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Successful San Francisco attorney Bryce Gibson is agonizing over the skiing-accident death of his wife, Lauren, and decides to take an extended trip to Europe.  It’s a “Sentimental Journey” revisiting places where he and Lauren had spent many happy days.
While flying to London, Bryce becomes acquainted with seatmate, Traci Dunne, who is on her way to Ireland to visit her brother Michael, a Catholic priest.
Two days later Bryce receives a telephone call at his hotel from Traci, telling him that her visit with her brother went badly, and she is headed for London.
Traci explains that she is a member of a Catholic religious order and has had her life disrupted when she was unfairly dismissed from her teaching position.  Her brother, whom she had expected to help her, has refused to do so, telling her “not to rock the boat!”
Bryce, noting the unfairness and illegality of what has occurred, offers to be her attorney.  She accepts, and Bryce sends Bishop Robert Grogan an e-mail informing him of the impending suit.  He then suggests that Traci join him on his journey so he’ll have time to learn more about her and to prepare an airtight case for the anticipated lawsuit.
Traci accepts Bryce’s suggestion to join him on his journey, and they begin to visit Burges, Metz/Luxembourg, Prague, Budapest, Salzburg, Florence, Provence, Barcelona and Paris.  As their days turn into weeks, Bryce and Traci realize they are falling in love, but both are hesitant to express that love.
Will Bryce be successful in solving Traci’s legal problems?  Will their initial feelings become full blown love?  All the answers and much, much more await you in Jim Kennison’s touching novel, A Sentimental Journey.

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admin August 11th, 2010

Where Free Men Gather, the first book of Dave P. Fisher’s The Poudre Canyon Saga trilogy will soon be available from Bottom of the Hill Publishing.

Mountain men, Voyageurs, pioneers, and explorers make up most of the branches of Dave’s family tree. His mother’s side was from Canada where the men plied the fur trade in the Canadian wilderness. Some ventured into the Rocky Mountains during the beaver boom in the 1820’s. Others moved down into the wilds of Northern Minnesota and established trading posts among the Chippewa Indians.

On his father’s side were soldiers, veterans of the War of 1812, and the Spanish American War. His natural grandfather died out West while working as a telegrapher for the railroad. His step grandfather, born in the 1800’s, was Blackfoot Indian from Montana. He was a hunter and horseman who brought a great deal of Old West influence into the Fisher family.

Dave brings his heritage and experience alive in every line he writes, Where Free Men Gather is his finest work yet. Look for Where Free Men Gather at Amazon.com, Barnes & Noble and other fine books sellers available September 2010.

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admin May 10th, 2010

Bottom of the Hill Publishing has contracted with LSI for printing all Bottom of the Hill books for print. This agreement also includes book distribution through Ingram Book Company. This agreement with LSI and Ingram allow Bottom of the Hill to offer greater distribution and printing opportunities to authors.

About LSI and Ingram:

Ingram Distribution Channel

Using the distribution strength of Ingram Book Company your book always appears in stock and available to all Ingram customers. With over 30,000 wholesalers, retailers and booksellers in over 100 countries your titles will gain the maximum exposure in the market today.

Other Distribution Channels

We maintain relationships with the most comprehensive portfolio of booksellers serving consumers today as is evidenced by the list below. The practices of individual wholesalers and retailers determine whether your titles show as “in stock.”

Lightning Source Distribution Partners

• Ingram
• Amazon.com
• Baker & Taylor
• Barnes & Noble
• NACSCORP
• Espresso Book Machine

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admin May 5th, 2010

Bottom of the Hill Publishing has published Clairvoyance by Charles W. Leadbeater for Kindle.

Clairvoyance means literally nothing more than “clear seeing”, and it is a word which has been sorely misused, and even degraded so far as to be employed to describe the trickery of a mountebank in a variety show. Even in its more restricted sense it covers a wide range of phenomena, differing so greatly in character that it is not easy to give a definition of the word which shall be at once succinct and accurate. It has been called “spiritual vision”, but no rendering could well be more misleading than that, for in the vast majority of cases there is no faculty connected with it which has the slightest claim to be honored by so lofty a name.

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admin April 30th, 2010

Bottom of the Hill Publishing has published Alcoholic’s Anonymous 12 step guide  The Little Red Book for Kindle.

Filled with practical information for those first days of sober living, this little book: offers newcomers advice about the program, how long it takes, and what to look for in a sponsor; provides in-depth discussions of each of the Twelve Steps and related character defects; poses common questions about AA and helping others, identifying where to find answers in the Big Book; features non-sexist language.

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admin April 29th, 2010

Barry Goldwater’s Conscience of a Conservative is now available for Kindle.

Bottom of the Hill Publishing has released Conscience of a Conservative as an ebook for Kindle available now from the amazon.com Kindle Store. A print version of Conscience of a Conservative will be available in May 2010.

The Conscience of a Conservative is a book published under the name of Arizona Senator and 1964 Republican presidential candidate Barry Goldwater in 1960. The book reignited the American conservative  movement and made Barry Goldwater a political star. The book has influenced countless conservatives in the United States, helping to lay the foundation for the Reagan Revolution in 1980.

The book was ghostwritten by L. Brent Bozell Jr., brother-in-law of William F. Buckley. Bozell and Buckley had been members of Yale’s debate team. They had co-authored the controversial book, McCarthy and His Enemies, in 1955. Bozell had been Goldwater’s speechwriter in the 1950s, and was familiar with many of his ideals. The first edition, 1960, is 123 pages in length and was published in the United States. The book covers such topics as education, labor unions and policies, civil rights, agricultural policy and farm subsidies, social welfare programs, and income taxation. The book is considered to be a significant statement of politically and economically American conservative ideas which were to gain influence during the following decades.

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admin April 27th, 2010

Drytown History

Drytown, originally Big Bend, Utah Territory, was a small community near the cross-country Overland Trail, used by travelers in the mid-to-late 1800s. Drytown was important, mainly because it was on the way to somewhere else.

What that means is that Drytown was a major transfer point, where supply wagons traveling east and west, off-loaded merchandise to other wagons that carried it to towns and ranches north and south of Drytown.

In 1864–the last year of the Civil War–the western part of Utah Territory became the state of Nevada.

In 1869, when the Central Pacific Railroad in its westward expansion reached Drytown, company officials renamed it Wadsworth, in honor of the respected Civil War Union general, James Wadsworth. The story is that, when he was killed in battle, both sides ceased fighting until his body was removed from the field of combat.

Many of the characters in the tales are real people. Others are fictional. They are a very accepting group of people and mix together with few problems.

The town of Wadsworth is located 27 miles northeast of Lake’s Crossing, which now is Reno. Shorty’s Place is based on Shorty’s Lunchroom, a popular refreshment spot in mid to the late 1860’s Wadsworth. I got the idea for Shorty’s Place from a hectographed newspaper, the Wadsworth Bee, from the early 1870’s. The late Carl Shelly, former state senator, and owner of Shelly’s Hardware in Sparks, also was instrumental in the founding of the Sparks Museum. It was he who showed me the Wadsworth Bee, and wondered if it might give me some story ideas. It did.

By the way, most of the drinks served in Shorty’s Place are buttermilk, sassafras tea, and sasparilla. Which, as everyone knows, are the choice of all real cowboys.

Ballad of a Small Town, Adventures of Logan West has been released for Kindle and will soon be available in print.

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admin April 27th, 2010

Ballad’s Genesis

The idea for Ballad of a Small Town was born when I saw a copy of the Wadsworth, NV newspaper* from around 1869. In it was an ad for Shorty’s Lunchroom. Shorty’s Place grew out of that, and I put it in Drytown, which was still Wadsworth’s name in 1864–it was also called Big Bend, referring to the bend in the Truckee River as it headed north toward what we whites call Pyramid Lake. The Numa (Paiutes) call it Panunadu.

In January of 1996, Dorman Nelson, editor and publisher of Western Tales Magazine, bought “Letter From Shorty,”–a short story based on Shorty’s Lunchroom–but he had to shut down the magazine for various reasons. He advised me to continue writing, but to put my western short stories into a collection, with a unifying theme or character and make them into a novel.

Working on that idea, I found what I wanted in Logan West, a journalism graduate from Indiana, whose bride eloped with their best man. Logan heads west to write the novel he’s long thought about doing, takes his banjo along, and winds up working in Shorty’s Place.

Before the first story was finished, the idea for “the ballad” manifested. As a troubadour of sorts, it seemed natural for Logan to write a ballad based on his travels, and “Ballad of a Small Town,” was born. Each chapter is prefaced by an excerpt from the ballad.

Although I have a melody for the ballad in my head, I’ve left it to the reader to compose his or her own. Just remember, it’s being accompanied by a really mellow-sounding banjo.

*Newspapers of the day often were printed on a Hectograph. A special gel was poured into a shallow pan–much like a cookie pan–and a paper “master” copy was laid on top of the gel, face down. The master copy was rolled gently with a rubber roller and the gel took on the impression of what was on the paper master copy. After the master copy was removed, blank paper was laid on the gel and it was gently pressed down with the same roller. The information on the gel was impressed on the surface of the paper. One-hundred copies could be made before the gel lost its efficiency. Hectograph comes from Greek. Hecto means one-hundred, and graph means “drawn”.

Ballad of a Small Town, Adventures of Logan West has been released for Kindle and will soon be available in print.

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admin April 26th, 2010

Bottom of the Hill Publishing will help bring the cowboy poetry and stories of Hal Swift to print.

Hal has lived and worked in Indiana, Arizona, Texas, Colorado, California and Nevada–he knows the rural life and the West. His life experiences are many and varied.

A Navy Morse Code radio operator, he’s a veteran of the Japan Occupation Forces, and the Korean War. He’s worked as a musician, store clerk, security guard, disc jockey, reporter, and news editor. He’s gained national attention as a writer of Western short stories, and cowboy poetry. His book, “Cowboy Poems and Outright Lies,” published in 2001, is on the shelf of the Fife Folklore Archives at Utah State University, Logan, Utah, and is in the Dickinsen Research Center National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum, Oklahoma City. It also is in a section of the Washoe County Nevada Library, known as “The Nevada Shelf.”

Many of his poems are on various websites, available by going to a search engine and typing in Hal Swift, Cowboy Poet.
Although he’s semi-retired now, he still considers himself a writer and reporter of the human condition, past and present. He lives within a half-hour’s drive from Drytown–now Wadsworth, Nevada–where the events depicted in his novel, Ballad of a Small Town take place.

Ballad of a Small Town, Adventures of Logan West has been released for Kindle and will soon be available in print.

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admin April 26th, 2010

Bottom of the Hill Publishing specializes in helping authors publish and market their books in print and for Kindle ereader.

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