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7-Eleven Clerk Who Lost Job Over Good Deed Gets a Better Offer

Jaye:

Sometimes good Karma pays off quickly.

Good luck, Lin

Originally posted on Kindness Blog:

In a striking example of poetic justice, a Massachusetts teenager who says she was fired from 7-Eleven for giving a cup of coffee to a homeless man has landed a new job within days—at a homeless-services organization.

Ava Lins on the first day of her new job. Photo: Facebook

“My lesson learned is that good deeds pay off,” Ava Lins, 19, tells Yahoo Shine. “Do what you believe is the right thing, and stan...

Nominate your favourite indie author(s)

I hope, maybe, some of you will nominateLove or Lustcertainly I do hope that some indie author or other has put a book out in the past year that has inspired or impressed you enough to nominate he or she. You can also, by the by, nominate multiple books/authors.

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We need your help in putting together a list of some of the best self-published books from the past year.Read something great?Nominate it.Written something grea...

“Oh dear, maths” — J K Rowling

English: J.K. Rowling reads from Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone at the Easter Egg Roll at White House (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Ready or Notit turns out isnot going as quickly as I estimated.

As J K Rowling has said in more than one interview I’ve read: ”Oh dear, maths …”

It’s gong well, but I am not always a world class mathematician. It would seem that there were some flaws in my calculations. First, would you believe that 13≠ 20?! It’s true! I checked with a friend of mine who has a ma...

Ready or Not getting even closer!

At the extraordinary risk of causing fate to set my editor’s computer on fire I will say that the final editing is goingphenomenally!

I’d love to say ‘as of you can pre-order and it’ll launch on , but I can’t. Notyet.

Thing is, if the book continues to need nothing more than repairing my lovely typographical errors and tidying up my idiosyncratic approach to punctuation and capitalisation then the book could potentially be through with editing by the end of this month, meaning I could announce...

Book 3 is going well!

At the very acute risk of jinxing myself I really have to say that Book 3 is proving loads of fun to write and is going smoothly and, relatively, quickly.

I’m not far enough in to have a title yet; I’m not 100% sure what it’s about just yet, I’ll probably have that worked out around what will prove to be the half-way mark.

Still, if it manages to retain its smoothness and ease of writing I could actually see my way to putting it out late this year, then again I may just use the extra time for...

Which character is the author?

Among the many odd questions an author is often asked one of the oddest is some variation on “Which character is you?”

It’s so very strange to be asked this – because depending how you look at it, either all of them or none; unless, of course, I happen to have a character who is a shy author named Jaye Em Edgecliff that lives in Georgia and writes teen fiction.

On the one hand, they are all me. They do, after all, come from my own hand and head. They may be inspired by any number of things from...

The inequity of ‘rape culture’

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Original caption states, “Dem. Rep. Congo: Meeting for Rape Victims Rape victims who have been successfully reintegrated into their communities assemble in a “peace hut” near Walungu, South Kivu in DRC. USAID-supported health programs have assisted rape victims with counseling, training, employment, and safe living environments.” (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

First off, I’m not sure how I feel about the term ‘rape culture’. I know what it’s supposed to mean, but it feels like being horribly cruel...

Dad Finds a Sweet Note in his Daughter’s Folder at School

Jaye:

I pray if ever I have children, this is their nature.

Originally posted on Kindness Blog:

‘cliveholloway’ wrote:




“Went to my daughter’s school and saw this in her file. Made me smile :D”

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One Picture a Day…………….Day 318

Jaye:

This is so beautifully haunting and eerie! God, I wish I wrote the kinds of books I could use it for the cover of.

Originally posted on One Picture a Day:

March 3, 2014….Day 318

Derelict Car & Building Under a Stormy Sky

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“True art is angsty & inaccessible”

I desperately wish I could fathom just where this idea originates.

It is a remarkably pervasive idea, and to such an extent that things that were popular and contain no angst will frequently receive interpreted doses of the latter to make literary scholars feel better about enjoying them. And obscurity is, somehow, a hallmark of awesomeness and brilliance; though this one I think they feel no need to bother over much with — odds are even that those literary scholars have read moreaboutGilgames...