For our 295^th photo shoot, we did a project crossover. While typically our publishing company publishes race walking, photography and computer science books, we’ve recently created a new imprint called Salvage America Publications. Given the horrendous political situation in our country, we decided instead of simply reposting other people’s meme’s we would take personal action. In our photoshoot Jennifer is reading from one of our two new project, The Parable of the Peacock. Even Munson is enjoying the reading. Although created in the form of a children’s read-aloud picture book with rhyming couplets, the satire carries a serious message for adult readers.

The book uses animal caricatures to represent individuals and generalized populations in contemporary American politics. A prideful, orange-faced peacock is the main character, and a mean, bare-chested weasel from “a far-off land” has an important supporting role. This was a project written by a close friend, Brent Bohlen but published by us. You can order The Parable of the Peacock directly from Amazon or get more information including sample pages from www.peacockparable.com. T-shirts with the graphics on the TV are also available from the peacock site.

About the Author
Brent Bohlen of Springfield, Illinois, retired from a career in and around state and local government that included being a budget analyst, a prosecutor, the legal counsel for a taxpayer group and a state public utilities commissioner. He also authored BoomerWalk, which encourages baby boomers to take up Olympic-style race walking as a highly aerobic, low-impact form of exercise.

About the Illustrator
Oksana Basarab lives and works in Lviv, Ukraine, using Illustrator, Photoshop and sometimes real tools for creativity. She specializes in children’s cartoon illustrations. Her portfolio includes more than a dozen books and manuals and countless illustrations for posters, leaflets, patterns, web applications and other products.

About the Publisher
Jeff Salvage of Medford, New Jersey, owner of Salvage America Publications, has published many books under various imprints. He is a teaching professor of computer science at Drexel University, is an accomplished photographer and was an international athlete.

Additionally, we teamed up to write a sequel to a novel Jeff published 13 years ago. In Zojjed v2.0, the End of Civility, we highlight President Trump’s unfiltered, unapologetic style in leading the country into a deep state of tribalism unseen since the Civil war. Zojjed v2.0 shines a light on this hostility using real facts, not the alternative ones favored by some. Because truth is stranger and more powerful than fiction, Zojjed v2.0 uses Trump’s own words and tweets weaved around a satirical, fictional story that dives into the fragile state of affairs in the United States. It can be ordered directly from Amazon.com.

It tells the continuing adventures of Alex Pinto, a technology geek who is as comfortable at the computer as she is on the 400 meter oval. Over ten years removed from the injuries and heart break of a global disaster she was unwittingly involved in as a college athlete, Alex seeks a return to competing among the world’s best once again as a race walker.

Alex fills the competitive void by capitalizing on her technical skills. A gifted, but somewhat arrogant computer scientist, she spends time pecking at the keyboard exploring the darker corners of the cyber world. With our increasing dependency on technology fraught with vulnerabilities, could Alex get herself in more trouble than she did in Zojjed? Find out when her adventure continues in the little known town of Lázaro Cárdenas, Mexico where she confronts the malicious effects of President Trump’s immigration policies head on.