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OMG! Reviews on The Story of Rachel are Awesome! YEAH!!!

It's only Wednesday and the reviews of The story of Rachel are coming in fast and furious!  And people are loving it and asking for the second book!  This is so awesome and exciting!

75 HOUR PROMOTION!

Desmond and I were talking about how we don't have any reviews up on my book at Amazon. And Amazon's important if you want to get your second career off the ground!

SO! We started a promotional program that will run from now until 4:00 PM Thursday this week- December 6th!

SEVENTY FIVE HOURS FOR SEVENTY FIVE BUCKS!!
Between now and 4:00 PM Thursday, every review posted on Amazon for The Story of Rachel will be in a draw for a $75.00 gift certificate! All you have to do is read the book (it's kind of short), and post a review by the deadline. A name will be picked randomly (yes, that's from the good and bad reviews; all honest I hope) and they get the gift certificate!!

Here's the link for The Story of Rachel:
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B008QF042A/ref=rdr_kindle_ext_tmb

Now I'm not going burn up the free days for download on Kindle; so you can download at Smashwords using the cupon code

WV62J

If you want a PDF File for download, I'm going to try to either put it up here, or else I'll put it in a page!

SEVENTY FIVE BUCKS FOR CHRISTMAS SHOPPING!! Yay!!!

Dammit!! I'm not kinky? I'm typical??

I just came across this article in Psychology Today about D/s and BDSM. The author's position is that domination/submission is a rather normal part of everybody's sexuality from Vanilla to all shades of sexy. Here is the gist of what he said...
"The venerable erotic subculture of BDSM is not an atypical variant of human sexuality. Rather, its enthusiasts intensely focus on one of the most basic and universal--and typical--components of human sexuality. They were the first to identify the primal dominance/submission cue in the neuropsychology of the humanbrain and hold it up to the light. All contemporary textbooks rightly include a prominent chapter on sexual orientation. Perhaps future textbooks will afford dominance orientation the same attention, instead of relegating it to the status of unorthodox paraphilia."
Here's the link for the full article
http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/billion-wicked-thoughts/201205/our-greatest-source-sexual-creativity-0
This isn't as far out as it used to be but I don't think there's going to be a spanking land at Disneyland, but if they did I'm sure it would by good! :)

YEAH PUBLISHED!!!!YEAH!!!!

YEAH!!!! 3 Books of the Pandora series - The Story of Rachel, Annik's Story and Soldier Boi are up and live at Smashwords!!! Whew! Now I can sleep!!

Big shout out to Julia Hendrix!

On Spirituality

One of the themes that I have in my writing is sexuality, in all its flavors, without pain, fear or guilt. Yet, in our society, damning judgements are made by so many usually in the name of some moral code. On one extreme are fundamentalists of all types- women beaten in the Middle East by self appointed 'protectors', to kids in school calling other children sluts because of the way they dress, just to name a few.

I have always found good sex to be a transcendental experience. Not ALL sex- a good romp, a happy quickie has it's place! But those wonderful, passionate encounters, where I lose myself in my partner, who is also lost in me; those episodes have a spiritual dimension. They're just plain GOOD. In and of themselves, they're a gift.

Which begs the question 'Gift from Whom?'.

For a long time, I have explored issues of the Spirit. I believe that we are MORE than these atoms, molecules, cells and organs that make up our bodies. My explorations have led me to the books of Neal Donald Walsch- if you are interested in inspired writing, his books are magnificent.

Just as I am a person with a Spiritual side, I am also a rational being, living in a world where reason is also a value, no? But generally speaking, science does not allow for questions of Spirituality. Which makes sense- if empirical methods are those employed, and you cannot see or measure one's soul, what the hell can you expect? And, in my life, the advances of science have led to many many good things in this world I live in.

I love my hot tub! LOL

I remember when I was an undergrad in Psychology, and one of my professors- a man who had lost the love of his life to cancer- stood before the class telling us that the sooner we learn to accept that when the brain dies we cease to exist, when he said that, I was profoundly disturbed.

And yet that professor's viewpoint is an accepted tenet of psychology, neurology, and even brain surgery.

Up till now.

Over the last few months, I've read a tale of a remarkable experience by one of the top brain surgeons in the world. No kidding- his resume reads like one of the characters in a romance novel! Accomplished MD, Ivy League professor, tall, handsome…

I digress….

Anyway, he had the experience of being literally brain dead for a week. And he came back.

And he has a message to tell, and I want to share it here.

IF you've read this far, then take this gift of what Doctor Eben Alexander has to say here:

http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2012/10/07/proof-of-heaven-a-doctor-s-experience-with-the-afterlife.html

Naturally, he was pilloried by many other scientists, and here is his response.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2012/11/18/the-science-of-heaven.html

These articles were a delight for me to read, and I hope that you enjoy them too!

KD and Desmond

Writing Up A Storm!

Desmond and I have completed the next couple of books in the Tales of Pandora series!  We are doing the research on marketing and where best to E-publish. The number of websites is overwhelming! We're trying to get up to speed with social media and welcome anyone's advice on this....

Here are the covers of the next 2 books to go live within the next couple of weeks!