William
Wordsworth wrote, What are fears but voices airy?
Whispering harm where harm is not.
And deluding the unwary
Till the fatal bolt is shot!”
Sit
in any boneyard and look at the
tombstones and you shall see a date, a dash and another date. Birth and death bridged by a simple short
line; that dash. And there it is, the
beginning and end of lives, two events none of us hold any control. But that dash, that unassuming dash that all
important dash, the totality of individual existence, we each can direct. Yet, how many dashes are cluttered with
fear? Did you fear birth? But oh so many fear death, and how is that so? During our dash of life we have learned to
fear. I contend, maybe we should all
unlearn or never learn that treachery.
Perception
is reality. Granted we can each frame
our own perceptions through choice. John
Putman stated, “Courage is not the lack of fear but the ability to face it.” So, laugh in the face of traditional fears
and teach yourself that courage is the grandest way to dash between those two
fixed dates in each of our lives.
These
are not scary stories but odd twists of life, word colored by imagination. The images are magnified for effect. You control the fear. You control the panic. Or do we?
Run and hide or marvel and enjoy.
It is your choice. Choose
wisely. Remember that dash of you is precious.
And a similar dash coated by fear
can be found in KILLER DOLLS a contemporary romantic thriller was our first
book with Champagne Books. This is a captivating
story of terror. Not the terror of the
supernatural but that which is part of our world ever since terrorists brought
their war to our shore. It isn’t always about
the fear that is, but the fear that could be.
As
each child in this story receives a handcrafted doll created by Letti Noel, you
fear for that child knowing terrorists have planted ricin capsules in the
doll’s core. You watch the child’s joy,
and you, the reader, gulp horror.
At
the same time, you experience undercover F. B. I. agent Taut Johnson’s fear,
his fear of not being able to protect those children, his fear that he might
lose Letti Noel, the woman who charmed his soul and captured his heart, his
fear that even if he saves her, he would have to leave her. And then there is Letti’s fear, fear that her
innocent creations would be death’s pawn, fear that she has found her partner
of forever, but that his past would not allow him to claim that forever.
Then
there is another dash, a simple line delineating the fright doused tale of
SNAKE DANCE, a sci-fi fantasy, which was our second release with Champagne Books. It chronicles the strange, provocative, and
unusual planet Starling where the chickalas
of wRen’s Nestling fear their very protectors, the Kin. None, though, would
speak of that fear, few would defy it, and many would run from it. Still, the haunt slithers under the surface
clam.
wRen
stands against fear, against all the Kin proclaim to be good and right, and
against the dark legends of the Asp, so as to be with VeIper, her heart, and enemy
to the Kin. VeIper denies fear as he seeks
to free his species from ethnic cleansing and crosses boundaries to win the awe
of the beautiful and defiant wRen.
Fear,
though, still embeds the dash. Mong, a
slayer, has claimed wRen and vows to destroy those of VeIper's kind, beginning
with VeIper. Fear for his life forces
wRen to sacrifice herself to a life of submission. Meanwhile, VeIper fears he cannot overcome
the impervious, hypnotic power of Mong and save wRen from that existence.
We
bring you into the dash of the character’s lives. But will that dash… their lives… be long or
short. You must read to find out.
Since
those first two books, there have been many other dashes with many other
characters in many other books both with Champagne Books and Carnal
Passions. We hope you take a look at
them all.
Over
the next several weeks we will present a provocative excerpt from each of the
first two stories.
We'd love to hear from anyone interested in what we do. Anyone who writes us at writingteamcw@yahoo.com (Write - Blog - in subject line) and leaves an s-mail address, we will send you a gift and add you to any future mailings.
Angelica Hart and Zi KILLER DOLLS ~ SNAKE DANCE ~
CHASING YESTERDAY CHRISTMAS EVE...VIL ~ Christmas 2012
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Vixen Bright and Zachary Zane STEEL EMBRACE
BOOK NOOKIE-A LIBRARIAN'S BUIDE TO THE DO-ME DECIMAL SYSTEM
http://www.carnalpassions.com/
THE FABLE OF SIN-SIN CINDERELLA Series
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