Monthly Archives: April 2011

April 29, 2011 · 12:07 pm

in a celandine world — a paranormal romance novel

Willow Jane has a secret.  She’s in love with the Boogeyman.  He comes to her in her dreams.  Lately he’s been speaking to her while she’s awake.  She doesn’t know why he comes to her, or how it is that she loves him.  She’s never even seen him. 

Until now.

She’s accepted crazy.  She’s accepted isolation—heck, she’s even welcomed it.  She’ll do anything to be with him.

But now Betts Willoughby is on to her.  The mysterious wife of the village butcher watches her.  She knows things.  She believes things—things that are even crazier than Willow. 

The truth is going to come out.  A truth that has long been forgotten.  A truth that was concealed in a manuscript in the 12th century.  An impossible truth.  A dangerous truth that will blow Willow’s secret wide open—leaving her scrambling to save the only man she could ever love.

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April 28, 2011 · 8:19 am

IN A CELANDINE WORLD now available for Amazon Kindle!

For the last couple of weeks I’ve been hunkered down in my office cursing, swearing, kicking and punching. Converting my novel to a uniform, multi-device e-book format has been educational—to say the least.  HTML who?  Big thanks to Guido Henkel for swooping in and saving me before the final bloodshed.

I’m excited to report that IN A CELANDINE WORLD is now officially available as an e-book in the Amazon Kindle bookstore.  Even the worst cold virus ever to cling to a human being couldn’t keep it from happening—and it tried.

Check out the e-book here.  (If you don’t have the Kindle you can download the Kindle viewer for PC.)  Over the next week or so it will be available for Kobo, Sony, i-Pad and a week or so after that it should be available in hardcopy on Amazon, Chapter.Indigo.com and various other bookstores.

If you’re considering e-book conversions—put Guido at G3Studios on the job.  Not only is he an HTML genius, he’s also a talented author.  He remained positive and helpful regardless of my OCD e-mail questions in 30-second intervals.  Guido, you saved me.

~uberscribbler

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April 8, 2011 · 11:55 am

The Uber-friend Buzz: Ross Priddle

I spent a long time this morning on the FB profile of Ross Priddle—a long, LONG time.

You know when you see a train wreck and you just can’t look away?  It was something like that.  At first glance, I was experiencing a sort of mental hysteria at the rate of about 10 WTF’s per minute.  To the outside eye, Ross is an exhausting blur of abstract bits and bobs.  He’s the impossible and illegitimate love child of John Lennon and Walter Bishop. 

Dig a little deeper and you find that he is, in fact, the Mad Hatter of the visual art world.  He is an enigma of visual creativity.  The kind of enigma that starts an international movement—there are people studying the religion of Priddlism all over the world—right as I type. 

While I can’t confirm that he isn’t perpetually high, I can assure you that his mind runs off the beaten path with a sort of ping-pong precision.  His thoughts are usually unpredictably fun-loving and they come wrapped up in a tight little crusty contradiction.  I know, right?  I hope Mr. Spock never has to mind meld with Mr. Priddle.  It would spell certain d-o-o-m for the Vulcan mind.

Ross is one of those people who you would pay good money to spend 5 minutes in a room with—and he’s easy to find.  Go see his creative genius here, or just follow the Bob Dylan music to Alberta, look for the house that small children run past, and then loiter around outside.  Sooner or later, he’ll come out to lure you in with chocolate covered LSD and Jasmine Tea.

As it turns out, Ross Priddle fascinates me.  Not only does he maintain some 40+ blogs, he also single-handedly keeps the postal service in business with mail art and visual poetry—and pretties the entire industry up while he’s at it.  Before today, I had no idea that such an art existed.  There’s nothing like a little old-fashioned schoolin’ for a Friday morning. 

I’m on the path of Priddlism—my robe is in the mail. 

~uberscribbler

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April 6, 2011 · 2:37 pm

The Uber-friend Buzz: Liane Carruthers

You might think that the Irish Leprechaun of lore is a withered old man who chases rainbows in gnarly buckled shoes—and you might be right.  But, let me tell you a little something about the Advertising Leprechaun—she has GREAT shoes and a healthy amount of Bieber-fever.

Liane Carruthers is no solitary creature.  And, might I add, there is nothing gnarly or withered about her.  As a matter of fact, Liane takes the GOLD in the Olympic events of smiling and plain ol’ gosh-dang cuteness—every year.  She is an energetic, infectious, and powerfully contagious woman who uses her powers for good.  Rarely seen angry, this sweet sprite-like Polkaroo chooses words like “miffed” to express her extreme displeasure and has the magical ability to spring-up from the shadows just when you need her the most—she can leap small buildings and balance herself endlessly on the points of her Jimmy Choos.    

This supermom and bargain-sniffing sleuth is everyone’s ideal BFF.  Sweet-tempered and sensitive with a generous trusting nature, she exploits the best of you.  Her doe-eyed innocence can camouflage her Leprechaun trickery—so tread cautiously.  She’s been known to be a fireball of mischief from time-to-time. (It’s always those smiley ones you have to watch out for.)  If it’s simply a vacation pal you’re after, Liane is always game for travelling to sunny destinations to get those “must have” beach-sand pedicures.  Special note to Mr. Clooney—it is purely coincidental that she happens to vacation in the same places as you.  Leprechauns don’t stalk.  It’s Irish law.

In her career, Liane is something of a media genius and has miles of experience in advertising and publishing to prove it.  She’s the ideal candidate for any media task you might have—big or small—and she’s also great at parties.  If you should have the opportunity to work with Liane in real life one day—as I have—take it. 

Just don’t rub her for luck.  She doesn’t always like that.

~uberscribbler

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April 4, 2011 · 2:08 pm

The Uber-friend Buzz: Christopher Reilley

Did you know that poets don’t actually write with feathery quills anymore?  There goes the prose neighbourhood, right?  Truthfully, I don’t know much about poetry, nor do I appreciate it for the genuine and imaginative self-expression of the senses that it is.  Generally, I’m either in awe of poets or I mock them.

Christopher Reilley has grabbed my full attention of awe—mostly because he graduated from the Ringling Brothers Clown College in 1984—but also because he has a vividly wide repertoire of writing that is boundless, and also because he reads the encyclopaedia for fun.  In his writing, Reilley has something for everyone.  He’s eclectic, entertaining, family-oriented and refreshingly honest.  He doesn’t give “a big fat hairy damn about an awful lot of things,” especially your Facebook farm, fish, park or mafia.  Refreshing, right?

His poetry grabs you.  It punches you in the face—but only if he wants it to.  He is the Chuck Norris of the poetry world.  His words are woven with homage to a man who is a visionary of thought and who is rich in gifted expression.  His dedication as an author keeps him travelling a 300 mile radius around Boston for speaking engagements and readings—and of course he’s in demand.  Why wouldn’t he be?  He’s the author of “Grief Tattoos,” poems of rage and redemption, and also the up-coming e-book, “Slippery Friction,” a collection of erotic and love poems.  Join his FB fan page here and see what I’m talking about—or check out his blog here.

Not only is Reilley a talented writer, he’s also an illustrator, digital artist, print expert, gaming-geek, father, husband, and self-proclaimed BAD saxophone player—although I couldn’t find a YouTube channel with recordings to verify just how BAD he might be. 

After spending some time immersed in this poetry world of his, I was officially inspired to dabble anew.  Reilley, this one’s for you.

The Christopher Reilley Lim’rick

There once was a poet name Reilley,
Who embroiders his feelings not shyly.
He’s a goofball at heart,
An aficionado of art,
And his poems will make you all smiley.

 

Now you understand the whole mock-and-awe philosophy I have.  I’m mock—Reilley’s all awe.

~uberscribbler

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April 1, 2011 · 9:35 am

The Uber-friend Buzz: Candace Bowen Early

When I think romance novelist, I imagine a dazzling woman in a satin gown and white gloves who delicately weaves tales of delicious emotional justice and unconditional love through a ruby-encrusted laptop while sipping champagne and eating bon-bon’s.   Glamorous, right?  Right, Candace?

I tried to find such photos as proof on Candace Bowen Early’s FB page, but there were none to be had.  If glam and glitz go hand-in-hand with romance writing, Candace is hiding it from the world.  What I did find was a down-to-earth woman plucked from the streets of Chicago who wipes noses, attends monster jams and plans to live forever—or at least until the Cubs take a World Series.   

Candace catapulted into a writing career on March 17, 2008—precisely—when she was struck with the idea for her first novel, A Knight of Silence.  Since publishing that novel, she went on to write, Spur of the Moment, (to be published spring 2012), and has finished, Jack of Hearts, which she currently has out for representation.  But she’s not stopping there, oh no.  Take a look for yourself.  http://www.knightseries.com/

I’ve read an interview or two that tells me Candace is the ‘voice’ of historical romance.  Her writing can transport you to another time—leaving the grit of the castle walls on your skin when you’ve put her book down.  Sweet!  Sign me up for castle grit—I’ll take mine to go please.

When she’s not stalking the medieval or hobnobbing with publishers and editors, you might find Candace loitering on a sunny Florida beach with a bag of M&M’s.

Thanks for your friendship Candace!

~uberscribbler

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