today marks a significant one-year anniversary for me.  that's right, one year ago on april 1st, i started the 30 day green smoothie challenge and the rest is history.  since then, i have started nearly every single day with a green smoothie.  there have been a few days when i didn't have time to have the smoothie before i left the house in the ( Read more... )

Elm Books proudly presents Gen-E Books: children's books for a diverse America. Help all our children by writing and publishing what they want to read ( Read more... )

i will not tell you how many times i clicked on the damn thing to get these, lol.


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hi, guys.  i'm going to be doing some tidying up of my friends list, and also creating a new filter for when i babble on about personal stuff.  this will involve eliminating people with whom my last interaction was when i friended them back, lol, as well as a few people who i think are no longer active on lj or no longer interested in being my ( Read more... )

dear friends, that collection i co-edited, fae love is now available for a limited time on smashwords for just 99 cents.  trust me, it is a huge bargain at that price.  six fantasy romance stories for just a buck.  there are two writers from our corner of fandom included (as far as i know, anyway - and neither of them is me, lol).  i find it ( Read more... )

akatnamedeaster posted this on her journal, and i thought it seemed like a fun idea to share.  i hope you will think so too ( Read more... )

book meme, snagged from luvsev and dreamy_dragon73.

In a text post, list ten books that have stayed with you in some way. Don’t take but a few minutes, and don’t think too hard - they don’t have to be the “right” or “great” works, just ones that have touched you.

Dave’s Song by Robert McKay
Persuasion by Jane Austen*
The Gift by Hafiz, translated by Daniel Ladinsky
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another call for detective stories for elm books.  this one is to be called death and a nice cup of tea., focusing on female protagonists.

SUBMISSION CALL - DEATH AND A NICE CUP OF TEADon’t be fooled by the cozy-sounding title - anything goes for this new anthology from Elm Books - well, almost anything ( Read more... )

so on new year's eve morning, i woke up too early after too little sleep.  not enough time to go back to sleep, and no will to get out of bed, lol, so i gave myself reiki, and while i was doing that, this poem started coming to me, so i'm sharing it here.  i probably need to add some punctuation and capital letters, at least.

( i am a lover of the universe ... )

a friend of mine has made a fabulous christmas playlist that i'm going to try to share here. i'm listening to it at work - one of the partners asked me to come in for a few hours in case people were calling. i don't plan to be here a minute after three, lol. anyhow, hope this works and if it does, hope you enjoy it.

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