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Guest Post…If You Love Something

Growing up, you learn all about the geniuses that helped shape our world into what it is today..  People like Einstein, Galileo and many others.  These people definitely did a lot to contribute to the advancement of our civilization.

I am going through some very personal, painful things at the moment.  Suddenly a few days ago, this familiar quote just came to me, giving me peace.  “If you love something, set it free, if it comes back to you it’s yours, if it doesn’t it never was”.  Of course, there are many versions of this same quote, paraphrases of it, if you will.  I started wondering who originally said this, for in my mind, they should be on all lists of the top geniuses of all time!

I started looking into it, and it seems that “anonymous” is often cited for this quote, but I did find two names associated with it.  I have no idea which one said it first, but they are both credited for it at some point.

The two prospects for my genius list are Doug Horton (1891-1968) and Khalil Gibran (1883-1931).  I was surprised that both of these men were quite faithful, very “religious” men.  I never really thought of this quote as having these origins, but now knowing, makes the fact that it popped into my head on a particularly bad day all the more comforting.  I believe it is something that will be the hardest thing anyone can do, but also quite necessary, in my case anyway.

I realize many of you who read this will think I’m being silly, over-dramatic, or putting too much stock in an old saying.  Maybe I am, but it feels like the perfect mantra for me at this point in my life, and it does give me comfort.  This is not meant to be an informative post, teaching anything, it’s just the ramblings of a soon to be single mom of two wild little boys…

I found this photo here, a great post on the same subject.  Check it out!

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Mel’s Thinking…How important is proof-reading?

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Here’s a silly little something for your Wednesday (or ‘hump’ day, which I took completely the wrong way the first time I heard that phrase).

Whenever you find yourself pouring over your own writing, with your eyes blurring and wondering if all this detailed re-writing is worth it, just remember the mistakes people made below and steel yourself to the job at hand 🙂  

From Fortune Magazine via HumorMatters.com:

  1. “Finished eighth in my class of ten.”
  2. “Received a plague for Salesperson of the Year.”
  3. “Reason for leaving last job: maturity leave.”
  4. “Failed bar exam with relatively high grades.”
  5. “Am a perfectionist and rarely if if ever forget details.”
  6. “It’s best for employers that I not work with people.”
  7. “Let’s meet, so you can ‘ooh’ and ‘aah’ over my experience.”
  8. “I have an excellent track record, although I am not a horse.”
  9. “You will want me to be Head Honcho in no time.”
  10. “I have become completely paranoid, trusting completely no one and  absolutely nothing.”
  11. “Personal interests: donating blood. Fourteen gallons so far.”
  12. “Marital status: often. Children: various.”
  13. “I am loyal to my employer at all costs..Please feel free to respond to my  resume on my office voice mail.”
  14. “Instrumental in ruining entire operation for a Midwest chain  store.”

Read more at: http://jobmob.co.il/blog/funniest-resume-mistakes/#ixzz1yKBc2BAN

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A cheeky reblog of my cover reveal from today – well if I can’t share it here, where can I? 🙂

Mel x

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I’m very excited to reveal the cover art for The Rainbow Maker’s Tale – Book 2 in The Ambrosia Sequence, which is due for release in summer 2012… This is the partner story to Hope’s Daughter – let me know what you think! 🙂

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30 Days of Hunger Games…Inspiring Fans

I’m sure most authors and readers are familiar with fan fiction, where readers who love a particular book, author or characters develop their own stories based around them. I’ve read some great fan fiction from Harry Potter to Twilight – people really commit and invest serious time and effort to producing their writing. Like every publishing phenomenon The Hunger Games has spawned its own versions of fan creativity, from artwork to writing, videos to music. Some of the most interesting pieces I’ve come across are posted here for your enjoyment 🙂

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Fan Fiction.net   The Girl on Fire   Hunger Games Fan Fiction

You might also like author Mel Cusick-Jones’ dabble in fan fiction, posted on the blog as part of our

30 Days of Hunger Games event features: Prim’s Diary and Peeta’s Reaping Day

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WWW Wednesday

WWW Wednesdays is a weekly meme hosted over at Should Be Reading I saw it on Confessions of  a Bookaholic this week (they have a 100 follower giveaway on the blog this month, so take  a look at that for your chance to win a great YA book). Anyway – back to WWW Wednesday…I’ve not done one of these before, but had five minutes and thought it would be fun. To play along, just answer the following three questions…

What are you currently reading?
What did you recently finish reading?
What do you think you’ll read next?
What are you currently reading?
I’m reading Cinder at the moment – as part of the Never Too Old for YA Goodreads group challenge for March which is all things dystopian. Really got into this now – who wouldn’t like a retelling of Cinderella with a cyborg as the pumpkin loving lead? I’m about a third of the way through and have only seen one pumpkin reference so far…
What did you recently finish reading?
Just read Divergent sneaking ahead on our April book of the month. I wasn’t overly fussed to be honest – it didn’t have the pace of The Hunger Games or the quality of backstory. For a dystopian it seemed rather implausible – a little bit of a vehicle to throw together some random scenes of violence and the obligatory romance…but maybe that’s a bit harsh? Will have to see what the others think of it next month.
What do you think you’ll read next?
I’m expecting to stick with dystopians this month and so will be doing the selected Bachman books for our own group read – The Running Man and another one I can’t quite remember (my brain is definitely on the way out today and I’m not getting out of bed to walk downstairs to find the book). Anyway, I’ve high hopes for these, haven’t read any Stephen King in ages so this should be good.
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So it begins…

It all started when I wrote a book…

…then I discovered this huge world of reader blogs and after writing my thoughts for Goodreads and Amazon and others I just got to thinking – why not blog it? So here it is 🙂

But it’s not just me…there are lots of writer/readers out there, as well as reader/writers and so between a few of us we’ll do the reviewing and posting to this blog…perhaps we’ll also get some writing done too!