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MinnieEstelle

MinnieEstelle

Who is he? The Vampire Lucien: Prince Of Darkness.

I write mainstream fiction and paranormal stories.

Please visit my blog for interesting conversations and interesting authors @ www.msprissy-dreamweaver.blogspot.com/. I'm retired and spend my days writing, reading and researching.

A Mercy is still on my list to... more »
  • Chicago, IL, USA
  • member since June 29 2007

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  • Darling-Diva

    Darling-Diva says

    I have not read Joplins Ghost, but I look forward to reading it.

    posted 8 days ago. ( send a note )
  • quietstorm

    quietstorm says

    Minnie, thank you for the friendship. We are in several groups together as well as here.

    posted 3 months ago. ( send a note )
  • Debra Phillips

    Debra Phillips says

    Poignant. Shocking. A page turner. These are some of the words found in the good reviews of d.y. phillips’ new book: Love Trumps Game. Reviews can be found on
    Amazon.com.

    Love Trumps Game by d.y. phillips

    For an excerpt of the book, check out the author’s website at. www.debraphillips.homestead.com .

    posted 3 months ago. ( send a note )
  • TheMachiavella

    TheMachiavella says

    Hope all is well. I am totally focused on my first book. Its completed finally. The muse said it is done. I am having a debate with my self about self publish. Any thoughts on that?

    posted 8 months ago. ( send a note )
  • TheMachiavella

    TheMachiavella says

    Long time. Anyway I consider my self finished just adding the final touches. How you be?

    posted 8 months ago. ( send a note )
  • sweetafton

    sweetafton says

    She's British, but not, strictly speaking, English. She's Welsh born with a Nigerian father and an English mother.

    posted 8 months ago. ( send a note )
  • sweetafton

    sweetafton says

    A very young Shirley Bassey.

    I haven't read too far into the book, but as it's non-fiction, there is nothing in the way of spoilers, so here's his concluding paragraph:

    "The old past is dying, its force weakening, and so it should. Indeed, the historian should speed it on its way, for it was compounded of bigotry, of national vanity, of class domination. It was as absurd as that narrow Christian interpretation which Gibbon rightly scorned. May history step into its shoes, help to sustain man's confidence in his destiny, and create for us a new past as true, as exact, as we can make it, that will help us achieve our identity, not as Americans or Russians, Chinese or Britons, black or white, rich or poor, but as men."

    Some gentle reader bothered to write in the margins of the copy I borrowed, "and women?" Duh. Essentially he calls for the practice of historiography and a more complete vision of the past through telling as many of its stories as possible. Not new to us today, but perhaps mind-altering in 1969 when all of these disciplinary changes were afoot. Elsewhere Simon Schama turned me on to this book, and he is certainly doing this kind of history in all of his works, which if you haven't checked them out you might find interesting... his televised documentaries, too.

    posted 8 months ago. ( send a note )
  • drbarbera

    drbarbera says

    Thanks for dropping past--and U R right--one of the purposes is for people to be able recognize behaviors that might be part of depressive episodes--interestingly, the disease sems to manifest itself differently in across ethnicities and races. For instance, among African Americans and Asians, it generally shows as anger or aggression. Even medication for the disease affects by race and ethnicity. There is now a field called ethnopharmacology that examines reaction of different ethnicites to ceratin drugs--Don

    posted 9 months ago. ( send a note )
  • sweetafton

    sweetafton says

    She graces the cover of The Five One's most recent album.

    posted 9 months ago. ( send a note )
  • sweetafton

    sweetafton says

    "Under duress" is hardly an expression desire--and that is the only state in which I would be willing to see the movie. There are too many good films to waste time on the poor.

    I haven't read all the Harlem Renaissance criticism and history--there's a ton of it--but since I teach a course on it, I've done my research. Of the secondary materials, I like Houston Baker's Modernism and the Harlem Renaissance and one of Amrijit Singh's books the best. Nothing, of course, beats the art itself.

    Good luck with your revisions.

    posted 10 months ago. ( send a note )
  • sweetafton

    sweetafton says

    Happy new year to you, too! Before I forget "The Octoroon Girl" is a painting by Archibald Motley, finished in 1925. Can't have you looking for a story or book that doesn't exist! My current avatar is another Motley painting from 1922, "Octoroon." I love the way he explored skin color in his paintings, illustrating the constructedness of race.

    Twilight was. . . well, you can read my reviews of Meyer's first two books in the series. If you look at my reviews (under "More" just below the profile on my page, as it takes far too much time to find any one review on the actual books' pages, since there are so many), you'll see what I thought. Suffice to say, I will not be reading the third and fourth books. They are definitely geared towards young girl readers, and what an awful message they send to impressionable minds! I will only watch the movie under duress. LOL

    How are your book's revisions coming along?

    posted 10 months ago. ( send a note )
  • sweetafton

    sweetafton says

    Right era, wrong color. It's Archibald Motley's "The Octoroon Girl" (1925), which apparently graces the cover of one edition of Nella Larsen's novel, Passing. I like Motley's later stuff, but they are too hard to squeeze into the tiny avatar box. What are you reading these days?

    posted 11 months ago. ( send a note )
  • Andre Coleman

    Andre Coleman says

    Wow that is an amazing review thank you so much

    posted 1 year ago. ( send a note )
  • Kiki68

    Kiki68 says

    Hee hee--I clearly state on my profile I'm not going to be your Friend just so you can promote your book--plus, the whole premise of his book disturbs me--it isn't something I would pick up anyway!

    Anyway, good luck with your writing! I hope it is successful!

    posted 1 year ago. ( send a note )
  • Andre Coleman

    Andre Coleman says

    lLOVED your book!!!! Posted reviews on goodreads, amazon and here - hope you are enjoying "A Liar's Tale."

    posted 1 year ago. ( send a note )
  • Kiki68

    Kiki68 says

    I have the same problem with Mr. HIV (creepy guy) that you do--why does he persist??

    (I saw your note on his page when I was leaving a similar one)

    Have a great day!
    Kiki

    posted 1 year ago. ( send a note )
  • Andre Coleman

    Andre Coleman says

    I love it also, but like someone said once, "Find what you love and find a way to make a living at it and you never work a day in your life."

    Thanks for adding me. How is everything with you??

    posted 1 year ago. ( send a note )
  • Andre Coleman

    Andre Coleman says

    I turned it down because I would have been a little fish in a big pond. In other words, I would still be forced to do the publicity and the marketing, but not receive the bulkof the fruit of my labor. I have legitimized my company by publishing another authors work, so now Razor7 is not just self-publishing. Also, through sheer hustle, marketing, contacts, book signings and hard work that no mainstream press would put in my book, I have sold three times more than the advance I was offered.

    posted 1 year ago. ( send a note )
  • Andre Coleman

    Andre Coleman says

    I turned it down because I would have been a little fish in a big pond. In other words, I would still be forced to do the publicity and the marketing, but not receive the bulkof the fruit of my labor. I have legitimized my company by publishing another authors work, so now Razor7 is not just self-publishing. Also, through sheer hustle, marketing, contacts, book signings and hard work that no mainstream press would put in my book, I have sold three times more than the advance I was offered.

    posted 1 year ago. ( send a note )
  • sweetafton

    sweetafton says

    I just clicked over to leave a note for you, and I see one you wrote to me that never appeared on my page! What gives with Shelfari these days? Anyway, I couldn't agree with you less about "The Dark Knight"--I quite liked it. To each her own. I am gnawing on the idea of beginning a group about the Harlem Renaissance. Would you be interested?

    posted 1 year ago. ( send a note )


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