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وقت .. اما ينطفي النور
يفضل النور جوايا ..
لسه بامل
تنشق في وسط عتمة
نجم تايه في مجرتنا
و بعت .. شعاع .. ينور بلد
وكتبت ,, بحب
و كتبت احلام كتير
الاقي في الضلمة .. نور
الاقي شمس تنور .. سكتي
اسمع كلام خير
افرح كتير
اشجع .. اللي تاه في عتمة ..
من غير امل

وقت اما ينطفي النور
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Happy Teaser Thursday, everyone! I hope you enjoy. :)

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He nods, almost convincingly, so I climb into the taxi he flags down a moment later. I slide to the far left side of the car, and he comes in right after me, gazing across the seat at me intensely all the while.

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I've been a bit busy, so just a very short story this time.

Going Home


The wind ripped the handkerchief she had been waving from her fingers and carried off high above the liner’s bows.
Despite the cold she could not bring herself to go below, she stood by the rail and watched the shore slipped furt... Read more of this blog post »

I would like to get some feedback regarding a book that I wrote and was published , January 2013. It tells of "Small Places In A Big World/ Big Worlds In Small places" true short stories that focus in on the peculiar colloquialisms of a Yooper, humorous vignettes, blended with nostalgia, sentimen... Read more of this blog post »

So, Playing for Keeps hit 2,000 adds on Goodreads (ohmygosh) and I thought that was a great excuse to give you another little teaser.

I'm not gonna lie. I've been looking for an excuse.

8 days until the cover, blurb and release date are revealed, so this will be the last one until then... Maybe. ;)... Read more of this blog post »

I have been very cautious about who I tell my true dramas to.
I never thought I would ever write a book about these dramas, but here it is.
Strange ghost stories, and strong paranormal cave stories.
Emotions hit me like a freight train writing certain paragraphs.
This amazes me how strong the emotion... Read more of this blog post »

Here's what the reviewers are saying about THE DELMAR SHARK CHRONICLES: ISOLA DI SQUALO (BOOK #1). Check it out!
The Delmar Shark Chronicles: Isola di Squalo

"This book was great! I couldn't put it down...I just had to know what would happen next."


"This story - well summarized in another review - s... Read more of this blog post »

On sale for $.99 for 8 more days...

http://www.amazon.com/Social-Prey-ebook/dp/B00BU81ADM/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1369340944&sr=1-1&keywords=social+prey+by+trista+ann+michaels

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There's a Forever You giveaway going on over at my blog! Head on over to enter! There will be 6 winners total..

3 winners will receive a Kindle copy of Forever You the day it releases!

3 winners will receive a personalized Forever You mug!

Good luck everyone!

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A snippet today from the file of I-shit-you-not: In Mississippi, a woman has been arrested for manslaughter for giving birth to a stillborn child. Clearly, the legislators of this law missed the Bible passage aboutit not being murder to destroy a fetus (Exodus 21:22-25). I’m inclined to believe t...

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So...please don't throw tomatoes, but...

I have changed the OFFICIAL release date of Precious Things to June 4, 2013.

Notice I said OFFICIAL release date--if the book is ready to upload before the 4th, you can bet it'll be uploaded!

I have a few reasons for this:

1. BEA is May 30 to June 1st, and a... Read more of this blog post »

LEXI’S HEARTby Delia Latham
COTT’s Image Creator, Delia Latham, is excited to announce a new e-Novella in the ongoing Heart’s Haven collection she co-writes with three other Pelican Book Group authors: Tanya Stowe, Marianne Evans and Mary Manners.


First in a collection of four Heart’s Haven Hol... Read more of this blog post »

This unrelated to my books but I had to share it. IT is some good news in a world that really needs it, check out the site
http://abcnews.go.com/Business/superm... Read more of this blog post »

Getting started is sometimes the hardest part of writing. Motivating yourself is usually the first step before you can even begin planning, so make sure you are excited about whatever you’re working on. If it’s a new idea that you can’t wait to push forward with, you should be able to begin the...

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The Rules for Disappearing by Ashley Elston
Publication date: May 14, 2013
Genre: YA Romantic Thriller
DESCRIPTION
She’s been six different people in six different places: Madeline in Ohio, Isabelle in Missouri, Olivia in Kentucky . . . But now that she’s been transplanted to rural Louisiana, she h... Read more of this blog post »

Writing brings both joy and pain. Any creative endeavour is a raging conflict between these two elements. Sometimes you can work all night but end up with ashes in your hands. Lawyers bill their time but a writer / artist / musician can spend hours getting absolutely nowhere.

Obviously there ar...

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This week, the

Christian Fiction Blog Alliance

is introducing

Undeniably Yours

Bethany House Publishers (May 1, 2013)


by

Becky Wade




ABOUT THE AUTHOR:






During her childhood in California, Becky frequently produced homemade plays starring her sisters, friends, and cousins. These plays almost always featu... Read more of this blog post »

What happens when an already disjointed mind such as mine steps over into insanity? Wouldn't you like to know...

Can you see what I see? Thank you @waterstones… It’s taking huge restraint to stop myself from picking it up and running around the shop as I scream, ‘I wrote this, I wrote this!’

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I have some amazing news, and I'm so excited to share it with you all!

Captive Prince has been acquired . . . by Penguin. No, really. Penguin just bought Captive Prince. They're going to be releasing the entire trilogy and selling it in bookshops and everything. I didn't even know that Penguin ha... Read more of this blog post »

Another video care of Denis M today. Does this scare you?

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Memorial Day always captures my mind and heart. Fellow author and friend, Jack London, mentioned Malmedy on Facebook today and now I can't halt that flight of imagination to the Ardennes in the brutal December of 1944 when German machine gunners mowed down hundreds of captured American GIs in col... Read more of this blog post »

This is absolutely crazy…and I mean that in the best way possible. At the end of last year/beginning of this year while I was writing Bullet, I knew it was special. But I had no freaking idea just how many people it would touch, would continue to move. And because it resonated with so many people...

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Image credit: inspirestock / 123RF Stock PhotoSometimes when I write, certain things trip me up and I get stuck. Sometimes it's how to get the heroine out of a tricky situation. Other times it's the hero's motivation in doing something. Several times I've written the entire book and not known wh... Read more of this blog post »

‫إن عالم بلا مشكلة قائمة هو عالم فارغ فكل ما نواجهه في حياتنا ما هو إلا مشكلات نسعى إلى حلها وكثيرا ما نخفق وكثيرا ما نتعايش معها ونقبلها، بل وأحيانا نحبها.

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Joseph Jeffrey Brown Bio: I’ve been writing books since age twelve and have always aspired to be an author. Music is another of my passions because I’ve listened to Beethoven since a very young age and have composed several original symphonies of my own. I live in the Pacific Northwest. Social Me... Read more of this blog post »

First, everyone will tell you it’s impossible. That’s just part of the process. Ignore them. Almost anything is possible if you go about it the right way.

When you’re sitting on your dormitory floor crying your eyes out because you can’t figure out whether it’s irresponsible to change your major...

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Let me start the intro to this Q&A by admitting that, yes, when it comes to this book, I’m extremely biased. The Blue Hour is published by Ladylit, which I co-own. This means I’ve read it multiple times and, in all honesty, every time I was astounded by its beauty. The language is mesmerisin...

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The Minxes of Romance anthology Blaze is free today until the 27th on Amazon, so if you haven't already read it, go grab it now!
Here's a little about it:
Coombethwaite, the lakeside town where passions run deep, is the setting for the stories in Blaze, the first anthology from The Minxes of Roman... Read more of this blog post »

My husband and I decided to plant a small garden along the front of our home. Since he offered to do the manual labor required to prepare the garden patch, I agreed to do the research and choose the plants [...]

CATCH A GHOST: Hell or High Water # 1 (releases 9/9/2013)

(preorder at Riptide!)

Everyone knows that Prophet—former Navy SEAL, former CIA spook, full-time pain in the ass—works alone. But his boss at Extreme Escapes, LTD. has just assigned Proph a new partner and a case haunted by ghosts from Proph...

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Squeeeeeee! Here is the cover AND blurb for my upcoming release, Baby & Bump:




At thirty years old, caterer Lexie Baump has a lot on her plate. With a business to run, she doesn’t have time for any added distractions. But one momentary indiscretion adds a little hiccup to Lexie’s plans. Sh... Read more of this blog post »

When growing up in Finland, I wore mid calf high rubber galoshes, a.k.a. boots. They were black or dark brown, felt lined, and left painful scuff marks on the back of my legs where the edge gnawed as I walked. They were a must in the climate where it rains most days when it doesn’t snow. It’s sai... Read more of this blog post »

Je déteste montrer un travail encore en cour, mais puisqu’il y a un bout de temps que je n’ai rien posté…

Voici donc la couverture presque terminée du premier tome de la série de science-fiction érotique de Annie May, simplement intitulé L’Examen médical. Parce qu’il raconte, comment dire, un ex...

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Kindle

It’s one of those… it’s decision time…points in my career.

Writing is full of them. Many of these decisions suck. The ones I’m making right now aren’t fun, but they have to be made.

Namely… about Grimm & the FBI books.

I’m probably going to be putting the Grimm series to bed. When I have t...

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As I've said here before, I'm somewhat prone to having odd conversations with people. Much of the time, the oddness is amusing -- to me, anyway.
A few months ago, a man moved into my building, right down the hall from me. Now, I didn't actually know his name until last week (we're not exactly frie... Read more of this blog post »

As I am currently in the midst of querying one project, polishing another, and making notes on a rewrite for this summer I have been hitting the internet for help. I thought I would share five resources I seem to be using a lot lately.

1. QueryTracker - By far one of the best sites for fiction wri... Read more of this blog post »

Click on the banner to check out my guest post on this fabulous website!

And don't forget to register for the giveaway! Read more of this blog post »

So the fam dragged me to Costco. All I wanted to do was be alone and read my Kindle, but would anyone listen? NO. So we walk into Costco and I said “I have to go to the bathroom.”

This seemed reasonable to Alpha Man, and he headed off to the tool section.

I didn’t go to the bathroom. I went straigh...

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Both (of course!) by Jennifer Durham. We have others, but these will do for now. Read more of this blog post »

…that you guys are awesome? ❤❤❤ Seriously, I love you all SO DARNED MUCH!!! How did I get such an awesome bunch of readers? *mwah!*

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As part of First Visions Birthday celebration, I was feeling nostalgic and I found this interview Kate Edwards did last year as part of my very first blog tour. The answers are so Kate lol and I even dropped in a few hints about things that happen in later books. Just a reminder First Visions: S... Read more of this blog post »

by Lynne Marshall

Back in February I blogged about how breaking a bone in my foot ruined the special plans my husband had made for us on Valentine’s Day. Well, three months later, I got a rain check. We went on a walking food tour in Santa Monica on the Saturday before Mother’s Day, and had a gre...

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When you're hard at work writing your next great literary piece, be it short form or novel, do you listen to music or TV, or are you like me, a writer needing silence to accomplish anything of substance?

A few months ago, some of us writers posted comments concerning this very issue on the Koobug... Read more of this blog post »

I was listening to Dead Robots Society, and they were talking about genres in writing, their uses, and how they help/hinder things in the literary world.

One thing they mentioned was how comedy and horror aren't really genres, as they are more of something that is blanketed over a story. Romance... Read more of this blog post »

I am so excited to show off today’s gorgeous cover from the upcoming release, SOUL SURVIVOR, written by my good friend Michelle Nicole! I’m lucky to know Michelle and I can’t wait to read her book

Release Date: June 2013

Genre: YA, Paranormal romance

Cover Designer: Okay Creations

Book Synopsis:

Ha...

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