Monthly Archives: June 2014
June Poetry Contest Winner Announced
JUNE CONTEST- A PICTURE IS WORTH A THOUSAND WORDS First, I’d like to give a big shout out to everyone who participated in this month’s poetry contest! There were over 40 contest entries and I had fun reading them. Before I announce the winners, let’s recap for those just tuning in. June’s poetry contest theme was “A picture is worth a thousand words”. Here’s how it worked. I posted a picture (shown below) and the contestants used that picture as their inspiration to write a short poem. The range and interpretation of their poem is only limited by their own …
80 + Barriers to Love: A List of Ideas to Keep Romantic Tension High
Keeping Romantic Tension Alive One thing that every romance writer faces especially when writing a series, is how to keep a couple apart. It’s a difficult thing to accomplish and readers hate it, but it’s a necessary thing. Otherwise the tension is gone and your readers walk away disappointed. I am a huge fan of a television show called Moonlighting with Bruce Willis and Cybill Sheperd. I loved, loved, loved watching every week to see if they were finally going to be together. For years they dangled the relationship and tantalized viewers until we finally got what we wanted and the couple got married. …
THE MODERN INK SOCIETY
FEATURING GUEST AMY PLUM| A FUNNY THING HAPPENED ON THE WAY TO GETTING PUBLISHED Welcome to the third session of THE MODERN INK SOCIETY! I love taking a little time out of my busy life to expand my knowledge, enlighten my soul and develop my talents. Creative writing is not one I have the fortune of spending much time on, but I love reading the works of others. Whether its reading Shakespeare, Montgomery’s Anne of Green Gables, J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter series, Dr. Suess children’s books, a novel by a novice author, or the National Geographic magazine, I am …
Movie Review Double Feature: Edge of Tomorrow and The Fault In Our Stars
Movie Review: Edge of Tomorrow I always give spoilers so consider yourself warned. Colleen’s Movie Review Romance: There is something about Tom Cruise and, make no mistake, he is ALWAYS Tom Cruise no matter what the character’s name is that he plays, that makes me smile. Don’t get me wrong. He’s not on my list of favorite people and yet when I watch him on screen there’s a sort of charm that comes across that just makes me want to like him, want to believe in him, and yes, even want to kiss him. The only warmth in the relationship came …
LADY IN WHITE, FOREVER TRAPPED
A DEEPER LOOK INTO THE MYTH BEHIND LADY SILKWORM I stand neither in your world nor the other, but in the fold in between. To see me wandering the woods, among mulberry trees, Stone walls veil my face and I am hidden from all. Poisoned am I with human hope, Only to glimpse love through the threads I weave. ~My interpretation of Lady Silkworm Houck’s brilliant imagination captures many exciting (and usually tragic) mythological stories, twists them up and pours them into her books. In TIGER’S VOYAGE, she explores the legend of Lady Silkworm (or Horse-headed Lady) found in …
Kelsey’s Favorite Places to Visit and Foods to Eat!
If Kelsey could share some of her favorite things with you she would want to take you back to the village of Silvanae, home of the tree nymphs and fairies. In the second novel, Tiger’s Quest, Kelsey and Kishan journey to a place where time doesn’t exist, a place of healing, a place all together magical. This strange world surrounded them in a lush green forest, vibrant skies, fragrant blossoms, birds and tame beasts. Then, guided by a tree nymph named Faunus, Kishan and Kelsey discovered a place she considers her own garden of Eden, the enchanting village of Silvanae. …
Goodreads Video
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Eye Makeup Fun (**Win A Prize**)
Hi Tiger Fans! I’m another one of Colleens sisters, Shara. During the recent convention in New Orleans I came prepared to do some fun eye makeup for the big events Colleen was taking part in. As I started to put this blog together somehow all the before and after pictures I took magically disappeared. 🙁 Sigh. Even the pictures of the make-up we used are gone. So I will piece it together and add a list of what we used with links. I knew Colleen wanted to do some purple shades to match the book art for the upcoming release of …
Movie Review Double Feature: Maleficent & X-Men: Days of Future Past
Movie Review: Maleficent I always give spoilers so consider yourself warned. Colleen’s Movie Review Romance: There were two couples in this film. One was Prince Phillip and Aurora. I liked them okay but wow they are young. Too young for me to feel any romancy kinds of flutters. I mostly wanted to scold and separate them. The other couple was Maleficent and Aurora’s daddy, Stefan. They were a much cuter couple when young than when they grew up. I didn’t really feel much in the way of chemistry between the adult actors. Now there was a lot of chemistry between Maleficent …
Colleen Houck Book Club
BOOK FOR THE MONTH OF JUNE- AFTER THE END I hope you all had the chance to enjoy last month’s pick, The Shadow Prince by Bree Despain. If you didn’t get a chance to join this time ’round, be sure to catch the next one! For this month’s book selection, Colleen has chosen… AFTER THE END by her good friend Amy Plum Here’s a little teaser, World War III has left the world ravaged by nuclear radiation. A lucky few escaped to the Alaskan wilderness. They′e survived for the last thirty years by living off the land, being one …
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