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Top Ten Tuesday: Movie Quotes

7/25/2023

Welcome to Top Ten Tuesday. It’s a new thing I’m trying. Today, I will give you a list of the Top Ten famous movie quotes that came to my mind first. Haha. Some of these might be hard for you to figure out. Let’s see how you do. Can you name all the movies from just one line?

1. Luke, I am your father. I gave you an easy one to start with. Everyone should know this.

2. Spare no expense. This one is a thinker. If you watched the movie, you ought to be able to remember where this line comes from. It was said NUMEROUS times. Not always exactly like this. The guy said, “We spared no expense.” And, “I spared no expense.” You get it.

3. Run, Forest, run! Another easy one. I mean, come on. Half of the title is in the line.

4. You know who I am. Love this movie. Love the actor that says the line. Please, tell me you know this one.

5. If you build it, they will come. To be honest, I never watched this movie, but I’ve heard this line quoted SO many times.

6. Come with me if you want to live. You have GOT to know this one. It’s from one of the all-time great franchises in move history. The line is said again and again in the different movies from the franchise and also in the TV series.

7. You… are… a… TOY! Once again, half the title is in the line. Come on. You should be able to guess this one even if you didn’t see it.

8. Where is platform 9 3/4? Even people who have no watched this movie should know this. Loved these movies AND the books.

9. Phone home. Do you know it?

10. Pop quiz, hotshot. This is one of my favorite movies. I’ll give you a hint. Keanu Reeves starred in this one.

If you don’t know the answers to all the above, read below. I will give the answers. I just wanted them far enough away from the list so I won’t accidentally spoil it for someone.

Hope you enjoyed this little quiz. If you want to tell us how well you did, leave it in the comments. Remember to come back next week for another Top Ten Tuesday.

And, hey, if you know a famous movie quote that I didn’t mention above, feel free to add it in the comments. I could have found more by Googling it, but I wanted to use ones that came to mind.

Answers: Star Wars, Jurassic Park, Forest Gump, Iron Man, Field of Dreams, Terminator, Toy Story, Harry Potter, E.T., and Speed

Top Ten Things Only Supernatural Fans Will Get

7/18/2023

Welcome to Top Ten Tuesday! If you enjoy these top ten lists, share it on FB or on Twitter. Leave a comment below. I’ll keep doing them if I see people are enjoying them. Otherwise, I’ll move on to a different idea. I like doing them, but I don’t want to keep doing them if no one is interested.

Today, we are talking about my all-time favorite show. SUPERNATURAL!

Here are the Top Ten Things Only a Supernatural Fan Will Understand:

Salt and burn. This has become a regular part of our vocabulary. How many times do you suppose this was said during the series? I really miss seeing these guys digging up graves. 😊
That’s a weird thing to say. Haha. But I do.
Pie! Poor Dean. He rarely got to eat his pie. Remember when he was about to take a bite and Sam dropped chicken feet right next to him on the table? And how many times did Sam forget to get Dean pie? I remember when he got cake instead and tried to convince Dean that it was just as good. Eye-roll. I think Sam did it on purpose. But Dean finally got to enjoy some pie when his mother returned from the dead. She served pie for dessert, and he inhaled it.
Pig in a poke. This was one of my favorite episodes. Dean dies over a hundred times. My favorite was when he asked, “Does this taco taste funny to you?” The first time I watched the episode I was thinking that if I was Sam, I’d be tempted to shoot Dean when he starts to repeat the same lines he has said for the last dozen Tuesdays. But then I thought, nope. Better not do that because whatever was happening could stop, and Dean would stay dead.
Garthed. Garth is one of my favorite reappearing characters. I’m with Bobby on this. I don’t understand how Garth survived for so long. He was puny, and he hunted alone. Every time we saw him on a case with Sam and Dean, he got knocked out.

5. Baby. I am so glad they let Dean (Jensen) have the car. It wouldn’t be right to separate Dean and Baby. “Nobody puts Baby in a corner.” Remember when he said that? And remember the freaked out look on Sam’s face when that guy Frank said they needed to get rid of the car because their Leviathan look-alikes were driving the same kind of car? He seemed worried that Dean might totally lose it.
6. I lost my shoe. Another of my favorite episodes. Poor Sam got cursed, and he kept having issues. LOL. He lost his shoe. And Dean wasn’t very sympathetic. Sam fell while running at one point, and Dean looks annoyed.
7. Gank. I don’t know if this is a real word or if they just made it up for the show. At one point Dean travels back in time to the old gunslinger days. He sure looked happy. Then he told someone that he was going to gank the bad guy. “Gank? What is gank?” So funny. That was a good episode.
8.Pudding! This is from when they were in the mental hospital. A wraith touched them and made them both a little crazy. They got caught somewhere they weren’t supposed to be, and Dean dropped his pants. He yelled, “Pudding!” Makes me laugh every time. And I loved the look on their faces when the doctor said they have an unhealthy codependency on each other and need to be separated. But that’s one of the things we love about them.
9.Idgit! How many times did we hear Bobby say this word? Almost as many times as we heard him say, “Balls!” Haha
10.Dad went on a hunting trip, and he hasn’t been home in a few days. The words that started it all. Years later, they had an episode about a hunter missing, and her daughter calls for help. Dean doesn’t want to go. He has other things on his mind. Then Sam puts it in a way that Dean can understand. “Their mom is on a hunting trip, and she hasn’t been home in a few days.”

Do you know of any words or phrases that only a Supernatural fan would say that I didn’t mention? Let us know in the comments. This is my favorite show. I’m not kidding. I binge this every year, and I can probably quote almost all the episodes line for line. If you’re a huge fan and miss the show, let me know if the comments.

And if you enjoy these Top Ten lists, share them. Do you know any Supernatural fans? Share this on FB or on Twitter so more people will come in here to read the lists. I’ll keep making these as long as people are responding. If no one seems to be reading them, I’ll stop at some point and do something else.

I love to talk about Supernatural. Do you? Let’s talk about it.

Remember to check back here next week for Top Ten Tuesday!!

Moving Books

5/17/2023

I am currently working on moving some of my books from KU to other online stores. They will still be available on Kindle, but now you will be able to get most of them from places like B&N, Kobo, Apple, etc. It's going to take time. Please, bear with me.

I am also redoing Crushed and Witch Hunt, putting them into one book instead of two separate ones. It will take a while.

Vampires Rule can be bought as a trilogy with the first three books at a cheaper price than if you buy them separately. It can be found at Amazon. Eventually, I will put it up everywhere.

If you have any questions or comments, email me. I love to hear from readers.

Summer Reads SALE!!!

5/27/2022

Starting on June 3rd and running all the way to June 5th, the books on my Summer Reads Sale page should be .99 cents. You should check the price before buying, just in case someone forgot to lower their price or Amazon didn't get it done. You may notice that some of these exciting books are number two or three in the series. That's probably because book one is FREE. So check that out.

If you haven't read my vampire series yet, you can get the trilogy (first three books) for .99 cents for a limited time. That's always fun.

Not all of these books are mine. I asked some friends to join me in this sale. So, take the time to discover new authors. That's always fun.

Love that meme! With my books, just like on the show Supernatural, you never know if someone dead will stay dead, so I advise readers not to get too upset. Sometimes they come back.

Writing is Hard

1/31/2022

When I was twelve, I made the decision to write for a living. Honestly, if I'd known back then everything I know now about it, I probably would have listened to my mother and gotten a 'real' job. But when you're that young, the future is a beautiful painting that is perfect in every way. You feel like you're never going to die, and you're positive all your dreams will come true.

Three years later, I remember walking through the snow to the high school. We only lived about eight blocks from it. I remember feeling frozen to the bone. My fingers and face were burning where my skin was exposed to the Arctic wind. I hated being up that early, and I hated being that cold. So, I daydreamed all the way there about what life as a writer would be like. I imagined sleeping in late and staying inside on cold days. Someday, I thought, someday I'll be a writer, and life will be great.

Fast forward a few decades. Now, I look back and shake my head at that silly little fool. Yes, I do sleep in when I want to, but I stay up late to make up for it. Yes, I can stay inside when it's freezing, but I have to struggle to pay for gas and electric.

Writing isn't anything like I thought it would be. For instance, I did not become an overnight success. Writing is hard. And marketing? I don't even want to talk about it. Promotion ideas that worked yesterday don't work today. You can spend all your profits trying to get your book noticed--if you even have a profit.

And the thing I loved most about writing, disappearing alone in my own world and living through these characters has become tainted by the voices of interlopers. No matter how many good reviews I get, the bad ones are like a dagger in my heart. They haunt me while I'm trying to write. Even the likes and dislikes of fans can intrude on my world. Instead of it being just me and my characters, I'm wondering if my readers would like this or if I should do it another way. Sometimes I long for those days before I was published, the days when I had no idea what readers wanted.

But in the end it comes down to one thing: writing is breathing to me. I can't stop. Hopefully, my readers can't stop either.

How Can YOU Help an Author Out?

1/25/2022

I'm talking beyond buying their books.

SHARE the news with your friends. If you like the author and have already read at least one of their books, share the news on Facebook and other social media sites. You have no idea how much we authors appreciate this. It doesn't happen that often to me, but when someone shares my book and tag me, I am SO excited and honored and happy.

WRITE a review or at least leave a rating for the book. You may not know this, but a lot of promo sites won't let authors promote their books unless they have a certain number of reviews. It also helps others to decide if they want to try the book.

LIKE it. When you see something about the book, click the Like button. Definitely LIKE the author's page.

TAG it and share the link. It's awesome if you take a moment to share the link to the book so that others might discover it and purchase the book themselves.

People are busy, and I understand you can't do this for every book you read. But if you like the author and you're impatiently waiting for them to finish a series or just waiting for their next book, do this stuff for them. They'll appreciate it, and it might help them have more time to write. Less time spent promoting means we have more time to finish our books.

Binge Watching My Favorite Shows

1/21/2022

I have been binge-watching a lot of shows this past year. Do you do that too? Or are you one of those like my mother that can't see why anyone would want to watch something a second time (or a thirtieth time if we're talking Supernatural). What are your favorite shows to binge? These are mine in no particular order.

1. Supernatural
2. Vampire Diaries
3. Buffy the Vampire Slayer
4. Once Upon a Time
5. Grimm
6. The Office (sometimes I feel like laughing)
7. Friends
8. Warehouse 13

There are more, but I can't think of them right now. I discover new shows all the time that I want to binge. I used to watch The Walking Dead, but it gave me nightmares. It's funny because I usually don't have them even when I watch something others find terrifying. For some reason, people walking around chomping on brains gives me bad dreams. Hmm.

Karen Lynch Spotlight

6/22/2021

Have you read any of Karen Lynch's books yet? If you haven't, I'm sure you've at least heard of her or her books. They are very popular.

Bio

Karen Lynch is a New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of young adult urban fantasy novels. She has been writing since she was a child, but did not attempt to publish until she released Relentless in 2013. Since then, she has published eight more books and is currently working on her second series.

Karen grew up in Newfoundland, Canada and now lives in North Carolina with her cat and three rescue dogs. When she’s not writing or traveling, she loves to watch sci-fi movies, bake, and work in her garden.

Pawn Blurb
Jesse James is a normal eighteen-year-old, even if her parents are the best faerie bounty hunters in New York. Jesse’s only concern is how to pay for college, but that changes the night her parents disappear.

Equipped with her parents’ weapons and her own smarts, Jesse enters the dangerous world of bounty hunting in search of her mother and father. In her quest, she encounters all manner of Fae, but the scariest is Lukas, the mysterious, imposing faerie who offers to help her find her parents.

But there are powerful forces at work, and Jesse is about to become a player in a dangerous game that could decide the fate of everyone she loves. In this world of magic and deception, it’s hard to tell her allies from her enemies in the race to find her parents before their time runs out.

Relentless Blurb

Sara Grey’s world shattered ten years ago when her father was brutally murdered. Now at seventeen, she is still haunted by memories of that day and driven by the need to understand why it happened. She lives a life full of secrets and her family and friends have no idea of the supernatural world she is immersed in or of Sara’s own very powerful gift.

In her quest for answers about her father’s death, Sara takes risks that expose her and her friends to danger and puts herself into the sights of a sadistic vampire. On the same fateful night she meets Nikolas, a warrior who turns Sara’s world upside down and is determined to protect her even if it’s the last thing she wants.

Sara’s life starts to spin out of control as she is hunted by an obsessed vampire, learns that her friends have secrets of their own and reels from the truth about her own ancestry. Sara has always been fiercely independent but in order to survive now she must open herself to others, to reveal her deepest secrets. And she must learn to trust the one person capable of breaking down the walls around her.

Where to find Karen Lynch:

Website: https://www.karenlynchnl.com
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/KarenLynch.Author
Instagram: https://twitter.com/karenlynchNL
Twitter: https://www.instagram.com/karenlynchnl
Tik tok: https://www.tiktok.com/@karenlynchnl

Bryna Butler

6/16/2021

Here is another wonderful author behind the giveaway. She is a longtime friend and writes fun books with covers I envy. Check out her book on Amazon or on her website.

Bryna Butler's Bio:

Bryna Butler’s love of storytelling leads her heart to many fandoms. You will often find her online gushing about the latest movie/TV show/book or fondly reminiscing about the time she met Charlaine Harris and didn’t faint (barely). She believes strongly in the importance of staying positive and treating others with respect.

Bryna is a journalism-trained writer having authored hundreds of articles and financial publications before taking the leap into fiction in 2011. Her first book, Of Sun & Moon, skyrocketed to number one on Kindle top free charts in multiple categories in the U.S. and U.K. when the title went to free status in 2014 and again held #1 Teen Romantic Mystery on the Kindle Free charts in the U.S. in February 2020. The book also has a cameo in The Morganville Vampires web series, now streaming on Amazon Prime Video. Beth Crowley’s song, “The Dark,” was written for the Midnight Guardian series and has over 1.6 million views on YouTube.

Butler's young adult novels feature strong females and are woven from elements of horror, suspense, comedy, and mystery, all in a contemporary, small town setting. All of her books are considered parent-approved, safe reads for pre-teen as well as teen readers.

Here is the cover I am so JELLY over. Wish I'd seen it first. :) I haven't read this yet, but it is definitely on my TBR list.

Blurb: When Eric Jansen takes a seat behind his drums, every girl in the place takes notice. Not that he is surprised. He has had decades to practice. The guy is almost perfect. Still, there is that one tiny thing…

Eric is an alien. Offworlder. Take me to your leader, fall from the sky, space invading, phoning home, UFO jockey. Hiding out as a teenager in the local garage band, a swipe of the tattoo on his arm will reveal his true form. Locals call him Mothman, a winged creature formed of ashen gray skin and glowing red eyes whose hunger can only be satisfied by one thing … vampires.

When the unknown surfaces in the sleepy river town of Point Pleasant, West Virginia, Eric would rather keep playing his drums, but there is no stopping his book blogging best friend or his men in black handler from dragging him into another mystery.

Are you ready for some campy fun? Fans of Doctor Who and The Dresden Files will love the Mothman Mysteries, suspenseful teen paranormal mysteries with a sci-fi twist. Find out about Bryna's other books HERE on Amazon. or HERE on her website.

Brandy Nacole

5/30/2021

The Christmas in July Giveaway is coming!!!

Are you ready for it? I'd like to introduce you to another author behind the big giveaway. She is a friend and the fantastic author of both Paranormal and Mystery novels. If you haven't tried any of her books, check them out on her Amazon page HERE!

Brandy Nacole

Bio:

Brandy Nacole is a writer of paranormal suspense and mystery. She's penned the bestselling novel DEEP IN THE HOLLOW, THE SHADOW WORLD TRILOGY and MURDER IS A DEBATE.

She loves keeping readers on the edge of their seats as that's where she likes to stay. Her favorite pastimes are reading, writing, exploring the world, and spending as much time with her husband, kids, and fur babies as possible. If Brandy can't be found, it's okay, she's not lost. She's frolicking in the woods somewhere and will return for tacos eventually.

Deep in the Hollow (A Chindi Novel, Book 1)

Blurb:

Let me share some wisdom with you. There is evil in this world we cannot see. Not because it is hidden from us, but because our minds refuse to accept its existence. Once we are able to get past what everyone says should not be, it becomes our responsibility to stop the evil we now see.

This insight wasn’t given to me until a year after I lost the most important person in my life: Bryce Rowan. Now, after another death at the same spot where he died—the overlook, where the mysterious lights dance amongst the trees—I begin to wonder if they were accidents after all. Lucky for me, I’m not the only curious one in town. Cooper, a ghost hunter (aka chaser), and his sister Jada have moved to town and are starting to ask questions.

The more we uncover about my town, its history, and some of its current residents - people I have known my whole life - the more I begin to think there are those who would rather keep the evil lurking around town a secret. Even if it means more will die.

Kasi Blake

My superpower? I can figure out what's going to happen in a movie/show sometimes before opening credits. My record was the time I guessed the surprise ending by just watching the scenes. Sadly, my friends don't appreciate my superpower.

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