05/15/12
What is it about books?
by Livia Quinn
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Name: Livia Quinn
Email: liviaquinnwrites@gmail.com
Site: http://www.liviaquinn.com
About: Livia left the wild city life of D.C. for a different kind of 'wild'life on the Louisiana bayou where she writes about magical, passionate, unseen worlds, and love that knows no boundaries. "Stories should have all the drama of real life without the bad endings, because we need to believe in possibilities and happy endings."See Authors Posts (38)
How often have you been asked this question. “What’s so good about reading?” It’s usually from someone who doesn’t know the joy of reading.
It might have even been a family member or your spouse. My DH will only read if it’s a shoot em up or he’s totally out of options. Can you imagine a life without books?
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04/10/12
The Phenomena Continues…
by Livia QuinncloseAuthor: Livia Quinn
Name: Livia Quinn
Email: liviaquinnwrites@gmail.com
Site: http://www.liviaquinn.com
About: Livia left the wild city life of D.C. for a different kind of 'wild'life on the Louisiana bayou where she writes about magical, passionate, unseen worlds, and love that knows no boundaries. "Stories should have all the drama of real life without the bad endings, because we need to believe in possibilities and happy endings."See Authors Posts (38)
Last Sunday Cadence and I took in Hunger Games at the movies. I felt guilty for leaving work and thought maybe I should skip the previews. I’m glad I didn’t.! There were two or three upcoming events that caught my attention but I was surprised and immensely pleased to see one movie – Dark Shadows – being remade with some hilarious quirky twists.
Like so many of my friends in high school, I raced home everyday I didn’t have an after school activity to see the ABC soap opera, Dark Shadows starring Jonathan Frid, as Barnabas Collins of Collinsport, Maine and virtual unknown, Alexandra Moltke, as Victoria Winters.
Here are some things you may not know – I didn’t until I did the research for this blog…
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03/27/12
Visualizing Characters
by Livia QuinncloseAuthor: Livia Quinn
Name: Livia Quinn
Email: liviaquinnwrites@gmail.com
Site: http://www.liviaquinn.com
About: Livia left the wild city life of D.C. for a different kind of 'wild'life on the Louisiana bayou where she writes about magical, passionate, unseen worlds, and love that knows no boundaries. "Stories should have all the drama of real life without the bad endings, because we need to believe in possibilities and happy endings."See Authors Posts (38)
There are “favorites” and then there are “keepers”. A bona fide “keeper” to me is one I go back to; a book I have a physical pristine copy of and a “study” copy of on my bookshelf. If I’m forced to move in a hurry, the “keepers” go with. A “keeper” is one of those books I’d like to analyze from a writing standpoint, but I’m sucked in every time.
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03/14/12
Phenomenon Schmomenon
by Livia QuinncloseAuthor: Livia Quinn
Name: Livia Quinn
Email: liviaquinnwrites@gmail.com
Site: http://www.liviaquinn.com
About: Livia left the wild city life of D.C. for a different kind of 'wild'life on the Louisiana bayou where she writes about magical, passionate, unseen worlds, and love that knows no boundaries. "Stories should have all the drama of real life without the bad endings, because we need to believe in possibilities and happy endings."See Authors Posts (38)
Phenomenon - a fact or situation that is observed to exist or happen, esp. one whose cause or explanation is in question; a remarkable person, thing, or event.
Whether it’s a phenomenon in your own backyard or a worldwide event, the odd, unexplainable, and seriously absurd continue to amaze and entertain us. Spiderman, Ax Men, Swamp Men – one thing these phenonmenon have in common is exaggeration. Filmed just south of here, Swamp Men was a fascination for friends in Maryland at Christmas, and a joke to our local fishermen last weekend.
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02/23/12
The Art of Saving an Institution
by Livia QuinncloseAuthor: Livia Quinn
Name: Livia Quinn
Email: liviaquinnwrites@gmail.com
Site: http://www.liviaquinn.com
About: Livia left the wild city life of D.C. for a different kind of 'wild'life on the Louisiana bayou where she writes about magical, passionate, unseen worlds, and love that knows no boundaries. "Stories should have all the drama of real life without the bad endings, because we need to believe in possibilities and happy endings."See Authors Posts (38)
Library funding comes up every year and as always their value is vastly underrated. How many people would go to the lengths this person did to benefit the needs of Scottish libraries?
Dragon nesting in the egg
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01/30/12
Lessons from the Greatest Game in the World – Football
by Livia QuinncloseAuthor: Livia Quinn
Name: Livia Quinn
Email: liviaquinnwrites@gmail.com
Site: http://www.liviaquinn.com
About: Livia left the wild city life of D.C. for a different kind of 'wild'life on the Louisiana bayou where she writes about magical, passionate, unseen worlds, and love that knows no boundaries. "Stories should have all the drama of real life without the bad endings, because we need to believe in possibilities and happy endings."See Authors Posts (38)
(Alix, hehe, even a cat can do it, eh?)
My favorite season ends this Sunday with the SuperBowl. And even though my home teams, the Saints, Redskins, and Ravens won’t be going, I still love the games up to the last day and have a hard time even turning off Mike and Mike in the morning. No, that’s not a kids show. 
As I write this, I’m watching the ProBowl, saying “till next year” to the best players of 2012. A couple of my favorite metaphors came from watching reruns of the old SuperBowls yesterday. “Man, put some extra sauce on that pigskin,” and while making a goal line stance the commentator said, “Now, they just need to put on their big boy huggies…” Well you get the picture. Now don’t go switching channels yet, there’s a point to all this football talk.
In a season that defined itself by players like Tim Tebow, I found myself appreciating how some of our favorite themes are played out in some of the less conspicuous moments – player struggles, losses, injuries and by some powerful egos. (My daddy who took me to Redskins games when I was growing up, would have been horrified at the depths to which O.J. sunk) Love it, hate it or care less, there’s something for all of us in the most popular sport in the world.
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01/30/12
Fire In My Blood
by Livia QuinncloseAuthor: Livia Quinn
Name: Livia Quinn
Email: liviaquinnwrites@gmail.com
Site: http://www.liviaquinn.com
About: Livia left the wild city life of D.C. for a different kind of 'wild'life on the Louisiana bayou where she writes about magical, passionate, unseen worlds, and love that knows no boundaries. "Stories should have all the drama of real life without the bad endings, because we need to believe in possibilities and happy endings."See Authors Posts (38)
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01/27/12
An anniversary interview with Leah Braemel
by Livia QuinncloseAuthor: Livia Quinn
Name: Livia Quinn
Email: liviaquinnwrites@gmail.com
Site: http://www.liviaquinn.com
About: Livia left the wild city life of D.C. for a different kind of 'wild'life on the Louisiana bayou where she writes about magical, passionate, unseen worlds, and love that knows no boundaries. "Stories should have all the drama of real life without the bad endings, because we need to believe in possibilities and happy endings."See Authors Posts (38)
It’s a week for anniversaries. On January 25, 2009, I interviewed Leah Braemel, my 
first critique partner, on the almost eve of her first published book, Private Property, which released on January 27th with Samhain Publishing. We met through a Margie Lawson online workshop on Deep Editing and became fast, long-distance friends. She lives in Ontario while I’m in bayou country – Louisiana. Back then she was working on a paranormal shapeshifter story, and I was working on a romantic suspense with paranormal elements. My how things change!
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12/29/11
High hopes for 2012
by Livia QuinncloseAuthor: Livia Quinn
Name: Livia Quinn
Email: liviaquinnwrites@gmail.com
Site: http://www.liviaquinn.com
About: Livia left the wild city life of D.C. for a different kind of 'wild'life on the Louisiana bayou where she writes about magical, passionate, unseen worlds, and love that knows no boundaries. "Stories should have all the drama of real life without the bad endings, because we need to believe in possibilities and happy endings."See Authors Posts (38)
I say I have high hopes for 2012 but I held the same for 2011. Unfortunately, like that saying “we make our plans, God has the last word” things didn’t go quite the way I expected.
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12/28/11
Guest: Muser Alix Rickloff
by Livia QuinncloseAuthor: Livia Quinn
Name: Livia Quinn
Email: liviaquinnwrites@gmail.com
Site: http://www.liviaquinn.com
About: Livia left the wild city life of D.C. for a different kind of 'wild'life on the Louisiana bayou where she writes about magical, passionate, unseen worlds, and love that knows no boundaries. "Stories should have all the drama of real life without the bad endings, because we need to believe in possibilities and happy endings."See Authors Posts (38)
I’m thrilled to interview one of our very own Musers, Alix Rickloff, whose book, Heir of Danger is being released today! Alix has been one of my favorite authors since I read Dangerous as Sin, and yes, she really is as nice as she looks.
Alix grew up with a family tree that included a knight who fought during the Wars of the Roses (his brass rubbing hangs in her dining room), and a soldier who sided with Charles I during the English Civil War (hence the family’s hasty emigration to America). With ancestors like that, who wouldn’t be inspired?
Alix turned this fascination with British history along with her love of storytelling to good use. She began writing, releasing her first historical-paranormal in 2007. Her books have been described as “sexy and intense”, “exciting and spellbinding” and “a universe you won’t ever wish to leave”.
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