tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32442291899935075792024-03-13T03:37:00.400-07:00Book Talk With Barbara BarthBarbara Barthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12094942513984046193noreply@blogger.comBlogger91125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3244229189993507579.post-84390189500186880612018-02-12T12:55:00.000-08:002018-06-08T13:04:07.916-07:00A Cup of Love Anthology for Valentine's Day<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><strong> Buy it on <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Cup-Love-Stories-Valentines-Anthology-ebook/dp/B079KXLTTJ/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1528487685&sr=8-1&keywords=a+cup+of+love+barbara+barth" target="_blank">Amazon Kindle</a></strong></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><strong>New From Gilbert Street Press on Kindle for only $2.99. Proceeds go to charity. Now there is a sweetheart of a deal.</strong></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><strong>There's a new anthology on Kindle - <em>A Cup of Love: Stories From the Heart</em>. 30 authors writing on love and life in this charming anthology in time for Valentine's Day. It is my latest project and I am darn proud of it. Thirty author friends (some personal friends and some those Facebook kind you love) contributed their work for charity. All proceeds from this book go to <a href="https://firstbook.org/" target="_blank">First Book</a>, a non-profit that helps bring new books and educational opportunities to children in need. They are a wonderful organization and we are thrilled to do a little to raise money to contribute to them.</strong></span><br />
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<strong><span style="font-family: "georgia";">We did this before. November 2014 with <em><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Cup-Christmas-Barbara-Barth-ebook/dp/B00QB6F35E/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1518294813&sr=1-1&keywords=a+cup+of+christmas" target="_blank">A Cup of Christmas</a></em>. 31 authors for First Book then, too.</span></strong><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia";"><strong>It is amazing and heartwarming to share this adventure with so many wonderful writers. Some of the stories are by award winning authors and some by those published for the first time. It is a coming together of folks sharing love to give back.</strong></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong><em>From Amazon: A Valentine’s Day anthology filled with stories from the heart. Thirty writers, award winning to those published for the first time in this book, share fiction, memoirs, and a few tasty recipes to benefit charity. All proceeds go to First Book, the country’s largest network of educators serving kids in need. As in real life, these stories include moments that are bright and beautiful, happy and romantic, and in some instances, sad with loss. First love, first kiss, childhood memories, a ghost helping a widower, an angel bringing a mother to a child, a box of old letters, therapy dogs, rescue dogs, a visit to Paris, advice for the broken-hearted, chocolate mousse, and more. The common denominator is love. Why send a card when you can send an eBook. Send to your friends. It’s a gift that keeps on giving. Authors: Elaine Ambrose, Tori Bailey, Barbara Barth, Genie Bernstein, Susan Boswell, Kimberly Brock, Marlene Ratledge Buchanan, Jennie Campbell, Valerie Joan Connors, Doug Dahlgren, Kerry Alan Denney, Lori Duff, Nathalie Dupree, Audrey Frank, Cynthia Graubart, Sally Hamer, Tara Joyner Haussler, Jane-Ann Heitmueller, Lynn Hesse, Carol James, CeCe Landress, Georgia Lee, Mary Marvella, Karen Roberts, Jackie Rod, Amanda Stewart, Laura Templeton, Constance Walker, Randi Ward, and Renea Winchester.</em></strong></span><br />
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<strong><span style="font-family: "georgia";">I hope you find this sweet book and buy it, send it to a friend, or, if you are so inclined, you can make a donation straight to First Book by clicking <em><a href="https://firstbook.org/take-action/" target="_blank">here</a>.</em></span></strong><br />
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Barbara Barthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12094942513984046193noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3244229189993507579.post-4062461191493891752015-06-28T21:53:00.006-07:002015-08-26T06:05:42.545-07:00Marketing Your Books with Merchandise by PEN<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><strong>8/26/15 Note: Sharing this earlier post today by guest author PEN on the Fiction Writer's Blog Hop on Julie Valerie's Book Blog. Click the link and check out more posts today on other blogs. Hop right along! This is a monthly blog hop the last Wednesday of each month, so mark your calendar for next month, too. <span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11.5pt;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span><a href="http://www.julievalerie.com/fiction-writers-blog-hop-aug-2015" target="_blank"><span style="color: #008adb; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">http://www.julievalerie.com/fiction-writers-blog-hop-aug-2015</span></a></span></strong></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong><em>T-shirts.
Coffee cups. Sweatshirts. Coasters. If it’s a printable surface, you can have
anything printed on it</em>.<o:p></o:p></strong></span></span></div>
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before “See Rock City” graced red-barn roofs across the South, people have
slapped a logo, a quote or a company name on everything from pens to linens,
hats to socks, and everything in between. It’s a relatively inexpensive form of
advertising and promotion and there’s no reason authors can’t use that to their
advantage.</span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><o:p> </o:p></span></strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong>Got
an eye-popping cover? How about a catchy quote from your book? An artist’s
rendition of an interesting character?<o:p></o:p></strong></span></span></div>
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<strong><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Any
– or all – of the</span> <span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">aforementioned can be displayed on merchandise to generate
interest in you and your book. Just remember to put your website</span> <span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">URL on the
merchandise as well.</span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><o:p> </o:p></span></span></strong></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Buttons,
magnets, bookmarks, key chains and other small items with your designs make for
great giveaways at festivals, parties, and other gatherings. Ask your local
independent bookstore if you can leave a stack of bookmarks somewhere. If you
have any speaking engagements, have these freebies available to all who attend.
Keep some buttons, magnets and key chains on hand to give to people you meet. Or
to strangers on your commute, particularly if you recognize someone as an avid
reader. Having a little something extra to give away will get you remembered.
It may even get you talked about and generate more book sales down the road.</span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><o:p> </o:p></span></strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">T-shirts,
hoodies, sweatshirts and other apparel items can be given as prizes for contest
entries. For instance, if you’re selling books at a festival or other event,
offer one ticket per book sale for a drawing to win the T-shirt, hoodie or
other apparel. Host your own event with the same or similar premise.</span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><o:p> </o:p></span></strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong>Make
inexpensive business cards with the URL to your merchandise. Hand them out to
everyone you meet, especially if you’re wearing some of your own merchandise
and people express interest. Have family and friends wear and use the
merchandise; have them share the URL with their friends. Use social media to
its fullest: Facebook, Twitter, Google Plus, and any other social media site
you use. Boost an ad on Facebook a few times to see if you get any response.<o:p></o:p></strong></span></span></div>
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<strong><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">The
key, of course, is promotion</span>. <span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">You must be as diligent in promoting the
merchandise as you are with promoting your books.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Merchandise is an additional form of
promotion for book sales. But, just like your books, no one will purchase if
they don’t know it’s available.</span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><o:p> </o:p></span></span></strong></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong><a href="http://www.cafepress.com/?utm_medium=cpc&utm_source=google&utm_campaign=cafepress_brand%20-%20us&utm_content=search-ad&utm_term=cafepress" target="_blank">CafePress</a>
is a Print-on-Demand type of company for merchandise. In business since 1999,
CafePress is one of the largest online retailers of printed merchandise.<o:p></o:p></strong></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong>There
is also <a href="http://www.zazzle.com/" target="_blank">Zazzle</a> . However, I have never had one sale from Zazzle and I’ve
been with CafePress longer. I find the CafePress site easier to navigate and
understand.<o:p></o:p></strong></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">It
costs nothing in dollars and cents to set up a shop. What it will cost you is
time and patience. Tutorials and instructions are available and helpful. Once
you jump in and do it is when you’ll really learn.</span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><o:p> </o:p></span></strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong>Using
the CafePress website isn’t difficult. But it is time-consuming. If you are a
person short on patience, you will either learn the art of being patient or
abandon the shop altogether.<o:p></o:p></strong></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong>The
important thing is sizing your images. CafePress has a sizing chart for all the
merchandise available. Sizing can be tricky; follow the chart to make sizing
easier. Creating images for dark apparel is also tricky and requires Photoshop
or a similar program in order to create a transparent background.<o:p></o:p></strong></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong>If
you have several different images, do them in small increments: about a dozen
at a time. I learned this lesson the hard way. I had a dozen or so different
images to upload and eagerly and excitedly placed them on a variety of
merchandise. This left me with hours of attending to other details. Had I done
my images a few at a time it would not have been so aggravating to go back and
attend to all those details.<o:p></o:p></strong></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">About
those details: there are many. Everything from putting a title to your image,
adding tags and description, product description, parent page and landing page
descriptions, mark-up and then some. As tedious as it may sound, each of these
aspects is important if you want people to find and purchase your products.
Take care of each detail as you go along and you won’t have to spend hours
later doing it all.</span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><o:p> </o:p></span></strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong><em>Getting Paid</em><o:p> </o:p></strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong>As
with many do-it-yourself online print-on-demand sites, payment is withheld for
a certain time period. This isn’t done to irritate you. The time frame allows
for returns or exchanges. CafePress deals with these details so you don’t have
to.<o:p></o:p></strong></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong>CafePress
allows you to choose whether you want to be paid via PayPal or by check. You
can also choose whether the payment is after reaching $25, $50, $100 or $250 in
sales. Payment is withheld for 60 days after the month in which sales are
accrued.<o:p></o:p></strong></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">So
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in all, using merchandise to promote your books serves a dual purpose: you earn
money for the products as well as get the word out about your work.<o:p></o:p></strong></span></span></div>
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have nothing to lose by trying.</strong></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><o:p><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong><em> About the Author </em></strong></span></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><o:p><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong>A native Georgian, Pen has been daydreaming since the age of four, writing since the age of ten and recently discovered self-publishing. </strong></span></o:p></span><span style="font-family: Georgia;"><o:p><strong>She currently resides in Stone Mountain, Georgia.</strong></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;"><o:p><strong> <a href="http://barbarabarthbookblog.blogspot.com/2014/11/author-penny-pen-white-first-in-our-new.html" target="_blank">Previous post</a> on this blog by PEN.</strong></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong>Visit
Pen’s <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Pen/e/B00H22MW0K/ref=dp_byline_cont_book_1" target="_blank">Amazon Author Page</a> and her <a href="http://www.penspen.info/index.html" target="_blank">website</a>.</strong></span></span><br />
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<strong><span style="font-family: Georgia;"><em>Nero's Fiddle</em> on <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Neros-Fiddle-Pen/dp/1500557188/ref=asap_bc?ie=UTF8" target="_blank">Amazon</a> .</span></strong></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong>This month, Georgia author, Doug Dahlgren, began his second year of hosting interviews on the <em>ArtistFirst World Radio Network</em>. This weekly, hour long, forum introduces the audience to writers, musicians, and other interesting people with a story to tell. <em>The Doug Dahlgren Show</em> airs live on Monday evenings at 7 pm eastern time and is available free and on demand, in podcast form through the show’s webpage.</strong></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong><span style="color: black;">Doug is the author of seven novels, including the six book set, <em><a href="http://www.amazon.com/SON-Silas-Rising-Doug-Dahlgren/dp/0578056240/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1427408302&sr=1-1&keywords=doug+dahlgren" target="_blank">The Son Series</a></em>. <em>The Son Series</em> is set slightly in the future, but close enough to be uncomfortable, the stories expose a level of evil that goes untouched by the law. High ranking political figures, who use their positions to protect them, while committing unspeakable crimes. <em>The willingness to take a stand for what is right, against any odds.</em></span></strong><strong><span style="color: black;"> Those ideals are the inspiration for the main character , the mysterious and secretive assassin known to the world only as "The Son".</span> </strong></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong><span style="color: black;">Visit Doug's </span><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Doug-Dahlgren/e/B0087DBJZM/ref=sr_tc_2_0?qid=1427382972&sr=1-2-ent" target="_blank"><em><span style="color: blue;">Amazon Author Page</span></em></a><span style="color: black;"> for more information on Doug and his books. Coming soon, <em>The Eagle.</em></span></strong></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong><span style="color: black;">Doug is no stranger to <em>Book Talk</em>. Check out past interviews with him, including the launch of </span><a href="http://barbarabarthbookblog.blogspot.com/2014/05/the-doug-dahlgren-show-on-artistfirst.html" target="_blank"><em><span style="color: blue;">The Doug Dahlgren Show</span></em></a><span style="color: black;"><em>, </em>a charming children's </span><a href="http://barbarabarthbookblog.blogspot.com/2014/10/a-halloween-story-by-doug-dahlgren.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;"><em>Halloween </em>story</span></a><span style="color: black;"><em>, </em>and his <em><a href="ttp://barbarabarthbookblog.blogspot.com/2012/05/doug-dahlgren-son-silas-rising.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">author interview</span></a></em>.</span></strong></span><br />
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<strong><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><em>A collection of Christmas stories ranging from romance, to fairies and superheroes, to people who need to believe again. Set in Stone Mountain, Georgia, these stories are filled with Southern-style tradition, love and the magic of Christmas. From revisiting "The Gift of the Magi" to blended families making new traditions, twelve authors share Christmas stories to put you in the holiday spirit. Melba Moon, Mary Marvella, Jackie Rod, Georgiana Fields, Valerie Keiser Norris, John A. Robinson, C.C. Ansardi, Nan Monroe, Yasmin Bakhtiari, Regan Humphrey, Andrea Sommers, James Hugh Reeves.</em></span></strong><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong>While the stories in this anthology are fiction, the town is real. It is named for Stone Mountain, the largest exposed granite dome in North America. Stone Mountain harbors plant and animal life found no other place in the world. It is also the site of a famous giant carving commemorating the military leaders of the Confederacy as well as a state park and museum, including a steam railroad. Stone Mountain is a great family park. The town is full of charming shops and places to eat. Considered part of metro Atlanta, Stone Mountain has a personality all its own!</strong></span><br />
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<strong><span style="font-family: Georgia;">The book's launch was held on December 18 at <em>The Spot</em> in Stone Mountain Village, the evening was a fun time. Warm and cozy, and full of holiday spirit, the authors gathered to celebrate the season, meet with folks, and sign books. The food was delish right down to the cake that looked like the cover of the anthology.</span></strong><br />
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong><em>Author PEN kicks off a new series on Book Talk. Authors talking about writing! Penny will be back next week with more information on her recent book, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Neros-Fiddle-Pen-W-ebook/dp/B00OVGEUXM/ref=sr_1_3?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1416409627&sr=1-3&keywords=nero%27s+fiddle" target="_blank">Nero's Fiddle</a>.</em></strong></span></span></div>
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<strong><span style="font-family: Georgia;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Most people don’t
even think about the effort put into writing a novel. But they’re not really
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They don’t know
about the hours of research that go into writing. Staying up until the wee
hours of the morning or getting up in the middle of the night to work on
dialogue. Rewriting a section of work because you realize the writing is
awkward or needs clarification.<o:p></o:p></strong></span></div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong>Agonizing over
the correct word usage, the syntax of the dialogue, descriptions, proofreading,
editing, proofreading, editing and, again, proofreading and editing.<o:p></o:p></strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Visiting another
part of the country, or even areas outside the country, in order to get a feel
for the environment, location, people and architecture to lend authenticity to
the work in progress.<o:p></o:p></strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As an example, my
most recent work, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Nero’s Fiddle</i>, is a
result of two years of research regarding an Electromagnetic Pulse. What causes
it, how it works, the damage it can do: all of this was instrumental to the
writing.<o:p></o:p></strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then there was
visiting Washington, DC itself; a small, compact area rich in history housing
some of the most wonderful and memorable monuments of our heritage.<o:p></o:p></strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When the reader
holds the finished product in her/his hand, he/she isn’t contemplating the
effort put into it. She/he just wants to know if the book was worth the
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Most people think
the act of creativity is easy. They think brushstrokes appear magically upon a
canvas. They think words flow easily from a pen (or a keyboard). They don’t
realize the hours it took to write the tome or paint the masterpiece. They know
nothing of the suffering endured in the creation. They do not equate the
creation of creativity with that of giving birth.<o:p></o:p></strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Creative people
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But this is how it
is supposed to be. Revealing the suffering of the artist won’t necessarily make
the work more appealing. On the contrary, the easier the creation appears to
the audience, the more the audience appreciates the creation. If the audience
realized the work that went into the creation, they probably wouldn’t find it
more appealing. As a matter of fact, they would probably find it discouraging.<o:p></o:p></strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The object is that
the reader read that book to its completion, or the viewer appreciates that art
until s/he reaches the point where they ask themselves, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">who is this person</i>? Then, s/he will research to find out what other
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A well-written
book or a beautiful painting keeps the creator of such in the background. You
want the audience to focus on the end result, not on what went into its creation.
If a reader forgets about you while s/he is reading, you’ve done your job and
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continue to suffer in silence. But do keep a bottle of aspirin and Bourbon on
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<o:p><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><em><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong>Pen
has self-published 20 titles in print and ebook formats. Her latest endeavor,
Nero’s Fiddle is available on </strong></span></em><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Neros-Fiddle-Pen-W-ebook/dp/B00OVGEUXM/ref=sr_1_3?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1416409627&sr=1-3&keywords=nero%27s+fiddle" target="_blank"><em><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong>Amazon</strong></span></em></a><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong><em>. Follow her on Twitter </em><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><em><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">@penspen, Visit her blog </span><a href="http://mytuppence.weebly.com/" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">My Tuppence</span></a> . <span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Pen offers editing services and can be contacted via her <a href="http://mytuppence.weebly.com/contact.html" target="_blank">web</a>. She lives in the metro Atlanta area and it is rumored she does a mean impression of the Scooby-Do laugh.</span></em></span></strong></span></span></o:p></div>
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Barbara Barthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12094942513984046193noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3244229189993507579.post-41978981984340738222014-10-31T06:25:00.001-07:002014-10-31T06:32:04.318-07:00A Halloween Story by Doug Dahlgren, Author and Radio Talk Show Host<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong><em>Many thanks to Doug Dahlgren, author <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Doug-Dahlgren/e/B0087DBJZM" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">The Son Series</span></a> and host on <a href="http://www.artistfirst.com/dougdahlgren.htm" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">The Doug Dahlgren Show</span></a> on ArtistFirst Radio for sharing this Halloween story with us.</em></strong></span></div>
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Being six years older than her sister, she felt responsible for her. Thirteen
was the outer edge of grown-up, yet in her heart, she was still only a child.
She’d known better than to wait so long to head home. Dad said to “leave before
dark,” but they were both having such a good time at the party. The walk home
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<strong><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Rounding the curve of the road,
they left any light from the party behind them. They were only seven-tenths of
a mile from home, but there was nothing in between. Massive clouds hid what moon
there was and the darkness was more than she had counted on. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Should have listened to Dad</i>, she
thought.<o:p></o:p></span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">It had been Dad’s idea to move to
the country. They came just last spring and had enjoyed the summer in the clean
air and open spaces. The people were nice, but they lived what now seemed like
great distances from each other. Elizabeth’s friend, Mary Lou, had thrown the
party. They had walked to and from her house many times, just not at night. And
this night was dark.<o:p></o:p></span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">There were no street lights or traffic
for that matter. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">A passing car would be nice
right now, </i>Elizabeth told herself. But they were very alone.<o:p></o:p></span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Julie was afraid, Elizabeth could
tell, but her sister would not let on. That included not admitting hearing the
noise. Then there it was again, standing out against the other sounds of the
night. She turned and caught Julie looking to her, but for only a second.<o:p></o:p></span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">The sky or something in it was
moving above them. Clouds perhaps, but the dark hid all except that feeling of
motion. The wind blew in bursts that raked the ground on either side of the
road with low hanging tree branches. Those limbs, though nearly bare, still
swung across the tall grass and weeds before touching the dirt. The creaking
wood of the tree branches was audible over the whoosh of the grasses. Yet the
noise, that awful noise stalking them, rose above it all.<o:p></o:p></span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">“Stay up with me,
Julie. I heard it again and it’s closer.”<o:p></o:p></span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">“No,” the little sister said,
stomping her foot as she walked. “I don’t hear anything.” She sped up and
reached out to grasp Elizabeth’s coat. “Are we close, yet?”<o:p></o:p></span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">“I think so…”Elizabeth tried to be
assuring, “I can’t see much. It’s really dark.”<o:p></o:p></span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">“That I know,” Julie snapped back,
her shell cracking just a bit. Julie loved her sister and trusted her above
anyone. But she just couldn’t bring herself to say so. Unconsciously she tried
her</span></strong> <span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong>best to play counter to Elizabeth’s demeanor and that meant being perceived
as “mean” from time to time. Though in her heart, she was anything but that. <o:p></o:p></strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong>The unnerving sound happened again.
Elizabeth could not tell what it was or from where it was coming. A crackling
noise that came in sets of two or three repetitions, then stopped. The older
sister looked back towards the sound but saw only dark. A chill ran down her
back as she looked forward again. Julie had pulled ahead of her and was walking
faster.<o:p></o:p></strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong>“Still don’t hear it?” Elizabeth
asked again.<o:p></o:p></strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong>“No,” came the defiant reply. “I
told you, no.” Julie’s fists were in knots and she now held them up near her
waist as she walked. Elizabeth could see through her sister’s pretenses most times
and she clearly understood the fear in Julie’s voice.<o:p></o:p></strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong>The dirt road seemed to stretch
forever in the dark. There were no other houses along this road, no porches, or
porch lamps, nothing but darkness. Elizabeth tried not to look to either side
very often. Old dry fields lay on the right side with waist-high grass that
bent at the top when the wind wasn’t whipping it. A few oaks and maples lined
that side and it was those limbs that could touch the ground when stirred.<o:p></o:p></strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The left side had been a pecan orchard but the
trees were mostly old and in bad shape. It was those gusts of wind through the
orchard that would catch her attention and make her look in spite of her
efforts not to, but that was not “the sound.”<o:p></o:p></strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They pushed on, looking straight ahead and
staying quiet as much as they could.<o:p></o:p></strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong>But staying quiet was not one of
Julie’s best attributes. “Are you sure we haven’t passed the house?” she challenged.<o:p></o:p></strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong>Elizabeth looked at her with
amazement and disgust, “No, silly. We have not passed the house.” <i>I don’t
think,</i> she finished internally to herself.<o:p></o:p></strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong>The noise came again, closer still
this time, sets of two and then a set of three. The last set being the loudest
one. It was closer. Something was following them in the dark. The girls
instinctively began to run.<o:p></o:p></strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong>“Liz-beth!” Julie cried out as she
reached for her sister’s hand. Her big sister grabbed Julie’s hand and pulled
her along as she ran. The noise seemed to speed up with them and got louder.
But then it stopped.<o:p></o:p></strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong>They ran for several minutes,
breathing hard and fighting back tears. They ran until they could not run any
more. Slowing down but still moving, Elizabeth braced herself for the thing
following them to catch up at any moment.<o:p></o:p></strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong>But the noise was not there. It had
stopped back down the road. <i>We must press on and get home,</i> Elizabeth
thought.<o:p></o:p></strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong>The older sister took a deep breath
and jerked on Julie’s arm.<o:p></o:p></strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong>“Hey,” the younger complained.
“Don’t pull on me like that.” <o:p></o:p></strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But pull she did and within another minute
they crested over a rise in the roadway and saw the lights. It was their house.
All bright and shiny and Daddy was standing on the porch with a flashlight.<o:p></o:p></strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong>“Dad,” Elizabeth hollered.<o:p></o:p></strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong>Their father jumped from the porch
and ran towards them. “Where have you two been?” he asked. “You should have
been home twenty minutes ago.”<o:p></o:p></strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong>“I’m sorry, Daddy,” Elizabeth said,
breathing in hard, deep breaths. “It’s my fault, I know.” She looked at Julie
who was staring back down the road, back into the dark where the noise had
been. “Do you hear it, now?” Elizabeth asked her.<o:p></o:p></strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong>“Hear what?” her father asked as he
shined the flashlight into the darkness.<o:p></o:p></strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong>“Something followed us.” Then she
added, “Julie was scared.”<o:p></o:p></strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong>“Was not…” The younger insisted and
cocked her head to one side. “I didn’t even hear anything... it was you who was
scared.”<o:p></o:p></strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong>Elizabeth shrugged her shoulders in
disbelief. Her father took them both by the hand and led them up on the porch.
That’s when they all heard it.<o:p></o:p></strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong>The noise crackled through the
grass and became rhythmic and steady. It grew louder and faster as it came
nearer.<o:p></o:p></strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong>“Eeeeck,” Julie screamed and jumped
into her father’s arms. “That’s it, that’s it.”<o:p></o:p></strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong>Elizabeth looked at her, stunned by
the acknowledgement. Taking her father’s flashlight, she turned to look toward
the darkness and the noise. Her light shone high at first. In her mind the
offending creature had to be big. But as it obviously came nearer she pointed
the beam lower. And there it was.<o:p></o:p></strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong>A figure low, long, and sleek
emerged from the edge of the field along the road. It began to leap in huge
strides.<o:p></o:p></strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong>“Come here, Susie.” Elizabeth’s
father called out behind her. <o:p></o:p></strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong>“Susie?” Elizabeth repeated with
her mouth hanging open.<o:p></o:p></strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong>The family’s black lab took three
more big jumps and was on the porch. She rubbed up against the father and then
Elizabeth before approaching Julie with her tail wagging at full speed. Julie
had nothing to say. Her eyes were wide but displayed no thought behind them.
Her mouth, normally in gear, now hung open without a sound.<o:p></o:p></strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong>“She left right after you guys did
earlier,” their father told them. “Guess she just followed you there…and then
home.” He laughed under his breath and pulled the door open.<o:p></o:p></strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong>“I knew it was Susie all along.”
Julie declared, having recovered from her stupor.<o:p></o:p></strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong>Elizabeth didn’t say a word that
time. She fell to her knees and hugged her dog’s neck. Susie offered a huge
kiss and Elizabeth could feel her own heart slowing down to normal.<o:p></o:p></strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong>They went inside where Mom had hot
chocolate ready for the after the Halloween party celebration.<o:p> </o:p></strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong>Happy Halloween!<o:p></o:p></strong></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong>When a band of Potawatomi Indians kidnaps her four older sisters from their cabin in June 1806 at the edge of Ohio’s Great Black Swamp, seventeen year old Susanna Quiner is the only left to rescue them. Thieving Forest is the story of her quest to find her sisters, and the parallel story of her sisters' new lives. All five sisters change so much in the five months that they are almost unrecognizable from the young women who argued over petty things on the morning of the kidnapping.</strong></span><br />
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong><span style="color: #666666;">Martha Conway is the author of</span> <em><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Thieving-Forest-Martha-Conway/dp/0991618505/ref=asap_B001H6UXNU_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1413439116&sr=1-1" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Thieving Forest</span></a></em> and <em><a href="http://www.amazon.com/12-Bliss-Street-Martha-Conway-ebook/dp/B00AW75VMS/ref=asap_B001H6UXNU_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1413439116&sr=1-2" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">12 Bliss Street</span></a></em>, <span style="color: #666666;">which was nominated for an Edgar Award. Her short fiction has appeared in The Iowa Review, The Carolina Quarterly, The Massachusetts Review, The Mississippi Review, Folio, Epoch, and other journals. She is the recipient of a California Arts Council fellowship, and has taught fiction at UC Berkeley Extension and the Online Writers Studio at Stanford University. Born and raised in Ohio, she is one of seven sisters. She currently lives in San Francisco.</span></strong></span> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong><em>An anthology of spooky, strange and haunting tales set in a fictional Georgia mountain town featuring the appearance of a ghost ship on Spirit Lake.</em></strong></span></div>
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<strong><span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia;"><em>Trying to find happiness they happen to commit a little crime - make that a little felony, and dash out of the country. Now they're happy - mostly.</em></span></strong><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong><span style="color: black;">Valerie, a 40-ish Head Teller at
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archaeology. He is stunned yet eager to begin a relationship with this
attractive "cougar", and they become lovers. Their lives begin to unravel
when Valerie's female bisexual boss makes advances (and threats) toward Valerie
and Franco is accused of the theft of an Incan artifact from a museum where he
has been working part-time. Frustrated, under surveillance by the FBI, and
seeing no way out of their dilemma, they decide to steal money from Valerie's
bank and flee the country. They go to Peru to start a new life, but they find
there the same type of corruption and threats. How can they escape their
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><o:p><strong><em><span style="color: black;">With a large cast of characters; two richly detailed descriptive settings; an intriguing look into the workings of the banking industry and the archeology field; riveting international political drama; and a steamy sex filled romance added into the mix, Valerie's Retreat takes the reader on one hell of a thrilling roller coaster ride that romantic thriller fans will appreciate. . .</span> . <a href="http://jerseygirlbookreviews.blogspot.com/2013/10/valeries-retreat-by-joseph-m-rinaldo.html" target="_blank">Jersey Girl Book Reviews</a></em></strong></o:p></span></div>
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<span id="freeTextContainerauthor4564292"><span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong>Born in Illinois, I nevertheless spent most of my formative years in Kentucky. I attended The Ohio State University and am an avid Buckeyes fan. I currently work in finance, am married, and am the father of a wonderful young woman with Down syndrome.<br /><br />I have written four novels that have been published. <em><a href="http://www.amazon.com/SPY-AT-HOME-Joseph-Rinaldo-ebook/dp/B0033WSVVC/ref=la_B003APFY62_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1407162477&sr=1-2" target="_blank">A Spy At Home</a></em>, <em><a href="http://www.amazon.com/HAZARDOUS-CHOICES-Joseph-Rinaldo-ebook/dp/B005SJSN0C/ref=la_B003APFY62_1_4?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1407162477&sr=1-4" target="_blank">Hazardous Choices</a></em>, <em><a href="http://www.amazon.com/MORMON-MASSACRE-Joseph-Rinaldo-ebook/dp/B008R26S18/ref=la_B003APFY62_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1407162477&sr=1-1" target="_blank">A Mormon Massacre</a></em>, and my newest release, <em><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Valeries-Retreat-Joseph-Rinaldo-ebook/dp/B00GCWNOQM/ref=la_B003APFY62_1_3?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1407162477&sr=1-3" target="_blank">Valerie's Retreat</a></em> are currently available on Amazon.</strong></span> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong><span style="color: black;">The protagonist in Valerie's
Retreat runs off with a man sixteen years her junior. My wife is sixteen years
my senior, so many of our triumphs and trials have made their way into this
book. Our relationship provided a good foundation for the two main characters’
lives together. The way his and her friends react to their age disparity also
derives, at least in part, from my own experience.<br />
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For approximately one year I labored as a Head Teller at a bank. This
employment history enabled me to create a believable bank robbery. The theft
described in Valerie's Retreat is easy to conceive and execute, but leaves a
very clear path to the perpetrator. That is why the characters had to
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Franco, her boyfriend, happened to attend the same church singles dance on the
same night. They talked, talked some more, went on a date, and presto- they're
boyfriend/girlfriend. That's how it happened with my wife and me.
"Cougar" makes the women dating younger men seem somewhat predatory.
That isn't the case at all with Valerie or my wife. For the record, my wife
never considered robbing a bank either. Well, maybe considered, but never
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vicious cult determined to kill all Sirens on Earth, begin exterminating her
people. When an unexpected tragedy occurs, Lora must take her place as Guardian
of the Clan.</strong></span><span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></span></div>
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determined to gain control of her skills to help her clan, but they are
developing too slowly, until she meets Ryan, a human boy. When Ryan is near,
Lora's abilities strengthen. She knows she shouldn't be with a human. Yet, she
can't resist her attraction to him, or the surge in power she feels whenever
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James Madison University and a Masters in Secondary English Education from
Virginia Commonwealth University. She has enjoyed teaching high school English
ever since. As a teacher, Bethany is able to connect with the very audience for
whom she writes, and this connection gives her insight into their interests. As
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Barbara Barthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12094942513984046193noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3244229189993507579.post-23242315328406499432014-06-12T10:33:00.001-07:002014-06-12T10:36:28.254-07:00Have A Dog That Rules?" Writer With Dogs" Blog Wants To Share Your Story<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong>I am blog crazy. Those who know me know I have way too many blogs! </strong></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong>I also love to promote other writers, as I do here on <em>Book Talk</em>.</strong></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong>But I have my favorite blog that is all about dogs and have started something new on it.</strong></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong>My <em><a href="http://writerwithdogs.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">"Writer With Dogs"</a></em> blog was started in 2010 and has hosted many rescue dog sites, dog stories, contests, and book reviews. This week I decided to change the format and revamped its look. I want to feature authors who have a dog in their book, live with a dog that rules at home, and others who have great dog stories to share.</strong></span><br />
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<strong><span style="font-family: Georgia;">I think this will be a lot of fun. Especially for me - the gal with six dogs! I love a book with a dog on the cover, a dog as a character in the book, and if you've rescued a dog . . . . you know . . . </span></strong><br />
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Barbara Barthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12094942513984046193noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3244229189993507579.post-31105331744504541222014-06-07T14:44:00.003-07:002014-06-07T14:52:13.125-07:00Grateful for Everything by Skip Johnson<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong>We’ve all felt grateful for
something in our lives. But what about feeling in some way grateful for <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">everything</i> that happens to us—whether
good, bad, tragically unexpected or carefully planned?<o:p> </o:p></strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong>That’s the premise of Skip Johnson’s
insightful guide, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Grateful for
Everything: Learning, Living, and Loving the Great Game of Life</i>. Johnson’s
book opens readers’ eyes to the possibility of finding peace, harmony and
fulfillment through the simple, yet challenging, task of being thankful for
everything in our lives. <o:p> </o:p></strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong>Drawing on his own experiences as a
competitive tennis player and Master Pro, coach and business owner, Skip
Johnson has mastered the art of “living and loving the great game of life.”
He’s faced some tough challenges, but learned to embrace not only the
harmonious times in life but also the ones that made him feel disappointed,
worried and even grief-stricken. </strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong>“This book is not a way to learn to
be ‘happy’ about whatever happens to your life,” Johnson explains. “What we
will explore is how to take the hand that we have been dealt, develop steps to
become grateful for the lessons to be learned, and then begin to weave it all
into a mosaic of life that resembles more of a great game to play, instead of a
mire to be trudged through on a daily basis.”<o:p> </o:p></strong></span></div>
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difficult times will go away or that “hot emotions,” such as anger, frustration
and fear, will disappear. What he does propose is that putting <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Grateful for Everything</i> into action will
create empowering tools to help people deal with these emotions.<o:p></o:p></strong></span></div>
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of Life</span></strong></span></i><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
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to successfully see the game in life, as opposed to seeing life as a daily
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia;"><strong>Doug was one of my first guest authors on Book Talk on May 28, 2012, with his novel, <em>The Son, Silas Rising</em>, the first book in <em>The SON Series</em> novels. You can link to that post by<span style="background-color: #ffe599; color: blue;"> </span></strong><a href="http://barbarabarthbookblog.blogspot.com/2012/05/doug-dahlgren-son-silas-rising.html" target="_blank"><strong><span style="background-color: #ffe599; color: blue;">clicking here</span></strong></a><strong> . Since then he has written five sequels: <em>The Only Constant, The Basics of Fundamentals, The Four Samaritans, Eight of Six</em>, and the just released conclusion to the series <em>The Daedalus Directive</em>. These political thrillers will keep you wanting more. Visit <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Doug-Dahlgren/e/B0087DBJZM/ref=sr_tc_2_0?qid=1400536578&sr=1-2-ent" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: #ffe599; color: blue;">Doug Dahlgren's Author Page on Amazon</span></a><span style="background-color: #ffe599;"> </span>to see the books and learn more about this author and how he is paving the way to introduce other authors (new and established) to a world wide community with his interviews. Read his five star reviews to see how much the public enjoys his books.</strong></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: helvetica;"><strong><span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia;">I was thrilled to be part of his program with my own podcast on Monday, May 12th. Doug does his homework and knew more about my writing then I remembered! He is easy to talk to and keeps the interviews moving forward. The station dialed me in on my cell phone, connected me to Doug and the station, and we chatted for an hour. I was in the comfort of my home, my dogs surrounding me, and all my fears of being 'live' went away with this gracious host. You can listen to my interview at any time by <em><a href="http://www.facebook.com/l/3AQFLpMQpAQGLZQTOpeVCM_SQ5HYFJOWUC1wvuupbeMmvaQ/66.49.193.35/ArtistFirst_Doug_Dahlgren_2014-05-12.mp3" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: #ffe599; color: blue;">linking here</span></a></em>.</span></strong></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia;"><strong>Contact Doug at </strong><a href="mailto:doug@dougdahlgren.com"><strong><span style="background-color: #ffe599;">doug@dougdahlgren.com</span></strong></a><strong> and start the conversation. He will explain the rest. You will need to send a copy of your book and a small fee to cover the station's expense for the board operator's time (the tech that hooks up the podcast and spends an hour with the show) and the equipment use. Y</strong><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong>ou can download your program FREE, as often as you wish, and send it via
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong><span style="color: black;"><br /><em>Asher of the Angelmen</em> is the second paraquel in the Angelmen series. Four angelmen will be brought together to take up their roles as leaders in <em>The Battle of the Angelmen. (Book 5)</em></span><em> </em></strong></span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong><em>The Angelmen Series </em>Someone will have to die. <br />Life must be relinquished for the salvation of another. So, someone will die. In the human world, it has already been done. But the race of the Nephilim has a different war to fight. And their sacrifice has yet to be given. <br />It will be one of the four.</strong></span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong><span style="color: black;"><em>The Angelmen Series</em> chronicles, the discovery of four leaders of the long forgotten race of the Nephilim who have just been identified by the enemy. Satan wants to activate his army of old to boost his chances in the final battle against all that is God. God is determined to rescue his people, who, although originally propagated by the meeting of demons and women, became more human than angelic other than a few latent powers activated in the presence of one another. God will not save them without the obedience of a sacrifice. Will the leaders work together to save their race from Satan’s regime? Who will be the sacrifice?</span></strong></span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong>A former elementary school teacher and subsequent lover of the English language in the written word, Tracy Slonaker found several new hobbies after embarking on the new career of motherhood. One hobby was running distances, which gave her plenty of time to create characters, build plots, and listen for God's input. The result of all this thinking was the birth of a new hobby: writing the <em>Angelmen Series</em>, an analogy of God's love for His people. <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Amity-Angelmen-T-C-Slonaker-ebook/dp/B00AUKJWUE/ref=la_B00AX8Q7AQ_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1396785451&sr=1-1" target="_blank"><em>Amity of the Angelmen</em></a> is the first installment of this series.</strong></span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong>Series: The Angelmen Series</strong></span></li>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong>Ever been overwhelmed by the everyday burdens of life? And yet, everyone else turns to you for support and guidance. <br /><br /> You see a person sitting next to you laughing, enjoying life. How did they get there? The universe seldom takes the straight path. Seeing someone filled with simple joy can often provide the opportunity for a profound experience. Our long journey is often twisted with depression, angst, dread... But IF we have the energy to keep our eyes open, then solutions may appear in the strangest of places. <br /><br /> Mentors are everywhere, waiting patiently... IF we look for them. Heroes take many forms, one may be the small child laughing on a swing and another may be the old man smiling contentedly beside you on a bus, or perhaps even in the people who look to you for help and guidance. Is it possible to help someone else while helping yourself? <br /><br /> Set in the fast paced, ultra busy world of multitasking, schools are an eruption of both heroes and victims. One teacher, feeling overwhelmed, chooses to look beyond himself and seek a mentor, someone to show him another way. But as is the nature of all redemption stories, he must earn his enlightenment and that always leads to the unexpected. <br /><br /> The quest from Shadow to Substance to Spirit is long, difficult and enriching... <br /><br /> Are you brave enough to take your journey?</strong></span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong>Roy Dimond lives with his wife in Pender Harbour, a small fishing village on the Sunshine Coast of British Columbia, Canada. Locals call it "Penderdise." In his first life, Roy had the honor of helping at risk children and their families. In his second life, he pursues his love of travel and writing. Having explored four continents from Cuzco to Kyoto, Santorini to Tsumago, his wanderings have all found a way into his stories. Roy's first book <em>The Singing Bowl</em> and is now in a Second Edition. His second novel is called, <em>The Rubicon Effect.</em> <em>Saving Our Pennys</em> is his third book, and first work of non-fiction.</strong></span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong>Jeff Leitch lives with his family in Maple Ridge, a proud community at the base of the majestic GoldenEarsMountain in British Columbia, Canada. Honoured to be a teacher in his native Coquitlam, British Columbia, Jeff’s passions include his wife Linda, and their three kids, Amanda, Matthew and Adam, “all his families” and friends, and the great stories they share. You can find him at any sporting venue, or live theatre, with coffee in hand, cheering and coaching those who display courage and dare to chase greatness. Along with writing occasional articles for local papers, Jeff’s current restlessness has him dreaming of many more novels, while writing at least one musical hit as he goes beyond the three chords he knows on his acoustic guitar.</strong></span><br />
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<strong><span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Love Can Guide You From Beyond If You Listen With Your Heart “Under Margret's Wing” is a coming of age novella by St. Augustine, Florida, author Audrey Frank. A perfect read for young adults and adults who are young at heart. It is a story that will stay with you long after you finish it and make you want to tighten the bonds with your loved ones. Margret Helms was an old spinster who liked her privacy and was comfortable with her quiet life. A knock on her door was about to change everything around her, including her crusty attitude. “Aunt Maggie?” A pregnant teenage girl greeted her. No one had called her Maggie except for the sister she lost touch with years ago. “And you are?” “Annie Duggin. I'm your great-niece.” So begins a relationship that will span space and time between the two.</span></strong></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong>Margret Helms felt a strange sensation. She’d been dead for years. A quick death at eighty-five. She had returned for awhile to help Annie. Now she felt herself being pulled back, but to what? This could only mean trouble. Annie? And so starts the journey back to St. Augustine, Florida and her beloved great-niece, Annie. Danger and troubles surround Annie and her friends. Can Margret help with it all? </strong></span><br />
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<strong><span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia;"> Scarred of body and heavy of heart, legendary private eye Clayton Russell retreated to his woodland compound in Georgia to sharpen his deadly knife-throwing skills and forget the world's cruelty with his brainy Airedale Terrier, Winston. Then Pamela Waters, Clayton's ex-partner and estranged lover, scolds him out of retirement to find a vanished sixth-grader.</span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia;"> Pam would help, but her hands are full finding holy relics stolen from the Dalai Lama, who graciously offers a cameo, along with his pal Queen Elizabeth. All clues lead to an Amsterdam-based criminal outfit called De Blauwe Organization.</span></strong></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";"><strong><span style="color: black;"> Towers and Frazier keep their prose brisk, their characters colorful and their action scenes nimble, with plenty of henchmen for Clayton and Winston to maul in creative ways. - <span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><em>Kirkus Reviews</em></span></span></strong></span><br />
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<strong><em><span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia;">"The initial inspiration was a short story I wrote, 'Fast Tracks', which is basically a platform for Clayton Russell, a reclusive detective who is extremely adept at finding things, especially people. The short story won a national award, so 'The Catcher' was created, based on core characters from that story." ... Gary Towers</span></em></strong><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";"><strong><span style="color: black;"><em>Gary Towers</em> has two college degrees, despite prior occupations as a carpenter, veneer splicer, subway assembler, bellhop, mortician's assistant, billboard painter, camp counselor and night watchman. His white collar profession was in advertising. Gary lives on a 20-acre estate farm with three horses, two parrots, four cats and two dogs. Author of two non-fiction books, <em>The Catcher</em> is his first novel.</span></strong></span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong>The Sacrifice: a novel of guilt and redemption that proves there is always hope for tomorrow even in the midst of unconscionable evil.</strong></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong>“Peg Brantley’s latest, THE SACRIFICE, accomplishes that rare feat of being both heartfelt and suspenseful. A gripping tale of murder and revenge, it ultimately becomes something much, much more. <br />— Dennis Palumbo, author of the Daniel Rinaldi mystery series</strong></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong>“Peg Brantley has done it again. Her third book (after THE MISSINGS and RED TIDE) is another thrill ride, a hyperventilation-inducing thriller about evil and power and endangered innocence. And MAYBE a new (and very interesting) sustaining female character. Mex Anderson may have companionship in the next book or two.”<br />—Timothy Hallinan, Edgar-nominated author of the Poke Rafferty and Junior Bender series</strong></span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong>A Colorado native, Peg is a member of Rocky Mountain Fiction Writers and Sisters In Crime. She and her husband make their home southeast of Denver, and have shared it with the occasional pair of mallard ducks and their babies, snapping turtles, peacocks, assorted other birds, foxes, a deer named Cedric and a bichon named McKenzie.</strong></span><br />
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<strong><span style="font-family: Georgia;">Read Peg Brantley's guest post on <em><a href="http://thehendersonfiles.blogspot.com/2012/09/guest-blogger-peg-brantley.html" target="_blank">The Henderson Files</a> - </em> Five Simple Truths for Indie Authors.</span></strong></div>
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Barbara Barthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12094942513984046193noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3244229189993507579.post-13506417743360263302013-09-25T06:51:00.000-07:002013-09-25T06:51:10.125-07:00Valerie Joan Connors "In Her Keeping"<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong>My inspiration for the book was an eight-week old, 20 pound tiger cub named Meka, that my husband and I met in September of 2010 on a weekend visit to North Carolina. I got to feed the cub a bottle, and it was an amazing experience that would change my life forever, but also tugged at that empty place in my heart that always longed for children of my own. In the days and weeks that followed, I couldn't get the cub out of my head. I began to do research about tigers in captivity in the United States, and the dwindling number of tigers remaining in the wild. I discovered a whole new world, most of it sad, some of it tragic. But in the midst of it all were a whole group of kind-hearted individuals who devote their lives to caring for these animals in accredited sanctuaries. They rescue tigers and other big cats from abuse and neglect, and give them a safe place in which to live out their lives as comfortably as possible in spite of their captivity. It never really occurred to me that such a problem existed. But people engage in some really cruel behaviors with these animals, taking them away from their mothers too soon in order to let people handle them all day long for photo ops, or thinking that they would make a really great pet, only to discover later, when the animals weigh 400 pounds and could kill you in an instant, that they really hadn't thought it through. Sometimes these animals, the lucky ones, end up in sanctuaries where trained and responsible handlers love and care for them. What happens to the others is very sad indeed.</strong></span></span></div>
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<strong><em>Author Valerie Joan Connors</em></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia;">A new Pope, a new US President, and the end of the world. What happens when we cross the Rubicon, and there is no going back to the way things used to be? How do you solve problems with no solutions? These are the questions author Roy Dimond dares to ask in his new thriller.</span></strong><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong>Two seemingly unrelated events will soon affect the entire world! The Holy Church has just ordained the first South American Pope. Born into poverty and raised on the mean streets of Buenos Aires, Argentina, the new leader of the Holy Church intends to bring the church kicking and screaming into the 21st century. While at the same time, the death of the Venezuelan President has opened the door to a new, rising political star and her plan to inspire an entire world. The Pope finds himself cleverly trapped in a web, from which he cannot escape, when the Republican nominees for President and Vice President of the United States of America, Richard Delaney, and his stunning running mate, Michelle Yakin, propose a horrific solution. However, three visionaries: a mysterious Elder from the Andes Mountains, who calls himself Older Brother, the second term, lame duck, President of the United States of America, and an environmentalist, see another way . . . Unfortunately, the time to act is running out. Mother Nature may have crossed the Rubicon and there is no turning back. The Apocalypse, the End of Days has arrived and humanity is to be judged.</strong></span><br />
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<strong><span style="font-family: Georgia;">Roy Dimond was featured on Book Talk on August 15, 2013 with his novel <em>The Singing Bowl</em>. You can read that post by clicking<a href="http://barbarabarthbookblog.blogspot.com/2013/08/roy-dimond-singing-bowl_15.html?spref=fb" target="_blank"> here</a>. We welcome Roy back today with his new release this month, <em>The Rubicon Effect</em>.</span></strong><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;"><strong>From a recent interview, Roy talks about his main character in <em>The Rubicon Effect. </em>You can read the full interview on the <a href="http://authorspromotion.wordpress.com/2013/09/10/roy-dimond-interview-author-of-the-singing-bowl-and-the-rubicon-effect/" target="_blank">Authors Promotion</a> (</strong></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong>Authors Promotion and Books Marketing, a new blog on WordPress.com site)</strong></span> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong><em>Sam Albright, my main character, doesn’t suffer fools and seldom has doubts. He’s an environmentalist who knows what’s coming, Armageddon, and worse, he knows that it is already too late to affect Global Climate Change. </em></strong></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong><em><br /> However, at a deeper level, I think the main character is really the psyche of mankind. Behind the scenes, it is really all humanity that drives my characters. From the newly elected Pope, to the second term lame duck President, from the new President of Venezuela, to the Republican right-wing they really only represent the needs, desires, and dreams of humanity. None of my characters got to where they are on their own; humanity raised them to the positions they have. That’s why I say my story is really about what drives mankind… hope or fear.</em></strong></span> <br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong><em>Before I was a writer I was working with at-risk families as a Youth Worker. It was there that I found so many enriching and fascinating people and I often draw from that experience to find characters and plots for my novels. I then began traveling, and have had the good fortune to find many interesting places. Again these experiences have often found a way into my writing.</em></strong></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong>Into the world of dreams and fears <em>. . . Elias and the Legend of Sirok</em> takes you on a hero's journey. Elias, an artist, is at odds with his life on his father's farm, and is forced to make a decision about his future. His grandmother, Nagymama prepares him for a journey of discovery that takes him from his Hungarian village into a supernatural world. Here he faces powers and mystical beings - some that he strives to understand, while others he is forced to battle. With help from Zoltan, a wise man, he finally confronts the Sarkany, a dragon that changes shape at whim and will. </strong></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong><em>"As always, I write first for myself. I write what’s meaningful to me, but the story of Elias will appeal to young readers and young at heart readers too. If you have ever been in a position that you were afraid to take that next step, you will enjoy taking this journey with Elias."</em></strong></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong><em>"To be true to oneself would be the central theme. I believe that it is only when we follow our heart that we realize our dreams."</em></strong></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong><em>"People. Courageous people who know what’s most important to them and live their life to the fullest. So many of us do not follow our hearts for reasons of conditioning, of guilt or fear. We can fear both our failures as well as our successes and it takes courage to step out of our comfort zone and make a difference in not only our own lives but a difference in the lives of others."</em></strong></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong><em>"Young people who enjoy action and adventure. I can see Baby Boomers or even the parents of Boomers buying it for young readers but wanting a copy of their own—I think the story reminds us that in our busy day we eventually come home and when we do, we come home to ourselves. We’ve got to be happy with who we are well before we can be happy with others."</em></strong></span><br />
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<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Elias-Legend-Sirok-Edward-Kardos/dp/1618070800/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1377673788&sr=1-1" target="_blank"><em>Elias and the Legend of Sirok </em>on Amazon</a><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong>A Tibetan monk embarks on a journey filled with harrowing dangers and strange mysteries. His quest is to find a lost book and save an ancient way of life. Under attack from Chinese Communists, a monk travelling the wilds of Tibet is given a daunting task--to bring a way of life back from the brink. That's the spellbinding journey revealed in Roy Dimond's new, action-packed adventure tale. Given an ancient artifact from his monastery, the sacred "Singing Bowl," the young monk beads out on a trek to find a lost book and reunite a broken circle to keep his centuries-old civilization alive.</strong></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong><em>"</em>The Singing Bowl<em> is a novel of amazing scope. It's a story of political intrigue, a mystery, a travelogue, a romance, but most of all, a powerful tale of an inner spiritual journey."</em> </strong></span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong><em>"I was not always a writer. For most of my adult life I was a Youth Worker meaning that I worked with families that were struggling, or children who were having a hard time. It was a profession that was both rewarding and heart breaking. In the thirty years that I was a Youth Worker, I learned two things that led me on a journey half way around the world and back. When I returned — I began writing."</em> </strong></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong>For thirty years, Roy Dimond worked with at risk families and presented workshops at universities and colleges. Roy draws inspiration for his novels from a combination of this experience and his varied explorations of such locales as Cuzco, Kyoto, Santorini and Tsumago. Five years of research and travel reinforced with fifty years of meditation culminated in <em>The Singing Bowl</em> and it's powerful message.</strong></span></div>
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<strong><span style="font-family: Georgia;">Dimond lives with his wife in Garden Bay, a small fishing village on the Sunshine Coast of British Columbia, Canada. When not traveling, Roy can be found in his log home overlooking the beautiful Pacific Ocean writing his next novel.</span></strong><br />
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Barbara Barthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12094942513984046193noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3244229189993507579.post-88805872295389871432013-08-11T11:10:00.000-07:002013-08-11T11:10:48.546-07:00Tudor Rubato won Best Contemporary Cover at the RONE awards<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong>As a follow-up to our post on author Jamie Salisbury on </strong></span><a href="http://barbarabarthbookblog.blogspot.com/2013/08/jamie-salisbury-life-and-lies.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong>August 6, 2013</strong></span></a><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong><span style="color: black;"> (link to post) we are pleased to announce her cover for <em><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Tudor-Rubato-Dynasty-ebook/dp/B009ZC2VVU/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1376244373&sr=1-1&keywords=Tudor+Rubato" target="_blank">Tudor Rubato</a></em> won <span class="userContent"> Best Contemporary Cover at the RONE awards Friday night in Las Vegas!!</span></span></strong></span><br />
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Barbara Barthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12094942513984046193noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3244229189993507579.post-5635138298254746092013-08-06T17:31:00.000-07:002013-08-06T17:31:35.071-07:00Jamie Salisbury "Life and Lies"<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong> Life has a funny way of dealing the cards. One day you're in bliss with the woman and family you love and longed for, the next it almost disappears. Forever, in the blink of an eye. . .but for the sheer determination of one agent who secretly blames himself for pushing the couple too deep calls in every favor owed him. </strong></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong>August is on it's way to being awesome. Not only has <em>Life and Lies</em> released, <em>Tudor Reunion Tour</em> will be out on August 14th.<br /><br /> Another new feature on the blog: Excerpts! I'll start posting excerpts, perhaps even a chapter there. Check it out!<br /><br /> Contest!!<br /><br /> Awesome August giveaway! I'll be giving you two chances to win copies of one or both <em>Rockin' the Boss</em> and <em>Life and Lies</em>! Now what do I do to enter? Simple! Go to my website<span style="color: purple;"> <span style="background-color: #ffe599;">(</span></span><a href="http://www.jamiesalisbury.com/" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: #ffe599; color: purple;">Click here</span></a><span style="background-color: #ffe599; color: purple;">)</span> Then to the 'contact' tab, fill out the form and voila! You're entered! Drawings will be August 15th and August 31st!</strong></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong>In the two short years since Jamie Salisbury began publishing her Romance stories, she has seen her historical-romance westerns soar to #1 on Amazon, has been nominated for a 2012 RONE award for her novella<em> Tudor Rubato</em> making the finals, and has expanded her audience to include several now published by Secret Cravings Publishing.</strong></span></span> </div>
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<strong> Women's Fiction Author</strong></div>
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<strong> Contemporary and Historical Romance</strong></div>
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