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My lifelong dreams never included falling in love. Graduating top of the class, going to college somewhere far away and starting a life in a place where my alcoholic mother could never find me were the first three goals on my list. Then the unexpected auto accident with Mother, after her regular doses of vodka, altered all of that. With her gone, my life and my perspective changed forever.
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Desperate to find Joanie so I could break free, I returned to my old school. The search led me to her, my Aphrodite, a familiar lost look in her soulful eyes. Fantasies of her forced reasoning from my mind. I had to meet her! Once fallen, would her love for me survive the ghostly secrets haunting us?
Desperate to find Joanie so I could break free, I returned to my old school. The search led me to her, my Aphrodite, a familiar lost look in her soulful eyes. Fantasies of her forced reasoning from my mind. I had to meet her! Once fallen, would her love for me survive the ghostly secrets haunting us?
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About P. G. Shriver
Born in California, and raised in
Minnesota and Texas, P.G. spent her early years writing poetry and winning
poetry contests, while escaping the drama in her own childhood by reading great
books for children. Ever since her earliest days, she loved story telling. She
wrote numerous short stories in High School and her early college years,
continually trying to relive that first experience at the age of seven of
seeing her name in print in the local newspaper.
P.G. sought her education at the University of Texas,
where she studied English, literature, and Education. During the entire process
of earning her BA and M.Ed, she never stopped writing and trying to be
published. It was during this time that
her first children's book No More Stinkbugs! was accepted for publication by Castle Keep
Press. Many of her stories develop from nature.
P.G. graduated college and began her career in education,
another great world that offered real experiences to humor and delight through
children's books. She watched children interact, bringing to surface her own
experiences as a child and yet more events to write about. While teaching, she
discovered many great books for young people, such as The Watsons Go to
Birmingham-1963, Maniac Magee, So. B. It and many more. She is a fan of Dean
Koontz novels, too, and loves reading fantasy and paranormal books.
P.G. was married 20 years in March 2012 and has a bright,
young daughter who has begun her own college career. She lives on a small farm
in Texas with her family and animals. P.G. has experienced great love and loss
throughout her life. Those her family has lost have dedications in her books.
P.G. has two young adult books published, Dead
Perfect and The Gifted Ones: The Fairytale
the first book in The Gifted Ones Trilogy. She also has several children's
books written under Gean Penny, her pseudonym.
P. G. has since dissolved her contract for her first book with Castle
Keep Press and moved the title to her own imprint, Gean Penny Books.
Excerpt
We strolled around the block, talking,
laughing, getting to know one another. I had waited a lifetime, and then some,
for the girl to come around, and she squeezed my hand at that very
moment. Her soft chocolate hair doused in strawberry scents drove me insane.
When her eyes crinkled up at me in question, or smile, the urge to embrace her
overwhelmed my senses. I had never felt this way before. Even feelings of
Joanie, as I dreamt she was mine, were never this strong.
I had waited and waited for this since
the race, and now she was here. I couldn't wait to tell Franky…
And I would have to let her go. How
could I let her go? I just knew that when she discovered the truth, she would
leave me.
The thought ripped at my heart, creating
a pain so intense, my eyes glistened and I winced.
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