P.G. Shriver's Blog, page 11

And the Cover Design is...

Here's the watermarked cover for TGO; The Dream. I think Jennifer did a fantastic job capturing my ideas.

And the back cover blurb:
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Blows

Life deals us blows all the time. It's how we handle those blows that strengthens or weakens us. I choose to use the manipulation of others to strengthen myself and not put up with that manipulation further. Bullies are manipulators, too. If someone is bullying you, you are allowing yourself to be manipulated by them, for the sake of acceptance, belonging, or whatever. Be who you are; be proud of

This Time

I haven't kept up with my blog lately. I'm finding it more difficult to create spare writing time for it while in the midst of revising The Gifted Ones The Dream, developing my marketing platform for the series, reconnecting with my pre empty nest husband, the many projects at my full time job, and rediscovering "The Doctor."

Oh, did I say that?

Yes, yes I did. I have rediscovered Dr. Who on

Today

Given the choice between wealth, living your life to the fullest and working hard to have all you need-- because these are very different ideals-- which would you choose?

Throughout my life, money has played a very stressful role. Growing up, it seemed no matter how hard my father worked, there was never enough money. When my dad was laid off from work, sometimes for months at a time, or when he

My Muses Have ADD

Here's the poem I had to stop and write after my last post.


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Business and I= Big Mess

Here I go again...

Two books open to work on: one for revision to prepare to send to my newly hired editor, the other a new idea moving into chapter three. I'm surprised I don't have the other completed draft, my romantic suspense, open for revision, too. I'm wishing this morning my faux schizophrenia would reconcile itself to one. I mean no offense. I often feel the characters in my head are a

Inspiration Returns in the New Year

I've been so busy of late that I haven't had time to be inspired.

Well, I can't say that. My inspirational moments have been education based recently. But, the past week, I seem to have reconciled my muses--I  have one for each area of my creativity-- and I have thought of more book ideas than I have in a few months. One of those ideas is a coffee table book that I believe would just be

Review of Terry Treetop and the Lost Egg

I have not blogged in some time, but I'm back. Today I read the book Terry Treetop and the Lost Egg by Tali Carmi. Below are my thoughts:

  

Terry Treetop is an adventuresome character who finds an egg on the ground and sets out to locate the owner. During his search for the mother, the reader learns how various creatures lay eggs and care for them. Children will enjoy learning about the

Paranoid Much?

January 1, 2014- My beautiful daughter was searching Craigslist for possible job opportunities because the weight of working for a call center that handles technical problems related to the National Healthcare Act website has weighed her empathetic soul down to the depths of a darkening abyss from which she may never return.

I'm all for her finding a new job. I get to listen to her complain

A Borrowed Frog

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