BOOK: Blue Lake by Carol Ann Kauffman

 Dear Gentle Readers,

Blue Lake is the first book in the Time After Time series. I wrote Blue Lake and Belterra, the second book in the series at about the same time. Back then, authors had to pitch their books to one of the big publishing houses, who were hesitant to take a chance on unknown writers. Travel, waiting, small crowded offices, smiling, nodding. Waiting. Getting lovely, polite, complimentary rejection letters months later. And starting over with another.

Along came Amazon and it’s kindle. I know it has many critics, but for me, I was captivated by the idea of having a massive amount of books from all over the world, old books, new books, art books, mysteries, biographies, books of all kinds, all available in one place to everybody! To anybody who wanted to read them. Wow… I published my first book with Amazon and have never regretted my decision.

All my books are available on Amazon exclusively. All are available in kindle format. Many are available in paperback. 

Stay safe and go read a book,

Carol

Amazon Link: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0071G6V9K/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_hsch_vapi_tkin_p1_i3

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NEWS FROM CAROL: Have You Heard of Vella?

Dear Gentle Readers,

Have you heard of Vella? It’s a new way of incorporating reading into your daily life, one episode at a time.

The biggest reason most people give for not reading is they don't have the time to read a long book. Some people shy away from big, heavy books because it feels too much like a commitment.

Vella has solved that problem for you. They are bringing you new and exciting stories from their popular kindle authors in easy to fit-into-your-schedule episodes.

One of the books I chose to make available on Vella is a romantic action adventure story called Raymond Layton, Man of Mystery. All ten episodes of the story are uploaded and available to readers now.

More on the mysterious Raymond later.

I don't know if readers will embrace this new reading 'mini-bite' format or not. I can see people who have little chunks of wait time in their day filling those voids with episodic reading. Airports. Doctors' offices. Waiting for your child's turn at sporting activities. I can see snuggling up on the couch with my kindle and treating these stories like a bag of cookies. "I'll just have two with this nice cup of tea." Yeah, right. I guess we'll have to wait and see. 

Stay safe and go read an episode,

Carol

 

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LILY'S HOT PICK OF THE WEEK: Color Street Nails

September 1, 2021

        Lily's Hot Pick       

          of the Week:        

    Color Street Nails   

Dear Gentle Readers,

Today is the first day of a new feature here on Vision and Verse called Lily's Hot Pick of the Week! Lily is my two-year old miniature dachshund. She is a smooth, red, short haired sweetie-pie. She looooves her Mama! She knows nothing about picking a hot product of the week. However, Lily knows what she likes. 

So do I. And I love good looking nails. I discovered these really cool nail polish strips a while back, when Avon sold then. They were great. Easy application. Zero drying time. And they wore like iron. But then, they suddenly disappeared from the Avon campaign catalogs.  

Fast forward to about a year ago. I found them again, but not in an Avon catalog. They’re now called Color Street. Same so-easy application. Same zero drying time. No mess. No smudges. The color selection is fabulous. And they have patterns galore.

Not only are these real nail polish strips easy to apply. They are extremely long-lasting. That's because, unlike the less expensive brands, Color Street has a built-in  base coat and top coat. 

This is my hand with a set I put on in the beginning of July.  I loved the way the colors blend together in this set.

If your nails are short, you can sometimes get two full manicures out of one set.

This lovely combination is two sets. The base color is this lovely, bright pink. The overlay is a glitter coat. With an overlay, your manicure lasts even longer.

This is the same glitter overlay as the picture above over the French Manicure set.

My nails have gotten stronger and longer since using Color Street.

If a beautiful manicure gives you a lift and you'd rather not go to the salon, give Color Street a chance.

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BOOK REVIEW: Murder at the Old Abbey by Pippa McCathie

Murder at the Old Abbey by Pippa McCathie was a suspenseful page turner of a murder mystery set in Wales. The patriarch of an old Welsh aristocratic family connects with a granddaughter he didn’t know he had and then gets murdered. Soon everybody looks like a suspect. I loved the Welsh police procedural part. Great characters. I thoroughly enjoyed this one! 

  

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SCHEDULE: August 30 - September 3, 2021

 

Mon., August 30 - ART:

The Dreamy Ethereal Art

of Evgeny Lushpin

Tues., August 31 - BOOK REVIEW:

Murder at the Old Abbey

by Pippa McCathie

Wed., September 1 -LILY'S 

HOT PICK OF THE WEEK: Color Street 

Thurs.,  September 2 - NOTE FROM CAROL:

Have You Heard of Vella?

Fri., September 3 - BOOK:

Blue Lake, Time After Time Book 1

by Carol Ann Kauffman

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