MA Indeed

I must admit, I’m a confirmed Marvaholic. I wasn’t until Amanda ran into Owen Fiddler. Then up comes Adam Atom and I’m a scientific observer. This little atom, must be hydrogen since he’s always flitting around and doésn’t seem to have much luck making stable connections. Besides, any atom worth it’s neutrons, would be zapped every time it checked out the latest in quasars. Although, I suspect that Adam may indeed be a photon since he does see the light in many situations.

Owen, on the other hand, doesn’t see much of anything except a world that is against him. He really should read Ï Romanced the Stone”. Ok, I see Adam at work here, messing up my quotes. Marv, you have got to get that little quark under control.

I attended the Marvaholics anonymous meeting and Ol’ Marv tried a disguise that just did not work. No stripper worth his shorts would ever put on a fake beard like that. Had it been a color that matched the hair on the head, maybe, but a blonde beard on salt and pepper hair? I don’t think so. Marv, you”ve been hanging around Owen just a wee bit too long.

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Fed Up (a personal rant)

I don’t know about anyone else, but I for one am getting tired of politicians screwing around then coming back with tears in their eyes expecting the public to pat their hand and say it’s ok. It is NOT! I could care less about your sex life but for crying out loud, keep it to yourself, we don’t need to share your shame.

Then we have these idiots that think that forcing women to stay covered up and doing only what they are told is religiously correct. It’s not. Get your act into the reality of life. This world would be nothing without the females. Treat them as equals. What, may I ask, makes your ugly mug so damn good that you feel you have to rule the world? You don’t. Let freedom ring or let us do what we should do and take the full might of the military and make a parking lot out of your stupid country.

Speaking of parking lots, there is this country the size of Rhode Island that thinks it can take America out. Our satellites have pinpointed all your bases. Let’s get Russia, China and us to surround that land of fools and then line up our cats and earth movers on the border between north and south. Put flamethrowers on the front to eliminate problems then level the place.

Oh, let’s not forget to take the drug dealers and abusive bas______s down to the swamp, tie them to a stump and let the aligators feast.

A short Marvian post

My friend and fellow blogger Marvin Wilson of Free Spirit fame has changed blogs. What used to be Free Spirit is now The Old Silly. For my fellow marviac’s, please stop by http://theoldsilly.com/ . While there, grab the url and get that posted into your blog rolls and also added to your daily favorites!

Interview with Mosetta Penickphillips-Cermak

Mosetta Rajah and the Big Blue Ball

1. You have Rajah featured in “Rajah and the Big Blue Ball”, Do you have plans to feature your Siamese cats in one of your books? 

Dr. Mosetta: I haven’t totally decided yet. One of the books (number seven) was not picked up by my publisher because it is about the death of one of the cats, and what Rajah tries to do to help. Although the publishers have an option, they would like me to rewrite it to soften the story line.

 2. I’ve noticed you are well versed in the classics. Would you please write the opening paragraph of Rajah meets Chynna for the first time, featuring the cats as Charles Dickens would?

 Dr. Mosetta: “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times”.

Chynna stared at the black thing with white markings. Already it’s head was half the length of her whole body.

“It is a pleasant thing to reflect upon, and furnishes a complete answer to those who contend for the gradual degeneration of the human species, that every baby born into the world is a finer one than the last”. But, this baby was canine.

It slept in the sun, in her sunny spot. “It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: when it is summer in the light, and winter in the shade”.

“I have to find Mommy Maia”, said Chynna. “To conceal anything from those to whom I am attached, is not in my nature. I can never close my lips where I have opened my heart”.

Chynna jumped into mommy Maia’s lap. “HISS”.

“Don’t you like the new puppy?” ask Mommy. “I know you two will become the best of friends.”

Chynna was not too sure about that, but ,…”There is a wisdom of the head, and a wisdom of the heart”.

Mommy Maia had yet to be wrong.

3. You have been given two tickets and keys to a cabin. Firewood, food, coats and blankets are provided. You may take one animal and ten items. What animal and what items do you take? Hint: the cabin is in the Northwest Territories.

 Dr. Mosetta: Of course I would take Rajah LeBeau with me. Although I would NEVER want to visit this cabin, I would take lighters, a portable electric generator, my car, wireless computer, battery packs, carbonated water, medicine, a satellite cell phone, extra gasoline for the car, and a comprehensive medical kit.

 4. You have an interesting link with the number two, cats, dogs, kids, grandkids and great grandkids. Let’s keep that theme going. You’ve just won two all expenses paid tickets to the twin cities. You are allowed two books and two music CD’s. What are they?

 Dr. Mosetta: If I were only allowed two books, one of them would be the Jim Butcher’s “Harry Dresden” book. I haven’t read it as of yet, and I was distressed when they took it off of television. The other might be “Skin Trade” by Laurall K. Hamilton.

The first music CD would be the comprehensive works of Barbra Streisand, and the other, most likely would be Cher.

 5. You’ve written a lot of books. Hollywood is making a movie of your life. Who plays you?

Dr. Mosetta: Whoopie Goldberg.

 6. As told to Joyce, you have a strong connection with animals. You are walking through the forest when suddenly you come face to face with a lonely albino fox. What is the name of the book, the fox and the little girl that befriends the fox?

 Dr. Mosetta: The title of the book might be “Outcast”, and the little girl that befriends the fox might be called Jamie King. I think that I would name the fox something like Crystal.

 7. Parents seem to prefer game consoles to books. Have you considered turning your books into interactive games for these consoles?

 Dr. Mosetta: Yes, I have considered it, but first of all, I am not sure where to begin with this, and secondly, I have a concern that parents don’t choose to read to their children. There is a special bond that develops between children when their parents read to them.

Meet Children’s author Mosetta M. Penick Phillips-Cermak

As a newly minted grandfather I am very interested in  children’s book’s and over the next two days I have the privilege

of meeting Mosetta M. Penick Phillips-Cermak.

Book Title: The Magic of Laven-Rock

Author: Mosetta M. Penick Phillips-Cermak

ISBN: 9780981777733

Publisher: PM Moon Publishers, LLC

Genre: Children

Additional Features:

hardcover/68 pages/approx. size 8.25 x 10.75/trade

Price: $29.95

Synopsis:

The people of K’briadron lived an idyllic life. Purple and blue magic created by the Jockspurs supplied their every need. That is, until the coming of the Lockstick.

 

Princess Kaylin Veronica and her cousin, Prince Theodore, escape the confines of their royal lives and set out to find the being who caused so many problems in their land.

 

Written by the author of The Wishing Flower, The Magic of Laven-Rock is a delightful fairy tale adventure where children learn that sharing is much better than fighting, and that people throughout the world are not so very different than themselves.

 

Author’s Bio:

Mosetta M. Penick Phillips-Cermak, Ph.D. lives with her two Labrador Retrievers, one black and one yellow, and two Siamese cats in West Park, Ohio. Dr. Penick Phillips-Cermak is the mother of two, grandmother of two, and great grandmother of two. A native of Cleveland Ohio, from a family of educators, she is a retired psychotherapist/counselor and a teacher of many years. Over the years, she has taught everything from kindergarten through teacher education, English, psychology and sociology. Mosetta’s first short, short story was published in the local newspaper when ,at the age of ten, she won first prize in a creative writing contest. In college, her literary essays and short stories were published in the colleges’ literary magazine, The Spectrum. Eventually, she rose to serve as editor-in-chief of the very same magazine. A woman with a myriad of talents, she performed as both an instrumentalist and vocalist, played the piano and flute, as well as teaching chorus, and both instruments. She is also a dog trainer, registered with the State of Ohio to train and certify Handicap Assistant Dogs. A relatively well-known speaker in the Cleveland area, this writer has presented more than a dozen papers and workshops throughout the State of Ohio. A minister ordained in 1980, she states that her main strength resides in her absolute faith and tenacity, a desire to know all that is knowable, a love of research, and the ability to consistently identify the truth of any subject matter. She is a member of The Society of Children’s Book Writers & Illustrators (SCBWI), has attended numerous writers’ workshops, and is currently active in a critique group. She also has completed several other short stories, a children’s interactive picture book to teach educational concepts, and her first middle-grade children’s fantasy novel that she expects will be published soon.

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Current online reviews:

“The Magic of Laven-Rock.(Brief article)(Children’s review)(Book review)”

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 contact info: publisher@pmmoonpublishers.com

Website: http://www.pmmoonpublishers.com

 

Book Award Nomination:

The Magic of Laven-Rock, written by Dr. Mosetta Penick Phillips-Cermak has received a national nomination for The Independent Publisher Book Award for 2008. It is also in contention for the Great Lakes Region’s award for children’s books.

Review for Cowgirl Dreams

Title: Cowgirl Dreams

Author: Heidi M. Thomas

Publisher: Sundowners, a division of Treble Heart Books

Copyright: 2008

ISBN: 978-1-932695-83-0

Format: Trade Paperback and E-Book

Genre: Western Historical

The rangy, reddish-brown steer stared into Nettie Brady’s eyes for just a second. For those readers of westerns, this book is no bull even though it starts with the vision of one. It was hard enough being a female in an all male world of the 1920’s, but to also want to be a rodeo star was downright ludicrous. Nettie Brady wanted to do just that. Heidi Thomas shows us the world of the cowboy in the first part of last century and she does so brilliantly. It’s bad enough wearing jeans and not a dress, but to want to be a bull rider? Hah! The question is, can she do it? Cowgirl Dreams is more than a dream, it is a reality for Heidi Thomas and it will open the eyes of all that read this.

Nettie loved horses and as a cowgirl, there would be a chance she would find the love of her life. Any man in her life had to love her, love horses and let her pursue her dreams. The question to ask yourself is, does she? Does she ever get accepted by the males she wanted to impress? Buy Cowgirl Dreams at:

www.heidimthomas.com or www.trebleheartbooks.com/SDHeidiThomas.html.

Three new Reviews

Winter Queen – Seasons of Fantasy

Aubrie Dionne

Reviewed by Kira for ReviewYourBook.com(17 years old)

We all have our reasons for who we are and what we do in our lives, in the past the Winter Queen had been a princess in a powerful family with all the riches of the world. Everything in her world had changed when she fell in love with a commoner, who held her heart. But all good things come to an end, her love then broke her heart into pieces with a great betrayal, which would never be healed. Now the Princess is controlling the cold winds that come across the lands and those who are in her way feel the wrath of the heart that was once whole, but now broken. To heal the coldest, most fragile heart in life all it takes is the kindest in a person’s heart.

Reviewed by Kira for ReviewYourBook.com(17 years old)

Check out Winter Queen – Seasons of Fantasy written by Aubrie Dionne

http://reviewyourbook.com/component/simple_review/?review=1712-Winter-Queen—Seasons-of-Fantasy

Dreams Of Beauty

Aubrie Dionne

Publisher: SynergEbooks http://www.synergebooks.com

ISBN: 0-7743-1097-0

Tweens

Almost every night Emme sees the man of her dreams.

Almost every night Emme sees the man of her dreams. She has no idea who he is. He seems so real. Davian is trapped in Emme’s dream. He was cursed by a Sorceress a hundred years ago, destined to live in a dream until a kiss breaks the curse.

Davian’s niece, has assumed control of the Hawthorn Estate. She had a plan to get rich quick. The whole village with be disrupted if she follows through with her plan . There was only one way to stop the evile woman from destroying the village, Davian. Emme set out to rescue Davian and the village.

Reviewed by Lynn for ReviewYourBook.com

Check out Dreams Of Beauty written by Aubrie Dionne

http://reviewyourbook.com/component/simple_review/?review=1626-Dreams-Of-Beauty

How To Train A Rock

Paul Steven Stone

5 stars

9781442117211

For approximately twenty-five years, Paul Steven Stone wrote a syndicated column, “A Stone’s Throw.” In his own words, the column was quirky. How To Train A Rock is a compilation of those columns.

My favorite entry was 1-800-Stones-Throw, where he addresses the annoying trend toward automated answering services. I become so frustrated with the list of Press 1, 2, 3, 4, etc. What button do I push to talk to a real person?

“How To Train a Rock” written by Paul Steven Stone _

Reviewed by Debra for ReviewYourBook.com

http://reviewyourbook.com/component/simple_review/?review=1832-How-To-Train-A-Rock

Have Your Been Royally Screwed? How to Get What You Deserve by Making People and Companies Deliver on Their Promises, Products, Goods and Services…

Myron Z. Bernstein

Kambs Publishing

9780982206904

5

How to Get What You Deserve by Making People and Companies Deliver on Their Promises, Products, Goods and Services…

Myron Z. Bernstein is a consumer advocate. Despite the term Customer Service, few companies care about you. Their goal is to make money even if thar means cheating you. Bernstein exposes the abuses and the schemes behind warranties, insurance, contractors, rebates, and a number of other consumer “services.”

The difference between most consumers and Myron is –HE FIGHTS BACK—and he WINS

“Have You Been Royally Screwed: How to Get What You Deserve by Making People and Companies Deliver on Their Promises, Products, Goods, and Service” written by Myron Z. Bernstein

Reviewed by Debra for ReviewYourBook.com

http://reviewyourbook.com/component/simple_review/?review=1836-Have-Your-Been-Royally-Screwed

A Pill Poppin’ Home

“Ma, bail me out!”

“Now what did you do?”

“Making meth”

Let’s see, doesn’t this sound a bit familiar? You hear it on the news all the time. Yet no one seems to understand why the kids do this. I think there are two obvious answers. The first one is in the bathroom or kitchen. Mom or dad takes pills to lower their cholesterol. There is one to help with blood pressure and of course there are the daily insulin shots from a life of too much sugared coffee and powdered doughnuts. At least once if not more a day, the kids see the parents poppin’ pills for something. They do seem happier or better afterwards. They are more upbeat and ready to meet the day. The high stress of living these days has put a lot of people on prescription drugs. It’s a case of don’t worry about life, there’s a pill to fix it.

We then have a very grouchy parent but one that improves with the morning coffee and smoke. Kids can drink the caffeine but those cigarettes that mom or dad smoke are so taboo that they have often hide the fact from other adults, who are also hiding the fact that they smoke. I won’t go into how the government uses this to raise money because they publicly don’t like it (yet how many light up at home?).

Little Johnny sees all of this. As kids most are not likely to be on any pills and heaven forbid they smoke. But, it makes mom and dad feel good and they want to do the same. So, what do they do? They can’t buy cigarettes, but a friend has some pot and it looks like a cigarette. Now they feel like adults because they are smoking also.

But what about those pills? It’s amazing what one can find on the street if you know the right people. Valium is one that seems to be easily obtained. There are others and the kids find them. But wait, this stuff doesn’t make me feel as good or look as cool as the adults. Now what?

A simple answer is to make their own. Now the kids have their own labs. They aren’t in some big white building but are in basements, or in the woods. These children are makig meth. Now they can feel like adults because they can visit their own lab and get their own ‘pills’.

“Hey doc, I saw this ad on TV for ____. Will this cure me?”

I don’t know about you but it seems to me that the doctor should be telling the patient what is good for them. Why do they have to advertise this junk? How many people see an ad for some drug then run to their doctor and say they saw it on TV and it sounds like what they need? It makes almost no sense. But in one way it does have meaning. The kids see these ads and this is all the proof they need to know that the pills they are stealing or buying on the streets is the right thing to do. If those don’t do the job, the local meth lab will have a solution.

Why are kids taking drugs, smoking pot, or making meth? Because the parents show them and the television validates it.

A Marv’ lous blog

I hemmed and I hawed

My words then thawed

I went and read the words

It was not one for the birds

The blog was about an old silly

The phrasing was a real dilly

But Marv is not so old

His words are often gold

My frozen words became water

So please don’t anyone falter

Please spread the word about the man

at Books and Authors, and become a fan.

I am one and I’m proud to call Marvin a friend inded

He’s always there, to help with someone else’s need

 

Ron