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Vision Boards

A vision board is a new name for an old concept. Back when I was a teenager, two creative friends of mine gave me one of the most beautiful gifts I have ever received. They bought a cheap poster frame and filled it with a collage of images and words cut out of magazines. Things they knew I liked and that they thought represented me. It was so beautiful. So thoughtful. They’d put a lot of time and thought into making that thing and I loved it! I still have it, in fact.

So when I first heard about the concept of a vision board, at first I was wondering what it could be about. In reality, it’s the same kind of thing – only you cut out images of things you want in your life. Images that appeal to you. Images and words that represent people, places, things and feelings you want to come into  your life. The idea from there is the same – collage the images and words into a picture that you can put somewhere you will see it every day. By keeping these things you want in your mind every day, you will be able to bring them into your life.

Life coaches use this tool and it’s something that can be very helpful. What I’ve done is take it into the technological age. Instead of buying a bunch of magazines and going crazy with scissors and glue, I made myself an electronic collage of images I pulled from the internet. Then I set the image collage as the background on my computer desktop. I look at that all day long, so it’s a good place to keep those images and concepts fresh in my mind during the day.

If you’re not good with collages, why not try just right-clicking on an image and setting it as your background whenever you want. You can change the desktop all the time as different images catch your eye. It’s worth a try, so have fun and enjoy!

With any luck, we’ll all be able to attract the good things we want in our lives.

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Guests: Vivian Arend & Lexxie Couper

Looking for something to warm up your winter, or celebrate the summer heat Down Under? Vivian Arend and Lexxie Couper are spanning the globe to bring you two stories that are sure to make you sweat. Viv and Lexxie are both members of International Heat, and while their stories are not connected in anyway, they happen to have drawn the same release day at Ellora’s Cave.

What better reason to get together to celebrate?

Viv:
I’m very excited to be able to have Claiming Derryn available to you. This is my first futuristic novella, my first m/m/f, and my first release from Ellora’s Cave. Claiming Derryn is about three friends–and lovers during their days at the Space Institute–who were suddenly separated. Now rejoined in the midst of a rebel uprising, the lines between the good guys and the bad are extremely blurred. Surviving is going to be tough even as they find love. Oh, and if you’ve ever seen Star Trek’s ‘The Trouble with Tribbles’ you’ll understand when I say the ’sharysa’ are my salute to Star Trek.

It’s a hot, wild ride through the galaxy. Be prepared for a passion that’s out of this world.

Lexxie:
There must be something seriously wrong with me. I love writing stories that are dark and twisted, quite disturbing and full of wild dangerous sex. Enter Timeless Wrath. I wrote Timeless Wrath years ago and it was previously released as a novella called Deadly Sins: Anger. It won numerous awards (including the JERR Silver Star Award) but remained unknown to the reading public. However Evron and Ricki’s tale DEMANDED to be heard and, after quite a lot of rewrites, my most erotic book to date comes to you from Ellora’s Cave.

Timeless Wrath has just about everything you’d expect in a Lexxie Couper book – lots of explosive sex, tormented heroes, lots of wild sex, a villain that’ll scare the pants right off you, lots of passionate sex and a love story fated by the Highest of Powers (oh, and lots of sex. Did I mention that?)

I should warn you though. Timeless Wrath isn’t for the faint of heart. It’s violent, at times scary and has been known to cause nightmares…and wicked, wet dreams.

Caught your interest? Raised your temperature? Come and see the official blurbs and read longer excerpts at Ellora’s Cave. Both books are now available.

Claiming Derryn                            Vivian Arend

Timeless Wrath                              Lexxie Couper

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Dark Places

I came across a quote that I found beautiful:

“When it’s dark enough, you can see the stars.”

Well, it’s plenty dark in my world of late, but so far I haven’t seen many stars. I’ll keep looking. Problem is, I’m stuck in such a dark place of grief and unhappiness, I forget to look up.

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