22Jun08(Click on cover for more details)
Lesbian Southern Gothic Humor"Micah believed wholeheartedly in the law of Karma, which, when you peel away the spiritual dogma, is merely the scientific law of cause and effect. This was why she could not make sense of the insipid morass of misfortune that her life had become. The degree of bad luck seemed to suggest that she had perpetrated some atrocity against humanity. Yet she felt wholly victimized. All she had done was try to kick her life into gear. She had become lazy and without direction. She had become fat. She was drifting on a sea of whateverness." ~ Plethora
Lesbian Erotic Mystery/Suspense"While throwing the paper in the paved, pristine driveway, I glanced up and saw the ghostly vestige moving away from the tiny garden. The vision cir-cled the wrought-iron bench and moved fluidly across the lawn toward my Falcon. The filmy fabric of her white peignoir billowed along behind her. She bent to retrieve yesterday's newspaper, and I was immediately taken with her beauty, though shadows and shy moonlight hid the woman's features; that kind of beauty needed no illumination to be obvious." ~ Armchair Detective
Commercial Suspense"Ignorance really is bliss, sometimes. She had been blissful these last few months, enjoying the company of a man who reminded her how lonely she'd been. It didn't hurt that he was also handsome, charming and stinking rich." ~ Baggage
Lesbian Romantic Suspense"Blue Spruce shouldered clumps of unsullied snow along the icy driveway leading to the secluded brick and cedar house atop Red Mountain. The dream faded, as the dreamer began the process of lifting heavy lids. Eyes focusing, she saw the blond woman standing over her in an apron blotted with a myriad of colors, liberated from the twisted tubes onto her palette. She reached out with the camel hair brush and dotted her lover's nose with Cadmium red." ~As You Were
Commercial Mystery/Suspense"Sully's, on South Prospect, was the quintessential biker-bar, complete with hefty, leather-clad Harley worshippers, and stringy-haired heroin-addicted women who made the rounds among the bikers. Its décor was decidedly Medieval Garage Sale, with a dose of Americana thrown in. An old motorcycle carcass dangled from the vaulted section of the beamed ceiling, and the wood plank floors were littered with butts, scarred by bottle caps and splattered with homogenized bodily fluids. The only light to be had was from neon, dying sconces, and lit cigarettes. Various medieval swords perched on each wall, reminiscent of the times of Beowulf and Fire Dragons on the Barrow." ~Achilles Forjan
Lesbian Erotic Romance"If I still like dick, does that mean I cannot be a lesbian? Rachel struggled with that question. She shifted the Jaguar, relishing the feel of the gear knob in her hand, and imagined how it would feel inside her. Was the only discerning element strictly about who the dick was attached to? To WHOM the dick was attached, she corrected herself. Damn. Even in her erotic musings, she could not deny the academic portions of her identity. " ~ A Random Act of Blindness
Non-Fiction: Lesbian Self-Help"Any Lesbian who is currently single knows that it's often a great deal less romantic to be unattached than the media would have us believe. Many of us would love to hang out with the kinds of women we see on the L-Word, yet in the Lesbian Community, this is often not an option. Sophisticated, feminine lesbians are simply not the norm, overall. Most of the actresses who play those roles are in fact, heterosexual. I have frequently been chagrined by this. In all of Hollywood, they could not find a cast of feminine, sophisticated lesbians to play those roles? In this case, it seems that art does not imitate life. It warrants consideration." ~ISO (In Search Of): The Art of Dating, Relationships, & Sex for the Discerning Lesbian
Non-Fiction: Lesbian EroticaOh What I Wouldn't Do ~ Good Morning ~ Quite the Little Detective~Burning, You ~ Oh My Fucking God ~ Captive Bard in Love ~ Precious ~ Tryst ~ Acquittal ~ The Third Fold ~ Freedom ~ Private Passion ~ Solita ~ The First Time ~ When ~ I'm Shure ~ Willing Subjugate ~ Good Enough ~ Too Late
Non-Fiction: Essays, Short FictionRIGHT HEMISPHERE: The Humorous Side.
Fun With Webster ~ A Moment Of Chaos In My Brain ~ Monster Under The Bed ~ Lotion ~ Novel Navel Tangents ~ Something Dead ~ Figs From Hell ~ Mississippi: 1st Circle Of Hell? ~ Krispy Kreme ~Persuasion ~ I'll See Your Stupid Move And Raise You A Clever Solution ~ Responding In Kind ~ Plaque Brain ~ From Crayons To Gel Keyboards ~ Baby Furry Ghost ~ Kitty Relativity ~ TD-What? ~ A Likely Story ~ Barbie Cutlery ~ Stomping Bees ~ Gizimov Runninov ~ A Backwoods Eatery With a Side of Velcro Papaw ~ Peso, The Wonder Runt ~ Texas Pain Saw Mess- A- Girl ~ Alien Tummy Tuck ~ Punkin's Big Adventure ~ Gonna Kiss Your Forehead ~ Therefore I Am ~ Tristoon The Incorrigible
LEFT HEMISPHERE: The Serious Side.
Cruel & Unusual ~ Breath Of Life ~ Symbols Are Not Things ~ Passerby ~ Salem House Trials ~ Jag ~ The Day The Sky Came Down ~ True Blue Colors ~ Chickens Come Home ~ Dinky's Demise ~ House Of Escher
Non-Fiction: Essays, BlogsCrossing Paths ~ To All The Girls I've Loved Before
~ Slings And Arrows ~ A Little Healthy Sarcasm ~
All The World's A Stage ~ Dubya Must Die ~ Dubya Dubya Dubya Dot Con ~ It's Not Paranoia If ~ My Friend, The Synesthete ~ Parenting. Yeah, Uh Huh, ~ Phone A Friend ~ Shifting Universe ~ Spiritual Soup For One ~ String Theory Romance ~ Universe That Continues To Disappear ~ Used By The Muse ~ Doe, A Deer, A Female Deer. Giz, My Silly Little Mutt ~ Being Fully Human ~ How To Freak Out Your Ex's New Lover ~ Stupid & Happy Vs. Smart & Troubled ~ Gnat People ~ Weapons Of Heart ~ Destruction ~ Is That What Really Happened? ~ Crazy ~ My Hands That Close to Your Neck ~ Hillary For President. . .in2012 ~ Jersey, Wawa, & Little Miss Delaware ~ Artistic Angst ~ A Is For Annoying ~ When A Relationship Ends ~ Eye of the Beholder ~ Thumbless
Non-Fiction: PoetryWith Apologies To Mr. Rogers, And Nuts To The Modern-Day Romans ~ A Charmed Life ~ Tabu Endearments ~ Unsocked ~ A Few Words ~ Mad Moments In ~ A Vegetable Garden ~ Fleas ~ Just Bluffing ~ Identity Crisis ~ A Proper Kiss ~ She's Your Dog ~ Insomniac's Lament ~ Reproach Beyond A Dog ~ The Real War ~ Immaculate Ejaculate ~ Restless ~ Silence In Which To Scream ~ To Sleep, Perchance To Dream ~ Laddie ~ Root Canals ~ And Other Methods Of Excavation ~ Encore ~ Frozen Abandonment ~ Offering ~ Euthanasia ~ Sibling Rivalry ~ Death Of An Ivory Butterfly ~ Where You Wail ~ Escape ~ Find The Flesh ~ Full Fingers ~ Leave Nothing ~ Some Chaos ~ Nerve ~ Waste Another Night ~ Dear Heart ~ Indian Giver ~ Facsimile ~ White Washed Tombs ~ Who Goes There? ~ Ground Zero
Non-Fiction: Collected Blogs5 Shooters in One Week-What gives? ~ 72 Virgins With a Side of Levity ~ A Heart Job ~ A Jarring Thought ~ A Little Healthy Sarcasm Goes a Long Way ~ All Ten Fingers ~ All Ten Fingers ~ Awareness, Focus & Mindless Lemmings ~ Back to Sweetness ~ Becoming a Statistic ~ Beware the Drooping Cerebellum ~ Birthday Blows ~ Blog Semantics ~ Brain Dump: Mortality & Meaning ~ Bumly ~ Burning Bush ~ Catching Hell From the Hellish ~ Cause for ConCERN ~ Caveats & Conclusions for February ~ Celibacy is not hereditary ~ Charity Begins At Home ~ Cheap Wine, Twinkies & Chick-O-Sticks ~ Choice Starvation ~ CircleCircleCircle Fiasco ~ Coffee Skin ~ Coffee, Stupidity, Insanity & Germs ~ Cold Hands, Warm...Thighs ~ Conversations With my Cats--#1 in a series ~ Cranky-Panted Chaos Theory ~ Desperation Barrel ~ Don't You DARE Say I'm Unique!" (Click on cover for full contents)
Non-Fiction: Academic AnthologyMumford's Geographic Plexus ~ Should We Have National ID Cards? ~ Socrates: Integrity, Exemplified ~ Police, Police Thyself ~ Santeria ~ The History of the Organic Food Movement in the U.S. ~ Epilepsy ~ Euthanasia is Not Amoral or Wrong ~ Baby Boomers Don't Retire ~ Social Security: A Challenge, Not a Crisis ~ Human Cloning ~ Sleep Apnea in Children ~ From Genocide to Neo-Eugenics ~ Psychosexual Development According to Freud ~ The "Mississippi Burning" Trial. ~ The One-Right-Answer Fable ~ Greed, Envy & Classism in McTeague ~ Life in the Universe ~ Mace, Pepper Spray Called a Form of Torture ~ Should We Have National ID Cards? ~ Police, Police Thyself ~ The Depth of Donne ~ Anderson's Narrator: The Duplicity of Free Choice ~ Open Letter on Homosexuality & The Spiritual Walk ~ Off the Beaten Path: Reflections on "Open Letter"
Lesbian Suspense"Early September rain slanted onto his shoulders as he stepped off the bus in Colorado Springs. Today, he would be returning to the house his mother left him. His lawyer had arranged the house to be rented until his release, so unlike most ex-cons, he wouldn't be checking into the YMCA. To-morrow, he'd go visit his cousin, who had promised him a job on his construction crew. The next day, he'd begin his surveillance on the cop. He believed the adage that revenge was a dish best served cold. He'd had five long years to think about it, and now that he was here, he wanted to focus on ways to serve that dish." ~Another Justice
Speculative Fiction"If you push your luck, expect it to push back. That's what my Grandma Beasley used to say. And she was right. I had it illustrated to me ten days ago, and again on this frigid October night in the middle of Nowhere, Kansas." ~Quintessence
Speculative Fiction"Cornelius paused with vermilion loaded up on his brush, about to make a bold swath across the canvas, when he noticed Daelah. Placing the loaded brush in his teeth, he reached down and readjusted the position of his wheelchair so he could see her better. At the end of the long corridor leading to the kitchen, she stood at the foot of the stairs, looking up at the ceiling, and down at her hands, and touching her own face." ~ Somewhere Else
Non-Fiction: Spirituality, Memoir, Self-Help
"I have always been a seeker. I am forever trying to find where I fit in the world, and though I've made great strides in that regard, I have come to a crossroads (pardon the cliché). My beliefs about religion, spirituality and all things related have been sorely tested and now I have embarked on a quest for answers. I spend a good deal of time studying about it, and this book is about that personal journey." ~Cognitive Dissonance: The Search for a Personal Cosmology Non-Fiction: Writing Reference
With the influx of aspiring authors, it is now crucial that writers know
how to produce their own finished product. Some of these skills include
a working knowledge of how to format a novel in Microsoft Word. The problem
is, there's very little specific information directed at novelists. In
Be Your Own Best Editor, not only is this information provided, but the
author also gives tips on proofing, revising, and polishing your manuscript
to avoid the common mistakes beginning writers make. 
"If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead,
either write things worth reading or do things worth writing."
-Benjamin Franklin
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