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Exile on Peachtree Streethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11391625149744166848noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1361487126609950669.post-69994298649477989682018-04-14T09:35:00.001-04:002018-04-14T09:35:44.284-04:00An In Depth Interview-Judith Arnopp<a href="http://www.rukiapublishing.com/an-in-depth-interview-judith-arnopp.html">An In Depth Interview-Judith Arnopp</a>Exile on Peachtree Streethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11391625149744166848noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1361487126609950669.post-35572808853151250282018-04-04T15:01:00.001-04:002018-04-04T15:01:22.071-04:00Sexuality and Its Impact on History: The British Stripped Bare<a href="http://www.rukiapublishing.com/sexuality-and-its-impact-on-history-the-british-stripped-bare.html">Sexuality and Its Impact on History: The British Stripped Bare</a>Exile on Peachtree Streethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11391625149744166848noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1361487126609950669.post-16640693193666080472017-01-24T09:09:00.001-05:002017-01-24T09:09:25.738-05:00Casting Light upon the Shadow: Right to Reply - The Tudors<a href="http://anniewhitehead2.blogspot.com/2017/01/right-to-reply-tudors.html?spref=bl">Casting Light upon the Shadow: Right to Reply - The Tudors</a>: This year I am launching a series of what I hope will be monthly posts, where three authors will give me their opinions on a particular era....Exile on Peachtree Streethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11391625149744166848noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1361487126609950669.post-79280615754565132322015-12-01T19:13:00.000-05:002015-12-01T19:13:01.541-05:00Fables and Fairy Tales<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
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<span style="font-size: large;">What is it about this phrase that captivates our collective consciousness? We all love a fairy tale. Yes, guys you can admit it. We are all friends here. Is it the happily ever after ending? Surely it isn’t Prince Charming or the kiss that leads to bliss. Is it the thought of living with seven little men in the woods? No, it’s none of these, is it? We can make our own happy ending; we no longer need anyone to do it for us. As for the Big Bad Wolf, we can be the Big, Bad Cougar if we so choose, so why the enduring charm of the fairy tale? At this most magical time of the year, let’s take a moment to try and understand the mystique of the simple fairy tale. Those parables, myths, fables and legends which stay within our culture and bring meaning to us.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Why do these stories bewitch and enchant us? They are the same tales, retold and revised. From Cinderella to Snow White remixed into Beauty and the Beast and Pretty Woman. We watch cartoons, read books and comic books, watch movies, the children’s books evolve into the grown-up versions, and we still watch the movies, read the books and continue to love them. A sad, ugly little girl gets a chance to spend one night away from their usual humdrum existence. Let’s say she gets to stay out late, leaving a shoe behind, because she wants to get home before she gets caught…before the spell is broken.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Exactly what is it that resonates within us to make a story like this timeless? It is because we are that sad, ugly, scared little child. At one point in our lives, we have all been waiting for someone to notice how very special we are, behind those braces on our teeth and thick glasses. Fairy tales are our broken experiences- that is why they are classics. The stories continue to swirl and develop around us as we grow. As we break and mend, the stories do the same. They give us something to believe in, something bigger than ourselves.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Cinderella isn’t the only tale that charms us. The non-fiction story of Anne Boleyn intrigues to this day because Anne, as a young girl who wasn’t considered beautiful, still captured the heart of a king and changed the destiny of a nation and history itself, all for love. Although the story of Anne Boleyn had a tragic ending during her lifetime, the romantic concept remains with us to this day and has made her story with Henry VIII immortal, a love that time cannot erase.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Consider how many different ways stories like The Wizard of Oz, Snow White, Romeo and Juliet, Batman, Superman lure us…they all teach us lessons of right and wrong. The stories are rewoven, retold over the years. How do fairy tales stay popular for so long? We fill in the gaps with ourselves, and as our culture changes, we bring our stories with us. Each generation brings its insight, concepts and ideas into the paradigm. Thus has it ever been throughout the human experience. On a cultural level, we adapt as our society reinvents itself. Hence, the continuing popularity.</span><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">Romeo and Juliet remind us that there is a love so bright, life itself becomes dim in comparison.</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Fairy tales break the key rules of character development. With their quirks and strange nuances, the characters of fairy tales are one dimensional, when reading the traditional versions. The same could be said for many of our most retold stories. We project ourselves into the stories as a method of filling in the missing pieces. It is a process of identification…self-identification that brings the stories to life.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Could this be the attraction? When a character and a story gives us spaces, we fill them with our imaginations? With so much to explore, there’s no end to the possibilities, are there? The end results are personal and compelling.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">If the ugly duckling can become a swan and the lonely child can grow up to conquer the world, anything can happen. Does the secret lie in the fact that we all want to believe in the magic of possibilities? We believe deep within ourselves that dreams can come true?</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">We continue to immerse ourselves in fictional, mystical realms filled with magical people and evocative fantasies, even if the story reflects a contemporary setting. Many yarns continue to enchant, no matter how often we spin them anew.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">Author Hunter S. Jones mixes romance with Civil War drama and brings contemporary suspense to life in the setting of the Reconstruction South.</span></span></div>
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Exile on Peachtree Streethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11391625149744166848noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1361487126609950669.post-77114821342935704792015-09-06T11:13:00.001-04:002015-09-07T13:40:15.873-04:00SECRETS from a DANGEROUS TIME<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">Chaos reigns in a lawless time filled with revenge and betrayals. Casey King must change her name, fake a marriage and forget modern comforts to survive within the world she now finds herself. An unprecedented storm hurls her back in time to Reconstruction Era in Chattanooga, Tennessee. She finds herself in a world full of violence and mystery.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;"><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />The charismatic Dr. Garrett Cleighton, a mixed heritage Cherokee, decides to give her a part in his traveling medicine show. Casey takes a chance in order to hide her secrets. Following the American Civil War, the Southern States are reeling under the revenge taken on them by the victors. Does Dr. Cleighton keep his promises or betray her? Can his band of musicians, entertainers and misfits keep Casey safe through the turmoil? Will she survive?</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">We walk down the steps from the Queen’s Apartments. Sir Kingston walks with me and the ladies walk behind us. The morning sun kisses my face. The daffodils are in bloom and the birds sing like any other radiant spring morning. Surely even Nature would know if the hour of death was approaching for an anointed Queen Regnant of England. It must be a sign of hope for me. I will be rescued at the last moment. This is all part of the public humiliation Henry wishes. He wants all to witness as I bow to his greatness, then he will pardon me for sins against the Crown and banish me to a nunnery, much like Cranmer promised.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">If not, then I face the morning with courage. If I am to be punished, it is for my own sins. The last few years swiftly pass before my mind’s eye. What had caused the change? Certainly the miscarriage of a son had been a part of Henry’s outrage. But what made him turn against me in such haste? Again, the unseen troubadour’s voice pleads for the love of his lady; his song is as sweet as the one sung by the birds around me, yet as mournful as the questioning of my own heart.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Henry surely hasn’t pledged himself to her, although he has always been much like a crow, in that anything dangled before him which glimmers will capture his eye. My heart breaks at the thought. If he had fallen for a woman of wealth, taste, or great nobility, I could forgive. But Jane? She is nothing. Bringing myself from the daydream, I see the crowd that awaits us as we move closer to the edge of the White Tower. There we will take a turn toward Tower Green. One way or another, either death or escape await me. I am ready to face whatever God wishes for me. All I pray for is an answer that will serve the greater good of the King, and an end to my pain.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">“So sorry for waking you, my great and beautiful lady,” she whispers. I hear the trembling of fear in her voice.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">“Oh, there is no need to worry yourself, my dear girl. This is the best of days to wake early. Thank you for waking me. I couldn’t be more delighted. Today is the day for which we have longed! You do me a very great favour. I am to be fitted for my wedding dress on this very morning.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Now fate has led me to today. It is the wish of God and the King. I am to become the wife of the King of England. How could any woman think to maintain the affections of a man if all she did was meddle and rant about his business? This is an especially tiresome trait when his business is the future of England.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The last hour of Anne Boleyn’s life…</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">A young Anne Boleyn arrives at the court of King Henry VIII. She is to be presented at the Shrovetide pageant, le Château Vert. The young and ambitious Anne has no idea that a chance encounter before the pageant will lead to her capturing the heart of the king. What begins as a distraction becomes his obsession and leads to her destruction.</span></div>
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Exile on Peachtree Streethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11391625149744166848noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1361487126609950669.post-84958039293289889612015-05-07T21:12:00.000-04:002018-12-06T17:46:56.049-05:00PHOENIX RISING, the last hour of Anne Boleyn by Hunter S. Jones<h1 class="post-title" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Open Sans', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 20pt; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: -1px; line-height: 1.2em; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px;"><a href="http://www.madeglobal.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/phoenix_rising.jpg" style="-webkit-transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out; color: #1b9c0c; font-size: 13.3333330154419px; line-height: 18px; outline: none; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out;"><img alt="phoenix_rising" class=" size-medium wp-image-2161 alignleft" src="https://www.madeglobal.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/phoenix_rising-191x300.jpg" height="300" style="border: none; clear: left; float: left; height: auto; margin: 0px 10px 15px 0px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px;" width="191"></a></h1><div style="font-family: 'Open Sans', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 15px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white;">The last hour of Anne Boleyn’s life…</span></div><div style="font-family: 'Open Sans', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 15px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Court intrigue, revenge and all the secrets of the last hour are revealed as one queen falls and another rises to take her place on destiny’s stage.</span></div><div style="font-family: 'Open Sans', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 15px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white;">A young Anne Boleyn arrives at the court of King Henry VIII. She is to be presented at the Shrovetide pageant, le Château Vert. The young and ambitious Anne has no idea that a chance encounter before the pageant will lead to her capturing the heart of the king. What begins as a distraction becomes his obsession and leads to her destruction.</span></div><div style="font-family: 'Open Sans', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 15px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Love, hate, loyalty and betrayal come together in a single dramatic moment… the execution of a queen. The history of England will be changed for ever.</span></div><h3 style="font-family: 'Open Sans', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16pt; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: -1px; line-height: 1.2em; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><strong>“Compelling, captivating and moving”</strong><br />
– <em>Claire Ridgway</em>, author of The Fall of Anne Boleyn</span></h3><h3 style="font-family: 'Open Sans', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: -1px; line-height: 1.2em; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">“</span>An interesting look at the events of May 19, 1536 from an unexpected angle!<span style="font-weight: normal;">” Cyndi Williamson</span></span></h3><h3 style="font-family: 'Open Sans', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16pt; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: -1px; line-height: 1.2em; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white;"> Look for more launch info as we move closer to the official launch date of May 19th. Pre-order your copy today! Currently, one of Amazon's Hot New Releases in Historical Literary Fiction. Get it today! </span></h3><h3 style="font-family: 'Open Sans', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16pt; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: -1px; line-height: 1.2em; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 1.2em;"> </span><a class="twitter-timeline-link" href="http://t.co/ZL1taAEnwl" rel="nofollow" style="-webkit-transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out; color: #1b9c0c; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 1.2em; outline: none; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out;" target="_blank" title="http://getBook.at/phoenix_rising"><span class="js-display-url">getBook.at/phoenix_rising</span><span class="tco-ellipsis"><span class="invisible"> </span></span></a></span></h3><div style="font-family: 'Open Sans', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333330154419px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 15px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Originally posted on <a href="http://www.madeglobal.com/2160/phoenix-rising-cover-reveal/" style="-webkit-transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out; color: #1b9c0c; outline: none; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out;" title="MadeGlobal.com">MadeGlobal.com</a> April 29, 2015.</span></div>Exile on Peachtree Streethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11391625149744166848noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1361487126609950669.post-15205923329526694882015-05-02T12:00:00.001-04:002015-05-02T12:00:26.483-04:00PHOENIX RISING, the last hour of Anne Boleyn<h1 class="post-title" style="font-family: 'Open Sans', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 2.2em; font-weight: 300; letter-spacing: -1.4px; line-height: 1.4; margin: 4px 0px; padding: 4px 0px; text-align: center;">
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">A young Anne Boleyn arrives at the court of King Henry VIII. She is to be presented at the Shrovetide pageant, le Château Vert. The young and ambitious Anne has no idea that a chance encounter before the pageant will lead to her capturing the heart of the king. What begins as a distraction becomes his obsession and leads to her destruction.</span></div>
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Exile on Peachtree Streethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11391625149744166848noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1361487126609950669.post-82257464259181656222015-04-19T11:47:00.000-04:002015-04-19T11:47:34.750-04:00HOW TO HOST A TUDOR-THEMED DINNER PARTY by Alison Weir<h1 class="post-title" style="font-family: 'Open Sans', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: -1px; line-height: 1.2em; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px;">
<span style="background-color: black; line-height: 18px;"><span style="color: white; font-size: small;">Alison Weir. When she became my friend on Facebook, I cried. This lady writes history books which are so well written they read as easily as fiction. When I visit the U.K., I haunt book stores, looking for U.K. First Editions of her books, to correspond with the U.S. First Editions I own. She has graciously accepted my offer to be a part of the Tudor blogs to celebrate the U.S. launch of Hilary Mantel’s Wolf Hall on Masterpiece Theatre (PBS). Without further ado, let’s see what Alison has prepared for us today…</span></span></h1>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">My interest in Tudor England stretches back over five decades and more than twenty books, and I know there are many others with a passion for the period. So I thought it would be fun to give some hints and ideas for hosting the perfect Tudor dinner party.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">I did just that, some years ago, one Christmas Eve, and my family agreed that it was a fascinating and enjoyable evening. Before starting any preparations, I did some research, and the books that I found most helpful were these: <em>All the King’s Cooks: The Tudor Kitchens of King Henry VIII at Hampton Court Palace</em> by Peter Brears (London, 1999); <em>Food and Feast in Tudor England</em> by Alison Sim (Stroud, 1997); <em>The Art of Dining: A History of Cooking and Eating</em> by Sara Paston-Williams (The National Trust, 1993) and, for the recipes I used, <em>The Tudor Kitchens Cookery Book, Hampton Court Palace</em> by Roz Denny (undated).</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">The first thing to consider is the setting. We don’t all live at Hampton Court – worse luck – and most of us don’t have a great hall, but many have dining rooms, or dining parlours, as they would have been known, and you can add atmosphere by the setting of the table and using candles for lighting. Spread a white linen or damask cloth on the table. You may like to strew fresh herbs or petals along the table, or in the centre. Place pewter or silver bowls of salt at intervals.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">Each place setting should have the following, although you may wish to adapt it to suit the preferences of modern diners: a pewter or silver dinner plate, with a knife and spoon next to it on the right – add a fork if you must, but their use was a luxury in Tudor times (when people speared food with a knife and ate it with the fingers of the other hand, using the spoon for runny dishes) – and a white napkin to the left, folded around two white bread rolls – ‘manchet’, or white, bread, was considered to be the best, and was therefore served to the upper classes. If you bake the rolls yourself, make a cross in the middle. On the right of each dinner plate place a goblet for wine. Wine is served from flagons or ewers placed in the centre of the table, each covered with a cloth.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">Food was served in two or three courses, and there were several dishes at each, like a Chinese or Tapas meal today. Each dish would have been served as a ‘mess’ – with portions sufficient for four brought in serving dishes to the table. Sauces were often served in separate dishes. Sweet and savoury courses were served at the same time, but you may – as I did – prefer to keep to a more modern meal structure, with a starter, main course and pudding. Hard cheeses and wine can be served with sweet dishes.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">If you have a sideboard or console table, convert it into a Tudor buffet by draping it with silk or damask (scarves or runners will work for this) and arranging on it any silver you have, as well as extra wine cups or glasses – we’ll assume that this is a wealthy Tudor household and that you can afford glass!</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">In Tudor times hosts and guests were seated in strict order of rank, but in this more egalitarian age it’s best to seat guests wherever you or they wish.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">Napkins were worn, not in the lap, but across the left shoulder or arm.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">Food was served with great ceremony, being carried to the table in procession. You might like to record a trumpet fanfare to signal the arrival of each course. As the food is brought in, you announce, ‘By your leave, masters!’ and everyone stands, sitting down when the dishes are placed on the table.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">Grace is then said, in Latin. I used the Christchurch Grace, from Oxford:</span></span></div>
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<em style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">Nos, miseri homines et egeni, pro cibis, quos nobis ad corporis subsidium benigne es largitus, tibi, Deus Omnipotens, Pater Cælestis, gratias reverenter agimus; simul obsecrantes, ut iis sobrie, modeste atque grate utamur, per Jesum Christum Dominum Nostrum, Amen.</span></em></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">This translates as:</span></span></div>
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<em style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">We unhappy and unworthy people do give Thee most reverent thanks, Almighty God, our heavenly Father, for the victuals which Thou hast bestowed on us for the sustenance of the body, at the same time beseeching Thee that we may use them soberly, modestly and gratefully. Through Jesus Christ our Lord, Amen.</span></em></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">If a joint of meat is served, the host carves – it was the mark of a gentleman to know how to do so. Gentlemen guests should help their ladies to the choicest portions of food before serving themselves.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">For drinks, serve the kind of wines that were enjoyed – and drunk young – in Tudor England: sweet wines from Anjou (Henry VIII’s favourite) or red and white wines from Bordeaux or the Rhine. Ale and beer can also be served. Water was not drunk at table.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">After each course of a Tudor feast a subtlety – a sculpted confection of sugar – was carried in impress the guests, but at a dinner party it is probably better to serve it with the dessert course. Unless you are skilled at sugar sculpture, or know where to get one made, it may be better to go for an elaborate cake.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">During the meal, you might like to have a CD of Tudor music playing quietly in the background, as if a consort of musicians was present.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">For my Christmas Eve meal, I served dishes that involved a fair amount of preparation. To start there was a whole fresh salmon, a fish that was popular in Tudor times. Having laid it on greased foil on a baking tray, I stuffed it with some butter mixed with ground mace and salt, and spread the rest over the outer skin, sprinkled it with whole cloves and covered it with more foil. I baked the fish until the flesh was pale pink, placed it on a large platter, and garnished it with whole stewed prunes, currants, lemon wedges and dill.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">In Tudor kitchens they would have roasted a pig whole, but for the main course I bought a leg of pork from my local butcher – boned shoulder will do as well – and trimmed away any fat or gristle. I then stuffed it with a mixture of breadcrumbs, chopped rosemary, raisins, two egg yolks, 100ml of cream, nutmeg, ground mace and seasoning, and trussed up the joint with string. While it was roasting I mixed more breadcrumbs with 100ml of cream, sugar, cinnamon, ginger, saffron and seasoning. Half an hour before the joint was finished, I removed it from the oven and coated it with this mixture, then returned it until it was done. I left it to stand before carving, to allow it to set, and reserved the strained juices for the sauce.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">I made up the meat juices to the amount needed with stock and water, then added a large grated apple, cider vinegar, parsley, sage, sugar, salt and pepper. I brought it to be boil, then simmered until the apple was soft and stirred in a lump of butter for richness.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">The meat was carved at table and the sauce was served separately. I also offered ‘a dish of peas’ – which the Tudors would have eaten as a dish in itself, not a vegetable on the side – and a dish of carrots. There were – of course – no potatoes, which prompted a protest from my husband! Instead, I served thick slices of brown bread.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">I made two sweet dishes: wardens, or pears, in red wine, which were absolutely delicious, and marchpane.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">The day before the dinner I peeled the pears, left on the stalks, and boiled the fruit for 15 minutes in heated red wine in which sugar had been dissolved. I then removed the fruit and placed it in preserving jars. I added to the wine some ‘sack’ (sherry), more sugar, honey, cinnamon and ginger, then boiled it, simmered it for 5 minutes, then poured it over the pears, sealing the jars shut. The next day I poured off the wine syrup into a jug, placed the pears – now ruby red – in a serving dish, then poured the syrup over them. I added bayleaves as garnish and served the pears with thick whipped cream.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">You can make marchpane – a popular Tudor treat – by following any recipe for shortbread and adding rosewater. Use cutters to make shapes, and glaze with icing and edible gold food colouring. My marchpane disappeared very quickly!</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">Although the meal had been labour-intensive – and brought home to me how hard people had had to work to prepare food from scratch in the sixteenth century – everyone said it was wonderful, with excellent flavours and aromas. Certainly it gave us a taste of Tudor England!</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">There was no tea or coffee in Tudor times, so after the meal I suggest you serve guests warmed spiced wine – ‘hippocras’ – and wafers or candied and dried fruits.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">What should you wear for your Tudor dinner party? You could go the whole hog and hire a costume – you could even come in character, and suggest that your guests do so, and remain in role for the evening. Or you could just wear a plain velvet evening dress with some Tudor-style jewellery.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">If you are planning a Tudor dinner party, I do urge you to get the books I recommended above, as they are packed with recipes and information on table etiquette. Above all, have fun. There will be so many talking points that all the preparation will have been worthwhile.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">Herbs, beasts, birds, fish, and other gifts of thine,<br />Bless thee thy gifts, that they may do us good,<br />And we may live, to praise thy name divine.<br />And when the time is come this life to end:<br />Vouchsafe our souls to heaven may ascend.’</span></span></div>
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</div>Exile on Peachtree Streethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11391625149744166848noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1361487126609950669.post-78152577166833780352015-02-13T23:17:00.002-05:002015-02-13T23:17:48.810-05:00RESCUING CADE, Elodie Parkes and Sexy Secrets Revealed..<div class="MsoNormal">
<b><span style="line-height: 200%;"><span style="font-size: large;">Elodie Parkes joins me today, as we celebrate the release of Rescuing Cade, from Evernight Publishing.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%;">Hi, Elodie,
welcome! I have five questions for you today. This is different from the usual author interviews you do.</span></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">Hi, it’s great to be here. </span></i><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">(Smiles)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">Tell
us a secret about your books, anything that springs to mind as long as you’ve
never revealed the answers to anyone before.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">Yikes, that will blow the secret,
then, huh. </span></i><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">(Grins) <i>Okay here we go. This is scary. It’s not
about my new release, Rescuing Cade, from Evernight, but about, Candle Magic,
my Dec 23 release with Siren. In my stories there’s always the tiniest part of
truth from either my life or from some real life situation and I never tell
anyone. <o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">In Candle Magic, my heroine, Simi,
tells Jason, my hero, about her family. That part is a truth and it’s about me.
Jason is part spirit, part angel made human through the magical connections
Simi has triggered by finding a candlestick and buying old candles from an
antique shop.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">Here’s the snippet.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Reluctantly he pulled away from her
lips. “I’m sorry I don’t have a Christmas gift for you. I’d like to have
brought you something.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Surprise showed in her eyes as he gazed
at her.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">“I have nothing for you either, but we
have each other today, and if I hadn’t met you last night, I would be alone
today, and from what you’ve said about family, so would you.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Jason rocked her in his arms, incredibly
pleased at what she’d said. “We do have each other. What happened to your
family, your parents? Is that prying?” he added, aware it might be something
horrible that Simi wouldn’t want to reveal.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">“They moved out of the country. They
disowned me. I don’t know why really. They just stopped replying to my emails
and calls.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Startled by this sad revelation, Jason
hugged her. “I’m so sorry. Do you think something might have happened to them?”
He made a mental note to check on that if he returned to the ether. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Simi leaned back in his arms. “Nothing
has. I check on them.” She grinned then continued. “They have a surf and ski
shop. It has webcams up that show the interior and exterior of the shop to the
world. I check it out when I’m online. I see them in there.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Astounded, Jason stared at her. There
were no words to express his surprise, empathy, or sorrow at this bizarre
situation.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">She must have become embarrassed because
she bowed her head silently.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Jason crushed her to his chest, his hand
in her hair and his arm around her waist. “Hell, Simi, that must hurt you. I
don’t know what to say.” He rocked her again, stroking along her back in an
attempt to convey comfort and care. He remembered the Kris Kringle gift, and
seeking to lighten the mood, he reminded Simi. “You have that gift from your
office party. Open it. It will be fun to see what someone got for you.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">Copyright Elodie Parkes, Siren
Publishing.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">Thank you
for sharing that secret. I’m tempted to ask what the secret fact is in Recuing
Cade, but … on to the next question.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">What
do you like most about sex?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">Oh no. </span></i><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">(Laughs) <i>That’s worse than giving up a secret. I’ll answer. I have no ‘like
most’ I like it all. Let’s face it sex is yummy. <o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">I
see you post a number of gorgeous guys pics on your Facebook page and blog.
What part of a man’s body turns you on most?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">I like that V shape on a man’s hips, especially when there’s a fine line
of hair running down to his … I like shoulders and eyes and stubble and hard
asses, then there’s thighs and lips. </span></i><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">(Sighs) <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">What’s
your favorite cocktail?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">Is that a trick question? I actually don’t drink alcohol. I have
allergies and I discovered that alcoholic makes them all worse.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">Are
you wearing a matching bra and panties right now?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">I am. </span></i><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">(She
laughs) <i>I most often do. I love pretty
underwear, lacey stuff, stockings and garter belts. I’m mostly seen in jeans,
boots, and leather jackets, but under them is black silk and lace. I read a
jokey thing on Facebook that said only in erotic romance is the girl wearing
matching bra and panties. I don’t think that’s true.<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">Rescuing Cade</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">Cade’s
trying to get over a broken heart when his friend Jack takes him off to a
nightclub, named only, The Club. Although at first Cade is shocked by the place
he meets Marissa. It’s not long before he and Marissa get together, but under
the pressure of expectations from, The Club, and Marissa’s fear of commitment,
they’re both running in opposite directions.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">Gorgeous
Cade has touched Marissa’s heart in ways she doesn’t want to admit.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">Lovely
Marissa has lifted Cade’s sadness and opened his heart to love again. </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%;">The trouble
is—someone has to give a little. Who’s it going to be?</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">An erotic
romance with a sprinkle of vanilla BDSM<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="line-height: 200%;"><span style="font-size: large;">I have a hot excerpt for
you today.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Marissa found her gaze straying back to Cade. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">He stood awkwardly by the table where Jack finger-fucked his current
Sub. She laid back with her legs wide apart, her dress up around her waist, and
her wrists tied over her head with a blue satin scarf. If she’d worn panties to
visit The Club, there was no sign of them now.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Marissa watched the Sub squirm, whimpering for release.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Jack shook his head. “Not yet, sweetheart, I’m enjoying your lovely
pussy. Your cream’s running down my palm. I’m going to lick it up and then I’ll
think about letting you come. Are you enjoying showing my guest what a good
girl you are?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">The Sub murmured, her breath hitching as Jack bent and thrust his tongue
into her pussy.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">“Yes, sir, it’s exactly how I hoped it would be.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Marissa’s pussy drenched her panties. She licked her lips.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Cade lurched around and took a step toward her table. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">He looked unseeing right into Marissa’s eyes, the expression on his face
a glaze of pure confusion, and then he passed by heading to the bar in the
corner.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Marissa watched him take a sip of the iced water he’d ordered, then she
too got up and walked away from that part of The Club where sex soaked the air
with erotic perfume, and the sounds of orgasm played havoc with her own
desires.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">Copyright Elodie Parkes, Evernight
Publishing 2015<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;"><a href="http://www.evernightpublishing.com/rescuing-cade-by-elodie-parkes/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #1155cc;">http://www.evernightpublishing.com/rescuing-cade-by-elodie-parkes/</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">Elodie
Parkes is a British author writing romance, erotic, contemporary, and often
with a twist of mystery, paranormal, fantasy, or suspense. Her books are always
steamy. Her tag is, Cool stories: Hot love scenes.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">Elodie lives
in Canterbury with her two dogs. She works in an antique shop by day and writes
at night, loving the cloak of silent darkness that descends on the rural countryside
around her home.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="http://www.eternalpress.biz/people.php?author=540" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #1155cc; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Eternal Press</span></a></span><span lang="ES" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;"> </span><span lang="ES" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%; mso-ansi-language: ES;"><a href="http://store.secretcravingspublishing.com/" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #1155cc; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Secret Cravings</span></a></span><span lang="ES" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;"> </span><u><span style="color: #1155cc; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;"><a href="http://a-fwd.com/asin-com=B00LT3SOPU">Ra Jones Anthologies</a></span></u><u><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;"> </span></u><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;"><a href="http://sidestreetcookiepublishing.com/">Side
Street Cookie Publishing</a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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online: </span><span lang="ES" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%; mso-ansi-language: ES;"><a href="http://elodieparkes.blogspot.co.uk/" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #1155cc; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Blog</span></a></span><span lang="ES" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;"> </span><span lang="ES" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%; mso-ansi-language: ES;"><a href="http://www.facebook.com/ElodieParkes" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #1155cc; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Facebook</span></a></span><span lang="ES" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;"> </span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;"><a href="http://www.facebook.com/ElodieParkes/1">FB</a> </span><span lang="ES" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%; mso-ansi-language: ES;"><a href="https://twitter.com/ElodieParkes" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #1155cc; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Twitter</span></a></span><span lang="ES" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;"> </span><span style="color: blue; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;"><a href="https://www.tsu.co/elodieparkes" target="_blank"><span style="color: #1155cc;">Tsu</span></a>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Two Wild Women. One Crazy Honky Tonking Night. </span></div>
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<em style="font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.7;"><strong style="font-style: inherit; line-height: 1.7;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Hunter S. Jones & Jennifer Theriot</span></strong></em></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Two guitars. Two wild women. One crazy honky tonking night in Georgia. The Ace is high and the Joker is always wild.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">When Texas meets Tennessee the end result spells T.R.O.U.B.L.E.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; line-height: 23.7999992370605px;">Guitars. Hillbilly Music.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; line-height: 23.7999992370605px;">Nashville, Tennessee. Fortune Brawling is the second story in The Fortune Series. Set in contemporary Nashville and the surrounding rural areas. The series chronicles the life and loves of Dallas Fortune.</span></div>
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Exile on Peachtree Streethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11391625149744166848noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1361487126609950669.post-20709057860584286842015-01-30T00:16:00.000-05:002015-01-30T00:19:05.587-05:00BookBub Promos SEPTEMBER ENDS 1/30/15 <h1 class="headline text-center" style="border-bottom-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.117647); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; font-family: 'Open Sans', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 3.4em; font-weight: 300; letter-spacing: -1px; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px 0px 12px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px 0px 12px; text-align: left;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><span style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 39.5999984741211px;">Friday, January 30th, BookBub will promo the contemporary romance</span><span style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 39.5999984741211px;"> </span><strong style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 39.5999984741211px;">September Ends</strong><span style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 39.5999984741211px;"> by Atlanta author Hunter S. Jones as a 99c deal. The novel was named Best Independently Published Romance in 2014. Get your copy – today only!</span></span></h1>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">“She blew my mind.” “A work of art.” “The stuff legends are made of”</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">Sometimes when you believe it’s the end, it’s only the beginning.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">September Ends is contemporary fiction, blending romance, erotic and supernatural elements, bound together by poetry. It reveals the intricate web of passion and desire which entangles Liz Snow, Pete Hendrix and Jack O. Savage. The story is told through Liz Snow’s diary, Jack O. Savage’s poetry, and from letters sent across the Atlantic. Traveling throughout the lushness of a summertime in Tennessee and Georgia, September Ends journeys into the elegance of London’s West End and is finally settled in the countryside of Cornwall, England, a decade later.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">September Ends is a story of sin, redemption and salvation through love because love happens when we least expect it.</span></span></div>
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Exile on Peachtree Streethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11391625149744166848noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1361487126609950669.post-48426243571646359322015-01-14T19:46:00.001-05:002015-01-14T19:46:29.050-05:00Elodie Parkes: WooHoo it's Wednesday and #MWTease comes from #WIP...<a href="http://elodieparkes.blogspot.com/2015/01/woohoo-its-wednesday-and-mwtease-comes.html?spref=bl">Elodie Parkes: WooHoo it's Wednesday and #MWTease comes from #WIP...</a>: From WIP (April/May release) The Confession Box #MWTease Club Coven, the popular rock venue and bar in Olvera, LA, holds mysteries. J...Exile on Peachtree Streethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11391625149744166848noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1361487126609950669.post-72236067786192670362014-12-31T19:41:00.002-05:002014-12-31T19:47:14.183-05:00"Love Wears A White Stetson"<div style="font-family: 'Open Sans', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Here we are, getting prepared to jump head first into 2015. The promise of new beginnings has an allure that few of us can resist. For many of us, the last few years have held too much pain and many sorrows. There is always the dream that maybe…just maybe…dreams do come true. A new year beckons. Possibly, this will be the year we have waited for.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">The cell phone rang at the exact time the email had stated. Nervously, I punched accept and answered.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">“Hello, please hold the line for Mr. Jordan Simmons.” With a click I was placed into a world of elevator music, wondering if this would be a good call or a bad call. Dallas won’t accept any calls from me or answer my emails. If I could talk to her, we could get this all going the right way. We don’t need lawyers or receptionists or elevator music. All we need is to see each other one more time. I will let her know the truth and we can have a real chance at happiness. If she will just give me that one chance I can explain everything.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">A man’s voice brought me to reality. “This is Jordan Simmons calling you from Nashville, Tennessee. Our call will be recorded, as part of the legal procedure we are pursuing. In order to keep our discussion brief, please only answer the question you are asked. Do you understand?”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">“Yessir.”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">“Your full legal name please?”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Thomas Garrett Vanderfleet IV”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">“238 Lookout Lane, Sand Mountain, Alabama 35951.”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">“Occupation?”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">“Currrently unemployed but…”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Please, only answer the question you are asked, Mr. Vanderfleet. Understood?”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">“Yessir, I do.”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">“Where you at Bud’s, located at 13786 Ringgold Road, Trenton Georgia 30752 on the night of March 31 of this year?”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">“Yessir, I was there.”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">“Did you meet a female by the name of Dallas Fortune?”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">“Meet her? I married her!”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">“Mr. Vanderfleet, may I call you Tom?”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">“Yessir.”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">“We’re going to follow a logical process of questioning here. Got it Tom? I ask the question you in turn will answer the question and nothing more. Do I make myself clear? Do you understand?”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">“Got it, Mr. Simmons. I’m just all emotional like over this.”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">“A completely human emotion, Tom. You’ve had a bit of excitement in a short amount of time. I’m here to help you get it all unraveled so that you can get on with your life.”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">“What if I don’t want to get on with my life? At least not without her.”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">A pen tapped on the table, with the tapping mirroring my heartbeat. After a pause, Jordan Simmons said, “Look Tom, Dallas is something else and one helluva woman, but I assure you, man-to-man, there is not a force on the planet that will make a woman stay with a man once she’s made up her mind to go. Now, I know that from personal experience. Once they’re ready to go, there is no way on earth to make them stay. This is off the record, by the way. No amount of money, flowers or gifts will do it. I know. Hell, I’ll be working til I’m eighty years old. I’ve got two ex-wives, three kids, a 28 year old girlfriend, well actually two 28 year old girlfriends, and I will never make any of these women happy. Look what Liz Taylor did to Richard Burton. He gave her the biggest diamond in the world. Didn’t work. She keeps the diamond. They’ve got what we want. If you get in too deep, you get addicted not only to IT, but to her. Those smart ones work on a man just like heroin or whiskey. You can’t get over IT and you can never get enough of IT. Sounds as if Dallas gave you a big dose of IT. Maybe more IT than you have ever had. Probably the best IT you have ever had. But, I guarantee you, once they decide they are over you, it’s done, it’s over, it’s like Rover and it’s dead all over. Now, can we get on with this? I ain’t got all day.”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">“All right Mr. Simmons. You’re a little high strung, but I get your drift. Let’s get on with the questions.”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">“To recap; you were at Bud’s on Friday night, March 31, earlier this year. While you were at Bud’s you met a female named Dallas Fortune. You can call me Jordan, if you’d like.”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">“Yessir, I did. Thank you Jordan.”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">“If you will Tom, please state what type of establishment Bud’s is.”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">“Bud’s is what we call here a honky tonk. It has music, alcohol and Bud’s has the best fried boloney sandwiches in the Chattanooga area. On Tuesday’s and Thursday’s there’s dollar beer night from 6:00 to 8:00pm. Wednesday is Ladies Night. All women get in free.”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">“Sounds like my kinda place, Tom. Now, tell me what you believe happened that night.”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">This short story is currently available for only 99c so get a copy today. It’s been the #1 Historical Fiction short story on Amazon and ranked at #8 Cultural Heritage in 2014. (Thank you for that!)</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Listen to the playlist <strong><a href="http://spotify%20web%20player%20-%20fortune%20brawling%20-%20jennifer%20theriot/" style="-webkit-transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out; color: #1b9c0c; outline: none; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out;" title="here.">here</a>.</strong></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Rumor has it that I’ve written a song which will be recorded by a very talented musician from Texas.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">More on that at a later date.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">May light and love ride into your life and carry you away in the new year. Today, I wish you all a safe, happy and prosperous 2015. May you see many dreams manifest throughout the year.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">For now, please click on the following links to meet some of my friends. You will find romance, smokin’ hot love stories and a few happily-ever-afters. These writers have all helped make 2014 much brighter for me. They will entertain you and take you to new places.</span></div>
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Exile on Peachtree Streethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11391625149744166848noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1361487126609950669.post-27080988665876440542014-12-16T21:38:00.001-05:002014-12-16T21:38:56.669-05:00Season's Greetings!Wishing you and your loved ones the magic of the holiday season throughout 2015. All the best!<br />
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