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&#lt;p&#gt;I finished in 6th place in the bookart category of the Preditors & Editors Reader's Poll.&#lt;/p&#gt;
&#lt;p&#gt;&#lt;img alt="Image hosting by Photobucket" src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v685/shelagh/TopTen05.jpg"&#gt;/img> &#lt;img alt="Image hosted by Photobucket.com" src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v685/shelagh/bookcoverMPFM1.jpg"&#gt;/img>&#lt;/p&#gt;&#lt;br p=""&#gt;I finished in 6th place in the bookart category of the Preditors & Editors Reader's Poll.


&#lt;p&#gt;&#lt;img alt="Image hosting by Photobucket" src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v685/shelagh/TopTen05.jpg"&#gt;/img> &#lt;img alt="Image hosted by Photobucket.com" src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v685/shelagh/bookcoverMPFM1.jpg"&#gt;/img>&#lt;/p&#gt;
&#lt;p align="left"&#gt;&#lt;img style="" src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v685/shelagh/mpfm.jpg"&#gt;&#lt;/p&#gt;&#lt;p&#gt;&#lt;b&#gt;Mr. Planemaker's Flying Machine is a story of flight, fantasy, adventure and courage. Emmelisa Planemaker is a strong-willed little girl but she misses her dad, who died when she was only five years old.&#lt;/b&#gt;
&#lt;/p&#gt;&#lt;p&#gt;Emmelisa and her brother Dell have a happy and carefree life until their father becomes ill and is forced to retire at the age of forty-three.
&#lt;/p&#gt;&#lt;p&#gt;After retirement, Mr. Planemaker decides to build a scaled, model airplane because he wants to build something lasting for his children but he dies before completing the task.
&#lt;/p&#gt;&#lt;p&#gt;Three years later, Emmelisa is being seriously bullied at school by a group led by the notorious school bully, Mayja Troublemaker. When Emmelisa becomes increasingly withdrawn and unhappy. she seeks help and advice through the computer her father had used to locate specialist model aircraft companies in his quest to build a model airplane.
&#lt;/p&#gt;&#lt;p&#gt;The computer is more than just a computer and full of surprises: Mr. A. Leon Spaceman being one of them! He guides the two children to Hardwareland, where they train to become astronauts and take on an unexpected mission into space: to follow their father's TRAIL OF LIGHT
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&#lt;p&#gt;I am also working on a sequel, &#lt;i&#gt;Mrs. Planemaker's Flying Carpet&#lt;/i&#gt;, to my first published novel, which I hope to complete by the end of 2007

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In October 2005, one of my poems, &#lt;i&#gt;Hope for a Safer Place,&#lt;/i&#gt; was chosen for inclusion in the anthology &#lt;a href="http://storiesofstrength.com/"&#gt;&#lt;i&#gt;Stories of Strength&#lt;/i&#gt;&#lt;/a&#gt;&#lt;i&#gt;,&#lt;/i&#gt; which was written in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina to help raise money for Disaster Relief charities
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My first short story was accepted by Universe Pathways Magazine. Special thanks to George Sotirhos at Universe Pathways for reading my story and accepting it for the English version of the magazine.

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&#lt;p&#gt;Issue 5 of the English magazine with my story inside can be previewed on lulu.com:&#lt;/p&#gt;&#lt;p&#gt;&#lt;a href="http://www.lulu.com/browse/preview.php?fCID=778037"&#gt;Universe Pathways preview&#lt;/a&#gt;&#lt;/p&#gt;&#lt;p&#gt;My story, &#lt;i&#gt;Leo's Daughter: Mistress of the Web&#lt;/i&#gt;, is on page 167.&#lt;/p&#gt;&#lt;p&#gt;You can find Issue 5 of the English magazine here:&#lt;/p&#gt;&#lt;p&#gt;&#lt;a href="http://www.lulu.com/content/778037"&#gt;Universe Pathways: Issue 5&#lt;/a&#gt;
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