Back in spring of 1987, Spirit directed me to start publishing a newsletter about UFOs, in an effort to help the contactees. That's when I became an associate director of UFO Contact Center International, a nonprofit organization out of Seattle, Washington.
THE STAR BEACON has grown over the last 20 years and goes to subscribers throughout the United States and abroad. I welcome your letters and will consider articles on the subjects listed on the index page.
Also available soon will be an extensive Subject Index listing all the articles over the past 20 years, complete with a brief description. The Subject Index is available for free on-line, and is a valuable commodity for the UFO researcher or anyone interested in UFOs and related phenomena.
I am Ann Ulrich Miller, editor and publisher of THE STAR BEACON. I grew up in a comfortable little suburb of Madison, Wisconsin, called MONONA -- and obtained my degree in Creative Writing from Michigan State University. In 1978, I "landed" in Colorado with my family. I have three sons:
Ryan, 30, who graduated with three degrees (Bachelors in Art and Theater and a Masters in Art) from Adams State College last spring. He currently works for Comfort Inn and the State of Colorado in Alamosa. Marty (the musical Mau), 26, moved to Southern California five years ago and holds several part-time jobs. Scott, 21, is a computer engineer who recently graduated from DeVry University in Westminster, Colorado, and now works for Fast Inc. in Salt Lake City.
My mother, Marion Schumacher, resides in Madison, Wisconsin, after living 12 years in Pahrump, Nevada. Dad passed on in June 1999 while vacationing in Wisconsin. We miss him very much. My oldest brother, Jon Schumacher, and his wife, Sally, live in Pahrump, Nevada. Brother Jim, married to Linda, and they live in Darien, Wisconsin, near the Illinois border. My younger brother, Paul Schumacher, and his wife, Sally, live in Winnemucca, Nevada, where Paul is a gold mining engineer. Sister Laurie Schumacher lives a busy life in south-central Wisconsin, as does youngest sister, Alice Derra and her son Luke.
I live in a beautiful place with my "divine counterpart" (we've been married for 5 1/2 years now) and spend my days taking care of him, writing, practicing music and getting a preview of retirement.
I write novels, by the way, under the name Ann Carol Ulrich. My latest novel, published in August 2006, is THE MYSTERY AT HICKORY HILL, a young adult mystery. I wrote the final segment of my sci-fi trilogy, THE LIGHT BEING, which was published in January 2005.
Before that, in
November 1999, I published NIGHT OF THE NOVEMBER MOON, inspired by the years I lived in Michigan. This one's a romance/mystery and deals with the return of a lost love and the haunted Pelton Manor... a modern-day Gothic! See the Book Gallery and read Chapter One and Two on-line. The book is also now available in PDF format as an ebook (much cheaper!). If you like science fiction, combined with a touch of romance, I suggest you browse in the Book Gallery for INTIMATE ABDUCTION and its exciting sequel, RETURN TO TERRA, both available from Earth Star Publications, Amazon.com or Barnes & Noble.
One day soon my novel Sonata Summer will be out. Based upon the years I lived and worked in the Aspen, Colorado area, this romance novel describes what it was like to be a local Aspenite in the late '70s, early '80s, and touches upon the supernatural at times. Everyone will enjoy it.
I welcome your correspondence and invite you to write me at starbeacon@gmail.com.
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