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Tuesday, July 17, 2012
FREE DOWNLOAD OF DISCOVERY-An Anthology of Poetry ** THURSDAY JULY 26th ONLY
A week from Thursday there will be a FREE BOOK LAUNCH on Facebook of poetry starting at midnight PST on July 26th. You're invited to the virtual party with...
- FREE contest with one $10 Amazon.com gift card to give away to the best answer (what made you smile today?). NOTHING TO BUY.
- FREE downloads of DISCOVERY-An Anthology of Poetry ALL DAY.
- A VIRTUAL COFFEEHOUSE right from the 1950s with BEATNIKS, POETRY READINGS NEVER HEARD BEFORE, virtual BLACK COFFEE, virtual RED WINE, virtual TAPAS, CHECKERS, CHESS, JAZZ AND DANCING.
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- This FREE LAUNCH is co-sponsored by my Indie publishers, Authors for a Cause, from Michigan, USA.
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SpaceHive - A Taste of Honey
Banter frowned. "I'll be sad, Zibb, to leave this haven of flowers, honey and sparkling waters."
"Me too. But it isn't a haven for many of our friends to the west, east and north. They're too crowded. Not enough to eat. Not like us, living close to the palace."
"Living close to our queen Selera. And she, poor dear, is old and sluggish, and listens too much to that horrible wasp, General Vard."
"The general says a new queen must travel with us to guide and reign over our species on the new soil." Zibb glanced at her smaller cousin Bipp. "Well, our old queen's endurance has seen her through the challenges of many rival daughter queens so far, lying now in tombs of wax with the queen's spike driven through their bodies."
To prepare the way, the royal jelly, culled from the milk glands of the nurse bees, would now be fed to the larva, who would then become a new queen.
The nurses often entertained the junior worker bees with a ditty.
Bzzzzz…ZAP! Honor the queen.
Bzzzzz…wake the hungry general.
Bzzzzz…he's black and full of poison.
Bzzzzz…ZAP! Hear us scream.
The song made everyone uneasy but was a source of amusement to the old nurses. There were other verses too. The bees loved song and dance.
Young Bipp brushed her fuzzy body with a barbed digit. "How will we know when we're leaving?"
"We won't, until the general tells us," Zibb said.
Bipp sighed. "Why can't we dance like we used to?"
"We all love to dance." Banter glanced at the hills where the Black Watch lived. "But there's more serious business now, little Cousin. We'll dance like nobody's going to die. But it won't be the joyful experience it always was for us."
"What? Killing the people of Earth so we might populate their planet?" Bipp drummed her digits on her bulging yellow abdomen. "That seems like a happy occasion to the general."
READ THE LAUNCH ON AUGUST 10, 2012!!!!
READ THE LAUNCH ON AUGUST 10, 2012!!!!
Monday, July 16, 2012
LAUNCH PARTY PREVIEW
Come to my LAUNCH PARTY on Facebook at midnight on FRIDAY, AUGUST 10th! Someone will win a $10 Amazon gift card for entering, answer a simple question (What made you smile today?), see great honey recipes, learn facts about Bees and Wasps, drink mead and eat honeycakes. Dance like nobody's watching but everybody's watching because it's my SpaceHive Launch Party!
Have a GREAT time on August 10th!
See you then.
As a swarm of spaceships make a beeline toward Earth, Jason must convince two friendly worker bees to help him escape his space prison and find other humans to aid in his mission to stop the invasion. But General Vard, wasp commander of the Death Watch, has other plans.
Can Jason unite the nations of Earth in their common fight to destroy these alien invaders? Or will Earth be lost to the sting of conspiracy and a worldwide massacre?
Have a GREAT time on August 10th!
See you then.
Saturday, July 14, 2012
Relocating bees in California, zombie roaches and wasps, and we're buzzing with news
There's been a buzz about bees in the news lately. A man found 50,000 bees in the walls of his house in California. They were relocated by Mike, a humane bee worker who doesn't exterminate the winged critters but vacuums them into boxes and introduces them to a new home, hopefully in the country or a tree where they'd be more welcome.Bees in China have apparently been poisoned; as well, our own honeybees have been in the news over the past few years for the same reason.
Little known facts about bees? Watch this space in future.
Bees are not wasps. Read about the difference.
Watch out for the General. He's a mean wasp, and threatens earth with extinction.
It might be we had it coming!
What do you think? Is mankind the top of creation or would you give that honor to the insects who might survive long after we're gone? Watch how this jewel wasp turns roaches into zombies and lays its eggs in the roach.
Meanwhile, we're BUZZING WITH NEWS...
READ "SPACEHIVE" TO BE RELEASED ON KINDLE KDP SELECT AUGUST 10th and in TRADE PAPERBACK SEPTEMBER 1st, 2012!!!
Sample of SpaceHive - Wet Your Whistle
Earth was in danger.
Jealous eyes gazed toward our Sun from a planet called Jive Hive in another star system, black compound eyes that peered without compassion as though we were flies caught on sticky paper ready for the fire.
The first of their suns was setting as blood orange light spilled into the valley. Three female worker bees, two over seven feet tall and the other not quite five feet, sat under a purple-flowered tree, sorting through various flowers.
"We can't go on like this much longer," Banter said. "There are too many of us. The hive has to find a new home. The Black Watch wasps, vicious as they are, know what they're doing. They've been scanning the skies for hundreds of years. And keeping a check on our population."
She sat next to her cousins, Zibb and Bipp. They had worked all day collecting pollen for their hive. Now they rested and talked of the Imperative—to colonize. The whole Jive Hive planet was abuzz with the news.
"Yes,” Zibb agreed. "The queen said this one is a plum ripe for the picking and only eight light years away. It'll be a brand new adventure for us. A new Jive Hive. We'll be tired when we arrive. From the long sleep."
"Too bad there are beings there." Banter selected a fresh flower and began culling its nectar.
"Too bad we have to kill them all," Zibb said. "I've heard the new planet's green and warm. I've heard from the wasp scouts that it's abused by its inhabitants, though."
"Their fault then and all the more reason to kill them. We must take it while we can."
Zibb began grooming her cousin. "The migration will be an adventure to be endured before it's ended. They say the trip will take eight years in suspended animation. Then, on arrival, our poor, wasted bodies must prepare for war." She sighed.
"Or negotiation," Banter offered. She picked up another flower.
"Never! Negotiation with General Vard and his black wasps?” Zibb shook her barbs in the air. “The Black Watch wouldn't allow it. No, the Eternity Drive will deliver some of us to an early death once we've arrived on Earth. The humans are said to be a warlike race. I don't think they'll offer to share their planet. And our Black Watch sure won't share it. Earth will be taken by force and the human survivors used for food for the wasps."
Jealous eyes gazed toward our Sun from a planet called Jive Hive in another star system, black compound eyes that peered without compassion as though we were flies caught on sticky paper ready for the fire.
The first of their suns was setting as blood orange light spilled into the valley. Three female worker bees, two over seven feet tall and the other not quite five feet, sat under a purple-flowered tree, sorting through various flowers.
"We can't go on like this much longer," Banter said. "There are too many of us. The hive has to find a new home. The Black Watch wasps, vicious as they are, know what they're doing. They've been scanning the skies for hundreds of years. And keeping a check on our population."
She sat next to her cousins, Zibb and Bipp. They had worked all day collecting pollen for their hive. Now they rested and talked of the Imperative—to colonize. The whole Jive Hive planet was abuzz with the news.
"Yes,” Zibb agreed. "The queen said this one is a plum ripe for the picking and only eight light years away. It'll be a brand new adventure for us. A new Jive Hive. We'll be tired when we arrive. From the long sleep."
"Too bad there are beings there." Banter selected a fresh flower and began culling its nectar.
"Too bad we have to kill them all," Zibb said. "I've heard the new planet's green and warm. I've heard from the wasp scouts that it's abused by its inhabitants, though."
"Their fault then and all the more reason to kill them. We must take it while we can."
Zibb began grooming her cousin. "The migration will be an adventure to be endured before it's ended. They say the trip will take eight years in suspended animation. Then, on arrival, our poor, wasted bodies must prepare for war." She sighed.
"Or negotiation," Banter offered. She picked up another flower.
"Never! Negotiation with General Vard and his black wasps?” Zibb shook her barbs in the air. “The Black Watch wouldn't allow it. No, the Eternity Drive will deliver some of us to an early death once we've arrived on Earth. The humans are said to be a warlike race. I don't think they'll offer to share their planet. And our Black Watch sure won't share it. Earth will be taken by force and the human survivors used for food for the wasps."
CAPS BALLGAME IN EDMONTON SUMMER 2011
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Summertime and the livin' is easy. Caps are bustin' and the baseball is high...Take me out to the ballgame ...buy me some peanuts and Cracker Jack (what's that?), I don't care if I never get back...and it's...
Fifth inning stretch, hotdogs and coke and big soft NY pretzels with salt, and yay, Edmonton has yet another ball team this year to play in Telus Place. Any Edmonton fans out there?
Any baseball fans? Who's your favorite team?
I'm partial to Edmonton, but next to #YEG, I love the Cleveland Indians and the Cincinnati Reds.
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Thursday, July 12, 2012
DISCOVERY - AN ANTHOLOGY OF POETRY RELEASED TODAY
♥♥ My poetry anthology is released this week. Buy for 99 cents today! Kindle Select on amazon. Reviews would be welcome. Please retweet and mention on Facebook. Published by Authors For a Cause, fantastic father and daughter team, Mark and Allison. Check them out, buy their books, send your books to them for great formatting and book covers (they did the cover below for me and the formatting of the poetry book, with much patience and skill).
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