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Below you will find out a little more about our wonderful authors! Check out their bios, blogs, social networking pages, and videos. Also do not forget to check out all of their amazing books...

 

Christopher Jon Luke Dowgin

Christopher Jon Luke Dowgin is usually called, Chris. He lives in Salem. In fact if you ever ventured into Salem you probably seen him wearing a 12 foot long scarf walking through town drinking a quart of milk and eating a dark Cadbury bar. If you want to help support his habit, he always is willing to accept a Cadbury bar and some milk from you. Sometimes he answers to "Viking Chris", "The Norseman", and even Fritter by one large Indian. At one local music festival it was said that if you have been in Salem for 15 minutes and have not met Chris something is wrong. So if you ever see him in Salem or traveling about, stop and say hi... He might just draw you a picture in your book. Click here for the latest news from Chris.

Winner of 3 Mass. Cultural Grants for his Salem Trilogy. He has written 12 books. Illustrated 10. Salem Secret Underground: The History of the Tunnels in the City is his first foray into non-fiction. which was followed by the hit Sub Rosa. Oh yeah, he still is looking for investors to build his event center on 200 acres in Manchester-by-the-Sea. Vingolf will have a highway exit off 128 thirty minutes from Boston. Vingolf is a premiere wedding destination, 5 star accommodation, conference center, and music showcase. For more info click here! For gallery of Chris Dowgin's illustrations click here!

Illustrated Books:

The Salem Trilogy:

A Walk Through Salem

Other Illustrated Books:

Murder on the Common Mr. Pelinger's House & Intergalactic Roadshow Jasper: A Bunny's Tale
The Moon, The Sun, and 2 Fish
Tales from Mr. Pelinger's House      

 

Web Sites

Author Page: The Wonderful World of Chris Dowgin.

Salem Trilogy: Fun Games

Salem Smugglers' Tour: Learn about the smugglers in Salem and how they shaped American history up to the present.Stories about the real murder behind the Game Clue and how it led to 3 presidents deaths. Learn about the man from Salem who was the founder of JP Morgan and the engineer of the 2008 Financial Collapse in 1837. Plus see pictures of the tunnels they had built. Take a tour today!

Salem Secret Underground: Facebook Page with New Photos of the Tunnels Once They are Found. Plus Historic Images and Car Crashes from Salem, Ma.

Abbey Road in Salem: 40th Anniversary Photo Shoot.

 

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Sheila Farren-Billings

Sheila grew up in a family of artists. Works in progress in all the contemporary arts, musical, written and performance art were strewn about her childhood home. This inspired her to develop her creativity and experiment with mediums and styles.

When she received her first big 64-color box of Crayolas, Sheila could sit for hours delighted to line up the crayons in endless color combinations. Now she works mostly in acrylic paints, watercolors, and pencil & ink; but the desire to combine beautiful, bright, saturated color is still a driving force in her art. Her work has appeared in many shows and galleries in the North Shore area of Boston, earning numerous awards and grants. Plus she is a member of the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators.

She has two illustrated books for sale and we are expecting a lot more from this great talent in the future.

Illustrated Books:

Salem Which City: Activity Book Fun Preview Page! Print it out and solve the Maze!

Salem Which City: Coloring Book Fun preview Page! Print it out and do some coloring!

 

Web Site

Sheila Farren-Billings: Great Books and Art!

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Matthew J. Fraser

Matthew's "Core Belief" is there is no one solution that's going to solve all of our problems. Rather, progress will be many smaller steps forward, such as more local farming, more walking paths or learning skills. My primary objective is to contribute to the well-being of as many people as I can. From 1995 to the summer of 2015 I did that mostly through teaching, but now I do so mostly through writing useful books. In the past I emphasized more serious writing, although now the emphasis is on language learning books and fiction. Below tells you the story behind the fruits of my labor that I have put here for you.

Read more in his book Ideas for America.

 

 

 

Non-Fiction Books:

Ideas For America: Let the Sun In Critical Infrastructure for Children

Web Site

The Language Guy

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Jerry O'Connor Bottari

Jerry comes from the original stock of Salem. Her descendant was the prosecuting Judge Hathorne and one of the accused women in 1692 he had hanged.... Well that is life in Salem and you will enjoy this spitfires classic poetry and photographs about the town she loves.

 

Poetic Works:

Salem Through The Looking Glass

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Will Pirone

Will's favorite spot is a seat by a window. If it is a barstool and the street is active, so much the better. Behind the counter in a store looking through an open door works just as well. So does a bedroom overlooking a park. A bus or plane will also do, as long as the seat or scene is moving. They are all metaphors for a curious, restless mind.

Will started writing poetry as a boy after discovering his father's high school text of One Hundred Narrative Poems. In his early teens an older cousin sent him a copy of The Beat Generation and the Angry Young Men. That same year he stumbled on a facing page bilingual edition of Baudelaire which he thought would help with his French studies. These random events pointed the way to a whole new world. He's been gone ever since. Open up to any page, and start reading. You are sure to enjoy it!

Poetic Works:

Poems and Songs

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Mi Keaton & Ana Steele

As if the age-old conflict between Heart and Brain wasn't difficult enough, you should of seen the fight between these authors to finish this work of art. Has this modern day changed Love's very chemistry? Equality of the sexes, Social Engineering- you know that Metro-sexual stuff, and the development of our "criteria box"... have really made affairs of the Heart more difficult for Brain to control? Anatomy of a Love Affair is a tale of Love where everything happens in an opposite way....Ana Steele and m i keaton tells the tale in a totally new and different way!!

You will love their book, even if they do not love each other anymore.

 

Fiction Books:

Anatomy of a Love Affair

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Peter R. Senn

This social activist who is remembered for his inability to pass a sandwich cookie without eating the cream filling while protesting in some rally for the labor unions. He was the Ivy League teacher for the cost of city college tuition. He believed everyone deserved the best opportunity for the best education available.

Dr. Peter R. Senn describes in his better world book the core beliefs which shaped the European Union. In the process he casts a new light on the past, present, and future of Europe. His book is a must-read for students, scholars and all who are concerned with International Affairs in a fun style that captivates the reader in much the same way that the author did in Sophie's World. Just because he stuffed cotton in his ears at a Beatles concert, does not mean he disagrees with everything from Europe. Just a lot. We at Salem House Press have the privilege to publish his latest book.

 

 

Non-Fiction Books:

The Ugly European

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Lisa Deschenes


Life long resident of Salem and frequent jogger within Greenlawn Cemetery which was featured within Rob Zombies Lords of Salem. Avid motorhead and procurer of the macabre.

She is the author of the Salem Cemetery series.

 

 

 

 

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Jules Verne

Jules Verne (/vɜːrn/;[1][2] French: [ʒyl gabʁijɛl vɛʁn]; 8 February 1828 – 24 March 1905) was a French novelist, poet, and playwright. His collaboration with the publisher Pierre-Jules Hetzel led to the creation of the Voyages extraordinaires, a series of bestselling adventure novels including Journey to the Center of the Earth (1864), Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (1870), and Around the World in Eighty Days (1872).

Verne has been the second most-translated author in the world since 1979, ranking between Agatha Christie and William Shakespeare. He has sometimes been called the "Father of Science Fiction", a title that has also been given to H. G. Wells and Hugo Gernsback.

 

Fiction Books:

Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea

 

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Nick Demakes

Yes! Nick is a little Batty, or at the very least batty for bats! Such a loveable character who paints with yesterday morning's coffee and colored pencils. Rendering wonderful images from the past with a new face. His versions of classic Victorian horror characters all have animal faces. Mostly bat faces, but others like Sweeney Toad hop up from time to time. From Frakentoad to Madame Bathory Nick has created a grand menagerie.

Calendar

Gentlemen Bats Calendar

Web Site

Hellequin Art Gallery

 

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Donna Girouard

Donna Girouard is an assistant professor of English at Livingstone College in North Carolina, and lives with her two rescue dogs and five rescue cats. When she's not teaching or writing, she works on her project vehicles: a 1978 Ford truck and a 1985 Pontiac Firebird. 


Although her essays have been published in various literary magazines, The Other Side: Closing the Door is her first book-length collection.

Non-Fiction

The Other Side: Closing the Door

Web Sites

Author Site

Blog

Goodreads logo

 

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Richard Aliberti

Richard Aliberti is an artist originally from Boston. The 3rd born son in a family of 7 children, Richard first became inspired by Leonardo DaVinci and the Italian Renaissance in his youth and throughout his early work he has nurtured that inspiration by building a career as a successful artist working primarily in the plastic arts through the media of painting and sculpture. Some of his notable works include commissions of a bronze Dante Alighieri statue that is at the Dante Alighieri society in Cambridge Ma and the bronze plaque that greets visitors to St. John Parish on North Square, Boston. Richard's work is also in a permanent museum collection in the Kennedy museum on Cape Cod. Most recently, Richard has been actively creating internationally, as he is embarking on some new chapters of his colorful and diverse professional experiences.

Non-Fiction/ Art

Universal Man: Da' Vinci's Soul Reborn

Web Site

www.leonardolives.com

 

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Barbara Szafranski

Barbara Szafranski,The Salem Love Psychic, has been an icon in Salem, Ma for over 30 years. She is a very powerful and spiritual psychic who has helped thousands on their way to their personal bliss and have connected just as many to their loved ones that have passed on. She is currently lecturing around the country and putting together an online class and producing lectures to be distributed on YouTube.

Visit her at Angelica of the Angels in Salem Ma.

Non-Fiction

Burnt Toast and Oranges: The Miss Adventures of the Salem Love Psychic

Web Sites

Author Site

Blog

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Robert E. Howard

 

 

Robert E. Howard is famous for his characters Solomon Kane, Kull, and Conan the Barbarian. He was part of H.P. Lovecraft circle which included Clark Ashton Smith. All three wrote for Weird Tales magazine. After finding out his mother went into a coma Howard went out to his car and shot himself in the head in 1936. This was after his favorite illustrator quit Weird Tales as well. Lovecraft would die the next year.

Fiction Books:

Conan the Brabarian: Tales of High Adventure

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Arthur Rackham

 

Arthur Rackham has been the main influence of Brian Froud (Fairies, Goblin Companion, Lady Cottingham's Pressed Fairies Book) and has illustrated many of the most famous tales of his time. Lewis Carroll was a bit weird...


Non-Fiction

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

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Charlotte Bronte

Charlotte Brontë (/ˈbrɒnti/, commonly /-t/;[1] 21 April 1816 – 31 March 1855) was an English novelist and poet, the eldest of the three Brontë sisters who survived into adulthood and whose novels became classics of English literature.

She enlisted in school at Roe Head in January 1831, aged 14 years. She left the year after to teach her sisters, Emily and Anne, at home, returning in 1835 as a governess. In 1839 she undertook the role as governess for the Sidgwick family but left after a few months to return to Haworth where the sisters opened a school, but failed to attract pupils. Instead, they turned to writing and they each first published in 1846 under the pseudonyms of Currer, Ellis and Acton Bell. Her first novel The Professor was rejected by publishers, her second novel Jane Eyre was published in 1847. The sisters admitted to their Bell pseudonyms in 1848, and by the following year were celebrated in London literary circles.

Brontë experienced the early deaths of all her siblings. She became pregnant shortly after her marriage in June 1854 but died on 31 March 1855, almost certainly from hyperemesis gravidarum, a complication of pregnancy which causes excessive nausea and vomiting.

 

Fiction Books:

Jane Eyre

Dante and Gustave Dore

Dante is the famous man from Florence who was kicked out on the point of death if he returned. So he got even and wrote and eternal story with all of his enemies being punished in hell in great detail. Dore is the preeminent illustrator of the nineteenth century with a macabre taste. Dali and Durer also share the date of his death and had very similar styles as him.

A new classic edition of one of the world's favorites. Buy it today!

 

Fiction Books:

Dante's Inferno

 

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Jane Austin

Jane Austen was an English ( 16 December 1775 – 18 July 1817) novelist known primarily for her six major novels, which interpret, critique and comment upon the British landed gentry at the end of the 18th century. Austen's plots often explore the dependence of women on marriage in the pursuit of favourable social standing and economic security. Her works critique the novels of sensibility of the second half of the 18th century and are part of the transition to 19th-century literary realism. Her use of biting irony, along with her realism, humour, and social commentary, have long earned her acclaim among critics, scholars, and popular audiences alike.

 

Fiction Books:

Pride and Prejudice

Alexandre Dumas

Alexandre Dumas, also known as Alexandre Dumas père (French for 'father'), was a French writer. His works have been translated into many languages, and he is one of the most widely read French authors. Many of his historical novels of high adventure were originally published as serials, including The Count of Monte Cristo, The Three Musketeers, Twenty Years After, and The Vicomte of Bragelonne: Ten Years Later. His novels have been adapted since the early twentieth century for nearly 200 films. Dumas' last novel, The Knight of Sainte-Hermine, unfinished at his death, was completed by scholar Claude Schopp and published in 2005. It was published in English in 2008 as The Last Cavalier.

Prolific in several genres, Dumas began his career by writing plays, which were successfully produced from the first. He also wrote numerous magazine articles and travel books; his published works totalled 100,000 pages. In the 1840s, Dumas founded the Théâtre Historique in Paris.

His father, General Thomas-Alexandre Dumas Davy de la Pailleterie, was born in the French colony of Saint-Domingue (present-day Haiti) to Alexandre Antoine Davy de la Pailleterie, a French nobleman, and Marie-Cessette Dumas, a black slave. At age 14 Thomas-Alexandre was taken by his father to France, where he was educated in a military academy and entered the military for what became an illustrious career. Dumas' father's aristocratic rank helped young Alexandre acquire work with Louis-Philippe, Duke of Orléans, then as a writer, finding early success. Decades later, after the election of Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte in 1851, Dumas fell from favour and left France for Belgium, where he stayed for several years, then moved to Russia for a few years before going to Italy. In 1861, he founded and published the newspaper L'Indépendent, which supported Italian unification, before returning to Paris in 1864.

 

Fiction Books:

Three Musketeers

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D.H. Lawrence

David Herbert Lawrence (11 September 1885 – 2 March 1930) was an English writer and poet. His collected works represent, among other things, an extended reflection upon the dehumanising effects of modernity and industrialisation. Some of the issues Lawrence explores are sexuality, emotional health, vitality, spontaneity, and instinct.

Lawrence's opinions earned him many enemies and he endured official persecution, censorship, and misrepresentation of his creative work throughout the second half of his life, much of which he spent in a voluntary exile he called his "savage pilgrimage".[1] At the time of his death, his public reputation was that of a pornographer who had wasted his considerable talents. E. M. Forster, in an obituary notice, challenged this widely held view, describing him as "the greatest imaginative novelist of our generation."[2] Later, the literary critic F. R. Leavis championed both his artistic integrity and his moral seriousness.

 

Fiction Books:

Lady Chatterley's Lover

L. Frank Baum

Lyman Frank Baum (/bɔːm/;[1] May 15, 1856 – May 6, 1919) was an American author chiefly famous for his children's books, particularly The Wonderful Wizard of Oz and its sequels. He wrote 14 novels in the Oz series, plus 41 other novels, 83 short stories, over 200 poems, and at least 42 scripts.

 

 

Fiction Books:

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

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H. Rider Haggard

After returning to England in 1882, Haggard published a book on the political situation in South Africa he experienced, as well as a handful of unsuccessful novels, before writing the book for which he is most famous, King Solomon's Mines. He accepted a 10 percent royalty rather than £100 for the copyright. A sequel soon followed entitled Allan Quatermain, followed by She and its sequel Ayesha, swashbuckling adventure novels set in the context of the Scramble for Africa (although the action of Ayesha happens in Tibet). The hugely popular King Solomon's Mines is sometimes considered the first of the Lost World genre. She is generally considered to be one of the classics of imaginative literature and with 83 million copies sold by 1965, it is one of the best-selling books of all time. He is also remembered for Nada the Lily (a tale of adventure among the Zulus) and the epic Viking romance, Eric Brighteyes. His novels portray many of the stereotypes associated with colonialism, yet they are unusual for the degree of sympathy with which the native populations are portrayed. Africans often play heroic roles in the novels, although the protagonists are typically European (though not invariably). Notable examples are the heroic Zulu warrior Umslopogaas and Ignosi, the rightful king of Kukuanaland, in King Solomon's Mines. Having developed an intense mutual friendship with the three Englishmen who help him regain his throne, he accepts their advice and abolishes witch-hunts and arbitrary capital punishment. Three of Haggard's novels were written in collaboration with his friend Andrew Lang who shared his interest in the spiritual realm and paranormal phenomena.

 

Fiction Books:

She

Cory Mc'Neil

This is Cory's first book with another one coming soon. He is an avid historian always asking what if this had happened with a twisted comedic mind. He is also the producer of the Red Sock Show. His book actually might be finished one day...it just needs to be formatted.

 

Fiction Books:

Don't Invade Russia

 

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J.M. Barrie

Barrie had a long string of successes on the stage after Peter Pan, many of which discuss social concerns, as Barrie continued to integrate his work and his beliefs. The Twelve Pound Look (1910) concerns a wife leaving her 'typical' husband once she can gain an independent income. Other plays, such as Mary Rose (1920) and Dear Brutus (1917), revisit the idea of the ageless child and parallel worlds. Barrie was involved in the 1909 and 1911 attempts to challenge the censorship of the theatre by the Lord Chamberlain, along with a number of other playwrights.

In 1911, Barrie developed the Peter Pan play into the novel Peter and Wendy. In April 1929, Barrie gave the copyright of the Peter Pan works to Great Ormond Street Hospital, a leading children's hospital in London.

 

Fiction Books:

Peter and Wendy

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