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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 »

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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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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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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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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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 »

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 »

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 »

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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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 »

Lifting The Curtain on ‘The Theatre of Dreams’…

I am delighted to be chatting with the wonderful debut novelist, Rosie Travers today on the blog. It’s not every day an author has the honour of endorsing a book, and I was blown away when Rosie asked me if I’d provide a quote for her story’s beautif...

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Earlier this week my wife and step-son went to orientation for his freshman year at college. When they returned, my wife reviewed the discussions with me. It seems the first hour was dedicated to gender identity sensitivity. Henceforth, each speaker that came onstage identified themselves by nam... Read more of this blog post »

  The inspiration for this list was yesterday’s high temperature and high humidity. 10 If the heat index is above 110, do not do your 10K run. If you do, at best, your water will run out at 5K. At worst, passersby will wonder what you are doing in the community fountain. (Look like the […]

It all began in the NFL’s 2016 pre-season. At the playing of the National Anthem, Colin Kaepernick, the quarterback of the San Francisco 49ers, decided to kneel, rather than stand facing the flag and put his right hand upon his heart (I wrote about this then, The Kaepernick Kerfuffle ). He woul... Read more of this blog post »

FROM THE DIARY OF KENT WAYNE:

Why do people love comics?

Plenty of reasons.  The pictures.  The stories.  The fact that they’re one of the few remaining formats that encourage professional artists to push the envelope of their creative boundaries.

I use them for one reason and one reason only:

As rea...

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To say I love Simon's art is an understatement, so this book could have been all pictures and still attained 5 stars. Behind the art however is a story: it is a roadtrip across an alternative version of USA in the 90s, one filled with a mixture of analogue and digital and a curious array of scie... Read more of this blog post »

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In these last few days, I’ve decided to attempt to finish Before a Fall, the Gibson Ashfield story, in a ridiculously short period of time (more on that later). This means, of course, that I’ve had to immerse myself in the characters, and … wow. Just wow.

Gibson Ashfield is a complic...

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 تمتد وراءه التلال بحراً من الموجات الكبيرة المتجمدة.يتوارى خلف إحداها، رابضاً على الأرض، محدقاً في الطريق الضيق الملتوى، الذي امتلأ بالظلمات.الرجل الذي ينتظره، لابد وأن يمر بهذا الدرب، وأن تندفع سيارته بين الحصى والرمل والحفر، متوجهة إلى فيللته الكبيرة في الخلاء الواسع.المسدس يكهرب جسمه كله، را... Read more of this blog post »

Chapter 1

As I watched the glittering lights of Las Vegas whip by the window of my cab, I frowned and leaned back against the plush leather seat behind me. This was the last place in the whole world I wanted to be.

And my fucking trip had barely gotten started.

Any other week, I would have found so...

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FINALLY!

Sorry for the delay. I've been on my publisher for a week now trying to get everything up. Delays happen, but we're mostly good to go now.

Links are below. If you can't find Ravensong on a place where you normally find my books, let me know so I can follow up. And, as an FYI, if you are th... Read more of this blog post »

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Hello all!!  Holy crap it’s been one helluva busy week. I know I say that every week, but damn… One day I’ll have a spare minute or two to just breathe. LOL

On the writing front, my WIP is at 80,000 words and realistically, there’s 8-10K to go. I am going to finish it this week. DO Y...

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Today, we’re making snack mix! Lavender honey nuts are where it’s AT.

You know I’m all about the snack mix when it comes to pool time, and since I’m on vacation this week, I figured it would be the perfect time to share these lavender honey nuts that you can make in an instant at home.

No oven req...

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1. For the first time in my life, I invested in a nice set of sheet and expensive pillows. I used to go to IKEA and buy the cheapest thing that didn’t repulse me, so this leap of faith made me feel very adulty.

2. I promised to watch a rugby game with Dylan 3 years ago, and today, I finally fulfil...

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Last I checked, there were 861,000 self-help books available on Amazon. The sheer popularity of self-help books points to the reality that humans live with an insatiable longing for something more, something better. This is why we keep making resolutions every New Year even though we will almost...

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Taken from Personality Hacker

If you have encountered a person exhibiting the aforementioned description, let me know. I must say however that those who understand Cognitive Approach to INTJ are more welcome. I find INTJ 8w7 interesting to a scary degree. I have always daydreamed havi...

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 Finally, the sequel to ESOTERRORISM is now available!

Derek Hawthorne has ascended to become a member of the all-powerful Committee, which rules the world through the nebulous House. The House, officially, exists to protect humanity from the vampires, demons, and other forces of darkness that i... Read more of this blog post »

The Washington Post writes about its retired hometown cardinal, Uncle Teddy McCarrick.

Once a globe-trotting representative of the Catholic Church worldwide and one of the architects of the church’s policy on sexual abuse, McCarrick’s precipitous fall over the past month has shocked Catholics,...

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Have you seen the cover overhaul to the Allies and Enemies series? I partnered with a stellar designer to update the copy and taglines to the ebook covers. Check out the new artwork here:

This is all in preparation for the upcoming release of Allies and Enemies: Legacy. The fourth book in the seri...

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I am late with a post. I am very tired because I’m damn near convinced I’m actually part sunflower and especially on rainy days my very being knows where and when the sun will rise, so too do I.

I do not photosynthesize enough for this 5 am bullshit.

So a brief check in:

-No one’s sure where Africa...

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Every summer, I create a Summer Fun List of things I want to do by the time Labor Day rolls around. The goal is making sure I’m making memories and doing the things that make summer feel like summer to me. Sometimes the list nudges me to do things I might not otherwise. As readers of Off the Cloc...

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Kashmiri artist Insha Manzoor's installation at Fort Kochi takes inspiration from the fishermen of the backwaters
By Shevlin Sebastian
As the visitor stepped into the first-floor hall at the Pepper House at Fort Kochi, he was immediately struck by the installation placed in the middle. It was sha... Read more of this blog post »

Hoy me toca ser tu villana ¡Otra vez! Hoy me toca ser la autora de tus penas y lamentos La que te dijo que no Hoy me toca derrumbarte las ideas Apagar esa película que tú mismo dirigiste Hoy me toca ser fuego que quema sin piedad Fénix para que renazcas de mis cenizas y … Continue reading Villana... Read more of this blog post »

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A voluminous Sunday hello! Yes, I'm in a very good mood. Much is happening in JT land–most of which can't be discussed just yet–but soon, chickens, soon. Most importantly, there are words. So many...

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 Hello everybody! Welcome back to Weekly Update!!! Lots to cover, so let’s get started…

First off, there’s been some updates to my writing and publication schedule. Writing two mysteries at once has been quite an undertaking, and I’m slowing a bit to make sure that the stories aren’t thrown togeth...

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“I love Carrie Stuart Parks’s skill in writing characters with hysterical humor, unwitting courage and page-turning mystery. I hope my readers won’t abandon me completely when they learn about her!” —Terri Blackstock, USA TODAY bestselling author of If I Run, If I’m Found, and I...

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