Note there are other specks of stars surrounding the moon and North Star. The sky is filled with stars this morning and I tried to capture them with my camera but it’s only showing blackness. But I loved seeing the Dippers in the early morning darkness. Ever go star gazing?
What do you see?
Terry
“Giving new meaning to the term alpha male where fantasy IS reality.”
www.terryspear.com
Deborah shared this really cool picture she created with digital scrapbooking with me on Facebook, and I asked if she would like to share it on my blog. Isn’t it great??? I had never heard of such a thing, but it looks like lots of fun. So if you have any interest in it, there is a link for the group she belongs to and you can find out all kinds of ways to create your own digital scrapbooks!!!
I’m a member of Daisy Trail Scrapbooking http://www.daisytrail.com/ and did this image, just for fun. I enlarged the leaves around the edge of the image, as I wanted it to appear as though we were peeking in upon the scene. Everything I have used in the image is free and was found on the internet. Thanks for sharing.
Deborah Melanie. Author of Winter’s Spirit.
http://shoegal2010.wix.com/deborahmelanie
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https://www.facebook.com/deborah.melanie
http://deborahmelanie.blogspot.co.uk/
Thanks so much to Deborah for sharing this with us. I probably won’t have time to do anything like this, but it sure would be fun. 🙂
Terry
Even vampire bears! All my stories have humor in them, vampire romantic suspense included. So why not a vampire with a fancy coffin, just for Halloween?
Not that my vampires ever sleep in coffins, mind you. They are not the undead. I leave that to zombies, which are not in my stories. They have heartbeats, eat and drink (a little blood too), and have hot bodies. I just couldn’t imagine a non-vampire getting hot for a cold dead thing, so my vampires are living, breathing humans that were changed by the Black Plague, just as some humans were who became hunters of the vampires. They have the same strength, but not the bloodlust.
In any event, the playing field is well-matched that way.
Speaking of bloodsuckers, one was trying to bite me the other night. A bloodthirsty female mosquito. I was trying to write on Guthrie’s story, and she landed on my wrist to take a sip. My vampire hunting genes took hold, and I tried to kill her. I think I missed. But she didn’t come back for another slurp. *sigh*
I guess my hunter skills are a little rusty. Need to work on that.
Than I was outside watering and ran into him! Never seen one here before. Just the little tiny lizards that run all over my house. Inside and out. This is a Texas spiny lizard. Okay, so I have lizards on the brain. Right? I’ve had them crawl up my pants leg when I’ve been writing, scurry across my feet, just all kinds of things.
So I’ve settled down to write after I finish watering and I’m working away, it’s getting late and something crawls up my leg. Natural reaction: brush it off and then look to see what it was. Cricket maybe? Been finding a bunch of them in the house–dead. Good.
But I’m thinking one of the little lizards. It’s getting really late and need to go to bed. So shut things down and start walking to the bedroom and feel something rough between the sole of my foot and my flipflop. I kick it off and off runs a scorpion. Now deceased.
I can’t believe he crawled up my leg, I brushed him off AND he somehow got between my foot and my flipflop as I was walking and I DIDN’T get stung. When I lived in Oklahoma, I was stung a number of times. HATE those things.
They are way scarier than vampires.
Okay, I am EVERYWHERE today with giveaways:
And one other place, but not posted. Will try to update later when it is. 🙂
I have audiobook review copies of the following: The Accidental Highland Hero, Highland Rake, Taming the Wild Highland, Bound by Danger, The Dark Fae (teen), Kiss of the Vampire (teen), The Deadly Fae (teen). The caveat is that you haven’t received a free book before through audible. But if you haven’t and you’d like one, it’s yours!
Terry
“Giving new meaning to the term alpha male where fantasy IS reality.”
www.terryspear.com
I had a black and white cat for nearly 17 years and so my mother gave me lots of adorable miniature artist designed black and white cats and pandas. The one kitty cat was so upset when the ghost said, “Boo!” that she fainted dead away.
That’s my story and I’m sticking to it. But with their jack-o-lanterns and the witch’s lantern (which happens to be a lantern that goes to a Christmas light string), lol, so see? …it’s perfect to mix and match with decorations and still give them that Halloween feel. I’m all set!
Do you decorate for Halloween?
Terry
“Giving new meaning to the term alpha male where fantasy IS reality.”
www.terryspear.com
I know it’s early but, I like to do some things early!!! I want you to know I worked a long time to do this. 🙂 Just for you. The growly pumpkin was made by my dad and painted by my mother. I made the wizard bear, and no it’s not a build a bear. Unless you consider building it from scratch. 🙂
But I hope you like it as much as I had fun creating it! Happy Halloween, early!!
Terry
“Giving new meaning to the term alpha male where fantasy IS reality.”
www.terryspear.com
If I don’t have to go anywhere, I love fog.
It reminds me of “The Fog.” Or any other creepy foggy story where who knows what lurks in it.
It reminds me of Halloween.
It usually means the heat is mixing with a cold front for our area, and that’s even better. This fog was even thicker earlier and I finally remembered to take my camera out and take a picture of it. 🙂
What about you? Do you like fog if you don’t have to drive in it?
Also, asked to offer an excerpt of my current WIP, A Highland Wolf Christmas and with that a giveaway, so giving away an ebook copy of Huntress for Hire to one lucky commenter at Lady Scribes! Just click on Huntress for Hire and see all the fabulous giveaways! And comment!
Happy TGIF!!!
Terry
“Giving new meaning to the term alpha male where fantasy IS reality.”
www.terryspear.com
I’ve had fun with this YA series, starting with Alana Fainot in The Trouble with Demons–they’re kind of like The Trouble with Tribbles, if you know what I mean, except some are really nasty.
But the teens are a mix of demon heritage and human, and trying to find their place in the world. Just like any of us might. Only their teen problems are much more… deadly.
I just signed a narrator to narrate the second book in the series. The first is halfway narrated, and I found a really cool/hot, since the guy is hot and standing in flames, third book to the series. I will probably call it Demon Hunter.
My computer is working and everything is right with the world!!! Which means I have no excuse at all to not make word count by Sunday. 🙂
Terry
“Giving new meaning to the term alpha male where fantasy IS reality.”
www.terryspear.com
Ever have a routine–sit in the same seat wherever you go–at church, in school, on the bus, at work, or park in your parking space, and then someone has the disquieting nerve to come along and take YOUR seat or your spot in life, and you have to go somewhere else???
You can be obnoxious about it, or uhm, all alpha wolf, and get your regular seat, or you can be discombobulated and sit somewhere else.
I was presenting a workshop once where the other author had been scheduled for MY room. She had 2-hours and they hadn’t realized it. So the hotel made a spot for me in some off the wall room and the only people who showed up were the three who wanted to listen to my lecture that were standing there when the lady wouldn’t give up the room. Anyone who came a little late to the party had no clue where I was, no signs, no notification. We had a very nice one-on-one type of situation, and it didn’t bother me at all. Well, except for the initial, why isn’t she closing her talk down like ten minutes ago so I could get on with my talk???
So different scenario, but that’s me. My computer went out on me AGAIN on Monday night, couldn’t get it started on Tuesday, so I’m working on my laptop, having to remember all my passwords to get into stuff that I normally access throughout the day. I’m having to sit elsewhere instead of my normal spot. I’m having to find stuff that normally is right at my fingertips. And so…. I feel like that person who has lost their seat to someone else, and has to sit in unfamiliar surroundings.
Even wolves have a routine. They mark their territory, have routes they take, boundaries with each other. If one thing is out of place, it’s a cause for alarm.
I’m trying to get back to working on my laptop, because I can’t go 3 days without writing. Deadline’s looming, no time for being discombobulated.
Do you ever get that way? Have your day all planned out and then, someone or something throws you all off kilter???
Have a great Wednesday!!!! This is me… wanting to be a bear tucked away in it’s cave. 🙂 Until everything is again right with the world. 🙂
Terry
“Giving new meaning to the term alpha male where fantasy IS reality.”
www.terryspear.com
You thought I skipped Halloween, didn’t you? With releasing A SEAL Wolf Christmas early!!!
But I love all things that go bump in the night.
So here is a fun and easy treat to make for that Halloween night of spooky movies. Black olives cut up to look like spiders on deviled eggs! And then you can curl up with a nice Vampire romance. 🙂
She has her sights set on the worst vampire of them all…
or two…
Have a wonderful Tuesday!
I’m off to make some deviled eggs… topped with a few spiders. Yum.
Terry
“Giving new meaning to the term alpha male where fantasy IS reality.”
www.terryspear.com