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October 31, 2017
Monday Mystery Mime
Once again, our friends at Feathers and Toast bring you the weekly mystery mime for your guessing pleasure. Have a go, put a guess in the comments, we won’t bite. Winners announced next week.
And last week’s mime was a pumpkin being carved and the winners were Richard Goldman, Linda Henderson Eubanks and Deva Palmier. If you guessed it too, well done. Post a comment next time. What is actually wrong with you?!
Anyway. Here’s the mime…. honestly, we don’t know why we bother…
And Feathers and Toast are also bringing us #MemeMonday with this Halloween inspired Meme.
Happy Halloween
Happy Halloween from everyone at Newsnibbles.
If you haven’t entered our Facebook competition yet, click here to do it. You have until Midnight.
If you want something spooky (or just different) to read before then, the Sparkly Badgers of Facebook have come through again. These books are all free today only, so hop over to Amazon and snap up some Halloween reading.
Don’t forget to thank the author by leaving a review!
Lineage: A Beginning by C H Clepitt
Dying to Be Roman by Jane Jago and E.M. Swift-Hook
Aaspa’s Eyes by Jane Jago
Only the Few by L.N. Denison
And released today (on permanent free) is
The Corpseriders: A Tale of Aegis Immemorial by SR Jones
October 30, 2017
A Nonsense Poem
Tweedleeast and Tweedlewest
resolved to go to war
For Tweedlewest said Tweedleeast
had really gone too far
And as they spoke, the silverbacks
hid ‘neath the bed and shook
For Tweedleast said Tweedlewest
would soon be brought to book
Tweedlewest and Tweedleeast
did huff and puff and shout
And women in suburbia
cried “who will help us out”
The Slavic eagle heard their cries
his wingspan blocked the light
Which frightened both our heroes so
they clean forgot to fight
© jane jago 2017
October 26, 2017
Sparkly Badgers Presents…
Trick or Read…
Sparkly Badgers are a collaborative group of indie authors who meet once a week on Twitter, using the hashtag #SparklyBadgersUnite. They love each other so much that they have also started a Facebook Group to share ideas and tips for the rest of the week!
One such idea was to celebrate the spookiest night of the year with a fabulous ebook giveaway. Prizes include:
The Fated Sky by E.M. Swift-Hook
Tales from Suburbia by Claire Buss
Shiva XIV by Lyra Shanti
Norma Jean’s School of Witchery by Rose Montague
Murder in Absentia by Assaph Mehr
I Wore Heels to the Apocalypse by C H Clepitt
Hunting Darkness by Ian Bristow
Dying to be Friends by Jane Jago and E.M. Swift-Hook
Celebrity Gulag by M A Rice
Caligation by Brhi Stokes
Billion Dollar Mountain by Jane Jago
Unobtainable by Jennifer Rose
To be in with a chance of winning this amazing bundle of ebooks, simply comment on the embedded Facebook post tagging a friend you think would love to win two. One lucky winner will win the entire bundle for them and their friend, straight to their Kindle!
Click here to see the post.
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Winners will be drawn at random from all of the correct entries and notified via Facebook.
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You agree to respect the hard work of the authors by not sharing any of the files with anyone else. If you love a book and want to share it, please go to Amazon and buy it as a gift.
Entries will close at midnight on October 31st, and winners will be announced the following day. If you have not been contacted then you have not been lucky this time.
As always, Facebook is not responsible for the giveaway.
October 23, 2017
Monday Mystery Mime
Every week our friends at Feathers and Toast produce a mystery mime for you to guess. Have a go in the comments, and we’ll announce the answer next week.
There were no winners to last week’s mime, which was obviously a flame flickering inside a Halloween pumpkin, you really do need to try harder.
Tallulah has given you all a clue this week, for all the good it’ll do. It is “Halloween Activity”. Good luck, Nibblers.
And our #MemeMonday meme also can from Feathers and Toast this week, as they are clearly taking over the world, one satirical news site at a time.
October 18, 2017
Amber LaLanie Set to Star in New SciFi Film
Veteran music legend Amber LaLanie, known for her trademark pink hair and 
energetic stage presence was spotted this week eating lunch with Sylar Roth and Kimi Solomon of Satin Thunder, Conrad Chase, Elise Tran, Miranda Keys and Max McDonald. But what has brought together all these rock legends in one place? Well, our sources tell us that the answer is up and coming film producer, Babette Stevenson, and her forthcoming film, Heartsong Warriors.
Our sources tell us that the musicians have come together to discuss production notes on this musical sci fi extravaganza. Whilst we have been unable to find any information anywhere regarding the production, Conrad told reporters waiting outside the restaurant that the casting process had begun. We are excited to see where it might lead.
More interesting for LaLanie fans is that she was spotted holding hands with Stevenson in the restaurant, leading to speculation that the two women may be an item. It will not be a surprise to fans, that the pair dodged reporters and avoided commenting on any speculation around their relationship, but we will keep you posted.
Speaking exclusively to Newsnibbles, author Erik Schubach told us:
These alternative facts are keeping me up at night, but I’m sure I’m just spreading misinformation.”
And you can read more on this story below.
October 17, 2017
Monday Mystery Mime
Every Monday our friends at Feathers and Toast perform a mysterious mime for your guessing pleasure. Have a guess and we’ll reveal the answer next week.
And this week’s Monday meme was this brilliant poem from the incomparable Jane Jago. Do check out her books if you get the chance.
October 12, 2017
7 Questions
Today’s 7 Questions is with Sci Fi author, J Scott Coatsworth. His new book The Stark Divide is out this week, and we caught up with him whilst he was on his launch tour to find out more.
1. So, you have been writing since 2014, what did you do before that?
My husband Mark and I run a number of directories for the queer
community, including PurpleRoofs.com, GayRealtyNetwork.com, and PurpleUnions.com. We started the first of these in 1998, and have been working on them ever sense.
Before that, I worked a variety of jobs, but many of them related to publishing – I was the marketing head, promotions director and customer service manager for Hunter House Publishing (it was a very small publisher). I worked for a few years at Barnes and Noble selling books in a retail environment. And I was the Customer Service Key Accounts manager for Publisher’s Group West, a much bigger company than Hunter House that distributed hundreds of independent presses.
And as for writing? Well, I started that when I was in fifth grade, and stopped in the mid-nineties when ten publishers rejected my first novel.
Funny how things change.
October 9, 2017
Who Ate All the Cake – Revealed
A recent polled has revealed the 50% of people blame it on the badger. In a survey conducted by Newsnibbles earlier this week, two of a total of four respondents blamed cake being eaten on the badger.
Do you know who ate all the cake?
— The Grumpy Badger (@BadgersTweetToo) October 4, 2017
Whilst one person took full responsibility, and one person suggested a full investigation, the majority chose to sling blame at the badger. Having employed a similarly scientific method to that used by the government when deciding to trial and then continue with the badger cull, we can now come to a similar conclusion, and that is, in fact, all the badgers’ fault.
In the absolutely genuine and in no way faked image below, you can see a badger indulging in cake. Whilst this image does not serve to prove that the badger ate ALL the cake, you have to admit, it’s pretty damning.
What do you think? Tell us in the comments below.
October 3, 2017
Monday Mystery Mime
Every week, our friends at Feathers and Toast perform a mystery mime for you to guess. If you guess correctly before Friday, then Tallulah will perform the mime of your choosing.
Last week’s mime was quite obviously a squirrel on high alert-as it’s the nut gathering season… Shira Levine and Paul Uhler are the winners, although how they worked that out is the real mystery.
Have a go at this one, answers in the comments.
