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Command of Silence by acclaimed author Paulette Callen

is now available at Amazon.com,
GraveMatters.com and other bookstores.

Two children have been stolen at different times out of the same household, one an infant from a bedroom, the other stolen from a playground.

Into this baffling case enters Shiloh & Company, a unique detective “agency” composed of disparate personalities — Sugartime, Hester, Isadora, Lance, Olive, Hawk — who reside in the single person of Shiloh. Well known to a cooperative if uneasy police department for her investigative effectiveness, Shiloh's assorted identities, born out of extreme childhood trauma, have acquired a collective instinct, a priceless gift in detective work: an unerring tuning fork for the truth.

Shiloh has been nursed back to functioning health and sanity by therapist Ray Martinez, still intent on integrating all the self-protective personalities. But this case is lethal to Shiloh's very identity: a crime involving children cuts to the heart of what first brought Shiloh to Ray's attention. In pursuing this mystery, the fragile mental health and fragmented existence of Shiloh will be tested to its limit.

Allow yourself time for Command of Silence. Once you pick it up you will be reluctant to leave the compelling world of Shiloh and Company.

“. . . this mystery is a rocket ship ride into a new galaxy of fiction.”

--Mystery Magazine, Fall 2010

A new edition of Charity by Paulette Callen

will soon be available from P.D. Publishing.

The friendship between Lena Kaiser, a sodbuster’s daughter, and Gustie Roemer, an educated Easterner, is unlikely in any other circumstance but post-frontier Charity, South Dakota. Gustie is considered an outsider and Lena is too proud to share her problems (which include a hard drinking husband) with anyone else.

On the nearby Sioux reservation, Gustie also finds love and family with two Dakotah women: Dorcas Many Roads, an old medicine woman, and her adopted granddaughter Jordis, who bears the scars of a white man’s education.

When Lena’s husband is arrested for murdering his father and the secrets of Gustie’s past not only haunt her dreams but follow her to Charity, Lena, Gustie, and Jordis stand together. As buried horrors are unearthed and present tragedies unfold, they discover the strength and beauty of love and friendship that blossom like wild flowers in the tough prairie soil.

“Paulette Callen has so beautifully evoked the life of Charity, South Dakota, at the turn of the century that I will remember it forever . . .
“With a subtly poetic tone, this is writing with heart, rich with colloquial detail, a story of unspeakable secrets honestly revealed in voices rarely given a chance to be heard-- the voices of strong, interesting women.”

--Gary Reed, author of Pryor Rendering

The first edition

in hard cover (Simon and Schuster pub.)

and paperback (Berkely Signature)

can still be found on sites that carry
used books (such as Amazon).

I am privileged to have had some of my work selected for the following anthologies.

Click on the covers if you’d like to order them from Amazon. But you don’t have to buy books. Check your local library. If they don’t have them, they could very likely order them through an interlibrary loan. Your librarian would love to help you.


	In Dog Blessings I write about Zoë, a remarkable dog who was taken from a wild pack in Queens, adopted by my friend Erika, and who went on to became a therapy dog. This is her portrait. Her story is worth reading, as is this whole collection.

Zoë


	Audacious Creativity is a good bed-side table book for inspiration before retiring or a shot of creative juice to start your morning.

Beyond Lament is a collection of poetry about the Holocaust. Once you dip into this volume, you may want to order it for yourself.


	After 9/11, my college sent out a query to all alumni living in New York to write their stories of that event. Here's mine. The number at the end, 6000, was what everyone thought the loss was at the time.


	September 11, 2001


	And here's my take on the craft of writing:


	Advice for Writers

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