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Check out Time

Today's Spotlight Check Out Time by Rosa Sophia Naomi Vogler blames herself for her mother's tragic death, continually reliving the accident in her nightmares.  When she reconnects with her estranged father, he invites her to live with him in a little town called Witchfire.  A simple job stocking shelves overnight at a local grocery store seems a perfect distraction.  But when the manager of the store is found dead in the boiler room, Naomi's boring job becomes something much more complicated.  No matter how she looks at it, one thing is certain: retail is murder. Rosa Sophia is the author of the Paranormal Mystery  Taking 1960 .  She currently resides in south Florida .    Please visit her online:     Site        Facebook        Twitter

A short history of the Publishing Industry

    In the beginning (don't you love it when a story or article begins - in the beginning)!             At first, as people sought to record transactions, their history or laws, everything was written by hand. It took time to record small bits of information. Any book was a labor of love, and only available to the ruling class or members of the religion of the time. And so it was for hundreds of years.             As the Black Plague in Europe wiped out hundreds of people, the landed lords or royals had to actually hire help. Farmers moved to the villages and towns that sprang up and the newly hired residents had to learn the rudiments of ciphering and reading to do business. Information about what was happening locally was important and that news became available. It was handwritten and pinned to the tavern door, or read aloud at the local inn by someone who could read.   But if you didn't live in the town or village, you got news second, third, or fourth hand, not th