Mazy and Snub: Adventures in Gravity

By Martha Ramsey

Mazy and Snub are delightful beings of light, traveling unencumbered by bodies, time, space, and gravity until an innocent ride on the arms of the Milky Way spins them into Earths atmosphere and changes everything. Both are overwhelmed and amazed by their cumbersome bodies, emotions, and pesky gravity, so they set out on adventures equally comical and dangerous. Readers of all ages will appreciate the metaphorical conundrums of these delightful and endearing creatures as they evolve into earthlings.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Balboa Press
• Release date: Aug 25, 2017
• ISBN: 9781504386067

Martha Ramsey

Martha Ramsey, M.Ed., taught in Montessori educational settings for over twenty-five years. In addition to creating educational materials and writing curriculum, she told stories to her students to highlight issues they were working on in personal relationships. She found that relating stories in the third person allowed students to recognize problems and solutions in a non-threatening manner. Martha moved to California from Ohio to be close to her new Granddaughter, Penelope. She lives with a Siberian husky, Nadia, and a domestic shorthair, Silver. You can email Martha at [e-mail]. Martin Kaspar was born in 1989 in Prague where he still lives today. He studies maths at university and started working as a data analyst after graduating. He spends most of his free time drawing and illustrating. You can find some of his work on www.martinkaspar.eu

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Mazy and Snub

Adventures in Gravity

Martha Ramsey

Copyright © 2017 Martha Ramsey.

This is a work of fiction. All of the characters, names, incidents, organizations, and dialogue in this novel are either the products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously.

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ISBN: 978-1-5043-8605-0 (sc)

ISBN: 978-1-5043-8606-7 (e)

Library of Congress Control Number: 2017912284

Balboa Press rev. date: 08/21/2017

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Contents

Acknowledgements and Appreciation

Prologue

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

Chapter 7

Chapter 8

Chapter 9

Chapter 10

Chapter 11

Chapter 12

Chapter 13

Chapter 14

Chapter 15

Chapter 16

Chapter 17

Chapter 18

Chapter 19

Chapter 20

This book is

dedicated to Penelope, my Granddaughter and my muse.

Acknowledgements and Appreciation

Writing and publishing a book is a collaborative effort. I have many people to thank for inspiration and encouragement as well as editing and perfecting this story.

I’d like to thank the Publisher’s and Writer’s group of Orange County (PWOC), who encouraged me through the process of getting this book into print and provided numerous resources and connections. I met my knowledgeable and capable editor, Lillian Nader, at PWOC and I couldn’t imagine a more perfect match for my personality. Lillian honed, corrected, and drew out of me, the vision I had of Mazy and Snub so that my readers could really imagine their world.

In addition, I’d like to thank my talented illustrator, Martin Kaspar. It was as if he got inside my mind and brought images of my characters right out onto the page. As one of the first readers of my manuscript, he was encouraging from the beginning. Martin was a delight to work with long distance from Prague.

My beta reader project was a labor of love for friends