In The Cape Cod Witch Series J Bean Palmer calls upon her family's long history in New England including a Revolutionary "Green Mountain Boy", Cape Cod cranberry farmers and artists, and an oft-told family legend that as her grandmother's ancestors stepped off the Mayflower, her grandfather's relatives were there to greet them. With a degree in Environmental Science (summa cum laude, University of Maine), the author's ElsBeth stories reflect a passion and respect for the natural world and its magical kinship. J Bean is a member of the Society for Children's Book Writers and Illustrators, National League of American Pen Women, the Cape Cod Cultural Center, and a former member of the board of the Cape Cod Writers Center.New Releases:Scheduled for release January 2014, ElsBeth and the Call of the Castle Ghosties, pre-publication award winning Book III in The Cape Cod Witch Series. With twenty-two original, full-color illustrations. When a new sort of enemy threatens their wild and free ancestral lands, three ancient ghosts need one of their clan from the living world. They call the Thistle heir from across the sea to the Scottish Highlands in the old country. Almost-eleven-year-old ElsBeth Amelia Thistle, the youngest witch on Cape Cod, has her own need to find out more about the family mysteries, and a personal calling to protect the natural world.But even with help from a curious cast of magical creatures she befriends, and her spirited classmates who've been swept along (including the feisty black fashionista Veronica, a Wampanoag chief-to-be Johnny, and Frankie, who wants to follow in the footsteps of his prize-fighting Uncle Vittorio), ElsBeth is nonetheless in way over her magic level -- and into older, odder mysteries than she could ever dream -- in an adventure just above the surface of reality.Also scheduled for release with Book III are enhanced e-book versions of Book I and Book II in the award winning series, ElsBeth and the Pirate's Treasure and ElsBeth and the Pirate's Adventure.