Category: Books –

Friday, February 2nd, 2018 —> -8˚C / +17˚F with light snow and some wind creating interesting swirls out there @ 2:52 pm in Atlantic Canada —> It’s Lisa’s and her son, Ricky’s, Birthday today 🙂 and also Cousin Lynn’s ( not really sure how to spell his name )’s birthday too 🙂 —

– Yesterday – I think I was able to capture the feeling I got when I looked between trees up close and saw a nice winter wonderland about fifty yards farther away through a frame of evergreens and birches –

— I submitted a manuscript that that was accepted for a “Kindle Scout Campaign” – The manuscript will be available for Kindle Scout Members to read for the next thirty days. And if enough readers are impressed enough to ‘Nominate’ that manuscript for publication, they might help the editors at Kindle and Amazon decide to publish it. I’d get an advance and maybe even royalties if I’m not too far off into the fringes of ‘weirdo writers’ or vastly over-estimated my writing ability and/or style?

– “Llyn Ellyn ( Healing Waters Run Deep )” – Cover art by Catherine M. Harris. –

— “Llyn” is the Welsh spelling for the Welsh word that may refer to ‘a pool of water beneath a waterfall’ or may include ‘River’ and/or other bodies of water.

— This was my NaNoWriMo { National Novel Writing Month } project for November – NaNoWriMo is a yearly opportunity for writers to set the goal of writing 50,000 words in 30 days.  & If you reach or exceed that goal you get to download a badge for your website or facebook page – but more importantly – prove to yourself that you can do it. You need to upload your project and have it verified. You can’t get away with repeating the same word 50,000 times.

— This year, among the goodies we ‘winners’ get links to, was the ‘Kindle Scout Campaign’ & we had until January 31st to edit our NaNoWriMo story, get it as professional as possible, and submit it along with a short bio, book description your photo and a ‘thank you’ message to anybody who reads your story. I did manage to edit my story, changed the title a bit – Catherine M. Harris liked the first couple chapters she read and volunteered to create Cover art –

— That’s the cover to the left – and what you see there is a male humanoid with primitive bandages around his eyes – and  he might even have wings. He can’t remember much, but he’s been told he flew down and rescued a young woman from monsters from another dimension who were going to kill her, or worse. The woman he rescued has been placed in charge of watching him while he heals from severe burns he suffered during the rescue. She tells him they are in a huge cavern where a Medieval society includes Healers with near miraculous abilities. There is a river running through the cavern and that river flows over waterfalls. The community has named their underground city “Llyn Ellyn”.

— Ancient cave dwellers discovered crystal deposits in the ceiling of the cavern that can capture and amplify sunlight during the day and subsequent engineers have been able to fashion reflective panels of silver to reflect that light around some of the larger chambers of the cavern. The healers can reportedly use more crystals embedded in the walls of a “Healing Chamber” to aid in healing processes.

— He’s told he’s been given an “Elvish” name in lieu of being called something like, ‘John Doe’ – & that name means “Stranger” – or possibly “Magical Stranger” or even “Holy Stranger” – Some of the locals saw him fall out of thin air and into the pool near their central waterfall- they saw him with wings and thought he might be an angel. Some think he might be an evil fallen angel. He doesn’t know what to believe and he embarks on an odyssey through dreams and reality, ‘Dream Walking’ – and trying to piece together clues to who he might be and maybe what he might be.

— He can’t remember ever having wings and there do not appear to be any strange bones or odd muscles that might indicate his healing body ever had wings. He doesn’t know what to believe –

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— The ‘Campaign’ begins tomorrow, February 3rd, 2018 – and will go until March 5th.

— I will be given links I can post to social media and I might be able to explain a few things about this campaign a little more clearly – unless today’s heavy wet snow messes up the electrical grid around here and then it might take me a few more days before I can post those links and try to explain things a little more clearly –

— Thanks,

~~~~~ Jim