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Dr. Daniel S. Carrera, a Cuban born Army veteran turned theologian, argues that the roots of the Israeli Arab conflict trace not to modern borders or Cold War politics, but to a single decision in Abraham’s tent.

Virginia – Brisbane. In the year since the October 7, 2023, Hamas attack on Israel, which killed approximately 1,200 people and triggered a military campaign that has displaced more than two million in Gaza, Americans have struggled to place the crisis in a context larger than the news cycle. Polls show that evangelical Christians, in particular, are deeply divided over how to interpret the conflict through a biblical lens.

Dr. Daniel S. Carrera believes the problem is not a lack of conviction. It is a lack of context.

In his forthcoming book, Abraham’s Divided House (Parker Publishers), Carrera traces the Israeli Arab conflict back roughly four thousand years. Not to the founding of Israel in 1948. Not to the rise of Islam in the seventh century. He traces it to the book of Genesis itself, and to a decision made inside the tent of the patriarch Abraham.

“This is, at its core, a family story,” Carrera said in an interview. “It begins with a promise God made to Abraham, a choice Sarah made out of impatience, and a consequence that has reverberated through thousands of years of human history. You cannot understand what is happening in the Middle East today if you do not understand that family.”

From Dissertation to the Headlines

The book began as Carrera’s doctoral dissertation at Canaan Theological Seminary and College, completed in July 2023, just three months before the Hamas attack that would reshape the global conversation about the region. Originally titled “Middle East Conflict: Life, Hope, and Truth,” the academic work was subsequently expanded and rewritten for a general audience, with new chapters addressing the events of October 7 and their ongoing aftermath.

Carrera’s path to the subject is unconventional. Born in Havana, Cuba, he served 22 years in the United States Army before transitioning to ministry. He came to faith through the influence of his wife, Miranda, and was rebaptized in 2014. He holds five degrees spanning biological sciences, biblical studies, organizational leadership, business administration, and theology.

“I spent two decades in uniform,” Carrera said. “I watched conflicts unfold in real time. When I came to the Scriptures with that experience behind me, the connections between the ancient texts and the modern wars were impossible to ignore.”

What the Book Argues

Across twelve chapters, Abraham’s Divided House moves through the full arc of the Genesis narrative and its historical consequences: the Abrahamic Covenant, Sarah’s decision to offer Hagar as a surrogate, the births of Ishmael and Isaac, the rivalry of Esau and Jacob, the formation of the twelve tribes of Israel, the theological divide between Jew and Gentile, and the covenantal framework (Abrahamic, Mosaic, Davidic, and New) that has shaped competing claims to the land.

What distinguishes the work from other faith based commentaries on the conflict, Carrera argues, is its refusal to reduce the crisis to a binary of heroes and villains. The book holds God’s covenant faithfulness to the descendants of Isaac alongside the biblical accounts of God’s compassion for Ishmael and his descendants. It is an approach that challenges readers on both sides of the theological divide.

“Political solutions alone cannot heal a conflict that is, at its root, spiritual,” Carrera writes. The book’s final chapters point to the growing movement of Messianic Jews and Arab Christians worshipping together as evidence that reconciliation, while rare, is not impossible.

A Gap in the Conversation

The book arrives at a moment when demand for faith based analysis of the Middle East has surged. According to a 2024 Lifeway Research survey, 80% of Protestant pastors reported that their congregations have asked questions about the conflict that they felt unequipped to answer from a biblical perspective. Seminary enrollments in courses related to Middle Eastern history and biblical geography have risen sharply since October 2023.

Carrera’s background gives the work a cross cultural dimension that many existing resources lack. As a Cuban born immigrant, a military veteran, and a Hispanic minister, he writes from a vantage point that sits outside the traditional Anglo European theological mainstream. Publishers say this perspective resonates with the fastest growing demographic in American Christianity.

“The Hispanic church in America is asking these questions, too,” Carrera said. “We are reading the same Bible and watching the same headlines. I wrote this book for every believer who wants to understand what God’s Word actually says about one of the most consequential conflicts in human history.”

About the Author

Dr. Daniel S. Carrera is a Cuban born theologian, author, and 22 year United States Army veteran. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Biological Studies from the University of Wisconsin at Parkside, a Bachelor of Science in Biblical Studies from Canaan Theological Seminary and College, a Master of Organizational Leadership from Murray State University, a Master of Business Administration in Project Management from Strayer University, and a Doctor of Ministry from Canaan Theological Seminary and College. He is an active member of True Vine Church of Jesus. He and his wife, Miranda, reside in [city/state].

Book Details

Title: Abraham’s Divided House

Author: Dr. Daniel S. Carrera

Publisher: Parker Publishers

Format: Paperback / Hardcover / eBook

ISBN: 979 – 8950082369

Release Date: 4/24/2026

Review copies, author interviews, and excerpt permissions are available upon request. Dr. Carrera is available for interviews, podcast appearances, and speaking engagements.

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Author Susie Winfield, a former truancy liaison who managed attendance across 32 schools, outlines intervention and incentive models drawn from direct fieldwork with students and families

Holly Ridge, NC, 4/29/2026. On any given school day, an estimated 200,000 or more students are absent from schools across the United States. Susie Winfield, a former Attendance Specialist with experience spanning multiple school districts, has published Count Me Present: Combating the Truancy Epidemic (Parker Publishers, 2026), a practical guide for educators and administrators seeking to reduce chronic absenteeism through structured intervention.

Winfield’s professional background includes service in the U.S. Army, a career in law enforcement, and more than three decades in school based truancy intervention. In her school roles, she worked directly with families to identify the causes of student absence and developed individualized intervention plans. The book translates that fieldwork into a replicable framework covering school culture assessment, extracurricular programs as accountability tools, attendance law education for parents, data tracking methodology, graduation cohort management, mentoring structures, and community partnership development.

One of the book’s central arguments is that truancy is not a disciplinary problem but a symptom of broader issues affecting families, including financial hardship, lack of awareness of attendance laws, generational patterns around education, and gaps in school culture. Winfield writes that in her experience, she never encountered a case where a student’s absence was justified during school hours, but that nearly every case involved an identifiable barrier that could be addressed through targeted intervention and transparent communication between the school and the family.

The book includes detailed case studies with altered names to protect privacy. Among them: a student whose parent claimed seizure like symptoms as the reason for chronic absence, a behavior that stopped immediately when confronted directly; families in the southern United States who routinely delayed school enrollment until after Labor Day despite early registration availability; and a group of over 75 middle school girls whose attendance and academic performance improved after Winfield formed cheerleading and dance teams with daily attendance as a mandatory condition of participation. That program involved roughly 25 percent of the school’s student population of 325 and produced measurable gains in school wide attendance data.

Winfield also presents an attendance data model she developed, illustrated through four semester diagrams showing how a school’s attendance culture can shift from 8 percent of students needing intervention in the first semester to a majority of students missing three or more days by the fourth semester if no interventions are implemented. She argues that schools should act when any student reaches three unexcused absences rather than waiting for patterns to worsen.

The book addresses the intersection of attendance and the graduation cohort, noting that students who are chronically absent without intervention are at elevated risk of dropping out. Winfield recommends that high schools assign a dedicated staff member to track every student from 9th grade enrollment through expected graduation, including those who transfer, become incarcerated, or require homebound instruction.

Winfield also discusses what she calls generational apathy toward the high school diploma, describing students who feared their educational achievement would alienate them from family members who had not graduated. She writes about encountering high school students reading at a first grade level and sending a letter to her superintendent about the issue.

The foreword is written by Jeremy Jarmon, Winfield’s son. Winfield holds a Bachelor of Science in Organizational Management, is certified in Urban Ministry, and lives with her husband Steven. The book is dedicated to her grandchildren, Jeremiah and Kinsley, and to all school staff who support children’s daily attendance.

Book Information

Title: Count Me Present: Combating the Truancy Epidemic

Author: Susie Winfield

Genre: Nonfiction / Education

Publisher: Parker Publishers

Susie Winfield is available for interviews.

For Any Media Inquiries, Please Contact Sia Stone

Email: sia@parkerpublishers.com

Phone no: +1 (689) 304-8480

Contact: Susie Winfield

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“Count Me Present”: A Retired Cop’s Field-Tested Fix for America’s School Absenteeism Crisis

Holly Ridge, NC, 4/29/2026. Susie Winfield, an Army veteran, retired police officer, and former school truancy liaison, has published Count Me Present: Combating the Truancy Epidemic, a nonfiction resource for school administrators, teachers, counselors, and stakeholders working to improve student attendance in public schools. The book is published by Parker Publishers.

Winfield spent over 30 years working directly with students and families across multiple school districts, primarily in roles focused on attendance accountability. Her career path moved from military service to law enforcement to school based truancy intervention, where she was assigned to as many as 32 schools at a time as an Attendance Specialist.

The book presents intervention strategies Winfield developed and implemented during her career. These include attendance contracts between schools, parents, and students; structured Student Attendance Review Board meetings; daily attendance tracking models with data broken into excused and unexcused categories by grade level; and incentive programs funded on budgets as low as $1,000 per school year. Winfield provides sample student and parent questionnaires, data diagram models for semester by semester analysis, and a framework for partnering with community organizations including churches, banks, barber shops, dental offices, and nonprofits.

The book documents specific cases from Winfield’s fieldwork with identifying details altered for privacy. In one case, a family whose children had missed over 40 days of school in a single year received an intervention plan that resulted in perfect attendance and the discovery that all children in the family were academically gifted. In another, a student’s chronic absences were traced to a parent’s inability to wash clothes more than once a month due to limited income; after the school granted the parent access to its washer and dryer, the student’s attendance stabilized. In a third case, Winfield implemented stricter tardiness standards at a high school where daily tardy counts initially rose from 75 to over 100 students before dropping significantly within two weeks.

Winfield addresses what she describes as learned behavior patterns in families, including parents who register children for school but delay sending them until after Labor Day, students writing their own absence notes, and families who transfer truant students between schools each semester to reset absence records. The book also covers the relationship between attendance and graduation cohort tracking, arguing that schools must monitor student progress from 9th grade enrollment through graduation rather than reviewing records only in a student’s expected graduation year.

The foreword is written by Jeremy Jarmon, Winfield’s son, who describes her approach as rooted in trust rather than authority. Winfield holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Organizational Management and is certified in Urban Ministry. She is married to Steven Winfield and has four children: Jeremy, Taylor, Tara, and Jaret. The book is dedicated to her grandchildren, Jeremiah and Kinsley.

Book Information

Title: Count Me Present: Combating the Truancy Epidemic

Author: Susie Winfield

Genre: Nonfiction / Education

Publisher: Parker Publishers

Susie Winfield is available for interviews.

For Any Media Inquiries, Please Contact Sia Stone

Email: sia@parkerpublishers.com

Phone no: +1 (689) 304-8480

About Ordinary Fraud, Quiet Betrayal, and the People Who Fight Back

Every con artist in Homegrown Crooks has a house key. They are daughters collecting benefits for a woman who has been dead three years. They are nurses who were never nurses at all. They are siblings spending down a family trust while the youngest member of the household cannot even keep the lights on. Virginia R. Youngren’s debut collection gathers eight stories about people who steal, lie, forge, and manipulate, not from the shadows, but from the kitchen table.

The stories in this collection span settings and circumstances with a deliberate breadth. In one, a Mexican American cleaning worker named Lucia turns her phone camera into a weapon against a supervisor who has been faking a disability. In another, a psychotherapist named Penny races between Austin and Houston trying to protect her elderly aunt from a con woman posing as a home care nurse. Elsewhere, a young woman named Maya survives a night of terror on a remote island armed with nothing more than a pot of scalding hot chili sauce and an unshakable nerve.

Youngren writes about crime, but the real subject is trust. Who deserves it. Who abuses it. What it costs to extend it to the wrong person and what it costs to withhold it from the right one. Her characters are janitors, veterinarians, physical therapists, real estate agents, and convenience store clerks. They live in ranch bungalows and suburban tract homes and temporary hospital apartments. The crimes they commit and witness are not the stuff of headlines. They are the stuff of family court, bank fraud departments, and adult protective services.

What lifts the collection is the writing itself. Youngren has an ear for dialogue that is specific and alive. Her scenes are built with the economy of a playwright. Characters reveal themselves through what they do and what they refuse to do, and the reader is rarely told what to think about any of them. A brother who hides in his attic to avoid signing legal papers is absurd and sympathetic in equal measure. A stepdaughter who cannot stop crying over the woman who just robbed her stepmother is heartbreaking precisely because the reader can see what she cannot.

The longest story, “Snake in the Grass,” follows three half-siblings fighting over a family trust, a wellness center, and a patch of wild land that turns out to contain human remains buried decades ago by a Cajun stepmother who practiced Hoodoo medicine. It is a story about inheritance in every sense of the word, the money, the land, the grudges, and the strange legacies that parents leave behind whether they mean to or not.

The final story, “A Thief and a Kleptomaniac,” is a quiet masterwork of misdirection. Three women share a household. One has a compulsive stealing disorder. Another is drowning in debt and desperate for a savior. The third, the one who appears most professional and put together, is methodically draining the homeowner’s bank accounts using a forged identity. The reader watches all three women with growing unease, unsure until the very end whose hands are clean.

The book will be available soon globally.

About the Author

Virginia R. Youngren is a writer whose fiction draws from close observation of human behavior, family dynamics, and the moral territory where most people actually live. Homegrown Crooks is her debut collection. She lives in the United States.

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Email: virginia.youngren@gmail.com

A memoir of refugee youth, street survival, and the bonds that form when everything else falls apart.

Parker Publishers is proud to announce the release of Cultures Colliding: Searching for a Way Out, Vol. 1, the debut memoir by Kao Saeteurn. The book is the first volume in an ongoing series and is now available wherever books are sold.

Set in Sacramento’s Evergreen Circle housing complex in the summer of 1995, Cultures Colliding follows fourteen year old Kao, a Mien refugee still learning English, as he navigates gang territories, the crack trade, and the daily arithmetic of staying alive in a neighborhood the rest of the city forgot. He is undersized, malnourished from years in camps across Laos and Thailand, and armed with a gun his mentor handed him so the bullying would stop. The story moves from dice games and smoke filled cars to gunfights, police investigations, and quiet moments of tenderness that arrive without warning and vanish just as fast.

What distinguishes this memoir is its voice. Saeteurn does not narrate from a safe distance. He writes from inside the car, inside the apartment, inside the split second a dice lands wrong and a whole night changes direction. The dialogue is sharp and unfiltered. The prose carries the rhythm of someone who learned English on the streets of Sacramento, and it is all the more powerful for it. Readers will find themselves inside a world that is brutal, specific, and deeply human.

At its core, this is a book about belonging. About the surrogate families that form in forgotten places. About the mentor who protects you with cruelty and loyalty in equal measure. About the girl who makes you believe life might hold something beyond the next corner. And about the refugee communities that hold together even when the country that resettled them looks the other way.

“Kao Saeteurn has written something that does not ask for permission or sympathy. It simply tells you what happened and trusts you to sit with it. That kind of honesty is rare, and readers will feel it on every page.”

— Parker Publishers

Cultures Colliding will resonate with readers of literary memoir, immigration narratives, and urban coming of age stories. Fans of Reyna Grande, Sanyika Shakur, and Viet Thanh Nguyen will find a story here that earns its place alongside those voices.

BOOK DETAILS

Title: Cultures Colliding: Searching for a Way Out, Vol. 1

Author: Kao Saeteurn

Genre: Memoir / Literary Nonfiction

Publisher: Parker Publishers

Series: Cultures Colliding (Vol. 1 of an ongoing memoir series)

Availability: Available now wherever books are sold

ABOUT THE AUTHOR Kao Saeteurn is a Mien American writer and former refugee. Born in Laos, he spent years in refugee camps across Southeast Asia before his family resettled in Sacramento, California, in the early 1990s. His work draws directly from lived experience, chronicling displacement, street life, and the search for identity in a country that offered relocation but little else. He is also the author of Empires Fall, Book 2. Volume 2 of Cultures Colliding is forthcoming.

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The book opens in 1926 with the author’s mother, a six-month-old infant, being carried on horseback across the Aras River as her family fled Soviet forces in northern Azerbaijan. The narrator himself was born in 1961, the son of a father serving a commuted death sentence.

City England London, Date 4/24/2026 As a fragile regional ceasefire approaches its 22 April expiry and the Strait of Hormuz remains contested, a new memoir has been released that offers readers something the news cycle cannot: a lived, first-person account of how Iran became the country the world is watching today. A Glimpse of Iran, written under the pen name Mazdak Z. and published on 12 December 2025, traces six decades of Iranian history through the ordinary life of one family.

The book opens in 1926 with the author’s mother, a six-month-old infant, being carried on horseback across the Aras River as her family fled Soviet forces in northern Azerbaijan. It closes in present-day Europe, where the author has lived since leaving Iran during the Iran-Iraq war. In between, the narrator is born in 1961 to a father serving a commuted death sentence, witnesses the 1979 revolution as an 18-year-old student, survives the Islamic Republic’s early crackdowns, and eventually leaves his country without a passport.

The timing is not incidental. “I wrote this story to share with the world what it means to grow up in an Iranian family,” the author writes in the book’s dedication, “how our lives could be turbulent and yet strangely ordinary all at once.” With Iran once again at the centre of an international crisis, the memoir arrives as a reminder that the country’s present has a long prehistory, one rarely told from the inside.

Across 35 chapters, the narrative moves through events that shaped modern Iran: the 1941 Allied occupation and the arrest of Reza Shah; the 1953 CIA and MI6-backed coup against Prime Minister Mohammad Mossadegh, which the author’s father, a Tudeh Party officer, narrowly survived; the White Revolution and the oil boom of the 1970s; the return of Ayatollah Khomeini in February 1979; and the eight-year war with Iraq. The political backdrop is consistently filtered through domestic scenes — a mother cooling off in a tiled courtyard basin in Ahvaz, a father released from prison after more than 6 years, a university shut down during the Cultural Revolution.

The author, who writes under the name Mazdak Z., is based in France and has asked that his biographical details remain private. The pen name is drawn from a pre-Islamic Persian prophet, chosen by the author’s father in the 1960s as a deliberate break from the Arabic and Muslim names common in Iran at the time. “It is my first book, and I am far from a professional writer,” the author notes. “But it is written with honesty, warmth and the wish to connect.”

The memoir sits in a growing category of diaspora writing that has gained renewed attention since the 2022 Woman, Life, Freedom protests and the broader regional conflict that began in 2024. Unlike academic histories or journalistic dispatches, A Glimpse of Iran is structured as a personal chronicle, closer in register to Marjane Satrapi’s Persepolis or Azar Nafisi’s Reading Lolita in Tehran, though without the graphic or academic frames of either.

About the Book A Glimpse of Iran is a literary memoir that blends family history, political chronicle and personal reflection. It covers the period from 1926 to the present and is told in 35 chapters. The book is available in three formats and can be ordered through major online retailers and by special request through independent bookshops.

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Chuck Fowler, CMCA, draws on 35 years of management experience in HOAs Explained: Homeowner Associations, a plain-language handbook for owners, prospective buyers, and Board members navigating insurance, Reserve funding, and resale risk.

COLORADO SPRINGS, CO. Chuck Fowler, a Certified Manager of Community Associations with more than three decades of experience overseeing Homeowner and Condominium Associations across Colorado, has released HOAs Explained: Homeowner Associations, a reference guide written for the more than 75 million Americans who currently live in a Community Association.

According to the Community Associations Institute, there are approximately 365,000 Community Associations in the United States, and roughly 67 percent of newly constructed homes are now built within one. For most buyers in fast-growing housing markets, HOA membership is no longer a choice but a default condition of homeownership. Despite that scale, professional resources written for individual owners, rather than for industry insiders, remain limited.

HOAs Explained is structured to address that gap. The book covers how an HOA is formed and governed, how Declarations and Bylaws differ, how Replacement Reserves are calculated and funded, what insurance an Association is and is not required to carry, and what due diligence a prospective buyer should complete before closing on an HOA property. Each chapter ends with a list of questions readers can put directly to their HOA Manager or Board.

Background and timing

Fowler began his HOA career after being elected to his own neighborhood Board at the first annual meeting following the purchase of his patio home in a Planned Community. He went on to serve as the professional Manager of that Association for twelve years and later installed the initial management framework for a Master-planned Community that today has more than 3,000 housing units. He holds the CMCA designation from the Community Association Managers International Certifications Board.

The release arrives during a period of significant pressure on Community Associations. Property insurance carriers have continued to scale back coverage in regions exposed to wildfire, hurricane, and flood risk, pushing many HOAs toward state FAIR Plan policies that offer thinner coverage and no carrier pool to absorb losses. Fannie Mae has expanded its list of HOA properties that no longer qualify for loan purchase, citing inadequate insurance, deferred maintenance, and underfunded Replacement Reserves. According to a Wall Street Journal report from March 2025, communities placed on that list face a measurably narrower buyer pool.

The 2021 collapse of Champlain Towers South in Surfside, Florida, which resulted in 98 deaths, prompted state legislation requiring stricter inspection and Reserve funding standards for buildings over three stories. Owners in older Condominium buildings, particularly those on fixed incomes, are now contending with mandatory inspections, deferred maintenance bills, and Special Assessments that some cannot absorb.

Realtor.com reported that 40.5 percent of for-sale listings in 2024 included an HOA fee, up from 39.2 percent the prior year, with a median monthly fee of $125. Property tax data compiled by CoreLogic in February 2025 showed the median annual property tax bill rose nearly 25 percent between 2019 and 2023. Together, these trends are reshaping the financial calculus for both current and prospective HOA Owners.

What the book covers

HOAs Explained is divided into twelve sections. Topics include the legal structure of HOAs and Condominium Associations, the role of the Declaration and Bylaws, financial reporting and Assessment collection, the function of the Replacement Reserve and Reserve Studies, property insurance and coverage gaps, architectural review, the conduct of annual and Board meetings, the home buying due diligence process, the role of the Status Letter, Home Inspection Reports, and the structure of Master-planned Communities.

A glossary at the front of the book defines the working terminology used throughout the HOA industry, language that prospective buyers and new Owners often encounter without explanation.

About the author

Chuck Fowler is the founder of cFowler communications co. He has managed HOAs and Condominium Associations for 35 years, served on multiple Boards in volunteer and elected capacities, and worked alongside HOA attorneys, Reserve Specialists, insurance carriers, and title companies through the full lifecycle of community management. He holds the Certified Manager of Community Associations designation from CAMICB.

Media contact

The author is available for print and broadcast interviews, contributed columns, podcast appearances, and expert sourcing on HOA-related topics including insurance, Reserve funding, mortgage eligibility, and the impact of recent state legislation. Press inquiries and review copy requests can be directed through

Contact: cFowler communications co

Website: https://chuckfowler.com/

Johnnie Robert Capers releases “The Deal Is Real: GODS Pension Plan For Man,” a testimony carried out of Ohio reformatories, Minnesota courtrooms, and a hospital bed he was not supposed to leave.

There is a particular quiet that settles over a man when the jury foreperson stands, clears her throat, and says the words Not Guilty. Johnnie Robert Capers remembers that quiet. He remembers the stroke that arrived 2 months later, in the middle of a sentence he never finished. He remembers the woman he had loved for 15 years closing the door behind her while he sat on the edge of a hospital bed trying to make his hand hold a spoon. And he remembers, through all of it, the one voice that never left the room.

“The Deal Is Real: GODS Pension Plan For Man” is that voice, set down on paper.

The book, released this season by Parker Publishers, is the autobiographical testimony of a songwriter who has been written off more times than he can count. Elyria, Ohio. The only son in a house of 6 sisters. A runaway at 13. Fairfield School for Boys, the place the children inside it simply called The Hill. 4 years and 9 months at the Ohio State Reformatory in Mansfield for something he did not do. Then, nearly 3 decades later, a detective waiting in his parole officer’s lobby with a DNA swab kit and questions about a woman murdered long before Johnnie had ever set foot in Saint Paul.

He kept silent through almost all of it. Not out of strategy. Out of prayer.

Readers expecting a triumphant courtroom drama will find one, briefly, and then find it handed back to GOD on the very next page. Johnnie is not interested in being the hero of his own story. He writes about Egypt the way the Bible writes about Egypt, as a state of mind a person wanders into and stays in for years without realizing. He writes about a frame of mind he names “I’mmado,” the quiet decision to run on self instead of on faith, and he traces the wreckage it leaves behind in his own life without self pity or performance. He writes about the Garden of Eden as a place that was never actually locked.

The prose has the cadence of someone who learned scripture by reading it alone in a cell and later, alone, in a bedroom with one lamp on. It does not try to sound literary. It does not try to sound humble. It simply tells the truth the way Johnnie tells it, which is plainly, and with every reference to GOD in full capitals, the way he believes the Name should be written.

“It doesn’t matter what you’ve done nor where you’re at in life. GOD makes it crystal clear. The Deal Is Real.”

Johnnie Robert Capers

The book is written for readers 12 and older and moves through territory most memoirs try to soften. Grief. Addiction. Racism. Abandonment. The particular loneliness of carrying charges you did not earn, more than once, across more than one decade. Johnnie holds a firm line the whole way through. No hatred toward any human being. Actions named, people not condemned. The love he is pointing to is not his own, and he never confuses the two.

What makes the book difficult to shelve, and difficult to forget, is the absence of the familiar upward arc. Johnnie does not end in a house he bought himself or on a stage he earned. He ends at a desk in Saint Paul, with a guitar nearby, writing lyrics to GOD because GOD is the only audience he has ever truly been writing for.

The Pension Plan, he says, was never tied to a paycheck.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Johnnie Robert Capers was born and raised in Elyria, Ohio. He left home at 13, spent 4 years and 9 months at the Ohio State Reformatory in Mansfield for a crime he did not commit, and moved to Saint Paul, Minnesota in 1985, where he still lives. He is a songwriter and guitarist whose lyrics center on GOD and Jesus Christ. “The Deal Is Real: GODS Pension Plan For Man” is his first book.

BOOK DETAILS

Title: The Deal Is Real: GODS Pension Plan For Man

Author: Johnnie Robert Capers

Publisher: Parker Publishers

Genre: Autobiographical Testimony

Audience: Readers 12 and older

Available on: Amazon

MEDIA CONTACT

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Email: info@parkerpublishers.com

Website: www.parkerpublishers.com

A new imprint built for writers who care about the sentence, the story, and the shelf life of a book

Collingwood Press announced its arrival as a publishing imprint devoted to serious storytelling. The house enters the field with a small catalogue, a long horizon, and a clear conviction: that books still deserve to be made carefully, read closely, and remembered long after their release week.

Collingwood Press is an imprint of Hambone Publishers.

The imprint takes its name from a belief that publishing, at its best, is a slow craft. Every Collingwood title passes through the same disciplined workshop, where developmental editors, line editors, designers, and publicists work in concert rather than in sequence. Manuscripts are not processed; they are shaped. Covers are not templated; they are composed. The result is a list that reads like a reading list rather than a release schedule.

“Publishing has always been, in the end, a literary act,” said Daniel Drapper, speaking on behalf of Collingwood Press. “We started Collingwood because we wanted a house that respects the quiet labor behind a good book. Our authors are not content producers. They are writers. And the work they make deserves a publisher that knows the difference.”

Collingwood’s list refuses to be confined to a single shelf. The imprint publishes across every genre and form, welcoming writers of fiction and nonfiction, memoir and history, poetry and children’s, thrillers and romance, and the many hybrids that sit quietly between them. The only standard held in common is the standard of writing itself. A roster of authors is already in production, with books scheduled through 2026 and into 2027. Distribution will run through Amazon, Barnes and Noble, and independent booksellers, with flagship titles carried by national press and trade campaigns.

Alongside its publishing program, the imprint is committing to the longer arc of a writing life. Authors are supported from first draft through launch, and then kept close well beyond it, with attention paid to backlist presence, reader communities, and the steady work of keeping a book in conversation. Collingwood is building a house that authors can stay in, not simply pass through.

Submissions, rights inquiries, and partnership requests are now open through the imprint’s official channels.

About Collingwood Press

Collingwood Press is an imprint of Hambone Publishers, publishing writers of every genre and form. The imprint brings together editorial rigor, considered design, and thoughtful marketing, and partners with authors for the duration of a career rather than a launch.

Media Contact

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Literary Advisor
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Alpaca Authors, a newly launched imprint of Parker Publishers, is now offering full-service publishing support to independent and self-publishing authors who want professional results without giving up creative ownership.

Every year, thousands of writers complete manuscripts and face the same difficult reality: the tools to upload and distribute a book are widely available, but access to the editorial, design, and marketing expertise that separates a published book from a professional one remains frustratingly limited. Alpaca Authors was created to close that gap.

Now live at alpacaauthors.com, the imprint operates under the Parker Publishers umbrella, drawing on the same editorial infrastructure, design talent, and distribution network that has powered hundreds of published titles across fiction, nonfiction, memoir, and specialty genres.

Unlike generic self-publishing platforms that offer templated packages, Alpaca Authors assigns a dedicated team to each project. Every engagement begins with a one-on-one consultation, followed by a customized scope that can span ghostwriting, developmental editing, copy editing, cover design, interior formatting, Amazon A+ content optimization, press releases, media kits, social media campaigns, author branding, post-launch marketing, and so on!

Addressing a Growing Market Need

Independent publishing now accounts for a significant and growing share of book sales globally. Yet the service landscape has not kept pace. Authors routinely face a choice between affordable but generic packages and premium firms that charge top dollar without transparency. Alpaca Authors is positioned to sit in the middle of that divide: professional output, fair pricing, and clear communication at every stage.

“We built Alpaca Authors because we believe the quality of a book should never depend on how it was published,” said a spokesperson for Parker Publishers. “Whether an author comes to us with a finished manuscript or just an idea on a napkin, we treat every project with the same level of seriousness and craft that any title on a bookstore shelf deserves.”

Full-Spectrum Publishing Support Under One Roof

Alpaca Authors provides services across every phase of the publishing lifecycle. Authors can engage the team for individual services or opt for end-to-end support from manuscript to market. Core offerings include manuscript development and ghostwriting, professional editing at every level, custom cover design and interior layout, global distribution through major retail channels including Amazon and Barnes & Noble, targeted book marketing strategies, and ongoing author brand development.

The imprint also handles specialized deliverables such as BookBub promotions, audiobook production, ISBN registration, and metadata optimization, all designed to give independent titles the same competitive positioning as traditionally published books.  

About Alpaca Authors

Alpaca Authors is a full-service publishing imprint dedicated to supporting independent and self-publishing authors. Operating under the Parker Publishers umbrella, Alpaca Authors provides professional editorial, design, production, distribution, and marketing services tailored to each book project. The imprint was founded on the belief that every author deserves access to the tools and expertise needed to produce a book that competes at the highest level.

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