Thrown Together: A Novel of Love in a Turbulent Time
by Jon Michael Miller
Price: $2.99 USD. 101500 words.
Published on September 14, 2011. Fiction.
The world seems to be coming apart. Into the stew of chaos, a mix of characters are thrown together. Matthew Boyer--just back from the war; Amy St. Clair--disenchanted with her conventional marriage. From the paddies of the Mekong Delta, the classrooms of Ohio State, the teeming meadows of Woodstock, cross-country highways, and the flowerchild world of Frisco, their search for meaning swirls.
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Member Since: Sep. 01, 2011
Jon Michael Miller
Biography
Born and raised in the farmland of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, Jon Michael Miller received a teaching degree from Penn State University. After teaching high school English a number of years in his home area, he attended graduate school at Ohio State during the turbulent 60’s when he was introduced to Transcendental Meditation as taught by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. He then spent twelve years in the TM movement, rising to work directly under the spiritual master himself and later for the movement’s television station in Los Angeles.
To activate his writing career he returned to Penn State where he earned two advanced degrees, taught English, and administered a liberal arts major in which students were able to design individualized courses of study.
After fifteen years in Happy Valley, during which he became a regular visitor to Jamaica, he relocated to Saint Petersburg, Florida, where he now teaches and writes.
To activate his writing career he returned to Penn State where he earned two advanced degrees, taught English, and administered a liberal arts major in which students were able to design individualized courses of study.
After fifteen years in Happy Valley, during which he became a regular visitor to Jamaica, he relocated to Saint Petersburg, Florida, where he now teaches and writes.
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Photo Sessions: Penn State Calendar Girls--A Novel of Scandal in Happy Valley
by Jon Michael Miller
Price: $2.99 USD. 61300 words. Published on September 14, 2011. Fiction.
It began as a hobby, a remedy for cabin fever. It became a creative obsession, a middle-age male fantasy come true. It shocked the sleepy university town of State College, PA, and turned Mullin's life upsidedown. He tried to recapture the sexual innocence of hayrides and back seats. Instead, he created a scandal. Wry, ironic, surprising, "Photo Sessions" is a parable for our time.
Price: $2.99 USD. 61300 words. Published on September 14, 2011. Fiction.
It began as a hobby, a remedy for cabin fever. It became a creative obsession, a middle-age male fantasy come true. It shocked the sleepy university town of State College, PA, and turned Mullin's life upsidedown. He tried to recapture the sexual innocence of hayrides and back seats. Instead, he created a scandal. Wry, ironic, surprising, "Photo Sessions" is a parable for our time.
Maharishi, TM, Mallory & Me: The Memoir of a Once TM Superstar
by Jon Michael Miller
Price: $2.99 USD. 86210 words. Published on September 14, 2011. Nonfiction.
Jon Michael Miller was one of the millions worldwide who were and are part of the Transcendental Meditation movement developed by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. Miller's evolution was deeply entwined with that of a beautiful, enigmatic woman. Their passionate love story has a surprising beginning, an anguished ending, and a final coming to terms. The writing is frank, often witty, and always honest.
Price: $2.99 USD. 86210 words. Published on September 14, 2011. Nonfiction.
Jon Michael Miller was one of the millions worldwide who were and are part of the Transcendental Meditation movement developed by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. Miller's evolution was deeply entwined with that of a beautiful, enigmatic woman. Their passionate love story has a surprising beginning, an anguished ending, and a final coming to terms. The writing is frank, often witty, and always honest.
Roz: The Story of a Jamaican Lolita
by Jon Michael Miller
Price: $2.99 USD. 189970 words. Published on September 14, 2011. Fiction.
What does a country girl of the islands do? Have a baby at thirteen? Work the tourist streets? Maybe both? Roz has other ideas. Dirt poor, hungry, bright-eyed, and determined, she clings to her one distant hope--Glenn Webber, an aging, uncertain American photographer, who is forced comically to confront one moral dilemma after another in an effort to understand a vastly different culture.
Price: $2.99 USD. 189970 words. Published on September 14, 2011. Fiction.
What does a country girl of the islands do? Have a baby at thirteen? Work the tourist streets? Maybe both? Roz has other ideas. Dirt poor, hungry, bright-eyed, and determined, she clings to her one distant hope--Glenn Webber, an aging, uncertain American photographer, who is forced comically to confront one moral dilemma after another in an effort to understand a vastly different culture.
Driftwood Houses: A Key West Story Sequence
by Jon Michael Miller
Price: $2.99 USD. 71750 words. Published on September 12, 2011. Fiction.
"Driftwood Houses" belongs in the Florida Fiction tradition. It exposes and celebrates the daily ironies, heartbreaks and triumphs of ordinary people as they fumble their ways through daily existence. In a Key West setting these struggles are personified in a masterfully sketched array of characters, dramatizing the victories and defeats in a world that seems uncertain and often unjust.
Price: $2.99 USD. 71750 words. Published on September 12, 2011. Fiction.
"Driftwood Houses" belongs in the Florida Fiction tradition. It exposes and celebrates the daily ironies, heartbreaks and triumphs of ordinary people as they fumble their ways through daily existence. In a Key West setting these struggles are personified in a masterfully sketched array of characters, dramatizing the victories and defeats in a world that seems uncertain and often unjust.
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