Bøger af John Sheirer

Another fine book from Meat For Tea Press. "John Sheirer's Stumbling Through Adulthood: Linked Stories showed his immense skill for traditional-length short stories. For Now: One Hundred 100-Word Stories shows equal facility with the microfiction form. These stories range from gentle humor so light it might float off the page in a soft breeze to dense, powerful tales that threaten to sink through the book's cover and bore directly into the earth's molten core. "Here, in these finely wrought tales, is a universal current of humanity that connects us all." - Robert Scotellaro, author of Ways to Read the World. "Unsettling in their precise focus, Sheirer's brief and crystalline works sharpen the reader's awareness of the irrevocable. - Gina Barreca, author of They Used to Call Me Snow White, but I Drifted. "With so many big stories in such compact spaces, John Sheirer will titillate and delight you." - Joshua Michael Stewart, author of Love Something and Break Every String

Scantic Books is proud to present a new work of fiction by award-winning author John Sheirer. What would you do if you helped someone escape from prison and then realized he actually belonged there? Gary Sanderson is a thirty-something, idealistic college professor who takes on the project of teaching at a prison in southern Vermont. During his first prison course, Gary befriends an innocent-seeming inmate named Sam Curtis. Won over by Sam's charisma and background, Gary decides to help Sam escape. But Sam turns out to be not at all who Gary thought he was and soon begins to terrorize Gary. Gary is torn between going to the police (and incriminating himself in the escape) and trying to take on the psychopathic Sam by himself. Ultimately, Sam is too much for Gary to handle, so he seeks the help of Sandy Fren, the tough but empathetic police detective. She and Gary work to outsmart and capture Sam before he can achieve his final, twisted objective: killing Gary. Drawing on his own experience teaching college courses in prison, John Sheirer creates a gripping tale of manipulation, determination, and redemption. "Uncorrected is a thrilling and thoughtful exploration of a character's personal crisis while he's struggling to do the right thing. This one kept me on the edge of my seat while making me think and feel on many different levels about the concepts of good and evil." - Bill Pullman, Screen Actors Guild Outstanding Actor Nominee

50 Photographs and 1,000 ideas to Inspire Creative Writing The perfect cure for writers block This book is filled with intriguing photographs of scenes, people, objects, and situations with 1,000 ideas to stimulate your imagination

Share a winter wonderdog adventure! This book includes dozens of breathtaking photos of Libby, the delightful Border Terrier and star of several previous books. And the book finishes with the poem, "Winter Treat," the best poem every written featuring dog poop. In the words of Robert Floyd, Award-Winning Photographer and Owner/Director, Robert Floyd Gallery and Learning Center, "John Sheirer captures the moment exceedingly well with keen seeing and an enviable ability to think like his subject. John and Libby give us a refreshing, highly entertaining experience as we cherish every image, celebrating and sharing John's passion for life, photography, and creating winter adventures with Libby."

Scantic Books is proud to present John Sheirer's new collection of flash fiction. These eighty-three stories range for a few lines to a thousand words, and each one of them leaves readers wanting more. "How could I not love Too Wild, the new collection by John Sheirer? He aims exceptionally high and hits the target far more often than not. These tiny stories are evocative, illuminating, consummately entertaining, and fully realized. And Sheirer's extended pieces are as successful as his cleverly compressed works." -- Michael C. Keith, author of Stories in the Key of Me and Let Us Now Speak of Extinction. "Too Wild is absolutely amazing work. Incredibly beautiful, witty, and somber. Some of these stories would have made me cry had I not been in a public setting." -- Cavin Bryce Gonzalez, Editor, Back Patio Press. "John Sheirer's Too Wild is a wonderful collection of vignettes and flashes, some sad, some humorous, and some purely observational. All together, these tiny slices of life will make you notice the miraculous hidden in the mundane. Bravo!" -- Howard Odentz, best-selling author of The Dead (a Lot) series.

Scantic Books is proud to present a thrilling story that's as timeless as it is current. Howard McCoy may have been exposed to COVID-19, so he abandons his seemingly happy life and isolates himself in a remote cabin for two weeks and examines the life choices that led him to that place. Which is more frightening for a semi-cynical, middle-age advertising executive: a pandemic or a deep look into his own life? Howard is about to find out. ----- "From Pepys to Camus to Saramago, pandemics generated a distinctive literature that is reflective of their times. John Sheirer's Fever Cabin proves just such a work for the current COVID-19 crisis, a window into the crisis itself and the society that slumbered as it spread. Fever Cabin offers a compelling and insightful antidote to cabin fever." - Jacob M. Appel, author of Einstein's Beach House. ----- "With language as tightly-wound as the protagonist himself, John Sheirer takes us on the physical, mental, and emotional journey of a man's quest for distance and connection: hiding out in complete isolation, confronting his past, pondering his future, and seeking answers to life's most troubling questions. This mini Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance is raw and powerful, wonderfully crafted, and deeply satisfying." - Robin Stratton, author of Some Have Gone and Some Remain. ----- "An extraordinary tale of self-examination and personal discovery that will make us realize that we all have much more in common than we might think." - Herm Rawlings, author of Family Tradition. ----- All proceeds from this book will benefit The Community Foundation of Western Massachusetts COVID-19 Response Fund (to help people affected by the pandemic in the author's home area) and Feed America (to provide food assistance for people affected by the pandemic across the country).

Positively Toward the Negative collects four years of John Sheirer's popular columns from his hometown paper, The Daily Hampshire Gazette. Each piece features Sheirer's trademark ability to connect complex issues with everyday experience. Strong-willed but not inflexible, literary but not abstract, humorous but not cynical, and insightful but not pedantic, Sheirer's accessible essays offer a look at specific moments in this crazy time that we've been slogging through while also placing events from 2016 to 2020 in the context of deeper history, society, and culture. Readers will experience this book as an important conversation with a trusted friend who comforts, challenges, and inspires-all at the same time.

Donald Trump doesn't want you to read this book. Trump is president. Unfortunately, that bell can't be unrung. But what if ... What if, for a very brief period of time, Donald Trump had actually developed a sliver of moral decency just before the election? What if he thought he was going to lose the election? Even more importantly, what if he thought that he should lose the election because he realized that he's a terrible person with no business being president? What if Donald Trump spent a few days with an audio recorder making notes for the concession speech he thought he would have to deliver on election night? What if those notes were made public? What would Donald Trump sound like if he had something resembling a conscience? Open this book and find out ...

Has the United States gone insane? Considering the political circus of recent years, the easy answer is "yes." But John Sheirer looks deeper to identify the underlying confusion and show us the core American values that can overcome the insanity, let us laugh at ourselves, and find common sense solutions to our nation's confusion. We don't expect political commentary to come in the form of compelling literature, but Sheirer's gentle wit, knowledge of the issues, compassion for his fellow humans, and highly tuned B.S. detector lift this book from being just another partisan rant to a literate and readable examination of our shared citizenship and humanity. "John Sheirer brings an everyman's approach to any number of issues. Like reading your favorite comic strip first, John's columns take priority over everything else on the Op-Ed page, always making sharp and compelling points without resorting to the sledgehammer techniques of others." - Bob Flaherty, Morning Host, WHMP-96.9 FM, 2014 New England Radio Personality of the Year, Author of novel "Puff"

The stories in award-winning author John Sheirer's Stumbling Through Adulthood show the connections between intimate, personal experiences and the broader culture of America during recent years. These stand-alone stories feature a range of characters who reappear in multiple tales like surprise visits from long-lost friends. Some protagonists grow through different life stages, adding depth and texture as they age, change, and adapt. Sheirer's beautiful writing combines realism, struggles, failures, triumphs, relationships, family, work, humor, ethical conundrums, politics, and even a few otherworldly visitors. Through it all, empathy and hope bind these characters together as they stumble through adulthood, strive to catch each other when they fall, and step toward a better future. "John Sheirer's Stumbling Through Adulthood is a clever, witty, and intoxicating collection that will leave readers staggering with delight. As deft as he is original, Sheirer entertains with his distinctive oblique vision and a cast of characters both memorable and lovable. These are first-rate stories by a veteran master of the genre." -Jacob M. Appel, author of Einstein's Beach House. "John Sheirer is a master storyteller-and a generous one, too. His characters are decent, funny, and relevant to the way we live. You won't want to put this book down once you start reading." -Susanne Davis, author of The Appointed Hour "In precise, spare, accessible prose, John Sheirer creates intense and masterful portraits of his widely varied characters' deeply personal worlds by conveying subtle but rich internal conflict and point of view. The characters who populate Stumbling Through Adulthood stay with you, like the friend with whom you have had a particularly intimate conversation." -Sherri VandenAkker, writer, director, producer of My Name Was Bette: The Life and Death of an Alcoholic

Twice as BrightHigh school basketball coach Phil Novak has a heart attack and dies during a pick-up game--only to discover himself playing for the 1957 Boston Celtics.Making CorrectionsPrison teacher Gary Sanderson meets and befriends an innocent-seeming inmate and helps him escape. But the inmate turns out to be not at all what he seemed.Something BorrowedValerie and Ken are a happily married teacher and social worker, but they are fed up with being poor. So they devise what seems like a perfect plan--split up, court and marry rich people, take them for a fortune in the divorce, then come back together and live happily-ever-after. Award-winning teacher and writer John Sheirer wrote these screenplays while working as a movie theater projectionist between "real" jobs. Although these visions never made it to the big screen, readers of this book now have the chance to project them through their own imaginations.