The Dangerous Legacy

A Vital Cog in the Slippery Wheel of Literacy

Now available wherever E-books are sold and in Trade Paperback, this young adult fantasy novel plays a vital role in today's battle against growing illiteracy, especially among minority youth. The Dangerous Legacy is a rare treat, an exciting, adventure-filled book made more accessible to that too often reluctant-reader group, young teenage boys, at a time when #PIRATES is a trending hashtag on social media. Pirates, Mermaids, & Magic, Oh, My! What's not to love? Girls, too, will fall for this magical world made ever more popular by movie blockbusters set on the wild seas and exotic isles in the Carribean. 

Thin, pale, awkward, bullied, Sam Every is a thirteen-year-old who finds comfort among his friends and his days at the beach. The ocean beckons to him. It is where he feels safest. Fitting in no longer matters when he is near the Pacific’s rolling waves. Gazing toward the endless blue where it touches the horizon, he imagines the ports he might someday reach and ponders his future. 

Little does he know an apparition—a hauntingly beautiful girl from the sea—will lead him farther from his home than he could ever dream, for destiny has given him a dangerous legacy.

              

Darren Simon has been a writer for much of his life. His career has included working as a journalist in Los Angeles, Israel and Southern California along the Mexican and Arizona borders. He presently works in government affairs on California water issues, teaches college English for the California Community College system, and does free-lance writing for regional magazines. His work as an author focuses on middle grade and young adult readers to inspire them to read the way he was inspired, first by comic books and then the science fiction and fantasy novels that were so important to his youth. He resides in California’s Desert Southwest with his wife and sons. For more information, and to contact Darren, visit his website http://www.darren-simon.com/

Tell-Tale Author John David Bethel "On the Grid" 

With one of the most incredible political races of all time taking place, political insider John David Bethel’s fan base continues to grow. The insightful lens through which he views events seem much less distorted to the average American these days.

John David Bethel fans already know that the Washington speech writer, the gritty political insider, and the tell-it-like-it-is journalist in him shines through in a startling and often disturbingly realistic way in his fiction writing. The complexity of facts and events that are used as a backdrop to his “fiction” add a fascinating element seldom found in today’s fiction novels.

Bethel’s fans will be happy to know that Tell-Tale Publishing has recently acquired his novel BLOODMOON, also based on true, gruesome crimes, complete with interviews and statements from witnesses and a sole survivor.

Please enjoy this unique and fascinating interview with John David Bethel about his time in Washington, some true events, and his novel EVIL TOWN on blog talk radio: ON THE GRID.

ON THE GRID