Friday read

It should have been a Review Friday, but as I said, these two weeks are a little exceptional.

First of all I wanted to point you to the six sentences of a lovely lady who wrote this piece about a child, but I could recognize myself in it even if I'm no longer a child.

"I only imagined how difficult it must have been for her not to be able to express exactly what she wanted and/or needed in a way others could understand.

Coupled with that was that those people she couldn't communicate with tried teaching her how to communicate using methods she didn't feel comfortable using. In fact, even when Jaimie tried expressing herself, she was told it "wasn't the right way." Then those people tried making Jaimie do things their way—their "right way"—without trying variations of their way to see what worked best. Finally, how she related to those people changed on a daily basis depending on her own sensitivity levels. If she wasn't able to deal with a person's smell, for example, she wasn't able to concentrate on the task at hand, which caused frustration on both sides."

Talk about touching. That's why I feel an outsider sometimes… and sometimes a rebel, because I refuse to follow some rules that are passed as the only right way to do things. There is no right or wrong way, there's each's personal way in everything. Take it from someone who tried desperately to fit in until she realized she shouldn't force herself to be what the others wanted her to be.

Next week you'll have some musings about writing and everything related as I relax with my nephew AND my Kindle – my wonderful techie bro set up the wi-fi, so I'm all set to start a TBR digital list! I guess he deserves a BIG present for his upcoming b-day!

Working on SKYBAND (which might have found more readers), I did the cover for the next chapter:

and it so reminded me of the Sweeties, or the original Mercenaries?! (you might remember the working title for this graphic novel was New Mercenaries) as you can see here:

Of course I've become better at coloring with Photoshop, so the next generation looks better! I'm also noticing now that Birdsong (first on the left) has the same shirt as Brayan (upper drawing blond guy with long hair)… but it's OK, as Birdsong is actually Brayan's uncle!

Now, to today's announcement: Soul Stealers is now available on Smashwords and Lulu (and even on Kindle, this time I uploaded the Smashwords .mobi file and it went live much quicker)! I didn't do a book trailer for this one, so enjoy the cover only… and happy birthday, Keanu!