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Leveraging a unique blend of Stoic Philosophy, Hermetic Spirituality, and Quantum Physics, as well as over 30 years of health care,Thrive Empowered for Life! will provide attendees a deep understanding of how mindset and emotion are pro and co creative forces for change and success in all aspects of life.
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New Kirkus Review!
Mon. 8-4-25
THE COMING OF SCHADES
HEROES OF THE LINE BOOK 1
A frightening fantasy tale that mixes cosmic dangers with domestic terror.
Two young brothers square off against predators both human and unearthly in Carlton’s supernatural thriller-series starter.
Ten-year-old Nick Emerson and his 5-year-old brother, Frank, feel like it’s them against the world. Dick Pickerd, their mother Lisa’s boyfriend and boss, regularly molests Nick, who vows never to allow Frank to be victimized. Frank, meanwhile, is harassed by bullies who like to toss him in the school dumpster. The boys are also beset by “schades”: ghastly, pale beings who skulk in shadows, shriek at light, and sometimes attack; two years ago, Nick and Frank saw their dad, Nick Sr., get killed by one of them. Things look up when school janitor Harry Armstrong gives Nick a pendant watch that catalyzes his ability to stop time for several minutes—which he uses to defeat Frank’s bullies—and a doctor and Lisa spot the sexual abuse and have Pickerd arrested. Nick and Frank reconnect with Nana Emerson and Uncle Howie, who reveal that people with the Emerson bloodline have used paranormal powers in a 5,000-year war against the schades, and they also help Nick develop his time-stopping ability and assist Frank with his burgeoning telepathic talent. Then Pickerd gets out of jail and aims to abduct the two brothers, closing in on them with the help of schades. This first book in Carlton’s Heroes of the Line series features monsters of several kinds, grounded in a compelling portrait of an abused child trying desperately to avoid his tormentor; Nick also has a psychic premonition that Lisa will die if she learns about the molestation. Carlton’s prose is eerie and atmospheric, with the schades a pervasive, macabre presence that heightens the boys’ panic and despair: “He dared a peek into the dim light just in time to see the gray peeling face fade back into shadows. It raised its dusty looking hand and waggled its fingers at him, but it was the sinister smile still hovering in the air while the rest of it disappeared that left him with shivers on the inside.” The result is an imaginative page-turner in which magic augments a tense psychological drama.
A frightening fantasy tale that mixes cosmic dangers with domestic terror.
Pub Date: July 6, 2023
ISBN: 9798338496428
Page Count: 228
Publisher: N/A
Review Posted Online: today
Review Program: Kirkus Indie
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Kirkus Review Heroes of the Line Book 5
Sat 7-25-25
A densely packed conclusion to an SF/fantasy series of vast ambition and scale.
In this SF/fantasy novel, two brothers from a legendary lineage of heroes must unite with a mythic creature and summon awesome powers to confront a universe-devouring entity.
Carlton concludes the fantasy saga started in The Coming of Schades (2023) with this volume. Nick Emerson is 14 and his younger brother, Frank, is 9—not that one would know from looking at the pair. Nick now has the physiology of an adult man, and telepathic-empath Frank, who appears to be a teenager, has literally absorbed an immortal named Vahl. These are just two of the supernatural events that have befallen the brothers since receiving a revelation from Harry Armstrong, the custodian of their school: The close siblings, who hail from a tragedy-scarred, fatherless family, are actually descendants and avatars of Oemir, a legendary Celtic hero from a lineage of champions spanning the multiverse. It seems that everything, everywhere was initially composed of 13 universes that were once balanced in harmony; now, all but two of these universes have been devoured by the “living dark,” also called firdur, a malevolent force hostile to all life and light that gains power as it spreads its void. A few species of beings, chiefly the sinister “schades,” have allied themselves with the living dark. That leaves a badly diminished line of heroes, in addition to a plethora of creatures once thought to be mythical (including godlike dragons, wyverns, the virtually immortal Sidhe, centaurs, and cyclopses) as the last hope for existence against the threat of the living nothingness. Nick and Frank, due to their shared soul, have the ability to cross the “curtain” between worlds, feel the other’s sensations, and enter their sister universe to rally Sidhe and other inhabitants of a strategically important world called Aderyn against the living dark. Back on Earth, Nick and Frank and their widely scattered associates face up to their destinies as police investigate a deadly attack on Harry (tied to a corrupt pastor caught up in human trafficking).
There are echoes here of Susan Cooper’s fondly remembered Dark Is Rising series of YA novels commenced in 1965, though Carlton’s playbook reflects a more contemporary American sensibility that blends elements of urban fantasy and LGBTQ+ acceptance (Nick is bisexual). The author effectively blends SF elements (DNA double-helixes, quantum physics) with fantastical magic (“Everything, magic, spells, wards, all of it, it’s just harmonics and physics, it’s just the ways of energy and nature, there’s no good or evil inherent in any of it, it’s all about the intention”). Carlton includes quotes and shoutouts to other popular SF and fantasy franchises, including Tolkien’s Middle Earth and the Harry Potter universe, but rarely to the point that this becomes campy or tiresome. The reader ricochets between an elsewhere where a dragon the size of Africa can forge planets and stars and a relatively mundane Earth replete with bullies, police detectives, same-sex boyfriends, and plenty of swearing—it’s a wild ride, especially as the major characters in this expansive cast ensemble weave in and out of their various incarnations.
A densely packed conclusion to an SF/fantasy series of vast ambition and scale.
Pub Date: Dec. 25, 2024
ISBN: 9780983292791
Page Count: 640
Publisher: N/A
Review Posted Online: July 25, 2025
Review Program: Kirkus Indie
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ABOUT JA CARLTON
J.A Carlton is Certified Life Coach, Author of twelve books, and Speaker with over 35 years in various health care modalities.
She has over 3 decades of experience teaching and advocating ‘soft’ or ‘no contact’ as a life choice for clients suffering abuse or oppression.
She has used her decades of study and experience in various fields from philosophy, to quantum physics, to bring her fiction stories added depth and understanding of the nature of human experience and how she has learned the universe really works.
She prefers writing fiction where safe exploration of the human experience can be managed, understood, and used to shine a light into the future, so that all can enjoy a life of dignity, equality, and humane fulfillment.
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