Archive for April, 2010
Apr 30
By: Debbie Kaufman Today’s the last day here on the blog that we’re going to dwell on the subconscious. First thing Monday, we start a new theme. The new theme is “I was just ______, and it hit me _____. Well, I was just working on this blog on the subconscious when it hit me that what I had recently experienced bridged both themes. The word “permission” has been rummaging around in my brain, popping into my thoughts at the oddest moments. It kept coming to me enough that I decided I should listen to what it was [...]
Apr 29
Planes, Trains and Automobiles: How I Spent My Summer Vacation By Marilyn Baron This month’s theme is Dreams. I don’t have anything specific to say about dreams and the subconscious mind, but I would like to tell you about the dream vacation I took last year in Australia and New Zealand. Everything is topsy-turvy in Australia. Our winter is their summer, so in November, I spent my “summer” vacation in Australia and New Zealand. When I returned, someone asked me, “How was your trip Down Yonder?” “Texas is Down Yonder,” I corrected, explaining that my husband and I spent two [...]
Apr 28
Mark All’s paranormal thriller Mystic Witch will be published in trade paperback by ImaJinn Books in 2010. Mark contributed to the anthology Computer Legends, Lies & Lore and has won two international writing awards. Mark belongs to Romance Writers of America, the Horror Writers Association, Georgia Romance Writers, the Futuristic, Fantasy, and Paranormal RWA Chapter, the Atlanta Writers Club, and the North Point Barnes & Noble writers’ critique group. An instructional systems designer with a major software corporation, Mark designs and develops multimedia web-based training and performs voice-over narration. He has held jobs ranging from gravedigger to FM radio announcer, [...]
Apr 27
Dreams and the Subconscious By: Sally Kilpatrick. Okay, dream advocates, have I got a dream for you. Take a look at this gem from my junior year in high school, and give me your suggestions for how this one could become a novel. (Steffl has already made an intriguing suggestion concerning the tableau of my chemistry teacher and the cello. Obviously, she never met my chemistry teacher.) First, I ran across my chemistry teacher playing cello while sitting on the tailgate of his pick-up in the faculty parking lot. That dream then included the gift of a horse that I [...]
Apr 26
by J Perry Stone Every spring break I become a reader again. We usually go to the beach (where the grandparents wait breathlessly to whisk the kids out of our faces) and along with my sunhats and sandals, I always schlep a big bag of books. Then, sitting in front of the ocean while sweating sunscreen into my eyes, I sink into a story. Or four. It is utter bliss. I’m no longer a writer judging every turn of phrase, but a reader making her escape. After that week, I emerge whole again and though you may think it’s the Vitamin D or the peaceful environment–even the [...]
Apr 24
The Marriage Project – 21 Days to More Love and Laughter By Kathi Lipp Harvest House Publishers ISBN-10: 0736925287 ISBN-13: 978-0736925280 Non-Fiction/ Self-help When I caught myself kissing the cat good-night and patting my husband on the head, I knew I needed help. After nineteen years of marriage and one kid, hubby and I are definitely getting complacent. That spark that used to power our relationship has long since been buried under responsibilities, work, and life in general. As an avid romance reader and aspiring romance author, I was embarrassed to realize how far I’d let my relationship go. When [...]
Apr 24
Don’t Believe Everything You Read: A Review of the Broadway Play, The Addams Family Recently, my husband and I flew to New York to visit my daughter and we met my sister and her husband and my mother there. I was the designated trip planner, and it’s hard to come up with a Broadway play that I thought everyone would like or had never seen. We finally settled on The Addams Family, which was officially opening the weekend we arrived so there were no reviews available until the last minute. I purposely didn’t want to read the reviews before [...]
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Linsey Lanier
Sally Kilpatrick
Sia Huff
Romily Bernard
Darcy Crowder
Marilyn Baron
Tami Brothers
Sandra Elzie
Carol Burnside
Debbie Kaufman
Maxine Davis
Tammy Schubert
Susan Carlisle
Pam Asberry
Lindy Chaffin Start
