Protest as a Catalyst for Change

Eagle and U.S. Flag

Protest as a Catalyst for Change      These days my writing life is filled with magic, myths, adventure, and quests-style novel writing. But in my past academic life, my writing was all non-fiction, essays of a wide variety. As I look back on some of the short essays I penned, I realized they have significant […]

My Zany Butterfly Road Trip

Whismical Statue at the Butterfly Garden of the Ozark

My next book is a children’s book called BELLA AND THE MISSING BUTTERFLY LOCKET. As part of my research, I took a road trip in November, to interview entomologists in Arkansas, Tennessee, Kentucky, Missouri, Oklahoma, and Arizona. The trip was a successful, and crazy adventure. The trip began simple enough. I met and interviewed an […]

The Best Lesson I Learned From My Dad

Earmuffs and a Football Helmet

The best lesson my dad taught me has to do with a pair of earmuffs and a football helmet. Most of my childhood memories of my dad were before I was ten. Before he left for California. Before he left, mom, and my siblings, and I, in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. My dad was a lying narcissistic […]

The Devil Pulls the Strings Receives the Literary Titan Award

Great news to share with you – The Devil Pulls the Strings received the Literary Titan Award. Literary Titan Book Awards July 2021 Literary Titan bestows their Gold Award on books found to be perfect in their delivery of original content, meticulous development of unique characters in an organic and striking stetting, an innovative plot that […]

JOE ZAREK

Author of Non-fiction, Fantasy
and Graphic Novels

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