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Home School Potluck
Have you Home Schooled or are curious about it? Author JA St Thomas will read from her newly released novella Pot Luck, A Home School Murder Mystery and discuss the trials and tribulations of home schooling. Over the past 12 years, JA St Thomas has home schooled her daughter in micro- schools, Parent led Home Schooling and Teacher led Home Schooling here in Santa Fe and in Costa Rica, as well as an array of public and private schooling. Join her for a look into her witty, and wonderfully, wicked world of The Stephanie Beroe Chronicles.
Pot Luck Home School Murder Mystery, a Stephanie Beroe Chronicle Book III
The latest, delicious, thriller, book III of the Stephanie Beroe Chronicles sheds light on how differences between neighbors and friends, blended with a dose of alienation, duress, and let’s not forget pot, can make you fast friends or make you enemies. The world in lock down, schools closed, Stephanie creates a micro-school for her niece in a small hippie town outside of Santa Fe, New Mexico. Outdoor playdates and housing the group are wonderful new exercises in family, community, sharing food, and friendship; something she desperately seeks during a time of isolation. But what seems like a great idea, becomes a multi-layered recipe for murder that makes her profession in the cannabis industry indelibly pedestrian.
It becomes clear this group of PTA women is dynamic, but maybe not in a good way as a CEO of a ranching family with a vendetta for plant-based, diet enthusiasts, a domineering, Christian missionary from California whose husband is a closet, flat-earth math teacher, a morose, vegetarian, doctor’s wife with a dangerous personal secret, and a militant, vegan momtrepreneur, go into survival mode. The pot boils over when women start turning up stoned and dead, making Stephanie the lead suspect. Inveigled by an irretrievable desire to fit into a world of “normal society,” a familiar, unyielding tolerance, may be Stephanie’s biggest enemy.
Book Launches September 1, 2023. For more information visit www.JAStThomas.com
Author Jill Alikas St Thomas
An early passion for poetry, singing and writing, Jill Alikas St Thomas, annoyed friends, family and neighbors alike with a distinct desire to perform that led her to Florida where she attended but did not complete studies at the University of Tampa with a full classical music scholarship. Jill became the singer of The Flower Sermon a local Tampa band in 1985 and in 1987, met Ray Carroll in NYC and they created The Waterlillies, and signed to Reprise/ Sire Records by Seymour Stein, with three songs breaking the top 10 charts in 1994 - 1995 and Never Get Enough, reaching No. 1 in the U.S. She continued to compose, record, and perform with Suicide Lounge, and Sonic Fleur.
Navigating global financial duress after 9-11 she co-founded The Mad Hatter Coffee & Tea Co., a cannabis infusion company, in 2007 with her husband, and helped pioneer cannabis beverages. Considered a Green Queen of cannabis, she has been profiled by The New York Times, Time Magazine and Newsweek.
In 2015 Jill began writing larger fiction than songwriting could contain, The Stephanie Beroe Chronicles are based on surreal experiences in the cannabis industry, life in a ghost town and the explosive social and political landscape of its time. This New Mexico series continues and is a collaborative venture between music and words with a chapter song playlist that combines the author’s passion for music and a sentient, interactive experience for writing fiction in a media- based world. Jill lives in New Mexico with her husband of thirty- four years, their daughter who is also a writer and their dog Mr. Darcy.