Books

Welcome to my Book page. Please browse around and if you see something that ‘tickles your fancy’, click on the link to visit the online store where the book is available. Also, if you enjoy the book you read it would be so helpful to me if you’d consider rating it and writing a short review to let other potential readers know what you think. Thanks so much!

Now That I’m Mature Available at Amazon.com, Amazon.ca, Amazon.co.uk and more.  $1.95 US

*** Now That I’m Mature is also available in paperback  at Amazon and CreateSpace.

Description
Sylvia loves to poke fun at herself and leaves no stone unturned when it comes to sharing her many human foibles and frailties.
In this collection of humorous essays she covers such topics as her love/hate relationship with jigsaw puzzles, her phobias of mice and dentists and her joy at finally losing her virginity (her snorkeling virginity, that is).
She also tackles such diverse subjects as flying in a hot-air balloon, searching for a lost piece of jewelry and playing a ukulele onboard a cruise ship.
Sylvia regularly entertains readers via her popular blog “Write The Words, Share The Stories”, and the essays in this collection include some of her readers’ favorite posts.
Discover what the author’s blog followers already know– this writer finds humor in everyday situations and shares her unique perspective on the world in a lighthearted “I can’t believe I just did that!” tone that readers everywhere will enjoy.

Note: A slightly different version of this eBook was originally published under the title Confessions From My Blog.

 Postcards From Home  Available at Amazon,. $1.99 US.

*** Postcards From Home is also available as a Paperback book from Amazon.
 Description
Winner of the 2012 Global eBook Award for Humor, Postcards From Home is a collection of short stories that explores the hilarious and often chaotic world of ‘life in the family lane’, seen through the eyes of a mother of two precocious children.
Tag along on excursions to the supermarket and road trips to the cottage; read about headstrong puppies and Halloween costumes gone wrong; and join the family as they prepare for Father’s Day, Christmas holidays, impending job transfers, and the first week of school.
Infused with large doses of tongue-in-cheek humor, the stories in Postcards From Home will leave you laughing out loud and thankful that you’re not a member of Sylvia’s family!

A Small Steel Box Available from Smashwords, Amazon, Barnes & Noble. iBookstore and other online retailers. $0.99 US
Description
“It rained the day we buried him, deep in the ground.” So begins ‘A Small Steel Box’, a story about every parent’s worst nightmare. How does a mother or father go on after the death of a child? This compelling short story will make you ask the same question. Could you go on?

Short Journeys Available from Smashwords, Amazon.com, Barnes & Noble, iBookstore and other online retailers. $0.99 US
Description
Mona really wants to get pregnant, and she really wants to stay pregnant long enough to deliver a live baby. But that isn’t as easy as it sounds. Will she ever become a mother? And would the reward of being one outweigh the risk of losing her husband and her marriage along the way? Life isn’t always fair, and Mona has some tough decisions to make.

Needs Available from Smashwords, Amazon.com, Barnes & Noble, iBookstore and other online retailers. $0.99 US
Description
What does job burnout feel like? Join a nurse as she works through her day, and get inside her head as she attempts to balance her needs with her patient’s needs. Will she make it to the end of her shift? Will her patient?

I Dream In Color Available online at Smashwords, Barnes & Noble, iBookstore, Kobo, Sony and Amazon.

Description
The poems in I Dream In Color are as honest as they are passionate, capturing familiar life events such as birth, miscarriage, aging and death and exploring relationships and common problems such as abuse.