I Jumped! Into writing...: classic books

Tuesday, September 3, 2013

Curses - Haunted By Them - Or Thrilled?

Labor Day is over, school is back in session, and another autumn is upon us. The cooler fall evenings get me in the mood to cuddle up with a good horror book, or watch one of the old detective or monster films.

That's right - I am that person. I love the autumn, love Halloween, and love a good scary story.

That's the reason my first novel BREAKING CURSED BONDS was released for this fall. Usually it is better to wait until January and avoid being plunged in with the fall glutton of new books on the market, but I really think my story belongs in the darker days of autumn.

The main story begins with an ancient book that tells the tale of how an ancient curse befell the De Gourgues family - back in 1565! A spiritual ceremony went wrong when an evil element was added to the mix. A curse was created - causing a history of deadly consequences.

If you like the subject of curses and the spiritual realm, then you may like an interesting website The Mystica I discovered. There is a post explaining curses which listed some of the history about how possession, voodoo mystical spells and the paranormal magic and how
they were used in different cultures. Of course there is a lot more out there for those who dare dabble with the supernatural.

Soon Halloween will be upon us, and we will watch our thrillers and read about witches and spells - but be warned, there are many out there who believe in supernatural with all the revelry. So be careful and always keep an open mind.

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Keep reading - Keep writing!

TOP TEN HORROR FILM TRAILERS FOR 2013 - Which is your favorite?

Some Classic Reads -

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And here is my new book -

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Saturday, January 5, 2013

CLASSIC READS - Some Things Never Change

Today more people can communicate their thoughts into words and those words can easily end up in books. It is a liberating time, a cycle of change and freedom. In many ways it is times like this, with so much change, that we need our classic reads.

The past few years have been dynamic for authors. There are more writers being published via eBooks and print on demand (POD). Exposure of existing authors is heightened with the rampant growth of social media and marketing via author platforms.

The classics help our society remember what we are gauging our future against.

Classics are a reference to excellence that we can use as a measure of our own success today and in the future.

The classics prevail over time and language, with truth exposed in the characters and story. Some basic human truths make a story appeal over centuries. No matter the date written, the human spirit is visible in a classic, and is readily identified.

There are obvious classics which we have probably all read from Homer’s Iliad to Stephen King’s The Stand. Some classic writers that quickly come to mind are listed below, trying to find at least one author per letter. There are many more:

Agatha Christie	H.P. Lovecraft	John Steinbeck	Sidney Sheldon
Arthur Conan Doyle	Harper Lee	Jules Verne	Stephen King
Bram Stoker	Henry David Thoreau	Kurt Vonnegut	Thomas Hardy
C.S. Lewis	Herman Melville	Leo Tolstoy	Truman Capote
Charles Dickens	Homer	Mark Twain	Udall, Brady
Dan Brown	Ian McEwan	Mary Shelly	Ursula Markus
Dante Alighieri	Isaac Asimov	Nathaniel Hawthorne	Uzma Sadaf
Edgar Allan Poe	J.D. Salinger	Oscar Wilde	Victor Hugo
Emily Bronte	J.K. Rowling	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Virginia Woolf
Emily Dickinson	J.R.R. Tolkien	Philip Pullman	William Blake
Ernest Hemingway	Jack London	Plato	William Faulkner
F. Scott Fitzgerald	James Joyce	Quinn, Spencer	William Shakespeare
Franz Kafka	Jane Austen	Ralph Waldo Emerson	Xavier, Francis
George Eliot	John Grisham	Ray Bradbury	Yann Martel
George Orwell	John Irving	Robert Louis Stevenson
H. G. Wells	John Milton	Rudyard Kipling

I had difficulty finding a classic author for the letter Z. I humbly hope someday my name may be used to fill in this gap, not presuming classic status on my part.

Please in the coming year look for my book debut…

BREAKING CURSED BONDS by Elisabeth Zguta

Happy reading and writing to us all!

Best of luck in your 2013 endeavors.

Enjoy the clip from the 2009 Wuthering Heights - one of the best versions on screen. The rest of the clips that follow can be found on YouTube - find listed in my channel.

http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSayPBDIpl739kcswMsFopA