Robi Jode Press
My books for adults and children are published under the Robi Jode Press imprint, an arm of the Write It Out program. Many years in the writing, editing, publishing and marketing business allow me to now offer you that expertise with the same loving attention, creativity, intelligence and literary expertise I’ve given my own books.Robi Jode Press is available to publish your book as a cooperative endeavor. You and I have worked together to birth your book from its inception and now Robi Jode Press will deliver it in its published form and help you put it on the internet and market it. You are part of the process at all times with professional help both in writing the book and publishing it.
Contact me so that we can discuss your project small or large, at RMillerWIO@gmail.com or 941-359-3824.
Catalog
For more information about our growing catalog,
please contact RMillerWIO@gmail.com or 941-359-3824See our Author page on Amazon.com with many of the works below.
For more information about Inside Outside Clyde and Pumpkin Soup please contact Ronni.
Unveiled On The Rock
By Ronni Miller
New 2024 printing, available on Amazon.com in paperback and for Kindle!Unveiled On The Rock highlights a fractured marriage and conflicts of traditions for Susan. A chance encounter with love and art in Bermuda awakens her senses and spawns self-discovery.
"Don't move."
I turn and face into a camera.
"Sorry, I didn't mean to startle you. It was such a perfect shot." His blue eyes dance. His smile is warm. He wears navy, blue Bermuda shorts, pale yellow-knee socks, and a short sleeve yellow shirt. His blond hair is cut short. A clipped bristle -like beard covers his chin. - From Unveiled On The Rock" -- From Unveiled On The Rock.Unveiled On The Rock, Robi Jode Press (2024), $19.95 paperback, $9.95 ebook for Kindle on Amazon.com.
Roads To Run
By Ronni Miller
2023 printing, available on Amazon.com in paperback and for Kindle!
2024 Gold Medal Winner, Florida Authors and Publishers Association!
Susan Downey, an orphan who dreams of romance, finds life a tangle of obstacles as she proceeds as mail order bride, wife, mother, divorcee and lover in Roads To Run, a novel set in Woodstock, NY and Boston, MA before and just after WWII.
“The impulse to run and escape caused her teeth to chatter... February dampness... seeped through her... Susan nudged the suitcase with her toe... It smelled of home. She strained to catch sight of a familiar face and hoped for rescue.” -- From Roads To Run.Roads To Run, Robi Jode Press (2023), $19.95 paperback, $9.95 ebook for Kindle on Amazon.com.
Awakened in Rufina
By Ronni Miller
2023 printing, and available on Amazon.com in paperback and for Kindle!Awakened In Rufina is a novel set in Tuscany where Isabelle, a woman of a certain age is gifted with a young lover Stefan who ignites her passions. Primitive sexuality and mature love clash when she meets Alessandro, a man of appropriate age. Her independence conflicts with connection and is revealed in intimate details as she decides which man best meets her needs.
"He is too big, too much like an Adonis to fit into clothes. His form needs to be sculpted out of sleek marble left to admire, photograph, instead he walks and talks... The words shoot arrows... past my thorns... to the heart. No not love... something more to the core. I stand naked, but not undressed." -- From Awakened In Rufina.Awakened In Rufina, Robi Jode Press (2023), $19.95 paperback, $9.95 ebook for Kindle on Amazon.com.
Love in the Blueberry Patch
By Ronni Miller
New 2022 printing, and available on Amazon.com in paperback and for Kindle!Ronni Miller takes you from her childhood to the present wrapped in imagination, and reality that clashed with doubts and desires. Discover how writing, her plumb line, carried her through the ups and downs of life. The essays and poems in this book are factual foundations that supplied much of Miller’s fictional opus in short stories, novels, and plays. To know a person’s literary work is to know the person and her life experiences.
Love in the Blueberry Patch, Robi Jode Press (2022), $19.95 paperback, $9.95 ebook for Kindle on Amazon.com.
Between Lovers
By Ronni Miller
2020 printing, and now available on Amazon.com!Nineteen fiction short stories and ten theater pieces from author Ronni Miller sweep the landscape of the female consciousness. Characters spin through trials and tribulations in search of love and connection.
Between Lovers, Robi Jode Press (2020), $19.95. Buy it on Amazon.com.
Domestic Shorts
By Ronni Miller
2017 printing, and now available on Amazon.com!Domestic Shorts is Ronni Miller's first collection of fiction stories that speak of connections with lovers and places. Female characters struggle with loss, and longing and the ironies of life. Pathos, humor and romance swirl through the stories that provide a window of insight into the human experience. The original illustration on the cover is one of Miller's paintings.
“She had returned, or was it run off to Italy, the place of her first love, at least with a country that had remained available to her and provided her with dreams and material to write.”
-- From “Memoir Of A Displaced Person” in Domestic ShortsDomestic Shorts, Robi Jode Press (2017), $19.95. Also available on Amazon.com.
Cocoon To Butterfly
A Metamorphosis of Personal Growth Through Expressive WritingBy Ronni Miller
Founder and Director of the Write It Out® ProgramRobi Jode Press is proud to announce its newest book and textbook for the Write It Out program!!
The author exposes the secrets of her life in Cocoon to Butterfly. She reveals the truth behind her fiction describing her path from sheltered childhood to entrepreneur adulthood through marriage, divorce, and romance culminating with an epiphany of a life quest. Disclosed are the intimate stories of others who have metaphorically experienced the pitfalls of the cocoon and success of the butterfly through the process of expressive writing. Exercises and suggestions on how to write your own cocoon to butterfly story for the purposes of personal growth are included in the book.
The new book has been endorsed by Dr. James Pennebaker, the leading authority on expressive writing in the psychology research community:"There is now compelling evidence that writing about thoughts and feelings on important events can have beneficial effects for your physical and mental health. In Ronni Miller’s new book Cocoon To Butterfly she demonstrates its power. In addition to telling her own story, Ronni offers several exercises that can be helpful for everyone. Particularly compelling are a series of stories from people who have benefited from her method. This is the kind of book that can provide personal insight to the value of writing."- James W. Pennebaker, Ph.D., author of many books including Opening Up and The Secret Life Of Pronouns: What Our Words Say About Us.
Cocoon To Butterfly is available for $18.95 plus $3.50 for shipping costs. Florida residents please add local sales tax. Please send a money order or check payable to “Write It Out” to: Write It Out, P.O. Box 704 Sarasota, FL 34230.Dance with the Elephants
Free your creativity and writeBy Ronni Miller
Founder and Director of the Write It Out® ProgramNow in its third printing, Dance with the Elephants contains sixty warm-up exercises and writing activities designed to motivate writers to tap into their own creative resources. Directions are given on how to use the senses, memory, and life experiences to write. There are essays that give advice on procrastination, persistence, and confidence; explanations of fiction and journaling; as well as vignettes from the author's life that entertain as well as encourage the writer. Dance with the Elephants is also an ideal gift for a holiday or special occasion for friends and family who want to write and need some encouragement to get started.
Dance With The Elephants is available for $15.00 plus $3.50 for shipping costs. Florida residents please add local sales tax. Please send a money order or check payable to "Write It Out" to: Write It Out, P.O. Box 704, Sarasota FL 34230-0704
The Bread Thief
By Ronni Miller
The Bread Thief with hand-painted artwork by the author relates the story of a child who loves bread and is caught in the act of procuring it. Author Ronni Miller says that the book was written for her young grandson. "One day I heard him dub himself the bread thief, so I wrote the book and sent it to him. He agreed "You're right, that's me! You have to let other people read it too." And so I have... The Bread Thief was awarded first prize in children's books by the National League of American Pen Women.
This special soft cover edition of the award winning book is for sale at $12 a copy plus $2.00 for postage. Make checks payable to Write It Out and mail to Write It Out P.O. Box 704, Sarasota, FL 34230.
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