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HOLD ME Countdown – Nothing You Can Do About It

  29 Days To Release Day!   I have to tell you that I love the group The Manhattan Transfer.  I have almost all of their albums/CD’s.  I loved them before there WERE CD’s.  Yes, I’ve loved them for that long. When I was writing the draft of the book that became HOLD ME, I […]

HOLD ME Countdown – Fun Facts About New Jersey

32 Days to Release Day! Although I don’t live in New Jersey, I’ve driven through it a time or twelve.  I’ve wasted days of my youth at Great Adventure and spent time “down the shore”, although, to my sorrow, I’ve never met Snooki.  And, since a good portion of HOLD ME takes place in various […]

HOLD ME Countdown – The Cast of Characters

Hello, everyone!  Welcome to the HOLD ME Countdown. For the next couple of weeks I’ll be publishing some special posts to lead up to release day – 9/5/11. Let’s get the show started with a rundown of the cast of characters. And away we go!   LUCAS VASCO – our hero FBI Special Agent Lucas Vasco has […]

Pre-Countdown Decoration Post

Don we now our gay aparrel…. Blogosphere? Fa la la la la la la la la… Blogosphere? What are you doing? Hey, yo. Bets. Pretty good, eh? What…what is all of this? I’m decoratin’ Decoratin’? *shakes head* I mean, you’re decorating? Yeah. And singing…Christmas carols? Yeah. Um…why? Because…*turns. stares* Hello, I’m getting ready. Duh. O-kay…Ready […]

Fear and Daring

Last weekend I started reading Bob Mayer’s really terrific book: Who Dares Wins: The Green Beret Way to Conquer Fear and Succeed.  I immediately got stuck in the introduction. The reason for this is because in the introduction of the book, Bob issues a few simple challenges. 1.  Write down the thing you fear the most. 2.  Write down […]

Before Instant Gratification

The other day I posted something on Facebook and went back to look for responses about a minute later.  When I realized what I was doing, I laughed at myself.  Then I started thinking about how instantaeous everything has become.  And that, in turn, started me thinking about how much things have changed, even in my […]