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More than ten years ago I wrote the first version of what is now the opening page of St Cybi's Well:
Darnell Sidwell had just crossed the Severn Bridge on the M4, heading west. He read the highway sign:
Sound Sculpture Ahead. Move to outer left lane, maintain speed of 70 kph.
He pulled the little GM rental hybrid into the left lane carefully, and thought about setting the cruise control, but was unsure where to find it on the unfamiliar vehicle. The car crossed the first warning rumble strips. Darnell turned his attention to the sound of the tires, and a few moments later was treated to a long, drawn-out rumble over a series of carefully spaced and specially shaped strips, which distinctly said: "WWWWW-ELLL-CCCCOOOOOMMME-TOOOOO-WWWWWAAAALLLESSSS".
Playing with rumble strips is nothing new (and wasn't when I first came up with the idea mentioned on my archive site above), but it's fun to see that it is now being used more in the way I envisioned:
Sounds emanating from 1,300 feet of roadway just west of Tijeras have been listened to around the world, and it's more than just tires on pavement catching international attention.
The Singing Road, installed last week, uses rumble strips to play "America the Beautiful" for drivers who obey the speed limit as they cruise down Route 66.
The National Geographic Channel approached the New Mexico Department of Transportation about the project last June, asking if they could construct the road for an upcoming series. The project was privately funded by National Geographic and NMDOT didn't make – or spend – any money on it. Since the road was finished last week, Melissa Dosher, the public information officer for NMDOT, said she's fielded questions from television stations as far away as Australia.
There's a video (with sound) at the above site, so you can hear it. Fun stuff.
Jim Downey
HT to ML for the initial link last week.
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Since this blog has recently picked up a bunch of additional followers, I'm going to reiterate something I've said in the past: I'm mildly bipolar. Have been all my adult life. My 'natural' bipolar cycle is about 18 months, though that can be influenced by outside factors. It's mild enough that I'm able to manage my bipolar swings without medication, but I keep a close eye on it. I'm thankful that I can manage it without medication, because I have always perceived a connection between this bipolar condition and creativity.
And increasingly, science agrees with me:
Professor Steven Jones, co-director of Lancaster University's Spectrum Centre, said, "It appears that the types of inspiration most related to bipolar vulnerability are those which are self-generated and linked with strong drive for success.
"Understanding more about inspiration is important because it is a key aspect of creativity which is highly associated with mental health problems, in particular bipolar disorder."
"People with bipolar disorder highly value creativity as a positive aspect of their condition. This is relevant to clinicians, as people with bipolar disorder may be unwilling to engage with treatments and therapies which compromise their creativity."
And then there's this, from an article on apophenia:
Another possible culprit in apophenia is dopamine. A 2002 experiment revealed that people with high levels of dopamine more often extract meaning from coincidences than those with lower dopamine levels. And when self-described skeptics (team "UFOs are fake") were given the drug L-dopa, which ups the brain's dopamine supply, they began to perform more like self-described believers (team "I can speak to spirits") on the same pattern-finding tasks. Likewise, when Brugger and his colleagues administered dopamine to a group of healthy adult men, that group proved more likely than a control group to notice visual similarities between random pairs of shapes.
Personal accounts from manic patients fizz with an almost compulsive meaning-making, but the research on connections between apophenia and bipolar disorder is thin. One clue: Just like people with schizotypal tendencies, people at risk for bipolar disorder often ace creativity tests. They seem to excel especially at the type of "intuitive, open-minded thinking" that results in surprising associations. (Though he hasn't studied apophenia and bipolar disorder, Brugger says he would "assume that you see connections everywhere in a manic state.") A symptom of mania known as clanging, in which ideas are strung together not in a logical order but because of how the words sound, has an apophenic aura.
Related, this news about another scientific discovery concerning depression:
The first blood test to diagnose major depression in adults has been developed by Northwestern Medicine scientists, a breakthrough approach that provides the first objective, scientific diagnosis for depression. The test identifies depression by measuring the levels of nine RNA blood markers. RNA molecules are the messengers that interpret the DNA genetic code and carry out its instructions.
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"This clearly indicates that you can have a blood-based laboratory test for depression, providing a scientific diagnosis in the same way someone is diagnosed with high blood pressure or high cholesterol," said Eva Redei, who developed the test and is a professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. "This test brings mental health diagnosis into the 21st century and offers the first personalized medicine approach to people suffering from depression."
I suspect that it won't be long until some similar test is developed for markers indicating bipolar condition.
Oops, there I go, drawing connections again …
Jim Downey
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I keep forgetting to watch Jodorowsky's Dune … about the movie adaptation which was almost made. This item from Open Culture will give you a taste of what it might have been like:
Moebius' Storyboards & Concept Art for Jodorowsky's Dune
A decade before David Lynch's flawed but visually brilliant adaptation of Dune hit the silver screen (see our post on that from Monday), another cinematic visionary tried to turn Frank Herbert's cult book into a movie. And it would have been a mind-bogglingly grand epic.
And be sure to check out the still images. Great stuff, and would have made one hell of a Science Fiction movie. Perhaps a completely *bonkers* one, but nonetheless …
Jim Downey
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Been a little while since I did a book conservation post. So let's have some fun.
Recently I had this item come in for some minor work: Summa contra gentiles by Thomas Aquinas, printed in Venice in 1480. That makes it an incunabula, one of the relatively rare books published before 1501 (in this case, just a quarter century or so after the Gutenberg Bible). Even more noteworthy, this book is still in its original binding. And that binding is in remarkably good condition.
Here's a pic of the outside of the binding:
Lovely. And an excellent example of bindings of that period. That's the front cover, a nice very deep red (almost a dark brown to the eye) in goatskin. What I love is the way the binder used fairly simple tools to create an elaborate cover design. Here's a detail:
And the hardware is wonderful, too. Here's a detail of the front clasp hardware:
That clasp was designed to receive a simple hook attached to a leather strap mounted on the back, here:
Also, take note of the delightful small brass strip mounted on the corners:
There's a similar strip mounted to the bottom (called the "tail" in bookbinding) edge of the covers, near the spine of the book on both the front and rear. That protects the cover from excessive wear when the book would be resting in a lectern or something similar for reading (books in this time period were usually shelved on their side):
Cool, eh? But the real treasure of this binding was revealed when I removed the (probably) 19th century endpapers which had been added. Under that was the original structure of the book, showing both the original boards (probably quarter-sawn oak) as well as the way the supporting strips of alum-tawed goatskin of the sewing structure was laced into those boards. Here's an overview:
And here's a detail showing how the supporting strips were lain within a small channel carved into the wooden board covers, and then pinned in place using a softer wood or (in this case) other leather:
But equally cool is a detail shot showing the simplicity of how the leather cover comes around the corner of the board:
Lastly, here's a little detail from one sheet inside:
It's a little hard to tell what it is you're seeing there, so let me explain. The darker strip is the outside edge of a piece of vellum which has been adhered to the spine of the text block. This was added *before* the supporting strips of alum-tawed goatskin were laced into the wooden covers, and just serves to help protect the exposed sewing thread.
So, there you have it: a perfect example of late 15th century binding. Just like all the history books (and book conservation training) says it should be, but exposed by me today for the first time in probably 200 years or so.
Fun stuff. Have I mentioned recently how cool my job is?
Jim Downey
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For one reason and another, this past week has been a little rough, hence the paucity of posts. The rejection from the agent kinda took the wind out of my sails a bit, since I thought that the prospects were good. And continued news on the Ebola front* kept reminding me just how grim St Cybi's Well is getting, in regards to the onset of the fire-flu (though I hope that other aspects of the novel more than balance that out for the reader).
But now the winds have shifted again, and things are looking up. We've gotten a bunch of bids in the auction to help my friend (though you can still pick up a hand-bound limited edition hardcopy of Communion of Dreams for a song). There's a new review of CoD up on Amazon. And this morning I got word that a major new project I've been involved with helping to get organized is going to be implemented — more on that when there's an official announcement in a couple of weeks. But it's kinda a big deal and one which I am excited to be part of. Oh, and there's a fun little item here about a recent book conservation job I did which might be of interest.
So, those are the latest developments. Watch for more to come. Oh, and go put a bid in on something on the auction site — there are a number of great items available! Thanks!
Jim Downey
*I do want to note that I don't think that Ebola poses a significant risk to people in the US. We have the medical infrastructure to deal with isolated cases, which is likely all that we'll see here. There's no reason to get into a panic. But that doesn't change the horror of the disease itself, nor the impact that it is having on people in Guinea, Liberia, Nigeria, and Sierra Leone.
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Good news! This morning the bidding opened on the auction I mentioned the other day, and I understand that there's already something of a bidding war on some of the "become immortal" options I offered:
Be Famous! Have your name (or the name of a loved one, pet, etc) included in my next novel! Can be a character, a named place (manor/restaurant/pub), a book title/author, et cetera. Any sort of name you wish.
You have three choices:
Passing mention. Five available.
Name and some description. Three available.
Tertiary character, who will have some dialog & interaction with other characters. One available.
Yay! Thanks for the vote of confidence, and for helping out my friend!
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I've seen several preliminary news items on this, and it's … intriguing.
Nasa validates 'impossible' space drive
Nasa is a major player in space science, so when a team from the agency this week presents evidence that "impossible" microwave thrusters seem to work, something strange is definitely going on. Either the results are completely wrong, or Nasa has confirmed a major breakthrough in space propulsion.
Very intriguing. Basically, this is the third test conducted on a theoretical reactionless drive, with NASA (British publications consider it stylistically appropriate to just capitalize the first letter) doing the independent testing of previous claims. It'll be interesting to see what comes out of this.
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From three months back:
…but the other is far enough along that I'll share: there's a literary agent who is potentially interested in representing me, something which I have been thinking about for a while.
I'll keep you posted as to any concrete developments.
Well, I just got a very nice note back from said agent, who complimented me in several ways but said that he wasn't going to represent me after all.
Rejection is part of the game, and any writer or artist has to come to terms with that, or you might as well just give up. As I told a friend earlier:
He's gotta do what he thinks makes business sense – when I ran the gallery, I had to turn down hundreds of artists who wanted us to represent them. And as I told them, just because I wasn't going to rep them didn't in any way mean that their work wasn't quality. So I understand the equation from both sides of the = sign …
Still … I think I might take the rest of the afternoon off.
Do something nice for my friend. Go place a bid on something which interests you.
Jim Downey
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As a book & document conservator, I've had the good fortune to see, handle, and work on some really interesting historical artifacts. Just the other day a client came to me for an assessment of a ratty old paperback book which had been in her mother's underwear drawer for the better part of the last fifty years. Don't think it sounds particularly special or interesting? Well, if it's the right kind of paperback … yeah, there's a *very* good chance that the book she brought me would be just the fifth known copy of that very important first edition. I recommended that she deal with a qualified rare book appraiser, though everything about the book — the paper quality and age, the sewing structure and condition, the amount of dust and dirt it had collected, even the smell of the thing — all fit perfectly into what I would expect of a book printed in that time and that place and then used and loved for a century or so, then put away and essentially forgotten for another century.
So, yeah, I do get to see, handle, and work on some pretty cool stuff, some of which I have documented here and over on my professional site.
But there is one thing which is so iconic, which so perfectly focuses on a critical moment in history, that when I was first asked to work on it more than 20 years ago I knew that my talents and training had been accepted by the then-director of Special Collections at the University of Missouri – Columbia. This item:
I would expect that anyone who would find themselves reading my blog would already know the history and importance of the Gutenberg Bible, but just in case here's the intro for the Wikipedia entry:
The Gutenberg Bible (also known as the 42-line Bible, the Mazarin Bible or the B42) was the first major book printed in the West using movable type. It marked the start of the "Gutenberg Revolution" and the age of the printed book in the West. Widely praised for its high aesthetic and artistic qualities,[1] the book has an iconic status. Written in Latin, the Gutenberg Bible is an edition of the Vulgate, printed by Johannes Gutenberg, in Mainz, Germany, in the 1450s. Forty-eight copies, or substantial portions of copies, survive, and they are considered to be among the most valuable books in the world, even though no complete copy has been sold since 1978.
The title page from this presentation case explains a bit more why it is just a 'leaf' from one of the Bibles:
Basically, someone took a partial copy of one of the known authentic Bibles, separated it into individual leaves, mounted those into this presentation case, then sold those to collectors and institutions which wanted to have their own sample of the Bible. Each one is now worth on the order of $50,000.
Now, you might notice (if you dig around into the data on these images) that these are recent pictures all taken with my smartphone (and no flash). That's because a week or so ago I brought the leaf home from Special Collections for some additional work. No big deal, honestly, just a little cleaning and a minor bit of repair. Here's what the leaf looked like before (front and back):
And here's what it looked like after:
Yeah, not a huge difference. But if you look closely, particularly on the lower fore-edge corner, you can see that it is notably cleaner. And there's also an almost invisible repair in that area on the back of the page where a slight fold was weakening the corner. So I reinforced it with a bit of handmade kozo paper (from the UICB – where I trained as a conservator), and a little bit of wheatpaste. Here's a detail of the repair in process, before the excess was trimmed off:
And here it is complete:
Almost, but not quite, invisible. That's in keeping with current conservation practices, where you don't want a repair to be a distraction, but you do want it to be evident to the trained eye, so they know the 'honest' history of the item and whether it has been treated/repaired.
To be perfectly honest in another way, working on this leaf was just completely straight-forward. Cleaning and simple kozo repairs are about the simplest conservation tasks performed, and in no way are a challenge to my abilities.
And yet …
And yet, because of what that leaf is, what it represents, I kept it locked away in the safe until I could devote a full afternoon of work to taking care of it. Until I had completely gone through a ritual cleaning of my bindery space. Until I was at the very 'top of my game' in terms of focus and attention. Until I was absolutely certain that I could do the tasks required with my full and total respect. Call it Zen & the Art of Conservation if you want. Or just call it a recognition that I am only one set of hands in a long chain who for a moment (once again) had a responsibility to both the future and the past.
The leaf has already been returned to the care of Special Collections.
Jim Downey
PS: Tucked in the back of presentation case was this document from the first treatment I performed. Thought I'd share it as well, just for grins.


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A Counter-Intuitive Path to Pastoral Success: Make a Mistake
- Friday, September 24, 2010
In his book, Everybody's Normal Till You Get to Know Them, John Ortberg makes a confession. You get the impression that it was not easy in coming.
Here it is in his own words:
The church where I work videotapes most of the services, so I have hundreds of messages on tape. Only one of them gets shown repeatedly.
This video is a clip from the beginning of one of our services. A high school worship dance team had just brought the house down to get things started, and I was supposed to transition us into some high-energy worship by reading Psalms 150.
This was a last-second decision, so I had to read it cold, but with great passion: "Praise the Lord! Praise God in his sanctuary; praise him in his mighty firmament!" The psalm consists of one command after another to praise, working its way through each instrument of the orchestra.
My voice is building in a steady crescendo; by the end of the psalm I practically shout the final line, only mispronouncing one word slightly:
"Let everything that has breasts, praise the Lord."
Ortberg tells what happened next.
A moment of silence. The same thought passes through four thousand brains: Did he just say what I think he did? In church? Is this some exciting new translation I can get at the bookstore?
Then, everybody in the place just lost it. They laughed so hard for so long, I couldn't say a thing. It was zygomatic. I finally just walked off the stage, and we went on with the next part of the service.
I have been teaching at that church for eight years. Of all the passages I have exegeted and all the messages I have preached, that is the one moment that gets replayed before conferences and workshops. Over and over.
That moment forever endeared Pastor John Ortberg to the congregation of Willow Creek Church.
In fact, the power of that moment was so strong, it would have been worthwhile for him to have planned the flub.
I sometimes say to friends, "If you ever find yourself sitting among two or more preachers and want to get something started, ask them about their most embarrassing moments. Every preacher has had a dozen. And some are pretty hilarious."
Ortberg says: "Sometime ago a psychology journal published an article entitled 'The Effect of a Pratfall on Increasing Interpersonal Attractiveness.' The surprising conclusion: 'Seeing someone you admire do something stupid or clumsy will make you like him more.'"
Part of the reason for that is we do like our leaders to be human and to show their humanity from time to time.
Now, we know they're human. The problem comes when they don't seem to know it.
Earlier in the same chapter, Ortberg writes, "A friend of mine says that one of the hardest things in the world is to be right and not hurt anybody with it. If you have any doubts about that, remember some time in school when you sat next to the smartest kid in class. Did you enjoy it? Being right (or more precisely, having the need to be right) is a terrible burden. An amazing thing about Jesus is that he was always right and never hurt anyone by it."
I'm thinking of two churches I pastored, one in the 1970s and the other in the 1980s. In the first, we had a lot of laughter in church. It was the spontaneous, unplanned kind from things that happened on the spur of the moment. The congregation grew to love the staff and they still talk about the four men who led the church through those years as some of the best.
The church of the 1980s, however, knew very little laughter. Looking back, I'm not sure why that was. Perhaps it was the tension among the leadership that eventually resulted in several of us departing earlier than we had planned. It may have been a factor of the architecture of the sanctuary, with the congregation sitting far removed from the staff. Maybe it had something to do with the staff of the 80s being new and the staff of the 70s church staying for many years.
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DelusionsFrontal LobeParkinson's Disease
Received November 15, 1996; revised March 31, 1997; accepted April 9, 1997. From the Departments of Psychiatry and Neurology and Division of Neurobehavior and Alzheimer's Disease Center, Beth Israel Medical Center, New York, New York. Address correspondence to Dr. Roane, Beth Israel Medical Center, Department of Psychiatry, 16th Street and First Avenue, New York, NY 10003.
The delusional misidentification syndrome (DMS) has been associated with a range of neurological conditions. Three cases of DMS in patients with Parkinson's disease and dementia, treated with dopaminergic medications, are presented. It is postulated that DMS associated with parkinsonism results from a combination of dopaminergic psychosis and cognitive dysfunction involving the frontal lobe in particular. DMS in the setting of parkinsonism may be more frequent than commonly supposed.
In the delusional misidentification syndrome (DMS) a patient incorrectly identifies or reduplicates persons, places, objects, or events. The most common form of misidentification, the Capgras syndrome, is the delusional belief that people closely related to the patient have been replaced by impostors.1 Other forms of delusional misidentification include Fregoli syndrome (the delusion that a person familiar to the patient is appearing in the patient's environment in the guise of a stranger), the syndrome of intermetamorphosis, and the delusion of subjective doubles.1
Reduplicative paramnesia, first described by Pick,2 is most often defined as the delusional belief that a place has been duplicated,3 in the context of memory disturbance. However, the reduplicative phenomena may also extend to persons, objects, or events. In contrast to Capgras and Fregoli syndromes, reduplication does not usually involve replacement.4 Recent authors have included reduplicative paramnesia as a form of delusional misidentification.5,6
Although reduplication has long been associated with neurological disease,5 other forms of DMS have traditionally been associated with psychiatric illness.7 Increasingly, however, Capgras syndrome has been associated with a variety of neurologic and organic conditions, including Alzheimer's disease,8 Tourette's syndrome,9 head trauma,5 cerebrovascular disease, epilepsy,3 drug intoxication or withdrawal, infectious and inflammatory disease, endocrine disorders, mental retardation,4 intracerebral hemorrhage,10 and migraine.11 Misidentification syndromes have also been reported following electroconvulsive therapy.12
Patients with Parkinson's disease (PD), particularly those exposed to dopamimetic agents such as levodopa, have a high incidence of psychiatric symptoms. Common symptoms are hallucinations,13,14 delusions,14—16 depression,16,17 euphoria,16 anxiety,16,17 agitated confusion,16 sleep disturbances,17,18 and delirium.18
Visual hallucinations are the most common psychotic symptom exhibited by PD patients. Typical hallucinations have been described as nocturnal, nonthreatening images of people or animals, which the patient recognizes, or comes to recognize, as imaginary.14 In his 1991 review, Cummings19 reported prevalence rates for visual hallucinations in PD patients between 6% and 38%, with most studies reporting about 30%.
Delusions are less common in PD patients than hallucinations. Cummings19 reported most prevalence rates between 3% and 17% for delusions in his review of the literature. Moskowitz et al.14 reported 8 patients with nonconfusional paranoid delusions. The authors noted that all delusional patients experienced vivid dreams or hallucinations either previous to or concurrent with their delusional state. Cummings20 noted a correlation between higher doses of antiparkinsonian medications and the prevalence of delusions.
Both hallucinations and delusions are serious complications of PD. Goetz and Stebbins21 found psychotic symptoms to be a greater risk factor for nursing home placement in PD patients than memory problems or even severe motor disabilities. Risk factors for psychosis in PD patients include advancing age,22 increased dosage of levodopa,23 long-term treatment with levodopa,14 anticholinergic therapy, multiple drug therapy,13 dementia,15 cerebral atrophy,23 and preexisting psychiatric conditions.18
Here we present 3 cases of delusional misidentification in patients with Parkinson's disease and dementia.
Patient 1 is a 65-year-old married woman diagnosed with Parkinson's disease 3 years ago. She received treatment for depression and anxiety for 2 years prior to the development of her neurological symptoms. On presentation to us, the patient had a mild dementia characterized by generally intact orientation, attention, and fund of knowledge, with impaired short-term memory (1/3 objects after 5 minutes) and visuospatial performance. She complained of visual hallucinations in addition to continued depression and anxiety. Her medications included levodopa and lorazepam. The patient responded initially to a combination of bupropion 75 mg per day and clonazepam 0.5 mg tid. The visual hallucinations, consisting of formed, fleeting images of people, which the patient recognized as imaginary, were considered benign and were not treated. The patient's anxiety decreased over time, and clonazepam was reduced to 0.5 mg bid.
Seven months later, when the family reported that the hallucinations had become severe, she was admitted to neurology for a trial of clozapine. Psychiatric assessment revealed that the patient believed her husband had been replaced by a stranger and that she was in a house that did not belong to her. Occasionally she attempted to throw her husband out of the house, or she packed her own bags and threatened to leave. Her cognitive status had deteriorated significantly. She was disoriented to the month and year. She could no longer reverse the word world or name the President. The patient responded, within 1 week, to a trial of clozapine, 12.5 mg per day, with a significant diminution of her delusional misidentifications.
Over the course of the next year the patient sporadically accused her husband of inauthenticity, and her neurologist increased her clozapine to 18.75 mg per day. The patient's cognitive impairment progressed, as evidenced by a Mini-Mental State Examination score of 15/30. Her clozapine was decreased to 12.5 mg per day because of her husband's report that she was oversedated. On subsequent follow-up her symptoms had worsened, with periods of misidentification of her husband occurring on a daily basis. In the office she referred to her husband as "a friend I'd like to get rid of." Clozapine was increased to 18.75 mg per day.
Patient 2 is a 75-year-old married man with a 9-year history of Parkinson's disease characterized by bradykinesia, gait disturbance, and the absence of a resting tremor. Prior to coming to our institution, about 3 years ago, he developed visual hallucinations and had been treated with thioridazine, which had resulted in a worsening of his parkinsonism. His medication at that time included levodopa, amantadine, deprenyl, and bromocriptine.
At our institution, the neurologist changed his medication to sustained-release levodopa and pergolide. He continued to have psychotic symptoms, including visual hallucinations of men in his house and the related delusional belief that his wife was unfaithful. Over the next 2½ years the patient's psychotic symptoms gradually grew more intense, preventing the neurologist from increasing the parkinsonian medication enough to control an increasing gait disturbance. As a result, the patient was admitted to neurology for a trial of clozapine.
On psychiatric evaluation the patient continued to report that he was seeing other men in the house who were attempting to seduce his wife. He accused her of "hiking up her skirt" in order to attract them. Additionally, the patient was convinced that another woman, similar in appearance to his wife, was entering the house to cook and clean. He never actually misidentified the wife, instead claiming that the other woman appeared when his wife was out on errands. On one occasion, when he and his wife were going to Atlantic City, he insisted on buying three bus tickets because "it wouldn't be fair not to take her (the other woman) along." When specifically asked if the other woman resembled his wife, he stated, "she's no Marilyn Monroe." The patient had a mild dementia, as evidenced by a score of 22/30 on the Mini-Mental State Examination, with mild deficits in orientation, short-term memory, and concentration.
The patient tolerated clozapine, 12.5 mg qhs, for several days and was discharged. According to his wife, his hallucinations and delusions remitted. However, despite a reduction of his clozapine dosage to 6.25 mg qhs, the family elected to discontinue clozapine because of excess daytime sedation. One month later, his psychotic symptoms had returned. In addition to visual hallucinations and the delusion about the other woman, he now claimed to have another house where his possessions had been moved.
Patient 3 is a 66-year-old former businessman with a 6-year history of Parkinson's disease characterized by tremor, bradykinesia, rigidity, and associated orthostatic hypotension. In the last year the patient developed visual hallucinations. His levodopa was reduced, and he was placed on thioridazine. Subsequently, he fell, fractured his hip, and was hospitalized for surgery. In the hospital his hallucinations persisted despite treatment with thioridazine. He was transferred to our hospital for management of his Parkinson's disease.
At the time of transfer the patient was receiving levodopa 350 mg qid, thioridazine 25 mg, and fludrocortisone acetate 0.1 mg bid for orthostatic hypotension. He was unable to stand independently, and he was reported to be disorganized. On the day of admission, his thioridazine was discontinued and he was placed on a reduced dose of sustained-release levodopa. On psychiatric assessment, 2 days following admission, the patient claimed that he was currently located, simultaneously, both at his home in Doylestown, Pennsylvania, and at Beth Israel Hospital in New York City. The patient was correctly oriented to year, month, and date and was able to reverse the spelling of world.
Neuropsychological testing demonstrated that although his verbal ability was in the low average range, his visuospatial ability was in the severely impaired range. For example, he was unable to assemble puzzle pieces (scale score of 2; the norm is 10 with a standard deviation of 3). His verbal memory was moderately impaired, with inability to learn new verbal information over repeated trials. Visuospatial memory was severely deficient. On tasks of abstraction and executive functions the patient's performance was also severely impaired. On the Trail Making Test the patient was completely unable to perform Trails B. Similarly, on a test of verbal fluency (FAS) he generated only 16 words in 3 minutes, a very impaired performance. A head CT revealed mild cortical atrophy.
On psychiatric follow-up, the patient provided a number of different responses regarding spatial orientation: Bedtownship Hospital in the incorporated village of Bedminster; Beth Chanel (a fashion house for distributing shoes); and the kitchen at B'nai Brith Medical.
In addition to disorientation, the patient frequently reported visual hallucinations of wires emanating from the walls, on one occasion stating that they were "involved with Swiss bondkeeping." He also voiced paranoid delusions regarding hospital staff.
The patient tolerated an initial dose of clozapine 12.5 mg qhs without an improvement in his psychiatric symptoms. He was discharged on clozapine 12.5 mg qod alternating with 25.0 mg qod. On a follow-up visit with his neurologist, his visual hallucinations, paranoid delusions, and misidentification of place had all improved significantly. A subsequent attempt to lower the dose of clozapine resulted in a return of his psychotic symptoms.
There have been scattered reports of DMS symptomatology in association with Parkinson's disease in the literature. Lipper24 described a patient who developed psychotic symptoms, including Capgras syndrome, after treatment with levodopa, trihexyphenidyl, and bromocriptine. The specific nature of the Capgras delusion was not specified. Chacko et al.,25 in a study evaluating clozapine as an antipsychotic in 12 Parkinson's patients, indicated that 1 patient believed that his spouse was an impostor and 1 patient rejected his house. Factor et al.26 referred to one of their own Parkinson's patients, an artist, who claimed that his paintings had been substituted with reproductions. This last case is an example of the delusion of inanimate doubles previously described by Anderson and Williams.27
In our series, Patient 1 had a classic Capgras delusion, in which she believed her husband was an impostor. The second patient reported the existence of two nearly identical caretakers but did not believe the caregiver had been replaced. Thus, his delusion would be classified as a reduplication for person or for role, rather than Capgras syndrome. Patient 3 could be considered to have a variation of reduplication for place, since he claimed to be in two places at the same time.
In all 3 patients, visual hallucinations preceded or accompanied the onset of the DMS. This is consistent with the findings of Moskovitz et al.,14 who proposed a mechanism of dopaminergic kindling that produces a progression of psychotic symptoms, leading from vivid dreams to hallucinations to delusions. The fixed nature and the degree of specificity of the misidentification in all cases confirm that this symptom is best viewed as a primary delusion that cannot be explained solely on the basis of cognitive impairment.
All of our cases of DMS involved dementia. In Patient 1 the development of Capgras was associated with a significant cognitive decline, whereas visual hallucinations had occurred when cognitive impairment was relatively mild.
We have recently reviewed the neuroanatomical correlates and proposed mechanisms of the delusional misidentification syndromes.28 In cases with focal lesions, DMS occurs more frequently in association with right hemisphere rather than left hemisphere damage.3,29 However, diffuse and, in particular, bifrontal dysfunction (often in conjunction with right parietal damage) appears to be present in most cases of DMS associated with neurological disease.6,29,30 Alexander et al.5 hypothesized that right hemisphere damage causes difficulty in recognition or identification, particularly when memory is impaired. When such deficits occur in the context of frontal lobe deficits, judgment is diminished and reduplication or delusional misidentification may result.
Right hemisphere impairment is not specifically characteristic of PD. However, frontal lobe dysfunction has been well documented in PD patients,17,31—33 particularly those with dementia.34 This frontal lobe impairment presumably results from decreased function of the basal ganglia and particularly of the caudate nucleus, which provides a major input for the prefrontal cortex.32,33 Taylor et al.32 have shown that frontal lobe decline correlates with severity of motor symptoms in PD and decreased response to treatment.33 Although excess dopaminergic stimulation of the mesolimbic system may account for visual hallucinations and paranoia in PD patients treated with levodopa,14,35 this phenomenon may not be sufficient to cause delusional misidentification. Frontal lobe impairment, which produces a disturbance in judgment, self-awareness,36 and relatedness to elements in the environment such as persons, places, and objects,37 may also be required. A study using PET demonstrated significantly greater bilateral orbitofrontal hypometabolism in patients with Alzheimer's disease and DMS than in patients with Alzheimer's without DMS.38
Although it has been emphasized that depersonalization/derealization contributes significantly to DMS,1 Christodoulou1 has shown that other independent factors, such as paranoia, are required. Feinberg and Roane37 have noted that DMS and related phenomena associated with depersonalization/derealization are typically seen in patients with bilateral caudal orbital frontal damage. The hypothesis that DMS associated with PD results from a combination of frontal lobe dysfunction and levodopa psychosis is consistent with these previous findings. Our hypothesis would further predict that DMS is common in PD patients with advanced disease.
With regard to treatment, we found clozapine, an antipsychotic with specificity for mesolimbic DA receptors,39 to be generally effective and well tolerated in our Parkinson's patients, confirming previous findings.25 In our cases, attempts to taper or discontinue clozapine resulted in a return or increase of the DMS, indicating that in PD, DMS can become a chronic condition.
A number of previous authors have stressed that neurological and psychological factors combine to create DMS.1,40 We view DMS in PD as resulting from a combination of psychotic and cognitive disturbances, both with a clear organic basis. However, in many cases of DMS in the literature, including our cases, the misidentified or reduplicated entity is highly personally significant to the patient, suggesting that psychological factors can influence the form that DMS takes.
The authors thank Dr. Youngjai Kim for her assistance with neuropsychological testing.
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Update: Anticipated Spectrum Auction Date Pushed Back
If you picked "mid-2015" in your office pool for the date the FCC's incentive spectrum auction would be held, we've got some bad news for you. While that was probably a pretty good bet up to now (since Commission officials have tenaciously stuck with the "mid-2015" date for some time), it's not looking so good anymore. According to an item just posted on the FCC's blog, the current target date is "early 2016".
Gary Epstein, Chair of the Commission's Spectrum Auction Task Force, alluding to "undeniable impediments" in the auction's path, has this to say:
As Chairman Wheeler indicated several weeks ago, the court challenges to the auction rules by some broadcasters have introduced uncertainty. Earlier this week, the court issued a briefing schedule in which the final briefs are not due until late January 2015. Oral arguments will follow at a later date yet to be determined, with a decision not likely until mid-2015. We are confident we will prevail in court, but given the reality of that schedule, the complexity of designing and implementing the auction, and the need for all auction participants to have certainty well in advance of the auction, we now anticipate accepting applications for the auction in the fall of 2015 and starting the auction in early 2016. Despite this brief delay, we remain focused on the path to successfully implementing the incentive auction. [Emphasis added]
With briefing wrapping up very late in January, the "court challenges" mentioned – one from the NAB, the other from Sinclair – probably won't be argued until mid- to late spring, 2015. In our experience, the D.C. Circuit usually takes at least two-three months following oral argument to crank out a decision on relatively easy cases. More complex cases can take significantly longer. (Extreme example: One of my colleagues once had to wait more than three years for a decision following oral argument.)Continue Reading...


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DM Quest (Direct Mail) 1.2.1
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Hello once again, readers!!!
You heard right! For THREE DAYS ONLY, Everlasting (Night Watchmen, #1) will be on sale for only 99¢! Be sure to grab your copy now!!
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Hello once again, readers!!!
You heard right! For THREE DAYS ONLY, Everlasting (Night Watchmen, #1) will be on sale for only 99¢! Be sure to grab your copy now!!
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How is your holiday week so far? Good? Busy? Anyone preparing for Black Friday?
I am entertaining my two year-old and six year-old. And by entertaining I mean being tied up and put in their
closet jail. But it's okay, they left me alongside of plush Buzz and Woody so at least I am in good company. And I am let out when they grow hungry on good behavior from time to time. Help me! Who could ask for more?
Sounds fun right? o_O
Any who, today is teaser Tuesday and since I am now working on approving the copy edits for From the Embers, I figured I would share a teaser from chapter 1.
She was staring at me. "The end of days has begun, or as your old realm is calling it, the war. There is much to catch up on and very little time to do so."
"Catch up on? What month are we in?" I asked, shivering.
Her gaze fell flat.
Astral shifted and took a gentle step in between us. "Forgive her, Alexis. Being in the Hall of Knowledge for such a long time does make one dizzy-minded."
"But I wasn't there for that long. Hours if anything," I stated. I was confused and felt on the verge of snapping. The dragon in me felt suppressed.
His smile was patient when he tilted his head at me. "Oh, but it was much longer, Little Flame. You've been gone for almost a year in the time of the living. We are in November…again."
And scene. A lot of mixed emotions bombard Aurora when she wakes in the realm. A lot of time has passed and a lot of hope was lost. She must reunite the people in the realm in hopes that they will fight back against Zordon and his steadily growing army.
Are you as excited as I am?
On another note:
Yes that is me and my bestie author Sonya Loveday. You should check her out. ;)
That being said, Echelon out ♥
Not much happening on the home front. Unless you consider editing, fitting in the gym when I'm not being lazy, and potty training a thrill. If so, then I will change the above statement to my life is a never-ending thrill ride!
But I digress.
Next week Born in Flames will be featured in not one, but two blog tours. Say what!
Cha-I know.
I wasn't paying attention when I scheduled the dates and for some reason I scheduled them together. Freaking exciting. They're both seven-day tours with around 44 stops. Can I getta oh snap!
Any who, here is the breakdown of what's going down:
Reading Away the Days! Born in Flames Blog Tour from April 22nd to April 28th:22nd April:Book Addicted AA – ReviewLily Bloom Books – Review23rd April:Soul Unsung – Character SpotlightTams's Book Blog – Review & This or thatShelves of Books Blog – Review24th April:Fated Paranormals – Review & ExcerptBook Crazy – Review25th April:Sweet Southern Home – InterviewReading Away the Days – Top 10 post26th April:Pieces of Whimsy – Book ExcerptRachels Book Reviews – Review27th April:Cause I Say So – ReviewYA-Aholic – Review28th April:We Do Write – InterviewBook Club Sisters – ReviewAnd….Girls *Heart* Books Born in Flames Blog Tour from April 21st to the 27th:
April 21st:
A Little Bit of R 'n' R -Excerpt, Spotlight, Playlist Post-Songs that you listened to while writing the book
Raven Reviews – Excerpt, Playlist Post-songs that fit the main character
Angels with Attitude Boook Reviews -Review, Spotlight
Girls *Heart* Books Tours-Schedule & Spotlight
April 22nd:
Brianna Lee Book Reviews-Excerpt, Spotlight
Shadow Realm- Excerpt, Spotlight
Girls *Heart* Books-Review, Spotlight
Ever and Ever Sight- Review, Top Tens Book Series
April 23rd:
Krystal Clear Book Reviews- Review, Excerpt, Book Soundtrack
Paperrdolls -Review, Excerpt, Spotlight
Addicted Readers – Review, Excerpt, Spotlight
Sassy Book Lovers- Excerpt/Spotlight
April 24th:
Flavor of Love- Top Tens -Favorite Love Songs
The Next Chapter - Review, Excerpt
As You Wish Reviews -Excerpt, Spotlight
Book Dream Land- Review, Excerpt, Spotlight
April 25th:
Cu'se-Book Give Aways - Review
Consuming Worlds – Review
Indy Book Fairy -Review, Excerpt, Author Interview
Bawaka's Book Fair-Excerpt
Page Flipperz YA- Spotlight, Playlist Post
April 26th:
Just Me, Myself & I -Review, Excerpt
The Next Chapter - Character Interview, Spotlight
A Page Away -Excerpt, Spotlight
Rambling Voices in My Head-Review, Excerpt, Spotlight, Book Soundtrack
April 27th:
Between the Bind-Review, Excerpt
Paranormal Book Club- Guest Post, Excerpt
The Reader's Garden – Review
Mythical Books -Review, Excerpt
So that about sums that up. More to come, folks!
Echelon out ♥
My publisher has added Born in Flames to the KOBO network! Ibooks will be coming soon as well, and then hopefully print!!!
Echelon out ♥
Hello once again Readers!! How was your night? Mine was full of tossing and turning…in a good way though. I was so pumped full of excitement and hope.
But I've got my Red Bull on hand and the Phillip Phillips CD from the last season of American Idol blaring (thank you bestie).
But I digress.
The next thing on my agenda as a newly published author (eek!) is to post an excerpt from my novel, Born in Flames. I chose to go with the second chapter since the first is already available for viewing as a sample.
Hope you enjoy!
Excerpt from Chapter 2
We took the local bus to and from everywhere in town. It was the perfect means of transportation for us. A car would have been nice, but we were fostered, working on minimum wage and living in a small town. We couldn't really hold our expectations too high. The town was small enough that the commute only lasted between twenty and thirty minutes.
It beat walking.
We reached the bus stop underneath the clear morning sky and I slumped into the far end of the bench, trying to ignore the fidgety man waiting next to me. He clutched an old faded denim backpack to his chest in a death grip. Sheesh, I thought. I pulled my tattered baseball cap out of my purse and pushed my hair inside it. I liked to keep my hair tucked away when I was in the general public since it was ruby red and stood out against my pale skin. It helped lessen the curious stares.
I noticed the man next to me, side-eyeing me through my peripheral vision. He had blotchy skin, and smelled of rubbing alcohol. A tuft of milky-white hair sat atop his head and swayed in the breeze. I wondered if the breeze picked up, would the feathery tuft float away like the seeds of a dandelion?
Fenn looked back at the two of us. He shook his head, suppressing a chuckle as he watched the fidgety man squirm next to me. Strange things always seemed to occur around me. This creep was proof of that.
The guy cleared his throat and straightened his back, tightening his grip on the pack, knuckles paling from skin stretched thin. There must be something important inside there.
Fenn casually backed up a couple of steps to be closer to me, whistling and keeping his hands in his pocket, ever the silent protector. It was a job he had always done well. Living on this island, the locals found it hard to adjust to the trouble I unintentionally brought.
I've kind of been responsible for a few accidental fires (started by my thoughts though I never told anyone except Fenn). The fires have only started when I felt angry, but things have definitely exploded into flames around me—things like a bookshelf in a library that took a while to douse out.
Now the town simply looked at me as a freak of sorts, some religious people even crossing themselves because they believed I could actually hurt them.
So yeah, Fenn was always there to defend me. Just in case.
I glanced at my watch, thinking the bus should be here any minute and that I'd be glad to get away from this freak next to me. His constant squirming didn't sit well with me.
Then I heard the awful screeching of the brakes as the bus came barreling into view a few seconds later. The front wheel plowed over the curb before it came to a thud on the street. The exhaust made a wheezy sound, probably fatigued from the driver's mistreatment, and the hinges squealed as the old doors swung open, inviting us in.
I have told the driver many times that he should probably get the brakes changed, but he always just looked at me and laughed in an idiotic way. Sort of a mix between a cackling witch and a hyena. Visions of sticking my foot in his mouth always came to mind. If only I could set this bus on fire, but then I guess I'd be out of transportation.
"Hit any tourists today?" I asked casually as I stepped onto the bus. His usual smirk instantly pointed south. I kept moving, not giving him a chance to respond, as I pulled my hat down as low as it could go and took my seat near the back. The creepy guy from the bench took a seat directly across from me, continuing to side-eye me.
"Great," I mumbled.
Fenn slid in next to me, and the doors swung shut. The driver pulled out, never checking traffic to ensure the road was clear. All I can say is that we haven't been in an accident yet… and I stress the yet.
We rode in silence for a while as the powerful hum of the engine sang a poor man's lullaby. I could still feel the creepy guy's burning gaze on the side of my face. What is with this guy, I thought. I was tempted to say something, but a large pothole stopped me.
Everything went flying, including Fenn's coffee. Of course it decided to find a dry place to land on, like my shirt. Agitated chatter began as everyone reached for the items that had flown from their laps into the aisle.
"Dang it," I groaned, trying to blot the lukewarm wetness off my white shirt now stained coffee brown. I'd have to change into a new shirt when I got to work. Another small dent in my paycheck.
"Sorry," Fenn said, picking his music player up off the floor. "He's such a douche. When you gonna learn to stop egging him on? You know he did that on purpose." The bus driver's demonic smile peered at me through the rear view mirror. I exhaled sharply, glaring back at him.
A sparkle caught the corner of my eye. In the aisle sat a pendant, right next to the creepy guy's bookbag. He was rubbing his head, probably from smacking it against the window, not paying attention. I leaned over to grab it, arousing his awareness.
Our heads collided on the way down, but my hands were the quickest of the pair. As my fingers touched the pendant, an instantaneous flash of a clearing under an unusually large full moon ran through my mind along with a haunting pair of glowing blue eyes. Then a rush of power, tingling like electricity, spiked up my arm, throwing me backwards and into Fenn's lap with a blast of light. The pendant was seared into my grip, the energy still coursing up my arm and throughout my body.
"Rory, are you okay?" Fenn asked immediately, his worried hands running all over me, checking for any sign of damage.
I looked up at him and said, "Fenn, I'm fi–," but was cut off by the frightened look upon his face. "What?" I asked hesitantly.
"Your eyes, Rory…wait…is that blood?" he asked, panicked. His thumbs pulled at my lower lids as his eyes widened in horror.
"Wha-what?" I stammered, feeling my own panic rise as I pulled my phone out of my pocket and held it up to my face to see my reflection.
My irises were ruby red like my hair. They glistened as they caught the sun's light. I moved to touch them but felt a foreign hand on my shoulder stop me.
"The pendant, girl, give me the pendant," said the creepy man, loud enough for only me to hear.
A low growl built deep within, the pendant warming in my hand as if awakening something in me that had always been there.
"Why do YOU have this?" I gritted through clenched teeth. Something foreign stirred inside me, overtaking my reasoning. Something powerful that longed to break free.
He yanked the pendant from my hand and then placed his hand and face mere inches from my own, a white glow radiating from his palm.
"Silly girl, the bus is no place for your change," he said in a whisper as the blinding glow encompassed my face. I felt the heat kiss my eyes and then it all disappeared.
"Stop it," Fenn commanded, pulling me into him as he shoved the creepy guy off. I shook my head, dizzy from the cloudiness that instantly fogged my brain. Fenn squeezed my shoulder.
"Your eyes…they're, they're normal, but how?" Fenn's concerned face made me turn towards the man who was still staring directly at me, etching this weird moment deep inside my brain. "What did he just do?" whispered Fenn.
My cheeks ran red as I held my gaze with the creep, ignoring the onlookers and their curious stares, and asked, "What did you mean by 'change'?"
The answer never came. He continued to stare a minute more until the screeching brakes told us we had made it to the next stop. Still staring at me, he grabbed his bag and shoved the pendant inside it, once again clutching it to his chest. He headed off the bus, the white glow on his hand touching each of the passengers as he walked by. Their heads slumped over as the white glow enshrouded them, and then they each shook their heads, dazed, as if trying to remember where they were.
"Did that really just happen?" Fenn asked, muddled.
I blinked, my mind going blank. I wish I could have answered him, but I had no idea what had just happened. My head was still foggy and aching.
"Maybe it was just another strange occurrence?" I suggested, skeptical. I faced him with a forced smile.
"What'd he whisper to you?" His hands were still bracing my shoulders.
"Something about a change…I don't know…it was hard to make out because he was talking so low. Weird, right?"
"Weird is definitely right." His eyebrows knit together, forming a perfect V. "I should follow him and demand an answer." Anger flashed in his eyes. I felt him move like he was about to follow through with that plan so I placed my hand on his chest.
"No, it won't do any good now. He'll be long gone. Let's just forget it, okay? Pretend it never happened and focus on finding my parents." I searched his eyes, waiting for his usual give.
He sighed heavily. "Yeah, you're right. I'm just glad you're okay," he replied, putting his earphones back in and then after a brief smile, turning back to the window.
We still had three more stops to go. Three more chances for me to get a grip on myself before I had to face a restaurant full of curious faces. I sighed and leaned back, putting in my own earphones. I closed my eyes and tried to let what just happened slip away. No use trying to decipher it, I would get nowhere like always. I just knew that finding my birth parents would resolve so many questions. Unfortunately, the beginning of that search was still paychecks away from happening.
And scene.
So the obvious question I will leave you with is: What'd ya think?
That being said, Echelon out ♥
Hello once again Readers!!! Exciting news for this blogger/writer!
First thing's first, that's me over there <–, in case you were wondering. And that's what my morning usually consists of. My faithful dog, Lily, snuggled up against me, and my Kindle Fire allowing me to read other fellow bloggers (and an occassional book or two). All while falling into the sink hole of my couch.
But I digress.
So, what's the exciting news? Let's start with the nomination and save the really good stuff for last…(muhahaha). Andrew Toynbee, a very excellent blogger, has been nominated for the One Lovely Blogger Award.
Round of applause, please!!!
And like a lot of these awards, you are to pass on what you have been bestowed. Sharing is caring. That being said, I was lucky enough to be chosen as one of the 15! Woohoo!
Onward to the rules!
1. Thank the blogger who nominated you with a link to the site.
2. Write seven things about yourself that other bloggers don't know
3. Nominate fifteen other deserving blogs.
Okay, once again, thank you oh so much Andrew for the mention. It really means a lot!! Readers, you should check him out! Now for the seven things…
1. I enjoy sweeping. It's a form of zen.
2. Drink of choice, whiskey and coke. Nothing more nothing less.
3. At my old job, I had to park in the same row every day, otherwise I felt my whole day would be screwed. Grrr.
4. I tend to snort when I laugh, and in extreme cases, if the joke is really funny, I fall to the ground.
5. I danced for a good 15 years of my life.
6. Both my children were born via C-section. Why? Because my son (first-born) was a whopping 9lb 6oz. Yeah, I know.
7. I have a huge heart and always try to see the best in people. Sometimes it backfires, but there's never a regret. (Awwww)
Now for nominations:
Sonya Loveday (Welcome to the blog-o-sphere Bestie!) * Michelle Proulx (because I think you're awesome) * James Calbraith (because your interview and book are awesome) * Elizabeth Guizzetti (Have faith, people will see your genius) * Austin Bishop (your topics are always interesting and insightful) * K.L Shwengel (because you make me laugh) * Debbie ( because I LOVE astrology).
I lost count…that's all I have until I get to know more peeps. And I think I went a bit overkill on the use of AWESOME, but hey, it's a fantastic and AWESOME word…:)
Now to wrap things up because this is taking a heck of a lot longer than I had planned and I'm sure you're probably like, "Oh my gosh, really? Hurry up!" Or you've just skimmed through. Either way, thanks for stopping in.
I digress.
So starting tomorrow I will be taping my very own book trailer! I'm so excited about this! I have the scenes and music all scripted out, as well as the people playing my characters, so I'm ready to go! My cousin has a small production company in New Hampshire and they've agreed to help me with all the editing. So fingers crossed that it will all turn out the way I envision it! That's it. That's my other big news. I'll keep you updated on how the whole process goes. It should be interesting to say the least…
Oh, and here I am dying of heat exhaustion earlier today while out for a jog.
Now for a question: If you were on the brink of death by dehydration, hanging on by a mere thread, underneath the sweltering sun, what would you do for a glass of water?
As always, Echelon out ♥
Hello once again Readers!!! Now before I get to the good stuff-tips on marketing-I wanted to let you in on a little secret about myself. You see, I have this little problem…I get hooked on something and become obsessed with it until it bores me. This usually lasts about two to three weeks. And right now, I'm hooked on learning as much as I can about how to market myself as an author. This of course will benefit you as a reader because I will share everything I learn, thus cutting back on the time you will have to spend on research. Yay!
So today I stuck to reading about basic marketing strategies. Yesterday it was learning how to use Twitter to your advantage. Again I'm using Author Media for my research because they have so many versatile blogs that appeal to striving authors. So let us begin.
First thing's first, the blog that will change your life-89 Book Marketing Ideas That Will Change Your Life. Like that, eh? I feel like I've hit the jackpot with this particular blog because there are tons of great ideas and they are all broken down into categories. I'm a sucker for organization. I digress. A few of my favorite points are:
The list goes on and on, 89 times to be exact. There are a lot of helpful ideas and some that I need to read up on because I am not that good at understanding technology. I will be bookmarking all of these for when my book is finally published. For now though, I will continue to edit my second novel and play around with my social media sites.
Tomorrow I will be blogging about blogging tips and how to gain traffic to your blog so be sure to check back in. Since I'm still new to the scene, I have a lot to learn.
And I leave you with a question: If you are published, what way of marketing have you found the most successful? If you are a reader, what appeals to you? What catches your attention and makes you purchase a book?
Until tomorrow, Echelon out ♥


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The Opinion Zone
Tag: Arizona
Arizona's 'harmful' immigration law?
- 1:00 am Monday, July 26th, 2010 by Opinion Staff
The Department of Justice and Arizona went to court last week, over the state's new immigration law that is supposed to take effect this week.
Washington is suing to block the law, and last week DOJ lawyers based their case on the idea that the law would do "irreparable harm" by usurping the federal government's authority over immigration. Now, we can spend lots of time debating how effective, or not, the government's enforcement of immigration laws has been. The issue here, though, is whether tasking state and local law enforcement agencies to be, in effect, immigration police would hurt that overall [More]
Suing Arizona
- 1:00 am Sunday, July 11th, 2010 by Opinion Staff
When Republican Attorney General Bill McCollum and his GOP counterparts in 12 other states sued the federal government in March over the health care act, they said the law "represents an unprecedented encroachment on the sovereignty of the states."
It is beyond hypocritical, then, for Mr. McCollum and others in the GOP to now criticize the Obama administration for suing Arizona over its controversial immigration law. In it's request for an injunction against the state, the Justice Department said Arizona had crossed a "constitutional line" because "the power to regulate immigration is exclusively vested in the federal government."
Mr. McCollum, who is [More]
Will Florida become the new Arizona?
- 3:49 pm Friday, June 4th, 2010 by Opinion Staff
Attorney General Bill McCollum and State Rep. William Snyder, R-Stuart, say Florida needs an immigration law like Arizona's controversial show-me-your-papers legislation. Given the legal challenges to the new statute — including the threat of a challenge by the U.S. Justice Department — Florida should not rush to follow Arizona. Instead, states should press lawmakers in Washington to secure U.S. borders and to approve comprehensive immigration reform.
Even law enforcement officials in Arizona are divided over the Support Our Law Enforcement and Safe Neighborhoods Act (SB 1070). The Arizona Association of Chiefs of Police and several sheriffs have called it burdensome [More]
Is Mexico's president too critical of U.S.?
- 1:00 am Sunday, May 23rd, 2010 by Opinion Staff
Mexican President Felipe Calderon says he is afraid many of his countrymen will not be treated properly in the United States. President Calderon himself, however, received a welcome that included a state dinner at the White House and the privilege of addressing a joint session of Congress.
In that speech, President Calderon criticized Arizona's law that gives police authority to ask people for papers to prove they are in this country legally. President Calderon said it is "a terrible idea, using racial profiling as a basis for law enforcement." The Mexican president also blamed lax U.S. gun laws for helping Mexican drug cartels outgun the police.
Poll: Most Americans favor Arizona's immigration law
- 3:40 pm Thursday, May 13th, 2010 by Opinion Staff
Arizona has come under attack from civil libertarians and advocates for immigrant rights. They object to the state's new law that empowers law enforcement officers to stop suspected illegal immigrants and ask for documentation that they are in this country legally.