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July 9, 2012
When I'm not Writing - Friday Woods - 1/7/2012
Friday Woods is a favorite haunt. There's a long walk over open grasslands that are left wild as a conservation area and due to the important Roman remains just below the surface. Then a private road down to a gateway, a walk through woodlands, and then Roman River flows through the middle of it. Today we were hunting dragonflies and damselflies, but the weather wasn't with us. It was very windy, something that made them more skittish than normal, and even when they were landing the waving gr...
July 7, 2012
Six Sentence Sunday #58
Hello! Welcome back to another #sixsunday snippet. I've been gone for a bit. Thank you to everyone who stops by and comments. Last time I left my two MCs discussing scars. Assassin Tyree is curious as to why her co-delegate has refused to have regenerative surgery to fix the scars from the last attempt on his life. D'joren is trying to explain...
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July 4, 2012
Guest Post and Giveaway - Diane Dooley
Please welcome sfr author Diane Dooley to my blog.
Birth Control of The Future...Or Maybe Just Wishful ThinkingAs I write this post I’m forty five years of age and have been fertile for over thirty of them. It seems to me that a large part of my life has been dedicated from preventing too much of it! This must be true of many women. In the US alone, 99% of women of child-bearing age have used birth control. (Souce: Mother Jones/Women Who Use Birth Control Are the 99 percent)Thirty years, give...
Birth Control of The Future...Or Maybe Just Wishful ThinkingAs I write this post I’m forty five years of age and have been fertile for over thirty of them. It seems to me that a large part of my life has been dedicated from preventing too much of it! This must be true of many women. In the US alone, 99% of women of child-bearing age have used birth control. (Souce: Mother Jones/Women Who Use Birth Control Are the 99 percent)Thirty years, give...
At Spacefreighters Lounge - 4/7/2012
Come and join me at Spacefreighters Lounge today for my own personal 4th July celebration, and the latest news and updates. Actually I posted over there early, but you can still catch up. :)
July 2, 2012
Keir is a contest finalist!
On the 1st July I got notification that Keir had made it into the finals of the Readers Favorite Contest Awards here. Woo hoo! (BTW you need to scroll down a long way, past the non-fiction categories to the Romance - Fantasy/Scifi section to spot it). This is my first ever literary contest. Keir had already scored a five star review as part of the competition, which qualified it for the next stage. It means that at the very least Keir will get an Honorable Mention Award when the winners...
Angels vs Demons Blog Hop - Winners
And the winners are...drum roll...
Kindle Touch Winner: #1291 from I Smell Sheep: Stephanie Huff
Amazon $60 Gift Card Winner: #4695 from Dani Harper's Blog: Drake
For the Amazon Gift Card on my blog - Kristina (comment number 44)
Congratulations and enjoy! :)
June 27, 2012
Angels vs Demons Blog Hop - The Blue Demon of Adalucien
Welcome to my stop on the Angels vs Demons Blog Hop! I want to introduce you to my demon - Keir - and tell you how he earned his nickname. I think you'll love him. :)
A demon is a supernatural, often malevolent being. An unclean spirit. A force of evil that would possess humans beings and drive them to terrible acts.
Or so early Christianity would have us believe. The Ancient Greek word daimōn means spirit, without any of the dark associations. My demon in Keir is human - a child with human par...
June 26, 2012
Upcoming - The Angels vs Demons Blog Hop
Howdy y'all!Guess what happens starting on Thursday? We're hosting a Blog Hop! Me, along with 102 other Authors, Bloggers, and Reviewers are hosting an Angels vs Demons Blog Hop!We want to know: Angels or Demons...who do you want?From June 28th - July 1st, you can HOP around the blogs, comment on each and follow their rules, and be entered to win over 100 giveaways.Yep. I said 100 GIVEAWAYS.Each blog will have it's own giveaway, PLUS we have TWO grand prizes.ONE Commenter from the blogs will...
June 25, 2012
The SFR Brigade Midsummer Blog Hop - Winners
I hope you all enjoyed the hop! I'm pleased to announce that the winners of the grand prizes are:
Sue B with a comment on Pauline Baird Jones's blog for the choice of a Kindle Touch or a Nook TouchCheryl Corbin with a comment on Cathy Pegau's blog for the bundle of sfr titles and the Anabanana Gift Card
And Krista for the Amazon Gift Card on my blog. Congrats and enjoy!
June 21, 2012
SFR Brigade Midsummer Blog Hop - Circle Power
I LOVE stone circles. Probably the most famous one in the UK is Stonehenge, but I prefer Avebury. Here, an entire stone circle surrounds the village. There's something so silently powerful about them. The massive effort that must have gone into creating them at a time when 'man-power' was the only way to get anything done is impressive in itself. How driven the creators must have been. No one can say for sure exactly what these places were used for, but the sheer scale and the placing o...
