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Society needs people who take care of the elderly and who know how to be compassionate and honest

Alvin Toffler, The Third Wave


All around him lay his comrades, brave men of the 24th. The crack of rifles mingled with the cries of the wounded. He loaded a cartridge into the breach of... Read more of this blog post »

It totally slipped my brain to warn you that Lying does end with a cliffhanger.

I, myself, hate reading a book and expecting a HEA, or at the very least for all the loose ends to fix themselves, but then getting there and it's a totally unexpected cliffhanger. Sometimes it heightens my excitement... Read more of this blog post »

British inventor Richard Browning is selling his own Iron Man suit, known as the Gravity Industries Jet Suit, for a little over $500,000 at the upscale Selfridges Department Store in London.

The suit is propelled by mini jet engines on the arms and back. It goes 32 miles an hour and rises to 12,00... Read more of this blog post »

Aloha!

Wandering is on sale this week on Amazon! The Kindle price is $1.99, and if you have Kindle Unlimited you can always read for free.

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"Her stories will crack you up—and they will inspire you. As someone with no sense of direction, no ability to plan, and plenty of social anxiety, her experi... Read more of this blog post »

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NUMBER ONE

My request

I want to read: Experimental/weird short fiction collections, recent release poetry collections (prefer urban short form chapbooks/ pocketbooks), horror anthologies, and contemporary literary short story collect... Read more of this blog post »

Well all. I'm still recovering from my Achilles tendon surgery. I'm still in pain although my wound is 'dry and healing'...

I hope to be walking better in a month, and fast walking/biking in 6 weeks or so. In the mean time, I would like to say thanks to my friends who have been helping me with my... Read more of this blog post »

My books are light, entertaining reads. While they may be, at times, enlightening or educational; they certainly are not academic,"Tolstoyan" works. Do you tend to stick to one genre? How do YOU choose your next read? I'm sharing this blog piece to help with your selection process! 😊

https://paper... Read more of this blog post »

Episode II - The Exaggerator

So, what did my psychological evaluation determine?

Well, apparently I’m a pathological liar with a tendency to exaggerate.

Me? Lie and exaggerate?

I suppose that doesn’t really make me the best narrator for this really does it? Well, you’re just going to have to make do,... Read more of this blog post »

While most Americans (not the Kool-Aid drinking Trump cultists) watch in horror an insane bigot destroying our nation and creating havoc around the world, the media focuses on how our foreign adversary Russia attacked our democracy in 2016 and how the attack continues as the monster they created... Read more of this blog post »

Hello,
The Planet of the Last Judgment, a sci-fi story resembling the Running Man, is now (till July 25) for FREE.
Get your copy here:

https://www.amazon.com/Planet-Last-Ju... Read more of this blog post »

While we are waiting for Saving Michael to reappear don't forget to check out the suspense novel Avenging Angels that Kirkus writes is "A somber but absorbing tale..." Not all child abuse goes unpunished...

I'm just finishing up the first full draft of a new book I've been working on. It's about a teenage girl falling in love for the first time but what's it's really about is how young girls compromise themselves for what they think they want.
It's funny and very personal and if you like Mean Girls o... Read more of this blog post »

IDOL TALK: Women Writers on the Teenage Infatuations That Changed Their Lives edited by Elizabeth Searle and Tamra Wilson is a collection of forty-four essays on the women and men who influenced the mature selves of women writers. These are the figures who guided the writers' growing up. In these... Read more of this blog post »

The Casquette Girls
Adele returns to New Orleans after being sent to her aloof, Parisian mother due to a hurricane that ravaged the city. Adele has a great relationship with her bartender/artist father and they struggle to return to their former lives.
Adele soon learns that not all is as it shou... Read more of this blog post »

"WHAT IF..."

What if the moon had a portal
A way out of hell
What if the earth crashed into the sun
Go to sleep never to wake well.
What if God had enough
And said this was a bad plan
What if we are being tested
To see what is man.
What if your soul was being tried
The earths' rotation coming to a still
Th... Read more of this blog post »

July 21st. 2018

The book talk at Littlehampton went well. The photo here shows me with two of our Chindi authors, Helen Christmas and Christine Hammacot. About twenty people turned up (there are others out of shot sitting in the comfortable armchairs at the back of the room) and were quite an atte... Read more of this blog post »

I never thought I would be a published author. The journey of becoming a published author from an unknown writer was a long and a tough journey. My first book; she is alive in her She is Alive in Her: Am I Worth Her?
was a pure work of my lifetime imagination. The book portrays a story which I wi... Read more of this blog post »

Each morning comes new and full of hope. Steam from coffee rises to nostrils, opening your senses to a new day. Refreshing your mind. Slowly thoughts align to plan your day. Soon they will be formed like a well planned parade. But sometimes even in the best parades ,things dont go as planned. Som... Read more of this blog post »

A young woman takes on causes like lint tape, and in the process threaten to drag down her love ones along in her wake. Read more of this blog post »

Miriam, Binyamin, and their father live in 1st-century Alexandria, a city that vacillates between stunning beauty and wealth and harsh cruelty mounting against its Jewish residents. Miriam is resisting the increasing pressure to marry Noah, the son of a wealthy business partner. Her secret passio... Read more of this blog post »

I have to admit I have been remiss these past few days in posting. So freakin’ much has been happening here in Denver, it’s all I can do just to keep up!

Let’s recap.

Thursday was the Kensington Book Signing.

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My table was filled with readers all wanting a copy of my newest Lyrical bo...

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11:02AM
Well, got a new order this morning, fairly small one so I've already done the edit of what they had already written and provided the 1500+ words that they wanted. Feeling pretty good this morning in spite of how utterly drunk I had gotten last night. Still gotta work on that novella, finis... Read more of this blog post »

I'm pleased to announce that my fifth novel will be released on 10/29/18.

After writing four WWII thrillers, I decided to write a murder mystery.

HONOR the DEAD: Italy, 1921
Six English survivors of the Great War converge on Lake Como, Italy in 1921. Four men and two women = one corpse and one kill... Read more of this blog post »

When A Short History of a Small Place was being submitted to publishers thirty-odd years ago, one editor turned it down with the comment "Too many words." Just last week, an editor passed on the latest (and probably last) Ray Tatum book with "Too much dialogue."

So I've gone from too many words to... Read more of this blog post »

I'm so excited about the announcement of the Hush, Hush series getting a film deal! It's one of my favorite YA Sci-Fi books.

What book news are you excited about?

We are in high summer now. Each night here in Oklahoma we hope that it might cool down just enough so that you can go out and bring the sodas in from the car that you were too lazy to bring in earlier. No, it is still too hot. It will still be too hot at six in the morning. I guess we can look fo... Read more of this blog post »

"That, if I then had waked after long sleep,
Will make me sleep again: and then, in dreaming,
The clouds methought would open and show riches
Ready to drop upon me that, when I waked,
I cried to dream again."

The Tempest- William Shakespeare



Looking for something different to read? Why not try one of... Read more of this blog post »

Sphere by Michael Crichton

My rating: 4 of 5 stars


I liked this character driven novel. In the midst of action and suspense, the characters learn things about themselves despite all their attempts not to.



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Lykos snarled as he took a man’s arm off at the shoulder.  They kept shooting him with silver bullets.  The amount of waste was starting to become annoying.  He used the arm to strike the last one across the face, sending the man flying back over the balcony.

“Wow.”  He looked over to see Laura. ...

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[image error]Astray by J.F. Rogers is a young adult Christian fantasy fiction book. The main character, Fallon, is an orphan who receives an amulet on her seventeenth birthday from a neglectful and abusive grandmother. The artifact leads her through a portal to a mythical realm in which she learn...

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What is your brand, and is it protected? I grew up believing my brand was “me” and I didn’t have to do much about it except be “me.” The “me” brand can change: the photo shows an old one. But everyone’s experienced how being yourself can be challenging and people around you might see, or claim to...

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Chapter Three

Alex took me out to the desert north of Phoenix. It was an odd choice, considering out here the heat could rise and make seventy degrees feel like a hundred, but he said that we couldn't go to an indoor shooting range because I wasn't eighteen.Again, my age brought up as a hindranc... Read more of this blog post »

Can we control - or at least guide and sway -- important processes that some call uncontrollable? 

Certainly not big, chaotic things like the weather -- though steering civilization away from suicidal climate damage may qualify.  But what about hugely complex things like a modern economy? Or a sap... Read more of this blog post »

“You are now under my absolute command,”
“And you shall listen to my every demand:”
“Take this keyboard from my hand,”
“And present your writings to all the land.”

Yes, it is all true: I am obsessed with poems, narrative poems to be more precise, narrative poems that rhyme to be ultra-precise.
I love... Read more of this blog post »

Special shout-out to those who are willing to leave their comfort zones and step out on faith! It’s time to do a new thing!

With Love, Dr. KL 

Author of “Every Day Isn’t Perfect”: amazon.com/author/iamklregister

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So there's this question I've gotten a few times:



My usual answer:







But today I'll be answering in more detail!

So of course, I have a playlist for my current work, Of Broken Things and Paint Splatterings, listen to it here if you want:

Wow, that worked?? ^^ I'm very proud of myself!!! Okay, movin... Read more of this blog post »

Ik vond het idee voor dit onderwerp bij Femke en eigenlijk vind ik het wel leuk om er aandacht aan te besteden, want wanneer ben ik nu het productiefste en heb ik het minste last van een writersblock? Dit is bij iedereen natuurlijk anders en ik wilde graag vertellen hoe het bij mij zit! Zomer = v... Read more of this blog post »

Ooops, I did it again! Since we had such a dismal hatch a week or so ago during the sudden heatwave, I just might have gotten some more chicks! I mean what was I to do?  I still had two broodies and really, really wanted some of the Ice Cream Bars (half Cream Legbar and half Isbar) from My Pet C... Read more of this blog post »

Here it is… the final cover for the final book in The Celestial Rose series.

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Book four, Eternal Ending.

Blurb:

There is no time to grieve in hell.
Just when Taylor thought she had a grip on her spiralled life, she was thrown for another loop. With the universe itself seemingly conspirin... Read more of this blog post »

Hey everyone!  I know it's only been a week, but it feels like at least three have gone by.  So since last week, I've

Gotten my first flat tire  (which was never a milestone I wanted to reach)Completed 40 (yes, FORTY) tasks for one week's worth of learning in my "happiness" class (yes, I put happi... Read more of this blog post »

[image error]It’s been a while since I posted a blog article on “Things I Think”, so I decided to go back and revisit a bunch of my favorite songs from the 1980’s. I’ve listed a bunch of them here, in no particular order of favorites.

These songs all remind me of growing up in the MTV generation....

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Hi everyone! Welcome back to another great edition (Can I call it that?) of Golden Seals Hockey! Some truly great stuff has been put up on the site this week, so check this out…

This week, I’ve posted a great, rare article from Sports Illustrated entitled “These Seals Refuse to Play Dead”. It is o...

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A blog reader sends this from the DePaul University Loop Campus Bookstore in Chicago:

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My daughter found these in the “Eastern Religions” section of the B&N in Camp Hill, Pennsylvania:

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Orik gets an "A" for effort. #baby #rollingover

A post shared by Tim DeRoche (@huckandmiguel) on Jul 21, 2018 at 6:23pm PDT

 

One of my screenwriting teachers turned me onto this idea of impressive failure as an important tool in getting your audience to bond with the protagonist of your fi...

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I was reminded of Dr. Seuss’ classic book today. “There are more than 1,000 books here,” my exhausted Dad said, pointing to the three cartons of books awaiting transport that jam up the staircase in our house. I grinned, waiting to unpack my beloved books and sort them out. “Look at these albums... Read more of this blog post »

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