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March 21, 2013
Spring is in the Air ~ day 2!
Spring is in the Air and here’s a Blog Hop to celebrate! The authors from XOXO Publishing are sponsoring this hop and offering a prize package of ebooks. Follow this link to all 57 authors and find even more prizes given away on each blog. As always, be sure to leave your email address when you leave comments. Spring is in the Air!
My prize is an authorgraphed copy of your choice of any of my novels!
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Describing Rose’s Writing ~
I love words and choose them as carefully as an artist might choose a color. My active imagination compels me to write everything from children’s stories to historical nonfiction. As a persnickety leisure reader, I especially enjoy novels that feel like they were written just for me. It’s hard to explain, but if you’ve ever read one of those, then you know what I mean. I tend to sneak symbolism and metaphor into my writing. You might say it’s a game I play with myself when I write. And I so love when readers email to say they’ve found something. I’d like people to feel my stories were written just for them, for that’s the truth. These hidden insights are my gift to my readers.
My most recent release was inspired by Great Lakes Native American mythology and modern sightings of something truly odd. Told in two parts, it takes the urban legend of the Wisconsin wolfman and adds a touch of plausibility. Here’s a peek at both through their book trailers
The Witchy Wolf and the Wendigo – Book 1 (Ashkewheteasu)
Inspired by Native American mythology and a very real urban legend.
Roots of the story at USA Today
The Witchy Wolf and the Wendigo – Book 2 (Eluwilussit)
The saga continues
Rose Anderson – Love Waits in Unexpected Places
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March 20, 2013
The Spring is in the Air Blog Hop starts today!
Today begins the Spring is in the Air Blog Hop! The authors from XOXO Publishing are sponsoring this one and they’re offering a prize package. Follow this link to all 57 authors and find even more prizes given away on each blog. As always, be sure to leave your email address when you leave comments. Spring is in the Air!
My prize is an authorgraphed copy of your choice of any of my novels
So I’ve been thinking about spring. Here in the Midwest the robins and red-winged blackbirds have returned already. It’s that whole early bird gets the worm thing. They get the best nesting spots and territory so when the first females return, they’re all set to razzle dazzle. The early birds sure got a rude awakening this morning. It’s -3º here with the wind chill. I feel sorry for the little guys. Last year’s drought didn’t leave much food for them. Still, they’re singing their little hearts out. Soon, they’ll be doing that at 3 am.
The oddest part of the spring migration is the birds’ desire to go to war with their reflections in my window. He’s not here yet, but I have one crazy robin that challenges his mirror image a few times a day. It will get worse when the woodpeckers start. They like to pound holes into my house’s cedar siding. Even the squirrels “go off their nut”. I can’t tell you how much their hanging on the screen door irritates my little dog. All she can think about is chomping them. Everything is twitterpated with spring. Remember this?
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When you’re all done checking out all great the authors participating in the Spring is in the Air Hop, visit my satellite blog http://calliopeswritingtablet.blogspot.com/ I’m taking part in The Romance Reviews 2nd Anniversary Party. (My part comes at the end of the month.) Lots of prizes and one from me too. Learn the details there.
March 19, 2013
Books in Parts
So before the Spring is in the Air Blog Hop starts tomorrow, I thought I’d chat a little bit.
Books in parts.
When we read a wonderful book, human nature says we like to discuss it with others who’ve found it wonderful too. I love the Outlander novels by Diana Gabaldon. Several of my friends and family have read the series. If one of us alludes to Jamie Fraiser the hero, we all understand the reference. I like books that have a continuing thread, a reader intimacy if you will, that spans multiple books. Perhaps this stems from the fact I’d read nearly all the Nancy Drew books when I was a girl. It’s one of the reasons I love Harry Potter — I love stories that are too large for one book.
I’ve read fabulous fiction through the years, those all-absorbing tales where you find yourself fully relating to the characters. A few of these hooked me early on and held me as good books do, but just as I was relating, the story ended! Another reason I enjoy series — because they give a reader time to relate.
Several years ago, a friend coerced me into reading a popular series. I just couldn’t get into the story. I tried no less than three times to get into the first book because my friend recommended it. I gave them back and she asked me to push on because they get better. A reader shouldn’t have to push on. One the other hand, I write books. I know with a certainty that no author sets out to have a poor start. I also know that a platform must be carefully laid from which to tell the tale. Ideally the platform is built as part of the telling. Talk about authors walking on eggshells. You either grab or lose a reader early on.
So, I pushed on, and not only did I discover a surprisingly small storyline, I found page after page of gratuitous sex and violence that added nothing to the story other than a page quota for publication. But oddly enough, by the time I discovered all that after no less than six books, I wanted to see how the tale ended! Go figure. That story with pointless page-padding sexual encounters and prolonged torture was on the NY Times Bestseller List. To this day that baffles me, unless everyone pushed on like I did.
To be fair, it did one thing for me. It told me I could become an author at long last. I wrote my own series — the 5-book as yet unnamed Magnum Opus (MO for short). It set my feet on this path. Soon. I’ll return to it with all I’ve learned soon….With telling a larger tale in mind, I’ve written two stories that span multiple books. The first was a saga. The second was a series.
Dictionary.com defines them like so:
Saga — Any narrative or legend of heroic exploits.
Series — A set of successive volumes or issues of a periodical published in like form with similarity of subject or purpose.
The Witchy Wolf and the Wendigo (Books 1&2) is my saga. It certainly is a tale of heroic exploit.
Inspired by Native American mythology and a very real urban legend.
See both book trailers on youtube or scroll down my blog to a previously posted page
https://www.youtube.com/user/MusesWritingTablet/videos?view=0&flow=grid
Loving Leonardo, on the other hand, is a series. I had such fun with these characters, two more books may be in the future.
A Victorian polyamorous love story, with a touch of reader-interactive art history.
A Two Lips Reviews Recommended Read!
A CataRomance Sensual Reads Reviewer’s Choice Winner
for Historical Romance!
~Coming in April~
Loving Leonardo – The Quest
See the first book trailer on youtube or scroll down my blog to a previously posted page
https://www.youtube.com/user/MusesWritingTablet/videos?view=0&flow=grid
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I’m taking part in The Romance Reviews 2nd Anniversary Party, my part comes at the end of the month.
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March 18, 2013
Last day in the Lucky in Love Blog Hop!
Feeling Lucky?It’s the last day in the Lucky in Love Blog Hop! Follow this link to 300 other authors joining in the hop. Lucky in Love – List of Participants
And check out these 2 grand prizes:
1st Grand Prize: A $100 Amazon or B&N Gift Card
2nd Grand Prize: A Swag Pack filled with paperbacks, ebooks, bookmarks, cover flats, magnets, pens, coffee cozies, and more!
And, you’ll find more prizes on each of the blogs. My prize is an authorgraphed copy of any of my four ebooks. Your choice!
As always, be sure to leave your email address when you leave comments.
One last bit of luck lore — the kiss!
As far as humans go, a kiss expresses sentiments of love, passion, friendship, and affection. In many cultures, a kiss is also an overture of peace. On top of all that, a kiss is a symbol of good luck.
As a writer of romance, I work out the mechanics of kisses with words. The following is my favorite kiss from my first novel, Hermes Online. In this scene Vivienne writes out her ideal kiss to her new penpal, the enigmatic man she knows only as S. It’s my favorite because I wrote the kiss from life. Yes, the kiss in the museum is based upon a real kiss I shared with my then new boyfriend at Chicago’s Field Museum 36 years ago. We’ve been together a long time he and I, so I’d say the kiss was lucky!
I hope you enjoy.
I flexed my fingers and crafted a scene from the sizzling phantom fire playing over my lips. Having experienced amazing kisses in my life added just enough realism to the blend of movie kisses. I told the screen, “So, you want a kiss, eh? Then what will you think of this?”
S,
There is so much more to kissing for the first time than meets the eye. The would-be lovers laugh and smile and delight in each other’s company. They talk, getting to know each other, trying to find the choicest morsels of their life and personality to share. They might hold hands for hours as they wander here and there. And when they sit side by side, perhaps on a bench at a museum, they’ll look in feigned interest at the passersby, glance again and again at the exhibit, but not really seeing it. First, one will turn inward, the movement slight, barely noticeable. And then with no clear knowledge of doing so, the one will magically mirror the other. Their knees may touch, and one set of clasped hands might rest innocently upon a knee. And then a noise, a temporary distraction, might take their attention for a second, and both heads will turn to the sound, inadvertently closer now than before. When one turns back, their faces will be mere inches apart. Their eyes, green and gray, will hold each other’s gazes, darting from one sparkling pupil to the other. They might unfocus to drink in the entire face for a second, perhaps lingering on the person’s smile before meeting the gaze once more, a gaze noticeably warmer than a moment ago.
One face may turn a little, and in mirrored image, the other follows, only slightly tipped in the opposite direction. And the eyes ask the silent question as two thoughts become superimposed — May I kiss you? Will you kiss me? The answer is subtle, missed by nearly everyone passing by, everyone save the smiling elder couple holding gnarled hands and assisted by their canes. Perhaps they, too, once shared a kiss sitting there, or plan to again later. But locked in their own world, they don’t notice the elder pair walk by.
They are aware now only of each other, aware of little things, the flush on her cheeks, the gleam in his eye, the color of her moist lips, the imperceptible flare of his nostrils as he subconsciously reminds his body to breathe. They touch now. The kiss is at first soft, the lips asking permission for the firmness they crave. Another kiss grants this and another and another as faces turn to fit around chins and cheeks and noses. And then loose and pliable, those lips part now to make way for tentative tongues. These too begin their searching, gently at first then becoming bolder as they instinctively react to the warmth of each other’s mouths and thrust as hands cup cheeks and arms wind around shoulders, drawing each other ever inward into the private space that shuts the waking world out and lets the dream begin.
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March 17, 2013
Sneak Peek Sunday AND the Lucky in Love Blog Hop
Feeling Lucky?
I am. I’ve recently launched a new novel — The Witchy Wolf and the Wendigo (Book2 Eluwilussit)
Because of that, I’m doing two things at once on my blog today — the Sneak Peek Sunday AND the Lucky in Love Blog Hop.
First, here’s my Sneak Peek –
Setting the Stage:
It’s the morning after Ash’s declaration of love for Livie. He’s also confessed he’s been living in her house as the wolfish dog she accidentally hit with her car. In this scene, he tells her the ancient shaman who murdered his wife and unborn child 3000 years before still lives.
“What do you mean, we must leave?” So distracted since Ash had come to her door last night, she’d completely forgotten Cora’s words. She remembered them now. He told me to go home and pack. We’re headed north to the reservation. She asked suddenly, “Ash, why did John and Cora go to the reservation?”
“I sent them there.”
Olivia considered those words. While Ash looked at least ten years younger than John, he was actually an elder — elder was an understatement — and John had the deepest respect for his elders. If Ash had sent them north, he’d go with little or no questions asked. She, however, needed answers. “Why?”
He covered both of her hands in his. “Remember the story John told yesterday, the story of my life as it once was? There was a man—”
“Aiyanna’s murderer?”
Ash nodded. “Long ago when I knew the man, his name was Eluwilussit.”
Find both books in the saga here.
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Now let’s go to the Lucky in Love Blog Hop! Follow this link to 300 authors:
Lucky in Love – List of Participants
You can’t beat 2 grand prizes, unless you add in 300 additional prizes! And that’s what you’ll find on the other blogs. My prize is an authorgraphed copy of any of my five ebooks. Your choice!
1st Grand Prize: A $100 Amazon or B&N Gift Card
2nd Grand Prize: A Swag Pack filled with paperbacks, ebooks, bookmarks, cover flats, magnets, pens, coffee cozies, and more!
(And, you’ll find more prizes on each of the blogs.)
As always, be sure to leave your email address when you leave comments.
So to finish my discussion of three, as represented by the three-leaf clover, I did a little research. From Poseidon’s Trident to Odin’s Trefot, significant threes have always been around. The ancient civilizations were full of them. Just off the top of my head I have: three Fates, three Furies, three Graces, the three-headed dog Cereus guarded Hades, and the three trials of Jesus.
The number three figured prominently in Euclidian geometry too. This is the mathematical system attributed to the ancient Greek mathematician Euclid. In other words, we wouldn’t have triangles without three. I won’t even go into pi or Fibonacci.
On the fun side, the number 3 is the mystical, magical, and spiritual number featured in many folktales. Aladdin gets three wishes from the genie. The queen only gets three guesses to figure out Rumpelstiltskin’s name. Goldilocks takes advantage of the three bears, and the three billy goats gruff do a number on the troll. Three little kittens lost their mittens, three blind mice go wandering, and we can’t forget that Winkin, Blinkin and Nod went to sea, or the Butcher, Baker, the Candlestick maker all took a bath in a tub. What’s more, we all know what happens to the three little pigs and their shoddy home construction. Fun stuff, three.
As far as three goes. I experimented with three in my own writing and painted a broader portrait of love in Loving Leonardo. My Victorian trio’s tale continues with the soon-to-be released Loving Leonardo – The Quest.
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Tomorrow…blurbs!
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When you’re all done visiting the Lucky in Love authors,
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I’m taking part in The Romance Reviews 2nd Anniversary Party,
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Lots of prizes, and one from me too. Learn the details there.
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March 16, 2013
Lucky in Love Blog Hop! 2 grand prizes too
Feeling Lucky?Welcome to my part in the Lucky in Love Blog Hop! Follow this link to 300 other authors joining in the hop. Lucky in Love – List of Participants
And check out these 2 grand prizes:
1st Grand Prize: A $100 Amazon or B&N Gift Card
2nd Grand Prize: A Swag Pack filled with paperbacks, ebooks, bookmarks, cover flats, magnets, pens, coffee cozies, and more!
And, you’ll find more prizes on each of the blogs.
As always, be sure to leave your email address when you leave comments.
My prize is an authorgraphed copy of any of my four ebooks. Your choice!
“If a man walking in the fields find any four-leaved grass, he shall in a small while after find some good thing.” – Sir John Melton More on lucky clover ~
So the odds of a four-leaf clover existing are estimated to be 1 mutation to 10,000 normal three-leaf clovers. As mentioned yesterday, the rare occurrence makes them special. (Sort of like how platinum occurs less frequently than aluminum, so that ring is worth more than your Pepsi can.) Each leaf on the four-leaf clover represents something: one for faith, one for hope, one for love, and one for luck. But there was a time when humble three-leaf clover held its own special meaning.
To the ancient Celts, the three leaves represented the goddess triads, that is, it represented the Mother of All in three divine forms or aspects — the Maiden, the Mother, and the Crone. It represented the the cycle of all things — birth, life, and death. The beginning, middle, and end. The past, present, future. To the Celts, carrying a clover talisman allowed you a measure of protection from malevolent spirits that brought hardship, illness and harm (another 3!) . These things of ill-will were made visible by the clover charm and if you could see them, you could avoid them.
After the Christian church appropriated the Celtic charm, it became associated with the Trinity — father, son, and holy ghost. This association is said to have been devised by St Patrick himself.
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I love words and choose them as carefully as an artist might choose a color. My active imagination compels me to write everything from children’s stories to historical nonfiction. As a persnickety leisure reader, I especially enjoy novels that feel like they were written just for me. It’s hard to explain, but if you’ve ever read one of those, then you know what I mean. I tend to sneak symbolism and metaphor into my writing. You might say it’s a game I play with myself when I write. And I so love when readers email to say they’ve found something. I’d like people to feel my stories were written just for them, for that’s the truth. These hidden insights are my gift to my readers.
My book teasers on youtube. All four stories are uniquely different.
Tomorrow…I’ll post about the significance of three around the world and across disciplines.
Be sure to visit all the blogs each day — you never know what you’ll find.
Be sure to comment with your email to win!
I have a new release!
The Witchy Wolf and the Wendigo
(Book2 Eluwilussit)
When you’re all done visiting the Lucky in Love authors,
stop by my satellite blog for a full 1st chapter from Book 1.
I’m taking part in The Romance Reviews 2nd Anniversary Party,
my part comes at the end of the month.
Lots of prizes and one from me too. Learn the details there.
My Other Blog
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March 15, 2013
Feeling Lucky? Lucky in Love Blog Hop
Feeling Lucky?Today begins the Lucky in Love Blog Hop! Follow this link to 300 authors:
Lucky in Love – List of Participants
Just take a gander at the 2 grand prizes:
1st Grand Prize: A $100 Amazon or B&N Gift Card
2nd Grand Prize: A Swag Pack filled with paperbacks, ebooks, bookmarks, cover flats, magnets, pens, coffee cozies, and more!
(And, you’ll find more prizes on each of the blogs.)
As always, be sure to leave your email address when you leave comments.
My prize is an authorgraphed copy of any of my five ebooks. Your choice!
So what’s the big deal about a four-leaf clover?
Aside from the perplexing “luck” of a dead rabbit’s foot, no other symbol says luck like the four-leaf clover. Why? Because clover, aka trifolium, is by nature a three-leafed plant, and that makes extra leaves uncommon. You know how some people seem to have fortune in one form or another always smiling on them, while others seem to walk around with their own personal storm cloud over their heads? Well, I have a theory that goes with the rarity of extra leaves on clover — Not everyone can be lucky at the same time. Think about it. If they were, there would be no unlucky to contrast lucky with. Therefore no one would be lucky! Luck needs to be rare so we feel fortunate and lucky when it’s ours. LOL I’m a writer. I ponder these things! But there’s good news for the unlucky among us – four-leaf clovers are uncommon, but not impossible to find. Just about every patch of clover has at least one extra leaf buried in the normal clump.
Living with the same patch of clover in my yard for approximately 25 years, I was completely unaware of the luck just waiting to be plucked. My eyes opened the day we had a guest who’d been a an expert clover hunter as a child. He proceeded to find one, then another, and another. He went on to explain that the genetic variation that produces extra leaves, will continue to produce extra leaves for the life of the plant. And as they all flower, pollinate, and seed in the same spot, the likelihood of the trait recurring exists. True? I don’t know, but that made sense to me. His explanation seemed to fit my experience with the clover patch. I looked and sure enough, I found one, then another, then one with 7 leaves. Every year, the odd clover comes back, though some years produce more multiple leaves than other years. So…do I feel extraordinarily lucky? Yes I do. I’ve been lucky in love, lucky in family and friends, lucky in my place in the world. Fortunate indeed. Everyone knows it can always be worse!
According to the Guinness Book of World Records, the most leaves on a single clover stem is 56! Wow. Shigeo Obara of Japan found it 2009. He’s also the previous record holder in this category. That clover had 19 leaves. Makes me wonder how lucky he is! Extra details here: Guinness World Records: most-leaves-on-a-clover
Tomorrow…I’ll post about lucky traditions associated with three-leafed clover.
Be sure to visit all the blogs each day — you never know what you’ll find.
And…be sure to comment with your email to win!
I have a new release!
The Witchy Wolf and the Wendigo
(Book2 Eluwilussit)
When you’re all done visiting the Lucky in Love authors,
stop by my satellite blog for a full 1st chapter from Book 1.
I’m taking part in The Romance Reviews 2nd Anniversary Party,
my part comes at the end of the month.
Lots of prizes, and one from me too. Learn the details there.
My Other Blog
Rose Anderson – Love Waits in Unexpected Places
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March 13, 2013
Get Your FREE copy of Witchy Wolf and the Wendigo Today!
And to Celebrate, Book 1 in the saga is FREE Today!
The True Beginning
Ten years ago, a reporter for a small-town newspaper heard word of strange dawn and dusk sightings of a wolf-like creature roaming the Wisconsin countryside. Her investigation revealed the local police officials had initially taken these calls lightly, but this had changed when calls began coming from upstanding citizens.
Authorities had determined what these eyewitnesses had actually seen was a lone wolf broken off from a pack running in the wilds of northern Wisconsin. Young male wolves seeking to start a new pack are known to strike off on their own. Leaving the vast stretches of wooded landscape, they might travel one hundred miles in a day. It seemed likely. However, the witnesses were adamant that what they’d seen had been no ordinary wolf. This wolf walked like a man.
Intrigued, the reporter collected the stories. To her surprise, other witnesses came forward telling of sightings that they’d never reported. In fact, some eyewitness accounts had occurred more than seventy years prior, the details only whispered to relatives who were sworn to secrecy lest friends and neighbors think heavy drinking was involved. These stories she also collected, for she knew hushed secrecy was not a direction fame-seekers usually take.
More curious now, the reporter deepened her investigation and uncovered another bizarre detail: the sightings were mentioned in ancient oral traditions of the Native Americans in the region. In those tales, dog men or witchy wolves looked after burial mounds in much the same way jackal-headed Anubis guarded the tombs of ancient Egypt. And even more bizarre, early French explorers knew of them too. They called these wolf-men the loup-garou.
Read More: USA Today — The Witchy Wolf and the Wendigo
The Witchy Wolf and the Wendigo
Book 2 – Eluwilussit
Buy Book 2 On Amazon
Blurb:
An ancient hatred seethes in pastoral Wisconsin. Denied access to the White spirit world of the ancestors, ancient shaman Eluwilussit finds himself in the Red Realm and receives a terrible gift from the forsaken spirits dwelling there. Blaming Ash for this misfortune, as well as Aiyanna’s death, he vows to be rid of the other shaman once and for all.
Meanwhile, Ash declares his love to Livie and reveals the truth of his existence as a Witchy Wolf. Warned that Eli comes for him, Ash sends Livie north to the reservation hoping John’s family will keep her safe. In the inevitable confrontation to come, either one shape-shifter will live, or both shall die.
The Witchy Wolf and the WendigoBook 1 Ashkewheteasu
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Blurb:
What does an immortal Native American shaman do when the grave he’s sworn to watch over for all eternity disappears under urban development?
His purpose of guarding his wife’s burial mound is gone, Ashkewheteasu seeks to end his immortal existence. In his despair, Ash assumes the form of a wolf and steps in front of a moving car and into the life of Dr. Olivia “Livie” Rosalini. The veterinarian saves the animal’s life, and in the process saves the man within. Livie has no idea the wolfish dog she’s taken into her home and grows to love is a magical being seeking to win her heart as a man. While Ash is learning a new world filled with new love, friendship, and happiness, an old menace makes plans to steal it all away; just as he had 3000 years before.
Stop by my satellite blog for a full 1st chapter from Book 1.
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March 12, 2013
FREE! Book 1 in the Witchy Wolf saga
And to Celebrate, Book 1 in the saga is free Wednesday!
The True Beginning
Ten years ago, a reporter for a small-town newspaper heard word of strange dawn and dusk sightings of a wolf-like creature roaming the Wisconsin countryside. Her investigation revealed the local police officials had initially taken these calls lightly, but this had changed when calls began coming from upstanding citizens.
Authorities had determined what these eyewitnesses had actually seen was a lone wolf broken off from a pack running in the wilds of northern Wisconsin. Young male wolves seeking to start a new pack are known to strike off on their own. Leaving the vast stretches of wooded landscape, they might travel one hundred miles in a day. It seemed likely. However, the witnesses were adamant that what they’d seen had been no ordinary wolf. This wolf walked like a man.
Intrigued, the reporter collected the stories. To her surprise, other witnesses came forward telling of sightings that they’d never reported. In fact, some eyewitness accounts had occurred more than seventy years prior, the details only whispered to relatives who were sworn to secrecy lest friends and neighbors think heavy drinking was involved. These stories she also collected, for she knew hushed secrecy was not a direction fame-seekers usually take.
More curious now, the reporter deepened her investigation and uncovered another bizarre detail: the sightings were mentioned in ancient oral traditions of the Native Americans in the region. In those tales, dog men or witchy wolves looked after burial mounds in much the same way jackal-headed Anubis guarded the tombs of ancient Egypt. And even more bizarre, early French explorers knew of them too. They called these wolf-men the loup-garou.
Read More: USA Today — The Witchy Wolf and the Wendigo
The Witchy Wolf and the Wendigo
Book 2 – Eluwilussit
Buy Book 2 On Amazon
Blurb:
An ancient hatred seethes in pastoral Wisconsin. Denied access to the White spirit world of the ancestors, ancient shaman Eluwilussit finds himself in the Red Realm and receives a terrible gift from the forsaken spirits dwelling there. Blaming Ash for this misfortune, as well as Aiyanna’s death, he vows to be rid of the other shaman once and for all.
Meanwhile, Ash declares his love to Livie and reveals the truth of his existence as a Witchy Wolf. Warned that Eli comes for him, Ash sends Livie north to the reservation hoping John’s family will keep her safe. In the inevitable confrontation to come, either one shape-shifter will live, or both shall die.
The Witchy Wolf and the WendigoBook 1 Ashkewheteasu
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Blurb:
What does an immortal Native American shaman do when the grave he’s sworn to watch over for all eternity disappears under urban development?
His purpose of guarding his wife’s burial mound is gone, Ashkewheteasu seeks to end his immortal existence. In his despair, Ash assumes the form of a wolf and steps in front of a moving car and into the life of Dr. Olivia “Livie” Rosalini. The veterinarian saves the animal’s life, and in the process saves the man within. Livie has no idea the wolfish dog she’s taken into her home and grows to love is a magical being seeking to win her heart as a man. While Ash is learning a new world filled with new love, friendship, and happiness, an old menace makes plans to steal it all away; just as he had 3000 years before.
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March 10, 2013
A Peek at a New Novel!
The Witchy Wolf and the Wendigo
Book 2 – Eluwilussit
Blurb:
An ancient hatred seethes in pastoral Wisconsin. Denied access to the White spirit world of the ancestors, ancient shaman Eluwilussit finds himself in the Red Realm and receives a terrible gift from the forsaken spirits who dwell there. Blaming Ash for this misfortune, as well as Aiyanna’s death, he vows to be rid of the other shaman once and for all.
Meanwhile, Ash declares his love to Livie and reveals the truth of his existence as a Witchy Wolf. Warned that Eli is coming for him, Ash sends Livie north to the reservation hoping John’s family will keep her safe. In the inevitable confrontation to come, either one shape-shifter will live, or both shall die.
Setting the stage ~
In this scene, Ash visit’s his mentor Nawkaw in the White spirit world, and learns of Eluwilussit’s horrible new ability.
“There is more than what you see here, Ash. Eluwilussit has struck a terrible bargain. He went to the forsaken realm and traded himself for a gift.”
“Traded?” Ash shook his head, not understanding. His mind filled with the gut-wrenching image before him.
“He became a slave to the desires of those in the forsaken realm. He was given a gift for his submission.”
Cold-blooded murderers dwell in the Red Realm of the forsaken. They were cursed to live dismal lives in that broken wasteland for all eternity. Ash’s mind filled with questions. What gift could they have given him? The forsaken had nothing. “Please, tell me all as you know it.”
“You know he was denied the White World after he murdered me?”
“I did not know he took your life until you told me. But I know murder goes against Sky Father’s plan.” Ash recited what he’d learned from Wynono. “Murder is an abomination and outside the life the Manitou has given us. There is no seat beside Sky Father for a murderer.”
Just released!
The Witchy Wolf and the Wendigo (Book 2 Eluwilussit)
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00BRWJMU4
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The Witchy Wolf and the WendigoBook 1 Ashkewheteasu
What does an immortal Native American shaman do when the grave he’s sworn to watch over for all eternity disappears under urban development? His purpose of guarding his wife’s burial mound is gone, Ashkewheteasu seeks to end his immortal existence. In his despair, Ash assumes the form of a wolf and steps in front of a moving car and into the life of Dr. Olivia “Livie” Rosalini. The veterinarian saves the animal’s life, and in the process saves the man within. Livie has no idea the wolfish dog she’s taken into her home and grows to love is a magical being seeking to win her heart as a man. While Ash is learning a new world filled with new love, friendship, and happiness, an old menace makes plans to steal it all away; just as he had 3000 years before.
And here’s the true root of the story at USA Today — The Witchy Wolf and the Wendigo
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