Featured Guest at author Toni V. Sweeney’s blog (book giveaway, too)

Please take a few minutes to visit author Toni V. Sweeney’s blog (aka Icy Snow Blackstone) where I am the featured guest blogger for the next several days.

I wrote about how I turned a contest writing assignment into a book called, The Dance. The story is a contemporary erotic romance that involves a reclusive book reviewer (Janae) who falls for a rodeo bullfighter/rodeo clown (Owen) who is recuperating after a rodeo accident. It’s a steamy story.

Here’s the link at Toni’s place: http://www.tonivsweeney.com/tvsweeney%40tonivsweeney.com/Blog/Entries/2013/3/28_An_Assignment_that_Became_a_Novel.html

Toni also put a link to my book trailer of The Dance for you to watch while you’re there. 

Oh… and I’m also giving away a copy of The Dance to a lucky commenter, so stop by and say ‘hi’.

Until next time,

Kaye

In Memory of Philip K. Dick, science fiction author

Philip K. Dick died today in 1982 of complications of a stroke he’d suffered a few days earlier. Mr. Dick is buried in the cemetery in my hometown of Fort Morgan, Colorado.

“The Man in the High Castle” (1962), an alternate history to the ending of World War II,  is his only novel to win a Hugo Award.

Here are a few of his quotes:

• Don’t try to solve serious matters in the middle of the night.
• Reality is that which, when you stop believing in itm doesn’t go away.
• Reality is whatever refuses to go away when I stop believing in it.
• It is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane.
• This, to me, is the ultimately heroic trait fo ordinary people; they way no to the tyrant and they calmly take the consequences.

His books and short stories that were adapted for movies:

• “We Can Remember It for you Wholesale” became “Total Recall” (twice) - original with Arnold Schwarzenegger and the recent remake with Colin Farrell
• “The Minority Report” became “Minority Report” with Tom Cruise
• “Imposter” became “Imposter” (twice) First, a British program, and the next with Gary Sinise, Vincent D’Onofrio, and Madeleine Stowe
• “Paycheck” was a story that became a movie by the same name starring Ben Affleck
• “A Scanner Darkly” by the same name starred Keanu Reeves,,Winona RYder, and Robert Downey Jr.
• “Second Variety” became “Screamers” with Peter Weller, but it went straight to video
• “The Golden Man” became the movie “Next” with Nicolas Cage
• “Adjustment Team” became “The Adjustment Bureau” with Matt Damon
• “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep” became the extremely popular and cult-following movie, “Blade Runner”, with Harrison Ford, Rutger Hauer, Sean Young, and Darryl Hannah

Sadly missed by this reader,

Until next time,

Kaye

Kaye’s Kitchen – “Oven Temperatures” – Hand-Me-Down Family Recipe

Family recipes offer more than mere sustenance.

They give us a dash of history, a pinch of nostalgia, and a sprinkling of posterity.

This month’s recipe is in the category of “In the Kitchen – Oven Temperatures”.

Many of my hand-me-down recipes use descriptors for temperature rather than degrees.

Here is a quick reference for conversion.

For PDF download, click here: Oven Temperatures

Until next time,

Kaye

Kaye’s Monthly Blog Post at Nocturnal Nights

 My featured blog post is ready to read here: Tabby’s Nocturnal Nights. The topic is Part 2 of my favorite writing quotes.

Until next time,

Kaye

 

Kaye’s Kitchen – Goulash – Hand-Me-Down Family Recipe

Family recipes offer more than mere sustenance.

They give us a dash of history, a pinch of nostalgia, and a sprinkling of posterity.

This month’s recipe:

Goulash c. 1960s

Goulash was a welcomed hot and hearty meal after coming in from chores on a cold winter evening.

For PDF download, click here: Goulash c. 1960s

Until next time,

Kaye