Memoirs of a Starving Artist

October 3, 2014 By

memoirs-of-a-starving-artistWhat if you risked everything to follow your dreams… and they didn’t quite come true? Would you regret having tried at all? How about if those choices led to a life full of freedom and adventure? This is the story of one man whose 25 years as a struggling writer meant learning to accept near constant rejection while at the same time traveling the world on a shoestring and reveling in all of the wonders that life has to offer. It is a tale of love and loss, hopes and aspirations, and ultimately the realization that true happiness comes not from succeeding on someone else’s terms, but in the ability to redefine success on one’s own.

“Memoirs of a Starving Artist” follows the author on a lifelong journey from Australia to Tahiti, Ireland to Estonia to Budapest and beyond. It is an inside look at what it means to be an ex-pat American writer in the era of the ebook revolution.

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Kill Daddy

September 2, 2014 By

kill-daddyTrauma from the past becomes a part of who you are. It weighs down on the present, suffocating life and preventing you from healing and moving on. If you continue to carry this baggage around long enough, you will eventually become who you are not. Believe in the essential goodness of your true self, however, and you will accept the past, but let go of the burden and finally become the real you. This is the story of one man’s struggle to accept the past and move on before it destroys everything he is and could ever hope to be. In desperation Gerry flees society to save his sanity and ends up in the remote villages of East Africa. Midst the poverty, he encounters hope and more love than he could imagine. Will it be enough to save him? Can he repair the damage done to him in his childhood or will his abusers win in the end?

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Pony Tales

July 25, 2014 By

pony-talesPony Tales is based on the true life adventures of Peta, a young woman trying to establish a riding school in the wilds of Canada. Read about her escapades and those of her students as they battle their way through eccentric characters, poverty, and the treachery of those mothers willing to do anything to win! If you love ponies, funny characters and mischief this is an entertaining read that will delight. 

Abandoned in a strange country with three small children, Peta struggles to keep ponies from wandering, goats from scaring unsuspecting mothers and cows from walking through fences as she tries to establish her riding school. She is plagued with the strange antics of parents, farmers, and even has to battle the mayor to rescue her cow from the local pound! Barely more than a kid herself she tries to keep her pupils from too much mayhem as they scare the locals while galloping madly through their gardens. This is a heart warming story about the struggles and triumphs of an unusual life.

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Autobiography of Charles R. Barefoot Jr.

June 17, 2014 By

autobiography-of-charles-r-barefoot-jrCharles R. Barefoot Jr. the World Imperial Wizard for The Church of the Nation’s Knights of the Ku Klux Klan had everything, fame, wealth, good friends and a great marriage. Then one day things began to fall apart. This first episode tell how all his troubles began, as well as giving insight into his childhood and the events that made him who he is today. Determined to keep his integrity and abide by the code, he finds himself fighting for his life as those he thought loved him conspired to murder him. This real live man lived a life like those we watch in movies or read about in fiction novels. Imagine at the age of only five years old suddenly being responsible to defend the lives of those you loved dearly. This was only one of the incidents that molded Charles Barefoot’s life.

Excerpt: It was dark, he couldn’t see anything. Junior opened the window so he could hear the car. Junior then jumped down and turned off the inside lights hoping it would help him see better and keep them from seeing him. Junior hated that it was a bit foggy and he couldn’t see. Junior knew that if they turned on their lights, he’d know exactly where to shoot. But if not, he’d have to rely on his hearing. Propping himself up at the best angle to do the most damage. Junior sat in anticipation with the gun aimed and cocked. Junior listened carefully. He wasn’t afraid, but he didn’t like not being able to see the car. Junior was determined to keep them from getting shots off that could hurt his pops or Lonnie.

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Home

May 23, 2014 By

homeThis book is in tribute to my father. It brings into focus all the longing we have for an ideal place, the home of our childhood. The idea for it came to me during the mourning period for his passing:

This is the place where he put pen to paper…
But clung to the wall, the shelves are now bare.
All that remains of his words is but vapor …
All you can spot is but a dent in his chair

Six years after I discovered my father’s poems, a moment which happened in my childhood home while mourning for his passing, I present a tender tribute: a collection of poems and prose, half of which is written by me, and half—by my father, the author, poet and artist Zeev Kachel. I have been translating his poems for nearly a year, with careful attention to rhyme and rhythm, in an effort to remain faithful to the spirit of his words.

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