Dear family and friends,
colleagues, Blog followers and students,
I would like to take this opportunity to ask your
kindness in supporting me, helping me, and considering my literary work for
your next purchase. I would deeply appreciate your support and also ask that if
you have a social media presence to please announce the book titles and links to
access them so that your friends can consider checking out the work as well. In
these challenging times, a writer needs all the help and support possible and
for those that are kind enough to care and give the work a chance, I thank you
greatly for your kindness. And now, I would like to share a bit of information
and ask you to take a few moments and check it out.
Many of you occupy various roles in my life and I am thankful
that you are in my life. Every class, every attempt to befriend someone has
enriched my life in many ways and for that, I want to say, thank you!
As you know I am an American expat residing in
Germany. I have traveled the world these last 20+ years and I have integrated
my life experiences, continued educational and emotional development and growth
into my writing and even into my teaching. I have taken on varied business
roles these past 20+ years and I have lived in both the east and west of Germany.
I co-started and founded a language school in the east of Germany, I trained
and did seminars and management training on behalf of Siemens in Germany and in
Ireland and I was an in-house trainer for Siemens in Karlsruhe, Germany. I have
worked for many companies over these years from Bosch to CAS to the city of
Karlsruhe and many more. I have and continue to teach on the college level as
well as providing language training for companies. I have traveled from Japan
to the Maldives, France and Spain and Italy and Greece to Turkey and Egypt and
Slovenia and Croatia to Norway, Ireland and Great Britain to Mexico and Canada,
La Gomera to Crete and Sardinia and Sicily to South Africa and to many more
locations. In other words, my travels have contributed to my cultural and
communication knowledge and all of it has contributed to my literary writing
experiences and much of the work I have published. Throughout this course of
time, I have made friends far and near and I am very happy to have added this
component to my previous Americanized life. In America I lived in New York, New
Orleans and Los Angeles, from the San Fernando Valley to the west side of LA to
Santa Monica, CA.
I continue to write and now and then, I have been
lucky to get material published. Some of you may know while others probably do
not, but my roots stem from parents who came from Poland and were in the camps
of WW2. They emigrated to the USA and I was the first born in America. My
sister passed away in her 30s due to cancer, so the family history is a
troubled one full of challenges, successes and failures. There is far greater
depth to all of that, but the key is to share that the writing I have done and
am continuing to do has a connection to the above history. The poetry will take
you to emotions, moments in time, physical hardships, joy found mostly in hope,
the smallest of details that become universal as they share a common human
experience easily relatable for each person to see, feel and think about. These
poems are full of people and contain beautiful, sad, ugly, realistic and
wonderous reflections and moments frozen in time about the human condition with
all of its glory and frailties. Good and serious work should be vulnerable,
full of images and open a window to the soul. They are about nature, people,
animals, hardships, tragedy, and joy, about places and philosophy and much
more.
Today, I am announcing a new work. A novel titled, RIVERBED.
This novel is about a three generational family and
focuses on a grandfather, a son and a grandson all living together on a ranch
in Montana, USA. These are all troubled individuals confronting their
relationships from old age to father to son conflict due to their values and
vision of what love and life should be about. And there is a young boy coming
of age and full of internal complications because of divorce and the inability
to relate to his father. A reflection of family issues, communication and love
issues and understanding one’s place in life is what this story shares. It touches
upon history and the land, a lifestyle and how evolution plays a role in all of
their lives. A hunting trip into the Montana mountains in late fall evolves
into a life and death experience. These are characters you can relate to and
emotions and psychological issues we may all experience in our lives at one
time or another.
Interestingly enough, my mother, father and
grandfather on my mother’s side were the only people to survive the Holocaust
and their conflicts, adjustments to life in America, the generational
complications and the coming to manhood experiences I lived are elements that
partially make up the characters in RIVERBED.
I invite all of you to go to Amazon. com, or the
German homepage or the UK homepage or in the USA, Barnes and Noble, or the Home
pages of the publishers, Adelaide Publishing, an American and Portuguese
publisher and Mirador Publishing, a UK
publisher or Outlaws Publishing, an American publisher to access my work.
The titles of the books are:
Like water to STONE and Where the Leaves
Darken-Adelaide Publishing
RIVERBED, a novel, Mirador Publishing (recently
published-available for purchase very soon)
American Voices, Outlaws Publishing
You can go to Amazon and simply enter my name Steven
Pelcman into the all field or books field, and it will take you directly to all
of the books and E book versions.
OR
Amazon America
Amazon Germany
Amazon UK
Thanks so much. Please consider getting a book.
Steven
