Wednesday, April 30, 2014

A to Z Blogging Challenge - Z

Blogging from A to Z Challenge 2014

Guess the movie!
"It's amazing how quickly things can go from bad to total shit storm."


Highlight below for the answer:

Zombieland

Tuesday, April 29, 2014

A to Z Blogging Challenge - Y

Blogging from A to Z Challenge 2014

Guess the movie!
"Igor, help me with the bags." 
[Imitating Groucho Marx] "Soitenly. You take the blonde, I'll take the one in the toiben." 
"I was talking about the luggage."

Highlight below for the answer:

Young Frankenstein

Monday, April 28, 2014

A to Z Blogging Challenge - X

Blogging from A to Z Challenge 2014

Guess the movie!
"The first boy I ever kissed ended up in a coma for three weeks. I can still feel him inside my head. It's the same with you."
Highlight below for the answer:

X-Men

Saturday, April 26, 2014

A to Z Blogging Challenge - W

Blogging from A to Z Challenge 2014

Guess the movie!
"Computer, define 'dancing.'"


Highlight below for the answer:

Wall-E

Friday, April 25, 2014

A to Z Blogging Challenge - V and Cephalopod Coffeehouse Chat - Blood Song

Blogging from A to Z Challenge 2014

Guess the movie!
"A silver stake? A crucifix? What, did you think we haven't tried everything before? We've shot him, stabbed him, clubbed him, sprayed him with holy water, staked him through the heart, and STILL he lives! Do you understand? No-one knows how to kill Dracula!" 
"Well, I could have used that information a little earlier."


Highlight below for the answer:

Van Helsing
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Cephalopod Coffeehouse Chat - Blood Song


From the ArmChair Squid: “The idea is simple: on the last Friday of each month, post about the best book you've finished over the past month while visiting other bloggers doing the same. In this way, we'll all have the opportunity to share our thoughts with other enthusiastic readers."

“I hate waiting.” – Inigo Montoya, The Princess Bride

Either my taste has changed over the years, my patience has thinned, or there are a lot of blah books out there anymore.

So when I started a new book, I skimmed the first paragraph, the first page, and started the next.

Then I screeched to a halt in the middle of the second page and turned back to the first sentence.

I made a sound. Like a sigh or a gasp, I don’t remember. But a person makes this kind of sound when the waiting is over. Not just for a good book but to fill the time with something close to The Kingkiller Chronicles by Patrick Rothfuss. Mr. Rothfuss wrote one of the best epic fantasy series ever beginning with The Name of the Wind. Now I’m waiting, waiting, waiting for the third and final in the series.

And what to do with my time but look for a book that equals that pinnacle of fantasy.

I found it. Blood Song by Anthony Ryan:
Vaelin al Sorna faces death for years of apparent misdeeds. According to the people of the country he invaded at his king’s command, he has much to answer for. But no one’s heard his side of the story, a tale of his beginnings, of fear and hardship.

Vaelin doesn’t care if you forgive him or not. Sympathy has no place in his world.
These days, with Borders closed down and Barnes and Noble apparently about to, I buy e-books. Sad, I know but that’s how it is. I download a sample, read it through, and then decide whether to buy the digital version.

But sometimes, a strange thing happens. I read a page or two of the sample then, without reading further, buy the book.

Sometimes, even stranger, the book is so good that I buy the glue-and-paper kind too.

That phenomenon has happened twice. First time with The Name of the Wind. And now with Blood Song.

If epic fantasy is your oxygen, this book is for you.


Don’t delay. Buy it.

Sign up for the Cephalopod Coffeehouse Chat Room.

Thursday, April 24, 2014

A to Z Blogging Challenge - U and Destruction by Sharon Bayliss, part II

Blogging from A to Z Challenge 2014

Guess the movie!
"Adventure is out there!"
Highlight below for the answer:




Up
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Title: Destruction
Authors: Sharon Bayliss
Series: The December People, Book One
Publication Date: April 14, 2014
Genre: Contemporary Fantasy

Synopsis
David Vandergraff wants to be a good man. He goes to church every Sunday, keeps his lawn trim and green, and loves his wife and kids more than anything. Unfortunately, being a dark wizard isn't a choice.

Eleven years ago, David's secret second family went missing. When his two lost children are finally found, he learns they suffered years of unthinkable abuse. Ready to make things right, David brings the kids home even though it could mean losing the wife he can’t imagine living without.

Keeping his life together becomes harder when the new children claim to be dark wizards. David believes they use this fantasy to cope with their trauma. Until, David's wife admits a secret of her own—she is a dark wizard too, as is David, and all of their children.

Now, David must parent two hurting children from a dark world he doesn’t understand and keep his family from falling apart. All while dealing with the realization that everyone he loves, including himself, may be evil.


Author Bio
Sharon Bayliss is the author of The December People Series and The Charge. When she’s not writing, she
enjoys living happily-ever-after with her husband and two young sons. She can be found eating Tex-Mex on patios, wearing flip-flops, and playing in the mud (which she calls gardening). She only practices magic in emergencies.


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Wednesday, April 23, 2014

A to Z Blogging Challenge - T and Destruction by Sharon Bayliss

Blogging from A to Z Challenge 2014

Guess the movie!


"Fill your hands you son of a bitch."

Highlight below for the answer:




True Grit
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Light always exists and will always return when missing...
Publication Date: April 14, 2014
Series: The December People, Book One
Genre: Contemporary Fantasy 
David Vandergraff wants to be a good man. He goes to church every Sunday, keeps his lawn trim and green, and loves his wife and kids more than anything. Unfortunately, being a dark wizard isn't a choice.

Eleven years ago, David's secret second family went missing. When his two lost children are finally found, he learns they suffered years of unthinkable abuse. Ready to make things right, David brings the kids home even though it could mean losing the wife he can’t imagine living without. 
Keeping his life together becomes harder when the new children claim to be dark wizards. David believes they use this fantasy to cope with their trauma. Until, David's wife admits a secret of her own—she is a dark wizard too, as is David, and all of their children. 
Now, David must parent two hurting children from a dark world he doesn’t understand and keep his family from falling apart. All while dealing with the realization that everyone he loves, including himself, may be evil.



Available on Amazon and Barnes&Noble

Add it on Goodreads!

About the Author
Sharon Bayliss is the author of The December People Series and The Charge. When she’s not writing, she enjoys living happily-ever-after with her husband and two young sons. She can be found eating Tex-Mex on patios, wearing flip-flops, and playing in the mud (which she calls gardening). She only practices magic in emergencies.

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Tuesday, April 22, 2014

A to Z Blogging Challenge - S

Blogging from A to Z Challenge 2014

Guess the movie!
"I think I can go now. Just needed to do a couple of things. I needed to help someone; I think I did. And I needed to tell you something: You were never second, ever. I love you. You sleep now. Everything will be different in the morning."


Highlight below for the answer:



The Sixth Sense

Monday, April 21, 2014

A to Z Blogging Challenge - R

Blogging from A to Z Challenge 2014

Guess the movie!

"You want to talk to God? Let's go see him together, I've got nothing better to do."



Highlight below for the answer:



Raiders of the Lost Ark

Saturday, April 19, 2014

A to Z Blogging Challenge - Q. And Out of Magic, free today and Sunday

Blogging from A to Z Challenge 2014

Guess the movie!


"This is about trust. You said you weren't motivated by revenge."
"I am motivated by my duty." 
"No... I think you're so blinded by inconsolable rage that you don't care who you hurt. When you can't tell your friends from your enemies, it's time to go."

Highlight below for the answer:




Quantum of Solace
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Free! Today and Sunday at Amazon


Sable Rounds has every basic need a seventeen-year-old girl could want. Shelter, food, and an education. 

She is safe. Clean. Provided for. Nothing is missing. Except parental affection. 

Their attitude changes on the day she speaks to a whirlwind. And it answers. 

Now they pay attention to her. They were only waiting for her magic to manifest. 
And the end of their duties. 


Friday, April 18, 2014

A to Z Blogging Challenge - P and Out of Magic starts Tomorrow

Blogging from A to Z Challenge 2014

Guess the movie!
"I do not mean to pry, but you don't by any chance happen to have six fingers on your right hand?" 
"Do you always begin conversations this way?" 
Highlight below for the answer:




The Princess Bride
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Free, starting Saturday and Sunday only.

Sable Rounds has every basic need a seventeen-year-old girl could want. Shelter, food, and an education. 

She is safe. Clean. Provided for. Nothing is missing. Except parental affection. 

Their attitude changes on the day she speaks to a whirlwind. And it answers. 

Now they pay attention to her. They were only waiting for her magic to manifest. 
And the end of their duties. 


Thursday, April 17, 2014

A to Z Blogging Challenge - O

Blogging from A to Z Challenge 2014

Guess the movie!

"Well, there are all manner of lesser imps and demons, Pete, but the great Satan hisself is red and scaly with a bifurcated tail, and he carries a hay fork."

Highlight below for the answer:



O' Brother, Where Art Thou

Wednesday, April 16, 2014

A to Z Blogging Challenge - N

Blogging from A to Z Challenge 2014

Guess the movie!
"Red, it took me sixteen years to get here. You play me, and I'll give ya the best I got."

Highlight below for the answer:



The Natural

Tuesday, April 15, 2014

A to Z Blogging Challenge - M

Blogging from A to Z Challenge 2014

Guess the movie!
"I'm doomed! And all 'cause Miss Man decides to take her little drag show on the road."

Highlight below for the answer:




Mulan

Monday, April 14, 2014

A to Z Blogging Challenge - L

Blogging from A to Z Challenge 2014

Guess the movie!
 "Have you ever met anybody you didn't kill?"

"Well, I haven't killed you yet."

Highlight below for the answer:




Lethal Weapon

Sunday, April 13, 2014

Don't Buy It

Posting? Again? On Sunday?


Yep. Even though this is the day of rest for us A to Z participants, I am posting. 

I had to clue people in on a secret.


Don’t buy Out of Magic.

Yes. That’s right. Don’t buy the prequel to Wilder Mage.

Now why am I telling you not to buy this short story that opens with Sable discovering she's a mage?


Because this Saturday and Sunday it’s free at Amazon.



Don't spend your money. Wait for it to go on sale this Friday and Saturday.




Saturday, April 12, 2014

A to Z Blogging Challenge - K

Blogging from A to Z Challenge 2014

Guess the movie!
[after "talking" to the dog] "She says she doesn't like it when you hide her favorite tennis shoe, and she doesn't hear so well on her left side, so don't sneak up on her anymore."



Highlight below for the answer:



K-Pax

Friday, April 11, 2014

A to Z Blogging Challenge - J

JUST WANNA SAY, THIS IS THE BEST 
A TO Z CHALLENGE EVAH!!! 
Love the participants and the diverse topics/themes. 
Just keep on truckin'. 
We'll get there folks.
And a big heartfelt thank you to the hosts. 


Blogging from A to Z Challenge 2014

Guess the movie!

"Witherspoon, you by-the-book asshole."


Highlight below for the answer:



The Jackal

Thursday, April 10, 2014

A to Z Blogging Challenge - I

Blogging from A to Z Challenge 2014

Guess the movie!

"She locked away a secret, deep inside herself, something she once knew to be true... but chose to forget."


Highlight below for the answer:



Inception

Wednesday, April 9, 2014

A to Z Blogging Challenge - H

Blogging from A to Z Challenge 2014

Guess the movie!

"May the odds be ever in your favor."


Highlight below for the answer:



Hunger Games

Tuesday, April 8, 2014

A to Z Blogging Challenge - G

Blogging from A to Z Challenge 2014

Guess the movie!

"Get off my lawn!"


Highlight below for the answer:



Gran Torino

Monday, April 7, 2014

A to Z Blogging Challenge - F

Blogging from A to Z Challenge 2014

Guess the movie!

"So that was Mrs. Lundegaard on the floor in there. And I guess that was your accomplice in the wood chipper."


Highlight below for the answer:



Fargo

Saturday, April 5, 2014

A to Z Blogging Challenge - E

Blogging from A to Z Challenge 2014

Guess the movie!

"He needs to go home; he's calling his people. And I don't know where they are, but he needs to go home."


Highlight below for the answer:



E.T. the Exra-Terrestrial

Friday, April 4, 2014

A to Z Blogging Challenge - D

Blogging from A to Z Challenge 2014

Guess the movie!

"And once the moon is mine, the world will give me whatever I want to get it back, and I will be the greatest villain of all time! That's what I'm talking about!"



Highlight below for the answer:



Despicable Me

Thursday, April 3, 2014

A to Z, Blogging Challenge - C

Blogging from A to Z Challenge 2014


Guess the movie!


"If you could've found out what Rosebud meant, I bet that would've explained everything."



Highlight below for the answer:


Citizen Kane

Wednesday, April 2, 2014

A to Z Blogging Challenge - B and IWSG - Surviving the Slump

Blogging from A to Z Challenge 2014


Guess the movie!

"I couldn't do that. Could you do that? Why can they do it? Who are those guys?"

Highlight below for answer.



B utch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid



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IWSG—Insecure Writers Support Group, coming together on the first Wednesday of every month for a virtual pat on the back. 



I am in the land of Between. 
Sequel to Wilder Mage is in the capable hands of my editor. I made book trailer for it. And I tested the winds with a damp finger and launched my boat into the ocean of  Self-Published.

Now what?

Marketing can drive a person crazy. Ditto watching sales. The third novel needs attention but I’m not quite ready to immerse myself yet.

People ask for reviews. I like to give them what they want but how do I do that when the book they offer is...horrible. 

So maybe that is my call for help on this IWSG day. How to tell a writer that I am not connecting with their book. I really prefer to remain silent and not post anything. But is that being disingenuous? Should I just tell them straight out, your book is not for me? Or clam up.


Help please.

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Insecure Writers Support Group: The Final Frontier.



These are the continuing voyages of the Ninja Captain, AJC. His mission, to explore all new writing venues, to seek out new authors and new blogs. 

To boldly go where no blogateer has gone before.

Tuesday, April 1, 2014

A to Z, Blogging Challenge - A

Blogging from A to Z Challenge 2014


Guess the movie!

"I say we take off and nuke the entire site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure."

Highlight below for answer.


A liens

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