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February 21, 2018
ENTER TO WIN!
Okay, I am blue in the face, but I refuse to stop until all of you lovelies have entered our paranormal romance anthology’s giveaway. It is to celebrate our Cover Reveal event, which is March 23-24. I will be there, of course. Would love to see you there! 
February 20, 2018
Check this out!
Article Alley did a blog on one of the authors in the anthology that I am in
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Hello, Lovelies! Happy Tuesday!
My series Fates Intertwined has been brought to life (insert mad scientist laugh). Kiss of a Vampire has entered the world via My Fated Valentine Anthology, which is available now on Amazon. Bite of a Lierum is my next creation that is available for preorder now & goes live (evil laugh) on March 1st!
Bite of a Lierum
Fate has a funny way of crossing the paths of those who are unlikely to meet on their own.
For years, Faith hunted the infected vampires refusing to give up until they no longer existed. Nothing else in life mattered to Faith. Her life was simply to see an end to the rogue vampires. However, Fate had different plans for Faith. This journey that she had chosen was leading her to another purpose in life.
The life Faith had chosen made her keep most beings away from her, except for a pack of Lierums. They had fought side by side in battles and in the end, an unexpected bond was formed. For once, she wasn’t alone, but there was only one problem. Within this pack of Lierums was Elijah. He was the only being who could ignite feelings within her that she never knew existed.
Faith is ready to flee to escape her feelings and Elijah is prepared to chase her. Will Fate be able to hold on to the reins with its plans for Faith and Elijah or will Faith slip through Fate’s hands?
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Paranormal romance read by yours truly.
It goes live on Amazon March 1st.
Happy Reading & XoXo,
S.E.Isaac
February 19, 2018
Parenting Solo
Parenting solo & there is no red solo cup involved!
So, hubby is still away to Samoa handling family matters, which means the kids are 24-7 under my care. On top of that! The schools here have been out for the past 5 days! And, on top of that! My son with the challenges (autism, mood disorder, and observed for Schizophrenia) is now going through med changes!!! My house has been a war zone. The calm before the storm never came. The storm just keeps coming over and over again. The raindrops are the size of kittens and my umbrella (mind) is filled with holes & frail.
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That is me battling my son & his meltdowns
People often ask what my life is. That’s easy to explain: Get on a roller coaster blindfolded while you have a killer migraine and try to read a book. Yep! My life is crazy with a capital C. We have good moments (that’s when the roller coaster is going up) and I cherish those moments. However, we have bad moments (That’s when the roller coaster plumages towards the ground and you hope the roller coaster doesn’t derail)
Over the past weeks, due to med changes and med dosage changes, life has been exciting. That’s somewhat sarcastic. My son has been flipping out over the most ridiculous things. I have to walk on eggshells or deal with a pissed off 13-year-old with the strength of a bull on speed. Just yesterday, I didn’t walk on the eggshells, he got pissed off and went on a rampage, which included spitting in my face, calling me HORRID names and tossing his room. Yeah, that was fun. He did throw a few hits in. Mama bear came out then.
I have to remember that he does have special needs and that his body is under a lot of changes (puberty, med changes, etc.); however, it does not excuse his behavior! Verbally assaulting and/or physically assaulting someone is not acceptable. Due to his mindset (comprehensive), consequences vary. What works one day, might not work again for a few months. I have to take it in strides and be a flexible parent. I know there are so many parents/caregivers out there struggling with this day in and day out. Just know that you are not alone.
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Happy Reading and XoXo,
S.E.Isaac
February 17, 2018
Shyness & Awesomeness
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If you were to throw shyness and awesomeness into a blender you would get my co-coordinator of this anthology, one of my fave authors & my sista’ from another mista’- Author Josette Reuel!!
Josette and I met through another analogy & we have been inseparable since then! No, seriously, if one of us goes quiet, the other one goes through separation anxiety/withdrawal! :p She is quite the friend, quite the author, and quite a woman. I am very happy to have crossed paths with her.
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Okay, enough rambling about our friendship, let’s take a peek into her life and into what makes her-her…
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Where are you from? Do you have children? Pet? Married?
I have spent 45 years (on February 26th) in Central Ohio. I live on 2 acres surrounded by farmland that has been in my husband’s family for over one hundred years. We have a daughter who is finishing her Baking and Pastry Arts Associates degree and a son who just turned eighteen and is stressing over having to become an adult. I love animals and we’ve always had pets. I have two black cats that are outside mousers (I’d have them inside if my husband would let me). My son and daughter both have a dog. My son has a rat and I guess his sister is giving him her hermit crabs – she also gave him the rat, by the way. And, we have six rabbits at the moment that my son is raising for his last year in 4-H.
Have you ever visited or lived abroad (overseas)? If so, where? Did you like it?
When I was eighteen my parents paid for me to travel to visit my boyfriend in Norway. I stayed with his family for three months before returning to attend college. I totally wanted to stay. It was so beautiful there. I met him while he was an exchange student in Ohio my Junior year of high school. It’s not “overseas” but I’ve been to Canada a few times and met some amazing authors and readers at the Ignite Your Soul Author Event. I’ll be returning for my third year in September.
Besides writing, what is your passion?
Anyone have time for anything other than writing? LOL Seriously, I love any sort of creative project. I was an art major when I first went to college and love crafts. I make my own book covers, graphics, and swag. I even have a site to sell my services for a reasonable price to other indie authors. One of the best things is to use my talents to make someone a gift, the joy that I can bring others just by using some of my own time is priceless.
Biggest pet peeve?
Being asked silly questions. Just kidding. My biggest pet peeve is to be talked over. Just because I’m quieter or I take time to put my thoughts together doesn’t mean I don’t want to have my say. It’s been ingrained in me to be polite and not interrupt others while they are talking. However, not everyone has learned that lesson.
What genre do you write in? Do you read mostly in this genre too?
I write Paranormal Romance. The majority of what I read falls within PNR. However, I’m open to any good story. Being a Sci Fi geek from way back, I love anything with a science fiction, fantasy, or paranormal twist. And, romance has definitely become my genre of choice.
What inspired you to write books?
I have enjoyed books and stories from the time I was very small. So, the written word has always been there. Unfortunately, life took me a different direction and I was forty years old before I seriously considered trying to publish. I’d recently began reading again (kids and work had stolen my reading time for many years) and met some online book lovers who encouraged me to try writing. My family were very supportive and in 2014 my husband told me to quit my full-time job and write full-time instead. My first novel was published in September, 2014.
If you could only have one book in your personal library, what would that book be? And why?
A Kindle because I could have all of my favorites LOL I seriously don’t have one book that is my all-time favorite. If I love a book, I read more by that author, but I read so many that one doesn’t stand out over another. They all have their place in my life. The moments that they helped me to escape reality and travel to another world.
With the paranormal romance anthology, A Guide to Claiming a Scaredy Cat, will your readers see a different writing style or do you always stick to the same writing style?
I will write the story the way I have written all of my others, I will allow it to guide me where it wants to go. I think each of my stories have a style of their own, but all of my writing does have a consistent voice. At least I think so. Might want to ask my beta crew and see if they’d agree.
Now for the fun stuff:
Are you a coffee or tea drinker (Which do you prefer)?
Chai tea
What is one food/beverage that you could never give up?
Cherry Coke (I’ve tried)
Unicorn or Dragons- Which team would you be on?
Dragons no contest.
If a zombie apocalypse happened and you had to choose two items from the following list of items, which one would you choose and why? Titanium baseball bat, running shoes, a shotgun with two cases of shells, a novel by your favorite author, Samurai sword, a Knight’s armor suits, semi-truck filled with chocolate, or a puppy/kitten?
Samurai sword for protection and it’s always ready and doesn’t run out of ammo. I’m torn between the semi of chocolate and the kitten. A girl always needs her chocolate, but a kitten could be your friend and help keep you warm at night.
What is one silly, fun, or nerdy fact about you?
I have a mutant heart LOL I always forget the term for it, but the trunk that branches out of the top of my heart, one branch goes to your right brain and one branch goes to your right arm. Well, the one for my arm actually comes out of the left side of my heart, wraps around the back and goes down my arm. The doctor was adamant that it was a “typical deviation from the normal anatomy,” but I prefer to just say I’m a mutant.
I found this on Google- Josette would NEVER post something like this!! LOL
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Her latest paranormal romance series.
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Well, ‘Ciao-Ciao’ for now!
Happy Reading & XoXo’s
S.E.Isaac
February 16, 2018
Awesomeness from Alaska
This picture does NOT do this gift justice!!!
Originally, I was going to take a picture holding this awesome stuff from an amazing person in Alaska!!! That was my goal. I didn’t care how crappy I looked because I was oooooh to excited & wanted to share the picture with all of you. However, shortly after receiving this amazing gift, my life changed forever. (Bittersweet…somewhat of a pun)
Even though it has been a few days, it does not take away the awesomeness of this gift. I cannot wait for things to settle around here so I can make that tea (so excited to try it) and enjoy those chocolates! 
February 14, 2018
Witty and Smart!
The paranormal romance anthology that I am co-coordinating and an author in is in full swing! I keep singing praise about the authors that I am getting to work with, but seriously, they are all amazing! I can’t get enough of them, their charm, and their writing! A great group of people to work with.
I was able to interview another one of these awesome-sauces- Edward Blackwood! He is such a great guy. Without telling you my thoughts on him, I will let him tell you himself
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Fate has a funny way of crossing the paths of those who are unlikely to meet on their own.
For years, Faith hunted the infected vampires refusing to give up until they no longer existed. Nothing else in life mattered to Faith. Her life was simply to see an end to the rogue vampires. However, Fate had different plans for Faith. This journey that she had chosen was leading her to another purpose in life.
The life Faith had chosen made her keep most beings away from her, except for a pack of Lierums. They had fought side by side in battles and in the end, an unexpected bond was formed. For once, she wasn’t alone, but there was only one problem. Within this pack of Lierums was Elijah. He was the only being who could ignite feelings within her that she never knew existed.
Faith is ready to flee to escape her feelings and Elijah is prepared to chase her. Will Fate be able to hold on to the reins with its plans for Faith and Elijah or will Faith slip through Fate’s hands?
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99 Pennies! Releases March 1st!
HAPPY VALENTINE’S DAY!!!
XoXo,
S.E.Isaac
February 13, 2018
Interview with S.E. Issac!
As part of the A Guide to Claiming a Scaredy Cat Anthology I’ve met some really great people and amazing authors. One of them is S.E Issac, who has a blog named Monster in the Cookie Jar.
This is one amazing lady, lemme tell you. I don’t know her all that well yet but I’ve spoken to her several times and I can say that she is upbeat, helpful, positive and cheerful.
She’s a child of military parents, a veteran herself, and been through a whack of crap that life has a habit of throwing at you.
And I was lucky enough to be able to be interviewed by her.
You can read it over here at Monster in the Cookie Jar: Spunk & Honesty!
Have a wonderful day! I am going to do a bunch of math review and make ginger snap cookies.
I have a craving.
Muah!
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February 12, 2018
Spunk & Honesty!
One of the things I love about being in anthologies is that I get to meet authors, who I may have never met otherwise. With the current anthology that I am co-coordinating and an author in A Guide to Claiming a Scaredy Cat, has introduced me to some amazing authors! Such a great group of authors!
I was able to chat it up with all of them. Learned lots about them. Learned the similarities and differences we had. Learned their likes and dislikes. Yet, another fun experience. So, without further ado, let’s meet an author of A Guide to Claiming a Scaredy Cat anthology.
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Where are you from? Do you have children? Pet? Married?
I am from London, Ontario by way of the Toronto area, where I was born and raised. I like London much better. I have 6 pets – a beta named Arthur Curry (Aquaman’s human name); an unnamed pleco; a very large half-Manx named Terror; a domestic long-haired cat named Luna (who is as crazy as her name suggests); a pouty, cranky, 6 year old Corgi-Finnish Spitz named Toffee, who looks like a small corn dog; and, finally, my 4 month old Corso-St Bernard-Rottie mix, Micky. I’m training Micky to be a support dog for me; she’ll be a PTSD dog and physical support.
I am not married anymore. I walked out of an abusive marriage in 2005. It was mutually abusive and I refused to allow my children to grow up thinking that it was okay for Mummy and Daddy to yell, scream, call each other names and beat on each other. So I left and everyone has been much happier since. My kids are now 22 and 18, both are well-adjusted, brilliant and driven. I am, however, in the kind of relationship you find in a really good romance novel – the love is intense, overwhelming and deep; the sex makes me see stars ; he’s sweet, sexy, slightly geeky (and everyone will get to meet him at IYSAE); and, of course, there’s a complication.
Have you ever visited or lived abroad (overseas)? If so, where? Did you like it?
I got to go to Scotland in 2014! It was a 40th birthday gift (which was in 2013) and I didn’t have to pay a single cent, except for the tattoo I got done in Glasgow, which was my gift to myself.
Scotland is a major part of my heritage and it was a lifelong dream to go. I got to spend two whole weeks there (my friends really, really love me). It was amazing! I work with energy and so I not only got to see the history I got to feel it. I would absolutely live there. I hope to, some day.
Besides writing, what is your passion?
I have a couple:
The people I love. I am driven to look after them as much as they look after me.
Photography. M just bought me an almost-DSLR! It’s a Kodak Easy Share Z981, a real softball in the world of digital cameras but still a huge step up from the Olympus D-700. It’s a great camera to start learning how to use a DSLR on. I’m stoked.
And last, but not least, is the dream my daughter and I share, the reason I went back to school and she is attending the University of Guelph’s Bachelor’s of Bio-Resource Management Program: our ranch. One part of the ranch will be about rehabilitating injured and abused horses and the other part will a live-in camp (we’re hoping a month at a time, maybe the summer for those who need it) for children who have been abused and are not being helped by the support the system offers. Those children who cannot be reached. I was one of those children. Having some place where I could work with animals, make connections with other living creatures and learn that I could be loved and love in return… That’s what I’d like to offer other children.
Biggest pet peeve?
My ex-husband. *laughs* We actually get along fairly well, now.
My biggest pet peeve is people with brains who don’t use them. Those who are intelligent but act and speak with ignorance.
What genre do you write in? Do you read mostly in this genre too?
I write paranormal thrillers with a lot of romance and sex thrown in. I also write erotica, just for fun. I tend to read a lot of paranormal – LKH, Kelley Armstrong, JR Ward and Kim Harrison are my favourites.
What inspired you to write books?
When I was in grade four, my class was challenged to write a short story without using the word “and”. My teacher loved my story and I realized that I could affect people with my words. I wrote off and on a little through my teens until my boyfriend (and first lover) insisted that I write out my fantasies for him. They were the most trite pieces of drivel you have ever seen full of fireplaces, bear skin rugs and cabins in the woods but I continued to write and improve upon that embarrassment. Then my stories started actually having character development and depth and I steered away from so much sex. A book was a challenge I set for myself.
If you could only have one book in your personal library, what would that book be? And why?
*gasp* One book?!? Can it be an anthology? Actually, it is an anthology: An Oxford Anthology of Shakespeare. I absolutely love Shakespeare. If you talk to me often enough you will get peppered with Shakespearean references from direct quotes to oblique ones. I’m on a (pretty much continuous) Messenger call with M right now and he said, “You want Shakespeare, don’t you?” *chuckles*
With the paranormal romance anthology, A Guide to Claiming a Scaredy Cat, will your readers see a different writing style or do you always stick to the same writing style?
I tend to write in an open omnipresent third person – that means that you are getting the inner thoughts and seeing the lives of more than just the MC, so, for instance, you’ll be seeing the thoughts and lives of both Sarah and Mike, not just Sarah in my story. I was going to try to write in closed third person but I don’t like it as much. (To be honest, I had one publisher say they’d be thrilled to publish Witch Hitlist I rewrote it in closed third person, only from Anna’s POV. Pfft) This story is going to be in my normal style, for sure.
And that was a roundabout way of getting to that answer. Sorry, people!
Now for the fun stuff:
Are you a coffee or tea drinker (Which do you prefer)?
Tea. If I do drink coffee, it’s gotta be light and sweet and preferably made light with hazelnut creamer. By then, I don’t think it’s really coffee anymore eh? Tea it is! I own a dozen or so different ones.
What is one food/beverage that you could never give up?
Cheese. I bet you expected that Ch sound to be the beginning of chocolate, didn’t ya?
Unicorn or Dragons- Which team would you be on?
Dragons. All the way.
If a zombie apocalypse happened and you had to choose two items from the following list of items, which two would you choose and why? Titanium baseball bat, running shoes, shotgun with two cases of shells, a novel by your favorite author, Samurai sword, a Knight’s armor suits, semi-truck filled with chocolate, or a puppy/kitten?
M says the bat and the puppy – the bat would last the longest without being loud or getting dull and the puppy would grow into a dog that would scent the zombies long before you. And I have to agree, so yup, what he said.
Nice chatting with you, S.E.Isaac!
Isn’t she awesome? I love her spunk & her honesty! Definitely, two things we have in common!
To find out more about Catherine, her writing, her photos, and the work she’s doing with Micky check out her blogs:
https://catherinebowman.wordpress.com/ & https://raisingmicky.wordpress.com/
She is on social media too!
Follow her on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/HighlandWolves/
Follow her on Twitter: https://twitter.com/HighlandWolves
Follow her on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jenn.c.vanm/
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After following Catherine and all of her great pages, be sure to find her and the other authors on the anthology’s Facebook Fan Page.
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One more thing, before I go, do you like winning things for free? (Yes, I said, ‘Free’.) If so, be sure to enter the anthology’s Cover Reveal Event giveaway. There are three amazing prizes up for grabs!!!
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Happy Monday, Happy Reading & XoXo,
S.E.Isaac
