Inspiring and motivational video!

I'm still out of the country on my research trip to Jordan and Israel, but I've been wanting to share this marvelous video with y'all.

This message is for anyone, no matter what your dreams or career or creativity.

Stay focused on who you are and what you're meant to do in this life. 

Happy Valentine's Day - and it's my birthday, too, so I want to share some *love*!  ~Kimberley

FORGET ME NOT GHOST TOUR - STOP #1!

Welcome to STOP #1 of Carolee Dean’s

FORGET ME NOT GHOST TOUR!

Simon Pulse, October 2, 2012 - Available Now!!!

Click this Ghost Tour button to Enter the Contest for a chance to win one of 9 gorgeous pieces of Forget Me Not jewelry!

FORGET ME NOT is the story of a young girl, Ally Cassell, who makes a rash and desperate decision after being bullied and ostracized to the point of humiliation. She then finds herself vacillating between worlds.

In this new realm Ally can see the ghosts inhabiting her school.

The structure of the school is a bit like Dante’s INFERNO. People gravitate to different areas depending on how they died.

Check out the poem below from Elijah’s point of view (he can see ghosts too) and discover who dwells where.

Be sure to scroll to the end to find a link to the rest of the tour and learn how you can win the unique, hand-crafted jewelry designed specially for the GHOST TOUR such as this forget-me-not bracelet:

THE NINE CIRCLES OF RAVEN VALLEY HIGH

(from pg. 112 of FORGET ME NOT by Carolee Dean copyright 2012)

Contact the author (caroleedean@yahoo.com) for permission to reproduce

There’s an abandoned football field

up on a hill that looks down

on the new stadium.

It’s filled with soldiers from some

obscure civil war battle that didn’t

make it into the history books.

Day after day

boys barely older than me

fight the same war.

Night after night

they lie bloody on the grass.

Every now and then,

when one of them is ready

to cross over,

a raven comes

to take him

to the next world.

There used to be a courthouse

where the old gym stands.

They hung murderers

and horse thieves

on the steps.

That’s where the

violent offenders go.

As for their victims,

they occupy a

corner of the prop room

behind the theater.

There’s a dark corner

in the cafeteria

reserved for those

who starved to death.

Two members

from a family of early settlers

who didn’t store enough

food for the winter

and an anorexic cheerleader

from the nineties.

An abandoned ropes course

is home to the foolhardy,

and the weight room

at the back of the gym

is for the jocks

who still can’t believe

they died in their prime.

The administration building is

A melting pot

of those who succumbed

to fatal diseases,

broken hearts, and

people who just got stuck

for no apparent reason.

Not good. Not bad.

Just too mediocre

to continue on.

The Raptor Circle is the home of the one person

who died from an act of God.

As for the H-Hall,

I spent a week there last spring

when I went up to the old football field

and swallowed that bottle of pills

When I was in middle school,

Frankie used to take me

up on the hill

to see the games.

Now all I watch

are dead people.

From this perspective,

it’s like viewing

a theater in the round.

THE CONTEST

You can win the forget-me-not bracelet and NINE other cool jewelry prizes by visiting GHOST TOUR CENTRAL. Earn points by tweeting, posting on FB or joining a fun blog!

Click the Ghost Tour below to enter to win the bracelet and any of the future awesome jewelry on future Ghost Tour Stops! (The rest of the Ghost Tour Stops during October are listed at the link.)

Share the Ghost Tour Button on your own blog, too!

And don’t forget to read about the making of the book trailer and watch the video HERE  http://caroleedeanbooks.blogspot.com/2012/08/forget-me-not-book-trailer-cast-and-crew_12.html

Books have a life of their own and here's proof!!

Allo from Milly again! 

Kimberley is in the slightly awkward place of being in the middle of just enough to do and almost Too Much so I decided to Hijack her Blog again and post some of the Fun Book Awesomeness that has lately invaded my inner thoughts.

Ladies and Gentlemen, Kindles are Taking Over the World!!

"How?" do you ask? Well, let me tell you . . .

While on the search for cheap textbooks for a family member I found the exact textbook I was looking for in e-book version on Amazon for $5. 

My mind went, $5.00!!!! No freakin way, its a scam! It's a 30 second rental! It's a Trojan Virus disguised as a ridiculously cheap text book! 

But no, it's an actual textbook that for "special reasons", which I think translates to "about to be reprinted as a NEW edition", the book is discounted through Amazon for the Kindle version ONLY. 

Well, being a poor college student who has very little extra money (except for when it comes to my addiction to Manga) I wondered if it would be worth it to purchase a cheap kindle for the purpose of school books. It also didn't hurt that the hard cover textbook in a "USED" version would have been the same price as the cheap kindle and the e-book together. 

Well, Low and Behold, no sooner had the thought crossed my mind that I might have to give up my Sailor Moon for a little bit, Amazon posted a flashy widget saying that you can now read Kindle books on your computer, Mac, or Android device! 

In a "Hallelujah" rush I downloaded the program onto my husband's laptop and Low and Behold, I now have a Kindle! 

Needless to say, I bought the textbook and in the joy of having a basically "Free" kindle I proceeded to buy some e-books that may have been burning an imaginary hole in my bank account. 

So if any of you are as "old" as I am and remember some of those old previews and commercials in which the narrator would say, "They're coming at you from the left, they're coming at you from the right, They're coming at you from the Refrigerator!!" Then this is an especially appropriate time. Be warned!!! They're coming at you from the Microwave!!!! 

Kindle is taking over all the electronics in your House!!!!  BUM, Bum, bum!

And now back to your Regularly scheduled program.... I mean Blogging!

So as somebody who on a regular occasion has more time than she knows what to do with I regularly surf the internet for things to entertain my cute little weird imagination and I came across the first best viral video of the year! Please note that as an Avid Reader and despite being a new "kinda" Kindle owner, I still love and adore the feeling of a New Hardcover Book.

So while I will read Kindle e-versions of books I will always prefer a hardcover book instead! This below is an awesome reason why Hardcover books will hopefully NEVER disappear.

    

 The Joy of Books

 

 Try Doing That with a Kindle!

See You Next Time when I hack a blog again ;)

~Milly~

(Me and my Very Cute Husband!)