A Review you can Use: What Dead Women Want

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So it's almost Halloween...and I have a book that will give you shivers of all kinds!

What Dead Women Want by Linda Schmalz is a rare mix of haunted houses, naughty calendars, and really sexy romantic moments.

Carly Middleton either has ghosts in her attic or bats in her belfry, and neither option deems all that spectacular. She is apt to choose her craziness however, rather than admit that her new home in Lake Della, Wisconsin is haunted. But when hunky and handsome Mike Valentine shows interest in Carly's paranormal problem, hormones rule her head, and she agrees to have the house investigated for ghosts. When the investigation proves her home haunted, Carly calls in a psychic who discovers her housemates are two sisters from the Civil War era who refuse to leave until they get what they want; and what they want is a man, and that man is Mike. Unwilling to sacrifice her boyfriend, Carly must find someone else to seduce her dead house guests to the other side. When Hal Davenport, the abusive town menace returns to Della, Carly finds her candidate. But can she convince the ghosts that Hal is a better catch than Mike? Can Hal lure the lingering ladies close to "the light" without dying? As Carly contemplates her plan, her world becomes further complicated by a sick dog, meddling parents and the return of her ex-fiancé. Finally, when Carly is certain she's sent the ladies packing, something still seems amiss.

Schmalz goes to her small town roots for this one, and we are the winners for it.  This book is funny, sexy, and spooky, all rolled into one!

Rated: 

4 hearts out of four!

"What Dead Women Want" is available where all fine e-books are sold.

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Leave a comment on this blog or tomorrow's interview with Linda Schmalz and your will be entered into a drawing for a free e-copy of her book "What Dead Women Want!"  All comments left now through Thursday will be entered to win.

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On a personal note, have you voted for the title of my Elsie book?  You have until tomorrow night!

Like your Country Music with a side of Technology?

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While I am in the middle of blocking my workplace humor book and rewriting and reviving dead characters for my novel "FResh Ice"  I made some new friends.  Christine at "Internet Service Provider"  shared this nifty list with me of

Top Ten Country Songs About Internet Technology  (Enjoy!)

10 Country Songs About Internet Technology



Country music has long had a love-hate relationship with technology. Country singers love cars, trucks and trains. Airplanes aren’t well regarded, and computers and cell phones are usually targets of ridicule. Country songs are usually a pretty good reflector of America’s gut feelings. Listed below are some selections that reference the internet directly, as well as a couple of statements about technology in general.



1.“I Still Like Baloney” – Alan Jackson – “I got a laptop that sits on a desk, I don’t use it much except to check some ole car from yesterday”.

2.“Welcome to the Future” – Brad Paisley – “And I’d have given anything to have my own PacMan game at home. I used to have to get a ride down to the arcade; now I’ve got it on my phone”.

3.“Phones are Ringin’ All Over Town” – Martina McBride – “He’s got friends of his callin’ friends of hers, but she’s nowhere to be found. Phones are ringin’ all over town”.

4.“Dreamin’ in Color, Livin’ in Black and White” – Billy Ray Cyrus – “The cool of the night reveals the spark of a sweeter light, so she’s dreamin’ in color and livin’ in black and white”.

5.“Turn on the Radio” – Reba McEntire – “Try to call, Twitter me, text until your fingers bleed”.

6.20th Century – Alabama – “We had movin’ pictures and radio, and Broadway, country, rock and roll, In 1900 who’d a bet we’d all be surfing on the internet. . .From blocks of ice to air condition, telegraph to television, in 1900 who’d a known we’d all wind up with pocket phones”.

7.“Science” – Willie Nelson – “I was just guessing at numbers and figures, pulling the puzzles apart, questions of science, science and progress, oh take me back to the start”.

8.“Online” – Brad Paisley – “When you got my kind of stats, it’s hard to get a date, let alone a real girlfriend, but I grow another foot and I lose a bunch of weight every time I log in”.

9.“1982” – Randy Travis – “Operator, please connect me with 1982, I need to make apologies for what I didn’t do”.

10.“Amerika v 6.0 (The Best We Can Do)” – Steve Earle - “Four score and a hundred and fifty years ago our forefathers made us equal as long as we can pay, yeah, but maybe that wasn’t exactly what they was thinkin’, version six-point-oh of the American way”.

Technology has come a long way since “Lonesome Whistle Blues” but country music seems to be fighting it tooth and nail. If anybody can take us back in time, and maybe to Luckenbach, Texas, it’s going to be a country singer.


There you have it!  Now, you have two pieces of homework:

1)  Go vote for a book title  on my humor blog.

2)  Go forth and WRITE!

The voting is open!

Hello all!

It's finally up!  I'm taking votes on the top ten reader suggestions for my new workplace humor book.

Get your vote in by going here!

Vote early, vote often!  Winner gets all of my published books!  :)

Readers, I need your help!

Good morning!

I've decided that the next work I'll be publishing is a collection of short essays/stories about my work place life, especially concerning with the woman I share space with.  (She is quite hilarious!)   If you haven't been following along with that saga, flip on over to my humor blog It Can Only Happen To Sarah! and catch up.

Anyway, my friends, I need your help!  I am terrible at titling my books.  My most recent release Lies in Chance, has an alternate title.  (Which I may change it to if people don't start buying the book!)  Dream in Color the title of a  Rick Springfield song that inspired the book.  So finding a title for a book is almost harder than writing the book!

I've posted it on Facebook, and I've posted it on my humor blog, and now I'm posting it here.  I am having a contest for the best title of this new work.  Send me all your ideas.  I will pick the five I like best and post them for voting NEXT WEEKS on my Laundry List Friday post over at It Can Only Happen to Sarah!

The author of the winning title will receive free copies of all my published works.  (Having an e-reader of some sort or a computer is pretty much a must!)

Thank you and GOOD LUCK!