Author Spotlight

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  Dr. Lance Fogan

  From Neurologist to PageTurner Press and Media Author

  Life brought many surprising twists and turns to Dr. Lance Fogan. Long before becoming a neurologist and professor of neurology, he took up anthropology and linguistics at the State University of New York at Buffalo. An after-school job at Roswell Park Cancer Institute in Buffalo influenced him to take up medicine, and later, he took up neurology as his specialty.

  Before becoming a PageTurner Press and Media author, Dr. Fogan has worked at various institutions, including Kaiser Permanente in Medical Center in Southern California as a general clinical neurologist, a position he held until his retirement in 1997. He has also taught as a clinical professor of neurology at the UCLA School of Medicine.

  Dr. Fogan was awarded the American Academy of Neurology History Prize for his paper “The Neurology in Shakespeare.” He is also an active champion of epilepsy awareness and shares his knowledge of the illness through blogs and on social media. His family drama novel Dings touches upon epilepsy and how the disorder changes people’s lives.

   

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  Frank P. Daversa

  PageTurner’s Author Writes from a Place of Spirituality and Enlightenment

  Spirituality in the modern world has been the driving force behind Frank P. Daversa’s writing and lifelong missions. This has sprung from experiencing a serious illness in 1997, which led him on a spiritual journey, something that he has been doing ever since.

   

  This New York native finished his AAS with honors in 1981 and earned his BS in 1986. Before becoming one of PageTurner’s inimitable authors, he has worked in the corporate world for 14 years. However, before publishing his first ever novel in 2011, he has previously published his first web articles in 2008. They were mostly on spirituality and spiritual journey.

   

  He has published three books with PageTurner Press and Media: Spirituality in the 21st Century, Politics in America: A Guide to the Two-Party System, and Young Adolf: An Alternate History. Two of these books are social commentaries and one is a best-selling historical fiction. 

   

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  Rabbi Boruch David

  The Way of the Modern Rabbi: Revolutionizing the Biblical Narrative

  Rabbi Boruch David is a 12th generation rabbi, who is also an award-winning educator, writer, and speaker. And though he came from a long line of rabbis, this did not stop him from sharing novel insights and imagination with how he brings the Torah to life. 

   

  His desire to revolutionize the biblical narrative brings forth the Torah of Nations series, with Adam and Eve: The Rest of the Story as its first offering in this series. In this sensational biblical novel he published with PageTurner Press and Media, Rabbi David expands on the story of Adam and Eve, supplying conversations between Adam, Eve, God, and the serpent. 

   

  Though he seeks to revolutionize how the Old Testament stories are to be taken, he still makes it a point to ensure that the narrative follows the Jewish interpretation and that it does not deviate from the Jewish philosophy and theology.

   

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  Chris Zuschlag

  Master Storyteller Casts Spells through Children’s Tales

  Chris Zuschlag is a native of Colorado who spends half of his time operating a landscape company in the summer and as supervisor of the Snowboard program at the Steamboat Ski Resort in the winter. Currently living in Stagecoach, he finds the magical mountains of Colorado the perfect inspiration for his tales.

   

  Spinning tales for children, he became a master storyteller, where he became a member of a group of certified storytellers, the Spell Binders. And his passion for storytelling does not end there. As he published with PageTurner Press and Media two tales that will surely captivate readers’ imagination, both young and young at heart. His first book, The Star Fairy sets out to capture the beauty of garden fairies and how a little girl’s wish led her to a series of adventures. His second book, Smoke the Dragon is about a boy who discovers something fantastical and magical from an unseeming rock.

   

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  Linda Gallagher

  Multidisciplined Professional Inspires through Words and Tales

  Linda Gallagher is an inspirational singer, teacher, author, and addictions counselor who is passionate about helping people find their life’s purpose. She selflessly shares her personal experiences so others may glean lessons from them.

   

  Writing from a place of experiences, she shares to the world, through her partnership with PageTurner Press and Media, The Distant Lighthouse. Here, the experiences she had—from turning away from alcohol and drug addiction to the sudden death of her husband and music partner, to finding the path to healing, peace, love, and service—are wonderfully woven to create a masterpiece that beckons those who are undergoing painful transitions in their lives. Her words are balm to souls who have been battered by life. Her book is a gentle invitation to readers to read and reflect upon their lives.

   

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  Virgil D. Mochel

  A Great Depression Survivor and Winner

  Virgil D. Mochel was born in a farm near South Bend, Indiana during the Great Depression, and growing up in one of US history’s most trying periods had made him grow spine of steel and a man who thoroughly enjoys the simple pleasures of life. 

   

  Aside from being a husband, father, grandfather, and great-grandfather, Virgil is also a researcher with a PhD in physical chemistry, a writer, a musician, and a play director and producer. But amongst all this profession and titles, the one Virgil invested most of his time lately was with being a writer—more specifically, becoming a family historian and story keeper. With the books he published with PageTurner Press and Media as proof of these endeavors.

   

  With PageTurner, Mochel had published Virgil’s Story, which tracks the movement of his European ancestors before their migration to the New World. Here, he also shares the life journey he and his wife, Marian, had since the start of their relationship. He also published A Friendly King, a story of their Border collie who had befriended everyone in their community and had become the neighborhood dog.

   

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  A. L. Masters

  History to Crime and Mystery: Unmasking the Different Sides of One Man

  PageTurner Press and Media’s author A. L. Masters has already published a number of books before becoming a crime and mystery author. Before becoming A. L. Masters, Ken Webb has had a successful career as a modern and ancient history lecturer to both senior students and teachers. He has also authored a number of history textbooks, study guides, and articles that were published in New South Wales, Victoria, and other parts of Australia.

   

  But however successful Ken Webb might be, his love for crime and mystery won him over until he decided to publish, under the name A. L. Masters, his first book of the Detective Inspector Spence Hargreaves series, Malicious Obsessions. He then continued to write more Detective Inspector Hargreaves novels—Delusions and Grandeur and The Evil of Virtue—with the fourth novel underway.

   

Prizewinning Authors

Natsuya Uesugi Dubois

The 2021 Triumphs of PageTurner’s Favorite Cyberpunk Fictionist

Natsuya Uesugi’s cyberpunk epic grydscaen series challenged our perception of technology and how it would affect us in the future. Filled with wonderful illustrations and a thrilling tale of the cyberworld, Uesugi’s grydscaen world was a marvel. It was no wonder then that Uesugi’s grydscaen: dark created waves in the literary world as it earned awards and honorable mentions.

Grydscaen: dark was one of the winners for the Teen category for Speak Up Talk Radio’s July 2021 Firebird Book Award and was a runner-up for the 2021 PenCraft Book Award, under the Thriller—General category. This PageTurner Press ad Media best seller was also in the honorable mention list in the 2021 San Francisco Book Festival, for the Young Adult category, and at the 2021 Hollywood Book Festival, for the Science Fiction category. It had also been nominated to various book award-giving bodies, including the New England Book Festival (Fiction genre), International Impact Book Awards (Adventure Genre), Book Excellence Award (Technology Genre), and the Royal Dragonfly Book Award (Science Fiction/Fantasy category). And just recently, Natsuya bagged the October 2021 International Impact Book Award for Adventure for his grydscaen: dark.