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Jan Hurst-Nicholson has been essay for about 25 years. Her articles, humorous articles and brief stories have seemed in South African and abroad magazines and these were gathered into a book: ‘Something to Read on a Plane’ a bit of light literature, brief stories other fun stuff.

Her initial children’s book was ‘Leon Chameleon PI and a box of a blank canary eggs’ published by Gecko Books, and was one of Bookchat’s 1993 South African Books of a Year. This was followed by ‘Leon Chameleon PI and a box of a kidnapped mouse’. ‘Leon Chameleon PI and a box of a bottled bat’ is accessible publication. These are humorous, animal, investigator stories set in a inlet reserve.
‘Bheki and a Magic Light,’ that tells of a farming child’s mindfulness with a torch, was published by Penguin SA.
‘Jake,’ was published by Cambridge University Press.

Born in a UK, Jan emigrated from Liverpool to South Africa in a 1970s. Her practice relocating to a new continent were a impulse for her humorous novel ‘But Can You Drink The Water?’ that was a semi-finalist (top 50 out of 5000) in a 2010 Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award. This began as a 13 part sitcom, though when a writer could not get appropriation Jan incited them into a novel. This is now accessible on Amazon as a Kindle digital book.

Jan worked in a RD dialect of a vast bakery for several years, and this gave her a thought for ‘The Breadwinners,’ a family tale travelling 50 years and set in Durban. This is now accessible on Amazon as a Kindle digital book.

Jan has also created a YA novel, Mystery during Ocean Drive, that was a runner-up in a 2010 Citizen/Pan MacMillan YA novel award, and is now accessible as a Kindle digital book.

Jan’s essay also appears in ‘Edge Words’ (20 stories from a Cheshire Prize for Literature 2006) published by University of Chester, ‘Chicken Soup for a Caregiver’s Soul’ and ‘Chicken Soup for a Soul 101 best stories On Being a Parent,’ and ‘Summer Shorts’.

Jan is a member of a South African Writers’ Circle, and of SpeakOut, an classification that teaches open vocalization (for when she becomes a famous writer!)
She lives in Durban with her husband, dual dogs that are perpetually on a wrong side of a door, dual aged cats, and a occasional visiting couple of boisterous vervet monkeys.

BESTSELLING AUTHOR DON BROWN,a former US Navy JAG Officer who served in a Pentagon, and who now pens authorised and troops thrillers about a Navy, seems to have grown an supernatural lane record for prognosticating destiny events in his novels.

In 2003, Don began essay TREASON, his initial novel in a NAVY JUSTICE SERIES, chronicling a life and adventures of JAG officer ZACK BREWER. TREASON explored a dangers of radical Islamic infiltration in a United States Military. Don wrote a novel, in partial as a warning to a open about those dangers. TREASON was expelled in 2005.

Then, on Thanksgiving Day of 2009, TREASON had rocketed to a series 1 bestselling novel for novella on a prestigious Amazon.com bestselling list for fiction, where it remained for some-more than a week. Why? Because a novel had enclosed a stage that decorated probably a same unfolding to occurred during Fort Hood, in that a radical Muslim member of a United States troops non-stop glow indiscriminately during a US Military base, in avail of a radical domestic agenda.

In Jun of 2008, Zondervan expelled Don’s fourth novel, BLACK SEA AFFAIR, that featured a sharpened fight between Georgia and Russia. Two months later, in Aug of 2008, fight pennyless out between Russia and Georgia, in what has spin famous as a 2008 South Ossetia War. This noted a second time that one of Don’s novels in fact likely a destiny event.

In Aug of 2009, Don Brown finished a publishing for fifth novel, MALACCA CONSPIRACY, a novel that began with oil tankers being pounded by radical Islamic terrorists as those tankers transited a vital Strait of Malacca. In a novel, terrorists use speedboats full of explosives to conflict tankers. Ten months later, in May of 2010, a Singaporean Navy expelled apprehension warnings about oil tankers being targeted for attacks by terrorists in a Strait of Malacca, with explosive-laden dinghies and speedboats, a accurate unfolding laid out in Brown’s novel. Did Don Brown have entrance to personal information?

On May 26 of 2010, OnlineUniversities.com ranked Don’s 3 novels of a NAVY JUSTICE SERIES — TREASON, HOSTAGE and DEFIANCE — among a list of “50 Best Legal Novels for Both Lawyers and Laymen.” TREASON, HOSTAGE and DEFIANCE were rated 3,4 and 5 in a “Supsense” difficulty among a list of 50.

In Aug of 2011, Zondervan expelled Don’s sixth novel, THUNDER IN THE MORNING CALM, an bomb thriller about North Korea. THUNDER IN THE MORNING CALM examines a doubt — “Did America leave group behind in North Korean Prison Camps some sixty years ago?” Will this, too, spin out to be prophetic?

DON BROWN served on active avocation for 5 years in a Navy as a JAG officer, during that time he served as troops prosecutor, a Special Assistant United States Attorney, and also won a New York City Bar Association Trial Advocacy Award for winning a hearing advocacy championship during a United States Naval Justice School. DON BROWN remained on dead haven standing with a Navy by 1999, rising to a arrange of Lieutenant Commander. He now lives in his local North Carolina.

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Included in a Box

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