Cover Reveal for Sleeper by Sharon Johnston!

 

Hello, hello, my darlings.
Good morning to you!

Today I get to share something exciting with you. 

This is the day that my friend Sharon Johnston's book cover is revealed to the general public! (i.e. that would be you).

So squee and delight in it. Because how intense does that book look? I mean really.

About the Author:

Sharon is a writer from Mackay in Queensland, Australia who has short stories published in anthologies and was also runner-up in the Australian Literary Review's Young Adult short story contest with KARMA. By day she is a public relations executive and by night she writes weird fiction and soulful contemporaries while her husband, two sons and cat are fast asleep.

About the Book:

Title: Sleeper (Book I in the Toy Soldiers series)

Author: S. M. Johnston

Release Date: December 2, 2013

Publisher: Entranced Publishing

Genre: NA speculative fiction

After a life saving heart transplant, eighteen-year-old Mishca Richardson is plagued by nightmares and an urgent desire to find her birth parents, which she puts down to post-operation depression. But her new heart seems to bring more than a second chance at life in the form of speed, strength and love at first sight.

Social Media Links:

Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/authorsmjohnston
Twitter: https://twitter.com/S_M_Johnston
Website: www.smjohnston.com
Blog: www.downunderwonderings.blogspot.com

Goodreads: http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/4019418.S_M_Johnston

Slacker

SO, as anyone who actually reads my blog will have noticed, I've somewhat been slacking in the blogging department.
I'M SORRY!

Here is my list of excuses:
-I've been busy with school
-I've been busy teaching
-I've been busy doing nothing
-I'm just lazy
-I've been traveling a lot this past week
-Mostly I'm just lazy


All of the above are incredibly true, however, they are still nothing but excuses.
So please accept my apology and enjoy this picture of Wilbur:

So from now on I will try (keyword being try) to keep better track of this.
Until I get my act together, random spontaneous posts is what we're all going to have to settle for here.

Thanks for reading, congratulations on having the ability to read, and goodbye until next time.

So This is a Thing That Happened...

STORY TIME.

so we have a condo on the lake

and last year we were here and there was a hole in the ceiling so we stuffed toilet paper into it, right?

We got stuck in the same room this year.

The toilet paper is still there.

I find this probably much funnier than it really is... 

But anyways. 

1950

Hello there. 

So this happened this week. 

It kind of made my life so I thought I'd share it with you. 

that is all.

In it to End It.

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“Having heard all of this, you may choose to look the other way but you can never say again that you did not know.”

These famous words were spoken by William Wilberforce to the British Parliament in 1789 as he campaigned vigorously for the abolishment of the transatlantic slave trade. 

He succeeded in his endeavor in 1808.

The Civil War ended legal slavery in the US in 1865. 

But slavery still exists. 

"WE WANT EVERY MAN, WOMAN AND CHILD TO KNOW THAT THERE ARE 27 MILLION MEN, WOMEN AND CHILDREN, JUST LIKE THEM, LIVING IN THE SHADOWS. IN BROTHELS. IN FACTORIES. IN QUARRIES. WORKING AS SLAVES. IN 161 COUNTRIES. INCLUDING OUR OWN. WE ARE HERE TO SHINE A LIGHT ON SLAVERY. NO MORE BONDAGE. NO MORE SEX TRAFFICKING. NO MORE CHILD LABORERS. NO MORE, STARTING NOW."

-enditmovement.com

Go to enditmovement.com now to see how you can help put a stop to human trafficking.

let's end it together. 

A Bunch of Ominous Warnings.

I’m going to assume you all are writers mainly due to the nature of content in this blog. If I am correct, then you probably have an account on a writing site. Writing sites likes these are public places to share your writing, meet writers, whatever. 

My first warning is that you should read the terms and conditions when posting writing that you care about online. I know that 99% of the time nobody bothers to read it, but in the case of your work, you should care. You need to be aware of who exactly gets ownership of the posted work and, more importantly, is it protected by the site? Meaning, “can anyone copy and paste your work and pass it off as their own”? 

My second warning is this: be careful who you meet and where your relationships go. On the one hand, I have made many excellent friends on writing sites, but at the same time, there are many non- friendly people. I’ve personally witnessed verbal and mental abuse, creepy old men strangers trying to get girls to meet them somewhere alone, creepy young/old male/female strangers that stalk you... 

 etc. 

Just be careful. Never meet someone unless you’ve got a person to go with you, it’s in a VERY public place, and you have mace or like a brick in your purse/backpack. 

(Guys and girls are both susceptible to this; don’t get your panties in a twist because I made a reference to only a girl earlier. It was the only one I had personally witnessed).

So. That's all. 

Goodbye.

Book Review: The Great House of God by Max Lucado

The Great House of God - Max Lucado

God's greatest desire is to be your dwelling place. The home for your heart.

He doesn't want to be merely a weekend getaway. He has no interest in being a Sunday bungalow or even a summer cottage. He wants to be your mailing address, your point of reference, your home...always. He wants you to live in the Great House of God.

Using the Lord's Prayer as a floor plan, bestselling author Max Lucado takes you on a tour of the home God intended for you. Warm your heart by the fire in the living room. Nourish your spirit in the kitchen. Seek fellowship in the family room. Step into the hallway and find forgiveness.

It's the perfect home for you. After all, it was created with you in mind. There's only one home built just for your heart. No house more complete, no structure more solid.

The roof never leaks. The walls never crack. The foundation never trembles.

In God's house, you're "home." So come into the house built just for you. Your father is waiting.

Need I say anything on this book? Really? 

It's Max Lucado. 

Brilliant as always. 

(I mean, literally. ALWAYS). 

This book is full of beautiful analogies that smack you right between the eyes, words that are more poetic than novel-like, and just and overwhelming sense of grace. 

I think my favorite part about it (besides all of it) was where Lucado talks about the plane. No one asks you if you have the ability to fly, they rely solely on the fact that the plane you're riding CAN and WILL fly. Our can'ts mean nothing when we rely on a God that can. 

The Great House of God (YOU, by the way) is a brilliant book. Just as, if not more, brilliant than all Lucado's other books. It talks about your heart being Christ's home. "God doesn't want to be your weekend getaway, he wants to be your mailing address, your point of reference, your HOME." 

Do I recommend this? Yes. A thousand times, yes. I recommend you read this book and any other book Max has ever written. 

BookSneeze has provided Of Cabbages and Kings with a free copy of this book for an unbiased review.