The
holidays...are great UNLESS you're going to spend them
alone.
The fifth wheel...it's a real pain in the jolly spirit being that fifth wheel. How do you
raise your glass and make Merry when you're the fifth wheel, and in your mood are more likely to
drown in your sorrows...especially when everyone at work you'd intended on corralling to share the holiday with you, has other plans?
You walk the
overcast boardwalk, scowling at the
choppy seas and turning a deaf ear to the annoyingly loud
seagulls vying to get you to feed them. Which, if you were so inclined, would be a hard thing to do with your empty coat pockets and emptier hands.
Instead you thrust your hands into your over sized coat pockets, hunker down and continue you
solo misery...
Until...
You do NOT remember that bar being there! How long has it been since you last trod these same planks? Surely not long enough for something like this to be built...and could it really resemble a
genie's lamp? Nah, must be the lack of light play because of the angry clouds above making it look so exotic. After all, this is the wharf...not some oasis in the middle of an exotic desert.
Staring at the suddenly there bar, Lacey's Lamp Bar...okay someone DOES have a sense of wicked humor...she decides to head on in...
Hannah's Wish, Kat Holmes' contribution to the year long, multi-authored series from Muse It Up Publishing is almost here!
Thanksgiving is around the corner, but Hannah a dedicated veterinarian has no family. She'd intended to
invite her co-workers to share the feast she'd been imagining at her home, but every single one of them has other plans.
Resigned to spending the holiday alone or back at the
hospital tending to her cherished patients, Hannah finds herself drawn into the strangely present Lacey's Lamp Bar.
Inside, things are even stranger. The bartender, a beautiful woman claims she's a genie and this bar is
her bottle. She also claims because Hannah came inside, she was now entitled to
wish for the one thing she wanted most in the world.
Laughing, her disbelief evident, Hannah finally shrugs and decides
Looking deeply into the swirling centers of Lacey's eyes she says "I don't want to be alone on Thanksgiving."
"Done," Lacey proclaims.
Hannah
laughs once more, finishes her drink, lays her money on the finely polished bar, shrugs back into her coat and leaves.
Outside the
wind is howling. The storm clouds above are heavy with the weight of a blizzard nearing. Determined to get home before the fury of
Jack Frost and
Old Man Winter collide upon her, Hannah's forgets all about Lacey, her unusual bar, and the wish she'd laughingly made.
Hannah's Wish...
will it come true? And if it does, with a
brutal storm settling in how can she expect ANYONE to be out in this and somehow end up sharing Thanksgiving day with her?
Hannah's Wish by Kat Holmes, is the November 2012 installment of this year long series...and what an installment it is.
Available for pre-order through Muse It Up Publishing Inc, this tale makes gobbling turkey second best to the magic Lacey and her lamp have in store for Hannah.
Each volume of Lacey's Lamp Bar books is available through Muse It Up Publishing's BOOKSTORE and can stand alone.
They had no word for what towered over them,
what created the richly fertile land booming with life beneath them...but ignorance will not save them.
She wakens like every other day for the past two months in Pompeii, hating her life with a ferocity fed by the violent hand of her
piggish husband...but unlike every other day, this day is going to CHANGE Daria's life...forever.
HER LAST DAY, a moment by moment recounting of a demon no one knew clawed on
fiery feet beneath the land they all treated with superior disdain.
Daria, wife of Titus the wealthy
shoe maker hates the way the ground shakes. She's from Rome and Roman ground would never be so rude as to tremble beneath the mighty
Caesar Titus, son of the great Vespasian and his Senate.
Here in Pompeii the citizenry thinks they are above the gods and far too wealthy not to be cherished by the rulers of the after-life.
Slavery, an accepted cruelty, is a part of the Roman fabric, and nowhere is it more happily celebrated than here in Pompeii.
Acteon, given to Daria by her husband Titus the moment he returns from Rome with Daria as his wife, is her only comfort, her only "friend" here in her husband's domain.
They had no word for VOLCANO...but
Vulcan, god of fire, does not make distinctions between the wealthy and the slaves of poverty and misuse.
HER LAST DAY is coming next month in October from Muse It Up Publishing...but Kat and I want to GIVE two copies away just as soon as they hit the market...in whatever format you need from us.
So what must you do to win?
Actually it's really easy...
just e-mail Kat placing the word VOLCANO in the subject and tell her the date of the very LAST eruption of Vesuvius.
Send it to MyKitty130 at yahoo dot com
If you have the right date your name will be included in the drawing.
Be sure to include your name, e-mail address and the format you want your free book in.
That's all you have to do...
Easy right?
I am ashamed to admit until I guest hosted my daughter Kat Holmes'
BLOG TALK RADIO SHOW for
Cyrus Keith, author extraordinaire of the amazing
BECOMING NADIA and
UNALIVE...also
Patrick Stewart Look-alike...(and yes, you CAN listen to that show in the archives)...I did not know anything about the EPIC awards.
What does the acronym stand for? I wondered too, so I
Googled them and it stands for The Electronic Publishing Industry Coaltion...and it is BIG!
Cyrus, rightfully, is
walking on air right now. Seriously...how many other first-time published authors can claim to have won something this prestigious so early in the game?
I mean take a look at his award...(I'm gonna give you TWO angles so you can see the intricacy of
his name and his powerful book BECOMING NADIA etched forever upon his first, but I know not last, authorial TROPHY!
As his Muse It Up Publishing Sister,
I am walking on air too, because I am so very proud of him and his exceptional accomplishment. (He told me on the show his second novel UNALIVE is in the running for next year's award...so I KNOW I will be creating another
toast to my brother next year too.)
The Science-Fiction world has been blessed because this gifted, multi-faceted man has joined its ranks...and how brilliant of the EPIC Awards personnel to recognize him right off the bat.
Lea Schizas, Publisher of
Muse It Up Publishing, Inc...on behalf of all of us...
for bringing Keith into our Muse It Up Publishing home.
For more info on
BECOMING NADIA, click HERE for its very own Buy Page.
For info on Book Two,
UNALIVE, click on its BUY PAGE.
The delightfully dynamic Cyrus Keith can be found at his AUTHOR'S PAGE and his brand spanking new (so you can get in on the ground floor) BLOG
Click on THE EPIC AWARDS to learn more about why this is such a HUGE accomplishment.
Keep 'em coming Cyrus. Your fans are chomping at the bit.
