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Both are startled a little by their son's unexpected presence, as well as his spontaneous questioning, but as though she anticipated his intrusion, she continues her fluid thought process, unencumbered by the darkness of night and her approaching death.

"Come out here with us, honey. Sit here betw... Read more of this blog post »

Thank you for following Kalisha here on Goodreads!

A Goodreads Page is now available for Kalisha's next novel Speaking of Summer, to be published Spring/Summer 2019 from Counterpoint Press. The novel pulls readers into a woman's quest for answers and justice about her twin sister's disappearance f... Read more of this blog post »

Just got back from a long weekend in New York City, where I lived and worked for several years after law school but hadn’t visited in almost two decades. A place as insistent and sprawling as New York stakes a large claim in a person’s psyche, I think, and indeed there were places in the city I c... Read more of this blog post »

Our new place is great. The animals and I are no longer having health problems (a definite plus). The neighborhood is rather quiet, and the one I have met was very nice. It's terrible when there are problems with the neighbors.

It's monsoon season here. I had forgotten how it could be haha. Dust... Read more of this blog post »

I am about to embark on a series of posts that will convey information about important racial clashes in our country’s recent past, events that illustrate simultaneously pernicious racism and manifest progress toward the seemingly ephemeral goal of achieving racial equality. Why? Because I am a w... Read more of this blog post »

An article by B.j. Murphy responding to my piece earlier this week on #transhumanism, #capitalism and #socialism. Good to keep the conversation going! https://www.grayscott.com/seriouswond... Read more of this blog post »

Vision

Adjusting the zoom
of my imagination
I can observe anything I like:
any time, anywhere,
there’s no limit,
not even the sky.

I can watch galaxies collide,
black holes sucking in light,
colourful nebula spinning on its axis,
limitless space: sterile beauty,
peaceful, reverent,
like an abandoned Cathed... Read more of this blog post »

I received a message from a reader today. Said he finally began my first collection, A Better Kind of Hate. What he also said is the thing most of want to hear, writing for ourselves or not. He said the best compliment he could give right now was that he'd become thoroughly engrossed in my writin... Read more of this blog post »

The sequel to the Amazon Best Seller, Forbidden Birth, is now available. It’s called Forbidden Cure and here’s what it’s about:

A debilitating disease. A tantalizing, yet dangerous, breakthrough cure. Will it be life and love or death and destruction?

In the wake of his beloved wife’s death, Detect... Read more of this blog post »

It’s been a really rough week, aside from all the heat and humidity. With everything I’ve had to do and deal with, I’ve hardly gotten any work in on Slowpocalypse Book 5. But thankfully today didn’t get so hot. Hopefully I can finish my other business soon and get back to writing. Lord willing. Read more of this blog post »

Been wondering what I have been up too? Well, probably not, but as I am still alive and squirreled away in my study, I thought an update might well be of some interest.

Druid’s Portal: The First Journey has reached the magical target of ten Amazon reviews, which is lovely and much appreciated. In...

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(Warning: mild, general spoilers ahead. Don’t read this if you want to be completely surprised by what happens in Book III, Hate's Profiting.

Book II, Crass Casualty, ended on a decidedly grim and despairing note, and that bleak tone certainly carries over into Book III, despite some significant p... Read more of this blog post »

My 2 Cents:

Your dad wants to be like Robert McCall (Denzel Washington) I guarantee it. He wants to dish out revenge, save kids with potential, and reunite families. He wants to do all this quietly and efficiently, with little to no consequences for himself, and be very humble about it all. The...

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Hello loves!
Settling...Often times we settle for whatever instead of waiting for the right person. Well, it's so much better to have self respect and love for yourself than to have a filler in your life. We as women tend to settle for anybody instead of waiting for the right one just so we can sa... Read more of this blog post »

Will be hosting a book discussion soon for the Through The Fire Finale available now on amazon and free with kindle unlimited.

All of my books are being re-edited and will soon be released on Kindle and Amazon.com. Additionally, I am planning for the release of my new short story collection Horizontal Rain very soon. The cover is complete and the release will be soon.

Narrator’s Note on HOW TO SURVIVE BORDERLINE PERSONALITY DISORDER (BPD) audiobook
Beloved Listeners!
Thanks for taking the time to listen to another one of Stephanie’s incredibly touching books on mental illness!
I truly am honored to have narrated so many of her inspiring pieces and love being a p... Read more of this blog post »

There are so many authors in the Masters family!

Nancy Masters has recently published her debut novel, The Lifeline: A Team R. A. R. E. Mystery. It's a medical mystery novel involving a mother whose son has a rare genetic illness. When she realizes that she and her son have the same genetic mutati... Read more of this blog post »

Most of my writing has been inspired by two sources,. The adult and middle grade books have been inspired by places visited in travels. My blog on Wordpress "Arlington America-a search for hometown" led me to many states with a town named Arlington, and those travels took me through places that l... Read more of this blog post »

WET BLISS: Erotic Story Collection won the 2015 Bronze Medal in the Independent Publisher Book Awards in the category of Erotica.

"An erotic short story collection full of fantasies from the tame to the taboo.

An often effective debut compilation of steamy stories." -Kirkus Reviews

Wet Bliss is one... Read more of this blog post »

Sorry, I meant to say beta-readers.

Mr Thursby is complete, done, done, and done. It turned out as a short novella, a quick read, coming in at around 20,000 words.

It’s slated for release in early to mid-August, though I’d love to get a few beta readers on board before then.

If you’ve read anythin... Read more of this blog post »

Growing up on a council estate in the early eighties was testing to say the least, but what you did learn is to be resourceful. Money was tight in my household so anything you could find to entertain yourself was always good. One of those entertaining things was dog turds. I am not saying me and... Read more of this blog post »

Book: FREEDOM CALLING by Dana Vacca
Civil War Trivia

"TAPS" was first played in July of 1862 by Union Army Brigadier General Daniel Butterfield, an American Civil War general and commander of the 3rd Brigade of the 1st Division of the Army of the Potomac. "Taps" was used by both Union and Confedera... Read more of this blog post »

Preserving Creata's first single part available for download. Please contact me or visit smashwords for a complementary copy.H. Gibson
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4...
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Connection. It’s all about connection...

How connected—truly connected—do you feel in our fast-paced, results-driven, high technology, digital age? An old friend recently reminded me I’m not the only one who feels that tug in my heart, that longing for a deeper, more authentic connection with othe... Read more of this blog post »

When You Have to Go ThereAugust 7 is the date for the release of When You Have to Go There from MuseItUp Publishing. This is the sequel to The Group. There was never intended to be a sequel, all along Group was supposed to be a standalone mystery. But a few years back I had a brainstorm that was... Read more of this blog post »

The book launch and reading at Malvern Books was a fun time. Many thanks to all that came out in the blistering July heat and a very special thanks to Celia and Stephanie at Malvern Books for all their help last night. ONE NIGHT IN BANGKOK is now off the ground thanks to everyone there. Hope to d... Read more of this blog post »

Hey!

I am confused (and a little hurt). No one is reading my recent book, "Hemingway's Cats". It's a nice little collection of short fiction stories. It contains a variety of story genres, from romance and humor to sci-fi and feminism. And it is written from a woman's point of view. Except when I... Read more of this blog post »

Every year, I avidly watch SHARK WEEK on the Discovery Channel. I knew one day I would write a book about sharks and share my passion for the ocean. And that dream finally came true when I released DEEP BLUE earlier this year. So, in honor of Shark Week, my shark book baby is on sale. All this we... Read more of this blog post »

I'm currently working on three books:

Hoke's Comet (novella)- When a newly discovered comet approaches Earth, world leaders hide underground, leaving the rest of the world to fend for itself. Dr. Hoke is ordered to tell the American people the comet is not a threat.

The Project 2, which picks up a... Read more of this blog post »

I still don’t quite believe anyone will read my book. Its cover is lovely, but when it’s lined up next to other books on a shelf, it modestly and shyly steps back, like the Tibetan kids themselves used to do, any time I threw them onto a soccer team, or into a birthday party of peers.

To attract p...

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A friend of mine has sent me this WSJ article which announces an upcoming exhibition, opening Aug. 18, 2018, centered on prominent Qing Empresses at the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, Mass., and another one opening in March in Washington DC.

The exhibition will showcase close to 200 items of sumpt... Read more of this blog post »

It’s happening already. The “Back to School” specials advertised in circulars and electronic ads. Oh, why do we rush through the lazy, hazy days of summer? It’s my favorite season. I’m energized when the sun remains high in the sky after 7pm. I enjoy balmy nights, moonlit seashores, if only in my... Read more of this blog post »

Reading this book will be an eye opening experience for those who still believe in the judicial system in this country. Ray's experience of being falsely convicted and sentenced to death, imprisoned for nearly 30 years for crimes he did not commit despite compelling evidence to the contrary is a... Read more of this blog post »

Wow...it's been a while since I've had to time to write a blog post! And now I have a new book ready for release so I have something interesting to write about :)

"Stars in the Sand" is the third book in my Cougar Romance series. Each book in the series is about a different older woman/younger man... Read more of this blog post »

P.A.C.T - one


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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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 »

While my books are enlightening, they certainly are not "Tolstoyan" works. Deep and substantive or light and entertaining? Which do you prefer and how do YOU choose your next read? I'm sharing this blog piece to help with your selection process!

https://paperfury.com/how-choose-ya-b... Read more of this blog post »