tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-47848169380414923462024-03-13T23:29:47.856-07:00So I Said...India Mastershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17655550748159559852noreply@blogger.comBlogger22125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4784816938041492346.post-73854134099740159692014-06-17T13:55:00.002-07:002014-06-17T13:55:15.934-07:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Harker’s Hell. Early
settlers thought they’d found a western re-creationist’s heaven. Instead this
new world became a hellish version of the Old West. </i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></i></span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">And now the seeds of
long-ago conflict are stirring to life… </i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></i></span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">BETRAYED—FORCED INTO
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial;">Dissonance Walker is in a world of trouble. Sold by her
parents for the price of a cookstove, she is used as a lab rat by a secret
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">disobey was ripped away by a brutal experiment, she isn’t
ready to give up. When she escapes her captors, Dissonance believes the worst
is over. She’s dead wrong. She’s captured again…and this time, sold as a
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial;">The key to reversing the experiment lies hidden in the stretch
of arid waste called the Badlands. Only the too-sexy bounty hunter who bought
her stands in her way. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">HE LOOKED LIKE HE PICKED
HIS TEETH WITH THE BONES OF HIS ENEMIES</i> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Bram Spencer is sure the heat has baked his brains. With his
friend murdered and his ranch under attack, he has a little unfinished business
he needs to attend. Buying some fool woman because she pokes at scabs he
thought long healed hadn’t been part of the plan. Then he discovers the only
way to set her free is to marry her. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Secrets have a long life. Sometimes decades. Now the past is
about to slam into the present. Only trust in each other can save them from a
shocking evil…but trust is a hard commodity to come by on the frontier. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<o:p><span style="font-family: Arial;"> </span></o:p><span style="font-family: Arial;">Author Bio:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Alvania
Scarborough is compulsively interested in a wide variety of topics, everything
from space to the Old West. Oh, and ghosts. She loves writing about strong,
sexy men and the women who are their equals. She is delighted for the
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India Mastershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17655550748159559852noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4784816938041492346.post-15457433615598597042014-04-18T08:58:00.000-07:002014-04-18T08:58:19.159-07:00Wow. It's been a long time since I posted anything here but life has thrown me a few curves lately, health wise. Having a pretty good day today so thought I might see how long I can last sitting in front of the computer.<br />
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Had an interesting conversation with my daughter last night. I'd been telling her about my container gardening efforts...10 of those Home Depot buckets. Last time I tried to grow tomatoes, it was a dismal failure as we have so many bugs here in Florida, especially nematodes, which apparently love veggie plants. Yes, I know tomatoes are technically a fruit but we use them as veggies. ANYWAY, I digress.<br />
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So I'm telling her about my tomato plants that I hand pollinated yesterday. They're all in those orange HD buckets. I drilled holes in the bottom and in the sides, mixed the Miracle Grow soil with sand to enhance drainage and they're growing like crazy. My pool deck looks like an advertisement for Home Depot...lol.<br />
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She was all "Yum" and then told me she and her hubby bought into a crop club. They pay X amount of dollars and get X amount of fresh veggies and fruit when harvest comes around. Never heard about that before but it's pretty cool.She has lots of memories of puttering around the garden and eating tomatoes right off the vine, still warm from the sun.<br />
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We talked about canning veggies, which I used to do when she was little. We always had a garden. Had two, actually, and grew tomatoes, green beans, carrots, beets, edible pod sweet peas (so dang good), cukes, kolrabi, and even our own horseradish. I was a canning fool. I even used to make my own ketchup, if you can believe that. I now know what to get them for their anniversary...she wants a boiling water bath cooker and a pressure canner. And she wants to grow herbs so I told her how I did it, just in pots on the patio. Not only do they make your food taste yummy, they're so pretty. Especially the dill and rosemary plants.<br />
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My little potted herb garden consists of: two flat leaf Italian parsley plants, cilantro, dill, rosemary, and Greek thyme. Oh man, that Greek thyme is good. I also have a stevia plant. Only one because I hear they can be temperamental to grow so wanted to see how it goes before I totally commit to stevia. If it does well, I can clone the plant and grow as many as I want, so I'm kinda jazzed. Jazzed about the tomato plants my wonderful sister picked up for me, too, but she got a flat of 8 and I don't know what the hell I'm gonna do with 8 producing tomato plants. Will have to get a food mill and turn the extras into juice to make soups and sauces with, I guess. Two of them are cherry tomatoes, and that's my favorite snack food. One beefsteak for kitchen sink tomato sandwiches. And they're all heirloom tomatoes so I can collect the seeds for next year's crop. Take that Monsanto and Con Agra, you GMO turds.<br />
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So, had a lovely little shower this morning and my babies are happy to have gotten a good drink. Sounds like the birds are happy too. Quite a few have come up to the pool for a drink and a quick bath. Deer have begun to come and feed off the jasmine hedge. They aren't particularly afraid of me and will feed on the hedges while I'm sitting on the patio. One even brought her baby with his little spotted butt. So cool. Man, country living is fine.India Mastershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17655550748159559852noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4784816938041492346.post-28771530774940736162013-06-28T22:20:00.000-07:002013-06-28T22:20:46.206-07:00A Near Death Experience From Something Simply Resolved...If Only I'd KnownI started feeling bad on Tuesday night but I went to bed thinking it was the same old stuff...sciatica, severe lower back pain from an impinged nerve. Wednesday night I called a friend to see if she would take me to the hospital if I felt I needed to go. She said yes but I didn't call her until Wednesday morning at 10. She was there by 11 and had brought some pain medication and muscle relaxant from a previous fall. She didn't tell me she had the meds, instead she took one look at me and put me in the car and brought me to the emergency room. An hours or so later, I was being given an IV along with several kinds of drugs whose names I cannot remember. It seemed my magnesium level was dangerously low, my potassium level was 1.7, also a lethal number and had I avoided going to the hospital much longer I would have died. <br />
What started as a simple urinary tract infection (we older gals get them more frequently as the bladder drops and don't empty completely) turned into a bladder infection, then moved into my kidneys and began to fester. This happened because the original antibiotic did not resolve the initial infection and allowed it to "move on up to the east side" if you will. I felt a lingering pressure after treatment but it went away quickly and left me no more the wiser. <br />
So, for the want of a nail, the shoe was lost and for the want of a shoe the horse was lost, for the loss of a horse the battle was lost, for the loss of the battle, the kingdom was lost. The point being this: the original antibiotic was my nail and I know now with the symptoms I've read up on about low potassium, that I nearly lost my little kingdom, my life. I also know that I'd been sick for much longer than I ever imagined.<br />
Potassium is a vital electrolyte that regulates water absorption into our cells. It's only one electrolyte chemical but it's a vital one and too much or way too little can literally make your heart stop beating. All because I had a uti that was not resolved with antibiotics. So ladies, I tell you this...if you've been treated for a uti and you still feel a tingle or pressure after you've finished you medication, go back to your doctor and get a blood test to see if you've got a lingering infection. If you do, a simple urine culture will identify the nasty little bug so the doc can clear it up once and for all. <br />
If you're sexually active, or an older woman who is having urinary incontinence issues because of that dropped bladder, you are at risk of the same thing happening to you. And the scary thing is, once it moved from bladder to kidney, you don't know you're sick until you spike a sudden fever after having back pain. Trickier for me because I have chronic lower back pain so it was nothing new to me.<br />
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Dryness of skin - curse of older women<br />Muscle cramps - over exercising? statin medication like Lipitor?<br />Numbness and tingling - in my case d/t chronic back condition<br />Increase in urine output - just call me Polly Pissypants<br />Nausea - every time I turn on the news<br />Palpitation - just realized this was happening more frequently, even last night in the hospital <br />Weakness - had been more clumsy and stumbly than normal<br />Fatigue - yes, but that's part of not exercising or eating right and depression<br />Depression - mine seemed to worsen in the past few weeks<br />Dizziness - head rush anyone?<br />Low blood pressure - yeah but I'm meds to make it low</div>
THESE WERE MILD SYMPTOMS. HOW MANY DO YOU HAVE?<br />
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Gastrointestinal Problem <br />Potassium maintains the level of fluids inside the digestive tract. When there is a lack of potassium in the body, large amounts of fluid from the food get absorbed into the intestines. As result, the intestinal contents harden up and their passage through the tract becomes difficult. This results in irregular bowel movements or constipation. Severe form of constipation often lead to abdominal cramps, bloating and lack of appetite. <strong>CHECK</strong>. I had not eaten much for days before I was admitted.<br /><br />Irregular Heartbeat<br />As I learned, potassium sends electrical signals throughout the body. The brain controls contraction and relaxation of the muscles in the body through these signals. When this function get affected by low potassium in the body, then the heart muscles that regulate the heartbeat do not receive signals on time and fail to maintain the normal rhythm of its contraction and relaxation. In case, there is a severe deficiency of potassium, then it can lead to life-threatening condition like cardiac arrest when the heart stops beating. <strong>ALMOST CHECK </strong>The EKG they did in emergency showed I was tachy.<br /><br />Muscle Damage<br />The effects of low potassium can be dangerous for the entire muscular system of the body. It fails to initiate a normal voluntary contraction of the muscles of the limbs during activities like standing, walking, lifting, etc. As a result, the muscles becomes so weak that the patient may find it difficult to stand or move their limbs around without any support. The skeletal muscles of the body may even suffer rupture and the condition is known as rhabdomyolysis. Serious form of untreated potassium deficiency can even lead to paralysis and the entire body becomes stiff. <strong>MISSED THIS ONE BECAUSE SOMEONE RECOGNIZED I WAS NOT THINKING CLEARLY AND GOT MY ASS TO THE HOSPITAL. I AM ALIVE BECAUSE OF THIS GOOD WOMAN FRIEND.</strong></div>
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As women, we often put the needs of others before us. We're raised to be that way. So the medical profession often treats us as over reactive when we say something is wrong but they cant resolve the symptoms with male symptomology. Because, let's face it, ladies, if there's not a dick attached to it, it probably isn't a serious. So...<strong>BE PROACTIVE ABOUT YOUR HEALTH CUZ YOU CAN BET NO ONE ELSE WILL BE. UNLESS YOU HAPPEN TO BE GIFTED WITH THE SLIGHTLY WACKY, ALWAYS OUTRAGEOUS, AND DEEPLY CARING WOMEN IN YOUR LIVES AS I HAVE BEEN. THANK YOU VICKI AND DONNA FOR PUSHING ME TO ASK FOR HELP. THANK YOU SKYE FOR BEING THERE. THANK YOUR DITA FOR CHECKING ON THE HOUSE AND GATHERING THE SHIT I JUST CANT LIVE EVEN A WEEKEND WITHOUT. I LOVE YOU ALL AND I WILL BE YOUR KNIGHT IN SHINING ARMOR WHEN YOU NEED ME. I GOT YOUR BACKS.</strong><br /></div>
India Mastershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17655550748159559852noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4784816938041492346.post-30095810085270390012013-05-25T19:27:00.002-07:002013-05-25T19:27:23.501-07:008 Sentence SundayHappy WeWriWa Sunday one and all. This next 8 takes place shortly after the last 8 sentences. Alice will learn her fate pretty soon now.<br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"> “You will be pleased to know I’ve
sent my man ahead to deliver the good news to Lord Selwyn.”<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">She paled at that. So, she was
not set on the marriage to Robert Selwyn. Perhaps it was just as well, for the
man surely would not have her now. Not since she’d been in the hands of Welsh
warriors and in the bed of Nicholas Warde. Surely, there would be hell to pay
when Selwyn came to Gray Cross.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">“Do you feel up to it, my intention
is to ride for Gray Cross this morn. Tis but four leagues from here.”<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">“Whatever you think best,” she
replied. “But I must tell you, I am not much of a horsewoman.”<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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And th-th-that's all folks. Now hop on over to read the other wonderful writers on the blog. You can find us <a href="http://www.wewriwa.com/">www.wewriwa.com</a>.India Mastershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17655550748159559852noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4784816938041492346.post-89570523695926080642013-05-19T01:11:00.000-07:002013-05-19T01:11:54.532-07:008 Sentence Sunday...Alice's continuing adventures in the 13th century
Move ahead a bit, copied and pasted and left out the yadda yadda. She's trying to think on her feet and give him answers that can't be checked out.<br />
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any idea where you were held or how you came to be in the water?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">She
looked down at her hands, twisted them in her lap. “No idea,” she insisted.
“Though I believe I must have been running away. That would make sense. That
somehow I slipped away and fell into the river?”<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">He gave her a nod. “Indeed, lady, it does make sense.”
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"></span>India Mastershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17655550748159559852noreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4784816938041492346.post-13698155987012551112013-05-11T20:08:00.001-07:002013-05-11T20:08:15.143-07:008 Sentence Sunday<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><o:p>Honestly, I'm really enjoying writing this book but I'm hearing over and over again that there's not much of a market for time travel. I've given about 2 seconds thought to changing it, taking out the TT component but this thing is practically writing itself. I'd sure hate to put the hoo-doo on my mojo by changing it around when I've just figured out how this thing is going to end and how the legend of the black knight came into being. So, without further argument from the little devil on my left shoulder, I am continuing </o:p></span>with The Black Knight of Gray Cross as it's come to me. And so, Alice's situation is becoming curiouser and curiouser...<br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">She took
a deep breath. “Alice. My name is Alice Talbot.”<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">His jaw
dropped and he sat down heavily on the bench before the hearth. “God’s teeth, Lady
Talbot, the entire country has been looking for you these many months.”<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Alice
shook her head, the impossibility of that statement rocking her. “I…that’s not
possible. How can that be possible?”<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<a href="http://www.wewriwa.com/">www.wewriwa.com</a>India Mastershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17655550748159559852noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4784816938041492346.post-34043690877235361682013-05-05T05:39:00.000-07:002013-05-05T05:39:27.132-07:008 Sentence Sunday
Continuing where we left off, no secrets revealed yet but here's 8 more sentences from The Black Knight of Gray Cross:<br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho";">The room was too chilly and she snuggled
closer to the warmth of the large body lying next to her. With a contented
sigh, she decided to give in to urge to go back to sleep. Until a thick arm
curved around her and drew her closer into its embrace. Her eyes flew open and
she found herself staring into a pair of blue eyes that rivaled the turquoise
of the Caribbean Sea. With a shriek, she thrust away from him, moving so fast she
tumbled off the end of the bed, hitting the floor with a resounding thud. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho";">The brute sharing the bed with her offered
up a lazy smile, then sat up, idly scratching his broad chest. “Good morrow,
lass. Did you sleep well?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="http://www.wewriwa.com/">www.wewriwa.com</a>India Mastershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17655550748159559852noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4784816938041492346.post-58102412077786602072013-04-27T06:50:00.000-07:002013-04-27T17:45:43.767-07:008 Sentence SundayFirst off, let me apologize for not posting last Sunday. My sister had back surgery and I had to help out. Not with the surgery...this is why syntax is so important...but in general. I'm happy to say she's doing better, though she's still hurting and will be for some time.<br />
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So, back to where we left off. Alice had just learned the man who rescued her is none other than Nicholas Warde, the Second Earl of Gray Cross.<br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho";">“No,” she said, so softly that he could
barely hear her. “It’s not possible.” Her eyes rolled back in her head and her
knees gave way. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho";">With a curse, Nicholas leaped toward her,
catching her before she collapsed and fell into the fire. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What could possibly have caused her to faint
at the very mention of his name. He had a good reputation, was known to be a
fair man in all of his dealings, from the lowest of the low to those who
thought themselves above him. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">He took care of his town and the outlying dwellings, was even handed
with his servants, serfs and freemen alike. </span><br />
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<a href="http://www.wewriwa.com/">www.wewriwa.com</a>India Mastershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17655550748159559852noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4784816938041492346.post-11413212323066809392013-04-13T07:59:00.001-07:002013-04-13T08:01:38.018-07:008 Sentence SundayThe continuing adventures of Alice and The Black Knight of Gray Cross whereby our heroine awakens to find herself centuries in the past and alone in a room with a strange man:<br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho";">“Indeed, I must insist you tell me your
name and explain your presence on my lands.”<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho";">Her mouth opened before she clamped it
shut again, spine straightening in defiance. She glared at him for a moment. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho";">“I asked you first.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho";">He laughed with delight and stood, caring
not that water lapped over the edges to pool on the floor. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho";">“Very well, wench, I
shall tell you.” He stepped out of the tub, wrapping a towel around his waist.
“I am Nicholas Warde, the Second Earl of Gray Cross.” <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Book Antiqua"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"><a href="http://www.wewriwa.com/"><span style="color: #cc0033;">www.wewriwa.com</span></a></span> </span>India Mastershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17655550748159559852noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4784816938041492346.post-41969237390253447072013-04-06T23:07:00.001-07:002013-04-06T23:07:38.285-07:008 Sentence Sunday and The Black Knight of Gray Cross
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho";">Welcome to the continuing adventures of Alice and the Black Knight of Gray Cross. The research involved in this wip has been fairly intense and I hope I have a clear enough understanding of the history involved to make sure it's as accurate as can be, given what's known of Welsh civil wars with England's Edward the First. In this 8 sentences, our hero and heroine meet for the first time:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho";">“Do you know her, Nicholas?” Edmund’s
horse plunged into the water and he reached out to grab the reins of his
friend’s mount.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho";">“Nay, I do not. Who would do such a thing?
Why she can’t be much older than your sister, Edmund.” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho";">Nicholas untangled the girl’s hair and
bent to lift her out of the water, certain she must be dead. Until she opened
her eyes. He uttered a startled shout and stumbled backward, drenching himself
in the slow moving river.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">Happy Easter! This comes a few minutes past the 9 a.m. deadline but it's been a rough couple of days and I overslept. So, this continues the time travel storyline and Alice's adventures through the murder hole:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">People always talked about one’s life flashing
before them as they died but the images she was seeing were not her life. Could
not be her life. There were men dressed in armor. Alien sounds assailed her,
the clang of metal against metal, grunts, shouts of pain and anger, war cries
that curdled the blood. Trumpets heralding victory. Then a man, tall and broad,
dressed in black and cobalt blue. He appeared as if through a waterfall,
indistinct yet no less a man. He paced the battlements of an ancient castle,
sat at the head of a massive table. </span>India Mastershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17655550748159559852noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4784816938041492346.post-85877008617797154192013-03-23T23:16:00.000-07:002013-03-23T23:16:31.223-07:00Something New For Me...<br />
<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">A little time travel ditty I've been playing with called The Black Knight of Gray Cross:</span><br />
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho";"><span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">“Adam, I’m here, round the back!” <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho";"><span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">There was thud and a cry of pain. Blast Adam and his drinking. But
his head soon appeared over the edge of the murder hole.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho";"><span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">“Alice,” he said with a surprised gasp. “You’ve fallen down a
bloody hole.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua","serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Book Antiqua"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">She would have laughed had
the situation not been so dire but her grip slipped and suddenly she was falling,
fully expecting to meet an awful death on the ancient cobbled river ramp.</span> </span><br />
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<img alt="" class="alignleft" height="285" src="http://d.gr-assets.com/books/1354187236l/16179238.jpg" title="almost" width="173" />All of her life Haley Kilpatrick wished that something would happen that would whisk her away from her lowlife father and lazy brother, finding out she has inherited a sizable ranch Haley has a chance of doing something just for herself. Neighbor Wyatt Brody thinks he has the best luck in the world, especially when he meets Haley, she is sassy, beautiful, and has no problem mincing words and all of that has Wyatt intrigued. Haley though has made it clear she doesn’t want a relationship, but Wyatt has a plan of subtly wooing her until she agrees. With a threat against all that Haley is looking to achieve happens, Wyatt is by her side and has no plans of leaving even if Haley puts up a fit of a fight to keep him safe.<br />
I enjoyed this story immensely. I thought Haley was an intriguing heroine who has had a tough life and instead of letting people walk all over her has a spine and turns the tables. Wyatt is smooth and a romantic when it comes to Haley, I thought the way the author takes the time to allow the two to come together was beautiful and I couldn’t wait to read more. Excellent read.<br />
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India Mastershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17655550748159559852noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4784816938041492346.post-89384277407169038772013-03-17T07:17:00.001-07:002013-03-17T07:17:35.820-07:00More from Beyond Redemption:<br />
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<em>On the Colombian Ecuador border</em><br />
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<span style="font-family: Book Antiqua;">Angelique cursed under her breath at the sound of small-arms
fire as she tied off the last suture in the leg of the four-year-old boy lying
on her exam table. The ongoing civil war and the war on drugs constantly
spilled over the border as a steady stream of predators crossed from the
neighboring Colombia. All were heavily armed and dangerous. They stopped at the
field hospital the locals were calling <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Manos
de Ayuda</i> when one of them needed patching up. Angelique begrudged them
every inch of 4-0 silk used to stitch their wounds.</span></div>
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as bad were the mercenaries looking to make a profit off the backs of those
less fortunate. Rough-looking men with rough behavior, which they often visited
upon the women of village. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%;">“My
coffee!” Hot coffee splattered on my sneakered feet.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%;">“Coffee’s
the least of your problems, princess.” The man’s voice rasped close to my ear
as a strong arm banded my waist, yanking me off my feet. I was pulled into a
nondescript cargo van. The door slid shut, and the vehicle sped away.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%;">Ohshit, ohshit!<o:p></o:p></span></i><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">What did they say on that freaking episode of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Oprah</i>? Never let them take you to a
secondary scene. </span><br />
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Love,<br />
India<br />
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<em><span style="font-family: Book Antiqua;">Paris, 2009</span></em></div>
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<span style="font-family: Book Antiqua;">“<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Janjaweed! They come!</i>”</span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">Angelique
Vernet bolted upright, looking wildly around the room, a scream lodged in her
throat. “Fuck.” She muttered the curse as softly as possible so as not to wake
her companion. Whoever he was. Arnaud something or other. She could never
remember their names. He was just another in a line of pretty French boys meant
to distract her from the nightmares. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"></span>India Mastershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17655550748159559852noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4784816938041492346.post-19850967525474015122013-03-06T08:00:00.001-08:002013-03-06T08:00:34.340-08:00Curioser and CurisorSo I checked novel rank this morning and my back list, re-released through Beyond the Page Publishing, is outselling my most current releases with Loose Id and Ellora's Cave. I find this odd, to be perfectly honest. Is it simply a price point issue or has my voice changed so much over time that I'm no longer reaching my audience. One of my author friends and I have been pondering what all this means and we've come to no conclusions whatsoever. Curiouser and Curiouser. But hey, here's the cover for Bound By You, the first in a new series open to submissions at Beyond the Page. Their cover art is AMAZING! If I'm lyin' I'm dyin'.<br />
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Am I right? Didn't I tell you? It's just...elegant is the only word I can think of to describe this girl's work. This one sells for 99 cents thru Beyond the Page.<br />
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Love,<br />
India<br />
India Mastershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17655550748159559852noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4784816938041492346.post-1354375862393308332013-03-02T08:12:00.000-08:002013-03-02T08:12:07.427-08:00Buy A Shotgun...Hilarity AboundsSomeone posted this on Facebook and I thought it was hysterical.<br />
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India Mastershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17655550748159559852noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4784816938041492346.post-76884855843264648682013-03-02T08:00:00.001-08:002013-03-02T08:00:45.112-08:00Baby It's Cold OutsideYeah, yeah, it's 46 degrees and that's not cold to most folks who live up north. Hell, I spent 14 years in Ohio and when it was 46 in February, we were running around in jeans and long sleeved tee shirts. Down here, when it's in the 40's, we crank up the fireplaces and shiver. Freakin brrrrr....<br />
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India Mastershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17655550748159559852noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4784816938041492346.post-31785824438134862342013-03-01T11:13:00.000-08:002013-03-01T11:13:00.064-08:00WeWriWa/8Sunday
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<span style="font-family: Book Antiqua;">With each step he took toward her, she took a step back.
“You bet I did. I just killed a man to make sure you’re safe and made sure
every man out there knows who you and your little friend belong to.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Book Antiqua;">She narrowed her eyes at him. “I do not belong to you.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Book Antiqua;">He grinned, white teeth flashing in his tanned face. “Oh,
you most certainly do, Angel, and people will expect me to take full advantage
of that fact. Which I’ll be doing as frequently as I can.”</span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">She
curled her lip in disgust. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Working for an NGO in a war torn country is a dangerous occupation. All physician Angelique Vernet wants after a long day of saving lives and avoiding getting killed is a cold glass of Grey Goose vodka and a hot man in her bed. She gets both from Mitch Acosta, a hot-blooded Special Forces soldier who's always there in the nick of time, in her bed or on the battlefield.<br /><br /> But Acosta wants more from Angelique than she's willing to give. He'd rather she come to him peacefully but he's not above taking what he wants. In a battle of wills that takes them from Africa to South America, two strong-willed people will fight for one another until the bitter end.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><a href="http://www.loose-id.com/beyond-redemption.html">http://www.loose-id.com/beyond-redemption.html</a></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"><a href="http://www.wewriwa.com/">www.wewriwa.com</a></span>India Mastershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17655550748159559852noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4784816938041492346.post-43163236048786841392013-03-01T07:42:00.001-08:002013-03-01T07:42:26.092-08:00Beyond the PageSo, I've been working with the amazing folks at Beyond the Page Publishing and I have to say I'm really enjoying it. BtP works with published authors to get their back list work out on the market again. So far, they have 3 of my back list books, two of which are already for sale with the various vendors, and one is pending release after the final cover art choice made. And I have to tell you, the woman doing the cover art is freaking AMAZING. <br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgu_6X4Su0gXyY3PicxQytj1a6MwL22W3QJr_EqQbvW3YuRsv0O42IzZlY6mMnDIkeQQLkDkbYLj3RFAo_xBLWOlVPDg4hp_nO2m-O_HNxo-drS9VZxkk5MHKQ_aGFD89AjoKbsOf6QIJQ/s1600/nothing-left-to-lose-3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgu_6X4Su0gXyY3PicxQytj1a6MwL22W3QJr_EqQbvW3YuRsv0O42IzZlY6mMnDIkeQQLkDkbYLj3RFAo_xBLWOlVPDg4hp_nO2m-O_HNxo-drS9VZxkk5MHKQ_aGFD89AjoKbsOf6QIJQ/s320/nothing-left-to-lose-3.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I wrote Nothing Left to Lose in 6 weeks while I was in the middle of my master's program. It was just one of those books that pretty much wrote itself...which was lucky because graduate school ain't no joke. It's the story of a young woman who plays a key role in an interstellar rebellion against a cruel tyrant. In order to insure the rebellion's success, she rescues the hero from a prison colony where he's awaiting execution by crucifixion. This is the first book in the Darkshadow series, the goal of which is to create a space opera using the main characters in the books...ala Firefly. I think it promises to be fun.</div><br />
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Now, I'm normally a pretty laid back person. Not much rattles me but technology will get me going EVERY SINGLE TIME. Anyone see how blue the air got in one spot of Central Florida? That would have been me, dragging out every curse word in my vocabulary and a few really foul ones that I made up on the spur of the moment. You'd think I'd learn but again...Noooo...<br />
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I did manage to find a customer service 800 number for Yahoo - after I tried the help page. Can I just tell you now...don't bother with the help page if you're technologically impaired. It's an exercise in frustration and you'll be begging your friends for Xanax quicker than you can say...well, you don't wanna know what I was saying. So, the quest goes on and after being on hold for a while - because they were experiencing an unusually high call volume today (imagine that) a nice tech person found my old account and promised to email me with a reset password in about 10 minutes. Forty-five minutes later I'm on the phone with tech support again because, you guessed it, that slippery little email never arrived. After another period on hold, at which time I was able to wash the dishes and throw a load of laundry in the dryer, the second tech was able to help me. I guess the first tech, bless her heart, didn't get around to actually pressing send. And if you're a southern woman, you know what "bless her heart" really means.<br />
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So here I am, with my technologically impaired self, hoping I have done this right. It was a little iffy at first because I couldn't figure out why this thing didn't generate my blog. Uh, it's because I didn't type in a blogger address before I tried to pick a template. Read directions much, India? Apparently, I have just enough testosterone in my system to render me incapable of looking at the directions before I try to do something I have no clue how to do.<br />
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And here it is, my first blog...it's been one of those days. You know the kind...like a hellish nightmare with a hair stuck to it. But it's past midnight and I didn't murder anybody, so it turned out okay.<br />
Love,<br />
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