Vivian Zabel
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Louie The Duck Stories
Where Did Panther Go?
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Burnt Offering
cover by WillowRaven
"Burnt Offering has enough suspense and romance to keep you reading long into the night."
~Reader's Favorite 
A modern tale set in ancient times, Burnt Offering contains suspense, romance, and a problem found still today, the sacrifice of children through neglect, abuse, and murder.
Judah, 8th Century BCE, King Ahaz sat and watched his own infant placed in the hands of a red-hot bronze idol. He heard the child’s screams over the beating of 100 drums. He watched the child turn red, then black as it burned alive. He smelled the odor of burnt skin. Yet, he and his followers did what Moleck wanted, killing their own children. Would a hero or heroes step forward to save these children? Is today’s society following Moleck’s edicts?
Stolen
paperback
(retail: $19.99) SALE: $15.99 cover by WillowRaven
When the joy is ruthlessly ripped from Torri's life, she has two choices: dwell in torment and regret, or pick up the pieces and live. A nightmare invades her world, leaving her battered and torn: Her children are stolen.
Midnight Hours
hardcover
(retail: $22.99) SALE: $17.99 cover by WillowRaven
While struggling to recover from a debilitating gunshot wound, homicide lieutenant Martin Rogers discovers an online "interest" may be a serial killer, responsible for the death of several disabled men. Martin's interest changes from that of a man for a woman to the interest of a homicide detective for a suspect when Midnight attaches a photo of herself to an email - identical to that of one folded in the pocket of a dead paraplegic. Confusion reigns when an Assistant District Attorney is discovered to be the unknowing model for the face in the photo. Lt. Rogers and friends set up a sting to capture Midnight, but she disappears like wisps of fog. Every lead results in dead ends and more confusion. Midnight brings death on the internet. Preying on helpless men, she offers love but gives them a grave, but who and what is Midnight? Martin must find this killer before she can add him to her list of victims.
Walking the Earth
paperback
(retail: $19.98) SALE: $15.99 cover by Macayla Romines
Eight poets include their work in a 178 page collection that shows life's perspective as they walk the earth. Divided into eight sections that summarize the path of life, the book contains 137 poems that cover subjects from childhood to growing older, faith to nature, enjoying life to sorrow, love to everyday life. Editors are Vivian Gilbert Zabel, Holly Jahangiri, Becky L. Simpson, and Robert E. Blackwell.
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Vivian Zabel taught English and writing for nearly 30 years, but she has written herself since a child. When she shared her goal of becoming an author with a friend in the seventh grade, the friend laughed. She didn’t share her desire with anyone again, but she worked to become an author.
She and her late husband married in 1961 and had four children, three who lived. As an Air Force brat, she traveled from Guam to Morocco, and from Texas to Maine. But, Oklahoma was always home.
Zabel has been a member of OWFI since 2002 and the OWFI Grant Director since 2016. She was honored as the Lifetime Member in 2013. She and a friend founded an OWFI affiliate, Pen and Keyboard Writers, in Edmond, Oklahoma. Her home was in the Edmond area since 1983, but she moved to the countryside outside of Hydro, Oklahoma in 2020. She started the Invite to Write affiliate for OWFI at that time.
As a former teacher, she finds the teacher in her continues to erupt. She often presents workshops and sessions at conferences concerning writing around the nation, including the Alaska Writers Conference and the OWFI conference. She has held workshops for different groups and for OWFI affiliates.
Zabel has attained her goal of authoring several books, which include YA books The Base Stealers Club, Case of the Missing Coach, and Prairie Dog Cowboy. She has several children’s books released, I Like Pink, Where Did Panther Go?: A Panther Adventure, A Baby Doll from Santy Claus, and Wave Excitement: A Louie the Duck Story, Louie Finds a Friend, The Hatchling, and Big Bill Returns. Other Louie the Duck Stories will appear soon. Her novels are Stolen and Midnight Hours. Vivian also contributed to a book of short stories with another author and one of poetry with six others.
To learn more about Vivian Zabel and her books, go to her website VivianZabel.com.
She and her late husband married in 1961 and had four children, three who lived. As an Air Force brat, she traveled from Guam to Morocco, and from Texas to Maine. But, Oklahoma was always home.
Zabel has been a member of OWFI since 2002 and the OWFI Grant Director since 2016. She was honored as the Lifetime Member in 2013. She and a friend founded an OWFI affiliate, Pen and Keyboard Writers, in Edmond, Oklahoma. Her home was in the Edmond area since 1983, but she moved to the countryside outside of Hydro, Oklahoma in 2020. She started the Invite to Write affiliate for OWFI at that time.
As a former teacher, she finds the teacher in her continues to erupt. She often presents workshops and sessions at conferences concerning writing around the nation, including the Alaska Writers Conference and the OWFI conference. She has held workshops for different groups and for OWFI affiliates.
Zabel has attained her goal of authoring several books, which include YA books The Base Stealers Club, Case of the Missing Coach, and Prairie Dog Cowboy. She has several children’s books released, I Like Pink, Where Did Panther Go?: A Panther Adventure, A Baby Doll from Santy Claus, and Wave Excitement: A Louie the Duck Story, Louie Finds a Friend, The Hatchling, and Big Bill Returns. Other Louie the Duck Stories will appear soon. Her novels are Stolen and Midnight Hours. Vivian also contributed to a book of short stories with another author and one of poetry with six others.
To learn more about Vivian Zabel and her books, go to her website VivianZabel.com.
Burnt Offering Party, 1st signed.
Signing Joyce Childers' book w/ Mike Childers watching
Meet the Publisher at Tulsa
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Visiting and with former student, Alyson Prall
Edmond Authors' Book Festival
LexiCon Writers Conference
Reading winning poem at awards luncheon
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Buffalo Christmas Market
G.K. Davenport and Vivian Zabel
