Beam Me into the Kindle World

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I decided to chronicle my journey as a writer into the world of Kindle. Mind you, I am no expert on E-book publishing and am just now getting my feet wet on this new paradigm I know will dominate the book industry in the years to come. Actually, we may be talking a year or few short ones at the most. Statistics produced by AAP indicate a 117% increase in Ebook sales in 2011 while adult hardcover and adult paperback sales lost 17.5% and 15.6% respectively.

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Do You See Dead People?

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Ghosts. Are you a believer? Either you are or you aren’t. Everyone has an opinion.

Ghost stories are said to have been around since 2000 B.C.. The word Spirit from Latin. Phantom from Greek. Spook from Dutch. Wraith from Scotland.

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A Tree is a Tree is a…Tree?

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It all started with a kinky BBC show about people who fall in love with inanimate objects. Supposedly, there is a woman married to the Berlin Wall and another woman in love with the Eiffel Tower. Okay, the Eiffel Tower I understand. It’s very shapely.

Other than a good laugh I wouldn’t have thought more about the show, but then I read about a line of priests that are said to guard a tree in the woodlands of Diana, the roman goddess of fertility.

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Meet My Fairy Godmother

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One of my first memories as a child was meeting Teddy, my Fairy Godmother.  In actuality she is my Godmother.  Somehow my childish brain confused my bedtime stories with this sweet, loving woman who in many ways was bigger than life.

As a child I saw her on rare occasions, which helped to keep the Fairy Godmother fantasy alive.  When I was an annoying thirteen, we moved nearer to Teddy’s house and I learned how magical Teddy really is.

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