#giveaway #scavengerhunt Happy Birthday to Patricia Josephine

 

Head to https://www.patriciajosephine.com/blog for the list of other participants. When you've collected at least five, go back to Patricia's blog and comment on the post Happy Birthday AND Anniversary to be entered in the giveaway. 

To save the world, Erin needs a zombie.

Every human in the world becomes a zombie when they die. But Erin refuses to accept the world as it is now. She’s heard about a cure locked away in a lab in Upper Michigan, and she plans on retrieving it. To do so, she needs a zombie. Not just any zombie, though.

Zee is Erin’s link to the lab. His connection to the living world is her bargaining chip. But only if she can teach him to control his mindless impulses.

Can a zombie be trained? Or will Erin be Zee’s next meal and become a zombie herself? The fate of humanity rests in her hands.

The Cure is a post apocalypse story about redemption and saving the world.
Steam rating: None.

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Patricia Josephine aka Patricia Lynne
Author of paranormal, fantasy, and sci-fi novels you can escape into.
 Website: patriciajosephine.com
Twitter: @pjlauthor
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Check out my review: https://amzn.to/3nt9C8m

Titles, Blubs, the #IWSG, OA, Native American Heritage Month, and WEP winners

Shout-out to Alex and the awesome co-hosts for today: Kim Lajevardi, Victoria Marie Lees, Joylene Nowell Butler, Erika Beebe, and Lee Lowery!

Nov 3 question -

What's harder to do, coming up with your book title or writing the blurb?

Answer:
For me, writing the blurb.
The blurb requires me to think inside the box. Not even my box, someone else's box. What would make someone else want to read something? What intrigues someone who isn't me? 
Because that which catches my eye and my attention rarely matches what grabs other people. 
I tried to hire people to write my blurb for Fractions of Existence. But it didn't work. And more than one person said that I'd "gain more" from writing it myself. 
I know my book. I know my characters. I could drop spoilers all over the place. 
But I feel like I'm too close to be objective enough to write a proper blurb.
 What do you think of my attempt?

(Also on Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36273731-fractions-of-existence )

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Happening at OperationAwesome6.blogspot.com

We have ongoing posts for your NaNoWriMo needs!
O'Abby talked about 👻 ghostwriting.
Brandy will have another installment of the Query Support Group coming soon.
And there are FIVE days left to win one of TWO copies of the enchanted new MG novel The Circus at the End of the Sea by Lori Snyder -- so enter now!!!
(Prefer a more adult read? Check out Paulette Stout's debut author spotlight.)

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It's Native American Heritage Month here in the United States.
museumofindianculture.org
This is my local Lenni-Lenape museum, which has featured artifacts from other tribes as well for the last fifteen years or so. If you'd like to learn a little about the tribe of my ancestors, that website has several resources.

The Lenni-Lenape Indians NPR -- Here's an article of some interest.
TRUE: "Lenape Indians occupied the Philadelphia area almost 10,000 years before Europeans came to the region"
LESS THAN ACCURATE: "renamed the tribe, calling them the Delaware Indians, because they had trouble pronouncing Lenape (Leh-NAH-pay)"
People still can't pronounce it. I've heard more people say Len-a-pea or Len-ape ... first off, there was no one named Len or Leonard, so stop trying to put the N over there; secondly, the word does not sound like a pea vegetable or the primate known as an ape. 
But the reason they called us Delaware is that we became the property of  Lord Thomas West, 3rd Baron De La Warr, as was the state, river, and whatever else the Lord was granted. I do wish people would stop pretending that Native Americans were treated as human right away. We were classified as slaves or animals for a very long time. Some states are still, TO THIS DAY, creating ways to prevent us from voting. 
(Example: Saying Native Americans need to live on a reservation to retain their native rights. But living on a reservation means you may only have a PO Box for an address. And anyone who only has a PO Box as an address is not allowed to register to vote.) 
We've come a long way from being classified as low-valued animals, but we haven't fully achieved equality. I can say I'm doing better than some because I never lived on a reservation. Or I could say I'm doing worse, because I grew up away from the majority of my people. I know less than twenty of my own people. But I am grateful to those who took the time to teach me. I am the better for the knowledge, wisdom, guidance, skills, and stories that were passed on to me. Very few of us remain here, on the original lands, with the ancestors buried beneath our feet. 

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Final note:
I'm so proud of my cousin-in-law for getting the Encouragement Award!

Come congratulate our OCTOBER winners!. #WEPFF THE SCREAM Challenge @DeniseCCovey @yolandarenee @OlgaGodim @LGKeltner @jemifraser #amwriting #flashfiction #wepwinners https://t.co/cdikqBZDrE

— J Lenni Dorner (@JLenniDorner) November 3, 2021