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Congrats & Happy Holidays

Congrats to Miss Michelle of California on her win of the goodreads contest. I hope you enjoy my debut title, The Diary of A Bride To Be (it's a non fiction, romantic comedy). By the way... have you entered to win a copy of Redemption by Richard McKinney?? Read this amazing review at amazon by top reviewer Cyrus Webb { http://www.amazon.com/Redemption-Rich... }
See facebook page Redemption http://www.facebook.com/pages/Redempt...
See facebook page FrredomInk Publishing http://www.facebook.com/FreedomInkPub...
And have a Happy Holiday!!!

Non Fiction-Romantic-Comedy-That's All About Trust

Ahem. Who knew that I met my fiance online? It was summer 2009. I drove 4 hours from my small town and we met face to face in the fall... Winter was long and cold and he fell in love in the spring!

An older gentleman kindly let me know this past weekend at the West End Logos Festival "Now baby, that there just ain't safe!"

Um uh er, thanks for the heads up. Now would someone please alert the woman in danger of losing her life at the hands of the man she has known since grade school. Just because you grow up with a person don't put you outta the line of sight of 'What will be, will be.'

I've come to realize thanks to the feedback that has been such an insight, that my debut title is not only a non fiction, romantic, comedy... but it's also all about trust!!


The Diary of a Bride to Be: Book 1: A Reason, A Season, or A Lifetime

Long Overdue For Some New Ink

Not only have I been left wanting more from the Author, but i've been left with an urgent desire for more ink!! For the needle to penetrate skin in that tantric dance, leaving the most beautiful impression. Layne is dreamy, Mateo is too, but is Sparrow strong enough to keep the worlds seperate? Is she strong enough to follow through on what has become her destiny? Find out for yourself. Pick up a copy of INK! Available in paperback and e-book via Vampstasy and Amazon.com


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Katandra Shanel Jackson Taylor ©2011
Author of 'The Diary of A Bride To Be Book 1'
Publisher, Author, CEO at FreedomInk
Visit my site http://www.freedomink365.com
Like us on Facebook -- Follow me on Twitter@soon2bmrstaylor
email: katandra@freedomink365.com




**** The more indepth amazon review. I hope it leaves you wanting INK!! http://www.amazon.com/review/R554BZD8...

Good or Evil! Which will you choose this Holiday season?

How often can you say 'I knew the Author when..." here's your chance. Emerging Author, Richard McKinney publishes his debut title, Redemption. The read is Epic Poetry. The greatest collection since Homer and the Illiad. You won't be disappointed. But hey, don't take my word for it. Find out for ya'self.


Redemption



See also the book trailer http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HhtbxG...

and check FreedomInk Publishing out on the world wide web http://www.freedomink365.com

Vampires & Witches & Goblins... Oh My!! It's An All Hallows Eve Blog Hop!!

Thanks for joining us in this years Halloween Blog Hop!
Do come in, enjoy, and follow those blogs you like.
The links are provided below with a brief description of each, but 1st... a little All Hallows Eve fun!
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Looking for the perfect Zombie movie to lose yourself in? Wanna know the history and truth about Vampires? Searching for that deliciously demonic name for your next Villian/Villianess? Do you have a weakness for Werewolves? Click this link---> http://www.hellhorror.com/?gclid=CJbe...
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Random Spooky Flicks {and NO WAY! have I seen em'... hello! Fraidy Cat here} Watch them if you dare: The Ring--Children of the Corn--Sleepy Hollow--Final Destination-- Scream--Jeepers Creepers--Witches of East Wick--Chain Saw Massacre--The Grudge--Twilight--Saw--Red Riding Hood--and of course a host of your usual suspects--Freddy--Jason--Chucky--Candy Man

For the kiddos: Hocus Pocus--Casper--Ghost Busters--Beatle Juice--The Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown--Igor--Twitches--Night of the Living Fred

Two out of season creepy movies that scare the bejesus outta me: Black Christmas & The Grinch That Stole Christmas
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Truly Creepy this guy (and I absolutely adore his psychosis)
---> Edgar Allan Poe! Have you by chance read the one about the 'Tell Tale Heart' ? It's my fave even if it does give me the creeps for weeks. http://poestories.com/read/telltaleheart
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As promised. The links ;-) Happy Halloween Blog Hop!

*Richard McKinney http://redemption2380.blogspot.com/
Trials and Tribulations. Light and Dark. Good and Evil. Redemption.

*Dr. Darcova Triplett http://strut-the-magazine.blogspot.com/
Coast to Coast/International Magazine. Walk in confidence, competence, & conviction.

*Herman L. Taylor II http://atlantasmonsieurconnoisseur.bl...
ATLANTA'S FINEST FOOD CRITIC AND CULINARY ENTHUSIAST

*Sarah Davis Brandon http://steampunksarah.blogspot.com/
I write steampunk and fantasy novellas and I love to interview new writers! I am also starting to review books. Come and join!

*Ashley Kimball awesome, I'm http://www.notanotherwriterblog.wordp...
"The musings of a socially awkward twenty-something aspiring author and editor."

*FreedomInk Poetry Showcase http://freedominkpoetry.blogspot.com/
got Poetry?

*Ressa Empbra http://ressaempbra.wordpress.com/
Come find reviews, sneak peeks into my WIPs, and more!

*Connie Johnson-Jasperson http://conniejjasperson.wordpress.com/
One author's take on living and writing in the realm of fantasy.

*Shelley Workinger http://bookfare.blogspot.com
But What Are They Eating? --Because everyone talks about what the characters are doing and where they're going, but it's what they're eating that really matters.

*Brian Hayden http://brha99.wordpress.com/
Join my journey for a new heart

*Wendy Lovetiggi Gonzalez http://lovetiggibookreviews.wordpress...
My perspectives on the books I read ~ without spoilers.

*Cary Cheyenne Cummings http://carycheyennexo.blogspot.com/
"A blog filled with books, character and glamour. Interviews + Giveaways!"

*Angel Eyes Foundation http://angeleyesfoundation.blogspot.com/
Non Profit Organization. Raising awareness/educating communities about Child Sexual Abuse.

*spot'LIKE' http://freedominkspotlike.blogspot.com/
Quality interviews with top Moguls, Models, and Model Citizens!

p.s Don't forget to Goodreads 'Fan' your Host. Thanks you guys (and gals)





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Have Blog--Will Link

Prepping a Blog Post in honor of this year's Halloween Hop. I'd love to add your links with a 10 word description. Hard I know, but I wanna squeeze as many as possible. Participation is easy...

The instructions are simple:

1) Insert your blog link via comment w/ a brief 10 word descript.

2) Over the Halloween weekend (October 28-31) visit as many of the other blogs listed as you wish.

3) HAVE FUN!!

*This idea borrowed from http://www.jeremybatesbooks.blogspot....

You are what you read. You read, therefore you are.

What has been the most influential book you've yet to read? Why has it been so profound?

Pimpin' Aint Easy, But An Authors Gotta Do It!

This just overheard. On a statistical average, most Authors only sale 4 books per event. Okay. I buy it. Why? Because i've been there and done that! Try sitting for hours waiting for folks to show up to buy your book only to sell 4 out of 25, 4 out of 50, 4 out of 100's... Ouch! Yep. That's a pinch you won't soon forget. The sting of it all results back to this one simple truth. You (assuming you're the Author) showed up to the event (be it a literary festival or book fair or some other Author shindig) with high hopes (as well you should) with dreams of selling 1 million copies (ok, ok maybe 100). Then doom and disaster strike. 4 books sell and you get all depressed. Ewww! Okay here's a solution if not THE solution (drum roll please and wipe the gloom from your face, but not with your sleeve-- geesh) STOP SELLING BOOKS & SELL YOURSELF. My belief is this, when you're someone others want to meet they will flock to you. But it's kinda hard for a flock to get through a sea of sales pitches. So take down the wall of 'Buy My Book-- You'll Love It' and present the face of 'Get To Know Me-- You'll Love Me'.

Keep this in mind via your next event... Even if all you've made is 1 sale but you've had the chance to shake the hands of 10, the potential for an additional 9 sales has been established but better still is the opportunity which was siezed to 'Sell Yourself'

Now go forth and Pimp the Author in YOU!! ;-)










Katandra Shanel Jackson Taylor ©2011
Author of 'The Diary of A Bride To Be Book 1'
Publisher at FreedomInk
Visit my site http://www.freedomink365.com
Like us on Facebook -- Follow me on Twitter@soon2bmrstaylor
email: katandra@freedomink365.com

Another Amazing Review Unlocked

Mandy Sharp

My review on a recent book I read by Katandra Jackson Taylor:
'Diary of a Bride to Be'
This book is quite comical, it made me laugh and laugh hard. I found myself with happy tears and teary chills from the love that is shared between the bride and groom to be. It is a book in which I could relate. Katandra Jackson is a powerful author who is a strong woman, yet when it comes to her ma...n, she pleads guilty to being a helpless romantic who is head over heels in love. It is in no way a secret that this book is about the planning of a wedding but what the reader finds out is that this wedding is not just an ordinary wedding. Katandra and her Groom to be have different yet brilliant and meaningful interest that they want to combine and incorporate into the details of their special day. Katandra and Herm find out that wedding planning is not as easy as it seems. Weddings take money and lots of it and life does get in the way and does throw curve balls. They show that curve balls may slow the wedding planning down but it doesn't damper the love they share for one another. Katandra, makes a very hard and respectful decision of leaving her children with family to move to Atlanta to get to know the man that may be their new father by moving in with him. Her diary helps readers know what it's like from a real non-sugar coated perspective on what it's like to move in with a man to get to know him and undeniably fall in love. Katandra being from Georgia is your sweet good hearted, yes ma'am, yes sir kinda gal but she is not all southern belle. She likes her occasional wine, her dangly earrings, and her pink high heels. She handles every situation as it is thrown before her. She proves that although real life situations such as, making a decision to leave her children for a small time, moving in with the one she loves, meeting family members, traveling, finding out about "just friends" and incorporating her children into a new life with a new love is hard but she takes it with stride and ease. The ending of Diary of a Bride to Be left me longing for more and I was thrilled to find out that Diary of a Bride to Be 2 is in the works!




-Thanks again Mandy for this amazing review. If you haven't read DB1 yet, here's your personal invite to do so now. Available via e-book and paperback.
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B005JQYSCG

Amber Cole/Enough Is Enough

Ablaze in the news this a.m the story of Amber Cole. For those unaware. Videos and tweets have gone viral (worldwide/trending). Amber Cole, a 14 year old female was recorded performing oral sex on a male that is believed to be her 17 year old ex boyfriend. This incident occured on school grounds. Because the law clearly states that both of these individuals are minors... yes this means they are still children, it becomes very hard to blame either of them. The fault lay in some degree within their hands but the piece that has been dismissed are the adults involved. Where are these children's parents, where were the teachers? Who's gonna take responsibility for the damaging of a young girls image? We as adults know that image is not the be all to our existence, but it is to that of the immature mind. What now? Will she and her family pack up and relocate to Mars? I hear Winters are divine. But very seriously. Where is the home training that teaches young women to be ladies in public... Where is the sex education that informs teens that sexually transmitted diseases are passed orally as well despite their belief in urban myth? The system as a whole is to blame. From negligent parents, to social media, to guardians and authorities outside of home and across the board. Who will claim the cost and pay for the shame that today belongs to Amber Cole, but perhaps could be the shame of our daughters and sons tomorrow. Someone needs to teach our children morals, values, and proper decision making. Someone... Anyone... Will it be you?

This is the perfect example of a case where negligence has led to the sexual exploitation of a child and I feel strongly that the parents should be brought up against charges and made to pay. Angel Eyes Foundation is on a mission to educate communties and raise awareness about child sexual abuse. This education should begin at home and should grow as our children do. Once upon a time there was a program called 'Good Touch Bad Touch'. To my knowledge this program is no longer available in public schools and if there are some schools that still teach this, does it extend beyond elementary? Does it reach into the middle schools and high schools across the Nation. Is it targeted at those seeking to find out who they are (sexuality plays a major role). A component of Angel Eyes Foundation is the 'Because I'm Worthy' program. This program is for young girls, especially those that may have been singled out by teachers and counselor, perhaps even the concerned parent as high risk for grade failure, promiscuity, suicide, teen pregnancy... Very rare does something of this magnitude (Amber Cole's incident) occur without red flags and warning signs. It's our generations responsibility to save the next, before it's too late.

Angel Eyes Foundation is a non profit organization, a 501 c social advocacy organization. The conceptual phase is still on the drawing board, but by Spring 2012 the plans are to begin introducing neighborhoods, schools, churches, youth programs to this eye opening intervention/prevention program in hopes that it will change if not save a life!

Support this worthy cause.











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Angel Eyes Foundation
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Atlanta GA 30321

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