BOOK: The Baslicato by Carol Ann Kauffman

Dear Gentle Readers,

The Baslicato is special to me because part of the story is set in Basilicato Province, Italy, where my wonderful father was born. Even though he came to this country as a child, he had vivid memories of the countryside, the vineyards, and the strong sense of family and community spirit in that area of southern Italy. 

Now, my dad was never a race car driver, but he did drive really, really fast. He did have a few characteristics of the wild and crazy race car driver in the story, but the story is not biographical.

Here is the storyline:

When Dr. Brook Wilson agreed to take on celebrity Italian race car driver Jason Maxwell, known as"The Baslicato," as her patient, little did she realize their relationship would turn her calm, pleasant, well-ordered life upside down, sending her off on dangerous adventures in southern Italy and northern Ohio. As she prepares him for his big race, she must deal with his demented wife while driving her boyfriend, Dr, Garrett MacEgan into acts of criminal desperation in a attempt to hold on to her.

When tall, handsome British actor Richard MacKenzie wakes up in the hospital after an accident, he discovers he's a short Italian race car driver named Jason Maxwell, known as THE BASLICATO. 

Amazon Link: http://mybook.to/TheBaslicato

A NOTE FROM CAROL: Happy Thanksgiving

My Dear Gentle Readers,

I hope you are where you want to be today. I hope you take a moment to focus on what you're thankful for instead what you lack. Life is short, my dears, and it doesn't get better without a conscious effort on your part to enjoy what you already have, to see beautiful in nature and your surroundings, and have a good belly laugh at something along the way.

If I have learned anything over my many and varied years, it's that if you aren't grateful for what you already have, the universe isn't going to send you more wonderful things to not be grateful for. Please excuse the preposition at the end of that sentence.

I hope you eat too much. I hope you take a nap. I hope you wake up full of love ad gratitude.

Hugs,
Carol

ART: Eva Gonzales

To eliminate my posting the boring bits of dead artists lives, I let Wikipedia do it for me.

 Edouard Manet has always been one of my favorite artists. I can remember admiring his beautiful floral compositions at a young age. 




Giant dewy roses, so real you could almost inhale their luscious scent from the pages of the book, much like the painting to the right by Eva. 

So when I found out Eva was one of his students and friends and that she posed for some of his pieces, I knew I had to squeeze a post on her in here somewhere.

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Fri., Nov. 23 - BOOK:The Baslicato

by Carol Ann Kauffman 

BOOK RELEASE: When Our Worlds Meet Again b y Aniesha Brahma

ART: French Landscape Artist Paul Madeline

Paul Madeline was a French landscape painter who lived and worked in Paris at a time when both the Impressionist and Post-Impressionist movements were very prominent on the French Art scene.  






Paul Madeline studied painting under E. Chaly and became a member of the Societe des Artistes Francais in 1897, the same year he won his first honorable mention.  

Three years later, he won another honorable mention when his work was exhibited in the United States.  

By 1910, he was a full member of the Salon Nationale des Beaux-Arts. He was known for his French landscape paintings with their sumptuous colors and with loose brushstrokes. 




What impressed me most was Paul's use of light and shadow. You can almost feel the heat in some of his works displaying an almost Carribbean sunshine, but it is a sunny part of France.









I hope you have enjoyed 
this tiny glimpse of French landscape artist Paul Madeline. 

Please note I left out all the boring parts, just for YOU! 

BOOK: Update on Belterra Sequel, Dark Return by Carol Ann Kauffman

Dear Gentle Readers,

This is the cover most of you are familiar with for Belterra. Thousands of copies of Belterra have been downloaded with this cover. It is not the first one, which was taken in a grape vineyard in Italy in 2006.

Grape Vineyard in Tuscany

taken by ME after a few lovely 

samples of extremely

good red wine.

The newest cover, by the wonderful Suzi Albracht of Wickedly Awesome Designs, is by far the best at conveying an image of the story.

The Time After Time Series follows a pair of unlikely lovers on their adventures through their many lifetimes together. In Belterra,  our pair of lovers is on an alien planet divided into four tribes.

Can one person make a difference?

When Neeka, daughter of the Lord of the Warrior Clan, was out picking lavender in their vast fields of the West, she felt a stirring in her heart. She felt him coming for her, and she was ready for him. 

When Braedon, Lord of the Soldier Clan of the East, rode into those lavender fields, searching for the woman he had dreamed of so often, he had no idea if she were even real. But there she was, standing there looking up at him, smiling. 

He reached his hand down to her. She accepted, thus beginning their new adventures together, changing not only their lives forever, but the course of life, unity, and the political structure on their planet forever. An alien planet. 


Or is it?

Belterra is available in paperback and kindle format on. Amazon at 

http://mybook.to/Belterra

I am finishing up the sequel to Belterra, called Dark Return, Belterra Book 2. It is ready to roll. I just got the finalized cover artwork. 

I will be giving it away in December to my newsletter group, a wonderful bunch of readers who have supported me for years, who have stood with me through bad editing, Amazon's removal of reviews saying all those people from London and Glasgow were my neighbors, and who have encouraged me to keep writing when I felt overwhelmed and underloved. 

If you think you could fit in this group, please sign up for my newsletter here:

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Have a great weekend!

Hugs,

Carol

   

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SCHEDULE: November 12 - 16, 2018

Mon., Nov. 12 - CELEBRATION: Book Bub

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Tues., Nov. 13 - BOOK: Dark Return, 
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Wed., Nov. 14 - INTERVIEW: 
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Thurs., Nov. 15 - ART: French Landscape Artist
Paul Madeline

Fri., Nov. 16 - BOOK RELEASE:

When Our Worlds Meet Again

by Aniesha Brahma