Dear Faithful Readers,

Elaine Shevin's book "The Return of White Swan" is available now on Hazel Street! WooHOO!

White Swan Returns is about a young American Indian woman who returns home from college only to be embroiled in a gangsters plot to chase people from the reservatiion. He wants to buy up the land cheap! Swan hikes in the desert travels to Times Square at New Years and goes river rafting in the Grand Canyon. But it's not the pleasant journey she thought it was going to be and who is her best friend Susie really? Her mystical grandmother faces the diabolical villians fearlessly and "Fighting Bear" the big manly Indian dude is once again romancing Swan at the most inappropriate moments, darn him!

If you want a book that will take you away to someplace you haven't been or you just want to see a strong willed woman survive, this is the book for you!

Two ways you can purchase
Buy White Swan Returns for $17 dollars includes Media Rate shipping.

or
Pay just $20 dollars and get both "The Winds of Time" the first in the White Swan Mystery series and "White Swan Returns" and the shipping is FREE!

(If you already bought the first book for $8, you can always give your duplicate copy to a friend.)

Kimberlee Medicine Horn, author of "My Homeland" says, "White Swan Returns is rich with tribal culture and traditions, real and relevant characters, and shows the tension between living on and off the reservation. Shevin engages us with White Swan’s world from the first page to the last. I anticipate readers will want more.  A full-bodied written work... an excellent series."

I know you all want to know who the winners are for the Steal from the best contest. I would have gotten this up sooner, but I've been very ill for too long. I accept prayers of all denominations for my health. Thank you.

This was a tough competition. We had over 200 entries mixed in 17,000 spams, so first it was tough figuring out who entered then it was tough judging because we liked them all.

These are the winners. Thanks to all of you who entered. If you know one of the winners, tell them to contact me or to respond to my email.

1st Place Robert Tate for “Ritual”
Wins $750

2nd Place Harriet Ford “Harvey Saw Monsters”
Wins $150
3rd Place Deborah Breitman “Noir”
Wins $75

4th Place Winners! Each wins $25 dollars!
Andrea L. Martzahl “Through my Touch”
Jayaims Stevens “Forever's Debt”
Jayaims Stevens “An Irish lesson”
Stefani Hutchison “Reasonable Doubt”
Sarah Rose Evans “E-Harmony”
Matthew Brown - No Title
Hugh Neeld  “Elmo Tanner’s Best Joke”
Donna L. Wilkins “New Beginnings”
Andrea L.  Martzahl “My Own Music”
Deborah Breitman “Mistaken”
Dave Smith “Grandmother's Story”
Jayaims Stevens “A life story”
Robert Tate “Bed Time Stories”
Mary-Alex Zickefoose “Getting Rid of Thom Graham”
Briea Brickey “Just forget you ever saw it, it's better that way”
Jeanne M. Samson “The Professor”
Tina Hayes “A Day at the Flea Market”

We did not receive enough entries to pay for a printed book, so we are sending out a PDF book as soon as the editing process is complete. I will post the top three entries on this site in part or whole after I hear back from the top three winners.

- Hazel Street

Quick info and update.

Madeline DiMaggio's much demanded new book, "How to Write for TV and Cable Movies" Has been released. You can find it on Amazon! Simon and Schuchster publishers. Watch her site www.Cre8ascript.com for updates.

(Link here to purchase amazon.)

Great Holiday GIFT? Bruce Cameron new book! Oh MY GAWD! It's soooo FUNNY! Yes he is and the title is so easy to remember it's "8 Simple Rules forMARRYING My Daughter."

Lenora Smalley's contest winners will be announced in January. And she has a new book! Perfect for your special friend who loves poetry. Go to www.LenoraSmalley.com

Faith Foyil has two new columns on her site "To Market to Market" a shopping prospective and "Barking up the Wrong Tree!" Something every mother with pets can understand. Read it moms and you will laugh! Her columns are a much needed break in my routine. Go to www.FaithFoyil.com and click on columns.

Marcia Wallace actress turned author will be appearing in San Diego this weekend, some of her Mrs. Krabappel fans will be happy to know she's at the Comic-Con signing autographs! What? You didn't know she was the voice of Mrs. Krabappel? Where do you think that "HA!" came from? Go to www.MarciaWallace.com and click on Calendar to find out where she will be appearing next.

And lastly, Carol Wood, (Alias Hazel) our own little writer won two Golden Pen awards this year from the MomWriters, 1600 international professional writers think Carol is funny and outrageous. We're saying this again because well, the year is almost up and we're not sure if it goes till next May or ends here! Carol won the first award for Best Comedic Writing and the second award is called the "Howard Stern Award for Most Outrageous Writer." There, I said it. I admitted it here. There website has not been updated, what do you expect, they are MOMS and they are WRITERS! But I really did win the awards, honest.

Okay, I'm sure I forgot stuff. If I forgot you, it wasn't on purpose. Please email me and let me know what I forgot or just tell me what you're up to and it might appear on Hazel Street.

- Hazel Street