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Poet Laureate J Don Shook has created another collection of Poems for every reader. Clever writing and whimsical art for a delightful read.

Original Poetry by J Don Shook, current President of the Fort Worth Poetry Society and award winning author, actor, director and producer.

Actors Soup is a 140 page handbook for actors, singers, motivational speakers, speech-makers and those striving to improve their performance talents. Designed primarily for entertainers, with helpful hints on delivering monologues, characterizations, and improving voice, articulation, and improvizational capabilities, it is also a useful tool for anyone wanting to improve self-image and comfort levels in interview or presentational situations. Utilizing materials compiled over forty years by the 2009 Senior Poet Laureate of Texas and nationally known actor, director, producer, teacher and author, The Actors Soup Handbook offers advice and exercises which promote talent development through techniques unique to the author's METHOD. By utilization of imagination, controlled release of inhibitions, and common sense, Shook shows you how to enhance your abilities in all areas related to theatre, film, commercials, industrials and speaking engagements. A must read for beginners and professionals alike, this book affords rare insight into the performance world and the ability to improve participation in it. The Actors Soup Handbook will whet your performance appetite in an entertaining, easy-to-digest manner.

Dan Stark, theatre impresario and actor, and his beautiful actress girlfriend, Valerie, planned on spending the weekend in the wilds of The Big Thicket looking for Max, Dan's wayward German Shepherd. Their plans are abruptly interrupted when, instead, they encounter a psychotic killer and the legendary Saratoga Ghost Light... rising out of the impenetrable swamp.

SHEEP DIP - "Fun Poetry to Cleanse the Soul" is the 5th in Don Shook's "Sheep" series of poetry books. Inspired by his first poem and the name of his first poetry book "Sheep Got Teeth", SHEEP DIP, like his other books, explores universal observations in brief, simple-to-comprehend verse. Some fun, some humorous, all engaging and poignant, Don's poems inspire laughter, tears and thoughts to be shared with family, friends and devoted poetry lovers of "The Best Words in the Best Order."*

Dan, a traveling theatre impresario, had managed to lose his champion German Shepherd and two beautiful, young actresses. All clues lead toward the fabled Eden, abode of an international drug lord, where finding them would prove much easier than their rescue. There was no straight shot, only a perilous detour through the Big Thicket, a path he was feign to take.

A wonderful little book of the plural names of animal groups with short cute poems. The hand drawn illustrations are charming. Don Shook has made it fun to learn some great vocabulary and enjoy a little read perfect for all ages. This book would be perfect for classrooms, waiting rooms and for anyone that loves poetry.

"Icky Impala and Other Short Stories" transports the reader from the vast Serengeti Plain of East Africa to the wilds of Texas Big Thicket with stories ranging from the bizarre to the humorous. Eighteen intriguing short stories delight and astound with the unique perspective of author, Don Shook, 2009 Senior Poet Laureate of Texas. Love animals? "Icky Impala" will bound into your imagination as he confronts the King of Beasts. Football fans will be astounded with the fascinating tale of Bric Dodd, coach, teacher, and sometimes fierce purveyor or justice. The other stories, just as engaging, run the gamut of emotions with tales of love, action, adventure and mystery. Always entertaining, "Icky Impala and Other Short Stories" absorbs readers of all ilks and ages into 180 pages of delightful tall tales and surprise endings.

Trapped in a disabled van, Dan Stark finds himself surrounded by darkness concealing his enemy and igniting his imagination. A supernatural presence that, for years, had hovered on the fringe of his awareness also looms outside; as real as the black night engulfing that deserted country road, and as real as Mack, a demented psychopath, and his cohorts closing in on Dan's hapless traveling acting troupe.

After receiving a tip from a strange letter, high school senior Skip Malone and his friend, reporter Scoop Doogan attempt to thwart plans to disrupt an upcoming political rally.