This is a story about a scrappy kid with an acute inferiority complex who lived in a tough neighborhood during The Great Depression. Short for his age as a kid and with that name, Clarence, he appeared to be an easy mark for bullies, but he fought back, earning respect. Thanks to two teachers who helped him appreciate reading and writing, he had a goal in life. He wanted to be a writer. His life struggle makes an excellent history of the times. Depression. Service on four ships in the Navy as a radioman, in the European and Pacific wars. After the war he continued pursuing that goal of being a writer. He was thirty years old before starting out as a writer/trainee in the audio-visual sales promotion business .. He made it to the top in Detroit agencies, got married and raised four children. All the while there was that nagging feeling of inadequacy that he overcame with action. Quite a life for the scrappy guy. It's a history worth reading.

The book is a result of twenty years' research of reincarnation, hypnotherapy techniques, and the history of Detroit in 1763 during Chief Pontiac's siege of the Fort .. A murder incident in 1763 suddenly reappears in the mind of a present day Detroit businessman who happens upon the reincarnated murderer. Doctor Anthony Kovacs, a hypnotherapist, inherits the case and finds himself trying desparately to prevent a murder. A chilling story and a rich history of of that great city, then and today, moves swiftly .. You can't put the book down until the last thrilling incidents are played out.

"Dying Is No Big Deal" is the title of one of the stories in this book, an international short story contest winner. There are seventeen stories, easy reads of about ten minutes each, should be of interest to just about everybody. Socha uses a technique he calls VISUAL writing that he developed as an audio-visual writer, to put the reader right inside the scenes. So the action is swift and continues like a video drama. Interesting characters. Nursing home retirees who rob a bank. Two inept fishermen who get a huge fish drunk, to catch it. Love stories. Crime story. Characters that you won't forget.

Paul Krol

Paul Krol is six five on a muscular frame. He walks with a slight limp and carries a cane. Friends jokingly call him "King of The Polish PIs" (Krol in Polish means king) Paul aspired to be a professional football player, but that dream ended with an injury suffered during a Michigan State-Purdue football game. He became a high school football coach and did some part time work helping a private investigator. When his partner is killed during a holdup with his own gun, Paul eventually takes over the agency. An old Vietnamese stick fighter convinces Paul that a gun, in close quarters, was useless. He converts Paul into an accomplished stick fighter. Works great for Paul. Paul comes to Clover Heights Subdivsion to help John Callahan, a World War II buddy of Uncle Kaz. Callahan is the only resident to report criminals that are turning kids into addicts and thieves. The gangs trash Callahan's property to show what happens to anyone who fights back. People refuse to help. Paul is shocked and steps in to show residents how to take back their community. There are a couple of cute ladies in Paul's life. There is Angie Pelligrini, his sexy secretary and office manager. She saves Paul's life. And there is Wanda, Paul's sweetie who wears his engagement ring. You fool with her Paul and she'll slug you. A pretty but tough. sweetie.

Parker's Paradise

This book is about the writers and producers of those exciting automotive announcement shows and sales training programs to help salesmen sell cars and trucks. It is an extremely competitive business with considerable stress. Our man, John Parker, is a creative writer/producer who survives the pressures, thanks to his being able to create a fantasy island to retreat to when pressure gets too difficult. We owe a lot to the people in this business who helped make America Number One in the auto world. The story takes place in the early 1950s when the author "made it" in the business. We learn a lot about the psychology of creating promotional programs and dealing with clients who are insecure and indecisive. Parker shows us how to handle the political pressures of the business, too. Parker's paradise technique can actually help anyone cope with those difficult situations we encounter daily in our modern hectic world.

Come Live With Me On Mars

“There is no life on Mars.” “There is no life on Mars” “There is no life on Mars.” They say.

Somebody named the planet Mars after a Roman God of War. Not the Planet’s idea. Scientists say there is no life on Mars. Can’t be because conditions there are uninhabitable for creatures like us . . .

What is really up there? Perhaps life, yes? Really life? Perhaps truly loving creatures devoted to the pure, natural sense of love, not the word, but in deeds? Why not?

Ten Acres

Ten Acres is about a dream, a hope, of the main character, Joseph Novak After service in the Navy in World War II, and seeing people dying and starving, Novak vows that after the War he would find a place of peace and happiness to wash the horrors of war that continued to crowd his mind. He finds it in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan enjoying the scenic highways, and the forests and farmlands, and especially the people who returned to the farms, to put their hands to the soil and see LIFE come forth, and happiness prevail.