Just a quick reminder that this six-author boxed set is available for preorder until October 1. If you can spare a minute, please help me get the word out. Thanks!
Author: Marcia Meara
#ThorsDaySmile
Somehow, this just doesn’t have the same ring to it.
It DOES, however, make me laugh every time I look at it.
Hope you do, too.
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#MondayMeme #MondayBlogs
The next time I’m asked this question, I think this is what I’ll say.
Or maybe I’ll just have a t-shirt made.
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Featured Blogger: Ned Hickson
Great Guest Post written by Ned Hickson, the funniest guy I know. Check it out! 🙂
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#FreeStuff #MysteryGoneMad #Rafflecopter Giveaway
Woohoo! It’s Open for Business, Folks! A #MysteryGoneMad giveaway worth over $200. You want books? We have SIX of them, signed, for some lucky winner! You’d like a nice, hot cup of tea to sip while reading? We’ve created SIX custom tea blends, each named for the books in the #MysteryGoneMad boxed set. And, we’ve added some really cool mugs, custom made for the MGM set, too. All this, and $30 in Amazon gift cards, in case you want to go shopping after you finish reading. And tea sipping. And admiring your new mugs.
What are you waiting for? Did I mention it’s free? Head right on over to Rafflecopter and enter the drawing:
Mystery Gone Mad Giveaway
And when you’re finished there, run, don’t walk, to Amazon to Pre-Order your Mystery Gone Mad boxed set. You know you want to read this collection of murder and mayhem: A Dead Husband by Anna Celeste Burke, Dead End by Gerald Darnell, Midnight Owl by Viv Drewa, Chaos at Crescent City Medical Center by Judith Lucci, Swamp Ghosts by Marcia Meara (that’s me), and Jamaica Dead by Karen Vaughan. $1.99 to Pre-Order – $2.99 Upon Release
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#FabulousFridayGuestBlogger – Sarah Zama @JazzFeathers
Today’s #FabulousFridayGuestBlogger is Sarah Zama. So nice to have her here, and I know you’ll enjoy her post. Welcome, Sarah!
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THE JAZZ AGE: WHY LIFE SOUNDED LIKE JAZZ IN THE 1920s
Jazz, a vision of the future with roots in the past
Since the very beginning, jazz had a strong borderline nature, one that would bring different elements together while still creating a division.
The very nature of jazz is a mishmash of different experiences. There is no doubt that jazz has strong roots in the African cultures and probably came out of the slave experience in a time when slavery no longer existed but was still very much remembered. In and around New Orleans, where jazz probably originated, fields songs that came from African traditional cultures mixed with a more European conception of music and especially with instruments coming from it. Jazz was in part both of them, while still being a completely new way not only of making music but also of understanding it. Continue reading
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#ThorsDaySmile – Just Under the Wire!
Sometimes #ThorsDaySmile just has to be about Thor. And maybe Loki, for those on his team. (You know who you are.)
😀 Enjoy!
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#MidWeekPOV #wwwblogs
“I Can’t Believe I Ate The WHOLE Thing!”
Short and sweet POV today: Don’t bite off more than you can chew!
There’s an old expression (someone remind me who said it) that a man’s reach should exceed his grasp, else what’s a heaven for? While I think this is true in the main, as I said last week, I do think goals should be attainable. With lots of work, perhaps, but within reach. Except for those truly lofty ideas we might expect to receive only after reaching whatever afterlife we might aspire to.
And that’s it. Aim high, but not impossibly so. Reward yourself for each goal you accomplish, and most importantly, never give up. Makes sense to me.
NOTE: BTW, I answered my own question. The quote is from a poem by Robert Browning, just in case anyone else was wondering. 😀
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#TuesdayBookBlog – Myth and Magic by Mae Clair
My review for Mae Clair’s shivery Romantic Suspense, Myth and Magic. Enjoy!
My Rating: 5 of 5 Stars
“As children, they played games of myth and magic . . . .”
An old inn with a mysterious past. Ladies in white, ghosting through the trees. Unexplained sobbing noises during the dead of night. Strange happenings, all, and the quest to understand who–or what–is trying to drive guests away from Stone Willow Lodge is at the heart of Mae Clair’s shivery romantic suspense novel.
Anyone who has visited Bookin’ It very often knows that I’m extremely partial to angsty, conflicted men, and heaven knows, private investigator Caithelden Lairen is the very personification of angst and conflict. Born Caithelden Breckwood (his mother has a thing for myth and magic, herself, naming her other sons Galen, Aren, and Merlin), Caith has been estranged from his family for years. A childhood trauma has left him scarred and angry, especially at his father, and thus it…
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#FabulousFridayGuestBlogger – @CynthiaSReyes – Cynthia Reyes
Today’s guest blogger is Cynthia Reyes, who has a wonderful story of recovery and hope to share with you. I know you’ll enjoy her inspiring post, and will remember to share far and wide. Now, here’s Cynthia.
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The other day, I turned to my husband and said:
“I’d like my life back. The lost years … I’d like them back.”
I thought I’d fully accepted the lost years – the decade that followed a car accident. But the words erupted from my chest before I’d had a chance to even think them through.
My husband had helped me stay on the road to acceptance. But this time, his reply surprised me.
“I know what you mean,” he said softly. “Back when you were strong and vigorous and could do almost anything, it seemed. I miss that woman at times too.”
He got it exactly right. It wasn’t the award-winning career I missed, the many trips abroad, the fact that some people saw me as a visionary leader. It was the ability to do simple things, like dig a new garden bed, go for a long walk, or dance with my husband. Mourning those losses had compounded them. Continue reading
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