Training the Teacher As A Champion
Performance Learning Systems, 1989
This collaboration with PLS Founder Joseph Hasenstab, founder of the nation’s leading teacher-training firm with headquarters in Emerson, NJ, and Nevada City, California, outlined programs such as Project T.E.A.C.H. (Teacher Effectiveness and Classroom Handling) in articulating the successful practices of successful teachers, taught in PLS classes in every state for college credit. ($15.95)
Both Sides Now
AuthorHouse, 2004
This collection of previously-published humorous essays and poetry started life as a gift for family and soon took on a life of its own. With pictures and Erma Bombeck-style humor, Wilson depicts the life and times of a young, working mother in today’s hectic society and also muses in a serious vein through her poetry, discussing JFK, Jr.’s death and 9/11. The title Both Sides Now pays tribute to the trip from the sublime to the ridiculous that the book represents. (Available on Amazon.com)
Ghostly Tales of Route 66: Chicago to Oklahoma (Vol. I)
Quixote Press, 2009, ($9.95)
This first volume in a three-volume trilogy of ghost stories set along historic Route 66 is a collaboration with Bram Stoker nominee Michael McCarty. It travels the famous road from Chicago to Oklahoma. ($9.95, available on Amazon.com or by phone at 1-800-571-2665).
Ghostly Tales of Route 66: Arkansas to Arizona (Vol. II)
Quixote Press, 2009, ($9.95)
The second volume in the trilogy, a solo effort, picks up with a story about the Hanging Judge of Fort Smith, Arkansas, which is near (but not on) Route 66. It continues traveling the 2,448 mile-long Route 66 to the Arizona border, with more to come. (1-800-571-2665 to order.)
Ghostly Tales of Route 66: Arizona to California (Vol. III)
As with Volumes I and II, the book can be ordered from its own website, www.GhostlyTalesofRoute66.com, and comes autographed. (Add $3 for postage).
This last of the Route 66 trilogy utilizes four college-aged friends, Four from Flagstaff, who have adventures while traveling the route in search of ghostly experiences.The four may reappear in a Florida adventure in the near future. (College students on spring break, this time in Key West, Florida).
As with the two previous volumes, the volume has plenty of pictures and is priced at $9.95 (plus postage and handling). It is also available from Quixote Press by calling 319-372-7480 or the 800 number listed elsewhere on this website. If you order from the dedicated website Ghostly Tales of Route 66, your book will come autographed and you will receive free postage and handling if you order all 3 books in the trilogy for the total sum of $30.00.
Out of Time
Lachesis, December, 2009, ($14.95)
When a series of man-made and natural disasters strike the United States, altruistic rock star Dante Benedick (AKA “The One”) must travel back through time to rescue the world and the love of his life. (www.outoftimethenovel.com). This 80,000 word novel is a sci-fi romance thriller that will amaze you with its timely political predictions of female candidates and duplicitous Vice Presidents.
Hellfire & Damnation
Sam’s Dot, 2009 (by Halloween)
“Connie Wilson’s debut short story collection, Hellfire & Damnation, marks her not so much as a writer to watch, but one to watch out for. Exploring the 9 levels of Dante’s Infernovia contemporary settings and sensibilities — and the sins punished therein — this collection veers from sinister noir (“Going Through Hell”) to the bizarrely whimsical (“Amazing Andy, the Wonder Chicken”) to the outright, no-holds-barred horrific. Never have the 9 Circles of Hell been so much fun. I had a blast following Wilson on her tour of the inferno, and you will, as well.”
–5-time Bram Stoker Award-winner Gary A. Braunbeck, author of Coffin Countyand Far Dark Fields
Classic Cinema of the ‘70s: From The Godfather to Apocalypse Now
Quad City Press, September, 2009
This 300-page retrospective look back at a golden age of cinema is punctuated by 76 photos of films, reviews which Wilson wrote for the Quad City Times between 1970 and 1979 while serving as their film and book critic. Reprinted by permission, the 50 reviews and 76 pictures have come “from the archives,” saved for 40 years by a true film buff who loved movies like “Close Encounters of the Third Kind,” “Alien,” “Star Wars,” “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest,” “Saturday Night Fever,” both “Godfathers,” the films of Woody Allen, “Dog Day Afternoon,” and “Marathon Man”—to name just a few of the films included. Each review is like a tiny time capsule, taking you back to the ‘70s when the films were newly released, with interesting well-researched of-that-time information about the making of each movie, major cast lists and trivia for cinephiles (Answers are upside down, so no cheating!) If you were alive in ’75 and you love the movies, you’ll love this book. Said Mick Garris (“Fear Itself,” Stephen King’s “The Stand”), “…a wonderful and inclusive chronicle of the films of the 1970’s.”