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When I first heard all the hype about 50 Shades of Grey, I immediately ran the other way.  Twilight fan fiction? Self published? {More or less} Not for me.  Thanks but no thanks.  But then back in June I literally saw 50 people I know, read, like reading 50 Shades.  So I decided to join the club. Now at first I was driven crazy by the bad writing and the even worse "sex" scenes.  But somewhere in the midst of all this I fell in love with the story and the characters.  I immediately bought the second after finishing the first and then the third after finishing the second.  I was actually sad that they were over... So now what I am I too do? So then I started reading through a bunch of erotic fiction book reviews , looking for something to fill the hole 50 Shades had left.  Finally I found Click Here this site that has a list of books the same as 50 Shades of Grey!!  Yay, my search is over and just in time for Christmas.  I can just ...

Here is a little about April from her website. "I started designing blogs almost two years ago, and thanks to lots of  demand, I was able to quit my day job (June 2010) and hire some help to  beautify the blog world! I graduated with two Bachelor's Degrees in  Advertising and Radio/TV/Digital Media Production. Blogging, online  media, and of course - design - are my passions, secondly only to my  wonderful husband. I love babies, Band Hero, Facebook, running,  swimming, and have a serious love for shopping. I hope we can make your  blog a functional work of art that inspires you too!"  Where you can find her online: Her Design Blog Her Personal Blog Facebook Twitter She does blog design, business identity, and invitations and announcements.  She also has a freebie section with layouts and buttons for use. In addition to blog design, April also offers design classes.  I took her Blog Design class back in September and it was gr...

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Here are some questions I asked Cheryl Snell author of Shiva's Arms Where are you from? Alberta, Canada, eh. When did you first consider yourself a writer? When I published a poem in an excellent journal whose rep dwarfed my previous publications What inspired you to write your first book? Inspiration didn’t enter in. I had published about 65 poems and a few stories in lit journals and the logical next step was to put together a collection of poetry. Do you have a specific writing style? I write in a lyric narrative style. A critic/professor recently said I was an American surrealist. I like that. How did you come up with the title, Shiva’s Arms? It came to me when I was at McDonald’s with my Mom one day. It had all the elements I needed, incorporating the Hindu god of creation AND destruction, comparing that entity to Amma (who did plenty of C&D herself). All the god’s arms reminded me of Amma’s push-pull with Alice. Is there a message in Shiva’s Arms that yo...

Title: Thumbing Through Thoreau: A Book of Quotations By Henry David Thoreau Authors: Kenny Luck Illustrators: Jay Luke and Ren Adams Publisher: Tribute Books Published: April 19, 2010 ISBN: 978-0982256541 Summary: "On July 4, 1845, when Henry David Thoreau moved into his cabin on the shores of Walden Pond, he was probably unaware that his abode in the woods, and the impact and influence of that endeavor, would forever echo through time. Thoreau was an uncompromising idealist; an ardent maverick who criticized his fellow man. He urged that men and women ought to live more simply, and more deliberately. "The mass of men," he famously wrote, "lead lives of quite desperation." Yet the scope of Thoreau's message is much wider than social criticism. He speaks of spiritual transcendence in Nature and the unbounded potential of the individual. Thoreau is a dreamer and he speaks to dreamers. In a word, shun dogmatism and demagoguery; see beyond the immediat...

Forget Someone's Name? What Would Rob Do? By Rob Sachs, Author of What Would Rob Do?: An Irreverent Guide to Surviving Life's Daily Indignities When nobody else has been around to help out, I've also tried getting someone to talk about her own name. I'd say something like, "I used to get made fun of all the time when I was little because people would call me names like 'Saxophone' or 'Sexy Sachs' or 'Rob my sacks of cats.'" (Okay, nobody ever used the last one.) After sharing my story, I'd ask if she ever got teased, hoping she will give me a funny story that I can use to remember her name. Or sometimes I'd inquire, "What did your family call you when you were little?" Hopefully, it won't be Princess. If you're not so good at face-to-face reconnaissance, there are less invasive methods for procuring names. In college I used to peek in backpacks, binders, notebooks, or anything that might have a name writ...