter, Samantha, and reflecting on his role in a world that increasingly dismisses his perspective, Larry confronts questions of masculinity, identity, and belonging. His professional life is no less complex, marked by municipal politics, confrontational coworkers, and a relentless commitment to doing what’s right, even when it goes unnoticed.
With the help of his oldest friends Mac and Burbs and unexpected moments of connection with the cosmic Dr. Johnson, Larry begins to piece together what it truly means to remain relevant—not just to others, but to himself. Equal parts introspective and comedic, Larry Plumb Is Still Here is a heartfelt exploration of middle age, resilience, and the unyielding quest to matter.

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Growing up in a three-bed/one-bath house with nine siblings in Buffalo, New York, it was a just-the-facts, assembly-line type of childhood. However, one day during my tumultuous teen years in the late seventies, that all changed when my exhausted mom uncharacteristically asked several probing questions about how I was doing, what I wanted of life, and how I would get there—totally confounding me. She was supposed to dish out commands and make declarative statements: take out the trash, don’t come home unless you’re bleeding, every time you masturbate, it’s a hundred years in purgatory. She wasn’t supposed to ask me to articulate inward-looking questions. Self-examination and contemplation were light years beyond my transactional existence.

Eventually, though, due to a certain amount of aimlessness and failure, I did come to consider my mom’s questions and many more about people, time, place, and heritage, which have become the basis of three novels: Written In The Stars: The Book Of Molly (2016); Leaving Jackson Wolf (2018); and Larry Plumb Is Still Here (2024). There’s a book of essays called The Last Playlist: A Sonic Epitaph (2020). On the silly side I ask more questions at my satire website: BuffaloMud.com.

Larry Plumb Is Still Here is my latest long form work and is the story of straight shooter Larry Plumb, as he wrestles with family tensions, changing societal roles, and his own relevance in a world that’s moving too fast. From backyard chicken coops to work dilemmas, Larry Plumb Is Still Here is a touching exploration of resilience, identity, and the courage to keep showing up

I live in West Seneca, New York, with my wife and son (who is taking his good ole time completing his master’s degree). I like quiet black mornings, walking my dog Kaya Francis Bean, trade paperbacks, and The Ramones.

 

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The Sins of Men (The Peter Smith Chronicles) by Danny J. Bradbury

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The Sins of Men (The Peter Smith Chronicles) by Danny J. Bradbury
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Genre – Historical Literary Fiction
Page Count – 446
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Can an impoverished boy overcome his humble beginnings, abduction, and mistreatment to participate in a series of pivotal events in world history? Raised in poverty and hopelessness on the streets of Portsmouth, Peter Beale is forced into a life of crime just to survive. This lifestyle leaves him vulnerable, and he is snatched by an uncaring Naval officer against his will. He is pressed into service aboard the HMS Progress, a British man of war, which quickly becomes his prison.

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I have been writing historical fiction novels since I retired from the Insurance industry. I have a lifelong love of history and enjoy sharing my accumulated knowledge. I was born and raised in Colorado and Wyoming. I served in the U.S. Navy. My wife and I currently live in South Carolina. We have three grown daughters and four grandchildren.

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Moonlight Drive by A.R. Hadley

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Moonlight Drive by A.R. Hadley
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Genre – Literary Fiction
Page Count – 362
A captivating novel about the rocky beginnings of a girl on her way to music stardom and the wild 1980s all-male rock group she follows – through struggles and addiction and love. An epic tale showcasing ways in which the human spirit triumphs and how dreams never truly die!
“I hadn’t read more than a few pages and was hooked, like a junkie craving her next fix. Moonlight Drive is a heartbreaking story of first loves, making it in the music industry, the lure of addiction, betrayal, pain, jealousy, groupies, following your dreams, and so much more. Get ready, readers, for Moonlight Drive is your next addiction.” – N.N. Heaven
The magazines didn’t do him justice.
Not long after running away from home, Daniella Isabella joins Moonlight Drive’s 1985 Live and Wired tour, hoping her long-lost friend, Nick, will remember her.
He’s finally made it – just like he promised. He’s the bassist for one of the biggest rock bands in the world.
Only, he’s reinvented himself and doesn’t recognize his childhood sweetheart. Nicki Quick has been seduced by the decadent lifestyle of the music scene of the eighties, lost in a haze of sex, drugs, and rock ‘n’ roll. And to Nicki, Dani is just another chick in a long line of groupies.
He soon finds she isn’t like the other girls, though. Music runs through her veins – it’s part of her soul. She’s a songwriter. A dreamer. A girl determined to make it in a boys’ world.
This is the story of two musicians. A boy and a girl. A man and a woman. Two people who learn that being lost is sometimes the same as being found.
Author Note: Moonlight Drive is a 57,000-word novel. More literary fiction, less romance. The characters and their intense and realistic actions drive the plot. Contains content that may trigger some readers.

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A.R. Hadley writes imperfectly perfect sentences by the light of her iPhone.

She loves the ocean.

Chocolate.

Her children.

And Cary Grant.

She annoys those darling little children by quoting lines from Back to the Future, but despite her knowledge of eighties and nineties pop culture, she was actually meant to live alongside the Lost Generation after the Great War and write a mediocre novel while drinking absinthe with Hemingway. Instead, find her sipping unsweet tea near a beautiful garden as she weaves fictional tales of love and connection amid reality.

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Encounters With Old Coyote by Laura Koerber

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Encounters With Old Coyote by Laura Koerber

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Genre – Supernatural, Literary Fiction

Page Count – 68

Cover Designer – Tamira Thayne

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Andrea, after her death becomes a ghost and wanders the desert of Nevada in the company of a coyote spirit and his strange friends. As they wander, the tell stories about about life and death, spiders in the bathroom and how Andrea lost her bra at a truck stop, enemy gods and pottery shards, adventures in vomit, what scientists say about dark matter and the fifth force, and other topics both sublime and ridiculous.

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I live on a island in the Puget Sound with my husband and my dogs. I am a retired teacher, presently doing in -home care for disabled people while volunteering at a dog rescue

My degree is in art, and I am a painter, graphic artist, and ceramic sculptor. The writing started about five years ago, a surprise to me and everyone who knows me, since I had never written anything before.

The review for my first book in Kirkus Review: https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-re…

I think I learned to write by reading. I am a voracious omnivore of books.

Author Interview with Laura Koerber

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Where the Ocean Meets the Sky (The Ocean Series) by A.R. Hadley

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Where the Ocean Meets the Sky (The Ocean Series) by A.R. Hadley
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Genre – Literary Fiction
Page Count – 867
Cover Designer – Emily Wittig

A woman grieving the loss of a loved one. A man carrying the weight of the world on his shoulders. Does one fateful summer really have the power to change everything?

Rising photographer Annie Baxter is ready for a fresh start when she makes her way from New York to the sparkly sands of South Beach. A recent college graduate, she has no plans other than to distract herself with sun and surf, pictures and friends.
 Then a man named Cal Prescott steps in front of her lens…
 When he first spots Annie on the stairs of his best friends’ home, he’s enamored.
 It doesn’t matter if they only have the summer. Or if twenty years separate them. They soon find that nothing — not temporary circumstances, panic attacks, or an age gap ­— can keep them from starting what their hearts desire. 

Follow Annie and Cal on a journey of love, loss, and what it means to give up defining themselves. 

Author Note: Previously published in 2018 as The South Beach Connection Trilogy: Landslide, Wanderlust, and Continuum — Where the Ocean Meets the Sky combines those three books into one, as the author originally intended. Although heavily edited, combined, and relaunched since their initial release, the overall story remains. Literary fiction meets contemporary romance — a love made in the stars. A connection not to be forgotten.

200,000-words — over 800 pages. Part of the two-book series: The Ocean Series. Either book may be read first. The reader must choose. This is the main title. Contains graphic content that may trigger some readers.

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A.R. Hadley writes imperfectly perfect sentences by the light of her iPhone.

She loves the ocean.

Chocolate.

Her children.

And Cary Grant.

She annoys those darling little children by quoting lines from Back to the Future, but despite her knowledge of eighties and nineties pop culture, she was actually meant to live alongside the Lost Generation after the Great War and write a mediocre novel while drinking absinthe with Hemingway. Instead, find her sipping unsweet tea near a beautiful garden as she weaves fictional tales of love and connection amid reality.

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The Ocean in His Veins (The Ocean Series) by A.R. Hadley

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The Ocean in His Veins (The Ocean Series) by A.R. Hadley
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Genre – Literary Fiction
Page Count – 356
Cover Designer – Emily Wittig

He’s a surfer. A loner. A man on a quest to rid himself of pesky feelings.

After his grandfather passes away, Cal Prescott begins to see life differently.

Money wants his attention, women beckon, and the pursuit of success becomes a cycle he can’t seem to break.

Follow Cal from age sixteen to forty-five, from 1985 to 2014, from the tangerine fields of Ojai to the neon streets of Miami Beach — from being ready to take on the world to hitting the bottom of the sea.

Cal spends half his life waiting for the perfect wave to break over the horizon, looking for comfort, searching for peace — and he’ll chase every last drop of water … until he finds release.

Author Note: Part of the two-book series: The Ocean Series. The Ocean in His Veins may be read as a companion to the main title Where the Ocean Meets the Sky or as a standalone. Please be advised that reading this story first may change the way Cal is initially perceived in the latter book. This can be good or bad, depending on the reader.

Literary fiction, not romance. The characters and their intense and realistic actions drive the plot. 76,000-words. The Ocean in His Veins details Cal’s life from age sixteen to forty-five. The story ends the night he meets Annie in 2014. Contains graphic content that may trigger some readers.

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A.R. Hadley writes imperfectly perfect sentences by the light of her iPhone.

She loves the ocean.

Chocolate.

Her children.

And Cary Grant.

She annoys those darling little children by quoting lines from Back to the Future, but despite her knowledge of eighties and nineties pop culture, she was actually meant to live alongside the Lost Generation after the Great War and write a mediocre novel while drinking absinthe with Hemingway. Instead, find her sipping unsweet tea near a beautiful garden as she weaves fictional tales of love and connection amid reality.

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Limbo by Laura Koerber

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Limbo by Laura Koerber
Genre – spirituality fantasy literary fiction
Page Count – 156 pages

Alyse died and she isn’t happy about it. She finds herself stuck in a ghost town occupied by dead souls with whom she has nothing in common. Her reaction to her loneliness and isolation is to throw a neighborhood block party for her little outpost in the afterlife. In the course of her party-planning, Alyse experiences a series of revelations about herself and other people–lessons she had failed to learn while alive–which leave her happier and wiser at the end of the story.
From Booklife (Publisher’s Weekly):
“Koerber weaves a slow, captivating exploration of life, death, and the place of kindness and forgiveness in the salvation of the spirit.

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I live on a island in the Puget Sound with my husband and my dogs. I am a retired teacher, presently doing in -home care for disabled people while volunteering at a dog rescue

My degree is in art, and I am a painter, graphic artist, and ceramic sculptor. The writing started about five years ago, a surprise to me and everyone who knows me, since I had never written anything before.

The review for my first book in Kirkus Review: https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-re…

I think I learned to write by reading. I am a voracious omnivore of books.

 

AUTHOR INTERVIEW WITH LAURA KOERBER

 

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