The noise they hear is just the dragon waking up and blowing warm air to heat the house.

Meet Eric B. Thomasma an author who is fond of writing stories for children as well as stories for Young Adults & grownups.

Sam And The Dragon #kidlit (Kindle Edition) by Eric B. Thomasma

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B003OIBGTO

Product Description on Amazon:
Sam told his mother, “It really doesn’t get cold. That’s just a myth, like dragons and unicorns.” But he soon learns the truth about winter… and dragons.

Sam and the Dragon – You’ll never see your furnace the same way again.

Sam and the Dragon was selected for the KART Foundation’s 2011 Kids Book List.

From the Author:
This is my first children’s story.  The inspiration for it came from an incident that happened many years ago when our boys were little. 

We lived in a mobile home and every time the furnace turned on it made a lot of noise. 

Each time the boys would immediately stop what they were doing and ask “what’s that?” and at some point, my wife walked them down to the cabinet that hid the furnace and told them that a dragon lives in there and the noise they hear is just the dragon waking up and blowing warm air to heat the house.

From that time on, whenever the furnace turned on, the boys would say “the dragon’s awake” and continue playing.  I wrote the story a few years later. (On my Commodore64.  It was that long ago.)

After publishing my first novel, SEAMS16: A New Home, and while I was working on my second, SEAMS16: Arrival, I thought of that old story and asked my brother, Lanin, if he would be interested in illustrating it. 

He agreed, so I dug the story out and looked it over.  I’ve learned a lot about writing since then, so I gave the story an overhaul before passing it on to Lanin.

I publicly asked for help in naming the story and my niece’s daughters (age 3 & 5) suggested “Sam and the Dragon”.
Works for me.

About the Author:
Born and raised in West Mitten, USA (Grand Rapids, MI), Eric still lives in the area in a house he built, (literally), with the help of his wife, Therese, and two sons, Eric Jr. and Nicholas, (and various other friends and relatives).

The boys are grown and gone, although they both live in the area. Eric and Therese have managed to get past the empty nest syndrome and currently only share their home with their two dogs, Sable and Tucker, and a cat, Liza.

Other books by the author:
SEAMS16: A New Home
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B003OIBMTS

SEAMS16: Friends and Foes
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00LKWZ07K

Product Description on Amazon:
The new bay supervisor comes with an exemplary record, but he can’t get along with anyone. An abduction where the victims are left unbound and unguarded, no perpetrators claim responsibility, and no demands are made. The discovery of a bomb with the only evidence incriminating the most unlikely of perpetrators. These confusing events and more blur the line between good and bad…right and wrong…friend and foe…
Join Charlie and Susan in their search for answers in SEAMS16: Friends and Foes

And So It Begins… (SEAMS16 Book 3)
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B005JZHYXW

SEAMS16: Arrival
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B003OIBMWU

Billy’s Family
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0054557RW

Yeti In The Freezer
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00ACTS0SI

The Wizards of the Body Shop
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B007JVYP72

Flamingcrystal Author
http://www.amazon.com/-/e/B00HMJYX8M

Behind Closed Doors…

Behind Closed Doors by
Johan Botha

Available on Smashwords and on Amazon.

https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/536854

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00NE7BMG2

Review by Flamingcrystal:
The poor boy suffered brutal physical and emotional abuse!
I’ve purchased the Afrikaans version of this book too. I was shocked at the suffering this boy had to endure through his brutal, drugs and alcoholic sex-crazed father, and the story moved me to tears. If I have to meet this horrible father I shall kick him so damn hard ~ that he lands on his hands and feet, buttocks in the air, face down into cowdung ~ straight into Egypt!

Product Description on Amazon:
Behind Closed Doors is a book about unresolved grief, sexual and drug abuse and a look at the seedy world of a psychotic parent.

Exploring a darker side of sexual child abuse and the struggle of the child to cope with this, the book is a must read for each and every one of us.

Being sexually abused by both family members and his father, Johan is taken into the world of drugs, sex and alcohol by his father.

Forcing Johan to have sex with other men his father cruelly dominates his whole life.

Scared to death and scarred for life Johan has to make the best of it in order to survive. He becomes a loner and creates his own imaginary world of heroes and culprits.

He has trust issues leading him to live like a hermit since his childhood.

For the rest of his life he has commitment and responsibility issues.

He has to learn to cope with this as an adult and survival is a key issue to Johan.

Writing this book helped him to heal and his ideal is to reach other going through the same in order to let them know that they are not alone!

Praise received for Agter Geslote Deure:

This book has grabbed me deeply with the open honesty and soul baring of the author. It took 35 years to fight against it all. Where you find yourself is not a joke. Even against the people that are supposed to love and guard you. How does a person heal? This is one of the questions I ask myself when I see the pain that this child has to cope with. This book grabs the deepest parts of being human and in the 35 years that has gone, where was the people in the system? Where are the adults and professional people … ?

About the Author:
Johan Botha is the Author of Agter Geslote Deure and is in the process of completing various other fiction titles.

Johan has been writing since the age of 16 but only recently started re-editing and submitting his work.

He is in the process of completing various other fiction titles.

Creative writing is a passion with Johan and he has gone the extent of giving up everything else to follow a lifelong dream.

He will be giving lectures at schools and venues to make other aware of sexual and drug abuse.

Johan grew up in Johannesburg and now lives on the East Rand. His influences are Wilbur Smith, Dean Koontz and Stephen King.

Flamingcrystal Author
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