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Success

I've been reading the book The Compound Effect by Darren Hardy, the former publisher of Success magazine.  It makes me pause and think and realize what I've been missing in anything I've wanted to succeed at. 

I have the motivation, but I'm missing a key factor and now I'm working on it.  Consistency. It's not a race to win.  He brings up the hare and tortoise fable.  Slow and steady wins the race.  And that is true in any part of your life. Whether it be your writing, relationships and your career.  You need to be consistent.  Follow a routine and keep working at it and do your very best work in all things you do.

There are no get rich formulas in life, just hard work.  And your dreams and goals take hard work.  You will not be an overnight success.  You have to work at it and that doesn't stop when you start making money.  You can lose it all as fast as you make it.  

Take a look at the book.  I was never a big motivational self help reader.  But some of the books I have read over the last month has helped me grow and given me insight on my writing career, my life and my goals.  

I know if I follow the advice written by the ones who have succeeded before me and learn from their examples I will become the best me I can be everyday getting a little better.  Get the book here.

How can I Assist You

So I'm on my way into work today listening to a podcast on marketing. Which I have been doing a lot lately. He said something that really resonated with me "running a business is not about profit but it's about what you can do to help your customer or client out." So what does that mean? And why is it running a business about profit?

Well, here is the thing, if you're serving your client in meeting their needs are fixing a problem for them you will have repeat customers. So as an author, what problem am I trying to fix? Boredom! So how can I entertain you? Well I can entertain you by a writing it a good book.  But then how do you find out about it? Marketing! So many authors promote via Facebook, Twitter, Snapchat, Instagram, Pinterest, and blogs. But what if you don't have big your target audience on those social media sites or blogs, What do you do then?

Well I've come across a great marketing tool to find your dream reader, don't really want to get into it right now about who they are, Because I have a test or not yet but it looks very promising because you can target the market that you're looking for. I do have a link on this site for them. And so far what I have found I love. But I will do some market testing on them and I will let you know my results.

I won't be spamming the Facebook feed I will target my preferred readers. And then after a month I will give you my results. But if you're interested in trying it out yourself look to your right and there is a link to click funnels.com.

Check it out you might be surprised. It also works for our network marketing, online sales of any kind, Service market. Basically anything you want to sell online it will help with. It will even help with companies that are brick-and-mortar. It's actually a very amazing community full of positive outlook's and it's the wave of the future in marketing.

Remodeling

So in the next few days you will see a remodel of this page.  I will be enhancing the looks and adding things to help all my author and blogger friends out.  

I'm going to continue on my journey and share it every step of the way.  

I'm going to stop letting fear get in my way and enjoy the journey.  There is nothing that could go so wrong that I can't come back from it.  I've learned that in the last five months.  I've been on the bottom and I'm ready to start head up.  

I'm so excited for this next phase in my life.  Its actually really hard to contain it.  I'm going to prosper and I plan on taking you all with me.  

My path is a positive one even with all the negative going on in this world that surrounds me.  I have so many opportunities and I will succeed in them.  So welcome aboard my roller coaster.  Enjoy the ride.

Little life secret

As Nike says "Just do it".  That's the best life secret I can give you.  You have too.  Not in all things but in anything you dream of you need to just do it.  Think about it all you want but that won't get you anywhere. Action is what gets you to where when you want to go.  

Procrastination kills dreams but so does the fear of failing.  Think about it this way, what is the most you will lose.  Invest in your future.  Seriously, failing is not the worst thing you can do.  Not succeeding is.  I was listening to a webinar the other day and he gave a great example of whether something is a failure or not. Thomas Edison had over 1000 unsuccessful attempts at inventing the light bulb.  When asked how it felt to fail 1000 times he responded with "I didn't fail 1000 times. The light bulb was an invention with 1000 steps."  

That's the same thing with writing, new career, new business.  You just keep on it until you get it right.  It's not failing, it's finding out what works best for you and what your dream is.  

There are so many things in life you should give up: eating unhealthy, smoking, drinking, being a couch potatoe, drugs, negativity, but your dreams you should not give up on not ever.

I'm Back from LALA Land

Hey you all. I am happy to be back from the brink. I have been working too hard and not enough play. I have missed you all and I hope you will welcome me back with open arms. I will begin my book reviews soon.

I haven't had a lot of time for book reviews but I will start again and I will give you my honest feelings regarding the books I read. There have been a couple of them that I haven't been able to complete, not because they are not good. I just haven't been in a real reading mood. I know crazy. I love to read. But there have been so many things going on in my life that has taken all my energy that I just couldn't get into anything. And that includes my writing.

It's really amazing what a life upheaval does to you emotionally and physically. I hope to never go through something like this again. I was an emotional wreck and it was awful. I am doing a lot better now so hopefully I can get going on all my dreams. Hey, if interested I have another website that you can check out also www.jenniecunanan.com it is dedicated to my love of indie authors and helping succeed with their writing and creating an income so that they can do what they love.

There will be all kinds of tips and tricks on how to do things and how to create a passive income. I will share some on here also.  There is also going to be tips on getting your mailing list up and going so you can create that ever envied platform that we all need. I am just getting started at it myself, so I hope you will follow my journey so that you can create the same market as I do and we can all become successful.

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Love, Life and stress.

Okay, loves, I have let my website go for now.  I was getting to overwhelmed with all the upkeep on it and all my other sites that I have to keep up on.  But that is fine.  I have it still in my notepad so when I want to put it up again I will.  Probably bigger and better, because by that time I am hoping to be a certified webmaster.  But for now I will just focus on my blogs and social media to keep you all in the loop. 

I am working on my second book in the Spinners Club Series.  Jasmine should be out hopefully soon.  It is in the final stages of production and I am hoping it will be out before the end of the month but that is all up to my publisher now.  Hopefully soon we will have a cover reveal and such.  I will keep you up-to-date. 

So here it is I know a lot of you who follow me on my Facebook page have seen my day to day struggles in my life.  And yes I am very open with what goes on.  I know not a lot of authors are but I am.  I struggle just like anyone else.  But I believe in open honest relationships and that is what I feel I have with many of you.  I don't hide behind the computer screen and glamorize my life. My life is far from glamorous.  I really don't think anyone's life is glamorous as they think.  But I digress. 

My life has been going through a lot of changes.  I know you all see it and have tried cheering me up.  But a lot of my unhappiness is not because of what is going on in my life right at this moment, but because of things I did a long time ago. 

Have you ever fell in love so completely, and you knew it was the forever type of love.  Well, I did. I knew the moment I fell in love with this boy that it was going to be forever.  And it has been.  Whether we are together or not, I love him.  He is my heart.  I gave pieces of my heart to other men and I don't regret that anymore, it has made me into the woman I am today.  I loved many and fell for three,  and by fall I mean I actually fell in love with them. My first love, my second love, and my third.

My first love I will get too, because he is who owns me.  My second love well,  I fell hard and fast for this boy.  And my heart was broken by him but I never held it against him ever.  I never will.  We are still amazing friends and would have been more if things had been a little different.  Our timing has always sucked.  But friends are what we will always be and I am great with that. 

Third love, that would be the father of my children.  I know many of you have read about the difficult times we have been going through.  And that it is over between us.  And all that is true.  I can no longer live the life that he wants.  I am not the  type of woman he needs and he is not the type of man I need.  I don't hate him and I  never will, he gave me my children.  Plus I am not one of those women who want to exact revenge on a man because he strayed or lied.  We all have our faults.  I am not making excuses for him but I see no reason to hate him and make his life hell.  

We will remain cordial and hopefully can remain friends.   But I need to explore my world and I can't do it with someone that does not like the same things I do and has not interest in being part of my interests.  I will not go into anymore detail than that right now.  Maybe down the road.

Now on to my first love.  I met him when I was 16/17 years old.  I fell for him and I fell completely.  He is my one true soul mate.  I have been connected to him always.  He is where my heart is at home.  The only place I feel at ease.  I never really realized it until recently.  And that sucks but it is true.  He can calm me in ways that no one has ever been able too.  

But it's my fault we are no longer together.  And it tears me up inside every time I think about it. I know he feels the same.  He has said it, but in his own words.  He is the one that I know I will never get over.  The one that I will continuously have hope that we will be together again.  But at this point I don't know if I will ever see him again.  He has erected his walls against me and I understand why.  I hurt him and for that I am truly sorry.  I scare him.  I complicate his life.  But he still is there.  Just barely but he is and as long as he is there.  I am here waiting for him to be ready to give me another chance.

This man own me completely, always has, always will.  I am his.

Self portrait with a splash of my boys

A day with the girls

Just a bear of a day

Emma in time

Girls on the go

Against the sun

Let the sunshine through

Staggered

My son deep in thought

 Here is some of the things I have been working on.  Some of which I am proud to show you.  I hope you enjoy what you see.  Please feel free to comment on them. 

Boy on the go

City Lights in Motion
 

I am back.

After a long time off the page...I am back.  I am really going to try and be a good little author but it is so hard.  I love to write, but my kids don't like it so much.  But now that they are back in school and I have a little free time I will be working on the blog and the books. 

With in the next month or so I will be adding another page to help out my alter ego Selene Jasper.  She will be releasing two new books soon.  So I hope you will keep an eye out for her and her buddy Star Noble. 

There are going to be a lot of new sneak peaks of things real soon.  So please stick around.  

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Available  JUNE 1st

 

Here are some teasers for your pleasure :)

 

 

"You didn't let me finish." Sensual assertiveness steamed from his pores, encapsulating her in a masculine sauna of intense promise as his low growl pulsed in her ear. "I wasn't expecting such an incredible woman to want such an imperfect man."

He was the kind of trouble she steered clear of. But damn, trouble never looked so good. He was sin and she wanted to taste.

He could melt the clothes off an ice princess.

She was Superman to his kryptonite. Good to his bad. She was a tall stick of dynamite packed inside a tiny firecracker and he wanted to light the fuse.

Eyes, like pools of hunger, pierced so intensely he was sure she could see the heart of his soul bleeding out, begging for her to heal him.

She was an inferno he couldn't douse, a tornado he couldn't outrun.

 

 

The tip of his tongue tickled her neck as he licked the skin above her pounding vein. "I don't do relationships."

"I didn't ask for one."

"But you make me want one."

 

And here is one more before I let you go: 

She'd gotten under his skin and no one else could cure that itch except her.

He thought he didn't need saving, but she'd casually walked into the center of his storm and rescued him.

 

He commanded her like she was his guitar, his instrument of passion. And he knew precisely when and how to pluck each string and strum each chord to make her body sing along in perfect harmony.

 

"Like how every night since meeting you, my dreams have been haunted by these lips. How I want to touch every silky inch of your skin." His fingers moved to her breasts. "How I want to compose a song on your flesh and turn your body into sheet music."

 

Now that you had your tease go over and check out this amazing author and give her page some lovin'  and here is the lovely little link:  M. L. Stephens

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12 Days of Christmas Blog Hop - Day 12

12 Days of Christmas

December 1st - 12th 2013
Hosted by: As You Wish Reviews & Confessions of the Paranormal
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Welcome to the 12 Days of Christmas Blog Hop!!!

Everyone has a YUMMY cookie recipe to share and there are some extra little treats scattered around the Hop too, so be sure to visit each of the Authors and Bloggers blogs to make sure you don’t miss out on something SWEET!

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I hope you are on Santa’s Nice List!

Molasses Cookie

Ingredients

• 3/4 cup margarine, melted
• 1 cup white sugar
• 1 egg
• 1/4 cup molasses
• 2 cups all-purpose flour
• 2 teaspoons baking soda
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
• 1/2 teaspoon ground cloves
• 1/2 teaspoon ground ginger
• 1/2 cup white sugar

Directions

1. In a medium bowl, mix together the melted margarine, 1 cup sugar, and egg until smooth. Stir in the molasses. Combine the flour, baking soda, salt, cinnamon, cloves, and ginger; blend into the molasses mixture. Cover, and chill dough for 1 hour.
2. Preheat oven to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C). Roll dough into walnut sized balls, and roll them in the remaining white sugar. Place cookies 2 inches apart onto ungreased baking sheets.
3. Bake for 8 to 10 minutes in the preheated oven, until tops are cracked. Cool on wire racks.

BLURB

What you thought you knew about the BIBLE is about to CHANGE. What if you found out you were the granddaughter of the first woman, no not Eve, but Lilith?

After 150 years Dika Edens, the oldest of 4 girls each destined to live forever finds out that very thing. She is not sure if it is a curse or a gift from the Gods. All she knows is the man that has informed her of this has way too much guilt on his shoulders regarding her and her... past. Chrome is her Guardian but that does not mean he can protect her from everything. He should be the first one to know that - since he is the one telling her that she must save the world.

My name is Dika, I am an American born Hungarian, Polish, Spanish Gypsy with a little bit of something special, born right here in the green state of Oregon, home of the Beavers. That history would be changed in a matter of a few words spoken from the man that has been haunting my dreams. My sisters and I need to save the world and if we don't the Universe will cease to exist as we know it.

My name is Chrome Jai, Dragon Guardian to Dika Edens, created to protect her from the evils of the first human woman mother of mankind. I will protect her as she fights to save the humans, but her first assignment will be to make it through the first 48 hours and find her Aunt and her Grandmother. We will go together to hell and back just to fix the mess of the Gods and man.

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Review of Lethal Obession - By Shandra Miller

About the Author

I'm a mid-western gal who left home at 16 and never looked back. Eventually I made my way to Florida, worked for three years as a carnie and another three with a circus -- yes, a real, live, honest-to-god circus. Traveled all through the South and Mid-Atlantic those years, town to town, on the road eight months at a time.

Now I'm a small-town office girl, filing papers, answering the phone. I don't own a cell phone or a TV. I take long walks at night, lay in the grass and watch the clouds go by, and I write erotica. Blazing hot erotica. And mystery stories dripping with lust, sex and suspense.

My debut novel, LETHAL OBSESSION, will be released March 1. My short stories PRIVATE DINING and ROOM SERVICE, both part of the TIDES INN EROTIC TALES series; and JENNIFER LOST and JENNIFER BOUND (part of the Ville D'Esclavage TALES) are all available on Amazon.com.

Follow me and news of my writing at shandramillerwriter.blogspot.com and at https://www.facebook.com/shandra.miller.52

Synopsis- 

Angela Martin is like everyone else. She wants acceptance. Love. Passion.

For five years she’s lived with the pain of knowing her husband cheats on her. She’s dealt with the heart-rending rejection by rebuilding her life around her work, becoming the first woman detective in the history of the Moose Creek, N.C., police department.

Then she stumbles upon him. A man who reawakens desire, who makes her feel more alive than she believed possible by pulling her into a world of bondage and dominance, devotion and trust taken to a new level, fear mingling with desire, a craving stronger than any drug.

Soon women start turning up dead in Moose Creek, bound and tortured, tied in ways that Angela finds startling familiar. Angela’s heart tells her that her newfound love cannot be the killer, her detective instincts tell her otherwise, and her obsession with this new lifestyle draws her back to him, even at the risk of her life.

LETHAL OBSESSION is a tale of sex and bondage, love and fear, desire and suspicion, with an ending that will leave you breathless, craving more. 

What Others Are Saying:  

"The thing I liked most about this story was how the author made it more than just erotica. There was a full-blown plot driving the story and the mystery kept me going, kept me guessing at every turn, right up until the end. And the end is where I was screaming and pulling my hair out wanting to know where the rest of the story was. I'd really give this story three stars because of the way the ending left everything up in the air (I still have questions I want answered!), but I decided to give four stars because it was such a good story." - By symbolicangel March 5, 2013

My Review - 

   

I would absolutely give this a 5 star.  I don't read erotica very often but I am extremely happy I decided to read this novel.  It was a very fast paced book with a lot of twists and turns that kept you turning the page wanting to know what happens. 

I did not find this an erotic only novel it had a story behind it and it was a good story.  Don't get me wrong if you want steam it had it in pure an raw form.  

The story starts out learning that this officer Angela is in need of desperate attention.  She becomes involved with a man she has never met or seen.  Fulfilling and unknown obsession that in my eyes is never completely fulfilled.  But everything that is done to her ends up happening to other women, but unlike her they end up dead.  

Could it be the man that she has come to look forward to hearing from?  Well if you want to know you will have to read Lethal Obsession.  You will not regret it.  

This book is very well written with taste and a true story for all of us that enjoy a plot with our morning, afternoon or nightly sex.

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