"Love ain't like that." "How is it then?" Peaches asked, turning on her stomach to face me. "It's like sky. If you keep driving and driving, gas will run out, right?" "That's why we gotta go to the gas station." "Yep. But have you ever seen the sky run out? No matter how far we go?" "No, when we look up, there it is." "Well that's the kind of love Daddy and Mama got for us, Peaches--love like sky." "It never ends?" "Never." G-baby and her younger sister, Peaches, are still getting used to their "blended-up" family. They live with Mama and Frank out in the suburbs, and they haven't seen their real daddy much since he married Millicent. G-baby misses her best friend back in Atlanta, and is crushed that her glamorous new stepsister, Tangie, wants nothing to do with her. G-baby is so preoccupied with earning Tangie's approval that she isn't there for her own little sister when she needs her most. Peaches gets sick— really sick. Suddenly, Mama and Daddy are arguing like they did before the divorce, and even the doctors at the hospital don't know how to help Peaches get better. It's up to G-baby to put things right. She knows Peaches can be strong again if she can only see that their family's love for her really is like sky.

Unlike many authors, Armen was not an early reader. He can honestly say that he didn’t voluntarily read a book until he finished The Hobbit in sixth grade.  After that reading became a vice as he ravenously devoured science fiction and fantasy stories.  Taking a more practical approach to college, he earned a BS in Electrical Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, where he was an Honorable-Mention All-American swimmer his senior year.
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Commissioned as an officer in the USAF, he quickly found his way into systems development.  After working on top secret ‘Area 51’ projects, where he never saw a single alien (dead or alive), he left the service and earned an MBA from the University of North Carolina.  He spent a decade riding the internet wave and moving through five different states.  After the wave crashed his environmental interest led him to join a second generation bio-fuels company – making fuel out of wood chips, corn cobs, and other agricultural waste.  A highlight was presenting ideas to jumpstart the industry to United States House and Senate staffers.

Looking for something new, he and his wife opened a group of franchised hair salons.  In addition to grounding them in one place, he finally found time to write those stories that had been bouncing around in his head since high school. His stories mix elements of science and history with a healthy dose of fantasy. 

​When not writing or coaching swimming he can be found swimming, reading a book, playing ukulele, or enjoying the outdoors with his family.  He lives outside of Rochester, NY with his wife and three children.

Inspired by buddy adventure novels like Homer Price, The Great Brain, and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, the story follows 12-year-old Eugene Appleton, whose summer in the frontier town of Rattlesnake Junction, Colorado, promises to be just as sleepy as the ones before, with his only excitement provided by the pulse-pounding Dead-Eye Dan adventure novels he devours. But Eugene’s life swerves into unexpected territory with the arrival of Tumbleweed Thompson, a gangly, red-haired drifter who spins yarns about whaling voyages in the Atlantic and ice fishing with the Inuits. It’s a novel about friendship, adventure, belonging, and finding out there’s a whole lot more out there than you first thought.

Pub date: TBA
Genre: Middle Grade YA
Donate: Tumbleweed Kickstarter Campaign

Other titles by Glenn: 
Horace and Oscar Visit the Lake
Genre: Children's
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​​Glenn McCarty is the author of the children's chapter book Horace and Oscar Visit the Lake. He has written about stories and parenting at Story Warren, and has shared the magic of stories with children and adults through speaking engagements, workshops, and hands-on writing classes. He lives with his wife, two boys, and a cowardly dog in a small town in Western New York that’s pretty much Mayberry. He wishes he could play the banjo, and has a slight obsession with all things Pixar. But he’s working through it.

​CaTyra Polland is a native of Rochester, New York. She earned her Master of Arts in Criminal Justice from the State University at Albany. Upon graduating from SUNY Albany she returned to her hometown and founded Career Prep. Career Prep is an
employment solutions company that specializes in resumes, cover letters and LinkedIn profiles.

She earned her Bachelor of Arts (Sociology/Spanish) from the State University of New York at Buffalo, graduating Cum Laude with Honors in Spanish and High Honors in Sociology. During her undergraduate career she studied in Puerto Rico for a semester.

CaTyra launched Polland Enterprises, LLC in the spring of 2017. Polland Enterprises LLC is a parent company that offers writing and editing solutions such as developmental and copyright editing. She is also the author of the book Professionalism, What’s That?!, available on Amazon. CaTyra will be a featured author at the upcoming Rochester Black
Authors Expo in fall of 2018. CaTyra loves to volunteer. She is a founding member of WomELLE, a board member of
Court Appointed Special Advocates (CASA), and a charter member of the Roc City Rotary Club.

Seven popular high school cheerleaders. Seven distinctive lives. Seven little secrets.
And the truth that haunts them all.
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The Janes have everything: beauty, brains, a secure future. So why did co-captain
Natalie Greene trade her perfect life for eternal sleep? Her teammates hold pieces of
the puzzle, but putting the parts together means revealing defects and
vulnerabilities.

And when you're a Jane, you're flawless.
An afternoon of mourning turns into a day of disclosures. A day that challenges the
teammates to discover the true meaning of friendship.

Pub Date: 2017
Genre: YA
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Alone and Content: Inspiring, empowering essays to help divorced and widowed women feel whole and complete on their own, is a collection of essays by Gwenn Voelckers, founder and facilitator of Live Alone and Thrive workshops for women. The book opens with a "How Content Are You?" quiz, followed by a selection of handpicked essays Gwenn wrote for In Good Health, a popular regional health newspaper. Practical and positive, each essay offers hope and encouragement for women (and men, too) who have wondered, "Will I ever by happy again?" Topics range from overcoming loneliness to surviving the holidays, from dining alone to traveling solo. The essays are followed by thought-provoking questions designed to motivate readers to take action and make healthy choices. 

Alone and Content promises to awaken readers to new ways of thinking about living alone and the joy, power, and freedom that comes with independence. With Gwenn's gentle guidance, life's possibilities open up. Inside this wise and enlightening book, you'll discover ways to rebuild your life and feel whole and complete on your own.
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Pub Date: 2018
Genre: Self-Help
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