A Marriage Together By Terry Dean

As we get older and we begin to slow down

Our hairs turns to gray and is faded from brown

We don’t always hear the things that are said

And it seems to take longer to get out of bed

We suddenly find that our friends fade away

A few at a time but we remember the day

When we first met that someone we knew was the one

And the years spent together and all of the fun

The good times and bad we shared every day

We remember them all in every word that we say

And even though many years have all passed us by

The time we spent together brings a tear to our eye

Our children don’t seem to grasp the long and hard fight

To keep us together as one family each night

The long hours of tears that we shed every day

Just to make sure that our kids could find their own way

The ups and the downs whether good or bad

We never allowed them to see us as sad

We wanted them to know that a family comes first

No matter the troubles, no matter the worst

We wore out our knees every night as we prayed

And made that in Church is where we all stayed

We raised them with God the reason we love

And gave thanks to our Lord in heaven above

A marriage is a commitment that you make out of love

And it is blessed by our Lord in heaven above

You started with love and through good times and bad

Remember the children and don’t make them be sad

So remember these words that I am writing today

And keep them beside you and remember to pray

A marriage together means a family that’s strong

And staying together will never be wrong

Simon & Schuster Steps Into Self-Publishing - Every ones Making the Change

Simon & Schuster is testing the water in the booming self-publishing market.


The publishing company announced Tuesday that it was teaming up with Author Solutions, based in Bloomington, Ind., to create a separate house called Archway Publishing, which would be available for authors wanting to self-publish fiction, nonfiction, business or children’s books.

Self-publishing is a rapidly growing sector of the book industry, but big publishers have been tentative about entering the market, partly for fear of tarnishing their brand by allowing content they have not reviewed to be published under their name.

Simon & Schuster believes it has gotten around that problem by teaming with Author Solutions, which already has a robust self-publishing business, including partnerships with Harlequin, which specializes in romance books, and Thomas Nelson, which focuses on Christian books.

Simon & Schuster hopes to distinguish Archway from other self-publishing options by positioning it as a premium service, at a premium cost to the authors. In addition to the standard editorial, design and distribution services normally offered by Author Solutions, Archway will offer a new options created in consultation with Simon.

Authors can buy packages ranging from $1,599 for the least expensive children’s package, to $24,999 for the most expensive business book package.

In return, authors will get a range of services, like having access to a speaker’s bureau that will help find speaking opportunities and a video production department that creates and distributes book trailers.

Kevin Weiss, the chief executive of Author Solutions, hailed the deal as a step forward for self-publishing markets. “This is the largest non-niche publisher that we have established a partnership with to date,” he said in an interview. While the venture offers the expertise of a major publishing house, it will be operated and staffed by Author Solutions. With no Simon & Schuster personnel involved, and without the Simon & Schuster name attached in any way to the final product, Archway’s prices — significantly higher than the competition — could be a hard sell.

But Adam Rothberg, vice president of corporate communication for Simon & Schuster, said that another attraction of Archway was that Simon & Schuster would be carefully monitoring sales of books completed through the new venture and would use it as a way to spot authors it might want to sign to a contract.

One odd twist of the deal is that Author Solutions was purchased by the British publishing giant Pearson in July. Pearson has made Author Solutions part of Penguin, a Simon & Schuster competitor. But since Simon & Schuster was already far along in the planning with Author Solutions for the new brand, it decided to go forward anyway, Mr. Rothberg said.

Fear by Terry Dean "Teaser #3"

“Good afternoon I am Jonathan Sanders with the FBI Forensics Lab; as Bill said we were able to piece together from forensic evidence the following timeline and events. Susan arrived back in her parking garage located two and a half blocks south of her apartment building at approximately 8 o’clock, and before walking back to her apartment she stopped at a neighborhood bar call “Charlie’s Corner Bar”. Susan had been going to this establishment since she was a child with her father. The bartender and waitress said she was only there for about twenty minutes before leaving for home. They said she seemed normal with no obvious concerns and was just glad to be home. While in the bar they said a woman described as about 5 foot 10 inches weighing about 110 with black hair bought a drink for Susan before she left. Both individuals working at the bar had never seen this woman prior to this night. Susan did not appear to know the woman but once the drink was delivered she turned to thank the woman but she had apparently left, so she quickly downed the drink and left. It was at this point in the timeline that we do not have definitive information. But our investigation revealed there was a high probability that something was placed in her drink. After leaving the bar and walking back to her apartment, Susan became nauseated and stepped into an alley. She never exited this alley according to surveillance cameras monitoring the street, and shortly after Susan entered the alley, a black SUV was seen racing from the area. It is clear after investigating her apartment in Georgetown that she never made it home, and there was no evidence to suggest there were any problems. We were able to get a partial license plate on the SUV and later tracked it back to a car rental agency located at the Montgomery County Airport in Virginia. We were able to track the vehicle back to a hanger located on the east side of the airfield that housed a private jet. A mechanic working in the same area said the plane arrived sometime in the afternoon, and apparently left the same evening. Checking with the FAA and other agencies we were able to find that the jet had flown in from Mexico, and returned the same day. The tail number on the aircraft was apparently altered and we were not able to gain any information about the owner.” The plane was inspected by Airport Customs Agents and checked clear upon arrival from Mexico. I will now turn this over to David Morse lead agent with the Drug Enforcement Agency."


Slowly one after another of the agencies laid out the history and events that lead to the abduction of Susan Anderson by the Carlos el Diablo Cartel. They painted a picture of a vindictive, arrogant, power hungry individual who did not care about anything or anybody. Carlos’s history was strewn with blood and violence by an individual who just didn’t care. This man would kill his own mother if it would make him a dollar, and he had shown over the years he had no respect for life, law enforcement, or anything else any reasonable individual would. But through all the smoke and mirrors, there was one thing that none of the agents in this meeting, or those in the field realized. One important fact that was never even considered and this fact would lead to one of the largest and bloodiest conflicts any of these agencies would ever forget. And the clock was ticking, three hours and counting.