When Glowing Pigs Fly!

Thanks for another amazing tale Teagan.

Three Things Book Talk at Kev’s

Thanks for sharing Teagan, Looking forward to spring.

Three Things Serial Story — Book Talk

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Welcome back everyone! If you were wondering, this post already went live at KC Books & Music. I wanted to leave a gap before posting here. If you’ve already visited there, thank you!

Kevin Cooper ever so kindly asked me to take part in his Book Talk at KC Books & Music. How could I possibly resist? So please go visit his amazing blog too, that’s important to me. I’m re-sharing the post here, so that it will be in my own library. Okay, here goes!

My debut novel was Atonement, Tennessee. It’s an urban fantasy with a dash of mystery. However, as most everyone here knows, over the holidays I “book-ized” one of the serial stories from my blog, The Three Things Serial, a Little 1920s Story. You can learn all about it here. Anyway, that’s what I want to…

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Thriving Thursdays: What if I Fall – 2

Thank you for sharing this Teagan, You know early or late your posts are still great.

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To read “What if I Fall -1” just click here.

Welcome back. I’m playing catch-up again, re-posting some of the Thriving Thursdays mini-posts that The Story Reading Apehas so generously allowed me to do from his tree-house.

Thriving Thursdays: What if I Fall – 2

What if I fall? What if someone laughs? What if it’s expensive? What if it’s a no return ramp exit? What if—?

Are you afraid you’ll fall? Yet you don’t want that nagging fear to hold you back, right? Well, sometimes we just have to redefine our perception of things. Would you really be falling?

“Did you just fall?” charlie-chaplin-fell-down

“No. I attacked the floor.”

Go ahead and attack the floor. If you even got up and tried — the truth is, that’s more than most people do. That alone means you didn’t really fall. Did you learn something from that failed attempt? About…

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Thriving Thursdays: The Value of Nonsense

Thanks for sharing Teagan have a wonderful Thursday.

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If you have already seen this post, forgive me. It is one of a series of monthly guest spots I’ve been doing at The Story Reading Ape’s blog. I’m adding it here to my Motivational section. Since it’s “been done” be sure to pay a visit to the Ape. Just click here.

Thriving Thursdays: The Value of Nonsense

Batman Elephant purple There used to be a list of jokes about keeping a healthy level of insanity. A good sense of whimsy, an active imagination — those things will help you thrive.

“I like nonsense —
it wakes up the brain cells…” Dr. Seuss

Here’s one more whimsical quote.

“My alphabet starts with this letter called yuzz. It’s the letter I use to spell yuzz-a-ma-tuzz. You’ll be sort of surprised what there is to be found once you go beyond “Z” and start poking around!”
Theodor Geisel (aka Dr. Seuss)

From Yuzz to Z

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Three Things Serial Goes to Mars?

Thanks for the great Friday afternoon entertainment. I was/am an Edgar Rice Burroughs fan in my younger day eons ago I used to consider hiding from my chores and reading one of his books the highlight of my day.

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young-lucille-ball-pensive-peach Young Lucille Ball as Pip

In my novella, The Three Things Serial – a Little 1920s Story, Pip dubs one of her friends “the astronaut man.” That character is Andy Avis and he writes science fiction stories (hence Pip’s nickname for him). He happens to have a gigantic crush on Mona. 250px-Princess_of_Mars_large

In the novella, Andy is working on a re-imagining of A Princess of Mars. That is a science fantasy novel by Edgar Rice Burroughs. Andy would cast Mona in the titular part as Dejah Thoris.

Now, that is not the focus of the novella — it is a very small aspect of the story. However, I thought it would be fun to let you know more about it. Science Fiction was coming into its own in the Jazz Age with silent films.

Edgar Rice Burroughs, of course, became famous before the 1920s. He published A Princess of Mars

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