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Prep Monday – Checklist

I came across this link yesterday where you can check just how prepared you are for SHTF. I didn’t score too badly, but there’s always room for improvement! National Geographic Doomsday Preppers The best part is that it breaks it down into water, food, fuel, supplies, protection, communication. So you can see exactly where you […]

Introducing Michael Chulsky

Michael Chulsky’s debut novel, The Descending Darkness, will be released next week on September 28. He’s a little bit excited about all this, but he managed to put pen to paper once again and answer a few questions I threw at him: Q: When did you start writing The Descending Darkness? I began writing The […]

Bookstore Wednesday

I’ve kind of dropped the ball on the blog posts the last couple of week, and I apologize. I actually started writing a post about bookstores, but decided it was too whiny. I did, however, save a few highlights. So here are a few dos and don’ts when shopping at an indie bookstore: DO come […]

Prep Monday – on Tuesday

Yeah, yeah, I’m running behind. Shocker, yes? Ha. I had a topic, but it will have to wait for another time since I didn’t have a chance to finish my research and besides, I’m in a hurry to get this posted before I forget. Again. With all the news of the Colorado floods, I decided […]

Prep Monday – A To-Do List

Prep Monday – A To-Do List Come on, ya’ll knew I’d make a to-do list for this too, right? It occurred to me that, while we have quite a few supplies laid by and know what we’ll do when SHTF, that none of these things matter unless we’re practiced and prepared to move – to […]

Fabulous Fridays-What I did over summer vacation

Reblogged from Author/ Writer Julie Young: Most people have a favorite year in their lives...mine was 1986. I graduated from the eighth grade. I was 13. I went to my first rock concert by myself (and a few friends...but no parents, making it a totally awesome experience.) I fell "in love" for the first time, […]

Interview with Jeff Scoggin, ELF: OFF the Shelf

Now that ELF: OFF the Shelf has been released, I took a few minutes to interview new author Jeff Scoggin: Jeff was born in Detroit, Michigan. The oldest of four (he has three younger sisters, one of whom is also a published author), Jeff moved to the Dallas, Texas area at age six. Jeff graduated […]

Cannibal Hearts

Cannibal Hearts Misha Burnett 322 pages $9.99 Available at All on the Same Page Bookstore, Amazon, Barnes and Noble “Cannibal Hearts is the sequel to Misha Burnett’s first novel, Catskinner’s Book. A year ago, James Ozryck was a loner, forced to keep the world at bay by the alien entity he calls Catskinner who shares […]

Prep Monday – Live and Prep at the Same Time

How do you do it? How do you plan for the future? In the last few years, there have been a lot of news stories about the “end of the world” and “believers” who sell everything they own and get ready to be raptured. Most people shake their heads over this kind of behavior, but […]

Prep Monday – Cash and Credit

What happens to money when SHTF? Credit cards will likely be useless. Cash might disappear completely. And access to it could be very, very limited. Let’s think about this: if the grid goes down, you can’t swipe a card, either credit or debit; of course, you also can’t pump gas at the station or probably […]