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                      CAITLYN JENNER WILL NOT RUN FOR PRESIDENT So as my main heroine, Sally is in small part a martyr to the advent of adverse sexuality: So, From Motherhood to sexuality--or current lack of, or maybe overabundance of.... With the #MeToo movement now, is it that men are  no longer allowed, in any instance, in any setting, and in no place to be sexually, physically, verbally, or situationally aggressive?  Yes, certainly not anywhere near the work place.  Men are supposed to be gentlewomen now in all settings.  Which is mostly fine, I guess. But at the same time, doesn't it seem that slowly but surely, the ONLY cultural alternative for women these days is to be as tough as, harder than, and even as violent as men?  Certainly it is the primary vehicle in Hollywood these days.  Nobody reveres the delicate, soft-spoken, shrinking quiet wallflower anymore.  No, its Wonder Wo...
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                                    Follow-up on the musings of motherhood-- The heroine of this new book are women, one finally blossoming into a surprising, life-defining focused role of motherhood much as a lifeline to her own personal salvation. And this theme and debate--motherhood as privilage/salvation opposed to burden/sacrifice somehow continues to simmer.  If one could choose part-time motherhood, as many grandparents suddenly relish, giving it up once you're satiated, probably every woman would choose thus.  As comes to mind the bumper sticker--"The reward for not killing your kids are your grandchildren"  But more and more, choosing  motherhood is the greatest question most women face.  If for no other reason than choice  is becoming the operative word  here, and easier and easier.  Not just because of that boogyman word 'abortion', but...
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Ironic(?) that my very personal, private writings and musings about my own sexuality--bizarre fantasies, predilections and prurient interests ultimately stimulated me to understanding better how to write to a wider public audience. Writing, and occasional reading interests still gravitate often toward the sexual.  Which I guess makes sense, as other than our constant religious titillations and the gold rush(or fool's gold rush) for 'love', what is more constant and crucial in most people's lives?  All Freud's children--writing, reading, fantasizing,--keeps us sublimating; anything other than finally actually acting on those constant urges. So many memoried pasts where if advice were asked by a friend, as to 'what should I do in a situation  so filled with potential like that?....',  one's answer would be unequivocally 'Go For It!'  And yet confronted oneself, meekly we slink away into another justification of why shy reluctance is the best an...
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Another Author's review--Thank you Richard--gotta read yours

Ten Years After the Future Bill Samos Reviewed by Richard McClain 4 stars My own experience of the 60s was shaped by southern California, that laid-back la-la-land where nothing seemed real and “Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds” was easy to relate to staggering around in the sand of Venice Beach. If you can keep up with it, you’ll love Stamos’s phantasmagoric hallucinogenic vision of the 60s. It touches all the bases of the times. From the upper reaches of Oakland on the east side of San Francisco Bay, to Berkeley with scholars and drop-outs, to a strangely normal commune in Oregon, to the fearsome hell of Vietnam. Donna and Sally, opposites though sisters, are the tentpoles of the whirling, spinning, dizzying action. Author Stamos lovingly details the cutesy old-fashioned teen world that was torn asunder by the WAR. And he has no mercy on the characters he invents. As it should be. Problem: it’s difficult to keep the characters straight, and it’s difficult to imagine the...
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#TenYearsAfterTheFuture #HistoricalRomance Will Donna find a man who will be devoted and true? Can Sally ever combine her forbidden sexuality with her need to be of service? Can Devon move beyond his self-infatuation to help bring a fractured family together? < You can find it on Amazon at: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B079K7YCMG/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1517697036&sr=8-1&keywords=Ten+Years+After+the+future+stamos EXCERPT: Ten Years After the Future The dance hall was more like a storage warehouse, a cavernous shadowy funhouse. Everything swirled colors before the drugs even kicked in. Meandering through the angelic ghost-like dancers, they quickly found their way to the front of the stage The evangelical alchemy of the Grateful Dead—and Jerry Garcia’s nimbus of black hair, belied his un-rock star stature and glory. She was mesmerized from the beginning by his angelic plaintive voice, all teary toned and wise; with a beat that was both an ea...
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FEATURED AT  CHRISTINE YOUNG ROMANCE WRITER : TEN YEARS AFTER THE FUTURE: HISTORICAL ROMANCE PLEASE STOP BY AND ENJOY AN EXCERPT: Buy at:  Amazon ,  Barnes and Noble  BLURB Begin a captivating journey into an era that was both a time of overly indulgent forays into hedonism, as well as a unique period in our nation’s history, when young Americans, politicized by the draft and the horrors of the Vietnam War, awakened to their sense of self and took responsibility for building a finer world. By the author of  Border Crossings,  this is an incisive portrayal into the essence of the American Myth as it played out on campuses and communes, in financial districts, and killing fields. It is a bright light on a time of revolutionary change, granting access to the thoughts, feelings and experiences of vividly drawn characters along side some of the cultural and political icons of the era. Sisters, Donna and Sally are bookends of the times trying to ca...
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PLEASE MENTION THE PRIZE THAT THE AUTHOR WILL BE GIVING AWAY: Daniel will give away a digital copy of Beware the Bones Title: Beware the Bones Author: Daniel Lance Wright ISBN: Ebook: 978-1-62420-342-8            POD: 978-1977864017 Genre: Paranormal Romance Excerpt Heat Level: 1 Book Heat Level: 3   Buy at:  Amazon ,  Barnes and Noble     TAGLINE   Lowell Strudemeyer had a death wish. Then, he runs head-on into the bad attitude of Jasmine Chandler. Now he has a project.   BLURB   Forty-three-year-old archaeologist, Jasmine Chandler, is decimated by an abruptly failed marriage and throws herself obsessively into her work. Meanwhile, several hundred miles away on the California coast, retired oncologist, Lowell Strudemeyer, struggles against his own demons by drinking and surfing with an apparent death wish. With help from her friend, Barbara Sullivan, their worl...
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