Susan I. Weinstein's Blog

Tales of The Mer Family Onyx and Paradise gardens, thebooks I illustrated are only available in the Pelekinesis versions.

While Amazon was recently cited for allowing 3rd party sellers to sell very price slashed editions of "new" books, fact is most are used.

And only the Pelekinesis editions of my books are illustrated, as well as rewritten, with features, like forwords, reader's guides for context.

The others offered of The Anarchist's Girlfriend are not definitive versions. They are simply not good, so please only buy the Pelekinesis version of the ebook, no matter the prices. I spent more than a year making these books the best they could be.

I wanted the reader to find these books readable and enjoyable. Thank you for your support.

Tales of the Mer Family Onyx: Mermaid Stories on Land and Under the Sea, New Edition by Susan I. Weinstein

My rating: 5 of 5 stars


The definitive edition of this book has evolved for more than a decade. It began with a child's intense fascination with mermaids; beautiful creatures, between earth and sea. Many countries have Mer stories. After these, my son wanted his own. Entering a child's fantasy--under his direction-- and making it a shared world is a kind of tradition. Supposedly, Alice's request for stories led to Carroll's Wonderland, E.Nesbit dedicated her Five children and It to her son. Like those stories,Mer Family has also been appreciated by adults. Imagine being married to The King of the Seas? There's the Coney Island Mermaid Parade, through a mermaid's eyes, and the serious work containing mankind's mess. I consider it a compliment that a Coney Island gaff artist sold a Fiji Mermaid of my character Pinky Onyx, of the race of mini-mermaids. So this is a book really for children of all ages. This illustrated New Edition is available through Pelekinesis, the publisher at www.pelekinesis.com



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SPD (Small Press Distributors) have made Paradise Gardens a recommended book.

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They previously chose The Anarchist's Girlfriend New Edition.

Also, if you live in NYC do come to Dixon Place for UNIMAGINABLE WORLDS. 10/5, Thursday at 7:30. Sara Minisquero, recently in SHE-MOON, will read as will I.

Diana Rivera provides images and music for this 60 minute event-readings from Paradise Gardens & Tales of the Mer Family Onyx.

UNIMAGINABLE WORLDS @DixonPlace Lounge, 7:30 to 8:30. Free admission.

Imagine the unimaginable. You are living in an authoritarian business paradise but don't know it. Or you know real life is nothing like what is presented to people. You are part of the resistance but need your cover. Yet you are in love. That is the situation between Janet McCarthy, claims adjustor at Rudimental Life Co,, and Michael Thorpe, proprietor of a Greenwich Village store specializing in ethnic artifacts. When is romance key to human survival?
For answers to this dilemma, in the tradition of Philip K. Dick's paranoid fiction come visit Paradise Gardens by Susan I. Weinstein

Ever wonder how our planet might fare if Gods rule? Neptune manages the weather, the seas, but his daughter dabbles in humans. For the lighter side of planetary turmoil, there's Tales of the Mer Family Onyx by Susan I. Weinstein
Stories told with spoken word, visuals, music. http://dixonplace.org/performances/un...

on 10/5 at Dixon Place in NYC, in the lounge will be Unimaginable Worlds, a free event.
It will feature spoken word by me, Susan I. Weinstein from Paradise Gardens and by performer Sara Minisquero, Tales of the Mer Family Onyx. Visuals and music by Diana Rivera event photography.
Starts at 7:30. Looking for a fun Thursday eve?

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A Gift of Wonder A True Story Showing School As It Should Be by Kim Allsup

My rating: 5 of 5 stars


Kim Allsup's memoir of teaching in a Waldorf School is lyrical about nature and childhood. I enjoyed magical adventures with her class, discovering a spiderweb that rested with no visible supports, a pod that burst, as children followed delicate floating parasols Children are observed in the process of being themselves. A young girl dances, enraptured with newly fallen leaves glittering golden in the sunlight, oblivious to a call to line-up. An alienated boy finds a mentor in an orator from ancient Greece. A GIFT OF WONDER shows why wonder and intrinsic inner rewards, rather than raise or grades, are the ideal motivators for children's learning.

I absolutely love this book. It is one of the most personal, humorous and completely moving books about childhood and a school that really worked--using the wonder and amazement kids experience as impetus. Imagine learning linked to natural curiosity? Read this book, if you remember being a kid, teach kids or are a parent.



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Coming very soon from The Book Guys... Paradise Gardens by @swpubrel in an audio drama format. Sign up for the free podcast feed now: https://pinecast.com/feed/paradisegar... …
With original music and narration, the serial will happen every month. A dystopia for now, started in the Reagan era.

Midwest Book Review
Fiction Bookshelf
Synopsis: Something that could easily have been ripped from today's newspaper headlines in this our second Golden Age of Robber Barron capitalism as evidence by President Donald Trump turning his administration over to corporate executives and millionaires, and appointing to be heads of various governmental agencies men and women hostile to them in line with Steve Bannon's aspiration to 'deconstruct' the government.

"Paradise Gardens" New Edition by Susan I. Weinstein is a truly Orwellian novel of speculative fiction that is set in an all too believable near future world, where the Federal government has dissolved amid ecological breakdown.
"Paradise Gardens" becomes the home of the United Business Estates (U.B.E). Capitalism has devolved into the corporate feudalism of the U.B.E., where employees are conceived as Superior or Average to fit the needs of business. It is a vision at once strange and familiar. The recognition it brings is a dark pleasure.

Critique: Part of the attraction of "Paradise Gardens" is that it is all too believable given the political climate today where corporate money clearly dominates all three branches of the federal government (even to the point of running well funded television commercials promoting the appointment of a member of the United States Supreme Court), and the top 1% of the population control 80% of the country's wealth. Deftly written, "Paradise Gardens" follows in literary tradition of dystopian novels and his very highly recommended for both community and academic library Literary Fiction collections. For personal reading lists it should be noted that "Paradise Gardens" is also available in a Kindle format ($9.95).

This New Edition has been rewritten, updated with illustrations, Reader's Guide and Preface

Pelekinesisis Press is publishing New Editions of my 3 books. These are not reprints but definitive Editions with substantial new material, visual and historical.

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