Brian K. Nash was born in 1961 and grew up on a farm in Kansas. Blind from birth, he enjoyed the loving support of his parents and five siblings, who kept him active exploring the woods and riding horses. The many stories they told him and read to him fostered his love of fiction. He began composing his own fiction for children when his daughter Evelyn was small.

He edited the school newspaper at the Kansas School for the Blind. Later on, he received computer training and became an adaptive technician, teaching other blind people to use a computer. He has extensive public speaking experience, especially to groups of school children, seeking to educate others regarding blindness and the capabilities of the blind.

Henrietta of Valley View Farm is the first of Brian's several books for children that are being published by Smashwords. His lively, entertaining stories are set in a fictional place that has a lot in common with the locales he knew and loved as a child. The animals - chickens, cats, dogs, horses, birds, frogs, and many more - can talk to each other, and are among the most vivid of the many characters. They often have much to teach their human friends as they work together to overcome whatever challenges are thrown at them. Adventure abounds, and friendship always triumphs in the end.

Website: http://www.dvorkin.com/brianknash/

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• Apart from You on Sep. 25, 2010
  
  This is truly a literary masterpiece. I've read bestsellers that didn't begin to make me feel so many emotions and empathy for the characters as this work of art does. I'm a man, but due to certain circumstances in my own life, many of the situations that the main female character finds herself in seem wrenchingly familiar to me. The presentation of Elizabeth's relationship with her family is heartbreaking; you really feel her pain and frustration at always coming in second-best to her younger sister. This is the gripping story of a young and beautiful woman caught between the attention of two men with very different backgrounds, needs, expectations, and views of the world as she struggles to maintain her own identity, get an education, and move on with her life after a difficult and challenging childhood.