“I counted the living and gathered them within me and the light that broke through embraced all the life that I had within me...”

“I counted the living and gathered them within me and the light that broke through embraced all the life that I had within me...”

“Write from the heart. A book without a pulse is like a person without a spirit." Linda Radke, President of Five Star Publications”

“Write what you know best. If you can't survive a cross-examination from a lawyer on the subject, you won't survive an interview with a journalist or anchorperson." Linda Radke, President of Five Star Publications.”

“Linda Boone”

“Linda Heavner Gerald received a silver medal for Fiction from FAPA (Florida Authors and Publishers Association)”

“Even the most beautifully written, perfectly edited and well-designed books will fail if people aren't made aware of them!" ––Linda Radke, President of Five Star Publications, on the importance of public relations and marketing.”

“Characters have to be seen and felt when written, not told about. Writers are merely vessels of their manifestations.”

“Some people see scars, and it is wounding they remember. To me they are proof of the fact that there is healing.”

“Beyond that door lies an unknown world...where we can become immortal if we choose”

“Lots of people like rainbows. Children make wishes on them, artists paint them, dreamers chase them, but the Aquarian is ahead of everybody. He lives on one. What's more, he's taken it apart and examined it, piece by piece, color by color, and he still believes in it. It isn't easy to believe in something after you know what it's really like, but the Aquarian is essentially a realist, even though his address is tomorrow, with a wild-blue-yonder zip code.”

“If slaughterhouses had glass walls, the whole world would be vegetarian.”