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For the first time in at least two years, four people were able to flex their toes, ankles and knees, thanks to a new therapy that involves stimulation of the spine.
"When we first learned that a patient had regained voluntary control as a result of spinal stimulation, we were cautiously optimistic," said Roderic Pettigrew, director of the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering at the National Institutes of Health. "Now that spinal stimulation has been successful in four out of four patients, there is evidence to suggest that a large cohort of individuals, previously with little realistic hope of any meaningful recovery from spinal cord injury, may benefit from this intervention."
Even the patients who had complete motor and sensory paralysis, who were meant to be the controls in the experiment, were able to move, surprising the researchers and giving hope for a future "cocktail" of therapies that could help paralyzed people move.
3-D Printer Helps Paralyzed Woman Walk
In the patients with complete motor and sensory paralysis, pathways that send information to and from the brain are disrupted. It was previously thought that stimulation therapy wouldn't work without those pathways being functional. But all four participants were able to synchronize body movements in time with a wave displayed on a computer screen. Three were also able to change the force of their movements.
"The fact that the brain is able to take advantage of the few connections that may be remaining, and then process this complicated visual, auditory, and perceptual information, is pretty amazing," said V. Reggie Edgerton, a UCLA professor of integrative biology and physiology,who developed the approach. "It tells us that the information from the brain is getting to the right place in the spinal cord, so that the person can control, with fairly impressive accuracy, the nature of the movement."
The study, published today in the journal Brain, follows the trial begun in 2009 of a man paralyzed below the chest who underwent spinal stimulation therapy in conjunction with daily treadmill training and regained some voluntary control of his legs.
Paralyzed Patients Think "Walk," and Then Walk
"Right now, the clinical perspective for individuals with complete motor paralysis is that there is nothing we can do," said researcher Susan Harkema, the director of rehabilitation research at the Kentucky Spinal Cord Injury Research Center at the University of Louisville. "I think we need to rethink that. In our study, we demonstrated potential beyond any expectation. We need to relook at what the perceived potential is for this group of individuals."


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A City worker bit the nose off the face of a broker in the middle of a crowded nightclub after a petty row over a spilt drink, the Old Bailey heard today.
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Writer Nat Luurtsema on her Bafta-nominated comedy film
A dark comedy about a sperm-bank hiccup — made for just £1,000 — has been nominated in next month's Bafta film awards. Writer Nat Luurtsema is in a tizz, she tells Veronica Lee
Published: 21 January 2014
Updated: 11:00, 21 January 2014
The focus at the Baftas next month will be on Steve McQueen's monumental and harrowing drama 12 Years a Slave, which cost $20 million to make and is nominated in 10 categories — but among the other nods is Island Queen, a wonderfully dark, low-budget comedy made by two young Londoners, Nat Luurtsema and Ben Mallaby, which couldn't be more different.
It's in the short film category — at "the bottom end of the card," as its writer Luurtsema self-deprecatingly jokes — but she and director Mallaby are chuffed to be in the company of more established film-makers such as McQueen and Martin Scorsese (for The Wolf of Wall Street). When Luurtsema (pronounced LURTS-sem-mer) and I meet over tea at the Radisson Blu Edwardian Hampshire hotel in Leicester Square, she talks excitedly about the ceremony at the Royal Opera House on February 16 — although, she says: "I have absolutely nothing to wear. When I heard we had been nominated I sent a message on Twitter asking if anyone could lend me a dress."
Island Queen was made for £1,000 with the help of students from Falmouth University and Eugene Hughes, a private investor who had liked Mallaby's previous short films. Luurtsema stars as Miriam, 30, busy going nowhere, still living with her parents on a small island and working seasonally on a ferry boat with her friend Danny (Sam Pamphilon). She tells him she has decided to have a baby and has visited the island's sperm bank. The only trouble is, so has her younger brother (Sam Perry) ... It's a very funny and touching comedy about love and friendship, told in 16 minutes.
Mallaby and Luurtsema filmed it in four days in Cornwall, with everyone doubling up as cast and crew. Luurtsema, who clearly has charm to spare, persuaded daytrippers to appear as unpaid extras, which leads to a priceless moment when Miriam and Danny discuss whether she would have sex with a dog, and the elderly woman behind her looks genuinely aghast.
Luurtsema, 31, was born in Watford to an English mother, a teaching assistant and waitress, and a half-Dutch, half-Indonesian father, who is an accountant and barman. She was a bookish and shy child (although now, by her own admission, a chatterbox), and ferociously bright, winning scholarships to the Royal Masonic School for Girls in Rickmansworth and then to Oxford to read English. "I plateaued at university," she says, "where I was very middling. It was refreshing, because I realised I had peaked early and was not academic."
While she was at boarding school she developed an eating disorder and was hospitalised at 13, and says it is something she is always mindful of. "I have an obsessive personality, I guess — but it means I work really hard."
Although she has appeared in television and radio comedies and written for shows including Mock the Week and 8 Out of 10 Cats, it was as a stand-up that Luurtsema came to many people's attention. At the Edinburgh Fringe last year she performed She Be Here, which charted the break-up of her three-and-half-year relationship with fellow comic Tom Craine, her colleague (with Dan Antopolski) in the sketch group Jigsaw (who have a second Radio 4 series later this year).
Funny and touching: Luurtsema as Miriam alongside Sam Pamphilon as Danny in Island Queen He performed his own show about the split, Crying on a Waltzer, and Luurtsema describes the comically complicated scenario last August. "I was doing my show about him, rushing across to the Pleasance Courtyard to appear on a sketch show with him and then he would dash off to do a show about me. I saw his but I wouldn't let him see mine because I was scared he would object to some of the things in it and I would have to take them out," she jokes.
"He was way more complimentary about me. But he's still my best friend and we talk about 10 times a day."
They had moved in together on the second date. "The lease was up on my flat and we were so heady about being in love that we did it. I'm very romantic and I can get really giddy at the beginning of a relationship. I have oxytocin overload."
Island Queen is not autobiographical — the idea was inspired by a news item about the concern that sperm banks in Iceland, which has a population of only 320,000, have about donors and recipients being unrelated. Luurtsema, currently single, has no plans to visit a sperm bank any day soon — but much of her work is about her life.
Her break-up with Craine came after a period when she had moved back to her parents' house, an experience she turned into a sharply observed memoir. Cuckoo in the Nest, her first Edinburgh show, was about her eating disorder and now she is writing her second book, a novel for young adults, about a teenager who is an Olympic swimming hopeful — as was Luurtsema. I ask if there's anything about her life she wouldn't plunder for material.
"I have a couple of things that are private to me but the rest is up for grabs," she replies. "I don't think I'm unique or special so I figure that anything I reveal about myself has happened to other people — so why would I be guarded about it? My stage persona is me two glasses of wine in — it's a bigger version of me."
Her second project with Mallaby, a university friend of Craine's — "I got a share of him in the split. I see everything in words, he sees things in pictures, it's the perfect pairing" — does not, however, spring from her life.
Annie Has Body Issues, which starts shooting in May, is a feature-length film — again written by Luurtsema and directed by Mallaby — which she describes as "a female-led black comedy marrying the tone of Bridesmaids with a bit of Shallow Grave".
"It's about Annie [played by Luurtsema], who wakes up after a house party and finds a dead woman on her sofa, and has no idea how she got there. It's the woman who stole her job and her boyfriend so she's in the frame and has to get rid of the body, and she recruits her best friend, Gwyn, to help her. It's a film about loyalty and accountability and looking after your friends — and getting rid of dead bodies, of course..."
As we part, the issue of a dress for the Bafta ceremony crops up again. "I live in jeans and clothes from Tom and Dan that have shrunk in the wash. I can't turn up in an old Fred Perry shirt."
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- Developer: Spike
- Publisher: Namco Bandai Games
- Genre: Action Fighting 3D
- Release Date: Nov 2, 2010
- ESRB: Teen
Complete one of the following achievements to collect their Xbox Gamerscore points:
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|Ball Master (5 GP)
|Shoot off as many balls as possible in mini-game.
|Battle King (20 GP)
|Complete all of the Battle Zones.
|Battle Start! (10 GP)
|Complete the first Battle Zone.
|Battle-Crazy (20 GP)
|Reach your 50th Xbox LIVE battle.
|Best Friends (10 GP)
|Fight 10 times in 1P vs. 2P battle.
|Capsule Corporation Founded! (30 GP)
|Find all items.
|Cell Games Champ (35 GP)
|Win the Cell Games.
|Cell Games True Champ (40 GP)
|Champion of Cell Games on Hard Difficulty.
|Character Complete (35 GP)
|Unlock all characters and forms.
|Come Forth, Shenron!! (15 GP)
|Summoned Shenron for the first time.
|Destroyed a Formidable Foe! (5 GP)
|Complete battle in Galaxy Mode for the first time.
|Discoverer (20 GP)
|Discover a hidden route in a Battle Zone.
|East Galaxy (10 GP)
|Complete more than 10 characters in Galaxy Mode.
|Famous Scene (10 GP)
|Collect more than 30 illustrations.
|Fashion Complete (35 GP)
|Unlock all costumes.
|First Galaxy! (20 GP)
|Complete "BOSS MISSION" in Galaxy Mode for the first time.
|First Step to Ultimate (15 GP)
|Complete the first Ultimate Zone.
|Fruits of Training (15 GP)
|Obtain Rank S++ for the first time.
|Fundamentals are Vital (5 GP)
|Complete Tutorial until the end.
|Galactic Domination!! (50 GP)
|Complete all characters in Galaxy Mode.
|Humanitarian (15 GP)
|Use every form of every transformable character at least once.
|I Wanna Fight Someone Stronger! (20 GP)
|Earn 30 victories in Xbox LIVE.
|Music Complete (20 GP)
|Get all of the game BGM.
|North Galaxy (30 GP)
|Complete more than 40 characters in Galaxy Mode.
|Off-the-charts Warrior! (40 GP)
|Complete more than 50 characters in Galaxy Mode.
|Please Go Easy on Me (5 GP)
|Fight in an Xbox LIVE battle for the first time.
|Power Level...of 5... (5 GP)
|Earn 5 losses in Xbox LIVE.
|Raging Blast (0 GP)
|Obtain all the achievements.
|Reward Mania (20 GP)
|Collect more than 100 illustrations.
|South Galaxy (20 GP)
|Complete more than 30 characters in Galaxy Mode.
|Stamp Rally (20 GP)
|Earn 300 Challenge Stamps in Battle Zone.
|Summoned Porunga for the first time.
|The Days of Battle Continue... (20 GP)
|Win 50 times in 1P vs. CPU battle.
|The Fight Has Just Begun (10 GP)
|Win 20 times in 1P vs. CPU battle.
|Title Collector (10 GP)
|Collect 10 or more titles.
|Title Hunter (30 GP)
|Collect 100 or more titles.
|Title Seeker (25 GP)
|Collect 50 or more titles.
|Training Journey (10 GP)
|Fight on all maps.
|Trivia King (10 GP)
|View all character profiles in the Museum's Character Encyclopedia.
|Ultimate among Ultimates (30 GP)
|Complete all of the Ultimate Zones.
|W.Tournament Champ (35 GP)
|Win the World Tournament.
|W.Tournament True Champ (40 GP)
|Champion of World Tournament on Hard Difficulty.
|West Galaxy (10 GP)
|Complete more than 20 characters in Galaxy Mode.
|Wonderful Memory (30 GP)
|Collect more than 250 illustrations.
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Join us for the 2014 season of Free Yoga in the Park! We meet 8:00–9:00 a.m. in Durham Central Park by the farmer's market Saturdays through August 30. Details →
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Foster Street will be closed throughout September for demolition of the Liberty Warehouse. But we are open with plenty of parking—come connect!
Relaxation Challenge
Are you up to the challenge of relaxing into stillness? This meditation challenge with Jarret Levine explores the supine meditation posture (yes, savasana!) and meditative techniques to help you access the mind at rest. Drop in to any session for $15. Thursdays through August 28, 9:30–10:30 a.m., and, due to popular demand, coming this fall: Mondays, September 8–29, 7:00–8:00 p.m. Details →
Flow with Mira—and for Free!
On the heels of Flow Yoga 101, our Monday 5:30 p.m. class will become Flow Yoga with master teacher Mira Shani. Mira is also taking over Saturday morning Flow Yoga at 9 a.m. To welcome her, we invite you to attend her classes for free the week of Labor Day. Free classes are filled first come, first situated, with no online signup—just arrive a little early to get settled:
- Free Intermediate Expansion with Mira, Thursday, September 4, 6:00–7:30 p.m.
- Free Flow Yoga with Mira, Saturday, September 6, 9:00–10:15 a.m.
- Free Flow Yoga with Mira, Monday, September 8, 5:30–6:45 p.m.
Labor Day Schedule
Our classes are suspended for Labor Day on Monday, September 1. You can stream classes with studio co-owner Sage Rountree and many of our Carrboro teachers online anytime at Yoga Vibes—and the code sagefreemonth will get you a month's free access. Details →
Yoga 101
The next round of Yoga 101, our popular intro series, begins in October. Details →
Yoga & Essential Oils
Our popular yoga and essential oils workshops with Anna Cordova and Jane Howard Crutchfield return. Choose one ($35/$30 early) or both ($55):
- Yoga & Essential Oils: Elevate, an invigorating flow practice, Sunday, October 12, 1:00–3:00 p.m.
- Yoga & Essential Oils: Yincense, a tranquil restorative practice, Sunday, October 19, 1:00–3:00 p.m.
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Yoga Teacher Training
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Cook Time: 45 min
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1 cup (6-ounces) semisweet chocolate chips
1 cup heavy cream
1 cup milk
4 egg yolks
3 tablespoons sugar
Pinch salt
Butterscotch Whipped Cream:
1 cup heavy cream
5 tablespoons butterscotch sundae syrup
Preheat the oven to 300 degrees F.
Put the chocolate chips in a medium heatproof bowl. Bring the cream and milk to a light boil in a medium saucepan over low heat. Pour the hot cream mixture over the chocolate and whisk until smooth.
In a large bowl, whisk together the egg yolks, sugar, and salt. Whisking constantly, temper the chocolate mixture into the egg mixture. Stain the custard through a fine mesh sieve and divide it among the ramekins.
Put the ramekins in a large roasting pan. Carefully pour enough hot water into the pan to come halfway up the sides of the ramekins. Cover the pan tightly with foil; poke a few small holes in the foil for steam to escape. Bake on the center rack of the oven until the edges of the custard are slightly set but the center still jiggles (the center will set as the pudding cools), about 30 to 35 minutes. Remove the ramekins from the water bath and allow them to cool completely. Cover them with plastic wrap and refrigerate for at least 3 hours before serving.
Butterscotch Whipped Cream:
Whisk the cream and sundae syrup together in a bowl until combined. Using an electric mixer beat on medium-high speed until thickened. Top each custard cup with a generous dollop of whipped cream before serving.
I'd like to know if this recipie is the one how is served in a cup. pieces of cake,macadamia,caramel and some kind of cream. I saw that dessert on Paula's best dishes and I'd like to prepared it. Thanks and I love Paula's shows. Leyla
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I'm about to make this, but on t.v., they didn't cover it at all, and this recipe calls for covering tightly with foil, with steam holes. Which shall I do?
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I got Paula's recipe in a magazine at my Dr's office waiting for a recheck since my surgery December 2010. My mammogram results showed my breast cancer is still on the run, so why not celebrate with a little custard!! What a treat, it set very well and my husband and I just loved it! If I get the tea room I dream of I will have it on my menu. If not I will still make it for special occasions. Try it super easy Mary Ann
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This was a total failure. The custard never set up.
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A Different Sort of Communion
I finished working on the rough draft of Taken by the Beast with my wife the other day. It was hard work for me, I have to admit. Historical romance is hard to write if you intend to be historically accurate. My hat's off to those that manage it. The story turned out great, but I had a lot of doubts along the way. Dawn's determination and optimism helped me get through it, thankfully. If you're wondering what the heck I'm talking about, it's the single volume prequel to the Claimed by the Beast series.
So I finished that on a Friday night (no comments on how I spend my Friday nights, thankyouverymuch), and started my next project on Saturday. Vitalis: Communion. Or at least I'm calling it Communion for now. The important thing is that it's another Vitalis book, which should excite all my loyal readers. Everybody loves Vitals, and deservedly so. Light sci-fi set a long time in the future, it's got amazing characters, many of them in compromising clothing, and some freakish and often terrifying monsters trying to eat them. Guns, babes, herculean heroes (and heroines), and sharp-toothed slobbering aliens. Plenty of humor to be found too, all in all it's a win.
I can say that because I forgot a lot of what was going on. Communion picks up about 6 weeks after Invasion left off. Invasion was a book that centered on the unthinkable happening – the onset of an alien invasion of planet Earth. So I had to reread a lot of the book for continuity's sake. I knocked my own socks off, and I'm pretty hard to impress.
Page after page flew by. Both the reading and then the writing of the new book. I was amazed at how quickly and smoothly the new work flowed, especially after the occasional struggles I had with Taken by the Beast. It's definitely my comfort zone and, I'm very happy to say, some really great stuff has already happened and I'm only four chapters into it.
But I learned something. No, not something, a lot of somethings. Not from the return to my comfort zone but from my departure into historical and paranormal romance while helping Dawn Michelle. I've definitely broadened my style and understanding. I think my characters are more robust and the stories deeper and richer. There are more subplots and more going on behind the scenes. I honestly don't know where this book is going to end up, but I know it's going to be awesome finding out!
My plan is to have it ready to release by mid-September, I've recovered from a computer crash (lost a hard drive – don't worry, I back everything up religiously) over the weekend and should be able to get back to making steady progress. 2,000 – 3,000 words a day just doesn't feel like I'm doing any real work when it comes to Vitalis, it's too much fun!
To learn more about Jason Halstead visit his website to read about him, sign up for his newsletter, or check out some free samples of his books at http://www.booksbyjason.com.
Dragons… In Space?
Crazy concept but let's face it, you're already reading about it so you must be curious. Dragons are already magical creatures, but this is space we're talking about. No air to breathe or beat their wings against. No scantily clad maidens to feast on. No knights riding around on horses trying to turn them into a giant dragon-ka-bob.
I bring it up because it factors heavily into my recent release, Voidhawk – Broken Shards. But fans of the Voidhawk series will gobble it up readily enough. It's fans of my Blades of Leander and Order of the Dragon series books that I want to be aware of it. So what better way than to talk about dragons, since the characters in those books spend a lot of time hunting and dealing with dragons that are trying to make their lives difficult (or just eat them).
To be fair, Alto, Garrick, Patrina, Kar, and all the rest have only a little bit more than a cameo role in the book. Important, but they only show up in the final quarter of the book. It's a very eventful part of the story – then again, the entire book is filled with action and fun. But for people who really love what's happening in the world of Kroth, it drops some serious hints about things to come. The big one worth mentioning is The Order of the Dragon is still around. They've had to change and reinvent themselves, and acquire some surprising new allies and assets. So surprising long time readers won't believe it until they see it (and then they still might not!).
Spacegoing dragons brings another thought to mind too. A race of people that travel from world to world on the backs of dragons. Definitely a part of the Voidhawk setting and maybe even part of the next book. We'll have to wait and see.
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Forever is a Long Time to Regret
Voidhawk – Broken Shards marks a return to the Voidhawk space fantasy series. More than that, this book also reveals my other fantasy setting, the world of Kroth (Blades of Leander, Order of the Dragon) is set in the same multiverse. And yes, that means Dexter and Jenna get to meet Alto and Patrina. Garrick and Rosh, Haley and Jethallin, Logan and Karthor, and worst of all, Xander and Kar. Imagine two long winded wizards having the chance to share their experiences with each other… On the plus side, Alto learns from Dexter how the threat of a knuckle sandwich can stop a wizard in mid-sentence!
I'll share the blurb and links in a moment, but first I want to share that I'm sorry I waited so long to write this! I was helping my wife with her paranormal series and that was a great story to write, but wow, this was great. When I finished the book it wrapped up in such a fashion that it even surprised me and left me with that tingly feeling you get when you know you've written or read something special. I can't recommend it enough if you enjoy fantasy. And I can't wait for my chance to write the next Voidhawk book – there are so many possibilities after this one!
Okay, now the blurb, in case I haven't tempted you enough yet:
Smuggling weapons and stealing religious artifacts feels like business as usual to Dexter and his crew. Just another day in the void sailing between worlds. Until they meet a peculiar troll with a message of doom. There's a new threat on the horizon, and not just to them and the void, but to their entire realm of existence. And, in an accidental sort of way, it looks like it's their fault.
Stopping the unstoppable will require a trap that has long been forgotten and the help of friends that they've yet to meet. Beyond that, stopping this beast that lives beyond the limits of known time and space will require a special magic that to equal that of the monster's. Such power does not come without price.
Known for cheating death, Dexter and his friends face an enemy and a fate that they cannot escape.
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Barnes and Noble, Kobo, and iTunes will be released in a few weeks.
What's next? Back to Dawn Michelle for a month working on a prequel with her for her Claimed series (Taken by the Beast is the name – keep an eye out!). For me I think I'll write another Vitalis novel next (October-ish release time frame), and after that who knows. There will be more Voidhawk, that much I can promise, but I'll keep the other lines going too.
To learn more about Jason Halstead visit his website to read about him, sign up for his newsletter, or check out some free samples of his books at http://www.booksbyjason.com.
The Beast has Finally Been Claimed
It took us a lot longer than we first expected. Oh sure, we realized it was possible, but there couldn't really be that much of a story to tell about Crystal and her troubled life when she stumbled onto the affairs of a pack of werewolves. Turns out there was a lot of story – and even more that has yet to be told. But we (Dawn Michelle and I, acting as her ever faithful advisor and scribe) wrapped it up in six parts of a paranormal serial romance. And the sixth part of the Claimed by the Beast is finally out!
The story doesn't really end there though. Or maybe it does… the problem is, I started asking her about some of the other characters and, combined with our vacation Mackinaw City in Michigan, a new story began to take form. It was something different for both us, a historical paranormal romance. It was rough at first, trying to slip fantasy into the history of the world as it really happened, but we think we've found a way.
So after a late night brain storming session I've mapped out how to break out the ideas and breathe life into them. What remains will be a single prequel book called Taken by the Beast. The elders of the pack Crystal encountered have their own tragic stories that deserve to be told, and readers deserve to know them.
So, Dawn Michelle fans, don't worry that this is the end of Claimed by the Beast, there will be more to come, hopefully as soon as September.
Until then, here's the cover and links to part 6 of Claimed by the Beast. Or if you want to start at the beginning, you can find it here: (Amazon, Amazon UK, iTunes, Barnes and Noble, Kobo, Smaswhords – all of them free!).
(part 6 is not available anywhere else yet)
And as for Jason Halstead… in a day or two I'll be posting about my latest release, Voidhawk – Broken Shards. It's fantasy like you can't begin to imagine and brings back all your favorite characters and then some!
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Writing for Survival
This year started out pretty good for me. December of 2013 and January and February of 2014 were very solid. Comfortable sales numbers that made me feel great about how 2014 was going to go. Then March started to slack off and it didn't get any better in April or May. I became almost desperate and tried some new books that broke away from my usual routine to try some new stuff. New stuff that I really enjoyed writing, even though it didn't take off.
Then my wife stepped up and said why don't you do something different? That's what people are reading, and that's the kind of books I like to read. Why not…
And so I did. With her ideas, support, and feedback along the way, we put together a paranormal serial romance called Claimed by the Beast. It's done great so far and, honestly, saved us from some rather embarrassing financial shortcomings. It could do a lot better still, but neither of us is complaining in the least about what success we've had.
But I missed my books. I missed pure fantasy and science fiction. I missed my characters. So after we finished the last bit of Claimed by the Beast, I went straight into my next project, my seventh Voidhawk book (Voidhawk – Broken Shards). I'd been talking about what I wanted to do for a while and finally I had the chance. But I had to be quick. I was out of circulation for a couple of months now and my wonderful readers were probably beginning to wonder. I went from publishing at least one novel a month to nothing for over 2 months? Had I died?
So Broken Shards had to be written fast. I started it on June 19th and finished the rough draft on July 19th. Not my best, but it's also 95,000 words (give or take a handful). It's in my editors hands and cover art has been moving along nicely. But that's just numbers and stats, it doesn't share why it's such a great idea.
Broken Shards returned the crew of the Voidhawk (a fantasy vessel that sails through the void between worlds using the solar wind to power it). I'd forgotten how much fun they are. Diverse, exciting, flawed, and mighty. The thing is, there's always something bigger and badder, and they have a talent at finding it. This time around their only hope to stop what's happening takes them to a very special place. A world called Kroth.
Kroth not only has the means of helping them put an end to their troubles, but it has some special people that can help along the way. People my long time fantasy readers will know and love. Alto, Patrina, Garrick, Karthor, Mordrim, Kar, and Namitus. It's a little rocky, putting two very strong and opinionated groups together, but when the fate of their very realm is at stake they either have to get along or find a new reality to live in.
As much fun as all of that was, I shocked myself with the ending. I know, the thought of me leaving myself shaking with excitement is kind of weird, but the end wrote itself and just turned out to be absolutely amazing. Granted, I may biased and kind of close to the topic, but even so the way it worked out felt like poetry. The good kind, where the words makes sense and you're not wondering if you're supposed to like it because people who think they are sophisticated tell you to.
And what's next? Well my month off writing Broken Shards saw Dawn Michelle dreaming up all sorts of thing for us to collaborate on next. So we're working on a prequel to Claimed by the Beast. Taken by the Beast is the name and it's going to be a historical paranormal romance. It will also flesh out a couple of the characters in Claimed by the Beast that deserve to have their backstory told and understood. And yes, it will contain a lot of what made Claimed by the Beast so fun, meaning some flaring passions and a lot of action and excitement.
Fans of Dawn Michelle, be on the lookout for Claimed by the Beast – Part Six coming out around August 1st. Fans of Jason Halstead and the Voidhawk series (and Blades of Leander) watch for Voidhawk – Broken Shards a week or so after. Then Taken by the Beast will be next and when that's done, we'll have to see what's next. So far we like the concept of me writing a novel and giving my wife chance to come up with what's next and then working on it together, so alternating books might be the way things go for a while. Whatever the case, I know I've got another Vitalis book burning in the back of my head and with the way Broken Shards ended, I'm dying to write the next book in that series too! I guess the one thing I can guarantee is that there won't be a shortage of great books to read.
To learn more about Jason Halstead visit his website to read about him, sign up for his newsletter, or check out some free samples of his books at http://www.booksbyjason.com.
Tools for the Neurotic Writer
Not so long ago Amazon came out with a new tool for writers. A reporting dashboard that shows close to real time sales of their books on KDP. It's cool, I have to admit, and really helps see how things are unfolding in a meaningful way. Things like promotions, new releases, price changes, etc.. And it helps the neurotic writer that can't help but check their sales constantly have the data at hand almost immediately.
Me, I got over the addiction to staring at numbers a long time ago. Now I still check regularly, but not for a narcotic buzz. I do it to track progress and have reliable data on what works and what doesn't. It's a constant ever-learning process too, so it's important to know what's going on. And, I'll admit, there are times when a big surge will still make me giddy as a school girl. Although I can't ever remember seeing a giddy school girl, you get the idea.
Last night we (myself and Dawn Michelle, my ravishing wife) released the fifth part of her Claimed by the Beast paranormal serial romance. This morning when I checked a few minutes ago to see if it had gained much traction I saw an amazing thing. Not only is it doing quite well so far, but for the first time in, like, ever we've sold more books today than we've given away as freebies. The difference is pretty minimal (9 books more sold), but I've never seen anything like that before. I don't expect to see it again, honestly, but it's pretty cool.
Why not? Well, I have multiple books that are free and the first one in Dawn's Claimed by the Beast series is free also. Want to know more about them? Here's the links:
And here's the cover and blurb from Dawn's latest serial:
The life of a teenage girl is never a simple thing. From drama to decisions made without considering the repercussions, Crystal has to live with the consequences. Her mistakes have cost her more than just a normal life, they're threatening her friends and family as a savage monster stalks the people she loves.
Even her whirlwind romance is starting to fall apart around her, making her second guess herself. Is living the life she dreamed about worth the people that get hurt along the way? It's a price that her enemies are only too happy to help her pay.
As for me, I'm nearly finished with Voidhawk – Broken Shards. After that I'll help my wife with her next project, something that is related to the Claimed by the Beast series but is a historical paranormal serial romance (we're trying to see how many genres we can hit at one time). Then I'll be back writing more about Vitalis. Or at least that's my plan so far…
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The Pen is Mighty Because of the Sword
I'm asked all the time where I come up with all my ideas for stories. Partly because I've got a ton of them – after all, that's why I haven't been blogging as much lately, I've been writing hard on new books (Voidhawk – Broken Shards, the 7th book in the series and a tie in to the Blades of Leander / Order of the Dragon series) and helping my wife out with her Claimed by the Beast books. I tell people I've always been writing and always been coming up with ideas. People, places, things – all the essentials for writing.
Then this weekend happened. My wife had a bachelor party to throw this weekend and I stayed home with the kids. Ages almost 8 and 5.5. They both love telling stories and making things up (more than just the ones where they try to get out of trouble), so I figured – what the heck, let's try something different. I did some research since I lost all my original books years and years ago and found out that a brand spanking new fifth edition of Dungeons and Dragons was being released. Better yet, the 110 page core intro book was available as a free download!
Well, I downloaded and read through it to see what the changes were since the editions I enjoyed playing (first and second, 3, 3.5, and 4 were all too complicated and took away from the spirit of the game, in my opinion). 5th Edition seems geared to go back a little and make it more fun and less complicated. I hope. Then I reached the end of the book and realized there was no monsters, no DM guidelines, and nothing else of much help.
So another Internet search led me to packing the kids up and heading to a hobby / comics store a few miles away to pick up the starter kit and sets of dice for each kid. That included an adventure, some pre-rolled characters, and some generic monsters. It's a long cry from something a real campaign can be developed out of, but it's a start.
That day we began the adventure. We didn't get far beyond an initial encounter. It got my daughter (the almost 8 year old) excited and my son uncertain and possibly freaked out. It also helped him focus on his basic math skills. The next day after my wife got home she joined the adventure and we finished the first milestone. Woohoo!
And somewhere along the way I realized something. This wasn't what started my love of creating and writing, but it helped a lot. More than a lot, it was essential to helping me figure out a lot of how to come up with ideas and make them complete and well rounded. After all, since my first time playing Dungeons and Dragons when I was 11 years old I quickly became the dungeon master. No, there's no whips and leather outfits involved, it means the guy (or girl) that runs the game. In my case, I usually created my own worlds and adventures to put my victims— er, friends— through.
So, genre and characters aside, I learned how to tell a story because I used to fantasize about using swords and sorcery to battle dragons and rescue maidens. My kids are enjoying the game so far (the girl loves it and the boy is coming around, especially when he was responsible for putting some serious hurt down on the leader of the bad guys). I suspect the colorful descriptions I'm giving, especially when battling feral wolves, goblins, and bloodthirsty bugbears, helps make it more fun for them too. Oh, and the family that slays together, stays together. ;-)
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Happiness Is…
One of my wife's friends posted a meme on Facebook and tagged us in it the other day. The meme stated that happiness was finding a new book and learning that it was the first in a series. Given my wife's new paranormal serial romance (that this friend fell in love with), it seemed fitting.
I'm bringing it up now because the long awaited part four in her Claimed by the Beast series is now available. And it's every bit as exciting and fun as the others were. The main character is learning a lot about herself and really coming into her own. She's also learning there's more to her new life than she once realized. More dangers, for one…
Rather than hand out spoilers, I'll hand out links to check it out yourself! Pretty shady, I know…
(iTunes, Kobo, Barnes and Noble yet to show up)
Now then, since we're down talking about my wife's series and how successful it's been, let's move back onto another series that's even more overdue for some fresh material. Voidhawk! And yes, I've been slapping keys fast and furious. So much that I'm probably a third of the way through the next book! My plans had been to write a single book that covered the next story arc but I'm beginning to wonder if there is just too much story to tell? Do I need to break it out into two or three books?
I'm not sure at this point, but I'm almost 30,000 words into it and the crew of the Voidhawk hasn't even gotten close to where they need to go yet. And getting there is only going to be half the battle. They'll have to meet up with veteran dragonslayers, Alto, Garrick, Patrina, and the others from the Blades of Leander / Order of the Dragon series before they can figure out a plan to move ahead. That's when things really start getting fun.
The next book will be titled Broken Shards. And hopefully it'll be a single book! I guess time will tell though, or maybe I've roped myself into another mini-series within a series. Whatever the case, I promise a fun read.
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The Mind is a Messed Up Place
I'm slapping keys working hard to bring another Voidhawk book into the world. It's long overdue, I know, and my readers are already miffed enough I took a couple months off to help my wife (Dawn Michelle) get her stories out there (Claimed by the Beast). So I'm working hard and about 10k into Voidhawk : Broken Shards (book 7 in the series).
In fact, Dexter, Captain of the Voidhawk, just found out he needs to visit a new world. A world by the name of Kroth. Kroth, as some of my diehard fantasy readers may remember, is the place where Alto and his companions have toiled and triumphed over the years in the Blades of Leander trilogy and Order of the Dragon saga. Will they meet? Probably. I won't deny it's almost guaranteed to happen. I don't know the details yet though, nor am I even sure if they're going to get along.
At what point do things become messed up? Just a few minutes ago, actually, as I was thinking about one of the scene stealers from the Blades / Order books. Thork,, an unusual troll shaman. He plays a key role in every book and yes, he's going to be in this one too. What just occurred to me and, honestly, astonished me, is that Kroth (the name of the world) and Thork (the troll) are anagrams. Not only that, but they're practically spelled backwards of each other (except the darn 'h' screws things up).
Totally unexpected and unplanned. But I don't think for one minute that my brain didn't do it on purpose. It just didn't tell me what it was doing. My brain let me figure it out on my own, trusting that I'd be a good student and realize it sooner or later. It only took me over a year and a half to do it…
Amazing the little tricks we play on ourselves. How many other hidden gems like this are out there in my books? Some I've done on purpose, I admit, but maybe there are others I don't know about. If you find something and aren't sure, drop me a line and ask— maybe we'll both learn something!
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The sunset was great. After dark, I began to have a hard time riding as my bike seemed to swerve all over the place and the trail was often on the side of a steep hill. In these areas you could see the uphill side but just a black abyss on the downhill/cliff side. I stopped and once again my sugar was low. I stopped and ate my burrito and a bar and watched the stars for a while. I also was getting a little gripped as in 1988 I had crashed on junction creek and had to ride out for 15 mi to get 30 stitches in my knee and shin. And I guess I missed Anne and the kids and thought she was very worried about me falling off a cliff where they wouldn't find me for a long time. So it was slower going for a while. I finally came around after the big climb after Bolam pass. I rode until about 12:30am and found a nice spot under tree to take a nap. I took just 3 unit of Lantus. I was sleeping lightly and saw Eszter go by......
I slept for a couple of hours and was riding again at 2:30am. My sugar was 300 but quickly dropped to 60 when I got lost an hour later. The trail here goes across a road a bunch or hits the road and then soon after goes back to trail. I made all the junctions until about 3:30am when I missed one and thought I saw a marker on the road. I didn't remember the trail following the road but I couldn't really say as once again my sugar was low and I hadn't had a ton of sleep. I kept stopping to see if I could see E's tracks but the road was packed to well. I finally decided to go for 5 more minutes and if I didn't see a marker to turn around. I couldn't see the stars to tell my direction either as the trees were too thick. So I finally turned around and got back on the trail. Here you can see my bumbling...
I ran into a couple of bike packers and talked to them for a while. I took off my back wheel to check out my back brakes before the downhill. My freewheel/wheel had been making weird sounds for a few days but I knew I couldn't fix anything there. It was making a whirly chirping sound when the wheel turned like a crazy bird and when I peddled after coasting would make a thunk-thunk sound. I would soon find out what was wrong. I decided to put my other set of brake pads on and when I grabbed my back wheel to put it back on something wasn't right. Only half of the pieces were there. The cog set was still on the ground......my axle had broken sometime. Below is a reenactment of what it looked like.
Calm as always I carefully slipped the pieces back together and put it back on my bike.
I figured if my skewer could hold it that far, it would probably hold for another 20 miles. And down the trail I went.... The trail was nice with the classic water falls. About half way down, I got paranoid that I had missed a turn. I didn't remember so much climbing in the middle. Crazy what happens after making some wrong turns and not much sleep. So I rode back down the climb and there was E coming up. I said, "so this is the right trail?" she was a bit confused why I would be coming back and said yes it showed up on her GPS. I then turned around and rode about as fast I could the rest of the way back to the end of the trail..... I finished in 5 days 5hrs and 15min or so. E arrived soon after. Stats for this day: 115mi almost 18,000' climbing and almost 2 hrs of sleep.
I found Anne, and the kids, and Grandma and Grandpa. I sat down and ate a bunch of cantaloupe and good ol' Zach had been by to pick up some stuff and left E and I a PBR beer. I found my stash of Oreos that I got from Apple, the trail angel, and split them with E. We all then went to Carvers for some lunch. E talked them into giving us a beer. She is a force of nature.....
I came in 4th and E a close 5th out of 70ish. For more info with maps go to: http://www.climbingdreams.net/ctr/ and http://trackleaders.com/ctr
Immediately after stopping for a while, my ankles began to swell up--Kankles I think they call them. My mouth was sore. However, I didn't really smell at all.
The next day we drove back to Gunnison. We saw that Becky was about to hit Silverton so we stopped and looked for her. Little did we know that she had thrown in the towel. As she was looking for a phone, she saw our car and then ran into us. We got her some of Anne's clothes and put her bike in the car and gave her a ride back as well. Sitting between a 4 and 8 year old may have been almost as bad as riding the rest of the way to Durango. We had a bbq with some of the CTR racers later in the week, E, Becky, Jordan, Chris. Until next year?
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