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It’s been 20 Years since the passing of beloved Bewitched star Elizabeth Montgomery

May 18th will commemorate the 20th Anniversary of Elizabeth Montgomery’s demise (she would have turned 82 on April 15th), this on the tail-end of the 50th Anniversary of Bewitched’s debut – and just as NBC readies the all-new Bewitched series.

Herbie J Pilato, author of Twitch Upon A Star: The Bewitched Life and Career of Elizabeth Montgomery, and The Essential Elizabeth Montgomery, and Glamour, Gidgets and the Girl Next Door (which also profiles Elizabeth) is now available for all interviews to commemorate the occasion.

Contact: (310) 480-0067 – HerbieJPilato@Outlook.com

Herbie Pilato

Herbie J Pilato is the writer/producer and cultural commentator on a number of television shows, including the TV Guide Network’s 100 Greatest Moments of Television, Bewitched: The E! True Hollywood Story, A&E’s Biography of Elizabeth Montgomery, and TLC’s Behind the Fame specials on The Mary Tyler Moore Show and The Bob Newhart Show, among others. He’s also worked on various classic TV DVD documentaries for Sony, NBCUniversal, and Warner Bros., including The Six Million Dollar Man boxed set, Kung Fu, and CHiPs.

Herbie J is also the author of several critically-acclaimed pop-culture/media tie-in books, including Glamour Gidgets and the Girl Next Door (Taylor Trade, 2014), The Essential Elizabeth Montgomery: A Guide To Her Magical Performances (Taylor Trade, 2013), Twitch Upon A Star: The Bewitched Life and Career of Elizabeth Montgomery (Taylor Trade Publishing, 2012), Bewitched Forever (Tapestry 2004/2001-Summit, 1996), The Bewitched Book (Dell, 1992), The Bionic Book (BearManor Media, 2007), Life Story: The Book of Life Goes On (BearManor Media, 2007), The Kung Fu Book of Wisdom (Tuttle, 1995), The Kung Fu Book of Caine (Tuttle, 1993), and NBC & ME: My Life As A Page In A Book (BearManor Media, 2008).

Herbie J presides over Television, Ink. (a family-oriented TV, film and literary production company), and serves as Founder and Executive Director for The Classic TV Preservation Society (a nonprofit that helps to close the gap between popular culture and education). He resides in Burbank, California, which he affectionately refers to as a cross between Hollywood and Mayberry.

A powerful fundamental End Time Christian Senator, anti-Semitic and anti-Catholic

A powerful fundamental End Time Christian Senator, anti-Semitic and anti-Catholic, discovers that his birth parents were Catholic and Jewish through a letter written by his dying Catholic mother to the Jewish father who knew nothing about having fathered a son.

From the get-go, the reader is drawn into the story by a letter written by a woman from Bellingham, WA, right before she passed away. Her attorney has been instructed to deliver the letter to a Samuel Davidson, an eighty-two year-old judge residing in FL. But instead of mailing the letter to Judge Davidson, the Seattle based attorney first contacts the judge’s son, Rabbi Mark Davidson, of New York City. It’s important to note that the dying woman was Catholic.
The letter is a revelation to all concerned. Can a chance encounter between a dashing young P-51 fighter pilot and a pretty USO girl on Iwo Jima in 1945 have repercussions sixty-one years later? Throw in a former priest and a powerful Fundamental Christian Senator and you’ve got a delightful tale.
“The Letter” is well written, entertaining and enlightening. There is a redemptive quality to Jerry Yellin’s prose. He is a gifted storyteller and a visionary. He pulled off the same thing in his remarkable memoir “Of War and Weddings.” The dialogue in “The Letter” is spot on, and even though his characters sometimes talk for extended lengths of time, it all seems to work. The author manages to juggle the subjects of war, religion and politics without sounding preachy. Not an easy feat. He can make the complex seem simple and the simple complex. The reader looks at all angles of a subject through the eyes of different characters. While the subject of Intelligent Design (Creationism) versus science (Nature) comes up, somehow Mr. Yellin is able to do this without sounding heavy handed or judgmental.
The hint of violence is always on the back burner, and kept me turning the page. My favorite line in the book: “This is where grown men come to cry.” A deep compelling story that will keep you awake at night, wondering about the future of this planet, the human family and where we came from.
I highly recommend this book. Five stars!!!

Jerry Yellin’s “The Letter” uses his considerable insight to strike a major blow against religious bigotry, hatred, and intolerance.

What does a man do—when his fundamental beliefs are not only challenged, but shattered? That is the question Adam Flowers must ask after he learns about “The Letter.” Adam is a powerful U.S. Senator, the son—or so he had always believed—of a rich Texas oil family, a man who has been raised to believe that Jesus is the Savior of all men, in general, and the United States of America in particular. Adam’s conviction that it is his mission to make Christianity the law of the land is matched only by his condescending attitude toward those of other faiths, Jews in particular. Imagine Adam’s consternation when he learns about “The Letter”—from a recently deceased Catholic woman who had been a U.S.O. entertainer during the Second World War, and who reveals posthumously that she had offered a night of comfort to an American fighter pilot grieving the loss of his comrades.

Until he reads The Letter, Adam has no idea that the fruit of this woman’s liaison with this man was—himself, given up by his birth mother and claimed by the wife of the rich Texan. Furthermore, the fighter pilot who is his real father just happens to be a Jewish man, who has gone on to become a distinguished jurist.

What will happen to Adam Flowers when his deepest convictions and most fervent prejudices are challenged by the revelations of his own personal history? Will he reject the painful truth? Be shattered by it? Or will it reach that deeply buried part of him—the younger man who once almost gave up all, for the love a Jewish woman?

Every human being, to one degree or another, faces the questions and dilemmas raised by Jerry Yellin in The Letter. For his character Adam Flowers, and Adam’s families, known and unknown, the answers are a matter of life and death.

Jon Shirota

Born Maui, Hawaii. Served in U.S. Army. Graduated from Brigham Young University, Utah. Resided at Handy Writers Colony in Illinois after working for the Internal Revenue Service. Finished first novel, LUCKY COME HAWAII. Subsequently, wrote and had plays produced in Los Angeles, New York, Hawaii and Japan.

Lane

I grew up in the hot desert landscape of Tucson, Arizona where I decided early on that I wanted to write, if only to mentally escape my blistering surroundings. I received my Undergraduate degree from Sarah Lawrence College in New York, during which I was lucky enough to also spend a year studying at Oxford University. My overly active imagination could find no better outlet than through writing. A woman of many talents, if I may say so, I spend my time writing articles for a number of magazines, spanning subjects from world travel to entertainment to how to pair the right wine with specific food for a special dinner party. Thanks to my abundance of creativity, I rarely suffer from the bane of writers everywhere, writers block. While this is a blessing now, I can assure you in grade school my teachers often complained of my daydreaming in class.
Unsatisfied with limiting myself to one area of the writing field, I also work as a freelance editor for several publishing companies. In addition to my magazine work, I also spend a great deal of time writing fiction. I am currently working on three different novels, covering genres from YA all the way to Romance. To put it simply, when I’m not sleeping, I’m writing. Truth be told, I often wake up in the middle of the night to jot down a dream that I’ve just had. I have been fascinated with the written word and the stories we can create with it since I was a small child. I spent most of my free time when I was younger voraciously reading anything I could get my hands on. There really was no doubt about what I would do when I “grew up.” I was simply born to write.

Jon Shirota

Born and raised on Maui, Hawaii, August 29, 1927. Served 2 years in U.S. Army; Graduated from Brigham Young University then was an Internal Revenue Agent in Hollywood, Ca. Moved to the Handy Writers Colony in Southern Illinois. Finished my first novel there which was later adapted into a play and was awarded the John F. Kennedy Center Award for New Plays.

Author tells a Touching Story of a Dysfunctional, Multi-cultural Family

Tidge Mackiewicz, new patriarch of his splintered, multi-cultural family, received a trinity of orders from his dying father, Kid Scream. One order stated for Tidge to quit believing in Santa Claus and stop acting like every day was Christmas. Tidge should also abandon his belief that the Luftwaffe shot down Santa Claus on Christmas Eve in 1944 and Santa survived. Tidge’s father tried to hammer home his belief in family to his son, a last dying breath exhaling his command. “This screwed up family is yours now. Unscrew them.”

Approaching fifty, Tidge still wears a scuffed and stained Army Air Corps flight jacket given to him as a young boy by his late uncle, Brew a Navy aviator and Korean War hero who claimed it belonged to Santa Claus. Uncle Brew also believed that the jacket possessed a special magic. Several years later, his father’s orders remain unfulfilled. Tidge’s multi-cultural family his father dubbed “The Natives” is still screwed up. Everyday is still Christmas for Tidge and his belief in Santa has never wavered.

Tidge and his second wife, Wilhelmina, who he calls, Willy moved from Chicago to an elegant log home on Lake Namakagon in Wisconsin’s Nothwoods. To honor their second Christmas, Tidge suggests inviting their respective families for a holiday weekend in hopes of bringing peace to The Natives. Eighteen adults and children embrace the invitation. Tidge and Willy have planned for every contingency except a record blizzard and a surprise guest.

Tidge plans to play Santa Claus wearing an antique Santa Claus suit given to him by his Uncle Brew. As he removes the costume from a dilapidated box, he discovers four yellow, dog eared letters to Santa Claus, two faded dramatic snap shots from World War II and a poignant quotation from Immanuel Kant. It is the contents of the box along with The Jacket and the spirit of Christmas that has Tidge believing he finally has his special gift to carry out his father’s orders.

(Written by Richard Baran)

Michael Tabman blends mystery, suspense and action in his book “Midnight Sin.

Becoming a cop changes everything you thought you knew about life. Midnight Sin is an inside look at the dark and mysterious world behind the cop’s badge. Rookie cop Gary Hollings quickly learns that wrestling street thugs and arresting drug dealers while trying to track down a serial rapist is nowhere near as tough as watching his back from his fellow cops. He must also fight his inner demons – ones that he never knew he had until he put on that police uniform. The police world is one of long hours and split-second decisions where the choices are not always clear. Midnight Sin is a gritty cop novel that explores the complexities of the cop psyche.

Thriller/Crime Novel “Miami Files” by FBI Undercover Agent Highlights Miami Nexus for International Drug Trade.

In a race against time, running away from both the FBI and the Mob after a wayward shipment of cocaine was misdirected to his Atlanta plumbing company, Jack Armstrong flees across the US, finally landing in Miami where he finds evidence that could clear his name — and implicate the FBI.

Terry Moran, a former FBI undercover narcotics agent, uses the city’s famous cocaine trade as the setting for his recent thriller/crime novel “Miami Files” published by TotalRecall Publications.

The story opens as Jack Armstrong, an up and coming young Atlanta businessman, has paid his dues at Marlowe Plumbing and Supply and finally gets a well deserved promotion. A misdirected shipment of supplies reveals billions of dollars worth of cocaine, which could devastate the company and Jack’s good name. Rightly contacting the FBI actually backfires for Jack and places him squarely in the crosshairs of the FBI agent investigating the incident and the Mob who wants their cocaine returned.

Jack races against the clock to evade the FBI and the Mob, all while trying to prove his innocence. Trekking through the Southeast, he finds information which could implicate the FBI Agent chasing him and who may have more at stake than just apprehending Jack. Jack lands in Miami where he finds the information he needs to clear his name, but it may be too little and too late to save him from either side.

Terry Moran made a career in law enforcement for 28 years before retiring from Federal service in 2008. He spent five years working undercover narcotics, giving him an insider’s view of dark world of drug smuggling that he shares with readers. He also worked various crimes like bank robberies, kidnappings and financial fraud. Now retired, he works closely with people needing high level scurity clearances. Terry and his wife Margaret teamed up for their debut novel “My Enemy’s Face,” also published by TotalRecall Publications.
Miami Files can be found on Nook, Amazon.com, and TotalRecall Press.

TotalRecall Publications Inc. was founded in 1998 by Bruce Moran, a former NASA IT professional who transitioned into computer instruction and educational materials. The company began with the introduction of study guides and Q&A testing software for various computer and financial certification exams and expanded into library and information science textbooks in 2007. Since 2008, the publisher has been developing a fiction product line by debut authors that focuses on mysteries, thrillers, and military action. Additionally, TotalRecall has expanded into general nonfiction and now publishes more than 200 non-fiction and fiction titles, all distributed worldwide through book retailers and wholesalers and via eBook databases such as ebrary, EBSCO, and Books24x7.com. http://www.totalrecallpress.com.