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Love and betrayal
clash in “Losing Hope”
“Losing Hope,” Martha Morning Todd’s first novel, is
a debut work of great promise, skillfully weaving themes of love, courage and betrayal.
Martinsville, IN:
“Losing Hope,” Martha Morning Todd’s first novel, weaves universal themes of love, courage, betrayal and
hope into one fast-paced novel and holds out much promise for the author’s future work.
The novel’s
protagonist, Hope Evans, has a life that most women only dream about. She marries her college sweetheart, gives birth to a
beautiful daughter, and has a job that she loves. But her charmed life is about to take a drastic turn.
Hope is
ripped from her safe life and forced into a path of pure evil. Even as she must find the strength to live, her husband Jim
overcomes devastating betrayal in his quest to find her.
“As a novel, ‘Losing Hope’ will speak
to everyone,” says Ms. Morning Todd. “The emotions and the themes present in it are human emotions and themes,
which everybody can identify with.”
Ms. Morning Todd, who has a background in business, is also a writer
of children’s books; the first one, “Sock-a-nina,” will be published in June 2005. She has also written
a poem, titled “The Two Spires,” in memory of the victims of September 11. “’Losing Hope’ is
my first novel,” Ms. Morning Todd says. “I have done quite a bit of traveling, and I’ve been to Bequia,
where part of the novel takes place. However, the experiences in the book are totally and completely fiction.”
Martha Morning Todd was raised in Michigan, and now lives in Indiana with her children. She is available for book-signing
parties with 10 or more attendees, especially in the Indianapolis area.
“Losing Hope” is available
in hardcover for $24.95 and in paperback for $14.95. For more information, please visit http://www.marthamorningtodd.com.
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It’s a ‘Sock-a-nina’ Day
Young Boy Learns about Communication
in Fun Children’s Book
MARTINSVILLE, Ind. – Sometimes it can be really difficult to be a child, especially
when no one understands them. In the whimsical new children’s book, Sock-a-nina (now available through AuthorHouse,
ISBN 1420842560), written by Martha Morning Todd and illustrated by Nancy Kurtz Hubbard, a young boy learns that one’s
imagination and reality do not often mesh.
A children’s storybook for young readers, Sock-a-nina tells the tale
of one little boy and his problems communicating with the world. When the boy is born – all sparkling blue eyes and
tufts of precious blond hair – the whole family loves him. His mother and father dote on him while his sister is determined
to teach him to dance before he can walk. However, when the boy learns to speak and becomes inquisitive, the sister becomes
annoyed by all of the attention he receives and the non-stop questions he asks with rapid fire succession. The sister is constantly
trying to upset him and show the boy how much smarter she is than him. One day, in the heat of an argument, the boy cries
out, “You are a sock-a-nina sister,” and the word is born.
As he grows, the boy uses the word to describe
everything. Sometimes his parents can tell what he means by his tone, but mostly no one can figure it out. One day, the word
comes out and his friend is hurt. The boy tries to understand why this happens by seeking his parents for advice.
With
lovely illustrations by Hubbard, Sock-a-nina is a fun story that teaches children to think about what they say and to reconcile
their imagination with the world around them.
Born in Southern Michigan, Todd lived in Tucson, Arizona, Huntington
Beach, Calif., and Las Vegas before returning to the Midwest with her daughter. She currently lives in Indiana, with
her two youngest children. Todd has published one other novel, Losing Hope. For more information visit her website at
www.marthamorningtodd.com.
Hubbard is a professional artist living in Tucson, Arizona, where she owns a business that
creates movable murals named Murals That Go.
AuthorHouse is a premier publishing house for emerging authors and
new voices in literature. For more information, please visit www.authorhouse.com.
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