{"title":"F. E. Mazur","description":"F. E. Mazur grew up in Western Pennsylvania near the Allegheny River and was educated at Slippery Rock University. After teaching in the public schools of his home state and New York, he worked for a regional advertising agency and often wrote the copy for his consumer and industrial clients. In the 90s he became employed as the staff writer for an avant-garde multimedia computing lab at Cornell University. His articles arising from the experimentation of bringing various media together in a computerized setting appeared in popular, trade, and academic journals. He has contributed to a wide range of publications. His fictional works include The Buckseller, Spine, P O D, The Halftone Man, Unvisited Spaces and Twelve Other Stories.","products":[{"product_id":"p-o-d-paperback","title":"P O D - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eMurder and mayhem on the message boards. With the birth of the personal computer and software that allowed for instant correction and easy revision, many who said they could write a book would try their hand at it. Publisher Tor Schacter understood this. He knew their numbers would be great. He knew there was big money to be made. Renaming his vanity house and striking the clause from the company contract that required a huge upfront fee from the author, he invited writers everywhere to submit their stories for possible publication by Quotidian Release. Thousands of men and women complied, all burning with the hope their manuscripts would be accepted and published. All expecting their book to be promoted and sold online and in stores to readers worldwide. But their expectations were their own. Soon the message boards, once supportive arenas for struggling writers, reeked of criticism, ridicule, and vituperation. They turned on Schacter. Later, on each other. Then one April morning while checking the current posts, young novelist Wyatt Falkner learns that three of Schacter's most outspoken enemies were murdered. Before everything is sorted out, he and his girlfriend Patsy Lukehart, a writer herself and a first-rate researcher, find that they, too, are targets.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67840976748767,"sku":"9780692615287","price":20.59,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/8GkRk-6Phv9780692615287.webp?v=1790808678"},{"product_id":"unvisited-spaces-and-twelve-other-stories-paperback","title":"UNVISITED SPACES and Twelve Other Stories - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe word \"Unvisited\" takes center stage throughout F. E. Mazur's stories, and while it relates to the earthly space of rooms and outdoor locations, it overwhelmingly describes how circumstances sometimes force new and often dangerous thoughts and considerations upon our psyches. -In \"bUSEs\" a young actor suspects a suicide bomber is in his midst at the same time he has access to a gun. -A fantasy writer and extraordinary swimmer in \"Operculum,\" in order to recover a young woman who has drowned in the deepest of lakes, strives for an unusual devolution of himself. -For two home invaders in \"A Root Cellar Memory,\" Alzheimer's proves their undoing. -Thurman in \"Riparian Rite\" looks to punish the most deafening boaters on \"his\" lake in the only way he knows how. -In \"Cold S.O.B\" and \"Somalia\" it's the narrators who deserve attention. Readers of Mazur have described his work as \"exceptionally well-written,\" \"grab-you storytelling, \"a refreshing change from the usual and trite,\" and \"consistently topnotch.\"\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67852455379167,"sku":"9780692200926","price":19.24,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/LXpJxJeZrS9780692200926.webp?v=1790862700"},{"product_id":"the-buckseller-paperback","title":"The BUCKSELLER - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eOutside the mountain community of Sagerville in beautiful Bingham County, two hunters are discovered shot to death on opening day. An antihunter avenging the annual slaughter of whitetails is suspected and, fearing the worst, local leaders worry that thousands of visiting sportsmen will travel elsewhere, along with their money. However, influential businessman Harmon Drake ambitiously persuades his counterparts that the prospect of a serial killer is premature because the second victim, a local man, may have perished because of a hunting accident. Weakened by a recent judgment of the court against his weekly newspaper, the Tier Sentinel, publisher Meredith Tome goes along and prints a story omitting mention of a sniper. But this decision, his friend and distict attorney Ed Rusack informs him, will force the killer to strike again. Likewise will publisher Tome learn the killer is after much more than hunters. And for this, too, he bears some responsibility.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67852515180767,"sku":"9780692215746","price":20.59,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/LLtAmQaA9j9780692215746.webp?v=1790862769"},{"product_id":"the-halftone-man-paperback","title":"The Halftone Man - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eWidower Eugene Banish is now living with his daughter Paulette and her husband Riddell Parker. Undergoing changes to his vision and hearing, Eugene realizes their decline is unique in that each is more benefit than affliction. The widower has secrets as do his daughter and her husband, and these secrets soon will surface and form a new secret. A shared secret. A buried secret.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67865437864159,"sku":"9780997910100","price":20.59,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/cZPBON-emD9780997910100.webp?v=1790880747"}],"url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/collections\/f-e-mazur.oembed","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}