Ghost Stories of Venice Old & New - Softcover

Kim Cool

4

5 ratings by Goodreads

9780972165525: Ghost Stories of Venice Old & New

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0972165525 ISBN 13: 9780972165525

Publisher: Historic Venice Press, 2008

View all copies of this ISBN edition:

The OTHER history of Venice by IPPY Award-winning Venice historian Kim Cool This is the fifth in her series of Florida Ghost Stories and her second look at the ghosts of the Venice area Some of the stories are continuations and/or updates of stories from Ghost Stories of Venice, although most are new ghosts who have been dying to be heard since Cool's first book of Florida-based ghost stories appeared in print.

"synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.

About the Author:

Kim Cool writes about Florida. This is the fifth in her series of Ghost Stories about cities and towns along the Gulf Coast. She also writes about travel in her popular Cool Road Trips series and about history in such books as Circus Days in Sarasota and Venice and Venice History Illustrated, for which she won a 2007 IPPY for SE Regional Nonfiction from the Independent Publishers Group. By day, she is the features editor of the Venice Gondolier Sun. She is a member of the Venice Archives and Area Historical Collection; the Venice Historical Society; Historical Society of Sarasota County; The Circus Historical Society; the Advisory Board of the Salvation Army of Venice; a national synchronized, senior competition and gold test judge for United States Figure Skating; a former competitive curler at the national level; and a charter member of the Florida Curling Club. The writer has won awards from the Florida Press Association, Society for Professional Journalists, Small Business Administration, Florida Press Club and the Arts and Cultural Alliance. Her stories are included in Ghost Stories of Florida, edited by Dan Asfar. She is listed in Who s Who of American Women, Who s Who in the South and Southwest, Who s Who in the World and other reference works and has been featured on numerous radio and television shows, including the PBS show, Gulf Coast Journal with Jack Perkins.

Review:

Kim Cool and I were destined to meet. I needed a guest for my first radio show in Sarasota, and my wife Maria and I drove to Barnes & Noble for inspiration. My wife found a copy of Kim s Ghost Stories of Sarasota and suggested I invite her on the show as my very first studio guest. We ve been dear friends ever since, and I have the pleasure of reading all her fabulous books before anyone else, because I get to proofread them! This one s no exception and you can tell the ghosts are lining up to get Kim to tell their stories! Join Kim and her friends as she takes us around Venice and South County, introducing us to even more inexplicable and fascinating occurrences! We stumble over ghosts in deserted hotels, meet a ghost dog and try to work out why a door just won t stay shut! We discover the Wild Man of Englewood, read of Kim's one-in-a-million encounter in a crowded plane, and shake our heads in wonder when Kim receives an e-mail one morning from a colleague who had passed on three weeks earlier! Enjoy yet another wonderful collection of fascinating ghost stories by Kim Cool, the writer the ghosts would hire as their publicist if they were alive ... and who keeps their spirits up now that they re dead ... or ARE THEY? --Cliff Roles, radio host of Talk of the Suncoast,

"About this title" may belong to another edition of this title.