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Animal Rescue and A Promise Worth Remembering

Thanks for stopping by the blog! Today I’ve got Cyndi Faria talking about animal rescue and her book: A Promise Worth Remembering.

Here’s Cyndi!

Final A Promise Worth Remembering Original 300 dpi1If you like stories about animal rescue, magic, family feuds and forbidden love, yesterday, my newest release titled A Promise Worth Remembering (Promises Collection, #2) went FREE on Amazon Kindle.

To celebrate the release not only am I giving the Kindle eBook away for FREE, but by leaving a comment you’ll be entered in a raffle to win the necklace inspired by the story (see photo at www.cyndifaria.com). So make sure you leave your contact information. I can’t wait to see who the lucky winner of the beautiful pendant will be…

As an animal advocate who fosters and adopts from a local shelter, and having the tiger preserve PAWS near my hometown, I felt inspired to include large breed felines in my newest contemporary romance where pain of the past is healed by the magic of love.

Have you ever rescued a feline? There’s something magical that happens when holding a newborn kitten—the desperate mewls as the blind fur-ball roots, discovers, and, finally, latches onto the rubber nipple, pumping tiny paws against the bottle top. I must admit my nurturing instinct is quite fierce. Today, I’d like to thank Cindy Carroll for letting me share two animal rescue stories, one real and the other fiction.

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After ten years, tiger preserve owner Bailey Yant never thought heartbreaker Tucker Pierce would return to Safe Haven. With a hundred-year-old feud between the Pierce and Yant families escalating, and despite a mystical lovers’ rock stirring memories of their forbidden love, she’s walled up her heart tighter than her sanctuary. When her prized tiger trespasses onto the Pierce’s hunting range, and poachers threaten not only her tiger’s safety but the livelihood of her preserve, will Bailey open her heart and trust Tucker in time to save her endangered Bengals?

At seventeen, Tucker Pierce fell in love with Bailey’s strength the day he’d pulled her from the river and promised to make her dreams come true. However, to keep Bailey safe from his abusive father, he risked everything—and in the process lost her to another man. For ten years, he’s kept his reason for leaving Safe Haven secret, but he can’t forget the promise he made to her or who his heart belongs to. After finding the widowed Bailey standing on their special rock, will he finally convince her to trust he’s a man of his word?

Like Bailey, I’m hooked on felines and happily-ever-after endings. Meet Lucky, one of my rescued cats.

LuckyTen years ago, this calico arrived at a local shelter ready to deliver a litter. She’d contracted a cold, but continued to purr through her sniffles. However, scribbled on her paperwork attached to her cage, read: Euthanasia – give dog dosage. I knew what that meant…I had to do something fast. I raced to the bank to get money for her adoption fee, battled the lunch crowd driving back to the shelter, and returned to find—She’d given birth to a litter of three!

 

I fostered the bunch. Lucky received IV fluids for two weeks and I bottle fed the kittens. Lucky has been with me ever since. She’s sweet and loving and enjoys hiding out in the flower garden, doing what cats do.

 

Fortunately, Lucky was, well, lucky. A Promise Worth Remembering was inspired by my experience and I want to do more to help larger breed felines. A portion of the earnings from this eBook will be donated to help the tigers at PAWS, located in San Andres, California. To adopt a tiger visit PAWS online.

 

Much thanks goes to Cindy Carroll for giving me the opportunity to share Lucky’s story and A Promise Worth Remembering.

To be entered in the necklace drawing, don’t forget to leave a comment below. Also, each positive review on Amazon helps A Promise Worth Remembering to reach more readers.

 

Wishing you much love and happiness,

 

Cyndi Faria

About the Author:

Author Photo B-WCyndi Faria is an engineer turned romance writer whose craving for structure is satisfied by plotting emotional and cozy paranormal romance stories about cursed spirits, lost souls, harbingers, and even a haunted coastal town. If you love a tale with courageous heroes and heroines, where their unconditional love for each other gives them strength to defeat their inner demons, Cyndi Faria invites you to enter the pages of her stories and find happily ever after.

 

“Cyndi Faria writes with passion and her stories touch the heart.”

—Virna DePaul, Bestselling Author

 

On and off her sexy romance pages, this California country girl isn’t afraid to dirty her hands fighting for the underdog and caretaking rescued pets. Find her helping fellow writers and leading readers to happily ever after at www.cyndifaria.com

 

Twitter: www.twitter.com/cyndifaria
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Amazon Author Page: http://www.amazon.com/-/e/B00BEV8JYS

Cindy here again!

Thanks for being here, Cyndi. Loved the story of rescuing Lucky. We’ve taken in strays. We always adopt from a shelter.

Don’t forget to comment to be entered into Cyndi’s draw!

Until next time…

Ciindy

Cindy’s top 10 horror movies

What makes a good movie is subjective. What I like others might not and vice versa. There are movies people loved and I thought they were a waste of my time and three hours of my life I’ll never get back. Titanic I’m talking to you.

So these are horror movies I found to be what horror movies are supposed to be. Scary. Shocking. And in some cases believable. For a movie to scare me now it has to be something that could actually happen. Some of these movies don’t fit that requirement but when I first watched them it didn’t matter if they could happen or not. They scared the crap out of me.

Here they are in no particular order:

1.  Friday the 13th – The original.

This one was scary to me because it came out just before I became a teen. While the others were unbelievable, this one had a killer with a good motive, a killer that could have actually committed those murders.

2. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre – The original.

Inspired by real life killer Ed Gein this too could happen. Real people kill people all the time. What makes it even scarier is the family members in the movie are definitely not all there, mentally. Ed Gein inspired other characters as well including Norman Bates.

3. Mute Witness

I watched this movie years ago because Siskel and Ebert recommended it. And they were right. I found it to be creepy, scary, disturbing. I liked it so much I bought the DVD.

4. High Tension

This was another one recommended by Ebert. It was scary and creepy. When someone’s mind breaks anything can happen. It was filmed in French and dubbed in English.

5. A Nightmare on Elm Street – The original.

Okay, so not something that could actually happen but still, it made teens in my generation afraid to go to sleep.

6. Black Christmas – The original.

Another one of those it could really happen movies. What I liked about it was the fact that it was set during one of the happiest times of year. Despite the movie, Christmas is still my favourite holiday. Wow, John Saxon was in a lot of horror movies I’m realizing.

7. When A Stranger Calls Back

A sequel to the original When A Stranger Calls, I thought it was scarier than the original. It made me wonder for weeks after I watched it if I was really alone in the house.

8. Scream

This movie brought the dying horror genre back to life. I thought it was clever, well written, a little scary. I loved all of the movies, even the fourth wasn’t too bad.

9. 28 Days Later

I don’t find zombie movies to be all that scary. Zombies are shuffling, dumb creatures. Walk fast and you can survive. But 28 Days Later is a different kind of zombie movie. They aren’t zombies in the traditional sense of the word.

10. Alien

Okay, definitely not something that could actually happen but I tried watching it when I was fifteen. I heard it twice before I ever saw the whole thing because I kept hiding behind the sofa cushions. And it has one of the most famous tag lines of all – In space no one can hear you scream.

So those are my favourites. That list makes me want to watch a few of those again. Hmmm. Maybe we’ll have a movie weekend this weekend.

What about you? Any of your favourites you think should be on the list?

Until next time.

Cindy

Want blog comments? That’s up to you.

Let’s face it, we all want comments on our blog posts. Sure we have stat counters in the background telling us how many people visited and from where but comments are the only way visitors know for sure that people actually read the blog. And to entice you to leave comments I’m having a giveaway! Read on to find out what it is.

If you want readers to comment on your blog I’m going to give you a simple tip. Make it easy for them to comment. Make it difficult and readers won’t bother. For example if you make them log into anything like most WordPress.com blogs do, I won’t bother commenting.

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If you have a Blogger blog and don’t offer the Name/URL option I won’t bother commenting either.

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I don’t think I should have to log into anything to leave a comment. I’m stubborn like that. Must be the Irish blood.

And if you make the CAPTCHA too hard I’ll just keep on surfing and not leave a comment either. There are other ways to avoid SPAM comments.

Now, the giveaway. I’m giving my Social Media for the Writer workshop starting May 1. I’m giving away two free spots in the class. I’m doing a Rafflecopter giveaway so there are a number of ways to enter. One is by leaving a comment below about social media! Winner will be announced before the class starts and you’ll receive an invite to the email loop.

 

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Until next time…

 

Cindy

A is for Arson

It’s the A to Z Blog Challenge again! How far will I get this time? Who knows. I’m trying to do this for two other blogs as well as teach an online class this month. Plus get my own writing done.

Today’s post is about arson. Deliberately setting fire to property for malicious or fraudulent purposes. The range of motives for arson are just as broad as they are for murder. They range from greed of the insurance swindler to the psychopathic frenzy of the pyromaniac.

Some motives for arson are:

 

 

 

1. Insurance fraud – burning a property to collect on the insurance money
2. Destroy business records – could be before an audit that would have revealed discrepancies
3. To eliminate the competition
4. Revenge – maybe by a disgruntled employee, customer
5. To conceal another crime – like burglary or murder
6. Vandalism for the rush of it
7. A psychotic need – the sometimes sexual gratification of a pyromaniac

Of course I could go on for pages about arson. But that would take up too much time. For more information about arson you can check out the following links:

Canadian Association of Fire Investigators

Inter Fire Online

International Association of Fire Investigators

Until next time…

Cindy

Almost Normal Snippet – a new lead

It’s Weekend Writing Warriors Sunday again! I’m switching books this week to my urban fantasy suspense/thriller, Almost Normal. Sierra Swift is a detective with a secret on the trail of a serial killer. Not only does she have to stop him before he can kill again but she also has to make sure her suspicious partner doesn’t learn the truth about her.

     Another CSU tech hurried over with two evidence bags.  “We found two different types of hair this time,” the tech said.

     They’d only found one type of hair on the last victim.  Maybe they were about to get lucky.

     “Can you tell us what they are?” Sierra asked.

     The tech shrugged.  “Just by looking at them one looks like it’s human hair.  The other one maybe some sort of animal.”

As always, I’d love to know what you think of these.

Don’t forget to check out the other participating authors at www.wewriwa.com.

Until next time…

 

Cindy

Reflections – In search of a weapon

It’s Weekend Writing Warrior Sunday again! I’m continuing almost where I left off last week. Lena and Margo ran from the guys and are in search of a way to break the curse.

     Not quite convinced she was right fear coursed through her. Still, they had no choice. She held up her phone and used the light from the display to search the room for a weapon. Any weapon. If they couldn’t get out of here before the guys found them they wouldn’t like the outcome.
     “Help me look for a weapon,” Lena said.
     Margo pulled out her phone and swept the room. “There’s nothing here.”

As always I’d love to hear what you think.

Don’t forget to check out the other authors at www.wewriwa.com.

Until next time…

 

Cindy

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