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Eliza Hewitt grew up in a small steel factory and coal mining town in Pennsylvania She was a teenager in the tumultuous 1960s and caught up in the labor strife of the 1970s Upon graduating from college with a bachelors degree in Journalism and Political Science she began a long and varied work career which took her to cities and towns large and small across the United States She was a public radio d. Book cloud cuckoo doerr j in a border town alternately co hosting a big band swing show and a jazz show where she read Spanish poetry to Juarez and El Paso she taught business law to graduate and undergraduate students at UTEP she negotiated satellite telecommunication and major missile system contracts for the Defense Department in California and Alabama re Eliza Hewitt grew up in a small steel factory and coal mining town in Pennsylvania She was a teenager in the tumultuous 1960s and caught up in the labor strife of the 1970s Upon graduating from college with a bachelor s degree in Journalism and Political Science she began a long and varied work career which took her to cities and towns large and small across the United States She was a public radio d. Cloud 8 booklet j in a border town alternately co hosting a big band swing show and a jazz show where she read Spanish poetry to Juarez and El Paso she taught business law to graduate and undergraduate students at UTEP she negotiated satellite telecommunication and major missile system contracts for the Defense Department in California and Alabama respectively she negotiated and administered the contracts for an environmental engineering firm headquartered in Los Angeles she ran her own general civil law practice for nearly fifteen years and was in house counsel for a fast IT startup in Austin After her husband suddenly died and she had four children to raise three still very young she substitute taught both mainstream and special ed students from kindergarten through high school in the school system her children attended She was the concierge and historian at a local luxury resort She managed the community library in Buena Vista Virginia She ran a 200 unit luxury apartment community on the water near St Pete Beach for almost five years throwing parties that are still talked about She farms organically and canned and froze her harvest for the family s winter store She is an herbalist and treated her children s illnesses naturally While the children were in school she planted 1700 wine grapes primarily vitis vinifera on her farm which the deer ate Still her favorite job of all was her first at Story Book Forest as Little Red Riding Hood and Snow White on alternate days She loves dancing at art and music festivals opera theater reading and traveling Her varied experiences have created a colorful palette from which to draw Her first novel Renting the Veil has been hailed as a compelling and beautiful story of love loss and awakening in swiftly changing times She woke up one morning and realized that for the first time in memory she had no fires to put out on the family front and left her corporate job in Florida to backpack solo across Europe She was on the road for four months She returned to her log cabin in the mountains of Virginia to replenish the coffers taking a job as a vocational counselor for intellectually disabled adults Although it was vastly rewarding the urge to explore the world only grew so she decided to only take on short term projects legal and business and whatever else came by that sparked her interest and allowed her to travel both within America where she embarked on an insatiable quest to visit as many national parks and earn as many Junior Ranger pins as she could and abroad She worked as the concierge at Bryce Canyon National Park for a season and at a campground in the Everglades National Park two seasons She worked two summers at a garden center as a plant specialist because she enjoyed being surrounded by plants She earned her certification in teaching English as a Second Language and taught Chinese children online until the Chinese government shut that down She presently volunteers as an ESL instructor for the local Refugee Resettlement Center teaches American children online and continues to write She is on the editorial team for an environmental blog Greentumble where she is the point person for biodiversity matters Her most recent book Cloud Eight is an adventure of a refugee on the run and includes a blueprint for kickstarting a green economy which could effectively halt global warming and reward participating entrepreneurs with an insanely comfortable future A must read In between she wrote the first two books of an adventure series Oliver s site_link A Divine Comedy of Refugee Rescues and Unforeseen Twists Take a whirlwind trip with Mary a church volunteer who answering a late night knock at her door finds herself suddenly on the wrong side of the law And though they were just trying to do the right thing the humane thing how quickly their misadventures mounted Looking back during the first few days Mary had already come to a large realization Everything changes once you ve seen the dark underbelly of society and its intertwining layers of greed feeding each upon the other The afternoon sunshine no longer appears benign The danger in every movement increases As if undercover agents gangsters and other miscreants weren t trouble enough even when her last tired and worried thoughts were finally abandoning her to sleep Mary couldn t ignore a large overriding feeling an uneasy feeling that either aliens had infiltrated her town or that gods were meddling Or both Where do you go with thoughts like those Mary s journey is a hilarious rollercoaster ride of steep hills deep falls and unexpected bends as she tries to spirit two desperate refuges across the country on the down low Can she summon the resilience this adventure will ultimately demand With a unique and quirky storyline involving refugees gods and time dislocations Cloud 8 is a unique blend of comedy urban fantasy and social commentary offering readers a fresh and engaging take on the theme of helping others in a world filled with uncertainty and turmoil With its odd characters fast paced plot and thought provoking themes this book is sure to resonate with anyone with a spirit of adventure and with those aching for a paradigm shift to a sustainable world Cloud 8 by Eliza Hewitt