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C.B. Anthony

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Buffalo, New York, The United States

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https://www.carlbattaglia.com/

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Romance, Young Adult

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They call me C. B. Anthony. That’s the pen name of the late great Carl A. Battaglia. No, he’s not dead, just late ¬– very, very late ¬¬– in his writing career. Thirty years, to be exact.

Battaglia knows about being allergic. His physician father saved him many times throughout his childhood. His experiences gave him ample material for his second novel, Allergic: A Teenage Tale.

He preceded this with Angel Wings: A Modern Fairy Tale.

Now retired, Battaglia taught college writing, literature, and film for over twenty-five years.

Learn more about him and his work at carlbattaglia.com. Also, while you’re visiting his website, feel free to send inquiries or leave him a message.

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C.B. Anthony Since childhood, I have always been interested in stories about angels. Just what kind of lives did they lead? It seems heaven was a place of fun and …moreSince childhood, I have always been interested in stories about angels. Just what kind of lives did they lead? It seems heaven was a place of fun and happiness. Hardly like a place on Earth.

During my teen years, my ideas of heaven changed. My study of philosophy and religious studies suggested that heaven involved eternity, peace and tranquility, and moral perfection. I imagined angels living in a separate celestial world, happy to praise God all day in prayer and devotional music.

Of course, I was most intrigued by guardian angels. They had the added job of watching over human beings, so they had the duty to study human behavior very closely.

But then I imagined, what if there was a wannabee guardian angel, overly moralistic and repelled by human beings, who royally flunked her exam? And in her desperation, she devised a way to get her angel wings by going to Earth and saving some hopeless degenerate?

Then on Earth, Angela would find that life was the opposite of heaven: temporal, always changing, full of discontent, riddled with imperfection and strife, discordant music, and self-glory.

Could Angela reconcile two such different worlds? Especially if she came up against a most obnoxious man, Dickie Beasley: an irrepressible millionaire, ladies' man, devoted gambler, and lush?

I wondered, if the battle of wills began, who would win? I only had the feeling: When the Irresistible Force met the Immovable Object, sparks were going to fly.
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