Marjie (Kate N. of The Suddenly Kate Show) has been touring around blogland all this month. She has done quite a few interviews. I asked her if she wanted to do something a little different during her stop here.
I have read the book and am very happy to be able to offer up a review. Stay tuned until the end when you will be treated to something very special, a Flash Fiction offering inspired by one of my stitched pieces!
I know!! OMG!! How cool is that??
The synopsis of the book:
This ebook consists of two short stories,
12 Days
A romantic comedy; a man, a woman, a dog, a challenge, romance, laughter, memories, love & hope.
Young 80
A horror; a young woman, a foggy night, a race home, trapped, scared,
confused, crazy, an old woman, an empty room, a lost love and hope.
12 Days
It only took me about four paragraphs to fall head over
heels for the earnest, but romantically bumbling Ryan. He tries to exercise his
underused charm muscles in preparation for proposing marriage to his girlfriend,
by offering a sweet gesture on each of the 12 days before Christmas. But, Ryan manages
to court disaster with much more success than courting Sarah.
Chocolate, miscues, and a large boxer all threaten the
future of Ryan and Sarah’s happily ever after. Will they even survive the
holidays?
Marjie Myers weaves a fabric striped with hilarious
gaffes and blunders, hemmed at the end by an unexpected twist and a cheeky pun.
Young 80
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| Marjie Myers |
In a rapid change of pace, Marjie Myers tears me out of the
embrace of Ryan and Sarah’s story, to douse me with the chill of Halloween, and
Anna’s late night at the office.
Like the cold fog that rolls in, the suspense of Anna’s midnight walk builds ever darker. As everything
falls apart around her, I don’t know whether to nervously laugh or to cry at
her misfortunes, and at her realization of misplaced priorities.
As the anxiety heightens, Ms. Myers adds another signature
wicked twist that leaves me stunned.
What an enjoyable and entertaining read!
Please check out the book for yourself, here!
Since Kate is an avid stitcher (among many other things), she asked me to send a picture of a favorite piece of my stitching. I sent her a copy of my Joan Elliott fairy round robin. As it turns out, she is a big fan of Joan Elliott, as well.
She looked at my piece and, lo and behold, she wrote an amazing story about it!! I hope you enjoy it as much as I do.
Seven Sisters
There were seven of them, the winged angels, each as
beautiful as the other. They differed slightly but there was no mistaking that
they were sisters and each with their own story to tell.
Sabrina, Sadie, Samira, Sasha, Scarlett, Serena and Sierra.
They had spent most of their lives living under a mulberry
bush just outside The Fairy Ring and it hadn’t been an easy life for them. They
could enter the ring but they were unable to attend gala’s and festivals where
they might meet the one who they would make fairy dust with, they were bullied
and ridiculed by those who lived in The Fairy Ring and were never allowed to
visit their mother.
Life outside the fairy ring meant that they could be seen by
anyone, they were unprotected against being spotted by humans or wildlife, they
were not able to bathe in the morning dew that gave their wings that magical
sparkle and they could never perch atop a toadstool combing their flaxen hair.
Life had not always been like this. There was a
time when
they did live in the fairy ring, when they did all these things that
they could
no longer do, a time when their worries were few. Their mother was the
only
daughter of the Fairy King and he doted on her and had once doted on
them. But she had chosen to stay in the Fairy Ring the day they had
left.
Their father had been the leader of the RFA (Rebel Fairy
Army) when the uprising had begun and they had been cast out to fend for
themselves along with the others who had dared to stand up against the Fairy
King. As children they had resented their father for taking them and plotted
against him, blaming him for anything and everything that didn’t go their way.
But as ungrateful and ruthless as they were their father never lost faith in
them, never loved them any less and always held their trust.
As adults, that they now were, they understood the cause
that he had been fighting for. He had wanted justice, equality and freedom for
all fairies, he wanted the fairy class system abolished and the atrocities to
stop. They stood beside him now looking down at his lifeless body, each vowing
to avenge his death whichever way they knew how.
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Wow!!
Thank you so much, Kate, for giving me the opportunity to play hostess. And thanks for being patient and understanding through my sickness. Feeling much better now.
This was really fun for me, and allowed me to indulge in a few moments of self-importance. Snort!
Thank you so much, Kate, for giving me the opportunity to play hostess. And thanks for being patient and understanding through my sickness. Feeling much better now.
This was really fun for me, and allowed me to indulge in a few moments of self-importance. Snort!
9 comments:
Your RR is a stunning piece of work, well done to all the ladies who stitched on this for you. How very special to have such a lovely story written for such a beautiful piece, it would be nice for each of the ladies to have a written copy of this to keep as a momento of such a fabulous thing.
Wow! A gorgeous RR, with a lovely story written about the piece...Fab!
What a delight to read and I'm in awe of the obvious talent behind such beautiful stitching. On my part I can't sew a button on without needing a lie down to recover!
Kate's piece is, as always, so well written that it's a perfect accompaniment for such an ethereal setting. Well done all!..:)
Such sweet rr and very sweet story about it..
Love x
What a very special RR piece! And to have a story written about it is just over the moon! The RR is gorgeous and the story is lovely. Thanks for sharing.
Well done Karen, lovely review, lovely RR piece and lovely story.... yep, lovely!
Karens work is gorgeous and thank you all for your kins comments about my story! thank you.
Great review, great stitchery and a great new story. Thanks so much for sharing, Karen and Kate.
Oh wow! Thats so awesome!!! I enjoyed your review too and will have to hunt up the book, although scary isn't usually something I enjoy I might even give the 2nd one a go :D
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