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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...
March 22, 2012
Thursday Lucky 7 Lines Meme
5. Let them know.
So I went to my new release Wreck of the Nebula Dream as instructed and here are the seven lines below, which are part of a desperate rush to go rescue some trapped children after the ...
March 20, 2012
Wednesday Whimsy – Shipwrecks! – Photos & Quotes
This week's Wednesday Whimsy is in honor of my new book Wreck of the Nebula Dream, a reimagining of the Titanic disaster, set in the far future among the stars, available now from Amazon for the kindle and Barnes & Noble for the Nook! The sinking of the Titanic was nearly 100 years ago, on April 15th.
It is better to meet danger than to wait for it. He that is on a lee shore, and foresees a hurricane, stands out to sea and encounters a storm to avoid a shipwreck.
Charles Caleb Colton
The man...
March 19, 2012
Titanic in Space? Wreck of the Nebula Dream!
So is my newly published novel Wreck of the Nebula Dream meant to be the Titanic in space? The answer is both yes…and no…
I think there will be certain similarities to any catastrophe at sea, or in the vast ocean of outer space. Just recently the Italian liner Costa Concordia went astray and sank with tragic loss of life, which - while thankfully not on the scale of the Titanic – was still deplorable and sad.
Growing up, I was fascinated by the events surrounding the sinking of the Titanic
March 18, 2012
Meet the Author & Character Interview Forbidden Fantasies by Jodie Griffin
(WARNING: May be just a tad steamy for those under 18 so only keep reading if you are 18 or older, thanks!)
Today I have the pleasure of hosting my friend Jodie Griffin, who has a very hot new release from Carina Press – Forbidden Fantasies! We're going to interview her hero & heroine in a minute! But first the blurb (and an excerpt below the interview):
After fifteen years of marriage, Jessica Meyers's sex life is, well, a little predictable. Her handsome husband turns her on, but missionary...
March 17, 2012
Six Sentence Sunday
Here's the fourth and final excerpt from my new book Wreck of the Nebula Dream, science fiction with romantic elements, available NOW from Amazon for the kindle. 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 catastrophe of Titanic proportions.
At a certain point in the struggle to reach safety, Nick is faced with a difficult choice between his oath a...
March 16, 2012
St. Patrick's Day Blog Hop Has Ended!
Carrie Ann Ryan, the organizer of this Blog Hop, has officially ended the giveaway, as she was going by East Coast time (per her original post). Here were the Grand Prize winners:
Winner of the Kindle Fire or Nook Tablet:
#136 from Carrie Ann Ryan's Blog: Melissa L
I'll be attempting Irish Car Bomb cupcakes this St. Patrick's Day!
Winner of the $90 Amazon or B&N Gift Card: #4186 from Wendy Smith's Blog: Shadow
True love? To me is being there, knowing you will always have there love and can...
