January 2011 Blog Posts (223)

I read this on my new Kindle; it is the first full length novel I have read on it. I have posted previously that A.J. Pompano’s digital short story was my first use of the device. Overall, the Kindle is an amazing

device and tool. I love it! Oh, yeah the novel by Layton Green: this was as

much fun and just as amazing as turning the pages with the new machine. I don’t

know which I enjoyed more. The originality of the novel, the narrative, the

setting, the…

Lost Angel Walkabout was chosen for the list of top travel writing in 2010

I plan to read every book on the list!

Top Travel Writing in 2010

DARK VELVET



We are all in the gutter,

but some of us are looking at stars.

                               — Oscar Wilde



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Some memories shine like living precious stones

Now scattered on the dark velvet here before me:

    Rubies, red with liquid passion;

    Opals, playful, transparent, pure;

    One rose quartz, heart-shaped and glowing;

    Sapphires, azure like some pensive gaze;

    Diamonds, strangely lucid,…

Grief facilitator and spiritual coach, Linda Lambert Pestana, has added a new book to her repertoire. Voices of the Heart: A Journey of Faith, Hope & Love, promises to make readers laugh and cry as they savor stories of the incredible journey she's taken through life thus far. A huge sense of personal empowerment is sure to occur after reading the book and you'll better…

Hello again and welcome to 2011. I really wanted to start off with a hot one and The Inner Circle by Brad Meltzer (to be rleased Jan.11^th) is just that. Are you a conspiracy reader,

someone that loves history, enjoy a good, fast paced novel, then check this one

out. Here is the synopsis:

“So says Benjamin January,…

The attempt to do a year long blog of chronicling my journey on becoming a published author has begun! I take it from The Story Idea through editing, dealing with the publishing industry to life after publication and marketing. Stop  by and take a Peak or coming along for the ride.

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Author of romance mysteries and animal lover, Miss Mae is hosting Grace Elliot at her website.

As part of the popular 'Doggy Tales' series, Grace shares the moving story of how the Elliot family came to adopt Widget.

In addition, Grace has kindly agreed to donate $5.00 to the ASPCA for every copy of 'A Dead Man's Debt' bought direct from Solstice as a result of reading the post.

To find out how to trigger the donation visit:…

One things is certain: the older we get, the longer grows the list of people, places and things we have said goodbye to over the course of our lives. That fact is always poignantly driven home during the holiday season when we not only say goodbye to the year past and welcome in the New Year full of promise, but we are reminded as we are gathered together with friends and…

One things is certain: the older we get, the longer grows the list of people, places and things we have said goodbye to over the course of our lives. That fact is always poignantly driven home during the holiday season when we not only say goodbye to the year past and welcome in the New Year full of promise, but we are reminded as we are gathered together with friends and…

In Shana Mahaffey's Sounds Like Crazy, Holly Miller is searching for the source of her fragmented personality. Faced with an unknown childhood trauma, she developed Dissociative Identity Disorder. The five different identities—the Boy, the Silent One, Sarge, Ruffles, and their leader, Betty Jane—make up Holly's Committee, each of whom supports Holly as well as…

In Shana Mahaffey's Sounds Like Crazy, Holly Miller is searching for the source of her fragmented personality. Faced with an unknown childhood trauma, she developed Dissociative Identity Disorder. The five different identities—the Boy, the Silent One, Sarge, Ruffles, and their leader, Betty Jane—make up Holly's Committee, each of whom supports Holly as well as…

For Immediate Release

Cheryl Malandrions Guest on RRRadio-RFK: Stories for Children –January 3rd 

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This week I look at how the Victorians fed their pets in the days of the ‘Cat’s Meat Man.’

‘Many visitors came to the streets…the muffin man and Cats’ Meat Man. The…