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Wednesday Whimsy – Dancing!

All the ills of mankind, all the tragic misfortunes that fill the history books, all the political blunders, all the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill at dancing.

Moliere

(VS sez: Wow, that’s intense!)

Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing.

William James

Dancing is my obsession. My life.

Mikhail Baryshnikov

Dance is bigger than the physical body. When you extend your arm, it...

New Excerpt – Wreck of the Nebula Dream

When writing my re-imagining of the Titanic disaster, I tried to take the luxuries and appointments of the 1912 ocean liner and put updated versions in my futuristic spaceliner. Titanic boasted a heated swimming pool, in First Class, only the second of its kind anywhere. (The other was on her sister ship Olympic, launched the year before.) For the Nebula Dream’s passengers, since weight and mass aren’t a problem in outer space, I envisioned one entire level of the ship being given over to a r...

Six Sentence Sunday – Science Fiction Romance

This Sunday’s excerpt is from an SFR , out on submission now, set in the same universe as my recently published WRECK of the NEBULA DREAM. Andrianda (Andi) Markriss, a planetary representative for Loxton Galactic Trading, has been spending a lazy summer with her best friend in the highly exclusive summer compound of the planet Zulaire’s ruling nobility, networking. On a day when a number of strange and disturbing things have already happened, Captain Tom Deverane, Sectors Special Forces, unex...

From the Scrapbook: 4 Childhood Keepsakes

We’re probably going to move later this year, so I’ve been thinking about all the stuff that sits in the garage, in bins and boxes, never unpacked from the last move. Obviously some of what’s out there has meaning to someone in the family (I HOPE!) or we wouldn’t have carted it around various times…but on the other hand, we don’t often go out there and look at anything in the boxes. And I have a feeling a few of those boxes just glide through move after move because no one takes the time to o...

Wednesday Whimsy – Spring!

“It is spring again. The earth is like a child that knows poems by heart.”

― Rainer Maria Rilke

Sweet spring is your

time is my time is our

time for springtime is lovetime

and viva sweet love”

― E.E. Cummings

Break open a cherry tree and there are no flowers, but the spring breeze brings forth myriad blossoms.

Ikkyu Sojun

I am never at my best in the early morning, especially a cold morning in the Yorkshire spring with a piercing March wind sweeping down from the fells, finding its way inside my cloth...

Meet the Author – Patricia Preston

It’s my pleasure today to have Patricia Ann Preston as a guest, talking about her new release “The Yard Sale”!

First here’s a bit about the terrific story:

The Yard Sale (8500 words): Jennifer Riley’s yard sale changes her life as she meets a host of shoppers from Early Birds to Prince Charming. (It’s a humorous story with a dollop of romance.)

Available now for 99 cents at Amazon.

Amazon Top 100 Books, Best Seller in Comedy

Tell us a little about yourself

Okay, so I’ll try not to bore you. Real li...

Six Sentence Sunday SF Work in Progress

This Sunday’s excerpt is from an SFR WIP set in the same universe as my recently published WRECK of the NEBULA DREAM. Andrianda (Andi) Markriss, a planetary representative for Loxton Galactic Trading, has been spending a lazy summer with her best friend in the highly exclusive summer compound of the planet Zulaire’s ruling nobility, networking. On a day when a number of strange and disturbing things have already happened, Captain Tom Deverane, Sectors Special Forces, unexpectedly shows up wit...

What Band Would You Like to Sing With?

Recently I spent some time with a couple of my girlfriends pondering what band I would join, if I could pick ANY band, ANY time frame.

Major problem – I sing but I don’t read music at all, so I have to memorize everything. I can’t play an instrument to save my life, soooo….I realize this is meant to be a fantasy fulfilled but it’s hard to put myself in a scene where I’m so not qualified….then a quote from comedienne Kathy Griffin of all people, cheered me up and solved the quandary. In PEOPLE...

Wednesday Whimsy Quotes & Photos: Ice Cream

I doubt whether the world holds for any one a more soul-stirring surprise than the first adventure with ice-cream.

Heywood Broun

Life is like an ice-cream cone, you have to lick it one day at a time.

Charles M. Schulz





Stressed spelled backwards is desserts. Coincidence? I think not! ~Author Unknown








If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe. ~Carl Sagan


(VS sez: Couldn’t resist the Sagan quote and most people do put ice cream on apple pie, don’t they?)






My advic...

Was the NEBULA DREAM Jinxed? Deleted Scene!

In my recently published SF Adventure novel, Wreck of the Nebula Dream (see the book blurb at the end of the post), the heroine tells the hero at one point that there were rumors the ship had been jinxed by an accident during construction (much as rumors of similar things haunted Titanic). Before I get to the deleted scene, here’s that excerpt, with Mara speaking first:

“…Baktani & Fox was habitually behind schedule, and they’re notorious for cutting corners on safety. And I know something was...