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Love & Marriage
Hi everybody, I'm Alm Hlgh the author of The Perfect BMW. I noticed that this eBook is quickly moving up the ranks on various sites such as Amazon, Barnes & Noble and Smashwords; therefore decided to create a discussion thread about love and marriage.
Don't worry, you don't have to buy the book to discuss on this thread; just have an opinion about love, marriage, disclosure. Briefly here is the summary of the story:
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Misunderstood as a gold-digger Sheila doesn't believe a marriage can be successful based on love after watching her mom and older sister's failed marriages and love lives with men. Therefore she schemes to get a man making six figures who can help create a business partnership to build a lifestyle based on the American Dream. Her criteria: of course he must be making bank, never married and definitely NO kids ALLOWED!!!
Neal Towers was not your average black man. He was a successful air personality for the number 1 broadcast radio-company in the USA and he was moving up the syndicated radio show list fairly quickly; expecting to have his own syndicated show one day soon. He had a college degree, making big money, never married and he loved beautiful and successful black women. All of his life getting a woman was the easy part and he never gave much thought about family life or having children.
So when his high school sweetheart had Junior, it was no big deal; he just stepped up to the plate making sure he handled his financial responsibility. Of course high school puppy love can grow passé when you’re in college and see all of the fresh new meat that you’re missing out on; and that’s how he met baby momma # 2 Denise his college first love. Graduating from college and landing first an internship at the #1 urban & hip hop station in town was a dream come true so Neal focusing on his career somehow lost touch with Denise and the two of them moved on. Wow, working around the hottest R & B acts in the US was a surreal experience for Neal; the parties, the luxuries and the women was mind blowing to someone who had been born and raised in a working-class and humble life. Neale couldn't get enough of the parties or the women and that’s how he met Susan baby momma # 3; a groupie who followed and traveled around with one of the boy bands that his station sponsored.
Neal meets Shelia and for him it’s love at first sight; only she’s not interested in having any kids or a man with any. What’s a man to do when he’s just met his perfect woman but he doesn't quite meet her standards? Is it lying if you fail to disclose certain information? Join Neal and Shelia in this romantic-comedy that asks: What is the most important quality in a marriage? Together they search for common ground and understanding in trying to save their marriage.
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Now where are some questions for discussion regarding love and marriage.
The general theme of this book asks:
What is the most important quality (honest, trust, respect, disclosure, love, etc.) to have in a marriage? Through out the book our characters struggle and discuss what they feel is the key to having a successful marriage?
What do you think is the most important quality to have in a successful marriage?
Do you disclose everything from your past to your significant other?
Is it lying if you omit telling information about yourself?
What would you do, if you found out your significant other has secrets from you that could change your life?
Do you think Shelia was wrong for leaving or staying with Neal?
As far as marriage goes, is love a key factor in having a successful one?
Do people marry for love or money? Is anything wrong with marrying for money?
Don't worry, you don't have to buy the book to discuss on this thread; just have an opinion about love, marriage, disclosure. Briefly here is the summary of the story:
________
Misunderstood as a gold-digger Sheila doesn't believe a marriage can be successful based on love after watching her mom and older sister's failed marriages and love lives with men. Therefore she schemes to get a man making six figures who can help create a business partnership to build a lifestyle based on the American Dream. Her criteria: of course he must be making bank, never married and definitely NO kids ALLOWED!!!
Neal Towers was not your average black man. He was a successful air personality for the number 1 broadcast radio-company in the USA and he was moving up the syndicated radio show list fairly quickly; expecting to have his own syndicated show one day soon. He had a college degree, making big money, never married and he loved beautiful and successful black women. All of his life getting a woman was the easy part and he never gave much thought about family life or having children.
So when his high school sweetheart had Junior, it was no big deal; he just stepped up to the plate making sure he handled his financial responsibility. Of course high school puppy love can grow passé when you’re in college and see all of the fresh new meat that you’re missing out on; and that’s how he met baby momma # 2 Denise his college first love. Graduating from college and landing first an internship at the #1 urban & hip hop station in town was a dream come true so Neal focusing on his career somehow lost touch with Denise and the two of them moved on. Wow, working around the hottest R & B acts in the US was a surreal experience for Neal; the parties, the luxuries and the women was mind blowing to someone who had been born and raised in a working-class and humble life. Neale couldn't get enough of the parties or the women and that’s how he met Susan baby momma # 3; a groupie who followed and traveled around with one of the boy bands that his station sponsored.
Neal meets Shelia and for him it’s love at first sight; only she’s not interested in having any kids or a man with any. What’s a man to do when he’s just met his perfect woman but he doesn't quite meet her standards? Is it lying if you fail to disclose certain information? Join Neal and Shelia in this romantic-comedy that asks: What is the most important quality in a marriage? Together they search for common ground and understanding in trying to save their marriage.
________
Now where are some questions for discussion regarding love and marriage.
The general theme of this book asks:
What is the most important quality (honest, trust, respect, disclosure, love, etc.) to have in a marriage? Through out the book our characters struggle and discuss what they feel is the key to having a successful marriage?
What do you think is the most important quality to have in a successful marriage?
Do you disclose everything from your past to your significant other?
Is it lying if you omit telling information about yourself?
What would you do, if you found out your significant other has secrets from you that could change your life?
Do you think Shelia was wrong for leaving or staying with Neal?
As far as marriage goes, is love a key factor in having a successful one?
Do people marry for love or money? Is anything wrong with marrying for money?
When In Love?
When you in love you ____? (fill in blank)
Hey guys I'm working on a new novel... Hmm, couldn't tell you exactly what's it about but it is romance one of my fav genres.... But I would like some ideas from different perspectives about how people are when they are in love. How do you feel? How do act? What do you expect? What do you do? Are older people in love different from young people in love?
Btw, I can share the title (working) with you: Cougars, Tigers & Bears: The Playground
There's a lot of mixed love in the story, older women younger men, friends with benefits, unlikely pairing that breaks rules, hearts and illusions of reality; love relationships vs. relationships built on convenience and social status; good people loving bad people.
They say that love makes people do strange (weird) things; therefore I'm asking you what have you done strange (or not so strange) when you are/ were in love?
When in Love I __________________
Hey guys I'm working on a new novel... Hmm, couldn't tell you exactly what's it about but it is romance one of my fav genres.... But I would like some ideas from different perspectives about how people are when they are in love. How do you feel? How do act? What do you expect? What do you do? Are older people in love different from young people in love?
Btw, I can share the title (working) with you: Cougars, Tigers & Bears: The Playground
There's a lot of mixed love in the story, older women younger men, friends with benefits, unlikely pairing that breaks rules, hearts and illusions of reality; love relationships vs. relationships built on convenience and social status; good people loving bad people.
They say that love makes people do strange (weird) things; therefore I'm asking you what have you done strange (or not so strange) when you are/ were in love?
When in Love I __________________
So Amazing....
I find it amazing; but I shouldn't. How one person can do something and another person can take it totally left field out the ballpark and interpret it a whole different manner. I know I'm having a duh moment; a moment where that should be obvious. I've been told in a previous life that "you can't expect people to do/ see things the way that you would do it."
So I use ALL CAPS when I'm excited and extremely happy for my small strides in life; I'm sure that you have your own way of showing excitement- we are different after all. I think it's wonderful; our difference it is what makes life interesting and fresh. I think though sometimes we can become a little too self-centered in our ways and think that the whole world should think, act and behave like us (me); how absurd and small we can be in our thinking.
So I write this as a reminder to myself that even though I am blissfully happy to have achieved a small step in the world of writing; I have to remember that there are always people out there who are just looking for a reason to rain on my parade. But like I said in my previous blog, "life isn't about the rain that falls on our parades; but rather our being able to still enjoy the show despite it." Thank you so much all for your wonderful response to my thread. They say all publicity is good publicity; good or bad. I will choose to believe that in this instance. Thank you for being so very kind and welcoming to me.
God Bless All...
Alm ^__^
So I use ALL CAPS when I'm excited and extremely happy for my small strides in life; I'm sure that you have your own way of showing excitement- we are different after all. I think it's wonderful; our difference it is what makes life interesting and fresh. I think though sometimes we can become a little too self-centered in our ways and think that the whole world should think, act and behave like us (me); how absurd and small we can be in our thinking.
So I write this as a reminder to myself that even though I am blissfully happy to have achieved a small step in the world of writing; I have to remember that there are always people out there who are just looking for a reason to rain on my parade. But like I said in my previous blog, "life isn't about the rain that falls on our parades; but rather our being able to still enjoy the show despite it." Thank you so much all for your wonderful response to my thread. They say all publicity is good publicity; good or bad. I will choose to believe that in this instance. Thank you for being so very kind and welcoming to me.
God Bless All...
Alm ^__^
Recalibrate My Love Series...
Is kicking off with my very first addition "Sometimes It's Only Sex" The series is being created with the objective for women to take a closer look at the way they love and why do they love the men that they do. The first novel in this series is "Sometimes It's Only Sex", however I have been contemplating adding
to it due to the nature of it's story.
Love can exist in two forms: as a new beginning; metamorphose or continue as it is, let it stand, maintain. It is up to each of us to decide what is working best for us. Do we stay or do we forge ahead with anew beginning? Love is change and change is scary; but so is remaining static.
For all of the women out there who never quite feel like they’re enough. For all of the women out there whose men are leaving them feeling a little lacking and leaving them hungry for more, comes:
Recalibrate My Love presents…
Sometimes it's only sex and we need to ask God to give us the wisdom to know the difference. From the new Recalibrate My Love Series comes a novel about learning to be more than enough first for ourselves and learning to love the me who I am. Meet Princess Aptakisic the rigid college professor and Chris Rock the professional exotic dancer in the highly charged erotic story.
The story Sometimes It's Only Sex, is a love story about a Princess Atakisic a 30 year old assistant professor of a college who falls in love too easily and puts more effort in picking out her clothes than the men whom she allows into her life; and Chris Rock aka Body Language a 25 year old exotic dancer who happens to be raising his 4-year old daughter. For him, women and sex are passe- been there done that. On the outside he looks like the average man and women mistakenly judge him based on the cover. However he's looking for a deeper and more meaningful relationship with a woman; just like he had or better with his daughter's mother before she passed. If you would like, take a sneak peek at this brand new novel as it is in the process of being written. Sometimes it's only sex and we need to ask God to give us the wisdom to know the difference. From the new Recalibrate My Love Series comes a novel about learning to be more than enough first for ourselves and learning to love the me who I am. Meet Princess Aptakisic and Chris Rock in the highly charge erotic story:
http://www.bookrix.com/_title-en-alm-...
For all of the women out there who never quite feel like they’re enough. For all of the sistas out there whose men are leaving them feeling a little lacking and leaving them hungry for more, comes:
Love Recalibration… the series.... from
Alm Hlgh
to it due to the nature of it's story.Love can exist in two forms: as a new beginning; metamorphose or continue as it is, let it stand, maintain. It is up to each of us to decide what is working best for us. Do we stay or do we forge ahead with anew beginning? Love is change and change is scary; but so is remaining static.
For all of the women out there who never quite feel like they’re enough. For all of the women out there whose men are leaving them feeling a little lacking and leaving them hungry for more, comes:
Recalibrate My Love presents…
Sometimes it's only sex and we need to ask God to give us the wisdom to know the difference. From the new Recalibrate My Love Series comes a novel about learning to be more than enough first for ourselves and learning to love the me who I am. Meet Princess Aptakisic the rigid college professor and Chris Rock the professional exotic dancer in the highly charged erotic story.
The story Sometimes It's Only Sex, is a love story about a Princess Atakisic a 30 year old assistant professor of a college who falls in love too easily and puts more effort in picking out her clothes than the men whom she allows into her life; and Chris Rock aka Body Language a 25 year old exotic dancer who happens to be raising his 4-year old daughter. For him, women and sex are passe- been there done that. On the outside he looks like the average man and women mistakenly judge him based on the cover. However he's looking for a deeper and more meaningful relationship with a woman; just like he had or better with his daughter's mother before she passed. If you would like, take a sneak peek at this brand new novel as it is in the process of being written. Sometimes it's only sex and we need to ask God to give us the wisdom to know the difference. From the new Recalibrate My Love Series comes a novel about learning to be more than enough first for ourselves and learning to love the me who I am. Meet Princess Aptakisic and Chris Rock in the highly charge erotic story:
http://www.bookrix.com/_title-en-alm-...
For all of the women out there who never quite feel like they’re enough. For all of the sistas out there whose men are leaving them feeling a little lacking and leaving them hungry for more, comes:
Love Recalibration… the series.... from
Alm Hlgh
Sometimes It's Only Sex
“Dude you agreed to be her man whore and let her marry another dude?” Billy asked incredulous to my story.
“A gay man no less…” Derrick added as we finished showering after practice and began getting ready for the show.
“When is she getting married?” Phoenix asked.
“In about two weeks.”
“You’re a much braver man than I am. I couldn’t do it; fake marriage or not. There is no way in hell the love of my life is going to live with another man who isn’t me.” Passion stated infatuatedly. No one missed him glaring at Dino who remained silent the whole time.
“I hate it too man… But what’s the alternative live without her? Face it, men have been doing it for years; married to one woman and having a chick on the side.”
“So you decided to take one for the team, eh?” Tony asked.
To read this story:
http://www.smashwords.com/books/view/...
Try As You Might
What is it? Someone please explain it to me; preferably slowly. Why is it try as you might, no matter how delicate and considerate you try to be; why oh why are people so easily to get offended? Have you ever been speaking and happen to maybe use the word "well" or "So" only to be chastised by an unknown public "why must you use that word so much?"
Sometimes you may pronounce a word a certain way that is not traditionally pronounced in another person's everyday language and before you know it someone has made a snide little remark or comment about your usage. Suddenly you find yourself in the middle of chaos and you're wondering "what the hack happened?"
I've recently learned that no matter how much I try and how careful I am, someone, somewhere at some unknown time will be "offended" by something I said or didn't say or the way I wrote this and not that. Recently I was chastised because apparently my blurbs on my books were too long. I found it utterly mind-blowing because not recently enough it had been brought to my attention that the blurbs were too short and not enough information such as word count was given.
I don't know how many other authors have experienced similar situations like this; but I just thought I would write this blog to let you know you're not alone. Someone long ago wrote: "you're damned if you do and damned if you don't... and you can please everybody..."
The best that I can offer is to do what's in your heart let God be your guide and hope that the masses will feel your heart and know your passion. Whatever you do, don't let it discourage you, just laugh it off and keep on writing the very best that you can.
Sometimes you may pronounce a word a certain way that is not traditionally pronounced in another person's everyday language and before you know it someone has made a snide little remark or comment about your usage. Suddenly you find yourself in the middle of chaos and you're wondering "what the hack happened?"
I've recently learned that no matter how much I try and how careful I am, someone, somewhere at some unknown time will be "offended" by something I said or didn't say or the way I wrote this and not that. Recently I was chastised because apparently my blurbs on my books were too long. I found it utterly mind-blowing because not recently enough it had been brought to my attention that the blurbs were too short and not enough information such as word count was given.
I don't know how many other authors have experienced similar situations like this; but I just thought I would write this blog to let you know you're not alone. Someone long ago wrote: "you're damned if you do and damned if you don't... and you can please everybody..."
The best that I can offer is to do what's in your heart let God be your guide and hope that the masses will feel your heart and know your passion. Whatever you do, don't let it discourage you, just laugh it off and keep on writing the very best that you can.
