Portage, Indiana author releases debut novel

PORTAGE, Ind. - July 25, 2013 - PRLog -- CONTACT:  Dale Ailes, (219)707-2005
Email: dalealies@frontier.com

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PORTAGE, INDIANA RESIDENT AND FORMER PORTAGE TOWNSHIP SCHOOLS TEACHER DEBUT NOVEL

“My name is Zander. I am in fourth grade. I do not have a hero because my teacher says a hero is someone that saves somebody else. I need to find a hero somewhere because I need saved. My mommy drinks way too much and when she does she yells a lot and hits me. She never makes me dinner. I only eat cereal. She used to give me baths that make me sick. The doctor says that bleach makes me sick so maybe she must have been washing me with bleach. I am never allowed out of my room. She beats me so hard sometimes that I can’t walk. I cry so much. I remember one time when the doorbell rang at home; she grabbed me and locked me in the trunk of her car. She always says I am a bad boy, but I don’t know what I did. So if there are any heroes left in the world, I need a hero….please send me a hero.”

Portage, Indiana, July 25, 2013—Portage resident and author, Dale S. Ailes has just released his debut novel, Asleep with One Eye Open. His book is available through Amazon.com and published through Createspace.

Ailes, a former fourth grade teacher from Central Elementary School in Portage, Indiana, has been working toward publication for three years while balancing a full time job and family life. Ailes has a Bachelor’s Degree in Elementary Education from Purdue University North Central. He is currently attending Walden University to pursue his Master’s Degree in Higher Education. Ailes has been active in the community, including coaching for Portage Junior Miss Softball, and Portage Youth Basketball.

Set in Northwest Indiana, Asleep with One Eye Open is a contemporary story about a boy named Zander that endures a life of abuse. He is looking for a hero to save him, and looks to the ones he feels are the only ones that can, his teachers. Asleep with One Eye Open explores the steps that lead to the abuse and how it is handled, or mishandled, by the school. Asleep with One Eye Open is not only about the abuse, but also is about the whole process of surviving the abuse with a surprise ending.

The goal behind Asleep with One Eye Open is to create a story about child abuse that varies from other novels on this topic. Most books about child abuse are telling what happened to the abused child. Dale S. Ailes created this story to address the events leading up to the abuse to how the child is saved.

Ailes is available for interviews and appearances. For booking presentations, media appearances, interviews, and/or book-signings contact through email at dalealies@frontier.com or by contacting him through his webpage at http://dalesailes.weebly.com