Economic Realities ~ Geoff Le Pard #writephoto

Posted on January 8, 2020 by Sue Vincent

Ariadne Grumble played a small if largely unheralded part in the rise and eventual fall of capitalism in the second half of the twentieth century. Without Ariadne’s commitment to creating shortages of inessentials the retail market is unlikely to have been quite so buoyant for so long.

Ariadne inherited a significant fortune from her uncle Mussen Grumble who’s invention of the homing truss gave new hope to all herniated agrophobics. She used her new found wealth on the excessive acquisition of products as diverse as scented candles, nodding dogs and disposable fire irons. By so doing she created panics in certain sectors of the consumerist economy, leading to scurrilous and sensationalised headlines by bored tabloid business writers that induced other panic buying with initial boosts to the economy but eventually creating the conditions for a spiralling decline into debilitating financial despair.

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Waiting #midnighthaiku

Posted on January 8, 2020 by Sue Vincent

First flowers open

Eager anticipation

Winter’s chill recedes

Imagination opens

Blooms and blossom yet to come

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For Colleen’s poetry challenge
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How To Market Your Book In 2020 ~ Nicholas C. Rossis hosts Ronita Mohan

Posted on January 7, 2020 by Sue Vincent

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Here’s another post from Ronita Mohan, one of this blog’s favorite guest bloggers. Book marketing is like building on quicksand: just when you think you know what’s what, everything changes. Thankfully, Ronita shares here some tips about the book marketing trends for the new year.

Ronita is a content marketer at Venngage, the online infographic and design platform. She is an avid reader with an interest in mystery fiction, history, graphic novels, marketing, and diversity. Twitter: @Venngage

How To Market Your Book In 2020

Book marketing in 2020 | From the blog of Nicholas C. Rossis, author of science fiction, the Pearseus epic fantasy series and children's booksPhoto by Jamie Street on Unsplash

The marketing world is in constant flux, and book marketing ends up being impacted by these changing trends.

In 2020, certain aspects of book marketing will remain the same. For example, social media and networking will be just as important as they’ve always been.

But you also need to know about the new ways you can use the digital…

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Fume ~ Anita Dawes #writephoto

Posted on January 7, 2020 by Sue Vincent

Something snapped

The world broke, turned black

One anomaly remained

Light from a new world

I stood witness to the birth of silence

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The Mysterious Řeznovice Church of St. Peter and St. Paul ~ G. Michael Vasey

Posted on January 7, 2020 by Sue Vincent

Reblogged from The Magical World of G. Michael Vasey:

This weekend, I was able to visit several sites around Brno. The first was the church of St. Peter and St. Paul in Řeznovice that I had noticed passing by on a recce trip to the Templstejn area in the Jihlava valley south of Brno. I stopped at the church because it simply doesn’t look like a Czech church. Pulling up to the church this time, I was again struck by how different the church is to the average church in the region. Excitedly, I rushed up to the door only to be disappointed by the fact it was locked. Oh well, at least I could look around the outside of it I thought when a woman’s head popped around the back of the church and said “Je to otevrene” (It is open!). It seems the entrance was actually around the corner!

Once inside, I began an exploration of the church. Czech churches generally are fairly modern inside having been rebuilt at some point in the recent past and some work had taken place here – so no green men or that kind of thing peering at you unfortunately, but plenty of mystery. To be honest, I did not detect any unusual energies in the church but it was certainly intriguing.

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Keys of Heaven (8): crosses at heaven’s gate ~ Steve Tanham

Posted on January 7, 2020 by Sue Vincent

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The traveller’s ancient friend: Young Ralph’s Cross

It’s seventeen miles long and crosses the ‘roof of the world’ in the heart of the North York Moors. You’d think twice about going there once the autumn has given way to winter. Local photos show the many times that groups of people have been stranded on the long line of its peak. In one case, in December 2010, a group of seven (two customers and five staff) were snowed in for eight days at the nearby Lion Inn that straddles the highest point on the road – a route known simply and famously as Blakey Ridge.

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Fume ~ Honoré Dupuis #writephoto

Posted on January 7, 2020 by Sue Vincent

 

“This fell not far from us,” she said in a trembling voice.

Her companion replied, not just to reassure her…

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Signals ~ Reena Saxena #writephoto

Posted on January 7, 2020 by Sue Vincent

I awaited the moment with bated breath – when lights come on, and dancers spring out of darkness on the stage with a loud burst of music.

It was not an easy task. The screen had to be designed in a particular manner, to create a magical opening for the show. The design was changed several times, as per the positions of the dancers in the darkness.

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Star-gazing

Posted on January 7, 2020 by Sue Vincent

Andromeda Galaxy: Pixabay

I was awake far too early again this morning. Moonlight wandered in and dream-filled eyes looked out. The sky was still dark and the stars were hidden behind cloud and mist. I had been half awake for some time, thinking about stars… and that state on the edge of dream holds some strange concepts. The thoughts were not new… are any thoughts truly original? I wondered how many human beings have paused on the edge of slumber to consider the stars that wheel overhead every night, unregarded by most of us, most of the time.

I wondered about stars. We know there are planets… suns… galaxies… billions of the things twinkling away up there. To us they are just ‘stars’ most of the time. We assume we understand them to a certain degree, knowing what they are made of. Yet does that mean we really know what they are?

I thought about water. H2O… everybody knows that. We all know what water is and how it is made by two hydrogen atoms waltzing with an oxygen atom. We know what it looks like, feels like, where it comes from, what we use it for, what we need it for… but do we know what it actually ‘is’?

Every culture, every people, even any writer who has touched on these things, has created their own mythology of the stars to explain their nature. Long before telescopes and spacecraft we already ‘knew’ what the stars were. They were gods and heroes, mythical creatures… the souls of the dead. They were angelic beings or divine lights in the sky. They were, in my somnolent state, the souls of the departed, rainbow fragments of being awaiting rebirth…pinpricks in the map of heaven that let the Light shine through, showing us that there was something beyond the world we live in.

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Fume ~ Lady Lee #writephoto

Posted on January 7, 2020 by Sue Vincent

What could have triggered this fire in the woods?
Wild smoke pictured in darkness backwoods
Ring bells! Ring bells! For it’s mournful
Dying forest that’s so harmful
Once started everything turns nothing
Ring bells, hope we could still do something

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