tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-77121852633249147962024-03-13T04:58:15.057-07:00Deep Thoughts from an Author's CaveThis blog will feature topics related to writing, editing, marketing and entertainment...and some other stuff.Ginger Gelsheimerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11975727709881109152noreply@blogger.comBlogger77125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7712185263324914796.post-52636995853850782282016-06-09T18:09:00.000-07:002016-06-09T18:09:14.238-07:00Pet-Tribute: How I dealt with the loss of my furry family member.<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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For many of us, our pets are like our children. They bring us joy, companionship, good times... and unfortunately, break our hearts when they leave us for a greater place. I just lost Spooky... aka Spooky Bear, Spookers, Fat Daddy, Spooky James this past Sunday. My heart is breaking, but I did make choices that are helping me cope with my loss and heal, and as hard as it is to share my personal and precious last time with my little buddy, I thought it was worth sharing if it might help someone else deal with the pain of their loss.</div>
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Spooky was nearly 15 years old. This automatically makes some choices for you. Pretty much any required surgery is not an option because they aren't likely to make through a surgery, especially if they are already weak. Spooky probably weighed 25 pounds at his prime. He was a huge, fluffy long-haired boy. He died of chronic kidney failure. Organ transplant was out of the question, and as much as I loved him, I would never do that with an animal anyway. Over the past three or four years, he has dropped significant weight at times, but until this last time, always managed to make a come back. He truly had 5 or 6 lives. Once he disappeared for 5 days and we thought we lost him-turned out, he was hanging out underneath the neighbors bungalow. About 6 years ago, he lost a ton of weight in a short amount of time, started hiding and stopped eating. Luckily the vet was able to hydrate him and give him antinausea and he was back to the old Spook, eating everything in sight. This time was different and I knew it right away. So, I had to make a decision. Natural or euthanize. He never appeared to be in pain and the poor guy hated vets from the beginning. He would howl all the way...I didn't even know cats could make that sound. He would also pee in the car. I couldn't bear making his last moment in a loud vet office with barking and crying dogs and chaos going on, unless he was in pain. So I chose to let him go in his peaceful surroundings at home. For three weeks, I watched him barely eat but he continued to drink water and he also continued to appear to enjoy our time together. This was about a three week process. The last week, we had so many special times. One night we just hung out on the patio, one of his favorite places with the tiki torches lit. He sat on his chair and I sat one mine and we listened to music all night. One of Spooky's things was that he always had to have his paw on top of my hand. If I put my hand on his paw, he would always move his to the top-over and over again. The night he died, I held his paw and rubbed his head and he still insisted on putting that paw on top. It was bitter sweet and I did this until he took his last breath.</div>
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One of the main things that is helping me deal with my loss, is that I prepared ahead of time for what I would do once he finally did pass. This is why people make their plans ahead of time, why not do the same for your furry family member? Being artistic, I decided to make him a Pet-Tribute. I realize some of you might think this is morbid, but for me, it was a beautiful way to pay tribute to a member of our family. Spooky had been with us since my daughter was 6. She is almost 21.</div>
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I made him the Pet-Tribute about two weeks before he died and I am so thankful that I had it ready and knew exactly what to do with him once he passed. This was the first animal I had ever had to deal with dying. I didn't want to have to handle this after the fact. I took some old boards and sanded them, stained them and bought a beautiful hinge and latch and built him his Pet-Tribute. I put pictures of our family inside and wrote him a letter with so many of my fond memories of him and put it inside a glass jar to preserve it. I made a copy of the letter so anytime I miss him, I can read it. And if in 50 or a hundred years someone happens to find his Pet-Tribute, they will know how dearly he was loved.</div>
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I am sorry for any of you out there that actually might need this post, but if you do, I hope it brings you some help in dealing with your loss.<br />
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I don't know if you are like I was, irritated as hell at my cable / internet provider who delivered to me a lovely present each month: their bill for over $185! Guess I was bored - or maybe it was raining outside, but I started looking at the detail of the bill and realized that $23 were for fees and taxes, including a $7 or $8 sports network fee, on top of the monthly subscription fee. I also saw the monthly rental of $11.99 for a box that I had now probably owned and paid for 3 times over. Then there was the $30 for the ever-so-annoying house phone that I didn't even have plugged in, but it cost more to not have the phone line than to have it. I never could understand that one.<br />
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Anyhow, I read this wonderful article about cutting the cord that described some of the other options available. I think most of us are familiar with Netflix and Amazon Prime by now. You may or may not know that you can buy Showtime and Starz subscriptions to watch any of their shows, anytime you like for $8.99 per month each, cancel at anytime. I love this part! It keeps them producing amazing shows. I had also just purchased Apple TV so that I could get HBO Now, which allows you to watch any HBO produced show anytime you like for $14.99, cancel at any time. Perfect!<br />
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Now, all I needed was AMC because <i>yes</i>, I love Daryl, too! This was from Walker Stalker in Atlanta 2015 - total blast and going again this year. If you go, make sure to do a set tour around Senoia, GA. Total blast and you can do it for free just by Googling on your phone.<br />
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But, back to this amazing article, they also mentioned an app I had not heard of yet (forgive me if I am a dinosaur here) but Sling TV! I felt like I had crossed a finish line! For $20 a month, I could get not only AMC, but also HGTV, History, H2, Disney, ESPN, ESPN 2, Food, CNN,and a bunch of others! I could have my cake and eat it too!<br />
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$55.00 x 12 = $660 Brighthouse Internet 150<br />
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$8.99 x 3 = $26.97 Starz<br />
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That is a lot of extra stuff I can choose to purchase to watch if I am so inclined, but based on the current shows that I am interested in, this schedule serves my purpose! I did spend an initial investment of $298 for two Apple TV devises. I got my Amazon Fire TV Stick free because I had earned points. Now I <i>own</i> these devices and have activated 3 TVs in my house, where before, I only had two at the Verizon $186 per month. There are no more monthly rental charges!!!<br />
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So, I canceled Verizon and they have owed me $80.20 since November 19 when my cancellation took effect. Just sayin'... Cut the cord!<br />
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Hopefully I can help save you a dime or two as I figure things out.<br />
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So, I thought this was worth sharing as it saved me potentially $800. My dog Arnold came up with an abscess on the flap of his left ear that grew to about the half the size of a golf ball, maybe a little smaller. There were no obvious wounds or scabs that I could detect. He also wasn't bothering it, but obviously it needed some sort of treatment to go away.</div>
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Well, a few years before, my cat Spooky had an abscess about the same size. I promptly took him to the vet where they recommended and ultimately knocked him out to lance and scar his ear so it wouldn't come back. That bill was over $800.</div>
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So, this time I turned to Google and did some research, and one of the remedies I found to try was to apply a warm compress to the abscess. I tried this for a couple of days, and nothing changed for the worse or better. Then, I remembered a remedy that my daughter Taylor uses for an oncoming stye on her eye that makes it go away before it really even starts: black and green tea bags!</div>
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I tried the black and green tea bags for Arnold's ear, heating the tea bags in a cup of water for about a minute and fifteen seconds, making sure it wasn't to hot, and then applying one to each side of the flap for about 5 minutes, and within two evenings, I noticed a decrease in the size. I continued to apply the tea bags once per day and after five days, the abscess is almost gone.</div>
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I would like to note that if your pet has obvious pain or severe infection, you should seek a veterinarian's assistance, but if your pet is like Arnold without the pain or infection, give it a try! It might save you a bundle!</div>
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spread the word! I just bought a 2015 Nissan Juke to replace my old friend
Captain Jack – a 2005 black Volvo XC 90, which I loved dearly for a long time….
But Jack Black died. So now, welcome Al Capone! Why Al Capone? I think this car
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five year old who’s ridden a big wheel could handle it! And driving isn’t
really difficult, but I needed a football field to turn Jack Black around where
this Juke can zip in and out of anywhere! Total breeze! It also gets fantastic
gas mileage, claiming 28 mpg in the city and over 30 mpg on the highway! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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it, that was my main concern. Having had a Camaro, RX7, RX8 and turbo charged
XC 90, I had to make sure it had enough pick up so I wouldn’t get creamed on an
entrance ramp. Well, I am happy to report Al’s little turbo charge does just
what it needs. No, I won’t be racing anyone off the line, but I’m too old for
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out of the grocery store or Target! The interior is cute and fits with the
style of the car and there is plenty of room for cargo when I put the back
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">So, I just have to share how excited I am because last night was one of those wonderful nights in a writer's life when the idea juice is flowing like the Nile. When ideas pop into your head so fast, you can hardly write them down and keep up.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">My main resolution this year is to finish the entire series of Dark Days. Last night, the story line came to me... I'm thinking spies... South American explorers and Chileansoh and who is the stranger that Ben will meet in the woods?</span></div>
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starting off fantastic—maybe like March McCarron’s! Fantastic results with ENT
and Book Bub! It is with this New Year, that we must now make some changes to
BRD and Authors’ Cave 1) because of time constraints, and most importantly 2)
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nearly 2 years as I have managed the group, I have hardly marketed my own books
at all! <b>I want to get back to that</b>—<b>ROOTS</b>! …and help you guys by sharing
what works for me, and in return, learn what has worked for you. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">As many of you in the group know, I have
returned to a full time job. I am happy to be back at work, but unfortunately,
there are not enough hours in the day to maintain the stuff required by
the Authors’ Cave site and also the social interaction at BRD, as well as feed
my family, take care of the house and the garden, oh and write on my own books…<b>I want to get back to that</b>—<b>ROOTS</b>! Additionally, the group is now
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create a collaborative community in the hopes that marketing as a group effort
versus individually would generate more book sales for all of us. Since the
launch in July, we have put forth several free venues for collaboration
opportunities in which you could generate additional sales and reviews through higher visibility, including greater exposure through our eZine. Despite the free factor, only a
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been Premium Members who typically participate and are open to our ideas and we
believe we can do more with a smaller focused group. We have created the
Authors’ Cave Exclusive which will be made up of the 36 Premium Members we
currently have. The group will be capped at 50 for now, so we have 14 positions
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collaborate, hold workshops, share experiences in marketing, and co-market for
each other. The group is only for people who want to actively participate, so
if you are not willing to work together, please do not sign up. The eZine will be
revamped to feature a profile page for each member of the Authors’ Cave. Members
are encouraged to write columns, share poetry, chapter excerpts, videos,
trailers, etc on their page. The eZine can be used as a group marketing piece
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">That's right - a change is coming! A New Year is just around the corner. I want you to ask yourself if you are taking your writing career seriously. Are you doing everything you can do to become a best seller? Or, are you wandering around like a beggar, waving your book link in the air to every group you can find in social media, hoping for some reason that your book link stands out from the other million book links the readers have already seen that day? <span style="color: red;"><b>THIS DOESN'T WORK. YOU KNOW IT DOESN'T WORK. </b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Yet, some of you insist on sticking with that approach. Guys, book links are not interesting to people. They are a dime a dozen.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">You have to create a plan to make yourself stand out! Did you really think because you published your masterpiece to Amazon that suddenly it was going to fly off the shelf like the next hottest thing to an iPhone?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">It takes planning and work...and oh, being creative!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Why post a book link when you can post a book trailer video? Why only have print when you can also have audio? People are busy these days. Make it easy for them to like you!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">When you submit your book to bloggers and readers, are you sending them a link or simple Word doc? Why not jazz things up with a flip style media kit that includes video, audio and all of the links on how to find you...and your books? <i>All</i> of your books.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Join an authors' book club <span style="color: yellow;">AND PARTICIPATE!</span> This is a fantastic way to gain sales and reviews, as well as honest, constructive criticism on how you can become a better and more polished writer. Click <a href="http://www.authorscave.com/bookclub/">here</a> to join a great one at Authors' Cave! Readers are always welcome too! Honest Collaboration is a fantastic tool to have in your tool box!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">If you want to become a best seller, you have to get serious! It's time. Book links will never turn you into an Anne Rice (my favorite) or a Stephen King.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Here are samples of the items above. Hopefully, they will inspire you.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Audio book are a great way to gain an audience because the crowd you are competing in is much smaller. Lots of people out there love to read but just don't have the time. They do have to sit in traffic though on their way to work, on their way to pick up their children from school, and they want audio books!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Readers want to know something about you <i>before</i> they decide if you are going to be their next favorite author. Give them more! Tell them something about yourself and show them that you care about your own books enough to give them more than a book link!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">It's time to get serious! What are you going to do for yourself? If you need help, Authors' Cave is here for you. Click <a href="http://www.authorscave.com/authorservices/">here</a> to check out our services for authors! </span><br />
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<span style="color: cyan; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">This one is for The Haunting of Hunter by Tracie Jules!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">As you have probably learned by now, or will soon, posting book links all over the social media network does very little to sell books. You've got to get the attention of your audience.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Millions of authors are posting their book links again and again and again. Self-published authors have worn out the readers on social media, so you have to do something different to gain attention.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Authors' Cave can create a media kit for your book starting at only $150! ($125 for Premium Members) Add a trailer for the low package price of $425! ($350 for Premium Members)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">For more information, click <a href="http://www.authorscave.com/authorservices/mediakit.asp">here</a>!</span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Welcome to the December edition of the Authors' Cave eZine! Lots of stuff to get you motivated for the upcoming year! Are you challenging yourself as a writer?</span><br />
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Have you considered turning your books into audio books? I recently converted six of my books into audio books using the Amazon acX platform and have to say I am very pleased.<br />
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First, you enter your ASIN or ISBN number into their search bar to find your book.</div>
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Then, it will bring up their Agreement which basically states that you are the rights holder and want to convert your book into an audio book - in many more words, of course. After you have agreed to their terms, it will load your description from the book's listing on Amazon. Check it carefully, because it doesn't bring in some of the punctuation correctly (ellipses, contractions, etc).</div>
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Next, you will enter any script notes to the potential producer. This is where you give them a sense of how your characters should sound, so they have something to work with. If you have an actor in mind that can be helpful, otherwise, they are shooting in the dark a bit. You will then upload your manuscript here in pdf or txt format.</div>
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Additionally, they have a Bounty program where you can earn $50. ACX pays Rights Holder and Producer $50 every time the audiobook is the first audiobook purchased by an AudibleListener™ member on Audible. The $50 payment is split 50-50 between Rights Holder and Producer, amounting to $25 each.</div>
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Once you have approved all of the chapters and a short excerpt for potential buyers to listen to, acx will review the files to make sure everything is correct. Once they approve the production files, they will make the book live which usually takes 10-15 days. They will also send you 25 codes for free downloads that you can provide to readers.</div>
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<i><span style="color: magenta;"><b>Brief synopsis:</b></span></i> When we first meet Leia York, she is depressed and alone, mourning the loss of her mother to cancer. She's never had a real relationship and has no shoulder to cry on. Fortunately, she receives an invitation from a former professor to come to the Amazon and assist him with gathering and studying various plants that may have medicinal purposes. With nothing to lose, Leia sets off on the adventure of her life. After a long journey deep into the Amazon, she finally reaches the Matis village. At first, she is awkwardly shy about the native dress (strings of beads only) and I had to laugh when she first sees her professor, James, completely naked along with the rest of the Matis tribe. One of the first people in the tribe she meets is Tanun because she falls unconscious at his feet. If she had only know the foreshadowing... It doesn't take long for Leia to forget about the high-pressure rat race she came from and she settles in to the Matis tribe, learning there ways and also learning to love them. One, far more than others... unfortunately, Matis must keep their bloodlines poor and a girl with green eyes from Chicago will never suit the tribe.</div>
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Yes, old memories have returned (though they are fractured, missing parts I yearn to know), sometimes with an intensity that is overpowering in their nostalgia.<br /> I remember my sister, Mary; her fragile smile.<br /> I remember Carson’s cruelty.<br /> I remember grief . . . and rage.<br /> I know these doctors with their strange new titles, such as psychologist, have placed medication in me, something like laudanum but so much stronger that my body (this new body) shows no consciousness. It sleeps as if for forever. And for a while, the real me; the soul these doctors brought back from the place where spirits belong, seemed to sleep too. I was grateful. There was no longer the sense of being pinned in an unknown world, captured inside a body that wasn't mine, and most terrible of all, being so with the monster who murdered my sister.<br /> Lord Hampshire, I think I can bear. But Carson . . .<br /> Then my spirit awoke, while my body remained passive. More strangeness, this inability to move at all, but yet within I am fluid, able to think and consider and suffer the nagging sense that I should be expecting something.<br /> These people put me to sleep for a reason.<br /> They did so because I could not deal with the spiritual conflict, not just the fight between Carson Barlow and Lord Hampshire, but the emotions I felt towards Carson Barlow. My hatred was untethering me, just as much as the two combating men were undoing my spiritual . . . core?<br /> It’s strange, the new words I am capable of attaining. I was a humble, hard-working woman. My intelligence as expected for a woman of my past time. Now, as I consider what it is I should be preparing for, I realize my intelligence is beyond anything I have known. I suspect it might even overshadow the good doctors.<br /> I scream.<br /> My spirit screams.<br /> Though my body does not move, I clench spiritually, hands, stomach; my toes curl as pain lances through me. Then heat follows. Then a cold that is reminiscent of the grave.<br /> <i>We’ll start the extraction in one hour . . .</i><br /> As the pain passes it leaves me with this unsettling phrase.<br /> I focus on the word extraction. I think of rotten teeth being pulled. My old doctor, when he dealt with my abscess ruined tooth, had used such a word.<br /> Panic flutters to life.<br /> Another flare of pain, this time seeming to tug my spirit inward, as if encouraging a collapse. No, no, no . . .<br /> Extraction.<br /> Rot.<br /> Carson Barlow.<br /> They, the doctors, are trying to remove him from my body.<br /> A part of me exalts, but another part that which is fixated on the pain, is hit with terror.<br /> They are prising Carson, like one would a leach, from me, and in doing so my spirit is being pulled with him.<br /> And Lord Hampshire?<br /> No sense of him. No sense of Carson Barlow. Just this terrible pressure, the tugging, the cold and the fear.<br /> I root in, holding fast to the sense of me. My body, imagining it as it lies still and silent. I picture the white room. The doctors.<br /> Dimly, as if he is trying to distract me, hoping to redirect my attention to the vortex pull of disconnection, Carson Barlow starts to heckle. He abuses both me and the doctors.<br /> “No. Bitches. No. I’ll kill every one . . . of you. I . . . will—”<br /> I smile grimly as he screams.<br /> “You will have no body, Carson. No life. As you took my . . . sister’s life and stole her future, now the future takes . . . yours.” I laugh. I groan as the inexorable tug forces me to weaken my hold on myself.<br /> <i>No.<br /> Doctor, she’s showing signs of stress . .<br /> That’s to be expected. Increase the pressure.</i><br /> “Miss Wade? Miss Wade? You must hold on. If you fail now, we will both die.”<br /> Lord Hampshire’s voice is like fuel to my lagging spirit. I imagine digging my feet into the ground, the way a person being pulled from behind will do to resist complying. I imagine holding onto a solid, immovable surface. And most of all I imagine Carson Barlow as a weak, dissolving irritant. I visualize him snapping free like a twig beneath a great storm.<br /> He screeches, the sensation of nails claw my psyche.<br /> I moan, begging the discomfort to be over . . .<br /> Dizziness washes in.<br /> The last thing I hear is Lord Hampshire’s voice, “We’re rid of the animal.”<br /> </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> Mary smiles at me. Then she says, “Live well, Virginia. Live well.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">a . . . clipboard. Writing notes. Dr Moore always writing notes. “Can I ask you something?”<br /> And asking questions.<br /> I sigh, the good feeling I felt during my dream of my sister, fading a little. “Yes.”<br /> “Is there any awareness of the negative personality?”<br /> “No. Nothing. I felt him break free.”<br /> She nods. “What about other personalities? Our procedure was focused to his astral wavelength but as with any new trial, you were equally at risk. At the end of the day, energy is energy, and the extraction process targets energy. But, hopefully, the other consciousness present—” she checked her clipboard “—Lord Hampshire may have been . . . evicted too?”<br /> I was about to tell her what I’d experienced in the final moments of the extraction; Lord Hampshire’s supportive urging and declaration that Carson Barlow was done with, when he said in urgency: “Miss Wade, refrain from telling her those details. It would be best if we kept something back, do you not think? We are still at a great disadvantage, and in a strange time. As much as I detest being imprisoned in a female’s body, (and we, too, have our own relationship to contend with), you and I are for all intents and purposes unexpected allies—”<br /> “Miss Wade? Is Lord Hampshire still present?” Dr Moore’s eyes are filled with a look that though brief, stirs coldness in me.<br /> I give myself a little shake. I smile. “No. I believe he is gone, too.” I nod to reaffirm. “There is only me, Dr Moore.”<br /> She smiles. “Wonderful.” She claps her hands together. “There is so much you will come to understand, to experience. Miss Wade you are our prize.”<br /> “We are her prisoner, Miss Wade.” Lord Hampshire says. “It is a very unhappy situation for someone of my standing to be imprisoned by not one, but two females.”<br /> <i>Lord Hampshire</i>, I say mentally, <i>we, too, will play this new game. We will learn all that we can, and then we will make our escape.</i><br /> <i>And then?</i> He replies, dubious.<br /> <i>And then we will live well, because despite everything, we have been given life. And life is to be lived.</i><br /> Dr Moore continues to hold a satisfied smile.<br /> I smile in return, thinking that I have learned much, and can learn more. And the one important thing I have gained, as much as I hate to acknowledge it, is from Carson Barlow. He might have left, but there remains the memory of him, the shadow of his thoughts. I have put them inside a mental box.<br /> I feel that this new world may be more challenging than my old one.<br /> And what minds like Carson Barlow’s can give, I need to keep.<br /> And Lord Hampshire senses this change in me, because he does not contend me any further.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="color: orange; font-weight: bold;">3. What scene from a book or movie scared you more than any other? </span>Michael Myers lurking the dark halls of the hospital to get to Jaime Lee Curtis in Halloween 2 has traumatized me my whole life! Glad I'll be facing my fears at Universal's Halloween Horror Nights this Halloween in the Michael Myers house!</span></div>
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Ginger Gelsheimerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11975727709881109152noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7712185263324914796.post-84653174579574332702014-10-21T16:26:00.004-07:002014-10-23T09:02:17.640-07:00Book Review The Guardian of Secrets: And Her Deathly Pact<div class="MsoNormal">
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<i><b>The Guardian of Secrets: And Her Deathly Pact</b></i></div>
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<i><b><span style="font-size: large;">Incredible Epic Tale Full of Rich History!</span></b></i><br />
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<i><span style="color: magenta;"><b>Brief synopsis:</b></span></i> First I have to say, please do not let the 700+ pages scare you. It never once felt like I was trudging through to get to the end. Every page kept me turning and the story is so beautifully and elegantly written. It drew me in from the start and surprisingly continued to get better and better as I went along with a wonderful surprise at the end.<br />
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The story begins with the storytelling of Maria Martinez-Bons, daughter to Celia Merrill. She is strong, even on her deathbed and wants to make sure someone special in the family knows the truth of the family history-but not everyone.<br />
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Spanning nearly a century between 1912-2010, the epic tale takes you through four generations of history, war, love and heartache. Not to mention probably the most evil villain I've ever read. If I could get my hands around Joseph Dobbs's throat, I strangle him myself! Can't give any spoilers, but he will make your blood boil for sure!</div>
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<i><b><span style="color: magenta;">Characters:</span></b></i> Sometimes the best characters are the ones that we hate the most. Ms. Petken did an amazing job of making the reader feel like they might actually be able to commit murder because I know I wanted to kill that ba@$ard! With four generations to cover, she did an amazing job developing each and every one of them. I cared about all of them as they spread out in their various lives, dealing with the Spanish Civil War, each in their own way. She didn't leave any strings untied or make me feel like any of them were abandoned for the others. I cared about all of them and sat on the edge of my seat as I turned the pages, wondering if they were going to live or die. NO SPOILERS!</div>
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<i><span style="color: magenta;"><b>Originality:</b></span></i> I have to give this 5 stars on originality! I never learned anything about the Spanish Civil War in school and the fiction that she intertwined with it was so engaging. I can't believe all of this was going on as Hitler was getting ready to cause the most devastating event in history (in my opinion). The twists wound like a rope through the entire novel. No one was safe...</div>
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<b><span style="color: magenta;"><i>Recommendations:</i> </span></b>This has to go with coffee for a couple of reasons. 1) you will need it to stay away so you can keep reading 2) because Maria and Carlos meet at the coffee shop and it's their only getaway from the devastating war around them 3) food was scarce! I highly recommend to anyone who like to be completely absorbed into another world and then wake up and thank their lucky stars that this isn't their own life!</div>
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Ginger Gelsheimerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11975727709881109152noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7712185263324914796.post-63588088392091901752014-10-03T08:35:00.000-07:002014-10-03T08:36:26.751-07:00My Tribute to Steven Spielberg!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Here's a fun video I did for my Goodread's Interview with Jaideep. One of my interview questions was "If you could live one day in the life of someone who would that be?" Click <a href="http://pebbleinthestillwaters.blogspot.com/2014/09/author-interview-ginger-gelsheimer-dark.html">here</a> to view the whole interview at Pebble in Still Waters! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="color: orange;"><b>Halloween Blog Train format - Each train car (blogger) should include this spooky train image and answer these questions. You don't have to answer them all if you really don't like one, but try. Participation in the Story Train at the end is required.</b></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="color: orange;"><b>1. Include a picture or video of yourself in a Halloween costume (it can be from the past) </b></span><br /><br /><span style="color: orange;"><b>2. What is your favorite scary movie? You can include a video clip if you like of your favorite part from that movie...like this.</b></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /><br /><span style="color: orange;"><b>3. What scene from a book or movie scared you more than any other? </b></span><br /><br /><b><span style="color: orange;">4. If all of Stephen King's bad guys were after each other, who would win and why?</span></b><br /><br /><span style="color: orange;"><b>5. Give a Treat! Provide a link to a Halloween treat or beverage recipe. A photo is nice too, if you want.</b></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br />We will give each member who participates in the blog train a specific order for their car in the train. Car #1 will start with one of the three story beginnings below. Car #2 will start the story where car #1 left off. Each car will follow in the same manner. Each car should only feature two or three paragraphs of the story. The idea is to try to get people to follow the entire train to read all of the story. Each car will have a link just above the story that should say, 'If you are just beginning the story, please click this link to go to the beginning at Car #1.' Each story will be followed with a link that says, 'To continue the story, click here' and that will take the reader to the next car.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I swallow hard. Think. Think. What is the last thing I can remember?</span><br />
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