Write Where We Are: WriteOn Joliet Sixth Annual Anthology 2022
- 180 pages
- 7 hours of reading
Denise M. Baran-Unland crafts compelling supernatural literary fiction for young adults, exploring complex themes with a distinctive narrative voice. Her work bridges the fantastical with deeply human emotions, creating immersive and memorable storytelling. She also engages younger readers with captivating chapter book series designed to foster early literacy skills. Baran-Unland's diverse output demonstrates a versatile talent for connecting with readers across different age groups.






When asked to banish ghosts in a backyard lake, supernatural super sleuth Cornell Dyer encounters one mystery after another: a ghostly mist with eyes, a ghost town, and a town that keeps changing its name. Delving into each one will change Cornell's life. Is he ready?
Many writers are familiar with writing prompts, a few lines to spark their inspiration to get the words flowing.It’s hard to find revision prompts. Writers know they need to revise their stories. But sometimes writers need a few editing prompts to help them look critically and objectively at their work.That’s the reason for this workbook.Each page highlights one area of the story to check. The rest of the page is blank, so writers can jot some notes on trouble spots and possible ways to revise.
They say “kindness” begins at home, and home starts with the person in the mirror. In “Nine Months of Kindness,” writer/editor Denise M. Baran-Unland spent part of 2020 exploring ways she could become kinder to herself and the people in her life. She shares her experiences, and her reflections, in this book.
While investigating a home with mysterious whispers, supernatural super sleuth Cornell Dyer stumbles upon its source: an antique wardrobe in a room all by itself. But when Cornell steps inside, he discovers the wardrobe is more than a wardrobe and a whisper is more than a whisper. Even if Cornell solves the mystery, will he ever go home?
Cornell Dyer needs a break from solving supernatural mysteries. So he heads to Paradise Falls for a well-deserved vacation at a beach resort, where he meets another sleuth as skilled as he. But dark secrets can lurk even in a sunny paradise, secrets the tanned and energetic natives don't want him to know. It takes two to solve the mystery - but will the sleuthing team live that long?
Caryn Rochelle loves werewolf stories and promised herself she would write the world's greatest werewolf love story before her eighteenth birthday.With the date just months away, Caryn has shredded more drafts than she's kept and is feeling desperate. But then she learns the town's most prestigious couple has a dark secret: they're keeping a savage boy her age locked in their basement. One glimpse and Caryn's inspiration skyrockets. Caryn knows she ought to report them, but... Can it really hurt to wait until she finishes her story
A cry for help. A glowing green ball. An old tired town with a mysterious old dump. A tale of heartbreak. Before supernatural super sleuth Cornell Dyer can figure out the questions, one man disappears and another dies. To find the answers, Cornell must cross the lake - but all who tried never came back. Will Cornell survive and solve the mystery?
"Before the Blood" is a five-novel prequel to the BryonySeries Gothic trilogy. Told in multiple points of view with Faustian elements, "Before the Blood" centers on the lives of four key characters and the choices that ultimately lead to tragic ending. In Book One, read how John Simons goes from riches to rags to riches, and the price he pays along the way. In Book Two, read how Kellen Wechsler goes from rags to riches, and se the lives he discards along the way .In Book Three, read how little Bryony Marseilles, spoiled sheltered, and sickly, uses her introversion and imagination to make sense of her Utopia. In Book Four, read how Henry Matthews goes from rags to riches and what he sacrifices to serve the riches. In Book Five, read how Bryony Simons and those she loves destroy their dreams.
"Before the Blood" is a five-novel prequel to the BryonySeries Gothic trilogy. Told in multiple points of view with Faustian elements, "Before the Blood" centers on the lives of four key characters and the choices that ultimately lead to tragic ending. In Book Three, read how little Bryony Marseilles, spoiled sheltered, and sickly, uses her introversion and imagination to make sense of her Utopia.