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Tips to Foster your Passion

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This ‘late in the day’ post couldn’t have been more perfect the purposes of the post itself, which is about the struggle to balance your passions with daily life. Why am I posting late? Because I just finished a 60 hour work week and slept through my alarm because I was exhausted. And although today was my day off, I was back at work chairing a committee I feel passionate about, so I’m just getting my butt in my computer chair. Also, I made a promise to myself to post on Mondays, so this is my way of keeping with

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Cat Links Blog, Book Reviews

Reading Challenge Review: Organ Reapers by Shay West

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  **Any spoilers are unintentional and I apologize in advance if I let any slip that ruin the story for you. The purpose of the reviews are to highlight books I’ve read as part of a personal reading and blogging challenge for 2015. Read here for my personal expectations. I have not been asked by authors to do these reviews, I’m just reviewing as I read.** Genre: Urban Fantasy/Crime Drama Synopsis: Detective Elliott “Eli” Robinson and his new partner, Ava Aguilar, are baffled by a series of brutal murders happening in their fair city. No evidence, no eyewitnesses…only mutilated corpses

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Burning Sensation – Candle Edition

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Alright. So last weeks confession was an addiction to journals. But lets be real, only one addiction is boring, so this week my confession involves a baby pyro within that no snuffer can extinguish. (See what I did there. I know…hilarious.) Candles. I just love them. Yes, they’re ALL on my desk right now along with all the journals. It’s a freakin’ mess I tell ya. I know, girly as Hell, but over the last year candles have become another obsession. The colours, the scents, the ambiance, the tension in my shoulders melts away as soon as I light them.

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Reading/Blogging Challenge

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I’ve heard you can’t be a writer without reading A LOT. Turning pages has never been an issue for me, I carry a book with me damn near everywhere I go, until my writing became more than a hobby and sucked up free time like a scavenging pug. In efforts to simultaneously read more and utilize my blog, I’ll be participating in the 2015 Goodreads Reading Challenge. Over the course of 2015 I pledged to read 35 books.     For some, that number laughable, they can speed read through book every two days and think I’m being lazy. Well,

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Journal For Life

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Quiet down peoples, I have a confession to make.  I have far too many journals. That’s right, you heard me. Taking a count of my collection, I’ll never need to buy another, but I can’t help myself. Friends even enable my habit by gifting them. (Not that they’re aware of my compulsion or I’d never get another. Shhhhh!) Can you blame me? Look at them all! Some wrapped in leather, others with nifty designs, some small enough to tuck in my purse, all with blank pages screaming out to be inked, open to take in my crazy thoughts without judgement.

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ACCEPTED!

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Me: “What does that say? Do they…” (I look at the Hubster) “Read this email and tell me what you think.” (I impatiently chew the inside of my cheek until I taste blood) Hubster: *Nods* “Yup, you did it. Holy shit. High fives, babe.” Cue the internal freak out as I force a high five and then read, and re-read, and re-re-read the email telling me my manuscript was accepted. ACCEPTED! By an impressive company like Booktrope Publishing no less. A company that strives for a “Team publishing” platform to put out the best work and assist authors the whole way

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Dapper Press Short Story Release

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On October 25th my short story “Sheltered” was featured in the Dapper Press Haunted Lounge (Woot woot! *handstand and jazz hands*) as part of their campaign to introduce the dapper-est of self-publishing alternatives. Stop by their website any time and take a look at other spooky stories and services they provide.  

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Halloween Sex Injection (NSFW)

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  Around this time of year everyone is in the planning stages of Halloween. Fake, sticky spiders web with fake, creepy spiders…check. Spray-painted gravestones painted with your in-laws names on the front lawn…check. Near pro jack-o-lanterns carved from a design found on Pinterest…check. Party favours you eat as you bake, bite-sized candy bars for breakfast bought and re-bought since October 1st, and doing the toe-touch test to see if your vajayjay peeks out to trick or treat. Wait. WHAT?!? I haven’t participated in Halloween in the traditional sense in near 15 years, so when a friend decided to throw a

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