L.A. Shaw's Blog, page 5
March 27, 2011
Random
These commercials make me laugh so hard. I want a mini giraffe!
In my happy place:
In my happy place:
Quotes I Love
Two of my favorite writers - Kahlil Gibran and Jack Kerouac "That deepest thing, that recognition, that knowledge, that sense of kinship began the first time I saw you, and it is the same now - only a thousand times deeper and tenderer. I shall love you to eternity. I loved you long before we met in this flesh. I knew that when I first saw you. It was destiny. We are together like this and nothing can shake us apart."
(Kahlil Gibran from Mary Haskell's Journal March 12, 1922.)
"I felt like lying down by the side of the trail and remembering it all. The woods do that to you, they always look familiar, long lost, like the face of a long-dead relative, like an old dream, like a piece of forgotten song drifting across the water, most of all like golden eternities of past childhood or past manhood and all the living and the dying and the heartbreak that went on a million years ago and the clouds as they pass overhead seem to testify (by their own lonesome familiarity) to this feeling."
- Jack Kerouac (The Dharma Bums)
"I have lots of things to teach you now, in case we ever meet,
concerning the message that was transmitted to me under a pine tree
in North Carolina on a cold winter moonlit night. It said that
Nothing Ever Happened, so don't worry. It's all like a dream.
Everything is ecstasy, inside. We just don't know it because of our thinking-minds. But in our true blissful essence of mind is known that everything is alright forever and forever and forever. Close your eyes, let your hands and nerve-ends drop, stop breathing for 3 seconds, listen to the silence inside the illusion of the world, and you will remember the lesson you forgot, which was taught in immense milky way soft cloud innumerable worlds long ago and not even at all. It is all one vast awakened thing. I call it the golden eternity. It is perfect. We were never really born, we will never really die. It has nothing to do with the imaginary idea of a personal self, other selves, many selves everywhere:
Self is only an idea, a mortal idea. That which passes into everything is one thing. It's a dream already ended. There's nothing to be afraid of and nothing to be glad about. I know this from staring at mountains months on end. They never show any expression, they are like empty space. Do you think the emptiness of space will ever crumble away?
Mountains will crumble, but the emptiness of space, which is the one universal essence of mind, empty and awake, will never crumble away because it was never born."
- Jack Kerouac (The Portable Jack Kerouac)
(Kahlil Gibran from Mary Haskell's Journal March 12, 1922.)
"I felt like lying down by the side of the trail and remembering it all. The woods do that to you, they always look familiar, long lost, like the face of a long-dead relative, like an old dream, like a piece of forgotten song drifting across the water, most of all like golden eternities of past childhood or past manhood and all the living and the dying and the heartbreak that went on a million years ago and the clouds as they pass overhead seem to testify (by their own lonesome familiarity) to this feeling."
- Jack Kerouac (The Dharma Bums)
"I have lots of things to teach you now, in case we ever meet,
concerning the message that was transmitted to me under a pine tree
in North Carolina on a cold winter moonlit night. It said that
Nothing Ever Happened, so don't worry. It's all like a dream.
Everything is ecstasy, inside. We just don't know it because of our thinking-minds. But in our true blissful essence of mind is known that everything is alright forever and forever and forever. Close your eyes, let your hands and nerve-ends drop, stop breathing for 3 seconds, listen to the silence inside the illusion of the world, and you will remember the lesson you forgot, which was taught in immense milky way soft cloud innumerable worlds long ago and not even at all. It is all one vast awakened thing. I call it the golden eternity. It is perfect. We were never really born, we will never really die. It has nothing to do with the imaginary idea of a personal self, other selves, many selves everywhere:
Self is only an idea, a mortal idea. That which passes into everything is one thing. It's a dream already ended. There's nothing to be afraid of and nothing to be glad about. I know this from staring at mountains months on end. They never show any expression, they are like empty space. Do you think the emptiness of space will ever crumble away?
Mountains will crumble, but the emptiness of space, which is the one universal essence of mind, empty and awake, will never crumble away because it was never born."
- Jack Kerouac (The Portable Jack Kerouac)
March 26, 2011
Published on Smashwords!
I added a tab on here for book info and a sample of The Advice Girl, which is the prologue. If you go to my Smashwords profile and the book listing there I think it lets you read the first two or three chapters for free.
Here is the link on Smashwords to preview it and buy it.
My lovely boyfriend did the html version last night, and uploaded it on amazon for the Kindle earlier today, but it takes 24 hours. So I'll have that link up as soon as I get it!
I also want to do it in paperback. Personally just cause I want my own copy. I think that would be awesome to have it in my hands. I love books. :) Not sure who I will be going through for that yet. Probably Lulu. The price will be higher for paperback, but maybe I'll get to do some cool things with it like sell signed copies and stuff.
Also, I'm going with a $2.99 price point. I did some research and that seemed to be the fair going rate for the length of my book. But I might end up dropping it down in the future, especially after the sequel is done. eBooks seem to do amazingly well at like .99 cents, so we'll see.
I have been broke for like a year now... okay most of my adult life... and I know how picky I am about what I spend my money on. So I tried to be fair. But I don't really care about the money, I just love to write.
I'm going to do an "about me" tab, and maybe a couple other tabs too tomorrow. Just haven't had time yet.
I had to go over my book like five times myself before I had it edited. I'm such a perfectionist. So hopefully it turned out okay. :) I tried to make my English teachers proud, but I make no promises. There might be an error or two but I hope not. I know that it messes the flow of the book up, because it knocks you out of the story and back into reality and it's irritating.
Also... I'm kinda a newbie with blogs and twitter so please be patient while I catch up and learn everything!
Here is the link on Smashwords to preview it and buy it.
My lovely boyfriend did the html version last night, and uploaded it on amazon for the Kindle earlier today, but it takes 24 hours. So I'll have that link up as soon as I get it!
I also want to do it in paperback. Personally just cause I want my own copy. I think that would be awesome to have it in my hands. I love books. :) Not sure who I will be going through for that yet. Probably Lulu. The price will be higher for paperback, but maybe I'll get to do some cool things with it like sell signed copies and stuff.
Also, I'm going with a $2.99 price point. I did some research and that seemed to be the fair going rate for the length of my book. But I might end up dropping it down in the future, especially after the sequel is done. eBooks seem to do amazingly well at like .99 cents, so we'll see.
I have been broke for like a year now... okay most of my adult life... and I know how picky I am about what I spend my money on. So I tried to be fair. But I don't really care about the money, I just love to write.
I'm going to do an "about me" tab, and maybe a couple other tabs too tomorrow. Just haven't had time yet.
I had to go over my book like five times myself before I had it edited. I'm such a perfectionist. So hopefully it turned out okay. :) I tried to make my English teachers proud, but I make no promises. There might be an error or two but I hope not. I know that it messes the flow of the book up, because it knocks you out of the story and back into reality and it's irritating.
Also... I'm kinda a newbie with blogs and twitter so please be patient while I catch up and learn everything!
March 24, 2011
Finished Editing!
I just finished editing my book! I think I might go over it one last time before I publish it. I'm going to be self publishing through Smashwords. I already found the perfect cover art, it's like the image was made specifically for my book. It was definitely worth the small price I paid for the usage rights. It's exactly what I thought of when I wrote the prologue. I'm going to be doing a lot of stuff to this blog over the next couple of days. I will make a tab for the book that will have a sample containing the prologue and the first chapter. It will also have my cover image, the artist, and a small blurb as to what the book is about.
I'll post a link on my blog once I publish it if any of you are interested in purchasing a copy. Well that's it for now, I gotta go run some errands and drink some more coffee before I go through it one more time! So excited!
I'll post a link on my blog once I publish it if any of you are interested in purchasing a copy. Well that's it for now, I gotta go run some errands and drink some more coffee before I go through it one more time! So excited!
