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Some days are hard when you have to save millions. It’s much harder when you can’t save them. There isn’t much you can do when you are the only person that can see disasters without the specially made windows that see in the future. Work, look forward to your reward at the end of your tenure.
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Suzette Vaughn
31 books9 followersI was a stay-at-home-mommy! My son needed his mother but I was going stir crazy. I baked, sewed, cleaned, shopped, and read everything in my house.
In telling my sister everything I'd read, she told me to try romance. I laughed...(trust me this comes back...and back...). The next day I went to a new Mexican restaurant, and next door was a little bookstore with "Romance Books" in big red, black and white letters on the window. I went through their used section and took home ten. A few days later, talking again to my sister, I laughed and told her I could do better than the books I'd read so far. "So, do it!"
I laughed.
Then I thought long and hard about it. Why not? I wrote when I was in school. I enjoyed it. It wasn't half bad.
That book is still in editing.
But I was writing.
I learned a lot with that book and reading other up and coming authors.
Then I hit inspiration. Driving across the Mid-Atlantic states, my mind was wondering. It does that at times. It wandered across what-ifs and possibilities.
I got home and spent three days sitting at my computer typing, skipping sleep, forty-thousand words poured out and Badeaux Knights was born...
And the story goes on--
After editing and cleaning up Badeaux Knights I continued to write, working on concepts that came from anywhere I could get them. I entered a conteset and met many more great author with the thought of getting feedback, alright... fine... publication would be cool but feedback, right.
I received much needed feedback and I met my future publisher. Well I'll get to him.
We started a critique group with around ten romance writers with promise. Watching these fine writers receive rejections from agents or big publishers was painful and so, one decided no more.
"I'm going to start a publishing company." We laughed. He added crime and mystery authors and started putting out books and Second Wind Publishing was born. Then it grew.
And the story goes on--
"I want a bookstore to sale our books in." Again we laughed at him."I want wine in my bookstore." laughed harder.
A year later I sat in a different state than the story started in helping to open a bookstore.
And the story goes on--
In telling my sister everything I'd read, she told me to try romance. I laughed...(trust me this comes back...and back...). The next day I went to a new Mexican restaurant, and next door was a little bookstore with "Romance Books" in big red, black and white letters on the window. I went through their used section and took home ten. A few days later, talking again to my sister, I laughed and told her I could do better than the books I'd read so far. "So, do it!"
I laughed.
Then I thought long and hard about it. Why not? I wrote when I was in school. I enjoyed it. It wasn't half bad.
That book is still in editing.
But I was writing.
I learned a lot with that book and reading other up and coming authors.
Then I hit inspiration. Driving across the Mid-Atlantic states, my mind was wondering. It does that at times. It wandered across what-ifs and possibilities.
I got home and spent three days sitting at my computer typing, skipping sleep, forty-thousand words poured out and Badeaux Knights was born...
And the story goes on--
After editing and cleaning up Badeaux Knights I continued to write, working on concepts that came from anywhere I could get them. I entered a conteset and met many more great author with the thought of getting feedback, alright... fine... publication would be cool but feedback, right.
I received much needed feedback and I met my future publisher. Well I'll get to him.
We started a critique group with around ten romance writers with promise. Watching these fine writers receive rejections from agents or big publishers was painful and so, one decided no more.
"I'm going to start a publishing company." We laughed. He added crime and mystery authors and started putting out books and Second Wind Publishing was born. Then it grew.
And the story goes on--
"I want a bookstore to sale our books in." Again we laughed at him."I want wine in my bookstore." laughed harder.
A year later I sat in a different state than the story started in helping to open a bookstore.
And the story goes on--
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December 30, 2016
Four Separate Short Stories, Published Individually, From The Pen Of Suzette Vaughn
STORY-LINES:
In Radio Wish, author Suzette Vaughn crafted a wonderful Christmas wish for someone other than them-self. Unselfishly the caller to the local Christmas Wish Radio Show makes a wish for her neighbor.
In A Good Day, Vaughn crafted a story of two shy people who travel the same path daily. Each attracted to other and too shy to make their desire known.
Slither finds a girl discovering her origins are not what she thought nor her father the man she believed.
The fourth story, Reflections, we find two friends in the future who are seers. Their job is to see disasters in the future and try to stop them from occurring.
CHARACTERS, PLOTTING, AND DEVELOPMENT:
Firstly, I found each of these stories enjoyable and satisfying. Due to the short length of the genre, the author can not give the reader the amount of detail, background, or development found in novels. In a few short pages, the author packs the story, plotting, and development, while keeping the story cohesive.
Secondly, each story was sweet and clean. I found a few editing errors which did not take away from my enjoyment of the stories. Each story had a wealth of emotion and for the short length, the characters developed. The plots were varied from sweet romance and sci-fi to paranormal.
Finally, in concluding my contemporary novel review of these four short stories, I found them well-written with intriguing story-lines and characters.
A GOOD DAY, REFLECTION, RADIO WISH, SLITHER, RECOMMENDATION: STARS 4 FOR EACH STORY
I would not hesitate to buy these short stories for a friend. Suitable for 13+, these stories entertain as a result of the author's solid story-line and plotting.
FINALLY, PLEASE NOTE:
Additionally, I received this book from the author and chose to voluntarily review the book with an honest contemporary novel review. Lastly, book reviews of any novel are dependent on the book review author’s opinion. Consequently, all book reviews on-line and on my blog, are my opinions. In addition, the ARC did not affect my voluntary contemporary novel review.
STORY-LINES:
In Radio Wish, author Suzette Vaughn crafted a wonderful Christmas wish for someone other than them-self. Unselfishly the caller to the local Christmas Wish Radio Show makes a wish for her neighbor.
In A Good Day, Vaughn crafted a story of two shy people who travel the same path daily. Each attracted to other and too shy to make their desire known.
Slither finds a girl discovering her origins are not what she thought nor her father the man she believed.
The fourth story, Reflections, we find two friends in the future who are seers. Their job is to see disasters in the future and try to stop them from occurring.
CHARACTERS, PLOTTING, AND DEVELOPMENT:
Firstly, I found each of these stories enjoyable and satisfying. Due to the short length of the genre, the author can not give the reader the amount of detail, background, or development found in novels. In a few short pages, the author packs the story, plotting, and development, while keeping the story cohesive.
Secondly, each story was sweet and clean. I found a few editing errors which did not take away from my enjoyment of the stories. Each story had a wealth of emotion and for the short length, the characters developed. The plots were varied from sweet romance and sci-fi to paranormal.
Finally, in concluding my contemporary novel review of these four short stories, I found them well-written with intriguing story-lines and characters.
A GOOD DAY, REFLECTION, RADIO WISH, SLITHER, RECOMMENDATION: STARS 4 FOR EACH STORY
I would not hesitate to buy these short stories for a friend. Suitable for 13+, these stories entertain as a result of the author's solid story-line and plotting.
FINALLY, PLEASE NOTE:
Additionally, I received this book from the author and chose to voluntarily review the book with an honest contemporary novel review. Lastly, book reviews of any novel are dependent on the book review author’s opinion. Consequently, all book reviews on-line and on my blog, are my opinions. In addition, the ARC did not affect my voluntary contemporary novel review.
October 3, 2016
"Magic Vision"
This is a mini-story, 20 pages. Mira is a seer who tries to see danger before it happens. She's good ... she can even explode asteroids before they crash on Earth. She lives in an interplanetary atmosphere. She's not human, but Wen, her co-worker, is an Earthling. This may be a short story (too, short ... I wished to read more), but it reflects the author's diverse creativity.
This is a mini-story, 20 pages. Mira is a seer who tries to see danger before it happens. She's good ... she can even explode asteroids before they crash on Earth. She lives in an interplanetary atmosphere. She's not human, but Wen, her co-worker, is an Earthling. This may be a short story (too, short ... I wished to read more), but it reflects the author's diverse creativity.
September 16, 2016
Short read that takes readers into a bit of science fiction as we meet Mira McIntire and her friend, Wen. The two have special talents they can see the destruction of other places and try to stop them, but can they save each other? Interesting read, I wish it would have been longer to give more background, but it was still an intense, emotional story.
September 26, 2016
Out of this world love story
an excellent short story that has love, adventure, mystery. Mira and Wen are co workers but can they be more?
an excellent short story that has love, adventure, mystery. Mira and Wen are co workers but can they be more?
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