Rememberance

This weekend as you spend time with the ones you love...or just love for the weekend ;) never forget the men and women who made the freedom to do that -- possible.....


Have a safe and awesome Memorial Day Weekend!!!

Embry
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It's official!!!!

It's official because I have a cover now......woohoo!!!!

And it's more than I ever expected...............I'm just speechless...........Can't wait for y'all to read the story :)

I hope you enjoy it!!!


Embry
:~)

Dreams do come true

This is the post I have waited for so long to write......

The one I sometimes never thought I would get the chance to write....

Every time one of my talented author friends posted their excitement over a new contract for their current story, I have cheered them on...sent virtual high-fives and hugs,sharing in their excitement. Hoping upon hope that one day I would know that feeling first hand....


Well folks that day is here and I am absolutely over-the-freaking-moon.....

As of Thursday May 9, 2013 I have a contract signed, sealed and delivered with MLR Press...

My story of the 80's (my most favorite decade ever to live in) ((cuz I really love the 20's more, but unfortunately didn't live back then, contrary to my daughter's belief I am that old)) is going to published with MLR.

I think I have lost at least 50 lbs in the last few days from all the jumping up and down I've been doing.........(wouldn't that be great if it were the truth?)

So okay enough blowing my own horn...

I'm just so thankful to Kris Jacen for liking my story enough to want it....

And really thankful for my friends who never gave up their faith on me...

Big time thanks too my girls....NJ...Carrie Anne, Jambrea, Emily, Cherie, Z and Taylor (V) words can not express my gratitude.....Oh there are so many others too I have met along the way.....but since this isn't my eulogy I'll just stop here... 

One last thing.....Thanks to Drake and Shane for digging into my head and never leaving til their story could be told............

Never Gonna Let you all go!!!

;)
Embry

Roaring Twenties

The Roaring Twenties......


I have always had a thing for the 1920's. The clothes, cars, music, speak-easys and gangsters. I had thought it such a romantic time, and it all started when I saw Mia Farrow and Robert Redford in The Great Gatsby. I was 13...everything was romantic back then.

I didn't understand the story of the star-crossed lovers then, nor when I had to read the book my senior year in high school. Mr. Fitzgerald wrote funny words that my 17 year old mind could not comprehend. 

Many, many years have passed since then. With the remake coming out this weekend I decided to read the book again. To say I was floored by the style and voice of the man would be an understatement. The world I pictured as a 13 year old is vastly different from the world he painted in his book. To be so rich and glamorous was beyond my wildest teenage fantasies.....But that was Hollywood.....The book painted a far more heart breaking world...

I wanted to hug and hit Daisy Buchanan more then once. I wanted to shake the shit out of a clueless Gatsby as well as hold him close and tell him he could do better. I felt at different times I was apart of this world, yet so far removed...

Maybe I romanticize the twenties because they were a time of great independence for the young people. Especially women. But at the end of the day all anyone wanted was to be loved and respected.

I can not wait for this new rendition to come out this weekend. I am a huge fan of Baz's movies. They are over the top and exciting but never fail to make me cry at the end. 

For a moment in time I want to be Daisy Buchanan and have the undying love of Gatsby who sold his soul to the devil for her......

But only for a moment.......


To you Old Sport......