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This is really big for me. My father (deceased) left behind a short memoir of his experience during the invasion of Germans into Lithuania, written in English. I published it, thinking, somebody might want to read that. It was published in 2017. Now, 2021, a translation into Lithuanian is published. Now he is an author in his home country, "his people" from whom he was ripped most of his life.

This is really big for me. My father (deceased) left behind a short memoir of his experience during the invasion of Germans into Lithuania, written in English. I published it, thinking, somebody might want to read that. It was published in 2017. Now, 2021, a translation into Lithuanian is published. Now he is an author in his home country, "his people" from whom he was ripped most of his life.

Also, please check out the YouTube Channel that will deliver short (5-min) tutorials on topics covered in my new book, NEW AGE: NEW ANSWERS TO DEEP QUESTIONS.

You can see me talking only in the Intro/Hello video. Otherwise, I use PowerPoint and voice-over, with many book recommendations.

New Age Librarian on YouTube :

Topics will include: What is New Age? Reincarnation. Near-Death Experiences. UFOs and Extraterrestrials. Psychics and Mediums. Channeling. A Timeline of the New Age Movement. Labyrinths. Yogis. Shamans. Adventurers Seeking Buddhism. Energy Healing. The Emerging Science of Subtle Energy. And so on.

As of May, 2021, my new fat book on New Age thought is done. (New Age: New Answers to Deep Questions)

How did this happen? I thought I was done with fiction, for a while. Goofed off. Felt done with big wishes. Went to a meeting about Near-Death Experience, and the questions people asked made me frustrated. I wanted to explain how many of these things are part of one belief system that has some coherence. Then I thought: so EXPLAIN IT.

I joined the club: “explainers of the esoteric.�� Turns out, a loooong tradition, of hearty souls like Dolores Cannon, who wrote and wrote and spoke and spoke, tirelessly. (A LOT OF CRAZY ADMIRABLE PEOPLE whom I got to know better.) Each of them put out extraordinary effort—decades of thought, research, writing, with a passion for THE PARANORMAL. I could AMPLIFY it. Be a librarian, which I am.

They say, "Write the book you want to read." I wanted all the New Age stuff on a historical timeline. My mind was spinning for decades.
Now I can contemplate my decades and the ones before them, and see how people make history and culture and inspire each other.

This little book was left behind by my father, Eric Pempe. He used the pseudonym John Winglap. It 's about being a young man about to become a physical education teacher in a geographic area about to be devastated by invasions.

The main city is Memel/Klaipeda, in 1939 and a few years around then. The edge of Lithuania.

It's a short pseudo-memoir, a little over 100 pages. Written in English, one of his six languages.

Lithuanian emigres have discovered it. Much of the history of that time was suppressed by the Soviet occupation for nearly 50 years! Thus there is a HUNGER for stories--what happened, how did you cope, did you make it?

I've gotten an inquiry to translate the book into Lithuanian.

You just never know... My father's little book has three five-star reviews, too.

You can order an ebook for only $ 1.99 or a paperback for $ 9.99.

Search my name on amazon. The two editions will be synced soon, so they appear together.

If you like marriage and divorce memoirs, and stories with dark edges like Ingmar Bergman's Scenes From a Marriage, give this a go.

A Kindle Scout Winner/Selection -- now on Amazon for pre-order of the ebook!



It will be delivered August 8th. The paperback version will come out at that time, and I plan a GIVEAWAY.

Everyone who nominated has gotten a message inviting them to download their FREE copy now.

If you read it and LIKE it, please plant a review. Help a *starving writer. (*starving for attention)

I hope you like it.

It's classified as Literature and Fiction -- Contemporary -- Women's Fiction -- Literary.

There is ROMANCE in it, but also much about falling in love, and falling out of love, and divorce.

MY BOAT IS SO SMALL is up for nomination to get published by Kindle Press.

The window is April 21 through May 21.

If you nominate, and they end up publishing the novel, you will get a free copy of the ebook.

HELP!! Give me a boost! Tell your children you supported a writer, and they can be one, but it is hard to get published. Take part in a new trend in publishing (crowd-sourced review).

Here's the place to NOMINATE:

This is simplistic: in the olde days, a patron decided an artist was “worthy,�� and supported him/her financially. “Keep up the good work.��

In the last century, social marketing found that surveys of consumers would be a way to reduce the risks around a new product. They SURVEYED, and had FOCUS GROUPS, looking for a winner. It was costly.

In publishing, a VERY SMART EDITOR was the filter: he or she “bet the farm�� on an author. Some were great at predicting success in the marketplace.

Now, we have CROWD-SOURCING. I am a big fan of the TV show THE VOICE. After their judges (“editors��) screen singers, they turn the competition over to THE PUBLIC. We get to vote for our favorites, and they are advanced to the finals. At a certain point, the judges�� picks are filtered by THE MASSES, in picking a winner. It is feasible to test the goods with the ultimate consumer, en masse.

Literary agents are telling us that they are bombarded by thousands of manuscripts a year and “they have to fall in love�� to pick a winner which is still a speculation that they can sell the mss to a publisher, using their contacts. Everybody needs to make money. This means a HUGE “slush pile�� �� the mss that are queued up to be rejected. No love, sorry.

The Kindle Scout program is about crowd-sourcing the review of new novels. If someone is a winner, the cost of publishing a book is low, because they mainly do ebooks (=no inventory, dirt cheap reproduction).

My new novel �� MY BOAT IS SO SMALL �� is up for a Kindle Scout Campaign. YOU �� YOU -- YOU can vote for this book to make the finals and get a publishing contract with Kindle Press.

JOIN ME IN THIS FUN! NOMINATE my book! If they publish it, you’ll get a free copy!! You are part of the team, making decisions about “winners.��

Please make my book a winner, at least here�� Thanks!

Nominate here:

In MY BOAT IS SO SMALL, my character Sonia, living in the Washington D.C. area, is allowed to take a leave of absence from work because of her mental distress. She answers an invitation to visit her Swedish friend Inge. Where in Sweden?

I shopped for places I want to go, because I knew there will be the FUN of discovery and imagining the place. On a tour of Scandinavia a while ago, I took a ferry that left Stockholm and went through the archipelago of Sweden. These are a zillion islands in the Baltic Sea between Sweden and Finland and the Baltic countries.

Google it and find a Wikipedia description, and under “images�� find the scenery. For example,

The Swedish archipelago is awesome. There are islands of all sizes in a grand array. Ingmar Berman lived on an island called Faro, with a population under 600. Yes, it’s romantic. Not the Caribbean. Colder. But remote, quiet, FABULOUSLY beautiful. You can see what I mean, reading about Faro:

Of course, even though I wanted to visit his island, I could not use it in the book, because it’s taken by the Bergman biography and mystique. I checked out other islands. There were some considerations: I wanted my character to work in Stockholm, so a city looking out over the Archipelago was better. Ideally it had bus service!

I searched Google maps, looking up various cities that were in a “working�� radius of Stockholm. Low and behold, the city of Nortallje landed in my imagination. See

It’s an ancient fishing port, so Inge’s father could be a Swedish fisherman, and they could look out on the sea from the farmhouse, surrounded by views of water.

My family lived in Seattle. The San Juan Islands are nearby, forming an archipelago on a smaller scale. There you get the smell of the sea air, sea breezes, the call of seagulls overhead, vast expanses of water with an island here and there.

Yes, there’s a bus. I googled “bus from stockholm to norrtalje�� and found the exact schedule, which makes it feasible for my purposes. My character makes that journey. You can even find a picture of the bus online.