Treading on Borrowed Time

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Dec 12

Paranormal author Evelyn Klebert has recently released a new novel entitled Treading on Borrowed Time. We sat down with Evelyn recently to discuss her latest endeavor.

Q: What is Treading on Borrowed Time about?

A: Well essentially it’s about a young woman, Julia Moreau, who has been disillusioned a bit by life, coming out of a failed marriage and recovering from the death of her parents, but who on the bright side has strong psychic tendencies and is being mentored by the spirit of her Great Aunt. But of course the stakes get higher when Julia is drafted to help a mysterious Englishman to track a mystical creature in the French Quarter. And then quite jarringly she finds there is another man on the same quest who literally yanks her into another time to elicit her aid.

Q: Sounds exciting, what inspired you to write this?

A: Quite honestly I was looking for a change of pace after Sanctuary of Echoes. Sanctuary was a very intricate book, filled with introspection and time shifts. With this book I wanted to write something a bit on the lighter side, more straight forward in terms of time line, very romantic, and a bit more action oriented. But a key element in this novel was my heroine. I made the decision to make her a Type 1 diabetic.

Q:Why did you make her a diabetic?

A: I’ve actually wanted to do a character like this for a long time but hadn’t really found the vehicle to do so. I live with Type 1 diabetes and understand the way that it changes your life. I think anyone who has a serious medical condition can relate to this. Managing your illness becomes part of the fabric of your life and I thought it would be interesting to create a character who along with all the other extraordinary complications in her life has this one as well.

Q: Are you currently working on anything?

A: Yes, I’m working to put together a collection of paranormal love stories. I’m including a few of my favorites from other collections and adding in several new ones. It should be out just after the first of the year.

Treading on Borrowed Time is now available at Cornerstone Book Publishers, Amazon, Barnes and Noble, and all other major on-line retailers. It is also available in e-book format on Kindle, The Nook, and many other e-book retailers.

For Julia Moreau life seems complicated. Emerging from a failed marriage and managing a lifetime of diabetes, she lives alone in her childhood home where she communicates with the spirit of her Great Aunt Lilia. But Julia doesn’t have a clue what complicated is until she is thrust into being the key chess piece in a match between two powerful men of extraordinary abilities on the wild hunt for a mystical creature hidden in the heart of New Orleans’ French Quarter. Will Julia lose her soul to the karma of a devastating past life or her heart to the love of a man driven by dark forces? What is clear is that whichever way she turns she is “Treading on Borrowed Time.”

6×9 Softcover 198 pages
Retail Price: $16.95
ISBN 1-613420-22-6

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Just in Time for Christmas at Cornerstone Book Publishers

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Dec 10

Check out these new titles at Cornerstone Book Publishers just in time for the holidays. And don’t forget to take advantage of free shipping on all U.S. orders before Christmas.

New York Times bestselling writer and Masonic historian, Michael R. Poll gives us a wonderful collection of some of his best Masonic papers and lectures. From rethinking long held beliefs regarding the early development of the Scottish Rite to the general philosophy and needs of today’s Freemasonry, this book provides education, enlightenment and enjoyment.

6×9 Softcover 176 pages
Retail Price: $15.95
ISBN: 1-61342-017-X

6×9 Softcover 198 pages
Retail Price: $16.95
ISBN 1-613420-22-6

Fraternal organizations, often called “secret societies” because of their proprietary ritual initiations, have thrived in America since the 1730s. Only recently, however, have they become the subject of rigorous academic scrutiny. Bringing together foundational studies of American fraternalism by respected journalists, historians, and sociologists, this volume seeks to contribute to a greater understanding of this aspect of American life. Two respected authorities in the field have carefully selected and edited writings which shed light on how contemporaries understood fraternalism during its golden age of the 1800s, document how 20th century scholars understood these groups, and hopefully facilitate further research into this quintessentially characteristic American phenomenon.

Edited by William D. Moore and Mark A Tabbert
6×9 Softcover 316 pages
Retail Price: $24.95
ISBN: 1-613420-24-2

This most significant collection of Rosicrucian tracts was edited and published by W. Wynn Westcott, Supreme Magas of the Rosicrucian Society of England, beginning in 1893 as nine independent volumes. Gathered together in one volume, this work represents some of the most profound Rosicrucian wisdom available. Foreword by Clayton J. Borne, III, 33º, P.G.M.

Large Format 8.5×11 Softcover 722 pages
Retail Price: $44.95
Cornerstone Website Price: $38.95
ISBN 1-61342-018-8

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New Exciting Books on the Way from Cornerstone

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Sep 26

Release date: 09/28/11
Published by Cornerstone Book Publishers.

6×9 Softcover 176 pages
Retail Price: $15.95
ISBN: 1-61342-017-X

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This most significant collection of Rosicrucian tracts was edited and published by W. Wynn Westcott, Supreme Magas of the Rosicrucian Society of England, beginning in 1893 as nine independent volumes. Gathered together in one volume, this work represents some of the most profound Rosicrucian wisdom available.
Release date: 09/28/11
Edited by W. Wynn Westcott
Foreword by Clayton J. Borne, III

Large Format 8.5×11 Softcover 722 pages
Retail Price: $44.95
Cornerstone Website Price: $38.95
ISBN 1-61342-018-8

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Cornerstone Books Summer Book Sale 7/28-7/31 40% off

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Jul 28

Now through Sunday July 31st, 2011, Cornerstone Book Publishers will have a massive 40% off sale at http://www.cornerstonepublishers.com/. This sale will NOT be listed on the website and is only available via e-mail. To get your 40% off the retail price of any Cornerstone book, just select the books you would like to order and send that list to info@cornerstonepublishers.com. We will calculate the discount and send you a PayPal invoice for the total. Simple. If you have any questions, please send us a mail.

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Evelyn Klebert’s Sanctuary of Echoes on The Gypsy Deva Show

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May 16

Evelyn Klebert was recently interviewed by Elaina Proffitt on The Gypsy Deva Show. Here is a recording of that interview.

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Evelyn Klebert on the Gypsy Deva Show

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May 15

If you like New Orleans and the paranormal come join paranormal novelist Evelyn Klebert and host Elaina Proffitt on Monday May 16th, 11:00 AM central time, on the Gypsy Deva Show where they’ll delve into Klebert’s latest novel Sanctuary of Echoes. And if you can’t tune in at that time the interview will be available later in the show’s archives.

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Some love stories are memorable,
Some are endearing,
And some shift the course of reality.

In New Orleans, the City that Care Forgot,
In it’s City of the Dead,
A love story unfolds,
Tearing across time,
Across realities,
Across the essence of human existence.

Two lovers battle fate back to each other;
Against a paranormal backdrop,
And through a torturous past -
To a place of truth -
Of Sanctuary.

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Interview with Evelyn Klebert author of Sanctuary of Echoes

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May 9

We recently caught up with paranormal author Evelyn Klebert to talk about her new book Sanctuary of Echoes.

Q: What is Sanctuary of Echoes about?

A: Let’s see in the most immediate sense it’s a love story, about a couple who broke apart a long time ago finding their way back to each other through the midst of a lot of pain, supernatural boundaries, and I guess primarily secrets. In many ways it’s a novel about forgiveness, forgiving others and ourselves. On a broader level it explores how life’s experiences and obstacles function as a teaching ground for our spirits. Not unlike the old alchemists who perfected the method of changing base materials into a purer substance namely gold– the soul is perfected through its time and lessons learned here on earth.

Q: What exactly does the title Sanctuary of Echoes refer to?

A: Well like so much of the book it has a layered meaning. In its most immediate sense a good deal of the action in Sanctuary takes place against the backdrop of one of New Orleans’ more celebrated cemeteries – The Metairie Cemetery. If you’ve ever been there you would be taken in by its breath taking and eclectic statuary and monuments. The Echoes reference refers to the cemetery as a place that echoes the lives once lived that are paid homage to there. And of course the Sanctuary is that place within the cemetery where the characters are initially led by Annie Besant’s journal which functions as the epicenter of paranormal activity. Now on a more symbolic level the Sanctuary of Echoes is that place deep inside all of us led by memory which is our essential core, our truth if you will. It’s that place where there are no deceptions, no fabrications, no misleading of others or ourselves just simply raw unvarnished truth. It’s a journey that the lead characters Corey and Iain take in this book before they can ultimately find their way back to each other.

Q: Now you mention Annie Besant who almost seems to be an absent character in the book. What exactly is her function?

A: Historically, actually, Annie Besant she was a rather fascinating figure that was born in the mid 1800s in London. She started out as the wife of a clergyman that she married at 19 then she moved on living a fairly controversial life known primarily as a women’s rights activist, writer and orator. However it’s her esoteric writings and connections that drew my interest. She became involve with the Theosophical Society in the 1890s becoming linked with prominent esoteric figures like Madame Blavatsky and Charles Leadbeater then after spent the balance of her life in India studying the Hindu philosophy and working for their political rights. Within my novel I use some of her writing particularly involving the evolution of the spirit from her book The Ancient Wisdom weaving it hopefully in a unique way into the action of the novel.

Q: I understand you’re adding the credential of photographer to your other titles.

A: Yes I suppose I am. Whenever I’m writing a novel it’s customary for me to get very comfortable and secure with my setting so that I can then paint all sorts of extraordinary supernatural elements to this backdrop. In the case of Sanctuary I spent so much time taking pictures in the Metairie Cemetery and around the city of New Orleans that I decided to offer some of these prints for sale on my website at www.evelynklebert.com on a new page called Sanctuary Inspirations. I also did want to mention that the book itself while being available at all major on-line booksellers is currently on sale at Kindle, The Nook, and a host of other e book sites.

Sanctuary of Echoes

Some love stories are memorable,
Some are endearing,
And some shift the course of reality.

In New Orleans, the City that Care Forgot,
In it’s City of the Dead,
A love story unfolds,
Tearing across time,
Across realities,
Across the essence of human existence.

Two lovers battle fate back to each other;
Against a paranormal backdrop,
And through a torturous past -
To a place of truth -
Of Sanctuary.

Published by Cornerstone Book Publishers.

6×9 Softcover 330 pages
Retail Price: $24.95
ISBN 1-934935-89-1

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Interview with Lorraine DeWolf author of the recently published Bearing Light

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May 1

We recently sat down with fantasy author Lorraine DeWolf to discuss the newly published first installment of her fantasy trilogy Bearing Light: Volume I of the Teller’s Tale.

Q: So Lorraine help us introduce yourself to our readers. Tell us a little about yourself.

A: Hmm. I never know what to say to questions like this. If you are asking for personal facts, I would say I am a wife, mother, sister, friend—a person who loves the arts, NPR and science. If you are looking for credentials, my answer is I’m a teacher of literature and writing. If you want to know what inspires me to write, I would answer language, the world, and story. I’m an omnivorous reader, learner and lover of language.

Q: Bearing Light is a very intricate novel. What was your inspiration for writing it?

A: Friendship. Bearing Light, like all stories, grew out of a variety of ideas, images, and impulses, but in the end, what really made the story possible was a long and supportive friendship. And, fittingly, the story has evolved to be about friendship, friendship overcoming obstacles in all kinds of relationships (peer, parental, romantic).

Q: Can you give us a quick summary of what’s going on in the book?

A: Ideally, I’d like people to read the story and find out. But, since I have been just as guilty as the next person of judging a book by its blurb, I’ll say that the story takes place in a world that could have been quite like our own if it hadn’t been profoundly changed by an encounter with . . . well, let’s just call it Magic. The problem for the characters in the first volume is that some of this magic is malevolent and running amok, and they have to contain it. And, if that explanation too plot-oriented for you, the story focuses on a rather ordinary girl, Emilyn Sayer, who has gifts for magic, for getting into trouble, and for— to her endless good fortune—making extraordinary friends.

Q: Why do you think the fantasy genre is a good motif for storytelling as opposed to other genres?

A: I’m so glad you asked this question. Fantasy has always spoken to me, but more importantly, it has taught me. When I was about 10 years old I discovered Madeline L’Engle’s A Wrinkle in Time and Susan Cooper’s Dark Is Rising series. Thereafter, I never entered a bookstore or library without browsing the fantasy and sci-fi. I read and enjoyed many different genres of writing—prose and poetry—but I kept coming back to fantasy (and science fiction) for the stuff that fed my soul. I loved the revelations lurking in the best of these stories, all the different worlds operating according very different rules, the puzzles to be solved, the games to be won. You never knew where a work of fantasy or science fiction might take you. So, imagine my dismay when, upon entering graduate school, I discovered that the vast majority of serious critics disdained fantasy (if not always science fiction), dismissing it as formulaic, escapist, and hopelessly nonliterary. Soon after, I had another nasty surprise. I began teaching, and I was stunned by the sheer number of students who did not know how to cope with literary texts, which didn’t operate by the simplest and most predictable rules. So many of my students seemed ill equipped to handle texts that challenged established ideas and conventions. Their problems led me to some serious speculation about how reading fantasy had helped develop me as a student and a reader. While I would never promote fantasy as a panacea for illiteracy, I can attest to the ways in which it made me a better, stronger, more capable reader. It introduced me to a wide variety of narrative techniques and strategies, exposed me to a range of modes and stances, and encouraged me to practice teasing meaning and coherence out of strangeness and ambiguity. From fantasy, I learned to recognize when a writer is deliberately playing by or playing with the rules. I credit the really good writers of fantasy with teaching me to think in new and interesting ways. And I personally believe that good fantasy raises fundamental questions of value and meaning: What does it mean to be human? What is the nature and function of existence? What is Nature and our place in it? What is the purpose and power of story? For the writer of fantasy, the answers to these questions are as numerous as the worlds to be imagined. And I thank the fantasy writers I’ve read for exposing me to their ideas.

Q: Can you give us a sneak peak into what is ahead for the characters of Bearing Light in future volumes of The Teller’s Tale?

A: Well, as I mentioned earlier, the world in which Bearing Light takes place has been touched and changed by an unexpected encounter with magic. In the second and third volumes we learn more about the nature of this magic, the great talismans that seem to be linked to it, and the gifts and problems of Emily’s particular friends—Beth, Colin, Al, and Blayne. We see all of the main characters having to make very difficult life-and-death choices. And we see all of them being drawn more deeply into the history of their land and the alien world from which the magic that changed it emerged. I hope you decide to join them on their journeys.

North and south, war and magic are brewing. But, in the sleepy woodland village of Greenwood life goes on just as it always has, comfortable and commonplace-until an ancient power awakens in the heart of the old forest and summons to it an exiled princess, a gifted magician, a gorgeous vagabond. Soon a twisting, turning nightmare will descend on all the lands, and a young Greenwooder by the name of Emilyn Sayer will begin a journey that will take her into the heart of a darkling realm of beauty and terror, where lies the key to discovering the talisman that can turn the nightmare back.

Published by Cornerstone Book Publishers.

6×9 Softcover 524 pages
Retail Price: $28.95
ISBN 1-934935-84-0

Also available at all major online booksellers and on sale at Kindle and the Nook.

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New Esoteric Titles

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May 1

Cornerstone book publishers is expanding its collection of esoteric titles. Here are only a handful of the growing collection:

Written in question and answer format, Max Heindel (1865-1919), the founder of the Rosicrucian Fellowship, provides answers to many of life’s questions in this classic work. His teachings touch most everyone and most areas of life. This is a valuable book for anyone seeking to understand more of life’s meaning as well as Heindel’s view of Rosicrucian philosophy.

6×9 Softcover 192 pages
Retail Price: $21.95
ISBN 1-456339-62-1

Containing the History of the True and the False Rosicrucians with an Introduction into the Mysteries of the Hermetic Philosophy and the Principles of the Philosophy of the Rosicrucians and Alchemists.

6×9 Softcover 138 pages
Retail Price: $16.95
ISBN 1-453766-86-3

Are we alone in the universe, or do we have friends all around us? C.W. Leadbeater explores accounts of timely aid given by unseen helpers, invisible angels who desire our well-being. A beautiful and well written metaphysical work and as relevant today as it was at the beginning of mankind.

6×9 Softcover 106 pages
Retail Price: $14.95
ISBN 1-453656-79-0

Annie Besant (1847-1933) was a respected author, women’s rights activist, British social reformer and Theosophist. She worked closely with C. W. Leadbeater and and Helena Blavatsky. In 1908, she followed Blavatsky as President of the Theosophical Society. Her writings are inspired and revered by countless students. Includes: The Laws of Higher Life; The Seven Principles of Man; The Path of Discipleship; and more.

6×9 Softcover 252 pages
Retail Price: $18.95
ISBN 1-452854-20-3

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