Chuffed to Bits! and Multiverses

Good Afternoon, Don,

Sorry I'm so late with this posting – like almost a week. Got behind which seems to be my mantra for this fall. But I did finally get the Generation Y: Hotwired Facts, Myths and Tips e-book finished and published on Monday. I also got the books Wormhole is showcasing inDecember completed and off to the web developers. They should be on the site byFriday. That was a relief!

We also celebrated Thanks Giving yesterday. Our daughter and her family were able to come down for dinner. The roads were a mess between here and where they live so the 3.5 hour drive actually took 6 hours, which meant we didn't get to visit as much. But it was good to see them even if for just a little while.

While Thanks Giving is my favorite holiday, my LSBH prefers Christmas. Even as I write he is busy putting up the Christmas tree. I get to do the finishing touches, he prefers that I not be around for the rest of the decorating. He is a lighting expert so our tree is almost always a spectacular lighting display – deep, rich colors that capture the season beautifully.

Our weather was cold and is now not cold. Cloudy ... temperatures in the 60s. Whoever doesn't believe in global warming should visit Colorado in the winter. Sorry to hear that you were dumped on, Don. Did you folks warm up and suffer from the floods like northern New York did?

I ran across a delightful article about "12 British Sayings that Americans Don't Understand" by M. Willett on Business Insider. I am familiar with "chin-wag", "spanner", and "clanger" but "doddle to do" (an easy task),  "lost the plot" (someone lost their cool), and "donkey years" (a really long time) were 3 that were new to me. I'd love to investigate Canadian saying that Americans don't understand and what do Americans say that other countries don't understand. I'm a firm believer that everyday street language is why people don't understand each other.

Okay, hold on to your hat – is has now been proven mathematically that parallel worlds could exist next to ours and that some of the random weirdness in our world could be due to interaction between the worlds...multiverses are a possibility. This is based on Quantum Physics and the work of H. Everett (1950s) as tidied up by Bill Poirier (currently a quantum physics professor at TTU).

As a fantasy / science fiction writer, the heavens just opened up. All those creatures I fantasied about in my short story "Trouble with Humans" suddenly have a possibility of inhabiting my backyard. Maybe my next writing adventure is a follow up ... I'll have to think about this.

In the meantime! I'd like to toot the Wormhole Electric horn! We published 5 books this year! Check them out!

The Search by Lisa Manifold

No longer able or willing to put off the desire to return to her own world, Dr. Leona Johnson, an archeologist, enlists the aid of her neice, Sylvah, to help her find a way home. But first, she must come clean with Syl and explain just what and who they really are. Will Sylvah accept her aunt’s haunting story or will she check Leo into a padded cell?  Lisa Manifold, new to Wormhole Electric, creates a surprising parallel reality to our own and with wit and gutsy dialogue, unfolds a story that just might explain Eden. 

Captain Jackson and the Medieval Conspiracy by Zack Varvel

Leading the only company of marines on active duty in the year of Our Lord, 1524, Captain Jackson and his fire teams plus one civilian, take refuge in an inn in Medieval Romania, 50 years after Vlad, the Impaler (Transylvania to you and I). Finding themselves caught between bandits and the Ottoman Empire as it retakes the Balkan Peninsula,   the marines are faced with disappearing men and horses, and wolves that climb two-story walls. Read this exciting sequel of Captain Jackson and his Fire Teams as they continue their search for Gowan, the immortal. Do The Marines give badges for hunting werewolves?

 (Captain Jackson and the Long Patrol, the first series of Captain Jackson and the Fire Teams is now available through Amazon)

Telepath's Songby Ariel Cinii

Telepath's Song picks up the airlands' story with Arosdé, now an Edgewalker, as she transfers to her new station as priestess. Once again living on an airland, Arosdé discovers that lasting on the new airland will take more than just luck, it will take all the resources she has available to her in order to survive. Patrons are leery of her, the company boss hates anyone who dares to question his authority, and a legendary hero keeps the airland safe are just a few of fascinating characters Arosdé now lives among . Thrilled to be back at Sky, does Arosdé have the wit and the humor needed to make this new posting her home?  Will Arosdé survive?

 TheThree Miracles of Djerzelez by Jack Levravich

Mick. Short, bowler hat, square hunched shoulders from years of working with stone, desperate to save his foster sister's ranch in Montana, chooses to fight a witch in Sarajevo, Bosnia Herzegovina. Not one of his brighter moments. Now cursed and racing against time, Mick is thrust into the living myth about Djerzelez’s mace. Our unlikely hero, aided by a young interpreter, Emir, follows in the footsteps of an ancient hero in a quest to save himself from the witches’ curse. Along the way he is befriended by locals who help him until the mafia try to persuade him to go home. As it unfolds, this epic story will leave you stunned and cheering at the same time.    What do you say to a monster and the local strong arms when you don’t speak the language? Can a living metal man ever get through security at the airport? And just who is Emir's mother? How is it she seems to know everything? 

Generation Y: Hotwired! Facts, Myths and Tips by Carolyn Varvel

Instant accessibility, thanks to technology, keeps new unresolved tasks popping up for us via email, cell phone, Twitter, Facebook and  any other  social media we subscribe to. It puts us in constant contact with our past, collides it with our present, and demands that we evaluate our future with no time to process incoming information.  It is the ultimate collision of the past, the present and the future. And no generation is more lost in the immediacy of now than Generation Y, the Millennial Generation, aka, the Wired Generation. Known for their disconnect between what they want and reality, this generation of 80 million strong now grace our college classrooms and our businesses. How do we move a generation that has been told since before they were born that they were important into independent and self-supporting ownership of their lives? What can we do to help a generation that has grown up with few consequences to mature and step into the leadership roles they believe they've been born to?  Join Wormhole Electric as we present our second full-length non-fiction e-book as it traces the history that has helped forge this generation. 

Have a great week everyone. Don, hope you've managed to re-ignite your long lasting affair with your snow-blower! Looks like you might need it!

Carolyn

Book Covers designed by Larry Varvel

Telepath's Song Cover designed by Ariel Cinii

Christmas Tree lights by L. Varvel

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