I long for an online literary salon

I'm injured and recovering.  While I heal, comforts have included an overstuffed comfy couch by the fireside and me at night reading, dreaming.  I long for an online literary and artistic salon, like the one Gertrude Stein enjoyed in Paris, where Ernest Hemingway, F Scott Fritzgerald, Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, and other highly regarded artists shared their views, thoughts, and helped to create the Modernist Movement.

Without ranting, without complaining, I'll say with a wistful whisper - no one cares anymore.  Where is sophistication, elevated thought inspiring like an upward spiral to the gods, where are the true creators of new ways to be?  Squashed among a pile of competing, commercial, copycat authors, buried in heaps of garbage ads and marketing, the true ones, the creators are lost ...lost like clear blue waters filled with raw sewage, lost like rainforests clear cut, lost like friendly little baby animals, once innocently frolicking in green pastures and now only objects on factory farms, destined for the slaughterhouse before they learn to feel the joy of running.

It was all so fun when we really wanted to learn and think, when we wanted to change the world for the better instead of competing with each other.

Yes, I long for an online literary and artistic salon.  I'll wait and create and believe it can happen again.

Seven plus seven - my time of manifestation

Hey all, I'm still at it, looking to publish my book with the right house and not wanting the editors to change everything...because I know where the story is going, they don't.  I'm not saying the book is perfect.  I want to change some sentences.  The voice is Merleena's however, telling the story as it happened, not as the story is happening, and she says it all in a type of teenspeak - imperfect and authentic.

Yesterday was the 7th day of the 7th month, an important time.  The 12 houses of constellations are a big part of why we are here created from the stars...Hence my Star Water series, starting with Silver Rain, formerly known as Sweet Sorcerer, basically the same book except Silver Rain is slightly edited by me.

I wish you a happy summer...I wish you would consider reading about Merleena & Owen!

Why read Star Water? Here's why...

Okay, I'm getting down to it!  Why should you read my Star Water series?  Every once in a while, you see a book or movie or hear music so inspiring it changes your life for the better.  This has happened to me - the Twilight series...come on, there are others!  The book Lassie Come Home, the movie Marnie by Alfred Hitchcock starring Tippi Hedren. The album Led Zeppelin 3.  Kurt Cobain songs.  These things change the world - not just my world but everyone's...for the better!  I could create an infinite list.  The clue is finding a new way to be.

I need optimism, love, peace, grace, especially grace and dignity!  Our animals on Earth need to have dignity restored, I'm working on it.  They are not disposable.  Live my life gracefully and find my own truth.  Now...will my book Star Water find you a million dollars?  Maybe, don't rule it out!  Will you find many hidden layers of love and the meaning of man and woman?  Yes, you will.  Will you find out more about the mysteries of our world and why we are here...yes, I think you will.  Humor?  Yes, very important to uplift the soul...irony and humor.

So check it out here!  It's a new wave for us to surf.  The internet and water...two things to surf and connected in my life.

Next time I'll talk about my characters...on the path to prosperity in many subtle ways!

Updating, my little clones.

No, not updating my little clones but updating my blog for the little clones.  I don't care what I say...Lady Gaga has her little monsters & I have my little clones - they all follow follow follow like they are onto something and then ...on to the next thing five minutes later, and back to the first thing again.  Eg. - a certain famous dark haired family of sisters and mom has dominated the gossip scene for years - and this is because they stand for nothing - no commitments, no great causes for society...just a huge void of nothing except "airing their dirty laundry in public".  What a tragic waste of time and space on tv and tabloids.  They could help the world...but no, clones would be scared as clones would have to think of how to help the world!!!

Yikes!  Help!  We're all going past the edge of no return soon!  Where is the beauty, the interest in learning about this beautiful world?  Are we afraid to explore?  What if early explorers felt the way clones feel?  We'd all be in Europe, fighting for territory even more than now!  We'd even be living in subzero temps because of the crowds.  We have to explore possibilities, clones!!  I explore!!  Check Sweet Sorcerer - Star Water series  The way of the future is to see it:)

Another point to notice - having a famous father or mother doesn't guarantee fame. I don't want to give examples but many exist, even if they try to follow the footsteps, it doesn't work that way.  Being shocking doesn't ensure fame...or being different.  But it helps sometimes.  But being a clone doesn't get you anywhere, just look around and try to find some examples of exceptions to this rule.  Be different, be truthful, be fair, be the best you can be and do it with purity and love in your heart.  That's all there is to know for now.

Below is a pic of  Eternity Bay, Oahu in Feb - the location of the famous beach scene in "From Here to Eternity."  Stolen love - one chance, remembered forever...Now THAT's what dreams are made of all you lovers!

 

I'm back, healthy and happy - is that not cool?

I'm back from Hawaii...and goddess Pele has surely taught a lesson to me.  I wiped out a bit in the surf, nothing serious - a few bandaids to show for it.  My body felt the power of Oahu's waves...but my muscles, unaccustomed to rough seas, ached a good ache afterward.  I was under the spell of Hawaii and Pele, reminded once again what a feeble race we are compared to goddesses.  I surfed some good waves, had fun...I'm healthy.

After I got home a few days ago I checked websites about books, trying to promote my book.  How old fashioned, powerless, and downright sad it is to me to see female authors promoting their books in negative ways.  Is it a fashionable thing now to say how different, uncool, unpopular, dorky, reclusive, odd etc etc you are?  Is this self portrayal supposed to attract readers and potential buyers of your books, ladies??  What type of women are you trying to reach and what are you trying to say?

This approach is not only distasteful to me as a woman, it's downplaying the intelligence of the reader.  Does the author want me to feel sorry for her...relate to her...or what?

Give me books of inspiration, written by well adjusted, popular, learning, happy people.  Give me something to aspire to.  I try to inspire people with my books.  I am a new wave.  I have something to offer.  I'm not going out on a tiny limb, trying to attract insecure, reclusive females and I'm not capitalizing on their insecurities, rather, I'm celebrating the power and beauty of women in my love story  Star Water - Part One - Silver Rain or if you like the earlier original version Star Water - Part One - Sweet Sorcerer .  Either or...it doesn't matter, personally I prefer Silver Rain because the revisions are slight but good.

No...I'm not going out on a tiny limb, perched there afraid to fly, sitting with a bunch of fearful timid ones saying "What if?"  Here's what if...push.  Now fly to Summerland and dive deep into Star Water.  We have a whole world to explore and you have to be healthy to do it.