tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-70011728990732090312024-03-13T08:45:42.764-07:00The Velvet Lair of Suz deMelloFor lovers of romance, travel, food, and life!Suz dehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17236960359162948178noreply@blogger.comBlogger306125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7001172899073209031.post-14102902408205607222023-10-15T16:48:00.017-07:002023-10-16T09:37:29.471-07:00FWIW: Hamas, Israel, and the Whole Messy Mess<p><span style="background-color: #666666; color: #f3f3f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium; text-align: justify;">It’s the hot topic on everyone’s
minds—the renewed conflict between Israel and Hamas. Instead of getting into
fruitless arguments on social media, let me present a few facts and a lot of
opinions about the continuing struggle. Disclaimer: I am an atheist from a
Jewish family and identify as ethnically Jewish. But I have no respect or
patience for arguments that begin and end with mandates from God.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="background-color: #666666; color: #f3f3f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Doing the Deep Dive<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: #666666; color: #f3f3f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">The history underpinning the
clash goes back a long way—a very long way. About 1000 kilometers away lies the
Fertile Crescent, long viewed as the cradle of civilization. After the
Sumerians and other civilizations rose and fell, Egypt came to prominence. At
various times, they sought to extend their dominions outward, including to the
east, into the so-called Biblical Land of Canaan. According to the Israelites
article in Wikipedia, Israel was first noted in the Egyptian historical record
in about 1200 BCE, which is when they arrived from Egypt. But, if you believe
the Bible, they had inhabited the area much earlier, leaving for Egypt generations
before due to drought and famine. The Israelites returned from Egypt in approximately
1200 BC, and there has been a continual Jewish presence there ever since,
despite repeated invasions by, well, everyone—the Assyrians, the Greeks, the
Persians, the Romans, the Crusaders—pretty much every nation with imperialistic
ambitions passed through. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: #666666; color: #f3f3f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">There has also been a long-term
Arab presence there, also—and therein lies the conflict. Two sets of people
with very different customs want to occupy the same property.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>During the Iron Age (1200 BC or so) Israel
and Judah controlled much of the area, while the other peoples occupied the
southern coast—this info is from the Wikipedia History of Palestine. And here
we encounter Palestinians—or the ancestors of modern-day Palestinians, perhaps.
The term, “Palestine,” according to Britannica.com, derives from Philistia, a
term used by the Greeks to refer to the land of the Philistines, who in the 12<sup>th</sup>
Century BCE lived in an area between modern Tel Aviv and Gaza. The term has not
been in continuous use; the Romans revived it in the 2d Century, calling part
of the area “Syria Palaestina,” and according to the same source, it’s been in
use since the early Islamic era. But after the Romans, the term wasn’t
officially used until after WWI.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: #666666; color: #f3f3f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">An interesting aside: Britannica.com
notes a connection between “Hyksos,” invaders of Egypt from the east in the 18<sup>th</sup>
Century BC; Habiru, meaning outsiders; and Hebrews, referring to Jews. So it’s
possible that the ancestors of today’s Israelis were the Hyksos, which makes
their claim even earlier—if that makes a difference. And I’m not sure it does.
“We were here first” is only one salient point among many.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: #666666; color: #f3f3f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">The later colonizers were the
British; they captured Palestine from the Ottomans as a consequence of World
War I. The area they dominated, known as the Palestinian Mandate, was much
larger than modern-day Israel, the West Bank and Gaza; it included Jordan as
well, but the Brits administered it separately.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Britain issued the Balfour Declaration in 1917, which favored the
establishment of a homeland for the Jewish people in Palestine. I am not sure
why, given Britain’s lengthy and appalling history of anti-Semitism. In any
event, it was generally recognized that, after the Holocaust, the Jews needed a
place of their own. The British announced that they intended to end their
colonization of the area in 1947. The UN General Assembly recommended
partitioning the area into two separate states, one Arab and the other Jewish.
The Arabs did not accept partition or the lands allocated to them. The Jews
did, declaring independence in May 1948 upon the end of the British mandate. As
for how the Israelis got their land, some was purchased, but unhappily, many Arabs were kicked out of their homes. Some left to escape the carnage, hoping to
return; others were expelled. The “right of return” as well as compensation for
lost property remain live issues.<br /> <o:p></o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f3f3f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGd0dh1djkChu0VKNhyphenhyphen5XYNWChhDBBhowT0fNYm41c6RSFsuH79RBrcJQf7MObuTBHqn_RDfoMPPqw8JbzmkTEuhA_k714AkyTcd1gG3kF2s1C63VlzTGuwthuM_NyWqJlOopnCNr9G1UOb8vqSKoEGTSrQi8G_C1aWzVZ8PTJOfxAhwmGw8nmc_SXNrTw/s643/israel%201947.png" style="background-color: #666666; clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="643" data-original-width="230" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGd0dh1djkChu0VKNhyphenhyphen5XYNWChhDBBhowT0fNYm41c6RSFsuH79RBrcJQf7MObuTBHqn_RDfoMPPqw8JbzmkTEuhA_k714AkyTcd1gG3kF2s1C63VlzTGuwthuM_NyWqJlOopnCNr9G1UOb8vqSKoEGTSrQi8G_C1aWzVZ8PTJOfxAhwmGw8nmc_SXNrTw/s320/israel%201947.png" width="114" /></a></span></div><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: #666666; color: #f3f3f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">The Palestinians call this traumatic
event “the Nakba.” A useful way to view both parties is to see them as deeply
traumatized by their sad histories, acting from rage, pain and sorrow rather from logic.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: #666666; color: #f3f3f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">After partition, the Arabs
promptly attacked from all sides. They lost. Other Arab nations tried again,
some singly, some with allies, and always lost: 1956, 1967, 1969-70, 1973,
1982, and 2006. The area has also experienced “intifadas,” consisting mostly of
violent riots. Peace efforts have been brokered by various countries, most
notably by the USA, but none have succeeded except on a piecemeal basis. Egypt
made peace with Israel in 1979; Jordan in 1994; the UAE, Bahrain, and Morocco
in 2020. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: #666666; color: #f3f3f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Israel occupied the West Bank and
Gaza in 1967, to create a buffer between itself and the hostile Arab world.
That effort has backfired, leading to the current very messy mess.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: #666666; color: #f3f3f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">I’ve skipped over a lot of
history, most importantly, the impact of religion on the issues and conflicts.
Many people refer to Israel as “the Jewish State,” ignoring the fact that
Israel is a multicultural society in which less than 75% of the population is
Jewish. 20% of the population is Arab. Since the Knesset’s first sessions, Arabs
have sat in Israel’s ruling body and continue to do so to this day. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: #666666; color: #f3f3f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">It is also worth noticing that when
discussing these issues, there’s a tendency to talk about the Israelis and the
Palestinians as solid, unified blocs. Pretty sure they’re not. There haven’t
been elections in Gaza since 2006, so we don’t know what the Gazans think. And
before the current outbreak of hostilities, half of Israel hated their current
government and wanted to change it.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="background-color: #666666; color: #f3f3f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">The Palestinian Actors <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: #666666; color: #f3f3f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">The Palestinian Authority has
partial civil control over most of the West Bank, led by Mahmoud Abbas. They
are generally regarded (okay, this is totally my opinion) as ineffective, or at
least, he is. They have been unable or unwilling to pursue peace. Hamas has as
a tenet in its charter the destruction of Israel. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: #666666; color: #f3f3f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>The Current Very Messy Mess</b><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><span style="background-color: #666666; color: #f3f3f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">So, Israel has been in a bit of a
pickle ever since they occupied those territories. As stated, after repeated
incursions by the Arabs into Israel over time, Israel decided to take those
territories as buffer zones and to create more defensible borders. Fine, but
they kind of screwed it up. What they should have done was create borders that
were safer for them, put people who preferred not to live in Israel on the
other side of that line, and said "welcome to your new country." Something
similar did take place in Gaza after Hamas was elected; Israeli withdrew while
maintaining tight border control, but Hamas was free to create a vibrant
society and to help Gazans live fulfilled lives. Instead, they clung to their
ideology of destruction, using billions in foreign aid to continue their futile
effort to obliterate Israel.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span><span style="background-color: #666666; color: #f3f3f3; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">As things stand, being an occupier for
so many years does not sit well with many Israelis…and the rest of the world
has taken issue with the occupation, which IMO has at times been, well, very
un-Jewish.</span><span style="font-family: verdana;"> </span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: #666666; color: #f3f3f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">An important concept to Jews is the
idea of “Tikkun Olam,” roughly translated as “Heal the World.” The occupation
doesn’t do that. There’s no solution to the current crisis or its underlying
factors that anyone’s discovered, and no viable alternative to occupation that
anyone has promulgated.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: #666666; color: #f3f3f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">All sides in this matter have suffered
from terrible leadership for nearly two decades. Most are religious fanatics. Netanyahu
has been in and out of power since about 2006, and he's a disaster. He's a
thief and a Trumpian-style fascist who will do anything he can to hold on to
power. The result of his radically right-wing policies, encouraged by the
religious crazies, can be viewed as part of the cause of the current crisis.
The settlements in the West Bank have gotten out of control, with settlers
building unauthorized towns, kicking Palestinians off their property, and
sometimes killing them. Netanyahu has destroyed almost all hope for a two-state
solution, which was the only viable long-term option. Even in the midst of war,
many Israelis are calling for his ouster based on his visible incompetence.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: #666666; color: #f3f3f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">I've already discussed some of Hamas's
failures and they've been in power about the same length of time. Abbas is
ineffective, and Iran ...</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><b><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><span style="background-color: #666666; color: #f3f3f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">The Role of Iran</span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: #666666; color: #f3f3f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">The true bad actors in this situation
are not even Hamas, because they're just stupid—short-sighted, single-minded
religious ideologues. According to Mahmoud Abbas, Hamas is largely funded by
Iran—so they’re puppets of the Iranians, who I imagine are backing this
incursion to deflect attention from the fact that their Fashion Police beats
girls to death for wearing their head gear wrong. Their proxy war in Yemen
isn't going particularly well, either. They are deeply threatened by the
possibility of Israel normalizing relationships with more of its Arab
neighbors, as well as the United States growing closer to the Saudis. (I do
agree with them on that--I loathe the Saudis.) The Iranian people are fed up
with their poor leadership and want to get rid of them.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><b><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><span style="background-color: #666666; color: #f3f3f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Questions to Ponder</span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><i><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><span style="background-color: #666666; color: #f3f3f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Why hasn’t Hamas held elections since
2006?</span></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span><span style="background-color: #666666; color: #f3f3f3; font-size: medium;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Probably because they know they'd be
thrown out on their sorry asses because they're shitty at governing. They’re
extreme misogynists; in fact, a woman can’t travel freely in Gaza without a
male by her side. And if you’re queer? Best of luck, and don’t flaunt your
sexuality on the street. You’ll get killed. And their founding charter has as a
tenet the destruction of Israel, and obviously that is not going to happen. But
while they persist in spreading terror instead of seeking peace, and buying
rockets instead of building roads etc etc, they will be a failure. They don't
know how to govern, and they don't want peace, which would obviously be better
for the majority of the Gazans.</span></span><span style="font-family: verdana;"> </span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><span style="background-color: #666666; color: #f3f3f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Let's look at the situation this way.
The United States forcibly seized many hundreds of square miles of property
from the Mexicans, almost the entire southwestern United States. If Mexico
started lobbing rockets into the United States in an effort to reclaim those
lands, what do you think would happen?</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span><span style="background-color: #666666; color: #f3f3f3; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><i><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">Strategically and tactically, is this
incursion really going to help Hamas achieve its goals? Is it going to help the
Gazan people?</span></i></span><span style="font-family: verdana;"> </span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><span style="background-color: #666666; color: #f3f3f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">The answer to both of those questions
is <b><i>no</i></b>. Murdering teenagers and 20-somethings at an all-night rave
does nothing but piss people off. Boasting about raping and murdering girls,
killing grandmas and little kids exposes Hamas's barbarity and does nothing to
further their cause. Frankly these people are so sickening and so stupid I want
to slap some sense into them. Totally, totally counterproductive and nothing
good is going to come of it. </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><span style="background-color: #666666; color: #f3f3f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">What Hamas has done is create a
predictable overreaction from the Israeli government. One wonders if that was
their intent, though some public statements indicate that their leadership
planned to force Israel into hostage negotiations.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><i><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><span style="background-color: #666666; color: #f3f3f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Is what Israel is doing to Gaza
constitute genocide?<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span><span style="background-color: #666666; color: #f3f3f3; font-size: medium;"><b style="font-family: verdana;"><i><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">No</span></i></b><span style="font-family: verdana;">. Unfortunately, genocide is one of those words tossed around by the
ignorant to bolster their arguments when facts are not on their side. A true
genocide is the utter and complete obliteration of a people, a national,
ethnic, racial or religious group. Hitler’s
Final Solution was a plan for genocide of Jews—he planned to kill every Jewish
person on Earth, and the Nazis murdered a significant percentage. They also
destroyed the strong physical and cultural presence of central European Jewry.
The 1915 Armenian Massacre, conducted by the Ottomans, was a genocide; out of
an estimated 2.5 million Armenians, over one million were killed, and the
carnage, sadly, continues. (These numbers are rough estimates—online sources
differ.) During the Hutu-Tutsi conflict
in Rwanda (1994) about 77% of the Tutsis died—nearly one million people.</span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: #666666; color: #f3f3f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">This conflict is different. Many
contend that Palestinians are not a distinct national, ethnic, racial or
religious group. Furthermore, Israel does not plan the complete extermination of
all people identifying as Palestinian. Given the fact that Israel possesses the
military might to reduce the West Bank and Gaza to rubble, and to kill everyone
living there, their restraint over the decades has been remarkable.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="background-color: #666666; color: #f3f3f3; font-size: medium; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">Let’s compare the conduct of the
Israelis over time to the reaction of Americans to 9/11, when a few buildings
were destroyed and fewer than five thousand people killed. The USA invaded
multiple countries, destabilizing much of west Asia. Millions died or were
displaced in Iraq, Afghanistan, and other nations; the Arab Spring followed.
While some of the results were great, as in Tunisia, some were ghastly, i.e.,
the Syrian civil war.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><i><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><span style="background-color: #666666; color: #f3f3f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Is the current Israeli response
appropriate?</span></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span><span style="background-color: #666666; color: #f3f3f3; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><i><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">No.</span></i></b><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"> While it’s true that Hamas’s actions are beyond appalling, the Israeli
response has been brutal and heartless. Telling over a million people to evacuate
north Gaza when few border crossings are available and safe presents Gazans
with an impossible dilemma, and squanders the international groundswell of
sympathy that Hamas’s initial attacks created.</span></span><span style="font-family: verdana;"> </span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span><span style="background-color: #666666; color: #f3f3f3; font-size: medium;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Israel’s government has stated that it
intends to completely obliterate Hamas—an appropriate goal. But to do that, the
IDF has to check every building—as well as under them, because Hamas has
created a network of tunnels beneath Gaza where they hide and store weapons.
The tunnels extend into Israel, and Hamas has been known to launch attacks from
them. So, the Israelis may find it necessary to raze every building in Gaza
with bunker-buster bombs or some other alternative that will destroy the
tunnels.</span></span><span style="font-family: verdana;"> </span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><span style="background-color: #666666; color: #f3f3f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">If my neighbor tells me, “I’m gonna
kill you,” and brandishes a knife, I have the right to pull out a pistol and
shoot him dead. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: #666666; color: #f3f3f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">But that doesn’t give me the right to
hurt my neighbor’s kids.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><span style="background-color: #666666; color: #f3f3f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Yet another dilemma in this big messy
mess.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="background-color: #666666; color: #f3f3f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Conclusions<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: #666666; color: #f3f3f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Perhaps I should leave this area
blank, as I have nothing helpful to offer.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><i><span style="background-color: #666666; color: #f3f3f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">But:<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: #666666; color: #f3f3f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Nothing good for anyone is going
to result from this latest clash. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: #666666; color: #f3f3f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">The Gazans hope to stay alive,
and some will. Many won’t. Hamas wants to get some of its imprisoned fighters
back, but their ultimate aim is the destruction of Israel. That won’t happen,
at least not for the foreseeable future. Israel hopes to eradicate Hamas. Doubtful.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: #666666; color: #f3f3f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">The most unsettling aspect of the
current conflict is that fights in this part of the world tend to spread like runny noses in kindergarten. To the north, Hezbollah, also funded by Iran, has launched
several missiles into Israel from Lebanon since the Hamas attack took place. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: #666666; color: #f3f3f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">This
set of skirmishes could easily explode into regional war. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><i><span style="background-color: #666666; color: #f3f3f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Taking a broader view:<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: #666666; color: #f3f3f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">There is no prospect for a
two-state solution. Every peace proposal made has failed. Some were generous to
the Palestinians, including options for trains and highways connecting the West
Bank and Gaza; locating their capital in Jerusalem; a structured right of
return and reparations. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: #666666; color: #f3f3f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Both sides have wearied of the
peace process, which has limped along for over seventy years. The Israeli response
to the stalemate has been to build settlements in the disputed West Bank as their
population has grown. Palestinians, understandably, are angered by this
encroachment.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: #666666; color: #f3f3f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">The violent religious right-wings
of both groups have been emboldened and strengthened, with the voices for peace
growing weaker.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: #666666; color: #f3f3f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">***<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: #666666; color: #f3f3f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">I invite anyone who reads this
blog to comment with helpful, thoughtful suggestions. Statements like “Justice
for Palestine!” and “Hamas are terrorists!” are unhelpful and will be deleted. There’s
enough conflict in the world. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: #666666; color: #f3f3f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Let’s try to create constructive
solutions. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br /></p>Suz dehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17236960359162948178noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7001172899073209031.post-38968532472447424012020-12-23T10:11:00.000-08:002020-12-23T10:11:46.697-08:00A Special Christmas Tale: Dance Me to the End of Time by Catherine Cavendish (#fantasy #romance #ViennaChristmas #ChristmasRomance)<br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span></span>For the last couple of years, I have run a beautiful little Christmas shortie by one of my author buddies, Catherine Cavendish. I was lucky enough to edit Cat professionally, and not only is she very agreeable to work with, she's also a very creative writer. I love her work and hope you do too.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>Catherine Cavendish</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> I’ve always loved Christmas. The tree, tinsel and a roaring fire… Candles flickering and the sound of carollers striving to hit the top register in “Hark the Herald Angels Sing.”</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> This year’s no different. Of course, there’s no roaring fire anymore. That’s been replaced with one of those living flame gas affairs. Quite nice, but you never could beat the real thing.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> “Penny for them.” My husband, Charles, interrupts my reverie.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> “Oh, nothing. I was just musing and remembering Christmases past.” I smile at him.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">He adjusts his tie and smoothes his glossy black hair, </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">all gestures I have seen him perform countless times. “Do you think it will snow this year?” he asks, studying his reflection in the mirror.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> I turn to look out of the window. “It’s too dark to tell, but it looks damp out there. It must have been raining earlier.”</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> “I didn’t notice,” Charles says, “but then I suppose I wouldn’t, would I?” He smiles at me and takes my hand, brushing it against his lips. Then I catch him examining my dress.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> “Something wrong?” I ask and instinctively look down at my white, floor-length gown. I see some creases in the silk which I attempt to smooth away.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> “That’s better. It was just a little wrinkled.”</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> “Hardly surprising,” I say. “It only gets an outing once a year.”</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> We laugh, and Charles strokes away a long, dark brown lock of hair which has escaped my elaborate coiffure and has wandered across my cheek.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> “Shall we dance, Emily?” he asks.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> “Certainly, Charles, it will be my pleasure.”</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">We waltz to a phantom orchestra. In my head I can </span><br />
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hear the strains of the Blue Danube, and I am transported back to another time and place. I can see a young girl and her young man, their eyes locked in an embrace as they swirl around a ballroom in Vienna while a conductor, violin in hand, steers the orchestra through his latest composition.<br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> “I miss the scent of roasting chestnuts,” I tell Charles.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> His mouth widens in a grin. “But can’t you smell them, Emily? Concentrate really hard.”</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> I close my eyes and let him lead me round </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">and round as the music grows louder, and now I can smell them. Chestnuts, little fried potatoes and the warming aroma of cinnamon from the Glühwein. I can hear the bells of St Stephen’s Cathedral and feel the chill of the night air on my cheek. Little flecks of snow are falling onto my face, and my feet crunch on the icy ground. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> Charles is waltzing me faster and faster. And now I can hear the voices. The orchestra has faded and a choir is singing in German: “Stille Nacht, heilige Nacht…”</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> “Oh Charles--”</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> “No, Emily, don’t open your eyes.”</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> I obey. “Don’t let it stop, Charles, please don’t let it stop,” I cry, “Not this time. Not this year.”</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> “Dance with me, Emily. Dance with me.”</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> The choir has faded, and the orchestra builds to a crescendo. I know if I open my eyes, I will see the wild black hair of the conductor, falling over his eyes as his violin bow slashes through the air.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> But I mustn’t open my eyes. Charles told me not to.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> “Oh Emily, Emily,” Charles says, “Let us never lose this moment. Never.”</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> “Never, Charles.”</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> And then I open my eyes.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> “No, Emily, no!” Charles’ agonized face is before me. But the moment has passed.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> The orchestra is silent. There are no roasting chestnuts, no carol singers, no hot spiced wine.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> Vienna has gone.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> “Oh Emily, you did it again. Just like last year. Just like every year.”</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> I am crestfallen. He takes my face in his hands. He kisses my lips, and I close my eyes again, trying to recapture the dream. But it’s too late.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> “Never mind, my love, there’s always next year.”</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> “As long as we’re still here,” I say, my old fears returning.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> “I expect we will be. They seem to like us well enough.”</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> From the hallway, I hear the unmistakable sound of a key in the lock. It’s time.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> “Come, my love. We must return.” Charles once again takes my hand and together we gaze at the empty picture above the mantelpiece.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> “Until next year and the magic returns,” he whispers.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> “Until next year. Happy Christmas, Charles.”</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> “Happy Christmas, Emily.”</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> The door opens and a young couple wanders in, each holding a glass of red wine. They are both dressed smartly, she in a navy suit, he in dark grey. She has short blond hair, and his is dark. They look very modern to me.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> The woman’s gaze is drawn to the painting. “I’ve always loved that picture.” She sighs, raising her glass to her lips and taking a sip.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> “That’s why I bought it for you,” the man says and nuzzles her neck.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> “Dance Me to the End of Time,” she murmurs. “Such an evocative title. And it really looks as if that’s what they’re doing, doesn’t it? You feel they could just step out of that frame and glide around the room.”</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> Her husband laughs. “You and your imagination.”</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> The woman moves toward the fireplace and is peering closer. “There it is again. The damnedest thing!”</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> “What?” he asks.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> “I noticed it last year, but only on Christmas Eve, and it’s happened again this year. Look at her eyes.”</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> The man does as he is bid.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> “Can you see it? There at the corner of her eye. A tear. It looks as if it’s just about to spill down her cheek, but I bet you it won’t be there in the morning.”</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> The man laughs. “You’re imagining it. Too much wine at dinner.”</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> “Say what you like. I know what I saw.” She steps back.</span><br />
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Gothic Horror Anthology <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">competition 2013. Her winning novella – <i>Linden Manor </i>– is available in all digital formats and in the print anthology, <i>What Waits In The Shadows</i>. She is the author of a number of paranormal horror and Gothic horror novellas and short stories. Her novel, <i>Saving Grace Devine</i>, has recently been published by Samhain Publishing and her new novel -<i>The Pendle Curse</i> - is coming out soon.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> She lives with a longsuffering husband in North Wales. Her home was built in the mid-</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">18th century and is haunted by a friendly ghost, who announces her presence </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">by footsteps, switching lights on and strange phenomena involving the washing </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">machine and the TV.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">For many of us, late July is a time to stay at home in the air conditioning. And with Covid-engendered fears, this year more than ever. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">I live in Mazatlan, Mexico, a great place except for the excessve humidity in the summer months. Today, for example, is a balmy 90 degrees Fahrenheit that my weather app claims "feels like 99." And it does, due to the 63% humidity. And it never cools down. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Northern California was my home for most of my life, where we enjoy the breeze flowing from the Pacific Ocean, along the delta of the Sacramento River, cooling us every evening. For example, the high in Sacramento, my former hometown, is going to be 91 today, but it will drop all the way to 57 tonight--deliciously chilly. In contrast, the low tonight in Mazatlan will be 77, really not cold enough for relief.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">So if you're living in a similarly hot clime, may I invite you to enjoy a couple of books set in chillier environs?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">"...enjoyable... Sweet story, steamy sex and very likeable characters."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">"...a good read by the pool in the summer or by the fire in the winter."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">"I enjoyed this one... I liked their chemistry..."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">When filmmaker Zoë Whipple agrees to shoot a documentary about a hockey team’s season, she doesn’t sign on for scandal, crime and murder. But she discovers that players, rabid to win the championship, don’t let morality or the law stand in the way of their ambitions.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">When a rookie dies from cardiac arrest, Zoë is saddened but not suspicious until another player, in the grip of ’roid rage, goes berserk on the ice and ends up in the hospital. Digging into the mess reveals illegal painkillers and steroid abuse among most of the team. Zoë, whose reputation for honest filmmaking is at stake, threatens to expose the scandals.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Is her new lover, team captain “Crash” Crasseau, responsible for the harassment and vandalism meant to scare her into silence? When Crasseau’s ex-wife is murdered, and Zoë’s daughter is threatened, Zoë must choose between her career ambitions and her child’s safety.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Five stars! I genuinely enjoyed this book.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Whether you are a fan of sports or not, I have no doubt you will enjoy this romance.</span></div>
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Suz dehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17236960359162948178noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7001172899073209031.post-33003920023322627612020-06-23T00:00:00.000-07:002020-06-23T00:00:12.521-07:00Spice up your isolation with a little PERILOUS PLAY--on sale for 99cents! (#99cents, #KU, #BDSM)<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">It's no secret that this quarantine is grating on everyone's nerves, so much so that many of us are becoming sloppy about staying home and wearing masks when outside. I know that I've had it literally up to my eyeballs with my sweaty nose and absolute boredom. Couple that with a new home with a bad TV system and there's a recipe for COVID disaster.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">So I've been reading a lot, and looking for new, well-written material. If you're in the same situation as I am--and a lot of you reading this are--try this:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">But there's def good stuff going on. The authorities here, while knowing they're overmatched, are taking intelligent steps. The beaches are closed, gatherings prohibited, alcohol sales suspended. Social distancing is emphasized--grocery stores will allow only one person per family to enter. No kids and no pregnant women. The streets (at least where I go) are quiet and most people wear masks.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">At this roadblock, authroties took my temperature wth a handheld device that didn't touch my skin, and sprayed down the car with disinfectant. Also received a pamphlet about COVID-19.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">But into each lovely life a little rain must fall. As I mentioned, alcohol sales have been suspended. Below, see my last bottle of red...opened last night (sob sob).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">January 2020 has brought us an increase in tensions in the Middle East, Australia on fire, <i><b>and</b></i> Gwyneth Paltrow's vagina candle. Imagine the hoohah over a hoohah scented candle! </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Amidst the kerfluffle, I read an article in <i>The Guardian</i> asking, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">That's easy, you idiots. BECAUSE SHE CAN.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">And it SOLD OUT in just a few days.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">The Twitterverse has reacted predictably (and hilariously)--just search vagina candle on Twitter and you'll be amply rewarded. Here are a couple of the best:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Okay, it's the most wonderful time of the year, but by this time many of us will have had it up to our eyeballs with family, friends, and phony holiday cheer. It's time to retreat to your favorite book nook with a pet on your lap, a glass of wine by your side and a good read.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">And whether you prefer historical, paranormal, contemporary or futuristic, I have something to tickle your, uh, fancy.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">My project for late this year and all next year is putting out my digital books in paperback, and I pushed myself to get four out in time for Christmas! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Let's face it--it's not exciting to get a coupon good for a book in your stocking. You want to get something to hold, admire, love and read RIGHT NOW.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">So I chose four of my best-selling books over a wide range of fiction and non-fiction for the discerning Christmas (or Chanukah) shopper.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">And now...Despite spending her teenage years mooning over Dave, Linda Travers has moved on with her life. Being left pregnant and alone will force that on a gal. Age twenty-five, she lives in their hometown with their six-year-old, Mac. Then Dr. Dave Madsen reappears. He's spent the last years exploring in the Amazon, searching for new plants and medications. A vicious snakebite has left him needing rehab from the only physical therapist around—Linda.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Their college lovemaking was the first time for both, so Linda and Dave remember each other. She’s amazed to feel the same old anger, hurt, and need. Less emotional, Dave’s curious about Linda, wondering why she didn't leave her address and phone number for him when what they’d shared had been so good. Neither totally believes the explanations the other offers.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">For Colton Wilder, the invitation to his brother's wedding is an invitation to trouble, because Colt, having boinked the bride, knows what she's really like. He doesn't want his brother Max marrying selfish, manipulative Nicole Newcombe, a famous supermodel. In his view, Nicole stole the groom from her sister Dana.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">For staid scientist Dana Newcombe, the invitation to her identical twin's wedding is an invitation to humiliation. While Nicole was conniving to steal Max away from Dana, Dana had wild monkey sex in a glass-walled elevator with his brother Colt.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">When they meet again at the wedding, she doesn't want to want Colt, but she can't help remembering and re-enacting their earlier sexy tryst in oh so many different ways.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Previously published as <i>The Wilder Brother</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">"Enjoy a few hours with twins, hot men, steamy sex and lots of good fun!"</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Said to be descended from the Viking Berserkers, they were ferocious in battle, <span style="color: #f6b26b;">known for </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">The social season promises both love and danger for Torquil Kilburn and Andrew MacReiver, Highland heirs arrived in London to seek brides. The Scotsmen must negotiate the complicated morés of high society to woo and win an exquisite debutante and her passionate, unconventional mother while keeping their vampire heritage a secret.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">But evil stalks the ballroom at Almack’s, the streets of Piccadilly, the drawing rooms of the ton. Headless bodies have been found drained of their blood, for <b><span style="color: #f6b26b;">another vampire haunts the streets of London,</span><span style="color: #990000;"> </span></b>murdering noblemen. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">As he draws ever closer, Tor and Andrew must fight not only for love, but for their lives.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">I was so excited to read this book – historical, paranormal, suspense and a little bit of romance all rolled in to one! The writing was <span style="color: #f6b26b;"><b>superb!</b></span>--Katie_83</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">October is my favorite month. To be sure, here in Mazatlan, I don't smell a crisp autumn wind or crunch through piles of red, orange and yellow fallen leaves, but I'm looking forward to my first authentic Day of The Dead in Mexico.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Said to be descended from the Viking Berserkers, they were ferocious in battle, known for tearing off the heads of their enemies and drinking their blood.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">but the reality is even darker.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">From the elegant mansions of Mayfair to the mist-shrouded Highlands, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">‘Tis rare for vampires and their mates to reproduce successfully and Dugald kens that. He’s certain his lust caused his first wife’s death in childbed.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Innocent Alice Derwent presents Dugald with a dilemma. She’s different than any woman he’s known, different and altogether alluring. And while the lady is innocent, her feelings are anything but.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b><span style="color: #bf9000;">Five stars...</span></b>"Engrossing... I was grabbed from the start of the book..." </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">But English noblewoman Lydia Swann Williston would marry Kieran, Laird Kilborn, to bring peace to the Kilborn lands after the horror of Culloden and the brutal pacification. A widow, she also brought needed wealth to Clan Kilborn. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">September brings more than autumn leaves, back-to-school bargains and pumpkin spice lattes: it's my annual SUSPENSEFUL SEPTEMBER promotion... All my romantic suspense books are discounted and/or are in Kindle Unlimited, so that all KU members can read them FOR FREE throughout the month!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">In wide distribution, but discounted to 99 cents NOW! Down from $3.99--a bargain for an award-winning romantic suspense that received these accolades:</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Swift mixes sex, danger, and fashion in this fun...romantic suspense novel that will appeal to readers of traditional romance as well as fans of sexy mysteries like Janet Evanovich's Stephanie Plum capers. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Hot isn't a hot enough word to describe corporate raider Fletcher Wolf, but since he's suing couturier Cara Fletcher for, oh, a gazillion dollars, she figures she shouldn't hit on him...at least not too hard.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">On top of that, she wonders if he's responsible for the harassment and vandalism that's plaguing her, irritants that escalate into crimes when her workshop is trashed to the tune of a hundred thousand dollars. The economic damage enables him to seize her company, bringing him into her life on a daily basis. When her Manhattan loft home is torched and her assistant murdered, Cara realizes that the man who wants her and everything she's built is the only man who can keep her safe.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">And let me know if you like the cover. I did it! I occasionally turn out a cover I think is worthy--all the rest of these books sport covers by the FABULOUS Jaycee DiLorenzo of Sweet and Spicy Designs.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Ordinary twenty-somethings thrown into an extraordinary situation, Sherry and Free must solve the mystery, defeat the myriad dangers of the triangle, </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">and reach land before the villain can kill them. </span></span></div>
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Suz dehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17236960359162948178noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7001172899073209031.post-44516042641368817712019-08-16T00:00:00.000-07:002019-08-16T00:00:08.119-07:00Celebrate the Bad Boy's Birthday! PERILOUS PLAY on sale Aug 16-20! (#Bestseller #KU #99cents #free #BDSM @suzdemello)<br />
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I'm
always looking for excuses to put a book on sale, and some of those
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>Perilous Play</i>, a memoir of
my experiences in BDSM, has at its heart my first D/s relationship,
with someone I've dubbed "Trapper Hart"--obviously not his
real name. But August is his real birth month--blessedly, I've
forgotten if the date is the 17th or the 19th. I'm happy about that.
He was one of those vile creeps that carve scars into one's psyche.
The less I remember, the healthier I am.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>Perilous Play </i>has become pretty popular--when I promote it, it leaps to the top of the Amazon bestseller list in "Sexual Addiction." Pretty much where it belongs. I'd define "sub frenzy," a phenomenon you can read about in <i>Perilous Play,</i> as sexual addiction. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">As well as chronicling my affair with Trapper, I discuss a variety of kinks and kinkdom, including Doms and subs (of course), switching, polyamory, roles and role playing, and the various and interesting ways people self-identify--my favorite being "gender playful."</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">So--<i>Perilous Play</i> is in Kindle Unlimited, where KU members can read it anytime for free. But for everyone else, I'm discounting it from $4.99 to 99 cents from August 16-20. It's a good read, so enjoy--and learn a lot.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Want to know the real deal about kink and BDSM?</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">But you'll find it in Perilous Play, Suz deMello's memoir.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i><b><span style="color: #c27ba0;">A Fortune to Win: A Romance Miniseries</span></b></i><br /><br />Drug addicts Harvey, Lord Darlingside, and his supermodel wife, Mara, died by drowning in the Trevi Fountain while on a heroin binge. In a previous rare moment of sobriety, Harvey created a trust for their three children with a peculiar stipulation designed to ensure none would go his way: each must demonstrate maturity by making a substantial non-monetary contribution to others.<br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; text-align: start;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; text-align: start;" /><span style="background-color: #666666;"><span style="color: #cccccc;"><i>A Fortune To Win</i> is the story of the Darlingside heirs' journey to love and their legacies.</span><br /><br /><i><span style="color: #c27ba0;">Alice's Sheikh</span></i></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Now that the gnashing of teeth and general dissatisfaction with the final season of Game of Thrones has passed, perhaps we can look back at it with a little more objectivity.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Yes, I also found much to complain about. It would have been really cool for Jaime to offer his sword immediately to Bran upon seeing him in the courtyard of Winterfell, and entirely in keeping with chivalrous traditions plus Jaime's changed character. It's inexplicable that the dragons did not harass the Night King's army on its way to Winterfell; quick, unexpected passes over that army with spurts of dragonfire would have done a great deal to thin their ranks. Euron's ambush of the fleet was ridiculous. Of what use is the three eyed raven if he can't do recon? And Daenerys allowing her dragon to be shot at repeatedly and dying is likewise inexplicable.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I could go on and on, but I want to get to the point of this blog.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #e06666; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>I say no. Emphatically, no.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">First, looking at the situation for a purely mercenary (realistic) point of view, this show has been too successful for HBO and its creators to let it die.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Secondly, and within the world-building of GoT, there's precedent. Melisandre, the Red Priestess of the "Lord of Light," brought Jon Snow, a Targaryen, back to life; being a true dragon, his fire within apparently was difficult to quench. He, like Daenerys, had taken a knife in the heart.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">This article is a little more convoluted than my simpler explanation, going into detail about where Drogon had taken Daenerys' body--he was seen flying toward the east. The belief in R'hllor, the so called "Lord of Light" or the fire god originated in Essos, the continent to the east of Westeros. Probably a lot of Red Witch priestesses there to bring Daenerys back to life!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">How is this related, you ask? Well, there aren't any resurrections in <i>QoS</i>, but there's a shapeshifting dragon, plenty of action-adventure, and an otherworldly flavor, sort of old-timey, like GoT.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The story posits a terraformed planet 30,000 years into the future on which three societies have evolved. One is modeled on medieval Vikings, one on Georgian England, and one on ancient Egypt, but it's the most technologically advanced.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">There's a murder mystery, cloning...and a lot of very hot sex.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">And it's in KU, so it can be read for free! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Janus is a planet which lacks both tilt and spin, and its Shadowlands are the pewter band of dusk dividing the violently hot Lightside of the planet from its Darkside, imprisoned by eternal night. Because of the peculiar conformation of the planet, birthrates are low and indiscriminate mating encouraged.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Audryn, Queen of Shadow has reached that time in her life when she must choose a King to rule with her or fail to bear an heir, casting not only her realm but all of Janus into chaos. Despite her duty, she is reluctant to share power, even a bit distrustful. Janus’ nobles vie for Audryn’s hand. Although she enjoys trysting with all her suitors, none seize her heart.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Then Storne, the warrior Prince of Darkness, arrives to claim her as his bride.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">"sexual elements that can set your eyebrows on fire..."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">"thrilling...Spicy, erotic sex scenes so hot they singed the pages...exceptional erotic fantasy."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">"excellent... The plot line unfolded perfectly leading us into...dangerous political intrigue...will keep you glued to the pages... Another winner!"</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">"an ingenious plot...the story blazes..."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> "The Planet Janus all but leapt off the pages and into my imagination...</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Suz deMello has done a wonderful job...</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">an extremely satisfying read." </span></div>
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Release day 11th July 2019<br />
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Persia York has the face of an angel and a reputation that’s pure gutter
but she will do anything for her family. Forced into debt-slavery to
save her brother, things aren’t what they seem. No matter how hard she
works, Persia can’t free herself. Worse, she publicly disses Jorge
Santos, the leader of the Zeta cartel, and is catapulted into a turf
war. Abducted and a helpless captive of the deadly drug lord, Persia
decides she’s had enough. It’s time to fight back.<br />
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Dangerous,
devious Jorge Santos doesn’t take shit from anyone. When a meeting with a
rival turns ugly, Jorge goes to war. Determined on destruction, his
first step is to abduct his enemy’s most prized possession, the
beautiful but mouthy Persia York. But Jorge soon learns his victim is
not as easy to break as he thought and to his shock, he falls for his
adversary’s woman. As the war heats up, the cartel boss is forced to
make decisions that may cost him his life – and his love.<br />
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A ruthless man on a quest to win no matter what it takes.<br />
A woman intent on holding her own, even if it destroys her.<br />
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Twisted is a compelling tale of vengeance, murder, cartel violence and finding love in the darkest of times.<br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">I have mixed feelings. This is my first summer spent in my new home--Mazatlan, Mexico. I'm excited about living in a new (to me) fascinating country, but not so excited about the heat, which I don't care for. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">I've again embraced the lifestyle I created living in Thailand in 2006-07: out and about in the morning, and after a nice lunch an even nicer siesta. Then I get up and do chores. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">I stay chill and happy with this schedule. The siesta lifestyle suits me just fine.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">But I'm sure that many find summer time to be bummer time. If you're a harried single mom, wrestling a couple out-of-school kids along with chores and a job is probably a mega-drag. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Gen X meets Agatha Christie on the high seas of the Bermuda Triangle when Sherry Case, gofer for the battling bigwigs in the family-owned firm Genesplice, arranges for a team-building cruise aboard the yacht Swashbuckler. However, the mismatched group of passengers feuds even before the yacht has left the harbor.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">A rogue wave, faltering navigational instruments and a trio of sharks continue to challenge Sherry and her new lover, the yacht's Captain Freeman. But Free and Sherry aren't fazed until a passenger turns up dead in her locked cabin. The vicious murder throws the ship, its crew and passengers into panic. Who could the killer be? Suspects and motives abound. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">“Fans will enjoy this fine at-sea thriller.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Although there are comedic aspects to <i>Wounded Warrior</i>, at heart it's a very serious book. Set in Alaska, the story starts in August and ends in December, and the mood of the story grows darker along with the passing seasons.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Gasping,
Fisher awakened, trapped in sweat-soaked pajamas and twisted sheets.
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kids missing limbs because they’d stepped on a land mine.
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teenaged girls, gang-rape victims, flinching at the approach of any
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families, staggering with the weight of all the possessions they
could carry, stumbling away from their looted and burned homes toward
dubious safety at the end of the road.</span></div>
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blew out a resigned breath. Banishing the frightful memories to the
past where they belonged, he disentangled himself from the mangled
bedclothes and padded to the bathroom. He discarded his damp pajamas,
ran a cold shower, then stepped in to sluice away the stinking
detritus of his military career.
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drying himself, he took another of his dozen pairs of washable cotton
P.J.’s from a drawer, noting that he had four sets left for the
rest of the week. He donned only the drawstring bottoms before
opening a window. The sound of the ocean waves flowed in, nearby and
comforting. The cool, crisp night air spilled over his flesh.
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tingling body reminded him of Valerie Percy, and the way he felt
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">He’d
known she was going to be trouble the moment she drove off the ferry.
She was too cute, too charming, and too all-out-sexy, even when she
smashed into his truck or drenched him with soup.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">She
had a directness about her, an honesty that made every silly thing
she did forgivable. She’d slipped under his skin way too fast.</span></div>
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had made avoiding her impossible. Fisher had tried to discourage her
from staying in Alaska, and that tactic had also failed.</span></div>
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was he going to do about Valerie Percy? Beautiful and bright, she lit
up every room she entered. And the sex… If he knew what was good
for him, he’d quit doing her. She was hotter than any woman between
Alaska and Aghanistan. She was everything any sane man would want in
a woman.</span></div>
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he wasn’t quite sane. What normal man was tortured by ghosts from
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sighed, surveying his wrecked bed, the pillow clammy with sweat.
While changing the pillowcase, he again decided that he couldn’t
subject Valerie or any other woman to his life.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">So if you care about our soldiers, get some insights by reading <i>Wounded Warrior</i>. It's on sale now for 99 cents at <a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07K2Z14VW" target="_blank">Amazon</a> and is free with KU.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Surrender might be a wanton Malibu club, but it’s </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">as a provocative idea for their new album.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">As the frontman for Dominant Men, Max is lusciously</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">a willing sub. Backup singer and lyricist Andy is more</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">fire within, which he proves in bed. Entertainment </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Ready to live, Jacquie offers to be their carnal guide </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">through Surrender, willingly delivering herself to </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">these sexy beasts for an adventure like no other.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">This is book two in the Surrender series but can be </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Publisher’s Note: This steamy, contemporary, reverse harem romance is intended for adults only. It contains elements of sensual scenes, power exchange, and adult language. If any of these offend you, please do not purchase.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">The door swung inward.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">My freaking god. This is actually happening.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Max entered first, pure alpha, his features rough, grin mischievous, his freshly washed hair dancing over his shoulders, his stubble tempting as hell. Tonight, he wore a dark blue suit, a sapphire shirt, and matching tie. Totally hip. At twenty-nine, he was male to the extreme.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Bree rattled the papers to catch Jacquie’s attention for the performance she suggested.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">No good. Jacquie couldn’t look anywhere except at him. To keep from throwing herself into his arms and ruining her badass-chick act, she dug her nails into her palms.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">His gaze zipped down her, crawled back up, settled on her cleavage for a long, long while then inched up to her mouth, where he also lingered, then met her eyes.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Male interest sparked in his, his grin widening.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Warmth poured through her, followed by certainty she’d rarely known. Bolstered, she returned his smile. Not as a fan, but as a woman needing a man’s firm touch, followed by his regard, respect, and tenderness. Something crossed his face.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Pleasure? Passion? Both? Neither? She couldn’t read the emotion. Crap.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Tempering his earlier joy, he stepped deeper inside, homing in on her, Bree forgotten, no one else existing for him.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Andy entered the office, his auburn hair striking, his baby blues soulful yet also eager. The perfect combination in any man and ideal for a lyricist who wrote songs that brought her to tears. She liked his burgundy suit, gold tie and shirt, the colors outstanding on him. Unable to wait any longer for his smile, she grinned hard enough to make her cheeks hurt.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">His preppy features lit up. He blushed then beamed, more beta than alpha.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Fine with her. He was a year younger than Max and Devlin, his response to her the greatest gift she’d known.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Devlin elbowed past both men, his dark blond hair swinging, his leather suit outrageous and totally him. Like Max, he was alpha to the core, at least during their performances and in entertainment articles she’d read. His tuxedo shirt and bowtie tamed him—somewhat. His beard-shadowed cheeks, upper lip, and chin showed what a bad boy he was. He winked.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Her smile approved of it and everything he was.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Bree cleared her throat and tossed the papers on the desk. “We’ll go over those details tomorrow. For now… Gentlemen, welcome. Max, Andy, Devlin, this is Jacquie Reynolds, my assistant. Jacquie, Dominant Men.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">They stepped forward as one, delivering their heat.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Max offered his hand first. She slipped hers inside his and almost died. His palm was calloused and hot, one thousand percent masculine, his touch firm yet tempered in strength. At six-three, he looked down at her, the stilettos not making a dent in their differing heights.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">“Nice to meet you, Jacquie.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">His smooth, deep voice caressed her name. She’d never forget the sound. “The pleasure is mine.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">No lie, given how she melted inside. However, her tone remained even, not betraying her arousal or anxiety.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">He offered another killer smile and leaned closer, his brown eyes so dark they looked black.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">His scent washed over her, something fresh and aquatic, similar to the sea. Fitting for a man who resembled a pirate. Wild. Unrestrained. Commanding. He was definitely starring in her first romance. She shook inwardly.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Devlin offered his hand next, crowding out Andy who either didn’t mind being one-upped or wouldn’t show it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Not liking Devlin’s behavior, she gave him a cool look.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">He smiled sheepishly and bobbed his hand up and down, reminding her what to do next. “It’s great to meet you, Jacquie. I hear you have no equal in your work. I don’t doubt it for a second.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">At his praise and silky baritone, her disapproval crumbled faster than a sandcastle during a hurricane. His solid grasp said he wouldn’t let go anytime soon. Exactly what she needed from him in bed. “I do my best. I’m delighted to meet you, too.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Pleasure blossomed within her. She reeled.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">“I’d say we’ve waited far too long to meet.” He brushed his lips over her knuckles, his stubble rough, mouth ungodly soft.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Another second of him being his devilish self and she’d beg him to do her then ask the others for the same. His sensual, bold fragrance enthralled, a spicy-musky scent bringing to mind torrid summer nights, satin sheets, and naked flesh.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Before she lost what scant control she had, she eased her hand from his, ready to meet Andy.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">He regarded her boobs, plumped by the dress, then met her gaze, with naked craving in his eyes.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">His brief intensity surprised her, his grip as impressive as the others, but also friendly and caring. His scent proved minty, pleasant, and masculine.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">It should have calmed her. Instead, her desire shot into the stratosphere. “Hey.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">His grin stretched ear to ear. “Hi. Great to meet you, Jacquie. Thanks for showing us around tonight. I’m sure you have other work you could be doing.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Loving his rich voice, she shook her head hard enough to make the earrings tap her jaw. “Not in the least. That stuff can wait until tomorrow.” She looked at Bree. “Right?”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Bree struggled not to smile. “It’ll be waiting for you at your desk when you come in. Until then…” She regarded the guys. “Have fun. Enjoy Surrender. Let your imaginations run wild.” After giving Jacquie a knowing look, she ushered them from her office.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Tina is an Amazon and international bestselling novelist who writes romance for every taste – ‘heat with heart’ – for traditional publishers and indie. Booklist, Publisher’s Weekly, Romantic Times and numerous online sites have praised her work. Three of her erotic novels were Readers' Choice Award winners. Another three were named finalists in the EPIC competition. One of her erotic contemporary romances was chosen Book of the Year at the French review site Blue Moon reviews. The Golden Nib Award at Miz Love Loves Books was created specifically for one of her erotic romances. Two of her titles received an Award of Merit in the RWA Holt Medallion competition. Another two won second place in the NEC RWA contest (different years). Tina is featured in the Novel & Short Story Writer’s Market. Before penning romances, she worked at a major Hollywood production company in Story Direction.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">As my (few) followers know. I've been busy re-editing and reissuing books that have reverted to me from publishers which, alas, have floundered. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">May the Fourth has become the unofficial Star Wars Day, for obvious reasons, and it's a good time to indulge yourself in a great action-adventure, sci-fi romance. And here's a great one!</span></div>
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