Born and raised in California’s San Fernando Valley, Chera Thompson attended Kent State University. She has a BS in Journalism from Ohio University and an MS in Adult Education from Buffalo State College. Her career in travel enabled her to see a lot of the world. Her later career, teaching English as a Second Language to adults, brought her much gratification. Her fiction has been published in the Los Angeles Review and was selected as a finalist in the Glimmer Train Short Fiction Contest. Other publication credits include Let’s Have Fun Vol. 2, Queen City Flash, and Have a NYC 3. Most recently her non-fiction pieces were published in Pamela Des Barres’s Let It Bleed: How to Write a Rockin’ Memoir. She lives with her husband and two dogs on a bluff overlooking Lake Erie and enjoys travelling and collecting beach glass.
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Travel writer Charlene Andre jumps on an assignment to visit Hungary soon after the fall of the Iron Curtain …and her marriage. Budapest! That most fabled of cities… but is it safe? War threatens along the border. The government is in chaos. Charlene throws her fate to the wind and makes the journey.
“Goodbye,” says Charlene, at first to her philandering husband and then to herself, her old self, as she opens up to a new world, new adventures, new romance.
Without realizing it, Charlene finds purpose and discovers her own voice, strength and independence. Not only is she writing about life in exotic locations, she’s living it.
Inspired by true events.
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Travel writer Charlene Andre faces conflict and intrigue in her quest to discover a newly independent country and her newly independent spirit.
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“Delightful!” Gary Earl Ross, author of the Nickel City/Gideon Rimes Mysteries.
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Two college kids on two different roads
Save for the one they share.
An email exchange between former college lovers take them back to their college years at Kent State, the 1970’s. The Vietnam War is raging. Anti-war rallies hit the breaking point. It was a time of bell bottoms, vinyl, incense, free love, and travel by thumb.
For Kris and Lena, two strangers on two very different paths, a thrown beer bottle shatters the lives they have known, bringing them together by chance. Lena is attracted to Kris and his live-in-the-moment personality. When he invites her to join him on a spring break hitchhiking trip, she kicks aside her uptight attitude and accepts the adventure. The trip is harrowing at times, comical during others, and poignant as Lena and Kris learn about themselves and each other.
The events that shape and seal the fate of their relationship in unpredictable ways is revealed in the authors’ female/male alternating perspectives.
Inspired by true events, A TIME TO WANDER is a magical tale of freedom before the future takes hold.