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I have a little short story in this anthology from Flame Tree Publishing! My story "Stardust" is about a sexbot with a heart of fire who finds her way out of a complicated relationship with a cop . . . all set in the future and with a 20s nostalgia feel. 

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I picked out what I wanted for my birthday, and his name was Hunter. ♥


He was out of my league, but I’d had just enough alcohol that things like that no longer seemed to matter. I’m not fat, mind you, but you can tell I like french fries, so there’s that. ;)


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I still remember that numb mixture of joy and uncertainty that enveloped me as I stared at the life changing double line on the pregnancy test kit.

I was going to become a mother!

The long wait for this to happen and the celebration of the news is for another blog post. Along with the exhilaratio...

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Here it is. The beginning of my first novel. I was 15 at the time, so yes, there’s a lot of influence by things I had seen and experienced. But I really thought at the time that they were all … Continue reading → Read more of this blog post »

Resistance romance has gone global. It makes sense: idealists everywhere are being squashed under the steamroller of corporate and government interests. Women suffer silently in “toxic workplaces that reward mediocre men,” to quote Naya Llamas, the heroine of What Kind of Day. These women need th...

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Scene 1: Repub Administration adopts inhumane policy separating immigrant children from parents

Scene 2: Repub Senators FINALLY defy President & decide to fix problem

Scene 3: Dem Senators summarily reject Repub proposal for the sake of politics (midterms)#ThisIs...

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Dreamers,il 12 Giugno è uscito L'amore nella fila 27 di Eithne Shortall, edito DeA Planeta. Scopriamo insieme qualche dettaglio in più su questa storia d'amore.Titolo: L'amore nella fila 27Autore: Eithne ShortallEditore: DeA PlanetaPrezzo: 7,99 Euro EbookData di pubblicazione: 12 Giugno 2018Gener... Read more of this blog post »

Now I know how decent AND intelligent Austrians must have felt before March 12, 1938, the day of the Anschluss. Most had not believed that the day would ever come, they just shook their heads in disbelief when they heard Hitler frothing at the mouth, demanding more and more concessions from them.... Read more of this blog post »

  by Doug Lewars   Either a villain is fleeing from the forces of law-and-order or your hero is fleeing from overwhelming danger, but in either case you need a chase scene. Any form of transportation can be used and the overall structure of the narrative will be reasonably uniform although the sp... Read more of this blog post »

Po dużym zawodzie jakim był „Alex Strangelove” od Netflixa niemal wszyscy moi czytelnicy polecali mi wybrać się do kina na „Love, Simon”, film o podobnym założeniu, ale zdecydowanie lepszej realizacji. I mieli rację. Do pewnego stopnia „Love, Simon” (przyzwyczaiłam się do angielskieg tytułu ale p...

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Cine îmi urmărește activitatea pe Goodreads sau YouTube știe că nu stau foarte bine la capitolul lectură anul acesta până acum și că dacă vreau să-mi ating targetul de 45 de cărți până în 2019, trebuie să trag tare în lunile rămase. M-am gândit să fac această postare pentru a oferi lămuriri în ac... Read more of this blog post »

Sometimes authors come to me with very little idea of what they envision for their cover...and other times, they know exactly what they want. Now, knowing exactly what they want can occasionally be difficult, if that "what" is complicated. ;-) But other times, it makes it oh so easy to deliver a... Read more of this blog post »

My interest in ‘news’ and the political events across India (and the world) is sporadic at best. Most times, I am off the radar – I hear everything I want to know through friends who are better-informed – until such time as something happens that prompts me to sit up and do some reading on my own...

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By Julia Jacobs

Humans, it turns out, can annoy more than just one another. In fact, some animal populations are escaping their Homo sapiens cohabitants by sleeping more during the day, a new study finds.

Mammals across the globe are becoming increasingly nocturnal to avoid humans’ expanding presen...

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I love to read. I actually have a list of every single new book I’ve read (not counting kids picture books that I read to nieces and nephews) for over 20 years! When we were young, my mom counted reading as school. That was the kind of school I loved! But we had to keep […]

Летом прошлого года мне посчастливилось путешествовать на машине почти 3 недели по Испании и Франции и проехать обе эти страны с остановками в разных городах с севера на юг и обратно. На пути домой одним из последних городов стал французский Блуа (фр. Blois), который на Луаре и всего около двух ч... Read more of this blog post »

Fort Lauderdale’s Wilton Manors Stonewall Festival:

Oceans of Diversity

For the first time in my life as a gay man I wasn’t just an observer but a participant in a gay pride event, and Fort Lauderdale’s, held this past Saturday in the heart of America’s current gay capital, Wilton Manors, was one t...

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It has become the norm and well-accepted that the United States has a role in shaping the geopolitical climate and determining the conduct that is permitted in our current global order. Any country that does not comply is sanctioned economically, invaded militarily, overthrown covertly, or destab... Read more of this blog post »

My latest poetry title now has a page up at New York publisher Spuyten Duyvil’s website, which suggests you can totally start pre-ordering copies . Huzzah!
You can order from them directly, or wait for September or so, when I’ll most likely have a box of copies (or you could support me via Patr... Read more of this blog post »

amadryades:

Geroge Seferis, from “Helen”- tr. by 

Edmund Keeley

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BIG CONGRATS to the winners from my surprise video giveaway from last week!
Sara Godin Linerode -- Won a paperback copy of ANYTHING FOR LOVE
Jane Bassett-Nelson -- Won a paperback copy of LOVE AT LAST
Linda Markley -- Won a paperback of EMBRACING HER HEART.

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Parecchie persone dissuadono altre persone dall’intraprendere qualcosa perché: “Tanto avrai solo delusioni”. Sono delusioni quando non sei preparato ad affrontarle. Se scegli di creare, tu sai che (probabilmente) avrai delusioni. E perché lo fai, allora? Perché ti sei preparato.  Annunci

Massive Camp of Refugees from Syria in Za’atri, Jordan COGwriter June 20th has been designated as World Refugee Day: For June 20, 2018 In a world where violence forces thousands of families to flee for their lives each day, the time is now to show that the global public stands with refugees. To d... Read more of this blog post »

My guests this week are Kyle Samani and Tushar Jain, both managing partners at Multicoin Capital.

I’ve taken a bit of a break from crypto because I hadn’t sensed many new angles to explore in this forum, from an investor’s point of view. I felt that while things keep evolving, the major investmen...

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From a (probably early 1990s) audio-lecture by William Arkle: Discovering your soul's purpose that can be found at the Wessex research group website. Transcribed from about 1 hour 13 minutes, and edited a little for clarity...

What we want to do to get the full benefit of God’s lectures is to be... Read more of this blog post »

This week my daughter, Savvy, Kelly Jake Duncan, and I are headed to the ISTE Conference as official ISTE media and to present. If you attend any of my presentations in Chicago or attend virtually by watching any of the live streamed interviews and presentations shared on Twitter(@ShellTerrell),...

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Sorry for the lengthy absence! I had an academic conference earlier this month, so I needed to get a lot of work that actually pays the bills out of the way first. Then I had a massive travel mishap on my way to the conference, after my train ran...

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I first discovered magical realism in twelfth grade, when my English teacher assigned us to read One Hundred Years of Solitude. It was a wonderful book – and still is – but I wasn’t quite sure how to define it. It was definitely historical, even if I couldn’t quite figure out exactly where in his... Read more of this blog post »

While I wait for my summer reading books to coalesce from library orders and online book orders, I must first worry about the library books. Interlibrary loan, the 8th Wonder of the World, has its disadvantages like everything else. It all depends on the library. And the book. As Exhibit A, I giv... Read more of this blog post »

Life is often referred to as a “cross-country race” with the idea of finishing well as the goal. Some people who come to faith in Christ are like “sprinters” – they go fast for a short distance and then it’s over. These people are all excited about Jesus and His Word for a short time; they are go... Read more of this blog post »

The direct link to this book is: https://amzn.to/2Lki1Fe

BTW you can go to my Amazon author's page to see this and ALL my books.
The link is: amazon.com/author/kirschen In the UK it's www.bit.ly/drybonesbooksAbout This Book
A Message From Yaakov KirschenThe years have rolled by into history. Bac... Read more of this blog post »

La diseñadora Camila Leria siempre supo que desarrollaría su propia marca de moda. De hecho, luego de estudiar diseño de vestuario y textiles en la universidad, realizó unos cursos de especialización en Londres. A su regreso, las cosas se fueron dando de tal manera, que hace dos años decidió dar... Read more of this blog post »

Nightfall brought a different wind, one stripped of the day’s heat, coming off the water beyond the sunbaked beach below. I breathed deep, drawing the freshness, its tang–that scent of where the ocean meets a foreign land–into my lungs. An exotic aroma that always teased the possibilities of even... Read more of this blog post »

Hey, loves.

So, hopefully I can get back to my regularly programmed schedule this week. Or, that is the plan anyway. Starting with my usual weekly AMA.

You ask all your burning questions, and I try to answer them. If your question hasn't been answered yet, then please check the AMA tag here on the... Read more of this blog post »

Dear Preethi,

Thank you for dropping in to talk to me.
I really enjoyed reading ‘A Royal Affair’ - let's talk about it since it is my favorite from you so far.

How did the idea come about, to write an inter-racial romance? Was it a difficult one to write?

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Summer activities are just some of the many things that can dry out your skin.

You probably know this by now, but skincare is a big deal to me. My skin has always been sensitive and dry and a little problematic, and as I’ve gotten older I’ve realized more and more how vital it is to not only...

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Panegyric to a train, from the Hurutshe people of South Africa:

Iron thing coming from Pompi, from the round-house

Where Englishmen smashed their hands on it,

It has no front it has no back.

Rhino Tshukudu going that way.

Rhino Tshukudu no, coming this way.

I’m no greenhorn, I’m a strong, skillful man...

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you coulda been living in a car and who cared? you disappeared off the lips with a prayer. rose quartz the quality to express you. a pale of having been purified by trial. only accomplished in those the world gave away.

by Katya Mills
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Leland Hale, Galactic Conman

Listen to a Sample

Introducing Leland Hale, who will steal your heart - and all your money!

Fraud, larceny, and murder are all in a day's work for this master interstellar confidence man. Leland thought the universe owed him a living - and he was collecting on the ins... Read more of this blog post »

Over and over I come back to the music that pirates in the Golden Age would have heard and sung. So much music has come and gone since 1715 that it’s hard for us to get a handle on what music was like back then.
We tend to concentrate on sea shanties, but most of the shanties we know are products... Read more of this blog post »

Here’s what’s new on foods and eating for the T1 in the “know!”

Antioxidants in Grapes and Avocados is a good read by Kathleen Hoffman on Medivizor.com, 30 May 2018. 

Research has been connecting the dots between chronic conditions like diabetes and cardiovascular disease and oxygen free radicals...

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If you’d have told me a year ago I’d get to witness Disney characters reenact a scene from Titanic, I would have rolled my eyes and replied, “yeah right.”

As I write this, I am mentally eating those words. *chomp chomp*

I was able to capture footage of this momentous event, along with a restaurant...

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