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Guest Author Linda Lael Miller

 CMash  July 27, 2011  1 Comment on Guest Author Linda Lael Miller

Howdy Cowgirls and Cowboys!!  Come on down from those saddles, hitch your horses to the posts, and stay a while because I have a treat for you!!!!!  I am guessing that she had so much fun here at CMash last month with the fantastic and fabulous followers, that she is back….. YES…you heard me right…..Linda Lael Miller is back!!!!!!  She is here to talk about her latest book in the Creed Series.  So please, help me welcome her back to the CMash blog!!!!!

Welcome Back
ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Each morning shortly after the sun rises over Spokane, Washington, New York Times bestselling author Linda Lael Miller pulls on her cowboy boots and heads for the stables for a few quiet moments with her horses before she settles in to write her pages for the day.
As the daughter of a town marshal, Linda has come home to the western lifestyle that gave birth to one of today’s most successful authors. With more than 80 novels to her credit, the self-confessed barn goddess left Washington years ago and pursued her wanderlust, living in Arizona and London and traveling the world. But now the “First Lady of the West” is glad to be back home, writing contemporary and historical novels that have earned her awards and placements on all the national bestsellers lists.
Linda traces the birth of her writing career to the day when a Northport teacher told her that the stories she was writing were good, that she just might have a future in writing. Later, when she decided to write novels, she endured her share of rejection before she sold Fletcher’s Woman in 1983 to Pocket Books. Since then, Linda has successfully published historicals, contemporaries, paranormals, and thrillers before coming home, in a literal sense, and concentrating on novels with a Western flavor. For her devotion to her craft, the Romance Writers of America awarded her their prestigious Lifetime Achievement Award in 2007.
Linda has come a long way since leaving Washington to experience the world. “But growing up in that time and place, in a family grounded in Western values, served me well,” she allows. “And I’m happy to be back home.”
To learn more about Linda, visit http://www.lindalaelmiller.com/.
For a behind-the-scenes look at the sexy Creed cowboys, visit http://www.takeacowboyhome.com/.
ABOUT THE BOOK
The Creed cowboys are back for the final installment of “First Lady of the West” Linda Lael Miller’s exciting, authentic Western series—the Creed family trilogy. Following the #1 New York Times best-sellers A CREED IN STONE CREEK (March 2011) and CREED’S HONOR (June 2011), THE CREED LEGACY (HQN Books; July 2011; $7.99) ends the beloved three-part series with the story of rough-and-tumble rodeo star Brody Creed, the estranged twin brother of Conner Creed from CREED’S HONOR. Brody likes life on the move. Until a chance encounter with his long-estranged twin brother brings him back home to Lonesome Bend for the first time in years.
Suddenly Brody is in Creed territory—at thirty-three, he’s a restless bad boy in a family with deep ties to the land and each other. And Brody has a secret past that haunts him as he tries to make plans for his future. Soon he meets Carolyn Simmons who is looking for Mr. Right as her biological clock ticks. Will she fall for the gorgeous new cowboy in town—the opposite of everything she wants?
THANKS TO LINDSAY AT MEDIA MUSCLE,
I HAVE ONE COPY OF THIS BOOK TO GIVE AWAY.
CLICK HERE TO BRING YOU TO
THE GIVEAWAY ENTRY PAGE.
DISCLAIMER

Giveaway copies are supplied and shipped to winners
via publisher, agent and/or author. This blog hosts
the giveaway on behalf of the above.
No items that I receive
are ever sold…they are kept by me,
or given to family and/or friends.
Thank you for subscribing to CMash Loves To Read.
When visiting, please feel free to leave any suggestions,
ideas and/or comments. Would love to hear from you!!
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Guest Author Tracy Seeley

 CMash  July 25, 2011  Leave a Comment on Guest Author Tracy Seeley

Another treat today brought to us by Jodi and Robyn from WOW-Women On Writing.  Today we are meeting an incredible, courageous and amazing author as she visits and tells us a about her new book, a memoir.  Not only is she stopping by to talk about her latest book, BUT, she has graciously offered to extend her visit by responding to your comments and/or answering your questions.  So I ask that you help me give, Ms. Tracy Seeley, a very warm welcome to the CMash blog.

 

ABOUT THE AUTHOR
With a Ph.D. in British Literature, Tracy Seeley teaches literature and creative nonfiction at the University of San Francisco. She can claim 26 addresses as her own including towns all across the midwest, Dallas, Austin, New Haven, Los Angeles, Caracas, Budapest, and Barcelona. When not tracking down Kansas addresses that no longer exist, Tracy Seeley lives in Oakland with her filmmaker husband, Frederick Marx. In an attempt to put down roots she has started a vegetable garden and is considering buying chickens.
You can visit the author at her website.
GUEST POST
You’ve Got Cancer…Again

By Tracy Seeley (@tracy_seeley)

The only thing more jarring than hearing the words “You’ve Got Breast Cancer,” may be hearing “You’ve Got Cancer…Again.”

When it happened to me, I’d had four great post-cancer years. The intense, life-changing months of my initial diagnosis, surgery, chemo, radiation, and months of recovery had all receded to a pinpoint in the rear view mirror. My life had been remade by those months, and then I’d moved on. During those four years, I’d started writing My Ruby Slippers, I’d made several trips back to Kansas to gather more material, a long-term relationship had ended, and I’d joyfully gotten married again.


It’s not like I assumed it wouldn’t happen. Anyone who’s had cancer never forgets: despite everything you and your doctors do the first time, you know that the next routine check-up, blood test or scan could bring bad news. In my case, a little voice whispered in my ear nearly every day. “Death,” it would whisper. Or, “Cancer.” Those little reminders jolted me awake, and awake was how I wanted to live.


To be awake. I’d learned the importance of that during my first round of treatment, when I took a class on mindfulness meditation. The idea of mindfulness is to simply be fully aware, present and attentive to whatever’s happening at the moment. To make that kind of living a habit, I practiced formally every day, which is really quite simple: sit quietly, eyes closed, observing your breath, in…out. And observe whatever thoughts float through your mind, but instead of holding on to them or dwelling on them, let them float away.
That simple act of paying attention can be one of the hardest things to do. But when I sat in meditation every day, the awareness I practiced there carried over into the rest of my life. I could be fully awake to washing the dishes, or waking up, or walking down the stairs. And I could be fully awake to my emotions. So when that little voice piped up, “Cancer,” or “Death,” I learned to recognize and say hello to the fear or sadness, then let them float away.
Concentrating on breathing in…and out…teaches us that like the breath, the past moment is over, the future hasn’t arrived. The only life we have is now. So being awake means that at your best and most fully aware, you don’t miss a single moment of your precious life. You learn to recognize and let go not only of the moment, but of hurt feelings and anger and all the other things that can keep us stuck in moods that keep us down or carry us away. Being awake helped me let go of fear.
The state of living fully awake brought a lot of equilibrium into my life during my first cancer treatment. Very little rattled me, even in tough times. Four years later, when the bad news came, I have to confess that it took me awhile to find my balance again. But meditating on my breath in order to be fully awake, helped me find peace again. So every day now, five years after hearing, “You’ve got cancer again,” I just keep breathing. And as long as I can do that…in and out…every day continues to count.

ABOUT THE BOOK
Sure, there’s no place like home—but what if you can’t really pinpoint where home is? By the time she was nine, Tracy Seeley had lived in seven towns and thirteen different houses. Her father’s dreams of movie stardom, stoked by a series of affairs, kept the family on edge, and on the move, until he up and left. Thirty years later, settled in what seems like a charmed life in San Francisco, a diagnosis of cancer and the betrayal of a lover shake Seeley to her roots—roots she is suddenly determined to search out. My Ruby Slippers tells the story of that search, the tale of a woman with an impassioned if vague sense of mission: to find the meaning of home. 

Watch the trailer:

  

THANKS TO JODI AND THE FANTASTIC PEOPLE AT WOW,
I HAVE ONE COPY OF THIS AMAZING MEMOIR TO GIVE AWAY.
CLICK HERE TO BRING YOU TO
THE GIVEAWAY PAGE.
DISCLAIMER
Giveaway copies are supplied and shipped to winners
via publisher, agent and/or author. This blog hosts
the giveaway on behalf of the above.
No items that I receive
are ever sold…they are kept by me,
or given to family and/or friends.
Thank you for subscribing to CMash Loves To Read.
When visiting, please feel free to leave any suggestions,
ideas and/or comments. Would love to hear from you!!
 Posted in Guest Author

Guest Author Tracy Seeley

 CMash  July 25, 2011  3 Comments on Guest Author Tracy Seeley

Another treat today brought to us by Jodi and Robyn from WOW-Women On Writing.  Today we are meeting an incredible, courageous and amazing author as she visits and tells us a about her new book, a memoir.  Not only is she stopping by to talk about her latest book, BUT, she has graciously offered to extend her visit by responding to your comments and/or answering your questions.  So I ask that you help me give, Ms. Tracy Seeley, a very warm welcome to the CMash blog.

 

ABOUT THE AUTHOR
With a Ph.D. in British Literature, Tracy Seeley teaches literature and creative nonfiction at the University of San Francisco. She can claim 26 addresses as her own including towns all across the midwest, Dallas, Austin, New Haven, Los Angeles, Caracas, Budapest, and Barcelona. When not tracking down Kansas addresses that no longer exist, Tracy Seeley lives in Oakland with her filmmaker husband, Frederick Marx. In an attempt to put down roots she has started a vegetable garden and is considering buying chickens.
You can visit the author at her website.
GUEST POST
You’ve Got Cancer…Again

By Tracy Seeley (@tracy_seeley)

The only thing more jarring than hearing the words “You’ve Got Breast Cancer,” may be hearing “You’ve Got Cancer…Again.”

When it happened to me, I’d had four great post-cancer years. The intense, life-changing months of my initial diagnosis, surgery, chemo, radiation, and months of recovery had all receded to a pinpoint in the rear view mirror. My life had been remade by those months, and then I’d moved on. During those four years, I’d started writing My Ruby Slippers, I’d made several trips back to Kansas to gather more material, a long-term relationship had ended, and I’d joyfully gotten married again.


It’s not like I assumed it wouldn’t happen. Anyone who’s had cancer never forgets: despite everything you and your doctors do the first time, you know that the next routine check-up, blood test or scan could bring bad news. In my case, a little voice whispered in my ear nearly every day. “Death,” it would whisper. Or, “Cancer.” Those little reminders jolted me awake, and awake was how I wanted to live.


To be awake. I’d learned the importance of that during my first round of treatment, when I took a class on mindfulness meditation. The idea of mindfulness is to simply be fully aware, present and attentive to whatever’s happening at the moment. To make that kind of living a habit, I practiced formally every day, which is really quite simple: sit quietly, eyes closed, observing your breath, in…out. And observe whatever thoughts float through your mind, but instead of holding on to them or dwelling on them, let them float away.
That simple act of paying attention can be one of the hardest things to do. But when I sat in meditation every day, the awareness I practiced there carried over into the rest of my life. I could be fully awake to washing the dishes, or waking up, or walking down the stairs. And I could be fully awake to my emotions. So when that little voice piped up, “Cancer,” or “Death,” I learned to recognize and say hello to the fear or sadness, then let them float away.
Concentrating on breathing in…and out…teaches us that like the breath, the past moment is over, the future hasn’t arrived. The only life we have is now. So being awake means that at your best and most fully aware, you don’t miss a single moment of your precious life. You learn to recognize and let go not only of the moment, but of hurt feelings and anger and all the other things that can keep us stuck in moods that keep us down or carry us away. Being awake helped me let go of fear.
The state of living fully awake brought a lot of equilibrium into my life during my first cancer treatment. Very little rattled me, even in tough times. Four years later, when the bad news came, I have to confess that it took me awhile to find my balance again. But meditating on my breath in order to be fully awake, helped me find peace again. So every day now, five years after hearing, “You’ve got cancer again,” I just keep breathing. And as long as I can do that…in and out…every day continues to count.

ABOUT THE BOOK
Sure, there’s no place like home—but what if you can’t really pinpoint where home is? By the time she was nine, Tracy Seeley had lived in seven towns and thirteen different houses. Her father’s dreams of movie stardom, stoked by a series of affairs, kept the family on edge, and on the move, until he up and left. Thirty years later, settled in what seems like a charmed life in San Francisco, a diagnosis of cancer and the betrayal of a lover shake Seeley to her roots—roots she is suddenly determined to search out. My Ruby Slippers tells the story of that search, the tale of a woman with an impassioned if vague sense of mission: to find the meaning of home. 

Watch the trailer:

  

THANKS TO JODI AND THE FANTASTIC PEOPLE AT WOW,
I HAVE ONE COPY OF THIS AMAZING MEMOIR TO GIVE AWAY.
CLICK HERE TO BRING YOU TO
THE GIVEAWAY PAGE.
DISCLAIMER
Giveaway copies are supplied and shipped to winners
via publisher, agent and/or author. This blog hosts
the giveaway on behalf of the above.
No items that I receive
are ever sold…they are kept by me,
or given to family and/or friends.
Thank you for subscribing to CMash Loves To Read.
When visiting, please feel free to leave any suggestions,
ideas and/or comments. Would love to hear from you!!
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Guest Author Emily Edwards

 CMash  July 21, 2011  Leave a Comment on Guest Author Emily Edwards

Rebecca from The Cadence Group emailed me and asked if I would review this MG book, however, being so backlogged, I had to say no.  But, when I read the synopsis, I thought what a fun and interesting premise for a book and wanted to share it with all of you.  So today, the author, who is getting rave reviews for her debut book, is stopping by and telling us all about it.  Emily Edwards, welcome to the CMash blog!!

ABOUT THE AUTHOR
 Emily Edwards is from the small town of Antigonish, Nova Scotia, and has a PhD from Trinity College Dublin from the Centre for Gender & Women’s Studies. She has wide-ranging writing experience and currently works as a Research Associate. The Trouble with Being a Horse is Emily’s first work of fiction, and is published by Single Stride Publishing. She has been an avid equestrienne for over twenty years, participating in Pony Club and the Trinity College Dublin Equestrian Team.
GUEST POST

Topic: what girls want in a horse book

It’s a well-known fact that many girls love horses, and it’s almost as well recognized that when girls can’t be with horses they love to read books about them. Stories provide another way to feed their obsession—a healthy obsession, I would argue!—and a way to lose themselves in a horse-saturated situation that they might not otherwise experience. Having been a horse-crazy kid myself, I have a good idea of what makes an excellent horse book: namely, there should be as many details about horses in the story as possible, and for the events that happen to be horse-centric. That is, horses should not be peripheral or add-ons to the main plot lines. Girls who like horses are usually very knowledgeable about horses and they want accurate details in the books they read. It immediately undermines a story when a book claims to be about horses but the author shows him or herself to not be an expert. When I think of classics like The Black Stallion and Black Beauty, it’s obvious that the authors had an intimate knowledge of horses and this is partly why the books have remained favourites—because they knew what they were talking about. 

Readers also want original story lines, and the idea behind The Trouble with Being a Horse was a story I thought would be unlike what’s already out there as a story that would hold great appeal to girls with active imaginations! While retaining the classic theme of girl-horse bond I sought to make the book as different as I could: instead of being about boys, black horses, or wild stallions I chose to write about more familiar
characters—girls and geldings and mares. Apart from the outrageousness of Olivia turning into a horse, I wanted all the details about horses to be as accurate as possible. Part of what’s so enjoyable about reading horse books are the descriptions and I wanted to make sure the book had plenty. And although I didn’t intend for it to happen, the use of detail led to the book being slightly educational, in that when I was describing, for example, a canter pirouette, I was in essence giving instruction on how to do a canter pirouette. When I realized later that the book had a bit of an instructive nuance to it, I wasn’t overly surprised. After all, Black Beauty, one of the first horse books, was quite informative; it had been the author’s intention to educate her readers on how to treat horses. I think that my book, like many horse books, has this undercurrent of teaching simply because that’s what detailed descriptions are: they tell how something should be done. And detail is what I thought horse-crazy girls would enjoy.

ABOUT THE BOOK
From the author:

The Trouble with Being a Horse is a middle-grade fiction novel about a girl who turns into a horse. Olivia is outraged when her parents forbid her to ride and she wishes she could run away and be with horses forever. But after falling off her favorite horse, Olivia is shocked to find out she has mysteriously changed into a horse!

As a girl in a horse’s body, Olivia must put her knowledge of horses to the test as she navigates this new and bizarre world. Struggling to communicate with both humans and horses, Olivia does her best to fit in. But when she can’t resist showing off how much she knows, her secret is in danger of being found out!

THANKS TO REBECCA AND THE CADENCE GROUP,
I HAVE ONE COPY OF THIS MG BOOK TO GIVE AWAY.
CLICK HERE TO BRING YOU TO
THE GIVEAWAY ENTRY PAGE

DISCLAIMER

Giveaway copies are supplied and shipped to winners
via publisher, agent and/or author. This blog hosts
the giveaway on behalf of the above.
No items that I receive
are ever sold…they are kept by me,
or given to family and/or friends.

Thank you for subscribing to CMash Loves To Read.
When visiting, please feel free to leave any suggestions,
ideas and/or comments. Would love to hear from you!!
 Posted in Guest Author

GIVEAWAY ENTRY PAGE MG "THE TROUBLE WITH BEING A HORSE" ENDED

 CMash  July 21, 2011  Leave a Comment on GIVEAWAY ENTRY PAGE MG "THE TROUBLE WITH BEING A HORSE" ENDED
JULY 21st to AUGUST 4th, 2011
THE TROUBLE WITH BEING A HORSE
by EMILY EDWARDS
SYNOPSIS (from author):
  The Trouble with Being a Horse is a middle-grade fiction novel about a girl who turns into a horse. Olivia is outraged when her parents forbid her to ride and she wishes she could run away and be with horses forever. But after falling off her favorite horse, Olivia is shocked to find out she has mysteriously changed into a horse!

  As a girl in a horse’s body, Olivia must put her knowledge of horses to the test as she navigates this new and bizarre world. Struggling to communicate with both humans and horses, Olivia does her best to fit in. But when she can’t resist showing off how much she knows, her secret is in danger of being found out!

THANKS TO REBECCA AND THE FANTASTIC
PEOPLE FROM THE CADENCE GROUP
I HAVE ONE (1) COPY OF THIS
MG BOOK TO GIVE AWAY.
HERE IS WHAT YOU NEED TO DO TO WIN.
*ALL COMMENTS TO BE SEPARATE*
AND INCLUDE YOUR EMAIL ADDRESS
SO THAT I CAN CONTACT YOU IF YOU WIN
*LEAVE COMMENT: WHAT ANIMAL WOULD YOU BE
IF THE SAME THING HAPPENED TO YOU AS IT DID OLIVIA?*
horse
*EXTRA ENTRIES*

*LEAVE SEPARATE COMMENT IF YOU PUBLICLY FOLLOW THIS
  BLOG (IF NOT, GOOGLE FRIEND CONNECT ON RIGHT SIDE).

*LEAVE SEPARATE COMMENT IF YOU FOLLOW ME ON FACEBOOK.

*LEAVE SEPARATE COMMENT IF YOU FOLLOW ME ON TWITTER.

*REMEMBER TO INCLUDE EMAIL ADDRESS FOR ALL ENTRIES.

Tinker
*U.S. AND CANADA RESIDENTS ONLY*
*NO P.O. BOXES*
**HONOR SYSTEM**
ONE WINNING BOOK PER HOUSEHOLD
PLEASE NOTIFY ME IF YOU HAVE
WON THIS BOOK FROM ANOTHER
SITE, SO THAT SOMEONE ELSE MAY
HAVE THE CHANCE TO WIN
AND READ THIS BOOK.
THANK YOU.
dressage,friesian horse
*GIVEAWAY ENDS AUGUST 4th AT 6PM EST*
WINNER WILL BE CHOSEN BY RANDOM.ORG AND NOTIFIED
VIA EMAIL AND WILL HAVE 48 HOURS TO RESPOND
OR ANOTHER NAME WILL BE CHOSEN
DISCLAIMER / RULES

Giveaway copies are supplied and shipped to winners via publisher,
agent and/or author. This blog hosts the giveaway on behalf of the
above. I received a copy of this book, at no charge to me, in
exchange for my honest review. No items that I receive are
ever sold…they are kept by me, or given to family and/or friends.
I am not responsible for lost or damaged books that are shipped
from agents. I reserve the right to disqualify/delete any entries
if rules of giveaway are not followed


Thank you for subscribing to CMash Loves To Read.
When visiting, please feel free to leave any suggestions,
ideas and/or comments. Would love to hear from you!!
 Posted in Guest Author

Guest Author Emily Edwards

 CMash  July 21, 2011  Leave a Comment on Guest Author Emily Edwards

Rebecca from The Cadence Group emailed me and asked if I would review this MG book, however, being so backlogged, I had to say no.  But, when I read the synopsis, I thought what a fun and interesting premise for a book and wanted to share it with all of you.  So today, the author, who is getting rave reviews for her debut book, is stopping by and telling us all about it.  Emily Edwards, welcome to the CMash blog!!

ABOUT THE AUTHOR
 Emily Edwards is from the small town of Antigonish, Nova Scotia, and has a PhD from Trinity College Dublin from the Centre for Gender & Women’s Studies. She has wide-ranging writing experience and currently works as a Research Associate. The Trouble with Being a Horse is Emily’s first work of fiction, and is published by Single Stride Publishing. She has been an avid equestrienne for over twenty years, participating in Pony Club and the Trinity College Dublin Equestrian Team.
GUEST POST

Topic: what girls want in a horse book

It’s a well-known fact that many girls love horses, and it’s almost as well recognized that when girls can’t be with horses they love to read books about them. Stories provide another way to feed their obsession—a healthy obsession, I would argue!—and a way to lose themselves in a horse-saturated situation that they might not otherwise experience. Having been a horse-crazy kid myself, I have a good idea of what makes an excellent horse book: namely, there should be as many details about horses in the story as possible, and for the events that happen to be horse-centric. That is, horses should not be peripheral or add-ons to the main plot lines. Girls who like horses are usually very knowledgeable about horses and they want accurate details in the books they read. It immediately undermines a story when a book claims to be about horses but the author shows him or herself to not be an expert. When I think of classics like The Black Stallion and Black Beauty, it’s obvious that the authors had an intimate knowledge of horses and this is partly why the books have remained favourites—because they knew what they were talking about. 

Readers also want original story lines, and the idea behind The Trouble with Being a Horse was a story I thought would be unlike what’s already out there as a story that would hold great appeal to girls with active imaginations! While retaining the classic theme of girl-horse bond I sought to make the book as different as I could: instead of being about boys, black horses, or wild stallions I chose to write about more familiar
characters—girls and geldings and mares. Apart from the outrageousness of Olivia turning into a horse, I wanted all the details about horses to be as accurate as possible. Part of what’s so enjoyable about reading horse books are the descriptions and I wanted to make sure the book had plenty. And although I didn’t intend for it to happen, the use of detail led to the book being slightly educational, in that when I was describing, for example, a canter pirouette, I was in essence giving instruction on how to do a canter pirouette. When I realized later that the book had a bit of an instructive nuance to it, I wasn’t overly surprised. After all, Black Beauty, one of the first horse books, was quite informative; it had been the author’s intention to educate her readers on how to treat horses. I think that my book, like many horse books, has this undercurrent of teaching simply because that’s what detailed descriptions are: they tell how something should be done. And detail is what I thought horse-crazy girls would enjoy.

ABOUT THE BOOK
From the author:

The Trouble with Being a Horse is a middle-grade fiction novel about a girl who turns into a horse. Olivia is outraged when her parents forbid her to ride and she wishes she could run away and be with horses forever. But after falling off her favorite horse, Olivia is shocked to find out she has mysteriously changed into a horse!

As a girl in a horse’s body, Olivia must put her knowledge of horses to the test as she navigates this new and bizarre world. Struggling to communicate with both humans and horses, Olivia does her best to fit in. But when she can’t resist showing off how much she knows, her secret is in danger of being found out!

THANKS TO REBECCA AND THE CADENCE GROUP,
I HAVE ONE COPY OF THIS MG BOOK TO GIVE AWAY.
CLICK HERE TO BRING YOU TO
THE GIVEAWAY ENTRY PAGE

DISCLAIMER

Giveaway copies are supplied and shipped to winners
via publisher, agent and/or author. This blog hosts
the giveaway on behalf of the above.
No items that I receive
are ever sold…they are kept by me,
or given to family and/or friends.

Thank you for subscribing to CMash Loves To Read.
When visiting, please feel free to leave any suggestions,
ideas and/or comments. Would love to hear from you!!
 Posted in Guest Author

GIVEAWAY ENTRY PAGE MG "THE TROUBLE WITH BEING A HORSE" ENDED

 CMash  July 21, 2011  24 Comments on GIVEAWAY ENTRY PAGE MG "THE TROUBLE WITH BEING A HORSE" ENDED
JULY 21st to AUGUST 4th, 2011
THE TROUBLE WITH BEING A HORSE
by EMILY EDWARDS
SYNOPSIS (from author):
  The Trouble with Being a Horse is a middle-grade fiction novel about a girl who turns into a horse. Olivia is outraged when her parents forbid her to ride and she wishes she could run away and be with horses forever. But after falling off her favorite horse, Olivia is shocked to find out she has mysteriously changed into a horse!

  As a girl in a horse’s body, Olivia must put her knowledge of horses to the test as she navigates this new and bizarre world. Struggling to communicate with both humans and horses, Olivia does her best to fit in. But when she can’t resist showing off how much she knows, her secret is in danger of being found out!

THANKS TO REBECCA AND THE FANTASTIC
PEOPLE FROM THE CADENCE GROUP
I HAVE ONE (1) COPY OF THIS
MG BOOK TO GIVE AWAY.
HERE IS WHAT YOU NEED TO DO TO WIN.
*ALL COMMENTS TO BE SEPARATE*
AND INCLUDE YOUR EMAIL ADDRESS
SO THAT I CAN CONTACT YOU IF YOU WIN
*LEAVE COMMENT: WHAT ANIMAL WOULD YOU BE
IF THE SAME THING HAPPENED TO YOU AS IT DID OLIVIA?*
horse
*EXTRA ENTRIES*

*LEAVE SEPARATE COMMENT IF YOU PUBLICLY FOLLOW THIS
  BLOG (IF NOT, GOOGLE FRIEND CONNECT ON RIGHT SIDE).

*LEAVE SEPARATE COMMENT IF YOU FOLLOW ME ON FACEBOOK.

*LEAVE SEPARATE COMMENT IF YOU FOLLOW ME ON TWITTER.

*REMEMBER TO INCLUDE EMAIL ADDRESS FOR ALL ENTRIES.

Tinker
*U.S. AND CANADA RESIDENTS ONLY*
*NO P.O. BOXES*
**HONOR SYSTEM**
ONE WINNING BOOK PER HOUSEHOLD
PLEASE NOTIFY ME IF YOU HAVE
WON THIS BOOK FROM ANOTHER
SITE, SO THAT SOMEONE ELSE MAY
HAVE THE CHANCE TO WIN
AND READ THIS BOOK.
THANK YOU.
dressage,friesian horse
*GIVEAWAY ENDS AUGUST 4th AT 6PM EST*
WINNER WILL BE CHOSEN BY RANDOM.ORG AND NOTIFIED
VIA EMAIL AND WILL HAVE 48 HOURS TO RESPOND
OR ANOTHER NAME WILL BE CHOSEN
DISCLAIMER / RULES

Giveaway copies are supplied and shipped to winners via publisher,
agent and/or author. This blog hosts the giveaway on behalf of the
above. I received a copy of this book, at no charge to me, in
exchange for my honest review. No items that I receive are
ever sold…they are kept by me, or given to family and/or friends.
I am not responsible for lost or damaged books that are shipped
from agents. I reserve the right to disqualify/delete any entries
if rules of giveaway are not followed


Thank you for subscribing to CMash Loves To Read.
When visiting, please feel free to leave any suggestions,
ideas and/or comments. Would love to hear from you!!
 Posted in Guest Author

Guest Author C.D. Shelton

 CMash  July 19, 2011  Leave a Comment on Guest Author C.D. Shelton

When Rebecca from The Cadence Group contacted me to ask if I would like to host today’s author, there was no hesitation.  Especially when I read the synopsis of his book.  Even though my “boys” are now grown and are men and on their own, I felt that this is a book that should be on every one’s list, either for your own children, your grandchildren, and/or for anyone who knows someone with children.  So without further ado, please help me welcome today’s guest, Mr. C.D. Shelton.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Texan born, C.D. Shelton grew up in Los Angeles California. He served two years in the U.S. Army during the Korean War.

He holds two Masters, one in Administration and the other in Biology.

He taught at Hollywood High School and was assistant Vice-Principal during his first ten years as an Educator.

He has taught Biology for the Los Angeles Community College District for over four decades. As a Biology Professor, he wrote and developed the Biology Curriculum for the Los Angeles Community Colleges for all the pre-med majors and non majors. He co-authored two laboratory manuals for the life science department on Physiology and for Anatomy.

C.D. Shelton’s interest have included aviation, tennis and golf to name just a few. He has a private pilots license, he was a certified tennis instructor for eight years. He is a father of three, grandfather of four, he lives in Orange County California with his wife and niece. He is currently writing his tenth novel.

GUEST POST
To be absolutely candid and truthful, the book, “A Kid’s Guide to being a Winner” was written out of frustration with the antics of our thirteen year old niece, who lives with my wife and I.

We rise on school day mornings early enough for our niece to get herself together, get a bite to eat, collect her books and walk the short distance to her middle school. It would seem she would have enough time. So we think.

On more than one occasion, this past semester, we received a phone call from our niece requesting we bring a particular textbook to school for use in her Social Studies Class.

One incident of this sort would not generate any raised eyebrows, but the issue with the textbook was repeated several times. Even verbal reminders delivered at the front door, “Do you have all of the books you’ll need today?” was not enough to solve the problem.

We first started talking about RESPONSIBILITY, this last spring. The book episode with my niece was the stimulus that opened the discussion on “What are some fundamental character tools a kid needs to succeed, not just in school but also in life?”

That idea started the juices to flow and within a very short time the “Kid’s Guide,” was written.

I’m currently working on my tenth novel, four have been published. “A Kid’s Guide to being a Winner,” is my first non-fiction book.

The pivotal question would be, did the discussion on RESPONSIBILITY, alter the behavior of our niece? To answer that question, I called my niece to my desk and read this entire post to her. She squirmed around a bit and finally replied, “Yes, now what I do is go through a MENTAL CHECKLIST and decide if I have
everything.”

BINGO! For me, that was the perfect answer. The above was not my reply it came straight from Ashlee Taylor, my niece.

ABOUT THE BOOK
SYNOPSIS (borrowed from Amazon):
A Kid’s Guide to being a Winner is an easy-to-read book for kids who are in need of that little “Extra” spark of understanding. A Kid’s Guide to being a Winner is a book for young people on the Values of being responsible, being thoughtful, being respectful, having a positive mental attitude and having gratitude. A Kid’s guide to being a Winner is about timeless and fundamental principles, which are essential to SUCCESS. A Kid’s Guide to being a Winner includes steps that are simple, yet the results are POWERFUL.
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