Month: March 2009

Welcome Toni V. Sweeney

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BIO:  Toni V. Sweeney's writing career began during an extended convalescence following an automobile accident.  Since her recovery, she has survived hurricanes in the South, tornados and snow-covered winters in the Midwest, and earthquakes and forest fires in California.  Somehow, she can't seem to stay away from threatening natural occurrences!  She is also a member of the South Coast Writer's Association, the Pink Fuzzy Slipper Writers Time of Fear movie

website, has her own website, myspace, Facebook, and YouTube

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pages. She presently has nine novels in publication, as well three others waiting for release, and several short stories featured in magazines, online, and on amazon.com's Amazon Shorts. 

Her latest novel, sword-and-sorcery romance, is Blood Curse, Book Two in the Chronicles of Riven the Heretic

series, which is published in ebook and paperback by Double Dragon Publishers. 

BLOOD CURSE: 

Married life has made Riven kan Ingan a love-struck fool, and he’ll be the first to admit it, but he refuses to be a cuckold when he returns from battle to discover his beloved Barbara pregnant with a child he couldn’t have sired.  In a fury at her supposed unfaithfulness, he risks the wrath of the gods and sends her to her death, only to find himself driven from his domain by a deadly curse.  Haunted by Barbara’s memory, Riven begins a quest to find the one who cursed him. When he loses his sight, he also loses his pride and must submit to a barbarian girl’s gentle mercy to free himself of the Blood Curse.

Industry News

Have you heard? Barnes & Noble bought Fictionwise. There’s an article about it at Reuters Xin qi long zhu film

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. So I’m wondering… What does that mean to us? How will it affect ebook readers and e-published writers.

Part of me wants to think that NY and the movers and shakers of the publishing and bookselling world are finally reading the writing on the wall. They have smelled the coffee and awakened to the 21st century. Ebooks are the wave of the future. They will eventually be the primary media whether we like it or not. As much as I love my paperbacks, the tree-huggers will eventually make paper books a thing of the past.

Don’t get me wrong, I love ebooks, too.  It’s just that I currently don’t own (and can’t afford) an ebook reader or one of those fancy digital devices like a Palm Pilot or iPhone that will read them. I read ebooks on my laptop, and that works fine at home, but it’s a hassle to try and take it with you. Paperbacks are far more portable.

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Anyway, if the “powers that be” of the publishing world have finally gotten with the program, that’s a good thing for epublished authors and fans of ebooks. It would mean more recognition, more exposure, more acceptance, more respect…

But there’s a little part of me I think of as my “inner cynic” or my “closet conspiracy theorist” that wonders if B&N thinks it can kill the competition by buying them out.  LOL

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The Square Peg dvdrip So what do you think? What do you think this news means for the publishing world?  How do think it will affect readers/writers? SIS download

Nita

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Anybody watching Idol this season?

The Picture of Dorian Gray hd I don’t watch a lot of television.  I catch the occasional episode of Ghost Whisperer, CSI, or Law & Order. That new one, Lie to Me, is pretty good.  I’ve watched it a time or two. But I haven’t watched any of them with any regularity. I’m always too busy with writing, networking, promotion, or reading. 

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However, there are a couple of shows I seldom miss.  American Idol is one. (And if you’re wondering, Survivor is the other.) Anyway, I was wondering if anyone else out there is an Idol nut?  I don’t know why I like the show so much. I hate that during air time, there are almost as many minutes of commercials as there are of the show itself.  LOL  But I have to watch.

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So far this season, my favorite — hands down — is Danny. I really like his smokey voice. He seems like such a nice guy, too. Okay, okay. I have to admit the story of his wife passing away does tug at the heartstrings. But beyond that? Dang. That guy can sing!

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There are a few others I like well enough. So far, all those who’ve made it to the top twelve do have some talent.

So what do think? Who’s your favorite this time? Are you even watching?

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Welcome to My New Blog!

Death on the Nile Today is launch day!  I hope you like the layout, but don’t get too attached to it.  LOL  One of the things I love about the updated WordPress program is how easy it is to change the style.  Hmmm… Wonder if I can find a pattern for St. Patrick’s Day?  Oh, and Easter is coming, too!  LOL 

I’m disappointed that I was only able to move a few posts from my other blog, but I’ll get over it.  Even though all new posts will be here, I’m leaving the old blog available indefinitely.  There’s a link in menu panel, but here it is again in case you missed my February blog party: The Square Peg

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Let me know what you think!

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