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A variety of titles and topics are listed on my author page at Smashwords.com, URL: https://www.smashwords.com/profile/view/Carma_GagneChan (linked above).
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Below are my books published at Smashwords.
The movie rights to Saardu are available.
The original award-winning script is online. Click the link to explore: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0FQLJHJ4P
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| The Crow by Alexandre Nodopaka |
Before my friend Alex died last year, he entrusted me with the legacy of his artwork. He did not say those words exactly. He lived those words in my presence.
Alex collaborated with me on his biography, a gallery in literary form, He gave me permission to continue to use his artwork in my publications, knowing that I am a kind and gentle soul, a teacher, a fellow artist and art lover, a nature lover, an explorer forever wandering and wondering.
Alex and I were peas in a pod, birds of a feather...he was a mentor and a treasured friend whose gravitational influence in my tiny piece of Earth forever altered the trajectory of my soul. Simply put, I learned to appreciate Art through Alex's passion for it and his mind-blowing prolific creativity.
He was many things. A Renaissance man, for sure. A mechanical engineer, photography virtuoso, digital magician, sculptor and poetic wordsmith.
In the years before he died, he would forward me the links to his latest publication. Alex was a retired gentleman, husband, pet fish keeper and gardener, who created artwork daily. DAILY. He played with his food. He took a picture of it. He transformed the picture into a masterpiece. He submitted the artwork to magazines. He got published. Over and over and over and over again. The list of his publications is here: https://alexandrenodopaka.blogspot.com/p/many-publications-have-featured.html
The above artwork by Alex was featured on the cover of Sunspot Literary Journal Volume 5 Issue #1, Sun Dog Creations, in April 2023. A free PDF of the issue can be downloaded by navigating to THE JOURNAL > Editions: 2023, scroll down to April, below the artwork is a DOWNLOAD button.
Watching Alex grow old taught me how to survive, how to tolerate the effects of aging, how to enjoy life no matter what.
It was only at the bitter end... when age robbed him of the ability to make art...
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| Dad at age 25 (book cover) |
I have given this book my very best. I hope it honors my parents and lives up to their high bar of compassion and decency. John has earned his place in the library of humanity.
Sweet Like John is the title chosen to keep me and the story clear and focused. Though his childhood was shattered by war, his enduring sweetness touches every page. And though our story begins with the darkness of abandonment by my natural father, it positively blooms into a sunny garden tended by the one who stepped up. My childhood was rescued by a good stepfather. My discarded soul was resuscitated by his trustworthiness.
Though power struggles and faith crisscross every aspect of living, John did not push his philosophies on me. As the giver of his story to the world, I do not push politics or religion. There are inescapable facts, such as the religion of my parents, which must be mentioned to establish the arc of my character as the storyteller and prodigal daughter.
As you read the pages of our lives, you join me on a journey of cherishing loved ones who are gone, yet live in who we become. John's unconditional love of my mother and all eight of the children they raised is the star that guides my path. I am a work in progress.
All heroes are flawed. John was not perfect. However, he shines in my world like a supernova. Long after he burst on the scene and transcended into that mystical place we call Heaven, his light continues on Earth. His kindness and empathy stand tall and indestructible, more real than a statue. John Wang Leong Chan was and will always be to me the best man who ever walked the Earth. The world needs more men to be sweet like John.
Who am I to say such a thing? Merely one of eight children who called him Dad. I was very young when I met John. While the youngest two are genetically related and the world calls them half, they are and always have been my full brother and sister, same as all the others. They were simply more fortunate to be able to call him Daddy without feeling like a traitor and an impostor. There was someone that six of us called Daddy before John. Sadly, I must remember that part of our story, too.
