Short Story Anthology Volume Three:

What I'd Say To Agatha Christie If I Met Her At The Knitting Circle

Many of these stories have some bizarre twists and reasons for being written. Which as many people have said to me, 'I have no idea how you sleep at night and come up with such bizarre ideas and unexpected twists'. To be truly honest, I get many of my best story lines from people I meet. As I've often said, 'You can't write the stuff that some people have lived'. As a writer I always ask this question after hearing a great bizarre story. Like the title proclaims What If!

A couple of more literary, profound stories from my younger days. Another about meeting something much more than a wolf. What if Nasa decided to send someone to Mars with Multiple Personality Disorder in order to cut down on the number of people needed. I get to star on a TV show. Yes, really!! Just ask the doctor, 'what you ask?' The proper question is 'Who'. Some of my published non-fiction stories and so much more. And you'll find I do answer the question, What I'd Say To Agatha Christie If I Met Her At The Knitting Circle.

Reviews

Stillwaters Runs Deep, Book One: Raven's Lament

Damn! I've been reading this book for three hours, can't put it down, and I have to get up for work in the morning. Your writing flows so well, I'm drawn completely into your novels while time goes by effortlessly reading them. Barry Harris

Seeds of Ascension, Book Two: Gateways

Love your amazing imagination. You take what I see on History Channel to the next impossibly believable level and make me believe! Sometimes you make me laugh out loud and other times when I'm reading, I close my eyes and visualize the scene unfolding before me. Your writing flows that effortlessly. Ingrid Siltala-Mort

Autumn's Summer

I thought I'd have a quick peek at Autumn's Summer and then finish the book I was currently reading! I was entranced and spellbound from that moment, my current read neglected! Couldn't put it down, read it in one day. Yes, the love scenes were intense, passion blossoms in many forms! I enjoyed this immensely! Shelley Walsh

The Ainsworth Chronicles, Book Two: The Mystery Of Ms. Teak

Do not read this book! Seriously, do not read this book - unless you are prepared to deal with a rift on your personal timeline. You will find that this book causes you to postpone activities that you would otherwise be doing. You will be transported into a world of history and mystery, crime and grime, Spirits and other worldly time travel, with the delectable Detective Carol Ainsworth. An amazing tale, which I thoroughly enjoyed. Paddy Kopieczek

Frank Talaber was born in Beaverlodge, Alberta, where the claim to fame is a fox with flashing eyes in the only pub, yeah, big place, that's why his family left when he was knee high to a grasshopper and moved to Edmonton, Alberta. Eventually he got tired of ten months of winter and two of bad slush and moved to Chilliwack, BC. Great place, Cedar trees, can cut the grass nine months of the year and, oh it does snow here once or twice. Just enough to have to find out what happened to the bloody snow shovel and have to use it. GRRR.

He's spent most of his life either fixing cars or managing automotive shops and is a licensed automotive technician. However it's the little muses that keep twigging on his pencil won't let his writing pad stay blank.

He's had several short stories published, short-listed in contests over the years and a few automotive articles published in RV magazines, including one story that was entered into an anthology of over 300 entries, voted #1 by the readers. He has several novels published, which include the genres of urban fantasy, thriller, crime and romance. He also has written in science fiction, spiritual, erotica and comedy genres as well. This novel, The Joining, was entered into the 2020 Canadian Book Club Awards and made a top three finalist.

When asked once, "where does this creativity spring from?" He answered, "It's the Gypsy blood from my mother's Hungarian ancestry."

Literary madness that drives his wife crazy when he leaves their bed in the middle of the night to pound out some sort of prosaic induced brilliance. "Here we go again, the next War and Peace, Aka 21st century," she moans, only to realize it's either gibberish or there's no lead in his pencil and he's scribbled on sixteen blank pages in the dark.

When asked about Frank Talaber's Writing Style? He usually responds with: Mix Dan Millman (Way of The Peaceful Warrior) with Charles De Lint (Moonheart) and throw in a mad scattering of Tom Robbins (Even Cowgirls Get The Blues).

PS: He's better looking than Stephen King (Carrie, The Stand, It, The Shining) and his romantic stuff will have you gasping quicker than Robert James Waller (Bridges Of Madison County).Or as is often said: You don't have to be mad to be a writer, but it sure helps.