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Gracias por visitar www.darragha.com. Darragha Foster es la autora de libros románticos, raros, y paranormales. Muchos de los libros contienen personajes que pueden cambiar sus aspectos físicos. ¡A Darragha le gustan comentarios en cualquier idioma de los visitantes a su sitio!
Coming in October from Liquid Silver Books
A vampire trilogy "Of Flesh and Blood"
From Darragha Foster: Polishing Saber
These ain't your mama's Carpathians, baby!
From Tina Holland: Dealing with the Dead
Vampires, Werewolves and Zombies - OH MY
From Celine Chatillion: Blood Betrayal
One fatal night in Istanbul will change Vlad's afterlife forever. Can he abide a "Blood Betrayal?"
I passed the psych eval necessary as a part of the pre-op scenario before having lapband surgery today. I realize many of you might disagree as to the status of my mental health, but if nothing else, I can share this: NOT telling a psychologist that you enjoy covering yourself in green Jel-O is a good thing :)
I have a tentative date of September 19th scheduled. After tomorrow, after I meet the surgeon and he determines whether or not I need a sleep study, the date will get set in stone.
Darr
I am currently reading Roxy Harte's "Sacred Revelations" the sequel to "Sacred Secrets." Roxy's writings bring out such strong emotions in me. I think that's the point of her books, too.
I'm also reading "Plenty: a year of eating locally." Not sure I could give up coffee, which is far from local unless you live where it is grown. No coffee is the same problem I had with Sacred Secrets. The heroine in that book had to give up coffee, too. I was screaming, "Give that woman her cup of coffee!" at my computer screen. By the time I finish "Plenty" I bet the author's husband will have screamed the same phrase a time or two.
Coffee. The tie that binds.
Darr
Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert.
Page one, I was laughing out loud.
By page 33, I was sitting in the bathroom (the only place I ever get a chance to read sometimes) giggling, and my family was outside the door asking "What are you doing in there?" To which I replied, "Reading!"
Reading this book is like eating a rich, delicate pastry and drinking espresso with all the bills paid, the kids asleep and a private butler named "Giovonni" at your beck and call on a fabulous cruise.
I am completely in love with this book. I was turning down pages to mark passages I liked, then gave up on that and grabbed my trusty highlighter. Here's one of my favorites:
"In Venice in the Middle Ages there was once a profession for a man called a codega--a fellow you hired to walk in front of you at night with a lit lantern, showing you the way, scaring off thieves and demons, brining you confidence and protection through the dark streets."
I could write a whole novella about a "Codega." One little passage in this book and I learn something new and run with it. Now that's a good book!
So, darlings, if you don't want to read something I've written (ah, please?) then PLEASE consider Eat, Pray, Love.
The contest days are past. I'm back at the day job. I go for my lapband surgical consult next week.
The Orca King, II is at 20,000 words and is progressing nicely. :)
What's new with you?
Darr
This is it! The final question for July! We made it! I have to go back to the day job now! Good thing I've nearly finished The Orca King, II and turned in my final edits on Mooncusser Cove and Polishing Saber! WOOT!
Today's winner wins a book by Jamie Craig!
What movie is this from?
When I was growing up, I knew I was different. The other girls were blonde and delicate, and I was a swarthy six-year-old with sideburns.
I soooo relate to this quote, being what one of my uncles used to call "a hairy little Arab." My father is Egyptian/Syrian/Irish. Man, all my life I've had enough black hair to wrap three or four kids in.
Enjoy! And check back tomorrow because I've another month-long event starting!
Darr
What movie are these two lines from:
"Friend, some of your folding money has come unstowed."
and
"Oh, George, not the livestock."
Today's winner, on this 30th day, wins Thirty Days by Shayla Kersten!
Name that gangster!
"When I sell liquor, it's called bootlegging; when my patrons serve it on Lake Shore Drive, it's called hospitality."
Today's winner will receive a book "Gaps in Your Soul" by Shayla Kersten!
Scene: Doe Bay Resort organic restaurant on Orcas Island. Players: Tommy (the son of Big Tom) and Rule Jentry, the heroine. (I also use this photo for "Tommy.")
~*~
"I never joke about the power of an orgasm to disrupt the time space continuem." (Tommy)
"Beam me freakin' up!" Rule laughed and pulled a layer of cheese off her pizza. "Miss?" she called. "Could we get a box, please?"
Today's winner will receive a download of Tina Holland's "The Last Virgin in Vegas."
Who said this: The night before I left Las Vegas I walked out in the desert to look at the moon. There was a jeweled city on the horizon, spires rising in the night, but the jewels were diadems of electric and the spires were the neon of signs ten stories high.
Enjoy!
Darr
Let peace, descending from her native heaven, bid her olives spring amidst the joyful nations; and plenty, in league with commerce, scatter blessings from her copious hand!
Who said this beautiful quote?
Today's winner will receive a download of "The Trouble with Allie" by Lisa Andel.
Okay...they were cute and sleeping for a good hour tonight. However, the 10 week old kitten still does not understand that the 13 year old miniature dachshund does not want to play :(
Today's winner will receive a download of Passionate Destiny! Thank you, Dee S. Knight for stepping up on a day I didn't have filled!
And now for the question! What movie is this line from:
Boy, I got vision, and the rest of the world wears bifocals.
What movie is this from?
"Badges? We ain't got no badges! We don't need no badges. I don't have to show you any stinkin' badges!"
Bonus question:
Who are Blondie, Tucco and Angel Eyes?
Today's winner will receive a book by Rhiannon Neeley (but I'm not sure which one yet!) and the bonus winner will receive an e-copy of my first novel, "Love's Second Sight."
Nineteen years ago today I was sitting on a bus, riding home from Portland, wondering what the Hell I was doing with my life. I'd been acting as a "people mover" for a Fife and Drum Corps and Brass Band composed of 600 twelve to eighteen year olds. It was very late at night. The kids were sleeping. All around me the other adults on the bus were chanting Nam-myoho-renge-kyo softly. I'd been practicing Buddhism for about five years at that point. We'd just held a large festival in Portland. I'm a member of the SGI-USA.
I was sitting next to a young man I'd gone to high school with. He joined the Army right out of school, so we didn't meet up again for for several years. We both showed up at the same SGI-USA meeting a few months prior to the Portland convention. Someone in their infinite wisdom figured Denny and I would make a good team for chaperoning the kids. I thought he was the most handsome man I'd ever seen in my life. Problem was: I was married.
I'd been married to the wrong man for five years. I lived in an abusive relationship, where my husband often chose reckless behavior, alcohol and drugs over our relationship. I'd been chanting for this guy's happiness and protection (to which he chucked shoes at me while I was chanting putting big holes in our apartment interior doors). Our relationship was not unlike Tina Turner's marriage as shown in the movie "What's Love Got to Do With It?"
So, here I was, sitting on a bus, wondering what I'm going to do when I get home. Well, first things first--my ex-husband would want me to partake in his constant worship of the cannabis plant. He'd probably greet me at the door with his bong in hand. No, "Hi, honey, how was the convention?" But rather a, "Wanna get stoned? No? You don't? Well f*** y**." He would often become verbally abusive, calling me, c**t, b**ch, wh**e, when I declined his offers to "worship" with him--if you get my meaning.
Here I am a non-smoker, who married a tobacco and weed addict, who was never more than a few steps away from his ciggies or his bong. Lesson learned: do not marry the first man who says he loves you, especially when the surprise he has for you is pot drying on his dashboard in the sun. I was hoping for chocolate, you know? Like...what was I thinking?
Back to the bus: as I listened to the soft chanting around me, I suddenly realized that I didn't want to be around drugs or the lifestyle I had fallen into any longer, I didn't love my husband, and all I really wanted to do was practice Buddhism with my whole heart. And then there was this big guy sitting next to me who really turned my cookies. But he was in a relationship, too. He, however, I found out later, was just as attracted to me as I was to him.
As I chanted softly, embracing the truth of my situation, a brilliant light filled my life--I don't know how else to describe it. I suddenly understood the phrase, "absolute freedom from the Law of Cause and Effect" and knew what I needed to do. Had I been a Christian, I would have said, "I was delivered from my sufferings" at that moment. I needed to tell the husband that it was the drugs or me and it was time for him to choose.
I returned home and told my husband just that: it was either he go to treatment and save our marriage or he could leave and go live with his brother and they could smoke dope and play video games all day together. He chose to leave. That was quite a blow having a man choose marijuana over me, but hey...it all worked out.
Flash forward from July 24, 1988 to February 12, 1990. I picked up that handsome man, Denny, and gave him a ride as he was walking in the rain. Seems he and his girlfriend had split up and he was living at his brother's house. In the parking lot of the store he was heading for, we kissed. We haven't stopped since.
Two weeks after we officially started dating we were engaged. Six months after that, August 11, 1990, we were married. Eighteen months after that we had a baby. And we're still chanting, still loving and still going strong.
Early in our marriage, we chanted together for the happiness of our ex's and that our relationship would be beneficial for everyone concerned. Denny's ex-girlfriend married a very nice man within a few months of our marriage. My ex husband went to treatment!
I am married to my mate from the infinite past. I survived a terrible first marriage to see the light at the end of the tunnel and now I stay in that light, baby!
Today, July 24th, is the day I consider my personal Independence Day.
So...answer me this:
Who wrote this: True love should be transformative, a process that amplifies our capacity to cherish not just one person but all people. It can make us stronger, lift us higher and deepen us as individuals. Only to the extent that one polishes oneself now can one hope to develop wonderful bonds of the heart in the future.
Today's winner will receive a download of my novel, The Orca King.
Please post your replies.
Thank you!
Darragha
No Sword-Wielding, Card-Playing, Therapy-Seeking French Freedom Fighters were deflowered during the production of this motion picture. However, rumors of Custer and Pocahontas remain unconfirmed.
This is an example of a "crazy credit" disclaimer that appeared at the end of just about every episode of one of my favorite TV shows. What's the name of the show?
Today's winner receives a download of Your Desire by Dee S. Knight.
Darr :)
Who wrote:
"Love isn't how you feel, it's what you do."
Today's winner receives a download of "Hey! I'm Hanging with a Time Surfer" by Celine Chatilion.
Please post your reply!
Enjoy--
Darr
Who said this:
Great balls of fire. Don't bother me anymore, and don't call me sugar.
Today's winner receives a download of Wayne Greenough's book, "For the Love of Erika." Did I mention that he's my stepfather? :)
Darr
Today's winner receives a download of Roxy Harte's "Sacred Secrets." I'll tell you, I yelled at this book! It brought out very strong emotions in me. Roxy really, really knows how to write and at least with me, knew all my hot spots. Had it been a paperback, I would have chucked it against the wall because I was so angry with the "hero." Nothing comes between me and my....(you'll have to read the book to find out what he keeps from the heroine that I, personally, refuse to give up under any circumstances)
Sooo....who wrote this line:
"It is easy to tell among girls which are familiar with their condition and which are not. Once a girl truly understands that she is a slave, and there is no escape for her, once she understands it truly, emotionally, categorically, intellectually, physiologically, totally, deeply, profoundly, in every cell in her beautiful body, a fantastic transformation occurs in her. She then knows she is truly a slave. She then becomes wild and free, and sexual, and cares not that she might be scorned by the free either for her miserable condition or helpless appetites; she knows she will be what she must; she has no choice; she is slave.
Which TV character's maiden name was "Lucy McGillicuddy?"
Today's winner will receive a download of my ebook "Cold, Hard Kash" the first in my Shadow Lover Tale series.
It's my husband's birthday, too. Be sure to wish Denny "Happy Birthday!" (I'll show him the posts tonight.)
Thanks!
Darr
What is this?
What do its symbols represents?
(I have several of these, in various designs, nailed to my front and back porch)
Today's winner will receive a download of a Denyse Bridger (but I don't know which book yet!)
Darragha
What is Proxima Centauri?
Post your replies! Today's winner receives a download of Alien Communion by Xandra Gregory (one of my personal favorite books).
Darr :)
Which country has this phrase as it's "unofficial motto?"
Better shoeless than booklessToday's winner receives a download of TA Chase's No Going Home.
Who wrote: I will not send lard through the mail
Today's winner will receive a download of by Lucinda Thorne--Agatha Baine, Undercover Passion!
Who said this? And do you know what bombast means without having to look it up?
How now my sweet creature of bombast?
Today's winner receives a download of "Price of a Tattooed Soul" by Vivian Dean.
What movie is this line from:
You're why cavemen chiseled on walls.
Today's winner gets the Great Wall of China, two pyramids, a 1930 Rolls Royce Phantom and a download of The Pilot and the Pin Up by Tina Holland.
However, the winner is responsible for shipping and handling on all prizes except the ebook. That, will come to you free of charge.
Post your reply :)
Darr
PS If you've won before you can win again. And darlings, please do the poll to your right!
Picture No. 1 was my "concept" for the cover of Mooncusser Cove.
Picture No. 2 was the fabulous April Martinez's first draft.
Picture No. 3 is a done deal. The cover for Mooncusser Cove.
And you're seeing it here first! You lucky people :)
(I'm not even sure the gods of LSB have seen it yet! My bad?)
Darr
What movie is this line from?
Look, Huxley, why don't we just do it the old-fashioned way? [ Huxley stands up, shocked] Eeewww, disgusting! You mean... *fluid transfer*?
Today's winner will receive a download of "Losing It" by Kate Willoughby.
Please post your reply.
 Who is she, and to whom does she make this speech?
Today's winner receives a download of an ebook by Lisa Andel!
Enjoy!
Who said this?
I recognized your foul stench when I was brought on board.
Today's winner receives a download of The Sword and the Sorceress by Renee Michaels!
Please post your replies!
The remodel of my office is at hand. Under the floorboards* my husband found some 1958 newspapers. So, my question comes from one of them. My question comes, in fact, from the Bellingham Sunday Herald of September 14, 1958.
Who was the NY Yankees catcher-outfielder in 1958? (He was catcher from 1946-1963)
Clue: the catcher-outfielder's name is the same as one of these:
A) a famous cartoon bear
B) a candy bar with a white wrapper
C) a different candy bar with a brown wrapper
*putting up new sheetrock and fixing the floor where it was bi-level. the house was built in 1890 and there are no square walls, even floors or closets. and no, i'm not a huge baseball fan. but if I were, i'd yell GO MARINERS!
Today's winner will receive a download of Tiffany Aaron's book!
What is a male breeding horse called?
what is a female breeding horse called?
What is the common name for a baby horse?
These questions come from my daughter, the horsewoman. Post your reply for a chance to win an ebook by Taige Crenshaw!
Darr
Who said, "Boil that dust spec?"
Today's winner will receive Amusing Amanda by DJ Manly!
Please post your replies :)
And don't forget: Dare to with Darragha!
From whence comes a Thneed?
Today's winner receives a download of Forbidden by Lila DuBois.
Please post your replies :)
What is a group of the following animals called?
(example: a POD of whale, a PACK of dogs, a MESS of officers)
Unicorns
Cows
Frogs
Rhinos
Kangaroos
Crows
Larks
Owls
Today's winner will receive a copy of "Who is Offing the Collectors: A Thanet Blake Mystery" written by MY STEPFATHER, Wayne Greenough and published by Aspen Mountain Press.
For an extra ebook today...ummm...one of mine--your choice of download format--and because it is Independence Day and because I was thinking about "freedom" and what it means to me, who said this:
Freedom doesn’t mean the absence of all restrictions. It means possessing unshakable conviction in the face of any obstacle. This is true freedom.
Post your reply. Thank you!
Dare to...with Darragha
More TV trivia. Who said this?
"I don't like threats, I don't like bullies, and I don't like you!"
Today's winner gets a download of Ashlyn Chase's "Wonder Witch!"
Happy Independence Day to all us Yanks. Celebrate it by keeping the bang in the bedroom where it belongs and away from your kids and husbands, who always gravitate toward the Roman Candles and quarter sticks of dynamite sold to make today a "rip-roaring good time" (for paramedics and emergency room staff).
TV trivia.
Who posed this question?
"Eaten any good books lately?"
Today's winner will receive a Measure of a Man download by the incomparable Bonnie Dee!
What is Chirophobia?
A) The fear of spinal maniuplation
B) The fear of chiropractors
C) The fear of hands
D) The fear of Egypt
Reply by posting :)
Today's winner will receive an ebook from Colleen Love!
Like most e-authors (and many print-only authors) I have a day job. I'm about to embark on 31 days of V A C A T I O N. I'll be home, working edits on Polishing Saber and Mooncusser Cove, writing The Orca King, II, and outlining my next, which is supposed to be a Terran Realm novel.
Thirty-one days. Thirty-one mini-contests, culminating in one grand prize winner on July 31st.
Look for more information on how to enter on July 1st! By then, I'll have figured out what the grand prize should be, too. :) Any thoughts?
Darr
 The Romans Leaving Britain by Sir John Everett Millais.
I look at this painting and see a magnificent story--one that I hope to write soon :)
What do you see?
I hang at this place when I need inspiration.
The winners have been notified! The gods are smiling. The contest blurb has been removed. The sun is shining! And I am smiling, too!
Darr :)
Monday, June 18th, the gods return. Bound together in e-format, they are struggling against their ethereal chains, eager to become corporeal. Their tales may be too big to contain in a tradeback--but Liquid Silver is going to try to contain them, anyway. But first--in e-form. The gods urge you to take them home in e-format. They'll be very good to you. Not necessarily obidient, but naughty can be so much fun! Then, when your airspace and computer is filled by them, welcome them a second time. Harder. Fuller. Smoother. Able to collect dust and get dog-eared. A great gift for your mother!
The gods want to go home with you. They're always looking for new adherents. Oh, and they have a few new things to say (added text) in this 3-in-one treasure, too :)
Enjoy. You know they will :)
Darragha
I signed a contract on 5/26/07 and another today, 6/7/07. Two books on the way, babies! Of Flesh and Blood: Polishing Saber and Mooncusser Cove are in the Liquid Silver Books pipeline!
And the sequel to The Orca King is at 8000 words and I just wrote the first love scene. The hero of this still unnamed sequel (HELP ME! PLEASE!) is Tommy, Big Tom's son. The heroine (who has the same name as my heroine in Polishing Saber because I'm stuck on the darn name and I need to come up with a different one! I'll take your help here, too!) is getting ready to chase some whale tail :)
I love writing. I love sending my ideas off into the ethers to be pulled into your computers where you are both amused and titillated by my prose. What more could a girl like me ask for?
Not a heck of a lot, I'll tell you!
Darr!
oooo...Dare to with Darragha! (I just came up with a new tag line!)
Okay...lose the tattoo (which I haven't quite figured out how to remove in PhotoShop yet) and this guy is a fairly good representation of Gisli (Geezli), my environmentalist shifter/vampire in Polishing Saber.
Here's a little snippet about Gisli:
Gisli cursed under his breath at the opening of the clay tomb found buried in a niche in the cliffs by an eiderdown gatherer. It was a remarkable find. One with dire consequences. He had long rued the day; wished for it never to come.
He had thought the item well-hidden. He had been entrusted to preserve it as a reminder of the great war between the Hidden Folk and the witches; a silent memorial in hopes that such wickedness would never live to serve and control humankind again.
The Old Ones, Gisli included, had grown complacent and even arrogant and vein thinking that they had ridden the world of men and women from the fabric of evil.
The moment the warm hand of the down gatherer touched the clay sarcophagus, Gisli awoke from his long sleep and he realized his dreams of a secure homeland were false and misleading. The ever vigilant, but rarely combatant Hidden Folk, called him to action. He was responsible, thereby he was charged to put right the situation.
He, himself, had sealed the baked earthen box and witnessed in silence as volunteer Hidden Folk transported it and hid it deep inside the basalt of Grimsey. They had sacrificed their lives to the sea after that last great act to protect the secret.
Only Gisli remained—and he went into deep hibernation.
Four hundred years passed. Time, tide, wind and rain had eroded just enough of the crypt to make it the perfect place for eider ducks to nest and leave behind their soft, highly sought-after down.
The man who found the box didn't know what it was--but knew enough to phone the Museum of Sorcery and Witchcraft in Hólmavík, a small fishing village in the western fjords. It was no coincidence that said museum had been founded so far off the beaten track. It had been built upon the epicenter of witchcraft in Iceland. In the lands sacred to the Hidden Folk. In the lands coveted by developers.
Hopefully, there is room in the hearts and computers of readers for a new breed of vampire. This ain't your mama's Carpathian. This is a blood-sucking, shape-shifting , very blonde, very attractive Old One out to save Iceland from developers. So, what do you think about a vampire with a mission? Darr
This is my "idea bank" that I'm offering to Tina and Celine to fuel our "creative process." If YOU see something that just makes you scream: "I must buy this vampire anthology right now!" Let us know, huh? Thanks!
stock photos #1
stock photos #2
stock photos #3
stock photos #4
oooooo....what about this one?
the beauty of April Martinez is that she can change colors on this kind of stuff to suit our needs.
I like this one, quite a bit. Darr
Hi
For comments on the cover art process, I've opened posting today to anyone. No Google Account needed. Play nice, please :)
Thank you,
Darragha :)
It's time for Tina Holland, Celine Chatillion and I to put our pretty heads together and come up with a plan for the cover art for "Of Flesh and Blood."
LSB uses the fabulous April Martinez and her stable of artists to produce our cover art. I am not a fan of poser covers, so I opt for "stock art" morphing to get the cover I envision. It's either use stock art or go for hand-drawn art, like from LW Perkins--which takes longer but can have amazing results. There's also the "anime-type" covers that Ann Cain does.
Tina, Celine and I like the two posted stock art photos. April will, of course, change the covers (hair color, background, etc.) to match our vision--so it's basically the pose we're looking at. Why these two?
1) because they have not been downloaded 1000 times
2) because I haven't seen them on other covers right off
3) because both are a bit different than the standard "nekkid male torso" cover
Now: here are our questions to you.
A) Which would catch you eye most?
B) Why? (example: I wouldn't buy a vampire erotica book with a female on the cover or other reason)
So, please...share your thoughts. They are valued!
Thanks,
Darragha
Completely off the cuff blurb for Polishing Saber, because I haven't *really* written said blurb yet. So, read away and please improve upon it as you will! Thanks!
Polishing Saber is not your average vampire tale. No Carpathians. No dark, brooding, deadly handsome men wanting to give you the ultimate hickey. Polishing Saber's vampire is one of the Old Ones--kin to the Hidden Folk in Icelandic mythology. Shape-shifters, too, they have protected their homeland for millennia from the insidious draugur--witches wearing dead man's trousers. The Necropants. Flayed from the skin of a corpse, steeped with magic runes and foul desires to control, usurp and bring unhealthy changes to Iceland, the Necropants have a will of their own. Including the need for their wearer to consume blood.
Necropants have been found. An Old One has awakened. Big business is planning the utter destruction of Iceland's pristine wilderness. And Saber Evangelista holds the key that all three forces wish to possess.
Saber, an African-American/Korean descent American woman with a kick-ass attitude, brains more powerful than Einstein's and a fabulous booty is all about the money. Transferred to Iceland as a computer consultant for AlumaTrends, Saber's poor choices from the past catch up with her when she finds herself in bed--literally and figuratively--with forces from both sides.
I invite Celine and Tina to post their blurbs! In a comment or email them to me and I'll post them here later tonight.
Please email me your snail mail address at darragha @ gmail.com (no spaces)
Thanks to all who posted!
Darr
But darn it--I'm having trouble picking a title.
Basis: Saber has completely lost faith that true love exists. While reading "The Orca King" ebook, she devices a plan to destroy a street on Orca Island called "Lover's Lane." While staying at Doe Bay in a little cabin directly across from the Sweet Spot Yurt, she notices a very attractice man, who smiles slyly at her and makes her thing that perhaps one more romp wouldn't hurt before she swears off me and goes to jail for defacing public property. While relaxing in the natural hot springs at Doe Bay, a Shamanic pracitioner/student from Bastyr University tells her that the reason she hasn't been able to spot the very special albino deer that hands out at Doe Bay is perhaps because Saber and the deer share a spirit. They can't be in the same place at the same time. Saber learns to embrace her difficulties as well as successess while getting to know (and romp with) the handsome man in the Sweet Spot Yurt. Eventually she will discover the truth about herself, and this man.
This book is written with humor--as it pokes fun at me! The author of the Orca King!
Some title ideas:
Doing In Lover’s Lane
In Search of Lover’s Lane
Doe Bay
Doing Doe Bay
Finding the Sweet Spot
The Orca Prince
After the Orca King
Chasing Orca
At the Crossroads of Enchanted Forest and Lover’s Lanes
The Orca King Rides Again
Doing the Albino
Making Waves in the Forest
The Orca King, Jr.
Deer Orca King
Fiction Walking
Fiction Swimming
The Sweet Spot
The Sweet Spot Yurt
Son of Big Tom
What do you think? The person who helps me develop the title will receive a free copy of the book when it comes out. Thanks! Darr
I'm going to Pirates No. 3 today! But here's my favorite clip (taken by me, with my camera posed at the TV while my daughter hit pause on the DVD) from Pirates No. 2.
****hours later****
All righty then. POTC3 has all of the stuff that made the first movie SO WONDERFUL and all of the fabulous CGI effects that made the second movie so facinating. I've never been a big fan of incredibly thin actresses who should be eating a sandwhich instead of shopping for another size zero dress, but goodness...Keira Knightly was astoundingly good in this movie. She steals the show. She is no shrinking violet, I dare say. She is the King. There was just enough romance tossed into this wild adventure to make me gush with delight and of course, we meet Jack Sparrow's father. And mother. Kind of.
Loved it. Walked out the theater door and went back to the box office and bought tickets for Sunday 10:30 a.m Me and the kid loved this movie!
Darr
Jerrod didn’t recall how he felt about public displays of affection in his life before Vesper Highgate-Adaire. He didn’t recall so many things. This, open mouth, full-on body clutching soul-kiss in the fresh meats section of the Marshes Coomb grocery market therefore, felt like a ‘first.’ As exciting as a first time and with twice as much anticipation and need as any other kiss he’d shared with this delightful daughter of a Mooncusser. I'm proofing Mooncusser Cove today, and yanno...I like this scene. Damn. If I were a reader and read this, I'd want to read more. Ego alert: Sometimes I'm so brilliant! HA! Darr :)
Polishing Saber is my novella in the upcoming Liquid Silver Books vampire anthology "Of Flesh and Blood." Polishing Saber is not your traditional vampire story. No Carpathians or Urban Angsty vampires here! Mine is an environmentalist vampire on a mission to save Iceland from greedy developers. He finds his champion in the form of Saber Evangelista, the woman with the key to the developers' dreams--but before he can enlist her aid, he has to put a shine on her attitude...
Excerpt, Chapter Four (with apologies to my own sweet mini-dachshund, Lyle)
The security guard didn’t know what to do. He’d never had trouble of this kind at the Pearl before. In fact, other than the occasional tourist shoplifting a trinket from the souvenir shop, his job was fairly uneventful. He placed his strong arm around the shaken woman. With a heavy German accent pervading her attempt to speak English to the guard, she described a horror he found hard to grasp. Had she been drinking? He sniffed her hair as she sobbed. No. There was no alcohol on her person. He cautiously peeked under her shawl. Sad brown eyes looked up at him, and a little tail wagged slightly—below what clearly looked like a human bite mark.
“I put his little leash around the pole and used the restroom ever so briefly. When I returned, he was gone. My little boy was gone.”
A miniature dachshund. Her little boy. The guard rubbed his beard thoughtfully. “And then you found him behind the potted plant?”
“Yes. With the horrible wound on his back!” the woman sobbed.
The guard stroked the red-coat dog’s smooth coat. “He seems fine, but you had better take him to the animal hospital on Langholtsvegur.”
“Someone bit my dog! He is not fine!”
“I have alerted the police, Mrs.—one will be here shortly. I must go examine the area where you dog was injured now. Will you be all right alone for a moment?” the guard asked.
The woman nodded and held her dog closer to her chest. There was a very miniscule ring of blood on the shawl above the dog’s hind end. Who would bite a dog? He thought immediately that a small child had stumbled across the hound and teethed upon the friendly little beast—but the bite marks were too large for a child. It was an adult. A lunatic. A lunatic at the Pearl. Or perhaps one of the Hidden Folk—the Yule Lad, Bjúgnakrækir, the sausage pilfer, came six months early and thought the little wiener dog was food. The guard chuckled. That would be something, indeed.
For sh*ts and giggles
I give good readings. Norse Tarot readings. The cards are my own design. I've been doing readings as "party favors" for 35 years. I've been doing readings quite successfully on the Liquid Silver forum for quite awhile, too. When I was 13 years old I could have gone professional, but my mother, in her infinite wisdom, protected me from becoming a local media victim. She is a retired psychic minister. I grew up around this stuff! She taught me to share my gift and never to charge exorbitant amounts. I've been charging $5.00 for twenty years, or just doing that "party favor thing." I'm going to start offering personal, full readings via email to my blog visitors. Not three-card quickies like I do on the forum. $5.00 per question (one question per reading, please). No "life and death" questions. Remember, readings are supposed to be fun! You can pay by paypal or you can buy one of my books, forward me the receipt at darragha @ gmail. com (no spaces) and I'll accept that as payment.If you want a three-card quickie for free, ask at the forum :) Thank you, and I look forward to tossing the cards for you! Darr Love's Second Sight (ebook and paperback) The Orca King (ebook only [for now] named in the top 25 of the most unusual paranormal characters in the last 25 years by Romantic Times BookLover's Magazine) Cold, Hard Kash (ebook only. my mother liked this one!) Teaching Old Gods New Tricks (ebook for now...soon to be in print! a trilogy in one volume) A Witch in Time (ebook. a "witchy" anthology. My tale is "Spell-Crafted for Pleasure") Mooncusser Cove (ebook. will go to print depending upon e-sales) Of Flesh and Blood (a vampire anthology. My tale is "Polishing Saber."
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