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Wink and A Nod Thursday

Today's Wink and A Nod recipient is Birgit of BB Creations. Birgit and her blog are all sorts of fun.  Her specialties: movies and beautiful, personally-created cards. If you have questions about a specific movie or genre, she can no doubt tell you all about is.  If you are a card aficionado, Birgit's are true treasurers. And if that's not enough she's a cat woman and will happily share pictures of the furr babies. If you haven't visited her before treat yourself and stop by.


Cubs Win!  Holy Cow, Cubs Win!  

IWSG Wednesday

The first Wednesday of every month is officially Insecure Writer’s Support Group day. Members post about their  doubts and fears, discuss struggles and triumphs, and offer words of encouragement to others who are struggling. 
Today's topic:
Review another four letter word.  Well if you get creative: REVU.Review rules at Amazon are tightening. Below are some of the new rules in place and some old ones too.
A reviewer must spend at least $50 on Amazon using a valid debit card or credit card.
No paid reviews. This includes reviews from book bloggers that are part of a paid book blog tour, even though the reviewer has not been paid.
No 'exchanging' reviews. (You review me, I'll review you.)
Reviews are not too be submitted by family members or close friends.
You can still provide advanced reader copies for review.
(FYI: Reviewers that receive advance review copy should include the verbiage in their review that they have received a copy in exchange for an honest review or words to that effect.)
If a legitimate review has been removed you can appeal it at: appeals@amazon.com.
Here's is the link for Amazon Community Guidelines referencing reviews. 
And here's a link to an extremely well-written article by Ann R. Allen that explains and simplifies the new rules and goes into much greater detail than I have.
She also talks about troll reviewers that leave poor reviews on competitors products to push theirs to the top.
What are your thoughts on the new rules, do you think it will help or hurt?

Who Would You Pick To Be Jack Reacher

We went back to Our Towns Cinema in Davidson to see Jack Reacher. As previously mentioned, the theater gets high marks.  It's neat and clean.  The folks are friendly. Besides popcorn, you can order pizza or sandwiches, and it has tables in the theater to eat at.
The movie was standard Reacher fare. In other words, plenty of action.
Now here's my question to you.  If you were directing this film who would you pick for the lead?
A. Tom Cruise
B. Armie Hammer
C. Dwayne Johnson
D. Other

Happy Halloween

Got your candy bought?  How many trick or treaters are you expecting?







Don't Go Out After Dark.99 @ Amazon Oct 30-Nov 5.

Happy Friday

Wink and A Nod Thursday

This week's Wink and a Nod recipient is Stephanie Faris.
Stephanie is a successful children's author and a freelance writer.  She is one of the few who has managed to support herself through her writing...no easy feat. Her blog is one of my favorites.  It's always interesting and the posts are professional.
Stephanie believes in supporting other authors. Once a month she posts her Best Books of the Month, featuring and reviewing other writers.
In keeping with the season, this month she's featuring spooky stories.  If you haven't visited Stephanie before, I suggest you hurry over and get your socks scared off.

Wacky Wednesday

Matowak Woman Who Cries Tour

A murder enveloped in pain and mystery...
When Canada's retired Minister of National Defense, Leland Warner, is murdered in his home, the case is handed to Corporal Danny Killian, an aboriginal man tortured by his wife's unsolved murder.
The suspect, 60-year-old Sally Warner, still grieves for the loss of her two sons, dead in a suicide/murder eighteen months earlier. Confused and damaged, she sees in Corporal Killian a friend sympathetic to her grief and suffering and wants more than anything to trust him.Danny finds himself with a difficult choice—indict his prime suspect, the dead minister's horribly abused wife or find a way to protect her and risk demotion. Or worse, transfer away from the scene of his wife’s murder and the guilt that haunts him...

Mâtowak Woman Who Cries is available in eBook at the following sites:Amazon.ca Amazon.comDancing Lemur Press, L.L.C
The print copy is available at: Amazon.caAmazon.com.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
When Joylene's father died in 1983, she wrote her first full–length manuscript to channel her grief. The seven-year process left her hooked and she began Dead Witness within a few weeks of finishing Always Father's Child. Today Joylene is the author of three suspense novels: Dead Witness, Broken But Not Dead, and the steam-punk collaboration Break Time. While she'll admit being published didn't fix all the wrongs in her life, she wishes her parents had lived to see her success. Dead Witnesswas a finalist in the 2012 Global eBook Awards. Broken But Not Dead won the 2012 IPPY Silver Medal, and its sequel Mâtowak Woman Who Cries is due for release November 1, 2016.
Joylene lives with her husband and their two cats Marbles and Shasta on beautiful Cluculz Lake in central British Columbia. They spend their winters in Bucerias, Nayarit, Mexico.
For more on Joylene and her writing, visit her website and blog then connect with her on Twitter, Facebook, Goodreads, and her Amazon Author Page.

Tour-wide giveaway (US and INTL) *This giveaway is for three (3) print copies that are available to those living in the U.S. only and one (1) eBook copy available international.http://www.rafflecopter.com/rafl/display/019b32f8272

PC Overnighted to Hospital

The PC had to go to the hospital.  Since its insurance had lapsed and it had a preexisting condition I had to pay full out-of-pocket. After extensive surgery on 32 viruses/spyware and 508 registry errors, it was pronounced fit to go home.


Cubs Win!