Yvonne Walus -My Books
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Erato The most up-to-date Poetry Collection Pipers Ash, September 2007 ISBN: 1904494811
This book consists of four earlier collections of poetry by Yvonne Eve Walus: · The Pillow Book · Love Kills · NOT Porn · Exposed
A collection of free-form free-mind free-word poetry. Created by a woman for women… and for men who want to understand us. Enter our minds, if you dare. The poems use innuendoes and shadows to play with your mind… … Because the mind is the sexiest part of the body. |
Excerpt from Erato:grotesque fairytales, 101
once upon a time in a land far far away lived a princess in a fort-like castle made of her heart
one fateful day a Pinocchio of a man stormed the fort-like heart and they were married (to make it a virtuous story)
the princess liked his lying nose his donkey ears but best of all she liked his wooden soul
all princesses fall for that, my baby, and so you'll make the mistake when you grow up one day one fateful day in a land far far away
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Interview with the Dragon - July 2007 e-Book Spotlight Echelon Press, July 2007 ISBN:1-59080-574-7
Humans have feared dragons since the beginning of time. When a journalist visits a dragon imprisoned for theft, she’s in for a surprise. This dragon is well spoken, has a slightly different take on the human behaviour, and feels that dragons have been persecuted long enough. Excerpt: "Rise and shine," shouts the guard. "Just don't try any magic tricks!" An old taunt, but I flash my teeth in an obligatory smile. If I don't cooperate, I don't get to shower. I need to rid my scales of the prison smell. I know it won't take long before the disinfecting stench of phenol settles in my pores again. But until then, I can feel clean. Clean and free. Breakfast comes an hour later and it's porridge. It's always porridge. I hate routine when it came to meals. There are humans out there who actually choose to eat the same cereal their whole adult life. The mind boggles.
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"Witty dialogue and slightly different take on dragons make this an interesting insight into a dragon’s point of view. ... A well written and believable tale, about an extinct species that joined the Dodo after St George bravely did his knightly duty killing the last of the species." -- Pam Slade,
"A... tightly-plotted story; a fun take on what the modern dragon might have turned out to be. The reader is not left terrified of a future with dragons in it, which is perhaps a pity." --Liz Simmonds
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Small Price To Pay Echelon Press, 12 February 2007 ISBN 1-59080-536-4 When a woman overhears her husband planning a tryst with his lover, it isn't his infidelity that sets her on a course to rediscovery, but a simple comment, not meant for her ears…"She's too vain to have an affair when she's fat." In that moment, she decides to take her life back…regardless of the price! |
"Small Price to Pay" by Yvonne Walus is a real romp! Loads of fun, and an absolutely witty take on the meanings of revenge and pleasure. Yvonne turns the conventions upside-down to make a wonderfully entertaining read! " ~Heather S. Ingemar (http://catharsys.webs.com), the author of "Darkness Cornered", Echelon Press
"Ms Walus has taken fiction to yet another entertaining level with this short story"... You can find another fabulous review from Coffee Time Romance here. |
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"Murder @ A Little Bead Shop" ISBN: 1-59080-499-6 Published by Echelon Press, December 2006 Suzan Aileen Cottrell loves working in a bead shop. She also loves her other job: breaking into banks (electronically) and being paid by the bank bosses to do it. Her life gets busy when mysterious incidents begin disrupting the comfortable routine in the Little Bead Shop. To add to Susan's load, her daughter's marital life needs cyber rescuing and her own love life is in danger of revival .... Excerpt: I fixed myself a cup of hot chocolate, and drank it at the computer as I waited, even though I have this strict rule about no food and drink around the machine. Still, at times, rules are made to be circumvented.... Born2LiveLife: Ok, I'm back. Suz: What happened? Born2LiveLife: One of the firewalls was trickier than anticipated. Suz: Need any help? Born2LiveLife: Not with the firewall, no. I'm in all right now, it just took a bit of tweaking. Tell me how to fix my marriage though. |
This is a delightful short story, with enough twists and turns to please any murder / mystery reader. The main character is lively and very likeable, while like many people, another persona lives within. The secondary characters are interesting and add another layer to the tale. ~ Pam, Love Romances and More
As the story developed, the characters revealed more complexity than was first apparent. The story reminded me of Hitchcock with its twists and turns and unexpected ending. -- Carolyn Williamson* |
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S3x Lies And Here Be Dragons Nominated for the 2007 Sir Julius Vogel Award for Best Single Author Anthology Pipers Ash, October 2006 ISBN: 1-9-4494-75-7 A collection of science fiction, fantasy and futuristic short fiction stories, sometimes with risqué themes. Featuring a competition winner (“The Second Queen”) and competition finalists. |
Three of these stories have won awards in an international short story competition. |
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Atlantic, Pacific, Indian - The Three Oceans Pipers Ash, September 2006 ISBN: 1-904409470-6 A collection of modern short stories grouped by their geographic location: Europe, Africa, Australasia, North Pole. Visit post-communist Russia and communist Poland, see South Africa during its transition phase out of apartheid, or relax on Tahiti while struggling with a moral issue of whether or not to return a wallet full of cash - the choice is yours when you read this book. |
"I took it away with me to our beach house and surprise, surprise, my husband started reading it. He only ever reads books on how to play golf or how to build houses and Scriptures so I was quite surprised when "he couldn't put it down". He especially enjoyed the first story (Skin Traders) and commented that you kept him guessing with every story. " -- Carole Hawkins |
Exposed!
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Exposed! Published by Pipers Ash, 2006 ISBN-10: 1904494722 ISBN-13: 978-1904494720
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by Sue Vassen |
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Comma Press, July 2006 ISBN: 1-90558300-1 Yvonne's Story, "Tour New Zealand in Five Easy Murders", is published in this volume together with the big names in crime fiction: prestigious Dagger Awards winners, an American Grand Master and former CWA presidents.”
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The editor had this to say about Yvonne’s story: "A particular joy of editing this book has been to receive stories from writers - such as Yvonne Eve Walus - whom I had not read previously but whose work seems to me to have tremendous appeal." |
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Echelon Press 2004 ISBN: 1-59080325-6 Have you ever had a Boss From Hell, a Verbal Abuser who can't be sued or fired? Seduced by the heat of a South African summer, would you be tempted to tamper with his tea... a little??? |
In Murder at Work, Yvonne Eve Walus' sense of humor isn't, perhaps, as apparent as it is in some of her other writing, but that doesn't keep this mystery story from being any less interesting, amusing, or fun. Using her own natural flair for mathematics, Ms. Walus has given us a female protagonist who not only becomes the prime suspect but must race against time to prove her own innocence. In itself, not a new situation in murder mysteries, but it's the way Ms. Walus handles it that makes Murder at Work intriguing and hard to lay aside.... |
Not Porn! |
A collection of free-form free-mind free-word poetry. Created by a woman for women… and for men who want to understand us. Enter our minds, if you dare.
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"NOT! Porn is poetry that pulls down the sheets, plumps the pillows, and invites you in to read, absorb and lose yourself completely." Deb Mudie |
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Check out my entry on why I don't read or rewrite mediocre books in the 2007 Bylines Calendar. |
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Love Kills |
An anthology of Marriage in poetry form. Let me into the marriage of true minds admit impediments....
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