by Chip Deffaa Featuring the 2012 New York Fringe Festival Cast! The story of “THE SEVEN LITTLE FOYS” inspired a classic film musical (starring Bob Hope and James Cagney), and then later also a TV special (starring Eddie Foy Jr. and the Osmonds). Now ASCAP award-winner Chip Deffaa has adapted this heart-warming saga for the […]
Book & Lyrics by Rob. Lauer Music by Rick Rea Set during the American Civil War. Tom-boy Jo March dreams of becoming a writer of gothic thrillers, and has no interest in boys, romance or marriage. When her sisters begin pursuing romantic attachments, Jo-torn over the gender roles of the time-moves away to New York […]
Book, Music and Lyrics by Marvin Payne & Steven Kapp Perry Concept by R. Don Oscarson a finger pickin’ parable of the prodigal son “Mountain” is the musical telling of the parable of the prodigal son in the bluegrass music style. What happens when a wayward young woman needs to hear the sweet story of […]
Book, Music and Lyrics by Rob. Lauer Musical Arrangements by Jeff Joyner “Think Charles Dickens meets Horton Foote.” When “A Southern Christmas Carol” premiered in 2003, critics called it “good fun…a hoot that warms the heart”… “Lovely, there’s no other single word to describe it…Charles Dickens himself couldn’t have written a better account of the […]
by Rob. Lauer Inspired by the true story of the Cleveland teenagers—Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster—who created Superman, “Geeks & Gangsters” is now available for the reading public. Jerry and Joe were typical high school Geeks: the popular kids ignored them, the jocks picked on them and the girls didn’t know they were alive. Brought […]
by Shirlee Hurst Shields Illustrated by Melita Lee Price: $7.99 (+ shipping and Maine Sales Tax) The warm memories of childhood Christmases long ago, spent with the family we love and remember, tend to return to us over and over again. Each remembering brings some new flavor, or aroma or sight — some indelible memory […]
A Coming-of-Age Mystery for Young Adults and their families. by Champlin Michaels Who fired the shot that launched the investigation in Summerville? Thirteen-year-old Cade Watters, and his family and friends are being pursued, shot at, wounded. Why? Are the shots just warnings? Or are some people marked for death? Others in and out of the […]
The Keepers of Time SERIES Coming About Book Three (formerly titled: The Edges Revealed) What if you turned out to be the fabled and magical scion to the long line of your own ancestors? What are the chances (and the dangers) of not only meeting, but being your own 50th Great-grandfather? Coming from
The Keepers of Time SERIES COMING SOON ABOUT BOOK TWO: (formerly titled: Living From Edge to Edge) What if the dreams and fantasies, hopes and fears of your life became real? When you find out that you can shoot lightning from your fingers, vanish things with a wave of your hand, travel through time and […]
Jon Robert Howe is first last, and always a seeker of truth who is happy to share — an educator experienced in multimedia ways to make learning memorable. He has been in turns a newspaper photographer, radio news broadcaster, professional Santa Claus, actor, video producer, musical playwright, graphic and Internet designer, marketing executive, innovative blogger […]