Capital Media Enterprise, Inc. Publishing

09/10/2025

I like the old cover for the novella, Love On The Loxahatchee, which is a picture of the Loxahatchee River. There is a growing consensus we could have a better cover. Here are the current contenders for a replacement. The photos are from Florida and most were taken quite near the Loxahatchee. The cover with a car began as an antique post card and we transformed it to include elements in the story. What do you think is the best cover?

09/06/2025

09/06/2025

After eight months of preparation Capital Media Enterprise, Inc. will soon publish audiobooks. We have three about ready so you will see fun pre-publication teasers here over the coming weeks.

And about books, I'm currently reading one not published by C.M.E, Inc. It is, Red Republicans: Marxism in the Civil War and Lincoln’s Marxists by Walter D. Kennedy and Al Benson, Jr. I highly recommend it to any and everyone interested in American history.

I've posted here so infrequently visitors may not have seen the updated publishing website: www.dartans.com
Give it a gander.

The Honorable L. Douglas Wilder, Former Governor of Virginia and Former Mayor of Richmond, with his copy of The Vicar of Church Hill.

01/31/2025

📖 We're doing our part to keep you healthy! Start reading! 📖

FUN BOOK FACT: A study at the University of Sussex found that reading can reduce stress by up two thirds – making it a much more efficient relaxation method than listening to music, drinking a hot cup of tea, or even taking a walk. Reading for just 6 minutes each day can help reduce stress by up to 68%!

Participants who engaged in just six minutes of reading for pleasure were also found to have a significantly slower heart rate and reduced muscle tension.

Another study, led by researchers from Yale University School of Public Health, revealed that adults who reported reading books for more than 3 ½ hours per week were 23 percent less likely to die over 12 years of follow-up, compared with those who did not read books.

Source: https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/313429

01/12/2025

📚📖This just in: We are seeking reader opinions on a first draft of a new novella! The story is set in South Carolina and London in 1729 and 1730. Contact us to receive a PDF copy.📖📚

11/20/2024

South American terror birds, Pleistocene wolves versus the Tzar bomb, a crash on the Moon, SCUBA nightmare, and the horrors of yard maintenance in South Florida.

A Slaughter of Ornithes is a FREE Kindle download November 20- 24.

11/18/2024

FREE Kindle download November 18 - 22. It's a thoughtful, time-travel, dinosaur story.

11/18/2024

Last day for FREE Kindle download - November 18.

11/15/2024

🚀🚀Summer Read books Pitch & Roll and its sequel "Yeah Baby She's Got It" are FREE Kindle downloads November 16 - 17 and again November 22 - 24!! 🚀🚀

Amazing spacecraft ✅
exciting new technologies ✅
out-of-control beautiful vamps and space vixens ✅
launches, landings, Cape Canaveral, and the Moon ✅
intrigue, deceit, and trouble ✅
a powerful love story ✅
Pitch & Roll has it all, and it starts with a racy yacht party.
This novel is for Jackie Collins fans but it will not disappoint hard science nerds. It is the raciest book in the Summer Read catalogue, so hot compared to the other books, which are for Young Adult readers, we’ve often debated about de-listing it. Give it a try and see what you think.

“Yeah Baby She’s Got It” picks up shortly after the thrills in Pitch & Roll, with most of the same characters. Space vixen Valkaria Grant is in the spotlight for a daring mission to Venus. The notorious vamp leads forty men to Earth’s sister planet to begin colonization. It’s a little bit more light hearted than Pitch & Roll but the science is just as solid and the practical possibilities this novella highlights for Venus colonization are amazing. 🚀🌔⭐️🚀🚀🌔⭐️🚀🚀🌔⭐️🚀

11/13/2024

FREE Kindle download November 14 - 18!!

In the 1990s and early 2000s a confluence of new technologies, experimentation, skill, and generational love of aviation history and flying developed into a phenomenon: a remarkable hobby, large scale-model remote-control aviation.
Many geniuses were revealed, world-class skills displayed, and incredible airplanes were built and flown. The hobby brought back many planes lost to history for crowds of fans to again see in the sky. Rapid technological advances by garage innovators, all over America and then the world, moved from gas engines to jet turbine to electric, as control moved from analog to digital, and materials moved from balsa and paper to carbon composite. It was a sight to behold.
The hobby brought elderly builders and flyers together with youth and taught new generations engineering and aviation, and, in this special field of large-scale model flying, it taught history.
The finished planes were perfect, working, miniature replicas of loved aircraft previously confined to old pictures or museums.
The fan base for this hobby expanded to include packed airshows. I attended a few in Delaware, Kentucky, and South Carolina.
Caught up in the excitement, I wrote a screenplay, turned that into a low-budget independent film (shot on video), and then turned the screenplay into a short story, which published with four more. How many stories make a genre?
These five stories, accompanied by a little illustrative artwork (each story getting “cover art”), are in this single volume, Rapunzel In Control.

11/12/2024

The magic of Waikiki inspired this short magical realism romance novella. The “magic of television” is an essential element in the recipe as this is a behind-the-scenes glimpse into reality television, specifically, a cooking contest show. And oh, yeah, it’s also a murder mystery with a delicious twist.
Available for FREE Kindle download November 12 - 16.

11/10/2024

FREE Kindle download November 11 - 13!!

A simple short story turns the entire CO2 greenhouse gas threat on its head and for any careful reader, any thought of de-carbonization will thereafter lead to nightmares.
Another short story is the very definition of gothic, literally and literarily. It’s also a perfect one act play candidate and was seriously considered for a radio drama production.
Another, a very short story, is poetic, haunting, and subjective.
There are six other stories in the collection, Nine Eerie Romance Stories by Summer Read. They are eerie in the ironic and unexpected sense, none are macabre. There are no ghosts, ghouls, or goblins. There is plenty of mystery though.
Original, thought provoking, fun, and unique, if these are qualities you seek in a quick read before bedtime, these little nuggets of writing gold will satisfy.