Author Spotlight: Author and playwright Sally Ember, Ed.D.

About Sally Ember, Ed.D.

Sally Ember, Ed.D., is a published, nonfiction author and produced playwright whose sci-fi romance/speculative/utopian/paranormal/multiverse fiction, YA, New Adult and Adult series, The Spanners (Volume I), This Changes Everything released 12/19/13. Volume II, This Changes My Family and My Life Forever, releases Spring, 2014. Volumes III- X are in draft stages. Sally also has short stories and articles published and has co-written, edited, and proofread multiple media.

Sally was raised Jewish and is a practicing Buddhist meditator. She is also an almost-daily swimmer, a mediocre singer/pianist, avid feminist, dreamer, and devoted mother/ sister/ aunt/ daughter/ cousin/ friend.  

Sally has worked as an educator and upper-level, nonprofit manager in colleges, universities and private nonprofits for over thirty-five years in New England (every state), New Mexico and the San Francisco Bay Area (where she now lives). Sally has a BA in Elementary Education, a Master's (M.Ed.) and a doctorate in education (Ed.D.).  Vol I, This Changes Everything, is free to reviewers via coupon (below) on Smashwords; and, free to the public, everywhere, after 4/18/14, when Volume II goes into pre-orders. 

Vol I, This Changes Everything

(Blurb): Dr. Clara Ackerman Branon, Ph.D., 58, is having the first of many home visits from holographic representations of five beings from the Many Worlds Collective (MWC), a consortium of planet and star systems all around the multiverse, over a thirty-year, increasingly Utopian period. Earth is being invited to join, formally, and the December, 2012, visit is the first one allowed to be made public. Making the existence of the MWC public means many Earthers have to adjust our beliefs and ideas about life, religion, culture, identity and, well, everything we think and are. Clara becomes the liaison for Earth, the Chief Communicator, between Earth and the MWC. This Changes Everything relates the events partly from her point of view, partly from records of meetings of varying groups of the MWC governing bodies, and partly from her Media Contact, Esperanza Enlaces, employing humor, poignancy, a love story, family issues, MWC’s mistakes and blunders, history, politics, paranormalcy and hope.

Cover art by Willowraven: willowraven-illustration.blogspot.com/




Vol II, This Changes My Family and My Life Forever (release date 6/9/14)

(Blurb): This Changes My Family and My Life Forever is the story of the first five years After Public Contact with the Many Worlds Collective (2013-2018), "The Transition" to full membership for Earth. Many of the changes, reactions, struggles and circumstances accompanying these years are related from the points of view of the main character, Dr. Clara Branon's, adult son and his cousins as well as some of those cousins' children. One of Clara's nephews in particular, Moran Ackerman, who becomes Chief of the Psi-Warriors and all OverSeers, tells of his experiences and training in assuming those roles for Earth after having been a Rabbi and teacher of middle school. TCMF&MLF's content is edited/curated and also partly narrated by Esperanza Enlaces, Clara's Chief Media Contact, a contemporary of her son's, so some of her story and many parts of Clara's are included as well.


Pre-order period for Vol. II, 4/18 - 6/8/14, offers the special discounted price of $1.99 for Volume II on all sites. Starting 6/9/14, Volume II will sell for $3.99. Releases June 9 on Amazon and all Smashwords affiliate sites


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Purchase links

Smashwords: https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/376197
Amazon, for all countries: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00HFELTG8?tag=viewbookat0e-20
Amazon Author page: amazon.com/author/sallyember
Kobo: http://store.kobobooks.com/en-US/ebook/this-changes-everything-3
iBooks: https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/this-changes-everything/id746840776?mt=11&ls=1
Nook: http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/this-changes-everything-sally-ember-edd/1117473726?ean=2940045417921&isbn=2940045417921

Connect with Sally:

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Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/sallyemberedd
Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18772075-this-changes-everything

Sally's Guest Posts at The Book Cove

Author Sally Ember, EdD: Letter to my Earlier Self about #Blog #Hops and #Virtual #Book #Tours (Part 4)

Letter to my Earlier Self about #Preorders (Part 3)
An Open Letter to my Earlier Self about #Book #Reviews and #Reviewers (Part 2)
What I wish I had known for indie #publishing and #ebooks - an open letter to my earlier self (Part 1)