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The Medicine Woman’s Treasure Chest – Horse Chestnut or Aesculus -Circulatory System

Originally posted on Smorgasbord - Variety is the spice of life:
The Horse Chestnut is an herb that has been used for centuries to either prevent or to ease the discomfort of circulatory disease including varicose veins. Aesculus is the extract from the seeds of the Horse Chestnut Tree or Hippocastanaceae. The horse chestnut can…

Back to Blogging

This past week has been kind of life-changing. What happened in Paris has obviously changed the whole world, just as 9-11 did. Can’t just ignore it and go back to zooming around the bloggerverse. I just hope that we don’t look back at this time as the beginning of some rather bigger ending. I also […]

Understand the Tools of your Trade

Originally posted on Lit World Interviews:
You’re unlikely to find gainful employment as a secretary if you can’t type. Any job of work that you want to do obviously requires some study and knowledge of what you’re going to be doing. Likewise if you’re self-employed, while you can call yourself anything at all, if you…

Do What You Love

It’s brilliant to be properly back in the bloggerverse.  I’ll be finishing up a couple of cover designs this weekend before diving into my sci-fi series book edits again next week, and now that I’m finally having some quality time back at my computer again with two of my favourite things, I’m pretty much grinning […]

What’s in a Name short story – ‘E’ For Elaine – Shining Brightly

Originally posted on The Greek and French meaning of the name Elaine is Shining Light or the Bright One. Agapanthus, the “Lily of the Nile” is native to South Africa. The variation ‘Elaine’ grows up to 36 inches and has green strap like leaves with dark violet-blue…

12 of the Most Misused English Words…Infographic…

Originally posted on Chris The Story Reading Ape's Blog:
Originally posted on Chris The Story Reading Ape's Blog: View original

On Sale for only $0.99!*** “Midnight Owl” (A Joe Leverette Mystery Book 1) by Viv Drewa

Originally posted on theowlladyblog:
‪#‎aromasauthors‬ ‪#‎vivdrewa‬ When the dismembered body of a young woman is found Detectives Joe Leverette and Philip Marsden are assigned the case. After investigating the Port Huron, Michigan area where the six body parts were found there’s a twist in the case: The murderer goes after each individual who found the…

Cross Genre Promotion by Authors from Around the World

Many thanks to Michael Fedison for setting up this great cross genre book promotion, and also for including me in it. The authors included here from all around the world each have special deals for you starting from today and right up to the twenty second of November, so zoom on over to their sites […]

Promoting Your Books on Amazon

Originally posted on Lit World Interviews:
I’ve only just discovered, too late, that when you run a Kindle Countdown deal it either happens at Amazon.com or Amazon.UK, and not all regions at the same time.  So while this time I’ve managed to put different books on Countdowns for the different regions, I’ll know better for…

It’s Live Folks!

Originally posted on Kev's Great Indie Authors:
My new Christmas single is now live and available for download from iTunes folks! I’ve put a link to it in the sidebar and included one here as well. For those of you who haven’t had the chance to listen to it yet, I’ve embedded the Youtube…