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What’s Going On With CreateSpace and KDP Print? – by Amy Collins…

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Are you curious about all of the changes going on at CreateSpace and seeing new offerings being announced at Kindle Direct Publishing? I have been, too.

I will admit that I have not paid as much attention to KDP Print as I should have. I have been happy with CreateSpace for my Amazon printing and distribution and just did not have the bandwidth to turn my attention to yet ANOTHER platform for my paperbacks. Knowing that CreateSpace could get my paperback on Amazon while IngramSpark/Lightning Source was handling the wholesalers/bookstores/libraries, I thought I had all my bases covered.

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The First of Three 3rd PLACE WINNERs in the July 2018 Word Weaver Writing Contest: Heather Kindt, “Cabin 5”

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the truth unearths long-buried secrets and reignites a killer’s fury… Desperate Girls by Laura Griffin #Suspense #BookReview

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“I love a strong, smart heroine, and defense attorney Brynn Holloran is exactly that. Desperate Girls is a nail-biting read from the very first page to the final, shocking twist. I could not put this book down.” —Melinda Leigh, Wall Street Journal bestselling author 

New York Times bestselling author Laura Griffin’s Desperate Girls is a tightly wound, fast-paced romantic thriller that follows a desperate woman on the run as she hides from a killer’s symbolic revenge spree.

Defense attorney Brynn Holloran is right at home among cops, criminals, and tough-as-nails prosecutors. With her sharp wit and pointed words, she has a tendency to intimidate, and she likes it that way. She’s a force to be reckoned with in the courtroom, but in her personal life, she’s a mess.

When a vicious murderer she once helped prosecute resurfaces and starts a killing spree to wipeout those who put him behind…

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Rosie’s #Bookreview Team #RBRT Murder #Mystery Brand New Friend by @k8vane

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Interview with Author John Howell!

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INTERVIEW WITH AUTHOR JOHN HOWELL!

Please help me welcome John Howell to Jemsbooks Blog Segment of Interview an Author.

It’s a pleasure to have you here today, John.

1. Please tell us something about yourself.
Well, Janice, I spent over forty-five years in the business world and when it came time to retire from there I took up my passion which was writing. I did try to write a book about ten years before retiring. The printed version of the manuscript still holds the laundry room door open in the wind. Yes, it is that good. I found working and writing did not complement each other.

Jjspina: It is difficult to work full-time and write. Good that you can write after retiring.

2. When did you know that you wanted to be an author?
I think I knew from the creative writing assignments we had in high school. I…

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Cliché…

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Cliché
Hackneyed, outworn,
Sighing, mourning, why-ing
Penned expressions of emotion
Human

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It is, they say, just a cliché
To pen a mournful verse,
An ode to love, a billet doux,
A burning flame…or worse…

And yet, the universal pen
Of lovers everywhere
Turns first to rhyme and doggerel
When seeking words of care.

Perhaps the poet and the heart
Have gone too deep for skill
And with emotion’s misaimed sword
Their own expressions kill?

Sometimes a cliché’s all that works
… The rose and turtle dove…
To confine hearts to paper words
(Or find a rhyme for ‘love’).

Do not dismiss the doggerel;
Within outmoded form,
The heart that seeks the words to speak
Is genuine and warm.

Although the words are shaped awry
And though the phrases pall,
The love they hold is not cliché’d
But at the heart of all.

(Cinquain for Colleen’s poetry challenge)

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Archaeology, migraine and the barometric fish…

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After celebrating the recovery of Super Trooper, the little fish who swam, it was with a heavy heart that I saw him once again floating upside down in the pond and looking decidedly dead. The pale belly finally showed no sign of the ulcers we had been battling for months… and no sign of life either. But with this fish, we never say die…

I reached for the net to remove the lifeless fish from the pond and grinned as he flipped and swam away. Upside-down he may have to be, but he wasn’t yet ready to give up the ghost.

For the next two days we remained on tenterhooks. On the third day, I stood in the rain, looking for some sign of Trooper. He was not in any of his usual hidey-holes, not under the fronds of the plants… and, with the water so clear, not visible…

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Smorgasbord Short Stories -What’s in a Name? David – In Remembrance by Sally Cronin

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Over My Shoulder by Patricia Dixon @Bloodhoundbook @pbadixon

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overmyshoulder.jpegBook Description:

Girl meets boy. They fall in love. Sounds simple? It isn’t.

When Freya falls for the manipulative Kane, her life changes beyond her wildest imagination. When the luxurious life she craves gradually becomes intolerable she realises escape is out of reach. Her life has changed and so has she.

She knows that when she least expects it, he will return and make good his promise to exact revenge and ensure she pays the price he fell he is owed.

Can Freya ever be free?

Whoever knew love could be so dangerous.

Following Freya from her carefree twenties up to the present day, Over My Shoulder is an intricate tale of blinkered love and obsession.

My Thoughts:

Freya is just your everyday type of girl who sadly falls under the charms of Kane. Kane is a highly unlikable character. I don’t think at any point did I ever feel…

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Angel Messages August 24 2018

Annette Rochelle Aben's avatarAnnette Rochelle Aben

Your DAILY MESSAGE from Angels

MAKING EVERYTHING RIGHT is NOT YOUR JOB!

We love you

Thank you, Angels!!!

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