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I'm giving away review copies of my book, Uncuffed, The Vault #1! You can get your copy by clicking the link below. This is open to EVERYONE. Uncuffed can be read as a standalone. Book two, Unreserved, releases on Friday!

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Now available. The Dating Policy Listed as a Goodreads giveaway. Win one of two copies including my promotional package. Or can't wait. Buy on Amazon, Barnes & Noble. Read more of this blog post »

Have you ever thought about going back in time to visit someone? My next book describes what happens when I traverse time to visit my great great grandpa David.

More details to come.

I'm working on my second Letty Valdez mystery. The title of the new book is Dragon's Revenge.

I've been thinking about language and how fraught it is with controversy these days.

Some people seem to think that telling a falsehood is perfectly okay. If called on the lie, they double down and tell... Read more of this blog post »

Blog Tour Stop

7/23/2018

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My blog tour stop today for my book MEMOIRS OF A ROAD WARRIOR is at :http://www.iheartreading.net/
Please look in on it.
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Top 10 Reason to Read with TL Christianson #bewitchingbooktours http://ow.ly/p2LX30l4vSb

Virtual Book Tour & Giveaway: Frenchman Street: Sentinels of New Orleans Book Six by Suzanne Johnson #bewitchingbooktours http://ow.ly/U8Ua30l4vQh

Interview A Taste of Your Own Magic by Katie Salidas #bewit... Read more of this blog post »

If anyone has listened to Ralph Lister's narration and enjoyed it, please feel free to put up reviews and/or ratings here:

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Gandalf was not in the lodging, and Pippin went with Beren of the Guard, and he was shown to the others of the third company and welcomed by them, and made merry with them, taking his midday meal among them in a little hall near the north wall, and going here and there with others until the eveni... Read more of this blog post »

Dear Sounds,

I'm happy to share my Goodreads eBook giveaway with you. Between now and August 6th, enter to win 1 of 100 eBooks ofThe Crystilleries of Echoland.

Enter the giveaway: https://www.goodreads.com/giveaway/en...

Hope to see you in Echoland,

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Every time I visit Washington DC, I like to venture into a museum. Just one a visit. I am blessed to go often, so I have this luxury. Last week I visited the Museum of American History. I intended to see the display of First Lady gowns. I was so intrigued how the fashions of the first ladies refl... Read more of this blog post »

Yoga for Pain
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A study by Kuvacic et al. (2018) concluded that “The yoga program and education together appear to be effective in reducing depression and anxiety, which can affect perception of pain.”
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Reference:
Kuvacic, G., Fratini, P., Padulo, J., Antonio, D. I., & De Giorgi... Read more of this blog post »

Denzel Washington reprises his role as Robert McCall. This time, he no longer works at the home improvement store; he’s a driver for Lyft. The story opens not at his home in the U.S.A. but on a train in Turkey. There, he confronts a man who has stolen his daughter from his wife and moved back to... Read more of this blog post »

Yes, I am *finally* on Facebook. I'd love to see you there!

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BENEATH A STARLIT SKY
By International Bestselling Author
Bella Emy



Coming Soon on Kindle & Kindle Unlimited

Zach + Rae
A romance destined for the stars

Blurb:
My first love.
The one I fell for so quickly.
The one who stole my heart and made me believ... Read more of this blog post »

There are THREE DAYS until the Finding Tomorrow cover drops! I cannot wait to share this beauty with you. Pre-Order will be available too.

Many think the repentant thief on the cross next to Jesus had no time to "live for Jesus", and he certainly did not have a lot of time.

BUT , when a close examination of his salvation is made... it is AMAZING what he actually did "see" and "recognize" and "do".

Below is a link to a brief (one... Read more of this blog post »

IS SUICIDE REALLY PAINLESS?

Part 7

Continued from Part 6

   So what does all of this identity stuff have to do with depression and suicidal thoughts?
   Having a false personality or persona doesn’t make one want to take their own life does it?
   The answer to the second questions is no. The answ... Read more of this blog post »

One of the best things about writing memoirs is getting letters from people who say, “My God, your mother Pledged the paneling every week? So did mine!” Or, “Hey, I threw up on a girl’s vagina, too.” The kinship of shared experiences is a pretty powerful thing. And when readers see themselves in...

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How do you get people to recognize your contributions, preferably on a daily basis? You don’t want to sit and wait for it, that’s for sure. But you may not want to blow your own horn either—or butter people up just to get a quid pro quo. Here’s a better idea...

The clouds speak to me

tell me stories of how I was raised

by their water

they tell me

one day the sky broke in half

and I was born

on that day 

the sun kissed my cheek 

and promised to always touch my skin

on that day 

a thousand stars

fell and landed on my tongue

they would later give me the ability to spe...

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Greetings beautiful children of God! Happy Sunday! I appreciate you taking the time out of your day to read my blog! Today, I wanted to share some great news! I reached the five book sold milestone for Metaphysics of a Dead Ex-Church Girl! The next milestone for my E book is ten books! I already...

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If you're unaware, the Third Quarto made its debut yesterday at the I.O.W.A signing!

It was an excellent event--we were located in the (extremely nice and wonderful) Cedar Rapids Knights of Columbus hall, which was a beautiful and comfortable location that offered a certain palpable irony to my re...

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Happy Sunday everyone! Hubs and I stumbled back into the house yesterday after spending the week in Denver at the National RWA conference. There was so much going on, I could write blog posts for the next month about all the happenings and who I did and didn't see. (This year I didn't run into ne... Read more of this blog post »

A get away to a family members home turns into terror as they discover a recent remodel has awoken the dead.

Spirits plague a late night worker every night at a very disturbing time.

A tragic story of life, death, loss and strange coincidence.

If you have a real ghost story or supernatural event to...

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The day I went to give my wedding invitation, my then boss (a lady in her mid-fifties) commented sarcastically “So, now you will have two jobs.” Back then I was a naive young girl of 26 years, obviously, I didn’t understand the drift and even found her comment quite cynical. The old...

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夏天，來日本的最大收穫是買水果。

我們吃完岡山最好最成熟的白桃之後，到桃園的小賣店，可先訂好，到時送到機場，包裝完美，不怕撞爛，貨運回家。

平時在大型超級市場也多多少少買些在路上吃。到了最後一天，去黑門市場， 各團友見到其他水果豐滿，又掏腰包。

靜岡的蜜瓜出名，每一個三四千円不等，看到有些一個賣一萬五，外表和便宜的一樣，團友問：「為甚麼相差那麼遠？」

我指著蜜瓜旁邊那塊牌子，寫著「一木一果」四個字。

水果店店主解釋：「一條蜜瓜藤可長十多個小蜜瓜。把其他的剪掉，使到蜜汁都供應剩下那一個，所以要賣貴一點了。」

想起真理教教主麻原落網的故事，此君躲在富士山腳，沒人找得到他。因為他愛吃蜜瓜，買最貴的。鄉下的...

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ઈ.સ. પૂરવે ૨૨૦૦.
સથળ: ભારતવરષનું મહતવપૂરણ બંદર લોથલ.

નગરી પીળી માટીથી બનેલા આવાસોથી શોભી રહી છે. ઘૂઘવતો અરબી સમુદર કાળા પથથરોની દિવાલ સાથે અથડાઈ જે ધવનિ ઉતપનન કરે છે તેનાથી દરેક લોથલવાસી રોમાંચ અનુભવે છે. બળદની ઘૂઘરીઓ, ઘોડાનાં ડાબલાઓ અને હાથીઓનો ઘંટ નગરીના નાદમાં મધુરાશ ઉમેરે છે. નગરની રમણીઓ મોતી... Read more of this blog post »

AmazoniTunesGoogle PlayKobo The light fades as she runs for her life, the forest now becoming quieter around her. The only noise she hears is the sound of footsteps following her...
It’s hiking season in Black Rock Falls and the small town in Montana is flooded with visitors. But when a hiker... Read more of this blog post »

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Anders Gustafsson became chief executive officer and a director of Zebra on September 4, 2007. Prior to joining Zebra Technologies, Mr. Gustafsson served as CEO of Spirent Communications plc, a publicly-traded telecommunications company.

At Spirent, Mr. Gustafsson redirected that c...

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Once I climbed

the walls of a canyon

just to release my voice beneath

a sky tinged with red velvet and rubies

it echoed hollow and flat before returning

to fill spaces and cracks and indigence

replacing thoughts of emboldened bitterness

The Milky Way created calligraphy in the dark

and I ca...

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The Young Justice: Outsiders trailer was released a couple of days ago and you can imagine I’m excited for the show.

I’ll talk more about the show in the coming weeks, but I want to continue my reviews of Young Justice: Invasion episodes. I’m at the halfway point, in which viewers get a lot of qu...

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Dear Peggy, Is it good form to end the book with a cliffhanger or does it alienate the reader? I read a book recently where a major sub-plot was unresolved and it has me on the fence. Hanging by a Thread Dear Hanging, Ah, cliffhangers. You want readers to come back for book two and … Continue rea... Read more of this blog post »

(Mercenary Vessel Fall of Theramore, Interstellar Space)
“Message received from the advance scouts, milady! The target has left Dimiya, heading for Nania as planned.”
Lady Proudmoore nodded to the technician. “Very well. Assume that they have military drives. These are freighters, not military, so... Read more of this blog post »

Today’s question: “I loved your observations on how Gen 12-14 traces out the history of Israel (in advance of that history!). Fascinating stuff! Could you kindly elaborate some more on that? For example, is Sarai representative of Israel in Egyptian captivity? Who does Lot represent, etc.?”

If you...

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Matt Doyle's tech-noir PI Cassie Tam is at it again in a fantastic second book. Cassie has promised her tech-shifter girlfriend, Lori, to take some easy cases and get a little break. When she reluctantly takes a seemingly innocent missing dog case for a mysterious performance artist, Cassie shoul... Read more of this blog post »

When social media was new, I was all over it. I could use it and I could understand it. I could even avoid looking like an idiot. Then I turned fifty.

Now, I can't seem to master even the basic "requirements" for authors to have to use social media to promote their work. The first is I have a fear... Read more of this blog post »

Shinobu Hashimoto
Shinobu Hashimoto (1918-2018) fue un guionista, director y productorjaponés, que colaboró frecuentemente con el cineasta Akira Kurosawa. Shinobu nació en Hyogo, Japón el 18 de abril de 1918. En 1938 se alistó en el ejército, a punto de comenzar la Segunda Guerra Mundial, pero se... Read more of this blog post »

What does it take to be an author? One might ask.

I am living that experience. I can say it has been simultaneously exciting and disappointing, hopeful and discouraging, the best of times, the worst of times. I wrote a book, so what is the next step? No, really, what do I do next?

In my search for...

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I found myself relaxing into this delightful film, set against the backdrop of a beautiful Greek island (actually shot up the coast in Croatia) and the upbeat tempo of timeless ABBA songs. In addition to hearing the old favorites—“Dancing Queen” and “Waterloo”—we are introduced to lesser-known so... Read more of this blog post »

Blimey, it's been a busy few weeks for news, hasn't it? Sometime ago, I wrote that I was going to try and use my phone less, in a bid to aid my sanity. But that didn't take into account the fact the world was going to implode. Night after night I scroll through madness, reading every hot take I c... Read more of this blog post »

Staffing needs for digital projects depend on the project’s size and complexity. Training existing staff members to work on digitization projects is a critical component of change management within the institution because digital projects require new skills. The digital age is moving memory insti...

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Big sketchbook.

Gah! Cover reveal day is finally here! I can't begin to tell you how excited I am for you to see this cover!!! I'm going on a little less than 5 hours of sleep!!!!

I hope you love it as much as I do!!!!

A Kiss Beneath the Stars Cover is finally here!!!!

Blurb:

After a brutal loss and messy divorce,... Read more of this blog post »

“I might be transgender, but I’m also a normal kid!”
A page from my new comic book, Trans-Lucid : A Netfiix Drama (which you’ll find here)

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(This week’s edition of A Creative Space features the end–the epilogue–to the very first novel I wrote called Wild Cherries. If you weren’t here last Monday, I call this my “practice novel” lol. It’s a women’s fiction story, and it will never see the light of day other than here. You can catc...

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For those of you that are wondering how it is that Kinsey got a featured role in the Ranger series, I offer the following. A dog with personality!

 

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I said I’d post the conclusion of The Sweetest Days this week. I lied. Not intentionally! I don’t like serial pieces because I have no OFF button, but between my great-aunt duties, Camp NaNo, and my finger hovering over the publish button on another piece, my brain is like a bowl of...

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READ ORIGINAL ARTICLE AT THE WASHINGTON POST

By Garry Kasparov

President Trump and Russian president-for-life Vladimir Putin’s news conference in Helsinki on Monday was the lowest point in the history of the American presidency. Standing next to a dictatorial leader accused by U.S. intelligence a...

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May not be for everybody, but for some of bus it has become everything.
Happy Monday folks.
A little post of what is going in my head today.
I always amwriting stuff and promoting my blog posts, which are my random thoughts on various that can occur for me any given day & of course I wrote and p... Read more of this blog post »