tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-63330701344946077992024-03-20T16:33:35.429-07:00Gail Roughton - Writin' With Southern Stylin'!Down South, we don't disguise our crazy. We sit it right out on the front porch and let it wave to the passersby.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger25125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6333070134494607799.post-89728850133302647212016-04-04T11:57:00.001-07:002016-05-09T17:06:17.223-07:00Milestones<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">March 17, 2016. What a day! The most eagerly anticipated milestone day of my life, even more eagerly anticipated than the birth of my children and as every woman who's ever given birth knows, that's saying something, because after nine months of pregnancy, <i>nothing </i>sounds as good as not being pregnant anymore. So what happened on March 17, 2016? No, no, not St. Patrick's Day. Well, yes, of course it was St. Patrick's Day but that's not why it was the most eagerly anticipated day of my life. St. Patrick's Day comes every year, after all. But this St. Patrick's Day, I <i>didn't </i>get up and go to work. Yes, most writers have an actual day job. Including me. That is, I <i>had </i>a day job. For forty-0ne years. And for most of it, I enjoyed it very much. Really. But now? I'm <i>RETIRED!!</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Yes, <i>RETIRED!! </i>Oh, I know, I know, some folks equate that with boredom, loss of purpose, reduced income, you know the drill. I could go on and on. So let me tell you what "retirement" means to me. It means--PERPETUAL summer vacation! <i>PERPETUAL. SUMMER. VACATION. </i>How many kids have dreamed of that?!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Now, I've got several advantages over a lot of folks going into retirement and I know it. First, my husband and I raised three kids on a shoestring, we don't have expensive tastes, we enjoy the simple things of life, and we've lived on a much lower income with a lot more debt. Second, as a writer, I have a whole 'nother career aside and apart from my "day" career and have had for some time now. I'm a writer (well, duh). That career hasn't been very active for the last couple of years for one simple reason. No matter how healthy and active any (average) individual is, one simply cannot do at 40 what one could do at 30, one cannot do at 50 what one could do at 40, and one cannot do at 62 what they could do at 50. Or even at 55. Something's gotta give. For the last two years, the writer surrendered to the demands of the paralegal. Yes, in my day job I've been in a law office for more years than I care to count. Longer than the younger attorneys I've worked for these past few years have been <i>alive. </i>And in retrospect, I guess that was only fair, given all the colorful characters and insider knowledge of the legal system my paralegal career's given me over the years. I've used that insider knowledge in my books for years, and I'll certainly use it in the future because t</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">he paralegal's time is done. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Now the writer can return to the work-in-progress that's been in static condition for far too long. See, there comes a point during the writing of every book when the author has to either get on the roller coaster and ride it till it's done, or stay off it entirely. The background's set, you know your characters (more or less, one of 'em's always ready to stab you in the back, but hey! No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader), you've got at least a <i>target</i> climax in mind. All that you can work on more or less at your own pace, and in my current work-in-progress, I reached that point long ago. But after that? Well, after that, you have to actually put yourself in the world you've created and <i>live </i>there. The best explanation of that I can come up with is to say it's rather like deciding to get pregnant on purpose. It's <i>commitment.</i> The point of no return. The book and the characters take over your life, waking, eating, sleeping. It's a place you enter and don't come out of until the demands of the real world yank you out for short visits with reality. I don't mean you sit and type for hours and hours each and every day (though sometimes that does happen), I mean that even when you're doing something else, your <i>mind, </i>or at least a large subconscious part of it, <i>remains </i>in that world. There's no "oh, I'll think about it again on Saturday afternoon." No, you won't. Because by then, you've lost the momentum. You're not on the roller coaster anymore. You've gotten off and you've got to start over.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">It's damn scary, is what it is. It's voluntary entry into a world that's real only to you, and you're doing so in the <i>hope </i>(because there's never any guarantee) that you can make that world real for your readers. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">That's where I am in my current work-in-progress (WIP in writer lingo). It's the second book in the <i>Southern Justice </i>series. So of course readers can visit with a few old friends from <i>Country Justice. </i>I've taken a few weeks' break after retirement and I'm ready to hop on the <i>Black Turkey Walk </i>roller coaster and ride it to the end.</span><br />
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creek banks down near the swampy bogs the town folk call Black Turkey Walk.
Only one made it home alive. Who killed Tommy Milner? Nobody knows, and the
shadow of his death still hangs heavy over the little town of Turkey
Creek. It hangs heaviest over his sister
Lucy Elliott, now all grown up with a
family of her own. A family she’s
bringing home, back to Turkey Creek. And that’s a decision she might not be
able to live with. You see, there’s been another murder down there in the bogs,
right off Black Turkey Walk. A murder strikingly similar to Tommy’s. Maybe—just
maybe—solving this new murder will solve Tommy’s. Sometimes justice takes a
long time in coming. And the best
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Now, for what happens when real life intrudes--like on the first two days of my retirement--hop over to my "Country Kitchen" blog, <a href="http://flowersonthefence.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Flowers on the Fence</a>. Cause sometimes, life just doesn't go like you planned. And you know what? That's a wonderful thing. Because it's the unplanned things that so frequently give you the greatest pleasure and call up the most wonderful memories.</span><span style="font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; font-size: large;"> </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Welcome to my world.
My</span><span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span><i style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">real</i><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"> world. The one that holds my heart. The world of </span><i style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Co</i></span><i style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white;">untry Justice.</span></i></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">I always like to know the story behind the story. Because I
know there is one. Always. Writers claim their work’s fictional and
mostly it is, but in its center—something happened somewhere, sometime,
someplace, in that writer’s life that triggered it. The story behind <i>Country Justice</i>? Where did
Turkey Creek, Rockland County, Georgia come from? I know the places of <i>Country Justice </i>because I live there. I know the characters of <i>Country Justice</i> because I’m part of them and they are part of me. Oh, they’re not real characters, of
course. Not really. They’re bits and pieces of here and there,
now and then, this and that, mixed and mingled to produce the other. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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southern or not, are microcosms of society, a miniature little world wherein
everybody knows everybody else’s business, heritage, secrets, what they had for
supper, their usual bedtime. It’s a
patchwork quilt, sewn together into a sturdy fabric, stitched with a strong
thread of familiarity. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">In that world, everybody knows Maggie Kincaid hasn’t spoken
to her father in twenty-five years. They know Billy Brayton died twenty-five
years back. An accident in basic
training, it was, and a damn shame, too,
that boy was one of the finest football players ever to come out of Rockland
County, even if he was kinda rough around the edges. Too bad nobody told Billy. See, there’s a
gray Mustang coming lickety-split over the hill, the driver’s Billy and guess
what, folks? He ain’t dead. Turkey Creek
doesn’t know what’s about to hit it. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">The seeds of the plot for this book made some faint murmurs
a long, long time ago. But they didn’t blossom until my son-in-law, a K-9
Deputy Sheriff for my home county, told me a story. A story with some <i>striking </i>similarity to the opening scene of Country Justice. Come visit, why don’t you?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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out of the darkness, caught in the spear of the patrol cruiser’s headlights. Deputy
Alec Wimberly left the engine running per protocol and got out to do his
obligatory night check walk-around, eyes open for stray teenagers. Clayton
Chapel’s reputation drew them like magnets. He ran the flashlight’s beam around
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for leather back to the car and scrambled in. The cruiser careened down the
country road in a flurry of squealing wheels and flying gravel. He didn’t look
back. If he looked back, he’d see it. He knew he would. The silhouette of a little
girl in banana curls, backlit in the window. Pounding organ music still rang in
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">He slowed just enough
to negotiate a wide turn onto Highway 96. Back on the asphalt, he could pretend
it never happened. He checked the speedometer and eased off the gas. Or tried
to. For a moment his foot, lead on the pedal, wouldn’t obey. He reached to his
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">“Ten-four Rockland
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of their own. Ask a writer. Any writer. It’s happened to all of us. We’ve got
this idea in mind, see. Fabulous plot. We know just how to do it. And it’s
already all fleshed out in our minds, so it won’t take long.</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span><i style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Ha!</i><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">
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what, gentle readers? They aren’t talking. And if they don’t talk, we don’t
write. We sit and stare at a computer screen and ask ourselves why, oh why, did
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the absolute reverse happens. I was
happily working away on a re-write of the third book I ever wrote, one that’s
been sitting in my closet for lo, these twenty years past, unseen by the public
eye. Soon to debut as <i>Black Turkey Walk</i><i>. </i>Good
plot, good characters, even some good dialogue. <i>Lousy</i> writing. (Hey, I wrote
the first version twenty years ago, people!
We all got to start somewhere.) I was having a good time. It was familiar
territory, visiting with characters already birthed. And very satisfying,
knowing that this time I’d acquired enough skill and experience as a writer to
(please God!) do them and the story justice, certainly not the case in the
first version that’d been sitting in my closet. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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appreciate what happened at that point, I have to share something some people already
know, and some don’t. I swore when <i>The Coven,</i></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"> third book in the </span><i style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">War-N-Wit,
Inc. </i><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">series published (free on Amazon 9-15 through 9-17, 2013, by the way), that it was the </span><i style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">last</i><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"> War. That I would never do another. That
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occasionally and dangle a carrot down on the corner and I’d go after it, and in
the end, they finally caved and told me what happened. My private theory? <i>The Witch </i>just happened, came out of
nowhere. Which is usually the case with my books, I don’t <i>plan</i> any of them. The characters were so much fun, I figured they’d
always be fun. So without having any real conversations with those characters
beforehand, I just blithely announced the second and third book of the series
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bandwagon and tell me the story. I took them for granted, something that one
should <i>never</i> do with real (as in
actual physical) family or friends. And like real family and friends who are
taken for granted, these characters were <i>pissed</i>. Not so much so they didn’t eventually bail me
out (again, just like real family and friends do, no matter how upset they are
with you), but they sure took their time about it. I’ve never been as relieved to
type “The End” after any book as I was to type “The End” to <i>The Coven</i>. So I swore “<i>never again</i>” and moved on to other
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Readers of the <i>War-N-Wit </i>series know
one of the pivotal (and entirely accidental) characters of the series is a
black cat (well, mostly, he’s a black cat, anyway) named Micah. And that
picture—it just sat there looking at me. Micah and friend? Maybe? So a few
weeks went by and the <i>what if’s</i>
started. What if certain characters from the <i>Wars</i> didn’t want a book but some did? A spin-off. A really—off the
wall, for lack of a better description—spin-off. With maybe guest appearances
from some of the other <i>War </i>characters.
<i>Hmmmmmm.</i> So I started one. Because it
just <i>insisted</i>. A spin-off. A spin-off
to be called <i>MeanStreet, LLC.</i> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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and started talking. And I realized that certain parts of that spin-off just
wouldn’t be the same unless told in the voice of the “Wit” of <i>War-N-Wit, Inc.</i>, Ariel Garrett. And
before I knew it, <i>MeanStreet </i>wasn’t a
spin-off anymore, it was a full-blown <i>War</i>.
Then another Facebook picture appeared. This one. Doesn’t seem like it’d have
much to do with a <i>War-N-Wit, Inc.</i>
book, does it? Well, guess what? You’ll have to read the book to find out why,
but considering the segment I’d just finished when I saw this picture, I
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another Facebook picture appeared. This one. The final sign. It'll make sense after you've read the book. Oh, yeah, <i>MeanStreet, LLC</i> had a mind of its own.
It was meant to be. And my fervent oath of “No more <i>Wars,
</i>ever again!” has been changed to another fervent oath. “No more books, ever
again, <i>until the characters tell me they’re
ready</i>!” Live and learn. Will there be more <i>Wars? </i>I honestly don’t know. Depends on the cast. But I’m thinking
now that I’ve learned my lesson, they might decide to visit again. If they do,
I’ll listen. But no more command performances. I’ve promised them, a promise
extended to all characters brewing in my brain.
So for now, back to <i>Black Turkey
Walk</i>. Because its time’s come round to be born. Finally. Now that <i>MeanStreet's</i> finished it's invasion!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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the Drive-Thru Tunnel of Love at the Little White Wedding Chapel in Vegas.
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6333070134494607799.post-52871259852815822082013-06-16T09:46:00.001-07:002013-06-16T09:49:23.341-07:00A Few Lines From...<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: x-large; line-height: 115%;">Numbers have power.
Did you know that? Powers,
nuances, colors. Like <i>The Color of Seven…..<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVeMzYIlZ24yypFW78nIRFzGznJ17BuPJi3IB2nLS_p2VfYWd6dFwv_K3YWJ81QJeHh50VMzyzqIDPxfSGR9GgPPButYb0ndFcB9RiQIFPsORBrzyg_f5ASCzSd4f_j8cpnocEPydWxrc/s1600/Roughton-DarkBk1-ColorOfSeven-200x300.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVeMzYIlZ24yypFW78nIRFzGznJ17BuPJi3IB2nLS_p2VfYWd6dFwv_K3YWJ81QJeHh50VMzyzqIDPxfSGR9GgPPButYb0ndFcB9RiQIFPsORBrzyg_f5ASCzSd4f_j8cpnocEPydWxrc/s1600/Roughton-DarkBk1-ColorOfSeven-200x300.jpg" /></span></a><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: x-large; line-height: 115%;">Justin Dinardo awoke with a start. The glow of the outside
security lights streamed faintly into his room. A gigantic hand covered his
mouth. His eyes widened. His chest hurt from the sledgehammer force of his
heartbeat, thumping wildly in sudden panic. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: x-large; line-height: 115%;">The face loomed over him. He stared into the round, ebony
eyes. Hypnotic eyes. Powerful eyes. It was all so simple. All he had to do was
follow those eyes and the world would fall at his feet. It was all so simple. The
terror changed to instant adoration. Sensing the change, the owner of the hand
removed it from Justin’s mouth.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: x-large; line-height: 115%;">“Who—who are you?” Justin asked in wonder.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: x-large; line-height: 115%;">“My name be Cain.” The voice rumbled low like distant
thunder. “An’ my color be sebben.”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large;">A Few Lines From <b>"A Knight For Love"</b> by A.M.Westerling</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large;">“I am Warin de Taillur,” he said simply. He gestured with his chin to the fresh mound and crudely fashioned cross. “Your traveling companion is now in a better place.” </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large;">Alyna nodded, mute in her misery, the words slowly penetrating her mind. Traveling companion. David. She blinked hard, once, twice, against the tears, forcing them back. She had no time to cry anymore.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large;">She sucked in a huge, ragged breath. How rude the man must find her. </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-SP9ur1LkCo8/UbplJa9wGRI/AAAAAAAAElo/afRRntrEkhE/s1600/Westerling-KnightForLove2-200x300.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration: none;"><img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-SP9ur1LkCo8/UbplJa9wGRI/AAAAAAAAElo/afRRntrEkhE/s1600/Westerling-KnightForLove2-200x300.jpg" style="border: none; position: relative;" /></a><span id="yui_3_7_2_1_1371169755635_3541">First she had hailed him, now sorrow over David’s death held her tongue. In truth, she hadn’t expected the knight to stop but he had. She opened her mouth to thank him and lifted her gaze enough to finally look him full in the face. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large;">And froze, mouth yet gaping. </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large;">He radiated power. It emanated from his every pore, permeating the area around him with a tangible force she could almost reach out and touch. </span></span></div>
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<span id="yui_3_7_2_1_1371169755635_3547" lang="EN-US" style="background-color: black;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/A-Knight-for-Love-ebook/dp/B00C8HC146/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1369847929&sr=1-1&keywords=a.m.westerling" id="yui_3_7_2_1_1371169755635_3546" rel="noreferrer" style="text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large;">http://www.amazon.com/A-Knight-for-Love-ebook/dp/B00C8HC146/</span></a></span></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6333070134494607799.post-16417068081302844462013-06-08T07:04:00.004-07:002013-06-08T07:08:25.273-07:00Few Lines Time...<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Few Line Time….<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; text-indent: 0in;">Explore
</span><i style="font-family: Georgia, serif; text-indent: 0in;">The Color of Seven….</i></span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMj7mLOY7hx0jPK8EofysWTvdjmAhLYXBg1C5MkLlZOSeIv1daJfZHBh9Fyr8ak-6Klhyq1ie_ILp5B0IivJRUA2Vj313vjAjWaXd_movXlcU79EyxkiByRVYthexixisWdHLKtGFuLs8/s1600/Roughton-DarkBk1-ColorOfSeven-200x300.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><span style="font-size: large;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMj7mLOY7hx0jPK8EofysWTvdjmAhLYXBg1C5MkLlZOSeIv1daJfZHBh9Fyr8ak-6Klhyq1ie_ILp5B0IivJRUA2Vj313vjAjWaXd_movXlcU79EyxkiByRVYthexixisWdHLKtGFuLs8/s1600/Roughton-DarkBk1-ColorOfSeven-200x300.jpg" /></span></a><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">“I
saw a man, a dark man. He black as coal, but dat ain’t why he dark. He big, one
of de biggest I ever seen, an’ dats a gift from de dark side, but he both more
and less den a bokor.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">“I
doan understand.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">“I
doan neither, yet, not ‘xactly. But he ain’t a bokor ‘cause he choose to be. Not
one whut takes his power and sharpens it on purpose, devotin’ his life to
studyin’ de bitter Loa. He do know some of de rituals of power, and he use ‘em,
but he doan understan’ ‘em. He use ‘em lik’ a little chile doan know how to read
yet still can say his ‘a-b-c’s.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">And
from Jamie Hill’s <i>Family Honor</i>…<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<a href="http://www.jamiehill.biz/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/Hill-FamilyHonor200x300.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: large;"><img border="0" src="http://www.jamiehill.biz/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/Hill-FamilyHonor200x300.jpg" /></span></a><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">He
pulled a bigger knife from his pocket. “I
know you’re gonna be whoever I want you to be.
I’m gonna call you ‘Mama’ and you’ll call me ‘Dickie’. If you don’t like it, our little game will
end a lot sooner. It’ll be disappointing
for me but I can live with it.” He
smiled. “Not sure you can.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Family Honor by Jamie Hill<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Find Jamie’s other titles here:<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6333070134494607799.post-79910229573586327402013-06-01T10:03:00.001-07:002013-06-01T10:08:57.744-07:00A Few Lines More...<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;">
<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">A Few Lines More…</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> Dusk. That special time, not day, not night. When darkness and light merge together and
form that special color. <i>The Color of Dusk…<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIREXt5YC2DRB-GcFDzN7ywWJ7FZjh-bMM68CpLp2uoZy1rkrBYZrpNzIleJ6JVFNMrfCks6W8Mf9VJZRLamB38siEmxs8R-r7WOlgo0vOMlk-dPxuxXdQ7WmFZK0iA1Y5jT29uAC1gd4/s1600/Roughton-DarkBk2-ColorOfDusk-200x300.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIREXt5YC2DRB-GcFDzN7ywWJ7FZjh-bMM68CpLp2uoZy1rkrBYZrpNzIleJ6JVFNMrfCks6W8Mf9VJZRLamB38siEmxs8R-r7WOlgo0vOMlk-dPxuxXdQ7WmFZK0iA1Y5jT29uAC1gd4/s1600/Roughton-DarkBk2-ColorOfDusk-200x300.jpg" /></a><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Joshua and Sadie, comfortably
ensconced by the iron stove, sipped coffee from steaming mugs. Outside, the
wind howled, making sure everyone knew just how bitter the night was. A
hesitant knock sounded on the door, so softly Joshua wasn’t sure it was
anything but the wind.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">“Was that the door?”<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">“Lord, I hope not. Bad night,
an’ I think all de beds full.”<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">“If that’s a knock, we’ll have
to find someplace. It’s freezing out there.” He opened the door. He had to drop
his gaze from eye level to see her.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">She was very small, no more
than five foot two or three. She hugged a big cloak to her tightly, shivering
in its folds. Joshua looked into dark blue eyes. Strands of black hair had
escaped their confining bun and hung, limply now, around her face. Exhaustion
and illness tinted a naturally fair complexion to ghostly white.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">“I—” The caller stopped and
attempted to clear the croak from her voice. Bad sore throat there, Joshua
knew. He hadn’t pursued any formal medical education but he hadn’t forgotten
his early training, either. If he lived in one of the small towns on the
western frontier, he’d probably have ended up serving as town doctor.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">“It’s late, I know,” the caller
spoke again. “I’m sorry, but I heard, someone told me—I don’t have anywhere
else to go,” she finished, and simply stood.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Joshua took her arm and pulled
her inside.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">“You do now,” he said, and led
her to the stove.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">“I—thank you,” she said. “I
won’t bother you for long.” Her eyes rolled upward and she pitched forward to
the floor.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">And from Jude Pittman’s Kelly
McWinter P.I. Series, a few lines from <i>Deadly
Consequences—<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<a href="http://bookswelove.net/attachments/Image/Pittman-Deadly3-200x300.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://bookswelove.net/attachments/Image/Pittman-Deadly3-200x300.jpg" /></a><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">A shot rang out from the direction
of the stables. Kelly leapt oout of his chair, grabbed the gun out of his
jacket pocket and slapped the screen door open.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">“What the damn hell?” He yelled
as he raced towards the broodbarn, where Jake, alerted by the gunshot, stood in
front of the closed doors barking like a beast gone rabid.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">“Easy boy,” Kelly said,
approaching the door with his weapon drawn.
“Gilly, you okay in there?” Kelly
reached the door and pulled the handle.
It held fast. Someone had
apparently locked it from inside.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">“Gillian?” Kelly called in a
voice laced with fear and Jake once again started his frantic barking.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">“Okay. Stand down.” Kelly spoke
to the dog, then placed his ear against the door and listened.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">From inside came the sounds of
sobbing.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">“Gillian.” Kelly yelled
again. “For God’s sake, open the door.”</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">http://www.amazon.com/Deadly-Consequences-Kelly-McWinter-ebook/dp/B008ZQTPK2</span></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6333070134494607799.post-62343771780855287742013-05-24T17:11:00.002-07:002013-05-24T17:13:05.850-07:00Another Few Lines From...<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Time again for a few lines from…<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Let’s go back to the beginning, shall we? To the start of the War-N-Wit, Inc.
series. To <i>The Witch.</i><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">"Chad! That's him! Don't let him go in! We have to get
him. <i>Now!</i>"<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">"Not so loud, honey! We need back-up, we'll stay and
watch while I call this in—" <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">"No!! He has a girl in there! Still alive! Leanne told
me! If he goes in—by the time anybody gets here—we have to stop him now!"<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Chad looked between us and closed his eyes briefly. I could
feel his frustration. A serial-killing drug dealer to take down and two novices
to worry about.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">"Lord help," he said. He leaned over and kissed me
hard and quick and opened the door. "Ariel, get your ass over in this seat
and get the hell out of here while Stacy calls 911. We're at 1191 State Street.
<i>Do you hear me?"</i><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">And a few lines from JEWISH SOUL – Book #3
of the Tango of Death Series, by Rita Karnopp <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Jewish-Soul-Tango-Death-ebook/dp/B00CS7TCPM" target="_blank"><span style="color: white;">http://www.amazon.com/Jewish-Soul-Tango-Death-ebook/dp/B00CS7TCPM</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="http://bookswelove.net/attachments/Image/Karnopp-TangoBk3-JewishSoul-200x300.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://bookswelove.net/attachments/Image/Karnopp-TangoBk3-JewishSoul-200x300.jpg" width="212" /></a><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 14.65pt;"> Mayla watched the girls head for the bushes. She
turned toward the men. “If nothing else, everything will be worth it if
we manage to save their lives. If any of us is captured, we must die
before breathing a word about the twins.”</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">She stretched out her hand and Chester
placed his on top and Stane placed his below. “In the midst of all this
evil . . . this is our one good.” Mayla smiled as they nodded in
agreement.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Find out more about Rita Karnopp’s books at: </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><a href="http://www.ritakarnopp.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: white;">www.ritakarnopp.com</span></a><br />
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Make sure to visit next week for a few lines from another of my books and guest
Jude Pittman!</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6333070134494607799.post-56509809669726292752013-05-18T12:15:00.002-07:002013-05-18T12:28:49.909-07:00A Few Lines More...<br />
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<span style="background: white; color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: xx-small; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">It’s that
time again. Time for a few lines. Let’s go visit Savannah, shall we? And </span><i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Resurrection…</span><o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large; line-height: 115%;">“G. Who the hell is he?”<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghQWv2sOa5408HsCE2jhoZSUfuGmaXA4CMWkIFhecO1S08nNEVgVZK7kwROo9sZgHwa29X0AYihQqhn1P6_DJ_3KZXJwiM99cBDVzrr55dxaCSOtUJNYV3RrPiwIYWViddQZ-7Qv8yKgM/s1600/Roughton-War-N-Wit-Bk2-Resurrection3-400x600.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghQWv2sOa5408HsCE2jhoZSUfuGmaXA4CMWkIFhecO1S08nNEVgVZK7kwROo9sZgHwa29X0AYihQqhn1P6_DJ_3KZXJwiM99cBDVzrr55dxaCSOtUJNYV3RrPiwIYWViddQZ-7Qv8yKgM/s320/Roughton-War-N-Wit-Bk2-Resurrection3-400x600.jpg" width="213" /></a><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large; line-height: 115%;">“His name is Legion.”<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large; line-height: 115%;">“Very funny. What’s his name?”<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large; line-height: 115%;">“Legion. That’s the name he’s using.”<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large; line-height: 115%;">“Damn. He thinks he’s that good?”<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large; line-height: 115%;">“Or that bad. All we got right now, we’re still working on
the original name. Kind of in a bind here, if we knew the real name, it’d help
discover what other power he has that he needs to intensify. And if we knew his
other powers, it’d probably be a lot easier to come up with his real name.
Whatever it is, it’s something that really helps if you’re running a scam. Old
Ollie was a garden variety medium with a touch of pre-cog. Both of which could
be useful scams to run. What powers does Ariel actually have?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">And a few lines from </span><i style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-large;">Exposure</i><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">, an erotic thriller by Lisabet Sarai...</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><span style="color: white; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;"><span style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><br /></span></span></span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><span style="color: white; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;"><span style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">The back door, I discover, is unlocked. I’m one
hundred percent certain I didn’t<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><br />
<span style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">leave it that way. Carefully, keeping my body
behind the door, I scan the yard.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><br />
<span style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">The light filtering from the kitchen windows is
bright enough for me to see that<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">there is no one in my little square of turf. It
also shows me crushed tomato<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><br />
<span style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">plants and bean vines torn from their trellises,
clearly marking the intruder’s<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">escape route.</span><br />
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<span style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">At that point, my rage finally overwhelms my fear.
I pour myself a finger of<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">scotch and sit at the kitchen table, simmering in
helpless anger and vowing some<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">kind of revenge.</span><br />
<br />
<span style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Then a horrible thought crosses my mind. Jimmy
knew I would be out tonight. He<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">was the only one who knew. Was it possible that he
was involved in all this,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">somehow? Is it possible that smiling Jimmy might
have betrayed me?</span><br />
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<span style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">The balance shifts again. Shudders shake my body.
Sitting alone under the<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">fluorescent lights, gripping my drink, I am
paralyzed by the realization that I<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">don’t know who I can trust. If anyone.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">You know, as a writer I’ve never been worried about what
genre a book falls into. A story occurs
to me. Or sometimes a character or two just up and walks into my head and starts
talking. Or I see the name of a creek or a town as I’m riding down the road and
that name just <i>begs</i> to be used. One thing I have learned, though. Somewhere, someplace, in all my work there’ll
be a hint of otherworldly—magic. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> But once that
magic translates itself onto words typed on pages of blank computer screen and
is winging its way to my publisher, another type of magic takes over. The magic of our cover artist, who takes my
descriptions of setting, of characters, and puts together a cover that just
captures the absolute <i>essence</i>—the <i>feel</i>—of the book I’ve poured my soul
into over the last few months. (Or sometimes, the last <i>years.</i>) At Books We Love our publishers and cover artist work
together to produce magic on a regular basis.
And the end results just knock all of us out. Sometimes they even trigger the next book.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> Take my
War-N-Wit, Inc. series, for example.
Yes, I’d planned for that to be a series. What I didn’t plan on was how
very much the first cover would affect the as-yet-to-be written future books. See, one of my publishers who shall be
nameless (but whose initials are Jude Pittman) works with us and our cover
artist Michelle Lee to produce the best covers possible. And the cover of <i>The Witch</i> just knocked me down.
I mean it knocked me down. It’s
just so absolutely perfect for that book.
I fell in love with the models they’d picked to portray Chad and Ariel
and I fell in love with that image of the black cat perched on top of my
name. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> Now, the
thing is, we all knew at the time this would be a series. And it made sense to do more than one cover
while we were at it, seeing as how they’d need the same models, and especially
seeing as how Michelle made me that wonderful banner used in the center of each
cover, the one with the witch on the broomstick (which I’m advised by many of
those nearest and dearest to me is just too damn close to my real personality
for comfort and I’m not talking about the magical aspect). I had a basic plot for each, not fully
fleshed out, but on its way. I saw one
of the pictures of “Chad” proposed for <i>Resurrection</i>
and just <i>hollered</i>. Jude and I are clear across a continent from
each other but I’m pretty sure she could hear me anyway. “I <i>have</i>
to have that picture! The one with him
holding the necklace! It’s <i>perfect</i>!
I can <i>use</i> that! In the
plot!” And I did. Without revealing too much, I’ll tell you the
necklace on the cover is the Tear of Isis and it’s <i>pivotal</i> to the plot of <i>Resurrection</i>. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> And then
there’s that black cat that showed up on the first cover. Well, Jude and Michelle had the absolutely <i>brilliant</i> idea of using him on <i>all</i> the War-N-Wit covers. So they
did. He moves around a lot. Don’t look for him in the same spot, but oh,
yeah, he’s there. In all of them. He <i>follows</i>
them. And thus was born Micah, Ariel’s
black cat. He’s in both <i>Resurrection</i> and <i>The Coven</i>, but like the Tear of Isis, he’s absolutely <i>pivotal </i> to the plot of <i>Resurrection</i>. He’s been a
huge hit with the readers and no War-N-Wit would ever be complete without him
now. Nor would I ever even consider leaving him out of one.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> Now, The Dark
Series, well, those are an entirely different type of book. In essence, they’re my dark love song to my
home town, both as it exists now and as it existed in 1888. The town itself,
and especially a few of its landmarks, are almost characters themselves. And the most important one is Rose Arbor
Cemetery, based on a very real cemetery in my very real town, a very old one
with great historical significance. And <i>lots
</i>of mausoleums. We found a picture of
an old cemetery depicting two separate mausoleums that could easily be found in
Rose Arbor’s realtime alter-ego, and Michelle used a different angle of that
picture highlighting one of the structures on <i>The Color of Seven</i> and the other on <i>The Color of Dusk. </i>And then
for the combined series set, she offset the two covers to compliment each other
so gorgeously that I still stop and stare every time I pass them. (Yes. My covers are framed and on my bedroom
wall. Yes. All of them.
All eight. It took me twenty
years to publish a book, so sue me.) <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> But Books We
Love never stops supporting its writers.
Never stops thinking of ways to help them showcase their work. So last night, an email came in from one of
my publishers who shall be nameless (but whose initials are Jamie Hill) with a
note: “Michelle made these for your
series. They’re really neat. Check it
out.” <i>Neat</i>? They’re <i>neat</i>?
I direct your attention to the top of this blog. To the covers that keep flipping from one cover to the next. To the first post in the columns of this
blogsite wherein those gifts will remain in perpetuity. (Sorry.
I’m a paralegal in my day job.
Sometimes the jargon still comes through.) Now I ask you—would you call that <i>neat</i>?
Personally, I call that awesome.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> I do, as a
matter of fact, have the cover waiting for me for my WIP (you know, I’d been in
the publishing world for almost a year before I finally figured out that stood
for work in progress), and it absolutely blows me away with its stark
simplistic imagery. I don’t think any cover could fit that book and title
(which is <i>Black Turkey Walk, </i>just in
case anybody wants to make a note) more perfectly, and I can’t wait to debut it
to the world. Which means I’d best be
getting back to it. No new books, no new
covers. And those things are <i>addictive</i>, you know?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6333070134494607799.post-47455471285056250352013-05-10T05:00:00.002-07:002013-05-10T05:12:16.692-07:00A Few Lines in Celebration of TFIF!<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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around to catch his expression. It was full of fierce pride, of pleasure at his
homecoming, of dedication. Johnny was absolutely right. Dalph lived for this
country. And based on knowledge gleaned from my entire twenty-four hours of
residency, I was sure that one day he would almost certainly die for it.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="line-height: 115%;">“Well?”</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="line-height: 115%;">“I ain’t in Kansas anymore,” I said.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="line-height: 115%;">He laughed. “Damn sure ain’t, baby girl.”</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">And visit a few minutes with Sydell Voeller and <i>The Fisherman’s Daughter…</i></span></span></span></div>
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<a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-PE64DbAUQJk/UXcmpFqlN9I/AAAAAAAAERY/2q35vpexejo/s1600/Voeller-FishermansDaughter200x300.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-PE64DbAUQJk/UXcmpFqlN9I/AAAAAAAAERY/2q35vpexejo/s1600/Voeller-FishermansDaughter200x300.jpg" /></a><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">"So you're a cop," she said, meeting his
stunningly blue eyes, noting the breeze ripple through his hair. He certainly
fit the stereotype. Broad shouldered and strong. Opened black leather jacket
with the collar turned up. An incredible heart-stopper with his sophisticated
good looks. But cops were the worst choice for a husband, she reminded
herself--even if she were looking for one, which she definitely was not. Cops
lived in the fast track. With violence. And danger. Cops were gunned down every
day.<br />
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Find out more about Sydell's books at: <a href="http://www.sydellvoeller.com/">www.sydellvoeller.com</a></span></span></span></div>
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no one knew. He didn’t know himself. Sometimes he thougtht he’d merely sprung,
full-grown, from the depths of the deepest swamps, the darkest bayous, of
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blond hair framing a tan face with icy gray eyes... The visage of Adonis on Hercules’
body.<br />
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Zania’s gaze roamed over the regular lines of his jaw, the full, sensual lips,
dimpled chin, down the expanse of his hairless pectorals, and stopped on the
leather cod piece embossed with Tor’s hammer. That’s all he wore. So, he was a
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: large;">It’s been said nobody likes a tease. Well, maybe. Maybe not.
Depends on what the teasing’s about.
A few writer friends of mine decided to test that out. Presenting a “few lines from…”. And to start, here’s a few lines from my
newest release, <i>War-N-Wit, Inc. – The Coven</i>,
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">I peered around the
corner of the Tallahassee alley where we’d parked the SUV. Yep, there he was. The
skip. Danny Delvecchio, a/k/a Ferret a/k/a Dapper Dandy Dan. At the moment, operating
as Father Daniel right in front of the Teen Rescue Center run by St. Benedict’s
and soliciting donations with practiced ease. I shoved the wimple completing my
nun’s ensemble above my eyebrows. Damn thing kept slipping down.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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thinks their marriage will end in divorce. I certainly didn't. Mine was the
perfect love, the perfect marriage. I was going to have the perfect life, and
it was an absolutely perfect day for a wedding. The sun streamed through the
window as I walked down the aisle on my father’s arm. Johnny looked so handsome
standing at the altar waiting for me. </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6333070134494607799.post-31036898969765335312013-04-06T13:24:00.001-07:002013-04-06T16:35:36.716-07:00The Coven - War-N-Wit, Inc. Rides Again!<br />
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Week. Biker’s paradise. The perfect place for Chad and Ariel Garrett to take a few days off and relax with Chad’s
buddy Spike and Ariel’s little sister Stacy. But nothing ever goes as planned
with that magical duo. Trouble just stalks them like a black cat. Oh,
wait! Is that a black cat stalking them?
By the name of Micah? A missing agent
riding with an outlaw biker gang, a call from Chad’s past, and War-N-Wit,
Inc.’s riding again. On Harleys! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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feminine laughter exploded as a gyrating body danced in the floor space between
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white t-shirt dripping beer. I’d already noticed bras weren’t considered a
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Stacy surged out of her chair and drew the arm holding her beer mug back in a
modified version of the underhand softball pitch that terrorized neighborhood
soft ball games every summer of her childhood. She got two of the cat-callers
with one shot. Full in the face. I wasn’t sure she’d gotten the one calling attention
to our under-apparel wardrobe and besides, I didn’t want her having all the
fun, so I stood up and tossed mine. I got two of them too, not as forcefully as
Stacy’s toss, but I’d never been an athlete.<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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The blonde with the impressive chest screamed “<i>Bitch!</i>” She grabbed her mug and tossed the contents in our
direction. She’d never played neighborhood softball. It went way wide and
caught a biker sitting at a table next to ours.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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grabbed Stacy’s, and pulled us, non-too gently, toward the door, ducking under arms
and weaving through bodies. As we passed the register, Chad tossed our bill and
a hundred onto the counter.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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barreled out onto the street and stood. We all looked at each other. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 13.0pt;">As
a reader, have you ever read a novel that seemed so real you could smell baking
bread, feel the heat of the sun beating down on your head, hear the roars of a
crowd? If you’re a confirmed reader, one who always has a book going (usually
one in each room), you almost certainly have.
Because it’s those moments, those scenes, those books, that make reading
so much more than a pleasant diversion and turn a casual reader into a book
addict. Those moments, those scenes,
those books—they take readers to another world, another place, another time and
introduce them to characters they feel they know, folks they’d like to sit down
with over coffee. Or beer. Depends on the time of the day, I guess.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 13.0pt;">So
here’s the Sixty-Four Thousand Dollar question.
How does a writer <i>write</i> such
scenes, such books? Not that I’m saying
I do, mind you. I’d like to think so, at
least occasionally, and I know that while I’m writing, I myself am in another
place and time. But not because I’m using my imagination to create one. Because
I’m tapping my <i>memory</i> to reproduce
them. Not exactly, of course. Not the actual moment, the actual event. I want the feel, the flavor, the <i>taste</i>, of that memory. And I want it to come through to the
reader. But even more than that, I want
to put that memory into words that I can take out and visit with whenever I so
choose. Bet you didn’t know that, huh?
That basically, writers are selfish people who in the final analysis,
write for themselves and not for others.
Which isn’t selfish at all, really, because by doing so, they <i>create</i> those scenes that turn readers
into book addicts.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 13.0pt;">What’s
all that got to do with an “Ironman”?
Well, last year I published a novel very near and dear to my heart. <i>Down
Home</i>. It’s about—home folks. The small town, rural South. One of my characters, my heroine’s son Jake,
is actually a composite of both my own sons (<i>but don’t</i> <i>tell them that)</i>. Jake attends a small private school, Rockland
Academy, and he’s the Running Back for the football team. But here’s the thing. Rockland Academy’s so small it can’t field a full football team
with separate offense and defense squads.
Oh, no. It fields eleven
players. Total. Which means that these high school athletes
play both offense and defense. It means
they <i>never</i> come off the field during
a game. <i>Never</i>. The county refers to it as “Ironman Football”. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 13.0pt;">Far-fetched,
you think? Not hardly. It was absolute reality in my own home county, at the
small private school my sons attended. The
team known throughout the county as the “Ironman Team”. My youngest son Lee was No. 99. My middle
child and oldest son Patrick announced the games from the broadcasting
booth. There was something so—<i>endearing</i>—about hearing one brother
announce for the other. I never recorded any of those games, at least not
electronically. I recorded every one of
them in my brain, though, and I can hear Patrick as clearly as if the game were
playing right this minute. <i>“And that’s a <b>sack</b> of the <b>quarterback</b>
by No. 99, Lee Branan!” </i>My favorite
was <i>“Somebody call the Sheriff, we done
been <b>robbed</b>!”</i> Anybody who’s read <i>Down Home</i>’s heard him too, in the character of Patrick Lewis, the
self-styled “Voice of Rockland Academy” as he announced one of the Rockland
Academy games. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 13.0pt;">I
walked the fence at every home game at the school that’s the basis for the
fictional Rockland Academy, just like <i>Down
Home</i>’s heroine Maggie did. She
watched Jake, I watched Lee, but we were both really watching our son. Our Ironman.
I remember one game in which the other team’s quarterback drew back to
throw and sent the ball on its beginning spiral down the field. And under the
field lights, a figure in the home colors shot into the air, bisected the arrow
of golden haze hovering above the field and knocked the ball down. I knew it
was Lee, even without the confirmation of the big 99 on the jersey, or the
Coach’s roar, “Lee!! Lee Branan!! <i>OUTSTANDING</i>
play!!” I’d give a million dollars if I
had it for a picture of that moment, that figure caught in mid-air in the
golden haze, but moments like those – you just can’t plan for. So you take the picture in your heart
instead, which is probably even better.
Because the colors never fade.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 13.0pt;">My
Ironman left home Monday, March 4. On
Tuesday, March 5, his group of recruits traveled to Chicago, Illinois, and
thence to Waukegan, Illinois, to report for Naval Basic Training. After that, he’ll be headed (probably) to
Fort Sam Houston to train as a medic. Which means I’ve been predominately a
mother this past week, subject to bouts of extreme pride alternating with
overpowering (but so far resisted) urges to squall like a baby. When a child “leaves home”, it doesn’t matter
to any mother that the child is grown, that it’s time for them to explore their
own world and create their own life. It
doesn’t matter that you’re certain they’ve chosen the right career path, that
you know in your soul it’s the right thing for them, that this is <i>their</i> time. It just hurts.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 13.0pt;">Oddly
enough, one of the things that makes me feel better when my pendulum’s swinging
towards that overwhelming urge to squall like a baby are two pictures of Lee
I’ve had on my desk since his Sophomore year in high school. Pictures of my Ironman. I smile when I look at them, when I see his
stance, when I remember I could pick him out across any football field, from
any distance, just by the way he stood. I'd love to share them with you, but I can't. To upload pictures, they must be videos or jpgs, you know, the digital stuff. These pictures? Well, they were real Kodak moments. Taken with a real Kodak. The kind that used film. I tried scanning and saving and inserting, but no, won't work. So close your eyes and imagine a tired warrior, only 15, but already over six feet and 200 pounds. Imagine him with the jersey molded to his sweaty body, a water bottle in one hand, his helmet swinging from the other. Dirt obvious on the white socks. Helmet hair. He's coming off the field for the very few
minutes he had available until he ran back onto it. Pictures that tell me he was part of
something very special then, and he’s part of something very special now. That of course he’ll be just fine. He’s an Ironman. He’s my Ironman. I love you, son.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com20tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6333070134494607799.post-73311725886009826952013-01-05T16:23:00.000-08:002013-01-05T17:03:59.439-08:00Godspeed<br />
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Yesterday I lost a friend I’ve never met. Not physically, that is. That’s one of the wonders of cyberspace. That
you can meet so many people who become friends, even if you’ve never actually
“met” them, people you know as well and sometimes better than the people you
work with every day.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOBz8L4wkeKtiaT951e0yyWJ4HBHmpJfICwPEdXncG-ApJh5QhrU7BGj7UDLxEQ128iXFlzjpFfVjcNR1rL0KTapsHLuC62vFxLfQAAm5A-KBE9TPpVzUJ6DpM8m2kbsk8GkN9KJYrkZg/s1600/Pat+Dale.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOBz8L4wkeKtiaT951e0yyWJ4HBHmpJfICwPEdXncG-ApJh5QhrU7BGj7UDLxEQ128iXFlzjpFfVjcNR1rL0KTapsHLuC62vFxLfQAAm5A-KBE9TPpVzUJ6DpM8m2kbsk8GkN9KJYrkZg/s320/Pat+Dale.jpg" width="296" /></a><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Nowhere is this truer than in the world of e-books
writers. I entered the professional
world of e-books in 2011, a raw newbie who’d written for twenty years and
promptly thrown each completed book in the closet. The world of e-publishing opened
opportunities for writers unheard of in the traditional publishing industry. My first book was accepted for publication in
April, 2011. I was overwhelmed, excited
as all get-out, and scared to death. The
writers of e-publishing companies connect with each other via e-mail (fancy
that) and I read every e-mail with bated breath, taking note of names and
forming impressions of each writer. It
didn’t take long for me to take note of a gentleman by the name of Dale Thompson
who wrote as Pat Dale. And quite
frankly, he scared the hell out of me.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Dale Thompson said what he meant and meant what he
said. He had firm opinions and he pulled
no punches. And I resolved to stay way <i>under</i> his radar. Then I wrote my first blog, a guest blog
actually, before I’d ever set up either of my own two blogs. That particular blog was a memorial to a dear
friend I’d lost a few years back, an explanation as to why, when my first blog
went up, it was going to be dedicated to her memory and named “Flowers on the
Fence.” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Dale Thompson, aka Pat Dale was the <i>last</i> person I expected to stop in and read that guest blog. But he did.
And he left a comment wherein he told me I’d left him “teary-eyed”. I
emailed him privately to thank him as opposed to thanking him in the “writers
loop” where the writers generally corresponded. That was the beginning of a
friendship I will always treasure.
Already multi-published (whereas I still didn’t have my first book out),
he became one of my mentors, offering the benefits of his experience. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">He was a Renaissance Man, a professional musician, a
teacher, a writer. A student of the
human condition. I had a very long book that had haunted me for twenty
years. Sometimes I thought it was
wonderful. Sometimes I thought it was <i>awful.
</i>But having become a “professional”, I <i>knew</i> it had become a mishmash of evolving styles as I’d worked on
it through the years and learned a bit of writing craftsmanship. I didn’t know what to do with it, whether I
should re-write what was already there or just delete it in its entirety and
start over. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">I sent the first few chapters to Dale and explained the
situation. And told him I was really close to just deleting the whole thing and
being done with it. He sent back, “Do.
Not. Discard. This. Book. <i>Do you hear me</i>?” That’s a direct quote, with exact
punctuation. I’ve got that kind of
memory, a handy thing for a writer to have.
That book became two books, actually, <i>The Color of Seven</i> and <i>The
Color of Dusk</i>, published individually and as the <i>Dark </i>series set.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Very shortly after that, Dale announced to the writers’
loops (we both published with two of the same publishing companies) that he’d
been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, which had been discovered much earlier
than pancreatic cancer is usually diagnosed, which was an awesomely good
thing. Unhappy with the course of
treatment described by his first set of doctors, he sought a second opinion. Actually, as he said, his wife Patricia
sought a second opinion and discovered a wonderful set of doctors with a highly
successful protocol for treatment. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Dale Thompson loved his wife. It was obvious in every word he wrote about
her and his family. Married for over
thirty-five years, I’ve seldom known a man so in love with his wife. That love, for Patricia and for his family
and for life in general, pulled him through.
At the onset of treatment, when he knew he’d be out of touch for weeks, maybe
months at a time, he emailed me, “I’m not going down without a fight”. I sent back, “No, old friend, neither of us
is going gentle into that good night.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">He fought. He
won. That’s both the beauty and the
sadness of his death. Before Thanksgiving,
the doctors declared him cancer free. He
had a wonderful Thanksgiving and Christmas with his family. He began to re-gain weight. He worked on his books, not that he’d ever
really stopped that, no writer ever does.
If all else fails, we just write in our memories and hope enough
survives for future translation to the computer screen.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmlNsZG3hBTNXdSiUUXvlfBtjkTYcWftAQ8kae4oRYc94DKOHqVKTnhueOSVAfLwO6jwCJ2BuCwNla9yDo4W0MuIxE5hVzeyajFGiSpWNrh0N3dh5eo5pg1C0Wkyf-_OlbGNrc17KT3O8/s1600/Dale-MagicoftheChimes200x300.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmlNsZG3hBTNXdSiUUXvlfBtjkTYcWftAQ8kae4oRYc94DKOHqVKTnhueOSVAfLwO6jwCJ2BuCwNla9yDo4W0MuIxE5hVzeyajFGiSpWNrh0N3dh5eo5pg1C0Wkyf-_OlbGNrc17KT3O8/s320/Dale-MagicoftheChimes200x300.jpg" width="213" /></a><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">On January 4, 2013, Dale Thompson, also known as Pat Dale,
died of a massive heart attack. And no,
he did not go gentle into that good night.
He went in triumph, a warrior who’d won his battle and left a legacy.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">His books will remain up and available. In fact, <i>Magic
of the Chimes</i> will publish very shortly, his final gift to us. And so goodbye and Godspeed, old friend. I
never met you, but I loved you. And I’ll
miss you.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com18tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6333070134494607799.post-61483533949058693082012-12-16T17:47:00.002-08:002012-12-16T17:51:50.853-08:00The Two Faces of Gail Roughton<br />
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">All of us are multiple personalities to a certain extent, I
think. Maybe not as dramatically as the
character of Eve in <i>The Three Faces of
Eve</i>, but we’re still many people within ourselves. When I began writing professionally, I
started a blog I named Flowers on the Fence, wherein I showcased my most
unforgettable characters, told stories from my childhood and stories about my
country roots, and entertained visiting guest bloggers. At the time, I was a raw newbie and didn’t
know what I was doing or when and how to do it. It was well-received at the
time among my new writer friends, and they labeled it my “country kitchen.” Then my books began coming out with a speed
that dazzled me, and as I was somewhat more of a professional (though I still
don’t always know what I’m doing or how to do it), I created a more “professional”
blog, one where I showcased my books and behaved a bit more “professionally”. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Then my books began coming out at even greater speed, and
somewhere in all that, both blogs fell by the wayside, victims of neglect. Last Saturday, though, I went on a trip down
a Highway to Memories I’d like to share with all my readers. But that trip – it’s more properly suited to
Flowers on the Fence, I think. It’s a
story to be told over coffee sipped at the kitchen table. So I’d like to invite y’all into the
kitchen. Come sit a while with me, if
you have the time, and join me at my kitchen table in Flowers on the Fence
country. It’s not a long trip. It’s just a click away. All you have to do is click this link.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6333070134494607799.post-90651265177345762502012-10-23T19:38:00.000-07:002012-10-24T04:56:43.687-07:00Tagged!<br />
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I’ve been tagged in a revolving blog-game called “The Next Big
Thing”. We're tagging each other to go "next". I've tagged two good friends who'll be posting next week, when you can look forward to a great posting by Roseanne Dowell at http://roseannedowellwriter.blogspot.com</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> and Stuart West at http://stuartwest.blogspot.com. So what's my next big thing? Well, my current “next” big
thing isn’t actually “Next”. It just
happened within the last couple of weeks, and it’s the fulfillment of a dream
twenty years in the making – a story that’s haunted me, waking, eating, and
sleeping for a very long time.
Ready? To take a trip? Where to?
Well, all over my local territory.
Downtown Macon, Georgia and out into the country surrounding it. Rose Arbor Cemetery. Stone Creek Swamp. In the shadows. In the present. In the past.
Because the past, like evil, never dies.
It just – waits.</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">What’s the title of your
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;"> Books.
That would be plural. Because
actually, this project involves three books, <i>The Color of Seven</i>, <i>The Color
of Dusk</i>, and the set of both books, <i>The
Dark Series</i>.</span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqfDY8BBSIGenRTb3iJE6YTahnr4uJIhIBUEIAvbctCiWL2mazscTsa_T-SbMooCH-33j1UP7qtz9A8b1atlvPcSlz5BmgEpMszcGSjZFM7NVLDRXB5YZVVfQxdBm9Nx38qjrS3K0M3CQ/s1600/Roughton-DarkSeries-150x225.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqfDY8BBSIGenRTb3iJE6YTahnr4uJIhIBUEIAvbctCiWL2mazscTsa_T-SbMooCH-33j1UP7qtz9A8b1atlvPcSlz5BmgEpMszcGSjZFM7NVLDRXB5YZVVfQxdBm9Nx38qjrS3K0M3CQ/s1600/Roughton-DarkSeries-150x225.jpg" /></a><b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Where did the idea come
from for the book?<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">From a real-life ordinary moment. In a law office. In my early twenties, I worked for a lovely,
lovely gentleman, an older attorney known to all in Macon as “the Judge”. One day the phone rang, I answered like a
good little secretary and explained that the Judge was currently out of the
office, might I take a message?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">“This is Jim Smith (not really, I don’t remember
the real name, it was a long time ago) at Riverside Cemetery. Please ask him to call me at xxx-xxxx.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Okay, I was in my early twenties but I was
possessed by the devil on occasion even then.
I wrote up the call and under “About” added: “Has a vampire in one of the mausoleums and
would like him evicted.” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">The Judge came back, read his message, went
“What?” and we all had a good laugh. But
the idea never left me, the idea that this would be an hysterical short satire,
a “Night Court” sort of satire, wherein the poor vampire had to defend his
right to live in the family mausoleum. I
mean, his family paid for it, after all, for the use of dead family members By
what legal remedy would you evict a vampire?
He’s family. And he’s dead. Sort of.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Somewhere along the line, the story line ceased
to be humorous and it dang sure ceased to be short. Final product: <i>The
Dark Series – The Color of Seven</i> and <i>The
Color of Dusk.</i><br />
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<b>What genre does your book fall under?<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Several.
This is me, after all. It’s a
dark romance/horror/vampire story. The
best description might be a southern gothic horror romance. Y’all know how fond
I am of mixing up genres.<br />
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<b>Which actors would you choose to play
your characters in a movie rendition?<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">At present, I truly don’t know. I know who some of them could have been a few
years past, maybe even now. But I’ll
tell you who and y’all decide who’d fit the bill with today’s crop of actors. Paul Devlin – Matthew MaConaughey (as in the
<i>Time To Kill</i> days, right down to the accent); Cain – an actor named Avery
Brooks; Ria Knight – a younger Sandra Bullock.
It’s possible a younger actress by the name of Eliza Dushku would be very
good at present.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b>What is the one-sentence synopsis of
your book?<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">The past, like evil, never dies. It just – waits.<br />
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<b>Will your book be self-published or
represented by an agency?<br />
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">The Dark series is published by Books We Love,
Ltd.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b>How long did it take you to write the
first draft of your manuscript?<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Three mortal years. Three long years. I finished the first draft
in 1992. (See? I told you this book(s) had haunted me for
years. I took a nine month break during
the writing of it, though, because I didn’t want to do something to one of the
characters I knew I absolutely had to do.<br />
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<b>What other books would you compare this
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">I’m not at all sure, actually. Because neither the horror nor the vampires
are the true focus of this story. The
characters are. The constant, eternal
battle between good and evil. The
eternal triumph of human heroism. I’d
like to think it’s comparable in some ways to a wonderful book by another
southern writer by the name of Anne
Rivers Siddons. Her Fox’s Earth. Fox’s Earth isn’t a conventional horror
novel, but it is most certainly Southern Gothic. And I haven’t read any of the current vampire
series or bestsellers, definitely a conscious decision on my part. I knew I had this sitting in the closet and
didn’t want to risk any subconscious influences. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b>Who or What inspired you to write this
book?<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">I think I pretty much covered that already.<br />
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<b>What else about your book might pique
the reader's interest?<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">I don’t know that it’s of any interest
whatsoever to anyone else, but my settings are absolutely real. Some of the book is set in present day Macon,
Georgia, some in 1888 Macon, some in the late 1890’s, early 1900’s Macon, and
the store names and street names and building names are entirely accurate for
their time periods. I ran across an old
map of 1888 Macon, so it seemed a bit stupid to make up names for things in
downtown Macon when I had the real ones.
I’m very proud of that and it means a lot to me.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;"> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">And uh—by the way, I grew up on the banks of
Stone Creek Swamp, which location also figures very heavily in this story. Want to know how it starts? Well, it starts like this. Come closer. Don’t be shy. Closer…closer...see, it’s like
this:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;"> <span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Deep in the woods that slide off into Stone Creek Swamp, teenage drug
dealers retrieve their stash and receive an unexpected dividend—the unwitting
resurrection of Cain, powerful Bokor of Black Magic. Atop Coleman Hill, two young attorneys
renovate a decrepit relic for their home and office. A house with a past
it wants to share, gifting rising young attorney Ria Knight with tantalizing
scenes of its original owner. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white;">In <i>The Color of Seven, </i>Ria Knight meets the
man whose image haunts her house. He’s
not exactly alive and well, but he’s not dead either, despite the epitaph on
his mausoleum in Rose Arbor Cemetery. <i>The Color of Dusk </i>concludes the story of
the epic battle that raged in 1888 between Cain, powerful Bokor of Black Magic,
and Dr. Paul Devlin, the man who finally banished Cain to the dank cave out by
Stone Creek Swamp. In <i>The Color of Dusk</i>, Ria offers Cain, now
resurrected from that cave, his perfect revenge against Paul Devlin. The
past, like evil, never dies. It just—waits. </span><span style="background-color: white;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Twin dirt bikes tore through the night,
shattering the stillness of the woods. The riders couldn’t ride fast enough to
escape the vision chasing them. The vision of the skeleton sprawled across the
cave floor, the rotting stake lying against its rib bones. Or of the
resurrection begun when they’d pulled the stake from its resting place. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Back in the cave, that resurrection accelerated.
Arms and legs rippled with muscle. The rib cage re-fleshed itself as the face
re-formed. The skeleton moved its arms and worked its mouth. A croak issued
from newly formed vocal cords. A shout split the dark. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">“I’m alive!”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">The echoes bounced off the cave walls as the
figure inched forward and stood. The man, a coal black giant with shaved skull
and massive shoulders, tore off the rags clinging to his new flesh and stood
naked in the night. His new body raged with thirst. He sniffed the air and
caught the scent of prey.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">The man didn’t know where he was, though he knew
where he’d been. He knew who’d drained his body of life-sustaining blood and
buried him in the cave. He didn’t know how much time had passed but it didn’t
matter. If he was alive again, then his nemesis, that interfering highfaluting
white doctor, the recipient of the dark powers he himself had unleashed—he was
somewhere near as well. And by all the dark gods, he would find him. But first,
he must have blood. He sniffed the air. He didn’t care if the prey was animal
or human. He must hunt. He must stalk and capture, bite and tear. And drink.
And drink. And drink.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">He stood, naked under the moonglow, and reveled
in his rebirth.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">“I’m
aliiiiiiiiive!” he shouted again. His laughter rushed out over the woods and
moved on further, filling the deepest reaches of the swamp. Night fishermen,
tending their lines along Stone Creek, stopped dead in their tracks and
shivered. The night noises of the frogs and crickets ceased. No hoot-owl or
whippoorwill sent forth its distinctive calls. Even the swamp snakes ceased to
slither. The heartbeat of the woods and swamp stopped. It took a remarkably
long time for it to resume.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">The house on Orange Street sat and waited. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">While it waited, it remembered the glory of its
early years. It felt unloved and unwanted as it sulked within the narrow
boundaries of its city lot, pouting in the humid haze of the July heat.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">The gracious two-story brick had been such a
happy house. In its past life, its rooms were open and airy, painted in light
colors, with golden woodwork and scrolled mantles over the fireplaces. A
fitting haven for the golden couple who laughed within its walls.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">The succession of owners hadn’t been kind to the
house. They’d partitioned its interior into apartments and later into offices,
allowing it to slide into shabby disrepair. Its spacious rooms were now small
and dark, the glowing woodwork raped by paint. The hardwood floors lay hidden
beneath cheap carpet. The ceilings looked down on the walls and floors and
sighed.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Still, the house hoped. Perhaps it had absorbed
into its bricks and boards the optimism and vitality of the young doctor who’d
been its first master.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">A ‘For Sale’ sign stood in the front yard. Maybe
someone special would walk through its front door and see it not as it was, but
as it had been, as it could be again. Maybe even today.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">And as the house sat lonely under the blazing
sun, a car pulled up and parked at its curb. A young man got out of the car and
slapped another notice over the ‘For Sale’ sign. He stepped back to survey his
handiwork.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;"> ‘Sold.’<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Quick
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Welcome to Rockland
County, Georgia</span></i></span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZsp6MIwY_VGn1E7vWBLrkHm5duKg0pGONnav-ZWVzBdDdmc5YdfJ1QiFxoZk5oltng3aowP8R4sHZwL9tcRfn24wmPwMtx8jwkObXyRL-Npslymnf5ihHMmx2ZuYS6be7ezu68yYZEBw/s1600/downhome_200x300.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZsp6MIwY_VGn1E7vWBLrkHm5duKg0pGONnav-ZWVzBdDdmc5YdfJ1QiFxoZk5oltng3aowP8R4sHZwL9tcRfn24wmPwMtx8jwkObXyRL-Npslymnf5ihHMmx2ZuYS6be7ezu68yYZEBw/s320/downhome_200x300.jpg" width="213" /></a><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 13.0pt;">Small
towns are patchwork quilts, woven with threads from all residents’ lives. Maggie
Kincaid’s Scales of Justice of Café is prime real estate in Turkey Creek,
Georgia, right across from the Courthouse and right next to the local grocery
store. That's where all the threads entwine, where you go to be in the know – if you live in
Rockland County.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 13.0pt;">Everybody knows everybody else’s business in Turkey Creek. At least, they think they do. The town knows
Maggie Kincaid hasn’t spoken to her father in twenty-five years. It knows Billy
Brayton was killed in basic training after Big John Kincaid railroaded him out
of town and into the army. Nobody was
surprised. For sure, Big John wasn’t
going to let his daughter keep time with the local bad boy. Not for long.
But the town’s missing a few pieces of the puzzle. Billy Brayton’s not dead. He’s back.
He’s home. And it’s payback
time. Sometimes you can go home again.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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never happened. His hands, still shaking on the wheel, didn’t believe him. He
checked the speedometer and eased off the gas. For a moment his foot, lead on the
pedal, wouldn’t obey. He wasn’t in shock, but he wasn’t in good shape either.
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I knows is dat dis world, son, it be ringed with worlds on worlds… Dey shift,
dey overlap…Some of ‘em be real dark, full of evil and danger. Some of ‘em, dey
be real bright and beautiful. An’ sometimes, folks whut doan know whut dey doin’,
dey can make things happ’n whut wasn’t never ‘sposed to happ’n. An’ things can
cross over from dem other worlds to dis one…” </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></i><br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6333070134494607799.post-31442854686765547832012-07-07T15:42:00.000-07:002012-07-07T15:48:30.878-07:00Resurrection - It's a Real Blast From the Past!<br />
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Garrett, the dynamic duo of War-N-Wit, Inc. learned first hand in <i>The Witch</i> that honeymoons can (almost)
kill you. They’re really looking forward
to settling in at Chad’s farm, Pine Whisper Plantation. But Oliver Hedgepath, major domo of the
Resurrection Society, wants them on a case.
And he just won’t take “no” for an answer. Chad and Ariel are in for a real blast from
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13pt;">“This Tear of Isis thing. Say it’s real. What
does it <i>do</i>?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13pt;">“They. What do they do. There’re three of them.
If they still exist or ever existed. So what’s one of ‘em doing in the
possession of Hedgepath in a restored house on Jones Street in Savannah, Georgia?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13pt;">“What’s Magic Man doing in the middle of a
hundred acres outside a crossroad like Quitman, Georgia?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13pt;">“Point taken. The Tears of Isis are supposed to
be just that, of course. Crystalized tears of the Goddess Isis. Discovered in
the Temple of Isis during the excavation of Pompeii in 1764.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13pt;">“Pompeii? Not Egypt?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13pt;">“Nope. Pompeii. Anyway, what they do is, they
allow anyone with any trace memories of a past life to view them. Their past
lives.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13pt;">“Seems sorta iffy to me. If the viewer is the
only one viewing them, they could claim they were anything—anybody.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13pt;">“Enter the Seers. One Seer for each Tear. And
they don’t see just their own past lives. When they gaze into the Tear while
another person’s holding it, they see the lives of the other person, not their
own.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13pt;">“<i>For
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13pt;">“That’s the story. Whether it’s real, your guess
is as good as mine. I’m too much of a skeptic. I’ve seen too many things having
nothing to do with magic, just with people, to ever blindly believe any legend
of magic without having the proof in front of my eyes. Or of anything else,
either.” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13pt;">His voice had darkened. It matched the shadows
in the room thrown by the flickering flames from the fireplace. That law
enforcement background. I took it as further confirmation of my suspicion that all
of his experience wasn’t listed on the Bio page of his website. I knew he’d
seen things, done things, the ordinary person couldn’t imagine and wouldn’t
want to. And I’d never ask about any of it unless he wanted to share. He
continued, “So I don’t believe every magic fairy tale I hear unless I
experience it myself, or know somebody I trust did.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13pt;">I stretched my hand out and picked up the
picture again. “Interesting, though. Very pretty. The real thing must be
absolutely beautiful, full of changing colors. It even shows some of the colors
in the picture.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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“Does it? I don’t see anything.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13pt;">I looked again. “Hints here and there. Must be
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 13pt; line-height: 115%;">Care to share?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You
have a chance to get a head start! <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Because I’m holding a contest to celebrate the
release of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Witch, </i>the first
adventure of the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">War-N-Wit, Inc.</i>
series.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Witch</i> debuted on Amazon on March 12, 2012, a red letter day for
the author.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Who would be me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And I’ve been deeply touched by the reception
it’s gotten in the short time it’s been available to readers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I made a promise to myself a long time ago,
you see.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Long before any of my work was
accepted for publication, back in the days when I never thought it would be
(mostly because I always threw all my books into the closet as soon as they
were finished and didn’t have any plans to do anything any different with
them). A promise that I would never allow a book to be read if it wasn’t
absolutely the best book I could make it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>That being said, writers don’t stay static.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We always believe the next book will be
better than the one before.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Because we’re
always learning something new while working on each one.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 13pt; line-height: 115%;">I’m still learning.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>And I hope each book I produce will give any reader a taste of unreality—an
hour or two when the real world doesn’t exist and the fantasy world does.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 13pt; line-height: 115%;">I’ve been fine-tuning this new cyber world of <a href="http://gailroughton.blogspot.com/"><span style="color: blue;">http://gailroughton.blogspot.com</span></a> <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>to be a fitting picture frame for my
books.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Because as any writer will tell
you, our books are our children and we like to show them off.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Please come in and let me show it off.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Click each tab and check out the coming new
releases.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Drop in at the Review page so
you’ll understand why I’ve been so deeply moved since the release of this
book.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Follow me if you’ve got a second
to sign up.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You’ll make my day!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 13pt; line-height: 115%;">And before you leave, please check out the Contest Tab.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I hope
you’ll enter!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The contest officially
starts on April 10 (but I’m giving any reader of this post a head start) and
will run through May 10.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Share your
cyberspace romance by leaving a comment on the Contest Page. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(Any comment made here on the Home Page
gratefully appreciated as well, of course.) <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A random drawing winner gets to name a
character in the next <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">War-N-Wit, Inc.</i>
adventure.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Want me use your name?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’d be delighted.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Or, if you want to name one of the characters,
I’d be delighted to use the name you choose.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Please leave an email addy in your comment so I can contact you.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Oh!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>And of course, that random drawing winner will also receive a free PDF
copy of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Witch</i>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Chad and Ariel and I (and Micah, Angel of the
Divine Path, currently on assignment in cat form) are waiting on you!</span></div>
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him?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> On the broomstick? And on the cover, too. </span>He’s walking on top of the author’s name.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He’s on the “o” and “n” right now, but don’t
expect him to stay there.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Oh, no, he
moves around a lot.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Micah, Angel of the
Divine Plan. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He watches over spiritual
evolution and reveals the next steps of our plans.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Right now he’s on assignment.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Just a little added protection for two of the
good guys.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The good guys of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">War-N-Wit, Inc.</i> – <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Witch</i>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Meet Ariel Anson
and Chad Garrett, why don’t you? See, it’s like this….</span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlE80e18_kkb-tOsayq3SGFRa6Bv4itGnRDwD-Ipd7ZAoGPceIUsVTlkk-xSsU6Ype3iUOjpq6Kq7mYuwBiw1_PG80wjS145mSrPdeqfL-Cvguc9rIrt1RR8i5-8ZM8q3n_dc7SmKEZ5w/s1600/CatBk1.gif" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlE80e18_kkb-tOsayq3SGFRa6Bv4itGnRDwD-Ipd7ZAoGPceIUsVTlkk-xSsU6Ype3iUOjpq6Kq7mYuwBiw1_PG80wjS145mSrPdeqfL-Cvguc9rIrt1RR8i5-8ZM8q3n_dc7SmKEZ5w/s200/CatBk1.gif" width="200" /></a></div>
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Anson thinks she has her life in order.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>She’s young, smart, and beautiful, even if she doesn’t believe the
beautiful part.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She’s a paralegal with a
great career and a fiancé who’s a CPA.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>You just can’t get any steadier than that.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then she meets private investigator, bounty
hunter, process server Chad Garrett.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>What <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">does </i>War-N-Wit, Inc.
stand for anyway?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Warlock and
Witch?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">For real?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></i>Oh, yes!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For real.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>And that’s not even scratching the surface! Her life as she knows it is <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">over</i>!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 13pt; line-height: 115%;">“So let's cut to the bare essentials. We've been here before,
you and I, many times, we are <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">one</i>,
baby girl, we are each other's eternal soul mates, each other's other half, and
I know it and <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">you </i>know it. And if
nothing else, I intended to establish enough contact so I can find you easier
next time. And if you refuse to believe it and believe in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">us</i> and I have to wait till next time, then I will. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">But I will find you again. </i>Because you
can run but you can't hide. I just want as much of you as I can get this time
so it won't take so long next time." He shrugged again. "Last time I
didn't find you till we were both so much older it almost wasn't worth it. That
one was a bitch. And I don't intend for it to happen again.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 13pt; line-height: 115%;">The world stood still, closed in, retreated, kaleidoscoped
back out into swirls of scenes of places and times I'd never been, never seen.
Hot, bright sun beat down on an arena covered in sand and blood, my heart
ripping apart as I looked at the bodies lying so still amidst the roars of the
approving, raucous crowd. I felt the biting cold, so cold it burned, coming
from the snow stretching out across what I knew, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">knew</i> with absolute certainty, to be the Russian steppes. I cringed
from the visions of the shadowed chambers filled with monstrous man-made
instruments of pain and the screams rolling out of them. I stood on the
mountains in the mists and heard the faint echo of bagpipes. I saw blue water
and shining white sand and smelled the salt air.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=ntt_athr_dp_sr_1?_encoding=UTF8&search-alias=digital-text&field-author=Gail%20Roughton" target="_blank"><span style="color: #234786;">http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=ntt_athr_dp_sr_1?_encoding=UTF8&search-alias=digital-text&field-author=Gail%20Roughton</span></a></span></div>
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