![]() ![]() Instagram photos and videosLynessa Layne / Twitter Read more.She has also graced the cover of GEMS Godly Entrepreneurs & Marketers Magazine for her creative approach to marketing.For more information on upcoming releases, swag, signing events and this series, visit Lynessa Layne – Romance-Suspense Mystery & Crime WriterSocial MediaLynessa Layne | FacebookLYNESSA LAYNE She’s a fan of cosplay, exploration, history, loves the beach, a great book, Jesus and America too (RIP Tom).A military wife, she’s bounced around the US, including the settings in DCYE, currently landing in the heart of sweet home Alabama where she and her husband are raising their blended family.Lynessa is a certified copy editor, a member of Mystery Writers of America, Tuscaloosa Writers and Illustrators Guild, Florida Writers Association, Alabama Writers Conclave and The Royal Society of Literature with work featured by Writer’s Digest and in Mystery and Suspense Magazine. ![]() ![]() Lynessa Layne is a native Texan who grew up in the small town of Plantersville, home of the Texas Renaissance Festival. ![]()
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![]() ![]() A lot of weird, screwed-up stuff happened in the next few days, like following a talking cat through Nevernever, meeting my sister in the Iron Realm, sneaking out of the Iron Realm to meet up with the Queen of the Exiles and, oh yeah, discovering that my sister has a son. James, managed to get pulled in, as well. A classmate of mine, a girl named Mackenzie St. I found myself smack-dab in the middle of Nevernever, and this time I wasn't alone. ![]() Thirteen years later, despite all the precautions I took against the Fair Folk, it happened again. Long story short, my older sister rescued me and brought me home, but became a faery queen herself and now rules a part of the Nevernever called the Iron Realm. Yeah, four years old, kidnapped by faeries and taken into the Nevernever, home of the fey. Just shy of a week ago, I was dragged into Faeryland. ![]() Let me add an excerpt that you might not want to read because of **spoilers** from the other books. ❤ That is Keirran on the front and he's making it look even better - BUT - I want to kick him from one end of Nevernever to the other end! Well, lets move away from that for a minute and let me crack on with it.įirst: This cover is freaking amazing! I'm totally freaking in love with it. ![]() ![]() Then, as now, the frustration stems from Helga's inexplicable choices. Indeed, Quicksand's contemporary reviewers reacted in much the same way as my students. She caroms from one bad decision to the next, seeking something-stability, maybe, or happiness-then fleeing the moment either seems to be on offer. ![]() ![]() My students were hardly unjustified in these feelings. They began predicting Helga's failures and blaming her for her pain. And so they got frustrated with her, with Larsen and (let's be honest) with me too. Like Helga herself, my students tried to diagnose the central problem like Helga, they found only an emptiness at the novel's core. Each class would end with a discussion of their hopes for Helga's future, while the next would begin with their complaints about how those hopes had been set up and dashed, how all her mistakes seemed like iterations of the same mistake. They wanted to feel for her, a biracial woman adrift in a racist and sexist world, but none of them could stay sympathetic for longer than a chapter or two at a time. It wasn't that they struggled to understand it to the contrary, they seemed to recognize Larsen's protagonist Helga Crane all too well. I have never assigned a text that frustrated students more than Nella Larsen's 1928 novel Quicksand. Why couldn't she be happy, content, somewhere? Other people managed, somehow, to be. ![]() But she began to have a feeling of discouragement and hopelessness. Frankly the question came to this: what was the matter with her? Was there, without her knowing it, some peculiar lack in her? Absurd. ![]() ![]() By talking to Laphandrus Voidheart in Stormwind or Kazak Darkscream in Orgrimmar, you will have an option to choose which demon to summon, by receiving Barbed Collar of the Incubus or Barbed Collar of the Succubus. You do have the option to choose whether you want to summon only the Succubus or the Incubus. Warlocks may speak to the Warlock trainers in Stormwind or Orgrimmar to enact a pact with their Incubus or Succubus, ensuring that only they are summoned.Ĭurrently on the Patch 9.2 PTR, the Summon Succubus spell is gone, replaced by Summon Sayaad - Using this will summon either a Succubus or an Incubus at random! ![]() Summon Succubus has been replaced with Summon Sayaad – Randomly summon your Incubus or Succubus. ![]() Hello everyone! The PTR has been updated with the following addition: ![]() ![]() ![]() We will include a signed bookplate and one set of Heartstopper Valentines with each order of Loveless, while supplies last. ![]() But these programs are not free for us to put on! If you’re interested in attending this event, we hope you’ll consider purchasing a copy of Lovelessfrom our bookshop. ![]() We work hard to bring events to our community for free, because connecting readers with authors is central to our mission. Sunday, April 10, 2022 at 3:00 PM Central Time If you have not used Zoom before, don't worry: It's easy! Here's a quick reference guide to help you get oriented: Getting Started with Zoom NOTE: Because this is a virtual event that will be hosted on Zoom, you will need access a computer or other device that is capable of accessing the internet at a sufficient bandwidth. ![]() Once you register, you will receive an invitation to join the event.
![]() ![]() This of course in turn can create the false impression that the interviewee is by nature a nervous person, or at least not see them in their best light. "First impressions count" is a term coined from this issue, something that can make interviews and meetings with strangers more nerve-racking than they should be. "Never judge a book by it's cover" was not a phrase created without reason. Even us readers, amongst the best of us, form snap judgements. Perhaps it's a genetic legacy from a time when taking too long to decide if something was dangerous would mean it was the last time you got to make any decision at all. ![]() It's something we do all the time, form snap judgements about people and situations, often based on first impressions. Never judge a person till you've walked a mile in their shoes, the late Terry Pratchett might add "because then you're a mile away, and have their shoes". ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Even the supporting characters piqued my interest as they had their own secrets and complex motivations. Both young adults and not-so-young adults will find pleasure in the adventure, and the dangerous world where Jenna and Ash are the secretly important heroes. ![]() ![]() The court intrigue is not easily figured out. In fact, I ordered the series because of this book. You don’t have to have read the Seven Realms series to pick up and enjoy the heck out of this novel. This is the next generation of Cinda Williams Chima‘s Seven Realms series, the first of a four book set, Flamecaster brings back that world of magic in a can’t-put-it-down fantasy adventure. Of course with these two powerful and compelling teens comes a powerful and compelling story, full of love, death, and flames. Turns out she should have heeded her father’s warnings, for the king of Arden and other powerful people are looking for her, and do not care how many people get hurt during the hunt. Jenna never really worried about the danger of fire and explosion in a mine. For a girl that works in a mine, that’s a daily mantra. Her adopted dad always told her to be careful. Jenna always had that pesky magemark on the back of her neck. Ash’s power does get him the attention he wants and doesn’t want. Believing his mother, the queen, and his little sister are safer if they believe him dead, he works his way ever closer to the Arden king, the man responsible for so much death close to Ash. Ash is a healer, a magician, and a prince on the run, bent on revenge. ![]() ![]() ![]() The less we say about fraternity, the better. ![]() If equality is maintained, liberty must be compromised. If liberty is to be defended, equality cannot be ensured. There is an irrefutable contradiction among the three catchwords, liberty, equality and fraternity. What he conveniently forgets is that it is liberalism’s failure to appease people economically, motivate politically, and inspire intellectually that resulted in two World Wars and the inception of the most vicious forms of ‘illiberalism’ that the world has witnessed so far. ![]() Fukuyama pictures the nineteenth century as the heyday of classical liberalism. Historically, there is another timeline of disillusionment with liberalism which dates to the turn of the twentieth century. But the problem lies in the foundation of such projects. He does not doubt the sincerity of these attempts to revive the classical values of liberalism. This reviewer is not one of the sceptics. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() On 16 November, Baryshnikov will be awarded the Royal Academy of Dance’s Queen Elizabeth II Coronation award at Buckingham Palace.Ĭongratulations on receiving the RAD’s QEII award, presented for ‘outstanding services to the art of dance and ballet’. On screen, he has appeared in films The Turning Point and White Nights, and in Sex and the City. He still performs in experimental theatre, most recently a version of Chekhov ’s The Cherry Orchard by Ukrainian director Igor Golyak, where he shared the stage with a giant robotic arm. He moved into contemporary dance, founding the White Oak Dance Project with Mark Morris, and now runs the Baryshnikov Arts Center in New York. ![]() A dancer of short stature but huge hunger, versatility, technical mastery and personality, Baryshnikov made his career in the US, performing with New York City Ballet and American Ballet Theatre, where he later became artistic director. Born in Riga, Latvia, to Russian parents, he danced with the Kirov Ballet before defecting to Canada in 1974. Mikhail Baryshnikov, 74, is the finest ballet dancer of his generation. ![]() ![]() ![]() Ma'am Darling is, as you would expect, very funny also, full of quirky facts and genial footnotes. 'Brown has been our best parodist and satirist for decades now. Combining interviews, parodies, dreams, parallel lives, diaries, announcements, lists, catalogues and essays, Ma'am Darling is a kaleidoscopic experiment in biography, and a witty meditation on fame and art, snobbery and deference, bohemia and high society. ![]() It is Cinderella in reverse: hope dashed, happiness mislaid, life mishandled. The tale of Princess Margaret is pantomime as tragedy, and tragedy as pantomime. One friend said he had never known an unhappier woman. By the time of her death, she had come to personify disappointment. In her 1950's heyday, she was seen as one of the most glamorous and desirable women in the world. To her enemies, she was rude and demanding. "If they knew what I had done in my dreams with your royal ladies" he confided to a friend, "they would take me to the Tower of London and chop off my head!" Princess Margaret aroused passion and indignation in equal measures. For Pablo Picasso, she was the object of sexual fantasy. John Fowles hoped to keep her as his sex-slave. She cold-shouldered Princess Diana and humiliated Elizabeth Taylor. A DAILY MAIL BOOK OF THE YEAR 'I honked so loudly the man sitting next to me dropped his sandwich' Observer She made John Lennon blush and Marlon Brando clam up. ![]() The funny and tragic, bestselling biography of The Queen's sister, Princess Margaret, perfect for fans of Netflix's The Crown. ![]() |