Stardust Dads: The Afterlife Connection - Softcover

George, David R.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0595512364 ISBN 13: 9780595512362

Publisher: iUniverse, 2008

Synopsis

The e-mail Danny and Allison read on their new computer in 1996 looks no different from the millions of others received by Web users around the world, with one glaring exception-it was sent by their dads who died during the 1970s. While residing in the afterworld at an amenity-laden paradise called Midway Manor, guitar-strumming Mickey Parks and piano-playing Lloyd Wallace monitor and manipulate the lives of their adult children on earth from the mid-'70s through the 1990s. Tampering with the facility's sophisticated computer, the dads thrust Mickey's daughter Allison and Lloyd's son Danny into a passionate but sometimes stormy relationship-a relationship steeped in Danny's heavy drinking and entangled in the often-zany world of men's adventure magazine publishing. After carefully implementing a plan to send their son and daughter a gift of knowledge that could enrich their lives forever, the dads' brief contact is cut short. They are banished to another destination in the afterworld, but not before they impart indisputable proof of life after death-and unwittingly put Danny's and Allison's earthbound lives on the line.

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About the Author

David R. George's extensive career as a New York editor/writer included the men's adventure magazine genre in the '60s and '70s. Co-author/wife Josephine, a long-standing student of the paranormal, has also had a durable editorial career that included proofing dozens of Louis L'Amour novels. David has written more than 200 published magazine articles, fiction and nonfiction, including a 9,000-word article on the men's adventure magazines in the March 2007 issue of Alter Ego magazine. He began his professional editorial career at Fawcett Publications, working as an associate editor on TRUE Magazine while attending Hunter College in the evening. In 1964, he joined Magazine Management, serving at different times as associate editor, managing editor and editor of various men's adventure magazines such as MALE, Men, For Men Only, Stag, etc. He worked there for thirteen years, alongside such literary luminaries as Mario Puzo, Martin Cruz Smith and Bruce J. Friedman - eventually witnessing firsthand the ultimate demise of the men's adventure magazine field. David went on to serve as editor of a number of slick men's magazines, including the American edition of Italy's Playmen, Europe's best-selling men's magazine. Among his regular contributors were Stephen King and James T. Farrell. David also edited Hugo Gernsback's venerable Sexology for several years. In 1986, he left New York for the greener pastures of Asheville, North Carolina. From 1988 through 1996, David and Josephine founded, co-published and edited a forty-page seniors-oriented tabloid, Carolina Senior Citizen [later changed to 39 Plus] in western North Carolina, which integrated subscribers throughout the United States. Both contributed articles to the publication, and in 1992, feature articles were selected, compiled and published in paperback by Land of the Sky Books (The Best of Carolina Senior Citizen, ISBN 1-56664-002-4). Josephine has had extensive ex

Edition details

• Publisher: iUniverse
• Publication date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0595512364
• ISBN 13: 9780595512362
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 268