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Welcome Back Musers! We are live and thriving!
Couldn't wait to get back to you and sharing new Musings.
Summer's been fun and even though I dislike the start of school...hey, we know
I'm a tad strange...there's new stories and new Musers to discover. New blogs
to visit to...stay tuned for our Friday Frolics...a HOT bit of fun. And don't
miss our Saturday Morning Musings...remember waking up on Saturday morning and
all those fantastic cartoons plastered on every channel? Well, MuseItUp is bringing
back the fun with our MG/Tween/YA/New YA version.
Now, what do we have in store this Sunday for you...I'm glad
you asked ;)
Let's visit with a few of our Musers and find out who they
are:
Barbara Ehrentreu grew up in Brooklyn and moved to Queens.
She has lived and taught in Long Island, Buffalo, NY and Westchester, NY as
well as a year in Los Angeles, CA. She has a Masters Degree in Reading and
Writing K-12. Currently she is retired from teaching and living in Stamford, CT
with her family.
If I Could Be Like Jennifer Taylor won second prize in
Preditors & Editors as Best Young Adult Book for 2011. It was inspired by
Paula Danziger for her children's writing workshop at Manhattanville College.
Her second book, After, considers what can happen to a
teen when her father becomes ill with a heart attack. It is based on her own
experiences when her husband had a heart attack and the aftermath of what she
and her family experienced.
She is preparing the sequel to If I Could Be Like
Jennifer Taylor. Barbara also writes poetry and several of her poems are
published in the anthologies, Prompted: An International Collection of
Poetry, Beyond the Dark Room, Storm Cycle and Backlit Barbell.
She has a blog, Barbara's Meanderings, and she hosts a radio
show on Blog Talk Radio, Red River Radio Tales from the Pages, once a
month. She is a member of PEN Letters and SCBWI.
From fantastical kidlit to everyday popular fiction, Beth
knits together her prose in a small Ohio town. Her hobbies do not include
cat-hating or traveling. She adores her cat “Bug,” and traveling will happen
someday, but for now, the farthest Beth travels is the western parts of her
brain during cold, dark months of editing. In 2008, her screenplay The Method
won best comedy in Gotham Screen’s contest, and her MG book In a Pickle (2012)
is out from MuseItUp Publishing. Whatever the genre or age group, Beth is more
than ecstatic to let her imagination take the wheel. http://bethovermyer.blogspot.com
Most of the time you’ll find Beverly in front of her
computer, writing stories little voices whisper in her ear. When she’s not
writing, she takes long walks and snaps pictures of clouds, wild flowers, birds
and deer. To some of her friends, she is affectionately known as the “Bug Lady”
because she rescues butterflies, moths, walking sticks, and praying mantis from
her cats.
For twenty-two years, Beverly taught children in grades two
through five how to read and write. They taught her patience. Now, she teaches
a women’s Sunday school class at her church. To relax she plays the piano. Her
cats don’t appreciate good music and run and hide when she tickles the ivories.
Beverly has several articles published in children’s
magazines. Two of her stories have appeared in Chicken Soup for the Soul
Anthologies. She also has twelve books published and is the Gold Winner in the
2012 Children’s Literary Classics Award, YA, and also the Silver Winner in the
2013 CLC, YA. Her books have won other awards as well.
Although I was born and brought up in the South West of
Scotland I now live in Yorkshire with my husband, our dog Wullie and Boris the
three-legged cat. Having exploited my love of reading by undertaking a degree
in English Literature I left university and settled firmly into the corporate
landscape, where I still work full-time to the present day.
Nevertheless my desire to create stories, worlds and the
people who inhabit those worlds has never abated and I finally started writing
seriously again in 2013.
I write fiction with a twist of mythology and the paranormal
set in Scotland. Whilst my first published novella, Dark Waters of the Heart,
is firmly targeted at adults given the intense and dangerous seduction my
novel, Hot Voodoo due out on 14th July 2015) is aimed at young adults.
People ask me why I write and the simple answer is that I
want you, as a reader, to feel. Whether it is falling in love with a handsome
hero or being terrified due to the supernatural events. I want you to feel
exactly what my heroine does.
Born and raised in New York City, Margaret Fieland has lived
in the Boston area since 1978. She is an avid science fiction fan, and
selected Robert A. Heinlein's “Farmer in the Sky” for her tenth birthday, now
long past.
In spite of earning her living as a computer software
engineer, she turned to one of her sons to put up the first version of her
website, a clear indication of the computer generation gap. Thanks to her father's
relentless hounding, she can still recite the rules for pronoun agreement in
both English and French. She can also write backwards and wiggle her ears.
Her poems have appeared in journals such as Melusine, Front
Range Review, and All Rights Reserved. She is one of the Poetic
Muselings. Their poetry anthology, Lifelines, was published by Inkspotter
Publishing in November, 2011.
She is the author of Relocated, Geek Games, and Broken
Bonds, published by MuseItUp Publishing, and of Sand in the Desert, a
collection of science fiction persona poems. A chapter book and the
fourth novel in the Novels of Aleyne series are due out later this year.
After writing feature articles in magazines, newspapers, and
online magazines for over fifteen years, J.Q. Rose entered the world of
fiction. Her published mysteries are Sunshine Boulevard, and Coda to Murder
released by Muse It Up Publishing. Blogging, photography, Pegs and Jokers board
games, and travel are the things that keep her out of trouble. She and husband,
Gardener Ted, spend winters in Florida and summers up north camping and hunting
toads, frogs, and salamanders with her four grandsons and granddaughter.
Susan A. Royal takes her readers on adventures to other
worlds where anything can happen and frequently does. She and her husband share
a 100 year old house in east Texas with a ghost who likes to harmonize with her
son when he plays guitar.
She writes SciFi/Fantasy with action, adventure and liberal
doses of romance. She is currently working on the third in her time travel
series, It’s About Time. Look for her books at MuseItUp/Amazon/B&N.
Kim Baccellia is a former bilingual teacher. Her
experiences trying to find more diverse books for her first grade students,
along with her search for her own Mexican heritage, lead her to write the
multicultural YA fantasy, EARRINGS OF IXTUMEA. Her other books
include a YA paranormal CROSSED OUT and a fantasy romance NO MORE
GODDESSES. Not only does she write but she’s a staff reviewer for YA
Books Central, one of the biggest YA online review sites. She’s also been
a judge for the Cybils-Children and YA bloggers literary awards plus a speaker
for children/YA writing groups. Currently she’s working on edits to the sequel
to NO MORE GODDESSES and finishing up revisions on a diverse romantic thriller.
Kay Dee Royal writes paranormal, fantasy, and contemporary
erotic romance—maybe because it’s also her favorite genres to read ;) She pens
tales with wild, rugged heroes and strong, intelligent heroines. She’ll give
them both a few shadowy secrets, making her stories intriguing and fun.
She resides in Southern Michigan with her family (her dog,
her cats, her caged husband... you get the idea). You can find the latest on
her titles from her publisher, MuseItHot.
Pauline (P. M.) Griffin has been writing since her early
childhood. She enjoys telling a good tale, and since she always works
with characters and situations deeply interesting to her, she finds the
research as rewarding as the scribbling/keying.
Griffin’s Irish love of storytelling coupled with her
passion for history, the natural world, and the above-mentioned research have
to date resulted in twenty-one novels and twelve short stories, a number of
award winners among them, all in the challenging realms of science fiction and
fantasy. She has also written several
nonfiction articles, primarily for the Brooklyn Aquarium Society’s publication
AQUATICA, several of which have won the Editors Choice for Excellence Award.
She lives in Brooklyn, New York, with her cats Nickolette
and Jinx and three tropical fish aquariums.
Susan Leona Fisher writes both historical and contemporary
fiction with a romantic element. She’s particularly interested in the late
Victorian to early Twentieth Century period and the influential women of those
pre-female suffrage years, some of whom provide inspiration for her heroines,
along with an avid interest in social and political issues of the day, which
also feature strongly.
She is a member of the UK Romantic Novelists’ Association
and has been reviewed by the Historical Novel Society. Born and based in the
UK, she lived and worked in the US, Australia and Africa as a young adult. Her
working life in the UK included jobs in the education, health and charity
sectors, and in local government, before retirement to the beautiful Yorkshire
Dales.
Theadora is the alter-ego of someone new to the HOT side of
writing. Theadora is plunging herself into the telling of grown up tales
hopefully with humour and caring. Come join her journey.
According to Rosemary, there is a gigantic canvas for a
historical novelist to choose from. So far she has chosen to set her published
novels in the England of Queen Anne Stuart 1702 – 1714 and the popular Regency
era. She is now writing Tuesday's Child a Regency novel and revising another
novel set in the reign of Edward II of England.
Rosemary Morris was born in 1940 in Sidcup Kent. As a child,
when she was not making up stories, her head was ‘always in a book.’
While working in a travel agency, Rosemary met her Hindu
husband. He encouraged her to continue
her education at Westminster College. In
1961 Rosemary and her husband, now a barrister, moved to his birthplace, Kenya,
where she lived from 1961 until 1982.
After an attempted coup d’état, she and four of her children lived in an
ashram in France.
Back in England, Rosemary wrote historical fiction and
joined the Romantic Novelists’ Association, Historical Novel Society and
Watford Writers.
Rosemary’s books published by MuseItUp Publishing are
available from the publisher, Amazon-kindle, ibooks, Nook and other reputable
vendors.
Chuck Bowie graduated from the University of New Brunswick
in Canada with a Bachelor Degree in Science, majoring in invertebrate
physiology. He still lives in on the East Coast of Canada, an hour east/north
of Maine. Growing up as an air force brat, his writing is influenced by the
study of human nature and how people behave, habits he picked up as his family
moved nineteen times in his first twenty-one years.
Chuck loves food, wine, music and travel and all play a role
in his writing. His writing will often draw upon elements of these experiences
to round out his characters and plotlines. Chuck is involved in the world of
music, supporting local musicians, occasionally playing with them and always
celebrating their successes. Because he enjoys venting as much as the next
fellow, Chuck will at times share his thoughts with a brief essay, some of
which can be found on his website http://chuckbowie.ca
He's writing Book 4 in the suspense-thriller series Donovan:
Thief For Hire. It's tentatively entitled The Body On The Underwater Road
Chuck is married, with two adult musician sons. He and his
wife Lois live in Fredericton, New Brunswick
Lesley Field grew up on Teesside. She enjoyed riding and
reading and later spent most of her working life pursuing legal cases. When
retirement came she kicked off the restraints of the law and discovered her
real self.
Writing mainly contemporary fiction she has also found
pleasure in writing historical fiction. Using her love of Canada and her
enjoyment of horses she brings both to her books. Coming into the Romantic
Novelists Association under the New Writers Scheme she has now progressed to
full membership and is also a member of ROMNA.
Happily living on the North Yorkshire coast with her husband
she spends her days enjoying life and writing.
S.L. Carlson lives in Michigan, surrounded by water and
woods, and where it isn't very difficult to image mythical creatures,
especially from the corner of your eye at Dawn or dusk. She also loves real
animals, like the unicorns' distant cousin, the horse. A former teacher, she
now writes and travels as a storyteller and speaker.
Off the cuff…Chris is odd. Never ask her for the focal point
cause she’s way out in left field from everyone else. Meet her online and you
can’t shut her up. Meet face to face and her awkward shyness will either yak
your ear off, worse than online, or you’ll need a crowbar to break her silence.
Seriously, Chris is a born and bred Hamiltonian, of Ontario,
Canada. She edits, reads, blogs, reads, reviews, reads, and then reads some
more. Oh and there’s writing in there, lots and lots of re-writing.
Dear reader, thank you again for joining us and we’d love to
hear from you. Keep smiling and have a fun week. Never stop believing. See you
next Sunday…nothing better than being cozy in bed with some Musings.
If you have a question or comment you’d like us to muse upon, do not hesitate
to contact me Christine
Steeves-Speakman at MuseChrisChat@gmail.com
