tlevs press: 2015

Wednesday, December 16, 2015

Do Unto

Do Unto: A short story and twenty others

Available on Amazon $5.50 + shipping
Available on Kindle $3.99
Available on ACX, narrated by Greta Gorsuch

Prices subject to change

Do Unto: A short story and twenty others
includes the following stories: Do Unto (2015), PO'd (2014), Tradition (2015), The Interloper (2013), Staying Put (2013), Camo (2013), Not It (2014), Ferris Wheel (2014), Burger, Fries and a Coke (2014), The Other Guy's Fault (2014), The Pickle (2014), Suspended (2015), Kerrville (2013), Saturday Morning (2011), Foul Strike (2015), See Some ID (2015), I Call Shotgun (2015), Rite of Passage (2015), Minding One’s P’s and Q’s (2015), Double in Tinder (2015), At the Gate (2015).

Saturday, September 5, 2015

Unloading

Unloading: The early ESL stories
Available at Amazon
Kindle version coming soon

Unloading was originally published in 2005, and had ten stories in it; recently interest in those and other early stories sparked the desire to make them more available. The fourteen stories in this edition were all written before 2005, and most were used in ESL classrooms; two were online for years. They are now available here.

Monday, April 6, 2015

Noah's poetry

5 Years of Semantics, Noah's new poetry book, now available at CreateSpace.

Noah is my son. I make the exception to publicize someone else's book at my press because 1) it's good, and 2) he's like me, he doesn't have much of a publicity engine. He needs all the help he can get! But he's writing more, and doing well. Keep up with him here!

Friday, February 6, 2015

Short Stories

to pass
the time

Five Second Rule
20 Short stories

Available from Amazon ($4.59 + shipping)
Coming soon on Kindle

A Dozen Crime Stories
from a well-known, big-box discount retail chain
12 Short Stories

Available from Amazon ($4.27 + shipping)
and Kindle

Pile of Leaves:
Stories of a rake
17 Short stories

Available at Amazon ($4.29 + shipping)
and on Kindle.

Welcome!

tlevspress, along with its proprietor (me), wife, three teens, and dogs and cats, is now in Galesburg, Illinois. The mountains depicted above are merely an apparition or a memory. I will soon come forth with better Illinois visuals (mostly trains, which are common here) but in the meantime, accept these old symbols and graphics. I have been writing for a while, and use my free time to write several things: short stories, a novel, haiku, family-related biography, and Quaker plays. You'll find most of it here. I am 100% indie; I do my own art, and my own proofreading (extremely difficult, proofreading your own) - but, with ten children, I can't take money from the family budget to get started. I'd rather write what I want and enjoy the freedom of whatever success will bring me. It's been an interesting journey - glad you're joining me for a while!.

About my work

I am part of the "self-publishing revolution," as my work is among millions that people publish themselves, mostly through Amazon and Createspace. But it's not because I dislike publishers. It's more because 1) I want to keep the rights to my own work, and 2) because, having ten children, I'm too busy to send things out and maintain relationships with publishers.

As an ESL teacher, I've always written my own material; it was more current than any textbook. I could also tailor it to my students' interests. I sometimes picked up news reports and rewrote them, so that we were in effect examining something that had just happened, or a change brought on by technology. It kept my classes interesting and it kept me in the habit of writing.

A greater source of my inspiration, however, was my travels, which spanned a couple of years in the early seventies, and covered a territory from Guatemala to Alaska. On that trip I was determined to really get to know the USA but also explore the different options for making a livelihood. I have been lucky to be basically happy teaching ESL; it has allowed my to develop my music and my writing without having to depend on it. Now I would like to see if I could make a career out of either writing or music or both; this is my feeble attempt to try the former. Enjoy!

If you have encountered an issue or something you would like to correct, or need to contact me for any reason, feel free. I cannot guarantee a response.