The Marriage Whisperer

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Not every couple chooses to work and nurture their relationships proactively - before trouble strikes.  The Marriage Whisperer, winner of the gold medal in the IPPY "Living Now," a jargon-free, self-help title is written by an experienced Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist and inspired by over 10,000 conversations.  Reviewer “You will be in awe at how many of these relationship stories will ring true!”  

It delivers 70 couple stories with humor and includes practical tips and tools for lasting relationship improvement. Popular themes like communication, habits, chores, arguments, sex, and intimacy are explored in easy-read tales. The Marriage Whisperer was featured in the September 2013 Small Press Bookwatch as a "Reader's Choice" for the marriage shelf and is "recommended" by the US Review of Books.

The Marriage Whisperer
The author, Patt Pickett, Ph.D. explains in an interview:  "My primary message in the book is to keep your life in balance, something that is important to avoid marital neglect.  Not having a balance in your life, such as work, marital life, family, hobbies etc. has long-term consequences for relationships."
“Will spend more time when …” we are in vacation, the kids are in school, the kids are out of the house, we are retired … NEVER works. If you don’t spent enough time together NOW, your interest changes and your attachment weakens. The challenge for couples is to find out how much is enough time to spend together."

Dr. Patt Pickett, can be found on Twitter @DrPattHP and on LinkedIn
http://www.linkedin.com/pub/patt-hollinger-pickett-ph-d-the-marriage-whisperer/11/76a/748.

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Painter of the Heavens

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Painter of the Heavens is a story that covers wide territory, geographical and emotional. The subtitle is "A Novel of Crime and the Heart." 

This is no police procedural; it is a literary journey into the psyches of our two main characters. Painter of the Heavens is the story of a newly divorced young woman, in transition in her life, who strays into the orbit of a charismatic con artist. He's not just an emotionally manipulative guy, though he is every bit of that. He is plotting a major historical forgery scheme that he hopes will net him millions. 
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She doesn't know any of this as she begins dating him. And we don't know if the inscrutable Lyle is bad news for Penny, or only for the victims of his ambitious, outrageous scam. How bad is this bad guy? Will he mean disaster, maybe death, for Penny? Or is this a crook with a capacity for actually loving someone? He needs an accomplice for his peculiar enterprise, and his eyes have turned to Penny. 

 You're going to find dark intrigue and surprises, humor and heartbreak, and two of what Dickens called "lives of quiet desperation" when you read my debut novel, Painter of the Heavens. Check out Bart Stewart's eclectic blog at http://www.BartStewart.com.

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