Paranormal
Thriller Author
Making Movie
Magic
By Sherrie Wilkolaski
T
he Salem witch trials has
always been of interest to
me since I was in elementary
school. We made our weekly
trip to the school library and
were allowed to check out one book
a week. My personal struggle was
selecting the next book in the Nancy
Drew series or to grab another book
on the history of Salem. Our library
was small and I ended up reading the
same books over and over again,
never tiring of the stories and
always wanting more.
As an adult, I’m still fascinated with
the history of Salem. In December
2011, I was launching my book
publishing house, Pressque
Publishing, with my business partner,
Ellie Maas Davis. She brought me a
manuscript that I knew was just the
right headliner to kick-off our
catalog. The story was a modern day
twist on the Salem witch trials,
written by first time author, Jack
Heath, titled Salem VI: Rebecca’s
Rising (First of a trilogy). By day,
Jack was a successful radio talk
show host of NH Today and former
TV news station manager and
reporter. What made his story so
different from everything else out
there about the witch trials was
the question he asked, “Who were
the real witches?”
Jack Heath is more than just an
amazing storyteller. He is also a
direct descendant of Rebecca Nurse,
who was tried and executed for
practicing witchcraft in Salem, MA,
on July 19, 1692. Additionally, he has
a bad bloodline coursing through his
veins because he is related to one of
the Salem witch trials accusers, Ann
R. Putnam. All of this adds to the
mystique behind the book trilogy.
With Halloween quickly approaching,
I thought it would be fitting to
introduce Jack Heath to our
audience. He grew up in in
Swampscott, MA, a suburb a few
minutes just outside of Salem, MA.
He is the former News Director and
Vice President of WMUR-TV in New
Hampshire, and a former TV reporter
for WCVB-TV in Boston and WABI-TV
in Maine. Jack has a unique and
varied background in news media and
business. In 2000, Jack also founded
Biznews24, now Pinpoint Global
Communications, a software-based
media company in New Hampshire,
which provides sales training
management systems to the financial
services and insurance industries.
When he is not running his media
consulting company, he is marketing
and promoting the book series.
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