The Sky is Falling!

I follow a lot of blogs so I open my Google reader many times per day. I try to read them all even if I don't comment on every one. I opened my reader today and see a notice saying Google is doing away with the reader soon. This makes me sad, hence why the title. :( I downloaded another reader called FeedDemon, but I'm not sure how good it is yet and I appear to not have all my feeds transported from Google. If anyone has suggestions on a better rss reader, please let me know.

For those who haven't liked my blogs Facebook page, do so now so you can make sure you keep up to date on my posts.

Today my daughter said, "Mom I am glad we don't live back when they didn't have electricity." I can relate. Our apartment building was having some electrical work done so we went 5 hours without electric. So what's a writing witch to do when she has no distractions? Write of course!

Head on over to The Wiccan Pen and read my new story, Destined to Love: Prologue and Chapter One. If you love hunky men who happen to howl at the moon then you'll love this story. ;)

Mommy moment of the day: Sierra fed Wyatt chocolate pudding which he proceeded to wipe all over my couch. So Sierra got some vinegar mixed with water to clean it up. Wyatt threw a fit and wanted to drink what she had. Sierra tried to keep it away from him. Finally I said, "Just give it to him." I wish I had a camera then, because my son gagged and raced to me with the most awesome face a mothers ever seen. hehe. I'll be telling that to all his future girlfriends. Maybe now he's learned a lesson. Be careful what you wish for. ;)

How did your day go?

The New Death & Others

Hello My lovely Readers,

I've been given the great honor of reviewing a book titled The New Death and Others by James Hutchings. Mr. Hutchings book is a collection of 44 fantasy short stories and 19 poems featuring Death, non-sparkly vampires, succubus, witches, Gods and many more interesting creatures.
If you like fantasy, Science fiction, and folk stories that walk on the darker side of life then this book is for you.

Mr. Hutchings is from Melbourne, Australia and has a bachelor of Arts and majored in Creative writing.  His favorite type of writing is Science fiction and fantasy. Some of the authors he loves to read is JRR Tolkien, Jack Vance, Robert E Howard, Terry Pratchett and Lord Dunsany.

When I asked if he gets discouraged in his writing and how he overcomes creative difficulties he said,

"I get discouraged a lot. Usually it's when people don't like something I've written as much as I do, or when I run out of ideas halfway through a story. One thing I do is make a point of writing every day, even when I don't feel like it. This helps get through temporary slumps. I think if you wait for inspiration to strike it never will."

My favorite is his opening story about the Gods and who has dominion over each group of humans. As someone who is near homeless at the moment, I love his conclusion. I won't give the story away though, you'll have to read it for yourself. 

The New Death and Others is available for download at Amazon and Smashwords.  

For a limited time this book is available for free on Amazon.