Waiting Women Poem

My poem, Waiting Women, is up at my website, www.authorsden.com/laurellamperd as a free read.

I wrote the poem from a Japanese print by Harunobu displayed at Claude Monet paintings and Japanese prints exhibition held at the Perth Art Gallery some years ago. Monet was interested in Japanese prints, some which he owned and kept in his private collection.

Waiting Women [excerpt]

She saw the young woman

Seated next to a lamp.
A painting by Harunobu.
And knew it was her
Waiting for her lover.

The poem has been re-published again in the WA poetry download magazine http://creatrix.wapoets.net.au
Perhaps you might like to read it there with poetry from other WA poets.

I used another Japanese print for the cover of my short story and poetry book available for download at www.kobobooks.com and other download sites. In this one, a woman is sitting at a loom.

Sonybooks.com is up for sale

When I tried to find Laurel's latest novel at Sonybooks.com I discovered the site is up for sale.
I wonder what has happened to all of the ebooks there. When I did the search for Laurel's Journey from Walara I was directed onto the web to look from there.

I wonder if the authors have been notified. Has this been in the media?

Here is the link to Laurel's Journey from Walara 

This ebook is only $3.99. Might be wise to get it while you can, since the Sony site will soon disappear.

New Books Published

Looking for an interesting book to read? You can't go past http://museituppublishing.com/

New novels just published.

Rosalie's Skinner's fourth book in her saga Exiled: Battle for Enderseer Hold

The Man in the Boat by Cheryl B Dale

Nic Brown's A Grave St. Patrick's Day

Earrings of Ixtumea - Kim Baccellia

Balance by Peter Giglis

Read about the books on http://wendylaharnar.blogspot.com/

Wendy Laharnar's latest book is, Billy the Bonsai Bull

Download from Kindle books   & Smashwords

My latest book, Journey from Walara, the second book in the Hennessy family saga is available for download at http://www.sonybooks.com/

It is WW Two. Danny and Will, the two sons of Jack Hennessy, are off to fight for king and country leaving Jack to manage Walara, the huge Hennessy sheep property in Western Australia.

Riva's Quest by Sue Perkins

This is an unusual way to promote a book - the YA author, Sue Perkins, interviews Riva, the main character in her book. Check out the rest of the interview at

http://wendylaharnar.blogspot.com.au/

Author of The Unhewn Stone

Riva's Quest by Sue Perkins available at Amazon Kindle and MuseItUp Publishing.

Riva's father's job moves them from place to place meaning she frequently changes schools and consequently has no friends. At every school she attends friendships have been in place for years and there is no room for a new girl to join in. Reva withdraws to her imagination and begins to write about the magical world of Fey

Reva: It was funny really. I'd been writing a fantasy book about the land of Fey. Then one night Fey came to life.

Sue: How do you mean "came to life"?

Reva: We hadn't had time to tidy up the garden since we moved in and I'd found a garden gnome half buried in the bottom of the garden. That night the gnome knocked on my window and told me to come with him.

Sue: A garden gnome spoke to you? That's weird. Did you? Go with him I mean.

Reva: Of course I did. Who wouldn't when it provided a bit of excitement in my boring life. His name was Gareth and he took me through the scummy pond where he usually fished. When we came out the other side we were in Fey. Read More

Download The Rainbow Children by Laurel Lamperd at Smashwords

Carole Sutton, her latest book, Flash Harry, gives an idea of how she writes her thrillers. How do you write your books? The rest of Carole's interview can be viewed on www.siriuspress.com/interviews

TB: Can you describe your writing process?

CS: A bit disorganized, I’m afraid. I don’t start writing until I have a plot in mind and know how it starts and roughly how it’s going to end, though that tends to change as I progress. I set the plot up with a prologue to start with. If nothing else, that anchors me and gives me a flying start. I make a few notes on each chapter as I come to them on what I want to cover in that chapter so I can monitor how the story is moving forward. I am not a blank screen person – I can’t sit there and wait for the writing to appear. If the muse isn’t working I go off and do something boring, like housework, or ironing—tidying my office doesn’t seem to work!

TB: To what degree are your fictional characters based in reality?

CS: None of my characters are based on any real person, but they do have to be realistic, and recognizably human, as I don’t write fantasy. The good characters have to have some flaws that make them human. And even the bad guy might have loved his mother or something else in his lifetime, so he can’t be all bad. I’m blessed (or cursed) with the devil’s advocate mind. It has caused me much trouble in discussions in the past, but now I find it helpful in giving depth to my characters because I can see both sides of just about any argument.

                                                   Desert country inland Western Australia

Read free short story Woman in the Blue Dress on www.authorsden,com/laurellamperd & http://laurellamperdwriter.webs.com

What happens when a young man marries an older woman for her money.

Marlene first noticed the woman because she wore the same blue dress as she did. The woman even wore a pearl choker like her. 

She didn't worry seeing another woman in the same dress. In fact, she felt pleased someone had liked it enough to wear. Charles hadn't liked it. He didn't like any of her clothes. He said she'd have to acquire a better dress sense now he was a politician.

She sat by herself in the corner of the room, ignored by the partygoers chatting vivaciously in groups. She hated going with Charles to parties which all the rich and well known attended but she had to because of his position.

She glimpsed him through the crowd talking to a tall blond woman near the double glass doors leading onto the terrace. He looked very handsome. She was proud of him. He was forty-five and looked thirty.

How do you keep your blog interesting. You might find a few ideas from this excerpt of Susan Bearman contribution to Write It Sideways blog. susannah@writeitsideways.com

Demonstrate your best writing in every post. This is essential. Your blog may be the first exposure a potential reader (or agent or publisher) has to your writing, so do a good job. Think through your post. Make sure you have a beginning, a middle, and an end. Proofread before you post. Better yet, ask a picky friend to proofread for you. Correct mistakes immediately.

If you don’t have anything to say, don’t say it in a post. A stale blog is pointless, but a boring blog is deadly. Keep it fresh by posting regularly, and keep it interesting. Be on the lookout for good ideas. You keep a notebook with you at all times, right? (Your smart phone works just as well.) Start a list of possible posts right now.

A great way to keep your blog fresh is to write several posts at a time and schedule them in advance. For example, write three posts over the weekend and schedule them to go up on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. Once you start writing, you tend to get into a groove. Writing online usually works better when it’s short, anyway, so you don’t need to worry about writing three chapters of War and Peace every weekend; 200-400 words is plenty.