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Forever Blue by Elodie Parkes released today 18+ post

Today is release day for Forever Blue. I asked Elodie what inspired her to write it.

‘Forever Blue,’ my December 20 release with Hot Ink Press, was inspired by the woodland near where I live. There’s a mysterious feel about the woods in autumn. It often feels as if something is watching. From the window of the room where I write, I can see across to nearby woods. I hear owls hoot at night. At dusk and dawn, there are strange mists that rise from the trees. It’s very lovely.

That’s great 🙂 tell us a little more, what’s it about?

Would love to,  the five things I wanted for the story, ‘Forever Blue’

  1. A heroin who was capable, brave, ready for love, and not afraid to go for it.
  2. A hero who was hot, sexy, but not afraid to admit his love and need for his woman.
  3. A story that had an element of mystery and strangeness to fit the season.
  4. A story that took place in the country where silence and nature can conjure up the ethereal.
  5. A love story that sizzled with sex, but also touches your heart with happiness

I have bought a couple of the guy’s with me, they are eager to tell you about Forever Blue from their point of view :0

Rubs hands together. Well hello there *grins*  So what’s hot about Forever Blue?

The love scenes.

The way Claudie responds to me. Her courage. The love story. It’s unusual and steamy.

The love scenes are hot, but then so is Jasper, I mean just look at him. The story is sumptuous. It’s rich in description so that you feel as if you’re in the places described, although I’d rather you weren’t in the love scenes. (smiles)

Jasper tell us about Claudie:

She’s a professional, and clever. She makes films. I think she’s beautiful and smokin’ hot. She cares about the environment and the creatures in the forest. (Laughs then and takes Claudie’s hand)

What about Jasper, Claudie, tell us about him:

He’s tall. He has these gorgeous muscles, that’s from working in the forest I guess. He’s sexy, sensual, loving. His kisses are to die for.

Jasper leans across to her, “Only my kisses?”

They gaze at each other for a moment.

So in just one word can you describe the story?

Jasper: Sexy

Claudie: Delicious

After fanning myself, the atmosphere is sizzling here 😉

If you are not already chomping at the bit to go grab a copy, here is the blurb and an excerpt

Claudie loves living in the countryside and close to the forests. She’s a film maker and works for the wildlife trust. One night she steps onto her patio and sees a man sheltering there. She confronts him and he runs away.

Jasper has watched Claudie for a year. He fell in love with her, but he has a secret, one that might mean he can never approach her.

Will love and fate find a way?

What secret must Jasper hide?

What’s the strange blue dust that turns up on Claudie’s patio?

18+ erotic paranormal romance

Now for a snippet of this hotness 😉

Claudie was back and she smiled at him. He ran his tongue over his suddenly dry lips. He followed her to the work surface where she poured coffee into two cups. Jasper stood close to her.

She turned to him.

He slowly, gently took a few strands of her hair. It slipped between his fingers and he gazed into her eyes. He saw her lean toward him and knew she’d return his kiss. He bent his head to hers. A fraction away from her lips he gazed into her eyes and saw lust. His cock jerked in his jeans. He met her mouth, kissed her slowly, lingering, and sucking her bottom lip a little, as his heart hammered in his chest.

She kissed him too, and brought her hands up to hold his face. Her gentle touch sent shivers of desire all the way down his body. His cock grew heavy. The longing to press against her overcame him and he pulled her into his arms.

Her gasp of pleasure caressed his ear. She pushed her stomach against his erection and her luscious tongue touched his lips.

He opened his mouth. The urgent need to fuck her made his legs feel like jelly.

Her kiss continued.

Jasper relaxed. She wanted him.

US link

UK Link

A bit about Elodie and where you can find her

Elodie Parkes is a British author writing romance, erotic, contemporary, and often with a twist of mystery, paranormal or suspense. Her books are always steamy, cool stories and hot love scenes.

Elodie lives in Canterbury with her two dogs. She works in an antique shop by day and writes at night, loving the cloak of silent darkness that descends on the rural countryside around her home.

Elodie writes for, Hot Ink Press, Moon Rose Publishing, Eternal Press, and Evernight

She has also released titles as an individual indie author.

Find Elodie online: Blog  Tumblr  Facebook  Twitter  Google +  Pinterest  YouTube  Amazon USA  Amazon UK  Smashwords  Barnes and Noble  ARe  Bookstrand  Evernight

Thanks guys for coming over here, I hope your story is a smash and seasons greetings 🙂

4 thoughts on “Forever Blue by Elodie Parkes released today 18+ post

  1. Hi Caroline, Thank you for hosting my new release on your fab blog 🙂

  2. Excellent insight ladies! Continued success to you both.

  3. This sounds amazing.Sorry to mention it in a comment but I’m currently hosting a giveaway for a book called Half a King by Joe Abercrombie. However, so far, there has been little interest so I am trying to reach out to bloggers who may be interested. I have a review of the book along with the giveaway together in one post so, if you would be interested, would you mind checking it out?

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La Perla

20131005-082515La Perla (The Pearl.) How strange and terrible that this beautiful and precious element of creation has come to be associated with one of the most infamous detention centers from the period of ‘La Dictadura’ (1976-1983) in Argentina. But it has. The name has particular potency in Córdoba, the city closest to the center and whose population was deeply affected by it. And for all of us in the Casa de la Mateada program, knowing about and confronting the history of this place has become an important part of our experience of living, studying and working in this country. It has become particularly important in helping us learn what it might mean to practice accompaniment in this place.

We visited La Perla several weeks ago as part of our ongoing effort to understand the immensely complex history and politics of this country. And in particular to help us understand better the story narrated in Alicia Partnoy’s La Escuelita. That book, written by a member of LMU’s Modern Languages faculty who is herself a survivor of imprisonment and torture during the period of ‘La Dictatura’, became an important focal point in our students’ work this semester. I wrote earlier about the deep impact reading this book had on them, on all of us. How it shifted their (and our) sense of where we are and what we are doing here: this happened to Alicia, to friends of hers, and to many, many others here in Argentina. It was real. We would have to reckon with this reality as part of our encounter with this country and its people. It also raised new questions for us about the meaning of accompaniment.

Twice a week, with utter faithfulness, our students spend their days at praxis sites (three sites that ring the city of Córdoba) working alongside community leaders, teachers, women religious, and children; working with them, hanging out, listening to their stories, entering into conversations, cooking, reading, playing. Without question, this work has been transformative for our students. They talk about it all the time. They express their deepening regard, respect and affection for those whom they are accompanying, and who are in turn accompanying them.  The notion of accompaniment (related to but different from ‘service,’ something that many of our students are well versed in before arriving here) is central to the ethos of the Casa experience. And the experience of accompaniment in the praxis sites is in some ways at the heart of this reality for our students.

Still, as we set off for La Perla on a mild spring day a few weeks back, I became aware that this place might also have something important to teach us about the meaning of accompaniment. If nothing else, encountering this place would require us to confront, more deeply and perhaps more viscerally, a shadowy and painful moment in the history of this country whose effects can still be felt here in so many ways. I wondered: would we be able not only to ‘learn about’ this dark period of Argentina’s history, but open ourselves to it, feel it and become capable of responding to it with real thought and care? And even if its meaning proved impossible to grasp (which in some ways it must), would we be able to make a place in our own imaginative and spiritual lives for this experience? Could we make room especially for all those who were brought here to be tortured and killed? All those disappeared without a trace, whose families still grieve for them, hunger for word about what happened to them here. Could we learn to accompany them?

20131005-082541.jpgI realize this question might seem strange, even presumptuous. Is it really our place to ask such a question? We are not native to this place. Nor are we citizens of this country. And we have only recently arrived here. This is part of the reality of being here in Argentina as citizens of another country. We need to take care with the kinds of questions we ask, with how we ask them. Not because of fear of repercussions. No, it has more to do with what it is to be here as visitors, guests. We may ask our questions. But it is important to remember who we are and where we are and where we are from. For me, it is important to ask this question (with humility and an acute recognition of all I do not and cannot know), if only to help me learn how to approach this place and its story honestly and fully.  Above all to help me begin to consider how to make room in my consciousness for all the people whose lives ended here, brutally and before their time. Nor is it my question only. It has also become real for our students.

No one knows exactly how many people were ‘disappeared’ to La Perla (estimates are from between 2,200 and 3,000 persons). Or disappeared from La Perla, never to be seen again. ‘Disappeared.’ It feels strange to speak this way. But the particular language used to describe the reality of those who were abducted, tortured and killed during this time has undergone its own unexpected transformations. ‘Disappeared,’ in this context, is both a verb and a noun. It is something that was done to people by the military personnel during the dictatorship; we say people were ‘disappeared’ as a way of trying to account for the terrible circumstances in which they were removed from their homes, their families and from the world forever. It is also the name given to all those who were subjected to this brutal treatment. The ‘disappeared’ (los desaparecidos) are remembered in a particular way in Argentina. And their fate has become tied to the unfolding identity of this nation. Trials for those who are alleged to have participated in these crimes are still ongoing. And the question of how to understand this period of history continues to affect politics, culture and social reality in contemporary Argentina. How one thinks about the disappeared and the social and political conditions that made their disappearance possible often determines how one thinks about the possibilities for life in Argentina today. And they cast a long shadow over dreams for the future of this country.

20131005-082704.jpgThese realities were only faintly visible to us upon our arrival at La Perla that day. Nor, not at first anyway, could we really feel the weight and density of what had transpired there. Within a few hours, that would change. Much of this has to do with the care, honesty and tenderness with which the work of remembering the victims has been realized there. Walking through the rooms, you encounter the stories and sometimes photographs of particular people–both perpetrators and victims–almost always presented with a striking lack of adornment. And there are artifacts (precious few to be sure), the only traces of those who were disappeared from that place:  A watch. A purse. A wedding ring. Again, palpable reminders of what happened here, of those who were put to death here. Not only carried in stories, but also in things.

The deeper we moved into the complex, the more completely we descended into silence. It was too much to take in. Certainly too much to try to verbalize. And too early. That in itself was such a valuable part of the experience: hold your tongue. Don’t try to climb back up  into language too quickly, too soon. Listen. Look. Allow yourself to feel the power of the place. Which each of us, in our own way, did.

It is hard to account for the way the power of past experiences, especially experiences of extreme trauma, can linger in a place. It cannot be measured with any instrument. But it can be felt. Many of those who have visited the concentration camps in Eastern Europe, or El Mozote in El Salvador, or Ground Zero in New York, have testified to such feelings. How much of this depends on knowing the narrative of what has transpired there before hand? It is hard to say. Probably it contributes something. But sometimes it feels more uncanny, more visceral than this, as though all the accumulated suffering of a place is still present, seeping into your own body.

The narrator in W.G. Sebald’s great novel Austerlitz describes an instance of this in his account of what it was like for him to approach the area around London’s Liverpool Street Station; it had once been the site of a hospital for the mentally ill and other destitute persons (known as Bedlam). Austerlitz recalls how on his many visits to that place, he would find himself trying to imagine the rooms where the asylum inmates had been confined, wondering “whether the pain and suffering accumulated on this site over the centuries had ever really ebbed away, or whether they might not still, as I sometimes thought when I felt a cold breath of air on my forehead, be sensed as we passed through them on our way through the station halls and up and down the flights of steps.”

20131005-083243.jpgYes: does all that suffering ever really ebb away? Or can you still feel it as you walk through the precincts of such places? And, if you can feel it, what then? What do you do with such feelings? What kind of response is possible?

I am not sure it is really possible to answer these questions in any definitive way. But even considering them can help create a bridge between the dense, inchoate sense of dread that you feel moving through such a place and the possibility of arriving at the kind of response that can open the way to hope. Even if part of that response entails witnessing silently to your experience.

We have been thinking alot these past few months in the Casa program about what it means to move from being a ‘bystander’ to being a ‘witness.’ From being a person who is dislocated from her or his own experience and from the suffering of the world to being a person who enters in, participates and accompanies others in their suffering. A person who seeks to stand with others. This is an important distinction among certain thinkers who have committed themselves to developing a more encompassing, socially just way of being in the world. Not that it is ever really so simple or clear. Most of us experience ourselves at times as bystanders, even if we long to become witnesses. We are overwhelmed by the suffering around us. We feel defeated by it, reduced to hopelessness. Still, there are moments when something else shines through in our lives: an unexpected capacity to stand with others in their pain and struggle, even if this gesture does no apparent good, solves nothing.  Still it is a way of bearing witness to the possibility of a different vision of community, of life.

I thought about this as we moved through La Perla that day. These students who have become so dear to us were giving themselves over to the place and its sad, painful history. You could see it in their faces, in their slumped shoulders. There was nothing any of us could do to undo what had happened here. That in itself was more than a little dispiriting. But we stayed, trying to take in what we were seeing, trying to summon the courage to stand with those who had been brought to this place to suffer and die.

20131005-082732.jpgSeveral of us commented later on how beautiful the place is. We felt it especially on this early spring day. It sits on a small rise just north of the road to Carlos Paz. In the distance, you can see Las Sierras Chicas. The trees were just beginning to leaf out. There was birdsong. It was peaceful. Beautiful. Which only served to create a greater sense of dissonance with what we were seeing and feeling. But it was also consoling: even here, the deeper rhythms of the natural world were alive. The world was once again being reborn. It was impossible not to notice and feel this.

We departed in silence.

Later that evening, in a conversation with one of my new Argentinian colleagues, Diego Fonti, the Vice-Rector at La Universidad Católica de Córdoba and a professor to our students, we found ourselves discussing the larger history of which La Perla is only one part. He mentioned the ongoing trials in Córdoba, and how far the country still is from reaching closure and healing; also how important these legal procedures are to realizing this closure and healing. I shared my own sense what it felt like to be at La Perla, not only the force of its impact on me and on the students, but also my uncertainty, as a visitor in this country, about how to respond to it. He understood. And he appreciated, I think, my hesitation, my uneasiness. But he also expressed clearly his own sense of what it was to share concern for the kind of human rights abuses that had taken place at La Perla and also continue to take place around the world, including in my own country. He nodded and looked at me with genuine compassion. “Look,” he said, “when it comes to this kind of thing, for me it is really very simple. My dead are your dead. And your dead are my dead. There is no separation.”

20131005-082502.jpgThere is no separation. There is not and cannot be any separation. These words have remained with me, as a gift, a reminder of what it is to open oneself to the life of another, honestly and deeply. We have only recently arrived here in Argentina. And yes we are visitors. We cannot know or feel or understand the full extent of the suffering and loss that occurred during ‘La Dictatura.’ But we can stand with our Argentinian friends in silent witness. We can open ourselves to the complicated and often-comprised history of our own country. There is no way of standing aloof from these realities, or pretending that all of us are not in certain respects complicit. And even if we do not always know in any given moment what particular response to make, or what response is even possible, we can open ourselves to the reality before us. We can try to look at it honestly. And feel it.

There is no separation.

Douglas E. Christie, Ph.D., Co-Director, Casa de la Mateada

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100 posts!

I can’t believe it. I’m not sure what the protocol is. Should I break out the rum or sit back with a warm latte and relax? Exactly how does one celebrate writing the 100th post?? I’ve been thinking about it for weeks. Not actively thinking about it, but letting ideas float around in the background. I wanted to write a post that stood out from the others. I’ve discarded listing 100 writing prompts, as well as posting 100 random words, though I could have had a lot of fun with that one. Those are great, but I wanted something monumental that I didn’t have to spend weeks working on (although this one did takes days to put together!). Something I’d come back to over and over again, and hopefully something that would be timeless. A place my readers could visit today, or three years from now.

I settled on 100 quotes. You might be sick of quotes, but quotes are universal. That’s the thing about them. They last forever. Besides, I’m hoping this will help me remember some of these quotes better. I hear pieces of them all the time, but sometimes I get the author wrong and I want to stop doing that. I also hoped to run across some authors I haven’t read before.

Pick one or two favorites. Write them out on post-its in dark letters and pin them up in your office. Write them in the cover of your favorite book. Chant them repeatedly to destroy the ghosts of doubt and criticism. I plan to.

The reasons:

1. “If a nation loses its storytellers, it loses its childhood.”
–Peter Handke

2. “There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.”
–Maya Angelou

3. “If there’s a book that you want to read, but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must write it.”
–Toni Morrison

4. “When people don’t express themselves, they die one piece at a time.”
–Laurie Halse Anderson

5. “And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.”
–Sylvia Plath

6. “Why do I write? It’s not that I want people to think I am smart, or even that I am a good writer. I write because I want to end my loneliness.”
–Jonathan Safran Foer

7. “Writing eases my suffering . . . writing is my way of reaffirming my own existence.”
–Gao Xingjian

8. “Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose, or paint can manage to escape the madness, melancholia, the panic and fear which is inherent in a human situation.”
–Graham Greene

9. “You own everything that happened to you. Tell your stories. If people wanted you to write warmly about them, they should have behaved better.”
–Anne Lamott

10. “If I don’t write to empty my mind, I go mad.”
–Lord Byron

11. “Writing is a struggle against silence.”
–Carlos Fuentes

12. “I write to give myself strength. I write to be the characters that I am not. I write to explore all the things I’m afraid of.”
–Joss Whedon

13. “Writing is my way of expressing – and thereby eliminating – all the various ways we can be wrong-headed.”
–Zadie Smith

14. “Writing is the only thing that, when I do it, I don’t feel I should be doing something else.”
–Gloria Steinem

The process:

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15. “Write. Rewrite. When not writing or rewriting, read. I know of no shortcuts.”
–Larry L. King

16. “The greatest part of a writer’s time is spent in reading, in order to write; a man will turn over half a library to make one book.”
–Samuel Johnson

17. “One thing that helps is to give myself permission to write badly. I tell myself that I’m going to do my five or ten pages no matter what, and that I can always tear them up the following morning if I want. I’ll have lost nothing—writing and tearing up five pages would leave me no further behind than if I took the day off.”
–Lawrence Block

18. “I try to create sympathy for my characters, then turn the monsters loose.”
–Stephen King

19. “The first draft of anything is shit.”
–Ernest Hemingway

20. “One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple.”
–Jack Kerouac

21. “Just write every day of your life. Read intensely. Then see what happens. Most of my friends who are put on that diet have very pleasant careers.”
–Ray Bradbury

22. Write while the heat is in you. … The writer who postpones the recording of his thoughts uses an iron which has cooled to burn a hole with.”
–Henry David Thoreau

23. “Keep a small can of WD-40 on your desk—away from any open flames—to remind yourself that if you don’t write daily, you will get rusty.”
–George Singleton

24. “Writing is like driving at night in the fog. You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.”
–E. L. Doctorow

25. “I put a piece of paper under my pillow, and when I could not sleep I wrote in the dark.”
–Henry David Thoreau

26. “This is how you do it; you sit down at the keyboard and you put one word after another until it’s done. It’s that easy and that hard.”
–Neil Gaiman

27. “Write a short story every week. It’s not possible to write 52 bad short stories in a row.”
–Ray Bradbury

28. “Start writing, no matter what. The water does not flow until the faucet is turned on.”
–Louis L’Amour

29. “Get it down. Take chances. It may be bad, but it’s the only way you can do anything really good.”
–William Faulkner

30. “Just write. Many writers have a vague hope that elves will come in the night and finish any stories for you. They won’t.”
–Neil Gaiman

31. “You must learn to hush the demons that whisper, ‘No one wants to read this. This has already been said. Your voice doesn’t matter.’ In the rare moments when the voices finally hush, you might hear the angels singing.”
–Margaret Feinberg

32. “Abandon the idea that you are ever going to finish. Lose track of the 400 pages and write just one page for each day, it helps. Then when it gets finished, you are always surprised.”
–John Steinbeck

33. “Find your best time of the day for writing and write. Don’t let anything else interfere. Afterwards it won’t matter to you that the kitchen is a mess.”
–Esther Freud

34. “I’m writing a first draft and reminding myself that I’m simply shoveling sand into a box so that later I can build castles.”
–Shannon Halt

The struggle:

35. “Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout of some painful illness. One would never undertake such a thing if one were not driven on by some demon whom one can neither resist nor understand.”
–George Orwell

36. “I would advise anyone who aspires to a writing career that before developing his talent he would be wise to develop a thick hide.”
–Harper Lee

37. “Long patience and application saturated with your heart’s blood—you will either write or you will not—and the only way to find out whether you will or not is to try.”
–Jim Tully

38. “No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader.”
–Robert Frost

39. “The scariest moment is always just before you start. After that, things can only get better.”
–Stephen King

40. “Writing is crude hieroglyphs chiseled in pain and sorrow to commemorate an event which is intransmissible.”
–Henry Miller

41. “Writing a novel is like making love, but it’s also like having a tooth pulled. Pleasure and pain. Sometimes it’s like making love while having a tooth pulled.”
–Dean Koontz

42. “Ink and paper are sometimes passionate lovers, oftentimes brother and sister, and occasionally mortal enemies.”
–Terri Guillemets

43. “Be courageous and try to write in a way that scares you a little.”
–Holley Gerth

44. “Writing is like a disease, you either have it or you don’t.”
–Anne Groell

45. “My writing comes not from the happy moments, but from struggle and grief.”
–Isabel Allende

46. “The sensation of writing a book is the sensation of spinning, blinded by love and daring. It is the sensation of a stunt pilot’s turning barrel rolls, or an inchworm’s blind rearing from a stem in search of a route. At its worst, it feels like alligator wrestling, at the level of the sentence.”
–Annie Dillard

47. “Writing a novel is a terrible experience, during which the hair often falls out and the teeth decay. I’m always irritated by people who imply that writing fiction is an escape from reality. It is a plunge into reality and it’s very shocking to the system.”
–Flannery O’Connor

48. “A writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.”
–Thomas Mann

49. “To write something you have to risk making a fool of yourself.”
–Anne Rice

50. “Writing is more than a gift. It is a struggle that blesses those who see it through to the end.”
–Nona Mae King

51. “Write what disturbs you, what you fear, what you have not been willing to speak about. Be willing to be split open.”
–Natalie Goldberg

52. “Thoughts fly and words go on foot. Therein lies all the drama of a writer.”
–Julien Green

53. “I hate first drafts, and it never gets easier. People always wonder what kind of superhero power they’d like to have. I wanted the ability for someone to just open up my brain and take out the entire first draft and lay it down in front of me so I can just focus on the second, third and fourth drafts.”
–Judy Blume

The Voice:

54. “A voice cannot carry the tongue and the lips that gave it wings. Alone must it seek the ether. And alone and without his next shall the eagle fly across the sun.”
–Kahlil Gibran

55. “Your writing voice is the deepest possible reflection of who you are. The job of your voice is not to seduce or flatter or make well-shaped sentences. In your voice, your readers should be able to hear the contents of your mind, your heart, your soul.”
–Meg Rosoff

56. “Never give up. And most importantly, be true to yourself. Write from your heart, in your own voice, and about what you believe in.”
–Louise Brown

57. “The one thing you have that nobody else has is you. Your voice, your mind, your story, your vision. So write and draw and build and play and dance and live as only you can.”
–Neil Gaiman

58. “I wish I could write as mysterious as a cat.”
–Edgar Allen Poe

59. “My commodity as a writer, whatever I’m writing about, is me. And your commodity is you. Don’t alter your voice to fit your subject. Develop one voice that readers will recognize when they hear it on the page.”
–William Zinsser

60. “Writing is the painting of the voice.”

61. “Most of us find our own voices only after we’ve sounded like a lot of other people.”
–Neil Gaiman

62. “When we come across a natural style, we are surprised and delighted; for we expected an author, and we find a man.”
–Blaise Pascal

63. “What a writer brings to any story is an attitude . . . ”
–John Gregory Dunne

The Truths:

64. “There is only one plot—things are not what they seem.”
–Jim Thompson

65. “If you can tell stories, create characters, devise incidents, and have sincerity and passion, it doesn’t matter a damn how you write.”
–Somerset Maugham

66. “I’m writing a book. I’ve got the page numbers done.”
–Steven Wright

67. “All good writing is swimming under water and holding your breath.”
–F. Scott Fitzgerald

68. “You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.”
–Ray Bradbury

69. “The profession of book writing makes horse racing seem like a solid, stable business.”
–John Steinbeck

70. “The pages are still blank, but there is a miraculous feeling of the words being there, written in invisible ink and clamoring to become visible.”
–Vladimir Nabakov

71. “I don’t think you have time to waste not writing because you are afraid you won’t be good at it.”
–Anne Lamott

72. “The story I am writing exists, written in absolutely perfect fashion, some place, in the air. All I must do is find it, and copy it.”
–Jules Renard

73. “For me, a page of good prose is where one hears the rain [and] the noise of battle.”
–John Cheever

74. “There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.”
–W. Somerset Maugham

75. “You don’t start out writing good stuff. You start out writing crap and thinking it’s good stuff, and then gradually you get better at it. That’s why I say one of the most valuable traits is persistence.”
–Octavia Butler

76. “The beautiful part of writing is that you don’t have to get it right the first time, unlike say, a brain surgeon.”
–Robert Cormier

77. “A writer never has a vacation. For a writer life consists of either writing or thinking about writing.”
–Eugene Ionesco

78. “If I waited till I felt like writing, I’d never write at all.”
–Anne Tyler

79. “You fail only if you stop writing.”
–Ray Bradbury

80. “You are a writer. The “normal” ship sailed without you long ago.”
–Terri Main

81. “Better to write for yourself and have no public than to write for the public and have no self.”
–Cyril Connolly

82. “It’s different for every writer. It’s not a career for anyone who needs security. It’s a career for gamblers. It’s a career of ups and downs.”
–George R. R. Martin

83. “I have never written anything in one draft, not even a grocery list, although I have heard from friends that this is actually possible.”
–Cyril Connolly

84. “The first draft is just you telling yourself the story.”
–Terry Pratchett

85. “A professional writer is an amateur who didn’t quit.”
–Richard Bach

86. “But when people say, ‘Did you always want to be a writer?’, I have to say, ‘No! I always was a writer.'”
–Ursula Le Guin

87. “A non-writing writer is a monster courting insanity.”
–Franz Kafka

The Joy:

88. “Writing the last page of the first draft is the most enjoyable moment in writing. It’s one of the most enjoyable moments in life, period.”
–Nicholas Sparks

89. “Writing became such a process of discovery that I couldn’t wait to get to work in the morning: I wanted to know what I was going to say.”
–Sharon O’Brien

90. “To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it’s about, but the inner music the words make.”
–Truman Capote

91. “Writing is the most fun you can have by yourself.”
–Terry Pratchett

92. “I loved words. I love to sing them and speak them and even now, I must admit, I have fallen into the joy of writing them.”
–Anne Rice

93. “A writer lives, at best, in a state of astonishment.”
–William Sansom

94. “Take away the art of writing from this world, and you will probably take away its glory.”

95. “I enjoy writing, sometimes; I think that most writers will tell you about the agony of writing more than the joy of writing, but writing is what I was meant to do.”
–Leon Uris

96. “Writing is an adventure.”
–Winston Churchill

97. “Writing is a sweet, wonderful reward.”
–Franz Kafka

98. “Writing isn’t about racing to the finish line; it’s about finding joy in each step of the process. If a writer focuses on the journey, the destination will take care of itself.”
–Christopher Meyerhoetler

99. “I love writing. I love the swirl and swing of words as they tangle with human emotions.”
–James Michener

100. “Love is easy, and I love writing. You can’t resist love. You get an idea, someone says something and you’re in love.”
–Ray Bradbury

4 thoughts on “100 Great Quotes for Writers

    1. I know! Every time I get discouraged, I pick up my copy of ‘Zen and the Art of Writing’ by him. Within seconds I’m on fire again. He’s always excited about writing — and I love how contagious his enthusiasm is =).

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This week at Town Hall

  • Due to the Nor’easter the Castine Town Office and Transfer Station are CLOSING at 12 Noon; Witherle Memorial Library is CLOSED. We apologize for any inconveniences.
  • Due to the forecast it is likely the Town Office, Transfer Station and Library will be CLOSED on Wednesday, 3/14 as well. We apologize for any inconveniences.
  • The March 14th Harbor Committee Mtg is CANCELLED due to the storm. Rescheduled mtg TBA.
  • Annual Easter Egg Hunt: Sunday, April 1st on the Town Common & Adams School grounds; Emerson Hall in case of inclement weather; Sponsored by the Castine Recreation Committee and MMA APO.
  • Town & Acadia floats are tentatively scheduled to go into the water, weather permitting, on Wednesday, April 25th.

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March 19, 2018
11:00 am Witherle Memorial Libray
4:00 pm Emerson Hall, 67 Court St, Castine, ME 04421, USA

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Endowed Chairs

Meet our Endowed Chairs and Professors

Students, staff and faculty at Creighton’s College of Arts and Sciences benefit from working closely with some of the world’s most talented scholars: our endowed chair holders and professors.

Endowed Chairs

The A.F. Jacobson Chair in Communication (1980)

John J. O’Keefe, PhD, chairholder

  • Professor of Theology; Specializes in Patristic theology; particular interests in early Christian biblical commentary, doctrinal development and theology and the environment
  • Email: jokeefe [at] creighton [dot] edu

The Philip M. & Ethel Klutznick Endowed Chair in Jewish Civilization (1988)

Leonard J. Greenspoon, PhD, chairholder

  • Professor of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations; author; Jewish civilization scholar; noted worldwide speaker
  • Email: ljgrn [at] creighton [dot] edu

The Clare Boothe Luce Faculty Chair for Women in Science (1992)

Mackenzie Taylor, PhD, chairholder

  • Assistant Professor of Biology; research interest in plant reproductive biology and development
  • Email: MackenzieTaylor [at] creighton [dot] edu

The Amelia B. & Emil G. Graff Faculty Chair in Catholic Theological Studies (1997)

Todd Salzman, PhD, Chairholder

  • Professor of Theology
  • Email: ToddSalzman [at] creighton [dot] edu

The John C. Kenefick Faculty Chair in the Humanities (1998)

J. Patrick Murray, PhD, Chairholder

  • Professor of Philosophy
  • Email: jpm [at] creighton [dot] edu

John N. Mordeson, PhD Endowed Chair in Mathematics (2006)

Lance Nielsen, PhD, chairholder

  • Professor of Mathematics
  • Email: LanceNielsen [at] creighton [dot] edu

The Barbara Reardon Heaney Chair in Pastoral Liturgical Theology (2011)

Eileen C. Burke-Sullivan, STD, Chairholder

  • Associate Professor of Theology; Vice Provost for Mission and Ministry; Director of the Online Master of Arts in Ministry and Associate Director of the Master of Christian Spirituality program
  • Email: e_burkesullivan [at] creighton [dot] edu

The Frederick H. and Anna K. Scheerer Chair in Mathematics (2013)

Davender Malik, PhD, chairholder

  • Professor of Mathematics and Computer Science
  • Email: malik [at] creighton [dot] edu

Rev. John P. Schlegel, SJ, Distinguished Professorship in Politics and Government

James Wunsch, PhD, chairholder

Professor of Political Science
Director of the department’s Public Affairs Internship Program
Email: jwunsch [at] creighton [dot] edu

Endowed Professorships

The Casper Professorship (2014)

Heather Fryer, Ph.D.

  • Associate Professor of History; Director of the American Studies program
  • Email: HeatherFryer [at] creighton [dot] edu

The Timms Professorship (2014)

Kevin Graham, Ph.D.

  • Associate Professor of Philosophy; Director of the Magis Core Curriculum
  • Email: kgraham [at] creighton [dot] edu


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Involve Me ! Do you care about your NHS?

2 Feb

What is Involve Me?

‘Involve me’ has been set up as a way of involving people who care about their local NHS and who would like to be kept up to date, or get involved and have their say, on commissioning decisions for the benefit of Sheffield people.

You can sign up to the involve me newsletter here

Heres just a caption of some of the things happening at the moment

Shaping Sheffield Event

Organisations from across Sheffield have been coming together to talk about how we can improve health, care and wellbeing for people in the city. This has become known as ‘Shaping Sheffield’.

We want Sheffield citizens to be involved so we can find solutions together that will benefit everybody. We would like you to be a part of this. Our next meeting is on:
Thursday 9 March 2017
9.30am to 2pm
Bramall Lane, Sheffield United Football Stadium, John Street Entrance S2 4SU

We will be talking about projects, along with what might stop them from working as well as they should, and how to overcome this.

If you would like to come along please visit

You can also take part in conversations online using #shapingsheffield on Twitter.

Patient Participation Groups across Sheffield

On 30 November 2016, we held the second ‘Patient Participations Groups across Sheffield’ meeting. We are now pleased to share with you a report of the meeting which can be found here.
The topics that were discussed were Transforming Primary Care and Prescribing. All the presentations, along with the report, are available to support PPGs to have discussions around these areas, if they should wish to do so.

We are already looking forward to our next ‘PPGs across Sheffield’ meeting, which has been scheduled for:
Thursday 16 March 2017
6 – 8pm

The Circle, 33 Rockingham Lane, Sheffield. S1 4FW

We will be announcing more details soon, but you can book now at
Have your say by Tuesday 14 February

People living in Barnsley, Bassetlaw, Chesterfield, Doncaster, Rotherham and Sheffield are being given more time to share their thoughts on proposals to change our region’s hyper acute stroke services, as well as some children’s surgery and anaesthesia services.

The proposals, incorporating public feedback, have been developed by Commissioners Working Together, a partnership of the region’s NHS clinical commissioning groups and NHS England to improve services across South and Mid Yorkshire, Bassetlaw and North Derbyshire – with the consultation being extended until Tuesday 14 February 2017.

Depending on where people live, some patients have better experiences and access to services than others and have come together to change it. If approved, the proposals would see some services no longer being carried out at Barnsley, Rotherham and Chesterfield Hospitals, with others becoming specialist centres for the whole region.

Until Tuesday 14 February 2017, members of the public are invited to share their views on the proposed option for the future of these services – with a final decision expected to be made by clinical commissioners in April.

Have your say on children’s surgery and critical stroke care here.

If you don’t have much time, you can complete quick polls about the consultations:

Or, if you want more detail, take a look at or call us on 0114 305 4487.

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Noosa Unveils Mix-in Yoghurts

August 29, 2017

Noosa is a yoghurt line made out of all-natural whole milk and fresh fruit purees. Co-Founder Koel Thomae joins Cheddar to explain why the company has entered into a new category, mix-in style yoghurts. "Noosa Mates" include crunchy toppings such as granola, roasted nut, and pretzels.


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Stokenut, a London-based RuneScape player, confesses on YouTube how he made over $50,000 selling the fantasy MMO’s virtual currency before developer Jagex permanently banned his still-loaded runescape account.

In a five-minute YouTube recording posted over the weekend, Stokenut said that since Free Trade returned last year, “I have only really played the game to make money.” And make money he did.

Over the course of an estimated 18 months, he farmed and sold RuneScape Gold, earning slightly even more than the median yearly salary of a full-time British employee.

The revelation that Stokenut was particularly shocking – then eventually, enraging – to his fans who better knew him as a British vidcaster whose outtakes as a RuneScape player earned him up to a hundred thousands of views for his more popular videos. Stokenut’s official YouTube video channelcurrently has roughly 25,000 subscribers with nearly 5 million total views for all his videos.

Stokenut said that he turned to real-world trading less as a means of last resort – he claims to be do fine for finances even without the real world trading stipend – but more as an opportunity that was too tempting to ignore.

“Guys, common sense OK. If you have the ability to make between 500 million and 2 billion per day – the prices I was selling at was anywhere between $250 to $1,000 per day then you would do that, regardless of how you feel about real world trading in general.”

Even as he defended his decision, Stokenut makes no excuses for the effects of gold selling in RuneScape.
“My personal opinion: Real world trading is terrible. Free trade has ruined the game. But if I’m not going to do it, someone else is.”

“You can’t remove real world trading from a game that has free trade,” he added.

In the video, we see that Stokenut received his permanent ban on August 17, with the offence cited as “Real World Trading Major (ban)” with status indicated as still “Appealable.” Stokenut said he can try to appeal, but we think that the YouTube tell-all guarantees his account will stay banned forever.

Stokenut said that the banned account still had 5 billion Gold in it, which at current RuneScape Gold prices of around $131 per 200 million Gold, could have amounted to $3,275 when sell a runescape account like this at fair value. (More likely though is that the confiscated Gold would have sold for less than fair value at around a couple of thousand of dollars.)

More than anything else, Stokenut predicts that his banning would push Gold prices “through the roof.”

“All Jagex can do is ban certain real world traders. But what is that gonna do, well all that’s gonna do is jack up prices of Gold.”

If true, this would mean a turnaround for virtual currency’s steady decline over the past half-year. Gold prices have declined by almost half after reaching a recent high of around $230 per 200 million Gold in March.


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Just checked out the city’s development application site and learned some news. One local development application is on hold, and I discovered a new one.

Tamarack’s plans for a six-storey mixed use building are now on hold. Not sure if it’s the tough economic times … Either way Istanbouli is moving out.

Then I discovered a new development application on Holland. It’s the lot behind the veggie restaurant, where Tartan tried to sell enough condos to build. They couldn’t and now the former typewriter place that was their sales office is an eco-decor retail place.

I wonder if the new owners — Domicile — will have more luck? Check out the preliminary drawings of their proposed 8-storey building. People who don’t like Domicile’s usual pale creamy buildings will be happy to see some colour. But I’m sure they’ll be unhappy with the height.

And the lot where Pro-shine is currently located is still for sale for a cool $1,690,000.00. According to the MLS listing it can be used for a hotel or apartment dwelling (low and mid-rise). Right … a hotel in ourneighbourhood?


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How do I sponsor a child in Navajo Nation?

Sponsorship FAQs

You can sponsor a child in Navajo Nation in one of two ways – call our office and speak with one of our sponsorship specialists at 1-800-538-5381, or go online to our donation portal, create an account, and search for a child in Navajo Nation that is available for sponsorship.

What should I know about Children Incorporated’s work in Navajo Nation?

Our U.S. Division covers Arizona and New Mexico.

What is the sponsorship experience like with Children Incorporated?

The sponsorship relationship enables a sponsor to help support a needy child by means of monthly contributions, and through the exchange of correspondence with a sponsored child, if the sponsor so desires. A sponsor’s friendship and encouragement is priceless to a child in such circumstances. Indeed, many children value the relationships they establish with their sponsors as much as they value the financial support they receive from them. There is an opportunity to build a relationship between sponsor and child that can be quite profound.

Our current monthly sponsorship rate is $30, and it goes toward providing basic necessities such as school supplies and fees, food, clothing, and access to healthcare, among other services.

How long can I sponsor a child in Navajo Nation?

We hope that you will assist your sponsored child until he or she leaves our program. This may occur when a child graduates from high school, moves out of our service area, or for a variety of other reasons. Due to the transient state of many families and the difficult circumstances of the regions where they reside, we cannot predict or guarantee how long a child will remain enrolled in the Children Incorporated sponsorship program, although we make every effort to provide services to children for as long as possible.

When a child leaves our program, it is our policy to select another, equally needy child for you to sponsor, in the hope that you will accept sponsorship of the new child and continue to partner with us in changing lives. Unfortunately, we usually lose contact with children once they leave the sponsorship program (as we do not maintain personal addresses or contact information for any of the children). Even so, the positive impact of your generosity – both upon the individual child and upon his or her community – endures!

Will I receive updated information from my sponsored child in Navajo Nation?

Yes. We will send you updated information and an updated photo about once a year, although the frequency may vary depending upon the child’s location. The typical progress report includes information about the child’s grade level in school, hobbies, and interests.

How do I pay for monthly sponsorship?

Sponsorship contributions may be made by check, money order, credit/debit card, or ACH transfer (debit from a checking or savings account). Checks or money orders may be mailed to Children Incorporated at PO Box 72848, North Chesterfield, VA 23235. Contributions via credit/debit card are accepted online or over the phone, and we can mail you an application to authorize ACH transfer. The current sponsorship rate is $30 a month ($360 a year). Contributions may be made on a monthly ($30 a month), quarterly ($90 every three months), semi-annual ($180 every six months), or annual ($360 every twelve months) basis.

You may also set up automatically recurring contributions (as charges to your American Express, Visa, MasterCard, or Discover card; or as debits from your checking or savings account). Please call our office or send us an email at for more information.

Are there deadlines for sending additional monetary gifts for the child I sponsor?

Yes. It takes time to process a gift and send it to your sponsored child’s project. To send additional monetary gifts to your sponsored child, please ensure that the gift arrives to our North Chesterfield, Virginia office at least sixty days prior to the date you would like it to be received by the child. We will accept donations after this deadline, but please be aware that they may arrive late to your sponsored child.

May I send packages to my sponsored child in Navajo Nation?

Yes. Sending a gift is a great way to help your sponsored child at certain times of the year, or to let him or her know you are thinking of them. Here are some suggested guidelines:

Monetary gifts should be sent directly to our North Chesterfield, Virginia office for processing and distribution; our project coordinators are not able to process checks or cash. However, already-purchased items should be mailed directly to your sponsored child’s school address. If possible, use a tracking service when shipping a package.

If you wish to send a package as a Christmas gift, please mail it no later than mid-November, so the coordinator can distribute the gift before school closes for winter break. Please mail summer gifts no later than April 15th, as most schools close by mid-May.Due to high customs duties and the likelihood of loss, we do not recommend sending packages to programs outside of the United States. Children Incorporated cannot guarantee that the child you sponsor will receive such packages.

May I write to the child I sponsor?

Yes! Corresponding with your sponsored child can be a delightful experience, and you will find your sponsored child’s project address enclosed in the child’s informational brochure. Our project volunteers will translate your letter, if necessary, and deliver it to the child you sponsor.

What should I write about?

The children enjoy learning about the lives of their sponsors. Writing about your own family (children, grandchildren, brothers, sisters, etc.) is always a good place to start. The children also like to learn about your part of the world, what you do for a living, your hobbies and interests, and about any pets you may have.

What if I have specific questions regarding the child I sponsor?

If you have questions or concerns about your sponsored child, please call or email our office. Depending on the nature of a child-specific question, we may need to contact our volunteer coordinator at the project your child attends for the requested information, but we will get that information to you just as soon as possible, provided it does not violate the child protection and privacy laws to which we adhere.

Is it possible to visit my sponsored child in Navajo Nation?

It is possible to visit sponsored children; however, since we work with a network of volunteers and projects, we simply cannot guarantee that all projects are open to sponsor visits. Circumstances vary from area to area. If you are interested in visiting your sponsored child, please contact us for specifics relating to the child and project.

If your child’s project does allow visits, we ask that you contact us at least 45 days prior to your planned visit. The Sponsorship Manager who oversees your child’s project will assist you by making arrangements with the project, the child’s parents, and our volunteer coordinator. You will need to fill out our visit request forms, as well as familiarize yourself with our child protection policy to which we ask that you adhere; this includes a background check at your expense.


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ABA’s Comments on Fifth Draft of SAIC IPR Guidelines

Attached are the ABA’s comments on the Fifth Draft of SAIC’s Guidelines on IPR and Antimonopoly Law.  The guidelines are still largely for internal use, but I am sure the ABA’s thoughtful comments will be useful to both SAIC and other observers of China’s AML and IPR environment.  Thanks to Yee Wah Chin and the ABA for all of the hard work!

What the Data Says About Trade Secret Litigation in China

Trade Secret matters have become a hot bilateral topic, involving some high profile companies, like Sinovel, and engagement at the level of the Secretaries of State and Treasury, in their Strategic and Economic Dialogue.    During the past year, we have also had the Tianrui v. USITC case at the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, confirming the application of the US International Trade Commission’s jurisdiction to cases arising in China. Continue reading

What Has Been the Impact of the Trademark Law on Trademark Litigation

Since China’s WTO accession, trademark litigation has boomed along with nearly other IPR-related statistics.  From 2002 to 2011, all levels of court accept the trademark civil disputes over 45,706 cases, with an average annual growth rate reached 39.8%.  Litigation involving trademark validity at the Beijing No. 1 Intermediate Court grew even quicker from 2007 to 2011, to 5383 cases, and the annual average growth rate reached 57.2%.  Trademark criminal cases numbered 8194 during this period, with an average annual growth rate of 27.9%.    In sum, administrative validity cases have grown the quickest by far – due in part to the rapid growth in TM filings.  Administrative cases were  followed by civil cases and then criminal cases, and all of them showed double digit growth.  (Source: www.bipi.org).

Foreign IP Litigation in China: How Important Is It?

Here’s some humbling data drawn from the Annual Judgment Data of the Supreme People’s Court (2011).  These data are a reminder that the IP docket is a small part of the overall civil docket in China and that foreign related cases are an especially small component.   Here’s how IPR cases compared to non-IPR civil cases (0.8%): Continue reading

Judicial Trends in Beijing … and Countercyclical Trends

The Beijing Intellectual Property Institute, which is run by former Judge Cheng Yongshun (www.bipi.org)  reports the following data on the Beijing IP litigation for the first half of 2012: Continue reading

Third Draft of the Copyright Law Amendments Undergoing Internal Review

A useful powerpoint by Ma Xiaogang, an attorney with the Hylands law firm in Beijing who is particularly knowledgeable in copyright law is found here:   http://www.law.berkeley.edu/13961.htm. There are some other useful presentations, such as the ppt of Supreme Peoples Court judge Xia Junli on the forthcoming JI on Internet liability. Continue reading

New State Council Opinion on Improving Administrative/Criminal IPR Enforcement Coordination

On September 12 the State Council Standing Committee, chaired by Wen Jiabao, passed a new “Opinion on Concerning How to Improve The Work of Coordinating Administrative and Criminal Enforcement in Striking At IP Infringements and the Manufacture and Sale of Fake and Shoddy Goods”  关于做好打击侵犯知识产权和制售假冒伪劣商品工作中行政执法与刑事司法衔接的意见”.  The full text of this Opinion will likely need to await its gazetting in the State Council Gazette.  However, there have been plenty of press reports, and it seems possible at this point to construct a rough summary of what we will find in it: Continue reading