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April 7, 2012
Six Sentence Sunday
Here's the last excerpt from my new book Wreck of the Nebula Dream, science fiction with romantic elements, available from Amazon and Barnes & Noble. Thanks to everyone on the Six Sentence Sunday hop for being so wonderful & supportive!
The situation: Nick Jameson, Sectors Special Forces, has unexpectedly wound up traveling to his next assignment via a new luxury liner. The ship has problems early in the voyage but then suffers a catastrophe of Titanic proportions. The excerpt comes after
April 5, 2012
Read Any Good Fortune Cookies Lately?
When I go to Panda Express (which is way too often for my good health probably – honey walnut shrimp, yum!) I always have to remind the counter guy to give me my fortune cookie. He forgets about 3 times out of 5 and I feel really deprived, not having that single strip of paper with a cryptic one line fortune inside!
Just today I read that for $29.99 I could buy my own fortune cookie maker from Sunbeam and then cook up individualized fortune cookies two at a time for me and my friends. (Or...
April 3, 2012
Wednesday Whimsy – to Your Very Good Health!
This week's quotes and photos have a good health theme because we've been having our little medical challenges at my house lately, but things ARE getting better!
Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint. Mark Twain
(VS sez and don't do too much internet searching on your symptoms either LOL!)
Leave all the afternoon for exercise and recreation, which are as necessary as reading. I will rather say more necessary because health is worth more than learning. Thomas...
April 1, 2012
Titanic and the Mummy's Curse
Did the Titanic sink because of an Ancient Egyptian curse? Was the mummy of Princess "Amen-Ra" from 900BC to blame for the disaster?
Of the many legends swirling around Titanic, this one appeals to me not only because of my fascination with the ship, but also because I write paranormal romances set in Ancient Egypt. Sad to relate, this exciting tale is untrue. Per the myth-debunking website Snopes, not only was there no mummy – cursed or otherwise – on board Titanic when she sailed, said...
March 31, 2012
Six Sentence Sunday
Here's one more excerpt from my new book Wreck of the Nebula Dream, science fiction with romantic elements, available from Amazon and Barnes & Noble. Continuing with introducing some of the other characters my hero Nick will have to risk his life to save.
The situation: Nick Jameson, Sectors Special Forces, has unexpectedly wound up traveling to his next assignment via a new luxury liner. The ship has problems early in the voyage but then suffers a catastrophe of Titanic proportions.
Prior to...
March 29, 2012
What Keeps An Ad From Going Viral?
Have you got a favorite ad that's gone viral on youtube? Maybe one with roller skating babies or a soft drink? That's a marketer's dream these days – to have an ad so compelling that people watch it as entertainment, and tweet, blog and Facebook about it! Would you be surprised to hear that there's an entire branch of marketing research dedicated to studying what makes an ad go viral?
Per the Harvard Business Review (which I peruse in support of the day job, not the romance writing LOL...
March 27, 2012
Wednesday Whimsy – Children
Childhood is the world of miracle or of magic: it is as if creation rose luminously out of the night, all new and fresh and astonishing. Childhood is over the moment things are no longer astonishing. When the world gives you a feeling of "déjà vu," when you are used to existence, you become an adult.
EUGENE IONESCO
Truly wonderful the mind of a child is. YODA
March 25, 2012
Titanic – Unsinkable Molly Brown
Other than fictional Rose and Jack, probably the most famous "character" in the sinking of the Titanic would be the Unsinkable Molly Brown. Not only is she a real person, she was a colorful American, widow of a mining baron and had a Broadway musical and a movie made just about her ("The Unsinkable Molly Brown," 1964, with Debbie Reynolds).
The IMDb blurb about that movie sums up how most people think of Molly: "…uneducated, poor, mountain girl who leaves her mountain cabin in search of a...
March 24, 2012
Six Sentence Sunday
I know I said last week was the final excerpt from my new book Wreck of the Nebula Dream, science fiction with romantic elements, available from Amazon and Barnes & Noble, BUT then I thought maybe I'd introduce some of the other characters in Nick and Mara's little band of survivors.
The situation: Nick Jameson, Sectors Special Forces, has unexpectedly wound up traveling to his next assignment via a new luxury liner. The ship has had problems already on the voyage but now has suffered a...
March 23, 2012
Is Your Supermarket Trying To Seduce You Into Spending More?
Retailers are having to work harder than ever to lure customers into their stores and get us to spend money. It's not enough these days to just put the shiniest red apples on top of the bins in the produce section! Grocery stores have always been at the forefront of tactics to get us to buy more – pioneering the shopping cart, for example, which debuted around 1937 at the Piggly Wiggly chain.
Carts were not an instant hit. Apparently they were too reminiscent of baby carriages and the male...
