Wednesday, September 19, 2012

Animal Charities

In case you donate  to animal charities, I'm passing on information that was sent out on a rescue loop .



The Humane Society of the United States does not run any shelters for companion animals.
HSUS 2010 Annual Income: $148Million 
The ASPCA (New York City) runs one single animal shelter in New York City.. In 2010 they adopted out 3389 animals there.ASPCA  2010 Annual Income:  $133Million
PETA runs a single facility in VA that they call an animal shelter but has no living areas or holding wards. It's an office building with a walk-in freezer. In 2010 they killed 93.8% of animals they took in - 2200 animals.PeTa 2010 Annual Income: $35Million

Tuesday, September 18, 2012

Strong Women


Be the kind of woman that when your feet hit the floor each morning the devil says~~  "Oh Crap, She's up!"

Monday, September 17, 2012

VBT Heroes Live Forever


BLURB:

Elinor Hawthorne has inherited a house haunted by the ghosts of two medieval knights, Basil Manneville and Guy Guiscard. Basil is the man of her dreams, her knight in shining armor. She falls in love with him and he with her. Basil soon realizes she needs to live a normal life, a happy life with a mortal.

A lifetime later fate intervenes. Basil, still in love with Elinor, is told her spirit lives on in a young woman and he is given another chance at life to find her. 


At the top of the stairs, goose bumps suddenly dotted Elinor’s skin and the hair on her arms stood on end. She glanced back, but didn’t see anything strange, or more to the point, Lucy’s ghost knight.

Author Bio:

I was born and raised in Chicago. My father was a history professor and my mother was, and is, a voracious reader. I grew up with a love of history and books.

My parents also love traveling, a passion they passed onto me. I wanted to see the places I read about, see the land and monuments from the time periods that fascinated me. I’ve had the good fortune to travel extensively throughout Europe, the Near East, and North Africa.

I am a retired police detective. I spent twenty-five years in law enforcement with two different agencies. My desire to write came in my early teens. After I retired, I decided to pursue that dream.

I currently live in the Pacific Northwest with my husband, four rescue dogs and a rescue horse. 





Wednesday, September 12, 2012

The Emotion Thesaurus

Has anyone out there ordered this yet? I ran across information about this on one of my writers' loops. I've ordered it and I'm anxious to check it out.Like most writers I'm always on the look out for better ways to express myself.  I'll let you know what I think of it after it gets here.

And on a just-for-fun note. I've finished Divergent. If you're a dystopian YA fan, I recommend it.

What about you? Read any good ones lately?

Tuesday, September 11, 2012

Munchkins

Blogging today on four-legged Munchkins at Night Writers.

Remembrance of the nine-eleven victims and their loved ones.