 Giveaway of the Day. Brachina Gorge, Flinders Ranges, South Australia, A Fridge Magnet from the Art of Kathy Shell. My Giveaway to be drawn this time tomorrow is as a thank you, for any input you would like to give, as advice to me, as a reader or writer of historical novels. I want your opinion of the best order in which to write a series. Here are my thoughts I feel writing from 1950 forward, given I can remember this time well would be the easiest place to begin a series, for me. Then I thought I would write a novel that went from 1910, until 1950, a time described to me by my mum who intended to write a novel from this time, but never did. After that, I have a lot of early Australia, and Scottish oral history I would love to research for accuracy and write. All the main characters to be, inter-connected to make a series, written forward initially then a jump back into time with each book that followed. I would love reader and writers opinions before I choose my time and make the official start and am offering this fridge magnet of Brachina Gorge in the Flinders ranges as my thank you for the best advice I am given J, or if there is equally useful advice I will draw a thank you prize winner. J I also plan to write an EBook, About :- Getting Fit, Past Sixty. I am taking about 5 years, to make a transformation, from morbidly obese to slim and fit journey, I am just over the three-year mark, into my progress and I have used my creativity to write my journey in what has become a successful and award winning blog, artslim. Soon I will write and launch an Ebook from this and my gray-nomad.com, seniors and travel interest, blog. I do not diet, think diet, nor take apidexin, I just strive to eat healthy and portion control my meals to 300 to 350-calorie size x 3 times a day. I allow 100 to 150 calorie healthy snacks if I feel I need them, any drinks I have, like tea or coffee with skim milk and no sugar, or a small glass or red wine, occasionally, are counted, as these snacks. I work out, quite hard; at least one hour of every day alternating strength and cardio exercises and I do other exercise, incidental exercise to my day. I do a program of three strength training days, alternating with 2 cardio and 1 flexibility training day both of those having some core strength training involved. Comments VERY WELCOME. A friend, Oanh Nguyen has already replied to this question on facebook with her comment “sounds good. I'm not a writer but many series are written that way...” So Oanh is in the draw J Thank you.  Place a comment on this post, for a chance to be in the draw to win this SPOT PRIZE. I have two fridge magnets from my art; I am giving away as spot prizes, this weekend. (Eastern, Australian time). This compertition is for the one illustrated above. One Winner will be drawn from those people who comment on this post and who click that they "Like", my Kathy Shell page on facebook, (see link below, and at top of side bar. Postage will be FREE for the winner (worldwide). The first Spot Prize Giveaway is a reproduction of a small work I made using acrylic paint on paper, of the black swans on the lake near my home in the northern Victoria, Australia. You need to go to my Kathy Shell page on facebook, “like”, the page then come here and leave a comment in this post to be in the draw to win this fridge magnet from my artwork, of Black Swans. Reg and I are heading out to dinner tomorrow night, to a ‘hat’, party with roast pork and BYO salad. It is held, here in the Flying Fish Point caravan park we are staying at. As I have a new pink hat I bought a couple of months ago, on sale, when I was visiting friends, on the south coast below Sydney and a new pink dress I bought 2 weeks ago, at a closing sale. The pink dress, was a little too tight at the time, lol I will hope that the fat burner exercise today, of climbing the steep steps, at Paronella Park and all my pervious hard work, this fortnight, has me ready to fit into that dress, in time for tomorrow nightJ. The dinner will not go late, I will be back, chatting through my blog posts and in my Kathy Shell page on facebook and draw the winner in about 24 hours after posting this blog notice of the spot prize. Enjoy participating, I plan to do lots more, so you can strive to collect these magnets FREE or buy them from my Fridge Magnet Art website. The winner will need to contact me quickly   Author Biography· Bryce Courtenay, was born in South Africa. He is, an Australian, and has lived in Sydney, for the major part of his life. His hero’s portray both the vulnerability of youth or human weakness and as we read, we see them develop an incredible, testosterone booster larger than life inner strength. Visit him on the web at www.brycecourtenay.com. WIN :- The Power Of One: [Audiobook, Unabridged] [Double box Audio CD] Pre listened to, once by myself, Kathy shell, cover is scratched, New value of this 18 compact disk set is over $150. value with FREE postage within Australia. You are welcome to enter the competition if outside of Australia but shipping cost must be paid before item will be sent. Bryce Courtenay, Author, Humphrey Bower, Narator. This great prize, Plus free postage within Australia, is our FREE Giveaway, for July. To be in the draw with one entry, just:- 1/ Leave a comment on this post saying why you would like to win this audio book. · Note, this Giveaway will be being offered from all ten blogs written by Kathy Shell, during the month of July 2010. There is only one prize to be given away and free postage is only for Australian delivery. All entries from each blog post, for this competition, from each of the ten blogs, will go into the one draw, and the winner will be announced at the end of July or start of August 2010. “The Power of One has everything: suspense, the exotic, violence; mysticism, psychology and magic; schoolboy adventures, drama.” –The New York Times “Unabashedly uplifting . . . asserts forcefully what all of us would like to believe: that the individual, armed with the spirit of independence–‘the power of one’–can prevail.” –Cleveland Plain Dealer In 1939, as Hitler casts his enormous, cruel shadow across the world, the seeds of apartheid take root in South Africa. There, a boy called Peekay is born. His childhood is marked by humiliation and abandonment, yet he vows to survive and conceives heroic dreams–which are nothing compared to what life actually has in store for him. He embarks on an epic journey through a land of tribal superstition and modern prejudice where he will learn the power of words, the power to transform lives, and the power of one. “Totally engrossing . . . [presents] the metamorphosis of a most remarkable young man and the almost spiritual influence he has on others . . . Peekay has both humor and a refreshingly earthy touch, and his adventures, at times, are hair-raising in their suspense.” –Los Angeles Times Book Review “Marvelous . . . It is the people of the sun-baked plains of Africa who tug at the heartstrings in this book. . . . [Bryce] Courtenay draws them all with a fierce and violent love.” –The Washington Post Book World “Impressive.” –Newsday “A compelling tale.” –The Christian Science Monitor · Publishers Weekly · ``Episodic and bursting with incident, this sprawling memoir of an English boy's lonely childhood in South Africa during WW II pays moderate attention to questions of race but concerns itself primarily with epic melodrama,'' noted PW. (Apr.)   I am holding a FREE Giveaway over at my Women, Words and Works Blog, and invite you to participate Kathy Shell Win this The Giveaway Prize, for your teenage girl or yourself. Have you tried audio books as a sleep aid, or for the opposite effect, to help stay alert while driving long distances or to help reduce the monotony of long stretches of treadmill exercise? Breaking Dawn / by Stephenie Meyer Author Stephenie Meyer DVD’s Audio Book Summary “To be irrevocably in love with a vampire is both fantasy and nightmare woven into a dangerously heightened reality for Bella Swan. Pulled in one direction by her intense passion for Edward Cullen, and in another by her profound connection to werewolf Jacob Black, she has endured a tumultuous year of temptation, loss and strife to reach the ultimate turning point. Her imminent choice to either join the dark but seductive world of immortals or pursue a fully human life has become the thread from which the fate of two tribes hangs. Now that Bella has made her decision, a startling chain of unprecedented events about to unfold with potentially devastating and unfathomable consequences. Just when the frayed strands of Bella's life - first discovered in TWILIGHT, then scattered and torn in NEW MOON and ECLIPSE - seem ready to heal and knit together, could they be destroyed . . .forever?" To enter this FREE Giveaway competition, click Here -> Giveaway, Breaking Dawn     The Giveaway: In conjunction with Mummified Times Five, I am giving away up to $1000 worth of Maimeri Classico oil paints! Each prize pack includes 10 tubes of Maimeri Classico paints valued at $9.55 each…so with free postage, that’s a prize pack valued at over $100!! And we have 10 packs to give away!! To enter, all you need to do is: -comment on any post ON EACH of Kathy Shell’s blogs (listed in my blog side bar and below): http://mummifiedtimesfive.net/2010/02/01/spotlight-on-kathy-shell-giveaway/ and say why you would like to win a 10 pack of Maimeri Classico paints. (Both steps are mandatory to be in the running to win this prize) Giveaway finishes 15 Feb 2010 This blog post has been illustrated by postcards from the art of Kathy Shell. These can be orderd through the artist's postcards-art web site or purchased 'direct from the artist', in her caravan awning studio      Advance Notice. $1,000 . value of Oil Paint to be given away FREE to my blog readers during February 2010. Not just any oil paint but, quality Italian Maimeri Classico 60ml tubes. These paints are the artist’s daily bread and butter. Anyone – professional or amateur – who picks up a tube of Classico oil paints will find in it just what they need. They contain no waxes or thickeners, and pigment concentration is very high. Bright, lively colours with overall harmony in the palette, these paints from Italy are made with non-toxic, non-polluting pigments that improve light-fastness. They are versatile paints, offering exceptional value for money, but you could own a set plus postage FREE. Watch this blog and http://mummifiedtimesfive.net for further details and be the first to enter this FREE competition.  | Kathy Shell on Facebook What is RSS
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