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Splintered Energy, the first episode in my science-fiction/romance series, was lucky enough to be accepted by the FL. The novel is being featured on Thursday, Oct 24th on this new website that offers (at no charge) personalized selections of books that are bargain priced, free and/or reads worth checking out, as a daily email. Sign up and spend time reading instead of searching.
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 Cover and blurb for my contribution:


   

Dear Madame Evangeline,As you can see by my attached application, I am an ideal candidate for your matching service. Unless you believe in ghosts (ha ha), it’ll be impossible for me to breach contract by attempting to find anyone who wishes to remain a stranger after a one-night stand.This would surely be a risk-free set up for any potential date. Please consider leaving out details of my identity, as I fear opportunistic journalists/news reporters. With that in mind, I left the preferred height, weight, shape, race, personality, and so forth options blank. Clean with an XY chromosome is more than I deserve, and all this sinner would hope for.If you’re wondering how one such as me could have the audacity to even contact you, well, what do I have to lose? I beg pardon for my crudeness, but seeing as electrocution is currently an acceptable form of execution in this sovereign state, I’ve fantasized for months about a bang the night prior to the roast.I have the means to persuade the warden into allowing this rendezvous to happen. Authorities may agree just to avoid agitation between the anticipated media spectacle and me. There’s been much controversy concerning a woman in the electric chair for the first time in a decade, and the warden expects I’ll remain steadfast in my refusal to appeal or prolong the inevitable. With consideration of my right to exit this world sooner rather than later, I anticipate every home within a thousand mile radius will have their power off Saturday afternoon, two weeks from today.I’ll be moved to the D ward shortly and unable to converse further with anyone but the chaplain and warden. Please consider this my last request.
Sincerely,Prison number 24609Joan Bennett
 

 

Jung/Briggs Thinks A Pair of Males are Extreme

Humanmetrics Jung Typology Test™ 

ESFJ
Extravert(78%) Sensing(25%) Feeling(62%) Judging(1%)
You have strong preference of Extraversion over Introversion (78%)
You have moderate preference of Sensing over Intuition (25%)
You have distinctive preference of Feeling over Thinking (62%)
You have marginal or no preference of Judging over Perceiving (1%)
Damon: An extrovert without any judgment who values feelings over common sense.
# # #
INTJ
Introvert(67%) iNtuitive(88%) Thinking(38%) Judging(67%)
You have distinctive preference of Introversion over Extraversion (67%)
You have strong preference of Intuition over Sensing (88%)
You have moderate preference of Thinking over Feeling (38%)
You have distinctive preference of Judging over Perceiving (67%)
Malcolm: An introvert who’s intuitive and judgmental and pretends not to care.
# # #
ENFJ
Extravert(89%) iNtuitive(50%) Feeling(50%) Judging(33%)
You have strong preference of Extraversion over Introversion (89%)
You have moderate preference of Intuition over Sensing (50%)
You have moderate preference of Feeling over Thinking (50%)
You have moderate preference of Judging over Perceiving (33%)
Digo: A rather perfect blend of Red and Blue. # # #The author? Introvert(78%) iNtuitive(38%) Feeling(12%) Judging(44%) Mainly, just someone who needs to stop wasting time, but seriously. How cool is it that two polar opposites are blended so well in a third character?
 

Colors Debating Reviews

“Oh my. I see our author is delightfully blue about reviews. A waste of time, this unproductive whining over whether to ask anyone brave enough to admit liking the colors to step up and speak up, if they haven’t done so already.”

“Whaaat?  Of course people hate wrong color like yours, but reviews are important?”
“I should care about these reviews?”
“Yes. Rankings are everything on Amazon. Promo sites and readers want honest opinions if the reader should spend the equivalent of a cup of coffee, but most of all, whether they should invest that wretched four letter t-word. There’s so many options for entertainment.”
 “T-word?”
“Time, you big dummy.” Giggle. “The thing Mal worries about all the time, ha ha. But counting stars won’t get us back home. We have to invest in four novels worth of time no matter what any critic thinks, so it makes more sense to have fun and not worry.”
“Mal, I can make stupid-girl count the stars for you. But I want our author to be red about these reviews, not blue. Fix that, okay?”
“Right. You can’t make—”
“Leave her alone, brother, and forget the night sky. The rating system uses stars.”
“I don’t understand why I should care that our author cares.”
 “Shut up. Like fire and water, words spoken by those who aren’t a sociopath are important. Our author shouldn’t be afraid to reach for these stars. Mal, is our author a wimp?”
“How the hell do I know? I’m just expected to have the answers, figure everything out, decide every comma Oxford or not, screw round with dangling particles, find a happy ending for a tome of over 400K words while every bigot in the spectrum fights for the spotlight, and so on.”
 “It doesn’t seem nice to put a reader on the spot by directly asking for a review, and it’s not like every reader  likes all color,” shudder, “Not if they’re truthful. Some shades are better, less scary, and most of all, less stupid than others. Mal, hold me. I’m worried that…no! Stay away, you—”
“Jesus, Damon, could you leave her…sure, lock her in the closet. One less character to complain without offering a solution. I’d like to resolve this issue before my ‘helper’ returns to add to the pointless interruptions.”
“Hmpf.  Readers, the rest of you contaminated freaks, I don’t care—”
“Thank you, brother. Once you’re done shoving your fist down her throat, drag her down the hall to her room…okay, fine the closet door is still on its hinges.”
“Mal, get off the computer. Quit fussing about reviews and come play with…Stop that, you stupid big lout. At least let me open the closet before you completely destroy it. Mal! Make him—”
“Oh for the love of whatever. Now it’s just you and me, brother. And I don’t think you’re capable of understanding the complexity of asking for reviews. It’s a detailed, heart wrenching…what are you doing? Get your damn hands off me. P-please. Oh no. Not in there with the miserable girls. Oh my-my-my-my—”
“Author—forget reviews. Get back to work. Write a better story where Red doesn’t break everything I touch like this damn comput—

Narcissistic or Not, Sometimes Yellow Gives the Right Vibe

Memories of Cool Times

 Recently, NASA found another blue planet only 63 light years away. They suspect, based on an estimated 2000 degrees F, that it rains liquid glass there. So, with thoughts of other worlds truely hotter than hell and shattering shards of liquid zapping down, along with a new screen-saver on my laptop showing my front yard a few months ago, living in the little room where the AC cranks away to avoid my brain melting out of my ears when I'm home doesnt seem quite so bad. Just wish I was more productive when it's humid. I much perfer bundling up and shivering.

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Bruno diCesare lives alone by necessity, not choice. An experiment performed by Leonardo da Vinci, who believed having a dual DNA would grant a person immortality, used magic to render Bruno a chimera—the head of a lion, body of a dragon. The only time he can mingle with people is during Carnevale, ten glorious days of masked anonymity, frivolity, and intimacy.

Melina Weaver learned fire dancing to enliven her dull existence. Her long hours at the lab leave no time for a social life. For ten days at Carnevale, she can pretend to be someone else. Someone sexy and daring, who lives on the edge.

Once she meets Bruno, her wish comes true, but everything goes terribly wrong. Beneath Bruno’s costume lurks an alpha male, but is he dangerous? Worse, can she return to an employer who sells her research to the military to make an army of efficient killers? Her only hope may lie with the man she’s just met but has never seen.http://www.decadentpublishing.com/product_info.php?products_id=767&osCsid=55spbi1c1g6m9c5lo8rdo7jd17     Keeping an eye on his charge isn’t easy. Keeping his hands off? Impossible…
It took attending his own funeral to force Logan to accept a new life as an undercover MI6 agent. That doesn’t make his latest assignment any less aggravating. Babysitting a Russian pop star with delusions that someone’s trying to kill him.

Other than an inexplicable attraction Logan ruthlessly suppresses, he couldn’t have less in common with the irritating, arrogant rich kid. He’s even prepared to walk away—until very real bullets start flying.

After his mother’s death, Zak Kochenkov’s life unravels in an impenetrable haze of grief, drugs and alcohol—until one bodyguard candidate stands out. Except his hopes of having some fun with that guard’s body evaporate when he realizes Logan is buttoned up tighter than a clam.

The first thing Logan learns is that his charge won’t do as he’s told. And there’s some secret behind his haunted eyes that shakes Logan’s resolve to keep him at arm’s length. Because he knows if he lets passion close his eyes, that’s when danger will find them both…Product WarningsContains a sexy bodyguard with a tortured past, and a spoiled rock star with a tortured conscience. Stir (don’t shake), and prepare for spontaneous combustionhttp://store.samhainpublishing.com/every-move-makes-p-7392.html  Centuries ago, they tried to invade us and failed. Now the elves are back.

Finn’s revelation has placed Ella between a rock and a hard place. Unsure how to reconcile herself to his true nature, she struggles with trust issues and her feelings for him. Add to the mix her discovery that her dead ex-partner harbored more secrets than a library book can contain, and Ella has just about more than she can handle. With the snow wolves and dragons loose, the out-of-season heavy winter and a return of the mysterious Guardians, Ella’s week is looking sucky at best — if the world doesn’t end first.http://www.amazon.com/Dragon-Boreal-John-Grey-ebook/dp/B00C8A560Y/ref=la_B001JOWZCC_1_10?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1366641121&sr=1-10

Family of Ron...without the missing i

And more thanks to Marion Sipe, cover and graphic artist extrodinaire for fixing the typo in Temujin with a smile. When a character picks a name in honor of a guy in the top ten of the most evil males in history, leaving the i out isnt a good thing. Good news, it only took me once to do a search replace and correct 109 spots in the novel, and 6 times to reload and re-publish so the picture of the chart was line up correctly (I hope).