June 2011 Blog Posts (433)

What I learned at the Lit Fest Panel:  Murder Most Cozy.…

I have a brand spanking new blog called My Alter Ego Charlie.  You will find some of my writing (I can't promise it's any good but I'm learning lol) and more of a personal approach compared to Spellbound By Books.

http://www.myalteregocharlie.com

If you have any questions regarding this website you can contact me at Charlie@myalteregocharlie.com 

If you have any questions about Spellbound By Books…

Hey All,

We're giving away a signed paperback copy of Pulled on Goodreads.

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Amy Lichtenhan

www.amylichtenhan.com

I'm ashamed to admit that I first became intrigued with Pride and Prejudice and Zombies by Seth Graham-Smith because of its phenomenal success on the best seller lists. Call it an aversion to adolescent days when I craved to know the hottest songs, stars, and styles. Whatever the reason, as an adult, I normally avoid trends. Yet when Pride and Prejudice and Zombies hit the radar, I felt curious about that whole mash-up combination. Now being immersed in the trilogy, I feel proud and hip to…

Here's one for fun.  Go here for more.…

I was born in a library.

Not really.  But I could've been.

Books prominently populate my earliest memories.  Lots and lots of books.  Enough to fill several library several times. 

I remember snuggling into Dad's lap as he read aloud about a brown monkey and a man in a yellow hat. Mom reading and re-reading a perennial favorite, Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel.  Also stories about a runaway bunny. Ferdinand the bull.  Green…

THE 'INDIE KINDY' GIVEAWAY: Win an AMAZON KINDLE featuring

M.R. Mathias’ Entire Bibliography

+ E-Books from his Favorite Independent Authors!!!…

I am a fan of Tom’s work. I enjoy his take on things and his ability to present them. I think that when someone is trying to be funny, face to face or in a group setting where eye contact can be made or body language can be seen is one thing. The humor is then three dimensional, or if you subscribe to Big Daddy Abel’s thoughts four dimensions, go figure, but who am I to argue. Back to my point, Tom Sumner has a way with words and can execute the punch lines in writing. He hammers home his…

Young and looking for love

Hello one and all



i am just your normal single stay at home dad of a ADHD child, just trying to make something happen in life, and help the economy, i am here to let you know



you can now buy my first book at http://www2.xlibris.com/bookstore/bookdisplay.aspx?bookid=95886



also at amazon.com …

Welcome to the weekend everybody. Today I am popping in two posts on two totally different types of digital short stories. Later on I will drop one in on Humorist Tom Sumner and his series, “All I Wanted Was a Haircut” .  Lets get to Samantha Weiler’s digital short story. She is a Summer Submission Contest Winner with Trestle Press. Personally I enjoyed this story immensely; it has a nice edge to it that I think if you get to download it you will…

I wanted to end the week with a bang and I chose this novel to start it off.

Let’s get rolling on” Misery Bay”! Here is the synopsis:

“On a frozen January night, a young man loops one end of a long rope over the branch of a tree. The other end he ties around his neck. A snowmobiler will find him 36 hours later, his lifeless eyes staring out at the endless cold water of Lake Superior. It happens in a lonely corner of the Upper Peninsula, in a place they call…

The Last Day of Kindergarten

BY: Nancy Loewen

ILLUSTRATED BY: Sachiko Yoshikawa

PUBLISHED BY: Marshall Cavendish Children

PUBLISHED IN: 2011

ISBN: 978-0-7614-5807-4

Pages: 32

Reviewed by Billy Burgess



Today is the last day of Mrs. Popinski’s kindergarten class through the eyes of a little girl. She reflects back on the first day of school when she hung up her bookpack for the very first time. She remembered playing with the other students during…

Aleja Bennett was adopted in the early seventies after being abandoned and left in an apartment alone with her older siblings. The Author was only six months old and suffered with pnuemonia  shortly after that.

 Aleja Bennett was adopted at the age of two years by a woman who was barren. The couple abused, starved, tortured, rejected and…