by Pam Knight | Nov 5, 2025 | Announcement, New Release, News
Time Did It, a Family Saga, tells the true story of Ute Carson and her aristocratic family, whose lives, land, status and fortune were lost as they escaped Nazi Europe. Ute Maria Elisabeth Gräfin von Hardenberg-Carson was born on the Baltic Coast in Köslin, Pomerania. Providing a different perspective on 19th and 20th century Europe, the countess shares the drama, sadness, love, anger, betrayal, and joy that make her the woman she is today. Now living a very full life in America, Ute Carson continues her journey with unflinching love for family, a passion for living, and a wondrous outlook in spite of everything.
by Admin | Apr 15, 2022 | New Release, News
Marriages and Other Dilemmas: Collected Stories and a Memoir by Kitty Beer was released April 15, 2022. This book balances 16 short stories with a 50 page memoir. With heroines of every age, the stories are dynamic, dark, sexy, and humorous, and the frank and open memoir adds insight to the experience. In the stories, she explores consequential events in the lives of ordinary people, revealing her love for life and the idiosyncrasies that make life profoundly interesting. Crisp writing and a jaunty tone take the reader on a journey to the outer edges of desire, love and revenge. In her memoir, Beer takes an honest and insightful look back on her life, filled with “mistakes, thrills, fears, bliss, and delusion,” overcoming the grief of misfortune with good nature and resoluteness. While Beer’s trio of thriller novels reflect on her passion for the environment, Marriages and Other Dilemmas skillfully reflects on her personal life and observations of the world around her.
by Admin | Jul 31, 2020 | New Release, News
Austin, Texas, 31 July, 2020 – Plain View Press announces the release of Gypsy Spirit: and Other Stories of Childhood, Nature, Life Choices, Loss, and Love by Ute Carson, hitting bookstores and Amazon on July 31, 2020.
Gypsy Spirit contains a lifelong collection of published short stories, flash stories, essays, commentaries and memoirs of Ute Carson. A woman who survived World War II horrors in early life, Ute Carson tells vivid stories that reveal of a life rich in history and full of tenderness, joy, and celebration. With family photographs and children’s drawings, this collective family adventure is both entertaining and insightful for people of all ages. The captivating stories follow Ute Carson’s journey through Childhood, to Nature, to Life Choices, to Loss, and finally to Love.
A writer from youth and an M.A. graduate in comparative literature from the University of Rochester, German-born Ute Carson published her first prose piece in 1977. Colt Tailing, a 2004 novel, was a finalist for the Peter Taylor Book Award. Carson’s story “The Fall” won Outrider Press’s Grand Prize and appeared in its short story and poetry anthology A Walk through My Garden, 2007. Her second novel In Transit was published in 2008. Her poems have appeared in numerous journals and magazines in the US and abroad. Carson’s poetry was featured on the televised Spoken Word Showcase 2009, 2010, 2011, Channel Austin. A poetry collection Just a Few Feathers was published in 2011. The poem “A Tangled Nest of Moments” placed second in the Eleventh International Poetry Competition 2012. Her chapbook Folding Washing was published in 2013 and her collection of poems My Gift to Life was nominated for the 2015 Pushcart Award Prize. Save the Last Kiss, a novella, was published in 2016. Her poetry collection Reflections was out in 2018. She received the Ovidiu-Bektore Literary Award 2018 from the Anticus Mulicultural Association in Constanta, Romania. In 2018 she was nominated a second time for the Pushcart Award Prize by Plain View Press. Ute Carson’s website is www.utecarson.com.
Copies of Gypsy Spirit, paperback (ISBN: 9781632100764) can be purchased on Amazon or in quantity from Plain View Press.
by Admin | Jul 30, 2020 | New Release, News
Austin, Texas, 30 July, 2020 – Plain View Press announces the release of All My Parents: Seeking a Sense of Self in Family, by Nancy Henderson-James, hitting bookstores and Amazon on July 30, 2020.
In All My Parents: Seeking a Sense of Self in Family, Nancy Henderson-James contemplates the impact of her ancestors and descendents on her relationship to family. She delves into the lives of parents and grandparents and how their personality traits and passions affected life and those of her children and grandchildren. When she married at 23, her husband’s family also influenced her and their children, and at times stepped in to teach her how to be a mother. The arrival of her grandchildren brought her life into balance, revealing that family is to nurture and love, to care for each tiny human who joins our lives, to appreciate each unique personality and the pure joy inherent in participating in family life. From her grandparents, to her parents and surrogates, to her children and grandchildren, Henderson-James follows the family arc and discovers a way back to family integration. Copies of All My Parents, paperback (ISBN: 978-1-63210-072-6) or ebook (ISBN: 978-1-63210-073-3), can be purchased through Amazon, retail bookstores, or ordered in quantity from Plain View Press.
Living her first two years in Washington state, Nancy Henderson-James spent the rest of her childhood years abroad in Portugal, Angola, and the former Southern Rhodesia. Often schooled away from her family, a variety of adults substituted as parent figures in her life, experiences which shaped her and her world view. Nancy graduated from Carleton College and received her library science degree at Pratt Institute. She worked as a high school librarian in Durham, North Carolina, where she has lived with her husband for 46 years. Nancy authored At Home Abroad: An American Girl in Africa (2010), which was honored with the Reviewers Choice Award by Reader Views.
All My Parents takes a deeper look into issues of attachment disruptions. For all who have lived globally mobile lives, or grown up in families whose parents are divorced, or worked with children of refugees, foster kids, or any other number of ways attachment patterns are interrupted, this is an important book. It reveals how such a story impacts the deepest places of a soul and family relationships.
—Ruth E. Van Reken, co-author of Third Culture Kids: Growing Up Among Worlds and co-founder, Families in Global Transition
by Admin | Nov 18, 2018 | Announcement
Originally published in 2009 as a hardback book, this compelling historical memoir of a holocaust survivor is now available in paperback and ebook formats.
Months after World War II officially ends, a 15-year-old boy still hides in a potato field. The horror of the Holocaust is followed by the horror of survival. The question “Why me?” haunts survivors for the rest of our lives. For some of us, life is only possible under the anesthesia of silence. After 63 years, Leon Rubinstein has broken his silence with this book. As I Am Presently Known is a remarkable story of life’s victory over death and about one generation passing the torch to another.
Marian Marzynski, Holocaust survivor, documentary filmmaker and author of acclaimed film Shtetl
Publication Date: 05/04/2018
ISBN: 978-0-911051-03-2
208 pages, $22.95
Nonfiction: Historical Memoir
