tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24003627619246993322024-02-21T19:58:09.672-08:00Long Swords, Hot Heroes, & Warrior Womencornelia amirihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10073486581012525859noreply@blogger.comBlogger107125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2400362761924699332.post-77196436620150852182023-05-01T08:00:00.005-07:002023-05-01T08:00:41.629-07:00Moms and May Day<p><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Happy May Day - Merry Beltane</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: medium;">To celebrate May Day and Beltane - today on May 1st - Timeless Voyage is free in eBook on Amazon</span></span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQV2SaKXrOd-oA0dMiT0qoBuWMklPaVyXuo2lkXwULpeaB6-1Vit-NcyJv1YSK9JPbhJpW8eYcNiBoB1GyEHf8pLEM3fivl_BWjDpGIsXF71W6wI3GaaQQBHktm9Q4FytY2ZZubEwDKKmvOsTKFVtAPgbXZw7gv4CparSPY_2KOksuw1vXrcvincbe/s486/unnamed.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="486" data-original-width="336" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQV2SaKXrOd-oA0dMiT0qoBuWMklPaVyXuo2lkXwULpeaB6-1Vit-NcyJv1YSK9JPbhJpW8eYcNiBoB1GyEHf8pLEM3fivl_BWjDpGIsXF71W6wI3GaaQQBHktm9Q4FytY2ZZubEwDKKmvOsTKFVtAPgbXZw7gv4CparSPY_2KOksuw1vXrcvincbe/w276-h400/unnamed.jpg" width="276" /></span></a></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /><span style="background-color: white; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif;"><b>Neither centuries that have come and gone nor the seas between us can keep us apart.</b></span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span><p></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif;">As the Celtic pirate, Anwen, presses her hard iron dagger against the Roman's throat, memories of fated lovers, druids, and sacrifice, stay her hand.</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif;">Kaeso is captivated by dreams of the woman he loved in a previous life, the mirror image of Anwen. In this lifetime they are foes, Roman and Celt. Can Anwen and Kaeso steer their timeless voyage to a happy destiny or will they be robbed of love once more?</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><a href="https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00KX6ONN6"><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"><b>GET IT NOW</b></span></a></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: medium;">May Day, celebrated on May 1st, is associated with love, as it is a day when couples traditionally express their affection for one another. The ancient Celts. called it Beltane. The May Queen led the Beltane procession with her ritual courtship of the Green Man. These symbolic marriages of the god and goddess, in the form of King and Queen of the May, were mirrored in human courtship. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">One of the most important Beltane traditions was the Need Fire. Tribesmen built two huge bonfires next to each other and drove the tribe's cattle between them so the smoke would purify them and protect them from disease as well as grant them fertility from God Belenus. The tribesmen also ran or jumped between the fires for the fertility of the tribe. Couples also danced around a May Pole as a symbol of fertility. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">I wrote two books that celebrate Beltane:</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJBtd_8Tbe7PMd6xPwJ9folsgiEI8MwRdAWN6cFNhSR-JrD4nVmTaIkGOGvQWIZtXXhHuyvqTFZy6AnHyZ-iSdL4CqtPCkdpGHBSQVNENuYhXTL70szQoOcdTG5jbmixGPtR4WuTcM6HL4CHZ_hySW-Pm-srkUtdz2SSpWa6qsW01Fqz8tK-W7Rg5dkw/s2048/dragondruidessnameandtitle.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJBtd_8Tbe7PMd6xPwJ9folsgiEI8MwRdAWN6cFNhSR-JrD4nVmTaIkGOGvQWIZtXXhHuyvqTFZy6AnHyZ-iSdL4CqtPCkdpGHBSQVNENuYhXTL70szQoOcdTG5jbmixGPtR4WuTcM6HL4CHZ_hySW-Pm-srkUtdz2SSpWa6qsW01Fqz8tK-W7Rg5dkw/w300-h400/dragondruidessnameandtitle.jpg" width="300" /></span></a></div><p><b><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">The Dragon and The Druidess (Druidry and the Beast Book 2) </span></b></p><p><b><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></b></p><p><b><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">To a passionate man…all women are goddesses.</span></b></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Druidess Nona is seeking a lover for the Beltane rite. Without warning, a fierce red dragon swoops down before her. Not just any dragon…it’s God Dewey in wild, beastly form. Hot, in a rage, blowing smoke and flames… because Nona’s tribesmen snatched gold from the earth without the gods’ consent.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Captivated by Nona’s beauty and bravery, sparks fly and ablaze with desire for Nona, Dewi flies away… only to land nearby and shapeshift to human form. In the guise of a visiting warrior needing the Druidess' hospitality, Dewi returns to the village. But, he discovers he has a rival for Nona’s affection, a chief who will stop at nothing to have her for his own. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">The moment Nona sees the warrior Dewi, her passion ignites, she envisions them coupling together in the Beltane mating rite… unleashing powerful, magic. Little does she know, the handsome warrior is really the mighty Dragon god. What will happen when Dewi’s secret is revealed? And what evil might the jealous chief unleash on the druidess and the dragon god?</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2JfPtsSKGW2D-iol_ulpZiPxvCwDkIkGdyhjWDF9Pbvgysuw6gRGtWK2IPI1Gk8BAFJhvaLed9KqGhMgP4Rbsxdq2vIOwHK8j2wX63GI-1tGaHYgmE3eA1n8O-teYBAgV1Cb2_4MJPSRem3urY3IZV22SeHwBDT4eiVUSWvLb1IDBySvIcQxwIvb0iQ/s2048/needfirepicfinal%20(1).jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1365" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2JfPtsSKGW2D-iol_ulpZiPxvCwDkIkGdyhjWDF9Pbvgysuw6gRGtWK2IPI1Gk8BAFJhvaLed9KqGhMgP4Rbsxdq2vIOwHK8j2wX63GI-1tGaHYgmE3eA1n8O-teYBAgV1Cb2_4MJPSRem3urY3IZV22SeHwBDT4eiVUSWvLb1IDBySvIcQxwIvb0iQ/w266-h400/needfirepicfinal%20(1).jpg" width="266" /></span></a></div><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">The other book is an anthology of Celtic Fantasy Romance Novellas of mine. </span></p><p><b><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Need Fire - Five Celtic Couples Risk All For Love</span></b></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">This box set includes: Moon Goddess Wife, Timeless Voyage, Pendragon's Obsession, A Fine Cauldron Of Fish, and Some Vampires Shimmy all published individually as well.</span></p><p><b><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"> A Fine Cauldron Of Fish</span></b></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">It's a hot summer romance for Margaid and Andrew on the Isle of Man. There are only a couple of minor problems: Margaid lives in a cave under the sea, is invisible, and thinks that only Andrew's blood can save her from turning into a water horse! But hey, whoever said love was perfect? </span></p><p><b><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Moon Goddess Wife </span></b></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Chief Pwyll's life turns into one wild ride the day Goddess Rhiannon gallops past him on her magic horse.</span></p><p><b><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Timeless Voyage </span></b></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">A Celtic pirate, Anwen, captures the enemy, a Roman seaman. As she holds a dagger to his throat... memories of fated lovers, druids, and sacrifice stay her hand.</span></p><p><b><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Pendragon's Obsession </span></b></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">What if a warrior king wanted you so badly he'd turn to magic to have you? </span></p><p><b><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Some Vampires Shimmy </span></b></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">It's all sizzle and steam when the last of the dancing vampire sisters get together with a sexy rock guitarist and a hot-looking god at a Scottish Steampunk Con.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">May Day is a day for celebration and love. It's a day to express our affection for those we care about and to celebrate the beginning of a new season. So, whether you celebrate May Day by dancing around a maypole or simply telling someone you love them, let's all take a moment to appreciate the gift of love that we share.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Another day of love in May is one reserved for mothers. Mother's Day is a time to honor and celebrate the most important woman in most people's lives: their mother. It's a day to show her that she is appreciated and valued for all that she does.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9jhaD8CvPtYAOOo2tlXOcRS3cck69TLH1lgI-OdwPavZbLUTn5IOfqDFDSw5EahJjYnXpYfzEZC1IkNeUsOvo1iuwihWucyNaO7duLL97BsVSvnQNQMXu2csz2lS-9PVlhf--WIedyMTzyyt7ezv5eYRCQvAUghpWFiZ94NCVgzWsLSOwfbxy2PBwaA/s2048/i%20love%20you%20more.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1280" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9jhaD8CvPtYAOOo2tlXOcRS3cck69TLH1lgI-OdwPavZbLUTn5IOfqDFDSw5EahJjYnXpYfzEZC1IkNeUsOvo1iuwihWucyNaO7duLL97BsVSvnQNQMXu2csz2lS-9PVlhf--WIedyMTzyyt7ezv5eYRCQvAUghpWFiZ94NCVgzWsLSOwfbxy2PBwaA/w250-h400/i%20love%20you%20more.jpg" width="250" /></span></a></div><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>My Mother''s Day book is I Love You More. </b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>A mother's love never fails…it always prevails.</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">On the verge of turning sixty, Garland recalls memories and moments of her life’s journey from an abusive childhood to a bad marriage to the ups and downs of being a single mom. She is rewarded with a magical Mother’s Day with her son, daughter-in-law, and granddaughter. Her moving story is sure to touch your heart.</span></p>cornelia amirihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10073486581012525859noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2400362761924699332.post-24884039455971136272022-12-10T21:04:00.002-08:002022-12-10T21:04:52.501-08:00Merry Winter Solstice<p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">The first day of Winter is December 21st. That is the Winter Solstice. I wrote a book set during the Winter Solstice, The Bear and the Druidess. It's the third book in my Shapeshifting Celtic Fantasy Romance series, Druidry and the Beast.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjaR78GJbOo1HSOkrx2JV-QrkzCU-uRAfU0RPMIzP1evJ-wIDbQ4JUxt9Yhyphenhyphent5ANnzkCwUODifpu1N5rtYVoOAKnn7DyMrj-fqBz-C809KsDZEfqiDnLpJ8OPQo8STkkl1LyNSM7P0XH908/s1000/TheBearTheDruidess_frontcover+%25281%2529.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1000" data-original-width="662" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjaR78GJbOo1HSOkrx2JV-QrkzCU-uRAfU0RPMIzP1evJ-wIDbQ4JUxt9Yhyphenhyphent5ANnzkCwUODifpu1N5rtYVoOAKnn7DyMrj-fqBz-C809KsDZEfqiDnLpJ8OPQo8STkkl1LyNSM7P0XH908/w265-h400/TheBearTheDruidess_frontcover+%25281%2529.jpg" width="265" /></span></a></div><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Here’s the blurb:</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Sometimes a secret must be revealed to move from the winter of love into its spring.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Romans stole all the winter grain from Druidess Bronwen’s tribe. Now, pursued by Romans, she ducks into a cave to hide. There she finds a handsome warrior who offers to help. He ignites a fiery spark of attraction within her but she can tell he’s keeping something from her.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">The prayers of a beautiful druidess he can’t resist lead the Bear God Artaois into the cave where Bronwen is hiding. He pretends to be asleep until she finds him.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Artaois (Art) is determined to spend the longest night of the year with her. But Bronwen doesn’t realize he’s a god. He keeps his secret from her and even though he can transform into a bear, he only reveals himself in human form.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">With the Winter Solstice upon them, can Artaois (Art) find a way to save her tribe from starvation? And, when Bronwen finally discovers his secret, will she leave the romance building between them out in the cold.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">So, what is the Winter Solstice, you may ask. You know it's the longest night of the year. But, why and how did the ancient Celts celebrate it?</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Well, it’s December 21st to 22nd, when the shortest day and the longest night of the year fall in the Northern Hemisphere. In Welsh they call the Winter Solstice Alban Arthan (Light of Winter).</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">To the ancient Celts this day signified the battle and defeat of the Holly King (ruling from Midsummer to Midwinter) by the Oak King (ruling from Midwinter to Midsummer). The Holly King, also seen as a wren bird, symbolized the old year and the shortened sun, while the Oak King, also seen as a robin, stood for the new year and growing sun. The Celts would act out the battle of the Oak King defeating the Holly King during the Winter Solstice celebration.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">They also had wren hunts, signifying the death of the Holly King. In Ireland, Wales, and the Isle of Man, Lá an Dreoilín, (Wren Day) was celebrated on December 26. Wrenboys dressed in masks or straw suits, usually had a hobby horse covered in a sheet, and it had strings that could close their mouths and make their legs kick. Wren boys were led by a captain and a boy who dressed as a female captain. These boys hunted and killed a wren as a tribute to the light for overcoming the dark. They’d set the dead wren in a box decorated with evergreens on a pole and go from house to house asking for food and good cheer. The wren was buried at the end of the rounds. Nowadays, they use a fake wren instead. Both the Holly King and wrens are associated with the Welsh god Bran.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">For the Winter Solstice, ancient Celts decorated Yule logs with holly and ivy, which are linked to the God Bran. Usually, they sprinkled ale or mead over the log before they lit it. They kept it slowly, yet steadily burning for 12 days in the fireplace before extinguishing it. To pass the light on from one year to the next, they kept part of the unburned log safely to one side and used it to light next year’s Yule log. Also, they stashed the log’s ashes away until spring, at which time they mixed them with seeds and scattered them on the fields, spreading the blessing contained in the Yule log over the land.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Mistletoe and oak were sacred to the ancient Celts. As an evergreen plant, Mistletoe symbolized continued life over the cold dark winter which is why druids picked it from oak trees five days after the new moon following the Winter Solstice. One druid climbed the tree and cut the mistletoe with a sickle, while others held an open sheet beneath him to catch the sacred plant since it was taboo to let it touch the ground. The druids handed out sprigs of mistletoe to tribesmen who hung them over entranceways for protection. Mistletoe is also believed to be an aphrodisiac, so this might be where the holiday tradition of ‘kissing under the mistletoe originated.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">The Celts' livelihood depended on what they could raise, grow, or hunt. So, the long, cold days of winter were hard on them. Since they didn’t have enough grain to feed all the cattle during winter, many were slaughtered at this time. This meant fresh meat for the winter solstice feast. Also, ale and mead brewed during the year fermented by this time and were ready for drinking.</span></p><p><br /></p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p>Merry Winter Solstice, Merry Yule, Merry Christmas </p></blockquote></blockquote><p><br /></p>cornelia amirihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10073486581012525859noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2400362761924699332.post-8441174815893185742022-11-20T15:14:00.001-08:002022-11-20T15:14:26.316-08:00Book Stores and Self-Published Authors Part I<p><span style="clear: left; float: left; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1280" data-original-width="1920" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhRXrB3UrJsPvk6zzjeXGvNpNC3jYYhk_s5_ZJ2yHYdeR6biLiEJU0AxRKrOg73XWzodVi3Di_uX4mQKesPMZSv6t5YN5tMeWrp-kcxyDL6yGY69f754My5mkSLAu0VkJnlodkUA4B77Z2HUyZ3xUyzAjeFxROZab59bh7_Od0cLlyQRAhm6I1bBNv/w400-h266/book-7108741_1920.jpg" width="400" /></span> </p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><br />So now your book has been ghostwritten. It's finished. Or maybe you or you wrote a book yourself but are new to the industry. Either way, if you are self-publishing it and want it in bookstores, this article is for you. Picture books and books for young children are different and some nonfiction and literary fiction, but other than that, the following information applies to most book genres.</span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">You can market and sell books without having them in brick-and-mortar stores. Your books don’t need to be in bookstores for successful sale numbers. Not at all. In many ways, there is no benefit to having your book on a store shelf when you consider most print books are sold online by Amazon. You can make high sales without having your books on store shelves. Many successful self-published authors do not sell their books in stores. It is unnecessary, and this is certainly not a recommendation to go that direction, especially since you have to deal with the cost and hassle of returns of unsold products and you do not get the high royalties you get from online distributors. Most self-published authors don’t put their books in brick-and-mortar stores. Most shouldn’t. There’s little reason to bother with it, if any.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">When a print book sells on Amazon you get 60%, no brick-and-mortar bookstore will give you that. You’ll get closer to half of that from them. Plus, with physical bookstores, you have the cost of returns for unsold books. These are not books someone buys and returns. They are books that were never purchased. You must pay the bookstore retail price for all of those, plus what they paid in shipping costs. Most people that sell self-publish books in stores get those books printed in China to reduce the high production costs, which is something else to deal with. So, getting into bookstores is not a decision to rush into. It is not necessarily a benefit at all. Again, many self-published authors skip bookshelves for good reasons. You need to look at the pros and cons before you decide to go after that coveted shelf space. I urge you.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">But if you have some passion or some reason to believe it is beneficial to have your self-published book in stores, you need to learn some marketing and relationship-building techniques regarding bookstores. I cover that in my blog post, Book Stores and Self-Published Authors Part II.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Cornelia Amiri Ghostwriter</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><a href="Http://CorneliaAmiri.com">Http://CorneliaAmiri.com</a></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><div><br /></div>cornelia amirihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10073486581012525859noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2400362761924699332.post-18636353543604086012022-08-20T11:59:00.008-07:002022-08-22T22:36:27.274-07:00GIVEAWAY Win Scifi Romance Prizes<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjj2dB6UzOfg63lxx0L_wPoWcgQ0DU2mib65U3NucQA1M48kEK042kTRJFMKEsVuQT61R2CRhvf7YXdafrF07_HEBs9ihrsWTpb2g1b8GbGaMfGIAmU-Y2uLYY6fUTHNxnfK0S7p1ISu2zpK-wSUN4B6hgud97OsnS97riMb0DXsflfCOtd0Il2Kh-CHA/s2400/Rare-Finds-Generic.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2400" data-original-width="1500" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjj2dB6UzOfg63lxx0L_wPoWcgQ0DU2mib65U3NucQA1M48kEK042kTRJFMKEsVuQT61R2CRhvf7YXdafrF07_HEBs9ihrsWTpb2g1b8GbGaMfGIAmU-Y2uLYY6fUTHNxnfK0S7p1ISu2zpK-wSUN4B6hgud97OsnS97riMb0DXsflfCOtd0Il2Kh-CHA/w400-h640/Rare-Finds-Generic.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><p><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b></b></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="351" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Zr6eAis4uaQ" width="424" youtube-src-id="Zr6eAis4uaQ"></iframe></b></span></div><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span></span></p><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><b>Rare Finds Giveaway:</b></b></span></span></div><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLySjIbp98WIl5hM_OQajvd8BdGfu-POM50OPl453AqlKo4QXWdt4uOhssifY4RNnB8N2MUqC6luS5MRymjHbcJrPcnrtcbP_Ld9TNTWXi_7otDmRv-3u7cXqZX08e5VD3onlNq3JWl8JqyfTQLGDt1qCzZIMgzDXJTwA2hRW2YjXl17j7WypI2tbtiw/s1920/Rare%20Finds.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><br /></a><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1920" height="280" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLySjIbp98WIl5hM_OQajvd8BdGfu-POM50OPl453AqlKo4QXWdt4uOhssifY4RNnB8N2MUqC6luS5MRymjHbcJrPcnrtcbP_Ld9TNTWXi_7otDmRv-3u7cXqZX08e5VD3onlNq3JWl8JqyfTQLGDt1qCzZIMgzDXJTwA2hRW2YjXl17j7WypI2tbtiw/w500-h280/Rare%20Finds.png" width="500" /></div><p><span style="font-size: large;"></span><span style="font-size: large;"></span> <br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p></p><p></p><h3 style="text-align: left;"><ul><li><span style="font-size: large;">Good Luck Socks, Women's Space & NASA Socks </span></li></ul><ul><li><span style="font-size: large;">Siver-toned metal Irish Celtic Knotwork designed Bookmark</span></li></ul><ul><li><span style="font-size: large;">Ice -Planet Barbarian inspired soy vegan candle</span></li></ul><ul><li><span style="font-size: large;">Silver Toned Goddess Pendant on chain</span></li></ul><ul><li><span style="font-size: large;">Silver Toned metal Star Trek Starfleet Divison Badge – Engineering</span></li></ul><ul><li><span style="font-size: large;">Autographed copy of Rare Finds</span></li></ul></h3><p></p><h1 style="text-align: left;"><a href="http://www.rafflecopter.com/rafl/display/ba112ffc2130/ "><span style="font-size: large;"> </span><span style="color: #ff00fe; font-size: x-large;"><b>Enter</b></span></a><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b><span style="color: #ff00fe;"><a href="http://www.rafflecopter.com/rafl/display/ba112ffc2130/ ">:</a></span> </b></span><span style="font-size: x-large;">http://www.rafflecopter.com/rafl/display/ba112ffc2130/ </span></h1><p><span style="font-size: xx-large;"><b>Book Description:</b></span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;">Earthman, Robbie McGreggor, eager to get down and dirty on digs at the far corners of outer space, lands on a remote planet, and is shocked by the alien culture he encounters—the gods of Irish mythology.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;">When the chief god, Dagda, uses his powerful magic to hold Robbie at his mercy, Niamh helps him escape. She makes her getaway by jumping aboard the shuttle with Robbie. But not before Dagda puts a curse on the immortal beauty.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;">What’s a cursed goddess to do?</span></p><p><br /></p><div><br /></div><p><br /></p><p></p>cornelia amirihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10073486581012525859noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2400362761924699332.post-77086294888831451192022-08-13T16:52:00.001-07:002022-08-13T16:57:20.298-07:00Sci-fi-Rom Contest - Win Star Trek, Ice Planet Barbarian, and other Awesome Merch<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"> To Celebrate my new release:</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMv3clwXXx8NteYTZFfVFh5aT1zcTHuG-2mwzb_VyFaixccgyeHQbC2j7rYpWqrL9-DhZXNWZYr0U09BNZfYggjT1KsR0aGEn7UC61C96foR8HiNZFo5WJMtr7IdzouuxkLKUM9Qj3F5vrFUyTyNG8M289ozxqk2OGyFw9Zt0_LgjdVd1dOtJ81R0W/s2400/rarefinds%20(1)%20(1).jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2400" data-original-width="1500" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMv3clwXXx8NteYTZFfVFh5aT1zcTHuG-2mwzb_VyFaixccgyeHQbC2j7rYpWqrL9-DhZXNWZYr0U09BNZfYggjT1KsR0aGEn7UC61C96foR8HiNZFo5WJMtr7IdzouuxkLKUM9Qj3F5vrFUyTyNG8M289ozxqk2OGyFw9Zt0_LgjdVd1dOtJ81R0W/w400-h640/rarefinds%20(1)%20(1).jpg" width="400" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><span class="a-text-bold" face=""Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-weight: 700;">Is archeology the sexiest profession in the universe? Just ask the Irish Goddess of Beauty and Brightness—Niamh.</span><span face=""Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111;"><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Earthman, Robbie McGreggor, eager to get down and dirty on digs at the far corners of outer space, lands on a remote planet, and is shocked by the alien culture he encounters—the gods of Irish mythology.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />When the chief god, Dagda, uses his powerful magic to hold Robbie at his mercy, Niamh helps him escape. She makes her getaway by jumping aboard the shuttle with Robbie. But not before Dagda puts a curse on the immortal beauty.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />What’s a cursed goddess to do?<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Team up with the mortal nerd, of course. And heat up the galaxy—uncovering alien artifacts as well as a passionate allure for Robbie…while she tries to answer the big questions:</span></span></div><p></p><ul class="a-unordered-list a-vertical" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; margin: 0px 0px 0px 18px; padding: 0px;"><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: disc; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span class="a-list-item" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">What dangers await?</span></span></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: disc; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span class="a-list-item" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Can she break the curse?</span></span></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: disc; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span class="a-list-item" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">And will they survive?</span></span></li></ul><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><span face=""Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111;">If a helping of original Star Trek meets Merlin plus a pinch of comedy and generous dashes of spice whets your appetite</span><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span face=""Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box;">,</span><span face=""Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box;"> <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Rare-Finds-Cornelia-Amiri-ebook/dp/B0B5GK12RG/ref=sr_1_2?crid=2EN4JBA48XEAA&keywords=rare+finds&qid=1660434037&s=digital-text&sprefix=rare+finds%2Cdigital-text%2C180&sr=1-2">then </a></span><span face=""Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Rare-Finds-Cornelia-Amiri-ebook/dp/B0B5GK12RG/ref=sr_1_2?crid=2EN4JBA48XEAA&keywords=rare+finds&qid=1660434037&s=digital-text&sprefix=rare+finds%2Cdigital-text%2C180&sr=1-2">take a ride on the Starship Celestial with Niamh and Robbie.</a></span></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span><span style="color: #cc0000; 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<b>Is archeology the sexist profession in the universe? Just ask the Irish Goddess of Beauty and Brightness—Niamh. </b>
Earthman, Robbie McGreggor, eager to get down and dirty on digs at the far corners of outer space, lands on Niamh’s remote planet. And is shocked by the alien culture he encounters—the gods of Irish mythology.
When the chief god, Dagda, uses his powerful magic to hold Robbie at his mercy, Niamh helps him escape, then makes her getaway—jumping aboard the shuttle with Robbie. But not before Dagda puts a curse on the immortal beauty.
What’s a cursed goddess to do?
Team up with the mortal nerd, of course. And heat up the galaxy— uncovering alien artifacts as well as a passionate allure for Robbie…while she tries to answer the big questions:
• What dangers await?
• And will they survive?
cornelia amirihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10073486581012525859noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2400362761924699332.post-63169743424895303852022-06-22T22:09:00.004-07:002022-06-22T22:09:47.948-07:00Weddings the Sci-fi Way<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEissgPvf6zRzFDQAjZUTWs7JKO1PIpGWtTKpuJeMaLxOfTOCUNO1e15Fwaos6NqvzD7qPV_Bpr4wMdUgnlFHKTKzVHaKJ9dOSrorXHFNO6IZ-5mxCjCJIDE8K2ZUJ4VGGA6S-SVe2q7shmpGr-Cly13x6wjDZZqy9mr8gogQxDYgjESavKG1NS4UJga-g/s640/banner-1799798_640.jpg" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0; text-align: center; "><img alt="" border="0" width="400" data-original-height="200" data-original-width="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEissgPvf6zRzFDQAjZUTWs7JKO1PIpGWtTKpuJeMaLxOfTOCUNO1e15Fwaos6NqvzD7qPV_Bpr4wMdUgnlFHKTKzVHaKJ9dOSrorXHFNO6IZ-5mxCjCJIDE8K2ZUJ4VGGA6S-SVe2q7shmpGr-Cly13x6wjDZZqy9mr8gogQxDYgjESavKG1NS4UJga-g/s400/banner-1799798_640.jpg"/></a></div><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">It’s June, so someone you know may be getting married. What if they were getting married in the far future, in outer space?</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Well, there is a wedding and bridal shower in my soon to be released 35th book, a comedy sci-fi romance, Rare Finds.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Here is an excerpt of the Bridal Shower:</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Action at the front of medbay and the constant noise of the doors sliding open and closed grabbed Robbie’s attention.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">“Why are all these ladies bringing fancy wrapped presents?” He watched them coming in by themselves and in pairs and heading to the back. “How many are in that little food copier area, and what are they doing?”</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">A woman came from the back area with a tray of white-frosted cupcakes and set them on the front counter.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">“They’re about thirty now.” Hernandez flashed a sheepish grin. “It’s a surprise bridal shower.”</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">“Oh!” He shook his head. “Does she know?”</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Hernandez’s grin grew even wider. “I just told you. She thinks she’s just coming here to take you home.”</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">“Well, as long as you let me have a cupcake, I’ll play along.” Robbie walked over to the doors so Niamh would see him as soon as she entered med bay.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">~</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"> But the ultimate space wedding was probably on season 6 of Star Trek’s Deep Space Nine, You Are Cordially Invited. But instead of a bridal shower for Dax, she had to prove her worth and go through some crazy Klingon trails, as did the groom—Worf, and his groomsmen.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">But Dax did have a wild bachelorette party, which included a hot fire dance from Lt. Manuele Atoa of the USS Sutherland, while Dax plays the drums for him. And Atoa is as hot as the firebrand he dances with, believe me. There is also lots of drinking and some table dancing. The party almost gets shut down due to noise complaints and a fight.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">The wedding is called off twice, but then it’s back on.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">The ceremony takes place on the space station at Quark’s Bar. Worf’s son, Alexander, serves as the Klingon equivalent of a best man—a Sword Bearer. Instead of an organ playing the wedding march, Klingons beat the traditional drums as Dax and Worf, wearing scarlet and golden bridal clothes and gold crowns, vow that their hearts beat only for each other. The entire space station cheers the newly wedded couple.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">What do you think weddings in space will be like? Please comment below. And for more of my books, please visit my <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Cornelia-Amiri/e/B002BLFENY/ref=aufs_dp_fta_dsk"><b>Amazon Author Page</b>.</a></span></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>cornelia amirihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10073486581012525859noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2400362761924699332.post-44846408517846112012022-04-23T19:31:00.001-07:002022-04-23T19:31:35.315-07:005 Facts and 2 Fantasy Romances About May Day<p>It will soon be May and the first of the month is Beltane (bell-tayn), in modern times we call it May Day. </p><p>1. This festival of the ancient Celts celebrated Spring and the Fire God, Belenus.</p><p>2. The May Queen led the Beltane procession with her ritual courtship of the Green Man. These symbolic marriages of the god and goddess, in the form of King and Queen of the May, were mirrored in human romances. </p><p>3. Courtships for the ancient Celts would often begin at Beltaine and the marriages would be held at Samhain (Sah-van), which in modern times we call Halloween.</p><div>4. One of the most important Beltane traditions was the Need Fire. Tribesmen built two huge bonfires next to each other and drove the tribe's cattle between them so the smoke would purify them and protect them from disease as well as grant them fertility from God Belenus. </div><div><br /></div><div>5. The tribesmen also ran or jumped between the fires for the fertility of the tribe. </div><p>I wrote two books that celebrate Beltane:</p><p><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Dragon-Druidess-Druidry-Beast-Book-ebook/dp/B01MSJWDN5/ref=sr_1_1?crid=77ATSNV6BQLN&keywords=the+dragon+and+the+druidess&qid=1650709103&sprefix=the+dragon+and+the+druidess%2Caps%2C384&sr=8-1"><b></b></a></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibgpmqACzx06ySadv44Yne8unGe1gv1QKz5lSzI8FnhMa4-3H2Sl6GskT68eIxOQng7LB6Ps8qorn9AWOR-3ZwhyKv9bpP4XRXy2mmHWRGaWsIaUEhuOGURe24EQXQFswbvK0YRRZaJr-Hh84p2jM7X76QviIce38CJRZdDekJG7Ht5r01N7xAjUr5OA/s2048/dragondruidessnameandtitle.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibgpmqACzx06ySadv44Yne8unGe1gv1QKz5lSzI8FnhMa4-3H2Sl6GskT68eIxOQng7LB6Ps8qorn9AWOR-3ZwhyKv9bpP4XRXy2mmHWRGaWsIaUEhuOGURe24EQXQFswbvK0YRRZaJr-Hh84p2jM7X76QviIce38CJRZdDekJG7Ht5r01N7xAjUr5OA/w300-h400/dragondruidessnameandtitle.jpg" width="300" /></a></b></div><p><b><br />The Dragon and The Druidess (Druidry and the Beast Book 2) </b></p><p></p><p><b>Click Here </b><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Dragon-Druidess-Druidry-Beast-Book-ebook/dp/B01MSJWDN5/ref=sr_1_1?crid=77ATSNV6BQLN&keywords=the+dragon+and+the+druidess&qid=1650709103&sprefix=the+dragon+and+the+druidess%2Caps%2C384&sr=8-1">The Dragon and The Druidess (Druidry and the Beast Book 2) </a></p><p>To a passionate man…all women are goddesses.</p><p>Druidess Nona is seeking a lover for the Beltane rite. Without warning, a fierce red dragon swoops down before her. Not just any dragon…it’s God Dewey in wild, beastly form. Hot, in a rage, blowing smoke and flames… because Nona’s tribesmen snatched gold from the earth without the gods’ consent.</p><p>Captivated by Nona’s beauty and bravery, sparks fly and ablaze with desire for Nona, Dewi flies away… only to land nearby and shapeshifts to human form. In the guise of a visiting warrior needing the Druidess' hospitality, Dewi returns to the village. But, he discovers he has a rival for Nona’s affection, a chief who will stop at nothing to have her for his own. </p><p>The moment Nona sees the warrior Dewi, her passion ignites, she envisions them coupling together in the Beltane mating rite… unleashing powerful, magic. Little does she know, the handsome warrior is really the mighty Dragon god. What will happen when Dewi’s secret is revealed? And what evil might the jealous chief unleash on the druidess and the dragon god?</p><p>The other book is an anthology of Celtic Fantasy Romance Novellas of mine. </p><p><b></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVhf9S3vgrVFp_XYwTx_GQjz1ouyHFLzrHHFXBFAeKW-d6UQeyZwYhM3woZR57SYtdHxNhfzp_mEQwu_9Rd79O9KRtq3jgglKTfnyRzCzuT2iR78m2MtafBuHMjdEvBZVu547l3tqx5s8iHhLVNyu0diwFtgmUfdL3B6fGMDy_JKp5Zx5avI9m2DEzuw/s2048/needfirepicfinal%20(1).jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1365" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVhf9S3vgrVFp_XYwTx_GQjz1ouyHFLzrHHFXBFAeKW-d6UQeyZwYhM3woZR57SYtdHxNhfzp_mEQwu_9Rd79O9KRtq3jgglKTfnyRzCzuT2iR78m2MtafBuHMjdEvBZVu547l3tqx5s8iHhLVNyu0diwFtgmUfdL3B6fGMDy_JKp5Zx5avI9m2DEzuw/w266-h400/needfirepicfinal%20(1).jpg" width="266" /></a></b></div><p><b><br />Need Fire - Five Celtic Couples Risk All For Love</b></p><p></p><p><b>Click Here <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Box-Set-Need-Celtic-Couples-ebook/dp/B00V5PQGRU/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1PZ156O1LFMYW&keywords=need+fire+amiri&qid=1650709314&sprefix=need+fire+amiri%2Caps%2C91&sr=8-1">Need Fire - Five Celtic Couples Risk All For Love</a></b></p><div><b>On sale for Beltane - May Day <i>for 99 Cents</i></b></div><p>This box set includes: Moon Goddess Wife, Timeless Voyage, Pendragon's Obsession, A Fine Cauldron Of Fish, and Some Vampires Shimmy all published individually as well.</p><p>A Fine Cauldron Of Fish</p><p>It's a hot summer romance for Margaid and Andrew on the Isle of Man. There are only a couple of minor problems: Margaid lives in a cave under the sea, is invisible, and thinks that only Andrew's blood can save her from turning into a water horse! But hey, whoever said love was perfect? </p><p>Moon Goddess Wife </p><p>Chief Pwyll's life turns into one wild ride the day Goddess Rhiannon gallops past him on her magic horse.</p><p>Timeless Voyage </p><p>A Celtic pirate, Anwen, captures the enemy, a Roman seaman. As she holds a dagger to his throat... memories of fated lovers, druids, and sacrifices stay her hand.</p><p>Pendragon's Obsession </p><p>What if a warrior king wanted you so badly he'd turn to magic to have you? </p><p>Some Vampires Shimmy </p><p>It's all sizzle and steam when the last of the dancing vampire sisters get together with a sexy rock guitarist and a hot-looking god at a Scottish Steampunk Con.</p><p><br /></p>cornelia amirihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10073486581012525859noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2400362761924699332.post-63533588487332821872022-01-22T22:49:00.008-08:002022-01-23T13:34:33.063-08:0010 Tea-rrific Facts You Never Knew About Tea<span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Hot tea is a nice drink for the cold weather most of us are having. We are even having chilly days here in Houston Texas where I am at. In the US 159 million people drink tea each day, but in the US it’s mostly iced tea. In the south, like Houston, Texas, we also drink what's called sweet tea, which is a type of ice tea drink, made as a large batch, where the sugar is seeped in with the tea before the ice is added.</span><div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"> 1. Globally, tea is the second most consumed beverage. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"> 2. The history of tea began in China. The ancient Chinese started to grow and brew it around </span><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">2732 BC a</span><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">nd used it for medicinal purposes. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"> 3. <span style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;">Then, it ventured into Japan. Buddhist monks sent to China returned home with the seeds in 815 AD. Emperor Saga of Japan encouraged the growth of tea plants and is credited with the popularity of tea in that country. Tea was associated with Buddhism and used as a religious drink. Japanese tea ceremonies are still performed to this day.</span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">4. <span style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-decoration-thickness: initial; widows: 2;">It wasn't until the 1500s that tea made its way into Europe. By way of </span></span><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">missionaries to China, t</span><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">he Portuguese were the first Europeans to discover the pleasures of tea. But, it was very expensive, so only the nobility drank it.</span></div><div><div style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">5. <span style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;">The Portuguese saw the value of trade in tea and brought it to England, but it didn't take off until 1662. That's when the English King, Charles II, married the Portuguese Princess, Catherine of Braganza. Her fondness for tea caught on in England. So the nobles switched from coffee in the English coffee houses to tea, but at the time only the nobility could afford it. </span></span></div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><br class="Apple-interchange-newline" /></span><div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">So that’s a quick history of where tea started and how it reached England. Nows, let's speed up to 1837 which is the start of the Victorian era, which goes to 1901. During this period, most people in England drink tea. Tea was a big drink in Victorian England so since some of my books are Steampunk Romance I thought I'd write about tea time.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">6. Once everyone is seated, the hostess pours the tea, filling each guest’s cup. During a Victorian tea party, the spout of the teapot faces the hostess or pourer. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">7. A teacup is shallow and wider than a coffee or chocolate cup to give the tea room to temper before drinking.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">8.The hostess offers lemons, milk, or sugar for the tea. Milk and lemon are never added to the same cup, as citrus spoils milk. Cream is not offered as it is much too heavy for tea. An infinite variety of tasty sandwiches may be served at tea, sometimes filled with chicken or turkey salad, and cucumber sandwiches are often offered as well. The crust is always trimmed off the bread. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">9. Do not extend your pinkie finger when drinking tea, it is rude. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">10. When stirring tea, do not clink your spoon against the cup, instead, swish it gently to and fro. After stirring, place the spoon on the saucer behind the teacup. Remove the spoon before drinking your tea. Do not swirl the tea in your cup or you might slosh and stain the tablecloth. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">There is specific etiquette for gentlemen attending teas. They must stand when a lady enters or leaves the room, open the door for the ladies, and escort the ladies downstairs to their carriage or cab. One would never expect less of a true gentleman. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"> Here are two of my Steampunk books that are set in Victorian England.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj0J5NFOMXo0exUk6KHFsPKOVzQ3Ek-gH12kB_rtUYOBqQLrkvgx9xUJEERdBdhVD2MwUk-GG1VdRtRo_m_dKu83AIQ5AArA2JbE490TOqrp86ia1nLHluJbtzbg1v9-X8IvTOowwCJl9F5Xhdffz_M-kB_hdwQTNLIpcdI_sc2W6Vgl20oj5l-SkW3DQ=s515" style="clear: left; display: block; float: left; padding: 1em 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><img alt="" border="0" data-original-height="515" data-original-width="343" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj0J5NFOMXo0exUk6KHFsPKOVzQ3Ek-gH12kB_rtUYOBqQLrkvgx9xUJEERdBdhVD2MwUk-GG1VdRtRo_m_dKu83AIQ5AArA2JbE490TOqrp86ia1nLHluJbtzbg1v9-X8IvTOowwCJl9F5Xhdffz_M-kB_hdwQTNLIpcdI_sc2W6Vgl20oj5l-SkW3DQ=s320" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">
Spinster Librarian Piety Plunkett is happy alone with her books, until her sister Polly transforms her with a bras octopus beautifying machine. With her new look, the librarian catches the lusty attentions of London’s most notorious rogue. Blake Blackmore enjoys the favors of beautiful women from the brothels of London to high society’s most fashionable debutantes but only the spinster librarian consumes his mind night and day. Piety insists she will not wed but devote her life to her position as head librarian, but Blake will stop at nothing to win her. He takes matters into his own hands and tutors her in carnal pleasure in three passion filled lessons. Now that she is sharing her body, instead of just her books, Piety is shocked yet pleased at how naughty she can be under Blake’s personal tutelage. But if anyone finds out about what goes on in the library after closing time, her reputation would be ruined. Is that Blake’ ultimate plan?
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A Wild Ghost Chase
Queen Victoria orders the premiere phantom hunter, Sexton Dukenfield, to track down England’s missing ghosts. On the job, Sexton stumbles into Ceridwen, a phantom Celtic warrior woman. Not only does Sexton find her intriguing as a clue to the missing spirits, her sultry beauty haunts him as well. Though they both burn with desire, it’s difficult to quench their fiery passion since Ceridwen is so translucent.
On a mission through the bustling narrow streets of London, to a dreary match factory, and to the Otherworld and back to stop a genius scientist and his phantasm debilitater machine, the ghost and the ghost hunter also seek the secret …to freeing the boundaries of life and death. Is it possible…or just a wild ghost chase?
<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Cornelia-Amiri/e/B002BLFENY?ref_=dbs_p_ebk_r00_abau_000000">More Here</a></span>
</div></div></div>cornelia amirihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10073486581012525859noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2400362761924699332.post-17609423515608671862021-12-29T15:30:00.007-08:002021-12-29T15:30:57.460-08:00New Years And Old Years In Romance<p> The 2022 New Year will soon be upon us.</p><p>I thought it would be nice per nostalgia to show you how my 2010 New Year Blog Post began. </p><p><br /></p><p>H<i>appy New Year, I hope the holidays were happy for everyone.</i></p><p><i>I have a great blog for you, it begins with the information on my next release, in February for All Romance E-books 28 Days of Heart series to benefit the American Heart Campaign. </i></p><p><i></i></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5traQB1tl9N3wPvoFGWTlwf6a5S0UL1PEkiEFAGB_2kJGqPeA5NT_tSpYshyNb5n3iT9AYHj7YML_HkBRnGwba7qt-9Z5212VUoRqWZVXARa8EU-1iYT6jo7aX0NB1Z9SEIQUk2x0ABND/s300/first+timeless+voyage+ARE+cover.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="300" data-original-width="200" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5traQB1tl9N3wPvoFGWTlwf6a5S0UL1PEkiEFAGB_2kJGqPeA5NT_tSpYshyNb5n3iT9AYHj7YML_HkBRnGwba7qt-9Z5212VUoRqWZVXARa8EU-1iYT6jo7aX0NB1Z9SEIQUk2x0ABND/w267-h400/first+timeless+voyage+ARE+cover.jpeg" width="267" /></a></div><br /><br /></i></div><i>All Romance will release one title each day, for 28 days, during the month of February. They also will compile them into 5 anthologies and Charlain Harris is writing the foreword. All proceeds will benefit the American Heart Association. My 28 Days of Heart story is Timeless Voyage, it will be released 02/20/10, and here's the blurb. </i><p></p><p><i>BLURB: Off the mist-shrouded coast of Ireland, a pagan lady-pirate, Anwen, captures the enemy, a Roman, Titus Rufius Kaeso. The Celtic warrior woman presses her hard iron dagger against Kaeso's throat, but her arm does not obey the will to slay him. From time out of mind, memories of fated lovers, druids, and sacrifice, stay her hand. Kaeso is also captivated by dreams of the woman he loved in a previous life, the mirror image of Anwen. But in this lifetime they are foes, Roman and Celt. Can Anwen and Kaeso steer their timeless voyage to a happy destiny or will they be robbed of love once more? </i></p><p><i>QUOTE OF THE MONTH: "The ability of writers to imagine what is not the self, to familiarize the strange and mystify the familiar, is the test of their power." Toni Morrison </i></p><p><i>WORDS OF THE MONTH: Lake Superior State University released the 35th annual List of Words Banished from the Queen's English for Mis-use, Over-use, and General Uselessness http://www.lssu.edu/banished/current.php</i></p><p><i> </i></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhL50moF3sgtjWvn1f_JnfNmbbNatjTjGWL2f8zgJkO5LfbnI0hwWa51ZyHlOQw2iLzlipTfrnkFbhCZnI4cnbxJVmDI9THl5KbSzfvQGFmcnLPlupsMOAf3-OIgysArnUn5ZO9QEsrnD_X/s499/518hpgRhATL._SX342_BO1%252C204%252C203%252C200_.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="499" data-original-width="344" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhL50moF3sgtjWvn1f_JnfNmbbNatjTjGWL2f8zgJkO5LfbnI0hwWa51ZyHlOQw2iLzlipTfrnkFbhCZnI4cnbxJVmDI9THl5KbSzfvQGFmcnLPlupsMOAf3-OIgysArnUn5ZO9QEsrnD_X/w276-h400/518hpgRhATL._SX342_BO1%252C204%252C203%252C200_.jpg" width="276" /></a></i></div><i><br /></i><p></p><p><i>NEW REVIEW: Queen of Kings: </i></p><p><i>Macha Mong Raud by Cornelia Amiri Reviewed by Penny Ash at Night Owl Romance Reviews "I found Queen of Kings well written and very close to the original legend. If you like the ancient Celtic world you'll enjoy this book." <a href="http://www.nightowlreviews.com/nightowlromance/reviews/Review.aspx?daoid=5429">http://www.nightowlreviews.com/nightowlromance/reviews/Review.aspx?daoid=5429</a></i></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Both books have been reprinted by me, long hence, with new covers.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLDS8-ErJxlrvkLXTQdzxiGyXqHQjaKZdcIcfbTqrE52JhnehOjAsNyas2H1B-K_QJGA_V8-cj8SoHWeYhcWEidnth-pjSSbWXjmxfao_Ggw_7EqeHqcvGCxRStbtg4F-7lhH8Av7vfiUH/s486/unnamed.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="486" data-original-width="336" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLDS8-ErJxlrvkLXTQdzxiGyXqHQjaKZdcIcfbTqrE52JhnehOjAsNyas2H1B-K_QJGA_V8-cj8SoHWeYhcWEidnth-pjSSbWXjmxfao_Ggw_7EqeHqcvGCxRStbtg4F-7lhH8Av7vfiUH/w276-h400/unnamed.jpg" width="276" /></a></div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHg8w7mbRa6rCbOX7VQQumIMjRKMqZBaQAA2jFaJRDFiPBdlFBcYDe7su4XvkoXGWfr1VIXLWQbQsyhiAVcp2OLhOP06lp0mv4mp2BJVDLlDd2-AZiohDZqxymU_J64bGOCM5i2lEK3UtF/s847/celtic+Queen1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="847" data-original-width="600" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHg8w7mbRa6rCbOX7VQQumIMjRKMqZBaQAA2jFaJRDFiPBdlFBcYDe7su4XvkoXGWfr1VIXLWQbQsyhiAVcp2OLhOP06lp0mv4mp2BJVDLlDd2-AZiohDZqxymU_J64bGOCM5i2lEK3UtF/w284-h400/celtic+Queen1.jpg" width="284" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p>A lot more than my covers have changed since 2010. Neither of the original publishers are still open. The only publisher I had that is still operating is Lyrical Press which sold and is now part of the Big 5. But the books are still here and so am I. I now have full rights for them and all my books and now I have over 40 published books. And, I'm still going strong and writing more at age 64. There is progression every year, which makes every year a good year, a happy year. I hope 2022 is a progressive year for all of you as well. After 2020, and 2021, the whole world deserves a wonderful year. </p><div>Over the years the publishing industry and the Romance genre have changed so much. My first book came out in the New Year, January 2001 fromAwe Struck Ebooks. The title then was - The Fox Prince. Here is the cover then, and here is the cover of its sequel—then titled—The Vixen Princess—when it first came out. </div><div><br /></div><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg34ba8eilru9QOWfu1O8tVrqP2exbfUmm6ly4CO-QeK0sQRTc7sbvTqrRoZVXwS_7k2nlKu7mdmEOMpXxm_NUmdftG1b86rPT-qGBORvMZoANcCsrx9JIkzubpWvYqjXQDFc_otQHsHJ8H/s218/51KVj-W7CZL._AC_UY218_.jpg" style="clear: left; display: inline; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="218" data-original-width="136" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg34ba8eilru9QOWfu1O8tVrqP2exbfUmm6ly4CO-QeK0sQRTc7sbvTqrRoZVXwS_7k2nlKu7mdmEOMpXxm_NUmdftG1b86rPT-qGBORvMZoANcCsrx9JIkzubpWvYqjXQDFc_otQHsHJ8H/w250-h400/51KVj-W7CZL._AC_UY218_.jpg" width="250" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7kXIYCkqRSrE2nfMLGi2PfFpGTQis24qos3dtt5dpESjCvsWCt98h5db3wQTq1DQKIX6AyClzjGbrJdILLiJYHWNwILsx_8eADAX4d3ACjwvPPW0t92Hr3VC1IpyvIQBb2oqBh-IS6raO/s218/51p3BLfKn-L._AC_UY218_.jpg" style="clear: right; display: inline; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="218" data-original-width="141" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7kXIYCkqRSrE2nfMLGi2PfFpGTQis24qos3dtt5dpESjCvsWCt98h5db3wQTq1DQKIX6AyClzjGbrJdILLiJYHWNwILsx_8eADAX4d3ACjwvPPW0t92Hr3VC1IpyvIQBb2oqBh-IS6raO/w259-h400/51p3BLfKn-L._AC_UY218_.jpg" width="259" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div>When I wrote my first romance in 2000, The Fox Prince, it was contracted the same year. It was accepted by the first publisher I sent it to. The romance genre has changed so much. At that time all the heroines had to start out in the book as virgins. And also, dark scenes were out. I remember going to a panel at the Romantic. Times Convention in Houston, TX in 2000, and there a prominent New York agent said, "Now when righting historicals, a lot of sad things happened with native Americans and other dark things but you don't want to include any of that in your books. It's just too depressing for the readers and they don't read romance for that." - That's pretty close to what he said though I can't vouch for every word as it was 21 years ago. But now there are so many romances that are dark and the virgins are pretty much gone except for the clean and wholesome romances. </div><div><br /></div><div>Do you have any predictions for changes in the romance genre or the publishing industry in the coming year, 2022? Feel free to post them are anything else you want to comment on below. And here's wishing all my readers and fellow romance authors a Happy New Year from me, Cornelia Amiri </div><div><br /></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><p><br /></p></div>cornelia amirihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10073486581012525859noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2400362761924699332.post-65084364900421256222021-12-21T06:31:00.001-08:002021-12-21T06:31:17.092-08:00All About The Solstice <p> </p><h2 class="has-text-align-center" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #505050; font-family: Montserrat; font-size: 24px; line-height: normal !important; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 15px 0px 0px; text-align: center; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">It’s All About The Winter Solstice</span></h2><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #616161; font-family: "Open Sans"; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.8; margin: 0px 0px 15px;">It’s that mystical time of the year when the shortest day and the longest night fall in the Northern Hemisphere. In Welsh, they call it <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Alban Arthan</em> (Light of Winter), but most English speakers refer to December 21st to 22nd as the Winter Solstice.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #616161; font-family: "Open Sans"; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.8; margin: 0px 0px 15px;">To the ancient Celts, this day signified the battle and defeat of the Holly King (ruling from Midsummer to Midwinter) by the Oak King (ruling from Midwinter to Midsummer). The Holly King, also seen as a wren bird, symbolized the old year and the shortened sun, while the Oak King, also seen as a robin, stood for the new year and growing sun. The Celts would act out the battle of the Oak King defeating the Holly King during the Winter Solstice celebration. </p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #616161; font-family: "Open Sans"; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.8; margin: 0px 0px 15px;">Wren hunts also signified the death of the Holly King. In Ireland, Wales, and the Isle of Man, <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Lá an Dreoilín</em>, (Wren Day) was celebrated on December 26. Wren-boys dressed in masks or straw suits, and usually rode a hobby horse covered in a sheet. Strings controlled the hobby horses, when pulled, their mouths closed, and their legs kicked. Wren-boys were led by a boy dressed as a male captain and a boy dressed as a female captain. These boys hunted and killed a wren as a tribute to the light for overcoming the dark. They’d lay the dead wren in a box decorated with evergreens on a pole and go from house to house asking for food and good cheer. The wren was buried at the end of the rounds. Nowadays they use a fake wren instead. </p><div class="wp-block-image" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #616161; font-family: "Open Sans"; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><figure class="aligncenter size-large is-resized" style="box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; display: table; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 100%;"><img alt="" height="315" loading="lazy" src="https://i.imgur.com/xSuKPJy.jpg" style="backface-visibility: hidden; border-radius: inherit; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; margin: 0px 15px 15px 0px; max-width: 100%; min-height: 1px; position: relative; vertical-align: middle; z-index: 100;" width="473" /></figure></div><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #616161; font-family: "Open Sans"; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.8; margin: 0px 0px 15px;">In Wales, both the Holly King and wrens were associated with the Welsh god Bran. Holly and Ivy are also linked to Bran. For the Winter Solstice, Yule logs were brightly decorated with holly and ivy. Ale or mead was sprinkled over the log before it was lit. It was kept slowly, yet steadily burning for 12 days in the fireplace. To pass the light on from one year to the next, the ancient Celts kept part of the unburned log safely to one side to use for lighting the next year’s Yule log. Also, they stashed the log’s ashes away until spring, at which time they mixed them with seeds, and scattered them on the fields, spreading the blessing contained in the Yule log over the land.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #616161; font-family: "Open Sans"; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.8; margin: 0px 0px 15px;">Mistletoe and oak were sacred to the ancient Celts. As an evergreen plant, Mistletoe symbolized continued life over the dark cold winter. That is why druids picked it from oak trees five days after the new moon following the Winter Solstice. One druid climbed the tree and cut the mistletoe with a sickle, while others held an open sheet beneath him to catch the sacred plant since it was taboo to let it touch the ground. The druids handed out sprigs of mistletoe to tribesmen who hung them over entranceways for protection. Mistletoe is also believed to be an aphrodisiac, so this might be where the holiday tradition of ‘kissing under the mistletoe’ originated.</p><div class="wp-block-image" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #616161; font-family: "Open Sans"; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><figure class="aligncenter size-large is-resized" style="box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; display: table; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 100%;"><img alt="" height="320" loading="lazy" src="https://i.imgur.com/yayzj6I.jpg" style="backface-visibility: hidden; border-radius: inherit; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; margin: 0px 15px 15px 0px; max-width: 100%; min-height: 1px; position: relative; vertical-align: middle; z-index: 100;" width="481" /></figure></div><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #616161; font-family: "Open Sans"; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.8; margin: 0px 0px 15px;">And last but not least, a highlight of the Winter Solstice was a grand feast. The Celts’ livelihood depended on what they could raise, grow, or hunt. So, the long, cold days of winter were hard on them. Since they didn’t have enough grain to feed all the cattle during winter, many were slaughtered at this time. This meant fresh meat for the winter solstice feast. Also, ale and mead brewed during the year fermented by this time and were ready for drinking.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #616161; font-family: "Open Sans"; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.8; margin: 0px 0px 15px;">We can draw on these ancient traditions and create our own modern Winter Solstice adventures and celebrations for our families and friends. Some simple ideas are:</p><ul style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #616161; font-family: "Open Sans"; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 0px;"><li style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 1px 2px;">Bake a yule log cake </li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 1px 2px;">Serve your family dinner by candlelight</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 1px 2px;">Wake up early on the longest day of the year to watch the sunrise</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 1px 2px;">Take a moment to reflect on what the sun means to you and what that sun gives to us</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 1px 2px;">Decorate your home with greenery and light with your choice of a Christmas tree, evergreen branches, pinecones, holly berries, mistletoe berries, or candles</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 1px 2px;">Serve up a warm solstice drink: wassail or mulled wine or hot apple cider</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 1px 2px;">Make a Wreath</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 1px 2px;">Bake round shortbread Solstice Cookies in the shape of the sun. Or other great Solstice treats like Yule Kinship cookies or Christmas cookies</li></ul><div><span style="background-color: white; color: #616161; font-family: "Open Sans"; font-size: 16px;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjciUwP0Sc6muAJswDDsUmOUs3tdJbOI21sp6P9mWd1msyA5jyTO-zOjh8soCBqNK74Ziqxn2zdp8wJSuH9RMpQiyNNXXNBgvDjNTmYkcwRH7U_EUCI7KGX2dXStzw9bIY1-cfcFwUD-1B81JTOL7P-5dGbAAywpiCayjB3GF9zvla2vVSnauAAo_mx=s1000" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1000" data-original-width="662" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjciUwP0Sc6muAJswDDsUmOUs3tdJbOI21sp6P9mWd1msyA5jyTO-zOjh8soCBqNK74Ziqxn2zdp8wJSuH9RMpQiyNNXXNBgvDjNTmYkcwRH7U_EUCI7KGX2dXStzw9bIY1-cfcFwUD-1B81JTOL7P-5dGbAAywpiCayjB3GF9zvla2vVSnauAAo_mx=s320" width="212" /></a></div></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #616161; font-family: "Open Sans"; font-size: 16px;">Or read a Winter Solstice book. </span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; color: #616161; font-family: "Open Sans"; font-size: 16px;">In the </span><a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07CMBR4ZQ/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_hsch_vapi_tkin_p3_i4" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #004ef7; font-family: "Open Sans"; font-size: 16px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none;">Bear and the Druidess</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #616161; font-family: "Open Sans"; font-size: 16px;">, Cornelia takes her readers back to a Celtic Iron Age celebration of the Winter Solstice. </span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; color: #616161; font-family: "Open Sans"; font-size: 16px;"><br /></span></div>cornelia amirihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10073486581012525859noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2400362761924699332.post-33235991077438858462021-11-25T07:32:00.000-08:002021-11-25T07:32:27.172-08:00Winter is Coming and So Is The Shifter Bear God<p>The Bear and the Druidess</p><p>My Celtic Winter Solstice novella, The Bear and the Druidess is the third book in my Druidry and the Beast series. It’s available where ebooks are sold.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjaR78GJbOo1HSOkrx2JV-QrkzCU-uRAfU0RPMIzP1evJ-wIDbQ4JUxt9Yhyphenhyphent5ANnzkCwUODifpu1N5rtYVoOAKnn7DyMrj-fqBz-C809KsDZEfqiDnLpJ8OPQo8STkkl1LyNSM7P0XH908/s1000/TheBearTheDruidess_frontcover+%25281%2529.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1000" data-original-width="662" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjaR78GJbOo1HSOkrx2JV-QrkzCU-uRAfU0RPMIzP1evJ-wIDbQ4JUxt9Yhyphenhyphent5ANnzkCwUODifpu1N5rtYVoOAKnn7DyMrj-fqBz-C809KsDZEfqiDnLpJ8OPQo8STkkl1LyNSM7P0XH908/w265-h400/TheBearTheDruidess_frontcover+%25281%2529.jpg" width="265" /></a></div><p><br /></p><p>Here’s the blurb:</p><p>Sometimes a secret must be revealed to move from the winter of love into its spring.</p><p>Romans stole all the winter grain from Druidess Bronwen’s tribe. Now, pursued by Romans, she ducks into a cave to hide. There she finds a handsome warrior who offers to help. He ignites a fiery spark of attraction within her but she can tell he’s keeping something from her.</p><p>The prayers of a beautiful druidess he can’t resist lead the Bear God Artaois into the cave where Bronwen is hiding. He pretends to be asleep until she finds him.</p><p>Artaois (Art) is determined to spend the longest night of the year with her. But Bronwen doesn’t realize he’s a god. He keeps his secret from her and even though he can transform into a bear, he only reveals himself in human form.</p><p>With the Winter Solstice upon them, can Artaois (Art) find a way to save her tribe from starvation? And, when Bronwen finally discovers his secret, will she leave the romance building between them out in the cold.</p><p>So, what is the Winter Solstice, you may ask. You know it's the longest night of the year. But, why and how did the ancient Celts celebrate it?</p><p>Well, it’s December 21st to 22nd, when the shortest day and the longest night of the year fall in the Northern Hemisphere. In Welsh they call the Winter Solstice Alban Arthan (Light of Winter).</p><p>To the ancient Celts this day signified the battle and defeat of the Holly King (ruling from Midsummer to Midwinter) by the Oak King (ruling from Midwinter to Midsummer). The Holly King, also seen as a wren bird, symbolized the old year and the shortened sun, while the Oak King, also seen as a robin, stood for the new year and growing sun. The Celts would act out the battle of the Oak King defeating the Holly King during the Winter Solstice celebration.</p><p>They also had wren hunts, signifying the death of the Holly King. In Ireland, Wales, and the Isle of Man, Lá an Dreoilín, (Wren Day) was celebrated December 26. Wrenboys dressed in masks or straw suits, usually had a hobby horse covered in a sheet, and it had strings which could close their mouths and make their legs kick. Wren boys were led by a captain and a boy who dressed as a female captain. These boys hunted and killed a wren as tribute to the light for overcoming the dark. They’d set the dead wren in a box decorated with evergreens on a pole and go from house to house asking for food and good cheer. The wren was buried at the end of the rounds. Nowadays, they use a fake wren instead. Both the Holly King and wrens are associated with the Welsh god Bran.</p><p>For the Winter Solstice, ancient Celts decorated Yule logs with holly and ivy, which are linked to the God Bran. Usually, they sprinkled ale or mead over the log before they lit it. They kept it slowly, yet steadily burning for 12 days in the fireplace before extinguishing it. To pass the light on from one year to the next, they kept part of the unburned log safely to one side and used it to light next year’s Yule log. Also, they stashed the log’s ashes away until spring, at which time they mixed them with seeds and scattered them on the fields, spreading the blessing contained in the Yule log over the land.</p><p>Mistletoe and oak were sacred to the ancient Celts. As an evergreen plant, Mistletoe symbolized continued life over the cold dark winter which is why druids picked it from oak trees five days after the new moon following the Winter Solstice. One druid climbed the tree and cut the mistletoe with a sickle, while others held an open a sheet beneath him to catch the sacred plant since it was taboo to let it touch the ground. The druids handed out sprigs of mistletoe to tribesmen who hung them over entranceways for protection. Mistletoe is also believed to be an aphrodisiac, so this might be where the holiday tradition of ‘kissing under the mistletoe’ originated.</p><p>The Celts livelihood depended on what they could raise, grow, or hunt. So, the long, cold days of winter were hard one them. Since they didn’t have enough grain to feed all the cattle during winter, many were slaughtered at this time. This meant fresh meat for the winter solstice feast. Also, ale and mead brewed during the year fermented by this time and were and ready for drinking.</p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p><b>Happy Thanksgiving and Welcome to Winter</b></p></blockquote></blockquote><p><br /></p>cornelia amirihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10073486581012525859noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2400362761924699332.post-7333283932659422172021-11-11T11:13:00.003-08:002021-11-11T11:13:23.229-08:00<p> My newest release is a short memoir. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjKsjyMxAPjqstUfhrTyvIFgFja2DyBPgP1cDvVZETPpoDG8dVHj6jG-Tg6H9KM7iVQb9dh3k4KDpqMuF9yMvuKl5_HPBKz9d28Z_Qy6IBRP7yV4FIUSl3qu-bWYPouErbizCCWbkzP4y26adA455p_IPzeFgEL-IT2JVhEBjmajNMeFb-dMhnSCHA2=s2048" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1279" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjKsjyMxAPjqstUfhrTyvIFgFja2DyBPgP1cDvVZETPpoDG8dVHj6jG-Tg6H9KM7iVQb9dh3k4KDpqMuF9yMvuKl5_HPBKz9d28Z_Qy6IBRP7yV4FIUSl3qu-bWYPouErbizCCWbkzP4y26adA455p_IPzeFgEL-IT2JVhEBjmajNMeFb-dMhnSCHA2=w400-h640" width="400" /></a></div><p><br style="text-align: center;" /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span face=""Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #0f1111; font-size: 14px; text-align: start;"><span style="font-weight: 700;">Romance Author, Cornelia Amiri, chronicles her comedy-drama experiences of the pandemic, hip replacement surgery, and moving into a 55+ community. </span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span face=""Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #0f1111; font-size: 14px; text-align: start;"><span style="font-weight: 700;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #0f1111; font-size: 14px; text-align: start;">All of which turned March 2020 to March 2021 into a period of chaos, uncertainty, and … laughter—that she covers in chapters such as:</span></div><ul style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 18px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: disc; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: left;">The Fire Watcher</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: disc; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: left;">The Zombie Parade</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: disc; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: left;">The Great Toilet Paper Fire</li></ul><span face=""Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #0f1111; font-size: 14px; text-align: start;"><div style="text-align: left;">Can Cornelia avoid covid-19 with highly sociable neighbors, who refuse to take any precautions? Will she overcome the crazy obstacles in her path and finally get her hip replacement surgeries? And, moreover, what does her cat think of</div></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #0f1111; font-size: 14px; text-align: start;">all of this?</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span face=""Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #0f1111; font-size: 14px; text-align: start;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span face=""Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #0f1111; font-size: 14px; text-align: start;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span face=""Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #0f1111; font-size: 14px; text-align: start;"><b>HERE ARE TWO ESSAYS FROM THE BOOK:</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span face=""Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #0f1111; font-size: 14px; text-align: start;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span face=""Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #0f1111; font-size: 14px; text-align: start;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span face=""Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #0f1111; font-size: 14px; text-align: start;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><b>THE GREAT TOILET PAPER FIRE <br /></b><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIRS-Zj0XehsUJUAThz_fias5_xmGIECxeDKcSt5hX1hnWDdt0ppQW1cWwrnR35RFeOa40pRs_1TaQi7MJGj_U5hwNfB_CVpFJ-t5Upb6XW4RseG_qZqkV8Y_6fLGH0q8SVtbqNTCjhVA/s900/1634543083028.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="900" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIRS-Zj0XehsUJUAThz_fias5_xmGIECxeDKcSt5hX1hnWDdt0ppQW1cWwrnR35RFeOa40pRs_1TaQi7MJGj_U5hwNfB_CVpFJ-t5Upb6XW4RseG_qZqkV8Y_6fLGH0q8SVtbqNTCjhVA/s16000/1634543083028.jpeg" /></a></div><br /><br /><p style="--artdeco-reset-typography_getfontsize: 1.6rem; --artdeco-reset-typography_getlineheight: 1.5; border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; color: black; font-family: "Source Serif Pro", serif; font-size: medium; font-weight: var(--artdeco-reset-typography-font-weight-normal); line-height: 3.2rem; margin: 3.2rem 0px; padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);">We need toilet paper. None of the stores have any. When you find some, you hoard it. Looks like I’m going to run out of it soon. On my last three orders, the stores I use didn’t have any.</p><p style="--artdeco-reset-typography_getfontsize: 1.6rem; --artdeco-reset-typography_getlineheight: 1.5; border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; color: black; font-family: "Source Serif Pro", serif; font-size: medium; font-weight: var(--artdeco-reset-typography-font-weight-normal); line-height: 3.2rem; margin: 3.2rem 0px; padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);"><span color="var(--color-text)" style="font-size: var(--font-size-large); font-weight: var(--artdeco-reset-typography-font-weight-normal);">A major grocery chain in Texas is offering free deliveries to the elderly during the pandemic. Seniors only have to pay a $10 tip to the driver. Except a charity is covering the tip, so it’s actually a totally free delivery for us. But, since my email is entered wrong in their system, I have to order by phone instead of online.</span></p><p style="--artdeco-reset-typography_getfontsize: 1.6rem; --artdeco-reset-typography_getlineheight: 1.5; border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; color: black; font-family: "Source Serif Pro", serif; font-size: medium; font-weight: var(--artdeco-reset-typography-font-weight-normal); line-height: 3.2rem; margin: 3.2rem 0px; padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);">I tell the volunteer order-taker, “I know they probably won’t have it but put down toilet paper. Any size—any kind is fine.”</p><p style="--artdeco-reset-typography_getfontsize: 1.6rem; --artdeco-reset-typography_getlineheight: 1.5; border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; color: black; font-family: "Source Serif Pro", serif; font-size: medium; font-weight: var(--artdeco-reset-typography-font-weight-normal); line-height: 3.2rem; margin: 3.2rem 0px; padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);">“Toilet paper is hard right now.” She stretches out some of her vowels with the soft back of the mouth sounds of a Texas drawl. “Did <span style="border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; font-family: Georgia, "Source Serif Pro", serif; font-size: 0.975em; font-style: var(--artdeco-reset-typography-font-style-italic); margin: var(--artdeco-reset-base-margin-zero); outline: var(--artdeco-reset-base-outline-zero); padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);">ya</span> hear what happened to that eighteen-wheeler on its way to Houston?”</p><p style="--artdeco-reset-typography_getfontsize: 1.6rem; --artdeco-reset-typography_getlineheight: 1.5; border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; color: black; font-family: "Source Serif Pro", serif; font-size: medium; font-weight: var(--artdeco-reset-typography-font-weight-normal); line-height: 3.2rem; margin: 3.2rem 0px; padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);">“No, I don’t watch the news much right now.”</p><p style="--artdeco-reset-typography_getfontsize: 1.6rem; --artdeco-reset-typography_getlineheight: 1.5; border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; color: black; font-family: "Source Serif Pro", serif; font-size: medium; font-weight: var(--artdeco-reset-typography-font-weight-normal); line-height: 3.2rem; margin: 3.2rem 0px; padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);">“A diesel truck hauling toilet paper to Houston caught fire on the highway.” Her voice lifted in excitement. “All the toilet paper went up in flames.”</p><p style="--artdeco-reset-typography_getfontsize: 1.6rem; --artdeco-reset-typography_getlineheight: 1.5; border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; color: black; font-family: "Source Serif Pro", serif; font-size: medium; font-weight: var(--artdeco-reset-typography-font-weight-normal); line-height: 3.2rem; margin: 3.2rem 0px; padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);">“My god, you can’t make stuff like that up.” And. Another thing missing on my bingo card. My mind spun with dizziness as I was hit by shock, amusement, and horror all at the same time. What if the toilet paper meant for the store near me was on that truck?</p><p style="--artdeco-reset-typography_getfontsize: 1.6rem; --artdeco-reset-typography_getlineheight: 1.5; border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; color: black; font-family: "Source Serif Pro", serif; font-size: medium; font-weight: var(--artdeco-reset-typography-font-weight-normal); line-height: 3.2rem; margin: 3.2rem 0px; padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);">About four hours later, my groceries arrive. A warm swirling feeling rises in my chest. Sitting among all the plastic bags is a big package of twelve double-size rolls of toilet paper. I gasp and squeal like a kid finding a bike under the tree on Christmas day. I guess a truck that didn’t burn up reached the store. And just in time… I was down to my last roll.</p><p style="color: black; font-size: medium;"> <i style="font-size: var(--artdeco-reset-base-font-size-hundred-percent); text-align: center;">On April 1, 2020, a big-rig truck carrying toilet paper crashed and caught on fire in Dallas County. Thousands of rolls of toilet paper burned up. This is true. It was not an April Fools prank, though that is the day it happened. On April 1, 2020, there were 1,021 deaths in the US from Coronavirus, just on this day.</i></p><p style="color: black; font-size: medium;"><br /></p><p style="color: black; font-size: medium;"> </p><p style="color: black; font-size: medium; text-align: center;"><b>I CAUSED THE TEXAS FREEZE </b></p><p class="p10" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 38.4px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"> I hear knocking and open my door to see Raggedy Ann or should I say Raggedy Kathy, my neighbor. </span></p><p class="p10" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 38.4px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">Her hands are on her hips. “The apartment on the first floor that is directly underneath yours is leaking through the ceiling.”</span></p><p class="p10" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 38.4px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">“That’s terrible.” What else am I supposed to say? And the first floor is not directly beneath the third. The second floor is in between first and third. Two-year-old kids can count to three after all. Everyone can, except my neighbor, Kathy, apparently. “The pipes probably broke due to the freeze. Did they call maintenance?”</span></p><p class="p10" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 38.4px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">Her face looks wider and shorter, with jaw jutting, nostrils flaring, eyes squinting, and brows pulled together. “You need to stop whatever you’re doing,” she says in a rumbling bulldozer tone. “You flooded his apartment. Stop it.”</span></p><p class="p10" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 38.4px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">I’m speechless as my ears catch up with my brain. I swallow hard and open my mouth. “That’s impossible. The pipes are frozen. No one in the building has water. The toilets aren’t flushing --”</span></p><p class="p10" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 38.4px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">Her bulldozer voice runs over my words, interrupting my attempt to talk sense to a crazy person. “No one’s toilet is, Cor-neil-yuk.”</span></p><p class="p10" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 38.4px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">“Right. So, there is no way I could flood anyone’s apartment now. There is no running water to leak anywhere. And even if his leak was caused by the apartment above his, it would be the one on the second floor, not the third. It’s one, two, three.”</span></p><p class="p10" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 38.4px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">“I said the first-floor apartment, Cornelia. I said the first floor.”</span></p><p class="p10" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 38.4px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">"But I’m on the third floor. You said directly beneath me.”</span></p><p class="p10" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 38.4px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">“Yes, that’s right. This apartment is directly above his.”</span></p><p class="p10" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 38.4px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">“Listen, he needs to call maintenance. I don’t know much about repair stuff, but the handyman might have to go to his apartment and open up the area of the ceiling that’s under the pipes beneath the second-floor apartment and fix it. I’m sure the whole thing is unknown to the resident who really is directly above him. As far as my apartment, there is no mildew or any signs of a leak in my apartment at all. I don’t have anything to do with his pipes bursting. I didn’t cause the snow and the ice. I certainly cannot be blamed for bursting pipes.”</span></p><p class="p10" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 38.4px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">“If I have to kill you to stop you, I will.”</span></p><p class="p10" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 38.4px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">“Stop me from doing what?”</span></p><p class="p10" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 38.4px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">She throws her arms into the air. “From flooding his apartment.”</span></p><p class="p10" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 38.4px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">“I’m alone, no way to get out, fire alarms are going off in all the apartments and the hallway and I smell a burning smell. And you come to threaten me and make up a vicious lie about me.”</span></p><p class="p10" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 38.4px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">“The alarms stopped. And the smell was burning wood which is why the alarms went off. Because I know.”</span></p><p class="p10" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 38.4px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">“Then go find out who is burning wood in their apartment because no one here has a fireplace. And go to the second floor and see if that lady caused the flooding. After all, it’s impossible for me to have done it. And leave me alone.” I slam the door, leaving her in the hallway.</span></p><p class="p10" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 38.4px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">Kathy is one of those founding residents. This is the only apartment complex I know of that has such a thing. They moved in when the complex was under construction, and they seem to think they are owners. But they are not, there’re residents like me and everyone else here. They don’t follow apartment rules, like wearing masks, and they make their own rules.</span></p><p class="p10" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 38.4px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">Also, needless to say, neither Kathy’s harassment are the Texas Freeze were on my 2021 Bingo card.</span></p><p class="p11" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 38.4px; min-height: 19px;"><i><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 15.6px;">From February 14 to February 20, in 2021, Texas was hit with a major power crisis resulting from three severe winter storms. More than 4.5 million homes and businesses were left without power. Some for several days. At least 210 people were killed directly or indirectly. Some estimates of connected deaths are as high as 702. Regarding Covid-19, on February 16, it was reported that The Texas Freeze halted Texas’ urgent and critical Covid-19 vaccination efforts—delaying the delivery of hundreds of thousands of doses that were scheduled to arrive and preventing about 1 million injections</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Source Serif Pro", serif; font-size: 0.975em;"> by hundreds of providers that week.</span></i></p><p class="p11" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 38.4px; min-height: 19px;"><i><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Source Serif Pro", serif; font-size: 0.975em;"><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Boomer-Chicks-Bingo-Card-Covid-19-ebook/dp/B09K4MG1KJ/ref=sr_1_1?crid=QE9LKAOUVFJV&keywords=a+boomer+chick%27s+bingo+card+cornelia&qid=1636657908&s=instant-video&sprefix=A+BOOMER+CHICKS+%2Cinstant-video%2C202&sr=1-1">TO READ MORE - CLICK HERE AND CLICK ON LOOK INSIDE ON THE AMAZON BOOK PAGE</a></span></i></p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjKsjyMxAPjqstUfhrTyvIFgFja2DyBPgP1cDvVZETPpoDG8dVHj6jG-Tg6H9KM7iVQb9dh3k4KDpqMuF9yMvuKl5_HPBKz9d28Z_Qy6IBRP7yV4FIUSl3qu-bWYPouErbizCCWbkzP4y26adA455p_IPzeFgEL-IT2JVhEBjmajNMeFb-dMhnSCHA2=s2048" style="font-size: medium; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1279" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjKsjyMxAPjqstUfhrTyvIFgFja2DyBPgP1cDvVZETPpoDG8dVHj6jG-Tg6H9KM7iVQb9dh3k4KDpqMuF9yMvuKl5_HPBKz9d28Z_Qy6IBRP7yV4FIUSl3qu-bWYPouErbizCCWbkzP4y26adA455p_IPzeFgEL-IT2JVhEBjmajNMeFb-dMhnSCHA2=s320" width="200" /></a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span face=""Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #0f1111; font-size: 14px; text-align: start;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span face=""Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #0f1111; font-size: 14px; text-align: start;"><br /></span></div>cornelia amirihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10073486581012525859noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2400362761924699332.post-40409475882411504152021-10-23T11:27:00.002-07:002021-10-23T11:27:27.017-07:00Samhain and Shifters<p> My Halloween novella is called The Wolf and the Druidess. A Celtic take on werewolf tales. It’s set at Samhain and the hero is the Celtic god Gwydion, who shapeshifts into a wolf. It is also the first novella in the series Druidry and the Beast.</p><p><b><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Wolf-Druidess-Druidry-Beast-Book-ebook/dp/B01KY7YXBA/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=the+wolf+and+the+druidess+amiri&qid=1634974045&qsid=134-2594375-6641068&s=instant-video&sr=1-1&sres=B01KY7YXBA%2CB0778N8B5X%2CB095J4CL66%2CB07T3TWPPC%2CB0917279Y6%2CB07S5HH2XB%2CB01N3QM1DE%2CB08BJZG97Z%2CB07K7HXHPN%2CB01BVIBDG4%2CB07J4Y99LJ%2CB00HX0BM2K%2CB018HSCU2M%2CB07VXS7KWK%2CB0823KK311%2CB085L6SD7L&srpt=ABIS_BOOK"><span style="color: #444444;"></span></a></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOCVwIfGrWommMrJ6-0oNrQWy3fiPqInjLZ6W-_yJvphLcAZLWOqKQh9cTyRSQtknCGRnOg86JPob3hd2GflmyNNgdpKgwk-V5g1Pf9xW-cIu0o2FY53OwThgaqMTU9mGCHnSX9mRqz8ik/s900/aWolf+and+Dtitle3+%25281%2529.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="900" data-original-width="600" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOCVwIfGrWommMrJ6-0oNrQWy3fiPqInjLZ6W-_yJvphLcAZLWOqKQh9cTyRSQtknCGRnOg86JPob3hd2GflmyNNgdpKgwk-V5g1Pf9xW-cIu0o2FY53OwThgaqMTU9mGCHnSX9mRqz8ik/w266-h400/aWolf+and+Dtitle3+%25281%2529.jpg" width="266" /></a></span></div><div><b><span style="color: #444444;">The Wolf and the Druidess</span></b><div><p></p><p><b>A god leaves the Otherworld and even risks his life … for love.</b></p><p>In days of old, deep in the dark woods, Druidess Seren discovers a wolf shapeshifting into the bare, muscular body of God Gwydion. Her wicked thoughts turn from the Samhain feast to feasting on Gwydion’s yummy goodies. Can their new found love survive the ultimate long-distance relationship of a god in the otherworld and a woman on earth? Is the love Seren and Gwydion share strong enough to overcome the social barrier between an immortal god and a mortal woman? Will the warning of danger from beyond the grave destroy the sensual magic brewing between the wolf and the druidess?</p><p>Excerpt:</p><p>They came to a stop at the top of the hill, standing before the roaring bonfire. As the onlookers gathered around, Gwydion slipped off the druid robe and yanked the blue tunic over his head then let them both fall to the ground. He blazed like the fire he stood before and his heart pounded. Sliding his long fingers to the gold clasp at his belt, he unfastened it, then climbed out of his braies and kicked them to the side. The crowd cheered, but he had no cares for what they thought, he saw nothing but the woman before him. Scrying her in the sacred salmon pond, he’d watched her from afar, and now he would have what he long desired. Seren. With his eyes locked on her, he waited for her to disrobe and bare her body to him.</p><p>His gaze devoured her as the gold-speckled druid garment swished around her bare legs as her lithe feet kicked to and fro in a fast pace around the fire. As she slipped off the robe, it hit the dirt. Moving to the rhythmic beat of the drum, she unraveled the knot of her hemp belt and her plaid skirt dropped to the ground. Seren hoisted her tunic over her head and threw it down.</p><p>Hurrahs rang out as they danced, circling the fire. Gwydion’s heart raced to the rhythmic beat of the bodhran as he jumped and kicked his feet in fast movements.</p><p><b></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEioHL5hkhAGRtJHPPPwVh0H_K-N2jBo1HNc48JJ7NgIwvv0E8kuVhJZINUXEUmPHeejvz3li5impJqSAFaI9Q25UV7bFzXO2mnk_wHROo9PYbye-mz2pBExBhxh05uEvFxv3MZus34sbFVN/s500/druidryandbeast_frontcover+copy.jpeg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="328" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEioHL5hkhAGRtJHPPPwVh0H_K-N2jBo1HNc48JJ7NgIwvv0E8kuVhJZINUXEUmPHeejvz3li5impJqSAFaI9Q25UV7bFzXO2mnk_wHROo9PYbye-mz2pBExBhxh05uEvFxv3MZus34sbFVN/w263-h400/druidryandbeast_frontcover+copy.jpeg" width="263" /></a></b></div><b><br />Here is the Blurb for the boxse<span style="color: #444444;">t </span></b><b><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Druidry-Beast-collection-Cornelia-Amiri-ebook/dp/B08C4V61X2/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=druidry+and+the+beast+amiri&qid=1634974191&qsid=134-2594375-6641068&s=digital-text&sr=1-1&sres=B08C4V61X2%2CB08C353LQS%2CB01MSJWDN5%2CB0841RJY9B%2CB07CMBR4ZQ%2CB01KY7YXBA%2CB08BNNFWBF&srpt=ABIS_BOOK">Druidry and the Beast:</a></b><p></p><p><b>Five hot, shapeshifter gods and five passionate druidesses save the tribes of Ancient Britain.</b></p><p>Can these couples overcome the surmountable odds of a romance between mortals and immortals being anything more than a Celtic fire festival tryst? As the wheel of the year, flaming like searing desire both on Earth and the Otherworld, turns with the seasons from:</p><p>Samhain with God Gwydion, a wolf shapeshifter, and druidess Seren, as the sensual magic brewing between them, could be destroyed by a warning of danger from beyond the grave</p><p>Beltane with God Dewey, a dragon shapeshifter, and druidess Nona, dealing with whatever evil the jealous chief might unleash on them.</p><p>The Winter Solstice with God Artaois, a bear shapeshifter, and Druidess Bronwen, fighting to save her tribe from starvation</p><p>The Summer Solstice with Epon, a unicorn shapeshifter, and druidess Maelona, as he battles the Romans to save her tribe</p><p>Lughnasa with God Lleu, a lynx shapeshifter and Druidess Wendolen as he tries to overcome the Romans and she tries to overcome her tribes' mistrust of Lleu.</p><p>The five-book novella series box-set is on sale now for October for 99¢.</p><p>Happy Samhain/Halloween and Happy Reading. </p></div></div>cornelia amirihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10073486581012525859noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2400362761924699332.post-55881011629292641112021-10-04T01:14:00.001-07:002021-10-04T01:14:31.577-07:00Romance and Adventure Await With Kindle Vella<p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><span style="text-indent: 36px;"><span>If you like</span><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="font-weight: bold;"> </span><span>serialized stories, check out </span>Amazon's new platform for readers—Kindle Vella. </span><span style="text-indent: 36px;">They break brand new, previously unpublished novels down to episodes up to 5000 words. Then, release one episode at a time. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><span style="text-indent: 36px;">The first few episodes are free. You pay for the rest with tokens. The token price is based on the word count of the episodes—it’s set at one token per 100 words. But Amazon is generously giving a large number of tokens free to readers. They also offer several bundle options for purchasing tokens. Readers can also use features such as faves and thumbs up. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><span style="text-indent: 36px;">There are plenty of romances of all types on kindle vella. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><span style="text-indent: 36px;">Here's a link </span><a href="https://www.amazon.com/kindle-vella/category/21364104011">https://www.amazon.com/kindle-vella/category/21364104011</a></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">And here's my <span style="background-color: white; color: #032329;">Space Opera RomCom</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #032329;"><a href="https://www.amazon.com/kindle-vella/story/B09FTCJ567">https://www.amazon.com/kindle-vella/story/B09FTCJ567</a></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXpOIs1gDcGVET9Zfyj0HsmpjW4grQ2MqA8fVhU1AqPJZ6NJvQkjXeYkdl3xVkN6_usinjhlK7dfG20TY-6RebszZ9RY94l4n1DWVdJoXVMd9PQGJ8k5MFL7hZ8Ua4N9gVyhy6laAQNF4_/s1600/KindleVella_Cover.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1600" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXpOIs1gDcGVET9Zfyj0HsmpjW4grQ2MqA8fVhU1AqPJZ6NJvQkjXeYkdl3xVkN6_usinjhlK7dfG20TY-6RebszZ9RY94l4n1DWVdJoXVMd9PQGJ8k5MFL7hZ8Ua4N9gVyhy6laAQNF4_/w400-h400/KindleVella_Cover.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><a href="https://www.amazon.com/kindle-vella/story/B09FTCJ567">Rare Finds</a></b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Dr. Robbie McGreggor’s job as a civilian Xenoarchaeologist aboard the starship Celestial is discovering remains of long-lost extraterrestrial civilizations. Chosen to visit a planet not yet explored, he is stunned to encounter an alien culture that resembles deities from earth mythology. There he encounters his rarest find, Niamh, a passionate Irish Goddess. The Scottish Archeologist and the Space Goddess travel together on a path of adventure, danger, and romance throughout the galaxy.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">For more Amazon print and ebooks of mine, please visit <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Cornelia-Amiri/e/B002BLFENY/ref=aufs_dp_fta_dsk">https://www.amazon.com/Cornelia-Amiri/e/B002BLFENY/ref=aufs_dp_fta_dsk</a></span></p><p><br /></p>cornelia amirihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10073486581012525859noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2400362761924699332.post-12688776873280836872021-08-25T20:42:00.004-07:002021-08-25T20:42:37.101-07:00Take a Far Out Time Travel Trip - Aug 2021 to Aug 1969 <p><span style="font-size: medium;">Need a break from August 2021 - Covid's new surges and everything else - take a ride back on a 1960 Volkswagon van time-travel machine to August of 1969 with - Back To The One I Love by Cornelia Amiri.</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhV7e7D2_fctvjBNBP0OFb918vKSpidR38nly4KvQzCe9qrK1P_XrA_a1QfhBn-OkyXsq2rV8VLz9VF9TvHrP8JYWDDbe5nIiTM6zZdXaB37y0VatPlTAepg1uxduLwkwIgE4d-_Ffn3_zV/s1650/Back+to+the+one+I+love-1.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1650" data-original-width="1260" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhV7e7D2_fctvjBNBP0OFb918vKSpidR38nly4KvQzCe9qrK1P_XrA_a1QfhBn-OkyXsq2rV8VLz9VF9TvHrP8JYWDDbe5nIiTM6zZdXaB37y0VatPlTAepg1uxduLwkwIgE4d-_Ffn3_zV/w305-h400/Back+to+the+one+I+love-1.jpg" width="305" /></span></a></div><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><br />On August 1969, a mind-blowing Aquarian Exposition—3 Days of Peace & Music took place at Max Yasgur's dairy farm in Bethel, New York. It turned out to be one of the biggest and grooviest rock festivals ever, and an iconic cultural and historical event. The concert was far-out with thirty-two acts including Joan Baez, Santana, the Grateful Dead, Janis Joplin, Sly and the Family Stone, The Who, Jefferson Airplane, Joe Cocker, Jonny Winter, The Band, Blood, Sweat, and Tears, Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, and Jimi Hendrix with what was probably the most memorable performance of the festival—his profound rendition of “The Star-Spangled Banner”.</span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Food was in short supply at Woodstock because the promoters only expected about 50,000, but around 400,000 showed up—which also created the largest traffic jam in the history of the Catskills, forcing State police to close the New York State Thruway’s Exit 104. Plus, on the second day of the festival, a downpour transformed the grounds of Max Yasgur’s dairy farm into a sea of mud.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Yasgur’s former farm, the site where all of this took place, has been remembered by the opening of both the Bethel Woods Center for the Arts and the Museum at Bethel Woods on the grounds and was also added to the National Register of Historic Places.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">I am a babyboomer but I was only 12 in 1969—too young to hitchhike to Woodstock, unfortunately. However I always wanted to go, so by writing about it, I got to go, at least mentally, and I get to take all you wonderful readers along with me as well as two of my favorite characters, Cash and Keith.</span></p><p><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Here's the blurb:</span></b></p><p><b><span style="font-size: medium;">The thrilling adventure of first love and self-discovery is just as groovy the second time around.</span></b></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">A free-spirited, baby boomer couple, Cash and Keith, find their marriage of forty-five years unraveling amid apathy, boredom, and retirement. Cash feels Keith is no longer attracted to her and he’s consumed with a couch-potato life of streaming The Orville and Game of Throne episodes all day long. Trying to hang on to their marriage and rekindle the romance they lost along the way they turn to a counselor. The therapist uses an unorthodox magical method of a time-traveling Volkswagen van to cast them back into the garden…four days of Eden at Woodstock….the epic music festival… where they first fell in love.?Will the freedom of Woodstock lure Keith and Cash to push their individual boundaries and seek new lovers? Or can Déjà Vu and grooving to music….truly lead them to rediscover the peace, love, and harmony they once shared?</span></p><p><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Excerpt:</span></b></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Cash’s mind was in a haze, floating with the music, moving her body freely?bouncing, jiggling, dancing her heart out.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Keith clapped with Cash as Jimi Hendrix picked the strings and worked the frets as he played “The Star Spangled Banner.”</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">In his hands, the inanimate object, the sleek, white electric Stratocaster, came to life, with jolts of electricity like Frankenstein’s monster.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">This was no confused, lonely monster Hendrix created, Cash thought. This is raw, spiritual beauty.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">“The notes are ‘The Star Spangled Banner’ mixed with truth and distortion, fear and hope, chaos and order, all fighting each other. It sounds like bombs and guns, screams of pain, and the whirl of army helicopters, all from the strings of his guitar,” Keith said.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">“The national anthem has never been played like that before him or since him,” Cash said, with an edge of awe to her voice.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">“He’s telling a story of freedom fighting to break through prejudices, lies, and cover-ups just by the way he’s playing the song,” Keith added.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">“He’s incredible.” Goosebumps prickled on Cash’s arms when Jimi Hendrix laid the guitar on the stage and picked it as he ritually set it on fire, letting hype and lies go up in smoke and flames.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Tears formed in the corners of her eyes. “It’s the most incredible thing I’ve ever seen,” she said in an emptily charged, broken whisper.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Keith gulped hard. “It blows my mind.” He slapped his palms together, clapping with Cash, a long time after Hendrix left the stage.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">“And we saw it twice, together.” She slipped her arm around Keith’s waist.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">“How special are we?” He slid his arm around her shoulder and pulled her tight to him.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">*~*~*</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6RqP7N5Ti_DPv14LnPTh7quJdcS3bDjwEtm24bgjyiIyYkjCIn7SYlrIbxSDp6z8mjMDVE_VbvDWy00UlIoMv42FxUakBQEDzuBLsLquWyC7dgj3iB6LAuWDiK5tcC7lsursMugaZasbh/s761/back+to+the+one+I+love+teaser+6.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="549" data-original-width="761" height="231" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6RqP7N5Ti_DPv14LnPTh7quJdcS3bDjwEtm24bgjyiIyYkjCIn7SYlrIbxSDp6z8mjMDVE_VbvDWy00UlIoMv42FxUakBQEDzuBLsLquWyC7dgj3iB6LAuWDiK5tcC7lsursMugaZasbh/s320/back+to+the+one+I+love+teaser+6.jpg" width="320" /></span></a></div><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">You can find more on Back To the One I Love <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Back-One-Love-Cornelia-Amiri-ebook/dp/B01C10C4PK/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=back+to+the+one+I+love+amiri&qid=1629681484&s=digital-text&sr=1-1">here</a> and Peace, Love, Music <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Peace-Love-Music-Cornelia-Amiri/dp/1615723765/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=peace+love+music+Cornelia&qid=1629681532&s=digital-text&sr=1-1">here</a>.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: right;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzT-no2uCAeIdBMuOaAMHcjBgMBTsCeWYTRpC-w_FY7xVYbsLawVpErB0RuSqOJZluSddBIBQRqZYH_sU2IfPOhqXAK_WrOP_zAUoe7KI21vVXR5-reV-hku_AigKTyFzjxfVi1aqmPPFc/s734/back+to+the+one+I+love+teaser+3.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="734" data-original-width="484" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzT-no2uCAeIdBMuOaAMHcjBgMBTsCeWYTRpC-w_FY7xVYbsLawVpErB0RuSqOJZluSddBIBQRqZYH_sU2IfPOhqXAK_WrOP_zAUoe7KI21vVXR5-reV-hku_AigKTyFzjxfVi1aqmPPFc/s320/back+to+the+one+I+love+teaser+3.jpg" width="211" /></span></a></div><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><br /></p>cornelia amirihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10073486581012525859noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2400362761924699332.post-8286991505841870612021-07-23T02:02:00.004-07:002021-07-23T02:02:59.765-07:00Fun Facts and Ways to Celebrate Lughnassa <p> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAKpBOvB3LybQ2Cbm5MtKnX2iBupy-nElQiDZp0QnMY36XeVBFHgT4mbChuY-UD54wwv-DNXIkN5Chc70CWdW18mtEvagoSgXsx-0OzCgrpiYoKkZKja5oNp37FkOwjEOz7huaWn0hyW4Z/s640/wheat-640960_640+%25281%2529.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="640" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAKpBOvB3LybQ2Cbm5MtKnX2iBupy-nElQiDZp0QnMY36XeVBFHgT4mbChuY-UD54wwv-DNXIkN5Chc70CWdW18mtEvagoSgXsx-0OzCgrpiYoKkZKja5oNp37FkOwjEOz7huaWn0hyW4Z/w577-h300/wheat-640960_640+%25281%2529.jpg" width="577" /></a></p><br /><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">August 1st is Lughnassa, the harvest festival of the ancient Celts, later celebrated as Lammas by the early Christian Saxons. Lughnassa is named after the Irish sun god, Lugh. In Wales, he’s called Lleu.</span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXwGSDkMibps0a5qr2g5fQxn6mvt4EfmQNHk11iLdEZI7Odz2hWpRQVuhEVYiYoUpPvUDaerwqpim0zAmfWfjT_XtBXgQNZk6C484-MvonDf-ZEPnz7hY3fSU7iPkaWFKWLU6raaoAUppo/s125/wheat.gif" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="125" data-original-width="100" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXwGSDkMibps0a5qr2g5fQxn6mvt4EfmQNHk11iLdEZI7Odz2hWpRQVuhEVYiYoUpPvUDaerwqpim0zAmfWfjT_XtBXgQNZk6C484-MvonDf-ZEPnz7hY3fSU7iPkaWFKWLU6raaoAUppo/s0/wheat.gif" /></span></a></div><p></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Sunshine helps nurture the grain until it ripens. Then it’s reaped, prepared, and baked as fresh bread. In the ancient Celtic belief system, Lugh transmitted his power of the sun into the grain, and with the harvesting of the grain, the god was sacrificed.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Nowadays, we get any food we want from the grocery store year-round, so it’s nice to use Lughnassa as an opportunity to connect for a moment to nature and its cycle of seasons. For example:</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">If you like to cook—include fresh apples, pears, corn, or home-baked bread in one of your meals for the day.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">For nature lovers and those that like to get away—take a walk through the woods. In a big city, you can visit an arboretum or a local nature center.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Or if you’re an arts and crafts person—it’s a great time to make corn dollies.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">And for romance readers<b>, The Lynx and the Druidess,</b> the final book in my novella series, Druidry And The Beast, is a Lughnassa story. <b> <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Lynx-Druidess-Book-Druidry-Beast-ebook/dp/B08BNNFWBF/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=the+lynx+and+the+druidess&qid=1627015587&s=instant-video&sr=1-1"><span style="color: red;">Click Here</span></a></b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b></b></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYKVRounhDP889rPuImE_VTmShmVvwLoNjCdiQspYk6TP1KAXzHkc3-BZ2yjAL6MjQ9LNM2OYMUXLc51nanAZ9rCJ-tES3THBjI9bxI0byvvaQ3gAMOllmJTytMYADC2RDNjWsf6GtTVpv/s500/lynxanddruidess+copy.jpeg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="313" height="585" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYKVRounhDP889rPuImE_VTmShmVvwLoNjCdiQspYk6TP1KAXzHkc3-BZ2yjAL6MjQ9LNM2OYMUXLc51nanAZ9rCJ-tES3THBjI9bxI0byvvaQ3gAMOllmJTytMYADC2RDNjWsf6GtTVpv/w366-h585/lynxanddruidess+copy.jpeg" width="366" /></span></a></b></div><b><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><br />Blurb:</span></b><p></p><p><b><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Loving a god has its advantages</span></b></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Lleu, the radiant sun god, crosses between worlds to the Silures village for the fierce and stunning druidess, Wendolyn —a woman worth battling for. He longs to celebrate Lughnasa, the festival that honors him, with her.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Wendolyn is captivated by the striking stranger the moment he wanders into her village. Furthermore, she wants him with a fervor, burning her from within. However, he’s hiding his true identity. When he vows to save her tribe from the Romans marching toward them, everyone, including her dead father in a dream, says he is a coward who has run off.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Lleu is determined to win the love of druidess Wendolyn even if it means fighting the Roman army single-handed—by shapeshifting into his lynx body.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Will her tribe survive the Romans? And, can Wendolyn and Lleu’s relationship survive her tribe’s mistrust of him?</span></p><p><b><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Excerpt:</span></b></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">With her heart hammering, Wyndolen stared with wonder at Lleu’s luscious nude body. She only glanced away long enough to pull a white robe, speckled with gold, out of the chest in the corner. She tugged it on, then fastened a plaid cloak over it with a round silver broach and latched her gaze onto Lleu again while he slipped his clothes back on.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">They left the roundhouse and walked hand in hand to Cynfor’s home.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">She called out to the woodmaker, “It is time.”</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"> Cynfor stepped out, clutching an iron rod and the wheel of the year coated with gooey tar. As the three walked together to the center of the village, men, women, and children gathered around the druidess, muttering, “Lleu,” and “coward.”</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Scanning the angry faces in the crowd, Wyndolen sighed. If only they knew the truth about him. But she couldn’t blame them, she was as guilty as they were. She hadn’t recognized he was a god, even after he’d told her. No, he had to show her his magic spear and reveal his dazzling aura. Now the others needed to learn the truth. Tonight, at his festival, she would announce who he really was. But first she had to prepare her tribesmen for the news, to lessen their shock.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">She held her palm upward toward the crowd and cleared her throat. “Hear me, I have a surprise for all of you. The presence of the god Lleu is here. You do not see him as he is in the guise of one of us. So, take care of how you treat each other, lest you offend the deity.”</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Their expressions shifted from anger to shame as they were now all on their best behavior.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Taking graceful steps, she led all her tribesmen, chief, and Lleu to a cliff. Their chief proudly carried a blazing firebrand, and Cynfor held the sacred wheel with reverent hands. Everyone grew quiet and gazed down the mountain slope.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Wyndolen announced, “We have gathered this Lughnasa to observe the Wheel of the Year as it turns.” She raised her arms to the sky and smiled at Lleu as she chanted, “The sun burns, yet winter nears. The season turns. Summer comes to an end. Sun and earth, life to death the wheel turns, Lughnasa, Lughnasa.”</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">She took the torque from Corio, handed it to Lleu, and he lit the wheel of year aflame. Cynfor handed Wyndolen the iron rod. Then, the sun god, Lleu, ran beside her, on the other side of the flaming wheel, as she used the rod to roll it down that part of the mountain slope.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">She chanted, “God of the sun, the wheel has turned, the yearly end of your reign has come.”</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Smoke rose, as flames ate the wood. The wheel reached its end at the foot of the slope and crumbled into ash and burning fragments. The crowd stopped in their tracks and circled the symbol of the dying Lleu.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Happy Lughnassa to everyone!</span></p>cornelia amirihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10073486581012525859noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2400362761924699332.post-8257076891661990182021-06-22T22:47:00.003-07:002021-06-22T22:47:34.396-07:00Sweet or Sexy<div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="color: #0f1111; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><div style="box-sizing: border-box;"><br class="Apple-interchange-newline" />Do you prefer your romances sweet or sexy? I recently created sweet versions of two of my Historical fantasy erotica romance novellas set in ancient Ireland. </div><div style="box-sizing: border-box;"><br /></div><div style="box-sizing: border-box;">Here are the sexy versions:</div><div style="box-sizing: border-box;"><br /></div><div style="box-sizing: border-box;">The first is <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Timeless-Voyage-Cornelia-Amiri-ebook/dp/B00KX6ONN6/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=timeless+voyage+amiri&qid=1624410347&s=instant-video&sr=1-1">Timeless Voyage</a>. </div><div style="box-sizing: border-box;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqi0Rb9DIKp0c497ZH_7U_HPtM40_8bEuw2exd9RBNjso1DoatTJOIXk4UQaPkpfAydb7gu9w0jBOhQBdQrNRIAhjaF91h9FwwI0eAGdEGjCacae-tTTK9KnVqMAiScm8b9C0dQicqxow_/s486/unnamed.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="486" data-original-width="336" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqi0Rb9DIKp0c497ZH_7U_HPtM40_8bEuw2exd9RBNjso1DoatTJOIXk4UQaPkpfAydb7gu9w0jBOhQBdQrNRIAhjaF91h9FwwI0eAGdEGjCacae-tTTK9KnVqMAiScm8b9C0dQicqxow_/s320/unnamed.jpg" /></a></div><br /><div style="box-sizing: border-box;"><br /></div><div style="box-sizing: border-box;"><br /></div><div style="box-sizing: border-box;">This iron-age tale of a Celtic Warrior-Woman-Pirate and her tall, muscular, handsome Roman captive is set against the backdrop of romantic beaches and the hill of Tara with characters such as pirates, an arch druid, and the High King of Ireland. In their first life, Anwen and Kaeso's love came to a tragic end. In this life will their love end in a wedding or a druid sacrifice?</div><div style="box-sizing: border-box;"><br /></div><div style="box-sizing: border-box;"><br /></div></span></div><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>Here's the Blurb:</b></span></div><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>Neither centuries that have come and gone nor the seas between us can keep us apart.</b></span></span></div><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><br style="color: #333333;" /><span style="color: #333333;">As the Celtic pirate, Anwen, presses her hard iron dagger against the Roman's throat, memories of fated lovers, druids and sacrifice, stay her hand.</span><br style="color: #333333;" /><br style="color: #333333;" /><span style="color: #333333;">Kaeso is captivated by dreams of the woman he loved in a previous life, the mirror image of Anwen. In this lifetime they are foes, Roman and Celt. Can Anwen and Kaeso steer their timeless voyage to a happy destiny or will they be robbed of love once more?</span></span></div><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b style="color: #0f1111;">Excerpt:</b><br style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111;" /><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111;">She clutched the dagger tighter. "I am Anwen, a druid novice of Ynys Mon."</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111;" /><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111;"></span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111;" /><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111;">His full lips parted and he let out a sharp laugh. "The old governor slew the druids of Ynys Mon. They are all dead."</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111;" /><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111;"></span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111;" /><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111;">"I survived." She tilted her chin high.</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111;" /><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111;"></span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111;" /><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111;">"Good fortune then." He flashed a row of white teeth as he grinned. "And now you hold a cargo of wine and fish sauce." The Roman's smile vanished and his eyes grew wide and moist. "Take it all. Just leave me my ship and crew. They are worth nothing to you."</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111;" /><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111;"></span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111;" /><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111;">"I think not." She took a deep breath. "Your voyage ends here." Clutching the blade hard, she flicked her wrist to stab him but her arm hung heavy. Startled and shocked, she swallowed. Jerking her head toward her crew, she yelled, "Breccan, Casnar, Orna, tie up the prisoner."</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111;" /><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111;"></span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111;" /><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111;">"What say you?" Starn the Stout balked at her order.</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111;" /><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111;"></span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111;" /><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111;">Her captive's extraordinary eyes, fathomless as the sea, drew her to him. How could a Roman be so handsome.</span></span></span></div><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">The second one is, <b><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Queen-Kings-Cornelia-Amiri-ebook/dp/B0134X6P8U/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=queen+of+kings+amiri&qid=1624330522&s=instant-video&sr=1-1">Queen of Kings</a></b></span></span></div><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAkXHtuVcnf3HAe9SCgNBt_rHASYaEgwVTr0ych3DWjS3nRPc3dK9xZVbpKKS4uwqtvTmJom-aM3QDXKFJGmjB5eVumntyaitxIowTiTgA3XEfe45Y2UulfHSgAozPbbgwcOYfwaCNS_TW/s847/celtic+Queen1.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="847" data-original-width="600" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAkXHtuVcnf3HAe9SCgNBt_rHASYaEgwVTr0ych3DWjS3nRPc3dK9xZVbpKKS4uwqtvTmJom-aM3QDXKFJGmjB5eVumntyaitxIowTiTgA3XEfe45Y2UulfHSgAozPbbgwcOYfwaCNS_TW/s320/celtic+Queen1.jpg" /></a></div></span></div><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></span></div><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span color="rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9)">It is about Macha Mong Ruadh, (Macha of the Red Braid) the only woman listed as a High King of Ireland. </span></span><span color="rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9)">Upon the death of Cimbaeth,</span><span color="rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9)"> she, as the </span><span color="rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9)">daughter of Aedh Ruadh, took her place on the throne as sole ruler. Geoffrey Geoffrey Keating dates her reign from 468 to 461 BC. </span><em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Annals of the Four Masters</em><span color="rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9)"> from 661 to 654 BC. </span></span></div><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></span></div><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>Here's the Blurb.</b></span></span></div><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></span></div><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">As wild and beautiful as the land she rules, all men lust for her, warriors and kings bow to her might and magic, but one champion comes forth to gift her with a white bull and true love… but can the handsome stranger best her skills and win her heart?</span></span></div><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>Excerpt:</b></span></span></div><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #181818;">Macha let out a cackle. “Crow goddess, my patron, great Morrigan, I summon flight from my foes.” She threw her head back. “I shall return to feed on them, as is my due.” Fiery heat blazed through her skin, tingling with magical energy. Twirling a bright auburn braid with her fingers, she transformed it to a midnight hue. All form and texture changed before her. She ruffled the soft feathers cresting her head; they were so dark and beautiful.</span><br style="color: #181818;" /><br style="color: #181818;" /><span style="color: #181818;">Macha watched Cimbaeth’s eyes grow wide in shock. Dithorba gasped.</span><br style="color: #181818;" /><br style="color: #181818;" /><span style="color: #181818;">A shivery thrill spiraled through her. Now that they knew of her magic, the kings would fear what else she might do. She let out a raspy cackle. Clenching her teeth, moaning, the prickling sensation grew to a piercing pain. Quivering, feathers sprouted out of her flesh. Skin and bones stretching, twisting, leaving her small, compressed. Her teeth and tongue vanished. Snapping her beak open, she cawed at the two kings,whose faces grew ashen.</span><br style="color: #181818;" /><br style="color: #181818;" /><span style="color: #181818;">Shaky, she flapped her large wings, fighting to gain balance on short, thin legs with claws where feet had been. Her heart hammered faster than any human’s. Beating her wings hard—more rapidly than arms could move—she bobbed up and down until she soared off the ground. She was free once again. Blessing the dark goddess, Macha swooped down at the two kings, who ducked. Circling them seven times, her croaks pierced the air. She throbbed with breathless pleasure, feeding off the fright glistening in their eyes. Cawing loudly and flapping with all her might, she—now a crow—flew away from the cowering kings.</span><br style="color: #181818;" /></span></span></div><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: verdana;"><span style="color: #181818; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: verdana;"><span style="color: #181818; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #181818;">Both of these sexy romances are available in individual ebooks. Now, here are the sweet versions. </span></span></div><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #181818;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="color: #181818; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="534" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIf-a5u1efjOh8YvOuud-MSPxVr8nIy-ii0wG8f1gfMeFhxHOiOA2FEPzn7Qt_VaXdQFE0ygBY8VN_nXgyeb7tGJNn1BvKKluPYdi_HnV5rjjJd0LcBYauNV49hoexRg0gnwUrVr8iu-zB/w214-h320/AnC_pGOQ.jpeg" width="214" /></span></div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #181818;">My sweet version of both novellas are bundled in an ebook titled,<b> </b><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Queen-Clubs-Romance-Fantasies-Versions-ebook/dp/B0957XKBJW/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=queen+of+clubs+amiri&qid=1624341851&s=instant-video&sr=1-1" style="font-weight: bold;">Queen of Clubs</a>:<b> </b></span><span style="color: #0f1111;"><b>Irish Romance Fantasies: The Sweet Versions</b></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #0f1111;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #0f1111;">So you choose which versions you want to read of my Irish Historical Fantasy Romances—sweet or sexy. </span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #0f1111;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #0f1111;">Please let me know:</span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #0f1111;">If you are a reader, will you like to see more sweet versions of my sexy romances? </span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #0f1111;">If you are a romance author, have you written both sweet and sexy versions of any of your romances? </span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #0f1111;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #0f1111;">Feel free to comment below. </span></span></div></span></div>cornelia amirihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10073486581012525859noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2400362761924699332.post-91136011546913495512021-05-23T22:30:00.003-07:002021-05-23T22:33:33.793-07:00New Romances and Mysteries <div class="separator"><br /></div><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", "Lucida Grande", "Lucida Sans Unicode", "Lucida Sans", Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 24px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 36px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 18px;">Hello readers,</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", "Lucida Grande", "Lucida Sans Unicode", "Lucida Sans", Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 24px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 36px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 18px;">We've made it out of the Covid crisis and we have a new president and I have a new hip so life is good. I have some new releases of sorts. I wrote a contemporary mystery short story in 2008, Dead End Job, that was republished in an anthology called Chosen, last month. I also have a bundled sweet versions, no sex in these, of two Irish novellas I wrote, Queen of Kings and Timeless Voyage. The individual ebooks of those titles are the sizzling versions with hot love scenes.<br /><br />Two friends of mine have new releases. Julie D'Arcy's latest fantasy romance is called Time of the Wolf and P.J. MacLayne's final book in her Harmony Dupree series, The Ranger's Dog Tags was just released. </span><span style="font-size: 18px;">I've read both books and loved them, and I've included them in this newsletter. <br /><br /></span></p><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="background-color: white; border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-family: Roboto, RobotoDraft, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: small; min-width: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px; padding-top: 9px;" valign="top"><table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; max-width: 100%; min-width: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td class="m_-8968046995910040056mcnTextContent" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", "Lucida Grande", "Lucida Sans Unicode", "Lucida Sans", Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 24px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 36px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 18px 9px; text-align: center;" valign="top"><h1 style="color: #606060; 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border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-family: Roboto, RobotoDraft, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: small; min-width: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px; min-width: 100%; padding: 5px 18px;"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; border-top: 2px groove rgb(53, 49, 35); min-width: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px;"></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="background-color: white; border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-family: Roboto, RobotoDraft, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: small; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 9px 18px;" valign="top"><p style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 24px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 15px;"><span face="verdana, geneva, sans-serif">The Sweet Versions of Two Irish Fantasy Novellas: QUEEN OF KINGS and TIMELESS VOYAGE.</span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: 15px;"><span face="verdana, geneva, sans-serif">In Queen of Kings:</span></span><br /><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span face="verdana, geneva, sans-serif"><strong>As wild and beautiful as the land she rules</strong><br />All men lust for her, warriors and kings bow to her might and magic, but one champion comes forth to gift her with a white bull and true love… but can the handsome stranger best her skills and win her heart?</span></span></p><p style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; 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In this lifetime they are foes, Roman and Celt. 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Summer adventures are all about fun. So have a ball (a beach ball) with these four funny, fantasy romance novellas for summer: The Unicorn and the Druidess, The Lynx and the Druidess, A Fine Cauldron of Fish, and Back To the One I Love. </p><p><br /></p><p><b>The Unicorn And The Druidess </b></p><p><b><a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0841RJY9B?notRedirectToSDP=1&ref_=dbs_mng_calw_3&storeType=ebooks">The Unicorn and the Druidess </a></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlWkVWMsLKP6Vy5ArkkNp4iKlNf_4NUtjk3nZf_XGwkEHIFuGZgHraXGW7fThhC46FRHwFeDy7wGhgv6VO0NS9nIIcfn866KRHKZgr_D3fwNn0oBRAOp2cRJSCSW5bikgBgsKUQjIdI9pA/s2048/unicornanddruidess.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1280" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlWkVWMsLKP6Vy5ArkkNp4iKlNf_4NUtjk3nZf_XGwkEHIFuGZgHraXGW7fThhC46FRHwFeDy7wGhgv6VO0NS9nIIcfn866KRHKZgr_D3fwNn0oBRAOp2cRJSCSW5bikgBgsKUQjIdI9pA/w250-h400/unicornanddruidess.jpg" width="250" /></a></b></div><b><br /></b><p></p><p><b>At Summer Solstice people aren’t what they seem—they could be… a unicorn …a god…or someone you fall in love with.</b></p><p>Druidess Maelona pursues a unicorn into the woods and returns with a runaway slave boy she takes under her wing. Before she can go back to look for the unicorn, a handsome stranger ignites a fiery attraction within her. But she can tell he's keeping something from her. She suspects that he may be a Roman spy.</p><p>God Epon’s blood burns at first sight of the gorgeous Druidess. Goaded by his desire for her he passes through the portal from the otherworld as a unicorn. Then he runs into the forest and she gives chase. There he shapeshifts into human form so he can get to know her better. Plus, to win her trust, he fights the Romans and saves her tribe. But even then, will he and Maelona be able to overcome the surmountable odds of a romance between a mortal and immortal being anything more than a summertime tryst?</p><p><br /></p><p><b>The Lynx And TheDruidess</b></p><p><b><a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B08BNNFWBF?notRedirectToSDP=1&ref_=dbs_mng_calw_4&storeType=ebooks">The Lynx and the Druidess </a></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRQfUjmCJLe8gPcho0d-zz7EbymuFyhZDiedVAf3C22nuZXeC01mlFGF8dRFZXNO2hhBveiSau_HZoPcPIfzbIwCrteO4OMUZBKgGLW6LjiogalFQnNleFS5kgPRD-SOB5CkOYXe5HoYDM/s500/lynxanddruidess+copy.jpeg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="313" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRQfUjmCJLe8gPcho0d-zz7EbymuFyhZDiedVAf3C22nuZXeC01mlFGF8dRFZXNO2hhBveiSau_HZoPcPIfzbIwCrteO4OMUZBKgGLW6LjiogalFQnNleFS5kgPRD-SOB5CkOYXe5HoYDM/w250-h400/lynxanddruidess+copy.jpeg" width="250" /></a></b></div><b><br /></b><p></p><p><b>Loving a god —has its advantages</b></p><p>Lleu, the radiant sun god, crosses between worlds to the Silures village for the fierce and stunning druidess, Wendolyn —a woman worth battling for. He longs to celebrate Lughnasa, the festival that honors him, with her.</p><p>Wendolyn is captivated by the striking stranger the moment he wanders into her village. Furthermore, she wants him with a fervor, burning her from within. However, he’s hiding his true identity. When he vows to save her tribe from the Romans marching toward them, everyone, including her dead father in a dream, says he is a coward who has run off.</p><p>Lleu is determined to win the love of druidess Wendolyn even if it means fighting the Roman army single-handed—by shapeshifting into in his lynx body.</p><p>Will her tribe survive the Romans? And, can Wendolyn and Lleu’s relationship survive her tribe’s mistrust of him?</p><p><br /></p><p><b>A Fine Cauldron Of Fish</b></p><p><b><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Fine-Cauldron-Fish-Cornelia-Amiri-ebook/dp/B00EN106DS/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=a+fine+cauldron+of+fish&qid=1620895507&s=digital-text&sr=1-1">A Fine Cauldron Of Fish </a></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibClSmy6LNj7fFhznI2zEoLztIYBDVcKd-LF6hyphenhyphenhJWpamoWrC3bPndRxMBrVzA6Nd_8rAwQYDgTbo5qH45xn-lmRSm_TanWDPyqiOH7c2Qzm_VDemO1Q7YQfH6s9OC89oBObFNJdfvjoRq/s696/image001.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="696" data-original-width="419" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibClSmy6LNj7fFhznI2zEoLztIYBDVcKd-LF6hyphenhyphenhJWpamoWrC3bPndRxMBrVzA6Nd_8rAwQYDgTbo5qH45xn-lmRSm_TanWDPyqiOH7c2Qzm_VDemO1Q7YQfH6s9OC89oBObFNJdfvjoRq/w241-h400/image001.jpg" width="241" /></a></b></div><b><br /></b><p></p><p><b>A whimsical tale of an invisible lover, a trickster god, and the vacation of a lifetime. </b></p><p>It's summer on the Isle of Man and Andrew is looking for hot girls and good times. So when he meets the dreamy and seductive Margaid, he thinks he's hit the jackpot. There are only a couple of minor problems: Margaid lives in a cave under the sea, is invisible, and thinks that only Andrew's blood can save her from turning into a water horse! But hey, whoever said love was perfect!?</p><p>This short, single-title comedy romance takes place on the island of the Celtic god Manannán mac Lir. It's full of witch and wizard type fey magic and lots of romance and laughs.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><b><br /></b></p><p><b>Back To The One I Love</b></p><p><b></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhV7e7D2_fctvjBNBP0OFb918vKSpidR38nly4KvQzCe9qrK1P_XrA_a1QfhBn-OkyXsq2rV8VLz9VF9TvHrP8JYWDDbe5nIiTM6zZdXaB37y0VatPlTAepg1uxduLwkwIgE4d-_Ffn3_zV/s1650/Back+to+the+one+I+love-1.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1650" data-original-width="1260" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhV7e7D2_fctvjBNBP0OFb918vKSpidR38nly4KvQzCe9qrK1P_XrA_a1QfhBn-OkyXsq2rV8VLz9VF9TvHrP8JYWDDbe5nIiTM6zZdXaB37y0VatPlTAepg1uxduLwkwIgE4d-_Ffn3_zV/w305-h400/Back+to+the+one+I+love-1.jpg" width="305" /></a></b></div><p></p><p><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Back-One-Love-Cornelia-Amiri-ebook/dp/B01C10C4PK/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=back+to+the+one+i+love&qid=1620895723&s=digital-text&sr=1-1">Back To The One I Love</a></p><p><b>The thrilling adventure of first love and self-discovery is just as groovy the second time around.</b></p><p>A free-spirited, baby boomer couple, Cash and Keith, find their marriage of forty-five years unraveling amid apathy, boredom, and retirement. Cash feels Keith is no longer attracted to her and he’s consumed with a couch-potato life of streaming Orville and Game of Throne episodes all day long. Trying to hang on to their marriage and rekindle the romance they lost along the way they turn to a counselor. The therapist uses an unorthodox magical method of a time-traveling Volkswagen van to cast them back into the garden…four days of Eden at Woodstock….the epic music festival… where they first fell in love.</p><p>Will the freedom of Woodstock lure Keith and Cash to push their individual boundaries and seek new lovers? Or can Déjà Vu and grooving to music….truly lead them to rediscover the peace, love, and harmony they once shared?</p><p><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b>I hope everyone has great summertime adventures and great summertime reading. </b></p>cornelia amirihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10073486581012525859noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2400362761924699332.post-89535333286764691612021-04-24T22:06:00.000-07:002021-04-24T22:06:02.027-07:00Back In Time To Beltane <p> It will soon be May and the first of the month is Beltane (bell-tayn), in modern times we call it May Day. This festival of the ancient Celts celebrated Spring and the Fire God, Belenus.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">The May Queen led the Beltane procession with her ritual courtship of the Green Man. These symbolic marriages of the god and goddess, in the form of King and Queen of the May, were mirrored in human courtship. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br />One of the most popular May Day traditions was to set a basket full of spring flowers or other small gifts at a neighbor’s home.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">One of the most important Beltane traditions was the Need Fire. Tribesmen built two huge bonfires next to each other and drove the tribe's cattle between them so the smoke would purify them and protect them from disease as well as grant them fertility from God Belenus. The tribesmen also ran or jumped between the fires for the fertility of the tribe. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">I wrote two books that celebrate Beltane:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><b>The Dragon and The Druidess (Druidry and the Beast Book 2)</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><b><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Dragon-Druidess-Druidry-Beast-Book-ebook/dp/B01MSJWDN5/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=the+dragon+and+the+druidess+amiri&qid=1619139126&sr=8-1">The Dragon and The Druidess (Druidry and the Beast Book 2) </a></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbqduPRh7q04k9xVGbGTNh7spzdIqDX9RK6dwPdgJnDOFieLj0qJwUZHqOFptIbjaOK1-KyJfnJJs-8wDB4VkrSSk1Hktpm6QxtIVd3UNFeyZddP4aH2OEbLui8wf-89iVZoA3ADxAATs7/s2048/dragondruidessnameandtitle.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbqduPRh7q04k9xVGbGTNh7spzdIqDX9RK6dwPdgJnDOFieLj0qJwUZHqOFptIbjaOK1-KyJfnJJs-8wDB4VkrSSk1Hktpm6QxtIVd3UNFeyZddP4aH2OEbLui8wf-89iVZoA3ADxAATs7/w240-h320/dragondruidessnameandtitle.jpg" width="240" /></a><b><br /></b></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><b>To a passionate man…all women are goddesses</b>.<br />Druidess Nona is seeking a lover for the Beltane rite. Without warning, a fierce red dragon swoops down before her. Not just any dragon…it’s God Dewey in wild, beastly form. Hot, in a rage, blowing smoke and flames… because Nona’s tribesmen snatched gold from the earth without the gods’ consent.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Captivated by Nona’s beauty and bravery, sparks fly and ablaze with desire for Nona, Dewi flies away… only to land nearby and shapeshifts to human form. In the guise of a visiting warrior needing the Druidess' hospitality, Dewi returns to the village. But, he discovers he has a rival for Nona’s affection, a chief who will stop at nothing to have her for his own. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">The moment Nona sees the warrior Dewi, her passion ignites, she envisions them coupling together in the Beltane mating rite… unleashing powerful, magic. Little does she know, the handsome warrior is really the mighty Dragon god. What will happen when Dewi’s secret is revealed? And what evil might the jealous chief unleash on the druidess and the dragon god?</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">The other book is an anthology of Celtic Fantasy Romance Novellas of mine. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><b>Need Fire - Five Celtic Couples Risk All For Love</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Box-Set-Need-Celtic-Couples/dp/1511543892/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=need+fire+cornelia+amiri&qid=1619132513&sr=8-1">Need Fire - Five Celtic Couples Risk All For Love</a><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8EyAxSpRmn6svQF9QBkr2bNUQhcw9OkKa4pILnucsu70cOpp_qZ_795du7G97ZmxnJxHdj8juEhz8bZtEf0t-2egsZCyvmgnb9wqQbhEBtzYbonXYMTn8oaP5XrGUowiV9F1ebLgKXRKm/s2048/needfirepicfinal+%25281%2529.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1365" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8EyAxSpRmn6svQF9QBkr2bNUQhcw9OkKa4pILnucsu70cOpp_qZ_795du7G97ZmxnJxHdj8juEhz8bZtEf0t-2egsZCyvmgnb9wqQbhEBtzYbonXYMTn8oaP5XrGUowiV9F1ebLgKXRKm/s320/needfirepicfinal+%25281%2529.jpg" /></a></div><br />This box set includes: Moon Goddess Wife, Timeless Voyage, Pendragon's Obsession, A Fine Cauldron Of Fish, and Some Vampires Shimmy all published individually as well.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><b></b><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><b> A Fine Cauldron Of Fish</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">It's a hot summer romance for Margaid and Andrew on the Isle of Man. There are only a couple of minor problems: Margaid lives in a cave under the sea, is invisible, and thinks that only Andrew's blood can save her from turning into a water horse! But hey, whoever said love was perfect? </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><b></b><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><b>Moon Goddess Wife</b> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Chief Pwyll's life turns into one wild ride the day Goddess Rhiannon gallops past him on her magic horse.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><b>Timeless Voyage </b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">A Celtic pirate, Anwen, captures the enemy, a Roman seaman. As she holds a dagger to his throat... memories of fated lovers, druids and sacrifice stay her hand.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><b></b><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><b>Pendragon's Obsession</b> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">What if a warrior king wanted you so badly he'd turn to magic to have you? </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><b></b><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><b>Some Vampires Shimmy</b> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">It's all sizzle and steam when the last of the dancing vampire sisters get together with a sexy rock guitarist and a hot looking god at a Scottish Steampunk Con.<br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div>cornelia amirihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10073486581012525859noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2400362761924699332.post-31233088047838738802021-03-01T14:50:00.003-08:002021-03-01T14:51:02.627-08:00St. Patrick Day Romances<div>With St. Patrick Day coming next month, I thought I'd tell you a little bit about him and a little bit about my two fantasy romances set in Ancient Ireland, along with my nonfiction book about the High Kings of Ireland, which are great St. Patrick Day reads.</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEira5-HQ8T0C_fe5AeF_vGh2NimHq2BrT-jVDTfz3nN6YFe99GgwrdSbDdqq8EWXz3R_xBsSbVy8SHbLiN3C90cXwZrgkJjxXRJlv9PK7okVqMitvKaXjpFZErri1zg2A_66cN7ADJhA4rx/s1920/leaf-1482948_1920.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="924" data-original-width="1920" height="144" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEira5-HQ8T0C_fe5AeF_vGh2NimHq2BrT-jVDTfz3nN6YFe99GgwrdSbDdqq8EWXz3R_xBsSbVy8SHbLiN3C90cXwZrgkJjxXRJlv9PK7okVqMitvKaXjpFZErri1zg2A_66cN7ADJhA4rx/w551-h144/leaf-1482948_1920.jpg" width="551" /></a></div><p><br /></p><div> </div><div>Maewyn Succat was born in either Wales or the lowlands of Scotland around 415 AD. His parents were Conchessa and Calpurnius—a Romano-British army officer and deacon.</div><div><br />At 16, Maewyn was abducted by Irish raiders and sold as a slave to herd sheep on Slemish mountain. After six years he escaped, made his way to the coast and stowed away on a boat headed to Britain.<br /><br /></div><div>After his kidnapping, Maewyn devoted his life to serving God and went to a monastery in France to study under St Germain, the bishop of Auxerre. During this time he changed his name to Pātricius. He was ordained a bishop by Pope Celestine, who sent him to Ireland. For twenty years Bishop Pātricius brought Christianity to the people of Ireland, baptizing farmers as well as nobles and even the sons of kings.</div><div><br /></div><div><br /> Here are two fantasy romances set in Ancient Ireland and my nonfiction history book of the High Kings.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqi0Rb9DIKp0c497ZH_7U_HPtM40_8bEuw2exd9RBNjso1DoatTJOIXk4UQaPkpfAydb7gu9w0jBOhQBdQrNRIAhjaF91h9FwwI0eAGdEGjCacae-tTTK9KnVqMAiScm8b9C0dQicqxow_/s486/unnamed.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="486" data-original-width="336" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqi0Rb9DIKp0c497ZH_7U_HPtM40_8bEuw2exd9RBNjso1DoatTJOIXk4UQaPkpfAydb7gu9w0jBOhQBdQrNRIAhjaF91h9FwwI0eAGdEGjCacae-tTTK9KnVqMAiScm8b9C0dQicqxow_/w276-h400/unnamed.jpg" width="276" /></a></div><p><br /></p><h2><b><br /></b><b><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Timeless-Voyage-Cornelia-Amiri-ebook/dp/B00KX6ONN6/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=timeless+voyage+cornelia+amiri&qid=1614060068&sr=8-1">Timeless Voyage</a></b></h2><div> <br />Neither the centuries that have come and gone nor the sears between us ...can keep us apart.<br />As the Celtic pirate, Anwen, presses her hard iron dagger against the Roman's throat, memories of fated lovers, druids and sacrifice, stay her hand.<br />Kaeso is captivated by dreams of the woman he loved in a previous life, the mirror image of Anwen. In this lifetime they are foes, Roman and Celt. Can Anwen and Kaeso steer their timeless voyage to a happy destiny or will they be robbed of love once more?<br /><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJH8uXAvObx7z-T9kgQfJh2STcJUPGFGGqnvCtz2dl7-EfAS9wtipu_at4z0h62lw-2YaHr8ksz2T5XfdClqngpjXF_fWiTRGgU6Z_eedZn-IU99WTE7GDXLEkQ2tLJoZNHUQWSAiHiiwT/s267/queen+of+kings.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="267" data-original-width="189" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJH8uXAvObx7z-T9kgQfJh2STcJUPGFGGqnvCtz2dl7-EfAS9wtipu_at4z0h62lw-2YaHr8ksz2T5XfdClqngpjXF_fWiTRGgU6Z_eedZn-IU99WTE7GDXLEkQ2tLJoZNHUQWSAiHiiwT/w283-h400/queen+of+kings.jpeg" width="283" /></a></div><p><br /></p><h2><br /><a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0134X6P8U/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_bibl_vppi_i33">The Queen of Kings</a></h2><div><br />As wild and beautiful as the land she rules, all men lust for her, warriors and kings bow to her might and magic, but one champion comes forth to gift her with a white bull and true love… but can the handsome stranger win her heart?</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgA_Zvm1umKa69QHqG2Tx9c7HMRtWm8HzpXgh3xG3hn5wVq3MQwJcrWl4imEv8ofEqck4jtjvtkmbqjxaAPG5hveUPxo-5t3i0KINzAsIk0mG1o2LaRA9Z5pVCCf4F18G4nFAR9L3Gd6i2Q/s2048/ForgedofIrish_Amiri_FC.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1345" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgA_Zvm1umKa69QHqG2Tx9c7HMRtWm8HzpXgh3xG3hn5wVq3MQwJcrWl4imEv8ofEqck4jtjvtkmbqjxaAPG5hveUPxo-5t3i0KINzAsIk0mG1o2LaRA9Z5pVCCf4F18G4nFAR9L3Gd6i2Q/w263-h400/ForgedofIrish_Amiri_FC.jpg" width="263" /></a></div><p><br /></p><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><h2><a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07R7CRNBJ/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_bibl_vppi_i19">Forged of Irish Bronze and Iron: The High Kings</a></h2><div><b>A legacy no one can steal</b></div><div><br /></div><div>For centuries in grand feasting halls and around flickering peat fires bards sung of the exploits of High Kings such as Tigemmas—Lord of Death and Niall of the Nine Hostages, possibly one of the most potent men to ever live. </div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding-bottom: 16px !important; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 16px !important; padding: 16px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></h1><ul class="reader-article-header__meta t-14 t-black--light t-normal mv4" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: var(--color-text-low-emphasis); display: flex; line-height: 1.42857; list-style: none; margin-bottom: 16px !important; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 16px !important; margin: 16px 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><li style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="artdeco-button__text" style="align-items: center; background: transparent; border-radius: var(--corner-radius-small) !important; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; cursor: pointer; display: inline; justify-content: center; line-height: 2rem; margin: 0px; max-width: 480px; min-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px; outline: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; text-align: center; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation; transition-duration: 167ms; transition-property: background-color, box-shadow, color; transition-timing-function: cubic-bezier(0.4, 0, 0.2, 1); vertical-align: baseline;">In 2007 Amazon did something new, they allowed authors to download their books directly to them, the distributor, without having to go through a publisher. So, when you download your book directly on Amazon or Kobo, or Apple, or B&N online, etc. you’re also publishing it at that time. That’s Self-publishing. That move by Amazon totally changed the publishing industry. </span></span></li></ul></header><div class="ember-view" id="ember3743" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="reader-article-content" dir="ltr" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.75); line-height: 3.2rem; margin: 3.2rem 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Once I got the rights to all my books back from publishers I'd sign contracts with, I stopped submitting to publishers, and now I Self Pub only. There are many advantages of self-publishing for authors, including:</span></p><p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.75); line-height: 3.2rem; margin: 3.2rem 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">1. You don’t have to sign a contract that gives away all your rights to a publisher that then keeps them for your lifetime and beyond (per term of copyright).</span></p><p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.75); line-height: 3.2rem; margin: 3.2rem 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">2. You keep the rights to your books</span></p><p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.75); line-height: 3.2rem; margin: 3.2rem 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">3. You control your release date. </span></p><p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.75); line-height: 3.2rem; margin: 3.2rem 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">4. You have total control of your book cover </span></p><p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.75); line-height: 3.2rem; margin: 3.2rem 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">5. You get to choose and have the final say on your title </span></p><p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.75); line-height: 3.2rem; margin: 3.2rem 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">6. You have total control of your pricing and any discounting</span></p><p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.75); line-height: 3.2rem; margin: 3.2rem 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">7. You get to choose your own editor—one that fits you, your books, and your writing. And, you can't lose them due to layoffs.</span></p><p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.75); line-height: 3.2rem; margin: 3.2rem 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">8. You get to choose your own cover artist. One that gets your books and your voice and understands what you're trying to project. And you get to use the same cover artist on every single book. </span></p><p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.75); line-height: 3.2rem; margin: 3.2rem 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">9. You don’t have to worry about losing your books in bankruptcy as you would if you were with a publisher that went bankrupt.</span></p><p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.75); line-height: 3.2rem; margin: 3.2rem 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">10. You receive a great deal more money per book, a lot more than from a Big 5 publisher</span></p><p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.75); line-height: 3.2rem; margin: 3.2rem 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">11. You don't have to take the time and trouble to submit to literary agents or go to expensive conferences to pitch your book to them.</span></p><p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.75); line-height: 3.2rem; margin: 3.2rem 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">12. And, since you don't need an agent to Indie Publish you don't have to share a percentage of your royalties with them. </span></p><p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.75); line-height: 3.2rem; margin: 3.2rem 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">13. And since you don't use an agent you don't have to worry about agent embezzlement which happens and has happened at a lot more places than just at Donadio & Olson. Mainly because agents are not regulated. They don’t undergo criminal records checks or have to adhere to bylaws.</span></p><p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.75); line-height: 3.2rem; margin: 3.2rem 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">14. Moreover, you can release books quickly, within weeks of getting your book back from its final edit.</span></p><p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.75); line-height: 3.2rem; margin: 3.2rem 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">15. You can write an entire series without ever having to worry about your publisher canceling your series </span></p><p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.75); line-height: 3.2rem; margin: 3.2rem 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">16. You aren’t asked to make major changes to the story such as your character’s race or culture or the time period or add more sex or less or put in paranormal elements are take paranormal elements out, or all the other types of changes Big 5 publishers have asked authors to make.</span></p><p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.75); line-height: 3.2rem; margin: 3.2rem 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">17. You don’t have to write a book proposal to submit your book. </span></p><p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.75); line-height: 3.2rem; margin: 3.2rem 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">18. You don’t even have to write a book synopsis to submit your book.</span></p><p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.75); line-height: 3.2rem; margin: 3.2rem 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">19. You don't even have to write a query letter to submit your book.</span></p><p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.75); line-height: 3.2rem; margin: 3.2rem 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">20. If you find an error after the book is published you can correct it and republish it right away. All you have to do is make the correction in your finished document then reformat it or if you or your formatter use Vellum you can make the correction right in the formatting. Traditional publishes won't make corrections after a book is released except some small presses will do it for ebooks, but never for print.</span></p><p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.75); line-height: 3.2rem; margin: 3.2rem 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">21. You get to pick the categories – 10 of them at Amazon that you want your book to show up in. With a publisher, you don’t have control over how your book is categorized.</span></p><p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.75); line-height: 3.2rem; margin: 3.2rem 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">22. If your writing voice lends itself to cross genres and niche writing you can write that and publish it, whereas the Big 5 are not fond of that type of writing.</span></p><p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.75); line-height: 3.2rem; margin: 3.2rem 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">23. Your books won’t go out of print. </span></p><p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.75); line-height: 3.2rem; margin: 3.2rem 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">24. You can refresh your books later—change the covers or the title, put a couple of novels or novellas together in a collection. You just have to reformat it or get a new cover or in some cases both. That’s it. </span></p><p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.75); line-height: 3.2rem; margin: 3.2rem 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">25. You have access to your eBook sales reports daily. And you are paid royalties monthly. If you are with a publisher, usually you have to wait 3 months or longer to get paid and to see your sale reports. </span></p><p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.75); line-height: 3.2rem; margin: 3.2rem 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">26. When you see tweets about late pay or no pay from an author, along with the drama of the publisher and other authors ostracizing them for <em style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">"foolishly and selfishly"</em> (that's not how I look on it) expecting to be paid for their work per terms of the contract they signed, you can let out a sigh of relief and mutter under your breath, "I'm glad I'm not with that publisher or those authors and never will be because …I don't sign contracts with publishers anymore."</span></p><p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.75); line-height: 3.2rem; margin: 3.2rem 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">27. You don't have to keep up with the latest small press publisher that is going down or being sold or showing signs of trouble, after all, you don't have anything with them or submitted to them—thank goodness.</span></p><p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.75); line-height: 3.2rem; margin: 3.2rem 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">28. If you've gotten rights back, you don't have to research the few publishers that will accept a submission for a previously published book, you can just indie published it yourself and make any changes to it you want, including the title. In other words, this time you can do it totally your own way.</span></p><p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.75); line-height: 3.2rem; margin: 3.2rem 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">29. Your books won't be pulled by a publisher just for tweeting about some type of personal experience you probably shouldn't have tweeted about. For example the Rare Bird/Natasha Tynes situation.</span></p><p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.75); line-height: 3.2rem; margin: 3.2rem 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">30. You have a better chance of getting on Amazon's Bestseller List. Just 16% of the e-books on Amazon’s bestseller lists are published by the Big 5.</span></p><p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.75); line-height: 3.2rem; margin: 3.2rem 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">31. You have a better chance of selling lots of ebooks. Over 30% of book sales in Amazon’s Kindle Store are self-published eBooks.</span></p><p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.75); line-height: 3.2rem; margin: 3.2rem 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">32. Your books won’t contribute to pollution by ending up in a landfill due to traditional publishings return policy. 30 to 40% of traditionally published books are returned to the publisher each year often without the book ever going on a bookstore shelf. For mass-market books, the covers are ripped off and returned, not the actual books, they go straight to a landfill or to pulp. Because publishers overprint and, unlike any other retail items, books are shipped to booksellers on consignment rather than wholesale purchase.</span></p><p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.75); line-height: 3.2rem; margin: 3.2rem 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">33. Your book can be published even without comp titles. In other words, even if it does not compare to 10 books that made the Big Five lots of money in the last three years or so. So you can publish a book written from a different viewpoint than usual, aiming at an audience that may not be mostly white or mostly male.</span></p><p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.75); line-height: 3.2rem; margin: 3.2rem 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">34. You don't need a platform consisting of some five-figure number of engaged people to get a nonfiction (including memoir) book published like you'd typically need when submitting to the Big 5.</span></p><p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.75); line-height: 3.2rem; margin: 3.2rem 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">35. You can create other products from your books through what used to be called Box Sets and now, if you publish them on Amazon, are called Collections. I took five individually published Celtic fantasy novellas and put them in one book. I took my duology novels, each published individually, and put them together as one book. I took my novella series and published them as one book. This allows you to offer a bargain to your readers to buy several books in one for one price. And it gives you another product with your name on it to draw more readers in. With traditional publishing, the publisher holds the contract. You can't do anything else with that book until the rights revert back to you.</span></p><p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.75); line-height: 3.2rem; margin: 3.2rem 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">36. You don't have to worry about your literary agency or your publisher going viral on social media because of charges of racial discrimination of sexual harassment.</span></p><p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.75); line-height: 3.2rem; margin: 3.2rem 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">37. Supply shortages due to Coronavirus or other disasters will not disrupt digital publishing, neither ebook or print on demand unlike Big Five print runs.</span></p><p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.75); line-height: 3.2rem; margin: 3.2rem 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "Source Serif Pro", serif; font-size: 20px;">38. Online book sales are all you need. Most print books are sold on Amazon. Additionally, in 2020 online book sales rose 43%. Book Industry Experts expect that trend to continue in 2021. </span></p><p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.75); line-height: 3.2rem; margin: 3.2rem 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: verdana;">Please note that nowhere in here is the reason people presume we self-publish, that is that our books were rejected by publishers. I worked with 5 publishers before I decided to Self- Pub all 39 of my books. I have never regretted the decision to go with Self-Publishing.</span></p><p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.75); line-height: 3.2rem; margin: 3.2rem 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></p></div></div>cornelia amirihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10073486581012525859noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2400362761924699332.post-26024379553664116242020-11-23T10:32:00.002-08:002020-11-23T10:32:25.584-08:00Brown Paper Packages Tied Up With Strings<p> Everyone is wrapping packages and mailing them to relatives and friends, especially this Christmas when Covid makes it hard or unsafe to be with our families. And the post office has some problems now so everyone is trying to get the packages off early. </p><p>But as crazy as all of this it, things regarding the post office have been crazier in the past. It’s hard to believe but in 1913, a little over 100 years ago, when the parcel post service began in the US, people mailed babies. At least two children were mailed with stamps stuck on their clothes. I swear I’m not making this up. There’re actually pictures of mail carriers with children they delivered.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWzuOsbBgNGyxFsjMjrpk7N41C1abpaoH8G_yvStgYiyHsBcFoQTwOAczJ6WxTFsl8QNO_MbaWbUjwNoqrUVMbYwa4KPqTinNX2f1Mmp0lnA-vf9GIf_3d2juVBQU2EmaNeBDjYn1jfGO9/s462/mailingbabies+%25281%2529.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="389" data-original-width="462" height="336" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWzuOsbBgNGyxFsjMjrpk7N41C1abpaoH8G_yvStgYiyHsBcFoQTwOAczJ6WxTFsl8QNO_MbaWbUjwNoqrUVMbYwa4KPqTinNX2f1Mmp0lnA-vf9GIf_3d2juVBQU2EmaNeBDjYn1jfGO9/w400-h336/mailingbabies+%25281%2529.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><p>This inspires all sorts of ideas for books, especailly steampunk stories or those set in the early 1900s. A child could be sent by mail by the mother to the baby’s father, who didn’t know about the baby. A child could mail themselves to the North Pole so they could see Santa and get all the toys. A runaway child could even stamp themselves to go out west for adventure. A child could get delivered to the wrong address.</p><p>Western mail order brides could actually be sent by mail with stamps on their dresses or foreheads. A mail order bride could be delivered to the wrong man. Instead of a train to deliver mail you can use an airship or a mail balloon to send stamped people about. And you certainly don’t have to keep this practice in the Edwardian era, you can move it to the Victorian era wild west.</p><p>A mailed woman or child could end up riding pillion with a pony express rider through Indian country. They could even ride on a stagecoach that carries mail. If the train, stage or airship is held up by outlaws and a mailed person is taken as a hostage is that tampering with US mail? Would the Calvary be brought in to recover the stolen person or rather package? The ideas are endless.</p><p>Wood Guthrie wrote a cute song about this practice of mailing children.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/93DH1gyKlmk" width="320" youtube-src-id="93DH1gyKlmk"></iframe></div><p>This practice of mailing children is definitely one of those what were they thinking scenarios. In this case, what they were thinking was how to do something cheaper. How to get out of the cost of an expensive train ticket. The how to do something cheaper thought process often causes people to do strange things. As a writer, you can always use that idea for one of your characters and as a reader, it's a fun premise to read. ; It might be a challenge to come up with something crazier than mailing children but if you can think of it chances are someone has actually done it. For many people cheaper and easier seems to outweigh unresponsible and dangerous and leads people to make some pretty foolish mistakes. Also characters who always try to do things on the cheap can be fun for readers to read and for writers to create. </p><p>And if you like to read Steampunk or Victorian comedy romance, here are two of mine that fit the bill.</p><p><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Brass-Octopus-Cornelia-Amiri-ebook/dp/B00N9N498E/ref=sr_1_2?dchild=1&keywords=brass+octopus+amiri&qid=1606156058&sr=8-2">The Brass Octopus</a></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1nYcXkuHRw-hvteSEUX2oQm3wSlXAgHeQYbOtrgyN0MjKK-1MqH_gv8PFB4YTbV4Xm1RYrzB_K1LR7g-y6VjvAee1CflSrBqxOQG_dTfY-UhaHOgX9_qlv6I-FwXRWX7lEaVlvW-zkefP/s1800/brass+ocotpus+vista+print.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1800" data-original-width="1200" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1nYcXkuHRw-hvteSEUX2oQm3wSlXAgHeQYbOtrgyN0MjKK-1MqH_gv8PFB4YTbV4Xm1RYrzB_K1LR7g-y6VjvAee1CflSrBqxOQG_dTfY-UhaHOgX9_qlv6I-FwXRWX7lEaVlvW-zkefP/s320/brass+ocotpus+vista+print.jpg" /></a></div><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><b>Spinster Librarian Piety Plunkett is happy alone with her books, until … </b></span><div><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Piety's</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> sister transforms her with a bras octopus beautifying machine. With her new look, the librarian catches the lusty attentions of London’s most notorious rogue. Blake Blackmore enjoys the favors of beautiful women from the brothels of London to high society’s most fashionable debutantes but only the spinster librarian consumes his mind night and day. Piety insists she will not wed but devote her life to her position as head librarian, but Blake will stop at nothing to win her. He takes matters into his own hands and tutors her in carnal pleasure in three passion filled lessons. Now that she is sharing her body, instead of just her books, Piety is shocked yet pleased at how naughty she can be under Blake’s personal tutelage. But if anyone finds out about what goes on in the library after closing time, her reputation would be ruined. Is that Blake’ ultimate plan?</span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhm6BlVRyECKyTy5SVrAJQ1f0ZSXUgNf4qviyMAUPH9cj9-Ru1-DU5XpYHLZt0Z6SaFRtXVZvy9qeQjVFKij4o1Wxv8bqrKOeNsq3Zy4D3ifNLrXIHW8cxlQvbl0SNHht9EubHB967HaWxN/s2048/londonghos3title+%25282%2529.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1365" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhm6BlVRyECKyTy5SVrAJQ1f0ZSXUgNf4qviyMAUPH9cj9-Ru1-DU5XpYHLZt0Z6SaFRtXVZvy9qeQjVFKij4o1Wxv8bqrKOeNsq3Zy4D3ifNLrXIHW8cxlQvbl0SNHht9EubHB967HaWxN/s320/londonghos3title+%25282%2529.jpg" /></a></div><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><b><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Love-London-Ghost-Cornelia-Amiri-ebook/dp/B01MTLDLL9/ref=sr_1_2?dchild=1&keywords=to+love+a+london+ghost&qid=1606156018&sr=8-2">To Love A London Ghost</a></b></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><b>A Wild Ghost Chase</b></span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Queen Victoria orders the premiere phantom hunter, Sexton Dukenfield, to track down England’s missing ghosts. On the job, Sexton stumbles into Ceridwen, a phantom Celtic warrior woman. Not only does Sexton find her intriguing as a clue to the missing spirits, her sultry beauty haunts him as well. Though they both burn with desire, it’s difficult to quench their fiery passion since Ceridwen is so translucent.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">On a mission through the bustling narrow streets of London, to a dreary match factory, and to the Otherworld and back to stop a genius scientist and his phantasm debilitater machine, the ghost and the ghost hunter also seek the secret …to freeing the boundaries of life and death. Is it possible…or just a wild ghost chase?</span></p></div>cornelia amirihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10073486581012525859noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2400362761924699332.post-64298299676780969252020-10-22T17:00:00.005-07:002020-10-22T17:00:40.791-07:00Samhain/Halloween And The Old Gods<p>As an author of Celtic Fantasy Romance novels, my favorite holiday is Samhain, the Celtic fire festival which gives us our Halloween traditions. Samhain, pronounced <i>SOW-Kuhn, i</i>s the Celtic New Year, October 31 or November 1st. Samhain falls between the old year and the new—it's a day without time. Spirits of the dead and supernatural beings easily cross into ur earthly dimension on this day, since the veil between worlds is at its thinnest. </p><p>In our modern Halloween celebration, one of our favorite supernatural creatures are werewolves. The ancient Celts liked shapeshifters probably even more than we do. All their gods had shapeshifting forms. For instance, let's look at the Welsh god, Gwydion. That name means born of trees, which sounds so <i>druidish</i>, and for good reason, he's basically the druid of the gods. Along with that, he's a powerful sorcerer, a master of illusion, a poet, the world’s best story teller, and a trickster. When god Math needs a virgin handmaid to because he has to lay his feet in her lap to keep them warm, Gwydion tells him he has the perfect woman, his half-sister Arianrhod. But it’s a trick because he knows she’s no virgin. Math test her virginity by touching her stomach with his magic wand and two babies drop out. One is a sea creature, the sea god Dylan, they set him into the ocean. The other is a lump and Gwydion takes it and a few months later it has formed into a beautiful baby boy, the sun god Llew. Gwydion raises Llew and uses his trickery to thwart the three <i>tyngeds</i> that Arianrhod put on him. </p><p></p><ul><li>That Llew have no name except one given by her</li><li>that he bears no arms except those given by her</li><li>and that he can never have a wife</li></ul><p></p><p>This is one of my favorite stories in Welsh mythology. Also, one of Gwydion’s shapeshifting forms is a wolf. </p><div>Gwydion is the hero of <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Wolf-Druidess-Druidry-Beast-Book-ebook/dp/B01KY7YXBA/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=the+wolf+and+the+druidess+amiri&qid=1603391650&sr=8-1">The Wolf and the Druidess</a>. It’s set at Samhain rather than Halloween and instead of a werewolf, the hero is the Celtic god Gwydion. It’s my version of a sexy, romantic, Halloween werewolf tale. And it does have a Little Red Riding Hood vibe. </div><div><br /></div><div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOCVwIfGrWommMrJ6-0oNrQWy3fiPqInjLZ6W-_yJvphLcAZLWOqKQh9cTyRSQtknCGRnOg86JPob3hd2GflmyNNgdpKgwk-V5g1Pf9xW-cIu0o2FY53OwThgaqMTU9mGCHnSX9mRqz8ik/s900/aWolf+and+Dtitle3+%25281%2529.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="900" data-original-width="600" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOCVwIfGrWommMrJ6-0oNrQWy3fiPqInjLZ6W-_yJvphLcAZLWOqKQh9cTyRSQtknCGRnOg86JPob3hd2GflmyNNgdpKgwk-V5g1Pf9xW-cIu0o2FY53OwThgaqMTU9mGCHnSX9mRqz8ik/w266-h400/aWolf+and+Dtitle3+%25281%2529.jpg" width="266" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div>Here’s the blurb:</div><div><br /></div><div>A Celtic Tryst with A Shape Shifter Twist</div><div><br /></div><div>In days of old, deep in the dark woods, Druidess Seren discovers a wolf shapeshifting into the bare, muscular Celtic God, Gwydion. Seren's mind turns from the Samhain feast to wicked thoughts of Gwydion's gorgeous body Is the love Gwydion and Seren share strong enough to overcome barriers between an immortal god and a mortal woman? Or will a warning of danger from beyond the grave destroy the sensual magic brewing between the wolf and the druidess?</div><div><br /></div><div>Another special thing about this book is it's first-in-series. The Druidry and the Beast series is set in Iron Age Britain. And each one takes place during one of the ancient Celtic festivals. Plus, the hero is always a shapeshifter god, and the heroine a smart, strong druidess. All the druidesses are from different tribes, so you get to know a little about the tribal culture of those times. </div><div><br /></div><div>The series is complete, so you can read the books one by one:<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnPKukhCgudVdJ86IjzcvMsqi3N8t0ph89BXw2zkKDGZTP6j5FCOXfDuQ4F6wEmeFsJJEFwJ4ZYh5uAXqWzc4xDVMbIqqSCPs8RmsU2XwZ9lyZ14QuER7f-uca1AEk8JT5GY-FoW6aU3oZ/s500/druidryandbeast_frontcover+copy.jpeg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="328" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnPKukhCgudVdJ86IjzcvMsqi3N8t0ph89BXw2zkKDGZTP6j5FCOXfDuQ4F6wEmeFsJJEFwJ4ZYh5uAXqWzc4xDVMbIqqSCPs8RmsU2XwZ9lyZ14QuER7f-uca1AEk8JT5GY-FoW6aU3oZ/w263-h400/druidryandbeast_frontcover+copy.jpeg" width="263" /></a></div><br /></div><div>The Wolf and the Druidess</div><div>The Dragon and the Druidess</div><div>The Bear and the Druidess</div><div>The Unicorn and the Druidess</div><div>The Lynx and the Druidess</div><div><br /></div><div> Are you can read them all together in a box set:</div><div><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Druidry-Beast-collection-Cornelia-Amiri-ebook/dp/B08C4V61X2/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=druidry+and+the+beasts+amiri&qid=1603391250&sr=8-1">Druidry and the Beast</a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBAgACM7x8nUBdneTsW3w9FRQuZTRLBwAQNixQlN8bPL7RDDZeIv1OwS-wvYydxy7T3zhrnqNALJ7vEn3rrRNKRM1XI3DUT4eGQCpVMA8HpQHz7JoPPVxIkfaylhNZeZYr2aN7bUzI0-Au/s392/B1idsjbu9jS._SY300_.jpeg" style="clear: left; display: inline; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="300" data-original-width="392" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBAgACM7x8nUBdneTsW3w9FRQuZTRLBwAQNixQlN8bPL7RDDZeIv1OwS-wvYydxy7T3zhrnqNALJ7vEn3rrRNKRM1XI3DUT4eGQCpVMA8HpQHz7JoPPVxIkfaylhNZeZYr2aN7bUzI0-Au/s320/B1idsjbu9jS._SY300_.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUcNx5Dv29d0b97QCrjUJFu-45qmq5Xd-PTbIW-81AdbJW8e55d3vf5MN1PJYkrfMIexrAbJLeRfjSGLIx-Qc45p7Xi0dyzcV0VG7TOvUmMK30d6liQQ9z143febsxjb4bAOYrbOOw-C6S/s2048/unicornanddruidess.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1280" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUcNx5Dv29d0b97QCrjUJFu-45qmq5Xd-PTbIW-81AdbJW8e55d3vf5MN1PJYkrfMIexrAbJLeRfjSGLIx-Qc45p7Xi0dyzcV0VG7TOvUmMK30d6liQQ9z143febsxjb4bAOYrbOOw-C6S/w125-h200/unicornanddruidess.jpg" width="125" /></a></div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEio3O4EO04aNAPPWpQcY30xKwPm3y4b_0t_vTY1E43sWbBpCGzGil-sq-_2M9-7dAUWpCb-1B6UfTVsXrpYbNlfocw_l8OsseokBvve5Hx43lABO1Fh1MPiwdXe31PKFES5DbuERgMZGF0b/s2048/lynxanddruidess.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1280" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEio3O4EO04aNAPPWpQcY30xKwPm3y4b_0t_vTY1E43sWbBpCGzGil-sq-_2M9-7dAUWpCb-1B6UfTVsXrpYbNlfocw_l8OsseokBvve5Hx43lABO1Fh1MPiwdXe31PKFES5DbuERgMZGF0b/w125-h200/lynxanddruidess.jpg" width="125" /></a></div><br /><br /><div><br /></div><br /><div><br /></div><div><br /></div>cornelia amirihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10073486581012525859noreply@blogger.com0