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101 Ways to Meditate: Discover Your True Self is a primer to illuminate the landscapes within and beyond. Easily explained and specific, 101 Ways to Meditate, supplies a wide selection of processing, imagery, release, and inspirational meditations to make meditative practice life-affirming, insightful and fun. A 31-day journal is also included. Whether to explore metaphysical questions, experience higher awareness, or come to terms with the mystery within, meditation serves. This book was a finalist in the 2011 Global E-Book Awards.

There are several aspects to writing fiction. Rendering what John Gardner in The Art of Fiction describes as a 'vivid and continuous dream' is a complicated affair. Story is created from the imagination of a writer, who in turn must translate it onto a page of symbols so that another person can read, absorb, and experience the story in a similar fashion. It's a remarkable process when you think about it. In On Creative Writing the process of writing fiction is demystified and cut in palatable bites to help any writer who has the passion and mad desire to tell a story. Reviews: Bitten by ...

Murder in the Pachysandra introduces Hattie Moon, an elderly widow, who steps out of her dusty world of cat hair, mixed-up days, and rambling conversations with her dead husband, to solve the murder of her paperboy Jason Meeks. She, along with her friend Muriel Manning, unravel clues the police have missed. Suddenly, the amateur sleuths find themselves swirling in a deceitful, troubling world of marital infidelity, drugs, the dark web, and a diabolical force that hovers, ready to pounce.

Hattie Moon, a modern-day Miss Marple, is thrown into a mystery close to home when her son Howie, gets engaged. While his bride-to-be is charming, Hattie learns the woman is a widow who lives with her mother and sister, who are also widows. Naturally, Hattie becomes concerned...as she should.

The Lure of Chianti & Fava Beans: How to Write a Killer Mystery is for writers. If you are a new writer (bravo!), this primer on mystery writing presents the basic building blocks that must be considered before your story is started. If you are a writer who wants to expand into mysteries or have a mystery subplot in your current work, this manual explains the critical details in fleshing out a great story. Also included are fiction writing basics.

Beneath every veneer, beneath the person who is you, there are secrets, never acknowledged, never told nor shared. It is your sexuality, and mine, a compendium of dark influences, of seeds sown, of lost fleeting moments that run us wild, ragged. Ever constant, we deny our nature of want, desire, guilt, shame. Ever constant, we succumb to the subterranean pull of pleasure and pain. It is here where the story begins. Welcome.

A contemporary short story of three aging friends, two sisters and an ex husband, who continue to mess up and learn lessons.

Writer Linda A Lavid reads excerpts from popular books published before 1930. Commentary follows on aspects of style that can be used, or duly forgotten, in today's writing world. For contemporary work, she reads her own stories and discusses her take on writing in today's world. Great Readers make Great Writers!

Writer, Opiner, Linda A Lavid, reads excerpts from successful books written before 1930 and comments on: historical aspects, writing style, and takeaways.

Born next door to each other, cousins Rosie and Marie, are inseparable until after high school when their lives diverge. It's the sixties and each girl takes a different path. After decades, they meet disclosing the choices they made, the secrets they kept, and learn that unconditional love never ends, only detours.

A life-long bachelor and company president takes the plunge with a company secretary.

His name is Ed Mees. He's dying. He doesn't want to tell his story, but I'm here nevertheless. To write down what he says, to interpret what he means, to listen, to hold him if necessary. Although, I'm hoping it won't be necessary.