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- Love to read, watch movies and blog about both.
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- http://j-kaye-book-blog.blogspot.com
- About Me:
- My name is J. Kaye Oldner. The "J" stands for Judith, but most of my friends call me "J. Kaye". I love reading, writing, and blogging. Something I started late in 2007 is reviewing books. I’ve blogged about books in the past, but have become a bit more serious in 2007. This is when J. Kaye’s Book Blog was created.
J. Kaye’s Book Blog began as a way to keep a record of books I read, but it blossomed into so much more. People who comment on a regular basis make the blog something special. Each morning with my first cup of coffee in hand, I fire up the computer to read and respond back to the latest blog posts. It’s like sharing morning coffee with friends around the kitchen table, only we’re doing it online.
In my spare time, I’m a homeschool mother of three children, with my oldest is now in technical college. In the past, I’ve written articles for magazines and published two nonfiction books on CD-ROM. When I’m not teaching, reading, blogging, taking my daughter to a chess tournaments, or middle son to Yu-Gi-Oh games, you’ll find me hard at work on my first adult novel.
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- http://j-kaye-book-blog.blogspot.com/
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- Too Many To Name
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I added a few slides of my books to my blogspot. I'm not sure yet if they should stay on or not.Do you have more trouble loading my blogspot with the slides up? Do you like them or are they too distracting?
A Christmas Tree Already
On the way home from work yesterday, I passed a house that already had a lighted and decorated Christmas tree up and showing by the window.Is it not too soon for that? In my mind, the day after Thanksgiving is when the Christmas Season starts. That's when it's fair game to put up a tree and decorations and start shopping. The way things are going this year, I'll be lucky if I get organized enough to decorate a few days before Christmas.
With our dog, Rascal, who lives up to her name, we'll probably go with a fiber optic small tree on top of an end table. One of these days I may pull put the larger tree from the box in the basement and set it up, but not until our doggy is a little more sedate. I don't feel like chasing her to get ornaments out of her mouth. I will be putting up knick knacks, lights inside and decorations on the walls, so it will still look Christmasy. No lights outside because for some reason we have no outlets outside.
While we're on the subject of Christmas trees and such, be sure to add holidays in your books. You can mention decorations and lights or Easter eggs and baskets, or even mattress sales in your descriptions to ground the reader as to the season.
Now, back to that tree I saw. What about you? When do you decorate for Christmas? What do you put up?
Winners and Losers at the CMAs and Life
I love country music and almost every country performer. While watching the CMAs, I enjoyed seeing the winners accept their awards. On the other hand, it was hard for me to see the losers do their best to appear gracious and for the most part succeeding.For every winner, there's a loser. In life and in books, it's the same way. How people react to their good and bad fortune shows what their characters are made of. You don't have to tell a reader who the good guy or bad guy is. Let their actions speak for themselves. The readers are smart enough to figure it out.
PS Can't finish this blog without saying - You Rock, Taylor Swift! You are one smart, talented teenager! Congrats on all your awards, especially, Entertainer of the Year!!!
CMA Awards Tonight and Twitter
One of my favorite shows is on tonight - the CMA Awards. If you're a country music fan, you're probably like me and will be glued to the TV 8pm EST, or in my case 7pm, in the flatlands of Illinois.Almost all my favorite performers will be there, except I hear that Rascal Flatts can't make it.
I'll be on Twitter during the show also. That's part of the fun of it - discussing and dissecting outfits, performers, songs and even commercials, kind of like I'm at a giant party with people who all go for the same thing and want to share.
What about you? What kind of music do you like? Do you tweet during a favorite show or event?
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Pamela K. Kinney
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Be prepared to take a journey into Pamela K. Kinney's fantastic dreams of horror, science fiction and fantasy, plus the ghosts and legends of Richmond in the nonfiction ghost book, Haunted Richmond, Virginia.
Coming soon: my story based on a real legend of New England, "Pukwudgies: The Little Monsters of New England" will be availabe in Northern Haunts: 100 Terrifying New England Tales anthology. This anthology, which all proceeds go to the American Cancer Society is available for preorder for both trade paperback and hardback at http://www.shroudmagazine.com/northern-haunts--100-terrifying-new-england-ta100.htmlfying-new-england-ta100.html
Coming January 2009 from R. J. Buckley Publishing, my scary ghost story, "Misery loves Company," in The World Outside the Window anthology. It's available for preorder at www.rjbuckleypublishing.com
Coming fall 2009 from Schiffer Publishing: Haunted Virginia: Legends, Myths and True Tales. Come learn what stories in Virginia makes it unique.
aka Sapphire Phelan
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Go beyond the usual, instead take the unusual that stretches the boundaries and find romance with Sapphire Phelan's aliens, werewolves, vampires, fairies, and other supernatural/otherworldly heroes and heroines.
Available now: Shifting Desires--print anthology of three feline shapeshifter novellas by Sapphire Phelan, Skylar Sinclair, and Jude Mason from Phaze Books. Get it from Phaze, Amazon, and BarnesandNoble.com
Available now: Unwitting Sacrifice, an erotic Lovecraftian horror novella from Under the Moon Publishing. eBook, then three months later a print chapbook.
Coming January 26, 2009 from Phaze Books: the erotic urban fantasy, Being Familiar With a Witch:
Tina doesn't know she's a witch. It will take Charun, her demon Familiar, to convince her to make love with him and let loose her witch powers.
For if she doesn't, then with the demon army about to bring Armageddon to the Mortal Realm on Halloween, she won't stand a chance in Hell.
Have a great time hanging out here & tell your friends about us.
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