Winter Lion Publishing
Envisioned by author Joe Esposito, Winter Lion hopes to one day become a welcoming home to storytellers of all ages, and especially for our so-called old-timers who still have a lot to say. Because in a world where getting older is sometimes seen as a negative thing, or just a bad business bet, Winter Lion Publishing hopes to tell a different tale.
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A tale where storytellers of all ages enrich our lives with unimaginable faraway lands and simple everyday people. Authors who can make us believe in the impossible, enjoy the improbable, and relish, together, in humanity’s incredible triumphs and terrible failures, in the comedy and calamity of the lives we lead where adventure and the mundane collide. Whether it’s tales of friendship and love, war and peace, the struggle between good and evil, or terrifying things that go bump in the night, Winter Lion hopes to bring them all to you one day.
We need to hear what these young and old storytellers among us have to say, because sometimes all people have in them is one good story.
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One day, we're going to listen, together.
PRAISE FOR THE PAINTED SAND
THE PAINTED SAND
We're born. We live. We die. And usually in that order.
Or so Ruth Weber thinks before Death arrives at her hospice.
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“I know you’re not afraid to die, but are you afraid to live?” he asks, setting off an irrevocable series of events which brings them both to the edge of eternal darkness.
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Death is a man calling himself Mortimer Nach, and he has reasons for hanging a painting in her room that brings visions of her past…and of a life that was never truly her own. Angels and demons warn him not to go forward with his plans, but his mind is set. Death, you see, is not who he once was.
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So begins a dying woman’s journey through the past she’s left behind and into the world she’s only dreamed of, and in the small time she has left, both will discover visions of themselves never thought possible. As the powers of Heaven and Hell converge on them, each begins to understand their journey’s end portends the joy and terrible costs of choices made, and of the sacrifices we’re willing to suffer for others in this thing called life.
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The Painted Sand is a tale of love and pain, and of lines that become blurred.
Of the moments that make up our days from beginning to end.
But sometimes, endings aren't endings at all.
Sometimes, they're beginnings.
