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Hairy Again
Soctopus posted a topic in American ForumHey folks, This post has been a long time coming since I started lurking on here five years ago. Started noticing hair loss my freshman year of college (19), and while I didn't let it change my outward behavior much it started killing me to look in the mirror or at photos of myself. I'll spare you the grim details since people here have said it all before better, but you know the drill: hating photo ops, grimacing every time I saw last year's holiday card with more hair, and dreading seeing relatives and friends that I hadn't seen in a few years. Wondering if people considered me "good looking" anymore. Seeing the authenticity of stories and pictures on here is what really pushed me over the edge to do it (along with meeting several people who had actually had the treatment done), so I feel I owe it to anyone on the fence to share my experience. If there's any blessing to losing my hair this young (24 currently) is that I'm pulling the trigger on SMP now, not when I'm 35. I'm a little nervous about getting called out at work (even though everyone says no one ever notices), but just in case for the past couple months I've been shaving head, letting it grow back for about two weeks, and then shaving it again midweek just so my coworkers get used to my hair changing a lot. Throw them off the scent a bit . I had my first session in Houston yesterday morning. I'm not sure if we're allowed to say practitioner names on here, but the Houston clinic guy is phenomenal in talent, experience, and ability to reassure you at every step. My super-supportive girlfriend came for the first session, and if you can bring someone close to you along I really recommend it. (Having someone there to assure you you're not insane for inking up your head comes in handy.) I popped two tylenol pre-session, and I almost started laughing when the needle first hit — I was expecting pain; this felt more like someone playfully poking you with a paperclip. Practitioner told me my skin was very easy to get into, so I think this was part of it. Three hours later, first session complete. We've got a before, a just-before pic and a mid-session pic, and the rest are from 24 hours after. Overall, I'm feeling great about it. Just seeing the pulled-back pics of myself with a hairline is incredible, even though it's not blending yet. Apparently it should be a lot lighter once I can shave in a few days and the current darkness is mostly from tiny scabs; it won't be until session 3 that we really add in the dark dots to get that full 3D effect. The main thing I'm trying to decide is if I like is the hairline... height seems about right, but is it slightly higher on one side? I'm noticing that I don't have a perfectly symmetrical head, so that's probably contributing to any potential lopsidedness. I'm going for a very broken and natural hairline, so I think in future sessions we'll be diffusing it even further. Anyhow, would love your thoughts, especially on the hairline. I'll say this: after five years of feeling helpless, finally doing something about it feels damn good.
6 months after scalp micropigmentation treatment...
Henmen posted a topic in American Forum... And I feel like my old self again. It looks awesome even in the bright sun. ;-) Life is good.
Houston Ian Dennis is Great, 5 out of 5 stars very satisfied.
Quan posted a topic in American ForumI am thrilled that I did SMP with Ian Dennis in Houston! Like anyone on this forum, there is apprehension with such a big decision. I eventually took that leap, and my life is changed for the better!, I am more confident and can live a more active life. Minoxidil never worked. I used Caboki for awhile but that was very inconvenient. Looked into hair transplants but expensive and one of my friends did not improve dramatically from it; can get some more hair up top, but cannot get back the density like when you were younger. I looked into Vinci Hair Clinic and HIS Hair Clinic, they both introduced me to a client and let me observe the procedure; prices comparable, ultimately I chose HIS because the office looked more professional made me feel more comfortable. The results of my SMP are in the attached photos: before, after session 1, after session 2, and after session 3 (two photos). Very satisfied! It's about results, and it lived up to my expectations, see photos. Why did I appreciate Ian? 1) results 2)) results 3) results Ian is experienced and gets the results you are looking for! He is nice and wants you to be happy. I communicated what I wanted, and he accomplished it. I wanted it very dark, he made it happen. Remember, it is a process, have to start off slow first then progress. I have dark black hair, so higher ink numbers; 1st session started with ink color 10 back and 12 front (looking promising), 2nd session 4 back 6 front (looking very good), 3rd session 2 back 4 front (looking great). I just had my 4th session after 1 year because it did fade to get it back to looking like it did at the end of 3rd session.
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Lonnie Rodgers posted a topic in American ForumHi you doing comunity , I have a big question for all of you ? Has any member here has the treatmeant done over 3 years ? The reason is because I have been read that after 2 to 3 years the tatoo start to have Blending issues out and you have to done some touch up but I am no sure what is the actuall cost for that , I heve my first season next week and I dont mind to pay $4,200.00 but after reading about come back few years later and re pay thats what it worries me so every 3 years for the rest of my life I have to pay , which again I dont mind only if the price is right , any one knows about the 3 year touch up and what is the cost ? I hope to hear soon especially people from HOUSTON area
HISMatt posted a topic in SMP Common RoomBLACK FRIDAY PROMOTION Valid Today (11/27) till end of the day Friday (11/29) (US ONLY) Since every other brand in America is using Black Friday to extend discounts to customers, we thought we'd do the same for our lovely clientele. In honor of BLACK FRIDAY we will be offering 2 DOORBUSTER, BLOCKBUSTER, STORE CLEARING DEALS for you guys! (Sorry I had to) DEAL 1 – If a client books in for treatment Today thru Black Friday he will be discounted 15% of the original quoted price (2 sessions). He will also receive a FREE Headblade kit that may be picked up during his 1st session appointment. DEAL 2 - If a client books in for a consultation on Today- Black Friday for the months of November or December, he will be discounted 15% when quoted (2 sessions). He will also receive a FREE headblade kit that may be picked up during his consultation OR 1st session appointment. Get in touch now to take advantage of the offer. 1-855-447-4247 or firstname.lastname@example.com
Anyone in the Dallas / Fort Worth area or neighboring cities?
DallasYogi posted a topic in SMP Common RoomI'm very close to booking my procedure but before I do, it would be awesome if I could meet up with someone who wouldn't mind showing me their new look in person. I have had two consultations, one with HIS and one with another popular clinic. I met the owner of the other clinic while he was visiting Dallas a couple of weeks ago, which is the only example of the procedure that I have seen up close. My consultation with HIS was over Skype so I wasn't able to get an up-close up, in person view, of my consultant's SMP. If you live in the Dallas / Fort Worth area or will be visiting here soon and wouldn't mind meeting me for coffee, please reply back so that we can arrange a date, place, and time to meet. Thanks.
Just booked with Houston!!
rockyb86 posted a topic in SMP Common RoomHey guys! I justed booked with Houston for Nov. 20 and 27!! Im excited and nervous all at the same time! Johnathan from chicago is doing both sessions. Any input to help calm my nerves would be appreciated! Heres a before pic.


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If you don't want Atticus Finch shoved from his pedestal, put this book down.
You may wonder once you've read this post, why I gave Go Set a Watchman four stars on Goodreads. I gave it that because for the first 60% it made me feel, and for the last 40% it made me angry and it made me think. So, while I may not love it for what I've detailed below, I love it for making me feel.
There be spoilers ahead.
"Go Set a Watchman features many of the characters from To Kill a Mockingbird some twenty years later. Returning home to Maycomb to visit her father, Jean Louise Finch—Scout—struggles with issues both personal and political, involving Atticus, society, and the small Alabama town that shaped her. Exploring how the characters from To Kill a Mockingbird are adjusting to the turbulent events transforming mid-1950s America, Go Set a Watchman casts a fascinating new light on Harper Lee's enduring classic."
Go Set A Watchman is emotional, punchy, well-written… It's also a patronising argument over the rights of people of colour.
It broke me.
It's a novel of two halves: one that shouts down racism, and one that is still racists despite 'liberal' views.
Scout – I think – supports racial equality, although I did not get the sense that she thought all races are equal. Atticus is a racist, who believes people of colour are intellectually inferior to white people. He is representative of the colonial mindset.
Scout came so close to being revolutionary, she says some fantastic things to her father – compares him to Hitler! However, she isn't a liberal angel.
It was devastating when she went to see Calpernica, I cried as she was (understandably) rejected. Yet, visiting Calpernica is all almost all you read of anyone who isn't white. Scout complains about the ignored voiced of the black community, yet Harper Lee silences them in favour of Scout's ranting. It's hard to appreciate this as a novel about family when so much of it sits on a base of race, one where only the white get their say.
Scout is forced into a position where she needs to accept the views of her community even when she is so vehemently against them. That it is her job to stay and rile against them. She is treated like a child by every single person in Maycomb and it enraged me. I am Angry that her views were patronised and angry that Scout decided she had been unfair in her outbursts. When it comes to something as severe as Atticus's racism, he deserved what he got.
I wanted Go Set A Watchman to feel like To Kill a Mockingbird, but I wasn't reading the innocent mind of a child anymore. Much like Scout breaks from Atticus, my conscience has broken from Harper Lee.
There is so much to love in this book, but it's all clouded by the racism. If I were being optimistic, I would say Scout was on her journey to be truly inclusive, but she isn't there yet.
I don't think the 'of its time' argument can be applied here as 'we've' chosen to publish it now. If it would have been radical to a 50s world perhaps it should stay there.


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This beer is the result of brewmaster Dan Carey's quest to capture the aromas of pale ales in a quaffable session beer. He spent over six months perfecting the hop blend alone, which finally utilized five varieties of hops, three of which are not commonly used in American-style ales. The beer is named after a "seriously cool cat," who lives with brewery's head brewer.
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A straw-colored beer with a massive citrus fruit nose of peaches, tangerines and mangoes allied to cracker-wheat maltiness and spicy hop resins. Bitter hops—there are five varieties used—burst across the tongue, balanced by creamy malt and a tangy fruit character. Rich, bittersweet fruit, creamy malt and spicy hops dominate the long, smooth, quenching finish. A beautifully crafted and impressive beer.
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As the beer pours bright gold, I'm surprised—it looks just like a pilsner. I smell the beer and break into a smile. A very pleasant fresh hop aroma, full of sweet oranges, bubblegum and cut grass, wafts gently from the glass. The bitterness is crisp and light, the malt flavor is sweet and clean, the palate is dry without being thin. A final tickle from the hops and it's gone, leaving behind a clean minerality. If you want to know what style and class taste like, here it is. This is a balanced, beautiful beer, and I'd be happy to drink it all evening. Food is optional.
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So, how was 2014 for my live music promotions business Songs of Praise? Well, here are some stats (discounting the two festivals we were involved in). We put 38 shows on at 3 venues ( The Victoria and The Roaring Donkey in Swindon plus The Lamb, Devizes). These shows incorporated 99 sets of music from … Continue reading
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The Gig Monkey 2014 Awards
This is the unedited version of my January Ocelot column. My column last January was the first time I had written an awards / review of the year piece, and I enjoyed writing it rather a lot. So here is one for 2014's musical happenings in Ocelotshire. Back to normal next month as I have … Continue reading


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When we think of weight loss, we tend to focus on our outward appearance. How much thinner do we look? How has our shape changed? How many clothing sizes have we dropped? Our outside appearance is where our focus goes and we believe our emotions will follow along. We assume we will be happier, less stressed, less self-conscious and more confident as our appearance improves.
In some ways that is true: when we feel better physically, we tend to feel better emotionally and mentally. But that isn't always the case and this divergence usually causes confusion, anxiety and frustration when we realize that even though we seem to be losing weight or getting fitter, we aren't any happier, calmer or confident.
For some of us, this unhappiness and lingering lack of confidence comes from our bodies still not living up to our ideal. We lost thirty pounds but we still have those "thunder thighs," or now our upper arms look worse because our weight loss has drawn attention to our flabby "bat wings." We look in the mirror and instead of seeing success, we see more 'body issues' due to the weight loss! Instead of being glad about our success and more confident in ourselves, we feel more self-conscious and less self-confident!
For others, we are mystified that, even though we've lost weight and gotten to the dress or pant size we've dreamed about, we are still unhappy and still feeling anxious. "Isn't this what I've always wanted? So why am I still so unhappy?" We still feel like we used to feel when we were overweight and we don't know what's wrong with us. We conclude that we must be broken somehow since we've reached our goal and "nothing has changed inside. I'm still broken!"
In a lot of ways, this frustration and confusion is because our image of ourselves is inside out. We think that our outside appearance reflects who we are inside. We've probably seen hundreds of examples of this in society and the media, from Shakespeare's evil twisted hunchback in Richard III to the more modern movie Shallow Hal with actor Jack Black. How many times have we seen movies where the villain looks slimy or deformed and every viewer knows instantly "he's the bad guy!" There is a correlation between who we are inside and how we appear, but most of us believe that a beautiful outside will create a beautiful inside. Instead, it's the beautiful inside that radiates outward.
A lot of who we are mentally and emotionally shows up in our physical appearance. This doesn't mean all overweight people are insecure because there is something wrong emotionally inside but it does mean that fixing the outside isn't always going to fix the inside. If you were an unhappy person before you lost weight, you will likely still be unhappy when once you've lost weight. This doesn't mean you are 'unfixable' but it does mean you can't fix the outside without fixing the inside. It can also mean that fixing the inside first makes it easier to fix the outside!
Happy people tend to take better care of themselves, and again, people who feel better tend to feel better emotionally. Elizabeth Benton (Chasing Cupcakes) spends most of her book pointing out this correlation. If you fix what is making you unhappy, anxious and insecure, it can make it easier to lose weight and 'fix' the outside. This is one of the reasons psychotherapy is a major component of Dr. Nowzaradan's weight loss program on My 600 lb Life. While he starts his patients with the diet and bariatric surgery in order to get them as healthy as possible as fast as possible, the second and most important step is therapy. As he points out in nearly every episode, unless the patient deals with the emotional issues leading them to overeat, they will eventually go back to overeating despite the surgery. In fact, some of the patients who come to him have already had bariatric surgery, not dealt with the emotional inside issues and have again reached 500+ pounds. They thought that by fixing the outside (their weight), they would fix the inside (their emotions): in other words, "I'll be happy once I've lost weight!"
This frustration and confusion is common in most of Dr. Nowzaradan's patients: "I thought having the surgery would take away my cravings!" We've gone through this ourselves when we've lost weight but still fight the urge to scarf down a box of donuts or bag of chips. It's because for most of us the weight is the physical symptom of what's really bothering us. Most of us would call ourselves emotional eaters but despite knowing our out-of-control emotions lead us to that bag of chips and box of donuts, we try to white-knuckle our way through life! While we may initially lose weight, eventually our emotions overwhelm us and we suddenly find ourselves halfway through the bag of Double-Stuf Oreos without realizing how that happened. The cycle of unhappiness and frustration begins again: "Why did I do this? Why can't I control myself? What's wrong with me?" followed by more emotional eating!
Not all of us need therapy in order to fix our inside self. For some of us, it's as simple as getting away from a toxic person or situation. In my case, a lot of my emotional issues went away once I left a job I hated. While I knew it was a major source of stress in my life, it wasn't until I got out of that job that I realized how utterly unhappy it had made me, how insecure my boss made me feel and how extremely stressed even when I wasn't at work. I would wake up with panic attacks in the middle of the night over that job and my boss would call me while I was driving to give me a list of 'things to do' once I got in the office. It was expected that I would be at work on time (not unreasonable) and stay until my job was done, even if that meant staying until 8:00 p.m., despite her knowing it was a two hour commute for me to get home! When I did get home, no matter the time, I was usually emotionally drained and feeling like a failure. I was constantly asking myself 'what's wrong with me?' about everything in my life! All I wanted to do was forget how unhappy I was and I used food to do that.
This is of course a simplified version of how I dealt with a major source of my emotional issues, but obviously not all of them. I had been an overweight emotional eater before long before I went to work for The Boss From Hell, and I still feel the urge to distract myself with food when I get extremely stressed now that I work somewhere else. The biggest turning point was leaving the source of such unhappiness and anxiety (The Job From Hell) and the second biggest turning point was realizing that food was a distraction, not a solution. Now when I feel the urge to eat something because I am stressed or upset, I look for a solution instead. Sometimes, it's as simple as finding a non-food distraction, since not every situation has a real solution, but knowing that eating isn't going to help is still a step in the right direction.
Dealing with the source of my anxiety and emotional issues was a huge step in getting cravings and over-eating under control. Even if I had a craving or urge to eat, it was easier to find something else that was enjoyable to distract me or just make me feel better about myself overall. The emotions were better controlled, the eating was better controlled, the weight loss was making progress and instead of that vicious cycle, I was in an 'improvement cycle.' The better I felt physically as the weight came off, the better I felt emotionally, which led to my taking better care of myself physically and the cycle continued!
Our stress and emotions will always be a part of our lives no matter and learning to deal with them is an ongoing struggle no matter how much we weigh. The key is learning to be happy in the skin that we are in now rather than pinning our hopes for happiness on some future goal or achievement. It's not always easy to look in the mirror and love the person looking back despite the thunder thighs and flabby bat wings. None of us are broken or unfixable just as none of us are perfect. Just accepting that we are all works in progress can be enough of a starting point.


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What Makes A Story Successful On Facebook? National Public Radio has been wondering: What makes a story tick on Facebook?
The company examined its geotargeted stories throughout July, August, and September, and found that nine types of stories in particular tended to do rather well on Facebook: place explainers, crowd pleasures, curiosity stimulators, news explainers, major breaking news, feel-good smilers, topical buzzers, provocative controversies, and awe-inspiring visuals. In February, NPR conducted a similar experiment with its station in Seattle, finding that the geo-focused content accounted for roughly 12 percent of page visits in a month. This time, NPR expanded the test to include KQED in San Francisco; KUT in Austin, Texas; WBUR in Boston; KPCC in Southern California; and still KPLU in Seattle. The company found that geotargeted stories gained an average of 223 combined likes, shares, and comments per post. 7 Social Media Marketing Tips for Artists and Galleries. This post originally appeared on the American Express OPEN Forum, where Mashable regularly contributes articles about leveraging social media and technology in small business.
According to market research firm First Research, there are about 5,000 art dealers and galleries in the U.S. with combined annual revenue of about $6 billion, and Art Market Monitor estimates the size of the overall global art market to be around $15 billion annually. There are also more than 200,000 fine artists working in the U.S., according to recent research by the National Endowment for the Arts. But while fine art is big business, there is often a wide chasm between the creative process that makes a great artist or a sophisticated gallery owner, and the marketing process that drives branding and sales. "For the majority of artists, success will ultimately come down to their effectiveness in marketing," says Darius Himes, Assistant Director of fine art photography gallery Fraenkel Gallery in San Francisco. 1. Social Media for Photographers: Facebook. When it comes to being a photographer, there is no shortage of online networks waiting for you to share your images, interact with others and potentially grow your business.
This article is part of a larger series of posts aimed at providing information and awareness for individuals looking to leverage social media and social networks in pursuit of their passion for photography. Titled, "Social Media for Photographers", the series started as a broad overview that focused on defining many of the options a photographer has to choose from with it comes to social media. While this specific post is focused on Facebook, I have published editions that focus on Google+ and Stipple, with Twitter, Pinterest and Instagram to follow. With that in mind, lets get started… What is this Facebook that you speak of? 17 Social Media Cheat Sheets. These days, small businesses use a variety of social media sites in their marketing efforts.
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Social media outranks TV as UK's favourite pastime. Social media has overtaken television as the favourite hobby of 16-24 year-olds, according to a new UK study by Click Consult.
This age group talks to friends more through social media than on the phone; and on average spends almost three hours a day using social media, regardless of where they are. And 65% of 16-24-year-olds say they prefer social networking to television. "The social media revolution is not new, but for it to now take over from the nation's favourite pastime for the younger audience, truly indicates how quickly leisure habits are evolving in our digital age," says Managing Director of Click Consult, Matt Bullas. 10 Tips & Tricks For Your Business's Facebook Fan Page. Facebook is one the fastest growing social media network and its users are increasing by thousands every day.
Due to its vast base of users, it takes no effort to acknowledge its influence and any company will jump on the bandwagon to utilize Facebook because it allows them to boost their brands or products also in the same time engage with possible clients. It is convenient for a company to create a Facebook page, publish their profile and products however, setting up a Facebook page that receive many "likes" and a huge fan base is never an easy task. Use Multimedia to Tell Stories. By Sally Falkow PR Newswire recently took a look at how press releases sent on the wire perform in terms of number of views.
The stats are quite revealing: Need I say more? Adding multimedia to your press releases, articles and blog posts will give you a remarkable bump in views. And since that's the goal of content, it's truly amazing to me that only 55% of the PR folk recently polled by PRESSfeed about their online newsroom content, say they are using multimedia with news content. The best free social media tracking tools you should know about. Measuring social media is one of the areas of online marketing that is still frequently discussed and we still haven't found that magic number yet!
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Just some few weeks ago, we shared an article about How Pinterest Can Give Instant Growth to Your Brand and today we are going to share another article on Pinterest. Many people believe that Pinterest is the fastest growing social networking website after Facebook, but the growth of this particular site is limited to the people. So here we bring some stats from the ComScore, according to which the number of users has increased in each month in Pinterest as shown below 11.7 million unique visitors in January 2012. 17.8 million unique visitors in February 2012. 18.7 million unique visitors in March 2012. Facebook Subscribe Suggestions: 50 People In Media To Follow. Our 7 Tenets of Future Storyworlds. At the European Broadcast Union (EBU) TV Summit in Copenhagen last week, Transmedia Storyteller Ltd founder and CEO, Robert Pratten, presented our vision for future storyworlds: PERVASIVE – Available on any device, anywhere and at any time.
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In the early eighties I moved from Miami to Key Largo, fifty miles south.
I'd fallen in love with the Keys many years before and finally figured out a way to live there.
I lived a block from the water and spent many hours on my small fishing boat exploring the mangrove canals. I fished for bonefish and snapper and grouper and trout and worked part time in a local bait shop while teaching during the week at Florida International University.
When I began to work on Under Cover, I was enthralled with Key Largo. The light, the birds and water, the endless sky. I wanted to write the kind of book I'd always cherished, Travis McGee novels and work by Chandler and Hammett, and Ross MacDonald, Robert Parker and Elmore Leonard. But I also wanted to use the Keys as my backdrop and to make that place as much of a character as the people in the novel.
Thorn was the hero of Under Cover. At that time he had no other name. He's a simple guy, a little grumpy sometimes, who mainly wants to be left alone. I thought of him as Travis without a houseboat and without even the semblance of a job. He's no knight errant, just a guy who fishes for a living and scrapes by in a kind of Walden Pond existence. But violence has haunted Thorn since almost the day of his birth and it takes over his life again in Under Cover.
He wasn't just a version of Travis McGee. Thorn was also modeled on various characters I got to know in Key Largo. Tough people who eked out a living on that coral rock. People who fished and crabbed and lobstered for a living. Who came to Key Largo to escape something or other. The law, the pressures of the mainland. Something. I knew a lot of Thorns at that time and treasured them all.
I only meant for Thorn to be a character in one novel, but somehow he's managed to survive for fourteen. He's a tough guy with a lyrical love for the water and the sky and the birds of the Keys. He's who I'd be if I didn't write books.
Thorn was still licking his wounds from Under Cover of Daylight when another disaster snagged him. His oldest and best friend, Gaeton Richards, was killed. And Gaeton's kid sister, Darcy, a tag along companion of Thorn's from his childhood dragged Thorn into his next adventure.
At the time I was writing Tropical Freeze I was watching the Iran-Contra hearings on television and was struck with the incredible audacity of government officials (particularly Oliver North) who flaunted American foreign policy and ran their own secret operation funded by various illegal activities. The whole mess only deepened the national cynicism about politics. With that backdrop weighing heavily on my mind I concocted a scenario that I had imagined for some time, a scheme to smuggle wealthy cocaine dealers into the US and give them new identities. Part of my inspiration for this was a friend of mine in Key Largo whose part time job involved creating and selling new identities to various folks who had moved to the Keys to start over. They weren't all criminals. Some were simply running from bad debts or marriages or something back on the mainland. And my friend supplied them with drivers licenses and diplomas and social security cards. He had a booming business.
When I was writing the ending of Tropical Freeze, I had begun to feel a gloomy sense that justice would never be done in the Iran-Contra situation. So I let that same gloomy uncertainty color the final scenes of the novel.
I decided to give myself a break from Thorn, and Thorn a break from me for at least one book. I'd never really intended to write a series with one character but was urged to do it by my editor at Norton. I'd always liked series characters like Travis McGee and Spencer and Lew Archer and Sam Spade, but I never pictured myself as that kind of writer. I certainly would have given Thorn's personality a lot more thought at the outset if I'd known I was going to be living with the guy indefinitely. He's kind of cranky and very resistant to becoming involved in detective work. He simply wants to fish and tie his bonefish flies and stare out at the beautiful sunsets with his wine at hand. I certainly can identify with that much of his make up.
So Bones of Coral was a chance to take a short vacation from Thorn. The book began with some reading and research I did concerning the high incidence of multiple sclerosis in Key West. The situation aroused my curiosity and I began to read newspaper accounts and several government pamphlets about scientific investigations into the possible causes of the high disease rate. When I came across a small account of U.S. military chemical warfare testing that had occurred secretly in Key West in the fifties and its possible link to the disease rate, I knew I had something interesting to write about.
Bones of Coral has one of my favorite villains, a young man named Dougie Barnes. Dougie was my version of Dustin Hoffman's portrayal of the Rainman. Only Dougie is a far more sinister character than that, a man who had a weakness for silly rhymes and young girls. When Shaw Chandler, a Miami paramedic, comes home from Miami to Key West to look into the sudden death of his father, he encounters both Dougie and his old high school sweetheart, Trula Montoya, who is a victim of multiple sclerosis. Linking Shaw Chander's father's death with Trula's MS was certainly a challenge. And spending 300 pages with Dougie Barnes was unforgettable.
By my fourth novel I was ready to leave the Keys setting and try my hand at Miami. I'd lived in Miami for nearly twenty years and I'd always found the city's history fascinating. In my research before starting the novel, I read several histories of the early days of Miami and was seized by the photographs from that time of the Miami river. It was a lazy stream that meandered through the center of the city and was shaded by mossy oaks. A beautiful river, so unlike the straight and sludge-filled thing today that is called the Miami River.
I spoke to the city archaeologist about the river and he invited me along on a dig that he was conducting of a historical site along the banks of the river. I was absolutely fascinated by this historian's vision of the old Miami and tried as much I as I could to evoke that time a hundred years ago in this novel.
I've always liked treasure stories so I tried to use some of the aspects of such wonderful stories from my youth as Treasure Island. There is missing gold, a sunken ship that has been lost, a treasure map and a bunch of very bad pirate like guys who want to keep the hero from discovering the gold.
Dennis Lehane, a graduate student of mine at the time, asked if he could help me in any way with my next novel. I gave him the assignment to find some environmental aspect of south Florida that might be both colorful and have some lucrative aspect to it. I had in mind the search for some kind of rare and highly sought after seashell, perhaps, or some other marine creature. In the back of my mind was a story about Thorn travelling into the Caribbean Islands on some kind of mission. But it didn't work out that way.
Dennis came up with a fish, the tilapia, that met all my requirements. Though these days tilapia shows up on menus and in fish markets everywhere, at the time I wrote the novel, it was quite rare. I had never heard of the fish, but I saw right away that this creature had potential. It was a strange and highly fertile fish that was being used in Florida fish farms. Because the tilapia reproduced in such abundance it was a perfect fish to farm. But the danger of breeding the fish in Florida is that the environment is so hospitable that if the fish escaped into the rivers and bays of Florida they might easily crowd out the natural species and cause a major ecological disaster.
This became the central subject matter of Mean High Tide along with Thorn's passionate quest to find the killer of the woman he loved. One of my favorite aspects of this novel was the character Sylvie, an amoral and sexy young woman who lured men into trying to kill her father. I also enjoyed trying to capture in language some of the beauty and mystery of undersea life along the coral reefs of the Florida Keys.
A couple of lucky accidents pushed me in the direction of this novel. The first one was the accidental meeting with a very interesting US Fish and Wildlife Officer who worked out of the Naples office. I'd met him while doing research for Mean High Tide, which is partially set in the Naples area. He was a fan of my novels and after answering some research questions I had about fish farming, he said he had a subject I might be interested in for a future novel. Lots of people approach me with ideas for novels and I almost never find them of much use. Other peoples' ideas and passions are rarely my own. But in this case, it was different. The Wildlife officer suggested I should consider writing about animal smuggling.
For a while as I researched Gone Wild, I was focusing on the smuggling of endangered snakes. But I found that it was beyond my powers to make snakes either interesting or endearing in any way. As I sought another animal to focus on, my sister in law gave me an issue of a local newspaper with an investigative article in it about the smuggling of primates. I was immediately fascinated. I sensed that apes would be far interesting to write about than snakes. Eventually my research led me to orangutans and after encountering several people in Miami who worked with orangutans, I decided that it would be important to the novel for me to go to Borneo to see orangutans in their natural jungle setting.
It was a great trip. I met all kinds of colorful and interesting people on both sides of the animal smuggling issue and I tried to bring this more international feel into the book. When the book was done, my editor said she loved what I'd done, but she wanted me to find a way to put Thorn into the novel. I was reluctant, but I did it finally. I turned a character from the original manuscript named Chip into Thorn. For this reason Thorn really never lived up to his usual heroic standards in Gone Wild. He wasn't the protagonist of the book and only played a fairly minor role in the outcome of the plot.
I wanted to give Thorn a larger problem to solve, something that took him farther away from home than he'd been and forced him to act on a larger stage. For a long time I'd been staring at the immense cruise ships anchored along Government Cut whenever I drove out to Miami Beach. I started thinking about putting Thorn aboard one of the ships and giving him some very difficult mission. I'm not always kindly toward Thorn, and in this case, I think part of the reason I fastened on cruise ships is that I had a perverse desire to see Thorn, a man with little affection for tourists, stuck onboard a ship filled with tourists. Of course, when I decided on this subject it meant that I would also have to take a cruise. Like Thorn, I don't look fondly at a regimented vacation in which you are cooped up with a couple of thousand total strangers and public address announcements are breaking into your tranquility on a regular basis. But I went on the Ecstasy over spring break that year, sailing to Nassau.
The first night out I won nine hundred dollars on the slot machines, which changed my negative attitude about cruises very quickly. As some readers have noted, the plot of Buzz Cut resembles the movie Speed 2 to a curious degree. There are actually a couple of dozen small and large similarities between the script and my novel. My novel was written and circulating in Hollywood half a year before the script was written, by the way. In any case, I was pleased to see that Speed 2 failed at the box office. I think the reason might be that the scriptwriter didn't steal enough of my novel.
Butler Jack, the bad guy in the novel, is one of my favorite creations. He has dismantled a stun gun and rebuilt it so it attaches to his fingers so he can zap anyone he likes without them seeing it coming. He also has a mania for etymologies. The histories of words. His riffs on the origins and etymologies of words were my favorite parts of the book to write.
An old college friend of mine from Atlanta suggested that I might be interested in writing about the new and extraordinary medical advances in the treatment of pain. The idea didn't seize me until some months later when I spoke with my uncle who had suffered a spinal injury in a fall and was paralyzed. Almost immediately after his fall he began to experience phantom limb pain, that is, burning and cramping sensations in the legs that no longer had any feeling.
I asked my Atlanta doctor friend about phantom limb pain and he began to fill me in. Eventually I flew up to Atlanta and sat in on several consultations and rather exotic medical procedures that this doctor was performing on his suffering patients. It was an amazing and inspiring experience and gave me the motivation to go ahead with my attempt at a medical thriller.
I wrestled for a long time with the problem of whether or not to give Thorn some kind of injury that paralyzed him, or perhaps simply leave that to some other minor character. I finally decided to inflict a different kind of paralysis and pain on him.
My uncle was extremely helpful in giving me insight into the daily struggles of a paralysis victim. And I believe it was his help that gave whatever accuracy in my descriptions of the condition that the novel managed to create. On my last book tour, and again on the most recent one, I've had several people suffering various kinds of paralysis show up at my signings to let me know how much they appreciated the portrayal of their situation, and to say that putting my hero in a wheelchair, even for a short while, gave them something to cheer about.
I decided once again that Thorn needed a break from me. For one thing, he needed a chance to recuperate and get the strength in his legs back. He also needed a chance to make some new friends. Aside from his lifelong buddy, Sugarman, an Afro-American private eye, Thorn was running low on friends. Most of them had been killed in previous novels.
I took for my inspiration in Body Language an event from the Miami headlines. At the time the reporters dubbed the event, the Dash for Cash. A Brinks armored truck broke open in Liberty City (a particularly poor part of the city) and a host of citizens grabbed up as much of the loot as they could manage. I decided to use the incident as the basis for a caper. I've had a long love affair with caper stories, those wonderful heists and break-ins or hijackings that are run like a military operation. I decided I wanted my caper to be unique. The thief decides to use the crashing of his truck to obscure the heist he's pulling off.
As I began to write, however, the novel took a different turn. The man who pulled off the caper just wasn't as interesting to me as his wife. Alexandra Rafferty is a crime scene photographer for the Miami Police Department and in the course of that job, she is forced to shoot photos of several young women who have been raped and murdered. As the novel progresses, she begins to realize that these murders are somehow related to her own past, an event that took place when she was only a girl.
I also introduced Lawton Collins, Alexandra's father. He's suffering from a deteriorating memory which makes him at times irritating as well as funny and wise and pathetic. I never knew what this old guy was going to do next, which made writing about him great fun.
The more I got to know Alexandra, the more I thought she might make a good love interest for Thorn.
Once when I was in The Strand, a famous used bookstore in Manhattan, I did what all writers do whenever they enter a bookstore. I drifted back to my section to see what books of mine they had on the shelves. I found a nice looking copy of Bones of Coral, and since I only had one hardback copy of my own left, I decided to buy it.
I was standing at the checkout line when I opened the book and found it was littered with strange writing. Lots of magic markers of different colors had been used to note passages on almost every page. Other scrawled notes filled the margins. This was far more than the kinds of notations you might expect to find in a book marked up for an English class. This was way way out there.
Why a person would've taken so much time to scribble all over my novel and then take it to a secondhand store puzzled me no end. The book suddenly felt radioactive in my hands and I put it down and left the store.
I couldn't get the idea out of my head, however, and spent a long while trying to figure out a way to use that image as a starting place for a novel. Finally, I put aside the book I was working on at the time (and wouldn't get back to until Forests of the Night) and I started sketching out a story about a writer who was faced with a similar circumstance as I experienced at The Strand.
Researching big-time marlin fishing for Blackwater Sound was certainly a pleasure. First I went to Cabo San Lucas in Mexico to attend a large marlin tournament and to get the feel for the kind of people involved in the sport. During that trip I met one of the crew members of a very successful marlin fishing team. Turns out he was a fan of my books, and he invited me to another tournament in Marsh Harbor on Abaco. On that trip I went out for one of the tournament fishing days aboard their marlin yacht and observed the workings of a very different type of fishing than I'd ever witnessed before. Very scientific, very professional.
Later as the story began to unfold in my mind, I decided to use a bit of research I'd done a while back on the use of HERF weapons, a high energy radio frequency system that can knock out electrical grids. Through a well-informed military expert I gained a good feel for what this weapon is capable of doing, and though it had the feel of science fiction, I decided to see if I could make it real and use it to play a crucial role in the novel. So those two aspects, high tech weaponry and marlin fishing became fused in Blackwater Sound, and Thorn is dragged into the middle of it all.
I also used Blackwater Sound to bring together Alexandra and her father Lawton Collins with Thorn. Alex and Lawton had been the main characters in an early novel Body Language and I liked them both so much I wanted Thorn to meet them.
Blackwater Sound was published around the same time as 9/11 and I used the experience of having published a novel that features a terrorist shoot down of a plane in a New York Times Op-Ed piece which appears below.
Blackwater Sound went on to win the Shamus Award for the best private eye novel of 2003.
I still wasn't ready to let Alexandra and Lawton when I started the next book. I liked Alexandra, a tough, strong, resourceful woman, but I loved Lawton. He filled the "wild card" role that I love in novels. A wild card is a character who follows his internal logic, but that logic doesn't have much connection to the logic of the larger world. In other words, this is a character full of surprises. Normally my wild card characters are bad guys, but Lawton was so much more engaging to write because he was both spontaneous and sympathetic. He put himself and others at great risk by his unpredictable behavior. I never knew what he was going to do or say next.
The Keys have long glorified their pirate past. At one time piracy and salvaging ships that were lured into wrecking on the reefs were the main industry in the Keys. Nowadays, piracy is used as another tourist attraction. Like many kids, I was fascinated by Long John Silver and Black Beard and the other famous pirates. I'd long wanted to write an updated version of a pirate story, one that in some ways made fun of the glamorization of piracy. Pirates were bad guys. They still are.
This time I decided to drag Thorn into the quest by endangering his best friend's daughter. Sugarman's daughter, partly from imitating her "uncle" Thorn, has become an avid naturalist. So when she is kidnapped and hidden away on a deserted beach, it is her naturalist skills she depends on to save her life. This feature, eco-location, (determining a location based on observation of bird life, moon rise, and other details) was the most challenging part of researching and writing this novel.
I've had a long association with North Carolina. I first went to summer camp in Weaverville (just outside Asheville) when I was ten years old. My father and his brother had also gone to this same place when they were children, Camp Sequoyah. Over the next ten years I spent most of my summers there, learning woodcraft, hiking and camping skills and eventually being invited to attend the more rugged and elite Camp Tsali, which was a version of what later came to be known as Outward Bound camps. I went on to work at Camp Sequoyah for several years, running the kitchen and the camp store. I fell in love with the Carolina mountains back then.
Then shortly after hurricane Andrew destroyed the section of Miami where I lived and left us without power for nearly a month, my wife and I decided we needed to explore other options for summertime living. We went looking in western North Carolina for a getaway cabin and eventually settled on a place just outside of Boone.
After writing two more Thorn novels, Off the Chart and Blackwater Sound, I thought it was again time to give Thorn a vacation. While Forests of the Night opens in Coral Gables, I quickly move the action to the Smoky mountains. The book was written shortly after the events of 9/11 and the heroism and self-sacrifice of that day was much on my mind. It was a simple transition to go from thoughts of altruism to the actions of Tsali, the Cherokee warrior who sacrificed his life so that some members of his tribe would be allowed to stay in their homeland in North Carolina. There is debate about the historical accuracy of this story about Tsali, but it suited my purposes.
I began only with that one thing: Tsali's sacrifice. The other two major ingredients that had been on my mind for a while was the research I'd been doing on facial coding—the science of reading peoples' emotions in the facial muscles. I was also thinking a good bit about a friend of mine who has a child with schizophrenia. The voices he hears are as real to him as normal reality is to the rest of us. They give him instructions and direct his actions. I thought it would be a great literary challenge to go inside the mind of a schizophrenic.
So all in all, this book was a radical departure in many ways from the books I'd been writing. The subjects make for an odd assortment and the locale is very different. But I found the whole experience of writing about such different people and such a different part of the world revitalizing.
I'd always loved Cassius Clay. For one thing, he was from Kentucky as I was. And he was brash and charismatic and liked to spout doggerel. He smiled into the camera lights and made funny faces. He was a brave kid, spunky and funny and quick as lightning.
Reminiscing, I was looking through old newspapers from the year that I first came to South Florida (1964), and I discovered that Cassius had been there too, training for his championship fight with Sonny Liston, and I said bingo. I started pouring over everything I could find about that period in Miami—1963-1965, and after a short while I knew I had to find some way to set a large portion of the novel during that era.
So much was going on in Miami and across the country in the early 60's. But the thing that really brought it all together for me was Operation Northwoods. I got a whiff of it when reading about the Cuban immigration that was occurring in the early sixties. Then I started digging and found the document itself, revealed in a Freedom of Information search. It was a secret plan drawn up by the Joint Chief's of Staff that had eerie echoes to the misinformation campaign leading up to the Iraq invasion. It was, in short, a plan to provoke a war with Cuba.
I realized that I wanted to write about this aspect of "how Miami got to be Miami." And in doing that I wanted to write about politics and about Cassius Clay—a man who became a symbol of anti-war sentiments years later when he refused to go to Vietnam. So then the problem was simple. Fuse the story of Cassius Clay's fight for the heavyweight championship with some fictional event right out of Operation Northwoods. Voila: I invented a photograph that created that fusion and I was off to the races.
And once again, poor Thorn is dragged right into the middle of it.
My good friend, Geoff Colmes, a fishing guide in Islamorada oversaw the construction of a shallow-draft houseboat that was designed to carry groups of five or six for overnight trips into the very shallow waters of the Everglades. I went along with Geoff on one of these multi-day trips. We were able to spend long hours fishing isolated backwaters in Everglades, using the skiffs that were towed behind the houseboat. Some of the spots we fished were so remote, we were very likely the first white men to ever set eyes on those waters.
Hell's Bay also pays homage to one of my favorite novels, James Dickey's Deliverance. Perhaps I was also inspired by John D. MacDonald's Cape Fear, another novel featuring a dangerous houseboat journey.
In an early draft of the novel, I had intended to write primarily about the catastrophic environmental damage caused by the phosphate industry near Tampa. I did a good deal of research on that subject and was reluctant to give it up. But after I went on that houseboat expedition into the Everglades, I started to think of ways I could wed the two subjects together. Phosphate and fishing in the wilds of the Everglades. As often happens with my books, when I have to find a way to weld two very different subjects together, my creative juices begin to flow.
I realized that I wanted to write about this aspect of "how Miami got to be Miami." And in doing that I wanted to write about politics and about Cassius Clay—a man who became a symbol of anti-war sentiments years later when he refused to go to Vietnam. So then the problem was simple. Fuse the story of Cassius Clay's fight for the heavyweight championship with some fictional event right out of Operation Northwoods. Voila: I invented a photograph that created that fusion and I was off to the races.
And once again, poor Thorn is dragged right into the middle of it.
For forty years I'd been driving across Florida, east to west, north to south, on back roads and highways and interstates. I'd always been fascinated by the wide open cattle land that occupies a great portion of inland Florida, but I'd never set a novel in that part of the state. I thought it was time.
In search for a subject, I came across a bit of Florida history that I found intriguing. Oil had once been discovered just a few dozen miles east of Ft. Myers. I drove over to see one of the last existing oil derricks, a little-visited monument in a little-visited park. My imagination started to kick in.
The other thing on my mind at that time was a hunting ranch I'd heard about from friends. Wild boars and other exotic game roamed the privately owned land that was leased out for "hunting" expeditions. Doesn't sound very sporting to me, and the more I researched this, the uglier it looked. So I decided to see if I could put those two very different ideas together. Oil in Florida and a hunting ranch.
While tramping around the area I intended to write about, I discovered that there are an abundance of sink holes dotting the landscape. So add a third thing to my list of ingredients. Now, as usual, the next challenge was getting Thorn involved. I'd given Thorn a lot of problems over the years, but giving him a vast sum of money (something he had absolutely no use for) presented him with a whole new level of danger. How does Thorn spend his fortune wisely? Answer: He doesn't.
As is often the case, I rubbed two very different subject matters together to come up with the idea for Dead Last. At a library event I bumped into Matt Schudel, a journalist friend who formerly wrote feature stories for the Florida Sun-Sentinel. He told me he'd moved to the Washington Post and was writing obituaries. I asked him how it felt to be an obituary writer. (I was under the impression that he'd suffered a demotion.) He told me that it was the most challenging and invigorating writing he'd ever done. So I immediately began to read his obituaries and was impressed. To capture the richness and emotional heft of a person's life in a few hundred words is am amazing feat when it's done well. This began a several month period of research in obituary writing in general.
The other subject I was interested in at the time was TV production. One of my former students and now friend, Terry Miller, was having a very successful career in Hollywood. He was assistant first director on major films like Ace Ventura, Die Hard, and Lethal Weapon. At the time I was planning the new novel, Terry was producer of the TV series, Burn Notice, being shot in Miami. Terry invited me to the set and some of the material I gathered during those visits helped shaped the storyline of Dead Last.
Forging a connection between obituary writing and TV production may seem weird and incongruous, but that's just the kind of challenge that stirs my creative juices.
I'd never written a straight out serial killer novel before, and I had my doubts that I could bring anything new to the genre. But when Thorn discovers that he has not one but two sons he didn't know he had, I realized I was writing something more than a simple whodunit.
After I discovered Thorn had two grown sons, I thought it was only right to keep them in Thorn's life somehow. What would a next-generation version of Thorn look like? What Thorn's kid's passions be? Because Thorn is so devoted to the natural world, it seemed obvious that at least one of his sons should share that commitment. I decided to ratchet up that interest in environmental issues. A son who out-Thorned Thorn. I'd been fascinated for some time with the views of eco-radicals. In particular, I began to focus on ELF, the Earth Liberation Front, a loosely organized group of environmental activists around the U.S.
The question I asked myself was this: If Flynn got involved with an ELF cell in South Florida, what might their target be? The biggest target I could imagine is Turkey Point, the nuke plant on the edge of Biscayne Bay in southern Miami-Dade County. I'd boated past the plant many times and always been struck by its awesome and somewhat ominous presence.
Then I remembered an old friend of mine, wildlife biologist Joe Wasilewski. I knew that one of Joe's many projects was working with crocodile nesting areas in the cooling canals of Turkey Point. Joe was generous enough to take me out on an airboat and cruise through those cooling canals, a journey which gave me a close-up view of the plant itself and made me start to wonder how a group of naïve environmental activists could defeat the major league security of a nuclear power plant in order to stage some kind of publicity stunt.
That was the nugget of the story. As is always the case with a Thorn novel, once I know the subject matter the next big hurdle I must cross at the outset is to answer this question: "How the hell can I get the reluctant, anti-social, loner Thorn to engage in the next crisis?" Well, in this case, having a son who's mixed up with a band of not-so-non-violent activists made answering that question a lot easier than usual.
The Big Finish began with the usual question: how do I get Thorn, the reluctant hero, to engage in yet another adventure? Since I ended Going Dark with a scene of Flynn driving away with his friends in the eco underground, I thought it seemed natural to begin the next novel with Flynn's story after departing from Key Largo. As I assembled a list of likely eco-warrior campaigns that Flynn might be engaged in, one stood out from the rest. It may seem an unlikely challenge to set a thriller in an industrial hog farm operation, but the subject gave me a chance to write (again) about my adopted state of North Carolina, the second largest hog producing state in the country.
Even from the beginning of this novel, I had the feeling that this could be the last Thorn novel. From the very beginning I've had an ambivalent relationship with him. He's an ornery guy who makes a lot of mistakes in his social life and his crime fighting life. He's not the comic book superhero that seems to populate so many crime novels these days. He's flawed, fallible and grouchy. And through Thorn's point of view, I'd been writing about Florida for over thirty years, describing the weather and the landscape and the colorful characters of the state for so long that I felt I was in danger of repeating myself.
So as I began the novel with the thought in mind that this might be the last Thorn story, a mournful tone settled into the prose. I thought Thorn might actually die by the end of the novel. I tried to balance that somber tone with some strange and wacky characters who are overflowing with energy. For me, this was the great challenge and the final reward of the book. A novel that is full of emotion and sadness, but also of courage and commitment.
As I considered a writing future without Thorn, I got excited about the idea of creating a new series hero/heroine from the ground up. I'd never intended Thorn to be a long term character, so this was a new test. What would my ideal series character look like? Creating an individual who might have an on-going quest and one who is equipped with the resources to handle that quest was a good deal more challenging than I first imagined.
Also, after so many novels set in Florida, I wanted a character who would allow me to flex new descriptive muscles. I wanted someone who was at home in many places around the world. She should be able to speak other languages, have friends or acquaintances in wide range of international locations. She should have sidekicks who were both colorful and added to her capabilities to investigate subjects and help her tap into a vast array of resources. I didn't want her to be a trained spy or a cop. I wanted her to be a civilian who was thrust into this quest but was sufficiently equipped, physically and emotionally, to deal with bad guys of many types. I wanted her to have a profession that was creative, but also served as an entre into lots of different milieus.
When I was developing plot and subject matter ideas for When They Come For You I was looking for a storyline that might keep my protagonist busy for multiple novels, and something with a new subject for each new book. In some of the Thorn novels I'd dug up information on a particular global food corporation and I decided to return to that corporation to fuel the action in the new novel. The first book focuses on cacao bean production and the chocolate industry while the second book probes the business of olive oil. My protagonist, Harper McDaniel, has a passionate reason to declare war against this food corporation, and the twists and turns of the plot grow out of actual criminal behavior that various food/agri businesses engage in.
I took longer than usual to write this novel, but the more time I spent with Harper McDaniel and her sidekicks, the more I became convinced that she was indeed a worthy successor to Thorn.
Harper isn't satisfied that justice was done to those responsible for the deaths of her husband and child. Before she can plunge back into the pursuit of the killers, she must recover from serious injuries she incurred in the previous novel. As part of her recovery process she begins to work with a martial arts instructor who helps hone her old fighting skills and pushes her into new territory of quickness and focus, all of which she will need to combat the twisted antagonists she must face.
The olive oil industry becomes a major focus in the novel, forcing Harper to travel to Spain and on to Italy where the olive groves that sustain the industry are under threat by forces that Harper must thwart if she is to take down adversaries that will test all Harper's grit and ingenuity. I lived in Spain for a year (Bilbao) and have visited Italy several times, so I relied a lot on those memories and on Google and GoogleEarth for some details.


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As a former Boy Scout, one of the lessons I have taken to heart is the Scout motto – "Be Prepared." Visual Journalists – video and photo have to haul a lot of gear to a lot of places. And what you never want to do is go back or worse be too far to go back for something you are missing. One of the best habits you can learn as a VJ is to check your gear.
As a teacher and journalist for about 20 years now, I understand and try to always prepare as much as I can before hand. When you are going on a shoot – make a list. Even if you only need 3-4 things, make a list. Check it off as you pack your bag.
If it is a major shoot, where you will need extra equipment that you don't normally take every day – you really need to make a list. Then you need to make a list of your baggage. How many bags, boxes or containers will you need to haul the gear.
How will you get the gear from point A to point B? How much crew will be required to set up? Do you need electric? If so, you need to make sure it is available. Bring extra cables, power strips, etc.
Some of my students recently put on a rock show at the school, but forgot mic stands. They brought thousands of dollars of speakers, mixers, cables, instruments, etc. But the concert was nearly foiled because they didn't have mic stands.
You can never be too prepared, but you can be too unprepared.


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I'm not really a Shoe Girl.
I typed that sentence, and a voice in my head—a voice which sounds disconcertingly like my mother's—snorted derisively. Ok, yes, the pile of shoes that I've amassed in my closet is pretty damning evidence to the contrary. But I dream in dresses and coats—shoes tend to be an afterthought.
Part of my indifference toward footwear definitely stems from growing up Tall. Self-conscious about my height, I was always one of those awkward girls slouching in corners, trying to be as inconspicuous as possible. I didn't have the gumption—or, to be honest, the coordination—to wear high heels. And it IS high heels that Shoe Girls love.
And while I've obviously outgrown that aversion to attention (nothing screams "Look at me! Look at me!" quite like writing a blog in which one posts photos of oneself) a vague reluctance to don heels lingers. (As, unfortunately, does the terrible posture.)
Anyway. This is a very roundabout way of explaining that this project began in a very roundabout way for me.
It started with this pair of pumps.
I bought these shoes to wear to a wedding and immediately had a fairly substantial idea of what I wanted to wear them with—something girly and vintagey and sweet, with a full fluffy skirt and a fitted bodice.
Something like so:
a. 1950s Dress, DearGolden Shop at etsy.com
b. Brown and Ivory Tulle Skirt, TutusChicBoutique at etsy.com
c. Presenters Audrey Hepburn and Grace Kelly wait backstage at the RKO Pantages Theatre during the 1956 Academy Awards, Allan Grant—Time & Life Pictures
d. Custom 50s-inspired Cocktail Dress, Elegance50s Shop at etsy.com
Of course I didn't actually own anything like that, so I decided to make something.
Because I hate myself.
I'm labeling this as a "Thrift Store Couture" post, but that's kind of misleading—I did start with a garment from Salvation Army, but I basically cut it up and completely started over.
The Before: a 100% silk dress from Saks. With shoulder pads. Probably from the 80s.
The after: a definite improvement, no?
To create the bodice, I used this Cynthia Rowley for Simplicity Pattern (1873):
The rest I just winged, creating a gathered tulle circle skirt with a pink silk overlay. The waistband is black velvet—a total splurge, guys. That strip of fabric was, like, $12.
Truthfully, the flimsy silk was probably a poor choice for a dress this structured/tailored. I lined the bodice with a stiffer fabric, which helped—but it still wasn't ideal.
(My mom's voice also says: "Get your hair out of your face.")
(Upon further reflection, that actually might be my Grandma Joyce's voice. Or that of Mrs. Downing, ballet teacher.)
(Probably all of the above.)
Confession: I couldn't actually decide whether I preferred the skirt simply as tulle, or with the pink silk overlay on top.
SO I sewed the pink skirt and sash together, but did not attach it to the rest of the dress. It's its own separate, removable piece—it just ties around the waist.
Now I can wear the dress both with and without the overlay. Total design cop-out. Because sometimes decisions are hard.
Without the pink overlay:


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Dear Miss Snark,
About five minutes ago I finished my novel. Cheers. Smiles are on the house.
I don't know what to do. Call my mom, the pope, the girl in high school who broke my heart – tell her to watch out, I'm going to be famous?
Or do I keep the secret. Get down to brass tacks and edit (please note, I didn't say brass tax- I've been taken to school already for that one).
It took me two years to write 65,000 words. Without you it would be 120,000. I have a bonsai tree. I want to put query letters in the mail tomorrow. I've edited all along the way. I've removed the double verbs when it was possible, I took the word "that" out about a thousand times where it didn't belong. I've been up and down this thing countless times. I know where it curves in and where it curves out.
I've read a number of times an author needs to sit on it for a month.
Should I? This thing has possessed me for two years. I'm ready to cut my Siamese twin. Do I let her hang to my skin another month? What do I do in between? I'm not ready to write number two – I need a break from those people.
First, you revel in this achievement. I'm not kidding. It takes a lot to finish a novel and every agent knows it. Why else do you think we we always say "you have to be finished before you query"? So, first you buy the champagne and toast yourself. I raise the gin pail to you as well. Killer Yapp doffs his tam.
But yes, you aren't "done". You do need to let it rest. Don't even think about it for a month. This is harder than it sounds. You've been working on this so long it's a habit to think of it, but for the next thirty days you'll have to stop yourself. Kick back, do some fun reading, go to Coney Island, watch Season two of The Wire all in one fell swoop.
Whatever you do, don't query.
In 30 days go back and just read it. Don't think "ok, I'm going to edit". Just read it. See what you think.


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"Rejuvenating a tennis community one family at a time"
Rockingham County Tennis Association (RC Tennis), a 501c3 non-profit corporation, is a USTA Community Tennis Association. We are an organized group of dedicated volunteers and professionals who promote the growth of tennis in Rockingham County, NC including the cities of Eden, Madison, Mayodan, Reidsville, Stoneville and Wentworth. As a member of the National Junior Tennis & Learning Network, we connect tennis and education to change lives of our Rockingham County youth. We are led by a volunteer Board of Directors and an Executive Director.
Executive Director Shelby Rhyne is a PTR certified 10&Under Assistant Coach and experienced youth tennis organizer and volunteer. Contact her at firstname.lastname@example.com or (614) 284-4716. Our RC Tennis Executive Director position is funded in part by the Blueprint for Success, a capacity building and program grant supported by the USTA Foundation, USTA Southern, and the Southern Tennis Foundation.
Shelby serves on the USTA NC Board of Directors for 2018-19 representing Area 8 (Alamance, Caswell, Guilford, Rockingham, and Randolph counties). She is the Chair of the USTA NC 2018-19 Adaptive Tennis Committee and a member of the USTA NC Schools Committee since 2016. She also served as a member of the 2017-18 USTA Southern Community Tennis Association Committee.
2019 USTA NC Outstanding Parks & Recreatin Department to Reidsville Parks & Recreation
2019 USTA NC Member Organizaiton of the Year to Rockingham County Schools
2018 USTA NC National Junior Tennis & Learning Chapter of the Year
2017 USTA National Tennis Facility Award for Educational Instutions - Rockingham Community College
2017 Outstanding Program Partner from New Reidsville Housing Authority
2017 Outstanding Organizational Support to the New Reidsville Housing Authority - RC Tennis Association and Shelby Rhyne
2017 Outstanding Rockingham County Volunteer for the month of July recognized by Rockingham County Commissioners - Jackie Cantrell
2017 USTA NC April Tennis Star, Jackie Cantrell
2016 USTA NC Tennis Facility of the Year - Rockingham Community College
2016 USTA NC Educational Merit Award - Shelby Rhyne
2016 USTA Southern Educational Merit Award - Shelby Rhyne
2016 Rockingham County Board of Education - Special Recognition of leadership, outastanding tennis initiative in junior programming for our schools and benefits for the growth of tennis for the students in Rockingham County Schools - Shelby Rhyne
2015 Certificate of Appreciation, 2015 Rockingham County Citizens' Academy - Shelby Rhyne
We received eight grants and program support from USTA NC, NC Tennis Foundation, USTA Southern, Southern Tennis Foundation, US Open Series, , USTA Foundation, Xerox Foundation and the Reidsville Area Foundation.
SEVEN summer camp programs were part of our summer NJTL network connecting tennis and education with support from USTA Foundation and Southern Tennis Foundation
SEVEN Net Generation Community Kits youth arrived at RCS elementary and after school locations filled with rackets, balls and the new Net Generation Community curriculum.
EIGHT tennis courts were resurfaced in Reidsville and Eden.
TWELVE new scorecards on courts at RCC and Jaycee Park. The scorecards at RCC were purchased using a NC Tennis Foundation High School grant awarded to Rockingham County High School.
FOURTEEN student interns participated in our Summer NJTL network with 250 summer day camp players at Eden and Reidsville YMCA, Bridge Street Recreation Center and Boys and Girls Club of Eden, Community Baptist Schools, Salvation Armyand Parkview Village Summer Enrichment Camp.
FIFTEEN players from Parkview Village participated in NJTL Day at the Winston-Salem Open and accepted a $200 donation to RC Tennis from US Open Series.
SIXTEEN adults gave tennis a try in TRY TENNIS clinics at WR YMCA in Mayodan and RCC in Wentworth.
SEVENTEEN junior USTA members played in our fourth year of USTA Junior Team Tennis at Jaycee Park in Reidsville which included one USTA Level 6 tournament
TWENTY-FIVE Morehead High School students played tennis in PE class.
TWENTY-SIX children age 8-15 played in three weeks Eaglemania summer tennis camp at Rockingham Community College.
SIXTY-FIVE RCS high school players played in the Boys and Girls All-County tournaments held at Jaycee Park in Reidsville after a thunderstorm changed the venue last minute.
FIFTY TWO middle and High School players attended free tennis clinics at WR YMCA indoor tennis courts and Eden YMCA with Coach Bitrus Istifanus sponsored by Xerox Foundation.
ONE HUNDRED SIXTY RC sponsored tennis events including Play Days, Community Festivals, Summer Camps, Junior Team Tennis and summer NJTL clinics and after school Kids Tennis Clubs.
TWO HUNDRED AND TEN youth, age 6-12 attended after school Kids Tennis Clubs in partnership with PE teachers at three RCS Elementary schools and 1 middle school this fall supported by a grant from the Rockingham County Community Foundation.
THREE HUNDRED and TWENTY FIVE students at Williamsburg Elementary, JE Holmes Middle School, and Morehead High School played tennis PE classes.
ONE THOUSAND THREE HUNDRED FIFTY unique youth participants.
FOUR THOUSAND TWO HUNDRED total participation in 2018 RC Tennis events.
RCTA is a USTA Community Tennis Association and a National Junior Tennis & Learning Chapter
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