Sherry Rentschler
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Award-winning author Sherry Rentschler is known for her highly original poetry, her thrilling urban fantasy and her eye popping photography.
Rentschler began writing at a very young age and when a local newspaper published a summer vacation story about the birth of Sherry's new sister, and paid her for it, the writing bug bit. Since that time, Sherry has worked for two newspapers and enjoyed being a staff columnist as well as a photojournalist. She's also a writing coach and does speaking engagements with children's groups as well as book clubs and writing groups. A student of vampires in cultures around the world for over 40 years, you could say she's a vampire scholar. She also loves dragons, wine tastings, cemeteries and old black and white Sherlock Holmes movies. Sherry is a retired US Air Force officer, non-combat veteran and lives in North Carolina with her husband, also a retired USAF noncombat vet. They've been together for 27 happy years
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Paper Bones
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Poetry (Non-Fiction)
Adventures await in this poetry collection filled with stories and tales of humorous moments, chilling anecdotes, and sorrows to break the heart. Experience poetry as voyeur, culprit, victim, and coach. Examine the teenager who barters her soul just to get by, or the woman who runs away from an abuser, or the abused who, sadly, never made it out. Laugh with the inexperienced young lovers or sigh with profound joy shared between old married couples. Rage at apathy, sneer at ineptitude, then meet a living nightmare. Finally, stand proudly beside sacrifice and honor. Within these pages, the familiar unfolds in fresh, poetic rhythms with unique viewpoints. Far from boring, this is poetry for everyone. With luck, the verses will etch themselves in your heart and live forever in the bone.
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By Light Betrayed - Poetry of the Vampire
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Poetry (Fiction)
COME WITH ME INTO FOREVER...Here, there are Vampires! They hunger, desire, and cry out against the night. Their longing for you is palpable and visceral. They offer their souls that whisper of their horrors, scream of a longing to share, and sigh with promises to fulfill your darkest fantasies. These are the songs of the misunderstood, the tales of the pale forgotten, revealing the darkest truths of how the vampires emotionally endure. These undead bards will compel you with twilight seduction. Are you ready for a once-in-a-lifetime experience? Come spend one night with the most sensual, desired, and erotic of all the preternatural creatures. You've heard the stories. Discover the vampires in all their night-bound glory. Discover surrender and betrayal. Lose yourself in the myths, the truths, and the secrets that became the poetry of the vampires.
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Midnight Assassin: A Tale of Lust and Revenge
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Urban Fantasy
Terry Mastriano and his twin sister, Tempie, have become reluctant assassins, swearing a blood oath to avenge their father's assassination. The target? E. "Needles" Puzzoli, a man who went to prison but not for their father’s murder. For eight years, prison kept Needles safely out of the twins' reach, but now he's out and planning to leave town. If the twins want revenge, they must act now. Complicating matters is a mysterious and beautiful redhead who makes a prior claim on Needles. When Tempie attempts to kill Needles, the strange woman attacks, and warns both twins to stay away or die. Terry figures they're in a race with another assassin but he's only half-right. The dangerous woman is so much more than a fellow killer—she's a sensuous, deadly vampire with an undisclosed connection to both Needles and the twins. In an added complication, the vampire displays a lusty, predatory interest in Terry. An unexpected event forces Terry into a bargain with the vampire. Honor and vengeance demand satisfaction, and the twins are out for blood. No matter who gets to Needles first, a debt will be owed. Blood always wins. Just ask the vampire.
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The Book of Now
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Poetry (Non-Fiction)
In her third volume of poetry, award-winning author Sherry Rentschler rips topics from current events: Terrorism, Politics, Domestic Abuse of women and children, Nature (both human and Mother). The subjects and events exposed from real lives are the focus of this honest, contemporary book of verses. Neither timid or sweet, these poems examine events as they have unfolded, and define them with bluntness, compassion, and her unique talent to expose and explain the unimaginable. This is nonfiction. The events are real, sometimes haunting and often controversial. Topics traverse bigotry, racism, sexism, misogyny, xenophobia and domestic violence, as well as ecological destruction, international slavery, and immigration. Rentschler suggests that with understanding there is a key to unlocking a better future. Readers will discover this key as they pass through the volume designed to replicate a terrible grimoire, a book succinctly defining the four elements of chaos destroying our world. A better future awaits and needs your help. Find the key. Enter Now.
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Breaking the Glass Slipper: a Fictional Memoir
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Memoir
This is a true story. I am a baby boomer raised to believe that love always won, sex and love were interchangeable, and sharing both lead to the much desired happily ever after. In my childhood, every prince claimed a princess, every femme fatale got her man, and every sexual encounter promised love. I discovered how wrong I was before I left home and I went wild. Disillusioned, the next twenty-five years overflowed with misadventures, failed marriages, and sexual exploits. The lessons I learned were life-altering, filled with disappointments, often with painfully funny results. I cut my life’s teeth on the shards of my shattered glass slipper dreams. Until one day, my fairy godmother decided I’d suffered enough. My life became an honest-to-goodness love story complete with a real glass slipper. Happily ever after is possible. Take a lesson or two from me.
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