Loiacono Literary Agency welcomes Mary
Nida Smith and her nonfiction military dedicated to submariners, Submarine
Stories of WWII!
As the wife of a submariner, she lived
through many troubled day. Her husband, Melvin T, Smith, was one of these
honorable men. He is a lifetime member of the USS Submarine Veterans Inc., (Holland
Club) and the Vice Commander of the USS Submarine Veterans Base, Mountain Home,
Arkansas and also former member of the Idaho Spuds-USS Submarine Veterans of
WWII and the Northwest Regions/Idaho/Montana/Oregon/Washington. Through it all,
she stuck by him— and wrote.
Mary
Nida Smith, author, freelance writer, poet and photographer has lived in
several states, submitting and publishing in local magazines and newspapers.
Magazines: The Ozarks Mountaineer, Ozarks, Arkansas Living, Good Old Days, Polaris
(WWII), Grit, Northwest Living (Field Editor), Storyteller (photographed cover), Salute, Journal of the Ozarks and contributed to the anthologies Echoes
of the Ozarks and Women in Nature. Newspapers: Magic Valley Farm Lines (South Idaho Press-Clark newspapers), Port Orchard Independent (Washington- weekly column), Ozark Mountain News (Mountain Home, AR), and Oregon Journal (Portland - book reviews). Newsletters: U.S. Submarine of Veterans of WWII
(Arkansas Diamond Chapter), Salute, Society of Children’s Book Writers &
Illustrators (SCBWI- Australia), SCBWI-Missouri,
SCBWI-Arkansas, Ozarks Writers League (OWL), and Missouri Writers
Guild.
Her
non-fiction, Submarine Stories of World War II (First Edition) was published by Red Engine
Press, 2008. Then came The Sub Report http://thesubreport.blogspot.com.
Her blog Submarine Stories and Military Writers (2007 –present) http://submarinestories.blogspot.com
was displayed in the Ralph Foster Museum (Collage of the Ozarks), and in three
military museums: St. Marys’ Submarine Museum, St. Mary’s, Georgia, Wisconsin
Veterans Museum, Madison, Wisconsin, USS Razorback and Arkansas Inland Maritime
Museum, Little Rock, Arkansas, and cataloged in the Donald W. Reynolds Library Baxter
County, Arkansas.
LLA is
seeking republication of this heroic endeavor, along with enhanced personal
stories and photographs.
Submarine Veterans of World War II is about
teenage boys who left the farms, small towns, and inner cities to go on the
adventure of a lifetime during the early 40s. When they returned home as young
men, they were older and wiser.
These
stories were shared by nine men who rode the submarines to great depths and
across the world into unknown strange seas. They share a peek into the dangers
encountered while on war patrols. Many stories will never be told; held
securely within a deep, secret compartment of their souls. One story was shared
by a Pearl Harbor survivor of the Battle Wagon USS California BB-44, bombed
by the Japanese Air Force. Soon after, he joined the submarine service. Another
veteran checked the sonar on the U-505 that is displayed at the Museum of
Science and Industry at Chicago, Illinois.
You
will be able to share the fears and joys of the submarine sailors who went out
to sea for many days, where friendships were formed and sealed for a lifetime.
They are a special breed of men who chose to brave the sleek steel giants of
the seas known as “submarines.” It was difficult finding veterans of that era
to release their stories. Now in their late 80s and 90s, they were trained for
years to keep silent, for “loose lips sink ships.” Submarine Stories of World War II
was written to honor the men who served and are serving today on submarines.
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