Have a Magical Day

These are not feel-good, happily-ever-after stories like Disney movies, nor are they dark or violent. Each story is from a different perspective (tour guide, PR staffer, detective, fantasy author, housewife, state patrolman, and businessman among others) and gives insight into life in 2024 at a huge theme park and large entertainment corporation. It is not adoring of Disney, or scornful, but the stories include a variety of characters you might meet if you spent a little free time in the park, and they offer a variety of perspectives about the role of fantasy and of Disney in modern American culture. Stories included are Have a Magical Day, Space Mountain Getaway, Stealing his Heart, Slapping a Mickey, Afternoon Snake, Detective's Tale, Garbage Duty, Downpour, Attic Bride, Just Ashes, Cocktail Party, Small World Problems, If the Shoe Fits, and It is what it is. All were written in 2023 or 2024. It is the author's eleventh volume of short stories.

$4.79 + shipping, Amazon paperback
$1.99 on kindle
free on kindle unlimited

Walking Boots

Walking Boots & Pleistocene Geology - Kindle Special TH-SAT - true story of a guy who walked 100,000 miles - https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09B1LNNMZ

Devour that Spaghetti

Devour that Spaghetti - classic short stories
Kindle Special SAT-MON
ACX verson narrated by Bill Andersen
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BF4KRQLR

Puritan Leveretts

Back in the day
Puritan Leveretts
Kindle Special SAT-MON
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07SZS9P87

Great review

for Prairie Leveretts
from a blog I love and trust!
https://booksthatmakeyouthink2.co.uk/2024/09/11/prairie-leveretts-thomas-leverett/

Tall Corn State - An Iowa story
Lively personal novel with actualist poets, jumping trains, & unrequited love
Kindle Special SAT-SUN
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08XQ9612R

Prairie Leveretts

A plains pioneer biographyBr>
James Walker Leverett (1830-1916) was born in 1830 and came out to Illinois on a stagecoach with his parents as a boy of four. He grew up on a farm near Quincy, but ended up moving out the prairie three times, once trying to homestead in southeast Nebraska Territory. This story tells about his life. I was interested in it for several reasons; one, the period of time is fascinating. Two, I also had many children and bounced around the prairie. Three, a lot of people claim him as a descendant and it's interesting to map out how we're related and make the connection. The story is interesting for more than the Leverett family, though. He's a guy who was totally in his period, knowing how to build and join wood to make houses, and he has a lot of wisdom to share with the modern generation.

Kindle version here.
Paperback version in review.
Hardback coming! (maybe ACX?)

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TH-TUE on kindle

Harvardinates

Now on ACX, narrated by Anne Charlotte:

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(Har-VAR-di-NAH-tays) The Life and Times of John Leverett, first secular President of Harvard
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0D893GHM9

Walking Boots
& Pleistocene Geology
Kindle Special FRI-SUN May 24-26
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09B1LNNMZ

Free Range Flash Fiction - 30 stories, thousand words or less (fewer)

Kindle Special THU - SAT - https://amazon.com/dp/B07F1DBRXQ

Tall Corn State

Tall Corn State - An Iowa Story
Kindle Special Sat.-Mon.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08XQ9612R

Tall Corn State

A wonderful review page for Tall Corn State...

https://www.bestbookeditors.com/uncategorized/tall-corn-state-by-thomas-leverett

Five Second Rule

Five Second Rule - 20 (classic) short stories to pick up
Kindle Special SAT-MON May 4-6
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00XPUT9I6

Devour that Spaghetti

Kindle Special WED-FRI May 1-3 https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BF4KRQLR

Harvardinates

Kindle Special
WED-SAT
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CNC4X71R

Devour that Spaghetti

Now on ACX, narrated by Bill Andersen
https://www.amazon.com/Devour-That-Spaghetti-Other-Stories/dp/B0CPFXLZGX

Story of My Life

Now on ACX, narrated by Bill Anderen
The Story of My Life - Autobiography of Lorenzo Reynolds, the Treasurer of Hillsdale College, 1862-1877
#hillsdale #michigan #pioneer #biography

Coming Soon

The Story of My Life
On ACX

Author Interview

Here's a wonderful author interview of me by Laura Lyndhurst. By the way I'm a huge Laura Lyndhurst fan; I love her books and her blog. She's based in UK, not too far from my brother.

https://booksthatmakeyouthink2.co.uk/author-interviews/

A Dozen Crime Stories

Now only $.99 on Kindle. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B006QYYKV4

One should be able to attend Harvard without intending to become a Puritan minister - this was a principle established and defended by liberals like John Leverett. This is his biography. #harvard #harvardalumni https://amazon.com/dp/B0CND89PZS

Five Second Rule

20 short stories to pick up
KINDLE SPECIAL
FRI-SUN Jan. 5-Jan. 7
https://www.amazon.com/Five-Second-Rule-20-short-stories-ebook/dp/B00XPUT9I6

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