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Buy a Book, Save a Life

Please welcome my author-friend Angelina Rain with a special message. BUY A BOOK, SAVE A LIFE The holiday season is upon us and it truly is the season of giving. Animal welfare is a very important issue to me, so I’m going to donate 50% of ALL my royalties from the sales of Rescued Love to the Humane Society of the United States (http://www.humanesociety.org/). If you buy a copy of Rescued Love between October 1 and December 31, a portion of the money you paid will go towards helping the animals. What could be better? You get an entertaining romance and to give back to a very important cause. What are readers saying about Rescued Love? “I’m very grateful that the author is making this a series. I certainly can’t wait until the second book! All these things make this a Must Read!” “Rescued Love is a beautiful blending of… Continued

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Blogtoberfest – Halloween

A big thank you to those who stuck with me through my kind of blogging marathon. I didn’t make all my days as planned, but I’m pretty pleased what I did accomplish. Blogtoberfest was a huge help in getting my blogging off the ground, planning posts ahead of time and most of all, sticking to a schedule. Now, I feel I can roll into NaNoWriMo with some purpose and determination. How did I do it? I pre-wrote a lot of the posts. Then, I decided, for it to be a true Blogtoberfest, I should make an effort to blog every day. At times, real life intruded, but to be honest, if I am going to be a writer….this IS part of my real life. Treating writing as a job rather than something I merely dabbled in, I learned, is the key to making it work for me. Your mileage may

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Kitty Wishes for Cookies

It’s Halloween! Since I am writing this post frooooooom theeeeee paaaaaast…wait, that’s to be expected right? It would only be slightly scare if I were writing this from the future, so ignore my lame attempt at a scary beginning. As I type, the winds of Hurricane Sandy are whipping the trees outside my window into an autumnal frenzy and leaves are scattering about the yard. It’s fun peeking out of the window at the swinging trees…hoping that if the branches do crack and fall, they stay far away from the house. But enough about la storm Sandy. By the time you read this, let’s hope the Northeast is out from under. Now, on to Halloween…..who am I fooling? Get the candy corn half-price and make ’em anytime! I’d like to think Sakaria, who does have a bit of a sense of humor, might serve these in her cafe. Please note

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Blogtoberfest – Scary Stories – Survivor Type

Yes. It’s a Stephen King story. No, it’s not one of the ones that have been made into a movie. However, I will tell you right now, even thinking of the story…it is one that I’ve read twice and not one that I will come back to any time soon. It’s a story about a shipwreck, just like Cast Away, but King grabs your hand and forces you down a path to make you closely examine the situation: You are stranded on a desert island with little hope of rescue…and little food. How far will you go to survive? You’ll see what one man’s desperation will lead him to. The story is not available as a stand alone, as far as I know, but as part of Skeleton Crew, an older selection of stories that are King at his best, at least in my opinion. (Not that it matters, really,

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Blogtoberfest – Magic (and not the Mike kind)

This is a movie that scared the mess out of me when I was a teenager. First of all, I am no fan of ventriloquist dummies. I can’t stand them, they scare the heck out of me. Give me a movie with a dummy and you’ve got me scared. A looooooong time ago, back in 1978, there was this movie trailer that ran on television. Mind you, this was back in the fun 70s where the cars waiting in line for gas would queue in front of my parents’ house. This trailer wasn’t anything NEAR Silent Hill 3d (which by the way also frightens me with its grotesqueness) but was creepy just in the fact that it featured a dummy. The movie was directed by Richard Attenborough, the kindly old John Hammond in Jurassic Park. You’ll also find Burgess Meredith, Ann-Margaret, and Here’s the creepy trailer. According to Wikipedia

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Blogtoberfest – Halloween Teapots

Though I am usually a coffee gal, nothing peaks my interest in an antique shop or thrift store than a teapot and/or teacups. My favorite design is anything floral; blue and white being my top favorite colors. However, I am also a lover of the novelty tea pot and here I offer you a few for your perusal. So cute! Here there be dragons….