When I was looking into writing this blogpost, I had every intention of listing all the musicians who have passed on in 2016. As I researched this, I found that I was unaware of most of their passings, but not of their contributions to the music I have enjoyed in my life. I didn’t want to mirror what others have said about Prince, Haggard, Frey, and Bowie. Instead, I thought about discussing whether or not we are haunted by music.
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Reader & Alexie's Book Recommendations
in Binge, Peeps Spotlight
Happy Friday! It’s my turn to put together some book recommendations. Fortunately for me, I have a few readers who are helping me out. Before I started writing full-time, I was a voracious reader, but these days, my time is spent writing, and alas, the books I have yet to read are stacking up! You see, I’m very careful about not picking up ideas (consciously or subconsciously) from other writers so I avoid reading in my genre. I do read, but I keep to areas that don’t cross over into the paranormal world.
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Binge Reading With The Beta Reader #2
Hello everyone, Aaron The WebGuy here today to showcase some book series to binge read upon while waiting for Alexie Aaron's next book. The Beta Reader is a machine and he cranks out a book in under half a day a lot of the time, so naturally I am here to provide some links to some of his new reads. In fact, we did this before so here is the link the Binge Reading with the Beta Reader 1. Once again, The Beta Reader has the goods, and if you like Alexie Aaron's works he thinks some of these books might tickle your fancy. Most of these books leaning toward the supernatural and witchcraft or sorcery, although he seems to be dancing with the subject of angels and demons a lot lately as well. Links are a simple click away and I'll include the blurb from Amazon under each one. Without further ado here is The Beta Reader's new reads for those with a desire to sink their teeth into some new novels.
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No Spoilers!
Rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrough drafts. First drafts are these marvelous things full of excitement, plot lines, typos, and What the fuzzy bunnies? I sat today and reread a few lines and said, “Huh.” I tried to think what I was trying to get across, “Nope.” Took it in context, “Um, no.” Then I deleted them. What was I thinking? Only Murphy knows.
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These ducks were very happy to be fed by a lake in Michigan.
Cute Animal Links!
Hey, gals and guys! So… we didn’t have any new updates to report this week, so instead of a meaningful blog post, the Red Pen is hoping to distract you with a collection of animal videos.
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Bottom of the 9th inning! Last chance to even the score or win to win in Baseball.
Bottom of the 9th inning!
It’s late Thursday afternoon. The Webguy taps my shoulder, and I nearly jump out of my skin. “Do you have this week’s blog post?” It takes me a moment, as I am so deep into what I’m writing that it sounded like, “Do you have a blocked nose?” After my brain sorted this out, I answered, “no.” He offered to write it, but I thought I would just come clean. I don’t have it because I’m in the ninth inning of my book.
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The Alexie Aaron Podcast #7 "Sand Trap" Discussion
It’s time to examine Sand Trap. We have the Red Pen asking Alexie pointed questions about the third book of the Haunted Series. We have pulled Alexie out of the muse long enough to ask her questions, like why is this her favorite novel of the Haunted Series. We hope you enjoy this podcast. Read more and scroll down for both audio and video versions!
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Welcome Spring
Winter, calendar-wise, is hitting the skids this Sunday. Let’s celebrate spring by looking forward to all we have coming up.
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