Juanita Tischendorf
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I have kept a promise to myself to write a book a year and this year I am releasing my 10th book. It didn’t seem possible that I would ever accomplish this. After spending years on my first few books, I challenged myself to write one book a year and I have done this because I love to write, and I love a challenge.
When I first went through my folder of ideas, I was shocked how many books I had started and stopped, going back years and years. Some were no more than ideas or thoughts written down, but I took them one by one until I had written them all. I first started writing when my son’s doctor told me that if I wrote it, I would accept it. Great words I found out later when I did just that. My son, Erik Saxton, was born a dwarf at a time when little people were struggling. It not only helped me to accept but showed me how to help him adjust to the world around him by exposing him to the Rotary Sunshine Camp and later to Little People of America. After writing about his life, I vented my anger at having to divorce my first husband by writing again. Yes, it did help. |
Running my own computer support business put me in touch with a lot of people and one of them, whom I adored, asked me to write his life story. I did. What could be more interesting than hearing about marathons and ultra-marathons from someone who had been in them throughout the world, yes, the world as he reached his goal of over 700 marathons in his lifetime. That was a learning and a first-time experience for me when I did a marathon with him to see and feel what it was really like. One was enough for me.
After that I was still not in the mind set that I was a writer until my son was murdered in Oklahoma City. With me living in Rochester, New York and remarried with a different last name, it took several hours to contact me and faced with the loss of my only child, I felt mad, confused and finally like all mothers, began to blame myself. He was 43 years old, a grown man, but I felt to blame. It was then I remembered that doctor’s advice, to write it and I would accept it. I did just that. I wrote every detail, I went to Oklahoma City and met with the state prosecutor and when I wasn’t there, I kept in contact and received all the files, tapes, and pictures. It wasn’t easy to read and view what I had to see, but it became real and along with that the reality it wasn’t my fault. He was the victim of a drug addict and it was out of both our hands. I took all the information and wrote the final book on my son.
After that book, I found myself interested in trying my hand at writing a book on a murder mystery. I wanted to try and wrap my head around how someone commits a murder and in turn it was one more way of embedding my acceptance that bad things can happen to good people. It was a fiction story, but I learned that fiction is never far from the truth. I was feeling quite comfortable with writing and that was when I remembered my file of notes. I had totally forgotten that I used to try and write because I would never finish. I opened that folder that has been transferred from each home I lived in before settling with my new husband and I amazed myself. I saw my notes and thought to myself that I had quite a wild imagination. Only the more I looked at the stories, the more I wanted to write them and thus began my book a year campaign.
I wrote a fantasy, a love story, another murder mystery and then finally a fantasy thriller. It was like being captured in a different world than the one I was living in; that is until the final word was written. This 10th book emptied my folder of ideas, but my mind kept churning and it stopped on the thought of writing a true murder mystery. I chose the Alphabet Murders/Double Initials because it had happened here in Rochester and I was caught up with the details waiting for them to find the monster who had done this. They had several suspects, but they never reported that they had the murderer and there was never a trial.
From my personal experience, having the murderer of my son caught did not give me a feeling of closure. The fact that she is in prison for the rest of her life, does not give me closure. What it did give me was peace of mind that she would not be able to hurt anyone else and that someone was accountable for his death. That’s the best that can be achieved after someone you love is murdered. I think that for the parents of these three girls there is no closure, no reality of someone paying the price for taking their child from them and though I am by no means an expert, I want a chance to help. So, I will be going through the records of the case. I don’t know if I will find anything in my review of the case files, but who's to say. That will be the subject of my next book. If you would like to read any of my books you can find them at:
http://www.lulu.com/spotlight/jtischen
https://www.amazon.com/author/juanitatischendorf
After that I was still not in the mind set that I was a writer until my son was murdered in Oklahoma City. With me living in Rochester, New York and remarried with a different last name, it took several hours to contact me and faced with the loss of my only child, I felt mad, confused and finally like all mothers, began to blame myself. He was 43 years old, a grown man, but I felt to blame. It was then I remembered that doctor’s advice, to write it and I would accept it. I did just that. I wrote every detail, I went to Oklahoma City and met with the state prosecutor and when I wasn’t there, I kept in contact and received all the files, tapes, and pictures. It wasn’t easy to read and view what I had to see, but it became real and along with that the reality it wasn’t my fault. He was the victim of a drug addict and it was out of both our hands. I took all the information and wrote the final book on my son.
After that book, I found myself interested in trying my hand at writing a book on a murder mystery. I wanted to try and wrap my head around how someone commits a murder and in turn it was one more way of embedding my acceptance that bad things can happen to good people. It was a fiction story, but I learned that fiction is never far from the truth. I was feeling quite comfortable with writing and that was when I remembered my file of notes. I had totally forgotten that I used to try and write because I would never finish. I opened that folder that has been transferred from each home I lived in before settling with my new husband and I amazed myself. I saw my notes and thought to myself that I had quite a wild imagination. Only the more I looked at the stories, the more I wanted to write them and thus began my book a year campaign.
I wrote a fantasy, a love story, another murder mystery and then finally a fantasy thriller. It was like being captured in a different world than the one I was living in; that is until the final word was written. This 10th book emptied my folder of ideas, but my mind kept churning and it stopped on the thought of writing a true murder mystery. I chose the Alphabet Murders/Double Initials because it had happened here in Rochester and I was caught up with the details waiting for them to find the monster who had done this. They had several suspects, but they never reported that they had the murderer and there was never a trial.
From my personal experience, having the murderer of my son caught did not give me a feeling of closure. The fact that she is in prison for the rest of her life, does not give me closure. What it did give me was peace of mind that she would not be able to hurt anyone else and that someone was accountable for his death. That’s the best that can be achieved after someone you love is murdered. I think that for the parents of these three girls there is no closure, no reality of someone paying the price for taking their child from them and though I am by no means an expert, I want a chance to help. So, I will be going through the records of the case. I don’t know if I will find anything in my review of the case files, but who's to say. That will be the subject of my next book. If you would like to read any of my books you can find them at:
http://www.lulu.com/spotlight/jtischen
https://www.amazon.com/author/juanitatischendorf
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Body of Evidence
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Fiction-Thriller/Suspense
Richard Dandridge has left a big city Manhattan law firm to open up his own small private practice in his hometown of Rochester, NY. He is eking out a meager living representing small clients, but he is content to play golf and no longer be part of the scandals and notoriety of the big city law firms. Now, however, he has been thrown back into the big leagues by a huge local murder case. Lieutenant Vincent Trapp has shot and killed businessman Noah Arietta at the Foundry Café, in front of witnesses. There is no question that Trapp has done the murder and he certainly had motive, as Arietta had violently raped and beaten Trapp’s wife Paige. Lieutenant Trapp has requested that Richard Dandridge represent him.
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Playground in My Mind
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Fiction-Thriller/Suspense
It’s the Age of a Child Who Grows To Manhood Quickly In His New Body Playground in My Mind is a bit of whimsy story about a boy who has the capability of aging quickly. The story begins with Michael appearing at the age of 5 years old to the artist, Taylor Bouchand, who doesn’t know what to make of him or what to do with him. When she asks the child where are his parents, he says, “No one is ready for me” and thus begins her association with this little boy, Michael, who grows at an alarming speed through childhood. To add to the confusion, Taylor will find that what she thought she knew about her parents was not exactly true and this new knowledge goes a long way in explaining why Michael appeared to her.
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Don't Look Back
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Fiction-Thriller/Suspense
More than 2 million marriages are celebrated each year in America. Some last forever. Some don't. A simple divorce is the solution for the vast majority of couples when wedded bliss loses its fragrance. Yet not all women can come to terms with ending a marriage. Angelo Maglioni, II, sits in his plush office reviewing the case of Samuel Stillman. When Angelo sees the name of the prosecuting attorney, his interest peaks. At that moment, Samuel Stillman becomes the pawn in a case that will have a surprising ending for all that eventually become entangled in the episodes that unfold. Not until it all culminates in a confrontation at the Sanders residence does Skye finally realize what has been taking place around her. By then it is too late. In this powerful domestic thriller, a chilling story unwinds in which terror and devotion plague a middle-class housewife, mother, and business owner. The question is whether she can remain alive and sand through it all.
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The Selfie
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Self-Help, How-To
For Adolescent & Teenage Girls to improve their external and internal beauty. To tailor the details, you complete blueprints and when you are through, you know yourself inside and out, head to toe. It’s the only program of its kind, and it works! The lessons include GETTING TO KNOW YOU, YOUR BLUEPRINTS, NO NONSENSE PERSONAL HYGIENE, BEAUTIFYING THE SKIN, SEND IN THE CLOWNS, TAMING THE MANE, FEATURING THE EXTREMITIES, WATCHING THOSE CARBS, LET'S GET PHYSICAL, FINDING YOUR FASHION, VOICE AND CONVERSATION, THE VISUALS, THE ICING ON THE CAKE
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Love Will Find A Way
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Fiction-Romance
Is it ever too late to have a last chance at love? Who knows but the heartwarming book Love Will Find A Way may have the answer. This book carries itself with grace and class, despite its tough subject matter. And that's due largely to the persons of Parker and Trinity. Parker learns that he has inoperable cancer and not long to live. A stock broker by trade and use to overcoming obstacles and predicting outcomes, he finds himself at a loss on how to close the deal. It is by chance he runs into Trinity, a will o' the wisp free spirit who has hidden issues of her own, one of which is learning she has terminal cancer. But sometimes chemistry overshadows practicality, and the two are drawn together in ways both heartwarming and sad. Despite the subject matter, the book provides humor to soften the absurdities of life. Humor is splatter through the pages giving definition to the characters demonstrating what is important. Love Will Find A Way is entertaining with twists and a surprise conclusion.
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Circle of Seven
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Fantasy, Mystery
This haunting tale is set in Rochester, NY; the home of the lady in White and the Fox Sisters and makes one wonder what is it that makes the Ceps woman special? Is it their birth date, the fact that they were born with a veil, or just that they were born to save the world? It isn’t until Nola and Joy Ceps-Log meet the new neighbors, did it all begin to fall in place. Jolene Manns and Nan Safer have a bit of the gift, though they don’t realize it. Together, along with Dr. Reb Memer and Marguerite Fox they break the code and know the power of the circle of seven. Sample Chapter
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