Shannon & Elm has acquired William T. Delamar’s The Brother Voice!

Shannon & Elm has acquired William T. Delamar’s The Brother Voice!

Shannon & Elm www.shannonelm.com has acquired William T. Delamar’s The Brother Voice, a Civil War historical fiction of telepathically linked twin brothers on opposing sides and in love with the same woman.

During the Civil War the country was torn asunder, but so were families—right down to twins, Hol and Sel, who were inseparable since conception. With the ability to hear each other’s thoughts and actually feel one another emotionally and physically, the only thing they did not share was their opinions of the war.

Their best friend, Cora Dee, was in love with them both. Unable to choose whom to marry, her father told her God would help guide her when the time came; little did either of them dream of how that final choice would be made. Hol sided with the Confederacy; loyal to the South although he could not decide if slavery was right or wrong. Sel knew the Union was doomed, if there was a permanent split, and that all men were created equal. His choice was for God, country and Cora Dee, loving them with all his being.

Then there’s what Old No, an ancient black man who has always been, and what he said. His granddaughter, Minnie Lou has bewitched Hol, and a forbidden love, due to fear, prejudice and racial laws in a time death and destruction, is consummated.

Until the end, the brother voice prevails.

Delamar’s The Hidden Congregation (Solstice Publishing, 2011) was his first novel published. Patients in Purgatory, the second the Reverend Christy mystery series, is available for acquisition, as well as The Caretakers, a contemporary novel based on a hospital administrator’s ethical, financial and political issues in an urban environment.

William T. Delamar has been involved in the literary arts most of his life, contributing a chapter in the textbook, Hospital Industrial Engineering, co-authoring a creativity text, Brain-Webbing and contributing to Weymouth, a compilation of poetry (The Saint Andrews Press, 1987). A writer-in-residence at the Weymouth Center for the Arts and Humanities in Southern Pines, NC, he instructed students in creativity techniques, and has conducted workshops at national writer’s conferences. He is a board member and past president of the Philadelphia Writers’ Conference.

Having spent thirty-five years in hospital administration, he was an Organization and Systems Analyst and then CEO, then he became the Executive Director for a consulting group for the Hospital Research and Educational Trust, a wing of the American Hospital Association. Consulting all over the country, he conducted management workshops in member hospitals. He was recently honored by the Hospital Management and Information Systems Society for being one of the twenty-eight original founding members, an organization which is now international and has over a thousand members. www.delamar.org Represented by Loiacono Literary Agency www.loiaconoliteraryagency.com