Tuesday, January 30, 2018

Put a Little Rainbow in Your Diet #OurAuthorGang

Make your diet as colorful as rainbow
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There is a constant chemical process going on in your body, and this process frees up toxins. Fruits and vegetables contain antioxidants which neutralize these toxins and shield your cells and DNA from the damage they would cause.

Red and pink fruits and vegetables such as tomato, red pepper, apples, onion, grapefruit, watermelon as well as beets.
Benefits:
They contain lycopene which aids short and long-term memory, prevents circulatory problems and heart disease as well as plays a role in cancer prevention, especially skin, prostate, uterine, breast and prostate cancers. Lycopene also blocks cholesterol deposit in your circulatory system.

Blue and purple fruits and vegetables such as dark grape, plum, red cabbage, beet, fig and black currant.
Benefits:
They contain anthocyanin, which prevents cholesterol deposits and keeps the veins and arteries flexible. Blu and purple foods shield the skin from UV rays and protect your retina from damage.

Yellow and orange fruits and vegetables such as carrot, pumpkin, pear, orange, tangerine, pineapple, mango, and banana.
Benefits:
They contain beta-carotene a vitamin A provitamin which aids vision, circulation, strengthens the immune system and plays a big role in cancer prevention. Yellow and orange foods also slow the process of aging and protect the skin from harmful rays as well as helps to prevent wrinkle formation.

Green fruits and vegetables such as cabbage, lettuce, broccoli, spinach and leafy greens, kiwi, green apples, peas, green beans.
Benefits:
They contain lutein which aids vision, strengthen the bones, prevents cancers, destroys bacteria and cleans the blood.

White foods such as garlic, onion, cauliflower, and mushroom.
Benefits:
They have anti-inflammatory, allergy reducing and cancer-preventing properties.

Make your diet colorful and make your body healthy 


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Erika M Szabo via Google+

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Put a Little Rainbow in Your Diet #OurAuthorGang
Make your diet as colorful as rainbow by Erika M Szabo There is a constant chemical process going on in your body, and this process frees up toxins. Fruits and vegetables contain antioxidants which neutralize these toxins and shield your cells and DNA from ...
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Mary Anne Yarde

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Great post, as always!!
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Nikki McDonagh

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I'm a vegetarian, so eat this kind of food every day. It always takes me by surprise that not everyone does too! Great post.
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Ruth de Jauregui via Google+

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Erika Szabo shared information on improving your health by adding color to your eating plan. This is great information friends!
 
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Ruth de Jauregui

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Great nutritional info!! You are so right, we should all add color to our diets to improve our health.
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Rebecca Tran

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Erika Szabo shares great advice on eating to get a better healthier you.
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Joe Bonadonna via Google+

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Tuesday on A Small Gang of Authors . . . Erika M. Szabo​ gives us some tips on adding "color" to our diet with a variety of fruits and vegetable
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Joe Bonadonna

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Most enlightening, Erika. Thank you for the tips. Adding color to one's diet: a healthy way to live. I like that.
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Grace Au

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The older I get the more I adapt this into my diet. Thanks for the info.
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Rich Feitelberg

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I've heard this which is why I eat eggplant and blueberries when I can.

Monday, January 29, 2018

Passion #OurAuthorGang

by Grace Augustine

photo courtesy of OveractDev

Passion, as defined in Merriam-Webster.com: "noun...intense, driving, or overmastering feeling or conviction; an outbreak of anger; ardent affection; a strong liking or desire for or devotion to some activity, object, or concept; an object of desire or great interest; sexual desire."

I'm sure you've been asked once, if not more times, what is your passion? What is that one thing that convicts your soul, that moves you to tears, that makes you crazy?
photo courtesy of Anthill Magazine

As a romance writer, I deal with passion in all of the ways described above. My characters have deep conviction regarding their jobs, families, and loved ones. They have passion for their spouses or significant others and act upon those feelings with tenderness and love.

So it is in the love story of Blake and Renee in MOONLIGHT AND MUSIC, a perfect read for February--the month of love.


Blake McIntyre held his position at Bankston Promotions for fifteen years. He is the top music artist promoter in the business. Potential clients by-passed the CEO's daughter and sought out his expertise. He assumed that was why he was fired. With an interview scheduled in less than six hours, he needed sleep and to be on his A-game, but the wailing coming from the apartment across the hall prevented it.

Renee Manelli, a frustrated musician, had worked twenty years as a paralegal. Her goal was to stockpile money, retire early, write songs, and hit the road performing. Her crystal-clear voice and mixed with the poignant messages in her songs make her the fastest rising independent artist in the country. She couldn't help that most of her creativity happened at 2 a.m.

A working relationship between Blake and Renee turned quickly into the personal journey of a lifetime under the stars...and moonlight and music.


I'd love hearing from you. Whether it be about my books, or life in general, let's get to know one another.
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Sunday, January 28, 2018

Our Guest Today is Scarlet Braden #OurAuthorGang


Please join me in welcoming author Scarlett Braden.


Scarlett Braden ran away from her secret monochomatic life in the United States and escaped to the colorful town of Cuenca, Ecuador. Her life is now prismacolor; kinda like her hair, and no longer secret. She began writing and realized that's where all the voices in her head came from...it was characters waiting for her to tell their stories. It drives her a little crazy that they won't tell her the whole story before she begins typing, but she's learning to keep tranquilo and let them have their say. She spent most of her life not being able to tell a lie (to save her soul), to being a professional liar: the kind of liar that makes up stories. You never know if what she's telling you is the truth or fiction...or if what you say next may find its way into the pages of her next novel or in the stanza of a poem.

Scarlett's new release, LYRICS OF A TRANSCENDENTAL LOVE, will be available sometime in January.


Scarlett loves hearing from her readers and may be reached:

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Saturday, January 27, 2018

Our Guest Today is Author D. Fischer #ourauthorgang

Hey everyone. D. Fischer here with my guest post. 

I'd like to take just a moment and thank Our Author Gang for hosting this.

I'm just going to jump right into it. I'm an author of multi-genre's but have been focusing on Epic Fantasy recently. I grew up in eastern Iowa, and moved to western Iowa when I met my husband. We have two kids, a toddler and a first grader (if you ask him, the grade counts more than the age).
We're a pet-loving family, with two dogs who are obsessed with socks, and a fat cat who adores me (I'm a dog person, so you can imagine my dismay).

Growing up, I always wanted to write something. Anything really, I didn't care what. I loved using my imagination. I'd start a book, begin an outline, and a few chapters in, I would stop.

Eventually, writing a book entered my "bucket-list." Last year, my husband was away on business and only home on the weekends. I grew bored with all that time to myself after my kids would be tucked in, fast asleep. Characters started forming in my head, plots started mixing, and worlds would be built upon those platforms.

Last January, we didn't have a computer. We had a tablet. It was difficult, but I wasn't going to let that hold me back from bringing my imagination to screen. I started clicking away.

In April of last year, I published my first book, A Gifted Curse (The Cloven Pack Series). Since then, I have 8 published books, and 9 published co-written books.

As I mentioned before, my most recent works is Epic Fantasy. I fell in love with that genre, without actually meaning to. I've never read Game of Thrones (besides the first chapter), or Lord of the Rings. In fact, I had no idea that's what this book's genre was until after it was written. A dear friend was kind enough to tell me.

This new series is called Rise of the Realms. There is 5 lead characters, some of them supernatural, and some of them human (for now ;) ). None of these characters know each other, but their fates and circumstances keep crossing. There's tie in after tie in, until everything comes together at the end of the first book. Well... not everything. Many subplots will be delivered in the second book - which I'm currently working on. Did I mention there is a dragon? Ghosts? Vampires? Shifters? Angels? This series basically has it all. What you don't see in the first book, you'll see in the second. Several new supernatural species are entering into the fold.

Reborn, the first book in the series, was difficult for me to write. I've never written a book this complicated, and I don't like to outline (I never follow it anyway). Besides finding the crossing fates of difficulty, there was a few times I grew too involved with this book. For example, to write a certain section for Eliza, I forced myself to listen to a song for several hours. The same song. Over and over again. I went a little nuts afterwards - I call it the 'writers doom and gloom'. I totally understand why writers from the past enjoyed that alcohol so much. Thankfully, I had wonderful author friends who pulled me out of that dark place my brain submerged me, and a supportive husband who understood.

I'm proud of this book. It's my baby. I hope you find the time to sit down and read it, and I'm excited to hear what you think.

Reborn (Rise of the Realms: Book One) can be purchased here:
https://www.amazon.com/Reborn-Rise-Realms-Book-One-ebook/dp/B07839PHJ5

Friday, January 26, 2018

Book in the Spotlight #OurAuthorGang

Book in the Spotlight  #OurAuthorGang


Waters of Darkness
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David C. Smith and Joe Bonadonna


Cover by Dawne Dominique

“One of the better New Pulp titles is, interestingly, a novel whose authors represent both the mid-Twentieth-Century and the New-Millennial pulp eras. This novel, Waters of Darkness, is collaboration between David C. Smith, one of the best authors to emerge during the 1970s pulp-paperback explosion, and Joe Bonadonna, one of the best writers to emerge in the New Pulp era. Waters of Darkness proceeds smartly . . . and as the horror grows ever grimmer and more triumphant the plot takes several surprising twists and turns. But even their final, unexpected journey through a remote jungle of South Africa may not save the few surviving pirates . . .  If you’re looking for superior swashbuckling pirate adventure in the mode of Captain Blood, Black Terence Vulmea, and Queen of the Black Coast, you’ll find Smith and Bonadonna’s Waters of Darkness to be just the red meat and heady rum you’re craving.”  — Cynthia Ward, Amazing Stories Magazine.

The time is circa 1640 AD. 

The main character is Angus “Bloody Red” Buchanan, a pirate of the West Indies who sails east across the Atlantic, to the Indian Ocean and the island of Madagascar, in search of new plunder and loot. With him on his Spanish galleon, the Raven, is his first mate and closest friend, Mose Cooper, an educated runaway slave from the American colony of Louisiana. Sailing alongside them aboard her own ship, the Witch of the Indies, is Buchanan’s partner and the love of his life, Katherine O’Toole, also known as Crimson Kate.
      
During their voyage they encounter the Servants of Dagon on the Isle of Shadow, an ancient ship of zombie sailors, do battle with French, Dutch and Arab corsairs, and tangle with a 1000 year-old Persian sorcerer who serves the aforementioned Philistine god of the sea. Man-eating phantoms, a beautiful demoness, assorted devils, dinosaurs, and creatures from the bowels of Hell will all threaten Buchanan, Kate and Cooper before their tale is done and told. There’s plenty of action, romance, betrayal, humor, drama and tragedy on this venture. There’s plenty of sword play, sorcery and battles at sea as Buchanan and company wade hip-deep in blood and brine towards a final confrontation with the Undying Wizard.      

This is high seas adventure in the tradition of Rafael Sabatini. This is an Errol Flynn pirate movie crossed with Robert E. Howard, with a little H.P. Lovecraft, and Conan Doyle’s The Lost World to spice up the rum. All you need is a Wolfgang Korngold film score. So climb aboard as Bloody Red Buchanan, Big Mose Cooper, and Crimson Kate set sail upon Waters of Darkness, an old-fashioned pirate fantasy of swords, sorcery, and the supernatural.

Waters of Darkness is published by Damnation Books/Caliburn Press, and is available worldwide in paperback, Kindle and Nook editions



#swordandsorcery  #heroicfantasy  #pirateadventure  #supernatural  #occult  #horror


Thursday, January 25, 2018

Finding Fantasy in the Bible part 2 #ourauthorgang

by Rebecca Tran





 In my last blog post on this topic, I discussed the nephilim or human-angel hybrids. This legend comes directly from passages in the Bible. The only matter up for debate here is specific interpretations of the word. That is a topic for another day and probably better left to theology scholar, not a pharmacist who writes fantasy at night.

This week instead I thought we would discuss a legend that arises from the “unofficial” books of the Bible. As discussed previously those books did not meet the specific criteria to become an official canon of the scripture.

The book of Enoch was lost for almost 2000 years. The writing it contained was so taboo that most of the copies were deliberately destroyed. Although, some copies survived and were rediscovered in Ethiopia in the 18th century. They were later translated and gave more detailed accounts of the Nephilim, and the Watchers.

The fallen watchers were a group of 200 angels that descended from heaven to earth. They lived among humans, married human women and taught humans many subjects that they were not supposed to. The information was supposed to build naturally as humans evolved instead the fallen angels forced it on them all at once.

Enoch describes God’s wrath on his fallen children. The leaders of the group were forced to watch their families kill each other while, the remaining fallen watchers were chained and locked in the

“valleys of the earth.” Their sentence was to last for 70 generations or until their or the final judgment depending on the translation. This same event is mentioned in the Bible Jude 1:6-7, however, the supporting details are lacking. Enoch gives a detailed account of the events surrounding their punishment.

When starting to research the sequel to my paranormal romance, For Their Sins, it seemed like the perfect obstacle for my Heroine to overcome. Who knows what would happen if you unleashed 200 angry fallen angels. Unfortunately, the novel is still a work in progress, it’s in my ‘to do’ pile though and I can’t wait to get back to it. In the meantime, ForTheir Sins is available now.  The companion short story, Unlike the Rest, is always free.



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