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Rosa

Rosa

I have just released LOVED TO DEATH: The Truth Unfolds. It is the sequel to LOVED TO DEATH: A Different Kind of Love Story.

I AM NOT ON THIS SITE FOR THE PURPOSES OF DATING OR FINDING ROMANCE. IF THAT IS YOUR INTENTION, DON'T INVITE ME AS A FRIEND!

My foray into the world of words didn't start on paper, but by reading... more »
  • Olive Branch, MS, USA
  • member since September 6 2007

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  • Marian

    Marian says

    Hi Rosa....Congrats!!!! I am so sorry I am late getting back to you. Looking forward to reading both of your books!

    posted 3 weeks ago. ( send a note )
  • Leka

    Leka says

    CONGRATS Rosa on the release of your new book......you know I have to read the sequal.......

    posted 1 month ago. ( send a note )
  • Marian

    Marian says

    Hi Rosa....Guess What? Color Me Jazzmyne is getting a new face. The new book cover should be out by end of month I hope until then that's again for your support!

    posted 2 months ago. ( send a note )
  • Lori Johnson

    Lori Johnson says

    Hey Rosa, I love short stories! I will check out LOVED TO DEATH. The title is kind of scaring me, though. It's not too violent, is it? I wish I had more time to work on my own short stories. Right now I'm trying to concentrate on novels. My second one, A NATURAL WOMAN, comes out at the end of this month.

    posted 2 months ago. ( send a note )
  • Debra Phillips

    Debra Phillips says

    Hi Rosa. Sorry it took me two days to respond, but I dont come to Shelfari that often. It's not much to do on Shelfari, and I have to admit that Facebook is better than Twitter, so I do tend to hang out there. What happened that makes you think that your Facebook account was hacked? When you respond, please email me at my daily email address, which is:

    dyphil2@aol.com. hope to hear from you soon.

    posted 2 months ago. ( send a note )
  • Leka

    Leka says

    Yes im on face book Carla Shepherd

    posted 2 months ago. ( send a note )
  • Leka

    Leka says

    Hi Rosa
    I am doing ok. I am reading Mama Dearest by E Lynn Harris, I just started it. I have not been on here in a long time. Did you finish your second book? congrats on your new home. I just sold mine and will move into an apartment on Nov 4 until I decide where I want to buy a town home. I got a new job back in April and I love it. I read, knit, crochet and play bingo lol lol.

    posted 2 months ago. ( send a note )
  • Debra Phillips

    Debra Phillips says

    That's great, Rosa. Have you found a publisher already? What's it about?

    posted 4 months ago. ( send a note )
  • Debra Phillips

    Debra Phillips says

    Just to let you know that my new Urban book has dropped: The title is: Love Trumps Game by d.y. phillips. To check out an excerpt, please visit my web site at: www.debraphillips.homestead.com. You don't want to miss this roller coaster of a story!

    posted 4 months ago. ( send a note )
  • MARLENE

    MARLENE says

    HI FRIEND,
    HOW ARE YOU? I WAS WANTED TO STOP BY AND SAY HELLO. I HOPE YOU ARE HAVING A FABULOUS WEEK!

    posted 4 months ago. ( send a note )
  • Raquel

    Raquel says

    I hi Rosa how are you? What are you reading at the moment?

    posted 4 months ago. ( send a note )
  • dm scott

    dm scott says

    hi rosa, haven't spoke in awhile just checking to see how things r going with you and your search hope all is well and may god bless

    posted 5 months ago. ( send a note )
  • Leka

    Leka says

    Hi Rosa
    I have not been on this site in a while. Hope all is well with you. I have been busy reading, knitting & crocheting. I joined a few knit groups that I go to during the week and im being productive in making things. Hope to here from you soon.

    posted 6 months ago. ( send a note )
  • Zephyr Woman

    Zephyr Woman says

    Hi Rosa,

    I haven't used this site for over a year and am just re-connecting. I'm now a young 61 years old. I found my birthmother in about 1995 and she died just two years ago. Even though the reunion was hard (I was the product of a violent rape in 1947!) I am so grateful I was able to meet her. Since her passing, her daughters have reached out to me. (I have 5 half-brothers and 4 half-sisters!) I've had a visit to Dallas where most of them still live. It's been a rich experience and part of the archetypal adoption journey we all take when we are separated from our mothers.
    At this point, I am busy finishing a memoir of my survival of my teenage daughter's drug addiction. I've worked on it off and mostly on for almost 7 years and am excited now about looking for an agent and getting it published. My adoption imprint resulted in me separating from my child, too, but the story of her addiction and eventual redemption (she's 25 now) is also the story of our reunion.
    Anyway, if you want to correspond, please write back. Sorry that I did not see your message until now.
    Rosemary L'Esprit

    posted 6 months ago. ( send a note )
  • Jassafari

    Jassafari says

    As always:

    I am still thanking, and believing G-D to no end, on your behalf!

    JASS!

    posted 7 months ago. ( send a note )
  • The Ancient One

    The Ancient One says

    You can search the whole universe
    and not find a single being more worthy of love than yourself.
    Since each and every person is so precious to themselves,
    Let the self-respecting harm no other being.

    - Buddha

    posted 7 months ago. ( send a note )
  • Tony Carmine

    Tony Carmine says

    Here is a blurb about my new book—ON THE CREST. Comments welcome: Tige Anderson goes through a series of emotional, physical and psychological adventures in this coming-of-age roller coaster, balancing his life among his romantic trysts, his ambitions, his humanity and his gay best friend. The one thread that connects all of the people in his life is the fact that the cycle of life puts everyone through a series of ups (‘on the crest’) and downs. Whether an individual winds up on top of the wave or under it depends on them.

    Prologue:

    [A mind full of shadows which form long, dark points that pierce the heart through and bring to consciousness the fierce pain of reality. Hooded specters that travel through space and time gathering up pieces of memory and bringing them together to form one melted block of pain and pleasure called the past.

    Were it possible to disintegrate as happens to dreams and tender moments. As powerful as these dreams and tender moments seemed at their inception, we come to realize that they are made of invisible particles of nothingness. Were it possible to just vanish like hopes made of tiny particles of nothing so would I be free of reality. And in that vanishing, would I finally be able to find peace.]

    Those thoughts flooded Tige’s mind as he sat and watched the pointed shadows caused by the brand-new-morning sun crawl across the floor in front of him. He had been all alone in the solarium since the middle of the night awaiting the sunrise as he did on many nights since he was put into that place. It was his favorite time of day. Anymore, each minute of the day was filled with painful recollection and doubt except for this brief, fleeting moment. It was a time, it seemed, that the earth, like him, was confused. It brought him solace to think that at this very moment, the entire universe, or so it seemed, was in a state of doubt and he was not alone. It was the time when day was pushing back night, eliminating the last vestiges of darkness to assume domination and live out its brief lifetime before dying and willing its realm to its brother called ‘tomorrow’. It was a time of starting over, of another chance. Days rolled in one after the other like the waves at the beach. It made one think that no matter how tragic the events that occurred in one solar period, there was always another; there was always another wave.

    Tige sat in his robe and pajamas on one of the couches in the solarium watching the morning sun get stronger, watching the streams of light come through the bars on the windows, hoping that the attendant would not yet realize that he was not in his room, which was where he should have been until breakfast which was still two hours away. He had done this so many times in the past but he was never discouraged from continuing to enjoy his moment of peace, but rather would endure the lectures from the staff about how everyone there must obey the rules so that all there could accomplish what they came there for.

    The reward that he got from this solitude was worth any reprimand which may have followed from the staff. He knew that his time remaining there was brief and he could continue this practice somewhere else. This was his time to savor the self-induced, companion-until-death torment brought about by events which had happened before and could not be changed. This was his time to not only enjoy the companionship of hope for tomorrow, but also to flog himself with memories and guilt for things that he had been instrumental in bringing to existence. He had to torture himself for what he had done or for what he had not done. With an almost painful enjoyment, Tige watched the single line of gray smoke from his cigarette and recalled the days past. He watched the ashes fall off like expended days gone by. He watched the orange line of fire racing toward its end.

    Again, comments welcome.
    The book can be purchased at barnesandnoble.com, amazon.com, authorhouse.com and many more sites. Thank you. Tony Carmine.

    posted 7 months ago. ( send a note )
  • A Book Collector

    A Book Collector says

    I went to Fisk up the street :). I am glad you are doing better and getting stronger. Take your time!!! I'll wait, I want you to be happy with the results, because I am absolutely ready to read them :) :):).
    Glad I could help (even if it is for selfish reasons LOL)

    posted 7 months ago. ( send a note )
  • A Book Collector

    A Book Collector says

    Hi There!!!
    Just dropping in...checking on you...checking on part II of the book LOL!! Are you feeling better? What is the weather like down there? I am coming to Nashville for my reunion in May. I hope all is well. Drop a line when you get a chance.

    posted 7 months ago. ( send a note )
  • Jassafari

    Jassafari says

    yOU ARE MORE THAN WELCOME MY FRIEND!

    JASS!

    posted 8 months ago. ( send a note )


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