I hope you enjoy my poems, personal stories, and vulnerability. "They Don't Even Know The Half of It" is a collection of poems by Claudia Ortiz accompanied by illustrations from Anna Santos.

The trouble all started when that Yankee playwright Anton O’Masia came into town. He hooked up with old Duke Forberry in Forberry’s latest attempt to turn rust into gold. Duke had bought the old Ritz Theatre and planned to open up competition against the Fountain of Youth Theatre, you see. Well, that Yankee writer wrote this musical called “Antichrist, Superstar!” and Forberry put it on. You can just imagine how a play with that title went over down here in the South. It didn’t take long for Rev. Matthew Schaffner to get some protestors picketing up and down in front of the theatre. They were led by that John Elway lookalike Tony Truwiss. Like Anton said, that boy could eat corn off the cob through a football facemask. Tony sure did know how to put on a protest, though. He had Schaffner’s older daughter Beth with him and that pretty little Erica Withershins, too. She’s actually the one who got everything started by going to Rev. Schaffner and telling him about the play in the first place. A lot of people figured she did it to get even with her ex-best friend Callie Pygusse, who was the star of the play. (Not to mention sleeping with her director, Anton). Considering how much things got out of hand and we started making the national news, it’s actually a surprisingly funny story. When I got the idea to make a book out of it, it was already the most exciting thing to happen to our little town in years. And that was well before Callie took off her clothes onstage and Beth’s sister Mary revealed Pastor Schaffner’s big secret and we all found out the shocking truth about Erica.

COMPLICATE ME Life at its simplest is still complicated. Reid Bowen is her brother’s best friend and the biggest womanizer on campus. She has no business wanting him. Sienna Parker is forbidden and the sweetest fruit he can never taste. But if he can’t have her, no one can. Forced together by a road trip home, it will not only test their patience, but also their resolve to stay away from each other. Bound by their past, it’s the complicated that changes their lives. COMPLETE ME Life at its most complete is still unexpected. Reid Bowen ruined her life and he is the one person she trusted. She had no business getting involved with him. Sienna Parker is the only girl he’s ever wanted and now he’s lost her. But he will stop at nothing to win her back. Forced together by circumstance, Sienna’s heart will be tested, but it’s Reid who must risk it all to protect them both. With their future at stake, it’s the unexpected that changes their lives.

Well this is Godkward. You just picked up a book with a title that you probably don't know how to pronounce. Godkward is an adjective used to describe a difficult situation that causes inconvenience or embarrassment that God has led you to or through! It's a God-given, awkward moment. Inside this book you'll find a Godkward story about one man's battle with alcohol. What started as an unhealthy relationship with drinking turned into a spiritually purposeful journey into recovery. Along the way, right choices were not rewarded with medals or trophies, but by the onslaught of trials. How could anyone continue down the straight and narrow path when met with so many challenges? Godkward: Finding Purpose in My Journey from Addiction to Recovery highlights one man's battle against the enemy and how seeking God vigilantly helped pull him from the wreckage his life had become.

A gruff Navy SEAL commander doesn’t expect a gorgeous writer to bring him to his knees… Navy SEAL Commander Slate “Striker” Hutchinson never expects a beautiful blonde to crash his weekend in a remote cabin. He can’t send her off alone in a snowstorm, so he lets her stay the night—and ignores a temptation he hasn’t felt in years. Her feminine curves and innocence aren’t what a man like him needs—not when he’s dedicated his life to the Navy. Novelist Ashleigh Moore is looking forward to a peaceful weekend retreat. The gruff and commanding man who emerges from the woods after a hike isn’t supposed to be at the cabin—or send her heart racing with his piercing green eyes and tall, muscular frame. She can ignore the sparks of electricity between them, but when she’s injured, Slate proves gentler than she imagined. When a domestic terrorist group tracks Slate to Washington, he realizes Ashleigh’s life is in danger as well. He’ll protect her while she’s under his care, but will he be able to let her go when their time together is over? SEAL’s Command, a standalone novel, is book seven in the addictive Alpha SEALs Coronado series.

True comic novels are as rare these days as an undiscovered Rembrandt or Picasso, and for anyone who can possibly imagine Woody Allen as a "hit man" for the Mafia (an art teacher who is mugged and suffers amnesia), this novel presents a page by page cure-all for any ill that fails to withstand unrepressed laughter. Add to this a touch of almost impossible love (the Mafia Leader's stone cold daughter, a spinster, actually does just that by falling for the mistaken hit man, despite herself, and the suicidal odds against it) and lucky readers need fear anymore the dark winter nights, or hot summer days, while tasting the sweets of this menacing, screwball comedy that can't get any funnier than it already is --and the author, in preparation for more, is already at work on another confection of comedy: Who Killed Ramona Rosenberg? Which raises even more questions than the title suggests.