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Change is a sickly feeling
a nervous-like anxiety
fear of the unknown beckoning for patience
to wear itself thin
stomach fluids swirl in the belly of futures
unknown
and yet I know the power of self-examination
of mirrors and of light
will require me to change
or let go completely
to strengthen
and to build up
to reject what once felt as close as breath
in my mouth
now a violent release of what had been
for what will be
who knew
new beginnings
could be so
queasy.
Several years ago, I sat in a pub in London with my eldest son who was spending a semester at Kings College, talking about magic and reality. The conversation was intriguing though likely fueled by the ale as we thought about the weirdness of quantum mechanics and reality. It was during that conversation that the basic plot for my novella The Last Observer came about. In 2013, that book duly appeared and it sold a few copies too. Quite a few people asked if there might be a follow up and over the last 4-years I have been slowly working on that follow up. It has been a slow and labored business but on July 21st, Lord of the Elements will also appear in print.
Lord of the Elements is a prequel but it is also book 2 in the series and I must recommend that people read The Last…
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Available in both eBook and paper.They will show in the Amazon store within 3-5 business days but are available now through the Kindle and CreateSpace stores. The old version is still showing on Amazon but will be removed.
I’m so grateful to have this task behind me! It took quite a bit longer than I expected, largely due to how poorly I wrote five years ago compared with now. I decided to give the book a quick overhaul, forgetting it was not a vehicle that merely needed an oil change. And once I started, there was no turning back. I did all the formatting, which can be a nightmare. But I learned…
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Innocuous travel advice led me there. My friend had already recommended a dozen museums and monuments to see while in Paris—this was just another item to add to the itinerary. I had no idea that it would lead me into a place where the darkness moved on its own and the walls whispered behind my back.
My visit started the same way that most vacation activities do: with a long line, a mingling of chatter and cigarette smoke in the air, and nearby shops that hawked gaudy souvenirs. Here, however, the cards and magnets boasted skulls and skeletons rather than the Paris skyline. The guarded entrance—a somber black shack on the edge of a park—bore no advertisement for the macabre attraction, just a plain placard.
l’Ossuaire Municipal—The Catacombs of Paris.
All of Paris stood on hollow ground, the skeleton of a network of…
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your humble host Each week we’re taking five, maybe ten, of YOUR writerly questions and setting about answering them for you. When this post appears, get your questions in QUICKLY via the “comments” section below.
See, a lot of you don’t know what you don’t know, and some of you know things others don’t; so the idea is for you – and I mean YOU – to just ASK the questions you have and let’s get the ball rolling. Skill level doesn’t matter. Newbie writer, veteran writer, you have questions. I’ll opine; maybe some others will chime in with their thoughts, and hopefully YOU will get several good solutions to choose from.
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Welcome to the first update of the week and we have two new books and new version of a very popular book which has just been lovingly remastered.
The first book is Bequiling Delilah: Romancing the Guardians – Book Six by award winning author Lyn Horner
About Bequiling Delilah
He’s a Navajo sworn to bring her to America;
She’s a sexy genius in a race with him across France
Delilah Moreau, the glamorous French Guardian, possesses a miraculous mathematical talent that provides her a privileged life, but it can’t give her what she truly wants: lasting love. Leon Tseda, a Navajo whose homeland serves as a hidden gathering place for the Guardians, vows to bring Delilah to safety, thwarting thugs sent to capture her and the valuable scroll she guards. Opening in Paris, the story whisks the pair in a life-and-death chase across France to Nice and Monte Carlo on…
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By way of context, Teagan Geneviene of Teagan’s Books is currently writing a really fun series of posts where each blogger discovers their fairy name and she writes your fairy character into a weekly story. My fairy name is Glitter Shimmerling and I liked this idea so much I decided to write my own post about my own fairy character and create her out of fondant too. You can visit Teagan’s entertaining blog and learn more about this great idea here: https://teagansbooks.com/2017/07/01/come-out-to-play-thistledown/.
This week, Michael and I also travelled to Scotland to be interviewed by the Hamstah Dude’s in their gingerbread house over at Shehanne Moore’s delightful blog. You can read the interview here which sets the background for this poetic response here: https://shehannemoore.wordpress.com/2017/07/13/half-guests-will-travel-interview-with-robbie-cheadle/.
Fairy Glitter Shimmerling,
had a “Bake and Write” blog,
the maintenance of which,
was a fun and exciting job.
***
On her blog she taught,
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