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To help promote literacy and imagination, in the spirit of the holiday, we have a giveaway promotion for our affiliate's new novella. Inspired by Dolly Partonand her Dolly Parton's Imagination Library we realize that there is nothing more important than reading, and we value your help in spreading the news. TO QUALIFY: You must Download and Review the Novella on the iTunes Store & Share on your Facebook page. After you finish send us a message and we will enter your name! We have 4 $5 Starbucks Gift Cards Available to Win!!! Thank You Mrs. Dolly Parton for being such an awe-inspiring beacon of hope, joy & imagination!
FREE iTUNES BOOK - The Mermaid's Key: A Novella
The legends are real, partly. Atargatis, the first mermaid, was an ancient witch thrown into the sea by the hostile and fearful townspeople who didn’t understand the magic they knew and sensed. What they didn’t see was the consequences of their actions, Atargatis’ use of magic and the creation of the mermaid with all of its magical abilities. Centuries later Ariana, a young daughter of the clan leader, lives her life in torment, torn between her love of everything under the ocean and the beauty of the boundless sky above. She discovers Theodore, a human, and falls so much in love that she can’t fathom a life without him - an ideal that she will go to any length to stand by. What you think you know is but a small part of a much larger story, one that before now has never been told. Love is simply a transfer of energy from one of us to another, all of us connected in a web that we simply label “The Universe.” Love and sacrifice have consequences, some which can never be foreseen.

The Mermaid's Key: A Novella

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“The Mermaid’s Key” Synopsis:

After his grandfather Theo’s passing, James sets about clearing and cleaning up his grandfather’s belongings before the estate sale when he runs into something peculiar. A box made of shells, worn shut with time, and hidden in the dark recesses of the past. The contents: a key, a brass heart, a journal and letters that leave behind a glimpse into a part of his grandfather’s life that James never expected - a world of ancient magic, witches and wizards, mermaids and a love story strong enough to break any heart. The legends are real, partly. Atargatis, the first mermaid, was an ancient witch thrown into the sea by the hostile and fearful townspeople who didn’t understand the magic they knew and sensed. What they didn’t see was the consequences of their actions, Atargatis’ use of magic and the creation of the mermaid with all of its magical abilities. Centuries later Ariana, a young daughter of the clan leader, lives her life in torment, torn between her love of everything under the ocean and the beauty of the boundless sky above. She discovers Theodore, a human, and falls so much in love that she can’t fathom a life without him - an ideal that she will go to any length to stand by. What you think you know is but a small part of a much larger story, one that before now has never been told. Love is simply a transfer of energy from one of us to another, all of us connected in a web that we simply label “The Universe.” Love and sacrifice have consequences, some which can never be foreseen.

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Joyful: The Pursuit of Life Is On The Road

As life propels forward so do I, and as time moves at a staggering speed so do I. To keep up with all the craziness and times and continue to keep Joy in the forefront of my life I have chosen to, for now, use joyfulthepursuitoflife.tumblr.com to help me post daily what I see that causes me Joy. Please, I ask and encourage you to follow me and continue to live a life of Joy. Thank you for reading, if you are - I am so grateful, my only purpose is to help others see the Joy in their own lives. Thank you and check out my new Tumblr.

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Joy In Everything Around Us

Lately I have been consumed by work and stress and life and I have been too caught up to write. It had been killing me. So I stated again. This poem is about the statue of a brass mermaid that is on my nightstand next to my bed. Ever since I got it over a year ago I have had some insane connection with it. Then the other day, in this awesome obscure antique shop i found this clamshell brass key. It was just to perfect. It has started as a poem, and will grow, has already, into so much more. :)

Find Joy in the things that you really connect with and keep them around you, let them inspire  you. When something speaks to you it is because the universe is trying to tell you something. Try listening for once. You'd be amazed at what you find. 

Mermaid's Key - Found, but Not Lost Or Forgotten

The Prayer of a Mermaid's Tale

The pressure to just be, was more than she could take 

Was more than she could bear, more than she could stand, more than she could tolerate.

Above dreary waves she dreamed of being, of feeling, of loving most of all

Giving up a piece of her sou; I can feel the yearning in her glance, the pierce of her gaze

“Dear Universe,” She must dream, “My Soul, my heart, my very being is torn from within.

Free me of this prison of not so happenstance; let me go and let me free.”

The ancient metal key she wore around her neck, purposefully hidden there in the beautiful strands of her hair and other jewelry,

Was more than just the precious thing it stood to for her; a world lost forever to her, but also a pining love that is eternally lost but not quite forgotten.

“Or forever keep me here; a sculpted figure of brass, a mere treasure now

Only a keepsake, a flash of something once grand and majestic

Something of such happenstance.”

So like this mermaid we must always try to be; filled with the courage of living hope that thrives there waiting under the sea

Dear Universe, We pray, give us the strength to love as freely and as deeply as she. 

Just as she, the little mermaid under the sea, willing to give up all to gain the love of her dreams

To sacrifice all, to fulfill her destiny, she swam waters unknown

May that we find the same end of fountains fulfilled and waters traversed. 

The Brass Mermaid

It has been so long it feels, since I have seen joy in the world around me. It's been only a few months but it feels like lifetimes because the impacts are the same either way. Here is just a preview of sow thing to come. Some works I have done on things that have brought me joy. Tonight I wanted to share the first inspiration, my little brass yearning mermaid. COMING SOON: what makes that rapturous glance so captivating and so achingly deep.