John Anderson

Biography

John C. Anderson is the author of ten titles to date. His latest is "The Truth in Black and White." As the only white man living in a rundown, urban African American community for the past three years, Mr. Anderson supports his true history of racism with the firsthand experiences lived by his black neighbors and friends. His novels include "Finding Phoebe," "Holly Goforth, Book One: the Stalking," "Holly Goforth, Book Two: the Revenge," "Holly Goforth, Book Three: the Revival," and the final book in his Holly Quartet, "The Breakdown". He is also the author of a semi-fictional biography, "The Wages of Gin," and two popular histories, "GIRTY: The Legend" and "Free Love: Cultivating the Garden of Eden in America." He has contributed more than 100 published journal articles. Mr. Anderson owns and manages Concepts & Messages, a collaboration of writers, graphic designers and web developers who serve corporate and nonprofit clients on a project basis. Mr. Anderson is the founder of Test Central, Inc., an e-commerce site that markets its proprietary assessment software and helps users prepare for licensing, certification, and academic tests at www.test.com. He owns the patents for administering tests on the Internet. He has been writing for his entire life, first as a newspaper reporter, then as a magazine editor, next as an advertising and public relations counselor, and as an e-commerce pioneer. He presently lives and writes in Shaker Heights, Ohio.

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Books

The Gift in a Box of Darkness
Price: $4.99 USD. Words: 59,600. Language: English. Published: July 3, 2020 . Categories: Nonfiction » Parenting » Family tragedy
The Gift in a Box of Darkness is a story of love, loss, and acceptance.
The Truth in Black and White
Price: $2.99 USD. Words: 77,350. Language: English. Published: June 13, 2017 . Categories: Nonfiction » Self-improvement » Personal Growth / General
Every last one of the 9 billion of us is a hybrid. Your skin color is nothing more than an accident of birth. It’s simply one of the human traits you inherited, and one that was determined long ago by your ancestors' environment. Tragically, we who were born inside white skins have always used that distinct variant of a human characteristic to win unjust privilege.
Finding Phoebe - How One Woman Changed the Course of Evolution
Price: $4.99 USD. Words: 258,570. Language: English. Published: December 7, 2015 . Categories: Fiction » Thriller & suspense » General, Fiction » Women's fiction » General
Finding Phoebe is a parable for our times. Dr. Phoebe Carlyle creates human-animal hybrids. Since creating the first ever “cybrid” — her Little Cat-Girl — she is rumored to have created several more chimeras by mixing human cells with animal embryos. This novel documents the author’s attempts for more than 15 years to find her and tell her story. What a remarkable life she has led.
Holly Goforth, Book Four, The Breakdown
Price: $2.99 USD. Words: 77,890. Language: English. Published: October 28, 2014 . Categories: Fiction » Thriller & suspense » Action & suspense, Fiction » Thriller & suspense » Psychological thriller
If you've read the first three novels in the Holly Goforth Quartet, it will comes as no surprise to discover that severe depression is Holly's challenge in this final novel in the series. She must also live through and learn from another betrayal by another lover. But is it real or imagined? Meanwhile, a terrible storm threatens the city where she now lives and work. What is her fate
Holly Goforth, Book Three, The Revival
Price: $2.99 USD. Words: 59,410. Language: English. Published: October 28, 2014 . Categories: Fiction » Thriller & suspense » Crime thriller
In this third novel in the Holly Goforth coming of age quartet, Holly is drawn into a fight to the death with vicious South Florida sex trafficker, Major Tom. A new lover, Dr. John Thomas, an abuse counselor treating her brother, Bart, joins her in the fight. Along the way, they struggle to rescue a teen prostitute and addict trapped in the horrors of human traffic. Who comes out alive?
Holly Goforth, Book One, The Stalking
Price: $2.99 USD. Words: 49,770. Language: English. Published: October 28, 2014 . Categories: Fiction » Adventure » Action
Holly Goforth is a four-novel series that begins here with The Stalking, when Holly's pampered, private school life comes to an abrupt end. Her life as an adult woman begins now with all the trials and challenges that face young women today.
Free Love: Cultivating the Garden of Eden in America
Price: $9.99 USD. Words: 73,280. Language: English. Published: January 27, 2011 . Categories: Nonfiction » History » American
Free Love will be recognized as the defining book about America’s early social experiments to end sexism. It restores to the public consciousness all the forgotten heroes who risked everything to achieve equal rights for women.
Girty: The Legend
Price: $9.99 USD. Words: 126,820. Language: English. Published: January 17, 2011 . Categories: Nonfiction » History » American
Recognizing that the past is nothing more than the stories we tell about it, "Girty: The Legend" examines the myth of Simon Girty, the legendary “white savage” who terrorized the American western frontier. Stories are still written about Daniel Boone and his fellow heroes; but now that the Indians have been exterminated or removed, the Girty myth is no longer useful. His story is fascinating.
The Wages of Gin
Price: $9.99 USD. Language: English. Published: February 10, 2010 . Categories: Fiction » Mystery & detective » General
The Wages of Gin is a work of fiction and any resemblance to actual people is purely coincidental. Yeah, sure. It is indeed concerned with people the author has known and jobs he has held. But unlike Jack Collins, the murderous character who confesses here, the author has never killed anyone.

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