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February 2, 2013
Borrow Free from the Lender's Library!
Amazon Prime Membersborrow great books FREE!
No Kindle?No Problem.
Free apps for devices!If you can read this, youcan enjoy e-books from Amazon!
How to! Thriller! Mystery!Romance! LitFic! Horror!Fantasy! SciFi! Classics!Juvenile Fiction!
January 29, 2013
Adopt an Author! We have a new home!
The Keeper and the Rune Stone was adopted in the Adopt an Author program. We love our new home. Thank you, Amanda!!
Amanda's review and interview!
January 28, 2013
Young Adult Giveaway Hop!
Hosted by I Am A Reader, Not a Writer and BookLove101
Grand Prize: $25.00 Amazon Gift Card
Five First Place Winners win the e-book
The Keeper and the Rune Stone
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January 22, 2013
Poor Vernon
Team Keeper won the #Smackdown
with the most downloads.
Vernon must don the dreaded Pink T.
Time and place to be announced.
Media will be notified.
Drums will be beaten.
Bells will be rung.
Those who participated, who tolerated our shenanigans in their newsfeed, and especially
everyone who shared the #Smackdown Promo.
Thank you, all.
Great sources for books. Give them a gander.
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Taking Time For Mommy
Today's eReader Buzz
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Free Kindle Fiction
January 21, 2013
Personalize It!
We can now sign or inscribe the e-book edition of
The Keeper and the Rune Stone
with Authorgraph !
January 18, 2013
#Smackdown
We compete, you win! Two great e-books, Free!
It's Team Keeper versus Team Slow Boat
January 18th through January 21rst
Which book will have the most downloads? Vernon is hoping
it is his, or he will have to wear the dreaded T.
No Kindle? No Problem. Free Apps for most devices.
If you can read this, you can enjoy
e-books on Amazon.
The Keeper and the Rune Stone
Slow Boat to Purgatory
January 15, 2013
Winners Faeries and Fantasy Hop!
I've drawn the six lucky winners, and three alternates, and I'll announce their first names when they've responded.
Thank you to all for participating!
Upcoming event:
Vernon Baker (and his silly demons) have thrown down a gauntlet. Check our FB pages and twitter (#Smackdown) on Friday, January 18, 2013 for details of his demise.
Check out his books here (mine is better, though).
January 7, 2013
Young Adult Faeries & Fantasy Hop
Welcome to the
Young Adult Faeries & Fantasy Hop
Hosted by I Am A Reader Not A Writer and For Those About to Read !
Grand Prize: $25.00 Amazon Gift CardFive First Place Winners win the e-book:
The secrets of the Red Paint People have haunted Maine for 7000 years. From the vast fjords of Norway to the shores of New England, ancient standing stones mark a trail of betrayal, greed, and murder. The Driscoll kids learn there are things that go bump in the night.
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January 1, 2013
Howrse, Of Course
Eleanor Driscoll and the horses of Black Ledge are on HOWRSE.
Send her a Friend Request!
The Stable at Black Ledge
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December 26, 2012
Cheers
The New Year's Resolution. Why?
Don't let the confetti distract you. It's a subversive plot.
Oh, yes. Yes, it is. Have a seat.
Once upon a time, in a land far, far away there were two agents of Misery. Stress and Strife were their names, and they were very good at their jobs. Times were simpler. They broke the flint knives of hunters/gatherers, back-drafted hearth fires filling caves with smoke, and propagated mildew on food stores, but it was a simpler time and they were not overworked. They enjoyed a comfortable run for a long time.
Our world grew and evolved though, and Stress and Strife had to organize and recruit assistance (or give up earned vacation time). They formed a networking effort of global proportions and employed covert agents everywhere. The agents headed their own departments and were charged with specific tasks. One agent, for example, oversaw havoc in the medical field and everything pertaining to it. This encompassed everything from lowering the accepted age of colonoscopies to flossing to HDL/LDL imbalance. Another was charged with retailing, and instructed underlings to periodically and without warning alter measurements of clothing industry size standards. Yet another was responsible for the financial world and their subordinates hid fees and bounced checks.
The departments worked like a well-oiled machine to year-end culmination of widespread unhappiness, hypertension, and insomnia. December. The most glorious time of the year for Stress and Strife.
But.
It all ended, every year, at midnight on Christmas Day. Christmas night demarcates the DMZ (de-miseried zone), and Stress and Strife's archenemies, Peace and Relaxation, take over. The entire week between Christmas and New Year's Eve belongs to them, and Stress and Strife must watch from the sidelines. Unconcerned About Anything has been a strong ally, assisting Peace and Relaxation to hold the enemy at bay. Year after year, decade after decade.
As you can well imagine this week had long been a thorn in Stress and Strife's side. They sought to reclaim this lost territory, and the subject came up often. Emergency meetings were frequent with only the one item on the agenda (which was good, because Robert hated Stress and Strife and forbid them to use his rules).
And so sat the department heads around the conference table at one such meeting. They mulled the same old ideas, such as the December 26th sales which had been implemented a few years back but never managed to pack the wallop Black Friday did.
They puzzled and discussed, but a solution continued to elude them. Just as the consensus was reached again they'd have to accept defeat this one week a year Anxiety had a brilliant idea.
"What if," she proposed, thinking aloud, "what if, somehow, we got people worrying about things that hadn't even gone wrong yet?"
"What do you mean?" asked Suspicion and Skepticism simultaneously.
"Well .. we can't make them participate in the misery of life this week, but maybe we can get them worrying about next week. .. make people think about it, and by just thinking about it, in fact, screw up their week .....yes! Yes! With the right marketing we can even get them to look forward to it! Plan to participate in said misery!" Anxiety was so excited she could hardly get the idea out.
Well, everyone around the table was speechless (in fact, Rumor has it Anxiety got a big promotion that day).
Obsessed was quick to see where Anxiety was headed and began making lists.
Fret had logistical concerns. A lot.
Clutter saw the marketing opportunities; noisemakers, champagne, dumb hats. Balls, pennies, and shoes dropping all at the same time.
Resolve jumped in and asked, "Yeah, but how do we get them to do it?"
"That's your department," Lazy said.
And the New Year's Resolution was born.
original post 12-31-2010
Don't let the confetti distract you. It's a subversive plot.
Oh, yes. Yes, it is. Have a seat.
Once upon a time, in a land far, far away there were two agents of Misery. Stress and Strife were their names, and they were very good at their jobs. Times were simpler. They broke the flint knives of hunters/gatherers, back-drafted hearth fires filling caves with smoke, and propagated mildew on food stores, but it was a simpler time and they were not overworked. They enjoyed a comfortable run for a long time.
Our world grew and evolved though, and Stress and Strife had to organize and recruit assistance (or give up earned vacation time). They formed a networking effort of global proportions and employed covert agents everywhere. The agents headed their own departments and were charged with specific tasks. One agent, for example, oversaw havoc in the medical field and everything pertaining to it. This encompassed everything from lowering the accepted age of colonoscopies to flossing to HDL/LDL imbalance. Another was charged with retailing, and instructed underlings to periodically and without warning alter measurements of clothing industry size standards. Yet another was responsible for the financial world and their subordinates hid fees and bounced checks.
The departments worked like a well-oiled machine to year-end culmination of widespread unhappiness, hypertension, and insomnia. December. The most glorious time of the year for Stress and Strife.
But.
It all ended, every year, at midnight on Christmas Day. Christmas night demarcates the DMZ (de-miseried zone), and Stress and Strife's archenemies, Peace and Relaxation, take over. The entire week between Christmas and New Year's Eve belongs to them, and Stress and Strife must watch from the sidelines. Unconcerned About Anything has been a strong ally, assisting Peace and Relaxation to hold the enemy at bay. Year after year, decade after decade.
As you can well imagine this week had long been a thorn in Stress and Strife's side. They sought to reclaim this lost territory, and the subject came up often. Emergency meetings were frequent with only the one item on the agenda (which was good, because Robert hated Stress and Strife and forbid them to use his rules).
And so sat the department heads around the conference table at one such meeting. They mulled the same old ideas, such as the December 26th sales which had been implemented a few years back but never managed to pack the wallop Black Friday did.
They puzzled and discussed, but a solution continued to elude them. Just as the consensus was reached again they'd have to accept defeat this one week a year Anxiety had a brilliant idea.
"What if," she proposed, thinking aloud, "what if, somehow, we got people worrying about things that hadn't even gone wrong yet?"
"What do you mean?" asked Suspicion and Skepticism simultaneously.
"Well .. we can't make them participate in the misery of life this week, but maybe we can get them worrying about next week. .. make people think about it, and by just thinking about it, in fact, screw up their week .....yes! Yes! With the right marketing we can even get them to look forward to it! Plan to participate in said misery!" Anxiety was so excited she could hardly get the idea out.
Well, everyone around the table was speechless (in fact, Rumor has it Anxiety got a big promotion that day).
Obsessed was quick to see where Anxiety was headed and began making lists.
Fret had logistical concerns. A lot.
Clutter saw the marketing opportunities; noisemakers, champagne, dumb hats. Balls, pennies, and shoes dropping all at the same time.
Resolve jumped in and asked, "Yeah, but how do we get them to do it?"
"That's your department," Lazy said.
And the New Year's Resolution was born.
original post 12-31-2010
