I finished updating the website today and uploading the six new releases to our shopping cart. Now to start on the November releases! We added two new authors, Mark Henderson from the UK and Teel James Glenn from New Jersey. Mark is, in his own words: " . . .well over 60, though I don’t appear to be speeding. My career was in medicine and biological research. Now I live in the Peak District of Derbyshire, England, where I eke out a living by editing medical and scientific paper... [More]

How does one go from being a relatively new author to being a brand new publisher? It's simple really. All you have to do is get dumped by your publisher (the publisher, also relatively new, went under and left its authors stranded), be too impatient to wait for another publisher to accept your work, and know other authors who are in the same boat. Voila! A new publisher is born. My housemate, also an author, and I decided to start our own publishing company. How crazy are we? Well, that r... [More]

So here it is, folks . . . my latest extortion email. It seems the value of my life has more than tripled (maybe even quadrupled . . . guess I should go back and read, but somehow the figure $12,000 comes to mind) since the last one I received. Wonder how I got the upgrade? Urgent Thursday, July 23, 2009 7:14 PM From CP Gustavo A. Becquer (Garrapinillos) Thu Jul 23 17:14:48 2009 I want you to read this message very carefully, and keep its content secret till further notice, you have... [More]

Official Notice: I am no longer affiliated with Mystic Moon Press and am currently in process of regaining my rights for all my manuscripts. For more information about buying my work and updates on their status, please refer to my website: http://www.theactorsguildseries.com (to be updated in the next day or two). Thanks!... [More]

I was the featured author on Raine Delight's blog on Thursday, with an additional special interview about my work. Raine is a fellow paranormal (romance) writer (the name is a pseudonym). Here are the links if you want to check them out (copy and paste into your browser). Please leave comments for us if you enjoy the posts. Well, in all fairness, you can leave comments even if you don't like the posts, and check out Raine's web site while you are there! THE INTERVIEW: http... [More]

I'd be less than honest if I didn't say this review is a bit discouraging . . . Then again, it would be even less honest not to share it all the same. McCann's Manor is NOT a fantasy romance, even though my publisher classified as such. It's little wonder to me that a romance reviewer might not think it is so hot! It doesn't have that much romance in it to make the average romance buff say WOW, so without further explanation, here is the latest review for McCann's Manor: ... [More]

MR Review The Bakery Murders: Challenge - Book Two by Charlotte Holley The Bakery Murders: Challenge is the second book of the Actor’s Guild series and picks up just a short time after the events of the first book in the series, McCann’s Manor: Portal. Liz Carr and Kim Henson agree to look into why there is a ghost haunting the local bakery but before they even get started the owner’s boyfriend is brutally murdered and the baker charged with the murder. But Liz and Ki... [More]

The Actor's Guild - The Bakery Murders: Challenge Full Length Novel (152506 word count) Author: Charlotte Holley (Author Website) Genre(s): Fantasy/Sci-Fi/Futuristic - Paranormal - Suspense/Mystery - Time-Travel Review Date: 2/19/2009 ISBN: 978-0-9801777-1-8 Print Book Price: E-Book Price: $6.99 Mystic Moon Press -(http://www.mysticmoonpress.com) SCORE: 4.25 / 5 Best friends and parapsychologists Kim Henson and Liz Carr live in the McCann's manor house, a pro... [More]

When a bakery becomes a murder scene, Kim and Liz find themselves drawn into a case that literally spans the cosmos. A serial killer is on the loose, but that human evil is not the only malevolence that they must confront. A dragon like being needs help that only the man Liz loves can give him and his people, and really, the universe at large. More than one world teeters on the edge of disaster as John and his past self are forced to leave Liz in this world while he/they try to save another. Whi... [More]

McCann's Manor: Portal by Charlotte Holley Release Date: 01/08/08 Publisher: Mystic Moon Press Genre: Paranormal Romance ISBN: 978-0-9800146-9-3 Pages: 360 Format: Print List Price: 15.99 Author Page: Charlotte Holley Manic Readers Reviewer: Stevi B. McCann's Manor: Portal by Charlotte Holley Best friends and former roommates, Elizabeth Carr and Kimberly Henson found themselves, later in life, again rooming together and dabbling in parapsychology as a professi... [More]

Title: McCann's Manor: Portal, Book One of The Actor's Guild Paranormal Mystery Series Author:; Charlotte Holley Publisher: Mystic Moon Press ISBN: 978-0-9800146-9-3 Genre: Paranormal Mystery/Romance If you are one of the fans of old mansions that are haunted, you will love this tale of mysterious disappearances, an old house's history, romance, murder and all the other genres that blend to tell a great tale as crafted by talented author Charlotte Holley. Join Kim and Liz as t... [More]

The Actor’s Guild - McCann’s Manor: Portal Length: Full Length Novel (154158 word count) Author: Charlotte Holley (http://www.theactorsguilseries.com) Genre(s): Fantasy/Sci-Fi/Futuristic - Paranormal - Suspense/Mystery - Time-Travel Review Date: 10/13/2008 ISBN: 978-0-9800146-9-3 Print Book Price: $15.99 E-Book Price: $6.99 Publisher: Mystic Moon Press -(http://www.mysticmoonpress.com) Street Date: January 2008 Reviewer: Diana Coyle SCORE: 5 / 5 Night Owl Roman... [More]

FOUR STARS FOR MCCANN'S MANOR: PORTAL: Soul sisters Liz and Kim have no idea what they are letting themselves in for when they accept the challenge to live in McCann's Manor for a year and during that time heal the profound psychic wounds that have made life impossible for any living being who tries to inhabit it and sheer torture for the spirits trapped there. The two young women have dealt with ghosts and so forth all their lives; that bond has cemented their friendship into somethi... [More]

Hi all, Just wanted to give you the heads up. We've been wanting to move for a while, but we hadn't found the right place. Then all of a sudden, there it was! So I am in process of cleaning both houses and relocating my things. If you write me but don't hear from me right away, that's the reason. I hope to have a lot of it finished this weekend (the actual cleaning and moving things from place to place, that is) and my new Internet connection should be in on Monday. Keep your... [More]

I went to college as a young widow, working my way through the courses as fast as I could between the ages of twenty-seven and thirty. As a mass communications major, I worked as an intern at the university's news and information office, had a part time job with a local weekly tabloid magazine, clocked in time at a couple of other part-time jobs and was a full-time mom to boot. I graduated my course of study at midterm, having completed my last exams just before Christmas, 1980. Exci... [More]

When disaster strikes you or someone you love, what do you do? Where do you turn? How do you cope? Most of us never think much about those questions, because disasters are things that happen to others, NOT to us. You read about them every day, see them on television, but it's almost like "they" are in a different world from "us". Disaster struck my family this past week, and I wasn't there to comfort them or to share the sorrow and help shoulder the burden. My daughter... [More]

Okay, it was supposed to have been out MONTHS ago, but due to unforeseen difficulties with the printer, the paperback has just now been released. The second novel in The Actor's Guild Paranormal Mystery Series will take you deeper into the mysteries of Benjamin McCann and the 200 year-old manor he built for the woman he loved. Contrary to some beliefs, these books are not romances, but instead they delve into the realm of the supernatural while packing a hefty helping of fantasy/sci-f... [More]

Hello to you, my friends. Today is the last day of my membership and at this point I don't have the money to sign up for another three months. Naturally, I'd like to continue being a member, but I haven't had the time or the energy fo be a contributing member in a while and maybe it's time I let it go. I have been begging for upgrades the last couple of times and--well, to be frank, maybe it's time to let someone else have that free upgrade. I love WDC. I love you all. We&... [More]

It's been said if two or more people strongly agree on any one thing, no matter how unlikely, that thing will come to pass. When art lovers and critics alike unanimously acclaim Sam Forbes' monsters in his Dozen Dreadfuls series as real enough to step right off the canvas and into the world, they unwittingly unleash a rash of gory killings and a plague of terror as well. As the only living human who knows what is happening, Sam sets out to make up for the damage his work has ca... [More]

I just received my second "assassination" notice, this time from someone who generously offered to consider sparing my life for a measly $8000. Wasn't that kind? Sheesh! If I had $8000, I'm not stupid enough to give it to this joker! Here's the lovely email! From: "BLOOD BLOOD" <landofseennomore2@gala.net> Subject: SOMEONE YOU CALL YOUR FRIEND, WANTS YOU DEAD. ATTENTION: ATTENTION: ATTENTION: I felt very sorry and bad for you, that your life... [More]

Gail is an average teenager with problems and a really big inferiority complex, trying to ignore the world so everyone will just leave her alone. The last thing she wants is to be singled out by the popular, ever-smiling and beautiful Nancy, but some things we don't want are exactly what we need. When Gail finally becomes friends with Nancy, she learns life isn't always what it seems and the beautiful, popular teen she has tried so hard to avoid has as many problems as she does... [More]

Just a quick note to let everyone know the first installment (in eBook format) of Kilesha and the Atlantis Rock Band is releasing today at Mystic Moon Press... Check it out! http://www.mysticmoonpress.com/authorpages/charlotteholley.html ... [More]

Today was my third anniversary at WDC. My, how time does fly! It's been a productive three years for my writing, though a really tough time for my world as a whole. Still, all in all, I am in a pretty fair position right now and feeling all right . . . no hives, no painful teeth or achey shoulders, knees or hips . . .I almost feel my age, instead of twenty years older than I am. Life goes on and it seems the trials, surprises, twists and turns do the same, along with what good we encount... [More]

I don't think so. I read on the Internet that this is a preamble to a demand for money, but I had to put it out there, just in case I turn up dead! The following is a copy (verbatim) of the email I got this morning. One has to wonder what anyone could be thinking sending this kind of email if they weren't planning to attempt extortion. Funny thing about these pfishing emails and such is that I have absolutely nothing anyone could want. If they took over my identity, all they would ge... [More]

Kilesha and the Atlantis Rock Band is a Teen/Young Adult Sci-Fi/Fantasy Novel . . . Long ago the last scientists of Atlantis engineered and "programmed" a dozen fish-like "babies" and released them to the sea, hoping their progeny would be able to save the world from the same cataclysmic disaster that was about to sink Atlantis. What the scientists didn't know was the many Children of Atlantis would one day emerge from the sea and abandon Earth to travel the va... [More]

Hey! I have posted my Cover Art (designed my moi!) at the New Covey Cover Art Awards and my trailer for The Actor's Guild Paranormal Mystery Series at the Covey Trailer Awards! Voting for the Most Artistic and Most Eye-catching covers started over the weekend and will run through April 4. Please go to: http://thenewcoveycoverawards. blogspot. com/ and check out all the neat cover art in this month’s contest and vote for your favorite! It won’t hurt my feelings in the least if you vote for M... [More]

1. The cover art for McCann's Manor is in the running for the New Covey Cover Arts awards this month! Stop by, take a look and vote for your favorite cover art at: http://thenewcoveycoverawards.blogspot.com/ 2. The print version of The Bakery Murders is scheduled for release early in April. For more information, visit here: http://www.mysticmoonpress.com/authorpages/charlotteholleyactorsguildseries.html 3. I have had two short teaser stories and another book accepted for publication an... [More]

Just a quickie! The Bakery Murders Kindle edition is available as of yesterday at Amazon.com. I don't know how many people in the world have Amazon's Kindle reader, but I do know when Amazon adds a book, even the Kindle version, it gets seen more places. For example, because it is available at Amazon, I can add it to my bookshelf at Shelfari, which is cool, because I can display my Shelfari bookshelf lots of places online. Promoting yourself as an author is HARD work! , but the... [More]

The Bakery Murders, second of The Actor's Guild Paranormal Mystery Series, was released this morning in eBook format! The print version will follow soon. EXCERPT: “Jessica,” a voice called in the stillness of the evening, “what are you doing up there? How long were you there in the dark, listening in on my private conversation?” The woman’s tone was stern, demanding as she climbed the stairs, candle in hand, to the top floor of the bakery where their living quarters were. “Where ... [More]

Okay, already! Enough hooting and honking my own horn. You have to do that if you want to get anywhere as an author, but I do hate flaunting myself. So . . . Congratulations to WDC's own on the release of the first of her Sidhe/Bane Sidhe fantasy series, One Never Knows . . . With Dragons , which was released yesterday at Mystic Moon Press. Hurray for Silver! You can check it out by going here: http://www.mysticmoonpress.com/authorpages/denisebartlett.html Congratulations also a... [More]

I was shocked and surprised yesterday when I went to see if I could add my book, McCann's Manor , to my bookshelf at Shelfari.com and found out that I indeed could! Many of these sites depend on Amazon for their released books, and Amazon has picked up the Kindle version of McCann's Manor , no doubt due to the tireless efforts of my editor and publisher at Mystic Moon Press. I had no idea! For those who don't know, Kindle is Amazon's very posh and impressive eBook reader. Li... [More]

I am floating! Just wanted to let everyone know, assuming anyone still comes here anymore! The book is available now at: http://www.mysticmoonpress.com/bookstore/ It will soon be available at Barnes and Noble online as well. More to come! The Bakery Murders should be available in ebook format sometime this month, too!... [More]

ABOUT THE BOOK: Whoever said the past is dead and buried never knew the evil wizard Arvashan or his fiendish plan to avenge himself on those who caused all the trouble at the very beginning . . . Liz Carr and Kim Henson find they have only skimmed the surface when it comes to the mysteries of the past and their lingering affects on the present. They are about to learn their lives and those of John Carter and Mark Adams are hopelessly tangled with Arvashan’s in a way they could never h... [More]

Another cover I designed. This is the second in my Actor's Guild series and is scheduled for release in ebook form February or early March with the print version to follow soon. About The Bakery Murders : Liz Carr and Kim Henson got more than they bargained for when they agreed to move into McCann's Manor and rid the place of unfriendly spirits. Nothing they had experienced in their ghostbusting careers could have prepared them for what lay ahead. They solved the myster... [More]

Available NOW in eBook Format from http://www.mysticmoonpress and in February, 2008 in Print form! ABOUT THE BOOK: Elizabeth Carr and her friend Kimberly Henson are psychically gifted and have worked together for years to help unfortunate souls find peace and go into the Light, a calling which has brought them much joy and adventure—and trouble and heartache. When John Carter, internationally acclaimed screen actor, meets Liz and Kim at a party and tells them of McCann’s Manor, they acc... [More]

Okay, I know I am never around anymore, but I have to commemorate today, so I thought I would show up to say that today . . . Sunday, October 28, 2007, I signed the contract on my first novel, known to some of you as "Book One" and to others as McCann's Manor. . . . and altogether UNKNOWN to some! More details as they become available! What a nice birthday present to me from me (no actually, NOT from me--from my new publisher!), though my birthday isn't until next month! I ... [More]

Anyone who looks it up online can find this incredible hymn and story in the Wikipedia. A number of years ago I was lying in bed one Sunday morning thinking about sleeping in instead of going to church. It was 20 degrees outside and it had snowed several inches during the night; the heater in my car wasn't very good, the tires were threadbare and going out in the snow was a dangerous prospect. On the other hand, my bed was warm and comfy and I just couldn't see dragging myself out o... [More]

Oh, blah, blah, blah ... Since I am mostly just writing for my own amusement here these days and I don't have anything to say anyway, I think I will spend my energy instead on editing the manuscripts I want to submit for publication. I will see you another day! Have a good one!... [More]

Okay, so I didn't originate this, but it is so cute I have to share it. Since you already know I am a cat person, I can't hurt my reputation by passing this on! ENJOY!! My human will never let me eat his pet hamster, and I am at peace with that I will not slurp fish food from the surface of the aquarium I will not eat large numbers of assorted bugs and then come home and throw them up so the humans can see that I'm getting plenty of roughage. I will not lean w... [More]

Is Preparation-H(tm) an anal-gesic cream? If I stop packing boxes will I still be "crater-ing" in my dreams? How long will it take to get over this syndrome? How many boxes will it take to stuff my world inside cardboard cartons? Interesting, but I have never been able to get everything into boxes. Things just overflow into plastic bags, handbags, paper sacks and handfuls of "stuff" tossed into the trunk of the car, and still there are things to move. What the world nee... [More]

I just finished answering a stack of reviews from I have never had my port raided before, so I feel so lucky and at the same time so overwhelmed. I was busy yesterday and most of today with other things and so didn't get a chance to answer but about 20 of the more than 60 emails I had in my inbox until this evening. I just finished the stack and I feel absolutely wacko! You gotta figure as much as you sit around wishing people would explore your port, when someone does take an i... [More]

I hate to think, but, I am sure the answer is--pretty dyslexic ... I got a piece of junk mail yesterday and brought it in and laid it on the desk along with a bill, a check (YEA) and some other junk mail. I went through the rest of the day without so much as glancing at it, but today, I decided I couldn't take it; I had to look through my junk mail. It's something I do; can't help it. I suppose I have this weird disorder (yes, in addition to my dyslexia. Truth be known, I ha... [More]

Now I lay me down to sleep, I pray to God my feet don't stink. (My kids -- daughter, her hubby and the grandkids -- are coming out to see us the end of the month. It will be the first time I've seen them since Christmas and possibly the last time I will see them before next Christmas. I am thrilled they are coming, but have a million and eight things to do between now and then) If I don't hurry and hit the sack, This entire room will fade to black. (I d... [More]

and I were out cruising tonight on our way back from a little post-sundown excursion to the grocery store in our "new" rust and yellow Mercedes (I'll get to that in a minute or two) when the smell of cigarette smoke wafted in through the open sunroof and windows and reminded me of summer evenings spent at the drive-in movies when I was a kid ... the hot summer nights, the distant smell of cigarette smoke blended with the scent of the sultry night ... all that was missing was the po... [More]

I have been doing some port decorating and organizing the last couple of weeks. I am honing in on making things look more inviting. Actually, I am trying to entice readers to come on in and explore. Almost every item in my port has a graphic of some sort now, whether it be a photograph or a piece of clip art. You may be wondering why I would do such a thing and I'm not sure I can tell you why; I just wanted to do something different. I was sort of inspired by , who put hers ... [More]

Hmmm ... I guess from the size of these boots (about 3-1/2 inches tall), that handmade cowboy my dad made must have been more like 20 inches tall ... I mentioned he was an artist. I didn't know he was when I was a child; I just thought he could make things ... He really could make or fix almost anything and what he couldn't do, it seemed like my mom could. He was the oldest of eight children though, and he quit school when he was thirteen to help make a living for his family... [More]

I was thinking today about how "crafty", as in good with their hands, my parents both were. My dad once made a cowboy doll about twelve inches tall. He sewed the body together and stuffed it then, taking scraps of old clothes, he made a pair of pants and a shirt for his cowboy. Using leather, he fashioned the cowboy a hat, chaps and a vest. Then he whittled boots and a pair of six shooters from wood and painted them, finishing his cowboy off with leather on the soles of the boots an... [More]

Hey, everyone, I spent most of the day working up and uploading some c-notes. I sure did have fun. You can check them out by clicking on the picture below. Sorry this is so short, but I worked in the yard a couple of hours then I spent the rest of my energy playing with graphics. These pictures aren't mine, but are mostly from graphics packages included in software I have bought over the years (don't I wish they were all created by me?), but I will get to that point, I hope ... In th... [More]

Wheatgrass for juicing is just that—grass, which is grown and harvested within ten days of being planted, having grown to a height of five to seven inches. It is beautiful, lush green and succulent—looks just about like a flat of gorgeous grass, probably because it is a flat of gorgeous grass. It is grown in flats and carried to the juice bars where it is kept in coolers until it is cut and juiced. The important thing about wheatgrass is having it fresh, for the nutrients begin to diminish w... [More]

By popular demand—actually one request by a popular Blogger, , whose inquiring mind wants to know more, I’ve been “inspired” to write about the subject of wheatgrass. Wheatgrass was brought to the American consciousness in 1963 when Dr. Ann Wigmore founded the Hippocrates Health Institute in Boston, Massachusetts. The Institute’s program for total health and wellness centered around fresh raw fruits and vegetables, sprouts and wheatgrass, which is juiced for its amazing health benefits. T... [More]