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The Photoshop Training Channel’s 30% Discount ~ 4 Days Only

 The Photoshop Training Channel

Hey Guys, remember I introduced you to Jesús a while back? He’s offering his classes at a 30% discount.
THIS IS ONLY GOOD FOR FOUR DAYS.  So take a look. I’m going to sign up now and get that discount.

From Jesús;

To those in the U.S., I'd like to wish you a Happy (early) Thanksgiving!

Regardless of where you're from, I want to thank you for all your support and encouragement this year.

I'm very grateful to be a part of such a wonderful community!

I have enjoyed all my time interacting with you and making tutorials for you.

This is truly my dream job, and I wouldn't be able to do it without you or your support. So, thank you very much! 

New Class on Digital Scrapper ~ Stories From The Road

New Digital Scrapper Class Available!  And check back on Cyber Monday for a special limited time price on another class.  
New Class!!
I'll let Jen White explain.
Thanks, L.A., there is something about a memory that you can hold in your hand. It's cherished.

 Last year on a whim I whipped up a photo book for my son-in-law for Christmas. I honestly had no idea of the tremendous impact it would have on him. Through that experience, the foundation for Stories From the Road was born.
In this brand new course, I'll teach you everything you need to know (and more!) about creating a themed photo book -- from the dreamy beginning to ordering end.
Go here to check out my new class, Stories From the Road. You won't want to miss the introductory offer! I'll see you there!

Jen White | DigitalScrapper.comP.S. Stories From the Road is evergreen, meaning the information and resources can be used over and over again for years to come.P.P.S. Take advantage of the Early Bird discount. This class will not be discounted again until Spring of 2019.Okay! I'll stop talking and let you see the class!


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Screenwriter Robert Gosnell ~ It's Not Complicated

It's Not ComplicatedThere seems to be confusion among some writers about complications within a story. What they often wind up with, as a result, is a story that is complicated.
That is not what we want.
Complications are reserved, primarily, for our protagonist. We need problems for them to solve; obstacles to overcome; issues that make them think and make difficult choices.
Complicating the story simply means making it too hard to follow. If it's too complicated, we risk losing the audience. They like to think, but they aren't in the theater to solve a Rubik's Cube.
I'm sure you've experienced it, just reading someone's novel or screenplay. If you have to keep going back and re-reading to keep up with what's going on, that's a problem, especially today, when audiences have such short attention spans.

What we do want, and this is where the confusion seems to lie, is a story that is complex, meaning a multi-dimensional story and characters. Every personality has dimension. Think about opposing characteristics as an example, or character flaws that can threaten the goal.
Everyone has an agenda. Sometimes, it's a surface agenda and sometimes it's a hidden agenda. So, how does one character's agenda either complement or conflict with another?
Story-wise, we want subplots, relationships, and actions by the characters that create positives and negatives. When does the worst thing that can happen turn out to be the best thing that can happen, and vice-versa? Does a positive action lead to a positive result for one character, but a negative result for another character?
I don't mean, a protagonist's positive result leads to a negative result for an antagonist. That's a given, and the simple choice. 
But, what happens when a positive result for one protagonist character leads to a negative result for another protagonist character? Or, if a protagonist's positive result also leads to an antagonist's positive result? The good guy thinks he's achieved a victory, not realizing that it's exactly the action the bad guy wanted him to take.
That is complexity, which creates...wait for it...conflict.

Conflict is at the core of every story, and finding every little angle in every character that creates conflict adds complexity. Basically, we don't want the story to be simple or the characters to be superficial. It's a matter of using every tool in the toolbox to add depth and dimension to the story.
~Robert
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BIO: A  professional screenwriter for more than thirty years,  Robert Gosnell has produced credits in feature films, network television, syndicated television, basic cable and pay cable, and is a member of the Writers Guild of America, West and the Writers Guild of Canada.
Robert began his career writing situation comedy as a staff writer for the ABC series  Baby Makes Five .  As a freelance writer, he wrote episodes for  Too Close for Comfort  and the TBS comedies  Safe at Home  and Rocky Road .  In cable, he has scripted numerous projects for the Disney Channel, including Just Perfect, a Disney Channel movie featuring  Jennie Garth. 

In 1998, he wrote the  Showtime original movie,  Escape from Wildcat Canyon , which starred Dennis Weaver and won the national "Parents Choice Award." Robert's feature credits include the Chuck Norris/Louis Gosset Jr. film  Firewalker , an uncredited rewrite on the motion picture  Number One With A Bullet  starring Robert Carradine and Billy Dee Williams, and the sale of his original screenplay  Kick And Kick Back  to Cannon Films. Robert was also selected as a judge for the 1990 Cable Ace Awards, in the Comedy Special category.
In 1990, Robert left Hollywood for Denver, where he became active in the local independent film community. His screenplay  Tiger Street  was produced by the Pagoda Group of Denver and premiered on Showtime Extreme in August of 2003. In 1999, Denver’s Inferno Films produced the action film  Dragon and the Hawk  from his script. In 2001, Robert co-wrote the screenplay for the independent feature  Siren  for Las Vegas company Stage Left Productions. His feature script  Juncture  was produced by Front Range Films in March of 2006. 
Robert is a principal member of the Denver production company "Conspiracy Films." He is frequently an invited speaker for local writers organizations,  served on the faculty of the Rocky Mountain Fiction Writers Conference in 2002, and in 2007 was chosen to participate as a panelist for the Aspen Film Festival Short Screenplay Contest. Robert regularly presents his screenwriting class "The Elements of Screenplay," along with advanced classes and workshops, in the Denver area.
Additionally, he is a frequent contributor to this blog. 


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Guest Post by Michele Drier ~ What's A Brand?

Today, I'm happy to bring you Michele Drier's guest post on branding...
Thanks, L.A. for hosting me on your blog.
A brand?
Being from California (the part of ranches and cows), isn’t a brand that thing they put on cattle? Sear it on with a red-hot metal shape?
Well, yes and no.
For a writer, your brand is what brings readers to you. It can be a genre, think Stephen King for horror or Carl Hiaasen for humor. Or it can be a series, think Charlaine Harris or Diana Gabaldon. Or it can be a character, think Rex Stout’s Nero Wolfe.
To be a successful brand, though, I think it has to be our name.
I know a few people who write under pen names. And I know some people who write under a few different pen names for their different series or genres.
I don’t want to second guess any of my colleagues, but with about 4 million new books out annually, discoverability is the key to marking as an indie author. Discoverability is THE key of marketing, regardless of who and how your books are published.
I write in different genres; traditional mystery, paranormal romance, psychological thriller, and I may take a stab at cozy mysteries…maybe. What ties all those books and genres together is that I write them under my name. My website, facebook, twitter, LinkedIn, Amazon, email accounts, are all Michele Drier (or micheledrier). If someone’s bought and read all nine (soon to the ten) books in the Kandesky Vampires Chronicles and are chomping at the bit for the next one, they can pick up one of my other books and still hear my voice, my syntax, my style. After all, most people read faster than I can write, even at two books a year.
Developing and sticking to your brand is a necessity in today’s world of serious overproduction. Everybody has swag. Everybody has banners and bookmarks and glittering displays. The only thing you have that’s uniquely you is your name. And only you can sell your books. Whether you go traditional publishing or indie publishing, a reader is buying you, the stories you tell, the sense of excitement you bring, the characters you develop.
There are as many reasons that writers decide to indie publish as there are writers, but in my case is came down to simple control and money.
My first book, a mystery, was bought by a small press. The press did the final edit, got a cover design and IBSN, and arranged for POD paperback publication. It was a less-than-stellar relationship, probably on both sides, and I made royalties of around $.47 cents a book. My second book, which I wrote, researched, published five months before my first book actually hit the market, was an indie published. It took a lot of research to learn the ins and outs, and I published it in ebook first, but I was making better than $2 per book. The die was cast. I’m now finishing my 15th book and will indie publish it as well. I also have a complete 71,000-word manuscript that an agent requested on spec. He didn’t bite, but I think I’m going to do a final edit and indie publish it as well. It’s the first book in a new mystery series with two further ones plotted out.
And even if I end up writing a new mystery series, or a cozy series, or thrillers, or fantasies or a couple of literary history—another idea that’s percolating—they will be under my name, my brand. Yes, there are times when it feels as though it’s been impressed with a red-hot piece of metal, but now it’s a familiar part of me.   Blurb: Getting what you wish for can bring unintended circumstances. Jennifer in New York and Matt in San Francisco worry that they're losing their memories. Jennifer from an earlier trauma and Matt while watching his father succumb to Alzheimer's. After finding a new medical technology designed to help people with cognitive disorders, they independently track down a grey-market supply, but when they meet they find unknown terrors.
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Bio:Michele Drier was born in Santa Cruz and is a fifth generation Californian. During her career in journalism—as a reporter and editor at daily newspapers—she won awards for producing investigative series.She is the president of Capitol Crimes, the Sacramento chapter of Sisters in Crime, and the co-chair of Bouchercon 2020.
Her Amy Hobbes Newspaper Mysteries are Edited for Death , (called “Riveting and much recommended” by the Midwest Book Review), Labeled for Death and Delta for Death , and a stand-alone thriller , Ashes of Memories, published in 2017.
Her paranormal romance series, The Kandesky Vampire Chronicles , has consistently won awards and was the best paranormal vampire series of 2014 from the Paranormal Romance Guild. The series is SNAP: The World Unfolds, SNAP: New Talent , Plague: A Love Story, Danube: A Tale of Murder , SNAP: Love for Blood, SNAP: Happily Ever After?, SNAP: White Nights,  SNAP: All That Jazz, and SNAP: I, Vampire.
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R&R: Raves and Rants For November ~ The Truth About Lies

The Truth About Lies
If you thought we were going to talk about falsehoods today, I’m afraid you’re going to be disappointed.  No fibs are involved; we’re not even going to discuss the verb that means to tell a falsehood.  Instead, we’re going to explore two verbs that I’ve seen misused so often that I no longer want to scream when I see the mistakes.  Now I simply nod and say, “Oh, yeah.  That mistake.  Again .”  As you’ve probably guessed, the verbs that are the subject of this month’s rant are “to lie” as in “to recline,” and “to lay” as in “to place something somewhere.”
Warning: this next sentence may make you roll your eyes unless you’re a grammarian, but it’s a necessary one.  “To lay” is a transitive verb; “to lie” is intransitive.  What’s the difference?  A transitive verb requires an object.  Not only does an intransitive verb not require an object, but it’s incorrect if used with one. 
Here’s an example.  Chickens lay eggs, then lie on the straw.  See the difference?  Of course, you do.

The confusion normally occurs when dealing with the past and past perfect tenses.  If you look at this chart, you can see why some people make mistakes.
Infinitive Present Past Past Perfect To lie Lie Lay Lain To lay Lay Laid Laid
No one ever said English was an easy language to learn, and the fact that the past tense of the intransitive verb (“to lie”) is the same as the present tense of the transitive one (“to lay”) proves that.
Using that chart, what’s your assessment of this sentence?

She gazed at the flowers she had lain on the table.
If you shuddered and said that “lain” should have been “laid,” you passed the test. 
What about this one?

At the end of the day, he had been exhausted and had laid on the bed.
Another error!  He didn’t lay anything on the bed.  Instead, he was the one lying on it, so “laid” should have been “lain.” 
How would you write that sentence using the past tense rather than the past perfect?  

If you said, “At the end of the day, he was exhausted and lay on the bed,” you’d be correct.
Let’s say we have a character who’s exhausted by the simple action of placing a rose on a table.  Here’s how we’d describe her actions.

Present Tense: I lay the single rose on the table, then lie on the fainting couch.Past Tense: I laid the single rose on the table, then lay on the fainting couch.Past Perfect Tense: I have laid a single rose on the table more times than I can count, and each time I have lain on the fainting couch as soon as I finished.

Clear?  I hope so.  I also hope you’ll come back next month when we discuss the common comma. 
~Amanda

A lifetime of reading and writing, not to mention a host of teachers who believed that good grammar was one of the essentials of life, have given Amanda Cabot such firm opinions about the printed word that I asked her to share some with us in her Raves and Rants posts.  Although her working career was in Information Technology, Amanda achieved her dream of selling her first novel before her thirtieth birthday and is now the author of more than thirty novels as well as a number of books and articles for Information Technology professionals.  



Her most recent release is  A Borrowed Dream the second of the Cimarron Creek trilogy.

Find all of Amanda's books, newsletter info and social media links here.






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Mental Can Openers & Writer's Hash ~ Help!

Help!  I’ve Fallen into a Drawing and Can’t Picture a Way Out

"I have got to create more products."
An artist-bronzing friend of mine made this statement to me when I inquired as to the health of his sculpture business. He replied he needed to make more statues. I asked him what the holdup was, expecting to hear about issues with clay or metal or the foundry.
Instead, he lamented that all his time vanished tending business concerns, including shipping, marketing, advertising, website design, tax laws, and the like. As screaming bells went off in my head, I told him it was too bad he wasn't a writer. We writers are a natural combination of Hemmingway, FedEx, Tony Robbins, Steve Jobs, and H&R Block – NOT.  Unfortunately, in my case, I forgot to throw in Rembrandt or da Vinci.
The writer’s key platform today is the “website.” Named, I assumed, because of the vast array of crisscrossing computer lines linking various sites. I now suspect they adopted the sobriquet, "web" because tech illiterate hosts jump into this matrix and then can’t escape. They writhe helpless, like the first victim who establishes the deadly stakes for the other houseguests, trapped in a B-rate, Vincent Price movie.  I can't shake that feeling when I struggle around in my web.  Are there amused, eight-limbed, jewel-eyed, byte-spiders, the kind who “hot-link it over dark arrays to suck the cloud dry of juicy credit data,” “LoL”-ing me? The ways of webs, learn you should, young Padawan!
All this computing and marketing adds up to a learning "curve" that looks like something Wiley E. Coyote would fall off of chasing the Road Runner.  But that cliff can be conquered with the help of knowledgeable friends, YouTube videos, and a competent writers group (mine rivals the Inklings by the way.)  For the fantasy genre, add a portable Prozac IV drip, a Pez dispensing Pepsid AC like a Gatling gun, and Rogaine for the suddenly missing hair.
What friends and videos can’t provide is talent you do not have. Visuals and graphics to illustrate a fantasy website are not commonplace. One does not pop down to the park to snap a banshee loitering about or a UFO disembarking an invasion force.  Much of what's offered insists, quite justifiably, on remuneration. The artistic hand, imagination, and software manipulation tools and skills are a profession in and of themselves.
My sculpting abilities peaked in a seventh-grade art class. While other kids made heads or pots, I rolled the clay out flat, and then cut six sides for a cool Dracula coffin. When my fingers put it together, it looked better suited to bury a slouching hunch-shoulder of Notre Dame. My use of colors was more refined – coffin black.   
But drawing?  I tried one of those Bob Ross TV courses. Clearing my brush, I slapped it across the tripod leg like Bob did – it slapped me back!  Then my "happy little tree" Bob said I could put anywhere, grabbed the paintbrush hairs and instantly hardened.  I failed to notice as my palette knife attacked a plugged tube of forest green that then bled across the autumn orange into my sky blue.  I was terrified the EPA would show up with a warrant.  “Joy of Painting” filed for damages and the cable company inexplicably removed my access.  Eh -- art world’s loss.
Now, I'm left dependent on a high school graduate in graphics who just married her boyfriend. In a feat of selflessness unrivaled in Clan Leach’s history, I urged her not to spend all of her honeymoon time at the Bleeding Moose Lodge & One Hour/Every Hour Wedding Chapel working on my project.  Spend a few minutes with the groom, I said.  I’m paying for that generosity now. 
Yes, Ridley Bundleforth and the Banshee's Bell, my forthcoming novel, remains jacket-less. And with cold weather coming, too. Where am I going to find another starving graphic artist, unmarried with no prospects, shivering in some grotto, with a frozen mouse and a cracked I-pad?  One with the angelic flare of a digital Raphael, the imagination of a Jules Verne, but the business acumen of a Ralph Kramden? No, like my artistic friend, I’m caught between needing to create product and trying to develop a deeply latent artistic talent for drawing banshees and bells.  So far, I’d have better luck trying to win “America’s Got Talent,” singing Sinatra’s, “Fly Me to the Moon” through a knotted soda straw.  So it's back to my trusty 64 shades – Crayola don't let me down. Now if I can only find an image with color by numbers...?


~Roulf Burrell



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Author Spotlight Featuring Beverley Bateman's ~The Fourth Victim

Ohhh, wait until you read Beverley Bateman's intro. I'm jealous I didn't think of it.  Can't wait to read more. 
Welcome back to An Indie Adventure Beverley.
Thanks, L.A., it's great to be back on the blog.
I love the strong, smart and savvy heroines in today’s books. I want my heroine to be one of those. About the time I was thinking about the book I saw an article about a woman sentenced to die in the Middle East. I thought, wouldn’t it be great if someone rode up on a white horse and saved her.  And wouldn’t it be even better if that someone was a woman?  But she couldn’t do it alone, not in this day and age, but if she was part of a group of well-funded women… maybe.
And so The Foundation was formed. Three women with access to money and international and domestic contacts, who learned the skills to rescue women in dangerous or abusive situations. And then they formed a secret training center to train more women. Sara is one of those women recruited in The Fourth Victim .
Excerpt:Sara clutched her worn purse to her chest, slid out of the cab, and scurried through the emergency room doors. What if he was dead? She didn’t have any money. Gordon did all the finances and never shared anything with her. How would she manage? Twenty years ago, she could have handled it. Could she do it again? But he couldn’t be dead. Gordon would never allow that to happen.His face flitted in front of her, fixed in an angry glare. He had to be dead or she wouldn’t be seeing him. He didn’t want to be dead. He didn’t want her to be free. If he thought she could see him he’d be furious.Sara shuffled toward the reception desk. She glanced over her shoulder, searching for some sign of Gordon, listening for his voice, waiting for him to yell at her. She couldn’t believe he was really dead, even though she had seen him. She clung to the edge of the transition counter, her head down, chewed on her lower lip and waited to be noticed.Finally, a brusque voice snapped, “Can I help you?”Sara looked up to see a heavy set, older woman in a loose blue top. The woman’s thick dark brows met in a v in the middle of her forehead.“I’m sorry, I ...I’m looking for my husband. His office phoned to say he’d been brought here.” Sara shrunk into her body. “Name?” the woman commanded. “Gordon, Gordon Peters.” Sara stared at her worn black oxfords, then at the scuffed, gray linoleum with the red, blue and yellow lines that led to different areas. Maybe she shouldn’t have come. Maybe she should have waited for Gordon to call and tell her whether she should be here or not. But if he was dead she would have to make her own decisions. Her pulse raced. Her head pounded. For the last nineteen years she had never made a decision. Gordon made all of them for her. “When was he admitted?” The woman reminded Sara of a sergeant major. “I’m not sure, less than an hour ago. They told me to meet him here. Maybe he’s been discharged already?” She chewed her thumbnail. If Gordon had been discharged he’d be furious at her for spending all that money on a taxi. But she’d seen his ghost. Tension twisted her stomach into knots. The pain caused her to clutch her purse tightly against her abdomen. She needed to get home and start dinner. She’d have to take a bus. Did she have enough money? She opened her purse.The woman moved to a second pile of folders and pulled one out. “You’re his wife?”“Yes. Can I see him?” A sob slipped out. If she didn’t find see him soon, he’d be furious. He’d think she was too stupid to find him in a hospital and he’d be right. His ghost floated in front of her. This time confusion mixed with his anger.      
“Have a seat, Mrs. Peters. I’ll have the doctor speak to you.”
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Blurb:Sara’s emotionally abusive husband dies unexpectedly. She’s struggling to reclaim the intelligent, independent person she was before she married.  She vows never to let a man take over her life again. Now she’s part of a special team, training to help other women.

Mac is responsible for training women in special ops techniques, so they are prepared when they are challenged to save other women. When he meets Sara, sparks fly between them. He wants her to quit the training and let him take care of her.

Sara graduates and now she and her team have to save Sara’s daughter from a serial killer. Can Mac step back and trust her in a dangerous situation? Can Sara and Mac resolve their issues, or will they go in opposite directions?

Bio: Beverley Bateman is a Canadian author who now lives in Medicine Hat, Alberta, exchanging the Okanagan vineyards and orchards for ranches and farms. 

She lives there with her husband and a Shiba Inu dog. Winters she’s a snowbird and heads south. She writes her latest romantic suspense in both places. Hunted, Missing and the newest – Targeted are part of her Montana, Hawkins Ranch series. She enjoys reading, watercolor painting and playing the Native American flute.

Find Beverley: Website | Blog | Twitter | Facebook Author Page | Pinterest | Amazon Author PageFacebook | Goodreads |LinkedIn 







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Take Five And Meet Author Polly Iyer & Her Novel ~ Mind Games

Welcome to An Indie Adventure, Polly Iyer. Tell us, what inspired you to write your book Mind Games?

Way back when, I read a book by a bestselling author that I found so mediocre, I decided I could do better. Ignoring my hubris, I began the daunting task to write one. The book was Threads, and I didn’t publish it until thirteen years later. By that time, I had written and published six other books.

How do you use setting to further your story?

The locales in my books vary. My series is set in New Orleans, a great setting for a crime novel. There are so many colorful aspects to New Orleans, and I have tried to capitalize on them, from jazz clubs and restaurants to the crowded squares filled with locals and tourists. I set one book in Manhattan, where my character is a docent at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. I tried to give the reader a bit of one section of the museum, which I visited with the purpose of getting that part right. I’ve written a couple of books set in different parts of South Carolina where I live, and a couple in Boston, my hometown. I make up some places like certain clubs but always try to keep the flavor of the cities in which the stories occur.

How do you construct your characters?

For me, it’s all about my characters. My series characters have become such a part of me that I know what they will do in any given circumstance. A writer has to step into the mindset of the characters she creates, give them habits and/or mannerisms that carry through the story. If the character is evil, he must also have some redeeming quality of he becomes a cardboard cutout. I do have one bad guy who’s bad through and through, but that’s unusual. I also have one where the reader gets into his head and his reasoning to justify what he does. The only advice I can give about characters is to forget who you and become them, think like them, feel like them.

How is your main character completely different than you?

I don’t believe you can write a character who doesn’t have some of your qualities. My women are strong women; my men are the kind of men women want. My series character is braver and more foolhardy than I am, but I’d like to be more like her, so I could develop her the way I wanted. I like characters who are flawed, some deeply so. I always wonder how I could write twisted and not be twisted, so maybe in some dark corner of my psyche, I am.

To you what makes a great romance hero or heroine?

Someone once wrote about my books that I make heroes out of damaged people. One of my favorite characters from my books is a man who spent fifteen years in prison for a crime he didn’t commit. He had PTSD and couldn’t stand to be in confined spaces. The female character had been married to an abusive husband and stayed with him until her sons went off to college. These two people find each other and fall in love. They protected each other and connected on a deep level. I wrote it, but I found it very romantic.
How do you create internal and external conflict in your characters?  I find conflict often the hardest to create when I start planning a book.Answer: To make internal conflict believable, you MUST get into your character’s head. This is the same for the good guys as well as the bad guys. Psychological pain must be so great, loss so critical, love so deep, that your protagonist or antagonist lives it, and you live it through them. Notice I didn’t say they live it through you. You can’t write it without feeling it.External conflict is controlled by someone else. The protagonist can only react or solve or confront. As soon as s/he thinks everything is okay, something happens to throw a monkey wrench into the situation. A lover is missing, a character is in mortal danger, someone dies. A simple answer is what I call the lull before the storm. You know when it happens in a movie because everything is too good; the characters are too happy. Then disaster. It’s up to the writer to make sure there’s some kind of aforementioned conflict before she solves all the problems and there’s a happy ending. Or not. Give us a brief summary of Mind Games :This is the first book in the Diana Racine Psychic Suspense series. Diana is stalked by a serial killer seeking revenge for something that happened twenty years before when she was a child. She’s a psychic entertainer known worldwide with a variety of fans and detractors who think she’s a phony. The twist is the man who targets her has the same psychic abilities as Diana.Buy:  Amazon




Bio:Polly Iyer is the Amazon bestselling author of nine books of suspense and four sexy romances she writes under a pseudonym. She started out as a fashion illustrator and storyboard artist, importer, and store owner before embarking on her fourth, and last, career as an author. Writing opened new doors for her, allowed her to make wonderful friends in the community, and gave her carte blanche to put her fantasies into novels of excitement and romance. Her novels include: Hooked, InSight, Murder Déjà Vu, Threads, Kindle Scout winner Indiscretion, and four books in the Diana Racine Psychic Suspense series: Mind Games, Goddess of the Moon, Backlash, and The Scent of Murder.Find Polly:
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DesignCuts and Lisa Glanz Exclusive ~ 48 Hour Special Price

Wow, This is very cool. An exclusive offering from DesignCuts and Lisa Glanz.  
As their partner I got a first peek and it's amazing. I'm going to be first in line to get this at the special price below. 



This pack will come with a 48 hour special price of $19 (50% off). To add to the excitement, anyone that purchases in the first 48 hours will receive a free bonus scene that is only available with Design Cuts.


With a whopping 19 creators included plus loads more, you’ll be creating an enchanted underwater scene or an adventurous sky creation with just a few clicks. Each illustration is carefully named and well organized, simply turn layers on and off to customize your magical world!
Along with the many other perks, this pack is great if:– You have an online shop but often feel stuck when it comes to designing your next bestseller pillow or mug.
– You’ve been dreaming of self-publishing a children’s story you’ve written but hiring an illustrator is way out of your budget.
– You love creating special gifts for friends and family, and enjoy using graphics that help you learn more about the design software just by using them!
– You’re a designer who loves creating whimsical designs for clients but often don’t have the time to push out work you love.With over 460 individual elements, 19 meticulously crafted creators, 41 seamless patterns, speech bubbles, textures, decorative elements, plus a bonus handwritten font, you can’t go wrong!Whether you’re a professional or hobbyist you’ll love using this kit as you watch your magical world creations come to life with just a few clicks!
Included in this set:• 6 main scene creators, 7 transport creators, 2 building creators, 4 character creators• 14 bears, 8 birds, 6 bunnies, 6 elephants, 5 hedgehogs, 15 marine animals, 8 mermaids with various accessories, 12 mice, 3 moons, 29 buildings, 34 geographical items, 87 plants/trees/flowers, 30 various transport objects, 15 speech bubbles, 18 decorative elements, 41 balloons/flags & bunting items, 15 marine items, 6 shells, 6 hats, 26 bits ‘n’ bobs, 85 create-your-own-building elements• Bonus 41 seamless patterns, 7 vintage textures and Sugar Cookie handwritten sans serif font Zipped File Size: 3.2 GB in a two-part download File Types Included: .AI, .PSD, .JPG, .PNG, .OTF,


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