Monday, June 17, 2013

Mystic Monday

 
 
Hello All,
This week we have two things going on...

Summer Solstice is June 21st and the Full Moon is Sunday, June 23rd.

So let’s jump in and talk about these events! 

June 21 is Summer Solstice. What does that mean?  Well a lot of different things. It is another power day for the Earth in which the veils between the worlds thins and communication between our world and the other-side is strong. Friday would be a day to expect the unexpected. On this day crossed over loved ones will be able to come through to you better. This would be a great day to get in touch with your spirit guides if you have been having problems communicating with them as they will be able to come through stronger. Look for signs, or things in your path that wouldn’t normally be there. These things could be a way your guides or loved ones are trying to tell you something.

Summer Solstice is not only the first day of summer, but the day when the sun is strongest and it’s the longest day of the year. With that said the downer is, Summer Solstice is the beginning of days becoming shorter until Winter Equinox in December. If you think I celebrate Winter Equinox to its fullest you’d guess right! Because who wouldn’t celebrate a day in the winter when you can welcome back the sun and know that the days will again grow longer.

Anyway, back on track here. Celebrate Summer Solstice to its fullest and enjoy the warm days of summer while we can. Celebrate the warm energy of the sun. Work outside in the garden or around your yard. Take a walk in nature and enjoy all the life the sun has nurtured with mother earth and give thanks.
 

Now, Sunday is the Full Moon. This full moon comes riding the coat tails of the energy of Summer Solstice. In my opinion this full moon is going to be potent. So start manifesting! Sunday night do your rituals under the full moon to add to that potent energy that will help your manifesting list come into play. The earth has shifted energy and things should manifest a little quicker with this moon. Write out your list, take it outside and burn it under the full moon after saying your prayer of intent.

All of this keeps in time with the new beginnings time of year. I am hearing that we need to move forward and celebrate our new accomplishments. Energy is shifting and everything will work out for the best and be all right.

Have an amazing week everyone!

Blessings All,
Wendy

Thursday, June 13, 2013

Meet Keira Kroft author of Glow in the Dark


The following novel is more than just a book to Keira Kroft and Savannah Rayne. Even more than hot fireman mean to Keira Kroft :) It was a manuscript that forged a friendship that has seen people come, people go, businesses succeed, houses found, sickness, health, laughter and tears.

The day that I asked Savannah Rayne to proofread Glow in the Dark, before I started seeking a publisher was one of those memorable moments that changes more than one life forever. ~ Keira Kroft


The story of Keira and Savannah…


Keira finds that their friendship is amazing and that of legend. They met by chance and became true friends the same way. They have since grown in life and have achieved dreams together. Since first meeting on MySpace, 6 years ago.

Finding that they had a lot in common. From both doing day care in their homes, to their love of reading, they quickly became friends and talked on the phone nearly every week and chatted online daily since.

Savannah helped Keira by proof reading through Glow in the Dark, which was then accepted by Decadent Publishing. Our editing skills at that time were very crude.  LOL. “If people saw how we did it, they would laugh their butts off. “ We’ve come a long way since then, but I do miss those cute little slappy faces. It was after that, that Keira encouraged me to try doing some writing of my own, saying she thought I had a natural talent for it. Keira is insane! LOL There is not a person that is more dedicated to making her business a success. No one really knows when she finds time to eat or sleep. ” ~ Savannah

Although Keira & Savannah have much in common, the one area that they are vastly different in, is their taste in music. Keira loves Heavy metal, bands like Metallica, and worships Rob Zombie, (Savannah is cringing right now, lol) where Savannah is country, soft rock and oldies. (Keira is puking right now. But does love oldies, lol.) Keira & Savannah may be best friends, but they are always 100% honest with each other and that means that they don’t agree on everything. They wear their friend hats and professional hats one at a time and know not to mix the two. They both believe strongly in the power of positive thinking and the Law of Attraction.

Keira collects cows now & Savannah collected cows about 17 years ago. “So that either means Keira is way behind in the times or that Savannah is really old, lol.” *Keira snickers*



 

 

 
Glow in the Dark...
Determined to be out from under her mother’s ruling and away from a no-good soon-to-be ex-boyfriend, Corey Nolan exercises her independence. With a place to call her own and a job that doesn’t pay well but makes her happy, her life is full and her young daughter is content. There is no room for distractions, until she meets a local firefighter—who stirs an immediate forbidden attraction. In need of control, she tries to ignore Jake Gilroy, but circumstances bring her closer to him when someone is hell-bent on destroying her.

Dutiful playboy Jake is known as the smoking hot fireman. The first time he sets eyes on Corey, he knows he wants her. But when threats and strange occurrences start to happen, he finds the need to protect her and give more than he’s ever given any other woman.

Being together becomes more than they bargained for when their desire for each other becomes a matter of life and death….


Get it on Amazon for only $2.99
 

About the Author…


Keira carries a vet assistance degree. Her love for animals is as great as her love of people. She gives a percentage of her personal book sale profits to the animal welfare league. Residing in a quiet suburb in the outskirts Chicago with her husband and daughter she spends any spare time she has working with her cats Scamper and Sawyer, to achieve total world domination, one shared piece of red velvet cake at a time. Her passions include Reading, Writing, Football, Comic Books and Family.

 

You can find Keira at any of the following links listed below...

Wednesday, June 12, 2013

To Be Continued...with Robin Renee Ray


Those of you who read my blog regularly are probably wondering what the hell happened to my Wednesday blog posts by Robin Renee Ray and her “To Be Continued” stories. Well here’s Robin to tell it in her own words…

Hi all....I have been down and out and just yucky! BUT I'M BACK...LOL

Gonna just spit it out for all who see my blog. I know it goes out to thousands to see on my Google+ but kind of glad I have it messed up on Goodreads..LOL They can't see crap over there because I am so good at not being able to understand computer blah blah....change my blog addy...okay...didn't work??? What did I do wrong??? How the hell do I know, it says my addy is different, but has never updated since I was turned over for being an abuser and made into spam...which was something my peeps ate when we were growing up..LOL NO, I am not really an abuser I just gained a hater back when~ ; )

Anyway...I have medical probs that keep me down from time to time and I am telling the world...who I call my peeps, after all these long 6 years that I have been a writer. Long time, I know. *Snicker*  But, I keep having to be gone and not wanting to tell why and it's not right. I have a thing in my brain called a Chiari 1 Malformation and I have a little brain tumor somewhere on the right side...I really don't pay much mind. Ha! No Pun intended. LMAO My whole body has been jacked through the years with my brain shoving down into my spinal thing and I have been under like 18 times and cut on at least 14 of those 18 times. It was all to keep this old body together. I have had surgery on my leg from my shoulder to my spine, a few times... to my insides ... more than a few times. So, it all knocks me on my ass from time to time and I end up wanting to do nothing but lay here and watch TV. I am, without a doubt, a movie freak!!! LOL

I don't need any more surgeries...what's in my head can't be fixed, but I still have to deal with the crap that it causes. This warm weather makes a world of difference and removes the pressure somewhat in the brain??? Don't know how it works, just so glad it does...and I am going to try and get some work done...Blogging done....Promo for others done...and spending more time online making new peeps.

The first thing I have to do is finish correcting my momma's book Uncertain Meanings....the only contemporary that I will more than likely ever write..LOL I am a horror/dark fantasy kind of hippie grandma. ; )



The second is help a friend out and edit her work and read one of the best series that I have ever read.....Will share that new release and cover with her interview that will be right here....keep a watchful eye. There will be lots of goodies in her little bag of giveaways. : )

And third...just hit my work hard and don't stop until this shit in my brain shuts me down again. ; ) It will always come back and it will never go away. So, I have learned to call it all my friend, my little men that at times grab their hammers and do too much work inside my head....or at times I say my brain has taken a walk and slid from my ear and if seen, please send it back home..LOL On those days, if I should disappear...now you will all know why. Give me a few days and those little men will put those hammers away and or my brain will come back to some form of normality and I will be back!!!

Well, that its! I know, that's enough huh..LOL

Big Hugs~ Have a rockin' week and do not let anything hold you back!!!


 

                               HELLFIRE PUBLISHING 



Now don’t let all that make you think she hasn’t been busy coming up with some great ideas! Here’s what is coming from Robin in the very near future…


Here is the goodie basket that will be going out in July with Coffee Time Romance...One Grand Prize Winner, one of the three, will receive the stone and glass Soul Goblets that goes with a signed copy of Arrival of the Prophecy...along with a few more goodies. A ladies tote bag and even a little something for your vehicle. Most know I am a Hillbilly Hippie and I found this Hillbilly Candle for your car....SO...I had to get it..LOL

 
 
And because it is so hard to show ones thanks for all the wonderful reviews that we get. I am also holding a reviewers contest on Amazon with Arrival of the Prophecy, throughout the month of July. I will also be giving away three print signed copies to the judges three favorite Amazon reviews...and the list is growing...and one of those three will receive the Grand Prize of the long stem Soul Goblets with a few goodies in that basket as well. Hubby wanted me to throw in some liquor...I said I wasn't sure you could even do that..LOL Winning reviews will be picked on July 25th. And goodies will continue to be added to the basket. That should give those who have already picked the book up, plenty of time to review it, if they want to.
 
The contest for both places will go out to US and Canadians....when I get rich I will go world wide, but until then I have to stay close to home..LOL 
 
I am a proud family member at: HELLFIRE PUBLISHING
Cover art by: REBEL ANGEL DESIGNS
 
Have a rockin' week...Big Hugs~
 
P.S. Just wait until you see the goodies that I have planned for my Bloodbreeder Fans, who have left an Amazon review. That contest will be a hard one, due to I will be going with all three books....so the Grand Prize has to ROCK!!!!!
 

 

And don’t worry folks, I have it on good authority that Robin is working on her next little horror read for my blog and it’s called, “Let’s Get Eddy”… and I don’t know about you all, but I sure am looking forward to reading it!
Welcome back Robin...we love you and have missed you!
 
 

Monday, June 10, 2013

Mystic Monday


Hi All,

What to talk about today? Well Saturday was the New Moon did you remember to release whatever isn’t serving your highest good?

Ok so since the New Moon has passed it’s time to start your manifesting. Now remember you can do manifesting in a few ways but the key is to spend a few minutes each day telling the universe what it is you want.

This is how I manifest: I write out every quality I want in what it is I want. So say a new car. I would write out the year, the make, model and all the features I want on a list and then I would put what I am willing to pay for it. Then every day I would read the list to the universe saying this is what I want, bring it to me please, thank you.

Now a friend of mine manifests by pretending she already has it and thanks the universe for it. So her manifesting prayer starts out something like this. “Universe I am so happy and grateful for ….” And then she spells it out.

Remember on the night of the Full Moon the energy is at full power for manifesting so that is the night you should connect a ritual to your list. I write mine out and then burn it under the full moon and then release the ashes back to Mother Earth.

Ok change of subject. I’ve had some gardening Reiki questions come up. A few weeks ago I was working on transplanting some of my plants and used Reiki to attune the rocks that I put in the pots to help the plants take root in their new home. I also used Reiki directly with the plant to help it recover from the trauma of being replanted.

So this is what I do. I work on my plant just like a person. Start by opening the plants aura. Then I simply hover my hands over the plant and channel Reiki to it by chanting the power symbol’s name three times. After I channel for a few minutes when the plant’s energy is calm then I seal the aura. When transplanting, I will Reiki the plant and the dirt that I’m using. I will also Reiki a rock to go into the pot with the plant to continue to give Reiki when the plant needs it. I also always Reiki the water I use for my plants every week.
 
Now if you are not attuned to Reiki you can still send healing energy to your plant, just pull down the white light of the universe. Start by visualizing the white light of the universe beaming down from the sky and entering your energy through your crown chakra, then traveling to your third eye and throat to your chest, down your arms and out your hands and into your plant. Once there it will go where it is needed.
 
 
 

To charge your water simply pull down the white light of the universe while hovering your hands over the water and visualize the universal white light going to your crown down to your hands and into the water. Remember to say a prayer of intent and then thank the universe for assistance.

I was asked if our plants take on our energy and I guess they can since they share our space. However, if that’s the case mine must love chaos, cause with two boys and their friends running through the house all the time that’s the environment mine live in. I think the cat helps them too though by laying in their space all the time. A cat’s purr can clear energy fields. Although, not so much when he’s tipping them over.

Have a wonderful week all and hope all your plants are doing well. : )



Blessings,
Wendy
 
 
 

Friday, June 7, 2013

Hellfire Publishing ~ Making Your Summer Even Hotter!





A Hugs and Nightmares event!

This Savannah Rayne exclusive is an official announcement of some of the great events Hellfire Publishing has planned for the summer of 2013! Unfortunately this is just a taste. I can’t completely announce everything due to contract negotiations and such.
 
About Hellfire Publishing:

Hellfire Publishing...It’s all about the reader!
 

Do you want the VIP treatment? At Hellfire Publishing we believe the reader deserves the full court press and mint on their pillow. 
We hand select the writer and their story…for you! Our writers have been happy and proud to make Hellfire Publishing their home. We are a family and welcome the occasional deserving fresh voice, striving to make them feel welcome by keeping with the writers voice as much as we can, and still deliver to you a perfect piece of work. Hellfire Publishing warmly greets our readers as a guest, but hope you will want to extend your stay.

Hellfire Publishing will officially be hosting two new events, technically three, or is it four?

 will once again be reopened to the public July 12, 2013. The details and address will be supplied at a later date and that information will be available at the following places.

 

What I can tell you about submissions:

We will consider most well written fiction. We will NOT be accepting: children’s books, multi author anthologies or poetry.

Non-fiction will also be accepted.

To better connect with the reader, Hellfire Publishing has opened a Goodreads group. To kick that off, we will be having one of our famous E-Parties, Sunday June 23rd at Goodreads. Everyone that comes will be given a free eCopy of the Hellfire Publishing book of their choice.


We will also be implementing a “Bring a Friend Program,” introduced at the Good reads party and will become a part of other future Hellfire Publishing events. Everyone that comes to the party receives a free eBook... Bring a friend and you will get to pick two eBooks, bring two friends and get three eBooks, and so on and so forth. This and all other party information will be announced at a later date at the above addresses.

Starting on Facebook- June 17, 2013, anyone that signs up for our mailing list will be put in for a chance to win a huge customer appreciation basket that is being put together and will find itself in the hands of one lucky fan at our Goodreads group party. As of now the contents of the gift basket are a mystery, but will include novel and comic book lover related items! 

If you can’t make it to the party go ahead and sign up ahead a time, for your free eBook and sign up for our mailing list for a chance at that basket at www.hellfirepublishing.com at any time prior to the official party date.


Some Unofficial News:

Shhhhhhhhh!

We are working on getting in Barnes and Nobles and other brick and mortar type book stores and some of our books have popped up around on various web stores, like Barnes and Noble and Books a Million.

Our own Amazon store will be opening this summer for HP fan convenience.

Hellfire Publishing will also be opening a limited cart for libraries, book stores and book club orders.

I hope that you are as excited as we are that we can really get out there this year and touch-base with our readers and welcome more Authors into our fold.

Have an amazing summer!
Cheers,
Dawn

Dawn Binkley
Executive Editor
Hellfire Publishing

Wednesday, June 5, 2013

The Bloodbreeders Series




Today I would like to tell you about one of the hottest series I have EVER read, that is written by the most talented, up and coming author I have seen in a very long time... Robin Renee Ray. The Bloodbreeders series is like nothing I have ever read. As an author, Robin has amazing skills when it comes to taking her readers on a rollercoaster ride of emotions while reading a single book. She will have you laughing one minute, then cheering for the heroine, while swearing at a villain in the next breath, make you grimace at the detailed macabre scene description, and then reaching for a tissue. And that’s just the first chapter! LOL

I would recommend the Bloodbreeders series to anyone who loves a good story about those who live by night. Trust me when I say if you haven’t read any of the series yet, you are truly missing out on stories that will leave a lasting impression and have you wanting more! Her kind of writing talent is a rare find and those of us that have been lucky enough to read her work have been given a real literary treat! I will be a fan forever and rank her as one of my top five favorite authors of all time!

I can tell you there are several more books to come in the Bloodbreeders series…so hold on to your seats baby, cuz it’s gonna be a wild ride!


Not once in her life did farm girl Renee Crocker, imagine she would encounter a world found only in the minds of myth-seeking men. Although the things they sought were not always unheard of in the 1930’s in other parts of the world, life was just too harsh in the small Texas community, to pay mind to anything other than raising a healthy crop to ensure the survival of one’s family. But late one evening during supper, a stranger comes knocking on the door of the Crocker family farm house and is invited inside.

It doesn’t take long for Renee to discover a great number of things that people in her neck of the woods couldn’t even contemplate. The dark of night takes on a whole new meaning, and the once vulnerable young country woman finds herself struggling to survive in a world that demands she live forever in darkness.



Renee thought she had gone through the worse nightmare that any being could possibly dream up; little did she know that her adventure had just begun. Her intentions were to go back to Cuba and fulfill a promise made to the two that helped her escape the unbelievable hell that had become her life from the days of loving care back on the farm.

What she finds changes her destiny and places her path on one that was only found in the mind and tales of the ancient profits. Of course, the question remains, will she be able to fulfill the needs that have taken hold of what little heart she had left? Can the faith of a country girl with the help of those who would follow her into hell itself be enough, or will they find themselves in a situation that they cannot get out of?


Many things had come to pass long before our journey began, and we knew the time had come to seek for others. The wicked ways of the Bloodbreeders had to be stopped even if it meant we would breathe our last breath in our efforts to make that happen. For century’s many had endured unspeakable acts and, heinous torture at the hands of those they were forced to call “Master”. I was not one who could sit by and watch it continue. Not if I could do something to bring this madness down.
Abducted myself not long after I was brought into this world of darkness, I fortunately fared better than most and did not witness years of abuse as the others had and used that to my advantage. Now I had gathered a small group who would follow me into hell itself to see the Bloodbreeder world change and change for the good of all. Even if it meant we had to travel the world killing the wicked to set the innocent free…no matter who may die along the way.



About the Author…


I’m not what you call your ‘normal’ novelist by any means of the word. I never had any dreams of becoming a writer when I was growing up, but I always had a fascination with the paranormal. I began watching scary movies from the time that I can even remember watching movies, and found myself playing in cemeteries ever since I was big enough to be out at night on my own. My life story goes like this…

I dropped out of school before the tenth grade got started, married, had two little girls, losing one in her sleep when she was four months old, divorced, and all before I hit twenty years old. I remarried a few years later, raising my daughter and living happily with a very special person for the next twenty-three years. I now write full time and spend all the free time that I can with my two beautiful granddaughters.

I began writing in 2006, six months after the birth of my first grandbaby. I was there holding my daughter's hand when that tiny little girl was born. I bent down when they laid her on her mommy’s belly and kissed her little mouth, knowing that she had just changed my life in more ways than can ever be explained in words. I took a few tablets to my stomping grounds in Burkett, Texas and began scribbling out my first novel by hand. I had no clue how to type, spell, and had very little knowledge of proper grammar, but four months later, I had a complete novel—the beginning of a five book series, that is now one book away from being complete. Bloodbeeders: Living in Darkness is the first book in the series. I have since learned a bit about the skills it takes to be a writer and now have more than a few books under my belt.; )

I think since I have become a writer one of my main goals is to become the next female version of the late, great, Alfred Hitchcock. I wrote a book of short horror stories thinking of him, because to me, there will never be anyone that thought anywhere near the way he did when it came to true horror. I just think he was a little loopy, but who am I to talk? I’m just a long haired tree hugger, who plays in haunted houses and the oldest, scariest, cemeteries that I can find…lol. 

You can find Robin at any of the following links listed below...

Tuesday, June 4, 2013

Meet Maria Savva, author of Delusion and Dreams




We all struggle to find our way. What you see isn't necessarily all there is. This collection takes you into the grey area, because the world is never just black and white.

Life is all about perspective. One person's delusion is another person's dream.

Includes five bonus stories.







About the book trailer:

Within my short story collection, Delusion and Dreams, there is a story titled ‘Delusion and Dreams’, in fact it’s a story in four parts. The two main characters in the story are Jack and Jessie. They were friends at college. When we meet them in the story, it’s 20 years later. This is a story of regret, love, obsession, and most of all it’s about dreams. My book trailer is all about that story.

I made the trailer using photographs from morguefile.com, a wonderful site where photographers allow people to use their photos for free.

The music for the trailer, is a haunting, reflective tune, which I thought suited the story well. I found the music on a site where the musician was giving away certain tracks free subject to a link to his website being added: http://www.pacdv.com/sounds 

I hope you enjoy the trailer.


Author Bio:

Maria Savva lives and works in London. She studied Law at Middlesex University and The College of Law. She is a lawyer, although not currently practicing law. She writes novels and short stories in different genres, including drama, psychological thriller, and family saga. Many of her books and stories are inspired by her years working as a lawyer, although she has not written a courtroom drama to date. Her most recent novel is Haunted, a crime fiction/psychological thriller. 





You can find Maria at the following…
Blog 





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