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Merry Christmas to all the eTreasures authors, staff and readers!
May the Christmas season fill your home with joy, your heart with love & your life with laughter.
Martha

eTreasures Twelve Days Blog #8: Love for Christmas!

Can we tempt you with a book of Love? Cupid Gone Wild is a collection of Valentine tales but Love is wonderful year round and very special at Christmas.

Cupid Gone Wild

Sometimes true love needs help. Five Cupids take on a challenge this Valentine's season: To match the most unlikely couple they can find.

Love Transposed by Pepper O'Neal and Chelsy Day - Free Read One arrow straight through two chests was all it took for carpenter/painter Dan, and trust fund baby Jane to go from making each other crazy, to being crazy about each other.

Love Potion 2-14 by Pepper O'Neal White witch Kole Trillion has a successful business, customers who swear by her potions and spells. Unfortunately, she also has the bad luck to fall in love with a man who doesn't believe in magic, Police Detective Gage Corwin.

The Bachelor by Heather Hiestand Abbie Harper didn’t mean to buy the date, but one look at Jake Cordalys and she’s ready for red-hot romance. Jake is not looking for something complicated, but when Cupid is involved, all plans go out the window and romance flies in.

The Boss Wore Red by Delle Jacobs and SamMarie Ashe Alexandria Bergstrom was chosen because she desperately needed to alter the course of her life. Clint Riordan doesn’t know what will make him completely happy until he meets Alexandria. By giving Alexandria this opportunity to discover her true past, the pairing of Alexandria and Clint will repair past mistakes and produce a new brighter future.

The Wrong Target by Sherry Gloag Headmistress, Tina Blackberry and businessman Ryan Thomas can't control events after Ryan's daughter steals his coveted golden arrow and takes it to school, But put Cupid on the job and nothing can go wrong, or can it? 

The Hollywood Hookup by Chelsy Day Actor Casey Jones and Stunt Woman Sandra Benson have a history. Can Cupid get them past the animosity and prove that true love in Hollywood is NOT impossible? 

 Comment on this post for an entry to win an eBook copy of Cupid Gone Wild.

[Treasure Chest #8] 

Winner will be picked from all comments.

Individual giveaway ends December 26, 2011 at 10 pm.
See the "Twelve Days Blog Tour" post for two other chances to win.

Winner of Twelve Days #6 Giveaway

CONGRATULATIONS to HOTCHA12 who won Twelve Days Giveaway #5:

An eBook copy of Silicon Self by Kirtimaya Varma.

Thanks for commenting hotcah12.  Hope to see you again during the week!

Winner of Twelve Days #5 Giveaway

CONGRATULATIONS to DONNAS who won Twelve Days Giveaway #5:

An eBook copy of Desperate Measures by Cindy Cromer.

Thanks for commenting Donnas.  Hope to see you again during the week!

Winner of Twelve Days #4 Giveaway

CONGRATULATIONS to MARIA D. who won Twelve Days Giveaway #4:

An eBook copy of  the A Christmas Wish Joy Brook's new novella.

Thanks again for commenting Maria. Looks like you are going to be a big winner this week!

Winner of Twelve Days #3 Giveaway

CONGRATULATIONS to MARIA D. who won Twelve Days Giveaway #3:

An eBook copy of  the Sweetheart's in Bloom Anthology which includes Cher Green's novella Escape to Love.

Thanks for commenting Maria. Looks like you are going to be a winner this week!

eTreasures Twelve Days Blog #7: A Holiday Gift

Check out my release for a last minute holiday idea for a friend.

Her Dreams Come True

by Miranda Heart
Shunning all that is holy, Annabelle’s soul now hangs in the balance. A gift  from a witch seals her fate and thrusts her into the waiting arms of an incubus.  The incubus, not being quite as evil as his Master gives Annabelle a way out.  She now has one night to save her family and her  soul.

Rediscovering love and finding his soul is the last thing  Roshan has on his mind. Out of curiosity he’s worn the gifted necklace for  months with no sign of his intended bride. So it was nothing for him to offer  shelter during a terrible storm to a beautiful maiden. How surprising that the  poor orphaned girl would turn out to be the one that would bring light into his  soul. He has only one night to find the love he thought he’d lost all those  years ago.
Genre: Historical, paranormal
Pages: 66, Novella;    eBook $1.49

Sincerely,
Miranda Heart
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Individual giveaway ends December 26, 2011 at 10 pm.
[Treasure Chest #7]

 

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New Release: Part of PROM NIGHT SUMMER ANTHOLOGY A Tale of Two Prom Dates by Evie Alexis

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Part of PROM NIGHT SUMMER ANTHOLOGY

A Tale of Two Prom Dates

by Evie Alexis

Victoria Reynolds is getting ready for prom. She has the dress, the shoes, even the beautician. The problem is: she has one too many dates.

One second, Victoria accepts the invitation from the star basketball player Randy Calhoun. After running into philosophic thinker, Scott Feldman, on a quick walk, she agrees to be his prom date.

Will Victoria be able to make up her mind in time, or will she hurt both boys as she struggles with “The Carmen Curse”?

La-la-la-la!

Genre: YA
pages: 70, Novella
eBook: $1.49

Winner of Twelve Days #2 Giveaway

CONGRATULATIONS to MARIA D. who won Twelve Days Giveaway #2:

An print copy of The Spaces Between Your Screamsby Author Christopher Hivner

Thanks for commenting Maria. 

eTreasures Twelve Days Blog Post #6: When Silicon is The Spirit

When Silicon Is the Spirit
By Kirtimaya Varma

Computer addiction, computer-mediated lives, and solitary Internet habits of those who never let normal human living come between themselves and their computers have become hallmarks of our age.

While we continue to advance technology, we are also falling under the spell of the “rhetoric of the technological sublime” and unable to see the illusory capabilities of technology. The virtual world of cyberspace has many attractions. But it is also a dirge-like ode to the seclusion of people hardly aware of themselves, their family, and their society. Think of those who fall down dead of exhaustion while playing computer games for days together. Think of those absorbed endlessly into web surfing, email exchange, downloads, and other computing paraphernalia. Think of those who have given themselves up 24/7 to meet the professional challenges of technology and market. The elemental urges of an increasing number of IT zealots seem to be computation and competitive advantages rather than self preservation and sociability.

Is the insatiate human hunger for computing similar to the one that began in the Garden of Eden? A recent Stanford University study found that fourteen percent of computer users neglected work, family, food, and sleep in order to remain online. The American Medical Association wants to classify Internet obsession as a psychiatric disease. Chinese psychologists recognize Internet addiction as a condition similar to compulsive gambling or alcoholic dependence, and camps are held to treat Internet addicts. In South Korea counselors wean children away from spending long hours on the Internet. Meanwhile, the online world continues to expand unabated. Virtual reality mongers could not have been happier, if they still know what happiness is!

The hiding places computer leads to is the antithesis of what IT utopians glamorously call “the global village” and “the society of the spectacle,” predicted in the 1960s. The computer has redefined the traditional relationship between humans and humans, and humans and machines, while humans adjust their evolution to the machine. In the book iBrain: Surviving the Technological Alteration of the Modern Mind neuropsychiatrist Dr Gary Small and Gigi Vorgan say that digital technology is altering the human neural circuitry. “This evolutionary brain process has rapidly emerged over a single generation . . . . Although the science behind the way technology affects behavior and mental state is only in its infancy, initial observations indicate important links between extensive brain exposure to new technology and mental disorders.”

In Ape and Essence Huxley depicts mankind as concerned only with war and technology and so removed from reality that humans have become unintelligent animals spiraling toward World War III. Faust warns that certain kinds of power come at a price of what we hold most uniquely human. Are we paying too high a price for the power of technology? Perhaps. We need to steer the course of technology to create a human-centric community rather than passively experience the power of technology in a technology-centric community. 

And if we don’t do so? We shall end up caught in situations I have tried to capture in my Science Fiction novel SILICON SELF, recently published by eTreasures Publishing.

Anderson is passionately developing software to speedily reach the leading edge of IT. His wife Nora wonders how dangerously close to the edge can he go, and whether the folly of ignorance is less dangerous than that of too advanced technologies? She tries to wean him away, determined to save her family and the world from at least one technology leader.

In the blinding rush to be ahead in technology, Anderson and his peers build up an expensive IT solution, but only to find there is no problem needing it. To discover or invent a problem for a ready solution is known as “solving the solution.” While striving to solve the solution, their ISP breaks down and they lose Internet connectivity. They struggle to find their worlds outside the Internet. Cut off from virtual reality, they cannot cope up with any reality, and are constantly in conflict with themselves, their colleagues, and their environment. Their encounters create comical situations.

I believe the story of SILICON SELF touches the lives of all of us in a way that is at once comic and tragic. How much comical can our computing environment be? And how much tragic can our computing environment be? Where is our obsession with computers leading us?

It would be interesting to share our experiences and views. While I have shared mine with readers through my novel SILICON SELF, I cordially invite readers to comment on what I have said, and also enlighten me with their experiences and views.       

SILICON SELF

by Kirtimaya Varma

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Anderson is developing software to speedily reach the leading edge of IT, not letting normal human living come between himself and his computer. His wife Nora wonders how dangerously close to the edge can he go, and whether the folly of ignorance is less dangerous than that of too advanced technologies? She tries to wean him away, determined to save her family and the world from at least one technology leader.

In the blinding rush to be ahead in technology, Anderson and his peers build up an expensive IT solution, but only to find that there is no problem needing it. To discover or invent a problem for a ready solution is known as “solving the solution.” While striving to solve the solution, their ISP breaks down and they lose Internet connectivity. They struggle to find their worlds outside the Internet. Cut off from virtual reality, they cannot cope up with any reality, and are constantly in conflict with themselves, their colleagues, and their environment. Their encounters create comical situations.

Genre:  Sci fi, Fantasy;  Pages: 390

Comment on this post for an entry to win an eBook copy of Silicon Self.

Open Worldwide. Winner will be picked from all comments.

Individual giveaway ends December 22, 2011 at 10 pm.

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New Release: Part of PROM NIGHT SUMMER ANTHOLOGY THE GIFT By Kat Deacon

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Part of PROM NIGHT SUMMER ANTHOLOGY

THE GIFT

By Kat Deacon

All Seri Graham wanted for her sixteenth birthday was a date for junior prom and a car. Not much right? Seri goes from bubble gum and chick flicks to smiting demons and meeting her Gregori Watcher mother for the first time. Along with her two besties Maya and Lucy, using the gift from her mother, Seri tries to survive long enough to discover who and what she is and make it to the prom.

Genre: YA
Pages: 83, Novella
eBook: $1.49

Winner of Twelve Days #1 Giveaway

CONGRATULATIONS to MARIA D. who won Twelve Days Giveaway #1:

an eBook copy of the Bride and Dark Secrets Anthology which includes The Weeping Bride by Pembroke Sinclair.

 

Thanks for commenting Maria. Hope to see you back during the week!

New Release: Secrets in the Fog: Danny's First Love by Ellen Spain

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Part of PROM NIGHT SUMMER ANTHOLOGY

Secrets in the Fog: Danny's First Love

by Ellen Spain

Danny Fennchar is a short and somewhat pudgy teen prodigy wearing broken glasses who looks forward to attending his high school Prom in a few weeks, and to attending college. There is a problem, at least to Danny. He is diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis and thinks his future plans are totally messed up. He doesn't have a date and in fact, being home schooled most of his life, never had a date except for his mother.. Danny is a shy and insecure 12th grader, until he meets Christine Dillon from his senior class, who is quite mature for her young age. Their romance blossoms.

Genre:  YA

Pages: 68, Novella
eBook: $1.99