New Adventures: Lit 289

I took on a new adventure this fall at Pima Community College in Tucson, teaching a Literature and Film course I developed. The class studies literature and film's comparative approaches, including how literature is brought to film scripts and how it is represented on the screen. The kicker: The class is reading Moonlight, Missiles, & Moana and converting portions of it into a screenplay, after which they will work to produce a one-hour film of the book. I will continue to seek an independent film-maker to produce my military adventure and romance trilogy, which has been classified by some as young adult inspirational novels.

The book is available to other film schools seeking material as well. Email stephengladish550@msn.com or steve@stephenbgladish.com for more information

Freedom of Vision Arrives in Spring 2007

Freedom of Vision, a collection of poetry, essays, short stories, illustrations and vignettes by more than 70 current and former inmates, will hit bookstores and online sellers in Spring 2007. The collection, co-edited by Stephen Gladish and Robert Yehling, will be published by Koboca Publishing.

Freedom of Vision deals with transformation and redemption. It includes an interview with Hurricane Carter, about whom books have been written and a movie—The Hurricane—has been shown. In addition, there are poems and essays by several decorated authors, including American Book Award winner Jimmy Santiago Baca, and Burroughs Award winner Ken Lamberton. In between two inspiring bookend essays detailing Steve’s teaching in first a women’s prison and then in men’s state prisons, are sandwiched poems, essays, and stories from seventy male and female inmates and ex-offenders from all over the nation. The anthology, conceptualized by Steve, and created in a proposal by Bob Yehling, includes many students either taught or befriended by Steve during 20 years as a creative writing teacher in the state prison systems in Arizona and Ohio.

Sample poems and essays will begin appearing on www.kobocapublishing.com in January. An interview with the editors will be available on www.stephenbgladish.com and www.wordjourneys.com in February.

Mustang Fever Gallops into Bookstores in Spring 2007

The next installment of Steve’s trilogy, Mustang Fever: Run Free with Wild Mustangs, will be published in Spring 2007 by Koboca Publishing. Mustang Fever is the second in a military adventure/romance series, picking up where Moonlight, Missiles, & Moana left off and following MMM lead character Chance Chisholm into the Nevada desert and the Nuclear Test Site.

Excerpts for Mustang Fever will begin running on www.kobocapublishing.com and www.wordjourneys.com in December. Comments from Steve are currently part of Koboca’s innovative front-page flash, in which authors of current and forthcoming titles talk about their works.

Mustang Fever will feature a strong promotional campaign that includes mailing to book reviewers throughout the country, and featured presence at the 2006 BEA convention in New York. An interview with Steve will appear at the back of the book as well as on www.wordjourneys.com.

The third book in the series, Tornado Alley: Chasing Twisters Across America will be published in Fall 2007. A prequel to the first two books which featured Chance Chisholm who followed his heart and lived his adventure, Tornado Alley features Chance’s best friend and sidekick from the first two novels, Luke LaCrosse.

For advance ordering information, go to www.kobocapublishing.com.

Moonlight, Missiles, & Moana Part of Word Journeys Holiday Gift Package

Moonlight, Missiles, & Moana is being offered as a key ingredient of the Word Journeys Holiday Gift Packages. A limited number of signed copies are available, along with Unbuttoned: Who Says Men Can’t Change? by Kenneth Fink and Coyotes in Broad Daylight, by Robert Yehling.

Go to www.wordjourneys.com for more information.

Moonlight, Missiles, & Moana Continues to Sell

The first novel in what will be a trilogy of military adventures, Missiles, Moonlight & Moana, continues to be a hit at signings. On November 11, Veteran’s Day, I participated at a book fair with the Society of Southwestern Authors at Foothills Mall in Tucson. A main focus of the fair highlighted the release of the anthology Duty, Honor and Valor, A Salute to Veterans of All U.S. Wars and Military Service, containing my short story “Finding Life at the Bottom of the Pool” along with short stories by 36 other authors. There was continued interest in Moonlight, Missiles & Moana, and the anthology with my display of my two Army Officer sons on active duty drew strong sales.

Both Moonlight, Missiles, & Moana and Duty, Honor and Valor, A Salute to Veterans, will be available for sale at the hugely popular Unique Boutique hosting its 32nd Annual Arts and Crafts Show at Gridley Middle School in Tucson on Saturday, December 2 from 9 a.m. to 5p.m. and Sunday, December 3 from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., when I will be present for book signings.

Both Moonlight, Missiles, & Moana and Duty, Honor and Valor, A Salute to Veterans, will also be available for sale at Sunrise Chapel’s Annual Arts and Crafts Fair on Saturday, December 2nd, from 10 a.m to 4 p.m. I will be present for book-signings.

Moonlight, Missiles & Moana is available by special order at all bookstores, or by going to www.amazon.com.

Aztec Press article

Take a look at this recent Faculty Profile on Stephen Gladish, published in the February - March 2006 issue of the Aztec Press.

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