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- www.scotttbarnes.com
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- I am a farmer and fiction writer. I have published fantasy and science fiction short stories in www.bewilderingstories.com and in The Lamp-Post of Southern California. My own web site is about half completed and I hope to turn it into an ezine by the end of this year.
- Do you have a blog site?
- http://not yet
- Favorite Books:
- Fiction: Earthsea; The King of Elfland's Daughter; Caravans; many others
Non-Fiction: The Prize; Harvest of Sorrow; From Beruit to Jerusalem
- Favorite Bookstores on land or cyberspace
- The Green Apple in San Francisco
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Check out the Mystery of the Missing Checks
Monday, I'm over at my group blog, http://makeminemystery.blogspot.com/, where I'm blogging about the mystery of the missing checks. Come on over and find out what it's all about.Thanks,
Morgan Mandel
Can We Talk?
I'm firming up some dates for speaking engagements in 2010. One's tentatively set for March 28, at 1:30 at the Niles Public Library, another probably in mid May at the Schaumburg Township District Library.Also, coming up is a radio interview at WJJQ again on May 7, at 9:35 a.m. before my booksigning May 8 at Cover to Cover Books in Tomahawk, WI.
I've heard that some people are more afraid of public speaking than of dying. Surprisingly, I find it easier each time I do it. As long as I have my cheat sheet with me to glance down at once in a while for security and I like what I'm talking about, I'm okay.
What about you? Do you like to talk or would you rather not?
Helpless
Over the Holiday weekend I took a good look at my house and that familiar helples feeling washed over me again. It seemed like an insurmountable task to get the place in order. It still does.I spend so much time writing and promoting after I do my day job, what little time I have left is precious. Still, sometimes I just have to buckle down and ignore my compulsion to write and make myself clean house instead. I tackled the spare bedroom, which had clothes and all kinds of other articles strewn over the bed, on the floor, and anywhere you can think of, compliments of myself and the DH, who were equally guilty. I did make some headway, which made me feel good, but if I had more time I know I could do better. Also, there are so many other projects left to do if I were to get the house really into shape. I'm wondering how much I'll get done before Christmas, when I have my family over.
Maybe over the weekend I can get more done, that is, after I do the Illinois sales tax form first, which is due by the end of the month. I've got almost all of my check statements, except one, which I think I can find online, so maybe I can get that done. You may have guessed I'm not the most organized person in the world.
Anyway, let's see how far I can get cleaning up. I've got this kindle on loan from the library, with about 9 days left on it, and lots of good books on it beckoning to me. I've got some great ideas for stories I want to start and others I want to continue. I've got some blog buddies I haven't visited for a while. I wonder what will win out. (g)
What about you? What do you do about housework? Does it get in the way sometimes?
PS The not so surprising results are up on the left for my EZ poll. I'll have to do a harder one some time.
New Killer Career Excerpt at Acme Authors Link
Hi Gang,Today, I've got a new Killer Career excerpt up at http://acmeauthorslink.blogspot.com/ . This one continues from the first excerpt I posted on Monday at http://makeminemystery.blogspot.com/
If you're curious about my recently released romantic suspense, come on over to one or both blogs to check it out.
Thanks,
Morgan
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I've been on a lot of the talk shows like Geraldo Maury, Sally and others and the worse one was in Canada at the Shirley Show. She said she was doing a show on the death penalty and it would be half and half.
But she only had three of us against it and six for....and it was brutal. The audience was stacked against our side of the issue and people booed when she introduced me as a mother fighting to save her son from execution.
A large man sitting in the front row said I should be executed along with my son and my youngest son Trevor happened to be sitting next to him...and they got into a shouting match. My son was ready to punch him out even though he outweighed him by a hundred or more pounds....it was a horrible show.
Shabaka Waglini was also on the show with me and he'd been thirteen years on floridas death row and was found to be innocent...and they told him he shouldn't have been out at nine at night and he wouldn't have been arrested. That's plain silly and stupid to say someone should be home at night or go to death row....
I almost walked off the show but I stayed until the end....but it's a hot topic and issue and I've had to fight for twenty years because of the predudice....mykids suffered the most as they were not accepted in school...kids not allowed to play with them and all because they had someone on the row....
You missed a fun gathering. I've mostly been working on my novel. Although I did end up with a couple of micro flashes on Jessica's theme, seagulls.
Julie
I have a letter from a minister in Nashville who says he knows Jeff was innocent as the guilty person admitted it to him, but it was priviledged information and so he wouldn't go public with it. I adopted his daughter at birth and rasied her as my own child....
We didn't have the money for a good attorney and that is one reason why Jeff got the death sentence....and for twenty years I spoke out against the death penatly with Trevor...I went on TN death row and five of the guys came out and told the kids how they ended up on death row, from doing drugs and robberies, to being in gangs, and more. They tell the kids what it's like to sit there year after year waiting to die and to know how and when it will happen.
The video is called, The CHoice Is Yours and I show it to schools, they can buy a copy to keep and then my son would tell his story of how his anger and hatred at a system who took his big brother away made him drink and do drugs....he told how he finally realized God didn't do these things to us, but man did and his healing began on the long road back. His story is www.trevordicks.com He was killed last year in aone car crash.
Ten years ago I buried Jeff from medical neglect. The system took two sons from me and my family. So I want to let kids know what will happen if they follow the wrong path in life. I tell them how it affects the family and not just them. WHen this first happend to jEff I tried to raise the money for his defense, sold my home and everything I owned, and it wasn't enough for an attorney so I went out and wrote hot checks, sold the merchandise and after the trial, went on the run for a year with my eleven year old son Trevor and one year old Maria.
I turned myself in, moved to TN to be with Jeff and visited every single visiting day, speaking out. I let the kids know that they don't have to be guilty to be on death row but if they hang with the wrong crowd, this can happen. Trevor has already told them about the drugs and alcohol and he can relate to them because he went through it, along iwht a suicide attempt....
www.thechoiceisyours.org
I let them know that it's not just them. Their whole family will be outcasts when they go to prison. Their whole famlies will suffer along with them and for some in some states, they won't ever have a visit where they can hug or touch their mothers, fathers, children etc and it's a hard life.
Many of the kids have written to us and said it made them stop and think about their own life and that they were making changes....it won't work for all, but it will make a lot of them stop an think and not want to go through all that our family has gone through. If I can reach some kids, it's worth speaking out....
You pose a very interesting question. This is a struggle I had for a very long time. I became a Christian late in life. My passion for writing came much earlier. I am just now finishing a workshop on Christian Inspirational Writing called GROW (God Rewards Our Work). I hope to offer this on my website. I address this very issue.
I believe the fact I can write a complete coherent sentence is a gift from God. I also believe every morning that I am able to arise from my bed and put both feet on the floor is a gift from God. The day I am unable to wake up, the day I die, I will be at the feet of Jesus. That will be the sweetest gift of all.
There are demons and angels among us. All around us. Remember, fiction is only reality with fuzz and dust around the edges. Skyscrapers, automobiles, trains, jets and rocketships to the moon were once fiction. I believe the people who object to putting the two ideas are much like the Philistines of the Bible who had a problem telling the difference between religion and faith. The Bible says Faith is being sure of what we cannot see. There will always be those who object to EVERYTHING. There are even CBA publishers who object to Jesus in your books. Go figure. They want the message--just don't speak the name.
Anyway, I think I like the way you explained it. God knows the difference--he knows our heart--we're artists. Go to my website--buy Blood Secrets and see how I handled it. I think you'll like it. Java Pump isn't available yet.
Your friend,
Jacki
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Sevenfold . You might recognize it when you hear the lead singer "growling" instead of singing.
Of course, there's Metallica but they seem to be dragging their feet with anything new.
I think I'll stick with writing.
The Condemned is the name of my son's metal band. It seems the only password that doesn't get tossed back at me when I join a group.
:)
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