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- Location:United States, Texas, Buda
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|  Who'd have ever thought I'd wind up being a publisher? I certainly had no idea it was in my future. But sure enough, now I am one. Check it out here: Gypsy Shadow PublishingI hope if you read this you will come check us out. We opened on September 1, with 6 authors and now we have 20 titles. Check out our titles by clicking on the link below!  | |
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| MR Review The Bakery Murders : Challenge - Book Two by Charlotte Holley
The Bakery Murders: Challenge is the second book of the Actor’s Guild series and picks up just a short time after the events of the first book in the series, McCann’s Manor: Portal.
Liz Carr and Kim Henson agree to look into why there is a ghost haunting the local bakery but before they even get started the owner’s boyfriend is brutally murdered and the baker charged with the murder. But Liz and Kim think there is more going on and do not believe their friend is guilty. Something evil is again threatening Liz and Kim and once again they will have to use their wits and unique abilities to stay a step ahead of the murderer and remain alive themselves.
It takes a really sick and twisted mind to develop the evil diabolical monsters and plots running through this series -- I enjoyed every page!! In this second book, the reader is exposed to the secondary plot running behind each of the stories in the series. There is real evil at foot and the bad guy is escalating his schemes along with the attacks against Kim and Liz. While Liz and Kim are battling in the present, the men are off on their own mission through the portal to save the earth and discover their connection to the past and the mystery surrounding the portal contained in McCann’s Manor. It is like reading two completely different books at one time but the connections are obvious and the ending of this story leaves no doubt that there will be a third adventure where the main story lines will come together in a good versus evil battle for the world and their souls! I can’t wait for the third story.
Review at Manic Readers
by Stevie B.
Read the review here:
http://manicreaders.com/index.cfm?disp=reviews&bookid=2829
My website:
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| I don't think so. I read on the Internet that this is a preamble to a demand for money, but I had to put it out there, just in case I turn up dead!
The following is a copy (verbatim) of the email I got this morning. One has to wonder what anyone could be thinking sending this kind of email if they weren't planning to attempt extortion. Funny thing about these pfishing emails and such is that I have absolutely nothing anyone could want. If they took over my identity, all they would get is a lot of beads and a WHOLE LOT of debt. The only ransom I could offer anyone is the residual sales on my patterns and the hope that SOMEDAY my books will start to really sell!
Here it is, folks, for your reading enjoyment . . .
Your calls are not safe
Tuesday, May 20, 2008 5:11 AM
From: "farcsx@hotmail.com" <farcsx@hotmail.com>
To: farcsx@hotmail.com
Red Alert !!!
This is Puzzo Region head of the FARC NETWORK. I wish to let you
know that i have been paid by a client to assasinate you at
convenience, and i have signed a contract for this yesterday. I have
never met you before, but they gave me the full description of your i
dentity and contact which my boys have used to trace you.
The reason why they want you Dead is not disclosed to me as i was not allowed to know,but you are now not better that the dead ok.
My GUYS are now contantly watching you,they are following you home,
office, everywhere....., you go and they are waiting for my instruction to terminate you and they will strike at convenience.
THIS IS MY MESSAGE-
LISTEN VERY WELL !!!, the Police cannot do much to help you out in this right now because you are being watched and any such attempt is very risky cause you will push us to terminate your life without option.
Your calls are not still safe. BYE for now!
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Email sent using ComDAK Mail (http://www.comdak.com)
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| My second book of The Actor's Guild Paranormal Mystery Series, The Bakery Murders, became available as of yesterday at Amazon.com. I don't know how many people in the world have Amazon's Kindle reader, but I do know when Amazon adds a book, even the Kindle version, it gets seen more places. For example, because it is available at Amazon, I can add it to my bookshelf at Shelfari, which is cool, because I can display my Shelfari bookshelf lots of places online. Promoting yourself as an author is HARD work, but the Internet makes it easier . . . which brings me to a beef I have with a certain website called mindviz.com. I joined their site in January to build a playlist for my MySpace pages (not that I really cared about one, but it's the "thing" to do!). At the time I just set up a bare account because it was going to take more time than I had to spend just putting together song titles to share online I mean, sheesh! So finally a little over a week ago I bit the bullet and set the whole thing up. I decorated with a special background, uploaded pictures, wrote up a bio, added my likes, added some music to my play list, etc. I spent SEVERAL hours getting everything just right, but then I was out of time to spend on it. So I signed off and went about my business. I got a couple of emails from people on the site, which I went and answered, but I didn't spend a lot of time looking around for people to hobnob with because I had other things to do! Then one day I went to sign on and they had suspended my account! No warning, no notice, just suspended. I tried to find a way to contact them, but unless you can sign in, you can't have access to anything and they had suspended me, so I couldn't sign in! I did find an obscure email addy in their terms notification, so I tried to contact them through it. I wrote them THREE times, just asking to know what I had done to merit being suspended. They totally ignored me! So I am writing this and posting it wherever I can think of to let people know I am unhappy with them and I feel I have been BADLY mistreated. | |
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I didn't always want to be a writer.
Or maybe it's safer to say I didn't always know I wanted to be a writer. I think the basic urge was always there, but it was disguised by the many random samplings of career "dreams" most people experience.
The idea of writing never really occurred to me until one of my junior high teachers pointed out that I had potential. Although her comment took me totally by surprise, I was not at all displeased by the thought; I actually began putting ideas on paper at the rate of four or five pages a day--for my own amusement.
Writing became a "safe" means of communication without the embarrassment of speech. On paper, I commanded the world, while verbally I was a disaster. Somehow, you can't scratch out a spoken word; many of the things I said lacked all evidence of having proceeded from any source of wisdom whatsoever.
Unless you have ever been there, you can't imagine how frustrating it is to have a mind full of ideas and to be unable to communicate them. My problem was simple; I was shy and unsure of myself. I was afraid what I said would be taken the wrong way, so I said nothing--or else I said far too much. Either way, I was sure I would be misunderstood.
There comes a time when frustration becomes desperation and you face the fact something must be done. What I did was to create on paper the kind of life I wanted in reality. On paper, I could be glamorous and popular; on paper, I could be anyone, go anywhere, do anything. On paper, I was often a much more "genuine" person than the "real" me. On paper, I was special.
As strange as it may sound, my "paper world" helped me to adjust to the real world. Although I threw away most of my early laborious manuscripts as I matured, they remain in my mind even today. It was the ability to write things I could never say that helped me to become what I am. Because of long hours spent writing, I have become a more effective communicator, both of the written and the spoken word.
Writing has become a way of life for me, and whether I ever become successful as a writer or not, I have satisfied a need within myself, both to understand and to be understood. When you think about it, understanding is a pretty good accomplishment these days.
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