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New Release by Ciar Cullen

Available now at Amazon!.
Emily Fenwick, former NYPD, is now reluctant defender of 1890 New York. Unfortunately for Emily, who hates "the creepy stuff," she ignored her inner voice, went to a carnival in Central Park, and entered a Victorian tent in hopes a psychic would have some encouraging news about her woefully boring love life. The guarantee she receives of meeting a tall, dark, and handsome stranger comes with a huge catch--he lives in an alternate dimension of the past.

Jack Pettigrew l...

To Was or Not to Was and Format Basics

WAS?

The verb "To be" is said to be the most versatile of the English language, constantly changing form, sometimes without much of a clear pattern. Considering that we use it often, it's really too bad that the verb "To be" has to be the most irregular, slippery verb in the language.

Present tense:

I am

We are

He/She/It is



Past tense:

I/He/She/It was

We were



Past participle- I have been

Progressive participle- I am being



To use these types of verbs makes a weak sentence. You should try to avoid them. ...

Punctuation by Caroline Adams

Punctuation is part of any serious writer's craft. When used properly it helps guide your reader through your words, so they pause, stop, and start the way you meant your story to be read. Consider punctuation the roadmap for writing.


The following sentences provide guidance ‒pay attention not just to the words, but the punctuation as well‒on some of the things that punctuation can do:

Some punctuation can emit emotions: Excitement! Pondering?

Ellipses pause or dwindle off…

The em-dash stops a...

Sentence Structures by a Dummy

When I refer to a dummy, I mean me. Like I stated in my first post, I don't have any education in grammar, barely passed it in school, so if you've come here to be enlightened by big words describing each aspect to a sentence. Stop here.

I know a sentence starts with a capital letter, ends with a punctuation mark, has a noun, and a verb. There's more to it than just that but I don't think I need to know more. If you can't wrap your mind around all the rules of the English language don't sweat...

Writing 101

To start, let me express how I do NOT consider myself an expert. I don't have any degrees in English or Writing and have just started my career as a published author. The point of this blog, and the series to follow, is to impart what I do know.
[image error] I write paranormal and sci-fi romances so my focus will be toward the romance genre but I don't see why it can't be used for other types of stories.
I remember when I first started to take my writing seriously and didn't have a clue where to start...

My Romance Times Adventure

J Hali Steele at EC party
Me with EC's Cavemen
Winner of Fairy Ball contes

Paranormal Romantics RT club table

The gift basket we gave away at RT club
Three of the Mr. Romance contestants. The oneon the right is Jamie and he won. :)
Me at the Book Expo having a great time.

Wicked Wednesday

Brought to you by Nico Calin. *la sigh* [image error]
I'm usually not attracted men with  facial hair but Nico pulls it off.

[image error] I don't know much about him, I'm terrible at research but from the little I found he's 33, a Capricorn, and his status is a swinger.

[image error] As a paranormal writer I can't help think vampire when I see his photos which is one of the many reasons why I'm sharing these with you today.

Have a wonderful day!

I'm Going To Be A Fairy

On April 28th I'm going to turn into a fairy. I'll be going to the Romantic Times convention in Columbus Ohio at the end of the month. I'm so excited to be attending. In the May issue of their magazine my book Bait got a great review and got 4 stars. I can't wait to get my copy. The fairy ball being held will have an element theme this year. My mother came down from Canada this weekend to help me make this beautiful costume.


I was thinking I can either be sunlight an air fairy or copper an...

The Loyal Wife

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There was a man who had worked all of his life, had saved all of his money,
and was a real misery when it came to his money.

Just before he died, he said to his wife, "When I die, I want you to
take all my money and put it in the casket with me. I want to take my money
to the afterlife with me."


And so he got his wife to promise him with all of her heart that when he
died, she would put all of the money in the casket with him.


Well, he died.


He was stretched out in the casket, his wife was sitting t...

Easter Blog Hop

Welcome to the Easter Egg Blog Hop. If you just stumbled on this post, head over to Christa Page's blog, where the fun began. You'll find a lot of eye candy on the tour, as well as a basket full of ebooks. Enjoy browsing my site, where I'm featuring my PRINT release of Bait .  You should have come from Paige Tyler's blog, and once you find the Easter egg on my site, it will take you to the next one in line. The entry form to win the Easter Basket of goodies is at the end of the tour.



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