tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20434736313447769452024-03-14T00:24:35.782-07:00Pen It! MagazinePen It! Magazine is a magazine Writers, Readers and anyone who has a love of words! We are a bi-monthly quality literary magazine in our sixth year. Submissions are welcome in short story, article, poetry, etc. Please see our submission requirements for more information.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14564239372724886363noreply@blogger.comBlogger20125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2043473631344776945.post-3024728363068798812016-11-01T04:36:00.003-07:002016-11-01T04:36:42.754-07:00Featured Author A.E. Hanaway<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
A.E. Hanaway was featured in the July/August issue of Pen It! Magazine. A.E. (Alma) has also been recently featured in the Plain Dealer and Sun Newspaper for her writing. </div>
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14564239372724886363noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2043473631344776945.post-62940188166785556022016-04-08T12:55:00.002-07:002016-04-08T12:55:30.994-07:00Pen It! Publications—Accepting Submissions
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<span lang="en-US" style="font-size: 11pt; font-weight: bold; language: en-US; line-height: 144%; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-ligatures: none;">Pen It! Publications, LLC is accepting submissions for Traditionally and Assisted Self-Publishing works.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We offer two packages to assist all authors who wish to be published.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The first is the Traditional form of publishing, where you submit based on submission guidelines and then your book is either accepted for publication or rejected.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Traditionally published books that are accepted will have a two year contract with a the following guidelines.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="en-US" style="font-size: 11pt; font-weight: bold; language: en-US; line-height: 144%; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-ligatures: none;">The second option would be to work with Pen It! Publications to self-publish your book with the assistance of Pen It! Publications.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Some guidelines are below.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="en-US" style="font-size: 14pt; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; language: en-US; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-ligatures: none;">Frankie Forklift and Friends </span><span lang="en-US" style="font-size: 14pt; language: en-US; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-ligatures: none;">is a children’s book that revolves around the main character Frankie – This is a series of books that will use the material handling industry as its inspiration for storylines and characters - Each book will tell a story about Frankie’s adventures in a warehouse and will introduce additional characters along the way.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="en-US" style="font-size: 14pt; language: en-US; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-ligatures: none;"> </span><span lang="en-US" style="font-size: 14pt; language: en-US; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-ligatures: none;">All the characters come from Frank Clark’s 25 years experience in the Forklift truck/material handling industry.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>His inspiration though, came from his four and half year-old twin boys.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>At night before they would go to bed, Frank would make up different stories.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One of those stories had to do with Frankie Forklift.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>On the weekend, Frank would sometimes bring them up to the warehouse where there were lots of forklifts and they would point at one and call it Frankie...One night, one of his boys asked if he could read them a book about Frankie.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Frankie Forklift and Friends was born.<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="en-US" style="font-size: 14pt; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; language: en-US; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-ligatures: none;">Frankie’s First Day at Work</span><span lang="en-US" style="font-size: 14pt; language: en-US; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-ligatures: none;"> is about Frankie going to work on his first day and about how excited he is to work with his new friend Tony.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He meets a friend from warehouse school, Petee Pallet and is also introduced to a new friend named Sally Shrinkwrapper.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There are several indirect lessons taught such as, brush your teeth,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>pick up your toys, to direct lessons taught like “When you try to finish your work too fast, you make mistakes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Slow down and do it right the first time” and “always ask your friends for help”.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span lang="en-US" style="font-size: 14pt; language: en-US; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-ligatures: none;">The Second book of </span><span lang="en-US" style="font-size: 14pt; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; language: en-US; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-ligatures: none;">Frankie Forklift and Friends</span><span lang="en-US" style="font-size: 14pt; language: en-US; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-ligatures: none;"> is called </span><span lang="en-US" style="font-size: 14pt; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; language: en-US; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-ligatures: none;">Frankie Unloads His First Truck</span><span lang="en-US" style="font-size: 14pt; language: en-US; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-ligatures: none;"> and will focus on Frankie being afraid of the dark and also trying new things.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="en-US" style="font-size: 14pt; language: en-US; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-ligatures: none;">It is our goal to introduce the material handling industry to kids while using these unique characters like Frankie Forklift to teach simple life lessons.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="en-US" style="font-size: 14pt; language: en-US; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-ligatures: none;">Frankie Forklift and Friends may be purchased at </span><span lang="en-US" style="color: #2e74b5; font-size: 14pt; language: en-US; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-ligatures: none; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #2E74B5; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; text-decoration: underline; text-underline: single;">Frankieforklift.com</span><span lang="en-US" style="color: #2e74b5; font-size: 14pt; language: en-US; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-ligatures: none; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #2E74B5; mso-style-textfill-type: solid;"> </span><span lang="en-US" style="font-size: 14pt; language: en-US; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-ligatures: none;">- </span><span lang="en-US" style="font-size: 14pt; language: en-US; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-ligatures: none; text-decoration: underline; text-underline: single;">$13.95</span><span lang="en-US" style="font-size: 14pt; language: en-US; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="en-US" style="font-size: 14pt; language: en-US; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-ligatures: none;">Free Downloadable Coloring Pages for Kids are also available.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>24 Pages of Artwork and Storyline <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="en-US" style="font-size: 14pt; language: en-US; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-ligatures: none;">Publisher – Wimmer Books, Memphis TN – Copyright 2015<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14564239372724886363noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2043473631344776945.post-71290894852821352582016-01-19T04:23:00.002-08:002016-01-19T04:23:17.419-08:00India, Seriously? By Terry Trautman
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<span lang="en-US" style="font-size: 11pt; language: en-US; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-ligatures: none;">That was my response when we received the invitation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We travel a fair amount and we certainly have in 2015 but India?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My dear wife said, “You’ll have to admit that it’ll be really different.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>No, I didn’t have to admit that at all, I was totally certain of it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Well, it wasn’t on our bucket list and it was occurring at a busy time of the year (mid-November), but India?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The invitation came from our niece, Amy, a financial professional working and living in Charlotte, NC.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She met, fell in love with and became engaged to a fine young man from Hyderabad,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>India.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Karunya Vishnu followed by a five syllable last name has lived in the United States for fourteen years and earned a master’s degree in computer science engineering from the University of Kentucky following an engineering degree earned in India.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It would be a Hindu wedding in India followed by a Christian wedding in Miami in January.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Some people have more than one wedding anniversary but not many have them in the same marriage.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="en-US" style="font-size: 11pt; language: en-US; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-ligatures: none;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>OK, we’ve got our passports, let’s go!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Not so fast.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Going to India isn’t just accomplished with a well-worn passport.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We also will need visas and shots and pills.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The visa is a requirement, the shots and pills highly recommended.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Ergo we received shots for Hepatitis A and Typhoid along with pills for Malaria.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We received lots of advice about the water not being potable which included not eating anything that is washed with tap water and don’t even think about rinsing your toothbrush from the tap!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Also, if the cap of the bottled water at the restaurant has been unsealed, don’t drink it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It may have been refilled with tap water.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>OK, armed with shots, pills, visas and way too much advice away we went.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We drove to Chicago for a flight to London, spent a night there and then on to Hyderabad leaving Thursday, November 5</span><span lang="en-US" style="font-size: 7.325pt; language: en-US; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-ligatures: none;"><sup>th</sup></span><span lang="en-US" style="font-size: 11pt; language: en-US; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-ligatures: none;"> and arriving at the crack of dawn in Hyderabad Saturday, the 7</span><span lang="en-US" style="font-size: 7.325pt; language: en-US; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-ligatures: none;"><sup>th</sup></span><span lang="en-US" style="font-size: 11pt; language: en-US; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-ligatures: none;">.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="en-US" style="font-size: 11pt; language: en-US; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-ligatures: none;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The first interesting tidbit is that India is ten AND A HALF hours ahead<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>of the United States.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I have no earthly idea why the extra half hour.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>India is all on one time zone as it is about one-third the width of the United States.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The big difference is that while it is one-third the </span><span lang="en-US" style="font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; language: en-US; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-ligatures: none;">size </span><span lang="en-US" style="font-size: 11pt; language: en-US; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-ligatures: none;">of the United States it has </span><span lang="en-US" style="font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; language: en-US; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-ligatures: none;">four-times</span><span lang="en-US" style="font-size: 11pt; language: en-US; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-ligatures: none;"> the population!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In a word the cities are crowded but more on that later.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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historically but I didn’t realize how predominate the English language still is.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Basically it can be boiled down to this.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The visual language is English; British English e.g. “color” is spelled “colour” but the aural language is native.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Nearly all of the advertising signs and billboards are English.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The newspapers are English.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But when we turn on the TV, it is native and when the natives speak with each other instead of to us it is native.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I say native on purpose.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>India has over twenty languages and, we’re told, over 400 dialects!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That’s dialects, not accents.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The overall national language is Hindu.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In Hyderabad, it is a language called Telegu.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Telegu alphabet has 54 characters and none that you’d recognize.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Hindu alphabet is similarly large with unique<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>characters that are different from Telegu characters.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p><br />
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<span lang="en-US" style="font-size: 11pt; language: en-US; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-ligatures: none;">In the USA most of us natives dress similarly.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A Catholic dresses like a Baptist who dresses like a Methodist who dresses like a Lutheran.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>About the only dress demarcation among us is either Amish or Mennonite.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In India, religion is much more identifiable by what people wear.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We would see women in saris (which I think may be the most beautiful clothing ever invented for women to wear) to black burkhas or Abiah’s with only the eyes visible, to some with blue jeans and western dress.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Other than a couple of very obvious tourists, I didn’t see a single pair of women’s shorts.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Even men could be identified by dress from the turbaned Sikhs to men in white gowns and fez toppers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Once in a great while (and thanks to Karunya) I did see the occasional shorts on men.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Most men though wear sports shirts and slacks.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>By the way, Hyderabad is on about the same latitude as Mexico City,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="en-US" style="font-size: 11pt; language: en-US; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-ligatures: none;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>For sure we enjoyed how friendly and engaging everyone was.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We did stand out and proof of that was that during our entire first week in India the only blonde haired women I saw was my wife.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Several times native Indians would come up to us and ask us where we were from and several other times we were asked to pose with families for photos with their families.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One couple wanted to friend us on Facebook. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="en-US" style="font-size: 11pt; language: en-US; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-ligatures: none;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Another likeable trait was a unique head movement that puzzled us at first.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When talking with natives and family members of the groom, there was often a bit of a disconcerting head nod.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is neither a ‘yes’ nod or a ‘no’ shake.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I can best describe it as a slight nod in which the left ear nods toward the left shoulder followed by the right ear nodding toward the right shoulder then repeated much like our nods.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Maybe the best one word description would be a </span><span lang="en-US" style="font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; language: en-US; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-ligatures: none;">wobble</span><span lang="en-US" style="font-size: 11pt; language: en-US; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-ligatures: none;"> of the head.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We found out that it means affirmation or “I enjoy what you are telling me”.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It takes a little practice but it’s a nice and friendly gesture.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="en-US" style="font-size: 11pt; language: en-US; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-ligatures: none;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Well, I’m just getting started.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Wait until you hear about driving (in our case </span><span lang="en-US" style="font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; language: en-US; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-ligatures: none;">being</span><span lang="en-US" style="font-size: 11pt; language: en-US; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-ligatures: none;"> driven; don’t even think about driving yourself), an unforgettable elephant ride, getting to the Taj Mahal via camel power, dining Indian style and most of all the wedding itself in which we found out that we were not only guests, we were participants in native dress!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="en-US" style="font-size: 9pt; language: en-US; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-ligatures: none;">All of our rates are quoted in U.S. dollars, and there is a minimum charge of $35.00 per job. The following rates apply to electronic editing of Microsoft Word documents (using the track changes feature) and hard copy manuscripts. If your document is in a PDF format and you require the editor to mark the electronic file, there will be an additional charge, as the editing process takes much longer to complete with the PDF editing tools available. Prices do not include return postage for printed manuscripts. Please anticipate an additional fee for any applicable courier charges. However, most work can be handled through the Internet. Let us know if you have a DropBox / Google Drive or similar account that you would like to use. We can tailor our work process to suit your needs.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14564239372724886363noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2043473631344776945.post-70289384909108867422015-10-14T04:22:00.001-07:002015-10-14T04:22:39.574-07:00Pen It! Magazine Fall IssueAs I near completion of the September/October Issue of Pen It! Magazine, I am looking for submissions from you, readers. I'd like to have some poetry, short stories, articles, etc. The theme, of course, is Fall or Halloween. <br />
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This issue's Featured Author is Emma Shade. Emma has five published books and has been a featured author at many local events. <br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14564239372724886363noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2043473631344776945.post-43080369895047338162015-09-30T04:18:00.002-07:002015-09-30T04:19:42.563-07:00Our Miles With Miles by Terry Trautman<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span lang="en-US" style="font-size: 14pt; language: en-US; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-ligatures: none;"><strong>Those of you who have read my offerings in Pen It! know that I often write of experiences on the many miles of our travels whether by car, air or ship.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This too is about our<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>journey with miles or more correctly, Miles.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You see, Miles was our beloved golden<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>retriever.<o:p></o:p></strong></span></div>
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<strong><span lang="en-US" style="font-size: 14pt; language: en-US; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-ligatures: none;"> </span><span lang="en-US" style="font-size: 14pt; language: en-US; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-ligatures: none;">She was a very sweet, mild mannered, friendly (unless you asked a squirrel) and lovable companion to have around the house.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Her favorite pastime was leading us around on the people trail in Columbus on her twice daily required (by her) walks.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We would refer to these treks as aromatherapy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You just wondered what was going on in her mind as she sniffed her way along the trail.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“Oh, yes, that’s Brutus, but he peed a hundred feet further north yesterday.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“Hmmmm, I missed that squirrel by only a few minutes.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“Don’t<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>worry, Terry and Linda, I’m eating grass because I like it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My stomach feels just fine.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“Here come some strangers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Gotta get the tail started.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></strong></div>
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<span lang="en-US" style="font-size: 14pt; language: en-US; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-ligatures: none;"><strong>Miles was an integral part of our lives for fourteen years.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In that time she developed some very reliable habits.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I never figured this out because the door to our pantry does not squeak or make any sound when opened.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Miles could be literally snoring and oblivious to life around her until one of us opened that door.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Zoom.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There’s Miles.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Further, she was never asleep nor more alert at our meals.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Those big brown eyes and doleful brows looked right through you with very high expectations of instant gratification for some juicy morsel that tasted soooo much better than the dry crappy stuff of her normal fare.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is not unique with her but when seated, if your hand is hanging over the arm of the chair she invariably walked under it expecting, almost demanding a good scratch.<o:p></o:p></strong></span></div>
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<span lang="en-US" style="font-size: 8pt; language: en-US; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-ligatures: none;"><strong>Terry Trautman is a native of Columbus, IN, graduated from Columbus High School in 1956 and Valparaiso University in 1960 with a business and accounting degree.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In 1971 he graduated from the Kelly School of Business at Indiana University with an MBA in Business Administration.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>His career path included Irwin Management Co., Cummins Engine Co. and U.S. Bancorp where he served in various financial management positions.<o:p></o:p></strong></span></div>
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The Mini Guides to Writing: Creative Writing Basics was just released by Debi Stanton. This is the first in a series of small handbooks that can be carried with you. This series is dedicated to helping writers hone their craft.<br />
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It is available on Amazon.com for $2.99 for E-Book and $6.99 for Print version. Order your copy today. Look for Writing Dialogue to be released in August or early September.<br />
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Shane O'Carroll is a talented artist who suddenly falls into a deep paranoia. Her family and her doctor, Dr. Greg Callahan fear she may never pull out of this. Dr. Callahan dedicates himself to finding out what has brought Shane to this crossroads in her life. <br />
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The White Sofa from Debi Stanton is available in August for only .99 cents on Amazon.com as an Ebook. Print version is $7.99. Pick up your copy today. <br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14564239372724886363noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2043473631344776945.post-12579761961412269952015-08-12T10:11:00.001-07:002015-08-12T10:11:08.519-07:00Rain Drop Press
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<span lang="en-US" style="font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold; language: en-US; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-ligatures: none;">Rain Drop Press is an affiliate of<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Write Source, LLC.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They are seeking writers who wish to get their work into print.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They are taking submissions for their<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“Story of the Month” page.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>These stories consist of non-fiction and creative non-fiction.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14564239372724886363noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2043473631344776945.post-33730322777364644542015-08-07T04:27:00.004-07:002015-08-07T04:27:42.119-07:00Heighten Your Senses—Summer’s Here!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14564239372724886363noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2043473631344776945.post-33502841073561615982015-08-05T04:52:00.004-07:002015-08-05T04:52:49.042-07:00Author: Denisea Kampe<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Author Denisea Kampe is with us today. Welcome Denisea!<br />
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><strong><span style="font-size: large;">Lessons in Humility<o:p></o:p></span></strong></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">It’s been over five years now since my first book was
published in its first edition. At the time, there was minimal fanfare compared
to what would come much later, although back then I perceived trumpets blaring
and cannons firing in the distance. (Yes, I have since climbed down from <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">that</i> unicorn, not to worry dear
readers.) In spite of my misperceptions of what was really going on, it
actually was quite the celebration. A few of my friends and I had a toast to
our mutual success as they also had their first releases around that time and a
beautiful bouquet of flowers showed up at my door as a congratulatory offering.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Then I discovered the real world writers live in and
advertising efforts consumed me through the next several releases. I was doing
everything from buying ad spots on websites to newsletter advertising to blog
tours and bombarding my Twitter feed, Facebook pages and groups, and Yahoo
groups with plugs for my latest and greatest. Each release day found me on top
of a very tall mountain (trusty unicorn by my side) shouting until I was
hoarse.<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">I don’t recall telling the most important force in the
universe thank you once.<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">I did constantly reiterate my gratitude to my press
and readers, but the one entity which deserved my praise above all was left
wanting. Sad.<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">As my regular readers know and I’ll now discuss with
all of you here today, my life has come back full circle and I find myself
centered once again in my family and faith and while I’m still immensely
grateful to my readers and fans, my Maker is constantly at the forefront of my
thanksgiving. I’m just a miniscule dot on the face of an immense cosmos and
something greater than me is in control and has afforded me the courtesy of the
opportunities I enjoy. Fate, karma, God, Goddess, whatever you call this force
in your world, it IS in complete and utter control, make no mistake. For me,
professing as a Christian, God sits at the control panel in my world.<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">It was that complete and utter control which turned my
world upside down not weeks prior to the release of For His Country last year.
I won’t get into any of the gory details, but let’s suffice it to say, serious
illnesses suck and our mortality is never clearer as when threatened through
the sufferings of another, or the terror of it happening to you as it would
only weeks after Gran’s suffering ended. I found myself packing a bag last
April as quickly as possible in the middle of the afternoon and my dear and
loving MarshFox packed me into the car along with my office in a box and my
dogs to drive me thirty-five hours so I could be home with my family. I spent
three months there then came home for three, and returned home where I stayed
until my beloved Gran’s passing.<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">It was in the midst of those happenings I realized I
had forgotten my own release day. Once that one minute detail of my otherwise
harried life at that point became a minor detail, that otherwise harried life
suddenly became a lot less hectic even in the face of terminal illness.<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">I discovered humility is as much a part of writing as
anything else. Humility trumps reviews, advertising forays, blog blitzes, and
sales. It’s a most humbling experience when you realize you’ve let go of your
own world, needs, and desires, and replaced them with things so much more
important. My faith teaches me that in order to grow in love and grace, I must
let go of me and embrace something bigger. It teaches me when I do so, the
stresses of this world will fall away to be replaced by peace.<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">I’m not sure how much peace there actually is in
having an extremely ill family member then being faced with the same class of
illness yourself, but I found where peace <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">can</i>
reside if I let it. There is peace on release day when I let go of myself and
my greedy ego. I used to be completely manic about the whole affair, sitting on
pins and needles, fretting, checking numbers every hour on the hour, making
check lists of things I needed to do and places I needed to be and advertise
at.<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">When something bigger than me took center stage and I
forgot all those things, peace settled in my heart and I found none of that
mattered as much as I once thought it did.<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">And I was quite content to be in that space. I’m still
content in that space.<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">The fact of the matter is, only a handful of people
make it in this crazy publishing world. I do this to entertain my faithful following
and my family. I do it because it’s what makes me happy and is a creative
outlet for me. If I never know fame and fortune, I’m perfectly okay with that.
After knowing how peaceful this existence can be if I let it, I don’t want to
give up that peaceful place. I won’t be returning to the madness that used to
be release day. A humble heart fertilizes moderation. Moderation is a good
thing. Anything above and beyond the initial surge which may come my way I’ll
consider a gift from above and accept with grace…and humility.<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Humility is often a lesson hard learned. While I’m sad
a series of family emergencies brought me to this place, I’m also grateful for
it.<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Thanks you, Debi, for allowing me time on your blog
today and thank you, readers, so much for spending a few minutes with me today…<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><strong>Denisea Kampe<o:p></o:p></strong></span></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: black; font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Born and raised in the foothills of the
Ozark Mountains, Denisea Kampe was spinning tales before she could even spell
and once her sixth grade creative writing teacher encouraged her by leaving a
most prophetic comment on one of her assignments, the wheels of destiny were
set in motion. But those wheels would need greased again and again as her
writing would take a back seat to life and her jobs of mom and wife many times
over before she’d finally see her dream of becoming a published writer come to
fruition in 2010. </span></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: black; font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Denisea is a military wife who’s traveled the world over.
She’s lived in four states and Okinawa Japan and held more driver’s licenses
than she can count. Her nest is empty save one furry and quite mischievous
Siberian Husky and one spoiled rotten Rat Terrier mix. Denisea takes much of
her inspiration for her heroes from the marines she’s lived around since
marrying her very own fairy tale prince in dusty cammies. </span></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: black; font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">C</span></span><span style="background: white; color: black; font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">oining the term
realmantica, she strives to produce quality romance in a realistic setting. Her
genre of choice is contemporary romance and when she’s not writing, she enjoys
reading everything she can get her hands on, trips to the museum, taking field
research trips, crafting, and sewing. Her works include <i>One Tear</i>,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><em><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">The
Executive Officer’s Wife, Bridge of Lies, For His Country, and the Slower Lower
series. </span></em><em><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-style: normal; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">You can find Denisea at her </span></em></span></span><a href="http://deniseakampe.blogspot.com/"><span style="background: white; font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="color: #0563c1; font-family: Calibri;">BLOG</span></span></a><em><span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">, </span></em><a href="file:///C:/Users/dhurt/AppData/Local/Microsoft/Windows/Temporary%20Internet%20Files/Content.Outlook/Y5X62HQ8/amazon.com/author/deniseakampe"><span style="background: white; font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="color: #0563c1; font-family: Calibri;">AMAZON</span></span></a><em><span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">, </span></em><a href="http://scriptchics.blogspot.com/"><span style="background: white; font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="color: #0563c1; font-family: Calibri;">SCRIPT
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14564239372724886363noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2043473631344776945.post-83008131704640549442015-08-03T05:07:00.000-07:002015-08-03T05:07:02.426-07:00Taking Submissions for our Annual Pets Issue<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<strong>Feel free to send in Pet Poetry, Pet Short Stories, and pet pics to </strong><a href="mailto:debih7606@frontier.com."><strong>debih7606</strong></a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null"><a href="mailto:debih7606@frontier.com"><strong>@frontier.com.</strong></a><strong> </strong></a><br />
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<strong>SUBSCRIPTION SPECIAL: If you are interested in subscribing to Pen It! Magazine, we are running a special during August for $3.00 off any subscription. E-subscriptions are normally $15.00 and would now be $12.00. Printed subscriptions are normally $40.00 and would be $37.00. Don't miss this opportunity! email </strong><a href="mailto:debih7606@frontier.com"><strong>debih7606</strong></a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null"><strong>@frontier.com</strong></a><strong> for more information.</strong><br />
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<strong>Come back on Wednesday, when our guest blogger will be Denisea Kampe!</strong> Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14564239372724886363noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2043473631344776945.post-88691266976920799152015-07-29T05:35:00.002-07:002015-07-29T05:35:41.434-07:00A Discussion with BethAnn Beuler<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Author BIO <br />
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BethAnn Buehler's world revolves around her family, her friends, her faith and her love of writing. When she's not writing, in her studio creating the latest craft project sensation, driving carpool or checking email, she can most often be found having breakfast at a local restaurant with her parents, enjoying a caramel latte with her girlfriends or neglecting her responsibilities as a wife and mother because she's thinking about her next story.<br />
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BethAnn switched to the inspirational side of the romance pond after taking serious stock of her writing career and rebalancing her personal priorities. She gets most of her ideas from talking with her friends about what everyone really wants for Christmas---a little bit of hope for a brighter tomorrow and someone to hold hands with on the journey.<br />
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BethAnn accepted her first publishing contract in March of 2010. BethAnn is a member of the Indianapolis Writer's Group as well as Romance Writers of America and American Christian Fiction Writers. She lives with her awesome husband, handsome teenage son and four rotten Silky Terriers.<br />
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To find out more about BethAnn and her current works, please visit her at her blog: <a href="http://bethannbuehler.blogspot.com/">bethannbuehler.blogspot.com</a>, on Facebook: Author Bethann Buehler, or contact her via Email at <a href="mailto:babwrites@gmail.com">babwrites@gmail.com</a> or blogging about a myriad of topics with her writing sisters at scriptchics.blogspot.com<br />
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You can find BethAnn’s work at the following:<br />
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<a href="file://composeviewinternalloadurl/www.amazon.com">Amazon.com</a> <a href="http://www.allromanceebooks.com/">AllRomanceebooks.com</a> <a href="http://www.barnesandnoble.com/">BarnesandNoble.com</a><br />
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<strong>Rogue Nation, releasing August 10th… </strong><br />
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Well overdue for rest and relaxation, Gunnery Sergeant Brogan Baker’s four man MARSOC team sets out on a command ordered vacation in hopes of escaping the string of bad luck that’s been plaguing them over the course of the past few months. Bad intel, faulty reports, and missing operatives have followed them through three missions and quite honestly, Brogan’s not sure if he’s coming or going. Add in the one phone call he’s been dreading for years and he’s beginning to fully understand why some guys choose the easy road out of the Corps: UA. He’d like nothing more than to fade to gray and blend in somewhere far away. Fat chance. As it turns out, the teams’ vacationing skills aren’t currently much better than their operational skills and before they’ve even had time to think bikinis and beers, they have a sick woman on their hands, the two youngest members of the team are knee deep in trouble with the oldest, and a report and muster message flashes across Brogan’s beeper. <br />
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Being a female marine isn’t easy for Staff Sergeant Allison Blaise. Choosing a life all about proving herself worthy of the title one of the few and the proud alongside her male counterparts, Alli volunteers for every special assignment that comes down the pipeline. Quite frankly, she’s in the top three in her field and that has someone scared and on the defensive. Alli reads intelligence like no-one’s business, speaks several languages, and is certified to take out the enemy utilizing no less than a dozen methods if necessary. But none of that is of much help when her insertion team deserts her and her extraction team is a no show. Pinned down in enemy territory and enslaved to a band of Somali pirates, her go-to attitude has landed her a stay as a prisoner, and her captors have her on the brink of cracking. Then along comes Brogan Baker, her superior, her savior, and a man who could destroy so much more of her than a few terrorists managed. <br />
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Courage, honor, and commitment are the rules Alli and Brogan have lived by since signing on the dotted line, but as evidence surrounding the botched missions they’ve had to clean up continues to build around them, they learn not all their fellow marines follow the same code. While they’d like to hate each other to preserve their hearts, avoiding each other is impossible as it will take all their skills combined to isolate the enemy and contain a nation gone rogue.<br />
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<strong>Charity 12</strong>, Book three in the series...(Coming winter, 2015...)<br />
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After years of playing gatekeeper for the people he cares for most and watching several of his best friends marry and start their families, Burke Miller suddenly feels like the old man at the party. While he doesn’t have trouble getting a date, Burke’s never met anyone that’s caused him to consider risking it all.<br />
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Abigail Foster didn’t mean to ruin her life. She didn’t mean to watch her home burn to the ground as she faded into the blackness of that night, never to be heard from again, as the result of her addiction. And she certainly didn’t expect to see steel blue eyes staring back at her through the darkened windows of a limousine as she scrounged for food on the side of the road.<br />
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When a successful attorney meets a homeless woman on the cold streets of Indianapolis, all becomes fair in games of chance and it’s anybody’s guess as to who’ll be left holding the winning hand.<br />
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<strong>Hope 22</strong>, Book one in the series… (Now Available)<br />
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In the aftermath of losing his wife and unborn son, professional quarterback Brody Jackson turns to his faith, making a vow to live a life that will honor those he’s lost. Yet on a field of endeavor where outrageous antics get a player noticed and if it feels good, do it often seems to be the maxim, walking the straight and narrow path can be a hard thing for a guy to do.<br />
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Whitney Ryan is in the mother of all slumps, struggling to watch as her player ranking dips into double digits. With three weeks to go until she’s slated for her next tournament, Whitney would rather be anywhere than on the tennis court and under her mother’s constant glare. When Whitney decides to run away from her responsibilities, her resolve is firm—she doesn’t need anyone getting in her way, especially a know-it-all with problems of his own.<br />
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When two household names holding widely varying views on how to live life in the spotlight and measure success are thrown together, is there any hope they can call a time out and find middle ground?<br />
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<strong>Faith 15</strong>, Book two in the series… (Now Available)<br />
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Cooper Hensen is back in the Midwest, a place that holds haunting memories for him. Worse, he’s been labeled the newcomer, the guy now responsible for replacing a pro bowl, quarterback superstar destined for the hall of fame. And while the other guy’s name graces everything around the city from a children’s hospital to a golf course and philanthropic foundation, people keep misspelling Cooper’s, driving him crazy. Twice in as many weeks he’s heard his neighbor, a die-hard other guy fan, refer to him as Copper. Seriously?<br />
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Cali Carter is a hard charging, no non-sense district attorney determined to clean up the city of Indianapolis. But lately things have shifted and she’s felt torn between her work and the position she fought so hard to achieve, and helping her sister, who’s struggling to manage her own young family and run the small café where she’s invested all of her heart, not to mention her life savings.<br />
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When a bossy, quick thinker who likes to fix things meets a man with incredible potential clouded by a haunted past, can two household names find a balance of power within their relationship and share the spotlight?<br />
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When Haley Ellis is left for dead, she knows her life will never be the same. The public face of the largest fashion house in North America, Haley has fallen out of favor with the powers that be, the advertising execs seeking a much younger woman to take her place in the spotlight. Haley never dreamed she’d be washed up at the tender age of twenty-six.<br />
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Can you rebuild?<br />
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Jake Austin has given up trying to force relationships. While he longs for someone to share his life with, Jake’s content growing his private therapy practice and helping his dad keep the family recycling business in the black.<br />
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When a chance trip to the wrong side of town on a frigid Chicago morning brings Jake and Haley together, there’s a moment when Jake believes fate might just be on his side. But two white lies, one favor, and an empty hospital bed later, Jake realizes he’s the one that’s been left this time. And that really stinks because Jake knows first hand no one deserves to be thrown away.<br />
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Abigail Bartlett hates being a witch. While she loves her grandmother, Margaret Bristol Bartlett, Abigail is frustrated that the older woman would bestow her with powers that Abigail has no plans of using. But Margaret knows the family secret. No Bartlett witch who has passed away can rest in peace until a centuries long feud between the Bartlett women and the Griggs men can be resolved, a feud that started in Salem, Massachusetts in 1692.<br />
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Grier Griggs is trying to get to New York for Christmas but he's in no big hurry. Although he promised his mother, the last thing he wants to do is go hang out with the Griggs clan. Grier happens to play professional football but outside of him, his entire family makes their living studying, teaching or talking about various aspects of the Salem Witch Trials. Grier doesn't even believe in the Easter bunny, let alone witches.<br />
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When Grier stumbles into the small town of Lost Falls and into Abigail's office to ask for directions, Margaret senses his presence and sets a plan in action that puts her granddaughter on a collision course with love. The only problem is, one touch of Grier's hand on Abigail's skin sends the young woman writhing in pain.<br />
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<strong>15 Questions with BethAnn</strong><br />
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<strong><em>Tell us about your current title... </em></strong><br />
<em>Charity 12</em> is the third in a five part series of novels set in various cities throughout the Midwest featuring five friends and the women they fall for. When Abigail Foster’s otherwise orderly life falls apart, she gets unwelcome help from an old acquaintance, Burke Miller. Abigail knows better to believe in the fairytale but she finds herself falling anyway…<br />
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<strong><em>Where is your novel set and why did you make this specific choice? </em></strong><br />
<em>The Men of Faith</em> series was born on a mountain in Utah. I was hanging out and reading in the lodge at Deer Valley (Utah) while my husband and son were out skiing. I took several books to read for the week since I don't ski and honestly, each one I finished left me flat. By the end of the third day (and the fourth dissatisfying book), I ran to the gift shop, bought a notebook, refilled my hot chocolate for the hundredth time and Brody started talking.<br />
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<strong><em>How did you come to write this particular book? </em></strong><br />
I'm a former teacher turned stay-at-home mom to a kiddo with Asperger's Syndrome, which is a very mild form of Autism. It's the hardest job I've ever had but it's my favorite. I started writing to carve out personal time for myself as a way to escape some of the stress in my daily life. I know it sounds corny but I love "love." I love the underdog, the person who deals with their own brokenness and finds the courage to make their life happen against the odds. That's why I write romance. I really want the happily-ever-after.<br />
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<strong><em>What are your writing habits? </em></strong><br />
I love to research the finer details of my books. That's to say if I state the name of a gun, let's say, I know enough about that weapon to know how far it shoots, the noise or lack thereof it makes when fired, its cost... For the Men of Faith series, I've consulted various doctors for the medically technical parts, an attorney for all of the legal parts and I have a military consultant for the weapons and communications aspect. My brother-in-law is a former NFL player so I have a football specialist on my team as well. I'm my own car buff so the wonderful cars my characters drive are all me. I'm not so big on outlining although as the series grows, I've needed an outline just to make sure I give proper closure to the various storylines I've introduced. I try to write everyday and usually set a goal of about 3,000 words. My muse and I are both Type A personalities so we're very goal oriented. However, given I’m raising a human, I don't always make it.<br />
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<strong><em>Please tell us about yourself (family, hobbies, education, etc.)... </em></strong><br />
I've been married almost 22 years and our son heads off to high school this fall. Honestly, with all of the craziness in this world today, I consider my family to be my greatest accomplishment. We're still making it work every day. I'm an avid tennis player, reader, movie buff and music lover. I drive too fast. I love my iced tea. And, I have four Silky Terriers that are spoiled rotten.<br />
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<strong><em>Do you have support, either from family and friends or a writing group? </em></strong><br />
My husband is very supportive but he doesn’t read my work. Because he flinched first, I don't share it with him. In fact, other than reading these interviews and visiting my author website, he's never read my stuff. We talk about my characters and stories quite often. I'm also blessed to have several critique partners, women whom I respect and trust that give me honest feedback. And I have to say my oldest and dearest girlfriend has been there every step of the way offering opinions and questioning my story line and ideas. I always tease that without her my novels would have been little more than a few paragraphs. She's the best line editor in the business.<br />
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What are your thoughts on love scenes in romance novels, do you find them difficult to write? When I wrote more contemporary, erotic romance, I felt research was key and I found I had to be in a certain frame of mind to write heavier sex scenes. The same goes for a fight scene. If someone makes me mad, I guarantee my characters are going to fight when I write that day. Now that I write inspirational romance, I work hard to make the story emotional and the relationships intimate without graphic sex.<br />
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<strong><em>Who are some of your other favorite authors and genres to read? </em></strong><br />
I just finished a great read by Denisea Kampe (contemporary romance) and I’m honored to announce we have a story coming out soon (see above). I enjoy Robyn Carr's books as well (Contemporary Romance). I also read quite a bit of autobiography. On my nightstand right now is Open by Andre Agassi (we both love to hit that fluorescent yellow felt ball). Elin Hildebrand is my favorite women's fiction author.<br />
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<strong><em>Among your own books, have you a favorite? A favorite hero or heroine? </em></strong><br />
Cooper Hensen is my favorite hero (Faith 15) and I have to admit I fell in love with him the more I wrote about him. I will say the 5th book in the Men of Faith series features a married couple and Eric, my hero in that story, is really starting to get under my skin. The million-dollar question everyone wants to know is if any of my books are about me. I have Whitney’s standoffish quality and share her love of tennis (Hope 22). I have Cali’s loyalty to the people I love (Faith 15). I have Abigail’s longing to be accepted and her heart for wanting the fairy tale (Charity 12). An old character I wrote in my first novel series, The Rebel Canyon Series, which is currently being reworked to fit a more inspirational standard, Rachel, is the one woman that's always spoke to me the most. When I first created her, she was someone all together different and to say she's changed as her story has unfolded would be a huge understatement. Wait until you meet her when that series is re-released. We'll have to talk.<br />
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<strong><em>Which of your books has been the easiest to write? The hardest? The most fun? </em></strong><br />
I find writing in the middle of series the hardest so I’m there right now, wrapping Charity 12 and heading into books four and five. In my mind, I see the end so taking the time to get it on paper is just brutal. My first novel, Broken Destiny (currently unpublished) was the easiest to write but as I’ve gone back to rework it, I know why. I thought I knew exactly what I was doing with that one and let me just say, nope. Not even close. What I didn’t know about the writing craft nearly six years ago amazes me.<br />
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<strong><em>Which comes first, the story, the characters or the setting? </em></strong><br />
With the <em>Men of Faith</em> series the characters walked through the door and started talking. Brody, Cooper, Burke, Gage and Eric brought me their stories.<br />
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Are you in control of your characters or do they control you? Oh man, they own me! Just the other day I finished a scene and walked downstairs to announce that so-and-so and so-and-so (sorry--don't want to spoil anything!) were getting married. I think my exact quote was "well, I didn't know we were having a wedding but clearly we are." My husband fell out laughing.<br />
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<span lang="en-US" style="font-size: 12pt; language: en-US; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-ligatures: none;">There are moments when writers struggle to write on a subject that is so sealed in their hearts and minds with knowledge, love, loyalty and gratitude, it becomes an impossibility to write on one segment of the subject without including every other segment. So it is with my writing about what America means to me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span lang="en-US" style="font-size: 12pt; language: en-US; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-ligatures: none;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></span><span lang="en-US" style="font-size: 12pt; language: en-US; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-bidi-language: ar-SA; mso-ligatures: none;">Blessed to be in many of American states and one foreign country, plus what is available on television and internet, I am fully aware that each country has its own natural beauty and each state in America has its own beauty. As a child, I was privileged to grow up in a state of pure natural beauty and in a small place in that state that is still breath-taking in its beauty. As I grew into adulthood, it has become clear to me that my country, the United States of America is the most incredibly beautiful country in the world. The uniqueness of America’s natural beauty is that when God was making America, he replicated the special places of beauty from other countries here in America. Or, maybe, vice versa. In any case, America has it all. As we travel across this great country, the<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span lang="en-US" style="font-size: 12pt; language: en-US; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-ligatures: none;">natural beauty takes our breath away. This natural beauty was free and renews and replenishes itself.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="en-US" style="font-size: 9pt; font-weight: bold; language: en-US; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-ligatures: none;"> In April at the Paris Book Fair, European authors and publishers cooed over the latest incarnation of The Espresso Book<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Machine (EBM), a $90,000 device that’s small enough to fit in a bookstore and prints an average-length paperback in about five minutes.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="en-US" style="font-size: 9pt; font-weight: bold; language: en-US; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-ligatures: none;">Some observers, such as </span><a href="http://www.worldcrunch.com/culture-society/amazon-beware-how-print-it-yourself-technology-could-save-publishing/ebook-espresso-book-machine-publishers-amazon-patents-on-demand-printing/c3s18436/#.VR2m7yyznlc"><span lang="en-US" style="font-size: 9pt; font-weight: bold; language: en-US; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-ligatures: none; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #0066FF; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; text-decoration: underline; text-underline: single;"><span style="color: #0066ff;">WorldCrunch</span></span></a><span lang="en-US" style="font-size: 9pt; font-weight: bold; language: en-US; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-ligatures: none;">, went so far as to opine that “Print-It-Yourself Technology Could Save Publishing.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>IR loves the notion of book lovers popping in to their neighborhood bookshops, choosing from a vast virtual inventory of titles — with more selections than a megastore — then sipping lattes until their freshly printed books slide out of the hopper of the EBM minutes later.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="en-US" style="font-size: 9pt; font-weight: bold; language: en-US; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-ligatures: none;">However, the EBM actually isn’t new, and can’t (yet) revolutionize bookselling in Europe or the US. But the tale of the EBM is<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>a fascinating read for anyone who follows the fast-paced world of modern publishing technologies, and deserves a look from IR’s readers.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="en-US" style="font-size: 9pt; font-weight: bold; language: en-US; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-ligatures: none;">At the dawn of the “Print-on-Demand” (POD) era, which was to turn the book world upside down in the 21</span><span lang="en-US" style="font-size: 5.993pt; font-weight: bold; language: en-US; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-ligatures: none;"><sup>st</sup></span><span lang="en-US" style="font-size: 9pt; font-weight: bold; language: en-US; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-ligatures: none;"> century, the early leaders in the field built huge factories that could churn out 50,000 books a day at a single, centralized location, then ship to bookstores a day or two later.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="en-US" style="font-size: 9pt; font-weight: bold; language: en-US; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-ligatures: none;">POD was a true game-changer, because it made it possible to print books one at a time rather than thousands, the best of which were virtually indistinguishable from those traditionally found in bookstores. Even more important, POD books were printed only after they were ordered by consumers. Thus POD publishers could say adios to warehouses, inventory taxes and their worst enemies: returned and unsold books. And the book world has never been the same since.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="en-US" style="font-size: 9pt; font-weight: bold; language: en-US; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-ligatures: none;">But a man named </span><a href="http://inventors.about.com/od/famousinventors/tp/mexican.htm"><span lang="en-US" style="font-size: 9pt; font-weight: bold; language: en-US; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-ligatures: none; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #0066FF; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; text-decoration: underline; text-underline: single;"><span style="color: #0066ff;">Victor Celorio</span></span></a><span lang="en-US" style="font-size: 9pt; font-weight: bold; language: en-US; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-ligatures: none;"> had a different vision: he saw not a huge, lone factory in a single location, but an army of<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>smaller, more compact, self-contained devices scattered across the globe: perhaps even one in every bookstore! He believed<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>that this approach would spare publishers the cost of shipping books over great distances, and give consumers nearly instant<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>gratification, instead of waiting at least a day or two for their purchases to be delivered.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="en-US" style="font-size: 9pt; font-weight: bold; language: en-US; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-ligatures: none;">Celorio designed and patented such a machine, which he called the “Instabook Maker,” in the late 1990s. It worked, but was slow and expensive, and never gained meaningful traction among booksellers. Today, the EBM is made by Xerox [NYSE: XRX], and has evolved dramatically since Celorio’s Instabook, which he called “the Mr. Coffee of on-demand printing.” In spite<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>of advances, it still faces formidable obstacles to widespread adoption by booksellers.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="en-US" style="font-size: 9pt; font-weight: bold; language: en-US; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-ligatures: none;">Do the math: The machine costs about $90k and can print a medium-length book in about five minutes. Even if the store is open 24 hours and the machine is printing constantly, that’s fewer than 300 books a day at an absolute maximum. More realistically, the store might be open 12 hours, and print perhaps 100 books a day.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="en-US" style="font-size: 9pt; font-weight: bold; language: en-US; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-ligatures: none;">At a profit of perhaps $5 per book, it will take a loooooong time (18,000 sales) for the shop to recover the $90k price tag — not<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>to mention little things like staff time, downtime, paper and ink, maintenance costs, etc. These hard realities dispel the dream<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>of a superstore hidden in the neighborhood bookshop… at least for now.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="en-US" style="font-size: 9pt; font-weight: bold; language: en-US; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-ligatures: none;">The good news is that with the power of Xerox now behind it, the machine will get faster in time. An average bookstore might have 10,000 titles in stock… but with the EBM, its “inventory” skyrockets to 200,000 or more titles, and they’re available within minutes, without shipping costs. That’s a wonderful prospect for those of us who adore our charming local indie bookshops — just a daydream today, but perhaps one that will someday come true.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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