Afraid to Live and Afraid to Die...

My title thought hit me out of the blue a few days ago. How many of us don't live like we want because of our own fears yet we aren't ready to die either? Ironic indeed.

What, exactly, is the problem with our mental hard wiring? Why do we allow outsiders who are unknown/contribute nothing to our well-being to control our destiny? Why get all bent out of shape when you get a bad review. Consider the source, evaluate whether the content is worthy and realistic but don't let words written by a "shadow human" stop your show.

My mother was a fearful woman. She always told me I could do anything, yet she was afraid to do almost anything unless I pushed her. I wanted her to try so many things but she died having never flown, ridden a cruise boat or traveled outside of the country. Vacations were always long driving events. Fly and lay around in a hotel and chill? Uh uh. Wasn't gonna happen. If you didn't have an agenda, you were wasting your time, her time and that was NOT allowed.

I oftentimes now wonder where her fears came from and why she allowed them to hold her back. But I also know she couldn't have always been this fearful. My uncles told me stories of her riding horses, working with animals. In fact, she had a scar where she fell from a horse. Where was THIS mama as I grew up? I never saw her. I think she lived her adventures through me since I love challenges and would jump into a situation without a parachute in a heartbeat.

But one thing I do know, writer's you can't be afraid to live the life you want. Somebody is, so why NOT you? Because when you die, unlike money, you CAN take those great stories with you.

Think about it.

I May be the next candidate for the Witness Protection Program...LOL

Why?

Well, it all started around 6:30 AM on my radio show You Don't Know Jack!

Carol and I had author, Dennis Griffin, who just happened to have written a book entitled Cullotta, based on the real life mafia crime figure, Frank Cullotta.

At ~6:35 and 45 seconds, give or talk, is when the fun really began...

It seems that Frank is alive and well BUT in the Witness Protection Program AND Frank sometimes shows up with Dennis at his book signings AND Frank currently has a standing contract on his life. Now I didn't know all this very essential-need-to-know information when I asked Dennis if he'd like to do a joint book signing...

OK, Is this wild or what???

Dennis even hosts Mafia tours in Las Vegas AND he and Frank jump on occassionally to the thrill of the customers. I can see the tour bus exploding just after Carol and I buy our tickets.

Check out this photo of Dennis. He looks like a mafioso himself, huh?

Anywho, join me at www.blogtalkradio.com/sydneymolare to hear what Dennis has to say about possibly getting "whacked" and other good stuff. He also will join us this Sunday @ 2pm EST for the "Books Instead" on You Don't Know Jack!

Pray that we didn't reveal any info to the bad guys....

Can't say we don't keep it interesting... LOL

The Sexiest Man Alive author, Diana Holquist

I had the great pleasure to host Diana on You Don't Know Jack's radio show. I'm sure you guys will enjoy her just as much as I did...

I love to write. That’s pretty much all I do. Ask my family about the undone laundry, the un-bought groceries, and the fact that I rarely find time to get dressed in the morning. Actually, if you train your family right, they won’t notice any of these things. "Popcorn for dinner again, mom! Cool," say my filthy children. God bless them, they don’t know what panty hose are.

Oh, my poor husband.What else do you want to know about me? I love kids. I love cats. I love chocolate. (Not necessarily in that order.) I live outside of Philadelphia now with my husband, two kids, and one cat.


You can visit Diana's website at http://www.dianaholquist.com/


SEXIEST MAN ALIVE

Synopsis:

Jasmine Burns has always wanted to know the name of her one true love. Her sister Amy is a psychic who can read the name of a person's true love, but she's always refused to tell Jasmine hers...until one day Amy needs Jasmine’s help bad.

When Amy finally gives it the name, Jasmine can't believe it. How is it possible that her one true love is People Magazine's SEXIEST MAN ALIVE, one of the biggest box office movie stars around, and a fixture on the red carpet? Shy by nature, Jasmine envisioned warm nights spent cuddling in front of the tv with her beloved, not the frightening flash of a paparazzo's camera as he chases her down the street. This can't be true!

For once in his life, Josh Toby wants to be taken seriously as an actor. He's sick of playing either the boy toy or the action star—he wants parts he can sink his teeth into. So he's done the scariest thing he can imagine—he's accepted a part on Broadway in "Romeo and Juliet". The problem: no one can know it's him or it will turn into the second coming of the Beatles.

The solution: an undercover disguise at the hands of budding fashion designer Jasmine Burns, the most charming, genuine, and delightfully eccentric woman he's ever met.Before long, chemistry sizzles between the shy wallflower and the most recognizable movie star in the world. But can true love really blossom between two polar opposites?

Check out the trailer: YouTube

Guest blogger- Michael Simon

I hope everyone's holiday was wonderful! Today, we have author, Michael Simon dropping in. Michael is the author of four novels, the latest being The Last Jew Standing. Visit his site at http://www.michaelsimon.info/.

Living with Your Main Character
By Michael Simon

As the fourth of my Dan Reles novels gets launched into the universe, I think back on how Dan came into my life. I was a struggling New York playwright, hoping to buy fame, fortune, and more important, immortality, by writing a crime thriller. I had no trouble finding secondary characters for the book, villains and colleagues often modeled on my co-workers in the probation office in Austin. Neighbors and stoolies and girlfriends.

But a main character is harder. He has to be vivid, and also three-dimensional. Distinct, but dynamic, changeable.

For many of the supporting characters, I had an image in mind, often a real-life acquaintance, just as often an actor, a face and a voice onto which I could graft a personality of my own creation. (Torbett was played in my mind by the actor Joe Morton.)

But the main character was harder. I knew he’d be with me all the time, for years.

So I started with the old acting technique, the magic “if.” To get to the character, I imagined what I would be like, if I were living under his circumstances.

To start, I’d be about three inches taller, an even six feet. I’d have broad shoulders, and an extra seventy pounds of muscle. Instead of being stooped with the posture of someone who spends his life in front of a computer, I’d be stooped with a boxer’s musculature. And I could punch. And I’d have the power of arrest. And a gun.

Dan’s mother left when he was ten, leaving him in the care of his emotionally distant ex-con father. So I’d be tough, jaded, and damaged.

An image came to mind, far enough from me that I could see him. A cross between, say, Nicolas Cage and Adrian Brodie. He developed a speech rhythm. He became real.

He lived in my brain for nine years.

Michael was also my guest at You Don't Know Jack blog and radio show. Visit: www.youdontknowjack.blogsavy.com and www.blogtalkradio.com/sydneymolare to read and listen to more Michael.

Talk to your food? Intuitive Cooking with author Dyan Garris!

Hello everyone. Today we have a guest, author/clairvoyant Dyan Garris, whose latest release in her Voices of the Angels series is: Talk to your Food: Intuitive Cooking.

For many years, Dyan Garris has been counseling clients in order to help them positively move forward in their lives. She is clairvoyant, clairsentient, and clairaudient. In addition, Dyan is also what is known as a voice recognition psychic and trance channel. This means that she can help her clients via phone, which is how she conducted her readings throughout her career.

Growing up in Illinois, Dyan became aware of her clairvoyance, and other gifts, at a very young age. She spent years learning how to appropriately use these gifts for good and to help others.In 2005 she created a CD series of music and meditation for self-healing, relaxation, chakra balancing, and vibrational attunement. Her interest in music began as a child. A blind piano teacher taught her to “feel” music and “see” through different eyes and influenced her at a young age. Dyan continued her music studies with the violin. Through the violin, she learned how easily music vibrates throughout the body and, hence, all of the chakras. This was her first lesson of how the power of music and sound could be used for healing.

New Age recording artist and creator of a music and meditation CD series for vibrational attunement, Dyan Garris is the author of the innovative cookbook, Voice of the Angels Cookbook – Talk To Your Food! – Intuitive Cooking. This is not just an ordinary cookbook. The artist calls it an adventure in opening one's creative centers.“Intuitive cooking is listening to your inner voice and hearing what your body wants to be fed,” explains Garris. “Communicate with your food so that it can transform from raw ingredients into what nourishes you on every level. We all have the ability to create that which resonates for us in a complete, healthy way. It’s vibrational attunement of mind, body and spirit using food, rather than sound frequency, as in my CD series. This does not necessarily translate into lettuce and tofu,” she continues. “You learn to make what your body wants in a loving and delicious way. My goal is to teach people to feed not only the body, but the mind and spirit, as well. Turn ordinary food into something special. Talk to it!”

The cookbook is available at the author’s website: http://www.voiceoftheangels.com/, where Garris posts an inspirational Daily Channeled Message.

The cookbook includes twelve channeled messages, such as, "The Secret Recipe of Life," “Ode to Popcorn," and numerous "Intuitively Speaking" paragraphs .The book comes with a warning: This is real food! A variety of original recipes are included, from sinfully rich “Love Bars," to "Healing Soup," easy fish recipes, and skillet suppers, incorporating enticing blends of colors and flavors. The author's Greek heritage shines through in such recipes as "Easy Baklava Roll-Ups."Garris learned to cook from her grandmother. “She didn’t measure anything! I would ask, ‘How much?’ She replied, ‘Some.’ ” This fueled Garris’ curiosity about food preparation. Her family’s restaurateur background allowed Garris to further develop her culinary skills. “I’ve been talking to my food for as long as I can remember!”

It's coming...

Satisfy Me Again (978-0758221919 )

Folks, it is with pleasure that I announce my upcoming anthology novella, Satisfy Me Again, will be released December 2007!

My novella, Matinee, also known as book 2 of this anthology is my first paranormal work. I truly enjoyed how I stretched my imagination forming the various characters in this story.

Here is a quick synopsis:

Mina Sinclair has witnessed a mob shooting AND the mob knows who she is and where she lives. She is quite aware of this once the "stranger" shows up at her house requesting that she be quiet, avoid the police and a suitcase full of cash for "any inconveniences." Mina wasn't slow. She knew hush-hush money when she saw it...and she also knew the mob had a short memory. No gentleman's deal was valid when they saw fit to change the terms.

Mina took the loot and hot-footed it out of town, ending up in St. Paulus, a small logging community. Of course, she had no job, no clothes and no transportation. But she did have a good bit of money--even if it was dirty--that she could put towards her dream: Owning her own business. After juggling the figures, that dream transitioned into: Finding a place she could live and work.

As luck had it, there was an empty building in St. Paulus--an old XXX theater. Mina felt the building had "good bones" and bought it immediately. Of course the mind-blowing orgasm she had in the film room probably had something to do with it.

What Mina doesn't know is the old theater is inhabited by its former owners--John and Cal. They've been cooped inside the walls for thirty plus years...and are horny as hell. The Reinitiation into Sex, aided by an unsuspecting Mina, has them jubilant...as well as upping the ante.

Join Mina, John and Cal for this hot, illicit and ethereal ride.