Dr. James T Baker Releses Peter Peacock Passes

Grave Distractions Publications is happy to announce that Dr. James T. Baker's latest novel Peter Peacock Passes has been released in various eBook formats.   

Peter Peacock Passes is the tale of a Texas youth in the 1960's who has to come to terms with his desire to become a minister and find a meaningful relationship. Follow Peter's misadventures as he learns to minister to his flock and the women he meets along the way. When one adds the needs of those Peter ministers to, the path to the straight and narrow becomes complicated. The secrets of those Peter ministers to are on par with his own. Will Peter Peacock navigate the shoals of mortality and pass his final exam?

Grave Distractions Publications has provided cover art, layout, eBook conversion, and marketing support for Peter Peacock Passes. 

Grave Distractions Publications Provides Support for Dr. Francis Martin's Hospice Mementos: A Salutation to Dawn

We are happy to announce that Dr. Francis Martin's latest book, Hospice Mementos: A Salutation to Dawn has been released in various eBook formats.  Dr. Martin, drew on his experiences as a mental health counselor, health care administrator, and as a volunteer at Nashville's Alive Hospice in writing Hospice Mementos.  The text offers firm and solid inspiration to those who serve hospice patients and their families.

This title from is now available as an eBook for Amazon's Kindle and various other formats at Smashwords.  Grave Distractions Publications provided: cover design, layout, eBook conversion, and marketing support for this title.

Preview Quest

We are born.  If we are lucky, or some would say,
“Blessed,” we live until we reach seventy or maybe eighty years of age.  And, we die.  In between these events, most of us need more than we get from others.  Interest. Understanding.  Kindness.  Loyalty.  And much more.  Most of the time, we accept the limits of their interest, understanding, kindness, loyalty, and much more, knowing that all of these things are trapped in the minds, hearts, and life spans of those from whom we need so much.  They get tired and can’t play with us.  They get hungry and irritated with us.  They go to work and abandon us.

Or, sometimes, they just disappear from our lives.  They leave us, causing us to wonder whether they will ever be with us again or whether they are alive.  They cause us to ache for their presence, to give us at least a mere nod to our existence or maybe a word that tells us that we truly matter to someone.  What’s worse, they stir doubt within us about whether we are worth the care we want.  And, maybe, they cause us to look for them, knowing that we may never find them, let alone get the precious gifts of love for which we desperately long.  They force us to make decisions about their worth to us, to tell ourselves with finality that their lives have ended, even when we know that they live
and breathe without us, as if they lived in an
alternate universe.

Naturally, the meaning of life’s QUEST is different for each one of us.  QUEST—will confirm for each of us who reads it the
significance of the quest in all of our lives:  The
quest for meaningful relationships.  QUEST reminds us of an inconvenient truth, the obligation to reckon with life as it is, when meaningful relationships evade our grasp. 

Preview Dogs to Men

Author James T. Baker recounts the escapades of a small-town football team that endures the hazards of growing up.  He follows “the Demopolis Dogs" through pratfalls on the field, on the stage, and in their relationships, and on their twisting trail to becoming men.  On its face, it is a coming of age simple story, but Baker makes you feel both the anguish and ecstasy of adolescence.  An experience that turns out to be a  muddy, painful team experience.

The group of boys , who refer to themselves as “Us Dogs” appears as a somewhat disjointed team.  They always seem to come together in an “all for one, and one for all” spirit.  As each member of the team uniquely arrives at manhood, the similarity to your own youthful struggle awaken long ago memories.  By the end of the novel, you'll be reminded that we all have come to the same end point.  As adults, we have the wisdom to realize that some complete their journey in better condition than others.
 

Preview Holidays With Sundae: Conversations with My Cat

Holidays with Sundae invites you to experience the delight of conversations with a cat. Pet owners understand that their furry companions become a part of our family. Sundae the cat comes to be as real as any person we know. As a thinker and critic of the human condition, Sundae's feline perspective might surprise you. Sundae becomes a mirror in which we can examine ourselves.

Dr. Baker brings us into the conversation with Sundae using holidays as the springboard for their dialogue. Each holiday, though familiar to all of us, is introduced in a completely different perspective. Sundae leaves us to wonder why we did not already think of each holiday in the fresh-eyed and reverent way a cat might view our festive and reflective times.  

Grave Distractions Publications to Provide Services for Green Hills Press

Grave Distractions Publications is happy to announce an arrangement with Green Hills Publications has been achieved.   The team at Grave Distractions will be providing support for the works of authors Dr. James T. Baker and Dr. Francis Martin.  It is our goal is to bring the works of both men into the realm of on demand printing as well as the ePublication format in order to expand the readership of these gentlemen's superior works.

Dr. James T Baker is a respected historian and professor at Western Kentucky University.  Along with his historical texts, Dr. Baker is an accomplished fiction author.  Grave Distractions has been tasked with preparing Holidays with Sundae, Dogs to Men, and Quest for on demand traditional prints and various eBook formats.  Along with those titles, Dr. Baker has three previously unreleased manuscripts in which we are eagerly looking forward to bringing to readers in both print and eBook format.

Dr. Francis Martin is the head of Green Hills Publishing and has also authored a number of titles.  His works primarily deal with various religious topics and grief counseling.  Dr. Martin is busy developing previous works for rerelease.  We will keep you informed to Dr. Martin's progress and his scheduled release dates.

The team at Grave Distractions is excited to present these author's works to a wider audience of readers.