Alpha and Omega is the fifth annual anthology by writers from my area of Australia.
We have more than 20 writers each year contribute short stories and poetry.
As a journalist, I am the only professional writer in our group but we have produced a good-looking product with some cracking yarns and thoughtful poetry.
What a shame this is the last one in the series! I really like this author’s style. Her characters are ‘real people’ – what they think, what they say, how they feel. The descriptions of the locales make you feel you are actually there. And the story line is not just real-world but allows me, the reader, to use my own imagination to add to the content – one of the qualities I look for in books.
Trudy, the heroine, is starting a new life – following her passion, I suppose, and immediately meets situations that key in to her special abilities. Danger, nastiness, evil but also friendship, caring and protection. The full spectrum is here. I must be changing into an old romantic (something for which I blame Trudy and her powers!!!)
There have to be more in this series, Ms Sharp.
Vision IV: The Reluctant Psychic Blooms is available from
Before I introduce our song, I would like to share some amazing sculptures from World War I soldiers. These photographs were release to coincide with Remembrance Day, November 11, this year, commemorated by Commonwealth countries.
Now for our song which references both Jane's book and war.
Save the Book: Vision of a new star writer: Vision of a new star writer Bent Banana Books is proud to announce the 4 th and final eBook in Jane Sharp’s Vision series. ...
Bent Banana Books is proud to announce the 4th and final eBook in Jane Sharp’s Vision series.
Jane is a rare talent soon to be praised as an exponent of popular literature.
To celebrate Vision IV: The Reluctant Psychic Blooms, Vision I and Vision III are available for 99 cents from November 6 (US time) at 99 cents for a limited time.
Here are the details of the Vision series.
Vision Vision: The Reluctant Psychic introduces police detective Trudy Harper who battles with acceptance of her erratic ability which she knows will be lampooned by her hard-bitten colleagues. Five graphic and sometimes macabre short stories bring the mundane and the Otherworld together. Author Jane Sharp brings refreshing realism and splashes of humor to a popular genre. Meet chilling and heart-warming spirits as Trudy battles for justice in this world and its parallel.
Trudy, she’s back. Reluctant psychic, Detective Trudy Harper, is back with her paranormal “gifts’’ stronger but still beyond her conscious control.
And that could be deadly for the living and undeadly for troubled spirits.
Vision II: The Reluctant Psychic Returns follows the ghost mystery series debut of suspense stories which gathered reader praise including favorable comparisons with police procedural television shows, The Mentalist and Law & Order.
Psychic detective Trudy Harper flees Australia to England after the murder of her police partner. She has surrendered her badge but she cannot set aside her troublesome psychic gifts. In more psychic mysteries, Trudy finds anguish, horror and suspense amid scenes of ordinary domesticity. Trudy is called upon to use her police procedural skills administer justice across two worlds and the “in-between”. Her own romantic happiness, her loved ones and her physical safety are in jeopardy as the psychic detective finds you can fly but you cannot flee your inner world or the supernatural one.
Everybody loves Trudy Harper. Except for the living and the dead who want to kill her. The Reluctant Psychic Blooms is the final eBook in the popular Vision series starring Jane Sharp’s psychic detective Trudy Harper. Trudy moves to the country and makes a new friend in female vet Gus who needs help. Gus’s father Paul is a skeptic and 15 years older than Trudy. But they become a psychic crime fighting duo. And perhaps more? These tales set in Australia carry the Sharp signature of suspense, the clash of the domestic and the supernatural, and off-beat humor.
Here us our song, one of my faves. Pretend it's Jane
Last year, Writers’ Anthology
Group (WAG) in conjunction with Bent Banana Books produced the popular
collection Serendipity. Again Alpha and Omega has short stories and poetry,
illustrated by local artists, mainly photographers
This year saw the launch of the Peter
Campbell/ WAG Literary Awards with the champion’s trophy going to Paimarire
Teague, a Year-11 student from Dakabin State High School. Paimarire’s story Hope
amid War is a dystopian story and, as they say, a page turner.
Here are some launch photos courtesy if previous anthology contributor Raelene Purtill
Fellow author and musician Maurice Hardy performs two of Bernie's (my) parodies
The 2014 WAG short-stories anthology Alpha and Omega is available in print and eBook world-wide from October 25.
On that day in Australia we will have the physical launch at Pine Rivers Art Gallery.
For those flying over from London, New York and Paris for the launch starts at 1pm.
Last year, Writers’ Anthology Group (WAG) in conjunction with Bent Banana Books produced the popular collection Serendipity. Again Alpha and Omega has short stories and poetry, illustrated by local artists, mainly photographers
Now available world-wide in every format
This year saw the launch of the Peter Campbell/ WAG Literary Awards with the champion’s trophy going to Paimarire Teague, a Year-11 student from Dakabin State High School.
Reason #1 why you want to buy Alpha and Omega
Paimarire’s story Hope amid War is a dystopian story and, as they say, a page turner.
Reason #2 why you want to buy Alpha and Omega
We All Meet in the Stars by Phil Devine is a fascinating real-life account of how Phil provided free viewings through his relatively powerful telescope.
It was a celebration of the 2009 International Year of Astronomy in the desert heart of Australia in Alice Springs. Superbly told, this story is a wonderful and surprising tribute to the human spirit.
Reason #3 why you want to buy Alpha and Omega
A young story-teller is 16-year-old Sarah L Wilson.
Her futuristic story, First Do no Harm, is set in a youth orphanage. It is a tough exciting moral tale which breathlessly rushes the reader to its denouement.
Reason #4 why you want to buy Alpha and Omega
Journey’s End by Sue Sander is a modern classic about the death of a loved one.
Without giving the plot away, I will simply say you will remember this one long after the last word. Superb.
Reason #5 why you want to buy Alpha and Omega
Anne Olsson’s A Step Too Far is a brilliant telling of the progress through life of a group of high-school friends.
Distinctly Australian, the story nonetheless will touch the international soul.
Reason #6 why you want to buy Alpha and Omega
Some people believe that self-promotion is an evil of the modern age.
I will simply say, you may enjoy my quirky suspense story The One About the Farmer's Daughters
Reason #7 why you want to buy Alpha and Omega
There are another 15 stories, not to mention good poems and attractive artwork.
All this is at a most reasonable price given the collective labors of love that have produced it.
