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Haven’t talked earrings lately but I’ve been a naughty girl – been adding to my collection! I have a bad tendency to go onto eBay and start clicking through the “Vintage Clip Earrings” category, which usually runs more than 2000 entries over 668 pages, so I never run out of things to look at and potentially spend my pennies on.

I wear earrings ALL the time. (Well not to bed LOL) Some women can’t go out without makeup – I co-ordinate earrings to my jeans and T shirts before heading to the groce...

Memorial Day

Memorial Day, originally called Decoration Day, is a day of remembrance for those who have died in our nation’s service.

A man’s country is not a certain area of land, of mountains, rivers, and woods, but it is a principle and patriotism is loyalty to that principle.

George William Curtis

A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself. -Joseph Campbell

If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women.

Abigail Adams

And...

It’s my pleasure to have Laura Sheehan here today as my guest, to tell us a little more about her own backstory and her debut novel DANCING WITH DANGER. Let the Q&A begin!

1. Please tell us a little about yourself:

My name is Laura Sheehan, and I was born and raised in Las Vegas, NV. I now live in Los Angeles with my husband, a thoroughly spoiled cat, and a handful of fish that keep my thoroughly spoiled cat entertained. When not working at my office day job, I can usually be found in a dance s...

Going back to my SFR , out on submission now, set in the same universe as my recently published WRECK of the NEBULA DREAM. Andrianda (Andi) Markriss, a planetary representative for Loxton Galactic Trading, has been spending a lazy summer with her best friend in the highly exclusive summer compound of the planet Zulaire’s ruling nobility, networking. On a day when a number of strange and disturbing things have already happened, Captain Tom Deverane, Sectors Special Forces, unexpectedly shows u...

You can’t depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.

Mark Twain

The beauty of a woman must be seen from in her eyes, because that is the doorway to her heart, the place where love resides.

Audrey Hepburn

The sky is the daily bread of the eyes.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Dialogue should simply be a sound among other sounds, just something that comes out of the mouths of people whose eyes tell the story in visual terms.

Alfred Hitchcock

Those things that nature denied to human sight, she revea...

Growing up, I loved comic books. All this talk about the AVENGERS reminds me of those days when I couldn’t wait for Thursday, which is when our grocery store put out the new issues. A big chunk of my weekly allowance went to supporting this habit. I did like THOR but I was pretty much a DC comics girl – Superman, Batman, Green Lantern, The Flash, Justice League – but several of my three most favorite comics weren’t DC. (Or Marvel.)

MAGNUS ROBOT FIGHTER was just terrific – loved the science fic...

This week in honor of Mother’s Day, I’m leaving my science fiction romance to jump back into my Ancient Egyptian paranormal and the birth of my Pharoah Nat-re-Akhte’s son. The Queen’s labor was long and difficult and at the last minute a mysterious new midwife shows up to take charge. She doesn’t linger for thanks after the delivery:

“Your son will be much blessed, Pharoah,” said the young midwife, placing the crying , swaddled newborn in his outstretched arms. Making the sign of the ankh ove...

Read an interesting article this week on Shine.com about research indicating high school gym class may make people so uncomfortable, it turns them off of exercising for life. Have you ever read something and instantly resonated with the conclusion, nodding your head at every sentence? That was SO me, when I read this article!

It didn’t take high school gym class to ruin it for me either – the deed was done in seventh grade. We moved from New York to Alabama and missed the start of school by tw...

All the ills of mankind, all the tragic misfortunes that fill the history books, all the political blunders, all the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill at dancing.

Moliere

(VS sez: Wow, that’s intense!)

Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing.

William James

Dancing is my obsession. My life.

Mikhail Baryshnikov

Dance is bigger than the physical body. When you extend your arm, it...

When writing my re-imagining of the Titanic disaster, I tried to take the luxuries and appointments of the 1912 ocean liner and put updated versions in my futuristic spaceliner. Titanic boasted a heated swimming pool, in First Class, only the second of its kind anywhere. (The other was on her sister ship Olympic, launched the year before.) For the Nebula Dream’s passengers, since weight and mass aren’t a problem in outer space, I envisioned one entire level of the ship being given over to a r...