tlevs press

Tuesday, September 13, 2022

Devour That Spaghetti

Devour That Spaghetti
and 22 other short stories

Now available at Amazon
On Kindle $3.99
In paperback $5.25 + shipping
Free on Kindle Unlimited
Coming soon on ACX
prices subject to change

Tuesday, August 16, 2022

New covers

e pluribus haiku 2016
https://www.amazon.com/pluribus-haiku-2016-thomas-leverett-ebook/dp/B01FOLGWCE

e pluribus haiku 2017
https://www.amazon.com/pluribus-haiku-2017-thousand-moments-ebook/dp/B071WNYXTK

e pluribus haiku 2018
https://www.amazon.com/pluribus-haiku-2018-thousand-moments-ebook/dp/B07DCJD3KP

Sunday, June 5, 2022

Please forgive a little extra time when I can restore normalcy after a family move from Cloudcroft, New Mexico to Monmouth, Illinois and ultimately to Galesburg, Illinois. It will take a while to readjust and in that time I will not be cranking out the novels as I'd like. But don't worry, they're coming!

Sunday, April 3, 2022

One Woman's Voice

One Woman's Voice:
Biography of Elizabeth Mansfield Irving (1852-1939), elocutionist, patriot, women's rights pioneer

Available on Amazon, Kindle and Kindle Unlimited
paperback %5.95 + shipping
Kindle $3.99
free on Kindle Unlimited
ACX version coming
Non-zons (people who refuse to use Amazon), contact me & we'll work something out

This is a story of a woman who wanted to be an elocutionist, on the cusp of the nation's Centennial (1876), when women were not permitted to speak on important topics of the day. A gifted reader and orator, with a beautiful voice, she went into reading war poetry to reunions and encampments of Civil War veterans. She also inherited an insurance business when her husband got sick and died, becoming one of Toledo (Ohio)'s first women business owners. It's the story of using one's voice when one can, and getting one's voice when one is able. Her life corresponed with the rise of elocutionists as a united group, and the rise of the woman's suffrage movement, which ultimately gave women their voice in the political arena also.

Saturday, November 13, 2021

Beginner's Guide to Quakerism

New pamphlet, homemade and sent out on the snail-mail post. Details here.

Monday, September 6, 2021

Just Passing Through

Autobiography and true stories from out there

$4.39 on Kindle
$8.80 + shipping paperback, through Amazon
also on Kindle Unlimited
working on other methods of selling

Friday, July 23, 2021

Walking Boots & Pleistocene Geology

Walking Boots & Pleistocene Geology
Biography of Frank Leverett

Now available on Amazon

Paperback $6.50 + shipping
Kindle $3.99
Free on Kindle Unlimited

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.