tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-52964513038651232852024-03-05T21:14:06.578-05:00A Novel FriendAdventures in writing, horses, food... And Life.Trisha Wooldridgehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16376818093828481917noreply@blogger.comBlogger429125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5296451303865123285.post-18461295876840906722019-04-03T01:41:00.001-04:002019-04-03T01:41:45.292-04:00National Poetry Month, April 2<br />
I’m taking poetic license on the definition of “date,” as I often do.
It is the same day from the time I wake up until I go to bed. So there.<br />
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This is a quick post, at least. I had this pairing in my mind for a
while because this is a picture that has remained with me since I took
it. For a little over ten years, I volunteered for the <a href="http://baystateequinerescue.com/">Bay State Equine Rescue</a>.
It was a wonderful experience that gifted me with my own adopted horse,
Calico Silver. This picture far predates Calico, though, and comes
from my early years at the rescue. One morning, when I came in for my
volunteer shift, lo and behold, there were three new horses! It was an
Appaloosa family: a stallion (soon to be gelded), a mare, and their
baby! I happened to have my camera with me (well before camera phones
were a thing, so a miracle in and of itself!), so I snapped pictures.
And this picture of the stallion, Metro, was one that stayed in my mind
as striking with his expression and the wind in his hair. For the final
piece, I will likely use the black and white (which was quite some
stressful playing in PhotoShop since all my other photo editing has just
been on my phone, itself!), but I wanted to share all his gorgeousness
here!<br />
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The poem is also in its rough draft form, too. My aim is to compose the poems this month, and then go back and edit later.<br />
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Please do not share these photos; I am not finished and sharing them can hurt my future plans for this piece. Thank you!<br />
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Trisha Wooldridgehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16376818093828481917noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5296451303865123285.post-31008336282639881642019-04-01T23:59:00.000-04:002019-04-01T23:59:02.450-04:00National Poetry Month, April 1For National Poetry Month, I decided to challenge myself with an ekphrastic poem every month.<br />
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What’s an ekphrastic poem? It’s a poem written about a picture or
work of art–or inspired by a picture / work of art–meant to expand upon
the meaning of the piece it’s in response to.<br />
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I’ve had the honor and privilege to be part of the <a href="http://bvaa.org/">Blackstone Valley Art Association</a>‘s
Art-Poetry Pairing for the past three years, and I’ve loved working
with artists. This year, I participated as both artist and poet. You
can see this year’s parings <a href="http://bvaa.org/past-events/past-events-2019/art-poetry-pairing-2019/">at this link</a>.<br />
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So, this year, I decided to celebrate National Poetry Month by doing
my own pairings of my hobby photos and poems. Some days the poem will be
the inspiration, other days the picture will be.<br />
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Today is my first full day home after attending Conbust, one of the
regular conventions I attend. It was amazing, as always, and it’s the
inspiration for this particular pairing. I had an idea of taking a
picture of my duffel bag spilled first and writing a poem about
recovery, about self-care and permission to recover–particularly after
several excellent panels discussing invisible disabilities and the
challenges of neurodiversity.<br />
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Instead, with the photo plan in mind, I wrote the poem first–a very
different poem than I planned–and then did the shoot, chose the
pictures, and edited them a little. The poem, however, is unedited and
will be edited. Most of my poems are handwritten first. So here are the
two pictures I am deciding between for the pairing and a photo of the
VERY ROUGH draft of the poem.<br />
<br />Please do not share these photos; I am not finished and sharing them can hurt my future plans for this piece. Thank you!<br />
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Trisha Wooldridgehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16376818093828481917noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5296451303865123285.post-62095625355499886422018-08-29T22:11:00.000-04:002018-08-29T22:11:28.315-04:00DragonCon Schedule!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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This is the biggest convention I do all year, and one of the most
insane. I…can’t even measure the excitement / anxiety level right now…<br />
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Also, I ought to be in bed because I’ve got a Dark O’Clock flight… soon.<br />
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So, REAL QUICK, here are a few places you’ll find me at DragonCon…
outside of the Westin bar in the evenings, the Voltaire concert, the
Cruxshadows concert… buying band stuff, and possibly stalking some
actors from The Expanse. And John Barrowman. Maybe.<br />
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<b>Title:</b> Readings in Honor of Kathryn Fernquist Hinds<br />
<b>Time:</b> Fri 07:00 pm <b>Location:</b> Techwood – Hyatt (<b>Length:</b> 1 Hour)<br />
<b>Description:</b> Writers & friends celebrate the life of author,
bard, poet, & teacher Kathryn Hinds with reminiscences &
readings from her work.<br />
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<b>Title:</b> The Women of Doctor Who<br />
<b>Time:</b> Fri 08:30 pm <b>Location:</b> Galleria 5 – Hilton (<b>Length:</b> 1 Hour)<br />
<b>Description:</b> From companions & villains to directors,
writers, & producers (and soon the Doctor herself), women have had a
lasting impact on the show over the past 54 years. Their changing roles
& indelible footprints will be discussed.<br />
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<b>Time:</b> Sat 11:30 am <b>Location:</b> Embassy CD – Hyatt (<b>Length:</b> 1 Hour)<br />
<b>Description:</b> Is Steampunk loosing its steam? Is Urban Fantasy on
the wane? Does anyone read High Fantasy any more? This panel discusses
the many subgenres of SF/F and how to keep readers interested.<br />
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<b>Title:</b> 200 Years of Women in SF<br />
<b>Time:</b> Sun 11:30 am <b>Location:</b> Embassy AB – Hyatt (<b>Length:</b> 2 Hours 30 Min)<br />
<b>Description:</b> In 1818, Mary Shelley wrote Frankenstein. Taking
that as a starting point, our panelists will discuss women in SF, how
they have fared, who they are, and how things have changed over the
years. Presented in conjunction with the Diversity in SF track. 90
minutes.<br />
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<b>Title:</b> Ursula K. Leguin: Honoring a Grand Master<br />
<b>Time:</b> Sun 05:30 pm <b>Location:</b> International South – Hyatt (<b>Length:</b> 1 Hour)<br />
<b>Description:</b> The field lost a great voice last year when Ursula
K. Leguin passed. We will be honoring the author of The Left Hand of
Darkness and Wizard of Earthsea (among others) by discussing her work
and life.<br />
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<b>Title:</b> Where Do I Begin?<br />
<b>Time:</b> Sun 07:00 pm <b>Location:</b> Embassy CD – Hyatt (<b>Length:</b> 1 Hour)<br />
<b>Description:</b> You’ve decided to write a novel. Where do you begin? Let our pros tell you how to get started on that novel…and keep going.<br />
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Happy Labor Day Weekend! Happy DragonCon!Trisha Wooldridgehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16376818093828481917noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5296451303865123285.post-84897673786763148812018-03-19T00:16:00.000-04:002018-03-19T00:16:22.430-04:00Conbust Schedule!<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Three months into the year, and it’s a FOURTH
convention schedule I’m posting! Woohoo!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">(At some point my personal blog posts will be more
than convention schedules; I promise! I have thoughts on a variety of things
and some health updates, too...)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Anyway, I know it sounds redundant, but this is another
beloved convention of mine! <a href="https://sophia.smith.edu/conbust/">Conbust!</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Conbust is a student-run feminist SF/F convention
held at Smith College every spring.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
found out about Conbust through Broad Universe, not realizing that such a gem
was basically in my back yard. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">(I grew up in Springfield, about 15-20 minutes
from Northampton.)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">I have a pretty ambitious schedule this year at
Conbust, so if you’re looking to follow me to all my panels (and they are
pretty awesome panels, so you might want to), make sure you are loaded up on
your favorite coffee or energy product! I’m scheduled in the very first panel
slot, the very last—with eight panels in between!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Also, I’ll be traveling to and from the convention
with my friend and editing colleague, Suzanne Lahna, who <a href="http://amzn.to/2u4fxY0">has their first novella out</a>. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They’ll be on a bunch of excellent panels,
too. Find out more <a href="https://anandronamedsue.com/">on their blog</a>!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><br />Since Conbust is on a college campus, I won’t be
hosting a party here, and we don’t have either a <a href="http://www.broaduniverse.org/">Broad Universe</a> or <a href="http://nehw.blogspot.com/">New England Horror Writers</a> table here, so
it’s all panels and catching up with some of the great people I only get to see
at this convention. I’m excited!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Oh—quick note, these aren’t the official convention
descriptions. They’re mine—and subject to change depending on the audience /
panelists.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’m also not listing the
panelists here because there were some last minute changes that I don’t know
got finalized... but <a href="https://sophia.smith.edu/conbust/guests.html">just
check the guest list</a>!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’m on panels
with almost all of these spectacular people!</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Friday,
March 23; 5:00 PM; Room 101 – Fandom and Criticism</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Can you criticize what you love? Should you? Why is
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Friday,
March 23; 6:00 PM; Room 201 – Hero, Protagonist</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Discussing writing the protagonist hero, or
analyzing them.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Saturday,
March 24; 9:00 AM; Room TBA – Believable Fight Scenes</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">This was my favorite panel of last year’s Conbust.
Actual reenactment fighters play out writer battle scenes! Of course, now I
need to figure out which gods’ awful fight scene of mine needs the most work /
will provide the most entertainment to the audience...</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Saturday,
March 24; 10:00 AM; Room 101 – Suspension of Disbelief</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">What throws a reader out of a story? How can writers
avoid these pitfalls? What’s the term “Flying Snowman” (coined by John Scalzi)
and what does it mean to writers and readers?</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Saturday,
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">This panel will discuss the ways people can make a
living working with words. No, it’s not easy, but it’s also not impossible. See
if this career works for you or if you want to stick to the day job.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Saturday,
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<strong><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Note above panel on making money
while writing? That’s Making Money Writing 101.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>This is Making Money Writing 102 and talks about the business decisions
you’ll have to make if you decide you want to make money while writing.</span></strong><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Saturday,
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<strong><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Fairy tales is my jam. So is
writing for kids. This is a thing that far predates my efforts, though, so I
love studying and talking about it. Come discover all the nerdy, geeky goodness
children’s fairy tales have to offer!</span></strong><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Saturday,
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<strong><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Rather apropos that this is in
the same room immediately following Children’s Fairy Tales. Except the fey are
NOT just for children. In fact, they can be kind of predatory on children—or humans
in general. And they go waaaay beyond “fairy tales.”</span></strong><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Sunday,
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<strong><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Because, yes, we still really
need to talk about women characters, how they’re included in stories, and how
authentic they are.</span></strong><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Sunday,
March 25; 1:00 PM; Room 102 – A Monster Manual Beyond Dragons<strong></strong></span></b></div>
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<strong><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">There’s already a panel about how
awesome dragons are, but other fantastical creatures need and deserve our love,
too! Find out about other magical beasts and their proper care and feeding.</span></strong><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"></span></div>
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<strong><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Two great tastes that taste great
together! I love giving this workshop at convention. Come learn a little about
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">This will be my first<a href="http://stokercon2018.org/"> StokerCon</a> and I’m super excited about it,
so if you’re going to this amazing horror and literature convention—where they
award the prestigious Stoker Awards—come and find me!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">I will be splitting my non-panel time between the <a href="http://nehw.blogspot.com/">New England Horror Writers</a>, where I and
many other fine writers and friends of mine will be selling fabulous books, and
the <a href="http://www.broaduniverse.org/">Broad Universe</a> information
table, where members will be signing books after their readings and the awesome
<a href="https://larissaglasser.com/">Larissa Glasser</a> and I will be there
to answer questions about our beloved non-profit supporting women in horror.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Thursday,
March 1; 4:00 PM; L’Apogee; 17th Floor – Author Reading</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Reading with Cory Cone and Larry Hinkle. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">There will be chocolate—it is packed. Yes, I’m
bribing you. This is the first reading slot of the convention. </i>Please<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> don’t let us be lonely? <3 i=""></3></i></span></div>
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trolls, evil stepparents, witches, giants, and other terrifying characters. Our
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">I
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conventions, but that’s okay because I’m looking forward to thoroughly enjoying
myself by attending some panels and catching up with friends! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">I have been
under a bunch of deadlines for editing and writing... and had a bunch of fresh
new health issues pop up over the past couple of weeks...but despite being late
posting this, I am SUPER EXCITED to be returning to Boskone this year! And
DAMN, look at that great schedule!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">And if I’m not
on a panel... I’ll likely be found at the Broad Universe table in the Dealer’s
Room...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">or, if it’s
Friday Night, I’ll be throwing the Broad Universe Party again!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Look for us on the hotel Party Floor!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Outside of
tabling and partying, here’s my fabulous schedule:</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Tarot and Divining Fantastic Fiction</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Format: Discussion Group</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">16
Feb 2018, Friday 17:00 - 18:00, Lewis (Westin)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Author
and Tarot guru Trisha Wooldridge leads a discussion on Tarot, fortune-telling,
and the art of the seer in fantasy and science fiction. Trisha will provide a
live demonstration.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Trisha
Wooldridge</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br />
Folktales Within Poetry</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Format: Panel</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">16
Feb 2018, Friday 18:00 - 19:00, Marina 3 (Westin)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">From “The
Lady of Shalott” to “Goblin Market” to <i>The Iliad</i>, some quite engaging
poems are inspired by folklore, legends, or myths. What other examples can we
add — perhaps from non-European poetry? What do folk sources bring that an
original story might lack? Our panelists will discuss (and perhaps read) some
of their favorites — what are yours?</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Theodora
Goss (M), Jane Yolen, C. S. E. Cooney, John Chu, Trisha Wooldridge </span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Group Reading: Fiction for Kids and Young Adults</span></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 0in; mso-add-space: auto;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Format: Reading</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">17
Feb 2018, Saturday 12:00 - 13:00, Griffin (Westin)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Boskone
presents a special group reading for lovers of children's and young adult
fiction. Our authors provide a range of stories and topics that are sure to
delight and entertain!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Kristy
Acevedo, Daniel P. Dern, Erin M. Hartshorn (M), Sarah Jean Horwitz, Justin Key,
Trisha Wooldridge </span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Notes</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">This
is a special group reading designed to generate a larger crowd in order to
introduce more people to the work highlighted in the session. There may only be
5 chairs at the table. If so, we ask that the moderator has a couple extra
chairs moved to the table area. The group reading is scheduled for 50 minutes
and each reader has 5-minutes to read. Please be sure to time your reading to ensure
that you don't go over time. The "moderator" is assigned to welcome
everyone to the reading and announce that each reader will introduce
herself/himself along with their piece as their turn to read comes up. If there
is time available, please open the room to questions.</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Border of the Unknown</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Format: Panel</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">17
Feb 2018, Saturday 17:00 - 18:00, Marina 1 (Westin)</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Much fine
fantastika involves crossing the boundary between the known and the unknown —
especially that uneasy border between the village and the trees. Let's look at
the long history of that great unknown, the enchanted forest. Why has it pushed
and pulled at people’s imaginations since ancient times? To find out, let’s
stroll away from safety and into the woods, as the liminal light fades and the
shadows gather all under the boughs unbowed …</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Theodora
Goss, Errick Nunnally (M), Trisha Wooldridge, Dana Cameron, Gerald L. Coleman </span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Open Mic: Myths & Legends!</span></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 0in; mso-add-space: auto;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Format: Event</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">17
Feb 2018, Saturday 20:00 - 21:00, Galleria - Stage (Westin)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Live
from Boskone: A special selection of tall tales as told by our program
participants — plus audience members. All show off their open mic skills in the
third annual Boskone Open Mic extravaganza. This year features the myths and
legends of yesterday, today, and tomorrow! Each participant contributes his/her
most legendary performance — a 5-minute story, poem, song, skit, interpretive
dance, or whatever!<br />
<br />
<i>OPTIONAL: For extra appeal, feel free to come </i>dressed<i> as your
favorite mythic or legendary character.<br />
<u><br />
The Rules</u>: Boskone members are invited to join our participants in the open
mic by signing up for one of the six open slots at the door to the event, which
opens for sign-ups at 7:30 p.m. Each performer is given a firm 5-minute time
limit (max), including setup time. So a quick transition between acts is key.
Please no profanity: DragonsLair is within hearing distance.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Elaine
Cunningham (M), Lauren Roy, Kenneth Schneyer (M), C. S. E. Cooney, Carlos
Hernandez, Gabriel Erkard, E. Ardell, Benjamin Newman, Roberta Rogow, Don
Pizarro, Trisha Wooldridge, Mary Ellen Wessels, Edward L. Stauff </span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Neil Gaiman Anniversary Reads </span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Format: Panel</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">18
Feb 2018, Sunday 13:00 - 14:00, Harbor II (Westin)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">It’s
a notable year for Neil Gaiman, with publication anniversaries for his
engaging, ironic dark fantasies <i>The Graveyard Book</i> (10th) and <i>The
Ocean at the End of the Lane</i> (5th) — plus from his lighter side, <i>Don't
Panic: The Official Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Companion</i> (30th).
Let's gab about his novels and stories, comics and characters, movies and TV
adaptations and rock-star aura.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Bracken
MacLeod (M), Jane Yolen, Justin Key, John Langan, Trisha Wooldridge </span></div>
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Trisha Wooldridgehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16376818093828481917noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5296451303865123285.post-71429712651108023352018-01-09T00:48:00.000-05:002018-01-09T00:48:16.455-05:00Arisia Schedule!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I love doing conventions, and I’m always really thrilled to return to the <a href="http://www.arisia.org/">Arisia</a> family each year!
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And look… I am actually remembering to post my schedule so people can find me!<br />
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During hours I’m not on panels or giving workshops, there is an
excellent chance you will find me at the Broad Universe table in the
Dealer’s Room. I have books! It makes me super happy when people buy
said books and ask for signatures. <3 br=""></3></div>
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So, outside of the Broad Universe table, here’s where you can find me THIS weekend at <a href="http://www.arisia.org/">ARISIA</a>!<br />
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she’s capable of! We offer chocolate and the chance to win prizes. Broad
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you're writing horses and dragons in a medieval setting, or having your space
hero(ine) bond with a psychic cat or flying banshee, incorporating animals into
your fiction requires knowledge of how real-life animals act. Our panel of
experts will discuss how to write real and unreal animals, what they eat, how
often they need to rest, how they act around humans, other animals and
machinery; and other interesting tidbits which can bring your sci-fantasy
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<br />Trisha Wooldridgehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16376818093828481917noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5296451303865123285.post-49257856285600604272017-11-27T01:04:00.001-05:002017-11-27T01:04:49.780-05:00A Story of Bunny Ends<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I’ve been a bunny mom for more than half my life. Vash the Stampede, named by Scott for how noisy his thumps and binkies were as a baby, was the most recent. He and his brother, Cameron, who passed over three years ago, were the fourth and fifth bunnies I’ve had my life. As anyone who has pets as part of their family knows, every animal has its own personality. Each family pet weaves their own story into the family tapestry.<br />
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Vash and Cameron were part of a litter left at Whip-O-Will Stables, where Calico lives. Cameron was an orange bunny who I named after a character I played in an RPG and who was in the first short story I had published, co-written with my friend Christy Tohara, in the second Bad-Ass Faeries anthology. When I brought them home about six months after my Loki-bun passed (at the tenacious age of 13), Scott had just gotten back from Taiwan and wasn’t particularly thrilled about more rabbits. But I invited him to name the black one.<br />
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There was a fair amount of drama between the two boys loving and hating each other, getting neutered and having to get re-introduced and bonded. By the last year of Cameron’s life, they were bonded again and living as most of my rabbits did—wandering around the house free during the evening, living in a double-decker bunny condo full of hay and water and toys when we weren’t home to keep an eye on them. Nylis the Cat tolerated them, and they her.<br />
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I found Cameron dead in the litter box, curled up as if he’d just taken a nap, one evening after I’d gotten home from work. His eyes were closed and everything. Vash was sitting, hunched up, on the same floor. All the other orange bunnies from the litter had passed; they all had some heart issue.<br />
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Vash actually seemed to bloom more after Cameron died. He seemed to prefer being the only bunny. He loved attention. He loved pets. He loved stretching his whole body along the table legs, blocking the path from the den to the living room, next to the marble the wood stove is on. He would occasionally tease the cat by running at her and zooming under her or hopping over her with a proud thump—a thunderous affair that resonated his name. Occasionally, they would lay down near each other and play the “I’m comfier than you” game, where they luxuriously cleaned themselves to let each other know they felt the other posed no threat.<br />
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When Sue Lahna moved in for six months, he found an extra special friend. He’d run to her whenever she was downstairs and he was out. He’d demand more pets from her, grabbing at her pant legs and head-butting her ankles full force until she would pet him. Sue totally got him and would crouch on the floor and pet him for a long time.<br />
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In the past few months, Vash started demanding even more pets—and actually being cool with getting picked up and snuggled on my chest. I remember Loki and Rhetta buns also began to want actual snuggles as they got older. And when I took him to the vet, the vet told me he was showing quite a bit of aging—which was normal. Most of the larger-breed bunnies live to only 5 or 6 years old. And we were pretty sure he was part “meat rabbit”, which also have shorter lifespans—they’re bred to be slaughtered; they’re bodies aren’t meant to sustain their size for a long time.<br />
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The thing with rabbits—and most pets—is they work very hard to hide illness. It’s part of their natural instincts. In the wild, they don’t want to draw prey to warrens, they don’t want to be driven out, either, until they are ready to die on their own.<br />
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When I put Vash to bed after my pre-Thanksgiving prep, I noticed his food bowl hidden under the hay, untouched from breakfast. That worried me, but he’d just snagged a bunch of craisins I’d dropped while making bread and stuffing, and he quickly took the treats I offered, so left him some broccoli, his favorite, and figured I’d see how he was doing in the morning. In the morning, the broccoli was untouched, as were the pellets and the rest of the hay. We took him out to check him over. His bum was clean, his stomach was soft (no impaction) and we couldn’t feel anything petting him. So, we put him on the ground and noticed he was hopping awkwardly. His head was at kind of an angle, but didn’t look like head tilt. It just looked…<em>off</em>. We picked him back up again and checked his face and neck and head even closer. We found a hard lump under his jaw.<br />
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Of course… it was Thanksgiving. No vet place was open and people were coming over. I gave him a head massage in case it was a sinus infection—Loki had a lot of sinus issues—and that seemed to help. He ate a bunch of craisins and a couple of treats. We took note of his water and more craisins in his food bowl, and figured we’d check him after people left. We even decided to let him wander around while people were here because the rug was comfy and under the kitchen table was his favorite place. He asked for pets a few times, then retreated back to the far side of the table. Normal behavior.<br />
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I left our vet a message that day, hoping they could squeeze him in the next.<br />
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After people left, we checked him again. He hadn’t had any water, and we knew that water was the most important thing, so we used a clean animal medicine syringe and gave him a few ounces of water. After I brought my mom back home, I picked up bananas—another favorite of his and something soft that we figured wouldn’t irritate that hard “whatever it is” in his mouth. He ate about half a banana that night, and we gave him more water via syringe.<br />
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The vet called at 7:30 AM and couldn’t fit Vash in until 5:00 PM. I took the appointment and spent the day trying to get him to eat soft foods and drink more water. He was rather feisty for getting into his crate, a good sign.<br />
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We were the last patients of the vet that night. Our vet, Dr. Trom said she could see puss in the back of his mouth, and it looked angry read, so it was most likely an infected abscess. With rabbits, the abscesses often also held Pasteurella, a virus that can kill in a very short time. Most rabbits are carriers of Pasteurella; it kills about 25% of bunnies right out (Lady Anne, my second bunny, died from it), about 50 % spend the later years of their lives with mild symptoms (both Rhetta and Loki were like that); and 25% never get it or never show any symptoms of being carriers of it. And they can be carriers of it for years, and then tiny cut or abscess or anything can cause it to flare up. We’d caught the abscess early, so the doctor scheduled surgery to remove it for the next Thursday.<br />
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Dr. Trom stayed late showing Scott and me how to feed Vash Critical Care formula for rabbits (a liquefied vitamin- and calorie-heavy mush) via syringe and how to administer water subcutaneously. She also gave us pain medicine to be fed via syringe. She said if he stopped eating or anything got worse, to call the office and insist we speak to her directly, and she’d fit us in for emergency surgery.<br />
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That night, Vash ate his entire serving and more with the syringe easily, and he was doing well. The next morning, he wasn’t as excited about the food…and with just the two of us, it took about an hour to coax him. (And here I give my thanks to all the Small Business Saturday folks and the bookstore for giving me some leeway as I was running super late.)<br />
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That evening, we gave him some food with his pain medicine. He didn’t eat much, but we figured it had been 24 hours since the vet had given it to him yesterday, so he was likely hurting. We let him rest and then later gave him his IV measure of water… a somewhat scary endeavor that requires a needle to be injected <em>just right</em> into the scruff. He was super patient for that and then hung out with Scott and I watching TV for about an hour. Then he started getting antsy, so we put him in front of his cage in case he needed to use the litter box. He hobbled slowly to the dining room, instead, and lay against the kitchen table leg, his favorite place. We figured the water was not comfortable, so we let him relax for a little over another hours before we tried to feed him.<br />
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When we went to feed him, we started getting more of an idea things were wrong. He <em>really</em> didn’t want to eat. He made soft little whines and kept spitting the food back out. When the vet had fed him, it had been before the IV, so we figured maybe he was still uncomfortable and sore from the water. So, we let him rest another hour.<br />
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He hadn’t moved from the spot we put him down. But we knew he needed food. Bunny digestive systems require food moving through them regularly; that’s why bunny families are told to always, always, always have hay available.<br />
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When I picked him up, his eye didn’t look very focused and he made more soft whining sounds.<br />
Bunnies, as a rule, don’t vocalize. They grunt when they’re angry, occasionally chirp with the grunt if they’re particularly annoyed, but otherwise most of their communication is non-vocal. Thumps, ear position, posture are their main ways to “talk.” They also scream when they are terrified.<br />
When we tried to feed him, he whined more and kept spitting out the food or letting it dribble. He swallowed a few times, which gave me some hope, but he didn’t come close to eating what he should. And he was clacking his teeth—another sign that bunnies are in pain or distressed.<br />
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By this time, it was a little after midnight. We put him on the floor and petted him, which seemed to calm him more. Occasionally I’d try to offer the syringe, but he really didn’t want it. The vet’s office was long closed. And the nearest emergency options were each about an hour away—and one, Angel, had not been particularly great about dealing with my other rabbits. (In fact, we completely ignored the advice of one doctor for Miss Rhetta about surgery and she lived three years longer than he said she would.)<br />
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Of course, picking him up again, shoving him in a carrier or even carrying him would add stress and a lot more pain. Car rides are terrifying for all animals, and so is being restrained as you have to do for their protection. And it was cold outside.<br />
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It’s a tough choice. Do you take that chance of making their last hours even more miserable for the potential of saving their lives…or do you just wait and be with them to comfort? And I’d be lying if I said it was entirely a <em>choice</em>; part of the “decision” was also feeling paralyzed with the pain and fear that whatever we did, it could be the <em>wrong</em> choice.<br />
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When rabbits reach critical condition, there is little time for anything. If they’re going to die, it’s a matter of a few short hours…if even that…from the time they start showing signs of severe pain or lethargy. For Lady Anne, the first rabbit who died, I didn’t know. We'd admitted her to the ER (also Angel), they'd sent us home, and we'd gotten the call that she had passed before we even got home. (We didn’t even get to claim her body…) For Miss Rhetta, she'd shown signs of lethargy that morning, I'd called the vet, brought her in immediately, Dr. Trom had taken her to weigh, and she'd died on the scale. Dr. Trom had handed her back to me and let me hold her quietly in a secluded corner, crying, till someone could bring us home.<br />
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Loki had been a somewhat exception to the rule. He'd given us a few scares with lethargy for months, and then would come back. He’d been “back” and at regular energy, eating, drinking, pooping, and peeing levels when I'd left for a very long convention trip. Morning after my arrival at the house of my friend, where I'd been staying, I'd gotten the call from my then-housemate that she'd found him dead that morning. That’s only somewhat of an exception because, as mentioned above, animals often wait till their alone to finally pass.<br />
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Vash, that last night, from 1:00 AM onward, would alternately snuggle next to my foot and writhe forward and backward, not quite in control of his body. He would cry, grind his teeth, and then settle as I stroked his face, his ears, and his side. He was a people bunny. He loved the carpet. He loved being touched. Scott was alternately stroking my head and back and looking things up as I would spit them out, searching for any straws we could find that might let us help him. Finally, a little after 2:00 AM, he had another set of the forward-backward spasms, then flopped, nose first (as rabbits would normally do when they are happy/relaxed) against my foot. He wasn’t crying, he wasn’t tooth-chattering, but he wasn’t well. I could tell. I knew. I knew that was it. So I just kept petting and petting and petting until I couldn’t feel him breathing any more. And then I probably petted him another good fifteen or twenty minutes because I didn’t know what else to do...<br />
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Rather, I knew, but I couldn’t <em>do</em> anything else. Back of my mind was <em>bury him now or in the morning, if morning what to do with the body, remember a layer of stones to keep animals from digging him up, shroud him in the shirt in the cage…</em> But that was a dull buzz. Forefront of my mind was the soft fur beneath my hand and how still he was.<br />
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Scott, earning his Husband-of-Awesome title for the millionth time over, actually dug the grave for me despite being exhausted and sore from fixing the water heater earlier in the day. I helped some, but he’s still far stronger than I am. We did bury Vash that night. I did wrap him in the shirt I’d put into the cage to perhaps make him more comfortable, and we did remember the layer of stones. Scott actually gathered some extras. While I was wrapping him, I tried to close his eyes—like you see people do to corpses on TV and in movies. Apparently that doesn’t work the same for animals, so he was “looking” at me while I wrapped him. I don’t know if it’s writers brain or just my own hyper-analytical means of dealing with grief that made me notice that.<br />
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I spent today…well, mostly sleeping. And then cleaning out the cage, the carriers, and whatnot. I’m not ready for another bunny, definitely not any time soon. I lit a stick of temple incense Scott brought back from Taiwan where his cage was. The cage will go in the shed or the attic. I’ll pick one of the carriers to keep handy for Nylis. I’ll ask around my other local bunny friends if they need pellets, toys, and wood pellets (for litter).<br />
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And I wrote this blog. I wanted to remember all the bits. I received so many kind words when I posted about Vash’s death on Facebook… and I know three other of my friends who lost pets this weekend. Maybe it will help others. Maybe the information about the symptoms and bunny health will help others. Maybe I just want to make a record of it. Or all of that.<br />
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In any case, Scott and I love you, Vash the Stampede, Giant Bunny of Chill, and King of the Cardboard and Wood Pile. And everyone you met loved you. You touched a lot of hearts and are a special story strand in our family tapestry.Trisha Wooldridgehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16376818093828481917noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5296451303865123285.post-39163411846770177892017-11-18T17:32:00.000-05:002017-11-18T17:32:46.628-05:00"Controlling" Emotions<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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I’m at a <a href="http://www.broaduniverse.org/">Broad
Universe</a> writers retreat this weekend with a bunch of friends, among them
the fabulous <a href="http://rachelkenley.net/">Rona Gofstein, who also writes
as Rachel Kenley</a>. And in my all-important “procrastination before writing”
time, where I was glancing through Facebook, I saw her recent blog post, <a href="http://rachelkenley.net/2017/11/emotions-dont-need-to-be-controlled/">“Emotions
Don’t Need to Be Controlled.”</a></div>
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I gave a “quick” (i.e. 4 paragraphs long) response <a href="https://www.facebook.com/rachelkenley/posts/10215256841162242">on the
post here</a>, but that only dealt with one aspect that I think is important in
this discussion.</div>
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She said in the blog that it was probably an unpopular
topic, but I don’t think it should be. It’s a many-faceted topic that I had
about ten different replies to flying around in my head. In summary, I think
our relationship with emotions needs to be more openly and readily discussed.
Not just if we should and should not repress them or control them, but how they
affect us, how we create emotions, the physiological and psychological
importance of a good relationship with emotions… </div>
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Our relationship status with emotion, of course, is best
filed under “it’s complicated,” but I also think all good relationships are.
And as a writer, I love exploring those complicated relationships… and a good
blog response should pick one particular aspect and discuss it. And perhaps
save other aspects for future blogs.</div>
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Having had <a href="http://novelfriend.blogspot.com/2017/11/surgery-prep.html" target="_blank">my surgery and a long history of period / hormone issues</a>, though, what’s foremost in my mind and has been for the past year is
physiological causes for uncontrollable emotions. (Basically, almost the
opposite of what I ended up responding on Facebook.)</div>
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Our current culture in modern America, and many other places
across the world, takes the stand that we should “control our emotions,” as
Rona puts forward in her post.</div>
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I agree with her that we shouldn’t control our emotions and
that it is a problematic, if not dangerous, thing to do so. (She has a great
example of following her instinctual emotions on her blog.)</div>
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Emotions cause physiological effects in the body that we
cannot control—blood pressure, heart rate, temperature, tears or laughter are
some examples. (Breathing, too, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>but we
have some control over that, at least.) These are part of your autonomic
nervous system—the things your body does that you don’t have to think about,
and in essence, can only marginally affect even when you do think about them.</div>
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Because emotions have such a major physiological component
attached to the autonomic nervous system, as well as the endocrine system (your
hormones) and neurotransmitters, that means you can have physical triggers for
emotions that you also cannot control. The science of psychiatry and psychology
deal with those quite a bit. But consider when you have a health problem that affects
your body’s chemistry—you’re not able to control your body chemistry, so you
simply cannot control the emotions caused by these symptoms.</div>
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Many women suffer this dissociation with regular PMS—the butt
of far too many jokes. However, consider how society pressures people
(particularly women) to “get it together” and “control your emotions,” when she
literally, physically CANNOT DO SO. Not only is there this awful feeling of
intense anger, sadness, happiness, or what not because estrogen or progestin is
doing its thing, but there is this logical awareness that the emotion being
felt is not associated with any actions or events currently happening around
us. And we’re regularly told that THIS IS WRONG; YOU ARE WRONG.</div>
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And it’s not wrong. And it’s not controllable. And no one
should be punished for going through this.</div>
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<br /></div>
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It’s bad enough to be standing in the kitchen, filled with
rage and a physical illness of dissociation because there is no good reason for
there to be <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">rage</i>. Thought processes
and thinking about the situation aren’t going to un-flush our system with the
chemicals causing <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">rage</i> (or grief, or
elation). In fact, the discomfort or panic of that dissociation can enhance and
exacerbate the unwanted emotion. Add in feeling like a failure or like you <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">ought</i> to be able to control this
emotion, and you’ve added even more chemicals interacting in the body.</div>
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<br /></div>
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What to do?</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
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Change starts within us. Within individuals. I’d love to
magically change society and society’s dangerious and poisonous views, but that
isn’t something any individual can do. But we can learn to create a better
relationship with our own emotions—and to forge more healthy relationships with
the emotions of others by our own reactions.</div>
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<br /></div>
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For each individual, admit and surrender to the idea that
emotions are not a thing to be controlled.</div>
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<br /></div>
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That’s a lot of work on its own.</div>
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<br /></div>
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Next, each of us should pay attention to your body during
emotions. How do I feel? What is my natural inclination for action while
experiencing those emotions? Is there a situational cause for the emotion? If
so, what? If not, that’s okay too; I <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>notice and appreciate your body is going
through something physical and physiological that creates this emotion. </div>
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<br /></div>
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This is also a lot of work. We need to give ourselves
permission to take our time with this.</div>
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<br /></div>
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Then, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">then</i>, after
we’ve acknowledged these things, we can look for the things we can control.</div>
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<br /></div>
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For me, the first thing is to learn how to communicate about
emotions. Let the ones I love know when I’m angry, that I need to do something
physical—walk, yell, punch or throw inanimate objects. Anyone I’m in a
relationship with—my hubby, my friends, my family—are people I could
potentially act out upon due to emotions, and none of us have psychic powers,
so it’s important to tell them why I’m acting out—what I’m feeling, what I
need, and so on. Of course, it’s important that if the emotion was caused by an
action that, once the uncontrollable need is met (time alone, being hugged,
pillows beaten up), the cause needs to be addressed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’ve seen people (and it’s often shown in
literature, television, movies, etc) take care of the emotional need, but then
never address the issue—so it continues to fester and cause the uncomfortable
emotion—and that discomfort will grow, requiring the physical response to be
stronger and stronger. Communication is the most important thing in any healthy
relationship. Communicating with ourselves and others is key when it comes to
our shared relation with emotions.</div>
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<br /></div>
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Once we get communication moving, we can look at other
things that are within our control. Especially when emotions come at
inconvenient times. Rather than try to control the emotion, however, we can
control how we handle the symptoms of emotions. Rather than saying, “I can’t be
angry right now,” we can think, “I can’t tell my boss to self-copulate
painfully right now.” We can take time to pay attention to breathing and work
at controlling that to an extent. We can take time with responses, crafting
them so as not to damage other relationships. We can remove ourselves from
situations when we realize we are at a place where the physiology of the
emotions is not appropriate. </div>
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<br /></div>
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I don’t think I can say enough times that this is not easy,
and I, for one, am far from perfection in this practice.</div>
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<br /></div>
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But that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t try. And try again. And
try again. (And apologize, communicate, and try again.)</div>
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<br /></div>
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The last thing regarding “control” over emotions is how we
respect and appreciate others’ physiological-emotional needs. Telling someone
to “get control” is, as mentioned above, not only likely impossible but
damaging, potentially making the situation worse. Find out what they need in
the moment to deal with the emotion, and later discuss the situation. Be
forgiving when someone lashes out; it may be a thing they physically can’t
control at the moment…</div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
That said, suffering regular abuse from someone who “can’t
control their emotions” is a relationship not worth keeping. That is an
entirely different—but still very important—conversation that needs to be had.
Physical attacks, deep emotional attacks, any abuse is wrong. </div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Outside of abusive behaviors, however, it’s worth being
flexible, honoring the physiological aspects of emotion, and opening a channel
of communication. For ourselves, and for the ones we care about.</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
I hope this isn’t an unpopular topic, and that more of us do
start healthy discussions about what emotions are and what makes for good
emotional relationships.</div>
Trisha Wooldridgehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16376818093828481917noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5296451303865123285.post-59938678155569219692017-11-05T21:18:00.000-05:002017-11-05T21:18:46.186-05:00Surgery Prep<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<![endif]-->It’s been over a year since my last
blog post that was part of #HoldOntoTheLight...
<br />
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0in;">
This one probably could be too, but
I just want to get it out there because I’m going into surgery tomorrow and
I’ve been procrastinating on writing it for a while.</div>
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<br /></div>
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The surgery is fairly minor, though
I do get anesthesia. </div>
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<br /></div>
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The short, less-icky version: </div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0in;">
I’ve got a good-sized <a href="https://www.webmd.com/women/uterine-fibroids/default.htm">fibroid </a>in
my uterus that’s also on my cervix that’s been making my life miserable for a
while now. They’re going to remove it via hysteriscopic surgery (i.e. no
incision, using my own openings). And then they’re going to put in a IUD that’s
supposed to help out with the other misery-causing issues that led to the
fibroid being there in the first place. </div>
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<br /></div>
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Most urgent information... I’m going
to be mostly offline / resting for the next week. I expect the procedure to be
fairly easy.</div>
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<br /></div>
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The long and icky version of this is
part of an ongoing medical condition that I only had doctors take seriously in
2014, though it has likely been an issue since I started having periods.</div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0in;">
Yes, we’re getting into periods.
Turn back if you’re scared; here there be woman dragons.</div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0in;">
(I say that dripping with sarcasm,
because I think everyone really ought to be educated about how half our
population’s bodies work... and because I think this “ew” factor and ignorance
that comes up with women’s health is a part of why I suffered as I have for over
20 some odd years...)</div>
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<br /></div>
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It took me having to go to the ER
and nearly getting admitted due to a kidney infection that developed due to a
bladder infection due to a uterine track infection that I neglected symptoms to
because I couldn’t differentiate them from the symptoms I was already suffering
due to a 6-week long period.</div>
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<br /></div>
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Short version of THAT: About six
months’ worth of tests from a specialist OB-GYN and a urinary gynecologist, and
I learn I produce too much estrogen, likely have produced too much estrogen my
whole adolescent and adult life, because of that likely couldn’t have kids if I
wanted, oh and my uterus is actually tilted and twisted (also affecting the
“kid breeding potential”) and THAT contributed to my life-long war with my
bladder that has led me to more embarrassment and pain than I want to get into
with this blog post.</div>
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<br /></div>
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Yeah. All that.</div>
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<br /></div>
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After a few failed procedures
(posted on FB and maybe I’ll do a blog post on them later... it’s almost time
for The Walking Dead)... my OB-GYN gave me an arm implant that was supposed to
even out my hormones and potentially make my periods go a way for almost three
blessed years!</div>
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<br /></div>
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Less than a year and a half after
said implant... I’m bleeding again. I was bleeding and in pain at... </div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0in;">
Every. Single. Convention. I
attended in 2017. All of them. Every month. </div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0in;">
And it was going from five days to
six days, to seven days...</div>
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<br /></div>
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And the time between periods was
getting less and less and less...</div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0in;">
It wasn’t until I spent more than
half of <a href="http://www.campnecon.com/">Necon </a>in July in my hotel room,
in bed, puking and bleeding and exhausted, that I demanded another appointment
with the OB-GYN. </div>
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<br /></div>
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I then had to go home and record
three more months of my cycles for something to be done. (Despite the fact I
had very clearly recorded the prior six months in red marker on my calendar for
her to see already.)</div>
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<br /></div>
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I cheated and called her in two and
a half months because I was on my third bleeding cycle. It fucked with my
DragonCon.</div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0in;">
More tests, more visits, and A
REASON!</div>
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<br /></div>
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I had a fibroid.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A big one. Oh, and it was also on top of my
cervix. </div>
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<br /></div>
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If you didn’t follow the link above
for what a fibroid is, here is <a href="https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/uterine-fibroids/symptoms-causes/syc-20354288">another
one to the Mayo Clinic.</a> I include that one because it has a handy list of
symptoms, which I’ll copy here:</div>
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I have Every. Single. One. Oh, and
also anemia. I need to sleep all the time, and I have no energy. Everything,
everything I do and have been doing takes two to three times the effort.</div>
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<br /></div>
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So, add in depression, feeling like
a failure, and all the emotional baggage that goes with that.</div>
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<br /></div>
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Thing is, I get most of those
symptoms with my messed-up estrogen and twisty-tilty uterus anyway...<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This fibroid was just exacerbating a regular
level of misery I live with each month. Hopefully, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">this</i> IUD will help with the hormones.</div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0in;">
But seeing as the arm implant failed
after a little over a year, I’m not all that hopeful.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’m just glad to get the fibroid that’s
making things worse out...</div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0in;">
What I <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">want</i> is a full hysterectomy. Kids aren’t in the planning, and
there’s always adoption and fostering if we do change our minds.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I have no need for these parts.</div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0in;">
But I got a hard “no” on that from
the doc. That’s its own blog post.</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0in;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0in;">
I plan on returning to blogging.
I’ll talk about <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">that</i> as things continue.</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0in;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0in;">
But, for now, I’m going into
surgery.</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0in;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0in;">
And I have a medical affirmation for
at least part of my suffering, for many of the failures I’ve felt over the past
year, for not being as productive and being more “flaky,” for the exhaustion
and the anger and uncontrolled emotions, for the pain... </div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0in;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0in;">
Having a name for it, having a cause
does matter. Having a plan and having power over it... that’s in progress.</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0in;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0in;">
For now, I will take well wishes,
hope, prayers, and whatever anyone wants to send. </div>
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Today, I had a coupon for an oil change at one particular
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Monroe I normally go to. I was perfectly fine with that, as it’s closer to my
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Mind you, hands down, I prefer and go out of my way to
patronize local coffee shops and small businesses. (Hello, <a href="http://www.sturbridgecoffeeroasters.com/">Sturbridge Coffee Roasters</a>!)
That said, there is a lot of good to be said about Starbucks – particularly my
local one, which has excellent customer service and baristas who know my name.</div>
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But, back to my oil change and why that inspired my
#WriterWednesday post...</div>
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I have yet to get an oil change anywhere that is done in the
15-20 minutes they promise. That’s why I prefer the one by Starbucks; I pack my
computer and I know I can get work done in a fairly comfortable setting with
readily available caffeine and at least semi-healthy snacks – depending on my
resistance level to not-in-the-least-bit-healthy for you snacks. (Salted caramel
fudge block and s’mores squares, I’m looking at you!) </div>
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When I’ve interviewed writers for my non-fiction articles,
or when I get interviewed as a writer, there is almost always a question about
rituals and what one does to “get in the zone” to write. I laugh at that. My
requirements: somewhere to sit semi-comfortably and either a functioning
machine with a word-processing program or just plain paper with pen or pencil.</div>
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And that’s all you should need, too.</div>
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Life is hectic. Writing time needs to be fought for and
protected fiercely. That’s why writers should get into the habit of writing
anywhere, anytime. Always have pen and paper, and whenever possible, bring a
netbook, tablet, or something like that (because it’s way easier to transfer
work via email or thumbdrive than actual transcription, IMHO).</div>
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Now, when it comes to coffee shops in particular, if you
haven’t ever explored that old cliché of a writer in a coffeehouse, you’re
missing out.</div>
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(There’s also the cliché of writers in bars; I have tried it
with varying success. But that will be another post.)</div>
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The coffee-shop-as-office is becoming a ubiquitous trend. I
see people with their laptops all the time – and not just writers. There’s a
unique vibe to the indie and Starbucks-esque coffee shops that I haven’t found
elsewhere. These havens work as both a place to be alone in a crowd or part of
a community – sometimes both in the same visit.</div>
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When someone’s looking at their computer intently, usually,
they don’t get bothered. (Usually: YMMV). But if you’re stuck and looking
around, sometimes you’ll meet eyes with someone and strike up a short
conversation. Or, someone you know might be eating, relaxing, reading,.. or
staring into space rather than their computer screen (especially if you
frequent this spot a lot). Sometimes just that brief conversation will
reinvigorate you about your topic; sometimes that person might have useful
information for you.</div>
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Today, for example, I was pushing through email when two
local police officers walked in and were chatting at the table next to me. My
current short WIP includes some things that police officers would be uniquely
qualified to advise me on.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I kept
smiling and trying to catch their eye during lulls in conversation, and finally,
one of them addressed me.</div>
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With a shy smile, I started, “This is really weird, but I’m
a writer and I’m working on a piece that I want to get right in how the police
might handle a situation…”</div>
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“What do you write?”</div>
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“Science fiction, fantasy…”</div>
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“My favorites! What do you need…?”</div>
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I asked about a particular plot point, got useful
information, and we bid each other good days. It was great!</div>
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In my coffee shop office hours, I’ve met pastors, teachers,
lawyers, other police officers, mechanics, and all sorts of folk from whom I’ve
had the pleasure of learning. I’ve ended up getting speaking and book signing
gigs based on our conversations. At the very least, my writing time has
included delicious beverages and food.</div>
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Most importantly, having “office hours,” even if they’re at
someplace public, in and of itself, can be a tool to help productivity. A
change of environment, the white noise of conversation, the general “coffee
shop” style music can push your brain out of a stuck mode. Or, if you are set
on having rituals and practices to help you write, setting aside a place and
limited time might be just enough to get you started.</div>
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Have you tried coffee shop office hours? How did it work for
you?</div>
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I’ve been sad, angry, lethargic, overwhelmed to the point of
being unable to get out of bed. I would never use “depressed,” though, to
describe how I felt. Part of it, I’m sure, is stigma. Another part, however, is
knowing my friends who have been depressed – clinically or situationally – and
who at one point really did want to end their lives.</div>
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I was bullied through a good part of school. In first grade,
my best friend told me she was leaving me to hang out with the cooler kids. In
fifth and sixth grade, my best friend and I were belittled by teachers and
physically threatened by classmates for being different. I became the lead drummer
in junior high because I spent every lunch hiding in the band room, practicing
so I could avoid the lunchroom where no one would sit with me and I’d gotten
shoved and told “Stop following us! We don’t want you around us!” by a group of
girls I’d thought were friends. In high school, things changed because there
were over 2000 kids, so enough of us outcasts and geeks found each other and
made our own group – but we all knew we should never travel alone. Regardless
of gender, ethnicity, religion, or if we were <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Magic the Gathering</i> people or <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Dungeons
and Dragons</i> players, we employed the buddy system and made friends with the
librarians who let us stay there rather than the more dangerous realms of lunch
rooms and study halls.</div>
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Through all that, I never came close to wanting to end my
life.</div>
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My emotions didn’t go to the dark level I saw in others, so
I didn’t want to take that term “depression” from them. I was worried about
appropriation before I’d even heard the word “appropriation.” I loved these
people, and I respected what they were going through – even when it made me
feel helpless. It wasn’t about me feeling helpless; it was about them. People
who were hurting the way I’d hurt – only much, much worse.</div>
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I’m going to get into a confessional that some people might
just consider “woo-woo” or “New Agey” or some other diminutive term that
downplays the intense levels humans can connect. This is a #sorrynotsorry
moment where I think such people are wrong.</div>
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A friend of mine, also a writer – keeping names confidential
– and I regularly share how we both are deeply affected by others’ emotion, and
how that affects each of us in our writing<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>and working lives. We remind each other to protect our energies –
because if someone is very excited, we get that way. And if someone was
hurting, we take on that pain in hopes that it made them hurt less. Often unconsciously.
Often to a level where we need time to physically, mentally, and emotionally
recover from a particular conversation. </div>
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When I started learning about energy work in my adulthood,
I’d been told by more than a few people I needed to protect myself better when
it came to energy. I did. Somewhat.</div>
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Until I didn’t.</div>
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I was visiting another dear friend of mine who was going
through an especially difficult time in her life. She was successful, happily
married, brilliant in literary gifts as well as science... And for the first
time, she was actively thinking of ways she might end her life. She was even
planning ways she might do so with as little impact to others as possible –
because she didn’t want to hurt anyone. I listened, we held each other, and I
just wanted to do something to help.</div>
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Perhaps I did. I don’t know. I know she is still alive and
at least posting happy things on social media.</div>
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I also know that I was more drained than I’d ever been. And
a few days later, I was feeling things I’d never felt before.</div>
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I didn’t want to kill myself.</div>
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But I didn’t want to do anything. I hurt. Everywhere. I
couldn’t breathe. I couldn’t stop crying. I felt utterly and completely empty,
like there was nothing inside and nothing good would ever happen again. My
brain was spinning its logic wheels; there was no reason for me to have these
emotions. My work and money issues were actually doing well, I was writing a
story I really enjoyed, no one I knew was terminally sick or dying or dead...</div>
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I was sitting in the car while my husband had run into the
store and I was just sobbing uncontrollably.</div>
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Not only were there all those negative feelings, but the
fact there was no logical reason for me to have those feelings, feelings I’d
never felt before, was utterly terrifying.</div>
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Fortunately, I do have a wonderfully supportive husband who
took how I was feeling very seriously and spent the day doing things with me.
He looked online for ways to help “reset the brain” while I napped. Then we
went walking in the woods. After that, we visited our long-time friend,
apothecary, and “kitchen witch,” who smudged me and suggested foods with
garlic, tumeric, and chocolate. My husband drove to all this so I wouldn’t have
to, and listened to me going on and on while he drove.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then we went home and I took the “day off”
and snuggled with him as we binge watched <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Supernatural</i>.*</div>
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The feelings alleviated as the day passed, but not entirely.
It was <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">not</i> an immediate fix. Not for
a week, maybe two, did I feel even close to my usual self. And the memory still
chills my stomach and grips my lungs so I feel I need my asthma inhaler.</div>
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Those feelings – the combination of them all at once – that
is how I understand depression.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s not
just one thing. It’s everything <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">all at
once <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">at the loudest volume and THE
HIGHEST PRESSURE</i></b>. And no strength to handle it.</div>
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I’ve never been diagnosed as clinically depressed. In fact,
I even got turned down for a weight study because, during the interview, I had
no signs of depression whatsoever. </div>
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But it happened to me.</div>
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It happened to me, and it can happen to anyone. It could
happen to everyone; you don’t need a diagnosis.</div>
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Do I know what my other friends with depression know? Certainly
not. I know enough about emotions that they are not the same for any two
people. And everyone has a different pain threshold. Can I speak for people who
suffer clinical depression or any other type of depression? Absolutely not.</div>
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But I can say how<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> I</i>
felt. And I can share the stories I’m permitted to share. For those who are
suffering, you aren’t alone – even if someone might only share a moment or a
piece of that pain – someone has felt desperation and depression. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Someone believes what you say you feel. Someone
wants to help.</div>
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For those who don’t understand, can’t imagine...perhaps my
short moment will give you pause, will describe it in a way you can understand
and help you empathize. It happened to me; it can happen to anyone; so <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">everyone</i> needs to be aware and everyone
should be more compassionate. I hope that adding to this conversation, we can
build a better support system and a kinder, more aware culture.</div>
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If you are experiencing depression and suicidal thoughts,
here are some resources for you. Remember, you’re not alone and people care
about you:</div>
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<a href="http://suicidepreventionlifeline.org/%23">http://suicidepreventionlifeline.org/#</a><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>- 1-800-273-8255</div>
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<a href="http://suicide.org/suicide-hotlines.html">http://suicide.org/suicide-hotlines.html</a>
– has a list of numbers for specific states and regions.</div>
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<a href="http://www.nami.org/">http://www.nami.org/</a> -
The National Alliance on Mental Health has a lot of resources you can call for
emergency help, to educate yourself,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>to
find community support, and more.</div>
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* When I had my writing colleague who has confided about me
about her depression beta read this article, she gave me a lot of great
feedback, but one thing she told me was that I needed to detail what I did to
get through my depressive episode. I was reticent to do so because I get
infuriated at all the “inspirational” posters, memes, messages, etc. that say
“You don’t need pills; you just need to walk in the woods.” I want to slap the
people who post them because it’s insulting and outright deadly. Period. Long
explanation short: Sometimes natural, herbal, cognitive-behavior methods work;
sometimes they don’t and medicine does. There are good reasons to take
medication and there are good reasons to not take medication. Respect what
works for each individual, share information and techniques, but NEVER shame
someone or belittle their choices or needs.</div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">About
the campaign:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">#HoldOnToTheLight
is a blog campaign encompassing blog posts by fantasy and science fiction
authors around the world in an effort to raise awareness around treatment for
depression, suicide prevention, domestic violence intervention, PTSD
initiatives, bullying prevention and other mental health-related issues. We
believe fandom should be supportive, welcoming and inclusive, in the long
tradition of fandom taking care of its own. We encourage readers and fans to
seek the help they or their loved ones need without shame or embarrassment. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Please consider donating to or
volunteering for organizations dedicated to treatment and prevention such as: </span><a href="https://afsp.org/"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">American Foundation for Suicide
Prevention</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">, </span><a href="http://www.hopeforthewarriors.org/"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Hope
for the Warriors</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> (PTSD), </span><a href="http://www.nami.org/"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">National Alliance on Mental Illness</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> (NAMI), </span><a href="http://www.cmha.ca/"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Canadian Mental Health Association</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">, </span><a href="http://www.mind.org.uk/"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">MIND</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> (UK), </span><a href="http://www.sane.org.uk/what_we_do/support/helpline"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">SANE</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> (UK), </span><a href="https://www.beyondblue.org.au/"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">BeyondBlue</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> (Australia), </span><a href="https://twloha.com/"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">To Write Love On Her Arms</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">,
and the </span><a href="http://suicidepreventionlifeline.org/"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">National Suicide Prevention Hotline</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">.</span></div>
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<![endif]-->While October is usually extremely busy for me, being that I
tend to write dark fantasy, dark SF, and horror, October 2016 is especially so!
I’m back in my blogging saddle, so let me give you a quick round-up of things
to expect (some of which do make blogging challenging because I’m not at home
much). Here you go:
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This week, I had a most wonderful time being on <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yvqhEk-qHM8">The Taco Society Presents</a>
television show!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You can see the whole
thing here.</div>
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I also had a great dinner/marketing/shop-talking evening
yesterday with the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/massfa/">Massachusetts
SciFi & Fantasy Authors</a>.</div>
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TOMORROW, October 22: I’ll be at the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/250910228629499/">Merrimack Valley
Halloween Book Festival</a>! I’m super excited about that, AND I will have a
limited (only 18 copies) run of a glossy softcover edition of “Tea with Mr.
Fuzzypants” for sale. They’ll be numbered and with some surprise original drawings
inside by me! Besides myself, there are about 35 other amazing horror authors
who will be signing, a great set of panels, and all sorts of Halloween
surprises, so do come and check it out.</div>
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On Monday, October 24, I will have a special blog post as
part of the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/WeHoldOnToTheLight/">#HoldOntoTheLight
movement</a>, where over 100 authors of science fiction, fantasy, and horror
talk about their experiences with bullying, mental illness, and more. Find out
more about this important movement <a href="https://holdontothelight.wordpress.com/">on their website</a>, and check
out my Monday blog for my experience.</div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">About the
campaign:</span></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">#HoldOnToTheLight
is a blog campaign encompassing blog posts by fantasy and science fiction
authors around the world in an effort to raise awareness around treatment for
depression, suicide prevention, domestic violence intervention, PTSD
initiatives, bullying prevention and other mental health-related issues. We
believe fandom should be supportive, welcoming and inclusive, in the long
tradition of fandom taking care of its own. We encourage readers and fans to seek
the help they or their loved ones need without shame or embarrassment. </span></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Please consider donating to or volunteering for organizations
dedicated to treatment and prevention such as: American Foundation for Suicide
Prevention, Hope for the Warriors (PTSD), National Alliance on Mental Illness
(NAMI), Canadian Mental Health Association, MIND (UK), SANE (UK), BeyondBlue
(Australia), To Write Love On Her Arms and the National Suicide Prevention
Hotline.</span></i></div>
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On Wednesday October 26, I’ll work out another
#WriterlyWednesday post about...<a href="http://www.nanowrimo.org/">National
Novel Writing Month</a> and be at <a href="http://childrensfriend.org/">The
Children’s Friend</a> with the <a href="http://www.worcesterwriters.org/">Worcester
Writers Collaborative</a>, getting in some fiction or poetry words before the
big push of <a href="http://www.nanowrimo.org/">NaNoWriMo</a>.</div>
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On Thursday, October 27, I’ll be running my <a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/904672429664020/">Group Tarot Workshop</a>
at <a href="http://www.generationshealingcenter.com/">Generations in Oxford, MA</a>.
If you are interested in learning Tarot for divination or writing or your own
personal interest, come join us! I’ll be looking at the “scariest” cards in the
deck, and sharing a little surprise.</div>
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Then on Saturday and Sunday, October 29-30, I’ll be in the <a href="http://newenglandopenmarkets.com/salemopenmarket/">Salem Open Market
festival</a> with the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/Newenglandhorrorwriters/">New England
Horror Writers</a>, where we’ll be having a launch party for <a href="http://amzn.to/2eejsYx">our latest anthology, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Wicked Witches!</i></a></div>
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And then, Monday, October 31, it’s Halloween, and I plan on
snuggling up to the hubby and watching scary movies and getting cheap take-out.
Because that’s how you romance this girl, right here. <3 span="" style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </3></div>
(Also, due to our location, we don’t actually
get trick-or-treaters... which is sad.)
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What are you folks up to? Hopefully the rest of your
Halloween Month is as full of treats as mine has been so far! </div>
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I’m Blogging Again...</div>
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I’ve written and re-written my “Hey, look, my blog is alive
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Why is this post so hard? It’s not more personal than what I
pour into my fiction nor what I give to the authors I edit.</div>
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If I’m to guess, it’s because I’m afraid I won’t keep up a
schedule, that I’ll fail. I’ve dropped blogging so many times – though I do
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That’s why, in horseback riding, when you fall off, you
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Well, this is hardly the first, nor will it be the last blog
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Here’s another piece, just for today: </div>
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Even a short ride or short interaction is worth it.</div>
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In writing, once you’ve been away from a project, you lose
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Sometimes just making yourself write one sentence, edit one
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I had one author friend who could only squeeze in one
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If you want to write, if you want to market, if you want to
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My awesome/torturous/awesome-because-she-is-torturous riding
instructor once had me dedicate an entire class to mounting/dismounting. Calico
and I were having issues...and that was the baby step we needed.</div>
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So, here is my short #WriterlyWednesday blog post.</div>
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It’s okay to take baby steps; it’s okay to only write a
little.</div>
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Just keep going.</div>
Trisha Wooldridgehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16376818093828481917noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5296451303865123285.post-85063319627331666382015-01-05T00:46:00.001-05:002015-01-05T00:46:14.950-05:00Happy 2015 – Part 1 – Looking Back<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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After all, a lack of rest and overdoing it was my biggest
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So, here’s a quick review of 2014 with my plans for 2015.</div>
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Accomplishments:</div>
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THREE FREAKING NOVELS OUT!!!</div>
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A <a href="http://www.thevampireaurelio.com/">KICK-ASS
WEBCOMIC</a> WITH AN AWESOME ARTIST!!</div>
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I HAD A SIGNING AT BOOK EXPO AMERICA!!!</div>
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Those are three biggies. There are more!</div>
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“Steadfast in the Face of Zombies” finally <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Once-Upon-Apocalypse-Twisted-Fairy/dp/1568823959/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1420433516&sr=8-1&keywords=Once+Upon+an+Apocalypse">came
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<u>Speaking, paneling, signing, tabling at:</u></div>
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Arisia</div>
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Conbust</div>
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Wiscon</div>
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Pi-Con</div>
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DragonCon</div>
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Rock & Shock</div>
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Enigma Books, Astoria, NY</div>
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Books & Boos, CT</div>
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Generations Gifts and Herbal Apothecary, Oxford, MA</div>
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Nashua Public Library, NH</div>
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Annie’s Book Stop of Worcester, MA</div>
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Booklover’s Gourmet, Webster, MA</div>
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Bigelow Free Public Library, Clinton, MA</div>
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Jacob Edwards Library, Southbridge, MA</div>
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Sturbridge Coffee Roasters / Girl Power!, Southbridge, MA</div>
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I also edited a whole bunch of books in 2014—mine and other
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I also celebrated a lot of wonderful weddings for family and
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I’d thought my 2013 autumn had been difficult with death and
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even worse.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I won’t list all those who I
lost or who I was worrying over, but there were a lot.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I fell behind on a lot of deadlines for
myself and for other people, and I had to drop some of my projects.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And then I got sick, myself, pretty
badly.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I ended up with a serious kidney
infection on top of some larger issues that came to a head right at the same
time. I’ve still got a bit of a journey to go through with tests and such, and
there are some life decisions I need to make, but I have information—and that
is the best tool and best weapon anyone can ask for!</div>
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There were other big changes and upheavals during the year,
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I need to take care of my own writing career.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I need to do the promo, I need to blog, and
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I will do these things.</div>
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I <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">shall</i> do these
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I’m starting fresh again, my New Year’s blog.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I have a fire ceremony to do tomorrow as the
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Tonight, I simply light a candle, post a blog, and get to
sleep at a reasonable hour.</div>
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<![endif]-->So, some years back, I had an idea for a vampire comic book,
and I worked on it for a couple of years with another artist friend of
mine.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Unfortunately, that friend really
didn’t love comic art, so we parted ways and this project has lived in my head without
an artist for more years.
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And then, upon having my cover redone by <a href="http://the-artist-slake.tumblr.com/">the amazing and talented Slake
Saunders</a> (some NSFW art there)—who has a wicked comic sense to her art—I had
the chance to hang out with her and tell her about my sad, artist-less comic.</div>
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She loved what I was describing!</div>
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So, I sent her character descriptions and what I had for a
script.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Email after email, I got to see
these characters come to life through Slake’s art.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Really, it was like she plucked the faces and
pictures right out of my head!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She sent
me thumbnails of Aurelio’s and Sophia’s expressions for some of the scenes, and
I was like, YESYESYESYES!!!!!</div>
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Now, after almost a year of prep, we’re finally ready to
announce AURELIO!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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The comic pages will start going live as of Monday, October
27, 2014, and we will be hosting the comic through Patreon.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You can get to it via
www.TheVampireAurelio.com</div>
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Aurelio Sangreleyes is a Justicar, a vampire whose job it is
to police vampiric relations with humans and other magickal creatures.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He’s been sent by the Council of Matrons to
Boca Raton, Florida, to investigate a new street drug that is being made with
vampire venom. During his investigation, he grabs a bite to eat from the wrong
witch and finds himself cursed by her blood—he is now the sole protector of the
witch’s 15-year-old daughter, Sophia. And the girl’s father is a fallen angel,
a creature vampires are forbidden against acting against.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Now Aurelio must deal with the black market
venom trade while also protecting Sophia from being kidnapped and dragged to
hell by her unholy father.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Oh, and
Sophia has her own plans about this mess, too.</div>
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The comic, itself will be free, but if you want to help us
and get more awesomeness, be a patron for as little as $2 a month!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We’ll make it worthwhile with bonus art and
writing.</div>
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And if you’re going to be at DragonCon this weekend, I’ll
have special <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Aurelio</i> postcards at the
HWA fan table and wherever I am around the con!</div>
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Thank you, in advance for any support you can give!</div>
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Love,</div>
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Trish and Slake</div>
Trisha Wooldridgehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16376818093828481917noreply@blogger.com13tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5296451303865123285.post-14783353225260342882014-08-12T22:47:00.000-04:002014-08-12T22:47:59.309-04:00Pouring a Bucket of Ice on #IceBucketChallenge<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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Go ahead, call me a spoil-sport. I’ve got some calling out
to do of my own.</div>
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First, some time ago, I wrote a <a href="http://novelfriend.blogspot.com/2011/03/feminine-friday.html">blog on
stupid “Awareness” campaigns for breast cancer</a>, where people Vague-booked
stuff to supposedly raise awareness of breast cancer. You might remember the
color-of-your-bra campaign (which bothered several breast cancer survivors who
no longer wore bras, I may add), the “where I put my purse” posts, or the
random fruit posts. </div>
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Wait, you forgot about them? Great awareness, huh.</div>
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In any case, we’re going through another bout of “Awareness”
raising.</div>
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Do you know what ALS is? </div>
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It’s also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease. And <a href="http://www.alsa.org/about-als/">from ALSA.org</a>, here is the
definition:</div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Just what is ALS? </span></b></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is
a progressive neurodegenerative disease that affects nerve cells in the brain
and the spinal cord. Motor neurons reach from the brain to the spinal cord and
from the spinal cord to the muscles throughout the body. The progressive
degeneration of the motor neurons in ALS eventually leads to their death. When
the motor neurons die, the ability of the brain to initiate and control
muscle movement is lost. With voluntary muscle action progressively affected,
patients in the later stages of the disease may become totally paralyzed.</span></div>
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It’s a horrible disease, and there is limited treatment. It
is a good cause to support. I’m not arguing any of that.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In fact, if you want to actually make a
difference, here’s <a href="https://secure2.convio.net/alsa/site/Donation2;jsessionid=84E775D98E340FD964425D36300EA01B.app278b?df_id=27420&27420.donation=form1">a
direct link to their donation form!</a></div>
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Taking five minutes to donate five dollars and sharing that
you donated $5 goes way further than, say, daring someone to pour a freaking
bucket of ice on their head. Really. After this fad is over, who will still remember
what ALS stands for? Most people have forgotten that it’s the same thing as Lou
Gehrig’s disease and what this awful disease did to him. There will be a memory
of people pouring ice over their head, not what it’s for.</div>
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So, no. I don’t accept your damned #icebucketchallenge.</div>
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I’ll write a blog post that explains the disease and gives
people ways to actually help. I think that is more useful than pouring ice over
my head. </div>
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Furthermore, what gives you—anyone—the right to demand I
give $100 to a cause not of my own damned choosing?</div>
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This is what gets me the most about this. Do you know that I’ve
supported ALS already? Several times, in fact, through staying up for 24 hours
blogging? Sharing other information?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And
even if I didn’t, do you have any idea how much money I’ve given to animal
rescue? To cancer research? To hospice care? To individuals directly who were
dying of cancer, families who have lost their breadwinner, authors about to
lose their homes because we get sh*t for pay and insurance? Have you any idea?</div>
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No, no you don’t. For the individuals, I give anonymously.
For the stuff I keep receipts for because it can be deducted for taxes? None of
your damned business.</div>
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So don’t demand I give $100 that I do not currently have if
I don’t decide to do some silly action.</div>
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You want to go on a 5K to raise $ and awareness for ALS, if
that’s your preferred charity, I’ll dig into my wallet and support what I can.
Same for hunger. And, because I’m selfish and know even more people affected by
cancer, more than a few who have recently died, I’ll give even more if you’re
doing a cancer walk. Hell, I might even join you.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That gets something accomplished. And that’s
YOUR choice; you’re just asking me for support. And I support a lot.</div>
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Just don’t freaking TELL me what I have to donate for! Don’t
give me a freaking “do this or else” ultimatum. Don’t guilt me over it. </div>
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Then you’re just pissing me off.</div>
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I was at a party recently with someone who had a form of
ALS. The person said something to the effect of, “If people wanted to really
help ALS, they’d film themselves staring at the bucket of ice and then making
the $100 donation.”</div>
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Do you have the spare $100? Can you do that? Then don’t
assume I can, either!</div>
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I refuse the #icebucketchallenge, and I certainly am not
challenging anyone to do that. </div>
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If you want to help, here’s<a href="https://secure2.convio.net/alsa/site/Donation2;jsessionid=816437D5A331EE661B176660CDBB07F9.app278b?df_id=27420&27420.donation=form1">
the donation link again</a>. ALSA has a 30% overhead for running their
organization, which is a % I can live with supporting. (And if you don’t know
the overhead of the charity you’re giving to, find out. Some non-profits have
80%-90% overhead, so a whopping 10 cents of every dollar actually goes to HELP
PEOPLE. Research!)</div>
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I’m all for people helping fund research for a cure or
helping those afflicted with the disease get through their life. <a href="https://secure2.convio.net/alsa/site/Donation2;jsessionid=816437D5A331EE661B176660CDBB07F9.app278b?df_id=27420&27420.donation=form1">Go
donate.</a></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Leave the damned ice for chilling drinks.</span>Trisha Wooldridgehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16376818093828481917noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5296451303865123285.post-6796932924442717792014-05-15T02:01:00.000-04:002014-05-15T02:01:44.531-04:00Character Interview: Ian from Terry Bruce's THEREAFTER<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt;">I’m
very pleased, today, to have a special visitor here at A Novel Friend thanks to
<a href="http://www.terribruce.net/">Terri Bruce</a>’s Blog Tour!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Ian, the cowboy from Terri’s newest release, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Thereafter</i>, took a few minutes out of
his adventures in the Afterlife to chat with us!</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Thanks
for stopping by my blog here, Ian! Terri and I do a lot of talking about
horses, so I was excited to meet the cowboy she’s been talking about.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I know <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Thereafter</i>
has just come out, so a lot of people might not have read it yet.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Can you tell these folks a little about
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Well, it’s gonna sound mighty
strange, but me and a bunch of other folks are stuck by this river in the
afterlife—we’re all dead, you see. And there’s this woman, Irene Dunphy—well,
she comes along with a plan to spring us all. So I end up fallin’ in with her
and this other fella—Andras—and we set about trying to get on out of there. </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt;">I worked on a horse ranch in
Kentucky. Weren’t much excitement—it was sun up to sun down back breaking work.
It was hot, it was dusty, and the only good part was headin’ to Ms. Lydia’s
Dancing Girls Emporium on Saturday nights.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Being a horse
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Well, I don’t rightly know, now that
you mention it. I ain’t never seen many horses running around the afterlife.
There’s a few, now and again, with some of the older folks, them that died in
way back times, but otherwise, ain’t too many. God only knows how Irene ended
up with a horse—she don’t strike me as much of a horse woman, prancing around
in that little nothing of a dress she wears and all. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">What were some
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</span>How has that changed? </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Outside of Ms. Lydia’s, there
weren’t much time for much else in the way of hobbies. When I got hitched to
Irmaguard, I had to give up Ms. Lydia’s, which was a damn shame. But Irmaguard,
God rest her soul, was a sure-fired jealous woman so there wasn’t any help for
it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">What did you
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Oooo-eeee! I was looking over this
vista, admiring the view, and all of a sudden this woman, well, more of a blur,
really, comes flying at me like a bat out of hell. I didn’t know what she was
doin’. She tackles me, and the next thing I know I’m flat on my back, lookin’
up into a mass of red hair, the most beautiful brown eyes, and the sweetest
little mouth I ever did see. She wanted to take off right after, but I sure
wasn’t lettin’ her out of my sight that easy. Then I found she was fixin’ to
find a way across the river, and then I certainly wasn’t goin’ to let her out
of my sight! I been stuck there by that river for a couple hundred years and
was mighty sick of it, I can tell you.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Something I
always like to ask folks I interview is this: What is a question you want me to
ask?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And what would that answer be?</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Well, now, that’s a toughie. I
guess, I wish you’d asked when I wish I would have lived; I can tell you that
Irene told me a bit about the future and it sure did sound good. I wish that’s
when I’d been born. Life sure does seem like a lot more fun.</span></div>
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Trisha Wooldridgehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16376818093828481917noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5296451303865123285.post-35619247572111962272014-04-25T16:30:00.000-04:002014-04-25T16:30:00.982-04:00BIG DEALS... -and- FREE BOOKS! <!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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Voltaire</a> fans (and if you're a reader of this blog, you probably are), have
I got some news for you!!</div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Aurelio Voltaire's</b>
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Big Deal</a> from today, April 25 until Sunday, May 11.</div>
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The Pine Barrens of New Jersey are a wasteland - well, even
more so than the rest of the state.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Few people
can live there, businesses certainly don't thrive, and other than the trees
that cast an impenetrable darkness over the sugar sand, not a lot of things
flourish in the unusual landscape.</div>
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rats and a washed up Goth musician to a particular, lonely cabin in this
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off against their deepest fears and the most unholy monsters in a battle where
their very souls, the world they live in, and any chance of returning to Hot
Topic is at stake!</div>
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Spear</i>, the sequel to <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Finn Finnegan</i>
is also an <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Gideons-Spear-Finnegan-Darby-Karchut-ebook/dp/B00I8JCOOU/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1398389753&sr=8-1&keywords=Gideon%27s+Spear">Amazon
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<span style="color: #262626;">When a power-crazed
sorceress and the neighborhood pack of beast-like goblins team up and threaten
both his master and his friends, thirteen-year-old Finn (not Finnegan)
MacCullen does the only thing an apprentice monster hunter can do: he takes the
fight to the enemy. And woe to the foe he meets along the way.</span></div>
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Giveaway</a> of an autographed <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Finn
Finnegan! </i>You can <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13486992-finn-finnegan">enter it
here. :)</a></div>
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Giveaway</a> for Kelly Hashway's <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Monster
Within </i>going on until June 30. :) Go <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/giveaway/enter_choose_address/90347-the-monster-within">enter
it now</a>!</span><br />
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Trisha Wooldridgehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16376818093828481917noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5296451303865123285.post-27315249963116188502014-04-01T10:00:00.000-04:002014-04-01T10:00:10.016-04:00COVER REVEAL: D.M. Cunningham's NILES WORMWART, ACCIDENTAL VILLAIN<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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I'm so excited to finally share with everyone this AWESOME
cover for another of my authors, the wonderful <a href="http://dmcunningham.com/">D.M. Cunningham</a>, by the super-wicked
artist, <a href="http://vvjones.com/">Veronica V. Jones</a>! </div>
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Love comic-book villains? Love mad genius and Tesla? Love
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt;">NILES WORMWART, ACCIDENTAL VILLAIN</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt;">By D.M. Cunningham </span></div>
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In the science fair world of ketchup-spewing
volcanoes and potato clocks, one boy, Niles Wormwart, plans to alter the
history of science fairs with his time travel wristwatch based on Nicola
Tesla's work. Unfortunately, history has different plans for Niles. <br />
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After Niles blows up his school's science wing with his project, his father,
deciding his son needs to man up, make some friends, and take a break from his
constant experiments, sends unsuspecting Niles off to the mysterious Camp Mayhem.
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The only problem is that Niles' father thinks it's a role-playing camp. Well,
it's not. </div>
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Headed up by the ominous Red Czechmark, Camp
Mayhem is ground zero for training the future villains of today. A place for
real kids to realize the real villain inside them. Niles sharpens his focus on
escaping the camp while everyone inside wants him to sharpen his focus on
discovering his own dark powers. There's a sinister plot brewing, and Niles is
dead in the middle of it.</div>
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Thrust into a world he only thought existed in
comic books. Niles discovers his true potential inside the walls of Camp
Mayhem-the potential to become the darkest of evils or stay true to his
good-hearted roots.</div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt;">Title: Niles Wormwart, Accidental Villain</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt;">Print ISBN: 978-1-939392-37-4</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt;">Ebook ISBN: 978-1-939392-38-1</span></div>
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Trisha Wooldridgehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16376818093828481917noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5296451303865123285.post-54804566262157581482014-03-21T03:35:00.000-04:002014-03-21T03:36:19.638-04:00COVER REVEAL: Daisy Whitney and BEN FOX: SQUIRREL ZOMBIE SPECIALIST AT YOUR SERVICE<!--[if !mso]>
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<span style="color: #222222;">I'm
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</span>:)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>First, my author <a href="http://daisywhitney.blogspot.com/">Daisy</a> has been a sweetheart to
work with and I just adore this book! Second, the cover is by the super-amazing
<a href="http://the-artist-slake.tumblr.com/">Slake Saunders</a>! </span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222;">:D Now,
bask in the wonderful evil cuteness of bad cat, good dog, and squirrel zombie
shenanigans!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222;">BEN
FOX: SQUIRREL ZOMBIE SPECIALIST AT YOUR SERVICE</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222;">By
Daisy Whitney</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222;">Ten-year-old
Ben Fox has good friends, a great dog, and a lightning-fast little sister who
drives him a bit batty. The only thing in the fifth grader’s life that’s truly
annoying–well, besides having to wear braces on his feet every day–is the
family’s wily Siamese cat, Percy. Ben has always suspected something was <i>off</i> about
Percy...</span></div>
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and they’re ready to take on Ben's beloved dog, Captain Sparkles.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222;">Now Ben
must figure out how to stop the dastardly cat, especially since Percy and his
newly reanimated squirrel friends are gunning for nothing less than a
full-scale Animal Zombie Apocalypse—when all the dogs start to behave like
cats!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222;">The
battle won’t be easy though, because squirrel zombies are the most dangerous
animal zombies of all…</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222;">Title:
Ben Fox: Squirrel Zombie Specialist At Your Service</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222;">Author:
Daisy Whitney</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222;">ISBN:
print: 9781939392190, ebook: 9781939392206</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222;">Release
Date: 10/14/2014</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">Goodreads
TBR: <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20630483-ben-fox?from_search=true" target="_blank"><span style="color: #1155cc;">https://www.goodreads.
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I'm happy to share the cover release of my friend and sister
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Terri is an amazing woman and an amazing writer, so look
forward to when you can get your hands on this book! ... And if you haven't
read the first in this series, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Hereafter</i><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Hereafter-Afterlife-1-Terri-Bruce-ebook/dp/B00HSX5LLA/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1393915475&sr=8-1&keywords=Hereafter+Terri+Bruce">,
you need to do that. Like now!</a></div>
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Without further ado, here is the GORGEOUS cover for <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Thereafter</i>.</div>
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Terri is also having an <a href="http://www.rafflecopter.com/rafl/display/ba112f574">awesome contest to
celebrate her pretty cover here!</a></div>
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Now that you've seen the contest and the pretty, here are
all the details to further make you want this book! Besides <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">a medieval Spanish knight AND a cowboy!!!!</i></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgt8_eSr2YX8jUnNrxvQezvrF9ZEbHaQqR-t5Y-xTtLoLF4ZIIwkF85lB3or5fWj1HO5HaPslzfte0Ya2LUMJg6Cqv4LzIdt-RgSDnDm0Re7cANXJtgfOiom_vBMeKkVm9L4qWDjBYUbnpZ/s1600/03042014+-+Terri+Bruce+Author+Pic+Official.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgt8_eSr2YX8jUnNrxvQezvrF9ZEbHaQqR-t5Y-xTtLoLF4ZIIwkF85lB3or5fWj1HO5HaPslzfte0Ya2LUMJg6Cqv4LzIdt-RgSDnDm0Re7cANXJtgfOiom_vBMeKkVm9L4qWDjBYUbnpZ/s1600/03042014+-+Terri+Bruce+Author+Pic+Official.jpg" height="400" width="266" /></a><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Genre: Contemporary
fantasy/paranormal</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Publisher: Mictlan
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Date of Publication:
May 1, 2014</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">ISBN:
978-0-9913036-2-5 (print) / </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">ISBN: 978-0-9913036-3-2
(ebook)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Number of pages:
318</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Word Count: 99,000</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Cover Artist:
Artwork by Shelby Robinson; </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">cover layout by
Jennifer Stolzer</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Book Description:</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">When
recently-deceased Irene Dunphy decided to “follow the light,” she thought she’d
end up in Heaven or Hell and her journey would be over.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Boy, was she wrong.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">She soon finds that
“the other side” isn’t a final destination but a kind of purgatory where
billions of spirits are stuck, with no way to move forward or back. Even worse,
deranged phantoms known as “Hungry Ghosts” stalk the dead, intent on destroying
them. The only way out is for Irene to forget her life on earth—including the
boy who risked everything to help her cross over—which she’s not about to do. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">As Irene
desperately searches for an alternative, help unexpectedly comes in the
unlikeliest of forms: a twelfth-century Spanish knight and a nineteenth-century
American cowboy. Even more surprising, one offers a chance for redemption; the
other, love. Unfortunately, she won’t be able to have either if she can’t find
a way to escape the hellish limbo where they’re all trapped.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Author’s Note: </span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">I am THRILLED
beyond all measure to finally be able to bring you <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Thereafter</i>, and I want to thank all the fans who have waited (more
or less patiently) an extra year for this book to finally come out. Thereafter
would not have been possible without your support—thank you all! I hope you
love this beautiful new cover as much as I do, and I hope you find <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Thereafter</i> to be worth the wait.</span></div>
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Her hand touched a rock,
one of the flat beach stones she’d seen on graves. She picked it up, laying it
flat in her palm. She didn’t remember picking this up. In fact, she had been
careful not to take any. It had seemed disrespectful and too much like stealing
to remove them, and while she’d seen a few here—both loose and piled in
cairns—she hadn’t picked any of them up. There had been no point. What would
she do with a rock?</div>
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No wonder her bag was so
heavy.</div>
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She tossed the rock over
her shoulder and heard it hit the ground with a satisfying thud some distance
away. It felt good to be rid of something, to make a decision and be sure it
was the right one.</div>
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She surveyed the pile
again and then grabbed a small handful of paper animals. She picked one up
between a finger and thumb. It was a horse. Irene had been in Chinatown during
Chinese Ghost Festival, a holiday in which the living left offerings for the
dead. These offerings included paper replicas of things people thought the dead
would need in the afterlife—money, clothes, television sets, and even animals.
Irene had admired the precise and delicate folds of the Origami figures and had
picked some up to admire them more closely. Without thinking, she had dropped
them into her bag and apparently been carrying them ever since.</div>
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Well, even Jonah couldn’t
argue with her on this—there was no way she was going to need a paper horse on
her journey through the afterlife. Plus, these didn’t hold any sentimental
value. She cast the horse onto a nearby fire and watched as the paper curled
and blackened in the low-burning flames.</div>
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The fire leapt and seemed
to glow blue for a moment. Irene tensed—what was happening?</div>
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Thick black smoke began
to rise slowly from the flames, spiraling upward in a thickening column. The
smoke grew denser and then elongated sideways. Irene leapt to her feet and
backed away, her heart pounding. Something was forming in the fire.</div>
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The smoke was taking
shape now; there was purpose and design in its movements. She could see a long,
horizontal back, four legs, a neck, and finally a head and a tail. The smoke
swirled with a final flourish and then shuddered into the solidity of a
smoke-colored horse. The animal blinked passively. Then it violently shook its
head, blew out a breath, and delicately picked its way forward out of the fire.
It immediately put its head down and began to lip the ground, looking for food.</div>
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Irene stared stupidly at
it. “Are you shitting me?”</div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Terri Bruce has
been making up adventure stories for as long as she can remember. Like Anne
Shirley, she prefers to make people cry rather than laugh, but is happy if she
can do either. She produces fantasy and adventure stories from a haunted house
in New England where she lives with her husband and three cats. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Website/Blog: <a href="http://www.terribruce.net/">http://www.terribruce.net</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Goodreads Profile: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/6450132.Terri_Bruce">http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/6450132.Terri_Bruce</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Facebook Fan Page: <a href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/Terri-Bruce-Fan-Page/325830544139030">http://www.facebook.com/pages/Terri-Bruce-Fan-Page/325830544139030</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Twitter: <a href="http://www.twitter.com/@_TerriBruce">http://www.twitter.com/@_TerriBruce</a>
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I know, I know... all my blogs for 2014 have fallen under
"self-promotional." But...but...but... all these things are
rocking my world and my dreams are coming true!!<br />
<br />
Sooo... if you'll indulge me...<br />
<br />
SILENT STARSONG...written even before THE KELPIE, who some of you have been
fans of long before you met the MacArthurs...is FINALLY AVAILABLE FOR
PRE-ORDER!!<br />
<br />
<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Silent-Starsong-T-J-Wooldridge/dp/1939392934/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1392773903&sr=8-1&keywords=Silent+Starsong">Here
it is on Amazon!! (Already discounted!)</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/silent-starsong-tj-wooldridge/1117668069?ean=9781939392930">Here
it is on Barnes & Noble!</a><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></div>
<br />
And Friends with Stores - you can pre-order your stock, too, at wholesale
prices through <a href="http://www.ingramcontent.com/pages/home.aspx">Ingram</a>,
<a href="http://www.btol.com/">Baker & Taylor</a>, or directly through the
SHP distributor, <a href="http://www.midpointtrade.com/">Midpoint</a>.<br />
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Here are the details!<br />
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Title: Silent Starsong</div>
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Author: T.J. Woolridge</div>
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Publisher: Spencer Hill Press (<a href="http://www.spencerhillpress.com/" target="_blank">www.spencerhillpress.com</a>) </div>
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Formats: Paperback, e-book</div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: black;">If the stars were singing your future, what would you do to
hear it?</span></i></div>
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Eleven-year-old Kyra Starbard has proud family legacy of
interpreting the future from the stars' songs.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>But her deafness, incurable by the best medics, breaks her mother's
heart and pushes her father to try anything—including the expensive purchase of
a telepathic alien servant to help Kyra communicate on a planet inhospitable to
disability.</div>
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Marne's telepathy is too weak for his
Naratsset culture, so he is sold into slavery and expects to die at the hands
of cruel owners—until he meets a human child who begs her father to
"save" him.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Her kindness
introduces Marne to a new world—one where he would risk his life to save a
human from her own people's abuse and the stars' songs can touch even a deaf
girl and a defective telepath.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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But there are forces that believe Starbards, whether they
can hear the stars are not, should be utterly destroyed. Can the two friends,
not good enough for either of their cultures or families, manage to keep each
other safe when several different worlds threaten their lives?<span style="color: black;"></span></div>
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<br />Trisha Wooldridgehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16376818093828481917noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5296451303865123285.post-84037485124756340732014-02-18T22:04:00.001-05:002014-02-18T22:04:52.833-05:00A Trailer for... THE KELPIE!!Noooo... not a horse trailer! He'd tear that apart! Look, I have a cool book trailer for my first novel!!<br />
<br />
Please post and share around? :)<br />
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<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iiLIXfO3lck&feature=youtu.be">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iiLIXfO3lck&feature=youtu.be</a><br />
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[... Ack, sorry for just the link. Blogger is being a pain and unable to find the trailer no matter how I search!]<br />
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Thank you to Roberto Muerto for making it awesome!<br />
<br />
Enjoy!Trisha Wooldridgehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16376818093828481917noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5296451303865123285.post-59864312998957204272014-01-16T01:52:00.000-05:002014-01-16T01:52:28.880-05:00A SILENT STARSONG! My cover! Yep, that's how I'm starting 2014 blog posts...<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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I can't tell you how excited I am about this!!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I wrote Kyra's adventures long before I even
thought about Heather and the MacArthur family.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The Husband-of-Awesome has been a fan of Kyra and Marne for years and
years; they're his favorite of my literary "children."</div>
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AND THEY'RE FINALLY REAL!!</div>
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The fabulous <a href="http://vvjones.com/">Veronica V. Jones</a>
is the artist for this cover, and she made them EXACTLY how I picture them in
my head. </div>
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E-X-A-C-T-L-Y!!!!</div>
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So, I'm thrilled to pieces to finally share this with you!</div>
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Here are the deets for this baby:</div>
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Title: Silent Starsong</div>
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Author: T.J. Woolridge</div>
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Publisher: Spencer Hill Press (<a href="http://www.spencerhillpress.com/" target="_blank">www.spencerhillpress.com</a>)
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: black;">If the stars were singing your future, what would you do to
hear it?</span></i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Eleven-year-old Kyra Starbard has proud family legacy of
interpreting the future from the stars' songs.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>But her deafness, incurable by the best medics, breaks her mother's
heart and pushes her father to try anything—including the expensive purchase of
a telepathic alien servant to help Kyra communicate on a planet inhospitable to
disability.</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
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Marne's telepathy is too weak for his
Naratsset culture, so he is sold into slavery and expects to die at the hands
of cruel owners—until he meets a human child who begs her father to
"save" him.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Her kindness introduces
Marne to a new world—one where he would risk his life to save a human from her
own people's abuse and the stars' songs can touch even a deaf girl and a
defective telepath.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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But there are forces that believe Starbards, whether they
can hear the stars are not, should be utterly destroyed. Can the two friends,
not good enough for either of their cultures or families, manage to keep each
other safe when several different worlds threaten their lives?<span style="color: black;"></span></div>
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If you’d like to request an ARC, please use the reviewer
form on our website (<a href="http://www.spencerhillpress.com/reviewers.html" target="_blank">http://www.spencerhillpress.com/reviewers.html</a>). ARC’s will
ship in February/March 2014.</div>
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Below is the wraparound. There have been a few tweaks to the
lettering/wording, but you HAVE to see how gorgeous the whole thing is!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><a href="http://vvjones.com/">Veronica</a>
has outdone herself!!</div>
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