This is the latest ebook launch from Mythica Publishing and a great read. The print launch will follow in a few weeks.
http://www.mobipocket.com/en/eBooks/eBookDetails.asp?BookID=185683
My desk sits directly in front of a very large window. I spend more time here than anywhere else and so I see pretty much everything that goes on in my part of the neighborhood. I probably know as much or more about people than their spouses. A few years ago, when a woman was having an affair, I definitely knew more than the spouse.
There’s a young woman living close who has an abusive boyfriend. Over the years, I have had the misfortune to become very intimate with the mental and emotional aspects of battered women. Intellectually, I understand it. The psychological aspect upsets me. But, I can comprehend what goes on with them.
What I will never understand is the other side of it.
What the hell are these asses thinking? By nature, they are bigger, heavier and stronger. How does hitting, jerking around or even just intimidating that smaller individual make them feel powerful? What are they telling themselves? How do they give themselves permission to handle someone else, especially a woman, that way?
I admit I tend to deal very harshly with men like this. However, they can smell me coming and usually avoid me like the cowards they really are. Something built into them can tell I’ll step between them and that woman every time. And, they can tell I’m not afraid.
Maybe that’s it. Maybe the fear is their currency. What they feed on.
I’ve had a few run-ins with this guy acting like this in my little square of the world. Imagine before long I will again.
I have been terrible about posting here the past few months. Maybe it was the eerie reflection of AFF with big hits and no comments. Or how much my life has changed recently. I could reasonably blame both, rather than the recent tendency for my writing work ethic to do a bit of backstroking in the toilet.
I realize everyone hits a slump or just has to take a break. That’s human. However, after six years or so of writing a good bit, then two years of pumping out 100,000 wd plus novels faster than a barn tabby can punch out batches of kittens, it feels weird not to write so much each day.
I do have some new inspiration. Graeme S. Houston, owner of Mythica Publishing and a very dear friend, went against what he knew were my comfort levels, and asked me to co-author a work with him. It’s sci-fi and we may blaze a new genre between our two minds. We don’t have a timetable. Just a few intense brainstorm sessions, an opening scene and the desire to do this together.
I will slap up a preview when we have more.
