Love (and bribes) for the new blog

I started a new blog today at http://iamawriterdangit.wordpress.com/ because, while I love posting to this broad-based journal, I wanted to start concentrating on something more focused.

The new blog is a step toward my goal of breaking out of my current funk and into the world of published fiction.

I’ll still be posting here periodically, though, with personal stories and quips.

I hope you visit both ventures in the near future.

Please admire the following picture as a form of bribery:

 

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Suzanne Collins is a god

The genius currently going by the name of Suzanne Collins has released the third and final book in her Hunger Games series. 

Love love love!

After reading Catching Fire, I was truly eager to read the new installment.  And I gotta say – Mockingjay delivered. 

Just when you thought Katniss Everdeen was going to have an easy time of it – being rescued from oppression typically does that to someone – she is thrown into a new kind of horror.  And she has to go to war.  And she is forced to make difficult decisions that will affect the ones that she loves and is trying desperately to save.  And (slight spoiler alert) she will fail to save all of them.   

Brilliance!

Collins writes suspense and action that makes me hold my breath at times.  Her writing is stimulating and rarely predictable.  I was truly enthralled.  And as a dear friend pointed out – “I miss that trilogy already.”

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